BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 366554

##  browneyed Susan Rudbeckia  triloba  L. Other common names; brown Betty, brown daisy, yellow daisy, poor-land daisy, yellow ox-eye daisy, English bull’s eye, coneflower, three-lobed coneflower.

**Medicinally:**
- Flower petals were ground up and made into a soup or tea and used for dropsy, flux and some private diseases, as a diuretic, tonic, a soothing agent, cardiovascular problems, and given to children with worms.
- As a wash, it was used on snakebites, burns, open wounds, and swelling caused by worms.
- Tincture of the root was used for earaches.

- Photo courtesy of:  ©William S. Justice. Courtesy of _[Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Systematic Biology, Botany](http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/index.html#?collections)_. This copyrighted image may be freely used for any non-commercial purpose. For commercial use please contact _[George F. Russell](mailto:russell.rusty@nmnh.si.edu)_.   Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. The following format is suggested and will be appreciated: **William S. Justice** @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database.

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
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## Total Ice Storm Accumulations

**National Weather Service**
**Springfield Missouri**

**December 8****th**** through 10****th**** 2007**

**Snow Palette**

**1” – 2”**

**9” –12”**

**3” – 5”**

**13” –  18”**

**6” – 8”**

**18” – 22”**

**Total Ice Storm Accumulations**

**< 0.25”**

**< 0.25”**

**0.25 to 0.75”**

**0.75 to 1.0”**

**0.75 to 1.0”**

**Locally 1.5”**

**West Plains**

**Branson**

**0.25 to 0.75”**

**0.75 to 1.0”**

**0.25 to 0.75”**

**< 0.25”**

**Areas of Glaze**

**Springfield**

**Rolla**

**Joplin**

**Nevada**
# Presentation: 346370

## MMC Security Issues

**James A. Rome**
**Oak Ridge National Laboratory**
- jar@ornl.gov

## Elements of security

*Confidentiality*: Disclosure of information only to authorized entities
*Integrity*: Prevention of unauthorized changes to data
*Authenticity*: Confidence that a message was sent by a certain party and not an imposter
*Availability*: Guarantee of access to resources

## Security is vital on the Web

- We are putting valuable and complicated facilities online
- The data generated using these facilities may be proprietary
**If security “gets in the way” it will not be used**
**If security is too weak, valuable assets at risk.**

## What sort of threats are there?

- Direct attacks on facilities
- Theft of data (often undetected)
- Subtle changes to data (often undetected)
- Denial of serviceRemove the ability of legitimate users to access the facility
- Flooding the network with traffic
- Impersonating the user
- Changing routers
- . . . .

## MMC Approach to security

*An X.509 certificate binds a user’s public key to his identity and is digitally signed by a (trusted) certificate authority*.
- Strong authentication via client and server X.509 certificates.
- One-time user login to activate user’s private key
- Key can be exported and used for S/MIME encrypted E-mail and other applications
- We hope to use this security context (the user’s keys) to provide strong *authorization*

## Entrust certificates

- Entrust certificates contain two key pairs
- signing key
- escrowed encrypting key
- Entrust will have a plugin for Netscape that replaces Netscape’s certificate protocols with calls to the Entrust certificate server
- The Web’s SSL protocol will be used to encrypt all HTML traffic between the user and server.
- The same security context can be used for “Entrust aware applications”

## Strong authorization

- Authority certificates bind a user’s public key to an authority to do something and are digitally signed by the owner of the resource. (LBNL)
- Collections of these certificates can be used (in programs) to describe very complicated policies.
- To use an online microscope, certificates might be:
- training certification
- payment proof
- reservation
- . . .

## MMC application

- Secure a Web-based prototype
- Client and server certificates — authentication
- SSL encryption
- Host data protection via directory access
- Use the Entrust security context to
- Encrypt communication channels
- Create secure control applications
- Create certificate issuing programs
- Create a security services engine

## Architecture requirements

- Applications need to know who the user is at all times
- must keep track of the public key
- User must be able to access his private key to sign things
- Control applications need to call security services before each new control is enabled
- Data must be encrypted in transmission, and maybe in storage
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## D0 Disk Array Replacement on d0ora2

- May 20, 2005

## What we Need

- Redundant Hardware
- Path Failover
- Load Balancing
- Growth to 10TB
- The Right Number of Spindles
- Good Support
- Good Price
- Ease of Maintenance

## What We Have - FC4500

- Dual 1Gb Paths w/Failover and Dynamic Load Balancing
- 2GB Processor Cache
- Size - 2.8TB now, with growth to 18.1TB
- 80 Drives (50 of them 73gb) making up 16 file systems
- Managing Software Shared w/CDF
- 1 Host Connection per SP
- EOL 12/2002, EOSL 9/2008

## Some Options

- Do Nothing
- StorageTek D240 new
- Sun StorEdge 3510 new
- EMC Clariion CX400 used
- EMC Clariion CX500 new

## Do Nothing

- Pros
- No Cost
- Array was 70% replaced in 01/04
- Continuing Hardware Support with 3rd party
- EOSL 9/2008
- Some growth available

- Cons
- Same Hardware
- Support Concerns

## StorageTek D240

- Pros
- New Hardware
- Sun to Acquire Company
- 4 – 2Gb Paths per SP
- 3.65TB - with 50 73GB Drives
- 112 Drive Capacity – 16.3TB Max
- Global Hot Spares

- Cons
- Price - $100k
- 1GB SP Cache
- Separate Management Software and software support contract

## Sun StorEdge 3510

- Pros
- 4 – 2Gb Paths per SP
- Sun Support – same as System
- 5.25TB – with 36 146GB Drives
- Hardware & Software Maintenance Covers both System & Array

- Cons
- Price - $48k New
- 1GB SP Cache
- No Global Hot Spares – 1 needed per 12 drives

