News from February 2008
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: Three snowboarders, missing since Monday afternoon, were located by helicopter spotters at around 2:00pm near the South Fork of the Merced River. All three were responsive and walked to the helicopter on their own. Their condition will be further assessed as they come out.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a second draft of a proposed standards profile to support the implementation of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) by government agencies. IPv6 is the next-generation communication standard that defines how text, voice and video will...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, the U.S. Department of Education informed Congress
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: Non-native Virus Poses Serious Threat to Native Fish and Ecosystems.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: Film Screening: Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008 at 1:00 pm.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: This winter, National Park Service (NPS) employees are working in cooperation with volunteers from the local rock climbing community to remove graffiti from the Beauty Mountain cliffs in New River Gorge National River near Fayetteville, WV. The graffiti removal project is on-going during the winter months and takes place as weather conditions permit.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: Companies interested in participating in international advanced manufacturing research and development can learn about new collaboration opportunities offered by the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) program at a special workshop hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Feb. 26 in Gaithersburg, Md.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: On Feb. 1, 2008, the governments of the United States, Brazil and the European Union (EU)-the world's major producers of biofuels-released an analysis of current biofuel specifications with the goal of facilitating expanded trade of these renewable energy sources. Spurred by increased market demands, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics-a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer's electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude, from an insulator to a conductor. New measurements...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today pushed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson for answers on the administration’s budget surplus prediction in the face of impractical allocations for the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) patch and the Iraq war, and as the White House proposed a $200 billion reduction to Medicare and Medicaid. The Finance panel has jurisdiction over U.S. tax policy, as well as the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: The USDA National Agricultural Library (NAL ) has published 2008 editions of its NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT) and Glossary of Agricultural Terms in both Spanish and English. The update is published collaboratively with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: Hearing Statement of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: President George W. Bush's fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget proposal for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) includes $634 million for core research and facilities programs, a 22 percent increase (excluding congressionally directed grants) over the FY 2008 appropriations for these programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: Dear Secretary Leavitt: We are writing to express our concern regarding the interim final rule on the Medicaid state Targeted Case Management (TCM) option (CMS-2237-IFC) published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on December 4, 2007. Specifically, we believe that the policy issued...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: People expect a lot from cotton.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2008
News Release: A new ASTM International standard for urban search and rescue robots and components tackles humble logistics problems that, left unsolved, could hamper the use of life-saving robots in major disasters. The advance, formally agreed to recently, is one result of a three-year National Institute of Standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Presidents Request Supports Increase for Departments National Security Efforts WASHINGTON Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today announced that the Presidents fiscal year 2009 budget proposal for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTONThe United States has agreed to settle for $2.5 million, plus interest, allegations that Bayonne, N.J., Medical Center defrauded the Medicare program, the Justice Department announced today. The settlement is with IJKG, LLC, the buyer of the hospital. Bayonne Medical Center is currently in bankruptcy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A federal jury in Boston, Mass., convicted Victor Diaz, 24, of East Boston of conspiring to engage in a child prostitution scheme, Alice S. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan for the District of Massachusetts announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tenn., last week returned a two-count indictment, which was unsealed today, charging Dale Mardis with a federal hate crime and using a firearm in relation to ...
