Music trends develop over time, there was a time when hip-hop, rap and rock were new trends.  The new trend today are raves.  Raves are house parties that plays fast paced electronic music and light shows.   People dance to the music played by DJ's and in rare occasions live performers.  The types of electronic dance music include house, trance, techno and jungle.

"Light show in the darkness."

Raves began in the 1970's in London. Raves stand for "the wild bohemian parties".   People who stood out from the crowd, wild and vivid were called ravers.   Raves aside from being called house parties, they were also called Acid House.

Raves can be found around the world, London, the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa and the United States. 

If you're a current eight grader you may be thinking about what high school you want to go to next year.  If that is true and you love technology and computers you might want apply to Kearny High School.  

Kearny High is made up of small schools, one of those small school focuses on technology, fashion, graphic design and computerized video production, the school of Digital Media and Design also known as DMD.  The school of Digital Media and Design is one of the few schools that have won the blue ribbon award.   The blue ribbon award honors public schools, K-12 that has students who made promising achievements and have made improvements. DMD is also recognized by state and local leaders for being the first school of California to be a linked learning certified high school.

Electives available at DMD:

Did you know that people have higher self-esteem if they are in shape compared to people who are not? 

This is one of the reasons why you should consider changing up your lifestyle to boost your self-esteem.  Getting started is sometimes the hardest obstacle that people face.  One thing you should try is avoid routines and see if you can't get your family and peers to be involved.  You can motivate one another to live a healthier lifestyle, a plus, you are doing it on your own.  Routine is often the reason why people forget what their doing and they give up.  To avoid routine, try working out different in different areas or try different work outs, that way you won't get bored and you won't give yourself an excuse to stop.

However, people try to avoid work outs and go straight to diets, but there are negatives with that plan.   Diets will help you loose weight but not the body fat thats harming you, thats why work outs are necessary in all fitness plans.  Working out will help you loose the unnecessary body fat.  While diets do help you loose weight, the body fat will still be there causing the unnecessary weight to come back more easily. 

Here are some tips to be successful in what you want:
1.) Believe in yourself
2.) Always keep goals that you know you will be able to achieve
3.) Always be active in one way or another with out having to work out all day(ex:walking to store instead of driving, help out other people, not using control remote when watching television, ect.
4.) Making healthy food choices

Nowadays there are a lot of people who have a cell phones and they are constantly texting with it. Even though there are a lot of people who have a cell  phone there are not many that can afford to have one, but there is no need to feel left out. There are many ways to text to a person just with the help of a computer. There are certain websites that allow you to text, but their messages don't always go through. Some of the most reliable ones has been AIM and Gmail who both work together to send messages to your friends and if it was an AIM conversation. You don't get charged extra and if the person you are texting has unlimited texting they you guys can text all you want for FREE! There is nothing better then texting for free. There is another way to send messages to a phone and that is by email. By adding the phone number plus the service provider address can be a way to text as well, but it takes longer and it works best for picture messages.
For example:
Verizon: #######@vtext.com
Sprint: #######@sprintpaging.com
T-Mobile:#######@tmomail.com

This past weekend it had been all rainy and there was not much to do so I decided to learn how to solve the cube that breaks many minds, the Rubik cube. Ever since I had the Rubik cube all I had been able to do was to solve one side. For most people. this is an easy but solving the rest has been a challenge.  So, I decided to look it up on youtube on how to do it. There were a lot of videos that showed how to do it, but some were confusing to follow. After many times of searching I found a video that describes how to solve the confusing cube. The person also post a website where he explains all the algorithms and what to do in many situations. I found this pretty easy to follow and have been working on how to get faster. Click on the picture to see web page with the algorithms or look at the video.

Things To Remember:

U'= Up Counter Clockwise

F'= Front Counter Clockwise

R'= Right Counter Clockwise

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