## EMC Clariion CX400

- Pros
- 4 - 2Gb path per SP
- 4.5TB – with 15 73GB & 30 146GB Drives
- Supports 320GB ATA Drives
- 75 drive Capacity
- 4 or 8GB SP Cache
- Same Support Software  & Software Contract

- Cons
- Price - $92k Refurbished

## EMC Clariion CX500

- Pros
- 4 - 2Gb path per SP
- 4.5TB – with 15 73GB & 30 146GB Drives
- Supports 320GB ATA Drives
- 120 Drive Capacity
- 4 or 8GB SP Cache
- Same Support Software & Software Contract

- Cons
- Price - $137k new
# Presentation: 872587

## CDMP PROPOSAL

**CDMP PROPOSAL**

**NOAA Ocean Service**

**High and Low Water Observations**

*Stephen Lyles*
*Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)*
*	**	**	**	**	**	**      **November, 2006*

## NEW TASK FOR FY2007

- Image and Key High and Low Water Observations

## SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE DATABASE

- Develop storm surge reports and analyses.
- Develop frequency and duration analyses.
- Support long-term trends and climate analysis studies.
- Provide researchers with access to a reliable web based system.

**A Critical Need for Water Level and Datum Information**

** ****Subsidence**
** ****Sea Level Change**
** ****Shoreline **
** ****Infrastructure at Risk**
** ****Restoration**
** ****Marine Boundaries**
** ****Evacuation Decision-Making**

** ****Navigation**
** ****Hydrography**
** ****Nautical Charting**
** ****ESI Maps **
** ****Shoreline Delineation**
** ****Storm Surge**
** ****Emergency Preparedness**

## NATIONAL WATER LEVEL PROGRAM

**176 long-term, continuously operating water level stations:  US, island possessions & territories**

**Barren Island, MD ****Subordinate Tide Station**

**Notes:**
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Ocean Service (NOS) operates and maintains the National Water Level Program.
Its backbone is the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON), which consists of 175 long-term, continuously operating water level stations throughout the United States and its island possessions and territories.  

## SCOPE OF TASK

- 176 Long term water level stations
- Time series dating from 1900 – 1985
- Approximately 62,000 pages for scanning and keying
- Documents are hand-written and computer generated copies

## Data Format

- File name – 9414290.HL
- Data String:
- 		Station ID
- 		Date/Time
- 		Water Level Value
- Sample output:
-      9414290	  01012005 0406	 10.25

## Discrepancy Report

- File Name (Match NOS Name)
- Data Line:
-    	01011950 (Descriptive Text)
- 		indicating time or water level values do 	not match

- Time of high water – 0406  vs   0906

## NOS Responsibilities

- Resolve discrepancies from contractor issued report
- Provide verification of keyed data
- Load into CO-OPS Database for internet access

## PROJECTED COST

- 1 COTR (80 hrs. @ $44.52)		$3,562
- 1 Preparer (200 hrs. @ $19.25)	3,850
- 2 Reviewers (500 hrs. @ $19.25)	9,625
- Imaging (62,400 pages @ $0.1411)	8,805
- Indexing (2 fields/image @ $0.05)	6,240
- Copies on CD		      6,402

**TOTAL****	****$601,882**

## THE END
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## NOAA ACQUISITION PROCESS				                See Notes 1, 2, 3

***AWARD***

**NOAA ACQUISITION PROCESS****	****	****	****	****                ****See Notes 1, 2, 3**

**END OF****AWARD**
**PHASE**

**END**

***POST-AWARD***

**NOAA AGO (See Note)**

**Decision Node**

*NOTE:  These colors represent the dominant lead for each task.*

**Protest**

**Postaward**
**Conferences**

**COR **
**Responsibilities**
**Contractor**
**Performance**
**Evaluation**
**NIH CPS**

**Monitoring****Contractor****Performance**

**Orders Against**
**MACs**
**Fair Opportunity**

**Postaward****Protests**

**Stop Work**
**Orders**

**Change**
**Order**

**Termination**

**Stop Work**
**Order**

**Change **
**Orders**

**Claims and****REAs**

**Ratification of**
**Unauthorized**
**Commitments**

**Final Contract**
**Performance**
**Report**

**Contract**
**Completion,**
**Closeout and**
**File Retention**

- NO

- YES

- NO

- YES

- NO

- YES

**BEGIN / END**

**Program Office (See Note)**

**Supporting Information**

**LEGEND**

**NOTES:**
**Note 1:  ****This flowchart provides a snapshot of the Post-award Phase in the NOAA Acquisition Process. This is only a guide in defining when in the process **
**these tasks normally occur – the exact location in the contracting cycle for each item is somewhat flexible depending on program/contracting action **
**dynamics.  A detailed analysis of each event in the Post-award Phase can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate event. **
**Note 2:  ****The** **Official Contracting Process is defined in the FAR, DOC Commerce Acquisition Manual, and the NOAA Acquisition Handbook.**
**Note 3:  ****Please refer to the governing directives for official guidance.**

**T4C**

**T4D**

**Termination of**
**Commercial **
**Contract**

- YES

**Issue Delivery /**
**Task Orders**

**Issue **
**Modifications**

**Exercise**
**Options**

- NO
# Presentation: 783296

## Thriving Through Partnership 

**October 3 & 4, 2005**
**Chicago Marriott O’Hare Hotel **

## Customer Perspective

**Equipment Consolidation **
- Current process implemented in 2003
- Workgroup convened in 2004 to review and refine methodology
- Members included NAC and VISN personnel
- Industry comments solicited

## Findings

**Benefits of Consolidation:**
- Greater discounts than previous single-unit ordering practices
- Allowed for clinician-driven best-value selection
- All vendors given fair opportunity to compete

