BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 739296

## Shipping Costs for Agricultural Products

- Transportation Services Branch
- Agricultural Marketing Service
- U.S. Department of Agriculture

## Who we are...

- As a USDA authority on transporting agricultural products to market, the Transportation Services Branch (TSB) informs, represents, and assists agricultural shippers.

## Our activities include:

**Market reports **
**Regulatory representation**
**Economic analysis and reports**
**Technical assistance**
**Outreach**
**Responding to inquiries**

## Modal & Commodity Expertise

- Bulk grain
- Containerized, high valued products

- Truck
- Barge
- Rail
- Air
- Ocean-bulk
- Ocean-Container

## Market & Economic Reports

- Grain Transportation Report
- Ocean Freight Rate Bulletin
- Grain Transportation Prospects
- Agricultural Ocean Trends Report

## Purpose

- Assist new shippers and exporters understand potential costs
- Help experienced shippers and the industry understand trends that have an effect on costs
- Keep tabs on changes in costs and the impact on agricultural trade

## Ocean Freight Rate Bulletin

- Quarterly report that tracks freight rates for U.S. agricultural containerized exports
- Provides a side-by-side comparison of shipping line market share, tariffs, and services for specific trade lanes and commodities
- Started in 1994 with 3 commodities and 3 trade routes
- Now covers 18 commodities and 15 foreign markets

## Example:  Grapes from LA/LB/Oak to Tokyo, June 30, 2002

| TEUs:  36.8/74.8 | Maersk/SeaLand | Hanjin | MOL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Market Share
Month/Year | 52%
71% | 35%
17% | 14%
11% |
| Transit Time | 10 Days | 9 Days | 10 Days |
| Base Rate | $3,200 | $2,650 | $3,500 |
| BAF
CAF
Chassis | $50
39%
$40 | $50
--
-- | $50
--
$40 |
| Container Rate* | $4,538 | $2,700 | $3,590 |

- *Based on a typical shipment:  40 reefer; YY; 15 KT; 1400 Packages

## Data Collection

- PIERS data (trade lane information; shipping line market share)
- Internet rate retrieval systems
- Shipping line websites
- Phone/fax/email
- www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/ocean

## Agricultural Ocean Transportation Trends

- ORB provides only numbers/tariffs
- Majority of shipments move under service contracts
- Not just about the rates...service, economy, availability, surcharges, contract negotiations, labor, security, congestion

## Agricultural OceanTransportation Trends

- Semi-annual
- Survey shippers representing over 150,000 TEUs of agricultural shipments
- Input from freight forwarders, vessel and non-vessel operating carriers

## Agricultural OceanTransportation Trends – June 2002

- Trends in Freight Rates
- Low Rates Concern Shippers
- Impact of Carriers’ Response to Low Rates
- Trends in Service Contract Negotiations
- Flexible Contract Start Dates
- Service Contract Guarantees
- Accepting More Liability for Cargo

## Agricultural OceanTransportation Trends – June 2002

- Other Trends and Issues
- West Coast Labor Negotiations
- Potential Disruptions Due to Security Legislation
- Ocean Freight Rate Analysis
- www.ams.usda.gov/agott

## Ocean Rate Analysis
# Presentation: 199031

## Ocean Heat Content Estimates In The Eastern Pacific Ocean For SHIPS:  Progress

- Lynn “Nick” Shay and Jodi Brewster
- RSMAS, University of Miami
***Goal: To assess the impact of the upper ocean thermal structure on hurricane intensity in EPAC.***

## Progress To Date: 

**Ocean Heat Content** (OHC) has been found to improve intensity forecasting in Atlantic Ocean Basin in SHIPS (DeMaria *et al.* 2005; Mainelli *et al.* 2007).
- Extending the approach to the EPAC given the significant ocean variability.
- Data Synthesis from EPIC, TAO Moorings, Satellite Radar Altimetry (Topex, Jason-1, GFO and Envisat), XBT transects (to do).
- Data Comparisons and Integration with GDEM.
- Monitoring Phase (Equivalent OHCE).
- Estimates for SHIPS.

## NSF/NOAA Aircraft and TAO Buoys Sample Strategy

**          ****NOAA WP-3D**

**NCAR- C130**

## EPAC Paradox 

**Strong vertical temperature, salinity and density gradients at base of OML in EPAC...**
**Implications for mixing...and ocean (SST) cooling.**

**N~20 cph**

## Blended Altimetry Derived Fields and Warm Eddy Pathway.

## NOAA R/V Brown Versus WP-3D CTDs -10N

**Airborne Oceanography Works!**

## Sept (left) and Oct (right) OHC of Warm Core Eddy10oN TAO Mooring OHC and D20oC.The shallow isotherm depths may be an indication of the Costa Rica Dome.

## Approach: Empirical Approach

**Approach: Empirical Approach**

- Reduced gravity (g’), H20, h (ocean mixed layer depth) GDEM **V3.**
- Blend and objectively map SHA from Jason-1, GFO, and Envisat (9.9, 17 and 35-d repeat track).
- Infer H20 using mapped SHA and seasonal climatology.
- Estimate H26 relative to H20 (via ratio).
- Estimate OHC relative to 26oC using H26, h, and SST.

## Systems. 

**95****o****W: **
**SST Product ****Choice.**
**TMI/AMSR-E **
**Courtesy of **
**Remote **
**Sensing **
**Systems.**** **

**95****o****W **
**Ocean ****Structure: **
**EPIC**

## 10oN,95oW:

**Seasonal **
**Variations **
**T(z), S(z), ****ρ****(z)**
** **
**V2.1 (Top) **
**V3 (Bottom)**
** **

## Depth of the Climatological Ocean Mixed Layer (m)  GDEM V3.

## Mean Isotherm Depths (left) & Reduced Gravity and Ratio (right)

**                     ****Costa Rica Dome.**

## Time Series (left) and Scatter (right) of a) SST, b) H26 & c) OHC from TAO (blue), Sat (red) and R/V Ron Brown

## Summary: 

- NOAA/NSF _EPIC,_ **XBT transects** and _NOAA TAO_ data providing insights into the formation and propagation of warm eddies in the EPAC and the OHC variability.
- Not all SST products are equal......Vary by as much as 0.6oC
- OHC estimates are significantly less (<60 kJ cm-2) than warm features in the western Atlantic Ocean Basin (>100 kJ cm-2)-L&V-16 kJ cm-2.
**Strong stratification (N****max****~ 20 cph)** underneath the ocean mixed layer precludes strong mixing during TC passage over the warm pool (low latitudes).
- Comparing time evolution at several TAO moorings in EPAC to establish error bars.
- Jason-1, GFO, and Envisat SHA fields for daily values using **GDEMV3.**
# Presentation: 402131

