BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
**Local Area Hotels Near North Bethesda, Maryland**

***Note: This is not a complete list of all hotels in the local area.
Please contact your travel agent or search the Internet for additional
hotels.***

[**Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
Rockville**](http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml;jsessionid=CX1UGREWDB2S2CSGBIX2VCQKIYFCXUUC?ctyhocn=IADMRDT)

1750 Rockville Pike

Rockville, MD 20852-1699

Phone: 301-468-1100

Toll-Free: 800-222-8733

Fax: 301-468-0308

[**Ramada Inn Rockville**](http://www.ramadarockville.com/home/)\
1775 Rockville Pike

Rockville, MD 20852\
Phone: 301-881-2300

Toll-Free: 800-272-6232

Fax: 301-881-9047

[**Bethesda Marriott
Suites**](http://marriott.com/property/propertypage.mi?marshaCode=WASSB)

6711 Democracy Boulevard

Bethesda, MD 20817

Phone: 301-897-5600

Fax: 301-530-1427

[**Bethesda
Marriott**](http://marriott.com/property/propertypage.mi?marshaCode=WASBT)

5151 Pooks Hill Road

Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone: 301-897-9400

Fax: 301-897-0192

[**Hyatt Regency
Bethesda**](http://bethesda.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml)

7400 Wisconsin Avenue

Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone: 301-657-1234

Fax: 301-657-6453

[**Residence Inn Bethesda
Downtown**](http://marriott.com/property/propertypage.mi?marshaCode=WASBR)

7335 Wisconsin Avenue

Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone: 301-718-0200

Fax: 301-718-0679
August 6, 2008

US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agriculture Marketing Service

Docket Number AMS-TM-08-0025; TM-0-05PR

RIN 0581-AC81

National Organic Program; Proposed Amendment to the National List of
Allowed and Prohibited Substances (Livestock)

POSITION: SUPPORT

CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers) supports the recommendation
by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) on May 22, 2008, to amend
Section 205.603(d)(1) by changing "2008" to "2010," thereby extending
the ability of our members to use Methionine from 2008 to 2010.

CCOF members are supportive of continuing efforts to find a
non-synthetic replacement for Methionine, but until such time as a
natural replacement is available, our clients depend on Methionine and
want to assure its continued availability.

Thank you for incorporating our comments into the record.

Claudia Reid

Policy Director

CCOF

Policy Director ∙ 1755 5^th^ Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95818 ∙
916-443-6480; 916-443-6480 fax ∙ claudia@ccof.org
# Australia- Sourcing product

# September 2008

A local company here in Australia is trying to source a U.S.
manufacturer of plastic molded drawer systems for fitment in the back of
4WD, station wagons and utility vehicles. These drawer systems typically
have 2 drawers and a flat deck on top, on which a fridge or cargo can be
placed. Measurements are approximately 1000mm wide x 1000mm deep x 300mm
high. An Australian manufacturer of these, in steel, is Outback 4WD
Interior Accessories. Their web address is:
[http://www.4wdinteriors.com/roller_drawers.html]{.underline}. The
company is after a plastic version thereof.

Interested? Respond to:

Melanie Aitken

Commercial Specialist

US Consulate General - Melbourne

Tel: 61 3 9526 5924

Fax: 61 3 9510 4660

Melanie.Aitken@mail.doc.gov

[www.buyusa.gov/australia](http://www.buyusa.gov/australia)
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**DA** **00-1262** June 8, 2000

### TELEPHONE CUSTOMER SERVICE PUBLIC FORUM AGENDA

The FCC's Consumer Information Bureau (CIB) will hold a Telephone
Customer Service Public Forum on Friday, June 9, 2000, from 9:00 am to
12:30 pm in the FCC's Commission Meeting Room at 445 12^th^ Street, SW,
Washington, DC.

The forum will begin with opening remarks by FCC Chairman William E.
Kennard, who will present the results of a one-month study recently
conducted by the Commission's Consumer Center on telephone customer
service center complaints. Moderated by Lorraine Miller, CIB's Bureau
Chief, consumers and consumer organizations \-- including WRC-TV's
consumer reporter, Liz Crenshaw, and representatives from the senior,
Hispanic and disability communities \-- will share their customer
service experiences, challenging local, long distance and wireless
telephone companies to initiate efforts to better serve consumers. Other
participants include:

> Stephen Jones, Director of Bureau Network Division, Better Business
> Bureau
>
> Jim Hurt, Director of Consumers Utility Counsel, Georgia Governor's
>
> Office of Consumer Affairs
>
> Shirley Rooker, President, Call for Action
>
> Nancy Brockway, Commisioner, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission
>
> Charlie Crawford, Executive Director, American Council of the Blind
>
> Claude Stout, Executive Director, Telecommunications for the Deaf,
> Inc.
>
> Gloria Verduzco, Hispanic Consumer
>
> John Goodman, President, e-Satisfy

Discussions will include: Consumer Center Study: Fact Gathering Process,
Consumer Group Experiences, Special Constituency Issues, and What is
Good Customer Service? Following the panel discussions, there will be a
question and answer session.