## Findings

**Opportunities for Improvement**
- 4-6 month procurement lead time too long
- Customers want extended installation included
- Jun 1 deadline conflicts with customer fiscal policy of releasing equipment funds in 4th quarter
- Savings received too late to spend in same FY
- Increased configuration errors
- Order administration unreasonably delayed
- Unhappy and frustrated customers, vendors, and NAC personnel

## Proposed Solution	

**Revised directive submitted for review:**
- NAC negotiates tiered discount structures
- Benchmarking replaced w/VISN competitive RFQs
- VISNs provide proof of competition and best-value selection justification to NAC
- NAC aggregates VISN selections to maximize applicable discounts; places orders within 90 days
- Savings notification to VISNs by NLT August 31

## Last Slide

**Q&A**
**VISN 9 Network Contract Manager**
- (615) 867-6091
- Patricia.McKay@med.va.gov
**Copy of Presentation will be made available after 5 p.m. on October 4**** ****at**** **_**[www.va.gov/vastorenac](http://www.va.gov/vastorenac)**_
**	****	****	****	****	****	*****Thank You***
# Presentation: 340030

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island

- Summary prepared by: Marie Stoeckel., MPH
- 	Chief, Occupational and Radiological Health
-                                       RI Department of Health
-                                       Phone: (401) 222-7755
-                                       Email: _[maries](mailto:maries@doh.state.ri.us)__[@](mailto:maries@doh.state.ri.us)__[doh](mailto:maries@doh.state.ri.us)__[.state.](mailto:maries@doh.state.ri.us)__[ri](mailto:maries@doh.state.ri.us)__[.us](mailto:maries@doh.state.ri.us)_

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island

**Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island**

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island

## Latex Glove Legislation & Regulations in Rhode Island
# Presentation: 710843

## construction sign for RURAL DEVELOPMENT projects

- SIGN DIMENSIONS:  4’ x 8’ x 3/4”
-                PLYWOOD PANEL (APA RATED A-B GRADE - EXTERIOR)
-                Other funding agencies can be added to or removed from the sign.

**Project Title**

**Sponsor / Developer**

- Contractor

- This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

**Financed by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development**

- WHITE  BACKGROUND

- BLACK
- LETTERING

- BLACK  LETTERING

**Wyoming Water Development Commission**

**Official(s) or Sponsor Address**

- Architect or Engineer

-       (second line)

-       (second line)

- PMS 343
- DARK GREEN
- LETTERING

- Rolling fields
- PMS 343 (green)

- Townscape
- And letter
- Forms, PMS
- 288 (blue)

- OMIT IF NOT INVOLVED IN PROJECT

- PMS 343
- DARK GREEN
- LETTERING

- George W. Bush, President of the United States
- Ed Schafer, Secretary of Agriculture
# Presentation: 531321

## 2007 User Interaction

- NCAR Perspective

- Eric Nelson - NCAR

## 2007 ANC WFO Input

- 237 Human Boundary Entries
- 21 Initiation Likelihood Field Nudges
- 7 Polygon Nudges
- 2 Web Surveys

**Notes:**
2006: 313 bdrys,29 nudges, 63 polygons.

## 2007 WFO Forecaster Activity

- 57 regime changes
- 7 WFO user comments
- 1 NWS product
- 1 ANC quality report
- 7 forecaster id’s logged using the system

## Slide 4

## CWSU Activity

- 41 Comments in Routine Discussions
- 1 Web Survey

- BNDRIES AS DRAWN LOOK GOOD
- NEED TO ADD WSHIFT/WK CDFNT FM LO OVR SW OK-SJT AREA
- DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO TO IPV BUT HAS BEEN LO HUMAN INIT ON THIS EVENT. MAYBE SEABREEZE/OUTFLOW OVER S CNTRL TX MIGHT HELP ON TRACKING NEXT EVENT.
- NEEDS BNDRIES. CDFNT AND OUTFLOW BNDRY(S). SVRL OUT THERE.

## Thoughts on the NCAR side...

- Data problems through the summer
- Lack of presence at WFO in the spring may have contributed to less enthusiasm for ’07 demonstration.

## Slide 7
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##          PROJECT OVERVIEW: 

**Quaternary loess, Birch Hill, **
**Fairbanks, Alaska**

**         ****PROJECT OVERVIEW:**** **
**“****Eolian History of North America”**

**Task:**** What is the paleoclimatic significance of loess?**

## WHAT IS LOESS?

**Dominantly silt-sized, sorted sediment**
**Composed of quartz, feldspars, micas,**
**    ****clay minerals and usually carbonates **
**Thick enough to be recognized as a**
**    ****distinct deposit in the field**
**Deposited by the wind**

## WHY SHOULD WE STUDY LOESS?

**Test models of dust sources**
**Test AGCM simulations of **
**    ****atmospheric circulation**
**Provide evidence of effect of dust on**
**    ****radiative transfer processes **

## Slide 4

## FROM: Mahowald et al. (1999), JGR;

- Dust source

- Loess

**Not all dust sources in the last glacial period are correctly modeled: **
**         ****note that central North America was an important source**

**FROM: Mahowald et al. (1999), JGR;**
**Kohfeld & Harrison (2000), QSR;**
**Muhs & Bettis (2003), GSA Spec. Paper **

***           ***

## But thick loess,

**But thick loess,**
**much of it of **
**non-glacial **
**origin, is found**
**in central North**
**America**

**~15 m**

**~14,000 yr**

**~21,000 yr**

**Climate models**
**suggest little**
**dust generation**
**in central North**
**America at the**
**LGM**

**  ****Eustis, **
**Nebraska**

## Loess particle size

**data yield paleowind**
**directions**

**Loess data from**
**western Iowa show**
**that last-glacial **
**winds were from **
**the west**

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Very high

**Very high**
**dust flux with**
**radiative**
**backscatter**
**may explain**
**why cool-**
**climates**
**persisted**
**beyond**
**the insolation**
**maximum**
**after the last**
**glacial maximum**

