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The role of mobile elements in the evolution of closely related species

Mikhail B. Evgen'ev

V. A. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Science,
Moscow, Russia

Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster results in high sterility and
mutation rates, male recombination, segregation distortion, and chromosomal
rearangements. The mobilization of either P or I mobile elements was shown to
induce all these abnormalities. Recently we have described asimilar syndrome in
D. virilis. However in this case dysgenic crosses result in activation of at
least five unrelated families of transposons. All these elements were cloned
and sequenced. Genetic and molecular studies have shown that one of these
elements termed "Penelope" is responsible for the mobilization of other
families of repeats. It was also shown that D. virilis (the most ancient and
probably ancestral species of the whole group) is now in the process of
Penelope invasion, hence, some geographical strains carry this element while
others are completely free of Penelope-related sequences. The virilis group of
Drosophila consists of twelve species with well known phylogeny. It was shown
that speciation in this group was accompanied or driven by various chromo somal
aberrations and the species differ by species specific inversions and fus ions.
Cytogenetic and molecular studies have demonstrated the presence of Penelope at
the break points of rearrangements which lead (or accompany) the speciation in
the virilis species group. Moreover multiple rearrangements carrying Penelope
at inversion break points were recently recovered in D. virilis itself due to
dysgenic crosses. Interestingly most of these (new) inversions coincide with
species-specific inversions. Therefore we have a unique opportunity to witness
the first steps of speciation and monitor the consequences of a mobile element
invasion into the genome of a host species. The role of horizontal transfer in
gross genomic rearrangements and speciation is discussed.

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January 11, 2001



Mr. Walter V. Shipley
Retired Chairman of the Board
Chase Manhattan Bank
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017

Dear Walter:

We would like to thank you for your letter setting 
forth the Working Group on Public Disclosures suggested 
improvements in public disclosure by large banks and 
securities firms.  Efforts such as those of your group help 
ensure that market disclosure practices continue to evolve 
and to support public policy goals.  

The principles and specific recommendations developed 
by your group are a useful contribution to efforts by 
financial firms to provide meaningful information about 
their risk profiles to market participants.   The Working 
Groups suggestions are noteworthy because they synthesize 
the many viewpoints of the leading securities firms and 
banks represented in the group.  

As you suggest, more frequent disclosure of enhanced 
information about market and credit risk would be 
constructive.  We also think that your recommendation for 
disclosure of credit risk based on banks internal ratings 
is especially useful.  We appreciate the need to strike a 
balance between quantitative and qualitative information in 
order to convey a meaningful picture of a firms risk 
profile.

We hope that the Working Groups work encourages all 
large banks and securities firms to adopt enhanced practices 
for public disclosure.  As we seek to use market discipline 
more effectively as an adjunct to the supervisory process, 
we look forward to continued discussion with market 
participants about public disclosure.  In particular, we 
thank the members of the group for their offer to 
participate in future advisory efforts.
 
Sincerely,

	
__________________
Laurence H. Meyer 
Governor
__________________
John D. Hawke, Jr.
Comptroller
____________________	
Arthur Levitt, Jr.
Chairman
474          THE CHICAGO RECORD'S
published reports as to the prospects at Harqua Hala, and in a week or two there was another general rush for the diggings. The railroads did a land office business for several weeks in carrying men as far as the Colorado river. From there the travelers to Harqua Hala packed themselves on little river steamboats at exorbitant rates of travel. Hundreds of miners who had hardly a dollar tramped over the mountains I50 and 200 miles to the mines. Some men in their anxiety to get to Harqua Hala with their camp outfits and personal belongings, packed them in barrels and rolled the barrels over oo0 miles to the camp.
Even the schoolboys caught the infection from their elders, and ran away from school and home. Several persons starved to death in the stampede. In forty days the population of Harqua Hala grew from 50 to over 2,ooo. As is generally the case, the few good mines there were taken up before the news of the find went abroad, and there was nothing for the deluded miners to do when they got to Harqua Hala but sit about camp and watch their more lucky associates dig out the rock. Prices for all kinds of food went to the top mark with rapidity. After a few weeks' idleness the mining population at Harqua Hala dwindled away at the rate of Ioo or more a day. A large part of them are now searching among the mountains, through the canyons, on the desert, and in the foothills for prospects of their own. A good, active miner will locate half a dozen mining claims in a year, but less than o0 per cent of these are ever worked.
Had not the Klondike rush turned the undivided attention of gold-seekers to the arctic placer mines in the Upper Yukon basin, it is highly probable there would have been a rush of some magnitude to the gold fields in the Mojave desert of southern California.
From: David M Lusher [dmlusher@raytheon.com]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:56 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: S7-11-04: 

As an informed individual investor, I would like to comment on the section
of the proposed rule dealing with the 5 day holding period. I feel that the
rule should definitely set a maximum period beyond which the mandatory
redemption fee may not be imposed. I manage my own 401K rollover account,
and I occasionally find it desirable to drop a poorly performing fund and
move to a better performer. This exchange may take place after having been
in a particular fund for as little as 2-3 months, and has nothing to do
with market timing. Simply put, given the amount of information available
to the individual investor today, there is no reason to stay with a poorly
performing fund once it has established itself as such. My concern is that
unless a maximum time period for imposing the short term fee is
established, fund companies will extend the fee period for as long as they
desire. Essentially, they will be simply charging an additional fee, using
supression of market timing as a convenient excuse. Trading between funds
the 3-4 times a year that I do, these additional transaction fees can add
up to a substantial tax on my retirement account. My choices would then be
to stay with a badly performing fund (thereby mitigating the incentive for
the fund to improve its' performance), or end up with less money
(increasing my dependance on an already overextended Social Security
system). For this reason, i strongly urge the SEC to establish an upper
time limit for imposition of the STR fee.

