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# Presentation: 440104

## MNM Fatal 2005-02

- Powered Haulage
- January 31, 2005 (Kentucky)
- Crushed Stone Operation
- Mechanic
- 33 years old
- 4 years experience

## Overview

- The victim was fatally injured when he failed to maintain control of his tractor in an “S” curve on an underground roadway and the tractor overturned.

## Slide 3

## Why Did Accident Occur?

- The accident occurred because policies, standards, and controls were inadequate and failed to identify excessive free play in the steering wheel and improper air pressure in the tractor tires.

## Causal Factors

- Management policies, standards, and controls were deficient and did not ensure that the agriculture tractor was operated safely in the underground environment.  The tractor was operated at speeds that were not consistent with conditions of roadway, grades, clearance, visibility, and the type of equipment.

## Causal Factors

- Management policies, standards, and controls were inadequate and failed to implement corrective actions in a timely manner. Multiple defects were found on the tractor including the steering system, defective throttle detent, low tire air pressures, and imbalanced air pressures across tire sets.  The equipment manufacturer’s guidelines were not utilized to evaluate the need for maintenance or repairs.

## Causal Factors

- Management’s task training failed to utilize the equipment manufacturer’s operation procedures for operating the tractor.

## Best Practices

- Ensure adequate pre-operational checks are conducted on all self- propelled mobile equipment and that any defects found are promptly corrected.
- Ensure that service brakes will stop and hold mobile equipment prior to operating mobile equipment.
- Exercise caution when approaching grades and operate mobile equipment in the appropriate gear at speeds consistent with the grade being traveled.
# Presentation: 562850

## Synthesis and Characterization of Solid Oxides Exhibiting Nanostructured Magnetic LatticesShiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson University, DMR-0322905

- Synthesis and Characterization of Solid Oxides Exhibiting Nanostructured Magnetic LatticesShiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson University, DMR-0322905

- W. Queen and S.-J. Hwu, *Chem. Comm.*, to be submitted 2005.

- Magnetization versus field hysteresis loops for single crystals of RbNa3Fe7(PO4)6 at 5K.  The loops show steps, characteristic of quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM) .

## Synthesis and Characterization of Solid Oxides Exhibiting Nanostructured Magnetic LatticesShiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson University, DMR-0322905

- Three undergraduates (R. Britt, K. Pott, P. West), one faculty (Dr. C. T. Eagle), and seven graduate students (G. Becht, E. A. Clark, W. Queen, S. Ranmohotti, A. Siegfried, L. Wang, M. Williams), and one postdoc (X. Mo) have been working in the PI’s lab.  Britt, Eagle, and Pott from Appalachian State University joined the group for summer research.  Dr. Eagle will continue to collaborate with the PI in solid state research.  She is currently in the process of setting up a reseach lab at Appalachian State, and Britt and Pott will continue to study their undergraduate research under her.  West graduated from Clemson in May, 2005, and will continue his graduate study in the PI’s group starting in Spring 2006.

**Outreach:**

- Synthesis and Characterization of Solid Oxides Exhibiting Nanostructured Magnetic LatticesShiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson University, DMR-0322905

- The PI presenting a seminar on “Smart Materials” to local high school students, including the group of Junior Academy of Science students at the Daniel High.

- Students experienc-ing the operation of  a heat pump made from a thermoelectric device.

- With the PI looking on, students  participate in a group effort to unravel the pre-shaped memory metal.
# Presentation: 867668

## American Health Information Community

**Personalized Healthcare Workgroup**
**Family Health History Project Update**
**Dan Weikart, HHS**
**October 14, 2008**

## Family Health History Implementation

- AHIC Recommendation PHC3.2.072007 (Federal agencies ... with private health care organizations with similar interests ... in the area of family health history should be used to evaluate the core minimum data set)
- Related charges:
- 	AHIC Recommendation PHC3.0.072007 (multi-stakeholder 	workgroup)
- 	AHIC Recommendation PHC3.1.072007 (studies should be 	performed ... to determine the validity and utility of family health 	history risk assessment and management tools, clinical decision 	support tools, and how clinicians view this information as helpful for 	informing their medical decisions.)

## HHS Family Health History Project

- My Family Health Portrait created by collaborative effort of CDC, OSG and NIH in 2001 (_[www.familyhistory.hhs.gov](http://www.familyhistory.hhs.gov/)_)
- Provide a ‘Next Generation’ of this tool that is standardized around:
- Dataset
- ‘Interoperability/Portability’ Specification
- Collaborate with the participants of  the VA-led Family Health History Multi-Stakeholder work group
- Make the application openly available for download, installation and customization

## Family Health History Implementation

**Family Health History Implementation**

- Interoperability/Portability Specification:
- HL7 Family History Model
- Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT)
- HL7 Vocabulary
- LOINC
- _Demonstrate_ interoperability/portability with partner organizations who will build capabilities to accept the standardized file into their health record systems and/or clinical tools

## Family Health History Interoperability/Portability

## Family Health History Implementation

**Family Health History Implementation**

- What does the user experience?
- Simple interface that guides the user through data entry
- Use terms that the user understands
- Efficient with the user’s time (~20 minute exercise)
- Allow the user to view and print information in pedigree or chart form
- Family health data is completely controlled by the user
- Straightforward to save and access the information:
- “human readable” file (pedigree drawing and chart)
- “machine readable” file

**Notes:**
Familyhistory.hhs.gov:
Simple to use tool
20 minutes to fill in
Provides relevant actionable information for the clinician

Working with partners

## Family Health History Implementation

- Timeline:
- Public Launch in December 2008
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## 			NOT CHISELED IN STONE

**	****	****	****NOT ****CHISELED IN STONE**

- Joseph W. Howe

## Themes of This Talk

**Themes of This Talk**

- Creation of the General Schedule job evaluation system.
- Evolution of the system over half a century.
- Changes in the world and the system since it was created.

