BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 026023

## Adverse Member Actions

**Main Points**
- Adverse member actions defined
- The “Mistake” situation
- Types of mistakes
- Tools available
- Adverse member actions available
- Discrimination
- Documentation

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Overview**
- This segment will introduce you to the CAP Adverse Member Actions program and shows you the tools available to you in handling difficult personnel issues.

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Participants will**:
- define “adverse member actions”
- identify common member disciplinary problems
- identify tools and resources you may use to help you

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Participants will:**
- identify adverse member actions options
- identify the commander’s responsibility concerning nondiscrimination in adverse member actions
- explain why documentation is necessary to the adverse member actions process** **

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

- CAP’s Adverse Member Actions program gives you the tools you needs to navigate through difficult personnel issues.

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Adverse member actions defined:**
- Adverse member actions encompasses disciplinary actions against members for improper conduct.  They include
- suspensions
- non-renewals
- membership termination

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**The Mistake**

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Types of Problems**
- repeated uniform violations
- employment relationships
- argumentative, insubordinate, or disruptive behavior
- jumping the chain of command
- bad checks/financial irresponsibility
- cadet protection violations

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Types of Problems**
- short-cutting training requirements
- consistently late on paperwork deadlines and substandard work quality
- fraudulent information on application
- defective skills (safety hazard)
- illegal behavior (reported or actual)
- moral misbehavior

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Tools**
- Adverse Member Actions handbook
- CAP chaplain
- Wing Legal Officer/Director of Personnel
- CAP directives
- CAPR 35-1		-- CAPM 39-2
- CAPR 35-3		-- CAPM 60-1

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Adverse Member Actions Available**
- Counseling
- Letters of reprimand
- Suspension of membership
- Demotion
- Suspension of flying privileges
- Non-renewal
- Termination

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Discrimination**
- Compliance with Title VI
- Civil Rights Act of
- 1964

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Documentation**
- Commander’s responsibility
- Types
- LORs
- Memorandums for record
- Letters
- Reports
- Desk logs
- Forms, etc.

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Documentation**
- Paints a picture of events
- Preserves due process
- Protects member, commander, and CAP
_**Essential**_ to the process!

- Unit Commanders' Course

## Adverse Member Actions

**Questions**
**&**
**Answers**

- Unit Commanders' Course
# Presentation: 763468

## CAP-USAF UpdateSummer 2008 National Board

**Col Russ Hodgkins**
**CAP-USAF/CC**
**7 Aug 2008**
**russell.hodgkins@maxwell.af.mil**

## Overview

**Overview**

- New CAP-USAF Personnel
- Maxwell AFB Issues
- Communications

## Maxwell AFB Issues

**Maxwell AFB Issues**

- Air University Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI)
- Air University will have ORI from AETC beginning 15 Oct
- CAP-USAF will be evaluated along with rest of AU
- Should be transparent to CAP
- See, we get inspected, too
- Bldg 714 Renovation
- CAP-USAF/CAP NHQ building renovation in funded for FY09
- Will move sometime before end of CY08
- No impact to Operations building and NOC

## Communications

**Communications**

- Upgrade of VHF-FM radio network to “narrow-band” standards represents significant investment of Air Force appropriated funds to CAP
- Shipment and installation of repeater network will begin shortly
- MAJOR EFFORT for all Wings
- Communicate  Communicate  Communicate

## Questions?
# Presentation: 511477

## How NOVA Chapter 226 Spends Some of Its Time

**Kelly D. Skinner, MSN, CRRN, ANP, GNP & Nancy Connors, BSN, RN**
**VA Boston Healthcare System**

**NOVA  Chapter 226 Business Meeting**

**Four of the Lucky “March Madness“ Winners!**

_**NOVA Meet & Greet**_
**January 18, 2006 @12 noon**
**VA Boston Healthcare System**
**Brockton Campus**
**Building 8 (81B)**
**Come meet the new NOVA officers**
**& learn more about NOVA.**
**Pizza & soda will be provided.**
**NOVA newsletters, NOVA quiz, **
**& membership applications**
**will be available.**

**NOVA  Chapter 226 “Meet &Greet”**

***r***

**Doll House Raffle**

**NOVA Educational Programs**

**2006 NOVA Doll House Raffle**

**NOVA “March Madness” Daily Raffle/ Fund Raiser**

**NOVA Chapter 226 Monthly Newsletter**

**                    ****Maureen Levesque                                                Linda Stankiewicz                                          Diane McCrackin**
**                           ****President                                                            President-Elect                                                Vice-President**

**                   ****Donna Smith                                     Sylvia Smith                           Carmen Concepcion                         Joseph Chillari**
**             ****Board of Directors                            Board of Directors                        Board of Directors                       Board of Directors**

**2006 NOVA Chapter 226 Officers****  **

**                          ****Pauline Chute                                                 Kelly D. Skinner                                               Arthur Briggs**
**                              ****Treasurer                                                         Secretary                                                  Board of Directors**

**Directors                  Ar**
**  ****hur Briggs                                                  Sylvia Smith**

**     ****Kaitlin Skinner                  Diane Peterson                   Jean Serrechia                 Rich Foley     **
**             ****$50                         Coffee & Tea Basket           Jamie’s Restaurant         Gap Gift Card**
**                                                                                              ****Gift Certificate**
# Presentation: 669876

- Corps Internet DCP Monitor

- Web Address: http://192.152.173.81 or
- http://dcpmon.lrd-wc.usace.army.mil
- Database Hub Address
- http://192.152.173.81/dbhub or
- http://dcpmon.lrd-wc.usace.army.mil/dbhub