Sincerely,
David Lusher
FXAK69 PAFG 281313
AFDAFG
NORTH ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
600 AM ADT MON JUL 28 2003
CURRENT MID RANGE MODELS ARE REASONABLY CONSISTENT IN THEIR
HANDLING OF THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER PRESENTLY DEEPENING OVER
THE EAST SIBERIAN SEA. THEY ALL (MRF/SEF/ECMF) HAVE THE THING
MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST TO BE NEAR 75N/165W AT 4AM TUE WITH A
CENTRAL PRESSURE IN THE UPPER 70S. THEY DIVERGE A BIT THEREAFTER
BUT BY 4AM WED WE EXPECT THE THING TO BE NEAR 77N/135W AND ABOUT
THE SAME PRESSURE. HOWEVER...THE CURRENT CONSENSUS SOLUTION HAS
THE THING PASSING FARTHER NORTH OF OUR ARCTIC COAST THAN SUNDAY'S
SOLUTION DID. THOUGH THIS DIFFERENCE APPEARS TO MAKE LITTLE
DIFFERENCE IN THE STRENGTH OF THE WINDS THE PROGS INDICATE...AS
A PRACTICAL MATTER THE SEVERITY (OR RISK) OF COASTAL FLOODING IS
BE REDUCED. WE REMAIN HAPPY WITH OUR WATCHES FOR ZONES 201 AND 202
WE WILL UPGRADE THE COASTAL FLOOD FOR 207 TO A WARNING...AS MASS
TRANSPORT THERE IS MORE CLEARLY FAVORABLE. WE HAVE ALSO TWEAKED
UP THE WINDS IN ZONES 203 AND 204 (BARELY) TO THE WARNING LEVEL.
AT THE OTHER END OF OUR FORECAST AREA...SUBSTANTIAL RAINFALL
CONTINUES AT THIS TIME OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF ZONE 222
(INCLUDING FAIRBANKS)...223 WEST OF PABI...AND 225. WESTERN
(BASICALLY UNINHABITED) AREAS OF ZONE 224 ALSO APPEAR TO BE
INVOLVED.  HOWEVER...THE AREA OF CONTINUOUS RAINFALL HAS RECENTLY
APPEARED TO BE DIMINISHING BOTH FROM THE NORTHWEST AND THE
SOUTHEAST. ALSO...THE SYSTEM HAS LOST SOME SUPPORT ALOFT...AND
WILL LOSE SUPPORT MORE RAPIDLY TODAY. FAIRLY STEADY RAIN MAY
PERSIST MOST OF THE DAY AT PAEI FOR EXAMPLE...OR MAYBE SALCHA...
BUT (OVER OUR TURF AT LEAST) WE DO NOT EXPECT MORE THAN 1/4 INCH
ANYWHERE EXCEPT MAYBE ZONE 225.  WE STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE
FLOODING RESULTING FROM ALL THIS RAIN...OF COURSE. FAIRBANK'S 2.27
INCH RAINFALL ON SUNDAY SET A RECORD FOR THE MONTH...AND CAME
IN JUST SECOND PLACE TO AUGUST 12 1967. "FLASH" FLOOD WARNINGS
ARE NO LONGER APPROPRIATE THOUGH. THE OTHER HYDRO WARNINGS
WILL BE CONTINUED.
.AFG...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...RIVER FLOOD WARNING FOR CHATANIKA...CHENA AND
            SALCHA RIVERS IN ZONES 222 AND 224.
         HIGH WIND WATCH ZONES 201 AND 202
         COASTAL FLOOD WATCH ZONES 201...202.
         COASTAL FLOOD WARNING ZONE 207 NORTH OF CAPE KRUSENSTERN
MARINE...SCA AREA 14 ENDING TODAY...DEVELOPING AGAIN TONIGHT.
         SCA DEVELOPING TODAY AND GALE TONIGHT AREA 10B.
         SCA WESTERN AREA 9B TONIGHT.
         SCA TODAY AND STORM TONIGHT AREA 11A.
         BWA AREA 11B.
FIRE WEATHER...NONE.
$$
DJH JUL 03
88                             HISTORY OF SETTLEMENTS AND TRADE
book cealed under feveral coverings. The piftil of theft
. x^m- . flowers, furrounded with fome fmall fcales, and fur.
mounted with a long ftyle, becomes a farinaceous feed,
almoft fpherical, and half funk into the common axis.
Its maturity is known by its colour, and by the fe-
paration of the covering, through which the blade of
corn may be feen.
This fpecies of corn, unknown at that time in Eu.
rope, was the only one known in the New World.
The culture of it was by no means difficult. The fa-
vages contented themfelves with taking off the turf,
making a few holes in the. ground with a ftick, and
throwing into each of them a fingle grain, which pro-
duced two hundred and fifty or three hundred- The
method of preparing it for food was not more com.
plicated. They pounded it in a wooden or ftone mor-
tar, and made it into a pafte, which they baked under
embers. They often ate it toafted merely upon the
coals.
The maize has many advantages. Its leaves are
ufeful in feeding cattle ; a circumftance of great mo-
ment where there are very few meadows. A hungry,
light, fandy foil, agrees beft with this plant. The feed
may be frozen in the fpring two or three times with-
out impairing the haryeft. In fhort, it is of all plants
the one that is leaft injured by the excefs of drought
or moifture.
Thefe caufes, which introduced the cultivation of it
in that part of the world, induced the Englifh to pre-
ferve and even promote it in their fettlements. They
fold it to the fouthern part of Europe, and to the Eaft
Indies, and employed it for their own ufe. They did
not, however, negled to enrich their plantations with
European grains, all of which fucceeded, though not
fo perfedly as in their native foil. With the fuper-
fluity of their harvefts, the produce of their herds, and
the clearing of their forefts, the colonifts formed a
trade with all the wealthieft and moft populous pro-
vinces of the New World.
The mother-country, finding that her northern co-
Why are Late-Type Stellar Coronal and Early-Type Stellar Wind Sources so 
Challenging to Analyze with Current High Spectral Resolution X-Ray Instruments?
    1. Most Stars are Intrinsically Weak X-ray Emitters:
      - A few stars such as Algol and Capella are detectable at or above
        an observed flux level of 10^(-10) erg/s/cm^2
      - Only a score or so of stars, mostly active binaries, are detectable 
        at or above an observed flux level of 10^(-11) erg/s/cm^2 
      - Above an observed flux level of 10^(-12) erg/s/cm^2, there are new
        classes of stars, e.g., T Tau stars, WR stars, etc., with a total
        of about a thousand or two stellar X-ray sources
      - Above an observed flux level of 10^(-13) erg/s/cm^2 (About the RASS
        detection limit), there are maybe 30,000 stellar X-ray sources 
    2. Stars have complex, line-rich X-ray spectra => much atomic physics
       data is needed to derive complete physical parameters such as DEM.
       densities, and abundances, and also high S/N spectra. For Chandra
       grating spectra and typical coronal parameters, I estimate 10^5
       count spectra are required to get full description => 50 ksec
       exposure needed for Algol, and most stars are not feasible.
    3. Most stars are Variable X-ray emitters, with flare timescales from
       1 to 10^5 seconds, and other (rotational modulation, active region
       evolution, activity cycle) timescales from 10^4 to >=10^8 seconds,
       i.e., 8 decades in time. Only a small fraction of this parameter
       space can currently be explored due to the need to integrate over
       long time periods in order to accumulate sufficient counts, and thus
       all measured parameters are heavily time-averaged.
-     Pescado Tongue of the Mancos Shale and Gallup Sandstone; in Zuni Basin only. 
         Pescado is chrono-stratigraphic equivalent of Juana Lopez Member of Mancos 
         Shale; Turonian
-     Tres Hermanos Formation; formerly designated as Lower Gallup Sandstone in the 
         Zuni Basin; Turonian
-     Moreno Hill Formation and Atarque Sandstone; in Salt Lake coal field and 
         extreme southern Zuni basin; Turonian
-     Mancos Shale; divided into Upper and Lower parts by Gallup Sandstone
-     Mancos Shale, Upper part
-     Mancos Shale, Lower part
-     Dakota Sandstone and Rio Salado Tongue of the Mancos Shale.  In northwest 
         Socorro County locally includes overlying Tres Hermanos Formation
-     Greenhorn Formation and Carlile Shale, undivided; locally includes Graneros Shale
-     Carlile Shale; limited to northeastern area; Turonian-Coniacian
-     Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Formation; limited to northeastern area; lower 
         Turonian and Cenomanian
-     Greenhorn Formation; limited to northeastern area.  The Upper member (Bridge
         Creek Limestone) can be traced into western area where it is commonly shown as
         a bed-rank unit in Mancos Shale on detailed maps
-     Graneros Shale; limited to northeastern area; Cenomanian
-     Intertongued Dakota-Mancos sequence of west-central New Mexico; includes the
         Whitewater Arroyo Tongue of Mancos Shale and the Twowells Tongue of the Dakota
-     Dakota Sandstone; includes Oak Canyon, Cubero, and Paguate Tongues plus Clay Mesa
         Tongue of Mancos Shale; Cenomanian
-     Dakota Group of east-central and northeast New Mexico; in ascending order, 
