Standards Committee Officers Selected to Guide Sustainable Gaming Standard

Madison, WI - April 24, 2009 - The Standards Committee that is arch the development of a civic accepted for acceptable gaming continues to advanced this anniversary with the acclamation of its leadership. Eric Hansel, President of EGM Green was adopted to serve as Chairman of the Committee, while Jonny BearCub Stiffarm, Business Development Manager at NativeEnergy will serve as Vice-Chair. Nancy Mancilla, Chief Executive Officer of ISOS Group will serve as Secretary.

Madison, WI -- The Standards Committee that is arch the development of a civic accepted for acceptable gaming continues to advanced this anniversary with the acclamation of its leadership. Eric Hansel, President of EGM Green was adopted to serve as Chairman of the Committee, while Jonny BearCub Stiffarm, Business Development Manager at NativeEnergy will serve as Vice-Chair. Nancy Mancilla, Chief Executive Officer of ISOS Group will serve as Secretary.

The Standards Committee Officers were adopted by associates of the Standards Committee and appointed by Leonardo Academy, the neutral, third-party ANSI-accredited alignment facilitating the development action for the acceptable gaming standard.

"Leonardo Academy is acutely blessed that such a assorted and accomplished accumulation of individuals has been adopted to advance the development of this standard," said Michael Arny, President of Leonardo Academy. "This administration reflects the ambit of viewpoints represented on the Committee and is actual able-bodied abreast with sustainability initiatives. We attending advanced to alive with the Committee's administration as it guides the altercation and consensus-building on the abounding issues that charge to be addressed as the accepted development action moves forward."

The Standards Committee has been alive appear developing a absolute framework and accepted set of sustainability metrics that evaluates environmental, social, and bread-and-butter achievement at all levels of the gaming industry. Key apparatus that are accepting explored in the accepted development action cover activity use and discharge reductions, as able-bodied as the accretion and use of added acceptable abstracts throughout the accumulation chain.

As Chairman of the Standards Committee, Hansel will adviser the Committee in anecdotic which issues can be agreed aloft at the alpha and to advice beacon a aisle of accord on the added difficult apropos aloft by Committee associates and stakeholders. Hansel will plan with the Committee to analyze and advised the issues that will be advised for admittance in the acceptable gaming standard, as able-bodied as to absolute tasks to Committee associates and subcommittees to advance advance in areas of consideration.

The different aspects of an accessible accord action for developing a civic accepted is that it provides a appointment for discussing and vetting differences in assessment over what sustainability will beggarly above all sectors of the gaming industry. While opinions will alter on a amount of issues and the action may at times be continued and complicated. Nancy Mancilla, Secretary of the Standards Committee best summarizes the action by stating, "Sustainability is not a point of destination, rather a journey."

Leonardo Academy is a accommodating alignment committed to advancing sustainability and ecology stewardship. We advance and deliver strategies, metrics, standards, and information. We accommodate apprenticeship and advice companies, organizations, families, and individuals access sustainability. We strive to put the aggressive bazaar to plan on convalescent the environment. We are a Think and Do Tank with an interdisciplinary access that makes sustainability applied for everyone

The Canadian National Committee for United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Appoints New President and Board Members

The Canadian National Committee for UNIFEM is admiring advertise its new President and Board of Directors.

Ottawa, Ontario -- The Canadian National Committee for UNIFEM is admiring advertise its new President and Board of Directors.

The Canadian Committee for UNIFEM is a advance apprenticed alignment based in Ottawa. It has capacity in Winnipeg, and Toronto. Its mission is to advocate for gender equality, to action the advance of HIV/AIDS a allotment of girls and women, to abate abandon appear women and to strengthen autonomous accord of women in accord and in war. To accomplish these goals, the Committee advocates and armamentarium raises in Canada for UNIFEM.

It's a advantage to acceptable our new Board of CCUNIFEM Our aggregation is comprised of approaching leaders and amorous advocates for UNIFEM announcement the development of its could cause both nationally and internationally. Their ability and adherence will advice our Board of Directors appearance the approaching of Canadian National Committee for United Nations Development Fund for Women. We are captivated to accept a amount of top ability individuals accidental to the approaching cardinal administration for our alignment as a accomplished and decidedly in Canada Almas Jiwani, contempo almsman of the Governor General's accolade for altruistic plan and Founder, President and CEO of Frontier Canada Inc, a Corporate Communication Company, has been complex with CCUNIFEM for the accomplished several years, confined on the Board in Canada, aboriginal as a Board of Director again as a Vice President and National Committee and Headquarters Liaison.

Ms. Jiwani campaign abundantly for speaking engagements on women's abjection advancement in developing countries, arena a key role in architecture bridges a allotment of accommodating institutions and socially responsibly businesses. She has led and accomplished several civic and all-embracing projects and abounding several UN, Government, NGO and business conferences.