## 			FIFTY

**	****	****	****FIFTY**

- 	The number of years the General Schedule job evaluation system has been in operation.

## Two Years

**Two Years**

- 			1923
- 			1949

## 			TWO			

**	****	****	****TWO****	****	****	**

- 	The number of changes in the text of the General Schedule grade level definitions in the statutes over a period of half a century.

##        FOUR

**       ****FOUR**

-   The number of times in 50 years CSC and OPM have started all over to create standards in a different format.

## 	THIRTEEN

**	****THIRTEEN**

- 	The number of studies of the General Schedule job evaluation system that have recommended major changes or elimination of the system.

## 		    ONE

**	****	****    ****ONE**

- 	The number of studies that actually changed the General Schedule job evaluation system.
- 	The Test and Implementation Group created the Factor Evaluation System, 1972 – 1975.

## 		TWO  

**	****	****TWO **** **

- 	The number of times the Executive Branch has actually sent to Congress legislative proposals to make major changes in the General Schedule job evaluation system during half a century.

## 		ZERO

**	****	****ZERO**

- 	The number of those legislative proposals that became law.

## Two numbers

**Two numbers**

**	****	****	****6.73**
**	****	****	****       ****a****nd**
**	****	****	****9.51**

## Slide 12
# Presentation: 060011

## NOAA / NESDIS Research and Operations:

**I-5: Operational Impact of SVW at Coastal WFO**

***Peter****** A. Stamus and Ralph F. Milliff***

*NWRA / Colorado Research Associates (CoRA) Division*

- Presentation to NOAA/NESDIS Operational Satellite SVW Requirements Workshop, 5 - 8 June 2006, TPC, Miami

*Coastal Weather **Forecast Office Requirements*
*Overview*

## Ocean SVW:  What do the forecasters want?

## Ocean SVW:  What do the forecasters want?

**1. Vectors into the surf.****.**

## Ocean SVW:  What do the forecasters want?

**Vectors into the surf.****.**
**Data every hour (or better).**

## Ocean SVW:  What do the forecasters want?

**Vectors into the surf.****.**
**Data every hour (or better).**
**2.5 km resolution (or better).**

## Ocean SVW:  What do the forecasters want?

**Vectors into the surf.****.**
**	****--Close enough to cover inner zones**** local **
**Data every hour (or better).**
**2.5 km resolution (or better).**

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Ocean SVW:  What do the forecasters want?

**Vectors into the surf.****.**
**	****--Close enough to cover inner zones**** local **
**Data every hour (or better).**
**	****--Support operational forecast cycle.**
**2.5 km resolution (or better).**

##  Tandem, wide-swath scatterometer missions would provide a 40% to 60%

-  Tandem, wide-swath scatterometer missions would provide a 40% to 60%
-    timeliness improvement

## Ocean SVW:  What do the forecasters want?

**Vectors into the surf.****.**
**	****--Close enough to cover inner zones**** local **
**Data every hour (or better).**
**	****--Support operational forecast cycle.**
**2.5 km resolution (or better).**
**	****--Initialize GFE**
**	****--Define local mesoscale features**

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Possible minimums

*Temporal resolution  6 hours*

*Better match to forecast cycle*

*Spatial resolution  10 km*

*Define local mesoscale features*

*Land mask 10 to 15 km*

* **50% of inner zones*
* **Data in Chesapeake Bay, Long Island Sound, etc.*

## Other considerations

*Display*

*Integrated within AWIPS*
*Ability to display as image (user defined color tables)*
*All of the data (not just wind vectors)*

*Education*

*Must support SOOs in training*
*Gain forecaster confidence in data*

*Accuracy*

*Able to determine Yes/No SCA, SCA vs. gale, etc.*
*Accurate within active weather systems*
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## Conflict Resolution

## Overview

- Definition
- Negotiation tips
- Conflict resolution strategies
- Practical exercise

## Conflict Defined

- “State of disharmony”
- -Webster
- “...conflict occurs when two opposing parties have interests or goals that appear to be incompatible”
- -Richard Hughes
*Leadership, Enhancing the Lessons of Experience*

## Conflict Defined

- “*There are times in life when we confront values worth fighting for.  This is one such time*.”
- George Bush before the allied attack on Iraq
- “*Should the Americans become embroiled, we will make them swim in their own blood*.”
- Saddam Hussein before the allied attack on Iraq

## Conflict is most likely to occur when...

- High level of interdependence
- Differences of beliefs
- Resources/rewards are scarce
- Stress
- Uncertain environment
- COMMUNICATIONS

## Its a tough job

- Win/lose
- Zero-sum
- Unresolvable
- BUT, may have positive effects
- Increased team effort
- Better understanding of team members
- Impetus for change
- Still not a good reason to seek conflict!

