This report discusses law and proposed changes related to Country-of-Origin labeling for Foods.

Federal law requires most imports, including many food items, to bear labels informing the “ultimate purchaser” of their country of origin. Various bills have been introduced to impose expanded country-of-origin labeling requirements on meats and on several other agricultural products. Such proposals have attracted attention for a number of reasons. One is that they are viewed (by some advocates) as a way to help U.S. producers dealing with low farm prices. Also, some perceive that food products from certain countries might pose greater risks than those from the United States.

The 107th Congress is expected to consider new "fast track" (or, Presidential trade promotion) authority, which could enable the Administration to submit trade agreements negotiated with foreign countries to Congress for consideration under expedited procedures. Many agricultural and food industry interests are among the export-oriented enterprises that support fast track authority, arguing that foreign trading partners will not seriously negotiate with an Administration that lacks it. However, some agricultural groups argue that fast track ultimately will lead to new agreements that deliver more benefits to foreign than to U.S. producers, at least in some commodity sectors.

Many believe that the Department of Defense (DoD) — including the Air Force — must transform itself to ensure future U.S. military dominance. The Air Force has a transformation plan that includes advanced technologies, concept development, and organizational innovation. Issues for Congress include the efficacy of this plan, its feasibility, and the attendant costs.

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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This report debates agricultural subsidies given out by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Moreover, the report provides statistical information on this specifically from the European Union (EU) and the United States.

The Everglades, a unique network of subtropical wetlands, is now half its original size. Many factors have contributed to its decline, including flood control projects and agricultural and urban development. As part of a larger restoration program for South Florida, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal, state, tribal, and local agencies collaborated to develop the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP or the Plan). CERP focuses on increasing storage of wet season waters to provide more water during the dry season for the natural system, and urban and agricultural users

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Because of the recent experiences of several states undergoing restructuring (e.g., higher prices, greater volatility, lower reliability), concerns have been raised in states currently considering restructuring as to whether their systems are equally vulnerable. Factors such as local generation costs, transmission constraints, market concentration, and market design can all play a role in the success or failure of the market. These factors along with the mix of generation capacity supplying the state will influence the relative prices paid by consumers. The purpose of this project is to provide a model and process to evaluate the potential price and economic impacts of restructuring the Oklahoma electric industry. This Phase I report concentrates on providing an analysis of the Oklahoma system in the near-term, using only present generation resources and customer demands. In Phase II, a longer-term analysis will be conducted, incorporating the potential of new generation resources and customer responses. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed the Oak Ridge Competitive Electricity Dispatch (ORCED) model to evaluate marginal-cost-based and regulated prices for the state. The model dispatches the state's power plants to meet the demands from all customers based on the marginal cost of production. Consequent market-clearing prices for each hour …

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Constructing numerical schemes which are both adaptive and suitable for parallel architectures is very challenging. The challenge lies in the need to maintain a balanced load across the processing elements using a method that is both efficient and scalable. Here we propose a method which is adaptive, load balanced, absolutely efficient and scalable offering significant speedup over lower order adaptive schemes. The ability of wavelets to accurately and efficiently represent functions with localized features has spawned intensive research into applying wavelets for the solution of partial differential equations with the promise of significantly reducing the necessary computational effort and memory requirements. Traditionally, this effort has been centered around using wavelets as an orthogonal and complete basis, spanning a space in which to seek approximate solutions satisfying the equation in a Galerkin sense. Besides from the well known difficulties associated with such an approach for non-linear problems, one is also faced with the problem of dealing with non-trivial boundary conditions in an accurate and stable manner. Such restrictions on the applicability of wavelet based methods for the solution of problems of more general interest have, in recent years, induced significant interest into grid-based collocation wavelet methods, with various different approaches being …

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B. Kirby and E. Hirst, Customer-Specific Metrics for the Regulation and Load-Following 1 Ancillary Services, ORNL/CON-474, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., January 2000. In an earlier project, we analyzed data on total system load and the loads of eight large industrial customers in terms of system- and customer-specific requirements for the regulation and load-following ancillary services. We conducted these analyses using 12 days of data from February 1 1999 plus 12 days of data from August and September 1999. These analyses were conducted using data provided by the control area at the 30-s level, which we then aggregated to the 2-min level for subsequent analysis. The current project analyzes the feasibility of using 5-min revenue-meter (RM) data to allocate load-following and regulation requirements among retail customers. This project does not use the 5-min data to determine the actual ancillary services requirements for individual loads because these requirements depend strongly on the time-averaging period chosen for the load data. In particular, the amount of regulation required declines as the time-averaging period increases. Our earlier project showed that 2 min was a reasonable time-averaging period for this control area. The reason for examining 5-min data is that supervisory control and …

News release about the appointment of Sharon Mogford Leary to the position of CFO of DART.

News release about the posting of business contracting opportunities with DART on the DART website.

News release about the posting of business contracting opportunities with DART on the DART website.

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.

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The Senate authorizes funds for two years for each of its committees (except appropriations and ethics) through an omnibus resolution, recommended by the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and adopted by the full Senate at the beginning of each Congress.

Boronization of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) has enabled access to higher density, higher confinement plasmas. A glow discharge with 4 mTorr helium and 10% deuterated trimethyl boron deposited 1.7 g of boron on the plasma facing surfaces. Ion beam analysis of witness coupons showed a B+C areal density of 10 to the 18 (B+C) cm to the -2 corresponding to a film thickness of 100 nm. Subsequent ohmic discharges showed oxygen emission lines reduced by x15, carbon emission reduced by two and copper reduced to undetectable levels. After boronization, the plasma current flattop time increased by 70% enabling access to higher density, higher confinement plasmas.

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Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether section 62.003 of the Property Code, which converts a personal property lien on a manufactured home to a purchase money lien on real property, creates a valid purchase money lien against homestead property under article XVI, section 50 of the Texas Constitution (RQ-0293-JC)