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Scientists are developing ways to turn sewage into clean energy for America. I found this article really interesting because it shows how fast and well technology is developing for us. I also think that it shows that there isn't any reason to give up hope for our environment just yet. The sewage they are mostly focusing on is hot shower water and sink water, which mostly stays warm in the pipes even in the coldest winters. I wonder how they are developing this technology further and if there is a way to recycle other waste in sewage like plastics or paper.

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A secret cache of clean energy is lurking in sewers, and there are growing efforts to put it to work in the battle against climate change.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates Americans wash enough energy down the drain every year to power about 30 million homes. The sources are often everyday items inside homes. Think hot showers, washing machines and sinks. Evolving technology is making it easier to harness that mostly warm water.

Denver is now constructing what is likely the largest sewer heat-recovery project in North America, according to Enwave, a Canadian energy company set to operate the system.

Over the next few years, a $1 billion remodel will turn the 250-acre site, home to the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, into a hub for art, education and agriculture. The revamped National Western Center will include about a million square feet of new indoor space, all of which will be heated and cooled with energy from the sewer pipes below.

Brad Buchanan, the CEO leading the redevelopment, said the project has already changed how he thinks about the best location for real estate. Big pieces of sewer infrastructure have long repelled development. Now he imagines they might be sought out as a way to save energy costs and avoid greenhouse gas emissions.

The National Western Center estimates the project will help it annually avoid the carbon equivalent of driving an average gas-powered car around the equator 250 times.

"It'll be interesting to see if folks start to look at not just where light rail lines or good schools are located, but what's the proximity to a large sanitary sewer line," Buchanan said.

How to mine for sewer heat
The technology to harvest sewer heat isn't complicated.

At the National Western Center, construction crews have already completed a pit exposing the main sewer line. The wastewater inside stays a mild 55 to 75 degrees year-round,local officials say,no matter the weather outside. That consistent temperature can be tapped to heat and cool aboveground buildings.

The key is a massive heat pump, which will be housed in a central plant on the campus. The device works like a reversible air conditioning unit. In the winter, it will transfer energy from the sewage into a clean-water loop connecting the buildings, adding heat to indoor spaces. The process can then be flipped to keep things cool in the summer.

And to answer an obvious question: No, the raw effluent is never exposed to the air, so people occupying the buildings won't get hit with waves of sewer stink.

Shanti Pless, a research engineer with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., said the technology opens up a vast world of "renewable heat mining."

"With the advent of large-scale heat pumps, we can cost-effectively use, say, 70-degree wastewater to heat our buildings and our hot-water systems," Pless said.

Rethinking how we heat and cool buildings
Pless said the biggest barrier isn't technology - it's helping developers rethink the size of their heating and cooling systems. Sewer heat recovery often works best as the heart of a district-size energy system, where a central plant provides energy to a whole neighborhood or office complex.

Denver itself shows how this kind of centralized strategy has fallen out of favor in the United States.

A 141-year-old steam heat system warms many of the city's downtown buildings, supplying energy from a central gas plant operated by Xcel Energy. As costs to improve the system have landed on customers, many building operators have disconnected from the steam service in favor of smaller, independent heating and cooling systems.

Nevertheless, Pless said district energy often makes sense, but it requires a careful study of the energy needs and resources in a specific area. NREL has developed tools to help communities model the viability of heat-recovery systems. He said the National Western Center could also help blaze a trail into the sewers.

"This has been a great local example for us to take the idea to the rest of the country," Pless said.
A sewer energy gold rush?
If sewer energy catches on, one reason could be the potential benefits for wastewater districts.

That's because warm sewage causes its own environmental problems. In Denver, wastewater is often hotter than the South Platte River, its final destination after running through a treatment plant. This "thermal pollution" can imperil native plants and wildlife.

Mickey Conway, Metro Wastewater district manager, said it'd be possible to build cooling towers to chill the treated sewage, but the National Western Center project could showcase a better alternative. New homes and buildings could harvest this heat, cooling the water while avoiding climate-warming emissions and potentially reducing energy bills.

"It's kind of a perfect storm of win-win situations," Conway said.

Metro Wastewater has produced slick brochures to entice other developers with sewer heat. Conway said there are no solid plans just yet, but the district has had "discussions with Denver and Thornton," a metro Denver suburb.

Meanwhile, the National Western Center has moved to protect its supply in the event of a kind of sewer-heat gold rush. The City and County of Denver, a partner in the project, exercised a three-year option for exclusive access to the energy inside the pipelines running through the campus.

Buchanan, the project CEO, said it amounts to a new sort of environmental resource. Instead of mineral rights or water rights, his development holds sewer thermal energy rights.

"We have it protected because we're counting on that energy in perpetuity," he said.

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How Your Hot Showers And Toilet Flushes Can Help the Climate

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A secret cache of clean energy is lurking in sewers, and there are growing efforts to put it to work in the battle against climate change. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates Americans wash enough energy down the drain every year to power about 30 million homes.

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A secret cache of clean energy is lurking in sewers, and there are growing efforts to put it to work in the battle against climate change.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates Americans wash enough energy down the drain every year to power about 30 million homes. The sources are often everyday items inside homes. Think hot showers, washing machines and sinks. Evolving technology is making it easier to harness that mostly warm water.

Denver is now constructing what is likely the largest sewer heat-recovery project in North America, according to Enwave, a Canadian energy company set to operate the system.

Over the next few years, a $1 billion remodel will turn the 250-acre site, home to the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, into a hub for art, education and agriculture. The revamped National Western Center will include about a million square feet of new indoor space, all of which will be heated and cooled with energy from the sewer pipes below.

Brad Buchanan, the CEO leading the redevelopment, said the project has already changed how he thinks about the best location for real estate. Big pieces of sewer infrastructure have long repelled development. Now he imagines they might be sought out as a way to save energy costs and avoid greenhouse gas emissions.

The National Western Center estimates the project will help it annually avoid the carbon equivalent of driving an average gas-powered car around the equator 250 times.

"It'll be interesting to see if folks start to look at not just where light rail lines or good schools are located, but what's the proximity to a large sanitary sewer line," Buchanan said.

How to mine for sewer heat
The technology to harvest sewer heat isn't complicated.

At the National Western Center, construction crews have already completed a pit exposing the main sewer line. The wastewater inside stays a mild 55 to 75 degrees year-round,local officials say,no matter the weather outside. That consistent temperature can be tapped to heat and cool aboveground buildings.

The key is a massive heat pump, which will be housed in a central plant on the campus. The device works like a reversible air conditioning unit. In the winter, it will transfer energy from the sewage into a clean-water loop connecting the buildings, adding heat to indoor spaces. The process can then be flipped to keep things cool in the summer.

And to answer an obvious question: No, the raw effluent is never exposed to the air, so people occupying the buildings won't get hit with waves of sewer stink.

Shanti Pless, a research engineer with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., said the technology opens up a vast world of "renewable heat mining."

"With the advent of large-scale heat pumps, we can cost-effectively use, say, 70-degree wastewater to heat our buildings and our hot-water systems," Pless said.

Rethinking how we heat and cool buildings
Pless said the biggest barrier isn't technology - it's helping developers rethink the size of their heating and cooling systems. Sewer heat recovery often works best as the heart of a district-size energy system, where a central plant provides energy to a whole neighborhood or office complex.

Denver itself shows how this kind of centralized strategy has fallen out of favor in the United States.

A 141-year-old steam heat system warms many of the city's downtown buildings, supplying energy from a central gas plant operated by Xcel Energy. As costs to improve the system have landed on customers, many building operators have disconnected from the steam service in favor of smaller, independent heating and cooling systems.

Nevertheless, Pless said district energy often makes sense, but it requires a careful study of the energy needs and resources in a specific area. NREL has developed tools to help communities model the viability of heat-recovery systems. He said the National Western Center could also help blaze a trail into the sewers.

"This has been a great local example for us to take the idea to the rest of the country," Pless said.
A sewer energy gold rush?
If sewer energy catches on, one reason could be the potential benefits for wastewater districts.

That's because warm sewage causes its own environmental problems. In Denver, wastewater is often hotter than the South Platte River, its final destination after running through a treatment plant. This "thermal pollution" can imperil native plants and wildlife.

Mickey Conway, Metro Wastewater district manager, said it'd be possible to build cooling towers to chill the treated sewage, but the National Western Center project could showcase a better alternative. New homes and buildings could harvest this heat, cooling the water while avoiding climate-warming emissions and potentially reducing energy bills.

"It's kind of a perfect storm of win-win situations," Conway said.

Metro Wastewater has produced slick brochures to entice other developers with sewer heat. Conway said there are no solid plans just yet, but the district has had "discussions with Denver and Thornton," a metro Denver suburb.

Meanwhile, the National Western Center has moved to protect its supply in the event of a kind of sewer-heat gold rush. The City and County of Denver, a partner in the project, exercised a three-year option for exclusive access to the energy inside the pipelines running through the campus.

Buchanan, the project CEO, said it amounts to a new sort of environmental resource. Instead of mineral rights or water rights, his development holds sewer thermal energy rights.

"We have it protected because we're counting on that energy in perpetuity," he said.

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How Your Hot Showers And Toilet Flushes Can Help the Climate

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A secret cache of clean energy is lurking in sewers, and there are growing efforts to put it to work in the battle against climate change. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates Americans wash enough energy down the drain every year to power about 30 million homes.

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On Thursday, President Joe Biden has recently signed a bill that addresses the increasing Asian Hate crimes during the Coronavirus outbreak. (there wasn't much on the website so its gonna be really short)

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A new book casts doubt on some of the authenticity of Phil Collins' Alamo artifacts. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has vowed to raise up to $300 million for revitalizing the Texas landmark. The money would go toward housing the rock star's "Phil Collins Texana Collection" Collins' collection is reputed to be one of the most extensive Alamo collections in the world. The book chronicles the stage and storied tale of the collection and its central role in the project. A knife is supposedly owned by Jim Bowie that was authenticated by a psychic is among the items listed.
Why I choose this:
I choose this because of its title. The Alamo is well known and i thought that it would be hilarious to find out if the artifacts were in fact fake.

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We all remember the Alamo, right?

The aging Texas landmark has been the subject of a revitalization project for years, and some pieces might be falling into place. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick vowed to raise up to $300 million for the project, part of which would go toward housing the collection of British rock star Phil Collins.

Yes, you read that right. The rock star of Genesis and "Tarzan" soundtrack fame, Collins has reputedly one of the most extensive collections of Alamo artifacts in the world. But a new book casts doubt on the validity of several of Collins' most noteworthy pieces.

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In their upcoming book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth," authors Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford and Bryan Burrough chronicle the strange and storied tale of Collins' collection and its central role in revitalizing the Alamo.

An excerpt from the book published in Texas Monthly's forthcoming June edition lays out some of the contested artifacts, which include a knife supposedly owned by Jim Bowie that was authenticated by a psychic. Other items include horseshoes, belt buckles and buttons dug up from under a shop near the mission. A "sword belt" purported to have belonged to Colonel William Barret Travis is also listed among Collins' haul. The collection undoubtedly holds many authentic items, but some have a much murkier history.

A fellow Alamo enthusiast, Patrick has vowed to find the remaining $200-$300 million needed for the site's revitalization at the unveiling of a temporary exhibit in the Alamo's plaza last month, according to San Antonio Express-News' Scott Huddleston. The proposed project includes building a four-story museum to house Alamo artifacts, including the "Phil Collins Texana Collection."

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has promised to spend $300M in taxpayer money on an Alamo museum to house rock star Phil Collins's collection of artifacts. But are they are those objects really from the Alamo? @BryanBurrough @JasStanford and I dug deep: https://t.co/VWk6Chrfta #txlege
- ChrisTomlinson (@cltomlinson) May 19, 2021

But that $300 million price tag-which could come at the expense of Texas taxpayers-could be better spent elsewhere, some pointed out on Twitter.

To reiterate: the state is literally choosing to spend $ on housing a rock star's unauthenticated Alamo swag and yet keeps saying it's too expensive to AC prisons where people are baking to death - even tho the cost is the same.

Priorities. https://t.co/dKfr2MKaIs
- Keri Blakinger (@keribla) May 19, 2021

The state needs less than half of this to build a brand new 264 BED psychiatric hospital in Harris County.

1,500 people are waiting for a publicly funded psychiatric bed in Texas -- some of them for up to a year.

The priorities here are ... woah. https://t.co/S3dqyf30zV
- Alex Stuckey 🐘 (@alexdstuckey) May 19, 2021

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Adding to the drama is the long-running feud between Patrick and Texas land commissioner George P. Bush over the Alamo project.

This saga, almost as dramatic as the battle itself, shows no sign of slowing or ending any time soon. Adding Phil Collins to the mix only adds weirdness to the fire.

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Does Phil Collins have a huge collection of fake Alamo artifacts?

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We all remember the Alamo, right? The aging Texas landmark has been the subject of a revitalization project for years, and some pieces might be falling into place. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick vowed to raise up to $300 million for the project, part of which would go toward housing the collection of British rock star Phil Collins.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/middleeast/gaza-covid-conflict-intl/index.html
This article talks about how since isreal bombed gaza this specific family havent been able to see their kids and have now contracted covid. They fear that they may pass away without being able to see their kids one last time. this is just one story of many to give you a taste of how severe the situation is getting.

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Guinea pigs for hire: In need of quick cash, young South Koreans join clinical trials

This is just talking about how people who are going to get the trials of the vaccine. The amount of money earned is $2,650. Many people who were laid off from their jobs because of covid now have a lot of people volunteering. This results in a lot of people coming in. Though there are many risks people will risk anything to keep a roof over their heads

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This article talks about how the current vice president, Kamala Harris, urges her fellow Asian Americans as well as Pacific Islanders to stand their ground and fight back against all hate-crimes directed at them. She believes that by turning their pain and the injustice they've received into power they can obtain an opportunity to take action and be heard.

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Vice President Harris on Wednesday urged Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to turn their pain, after a year marked by a surge of racially motivated attacks, into power.

She also praised the passage of legislation to address the increase in hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

"As a member of this community, I share in that outrage and that grief," Harris said. "And I believe we have an opportunity now to turn that pain into action. To turn that pain, that righteous anger, because of the injustice of it, we have an opportunity to turn that into power."

Harris - a daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, and the first vice president of Asian descent - was the keynote speaker for the inaugural AAPI Virtual Unity Summit on Wednesday evening.
AAPI voter turnout jumped in 2020
After a year in which they were galvanized by the racially motivated attacks, Asian Americans are seeking - and wielding - more political power.

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing segment of eligible voters, according to the Pew Research Center.

And while historically they have had some of the lowest turnout levels nationally, in 2020 voter turnout for Asian Americans was higher than it has ever been.

An analysis of the U.S. Current Population Survey from AAPI Data found that turnout among Asian American citizens grew from 49% in 2016 to 60% in 2020. Among Pacific Islanders, turnout increased from 41% in 2016 to 55% in 2020.

According to the Census Bureau, about 67% of all eligible voters cast ballots in 2020.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders had the highest increases in voter turnout for any racial or ethnic group from 2016 to 2020, according to Karthick Ramakrishnan, the director of AAPI Data.

Experts point to a number of reasons for the increase in Asian American turnout. Some Democrats point to former President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including his repeated references to the "China virus," which repelled many voters. Some cite the impact of Harris' presence on the Democratic ticket. But organizers and experts also point to years of local outreach.

"It's important to pay attention both to short-term campaign dynamics that help increase voter turnout because of increased investments by partisan organizations, but it's also important to acknowledge that those short-term increases build on a foundation of long-term investments in community organizing, naturalization, voter registration and voter education," Ramakrishnan said.

Data suggests that the majority of Asian voters cast ballots for then-candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 general election, Ramakrishnan said. Strong turnout among Asian Americans played a decisive role in swinging Georgia to Democrats for the first time since 1992. And analysts say that demographic change also played a role in places like Arizona, Michigan and Nevada.

The U.S. Asian electorate is also an incredibly diverse group, and there are meaningful differences among origin groups. Indian Americans, for example are more likely to be Democrats than other Asian origin groups, according to the Pew Research Center, while Vietnamese Americans are more likely to identify as Republicans.

Ramakrishnan said there was a stark increase in voting among second-generation immigrants, who were born in the United States to immigrant parents.

"This second generation is coming of political age and especially during this moment of COVID and the increase in anti-Asian racism and hate incidents, you are seeing a kind of political consciousness that's forming that will likely last a generation," he said. "So I think looking ahead, we're going to see a lot more civic engagement, political activism among the younger Asian American population, and especially given the circumstances of the past year."
Inspired to run and leading by example

Alongside the increased turnout, more Asian Americans are running for office than ever before. They include Andrew Yang, who ran for president in 2020 and is now running for mayor of New York City, and Michelle Wu, who is running to be the mayor of Boston.

Ramakrishnan and others say there are a variety of reasons why the number of Asian American political candidates has been on the rise, though he and other say there is still a long way to go. A recent report from the Reflective Democracy Campaign found that Asian American and Pacific Islander elected officials make up just 0.9% of elected leaders in the U.S.

Madalene Mielke, president of the Asian Pacific Institute for Congressional Studies, says that part of the reason there have been fewer Asian elected officials is due to historic barriers.

"There wasn't a lot of Asian Americans running in the past because when you think about immigration, being U.S. citizens, having that opportunity to actually be a part of that electorate, there have been many public policies in the past that have excluded Asian Americans," Mielke said. "You start to think about how these types of public policies discriminated and excluded the community itself and how the community then basically had to turn around and catch up."

Mielke said that Asian Americans seeking office also must confront cultural biases, as well as the challenge of building fundraising networks.

Ramakrishnan pointed out that when Asian candidates run for office and win, it encourages other potential candidates to come off the sidelines and either run themselves or become donors.

"Given the success of Kamala Harris as the highest-ranking Asian American elected official, as well as senators and members of Congress that have done very well over the last decade, we will likely see many more Asian Americans running for office in the future inspired by those examples," he said.

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Harris To Asian Americans: Turn Pain And Outrage Into Political Power

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subscribe to The NPR Politics Podcast podcast Vice President Harris on Wednesday urged Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to turn their pain, after a year marked by a surge of racially motivated attacks, into power. She also praised the passage of legislation to address the increase in hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/us/five-things-april-27-trnd/index.html

This article talks about a lot of different things but the main thing I was concerned about was the abortion laws. It stated that some states are making laws that ban abortions. The laws are saying that women aren't allowed to get abortions after six weeks of being pregnant, otherwise they were going to jail. For one, how is a law, that was made by men, going to tell women what to do with their bodies. How does abortion affect them in the first place, it doesn't make sense to me. If women aren't allowed to get abortions, not only will that affect the overall world population, but depending on the situation, the foster care system, which is already terrible, will be overrun with children eventually. Some women could've been raped and ended up pregnant and they don't want the baby, or some are too young and aren't ready to take care of a child. Not only would that scar the mother, but also the child because they would think their parents abandoned them because they didn't want them.

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This story is about the coronavirus infection, There's a new infection of COVID that was found in a couple patients they say it comes from dog's and that's not safe. I feel like this is going to get out of hand and they're start bring up or saying different things found in it. this pandemic is not coming to an END!!

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In the past 20 years, new coronaviruses have emerged from animals with remarkable regularity. In 2002, SARS-CoV jumped from civets into people. Ten years later, MERS emerged from camels. Then in 2019, SARS-CoV-2 began to spread around the world.

For many scientists, this pattern points to a disturbing trend: Coronavirus outbreaks aren't rare events - but will likely occur every decade or so.

Now, scientists are reporting that they have discovered what may be the latest coronavirus to jump from animals into people. And it comes from a surprising source: dogs.

When the COVID-19 pandemic first exploded, Dr. Gregory Gray started to wonder if there might be other coronaviruses out there, already making people sick and threatening to trigger another outbreak.

The problem was, he didn't have a tool to look for them. The test for COVID-19, he says, is extremely limited. It tells whether one particular virus - SARS-CoV-2 - is present in a person's respiratory tract, and nothing else.

"Diagnostics are very specific. They generally focus on known viruses," says Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Duke University's Global Health Institute.

So he challenged a graduate student in his lab, Leshan Xiu, to make a more powerful test - one that would work like a COVID-19 test but could detect all coronaviruses, even the unknown ones.

Xiu not only rose to the challenge, but the tool he created worked better than expected.

In the first batch of samples tested last year, Gray and Xiu found evidence of an entirely new coronavirus associated with pneumonia in hospitalized patients - mostly in kids. This virus may be the eighth coronavirus known to cause disease in people, the team reports Thursday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The samples came from patients at a hospital in Sarawak, Malaysia, taken by a collaborator in 2017 and 2018. "These were deep nasal swabs, like doctors collect with the COVID-19 patients," says Gray.

The patients had what looked like regular pneumonia. But in eight out of 301 samples tested, or 2.7%, Xui and Gray found that the patients' upper respiratory tracts were infected with a new canine coronavirus - a dog virus.

"That's a pretty high prevalence of a [new] virus," Gray says. "That's remarkable." So remarkable, in fact, that Gray actually thought maybe he and Xiu had made a mistake. Perhaps Xiu's test wasn't working quite right. "You always wonder if there was a problem in the lab," he says.

To find out, he sent the patients' samples over to a world expert on animal coronaviruses at Ohio State University. She was also dubious. "I thought, there's something wrong," says virologist Anastasia Vlasova. "Canine coronaviruses were not thought to be transmitted to people. It's never been reported before."

Nevertheless, Vlasova went to work. She tried to grow the coronavirus in the lab, using a special solution she knew worked for other dog coronaviruses. Lo and behold, "the virus grew very well," she says.

With a lot of virus on hand, Vlasova could decode its genome. From the virus' gene sequences, she could see that the virus had likely infected cats and pigs at one point. But it likely jumped directly from dogs into people. "The majority of the genome was canine coronavirus," she says.

Then she found a disturbing clue about the virus' future. "We did discover a very, very unique mutation - or deletion - in the genome," Vlasova says. That specific deletion, she says, isn't present in any other known dog coronaviruses, but it is found somewhere else: in human coronaviruses. "It's a mutation that's very similar to one previously found in the SARS coronavirus and in [versions of] SARS-CoV-2 ... [that appeared] very soon after its introduction into the human population," Vlastova says.

This deletion, she believes, helps the dog virus infect or persist inside humans. And that it may be a key step required for coronaviruses to make the jump into people.

"Apparently the deletion is somehow associated with [the virus'] adaptation during this jump from animal to human," she says.

Altogether, this genetic data suggest that Vlasova and her colleagues are catching this new coronavirus early on in its journey in people, while it's still trying to figure out how to infect people efficiently - and possibly, before it can spread from person to person and trigger a big outbreak.

"There's no evidence yet of transmission from human to human," says virologist Xumin Zhang at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. But it's not known how these patients became infected with the virus, or if they had direct contact with infected animals.

Zhang has studied coronaviruses for more than 30 years. He thinks it's too early to call this new virus a human pathogen. "As the authors are careful to say in their paper, they have not proven what's called Koch's postulates," he says. That is, Vlasova, Gray and colleagues haven't shown that the new coronavirus causes pneumonia; so far, it's only been associated with the disease. "To do that, strictly, they need to inject the virus into humans and see if it reproduces the disease," he says. "Of course [for ethical reasons], we cannot do that." Instead, Zhang says, they can look to see how common the virus is in pneumonia patients around the world - and they can test to see if it makes mice or another animal sick.

Yet Zhang says he wouldn't be surprised if this dog virus is, in fact, a new human pathogen. He thinks the more scientists look for unknown coronaviruses inside pneumonia patients, the more they are going to find. "I believe there are many animal [coronaviruses] out there that can transmit to humans."

And in order to stop a future coronavirus pandemic, he says, scientists need to do more testing in people and seek out these strange, hidden infections - before they become a problem.

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A New, Infectious Coronavirus Is Detected In Malaysia - And It's Coming From Dogs

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https://newsela.com/read/ionic-winds-dry-foods/id/2001019625/
This article is about dehydrating fruit and vegetables. However, using heat can take away the nutrients in the food, so researchers found a way to dehydrate food without being harmful. They called it "ionic wind" but instead of using heat it uses voltage. In my opinion this is better because what is the point of eating food if you don't get the nutrients from it. I have definitely seen people on social media dehydrating their food and this new way is much better.

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This article is talking about the new product apple is going to be releasing its called AirTag. The way that is works is that it uses ultrawideband technology to operate like a sonar to track objects it does this whit great precision. To find a object whit a air tag you will need to open a app called find my app then you will click the item you want to track then it will point to the item whiten seconds whit a arrow where it is and it will show how far away it is and the direction.

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Don't let its familiar look fool you. Apple's new tracking accessory is a precursor to better wireless gadgets to come.

The author's dog, Max, wearing an Apple AirTag. Credit... Jim Wilson/The New York Times

On the outside, Apple's new AirTag looks like a ho-hum product that we have all seen before. It's a disc-shaped tracking gadget that can be attached to items like house keys to help you find them.

But inside, the story gets far more interesting.

The AirTag, which Apple introduced last week, is one of the first consumer electronics to support a new wireless technology, ultrawideband, which lets you detect precise proximity between objects. Using ultrawideband, your iPhone can sense whether an AirTag is an inch or dozens of feet away from it. It's so accurate that its app will even show an arrow pointing you in the direction of the AirTag.

That's far better than other trackers that rely on Bluetooth, an older wireless technology that can only roughly guess an item's proximity. (More on how this all works later.)

Using ultrawideband to find lost items is just one early example of what the technology can do. Because of its pinpoint-precise ability to transfer data quickly between devices, ultrawideband could become the next wireless standard that succeeds Bluetooth. It could lead to better wireless earphones, keyboards, video game controllers - you name it.

"This is the tip of the iceberg," Frederic Nabki, chief technology officer of Spark Microsystems, a Montreal firm that is developing ultrawideband technology, said of trackers like the AirTag. "It sends its data really, really fast."

I tested Apple's $29 AirTag, which will be released on Friday, for about a week. I used the tracker to find house keys, locate my dogs and track a backpack. I also ran similar tests with Tile, a $25 tracker that relies on Bluetooth and that has been around for about eight years.

Last week, Tile complained in an antitrust hearing that Apple had copied its product while putting smaller companies at a disadvantage. From my tests comparing AirTag and Tile, I found that ultrawideband was far superior to Bluetooth for finding items. What's more, the AirTag demonstrated that ultrawideband is next-generation tech that is worth getting excited about.

Here's what you need to know.

Ultrawideband has been in development for more than 15 years, but it was built into chips for iPhones and other smartphones only in the last two years.

When you use ultrawideband to find a tracker, it works similarly to sonar, which detects objects underwater. You send a ping to the tag, and the tag bounces a ping back to your phone. The amount of time it takes for the ping to come back is used to calculate the distance between the two objects.

But when you use Bluetooth to find a tracker, your phone is pushing out a continuous signal in search of it. The farther you move away from the tracker, the weaker the signal gets, and the closer you move toward it, the stronger it becomes. This technique is used to tell you roughly how far away you are from the tracker.

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An Apple AirTag with a Tile. Credit... Jim Wilson/The New York Times

So what do the two underlying wireless technologies mean in practice?

Tile works with both iPhones and Android phones using Bluetooth technology to find items. Open the Tile app, select an item and hit the "find" button. The app will look for the Tile and send a signal to connect, after which it makes the tracker play a melody. If the signal connection is weak, it will tell you to move around until the signal gets stronger.

If your phone can't find a Tile because it is outside its range, you can put it in "lost mode." The tracker will search for other Tile owners who have granted the Tile app access to their location to help find other people's lost items. If a Tile-owning Samaritan is near your Tile, that person's device will share its location with the Tile network, which will show where the item was last spotted on a map.

Apple's AirTag works with iPhones both new and old. Newer devices (the iPhone 11 and 12 series) can take advantage of ultrawideband's precise locator abilities. To find an item, you open the Find My app, select an item and tap Find. From there, the app will form a connection with the AirTag. The app combines data gathered with the phone's camera, sensors and ultrawideband chip to direct you to the tag, using an arrow to point you to it. Older iPhones can track AirTags with Bluetooth using a method similar to Tile's.

Similar to Tile, when an AirTag is lost and outside the range of your phone, you can put it in lost mode and allow other Apple phones to find the AirTag to help you see where the item was last spotted on a map.

The benefits of ultrawideband could easily be seen in a few tests.

For one experiment, I asked my wife to hide several AirTags and Tiles throughout our home and then time how long it took me to find them.

Apple's Find My app will point you in the direction of an AirTag. Credit... Brian X. Chen/The New York Times

In one test, she hid an AirTag attached to my motorcycle key somewhere in our bedroom. Apple's Find My app used an arrow to point me toward the mattress, and I pressed a button to make the tag play a sound. After rummaging through the covers and peeking under the bed, I found the AirTag crammed under the mattress. It took about 90 seconds.

The Tile app measures the strength of its signal connection to guide you toward a lost item. Credit... Brian X. Chen/The New York Times

Next, I had to find a Tile attached to my house key. I opened the Tile app and hit the Find button. The app said the signal was weak and suggested I walk around to find a stronger connection. As I moved downstairs, I could hear the Tile's melody, and the app said the signal was getting stronger. I found the Tile hidden inside a bin in a garage locker. It took about a minute.

The toughest was an AirTag hidden inside a book. Apple's Find My app pointed toward the correct shelf, but it couldn't tell me precisely which book the tag was shoved inside. After removing four books from the shelf and flipping through pages, I found the AirTag inside a cookbook. This provided my wife with three minutes of entertainment.

Separately, to test how the trackers worked when they were too far from my phone, I attached a Tile and an AirTag to both of my dogs' collars and put the tags in lost mode when my wife took them for a walk. Nearby smartphones eventually helped me locate both trackers to show me where the dogs were in the neighborhood.

Even though the AirTag is an impressive demonstration of ultrawideband technology, that doesn't make it the best tracker for everyone.

Because of the AirTag's compatibility with Apple products, I would give an AirTag to an iPhone owner. But I would give a Tile to a person with an Android phone.

The AirTag is also far from perfect. I wish they were louder - they are very quiet compared with Tiles - so playing sound wasn't very helpful for finding them. I also did not love that for most purposes, the AirTag requires buying a separate accessory, like a key ring, to hold the tracker.

In contrast, the Tile has a hole punched into its corner to attach to a key ring or zipper head. (The $29 price tag of the AirTag is eclipsed by Apple's $35 leather key ring.)

Still, ultrawideband gives AirTag a major advantage - and even Tile thinks so. CJ Prober, Tile's chief executive, said last week that Apple had refused to give his company access to the iPhone's ultrawideband chip to make its own trackers that work with it.

"They launched a competing product, and they're leveraging that technology that allows it to do things that our product can't," Mr. Prober said in an interview. "We really think competition should be fair. Fair competition leads to better outcomes for consumers."

Apple said in a statement that it had worked hard to protect the privacy of iPhone users' location data, adding that it embraced competition. This month, it announced that it would soon release a plan for other companies to take advantage of the ultrawideband technology inside Apple devices.

I'm happy to wait for those products using this neat wireless technology.

Because of its greater efficiency at transmitting data, ultrawideband could make future wireless devices immensely better, Mr. Nabki said. As an example, he cited cord-free earphones that connect instantly, use very little battery and sound as good as wired ones.

That sounds much cooler than finding house keys.

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Apple AirTag Review: A Humble Tracker With Next-Generation Tech

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Don't let its familiar look fool you. Apple's new tracking accessory is a precursor to better wireless gadgets to come. On the outside, Apple's new AirTag looks like a ho-hum product that we have all seen before. It's a disc-shaped tracking gadget that can be attached to items like house keys to help you find them.

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Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought a $500 million yacht with a "support" yacht. People are upset that billionaire Jeff Bezos is spending money on a yacht for a smaller yacht. Allegedly, Jeff Bezos hasn't been paying his federal taxes and is making more money now that in 2020 (even with the pandemic). I personally think that he could do some more humanitarian work because he has more money that people use in a lifetime. It wouldn't hurt for him to give a little of his money to charity and help fight unemployment and maybe pay for more people to get access to the vaccine, but I guess not.

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What is Jeff Bezos wasting excessive amounts of money on these days?

As his time as Amazon's CEO comes to an end, Bezos appears to want to focus on relaxing and possibly doing some charity work - but let's emphasize the relaxing part.
SO, WHAT NOW? Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, will step down as CEO
The world's richest man is rumored to be buying a 417-foot super-yacht worth an estimated $500 million and equipped with its own "support yacht" and helipad, per Bloomberg's Devon Pendleton and Brad Stone. The best part? The $500 million price tag doesn't even include the mini-yacht.

There's an estimated 553,742 homeless people in America and at least 10.1 million who remain unemployed, but sure, let's spend money on a mega-yacht instead.

Twitter obviously wasn't thrilled with Bezos' purchase, and many made it known.

I just read that Jeff Bezos' "smaller yacht" has a helipad. His smaller yacht!

Billionaires should not exist.
- Dancing on Jelly (@dancingonjelly) May 16, 2021

Jeff Bezos is having a $1.2 billion yacht made with a smaller yacht to hold the helicopter to ride alongside. He paid no federal taxes and has made almost double what he made in 2020, pandemic and all. How's that $1400 holding up?
- Erin Rogers (@erogers8877) May 11, 2021

I just found an actual picture of Jeff Bezos' Yacht and companion Yacht. pic.twitter.com/p6Du16aNPc
- DiabolikDVD.com (@diabolikdvd) May 17, 2021

MORE BILLIONAIRE NEWS: Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce with $146 billion at stake

@JeffBezos You bought a yacht for your yacht? When you start doing something for the human race with your excess of money, I may shop at @AMAZON again. Not until then. You and your money are obscene.
- BarbaraBuon (@stoddard38) May 17, 2021

Bezos is worth $200 billion, for starters, so contributing to society literally would not hurt him in any way. I mean, he can literally afford to purchase an entire country if he wanted to do so.

In conclusion, let's start taxing the rich. I think we are all in favor.

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Jeff Bezos' new yacht also has its own yacht

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What is Jeff Bezos wasting excessive amounts of money on these days? As his time as Amazon's CEO comes to an end, Bezos appears to want to focus on relaxing and possibly doing some charity work - but let's emphasize the relaxing part. SO, WHAT NOW?

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Basically, this article is talking about a tiger that's been loose in Houston for few days has been found and he's unharmed. I think it's weird that you would have one as a pet, let alone let it go missing. If you take the tiger out for a walk at least make sure they're safely secured. You're putting the tiger's and other people's lives in danger because you aren't being a responsible owner. The tiger is your responsibility and they could've lost their lives because Houstonians own guns. Luckily, I don't think the tiger hurt anyone but it's still the possiblity.

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The 9-month-old Bengal named India is expected to be taken to a ranch, the Houston police said.

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'We Got Him': Missing Tiger Is Found in Houston

A Bengal tiger that was last seen wandering around a residential neighborhood last weekend has been found unharmed and will be taken to an animal sanctuary, the Houston police said.

"Commander, it's been a long week looking for this guy." "Yeah, it really has been. But we got him, and he's healthy."

A Bengal tiger that was last seen wandering around a residential neighborhood last weekend has been found unharmed and will be taken to an animal sanctuary, the Houston police said. Credit Credit... Rob Wormald, via Twitter

A tiger that was last seen wandering around a residential neighborhood in Houston last weekend has been found and "appears to be unharmed," the Houston police said on Saturday.

The tiger, a 9-month-old Bengal named India, was taken to an animal shelter, and on Sunday it will be brought to the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison, Texas, the police said.

"We got him, and he's healthy," Ronald Borza, a commander with the Houston Police Department, said in a video released by the department, which showed him petting the tiger as it drank from a bottle.

The tiger drew widespread attention after videos circulated online that showed it meandering through a West Houston neighborhood.

At a news conference on Saturday night, Commander Borza said the tiger had been found after an employee of the city's animal shelter spoke to a friend of the tiger's owner, who said the owner wanted to turn the tiger in.

Commander Borza said the owner was the wife of Victor Cuevas, 26, who had been the last person seen with the tiger.

She brought the tiger to the Houston police on Saturday, Commander Borza said.

He said the tiger would be able to roam freely at the ranch in Murchison, "where, hopefully, he'll live the rest of his life in a very safe environment."

"You should not have that in your home," he said. "It's not good for the tiger."

Commander Borza said Mr. Cuevas's wife was not facing charges, but that an investigation was continuing. He said the tiger had been "passed around a little bit" but that she had known all along where the tiger was.

Commander Borza thanked several officers who had helped search for the animal.

"I think the public thought it'd be easy to catch a tiger," he said, "but it wasn't at all."

On Friday, Commander Borza had said at a news conference that he believed the tiger had been passed around six to eight times in recent days among the homes of people involved in handling exotic animals.

Commander Borza said the police had visited known owners of exotic animals in the Houston area in hopes of finding it.

In the videos that circulated online, an off-duty sheriff's deputy who lives in the neighborhood draws his handgun when he sees the tiger. Later, Mr. Cuevas comes out to corral the tiger. A video shows him kissing the animal as he leads it away.

Mr. Cuevas was arrested on Monday and charged with evading arrest, a felony, after he was seen putting the tiger in a white S.U.V. and driving off from the scene, according to the Houston police.

On Wednesday, Mr. Cuevas was released from the Fort Bend County Jail, where he had been held on a $50,000 bond, according to Wesley Wittig, executive assistant district attorney in Fort Bend County.

But two days later, a judge revoked the bond, turned Mr. Cuevas over to the custody of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office and set a new bond at $300,000.

