A Penny for the Court\u27s Thoughts? The High Price of Judicial Elections

In this article, Mr. Bronson Bills explores the meaning of the term judicial independence, tracks the history of the concept in colonial America, and discusses the importance of judicial independence to free and just society. Mr. Bills then examines judicial elections in light of the 2006 Nevada Supreme Court election for Seat G-a judicial election in which the incumbent Justice Nancy Becker was defeated by the much less qualified Nevada State District Court Judge Nancy Saitta (who was the most reversed District Judge in Nevada with no academic or legal publications prior to taking the bench) after Saitta misrepresented the holding of a single unpopular civil tax decision, in which Becker concurred, to the voting public-and argues that the Nevada Supreme Court election illustrates many of the reasons why States should abandon elections in favor of judicial appointment

New Mexican Spanish: A Brief History of Time, Space, and Family Values

2010 Plenary Addres

Liquid Fuel Film Cooling: a CFD Analysis With Hydrocarbon Fuel

Cooling of liquid rocket engine combustion chambers and nozzles is a critical component to liquid rocket engine design. A common method of cooling is liquid fuel film cooling. Liquid fuel is injected along the surface of the wall to act as a barrier against the core combustion gases. A numerical model is developed for simulating liquid fuel _lm cooling in a rocket engine using a hydrocarbon fuel. The model incorporates turbulent multiphase ow with species transport within the commercial ANSYS® Fluent CFD software. Conjugate heat transfer is simulated through walls containing embedded cooling channels. A novel User Defined Function is written to incorporate heterogeneous chemical reactions between the liquid fuel and the freestream gases. Comparisons are made between simulations with and without the heterogeneous reactions as well as with simplifications to the cooling channel geometry. It is found that simplifications to the cooling geometry can artificially reduce cooling performance while neglecting the heterogeneous reactions can artificially increase cooling performance

A Penny for the Court\u27s Thoughts? The High Price of Judicial Elections

In this article, Mr. Bronson Bills explores the meaning of the term judicial independence, tracks the history of the concept in colonial America, and discusses the importance of judicial independence to free and just society. Mr. Bills then examines judicial elections in light of the 2006 Nevada Supreme Court election for Seat G-a judicial election in which the incumbent Justice Nancy Becker was defeated by the much less qualified Nevada State District Court Judge Nancy Saitta (who was the most reversed District Judge in Nevada with no academic or legal publications prior to taking the bench) after Saitta misrepresented the holding of a single unpopular civil tax decision, in which Becker concurred, to the voting public-and argues that the Nevada Supreme Court election illustrates many of the reasons why States should abandon elections in favor of judicial appointment

Lunar and Solar Torques on the Oceanic Tides

A general framework for calculating lunar and solar torques on the oceanic tides is developed in terms of harmonic constituents. Axial torques and their associated angular momentum and earth-rotation variations are deduced from recent satellite-altimeter and satellite-tracking tide solutions. Torques on the prograde components of the tide produce the familiar secular braking of the rotation rate. The estimated secular acceleration is approximately -1300 sec/century(sup 2) (less 4% after including atmospheric tides); the implied rate of change in the length of day is 2.28 milliseconds/century. Torques on the retrograde components of the tide produce periodic rotation variations at twice the tidal frequency. Interaction torques, e.g. solar torques on lunar tides, generate a large suite of rotation-rate variations at sums and differences of the original tidal frequencies. These are estimated for periods from 18.6 years to quarter-diurnal. At subdaily periods the angular momentum variations are 5 to 6 orders of magnitude smaller than the variations caused by ocean tidal currents

Using Geological Implications of a Physical Libration to Constrain Enceladus' Libration State

Observations of Enceladus' south pole revealed large rifts in the crust, called "tiger stripes", which exhibit higher temperatures than the surrounding terrain and are likely sources of observed eruptions. Tidal stress may periodically open the tiger stripe rifts, controlling the timing and location of eruptions. Moreover, shear motion along rifts may produce the heat to drive eruptions

Geological Implications of a Physical Libration on Enceladus

Given the non-spherical shape of Enceladus (Thomas et al., 2007), the satellite will experience gravitational torques that will cause it to physically librate as it orbits Saturn. Physical libration would produce a diurnal oscillation in the longitude of Enceladus tidal bulge which, could have a profound effect on the diurnal stresses experienced by the surface of the satellite. Although Cassini ISS has placed an observational upper limit on Enceladus libration amplitude of F < 1.5deg (Porco et al., 2006), smaller amplitudes can still have geologically significant consequences. Here we present the first detailed description of how physical libration affects tidal stresses and how those stresses then might affect geological processes including crack formation and propagation, south polar eruption activity, and tidal heating. Our goal is to provide a framework for testing the hypothesis that geologic features on Enceladus are produced by tidal stresses from diurnal physical and optical librations of the satellite