COMMISSIONERS OF STAMPS versus DRUGGISTS.

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

This article deals with the role of insurance for damages from catastrophic events. Prior to the attack of September 11, 2001, insurers typically provided coverage for losses from terrorism and those from almost all other causes. These causes were thought by the industry to be of sufficiently low probability and were not a reason for making changes in premiums, underwriting, or reserves. In tim...

Nobel stamps of approval

The British Post Office has joined Sweden, the US, and other postal services in issuing a commemorative set of stamps to mark the centenary of the first award of the Nobel Prizes in 1901. Sweden and the US are, in fact, issuing a stamp carrying exactly the same design; a profile of Alfred Nobel together with his image on one side of the Nobel Prize medals. But the British Post Office has done s...

FOR : The Commissioners FROM : Luis

The purpose of this paper is to inform the Commission of the results of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff=s review of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS) license renewal application submitted by AmerGen Energy Company, LLC, (AmerGen); and to request that the Commission authorize the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) to make the appropria...

Improving on Version Stamps

Optimistic distributed systems often rely on version vectors or their variants in order to track updates on replicated objects. Some of these mechanisms rely on some form of global configuration or distributed naming protocol in order to assign unique identifiers to each replica. These approaches are incompatible with replica creation under arbitrary partitions, a typical operation mode in mobi...

Radiology on postage stamps.