Mr. Cuevas had previously been charged with murder in the shooting of a man in 2017, but he had been released on bond by the time the tiger incident occurred.

A city ordinance bars Houston residents from owning tigers, and a violation is a misdemeanor. Outside Houston but within the rest of Harris County, owning wild animals, such as tigers, is permitted under certain conditions.

The missing tiger had prompted concern among homeowners as well as animal rights activists, including Carole Baskin, who was featured in the 2020 Netflix documentary series "Tiger King."

Ms. Baskin said in a Facebook post that she would offer a $5,000 reward to whoever could safely hand over the tiger to an animal sanctuary accredited by the Global Federation of Sanctuaries, a nonprofit that cares for animals that are abandoned, displaced or hurt.

Michael Levenson contributed reporting.

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The 9-month-old Bengal named India is expected to be taken to a ranch, the Houston police said. A tiger that was last seen wandering around a residential neighborhood in Houston last weekend has been found and "appears to be unharmed," the Houston police said on Saturday.

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This article is about a group of Jewish people at a diner being attacked by pro-Palestinian group in Los Angles. The police have caught three of the suspects in the hate crime, but there are still more to be caught at the moment.
In my opinion, This is just completely unacceptable. These people should be put away and punished to the maximum degree the law allows. They have completely disturbed the peace and should be punished for it.

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The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a possible hate crime after pro-Palestinian demonstrators hopped out of their vehicles passing a Beverly Grove restaurant and allegedly began singling out and attacking Jewish diners as the brawl was caught on camera.

An LAPD spokeswoman confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that three suspects are still being sought following the incident that happened just before 10 p.m. Tuesday outside a sushi restaurant in the 300 block of North La Cienega Boulevard in the Beverly Grove area.

The Anti-Defamation League of Los Angeles is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of the individuals responsible for the "anti-Semitic assault." As violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip has intensified in the Middle East, video from Los Angeles shows members of a car caravan flying Palestinian flags while driving by the sushi restaurant's outdoor dining section.

The Los Angeles Times reported that a witness, who asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said some people from the caravan threw bottles and chanted "death to Jews" and "free Palestine."
PRO-PALESTINIAN MOB ACCUSED OF ATTACKING JEWISH DINERS IN LA, POSSIBLE HATE CRIME
"Somebody in one of the cars driving by started throwing glass bottles or glass cups at the tables and they shattered everywhere," a female diner, who didn't want to be identified, told KCBS-TV.

Several vehicles stopped, and men who got out began running toward the tables and began asking "Who's Jewish?" the woman said. KTLA-TV reported that another witness, who also was not identified, said fighting erupted when two men replied that they were.

Cellphone footage depicting the brawl from different angles showed a man being punched on a sidewalk.

The man, who wished to be identified only as M, told KABC-TV he was at the restaurant helping plan an upcoming wedding with four Jewish friends when the car caravan rolled up. Video showed some men dressed in black getting out of a car and pushing M's friend to the ground.

M said he grabbed a stanchion, the metal bar used to hold up red velvet rope barriers, to scare the men. Video shows him swinging it at the other men.

"There were many girls behind us. I was scared that they would attack everybody," he said.

M was followed to his car, punched and pepper sprayed, and was treated at a hospital, he said.

Restaurant staff rushed patrons inside, locked the doors and called police.
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No arrests were immediately made. Police said five victims were punched or hurt by broken glass, but nobody was seriously injured.

"We as a city condemn last night's organized, anti-Semitic attack," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted Wednesday, announcing that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) "is investigating this assault as a hate crime, and we will respond with the full force of the law."

"Jewish Angelenos, like all residents, should always feel safe in our city," the mayor wrote. "There is simply no place for anti-Semitism, discrimination, or prejudice of any kind in Los Angeles. And we will never tolerate bigotry and violence in our communities."

L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz, who is Jewish, was sent the video and later visited the restaurant.

"It's absolutely outrageous. We're not going to allow this in the city," he told KTLA. "We're not going to bring the conflict from the Middle East here and allow people to be attacked on our streets because of what they look like and what they appear ethnically."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations for Greater Los Angeles condemned the incident.

"As a civil rights and advocacy organization, we support everyone's right to free speech, the right to assemble and rally in support of their respective political views," Executive Director Hussam Ayloush said in a statement. "However, despite heightened tensions in Palestine and Israel, it is never acceptable for that conflict to spill over into our streets and cities. Violence and intimidation should be condemned, investigated, and if warranted, prosecuted."

In announcing the $5,000 reward, Jeffrey I. Abrams, the Los Angeles regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, thanked the LAPD for investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.
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"We are outraged over reports of this anti-Semitic assault," Abrams said. "These acts of hate have no place in our community and we hope this reward will bring about information that will lead to an arrest or arrests and the prosecution of these hate crimes to the fullest extent of the law."

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Los Angeles Police Department at 213-473-0476.

Separately, the LAPD is investigating another incident after security camera footage appeared to show an Orthodox Jewish man on Monday being chased through a parking lot near Rosewood and La Brea avenues by a group of people waving Palestinian flags. The man, who objected to having his face shown on camera to avoid future attacks, told KCBS-TV he escaped and was not hurt.

Over the weekend, thousands of protesters gathered in West Los Angeles in support of Palestinians. There was also a demonstration outside the Israeli consulate earlier Tuesday. Organizers said both events remained peaceful, according to the Associated Press.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Pro-Palestinian mob attacks Jewish diners in LA, 3 suspects sought in hate crime investigation

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Family of 8 escapes house fire in southeast Houston - ABC13 Houston
Last night in Houston around 10 pm a family of eight, including adults and children, were able to escape a house fire in southeast Houston. The family was said to be asleep when a loud noise woke them up. Firefighters said they had some difficulties fighting the flames. "The house appeared to be added on multiple times," Deputy Chief Robert Garcia said. "But once you start adding on, it adds a degree of complexity. That caused the firefighters to regroup, but they got it out." Thankfully, everyone in the home had gotten out safely and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is unknown.
I choose this article because it is a miracle that 8 people all got out ok and with no injuries when the fire was getting out of control.

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Summary: This article talks about Biden's new 2.8 billion dollar project that aims to increase in the production of renewable energy and help the U.S. bring its carbon emissions down to a neutral level. Along with this major project, the Biden Administration announced a national goal that will help promote new jobs and clean electricity by installing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030. With all this talk on a brighter future fisherman are worried about how it will affect sea life and their livelihoods but have yet to be answered on their concerns.
This is important because climate change has drastically changed over the years and has been ignored for far to long. Now that more efforts to improve life on Earth and provide a clean and energy efficient future have been enacted this will hopefully create a chain reaction in trying to achieve more global goals and improving life for the better.