The forum is open to the public and seating will be available on a first
come, first served basis. The event will be accessible in live video,
audio and captioning formats through the FCC's website at
http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/. A transcript of the forum will be
available 10 business days after the event on the FCC's Internet site.
The URL address for the FCC's Home Page is
[http://www.fcc.gov](http://www.fcc.gov/).

CIB contact: Janice Wise at (202) 418-8165 (voice), or (202) 418-1169
(TTY).

News media contacts: Maureen Peratino, (202) 418-0506 and Audrey
Spivack, (202) 418-0512.

\- FCC -
**Summary of Variables included in PRAMS dataset**

The following core variables are included in the analysis datasets
provided to mini-proposal authors.

1\) The variables id and state.

2\) All core birth certificate variables except for: the birth
certificate number; "day" portion of infant date of birth, mother date
of birth, and date of last menses; county of residence; and hospital of
birth.

3\) The following operations variables:

batch; babydead; modecont; particip; mode_prt; urb_rur; and hispanic.

4\) All core questionnaire variables except for the "day" portion of:
infant date of birth; mother date of birth; today's date; date of
discharge; date of admission; due date; and date of infant death.

5\) All variables computed from the birth certificate and questionnaire,
except for the variables stored in SAS date format.

6\) The following weighting and SUDAAN analysis variables: cell;
sud_nest; stratumc; nest_yr; samcnt; totcnt; wtone; wttwo; wtthree; and
wtanal.

7\) Any other variables must be specifically requested in the
mini-proposal and authorized by each individual state.
**PARK-SPECIES LIST**

**NPSpecies Report**

Generated: 2/8/2006

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TSN Std. Scientific Name Preferred Scientific Name Std. Common Name(s)
Preferred Common Name(s)

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**HOME - Homestead**

**Animalia - Amphibian**

**Order: Anura - Family: Bufonidae**

173473 Bufo americanus American Toad

173484 Bufo cognatus Great Plains Toad

173485 Bufo debilis Green Toad

173476 Bufo woodhousii Woodhouse\'s Toad

207126 Bufo woodhousii woodhousii Rocky Mountain Toad

Woodhouse\'s Toad

**Order: Anura - Family: Hylidae**

173520 Acris crepitans Northern Cricket Frog

173522 Acris crepitans blanchardi Blanchard\'s Cricket Frog

173502 Hyla chrysoscelis Cope\'s Gray Frog

Cope\'s Gray Treefrog

173503 Hyla versicolor Gray Treefrog

173525 Pseudacris triseriata PSEUDACRIS TRISERIATA Striped Chorus Frog
WESTERN CHORUS FROG

Western Chorus Frog

**Order: Anura - Family: Microhylidae**

173468 Gastrophryne olivacea Great Plains Narrowmouthed

Toad

Western Narrow-mouthed Toad

**Order: Anura - Family: Ranidae**

173448 Rana blairi Plains Leopard Frog

173441 Rana catesbeiana RANA CATESBEIANA American Bullfrog BULLFROG

Bullfrog

173443 Rana pipiens Northern Leopard Frog

**Order: Caudata - Family: Ambystomatidae**

173592 Ambystoma tigrinum Tiger Salamander

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[*C.A. Thayer* History]{.underline}

Built in Fairhaven, California in 1895, the *C.A.Thayer* is one of two
remaining West Coast lumber schooners. Constructed by Danish-born master
builder Hans Bendixsen, she was operated by the E.K. Wood Lumber Company
of San Francisco. *Thayer* spent the early years of her career carrying
Douglas Fir lumber from the Wood Company mill at Grays Harbor,
Washington to San Francisco and Southern California, with occasional
longer trips to Mexico and the Pacific Islands.

By the early 1900s, the age of sail was ending, and steamers were taking
over the coastal lumber trade*. Thayer* was retired from the lumber
business in 1912, but she stayed alive by quickly finding a new niche
supplying a shore-based salmon fishing operation in Alaska. She changed
hands again in 1924 and was refitted for cod fishing in the Bering Sea.
After a period of lay-up during the depths of the Great Depression, she
was purchased by the U.S. Army and operated as a barge in Alaskan water
beginning in 1942. Following World War II, *Thayer* returned to cod
fishing. She has the distinction of making the last commercial voyage of
a large American sailing vessel, in 1950.

The California State Park System purchased the *C.A. Thayer* in 1957.
After a refit in Seattle, Washington, she sailed down the coast to San
Francisco. In 1963, the newly opened Maritime Historical State Park put
her on display at Hyde Street Pier. *Thayer* was transferred, with the
rest of that park's holdings, to the National Park Service in 1977. She
was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1984, and is now operated
by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

[*C.A. Thayer* Facts]{.underline}

Sparred Length 219 feet

Length on Deck 156 feet

Beam 36 feet

Depth 11.38 feet

Gross tonnage 453

Height of mainmast 105 feet
NY A82373

May 24, 1996

CLA-2-42:RR:NC:MA:101 A82373

CATEGORY: Classification

TARIFF NO.: 4202.12.2025; 8301.40.3000

Ms. Jane E. Viens

FRITZ COMPANIES, INC.

