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"Axis Tilt","       ","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec","Year"
"0        ","Average", 3.09, 4.45, 5.71, 7.48, 8.56, 9.51, 9.79, 8.71, 7.23, 5.59, 3.82, 3.05, 6.42
"Lat - 15 ","Average", 3.80, 5.20, 6.28, 7.84, 8.66, 9.46, 9.82, 9.01, 7.82, 6.39, 4.62, 3.82, 6.89
"Lat      ","Average", 4.14, 5.51, 6.42, 7.78, 8.40, 9.08, 9.47, 8.85, 7.90, 6.70, 5.00, 4.22, 6.96
"Lat + 15 ","Average", 4.33, 5.62, 6.35, 7.47, 7.91, 8.48, 8.88, 8.44, 7.72, 6.75, 5.19, 4.46, 6.80
"SOLAR RADIATION FOR 2-AXIS TRACKING FLAT-PLATE COLLECTORS (kWh/m2/day), Percentage Uncertainty = 11"
"Tracker  ","       ","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec","Year"
"2-Axis   ","Average", 4.37, 5.63, 6.44, 7.87, 8.76, 9.67, 9.98, 9.05, 7.92, 6.78, 5.23, 4.53, 7.18
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"1-X, E-W Hor Axis","Average", 2.46, 3.13, 3.21, 3.88, 4.39, 5.05, 5.34, 4.69, 4.27, 3.95, 3.21, 2.75, 3.86
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"1-X, N-S, Tilt=Lat ","Average", 2.65, 3.70, 4.16, 5.15, 5.55, 6.14, 6.63, 6.17, 5.71, 4.90, 3.59, 2.89, 4.77
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From: Maire [mairedodd@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:46 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: court protections for commercial speech

I am very grateful to be able to express my strong feelings on this topic. I do not believe that the rights of corporations to promote drugs, tobacco, or alcohol outweigh the rights of the individual to be protected from such advertisement. The purpose of the commercials is not to educate, it is to convince the consumer that it is something that they need. 
I have 3 small children, ages 4-10 yrs., and they are particularly vulnerable to commercials. But they are not the only ones...these commercials suggest that perhaps you should  consult your doctor for many symptoms that we all may experience on occassion. Granted, it is noted that it may not be right for everyone, but people don't really hear that. In this world of quick fixes, these commercials appeal to those not savvy enough to think it thru. Basically, most commercials are counting on people taking their word as authority.
I am also opposed to all of the commercials geared toward children. They are particularly susceptible to advertising and don't necessarily have parents who are teaching them what the goals of the ads are. Junk food, drugs...what about preadolescents and teenagers who are struggling with normal issues of their age, but in a difficult world. They do not need to be exposed to commercials in which a number of symptoms are cited and then think that there is something wrong with them...that they have issues that are diagnosible instead of normal struggles. This is not to say that the drugs are not useful in certain cases. But I do not believe they need to be shown to the general public.
Our country was founded upon the rights and protection of the individual, the true individual, not the legally-defined corporate individual.
The drug commercials provide a disservice, not a service to the public. From the day I saw them, I was opposed. Their goal would seem to be to promote the cycle that taking these drugs requires--doctor visits, prescription written, follow-up with doctor, more prescriptions. But more than this, I feel that they are dangerous because they make even the average guy, who will have aches and pains, or fears, etc. from time to time, feel like there really must be something wrong with them. We don't need more of this. People are doing the best they can as it is. It is exploitative.
In addition to grown-ups, the children must be protected. I monitor what my kids watch, but you can't be there every second. We discuss things freely, but commercials are persuasive and they are easily impressed.
I do not believe in the advertisement of drugs, alcohol, or tobacco...I thank you for the opportunity to voice my opinion and hope that you will keep in mind that the agency should be protecting the rights of the individual, not the corporations and pharmaceutical companies.
Mary Jane Dodd
From:      <PARKREF_ILL@WYLD.STATE.WY.US>
To:        A16.A16(kidstv)
Date:      10/13/95 2:23pm
Subject:   MM Docket No. 93-48

My name is Colleen Williams and I am writing in favor of the
Children's  Television Act (MM Docket No. 93-48).  As a
children's librarian, former teacher and parent, I feel that the
Processing Guideline should consist of at least one hour of
"core" educational programming daily.  The FCC is and Congress
are ready to give away $37 billion worth of free access to
airwaves and should demand quality children's programming in
return.

