BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 174881

## Plasma rotation measurements in NCSX using x-ray spectroscopy

**Plasma rotation measurements in NCSX using x-ray spectroscopy**

- R. Granetz and J. Rice

- NCSX research forum
- 7-8 Dec 2006

## Why are we interested in doing this?

- Crucial test of QAS: Rotation is a relatively simple thing to measure (as compared to confinement), and therefore should be studied as soon as possible in FY11.
- Don’t have to wait for DNB/CHERS; High-resolution x-ray spectroscopy should be easy to install, although spatial resolution will not be as good as CHERS.
- Plasmas might even rotate without NBI
- Add stellarator information to tokamak rotation database, hopefully improving our understanding of momentum physics.

## Scaling of intrinsic rotation from multiple tokamaks suggests scaling to ITER

## Current PPPL/C-Mod collaboration on X-ray spectroscopy

**Current PPPL/C-Mod collaboration on X-ray spectroscopy**

- Core:
- H & He-like argon (using curved crystal and 2-D detector)  to measure Ti and Vi in core – M. Bitter, K. Hill, J. Rice, A. Ince-Cushman
- Edge:
- He-like neon (Ti and Vi in outer radii of plasma) – M. Bitter, J. Rice, A. Ince-Cushman

## NESOXS

- NEon SOft X-ray Spectrometer
- Spatially resolving spherically bent high resolution spectrometer looking at He-like Neon in the pedestal region of the plasma.
- Provides impurity poloidal rotation profiles for 0.8 < r/a  <0.95

## HIREX SR

- HIgh REsolution X-ray spectrometer - Spatially Resolving
- Spatially resolving spherically bent crystal spectrometer looking at H & He-like Argon
- Provides impurity temperature and rotation profiles for r/a < 0.8

## Some details

- The new 2-D HIREX on C-Mod replaces 5 single-chord HIREX systems.  One or more of these single-chord systems could be installed on NCSX (core rotation).  Should be relatively inexpensive to do this.  Might also be possible to duplicate the 2-D HIREX system (more expensive option).
- Might also be possible to duplicate the NESOX system (edge rotation)
- Would need:
- to puff small amounts of argon into plasma
- Te ~ 1-2+ keV
- A pair of toroidally-opposing views would avoid the necessity of an absolute wavelength calibration
# Presentation: 489232

## How are we doing?

- Energy lost per proton

- Since MiniBooNE

- Last 2 weeks

- Unstable Running afterpower problems and Summer

- Total protons/minute

- Booster Power Loss

*So why do things suck now?!?!?*

## MH2 Regulation Problems

-  It is rated for 60V, 1kA, but has run at ~62V for years.
-  Regulation problems occur at ~63V – VERY sensitive to line voltage.
-  MiniBooNE events cause line voltage to sag, which results in MH2 regulation problems.
-  Power supply seems to be deteriorating.
-  Have been lowering current setting and retuning line to compensate, but reaching the limit.
-  New supply (75V) ready for installation.
-  Need about a shift.

- Effect on MiniBooNE intensity

## MH2 Continued

- Booster batches

- Booster batches

- MI Current

- Solution: MH2 Supply being replaced as we speak

## Other Stability Problems/Solutions

- Linac Energy Drift (also related to line current)
- Elliott McCrory has written a feedback control loop to regulate linac velocity
- Will purchase power line stabilizers for all 200 MHz RF stations.
- Water in Linac annex
- Rerouting parking lot drainage – DONE.
- General 400 MeV line reproducibility
- Dave McGinnis is modifying beam line tuner code to automatically set trims to reproduce reference trajectory (kind of like “autotune”).  Finished in ~1 week.
- General booster characterization:
- Sharon Lackey and Bill Marsh will modify BPM program to allow capture of turn by turn orbit data for all 96 BPM’s on a cycle.
- Peter Kasper has introduced reference loss patterns into the BLM display to help reproduce periods of good performance (Jim Lackey suggestion)
- Booster ramp monitor program now being commissioned (Guglielmo, Kasper, Coney, Jacobs)

## New BLM Trip Monitor (B88)

- Higher than reference set

- Lower than reference set

## Rampmon – Now appearing in logbook

## Summer Shutdown

- The good news:  ALL of the major Booster and Linac projects are back on the table for the summer shutdown. (Thanks Columbia, Indiana, Roger...)
- The bad news:  ALL of the major Booster and Linac projects are back on the table for the summer shutdown.

## Summary of Major Projects for the Summer Shutdown

- Stretch out Long 3 extraction region (ameliorates dogleg problem).
- Install collimator system.
- Replace 2 (of 18) RF cavities with wide aperture prototypes.
- New dedicated damping cavity for additional longitudinal modes.
- Do complete vertical alignments !! (as-founds are ongoing)
- Install new Linac Lamberston (will improve 400 MeV optics and reduce losses)
- Install four new wide aperture (EDWA) magnets in 8 GeV line.
- Install new MP01 power supply and cable to new cable header (preparation for new MP01 septum.
- Install new vacuum gauges as part of vacuum system upgrade.
*Cautiously optimistic we can reach the MiniBooNE baseline goal after this shutdown!!*

## Approximate Schedule
# Presentation: 933710

## MNM Fatal 2008-11

- Fall of Back Accident
- May 31, 2008 (New York)
- Zinc Operation
- Driller
- 40 years old
- 2 years experience

## Overview

- The victim was fatally injured when a large rock fell and
- struck him.  He and a coworker were drilling a round at the
- face in a vent drift.  The victim was attempting to retrieve
- a drill bit from a hole at the face when the rock fell from
- the back.  The other miner was on the outby side of the
- drift and was not injured.

## Slide 3

## Root Causes

- Ground support was not installed in the vent drift on the 2100 level.
- Management policies, procedures, and controls were not being followed.  Specifically, the ground was not supported in the vent drift on the 2100 level as specified by the company’s ground support policy to protect persons where they worked or traveled.

