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Though the Girl Scouts of the USA initially declared itself a space for all girls, the reality was different for girls of color

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Newsela | Fishy looking robot SoFi is helping scientists spy on life under the sea

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The United States Constitution guarantees privacy. The government has no right to spy on its citizens. There are many exceptions to the rule. But that is the rule.

Most of the time, the danger is from overseas and comes to the United States. In the 1950s, it was Communism imported from Russia. A crazed Senator from Wisconsin started a witch-hunt to find Communists in the U.S. military and Hollywood. His name was Joe McCarthy. He did not succeed, but he started a "red-scare." To be accused was to face the loss of your job. To fail to report others might put you in jail.

After the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, terrorists became a grave threat to America. They differ from Communists in their goals. Communists wanted take over America. Terrorists want to destroy America.

In response, the American people agreed the government had to take steps. The government did not start a witch-hunt or a red-scare. Rather, it began a massive program of surveillance.

The surveillance program is now up for renewal. Many people, including conservatives and liberals, think the government is now doing too much spying on its people.

An agreement was reached between the Senate and the House of Representatives on a new law that will end bulk collection of telephone records by the government. The president has said he will sign the bill.

A senator opposing the new law said, "It weakens American security. It takes one more tool from our war fighters at the wrong time."

Edward Snowden was a contractor for the National Security Agency. He told the public that the government was spying on Americans. Some say he is a whistle blower and a hero. Others say he is a traitor who must be punished. He now lives in Russia.

No one wants to help Islamic terrorists. Will the changes in the new law aid terrorists? Did the program pose a danger to the civil liberties of Americans?

There are good people on both sides of the questions.

Source: The Washington Post June 2, 2015

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Three years ago, a forest fire raged for four months in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on the Virginia-North Carolina border. Living nearby, Mike Logan, a NASA researcher in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), spent weeks breathing in the peat bog smoke that traveled as far north as Maryland.

Logan had an idea. "I made a phone call to the local fire captain and learned most fires are caused by lightning strikes and the only way they can spot them is by hiring an aircraft to do an aerial survey of the huge swamp. So I figured why not use a UAV as a fire detector?"

Two major fires since 2008 caused by lightning strikes in the 50,000-square-acre refuge required more than $10 million each to extinguish, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). A better method for early fire detection could save millions of dollars for taxpayers.

Logan's pilot project, created at NASA's Langley Research Center in nearby Hampton, has been granted a one-year trial period by the FWS to test small UASs for the detection of brush and forest fires.

"The FWS is evaluating the feasibility of airborne unmanned platforms and their ability to offer a safer and more cost-effective alternative for surveillance immediately following thunderstorm activity," said Great Dismal Swamp Refuge Manager Chris Lowie. "The agency hopes to see a significant decrease in cost to survey the area, as well as a reduction in time to detect nascent fires, which could potentially save millions of dollars to the taxpayer in firefighting costs," added Lowie.

The drones carry two cameras. One is a nose camera that can see smoke plumes rising, the other is an infrared camera that points down, for finding hot spots by detecting heat signatures. The transmissions can be viewed on a laptop computer in a mobile ground station.

Logan says the drone, which weighs about 15 pounds and has an almost six-foot wingspan, has a range of about eight miles and can stay aloft as long as an hour, before the batteries need recharging.

( WATCH a NASA video of the drone below)
Image Credit: NASA Langley/David C. Bowman

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Drone Searches Forest for Tiny Wildfires Before They Blow Up - Good News Network

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Investigators in central Minnesota say a smartphone app helped save the lives of two boys.

CBS Minnesota reports a man located his missing son on Sunday by using the "Find My iPhone" app. It led him to the Little Elk River near the town of Randall.

"The river is real slow," Chief Charles Strack of the Randall Police Deparment said. "It's a nice place to cool off."

That's exactly what two friends were doing Sunday at the Highway 115 bridge. But when one of the boys didn't show up for a family function that afternoon, his parents used smartphone technology to find out where he was, and it was lucky they did.

When the dad arrived, he found his son's 12-yeard-old friend unconscious, lying face down in the river. His 14-year-old son was also semi-responsive. He helped pull both boys to shore where first responders took over.

"For a dad or mom or anyone to locate a child like that is beyond belief, but he was still able to get him out and up the river bank," Strack said.

Both of the boys were rushed to a local hospital. The 14-year-old was treated and later released from the hospital. At this time, the 12-year-old remains hospitalized in satisfactory condition.

Strack believes things would have ended much differently had the boy's dad arrived even a couple of minutes later.

"Everything just worked out to save this kid's life," said Strack. He also credited first responders for playing an important role in the rescue.

First published on September 8, 2017 / 10:55 AM

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President Trump travels to Vietnam Monday to meet for the second time with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The talks will focus again on Kim's nuclear arsenal. Ben Tracy reports from Hanoi.

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Newsela | Activism through social media creates bigger buzz

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The trending hashtag "#iftheygunnedmedown" has exploded online, taking up the cause of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by Missouri police last week.

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When social media first started to emerge in the mid-2000s as a popular way to connect online, marketers and consumers split into two camps. One camp boldly proclaimed that social media was the wave of the future. The other denounced social media as a fad ( something people still occasionally insist today, more than 10 years later).

It's clear that social media has had and continues to have a substantial impact on our daily lives-and it's hard to imagine sites like Facebook ever going away, with more than 1 billion people currently using the platform. But when you look at the broad context of social media, and some of the recent developments shaping the industry, you have to wonder-are we heading to a post-social media world?
Coming and Going
For starters, let's take a look at the rates of emergence and decay of social media platforms. In the early days of social media, and even as recently as a few years ago, new platforms would spring up constantly, looking for a piece of the social pie, and they'd die off just as quickly when their user bases wouldn't grow to sustainable levels.

These days, that rate has substantially slowed, and people are gravitating only to a handful of apps-Facebook earns the attention of 79 percent of adults, with a cluster of other apps (WhatsApp, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter among them) hovering close to the 30 percent mark.

This slowdown means a couple of things that could indicate progress toward a post-social future:

Normalization of social media. With social platforms becoming more stable, less novel, and more intuitive, users aren't focusing on social media as separate from their daily lives. They're becoming more integrated, and over time may cease to be considered distinct entities.

Centralization of platforms. It's also worth noting that single platforms are rising above the fold, giving them power to dictate the future of social media development in the same way that Google dictated the development of search for years. As this trend increases, social media platforms will likely start heading in newer, bolder directions that leave our old conceptions of "social media" in the dust.

Live Streams and Constant Interaction
Many platforms are also heading toward further integration with the "real" world; user interest in live video and other "in the moment" posts is enormous, especially when compared to reflective or retrospective posts. This is at least part of the reason why Snapchat has become as popular as it has; since messages are temporary and capture a specific moment in time, they're a form of interacting with the live world.

The fact that most social apps cater to mobile users is another indication of this trend; mobile users are more likely to share things as they happen, rather than waiting to post about them at a later time. Social media apps run in the background, and users interact with each other on a constant basis. Already, social apps are becoming more like instant messaging platforms than a distinct entity on their own.
Wearable Tech and New Interfaces
As technology evolves, we'll likely see new worlds of socialization emerge. Wearable technology and smart home systems like Google Home are encouraging users to decrease their reliance on screens and traditional interfaces. For technology like smartwatches, screens are too small or unnoticeable to present easy engagement. For smart home systems, hands-free communication and functionality is essential. That doesn't leave any room for the world of social media as we're used to it-a place to browse through the posts and photos of your friends and family and interact accordingly.

Augmented and virtual reality will make this trend escalate even faster, and given Facebook's interest in the technology already, most social media platforms are clamoring to get to that next level. With integrated AR and VR, you can talk to people as if they're in the same room as you, and you can even experience what they're experiencing vicariously, complete with a full sensory experience and no need for the platforms of old.
What the Post-Social Media World Looks Like
Any social media interface you can imagine will be long gone. There might be buttons or menus that allow you to do things like call up a specific contact or stream a projection of your current line of sight, but online social interaction won't exist the way we know it today.

Instead, social media companies will be focused on advanced forms of messaging and broadcasting, which will transcend our current limitations by a factor we can't yet imagine. I imagine most interactions like "comments" and "likes" will disappear too, in favor or real-time feedback, and decades down the road, all this technology may become so minimalistic and so integrated that it doesn't exist as an external device.
A Timeline?
This projected reality of social media is exciting, and may sound a bit too sci-fi for your taste. That's fine; I encourage you not to make any bold business or marketing decisions based around this far-off projection of what's to come.