Thank you.
Colleen Williams
Cody, Wyoming
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SAVAGE ALLIES OF NEW FRANCE
283
thirty to forty leagues, and return laden with game; in autumn they depart for the winter hunt (which is the best [time of the year] for the skins and furs), and return in the spring laden with beavers, pelts, various kinds of fat, and the flesh of bears and deer. They sell all of which they have more than enough. They would be exceedingly well-to-do if they were economical; but most of them have the same traits as the Sauteurs.
The Hurons are more provident; they think of the future, and they support their families. As they are sober, it is seldom that they suffer from poverty. This tribe is very politic, treacherous in their actions, and proud in all their behavior; they have more intellect than all the other savages. The Hurons are liberal; they show delicacy in their conversation, and they speak with precision. The others try to imitate them. They are insinuating, and are seldom cheated by any person whatsoever in any of their undertakings. The Outa-oiiaks, who are their neighbors, have imitated their customs and their rules of conduct; these people were at first very rude, but by intercourse with the Hurons they have become much more intelligent. They have imitated the valor of the latter, and have made themselves feared by all the tribes who are their enemies, and looked up to by those who are their allies.
Michilimakinak, according to the old men, is the place where Michapous sojourned longest. There is a mountain on the shore of the lake which has the shape of a hare; they believe that this was the place of his abode, and they call this mountain Michapous.198   It is
198 Manabozho, Messou, Michabo are among the synonyms of Nanabozho, "the demiurge of the cosmologic traditions of the Algonquian tribes." He is  "apparently the impersonation of life, the active quickening power of lifeof life manifested and embodied in the myriad forms of sentient and physical nature. He is therefore reputed to possess not only the power to live, but also the correlative power of renewing his own life and of quickening and there-
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IMAGE CAPTION                          P-49434
                                       December 16, 1997
                                       Europa--Ice Rafting 

A small region of the thin, disrupted ice crust in the Conamara 
region of Jupiter's moon Europa shows the interplay of surface 
color with ice structures in this image produced with data from 
NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera.  The white and blue colors 
outline areas that have been blanketed by a fine dust of ice 
particles ejected when an explosive impact created the large 
crater Pwyll (26 kilometers or 16 miles in diameter) located some 
1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) to the south.  Also visible 
are a few small craters of less than 500 meters or 547 yards in 
diameter that were probably formed at the same when the impact 
likely threw out large, intact, blocks of around the area.  The 
unblanketed surface has a reddish brown color that has been 
painted by mineral contaminants carried and spread by water vapor 
released from below the crust when it was disrupted. The original 
color of the icy surface was probably a deep blue seen in large 
areas elsewhere on Europa's surface.  The colors in this picture 
have been enhanced for visibility. 

North is to the top of the picture and the Sun illuminates the 
surface from the right.  The image, centered at 9 degrees 
latitude and 86.5 degrees south longitude, covers an area 
approximately 70 by 30 kilometers (44 by 19 miles), and combines 
data taken by the Galileo Solid State Imaging (CCD) system during 
three of the spacecraft's orbits through the Jovian system.  Low-
resolution color (violet, green, and infrared) data acquired in 
September 1996 were combined with medium-resolution images from 
December 1996 to produce synthetic color images.  These were then 
combined with a high-resolution mosaic of images acquired on Feb. 
20, 1997 at a resolution of 54 meters (59 yards) per picture 
element and at a range of 5,340 kilometers (3,320 miles).

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the Galileo 
mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.  JPL 
is a division of California Institute of Technology.

This image and other images and data received from Galileo are 
posted on the World Wide Web, on the Galileo mission home page at 
URL http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo. Background information and 
educational context for the images can be found at URL 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo

                        #####
TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7315
SUBJECT: GRB 080211: Suzaku WAM observation of the prompt emission 
DATE:    08/02/19 01:00:42 GMT
FROM:    Masanori Ohno at Hiroshima U  <ohno@hirax7.hepl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>

M. Ohno, T. Uehara, T. Takahashi, Y. Fukazawa, 
C. Kira, Y. Hanabata (Hiroshima U.), 
K. Yamaoka, Y. E. Nakagawa, S. Sugita (Aoyama Gakuin U.), 
M. Tashiro, Y. Terada, Y. Urata, A. Endo,
K. Onda, M. Suzuki, N. Kodaka, K. Morigami (Saitama U.), 
T. Tamagawa (RIKEN),
T. Enoto, R. Miyawaki, K. Nakazawa, K. Makishima (Univ. of Tokyo),
E. Sonoda, M. Yamauchi, H. Tanaka, R. Hara (Univ. of Miyazaki),
M. Kokubun, M. Suzuki, T. Takahashi (ISAS/JAXA), 
S. Hong (Nihon U.),
on behalf of the Suzaku WAM team, report:

The bright, long, IPN localized GRB 080211 (Hurley et al., GCN 7295)
was detected by the the Suzaku Wide-band  All-sky Monitor (WAM) which
covers an energy range of 50 keV - 5 MeV at 07:23:39 UT (=T0).
The observed light curve shows a multi-peaked structure, starting at
T0-10 s, ending at T0+25 s with a duration (T90) of about 25 seconds.
The fluence in 100 - 1000 keV was 2.8(+0.1,-0.1) x 10^-5 erg/cm^2.
The 1-s peak flux measured from T0+6 s was 5.5(+0.4,-0.6)
photons/cm^2/s in the same  energy range.