## Recent project publications on this topic:

## For more information, please contact:

**Daniel R. Muhs, Project Chief**
**U.S. Geological Survey**
**MS 980, Box 25046, Federal Center**
**Denver, Colorado 80225 USA**
**Ph. 303-236-7919**
**Email: dmuhs@usgs.gov**
# Presentation: 724489

## Timothy Hays, Ph.D.

- Project Director, RCDC
- Chief, Portfolio Analysis and Scientific Opportunities Branch
- Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives

## Current NIH Reporting

- Every year, NIH reports to Congress and the public on how much it spends on research and disease areas.
- This information allows Congress and the public to better understand NIH research spending and priorities.

## Need for Change

**1998**
- 1st National Academy of Sciences Report

- 2nd National Academy of Sciences Report
**2003**

**2004**
- Establishment of RCDC

- NIH 2006 Reauthorization Act
**2006**

## What Is RCDC?

- Electronic system reports NIH spending to Congress and the public
- Across 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs)
- Each fiscal year
- In approximately 360 research and disease areas
- Benefits of the system include
- Consistency
- Transparency
- Efficiency
- Opportunities for further portfolio analysis

## How Does RCDC Work?

- Project Fingerprints

- Category
- Fingerprints

**Matching**

**Match is scientifically defensible.**

## What Is Next?

- Summer 2008
- NIH introduces RCDC to the public
- February 2009
- RCDC launches with FY 2008 projects

## For More Information

- Timothy Hays, Ph.D., RCDC Project Director
- _[thays@od.nih.gov](mailto:thays@od.nih.gov)_; 301-435-3060
**	****	****	****	**
- Deb Kassilke, RCDC Project Manager
- _[kassilked@mail.nih.gov](mailto:kassilked@mail.nih.gov)_; 301-435-3060
# Presentation: 062439

## M&V Planning Flowchart

**1.** List ECM and project objectives and constraints

**2. **Evaluate Project and ECM level Objectives & Constraints to identify candidate M&V options.

**3.** Evaluate savingsrisk for the M&V option.

**4.** Estimatecost for the M&V option. Is M&V costacceptable?

- A

- B

- C

- D

- M&V approach too risky.

- M&V cost not acceptable.

- Evaluate new M&V option.

**5.** Write M&V Plan.

- Cost acceptable

- Select an M&V Option

- Risk acceptable

**M&V ****— 3**

**M&V Considerations Matrix  Page 1 of 1**
# Presentation: 862913

## Advanced Forecasting and Modeling Techniques

- Forecasts for Sri Lanka
- South Asian Regional Initiative for Energy
- Pokhara, Nepal
- January 2004
- Amali, Bhanu, Nipuni, Yasarathna

## Country Background

- Energy Sources
- Energy Sector Institutions
- 		CEB, CPC, ECF, ESC, PUC
- Present Situation
- 		GDP growth rate = 4 %
- 		Population = 19 million
- 		Elect	= 5708 GWh
- 		Crude = 2280 KMT
- 		Ref. Products = 1480 KMT
- 		Fuel wood	= 11078 KMT
- 		Total Energy Use =7247  kTOE

## Data Used 

## Data Sources

- 	CEB
- 	CPC
- 	Central Bank of Sri Lanka
- 	ESC

## Used Variables, 

- Electricity
- 		GDP, Pop,EPr
- Diesel
- 		GDP,Pop,DPr,VPop
- Fuel wood
- 		GDP,Pop,KPr,GPr

## Selected Models

- Electricity

## Slide 7

## Slected Models

- Diesel

## Slide 9

## Selected Models

- Fuel wood

## Slide 11

## Future Estimates of Data Used

## Forecast for Electricity

## Forecast for Diesel Consumption

## Forecast for Fuel wood

## Suggestions for Future Workshops

- Computer Facilities
- Course Materials
- Data Requirement

## Thank You
# Presentation: 780389

## DFEB Registration/Payment Information Sheet

**Charge Calculations**

- Cost of Event (per person):
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** ****2009 MLK Diversity Training Seminar**

- ACTUAL PAYMENT_** MUST**_ ACCOMPANY REGISTRATION(S).
- Xeroxed copies of checks and registration form will be accepted as proof  that payment has been mailed,
- but checks MUST be postmarked no later than **December 29, 2008.**

**All registrations are on a first-come, first-serve basis**, based on the time it is stamped by the fax machine.

**Payment Information**

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**Cancellation Policy**

- _Cancellations must be submitted in writing_ either by email or fax by January 14, 2009.
- There will be _**no**_ refunds for cancellations received after January 14, 2009, or for no shows.  Substitutions are welcome.

**Fax or mail registration/**
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- MLK Registrations
- USDA/FNS
- 1244 Speer Blvd, Suite 903
- Denver, CO 80204
- Phone: 303-844-0379   **FAX: 303-844-2065**
- Email:  irene.wise@fns.usda.gov

**99.00**
# Presentation: 781829

## The Opportunity Gap

- A Reexamination of Evidence on Pell Grants
- Edward P. St. John, Professor
- Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
- Indiana University
-  Presented to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance
- Brownsville, Texas, March 7, 2002

## Did changes in purchasing power of Pell influence the opportunity gap?

- Changes in the purchasing power of Pell
- Trends in participation rates for high school graduates
- A comparison of college participation by the 1980/82 and 1992 cohorts
- Evidence from research in the economics of education

## The purchasing power of Pell declined after 1975

- * The cost provisions in the Pell Grant program constrained the maximum Pell award at public colleges and universities.
- Source: Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.

