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Wall of Honor 2026: Stream The Ceremony Honoring Seven New Inductees
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The National LGBTQ Task Force (formerly the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) issued the following news:
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Wall of Honor 2026: Stream The Ceremony Honoring Seven New Inductees
On June 25, The International Imperial Court, in partnership with the National LGBTQ Task Force, held the eighth annual Wall of Honor ceremony at The Stonewall Inn to honor LGBTQ+ icons throughout our history.
This year's Wall of Honor honorees are:
* Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
* Barbara Gittings
* Luisa Rivera
* Soraya Santiago Sollo
* Rick Garcia
* Loraine Hutchins
* Chuck Renslow
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WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The National LGBTQ Task Force (formerly the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) issued the following news:
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Wall of Honor 2026: Stream The Ceremony Honoring Seven New Inductees
On June 25, The International Imperial Court, in partnership with the National LGBTQ Task Force, held the eighth annual Wall of Honor ceremony at The Stonewall Inn to honor LGBTQ+ icons throughout our history.
This year's Wall of Honor honorees are:
* Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
* Barbara Gittings
* Luisa Rivera
* Soraya Santiago Sollo
* Rick Garcia
* Loraine Hutchins
* Chuck Renslow
Astream of this year's Wall of Honor is available above. Please watch and honor our LGBTQ+ change makers that have made unprecedented paths for us to pursue!
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Original text here: https://www.thetaskforce.org/news/wall-of-honor-2026-stream-the-ceremony-honoring-eight-new-inductees/
[Category: Political]
Peterson Institute for International Economics Issues Commentary: Why the Founding Fathers Did Not Give the President the Power to Impose Tariffs
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Peterson Institute for International Economics issued the following commentary on July 7, 2026, by senior research staffer Alan Wm. Wolff:
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Why the Founding Fathers did not give the president the power to impose tariffs
here is no inherent presidential tariff power. That is solely the prerogative of the Congress. This has been true since the country was founded 250 years ago. The president has only what the Congress decides to entrust the nation's chief executive with, and it has been very sparing in giving the president any tariff authority, taking care to specify
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WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Peterson Institute for International Economics issued the following commentary on July 7, 2026, by senior research staffer Alan Wm. Wolff:
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Why the Founding Fathers did not give the president the power to impose tariffs
here is no inherent presidential tariff power. That is solely the prerogative of the Congress. This has been true since the country was founded 250 years ago. The president has only what the Congress decides to entrust the nation's chief executive with, and it has been very sparing in giving the president any tariff authority, taking care to specifyits limits. It is easy to forget this fact with the current president who sees himself as a tariff president.
It can be understandable to make this mistake as three presidents have had their names associated with tariffs. President William McKinley's name was attached to a high tariff in 1890, but the president at the time was actually Benjamin Harrison. The tariff was named after McKinley because he was at the time chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Harrison only got to sign the tariff passed by Congress. It was a Congressional, not a presidential, measure.
The second president with this distinction, Richard Nixon, is known for imposing an emergency 10 percent import surcharge during a balance of payments crisis. But he did not actually invoke the wartime (World War I) powers, the Trading with the Enemy Act, that his lawyers claimed he used, and Congress, in any event thinking he had done so, repealed that authority, the Supreme Court has found (more on this below). Nixon did something else in the tariff area that was very daring. He proposed in his trade bill, the Trade Reform Act of 1973, that if he declared something a nontariff barrier, the modification or removal of which was necessary to implement a trade agreement he negotiated, and the barrier was imbedded in US law, he could change the law without any action by Congress. If either house of Congress passed a resolution of disapproval by a simple majority, the agreement could not be implemented, and the change could not be made. That far-reaching proposal was rejected by the Senate and never became law. Instead, the Congress gave the president a special trade agreement implementing procedure: an up-or-down vote in a limited time, with no amendments allowed. (First called informally "fast track," it came to be called Trade Promotion Authority.) The Congress had to act by passing a new statute, to be signed by the president, just like any other law.
The third president to have his name associated with a broad tariff is President Donald Trump. He famously declared what he called a "reciprocal tariff" on April 2, 2025, put into effect last August. He tried to use the sort of emergency authority Nixon was thought to have used, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). That tariff lasted about six months until it was rejected by the courts. The Supreme Court held on February 20, 2026, that sanctions authority was not tariff authority at all. I thought that this went too far, that there could be circumstances where a tariff could be used as a sanction to regulate trade, but that is not what the Court decided.1
The president promptly replaced the discredited IEEPA authority with a claim of a balance of payment problem under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. He said he would impose a 10-15 percent tariff (it turned out to be 10 percent). The Court of International Trade promptly rejected the use of that statute on the basis that there was no balance of payments problem that would trigger this short term (150 day) authority.
