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document.write('(PressZoom) - Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke released the following statement in response to President Obama’s Address to the Nation regarding the drawdown of American Forces in Iraq:
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document.write('(PressZoom) - Washington, DC- Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, released the following statement urging New York residents to prepare for Hurricane Earl moving up the Eastern Shore:
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document.write('(PressZoom) - NEW YORK - Congressman Rangel applauded the U.S. Department of Education\'s initiative to develop a new generation of student assessments that will provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly-focused bubble tests.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - LEWISTON, NY – The University at Buffalo volleyball team overcame a first set defeat to come back and beat Niagara on Wednesday night, 3-2. The victory was UB\'s third of the season through four matches.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - BUFFALO, NY - With four NCAA qualifiers returning to the team, the Bulls are ready to charge in to a tough schedule that offers the team nationally ranked competition on almost a weekly basis. The program\'s hosting of its first-ever dual meet against Big 12 powerhouse Oklahoma highlights a season packed with fierce competition in both tournament and dual-meet play.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo football program was expected to be a quick-strike offense under new head coach Jeff Quinn\'s wide-open fast-breaking attack.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - Noting that energy efficiency can serve as a “national engine of reinvestment and job creation,” the report says "The state of New York is a great example of officials at the state level and municipal level taking an aggressive, multifaceted approach to energy efficiency.”
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document.write('(PressZoom) - Joined by Congressman Dan Maffei, officials from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced an award of more than $360,000 to Crouse Hospital in Syracuse to fund a lighting retrofit project. Crouse Hospital President and CEO Paul Kronenberg, MD, said that the award, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will save the hospital more than $100,000 per year in energy costs.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - September 1, 2010 — The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in state court challenging the Albany Police Department’s refusal to fully disclose public records about its use of Tasers.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - The New York State Thruway Authority today announced that night time construction activity on the ramp from Eastbound Tuckahoe Road to I-87 North in Yonkers will require a temporary detour at Exit 6 this Thursday night.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - WASHINGTON - September 1, 2010 - In a continuing effort to reach more consumers and educators with food safety information, the U.S. Department of Agriculture\'s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today launched Pregúntele a Karen (Ask Karen), and the FSIS Spanish language Twitter feed. These new features are meant to further prevent foodborne illnesses and promote food safety by reaching out to a broader audience of consumers.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2010 - Trinh Company, a San Jose, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 2,070 pounds of cooked shredded pork skin products because the products were produced without the benefit of federal inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture\'s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - New York State Commissioner of Education David Steiner today announced that the Syracuse City School District will receive $6 million for the 2010-2011 school year to help turn around its Persistently Lowest Achieving schools through the federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. These funds are part of over $308 million that was made available to New York State this spring through the United States Department of Education’s (USED) School Improvement Grant Fund under Section 1003(g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), from money set aside in the 2009 budget and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - The U.S. Department of Education today awarded “Race to the Top” assessment funds to the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC or Partnership) for the development of a K-12 assessment system aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics. These funds will help states which have joined the Partnership – including New York – to dramatically increase the number of students who graduate high school ready for college and careers.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued its list of state nonmember banks recently evaluated for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The list covers evaluation ratings that the FDIC assigned to institutions in June 2010. The CRA is a 1977 law intended to encourage insured banks and thrifts to meet local credit needs, including those of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) extended for 30 days the application period for a pilot program to evaluate the feasibility of insured depository institutions offering safe, low-cost transactional and savings accounts that meet the needs of underserved consumers.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2010 – ASME will hold the Gas Turbine Users Symposium (GTUS) 2010 this Oct. 4-7, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - CAMP VICTORY, Iraq (Sept. 1, 2010) – Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno put it very simply today, as he finished his address at the change of command ceremony for U.S. Forces Iraq.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - SHOPOKOV VILLAGE, Kyrgyzstan (Sept. 2, 2010) — The Congress of Women of Kyrygz Republic and the Transit Center at Manas held a ribbon cutting ceremony Aug. 25 to officially celebrate completed renovations of the Women\'s Development Center.