- <date/time>

- <footer>

***BUILDING****** ******STRONG***SM

## Corps Decoding Methods

- DECODES OFFICES (74%):
- NAE
- LRD
- LRB
- LRE
- LRL
- LRH
- LRN
- LRP
- MVP
- MVR
- MVS
- MVM
- MVK
- MVN
- NWO
- NWK
- NWD-O
- NWD-P
- NWS
- NWP
- NWW
- SPK
- SPL
- SWL
- SAM
- SAW
- OFFICES using other DECODERS (26%):
- SPA - GOESIT/GOEDEC
- SWF - DATAWISE
- SWG - RECIEVES DATA FROM SWF
- SWT - M.PERRYMAN DECODER
- NAB - GOESIT/GOEDEC
- NAP - GOESIT/GOEDEC
- NAO - GOESIT/GOEDEC - Still using a ISI DOMSAT receiver SAS - ???
- SAJ - EMIT - Still using a ISI DOMSAT receiver
# Presentation: 182527

## Slide 1

## Preserving Virtual Worlds...

- ...because a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

## Project Goals

- To help develop mechanisms and methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction by
- developing basic standards for metadata and content representation;
- investigating preservation issues through a series of archiving case studies

## Key Deliverables

- Development of metadata schema and wrapper recommendations
- Archiving of key representative content
- Development of generalizable archiving approaches for preserving this content.
- Community education and awareness-building.

## Project Partners

- Graduate School of Library & Information Science, UIUC
- Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland
- College of Computing & Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Stanford University Libraries
- Linden Lab

## Project Outline

- Phase I: Background Research
- Define and scope a case set
- Background research on preserving complex interactive behavior
- Background research for schema development

## Project Outline

- Phase II: Development
- Develop new schema necessary for capturing representation information
- Develop new schema necessary for capturing context information
- Develop recommendations for best practices on use of existing wrapper formats

## Project Outline

- Phase III: Implementation & Testing
- Ingest selection of games/interactive fiction at institutional repositories at Stanford University and UIUC.
- Analyze institutional repositories capabilities to support metadata necessary for the curation of games and interactive fiction

## Project Case Set: Adventure

- You are in a maze of twisty little passages,
- all alike.

## Project Case Set: Mindwheel

## Project Case Set: Mystery House

## Project Case Set: Spacewar

## Project Case Set: Star Raiders

## Project Case Set: Tetris

## Project Case Set: DOOM

## Project Case Set: Warcraft

## Project Case Set: Second Life

- International Spaceflight Museum

- Democracy Island

- Life to the Second Power

## A few things we know so far

- The OAIS reference model’s notion of an information package does seem like it can stretch to encompass software, but...
- Representation and Context information can be extensive, difficult and expensive to collect, and proprietary.
- When preserving complex software, the question of emulation or migration inevitably becomes emulation *and* migration.
- Hardware matters.
- Gamers are willing to make *LARGE* investments of time to support preservation efforts.

## More Info

- Website:	_[http://ndiipp.uiuc.edu/pca/](http://ndiipp.uiuc.edu/pca/)_
- Contacts:	Jerome McDonough, PI
- _[	](mailto:jmcdonou@uiuc.edu)_	_[jmcdonou@uiuc.edu](mailto:jmcdonou@uiuc.edu)_
- 		217-244-5916
- 		Janet Eke, Project Coordinator
- _[	](mailto:jeke@uiuc.edu)_	_[jeke@uiuc.edu](mailto:jeke@uiuc.edu)_
- 		Patricia Hswe, Project Coordinator
- _[	](mailto:phswe@uiuc.edu)_	_[phswe@uiuc.edu](mailto:phswe@uiuc.edu)_
# Presentation: 033264

## High Temperature Gallium Nitride-BasedSensors and ElectronicsATMI, Inc.Danbury, CT

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Developed high quality GaN on SiC.
- Developed the growth technology of MIS capacitors and MISFETs on GaN using an insulating AIN epitaxial layer.
- Developed an x-ray simulation program for hexagonal lattice materials.
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- GaN epitaxial films on SiC have been made commercially available with the support of the SBIR program. ATMI has also developed and patented processes that allow the manufacture of high purity GaN wafers 50mm and larger in diameter. Based on recent epitaxy and substrate successes, ATMI has committed significant additional funding for continued development and pilot manufacturing capacity.
- Jointly developing with an industrial partner a high temperature piezoelectric sensor module to measure gas pressure in high temperature engines.
- Several jobs created to support this new technology.

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation**
**R****esearch**

- 1994 Phase II 1/3/01; SS5-009

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

**INNOVATION**

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- ATMI has recently been awarded contracts totaling nearly $4M from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Ballistic Missile Defense Operation (BMDO) to further develop GaN wafers for electronic and                                               optoelectronic devices.
- GaN materials are key to the development of amplifiers operating at > 350 degrees C.  The amplifiers are the basis for various applications not currently accessible using Si-based electronics such as in aircraft engine sensors, and ground-vehicle motor control.

- Points of Contact:
- 	-  NASA - Brent Mott; 301-286-7708
- 	-  ATMI - George Brandes; 203-794-1100

**GaN/AIN MISFET Structure**
**on SiC Substrates**

- GaN materials and high input impedance GaN-based MISFET amplifiers are expected to out  perform conventional silicon-based amplifiers in high temperature/harsh environment sensing applications
# Presentation: 865650

## Contractor Performance System Process

- According to **FAR ****42.1503  Procedures: **
- Agency procedures for the past performance evaluation system shall generally provide for input to the evaluations from the technical office, contracting office and, where appropriate, end users of the product or service.