In reality, social media will likely evolve gradually, with no major revolutions over the next few years. But don't write off these developments too far-if I had to nail down a date, I'd argue that we'll start seeing a full transition away from traditional platforms within a decade.

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How Social Media Went From Exciting To Ingrained In Our Lives

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Lauren Kahn was a sophomore at Oakland Technical High School in November 2016 when she watched students stand up and walk out of class to protest the election of our president.

That was the first Lauren had heard of a walkout. Two years later, the 17-year-old senior, who is in her final semester of high school, is helping plan the protests that are emptying her school's classrooms.

"Quite honestly, it's not the most difficult thing to convince students to skip school," Lauren told me last week during a break from planning a recent protest. "Students have been pretty eager, especially if you can give them a really solid justification why they're doing it."

This week marks a year since a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine's Day. The heartbreaking tragedy sparked student activism across the country. In recent weeks, Oakland Tech students have been protesting to support the Oakland Unified School District teachers.

Teachers are threatening to strike if the school district doesn't meet their contract demands for higher salaries and smaller classrooms. On Jan. 18, teachers who called in sick or took a personal day gathered in front of Oakland Tech on their way to the school district's offices. Hundreds of Oakland Tech students walked out and joined the protest.

On Feb. 1, Oakland Tech students organized another walkout. And just a week later, dozens of students skipped school for a "sickout." And they were joined by students from other Oakland schools.

For almost a year, I've been watching a fantastic trend brew at Oakland Tech's protests: The protests are being organized and led by teen girls.

As students marched along Broadway on Friday, girls held the giant banner at the front of the march. Girls held megaphones used to lead the chants as people stepped out of offices, car dealerships and construction sites on Broadway to watch the students pass.

"No matter how many teachers you don't like or how many bad experiences you've had, you can't deny everything teachers do for students," Caroline Pers told me. "It's so much more than just a day job."

I met Caroline, a sophomore, while reporting on the national walkout against gun violence in the wake of the Parkland shooting. As a freshman, she helped organize the March protest. Last week, Caroline and Ivelisse Diaz, a junior, met me at a coffee shop across the street from campus.

Their Mock Trial team had won the night before, and they proudly pointed out that five of the eight attorneys on the team are girls. Right now, there's a record number of women serving in Congress. I asked Ivelisse and Caroline, both 16, if their activism is a response to the policies and actions of the demagogue who invaded the White House.

"One hundred percent," Caroline said without hesitation. "November of 2016 was a really big eye-opener for a lot of people. It definitely sparked something."

Seeing the Parkland students share their stories in front of large crowds inspired Ivelisse to do the same. Lauren, Caroline and Ivelisse are girls who understand their power. I support them tapping into it.

"People like ourselves are seeing the kind of damage that men like Trump do, the kind of ignorance that makes him do terrible things," Ivelisse said. "We have to make more of an effort to try and undo the wrongs of the past, because there's so many."

Last week, Oakland teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The vote allows union leaders to call a strike after a neutral fact-finder presents their report, which is expected Friday.

"The fact that they don't get more fairly compensated is outrageous," Ivelisse said.

For Friday's sickout, Lauren recruited students from other schools using social media apps including Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter to spread the word. She told me students from Oakland High School, Skyline High School, Madison Park Academy, MetWest High School and Coliseum College Prep Academy marched with Oakland Tech students.

The state of California funds school districts in part based on student attendance, also known as average daily attendance. If a student is marked absent, the district loses money.

"The sickout is going to demonstrate, not just to the district but to the state government, that students actually do have significant power in these negotiations and that we're willing and able to use it," Lauren said. "What we want to do with that momentum is establish ourselves in the negotiating process and even help the district appeal to the state for more funding."

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Otis R. Taylor Jr. appears Mondays and Thursdays. Email: otaylor@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @otisrtaylorjr

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Newsela | Remote Alaska gets ready for high-speed Internet access

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The northernmost city in the United States is about to become fully Internet-ready.

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There is a lot of fake news on the internet, which is a problem for readers who don’t know the news is fake. It is important to check sources and figure out whether a news story is really true. One teacher worked with her students to spot fake news. She told them to slow down, check the facts and “question everything.”