Phcyics

Today I'm going to talk about X-rays.

There are different levels of x-ray's, and you may use some everyday! X-rays are used to scan airports, bodies, and phone lines to check for fault's in the wires. Some x-rays actually travel thru wire in order to find fault's where electricity could escape if the x-ray can. Body x-rays look for the bone's of faults in a body that could kill someone if not dealt with correctly. And airports look thru almost any thing except lead in order to make sure that they are safe materials to board the plane. They all are in different frequency.

I'm using one right now! Wifi is a cousin to the x rays that go in wires, letting everyone know exactly what I'm writing appear on their screen! It's a small frequency, used for phones as well, while larger frequencies are used for actual x-rays! The largest frequncey known is so powerful it could go scan up to 10 passenger planes without needing to 'stop', as x-rays sometime's need to do. That's why if you are using a computer in the woods, the x-ray would bounce around and take longer to load as it 'rests', or, if you are unlucky, the x-ray might lose some of the information or not get it at all!

So, I hope you realize that you are using a x-ray right now!

See you lot later! Adventure Van is out!

History Blog

The crystal palace was a palace made of glass. It was made in England by over 500 people, and was made to show off the exhibits that were requested from all around the world. England was gaining lots of money for the two million people who came in between may 1 and Oct. 15. It was at London's Hyde Park, and 'there was millions of people' according to the diary of one of the many goers.

It is still standing, but isn't as popular. But if your visiting England, put it on the top of your list!

Magdeburg Experiment

Otto Von Guericke made the Magdeburg hemispheres, two bronze bowls with suction cups in the middle, and then he attached them together and pumped the air out. He then hooked up hid four horses, two on each side. The horse were baited too go in opposite directions and then ran forward, until their leads ran out, because then the sealed ball, though emtpy, was being held together by air pressure.

That discovery, it gave scientists a big boost, and we're still learning about his experiments today, as he had lots of money and time on his hands, being the Mayor of Magdeburg, he was able to do 29 experiments during his lifetime. WOW!

Otto Von Guericke!

Oragmi yoda

July 6, 2014

Author: Tom Angleberger

Title (books one thru three): The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Darth Paper Strikes Back, The Secret of the Fortune Wookie,.

Genre: Fiction

Grabber (for all): Not such a long time ago, in a middle school not so far, far away…

Main Characters: (Stay same during books.):

·         Dwight: A nut. (Not in a bad way.)

·         Tommy: Makes the case files.

·         Mike: A crybaby.

·         Quavondo: Always a messing up-er.

·         Caroline: Dwight’s girlfriend.

·         Murky: A totally ‘Stooky’ person.

·         Lance: A ‘Plastic Dinosaur’.

·         Sara: Tommy’s Girlfriend.

Bad Guys:

·         Harvey:  Dwight’s Arch Enemy.

·         Principle Rabbiski: The principal, hate origami of any sort.

Origami:

·         Yoda: Dwight’s finger puppet, totally Jedi wise.

·         Darth Paper: Yoda’s arch arch arch ARCH enemy.

·         Fortune Wookie: Yoda’s replacement.

·         Han Foldo: The Fortune Wookie’s translator.

·         Admiral Ackabar: Used once, screaming ‘It’s a Trap!’

·         Mace Windu: Mike’s calm downer.

·         Princess Leia: Sara’s Puppet.

·         Jabba the Puppet: A teacher’s puppet. (Some teachers are on the kid’s side!)

Main Story (1):

‘Is Origami Yoda Real?’ Is the starting question of the first book in the series? Dwight, who is anti normal, makes a finger puppet of Yoda, and even did his horrible Yoda impression. Of course, Harvey, official loud mouth, makes fun of him from the start. But, with a lot of luck (Or force?) he begins predicting the future, and getting answers to questions that weren’t asked yet.

When Tommy gets the chance of a lifetime, or demise, he needs everyone’s story to make a decision.  So everyone, including Tommy, put forth stories, and he grades them all. The Good, The Bad And the Funny all make there appearances, and Tommy decides to go for it and take origami yoda’s advice, until:

Book Two:  Darth Paper! When Harvey makes Darth paper to combat Yoda! He causes everything to fall down, and then tries to kill origami yoda. Fortunately, back up origami yoda has a plan…. Another group of stories to save origami yoda, and Dwight, from the school board. But while trickery makes the school tremble the real threat was Principal Rabbiski, whose had it up to the gills with origami.

She throws out the majority of the clone army, and suspensions Tommy, and then tries to win the students over and put herself in power… WITH A PIZZA PARTY! Unfortunately, it fails badly, and the students like her worse than ever, and the principle looses. But Dwight gets sent of to private school, and gets to be in the same class as HIS GIRLFRIEND! It’s all well and good for him, but boredom city for the students at his school.

Book Three: Wookies and Han Foldos: The saviors! Origami yoda’s replacement, and Harvey’s new bone of contention, is a fortune wookie and it’s translator, Han Foldo.  With a line of students waiting, each one has a new story to tell. But when Dwight begins turning ‘normal’, it’s up to everyone, including Harvey, to get him back.

