Powers Out

We were at Santa Barbra and we had just gotten home. My dad went in our house and tried to turn on a light. Nothing happened. He came back outside and looked around. No house had lights on. No power. "There is no power... Here the generator? Power MUST be out." Zzz. You could here the generator. We went inside and lit a bunch of candles. Sizzle, spark, spark. We lit the candle to. "Night lights work?" I asked. "No, anything that has to be plugged into the wall won't work. Even clocks. Internet, TV, nothing," my dad said. We used a flashlight until the batteries went out (which didn't happen.) We had to do homework by candle light, and we couldn't open the refrigerator or freezer! Advise? We looked at the clock. 4:55. Power had been out for TWO HOURS!!! Nipper and Twinkle were probably like 'what the heck?' when it first went out. I would have been. My mom tried to text Mrs. Brown, my friend, Jessica, her mom. Didn't work. Then Mrs. Brown called. Mom:Hey! Do you know what caused the electricity go out? Mrs. Brown: Sounded like a power surge to me! Right now we're in Santa Barbra celebrating Dana's birthday. Mom: Funny we were just up in Santa Barbra! Mrs. Brown: Powers out from Solvang to Beulton. Mom: Wow! Really? That far? Well, I got to go, bye! Mrs. Brown: I'm losing connection b... Connection got lost. After an hour of candle light, Zzz. The TV turned on. "Power!" I yelled. Me and my brother started blowing and pinching out the candles. No more candle light, hello electricity! We turned of the TV and made sure ALL the lights were working. Right now it's only 10 minutes since the power turned back on. We're baking a cake and making tea.

Happy Birthday and read REad READ!!!

First off, lets sing a happy birthday to the man in a hat!!!

    "Happy Birthday to you; Happy Birthday to you; Happy birthday Dr. Seuss; Happy Birthday to you; And many more; on channel 4; And scooby-doo; on channel 2; And a big fat lady; on channel 80; And all the rest; on P-B-S; Happy Birthday to you; Cha, cha, cha!!!" Well, since it's his birthday, lets have a party game! Dr. Seuss trivia!!! (questions below and answer in comments.)

Trivia questions of Dr. Seuss, the cat in the hat:

1. How old will Dr. Seuss be today?

2. What is Dr. Seuss' real name?

3. Were was Dr. Seuss born?

4. At what age did Dr. Seuss die?

5. How many books were published by Dr. Seuss when he died?

6. Was Dr. Seuss married, and if so, did he have kids? How many?

7. How did Dr. Seuss start his career of writing the 'Cat in the Hat' books?

8. What was Dr. Seuss' favorite food and drink?

        Happy read across America day everyone! Bye-bye!

Happy Valentines Day! (Sorry my post is a little late, but still!)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!!
       Valentines has came again! Over flowing with candy for me from the school party! 26 people! ALL giving CANDY!!! Added to MORE candy the DAY AFTER!!!!! And to make it even BETTER... PLAY-DATE!!! I call it the CANDY PLAY TIME day.  But lets skip the rest of valentines for me, and go to you. Happy Valentines Day! I hope you had as much fun as me. Did Cupid shoot any of you reading this? I think Cupid shot my dog, nipper, 'cause he was liking his bum. Animals must be very flexible if they can do that! Okay, well... Hope you all had a great v day! I got a kit kat bar as big as my head and wedgie free underwear. undies from the parents. :P Thanks for reading and happy v day!!!

Love this song!

Today I found an amazing song. Click HERE to see a music video for it. You don't have to read the lyrics 'cause there in the music video. Well, anyways, down below are lyrics:

Sparks fly
It's like electricity
I might die
When I forget how to breathe
You get closer and there's
No where in this world I'd rather be
Time stops
Like everything around me
Is frozen
And nothing matters but these

Few moments when you open my mind to things
I've never seen

'Cause when I'm kissing you
My senses come alive
Almost like the puzzle piece
I've been trying to find
Falls right into place
You're all that it takes
My doubts fade away
When I'm kissing you

When I'm kissing you
It all starts making sense
And all the questions
Ive been asking in my head
Like are you the one should I really trust
Crystal clear it becomes
When I'm kissing you

Past loves
They never got very far
Wall's up, made sure
I guarded my heart
And I promise I wouldn't do this till
I knew it was right for me

But no one (no one)
No guy that I met before
Could make me (make me)
Feel so right and secure
And have you noticed
I lose my focus
And the world around me disappears

'Cause when I'm kissing you
My senses come alive
Almost like the puzzle piece
I've been trying to find
Falls right into place
You're all that it takes
My doubts fade away
When I'm kissing you

When I'm kissing you
It all starts making sense
And all the questions
Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
I've been asking in my head
Like are you the one should I really trust
Crystal clear it becomes
When I'm kissing you

I've never felt nothing like this
You're making me open up
No point in even trying to fight this
It kinda feels like it's love

Cause when I'm kissing you
My senses come alive
Almost like the puzzle piece
I've been trying to find
Falls right into place
You're all that it takes
My doubts fade away
When I'm kissing you

When I'm kissing you
It all starts making sense
And all the questions
I've been asking in my head
Like are you the one should I really trust
Crystal clear it becomes
When I'm kissing you

New Crew!!!

