tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71477153476333102432024-03-05T11:30:01.666-05:00RCN America - DC"DC, The Heart of America's online news and entertainment magazine."RCN America Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07559893456296039091noreply@blogger.comBlogger15888125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-33324450767868993432023-01-10T11:47:00.003-05:002023-01-10T11:47:28.913-05:00e:fs TechHub and Nuspire Join the Auto-ISAC<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Advancing Cybersecurity of the Connected Vehicle across the Industry</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, January 10, 2023 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- </span><a href="http://www.automotiveisac.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">The Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (</span><a href="http://www.automotiveisac.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Auto-ISAC</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">) welcomes e:fs TechHub and Nuspire as new members.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Nuspire is the leading managed security services provider to the automotive and<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> dealer communities, and e:fs TechHub is a strategic innovation firm focused on advancing new mobility. The Auto-ISAC was formed by automakers in August 2015 to establish a global information-sharing community to promote vehicle cybersecurity.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“The Auto-ISAC seeks leaders in global innovation to share their knowledge and experience, and we welcome these new members. Nuspire delivers a software enabled operations platform that provides real-time analytic and actionable intelligence in one view, while e:fs TechHub has deep expertise in assisted and highly automated driving,” said Josh Davis, Chair, Auto-ISAC, and Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Toyota North America. “These innovators will advance our discussions within our membership of 76 suppliers and automakers. And our membership keeps growing.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“Within the automotive industry, everyone needs to collaborate on cybersecurity to be able to counter attackers in the networked world. This community plays a vital role toward the engineering and developing of secure connected vehicles and we are pleased to be part of it,“ said Sebastian Mauthofer, Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO), e:fs TechHub. “Together with top-class experts and pioneers, we strive to make a contribution to the industry. “</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“Nuspire has spent 20-plus years helping automotive manufacturers, suppliers and dealers improve their security programs with best-in-class cybersecurity services. We work to make sure our clients understand the most critical and relevant threats to their business, how to protect themselves and ways to safeguard their organizations from future attacks,” said Lewie Dunsworth, CEO of Nuspire. “We’re honored to join Auto-ISAC to share our industry knowledge, intelligence and expertise to strengthen cybersecurity best practices within the auto industry.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Auto-ISAC operates as a central hub to share and analyze intelligence about emerging cybersecurity risks. Its secure intelligence sharing portal allows members to anonymously submit and receive information that helps them more effectively respond to cyber threats.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In the past year, the Auto-ISAC expanded its scope to include Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) functional areas related to the connected vehicle, with an associated working group. The IT/OT Working Group creates a forum for technical IT and OT cybersecurity experts in the automotive industry to share actionable intelligence regarding cybersecurity challenges, threats, and risk mitigation methods to build the resiliency of the connected vehicle. Auto-ISAC has also set up a new group for the CISOs, the CISO Executive Working Group. They are sharing topical information and collaborating to build resiliency across the automotive industry.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Auto-ISAC has global representation. Its members represent more than 99 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road in North America. Members also include heavy-duty vehicles, commercial fleets, carriers and suppliers. For more information, please visit </span><a href="http://www.automotiveisac.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">www.automotiveisac.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> and follow us @autoisac.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-21029064608523610752023-01-10T11:40:00.000-05:002023-01-10T11:40:23.209-05:00Givzey and Yearly Partner to Uncover & Report the Most Important Trends in Charitable Giving<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Together, Givzey and Yearly Create Platform to Keep Nonprofit Fundraising Leaders Ahead of Key Challenges Facing Donors</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 21em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the Social Good sector, nonprofit leaders expect more than vendors who provide software solutions.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— CEO of Yearly, Josh Kligman</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES, January 10, 2023 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- Washington, D.C. - January 10, 2023 - </span><a href="https://yearly.report/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Yearly</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, the leader in nonprofit digital reports, today announced its partnership with </span><a href="https://givzey.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Givzey</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, fundraising’s first AI-enabled flexible giving and patent-pending Give Now Pay Later (GNPL) solution. Together, Yearly and Givzey are creating a platform to keep nonprofit organizations in the know on key challenges facing donors and fundraising. This educational platform will roll out in a series of articles, guides, webinars, and other interactive content.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The economic world is changing faster today than it has in the last decade. In<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> fact, most financial watchdogs anticipate a recession in 2023. In these uncertain times, nonprofits are forced to consider how they will maintain the capital necessary to drive impact, and how donors will respond to tighter household spending budgets. Savvy nonprofit leaders understand that thriving comes down to not just responding to new challenges, but communicating those challenges to stakeholders clearly and precisely. Givzey and Yearly’s partnership is designed to give nonprofit leaders a place to recognize emerging trends and impacts early, so they can effectively appeal to everyone from donors to board members.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“In the Social Good sector, nonprofit leaders expect more than vendors who provide software solutions – they seek partners who can help expand conversations, conduct deep research, and consider how nonprofit organizations can adapt to an evolving world. Yearly’s partnership with Givzey uniquely delivers education to nonprofit leaders on donor behaviors, flexible giving, and showing their community impact,” said Josh Kligman, Co-Founder and CEO of Yearly.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Founded in 2019, Yearly is a platform for nonprofits to create their own digital reports. Nonprofits spend an estimated 40 hours and $4,600 every year on annual reports, according to a recent survey of customers. Yearly empowers charitable organizations to put those funds back into community impact, as its customers spend 3x less time and 4x fewer dollars publishing critical documents like annual and impact reports, in a no-code, web-based format.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“As the first Give Now, Pay Later flexible giving solution for nonprofits, Givzey is a company of firsts. Together with Yearly, it’s our goal to help nonprofit and fundraising leaders across the country be first, as well – first to recognize micro and macro trends, first to understand how those trends change the status quo, first to clearly communicate needs and strategy to every stakeholder, and first to solve challenges and drive impact,” said Adam Martel, co-founder & CEO, Givzey.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Givzey’s patent-pending Give Now Pay Later (GNPL) solution is a short-term financing method that allows donors or members to give to nonprofit organizations now, and pay in interest-free installments with zero fees. Donors’ credit scores are never run (hard or soft) and never impacted, because of Givzey’s patent-pending PHILO Score. Through Givzey, nonprofit organizations receive their full gift up-front and never worry about lost pledges or a donor defaulting. Donors, meanwhile, are usually inclined to give more and more often with GNPL, because smaller payments are in line with monthly budgets.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="https://givzey.com/inflation-report-1" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">See our first report, As Inflation Soars, Donors Reign in Spending</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, to see how Givzey and Yearly are working together to uncover fundraising and nonprofit trends in real-time.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About Yearly:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Established in 2019, Yearly provides nonprofits with a self-service design tool to create digital reports and impress stakeholders. Yearly is an annual subscription service for nonprofits.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About Givzey:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Givzey is a Boston-based, rapidly growing flexible giving solution company, powered by AI-enabled fintech, on a mission to revolutionize giving for donors and nonprofit organizations. Givzey’s patent-pending Give Now Pay Later donation platform increases the giving power for millions of donors by offering interest-free installment plans at nonprofit organizations. When donors apply, credit scores aren’t impacted, approval is instant via our patent-pending PHILO Score, and the nonprofit receives its full donation upfront. Meanwhile, donors can split their gifts into four easy payments, turning gifts into subscriptions. This flexibility empowers donors to make the maximum impact that their budgets allow while nonprofits receive access to important funding immediately.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-38320732738888278272023-01-04T16:40:00.004-05:002023-01-04T16:40:48.241-05:00National Quality Forum (NQF) Welcomes Three New Members to Board of Directors<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/361254/nqf-logo.jpeg#1310x390" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="National Quality Forum (NQF) logo" height="89" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/361254/nqf-logo.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">National Quality Forum (NQF) logo</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Leah Binder, Tochi Iroku-Malize, and Suzanne Miyamoto join NQF Board as at-large directors</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 26em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Each of these three extraordinary individuals stands out as a leader, influencer, and unflagging healthcare quality champion”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Dana Gelb Safran, ScD, President & CEO, NQF</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, January 4, 2023 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- Three outstanding healthcare industry leaders have joined the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum (NQF). Today, NQF announced the addition of new at-large directors: Leah Binder, MA, MGA, President & CEO of The Leapfrog Group; Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP, SFHM, Senior Vice President of Family Medicine for<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Northwell Health, and current President of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP); and Suzanne Miyamoto, PhD, RN, FAAN, CEO of the American Academy of Nursing.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“It is a pleasure to welcome these three accomplished healthcare experts and nationally respected leaders to NQF’s Board of Directors,” said NQF Board Chair Cristie Upshaw Travis, MSHA, Co-CEO, HealthCareTN. “With this year's Board recruitment process, NQF sought to ensure representation of both physician and nursing leadership as well as to continue to bring strong representation of purchasers, patients, caregivers, and consumers. Leah Binder, Tochi Iroku-Malize, and Suzanne Miyamoto bring these diverse perspectives and experiences, and are exceptional additions to our Board.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In its pivotal role providing strategic direction to the organization, the NQF Board of Directors intentionally represents the full and diverse range of public and private healthcare stakeholders. The Board includes healthcare consumers, health plans, health professionals, provider organizations, public and community health agencies, group purchasers of healthcare, quality improvement organizations, and healthcare industry suppliers.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“Each of these three extraordinary individuals stands out as a leader, influencer, and unflagging healthcare quality champion,” said Dana Gelb Safran, ScD, President & CEO, NQF. “Their extensive knowledge and steadfast commitment to quality are unmistakable. I look forward to working with Leah Binder, Tochi Iroku-Malize, and Suzanne Miyamoto, and our returning board members, as we continue to advance the nation’s portfolio of quality measures and their uses to improve quality, safety, affordability, health, and health equity for all people.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The three new NQF Board members are:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Leah Binder, MA, MGA, President & CEO, The Leapfrog Group</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Leah Binder is President & CEO of The Leapfrog Group, representing employers and other purchasers of healthcare calling for improved safety and quality in hospitals. As a regular contributor to Forbes.com, Harvard Business Review, and other top tier publications, she is a fierce advocate for eliminating avoidable healthcare harm. She has been named to Becker’s list of the 50 most powerful people in healthcare and consistently cited by Modern Healthcare among the 100 most influential people and top 25 women in healthcare. Under her leadership, The Leapfrog Group launched the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns letter grades assessing the safety of general hospitals across the country. She has also fostered groundbreaking innovations in the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey, including partnerships to eliminate early elective deliveries, central line-associated bloodstream infections and safe use of health technology. She has served on numerous national boards and councils and holds master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication and Fels Institute of Government, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP, SFHM, Senior Vice President, Family Medicine, Northwell Health</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Tochi Iroku-Malize oversees Northwell’s Department of Family Medicine, supporting Northwell hospitals’ family medicine departments and the Zucker School of Medicine. She has served at South Shore University Hospital, formerly Southside Hospital, as a hospitalist, director of the hospitalist program, and director of the family medicine residency program. Board certified in family medicine as well as hospice and palliative medicine, Dr. Iroku-Malize is President of AAFP and a Senior Fellow in hospital medicine of the Society of Hospital Medicine. She is an active member of the New York State Chapter of AAFP, the American College of Physician Executives, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, and the Association of Family Medicine Program Directors. She received her medical degree from the University of Nigeria, and earned a Master of Public Health in health policy and management from Columbia University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Suzanne Miyamoto, PhD, RN, FAAN, CEO, American Academy of Nursing</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Suzanne Miyamoto is Chief Executive Officer of the American Academy of Nursing, dedicated to improving health and achieving health equity by impacting policy through nursing leadership, innovation, and science. Previously, she was Chief Policy Officer at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, overseeing health and higher education policy, government affairs, strategic outreach and analytics, as well as diversity and inclusion. She has also held policy positions with the National Institutes of Health, the State Commission on Patient Safety for the Michigan Health and Safety Coalition, and Capitol Hill. Dr. Miyamoto is a 2014 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow and is on faculty at the Georgetown University, School of Nursing. She holds a Master of Science and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Michigan, where she also earned a BS in Nursing and a BA in Psychology.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-47487732405219920462023-01-04T14:46:00.002-05:002023-01-04T14:46:16.987-05:00Bills supporting anti-human-trafficking training, improved legal protection for victims, now on President’s desk<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/107777/anyone-can-help-report-human-tr.jpeg#1024x768" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Poster on reporting human trafficking. Contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH), call 1-888-373-7888 or text HELP or INFO to BeFree (233733). (Photo sourced from Department of Homeland Security)" height="225" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/107777/anyone-can-help-report-human-tr.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Anyone can help report human trafficking. Contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH), call 1-888-373-7888 or text HELP or INFO to BeFree (233733). (Photo sourced from Department of Homeland Security)</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/404993/yhr-sylvia-speaking-in-congress.jpeg#1430x953" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="199" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/404993/yhr-sylvia-speaking-in-congress.