News from October 2008
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Provisions to strengthen oversight, transparency, competition, and accountability in the federal acquisition process proposed by Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., and Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., became law today when the President signed the...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: A team of scientists collecting lichens at Point Reyes National Seashore in July discovered a species that was unknown to science until now. Led by Lawrence Glacy, Larry St. Clair of Bringham Young University, and Tom Nash of Arizona State University, the group was surveying lichen diversity in the park...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, made the following comment on the report released today from the Government Accountability Office, “Nonprofit Hospitals/Variation in Standards and Guidance Limits Comparison of How Hospitals Meet Community Benefit Requirements" (GAO-08-880).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: A new report describes tests carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the wireless environment in automotive manufacturing facilities. The measurements, carried out through a joint collaboration between NIST and USCAR, indicate that these facilities are highly reflective, ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Fall marks the return of hunting season on Cape Cod, and brings some changes to where hunting is allowed within Cape Cod National Seashore. In accordance with last years Record of Decision (ROD) and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the hunting program at the seashore, the no-hunting buffer...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable "noiseless" amplifier. By significantly reducing the uncertainty in delicate measurements of microwave signals, the new amplifier could boost the speed and precision of quantum computing and communications systems.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes-sorted by centrifuge for length-materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some of the most precise measurements yet of the concentrations at which delicate mats of nanotubes become transparent, conducting...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Press Release. San Juan National Historic Site Announces. Closure of Fortifications. Walter J. Chavez, Superintendent of the San Juan National Historic Site, announced that National Park Service staff will begin shutting down operations at the fortifications of San Juan National Historic Site by close...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: On Saturday, October 4th, 2008, Yosemite law enforcement rangers from Mather district, Valley district, and Wawona district arrested a 62 year old man from Merced, California for violating Title 16 USC 60, hunting within the boundaries of Yosemite National Park.
By State Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Moscow -- Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today joined his Russian counterpart to emphasize that U.S.-Russian relations must reflect areas of common interest, such as reducing the spread of nuclear arms, even as Washington and Moscow may continue to disagree over the August conflict in Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: (Ninety Six, SC) -On Oct. 11, Ninety Six National Historic Site hosted its 27th annual Autumn Candlelight Tour. The event was a huge success with over seven hundred visitors braving threatening weather to attend. Visitors were guided along the park’s one-mile historic trail illuminated by 500 luminaries...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2008
News Release: Novel nanoparticles being tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have researchers seeing stars. In a recent paper,* NIST scientists used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to demonstrate that gold nanostars exhibit optical qualities that make them superior for chemical and biological sensing and imaging. These uniquely shaped nanoparticles may one day be used in a range of applications from disease diagnostics to contraband identification.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 13, 2008
News Release: In order to provide broad access to liquidity and funding to financial institutions, the Bank of England (BoE), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) are jointly announcing further measures to improve liquidity in short-term U.S. dollar funding markets.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 12, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday announced its approval of the application and notice under sections 3 and 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California, to acquire Wachovia Corporation and its subsidiary banks, Wachovia Bank, National Association, both of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Wachovia Bank Delaware, National Association, Wilmington, Delaware, and the nonbanking subsidiaries of Wachovia Corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that it has entered into a consent decree with Waller County, Texas, to resolve a lawsuit concerning the county’s voter registration practices that the ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 10, 2008
News Release: This week, I am in Brazil for my last trip as U.S. Secretary of Commerce. While the U.S. Government is on the eve of new leadership, there is one thing that will not change after the November election: the importance of the U.S.-Brazil partnership.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 10, 2008
News Release: SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez today issued the following statement on the release of the August 2008 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report by the Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Today’s report shows that U.S. exports in August were $164.7 billion, an increase of 15.9 percent over August 2007. Imports in August were $223.9 billion, an increase of 13.4 percent over August 2007.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 10, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $4,610,000 in funding to promote worker rights initiatives and more than $115,000 to study the employment effects of trade in services.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2008
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2008
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
