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## ChlamydiaSexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2000

- Division of STD Prevention

## Chlamydia   —   Number of states that require reporting of Chlamydia trachomatis infections: United States, 1987–2000

## Chlamydia   —   Reported rates: United States, 1984–2000

## Chlamydia   —   Rates by state: United States and outlying areas, 2000

- Note:  The total rate of chlamydia for the United States and outlying areas (including Guam, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands) was 254.8 per 100,000 population.

## Chlamydia   —   Rates by region: United States, 1984–2000

## Chlamydia   —   Rates by gender: United States, 1984–2000

## Chlamydia   —   Age- and gender-specific rates: United States, 2000

-  Age                Gender Total
- 10-14	73.9
- 15-19                  1,348.5
- 20-24                  1,381.7
- 25-29                     516.9
- 30-34                     200.0
- 35-39	83.8
- 40-44	37.9
- 45-54	15.6
- 55-64	  4.7
- 65+	  2.9
- Total                      256.9

- .0

## Chlamydia   —   Positivity among 15-24 year old women tested in family planning clinics by state, 2000

- Note:  States reported chlamydia positivity data on at least 500 women aged 15-24 years screened during 2000 except for Minnesota and Rhode Island.            SOURCE: Regional Infertility Prevention Programs; Office of Population Affairs; Local and State STD Control Programs; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

## Chlamydia   —   Trends in positivity among 15-44 year old women tested in family planning clinics by HHS regions, 1988–2000

- Note:  Trends adjusted for changes in laboratory test method and associated increases in test sensitivity. No data on laboratory test method available for Region VII in 1995 and Regions IV and V in 1996.                                                                                SOURCE: Regional Infertility Prevention Programs; Office of Population Affairs; Local and State STD Control Programs; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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## Web-Based Request-Oriented Scheduling Engine(ROSE)

- Web-Based Request-Oriented Scheduling Engine(ROSE)

- 2002 CDDF Proposal(2-year investigation)

- Investigators:  	John Jaap & Elizabeth Davis have been developing scheduling engines since 1978 and web applications since 1995.  They received Silver Snoopy awards for their Spacelab scheduling software.

## ROSE Scheduling EngineScope of Work

- Web Server

**Scheduling Engine**

**Modeling**

*Proposed*

*Improvements Proposed*

**Develop a request-oriented scheduling engine (ROSE) to operate in a web-based environment.  **
- The ROSE scheduling engine will be an incremental scheduler that processes a single request (adding one or more tasks to the timeline) and then waits for the next request.  Scheduling requests come from users via the web.
- ROSE will schedule innovative models which offer high-fidelity representation of the real world.  The modeling is a true advancement in the state of the art.
**Contract with Mississippi State University to provide ****consulting and a sample problem to demonstrate ****that the scheduling engine is useful for ****construction projects and new ****product development.****  **

- Data Repository

## ROSE Scheduling EngineApplications

- Recent investigation have shown a strong parallel between space activity scheduling, construction planning (i.e.; a new launch facility), and new product development (a new launch vehicle).  Planning and scheduling requires similar coordination of a large number of interdependent activities.  The requirements modeling method of ROSE has been demonstrated to meet the requirements for space activity scheduling and is believed to meet the modeling requirements for construction planning and new product development.**  **

_**Primary Application**_**Space Activity Scheduling**

_**Other Applications**_**Construction Planning****New Product Development****(Space Launch Initiative)**

## ROSE Scheduling EngineExpected Results

- ROSE Scheduling EngineExpected Results

**The scheduling engine produced by this research will be a giant step forward in the science of planning and scheduling.  This advancement in the state of the art will be demonstrated for space activities and for either large-scale construction projects or new product development****.**

**This technology at MSFC will enable ****us to pursue future work such as planning and scheduling the activities during a mission to Mars.**

**This technology will enable the Flight Projects Directorate to contribute to the Space Launch Initiative by providing the core technology of a planning and scheduling system for construction of a new vehicle.**

## ROSE Scheduling EnginePlan, Resources, Schedule

- Q1:	$3,000 – Software Subscription
- Q2: 	$4,000 – Hardware refresh  	(Hardware delivered in Q3 or Q4)
- Q5:	$3,000 – Software Subscription
- Q6:	$20,000 – Contract with MSU 	(Task to be completed in Q7 and Q8)Total:  $30,000 (2 years)

- 1.5 FTE Continuous
- Total:  3 FTE (2 years)
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## The Healthy Living Program: How to Bless Your Heart

- Nancy M. Bennett M.D., M.S.
- The Center for Rochester’s Health
- Monroe County Dept of Public Health
- James Jones
- Center for Lifetime Wellness
- University of Rochester

## 
Background
Program Development
Results
Program Description 

- Background
- Program Development
- Results
- Program Description

**The Healthy Living Program: Bless Your Heart**

## Slide 3

## Adult Health Goals

- Promote Healthy Behaviors that Reduce the Risk of Chronic Disease
- Promote Optimal Use of Preventive Health Services_ _

## Healthy Living Partnership 

- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- American Lung Association
- Arthritis Foundation
- Insurers - Excellus, Preferred Care
- Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency
- Health Systems - Strong, ViaHealth, Unity, Lakeside
- Monroe County - Health Department and Office for the Aging
- University of Rochester

## Physical Activity: Gateway to other behaviors

- Smoking cessation
- Improved nutrition
- Mental health improvements
- Add physical activity rather than taking away other pleasures!