Tariff authorities can only come from the Congress, and it has been very careful to give only narrowly circumscribed tariff authority to the president. There is only a short list of these authorities. And each of the explicit tariff authorities has stated limits. For example, there was a time when the president could have entered into trade agreements, like the ones with the European Union or the United Kingdom last year and put into place a higher US tariff needed to implement the deal. However, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. let that authority, known as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), lapse completely in 2021, and in any event, Congress stopped including the tariff increasing authority in TPA in the 1988 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act. Since Trump failed to ask for tariff authority of the kind that existed from June 12,1934-January 2,19882 to increase tariffs, he has no authority to place tariffs on imports by reason of any trade agreement.
This leaves him with only selective tariff authorities. He can find that imports are increasing in quantities or under conditions that injure an individual domestic industry but that involves a lengthy investigation and a finding by an independent bipartisan commission before tariffs can be imposed. That route is therefore not at all as flexible an instrument as IEEPA would have been and has not been chosen by the administration.
Another statute is being used as tariff authority, but again it is selective, by product sector, and requires investigation. The president can impose tariffs to safeguard the national security on a product sector basis under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. He has chosen to do so, after investigations by the Department of Commerce and advice from the secretary of defense, on steel, aluminum, copper, automobiles and parts, trucks and buses, lumber and wood products, semiconductors, and processed critical minerals. A plethora of additional products are under investigation.3
But these means do not match what the president thought he had in IEEPA, so USTR has invoked trade retaliatory authority under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. If the USTR finds that a country has engaged in acts, policies, or practices that are unreasonable and burden US commerce, then USTR or the president can impose tariffs without limits, presumably to obtain a positive change in the offending behavior. But lacking IEEPA, a permanent balance of payments authority, or a trade agreement authority, the administration has resorted to using Section 301 to find 60 countries guilty of not enforcing or having adequate laws against forced labor and is investigating an additional 16 countries for maintaining structural excess capacity. It is clearly intent on finding a substitute for the loss of the use of the IEEPA authority. The flaw in trying to do so with the trade retaliatory authority is two-fold: It is a selective, not comprehensive, authority and not designed to be imposed on all countries all at once and there is nothing in its legislative history suggesting that it could be read as tantamount to a transfer of all of Congress's tariff authority to the president. Nor is it possible under constitutional doctrine for the Congress to delegate all of its tariff authority to the president.
The Founding Fathers intentionally did not give the president tariff authority
There is a reason why the Constitution vests comprehensive tariff authority in the Congress and not the chief executive. It goes back to English history the century before this country was born with the Declaration of Independence. The English king Charles I lost the right to impose taxes (including tariffs) in 1628. He did not surrender what he took to be his authority lightly. A civil war was required and ultimately the Parliament condemned him and had him executed by beheading. This was as recent in history for our country's Founding Fathers as the World War II is for us today. The English colonies fought a war a century and a half later to determine which power got to impose taxes on the colonies, whether king or parliament. It was to be neither. They formed the United States 250 years ago, and as the British tea merchants of the day could attest, the power to levy duties would rest only with the colonists' elected representatives. The Founding Fathers created a constitution that was crystal clear that their assembled elected representatives would levy tariffs and taxes, not the president. The reason for this was articulated eloquently by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in his concurring opinion striking down the president's use of IEEPA to impose his "reciprocal" tariffs: "the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. Through that process, the Nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people's elected representatives, not just that of one faction or man. There, deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions."
President Trump has now attempted twice to impose comprehensive tariffs without resort to Congress . Use of Section 301 or a claim of some other device will also not succeed. The president has no broad tariff authority. He has not been given any by the Constitution nor by the Congress.
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Notes
1. I wrote that IEEPA did not authorize comprehensive tariffs, but did not exclude a narrower use of the statute to impose a tariff, e.g. as a sanction. See note 4.
2. Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 up until the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.
3. Pharmaceuticals; Commercial Aircraft & Jet Engines; Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drones); Wind Turbines; Medical Equipment & Devices; Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) & Medical Consumables; and Robotics & Industrial Automation.