## A new gap in opportunity opened after 1975

## The new opportunity gap is also evident from the longitudinal studies

## Evidence from research on the economics of education

- Low-income students are more responsive to tuition charges and the amount of grant awarded than the majority of students.
- Well-designed studies show that reductions in need-based grants are associated with increased inequity in the opportunity to attain a higher education.
- The reexamination of NCES reports reveals that they consistently overlooked the role of family income, concern about college costs, and financial aid in their analyses.

## Did changes in purchasing power of Pell influence the opportunity gap?

- The implementation of Pell resulted in brief period equal opportunity to enroll for high school graduates across income groups.
- The decline in grants for low-income students after 1978 created a “new” opportunity gap.
- The modest increases in Pell after 1992 were sufficient to mitigate further increases in the opportunity gap, but did not solve the inequalities that emerged after 1978.

## http://www.indiana.edu/~iepc/

- Related papers are available on the Indiana Education Policy Center web site under:
- On-Line Publications: Higher Education Finance.
- Indiana Education Policy Center
- 2805 East 10th Street
- Bloomington, IN  47408-2698
- 812-855-1240
# Presentation: 784911

## PROACTIVE USE OF VDR DATA

- Capt. Minas Myrtidis

## SOLAS Regulation 20

- Ships, when engaged on international voyages,
- shall be fitted with a voyage data recorder
- (VDR) as follows:

## SOLAS Regulation 20

- Passenger ships constructed on or after 1 July 2002;
- Passenger ships, other than ro–ro passenger ships, constructed before 1 July 2002, not later than 1 January 2004;

## Company Profile

- Norwegian Cruise Line and Orient Lines operate
- a combined fleet of 11 vessels. New vessels will
- be added with the completion of the project
- America, currently under construction and
- the acquisitions of the **SS “United States**” &
**SS “Independence.”**

## Company Compliance

- Our newer vessels, have Voyage Data Recorders installed.
- We are in the process of fitting existing vessels with VDR.
- Our new buildings will be compliant with the new SOLAS carriage requirements.

## VDR DATA

## PROACTIVE USE OF DATA

- 	Analysis of specific events
- 	Debriefing of maneuvers with Bridge 	Team by 	playing back data through 	ECDIS / ARPA (if equipment has this 	feature)
- 	Comparison of maneuvering strategies 	between 	different Captains/Staff 	Captains 	to develop "best practices“

## PROACTIVE USE OF DATA

- 	Playback of data at a ship simulation 	facility 	for training purposes (case 	studies)
- 	Experience Transfer

## VDR DATA

## BENEFITS

- 	Graphic & accurate representation of the 	event.
- 	Monitoring compliance with International 	and National rules and regulations.
-  	Monitoring compliance with the Company’s 	SEMS system, specifically the Navigation 	Standards Manual.

## BENEFITS

- 	Improvement of docking or undocking 	operations
- 	Increase Safety
- 	Efficiency of operations
- 	Procedure Verification
- 	Incident accident investigation
- 	Lessons learned

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## Energy Conversion Technology

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

**Creare, Inc.**

- Hanover, NH

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Demonstrated capillary pumping and improved evaporator performance with micromachined structures
-  New technology increased potential conversion efficiency for AMTEC cells by 30 to 40 percent
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Supplying components to Advanced Radioisotope Power Source Program (ARPS) that is developing a power source for future deep space missions
-  Commercial applications include remote site power generation, back up power sources for households, and commercial communication satellites

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Efficiency gains have led to AMTEC selection by NASA/DOE for small satellite power conversion
-  AMTEC power conversion has been selected for the Solar Probe mission and is under development in the Advanced Radioisotope Power Source (ARPS) program

***AMTEC Cells Provide Significant Increases In ***
***Thermal to Electric Energy Conversion Efficiency ***

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- 1992 & 1994 Phase II;
- NAS7-1297 & NAS7-1402
- Success Story # 7-021

**INNOVATION**
- Micromachined condenser wicks and evaporators for AMTEC
-  energy conversion cells
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## TRACS Industry MeetingTenant Assessment Subsystem (TASS)System Capabilities and Enhancements

- June  2004

## Agenda

-  **Overview of System Capabilities**
** ****TASS Announcements / News**
** **
** ****Recent Enhancements**
** ****Proposed Enhancements /News**

## TASS: Overview of Capabilities

** ****Web-based income verification application which is accessed via**
**    ****HUD secure server**
** ****Matches tenant information to Social Security benefit information **
**   ****(SS/SSI) **
** ****Provides three reports for users**
** ****Benefit History Report**
** ****Income Discrepancy Report**
** ****Error Report**
** ****Reports are created 4 months prior to re-certification month**
** ****Benefit Reports can be accessed by Head of Household SSN, **
**    ****by Contract # or by Project #**

## TASS Announcements / News

** ****Annual SSA Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) **
** ****Update TASS reports to reflect COLA increase **
** ****Jan 2004 were updated    12/09/2003 **
** ****Feb 2004 will be updated 12/15/2003 **
** ****Mar 2004 were updated    12/03/2003 **
** ****Create future reports with COLA increase **
**- Beginning with April 2004 **
** ****Printing TASS Reports**
** ****HTML Scissors is not required if using IE 5.5 or above**

## TASS: Recent Enhancements

** ****Enhanced search capability**
** ****provides information for ALL  members in the household; **
**  ****not just members receiving benefits **
** ****Error Report **
** ****provides information on tenants whose identity could**
**          ****not be verified by SSA  **
** ****Enhanced Printing - Benefit Reports in Portable Document Format (PDF)**
** ****ease of printing**
** ****industry standard**
** ****faster downloads**