3850 Nome Street, Unit J

Denver, CO 80239

RE: The tariff classification of a car rack box from Germany and a car
rack box key lock from Belgium

Dear Ms. Viens:

In your letter dated January 14, 1996 you requested a tariff
classification ruling.

The item concerned, the Classic 700 \"Magic Box\" (Models 601 and 637),
is an article of a kind similar to a trunk designed to carry personal
effects during travel; it is a Jetsan box composed of top and bottom
shells of vacuum-molded, UV-resistant, ABS plastic. The shells are
attached together, lengthwise, on one side with chromated hardware. An
integrated key lock is provided to restrict access into the \"Box\".
Additional chromated hardware is provided to attach the assembled
\"Magic Box\" to an existing Thule Car Roof Rack. The \"Magic Box\"
measures 91.5\"L X 27.5\"W X 13.4\"H, weighs 40 lbs., has a volume of 16
Cubic feet and a load capacity maximum of 110 lbs.

You state that the function of the \"Magic Box\" is to carry ski
equipment, trunks, luggage or carrying cases. It is intended to be
attached via a load bar system to a rack on the roof of a van, car,
station wagon or sport utility/recreational vehicle. You also state that
the \"Magic Box\", itself, will be imported with the chromated hardware
needed for assembly, but that the integrated key lock will be imported
separately.

The applicable subheading for the Classic 700 \"Magic Box\" (Models 601
and 637), whether or not imported with its associated hardware, will be
4202.12.2025, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS),
which provides, in part, for Trunks, suitcases and similar containers:
Structured, rigid on all sides: Other. The rate of duty will be 20% ad
valorem. Any components (chromated hardware, key locks, etc.) imported
in the same shipment as the Classic 700 \"Magic Box\", regardless of
Model, are classifiable under the same subheading and dutiable at the
same rate, i.e., 20% ad valorem, as part of the carrier; i.e., \"Magic
Box\".

The applicable subheading for the key lock, if imported separately from
the \"Magic Box\", will be 8301.40.3000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States (HTS), which provides, in part, for Locks of base
metal: Other locks: Luggage locks. The rate of duty will be 5% ad
valorem.

This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Part 177 of the
Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177).

A copy of the ruling or the control number indicated above should be
provided with the entry documents filed at the time this merchandise is
imported. If you have any questions regarding the ruling, contact
National Import Specialist Robert DeSoucey at 212-466-5667.

If you wish to arrange for the return of your provided sample of the
\"Magic Box\", please contact Branch Chief Frank Cantone of the Customs
Information Exchange at 212-466-5811.

Sincerely,

Roger J. Silvestri

Director

National Commodity

Specialist Division
Evolutionary Changes and Salmon: Consequences of anthropogenic changes
for the long-term viability of Pacific salmon and steelhead

A Symposium/workshop

7-9 December 2006

Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA

A great deal of effort (and money) has been expended in evaluating
anthropogenic factors that have contributed to the widespread declines
of anadromous Pacific salmonids. With few exceptions, however, these
efforts have focused on ecological/demographic effects, and relatively
little attention has been paid to the evolutionary response of salmon to
anthropogenic change. This is unfortunate, because any changes to the
ecosystems that salmon inhabit will alter the selective regimes they
experience and can be expected to elicit an evolutionary response. What
is not clear is the nature and magnitude of these evolutionary changes
and the consequences they have for long-term viability of natural
populations of these species, which play such an important role in
marine and terrestrial ecosystems as well as in human societies.

The Symposium/workshop, sponsored by the NOAA Fisheries Northwest
Fisheries Science Center, brought together top salmon biologists and top
evolutionary biologists to explore this challenging topic. The public
Symposium (7 December) had two major objectives: to provide a public
forum for discussing these important issues and raising awareness of
their importance for salmon conservation; and to provide necessary
information on salmon biology to evolutionary biologists and information
on evolutionary biology to salmon biologists, in the hope of
establishing substantive collaborations and exchanges. Contributed
posters covered three general themes: 1) The nature and extent of
anthropogenic changes that affect salmon and their ecosystems; 2) Data
for salmon that provide insights into their potential for evolutionary
change; 3) Case studies from other organisms that demonstrate an
evolutionary response to anthropogenic change. The Symposium was
followed by a two-day workshop of invited participants who focused in
more detail on specific kinds of anthropogenic change faced by Pacific
salmon and the kinds of evolutionary responses they can be expected to
elicit. Each workgroup included regional scientists familiar with
datasets for Pacific salmon and steelhead as well as evolutionary
biologists who have experience in interpreting such data in an
evolutionary context.