 Of course, its not only origami what’s happening at middle school, as Rabbiski make’s her own army to combat the origami….  The Anti-Non-School Patrol of P.e.w.s, Perfect in Every Way students, called A.N.S.P.E.W.S. Troopers by the origami. But when The Annual Celebration Fun Night (A.K.A. The “Hypno Room”) happens, and Tommy and everybody are ‘captured’ and brought to detention, and it’s all up to Harvey to avoid the A.N.S.P.E.W.S. Troopers and get into the “Hypno Room”, He decides it’s time to lift the mask off Darth Paper, revealing Anikin Skyfolder! He makes it into the “Hypno Room” and sabotages the performance. Dwight gets convinced to come back, and it was all good until….

July 4, 2014

Author: Vladek Art Spiegelman

Genre: Non-Fiction

Grabber: “If you lock them in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends!”

Printed: Random House

Places: Germany: Gross-Rosen.  Poland: Reich: Lodz, Chelmno, Warsaw, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, Czestochowa, Zawierci, Sosnowiec, Krakow, Auschwitz, And Bielsko.

Main Characters:

·         Vladeck: Main character, POW and Jew.

·         Anja: Vladeck’s first wife.

·         Mala: Vladeck’s second wife has millions of problems.

·         Art: The author, Vladeck’s son.

Bad Guys:

·         Germans: Guards, Soldiers, everyone who killed Jews.

Minor Characters:

·         I will just say them, there are just too many.

Main story:

Maus is the story of the holocaust, but they aren’t humans, they are animals instead:

·         Jew---Mouse

·         German---Cat

·         American---Dog

·         Frenchmen---Frog

·         Finland--- Fish

·         Pole---Pig

The above is a guide, that’s what they are.

It starts way after the war, when Art skins his knee skating with his ‘friends’ and goes home to his dad. His dad, wondering why he is crying, asks him why he is. After hearing the answer he says: “Friends? Your Friends?...If you lock them in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends!” After a group of years (9 to 41 is how old Art is now) he goes to his dad to ask a question: “Can I do that book about your life in Poland and the war?” “It would take many books, my life, and no one wants to hear such stories, but, if you want…”

“I was, at that time, young, and really a nice, handsome of me, boy. I had lots of girls I didn’t even know who would run after me. They always would, but most I didn't even see.  One, Lucia, I took to a dance, and from there, well, we grew." "But Dad, mom's name was Anja!” “This was before that. See how you get me messed up? Anyway. This was my first long range affair, until I had to go to my family for the holiday, it was 35-40 mile trip on train. There I was met by my cousin, who told me about her friend, Anja. They made the mistake of speaking English in front of me, which they didn’t know I knew English. I fell in love with her.” “But dad, what about Lucia?” “Her? She almost destroyed the relationship, and all by a letter, sending some of the most horrible things about me. But I convinced her that they weren’t true, and we were happy, until the honeymoon.”

“The Honeymoon was okay until we hit one of those cities that were full with people chasing Jews and putting up German signs. God, the things that the passengers said when we left.  “My cousin had to quit his job. “They killed my brother and his wife.” “They made Jews life so miserable.” Boy, everyone hated the Germans until one said “Just hope they don’t start a war!” One of Anja’s ‘boy friends’ who even kept seeing her after the marriage, wasn’t a boy friend at all! He brought messages, and Anja turned them into German messages. She went to her seamstress, and told her to hide it. She did, and only she got arrested, and then Anja’s father payed the bail, then gave her even more (He was a rich person.) And he gave me enough to start a factory. Richieu, our son, was healthy, though pre-mature, but Anja, why, she was hysteric, and we had to go to a sanitarium. When we got back, the factory was robbed, and while in a riot too.”

“Everyone was yelling ‘Jews out! Jews out!’ it was quite a commotion. We were thinking of running back, but we stayed. A mistake. The Jewish police began to begin sending people to Austwich, where we knew of the gas tanks. “Jewish Police?”“Yes, ones with big sticks. They thought that if they could send a few, the Germans would give up. They, unfortunately, didn’t, and took more and more. We made a bunker for Anja’s parents.” “Bunker? How did you make a bunker?” “In our tool shed, we put up a false wall, and put them inside.” “Ahh, ok.”

“We go caught soon, though, and had to go to the German camp. The parents, they were sent to Austwich, and died. I was strong, so the rest of us were sent to the camp to work, and there I went from teaching some of the guards English and Polish, to being a tin man, to-” “Tin Man?” “That what they called the tin workers, and I was a good one. Then I began fixing shoes. After a while, though, they made some black work.” “Black work, huh? What’s that?” “They made us pick up rocks and such, to make trenches for the troops.” “You were that close to freedom? Why didn’t anyone run?”  “They always had a gun to our heads, and even if we didn’t, they were back up ones, most of which not used.”

“We got sent to Austwich, but not for gassing, we were workers, sent to do the gassing. A Rebellion happened, and about 6, maybe 7, Germans got killed. The Rebellion got gassed, all of them. I told them it wasn’t a good idea. I was a roofer, and got a bird’s eye view of the whole thing. We got back to work, and with more guards. It wasn’t goof, and we we’re going to die until we got exchanged as prisoner of war with the Americans, and were sent to a town where they were going to pick us up. They weren’t there, but we leapt out anyway, and 200 of us got recaptured, and they put us on the shore of a lake, with machine guns all around. But at the last moment, the commanders girlfriend saved us. We escaped again, but they captured us again, about 50. The Americans chased them away, and once again we managed to escape, this time with no capture. We found the Americans, got home free, and got away from the Germans once and for all.”

My Review: Good, but a sadistic way.

Message: Trick others when you need to, and make friends when you have to.