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Visionlink’s Volunteer Registry Deployed for Hurricanes Harvey & Irma

VisionLink

High-level government officials have directed these generous people to National VOAD and their member agencies. Virgin Islands: [link] For Texas: [link] Volunteer Florida will also be live on the system in the near future. Thousands of volunteers have offered to assist in the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

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Boeing gets green light for satellite internet constellation

The Verge

The company says it wants to use the satellites to offer “broadband internet and communications services to residential consumers, government and business users in the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands” while the network gets built out, and on a global basis once it’s complete.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

For many low-lying island nations , the challenge of higher seas and more intense tropical storms will be existential. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent. Today’s extreme event becomes tomorrow’s normal event. Indeed, we already have. degrees Fahrenheit.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Don't freak out, but your gut is right: Your internet service provider (ISP) is tracking your every click to compile anonymous browsing logs they can potentially sell to advertising companies , or even cough up to government agencies in the interest of censorship. And yes, that includes the clicks that brought you to this article.)

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Democrats have a new plan to legalize marijuana federally

The Verge

the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam. Guam, and the US Virgin Islands. ”a Under the proposed rule, state and local governments and Indian tribes would still be able to adopt and enforce rules and regulations over cannabis more stringent than the FDA requirements. a dynamic shift in public opinion and support”.

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Nonprofit Mailers Cautiously Laud Postage Increase Pause

The NonProfit Times

Plaskett, (D-Virgin Islands); Rep. But The Nonprofit Alliance’s Vice President, Government Affairs Mark Micali took a measured tone similar to the News/Media Alliance in giving praise. Cleaver, whose office pointed to several Postal Service governance and rate hike opposition actions he had undertaken, said.

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Where to look for data on mass government firings

Fast Company Tech

government workers have been fired in recent weeks , according to a Reuters tally of announcements tracking President Donald Trump’s plan to shrink the federal workforce. Economists will be keeping an eye on the data because federal government hiring has been a steady contributor to overall U.S. Tens of thousands of U.S.