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Original text here: https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/why-founding-fathers-did-not-give-president-power-impose-tariffs
[Category: Economics]
Kangaroo-Skin Soccer Cleats Vanish From the World Cup Stage
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Center for a Humane Economy posted the following news release:
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Kangaroo-Skin Soccer Cleats Vanish from the World Cup Stage
Four years after kangaroo-skin soccer shoes lingered on the margins of the world's biggest soccer tournament, the material has effectively disappeared from elite play following a global campaign that persuaded every major athletic shoe brand to abandon the wildlife trade.
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WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Center for a Humane Economy posted the following news release:
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Kangaroo-Skin Soccer Cleats Vanish from the World Cup Stage
Four years after kangaroo-skin soccer shoes lingered on the margins of the world's biggest soccer tournament, the material has effectively disappeared from elite play following a global campaign that persuaded every major athletic shoe brand to abandon the wildlife trade.
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Lionel Messi of Argentina, Kylian Mbappe of France, Erling Haaland of Norway, Harry Kane of England and all other elite athletes on the pitch are donning football bootsmade from fabrics other than kangaroo skins, according to the Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action. It appears that just one player--Junnosuke Suzuki of Japan--had any plans to wear skins made from kangaroos, signaling a remarkable cultural and marketplace shift in the core equipment for hundreds of millions of people in 190 countries who play the game.
Since launching the Kangaroos Are Not Shoes campaign in 2020, the organizations have secured commitments from every major athletic shoe manufacturer in the world to end the use of kangaroo skins. In 2025-26 alone, Adidas, ASICS, and Umbro joined Nike, Puma, New Balance, and Sokito in abandoning kangaroo parts, while Mizuno announced its intention to stop (though its pace of action is maddeningly slow). These companies, until very recently had dozens of models of kangaroo-skin shoes sold to hundreds of millions of players in more than 190 nations, driving the commercial killing of two million kangaroos across their native range in Australia.
"With their footwear choices, the world's elite players are signaling to hundreds of millions of soccer enthusiasts that kangaroo-skin soccer shoes are as archaic as film cameras, fax machines, and phone books," said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Center for a Humane Economy.
Of the 1,248 players on the official tournament rosters, just one player from Japan indicated he may use a shoe model made with kangaroo skin. Japan was eliminated in a prior round, meaning that the late rounds are free of kangaroo-based shoes. At the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, kangaroo-skin soccer cleats were already in steep decline, accounting for only a tiny fraction of goals scored during the tournament. At the 2026 FIFA World Cup, they have effectively vanished.
For the Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action, the disappearance of kangaroo leather from soccer's grandest stage marks the culmination of a six-year international campaign to persuade athletic shoe manufacturers to stop sourcing the skins of wild kangaroos for soccer cleats. The shift represents one of the most consequential corporate animal-welfare victories in the history of professional sports.
A pivotal moment came in 2025 when Center for a Humane Economy president Wayne Pacelle traveled to Nuremberg to address Adidas shareholders and leadership at the company's annual meeting. The response by Adidas CEO Bjorn Gulden caused spontaneous applause when he told Pacelle the company had stopped sourcing kangaroos for shoes and was exiting production. ASICS came next followed by Mizuno pledging to stop and then Umbro, completing a cascade of corporate commitments that transformed the industry.
"Just a few years ago, the world's biggest athletic brands were helping to drive demand for the commercial slaughter of wild kangaroos," added Pacelle. "Sourcing products from slain native wildlife for the biggest sport in the world was a prescription for mass killing of iconic kangaroos."
The campaign succeeded through a combination of corporate engagement, filmmaking, shareholder and consumer education, investigative work, and legislative action.
"The companies selling these shoes marketed innovation, performance, and style. We wanted people to see what that innovation was built on: a cruel and inhumane night slaughter of millions of kangaroos and their young," said Jennifer Skiff, campaign leader and director of international programs for the Center for a Humane Economy. "We were up against an industry that was telling lawmakers and global corporations that the kangaroo kill was ethical and humane. There's nothing humane about shooting a mother in the dark, bludgeoning the joey in her pouch, and leaving the one at her foot to starve or be taken by a predator."
The organizations said the absence of kangaroo-skin cleats from the 2026 World Cup should be viewed not as an isolated sports-industry trend, but as a milestone in a larger global movement toward a more humane economy--one that rewards technological innovation while reducing dependence on the exploitation of animals.