## Best Practices

- Examine and test ground conditions in areas where work is to be performed prior to work commencing and as ground conditions warrant during the shift.
- When ground conditions create a hazard to persons, install ground support before other work is permitted in the affected area.
- Be alert to any change of ground conditions.
- Identify and scale loose ground from a location which will not expose persons to falling material.
# Presentation: 761794

## SHAred RESources (SHARES)High Frequency Radio Program

**SHARES Overview Briefing For **
**Emergency Response Training - Phase IV****   **
**                                   ****                                              **
**     ****Office Of The Manager, National Communications System (OMNCS)**
**      ****701 South Court House Road**
**      ****Arlington, Virginia 22204-2198**
**	****	****	****  **Presenter			SHARES Program Office
- 			  Mr. William Gleichsner	Mr. Donald Smith
- 						Smith2d@ncs.gov

## Description

**2**

-     SHARES combines existing High Frequency (HF) assets from 94 Federal, state, and industry organizations into a single emergency voice and data message handling network, supporting national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP).

## SHARES Concept of Operations

**AGENCY B**
**SHARES Station**

**AGENCY A**
**MSG Originator**

**SHARES STATION**

**SHARES STATION**

**AGENCY A**
**MSG Addressee**

**AGENCY C**
**SHARES Station**

**HF RELAY**

**HF DIRECT**

**3**

## Operations

- Always available
- Requires no activation
- Criteria for emergency use
-  No other means of communication available
-  Supports NS/EP requirements
-  Preservation of life or protection of property
-  Non-interfering basis

**4**

## SHARES HF Radio ProgramResource Contributors

- SHARES HF Radio ProgramResource Contributors

**5**

## SHARES Coordination Net

**6**

## SHARES Readiness / Training

-  Weekly SHARES Net
-  National Exercises
-  Agency Support Exercises

**7**

## SHARES HF Radio ProgramOn Air Operations

-    Exercise 04-1
-    Super Bowl XXXVIII
-    State of the Union Address 04
-    Exercise 03-3
-    Hurricane Isabel
-    Northeast Power Outage (NEPO)
-    Threat Level Orange
-    Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

**8**

## SHARES On Air OperationsFebruary 2003 - April 2004 Result

**9**

## SHARES HF Radio ProgramSHARES Support to the Pentagon & WTC DisastersSeptember 11-12, 2001

- SHARES HF Radio ProgramSHARES Support to the Pentagon & WTC DisastersSeptember 11-12, 2001

**10**

## Summary

- Managed by Office of the Manager, National   Communications System (OMNCS)
- Provides nationwide HF communication capability to meet NS/EP requirements
- Multi-agency network using existing HF assets and frequencies
- Proven to be an effective, low cost, all volunteer HF back-up program when other means of communications are lost

**11**

## Point of Contact

- SHARES
- Mr. Kevin Piekarski
- 703-607-6141
- kevin.piekarski@dhs.gov

**12**
# Presentation: 278939

## A Lesson in Preparation

## Working without a Net

- During the SCGlobal event make sure you have easy access to your node operator, site producer, and network administrator.
- Stay connected via mud, email, pagers, floor point of contacts.
- Be assertive, stay constructive – ask for help when you need it.

## Smooth Operator

- So can I have a volunteer from the audience?
- The Idea is to:
- field an inquiry
- answer with assistance, not necessarily instant information
- try not to pass the buck
- follow up, closure
- Embrace the AG concept (community).

## Fast on Your Feet

- Be ready.  Never say I don’t know, but instead I will find out.
- Have a canned response if you must.
- Know all your standard points of contacts, hubs of information, general URLs.

## Ready, Set, Go

- We are going to mirror a distributed event.
- We are going to use simple content from you.  *(I will give each site “pop” topic as we go.)*
- I will be “Denver” MC and set the plan.
- Please choose a person to speak at your site and tell me their name.   (*Also let me know if you are participating remotely or in Denver.)*
- Let’s make this pretty formal.  Time to be _**ready**_, feel _**set**_, and _**go**_ for it.

## Can I Have Your Attention

- I will announce each speaker at each site.  When in doubt always turn the floor back to the MC.
- I will solicit questions from speaker site, then the other remote sites *(have a question ready for each speaker)*.
- I will take back the floor, and continue the process with next site.

## Give Me Attitude

- Speak Up!
- Look Enthusiastic!  (or fake it)
- Feel Confident
- Repeat your Name/Company (at least 2x)
- Thank audiences for their questions.

## And We’re Off

*“**Welcome.  We have a wonderful collection of speakers with us from all around the world, who will be sharing their knowledge and expertise with you today.  I would like to start things out with Mary Fritsch at Argonne National Laboratory (she is a remote constellation site/she is coming to us from the showroom floor Booth #)”*

## Choices

- Q1.  ...will tell us about his favorite restaurants.
- Q2.  ...will elaborate on what he/she likes to do on his/her day off.
- Q3.  ...will tell us about his/her first car they ever owned.
- Q4.  ...will tell us about their first job.
- Q5.  ...will talk to us about his/her most enjoyable vacation they have ever taken.
- Q6.  ...will discuss their favorite class in college.
- Q7.  ...will tell us a little about the weather in (location) this week.
- Q8.  ...will give us an overview of their company.

