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Title: Europe Will Pay $103 million to Remove 1 Space Junk By 2025

Photo from Wikipedia The European Space Agency has signed a $103 mil. contract with a Swiss startup ClearSpace. The goal of this contract is to remove a single space debris in 2025. This project seems expensive but involves an orbiting, mouth-like net, which could deal with the continuing pileup of orbiting space junk surrounding the […]

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Southern California Might Experience Power Shutoffs During Thanksgiving

Southern California utility company named Southern California Edison is warning a possible manual shutoff during the Thanksgiving weekend due to continued gusty and dry conditions which are conducive to wildfires. This would lead to a shutoff for more than 76,000 customers in and near Greater Los Angeles area. The wildfires have been particularly harsh this […]

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Latest Death Toll in Ethiopia is 600 Civilians

According to a state-appointed human rights commission, at least 600 civilians were killed during an attack in Northern Ethiopia in early November, purely due to their ethnicity. Mai-Kadra is a town in Tigray region. On November 9, there was a massacre, where Tigrayan youths, with aid by local officials and police, going door-to-door in killing […]

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Biden Announces Cabinet Members for 2021 Presidency

In a newsletter, Biden released six candidates for his new cabinet. He claimed to have found new secretaries for six of the departments. All of the first six secretaries have been nominated for national security and International relations. Joe Biden has shown intent to nominate and the following individuals: Tony Blinken as Secretary of State, […]

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USPS Contractor Pays $116,513 In Back Wages Due to Wage Violations

U.S. Department of Labor | November 19, 2020 After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Fames Transport Inc. – a mail-hauling contractor for the U.S. Postal Service in Southern California – has paid $116,513 in back wages and fringe benefits to 67 employees for violating the Service Contract […]

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With Covid Cases On the Rise, States are Shutting Down

Michigan recently began a temporary 3-week shut down, and New York is preparing a shut down of public schools as the COVID cases are on the rise as economic activity begins in times for the holiday season. As more of the population become exposed to the coronavirus, even small gatherings are becoming dangerous. Virginia’s governor […]

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After Devastating the Coast Previously Pounded by Eta, Iota Downgraded

Photo from Google Images Hurricane Iota made landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 4 major hurricane in Central America. Iota had reached Category 5 strength before making landfall near Haulover, Nicaragua, but became Category 4 with maximum sustained winds near 155 mph as it made landfall. If Iota was the only hurricane hitting the coast […]

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A Cup of Poem~~ 스러진 영혼/홍성재

사진: 김서경 스러진 영혼 홍성재 꺼질 듯이 작은 별빛이 모여 이미 살라진 육신이 다시금 붉게 타오른다 불씨는 이미서 몇십 몇백 년 전 사라져 버린 별일지도 모른다 그렇게 스러진 별의 영혼을 그러모아 그대 앞에서 나를 태우노라 나 죽어 부르는 이 노래를 위해 한 줌의 재까지 살라내는 이 불꽃의 의미를 부디 잊지 않기를. *이미서:사전에는 없는 말로 이미 […]

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Cute Alert: Bride-To-Be Finds Wedding Dress to be like Nothing she ordered!

A Kentucky woman wrote a furious email to a bridal company after her wedding dress arrived at her home. A tulle mermaid style dress with sweetheart neckline she had ordered seemed nothing like the dress she received. She took photos of her dress and sent the email to the company. However, when she received a […]

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First Covid-19 Found in Remote Pacific Island Nation

Photo from Google Images Vanuatu is a remote island nation in the pacific, one of the few places in the world untouched by the coronavirus. That is until this week, when a 23-year-old man returned from a travel to the U.S. tested positive while quarantining back home. He had flown back to Vanuatu on November […]