Continuing Resolution for Government Funding

President Bush signed into law H. J. Res. 69, the continuing resolution, keeping government funded through October 31, 2003, and, H.R. 2657, the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill for FY 04, which provides $50 million for NASA to cover necessary expenses for investigation and recovery of Columbia.

The 56th Intercenter Two Mile Fall Fun Run

Stride into autumn by participating in the fall two-mile 'Fun Run'! The two mile run/walk is scheduled for Thursday, October 23, 2003 and will begin at 12 noon behind building 3 with the route being the same as previous Fun Runs. All participants must register at the health unit or on the day of the event prior to start.

Verizon Links to Goddard

For your convenience, a link has been established to Verizon SuperPages.com from the Goddard internal web-site. Verizon SuperPages.com provides customers with an on-line national directory of business and personal telephone and address information. To access this feature, select the Phonebook option from the GSFC internal homepage then select Verizon Superpages from the External References area. For direct access to this feature, select: http://www.superpages.com/

By providing access to an on-line telephone directory, we hope to reduce the number of hard copy telephone directories that are required for distribution to Center employees. If your office still requires a hard copy local area telephone directory, please email Beth Booker at ebooker@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Blood Drive, October 6

The Washington Hospital Center will be here on Monday, October 6, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., in the Building 8 Auditorium to accept blood donations. To schedule an appointment, please call Lisa Hawrylenko or Laura Weissberg on ext. 6-6666 by the close of business on October 5, 2003.

Tech Briefs Nanotech 2003 Conference - Register By Oct 10th!

Tech Briefs Nanotech 2003 Conference -- October 23-24 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge in Boston, MA -- will focus on how collaborations among NASA, other federal labs, academia and industry can foster real-world applications of "small tech" innovations.

Sessions will explore the market potential in aerospace, bio-medicine, microelectronics, and related fields; identify the influential players leading the nanotech revolution; and explain how businesses can secure federal, state, or venture capital funding to compete in this rapidly-evolving field.

In addition to NASA Technology Transfer Program and NASA Tech Briefs, conference sponsors include Boston University, Albany NanoTech, and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.

For more information visit the website http://www.techbriefs.com/nano/ or contact Darryl Mitchell via email at Darryl.R.Mitchell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov

ODIN's September Newsletter is Now Available

The September issue of the ODIN Interchange Newsletter is available at http://www.acs-odin.com/gsfc/newsletters/GSFCSept03.pdf. This issue features ODIN's new Catalog Coordinator, new email filters, ODIN fax services, desktop services and more.