         Mesa Rica Sandstone, Pajarito Shale, and Romeroville Sandstone; includes the 
         underlying Tucumcari Shale in Tucumcari area and Glencairn Formation in Union 
         County.  Encompasses both Upper and Lower Cretaceous rocks  
-     Mancos Formation and Beartooth Quartzite (and Sarten Sandstone); Mancos 
         includes what was formerly referred to as Colorado Shale which in turn may 
         include equivalents of Tres Hermanos Formation
-     Lower Cretaceous, undivided; in northern Lea and Roosevelt Counties includes 
         equivalents of Tucumcari Shale.  In Cornudas Mountains includes Campogrande, 
         Cox and other Washita Group formations.  At Cero de Cristo Rey includes several 
         Fredericksburg and Washita Group formations, and the Boquillas Formation; 
         Cenomanian.  In the southwest includes Hell-To-Finish, U-Bar, and Mojado 
         Formations which are equivalent to Bisbee Group of Arizona
HON. HENEY HASTINGS  SIBLEY, LL.D.                  89
Ann, relict of Dr. Potts, and the mainstay of comfort and help to
Mr. Sibley; a woman of sincerity, deep religious feeling, great
devotion, quick perception, clear judgment, and of pleasing
and sportive conversation ;-a helper in suffering and an angel of
mercy to the distressed; all of them women whom church and
state do well to praise, and whose names and memories their
children will not suffer to fade away. The husband of Abbie
Ann, viz., Dr. T. E. Potts, was a brother of the distinguished
Eev. George Potts, D. D., pastor of the University Place Presby-
terian Church, New York City, a man of majestic presence,
great dignity, deep piety, of universal esteem in all denomina-
tions, and for many years director in the Princeton Theological
Seminary. His brother, a prominent and eminent lawyer,
Major John C. Potts,whose father, Eev. George C. Potts
of Philadelphia, had four sons and three daughters,is a
gentleman of high distinction and fine scholarship, having
served his country in various responsible and high posi-
tions, and now in the evening of his life, and abides an honored
elder in the Lafayette Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, the
valued and esteemed counselor of his pastor, Eev. Dr. Mark-
ham.
The family of Mr. Sibley is of rare and remarkable com-
bination, a mixture of genuine Puritan and genuine Presby-
terian blood, and, in both streams, of unusual civil, military,
and ecclesiastical distinction, and of indomitable pioneer pro-
pensity. Children of the first generation of pioneer settlers,
they grew up amid the romances of a fresh life, full of the
freedom of the air they breathed. At Mendota first, then at
St. Paul, they were, in a large measure, moulded by the cir-
cumstances of their environment. The proximity of Fort
Snelling, where always were found considerable* numbers of
troops with their officers and families, and easy access to St.
Paul, and a share in all the social relations and customs that
marked the rapid growth of a new country, made a pleasing
and daily intercourse enjoyable, and not without its influence
upon the rising generation. Mr. Sibley, a man of affairs and
of public interest, was necessarily often absent from home.
Society was then comparatively free from that disgusting
affectation of airs, etiquette, and ceremony, which now are
exacted by the haut ton who have scarcely anything more
than money, ignorance, show, sham, and shoddy, to commend
them as meritorious in the consideration of others of superior
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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Governor
SANDRA SHEWRY
Director
IZB-FY-0506-12B
January 30, 2006
TO: Health Officers
Immunization Coordinators
FROM: Howard Backer, M.D., M.P.H., Chief
Immunization Branch
SUBJECT: New Hepatitis A Recommendations
The hepatitis A vaccine licensure was recently expanded by the Food and Drug Administration
from age two to age one year. This expansion affects both vaccines licensed in the United
States, Mercks product, VAQTA and Glaxo Smith Klines product, Havrix.
In October 2005, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) also approved
expanded recommendations for Hepatitis A Vaccination of Children
(http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/provisional/recs/hepA_child.pdf). In accordance with ACIP,
Department of Health Services, Immunization Branch also recommends that all children should
receive hepatitis A vaccine beginning at one year of age (i.e., 12-23 months). Vaccination
should be completed according to the licensed schedules and integrated into the routine
childhood and adolescent vaccination schedule. Children who are not vaccinated by two years
of age can be vaccinated at subsequent visits. New efforts focused on routine vaccination of
one year old children should enhance, not replace, ongoing programs directed at a broader
population of children.
Prior recommendations for statewide childhood immunization with hepatitis A vaccine were
limited to California and other states with a higher incidence of hepatitis A disease. Childhood
immunization has been very successful in reducing hepatitis A disease in all ages in these
states, including California. (See Wasley A, Samandari T, Bell BP. Incidence of hepatitis A in
the United States in the era of vaccination. JAMA. 2005 Jul 13; 294:194-201.) Therefore, ACIP
is now recommending nationwide childhood immunization with hepatitis A vaccine. In the
future, more children moving into California from other states will have been previously
immunized with hepatitis A vacccine than in the past, reducing the need for immunization by
their new provider in California.
Reporting Hepatitis A Usage
The Monthly Vaccine Usage Report (DHS 8297 1/06) has been revised to include the new age
range for hepatitis A vaccine. A copy of the revised Monthly Vaccine Usage Report is enclosed.
Immunization Branch
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254
HISTORY OF SETTLEMENTS AND TRADE
boo k fkins may be clouded, white and fine. They alfo
, v- bring various kinds of merchandife which they have
drawn from Indoftan, and efpecially a quantity of
rough diamonds. They likewife bring about four
hundred quintals of excellent rhubarb. Each quin.
tal cofts 500 livres [20I. 16s. 8d.], and the college of
trade fells it for nearly double that fum.
We cannot form fo advantageous an idea of the
connedions of Ruffia with the Indies by the Cafpian
Sea. This was, however, in the remoteft ages, the
track by which Europe and Afia communicated with
each other. The regions bordering upon that im-
menfe lake, which are at prefent very much depo-
pulated, extremely poor, and in a favage ftate, af-
ford to intelligent minds undoubted proofs of former
fplendoun Coins of the ancient Raliphs are daily
difcovered there. Thefe monuments, with others
equally authentic, would feem to favour the account
of fome Indians having been Shipwrecked on the
coafts of the Elbe in the reign of Auguftus, which
has always been confidered as fabulous, notwithftand-
ing the concurrent teftimony of cotemporary writers
who related the fad. It has never been underftood
how any inhabitants of India could fail on the Ger-
manic feas ; but, was it more wonderful to fee an In-
dian trading in the northern countries, than to fee a
Roman make his way into India through Arabia?
The Indians went' into Perfia, where they embarked
on the Hircanian Sea, failed up the Wolga, penetrat-
ed into Permia by the Kama, and from thence might
embark on tbe Northern Sea or on the Baltic.
Enterprifing men have appeared, and will for ever
appear, in all ages. Man has within himfelf a natu-
ral energy that torments him ; and which is direaed
by tafte, caprice, or fattidioufnefs, to the moft Angu-
lar attempts. He is curious, and defirous of feeing
and of being informed. The thirft of knowledge is
lefs univerfal, but it is more irrefiStible than that of
.gold. Man travels to a great distance in order to ac-
quire fomething to fpeak of, and to make himfelf be
POPULATION DYNAMICS OF DREISSENA POLYMORPHA IN MAIN
CHANNEL AND BACKWATER HABITATS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI
RIVER

