News from August 2009
By State News Post | Aug 6, 2009
The US State Department published a two page rule on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Aug 6, 2009
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Aug 6, 2009
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have developed a massive genetic resource for geneticists and breeders to unlock the basis of corn diversity. The scientists found that most natural genetic variation in corn is the product of numerous genes working together, each with a small effect that could be manipulated by breeders.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: On August 13 and 14 motorists between Lackawaxen, PA and Minisink Ford, NY should be prepared for short delays crossing the Roebling Bridge. Intermittent closures of the bridge will allow contractors to seal the cracks, apply a top coating, and line stripe the approach roads to the bridge. Flaggers will direct traffic.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - For his efforts in modeling and simulating fluid-particle flows, a researcher at the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has been selected to receive the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE) Fluidized Processing Recognition Award.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: No new fires have been discovered in North Cascades National Park Complex since Monday, August 3rd. Continuing warm weather has allowed several of the fires to continue smoking. General haze in the Park area is due to fires all around the area, not just because of fires in the Park. Both the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie NF and the Okanogan-Wenatchee NF have numerous small fires, and there are several large fires burning in southern and southwestern British Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: On Saturday, Sept. 26, up to 2 California condors will be released into the wild at Pinnacles National Monument, 80 miles south of San Jose. The public is invited to attend the event to witness the first free flights of these condors from a viewing area located approximately ¾ mile from the release...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches will be managed again this summer under the terms of the U.S. District Court approved consent decree. Park visitors can expect to see resource closures for breeding shorebirds in effect to varying degrees from mid-March to mid-to-late-August and turtle nesting...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: New research by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and her cooperators found gender in strawberries is determined by two genes, not one as previously believed.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today introduced legislation to strengthen customs facilitation and trade enforcement efforts within the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: The family of the 13-year-old boy from St Paul, Minnesota, who was rescued Tuesday evening after his kayak overturned says he is doing well. The boy’s grandfather, Don Cox, also of St Paul, MN, says the 13-year-old was taken to North Valley Hospital Tuesday evening shortly after being rescued. He was examined and determined to be in good health. The teen was able to return to the family’s summer home on Lake McDonald that evening.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (SBCAPCD) Manager Tom Murphy will talk about steps the county is taking to monitor and reduce air pollution along the coast and in the Santa Barbara Channel during the August “From Shore to Sea" lecture.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: Woodstock, VT - This year’s forestry operations at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park will begin later this month. Three pine plantations totaling 25 acres will be thinned by removing smaller trees and leaving the largest and healthiest to grow. Thinning will help to preserve these historic...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: BOULDER, Colo.-Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the Aug. 6, 2009, issue of Science Express,* overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Environment and Public Works Committee approved the nominations of Gary Guzy to be Deputy Director of the Office of Environmental Quality (Council on Environmental Quality), and John R. Fernandez to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, at the Department of Commerce.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, calling for more humane treatment of asylum seekers and other detained immigrants, introduced legislation Thursday to improve detainee housing, medical treatment, and opportunities to appeal their detentions.
