Excellent day for a little run after work! Mid/high-70s and sunny and traffic wasn't too bad...

Some things I found interesting...

Definitely - http://www.universetoday.com/85797/dazzling-timelapse-canary-skies/

RIP Spirit Rover - http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=8736

A collection of (what the linked author believes are) some of the best pics from Endeavour's final mission - http://www.universetoday.com/85924/best-images-from-sts-134-endeavours-final-mission-part-1/


What happened in Congress yesterday? - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r112:@FIELD(FLD003+d)+@FIELD(DDATE+20110524)

Live stream from Endeavour - http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/status.html

Top 10 items on THOMAS week of 5/22/11; NRC docs for Browns Ferry from 5/14/11 to 5/21/11; Nature's April Fury

Top ten legislative items searched on THOMAS, compiled on 5/22/2011 from weekly usage statistics

1. H.R. 1473 - [112th] - Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
2. H.R. 1540 - [112th] - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
3. H.R. 754 - [112th] - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011
4. H.R. 4173 - [111th] - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
5. H.R. 3590 - [111th] - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
6. H.R. 1351 - [112th] - United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011
7. H.R. 3 - [112th] - No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
8. H.R. 1 - [112th] - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
9. H.R. 1380 - [112th] - New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011
10. H.R. 3162 - [107th] - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001

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1. ML11108A034 - Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 - Resumption of Review of the Proposed Extended Power Uprate Amendment (TAC NOS. MD5262, MD5263, and MD5264) (TS-431).
2. ML11112A148 - G20110283/LTR-11-0230/EDATS: SECY-2011-0247 - E-mail, Dick Griest, Regarding Watts Bar Visit with Senator Lamar Alexander on April 18, 2011.
3. ML11129A187 - Browns Ferry, Unit 2, Response to NRC Request for Additional Information Regarding Relief Request 2-ISI-1, Updated Risk Informed Inservice Inspection Program.
4. ML111330758 - IR 05000259-11-002, 05000260-11-002, 05000296-11-002 & 07200052-11-002, on 01/01/2011 - 03/31/2011, Browns Ferry, Units 1, 2 & 3, NRC Integrated Inspection and Notice of Violation.
5. ML102860126 - Browns Ferry, Units 1, 2 and 3 - Updated Reply to Notice of Violation; EA-09-307.
6. ML111380696 - Press Release-II-11-037: NRC Schedules Public Meeting for May 31 to Discuss Performance of Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant.
7. ML11132A121 - Browns Ferry, Units 1, 2, and 3, Boiling Water Reactor Vessel and Internals Project - Notification of Deviation from BWRVIP-25, "BWR Core Plate Inspection and Flaw Evaluation Guidelines."

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April was obviously a VERY rough month as far as tornadic storms were concerned. The previous monthly tornado record for the month of April (April '74) was 267. In April 2011, there were 875 tornadoes reported with 625 confirmed so far. The video at the link below shows the monthly satellite loop with red dots denoting where tornadoes formed.

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory - Satellites Capture Record U.S. Tornado Activity from April 1 - April 30

All I can say is wow!!!