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sylvia Stanard speaking at an event in Congress promoting better training and handling of trafficking victims in the criminal justice arena</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/404995/yhr-sylvia-and-rita-in-congress.jpeg#1430x1806" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/404995/yhr-sylvia-and-rita-in-congress.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="237" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sylvia Stanard doing Congressional visits to promote better human trafficking programs and legislation</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/87288/what-are-human-rights-educat.png#481x687" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="“What Are Human Rights?” educational booklet available online at youthforhumanrights.com" height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/87288/what-are-human-rights-educat.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="210" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“What Are Human Rights?” educational booklet provided free of charge by Youth for Human Rights International</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/200258/yhr-dc-logo.jpeg#2160x2160" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/200258/yhr-dc-logo.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Human Rights group says bills will help train police, prosecutors, and give judges leeway to consider trafficking, extenuating circumstances at sentencing.</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 27em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Some cases have also involved trafficking survivors fighting off their attacker/trafficker and then being charged as an adult for murder or attempted murder.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Sylvia Stanard, Youth for Human Rights International, Washington, DC</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, US, January 4, 2023 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- Youth for Human Rights praised Congress today for their bipartisan work to pass legislation which will help trafficking victims while also supporting the training of police and social workers in spotting and helping human-trafficking survivors. Congress just passed<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> two bills which expand the resources available for human-trafficking survivors. The bills are now on the President’s desk for signature and expected to be signed this week.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) cosponsored the </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3946/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Abolish+Trafficking+Reauthorization+Act+of+2022%22%2C%22Abolish%22%2C%22Trafficking%22%2C%22Reauthorization%22%2C%22Act%22%2C%22of%22%2C%222022%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. This bill extends grants for victims’ services programs, promotes additional screening of human trafficking victims, and will enhance training for federal investigators.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Additional training for federal investigators is critical as more understanding of sex-trafficking survivors’ actions and demeanor is important. For instance, many trafficking survivors are so intimidated that they appear subdued and frightened of the police. Such are taken as clues in some police training that suggest guilt and police are trained to further interrogate the suspects. Trafficking victims will often admit to anything they are accused of to avoid punishment and torture, which they may have experienced at the hands of traffickers. Thus, trafficking victims have often been prosecuted for crimes they did not commit, were forced to commit or merely witnessed being committed by their traffickers. This bill will provide funding to train investigators to consider trafficking when investigating other crimes.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Concurrent with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Cornyn (R-TX) were the original sponsors and authors of the </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3949/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Trafficking+Victims+Protection+Reauthorization+Act+of+2022%22%2C%22Trafficking%22%2C%22Victims%22%2C%22Protection%22%2C%22Reauthorization%22%2C%22Act%22%2C%22of%22%2C%222022%22%5D%7D&r=2&s=6" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Abolish Trafficking Reauthorization Act of 2022</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> which passed on the same day. This bill would reform current standards for victims of child sex crimes who have later been prosecuted in the adult criminal justice system for crimes they may have committed or been forced to commit. The bill would allow judges to refer cases to juvenile court and ensures protection for human trafficking survivors.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Both bills provide the legal framework to combat and prosecute human trafficking crimes while addressing the way children who have experienced trauma due to being trafficked are treated in the criminal justice system.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Child sex crime victims sometimes commit offenses against their abusers and these bills require judges to consider trafficking issues and would also require the review of diminished culpability of children relative to adults during sentencing.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Youth for Human Rights International has advocated for more awareness and training to combat human trafficking for many years. The organization supported these bills and urged Congress to pass the legislation. Despite pessimistic outlooks on passing bipartisan legislation, as one of the last acts of the 117th Congress it did agree on this issue and passed these two bills to help survivors deal with legal issues</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Sylvia Stanard, speaking for Youth for Human Rights DC, said, “As minors, many of these victims of traffickers are forced to commit crimes on behalf of their traffickers. Some cases have also involved trafficking survivors fighting off their attacker/trafficker and then being charged as an adult for murder or attempted murder. The fact of being trafficked or being assaulted and protecting themselves has often been ignored by judges or prosecutors. These two bills will help to correct that problem with more training of police and prosecutors as well as giving judges more leeway in considering trafficking and extenuating circumstances at sentencing.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Youth for Human Rights International joined with dozens of other human rights groups, child protective groups, and human trafficking survivor organizations in urging the passage of this legislation to help trafficking survivors.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Youth for Human Rights International has been working to prevent human trafficking on a national and international level for well over a decade. Raising awareness of human rights is the necessary undercut to this and so many other human rights issues. Article 4 of the </span><a href="http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> states: “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” To read all of the human rights as listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights go to: </span><a href="http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights</a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Online training and events on trafficking done by Youth for Human Rights International has included speakers from Airline Ambassadors, the Mexico Coalition against Trafficking, Karana Rising, and other anti-trafficking organizations. For information on the signs of trafficking go to: </span><a href="https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/voices-for-human-rights/human-rights-abuses/human-rights-trafficking-awareness.html" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/voices-for-human-rights/human-rights-abuses/human-rights-trafficking-awareness.html</a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About Youth for Human Rights:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to teach youth about human rights, specifically the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to inspire them to become valuable advocates for tolerance and peace. YHRI advocates for human rights both in the classroom and in nontraditional educational settings such as through art series, concerts, and other interactive community events, including regional and international human rights summits which bring youth together from across whole sectors of the world. Their most recent campaign has included #KnowYour30 with the deliberate purpose of increasing awareness of the 30 human rights every person has -- and how they are a part of everyday life. To learn more about human rights go to </span><a href="https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.youthforhumanrights.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. For a documentary on Youth for Human Rights and its founder, go to </span><a href="https://www.scientology.tv/series/voices-for-humanity/mary-shuttleworth.html" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.scientology.tv/series/voices-for-humanity/mary-shuttleworth.html</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-80189408120590625322023-01-04T14:20:00.001-05:002023-01-04T14:20:14.593-05:00MY SOULMATE, THE MOVIE SCREENING At the Historic Old Greenbelt Theater on Saturday, February 4th<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/404210/c-nicole-logo.png#500x500" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/404210/c-nicole-logo.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"></p></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 4, 2023 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- Andrée Harris Productions, an independent multi-award-winning production company, will screen their feature film, “My Soulmate, the Move” on Saturday, February 4th, 2023, from 1- 3pm. The screening will take place at the Old Greenbelt Theater located at 129 Centerway Greenbelt, MD 20770 from 1-3 pm.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“My Soulmate the Movie” is<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> a romantic comedy that was filmed in the Washington, DC<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">area. The Executive Producer, Washington D.C.’s own Andree Harris, and her associate Pamela Edwards would often share their dating app experiences, and together came up with a story line. The writer Robert “Blayze” Murray of New Jersey stated “Writing this story gave me nothing short of sheer pleasure. I enjoyed every moment of it.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This film is about a Stephanie Bell, (played by the Iconic Recording Artist Marva King, best known for Tyler Perrys’ hit stage play, Diary of a Mad Black Woman), a divorced single mother and a rigid attorney, who’s focus is only on her son and winning tough cases. Stephanie’s’ protégé Jalissa (played by Jeaneetta Talbert) signs her up for a trial subscription to the My Soulmate dating app. Upon doing so, Stephanie becomes open to dating and the possibly of finding love. “It’s been years since I’ve been on a film set and to be honest, I was skeptical about it, but, when Andree sent the script, I knew that I could pull this off. The cast and crew were amazing.” Says King.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Other cast members are: Nakia Dillard, as Derrick, (known for the Wire, Black Lightening and Wonder Years), West Barrington Atrope, as Michael (known for Lola, Knockout Game and Marshmallow Mystery Tour). Brilliance Hall (known for Gehenna, Broken Trust, For My Man, the Light between Us, etc.), Noah Johnson as eh son to Stephanie, Nyah Imani Jean-Pierre,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">AaLeyah Pegus and many more. The Executive Producer, Andree Harris, is also a multi-award- winning self-taught screenwriter and actress she plays Cookie.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“Online dating seems to be the norm these days and I really wanted a movie that was a mixture of both romance and laughter. This is my first ever Romcom film.” Say Andree</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About Andree Harris</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Andrée Harris is a native Washingtonian, who began writing when she and her sixth-grade class wrote the school song of the former Adelade Davis Elementary School. She has had a passion for the arts her entire life. She is the author of several books, written and directed stage plays, with over 38 IMDb film festival wins and nominations. Harris also serves as the Executive Director of Just 4 Us Foundation, Inc., a minister, and an actress. Out of all the things she does, not nothing satisfies her more than being with her family.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">If you’re a member of the media and interested in covering the premier or interviewing the cast, please send your request to cmickens@cnicoleagency.com</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-47636187054496097872022-12-19T14:45:00.005-05:002022-12-19T14:45:46.646-05:00Popular Singer/Songwriter Caps Debut Year with Fresh New Music Release<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/400629/cry-a-little-longer.jpeg#3000x3000" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/400629/cry-a-little-longer.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Cry a Little Longer art by Deb Walley</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ed Gumbrecht's Cry a Little Longer winks at sad songs, uplifts spirits.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, December 19, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4T9F5vlITvWGZzrpyYhFnZ?si=Abf6taBgSNyXC2ouKfwPbw" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Cry A Little Longer</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, a new single, drops on all streaming services today. An<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> up-tempo production of wry folk/rock/Americana, it is the twelfth track released this year by prolific emerging artist, <a href="http://edgumbrecht.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ed Gumbrecht</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“Cry” is a new tune with an old soul in the tradition of classic singer-songwriting. With lyrics that poke at sad songs, its bright melody and punchy chorus evoke sing-along participation. Contrary to its title, the tune induces smiles not waterworks. Gumbrecht makes sport of doomsaying and in the end observes that we all can “take the heat.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Since the February release of his debut album, Colorshow, </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H0KMoYQFbmKuB9N5HWTm?si=OAD2ESm4RPaEdCA9PCo0zA" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Gumbrecht’s music</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> has been attracting a growing following on listeners in the US and internationally. His songs have been featured on popular playlists including Spotify’s Blues & Whiskey, Vibes, Country Road Trip, Indie Rock Music, Road Trip Folk Americana, Coffee & Country, and Songs that Taste Like Nature. His song One and Only, sung by artist Claire Marie, was a 2022 Hot Slice feature on NYC’s WFUV radio. Gumbrecht, is a native New Yorker who writes in Washington D.C. and records in New England.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Cry a Little Longer, the single, was produced at Dirt Floor Recording Studios in Haddam, CT, by industry veteran, Eric Michael Lichter. It will also be featured on the upcoming album, Enter the Muses. With nine original songs Gumbrecht’s upcoming album will be out in January of 2023.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-30154870580952603662022-12-19T14:43:00.001-05:002022-12-19T14:43:07.209-05:00Kangaroo-Skin Soccer Cleats a Virtual No-Show at 2022 World Cup<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/400554/world-cup-final-score.png#940x788" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="A player kicks a soccer ball." height="251" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/400554/world-cup-final-score.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Goal! Kangaroo shoe leather a big loser at 2022 World Cup soccer tournament.</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, and other global soccer stars chose not to wear Nike or Adidas football boots made from kangaroos killed in the wild in Australia</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 23em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">With the World Cup in the history books, we know that kangaroo-based shoes represent not only a moral failure, but a marketing and performance flop.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Wayne Pacelle, president, Center for a Humane Economy</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES, December 19, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, and other soccer stars performed on the global stage in the 2022 World Cup without lacing up soccer cleats made from the skins of<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> kangaroos killed in the wild in Australia.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">According to an analysis of all matches, conducted by the </span><a href="http://www.centerforahumaneeconomy.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Center for a Humane Economy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, World Cup players scored 172 goals throughout the competition — and only eight came from players weaking kangaroo-skin cleats.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Nike, Adidas, Mizuno, and other athletic wear companies offer dozens of models made from the skins of the marsupials, who are one of the iconic mammals of Australia, while also offering a larger line of shoes that do not require killing native wildlife in mass numbers. In all, the Center determined that the vast majority — more than 95 percent — of all World Cup goals made this year are from players wearing shoes from man-made fabrics, and just 5 percent from kangaroo-based shoes.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“When it comes to performance, kangaroo leather cleats are clearly outmatched,” said Natasha Dolezal, senior legal advocate with the Center for a Humane Economy and head of its </span><a href="https://centerforahumaneeconomy.org/kangaroos-are-not-shoes-campaign" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Kangaroos Are Not Shoes campaign</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. “Despite the sportwear industry’s decades-long hype about the performance of kangaroo leather soccer cleats, it turns out that more players are choosing modern, human-made materials for better performance. It is long past time for Nike and these other companies to stop sourcing kangaroo skins and driving the mass killing of these animals in their native habitats.