BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
December 11, 2006

Director, Regulations Management (00REG)

Department of Veterans Affairs

Room 1068

810 Vermont Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20420

**RE: RIN 2900-AL65**

Dear Sir or Madam:

I respectfully submit for your consideration the following comments on
the recent supplemental information provided with respect to the VA's
proposed electronic reporting requirements on certain defaulted
mortgages.

PHH Mortgage understands the need for an insurer and/or investor, such
as the VA, to receive information on loans that pose financial risk to
them. We do believe, however, that providing too much information on a
too frequent basis can be detrimental for several reasons.

VA has proposed over 500 data fields to be captured in its new
electronic reporting system, VALERI. Many of these data fields are not
updated during the normal course of loan administration and are not
relevant regarding default status. Requiring this data to be reported
will result in extensive process revisions necessary to track, update
and ensure accuracy of the data fields. Also these revisions will spread
existing resources much thinner due to the added amount of time and
effort it will take to obtain the data. Please note these are the same
resources that currently attempt to contact delinquent mortgagors in
hopes of formulating a solution to cure a default.

VA has essentially asked for daily electronic reporting. This is not
consistent with any other insurer and/or investor that PHH currently
services loans for. Again, current resources would be taxed by having to
work daily edits and errors. Also, many "false positives" would be
created by daily reporting as a result of not allowing issues to work
themselves out through the normal loan servicing process. .

Lastly, servicers will need to make a significant investment to meet the
proposed reporting requirements. This includes system modifications,
data transmission expense and labor costs associated with staffing
required to manually review and update information.

Our most valued resources are our employees, who are interacting with
our mutually beneficial customers. Shifting their attention away from
interacting with our customers could lead to poorer customer
satisfaction. Our hope is that the VA will reassess the need for all of
the data that they are asking for as well as limit the reporting
frequency to monthly, which is industry standard.

Sincerely,

Steven T Kravitz

Director, Collections and Loss Mitigation

PHH Mortgage Corporation

4001 Leadenhall Road

Mount Laurel, NJ 08054

856-917-8212
**Emerging Contaminants in Nestling Bald Eagles at Three National Parks
in the Upper Midwest**

Route, WT^1^, Meyer, MW^2^, Gafvert, UB^1^, and Martell, MS^3^

^1^ National Park Service, Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network,
Ashland, WI 55806

^2^ Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Rhinelander, WI 54501

^3^ Audubon Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55125

We sampled bald eagle nestlings in 2006 and 2007 to monitor levels of
persistent, bioaccumulative toxics at the Apostle Islands National
Lakeshore, WI; St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, WI; and the
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, MN.

Blood and feather samples from 66 nestlings (32 in 2006, 34 in 2007)
were analyzed for two legacy contaminants -- PCBs and DDT; two heavy
metals -- mercury and lead; and three emerging contaminants --
polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), perfluorooctanyl sulfonate (PFOS),
and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). We present preliminary results on the
distributions and concentrations of PFOS and PBDE in bald eagle
nestlings at the three national parks.

Levels of PFOS in 2006 were highest in nestlings on the Mississippi
River (range 331 to 2,800 ppb), followed by the Apostle Islands (range
11 to 330 ppb), and lowest in the upper St. Croix River system (\< 40
ppb). Our data show a significant reduction in levels of PFOS from 2006
to 2007 in eaglets along the Mississippi River. However, levels of PFOS
did not change significantly between years for nestlings from the
Apostle Islands. We found PBDEs in all nestlings sampled and our data
suggest a near doubling of concentrations in nestlings along the south
shore of Lake Superior (including Apostle Islands) over the last five
years. The levels of PBDEs in bald eagle nestlings (range 0.5 to 28.6
ppb) mirrored those of PCBs, highlighting the similarity in transfer
pathways and the persistence of the two chemical groups.

**Key words:** Contaminants, monitoring, PBDE, PFOS

[Author contact information:]{.underline}

Bill Route

Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network

National Park Service

2800 Lake Shore Drive East

Ashland, WI 54806

P: 715-682-0631 ext 21

F: 715-682-6190

<Bill_route@nps.gov>

I prefer \_\_X\_\_\_ poster presentation (I will not be able to attend)
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE **

**September 14, 2004**

**CONTACT: MARTIN GREEN**

**(202) 225-4436**

** **

**TRIAL LAWYERS BLOCK SOUDER\'S**

**LAWSUIT ABUSE REFORM BILL**

** **

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - U.S. Rep. Mark Souder condemned trial lawyers
today for lobbying to block passage of H.R. 3369, the Nonprofit Athletic
Organization Protection Act. Although the lawsuit abuse reform
legislation, which Souder authored and introduced in October 2003,
received a simple majority vote of 217-176 today, under the rule for
consideration of the bill a two-thirds majority was required for House
passage, and, as such, H.R. 3369 failed.

 

\"As a result of today\'s aggressive lobbying of House Democrats by
trial lawyers, it may not be long before many low-income kids simply
won\'t be able to afford to play in amateur hockey, soccer, football,
and baseball leagues,\" Souder said. \"Amateur athletic organizations
have been relentlessly targeted in lawsuits, which have significantly
driven up insurance costs. It\'s not uncommon for these rule-making
associations to see their premiums double or triple each year, if they
can even get insurance. And these additional costs are passed on to the
families, through fees, that pay for their children to participate.
There is always going to be inherent risk in physical activity, and no
rule book can ever prevent that. That doesn\'t mean, however, that we
shut down amateur sports and send our kids home.\"

 

\"My bill would have helped protect non-profit, amateur athletic
associations from questionable lawsuits, thereby instituting some
common-sense lawsuit abuse reform,\" Souder added. \"Reform is critical
to elementary, junior high and high school students, and we intend to
bring up the bill again-if not in this session of Congress, then in the
next.\"

 

At a July hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee, Robert Kanaby,
executive director of the Indiana-based National Federation of State
High School Associations (NFHS), stated that, over the last three years,
the annual liability insurance premiums for the NFHS have increased
three-fold to about \$1 million, with experts claiming that the premiums
will likely increase significantly in years to come, threatening high
school sports. Every single state athletic association supported the
Souder bill.

 

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Analysis Model Worksheet

**Product\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

**Tangible (s):**

**Intangible Meanings (Tangible/Intangible Links):**

**Opportunities for Connections to Resource Meanings:**

**Opportunity---Tangible/Intangible link developed:**

Emotional

Intellectual

Method used

**Opportunity---Tangible/Intangible link developed:**

Emotional

Intellectual

Method used

**Opportunity---Tangible/Intangible link developed:**

Emotional

Intellectual

Method used

**Opportunity---Tangible/Intangible link developed:**

Emotional

Intellectual

Method used

**Idea or Ideas Cohesively Developed:**

Idea

Idea

**Suggestions for Improvement:**

Opportunities for Intellectual and Emotional Connections

***Opportunity = a favorable set of circumstances***

**Intellectual \-- Which connection opportunities seem to provoke or
inspire:**

awareness, comprehension, discernment, discovery, enlightenment,
insight, reasoning, mindfulness, perceptiveness, perspicacity,
recognition, revelation, understanding of concepts, cause and effect, or
relationships; unearthing, unfolding, wisdom...

**Emotional \-- Which connection opportunities seem to provoke, evoke or
inspire:**

admiration, aggravation, amazement, anger, anguish, apprehension,
astonishment, aversion, awe, bewilderment, bliss, comfort,
commiseration, compassion, concern, consternation, contentedness,
contrition, curiosity, delight, despair, devotion, disappointment,
disgust, dismay, distress, dread, elation, empathy, esteem,
exasperation, exhilaration, fright, frustration, gladness, gratitude,
grief, happiness, horror, joy, loyalty, nostalgia, passion, pity, pride,
regret, relief, remorse, respect, reverence, sadness, satisfaction,
sentiment, shame, sorrow, surprise, sympathy, tranquility, veneration,
vexation, woe, wonder, worry, yearning...

**Interpretive methods and techniques for developing tangible/intangible
links into opportunities for intellectual and emotional connections to
resource meanings:**

Activity, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, analysis,
anthropomorphism, characterizations, commentary, comparison, contrast,
demonstration, description, examples, explanation, games, hooks, humor,
hyperbole, illustrations, imagery, imagination, irony, living history,
metaphor, multiple points of view, music, observation, paradox,
parallel, personification, period clothing, photographs, poetry, props,
questions, quotes, reenactments, repetition, rhyme, role playing,
sensory experience, silence, simile, song, statistics, story, symbolism,
testimony, theater, theme, tone, voice variation, word picture, word
play...

*For a more complete list of interpretive methods and techniques see
"Handles -- Helping Visitors to Grasp Resource Meanings, an Inventory of
Interpretive Techniques" by Peggy Scherbaum -- available at
[www.nps.gov/idp/interp/103/resources.htm](http://www.nps.gov/idp/interp/103/resources.htm)*
MATERIALS TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

[Notice of Partially Closed Meeting]{.underline}

The Materials Technical Advisory Committee will meet on April 8, 2003,
10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 3884, 14th Street between
Constitution & Pennsylvania Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. The
Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Industry and
Security with respect to technical questions that affect the level of
export controls applicable to materials and related technology.

[AGENDA]{.underline}:

PUBLIC SESSION

1\. Opening remarks and introductions.

2\. Presentation of papers and comments by the public.

3\. Discussion on list of chemicals proposed for the Australia Group
control list:

Tri-isopropyl phosphite (CAS \# 116-17-6)

Di-isopropopyl phosphite (CAS \# 1809-20-7)

Methylphosphonic acid (CAS \# 993-13-5)

Oxalyl chloride \[ethanedioyl dichloride\] (CAS \# 79-37-8)

Diethyl methylphosphonate (CAS \# 683-08-9)

N,N-Dimethylamido phosphoryldichloride \[dimethylphosphoramidic
dichloride\] (CAS \# 677-43-0)

Thiophosphoryl chloride (CAS \# 3982-91-0)

# CLOSED SESSION

4\. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order
12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs and

strategic criteria related thereto. A limited number of seats will be
available during the public session of the meeting.

Reservations are not accepted. To the extent time permits, members of
the public may present oral statements to the Committee. Written
statements may be submitted at any time before or after the meeting.
However, to facilitate distribution of public presentation materials to
Committee members, the materials should be forwarded prior to the
meeting to the address below:

> Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter
>
> OSIES/EA/BIS MS: 3876

U.S. Department of Commerce

14 St. & Constitution Ave., N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20230

The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of the
delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on February 6,
2002, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of the
Committee and of any Subcommittee thereof dealing with the classified
materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552(c)(1) shall be exempt from the
provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a)(1) and
(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The remaining series of
meetings or portions thereof will be open to the public.

For more information, call Lee Ann Carpenter at (202) 482‑2583.
**High Reliability Prototype Quadrupole for the Next Linear Collider**

C.E. Rago, C.M. Spencer, Z. Wolf

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, MS 12, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo
Park, Ca 94025 USA

The Next Linear Collider (NLC) will require over 5600 magnets, each of
which must be highly reliable and/or quickly repairable in order that
the NLC reach its 85% overall availability goal. A multidiscipline
engineering team was assembled at SLAC to develop a more reliable
electromagnet design than historically had been achieved at SLAC. This
team carried out a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) on a
standard SLAC quadrupole magnet system. They overcame a number of
longstanding design prejudices, producing 10 major design changes. A
detailed description of this design process and the resulting NLC
quadrupole design was presented at MT16. This paper describes how a
prototype magnet was constructed and the extensive testing carried out
on it to prove full functionality with an improvement in reliability.
How the magnet fared in severe physical conditions and after multiple
disassemblies and re-assemblies will be described. The magnet\'s
fabrication cost will be compared to the cost of a magnet with the same
requirements made in the historic SLAC way. The NLC will use over 1400
of these 12.7 mm bore quadrupoles with a range of integrated strength
from 0.6 to 138 Tesla, a maximum gradient of 141 Tesla per meter, an
adjustment range of 0 --20% and effective lengths from 324 mm to 972 mm.
The magnetic center must remain stable to within 1 micron during the 20%
adjustment. A magnetic measurement set-up has been developed that can
measure sub-micron shifts of a magnetic center. The prototype satisfied
the center shift requirement, its data will be compared to equivalent
hybrid permanent magnets described in

\" Adjustable Permanent Quadrupoles using Rotating Magnet Material Rods
for the Next Linear Collider\" by DiMarco et al, submitted to this
conference. Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under
contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00515.
October 5, 1998

Ms. Regina M. Keeney

Chief of the International Bureau

Federal Communications Commission

Washington, D.C. 20554

Dear Ms. Keeney:

The FCC Public Notice DA 98-842, released May 4, 1998 contained a
preliminary view that addressed agenda item 1.12. This preliminary view
was revised by the RCS and approved by the IRAC. The following is our
revision of the preliminary view for agenda item 1.12:

> **WRC-00 Agenda Item 1.12:** *to consider the progress of studies on
> sharing between feeder links of non-GSO MSS networks and GSO FSS
> networks in the bands 19.3-19.7 GHz and 29.1-29.5 GHz, taking into
> account Resolution* ***121 (Rev. WRC-97)**;*
>
> [ISSUE:]{.underline} Sharing Between NGSO MSS Feederlinks and GSO FSS
> Networks in the Bands 19.3-19.7 GHz and 29.1-29.5 GHz
>
> [BACKGROUND:]{.underline} Resolution 121 requests that the ITU-R
> conduct a study of sharing possibilities between GSO FSS and NGSO MSS
> feederlinks in the bands 19.3-19.7 GHz and 29.1-29.5 GHz.
>
> [PRELIMINARY VIEW]{.underline}: Resolution 121 is no longer necessary
> because the issue of GSO/ NSGO sharing in the feederlink bands is
> being addressed in the ITU-R. A deletion of the reference to
> Resolution 121 in S5.541A would follow.

Karl Nebbia from my staff will contact Damon Ladson to reconcile any
differences.

> Sincerely,
>
> *Original Signed*
>
> William T. Hatch
>
> Acting Associate Administrator
>
> Office of Spectrum Management
# **ACTIVITY** 1-**2 Wavelength and Frequency**

The frequency of a wave is defined as the number of waves created per
second. As the waves propagate away from the source, the frequency also
represents the number of waves that will pass a point per second. The
unit of frequency is the hertz (Hz).

The wavelength, or length of a wave, is defined as the distance from one
point on a wave to the corresponding point on the next wave. Since
wavelength is a distance, the unit of wavelength is the meter (m).

Frequency, wavelength and speed are related by the equation:

c = λ f

where c is the speed of light (3 x 10^8^ m/s),

λ (lambda) is the wavelength in meters (m),

and f is the frequency in hertz (Hz).

From this equation we can see that a long wavelength will have a low
frequency while a short wavelength will have a high frequency since the
product of these two quantities is constant.

Example problem: Find the wavelength of a radio wave with a frequency of
900 kHz.

f = 900 kHz = 900 x 10^3^ Hz = 9 x 10^5^ Hz

c = 3 x 10^8^ m/s

λ = ?

> c = λ f (Solve for λ)
>
> c = λ f
>
> λ =
>
> λ =
>
> λ = .33 x 10^3^ = 3.3 x 10^2^ m (330 m)

Problems

1.  Find the wavelength of a radio wave with a frequency of 650 kHz.

2.  Find the wavelength of a radio wave with a frequency of 1300 kHz.

3.  Find the wavelength of a radio wave with a frequency of 90 MHz.

4.  Find the wavelength of a radio wave with a frequency of 101.5 MHz.

5.  AM radio stations have frequencies from 540-1700 kHz.

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a)  Find the longest wavelength FM radio signal.

b)  Find the shortest wavelength FM radio signal.

Answer key for Activity 2.

