BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
FXUS62 KILM 270651
AFDILM

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
251 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003
   
BERMUDA HIGH PRESSURE TO RIDGE INTO THE AREA FOR THE FORESEEABLE 
FUTURE DESPITE A COUPLE OF COLD FRONTS ATTEMPTING TO DROP INTO THE 
AREA.  THE FIRST WILL DO SO FROM EASTERN TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT 
BEFORE STALLING OUT INLAND AND DISSIPATING OVER THE WEEKEND.  

FOR THE SHORT TERM...PLAN TO GO WITH A POP FREE FORECAST FOR TODAY 
AND TONIGHT.  SLIGHT CHANCES APPEAR WARRANTED SATURDAY AS THE FRONT 
EDGES CLOSER BEFORE STALLING OUT INLAND SATURDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES 
IN THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY EXCEPT ALONG 
THE IMMEDIATE COAST.  SLIGHTLY "COOLER" NUMBERS EXPECTED SATURDAY 
WITH MORE CLOUDS AND WIND EXPECTED. 

WEATHER TO REMAIN GENERALLY UNSETTLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE 
EXTENDED RANGE AS THE FIRST FRONT DISSIPATES SUNDAY AND ANOTHER 
SLOWLY APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE 
PERIOD.  EXPECT WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED DIURNALLY DRIVEN 
CONVECTION THROUGH THE PERIOD.
   
CWF:  BERMUDA HIGH PRES TO MAINTAIN S/SW WINDS OUT THRU 5 DAYS.  
FIRST COLD FRONT ABOUT TO CROSS THE MOUNTAINS...WILL NOT MAKE A 
SIGNIFICANT DENT IN THE BERMUDA HIGH...EXPECT TO WASH OUT OVER THE 
CAROLINAS OVER THE WEEKEND.  ANOTHER FRONT TO DROP INTO NC MON NIGHT 
BUT ALSO WILL NOT MAKE IT TO THE COAST.  

ETA PROGS SHOW NOCTURNAL 25-30 KT LLJ...ESP SAT NIGHT.  THIS IS 
FAIRLY SIMILAR TO CURRENT CONDITIONS SO WILL BEEF UP SAT NIGHT WINDS 
TO 15-20 KT.  NOCTURNAL WINDS TYPICALLY A CAT STRONGER THAN DAYTIME 
THRU MUCH OF THE PERIOD.  SEAS 3-4 FT MAX. 

FCSTID =  31

ILM  93 72 87 72 /  0 10 20 30
FLO  94 70 88 70 /  0 10 20 30
LBT  94 70 87 71 /  0 10 20 30
MYR  89 73 84 73 /  0 10 20 30

.ILM...
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

$$

PUBLIC: RAN
MARINE: RAS
SV_LS140
Louisville, KY   Tuesday February 10, 2009    USDA-KY Dept of Ag Market News
                    
Barren River Regional Cattle Center (Cattle weighed at time of arrival)
Receipts: 774                                                     

Compared to last week: Feeder steers under 400 lbs 3.00-5.00 higher, over 400 
lbs 1.00-2.00 lower.  Feeder heifers under 400 lbs 4.00-6.00 higher, over 400 
lbs 1.00-2.00 higher.  Slaughter cows steady.  Slaughter bulls 1.00 lower.
            
Feeder Steers:  Medium and Large 1-2: 200-300 lbs 105.00-115.00; 300-400 lbs 
107.50-115.00; 400-500 lbs 99.00-107.00; 500-600 lbs 92.00-96.00; 600-700 lbs 
86.00-89.00; 700-800 lbs 77.00.
Groups of 20 head or more: 34 head 576 lbs 92.00 red-x-b.
Medium and Large 3: 300-400 lbs 91.00-94.00; 400-500 lbs 92.00-95.00.
Small 1: 400-500 lbs 88.00.
Small 2: 400-500 lbs 79.50; 500-600 lbs 70.00; 600-700 lbs 60.00.

Holsteins: No test. 

Feeder Bulls: Medium and Large 1-2: 300-400 lbs 103.00-116.00; 400-500 lbs 
103.50-108.00; 500-600 lbs 84.00-96.00; 600-700 lbs 70.00; 700-800 lbs 70.50.    
Groups of 20 head or more: 33 head 512 lbs 96.00 blk; 20 head 515 lbs 93.50 
mixed; 22 head 597 lbs 78.00.

Feeder Heifers:  Medium and Large 1-2: 200-300 lbs 92.50-105.00; 300-400 lbs 
96.00-104.00; 400-500 lbs 87.00-92.50; 500-600 lbs 80.00-82.50; 600-700 lbs 
76.50-79.00; 700-800 lbs 76.00; 900-1105 lbs 67.00.
Groups of 20 head or more: 20 head 438 lbs 92.50 blk; 20 head 514 lbs 80.00 
char-x-b; 25 head 517 lbs 82.50 blk; 38 head 562 lbs 80.00 red-x-b; 20 head 590 
lbs 79.75 mixed.
Medium and Large 3: 300-400 lbs 81.50; 400-500 lbs 74.00-81.50; 500-600 lbs 
71.00-74.00.
Small 2: 300-400 lbs 70.00.