## Any Bright Ideas or Questions?
# Presentation: 191795

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

- Part I– Ancient History; The AFOS Era

- By Jim Johnson & Mike Umscheid
- NWS Dodge City, KS

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

** ****- - - The Dark Ages - - -**
**Phil Bothwell's ADAP (NWS SR-114) piped in from AFOS node in 1985.**
**Watched hourly ADAP charts for May 7, 1986 Canadian, TX F-3.**
**A few base charts selected by spring season of 1987. STA, SMC, SSL and SSC.**
**Charts watched for 18 TX, KS and CO Tornadoes 1987 - 1990.    Epiphany!!  Nov. 15, 1988 TOP **
**Empirical values noted by parameter - composite the charts and define a threat area.**

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

_**Parameters:**_
**Flux Divergence of Surface Mixing Ratio  **
**Potential Temperature Advection   **
**Surface to 500 hPa Lifted Index **
**Convective Cap **
**Streamlines of Surface wind direction**
**Thru 1996 total of 63 cases – 81% success in first hour from composite time – 62% in second hour...**

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

**	****	****	****      ****The Short Fuse Threat Area**
**Down-wind of the positive Theta advection axis. (ex. - Burgess, et al. BAMS, 1994)**** **
**Within the 1.5g/kg/hr SMFC isopleth. (Waldstreicher, NWA Dig.,14, 1989)**
**On axis of maximum instability**
**Convective “cap” 2 degrees Celsius or less.**
**Tornado Symposium III 1990 – AGU Monograph 79**
**Went online in 1996 – heavy use by chasers**

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

***TORN 1 S Amorita OK 25/0045Z**
***TORN 3 ENE Amorita OK 25/0050Z**
***TORN 8 E Amorita OK 25/0055z-0105Z**
***TORN 6 W Medford OK 25/0146Z-0153Z**
**Total 15 Tornadoes – Cyclic Supercell?**

## Using The Short Fuse Composite to Forecast Severe Convection:

**Change to AWIPS and associated problems – MSAS and LAPS aren’t same as ADAP!**
**AWIPS can’t do O.A. of raw data!!**
**When AFOS was unplugged, so was the composite! **
**Had to find a way to apply the technique to AWIPS product sets - recalling that the previously arrived at empirical values were no longer valid........**
** **
# Presentation: 001268

## Validation for Integrated Remote Sensing/Yield Modeling

- Eric Warner
- Research Associate
- Office for Remote Sensing of Earth Resources
- Penn State University
- University Park,  PA  16802

## Slide 2

## Validation Goals

- Develop a field based method for generating LAI validation data sets
- Conduct a comparison of LAI-2000 and Decagon ACCUPAR
- Frequent, repeated LAI validation across three growing seasons and two crops
-    Illinois – Corn
-    China - Rice

## Slide 4

## Directed Sampling Example

- Soil Type 1

- Soil Type 2

- Single
- Transect

- Overlapping
- Transect

- Sampling
- Location

- Check
- Sample

## LAI Validation Flow Chart

- Field
- Sampling

- Geostatistics ?

- Area Weighted
- LAI ?

- MODIS LAI

- Error
- Assessment

## Graphical Illustration of Validation 

## Thoughts/Issues

- Feedback sought
- Collaboration is welcomed
- Data will be shared
# Presentation: 917899

## The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density

- Paper by: John Holmes
- Discussant: Brett Wendling
- Disclaimer: The views expressed in this presentation are those of the discussant and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any individual Commissioner.

## Paper Summary

- Economic Question:
- How do the competing effects of “cannibalization” and “density economies” affect store location choice?
- Provides a lower bound for size of density effects.
- Data: 1962-2005 Wal-Mart store location, distributor location, and store profits.
- Estimation: Structural choice model with endogenous location.
*Profits* key explained variable
*Store location (distance) *and *population density *key explanatory variables

## Paper Summary (cont.)	

- Results:
- Store Density:
- Density is Important
- Store-specific cost savings of $220K with a regional distribution center 100 miles closer

## Discussion

- Tie this paper to urban literature
- Many analogies in city formation literature:
- Location choice explains variable of interest
- “Agglomeration Economies” vs. “Rents”/”Cannibal”
- Contextual Justification:
- Why location choice is important in other literatures
- Model Assumptions:
- Similar mathematical techniques
- Previous experimentation with specific functions

## Location Choice not Exhaustive

- Only observe 2 of 4 Wal-Mart types
- Do not observe “Sam’s Club”
- Do not observe “Neighborhood Stores”
- May believe location choice will depend on the location of these stores
- Unobserved store types may affect both “cannibalization” and “density economies”
- Very little discussion in paper about how the omission of these decisions affect estimates

## Product Heterogeneity

- Wal-Mart offers numerous products
- Product availability is endogenous
- Related to location choice
- Minnesota vs. Florida
- Could potentially affect profits
- May lead to biased estimates
- Products may depend on unobserved competition
- Product mix could have changed over time
- “Chow” test of results before 1980 and after 1980
- Product prices vary dramatically
- CD: $7.88 ; Power Generator: $547.47

## Better data choices

- Wal-Mart unnecessary for question
- Not asking why Wal-Mart is a profitable firm
- Inter-firm distribution could be important
- Price negotiations could be important
- Question only needs retail firms making location choices that affect profits
- Many retail firms face similar problems
- Distribution is important part of cost structure for nearly every retail firm
- Population density affects sales
- Proximate locations cannibalize sales

## Better Data (cont.)

- Other firms can address identical problem and offer relatively homogenous products
- Fast food firms
- Raphael Thomadsen has paper using fast food data
- Starbucks
- Bookstores

## Conclusion

- Size and effect of agglomeration economies are important in many contexts
- Model provides a reasonable exposition for how firm-specific agglomeration economies are formed
- Choice of Wal-Mart data unnecessarily introduces heterogeneity bias into analysis
# Presentation: 438316

## Fig. 3

**Potential Temperature**

- 1992

- 1993

- 1994

- 1995

- 1996

- 1997

- 1998

- 1999

- 2000

- 2001

- 2002

- CTant (μmol/kg)

- LSW(shallow)

- NEADW

- DSOW

**Total Carbonate (CT)**

- 2130

- 2135

- 2140

- 2145

- 2150

- 2155

- 2160

- 2165

- 2170

- 2175

- 1992

- 1993

- 1994

- 1995

- 1996

- 1997

- 1998

- 1999

- 2000

- 2001

- 2002

- CT (μmol/kg)

