News from September 2007
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: The Point Reyes National Seashore announced today that road repairs to the entrance road to the Bear Valley Visitor Center will take place starting next Monday, September 17 and going through Thursday, September 20.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have asked the Department of Health and Human Services to explain the status of a hospital value-based purchasing plan, which the department was required to deliver in legislation enacted in 2005. Grassley, the ranking member...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a public-private partnership to support research and innovation...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites without human intervention. Many of the attractive features of this "Web 2.0," including greater access to information and one-stop transactions that process information from several websites, are at odds with traditional ways of maintaining computer security.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: All researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wanted was a simple, quick method for making thin films of block copolymers or BCPs (chemically distinct polymers linked together) in order to have decent samples for taking measurements important to the microelectronics industry.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced a public-private partnership to support research and innovation in nanoelectronics, with a goal of developing...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms-and more recently larger objects-by reducing the extent of their thermal motion. Now, applying a different form of radiation for a similar purpose, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: DNA, the biomolecule that provides the blueprint for life, has a lesser-known identity as a stretchy polymer. JILA scientists have found a flaw in the most common model for DNA elasticity, a discovery that will improve the accuracy of single-molecule research and perhaps pave the way for DNA to become...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Dick Durbin (D-IL),Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced The Independent ContractorProper Classification Act of 2007. This legislation will protect workers and taxpayers againstthe misclassification of employees, a problem that costs the government billions of dollars anddenies thousands of Americans basic employee protections such as workers compensation andovertime pay.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Republican Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release information on a number of Congressionally-mandated and other evaluations of the Children’s Health Insurance...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Saturday, Sept. 22, 7:00 p.m. - A Rock’s Life: Story of the Alpine Tundra.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the MIT Enterprise Forum™ and TEDCO, will host a technology transfer workshop on Oct. 9, 2007, to showcase several of the agency's microfluidics technologies that have potential for commercial development. The evening meeting will be held at the NRECA Conference Center in Ballston, Va.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Free Admission To Board Historic Ships On National Public Lands Day!.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Recommendations for a new set of requirements intended to make future voting systems more "secure, reliable, and easier for all voters to use" have been submitted in a 598-page report by an advisory panel to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently issued a guide to Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses (NIST Special Publication SP 960-16), which aims to increase the use of fractography by scientists and engineers for the analysis of broken brittle materials.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2007
News Release: Crackling embers and glowing firebrands might make for a romantic evening in front of the fireplace, but for homeowners in high fire-risk areas, windborne fire material is the stuff of nightmares. To learn how to mitigate such threats, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Keith W. Cotter was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Salt Lake City to 42 months imprisonment on federal hate crime charges. After release from prison, Cotter will be on federal supervised release for 3 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV OPA (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Justice Department announced today the appointment of Kevin A. Ohlson to be the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). Ohlson has served as the Acting Director ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A Salvadoran national has pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to smuggle or attempt to smuggle scores of Central American migrants into the United States for private financial gain, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Neil G. Volz, a Washington lobbyist who served as chief of staff for former Congressman Robert W. Ney, has been sentenced to two years probation and fined $2,000 on a charge of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