1\. 4.6 x 10^2^ m (460 m)

2\. 2.3 x 10^2^ m (230 m)

3\. 3.3 m

4\. 2.96 m

5a. 1.76 x 10^2^ m (176 m)

5b. 5.56 x 10^2^ m (556 m)

6a. 3.4 m

6b. 2.8 m
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 **N1780**

# ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 Document Processing and Related Communication--- Document Description and Processing Languages {#isoiec-jtc1sc18wg8-document-processing-and-related-communication-document-description-and-processing-languages .Heading-0-(nobreak)}

  -------------------- --------------------------------------------------
  **Title:**           Invitation for Category C Liaison

  **Source:**          WG8

  **Project:**         All WG8 projects

  **Project editor:**  

  **Status of          Approved Liaison Statement to OMG
  document:**          

  **Requested          For information
  action:**            

  **Date**             8 February 1995

  **Distribution:**    WG8 and liaisons, OMG

  **References:**      

  **Supersedes:**      
  -------------------- --------------------------------------------------

# Invitation to the Object management Group for Category C Liaison with ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 {#invitation-to-the-object-management-group-for-category-c-liaison-with-isoiec-jtc1sc18wg8 .Heading-0-(nobreak)}

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 has recently become aware of the OMG Common
Facilities Task Force activities in Compound Document Processing.

WG8's work in the area of Document Description and Processing Languages
has led to the development of such International Standards as ISO 8879,
SGML; ISO/IEC 10744, HyTime; ISO/IEC 10180, SPDL; and ISO/IEC 10179,
DSSSL.

WG8 believes that its standards, which have an ever-increasing user
community on the Internet (HTML, the language of the World-Wide Web, is
an application of SGML) will be of great benefit to the OMG community if
they are properly referenced and integrated into OMG specifications.

To support this goal, SC18/WG8 invites the OMG to enter into Category C
liaison with WG8.

Rudolf M. Riess has volunteered to serve as the official liaison.
\-\-\-\--Original Message\-\-\-\--

From: Matt Stella
\[[[mailto:mattstella@comcast.net]{.underline}](mailto:mattstella@comcast.net)\]

Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:37 AM

To: comments

Subject: comments on discriminatory tax code.

To Whom It May Concern:

Please enter the attached comments into the public record.

Thanks.

Matt Stella

1318 S. 400 E.

SLC, UT 84115

Matt Stella

1318 South 400 East

Salt Lake City, UT 84115

March 12, 2005

The President\'s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform\
1440 New York Avenue NW Suite 2100\
Washington, DC 20220

To Whom It May Concern:

I wish to express my opposition to the parts of the tax code that
discriminate against non-married family partnerships, including gay and
lesbian families.

I am a heterosexual man, married to my wife, enjoying the tax benefits
of marriage. I feel that the privileges I enjoy should apply to any
couple that is committed in love to one another. To discriminate against
people on the basis of who they chose to love is entirely wrong.

Please register my views in the public record as you deliberate changes
to the tax code. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Matt Stella
Women MUST have choices. Those of us who are taking bio-identical
hormones and consider ourselves doing well MUST NOT have that choice
taken away from us based on the financial situation of a pharmaceutical
company. It is not our fault that the studies were done on Premarin and
PremPro, nor is it our fault that the studies came back in a negative
light, nor is it our fault that Wyeth has lost a lot of money in sales
due to these studies. More so it is to our advantage that we be kept
informed of pharmaceuticals that might be detrimental to our health.

The medical field is now being managed by insurance companies and
pharmaceutical companies as it is, and in my opinion, most patients are
being prescribed medications for symptoms, not causes. We have very few
choices and if we choose treatment other than what the AMA, the
pharmaceutical companies, or the insurance companies embrace, the cost
of these choices comes straight from our pockets.

I have been to many M.D.'s, and not one of them has EVER suggested an
alternative treatment to a prescribed pill, and if that doesn't work,
THEN TAKE TWICE AS MUCH. And if that doesn't work, then they send you to
have every kind of lab test known to man, and they still don't know what
is wrong with you. Well, I have been this route and came to the
conclusion that I must take the responsibility for my own health, and if
taking bio-identical hormones makes me feel well, THEN I MUST BE GIVEN
THIS CHOICE.

The USA is supposed to be a free country. We MUST be given the right to
choose what we believe to be the best treatment for our personal health.

If anyone listens to all of the "medicine" advertised on TV with all of
the adverse side effects tacked on, no one can truthfully say that
bio-identical hormones can be any more detrimental to your health.
Especially in light of the fact that these bio-identical hormones CANNOT
be advertised.

**"Ask your doctor if you need "\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*", when they don't
even tell you what it is for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**

It is NOT fair to limit our personal choices based on the request of one
pharmaceutical company that is losing money. HOW ABSURD!!!
Mr. Rohrabacher: Mr. Chairman, tomorrow, the Foreign Affairs Committee
will mark up legislation dealing with the tumultuous events now taking
place in Burma. I am an original co-sponsor and would ask my colleagues
to support the bill.

We may be witnessing an historic event taking place in Burma. Religious
leaders are bravely confronting a violent and brutal military
dictatorship. The people of Burma are telling the generals who have
oppressed them and looted the country for decades, to peacefully step
aside and let a democratically elected government rule the nation.