## Negotiation Tips

- Prepare
- Physically/mentally
- Keep people and problem separated
- Fix processes, not people
- Focus on Issues
- Interest Vs. position
- Seek win-win
- Not always realistic--but always a great goal

## Strategies

- Assertiveness

- Cooperation

- Competition

- Compromising

- Avoidance

- Accommodation

- Collaboration

## Strategy

- Each strategy has its time and place
- Recognize how everyone is oriented with respect to assertiveness and cooperation
- Follow negotiation tips
- Realize limitations, but be optimistic

## When would you use...?

- Competing
- Accommodating
- Avoiding
- Compromising
- Collaborating

## Conclusion

- Review
- Define conflict
- Negotiation tips
- Strategies
- Practice
- Conflict resolution is situational
- Your counseling skills tie into conflict resolution
# Presentation: 751665

## The Addiction-Obesity Connection

**The Addiction-Obesity Connection**

**Brookhaven Science Associates****U.S. Department of Energy**

**Notes:**
Obesity

## Slide 2

## United States of Obesity

**Time**.com June 7, 2004

**Brookhaven Science Associates****U.S. Department of Energy**

## Dopamine D2 images of Drug Addiction

**Cocaine**

**[****11****C]raclopride**

**Dopamine D2 images of Drug Addiction**

**Cocaine**

**Alcohol**

**Heroin**

**Notes:**
Dopamine D2 images of Drug Addiction

## Obesity

**Compulsive overeating shares many of the same characteristics as drug addiction.**

**Obesity**

***Do obese subjects have abnormal  levels of D2-receptor?***

**10 severely obese subjects****	****(BMI: 51±5 kg/m****2****)**
**10 age-matched controls  (BMI: 25±3 kg/m****2****)**

**Notes:**
Purpose

## Lower dopamine receptors in obese than in control subjects

**[****11****C]raclopride**

- Wang et al, Lancet 2001

**Notes:**
Dopamine Receptors

## Food Stimulation

## Brain Dopamine Response to Food Stimulation

**(Bmax/Kd)**

**Placebo/Neutral**

**MP/Food**

**p < 0.005**

- 1.5

- 0

- ml/g

- Volkow, et al, Synapse 2002

**Desire for Food**

**% Change Bmax/kd**

**p < 0.01**

**Neutral**

**Food**

**Brookhaven Science Associates****U.S. Department of Energy**

## Cue-induced increases in DA were associated with craving

*Cue-induced increases in DA were associated with craving*

***P < 0.002***

**% Change Bmax/Kd**

**-0.50**

**0.0**

**0.50**

**1.0**

**1.5**

**2.0**

**2.5**

**Putamen**

**Relationship between Cue-Induced Decreases in **
**[C-11]raclopride Binding and **
**Cocaine Craving**

**Caudate**

**Putamen**

**Neutral**

**Cocaine-Cues**

**Bmax/Kd**

***P < 0.05***

***P < 0.01***

- Volkow et al, 2006

## Brain Activation with Methylphenidate Induced Cocaine Craving

**Brain Activation with Methylphenidate Induced Cocaine Craving**

**Placebo**

***Orbitofrontal Activation***

- Volkow et al Am J Psychiatry 1999

**Brookhaven Science Associates****U.S. Department of Energy**

## Brain Activation with Food Stimuli

**Neutral **
**Stimuli**

**Food **
**Stimuli**

- Wang et al, Neuroimage 2004

***Orbitofrontal Activation***

**Brain Activation with Food Stimuli**

**Brookhaven Science Associates****U.S. Department of Energy**

## Why do some people continue to eat when the stomach is full?

**Why do some people continue to eat when the stomach is full?**

- 18FDG-PET (IGS “on” vs IGS “off” in obese subjects)

**IGS**: Implantable gastric stimulator

**p < 0.04**

- Wang et al, PNAS USA 2006

## Decreased brain activation during cognitive inhibition of hunger

**Amygdala****Hippocampus****Cerebellum**

**Cingulate****Striatum**

## New intriguing questions

- Do obese subjects have the same ability to suppress craving?
- How about drug addicts?
- Are there differences between men and women in ability to inhibit hunger?
- Are the same brain regions involved in cognitive inhibition as involved in gastric stimulation?

## Thank You!Supported by DOE/OBER

**Thank You!****Supported by DOE/OBER**

**Brookhaven Science Associates****U.S. Department of Energy**
# Presentation: 689677

## Flexible, Lightweight, Amorphous, Silicon Solar Cells Tuned for Air Mass Zero (AMO) Spectrum

-   Optical modeling to calculate thicknesses of device layers for 		maximum AMO solar spectrum absorption
-   Deposition parameters for device layers optimized for 		performance of amorphous silicon solar cells in space
-   Construction of a dedicated tandem amorphous silicon 		deposition machine
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Company sales as a result of SBIR were $200K and growing
-   ITFT increased from a few employees to 12 full time and 8 part 		time employees
-   Phase III monies totaled $4.7M from several government and 		private sources.  The DOE National Renewable Energy Labs 		(NREL) is the largest government contract.
-   Private investment provided the financing of a just completed 		production facility

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   ITFT amorphous silicon modules for space applications 		are under evaluation at the NASA JPL
-   ITFT modules are under evaluation at the NREL/DOE 		Laboratory for terrestrial applications
-   Companies evaluating our material for space applications 	include Lockheed-Martin and TRW, which includes testing 	in space

- 1989 Phase II, SS#206, 10/97
- NASA Contact - Dennis Flood

- Lewis Research Center

**Flexible, Lightweight, Amorphous, Silicon Solar Cells Tuned for Air Mass Zero (AMO) Spectrum**

- Tandem amorphous silicon modules
- on a polyimide substrate

***Flexible Amorphous Silicon Modules on a Polyimide Substrate***

***Iowa Thin Film Technologies, Inc.***
***Ames, IA***
# Presentation: 048365

## Slide 1

## The International Polar Year is an intense scientific campaign to explore new frontiers in polar science, improve our understanding of the critical role of the polar regions in global processes, engage the public in polar discovery, and help attract the next generation of earth scientists. 