Jennifer L. Rand and Michael D. Delong
Large River Studies Center, Biology Department, Winona State University,
Winona, MN 55987

The zebra mussel, an exotic sedentary benthic invertebrate, was first discovered
in the upper Mississippi River in 1991. Since then, zebra mussel densities have
increased almost exponentially throughout the river. Much of the work on zebra
mussels in large rivers has focused on main channel habitats, with little
consideration of possible impacts in other riverine habitats.  This study examined
population dynamics of zebra mussels in the main channel and backwaters of the
upper Mississippi River to determine if population structure varies between these
two very distinct mesohabitats. Zebra mussels were collected from snags and
rocks in Pools 5 and 6 of the upper Mississippi River.  Snag samples were
obtained using a DTH sampler whereas rocks were randomly selected by hand. 
Zebra mussels from each sample were placed in mm size categories using vernier
calipers.  Samples were placed in aluminum envelopes and into a drying oven for
48 hr, weighed, and then into the muffle oven for no more than 6 hr.  Samples
were stored in dessication chambers until weighed.  Differences were observed in
abundance and size-class distribution of zebra mussels from main channel vs.
backwater habitats.  Variation in population dynamics between habitats indicates
that future studies of this exotic species should incorporate heterogeneous
habitats found in large river ecosystems.

