NEW YORK, Feb. 27 -- The New York Immigration Coalition issued the following statement on Feb. 26: The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court's decision ordering the administration to release funding to New York City and seven states - Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, Virginia and Rhode Island. In New York State, the decision allows the Trump administration to withhold some discretionary funding in federal law enforcement grants fr  more

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 26 -- The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators issued the following news: IACLEA is pleased to announce that AppArmor has made a three-year commitment as an Association Corporate Partner, continuing a productive partnership that began in 2017. AppArmor will continue to host and develop the Association's custom mobile app, IACLEA Mobile, which is free to download (search IACLEA at the App store; available for iPhones and Androids).   more

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 25 -- The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators issued the following news: IACLEA's Leadership Development Committee has announced the 2020-2021 slate of candidates for IACLEA's Board of Directors. Brief biographies of each candidate can be found here (https://www.iaclea.org/2020-board-of-director-candidate-bios). We invite you to participate in a two-week endorsement period via IACLEA CONNECTIONS, which is now open through March 8,  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, Feb. 28 -- The Financial Accounting Foundation issued the following news release: The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) announced that it has appointed John W. Auchincloss as the executive director of the Foundation. The FAF is the organization that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Mr. Auchincloss joined the FAF as vice president and general counsel in May 2016. In  more

BETHEL, Connecticut, Feb. 25 -- The Journal of Vibration and Control, a peer-reviewed journal of analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control from the Society of Experimental Mechanics, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Active control of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite plates with piezoelectric layers subjected to impact loading * Adaptive modal vibration control for smart fle  more

BETHEL, Connecticut, Feb. 24 -- The Journal of Vibration and Control, a peer-reviewed journal of analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control from the Society of Experimental Mechanics, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2020 edition: * Adaptive constrained sliding mode control of uncertain nonlinear fractional-order input affine systems * Analytical and finite element solutions of free and forced vibration of unrestr  more

WINDSOR, Connecticut, Feb. 29 -- LIMRA issued the following news release: A record-breaking 501 U.S. single-premium pension buy-out contracts were sold in 2019, totaling $28 billion, according to the Secure Retirement Institute(R) (SRITM) U.S. Group Annuity Risk Transfer Sales Survey. The number of contracts sold in 2019 increased 2%, compared with 2018 results. Total 2019 sales were 5% higher than prior year and represent the highest annual buy-out sales total recorded since 2012. "There was  more

DANBURY, Connecticut, Feb. 29 -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders issued the following news release: The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)(R), the leading independent nonprofit organization representing over 25 million Americans with rare diseases, launched the Undiagnosed Rare Disease Registry, a new study to collect de-identified information about hard-to-solve medical cases that will enable researchers to perform analyses at a scale previously not possible. "With t  more

NEWTOWN, Connecticut, Feb. 25 -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation issued the following news release on Feb. 24: The National Shooting Sports Foundation(R) (NSSF(R)), the trade association for the firearms industry, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its library of +ONESM Movement promotional resources. Launched in 2019, the +ONE Movement is a nationwide initiative that encourages hunters and target shooters to introduce someone new to firearms and the shooting sports. All firea  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 26 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: * * * - Children are eating just once a day, walking hours for water * * * Zimbabwe's worsening food crisis is forcing children to eat only once a day and walk for hours across dry rocky terrain to collect water, according to Save the Children. The agency is warning that without a major increase in the humanitarian response in Zimbabwe, lives will be lost as children and their families adopt more extreme   more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Feb. 26 -- Save the Children issued the following news release on Feb. 25: At least one girl and nine other civilians were killed during the shelling of ten schools, as the latest escalation in conflict continues, Save the Children and partner Hurras Network can confirm. Some schools were in class, some had broken up for the day, and some were being used as shelters. According to Hurras Network, this is the highest number of schools hit by attacks in Idlib, Syria in a s  more

WESTPORT, Connecticut, Feb. 27 -- Save the Children issued the following news release on Feb. 26: * * * - Global Emergency Response Coalition leads the charge to raise relief funds and save Syrian lives * * * The Global Emergency Response Coalition announced the launch of an emergency appeal to help Syrians currently experiencing life or death conditions. The lives of nearly 1 million people have been uprooted in Northwest Syria over the last three months, an escalation of a nearly decade-lo  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 28 -- The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws issued the following news release: Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients who consume cannabis on a daily basis have lower rates of hospital admissions than do similarly matched non-users, according to data published in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. Investigators with the Yale School of Medicine and the Medical College of Wisconsin assessed hospitalization rates among SCD patients with an  more