CHILDREN EXPLAIN ANGELS

December 31, 2009 at 10:03 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

I only know the names of two angels, Hark and Harold. – Gregory, age 5

Everybody’s got it all wrong. Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it -Olive, age 9

It’s not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to Heaven, and then there’s still the flight training to go through. And then you got to agree to wear those angel clothes. – Matthew, age 9

Angels work for God and watch over kids when God has to go do something else. -Mitchell, age 7

My guardian angel helps me with math, but he’s not much good for science. -Henry, age 8

Angels don’t eat, but they drink milk from Holy Cows!!! -Jack, age 6

Angels talk all the way while they’re flying you up to heaven. The main subject is where you went wrong before you got dead. Daniel, age 9

When an angel gets mad, he takes a deep breath and counts to ten. And when he lets out his breath again, somewhere there’s a tornado. -Reagan, age 10

Angels have a lot to do and they keep very busy. I you lose a tooth, an angel comes in through your window and leaves money under your pillow. Then when it gets cold, angels go south for the winter. -Sara, age 6

Angels live in cloud houses made by God and his son, who’s a very good carpenter. -Jared, age 8

All angels are girls because they gotta wear dresses and boys didn’t go for it. -Antonio, age 9

My angel is my grandma who died last year. She got a big head start on helping me while she was still down here on earth. -Ashley ~ age 9

Some of the angels are in charge of helping heal sick animals and pets. And if they don’t make the animals get better, they help the child get over it. -Vicki, age 8

THE NEWS

Glowing walls could kill off the light bulb: “Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012, according to a government body that supports low-carbon technology. A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room with an even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and glare of conventional bulbs. Although an electrical current will be used to stimulate the chemicals to produce light, the voltage will be very low and the walls will be safe to touch. Dimmer switches will control brightness, as with traditional lighting. The Carbon Trust has awarded a £454,000 grant to Lomox, a Welsh company that is developing the organic light-emitting diode technology. The trust said it would be two and a half times more efficient than energy-saving bulbs and could make a big contribution to meeting Britain’s target of cutting carbon emissions by 34 per cent by 2020. The chemical coating, which can be applied in the form of specially treated wallpaper or simply painted straight on to walls, can also be used for flat-screen televisions, computers and mobile phone displays. As the system uses only between three and five volts, it can be powered by solar panels or batteries.” [The Greenies will no doubt discover that it is “toxic” or some such]

Scientists find insect vision to be the bee’s knees: “Engineers and rocket scientists are learning from the humble bee, which, unlike the crash-landing fly, is an expert pilot. When landing, bees reduce their flight speed rapidly, hover for a split second until their hind legs contact the landing pad, then gently land. If they come in to land upside down, they will use their antennae as landing gear instead of their legs. In a world first, Vision Centre scientists at the University of Queensland used a high-speed camera to study more than 1000 bee landings. The research appears in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology. Professor Mandyam Srinivasan said the team was designing robots and aircraft that used the principles of insect vision for navigation and difficult manoeuvres. “One of the things we’d like to do is to build vision systems and landing gear for helicopters, and other hovering kinds of craft, that will allow them to land on rugged terrain,” he said. “There’s a fair amount of interest, in space exploration and fields like that, in aircraft that can perch on craggy rocks, that can land not just on a smooth runway but pretty much anywhere.” Bees manage to get the landing speed, angle and touchdown right every time, even when the surface is sloping or upside down.”

Myths led to crater discovery: “An Aboriginal Dreaming story about a star crashing to earth with a noise like thunder has led to the discovery of an ancient meteorite crater in central Australia. A Sydney astronomer, Duane Hamacher, found the bowl-shaped crater in Palm Valley, about 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, by searching on Google Earth. He was inspired to look there after learning of traditional stories told by the local Arrernte people about a star that had fallen into a waterhole called Puka in the valley. Mr Hamacher, a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, said that reality matching the Dreaming story could be a case of pure chance. “But if so, it’s an incredible coincidence,” he said. “It is impossible to survive on a continent like this for 50,000 years and not have an intimate knowledge of the natural world around you, including the night sky,” he said. He searched historical records for Aboriginal stories with references to comets, meteors and cosmic impacts, and looked for matching astronomical events. The Palm Valley crater, which the team proposes to name Puka, was probably formed millions of years ago, so people could not have witnessed the impact. “But perhaps the Arrernte knew rocks fell out of the sky and maybe they deduced that a large rock caused the big bowl-shaped crater,” he said.”

The Tropicana still lives: ” Havana’s famed Tropicana nightclub turns 70 this week, its glamour days as an international celebrity haunt well behind it, but its future assured as a money-making hotspot for the cash-strapped Cuban government. Scantily clad female dancers, their costumes mostly feathers and sequined thongs, writhed across its outdoor stage as they have for decades in a show that began on Monday night and ended Tuesday morning, marking the club’s opening on December 30, 1939. The show included an homage to stars like Carmen Miranda and Nat King Cole who performed amid Tropicana’s lush gardens and towering trees. Photos of Cole flashed on screens behind the stage as two dancers swayed romantically to his song Tenderly. Tropicana began as a casino and nightclub that, especially in the decade before Cuba’s 1959 revolution, attracted a steady stream of celebrities ranging from Marlon Brando to Maurice Chevalier. Some performed there and others simply mingled with the elegantly dressed clientele. Their presence and the accompanying publicity made Tropicana one of the world’s best known nightspots.”

NY: Xbox leads cops to trove of stolen electronics: “An Xbox marked the spot where a Bronx man stockpiled a treasure trove of pilfered electronics, police said. Jeremiah Gilliam, 22, was caught after playing a stolen game console online — allowing cops in Pelham, where it was stolen, to trace the IP address to his grandmother’s address, cops said. There, detectives found dozens of video games, laptops, and GPS devices believed to have been stolen from as many as 200 car break-ins and several home burglaries in Westchester County.”

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