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United States To Provide Additional $31 Million To Support Humanitarian Assistance for Burundi Crisis
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Washington, DC - The United States announces more than $31 million in additional life-saving humanitarian assistance for refugees from Burundi, Congolese refugees living in Burundi, and others in Burundi who are food insecure. This new funding brings the total U.S. humanitarian assistance for the regional response to the Burundi crisis to more than $86 million since the start of the crisis in 2015.
Department of State Releases 2016 State of Global Partnerships Report
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Washington, DC - Today, the Secretary Kerry’s Office of Global Partnerships at the U.S. Department of State released the third annual State of Global Partnerships Report, which highlights public-private partnerships in the Department and in embassies around the world. The release coincides with the annual Global Partnerships Week, taking place from March 7-13, 2016.
Speaker Rendon Assigns Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia to the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce
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Sacramento, California - State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced his selection of key committee assignments for the 2016 Regular Session today. Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) will remain Chair of Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy; and will still serve on the following key committees: Transportation; Appropriations; and Governmental Organization. New to the Assemblyman’s work load is the Committee on Utilities & Commerce.
Secretary of State John Kerry's Travel to Saudi Arabia and France
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Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry will travel March 11 to Hafar al Batin, Saudi Arabia to meet with senior government officials to discuss a variety of topics, including efforts to resolve the crises in Syria and Yemen, as well as other regional security issues.
New FTC Spanish-Language Video Tells How to Spot and Report Imposter Scams
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Washington, DC - Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, today introduced a new Spanish-language video about imposter scams at the Legislative Summit hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Publishers and the National Newspaper Publications Association.
Not So Fast: Overlooked Resistance May Inflate Estimates of Organic-Semiconductor Performance
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Washington, DC - It’s hardly a character flaw, but organic transistors—the kind envisioned for a host of flexible electronics devices—behave less than ideally, or at least not up to the standards set by their rigid, predictable silicon counterparts. When unrecognized, a new study finds, this disparity can lead to gross overestimates of charge-carrier mobility, a property key to the performance of electronic devices.
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