Keywords: Dreissena polymorpha, habitat, growth, population structure,
macroinvertebrate


Jennifer L. Rand, Large River Studies Center, Biology Department, Winona State
University, Winona, MN 55987; 507-457-2458; FAX 507-457-5681;
mdelong@vax2.winona.msus.edu

Poster presentation only; student author
MINISTER TO FRANCE.                267
could not be sated ; the thirst grew ever stronger
as the draughts were deeper. The danger to
Morris's own person merely quickened his
pulses, and roused his strong, brave nature ; he
liked excitement, and the strain that would
have been too tense for weaker nerves keyed
his own up to a fierce, half-exultant thrilling.
But the woes that befell those who had be-
friended him caused him the keenest grief. It
was almost unbearable to be seated quietly at
dinner, and hear by accident " that a friend
was on his way to the place of execution," and
to have to sit still and wonder which of the
guests dining with him would be the next to go
to the scaffold. The vilest criminals swarmed
in the streets, and amused themselves by tear-
ing the earrings from women's ears, and snatch-
ing away their watches. When the priests
shut up in the carnes, and the prisoners in the
abbaie were murdered, the slaughter went on
all day, and eight hundred men were engaged
in it.
He wrote home that, to give a true picture
of France, he would have to paint it like an
Indian warrior, black and red. The scenes
that passed were literally beyond the imagina-
tion of the American mind. The most hideous
and nameless atrocities were so common as to
be only alluded to incidentally, and to be re-
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            TUE. JUNE 12,   2007
            MEASURED WINDS 63 MPH AT 408 PM DURING SEVERE 
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LOCKE
Summary of July 24th mtg

Attending: Y2K, Mario, Luciano, Mel, Richard (phone), Patrizia, Marco,
 Avi.

 - Was too early for a discussion. We think we are ok, but we'll (Y2K and
 myself) to right something for next time. 

 - Mario has mapped completely the COT occupancies, and data sizes for
 both data (broken down by instantaneous luminosity) and MC. From this we
 can extract the luminosity dependence. It may be that the extrapolation
 will not be too bad as we have 8 sets of 5 points each that have to fit
 the same curve. Luciano and Mario promised to do it. Arnd is coming back
 tomorrow, I hope we can feed him all these numbers and that he'll
 combine them into a bullet proof TDC section.

 -  Marco showed some very scary plot of SVT impact parameter for events
 of Jet20 merged with 5 min bias events. Using perfect XFT tracks, he
 gets the fraction of non-Gaussian tails to go from ~16% to ~68%. Under
 further investigation.

 - Richard scared us too. Described a study underway to use the same
 sample (Jet20+5 min bias) to look at XFT performance. So far looked at
 Pt and phi resolution. He sees it go from 2.5%/GeV (in the note) to
 4.3%/Gev (now), and phi resolution from 8 to 17 mr. He also described a
 couple of other lines of investigation being followed: 
   1. toy MC to study resolution. reproduces current XFT performance. is
 used to show how a future device will behave. does not address fake
 rates.
   2. thoughts about estimating fake rates reduction (in a future
 device), using its extra information.
 Promised to write a description of what was done, intermediate
 conclusions and possible directions. 

 - Y2K went over the latest trigger table, incorporating Mel's latest set
 of comments. Some comments about justifications of SUSY triggers,
 documentation of known (e.g. inclusive CEM trigger), and text on wild
 speculation (e.g. muons).


 We skipped Z-->bbbar, COT performance, and Si tracking. 
 Agreed to meet again Friday 1300, same place (trailer 171).