## 10.3.2 mirror scattering 

**10.3.2 mirror scattering **

**	****	****- vertical beam profile**
**	****-  mirror focusing with sagittal curvature ie. horizontally deflecting, 4 mrads grazing**
**	****-  measured with a slit length of 2 x horizontal FWHM**
**	****-  white light measurement; effective energy 13 keV**
**	****- 15 m source - mirror and mirror - focus**
**	****- gaussian beam 1e-9 at 0.1 mm**

## 10.3.2 mirror scattering 

**10.3.2 mirror scattering **

**	****	****- fraction of beam that is kicked = 100 fsec *0.2 / 82 psec = 2.4e-4**
**	****- assuming 1.9 GeV, 9.5 MeV kick, 4 cm dispersion, position kick = 0.2 mm**
**	****- for straight 6.0 undulator, assuming emitt(y)=1.5e-10 m . rads, beta(y)= 3.62 m, energy spread = 1e-3**
**	****  ****sig(y)_beta= 23 microns, sig(y)_E_spread = 40 microns, sig(y)_total = 46 microns**
**	****- making adjustment for gaussian core width, 46 microns for 6.0 v. 16 microns for 10.3.2**
**	**** ****	**** ****background at 0.2 mm = 1.8 e-4 **
**	****	****	****	****- fourier deconvolution of 16 micron 1 sig. out of 10.3.2 data + convolution with 46 microns 1 sig.**
**	****	****	****	****  ****needs checking!**
**	****	****	****	****- we are near the gaussian core; are beta and dispersion optimum?**
**	****- signal to background =1.3**
**	****- factors we can take advantage of**
**	****	****	****- distance to the source; mirror can be placed at 9 m, ie. 9/15 reduction in background**
**	****	****	****- wavelength; measurement was at 13 keV; scattering will be decreased at 500 eV; effect?**
**	****	****	****- angle of incidence; mirror on 10.3.2 is at 4 mrads; possible to reduce to 3 mrads; effect?**
**	****	****	****- use of 5 psec gated detector; reduction in background 5/83 = 0.06**
**	****	****	****	****	****- how much lower kick could we live with if using a 5 psec gated detector?**
# Presentation: 199029

## JHT Progress Report: Ocean Heat Content Estimates In The Eastern Pacific Ocean For SHIPS Forecasting

- Lynn K. “Nick” Shay and J. Brewster
- RSMAS, University of Miami
***Goal: To assess the impact of the upper ocean thermal structure on hurricane intensity in EPAC.***

## Background: 

**Ocean Heat Content** (OHC) has been found to improve intensity forecasting in Atlantic Ocean Basin in SHIPS (DeMaria *et al.* 2005; Mainelli *et al.* 2006).
- Extending the approach to the EPAC given the significant ocean variability.  JHT Grant Progress incorporates:
- Data Synthesis from EPIC, TAO Moorings, Satellite Radar Altimetry (Topex, Jason-1, GFO and Envisat), XBT transects) (Yr 1).
- Data Comparisons and Integration with GDEM (Yr 1).
- Monitoring Phase (Yr 2).
- Estimates for SHIPS (Yr 2)

## NSF/NOAA Aircraft and TAO Buoys Sample Strategy

**          ****NOAA WP-3D**

**NCAR- C130**

## Approach: Two-Layer Model (Kundu 1991).

**Approach: Two-Layer Model (Kundu 1991).**

- Reduced gravity
- Infer depth of 20oC Isotherm using SHA and seasonal climatology.
- Estimate 26oC depth- relative to 20oC.
- Estimate OHC using isotherm depth and SST.
**Ground Truthing.**

## TS  Diagrams a) 93W,  b) 94.3W, c) 96.6W and d) 97W 

## NOAA R/V Brown Versus WP-3D CTDs -10N

**Airborne Oceanography Works!**

## Annual Mean Wind Stress Aug 99-Jul 2000 : Fig. 5 from Kessler (2002)

## Blended Altimetry Derived Fields and Warm Eddy Pathway.

## Sept (left) and Oct (right) OHC of Warm Core Eddy10oN TAO Mooring OHC and D20oC.The shallow isotherm depths may be an indication of the Costa Rica Dome.

## EPAC Paradox 

**Strong vertical temperature, salinity and density gradients at base of OML in EPAC...**
**Implications for mixing...and ocean (SST) cooling.**

**N~20 cph**

## Hurricane Juliette-Induced Cooling

## GDEM Depth of 20oC Isotherm and Reduced Gravity (g’x 100):

**95****o****W **
**Ocean ****Structure: **
**EPIC**

## Summary: 

- NOAA/NSF EPIC, XBT transects and NOAA TAO data providing insights into the formation and propagation of warm eddies in the EPAC and the OHC variability-ground truthing....
- OHC estimates are significantly less (<60 kJ cm-2) than warm features in the western Atlantic Ocean Basin (>100 kJ cm-2)-L&V-16 kJ cm-2.
**Strong stratification (N ~ 20 cph)** underneath the ocean mixed layer that precludes strong mixing during TC passage over the warm pool.
- Over the next few months, finish comparisons between the in situ data sets with GDEM and relate data to SHA from several platforms.
- With respect to altimetry, Jason-1, GFO and TOPEX data are superior to Envisat SHA fields based on efforts using pre and post-Rita data.
# Presentation: 892847

## Overview ofIrritable Bowel Syndrome

**Arnold Wald, MD**
**Professor of Medicine****Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition****University of Pittsburgh Medical Center**
**Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania**

## Irritable Bowel Syndrome

**Chronic or recurrent GI symptoms**
**	****Lower abdominal pain/discomfort**
**	****Altered bowel habits**
**	****Bloating**
**Not explained by structural or biochemical abnormalities**