- The International Polar Year is an intense scientific campaign to explore new frontiers in polar science, improve our understanding of the critical role of the polar regions in global processes, engage the public in polar discovery, and help attract the next generation of earth scientists.
- Participation in the IPY allows the USGS to celebrate this enduring tradition with the rest of the global polar research community and to renew our commitment to polar science at a time when the world is focused on the extraordinary changes happening in these regions.

## Status of USGS IPY 

**Status of USGS IPY **

**EoI submitted on 1/12/05**
**Working group established **
**Kickoff meeting at ASC with PRB**
**Internal website for IPY established**
**Internal website established**
**Full proposal due in June**
**IPY coordination role identified within International Office**

## IPY International Themes 

**IPY International Themes**

**Current Status of the polar regions**
**Change - past and present, social and environmental**
**New Frontiers of Science**
**Unique Vantage Point**
**Human Dimensions**

## Slide 5

## Slide 6
# Presentation: 405823

## DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE SERVICE LICENSES AUCTION (DBS) #52

## Disclaimer

- 	These slides are provided by Bureau staff for informational purposes only. Nothing herein is intended to supersede any provision of the Commission's rules or public notices.  These slides should not be used as a substitute for a prospective applicant's review of the Commission's relevant orders, rules, and public notices.  Prospective applicants must familiarize themselves thoroughly and remain current with the Commission's rules relating to  DBS, rules relating to application and auction procedures, and the procedures, terms and conditions contained in the Auction No. 52 public notices.

## Form 159

##              Form 159

## Form 159

## Form 159

## FCC Form 159

-  	Applicants must fax a completed FCC Form 159 (Revised 2/03) to Mellon Bank at (412) 209-6045 at least one hour before placing the order for the wire transfer (but on the same business day).
-  	Detailed instructions for completion of the FCC Form 159 are included in Attachment E of Public Notice _**DA 04- 278 dated February 6, 2004**_**.**

## Continued

-  	All applicants are urged to do the  		following:
-  	*Print the electronic version of the  **	**	**FCC Form 159.  The form has been  **	**pre-filled based on the information  **	**that was provided on your FCC **	**Form 175 Application.*
* **	**Submit Wire Transfer Instructions **	**for Refund Purposes.*

- Refund Information

## Upfront Payments Deadline 

- 	All upfront payments must be received at Mellon Bank by 6:00 p.m. ET on June 18, 2004.
- 	All payments must be in U.S. Dollars.
-    	All payments must be made by Wire                	Transfer.

## Upfront Payments (Continued)

-  	Upfront payments for Auction #52 go to a lockbox number different from the lockboxes used in previous FCC Auctions, and different from the lockbox number to be used for post-auction payments.
-  	Failure to deliver the upfront payment by the June 18, 2004 deadline will result in dismissal of the application and disqualification from participation 	in the auction.

## Making Auction Payment By Wire Transfer

- 	Wire transfer payments must be received by 6:00 p.m. ET on June 18, 2004.  To avoid untimely payments, applicants should discuss arrangements (including bank closing schedules) with their banker several days before they plan to make the wire transfer, and allow sufficient time for the transfer to be initiated and completed before the deadline.

## Applicants will need the following information:

- ABA Routing Number:  043000261
- Receiving Bank: Mellon Pittsburgh
- Beneficiary:  FCC/Account # 910-0171
- OBI Field:  (skip one space between each information item)
- “AUCTIONPAY”

## Wire Transfer Instructions (continued)

- FCC Registration No (FRN):  (same as FCC Form 159, Block 11 and/or 21
- Payment Type Code:  (“A52U”)
- FCC Code 1:  (same as FCC Form 159, block 28A) enter “52”
- Payer Name:  (same as FCC Form 159, block 2)
- Lockbox No:  “358430”

## For additional questions, please contact:

- Gail Glasser – (202) 418-0578
- _[gail.glasser@fcc.gov](mailto:gail.glasser@fcc.gov)__ _
# Presentation: 219042

## LARP Magnet ProgramMeeting Summary

- S. Gourlay
- LARP Collaboration Meeting
- Napa, CA
- October 21, 2004

***bnl - fnal- lbnl - slac***

_**US LHC Accelerator Research Program**_

## Progress!

- Management Structure
- FY05 Tasks
- .... and a good look at ‘06

- Without qualification, a very productive meeting

## WBS

## Management Structure

**Magnet Steering**
**Committee**

- Ad hoc technical reviews as required

- MSC to recommend level 2 coordinators by Monday

## FY05 Program

- Action Items
- 	Draft quad program – detailed task sheets for TQ1 and TQ2
- 	New dipole task sheet
- 	Milestone summary
- 	Modify and detail existing Long Magnet task sheet – include 	organization of task with milestones. e.g. list of issues.
- 	Sub-scale quad
- 	Strand R&D
- 	Cable R&D

- Task sheet deadline is Dec. 15
# Presentation: 246649

## COM+ Simulation Architecture with Application to Tethers and Formation Flying Star Technologies CorporationGreat Falls, VA

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Developed & DemonstratedCOM+ Spacecraft Dynamic Tool (**SDT**) Application.
- Software Application Demonstration of incorporating New Reaction Wheel & other Models without re-compiling.
**Microsoft Corporation**** ****Team Member **in Phase II
- Providing Technical Expertise.
**	****	****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- SDT currently installed at Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, American Flywheel, MSFC Tether’s Program, GSFC Formation Flying Testbed.
- Export license obtained and previous version of SDT is in the Taiwan Nation Space Program Office-ROCSAT
- SDT currently under evaluation by several aerospace companies: Swales, Veridian & Integral Systems.