Noble Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for
Democracy overwhelmingly won the 1990 elections but corrupt and brutal
generals betrayed their people. They ignored the election results. The
SLORC, which is what the Burmese military regime called itself, then
commenced to murder, torture and imprison anyone who would oppose their
tyranny! Further, they have plundered Burma's vast natural resources
with the help of their Chinese masters and other foreign looters.

Now, at long last, the people of Burma have a chance. This is their
moment. I urge all Burmese soldiers: do not kill your own people for the
greed and corruption of those who have sold out your country to the
Chinese. You are not a state of Beijing. It is your country. And I warn
Burmese military officers: if you slaughter the monks and those calling
for democracy, when your regime falls, and it will fall, you will be
pursued to every corner of the globe like the Nazi criminals before you.

The bamboo ramparts of tyranny are coming down. The American people, and
free people everywhere, are with those brave souls in Burma seeking to
free themselves from the gangsters, who oppress them and steal the
wealth of their country. To the people of Burma: you are not alone. Your
cause is our cause.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS MEDIA CONTACT

March 12, 2008 Katie Yocum (202) 418-2300

**COMMISSIONER JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN RESPONDS**

**TO PUBLIC SAFETY BUREAU STAY ORDER**

*Washington, DC --* In response to the Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau's Administrative Stay Order, Commissioner Adelstein
released the following statement:

"The release of a bureau-level order today to stay the September 11,
2008 E911 location accuracy compliance deadline adopted in the Report
and Order[^1] in this proceeding serves as proof positive of the failure
to get these rules right the first time. As I stated then, I am
concerned that the majority's insistence on plowing forward with
compliance benchmarks without a full record, rather than conducting this
proceeding in a more thoughtful and deliberate manner, does not truly
advance E911. Instead, we find the advancement of our public's safety
entangled in legal uncertainties. Today's action by the Public Safety
and Homeland Security Bureau is nothing more than a temporary band aid
that does not cure the underlying deficiencies embedded in the Report
and Order."

[^1]: Wireless E911 Location Accuracy Requirements; Revision of the
    Commission's Rules to Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 911
    Emergency Calling Systems; E911 Requirements for IP-Enabled
    Providers; PS Docket No. 07-114, CC Docket No. 94-102, WC Docket No.
    05-196, *Report and Order*, 22 FCC Rcd 20105 (Report and Order).
**[ALBUQUERQUE]{.underline}**

Albuquerque Indian Health Center -- IHS

801 Vassar Drive NE

Albuquerque, NM 87105

Phone: 505-248-4062

Alamo Health Center -- Tribal

Box 907

Magdalena, NM 87825

Phone: 505-854-2626

Isleta Health Center -- Tribal

Box 580

Isleta, NM 87022

Phone: 505-869-3200

Jemez Health Center -- Tribal

Box 279

Jemez, NM 87024

Phone: 505-834-7413

Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna SU -- IHS

Box 310

San Fidel, NM 87049

Phone: 505-552-5303

Jicarilla Apache Nation HC -- IHS

Box 187

Dulce, NM 87525

Phone: 505-759-3291

Mescalero SU (MSU) -- IHS

Box 210

Mescalero, NM 88340

Phone: 505-464-4441

Santa Fe SU (SFSU) -- IHS

1700 Cerrillos Rd.,

Santa Fe, NM 87505

Phone: 505-946-9202

Taos/Picuris -- IHS

Box 1956

Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 505-758-4224

Ute Mountain Health Center -- IHS

Box 49

Towac, CO 81334

Phone: 970-565-4441

Ysleta De Sur (YDS) -- IHS

Box 17579

El Paso, TX 79907

Phone: 915-859-7913

Zuni-Ramah SU (ZRSU) -- IHS

Box 467

Zuni, NM 87327

Phone: 505-782-7346, 7347

Pine Hill Health

Box 310

Pine Hill, NM 87327

Phone: 505-782-7346
TWO EXAMPLES OF WELL WRITTEN SIR'S

1.  Presumptive Meningococcal Disease:

-   All steps taken to address the infection issues are clearly
    explained.

-   The supplemental information is complete and gives not only the
    steps taken, but the rationale.

-   It is a good solid record to have in case there are questions about
    center safety.

-   The PM was able to refer to the information in a general way to calm
    the parents who called wondering what the center was doing to
    resolve infection issues.

2.  Sexual Harassment Incident:

    -   The center recognized they had gaps in how they prepared SIR'S,
        and the corrective action includes staff training in that area.

    -   The center felt this was a possible hazing incident of a new
        student so they changed their new student orientation to include
        a discussion of behavior on the first day they arrive instead of
        at the end of the first week.

    -   The center resolution includes some special considerations for
        the student who was hazed; they did a good job of supporting him
        under very difficult circumstances.

    -   The PM was able to refer to the corrective actions when speaking
        with the concerned parent of this student and the parents were
        greatly relieved to hear the steps the center took to make
        things better for their son.
PRE-FLIGHT QUESTIONS FOR KITE FLYING

# GRADES K-3

1.  Where does the power come from to lift the kite?

2.  Why don't kite flyers use ropes to hold their kites?

3.  Of all the colors, what color would not be a good choice for a kite?

# GRADES 4-6

1\. Do you think you could fly a kite on a day with no wind? How would
you do this?

2\. What do you think you would have to do to make a kite that would
lift a person?

3\. Can you think of a way to estimate how high a kite is flying?

4\. Look at the kites on this picture. Can you draw a flag on the
flagpole so that it is flying the right way? Can you draw how smoke
would be coming out of the smokestack?