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - BEIJING, CHINA, 1 September 2010 – Nearly 100 million children across China will be vaccinated against measles from 11-20 September in one of the world\'s biggest such public health undertakings to date. The nationwide campaign will protect millions of children against the disease and bring China closer to reaching the measles elimination goal by 2012 in line with the target set by the World Health Organization\'s Western Pacific region.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - BLUE BELL, Pa., September 1, 2010 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced today that it has sold Unisys Insurance Services Limited (UISL) to Diligenta Limited, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services Limited. UISL, which is headquartered in the UK and has operations in Liverpool and Bournemouth, provides business process outsourcing services to the UK life and pensions industry.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Sept. 2, 2010 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide spare servo-actuators for the AC-130U gunship. The five-year contract, which includes a base year plus four out-year ordering periods, is worth up to $7.2 million. A total of $1.2 million of the first phase has been obligated.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - HP’s tender offer commenced on August 27, 2010 and it is scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time on September 24, 2010, subject to customary tender offer conditions being satisfied. The final closing of the acquisition is expected to occur by the end of the calendar year.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - STUTTGART, GERMANY, September 1 -- dfmedia, a media company operating in the print, publishing and online sectors, has improved efficiency, print quality and its ecological footprint following its beta testing of the new Kodak Trillian SP Thermal Plate. The 165-strong company has been trialling the innovative plate in its sheet-fed offset operation at its headquarters in Flawil, North-East Switzerland.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - BASINGSTOKE, September 1, 2010 –– Motorola today introduced MILESTONE™ 2 enhanced with MOTOBLUR™. The Android™ 2.2 device offers more speed, more connectivity, more messaging, more storage, more web with Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1, more multimedia and more personalisation than the original award-winning MILESTONE.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it will launch a new pilot program to help capitalize on tax refund season as an opportunity to provide unbanked and underbanked Americans with access to safe, low-cost financial accounts. This pilot will deliver targeted offers to certain low and moderate income individuals to sign up for new accounts with debit card access at tax time in order to receive their refunds through direct deposit.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, today opened a regional consultation on political party strengthening and campaign financing in Kingston, Jamaica, stressing the importance of further democratizing the electoral processes in the Caribbean region.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today held a minute of silence for the 72 victims of a massacre that took place several days ago in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, during a meeting in which various national representatives called for coordinated measures in the continent to protect migrants and fight organized crime.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - Following is a summary of key federal disaster aid programs that can be made available as needed and warranted under President Obama’s emergency declaration issued for North Carolina.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - WASHINGTON - As Hurricane Earl prepares to approach North Carolina tonight, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is continuing to aggressively prepare for the storm, plan for all possible scenarios and support state and local officials along the East Coast as they work to protect their communities. FEMA strongly encourages all East Coast residents to take steps now to prepare for severe weather in the coming days.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - The Purdue Alumni Club of Elkhart County is hosting NASA astronaut and Purdue alumnus Jerry Ross on Sept. 9 for a free community presentation. The presentation is open to the public and starts at 7 p.m. at Elkhart Memorial High School, 2608 California Road, Elkhart. During the presentation, Ross will discuss his spaceflight experiences, his current work at NASA and conclude with a question-and-answer session.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - On Sept. 8, NASA\'s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication ceremony that launched five decades of history-making science, engineering and spaceflight. Key Marshall Center leaders and civil service employees, retirees and contractors from across the center are expected to participate in the event honoring "The Work of Generations."
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document.write('(PressZoom) - WASHINGTON -- NASA will commemorate a quarter-century of comet discoveries and discuss upcoming comet encounters during a symposium at 9 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 10, in the Knight Studio of the Newseum.');
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document.write('(PressZoom) - WASHINGTON -- NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - NEW YORK and LONDON, September 1, 2010 — Market conditions are now providing opportunities for private equity managers and their investors in selective areas of the market according to new research produced by global professional services company Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW). The research asserts that portfolio company operating performance is stabilizing, pricing for new deals is becoming more compelling from a buyer’s perspective and financing packages are increasingly available for the right businesses.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - NEW YORK, September 1, 2010 — Older workers’ confidence in their ability to retire comfortably has rebounded modestly in the past year, although confidence levels remain well below those prior to the financial crisis. Additionally, while concerns among older workers with defined benefit (DB) plans have eased, younger workers are growing increasingly worried over their DB benefits, according to a new survey conducted by global professional services company Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW).
