Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Caption: "Rachlle Kuykendall prepares a shipment of nonmotorized pet tornadoes for shipment to Ohio."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jerome Harmon of Columbus wrestles for the ball with the Cavs' Bryon Wilson during Friday night's game in the Myriad."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cov Barry Sumpter and columbus Ralph Lewis are step for step in persuit of loose ball.."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bull rider, Mark Cain."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

A critical requirement for accurately representing surface-atmosphere interactions within an atmospheric model is to realistically characterize the land surface. Data must be extracted from a geographical database and transformed so that it is consistent with the needs of the numerical model. In such a process, there are two major classes of error that must be understood and minimized whenever possible. The first class involves the accuracy, precision, and resolution of the geographical data itself. The second is error introduced by the transformations used to assimilate the data into the atmospheric model. Thus, this research has two coupled objectives: to understand the effects of errors within the geographical data base upon the accuracy of the atmospheric model simulation and to design optimal techniques for the transformation of the data.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory responded to the 17 January 1994, Northridge earthquake by sending an information gathering team to observe and study the collapse of the interchange between highways 14 and I-5 in the northern San Fernando Valley. This field team examined the structural failure at the interchange and the surface soil conditions, and they installed high-grain RefTek seismic recorders to record aftershocks. We recorded aftershocks for two weeks. Analyses of aftershock recordings in this report illustrate the degree of differential support motion for this site, and the higher than expected ground motion from an earthquake of this size and distance. We used the aftershock recordings of small earthquakes as empirical Green`s functions and synthesized strong ground motion at three sites in the interchange area. Results presented here are based on an assumption that the geology of the interchange area remained linear in its response to the main event.

We report on the absorption of laser energy that results when an ultra-intense laser pulse is incident onto a sharp vacuum-plasma boundary, where the initial shelf density of the plasma is much greater than the critical density, n{sub cr}. It is found that 2-D effects greatly increase the amount of absorption into hot electrons, over the amount predicted using 1-D theory. In particular, a scaling for the absorption as a function of density, for a fixed laser intensity, implies that the absorption will be of order 30% for densities well in excess of The interaction is studied using both 1- and 2- dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) 100 n{sub cr} simulations. The 1-D results agree quite well with a simple scaling of JxB heating, where the laser electric field penetrates a skin depth into the overdense plasma and subsequently heats electrons. In 2-D, when the laser is incident at an angle, the absorption is seen to increase substantially due to a form of resonant absorption that occurs in steep density profiles. We find that the inclusion of kinetic and multi-dimensional effects are crucial to obtaining a complete picture of the interaction. The ability of ultra-intense lasers to produce acceptable amounts o f …

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an appraisal review board, under section 25.25(d) of the Tax Code, may correct the market value of real property that receives productivity valuation under chapter 23 of the Tax Code.

Measurements and calculations of the inverse bremsstrahlung absorption of intense microwaves are presented. The isotropic component of the electron distribution becomes flat-topped in agreement with detailed Fokker-Planck calculations. The plasma heating is reduced due to the flat-topped distributions in agreement with calculations. The calculations show that the heat flux at high microwave powers is very large, q{sub max} {approx} 0.3 n{sub e}v{sub e}T{sub e}. A new particle model to, calculate the heat transport inhibition due to ion acoustic turbulence in ICF plasmas is also presented. One-dimensional PIC calculations of ion acoustic turbulence excited due to heat transport are presented. The 2-D PIC code is presently being used to perform calculations of heat flux inhibition due to ion acoustic turbulence.

Press release from the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters discussing the play 'Toussaint: Angel Warrior of Haiti' which commemorated Toussaint L'Ouveture on February 18-20, 1994 at the Clarence Muse Cafe Theatre.

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

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Windmill"

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Marvin Srinson climbs to the top of one of his backyard windmills with an oil can. The while Monitor has a concrete "football" weight and opens out when the wind fills it."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Marvin Stinson"

Caption: "Jim Kuykendall (businessman who markets Pet tornado)."

Caption: "Unlike its namesake, this Pet Tornado whirls around and around harmless inside a glass bottle."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Barber A.J. Shrader gives Will Rogers Elementary Principal Bill Powell a different look in front of the school's students."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Jockey Luis Quinonez is all smiles after winning the first race of the spring meet Tuesday aboard Defense Dilemma."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Monitor model was still pumping water when Stinson found it in a northwest Oklahoma pature. As the wind fills its blades, they open out in a fan shape."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Marie Harrison of Stroud watches Sondorson the horse, her husband, Don Harrison, trained during the first race of the spring meet at Remington Park in Oklahoma City. The horse finished second."