After many years of typing random blogger websites to fail in finding a kids blog, today I succeeded! The link is http://www.joytotheinternet.blogspot.com. Click HERE to see her first post about her new dog, Lola. She's so adorable! She just started to let you know. Well, welcome this new arrival to http://www.blogspot.com!!!

Jazz Party!!!

Today I had a jazz class. (Jazz 1-A.) We had the funnest party ever!!!!!! First, we opened presents, then we had cookies and hot chocolate, next we played games.One game was Four Corners. Then we played 12345 go jump! You play 12345 go jump by when someone says one, you jump! you can only jump on 1 and 3. If you don't, or do late, your out! At the end we got sillybands and a candycane!

Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right

Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right By Clara Moskowitz SPACE.com Senior Writer posted: 24 November 2010 01:16 pm ET I love learning more about space. This is an article from space.com

What Einstein called his worst mistake, scientists are now depending on to help explain the universe.

In 1917, Albert Einstein inserted a term called the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity to force the equations to predict a stationary universe in keeping with physicists' thinking at the time. When it became clear that the universe wasn't actually static, but was expanding instead, Einstein abandoned the constant, calling it the '"biggest blunder" of his life.

But lately scientists have revived Einstein's cosmological constant (denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda) to explain a mysterious force called dark energy that seems to be counteracting gravity — causing the universe to expand at an accelerating pace.

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A new study confirms that the cosmological constant is the best fit for dark energy, and offers the most precise and accurate estimate yet of its value, researchers said. The finding comes from a measurement of the universe's geometry that suggests our universe is flat, rather than spherical or curved.

Geometry of the universe

Physicists Christian Marinoni and Adeline Buzzi of the Universite de Provence in France found a new way to test the dark energy model that is completely independent of previous studies. Their method relies on distant observations of pairs of galaxies to measure the curvature of space.

"The most exciting aspect of the work is that there is no external data that we plug in," Marinoni told SPACE.com, meaning that their findings aren't dependent on other calculations that could be flawed.

The researchers probed dark energy by studying the geometry of the universe. The shape of space depends on what's in it — that was one of the revelations of Einstein's general relativity, which showed that mass and energy (two sides of the same coin) bend space-time with their gravitational force.

Marinoni and Buzzi set out to calculate the contents of the universe — i.e. how much mass and energy, including dark energy, it holds — by measuring its shape.

There were three main options for the outcome.

Physics says the universe can either be flat like a plane, spherical like a globe, or hyperbolically curved like a saddle. Previous studies have favored the flat universe model, and this new calculation agreed.

Flat universe

The geometry of space-time can distort structures within it. The researchers studied observations of pairs of distant galaxies orbiting each other for evidence of this distortion, and used the magnitude of the distortion as a way to trace the shape of space-time.

To discover how much the galaxy pairs' shapes were being distorted, the researchers measured how much each galaxy's light was red-shifted — that is, budged toward the red end of the visual spectrum by a process called the Doppler shift, which affects moving light or sound waves.

The redshift measurements offered a way to plot the orientation and position of the orbiting pairs of galaxies. The result of these calculations pointed toward a flat universe.

Marinoni and Buzzi detail their findings in the Nov. 25 issue of the journal Nature.

Understanding dark energy

By providing more evidence that the universe is flat, the findings bolster the cosmological constant model for dark energy over competing theories such as the idea that the general relativity equations for gravity are flawed.

"We have at this moment the most precise measurements of lambda that a single technique can give," Marinoni said. "Our data points towards a cosmological constant because the value of lambda we measure is close to minus one, which is the value predicted if dark energy is the cosmological constant."

Unfortunately, knowing that the cosmological constant is the best mathematical explanation for how dark energy is stretching out our universe doesn't help much in understanding why it exists at all.

"Many cosmologists regard determining the nature of dark energy and dark matter as the most important scientific question of the decade," wrote Alan Heavens of Scotland's University of Edinburgh in an accompanying essay in the same issue of Nature. "Our picture of the universe involves putting together a number of pieces of evidence, so it is appealing to hear of Marinoni and Buzzi's novel technique for testing the cosmological model, not least because it provides a very direct and simple measurement of the geometry of the universe."

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You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz.