Lawrence. The
system replaces the regional Ocean Forecast system, which covered a limited
part of the U.edu

SwRI is an independent, nonprofit, applied research and
development organization based in San Antonio, with more than 2,800
employees and an annual research volume of more than $399 million. Current actuarial calculations
indicate that the Trust Fund will need an additional $3.5 trillion to pay
anticipated future benefits over the next 75 years. "Therefore it is most important that changes
be made carefully and with a thorough analysis of the issues.

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Meteorologists , who focus on predicting the weather over the oceans, note
that in the future, this system will provide the foundation for the initial
and boundary conditions for the ocean component of NOAA's coupled ocean-
hurricane prediction model, as well as the high-resolution regional models for
environmental and ecosystem management, safety of marine transportation, and
coastal flooding.
NOAA, an agency of the U.
"IBEX will make the first images of the interstellar boundaries
beyond our solar system, thereby providing a first step to exploring
the galactic frontier," says Principal Investigator Dr.swri.

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Work on the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System was partially supported
through a National Ocean Partnership Project grant.noaa.

NASA Selects SwRI to Lead Interstellar Boundary Explorer - IBEX - Mission

The Interstellar Boundary
Explorer (IBEX) is NASA's next Small Explorer. It sets ethical standards for the profession and
U.

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The Sun's hot outer atmosphere continuously evaporates into space,
forming the million-mile-per-hour solar wind that creates a protective
envelope around the solar system, far beyond the most distant planets.
IBEX will image the solar system's previously invisible outer
boundaries to discover how the solar wind interacts with the galactic
medium. Benefits will then be limited to the
then current cash flow into the system .

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It is the first in a
series of the Environmental Modeling Center's real time high-resolution ocean
forecast system implementations over the next decade.ncep.

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"The inclusion of the new ocean prediction system will contribute to
NOAA's ongoing effort to improve hurricane track and intensity forecasts
throughout the entire Atlantic Ocean basin," said Dr.

AICPA Issues Report on Social Security Reform Exploring Issues and Alternatives

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(Logo: http://www. East Coast
and from the Caribbean to Canada represents a major step in NOAA's commitment
to forecasting the earth system ," said retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Steven Lord, director,
NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center . Uccellini, director of NOAA's Centers for Environmental
Prediction. The IBEX spacecraft carries a pair of energetic
neutral atom (ENA) "cameras" to image interactions between the solar
wind blown out by the Sun and the low-density material between the
stars -- interactions never before observed directly.
"The viability of the Social Security system affects the futures of most
Americans ," said Ochsenschlager.

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newscom.S.noaa. The Explorer Program
develops low-cost, rapidly developed space science investigations.

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The Real-Time Ocean
Forecast System generates applications that can support operations at sea such
as search and rescue operations, containment of toxic spills, exploration of
natural resources, fishing, recreation, and much more.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and
atmosphere and NOAA administrator.nws.

Editors: More information about the IBEX mission is available from
the IBEX web site at http://ibex.htm, covers the following issues:
* The current financial condition of Social Security
* The relationship between Social Security and the elderly living in
poverty
* The redistribution of income inherent in the current system and how
changes might affect that in the future
* How changes to the current system might affect decisions about when to
retire, the amount of work performed in retirement and personal savings
rates
* The tradeoff between additional risk and higher rates of return
* Potential issues related to transition funding

The report addresses many of the current reform proposals and explores the
benefits and drawbacks of each.

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CPAs are trained and
qualified to evaluate facts and figures and offer to the public an objective
perspective to what is an important and emotional debate.
Tom Ochsenschlager, AICPA Vice President -- Taxation said, "The debate
surrounding Social Security reform brings to the forefront philosophical
differences , varying opinions, and the age old trade-offs between fairness,
simplicity, economic growth and social policy.

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The Real-Time Ocean Forecast System for the Atlantic Ocean produces daily
"nowcasts" and five-day forecasts over the Atlantic Ocean domain of 25 degrees
south to 70 degrees north and across the basin from west to east, including
the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Maine and Gulf of St. In this report, developed by numerous economic, tax and accounting
experts at the AICPA who have been examining this issue, the AICPA urges that
before anyone takes a specific position on the issue, that policymakers and
the public need to gain an ongoing and clear understanding of the economic and
social ramifications affecting Social Security reform.

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David J. By examining the underlying
physics of our solar system's outer boundaries, IBEX will allow us to
extrapolate the present day conditions to those of the past and the
future, and offer insight into similar boundaries that surround other
stars and stellar systems.org/members/socsec.S.

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Currently, global and
Pacific Ocean (earth's largest body of water) versions of this system are
under development. The spacecraft will attain a highly
elliptical orbit that reaches 150 thousand miles above the Earth.

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The team also includes a
number of U.

Human Geography is the study of the spatial organization of human activity and human interaction with the physical environment.

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New System Gives Unprecedented Forecasts of Earth 's Second Largest Ocean

WASHINGTON, NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center,
Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch, has implemented a new revolutionary Real-
Time Ocean Forecast System that will provide mariners with "nowcasts" and
five-day forecasts for the entire North Atlantic Ocean. East Coast.

On the Web:
NOAA: http://www.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the Explorer Program
for the Science Mission Directorate. In-Depth Report Provides Extensive Discussion and Data
on Social Security Reform Ramifications

WASHINGTON , The American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants (AICPA) released today a comprehensive analysis of the
factors that should be considered for Social Security reform. We at the AICPA strongly urge
policymakers and the public to thoroughly understand the issues surrounding
Social Security reform before taking a position. We believe our
study adds that knowledge to the debate."
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
(http://www.aicpa.

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NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center: http://www. It will return global images of the
interstellar interaction by the end of the decade.



The report, available electronically at
http://www.

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NOAA Announces Forecasts of Entire Atlantic Basin

S. "This new system represents a collaborative approach that works ,"
said Dr. Louis W.emc.

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SAN ANTONIO ----NASA has chosen
Southwest Research Institute(R) (SwRI(R)) to lead the first mission to
image the outer boundaries of the solar system, the region separating
our solar system from interstellar space.
The IBEX payload consists of two imagers designed to detect
neutral atoms from the solar system's outer boundaries and galactic
medium.

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"Expanded ocean forecasting for areas from Europe to the U.ncep.
"In addition to revealing many of the interstellar boundary's
unknown properties, IBEX will explore how the solar wind regulates the
radiation from the galaxy," says McComas. The intent of
this publication is to provide a tool that will aid in this important debate.aicpa.

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Lautenbacher, Jr. "These new capabilities provide us with the
potential to mitigate impacts from natural hazards and are just one example of
the tangible benefits of an integrated observation system.noaa.ncep.ncep.noaa. and international scientists from universities and
other institutions, as well as Chicago's Adler Planetarium, which is
leading education and public outreach for the mission.

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NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction:
http: //www.gov/ofs
EMC Marine Modeling + Analysis Branch: http://polar. "This mission
will provide a much deeper understanding of the Sun's interaction with
the galaxy and will also address a serious challenge facing manned
exploration by studying the region that shields us from the majority
of galactic cosmic ray radiation," McComas adds. "This radiation poses a
major hazard to human space exploration and may have affected the
formation and evolution of life on Earth. private auditing standards.

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NOAA's National Weather Service: http://www.gov
Real Time-Ocean Forecast System: http://polar.
IBEX is expected to cost approximately $134 million and is slated
to launch around 2008.org) is the national, professional organization of CPAs,
with approximately 350,000 members , including CPAs in business and industry,
public practice, government, and education; student affiliates; and
international associates. It also develops and grades the Uniform CPA
Examination.

Historical geography, cultural
geography, medical geography, economic geography and political geography are all areas of study within the field of human geography.

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The critical part of Real-Time Ocean Forecast System was developed at the
University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and
adapted by NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center and NOAA's other operational
settings .S.

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The catalyst for the Institute's report is the Social Security
Administration's estimate that the Social Security Trust Fund balance will
peak in 2028 and be exhausted by 2041.

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"The system has been in operation for six weeks and is
demonstrating improved forecast skill over the previous system. Through the emerging
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its
federal partners and nearly 60 countries to develop a global monitoring
network that is as integrated as the planet it observes."
To achieve this important mission, SwRI and its partners are
developing a small, lightweight spacecraft to launch from a Pegasus
rocket dropped from an airplane.
The goal of the report is to provide unbiased facts on the degree of the
Social Security program's financial problem and the impacts on the economy and
society.


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Department of Commerce, is dedicated to
enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and
research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental
stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources.
McComas, senior executive director of the SwRI Space Science and
Engineering Division. For IBEX, SwRI is partnering with Orbital Science Corporation,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , the University of New
Hampshire and the Applied Physics Laboratory.

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