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what's up party people I'm Ki wire this
is CNN 10 happy Friday fry y before we
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right let's get you your news as many as
60 million americ Americans will have to
pay more for their internet bills this
is after a government program they rely
on runs out of funding it's called the
affordable connectivity program or ACP
and it passed in 2021 as part of a
bipartisan infrastructure Bill
low-income Americans could apply to the
ACP and receive up to $30 per month to
help pay for the internet the ACP
started with $14 billion but it's now
set to run out of money by the end of
this month month some lawmakers from
both parties want to put more money into
the ACP but so far efforts have stalled
in Congress President Joe Biden and
other advocates for the bill including
some internet companies say the ACP
funding is vital to help low income
Americans access everything from tele
medicine to online classes but many
conservative Republicans are upset about
how much money the government is
spending on programs like the ACP
putting America further into debt and
the commissioner of the FCC says quote
the money has run out unquote without
Congress stepping in the ACP will expire
at the end of May that will force
millions of Americans to pay more for
their internet or lose their
connectivity next up the unrest
happening on college and university
campuses across the United States has
continued this week even as officials
have expelled students and police have
arrested hundreds of protesters now
although these images may look scary as
CNN Brian Todd shows us the recent
student protests have actually been
largely peaceful especially when you
compare them to college protests of the
past 1968 student protesters at New
York's Columbia University take over
several buildings and briefly even take
the dean hostage one of the buildings
They seized Hamilton Hall which students
occupied during recent protests at
Columbia 1968 the first time it was
occupied uh Hamilton Hall was the scene
of a dramatic uh police action that
resulted in the arrests of 700 people
those protests against the Vietnam War
had been taking place for years on
college campuses Across America and
would continue for a few more years from
Colombia to Cal Berkeley to Kent State
in 1969 student protesters at Harvard
took over and occupied University Hall
marching school officials out of the
building the primary difference between
then and now the scale of the violence
W while skirmishes have broken out at
UCLA and some other campuses during the
current demonstrations these protests
have been for the most part peaceful in
the Vietnam era violence broke out
routinely and on many campuses students
often brawling with police disciplining
students calling in the police having
protests removed that tended to increase
the sympathy for uh
protesters um build the size of protests
and also increased the voice of more
extreme activists in two horrific
episodes the Vietnam arol violence
turned deadly in May 1970 on the campus
of Kent State University Ohio National
Guard troops opened fire on student
protesters killing four of them and
injuring several others days later
during racial Injustice protests at
Jackson State College in Mississippi
Police fired at a dormatory killing two
students and injuring a dozen others
possibly a closer comparison to what's
going on now took place in the 1980s
when students across America protested
against apartheid in South Africa they
called on schools to devest themselves
from companies and groups that supported
the apartheid regime in South Africa
much like students are now calling on
colleges to devest themselves from
Israeli linked companies another Dynamic
that hasn't changed across these eras of
protest they've got a lot of energy and
they're idealistic and they like to
protest when things feel unjust or seem
unjust to them
10-second trivia what is the collective
name for single celled microscopic
organisms that live in the soil water
and animals bacteria blood DNA or
virus answer is bacteria the number of
bacteria did you know that you have in
your mouth is more than the total number
of humans on earth that is wild all
right is there a sustainable alternative
for fashion maybe Fabrics with 0% animal
or plastic is that even possible well
actually it is this london-based biotech
company modern synthesis has developed a
way to create low impact textiles using
bacteria Yes you heard that right
bacteria but to create raw materials
using this process at a mass scale like
the fashion industry would need will be
costly just how much is the question
take a look strong lightweight and
versatile but this material isn't like
anything you know is been created with
bacteria biotechnology startup modern
synthesis is learning from and
collaborating with living organisms to
make brand new low impact textiles
bacteria are really amazing sometimes
they can be harmful but most of the time
they're really beneficial we use
bacteria to make souro bread cheese
yogurt we can work with bacteria to make
even more exciting new products the aim
to create sustainable alternatives to
traditional fabrics and help curb
emissions and pollution associated with
the fashion industry key to the
company's process is cellulose a type of
fiber with a higher strength to weight
ratio it's known as Nature's building
block it makes up materials like cotton
wood and bamboo it all starts here with
a bacteria invisible to the human eye
it's called Kus and it's isolated from
kombucha fermented tea we feed that with
sugars and then it produces nanoos which
is a special fine strong for of cellos
it's eight times stronger than steel on
a fiber level we can then process it
manipulate it of the Nano structure we
use green chemistries to process the
material to add additional
functionalities whether that be
waterproofness or just aesthetic
properties like color and different
patterning we then form the material
together with a natural textile and that
allows us to customize the kind of
strength and flexibility in new ways the
final products are 100% animal and
plastic free but to create products on a
mass scale like the fashion industry is
used to is costly in the long run I'm
confident that we can create materials
that can sit at the same price points as
those that we use today and to use
existing equipment from the textile
industry and the food industry so that
we don't have to build everything from
scratch modern synthesis is part of a
growing number of companies in the Next
Generation material space producing new
textiles from raw materials such as
mushroom melium algae or bacteria for
the first time we're able to offer the
aesthetic and the performance of the
materials that we use every day but
without the plastic and without the
animal and I can't stress how hard that
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is all right I got admit today's story
getting a 10 out of 10 is a little bit
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247 cheese vending machines this
cashless wonder is stocked with an
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it's also complete with crackers jams
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your snack game to a whole new level all
right thank you for an awesome week
everyone we're going to show some love
today how about to Mrs Browns class at
scam and Bay Alaska fly high Eagles and
let's go to Winnebago Middle School in
Nebraska follow the bego way be safe AR
on time give respect get respect and own
your actions that is great advice it has
been such a blessing to spend this week
with you thanks for spending some time
with us go out and make an awesome
weekend make someone smile remember you
are more powerful than you know I'm Ki
wire and we are CNN 10