## IBS Clinical Subgroups 

**Constipation predominant **
**Diarrhea predominant**
**Alternating constipation/diarrhea**

## IBS Clinical Subgroups 

**Constipation predominant **
**Diarrhea predominant**
**Alternating constipation/diarrhea**

## Rome II Criteria for IBS

**At least 12 weeks or more, which need not be**
**consecutive, in the preceding 12 months, of**
**abdominal discomfort or pain that has 2 out**
**of 3 features:**
**Relieved by defecation**
**Onset associated with a change in ****frequency of stool**
**Onset associated with a change in ****form (appearance) of stool**

***Gut*****. 1999.**

## Epidemiology of IBS in US(15% to 20% of Population)

**Epidemiology of IBS in US****(15% to 20% of Population)**

**Specialists 5%**

**25% to 50% of referrals to GIs are IBS**

**Nonconsulters**
**80%**

**Primary care**
**15%**

##  Prevalence of Disorders in US

**IBS:****	****15% - 20%**
**Dyspepsia:****	****8%**
**GE reflux:****	****7%**
**Asthma:****	****4%**
**Diabetes:****	****3%**

## IBS Symptoms Reduce Patient Well Being

**IBS Symptoms Reduce ****Patient Well Being**

**Reduced sense of**
**well being**

**Abdominal**
**pain**

**Altered bowel**
**habits**

**Cramps**
**Bloating**

**Constipation **
**Diarrhea**
**Urgency**

## Medical Costs Associated With IBS

**Estimated $8 billion annually in direct costs**
**Increased physician visits for both GI and non-GI complaints**
**IBS patients incur 74% more health care costs than do non-IBS sufferers**

**Drossman, et al. *****Dig Dis Sci*****. 1993;38(9):1569-1580.**
**Talley, et al. *****Gastroenterology*****. 1995;109(6):1736-1741.**

## Impact of IBS on Work

**Missed work:****	****30% (1.7 days)**
**Reduced days:****	****46% (3 days)**
**Turned down promotion:****	****16%**
**Changed job, health reasons:****	****  9%**
**Changed work schedule:****	****  8%**

**Hahn BA, et al. *****Digestion*****. 1999;60(1):77-81.**

## Pathophysiology of IBS: A Biopsychosocial Disorder

**Biological**
**Altered GI motor activity**
**Altered visceral sensation**
**Psychosocial**
**Behavioral**
**Cognitive**
**Emotional**

## Multiple Medications Are Used to Treat IBS

**Anticholinergics**
**Tricyclic antidepressants**
**SSRIs**
**Antidiarrheals**
**Bulking agents**
**Laxatives**
**Alosetron***

***Data support efficacy for diarrhea-predominant IBS.**

## New Treatment Paradigm for C-IBS

**IO **

**5-HT****4**
**agonists**

**Altered**
**motility**

**Altered**
**sensation**

**New Treatment Paradigm for C-IBS**
# Presentation: 693463

## South Carolina Forestry Commission

- February 16, 2006
- Smoke Simulation Analysis
- Gary L. Achtemeier
- USDA Forest Service
- Athens, GA

## Task Description

- The following set of slides summarize a PB-Piedmont post-burn analysis of smoke movement in the aftermath of a 230 acre prescribed burn conducted by the South Carolina Forestry Commission. The burn was conducted on 16 February 2006. The model simulations run from 1600 EST 16 February through 0800 EST 17 February. The site was located on the coastal plain of South Carolina.

## Weather

- Weather during the burn and the post-burn smoke movement period was mostly clear. A strong low pressure system over the Mississippi valley northwest of the Carolinas combined with a high pressure system southeast of the Carolinas to produce strong southwesterly winds as a cold front approached the burn site. This pattern strengthened as the cold front approached South Carolina. The geostrophic wind speed, a measure of the strength of the forcing by the large scale (synoptic) wind field increased from 8.0 m/sec to 16.6 m/sec. The strong forcing (>15.0 m/sec) would dominate drainage flows even in the piedmont.

## Modeling Information

- PB-Piedmont Version 5.0-2006
- Grid spacing = 60 m
- Domain size = 330x264 -> 19.8x15.8 km
- Visual domain = 9.2x7.9
- Weather data: Hourly METAR
- Elevation data: USGS 30 m DEM
- Elevation contour interval = 9 meters
- Elevation range is 92-202 meters

## The full 19.8x15.8 km model domain captures the drainages surrounding the burnsite (white square).

## The PB-Piedmont viewing domain and observation points for 16 February 2006. The white square encloses the 230 acre burn site. 

- The PB-Piedmont viewing domain and observation points for 16 February 2006. The white square encloses the 230 acre burn site.

## The plume at 1700 EST, 16 February 2006 blows from the south. 

- The plume at 1700 EST, 16 February 2006 blows from the south.

## The plume at midnight (0000 EST 16 February 2006). Synoptic forcing has increased sufficiently to reverse drainage flows.

## Smoke Location Evaluation:Interpreting the Observations Shown in the Next Slide

- Red symbol means smoke observed
- Green symbol means smoke not observed
- Circle means model matched observation
- Triangle means model unsuccessful

## PB-Piedmont analysis & observations 0500 EST, 16 February 2006.

- 2: No smoke (0442)

- 3: No smoke (0457)

- 4: No smoke (0515)

- 5: Missing

- 6: Light smoke (0538)

- 7: Light smoke (0550)

- Click left mouse button to view observation points.

## Summary:

- PB-Piedmont correctly placed smoke or no smoke at 3 of the 5 observation sites.
- Synoptic flow dominated drainage flows to divert smoke to blow to the northwest.
- Investigation of surrounding airport winds showed winds blowing from the south to southwest, still not sufficient to place smoke over the observed sites.
- The best explanation for the smoke at observations 6 and 7 is smoke blown north from another burn site located south of the area.