Slaughter Cows:        
         Percent Lean    Weight       Avg-Dress     Hi-Dress      Lo-Dress
Breaker     75-80       895-1700     41.00-44.50   45.00-51.00               
Boner       80-85      1060-1555     36.50-41.50   
Lean        85-90       685-1520     32.50-37.00                               

Slaughter Bulls:            
Y.G.   Weights   Carcass Boning Percent      Avg-Dress        Hi-Dress
1     1345-2135         76-78               54.00-55.50      56.00-57.00    
2     1410-1500         72-75               47.50-52.00
                                        
Stock Cows: Medium and Large 1-2: Cows 18 months to 8 years old and 2-8 months 
bred 345.00-775.00 per head.  Medium 1-2: Cows 8-10 years old and 2-8 months 
bred 280.00-480.00 per head.
Stock Cows and Calves: Medium and Large 1-2: Cows 4-10 years old with 65-345 lbs 
calves at side 550.00-800.00 per pair.
Stock Bulls: No test.
Calves: Baby Beef 170.00 per head.  Weaned 155.00-245.00 per head.

Source: Mike Bell (Market Specialist)
        USDA-KDOA Market News, Louisville, KY
        Jack.Colley@usda.gov   502-582-5287
        www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/sv_ls140.txt
8:30    lh
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	Project #-1655 .	:~orv~77	Approx. 800 Words
	phoebe Faucette	~ ~
iiampt on County


SOLBERT BUTLER EX.SLAVE OF 82 YEARS


	Lilies from the highway old Solbert Butler lives alone under the shadow of the handsome winter home of an aged northerner upon the same soil that he has sen pass from Southerner to Negro, to Southerner, to Northerner. Though shrunken and bent with age he still enjoys talking. _

	UI lives in de Deer Country. A couple of months ago, I saw eight in a drove at one time, like a drove of sheep, or sech like. ~ cant raise nuthin round h;re. ~e~rl1 eat up your garden. And de wild turkeyL And de partridgel But you cant shoot em without de~~eIs give you a license to do it. Now he comm  next month and clere  11 be more shootin I But he amt able to hunt none hiss~lf. He kin ride bout in de woods in de car. Dey are blessed people, thoughL

	Dis used to be de Bostick place. Old M1assa Ben Bostick lived fourteen miles from here. J-)ere was Ben Bostick, Iva Bos tick, Joe Bostick, ~Lr. Luthei~, ~ddie Bostick, an~ Jennie Jo Bostick.  i)e place was divided up between em. O-oht I couldnt number de plantations old Mr. Bostick owned. I think he owred fifteen plantationst He was de millinery (millionaire)t Oh, de 130 sticks, 0-ohL ~ De house dey live in, dey call urn -

	~ what was it dey call um - de Paradi Se house  No one go to dat ~ house but only de rich.

	At Christmas deyd go up dere. And oh, I couldnt number iti Oh, it was paradise. he was good to ein. A~i he whip em gpod, toot Tie em to de fence post and whip em. But I
Setmire, J G; Schroeder, R A; Densmore, J N; Goodbred, S J; Audet, D J 

Detailed study of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with 
irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea area, California, 1988-90

Water Resources Investigation Report: 93-4014.

Results of a detailed study by the National Irrigation Water-Quality Program 
(NIWQP), U.S. Department of the Interior, indicate that factors controlling 
contaminant concentrations in subsurface irrigation drainwater in the Imperial 
Valley are soil characteristics, hydrology, and agricultural practices. Higher 
contaminant concentrations commonly were associated with clayey soils, which 
retard the movement of irrigation water and thus increase the degree of 
evaporative concentration. Regression of hydrogen- and oxygen-isotope ratios 
in samples collected from sumps yields a linear drainwater evaporation line 
that extrapolates through the isotopic composition of Colorado River water, 
thus demonstrating that Colorado River water is the sole source of 
subsurface drainwater in the Imperial Valley. Ratios of selenium to chloride 
indicate that selenium present in subsurface drainwater throughout the 
Imperial Valley originates from the Colorado River. The selenium load 
discharged to the Salton Sea from the Alamo River, the largest contributor, is 
about 6.5 tons/yr. Biological sampling and analysis showed that drainwater 
contaminants, including selenium, boron, and DDE, are accumulating in 
tissues of migratory and resident birds that use food sources in the 
Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea. Selenium concentration in fish-eating 
birds, shorebirds, and the endangered Yuma clapper rail were at levels that 
could affect reproduction. Boron concentrations in migratory waterfowl and 
resident shorebirds were at levels that potentially could cause reduced growth 
in young. As a result of DDE contamination of food sources, waterfowl and 
fish-eating birds in the Imperial Valley may be experiencing reproductive 
impairment.

water pollution sources; fate of pollutants; pesticides; irrigation 
drainage; selenium; bioaccumulation; wildlife management; USA, California, 
Salton Sea; bottom sediments; subsurface drainage; nonpoint pollution; water 
quality; toxicity; wildlife; irrigation; drainage
NR 99-41
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   
Contact: Janis Smith  202-874-5770
May 5, 1999                                                                    
     
           Comptroller Criticizes Subprime Lenders Who
           Fail To Report Borrower Payment Histories 
			   
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Comptroller of the Currency John D. Hawke Jr.,
in a speech today to Neighborhood Housing Services of New York,
expressed concern that a growing number of subprime lenders are
not reporting borrower payment histories to credit bureaus,
because good customers that pay subprime rates are too valuable
to lose to their competitors.  "The failure to report is unfair
to customers, unfair to competitors who play by the rules, and
ultimately inconsistent with the values of our national economy,"
said Comptroller Hawke.

