Broadway artists perform in Times Square on March 12. Photo: AP According to the AP news agency, starting May 19, people in New York City who have been fully vaccinated may not need to wear masks when going out, to restaurants, grocery stores, gyms. sex. Businesses will also be allowed to operate at full capacity if they ensure all customers are vaccinated against COVID-19. The subway system will also resume full operation this week. The midnight curfew for bars, clubs and restaurants will also be lifted at the end of May. The theater is already open for sale, though shows will begin in September at the earliest. “75% of things are going back to normal,” says Mark Kumar (24), a personal trainer. However, Ameen Deen (63 years old) was less optimistic about New York’s ability to soon return to normal as before because there has been so much loss in the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The curfew for bars and restaurants will be lifted by the end of this month. Photo: AP As long as all passengers are fully immunized, businesses can operate at full capacity. Photo: AP Last spring, the largest city in the United States became the nation’s most serious COVID-19 hotspot, when it saw more than 21,000 people die from COVID-19 in just two months. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients and bodies. Refrigerated trucks are used as temporary body storage. The familiar busy streets of New York fell into silence, only the sound of ambulance sirens and the cheers of people from the windows of apartments for medical workers. After a year, New York hopes the vaccination campaign is giving the city a resurgence. About 48% of people in the city have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The number of deaths from COVID-19 in recent weeks has only recorded about 20 cases / day. New cases and hospitalizations also decreased significantly. The subway system returned to operating capacity as before the epidemic. Photo: AP Barber shops have also been allowed to operate. Photo: AP Casinos in Las Vegas are back to 100% capacity and do not require social distancing. Disneyland in California opened late last month after being closed for more than 400 days. Summer music festivals like Lollapalooza are back. The federal government said adults who have received two full doses of the vaccine do not need to wear a mask when participating in this 100,000-fan gathering event. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared it “New York City’s summer”. Shakeem Brown, an artist and delivery man in Manhattan, said it was “refreshing” to see things reopening. At e’s Bar on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, owner Erin Bellard said: “We feel the energy of society gradually increasing. People are very happy to be out.”

USS San Francisco was one of the first Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines of the United States, built in 1972 and commissioned on April 24, 1981. It is also the quietest submarine in the US Navy. The bow part of the ship was crushed after hitting a mountain. Photo: National Interest USS San Francisco has a displacement of 6,900 tons when submerged, 110 meters long and 10 meters wide. The train is equipped with a General Electric PWR S6G nuclear reactor with a capacity of 35,000 horsepower, helping it to move at a maximum speed of 61km / h. According to the National Interest, the accident occurred with the Los Angeles-class submarine USS San Francisco (SSN-711), on January 8, 2005. At the time of the collision, the ship was near Guam conducting training and preparing to sail to Australia. At that time, the ship was diving at a depth of 160m and moving at a great speed, more than 48km / h. The impact was very strong. The sailors present in the dining room were thrown into the air. In a 60-minute interview, Brian Barnes, a submariner, recalled: “I just saw people lying everywhere. Glass was broken, dishes were splattered, sailors groaned from their injuries, screamed.” The bow of the USS San Francisco was severely damaged, 30m of the front hull was flattened and exposed to the sea. Water flooded the submarine. The urgent task at that time was to urgently pump compressed air into the ballast tanks of the submarine to help the ship float to the surface. The USS San Francisco has a total of 127 crew members. The collision left 98 people injured and many of them were unable to continue operating the ship. Sailor Joseph Allen Ashley was wounded in the head and later died. Another sailor broke both arms but still managed to open the submarine’s air valve to fill the ballast tanks. Danny Hager, who monitors the submarine’s depth gauge, had a terrifying experience after the valves were opened. “I told everyone that the ship was at a depth of 160m. And I kept waiting, 5 seconds, 10 seconds passed and so on I don’t know how much longer, the ship was still at a depth of 160m. The atmosphere is very calm because everyone is waiting for me to announce that we are preparing to come up.” The problem was that the ballast tanks at the front were broken in the collision. The air escapes to the outside. 