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The kangaroo industry in Australia engages in the largest commercial slaughter of land-based wild animals in the world. Each year, around two million wild kangaroos are gunned down in their native habitat to primarily provide their skins to Nike and Adidas to manufacture underperforming cleats. Kangaroo-based cleats make up an estimated 70 percent of the global demand for kangaroo parts, while pet food accounts for the largest remaining share. Three years ago, the Center for a Humane Economy announced its “Kangaroos Are Not Shoes” campaign to urge the major athletic shoe companies to stop using kangaroo parts in their soccer cleats or football boots.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">As horrific as the shooting of millions of adult kangaroos is, the abuse visited each year on hundreds of thousands of baby kangaroos – joeys – is even worse. The defenseless young animals are yanked from pouches and killed by blunt force trauma to the head after their mothers have been shot, often with a violent swing against the side of a car or other solid surface.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“It is a disgrace that Nike and Adidas continue to drive the mass slaughter of kangaroos by making soccer cleat models made from the bodies of kangaroos,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy. “Now with the World Cup in the history books, we know that their kangaroo-based shoes represent not only a moral failure, but a marketing and performance flop.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">A Broken Promise: Nike Just Didn’t Do It</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">A decade ago, Nike promised to do away with its kangaroo-sourced products, but it has reneged on that explicit pledge. Adidas and others also continue to drive the killing of kangaroos for shoes generally shunned by elite athletes in the sport.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Nike’s Mercurial line boasted the most goals with cleats made of synthetic fiber used by NASA, which is incredibly thin yet strong and flexible. Many consider Mercurials to be the lightest and fastest cleats available. The second-best performing shoe at the 2022 World Cup was the Adidas X range, also a synthetic offering. The obvious loser of the tournament are cleats made with kangaroo skin — Nike’s Tiempo, Adidas’ Copa Sense, and Mizuno’s versions came in at the bottom of the score sheet. (Adidas has said that it will </span><a href="https://www.footyheadlines.com/2022/07/adidas-copa-2023-boots.html" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">no longer use kangaroo leather</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> in their 2023 Copa cleat.)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This is not the first world-class soccer tournament to show these kinds of numbers. At the European Football Championships in 2021, kangaroo skin shoes tightly swathed the feet of a substantial number of the world’s most elite players. But our analysis, conducted with partner groups in Europe, showed clearly that the shoes didn’t improve performance. In the month-long tournament, players wearing Nikes scored 73 out of 123 total goals. But 72 out of 73 came from models made of Flyknit, another synthetic material. Only one goal was struck with a Nike shoe made from kangaroos.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In 2021, U.S. Representatives Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., introduced the Kangaroo Protection Act, which would forbid the sale of kangaroo parts in the U.S. California has a similar law, and the Center for a Humane Economy and its partners are working hard to see that it’s properly enforced.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-29896720974028882702022-12-19T14:40:00.002-05:002022-12-19T14:40:14.024-05:00Thoughtful Conversations with Veteran Spouse and Coauthor of 'Ever Vigilant Leadership and Legacy' Dr. Jennifer London<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/399842/ever-vigilant-christmas-cover.jpeg#940x788" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="251" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/399842/ever-vigilant-christmas-cover.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/354877/dr-jennifer-london-co-author.jpeg#1800x2519" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/354877/dr-jennifer-london-co-author.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="214" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"></p></div></div><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 13em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In my travels around the world, I have seen the value of America’s opportunities. It makes me appreciate how this American treasure has lasted so long. It’s a wonderful place.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Dr. J. Phillip London</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, December 19, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- This Christmas and Hanukkah holiday season, Dr. Jennifer London, a </span><a href="https://rumble.com/v20x0sw-thoughtful-conversations-with-veteran-spouse-and-thought-leader-dr.-jennife.html" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">thought leader</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, Veteran Spouse, speaker, and<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> advocate for our military and veterans, shares her Christmas message in this new interview titled "Thoughtful Conversations," speaking to the "treasure and appreciation of America and what it has to offer." <br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Dr. Jennifer London is the spouse of the late Dr. J. Phillip London, author of '</span><a href="http://evervigilantthebook.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ever Vigilant</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaYqY8Vx2aM&ab_channel=CommonSenseAmericawithEdenHill" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Leadership</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> and Legacy by the Executive Chairman of CACI,' a United States Naval Academy graduate, Navy aviator, and a Fortune 500 Business Leader in the nation's defense industry. This influential read provides inspiration for our next generation of leaders. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Dr. Jennifer London speaks firsthand about her husband, their family, and the impact of her late husband's life and legacy. She highlights her husband's entrepreneurial spirit and leadership advice, which is relevant even today.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">During this holiday season, she invites us to reflect on the words of her husband, who wrote in his book, "I feel very blessed and fortunate to live in this country. I will always be in awe of how a person can make it in the United States because of the individual freedom and in spite of all the barriers and impediments that one may face. In my travels around the world, I have seen the value of America’s opportunities. It makes me appreciate how this American treasure has lasted so long… and the danger in taking these things for granted. No wonder people from all over the world want to come here and live here. It’s a wonderful place.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Dr. Jennifer London holds a PhD in psychology from the Ohio State University and postdoctoral education in marketing from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business. She has a diversified background in strategic planning, business development, executive hiring, development, and outplacement, as well as marketing and community relations. She is the President of her own consulting firm, where her work has included evaluating and developing potential customers nationwide for the development of new and expanded markets for companies ranging from private businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Dr. London has numerous professional publications to her credit, and was a co-author with Dr. J. Phillip London on his books Character: The Ultimate Success Factor and Profiles in Character: Sixteen Americans and the Traits That Defined Them. She was also a contributor to Dr. J. Phillip London’s book Our Good Name: A Company’s Fight to Defend Its Honor and Get the Truth Told about Abu Ghraib.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Many of Dr. London’s current activities focus on military and patriotic initiatives. Dr. London created and leads a major effort in educating and empowering Americans to be active citizens through greater understanding of our Nation’s early history, its founders, and the civic duties within the American experience through her National American History and Founders month initiative. (</span><a href="http://www.americanhistoryandfoundersmonth.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">www.americanhistoryandfoundersmonth.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">).</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-21276445705033061582022-12-19T14:36:00.006-05:002022-12-19T14:36:50.069-05:00Local Heroes Are Buying Their Community A Brighter Future For $250<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/400398/rising-places-logo.jpeg#768x461" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="RISING PLACES logo" height="180" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/400398/rising-places-logo.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">RISING PLACES logo</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/400399/reconomics-institute-logo.jpeg#768x357" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="RECONOMICS institute logo" height="139" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/400399/reconomics-institute-logo.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">RECONOMICS institute logo</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/400400/storm-cunningham.jpeg#807x940" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Storm Cunningham, Executive Director, RECONOMICS Institute" height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/400400/storm-cunningham.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="257" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Storm Cunningham, Executive Director, RECONOMICS Institute</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In two minutes, RISING PLACES Patrons provide their city or county with free, permanent access to tools that create inclusive, resilient, green economic growth.</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 30em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over 90% of community revitalization efforts fail to make a significant, lasting difference in the local economy or quality of life.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Storm Cunningham, Executive Director, RECONOMICS Institute</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, December 19, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- </span><a href="https://reconomics.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">RECONOMICS Institute</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> today announced the first phase of its new RISING PLACES initiative with the launch of a Founding Patrons program.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Founding Patrons program is<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> an opportunity for local leaders—elected, business, non-profit or citizen—to serve the public and boost their organization or career simultaneously.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">For a one-time payment of as little as $250 (depending on the population of the city or county) they provide everyone with free, permanent access to RISING PLACES Tools. The tools are designed to facilitate and accelerate inclusive, green, resilient economic growth.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">These new tools enable residents and local governments to easily cooperate with each other in making their community a magnet for public and private funding—and employers—to boost income and quality of life for all.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The tools are provided to the community by a local benefactor—called a RISING PLACES Patron—who pays a small, one-time fee (based on the population of the city or county) to provide local leaders and residents with free, permanent access to the RISING PLACES Tools.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">RISING PLACES Patrons can be elected leaders, non-profits, foundations, business leaders…or just good citizens. Each city or county needs only one Patron.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">On December 19, 2022, the first phase of the RISING PLACES initiative was launched with a discounted Founding Patrons program.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Founding Patrons program ends on March 31, 2023, when RISING PLACES goes live at RisingPlaces.org. The opportunity to become a local RISING PLACES Patron will continue after that date, but the 50% discount available via the “Founding” Patrons program will end.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Back in 2011, the world was both shaken and inspired when the oppressive government of Tunisia was overthrown by social media-powered citizens. Similar uprisings quickly followed in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain, overthrowing despots like Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak and Ali Abdullah Saleh. But a lasting shift for the better failed to manifest. Social media helped get rid of the past, but couldn’t create a better local future.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Now, this new breed of online tools takes the opposite approach. The 12 RISING PLACES Tools—which comprise 6 Discovery Tools and 6 Roadmap Tools—harness citizen power to support local governments in making the economic, social and environmental changes that improve the economy and quality of life for all.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">RISING PLACES is an initiative of Washington, DC-based RECONOMICS Institute: The Society of Revitalization & Resilience Professionals, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. Its Executive Director is </span><a href="https://stormcunningham.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Storm Cunningham</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, who was in Tunisia meeting with local activists shortly before the Arab Spring.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Cunningham says: “Over 90% of community revitalization efforts fail to make a significant, lasting difference in the local economy or quality of life. The three most common reasons are 1) lack of resources, due to insufficient investment by state/federal agencies, private real estate investors and employers; 2) lack of understanding among both residents and leaders of the process of creating resilient prosperity; and 3) lack of tools needed to track the forms of economic, social and/or environmental renewal desired by voters, and to track progress towards those goals.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Here’s how RISING PLACES Tools overcome those three fatal obstacles to healthy economic development:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">* Lack of Resources: The old economic development model of paying employers (by giving away future tax revenues ) to relocate in a community no longer works, since every place offers similar incentives. RISING PLACES Tools use the new model, which has two components. First, it attracts state / federal funding and private real estate investment by creating confidence that the local future will be brighter. Second, it attracts new residents and employers not via expensive ads or incentives, but by making the community a place they want to be.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">* Lack of Awareness: It’s hard to get voters to support changes leading to revitalization and resilience if they don’t understand why it’s necessary, and how they will benefit. And, it’s hard to affect necessary changes if leaders don’t understand how best to implement them. RISING PLACES Tools educate both leaders and residents in the most effective manner: small bits of knowledge at a time.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">* Lack of Accurate, Ongoing Feedback: Despite the ubiquity of online polls, social media and Zoom meetings, it’s difficult for elected leaders to ascertain what local residents really want, which increases political risk. RISING PLACES Tools provide meaningful, accurate, ongoing feedback from local citizens in a useful form that focuses on the strategic success factors.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">During 2022, as the RISING PLACES initiative was being created, RECONOMICS Institute recruited early Founding Patrons, including a Fortune 500 company, elected officials, real estate developers, non-profits, government agencies and entrepreneurs. Their motivations for becoming a Patron include public service (love of their community), individual career advancement (via local leadership) and organizational growth (by strategically positioning it at the heart of local revitalization and resilience efforts).</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Becoming a Patron takes just two minutes, with no further obligations.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Learn more about RISING PLACES and its Founding Patrons program at </span><a href="https://reconomics.org/patrons" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">reconomics.org/patrons</a></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-66694169235910054992022-12-13T17:13:00.005-05:002022-12-13T17:13:33.181-05:00The National Black Chamber of Commerce African Diaspora Business Forum & Reception<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON , DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, December 13, 2022/</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- The White House U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit will be held on December 13-15, 2022, in Washington, DC to demonstrate the United States’ enduring commitment to Africa by underscoring the importance of U.S.-Africa relations, increased cooperation on shared global priorities, and mutual interest to improve the global business environment.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">On the peripheral of this important summit, the National Black Chamber of<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Commerce is collaborating with the Global Diversity Export Initiative of the International Trade Administration (ITA) and U.S. Department of Commerce to host high profile delegates from Kenya, Congo DRC, Ghana, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Nigeria for an <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nbcc-african-diaspora-business-forum-and-reception-tickets-467626482397" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">international business forum</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This event will highlight the strong potential for Africa’s Creative Economy to transform the Continent, identify, and facilitate dialogue for U.S. engagement. Stories of successful investing will be shared and amplified, as we move forward with economic development throughout the African Diaspora. The Forum will be held on December 14th, 2:30pm EST at the </span><a href="https://www.navymemorial.