**CFC-12**

- y = 0.079x - 157.48

- y = 0.058x - 113.39

- y = 0.091x - 179.21

- y = -0.0044x + 10.65

- y = 0.0407x - 79.01

- 0.00

- 0.50

- 1.00

- 1.50

- 2.00

- 2.50

- 3.00

- 3.50

- 4.00

**year**

- CFC-12 (pmol/kg)

**Salinity**

- 34.84

- 34.86

- 34.88

- 34.90

- 34.92

- 1994

- 1995

- 1996

- 1997

- 1998

- 1999

- 2000

- 2001

- 2002

- salinity

- 34.82

- 34.80

- 1993

- 1992

-  (LSW and NEADW)

-  (DSOW)

**year**

- Azetsu-Scott et al
# Presentation: 935418

## Basics of ThermoCalc® an Dictra® calculations 

## Prediction of phase diagram requires free energy of various solid solution phases as a function of temperature and concentration.

***With an expression for free energy of phases, common tangent construction allows one to evaluate the phase stability between two phases.***
***Can be extended to multicomponent  and multiphase systems with a condition of Gibbs’ Phase Rule:***
***P+F = C+2***

## Free energy of a solid solution is given by the following expressions.

***Reference: ***
***CALPHAD, Calculation of Phase Diagrams, Saunders & Miodownik***
***There are different modes to describe the excess Gibbs’ energy due to mixing.***

## Sublattice model considers two lattices, one for substitutional and another for interstitial.

***This will be relevant for low-alloy and stainless steels.***

***FCC Phase***
***2 sub-lattices (Fe,Cr)******1 ******(C,N,Va)******1***
***BCC Phase***
***2 sub-lattices (Fe,Cr)******1 ******(C,N,Va)******3***

## Background:Sub-lattice model was used to calculate the free energy of solid solution phases. 

***End member Gibbs energy are given in the reference.***

***BCC end members are (Fe,Mn)(Va) and (Fe,Mn)(C,Va)******3***
***FCC end members are (Fe,Mn)(Va) and (Fe,Mn)(C,Va) ***

***Based on the published paper by W. Huang, Metallurgical Transactions A, 21A, 1990, 2115-2123.***

## With sublattice model one can describe the molar Gibbs energy of the Fe-C-Mn system.

***From the Gibbs free energy functions one can calculate the chemical potential or activity of each component.***

***Model***

## At equilibrium, the chemical potential of each element in different phases should be equal. 

***All these calculations are done by ThermoCalc® software for you!***

## ThermoCalc® steps:

***Get Thermodynamic data:***
***Different data bases for different systems***
***You can append different databases***
***Calculate equilibrium using minimization of Gibbs energy:***
***You have to satisfy the phase rule***
***Calculate as a function of temperature (one step) or calculate the phase diagram (map):***
***Plot the results:***

## Diffusion controlled calculations:

***We need to match the flux of elements in both the phases with the velocity of the interface.***
***Local-equilibrium at the interface must be maintained.***
***Governing equation for growth of solid in liquid with diffusion in liquid***

## Dictra® allows one to calculate the interface velocity as a function of composition and different geometries.

***An example for simulation of solidification in steel is shown. ***
***Currently, one dimensional diffusion is considered.***

## Exercises:

***Calculations of Liquidus, Solidus, Ac1, Ac3, transformation temperature for multicomponent steels***
***Suggested steel systems Fe-C-Cr-Al-Mn-(N)***
***Calculations of a quasi-binary phase diagram for Fe-C-Cr-Ti-N stainless steel***
***Find out the conditions where you can avoid the formation of M******23******C******6****** carbides and Ti(CN)***
***Calculation of solidification simulation with DicTra® for a Fe-Cr-Ni-C system.***
# Presentation: 692996

## Gallup Q12® Engagement Index at FSA DAM

**Engaged**

**Not Engaged**

**Actively Disengaged**

- Copyright © 2003 The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.

**1.52:1**

**1.88:1**

**Ratio of Engaged to Actively Disengaged:**

**0.58:1**

## Q12® Scores Across Time

- Copyright © 1992-1999 The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.

## FSA DAM’s Overall Q12® Results: Item Means

**FSA DAM’s Overall** **Q****12****®**** ****Results: Item Means**

- Copyright © 1992-1999 The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.

- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 

**3.31**
**3.30**
**3.47**
**3.39**
**3.39**
**3.11**
**3.04**
**3.61**
**2.58**
**3.36**
**3.66**
**4.01**

_**trend**_

_**2002**_

## FSA DAM’s Overall Distribution of Responses

**FSA DAM’s Overall Distribution of Responses**

- Copyright © 1992-1999 The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.

## Q12® Scores for Employees Whose Teams Used 2002 Survey Results Positively

**GrandMean:****	****3.65****	****4.52****	****3.99****	****3.39****	****2.75**

**	****      ****(n=1,016)****	****(n=207)****	****(n=227)****	****(n=206)****	****(n=227)**

**Q****12****®**** Scores for Employees Whose ****Teams Used 2002 Survey Results Positively**

- Copyright © 1992-1999 The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.
# Presentation: 725998

## Emergency Response

**Before an Event**
**Get Prepared!**
**Enroll in EHS 135-Earthquake & Wildland Fire Safety**
**Know your evacuation routes**
**Know what personal items you will take with you upon evacuation**
**Lab ID (reverse side) Emergency Status Announcement Phone Number (1-800-445-5830)**
**During an Event**
**Listen to Public Address System Announcement**
**Follow Building Emergency Team instructions**