## Healthy Living Partnership Strategies

- Broad Communications Campaign:
- 	Be Active Rochester
- Healthy Living Program
- Rochester Walking Challenge
- Prescriptions for physical activity
- Worksite Health Alliance

## Healthy Living Program

- Targets inner-city community
- Based in churches and community centers - CHHAP
- Developed in collaboration with the Center for Lifetime Wellness
- 12 week, 24 session program
- Health promotion curriculum
- Introduction to physical activity
- Individual care coordination based on health assessment

## Healthy Living Program Participants 2002–2004, n=804

**Mean Age:  ****	****	****51 years (19-92)**
**African-American:  ****	****	**93%
**Female****	****	****	****	****	**90%
**Education**
- HS or less**	****	****	****	**38%
- Some college**	****	****	**39%
- College graduate+**	****	****	**20%
**Insurance**
- Uninsured**	****	****	****	**7%
- Medicaid/Medicare			19%
- Private					70%

## HLP Risk Factor Profile N = 804

- Overweight/Obese		86%
-    (BMI_>_25)
- Hypertension	 		43%
- High Cholesterol		28%
- Diabetes				17%
- Current Smoking		  7%
- Heart Disease			  5%

## HLP Physical Fitness Level

## HLP Exercise Participation

***Meets 2010 Goal:  Moderate: 5x weekly for 30 minutes;  Aerobic: 3x Weekly for 20 minutes***

## HLP Dietary Guideline Compliance

- Self reported compliance with USDA recommendations

## Improvements in Health: Measures

- BMI
- 50 foot walk time
- Chair rise repetition
- Sit and reach
- Joint flexion - shoulders and hips

## Overall Health (self-reported)

**Overall Health (self-reported)**

## Summary

- Improving physical activity and nutrition are key to improving health
- Gains are modest but build towards sustained health improvement
- Faith and community based programs engage participants in comfortable, safe and convenient environments
- Fellowship is one key to success

## Slide 17

## Slide 18
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## LOBSTER ASSESSMENT

- ASPIC MODEL
- DATA:	LANDINGS AND ABUNDANCE INDICES
- ASSUMPTIONS:  STATE OF STOCK AT START OF DATA
- ESTIMATES: MSY, CURRENT BIOMASS AND FISHING MORTALITY
- 	        OVERFISHED?  OVERFISHING?

## Relative Abundance indices

## Landings: Scenario Recent fisheries (post 1970)

## Landings: Scenario Old fishery PR (post 1945)

## Landings: Scenario Old commercial fishery PR and recreational (post 1945)

## DIFFERENCES IN LANDING SCENARIOS

## Data used 1970-onwards

## Different data scenarios

## Slide 9

## USA and Bahamas

- CUBA

- ALL CARIBBEAN

- SOUTH AND EAST OF PUERTO RICO
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## Artistic Impression of a Cave Tour 

**Artistic Impression of a Cave Tour **
**By Joel Barker**
**You must obtain copyright permission for use.**

## Some of the first visible formations you will see entering the cave will be  cave popcorn.

- Some of the first visible formations you will see entering the cave will be  cave popcorn.

## Formations like soda straws start with a single drop of water.

## Endemic springtails can be found on the deepest known Douglas Fir  tree root.

- Endemic springtails can be found on the deepest known Douglas Fir  tree root.

## A light shining through the translucent cave bacon shows the banding.

## A fault line at the Belly of the Whale creates the look of a whales backbone.

## A section of the historic tour route that is no longer in use is visible in the Dry Room.

## The Imagination Room is also located above the historic tour route. Fifty years ago you would have been climbing up and down iron ladders and crawling over rocks.

## The twilight zone located at the 110 opening is a natural exit, most bats including the Townsend Big-Eared bat can be found here.

- The twilight zone located at the 110 opening is a natural exit, most bats including the Townsend Big-Eared bat can be found here.

## The Grand Column can be viewed as you venture down the spiral staircase.

## In the 1930’s an historic wedding took place in Miller’s Chapel.

## The largest room, called the Ghost Room, contains the most complete set of jaguar fossils found in North America, believed to be 38,600 years old.

## Paradise Lost is a dome pit that is highly decorated with draperies and worth the climb to see.

## At Angel Falls you can watch luminescent  formations glow under an ultraviolet light.

## Along the exit trail you can see how the cave marvelously preserved black bear bones for over 3000 years.

## Oregon Caves National Monument has much more to offer then just the caves.  There are 6 miles of adventurous trails through 480 acres of old growth forest. See you soon!
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## Short Story

- BAT detects the spectral signature of cold, otherwise invisible particles, in two powerful quasar jets
- For the first time we can count ALL particles in the jet!
- Energy budget of jet dictates heavier particles MUST be present: PROTONS

**Powerful quasar jets are made of e-p**

## Cosmic fireworks

- Jets originate
- near the
- supermassive
- black hole

## They move FAST

- ... almost as fast as light: v=0.999c!
- Relativistic
- This enhances the emitted light (*beaming*); very bright, visible from very far

## What are jets made of?  A long standing debate

- Matter; magnetic fields
- Must be neutral: either *pairs* e+e-(electron-positron) or *electrons-protons** e-p*
- Which one: pairs or e-p?

## How we weigh jets (1)

- We see the hot (relativistic) particles because they emit light
- Comptonization allows us to see the cold (non relativistic) particles

- The long story...

## How we weigh jets (2)

- Cold particles Compton-scatter external radiation around jet
- A **big bump** in the X-ray light distribution, peaking at 10 keV
- Never observed before! Too small energy window, intrinsically transient feature
- When bump observed: derive **number** of cold (invisible) particles

## BAT observes 4 quasar jets

- Distance ~ 11 billion light years
- Luminous!
- Shining in our eyes

- A BAT Image

## Light distribution

- As observed before. Boring!!