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The U.S. Interior Department approved the country's first large-scale offshore wind project Tuesday, a final hurdle that reverses course from the Trump administration and sets the stage for a major shift in the energy landscape.

This "is a significant milestone in our efforts to build a clean and more equitable energy future while addressing the climate emergency," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said during a press briefing. She said an expansion of wind energy is critical to President Biden's ambitious climate goals to make the electricity sector carbon-neutral.

The $2.8 billion project, known as Vineyard Wind 1, will consist of 62 turbines spaced about a mile apart, each standing about 837 feet above the water's surface. Cables buried beneath the ocean floor will connect the power from these turbines with the New England grid onshore.

The project is expected to produce enough renewable electricity to power 400,000 Massachusetts homes every year while also saving ratepayers billions of dollars and reducing annual carbon dioxide emissions in the state by about 1.68 million metric tons.

Lars Pedersen, Vineyard Wind's CEO, recently told public radio station WBUR that he expects offshore construction to begin next year, with renewable energy flowing to the grid by the end of 2023.

Pederson called Vineyard Wind's approval "the launch of a new industry." More than a dozen wind farms are being developed in federal waters off the East Coast, and states along the seaboard are eager for the economic development that could bring.

In March, the Biden administration announced a national goal of installing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030. According to the White House, hitting this target would create thousands of jobs and provide enough clean electricity to power about 10 million homes in the U.S. every year.

It's an ambitious target for a nascent industry that has lagged far behind its European counterpart. The U.S. currently has just seven wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, off Rhode Island and Virginia. Europe, by contrast, has more than 5,000.

Fishing industry concerns
Not everyone is celebrating this expansion.

Fishermen worry that large groups of gigantic turbines in the Atlantic will disrupt sea life and their livelihoods. The Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, which represents the New England fishing industry, said it "condemns in the strongest possible terms" the project's environmental review.

Fishermen's concerns have been met with "silence," said Anne Hawkins, the group's executive director, "a clear indication that those in authority care more about multinational businesses and energy politics than our environment, domestic food sources, or U.S. citizens."

Both Vineyard Wind and federal officials said they have considered the industry's concerns and made modifications. Vineyard Wind, for instance, altered the spacing and orientation of its turbines. But fishermen had asked for more spacing between turbines and a 4-mile transit lane through the federal lease area.

Tuesday's announcement likely marks the end of the fight over Vineyard Wind, but several other projects are in the federal review pipeline right behind it. According to a report from the American Clean Power Association, East Coast states have so far pledged to build 25 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2035.
NPR's Jennifer Ludden contributed to this report.

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Biden Administration Approves 1st Major Offshore Wind Energy Project

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The U.S. Interior Department approved the country's first large-scale offshore wind project Tuesday, a final hurdle that reverses course from the Trump administration and sets the stage for a major shift in the energy landscape.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-20/california-boldly-envisions-a-post-pandemic-workplace-without-masks-barriers-distancing

This article is about California is considering making a BIG decision of letting people come to work without a mask and social distancing as long as they are vaccinated. I understand that they have lots of faith in the vaccine and that they think it'll be good for them to start going back to normal BUT I think that's still a very hazardous decision to make at this current time. Until we see MAJOR results from the vaccine and cases going down tremendously until its not as contagious and dangerous, I think they should rethink this decision before they make. And for them to be 100% positive if this is what's best for them.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/entertainment/demi-lovato-nonbinary-intl-scli/index.html
This article is about Demi Lovato coming out as non-binary. I really like this article because I would've never imagined someone as Demi coming out. This made my heart smile because like Demi, I am also non-binary. I think this is such a good look for people who may be struggling with their identity. For them to have spent so much of their life using she/her pronouns and still feel comfortable enough to let the world know how they've been able to find something that makes them feel complete is remarkable. It shows everyone that it is never too late to find yourself, and that it is never too late to live the way you want. Cheers to Demi.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/20/996515792/a-newly-identified-coronavirus-is-making-people-sick-and-it-s-coming-from-dogs
This article is about there being a new version of coronavirus. It was found in patients in Malaysian hospitals. They think it comes from dogs. This makes me feel like the coronavirus is not coming to an end and it will just restart what happened last year. This makes me worried about how long the pandemic will go on and when will it all be over.

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Texas governor Greg Abbott wants Texas to go backwards into pre-pandemic times. He's already signed and passed many bills that promote his pre-COVID and republican motives like the banning of required masks on school property, cutting off pandemic aid for unemployed Texans, wanting to ban abortion after six weeks, the passing of a "Bathroom bill", and so on. Even if Texans aren't ready to go back to normal, Greg Abbott is.

Greg Abbott wants Texas to be normal again

Personally, I think this decision by the governor is utterly ridiculous. Wanting to go back to normal is one thing, but banning the requirement of masks is not smart at all. Not all Texans are vaccinated yet, only about 30%+ are. If we open up schools, stores, restaurants, and so on without a mask requirement, I believe we may be setting ourselves up for failure. I would also like to mention that it's quite tiring hearing that republicans still want to keep society back with bills like abortion bans and the barring of transgender youth/individuals. All it's doing is setting our development back and keeping us from growing as a society. Overall, I do not agree with Greg Abbott's plan to "revive" Texas.

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We are about to discover if the UFO truth IS out there | Daily Mail Online
This article is about the recent news about UFO's and how The Pentagon has found multiple UFO's. This article also gives former President Obama's opinion on UFO's and how they might not be a hoax. This article also includes a video of the leaked footage taken by The Pentagon. I personally think that this might mot be true because, I don't believe in aliens or anything of that sort. However, I think that the government hides things from us, this includes us not knowing much about Area 51 and other things.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997477449/at-miss-universe-contestants-mix-pageantry-with-political-messages
Summary: Contests in this years Miss Universe, created political statements through the clothes they wore. For example the contest Miss Universe Singapore Bernadette Belle Ong. wore a dress that the back sprawled the message, "Stop Asian Hate".
Why I find it interesting: I find this article interesting because it shows that Miss Universe is more than about face beauty and talent. It shows that these women can make independent statements about their countries and politics. I just love that they were able to integrate such powerful messages with something as simple as dresses.