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Navy Memorial</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> and Heritage Center located at 701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The confirmed guests for this forum now include Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Congressman Jonathan Jackson, Hon. Francis Asenso-Boakye (Minister for Works and Housing, Ghana), Dr. James Jazzy Jordan, and Advocate Zuriel Oduwole.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Major companies from Purple Heart 3, National Veterans Training Foundation, ValidaTek to NBA Africa, TransitX and Del York International will be in attendance. There will also be representatives from World Bank, Exim and Nigeria's Bank of Industry ready to network and engage with business goers.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Be prepared for energetic entertainment and a dynamic fashion show featuring Studio D’Maxsi Designs and TruFacebyGrace Jewelry (designs showcased in films such as “Coming to America 2” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nbcc-african-diaspora-business-forum-and-reception-tickets-467626482397" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Tickets</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> are still available.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-70415482272339985042022-12-13T17:11:00.001-05:002022-12-13T17:11:17.045-05:00Weiner Announces Two Op-Eds Ranked H2, Featured by OpEdNews on Assault Weapons And Mexican Fentanyl<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/102889/robert-weiner.jpeg#3008x1960" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="195" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/102889/robert-weiner.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Robert Weiner</span></p></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, December 13, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- NRA'S Strategic Mistake by Blocking Assault Rifle Ban That Keeps Headlines Ongoing on 95% of the Mass Shootings of 10 or More, & Mexico's Fentanyl Corruption Decades-Long with Cartel Mandates U.S. Cut Aid Until Results</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Former White House and congressional spokesman Robert Weiner announced two<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> op-eds named H2 (#2 op-ed in the nation) the same day by OpEdNews -- "We're very proud of the achievement and hopefully the ability to make a little difference," Weiner said. The first, written by Weiner and Henry Deng is about how the NRA is making a big strategic mistake blocking the assault weapons ban that could eliminate 95% of the headlines concerning mass killings of ten or more by supporting reinstating the ban, first passed in 1994 but sunsetted in 2004. The second, by Weiner and Joshua Himelfarb, is on Mexico's "decades-long" ongoing corruption with cartels now leading to the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. and killing a record over 100,000 a year. Weiner and Himelfarb support cutting U.S. counternarcotics aid to Mexico in half until they get serious.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">***The NRA's Big Mistake Opposing Assault Weapons Ban by Robert Weiner and Henry Deng</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Weiner and Deng begin, "The NRA's big mistake is that by opposing an assault weapons ban, they are keeping the headlines ongoing of 95 per cent of mass killings of ten or more. We surveyed twenty of those, and 19 were carried out with AK 47's, AR-15's, or similar assault weapons banned for ten years until sunsetted in September, 2004 by agreement with the NRA in the legislation. The NRA cooked their own goose by effectively re-upping virtually all 10+ mass killings as well and increasing by 30% all mass killings and shootings of four or more. For the many who do support the Second Amendment, this is a logical solution to stop a huge amount of the negative coverage."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They continue, "In the 2022 midterms, voters knew that the slaughter goes on and on and on while while a big reduction opportunity that already worked for ten years -- banning military assault weapons from the rest of society-- until the NRA-imposed sunset set in-- is available. Three have been charged with killing one person and and injuring eight with assault weapons in Tallahassee on Oct. 29. In addition to the tragedy in Tallahassee, another shooting killing six people happened in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Nov. 23. Over 600 mass shootings have occurred in the United States so far this year, and more than 18,000 people have died from non-suicidal gun violence.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They write, "With gun violence and mass shootings on the rise, the Biden administration and Congress should be taking more effective actions to tackle this issue, with President Biden expressing his intention to work with Congress to 'try to get rid of assault weapons.' However, only the minimal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act has become law to assist juvenile mental health and expand background checks a hair. The rate of mass shootings has not diminished."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They explain, "In addition, with no fundamental gun control policies introduced, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is clearly not addressing the need for public safety as crime rates and shootings are generally increasing. In Tallahassee, shootings have increased from 50 in 2018 to 95 shootings and increasing in 2022. While violent crime nationwide in 2021 remains stable from 2020, the violent crime rate of 7.82 per 100,000 people in Tallahassee is still higher than the national median of 4 per 100,000 people, with the murder and assault rates in Tallahassee much higher than the nationwide rates per 1,000 people. It is evident that more measures shall be taken to both save lives and control gun crimes, but Congress is not working enough on that."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They argue, "So what is stopping the government from taking more action? Gun manufacturers and NRA."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They go on, "While the country is, as it has for decades, struggling with gun violence, manufacturers actively benefit from murder. A recent U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee memorandum shows gun industries have increased income by more than $1 billion from selling weapons like the AR-15 as mass shootings and gun deaths continue to rise. In addition to the memo, 60% of Smith & Wesson's revenue comes from the sales of assault rifles. With politicians like Republican Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) receiving more than $3 million from the NRA, it's no wonder gun manufacturers have such an enormous role in stopping meaningful gun control legislation."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They contend, "However, those who want to see gun control measures enacted are beginning to see victories. Smith & Wesson is moving their headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee. With the Massachusetts state legislature instituting an assault weapons ban and the recent defeat of pro-gun groups' legal challenge against the ban, Mark Smith, the CEO of Smith & Wesson, said in a news release that gun restrictions will push the company to review 'the best path forward for Smith & Wesson.'"</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They say, "And that may be the key to reducing gun violence: the move by Smith & Wesson reflects that the existing environment is unfit for gun manufacturers to do business. Moreover, it proves that banning assault weapons can stop weapons from overflowing in society."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They continue, "When President Bill Clinton signed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act in September 1994, firearms production in the U.S. decreased from 5.17 million in 1994 to around 3 million in 2004, when the 10-year assault weapons ban ended. Since then, firearms production has continuously increased, reaching 11.5 million in 2016."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They explain, "While the ban was in effect, violent crimes decreased from 1.86 million cases in 1994 to 1.36 million in 2004. However, since the end of the assault weapons ban, the number of mass shootings has increased. As pointed out by the Washington Post, between 1966 and 1999, there were mass shootings on an average of once every 180 days. From 2015 to now, it has been 47 days."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They write, "It couldn't be more explicit that this is when Congress and state legislatures need to work to enhance gun reforms. With gun manufacturers like Smith & Wesson moving away from states that enacted assault weapons bans, it points to a way that Congress can do the same nationwide to reduce gun violence further."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They go on, "Many proposals, including the assault weapons ban, are popular around the country and can be implemented and enacted. In addition, proposals such as expanding background checks, such as the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, have previously been brought to the table. Meanwhile, members from both sides voiced support for at least some form of background check proposal, as a poll indicated that most Democrats, Independents, and Republicans support gun law reforms, such as background checks, a three-day waiting period, raising the minimum purchasing age, and even a ban on high-capacity magazines."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They write, "As gun violence is happening almost daily around the country, the stakes are too high for Congress to stop work to end gun violence at the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, where the bill introduced virtually no legally binding clauses on gun control. Including background check expansion and many other proposals, Americans need and deserve gun laws reformed immediately."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Weiner and Deng conclude, "With the U.S. House passing the first assault weapons ban in almost three decades, the Senate has remained silent. President Clinton had done it before, and President Biden, then Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pushed and enacted the assault weapons ban in 1994. Congress and state legislatures -- often more progressive than Congress--could undoubtedly do it in 2022."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Link to article: </span><a href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-NRA-S-Big-Mistake-Oppo-Assault-Rifle_Assault-Weapon_Assault-Weapons-Bill_Congress-221210-54.html" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-NRA-S-Big-Mistake-Oppo-Assault-Rifle_Assault-Weapon_Assault-Weapons-Bill_Congress-221210-54.html</a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">***US-Mexico Drug Standstill: Decades of Failed Solutions and Time for a Change by Robert Weiner and Joshua Himelfarb</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Weiner and Himelfarb begin, "The U.S. and Mexico have been at a drug standstill for decades. It is time for a change. A drug seizure of over one million fentanyl pills at the Nogales section of the Arizona-Mexico border follows a string of similar busts across the United States, with ties pointing to cartel connected trafficking operations in Mexico. An increased presence of Mexican-sourced fentanyl within the multibillion dollar American drug market comes amid a breakdown in the U.S.-Mexico anti-narcotics strategy. According to a statement by D.O.J., 'Mexican cartels are increasingly manufacturing fentanyl for distribution and sale in the U.S.'"</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They explain, "Arizona authorities need to question the disbanding of a permanent parking space for the DEA in a hangar at the Toluca International Airport. It presents a capabilities-expectation gap to execute supervisory and capture schemes of high-ranking cartel leaders. With midterm elections over, the worsening criminal and public health crises mandates bipartisanship to stop cross-border drug trafficking."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They continue, "In fact, on Nov. 21, the incoming House Government Oversight Committee chairman, James Comer (R-Ky.) announced they will be leading the investigation on how to stop fentanyl from coming across the border. That could be great and helpful if it does not just turn into a political blame game but actually provides solutions on how to disempower the cartels."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They write, "While U.S. enforcement has helped to cause the centralized structure of Mexico's drug trafficking organizations to degenerate, with violent struggle raging between competing cartel groups, consolidation for territory and market space have spilt into new poly-crime syndicates. Some of those operations involve fuel theft, extortion racket, for-hire assassination, sexual servitude, and migrant kidnapping."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They argue, "Fentanyl is only the latest entry into the drug maze. For example, the lifelong imprisonment of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin, El Chapo Guzman, failed to extinguish the threat presented by Mexico's historically dominant drug trafficking organization. Instead, the cartel splintered into four competing groups, escalating inter-cartel violence."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They go on, "Mexico transformed from an intermediary transit country for drugs destined to the U.S. into a production center for heroin and fentanyl-laced counterfeit tablets. The rising seizure rate of fentanyl-related drugs by law enforcement coincides with the highest-ever record of drug overdose deaths over a 12-month period. In 2021, 100,000 died of drug overdoses, mostly fentanyl now."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They contend, "Imports of Mexican fentanyl products typically require Chinese precursors. However, the pandemic-induced lockdowns disrupted chemical inputs used to create synthetic opioids. Mexican drug producers have since sought to stabilize drug output by developing in-house processing methods and diversifying international supply chains, pointing to India's emergent position for illegal manufacturing of opioids."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They say, "When facilitating drug interdiction, the challenge for the U.S. remains bilateral cooperation with Mexico. To start, in 2020, former Mexican Secretary of Defense Salvador Zepeda was arrested on federal charges for conspiring to transport drugs and launder money in Los Angeles. Mexico responsively threatened to expel DEA agents from the country, resulting in Zepeda's release without prosecution from the DOJ. These Mexican shortcomings date back to the Clinton administration. In 1997, Mexico's newly appointed commissioner of the National Institute to Combat Drugs, Jesús Gutierrez Rebollo, was arrested for collaborating with the narcotic-smuggling Juarez Cartel, following a trip to Mexico by former Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey in which McCaffrey had expressed great hope in working with him to stop the drug flow."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They assert, "This failure to spot and indict high-ranking Mexican government officials for their profiteering in the drug trade illustrates a deficiency to reform some Mexican corrupt law enforcement agencies. In tandem, decades-long commitments from Mexican presidents prove ineffective too. From then-President Calderón's "worst nightmare" anti-drug offensive, and Nieto's tactical counterinsurgency on cartel leaders, to the most recent "Hugs, not Bullets" movement under AMLO, drug inflows and spillover violence have yet to subside."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They continue, "FY 2021 U.S. foreign assistance to Mexico totaled $158.9 million, yet corruption still permeates many levels of Mexico's public institutions. The disbursement of public funds should be contingent upon curtailing the drug trade. We could cut it in half and make the rest contingent on success."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">They explain, "Amid the rapidly rising domestic human toll, coupled by Mexico's anti-DEA policy shift, Washington is forced to recalibrate the country's anti-narcotics strategy. The failings in the existing approach with Mexico should not deter the U.S. from engaging third-party countries integral to the synthetic drug supply chain, since there is more room for joint partnership with China and India. Together they can thwart criminal organizations at points of production and shipping through enforcement coordination and regulatory action."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Weiner and Himelfarb assert, "Now, to make the volume of corruption in Mexico even worse, U.S. agents -- our protectors--have been accused of misconduct for overlooking abuses and occasionally partaking in money laundering.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">While we move quickly to remove any such corrupt agents, Mexico needs to do the same. The U.S. should juridically strangulate black-market exchanges, by targeting infrastructure between Mexican cartels and their domestic accomplices.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">There has to be a better concerted campaign on external and internal supply disruption to offer an alternative to the counternarcotic program in action.. There needs to be a will to stop the drug flow on both sides of the border."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Link to article: </span><a href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Mexico-Drug-Standstill-Drug-Cartels_Drug-Trafficing_Drug-Use_Drug-War-221210-787.html" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Mexico-Drug-Standstill-Drug-Cartels_Drug-Trafficing_Drug-Use_Drug-War-221210-787.html</a></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-83890240788803570552022-12-13T17:08:00.006-05:002022-12-13T17:08:49.834-05:00Flexjet is First Operator to Complete its Seventh ACSF Industry Audit Standard<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/370212/acsf-logo.jpeg#627x199" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) logo" height="95" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/370212/acsf-logo.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/395084/flexjet-aircraft.png#1280x854" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Flexjet Gulfstream G650 Credit Flexjet" height="200" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/395084/flexjet-aircraft.