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

- 2001 Phase I, **NAS5-01195 **

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- GSFC has awarded contract to integrate Optical Systems Code, OSCAR, into SDT.
- SDT delivered to MSFC as part of an Electro-Dynamic Tethered Program
- SDT Installed in GSFC Formation Flying Testbed as part of Cross Technology Enterprise Program.
- Re-use of past NASA Mainframe Legacy FORTRAN programs  without re-coding.

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

**INNOVATION**
- Demonstrated Component Object Model (**COM**) software  architecture for true Plug-N-Play of Complex spacecraft software.
- Enables re-use of past NASA Mainframe Legacy FORTRAN programs  without re-coding.
- Provides Environment for incorporation of evolving scientific software.

- Points of Contact:
- NASA: Rich Burns (301) 286-9818
-  Star Technologies: Bob Strunce (703) 759-2933
- Program Yr:  2001  SBIR Phase I;
- Contract No:  NAS5-01195

**SDT/COM+**
# Presentation: 458161

## WHFSDatabase Data Exchange

**Jerry Nunn**
**West Gulf River Forecast Center**
**December 05, 2002**

## Software Package Overview

**Three Main Components:**
**Transfer (Copy) Component (WHFSTran)**
**Standardization Component ****(SNOOPY/UPDATEDB)**
**Consistency Check and Standardization Check Component (in production – dependent on CR project )**

## Database Transfer Program (WHFSTran)

**Preliminary version in almost every SR office with WHFS**
**Shell program**
**Runs twice weekly on cron**

## Database Transfer Program (WHFSTran - continued)

**Unloads database tables & schema**
**NOTE:****  ONLY Parametric data ****(no met. or hydro data tables)**** transferred**
**Makes output files smaller**

## Database Transfer Program (WHFSTran - continued)

**Transfers ****(tarred and compressed) ****files to central server ****(SRH)**
**Small file size increases program efficiency**
**SRH server:**
**allows full access **
**avoids firewall, password, permissions**

## Automated Database Standardization Package

**UPDATEDB**** – Batch scripts to update selected table entries ****(automatic);**
**SNOOPY**** - a GUI used to make changes ****(interactive);**
**Final design recently set;**
**Input from every region during the development and testing phase;**
**National Headquarters also involved**
** ****Goal:  Build consensus and “nationalize” the code.**

## Consistency and Standardization Check Program

**Under development**
**Most likely a “C” program**
**Logic: Patrick Sneeringer**
**Code: James Paul**
**Designed to be run at RFC and backup WFO**

## Consistency and Standardization Check Program (continued)

**Automatically downloads files ****(created by WHFSTran) ****from selected WFOs**
**Creates version of WFO database in INFORMIX at RFC ****(or backup WFO)**

## Consistency and Standardization  Check Program (continued)

**GUI-based program then checks each table**
**Looks for differences in databases**
**Changes approved by user**
**May be automated (WFO level)**

## Consistency and Standardization Check Program (continued)

**Discrepancies stored in new database tables**
**Known discrepancies can be skipped with next pass**
**Considerable user freedom to make changes ****(or not)**

## In Summary...

**Standardization and transfer functions almost complete**
**Consistency check function expected Spring 2003**
**Questions:  ****Patrick Sneeringer**** ****817-831-3289 X209**
# Presentation: 182023

## Advisory Circular Materials

- Pat Cahill
- Patricia.Cahill@FAA.gov

## Advisory Circular Materials

- Hook and Loop Material Only
- Flame Propagation versus Flame (“Fan”) or Deflection.
- Sample size will be discussed in subgroup meeting.
- Sewing Hook and Look samples will also be discussed in subgroup meeting.
- The FAA has not tested and Hook and Loop samples that have been sewn.

## Slide 3

## Seat Round Robin

- Pat Cahill
- Patricia.Cahill@FAA.gov

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

- Currently, 8 labs in the United States have oil burners set up for seat testing:
- Boeing Seattle
- Accufleet
- Starr Aircraft Products
- Custom Products
- Flame Out
- Skandia
- Govmark Labs
- Chestnut Ridge

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

**Test Samples**

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

- Testing is complete in the US
- Testing has not yet started outside the US
- We will to proceed through the Working Group to begin testing outside the US.
# Presentation: 746556

## Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Wisconsin                                                                                       For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

**Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Wisconsin                                                                                       For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

***Total SARs: 26,590***

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Wisconsin

- Note:  The pie chart represents the top nine characterizations plus additional characterizations in total.
-            An individual SAR may cite more than one characterization.  Hence, the number of characterizations detailed here significantly exceeds the total number of SARs.

**Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Wisconsin**
**For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Wisconsin Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filing Trend For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 783***

- Note:  Suspicious Activity Report statistical data is continuously updated as additional reports are filed and processed.  For this reason, there may be minor discrepancies between the statistical figures contained in this report and those in previous FinCEN reports.  Annual numbers for this exhibit are calculated by ***Subject Address*** and not filer address; therefore, the annual totals appearing in the above graph do not match those in Section 1, Exhibit 8 (Characterization of Suspicious Activity by State & Territory by Year).