Preliminary result shows that the time-averaged spectrum from
T0-10s to T0+25s is well fitted by a power-law with exponential cutoff
model:
 dN/dE ~  E^{-alpha} * exp(-(2-alpha)*E/Epeak) with
 alpha       1.1(+0.2,-0.2), and
 Epeak       483(+66,-46) keV (chi^2/d.o.f. = 38/21).

All the quoted errors are at statistical 90% confidence level,
in which the systematic uncertainties are not included.

The light curves with 1-sec time resolution for this burst will be
appeared at:

 http://www.astro.isas.jaxa.jp/suzaku/HXD-WAM/WAM-GRB/grb/untrig/grb_table.html
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You are invited to come hear a lecture given by Dr. Jiang Li, Ph.D. in the Doppman Conference Room. The talk is entitled: Machine Learning Methodologies in CT Virtual Colonoscopy Computer-Aided Colonic Polyp Detection.


When: July 6, 2006

Where: Doppman Conference Room
(Located in the Diagnostic Radiology Department, 1C520)

Time: 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm


Abstract:

Although colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the US, it is also one of the most treatable forms of cancer. Early detection of colon polyps is the best way to approach treatment. Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) computer aided detection (CAD) system is a new tool in development to detect colon polyps in virtual colonoscopy. The CTC CAD system developed in our group first segments colon using a region growing algorithm, and the colon surface is extracted by an iso-surface technique. Polyp candidates along the colon surface are then identified and segmented. We calculate more than 100 quantitative features for each of the segmented candidates. These features are then run through a feature selection procedure, and the selected features are finally used to classify the polyp candidates by a committee of support vector machines. A large population study showed that our system achieved fairly high performance for detecting larger polyps, but more challenges should be tackled when the goal is to locate the so-called "medium"-sized polyps, 6-9mm in diameter. During the presentation, I will briefly introduce the system diagram and some methodologies for improving the system. In particular, I will present a multiobjective optimization scheme to improve the initial polyp detection on the colon surface, a wavelet analysis method for false positive reduction, and an efficient algorithm for the feature selection.




for further information contact:

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Program Support Assistant
DRD/CC/NIH
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Bethesda, MD 20892-1182
Phone: 301-402-5076
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	NEWS MEDIA CONTACT
July 16, 1999	Emily Hoffnar 202/418-0253

	COMMON CARRIER ACTION	

FCC Issues Citations to Several Alleged Violators 
of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act

	This week, the Common Carrier Bureau's Enforcement Division (Enforcement 
Division) issued citations to several companies that apparently have violated the 
Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) and the Commission's 
telemarketing rules. The Enforcement Division's actions were based upon consumer 
complaints asserting that the cited companies had sent unsolicited advertisements to the 
consumers' telephone facsimile machines. The citations place each company on notice 
that subsequent violations may result in monetary forfeitures of up to $11,000 per 
violation.

	In the citation letter, the alleged violators are informed that they have 21 days to 
respond to the allegations, either by attending a personal interview at a Commission Field 
Office, or by submitting a written statement to the Commission. In their response, the 
alleged violators must specify what actions have been taken to ensure future compliance 
with the TCPA and applicable Commission rules. The following companies received 
citations this week: Headset Discounter, LLC, San Francisco, CA; Get-Aways, Inc., 
Camarillo, CA; US Notary, El Cajon, CA; Tri-Star Marketing, Everett, WA; and Carolina 
Liquidators, Irving, Texas.

	Currently, the sending of unsolicited advertisements to facsimile machines is the 
top TCPA-related complaint to the Commission, which has handled over a thousand such 
complaints so far this year. Complaints against these companies have been received from 
consumers nationwide. To remedy this problem, the Commission will continue to issue 
citations to companies that have allegedly violated the TCPA or the Commission's 
telemarketing rules.

	Action by the Common Carrier Bureau, Enforcement Division, by citation.