## The other two: Surprise

- The big bump! Signature of COLD particles

## Need protons!

- Energetic budget of jet: to keep up motion need to have Pjet >> Lrad
-        kinetic energy must be
-      larger than emitted energy
- Pairs do not make it – too light

## Why protons? 

- Make jet neutral
- Heavier than electrons, can carry the momentum/kinetic energy further down the jet

**Total mass in the jet:**
**              ****about 1 planet Jupiter**

## Summary

- Jet composition is no longer a mystery
- Energy budget of jet dictates heavier particles MUST be present: PROTONS
- Total mass in jet: 1 Jupiter
- Swift paves the way for GLAST
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## SNS Harp Electronics Design

**March 13, 2003**
**ORNL**
**by Mike Plum**

**SNS Harp Workshop**

## Signal levels from tungsten wires

- If we assume:
- A dynamic range of 200 for a given profile,
- That we would like to measure beam profiles for beams with peak currents that can vary by a factor of 100,
- A factor of four safety margin for estimates of signal levels,
- Tungsten wire
- Then:
- Need electronics for signal range of 7 nA (7 fC) to 8.4 mA (8.4 nC) for 25 micron diameter wire, or
- 32 nA (32 fC) to 40 mA (40 nC) for 100 micron diameter wire.

## Signal levels from tungsten wires (cont.)

## Harp electronics (cont.)

- Dynamic range is a problem.
- If we really want a dynamic range of 200 for a given profile, and want to measure beam profiles for beams with peak currents that can vary by a factor of 100, we’re talking about a dynamic range of a bit over 1,000,000.
- Gain ranging makes the system more complicated.
- Can we settle for reduced measurement accuracy for low beam currents? We do this at LANSCE, and it has worked well for us.

## Harp electronics

- Propose design that has been shown to work well at LANSCE:
- Integrating electronics.
- Gate width of a few microseconds
- Gate initiated by signal from ring extraction kickers.
- Differential input to minimize impact of electronic noise.

## Harp electronics requirements

| Number of channels | 90 |
| --- | --- |
| Peak signal level | 8.4 mA (8.4 nC) for 25 u dia. W wire40 mA (40 nC) for 100 u dia. W wire |
| Dynamic range | TBD |
| Trigger | Signal from ring extraction kicker or equiv. |
| Linearity | <1% |
| Self test | Yes |
| Background subtraction | In software |

## Slide 7
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## A ROADMAP FORDIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS“Seven Steps”  

- Frank Carr
- Susan Shearouse
- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Questions to Consider

- What makes a conversation difficult?
- How do we react to having a difficult conversation in the workplace?
- Avoid
- Confront

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Seven Steps

- Set the Tone
- Listen to the Person
- Remain Calm
- Provide Feedback
- Express Empathy
- Consider the “ME” in the Problem
- Try Blending and Redirecting

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Set the Tone

- Power Conflict
- Escalation
- Underestimate
- Irrational Response
- Reduce Tension
- Setting/Environment
- Your Voice
- Refreshments

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Listen to the Person

- Apply Effect Listening
- Hear the Words
- Interpret the Body Language
- Acknowledge Cultural Differences
- My Culture
- Your Culture
- Recognize Interests
- Individual Needs
- External pressure

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Remain Calm

- Recognize Emotions
- Intent
- Impact
- Deal with Anger
- Verbal
- Physical
- Reject Unacceptable Behavior
- State Impact
- Create an Agenda

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Provide Feedback

- Reasons for Feedback
- Understanding
- Clarity
- Completeness
- Awareness
- Feedback Techniques
- Paraphrasing
- Questions
- Summarize

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Express Empathy

- What is it?
- Sympathy
- Empathy
- Am I comfortable with empathy?
- Natural trait
- Work at it
- How do I express it?
- Acknowledgment

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Consider the “ME” in the Problem

- Motivational Value System
- Working Styles
- Driver
- Analytic
- Amiable
- Hub
- Conflict Reaction
- Attack
- Withdrawal
- Concede

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Try Blending and Redirecting

- Neutralize the Behavior By “Blending”
- Seek a Constructive Path by “Redirecting”

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Terms

- “Blending”: Reducing the differences between you and another in order to meet them where they are and move them to common ground.
- “Redirection”: Changing the direction of communications after blending.

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC

## Summary

- A difficult conversation is the one that you would rather avoid.
- I have to decide whether or not to have the difficult conversation.
- There are seven steps that can help me prepare for the difficult conversation.

- Carr, Swanson and Randolph LLC
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## The Open Science Grid:  Bringing the power of the Grid to scientific research

- www.opensciencegrid.org

## The Open Science Grid...

- Brings petascale computing and storage resources into a uniform grid computing environment
- Integrates computing and storage resources from over 50 sites in the U.S. and beyond

- A distributed computing infrastructure for large-scale scientific research

## OSG Members 

- Universities
- National laboratories and computing centers
- Scientific collaborations
- Grid projects and alliances

**OSG Consortium Meeting, August 2006**

- OSG welcomes new members, partners and collaborators.
- OSG members today represent:

## OSG News

- OSG users have consumed over seven million hours of CPU time in 2006.

## OSG Infrastructure

- OSG sites provide computing or storage resources for grid users and a common infrastructure to access these resources.

## Using OSG Today

- Applications run on
- the OSG from
- Astrophysics
- Bioinformatics
- Gravitational-wave physics
- Mathematics
- Nanotechnology
- Nuclear and particle physics
- And more...

## Used for Particle Physics 

**The CDF Collaboration**
- Measuring the Bs meson

**The ATLAS Collaboration**
- Will be searching for supersymmetry

- Central view of the ATLAS detector with its eight toroids around the calorimeter, before moving it in the middle of the detector. *Image © CERN*

- A scan through matter - anti-matter oscillation frequencies for the Bs meson.

