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

Fast Company Tech

Other hard-hit countries will include Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sudan, and Niger. It’s going to continue afterwards, and temperatures and extreme weather will continue to get worse until we’ve managed to phase out fossil fuels. The Arctic is predicted to be practically ice-free during summertime.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. PDH and Benetech are getting ready for the next phase of this ground-breaking work. One thing I am definitely going to do is write the book I've been kicking around for the last five years.

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

Connection Cafe

Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. Instagram is in the testing phase of this program, but the results have gone above and beyond what was anticipated. This post was exquisite and honestly made me a little emotional. Something that tells a story.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

Our next phase is really a massive expansion - our vision is to link over five million women within three years into one of the largest action networks for women in the world, and have a communications infrastructure that really unites the women's movement. There are a lot of things that are different from the start up phase.

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Dear Sophie: What can we do to help employees who are Ukrainian citizens?

TechCrunch

USCIS just announced that it will be phasing in Premium Processing for more case types throughout 2022, including EB-1C multinational managers, EB-2 NIWs, I-539 changes of status for various types of workers (E-2, E-3), students (F, J, M) and some spouses and even I-765 work permits.

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Using GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 to Apply Text-defined Data Quality Checks on Humanitarian Datasets

Towards Data Science

Category 'Geography & Infrastructure : Administrative Divisions' is defined as: Vector geographic data describing the sub-national administrative divisions of a location, usually a country, including the names and unique identifiers, usually p-codes, of each administrative division.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Sports : No Limits: Wheelchair Basketball in South Sudan by International Committee of the Red Cross. Video Remixes/Mashups : Play That Funky Music Rammstein by Gildersleeve Artist Management; Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Three Retrospective by Clark Zhu. Disruptors.

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