Semiweekly newspaper from Pawhuska, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semimonthly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes area information on topics such as history, entertainment, reviews, and recipes along with advertising.

Photograph of Jason Leffler hugging a member of his crew at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Leffler wears a black and white long-sleeved top along with an earpiece and leans forward while smiling. The crew member he hugs wears a black hat with a red and white logo on it and a green, white, and black shirt with a white MBNA Motorsports logo outlined in yellow at its top. Walking towards the duo, from the left, is another crew member in a black hat with a green MBNA logo on it, a green shirt with MBNA on it in white, a black jacket, glasses, and a black headset. To the right of Leffler and his crew members sits his car, its top reflecting sunlight and its rear end green in color with a yellow stripe along its bottom edge. At the center of the car's back end is a white MBNA logo, to the right of which is the number 18 in white. To the left and right of the car are crowds of people watching Leffler, multiple of whom wear large cards on lanyards. One man to the right of the car …

Photograph of crew members pushing Ron Hornaday's car down pit road during a rain delay at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Hornaday's car is blue and yellow with numerous logos across its side including those of 76, Simpson, Clevite, Penske, and Goodyear. A large white "3" sits in the middle of the car's side, between groups of logos. Standing in front of the vehicle is one of the crew members carrying a black and white umbrella, leaning against the car's windows while looking out over the wet road. The crew member, plus two other men at the back of the car, wear blue jackets, pants, hats, and headsets along with black shoes. Their clothes, similar to the car, have multiple logos decorating them. One crew member at the vehicle's rear covers himself with a blue tarp that extends across the roof and back end of the car while the third blue-clad crew member crouches behind the car to push it. Pushing alongside the third man is a fourth crew member dressed in a yellow jacket. White dashed lines run along the wet road next to the crew members and the car while a …

Photograph of Jason Leffler posing with a helmet at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Leffler's helmet is black with thin white and blue grids across its surface and a waving Texas flag on its side. Also on the helmet's side is the white text "Pole Days March 30-31, 2000" and the logos for Sprint, Texas Motor Speedway, and Simpson. Leffler himself is wearing a black ballcap with the Sprint logo and red text on it, plus a black and white jumpsuit with a variety of logos on it like those of Goodyear, Pontiac, Hot Rod Magazine, and MBNA Motorsports. Behind Leffler is a black vehicle with "Pontiac" spelled vertically down its side in white letters. Behind the automobile is a red wall with multiple white Sprint logos on it along with a cut-off blue and yellow image. At the top of the wall is a gold stripe with red text, above which is a white stripe with the Texas Motor Speedway name and logo in it.

Photograph of Mark Martin celebrating his win at the NASCAR Busch Series Albertson's 300 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Popcorn rains onto Martin and his red, orange, and yellow car from the top left corner of the photo, piling on his vehicle's windshield and roof. Also sitting on the car's roof are two green Gatorade bottles, behind which a small board with the Busch and Nascar logos on it sits. Martin stands with one leg still in his car and wears a black hat with colorful text on it and a black and yellow jumpsuit decorated by multiple logos like those of Ford Racing, Busch, and Nascar. "Dixie" also appears in black text on Martin's shoulder and white text on his chest. In the background behind Martin and his car are a group of men in similar yellow and black jumpsuits that appear to be celebrating as well. Behind these men is a red wall with very large logos on it.

Student newspaper from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the college community along with advertising.

Monthly periodical from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma published by and for members of the Oklahoma State Firefighters Association that includes news and information along with advertising.

Monthly newspaper from Electra, Texas that includes local and regional news along with advertising.

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.

The United States Government currently has an abundance of depleted uranium (DU). This surplus of about 1 billion pounds is the result of an enrichment process using gaseous diffusion to produce enriched and depleted uranium. The enriched uranium has been used primarily for either nuclear weapons for the military or nuclear fuel for the commercial power industry. Most of the depleted uranium remains at the enrichment process plants in the form of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF{sub 6}). The Department of Energy (DOE) recently began a study to identify possible commercial applications for the surplus material. One of these potential applications is to use the DU in high-density strikers/hammers in pneumatically driven tools, such as jack hammers and piledrivers to improve their impulse performance. The use of DU could potentially increase tunneling velocity and excavation into target materials with improved efficiency. This report describes the efforts undertaken to analyze the particulars of using DU in two specific striking applications: the jackhammer and chipper tool.