**Tips for the Workplace**

- For more information, contact Rocky Saunders, x7032
# Presentation: 236766

## International Bureau Presentation on 2002 World Telecommunication Development Conference

**International Bureau Presentation on 2002 World Telecommunication Development Conference**
**at April 18 Open Meeting of FCC**

## United States Delegation

- 	**Led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David A. Gross**
- 	**24 government delegates (White House, State, NTIA, NASA, FCC)**
- 	**25 private sector delegates (Access Partnership, American Radio Relay League, Boeing, Cable & Wireless, Cisco Systems, CompassRose Int’l, Coudert Brothers, Intelsat, Iridium, ITXC, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Neustar, PanAmSat, Qualcomm, Teledesic, Telecommunications Industry Assoc., TMG, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, WorldCom)**

## 2002 ITU WTDC

- 	**March 18-27, 2002 in Istanbul, Turkey**
- 	**1,349 delegates from 153 countries**
- 	**56 telecom regulators**

## FCC Goals

**1.****	****Promote implementation of national policies to speed buildout of telecom infrastructure**
**2.****	****Emphasize importance of a well-trained telecom workforce**
**3.****	****Focus on private sector as key to development solutions**

## Major Achievements

**1.****	****Adopted US proposal to study domestic enforcement**
**2.****	****Adopted US proposal to study satellite regulation**
**3.****	****Revised Regulatory Reform Program**

## Training and EducationInitiatives

- 	**New focus on training and education**
- 	**ITU and USTTI plan to sign Memorandum of Understanding**
- 	**10th Annual ITU Women’s Session**

## Role of Private Sectorin Development

- 	**Commissioner Martin emphasized private sector has “the agility and expertise” to create telecom development solutions**
- 	**Conference renewed the mandate of the Working Group on Private Sector Issues and re-appointed U.S. chairperson**

## Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

- 	**Program on LDC’s adopted, many already assisted through the FCC International Visitors Program**
- 	**FCC advocates transparency and accountability in development efforts**

## FCC International Bureau - Bringing the FCC to the World and Bringing the World to the FCC
# Presentation: 391007

## Natural Gas Quality & Interchangeability

- May 17, 2005
- FERC Technical Conference
- FERC Staff Presentation

- This presentation does not necessarily represent the views of the  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or of individual Commissioners.

## The fine print—staff’s standard disclaimer:

- This presentation does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or of individual Commissioners.

## Overview

- Why are we here today?
- The problem
- The status quo
- Solutions?
- NAESB
- NGC+
- FERC’s Next Steps?

## The Problem

**Liquid Hydrocarbons**
- Toca—2000/01 winter
- Economics drive processing
- New & more demanding end use equipment

**Interchangeability**
- Forecast of increased LNG imports
- Potential uncertainty of supply source & quality
- US small slice of world LNG market

## The Problem--Continued

- Historic regional variation in quality
- In a competitive market your gas could come from . . . anywhere
- No nation-wide standards for gas quality

## The Status Quo

- Pipeline specific tariffs:
- Sometimes do not contain specific requirements
- Vary from pipeline to pipeline
- Pipelines may exercise OFOs to deal with unusual problems
- Blending is discretionary and not subject to transparency
- Producers, pipelines, and end users talk different languages

## Shared Goals

- Secure adequate economical supply from diverse sources while ensuring safe and reliable operations throughout the physically-integrated infrastructure
- Flexible, fungible and robust markets responsive to changing demand

## One Last Shared Goal

- The other guy should pay, or put simply
- Everyone (else) pays

## Solutions?  NAESB

- North American Energy Standards Board
- Require pipelines to post links to gas quality tariff provisions or a “reference guide”
- Require pipelines to post “receipt point dewpoint values”
- Pipeline compliance filings required by July 1, 2005, to be effective September 1, 2005

## Solutions?  NGC +

- Consensus papers on CHDP and Interchangeability
- Propose common language, terminology and engineering useful for debate of issues
- ID information gaps and needed R & D
- Propose interim—2 year—solutions pending results of R&D

## Slide 11

## Hydrocarbon Liquid Dropout:  Reached Consensus on Process to Determine Limit

_**Hydrocarbon Liquid Dropout**_**:  Reached Consensus on Process to Determine Limit**
_**Interchangeability**_**:**
**+/-4% of Local Historical  Wobbe Average**
**Subject to 1400 Wobbe Max (not expected to fall below 1200)**
**Limit Butanes+ to 1.5 mole %**
**Limit Total Inerts to 4%**

## FERC’s Next Steps

- Options?
- Adopt nation-wide standards via NOPR
- Adopt policy guidelines for review of pipeline tariffs
- The “no action” alternative

## Today’s Objectives

- Identify:
- How do we best minimize the pain while maximizing supply and market flexibility?
- How do we equitably share the pain?
- How do we get there?
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## Grid IO APIs

- William GroppMathematics and Computer Science Division

## Issues in Grid IO

- Latency
- Bandwidth
- Fault tolerance
- Maintaining transparency to the user
- APIs that capture the user’s intent while preserving well defined semantics *and *performance

## One User Model

- Parallel application expresses IO using higher-level library (HDF) or parallel IO interface (MPI-IO)
- For many apps, files are *not* bytes streams
- Sequences of objects such as solution arrays
- Files are either read or written, not both at the same time
- Caching of data on client or server side can be used

- App

- HDF5

- MPI-IO

- ADIO

- GlobusIO

- UDP

## Grid IO with ROMIO

- Implementation strategy: Add a new “filesystem” type: RIO (remote I/O)
- Use ADIO as generic parallel file interface

## Extending ROMIO

- MPI_File_read_all

- ADIO_ReadStridedColl

- ADIOI_PVFS_ReadStridedColl

- ADIO_PVFS_ReadContig

- ...

- ...

- Relatively easy to define new devices
- Layered definition makes simple ports possible

- ...