Click here for the meeting [Agenda](../../six_decades_program.doc)

Click here for the meeting
[Report](http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/events/workshops/documents/evosalmon_report_final.pdf)
APPENDIX I

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THE ANTI-DEFICIENCY ACT

31 U.S.C. 1517 provides that:

\"(a) An officer or employee of the United States Government . . . may

not make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding :

\(1\) an apportionment; or

\(2\) the amount permitted by regulations prescribed under

section 1514 (a) of this title.

\(b\) If an officer or employee of an Executive agency . . . violates

subsection (a) of this section, the head of the Executive agency . . .

shall report immediately to the President and Congress all relevant
facts

and a statement of actions taken.\"

31 U.S.C. 1518 provides that:

\"An officer or employee of the United States Government . . .

violating section 1517 (a) of this title shall be subject to appropriate

administrative discipline including, when circumstances warrant,
suspension

from duty without pay or removal from office.\"

Criminal penalties are provided in 31 U.S.C. 1519:

\"An officer or employee of the United States Government . . .

knowingly and willfully violating section 1517 (a) of this title shall
be

fined not more than \$5,000, imprisoned for not more than two years, or

both.\"

31 U.S.C. 1513 provides that:

\"(d) An appropriation apportioned under this subchapter may be

divided and subdivided administratively within the limits of the

apportionment.\"

31 U.S.C. 1514 provides for such administrative subdivision of

apportionments:

\"(a) The official having administrative control of an appropriation

and, subject to the approval of the President, the head of each

Executive agency, shall prescribe, by regulation, a system of

administrative control not inconsistent with accounting procedures

prescribed under law. The system shall be designed to :

\(1\) restrict obligations or expenditures from each appropriation

to the amount of apportionments or reapportionments of the

appropriation, and

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\(2\) enable the official or the head of the executive agency to

fix responsibility for an obligation or an expenditure

exceeding an apportionment or reapportionment.

\(b\) to have a simplified system for administratively dividing

appropriations, the head of each Executive agency . . . shall

work toward the objective of financing each operating unit at

the highest practical level, from not more than one

administrative division for each appropriation affecting the

unit.\"

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Voting Conference, September 15, 2005

Statement of Terry Guy

Paralegal Specialist, STB Office of Proceedings

Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, Inc.−Acquisition Exemption−Rail Line of
Union Pacific Railroad Company

STB Finance Docket No. 34746

Good Morning Chairman Nober, Vice Chairman Buttrey, and Commissioner
Mulvey

In the draft decision before you Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad Company,
Inc. (K&O) seeks a waiver of the notice requirements at 49 CFR
1150.42(e). This would permit the exemption it filed under 49 CFR
1150.41 to become effective without providing advance notice to
employees who may be affected by K&O's planned acquisition and continued
operation of a rail line owned by Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP),
and to the national offices of the employees' labor unions. K&O
currently leases and has operated the 27-mile line of railroad between
milepost 485, at Newton, KS, and milepost 512, at McPherson, KS, since
September 2002. Because K&O's current revenues exceed \$5 million, the
notice requirements would apply absent a waiver.

The draft decision before you grants the requested waiver. The purpose
of the Board's notice requirements is to ensure that rail labor unions
and employees who would be affected by the transfer of a line are given
sufficient notice of the transaction before consummation. The record
indicates that it is unlikely that any UP employees will be adversely
affected by the waiver of the requirements. No UP employee has performed
operations or maintenance on the line in nearly 3 years. The planned
transaction will merely convert operation under a lease to a similar
operation under K&O's ownership.

This concludes my statement. If you have questions, we would be happy to
answer them.
Theme: **Viewing the Solar System from Earth\... Angles, Size, and
Distance**

Student Name\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ SASS
Schedule for 11^th^ of October, 2003\
===============================================================\
\
12:00 - 12:15

Moon Journal Discussion and Homework discussion (Physics Lab)

12:15 - 1:00

Make a Mars: Orange Activity (Physics Lab)

View Mars through Filters

*Small groups do solar observations.\
*\
1:00 - 1:30 

Measure angular size. (Physics Lab)\
Make Radians Activity (Physics Lab)

1:30 - 1:55 

Small Angle Approximation Lecture (Physics Lab)\
\
1:55 - 2:15  Break\
\
2:15 - 3:00 

Comparative Planetology Lecture/Discussion (Physics Lab) Group II

2:15 - 3:00 

Collaboratory (Computer Lab) Group I\
\
3:00  3:45 

Comparative Planetology Lecture/Discussion (Physics Lab) Group I

2:15 - 3:00 

Collaboratory (Computer Lab) Group II

3:45 - 4:00 Summary, homework, sign-out\
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Model Mars with an Orange:
<http://hou.lbl.gov/~vhoette/Explorations/MarsProfiles/>

Images: <http://hou.lbl.gov/~vhoette/Explorations/images/MarsProfiles/>

Mars Profiler:
<http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/javascript/mars.html>