This project developed techniques for measuring globally distributed radionuclides that occur today in extremely low abundances (''fallout'' from the era of atmospheric nuclear testing), and then applied these techniques to better understand the mechanisms by which radionuclides migrate. The techniques employ accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), a relatively new analytical tool that permits this work to be conducted for the first time. The goal in this project was to develop AMS analytical techniques for {sup 129}I (fallout concentration: {approx} 10{sup 6} atoms/g) {sup 99}Tc ({approx} 10{sup 9} atoms/g), {sup 90}Sr ({approx}10{sup 7} atoms/gram soil), and {sup 93}Zr ({approx} 10{sup 9} atoms/g), and improved methods for {sup 36}Cl ({approx} 10{sup 9} atoms/g). As a demonstration of the analytical techniques, and as an investigation of identified problems associated with characterizing moisture and radionuclide movement in unsaturated desert soils, we developed a vadose zone research site at the Nevada Test Site. Our findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The distribution of chloride and {sup 36}Cl at the research site indicates that the widely-used ''chloride accumulation'' method for estimating moisture flux is erroneous; some mechanism for attenuation of chloride exists, violating an assumption of the accumulation method; (2) {sup 129}I is fractionated into several …

Calculations of the {sup 239}Pu(n,n') cross section and other relevant cross sections for incident neutron energies of up to 5 MeV are presented. Two components of the {sup 239}Pu(n,n') cross section are included. The direct contribution to the {sup 239}Pu(n,n') cross section is computed by the coupled-channel optical model. The compound component is calculated by a Hauser-Feshbach statistical treatment. Fission and {gamma}-cascade processes are considered as competing channels in the compound-decay process. Whenever possible, calculations are compared with experimental data and evaluations.

Many scientific and industrial applications call for quantum-efficient high-energy-resolution microcalorimeters for the measurement of x rays. The applications driving the development of these detectors involve the measurement of faint sources of x rays in which few photons reach the detector. Interesting astrophysical applications for these microcalorimeters include the measurement of composition and temperatures of stellar atmospheres and diffuse interstellar plasmas. Other applications of microcalorimeter technology include x-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurements of industrial or scientific samples. We are attempting to develop microcalorimeters with energy resolutions of several eV because many sources (such as celestial plasmas) contain combinations of elements producing emission lines spaced only a few eV apart. Our microcalorimeters consist of a metal-film absorber (250 {micro}m x 250{micro}m x 3 {micro}m of copper) coupled to a superconducting transition-edge-sensor (TES) thermometer. This microcalorimeter demonstrated an energy resolution of 42 eV (FWHM) at 6 keV, excellent linearity, and showed no evidence of position dependent response. The response of our microcalorimeters depends both on the temperature of the microcalorimeter and on the electrical current conducted through the TES thermometer. We present a microcalorimeter model that extends previous microcalorimeter theory to include additional current dependent effects. The model makes predictions about the effects of …

In entering the 21st century, we in industry and government who have labored to develop PV and bring it into the marketplace can be proud. World demand for PV is increasing faster than supply. The NCPV Program Review Meeting will a provide a forum for exploring how to implement strategies and recommendations for achieving critical goals and foster creative thinking on combining laboratory and industry talents to achieve the goals. The oral sessions focus on both strategic and tactical issues relating to the overall advance of the PV industry and the poster sessions provide an opportunity for more detailed discussions relating to particular tasks.

Photograph of the Wiiliams-Weigl House (located at 4107 Ave H) in Austin, Texas.

Photograph of the Wiiliams-Weigl House (located at 4107 Ave H) in Austin, Texas.

Photograph of the Wiiliams-Weigl House (located at 4107 Ave H) in Austin, Texas.

This article examines one district's staff development plan that has successfully engaged teachers and administrators in designing and implementing relevant programs that make a positive difference for schools and students.

Monthly newspaper from Corpus Christi, Texas published by the Diocese of Corpus Christi that includes news of interest to Diocese members along with advertising.

Monthly student newspaper from Archer City High School in Archer City, Texas that includes news and information of interest to students along with advertising.

This report is for the Southern Idaho Wildlife Mitigation Implementation project. This project, implemented by IDFG and SBT wildlife mitigation staff, is designed to protect, enhance and maintain wildlife habitats to mitigate construction losses for Palisades, Anderson Ranch, Black Canyon and Minidoka hydroelectric projects. Additional project information is available in the quarterly reports.

The purpose of this report is to describe the recent and planned R&D activities across the U.S. related to survival of fish entrained in hydroelectric turbines. In this report, we have considered studies that are intended to develop new information that can be used to mitigate turbine-passage mortality. This review focuses on the effects on fish of physical or operational modifications to turbines, comparisons to survival in other downstream passage routes (e.g., bypass systems and spillways), and applications of new modeling, experimental, and technological approaches to develop a greater understanding of the stresses associated with turbine passage. In addition, the emphasis is on biological studies, as opposed to the engineering studies (e.g., turbine index testing) that re often carried out in support of fish passage mitigation efforts.

This report documents initial modifications made to the MELCOR code that allows MELCOR to predict the consequences of lithium spill accidents for evolving fusion reactor designs. These modifications include thermodynamic and transport properties for lithium, and physical models for predicting the rate of reaction of and energy production from the lithium-air reaction. A benchmarking study was performed with this new MELCOR capability. Two lithium-air reaction tests conducted at the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory (HEDL) were selected for this benchmark study. Excellent agreement was achieved between MELCOR predictions and measured data. Recommendations for modeling lithium fires with MELCOR and for future work in this area are included in this report.