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Flexjet Gulfstream G650 - Credit Flexjet</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Flexjet, a global leader in subscription-based private aviation, has completed its seventh Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) Industry Audit Standard (IAS).</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 21em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Flexjet is truly a premier, elite operator. Through the years, our criteria for IAS registry have become far more rigorous, making their commitment to auditing standards that much more impressive.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Bryan Burns, President, Air Charter Safety Foundation</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, December 13, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- It was announced today that </span><a href="https://www.flexjet.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Flexjet</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, a global leader in subscription-based private aviation headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, has successfully completed its seventh </span><a href="https://www.acsf.aero/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Air Charter Safety Foundation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (ACSF) </span><a href="https://www.acsf.aero/acsf-industry-audit-standard/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Industry Audit Standard</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (IAS) audit. By so doing, the<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> aviation company has renewed its enviable status as an IAS-registered operator. In 2009, Flexjet became the first company in the world to meet and pass the ACSF’s rigorous Industry Audit Standard.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The ACSF Industry Audit Standard is an all-encompassing aviation audit for Part 135 and Part 91 aircraft operators. As its name implies, the IAS is the most comprehensive industry audit available, designed for those companies that truly desire to go above and beyond minimum safety requirements.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Michael Silvestro, CEO of Flexjet, is delighted to have once again passed such a stringent audit of the company’s safety operations. “Flexjet’s long relationship with the ACSF has helped us maintain our high safety standards and to continuously improve on them,” Silvestro noted. “Providing the safest environment for our aircraft Owners and our employees is vitally important to our operations and earning this seventh IAS registration through such an authority in the safety environment helps us maintain an objective assessment of our safety efforts.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Designed by the ACFS, the IAS process consists of a comprehensive independent evaluation of an operator’s compliance with safety and security regulations—as well as its Safety Management System—measured against Federal Aviation Administration and International Civil Aviation Organization standards. The resulting certification assures Flexjet customers and the industry alike that the company meets the highest standards of safety and compliance.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">ACSF President Bryan Burns echoed Silvestro’s enthusiasm for Flexjet’s accomplishment. “Flexjet is truly a premier, elite operator,” he said. “They maintain the world’s highest standards for safety and security by actively participating in SMS, ASAP and FDM. Through the years, our criteria for IAS registry have become far more rigorous, making Flexjet’s commitment to its auditing standards that much more impressive.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">To learn more about the ACSF’s Industry Audit Standard, visit acsf.aero/IAS.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About the ACSF</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Air Charter Safety Foundation is a non-profit organization with nearly 300 member companies. Its mission is to lead and support the advancement of the highest safety standards available; to enable the business, charter and fractional ownership industry to offer the safest air transportation products in the world; and to provide objective information about these standards and services to the public. In accordance with its mission, the ACSF developed the Industry Audit Standard for Part 135 and 91K operators, which serves as a detailed gap analysis of an operator’s management practices. The ACSF also administers the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) in partnership with the FAA. The ASAP, which has more than 220 participating aviation organizations, makes use of member employee input to identify significant safety concerns and issues, operational deficiencies, non-compliance with regulations, deviations from company policies and procedures and unusual events. The ACSF hosts an annual Air Charter Safety Symposium, with information available at acsf.aero/symposium.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About Flexjet</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Flexjet, Inc., a global leader in subscription-based private aviation, first entered the fractional jet ownership market in 1995. In 2022 the company entered into a business combination agreement with Horizon Acquisition Corporation II (“Horizon”) (NYSE: HZON); the combined company is expected to trade on the NYSE. Flexjet offers fractional jet ownership and leasing and is the first in the world to be recognized as achieving the Air Charter Safety Foundation’s Industry Audit Standard, is the first and only company to be honored with 23 FAA Diamond Awards for Excellence, upholds an ARG/US Platinum Safety Rating, a 4AIR Bronze Sustainable Rating and is IS-BAO compliant at Level 2. Red Label by Flexjet, a market differentiator, which features the most modern fleet in the industry, flight crews dedicated to a single aircraft and the LXi Cabin Collection of interiors. To date there are more than 40 different interior designs across its fleet, which includes the Embraer Phenom 300 and Praetor 500, Bombardier Challenger 350, the Gulfstream G450 and G650. Flexjet’s European fleet includes the Embraer Praetor 600 and the Gulfstream G650. Flexjet’s helicopter division sells fractional, lease, and on-demand charter access to its fleet of owned and operated Sikorsky S-76 helicopters serving locations throughout the northeastern United States, United Kingdom and Florida. Flexjet is a member of the Directional Aviation family of companies. For more details on innovative programs and flexible offerings, visit </span><a href="http://www.flexjet.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">www.flexjet.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> or follow us on Twitter @Flexjet and on Instagram @FlexjetInc.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-21548004957213627322022-12-13T17:06:00.002-05:002022-12-13T17:06:21.487-05:00The District Rises to #6 in the Country for Advancing Energy Efficiency Initiatives<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Washington, DC Today, the Bowser Administration announces that the District is now ranked <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sixth</strong> among states on the 2022 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard from the American Council for Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The scorecard ranks how far states have advanced their energy efficiency policies and programs. In ACEEE’s last report, the District was in eighth place and has moved up 24 places in the rankings since 2013.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The state scorecard helps encourage states to continue strengthening their<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> commitments toward energy efficiency to promote economic growth, environmental benefits and help residents save on energy.</span><p></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“The Bowser Administration is incredibly proud of what we have achieved in support of efforts to make DC the most sustainable city in the country,” said Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) Director Tommy Wells. “Through innovative regulatory policies, renewable energy programs, and incentives, we will continue to push the envelope on energy efficiency and green building.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The District is heavily invested in energy efficiency and clean energy. Over the past decade, the DC Sustainable Energy Utility (DCSEU) has helped create more than $1.4 billion in lifetime cost savings for residents and businesses and prevented more than 7 million metric tons of lifetime carbon emissions through its energy efficiency and clean energy programs. Since its launch in 2018, the DC Green Bank has invested $30 million in financing, unlocking an additional $150 million toward energy efficiency improvements, clean energy installations, green buildings, and green infrastructure construction projects. Through DOEE’s Solar for All program, more than 7,000 income-qualified District families have been able to cut their electricity bills in half with average cost savings of $500, an overall total annual savings of $3.5 million for those households.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">ACEEE’s report highlights numerous policies and programs by the District over the last year designed to move the city toward its green house gas (GHG) reduction goals, including:</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Clean Energy D.C. Building Code Amendment Act of 2021</strong> requires a net zero energy building code for all new commercial buildings. The law also bans most fossil fuel use for heating in new buildings.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Climate Commitment Act</strong> codified the District’s GHG reduction goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. The District also incentivizes healthy, affordable, and efficient buildings by requiring minimum energy performance standards for state housing agency-funded projects.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Affordable Housing Retrofit Accelerator </strong>initiative was launched in December 2021 by DOEE, the DCSEU, and the DC Green Bank. It provides technical and financial assistance to help multi-family affordable building owners comply with the Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) enacted in 2018 and preserve and improve affordable housing for residents in the District for years to come.</span></li></ul><blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“We are dedicated to driving Mayor Bowser’s clean energy and climate goals forward for the District of Columbia,” said DCSEU Interim Managing Director Brandon Bowles. “Our mission is to make clean energy more affordable and accessible and create lasting benefits for DC residents and businesses. The District’s advancement in the ACEEE rankings over the last nine years shows that we are moving forward successfully.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In April 2022, ACEEE also ranked the efforts of 100 major U.S. cities to make buildings and transportation more energy efficient and equitably scale up the use of renewable energy in its 2021 City Clean Energy Scorecard analysis, where the District was ranked number 3.</span></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-91385894927999529842022-12-13T17:03:00.004-05:002022-12-13T17:03:25.986-05:00District Named One of 123 Global Cities and Counties Named Climate Action Leader on CDP 2022 A List<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Washington, DC has been recognized by The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) as one of 123 cities and counties across the globe that is taking bold leadership on environmental action and transparency, despite the pressures of a challenging global economic situation. Designed to encourage and support local governments to ramp up their climate action and ambition, CDP’s Cities A List is based on environmental data disclosed by<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> local governments to CDP-ICLEI Track. A clear momentum in local climate disclosure and action is building – for the first time – as over 1,000 cities and counties (1,002 in total) received a rating for their climate action from CDP in 2022, a rise on the 965 cities and counties scored in 2021. In 2022, just over one in ten local governments scored by CDP (12% of such local governments) received an A.</span><p></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Washington DC is taking an innovative and ambitious approach to mitigate climate change – to include our goal to be carbon neutral by 2045,” said Department of Energy and Environment Director Tommy Wells. “Thanks to our ground-breaking transportation and energy initiatives, we are creating a healthier, cleaner, and more equitable DC, as this recognition by CDP confirms. By reducing carbon emissions in the city, we are also improving air quality, increasing access to energy efficiency programs to low-income households, and bettering the lives of residents across all eight wards of the District."</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To score an A, a local government must, among other actions, disclose publicly through CDP-ICLEI Track and have a community-wide emissions inventory. It must have set a renewable energy target for the future, have published a climate action plan, complete a climate risk and vulnerability assessment, and have a climate adaptation plan to demonstrate how it will tackle climate hazards. Many A List cities and counties are also taking a variety of other leadership actions, such as political commitment from a city’s Mayor to tackle climate change.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A List cities and counties are demonstrating their climate leadership through concerted and effective action, just as national governments have been asked to do at COP27. They are taking twice as many mitigation and adaptation measures as non-A List local governments.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The District and the other 122 cities and counties on this year’s A List are also celebrated for showing that urgent and impactful climate action - from ambitious emissions reduction targets to building resilience against climate change - is achievable at a global level, and in places with different climate realities and priorities. However, this action needs to go further and faster.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Climate change is already impacting The District, with record-breaking heat waves and snowstorms, flooding caused by rising sea levels and heavy rains, and the destructive 2012 derecho storm. Recognizing the need to prepare and adapt, the District has been working diligently to increase resilience to climate impact through Keep Cool DC, the comprehensive strategy to adapt to hotter days by reducing the drivers of extreme heat. The District has also taken an aggressive approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with its goal of being carbon neutral by 2045. For example, The District is reducing emissions by tackling existing building energy use through our innovative <a href="https://doee.dc.gov/service/building-energy-performance-standards-beps" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS) Program</a>, which was created to help reduce GHG emissions and energy consumption by through and accelerating the transition to electric vehicles with a commitment to converting public buses, high-capacity private passenger/light-duty vehicles, and commercial fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2045.</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Congratulations to Washington, DC for earning a spot on the CDP Cities A List — one of 49 cities and counties in North America to make the list in 2022,” said Katie Walsh, Head of Cities, States, Regions and Public Authorities, CDP North America. “From mitigating carbon emissions in line with science, to building resilience against floods, drought and other climate hazards, to centering marginalized and vulnerable communities in their response, A List local governments are demonstrating best-practice environmental action. Washington, DC is in the vanguard of cities and counties leading the way toward a climate-safe future.”</span></p></blockquote>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-54417861288582516662022-12-13T16:41:00.006-05:002022-12-13T16:41:56.408-05:00NAR Forecasts 4.78 Million Existing-Home Sales, Stable Prices in 2023<h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Atlanta named top real estate market to watch next year</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">/<a href="http://www.einnews.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">EIN News</a>/ --</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Key Highlights</span></u></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">NAR predicts 4.78 million existing-home sales in 2023, down 6.8% from 5.13 million in 2022.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Annual median home prices are expected to increase by just 0.3%, following a 9.6% gain in 2022.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Atlanta, Raleigh, Dallas, Fayetteville, Ark., and Greenville, S.C. join five other metropolitan areas among NAR’s top 10 housing markets in 2023.</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist and senior vice president of research,<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> forecasts that 4.78 million existing homes will be sold, prices will remain stable, and Atlanta will be the top real estate market to watch in 2023 and beyond. Yun unveiled the association’s forecast today during NAR’s fourth annual year-end <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=rmG887y_Z5_ILxrB7KXfHUdlIWWeaK2VP868Ui9RJBns8npbw5uaXBAbFdD8aNTY3KJ6dI9PJX9Je_rVok_t2T0G5RWk_SIb1peGzdUGVSf1VZfeEAV549cFf74cn3Zn2rfyAfs64YoSmSA-Mx7eAQ==" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Real Estate Forecast Summit</a>.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Yun predicts home sales will decline by 6.8% compared to 2022 (5.13 million) and the median home price will reach $385,800 – an increase of just 0.3% from this year ($384,500).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Half of the country may experience small price gains, while the other half may see slight price declines,” Yun said. “However, markets in California may be the exception, with San Francisco, for example, likely to register price drops of 10–15%.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Yun expects rent prices to rise 5% in 2023, following a 7% increase in 2022. He predicts foreclosure rates will remain at historically low levels in 2023, comprising less than 1% of all mortgages.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Yun forecasts U.S. GDP will grow by 1.3%, roughly half the typical historical pace of 2.5%. After eclipsing 7% in late 2022, he expects the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to settle at 5.7% as the Fed slows the pace of rate hikes to control inflation. Yun noted this is lower than the pre-pandemic historical rate of 8%.