 Thanx a lot for the patience and all the work.
                                     Avi.
Chap. 24     des   Iles   A n t i Cl e s.
165
CHAPITRE    VINT-QUATRIEME.
De quelques autres incommodits du pats, iff des
remdes qu'on y peut aporter.
OUtre ks Tremblemens dterre, ks Tonnerres, Se
les Ouragans, qui fecocnt c defolent fouvent la
terre des Antilles, comme nous venons de le repre-
fenter : il y a encore quelques autres inconhmoditez , qui
font bien inportunes, encore qu'elles ne foyent poirft tant 
craindre que les prcdentes. Nous leur avons, refetv ce
dernier Chapitre du premier Livre de cette Hiftoire , o,
pour tmoigner la grande paffion que nous avons d'eftreaffz
heureus pour contribuer quelque chofe au foulagment, c
fentkre fatisfakion des aimables Colonies de ce nouveau
monde: nous propoferons les remdes, que l'exprience des
anciens Habitans, c le jugement de plufieurs clbres Mde-
cins , ont trouv eftre les plus propres, Se les plus efficacieus,
pour ks munir contre leurs dangereus effets.
ARTICLE      L
Des (Mouffiques , y des Olfaringoitit.
NOus donnerons le premier lieu,  certains petis Mou
cherons appeliez (Mouftiques , que Ton font plutt
qu'on ne ks voit, tant ils font petis ; Mais dans la foibleffe
de leur corps, ils ont un aiguillon fi piquant, c venimeus,
que leur piquurc caufe une demangaifon tellement impor-
tune , qu'en s'corchant quelquefois la peau  force de fo grar-
ter, labkflre dgnr en un ulcered'angereus, fi Ton n'y
aporte du remde.
U s'en trouve d'une autre efpce , qui font plus gros, c
qui font un bruit, pareil  celuy que font les Moucherons,
qui en France fetrouvenr proche les tangs, Se les lieus mar-
cageus. On les nomm (Maringoint.  Ils produiteiuk mme
L.i
effet
-~3- 30:t
His mouth is enormous and his voice deep and resonant. He can make a noise like a wood saw which he maintains for 2 or 3 minutes without apparent effort, the sound buzzing on and on from some raysterious depths of his beihg with an~zing perfection of imitation.

	Any day during the baseball season ~Tohn may be seen sandwiched between his announcement boards, a large bell in one hand, crying the ball gaine of the day. Old John to the youngsters; but f mdIng many a quarter dropped in his hand by the older men with mein ones of gay hours and hearty laughter.
GLICKMAN NAMES MEMBERS AND ALTERNATES TO NATIONAL TOBACCO ADVISORY COMMITTEE
                                            Release No.0251.98 


                              Alicia L. Ford     (202) 720-8998
                                                 aford@usda.gov
                                  Billy Cox      (202) 720-8998
                                           Billy_A_Cox@usda.gov
                                                               

GLICKMAN NAMES MEMBERS AND ALTERNATES TO NATIONAL TOBACCO ADVISORY COMMITTEE

     WASHINGTON, June 19, 1998--Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman has
named 14 members and their alternates to the National Advisory Committee for
Tobacco Inspection Services.  Members and alternates will serve two-year terms
ending June 9, 2000.

     The committee advises the secretary of agriculture on the level of
services needed to provide USDA-inspection for the major types of tobacco and
on fees to charge for these services, said Secretary Glickman.

     Newly appointed members and their alternates are:  Donnie Hugh Smith,
Willacoochee, Ga., and alternate Timothy Edwin McMillan, Enigma, Ga.; Clay
Hester Vernon III, Milton, N.C., and alternate Leland McKinley Simmons,
Newport, N.C.; Richard Arnold Enoch, Mebane, N.C., and alternate Elbert Ray
Pitt Jr., Macclesfield, N.C.; Alwood Byron Ervin, Richland, N.C., and
alternate Margie Humphrey Spivey, Lumberton, N.C.; Kenneth Stephen Ring,
Georgetown, Ohio, and alternate Larry Wayne Hall, Georgetown, Ohio; Donald
Keith Allen, Latta, S.C., and alternate William Edwin Dargan Jr., Darlington,
S.C.; Cynthia Kaye Compton, Honaker, Va., and alternate Lucy Armistead Conner,
Nathalie, Va.

     Reappointed members and their alternates are:  Earl Eugene Griffith,
Lothian, Md., and alternate Dennis Allen Gray, Lexington, Ind.; Terry Rye
Gilbert, Harrodsburg, Ky., and alternate Benjamin Lyle Clifford, London, Ky.;
William Hamilton Fritz, Cynthiana, Ky., and alternate Frances Ann Brown,
Olmstead, Ky.; Kerry Hade Lyons, Gracey, Ky., and alternate Charlie Benge,
London, Ky.; Trudy Busick Early, Gibsonville, N.C., and alternate Richard
Joseph Jenks, Apex, N.C.; John Leonard Hudson Jr., Newton Grove, N.C., and
alternate Glenn James Preddy, Franklinton, N.C.; Jeffry Lynn Aiken, Telford,
Tenn., and alternate Carl Hobert Bolton, Tazewell, Tenn.

     Appointees may serve a maximum of three terms as members or alternates.
                                
     Section 5 of the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1935, as amended by the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Public Law 97-35, requires the
establishment of a National Advisory Committee for tobacco producers for each
kind of tobacco.  The committee was established in March 1982.
                                
     The committee consists of tobacco producers representing all U.S.
tobacco production areas and meets at the secretary's request.