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Wisconsin

**For the Period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Wisconsin

**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
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## England, 1820

## Brighton Chain Pier, 1830s

## Slide 3

## Menai Strait Suspension Bridge, 1826

## Robert Stephenson

- Robert Stephenson

## Britannia Tubular Bridge

## Slide 8

## John A.Roebling

- John A.Roebling

## “storms are unquestionably the greatest enemies of suspension bridges.”

- --*John Roebling*
*     **1841*

## Slide 11

## What made the Niagara Bridge work for railway traffic?“Weight, Girders, Trusses, and Stays”                              --John Roebling,                         Final Report (1855)

## Slide 13

## --Robert Stephenson to John Roebling

- “If your bridge succeeds, mine is a magnificent blunder”

## Slide 15

## Cincinnati-Covington(Ohio River)Bridge

- Cincinnati-Covington(Ohio River)Bridge

## Brooklyn Bridge, 1883

- Brooklyn Bridge, 1883

**    **

## Williamsburg Bridge, 1903

## Slide 20

## Ben Franklin Bridge

## Slide 22

## Slide 23

## Thousand Islands Bridge

## Deer Isle Bridge

## Bronx-Whitestone Bridge

## Slide 27

## Slide 28

## Tacoma Narrows Bridge

## Slide 30

## Slide 31

## Lessons Learned

-  wind is the enemy of 	suspension 	bridges
-  unstiffened decks are 	vulnerable to the wind

## Tacoma Narrows    Bridge

## Mackinac Straits Bridge

## Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

## Severn Bridge

- Severn Bridge

## Slide 37

## Slide 38

## Slide 39

## “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. . . .

## “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

*--George Santayana*

## Dee Bridge, 1847

## Tay Bridge, 1879

## Quebec Bridge

## Slide 45

## Milford Haven Bridge

## Slide 47

## A major failure every 30 years

- 1847 - Dee Bridge, trussed girder
- 1879 - Tay Bridge, truss
- 1907 - Quebec Bridge, cantilever
- 1940 - Tacoma Narrows Bridge, suspension
- 1970 - Milford Haven Bridge, steel box girder
- 2000 –London Millennium Bridge, pedestrian
- 2030 -  ?

## Slide 49

## Dong Ting Lake Bridge

## Clearwater Bridge

- Clearwater Bridge

## Slide 52

## Slide 53
# Presentation: 509579

## Logistical Networking for Energy Sciences

- Scott Klasky
**Oak Ridge National Laboratory**
- Terry Moore
**The University of Tennessee**

## The Internet Backplane Protocol

**A common service for state management in a shared network.**
**A basis for asynchronous communication.**
**Scalability comes from weak assumptions:**
**Maximum size and duration of allocation.**
**A highly generic, “best effort” service.**
**“****A weak network version of malloc.”**
**Robust services are built on top in *****an end-to-end manner *****!**
**The goal is scalability analogous to the Internet.**

-    Beck_LNES_SC07

## Internet Backplane Protocol

- Na

***Allocate!***

**Capability**

- Depot

- Nw

***Store!***

- Depot

**Data**

- Nr

***Load!***

- Depot

## Internet Backplane Protocol

- Na

***Copy!***

**Capability**

- Depot

- Depot

- Nr

***Compute!***

- Depot

## Three kinds of files

**Files stored locally (1)**
**Attached disk (direct, LAN or storage network)**
**Files represented as exNodes**
**exNodes stored locally (2)**
**exNodes stored in LoDN directory (3)**

**LoDN/****L-Store**

**App****Host**

## Logistical networking provides a “bits are bits” infrastructure

*One infrastructure serves all*

**Standardize on what we have an adequate common model for**
**Storage/buffer management**
**Coarse-grained data transfer**
**Leave everything else to higher layers**
**End-to-end services: checksums, encryption, error encoding, etc.**
**Enable autonomy in wide area service creation: security, resource allocation, QoS guarantees...**
**Gain the benefits of interoperability today!**

**Video**

**Satellite**

**Bioinformatics**

**Experimental**
**devices**

**Medical**
**imaging**

**Simulation**

**~PByte/sec**

## Fusion: Content distribution

**Ewok**
**cluster**

**Depots**

**NYU**

**PPPL**

**UCI**

**MIT**

**Portals**

**Directory****server**

**Jaguar**
**Cray XT4**

## Fusion: Location independent I/O

**NYU**

**PPPL**

**UCI**

**MIT**

**end user**

**Retrieve****metadata**

**Retrieve data from ****best-performing depots**

**Directory****server**

**2.**

**1.**

-    Beck_LNES_SC07

## SRM interoperability

## Slide 10

## Contacts

- Micah Beck
- Logistical Computing and Internetworking (LoCI) Lab Computer Science Department University of Tennessee
- (865) 241-2650
- mbeck@ornl.gov
- Scott A. Klasky
- Scientific ComputingNational Center for Computational Sciences
- (865) 241-9980
- klasky@ornl.gov

-    Beck_LNES_SC07
# Presentation: 565373

**Are you safe when using a ladder?**

- More questions? Call Jean Myers, x5200

- On this ladder the back rungs are designed for use.

**Use the correct ladder for the job.**
-    Non-conductive ladder near power lines or electrical equipment.
**Inspect the ladder before each use.**
**Only one person should climb at a time.**
**When climbing down a ladder, look before you step off a ladder to obtain a sure, safe footing.**** **
**Use the correct angle, supports, treads, crossbrace and rails.**
-    Keep ladders free from slipping hazards and place on firm level surface.
-    Use cross bracing on the rear of a step ladder for climbing only if it is designed for that purpose.
**Mark defective ladders and remove from service.  **
-    For help contact John Tully, x7334 or submit a work request.

**Notes:**
Specifically, Managers, supervisors and PIs have some key duties.  In a few moments you will work in pairs to discuss how you comply or conduct these:

Review and update employee Job Hazard Questionnaire (JHQ) when scope of work changes and annually.  This is 
Conduct On Job Training (OJT) and maintain documentation of it. 
   The reference manual contains a template that can be used as a form of OJT Documentation 
Conduct Workspace Inspections Quarterly:
Use the Walkaround Inspection Guide pamphlets
Comment on good work practices (behaviors)
Enter deficiencies
Observe work processes and make improvements where feasible
Ensure your employees have the correct PPE.
Review formal Authorizations (AHDs, etc.) annually.
Update the HEAR database annually.
Exercise Stop Work Authority when necessary.
Be familiar with the Lab’s incident reporting system. (ORPS, SAAR, Compensation,etc...)
Report all incidents and near misses

Turn to your neighbor and take the next 5 minutes to review what you think each task entails and/or how you conduct the following.
# Presentation: 265842

## Online Calibration System

- Taker
- User interface for Run configuration
- Crates and Mode of Calibration selected
- COOR
- Coordinates run, and sends Run configuration info to Calibration Manager.
- COMICS
- Downloads to Front-End.

