News from August 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Much like a meteor impacting a planet, highly charged ions hit really hard and can do a lot of damage, albeit on a much smaller scale. And much like geologists determine the size and speed of the meteor by looking at the hole it left, physicists can learn a lot about a highly charged ion's energy by looking at the divots it makes in thin films.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Thanks to advances in experimental design, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing with a single quantum bit (qubit)-the first published error rate small enough to meet theoretical requirements for building viable quantum computers.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: National Park to Offer People's Choice Wilderness Hike.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - The National Park Service is pleased to announce the re-opening of Shackleford Banks and the Visitor Center at Harkers Island. Shackleford will reopen to the public for day and overnight use at sunrise on Aug. 31, 2011. The dock at Shackleford needs to be rebuilt and remains closed. The Harkers Island Visitor Center will return to normal operations, 9-5 seven days a week. All other areas within Cape Lookout NS remain closed.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: The Nineteenth Annual "Haunting in the Hills" Storytelling Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. The day's events will feature storytelling, craft demonstrations, workshops and sales, afternoon storytelling presentations, an open stage for local and student tellers and performances of dulcimer and bluegrass music. The day will culminate with the much anticipated evening storytelling session.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) will be leaving his post to return to DOJ as a senior advisor for forensic science, and Dennis Burke, the U.S. Attorney for the District...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - High alpine search efforts continued for missing hiker Jacob "Jake" Rigby through Tuesday evening, with perhaps one lead on his potential route of travel. Park rangers believe there is a high probability that Rigby may have signed the summit register at Brave Dog Mountain. Search...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Ian Spielman, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaborative enterprise of NIST and the University of Maryland, was selected to receive the Junior BEC Award 2011 by the award committee of the biannual Bose-Einstein Condensation Conference for "the first experimental realization of synthetic magnetic fields and spin-orbit couplings in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates."
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Plan Calls for Extensive Improvements in Yosemite's Largest Giant Sequoia Grove.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: DALLAS - Twenty-seven immigration status violators, visa overstays, and foreign students were arrested last week by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for violating the conditions of their visas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Seneca Falls -- Women's Rights National Historical Park Superintendent, Tammy Duchesne announced today that the M'Clintock House in Waterloo will be closing for the season on Monday, September 5. The public is invited to visit the home where the close-knit, Quaker family of seven harbored fugitive slaves...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) intention to purchase up to $26 million of dried plums for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: LAS VEGAS, NV -- Speaking at the National Clean Energy Summit 4.0 today in Las Vegas, Vice President Joe Biden announced another promising milestone for the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): five innovative companies that received seed funding from ARPA-E in 2009...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Eric Antwan Bell, a federal fugitive in a Clearwater Area Human Trafficking Task Force (CAHTTF) investigation, was arrested on Wednesday by special agents of the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Parsippany, N.J.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement after President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced a series of decisions that will make sweeping changes to federal labor policy...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: It's not often that someone can claim that going from a positive to a negative is a step forward, but that's the case for a team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and private industry. In a recent paper,* the group significantly extended the reach of their novel...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Washington -Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus today announced the next step in the creation of a public-private partnership to develop drop-in advanced biofuels. The Secretaries issued a Request for Information (RFI) laying out the...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that efforts to open additional ramps to popular park beaches are moving forward.On Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches, all ocean and soundside beach areas have been evaluated for safe access for both pedestrians and vehicles.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee (RGPPC) unveiled A New Medicaid: A Flexible, Innovative, and Accountable Future, a new report outlining policy options to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the beleaguered Medicaid program. The report responds to requests...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee (RGPPC) unveiled A New Medicaid: A Flexible, Innovative, and Accountable Future, a new report outlining policy options to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the beleaguered Medicaid program. The report responds to requests...