## Smoke Matrix

- Smoke Prediction

- Yes                 No

- Smoke Observation

-   No                Yes

- 0

- 3

- 0

- 2
# Presentation: 462282

## NASA INTERCENTER RACESFall 2008Langley Runners’ Club

**  **_**10-KM**_
**Wednesday, October 8****th**
**Tuesday, October 14****th**
**Wednesday, October 22****nd**
**Tuesday, October 28****th**

**  **_**2-Mile**_** **(Walkers Welcome)
**Monday, October 6****th**
**Thursday, October 16****th**
**Monday, October 20****th**
**Thursday, October 30****th**

**ALL RACES START AT 4:45 PM ON DOOLITTLE ROAD**
**Course Maps are Shown on the Runners’ Club Web Site**

**For more information contact Phil Bogert, X-43188**
**Langley Runners’ Club Web Site:  **
**http://larc-exchange.larc.nasa.gov/lea/runners**
# Presentation: 560853

## CCJにおける実験データの状況

**Akio Kiyomichi (RIKEN)**
*CCJ user’s meeting Sep. 26, 2003*

## データの種類とサイズ

- Typical data size
- Raw (PRDF) : ~1.5GB
- AuAu production
- DST :  ~1.4GB (run1 は 0.6GB)
- microDST/uuDST : ~350MB
- nanoDST : CNT ~80MB, EWG/HWG/HRD... ~10MB
- pp production
- DST : ~600MB
- microDST : ~130MB
- nanoDST : CNT ~20MB, EWG/HWG/HRD... <10MB
- CCJ でのデータ置き場
- PRDF/DST: HPSS
- microDST/nanoDST : on Disk (microDST は一部)

- Akio Kiyomichi [RIKEN]

- CCJ user's meeting @Wako Sep. 26, 2003

## PHENIX-Run1 (AuAu)

|  | Run number | Raw
[RCF] | DST | microDST |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Au+Au | 7000
|
13000
(4600files) | 2.3TB
[2.3TB] | v03rcf(0.8TB)
v03ccj(0.6TB)
300MB/file
v05(2.6TB)
600MB/file | v03(40GB)

v05(53GB) |

- Raw data total ~2.3TB
- v03 DST production processed both RCF/CCJ
- v05 final

- Data in HPSS: **/home/phnxsink/run2000/, /home/phnxreco/run2000/**

- Akio Kiyomichi [RIKEN]

- CCJ user's meeting @Wako Sep. 26, 2003

## PHENIX-Run2 (AuAu,pp)

|  | Run number | Raw
[RCF] | DST | microDST | nanoDST |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Au+Au | 27000
|
34000
(10000files) | 7TB
[20TB] | None.
[16TB] | run2_v03_burn1
uuDST(3.2TB) | CNT(560GB)
EWG(82GB)
HWG(59GB)
HRD/MWG(none.) |
| p+p | 38000
|
41000
(10000 files) | 26TB
[26TB] | v01(4.8TB)
680MB/file
v02(3.4TB)
380MB/file | v01 
microDST(1.4TB)
uuDST(0.7TB)
v02
microDST(1.3TB) 
uuDST(1.3TB) | v02
CNT(260GB)
EWG(95GB)
HRD(65GB)
HWG(85GB)
MWG(100GB) |

- Raw data total ~46TB
- DST production : AuAu run2_v03
- 		pp : run2pp_v01/v02 process at CCJ

- Data in HPSS: **/home/phnxsink/run2001/, /home/phnxreco/run2001/**

- Akio Kiyomichi [RIKEN]

- CCJ user's meeting @Wako Sep. 26, 2003

## PHENIX-Run3 (dAu,pp)

|  | Run number | Raw
[RCF] | Filtering data |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| d+Au | 45000
|
81000
(28000files) | None.
[49TB] |  |  | Full poduction will start at RCF |
| p+p | 82000
|
93000
(20000files) | 39TB
[39TB] | filtered/refiltered
(4.2TB in HPSS) |  | Full production will start at CCJ |

- Raw data total ~88TB
- DST production will start both RCF(dAu) and CCJ(pp)

- Data in HPSS: **/home/phnxsink/run3/, /home/phnxreco/run3/**

- Akio Kiyomichi [RIKEN]

- CCJ user's meeting @Wako Sep. 26, 2003
# Presentation: 145079

## Using Personal Income Statistics

**David G. Lenze**
*Understanding Regional Economic Data for *
*Policy and Planning Conference*
- 8 September 2006

## Overview

- Personal income & its chief alternatives
- Improvements in wage measurement
- Why QCEW & BEA job counts differ
- Revision schedule
- Supplements to wages & salaries
- Pension income (work in progress)

## What is Income?

## Per Capita Income Change 2000-01 (Dollars)

## Per Capita Income, 2004, dollars

## Some differences between BEA, Census, & IRS

- Transfers, in cash, in kind
- Capital gains
- Pension benefits
- FICA taxes
- Misreporting

## Personal Income: income from all sources

- Income from labor services
- Compensation
- Income from household enterprises
- Proprietors’ income
- Net rent
- Income from ownership of capital
- Dividends
- Interest
- Taxes and transfers

## Derivation of Disposable Personal Income

- Wage and salary disbursements
*+* 	Supplements to wages and salaries
*=* 	Compensation
*+* 	Proprietors’ income
*=* 	Earnings (pow)
- —	Contributions for govt. social insurance
*+* 	Adjustment for residence
*=* 	Earnings (por)
*+* 	Dividends, interest, and rent
*+* 	Personal current transfer receipts
*=* 	Personal income
- — Personal current taxes
- = Disposable personal income

## Real Wages—Texas & US

## Improved Preliminary Wage Estimates

## Revisions

- Regular revision schedule to incorporate data that are:
- More complete
- More detailed
- More appropriate
- Benchmark revisions

## Revision Schedule

## Supplements to Wages & Salaries

- 13% of personal income
- Employer contributions to:
- Pension & private insurance funds (9%)
- Govt. social insurance funds (4%)

## Supplements as a % of Compensation,Texas 2004

## Supplements as a % of CompensationTexas 2003

## Real Compensation & Wages per Worker, Texas, 2000=1.00

## US Pension Accounting, 2000

- Personal income			      8,429.7
-  - Net reclassifications			     3.0
-  - Pension contributions			 697.7
-  - Pension Fund Property Income	 367.7
- _ __+ Pension benefits__	__	__ __	__	__ 652.2_
- Adjusted personal income	      8,013.6

## Contributions to Texan Earnings Growth, 2006:1

## For Further Information

- Working papers available at
-  _[http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/articles.cfm?section=papers](http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/articles.cfm?section=papers)_
- Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal Income, CPS Money Income and Beyond by John W. Ruser, Adrienne T. Pilot, and Charles Nelson
- Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates by Robert L. Brown, Bruce T. Grimm, and Marian B. Sacks
- Using Efficiency Tests to Reduce Revisions in Panel Data: The Case of Wage and Salary Estimates for U.S. States by Jeremy J. Nalewaik
- State Pension Benefit Estimates
- Methodologies available at
- _[http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/articles.cfm?section=methods](http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/articles.cfm?section=methods)_