## Online Calibration

- COOR

- COMICS

- Crates

- Calibration
- Manager

- Calibration
- Database

- Calib. Data
- Processor

- Database
- Interface

- Configure

- Request start run

- Request
- download

- Download

- Start run

- End run

- Data

- Pedestals
- Gains

- Pedestals
- Gains

- Comparison
- Results

- Database
- Access

- End calib.

- Start run,
- End run

**Online Calibration**
**System**

- Validator

- Calib Manager
- GUI

## Online Calibration System

- Data Processor
- Front-End or L3 task that collects data and calculates pedestals, gains, etc.
- Calibration Manager
- Server that receives calibration results in the form of special event message from Front-end or L3.
- Keeps track of crates that have completed calibration tasks.
- Sends Run stop command to COOR when all data are collected.

## Online Calibration System

- Sends data to Validation process.
- Receives the results of validation from Validation process.
- Asks user whether the calibration results should be committed to database via GUI.
- Calibration Manager GUI
- Displays the status of calibration tasks.
- User interface for database commit.
- Validator
- Compares the calibration results with the latest entries in the database.

## Calibration Manager GUI

## Online Calibration System

- Database Interface
- Python interface to ORACLE database based on dcoracle
- CVS packages
- onl_calib_system: Calibration Manager, Calibration Manager GUI, an example of Validator
- onl_calDbAccess: Database Interface
# Presentation: 933599

## Remote Diagnostics Server (RDS)Qualtech Systems, Inc.Wethersfield, Connecticut

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

**INNOVATION**
- This technology allows a complex system such as the International Space Station to be remotely monitored and diagnosed using advanced diagnostic models of the systems.  The solution provides automatic system health assessment, fault isolation and interactive testing and maintenance.

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Completed commercial software development and testing.
- Announced formal release of RDS v2.2 at AUTOTESTCON 2001.
- RDS incorporated and demonstrated in the Honeywell NOVA Wire Integrity Program.

**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- RDS is trademarked and has a Patent Pending status.
- Based on RDS, Qualtech is on a 5-year contract with Honeywell for the NOVA Wire Integrity Program.
- RDS has been leveraged by Honeywell and demonstrated to NASA JSC for remote monitoring of the International Space Station.
- RDS is being considered by five large equipment manufacturers for implementation in new their after-market internet based services for remote diagnostics.
- QSI was selected to winning Honeywell team for second generation RLV risk reduction with RDS identified as a potential architectural element.

***Intelligent Maintenance Procedures Generated by RDS on a Standard Web Browser***

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS_x0008_**
- RDS is a potential upgrade to the Joint Advanced Health and Management System (JAHUMS) for Army and Navy helicopters.
- RDS is a potential solution for ISS remote diagnostics.
- RDS is being considered as a solution to DoD Telemaintenance ACTD (Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration.)
- Estimated savings on ISS operations and maintenance could range from  $10M to $20M per year.

- SS-2-029

- SBIR 97-II    NAS2 99049
- 24.03-2099  / 9300492
# Presentation: 125090

##  Survivability 

## Issues 

- Postaccident events
- Lifejacket use

## Slide 3

## Survivors

- Fatalities

- Table

## Coast Guard Tower

**Coast Guard Tower**

## Tillamook Bay Bar  

**Tillamook Bay Bar **

**Air Station Astoria**

## Tillamook Bay Bar

**Tillamook**** ****Bay Bar**

- On Board the *Taki-Tooo*
- 	19 Total
-   8 Survivors
-   11 Fatalities

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## 46 CFR 185.508 

- The master of a vessel shall require passengers to don lifejackets when possible hazardous conditions exist, including, but not limited to:
- When transiting hazardous bars and inlets
- During severe weather
- In event of flooding, fire or other events that may possibly call for evacuation; and
- When the vessel is being towed, except a non-self-propelled vessel under normal operation conditions.
- (b)  The master or crew shall assist each passenger in obtaining a lifejacket and donning it, as necessary.

- 1.When transiting hazardous bars and inlets

## Coast Guard File Photo

## Slide 14

## Fatalities

## Slide 16
# Presentation: 436469

## Medicare Spending by Category, CY 2005

**Spending on Benefits:**
**Hospital (145.2 billion)**
**Skilled Nursing Facility  ($18.5 billion)**
**Home health care ($12.6 billion)**
**Physician fee schedule services ($57.8 billion)**
**Managed care ($47.1 billion)**
**Drug card subsidies ($1 billion)**
**Other ($48.2 billion)**
**Spending on Administration ($6.1 billion)**

**Source:** 2006 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds
# Presentation: 733496

## NIH MD/PhD

- INTRAMURAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
*Outstanding training for aspiring physician-scientists*