	-FCC-

Common Carrier Bureau contacts: 	Jennifer Myers Kashatus at (202) 418-0960
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This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order
constitutes official action.  See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974).
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1992.09.24 :  Lack of Parent/Child Interaction Trend
 
Contact: John Gibbons 202/690-6343
September 24, 1992

       America's children are "being hit with an epidemic of
parent-withdrawal," HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., told
the National Black Child Development Institute at its 22nd annual
conference last weekend in Washington, D.C.
       "For reasons ranging from immaturity, to exhaustion, to
pursuit of self-gratification, parents today spend 40 percent
less time with their children than parents did in 1965,"
Secretary Sullivan said.
       Calling the lack of parent/child interaction "a
troublesome trend for children and teen-agers who need their
parents to help navigate an increasingly permissive moral
environment," Secretary Sullivan said surveys actually show that
children want more attention from their parents.
       "Contrary to popular perceptions of teen-agers thinking
they have all the answers," Secretary Sullivan said, "kids say
that they wish their parents would talk to them more about issues
such as school work, drugs, dating and sex."
       Urging a children-first priority, Secretary Sullivan said
"We need both effective, family-friendly government interventions
and a cultural shift so that children come first in order to help
every child, including every African-American child, realize his
or her full potential."
       Secretary Sullivan said the administration's overall
budget proposals for fiscal year 1993 show funding increases for
programs that invest in children, focus on prevention and empower
parents. The list includes four HHS programs that were discussed
in the weekend speech to the child-interest group: 
       -- $143 million to provide for demonstration projects in
15 communities, part of the Healthy Start initiative designed to
reduce infant mortality rates.
       -- $300 million for immunization activities, an increase
of 148 percent over 1989, to ensure that children are fully
immunized by the time they are two years old.
       -- $40 million, a 90 percent increase, to spur lead
poisoning screening to curb a preventable disease which finds
low-income, minority children in urban areas most at risk.
       -- $600 million for Head Start, a doubling of funding
since 1989, making it possible for an additional 157,000 children
to be served in 1993.

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RECORD EVENT REPORT 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1035 AM EST WED FEB 19 2003

...RECORD 24 HOUR SNOWFALL AND RECORD SNOWSTORM SNOWFALL SET AT 
LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FEBRUARY 17TH-18TH 2003...
...FEBRUARY MONTHLY SNOWFALL RECORD ESTABLISHED IN BOSTON...
...FEBRUARY 2003 IS THE SNOWIEST MONTH OF ANY MONTH ON RECORD... 

LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN EAST BOSTON MEASURED 27.5 INCHES OF 
SNOWFALL. THIS ECLIPSED THE PREVIOUS 24 HOUR SNOWFALL RECORD OF 25.4 
INCHES SET DURING THE APRIL FOOLS DAY BLIZZARD OF MARCH 31ST AND 
APRIL 1ST OF 1997.

THE TOTAL OF 27.5 INCHES ALSO SET THE RECORD FOR GREATEST SNOWSTORM 
SNOWFALL TOTAL. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 27.1 INCHES SET FEBRUARY 6TH 
AND 7TH 1978.

IN ADDITION THE PRESIDENTS DAY SNOWSTORM HELPED SET THE FEBRUARY 
SNOWFALL RECORD IN BOSTON. CURRENTLY THE FEBRUARY 2003 SNOWFALL 
TOTAL IS 41.6 INCHES. THIS BREAKS THE PREVIOUS FEBRUARY MONTHLY 
RECORD OF 41.3 INCHES SET IN 1969.

FEBRUARY 2003 IS NOW THE SNOWIEST MONTH OF ANY MONTH ON RECORD IN 
BOSTON. 

SNOWFALL RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT IN BOSTON SINCE 1892.

$$

AED/STRAUSS
QUESTION:  
Do the zodiacs or the Polar Duke accidently run over
animals? What steps do the ships take to prevent this from
happening? 
            Kristi W., 3rd grader, Thomas Lewis' class
            Burnley-Moran School, Charlottesville, Virginia

ANSWER from Randy Sliester, Boating Coordinator
            Palmer Station, Antarctica
            Sat, 1 Feb 1997 10:45:33 -0500
             

Hello Kristi! In answer to your question, no, not to my knowledge 
has the Polar Duke or any of the Zodiacs run over or injured any 
marine mammals. Part of the Antarctic treaty  is to not alter the 
behavior of any of the native wild life, what that means is we go to 
great lengths to avoid causing any annoyance to the wild life in any 
way weather on land or at sea. If there are penguins or seals in the 
water when we are out in the boats we detour around them and if there
allot of them we shut off the engines and just wait until they 
leave.

