CRANFORD, New Jersey, Aug. 22 -- American Atheists issued the following news: Today, American Atheists praised Bethel, Connecticut's decision to implement a fair lottery for all holiday displays. On Tuesday evening, the Board of Selectmen approved a policy to allow religious displays on public property. If too many people apply, displays would be randomly drawn for inclusion on P.T. Barnum Square. "This is a victory for religious equality. We commend the Board of Selectmen for adopting a poli  more

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- The Choice, a division of the American Library Association, issued the following news release: Choice today announced the publication of the fourth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This paper, their second marketing-focused publication "Implementing Marketing Plans in the Academic Library: Rules, Roles & Definition," offers a practical definition of library m  more

STORRS, Connecticut, Aug. 22 -- The Journal of Symbolic Logic, a journal that says it features mathematical logic and its applications from the Association for Symbolic Logic, published 20 research articles, including the following topics, in its June 2019 edition: * A Correct Polynomial Translation of S4 Into Intuitionistic Logic * A New Dp-Minimal Expansion of the Integers * A Separation Result for Countable Unions of Borel Rectangles * A Tail Cone Version of the Halpern-Lauchli Theorem at  more

WINDSOR, Connecticut, Aug. 21 -- LIMRA issued the following news release: * * * - FIA sales break quarterly sales record (again) in the second quarter * * * Fixed indexed annuity (FIA) sales were $20 billion in the second quarter, 14% higher than prior year results, according to the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute (LIMRA SRI) Second Quarter U.S. Annuity Sales Survey. "This quarter's FIA sales total represents the highest quarterly sales for FIAs ever," noted Todd Giesing, annuity resear  more

NEWTOWN, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation issued the following news release: The National Shooting Sports Foundation(R) (NSSF(R)), the trade association for the firearms industry, is pleased to announce that ODIN Works has donated Gearbox Giveaways in support of National Shooting Sports Month(R). Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, ODIN Works manufactures a wide range of firearms parts, accessories and target shooting gear, primarily for the modern sporting rifle (MSR)  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 20 -- People's Action issued the following news release: From New York to Wisconsin, Connecticut and West Virginia, People's Action members will rally across the country on August 20th to demand lower prices for lifesaving prescription drugs. "Unprecedented prices have severely limited access to the Hepatitis C cure," said Clifton Garmon, chief of staff of VOCAL-NY, a People's Action member group that advances the interests of low-income New Yorkers. "If our government   more

WESTPORT, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: Two years after being forced from their homes by mass atrocities in Myanmar, nearly 1 million Rohingya are still waiting for justice and a say about their futures, and are struggling for safety and dignity in Bangladesh as refugees. In a joint statement released today, 61 local, national, and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in the two countries called for human rights for all to be   more