**In the Contractor Performance System, the Contracting Officer has the option of completing the ratings and narratives for each of the Contractor performance categories.  Alternatively, the Contracting Officer can electronically send the evaluation to the Project Officer/COTR to do the ratings and narratives.  Regardless of who does the ratings and narratives, the Contracting Officer and Technical Office should work as a team on the evaluation.  A recent evaluation of technical performance can be used by the Contracting Officer.  See next slide.**

## This is the screen a Contracting Officer using the Contractor Performance System sees that provides him/her the option of who they want to assign the evaluation to.  They can do the ratings and narratives themselves or  assign it to their Project Officer.

**This is the screen a Contracting Officer using the Contractor Performance System sees that provides him/her the option of who they want to assign the evaluation to.  They can do the ratings and narratives **_[themselves ](http://cps.od.nih.gov/Presentation1.1.ppt)_**or  **_[assign it to their Project Officer](http://cps.od.nih.gov/Presentation1.2.ppt)_.

## According to 42.1503  Procedures: 

- (b) Agency evaluations of contractor performance prepared under this subpart shall be provided to the contractor as soon as practicable after completion of the evaluation. Contractors shall be given a minimum of 30 days to submit comments, rebutting statements, or additional information. Agencies shall provide for review at a level above the contracting officer to consider disagreements between the parties regarding the evaluation. The ultimate conclusion on the performance evaluation is a decision of the contracting agency. Copies of the evaluation, contractor response, and review comments, if any, shall be retained as part of the evaluation.

**Once the ratings and narratives are complete, the Contracting Officer can electronically send a copy of the evaluation to the Contractor.  The Contractor has 30 days in which to review, comment and send back to the Contracting Officer.  **

## A reminder is sent to the Contractor ten (10) days before the 30 day clock runs out.   Should the Contractor and Contracting Officer disagree, the Contracting Officer has the ability to send the evaluation electronically to the “Agency Reviewer” to make the final decision.

**The system was created to cover FAR requirements and has the capacity to be utilized on a broader scope (CO, Project Officer/COTR, Contractor) or more simply (CO, Contractor).  We leave the decision to the Contracting Officer.**
# Presentation: 212371

## Liability:  The Oklahoma Experience

- Before Legislation =Patchwork coverage
- Partner agencies
- Volunteers are covered when working for specific agencies:  Public Health Department, American Red Cross volunteers
- National coverage
- United States Code
- Title 42, Chapter 139
- Section 14503.- Limitation on liability for volunteers
- Individual Malpractice Insurance

## May, 2004

- House Bill 2661 is introduced which primarily addresses tort reform and involves lengthy negotiations and active lobbying from the medical community
- Dr. John Sacra, the Medical Director of EMSA is instrumental in including language providing liability immunity for Medical Reserve Corps Volunteers

## May 28th, 2004

- State legislature passes and the Governor signs the “Volunteer Medical Professional Services Immunity Act”

## Section 34 G. “Any person participating in a Medical Reserve Corps and assisting with emergency management, emergency operations, or hazard mitigation in response to any emergency, man-made disaster, or natural disaster, or participating in public health initiatives endorsed by a city, county, or state health department in the State of Oklahoma, shall not be liable for civil damages on the basis of any act or omission, if:
1. The person was acting in good faith and within the scope of the official duties and functions of the Medical Reserve Corps; and
2. The acts or omissions were not caused from gross, willful, or wanton acts of negligence.”
This section shall apply to all civil actions filed on or after November 1, 2004.

- 1. The person was acting in good faith and within the scope of the official duties and functions of the Medical Reserve Corps; and
- 2. The acts or omissions were not caused from gross, willful, or wanton acts of negligence.”
- This section shall apply to all civil actions filed on or after November 1, 2004.

## Advantages

- The Medical Reserve Corps is now the identified entity for medical volunteers with protection from civil liability damages.
- We anticipate this will help our recruiting efforts.

## Disadvantage

- Does not provide the full coverage that a state employee would have, such as Workers Compensation
- This protection has not been tested in the courts.
# Presentation: 761099

## Domestic U.S. Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (DRVSM)

- Presentation 1

**Domestic U.S. Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (DRVSM)**

- Introduction
- June 3, 2003
**DRVSM SEMINAR  June 3-4, 2003**

## DRVSM Program Leads

- Robert Swain - Flight Technologies and Procedures Division (AFS-400)
- Steve Creamer - Enroute/Terminal Operations and Procedures (ATP-6)
- Brian Colamosca -Separation Standards Group (ACB-310)

## Seminar Objectives

- Focus on technical and operational issues
- Provide information on documents, contacts,  processes and procedures required to gain aircraft and operator approval for RVSM operations
- Provide information on status of planning to implement RVSM in US National Airspace System

##  Public Comment		

- 90-day public comment period on DRVSM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
- 45-day public comment period on Supplemental NPRM
- Comment process provides forum for public views on program

## Schedule for Future Seminars

- Industry seminars held in April, Sept 2002 and Feb 03
- FAA Inspector Seminar in April 2003
- Three more FAA/Industry seminars planned:
- Sept 9-10 2003 in Seattle
- Feb 4-5 2004 in Dallas
- April-May 2004 if required
- Exploring second FAA Inspector seminar for Sept