## Questions/Comments

- David.Lenze@bea.gov
- (202) 606-9292
# Presentation: 766931

## Orbital Ordering and Exchange Interactions in 

- Orbital Ordering and Exchange Interactions in
-                      RMnO3 Perovskites

- J. B. Goodenough, U.T. Austin
- DMR-0555663

## Crystallographic structure of RMnO3

- Synthesized under
- ambient pressure

- Synthesized under
- high  pressure

- Synthesized under
- ambient pressure

- O3

- O4

- O4

*a*

- 3*z*2 - *r*

- (*x*2-*y*2) ± *i**xy*

*yz *± *ixz*

- 2

*c*

- 

## Magnetic phase diagram of RMnO3 Perovskites

- Although the same orbital ordering takes place over entire family
- of RMnO3 perovskites, there are three magnetic phases:
- _Type-A spin ordering_,
- _No classic spin ordering_,
- _Type-E spin ordering_.

## The evolution of structural distortions versus ionic size of the A-site Rare Earth

- The structure refinement from data of neutron and x-ray diffraction.

## The relationship between structural distortions 

- and magnetic couplings in perovskite RMnO3

- J is sensitive to 
- J is much less sensitive to 
-  = (1 + 22)/3

## Check some numbers from Structure, TN and TJT

*(For Type-A spin ordering phase)*
- dlnTN/d(IR)  9 Ǻ-1
- dln(cos2(/2))/d(IR)  0.4 Ǻ-1
- dln(cos4(/2))/d(IR), wrong sign
- dln(-1))/d(IR)  7 Ǻ-1  (  ~ kTJT, mean-field theory)
- Conclusions
- *  _Type-A spin ordering phase for R=La-Gd_
-     Jab  is weakened primarily by ,  not by the angle .
- *  _No classic spin ordering phase for R= Tb, Dy_
-     A |Jab| ~ |Jab|  leads to the exchange interaction
-     frustration.
- *  _Type-E spin ordering phase for R= Y-Lu_
-     Segregation into Jab dominant and Jab dominant
-     Mn-O-Mn bonds occurs.
# Presentation: 025298

## En Route: Flight Data Publication

**Product Fact Sheet – Flight Data Publication**

- Today in the NAS there are multiple versions of flight data, depending upon the state of flight.  Prior to filing, TFM flight data is based off of various schedule data, airline provided data, historical information and/or foreign flight plans not yet processed by En Route. Once filed, flight data is processed by ERAM and is sent to many ATM systems.  Subsequent flight data updates for active aircraft are managed by the En Route Domain and distributed to other ATM systems.  One goal of better flight data management in the Segment 1 timeframe is to improve the flight data processing to ensure consistency of flight data across the NAS and to consolidate the flight data maintained by multiple systems into a distributed flight object accessible by all.  The distributed flight object will include data such as the filed flight plan, the currently-cleared route, the “ATC-intended” route to be cleared, the predicted aircraft trajectory, and the current state of the flight.  The distributed flight object will be comprised of elements supplied by multiple domains, and through this data sharing and coordination, the Flight Data Publication Service will support trajectory-based ops between En Route, Terminal, and TFM domains.

**Terminal Cluster**
** ****(TRACON & TOWER)**

**WJHTC**

**ERAM**

**ARTCC**

**FTI**

**Flight Data**

**TFMS**

**ICE**

**NORAD**

**Gateway**
**    ****(FTI)**

**EFSTS**

**TDLS**

**ASDE-X**

**TDDS**

**RVR**

- SWIM Service

- SWIM Service

- The operational threads to be integrated across these domains will require the ability of other systems to update flight data in the distributed flight object. Examples include aircraft taxi status

- information and clearance delivery          status from Terminal systems such              as the TDLS and the EFSTS.          Other ATM systems such as TFMS will be synchronized via flight data received from the En Route Domain. Conversely, the En Route Domain flight object will be updated by flight data received from TFMS.

- This SWIM service will replace and enhance legacy flight data interfaces provided today by FDIO and HADDS/CMS.

**Flight Data**

**Flight Data**
# Presentation: 694248

## Mass Trigger Study 

-  Discuss the algorithms to build the mass trigger:
-    m100,m200,m300,m400.
-  Show the results of the mass triggers:
-   rejection(L2/L3), efficiency(L2/L3), prescale, rate.

- Using data with trigger list version 11.03.(we have got v12 tmb
-     data, but there were no RDC in the tmb data)
-  Data from Pavel’s DST files [RECO r13.06.01].
-  Total 370K good run events.
-  Analysis based on JET25_TT trigger events.

## Slide 2

## Data Driven “Curve” for Mass>200Gev 

- Idea to make L2 cut:
- Find a suitable “theoretical curve” to cut the area.
- Split the |Deta| region fine enough, then make Pt(L2) cut in each unit to simulate the curve.

## Slide 4

## L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 100 GeV

- L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 100 GeV

- 60Gev

- 80Gev

## L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 200 GeV

- L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 200 GeV

- 140Gev

- 180Gev

## L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 300 GeV

- L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 300 GeV

- 200Gev

- 280Gev

## L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 400 GeV

- L2 and L3 Mass for MRECO > 400 GeV

- 300Gev

- 380Gev

## Mass Trigger

|  | L1 | L2 | L3 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| m100 | CJT(3,5) | PseudoMass>=60Gev |  Mass>=80Gev |
| m200 | CJT(3,5) | PseudoMass>=140Gev | Mass>=180Gev |
| m300 | CJT(3,5) | PseudoMass>=200Gev | Mass>=280Gev |
| m400 | CJT(3,5) | PseudoMass>=300Gev | Mass>=380Gev |

- Implementation of PseudoMass cut at L2:
- 1. Evaluate n:   n = Abs(Deta)*10.0
- 2. Do comparision:   if Pt >= t[n]?   Where
-    t[n] = Sqrt(PseudoMass*PseudoMass/2.0/(1+CosH((n+1)*0.1))).
-    0<= n <= 63.

## Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>100Gev 

- L2

- L2*L3

- _Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>100Gev_

- X: L2 PseudoMass

- X: L3 Mass

## Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>200Gev

- L2

- L2*L3

- _Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>200Gev_

- X: L2 PseudoMass

- X: L3 Mass

## Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>300Gev

- _Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>300Gev_

- L2

- L2*L3

- X: L2 PseudoMass

- X: L3 Mass

## Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>300Gev

- _Rejection and Efficiency Curve for M(Reco)>300Gev_

- L2

- L2*L3

- X: L2 PseudoMass

- X: L3 Mass

## DiMass Distribution for m100 trigger

## DiMass Distribution for m200 trigger

## DiMass Distribution for m300 trigger

## DiMass Distribution for m400 trigger

## RESULTS

| Lum: 60E30 | prescale | L1rate | L2rate | L3rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| m100 | 1 | 235 | 218 | 94.7 |
| m200 | 1 | 235 | 48 | 11.5 |
| m300 | 1 | 235 | 18.3 | 2.1 |
| m400 | 1 | 235 | 6.8 | 0.47 |

|  | L2 Rejection | L2 Efficiency | L3 Rejection | L3 Efficiency |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| m100 | 7.1% | 99.3% | 59.7% | 98.9% |
| m200 | 79.6% | 93.5% | 95.1% | 92.4% |
| m300 | 92.2% | 88.7% | 99.1% | 88.4% |
| m400 | 97.1% | 83.2% | 99.8% | 83.2% |

## L2 PseudoMass Distribution

-               -----  JET_25TT + L1 CJT(3,5)
-               -----  3CJT35
# Presentation: 761538

## BSE: update on surveillance

- FDA TSE Advisory Committee
- Bethesda, MD
- October 31, 2005
- Lisa A. Ferguson, DVM
- Senior Staff Veterinarian
- USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services

## Total BSE cases worldwide

- Cumulative total – greater than 189,000 cases
- Greater than 96% in United Kingdom
- Greater than 89% occurred in 1996 and before
- OIE website lists current reported totals:
- _[www.oie.int](http://www.oie.int/)_

## EU monitoring - 2004

- EU-15 now EU-25
- Total of 11,049,822 bovine tests
- 1.5 million risk animals,  9.5 million healthy slaughter
- 865 positive (699 in risk/suspect, 166 healthy sltr)
- Number of cases decreased by 37%
- Overall prevalence in tested animals decreased by 38%

## EU monitoring - 2004

- Reductions and increasing age of positive cases indicate success of control measures
- Analysis by year of birth of positive animals
- Peak of exposure appears well defined in some Member States
- France, Ireland – 1995
- Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands – 1996
- TSE monitoring in small ruminants
- 1 goat positive for BSE (slaughtered in 2002)

## US - Enhanced BSE Surveillance

**GOAL: **
**Obtain as many samples as possible from the targeted high-risk population in a 12-18 month period**

## BSE Surveillance Plan

- Targeting population where disease is most likely to be diagnosed – most efficient
- Assumption if we cannot find disease in targeted – or most likely – population, even more unlikely to be found in non-targeted population
- Use data obtained to extrapolate information about broader cattle population

## BSE – Targeted Surveillance

**Non-ambulatory animals**
**Dead stock**
**Field CNS Cases and on-farm suspects**
**Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory data**
**Public health laboratories**
**Ante-mortem condemns at slaughter**

## Surveillance: NVSL Bovine Brain Submissions FY 93-04 (through 5/31/04)

## Enhanced BSE Surveillance

- Total – ELISA and IHC tests conducted since June 1, 2004 – through October 23, 2005
- 1 positive – June 2005, Texas, 12-year old Brahma-cross (*Bos indicus*) cow
- 512,698
- (503,391 ELISA and 4,907 IHC)

## Enhanced BSE Surveillance

- Evaluating for appropriate geographic distribution;  populations as expected
- Vast majority of samples from deadstock, non-ambulatory animals – as expected
- Good representation from all collection sites, with majority from animal disposal facilities as expected
- Detailed analysis at completion

## www.aphis.usda.gov
# Presentation: 206665

## Solar Patrol at VSBXSMEI and SPaN

**Dr. Joel Mozer**
**Space Weather Center of Excellence**
**Air Force Research Laboratory**

## Solar

*** ******Flagship: SMEI***
***Remotely-Sensing CMEs in the Solar Wind***

**SMEI demonstrates potential of 1-3 day **
**forecasts of geomagnetic storms &**
**system outages**
**Launched January 2003; **
**First light February 2003;**
**>200 CMEs detected since first light**

- Mass
- Ejection
- Imager
- (SMEI)

## SMEI Technical Achievement

**SMEI Technical Achievement**

**Photometric requirement: >10****15**** light rejection**
**Advanced baffle design**
**Passively cooled CCD detectors**
**Unique optical design**

**CCD Radiator**

**Light-rejecting baffle**

**Bright object sensor**

**CMEs very dim relative to background!**

## SMEI in the Media

***SMEI in the Media***

- July 2004

- Sept 2004

## SMEI DiscoveryHigh-Altitude Aurora

- SMEI (unexpectedly) observes high altitude aurora at or above its orbit altitude (840 km)

- Paper submitted to JGR

- SMEI viewing geometry

- Auroral Light

## Future SMEI-like Missions

**     ****SMEI is a 3-yr mission (2003-2006).  Given that a successful demonstration of the potential benefit to space weather forecasting is achieved, a follow-on operational satellite is needed:**
**DoD Impact:**
**No long-term operational asset**
**No capability for long lead time warnings**
**AFRL/VS Role: Show impact, Apply SMEI lessons learned, Aid development and design of future operational capability**
**Actions:**
**Demonstrate the value of SMEI for space weather forecasting**
**Work with AFWA & AFSPC/SMC to develop operational requirements and funding for future heliospheric imager mission(s)**
**Partner with NASA missions to meet DoD goals**
**Partner with Navy/NRL: CDATE**

## Optical Solar Patrol Network (O-SPaN)

**Applications**
-  **AFWA remote operation for space weather forecasting**
** ****Space situational awareness**
**       ****- ****Real time detection of coronal holes, flares, eruptive events**
** ****Automated remote telescope: can be deployed worldwide**
**Science**
** ****Development of solar activity forecasting techniques**
-  **Collaborations with NASA programs  **
**      ****- RHESSI, SOHO, TRACE **
** ****Solar physics **
**      ****- Atmospheric dynamics, synoptic studies, energy transport**
** ****Complement to Advanced Technology Solar Telescope**