Distance to Mars Images:
<http://hou.lbl.gov/~vhoette/Explorations/images/MarsDist2003/>

Moon October 10, 2003:
<http://sunra.lbl.gov/~vhoette/Explorations/moon20031010/>

Images:
[http://sunra.lbl.gov/\~vhoette/Explorations/images/moon20031010/](http://sunra.lbl.gov/~vhoette/Explorations/moon20031010/)

 

Class Pictures: Oct. 4, 2003:
<http://nfsi-server.yerkes.uchicago.edu/Ftproot/sass/2003-04/>
**2007 Farm Bill Credit Title:**

**Ensuring Access to Credit in Rural America**

-   **Expands Credit Availability for Farmers and Ranchers**

> [The 2007 Farm Bill:]{.underline}

-   Increases the farm ownership loan limit and the operating loan limit
    to \$300,000

> [Program Basics:]{.underline}

-   Currently, the FSA limits maximum direct loans to \$200,000 per
    borrower.

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-   **Establishes a loan guarantee program to help farmers carry out
    conservation programs**

> [The 2007 Farm Bill:]{.underline}

-   Creates a program that allows USDA to provide loans to farmers and
    ranchers to carry out conservation projects

-   Requires the Secretary, when making or guaranteeing loans for soil
    and water conservation and protection to give priority to:

1)  Qualified beginning farmers or ranchers;

2)  Socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers;

3)  Producers who use the loans to build conservation structures or
    establish conservation practices.

-   **Prioritizes Socially Disadvantaged and Beginning Farmers and
    Ranchers in Credit Programs**

> [The 2007 Farm Bill:]{.underline}

-   Increases the amount of direct farm ownership loans, guaranteed farm
    ownership loans, direct farm ownership loans reserved for down
    payment and direct operating loans for beginning farmers and
    ranchers.

-   Makes adjustments to the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Down Payment
    Loan Program, including fixing the interest rate at 4% below the
    regular direct farm ownership loan interest rates or 1%, whichever
    is greater; maximum allowable sales price is increased from
    \$250,000 to \$500,000; the borrower down payment requirement is
    reduced to not less than 5%; the FSA portion is increased to 45%;
    and the term of the loan is changed from 15 years to 20 years;

-   Makes Socially Disadvantaged farmers and ranchers eligible for the
    Beginning Farmer and Rancher Down Payment Loan Program.

-   Restores priority given to socially disadvantaged farmers and
    ranchers whenever the Secretary of Agriculture sells or leases
    property.

-   Extends the right of first refusal to reacquire a homestead property
    to members for the immediate family member of borrower-owners who
    are socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers.

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-   **Expands the Land Contract Pilot Program**

> [The 2007 Farm Bill:]{.underline}

-   Extends the current 2-year limit on payment guarantees to 3 years.

-   Provides land sellers the option of choosing either the 3 year
    guarantee or a standard 90% guarantee

-   Makes Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers eligible for the
    program

> [Program Basics:]{.underline}

-   The program provides loan guarantees to sellers who self-finance the
    sale of land to beginning farmers and ranchers.

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-   **Improves the Tribal Land Acquisitions Loan Program**

    -   Provides additional tools to help Native American producers keep
        tribal lands in agricultural production.

    -   Amends the current program to allow individual tribal members to
        utilize the program.
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\[Date\]

\[Addressee's name and address\]

RE: DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION TO \[PROGRAM NAME\]

Dear \[Addressee's name\]:

The Division of Public Health Services is a political subdivision of the
Arizona Department of Health Services. The Division and/or its program,
as identified herein or in the accompanying attachment(s), is requesting
protected health information in its capacity of a public health
authority as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), Standards of Individually Identifiable
Health Information (Privacy Rule) \[45 CFR 164.501\]. This letter and
the enclosed documents satisfy the verification requirements of 45 CFR
164.514(h) for disclosures as "authorized by law" and permitted by 45
CFR 164.512(b) or as "required by law" defined in 45 CFR 164.501 and
allowed by 45 CFR 164.512(a).

Pursuant to the Privacy Rule, covered entities such as your organization
may disclose, without individual authorization, protected health
information to public health authorities authorized by law to collect or
receive such information \[45 CFR 164.512(b)\]. The public health
authority identified herein is requesting protected health information
and related documents for the purpose of the following public health
activity, **a surveillance of febrile exanthems (measles, rubella,
dengue, erlihiosis and west nile) and the hepatititis (A-E) for the
Binational Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) Project under the
Border Health Surveillance program for the Arizona Department of health
Services Division of Public Health Services. This project is sponsored
by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease
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minimum necessary to carry out the public health purposes of the
identified activity \[45 CFR 164.514(d)\].