## Administrative Details

- CSSI Staff
- Roy Grimes			Bob Miller
- Curt Zimmerman		Karen Rees
- Hotel Phone Number  1-847-696-1234
- Hotel Fax Number	    1-847-698-0139
- Lunch Options:
- Hotel:	Garden Terrace
- Knuckles
- Sarah’s Pantry
- Outside:	Maria’s (Mexican) – 1⁄4 mile
- McDonald’s – 1.5 miles
- Reception:     Tuesday June 3, 6-8 p.m. Rosemont Ballroom A
-  Sponsored by CSSI RVSM Monitoring Team

## Agenda

- Program Overview
- Air Traffic Overview
- RVSM Website and Documents
- Aircraft and Operator Approval Programs
- Safety Assessment, Approvals Database and Monitoring
- Conclusion
- History of vertical separation slides in back of binder

## Conclusion

- Seminar briefings available on RVSM website:
**www.faa.gov/ats/ato/rvsm1.htm**
- Click Domestic RVSM tab then DRVSM Seminars
- CSSI will route follow-up questions to appropriate FAA office:
- drvsm@cssiinc.com
- Phone 202-863-2175
# Presentation: 814006

## VHA Physician Productivity and Staffing Advisory Group

- Report of the Primary Care Subcommittee
- Submitted to Dr. J. Perlin and Ms. L. Miller 6/30/03

## Charge to Advisory Group

- Evaluate the relative productivity of full time and part time VA physicians (both within VA & benchmarking to external providers)
- Improve the management of providers and better understand how resources become services in outpatient care
- Demonstrate how veteran acuity and needs are related to physician and other support staffing
- Develop incentives to improve the delivery of care by clinical providers, and
- Develop a prototype infrastructure for conducting physician productivity and staffing studies in other specialties

## Methodology: Primary Care

- Agreement to base productivity on panel size:
- VA cares for defined population, with capitated allocation model
- Productivity measured by visits or RVUs promotes inefficiency
- VA made major advances in panel management with PCMM; Directives on standardizing FTEE and panel counts developed
- Literature review on physician productivity
- Review of external benchmarks
- Analysis of current experience with panel sizes in VHA
- Survey of primary care clinics on practice characteristics
- Analysis of patient characteristics & use of primary care services
- Preliminary analysis on relationship of panel size to quality, access, satisfaction, and cost
- Review and input throughout by Advisory Group with Primary Care representative from each VISN & CO Chief Consultant

## Slide 4

## VA Panel Sizes Today

## External Benchmarks

| Metric | VA | Army | AMA | MGMA | Academic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Visits/Hour (Adjusted) | 1.7 | N/A | 1.5 – 1.8* | 1.5 – 1.8* | N/A |
| Support Staff | 1.5 | 2.8 | N/A | 2.2 | N/A |
| Visits/Hour | 1.7 | 3 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Visits/Pt/Year | 2.9 | 4 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| MD Panel | 1102 | 1178 |  |  | 667 |

- * Visits / Hour are adjusted for VA population & support staff / MD ratio

## Factors Influencing Panel Size

**Mid-Levels (NP or PA):** panel 72% of MD
**New Providers**: takes time (15-18 months) to build full panel
**Specialized Panels**: 6.8% of Primary Care is delivered in specialized primary care panels (HIV, dialysis, SCI etc.). Panels are smaller (~ 600)
**Support Staff and Exam Rooms**: significantly related to productivity within VA as well as private sector
**Patient Characteristics (Disease Severity/Reliance):** predicts 26% of variation in patient visit rates and affects panel size
**Education**:1 Resident bookable hour increases panel by 5
**Part Time Providers**:** **no difference in productivity

## Recommendations

- Approve Directive providing guidance on primary care panel sizes: maximum panel size should be established locally for each Primary Care Provider in PCMM
- Target Panel Size for Established PCP:
- MD 1,200 with range 1,000 – 1,400
- Non-MD  900 with range of 750 – 1,050
- Panels should be adjusted for factors that affect panel size – guidance is provided
- Gains in productivity can be achieved by optimizing ratio of support staff and exam rooms
# Presentation: 487603

## Bring Your Daughters and Sons to Work - 2006

- Argonne National Laboratory
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Jefferson Laboratory
- Thursday, April 27, 2006

## Introduction

- BNL – April Gray
- BNL – Victor Cassella
- NWS – Jeffrey Tongue
- BNL – Students
- Argonne – Lou Harnich / Students

## Global Warming:

- The Earth has warmed by about 1oF over the past 100 years.
- But why? And how?
- The Earth could be getting warmer on its own, but many of the world's leading climate scientists think that things people do are helping to make the Earth warmer.

## Green-House Gases:

- Any gas that absorbs infra-red radiation in the atmosphere.
- Water vapor
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous oxide (N2O)
- Halogenated fluorocarbons (HCFCs)
- Ozone (O3)
- Perfluorinated carbons (PFCs)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

## Slide 5

## Nome

- Anchorage

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Anchorage, 1954 - 2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Nome, 1910 - 2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Spokane, WA 1890-2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Seattle 1950-2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Los Angeles, 1914 - 2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Chicago 1873-2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for St. Paul, Mn, 1891 - 2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Boston, 1873-2000

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Central Park 1870-2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for BNL 1950-2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Washington, 1950-2005

## Mean Decadal Temperatures for Miami, 1950 - 2005

## Slide 19

## Slide 20

## Slide 21

## Slide 22

## Slide 23
# Presentation: 684411

## MTM2.5 Top Mass Measurement in the Lepton + Jets Channel

- Paul Lujan, CDF Weekly Meeting, September 13, 2007

- Lina Galtieri, John Freeman, Paul Lujan, Jeremy Lys, Pedro Movilla Fernandez (LBNL), Jason Nielsen (UCSC), Igor Volobouev (Texas Tech) – CDF Note 8969

- mt = 172.7 ± 1.8 (stat. + JES) ± 1.2 (syst.) GeV/c2

- Measurement with 1.7 fb-1 (293 events passing all cuts):

**Best individual top mass measurement to date!**

-  The MTM method uses a matrix element integration to calculate a 2-D likelihood as a function of top mass and jet energy scale (JES).
-  MTM includes “effective propagators” (lower left) which compensate for the assumptions we make in order to make our integration computationally tractable.
-  MTM employs a cut on the peak of the log-likelihood (lower right) to reduce background and poorly modeled signal events.