## Exploiting Collective Operations

- Write_all

- Write_all

- Write_all

- Write_all

- RIO

- RIOD

- Aggregated data written

- Must preserve collective I/O operation to retain performance

- # of  servers  # processes

## Caching for Noncollective I/O

- Read

- Read

- Read

- Read

- RIO

- RIOD

- Note that caching is nearly impossible if full POSIX semantics retained

- Replicas a related, higher-level approach already supported by grid toolkits like Globus

## Optimizing WAN Data Transfers

- TCP: Stream interface (in-order delivery)
- Implementations use window to optimize for occasional out-of-order delivery
- File ops: Commonly read/write an *object*, not a stream
- Object may be large (MB to TB)
*Exploit *by deferring/aggregating acks and retries on an object basis (one kind of fault tolerance)
- Stripe data paths (GridFTP uses just this)
- Preliminary work is promising (Dickens et al; PDPTA 2001)
- Exploits user-intent at MPI level

## Quality of Service for Data Transfers

- What is the user API?
- One approach: MPI Attributes
- Attributes are a (key,value) pair; value is a pointer
- May be attached to communicators, datatypes, and MPI memory windows
- Used in MPICH-GQ (Globus-enabled version of MPICH with QoS)
- MPI File objects do not have attributes
- But do have “**info**”: (key,value) pairs, key and value both a string
- Allows the use of communicator attributes to implement the underlying communication and info hints on the MPI File as the user API

## Issues for Grid IO APIs

- A Grid I/O API must support
- Collective I/O
- Performance
- Latency
- Object-based transfer completion
- WAN optimizations
- Appropriate atomicity
- Exploit opportunities for extensions in standards
- Use existing mechanisms (APIs) to transfer QoS, intent, other information
- Use Grid infrastructure
- E.g., Globus Access to Secondary Storage (GASS)
# Presentation: 356778

## Quantum Innovation / Public Policy (Burke)

- Innovations produce winners & losers
- Political subsystems favor incremental change
- ag, defense, energy, transit, healthcare, edu, etc.
- “analysis is politics by other means”
- Auto/highway subsystem trumps transit
- Public sector: huge penalty for failure
- Media stifles innovation, accentuates conflict
- Macropolitical system can impose quantum change – earmarks, etc
- ’79+: mature democracy, entrenched interests
- Billionaires & tech foundations: quantum
- Dubai too.

## Social Entrepreneurism

- micro-credit, India street kids, AIDs education
- Problem for Americans: heal thyself for credibility
- Act local (small $), strive for widespread impact
- Fix 1 suburb  world is saved (viral spread, mutation)
- Government is not the solution
- resistant, but good follower
- S. E. characteristics:
- Boring at dinner parties
- Driven, stamina, undeterred
- “Ends" oriented
- Will change/refine tactics
- Listener (behavioral)
- Cross-disciplinary, practical.

- By David Bornstein

## Cities21 Transforming Office Parks grant

- Bootstrapping
- 200 page masters thesis: Palo Alto office park
- Berkeley’s Cervero advised.  300 meetings in Bay Area
- 2-year schmooze for 65 surveys at Roche Bioscience
- Better data  credibility
- Published papers  differentiation from crazy “foamers”
- Very enthusiastic EPA BWC endorsement
- James Paxson
- Pleasanton Hacienda Business Park Owners Association
- EPA BWC & other awards
- Active in professional organizations & committees
- Participates in multiple transp. / smart growth studies
- Extremely high social IQ
- Topic: extreme smart growth (don’t want to miss out).

## Grant, continued

- Paxson quote:
- A unique location for early adoption of PRT
- If EPA-backed study makes a compelling case for a system => strong likelihood of public/private partnership to bring system to reality
- Partners
- Metropolitan Transportation Commission: MPO
- Cambridge Systematics (#1 transp. consultant, contributed to the Palo Alto methodology, HBP corridor study, nice quote)
- PeopleSoft (Oracle) – 225 invasive employee interviews
- Free lunches!  Oracle needs to reassure Pleasanton
- Billionaire Larry Ellison
- Congestion Mgmt Agency
- Local bus transit agency
- East Bay Community Foundation
- CCLR (brownfields recycling)
- $56K in-kind partner contribution
- Partners led to more partners: BART, Bay Area Council.

## Given grant, use EPA clout

- Company town housing & social justice
- Convene policy discussions at EPA SF and DC
- No problem attracting thought-leaders..
# Presentation: 155427

##  Distribution of Causes of Death for All Dialysis Patients by Age, 1994-96

**Cause of Death**

**% of Deaths**

**Rate=95*                    Rate=173*                Rate=341***

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Distribution of Causes of Death for Dialysis  Patients, Ages 45-64, by Sex, 1994-96

**Distribution of Causes of Death for Dialysis  Patients, Ages 45-64, by Sex, 1994-96**

**% of Deaths**

**Rate=175*               Rate=171***

**Cause of Death**

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Distribution of Causes of Death for Dialysis  Patients, Ages 45-64, by Race, 1994-96

**Distribution of Causes of Death for Dialysis  Patients, Ages 45-64, by Race, 1994-96**

**% of Deaths**

**Rate=141*                 Rate=206***

**Cause of Death**

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Distribution of Causes of Death for Nondiabetic Dialysis Patients, Ages 45-64, by Modality, 1994-96

**% of Deaths**

**Rate=135*            Rate=142***

**Cause of Death**

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Distribution of Causes of Death for Diabetic Dialysis Patients, Ages 45-64, by Modality, 1994-96

**Distribution of Causes of Death for Diabetic Dialysis Patients, Ages 45-64, by Modality, 1994-96**

**% of Deaths**

**Rate=202*            Rate=278***

**Cause of Death**

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Distribution of Causes of Death for All Transplant  Patients by Age, 1994-96