Sincerely,

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\[Title of person authorized to sign for the Program\]
**Session VI -- Plant Breeding, Germplasm Utilization and Cereal
Genomics -- Talk: Kolb**

**Increasing Grain Yield and Improving BYDV Tolerance in Oat:**

**Past, Present and Future**

Frederic L. Kolb\*^1^ and Jean-Luc Jannink^2^

^1^ Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
60801

^2^ USDA-ARS, Dept. of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University,
407 Bradfield Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853

\* Corresponding Author: PH (217) 333-9485; E-mail:
[**f-kolb@uiuc.edu**](mailto:f-kolb@uiuc.edu)

**Abstract**

Grain yield and barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) tolerance are important
quantitatively inherited traits in oat. These traits have been major
breeding objectives in the University of Illinois spring oat breeding
program, and many other programs, for many years. The University of
Illinois breeding program is essentially an open, long-term recurrent
selection program and uses rapid generation advancement by growing two
generations of modified single seed descent in the greenhouse each
winter. Advanced breeding lines and recently released cultivars from the
Illinois program and other breeding programs are intermated, generations
are advanced rapidly, and the best lines are selected for use as parents
in the next cycle of crosses. A system for BYDV tolerance evaluation is
an important selection tool that has been employed for many years. To
determine whether elite lines from individual programs are being
leveraged for improvement in other programs, we can look at the extent
of germplasm sharing across programs. One approach to do this is to
examine pedigree records and determine the relatedness of germplasm from
different programs. We will report on this relatedness using pedigrees
from the USDA uniform midseason and early oat performance nurseries
(UMOPN and UEOPN). We will also take advantage of the long-term nature
of the uniform nurseries to evaluate progress in elite spring oat
breeding lines over the last twenty-five to thirty years for yield and
BYDV. Finally, we will discuss the possibility that high density markers
may be able to improve the ability of the uniform nurseries to serve as
a vehicle for germplasm exchange. Until now, the uniform nurseries have
allowed breeders to identify breeding lines from other programs that
perform well locally for use as parents. With high density markers, it
may be possible to refine the exchange to become one of introgressing
"genomic regions performing well locally."
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##### EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

#### ANNOUNCEMENT

**PNG - USA Alumni Association Registration**

**The Embassy of the United States of America in Port Moresby would like
to invite all PNG citizens and residents who have studied under United
States government-sponsored exchange programs, and also those who have
studied through a private sponsor at any institution in the United
States to register with the PNG-USA Alumni Association.**

**PNG-USA Alumni Association is part of a global community: a dynamic
and interactive networking experience for all past and current
participants of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs.**

**The embassy would like to get the PNG-USA Alumni Association up and
running officially with your leadership and assistance.  In order to
become an official chapter, we need you to register with the embassy's
PNG-USA Alumni Association.**

**To register: Please contact Carolyn Ive at tel: 321-1455 / fax:
321-1593 / email: <pngusembassy@state.gov>**

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**Once you explored a country, now explore the globe!**
\[PUBLIC---NO. 137---67^TH^ CONGRESS.\]

\[H. R. 6119.\]

An Act To authorize the coinage of a Grant memorial gold dollar and a
Grant memorial silver half dollar in commemoration of the centenary of
the birth of General Ulysses S. Grant, late President of the United
States.

*Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled*, That for the purpose of aiding
in defraying the cost of erecting a community building in the village of
Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, and a like building in the village of
Bethel, Clermont County, Ohio, as a memorial to Ulysses S. Grant, late
President of the United States, and for the purpose of constructing a
highway five miles in length from New Richmond, Ohio, to Point Pleasant,
Clermont County, Ohio, the place of birth of Ulysses S. Grant, to be
known as the Grant Memorial Road, there shall be coined in the mints of
the United States, Grant memorial gold dollars to the number of ten
thousand and Grant memorial silver half dollars to the number of two
hundred fifty thousand, said coins to be of a standard Troy weight,
composition, diameter and design as shall be fixed by the Director of
the Mint and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, which said coins
shall be legal tender to the amount of their face value, to be known as
the Grant memorial gold dollar and the Grant memorial silver half dollar
struck in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Ulysses S.
Grant, late President of the United States.

That all laws now in force relating to the gold coins and subsidiary
silver coins of the United States and the coining or striking of the
same, regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the
purchase of material and for the transportation, distribution, and
redemption of the coins, for the prevention of debasement or
counterfeiting, for security of the coins, or for any other purposes,
whether said laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable,
apply to the coinage herein authorized: *Provided,* That the United
States shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies
and other preparation for this coinage.

Approved, February 2, 1922.

\(218\)
Fernando Morales

2231 Wakerobin Ln.

Reston Va 20191

703-476-9878

[**fermorales3@comcast.net**](mailto:fermorales3@comcast.net)

January 12, 2005

Memo to: Election Assistance Commission (EAC),

EAC Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TDGC)

From: Fernando Morales, Inventor of a new electoral process paradigm

Re: Governments Alone Can NOT Guarantee Transparency & Security

The current electoral Process is built on the premise that the
government is truthful, honest, and incapable of wronging the people . .
. we need to eradicate those thoughts, not because any has been found
guilty, but because we need to move on for our own conscience sakes. The
current electoral process can NOT guarantee that all government
officials and/or poll workers, in almost two hundred thousand precincts,
will choose fairness over partisanship. Therefore, the first radical
move is to incorporate the stronger parties to work together with the
government officials in the electoral process.