60 seconds passed and the ship remained unchanged in depth. Fortunately, the aft part of the submarine began to point upwards as the ballast tanks at the aft were filled with compressed air. Danny Hager now feels less worried: “It feels really relieved when I announce the ship has risen to a depth of more than 152m”. Finally, the USS San Francisco also surfaced, but the journey home is still quite far. Fortunately, the nuclear reactor was not damaged in the impact. The crew steered the ship back at a speed of 16km/h and so to return to Guam, it took the ship 52 hours. Unexpected causes Despite its immense firepower and nuclear propulsion, the USS San Francisco, like all submarines, relies on charts providing data on the topography of the seabed. After the investigation, the US Navy found that the submarine used old charts that did not mention the submarine mountain range in the area of ​​​​the ship’s operation. Meanwhile, other maps warn about this mountain range. The charts used by the crew of San Francisco were provided by the Defense Mapping Agency in 1989. By 2008, a study by the University of Massachusetts showed that images obtained from the Landsat satellite showed An underground mountain range more than 30m above the seabed in the area. However, the US Navy did not update this information to the chart. During the repair, the bow of the USS San Francisco was removed and replaced with the bow of the submarine USS Honolulu, which was about to be decommissioned. USS San Francisco rejoined the fleet in 2009 and served for another seven years. It was later converted into a training submarine. Ship commander Kevin Mooney was reprimanded for this unfortunate accident. Several sailors received medals for their brave actions when the ship was in distress. Only the sailor who died Ashley is inscribed at the Navy Memorial in Washington DC So how could the ship survive the high-speed crash into the underground mountains? In 1963, after the sinking of the submarine USS Thresher, the US Navy established the SUBSAFE program. The goal of this program is to ensure that the hull will remain pressurized in the event of an accident and that it can float. This program makes keeping nuclear reactors safe and making them recover from accidents a top priority. If the ship can surface and the nuclear reactor continues to operate, the crew will have a good chance of survival. USS San Francisco has ensured those conditions. Thus, the fact that the USS San Francisco can “survive the accident” is the result of the dedication and relentless research efforts of the US submarine force.

Many people only know that drinking lemon juice can aid weight loss but do not know that lemon peel also has the same effect. Lemon peel contains a compound called pectin that prevents the absorption of sugar from the gut into the bloodstream. Thereby preventing weight gain, accumulation of excess fat in the body. You only need 8 lemon peels and 200ml of water. Lemon peels are finely sliced ​​and put into pot. Add water and simmer. Let the pot boil for about 10 minutes, then turn off the heat. Greatly take the water. Lemon peel essential oil will make the water a bit bitter and taste bad. Illustration. The best time to drink lemon peel juice is about 1 hour before bedtime. Compared to drinking lemon juice, this is safe for your health and stomach. Lemon peel contains essential oils that help to clean the oral cavity. Therefore, drinking lemon peel water is also effective in dental care, helping to breathe better. Lose weight with grapefruit peel water Grapefruit can also aid your weight loss process. In the grapefruit peel contains fiber, vitamins … necessary for the body. Drinking grapefruit peel water will help reduce appetite, thereby bringing about effective weight loss. You can take 10 – 15g of dried pomelo peel and put it in a pot and boil with 3 liters of water. Cook the grapefruit peel for about 20 minutes, then turn off the heat and let cool. Grandchildren take the water to drink gradually during the day. Alternatively, you can combine grapefruit peel with squash to make an easy-to-drink weight loss liquid. Prepare the peel of 1 grapefruit, 500 grams of squash, 100 grams of rock sugar, salt. The grapefruit peel is washed, sliced ​​into thin pieces, about 3cm in length. Soak the grapefruit peel in diluted salt water for about 45 minutes to reduce the bitter taste. Place the grapefruit peel in a saucepan and cover with water. Boil for 10 minutes until the peel softens. Take out the peel of grapefruit and mix well with rock sugar. Put this mixture in a saucepan and cook over low heat for about 1 hour. Squash peeled, chopped and pressed for water. Take some grapefruit and sugar alum and mix with squash juice and drink.