**Distribution of Causes of Death for All Transplant  Patients by Age, 1994-96**

**% of Deaths**

**  ****Rate=6*         Rate=16*         Rate=44***

**Cause of Death**

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Distribution of Causes of Death for Transplant Patients, Ages 20-44, by Race, 1994-96

**Rate=16*                    Rate=17***

**Cause of Death**

**% of Deaths**

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Distribution of Causes of Death for Transplant Patients, Ages 20-44, by Diabetic Status, 1994-96

**Distribution of Causes of Death for Transplant Patients, Ages 20-44, by Diabetic Status, 1994-96**

**Rate=33*            Rate=11***

**Cause of Death**

**% of Deaths**

***Total deaths/1000 pt yrs;**
**  ****includes missing cause**

## Rate of Withdrawal from Dialysis 

**by Age, Diabetes, Sex, and Race, 1994-96**

**Deaths / 1000 Dialysis Pt. Yrs.**

**Overall Withdrawal Rate=39**

## Percentage of Deaths* with Prior Withdrawal by Age, Diabetic Status, Sex, and Race, 1994-96

**Withdrawal as a % of Deaths**

**Overall 20% Withdraw**

***HD and PD patients**

## Reasons for Withdrawal from Dialysis 

**by Age, 1994-96**

**% of Withdrawal Deaths**

**Reason**

**  ****Rate=12*     Rate=10*      Rate=23*    Rate=68***

***Overall withdrawal **
**  ****deaths/1000 pt yrs**
# Presentation: 670505

## Data Taking Jan 5 – 11

## Slide 2

## Integrated Luminosity

## Weekly Summary

- Stable data taking with >90% efficiency much of the time
- Downtimes
- A Level 2 upgrade rack tripped 3 times during data taking Sunday / Monday before the problem was identified and repaired (bad sensor)
- Nothing > 1hour, but quite a few downtimes of 20-30min
- SMT HDI's gone bad
- Level 3 DAQ: SBC's requiring reboots – under study
- Silicon Track Trigger commissioning
- NFS server overloaded Tuesday / Wednesday
- Made some debugging/monitoring tasks very slow
- Modified some easily identifiable scripts to reduce load, but long term improvements need to be implemented
- Accesses
- Short controlled access on Friday for CFT and FPD on Friday
- No urgent requests at the moment

## Store 3130 (Jan6-7)

## Weekly Summary cont.

- Losses and vertex position stable and within tolerances
- SMT: number of non-functional HDI's fairly constant at 117 (~12%)
- CFT dead channels constant at 1.5%
- Level 3 tracking has been modified – efficiency unchanged with 20% increase in processing time
- Special runs
- Used end of store studies Wednesday evening to collect data with improved L1 track trigger equations
- Forward proton detector
- 10 pots have been inserted to re-establish operation
- Not yet regularly inserted
- Expect new luminosity constants ~January 19th – will have special presentation then
# Presentation: 881378

## Operations Report 

- Rob Harr
- 19 February 2004
- CDF Weekly Meeting

## This Week’s Stores

| Date | Store | Hrs | Inst Lum (initial) | Deliv
(nb-1) | Lum to tape () | Si Phys Lum () | Comment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2/12 | 3228 | 31 | 47.3e30 | 2295 | 2030 (88%) | 2029 (88%) |  |
| 2/13 | 3231 | 30 | 50.6e30 | 2408 | 2073 (86%) | 1875(78%) | COT HV changed |
| 2/15 | 3237 | 31 | 61.1e30 | 2872 | 2252 (78%) | 1635 (57%) | SVX & RF trip |
| 2/17 | 3240 | 30 | 59.4e30 | 2771 | 2120 (77%) | 653 (?) | N2 added |
| 2/18 | 3245 |  | 66.0e30 |  |  |  | In progress
SVX off, COT all on |
| Total |  |  |  | 10.3pb-1 | 8.5 pb-1 (82%) | 6.2 pb-1 (60%) |  |

- Rob Harr, CDF Weekly Meeting

- 29 January 2004

## COT Actions

- Rob Roser and Matt Herndon will discuss in detail.  I will summarize the actions that have occurred.
- Friday (the thirteenth)
- SL 1 and 2 turned off
- HV on SL 3,4, and 5 lowered by ~5%, reducing gain by ~50%
- XFT:  all of SL2 masked on, SL4 set to 3-miss
- Tuesday (2/17)
- Begin adding about 5% N2 to the COT gas
- Wednesday (2/18)
- Silicon switched off and warmed to 15C
- COT HV back to 100% on all superlayers

- Rob Harr, CDF Weekly Meeting

- 29 January 2004

## Accelerator Performance

- Rob Harr, CDF Weekly Meeting

- 29 January 2004

## Accelerator operation 

- Rob Harr, CDF Weekly Meeting

- 29 January 2004

## Summary/Plan

- Tevatron
- Performance continues to improve.
- Some concerns with behavior of abort gap losses
- CDF
-  Now using 5.1.3 based trigger table
- DSP and UDPS tests performed
- Actions taken to investigate COT aging
- 2.5 day shutdown announced for Feb. 24 is delayed to accommodate removal of COT wire plane.

- Rob Harr, CDF Weekly Meeting

- 29 January 2004
# Presentation: 882836

## Full scale prototype construction: status and plans

- I. Ravinovich for Weizmann group

- I. Ravinovich

## Construction status

- Panel construction: panels #1-8 are completely ready
- Tools for the covers are ready, the construction will be finished next week
- Panels #1-4 are being glued to the PCB on a intermediate jig
- The final assembly jig is in the shops, expected delivery 1-2 weeks
- Then panels #5-8 will be glued in this jig together with the panels #1-4
- Mechanical assembly expected to be complete within ~3 weeks
- Leak tightness test
- Flush with N2 monitoring water and O2

**5**

**1**

**2**

**3**

**4**

**6**

**7**

**8**

- I. Ravinovich

## Panel construction

- I. Ravinovich

## Dry assembly test

- I. Ravinovich

## Mechanical tolerances check

- I. Ravinovich

## Gluing panels #1, 2 and 4

- I. Ravinovich

## Gluing panel #3

- I. Ravinovich

## Final assembly jig

- I. Ravinovich
# Presentation: 531442

## Physically Consistent Winds and Pressures 

-  Combine wind and pressure data to make better fields of both parameters
-  Force physical consistency.