                                #
000
FLUS44 KLUB 231103
HWOLUB

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
603 AM CDT TUE MAY 23 2006

TXZ021>044-241115-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
603 AM CDT TUE MAY 23 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY IMPACT THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS 
PANHANDLE AND THE ROLLING PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. THE 
OVERALL PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS RELATIVELY LOW... 
BUT ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH 
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE MOST LIKELY LOCALES TO 
EXPERIENCE AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LATER TODAY INCLUDE 
SILVERTON...MATADOR...MEMPHIS...CHILDRESS...PADUCAH...AND 
SURROUNDING AREAS.


.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY. THE
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS MAY INCREASE BY THE UPCOMING HOLIDAY
WEEKEND.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS OVER THE EXTREME 
SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS SHOULD 
MONITOR THE LATEST FORECAST AND WEATHER INFORMATION...AND BE 
PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN.

$$
;+
; PURPOSE
; Returns a measure of the circularity of the flevel contour

; INPUTS:
;  plevel = fraction of maximum where circularity is to be measured

; OUTPUTS:
;  measure = a measure of circularity
;  For a 2:1 ellipse, measure=0.33
;  for a 1.5:1 ellipse, measure=0.20
;  for a 1.25:1 ellipse, measure=0.11
;
; METHOD:
; Gets the flevel contour using 
; the structure produced by keyword PATH_INFO in IDL's contour
; returns a measure of circularity
; (max(radius)-min(radius))/(max(radius)+min(radius))

;
; VERSION HISTORY
; schmahl@hessi.gsfc.nasa.gov 2002
;-
 
function check_circularity,clnmap,flevel,PLOT=plot


if (flevel LE 0 OR flevel GE 1.0) then message,'flevel out of range'

CONTOUR, clnmap, level=[flevel]*max(clnmap),PATH_XY=xy, PATH_INFO=info
ncontours=n_elements(info)
x=reform(xy(0,*))
y=reform(xy(1,*))

if keyword_set(PLOT) then plot,[x,x[0]],[y,y[0]];,xra=[0,1],yra=[0,1]
xbar=mean(x) & ybar=mean(y)
radius=sqrt((x-xbar)^2+(y-ybar)^2)

measure=(max(radius)-min(radius))/(max(radius)+min(radius))
return,measure                     
end
TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  549
SUBJECT: GRB 000210: BATSE Observations
DATE:    00/02/13 21:43:06 GMT
FROM:    R. Marc Kippen at BATSE/UAH/MSFC  <marc.kippen@msfc.nasa.gov>

R. M. Kippen (University of Alabama in Huntsville) reports on behalf
of the BATSE GRB team:

GRB 000210 (GCN 540) occurred at a time when the BATSE on-board
trigger system was intensionally disabled.  However, the burst is
clearly detected at Feb 10.36396 UT in the continuous data with 
1.024 s resolution.  These data show the event consisted of a strong
pulse with T50 and T90 durations of 4.1 s and 12.3 s, respectively.
The burst's peak flux (50-300 keV; integrated over 1.024 s) and
fluence (>20 keV) are 29.9 photons cmE-2 sE-1 and 8.5 x 10E-5 erg
cmE-2, respectively---ranking it in the top 1% (3%) of the BATSE GRB
flux (fluence) distribution.  The spectral hardness is average for 
bursts of similar duration.  The BATSE burst location is consistent
with those measured by BeppoSAX (GCN 540) and IPN (SAX/Konus/Ulysses; 
GCN 543).  The lightcurve for this event is available at:
http://gammaray.msfc.nasa.gov/~kippen/batserbr/brbr_obs.html

-eof-
The renewed CDF II experiment recently re-started data taking.
The data collected lately already provides insight in the heavy flavor
capabilities of this p anti-p experiment.  As a benchmark of these
possibilities we present two preliminary results: the measurement of the
branching fractions BR (D0 --&gt; pi+ pi-) and BR (D0 --&gt; K+ K-) relative
to BR (D0 --&gt; K+/- pi-/+) and the measurement of the invariant mass
difference between D+/-_s --&gt; phi pi+/-, phi --&gt; K+ K- and D+/- --&gt; phi
pi+/-, phi --&gt; K+ K-.  The preliminary results are BR(D0 --&gt; pi+ pi-)/BR
(D0 --&gt; K+/- pi-/+) = 3.37 +/- 0.20(stat) +/- 0.16(sys) %, BR(D0 --&gt; K+
K-)/BR(D0 --&gt; K+/- pi-/+) = 11.17 +/- 0.48(stat) +/- 0.98(sys) % and
Delta m (D_s - D+) = 99.28 +/- 0.43(stat) +/- 0.27(sys) MeV/c2.  All
results are consistent with PDG expectation.
CO0676