## Used for Math and Biology

**Football Pool Problem**
- Solving a famous problem in
- mathematical coding theory

- Illustration of the football pool problem. Researchers look for the smallest set of columns of the matrix such that every row is covered by the set of chosen columns.

- The PUMA2 application uses GADU to provide analysis of protein sequences.

**Genome Analysis and Database Update****      **Supporting high-throughput genetic sequence analysis

## Used for General Relativity   

**The Laser Interferometer **
**Gravitational-Wave**
**Observatory (LIGO)**
- Detecting and measuring
-      cosmic gravitational waves
- Studying general relativity as a manifestation of the curvature of space-time

- Image illustrates sensitivity to Inspirals.
*Image courtesy LIGO*

## Used for Astronomy

**SDSS, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey**

- NGC 5257 and 5258, two spiral galaxies in the constellation Virgo, are seen in the midst of a collision that has taken on the order of a billion years. *Image courtesy SDSS*

- 2.5-meter telescope on Apache Point, NM

- Creating detailed optical images covering more than a quarter of the sky, and a 3-D map of about a million galaxies and quasars

## Used for Nuclear Physics

- Preliminary STAR result shown at Hard Probes 2006 by Y. Lu, based on analysis of events transferred to China over the Grid.

**The STAR Collaboration** Determining the properties of matter         in the early universe

- Collision of gold beams in the STAR detector.            *Image* © *Brookhaven National Laboratory*

## OSG Partners

**Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW)**
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## Personal Air Vehicle

- By Robert Brown and Nikhil Srivastava

- Contributions from:
- Dr. Siva Thangam

## This is an artist's concept of a dual-mode road to air vehicle, a 'flying car.'

## A Flying Car—What would it take?

- 				  _Concept _
- A “roadable” aircraft that gives people the option to drive or to fly
- _Why?_
- Basically, a question of time
- “Point to point mobility” can be dramatically increased with a dual-mode vehicle

## The Process

- Research: Websites, Magazines, News Articles, other published works
- Comparison/rating of existing designs using evaluation metrics
- Preliminary conceptual design
- Testing of design using principles of fluid dynamics
- Building a prototype?

## Sample Metrics (Specifications)

- Ease/Speed of convertibility
- Fits on roads/parking spaces/garages
- Propulsion: fuel efficiency, type of engine
- Size: passenger capacity, cargo, fuel
- Takeoff/Landing: runway length, noise
- Weight distribution

## Important Guidelines

- Fuel Sources Involved
- Emissions
- Noise issues
- Cost Analysis
- Surveys for user demographics
- Ground systems to support transportation

- Nikhil’s design
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- Security and Collaboration Tools

## Requirements 

- Access should match the level of protection required by the data
- No authorization necessary for some read only applications
- Cert required for protected reads and all writes when used by collaborators
- KCA provides increased confidence in identity (directly tied to kerberos principal)
- Must support systems with OS baseline
- CA is a restricted central service

## Authorization Mechanisms

- Group account
- Individual accounts over SSL
- DOE Grid Certs
- KCA Certs

## Least Desirable

- Group account
- Weak identity verification
- Read only, can’t publish information
- Data that would otherwise be public to prevent spidering and indexing.
- Because all required termination of accounts must be managed by CNAS:
- Users who lose their affiliation must be assumed to continue reading
- Password will be vulnerable: sniffing, from application server or phishing
- It can be shared by people.
- Individual accounts over SSL
- Weak identity verification
- Read or publish information
- Because all required termination of accounts must be managed by CNAS:
- Users who lose their affiliation must be assumed to continue reading or publishing data
- Password will be vulnerable: from application server, phishing
- Sensitivity of information requires greater protection than group password.

## Recommendation

- DOE Grid Certs
- Strong identity verification
- Read or publish information
- User privileges can be revoked
- No password vulnerability
- Can support non FNAL usage
- Organization based authorization
- Long lifetime
- KCA Certs
- Strong identity verification
- Read or publish information
- User privileges can be revoked
- No password vulnerability
- Restricts usage to FNAL only
- Requires frequent renewal (but application doesn’t need to check CRL)
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## NASA Advisory Council Meeting

- Report of the Exploration Committee
- 18 May 2006

## PRE-RECOMMENDATION DRAFT

- Committee Name: Exploration
- Chair: LGEN Abrahamson
- Date of Public Deliberation:	May 18, 2006

## Space Suit Development 

- Program requirements have not been solidified for space suits that will be required for:
- 		-CEV/ISS missions (need date ~ 2012)
- 		-lunar sortie missions (need date ~ 2018)
- 		-lunar long duration missions (need date ~?)

- The program architecture should be defined in a time frame that would permit suit development cycles that will meet the hardware need dates for these critical elements

- Outline of major reason(s) for proposing the recommendation:
- If the proposed action is not taken in a timely manner it is possible that this critical piece of hardware will not be available when needed.
- Outline the consequences of no action on the proposed Recommendation:
- 		-Possible delay in execution of the program.