A transparent electoral administration needs to be responsible for the
overall creation, control, and supervision of the elections. This entity
shall equally consist of representatives from three (3) equally
important groups (the government Board of Elections and the two leading
political parties) and shall be controlling the process at each of the
precincts throughout the country.

Since there are less than 90 days before voting for the new guidelines
and rash decisions are always costly, I invite you to read "[Voluntary
Voting Guidelines, Fernando
Morales](http://vote.nist.gov/ECPosStat.htm)" and judge for yourselves
if this could serve as a valid top-down approach to the new voting
guidelines. For a more in-depth analysis of the proposed solution,
please refer to "[Part
2](http://vote.nist.gov/PublicHearings/ElectoralProcess Issue 1.doc)"
and "[Part
3](http://vote.nist.gov/PublicHearings/Command Set Table Issue 1.xls)"
of Fernando Morales' Public Testimony, located in the TGDC's Public
Testimony section of September 20^th^ hearings published in the NIST
website.

In conclusion, let's remove any possible doubt over officials' integrity
and good will by introducing a truly Secure and Transparent electoral
process.
\-\-\-\--Original Message\-\-\-\--

From: Herb Herman
\[[[mailto:herbherman_1999@yahoo.com]{.underline}](mailto:herbherman_1999@yahoo.com)\]

Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:17 AM

To: comments@taxreformpanel.gov

Subject: Tax reform

The law should perform what the constitution requires with undue
hardships on the payer. TOdays requirement to hire someone to read the
laws before paying a tax is rediculous. There should be a flat tax or a
sales tax with only 1 rate and a 1 page form to file if any. Like wise
all organizations should recieve income from the tax or fees but not
both (double Taxation). Thsi should apply to all levels of government.

Pass A \"Fair Sale Tax\" so people can see what we are paying.

Herb herman

\_\_\_\_\_

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![](media/image1.png)DIRECTORATE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

## 

## 

## FY 2005 ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

# 

# Dr. Norma M. Allewell

Dean, College of Life Sciences

University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland 20742-5511

[E-mail:]{.underline} <allewell@umd.edu>

Off/Fax: (301) 405-2071/314-9949

#### 

#### Dr. Christopher M. Comer

Dean, College of Liberal Arts

and Sciences

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois 60607

[E-mail:]{.underline} <ccomer@uic.edu>

Off/Fax: (312) 996-2992/996-2805

### **Dr. Mary Lou Guerinot**

Department of Biological Sciences

Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire 03755

[E-mail:]{.underline} mary.lou.guerinot@dartmouth.edu

Off/Fax: (603) 646-2527/

# 

# Dr. Lynn Jelinski

President

Sunshine Consultants, International

411 Walnut Street, #1425

Green Cove Springs, Florida 32043

[E-mail:]{.underline} kc2kg@earthlink.net

Off/Fax: (843) 412-4331

#### Dr. W. Richard McCombie

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724

[E-mail]{.underline}: <mccombie@cshl.edu>

Off/Fax: (516) 422-4083/422-4109

#### Dr. Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

President

Marlboro College

Marlboro, Vermont 05344

[E-mail:]{.underline} <emlovell@marlboro.edu>

Off/Fax: (802) 258-9244/258-9290

#### Dr. Michael A. Mares

Research Curator, Mammalogy

Oklahoma University Museum of

Natural History

University of Oklahoma

Norman, Oklahoma 73072

[E-mail:]{.underline} mamares@ou.edu

Off/Fax: (405) 325-8978/

### **Dr. Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet**

Past President

Dine College

Tsaile (Navajo Nation), Arizona

[E-mail:]{.underline} manuelitokerkvliet@hotmail.com

Off/Fax:

#### Dr. Robert J. Robbins

Vice President for Information Technology

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Seattle, Washington 98109

[E-mail]{.underline}: <rrobbins@fhcrc.org>

Off/Fax: (206) 667-1761/667-7733

#### Dr. Susan G. Stafford, Chair

Dean, College of Natural Resources

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

St. Paul, Minnesota 55108

[E-mail:]{.underline} stafford@umn.edu

Off/Fax: (612) 624-1234/624-8701

**[CEOSE Liaison]{.underline}**

**[Dr. John K. Haynes]{.underline}**

Dean, Division of Science

and Mathematics

Morehouse College

Atlanta, Georgia 30314

[E-mail:]{.underline} <jhaynes@morehouse.edu>

Off/Fax: (404) 215-2610/

OAD/BIO:3/11/05
96M03/29/06

S625-96M.doc

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**Section 625. - TURF ESTABLISHMENT**

**Construction Requirements**

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  seeding season is identified or in arid and semi-arid areas (average
  annual rainfall of 500 mm or less).