The Comptroller cautioned that this practice denies borrowers
recognition for good payment histories, and could have safety and
soundness implications. "Lenders who continue to rely on full and
reliable credit bureau information, as most still do, will no
longer have it.  This must inevitably skew lending decisions and
could ultimately compromise the integrity of  those lenders' risk
management processes," he added.

Comptroller Hawke also criticized certain subprime lending
practices that hurt vulnerable borrowers, saying, "Sunshine is
the best antidote.  That means full, complete and conspicuous
disclosure of terms to potential borrowers."

Despite concerns about some poor practices, Comptroller Hawke
acknowledged the value of subprime credit for many consumers. 
"Subprime loans give first-time borrowers a chance to build a
credit history, and repeat borrowers a chance to rehabilitate a
blemished history.   Under the right conditions, subprime loans
can become springboards into the financial mainstream," he said. 
The Comptroller also offered praise for lenders who are taking
the lead in developing programs that reward good payment
performance with gradually lowered rates, noting, "That's the way
efficient markets should work."
                                    
                                  # # #

The OCC charters, regulates and examines approximately 2,600 
national banks and 66 federal branches of foreign banks in 
the U.S., accounting for more than 58 percent of  the nation's 
banking assets. Its mission is to ensure a safe and sound and 
competitive national banking system that supports the citizens, 
communities and economy of the United States.
PAS meeting
October 8, 2002

Present: David, Torre (at CERN), Yuri, Alex, Wensheng, Hong, Pavel,
         Valeri (late)

Wensheng
Should there be poster for Magda? GRAPPA does not so Saul thinks
magda should also not have a poster.
He is adding web service to do magda putfile.
Problems with large queries.
usatlas.org now has host dertificzate.

Hong
DB group worrying about conditions. Malon wants DO's to be stored
in Athena/ROOT. Hong would like to wait.
No more root I/O.

Valeri
Root multi-file I/O is done and released.
Needs to add tests for this.
Root contol-C interrupt of athena still not resolved.

Pavel
Working release 4.0.1 which does full pileup (in atlsim).
Ready for pileup production.
KINE is discarded for tracks that do not contribute.

Alex
Nightly build are working well.
He has root password for usatlas.org.
Can use taginfo from that machine (not possible inside
BNL firewall).
All atlassw machines connected to RHN.
Problems with sw5 afs if restarted.
SIT met and agreed that CMT is good.
Experimental CMT allows dropping of version directories
but ATLAS will keep them for now.
Switch to RH7.3 in spring. in spring.

Yuri
Still working on STAR.

Torre
STAR is looking at time fractions.
He met with Peter Kunz re EDG WP2.
He feels it is more useful now to work with this rather
than GLOBUS or GDMP.
GDMP is going to go away and be replaced by WP2 RECTOR.

David
Dataset discussions with Malon and Schaffer.
Trying to build 1st pool release but does not compile.

No meeting next week.
Cap.XXIII.. TheCaribby-Jflands.
14.5
< [To this place may be reduced, among others, that Tempeft
which happen'd here in England at the removal out of this
world of the late Ufurper Oliver Cromwel ; the mifchiefs
whereof are yet frefh in mens minds; as alfo that in February,
To give an example of a Hurricane that fhew'd its malice
here in Europe, particularly on the Sea, we fhall adde the Copy
of a Letter from a Merchant of Rochel to a Correfpondent of
his at Rouen, dated January the 30th, M.DC.XLV.
" We have been in a very fad condition thefe two days, by
" reafon of the extraordinary Tempeft which began Saturday
" night laft, the 28th of this month, and continues yet : We fee
"from our Walls between thirty andjrorty Ships caft away,and
"forc'd to the fhore, moft Englifh bottoms, and abundance of
" Merchandize loft : One of thefe Ships of 200 Tun burthen
" was caft neer a Wind-mill j which is twelve foot higher then
" any tide was ever feen ; for the Tempeft was not only in the
" Air, but it alfo forc'd the Sea much beyond its ordinary li-
cc mits, infomuch that the fpoil it hath done by Land very
'much exceeds the lofs of the Ships. All the Salt on the low
"Marlhes was. carried away; all the Wheat on the lower
" grounds and reduced marches overflown : And in the Ifle
"of Ree the Sea crofs'd it from one fide to the other, fpoil'd
"abundance of Vineyards, anddrown'd muchCattel. , In the
"memory of man the Sea never came up fo high; nay it came
"to fome places almoft a league within the Land: So that
"thofe who have been at S. Chriftophers affirm, that th Hur-
ricanes happening there are not more dreadful then this
" Tempeft was here : The wind was North-weft : The lofs
"both on Sea and Land is valued at five hundred thoufand
" Crowns.* 'Tis conceiv'd there is as much Salt loft as would
" have freighted two hundred Ships of three hundred Tuna
"piece. There are alfo loft fome Dutch Ships neer the Ifle of
"Ree, at Bourdeaux , and Bayonne, which were very richly
" laden. Whence it appears that thefe Tempefts are as violent
" in Europe as thofe fo much feared in the Caribbies.
But in thofe parts, fome to fecure themfelves from thefe
Storms forfake their houfes, out of a fear to be over-Whelm'd
in their mines, and make their abode in Caves and the clefts
of Rocks, or lye flat on the ground in the open fields, till they
be over : 'Others run to fome houfe neer them, which they
think foftrongly built, as that it may elude, the fhocks of that
Tempeft; for now there are in the Caribbies many ftrudures
that in a manner defie the violence thereof: Nay there are fome
will get into the little Huts built by the Negroes,in imitation of
thofe of the Caribbians-, for it hath been found by experience,
that thefe Hutts, being round and having no place open but the
door, and whereof the Rafters ftand upon the ground, are
tj                                  com-
Tokoro terrane 

