BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 17 [Category: Media] -- The International Federation of Journalists issued the following news release: Con el eje puesto en fortalecer la organizacion de las mujeres y disidencias, se realizo en Jujuy la 6ta. Asamblea Nacional de Trabajadoras de Prensa convocada por la Federacion Argentina de Trabajadores de Prensa (FATPREN), en el marco del 37 Encuentro Plurinacional de Mujeres, Lesbianas, Travestis, Trans, Bisexuales e Intersexuales. Junto a la Federacion Internaciona  more

ITHACA, New York, Oct. 17 -- Cornell University issued the following news: The American Sign Language program in the Department of Linguistics is welcoming a new lecturer this year and offering three performances this semester. "The students in my classes are really motivated," said Lisa Sunde, who has been teaching ASL for more than 25 years and moved to Ithaca from New Mexico to join Cornell's ASL team this fall. "The opportunity to teach here offers new growth for me and the chance to take   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a meeting notice, published in the Federal Register on Oct. 18, 2024. The meeting by the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board is scheduled for Nov. 13, 2024. * * * SUMMARY: This notice announces an in-person/virtual hybrid meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of this meeting be announced   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 18 -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2024: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday announced an exciting new collaboration with Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston that resurrects Walter White--the iconic fictional "Breaking Bad" character--to help reduce litter in New Mexico. The governor joined with state and city officials, Boys and Girls Club volunteers and others at the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: SANTA FE, N.M. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, met with leaders from Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity and Homewise to announce his New Homes Tax Credit Act, legislation to build more housing and renovate homes for working families, and see how the $1,100,000 he secured through the Appropriations process is helping Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity develo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- Afterschool Alliance issued the following news release: From flamenco dance to landscape paintings to student artwork, and much more, many Lights On Afterschool events taking place this month will showcase the ways afterschool programs engage and inspire students through the arts. Now in its 25th year, Lights On Afterschool is the only national rally for afterschool programs. More than a million people are expected to participate at some 8,000 events across the country, h  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Historians of philosophy are like painters; by giving an interpretation of another philosopher's problems and concepts, they paint philosophical portraits. SFI Research Fellow Anthony Eagan paints such a portrait of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in his new monograph, Kierkegaard's Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in "Either/Or" I, published this summer by Rowman & Littlefield.   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following opening statement from a Sept. 11, 2024, confirmation hearing for David Capozzi, Samuel Lathem, Ronald Batory and Elaine Clegg to be board directors of Amtrak: * * * Good morning, the Commerce Committee will come to order. Today, we are having a hearing for the nominations for Amtrak Board Members. Before we begin though, I want to acknowledge th  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee released the following testimony by Ronald Batory, President Biden's nominee to be a board director of Amtrak, from a Sept. 11, 2024, confirmation hearing: * * * Chair Cantwell, Ranking Member Cruz and distinguished members of the committee: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you this morning as a nominee for Amtrak's Board of Directors. I am a second-generation railroader. My father worked for the Ne  more