1.  EAST AND SOUTH SIDES OF BUILDING 1611. VIEW TO NORTHWEST.
2.  NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF BUILDING 1611. VIEW TO SOUTHWEST.
3.  INTERIOR OF BUILDING 1611. VIEW TO SOUTH.
4.  INTERIOR DETAIL OF CONTROL PANEL IN BUILDING 1611. VIEW TO NORTHWEST.
5.  INTERIOR DETAIL OF CONTROL PANEL IN BUILDING 1611. VIEW TO NORTH.
6.  Photocopy of photograph, U.S. Army, ca. 1955 (original print located at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Commerce City, Colorado). AERIAL VIEW OF BUILDING 1611. VIEW TO NORTHEAST. "THIS IS THE HONEST JOHN WARHEAD DEMILITARIZATION PLANT. THE DEMILITARIZATION PROCESS CONSISTS OF STRIPPING AND OPENING THE WARHEAD MANUALLY AND DOWNLOADING THE M139 BOMBLETS ONTO A CONVEYOR WHICH CARRIES THEM THROUGH A PUNCH, DRAIN AND RINSE MACHINE INTO A ROTARY RETORT DEACTIVATION FURNACE WHERE THE BURSTER IS BURNED. THE BOMBLET SHELLS, WHICH ARE ALUMINUM, ARE THEN CONVEYED TO A DECONTAMINATION FURNACE WHERE THEY ARE MELTED AND CAST INTO INGOTS. THE GB, WHICH IS COLLECTED IN THE PUNCH, DRAIN AND RINSE MACHINE, IS CONDUCTED TO A STORAGE TANK AND, ULTIMATELY, IS NEUTRALIZED WITH CAUSTIC. THE RESULTING BRINES ARE SPRAY DRYED [SIC]. THE INERT PARTS OF THE WARHEAD ARE PLACED ON A CONVEYOR, MOVED THROUGH AN AIRLOCK TO THE DECONTAMINATION FURNACE ROOM AND MANUALLY LOADED INTO THE FURNACE. THE ALUMINUM IS MELTED AND CAST INTO INGOTS."
7.  Photocopy of photograph, U.S. Army, ca. 1955 (original print located at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Commerce City, Colorado). INTERIOR OF BUILDING 1611. "THE M139 BOMBLETS ARE MANUALLY DOWNLOADED FROM THE WARHEAD SECTION ONTO THE CONVEYORS, EQUIPPED WITH FIXTURES TO POSITION THE BOMBLETS FOR THE SUBSEQUENT PUNCH, DRAIN AND RINSE OPERATIONS."
Intensities of energetic neutral atoms produced by high-energy tails of pickup
protons in the solar wind

Edmond C. Roelof
Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723-6099 USA


Gloeckler (Proc.SolarWind X, 2003) has summarized the behavior of the ubiquitous
high-energy tails of pickup ions in the solar wind. The tails are characterized by
power-laws in velocity in the solar wind frame. When these ions have
charge-exchange collisions with the interstellar neutral atoms that flow through
the heliosphere, energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) will be generated. We have
examined the ENA H intensities from 10eV to 100 keV that would be viewed when
looking anti-sunward along a radial line of sight from 1 AU to the boundary of the
supersonic solar wind (taken to be 85 AU). We have considered ENAs from tail
distributions that are time-averaged, CME-dominated, and CIR-dominated. The tail
distributions have been normalized to proton spectra measured at 1 AU (ACE) and
3-5 AU (Ulysses) and extrapolated to the outer heliosphere based on theoretical
estimates of the spatial dependence of the pickup protons as well as protons
accelerated by CMEs and CIRs. The extrapolated spatial dependence of the tails is
corroborated by comparison with energetic proton measurements >25 keV throughout
the heliosphere by ACE/EPAM, Ulysses/Hi-SCALE, and Voyager/LECP. The ENA
intensities at 1AU predicted from the ubiquitous tails fall 1-2 orders of
magnitude below the 10-50 keV ENA H upper limits established with the HENA imager
on IMAGE during 2000-2002 (Roelof et al., Proc.Third IGPP Conf. Outer Heliosphere,
2004). The estimated protontail-generated ENA intensities are also orders of
magnitude lower than the 10eV-10 keV ENA H intensities calculated by Gruntman et
al. (J.Geophys.Res., 106, 1576715781, 2001). Those authors estimated the ENA
intenisities at 1AU that would be generated by solar wind thermal and pickup
protons that would be accelerated at a strong termination shock and would then
populate the subsonic flow beyond it in the heliosheath.

_______________ 
Presented at the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, July 18-25, 2004.
________________________________________________
 
                     NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF OPINION 
                 UNDER PROTECTIVE ORDER:  June 9, 1995
            ________________________________________________
 
 
                        GSBCA 13201-P, 13211-P 
 
                               C3, INC.,
 
 
                                  and
 
 
                             TISOFT, INC.,
 
                                           Protesters/Intervenors,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                           Respondent,
 
                                  and
 
 
                          UNISYS CORPORATION,
 
                                           Intervenor.
 
        Richard  J. Conway,  William M.  Rosen,  Leticia E.  Flores,
   Robert  J.  Moss,  J.  Andrew  Jackson, and  Sallie  H.  Helm  of
   Dickstein,  Shapiro & Morin, Washington, DC; and Timothy Sullivan
   and  Martin R.  Fischer  of Dykema  Gossett, Washington,  DC; and
   Michael    P.    Flaherty,    Washington,   DC,    counsel    for
   Protester/Intervenor C3, Inc.
 
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   Burgett,  Thomas  L.  McGovern, III,  Timothy  L.  Schroer, David
   Newmann, and S.  Gregg Kunzi of Hogan &  Hartson, Washington, DC,
   counsel for Protester/Intervenor Tisoft, Inc.
 
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   Burton, Pamela J.  Reiner, and John C. Sawyer,  Office of General
   Counsel, General Services Administration, Washington, DC, counsel
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   Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC;  and William A. Shook, Donald A.
   Kaplan,  and Amy  L. Carlson  of Preston  Gates Ellis  & Rouvelas
   Meeds, Washington,  DC; and E.  Charles Rowan, Jr., and  Susan D.
   Falkson of Unisys Corporation, McLean, VA, counsel for Intervenor
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   NEILL, Board Judge.
 
                                 Notice
 
        On Thursday, June 8, 1995,  the Board issued its opinion and
   decision  on the  merits of  these protests.   The  protests were
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        Because the Board's decision contains information considered
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