## TASS: Recent Enhancements cont’d.

** ****Dual Entitlement**
** ****displays tenant records with multiple entitlement**
**  ****ie., multiple Claim Account Numbers (CAN)**
** ****Benefit History Report**
**  ****added Medicare Buy-in Codes**
** ****Income Discrepancy Report**
** ****added Start and End Dates for SS/SSI Benefits**
** ****Enhanced Web Resources**
** ****On-line screen-based help available at the click of a button**
** ****Updated TASS User Guide**
** ****Adobe Acrobat download link**

## TASS: Proposed Enhancements And News

** ****Identification of other sources of income which impact rent **
**    ****calculation, e.g. child support (SSA Working on This)**
** ****Capability to download Error Reports (November 2004)**
** ****Use of New Hires Earned Income and Unemployment Data**
**     ****(Office of Policy Development and Research Subsidy Study)**
** ****Office of Child Support Enforcement (HHS)**
** ****Request Authorizations and Income Verifications                                       (199 letters to Owner/Agents)**

## TASS Contacts

** ****TASS Program Manager: Elking Tarver (202) 708- 4932 x 3235**
** ****TASS IT Project Manager: Yangja Lee (202) 708- 4932 x 3081**
** ****TASS Security Administrator: Myra Newbill (202) 708- 4932 x 3211**
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## National Needs for Coastal Mapping and Charting

- National Research Council
- Ocean Studies Board
- Board on Earth Science and Resources

## Statement of Task

- This study will identify and suggest mechanisms for addressing national needs for spatial information in the coastal zone.  By examining the major spatial information requirements of federal agencies, as well as the principal user groups they support (e.g., state and local coastal managers, urban planners, resource managers, maritime industry), the committee will identify high priority needs, evaluate the potential for meeting these needs based on the current level of effort, and suggest steps to increase collaboration and ensure that the nation’s need for spatial information in the coastal zone is met in an efficient and timely manner.

## Statement of Task (continued)

- In particular, the committee will identify:
- 1) primary data sets and their attributes, such as scale and resolution, as well as value added products, that are needed to support decision making in the coastal and ocean environment,
- 2) gaps or overlaps among the federal and state programs currently in place to collect this information, as well as barriers to effective coordination, and
- 3) techniques and technologies currently or soon to be available that could expand the capability to acquire, archive, and disseminate information to the user community.

## Committee Members

**Kenneth Barbor**, International Hydrographic Organization
**Paul Boudreau**, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
**Thomas Chance**, C&C Technologies
**Susan Snow-Cotter**, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
**Charles Fletcher**, University of Hawaii
**Holly Greening**, Tampa Bay Estuary Program
**Ronxing Li**, Ohio State University
**Curt Mason**, NOAA (retired)
**Kathy Metcalf**, Chamber of Shipping of America
**Dawn Wright**, Oregon State University**	**

**Committee Members**

## Study Process

- Committee formation *(completed)*
- Committee meetings
- Three information-gathering meetings *(will be completed in August, 2002)*
- Two report-writing meetings
- October 2002
- January 2003
- Interim Findings *(by October 2003)*
- Report Editing
- Peer review
- Prepublication *(by August 2003)*
- Final Publication from NAP *(by October 2003) *

## Information Input

- American Association of State Geologists
- Coastal States Organization
- CARIS
- ESRI
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Federal Geographic Data Committee
- Minerals Management Service
- NASA
- National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration*
- Office of Management and Budget
- National Park Service *(August 2002)*
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Coast Guard *(August 2002)*
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency*
- U.S. Geological Survey*
- U.S. Navy

## Deliverables

- The NRC will transmit initial findings in October 2002.
- A final report will be submitted in August 2003.
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## Improving EIA’s Website:  Creating a Vision for the Future

- ASA Spring Meetings  April 2004

**Colleen** **Blessing** colleen.blessing@eia.doe.gov
**Melinda** **Hobbs**    melinda.hobbs@eia.doe.gov

## Creating the Vision- Data Gathering

- New Project to take an objective look at the site(www.eia.doe.gov)
- User interviews with:
- Individual staff members
- EIA groups
- External customers
- Questions:
- What works?
- What doesn’t work?
- How to improve the site?

## Creating the Vision – The Options Paper

- Compare major issues from internal and external users
- User interface, navigation
- How the site is managed
- Possible new directions (databases,  content management systems)
- Prioritize the issues – what are the most important items?
- Create options - develop action steps for what’s next

## Recent Improvements

- Standards – logo, breadcrumbs, dates of the data
- Conduct a second site audit
- Solicit feedback from staff
- Transition from paper reports to web reports
- More writing for the web
- Improved user interface

## Before – AEO (publication layout)

**Before **– AEO (publication layout)

## After – AEO

**After **– AEO

- _[http://](http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html)__[www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html](http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html)_

## Before – CABS (subsite layout)

**Before **– CABS (subsite layout)

## After – CABS

**After **– CABS

- _[http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html](http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html)_

## New - layout for all NG data

**New - **layout for all** **NG data

- http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/ng/ng_enp_sum_nus_m_d.htm

## Before – Renewable (information)

**Before **– Renewable (information)

## After – Renewable

**After **– Renewable

- http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar_renewables/page/heatpumps/heatpumps.html

## Comments From the Committee

- From your experience on EIA’s site, What’s working?  What’s not working?
- Suggested improvements?
- Are footnotes, appendices, explanations, etc.  located where you expect them to be?
- Examples of websites that you think work well – best practices
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## IV.  Epidemiología

