While being forced to decide between his future, his family, and his friend, Gilbert Malik' Satterwhite finds himself speeding down in a twisted highway, and leading life in the line, Malik becomes a majoy player on the malicious streets of North and West Philadelphia, and the urban underworld. From city hall's courtrooms and corridors, to assuring the safty of his childhood friend truned heroin kingpin, he uses his brains and bullets to build his reputation. His defiance of rival consortiums, and federal law enforcement agencies, quickly draws him into a game of survival, where the last man standing will be the winner.

Parham writes Mann Page of Prince George County, Va. to give him his recommendations for members to serve on a committee of a Masonic organization and to express the wish that Page remain as grand master of Masons of Virginia for another year.

Associations between excitable temperament and many economically relevant traits have been established. In being heritable, temperament can be augmented through selection. Current methods to evaluate temperament in a production setting include numerous subjective and objective measurements, which some producers may find cumbersome to navigate. Those who utilize these methods may not do so efficiently if selection criteria are not indicative of an animal's response to stress, or initial evaluations are not strong indicators of future temperament. The objectives of this research were to develop a procedure for evaluation of calf behavior, indicative of physiological stress, and then determine whether stress will change under repeated and routine management as evaluated through behavioral and physiological measures. Each of three consecutive years, 20 commercial Bos taurus heifers, 2-wk post weaning, were randomly assigned to a factorial design of two measurement protocols [frequent (F), infrequent (IN)], and three recording periods, each 1 mo apart. The F measurements were collected over three consecutive days, and IN only on d 1, of a recording period. Heifers were calmly moved into a squeeze chute and their heads caught. Individuals assigned a chute score (CS) based on their reaction to 15 s of restraint. A fecal sample, heart rate, rectal temperature, and jugular blood sample were taken. Upon release, exit velocity (EV) over a 2 m distance was recorded, and an exit score (ES) assigned by the same individuals. Each heifers' response to 30 s of exposure to a human stressor was then recorded both in an individual and group pen setting. An individual (IPS) and group (GPS) pen score was assigned. Scores ranged from 1 to 5 or 6, with increasing values indicative of more excitable (worsening) temperament. All subjective measures were reliably assessed. Moderate correlations existed between objective and subjective measurements of temperament, indicating they were representative of physiological stress. Furthermore, CS and IPS decreased considerably over time, especially in F heifers, as they acclimated to novel handling experiences. Producers may avoid unnecessarily culling cattle based strictly on initial response to novel stimuli by allowing acclimation to handling before assessing docility.

A first set of laser-plasma interaction, hohlraum energetics and hydrodynamic experiments have been performed using the first 4 beams of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), in support of indirect drive Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and High Energy Density Physics (HEDP). In parallel, a robust set of optical and x-ray spectrometers, interferometer, calorimeters and imagers have been activated. The experiments have been undertaken with laser powers and energies of up to 8 TW and 17 kJ in flattop and shaped 1-9 ns pulses focused with various beam smoothing options.

The first experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) have employed the first four beams to measure propagation and laser backscattering losses in large ignition-size plasmas. Gas-filled targets between 2 mm and 7 mm length have been heated from one side by overlapping the focal spots of the four beams from one quad operated at 351 nm (3{omega}) with a total intensity of 2 x 10{sup 15} W cm{sup -2}. The targets were filled with 1 atm of CO{sub 2} producing of up to 7 mm long homogeneously heated plasmas with densities of n{sub e} = 6 x 10{sup 20} cm{sup -3} and temperatures of T{sub e} = 2 keV. The high energy in a NIF quad of beams of 16kJ, illuminating the target from one direction, creates unique conditions for the study of laser plasma interactions at scale lengths not previously accessible. The propagation through the large-scale plasma was measured with a gated x-ray imager that was filtered for 3.5 keV x rays. These data indicate that the beams interact with the full length of this ignition-scale plasma during the last {approx}1 ns of the experiment. During that time, the full aperture measurements of the stimulated Brillouin scattering and stimulated Raman scattering show scattering into the four focusing lenses of 6% for the smallest length ({approx}2 mm). increasing to 12% for {approx}7 mm. These results demonstrate the NIF experimental capabilities and further provide a benchmark for three-dimensional modeling of the laser-plasma interactions at ignition-size scale lengths.

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