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There are a series of photos of the woman, wearing the same outfit and head scarf, with various captions like: "Confident young Arabic female entrepreneur wearing a hijab working on a laptop while sitting at a tabler in her kitchen," and "smiling young Arabic woman wearing hijab and sitting in her kitchen at home."
We are not sure who originated this post. But the same image that appeared on Facebook on Jan. 30 also surfaced on the platform in July 2018. It was posted by America’s Last Line of Defense, an account that notes everything it shares is false. "Nothing on this page is real," it says. "Not a bit."
We looked for news coverage of a Richmond principal expelling students for wearing crucifixes. Among the many search results was an article about a principal of an elementary school there who was ousted over the summer amid a standardized testing scandal. The Tampa Bay Times reported in 2017 about a complaint that a Fl...
If the supposed principal’s name sounds familiar, it’s not from the news. But you'll be remembering the Michael Jackson song, "Wanna Be Startin’ Something’."
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 at 2:05 p.m.
President Obama's threat of military action in Libya drew liberal dissent late Friday, as lawmakers demanded that the president ask for a formal declaration of war before using military powers.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a longtime liberal stalwart, pointed to Obama's remarks as a candidate in which the then-senator said that the president doesn't unilaterally have the power under the Constitution to launch a military attack without first getting a declaration of war from Congress.
"While the action is billed as protecting the civilians of Libya, a no-fly-zone begins with an attack on the air defenses of Libya and Qaddafi forces. It is an act of war," Kucinich said in a statement.
Another top liberal, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), demanded Congressional involvement.
"The president has an obligation under the Constitution to seek the approval of Congress for any use of military force unless there is an imminent threat to the United States or its allies," he said.
Obama threatened military action against Libya, in cooperation with U.S. allies, unless its leader, Moammar Gadhafi, immediately ceases using military power against citizens protesting his regime. The president didn't specify what military option would be used if Gadhafi didn't comply, though Obama did rule out the use...
Whatever the case, Kucinich demanded that Obama come to Congress first, going so far as to urge Obama to call Congress back into session from the recess set for this coming week.
“I have sent a letter to Congressional leadership indicating that the national interest requires that Congress be called back quickly to Washington to exercise its Constitutional authority to determine whether our armed forces should participate in the UN mission. Both houses of Congress must weigh in," he said. "This ...
Kucinich isn't the only lawmaker to suggest that a military offensive against Libya would require a declaration of war. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who was among the congressional leaders briefed Friday at the White House, has also suggested a declaration o...
Economists say the nation's latest recession ended two years ago this month, but you wouldn't know it from looking at what's happening at the food pantries that provide help for the hungry in the Tri-Cities.
Downtown Churches United's Hope Center in Petersburg provided free food to more than 450 individuals last month, according to Chuck Bender, director of outreach at St. Joseph Catholic Church, which spearheads the food-distribution program.
That's a more than 40 percent jump from the average of about 320 people a month the program was serving a year ago, before the food pantry moved from St. Joseph to the Commerce Street location, Bender said.
Last week, the shelves were almost bare at the Hope Center as the all-volunteer program awaited a delivery from the Central Virginia Food Bank, the Richmond-based clearinghouse for most of the local food pantries in the region.
Andrea Barnes, food coordinator for the Prince George County Food Pantry, said demand there has increased "tremendously" this year. The county's program, administered by the Prince George County Churches Outreach, is helping many people who are seeking food assistance for the first time in their lives, including some s...
Summertime typically sees an increase in the need for food assistance as schoolchildren lose access to school-based breakfast and lunch programs, Barnes noted. But in general, she said, the main source of the increasing demand is the general economic situation. With prices high and climbing for food, utilities, gasolin...
- High and persistent unemployment. When the national recession began at the end of 2007, 3.94 million Virginians were counted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as employed. By the end of 2009, the number had fallen by nearly 90,000, or about 2.3 percent. Though it had recovered some by the end of last year, total...