-  Hadronic-side propagator
- Leptonic-side propagator 
# Presentation: 922019

## United States Support for Developing theChornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste, and RadioecologySlavutych, Ukraine

**United States Support for Developing the****Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste, and Radioecology****Slavutych, Ukraine**

**Roger G. Anderson**
**Pacific Northwest National Laboratory**

**December 6, 1996**

## Objectives

**Develop sustainable operational safety programs that support Ukrainian nuclear power plants**
**Help develop and maintain in-country expertise in nuclear sciences**
**Address decontamination and decommissioning, spent fuel, and waste management issues at Chornobyl and elsewhere in Ukraine**
**Provide a means for international cooperation in addressing environmental, ecological, and health issues for areas affected by the accident**
**Help mitigate the socioeconomic impacts associated with the shutdown of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant**

**Objectives**

**December 6, 1996**

## Current Activities

**Management of center development**
**Slavutych staff liaison**
**Infrastructure support**
**Joint technical projects**

**December 6, 1996**

## Center Development

**Ukrainian Presidential Decree established the Center April 26, 1996**
**Memorandum of Understanding signed by U.S. and Ukraine**
**DOE commited to four joint projects to help establish the Center**
**Current planning activities focus on assistance to develop business and communications/ marketing plans**

**December 6, 1996**

## Slavutych Staff Liaison

**Bryan Gore, PNNL staff scientist**
**Manages hazards assessment project**
**Maintains working relationship between INSP and Chornobyl-based activities **
**Gathers information**
**Coordinates on-site meetings**

**December 6, 1996**

## Infrastructure Support

**Telecommunications System**
**Satellite-based voice, fax, and high-speed data transmission**
**Videoconferencing possible later **
**Nuclear Data Facility**
**Capability to acquire and process basic nuclear data for use in safety and radiological assessments**
**Access to specific data sets and information in the U.S. and elsewhere**
**Office Facilities and Equipment**

**December 6, 1996**

## Joint Technical Projects

**Hazards analysis of Unit 3/shelter**
**Spent fuel management plan for Ukraine**
**Nuclear data analysis capability**
**D & D**

**December 6, 1996**

## Future Activities

**Operational safety and radiological protection training**
**Shelter monitoring, stabilization, and cleanup**
**Chornobyl closure and decommissioning**
**Development, demonstration, and use of new technologies**

**December 6, 1996**
# Presentation: 909906

## Veterinary Pharmaceuticals and MicroorganismsIssues with sampling, preservation and analysis 

- Robert B. Brobst, P.E.
- Region 8 EPA
- Denver, CO

## Challenges for sampling and analysis of manures 

- Complex mixture of liquids and solids.
- Microbes/Pharms can absorb to solid surfaces
- Dirty Samples relative to Organic analysis
- High densities of non-pathogenic microorganisms relative to pathogenic.
- Potential for toxic effects.

## Sampling

- What do you want the data for?
- Decide on Sampling Scheme
- Random, Stratified Random, etc.
- Sample Equipment
- Develop Sampling Plan

## Sampling/Analyzing for Microorganisms

- Special Considerations
- Specific Species
- Use of indicators
- Sample matrix
- Water, solid (Soil, Manure)
- Preservation/ Sample Time to Lab

## Indicator microorganisms

- Properties of an ideal indicator organism:
- Non-pathogenic.
- High densities.
- Easily detected.
- Robust, surviving longer than known pathogenic strains.

## Fecal coliforms as indicators

- Non-pathogenic – ?
- High densities – yes, relative to most pathogenic bacteria.
- Easily detected – yes.
- Robust, surviving longer than known pathogenic strains – Some.

## Veterinary Pharmaceuticals

- Sampling and Analysis special considerations
- Indicators – are there a select few
- They differ with species
- When Excreted – What form
- Degraded?
- Preservation

## Method development and standardization

- Development: evaluate methods for accuracy, precision, speed and expense.
- Standardization: develop stepwise protocol and requirements for implementation.
- The Result is only as good as the sample

## One Last thought

- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- 									Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in 			Bohemia (1891)

## Check out the Posters 

- www.epa.gov/region8/biosolids
# Presentation: 045932

## Twisted Pair Cable

- Dense assembly (OD 5-7 mm) with
- Twisted pairs : total 21; 44-pin 0.625 mm dual row Omnetics connector
- differential signals
- single-ended signals
- Temperature, voltage sensing, spares
- Common shield
- Connectors can be purchased terminated with twisted pairs
- Power and HV lines
- Clock mini-coaxial cables
- Round cross section – easy to route between Junction Cards and Adapter Cards

- Hybrid -** **Jumper Cable  - Junction Card - **Twisted Pair Cable** – Adapter Card

