News from September 2009
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: Today, the House Agriculture Committee continued its review of the Treasury Department’s legislative proposals regulating the over-the-counter (OTC) market for derivatives. Chairman Gary Gensler of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Chairman Mary Schapiro of the Securities and Exchange...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium. Beryllium, an exotic metal used as a hardener in high-performance alloys and ceramics, can cause berylliosis-a...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available "meter stick" for the nano world, the new measuring tool-a calibration standard for X-ray diffraction-boasts uncertainties below a femtometer. That's 0.000 000 000 000 001 meter, or roughly the size of a neutron.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009, with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 331-83. The legislation would extend unemployment benefits by up to 13 weeks in States where the unemployment rate is 8.5 percent or higher...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: The Fifth Annual IT Security Automation Conference, co-hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will focus on emerging technologies designed to support the security automation needs of multiple sectors. The conference will be held Oct. 26-29 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: The Panel of Judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest recognition for organizational performance excellence, has selected 15 organizations for the final review stage for the 2009 Award. Starting this month, teams of business, education, health care and nonprofit experts...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes the particles more effective than conventional thinking says they should be. Just like individuals in a crowd respecting other people's personal space, the particles work because they get close together, but not too close.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON-Biological laboratories using dangerous pathogens do not have adequate protections in place to prevent the theft of those pathogens for use by terrorists in a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attack, witnesses said Tuesday at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing focused on corrective legislation introduced by Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me. earlier this month.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett calling for a full release of information related to a conference call that occurred on August 10th in which the White House Office of Public Engagement inappropriately asked participants on the call to support the Administration’s efforts.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, offered an amendment on the floor of the Senate today that would restrict the federally funded administrative expenses of at least 18 new czars appointed by President Obama.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: Join Theodore Roosevelt National Park on September 26 for a Day of Service and Celebration.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON-Biological laboratories using dangerous pathogens do not have adequate protections in place to prevent the theft of those pathogens for use by terrorists in a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attack, witnesses said Tuesday at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing focused on corrective legislation introduced by Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me. earlier this month.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: The Library of Congress Federal Library & Information Center Committee (FLICC) has announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Services Division (ISD) will receive the 2008 Federal Library of the Year Award for the Large Library/Information Center Category, which...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: To facilitate audits of election results and making the election process more transparent, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a workshop next month to discuss creating a common digital "language" for the data produced by electronic voting systems.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Park rangers recovered the body of a man today in an area below the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park near the Toroweap Valley. The man’s wife called the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center last night around 10:30 to report her husband overdue.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: On Sept. 10, the White House announced President Barack Obama's intention to nominate physicist Patrick Gallagher to be the 14th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Gallagher, 46, is currently the NIST deputy director.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: Inventing a useful new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have employed microfluidics-the manipulation of fluids at the microscopic scale-to make microdroplets that contain single molecules of interest.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement today following President's Obama's trilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Abbas:
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2009
News Release: “Saving Li’l Smokey". Meet the authors and the illustrator. Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, VisitorCenter. Saturday, October 10th, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Children, young and old, are invited to come and meet the authors and illustrator of the book “Saving Li’l Smokey". Authors Adam and Celeste Deem...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has asked a federal court in Lincoln, Neb., to bar Donald Ondrak, a Lexington, Neb., CPA, from preparing tax returns, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint in the case, Ondrak’s firm, Don Ondrak PC, prepares federal income tax returns ...
