Mom’s Baby Monitor Picks Up Shuttle Atlantis Video

babymonitornasa.jpg A mother in Palatine, Ill., turned on her baby monitor recently and saw something that was literally out of this world, reports CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago.

Natalie Meilinger said she was checking on her son Jack last weekend when she turned on the baby monitor and saw astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis, which docked at the International Space Station on Sunday.

She also saw mission control at the Johnson Space Center and a map of the space station’s trajectory.

Meilinger called a friend who has the same type of baby monitor and asked if she was seeing the same thing. The friend wasn’t, so Meilinger called the monitor’s manufacturer, but they couldn’t help her.

Broadcast engineers said one of Meilinger’s neighbors has a wireless device connected to a TV that matches the frequency on the baby monitor.

Meilinger said it’s strange to see something on the monitor other than her son Jack, but it’s giving her a great story to tell.

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Something the over-protective parent to consider

Bumps and bruises are ‘good for children’

Children should be allowed to play dangerous games and risk minor injuries as part of a wider lesson in life, the organisation responsible for avoiding accidents has said.

By scraping knees, grazing elbows and getting bruises, children learn “valuable lifelong lessons” that will help them to avoid more serious injuries in later life.

Peter Cornall, head of leisure safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said: “We need to ask ourselves whether it is better for a child to break a wrist falling out of a tree, or to get a repetitive strain wrist injury at a young age from using a computer or video games console.

“Parents and children must not be frightened about venturing outside. When children spend time in the great outdoors, getting muddy, getting wet, getting stung by nettles, they learn important lessons – what hurts, what is slippery, what you can trip over or fall from. We need to try to break down the perceived safety barriers to playing outside. A step towards achieving this can be the creation of wild areas for natural play within parks.

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Hostess re-introducing banana-creme Twinkies

twinkies.jpgTwinkie lovers, get ready to go bananas.The sweet treat known for its golden spongy cake and its creamy vanilla center is returning to its roots with banana-creme filling — the flavor that first made the snack a hit with sweet-toothed people more than 70 years ago.

Hostess, owned by Kansas City, Missouri-based Interstate Bakeries Corp., began selling the banana-creme snack cakes last week at retail stores nationwide. The filling tastes just as sweet as the standard vanilla but with a subtle hint and smell of banana.

Old-timers may remember the taste from the pre-World War II years. From 1930, when the Twinkie was first invented, to the 1940s, Twinkies were filled solely with banana creme. But a banana shortage during the war forced Hostess bakers to replace it with the vanilla flavor.

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