# GRADES 7-9

1\. If you had to make a kite out of metal, what kinds of changes would
you have to make to try to get it to fly?

2\. Can you think of a practical use for a kite other than just having
fun? What could you use it to do?

3\. What is wrong with this picture?

4\. Why is it that some kite flyers run at the start but then stop
running? How come they don't have to keep running to keep their kites
up?

# GRADES 10-12

1\. If you had four miles of string and there was a fair wind, could you
fly your kite four miles out? Why or why not?

2\. Why don't kites fly well near buildings?

3\. Using the data provided in the picture, how could you calculate the
height of the kite?

35°

110 feet
Design of a New Multiuser Code

A. Al-Sammak\*, R. L. Kirlin\*\*^\#^ and P.F. Driessen\*\*

\* Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, U. of Bahrain, Isa
Town, Bahrain

\*\* ECE Department, U. of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada

#presenter: kirlin@ece.uvic.ca, ph 250-721-8681, fx 250-721-6052

**Abstract**

In this paper we give a design for a new multiuser line coding scheme
that achieves some advantages over quadrature amplitude modulation
(QAM). The 4-user code illustrated here gives 2 bits/channel user. A
constellation diagram is given for the new scheme, which looks similar
to the 16-point QAM, but it is different in two aspects. First this
scheme allows multiple users. Secondly it employs simple scalar addition
of the users\' signals in each time slot. This line code does not need
phase information, and hence has smaller synchronization requirements. U
communication channel users each independently select one of M symbols
coded as B bits (binary) from his independent alphabet A~u~, of M
symbols as shown in Figure 1. The M symbols might be added decimally
either a) in the transmitter or b) at the receiver. We specifically are
concerned with a), addition in the transmitter, as in cable or
point-to-point radio. The vector V whose B elements are the individual
bit sums must uniquely specify each user's symbol that contributed to
the sum.

Figure 1. Makeup of U users' B-bit binary symbols **m**~j~ constituting
their concatenated source symbol word, **w,** along with the associated
sum vector **V** composed of B bit sums S~b~ from the U symbols.

We answer the questions,

1.  How many sum vectors V can there be?

2.  What are the maximum number U of users that can use B bits;
    alternately, given U users, what is the minimum number B of bits
    that is required.

3.  How can we uniquely determine the user symbols associated with each
    V?

A communication scheme can be designed in such a way that for any
combination of the U-users data, a unique point from a constellation
diagram is sent. Tables present the limits on U and M, and the resulting
code rate R = log~2~ M \* (U / B) information bits/dimension. A
comparison between QAM and the new code and detailed examples of a
4-user code, with 2 bits/channel user are given. A The advantage of the
new scheme is that it can introduce higher rates by using more than two
time slots (i.e. higher dimensional space) using the same type of
carrier. The scheme utilizes lookup tables to ease implementation. It
employs one type of carrier (cosine only) and does not require perfect
phase synchronization -- an advantage over QAM.
Physics

[CYBERDEFENSE]{.underline} [Christopher McGrath]{.underline} , Phillip
Womble\*, Alexander Barzilov, Ivan Novikov, Ron Hopper, Jon Paschal,
James Moore, Robbie Phelps, Western Kentucky University, Applied Physics
Institute, Bowling Green 42101, Bruce Kessler, Western Kentucky
University, Dept of Mathematics, Bowling Green 42101, Uta Ziegler,
Western Kentucky University, Dept of Computer Science, Bowling Green
42101, phillip.womble@wku.edu

In the rapidly changing computer industry, cyber defense has become an
important security field. Increased internet use and global networking
has allowed nefarious hackers to bypass network security and gain access
to sensitive information. This coupled with Windows' security
deficiencies has encouraged third party programmers to create defense
protocols to secure their networks and files. Our objective is to use a
sandbox network to observe the effects of viruses and malicious code and
determine the countermeasures required to clean and secure the network.
In addition we will observe other types of attacks used to gain access
to files and determine appropriate security countermeasures to identify
and eradicate such threats. The countermeasures will include antivirus
software, custom built programs to root out malicious code and destroy
it, and actual counter attacks from one computer to another to isolate
and ban computers attempting to break into the network. The project will
employ a combination of physics and computer science students and will
utilize a wide variety of operating systems including Windows, Linux,
Unix, and OS X. By using all of the latest software available and by
using special custom built pattern matching algorithms, we hope to be
able to better secure networks and help counter the threat of hackers
and malicious programmers, and add to the defensive ring of
counter-intrusion technology for network security.

This work is supported in part by the Applied Research and Technology
Program of Western Kentucky University.
Report No. 2527 January 29, 2002 **[CONSUMER INFORMATION
BUREAU]{.underline}**

### REFERENCE INFORMATION CENTER

**[PETITION FOR RULEMAKING FILED]{.underline}**

Interested persons may file statements opposing or supporting the
Petitions for Rulemaking listed herein within 30 days, or as noted. See
Sections 1.4 and 1.405 of the Commission\'s rules for further
information.

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RM-10371 Part 15 Wireless Ethernet 01/15/02 Request Amendment of the

> Compatibility Alliance Commission's Rules to Permit

Unlicensed National Information

> (Filed By: Eric W. DeSilva, Infrastructure Devices to Operate

Wiley, Rein & Fielding LLP in the 5.470-5.725 GHz Band.