The Tri-Cities fared worse over the same period, losing nearly 13,000 jobs between the end of 2007 and the end of 2009, a 5.7 percent decline. At the end of 2010, employment in the region had also rebounded somewhat but was still down by more than 9,900 jobs, or about 4.5 percent, from late 2007.
- Increasing numbers of people living in poverty. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, 21,573 people in the Tri-Cities had income below the federal poverty level in 2009, about 11 percent of the region's population. That number represented an increase of almost 3,200, or about 17 percent, from 10 years before, shar...
- Soaring food prices. From 2007 to 2010, the amount of money spent by Tri-Cities residents on taxable items at food and beverage stores rose by almost $31 million, or 4.5 percent, to a total of $691 million last year.
However, when the effects of price inflation are taken into account, sales actually fell about $3.1 million, or about 0.5 percent. In other words, rising prices mean residents are getting less for each dollar they spend on food.
High prices for other necessities - notably fuel, utilities and health care - contribute to the problem by forcing an increasing number of people into choosing whether to spend their limited money on food or something else that's urgently pressing them: medicine, transportation, an electric bill, rent, etc.
- The average number of people in Virginia participating each month in the federal SNAP/Food Stamp program jumped 27 percent to 652,000 in 2009 from 515,000 in 2007. At the same time, average monthly participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) rose 12 percent to 160...
- The government's main cash benefits program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, drew 72,734 participants on average per month in 2009, up 7.7 percent from 67,513 in 2007. Over the same period, however, federal and state funding for cash assistance fell 14 percent from $85.5 million to $73.8 million.
Regarding food assistance in particular, the U.S. Department of Agriculture categorizes people's risk of hunger in terms of "food security." "Low food security" means the household experiences "reduced quality, variety or desirability of diet," though without clear indications of "reduced food intake." "Very low food s...
Figures for 2010 aren't available yet, and USDA doesn't provide local-area statistics, but on average over the three years ended in 2009, about 108,000 of Virginia's 2.98 million households experienced "very low food security," an increase of 23 percent from 88,000 in 2007. About 165,000 households experienced "low foo...
In total, then, in the most recent period an average of about 273,000 Virginia households, or 9.2 percent of the state, were experiencing low or very low food security, a 17 percent jump from 233,000 in 2007.
Barnes said community support has been critical in helping the Prince George food pantry keep up with the increasing demand. She noted that in addition to contributions from local churches and individuals, the program receives help from local food-related businesses including Goya Foods and Reinhart Food Service.
"Prince George really supports their food pantry," she said.
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Pikangikum First Nation has been connected to Ontario's electricity grid, bringing a reliable, clean supply of power to the community for the first time.
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Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, Greg Rickford has announced Ontario's Government for the People has passed the Green Energy Repeal Act, 2018.
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Ok, so ‘availability for the always-on enterprise’ happens to be one of Veeam’s two taglines, but as a concept for ongoing business success in 2016 and beyond, it just works!
What new device trends and Internet crazes will fascinate us in 2016 is yet to be seen, but there are things that are much easier to predict.
Thus, Veeam feels that four key trends will drive the next 12 months of enterprise IT management and define our experiences – both in the workplace and as consumers.
In 2016, the Internet of Things brings availability to the fore. The rise of mobile and connected devices demonstrates that there is zero tolerance for downtime. All organisations – from a consumer facing business, a mobile service provider or the stock market, the days of organisations being able to suffer through any...
Even a slight outage of a few hours will cause everyone involved in the business to be unhappy that they don’t have access, but more importantly, businesses will lose money, data, respect of employees, credibility from partners and loyalty of customers, doing potential damage to consumer and investor confidence.
As the Internet of Things continues to gather momentum, the potential cost of downtime is set to escalate. Minimising downtime and data loss is critical to the overall health of all businesses and ensuring the end user remains satisfied.
In addition, since more data and services are now both on premises and in the cloud, businesses in 2016 will need to ensure they have strategies to backup, protect and restore their data on all fronts.
