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Lightning is a bright streak of power produced by a thunder-storm. All lightning is very dangerous.When you here thunder, that means that you are in danger from lightning. For example: when you rub your feet/ socks on a carpet and you tough something metal, you can be shocked. Lightning works the same way... 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit is how hot lightning is. That is six times hotter than the surface of the sun!!!!! Wow! Thunder storms are caused by lightning. If it gets dark outside or you hair stands up, you are near lightning. Use these steps to stay safe!: If you hear thunder, then you need to go indoors or get in a car.Please stay inside, outside lightning could strike there any moment! Get on your hands and knees with you head tucked in if you don't have anywhere to go... Lightning bolt's power is so strong, you can see it from 100 miles away! Wow! You can tell how far lightning is away from you by listening to thunder. Count the number of seconds between when you see the lightning and hear the thunder. too tell how far it is away, take the number of seconds and divide by 5 and that will tell you how far away the storm is in miles. For example: If you counted 30 seconds between the lightning and the thunder, the lightning is 6 miles away from you in a thunder storm.
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Here are some interesting facts:
 * A bolt of lightning is no more than one inch wide.
 * If you are inside do not touch electronic devices or water.

In this book the main Characters are Meg Finn and Lowrie McCall. After a recent death of her mother, Meg suffers from her "No good, watch TV all day stepfather." After trying to rob Lowrie McCall's house with her friend Belch Brennan they have a fight. Belch's dog go after Meg, cornering her into the corner of a gas tank. Belch pulls out a gun. Her shoots it up into the air, knowing he could not kill meg, but when it came down, it hit the gas tank, causing it to explode. It killed Belch, his dog, and Meg. Now that they are dead, Belch and his dog take a visit to see the Devil and Meg committed the same number of good and bad crimes in her life. If she wants to go to heaven, she has to help Lowrie McCall with his life. He has to complete his "Wish List." He has to kiss his old girlfriend, kick a football over a fence in a military camp, punch a guy that was mean to him in elementary school, and spit over a gorge. Since Meg is a ghost she tries to guide Lowrie to complete his list so that she will go to heaven. On the other hand, Belch is now friends with the devil and wants to make Meg "bad". While They try to complete "The wish list" they run into several adventures along the way.... In the end is an example of what a great friendship should be like.... **In The end this book would be rated at a: 4.7 star.**
 * Book Report On "The Wish List" By Eoin Colfer:**



Plane Crashes after Take-off: It was December 11th in 1985. The 101st airborne unit of the U.S. Army took off from Cairo, Egypt On a Character Arrow Air DC-8. The aircraft was heading to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from a 6 month "peacekeeping mission" in the Sinai. After a recent stop in Germany, to fuel up, they took off, after take-off, it crashed. The explosion killed 248 soldiers... Very quickly a terrorist organization claimed that they were responsible for "The accident." Scientists later discovered that ice on the plane's wings had brought them down... Four out of nine passengers on board strongly disagree. An eyewitness said that there were some boxes being loaded onto the plane, possibly explosives. Several weeks later, some workers started to complain about health issues... Some soldiers had what seemed to be like radiation poisoning. U.S. investigators seemed to act strange. For instance the site was cleared in 3 months, an unusual action for the government to do... Autopsies relieved that many of the soldiers had an unusual amount of carbon monoxide in their bodies... No one now knows why their loved-ones have died...
 * Unsolved Mystery: Unexplained Death Source:** []: A charter Military

Left: Weapons being loaded onto plane. Right: Flames unable to put out...


 * One science/Technology Current event:** Source: []

Manila, Philippines: December 16th 2009 (Wednesday), The Mayon Volcano, which has erupted over 40 times in the last 400 years, has blown it's top. Over 30, 000 people rushed to shelters so that if the volcano erupted even bigger no-one would be hurt... It rolled down a 8,070 foot mountain coming at the villages below it. Scientists are not sure if it will erupt any more so they are keeping everyone in a 5-mile safety zone behind ropes... The volcano lat erupted on 2006, but in 1993 it killed 79 people. The first eruption was recorded to have been in 1616... The most destructive was is 1814, killing over 1,200 citizens.. Philippines are in "The ring of fire." Where earthquakes and volcanic activity occur most...People say that 22 out of 37 volcanoes are still active...

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After almost 3 centuries, Britain is bouncing back checks... By October 31st 2018, the government plans to wind up the check clearing system... "Direct Debit" is going to be the new way of payment. Last year about 3.8 million checks were written every day! But in 1990 it was 10.9 million every day... People are afraid that without checks people will have to keep large amounts of money stored at home, leaving them vulnerable to theft and financial abuse... More politics are concerned about the elderly, over 6 million elders have not used the internet ever before and most likely cannot own a credit card... A review will take place in 2016 before checks are abolished...
 * One Political Current Event:** Source: [] **Britain Bounces** **checks after 300 Years...**

The most surprising thing Americans are concerned about is the H1N1 is targeting the young most and not the elders. Half of the people that have gotten swine flu have been 25 or under. Studies have shown that people over 60 have some kind of anti bug. The elders over 60 are not exactly immune to the flu though... Although elder may not have swine flu, the are still at risk of heart disease, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure... Vaccinations are now focused on the younger, not only because they are more likely to get it but because they are the "Spreaders." Now everyone is taking caution... Please wash your hands!
 * Social Awareness topic on H1N1:**Found at: []
 * Elders May have Immunity to swine flu...**

Photography is one of the greatest inventions ever invented, it is a way to capture moments that you can't exactly duplicate in your mind. A "film" camera has three basic parts. They are the optical element (lens), chemical element (the film), and the mechanical element (the camera.) The lens is a small sheet of glass and it's job is to take beams of light bouncing off an object and redirect them so the beams come together to form a "real image". A shopping cart going off of pavement to grass is a good example of how the lens works. Light travels through glass slower then in the air so the glass slows it down. When light enters the glass at angle, one wave will hit the glass before the other, for example: if you pushed a shopping cart onto grass and the right wheel hits the grass and the left is still on the pavement, going faster, the left would go to to right, therefore being on an angle...
 * How stuff works: Cameras found at: []**

The focus is when you can zoom in on an object, if the camer is further away, it will show up smaller on the picture. If is closer, it will look bigger in the picture shown below... Sometimes an object will appear blurry, that means that you must zoom closer or further back with the focus.


 * Information About Myself**:
 * Pets:** I love animals, I have 1 green anole, 2 cats, 1 king Charles, and 3 goldfish. (I shouldn't have the 3 goldfish or the anole.)
 * Hobbies:** I like to collect money, or coins. I have a quarter collection, bills collection made up of several framed bills, and old coins. I also like to run/ jog most of the time.