(subduction zone - oceanic crust) 

(Hokkaido Island, Japan)

Consists chiefly of two major units. (1) A lower unit that consists of ultramafic cumulate rocks, diabase, 
pillow basalt, trachyte, alkali rhyolite, basaltic hyaloclastite and other volcaniclastic rocks, chert, and 
limestone (Nikoro Group). Jurassic Stromatopora and Upper Cretaceous foraminiferas occur in limestone, 
and Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous radiolarians occur in chert. The mafic to ultramafic igneous rocks 
are derived from alkali basalt magmas, and are metamorphosed at the zeolite, prehnite-pumpellyite, sodic 
pyroxene-chlorite, and pumpellyite-actinolite facies (high-pressure intermediate facies type). And (2) an 
unconformably overlying upper unit that consists of Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene sedimentary rocks 
(Saroma Group). REFERENCES: Kiminami and Kontani, 1983; Research Group of Tokoro Belt, 1984; 
Iwata and Tajika, 1986; Kontani and others, 1986; Sakakibara and others, 1986; Tajika, 1988; Kato and 
others, 1990.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include "parseTokens.h"

/*
   THIS FUNCTION FINDS THE MIN/MAX WINDOW FOR A MIM STR OR PGX AND
   RETURNS THE COORDINATES IN A X/Y ARRAYS, INDEXED FOR NUMBER OF 
   CYCLES, AND NUMBER OF POINTS WITHIN EACH CYCLE.  
*/

void mimft_coord(FILE *inFile, char text_in[], float xa[], float ya[], long int npt[], long int *ncycle, float *minx, float *maxx, float *miny, float *maxy)
{

char text[255];
long int idpoly2, numToks;
short int debug=0;
short int i,j,k,n,numpolys;

*minx=99999999999.;
*miny=99999999999.;
*maxx=-99999999999.;
*maxy=-99999999999.;

if(debug)printf("MIMFT GETS: %s\n",text_in);
  numToks = parseTokens(text_in);
  if (strncmp(tokenStrPtrs[0],"*str",4) == 0)
    {
    j = atoi(tokenStrPtrs[1]);
    if(debug)printf("process str with pts: %d\n",j);
    n=0;
    npt[0]=j;
    *ncycle=1;
    while (j > 0)
      {
      fgets(text,255,inFile);
      if(debug)printf("get line: %d %s\n",j, text);
      numToks = parseTokens(text);
      for(i=0;i<numToks;i=i+2)
        {
        xa[n]=atof(tokenStrPtrs[i]);
        ya[n]=atof(tokenStrPtrs[i+1]);
        /* UPDATE MIN MAX VALUES AS NEEDED */
        if(xa[n]<*minx)*minx=xa[n];
        if(ya[n]<*miny)*miny=ya[n];
        if(xa[n]>*maxx)*maxx=xa[n];
        if(ya[n]>*maxy)*maxy=ya[n];
        n=n+1;
        }
      j = j - (numToks/2);
      } /* foot of j while */
    } 
  else if (strncmp(tokenStrPtrs[0],"*pgX",4) == 0)
    {
    numpolys = atoi(tokenStrPtrs[1]);
    k = numpolys;
    n=0;
    *ncycle=0;
    while (k > 0)
       {
       if(k == numpolys)
         {
         j = atoi(tokenStrPtrs[2]);
         }
       else
         {
         fgets(text,255,inFile);
         numToks = parseTokens(text);
         j = atoi(tokenStrPtrs[1]);
         }
         npt[*ncycle]=j;
         *ncycle=*ncycle+1;
       while (j > 0)
         {
         fgets(text,255,inFile);
         numToks = parseTokens(text);
         for(i=0;i<numToks;i=i+2)
           {
           xa[n]=atof(tokenStrPtrs[i]);
           if(debug)printf("xcoords are %6.3f\n",xa[n]);
           ya[n]=atof(tokenStrPtrs[i+1]);
           /* UPDATE MIN MAX VALUES AS NEEDED */
           if(xa[n]<*minx)*minx=xa[n];
           if(ya[n]<*miny)*miny=ya[n];
           if(xa[n]>*maxx)*maxx=xa[n];
           if(ya[n]>*maxy)*maxy=ya[n];
           n=n+1;
           }
         j = j - (numToks/2);
         } /* foot of j while */
       k -= 1;
       } /* foot of k while */
    }
  else
    {
    printf("bad feature type %s\n",text_in);
    }