***Optical Solar Patrol Network ******(O-SPaN)***

## Solar Radio Burst Locater (SRBL)

-  .5-20 GHz solar patrol telescope
-  All-weather, autonomous
-  Measures direct RF effects
-  Solar activity forecast potential

- SRBL RF

- GOES X-rays
# Presentation: 869898

## Synchrotron Radiation for Macromolecular Crystallography

*Synchrotron Radiation for Macromolecular Crystallography*
*Report of the Office of Science and Technology Policy*
*Working Group on Structural Biology at Synchrotron Radiation Facilities*
*January 1999*

## Working Group Members

- Marvin Cassman, Ph.D. (Chair)
- Director
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Institutes of Health
- Mary Clutter, Ph.D.
- Assistant Director for Biological Sciences
- National Science Foundation
- Patricia Dehmer, Ph.D.
- Associate Director of Energy Research
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Office of Energy Research
- Department of Energy
- Beverly Hartline, Ph.D.
- Assistant Director for _x0008_Physical Sciences and Engineering
- Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Executive Office of the President
- Ari Patrinos, Ph.D.
- Associate Director
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- Department of Energy
- John J. Rush, Ph.D.
- Leader, Neutron Condensed Matter Science Group
- Center for Neutron Research
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Judith Vaitukaitis, M.D.
- Director
- National Center for Research Resources
- National Institutes of Health

## “Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Panel on DOE Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Science”, November 1997.

- “Structural Biology and Synchrotron Radiation Evaluation of Resources and Needs”, Structural Biology Synchrotron Users Organization, December, 1997.
- “Survey of Structural Biology Beam Lines and Instrumentation at US Synchrotron Centers — Needs and Opportunities for the Future”, Keith Hodgson and Eaton Lattman, February, 1998.
- “Report of the Structural Biology Subcommittee of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee”, July, 1998.

## Demand for access to synchrotrons to carry out x-ray crystallographic studies of biological macromolecules is increasing rapidly.

## Slide 5

## Although biologists are increasingly heavy users, operational support comes largely from physics and material sciences at DOE and NSF.

## Slide 7

## Improve staffing levels at existing beamlines.

## Upgrade detectors and other equipment.

## Continue efforts to support R&D.

## Improved access procedures.

## Upgrade of facility operations.

## Expansions of existing crystallographic capabilities.

## Slide 14
# Presentation: 076277

## Overview of Rabies Vaccine Supply -  2005

** **

- C. E. Rupprecht
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
- USA

## Rabies Vaccine Supplies - Objectives

** **

- - Describe current situation
- - Propose partial near term solutions
- - Discuss future strategies

## Animal Rabies in the USA is Common (n=7560*)

- * Current 5 year mean value

- Usually 1-3 human cases per year

## Human Rabies Via Transplanted Organs/Tissues – May/June 2004

** **

- Donor

- Lung

- Liver

- Kidney

- Kidney

- Arterial Graft

- (died during surgery)

## Rabies is Episodic:Human Exposures To A Suspect Sheep – July, 2004

** **

- At a petting zoo more than ~600 persons were exposed to Cybill, a mature ewe (unvaccinated)...

- Non-specific inclusions

## Canine Rabies Translocations, 2004

** **

- Laredo, March

- June

- May

## Rabies Continues to Evolve: Flagstaff, AZ, 2004-2005

**A rabid skunk was reported in August and a gray fox during September with bat virus characteristics...**
**A previous outbreak in skunks (N=19) during 2001 was mediated by bat (Western *****Eptesicus fuscus*****) rabies... **

## Rabies Prophylaxis

** **

- - Wound care
- - Immune globulin (20 IU/kg)
- Vaccination (days 0,3,7,14,28)
- 20,000-40,000 exposures per year
- Estimated costs: $1200-$1500/per course

## Rabies Biologicals

** **

- 3 Vaccines:
- - HDCV
- - PCEC
-  RVA
- 2 Immune globulins:
- -Bayrab
- -Imogam

## Human Rabies Vaccine Recall - March, 2004

** **

- CDC and the FDA were notified that a quality-assurance test of IMOVAX® Rabies Vaccine (Aventis Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania) identified the presence of non-inactivated Pitman-Moore rabies virus in a single product lot. The vaccine lot containing non-inactivated virus was not distributed. As a precautionary measure, Aventis Pasteur initiated a voluntary recall of lots produced during the same period, with an expectation of additional vaccine availability in 2005...

## Rabies Vaccine Needs

** **

- Consideration of RV stockpiles
- Development of emergency INDs
- Resolution of indigent concerns
- Renewed discussions w/FDA
- Advocacy for research on RV biologicals
# Presentation: 411159

## NIP Registry Update

- Robb Linkins, MPH, PhD
- Chief, Systems Development Branch
- DMD/NIP/CDC

## Immunization Registry Initiative

*Development of Community- and State-based Immunization Registries*
- NVAC approved in January 1999
- http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry

## Immunization Registry Initiative

*Report *recommendations:
- ensure privacy and confidentiality
- ensure provider/recipient participation
- ensure appropriate functioning
- ensure sustainable funding

## Ensuring Privacy & Confidentiality

- Updated *Community Immunization Registries Manual* confidentiality chapter
- NVAC approved February 2000
- http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry
- Session D4 - Tuesday 1:30-3:30 pm

## Ensuring Privacy & Confidentiality

- Tracked HIPAA impact
- White paper on unique patient identifier
- http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs
- Security appendix in confidentiality chapter
- Draft legislation evaluations
- Program manager updates
- Session E5 - Tuesday 3:30-5:00 pm

## Ensuring Provider & Recipient Participation

- Developed communication templates for providers and parents
- http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry
- Co-sponsored Governors’ Spouses meetings
- Plenary - Tuesday 8:30-10:00 am

## Ensuring Provider & Recipient Participation

- Completed 3 cooperative agreements (Group Health, Minnesota, and Idaho)
- Session A2 - Monday 1:30-3:00 pm
- http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry
- Launched managed care survey with AAHP

## Ensuring Appropriate Functioning

- Formed Technical Workgroup
- Plenary - Tuesday 8:30-10:00 am
- Partnered with CIRSET
- HL7 implementation guide
- HL7 training videos
- Session D1 - Tuesday 1:30-3:00 pm

