Topic: Puerto Rico

Rivers and Spires Festival this weekend has something for everyone

April 17, 2013 |

2013 Rivers and Spires Festival | April 18th-20th | Clarksville, TN

Clarksville, TN – The 11th annual Rivers and Spires Festival will be begin Thursday April 18th and continue through Saturday, April 20th. The streets of Historic Downtown Clarksville will be lined with food vendors, arts and crafts, and kids’ activities.

There will be over 100 acts performing all three days on five separate stages. Music, art, food, there is something at Rivers and Spires for everyone to enjoy. And the truly great thing is that all the concerts and activities are free.

Rivers and Spires Festival April 18th-20th

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IRS Seeks Tennessee Volunteers for Taxpayer Advocacy Panel

March 22, 2013 |

Nashville, TN – The Internal Revenue Service seeks civic-minded volunteers to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP), which is a federal advisory committee that listens to taxpayers, identifies key issues, and makes recommendations for improving IRS services.

The TAP provides a forum for taxpayers to raise concerns about IRS service and offer suggestions for improvement.  The TAP reports annually to the Secretary of the Treasury, the IRS Commissioner and the National Taxpayer Advocate. «Read the rest of this article»

IRS Intensifies National Crackdown on Identity Theft

February 8, 2013 |

Part of Wider Effort to Protect Taxpayers, Prevent Refund Fraud

Washington, D.C. – Continuing a year-long enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service today announced the results of a massive national sweep in recent weeks targeting identity theft suspects in 32 states and Puerto Rico, which involved 215 cities and surrounding areas.

The coast-to-coast effort against 389 identity theft suspects led to 734 enforcement actions in January, including indictments, informations, complaints and arrests. The effort comes on top of a growing identity theft effort that led to 2,400 other enforcement actions against identity thieves during fiscal year 2012.

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NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft data confirms Ice at Mercury’s poles, some covered in Dark Material

November 30, 2012 |

Written by Dr. Tony Phillips
Science at NASA

Washington, D.C. – Observations by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen materials in permanently shadowed polar craters.

“The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury’s polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick,” said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD, and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings in the online edition of Science Express.

Mercury’s north pole. Red denotes areas that are in shadow in all images acquired by MESSENGER to date. (The mapping of shadows is still incomplete near the pole.) Yellow shows the locations of bright polar deposits imaged by Earth-based radar. Updated from N. L. Chabot et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, 117. (Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory)

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Fort Campbell to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month October 9th

October 8, 2012 |

Diversity and Inclusion Awareness Seminar Features Keynote Speakers, Latin Food Sampling

Fort Campbell, KY – October is Hispanic Heritage Month and the Fort Campbell Equal Employment Opportunity Office will hold a diversity and inclusion awareness seminar October 9th at 11:00am in the Dale Wayrynen Recreation Center here.

Keynote speakers to be featured include Michelle Pacheco-Guzman from the Fort Campbell Equal Employment Opportunity Office, and Miguel Ruiz-Aviles, of the Department of Languages and Literature at Austin Peay State University.

This year’s theme is “Diversity United: Building America’s Future Today,” a concept both Pacheco-Guzman and Ruiz-Aviles are familiar with. «Read the rest of this article»

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s radar shows the Moon’s Shackleton crater walls may hold patchy Ice

September 4, 2012 |

Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater.

Greenbelt, MD – Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon’s South Pole.

As much as five to ten percent of material, by weight, could be patchy ice, according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing, in Massachusetts.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been studying the moon since June 2009. (Credit: NASA)

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Austin Peay Governors Baseball’s Jordan Hankins makes USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team

July 3, 2012 |

APSU Sports: Austin Peay Baseball

Cary, NC – Jordan Hankins, Austin Peay State University‘s rising junior second baseman, was among 22 players named to USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team, Monday.

Hankins, of Wentzville, MO, joined the Collegiate National Team in late June and has played in all four of the team’s games as part of its six-game domestic schedule. He is batting .300 in those four contests with three RBI and has added four walks for a .533 on-base percentage.

APSU Baseball’s Jordan Hankins. (Courtesy: Austin Peay Sports Information)

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Austin Peay Governors Baseball’s Jordan Hankins selected to USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team

June 14, 2012 |

APSU Sports: Austin Peay Baseball

Cary, NC – Austin Peay State University second baseman Jordan Hankins has been selected to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, the organization announced Wednesday.

Austin Peay second baseman Jordan Hankins has been selected to USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team. (Courtesy: Brittney Sparn/APSU Sports Information)

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scientist accurately determines the Weight of an Asteroid

May 27, 2012 |

Written by DC Agle
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, CA – A scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away.

The celestial equivalent of “guess your weight” was achieved by Steve Chesley of JPL’s Near-Earth Object Program Office by utilizing data from three NASA assets – the Goldstone Solar System Radar in the California desert, the orbiting Spitzer Space telescope, and the NASA-sponsored Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

This computer generated image of asteroid 1999 RQ36 was derived from data acquired by the NASA-supported Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. (Image credit: NASA/NSF/Cornell/Nolan)

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Internal Revenue Service seeks Volunteers for Taxpayer Advocacy Panel

March 21, 2012 |

Washington, D.C. – The Internal Revenue Service seeks civic-minded volunteers to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP), a federal advisory committee that listens to taxpayers, identifies key issues, and makes recommendations for improving IRS service.

“TAP members give the IRS insights from every corner of our nation, helping the agency in its continuous effort to improve tax administration,” said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. «Read the rest of this article»

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