In its brief filed earlier today, the government told Judge Jackson that Microsoft's effort to avert a direct appeal "misstates and misapplies the appropriate legal standard for certification and ignores the incontrovertible importance of prompt resolution of this case to consumers and the national economy".
The GSTC is the gold standard for certification for tourist resorts and accommodations.
CINA Deluxe is a research data file derived from central cancer registries that meet NAACCR high data quality criteria (at a minimum of the silver standard for certification) for each diagnosis year at the time of data submission.
The proposed rules would, first, require that all taxi drivers sign up with a certified app, and, second, create a working group to define the standards for certification.
"I called thinking I was just going to sign up for the program, you know, 'I want to grow organic marijuana, where do I get the paperwork?'" That is when he learned that the word "organic" is defined by the Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program, which sets the standards for certification.
But the government program, run by the Department of Agriculture, would set up less rigorous standards for certification, confusing and misleading consumers.
Also Monday, a union leader and immigrant rights organizer wrote to the Department of Justice that immigrants' due process is suffering because of poor labor practices and low standards for certification for interpreters.
Like ACE, the NASM personal trainer certification is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the gold standard for training certification accreditation.
(The federal government introduced a uniform standard for organic certification in 2002).
"In Asia, LEED is considered the gold standard for sustainable certification," said David Groseclose, an architect and senior LEED consultant with CH2M Hill.
These environmental pressures initially coincided with the preparation of new European-wide test procedures for explosion arrester devices and, more recently, moves to develop a new international ISO standard for the certification and approval of detonation arrester devices.