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Top 10 Real Estate Markets to Watch in 2023 and into the Future</span></u></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">NAR identified 10 real estate markets that it expects to outperform other metro areas in 2023. In order, the markets are as follows:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Raleigh, North Carolina</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas-Missouri</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, South Carolina</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Charleston-North Charleston, South Carolina</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Huntsville, Alabama</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Jacksonville, Florida</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">San Antonio-New Braunfels, Texas</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Knoxville, Tennessee</span></li></ol><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“The demand for housing continues to outpace supply,” Yun said. “The economic conditions in place in the top 10 U.S. markets, all of which are located in the South, provide the support for home prices to climb by at least 5% in 2023.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">NAR selected the top 10 real estate markets to watch in 2023 based on how they compared to the national average on the following economic indicators: 1) better housing affordability; 2) greater numbers of renters who can afford to buy a median-priced home; 3) stronger job growth; 4) faster growth of information industry jobs; 5) higher shares of the information industry in the respective local GDPs; 6) migration gains; 7) shares of workers teleworking; 8) faster population growth; 9) faster growth of active housing inventory; and 10) smaller housing shortages.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To view NAR’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On the Horizon: Markets to Watch in 2023 and Beyond</i> report, visit <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=xNRcrE5x2ddOWcSkoDLufA74RNbgbLsdodtlAtwCyw1tyTQvQsx61xsHzE_kCIjcxbeezTjrk35B6pH7f92Lyzfw21dXLeUX46MKwTarf-kSFEaf0gfyntL5eqEIrelxRTdAriUSaTwUQIxQBhwJuy_WpDwI0bT4J_H7zA3UdPjpPbYgLyWCx32sp69jHB2jmzgOAJnRdMygw85eswqu0EQ_fR-3sjHDRgE4xBKk4XYCPbBeHcdg6Nm6UtRoV7KZ0gSjoQEbx4yw27FeynQ90DbbVvC9ANy1pbyU8xeYg-XeaPyqQ6cVkIuR76SrxwLf9kdcmLwjWMWp88p-gkg_UQ==" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/research-reports/on-the-horizon-markets-to-watch-in-2023-and-beyond</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The National Association of Realtors<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">®</span> is America’s largest trade association, representing more than 1.5 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.</span></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-47408749068900951002022-12-13T16:39:00.001-05:002022-12-13T16:39:10.083-05:00Howard University to Offer its Undergraduate and Graduate Students Free Comprehensive Prep for Admissions and Licensure Exams Through New Partnership with Kaplan<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- <b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Howard University</b> announced today that it will immediately begin providing all of its undergraduate students with free test prep courses for graduate-level admissions exams, including the GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, and MCAT®, and free test prep for professional licensing exams including the bar exam, USMLE®, INBDE®, and NCLEX-RN®, for its students enrolled at its graduate schools, through a new partnership with <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kaplan</strong>. Additionally, all Howard students interested in taking the exams to be a CPA or CFA can also prepare with Kaplan for free. This<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> partnership builds upon Howard’s impressive record of achievement in this area: the university already produces more on-campus African American PhD recipients than any other university in the United States, in addition to graduating more African American applicants to medical school than any other university or college in the country.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Part of our mission at Howard University is ensuring that education is accessible to students, regardless of their economic status,” said Howard University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, <b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Anthony K. Wutoh</b>, PhD, RPh. “Bringing Kaplan’s All Access initiative to Howard University will relieve the financial barrier many students are faced with when it comes to the critical step of preparing for graduate admissions tests and licensing exams. With immediate access to free test prep through this initiative, Howard students will be empowered to take the next step in their education, encouraging even more students to pursue their career goals and have a positive impact in their chosen profession.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kaplan has prepared students for standardized tests for nearly 85 years, and Howard University is among its first HBCU partners for the company’s new ‘All Access’ initiative, joining <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=hZlVlx7CC3ntUreuDrK4s1g_SDOmm5is5LZw18uCO57BvwtaJ7iLTgyvhtr9ExD_9tDEgpqV--KQ0J8CV8J17HhPzPbUAlVAUI-fowSFGhukR8ijyma7Jeno1Bq10hfTHfRC3zLJ-9Zx3T0mXEb5luIoQT4_HHFytkwfWnJ4nG4lhvMx4fHV7lw9g7Fa-iZmcA6uLD6BxTCE-HKqKmIJfmYSgeQEzU9K6iMs3dfWvAO2HsMBWnHezziPXzMFM3LBo9AZtxTUfAPNbXXPT9vHdzByQJqfZXw9Bi-6zT7Z1jzfqcIbEIfsKS5x9Fl2kqChfiyCVFUy8IMRUDQ2S5FMJj_-ClS3hhAUFVLmu8woXi8Blnx3LXTwsa2u8kaca4Ng" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Xavier University of Louisiana</a>. <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=3tY6DKHo6Td1PNXmsbEzpyC7n7yDEwGvt2WdmIKcSY6KOUvmBs_HQh3OQ8F2oWfJn_stysyQ_XVrbUY0fwmoleByned9_YBuJWbPChrg_kNwAinQfkJvT8n2y6uTQ6ibrRjNxfkpjDW165F8ssu_xQhMmS6p2s19wxFStIrkOVVzDDq1IIuXu4wCgbw9fV1Uxu4ICro07mECAKUTpqJGAGhOEJ3PEXnteSacQhpOfewuPhO-FDT7bNJ5qUw20IJmei4hBOBcenUDwQDuijsrR-_V9Saod8TmQ68O5xcXbuAMoN-IDIHr5hSCIQE-LLATPzh7FHaqPKTD86IHMj3UmqS0zp6qiN_UHpAzbvTevv7scRDHCXgJ7pm6yAO-1ec4" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Cleveland State University</a> also recently signed on as a partner. As part of Kaplan’s ‘All Access’ mission, colleges and universities can help their students prepare for a variety of high-stakes admissions and licensing exams that they need to take in order to reach their ultimate professional goals.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“There are few schools that believe and invest in the future and promise of their students more than Howard University, and we’re incredibly excited to partner with them to help their students reach their full potential. Providing all of their students with free test prep for so many of these important exams is a real game changer in their educational and professional journeys,” said <b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">James Polulach</b>, director of institutional partnerships at Kaplan. “Many students see admissions and licensing exams as a barrier, instead of an opportunity, whether because of the price of preparation or because of how difficult the exam is. With All Access, Kaplan is eliminating these challenges, providing best-in-class instruction with zero out-of-pocket expenses for them. We’ll be announcing additional partnerships in this area soon, as more colleges and universities recognize the value of All Access.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For college and university leaders who want to explore partnering with Kaplan, visit <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=Xb4pK51mfMyW00fBU_jmFVDf-_tz1eZjabp10_HbY4UHtRG38B6kyNtQtJ8zYkjncxdUBvrcfiFNR0j5eptyksYQTZX0qgWSFLDh4lFX_E3k9FTm8gmnyJLOe9vl4fdx" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://kaplan.com/universities</a>. And for reporters interested in covering this growing sector of Kaplan’s portfolio, contact Russell Schaffer at <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=MaKKiRzoJ6vt1fn2dy4CZC2aYQFUGQWzABO9tMbNPg-Ex32WmDrXDmcTCyJ0OsUdyr3Q1ZkxWbmWaXm6mvnKgnS9A0hvPvxCXkKUwMrB-X5gLmRXktRuV2zMGpCxUqlF" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">russell.schaffer@kaplan.com</a> or 917-822-8190.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Test names and other trademarks are the property of the respective trademark holders.</span></i></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-84091434423903928412022-12-13T16:36:00.002-05:002022-12-13T16:36:23.539-05:00Center for a Humane Economy: World Cup Players Rarely Wear or Score with Soccer Cleats Made from Kangaroo Skins<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="KANGAROOS ARE NOT SHOES" height="136" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/148550/kangaroos-are-not-shoes.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="292" /></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">KANGAROOS ARE NOT SHOES</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/181236/kangaroo-shoes.png#781x421" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="161" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/181236/kangaroo-shoes.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">K-leather shoes</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">On the Eve of the First Semi-Final Match, World Cup Players Scoring Shows Players with Kangaroo-Based Shoes Have Almost No Impact</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 29em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As these World Cup scoring statistics make plain, soccer players are drawn to cleats made from human-made fabrics, not kangaroo skins.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Wayne Pacelle, president, Animal Wellness Action</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES, December 12, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- In a preliminary assessment of scoring from all matches played in the 2022 World Cup in the run-up to the semi-finals, players wearing shoes made from human-made fabrics dominated the scoring, with 150 goals.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">That's the analysis from officials at<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> the <a href="https://centerforahumaneeconomy.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Center for a Humane Economy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit dedicated to advancing animal-welfare issues in the corporate sector.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Players wearing shoes made from kangaroos scored only eight goals, revealing that the world’s players, primarily as a matter of performance, have been shedding the skins of kangaroos in favor of higher performance shoes.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Nike, Adidas, Mizuno, and other athletic wear companies offer dozens of models made from the skins of the marsupials who are one of the iconic mammals of Australia, while also offering a larger line of shoes that do not require killing native wildlife in mass numbers. In all, the Center determined that the vast majority — more than 95% — of all World Cup goals made this year are from players wearing shoes from man-made fabrics, and just 5.4% from kangaroo-based shoes.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The vast majority — more than 95% — of all World Cup goals made this year are from players wearing shoes from human-made fabrics.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“When it comes to performance, kangaroo leather cleats are clearly outmatched,” said Natasha Dolezal, senior legal advocate with the Center and editor of the website </span><a href="https://www.kangaroosarenotshoes.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Kangaroos Are Not Shoes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. “Despite the sportwear industry’s decades-long hype about the unmatched performance of kangaroo leather soccer cleats, it turns out that more players are choosing modern, human-made materials for better performance. It is long past time for Nike and these other companies to stop sourcing kangaroo skins and driving the mass killing of these animals in their native habitats.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The kangaroo industry in Australia engages in the largest commercial slaughter of land-based wild animals in the world. Each year, around two million wild kangaroos are gunned down in their native habitat to primarily provide their skins to Nike and Adidas to manufacture underperforming cleats. Kangaroo-based cleats make up an estimated 70% of the demand for leather, while pet food accounts for the largest remaining share. Three years ago, the Center for a Humane Economy announced its “Kangaroos Are Not Shoes” campaign to urge the major athletic shoe companies to stop using kangaroo parts in their soccer cleats or football boots.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">As horrific as the shooting of millions of adult kangaroos is, the abuse visited on hundreds of thousands of baby kangaroos – joeys – each year is even worse. The defenseless young animals are yanked from the pouches and killed by blunt force trauma to the head after their mothers have been shot, often with a violent swing against the side of a car or other solid surface.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“As these World Cup scoring statistics make plain, soccer players are drawn to cleats made from human-made fabrics, not kangaroo skins,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of </span><a href="https://www.animalwellnessaction.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Animal Wellness Action</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> and the Center for a Humane Economy. “Animal welfare values and optimal performance are aligning on the biggest soccer stage in the world, showing how archaic shoes made from the skins of wildlife are in 2022.” A decade ago, Nike promised to do away with its kangaroo-sourced products, but it has reneged on that explicit pledge. Adidas and others continue to drive the killing of kangaroos for shoes generally shunned by elite athletes in the sport.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Nike’s Mercurial line (57 goals) boasts the most goals with cleats made of synthetic fiber used by NASA that are incredibly thin yet strong and flexible. Many consider Mercurials to be the lightest and fastest cleats available. Another line of synthetic boots — the Adidas X range — comes in second with 33goals. The obvious loser of the tournament are cleats made with kangaroo skin — Nike’s Tiempo (four goals) and Adidas’ Copa Sense (two goals), along with Mizuno’s versions (two goals) came in at the bottom of the score sheet. It’s worth noting that Adidas will no longer use kangaroo leather in their 2023 Copa cleat.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This is not the first world-class tournament to show these kinds of numbers. At the European Football (soccer) Championships in 2021, kangaroo skin shoes tightly swathed the feet of a substantial number of the world’s most elite players. But from our prior analysis, conducted with partner groups in Europe, it’s clear that the shoes didn’t improve performance. In the month-long tournament, players wearing Nikes scored 73 out of 123 total goals. But 72 out of 73 came from models made of Flyknit, a synthetic material. Only one goal was struck with a Nike shoe made from kangaroos.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In 2021, U.S. Representatives Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., introduced the Kangaroo Protection Act, which would forbid the sale of kangaroo parts in the U.S. California has a similar law, and the Center for a Humane Economy and its partners are working hard to see that it’s properly enforced.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">ABOUT</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Center for a Humane Economy is a non-profit organization that focuses on influencing the conduct of corporations to forge a humane economic order. The first organization of its kind in the animal protection movement, the Center encourages businesses to honor their social responsibilities in a culture where consumers, investors, and other key stakeholders abhor cruelty and the degradation of the environment and embrace innovation as a means of eliminating both.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Animal Wellness Action is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) organization with a mission of helping animals by promoting legal standards forbidding cruelty. We champion causes that alleviate the suffering of companion animals, farm animals, and wildlife. We advocate for policies to stop dogfighting and cockfighting and other forms of malicious cruelty and to confront factory farming and other systemic forms of animal exploitation. To prevent cruelty, we promote enacting good public policies and we work to enforce those policies. To enact good laws, we must elect good lawmakers, and that’s why we remind voters which candidates care about our issues and which ones don’t. We believe helping animals helps us all.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-80447922355780609832022-12-13T16:33:00.003-05:002022-12-13T16:33:31.631-05:00Geeks Without Frontiers & the N50 Initiative Call for Accelerating Science/Space Cooperation @ US-Africa Leaders Summit<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/244025/n50-logo.jpeg#2402x1184" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="147" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/244025/n50-logo.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">N50 Logo</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/397613/science-at-the-us-africa-leader.png#754x421" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="167" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/397613/science-at-the-us-africa-leader.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Science at the US-Africa Leaders Summit, Washington, DC, 12-15 December 2022</span></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/163276/geekswithoutfrontierslogo.jpeg#2048x1026" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="150" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/163276/geekswithoutfrontierslogo.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Geeks Without Frontiers</span></p></div></div><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 22em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The revolutions in communications satellites, launch vehicles, Internet of Things and big data allow for immediate partnerships between universities, NGOs and national governments”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Michael Potter</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, December 12, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- The U.S.-Africa Summit, hosted by the White House, runs from December 13th through the 15th, 2022. The Summit seeks to communicate the country’s enduring commitment to Africa and underscore the importance of U.S.