News from June 2008
By Labor Gazette | Jun 10, 2008
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 10, 2008
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on June 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: National Park Service rangers are working with San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officers in the search for a lost hiker in a remote section of Mojave National Preserve.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Eighty-five organizations-the highest number of applicants since 1992-are in the running for the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest recognition for excellence. Applicants include three manufacturers, five service companies, seven small businesses, 11 educational organizations, 43 health care organizations and 16 nonprofits/governmental organizations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: About recovering from cancer, Happy Rockefeller (the widow of the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller) once said...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: To save lives, search and rescue robots crawling through the rubble of a collapsed building or surveying a chemical spill area must be capable of beaming back clear, easily interpretable images of what they "see" to operators and emergency planners, working away from the immediate disaster site. A new...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Tuesday, June 10, 2008. I want to thank the organizers of this event for inviting me to address a topic of pressing importance: foreign assistance reform. A few weeks back, several of the people speaking here this morning testified on this very subject in this very room, before the Foreign Affairs Committee.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today the National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comments on the Ocracoke Island Multi-Use Trail Environmental Assessment. The NPS proposes to work cooperatively with North Carolina’s Department of Transportation to construct a paved, multi-use trail on Ocracoke...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - By a vote of 311 to 106, the House today passed legislation by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman (D-CA) authorizing for three years the Merida Initiative, a U.S. counter-narcotics assistance package for Mexico and Central America to help stop the flow of illegal drugs and the violence that the drug trade has spawned along the U.S.-Mexico border.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Senate’s failure to proceed to Senator Reid’s energy bill (S.3044):
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a simplified, low-cost process for producing high-quality, water-soluble "quantum dots" for biological research. By using a laboratory microwave reactor to promote the synthesis of the widely used nanomaterials, the recently published* NIST process avoids a problematic step in the conventional approach to making quantum dots, resulting in brighter, more stable dots.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today unveiled a substitute amendment to H.R. 6049, the Renewable Energy and Jobs Creation Act of 2008, that proposes alternative energy solutions and important tax relief for America’s working families, including protection against...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: After a close examination of crude oil made from pig manure, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are certain about a number of things.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Farmers around the world produced approximately 60 billion pounds of mangoes (Mangifera indica) in 2004, according to the latest available figures. That's a bounty for fruit lovers and fruit flies (Anastrepha spp.) alike. Now Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist David A. Jenkins has found a low-tech solution for reducing fruit fly infestations in mangoes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: New research* shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single-cell organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low and there was no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: After seven years of work, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a system that relies on the "noise" of jiggling electrons as a basis for measuring temperatures with extreme precision. The system is nearly precise enough now to help update some of the crucial underpinnings of science, including the 54-year-old definition of the Kelvin, the international unit of temperature.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: While the results may not rival the artistry of glassblowers in Europe and Latin America, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called "nanoglassblowing" that creates nanoscale (billionth of a meter) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: James M. Turner, deputy director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has named three distinguished experts from industry and academia to serve on the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the agency's primary private-sector policy advisory group. The new VCAT members-who will serve three-year terms-bring the body's number to 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Boulder, Colo.- On Monday afternoon, June 9, researchers in a laboratory room at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colorado discovered that a vial holding about 1/4 gram of plutonium in a powdered form had cracked* and that some particles...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today commented on the Senate’s failure to invoke cloture to proceed to a vote on Senate Substitute Amendment to H.R. 6049, the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008. The legislation proposed alternative energy solutions and important tax relief for America’s working families, including protection against the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