I hope this answers your questions!
Randy
DON MIGUEL  ZARATE.                             10
opportunity to ally themselves with their desert con-geners; and in the incursions of the Apaches and Comanches it is rare for the faithful Indians not to serve them as scouts, guides, and spies.
The family of Don Miguel Zarate had retired to New Mexico, which country it did not leave again a few years   after thj   conquests of the adventurer Cortez. Don Miguel  had  closely followed the  policy  of his family by maintaining the bonds of friendship and good neighbourhood which, from time immemorial, attached it to the Indians, believers or not.    This policy had borne its  fruit.    Annually, in  September, when the terrible red warriors, preceded by murder and arson, rushed  like  a torrent  on  the wretched  inhabitants, whom they massacred in  the  farms they plundered, without pity for age or sex, only Don Miguel Zarate's estates were respected; and not merely was no damage inflicted on them, but even if at times a field were unwittingly trampled by the horses'  hoofs, or a few trees destroyed by plunderers, the evil was immediately repaired ere the owner had opportunity for complaint.
This conduct of the Indians had not failed to arouso against Don Miguel extreme jealousy on the part of the inhabitants, who saw themselves periodically ruined by the Indios Bravos. Earnest complaints had been laid against him before the Mexican Government; but whatever might be the power of his enemies, and the means they employed to ruin him, the rich baciendero had never been seriously disturbed: in the first place, because New Mexico is too remote from the capital for the inhabitants to have anything to fear from the governing classes; and secondly, Don Miguel was too
HXDMKBSTSPEC (May 2007)          suzaku.hxd            HXDMKBSTSPEC (May 2007)

NAME
        hxdmkbstspec -- extract spectra from HXD-WAM BST data

USAGE
        hxdmkbstspec input_name outroot tpu_board th_mode time_min time_max dt_cor
        
DESCRIPTION
        This task creates a spectrum for each WAM detector from one BST event fits
        file. The spectrum is extracted from Pulse Height (PH) data
        with 55 energy channels or Time History (TH) data with 4 energy channels in
        the WAM BST data for a finite time interval defined by time_min and time_max.
        The dead-time correction is selectable with an option of "dt_cor".

PARAMETERS
(read_iomode = create)          
        HXD BST fits input I/O mode : overwrite or create 

input_name
        HXD BST event fits file name.

outroot
        Root name for output file.

tpu_board = -1
        HXD WAM detector number (-1=all, 0, 1, 2, 3).

th_mode = 1 
        Extract from Pulse Height data (PH) data or Time History (TH) data (0:PH, 1:TH)
        TH data is not currently supported.

time_min
        Starting astetime for summation.

time_max
        Ending astetime for summation.

dt_cor = yes
        Perform a deadtime correction?: yes or no.
       
(dt_clk = 12.8e-6)
        Deadtime clock period. The default value of the WAM analog
        electronics is set at 12.8 micro-seconds.

(origin = hxdmkbstspec)    
        ORIGIN

(num_event = -1)              
        number of event (-1=all, 0=exit)

(event_freq = 10000)           
        Event number printout frequency

(anl_verbose = -1)
        ANL verbose level (-1:full, 0:minimum)

(anl_profile = yes)
        Enable ANL module profiling

(chatter = 2)               
        message chatter level (0:min, 2:norm, 5:max)

EXAMPLES
        Extract the deadtime-corrected WAM PH spectra for all the WAM detectors 
        from the BST event files named "aae20061006_0115_0120_hxd_bst02.uff.gz"
        for a finite time interval of 146689200 to 146691000.                

        % hxdmkbstspec input_name="ae20040824_1853_1959_hxd_wam.uff" \
          outroot="ae20040824_1853_1959" tpu_board=-1 th_mode=0 \
	  time_min=146689200\
          time_max=146691000 dt_cor=yes 

BUGS

SEE ALSO 

AUTHOR

  Kazutaka Yamaoka (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.), Yukikatsu TERADA (Saitama Univ.),
  and the HXD-WAM team, suzaku-wam@astro.isas.jaxa.jp.