- This program offers training, activities and funding for MD/PhD students who conduct their Ph.D. research in the intramural research program of the National Institutes of Health in preparation for a career as a physician-investigator in basic or translational science. Students earn the Ph.D. degree through Individual Partnerships with their medical school or through NIH Institutional Graduate Partnerships (GPP).
- PROGRAM FEATURES
-  Design innovative collaborative projects combining research conducted in an NIH laboratory
-  Earn your Ph.D. from a U.S. or international University
-  Take advantage of the extraordinary clinical and translational medicine resources of the NIH clinical center in Bethesda, MD
-  Receive the enhanced curriculum offered to M.D./Ph.D students at medical schools
-  Join a community of over 400 Graduate students at NIH
-  Receive tuition and stipend support for graduate school (*see *_*[http://](http://www.training.nih.gov/stipends.asp)*__*[www.training.nih.gov/stipends.asp](http://www.training.nih.gov/stipends.asp)*_)
* *Attend the annual National MD/PhD Student Conference in Colorado and other professional conferences...***AND**** ****MORE****!! ** *

** **
**PROGRAM CONTACTS**
***Richard Siegel, M.D., Ph.D******.***
- Program Director
- National Institutes of Health
- Bldg. 10 Room 13C103
- Bethesda, MD 20892
***Bridget Lampert, M.S.Ed***
- MD/PhD Program Managing Director
- National Institutes of Health
- Bldg. 2 Room 2W17
- Bethesda, MD 20892
- Phone:  301.496.6083
- Email: mdphd@mail.nih.gov

| ELIGIBILITY | APPLICATION |
| --- | --- |
| Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited College or University | Apply for an NIH partnership Ph.D. program through the GPP and separately apply to a U.S. M.D./Ph.D. program |
| Outstanding academic record and exceptional promise for a career in biomedical research | For candidates not currently enrolled in an NIH GPP, applications will be accepted through December |
| Previous laboratory research experience and a clear plan for training and a career as a physician-scientist | Admissions decisions are made in parallel with those of medical school M.D./Ph.D. programs
 |
| For medical school support, you must be accepted by an MSTP-funded MD/PhD program
 | Applications for current GPP students are due in June of the year you intend to apply for medical school |

**APPLY ONLINE**
**Graduate Partnerships Program**
**http://gpp.nih.gov**

***         ******For more information, please see the program home page***
-          _[http://gpp.nih.gov/Applicants/InstitutionalPartnerships/MSTPatNIH/](http://gpp.nih.gov/Applicants/InstitutionalPartnerships/MSTPatNIH/)_
# Presentation: 060300

## Waste Cost Forecasting

- James H. Scott
- Abaxial Technology, Inc.
- May 2005

## Why Forecast Waste Costs?

- Waste cost analysis is the cornerstone of cost forecasting and provides data regarding the true cost of waste
- Waste cost forecasting provides insight into future costs associated with generation, handling and disposal of waste
- Waste cost forecasting allows more realistic assessment of the institutional impact of waste generation

## Waste Cost Analysis

- The methodology adopted for the LANL waste cost analysis is the EPA Full Cost Accounting (FCA) method
- Costs are for a point in time (FY04)
- Costs are on a per unit basis
- No back end costs
- Accrued by activity
- Income from recycling (if any)is included

## Full Cost Accounting

- Accounting on an outlay basis
- Cost categories include:
- Conventional Costs
- Regulatory Costs
- Legal Costs
- Overhead
- Use process flow to define activities

## Waste Costs

- Conventional Costs	  Regulatory Costs             Overhead
- Procurement		   Permitting		G&A costs
- Transportation		   Notification		Health monitoring
- Waste handling		   Reporting		Spill response
- Waste management	   Monitoring		P2 training
- Storage		   	   WMC training		Outreach
- Disposition		   Inspections/audits	HazMat
- Site specific training	   	   Penalties/fines		Emergency response
- Site studies		   Regulatory Management	 Legal
- Construction

## Waste Streams

- Waste streams include:
- TRU
- LLW
- MLLW
- Rad Liquid
- Chemical/Hazardous

## Process Flow

## Waste Volume Forecast

- LANL produces an annual 5 year waste volume forecast for several waste streams.  LLW is shown below.

## Waste Cost Forecast

- Use the results of the waste cost analysis and the results of the waste volume forecast to produce a waste cost forecast based on FY04 waste cost
- Inflate waste costs in out-years by some suitable factor yet to be determined
- The maximum/minimum format will be used in the waste cost forecast.

## Summary

- LANL will develop a waste stream specific waste cost analysis for FY04 using the EPA Full Cost Accounting methodology.
- This cost analysis, coupled with the waste volume forecast, will produce a waste cost forecast
- The waste cost forecast will be used to assess the true cost of waste generation at LANL and the institutional impact of waste generation.
- Completion expected this summer.
# Presentation: 545399

## 2007 USDA ImageryPlanning & Coordination Meeting

***    ******MAPPS Lawsuit******Overview***

**Geoff Gabbott**
**USDA, FSA, Aerial Photography Field Office**

## MAPPS Lawsuit

**April 6, 2006****	****Complaint filed**
**June 9, 2006****	****Complaint amended**
**June 20, 2006****	****Motion to Dismiss, Notice of Hearing, & ****	****	****	****Memorandum in Support of Defendant’s Motion ****	****	****to Dismiss**
**July 11, 2006****	****Plaintiff’s Memorandum in Opposition of ****	****	****	****Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss**
**July 18, 2006****	****Reply to Memorandum in Support of ****	****	****	****Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss**
**Nov 14, 2006****	****Judge Ellis denied the government's motion to ****	****	****dismiss**
**Feb 2, 2007****	****Hearing set for 2:00 PM in Alexandria, Virginia**
**Dec 1, 2006****	****Request for Discovery issued**
**Dec 4, 2006****	****Request for Discovery received**

***MAPPS Lawsuit***

## MAPPS Lawsuit

***MAPPS Lawsuit***

## MAPPS Lawsuit

***MAPPS Lawsuit***