The industry has seen significant growth in the capabilities of infrastructure and delivery models, but many organisations haven’t modernised their application footprint in alignment with the velocity of the changes to technologies around these legacy applications. Over the next year, companies will draw the line and m...
There are clear advantages to making use of the newest infrastructure and application technologies, but there have been some blockages in the past. For example, current staff may be entrenched; or legacy applications may be foreseen to be “required forever”.
Today there are techniques to modernise nearly any application, and for the legacy applications that need to be held around for retention reasons, infrastructure technologies today can keep obsolete operating systems and applications online.
This migration to the next generation of applications will not be easy for some businesses, but will be worth it to deliver on the bottom line. Companies will see new benefits from an IT perspective; but also have a unique opportunity to re-evaluate their business. Migrating away from these systems will enable business...
Businesses will be able to increasingly focus on interfaces and connecting end users to data, further elevating the importance of availability of service delivery. It’s expected that 2016 will see increased adoption of virtual reality (Oculus, Microsoft Hololens), motion-based interfaces, speech recognition and 3D prin...
For business, the IT interface is changing too: in the face of explosive data growth, traditional data management techniques no longer apply. The operator interface will focus increasingly on automation and data lifecycle management to ensure the right data is in the hands of the right person at the right time.
It all concludes below, please read on!
As cloud-based infrastructure continues to become the de facto standard for businesses, we're seeing new service offerings grow in popularity and market share. For example, many companies are increasingly implementing cloud-based Security as a Service within their business to help combat cyberattacks and ensure busines...
Veeam predicts Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) to be a game changer in 2016, as it will enable businesses to meet and exceed customer and employee expectations around availability. As businesses place IT and availability at the centre of their operations, we can expect to see service level agreements with guaran...
More information from Veeam here.
London: In a new research, a group of scientists have created the special patch which stimulates the body's own insulin production - and is completely pain-free.
The game-changing invention delivers a natural substance extracted from brown algae - completely removing the need for painful and unpleasant daily injections, according to Daily Express.
Patients would apply the patch once a week and it would automatically stimulate the body to produce the required insulin.
The patch would work by delivering a naturally produced substance, derived from brown algae, via microneedles.
"This experimental approach could be a way to take advantage of the fact that persons with type 2 diabetes can still produce some insulin.
"A weekly microneedle patch application would also be less complicated and painful than routines that require frequent blood testing", Dr Richard Leapman, scientific director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) in Maryland, US, where the patch has been developed, said.
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates around 371 million people in the world suffer from diabetes so this new patch will be very welcome.
The easier delivery method may mean more people get treated and prevent diabetes related conditions such as blindness, heart attacks and amputations.
At the moment they have to undergo injections to regulate insulin levels.
However, according to the research team, insulin therapy is still not managed well in half of all cases.
So they argue that the new patch would offer a viable and painless alternative and unlike insulin injections, it need not be applied so often.
"If we wait, people are going to leave and if people leave, then you have a deserted island for someone else to buy and develop into a Caribbean resort."
Four months after Hurricane Maria, the people of Mariana, Humacao, are part of almost half a million Puerto Ricans who are still without power.
In a lot of ways, the life of her and her partner Luis Rodríguez Sánchez is way more challenging than it was before Maria. But in other ways, the hurricane’s aftermath opened their eyes to what is possible.
When they were stripped of the essentials, they decided it was time to build the community they want to live in.
They started by cooking every day of the week for people who still don't have the electricity to power a fridge or a stove.
They were serving more than 300 plates of warm food a day, but after a couple of months they decided that approach was not sustainable. They wanted to build something long term.
“How do we make and create the reasons for the people of this community who have left to come back, and for the people who are here to be strengthened in whatever it is that they make that they love to make?” Nieves Rodríguez said.
Their next project is happening in an abandoned school, soon to be a coffee house, community laundromat, tech center, and hostel. They want to create jobs and provide the services the people of Mariana need, even if that means taking over the responsibilities that once belonged to the government.