## Distribución mundial del dengue 2000

**Areas infestadas con *****Aedes aegypti***

**Areas con *****Aedes aegypti***** y epidemias recientes de dengue **

## Casos notificados de dengueen las Américas, 1980 - 1999

- Casos notificados de dengueen las Américas, 1980 - 1999

- * Datos provisionales hasta 1999

## Promedio anual de casos de dengue hemorrágicoTailandia, Indonesia y Vietnam, por década

- * Datos provisionales hasta 1998, inclusive

## Casos notificados de dengue hemorrágico en las Américas, 1970 - 1999

- * Datos provisionales hasta 1999, inclusive

## Distribución de DEN-3 en las Américas,1994 - 2000

**1994**

**1995**

**1998**

**1997**

**1999**

**2000**

- Distribución de DEN-3 en las Américas,1994 - 2000

- FUENTE:  Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2000

## Dengue reciente en los EE.UU. (Texas)

- Ocurrieron epidemias de dengue en los EE.UU. en el siglo XIX y en la primera mitad del siglo XX
- Reciente transmisión autóctona
- 1980: 23, primeros casos adquiridos localmente      	        desde 1945
- 1986: 9 casos
- 1995: 7 casos
- 1997: 3 casos
- 1998: 1 caso
- 1999: 18 casos
- La falta de amplia transmisión reciente probablemente se debe a cambios en el estilo de vida

## Razones para la expansión del dengue en las Américas

- Extensiva infestación, con una disminución del control del vector
- Sistemas de abastecimiento de agua poco confiables
- Aumento de recipientes no biodegradables y métodos deficientes de desecho de los residuos sólidos
- Aumento de los viajes aéreos
- Aumento de la densidad de población en       áreas urbanas

## Problemas para el futuro

- 2,5 mil millones de personas a riesgo en todo el mundo
- En las Américas ha habido un aumento de 50 veces en casos notificados de DH (1989-1993 en comparación con 1984-1988)*
- Abundancia de *Aedes aegypti* en las zonas a riesgo

- * Organización de Estados Americanos,  _Salud humana en las Américas_, 1996
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## Steven Goldfarb, University of Michigan
ATLAS Software Workshop
CERN – 4 March 2003

**Steven Goldfarb, *****University of Michigan***
***ATLAS Software Workshop***
***CERN – 4 March 2003***

_*ATLAS Muon Database*_:Conditions Data Prototype for Test Beam

## Muon Test Beam Conditions Data

- Current Status
*Alignment*
- Integrated in Test Beam AMDB files
- Reconstruction-specific software to apply position changes
*Calibration values*
- Formatted Ascii data files
- Reconstruction-specific software
- Proposed Prototype
*Test of POOL / Conditions DB / Athena IOV Service*
- Test for H8 data
*D. Adams, J. Rothberg, S. Rosati, S. Goldfarb*
- Motivation
*Solution for H8 needs*
*Potential long-term solution for conditions data*

- Conditions Data Prototype - S. Goldfarb

- CERN - 4 March 2003

## Muon Test Beam Conditions Data

- Proposed Prototype (cont.)
*Scenario*
- Online “producer” generates c-struct of conditions data, timestamp
- C-struct is sent to a “receiver” program via DIM
- C-struct is converted to a C++ object
- C++ object is written to Pool
*Pool address returned to receiver*
- Pool address, Tinit , Tfinal  for object written to IOV Database
*Registered with Athena*
- Athena IOV Service retrieves object on request by reconstruction
*IOV Sevice handles Event <--> Time, cache management*
*Admitted*
- Simplistic IOV handling at first
*Just a prototype, probably sufficient for test beam*

- Conditions Data Prototype - S. Goldfarb

- CERN - 4 March 2003

## Muon Test Beam Conditions Data

- Flow of the Conditions Data

**Online**
**Receiver**

**Online**
**Producer**

**POOL**
**Database**

**IOV**
**Database**

**IOV**
**Service**

**Conditions**
**Data Store**

**C-struct**

**C++ obj**

**Pool addr, IOV**

**Pool addr**

**time or event**

**C++ obj**

**C++ obj**

- Conditions Data Prototype - S. Goldfarb

- CERN - 4 March 2003

## Muon Test Beam Conditions Data

- Next Steps
*Jump into the POOL*
- Just awaiting instructions and perhaps the proper swim suit
*Construct IOV*
- Current object’s timestamp for t0
- Next object’s timestamp for tf
*Register Address, IOV with IOV service*
- Is the IOV service ready for this?
*We are coming with Address to Pool, IOV*
*How do we express the data type?  “MdtTimeSpectra”*
- Is Athena ready for this?
*Can I just say “Give me MdtTimeSpectra for this event”?*

- Conditions Data Prototype - S. Goldfarb

- CERN - 4 March 2003
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##        A Road Forward

*Stephen N. Foley, Program Manager*
*AHIMT, Technical Assistance Program*
*United States Fire Administration*
*April 2008*

## Program Overview

- National Response-Common Threads
- ICS-300 and ICS-400 Course Update
- AHIMT- Technical Assistance Program
- National Exercise Planning

## NIMS / NRF Integration

- Update/revise USFA/NFA courses as necessary
- DVD on post NIMS/NRF revisions
- ESF Web Based Awareness Training-in process
- Updates- IS 800.b on line

## ICS-300 and ICS-400

- Based on learning objectives developed by NWCG, NFP, and EMI:
- Use “all-hazards” strategies.
- Designed for operational first responders.
- EMI/USFA courses being integrated w/exercise packages.-May 2008

## Technical Assistance Program

- AHIMT -6-day AHIMT course
- Multi-Agency/Multi-Discipline
- Team Concept for Activities
- Team Evaluations by Mentors
- Local IMT
- 6-day C&GS Functions for local IMT O 337
- Web-Page Updated-www.usfa.dhs.gov/ahimt
- Gov Mail-e delivery

## Technical Assistance Program

- AHIMT –Support
- Position Specific Professional Development
- Field Shadowing Coordination
- Exercise/Simulation Support
- Team Sustainment Professional Development
- ESF-4