  if(debug)printf("min/max x: %f %f\n",*minx,*maxx);
  if(debug)printf("min/max y: %f %f\n",*miny,*maxy);
}
TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  256
SUBJECT: GRB 990123:  Discovery of the Probable Host Galaxy
DATE:    99/02/09 21:41:21 GMT
FROM:    George Djorgovski at Caltech/Palomar  <george@oracle.caltech.edu>

GRB 990123:  Discovery of the Probable Host Galaxy

S. G. Djorgovski, S. R. Kulkarni, J. S. Bloom, G. Neugebauer, C. Koresko
(Caltech), L. Armus (IPAC), S. C. Odewahn, B. R. Oppenheimer, R. R. Gal 
(Caltech), N. Kobayashi (NAOJ), and D. A. Frail (NRAO), report on behalf 
of the Caltech-CARA-NRAO GRB collaboration: 

We confirm the detection of a faint galaxy approximately 0.6 arcsec due north 
from the optical transient (OT) associated with GRB 990123, in the K-band
images obtained with the NIRC instrument at the Keck-I 10-m telescope, on the
nights of 29 January 1999 and 6, 7, and 8 February 1999 UT.  The presence of
this object was already suggested in the Keck K-band images obtained on 27
January 1999 UT by Malkan et al., and its K-band magnitude was estimated to 
be about 22 to 23 (see Djorgovski et al., GCN 243).  The galaxy is clearly 
resolved from the OT in the images obtained on 29 January by Neugebauer and 
Armus; it has about an equal magnitude as the OT in the images taken on 7 
and 8 February by Kulkarni and Oppenheimer, i.e., K =~ 22 +- 0.7 mag.

The K-band light curve containing the light from both objects begins to show
a flattening due to the presence of this galaxy.  The deviation from the
power-law light curve in the K-band (Bloom et al., GCN 240), assumed to 
have the slope alpha = -1.15 (as measured in the r band), implies the galaxy 
magnitude K =~ 22.4 (+0.9, -0.4; 1-sigma), in a good agreement with the 
previous estimates.

We interpret this object as the most likely counterpart of the absorber
at z = 1.600 (IAUC 7096, GCN 219, GCN 249, GCN 251), and the probable
host galaxy of the GRB.  Its observed K-band magnitude is reasonable for
a normal galaxy at z = 1.6.

Analysis of the HST images of the field shows the same object (GCN 255),
and further details will be reported shortly.

A Keck image of the field will be posted at:
http://astro.caltech.edu/~george/grb/grb990123.html

This report is citeable.
"By the United States in Congress assembled. February 20, 1782 : Whereas it is become indispensably necessary to settle and adjust, and finally to determine the proportions to be borne by the several states of the expences of the war ...","","07301","073-101p.gif","1","1","","073-101p.tif"
"By the United States in Congress assembled. February 20, 1782 : Whereas it is become indispensably necessary to settle and adjust, and finally to determine the proportions to be borne by the several states of the expences of the war ...","","07301","073a101p.gif","2","2","","073a101p.tif"
"By the United States in Congress assembled. February 20, 1782 : Whereas it is become indispensably necessary to settle and adjust, and finally to determine the proportions to be borne by the several states of the expences of the war ...","","07301","073b101p.gif","3","3","","073b101p.tif"
"By the United States in Congress assembled. February 20, 1782 : Whereas it is become indispensably necessary to settle and adjust, and finally to determine the proportions to be borne by the several states of the expences of the war ...","","07301","073b102p.gif","4","4","","073b102p.tif"
From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 10:08 AM
To: FDA Commissioner
Cc: president@whitehouse.gov; vice.president@whitehouse.gov;
fdadockets@oc.fda.gov; fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Oppose the New FDA Regulations on GE Foods!

FDA Commissioner Jane Henney
Dockets Management Branch (HFA 305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fisher's Lane, rm. 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

RE: Docket No. 00N-1396, and 00D-1598

Dear Ms. Henney,
 
I am outraged by your new policies on genetically engineered (GE)foods. 
 Despite overwhelming consumer demand, your agency still fails to require 
safety testing and mandatory labeling for GE foods. Your notification 
policy is an insult to consumers, and irresponsibly ignores strong 
scientific evidence of numerous potential health and environmental risks 
to GE foods. You should be aware that these foods could be toxic, could 
cause allergic responses, could have lower nutrition value, could 
compromise immune responses in consumers, and could cause irreparable 
damage to the environment. 

I am also greatly opposed to your new voluntary labeling policy, which 
denies consumers a basic right to know. Without mandatory labeling, 
neither consumers nor health professionals will know if an allergic or 
toxic reaction was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers 
will also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need to hold food 
producers liable should any of these novel foods prove hazardous.