- Discussions are preliminary.  Further fact finding during July visit to JSC is needed
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## MTAC Workgroup 116Great Addressing toIncrease the Value of Mail

- MTAC Update
- November 7, 2007

**Postal Co-chairs:****	****	****Industry Co-chairs:**
- Charles Hunt			Jody Berenblatt
- charles.hunt@usps.gov		jody.berenblatt@bankofamerica.com
- James Wilson			Chris Lien
- james.d.wilson@usps.gov		chris.lien@businessobjects.com

## Issue Statement for Workgroup 116

- Mail is an important communication tool for businesses
- Cost effective way to promote goods and services
- The Value of mail is lost when the mail does not  arrive, arrives late (“stale”), or is delivered to the wrong recipient
- Inaccurate/Inadequate address information
- Individuals have moved or are deceased
- Message is unwanted and/or offensive

## Discussion Topics Thus Far

- Identified the types of “unwanted” mail
- Identified different types of suppression lists and attributes
- Source, costs, purpose, potential benefits
- Considered USPS offering a consolidated approach to offering suppression lists via “link” technology
- The workgroup dismissed this approach in favor of the industry offering this and self policing
- Considering having the DMA offer their tools via a “link” format to facilitate broader application

## Discussion Topics Thus Far - Continued

- Noted that certain postage discounts may promulgate unwanted or undesired mailer behavior
- Presort optimization, high-density discounts
- Suggested not counting addresses flagged for suppression when calculating high-density routes
- Discussed environmental benefits of mail
- Established an outline of a report
- Will include data suppression, mining, and best practices to improve mail value
- Will include environmental and economic value of mail

## Concerns Express Related To This Workgroup

- Are there unintended consequences?
- Will the illumination of the various suppression lists work against the industry?
- Is this workgroup appropriate for MTAC?
- Does it fit within the traditional role of an MTAC workgroup?
- Is there technical advice that this group can provide in the spirit of what MTAC represents?
- What will our final product be?
- Are there other resources beyond a report that we can provide or suggest?

## Next Steps

- Continue working on a report
- The value of mail – economic and environmental
- Setting the record straight – Responding to the myths, misunderstandings, and misguided comments about mail
- Suppression Lists – what they are, how to use them
- Application of available address quality tools
- Best practices
- Return on investment
- Data Mining – targeting the right person the right way and reducing duplicate mail pieces within the same mailing
- How to get involved – sources for more information and associations
- Workgroup is scheduled to conclude February 29, 2008
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## UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL:CLASS V WELLS

- Douglas Minter
- UIC Program
- EPA Region 8

## CLASS V WELLS

- Define Class V wells
- Explain how EPA regulates   Class V wells
- Describe additional proposed regulatory requirements
-  Explain how EPA implements    Class V field program

## DEFINE CLASS V WELLS

-  Uses of Class V wells:
-   Associated businesses and government facilities
-   Harmful vs. beneficial uses

## Slide 4

## DEFINE CLASS V WELLS

-  Configurations of Class V wells:
-  Sump and separator system
-  Drainage well or drywell
-  Septic system

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## EXPLAIN HOW EPA REGULATES CLASS V WELLS

-  Inventory requirement (40 CFR 144.26)
- All new and existing Class V wells
-  Does not apply to small capacity     (< 20 persons / day) sanitary discharges

## EXPLAIN HOW EPA REGULATES CLASS V WELLS

-  Non-endangerment standard            (40 CFR 144.12(a)
- Emphasis on prevention, not remediation

## EXPLAIN HOW EPA REGULATES CLASS V WELLS

- Low-risk versus high-risk wells
- To date, high risk wells include motor vehicle waste disposal wells, industrial disposal wells and large capacity cesspools
- Facilities w/ high risk wells can include vehicle repair / washing operations, RV dump stations, paint / autobody shops, and stormwater wells in industrial areas.

## PROPOSED ADDITIONAL REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS

-  Protect source water and other sensitive areas by:
-  Banning new large capacity cesspools & phasing out existing ones
-  Banning motor vehicle waste disposal wells
-  Introducing new requirements for industrial disposal

## HOW EPA IMPLEMENTS CLASS V FIELD PROGRAM

-  Inventory and risk assessment
- Mass mailings, mtgs w/ local govts
-  Compliance assistance
- Permit or close high risk wells
-  Monitoring and enforcement
- Notices of violation and administrative orders

## Class V Field Program

- EPA Contacts:
- Region 8 Class II wells:
- Dan Jackson  (303) 312-6155
- Region 8 Class V wells:
- Douglas Minter  (303) 312-6079
- Other Regions’ contacts listed in student manual
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## SCID options

**SCID options**

- Consider designs with vacuum chamber at intercept temperature (~20-60K)

- Pole/yoke/coil structure (4.2K)

- Vacuum chamber (~20-60K)

- UHV beamtube

- Separate vacuum spaces must be kept
- Trade-off between vac. Chamber wall-thickness and magnetic gap
- Single-stage cryocooler for intercept load

## SCID Designs

## IVID Designs

|  [cm] | g [mm] | B0 [T] | Be [T] | E1 [eV] | E3@K=0.5 | E5@K=0.5 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 3.0 | 5.0 | 1.67 | 1.38 | 135 | 3.0 K | 5.0 K |
|  | 5.5 | 1.50 | 1.28 | 154 |  |  |
|  | 6.0 | 1.38 | 1.18 | 177 |  |  |
| 2.7 | 5.0 | 1.50 | 1.28 | 205 | 3.3 K | 5.6 K |
|  | 5.5 | 1.35 | 1.17 | 237 |  |  |
|  | 6.0 | 1.20 | 1.08 | 270 |  |  |
| 3.3 | 5.0 | 1.88 | 1.50 | 89 | 2.8 K | 4.6 K |
|  | 5.5 | 1.67 | 1.38 | 103 |  |  |
|  | 6.0 | 1.50 | 1.28 | 118 |  |  |
# Presentation: 549168

## BUY AMERICAN ACT (BAA) 

**Mr. Mark J. Lumer**

## BAA ENVIRONMENT

**Federal Government including Department of Defense has laws, regulations and treaties:**
**BAA**
**General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade changed in 1995 to WTO**
**Free Trade Agreements (FTA)**
**Authorization and Appropriations Laws**

## BAA IMPACT

**Applies to End Products for public use within the United States**
**BAA applies to only the end item**
**Domestic=mined, produced or manufactured in the United States**

