CNN10 Friday Feb 26

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Meteor  - like a shoot start, we see it in the sky but it does not hit the ground. Meteorites  - Strikes the surface of the earth.

Summer & Winter Olympics - First-time Bejing China will be the first to host both a summer and a winter Olympics

2032 Olympics are bidding now and Brisbane Australia is the forerunner. It takes time to plan and build.

Torch Relay - will start 121 days before the start of the Olympics - ceremonial - 10,000 runners.

Beginning March 25

Beavers - England. Devon - Introduce in 2015 where there had not been beavers for 400 years.  Increase the biodiversity of an area. Can be as large as 66 lbs.  The River Otter Beaver Trial

Signing Tiger - A Siberian youth tiger 8 months old - can reach a note that most tigers can't  - doing this for attention.

CNN10 Thursday Feb 25

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Iran Nuclear Deal - Obama, he made an agreement with Iran that they could not make defense-grade nuclear products, could create nuclear power. By doing this an economic sanction was lifted.

Then Trump took office, pulled the US out of the agreement with Iran, and started sanctions against them again. Iran saying they don't want to abide by the previous agreement. They don't inspectors.

New President, trying to get Iran and US back in agreement. Keep the inspections going.

NUCLEAR DEAL

Mount Vesuvius - Volcano -Erupted on Feb 18th this year.

Covid - Side Effects - With fewer people out and about - the animal populations have been showing up more. RATS. with restaurants being shuttered, rats increased up to 78% pair of rats can produce 250 offspring.

Dessert - Baker in Colorado was using Girls Scout cookies to make his pastries.

Desserts

Cnn10 Wedesday Feb 24

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FB/Australia - Blocked FB from news agency - News agencies want to share in advertisements. 

NASA - Mars Landing - rover perseverance - two-year mission- 23 cameras on the rover.

Edvard Munch - Born in Norway - Painting - The Scream - Came with a hidden message - Edvard wrote something in pencil on the canvas. 1895.

Photographs Mystery of 1950/60's Alaska - 2008  a woman from the Netherlands purchased slides from a flea market. - 2020 tried again to find out who is who. Use the Internet.

Home  - Tiny Home - A family in Kansas made a replica of their home at 1/12 scale during the pandemic

CNN10 Wednesday Feb 24

 CNN 

FB vs Australia - FB shut down news sources over their platform FB -Did this in retaliation at the Australian government over the proposal to pay news agencies for the content.

NASA MARS Mission - Perserverence recently landed on Mars. Two-year mission - 23 cameras.

Edvard Much - Born in Norway - The Scream painting - Found a hidden message  - determined the message was written by the artist.

Solved

Photographs of Alaska - 2 boxes of slides - Purchased at a flea market in Sweden (?) 2008. They sat on a shelf and in 2020 digitized and placed on the Internet -Discovery - Photos were from 50/60's 

Do you know the story?

Miniature House - Scaled their house to 1/12 the original size - During Covid  CRAZY

CNN10 Tuesday Feb 23

 CNN10

Airplanes

Boeing 737 - Pratt/Witney Engine On Saturday one engine blew up sending debris down to earth, not injuring anyone, cause some damage. 2nd Pratt/Witney engine caught fire on the same day on a flight

Coronavirus

In the USA death toll just reached 500k. 28 million have been affected.

The new infection rate is at its lowest since last September, we are below 65k new infections per day. Historically the month of February is when flue season starts to dwindle. New Variance could be an issue, watching. CDC Info

ISS

Low Earth Orbin - Commercialize it. Easy to travel to, good communications, do experiments that you cannot do with the earth's gravity. The ISS cost $150Billion/NASA spent 100B- rest of the world.

Currently, it charges/costs $55million a person.

Victorian Home - moving of an old home in San Francisco - Cost the developer $400k. Story with videos

CNN10 Friday February 19

 CNN10

NASA: Perseverance $2.7 Billion dollars Mission to Mars - It's there to study the climate and geology of Mars to prepare us for human life inhabiting the planet/ find out if any ancient life ever existed and to bring back core samples. To take photos and microphones. 127 million miles away - 11 minutes for radio signals to travel.

Winter Storm: Grand Forks N.D. being the coldest city

Texas was one of the hardest-hit states - 

ice jam

ice pancakes

ice balls

ice volcanoes.

