SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. While every home should have a disaster preparedness kit stocked with such items as a flashlight, bottled water and a first-aid kit, emergency preparedness is even more critical for households with members who have functional needs. Throughout December, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) will highlight the[Read More…]
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Commission Announces 2011-12 Illinois State Scholar Honorees
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) recognized 17,335 students from 749 different high schools from across the state as 2011-12 Illinois State Scholars. Illinois State Scholar winners rank in the top ten percent of high school seniors. Selection is based on SAT, ACT and/or Prairie State[Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on the 55th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. Fifty-five years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus – an act that challenged the moral conscience of an entire nation. The Montgomery Bus Boycott marked a turning point in American history – the moment where we began the march toward[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama and General Colin Powell After Meeting
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010 – 3:34 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank General Colin Powell for being here with me today. He is not only a great statesman and a great public servant, but also a great friend and a great counselor. And periodically I check in with[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Robert Gibbs, December 1, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010 – 2:30 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Let me do one quick statement before I start taking questions. I just want to call your attention to a significant step forward for the agenda that the President outlined during the nuclear security summit in April. Belarus has agreed[Read More…]
Recall of Mylanta and Alternagel Liquid Products
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. In consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals, Co. (JJMCP) is recalling, from the wholesale and retail level, twelve MYLANTA® liquid products and one AlternaGEL® liquid product. JJMCP is conducting the recall in order to update the labeling[Read More…]
Op-Ed by President Clinton in the Independent on World AIDS Day
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. The op-ed was published in today’s Indepedent On World AIDS Day ten years ago, as I was preparing to leave office, the world was only beginning to grasp the severity of the AIDS crisis. Nearly 36,000,000 men, women and children were living with the disease, but[Read More…]
AARP: Deficit Commission Proposes Multiple Hits on Current and Future Retirees
Washington–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. AARP remains deeply concerned that the recommendations from the Co-Chairs of the President’s Fiscal Commission would take our nation in the wrong direction, eroding the health and financial security of middle class Americans. The unbalanced deficit reduction proposals from the Fiscal Commission dim further the prospects for[Read More…]
UN Calls on Haitians to Ignore Unofficial Election Results
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–1 December 2010 – The United Nations has called on Haitians to ignore unofficial results of Sunday’s presidential and legislative elections and to wait for the official results to be announced next Tuesday by the country’s electoral council. “The Provisional Electoral Council should be granted the time and political[Read More…]
New Study Assesses the Water Availability in Major River Basins in a Warmer World
GREAT BRITAIN–(ENEWSPF)–1 December 2010. A new Oxford and LSE study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has analysed the extent of water scarcity in some of the world’s largest river basins in the next 50 years, under contrasting climate change scenarios of global mean temperature rises of[Read More…]