## EXCEPTIONS TO BAA

**Public Interest**
**Non-Availability**
**Unreasonable Cost**
**Resale **
**For DoD Reciprocal Memoranda of Understanding**

## Berry Amendment

**Applies only to DoD**
**Applies in Addition to BAA**
**More Restrictive than BAA**
**Textiles and Specialty Metals**
**Exceptions very difficult to obtain**

## QUESTIONS?
# Presentation: 281248

## http://phpartners.org/

**http://phpartners.org/**

## http://phpartners.org/

**http://phpartners.org/**

## http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html

**http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html**

## http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html#National%20Public%20Health%20Data%20Sets

**http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html#National%20Public%20Health%20Data%20Sets**

## http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/

## http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=tucson&_cityTown=tucson&_state=04000US04&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010

## http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=chicago&_cityTown=chicago&_state=04000US17&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010

**http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=chicago&_cityTown=chicago&_state=04000US17&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010**

## http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html#National%20Public%20Health%20Data%20Sets

**http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html#National%20Public%20Health%20Data%20Sets**

## http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/about.htm

**http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/about.htm**

## http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/stateinfo.htm

## http://www2.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss2/coordinator.asp

## http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/brfs/

## http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/about.htm

## http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss-smart/

## http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss-smart/viewrpt.cwr?id=471&apstoken=ACCD-KRH-CRSTL2.CDC.GOV@13278JCVQAdZ7uPO2k8uR13276J8avLFcug3nW7wFH&prompt0=88&prompt1=2006&cmd=Export&Export_FMT=U2FPDF:0

## http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html

**http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html**

## http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html#National%20Public%20Health%20Data%20Sets

## http://www.communityhealth.hhs.gov/
# Presentation: 220763

## Analyzing Fuel Supply ConcernsPresented toNational Energy Modeling System andAnnual Energy Outlook ConferenceWashington, DC  March 27, 2001Barry McNuttU.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Policy

## While DOE and Others Strongly Supported ULSD Introduction in 2006 or Earlier, theDiesel Fuel Rule was Unusually Contentious

*HDS Technology* was perceived to be well understood and high pressures are assumed (by many) to be required to assure reliable production of ULSD at the below 10ppm level
*Vehicle Emission Control Technology* necessitating this low sulfur level remains unproven in terms of its long term viability; i.e., the “need was undemonstrated”
- Very *high per barrel investments costs* and *differentially situated refineries* cause certain refineries to be “at high risk”
*ULS Diesel Demand* growth for light duty vehicles remains uncertain
- Diesel is a *secondary product* for most refiners (very little direct retailing, not a profit center, alternative markets for distillate material).

## While DOE and Others Strongly Supported ULSD Introduction in 2006 or Earlier, theDiesel Fuel Rule was Unusually Contentious(continued)

*System Deliverability was Questionable – would significant system changes be necessary:*
*Product Downgrade*
*Dirty Product Cleanup*
*Regulatory Blizzard *
*Financial and Engineering and Construction Problems*

## The “ Supply Problem” Raises its Head

- Very High and Differing Per Barrel Costs
- Nature of Diesel as a “Secondary Product” with Alternative Markets
- Cumulative Effects of Regulations on Refinery Viability (see June 2000 NPC Report)
- Leads Industry (API), EPA and Now DOE/EIA and GAO to seriously examine,  *for the first time*,  Supply Impact Potential of a fuel rule
***DOE takes the Potential Supply Problem Very Seriously, particularly in light of limited or no supply opportunities from Europe***

## If Supply Problems are the Key Issue,What Do We Need to Know?

- Demand Variability
- Refinery Capacity Investment
- Import Availability
- Transportation and Logistics Infrastructure
- Inventories
- Terminals
- Pipelines	 	Capacity and Seasonal Utilization
- Barges

## What Additional Tools Are Needed?

- Regulatory and consumer response to uncertain prices, availability, and performance
- Distribution network model for petroleum product pipelines, barges, and terminals with capacity expansion capabilities to seasonal maximum levels
- Modeling the Financial Behavior of Refiners
- Portfolio Analysis
- Incorporation of Risk
- International Petroleum Product Market Framework
- Regulatory
- Tax
- Refining Capacity
# Presentation: 920421

## 		 Education / Experience

**	****	******** ****Education / Experience**

**	****	**** ******** ****Modular Configuration**

**	****	******** ****Chamber Design**

**	****	******** ****Chamber Time Line Estimate**

- November 2007

- Mark A. Laurenti

**	****	******** ****Chamber Cost Estimate**

## Mark Laurenti

**	****Homestake (1983 – 2001)**
** ****Shaftman****	****	****	**
** ****Contract Miner**
** ****Mine Engineer Underground**
** ****Mine Foreman Underground**
** ****Chief Engineer Underground**
** ****Chief Engineer Surface**
** ****Technical Services Superintendent**

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007

**Mark Laurenti**

**	****Vulcan Materials (2001 – Present)**
** ****Underground Project Design & Construction Manager**
** ****Underground Plant Manager**
** ****McCook Reservoir (TARP) Project Manager**

**	****Education**
** ****BS Mine Engineering (SDSM&T 1983)**
** ****MBA (University of SD 2001)**

## MEGATON MODULAR MULTI-PURPOSE NEUTRINO DETECTOR

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007

****** ****Chamber Design**

**Controlled Blasting in Chamber**

**Could use Instrumented Cables for Engineering / Geotechnical Study**

## MEGATON MODULAR MULTI-PURPOSE NEUTRINO DETECTOR

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007

****** ****Chamber Design**

**Note !  3 Chambers Drilled in Costing**

## MEGATON MODULAR MULTI-PURPOSE NEUTRINO DETECTOR

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007

****** ****Modular Configuration**

## MEGATON MODULAR MULTI-PURPOSE NEUTRINO DETECTOR

- Mark A. Laurenti

- March 2007

****** ****Modular Configuration**

## 	General  Parameters

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007

****** ****Chamber Time Line Estimate**

**	****General  Parameters**

## MEGATON MODULAR MULTI-PURPOSE NEUTRINO DETECTOR

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007

****** ****Chamber Time Line Estimate**

**	****	****Design (3)****	****	****7 Months**
**	****	****Site Set up (6) ****	****	****9 Months**
**	****	****Excavate Chamber (1)****	****61 months**