## Ensuring Appropriate Functioning

- Finalized:
- Annual Registry Report 2000
- Standardized site visit draft protocol
- 13 standard functions
- Session A1 - Monday 1:30-3:00 pm
- Created Informatics Team, SDB
- John Woodfin (Team leader) – (404) 639-8639

## Ensuring Appropriate Functioning

- Finalized:
- ACIP decision rules for vaccination
- ACIP computer algorithm
- Algorithm test cases
- http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry
- Session D2 - Tuesday 1:30-3:00 pm

## Ensuring Appropriate Functioning

- Completed 4 cooperative agreements:
- Billing (NYC and Missouri)
- Session B3 - Monday 3:30-5:00 pm
- De-duplication (Emory and Yale)
- Session E4 - Tuesday 3:30-5:00 pm
- http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry
- Identified sentinel registry sites
- Continued support of 9 INPHO projects

## Ensuring Sustainable Funding

- Completed 3 cooperative agreements (Emory, Boston , UCSD)
- http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry
- Completed 24 site visits to assess development and implementation costs
- Plenary - Wednesday 8:30-10:00 am
- Partnering with HCFA
- Plenary - Monday 10:30 am-12:00 pm

## Working TowardHealthy People 2010

*Increase to 95% the proportion of children under 6 years of age who participate in a fully operational population-based immunization registry*
- all 50 states are developing registries
- ~32% of children are enrolled
- MMWR registry progress updates
# Presentation: 352907

## The Flat Tax and the X-TaxPresentation to the Tax Reform Panel

- Robert E. Hall
- Hoover Institution
- May 11, 2005

## Basics of the Flat Tax

- Individuals and couples file Form 1, which puts a 19-percent tax on earnings above an exemption level, $41,000 for a family of 4
- Families do not pay tax on interest, dividends, or capital gains—these are taxed at the source by the business tax
- Businesses file Form 2, which puts a 19-percent tax on business income with a write-off for investment
- The two forms together create an airtight 19-percent tax on consumption

## Benefits of the Flat Tax

- Provides the right incentive for capital formation, through investment write-off
- Simple
- Easy to administer—low rate and simplicity reduce evasion
- Taxing business income at the source avoids more than a billion Form 1099s and reduces IRS cost
- 19-percent rate duplicates revenue from existing corporate and personal income taxes

## The X Tax

- Same structure as the flat tax: simple forms for family and business
- But the personal tax has more than one bracket
- Business tax rate is the same as the highest personal tax rate
- Reduced burden on middle-income families financed by higher business and top-bracket personal rates
- Example: 12-percent and 25-percent brackets, with higher bracket starting at $60,000

## Comparison

- Earnings

- Tax

## Distribution of Tax Burden

- Under current taxes, some high-income taxpayers pay huge amounts of federal income taxes, while others pay little
- Burden on the lower half of the income distribution is light
- The flat and X taxes would even out the burden across high-income taxpayers
- The burden on lower- and middle-income families can be adjusted by the exemption in the flat and X taxes and the brackets in the X tax

## Steps toward the Flat or X Taxes

- Move toward taxation of business income at the source
- Lower personal taxation of dividends and capital gains accomplished in 2003
- Push these rates to zero
- Reduce and ultimately eliminate business deduction for interest, so this income is taxed at the source
- Reduce personal tax rate on interest, ultimately to zero

## Steps toward the Flat or X Taxes

- Simplify the personal tax
- Because of the AMT and generous standard deduction, few taxpayers actually deduct state and local income and property taxes—good time to remove this deduction
- Phase out most other complications
- Taxation of business income at the source makes the AMT and many other provisions of the personal tax unnecessary
# Presentation: 698343

## Captain Dave Ivey, Operations Group Chairman

**Flight Crew Decision-Making**

## Alaska Airlines Flight 261:Flight Crew Decision-Making

- Crew’s decision not to return to PVA was understandable
- Decision to divert to LAX: prudent and appropriate
- Use of the autopilot w/ jammed stabilizer: not appropriate
- Retraction of slats/flaps after extension: not appropriate

## Alaska Airlines Flight 261:Recommendation

- Clearer guidance to flight crews who encounter flight control systems failures
- Should complete only checklist procedures, and if not effective, land at nearest suitable airport.

## Slide 4
# Presentation: 685889

## The October  29th Accident 

- in M&C

**Randy Ogle**
**M&C Research Support Group**
**M&C Division Meeting**
**November 20, 2003**

## Preparing Specimen In Coupon

**30 year old process, for heating and rolling          1 cubic inch specimen**
**Notching used to identify specimen throughout processing**

## Wellsaw Used For Notching

**Wellsaw was “throwing” the saw belt**

## Employee Moved to Cosen Saw

**Saw is set for operation in horizontal only**
**Requires clamping of work**

## Slide 5

## Metals & CeramicsRII and LWC Rates1998-2003 YTD

**LWC = Lost Workday Cases **
**with Restricted Days and Days Away**

## Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Begin Work, Make Mid-Course Adjustments Or Major Changes In Your Approach and Plans

**Has this operation been reviewed, and is it covered in the Laboratory RSS**
**Am I going to use appropriate and the best equipment for the job?**
**Have I been trained in the proper use of this equipment, and have I previously operated the equipment?**
**Is the equipment in good working order with all guards and safety devices in place, adjusted, and operating?**
**Am I following the manufacturer’s and company’s safety recommendations and good common sense in operating the equipment?**

## Safety Focus

**Administrative Issues**
**RSS**
**Authorization of work**
**Equipment Safety**
**Housekeeping**
**Infrastructure**

## Administrative Issues

**RSS**
**Up to date**
**Reflects all hazardous work**
**Authorization of Work**
**People understand what they are permitted to operate**
**Training **
**Baselines**

- Equipment

**Point of operation guarded**
**Moving parts guarded**
**SOP/SOG manufacturer instructions available and followed**
**Control use of equipment to “Authorized”**
**Listing of any non-HEPA vacuums, where and what use to Kennie Edwards by December 5, 2003**

- Housekeeping

**Aisles**
**Bench tops**
**Chemical storage and bar coding**

- Infrastructure Issues

**Lighting, drains, water services, etc.**
**Any “work-arounds”**
**List issues to Ron Baldwin by December 5, 2003**