LAST MODIFIED

  May 2007
yellow (most common) to red, brown, or blue ... C carinata Rehn RIDGED GRASSHOPPER 48b.Median crest on metazona low (Fig. 138). Median crest on prozona variable, sometimes bilobate. Hind tibiae red (most common) to yel- low   ................................................................................................. 49 49a. Tegniina with large, dark bands. Lateral lobe of pronotum sharply pointed downward (Fig. 138). Hind tibiae red to yel- low, never blue-gray ... C. sulcifrons (Scudder) GROOVE- HEADED GRASSHOPPER 49b. Tegniina with less distinct markings. Lateral               'lobe of pronotum not pointed as above. Hind tibiae red to yellow or blue-gray to brownish ... C texana (Bruner) 50a. Median crest of pronotum obsolete, cuts by sulci barely distinguishable (Fig. 139). Tegmina markings fain@ hind wings transparent blue. No indication of dark band present on hind wings. Does not crepitate in flight ... Anconia hebardi Rehn 50b.Median crest of pronotum low but distinct. Cuts by sulci distinct (Fig. 140,141). Tegminal markings often pro- nounced. Hind wings variable in color, with central dark band pronounced to faintly indicated (exception: some T. sparse have no Uwe of band). AU species crepitate in flight ... (Trimerotropis and Spharagenwn in part)                   ......   5 1 5 la. Lower posterior margin of pronow lateral lobes pro- jected to an acute point or rounded with a tooth pro- jecting down (Fig. 140,141). Hind tibiae md or or- ange  ......................................................................... 52 5 lb.Lower posterior margin of pronow lateral lobes sim- ply rounded      ............................................................. 55 52a. Lower posterior margin of lateral lobes extended downward into a point (Fig. 140). Inner face of hind femora orange or red           ............................... 53 52b.Lateral posterior margin of lateral lobes rounded, but with a small tooth-like projection (Fig. 141). Inner face of hind femora whitish or yellow... 54 53a. Inner face of hind femora with black bands ... T. agrestis McNeill TOOTHED FIELD GRASSHOPPER 53b.Inner face of hind femora without black bands ... T barnumi Tinkham 54a. Tegraina with distinct darkened crossbands (Fig. 142). Band on hind wing not continuing to anal edge ... T. call Bruner. Color plate 7.
# File: ASSESSMENT_CLASS.R
# Purpose: condition class estimation for Region 10 and states
#          Useful for assessment document.
#          Data files include final design information and
#          only have one record for each site from the probability sample
# Programmer: Tony Olsen
# Date: October 11, 2005
# Modified: Dan McKenzie
# Date: January 27, 2006
# Data required: condclass_wgt3.csv

# Libraries required: psurvey.analysis 2.9

# Read in condition class data
assess <- read.csv('Original Data/condclass_wgt3.csv')
names(assess)

# Change Condition Class variables to factors to work with cat.analysis program
#   and treat missing value as missing, not as a class level
assess$BUG_COND <- as.factor(assess$BUG_COND)
assess$PTL_COND <- as.factor(assess$PTL_COND)
assess$NTL_COND <- as.factor(assess$NTL_COND)

########

## Need equal area coordinates for variance estimation
#  (uses x-site coords when available, design coords otherwise)
tmp <- marinus(assess$POPLAT_DD, assess$POPLONG_DD)
assess$xmarinus <- tmp[,'x']
assess$ymarinus <- tmp[,'y']

# Set up data for estimation
# which sites to use?
# create site file for biological/chem/habitat, invasive plant
# estimates

sites.cond <- data.frame(SiteID=assess$SITE_ID,
                     Use=(assess$USED=='Y'& !is.na(assess$WGT_COND)))

# want estimates for what subpopulations?
# Create subpop variables
subpop.cond <- data.frame(SiteID=assess$SITE_ID, 
                          Region10=rep('Region 10', nrow(assess)),
                          States=assess$STATE)

# Provide design information
#  -- change wgt variable for biology/habitat, 

dsgn.cond <- data.frame(siteID=assess$SITE_ID, 
                        stratum=assess$STRATUM, wgt=assess$WGT_COND, 
                        xcoord=assess$xmarinus, ycoord=assess$ymarinus)

# Provide categorical indicator data
data.cat.cond <- data.frame(siteID=assess$SITE_ID,
							 assess$BUG_COND,
							 assess$PTL_COND,
							 assess$NTL_COND)

# Do status population estimation for biology, nutrient, and habitat indicators
popstatus.cond <- cat.analysis(sites = sites.cond,
					subpop = subpop.cond, 
					design = dsgn.cond,
  				data.cat = data.cat.cond, 
					vartype = "Local", 
					conf = 95)

# write results out
write.table(popstatus.cond, 
         'condition_assessments.csv',
          sep = ",", col.names=NA)
FXUS63 KDDC 210739
AFDDDC

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...FINAL DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
215 AM CDT THU AUG 21 2003

DAYS 1-2...

SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS WILL PUSH A WEAK
COLD FRONT SOUTH INTO KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS FRONT WILL COME A 
HALT UNDER THE UPPER RIDGE BY AFTERNOON. A FEW PULSE-TYPE STORMS 
WILL DEVELOP WITH BASES AROUND 8000FT. HAIL IS NOT LIKELY WITH THESE 
STORMS, BUT DOWNBURST WINDS ARE A POSSIBILITY AS THE STORMS COLLAPSE
GIVEN THE DEEP INVERTED-V TYPE SOUNDING. KEPT 20 PERCENT POPS FROM 
THE PREVIOUS FORECAST AND EXPANDED ALL THE WAY TO THE COLORADO 
BORDER. WE SHOULD EASILY MIX UP TO 700MB ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF 
THE FCST AREA BEFORE THE FRONT ARRIVES/WASHES OUT NEAR DDC BY LATE 
AFTERNOON. THE HOTTEST TEMPS SHOULD BE SOUTH OF THE FRONT IN THE 
SOUTHEAST COUNTIES, WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS ALONG THE COLORADO 
BORDER SIMPLY DUE TO THE HIGHER ELEVATION. THE FRONT SHOULD STALL 
OUT IN OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES, SO ISOLATED STORMS CANT BE RULED OUT
FRIDAY EITHER.

DAYS 3-7...

IN THE EXTENDED PERIODS, A VARIETY OF SOLUTIONS APPEAR POSSIBLE WITH 
NO CLEAR INDICATION OF WHICH MIGHT BE CORRECT. CDC CONTINUES TO HAVE 
COMPUTER PROBLEMS SO THERE IS NO DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION AVAILABLE 
ASIDE FROM A LITTLE SATELLITE DATA. GIVEN THAT, THERE IS NO WAY TO 
EVALUATE THE VARIOUS MODELS AND ENSEMBLES OTHER THAN TO PLAY MIX AND 
MATCH WITH THEIR SOLUTIONS AND THEIR CONSISTENCY. OVERALL THEIR 
TREND IS TO SUCK UP THE EASTERN PACIFIC CYCLONE IN THE NORTHERN 
BRANCH FLOW, SWING IT ACROSS THE NORTHERN CONUS BREAKING OUT 
PRECIPITATION AND EVENTUALLY FORCING A COLD FRONT SOUTH INTO THE 
FORECAST AREA EARLY IN THE COMING WEEK. THIS IS CERTAINLY A 
PLAUSIBLE SOLUTION, BUT IS NOT BACKED BY MODEL OR ENSEMBLE 
CONSISTENCY/CONGRUENCE AND IS UNVERIFIABLE DUE TO LACK OF 
DIAGNOSTICS. DUE TO THIS REASONING, WILL CHOOSE NOT TO CHANGE THE 
GOING DRY FORECAST ALTHOUGH WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE SOME 
VARIANT OF THIS SCENARIO MATURE. THERE ARE A LARGE VARIETY OF THINGS 
WHICH COULD VERY WRONG WITH THIS IDEA. 

FINCH/JOHNSON

.PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST.

DDC 103 67 102 66 / 20 20 20 20
GCK 101 65  98 64 / 20 20 20 20
EHA  98 65  96 62 / 10 10 20 20
LBL 101 66  99 66 / 10 10 20 20
HYS  97 65  96 65 /  0  0  0 00
P28 105 70 104 69 / 20 20 20 20

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...NONE.

$$
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//-              to describe basic unary events, like destroying a model 
//-              entity. Derived classes describe events requiring extra
//-              data, such as merging two model entities.
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#define CUBITEVENT_HPP

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#include "CubitEventDefines.h"

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  SubType get_event_sub_type() const;
  void set_event_sub_type(SubType sub_event_type);
  
private:

  Type eventType;
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};

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{}

inline CubitEvent::CubitEvent( CubitEvent::Type event_type )
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{}

inline CubitEvent::~CubitEvent() 
{}

inline CubitEvent::Type CubitEvent::get_event_type() const
{ return eventType; }

inline void CubitEvent::set_event_type( CubitEvent::Type event_type )
{ eventType = event_type; }


inline CubitEvent::CubitEvent( CubitEvent::Type event_type,
                               CubitEvent::SubType event_subtype )
        : eventType(event_type),
          eventSubType(event_subtype) 
{}

inline CubitEvent::SubType CubitEvent::get_event_sub_type() const
{ return eventSubType; }

inline void CubitEvent::set_event_sub_type(CubitEvent::SubType sub_event_type)
{ eventSubType = sub_event_type; }

#endif
Comment 04111829

From: michaelsherlock@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:39 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 to you today to ask why it is that alcoholic beverages are the only consumable product that is exempt from disclosing serving information like calories, fat, carbohydrates and alcohol per serving. I noticed that everything else I buy at the grocery store contains this kind of information, but a six-pack, for some reason, doesn't have this on the label. 

I assume there must be a reason why you have not allowed companies to put Serving Facts on their labels, but I urge you to re-think this issue. 