**3 Chambers drilled**

**6 Chambers Accessed**

**1 Chambers Mined**

## MEGATON MODULAR MULTI-PURPOSE NEUTRINO DETECTOR

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007

## MEGATON MODULAR MULTI-PURPOSE NEUTRINO DETECTOR

- Mark A. Laurenti

- November 2007
# Presentation: 576248

## Fluctuations of Lake Eyre, South Australia 

## Snowfall in Southern Appalachia 

**11 December 2002**

**Notes:**
The snowstorm which swept across the eastern United States on December 4 and 5 also brought the season's first snow to parts of the south and southern Appalachia. The extent of snow cover over central Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina and Virginia are apparent in this view from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR). This natural-color image was captured by MISR's downward-looking (nadir) camera on December 7, 2002. 

The Appalachians are bounded by the Blue Ridge mountain belt along the east and the Appalachian Plateau along the west. Valleys and ridges between the higher elevation areas retain the green and reddish-brown hues of autumn, and many rivers and lakes appear blue and unfrozen. The highest peak in the eastern United States, Mount Mitchell, is found in North Carolina's western tip, near the Great Smoky Mountains (the dark-colored range at lower right). 

The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer observes the daylit Earth continuously and every 9 days views the entire globe between 82 degrees north and 82 degrees south latitude. This data product was generated from a portion of the imagery acquired during Terra orbit 15805. The image covers an area of 347 kilometers x 279 kilometers, and utilizes data from blocks 60 to 62 within World Reference System-2 path 19. 

MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. 

Image credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.
Text acknowledgment: Clare Averill (Acro Service Corporation/Jet Propulsion Laboratory). 

## Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #12
# Presentation: 199250

## SEEDING EQUIPMENTAndSEEDBED PREPARATION

## SEEDING EQUIPMENT

## Types of Seeder

- Grass Drill
- Grain Drill
- Air Seeder
- Broadcast
- 	All methods can be successful under certain situations

## Components of a Good Grass Drill

- Separate seed boxes with agitators
- Large seed hoses for fluffy seed
- Depth control (depth bands)
- Packing system

## Multiple Seed Boxes

**LEGUME BOX**
- (Usually in front)

**FLUFFY BOX**

**WHEATGRASS BOX**

## Legume or Small Seed Box

**Flowable small seed**
- Switchgrass
- purple prairieclover
- alfalfa

## Fluffy Box

- Picker wheel

- Seed Agitator

## Wheatgrass Box or Grain Box

-    Fluted feed system

- Simple shaft seed agitator

## Debearded vs. Fluffy Seed

## Is This Porcupine Grass Flowable?

## Fluffy box

- Large seed tubes

- Wheatgrass box
- Medium seed tubes

- Legume Box
- Small seed tubes

## Disc Drill Parts

- Packer wheel

- Disc opener with depth band

- No-till coulter

## Some Common Misconceptions

- You must have a grass drill to seed natives
- Debearded seed has poor germination
- Natives are hard to establish
- Grass seed is all the same
- Seeding into fluffy ground is okay because the packer wheels will pack the ground

## SEEDBED PREPARATION

## Steps in Seedbed Preparation 

- Weed Control
- Reduce plant residue
- Packing-forms a firm seedbed allowing seed placement at a controlled depth
- 2 Major Reasons grass seedings fail
- 	-Lack of weed control
- 	-poor seed placement

## Why is Seeding Depth Important?

## Types of Seedbeds

_**Clean tilled**_
- Worked and packed
_**Cover Crop**_
- 	Annual Crop Planted
_**No-Till**_
- 	Clean standing stubble
- 	Killed sod

## Properly Packed Clean-Tilled Seedbed

- Barely visible           adult human footprint

- Potential for wind and water erosion

## Is this a desirable seedbed?

- Soil clods and weeds

- Poor seed to soil contact

## Clean Stubble

- Moisture conservation
- Erosion control
- Firm seedbed
- Weeds controlled
- 	Is your seeding equipment capable of seeding into this and placing seed at proper depth?

## Chemically killed sod can provide an excellent no-till seedbed

- 	Results of a chemically killed smooth bromegrass sod that was burned and no-till seeded

## Fire removes excessive residue prior to seeding

## Know your species and prepare seedbed accordingly

- Fire, time, or tillage may be needed to allow decay of Kentucky bluegrass residue.