“If that means learning to deal with sewage and waste management, then that's what it is,” Nieves Rodríguez said.
They already installed water filters that were donated to them so they can drink from rivers when faucets stop running. Now, they're looking to power up the neighborhood with solar energy, because they stopped waiting for electricity on week two after Maria.
“If we wait people are going to leave, and if people leave then you have a deserted island for someone else to buy and develop into a Caribbean resort,” Nieves Rodríguez said.
Instead, the people of Mariana are coming together. helping each other, and giving what little they have.
Amazon’s process of picking two cities for its two new 25,000-worker headquarters—in Long Island City, New York, and Crystal City, Virginia—illustrates all of the factors causing inequality in America. The company’s successful extortion of bidders accelerates the state vs. state and city vs. city competition for jobs, ...
Even before the high-tech retailer collects any of the $2 billion-plus in taxpayer subsidies (the real final price tag to taxpayers is likely to exceed $4.6 billion), U.S. cities and states had already shelled out about $110 billion annually in “incentives” to the largest corporations. Now Amazon’s coup will encourage ...
The big incentive packages offered to woo Amazon are stirring citizen outrage, especially in New York. “How did the city suddenly come up with a plan to give such significant tax breaks and incentives to a corporation led by the richest man in the world?” asked the community group Queens Neighborhoods United in a state...
Amazon, worth nearly $1 trillion, is owned by Jeff Bezos, already the world’s richest man with a fortune of $162 billion and growing.
Under the guiding hand of Bezos, Amazon has avoided U.S. federal taxes while raking in public subsidies. A new report from Seattle Business says Amazon paid zero dollars despite making $5.6 billion in profits last year, and will be getting a $789 million tax cut in 2018 thanks to the Trump Administration’s new tax law....
Amazon paid zero dollars despite making $5.6 billion in profits last year, and will be getting a $789 million tax cut in 2018 thanks to the Trump Administration’s new tax law.
In fact, the big-dollar incentives are downright counterproductive. The enormous diversion of tax funds to Amazon undercut the ability of New York and Virginia to support the strong educational systems that produce the workers Amazon finds so attractive. Long-term economic development flows from investing in high-quali...
The handouts to Amazon come “at time when New York desperately needs money for housing, transportation, infrastructure, and education,” said City Council Chairman Corey Johnson. Rampant gentrification and over-crowded transportation systems and roads will become more urgent with new Amazon tech workers drawn to the New...
Locally owned enterprises will also suffer as the gargantuan Amazon receives public money to more effectively grind them down, intensifying the firm’s power to drive small local firms and operations out of business. “If you’re a local retailer or small manufacturer or artist or writer or publisher, you’re watching as y...
Right now, three prominent Democratic leaders—New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam—are pounding their chests over landing the new Amazon headquarters. But they should be mindful of the recent defeat of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who employed a sim...
Wisconsin state and local governments pledged to dole out $4.5 billion to Foxconn in exchange for its promise to create up to 13,000 jobs. Citizen furor over the unprecedented size of these subsidies and uncertainty over the long-term benefits was a key factor in his loss on November 6.
Middle America remains neglected and economic inequality soars.
The Amazon subsidies are helping to steer private investment away from the Midwest and South, where the fates of millions of families are tied to fading manufacturing, farming, and resource extraction industries. The vast spending on state and local “incentives” to America’s mega-corporations should be redirected to pu...
And then maybe someone should write a book about it—available everywhere except from Amazon.
Nigerian investigators have disclosed that the crew of a Dana Air Boeing MD-83 failed to take emergency action in response to a serious engine problem, apparently in fear of attracting attention from regulators, before the jet experienced dual-engine power loss and crashed on approach to Lagos.
The crew had been discussing a discrepancy in the thrust from one of the aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines early into the fatal flight from Abuja.
But the Nigerian Accident Investigation Bureau inquiry found that the MD-83 did not return to Abuja, and overflew several alternate airports – including Akure and Ibadan – where an emergency landing could have been made.

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