Executive Correspondence – Letter from Representative Latourette (14th, OH) to Chairman Principi expressing concern over DoD’s recommendation regarding numerous DFAS installations generally and , particularly, the realignment of DFAS in Cleveland OH.

Executive Correspondence - Letter to Commission from Mayor Richard F. Soluri of Lewiston, NY requesting that Niagara Falls Air Force Reserve Base be removed from BRAC closure list.

Executive Correspondence – Letter from Patricia R. Brown, Clerk of the Council of the town of South Windsor CT to CT Governor Rell and Senators Dodd and Lieberman of CT (copied to the BRAC Commission) enclosing a South Windsor Town Council Resolution expressing concern about DoD’s decision to place Submarine Base New London on the BRAC 2005 Base Closure List.

Recent experiments at the Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE) in Japan [1] and at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the United Kingdom [2] have shown good coupling of short-pulse high-intensity laser light into high-energy electrons channeled down a narrow fiber. Such target configurations are being considered as backlighter targets on the National Ignition Facility (NIF). We will report on LSP calculations of these cone-wire experiments and other candidate target configurations. These calculations also give insight into the transport of MeV-electrons, which remains the critical issue for the achievement of fast ignition [3]. The LSP code uses a direct implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm in 2 or 3 dimensions to solve for beam particle transport, while treating the background particles as a fluid [4]. We have modified LSP to produce K{alpha} photons in a non-interfering manner and will show calculated absolute K{alpha} yields for the experiments reported by Key [2].

Our inability to associate distant regulatory elements with the genes that they regulate has largely precluded their examination for sequence alterations contributing to human disease. One major obstacle is the large genomic space surrounding targeted genes in which such elements could potentially reside. In order to delineate gene regulatory boundaries we used whole-genome human-mouse-chicken (HMC) and human-mouse-frog (HMF) multiple alignments to compile conserved blocks of synteny (CBS), under the hypothesis that these blocks have been kept intact throughout evolution at least in part by the requirement of regulatory elements to stay linked to the genes that they regulate. A total of 2,116 and 1,942 CBS>200 kb were assembled for HMC and HMF respectively, encompassing 1.53 and 0.86 Gb of human sequence. To support the existence of complex long-range regulatory domains within these CBS we analyzed the prevalence and distribution of chromosomal aberrations leading to position effects (disruption of a genes regulatory environment), observing a clear bias not only for mapping onto CBS but also for longer CBS size. Our results provide a genome wide data set characterizing the regulatory domains of genes and the conserved regulatory elements within them.

Establishment of the Administration Joint Cross-Service Group

Establishment of the Technical Joint Cross-Service Group

Establishment of the Supply and Storage Joint Cross-Service Group

Establishment of the Industrial Joint Cross-Service Group

Establishment of the Education and Training Joint Cross-Service Group

Joint Strike Fighter Initial Training Site Selection

Establishment of the Medical Joint Cross-Service Group

Memorandum of Meeting to discuss the RC-PAT organization and USAR Participation.

In this paper, we use a coupled climate and carbon cycle model to investigate the global climate and carbon cycle changes out to year 2300 that would occur if CO2 emissions from all the currently estimated fossil fuel resources were released to the atmosphere. By year 2300, the global climate warms by about 8 K and atmospheric CO2 reaches 1423 ppmv. In our simulation, the prescribed cumulative emission since pre-industrial period is about 5400 Gt-C by the end of 23rd century. At year 2300, nearly 45 % of cumulative emissions remain in the atmosphere. In our simulations both soils and living biomass are net carbon sinks throughout the simulation. Despite having relatively low climate sensitivity and strong carbon uptake by the land biosphere, our model projections suggest severe long-term consequences for global climate if all the fossil-fuel carbon is ultimately released to the atmosphere.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about AIDS. This b-roll footage shows an unknown man exiting the Whitman Walker Medical Clinic on 1407 S. Street in Washington, D.C., and a laboratory. The story aired at 5:00 P.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire. This footage includes an interview with an unnamed man and images of a burned building. The story aired at 5:00 A.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire. This b-roll footage shows a burned building. The story aired at 6:00 A.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story by reporter about a fire. This b-roll footage includes an interview with Kent Worley from the Fort Worth Fire Department. The story aired at 6:00 A.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire. This b-roll footage shows a burned building. The story aired at 5:00 A.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire. This b-roll footage shows a burned building. The story aired at 5:00 A.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the arrest of Joran Vandersloot and the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The story aired at 6:00 A.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the arrest of an alleged sex offender, Garland resident Willie James Atkins, accused of trying to rape a teenage boy. The story aired at 10:00 P.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a Sotheby's auction of Babe Ruth memorabilia, including the contract that sold Ruth to the Yankees. The story aired at 6:00 A.M.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a Sotheby's auction of Babe Ruth memorabilia, including the contract that sold Ruth to the Yankees. The footage features an interview with an unnamed man. The story aired at 6:00 A.M.