Volcanos - Italy - Mt Etna - Oldest continuous erupting volcano - 

Super Swim Brothers - Bismark -12 brothers all of them are on the same swim team.

CNN10 Friday Feb 19

 CNN  10

NASA Mission to MARS - Cost of $2.7 billion - Landed on Mars yesterday.  Rover equipped with cameras and digging devices to bring back samples. Prepare for human life on Mars, looking at the past. 127 million miles away. Takes 11 minutes to communicate.

Winter Storm - Coldest city in the US is Grand Forks Noth Dakota.

Texas - Hit hardest- most unprepared. Ice jam, ice pancakes, ice balls, ice volcanoes, 

Volcano - Mt. Edna - Oldest continuous erupting volcano, Italy. That let loose recently.

Super Swim Brothers - 12 of them on a swim team.

CNN10 Thursday Feb 18

 CNN10

Winter Storm

125 million people - 1/3 of the US population.

Texas - Electricity - 50% power comes from Nat gas/coal

     25% Wind turbines

     11% Nuclear 

5 nights without power

Impact Crater -South Africa - Asteroid to hit the earth.

17 craters shown up in Siberia - 100' deep - caused by the accumulation of methane gas. 

Ocean - 3D Views - 70% of the earth's least explored parts of the earth. Immerse Platform

Snow Maze - Mantitoba Canada - Guinness world record - the size of four football fields

CNN10 Thursday Feb 18

CNN

Winter Storm - Affecting 125 Million Americans 1/3 population

Texas - Power outages- 1/2 Natural Gas/Coal

                                    1/4 Wind Turbines - problem Antifreeze

                                      11% Nuclear -  

The storm began on Sunday/Wed night. 

Source for electrical power

Impact Crater - South Africa -Asteroid hitting the earth

(video of the top 10 impact craters on earth)

Siberia -Crater formed by the accumulation of methane gas -mounds grow - explosion forming the crater.

Ocean - 70% of the earth - 3D mapping -Immerse - Virtual dives -making educational videos of the oceans.

CNN10 Wednesday Feb 17

 CNN10 

Winter Storm- 45 states 73%of the country was under winter warning - 1st time since 2003. The storm is placing stress on the electrical system. Shutting down of water systems. 1/3 of the country was under freezing conditions.

Plate Techtonics - Alfred Wegener - Continental Drift 

AI Facial recognition software - Observes your face for reactions by a camera- It can pick up on the primary emotions / secondary emotions - a culture-based. 56 billion dollar industry.

Drawing using markers - 6450sq. ft. largest marker drawing. Took 63 hours.

CNN10 Tuesday Feb 16

 Us Senate Impeachment Trial ended on Saturday with the acquittal of Pres Trump. 57 senators found him guilty/43 did not. 2/3 were required to convict 67. 10 short.  He was the first president to be impeached twice by the house. IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

Winter Storm - 250 plus new cold temp records set.  

Coronavirus -  New cases just receded to under 100k per day since November. 4% of the US population has been vaccinated.

1. People are doing a better job wearing masks and distance.

2. Natural immunities to the virus.

WHO - Wuhan - Dec 2019 174 people severe virus. 1000s infected. 13 variations of the virus.  NEXTSTRAIN

ICELAND -Nothern Lights  Oct-March (Aurora Borealis)  Night lights.

5 million willed to a dog.

Tuesday 2-16-21 Asynchronous Work

 1. Add a new link list gadget - add your stock companies to the list.

2. Turn in your list of stock companies showing comparison from first time purchased to now.

CNN10 Tuesday Feb 16

 CNN10

Will - 5 million left to LULU the dog - Made national news over the weekend. LULU

Iceland - Nothern Lights - Oct/March is the best viewing.

Coronavirus -  America - Cases are way down - 4% of Americans have been vaccinated. 1. People are doing better with distance and mask-wearing. 2 Natural immunity build up. 

WHO - Wuhan China - Initial spread was much larger reported. 174 deaths in Dec 2019 - equates to 1000 + being infected. 13 mutations of the virus in Dec 2019.  Next Strain

Winter Storm -250 + records will be set for cold temp.  The first time the entire state of Texas is under severe weather warnings. Affecting from Texas to Maine. 