## Concept

- The UW planetary boundary-layer model does an excellent job in physically matching vector winds and pressures.
- Jerome Patoux and Robert A. Brown (2002, *JAM*, **41**, 133-143)
- It works in the tropics and outside the tropics.
- Vector winds are pressures are physically consistent.
- We will modify our objective gridding code to utilize the UW model as a hard constraint.
- That means the output is forced to be consistent with the model
- This constraint will allow us to assimilate vector winds, pressures, and scalar wind speed in a physically consistent manner.
- Reducing the number of soft constraints.
- Greatly increasing the data density of observations that contribute to the solution.
- The UW group have shown that the approach works for determining surface pressure from scatterometer winds.

- The Florida State University

## UW QSCAT Examples

- Graphics acquired from http://pbl.atmos.washington.edu/~airsea/UWPBL40/

- The Florida State University
# Presentation: 055515

## FDA Food Advisory Committee MeetingAugust 27, 2003

- FDA Food Advisory Committee MeetingAugust 27, 2003

**Latex Allergy Presentation **
**By **
**John F. Schulz**
**Director of Quality Assurance**
**Marriott International**

## Marriott International’s Glove Usage

**Marriott Uses Millions of Latex Gloves Worldwide in over 57 different countries**
**We have been using Latex  Gloves for over 13 years within all Marriott brands**
**The are used as a significant deterrent for hand transmitted pathogenic organisms, specifically: staphylococcus aureus and Hepatitis A. **
**We have had a significantly low incident rate for these types of illness and outbreaks over 10 years:**
**Less than 5 documented incidents of Hepatitis A and 2 incidents of Staph transmission to a guest over this 10 year period**

## Our Glove Policy

- Only wear gloves over _clean, adequately washed_ hands.
- When touching ready-to-eat foods with your hands
- Gloves must be _**Examination Quality**_
**Must be clearly labeled on the box**

_**DO NOT**_ wear gloves when:
- Handling raw foods
- Washing equipment
- Not touching ready-to-eat foods

## Our Glove Policy

- Gloves are not a substitute for washed hands
- Use gloves when performing tasks where there is a high risk of transmission
- Where large numbers of people are being served
- Handling of Ready-to-eat foods

**Minimize glove usage by managing a solid hand-washing program.**

## Why “Examination Quality Gloves- Our Assumptions

**We have had minimum concerned raised by our associates with regards to allergenic reactions from their use.**
**Examination Quality Gloves:**
**Have a significantly lower protein content which has been linked to allergenic reactions from their use.**
**Are of a higher degree in thickness, elasticity and resilience. Give the user better tactile ability.**
**Are prone to have less “pin-holes” and breakage during use.**
**Provide for a consistent product specification worldwide**

## FDA Food Advisory Committee MeetingAugust 27, 2003

- FDA Food Advisory Committee MeetingAugust 27, 2003

**Thank You**
# Presentation: 696767

## SAFETEA-LU Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users 

- Office of Program ManagementTribal Transit Outreach Meetings

- April 2006

## SAFETEA-LU

- Reauthorization of Highway and Transit Programs – FY 2005-2009
- Expanded funding for Non-urbanized Area Formula (Section 5311) program
- New Tribal Transit Program within the Non-urbanized Area formula program
- Opportunities under other FTA programs

## Section 5311 – Non-Urbanized Area Formula Program

- Funding increases from $251 million in FY 2005 to $537 million in FY 2009
- Formula apportionment to States  - tribes eligible
- Tribes now eligible direct recipients
- Rural Transit Assistance Program (2%)
- New Tribal Transit Program – takedown from 5311

## Tribal Transit Program

- “shall be apportioned for grants to Indian tribes for any purpose eligible under this section” (Section 5311)
- Capital and operating assistance for rural public transit service
- Acquisition of public transportation services, including service agreements with private providers of public transportation services

## Tribal Transit Program

- Annual set aside from Section 5311
- FY 2006 - $8 Million
- FY 2007 - $10 Million
- FY 2008 - $12 Million
- FY 2009 - $15 Million

## Funding Availability

- 3 years = year apportioned + 2 years
- Law doesn’t specify formula for apportioning funds
- Grants can’t be made until process is established (in consultation with tribes)
- Developing grant program provisions for the life of the program FY 2006 - 2009

## Other FTA Programs of Interest to Tribes

- Non-urbanized (Rural) Formula Program (Section 5311)
- Apportioned to the States for rural transit
- Congressional intent that tribal program not replace or reduce funds tribes receive from States
- States can use (or pass down) 15% of their total allocation for planning, technical assistance, and administration
- Tribes can now apply to FTA directly for grant for funds allocated to tribe by State.

## Other FTA Programs of Interest to Tribes

- Rural Transportation Assistance Program (RTAP)
- Technical assistance, training, research, and support projects for rural transit
- 2% of 5311 appropriation
- 85% allocated to states for TA and training
- 15% for National Activities

## Other FTA Programs of Interest to Tribes

- Bus and Bus Facilities (Section 5309)
- Discretionary Program
- Elderly and Individuals with Disabilities (Section 5310)
- For Private Non-Profit agencies (mostly)
- Capital assistance only
- Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC –Section 5316)
- Transportation services to help low income individuals reach jobs and support services
- Reverse commute – to suburban job locations
- New Freedom (Section 5317)
- Beyond ADA – for Individuals with Disabilities
- New services and public transportation alternatives beyond ADA