## Twisted Pair Cable

- Junction Card

- Hybrid 1 signals

- Hybrid 1 power & HV

- Hybrid 2 signals

- Hybrid 3 signals

- Hybrid 2 power & HV

- Hybrid 3 power & HV

- Hybrid -** **Jumper Cable  - Junction Card - **Twisted Pair Cable** – Adapter Card

- Junction Card

- Hybrid 1 signals

- Power & HV

- Hybrid 2 signals

- Hybrid 3 signals

- Come to same AC

- Can come to different ACs
# Presentation: 111058

## Proton Plan Status September and October Report

- Eric Prebys

## Agenda

- Operations  – Prebys
- Technical Status/Corrector Review - Prebys
- Cost/Schedule Report – Baller

## Operations

## Operational Issues

- Good News
- When things are running we seem to be meeting our goals
- Switched to 2+5 ALL to NuMI during shot setup
- Record NuMI intensity: 299 kW
- Bad News
- “mouse incident” on October 10 caused a problem with LEL RF2, and possibly contributed to a string of source problems, resulting in a couple of days down time and a week of non-optimal performance.
- F-sector access to repair TeV leak held off all beam for several days.

## NuMI

- Mouse incident

- TeV leak

## MiniBooNE

## Total Booster Output 

## Technical Status

## Significant Activity Since Last PMG

- (1.2) Booster
- (1.2.3) New Corrector System
- Review held Oct 10th (more later)
- Review scheduled for Oct 10th
- (1.2.5) gamma-t
- Studies continue
- Reached 4.5E12 per batch with acceptable losses
- Preparing for slip stacking test
- (1.2.12) Booster notch chopper
- Working on design
- Trying to schedule review (some time in early December?)

## Activity (cont’d)

- (1.3) Main Injector
- (1.3.2) MI Collimation Systems
- MI-8:
- Final paperwork to 7th floor
- Expect approval to test soon
- Ring:
- Finalizing design
- Prototype primary collimator and test secondary installed in recent down time.
- (1.3.4) MI RF
- Scope of RF upgrades complete
- CR in the works to add comb filter
- Detailed design proceeding

## Corrector Review

- October 10, 2006

## Booster Corrector Review (10/10/06)

- Committee
- Mike Syphers, beam physics (chair)
- Tom Nicol, technical division
- Howie Pfeffer, EE support
- O’Sheg Oshinowo, AMG
- Absent: Mike Frett was supposed to represent Mech. Supp., but was called away by the TeV magnet problems
- Covered
- Specifications
- Magnet design
- Prototype tests
- Procurement and production
- Power supplies
- Installation
- Not covered
- BPM’s
- Controls

## Complication at Review

- Prototype tests seemed to show slower than expected slew rates.
- Several did not meet our specs
- A number of review comments were related to this.
- After the review, it was discovered that the problem was a bandwidth limit in the measurement.
- Working on follow-up errata on this issue
- Bottom line: it now appears that the slew rates will meet our specs

## Other Conclusions

- A new corrector system is long overdue, and the specs and design appear well motivated.
- No obvious problems with magnet design, power supplies, or installation plan.
- Once you eliminate the slew rate problems
- Need more simulation of the beam physics considerations driving field quality requirements.
- Strongly recommending building one or more additional prototypes, preferrably putting at least one in the beam.
- We’re looking into this.
- Aggressive schedule very worrisome.
- Recommend a second review to
- address remaining issues and to
- cover the controls issues and BPM’s
- Discussed fully fleshed out installation plan
# Presentation: 740115

## GREAT SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE-INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMIDECEMBER 26, 2004

**FACTS ABOUT THE TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REBUILDING EFFORT**
**DECEMBER 26, 2005**

## FACTS

**This disaster was ****the most generously and most immediately funded international emergency relief effort ever****.**
**$13.6 billion**** was pledged by donors around the world to ****rebuild 13 Indian Ocean countries**** after the 26 December 2004  earthquake and tsunami.**

## 13 AFFECTED COUNTRIES

- Indonesia
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Thailand
- Madagascar
- Maldives
- Malaysia

- Myanmar
- Seychelles
- Somalia
- Tanzania
- Kenya
- Bangladesh

## FACTS ABOUT THE TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REBUILDING EFFORT

**Total damage:**** $10.73 billion. **
**Rebuilding costs****: $10.375 billion.**
**Number of people displaced:**** 2,089,883.**
**Number of people who lost their livelihoods:**** 1.5 million.**
**Number of people killed****: at least 230,000.**
**Ratio**** of women and children killed to men****: 3:1**

## FACTS 

**Number of houses reduced to rubble:**** 392,544.**
**Number needed:**** 308,000.**
**Number built or under construction:**** 46,000.**

## FACTS 

**A ****$53 million interim warning system**** using  tidal gauges and undersea sensors is nearing completion in the Indian Ocean with help from the ****United Nations’  Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.**

## FACTS 

**Tsunami national warning centers**** are being planned for ****27 countries**** around the Indian Ocean rim.**
**Three of them will be ****regional centers.**

## FACTS 

**Thailand and Indonesia**** are installing warning towers on vulnerable beaches.**
**Sri Lanka**** has established model ****"Tsunami Protection Villages."**
** ****India**** is spending $27 million to establish a ****regional warning center**** by 2007.**

## UNANSWERED QUESTIONS UNTIL THE NEXT TSUNAMI 

**When the inevitable tsunami strikes the Indian Ocean rim again, ****will the Warning Centers’ urgent messages reach the  remote villages? **
**Will the Warning Centers be staffed 24 hours, seven days a week? **
**Will authorities be able to put evacuation plans into effect when they receive a tsunami warning?**
# Presentation: 391485

## AQUA Mission

**Overview**
- Chi Wu
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Charles Wende
- NASA Headquarters

## DSN and TERRA

- TERRA implementation:
- Convolutional encoding reduced transmitter power, but broadened the spectrum;
- Bandwidth required frequency of 8212.5 MHz;
- It did not meet DSN power density limits.
- Operational coordination is _required_ between TERRA schedule and DSN schedule.