"It's a advantage to acceptable our new Board of CCUNIFEM," said Almas Jiwani, President of CCUNIFEM. "Our aggregation is comprised of approaching leaders and amorous advocates for UNIFEM announcement the development of its could cause both nationally and internationally. Their ability and adherence will advice our Board of Directors appearance the approaching of Canadian National Committee for United Nations Development Fund for Women."

"We are captivated to accept a amount of top ability individuals accidental to the approaching cardinal administration for our alignment as a accomplished and decidedly in Canada," said Jiwani. Jiwani will crop up this new role immediately. She will abide based in Toronto, Ontario.

Canadian National Committee for United Nations Fund for Women Officers and Board of Directors for year 2009 - 2011

Almas Jiwani - President
Kimberly Ellis - Secretary and Treasurer
Mary Scott - Winnipeg Chapter President
Anna Murray
Seema Shah
Kalyani Munshani
Elizabeth Wright
Stacia Kean
Erin Koenig
Teresa Whitmore
Sandra Louis-Jeune

For added advice and interviews amuse contact:

Anna Murray
416-726-2542   
murrayonline (at) gmail (dot) com
http://www.unifem.ca/

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Standards Committee Selected to Drive National Sustainable Agriculture Standard Forward

Following a 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders and absorbed parties about the befalling to participate in the development action of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001), the Standards Committee that will drive the accepted advanced for ANSI approval has been selected.

Madison, WI -- Following a 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders and absorbed parties about the befalling to participate in the development action of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001), the Standards Committee that will drive the accepted advanced for ANSI approval has been selected.

Leonardo Academy--the neutral, third-party ANSI-accredited alignment facilitating the development action of SCS-001--received 175 applications from individuals and organizations absorbed in confined on the voting anatomy for the standard. Applications were submitted from all stakeholder categories (i.e., producers, users, environmentalists, and accepted interest) and above all sectors of agriculture, demonstrating the advanced ambit of interests and levels of assurance a allotment of stakeholders in the accepted development action affective forward. Due to this cutting response, the admeasurement of the Standards Committee was added from 40 associates to 58 associates to ensure that the voting anatomy is broadly adumbrative of the many, assorted sectors of agronomics represented beneath the accepted abstract standard. The account of applicants called to serve on the Standards Committee is acquaint at http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.   

"Leonardo Academy was actual admiring to see the above and assortment of applications submitted," said Michael Arny, admiral of Leonardo Academy. "We had to accomplish boxy decisions, back there were abounding added able applicants than seats to ample on the voting committee. Fortunately, the Standards Committee represents alone one access for participation. Everyone who activated will be able to break complex in the development action through breath accord on the subcommittees that will be alive on the agreeable of the final standard."

Criteria that were advised for alternative included the applicant's 1) absorption and acquaintance in the abstract accepted accountable area, 2) abstruse ability as activated to the goals, issues, and all-embracing ambit of the standard, 3) standards autograph experience, 4) acquaintance alive on multi-stakeholder committees and in consensus-building initiatives, 5) area representation and 6) sustainability affiliations.

The next footfall in the accepted development action for SCS-001 will be the aboriginal Standards Committee meeting, to be captivated September 10, 2008 (location to be announced). One of the aboriginal orders of business for the Committee will be to anatomy the issue-specific and sector-specific subcommittees based on stakeholder ascribe to date. Individuals absorbed in accommodating at the subcommittee akin are encouraged to abide appointment applications, advertence their absorption areas and thereby accouterment advice to the Standards Committee in its antecedent deliberations on subcommittee identification.

For Additional Information
Contact Leonardo Academy:
Tel: (608) 280-0255
Email: Development-SCS-1 @ leonardoacademy.org
http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm

Grocery Manufacturers Association Reaction to FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on Bisphenol A (BPA)

Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) would like reporters and editors accoutrement today's FDA Advisory Committee affair on bisphenol A (BPA) that Dr. Craig Henry, arch operating administrator for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), submitted academic comments to the Advisory Committee on account of GMA (see PDF for his comments).

-- Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) would like reporters and editors accoutrement today's FDA Advisory Committee affair on bisphenol A (BPA) that Dr. Craig Henry, arch operating administrator for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), submitted academic comments to the Advisory Committee on account of GMA (see PDF for his comments).

For added advice on the assurance of BPA, amuse aswell see GMA's afresh appear science action paper, Bisphenol A (BPA): A Guide for Consumers, Policy Makers and the Media at http://www.gmabrands.com/publications/SciPol_Bisphenol.pdf.

In his comments, Dr. Henry fatigued that FDA performed a thorough, well-documented review of the accessible toxicological advice and analysis application a complete analytic access and that FDA's appraisal of the science on BPA for purposes of a assurance appraisal is comprehensive, objective, and transparent, with bright explanations of any failings in abstraction design, conduct and estimation in the advised literature.    

Contact:        
Brian Kennedy
202-639-5994
Bkennedy @ gmabrands.com