## Technical Assistance Program

- AHIMT –Utilization
- Can be activated within the State/UASI Region
- Some recent examples:
- Texas Wildland Fires
- Big Spring Texas Refinery Fire
- NW Colorado Team-Salmonella Alamoosa County
- NW Washington Team- Eco Terrorism Fires
- Phoenix- JOC Support for the Super Bowl
- NCR- Papal Visit

## IMSID Competency Change Management Board

- IMSID/NIC Competency Change Management Board- Chair
- NWCG,USCG,EPA,USFA,USDA; 9 Discipline Working Groups
- Policies and Procedures for changes
- Maintain Master Competency List
- Position Task Books

## Position Specific Courses

- (8) Command & General Staff Courses Completed
- Position Specific Instructor Training Program-through IMSID and FEMA Regions
- Identification of ICS Position competencies and behaviors-incorporated into PTB
- Technical Assistance and Document Reviews
- Exercise Planning in cooperation w/ESF-4

## New Initiatives

- Development of Unit Leader Professional Development
- Situation Unit Leader
- Resource Unit Leader
- Supply Unit Leader w/Ordering Manager
- Communication Unit Leader
- Finance/Administration Unit Leader (s)
- Investigation and Intelligence Unit Leader
- Div/Group Supervisor
- Facility Unit Leader

## Questions

- Stephen N. Foley, Project Manager
- AHIMT-Technical Assistance Program
- FEMA/USFA Response Branch
- 301-447-1304
- Stephen.Foley@dhs.gov
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## <number><number>

- FY03 Assessment & Improvement Plan
- Quality Programs & Services Office
- Integrated Assessment Program
- Office of Management Services
- November 8, 2002

## The Driver

- _Performance Measure 3.2 – Assessment & Improvement_
- Primary focus is on strengthening Management System assessment and improvement processes.
- There are three parts to this performance measure.

## The Driver

- _3.2.1.1 – MS Objectives & Assessment Activities_
- Establish process for planning MS assessments
- Publish process in SBMS
- Document MS Assessment Plans (per the process) for 11 MS.

## The Driver

- _3.2.1.1 MS Objectives & Assessment Activities_
- The 11 MS are:
- Acquisition Mgt		 Life Cycle Asset Mgt
- Emer’y Preparedness	 Radiological Control
- Environmental Mgt	 Safeguards & Security
- Facility Operations	 Work Planning & Control
- Facility Safety		 Worker Safety & Health
- Hazardous Material Transportation

## The Driver

- _3.2.1.2 – Consensus-based User/Peer Reviewer Maturity Determinations_
- Perform MS Maturity Evaluations on 4 MS:
- Facility Safety
- Safeguards & Security
- Worker Safety & Health
- Radiological Control

## The Driver

- _3.2.1.3 – Third Party Evaluation of the MS Assessment Program_
- Establish a third party of 2-3 people, public and private sector to evaluate BNL’s MS Assessment Program.
- Evaluation protocol to be developed jointly with DOE-BAO using criteria from:
*Baldrige Award**	**	**       NY State Excelsior Award*
*DOE Mgt. and Independent Assessment Guide*

## 3.2.1.1 MS Objectives & Assessment Activities

- The following flow chart outlines the process for the 11 management systems listed in 3.2.1.1

## Slide 8

## 3.2.1 Implementation Plan

- An implementation plan has been developed to accomplish the tasks required in this performance measure.

## Put schedule here – I found it difficult to import,

**And it took a lot of slides if you wanted it readable.**
**My reco is to shift to overheads**

## Key Players in the Process

- Project Lead:		Roy Lebel
- Project Team:		Bruce Miller, Doug Ports
- 					Jessie Wilke
- MS Stewards:		Mike Bebon, Ken Brog,
- 					Brian Sack, Tom Sheridan
- Process Mentors:	Ray Costa, Steve Maloney,
- 					Tim Powers, Steve Stein
- 					Jessie Wilke

## Process Mentors

- Role
- Support MS Steward in the Assessment Planning activity
- Interface with Project Lead and Team regarding problems, needs in completing tasks.

## Key Players in the Process

- MS Maturity Evaluation Facilitators:
- 6-8 people who will receive facilitator training designed to support these evaluations.
- List has been developed, needs to be finalized.
- Outside training vendor selected.
- Training to take place January16-17, 2003.
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## LARP/LHC Calendar

-           LARP in 2007
- Opening of LHC@FNAL
- Crystal collimation workshop – March (at CERN)
- Full collaboration meeting – April, LBL
- Beam-beam compensation workshop – June (?), SLAC
- Deliver tune tracker, luminometer, Schottky
- Mini collaboration meeting – October, FNAL

-            LHC in 2007
- Injector machine studies: March - November
- Last magnet lowered – March
- LHC Tunnel closed – August
- First beam in LHC – November
- Collisions at 450 Gev – November/December

## 450 GeV Phases

|  | Phase |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | First turn |
| 2 | Establish circulating beam |
| 3 | 450 GeV – initial  |
| 4a | 450 GeV - consolidation |
| 4b | 450 GeV – system commissioning |
| 5a | Two beam operations |
| 5b | Collisions |
| 6 | Increase intensity |

- S. Myers (CERN)

## Visits

-  Visitors to FNAL
- E. Laface (CERN): Jan 29-31
- R de Maria (CERN): Feb 7 – 25
-   Visits to CERN
- Schottky related
- Beam Commissioning: ?
- LAFS: ?

## IR and Beam-beam in 2007

- IR optics with magnets inside detector: combined function magnets, other variants
- Nonlinear error correction of IR magnets
- Nonlinear chromaticity correction
- Beam-beam performance of different layouts
- Experimental test of wire compensation (RHIC ?)
- Beam-beam compensation simulation
- Investigate use of ODR for LHC beam imaging at IP