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Center for a Humane Economy is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) whose mission is to help animals by helping forge a more 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. The Center believes helping animals helps us all. Twitter: @TheHumaneCenter
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Animal Wellness Action is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) whose mission is to help animals by promoting laws and regulations at federal, state and local levels that forbid cruelty to all animals. The group also works to enforce existing anti-cruelty and wildlife protection laws. Animal Wellness Action believes helping animals helps us all. Twitter: @AWAction_News
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Original text here: https://centerforahumaneeconomy.org/kangaroo-skin-soccer-cleats-vanish-from-world-cup-stage/
[Category: Animals]
ICYMI: Lamb Leads by 34 Points, New Ad in AZ-05 Republican Primary
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Club for Growth PAC issued the following news release on July 7, 2026:
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ICYMI: Lamb Leads by 34 Points, New Ad in AZ-05 Republican Primary
In case you missed it, a new Club for Growth PAC poll shows Sheriff Mark Lamb (61%) leading Daniel Keenan (27%) by 34 points in Arizona's 5th District Republican primary. The poll comes as Club for Growth Action's affiliated Win It Back PAC released a new ad touting President Donald Trump's endorsement of Lamb in the race. The ad will begin on July 7th and run on Fox News, satellite, and streaming. Laura Gersony covered both launches
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WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Club for Growth PAC issued the following news release on July 7, 2026:
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ICYMI: Lamb Leads by 34 Points, New Ad in AZ-05 Republican Primary
In case you missed it, a new Club for Growth PAC poll shows Sheriff Mark Lamb (61%) leading Daniel Keenan (27%) by 34 points in Arizona's 5th District Republican primary. The poll comes as Club for Growth Action's affiliated Win It Back PAC released a new ad touting President Donald Trump's endorsement of Lamb in the race. The ad will begin on July 7th and run on Fox News, satellite, and streaming. Laura Gersony covered both launchesin an exclusive report for the Arizona Republic.
Click here (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/07/07/mark-lamb-gets-help-from-club-for-growth-despite-allegations/90826886007/?gca-cat=p&gnt-cfr=1) to read the full coverage in the Arizona Republic.
Click here (https://www.clubforgrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2026/07/CfG_AZ-05_PrimaryBrushfire_PollingMemo_V1.pdf) to view the full polling memo from Club for Growth PAC.
Click here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTsv1xfrQvM) to watch the full ad, Sheriff, from Win It Back PAC.
POLLING BREAKDOWN:
Ballot:
Mark Lamb: 61%
Daniel Keenan: 27%
Undecided: 12%
Net Favorability:
Mark Lamb: +33%
Daniel Keenan: +7%
STORY EXCERPTS:
With just two weeks to spare before the July 21 primary, the libertarian-leaning Club for Growth will spend $250,000 on television ads promoting the former sheriff of Pinal County.
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"Mark's hunted down cartels, ran down traffickers, and locked up illegals," a narrator says over a rock-and-roll soundtrack. "That's why Trump gave Mark Lamb his complete and total endorsement."
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Trump has showed no sign of reconsidering his endorsement. And Lamb has appeared to hang onto his advantage in the race. Alongside the new TV ads, the Club for Growth released a poll showing the former sheriff in the lead with around 60% of the vote.
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The group's decision to spend precious funds on Lamb's race is telling.
The Club for Growth is famous for intervening in Republican primaries. Funded by big donors in the business community, the group acted as an arbiter of crowded races during the 2000s and 2010s. More recently, they widened their focus to protecting Republicans in competitive general elections, infusing millions to defend Arizona's GOP incumbents from Democratic challengers.
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The pro-Lamb Club for Growth ad strikes a cheerful tone. It promotes Lamb's Trump endorsement as "BIG NEWS." A rock-and-roll soundtrack plays over photos of the former sheriff shaking hands with the president and drone footage of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The ad quotes from Trump's social media post backing Lamb in October.
"Trump says Mark strongly supports our incredible law enforcement, will work hard to keep our secure border secure and stop migrant crime," the ad says.
The ad will air on Fox News, satellite, and streaming starting July 7, according to Mitola.
It's one of the biggest expenditures in the race so far.
