Strategic plan for of the Texas Library and Archives Commission for fiscal years 1999 to 2003 outlining their mission, past activities, and goals.

This report presents a list of federal government agencies that offer fax-on-demand services and provides brief description of their offerings.

Photograph of J&J Group cast during a musical theater production at the South Dallas Cultural Center. There are a number of cast members in a group, several of whom are leaning over or crouched down, looking out toward the audience. Musicians are partially visible, including a man playing piano directly behind them with a drum set in the background and a line of seated musicians playing horn and woodwind instruments.

Photograph of a musical theater performance by the J&J Group at the South Dallas Cultural Center on a stage area that includes three small round tables, each with two chairs and various items on the tables. Several male cast members are standing in a line near the center of the stage and two female cast members are seated at tables near the center and right, with additional cast members standing at the back. Musicians are partially visible on a raised platform behind the performers, including a man playing piano at left, in front of a drum set, and several seated musicians holding a trombone and other horns or woodwinds. Handwritten on back: "J&j Group in performance."

The first commercial production of power from geothermal energy, at The Geysers steamfield in northern California in June 1960, was a triumph for the geothermal exploration industry. Before and since, there has been a search for further sources of commercial geothermal power in The Geysers--Clear Lake geothermal area surrounding The Geysers. As with all exploration programs, these were driven by models. The models in this case were of geothermal regimes, that is, the geometric distribution of temperature and permeability at depth, and estimates of the physical conditions in subsurface fluids. Studies in microseismicity and heat flow, did yield geophysical information relevant to active geothermal systems. Studies in stable-element geochemistry found hiatuses or divides at the Stoney Creek Fault and at the Collayomi Fault. In the region between the two faults, early speculation as to the presence of steamfields was disproved from the geochemical data, and the potential existence of hot-water systems was predicted. Studies in isotope geochemistry found the region was characterized by an isotope mixing trend. The combined geochemical data have negative implications for the existence of extensive hydrothermal systems and imply that fluids of deep origin are confined to small, localized systems adjacent to faults that act as …

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Pela House, in Victoria, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.

This report provides information about the Congressional Liaison Offices of Selected Federal Agencies. This is a directory of approximately 150 government agencies designed to assist congressional staff in contacting agencies.

This is a directory of approximately 150 government agencies designed to assist congressional staff in contacting agencies of the legislative branch, cabinet departments and other executive branch agencies and boards and commissions. This directory contains names of congressional liaison officers, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and occasionally e-mail addresses. It is regularly updated each spring.

This report provides information about the Fax-on-Demand Services Available from Federal Government Agencies where numerous associations and organizations are finding fax publishing an efficient way to distribute information to the public or targeted audience.

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Quarterly publication containing unpublished records and other material of interest to genealogists. "Its purpose is to stimulate and support research and teaching on the genealogical aspects of history." Name index starts on page 78.

There are approximately 600,000 paint spray workers in the United States applying paints and coatings with some type of sprayer. Approximately 5% of these spray workers are in the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). These spray workers apply paints or other coatings to products such as bridges, houses, automobiles, wood and metal furniture, and other consumer and industrial products. The materials being sprayed include exterior and interior paints, lacquers, primers, shellacs, stains and varnishes. Our experimental findings indicate that the Airjacket does not significantly reduce the exposure of spray workers to paint fumes during HVLP spraying. The difference between ideal and actual spray paint procedures influence the mechanisms driving spray workers exposures to paint fumes and influence the viability of the Airjacket technology. In the ideal procedure, for which the Airjacket was conceived, the spray worker's exposure to paint fumes is due largely to the formation of a recirculating eddy between the spray worker and the object painted. The Airjacket ejects air to diminish and ventilate this eddy. In actual practice, exposures may result largely from directing paint upstream and from the bounce-back of the air/paint jet of the object being painted. The Airjacket, would not be expected …

The DNA Files is a radio documentary which disseminates genetics information over public radio. The documentaries explore subjects which include the following: How genetics affects society. How human life began and how it evolved. Could new prenatal genetic tests hold the key to disease prevention later in life? Would a national genetic data base sacrifice individual privacy? and Should genes that may lead to the cure for cancer be privately owned? This report serves as a project update for the second quarter of 1998. It includes the spring/summer 1998 newsletter, the winter 1998 newsletter, the program clock, and the latest flyer.

The demanding energy, power, pulse shape, focusability, pointing, and availability requirements placed on the 192 National Ignition Facility (NIF) beams lead to the need for an automatic operation capability that is well beyond that of previous inertial confinement fusion (ICF) lasers. Alignment, diagnostic, and wavefront correction subsystems are integrated in an approach that, by permitting maximal sharing of instrumentation between subsystems, meets performance requirements at a reasonable cost.

This Quality Assurance Project Plan documents the quality assurance activities for the Wastewater/Stormwater/Groundwater and Environmental Surveillance Programs. This QAPP was prepared in accordance with DOE guidance on compliance with 10CFR830.120.

Monthly travel magazine discussing locations and events in Texas to encourage travel within the state. There is a departments section covering events, dinning, site seeing, and travel spots. Featured articles in this issue provide readers with information on music at Gruene Hall, German and Czech dance halls, boots in Gonzales, Sea Rim State Park, Texas Springs, and Pecos.

A book of photographs by Byrd Williams IV from an exhibition in Germany titled, "Ortsbeschreibungen." A list of the photographs in the book is included.

Commercial buildings account for over $85 billion per year in energy costs, which is far more energy than technically necessary. One of the primary reasons buildings do not perform as well as intended is that critical information is lost, through ineffective documentation and communication, leading to building systems that are often improperly installed and operated. A life-cycle perspective on the management of building information provides a framework for improving commercial building energy performance. This paper describes a project to develop strategies and techniques to provide decision-makers with information needed to assure the desired building performance across the complete life cycle of a building project. A key element in this effort is the development of explicit performance metrics that quantitatively represent performance objectives of interest to various building stakeholders. The paper begins with a discussion of key problems identified in current building industry practice, and ongoing work to address these problems. The paper then focuses on the concept of performance metrics and their use in improving building performance during design, commissioning, and on-going operations. The design of a Building Life-cycle Information System (BLISS) is presented. BLISS is intended to provide an information infrastructure capable of integrating a variety of building information …

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Annual publication containing genealogical information about families in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area, including family histories, lists of records (births, deaths, registration, etc.), correspondence, and other documentation. Name index begins on page 174.

The Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM) has many attractive properties that make it ideal for treating a broad class of physical problems. RKPM may be implemented in a mesh-full or a mesh-free manner and provides the ability to tune the method, via the selection of a dilation parameter and window function, in order to achieve the requisite numerical performance. RKPM also provides a framework for performing hierarchical computations making it an ideal candidate for simulating multi-scale problems. Although RKPM has many appealing attributes, the method is quite new and its numerical performance is still being quantified with respect to more traditional discretization methods. In order to assess the numerical performance of RKPM, detailed studies of RKPM on a series of model partial differential equations has been undertaken. The results of von Neumann analyses for RKPM semi-discretizations of one and two-dimensional, first and second-order wave equations are presented in the form of phase and group errors. Excellent dispersion characteristics are found for the consistent mass matrix with the proper choice of dilation parameter. In contrast, the influence of row-sum lumping the mass matrix is shown to introduce severe lagging phase errors. A higher-order mass matrix improves the dispersion characteristics relative to …

This report summarizes the funding and re-authorization in the 105th congress on arts and humanities.

One of the primary vehicles for federal support of the arts and humanities is the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, composed of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This report describes the issues and options raised in the 105th Congress with regard to both authorization and appropriations for support of the arts and humanities.