## DSN and TERRA

## DSN and AQUA

- AQUA implementation:
- Traded more power (23 W TWT) for less bandwidth (no convolutional encoding),
- Added 9-pole Chebyshev filter,
- Moved frequency to 8160 MHz, away from DSN, and
- Meets DSN requirement.
- AQUA launched May 4, 2002 and is being commissioned.

## DSN and AQUA

## AQUA Ground Test

- Above with 150 Mb/s fill data;
- 15 Mb/s data rate should be 10 dB higher peak, 1/10 the bandwidth.

## AQUA Flight Data

- Note: 3 M antenna,
- noise floor is limited;
- 15 Mb/s data rate

## DSN and AQUA

- Operational coordination between AQUA and DSN is not believed necessary.
# Presentation: 464116

## Child Care ACF-801 Changes

- May 16-18, 2001

## What ACF-801 Changes are Occurring?

- SSN is no longer required
- New Data Element, Number in Eligible Family, is added for ACF-801 files submitted for January 2002 reporting period and after

## What standards will change with the SSN being optional?

- Other data elements affected by this change:
- Element 2 (Unique State Identification Number)
- Element 3 (Head of Household SSN)
- Element 5 (Single Parent)
- Element 17 (Child SSN)

## Element 2 (Unique State Identification Number)

- If Element 3 (Head of Household SSN) is not reported, then this element must be reported and must uniquely identify the family over time (i.e. each monthly submission)

## Element 3 (Head of Household SSN)

- This data element is no longer required.
- CCDF eligibility may not be denied because a parent chooses not to provide an SSN.
- If this element is not reported, Element 2 (Unique State Identification Number) must be reported.

## Element 5 (Single Parent)

- There is no longer a consistency standard between this element, Element 17 (Child SSN) and Element 3 (Head of Household SSN).
- The other consistency standard stating that if this element = 9, then Element 6 (Reason for Receiving Subsidy) must=4 (Protective Services) still applies.

## Element 17 (Child SSN)	

- Element 17 (Child SSN)

- There is no longer a consistency standard for this data element since SSNs are not required.

## What are the standards  for Element 16 (# in Eligible Family)?

- If Element 5 (Single Parent) does not = 9, then Element 16 (Number in Eligible Family) must be greater than or equal to the number of children receiving services plus the head of the household.
- Therefore, the smallest acceptable value for this field if Element 5 does not equal 9 is 2.

## What are the standards  for Element 16 (# in Eligible Family)?

- With the new data element included, a record will look like:

- F200104000000000000047410992182100031299991999070000001110003C1861934940001002199709S0203671104$

- New data element: Element 16 (Number in Eligible Family)

## Where can I get further information?

- The new PI, the new form and the new definitions are posted on the home page of the Child Care Bureau’s web site.
- For additional information, contact the Child Care Automation Resource Center toll free at 877-249-9117.
# Presentation: 096409

## GSA Missing Children Alert

- GSA Missing Children Alert

**Concerned about America’s Children**

**U.S. General Services Administration**

##  Thalia Ayala

-  Thalia Ayala

- _Last Seen_:   Redwood City,  CA         04/04/2008
- _Age_:           14 years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Janice Bozeman

-  Janice Bozeman

- _Last Seen_:   Chicago,  IL                  03/24/2008
- _Age_:           15 years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Tanya Jasmine Calix

-  Tanya Jasmine Calix

- _Last Seen_:   Sterling,  VA                  03/12/2008
- _Age_:           15 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

## GSA Missing Children Alert

- GSA Missing Children Alert

**Concerned about America’s Children**

**U.S. General Services Administration**

##  Samantha Renee McMullan

-  Samantha Renee McMullan

- _Last Seen_:   Ocala,  FL                    04/14/2008
- _Age_:           14 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Dakota Lee Roper

-  Dakota Lee Roper

- _Last Seen_:   Rolla,  MO                    04/09/2008
- _Age_:           14 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Viridiana Santacruz

-  Viridiana Santacruz

- _Last Seen_:   Silver Spring,  MD        04/12/2008
- _Age_:           16 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**
# Presentation: 685968

## UPDATE on NSF & MPS

- Presentation to MPSAC
- 22 April 2004

- Michael S Turner
- Assistant Director
- for MPS

## LEADERSHIP at NSF

- Rita Colwell stepped down 20 Feb 2004 (Canon USA Lifesciences)
- “Great run”:  budget +70% over 6-year term
- Arden Bement (Director of NIST) became Acting Director
- Engineer with industrial (TRW), academic (Purdue, MIT) and national-lab (NIST) experience
- Knows NSF culture (former NSB member), already very engaged at NSF (e.g., Director’s retreat)
- “Term limit” (210 days)
- According to Jack Marburger:  “Aggressive search is under way (Feb 27, Senate Appropriations Subcmte)
- Lots of rumors, election year, ...