My child and I have severe allergies. We have gone into anaphlaxsis (death 
threatening reactions) with foods. Please at least make GE notification 
mandatory on food labels. That way I can keep my child and me from dying 
because we have to eat!

Sincerely,

Lynda A. James

Lynda James
P.O. Box 601
Nederland, CO, 80466

CC: 
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FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
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Martinique Sketches.
latitude. Directly east is Senegambia : we are well
south of Timbuctoo and the Sahara,on a line with
southern India. The ocean has cooled the winds; at
this altitude the rarity of the air is northern ; but in the
valleys below the vegetation is African. The best ali-
mentary plants, the best forage, the flowers of the gar-
dens, are of Guinea ;the graceful date-palms are from
the Atlas region : those tamarinds, whose thick shade
stifles all other vegetal life beneath it, are from Senegal.
Only, in the touch of the air, the vapory colors of dis-
tance, the shapes of the hills, there is a something not
of Africa : that strange fascination which has given to
the island its poetic crole name, le Pays des Revenants.
And the charm is as puissant in our own day as it was
more than two hundred years ago, when Pre Dutertre
wrote :" I have never met one single man, nor one
single woman, of all those who came back therefrom, in
whom I have not remarked a most passionate desire to
return thereunto."
Time and familiarity do not weaken the charm, either
for those born among these scenes who never voyaged
beyond their native island, or for those to whom the
streets of Paris and the streets of St. Pierre are equally
well known. Even at a time when Martinique had been
forsaken by hundreds of her ruined planters, and the
paradise-life of the old days had become only a memory
to embitter exile,a Creole writes :
" Let there suddenly open before you one of those
vistas, or anses, with colonnades of cocoa-palmat the
end of which you see smoking the chimney of a sugar-
mill, and catch a glimpse of the hamlet of negro cabins
(cases) ;or merely picture to yourself one of the most
ordinary, most trivial scenes : nets being hauled by two
ranks of fishermen ; a canot waiting for the embellie^
make a dash for the beach ; even a negro bending under
the weight of a basket of fruits, and running along the
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Path Breaking
Here in the body pent,
Absent from him I roam, Yet   nightly  pitch   my   moving  tent,
A day's march nearer home.
*      *     *
Seventeen added years had slipped awayfrom August, 1896, to August, 1913and our gifted firstborn son, Willis Scott Duniway, was called to the higher life. He had been afflicted with occasional spells of heart trouble for many busy years; but his strong mentality, and the loving ministrations of his faithful wife, had sustained him through this physical affliction; and his strenuous public activities carried him forward to a useful and honorable career, over which the trailing wing of Azrael always hovered, bringing him no terrors, but inspiring him to greater efforts, till at last, he heard the welcome plaudit, "It is enough; come higher." His private and public life were alike distinguished for intelligence, fidelity and integrity.
Few of the women of today, in the full enjoyment of the blessings of enfranchisement, are able to realize, or understand, the efforts made in their behalf in the '70s and '80s of the nineteenth century, when my dear family sustained my efforts to establish .a cause, of which it is to me a great consolation to! remember that Willis lived to see its final achievement. He had been State Printer of Oregon for six and a half years prior to his passing, leaving behind him one and a half elective years of an unexpired term. Many voluminous press testimonials of his useful public life, commended his marvelous gifts of oratory, integrity and fidelity, but no mention was made of his, to me, the greatest of all achievements the work he did in "The New Northwest," for nearly sixteen years, in advocacy of Equal Rights for the Mothers and Daughters of Men.
I, therefore, sent the following facts to the press,
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                  MARS OBSERVER MISSION STATUS
                          May 10, 1993

     The Mars Observer spacecraft again switched into contingency
mode -- a self-protective default mode -- at about 4:57 a.m.
Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday, May 9, 1993.  Flight controllers
at JPL have decided to evaluate some software modifications that
will improve the spacecraft's attitude control performance before
returning to the normal outer cruise mode.

     Contingency mode occurs when the spacecraft is unable to
correctly identify its position in space with respect to certain
stars and the sun.  Specifically, the spacecraft's sun sensor
indicates that the position of the sun is not in the same
location as its on-board flight software expects it to be.  When
that happens, the spacecraft thinks it has lost its attitude
reference and automatically points at the sun, throwing the high-
gain antenna off target with Earth.  Communications are
automatically switched from the high-gain to the low-gain
antenna.  All unnecessary power loads, such as the science
instruments and tape recorders, are turned off.  

     A software fix that will redefine some attitude control
parameters is being evaluated by JPL systems engineers.  That
software was expected to be ready for uplink in the next several
weeks.

     Today Mars Observer is about 20 million kilometers (12.5
million miles) from Mars and 220 million kilometers (136 million
miles) from Earth.  The spacecraft is traveling at a velocity of
about 7,000 kilometers per hour (4,000 miles per hour) with
respect to Mars.