Impeachment Trial - That wrapped up on Saturday with an acquittal. Trump was found not guilty. He became the first president to be impeached by Congress twice, acquitted by the Senate both times.  57 votes of guilty and 43 not guilty.  To be found guilty 67 votes were needed of the 100 senators. Not over. There are other means being looked at. 

CNN10 Thursday February 11

 CNN10

COVID - Air Flight - Currently to fly internationally you must test negative for covid prior to getting on a plane. Domestically, it's
being discussed that covid tests will be required.

Bejing China -WHO - 2 weeks Field Studies in Wuhan is where the Coronavirus began, to determine how it began. It did not start in a lab. Bat/Human transmission. 

Paris France - the State of Emergency over Covid - cont. until June 1. 

Germany is under a lockdown - 

Sierra Gorda Mountains - Deforestification being replaced by agriculture - SGM Ecological Group - 1997 Preserve an area - 400k hectares - the size of Rhode Island - Valued for its diversification. Birds, animals, & plants..  Alternative ways to make money -

Hyundai - Robot - Tiger x-1 Carries payload -  Hyundai elevated unit.

Zoom - Filters - Cat

Game Stop

 Game Stops rise and fall

US Minimum Wage by State

United States minimum Wage by State 

CNN10 Tuesday Feb 9, 2021

 CNN10

Impeachment- US Senate - Begins today - Trump for a second time - Incitement of insurrection- 100 Senators who will act as jury - 67% needed to convict.  50 rep/50 dem - 

Coronavirus - Mutation/Variance/Variations - changing - Concern if and when changes will the vaccine work? South African strain that the CDC is concerned with - Astra Zeneca is no longer working against it.

In the US for the first time this year, we have less than 100 cases in a day.

Australian opened -mask-wearing optional.

Rwanda - Bird Species - Grey Crown Crane - Endangered Lost 80%. due to destruction of habitat - Rwanda wildlife conservancy - Umusambe Village.

Roller Coasters - 6 Flags Saudi Arabia - roller coaster 535 high, 2 1/2 miles long, 155 MPH

Tuesday...

 Class Today.... Cont. with Stocks

1. CNN10

2 Review Stock Pickks

3. Watch Video on what is the stock market

4. Chatterpix

COVID Update

 The Upland USD began vaccinating its employees this week. I received a notice on Tuesday Feb 2 that the district had a random selection process and that beginning on Wed Feb 4 vaccinations would begin being given.  I was on informed that I had been randomly selected and that my vaccine date is on Thursday Feb 4th @ 2 PM at the San Antonio Hospital.

CNN10 Friday Feb5, 2021

 CNN10

US Foreign Policy - How Biden plans to interact with other countries.  

Russia/China - biggest competitors - 

dealing with Russia as far missiles/ China business competitor.

Myanmar - (Burma) near India-  Military Coo - Country taken over by the military.

Yemen - Civil War - How is America reacting to this situation

Storm - East Coast Strom - Record Snowfall 

Teqball  -Ping Pong with a soccer ball. Hopes are for it to be a sport in the 2028 Olympics 

CNN10 Wednesday Feb 3, 2021

Tokyo Olympics -The summer games will take place in Japan this July. No plan B. March they will start the Olympic torch process. However, someone from the state of Florida has offered Florida as an alternative location stating they have successfully run NBA, NFL, Disneyworld is open or available.

Space Walks - This week at the ISS - many walks taking place to add equipment or make repairs to the station. 5 Hours in duration - In that time the astronaut is exposed to 5 sunset/rises.  Moving at 17,500 mph.

Chimney Climbing- Slovenia - the tallest chimney is 1180' tall. Two people climbed it.

CNN10 Tuesday February 2

 Myanmar - (Burma) Near India - Election in Nov 2020 - Civilian won the election to become president. On Jan 31 military took it over. From 1962 until 2015 the country had been run by the military dictatorship. First democratic election in 2016/2020 same person won - military had coo - Ethnic cleansing/ goenocide -  Period of Deep Uncertainty.......

Whale Sharks - Largest fish in the sea - endangered - tracking system- Crowd sourcing photographs to identify the sharks- tied into NASA  - overlay if spots line up - fingerprints in humans

Panda Bears - Washington Zoo -Snow - Pandas went out to play - video went viral -