-Africa relations and increased cooperation on shared global priorities.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">As part of the Summit's overall<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> program on Science & Collaboration which runs December 12-15, there will be a specific panel entitled:<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"U.S.-Africa Partnerships in Space", which will take place Wednesday, December 14th between 2:00pm - 4:45pm.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="https://sched.co/1EG4F" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://sched.co/1EG4F</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://geekswf.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Geeks Without Frontiers</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.n50project.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">N50</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> Project Initiative will be arguing for rapid, practical ways to accelerate science and space cooperation. According to Michael Potter, co-Founder of Geeks Without Frontiers, “The revolutions in communications satellites, launch vehicles, Internet of Things and big data allow for immediate partnerships between universities, NGOs and national governments.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Africa is enormous, with over 1.4 billion people spread over an area of 30,370,000 km2. By 2050 the population will exceed 2 billion, from many diverse cultures and with over 2,000 languages. The continent is confronting problems meeting basic human needs: clean water, ready supplies of food, equality in provision of health care and educational resources, and more. These challenges can partly be addressed using space technologies to enable tele-health, tele-education, environmental management, and data for immediate changes and future planning.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Hosted by the Alliance for Collaboration in Exploration of Space (ACES Worldwide), this session will address satellite technologies, current and future, serving Africa in the context of joint U.S.-African cooperation. In the spirit of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the speakers are experts in using satellites for real-time disaster relief, telemedicine, tele-education, and provision of low-cost broadband services throughout Africa. Each speaker will address what is working now, what space technologies are still needed, and plans to meet those requirements on an urgent basis.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">White House Announcement</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/07/20/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-u-s-africa-leaders-summit/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/07/20/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-u-s-africa-leaders-summit/</a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Summit will continue building on shared values to better foster new economic engagement; reinforce the U.S.-Africa commitment to democracy and human rights; mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and future pandemics; work collaboratively to strengthen regional and global health; promote food security; advance peace and security; respond to the climate crisis, and amplify diaspora ties.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The objectives of the meetings will highlight the importance of science in Africa, to foster greater collaboration between African nations and the US, and to increase investment in science for Global Health, Digital Transition, Space, Biological Diversity, Education and Skills, among other areas and to support an enabling policy and regulatory environment for science collaboration to flourish between Africa and the U.S.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About Geeks Without Frontiers</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Geeks Without Frontiers (Geeks) is a platform for global impact. An award-winning non-profit, Geeks’ mission is to promote technology for a resilient world including bringing the benefits of broadband connectivity, health, education, poverty reduction, gender equality and the other UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) - to the estimated 3 billion people who remain unconnected</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.geekswf.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">www.geekswf.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About the N50 Project</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The N50 Project accelerates digital adoption and community enrichment through innovative applications, network design, and business models to enable the next 50% of the world’s population. Broadband adoption will be accelerated and sustained, globally, through commercial, non-profit, government, and community partnerships. Geeks is the Project Management Office for N50. Learn more at</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.n50project.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">www.n50project.org</a></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-58409018462527291472022-12-13T16:23:00.002-05:002022-12-13T16:23:07.478-05:00The Winter of Discontent for Electricity: USEA Looks Ahead<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Expect electric shortages in the Midwest, parts of the South, the Northeast, and Texas; and expect voltage reductions and blackouts in those regions.</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 22em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If there are major blackouts there will be political fallout with some blaming renewables and others the gas industry for supply limitations and profit-seeking.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Llewellyn King</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON DC, USA, December 12, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- Winter is bearing down on the nation’s electric utilities. It has had a furious start with rain and snow in the West, and cold across the Midwest and the Northeast.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has been emphatic:<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Expect electric shortages in the Midwest, parts of the South, the Northeast, and Texas; and expect voltage reductions and blackouts in those regions.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">It is a grim prospect heightened by the times when severe and unpredictable weather is the normal rather than the aberrant.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">On the bright side, if there is one, forecasters are expecting an overall mild winter because of El Nino conditions in the Pacific.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">But that won’t save the vulnerable regions when seriously disruptive weather strikes, bringing about a winter of discontent for utilities, their customers, regulators, and politicians.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"If there are major blackouts there will be political fallout with some blaming renewables and others the gas industry for supply limitations and profit-seeking," says longtime energy journalist Llewellyn King.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The proximate causes are the Northeast hasn’t built the gas pipeline infrastructure that it needs; the Midwest has lost a lot of nuclear and coal generation due to early retirement; Texas, which is having a growth spurt, isn’t fully aligned with the weather variations it is experiencing; and new weather patterns require greater weatherization which hasn’t been done in the South.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Against these troubling prospects, the </span><a href="https://www.usea.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">United States Energy Association</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> -- a non-profit, non-lobbying, all-fuels organization, founded in 1924 -- is holding another in its series of virtual press briefings to look at the coming winter and the anticipated choke points.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The briefing on Zoom is on Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. It is open to the press, members of the </span><a href="https://www.usea.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">USEA</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, and the public.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">By arrangement, Llewellyn King organizes and moderates these briefings. USEA Acting Executive Director Sheila Hollis gives welcoming and closing remarks.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">As with previous briefings, a panel of experts in the field will be questioned by a panel of knowledgeable reporters.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The whole exchange is Q&A and is designed to transfer as much information through the press to the public as possible. But USEA members and the public can ask questions via the Zoom chat function.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The experts:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Jim Robb, President & CEO, NERC</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Robert Rowe, CEO, NorthWestern Energy</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Anne George, VP External Affairs & Corporate Communications, ISO New England</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Scott Aaronson, Sr. VP Security & Preparedness, Edison Electric Institute</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Philip Sharp, former U.S. Representative (D-IN)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The reporters:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Elizabeth Souder, Freelance</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Jennifer Hiller, The Wall Street Journal</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Rod Kuckro, Freelance</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Matt Chester, Energy Central</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ken Silverstein, Forbes</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_udKIsUlkSrCNbLN2YCLkXA" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Register</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> here:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_udKIsUlkSrCNbLN2YCLkXA" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_udKIsUlkSrCNbLN2YCLkXA</a></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-34419250732587396262022-09-12T18:24:00.001-04:002022-09-12T18:24:56.232-04:00Mayor Bowser Kicks Off DC Startup Week by Opening Applications for $2 Million Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Washington, DC – Today, to kick off DC Startup Week, Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED), and 1863 Ventures opened applications for the nearly $2 million investment round of the Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund (IIEIF). The initiative, which launched last year, aims to address the variance in capital access for businesses that seldom receive early-stage funding through conventional financing. The inaugural class of IIEIF investments funded 15 enterprises<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> across sectors, including financial services, arts and education, food and beverage, waste management, wellness, and hair care. 1863 Ventures serves as the fund manager for the IIEIF to administer and distribute investment grants to successful applicants.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“We know that small businesses are going to play a big role in our city’s comeback – and we want Black-owned businesses leading the way,” said Mayor Bowser. “With the Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund we are able to give local entrepreneurs a fair shot at turning their ideas into businesses. Now, we want to spread the word that applications are open and we have nearly $2 million available.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Eligible businesses are defined as “Equity Impact Enterprises” that have $2 million or less in annual revenue and certify that its business is unable to obtain conventional financing or is a business enterprise that cannot reasonably be expected to qualify for financing under the standards of commercial lending. In addition, the business must be a resident-owned business and a small business enterprise that can demonstrate that it is at least 51 percent owned by an individual who is – or a majority number of individuals who are – economically disadvantaged or has been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“DC has the highest percentage of Black-owned businesses in the nation,” said Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development John Falcicchio. “This track-record of success will continue with the third round of investments through the Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Mayor’s FY23 budget includes key investments to support small businesses and entrepreneurs, including:</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bridge Fund 3.0 ($8 million) to continue enabling arts and entertainment venues to reopen and recover post-pandemic.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Commercial Property Acquisition Fund ($4 million) to support with down payment assistance for Equity Impact Enterprise-eligible businesses of up to $750,000 or 25% of the sale price, whichever is less, for the acquisition of commercial property in the District.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund ($2 million) to support Equity Impact Enterprises-eligible businesses with training and investment in the form of revenue or equity-based financing.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Small and Medium Business Growth Program ($3.4 million) to provide new growth focused investments for DC small businesses. The community benefit includes asset building, creating job opportunities, enabling residents with greater opportunities to spend locally, and helping generate positive economic multiplier effects.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">DC Community Anchor Partnership ($500,000) to help local “anchor institutions” place-based entities, including hospitals, universities, and utility companies, use their procurement power to better support the growth of local, DC-based minority-owned business enterprises (MBEs).</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“IIEIF is a catalyst for equitable economic growth, and it is a privilege to manage the fund for a second year. We are proud of the IIEIF investees as they showcase the dynamism of industry and innovation in D.C.,” said Melissa Bradley, Founder and Managing Partner of 1863 Ventures. “For many small businesses, challenges that existed prior to the pandemic, such as business fees, taxes, and rent, have become more burdensome. IIEIF funds will be used to offset rising costs to help emerging entrepreneurs grow, scale, and create jobs and increase the capital revolving in our communities. We are excited to steward this next funding effort to support Equity Impact Enterprises that are historically underserved and overlooked businesses in the city.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Applications for the Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund open today, Monday, September 12, 2022. For more information and to apply, please visit <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F1863.smapply.io%2Fprog%2Fiieif_2022%2F&data=05%7C01%7Civory.lee%40dc.gov%7Cdeaf69095aec4c9a1f6508da94dc1694%7C8fe449f18b944fb799066f939da82d73%7C0%7C0%7C637985970296931677%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OnyKQQONR4Wn%2Bdn3CoYmDFnprFLgiLsj%2Fa%2BAzx%2BAaEs%3D&reserved=0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1863.smapply.io/prog/iieif_2022</a>. The application deadline is January 31, 2023.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“I think one of the key benefits of being adequately capitalized through the fund is being able to stick to a plan and see it through without the need to pivot because of funding shortages. We have been able to recruit new talent and establish our marketing plan for the fourth quarter,” said K.J. Hughes, the Founding Partner of Manifest, a multifaceted grooming, retail, and café experience in Adams Morgan and investee from the inaugural fund disbursement. “We support our community through hiring. We’ve been able to hire returning citizens and provide proper training and development that will help both the employee and the business grow together.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For more information on additional business funding opportunities and initiatives, visit <a href="http://obviouslydc.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">obviouslydc.com</a>.</span></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-37135007354640119792022-09-12T18:18:00.006-04:002022-09-12T18:18:50.106-04:00Methanol Institute Welcomes Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings as a New Member<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/217548/mi-logo-horizontal.jpeg#596x134" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="67" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/217548/mi-logo-horizontal.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"></p></div><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/339533/norwegian-cruise-logo.png#437x115" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="78" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/339533/norwegian-cruise-logo.png" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"></p></div></div><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 12em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">MI looks forward to working with Norwegian as they explore the use of methanol as a key component of their climate action strategy.”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Gregory Dolan, CEO, Methanol Institute</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, USA, September 12, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- The Methanol Institute (MI) is pleased to welcome Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (Norwegian) as our newest member. Norwegian is a leading global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands. The company has a combined fleet of 29<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> ships which offer itineraries to approximately 500 destinations worldwide and a robust pipeline of eight additional ships on order through 2027.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Norwegian has a long-term climate action strategy with a commitment to pursue net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through reducing carbon intensity, investing in technology including exploring alternative fuels and implementing a voluntary carbon offset program. Norwegian recognizes that a key driver in achieving net zero is the development of alternative fuels along with the global infrastructure to support the creation, distribution, storage and usage of these fuels. That’s why the company is continuously exploring avenues such as partnerships, including with the Methanol Institute, to champion these efforts and is committed to investing in research and development to improve its footprint and meet regulatory requirements.