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document.write('(PressZoom) - London - 2 September, 2010 - The value of enhanced annuity sales in the UK rose to £1.26 billion in the first half of 2010, an increase of 41 per cent compared to the second half of 2009, according to research by Towers Watson. According to the firm, new records for sales were set at £582 million and £676 million in the first and second quarters of 2010 respectively.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - Amsterdam, 1 September 2010 -- Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo today sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking him to commit his company to a plan to phase out the use of dirty coal-fired electricity. The letter further calls on Zuckerberg to use his companies considerable influence to become a champion for action on climate change.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - Baffin Bay, Greenland, Thursday - After over 40 hours hanging below the Stena Don oil rig, forcing the operators Cairn Energy to halt drilling operations, harsh arctic weather conditions have forced four Greenpeace climbers to end their occupation by climbing up onto the gantry of the rig, where they were promptly arrested.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - 2 September, 2010 – Greenpeace welcomes Burger King’s cancellation of its palm oil contracts with one of the worst rainforest destroyers on the planet, Sinar Mas, becoming the first company to do so since the producer’s audit was made public last month.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - STAMFORD, Conn., September 2, 2010 —   In today\'s economy, many CIOs and human resources (HR) leaders continue to be required to do more with less, and will not be able to restore budgets and head count to pre-recession levels, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey showed that the recovery in jobs or an increase in head count during the past 12 months was in short-term, temporary contractor positions more than in permanent staff positions.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Safeguarding the world’s most dangerous biological agents has been a top priority for a dedicated group of Sandia scientists for more than a decade, and now, this team is training laboratory leaders from around the world to secure deadly agents such as anthrax and HIV from accidental or intentional misuse.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - CONCORD, Mass., USA, Sept. 1, 2010 – Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) today unveiled the SolidWorks® 2011 product line, delivering new ways to speed product design, deepen collaboration, and strengthen designers’ engagement with manufacturing.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - “This Administration’s unprecedented commitment of manpower, technology and infrastructure to the Southwest border has been a major factor in this dramatic drop in illegal crossings. We are cracking down on employers who hire illegal labor, seizures of illicit goods are up across the board, criminal alien removals are at an all-time high, the Border Patrol is better staffed than at any time in its 85-year history, and the southwest border is more secure than ever before.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - CARY, NC (Sep. 02, 2010) – Organizations that arm business analysts with SAS® Rapid Predictive Modeler empower a whole new group of employees to determine the best actions for reducing risk and improving organizational performance. SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, is making its award-winning predictive analytics even more pervasive in the launch of SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler. SAS provides a quick, easy and effective way to develop predictive models that address a broad range of business scenarios, including customer segmentation, up-sell, cross-sell, campaign management, customer acquisition and customer churn across many industries.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - CARY, NC (Sep. 02, 2010) – Based largely on the all-important employee opinion survey, SAS Brazil has earned the twelfth spot in the Brazil ranking of “100 Best Companies to Work For” from the Great Places to Work Institute (GPTW). From among 774 applications, 100 companies were selected for the final list.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - September 1, 2010 - Azteca Linda Corp. of Brooklyn, NY, is expanding the 8/24/10 recall of QUESO FRESCO (FRESH WHITE CHEESE (exp. SEP 11 2010) to include expiration date SEP 12 2010. In addition, the firm is recalling Queso El Azteca brand REQUESON (RICOTTA CHEESE) with expiration date SEP 19 2010 because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - September 2, 2010 - (Cambridge, Massachusetts) – The following press release was issued by Whole Foods Market\'s North Atlantic Region regarding the voluntary recall of Morningland Dairy of Mountain View, Missouri, Raw Goat Milk Mild Cheddar Cheese.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - BRONX, N.Y. (September 2, 2010) - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is dedicating an additional $2.5 million from the Bronx River Watershed Initiative to join local efforts in reducing water pollution in the river. The funding will be combined with $2.5 million in matching and leveraged funds, bringing the total to $5 million, which will go to 11 local entities for green infrastructure projects to clean up the river.
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document.write('(PressZoom) - WASHINGTON -- NASA\'s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications for the 2011 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 17, 2011.
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