1776 K Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006)

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> FCC
August 10, 2005

 

**HELP OUR CHILDREN AND YOUNG WORKERS**

**SAVE FOR THE FUTURE**

** **

**EXPAND ROTH IRAs  +  EXTEND A TAX CUT**

** **

**COSPONSOR THE LIFETIME PROSPERITY ACT OF 2005**

 

Dear Colleague,

 

If Congress does not act, the Retirement Savings Tax Credit will expire
at the close of 2006.  We must act [immediately]{.underline} to
permanently extend this portion of President Bush\'s tax cut package. 
While we extend the Retirement Savings Tax Credit, we have an enormous
opportunity to help children begin saving for the future.  Right now

 

-   Children cannot currently have a Roth IRA opened in their name,

-   One cannot receive the Retirement Savings Tax Credit for
    contributing to a child\'s savings plan, and

-   The Retirement Savings Tax Credit is only open to low income
    workers. 

 

In addition to permanently extending the Retirement Savings Tax Credit,
my bill, the Lifetime Prosperity Act of 2005, would

>  

-   Allow children to own Roth IRAs as soon as they are born,

-   Allow family members and neighbors to contribute to a child\'s Roth
    IRA and to receive the Retirement Savings Tax Credit for that
    contribution, and

-   Raise the limits on the Retirement Savings Tax Credit to allow
    middle income working families to receive the Retirement Savings Tax
    Credit in addition to low income families. 

 

For more information or to be an original co-sponsor of the Lifetime
Prosperity Act of 2005 contact David Cuddy in my office at 5-2536 or
<david.cuddy@mail.house.gov>. 

 

Sincerely,

                                                                  
         

                                                           /s

     Connie Mack

                  Member of Congress
April 27, 2004

## BROADCAST STATION TOTALS AS OF MARCH 31, 2004

The Commission has announced the following totals for broadcast stations
licensed as of

March 31, 2004:

AM STATIONS 4781

FM COMMERCIAL 6224

FM EDUCATIONAL 2471

**TOTAL 13,476**

UHF COMMERCIAL TV 773

VHF COMMERCIAL TV 589

UHF EDUCATIONAL TV 255

VHF EDUCATIONAL TV 127

**TOTAL 1,744**

CLASS A UHF STATIONS 498

CLASS A VHF STATIONS 112

**TOTAL 610**

FM TRANSLATORS & BOOSTERS 3842

UHF TRANSLATORS 2658

VHF TRANSLATORS 2079

**TOTAL 8,579**

UHF LOW POWER TV 1605

VHF LOW POWER TV 523

**TOTAL 2,128**

**TOTAL BROADCAST STATIONS 26,537**

**- FCC -**
**OCTOBER 7,2002**

![](media/image1.png){width="1.125in" height="1.125in"} **Yellowstone
newsletter**

**[fhwa-WEST YELLOWSTONE field office]{.underline}**

##  2002 FHWA ROAD CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES

**WY PRA YELL 10(13**) **page 1 of 2**

**MADISON-NORRIS**

**10/07/02 to 10/13/02:**

**Beginning 6 a.m. on September 30 until November 3 the road will be
closed on week days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and opened from 6 p.m. until
10 a.m. the following morning. The road will be opened on weekends.
EXPECT UP TO 30 MINUTE DELAYS WHEN TRAVELLING FROM MADISON TO NORRIS
DURING OPEN PERIODS.**

The Prime Contractor is **HK Contractors Inc., of Idaho Falls, ID.** The
total Contract amount is \$18.6 million.

The Contract Completion Date is Sept. 2003.

The Work Consists of 15.5 K of road re-construction and 2 bridges
between the Madison and Norris junction. The project is located in two
segments. The first segment is between the Madison Junction and Gibbon
Falls. The second segment is located between Tanker Curve and Gibbon
Meadows. When traveling the route be aware of construction equipment and
trucks traversing between the two segments.

We expect this year to complete the remaining earthwork and drainage.
Gravel Surfacing has been placed on approximately 98% of the main road.
Trucks hauling asphalt concrete are traveling from Bozeman Sand and
Gravel (located near Duck Creek and near the intersection of MT Highway
287 and 191) through the West Entrance of the Park and into the project
through the Madison Junction. The main road from Gibbon River Bridge #1
through the Gibbon Meadows to the end of the project has been paved. The
main road from Madison Junction to Gibbon Falls has also been paved with
the exception of the area from station 2+700 to 3+100 (MSE Wall #1). No
paving was performed last week due to adverse weather conditions. We
expect to have the majority of the main road paved by the end of this
week.

Simulated Stone Masonry installation is now complete, with the staining
yet to be done, at MSE Wall #1 (STA 3+000, just south of Tuff Cliffs).
The curb and guardrail work is substantially complete at the Beryl
Springs Bridge. Guardrail has been installed at Terrace Springs and will
be installed at Beryl Springs Bridge area this week.

HK Contractors is completing excavation and embankment activities on the
new alignment section of road (just north of Gibbon Falls to just north
of Tankers Curve). The next phase of construction in this area is the
placement of gravel surfacing.

Feel free to call with questions or comments.

Glen Kutzera, FHWA

406-646-5112

HK Construction

307-344-8807

E-Mail NPS Maintenance Tim Hudson

E-Mail FHWA Howe Crockett

FAX WYDOT

T. Frost

B. Burrows

B. Hammond

E-Mail Cody CHAMBER

E-Mail W.YELL CHAMBER
48‑360548-3605.  [Assistance for floodplain delineations; duties of
director]{.underline}

A.  The director of water resources shall develop and adopt criteria for
establishing the one hundred-year flood and delineating floodplains.