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">MI CEO Gregory Dolan noted that: "We are pleased to welcome Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings as a member. The cruise segment is an important part of the global maritime industry, and MI looks forward to working with Norwegian as they explore the use of methanol as a key component of their climate action strategy."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Robin Lindsay, Executive Vice President of Vessel Operations at Norwegian noted that: "Norwegian joined the Methanol Institute to collaborate, share and adapt solutions alongside the Institute’s members of methanol producers, distributors and technology providers. In its participation, Norwegian will share key learnings from its feasibility assessment of retrofitting existing engines to operate with duel fuels – diesel and methanol. We are committed to doing our part to work with our strategic partners to collectively try to find a viable long-term solution to net zero."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">To learn more about Norwegian, visit their website </span><a href="https://www.nclhltd.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">About the Methanol Institute</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Methanol Institute (MI) serves as the global trade association for the methanol industry, representing the world’s leading producers, distributors, and technology companies. Founded in 1989 in Washington DC, MI now represents its members from five offices around the world in Singapore, Washington DC, Beijing, Brussels, and Delhi.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-46298615470332401762022-09-12T18:13:00.006-04:002022-09-12T18:13:41.869-04:00Leading Space Organizations in Support of Expanding the OSC’s Role in Orbital Debris Management<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/353031/orbital-debris.jpeg#2000x1302" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="195" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/353031/orbital-debris.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Estimated orbital debris plot. Credit: Braunschweig University</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">National Space Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, and the Secure World Foundation Seek More Funding For Office of Space Commerce</span></i></p><div class="pr_quote_positioner" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; height: 16em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div class="pr_quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("//www.einpresswire.com/images/quote_136.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; margin: 20px 10px 20px 0px; max-width: 300px; padding: 25px 10px 10px 25px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I hope this year brings us a step closer to a sustainable space environment. That stability will enable us to use the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity...”</span></b><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Anita Gale, CEO of the National Space Society</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, D.C., US, September 12, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- The National Space Society (NSS), American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), and Secure World Foundation (SWF) recognize the importance of orbital debris management and advocate for the long-term sustainability of the orbital environment. The NSS is a D.C.-based, international non-profit that is the preeminent citizen’s voice on<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> space exploration, development, and settlement. It publishes the award-winning Ad Astra magazine and leads U.S. space advocacy efforts, including for orbital debris policy. The AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. With over 30,000 individual members and 95 corporate members, it is a major aerospace leader and technical publisher. The SWF is an international private-operating foundation dedicated to the secure and sustainable use of space. It is a thought leader in space research and policy analysis and is a permanent observer to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). The three organizations have issued a <a href="https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/NSS-AIAA-SWF-Joint-Letter-on-OSC-Role-in-Space-Sustainability.pdf" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">joint statement</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> regarding elevating and funding the Office of Space Commerce.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Millions of pieces of debris orbiting our planet provide a constant reminder of the Kessler Syndrome—a scenario in which colliding space objects cause a cascade that generates exponentially more debris. We may soon reach a point when orbital debris pollution prevents human access to space. In low-Earth orbit there are already over 26,000 large pieces of debris that could destroy a satellite on impact, over 500,000 marble-sized pieces that can cause serious damage to spacecraft, and over 100 million millimeter-sized pieces that are almost impossible to detect by ground-based tools. Orbital debris jeopardizes space sector infrastructure and operations and space-based applications that are critical for everyday life. These three prominent space organizations support a comprehensive approach to orbital debris management that effectively uses Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Space Traffic Management (STM), mitigation, and remediation.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">With regards to SSA and STM, the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) is well-positioned to centralize and direct commercial debris mediation efforts. Its mission is to foster an economic and policy regime that maximizes the success of the U.S. commercial space industry. Currently, the OSC is both understaffed and underfunded, and lacks a high enough organizational placement to provide the necessary oversight for commercial space activity. The OSC should be elevated to the Office of the Secretary of Commerce, and eventually, a Bureau of Space Commerce should be established. In tandem to these organizational shifts, the OSC should be appropriated adequate funding of $90 million to hire professional staff and create new SSA and STM initiatives.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Dan Dumbacher, Executive Director of the AIAA, asserts that “Congress should accelerate efforts on STM to provide stability and certainty, so the commercial sector can continue to innovate and invest in new ventures that continue building a robust space economy.” Dr. Peter Martinez, Executive Director of the SWF, strongly believes that “the OSC should be further empowered to represent the commercial industry within the interagency process, while modernizing the oversight process for new commercial space activities.” Anita Gale, Chief Executive Officer of the NSS, echoes these sentiments, saying, "I hope this year brings us a step closer to a sustainable space environment. That stability will enable us to use the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The National Space Society was founded in 1987 via a merger of the National Space Institute and the L5 Society. The NSS is the preeminent citizen's voice on space exploration, development, and settlement. To learn more about the NSS and its mission to establish humanity as a spacefaring species, visit us on the web at </span><a href="https://space.nss.org/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">nss.org.</a></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-62673735630072568602022-09-12T18:10:00.005-04:002022-09-12T18:10:56.483-04:00A Different Brunch announces long awaited DC residency at Lima Twist<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/353997/a-different-brunch-brunch-ape.jpeg#1080x1920" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="A Different Brunch - Brunch Apetit - Lima Twist" height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/353997/a-different-brunch-brunch-ape.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="168" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A Different Brunch - Brunch Apetit - Lima Twist</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">An all new upscale brunch experience is coming to Washington DC on September 18th. Brunch Apetit will feature a menu from celebrity chef Antonio Henderson.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 12, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/adifferentbrunch" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">A Different Brunch</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, the multi-city brunch experience has partnered with DC restaurant </span><a href="https://limatwist.com/brunch-apetit" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Lima Twist</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> for a weekly Sunday Brunch Experience like no other. This sunday September 18th you are cordially invited to the launch of "Brunch Apetit" The menu will consist of delicious small plates of your favorite brunch classics, and of course bottomless mimosas. The ambience and jaw dropping decor and food presentation is sure to send you into a photo frenzy.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">A Different Brunch was founded by Richmond VA nightlife pioneer Juan Pierce and live event digital specialist Octavion X and prior to announcing their DC residency at Lima Twist they have hosted other Brunch events at other notable restaurants in the area such as Bar Bao and Provision 14, as well as events in other cities such as Orlando, Atlanta and New York City. "Brunch Apetit" will feature Richmond, VA based Celebrity Chef Antonio Henderson.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Early reservations are strongly suggested.</span></span></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-76978876950293803552022-09-12T18:06:00.006-04:002022-09-12T18:06:37.902-04:00Triple The Pleasure With The Dynamic Musical Fusion of Classical and Contemporary Provided by TAKE3<div class="pr_images_column" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 5px;"><div class="pr_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://img.einpresswire.com/large/353933/take3.jpeg#500x500" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img height="300" src="https://img.einpresswire.com/medium/353933/take3.jpeg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">TAKE3</span></p></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">WASHINGTON, DC, USA, September 12, 2022 /</span><a dir="auto" href="http://www.einpresswire.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">EINPresswire.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">/ -- With a flair for the wild and unexpected, the genre-defying trio, TAKE3, brings the refinement of a rigorous classical music background and infuses it with rock-star charisma.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">With training at the World's top conservatories, TAKE3, created by violinist/vocalist Lindsay Deutsch (Yanni's featured violin soloist, with whom she<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> has toured throughout most of the seven continents), alongside cellist Mikala Schmitz and pianist Jason Stoll are creating some of the most exciting and refreshing pop/rock/classical fusion music anywhere in the World.<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Whether they are rockin' the Bach or are classically infusing the favorites of The Beatles, Lynyrd Skynyrd or Coldplay, TAKE3 are nothing short of exhilarating and have electrified audiences at venues and events like Music in the Mountains, Redlands Bowl, OK Mozart Festival, Festival Mozaic, Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill, and Bear Valley Music Festival.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The dynamic trio's upcoming stops include Chelsea Table and Stage in New York City, NY, on Sept. 17th, The Music Room Cape Cod in West Yarmouth, MA, on Sept. 21st and Lane University Center in Frostburg, MD on Sept. 24th.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">For more information and ticket details, visit: </span><a href="https://www.take3music.com/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #014880; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.take3music.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span></span><p></p>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147715347633310243.post-16811987837496871642022-08-28T17:58:00.007-04:002022-08-28T17:58:53.119-04:00Sports: #21 Field Hockey Blanks Central Michigan, 4-0, for First Win of the Season<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBaTdDDCFrxGC8rNDxiNuQ9tyuk8_QwA7HbY_VkuNSvgKyfxYoK6OWeoZUnXLi9GFfaNaUgGHh4iPf2HbLKp5kCjKUrRoG9a6cGD_xKmMnwR7RLHo129C10_uzbIgvL-lSFkfNTMc7vmBvDmdWBsE6PTEPKXiSyh6n49CxRZXRXBGX3GjeAyxdkGIkA/s942/R3_D0638.JPG_072.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="942" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBaTdDDCFrxGC8rNDxiNuQ9tyuk8_QwA7HbY_VkuNSvgKyfxYoK6OWeoZUnXLi9GFfaNaUgGHh4iPf2HbLKp5kCjKUrRoG9a6cGD_xKmMnwR7RLHo129C10_uzbIgvL-lSFkfNTMc7vmBvDmdWBsE6PTEPKXiSyh6n49CxRZXRXBGX3GjeAyxdkGIkA/w640-h426/R3_D0638.JPG_072.jpg" width="640" /></a></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br />EAST LANSING, Mich. – </strong><span style="background-color: white;">The American University field hockey team soared to its first victory of the season, downing the Chippewas of Central Michigan Universit, ,4-0, on Sunday afternoon. The goals were rolling in for the Eagles, with a hat trick from the Argentinian sophomore Federica Turina-Dellamaggiore and an inaugural collegiate goal from </span><dfn style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="sidearm-roster-link-normalized" href="https://aueagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5800" rel="smarttag" rev="5800" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lotta Curanz</a></dfn><span style="background-color: white;"> to carry the team to the victory.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" /><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">QUICK NOTABLES</strong><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Eagles second goal, scored in the 23rd minute of the game by freshman<span><a name='more'></a></span> <dfn style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="sidearm-roster-link-normalized" href="https://aueagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5800" rel="smarttag" rev="5800" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lotta Curanz</a></dfn>, was the first collegiate goal for the Berlin native.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Junior goalkeeper <dfn style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="sidearm-roster-link-normalized" href="https://aueagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5769" rel="smarttag" rev="5769" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bryn Underwood</a></dfn> tallied five total saves for the game to keep a clean sheet.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">HOW IT HAPPENED</strong><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">American struck first, just over nine minutes into the first quarter, off a goal Federica Turina-Dellamaggiore. She was assisted by junior <dfn style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="sidearm-roster-link-normalized" href="https://aueagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5758" rel="smarttag" rev="5758" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Imogen Hatton</a></dfn>. The Eagles had a 1-0 lead heading into the second quarter.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Just ten minutes later, in the 19th minute of the game, Curanz, linked up with sophomore <dfn style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="sidearm-roster-link-normalized" href="https://aueagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5754" rel="smarttag" rev="5754" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Rebecca Bonness</a></dfn> to notch a goal that would put AU 2-0 up over CMU.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It wasn't a long wait for goal number three. It was only four minutes later, in the 23rd minute that Turina-Dellamaggiore, this time assisted by senior <dfn style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="sidearm-roster-link-normalized" href="https://aueagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5757" rel="smarttag" rev="5757" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Merel Dupont</a></dfn>, sent another one into the Chippewa goal and the Eagles carried a 3-0 lead into halftime.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Turina-Dellamaggiore would grab herself a hat trick just one minute into the fourth quarter when she sent the ball into the goal thanks to an assist from <dfn style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="sidearm-roster-link-normalized" href="https://aueagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5802" rel="smarttag" rev="5802" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Agustina Roffo</a></dfn>, to put AU up 4-0.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">INSIDE THE BOX SCORE</strong><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">American out-shot Central Michigan 23-10 and 13-5 with shots on goal. They also had the edge in corners, 7-4.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Turina-Dellamaggiore's three goals bring the sophomore's career tally up to four.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Roffo's assist was the first collegiate assist for the Argentinian. </span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">UP NEXT</strong><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Up next for the Eagles, they have their home opener against Delaware on Thursday, September 2 at 1 p.m.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After that, they're at home again on Sunday, September 4 at 1 p.m. to take on Old Dominion.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">KEEP UP WITH US</strong><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For the latest on American University Field Hockey, stay tuned to <a href="http://aueagles.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">AUEagles.com</a> and follow the team on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/AU_FieldHockey" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">@AU_FieldHockey</a>) and Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/aufieldhockey/?hl=en" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">@aufieldhockey</a>).</span></li></ul>RCN Worldwide Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12334167588978543630noreply@blogger.com0