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Original text here: https://www.clubforgrowth.org/icymi-lamb-leads-by-34-points-new-ad-in-az-05-republican-primary/
[Category: Political]
Formerly Conjoined Twin Josie Hull Selects Children's Hospital at Montefiore Einstein as Once Upon a Room's 50th Hospital Partner
BRONX, New York, July 8 -- Montefiore Einstein issued the following news release:
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Formerly Conjoined Twin Josie Hull Selects Children's Hospital at Montefiore Einstein as Once Upon a Room's 50th Hospital Partner
Non-Profit Launched by Josie, Who Turns 25 This Month, Partners with Hospitals to Create Personalized Healing Environments for Children & Adolescents
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Once Upon a Room, a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of hospitalized children, founded by formerly conjoined twin Josie Hull, has selected the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Einstein (CHAM) as its 50th
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BRONX, New York, July 8 -- Montefiore Einstein issued the following news release:
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Formerly Conjoined Twin Josie Hull Selects Children's Hospital at Montefiore Einstein as Once Upon a Room's 50th Hospital Partner
Non-Profit Launched by Josie, Who Turns 25 This Month, Partners with Hospitals to Create Personalized Healing Environments for Children & Adolescents
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Once Upon a Room, a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of hospitalized children, founded by formerly conjoined twin Josie Hull, has selected the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Einstein (CHAM) as its 50thhospital partner. The new partnership was officially recognized on July 2, while Josie and co-founders, mom, Jenny and best friend, Siena, helped to transform young patients' rooms at CHAM.
CHAM is a leading pediatric hospital located in the Bronx, New York, recognized for successfully separating two sets of conjoined twins, Carl and Clarence Aguirre in 2004, and Jadon and Anias McDonald in 2016. Josie and her sister Teresa were separated at the head at UCLA Medical Center in 2002 during a 23-hour surgery. Josie and Teresa spent much of their lives undergoing medical care, during which time Josie's mom recognized the healing power of adding comforting touches to Josie's room during her hospital stays. In 2014, they launched Once Upon a Room, which to date has transformed 30,000 hospital rooms for children across the country.
"Our aim was to share a simple act of kindness with children going through a challenging time," said founder Josie, who will turn 25 years old later this month. "And now, our organization has grown into a nationwide movement, bringing warmth, hope, and love to hospitalized children, one room at a time. We are delighted to reach the milestone of our 50th hospital partner and couldn't be happier to work with the wonderful team at CHAM."
Becoming a CHAMily
Medical teams at CHAM provide inpatient care for more than 7,000 children each year. Receiving sophisticated therapies for health challenges such as cancer, heart failure, and severe respiratory conditions, some children may be in the hospital for weeks or months. The CHAM Child Life Department consists of Child Life Specialists who recognize the unique emotional and developmental needs of children and help them to cope with the hospital environment and the sometimes-stressful procedures they go through. An instrumental part of the "CHAMily," Child Life Specialists use a variety of tools and techniques to educate young patients about their illnesses and treatments, while also creating joyful experiences, like the annual CHAM prom, to help brighten their stays.
"Being away from their homes and their families is often difficult for young children, and this is on top of being sick and needing treatment," said Hilary Woodward, MS, CCLS, Director of Patient and Family Programs, The Children's Hospital at Montefiore Einstein. "Partnering with Once Upon a Room offers us a meaningful new way to bring comfort and happiness to our patients while our clinical teams provide advanced therapies that aim to get our patients healthy and home as soon as possible."
The CHAM Child Life team identifies patients who could benefit from the room transformation, then the patient or family completes a questionnaire about their likes, hobbies and interests. Based on each child's likes and special needs, the Once Upon a Room team customizes and decorates their hospital room with items they can enjoy while they are at CHAM and take home with them as they continue their recovery.
For more information about Once Upon a Room visit https://www.onceuponaroom.org/
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Original text here: https://montefioreeinstein.org/news/2026/07/07/formerly-conjoined-twin-josie-hull-selects-childrens-hospital-montefiore-einstein-once-upon-rooms
[Category: Health Care]
Driven by Discovery: Microbiology Tech News
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 8 -- 4Life Research issued the following news release:
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Driven by Discovery: Microbiology Tech News
Vidya Chavan, 4Life microbiologist, is the subject of a recent article in Tech Buzz: Utah Tech News.
Driven by Discovery charts Chavan's professional trajectory from the completion of her Master of Science in Applied Genetics and Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) in Bengaluru, India, to her role at 4Life as a Microbiologist in the Quality Department since 2024.
In 2007, Chavan spent six
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 8 -- 4Life Research issued the following news release:
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Driven by Discovery: Microbiology Tech News
Vidya Chavan, 4Life microbiologist, is the subject of a recent article in Tech Buzz: Utah Tech News.