## BUDGETS

- FY 2004 Enacted (late January) +5%
- FY 2005 Submitted to Congress +3.0%
- NIH +2.6%
- DOE Office of Science -1%
- NASA Space Science +1%
- FY 2006
- MPS Retreat (January 2004)
- AD Retreat (April 2004)

## NSF Funding:  1995 to 2005 

**+68% since 1998, but falling**
**away from authorization levels**

- NSF Funding:  1995 to 2005

## MPS Funding History by Division

## Slide 6

## MPS Budget Request FY 2005

## FY2004 Budget (began in 2002)

- 03        04 R     04 (after 0.5% recission)
- 187      183      197    AST
- 182      182      185    CHE
- 241      246      251    DMR
- 179      202      201    DMS
- 224      218      228    PHY
-  27        31         31   OMA
- ___      ___       ___
- 1041   1061     1092

- Principles:
- Meet or exceed President’s request
- Satisfy Congressional language
- Support Core

## MPS 2005 Budget Highlights

- Physics of the Universe (12M$ split between AST and PHY)
- Physical processes that enable life from cells to the ecosystem (2M$ CHE)
- Cyberscience (32M$ across MPS)
- Mid-scale Instrumentation (ACT, Beam-line instrumentation, Design funds for LSST, GSMT)
- RSVP construction funding requested
- Two of five NSF Priority Areas are most relevant for MPS:
- Nanoscale Science & Engineering
- Mathematical Sciences

## BUDGET REALITIES

- Congress has been vocal that +3% is not enough for NSF and that the imbalance between Physical and Lifesciences needs to be addressed
- ... but
- Deficit of >520B$
- Other very important priorities:
- Iraq, war on terrorism, homeland security, the economy
- Election year
- Continuing concern about MREFC Account

## OTHER NOTABLE ITEMS

- Especially Relevant for MPSAC (more later on all)
- ACTII
- CHE Subcommittee
- JSAC on UG Education
- CyberScience Workshop
- DMS COV
- CHE COV
- More Generally
- Brinkman Report on Setting Priorities for Large Facility Projects Sponsored by the NSF" (more later)
- First Annual Report of AAAC submitted to NSF, Congress (AST Break out)
- Release of InterAgencyWorking Group Report on the Physics of the Universe
- HEPAP Response to request to define goals of HEP:  P. Drell Report, “Quantum Universe”
- Launch of NRC Study Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century
- Prioritize science, prioritize implementation plan
- Non-EPP Chair, significant representation from other fields
- MPS-led process for Underground Science
- Theory
# Presentation: 682111

## Phase 1 ProgramCosmonaut Funding

- Policy
- Short term stay (1 to 6 months)
- JSC Pays for Apartment & Rent Car Directly
- $60 per day subsistence paid bi-weekly
- Payday the Monday before Civil Servant Payday for  period previous Sunday till Saturday a week (-1 to + 12)
- Long term stay (more than 6 months)
- Cosmonaut responsible for all bills
- Subsistence based on $4,500 per month for Cosmonaut
- Additional $300 per month for each dependent
- Translated into whole dollar daily rate and paid bi-weekly (same as above)
- $4,800 x 12 / 365 = $157.81
- $ 158 x 14  =  $2,212
- Basis for subsistence is the “approximate equivalent” to what U.S. Astronauts make (e.g.. GS-14 / 15)

## Phase 1 ProgramCosmonaut Funding

- Policy agreed to by JSC Chief Financial Officer, Astronaut Office, Phase 1 Program & JSC Legal
- Long term stay
- Cosmonaut responsible for all bills
- Subsistence based on $4,500 per month for Cosmonaut
- Additional $300 per month for each dependent
- Translated into whole dollar daily rate and paid bi-weekly (consistent with Civil Servant pay,  paid on Monday before Tuesday JSC Civil Servant payday)
- Example for cosmonaut and 1 dependent,
- $4,800 x 12/365 = $157.81
- $ 158 x 14 = $2,212
- Basis for subsistence is the “approximate equivalent” to what U.S. Astronauts make, (typical GS-14/15, take home pay)
- Assessment made that utilizes JSC, Civil Service Salary Scale in 1996
- Remove employee Social Security (FICA) contribution
- Remove Federal Tax based on number of dependents
# Presentation: 438028

## Better Safe Than Sorry: PowerPoint Slides for Transparencies

## MATERNAL ALCOHOL ABUSE IS THE LEADING KNOWN CAUSE OF MENTAL RETARDATION IN THE WESTERN WORLD

**1**

## The facial features ofFetal Alcohol Syndrome are:

**Small eyelid openings (palpebral fissures)**
**Short, upturned nose**
**Long upper lip (from nose to mouth) with a thin red border and a deficient central groove (philtrum) **
**Reduced size of the head (microcephaly)**

**2**

## FAS

**NORMAL**

**3**

## Visualization of the brain of a normal individual (A) and two with FAS (B,C) shows permanent loss of the tissue indicated by the arrows (portions of the corpus callosum).

- Images courtesy of Dr. S. Mattson

**4**

##  The facial features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 

- Narrow forehead

- Short palpebral fissures

- Small nose

- Small midface
- Long upper lip with
- deficient philtrum

- child with FAS

- normal

- alcohol-exposed

- mouse fetuses

** ****The facial features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome **
**  ****can be seen in both a child and a mouse fetus **
**that were exposed to alcohol during development.**

**5**

## that have taken up a dark blue stain. 

**Developing**
**brain and**
**face **

**Heart**

**Mouse embryo (viewed from**
** ****the front) at a stage corresponding **
**to a 22-23 day old human.**

**A close-up view of an alcohol-exposed **
**mouse embryo shows cells killed by alcohol**
**that have taken up a dark blue stain.**** **

**6**

## Health advisories urge women who     are planning             pregnancy    or are pregnant not to drink alcohol.

**7**