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APPENDIX.
443
last breath of expiring liberty, have lavished their blood to pre-    No. xiv
serve it.    These generals, Avho have conducted your struggles Procl
ama-
tion for the
against tyranny, have not yet done.    The French name still abjuration of
darkens our plains : every thing recals the remembrance of the nation.
cruelties of that barbarous people.    Our laws, our customs, our
cities,   every thing bears the  characteristic of  the  French.
Hearken to what I say !the French still have a footing in our
island !  and you believe yourselves   free   and independent   of
that republic,   which has fought  all   nations,   it is true,   but
never conquered those who would be free !   What !  victims for
fourteen years by credulity and forbearance ! conquered not by
French armies, but by the canting eloquence of the proclama-
tions of their agents ! When shall we be Avearied with breathing
the same air with them ?   What have we in common with that
bloody-minded people ?   Their cruelties compared to our mode-
rationtheir colour to oursthe extension of seas which sepa-
rate usour aArenging climateall plainly tell us they are not
our brethren ;   that they never will become such ; and, if they
find an asylum among us, they will still be the instigators of our
troubles and of our divisions.    Citizens, men, women, young
and old, cast round your eyes on every part of this island ; seek
there your wives,  your husbands, your brothers, your sisters
what did I say ? seek your childrenyour children at the breast,
what is become  of them?   I shudder to tell itthe prey of
vultures.    Instead of these interesting victims, the affrighted eye
sees only their assassinstigers still covered with their blood,
and whose terrifying presence reproaches you for your insensi-
3 L 2                                      bility,

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Gaikowski, M.P., J.C. Wolf, R.G. Endris, and W.H. Gingerich. In press. Safety of 
Aquaflor (Florfenicol, 50% Type A Medicated Article), Administered in Feed to 
Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. Toxicologic Pathology.
Abstract
Aquaflor, a feed premix containing the broad spectrum antibacterial agent florfenicol 
(50% w/w), is being developed for use to control enteric septicemia (ESC) in channel 
catfish Ictalurus punctatus caused by the gram-negative enterobacterium Edwardsiella 
ictaluri. The recommended dose of Aquaflor to control ESC is 10 mg/kg body weight 
(BW)/day for 10 days. The study objective was to determine the safety of Aquaflor 
administered in feed to channel catfish at doses of 0 (control), 10, 30, and 50 mg/kg 
BW/day for 20 consecutive days. Parameters evaluated included daily mortality, 
behavioral (appetite, distribution, flight/fright response), and water chemistry 
observations, initial and terminal weight measurements, and gross and microscopic 
pathology. Medicated feed consumption was 67-86% of target with group mean doses of 
8.5 mg/kg BW/day, 24.6 mg/kg BW/day, and 34.9 mg/kg BW/day. There were no 
mortalities or clinically observable changes noted at any of the dose levels tested. 
Aquaflor-related changes were limited to the food consumption and histopathology 
data. Although Aquaflor-related decreased feed consumption was noted in the 30 and 
50 mg/kg BW/day groups, there were no differences in fish growth among the treatment 
groups. Aquaflor-related histopathology findings were limited to a 
histomorphologically evident dose-dependent decrease in hematopoietic/lymphopoietic 
tissue in the anterior kidneys, posterior kidneys, and spleens of channel catfish.
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PLANTAE    AMERICANAE.    315
MONADELPHIA.
Waltheria      161.
Mclochia
Bombax
Sida    17
Mal va
Hibifcus
32, 18,120,207.
180. -
18, 28, 29, 73, 74,
75. 77> 86. 87, 93,
96, 125, 166.
121.
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Arum            r.
MONOECIA.
230
DIADELPHIA.
Frutex
Erythrina
Pifcipula
Draco
Crotalaria
Phafeolus
Dolichos
Clitoria
Indigofera
139, 187.
MJ.
171.
147, 168.
H'-
41, 61, 164.
7'-
72,97, 117,129
94.
Aefchynomene   192.
Hedyfarum    78, 8g.
SYNGENESIA.
Ageratum
Eupatorium
Staetielinoides
Obfeura
Coreopfs
Melampod.
Milleria
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144.
82.
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63- 92-
201.
200.
GYNANDRIA.
Epidendrum 6, 14,45,51,52,
76, 113, 132,
Paffiflora        ,#' ^ l*1'
Ayenia          j 2y.
Ambrofia
Tragia
Croton
Cucurbitacea
Cueumis
Sicyos
D I O E CI A
199.
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62.
159.
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14.9.
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160, 169.
Cecropia
Ciffampelos
Rajania
Diofcorea
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POLYGAMIA.
Muf              17p.
Apluda          100.
Pifonia          48,60.
Mimofa          46, 190.
CRYPTOGAMIA.
Adiantum      101.
Hemionitis   _ 92.
Marfilea         195.      
Mucor          o-,
APPENDIX.
Palmae
Muco
Denedamo
P-iramini
Ipotaraga
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Alia              90,91, 134, 13^
184, 193
114,
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109.
142.
154.
115.
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PHOTO CAPTION                                      Voyager 2-30 
                                                   P-21760C
                                                   July 10, 1979 
  
This color image of the Jovian moon Europa was acquired by
Voyager 2 during its close encounter on Monday morning, July 9.
Europa, the size of our moon, is thought to have a crust of ice
perhaps 100 kilometers thick which overlies the silicate crust.
The complex array of streaks indicate that the crust has been
fractured and filled by materials from the interior. The lack
of relief, any visible mountains or craters, on its bright limb
is consistent with a thick crust. In contrast to its icy
neighbors, Ganymede and Callisto, Europa has very few impact
craters. One possible candidate is the small feature near the
center of this image with radiating rays and a bright circular
interior. The relative absence of features and low topography
suggests the crust is young and warm a few kilometers below the
surface. The tidal heating process suggested for Io also may
be heating Europa's interior at a lower rate.