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**625.03 Turf Establishment Seasons.** [Delete the first sentence and
substitute the following:]{.underline}

Apply turf establishment to finished slopes and ditches within 14 days
after completion of construction on a portion of the site.

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**625.07 Seeding.**

**(b) Hydraulic method.** [Add the following after the second
sentence:]{.underline}

Apply the tracer material at a rate of 450 kilograms per hectare to
provide visible evidence of uniform application.

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  following:

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**625.08 Mulching.**

**(b) Hydraulic method.** [Delete the first and second paragraphs and
substitute the following:]{.underline}

In a separate application from the seed, use hydro-type equipment
according to Subsection 625.07(b).

Apply wood or grass cellulose fiber mulch at a rate of 1700 kilograms
per hectare.

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**625.12 Payment.** [Delete the pay unit for pay item 62512 and
substitute the following:]{.underline}

**Pay Item Pay Unit**

62512 [Description (supplemental application)]{.underline} Kilogram
MERIT REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE FOR RESPIRATION

**[FALL 2005]{.underline}**

#### 

#### CHAIRPERSON 

Sally E. Wenzel, M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Co-Director, Clinical Research Unit

National Jewish Medical and Research

Center

Denver, CO

[PARTICIPANTS]{.underline}

Devendra K. Agrawal, Ph.D.

Professor

Center for Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Creighton University School of Medicine

Omaha, NE

Richard B. Berry, M.D.

VAMC Gainesville

Professor of Medicine

The University of Florida

Pulmonary and Critical Care Division

Gainesville, FL

Richard D. Dey, Ph.D.\
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy\
West Virginia University

School of Medicine

Morgantown, WV

C. Michael Hart, M.D.

Chief, Pulmonary Section

Atlanta VA Medical Center

Associate Professor of Medicine

Emory University

Decatur, GA

Bruce A. Holm, Ph.D.

Senior Vice Provost

Office of the Provost

Professor of Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn and

Pharmacology

University at Buffalo

Executive Director

NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics

and Life Sciences

Buffalo, NY

Gary Hunninghake, M.D.

VAMC Iowa City

Department of Internal Medicine

The University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Thomas R. Martin, M.D.

Chief of Medicine

VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Medicine

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 

Dennis W. McGraw, M.D.\
VA Medical Center Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care\
University of Cincinnati School of Medicine\
Cincinnati, OH

Michael A. O'Reilly, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and

Environmental Medicine

University of Rochester

School of Medicine and Dentistry

Rochester, NY

**[MERIT REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE FOR RESPIRATION]{.underline}**

**(FALL 2005 continued)**

Robert Paine III, M.D.

Staff Physician

Pulmonary Section

VAMC Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

Catherine S. Sassoon, M.D.

Pulmonary and Critical Care Section

VA Long Beach Healthcare System

Long Beach, CA

Virginia L. Shepherd, Ph.D.\
Research Career Scientist, VAMC

Professor of Pathology and Science Education

Vanderbilt University\
Director of Science Outreach, VUMC\
Nashville, TN 

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THE LOCAL RESEARCH OFFICE OR THE PRINCIPAL
INVESTIGATOR MAKE DIRECT CONTACT WITH ANY MERIT REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE
PARTICIPANT REGARDING THE REVIEW OF MERIT REVIEW APPLICATIONS.

January 18, 2006
**§4.26 Bilateral factor.**

When a partial disability results from disease or injury of both arms,
or of both legs, or of paired skeletal muscles, the ratings for the
disabilities of the right and left sides will be combined as usual, and
10 percent of this value will be added (i.e., not combined) before
proceeding with further combinations, or converting to degree of
disability. The bilateral factor will be applied to such bilateral
disabilities before other combinations are carried out and the rating
for such disabilities including the bilateral factor in this section
will be treated as 1 disability for the purpose of arranging in order of
severity and for all further combinations. For example, with
disabilities evaluated at 60 percent, 20 percent, 10 percent and 10
percent (the two 10's representing bilateral disabilities), the order of
severity would be 60, 21 and 20. The 60 and 21 combine to 68 percent and
the 68 and 20 to 74 percent, converted to 70 percent as the final degree
of disability.

\(a\) The use of the terms "arms" and "legs" is not intended to
distinguish between the arm, forearm and hand, or the thigh, leg, and
foot, but relates to the upper extremities and lower extremities as a
whole. Thus with a compensable disability of the right thigh, for
example, amputation, and one of the left foot, for example, pes planus,
the bilateral factor applies, and similarly whenever there are
compensable disabilities affecting use of paired extremities regardless
of location or specified type of impairment.

\(b\) The correct procedure when applying the bilateral factor to
disabilities affecting both upper extremities and both lower extremities
is to combine the ratings of the disabilities affecting the 4
extremities in the order of their individual severity and apply the
bilateral factor by adding, not combining, 10 percent of the combined
value thus attained.

\(c\) The bilateral factor is not applicable unless there is partial
disability of compensable degree in each of 2 paired extremities, or
paired skeletal muscles.