Driven by Discovery charts Chavan's professional trajectory from the completion of her Master of Science in Applied Genetics and Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) in Bengaluru, India, to her role at 4Life as a Microbiologist in the Quality Department since 2024.
In 2007, Chavan spent sixmonths at Universite de La Reunion, France, studying cancer cell lines. "Successfully completing this project was a significant milestone in my academic journey and remains a proud moment in my career," she says.
At 4Life, Chavan's responsibilities include comprehensive product analysis and sample processing. The article quotes her: "We test raw materials, environmental samples, and finished products. Once we receive samples from Quality Assurance, we begin testing them over several days. Day one typically involves testing for total microbial count, enterobacteria, yeast and mold, and coliforms, while day two includes additional microbiological testing like E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, and Pseudomonas. Our goal is to ensure that all products meet quality standards, contain the appropriate components, and are free from harmful or unwanted microorganisms so they are safe for public consumption."
4Life's Quality Department is responsible for quality control of all 4Life products manufactured in Vineyard, Utah, for destinations around the world.
Senior Vice President Quality Steve Pederson: "Everyone in 4Life's Quality Department is committed to excellence. We achieve excellence, thereby distinguishing ourselves from the competition, through the passionate contributions of employees like Vidya. This is a fitting tribute for a great microbiologist."
READ THE TECH BUZZ NEWS ARTICLE DRIVEN BY DISCOVERY: THE STORY OF VIDYA CHAVAN AND HER LOVE FOR MICROBIOLOGY.
4Life, The Immune System Company(R), and the first to bring transfer factor research to market, has offices in dozens of countries to serve the company's worldwide customers.
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Original text here: http://4life.com/corp/news/details/5404?slug=driven-by-discovery-microbiology-tech-news
[Category: Health Care]
Alliance to Save Energy Statement on DOE Proposed Changes to Appliance Standards Process Rule
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Alliance to Save Energy issued the following statement on July 6, 2026:
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Alliance to Save Energy Statement on DOE Proposed Changes to Appliance Standards Process Rule
The Alliance to Save Energy today noted the U.S. Department of Energy's proposed updates to the process used to develop appliance and equipment efficiency standards.
DOE's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking would revise the Department's "Process Rule," which governs how energy conservation standards are developed and updated for products such as heating and cooling equipment, water heaters, and household
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WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The Alliance to Save Energy issued the following statement on July 6, 2026:
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Alliance to Save Energy Statement on DOE Proposed Changes to Appliance Standards Process Rule
The Alliance to Save Energy today noted the U.S. Department of Energy's proposed updates to the process used to develop appliance and equipment efficiency standards.
DOE's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking would revise the Department's "Process Rule," which governs how energy conservation standards are developed and updated for products such as heating and cooling equipment, water heaters, and householdappliances. The proposal focuses on procedural changes that could influence how future standards are evaluated, including updates to analytical thresholds, additional steps in the rulemaking process, and considerations related to test procedures and stakeholder input.
For decades, these standards, authorized by Congress with broad bipartisan support--have helped American households and businesses reduce energy costs while maintaining product performance and consumer choice. A transparent and predictable process has also supported manufacturers, utilities, and other stakeholders in planning, investment, and delivering reliable energy services.
As DOE considers changes to its process rule, it will be important to ensure that the framework continues to reflect statutory requirements, supports innovation, and enables timely updates that keep pace with evolving technologies. Maintaining a balanced approach can help deliver cost-effective savings, operational flexibility, and long-term benefits across the energy system, while providing clarity and certainty for all stakeholders.
"The appliance standards program has a long track record of delivering practical benefits to consumers and businesses alike," said Paula Glover, president and CEO of the Alliance to Save Energy. "We look forward to working with DOE and stakeholders to ensure the process remains transparent, predictable, and focused on achieving cost-effective outcomes that support both affordability and reliability."
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About the Alliance
The Alliance to Save Energy is a leading bipartisan, fuel-neutral nonprofit coalition dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as the fastest, most cost-effective way to meet growing energy demand and strengthen economic competitiveness. Convening leaders from industry, government, and the nonprofit sector, the Alliance drives policy, informs regulatory frameworks, and expands awareness of energy efficiency's role in lowering costs and improving energy resilience.
Since 1977, the Alliance has worked to champion energy efficiency as a foundational energy resource that reduces demand, avoids costly infrastructure, and delivers measurable, system-wide impact.
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Original text here: https://www.ase.org/news/alliance-save-energy-statement-doe-proposed-changes-appliance-standards-process-rule
[Category: Energy]