B.  If a district is required to delineate a floodplain pursuant to
section 48‑3609 and the floodplain has not been delineated with
sufficient accuracy to allow adoption of regulations pursuant to section
48‑3609, the district may request the director for assistance in
delineating the floodplain.

C.  If sufficient monies have been appropriated, the director may either
provide the engineering and technical services necessary to delineate
the floodplains and floodway and determine water surface profile data
associated with such delineations or disburse monies for such services
to the requesting district.

D.  If a district chooses to be reimbursed for costs incurred to have
floodplains delineated after August 3, 1984, monies appropriated to the
director shall be disbursed on order of the director after application
by the district showing the necessity and purpose of the expenditures
for which reimbursement is required.

E.  The director may refuse to provide financial or technical assistance
allowed by this section if, in the opinion of the director, such
assistance is not necessary for the district to comply with section
48‑3609. 48‑3605
Testing and Characterization of Resonant and Nonlinear MEMS

Kimberly L. Turner, UCSB

This talk will focus on a technique and procedure to quantify the motion
of resonant MEMS.  This technique uses a laser Doppler vibrometer
coupled to an optical microscope to get high accuracy and fast
measurements of real-time MEMS.  The interface uses LabView, so the
testing can be quite sophisticated and automated.  In addition, devices
can be under controlled pressure and temperature, to get information on
how temperature cycling or pressure cycling affects the performance. 
Such a test setup is invaluable for the study of MEMS reliability, due
to the need for repeatable tests in controlled environments.  A variety
of structures will be used as examples, to show the breadth of the
technique.
**SPECIAL CO-ADDS**

Proposers may now request special co-added data sets, made using the
GALEX pipeline software. Special co-adds should be proposed as part of
Cycle 5, and will not be accepted outside of the proposal process.

Special co-adds will not be delivered before GALEX GR-5, currently
estimated for spring 2009. Special co-adds may be requested for any data
that will be released in GR-5, although the maximum exposure time that
can be guaranteed is that currently available in GR-4 (as listed in
TOAST ([**link to
TOAST**](http://sherpa.caltech.edu/gips/tools/toast.html)) ). Special
co-adds will be treated the same way as new observations - they will be
proprietary to the proposer for 6 months after the proposer is notified
of their availability in MAST, and will become public after that.
Special co-adds will not become part of the regular GRs, but will
continue to remain available as (publicly released) GI data at MAST.
New + archival coadds will become available to the GI\'s on the same
schedule as the new observations.

Several combinations are possible:

1.  Combine observations from more than one data set at the same
    location. This could be new observations combined with archival, or
    two different archival data types (e.g., GI and MIS).

2.  Combine observations at different pointing centers but covering
    common regions of the sky. This could be where a GI observation
    partly overlaps a survey observation, with an object of interest in
    the common area.

3.  For deep fields or other very long integrations, co-adds may be
    requested on a specific time-spacing - e.g. monthly, or weekly.

Special co-adds should result in a significant increase in
Signal-to-Noise ratio. Requests will not be accepted for combinations
where the new co-add exposure time is less 125% of the deepest input
coadd. \[Thus, for example, DIS 14000s + MIS 2000s = coadd 16000s (less
than 125% of 14000s) would not be allowed. However, DIS 14000 s +
GI4000s = coadd 18000s (more than125% of 14000s) would be acceptable.\]

Special co-adds should be entered in the ARK proposal form, and should
be justified in the \"Feasibility\" section of the Scientific
Justification. When combining new GI observations with archival data (GI
or survey data), the new observations should be entered in the ARK
proposal form, and the additional data sets should be indicated in the
individual observation \"Comments\"form. When combining different
archival data types (MIS with NGS, for example), or combinations of more
than one archival GI data set, the longer integration data should be
entered as an archival target, and the shorter integration data should
be indicated in the individual observation \"Comment\" form.

All GALEX users are, of course, welcome to use public data and their own
software to produce their own coadds.
Dr. Dennis Wenger

<dwenger@nsf.gov>

Dr. Dennis Wenger is the Program Director for program element 1638,
Infrastructure Systems Management and Hazard Response, at the National
Science Foundation. Dr. Wenger is an IPA who is on loan from Texas A&M
University. At Texas A&M Dr. Wenger is a Professor of Urban and Regional
Science and an Adjunct Professor of Sociology. He is also the Founding
Director and Senior Scholar of the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center.
Prior to his arrival at Texas A&M in 1989, Dr. Wenger was on the faculty
of the University of Delaware where he served as Co-Director of the
Disaster Research Center from 1984-1989.

Dr. Wenger's research centers on natural, technological and
human-induced hazards and disasters. He has studied disasters for 37
years and produced numerous books, research monographs, articles, and
papers on such topics as organizational and community preparedness and
response to disaster, mass media and disasters, community recovery from
disasters, search and rescue and the delivery of emergency medical care,
disaster subcultures, disaster myths and emergency planning.

At NSF Dr. Wenger serves as the foundation's representative to the
Roundtable on Disasters of the National Academy of Science. He also
represents NSF on the International Working Group of the Subcommittee on
Disaster Reduction and on the parent Subcommittee on Disasters.