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Comment 04111880

From: lhorne@metwood.com
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 6:02 AM
To: Rulemaking, TTB
Subject: Notice No. 41: Labeling and Advertising of Wines, Distilled
Spirits and Malt Beverages



U.S.  TTB
 

Dear U.S.  TTB,

I am writing today to request that the TTB approve a proposal to allow the amount of calories, carbohydrates and alcohol per serving size to be included on beer and other alcoholic beverage bottles. This information is on everything else that I eat and drink. I would like this kind of information for beer as well.

Because this information is provided elsewhere, I believe it is common sense to allow it to be printed on a beer bottle.
Therefore, I urge you to approve this proposal. It will be much appreciated.


Sincerely,

LANDON HORNE
276 ARNETT BLVD.
DANVILLE, Virginia 24540
 cc: 
Senator John Warner
Representative Virgil Goode
Senator George Allen
Chairman Vernon Danielsen
STATEMENT BY JOHNSON SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR ROY S. ESTESS ON THE RESIGNATION OF NASA ADMINISTRATOR, DANIEL S. GOLDIN



October 17, 2001



Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
281 483-5111


<h4>Release: J01-93</h4> <h3>Statement by Johnson Space Center 
Director Roy S. Estess on the Resignation of Nasa Administrator, 
Daniel S. Goldin</h3> 

The following is a statement by Acting Johnson Space Center Director 
Roy S. Estess regarding today&rsquo;s announcement by NASA 
Administrator Daniel S. Goldin that he will depart NASA after almost 
10 years as Administrator.



&ldquo;During his tenure as NASA Administrator, Dan Goldin challenged 
this agency and its employees to work creatively, intelligently and 
safely in expanding a human presence in space. We have continued to 
safely fly the Space Shuttle, the most complex and imaginative 
vehicle ever to carry humans into space. We have entered an era of 
unprecedented human cooperation in space with the International Space 
Station, and we have maintained our commitment to the safety of all 
the people living and working in space.



On a personal note, I have been a Center Director during his entire 
tenure at NASA and I very much appreciate his commitment to the 
country, to NASA, and his support and help to me. Dan Goldin&rsquo;s 
dedication to this country and its space program are well known. We 
will continue his commitment, flying humans safely in space and 
expanding our knowledge of the universe.&rdquo;

	
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TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  1030
SUBJECT: REVISED LOCATION OF GRB010326A
DATE:    01/03/29 21:27:34 GMT
FROM:    Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL  <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>

K. Hurley, on behalf of the Ulysses GRB and HETE teams; T. Cline, on
behalf of the Ulysses, Konus-Wind, and HETE GRB teams; E. Mazets and
S.  Golenetskii, on behalf of the Konus-Wind and Konus-A GRB teams; and
G. Ricker, D. Lamb, C.  Graziani, E. Fenimore, N. Kawai, and J.-L.
Atteia, on behalf of the HETE team report:

Ulysses, Konus-Wind and Konus-A observed GRB010326A. This burst had a
duration of ~25 s, a 17 keV - 2.5 MeV fluence of ~4x10^-5 erg/cm2, and
a peak flux over 0.25 s of ~8x10^-6 erg/cm2 s. From a cross-correlation
of the Ulysses and Konus-Wind time histories, we have triangulated the
location of the burst to an annulus centered at RA(2000)=178.727 deg.,
Decl(2000)=30.803 deg., and radius 81.702+/- 0.028 deg. (3 sigma confidence).
The triangulation based on the Konus-Wind and the Konus-A data resulted
in an annulus centered at RA(2000)=94.662 deg., Decl(2000)=21.978 deg., and
radius 69.7+/- 0.4 deg. (1 sigma confidence).  Combining these data, we
are able to restrict the location of the burst to the following ~180
square arcmin. error box.

  RA(2000)       DEC(2000)
132.9630 o     -38.3005 o (CENTER)
132.3408 o     -38.5784 o (CORNER)
132.3988 o     -38.5441 o (CORNER)
131.5271 o     -38.0568 o (CORNER)
131.5851 o     -38.0230 o (CORNER)

This location is consistent with the spectra and time history seen in 
the four HETE FREGATE detectors. The above error box can be refined 
by further processing.

On this basis, we have concluded that the WXM location reported in GCN
1014 for this burst is spurious.  This burst is distinct from the other 
GRBs (GRB010326B, GCN 1018; GRB010213, GCN 934) for which HETE WXM 
locations have been reported, in that it has a very low 
signal-to-noise excess count rate in the WXM, and our further 
analysis suggests that it is this fact that accounts
for the spurious location. The HETE team apologizes for any 
inconvenience arising from the spurious location.