I know there are many others beer drinkers like myself who would use this information, even if they don't go out of their way to write a letter to you. 

Please allow alcoholic beverage companies to put this information on their labels. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Michael Sherlock
13 N Lancaster Lane
Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940
 cc: 
Senator Arlen Specter
Senator Rick Santorum
Representative Michael Fitzpatrick
Chairman Jonathan Newman
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Expires:200808022254;Remove:200808022254;078220
WWUS51 KAKQ 022244
SVSAKQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
644 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008

VAC131-022254-
/O.EXP.KAKQ.SV.W.0256.000000T0000Z-080802T2245Z/
NORTHAMPTON VA-
644 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM EDT...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MARYLAND AND EASTERN VIRGINIA.
LAT...LON 3731 7578 3738 7580 3739 7582 3739 7584
      3725 7580 3725 7587 3721 7587 3724 7581
      3724 7580 3717 7582 3711 7593 3715 7589
      3720 7591 3720 7592 3712 7595 3721 7603
      3733 7603 3739 7600 3744 7581
TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 273DEG 13KT 3726 7577
$$
BROWN
GUIDE TO THE GREAT SIBERIAN  RAILWAY.
The ,,belki"of the Altai are formed principally of crystalline rocks, containing
granite, syenite, diorite and porphyry.
The sedimentary rocks raised by crystalline strata belong to the palaeo-
zoic age, divided into the upper silurian, the devonian and the carbonifer-
ous systems. The Juras-
sic formation occurs only
on the northern slope of
the Altai. Deposits of sil-
ver-lead and copper ores
are found between cryst-
alline and sedimentary
rocks. The considerable
glaciers of the Belukha
are the feeding-ground
of the Katun (pi. 6) which
together with the Biya
forms the river Ob. The
picturesque and large
Lake Teletsk which in
its beauty is not inferior
to the Lake of the Four
Cantons (Vierwaldstat-
ter), has an outflow
through the Biya.
The shores of this
alpine lake, situated at
an elevation of 473 feet
above thelevelof the sea,
have a wild and impo-
sing beauty.
The surface of the
blue waters, framed in
verdant and hilly shores,
narrows gradually, pres-
sing its gushing and
silver-lined waves over reefs into the steep and rocky bed of the Biya.
Both rivers meet at the foot of the Altai and, joining their waters, form
the majestic Ob. The Anui, Charysh, and Alei which, upon the left, are the
upper tributaries of the Ob, take their rise on the Altai plateau. The Chumysh,
Tom, a'nd Chulym, rising among the Kuznetsk Alatau, fall into the Ob on the
right. The upper branches of the Irtysh, flowing into the Zaisan lake, also
take their rise on the northern slope of the Altai plateau within the confines
of the Chinese Empire. After leaving the lake, the Irtysh receives from the
right the Bukhturma, Uba and Ulba, rising among the belki of the Siberian
Altai. The valleys of these rivers, the north-western slope of the Altai, the
Salair ridge and the Kuznetsk Alatau are well provided with silver-lead and
copper ores, with iron-ore, quarries of varied-coloured stones, and gold in
veins and gravel.
The remains of the ancient Chud mines found at many places, and the
name of the mountains ,,Altai", which means ,,gold mountains", are a testi-
mony to   the   mineral   wealth  of  the  country, which already in prehistoric
PI. 8. Altai, the Razsypnoi cataract (phot, by prof. Sapozhnikovi.
04.03.07

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111 

John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0602

RELEASE: M07-033

ASTRONAUT TO DISCUSS MARATHON RUN IN APRIL 4 INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON - NASA astronaut Suni Williams will discuss her upcoming 2007 
Boston Marathon run aboard the International Space Station during 
media interviews planned for Wednesday, April 4 at 1:20 p.m. CDT. 

The Boston Globe and the New England Sports Network interviews with 
Williams will be broadcast live on NASA Television. No other 
interview opportunities will be available with Williams before the 
marathon. 

Williams, an accomplished marathoner, is an official entrant in the 
Boston Marathon and will run the race on a station treadmill. She 
qualified for the race, along with fellow astronaut Karen Nyberg, as 
one of the top 100 female finishers in the January 2006 Houston 
Marathon. Williams will be the first astronaut to officially run in a 
marathon from space. 

Due to the crew's work schedule, the date and time of her run on the 
station may not coincide exactly with the April 16 marathon on Earth, 
but mission control is working to match the events as closely as 
possible. For more about the space station, its missions and crews, 
visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/station 

Television and still imagery of Williams' efforts are expected to be 
available. Video of her training on the International Space Station 
will air on NASA TV's Video File. For streaming video, downlink and 
schedule information, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

	
-end-