## Rewards of Proper Seedbed Preparation

**Uniform germination and emergence**

**Results in a well established stand**

## The End
# Presentation: 093161

## Distribution of dust traps in southern Nevada and California, 1984-present

**Distribution of dust traps in southern Nevada and California, 1984-present**

**Genesis of desert soils**

**Dust storms & climate**

**Dust sources**

**High dust flux follows periods of drought AND high precipitation**

**Salt- & carb.-rich dust from playas**

**Silt & clay from alluvial settings**

**Owens (dry) Lake dust – **
**high in As, Zn, Sb, Pb, Li**

**Human activities—agriculture, military, urbanization, recreation**

**Flux range: 0.5-10 g/m****2****/yr**

- Conclusions from early work:

## ENSO-dust relations & variations, central Mojave

**Dust flux (4 sites) and dust-storm frequency at Barstow correlate positively with years following both strong La Nina (dry) and El Nino (wet) years**

**Dust Flux**

**Previous year’s**
**ENSO  anomaly**

**Dust events are diminished under milder ENSO conditions**

**ENSO-dust relations & variations, central Mojave**

- (Okin and Reheis, 2002)

**Dust storm frequency**

## Dust increases with drought at sites with alluvial sources and some with playa sources

- <date/time>

## Dust increases with wetting events at some sites with playa sources

- <date/time>

## A wet-playa source:

**A wet-playa source:**
**Carson Sink, 4/28/04**

## Dust and precip relative to source type

**Dust and precip relative to source type**

## Source response to precip events--<50 μm

- Current year

- Prev year

- Prev winter

- Current winter

- Current summer

- Prev summer

## Source response to precip events--Salt

- Current winter

- Current summer

- Prev summer

- Current year

- Prev year

- Prev winter

## Wet playas produce dust when recently wetted! 

## Winter precip in previous year suppresses dust 

## Problems and future work

- Many dust traps not adjacent to playas so sources may be mixed.  Need more?
- 2-year collection interval difficult to interpret
- New seasonal (winter vs. summer) data coming
- Quantifying source strength relative to area; salts seem to increase everywhere in wet years, but may be distributed from wet playas
- Where do the salts go?  Global circulation?
- Groundwater pumping may affect response
- Scaling up; how to extrapolate
# Presentation: 224401

## Color Hydrogen Flame Imaging SystemDuncan Technologies, Inc. (DTI), Auburn, CA

- Innovation
-   -  The DTI system provides color images of invisible hydrogen flames.

- Accomplishments
- -  The product is being manufactured commercially in small production runs.
- -  Using two charge-coupled devices (CCDs) in the near-infrared and one in the visible,
-    the system identifies the flame image and superimposes it real-time onto a color video image
-    of the scene.
- -  The imaging device can detect a three-inch flame from 150 feet.
- -  The system outputs standard NTSC and S-Video signals and can be used as a color
-    surveillance camera in the absence of a hydrogen fire.
- -  User selectable output modes provide display of the infrared, color or superimposed image.

- Commercialization
- -	Potential users of the hydrogen flame color imaging system include hydrogen suppliers, refineries, petroleum companies, food and semiconductor processors, the fertilizer industry, cosmetic companies, the hydrogen vehicle monitoring and maintenance industry, and the race car industry.
- -  	This system can replace the risky “broom method” of detecting invisible flames. This method involves waving a cornstraw broom around a suspicious area in hopes the broom will ignite to reveal the fire.
- -	Thermal imaging and vidicon systems image non-flame sources and do not reference the
-       surrounding color scene.
- -	DTI is in the process of working a commercial sale with an American automotive manufacturer.
- -	DTI is also pursuing sales from other NASA field centers.

- Government/Science Applications
- -  Stennis Space Center is using the prototype system developed through the SBIR program to monitor hydrogen flame stacks during turbopump and other rocket component testing at its E-2 Facility.
- -   Stennis purchased six systems for use in its E-1 Facility for use in testing hybrid rocket motors, turbomachinery and small rocket engines.

- Points of Contact:
- NASA: Kirk Sharp, 228/688-1929.
- Duncan: Judy Duncan, 916/888-6565
- 1993 SBIR Phase II; NAS # 13-669

- Stennis Space Center
- Date of Update: March 24, 1998
- Success Story Contract  #SSC-00056-P2
- Success Story Number 13-002

**The system identifies the flame image and superimposes it real-time onto a color video image of the scene.      **
# Presentation: 705900

## ICD-GPS-705ORGANIZATION

- Dr Rhonda SlatteryARINC Phone:  310-726-1654Email:  rhonda.slattery@arinc.com
- 2 May 2001

## Briefing Outline

- Background
- ICD-GPS-705 Format
- Format Details
- ICD Configuration Management

## Background

- Description of the Interface
- Not a specification
- Defines power, syntax, & information (what the signal is)
- Doesn’t define limits on the signal (what the signal is not)
- User equipment manufacturers guaranteed that if they built UE to the ICD-GPS-705 interface definition, their UE would work
- Complementary to ICD-GPS-200 (L1/L2)
- Formats are similar
- Minimal duplication for easier configuration management
- Need ICD-GPS-200 to fill in details (USCG web site)

## ICD-GPS-705 Outline

- Main Body
- Introduction
**Requirements**
- Notes
- Appendices
- Letters of Exception
**Navigation Data Structure**

- Most Important to UE designers

## Introduction

- Scope of Document
- Describes the approval process
- Applicable Documents
- References
- Currently ICD-GPS-200 and ICWG Charter

## Requirements

- Codes
- Signal Structure
- Frequency and Power
- Correlation Loss
- Group Delay
- Polarization
- Navigation Data
- Modulation
- Neuman-Hoffman Code, Forward Error Correction

## Notes

- Acronyms and Definitions
- Supporting Material
- Mostly still undecided
- May describe expected limits on the signal
- Power Budget
- Bandwidth
- Phase Noise

## Navigation Data Structure

- Message Structure
- Message Content
- Including algorithms for use of variables
- Only differences from ICD-GPS-200 are described
- Timing of Messages
- Parity Algorithms

## ICD Configuration Management

- ICDs are continually growing documents
- Changes, new material are brought in through ICWG
- Even after approval - Interface Revision Notices (IRNs)

## Backup Charts

## Letters of Exception

- Signatories objections to part of the requirements
- SV Manufacturers
- Control Segment
- GPS JPO (including DOT)
- Generally older SVs objecting to new requirements
- Shouldn’t be any until GPS III updates