BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Welcome!

**Welcome!**

- Metal and Nonmetal
- Web Cast Presentation
- January 22, 2004

## Industry needs U in the middle to reduce fatalities  

**Ind****u****stry needs ****U**** in the middle to red****u****ce fatalities **** **

## Congratulations on 2003Well Done, Mining Industry !!

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## 2003 Fatalities

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## 2003 MNM Fatalities by Activity

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## 2003 MNM Fatalities by Occupation

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## Slide 21

## Industry needs U in the middle to reduce fatalities in 2004 

**Ind****u****stry needs ****U**** in the middle to red****u****ce fatalities in 2004**** **

- Accidents may result from...
- H**u**rrying
- Fatig**u**e
- Inattention to the task
- This means in some cases...
- Great risks are taken

## Spring Thaw is Coming Up...

- Spring Thaw is *Coming Up*...

**Theme for 2004:**
**“****Building and Rebuilding**
**The Safety C****u****lt****u****re”**

## JSAs

**Guards**

**Ho****u****sekeeping**

**Fall Protection**

**Gro****u****nding**

## SAFETY VALUES

**SAFETY VAL****U****ES**

**Safety       Building Blocks**

## VALUESThe Foundation of Safety

**VAL****U****ES**The Fo**u**ndation of Safety

***Widespread***** *****Involvement***
**TOTAL** **Commitment**
-   Organizational
-   Personal

## Ownership and Management

- How can industry stakeholders influence the corporate structure to embrace safety as a val**u**e from top to bottom?

## Miners

- What can be done so more miners...
- Perform a pre-job risk analysis?
- Resist influences to take risks?
- Assume responsibility for their safety?
- Intervene to improve co-workers’ safety?
- Make safety a personal val**u**e?

## Slide 29

## Share your recommendations and ideas with the rest of

**Share your recommendations and ideas with the rest of**
**the mining industry...**
- E-mail MSHA at:

- _[m/nmwebcast@dol.gov](mailto:m/nmwebcast@dol.gov)__    _

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## SW FLORIDA MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS

*HURRICANE RESPONSE:*
*WHAT WORKED AND *
*WHAT DIDN’T*

## FLORIDA MAP

**Notes:**
SW FL MRC covers 8 counties, including Charlotte and DeSoto, hardest hit by Charley.  

## SOUTHWEST FLORIDA MAP

## BEFORE AND AFTER CAPTIVA ISLAND

**Notes:**
This is Captiva Island off the coast of Lee County – a very exclusive and expensive place to live and play.  The picture on the left is before Charley and the one on the right was taken afterward.  Notice the new pass the hurricane cut, and the loss of vegetation.

## PRE-HURRICANE ASSISTANCE PLANS

*Help in Special Needs Shelters*
*Provide Mental Health Services*
*Hospital Surge Capacity*
*Perform Triage and First Aid*

## WHERE WE ACTUALLY ASSISTED

*Special Needs Shelters*
*Red Cross Shelters*
*Hospitals*
*First Aid Clinic on Ft Myers Beach*

## WHERE WE COULD HAVE ALSO ASSISTED(but were not called)

*Special Needs Shelters and First Aid Clinics in Charlotte and DeSoto Counties*
*Mental Health Programs*

## SPECIAL NEEDS SHELTERREGISTRATION DESK

## SPECIAL NEEDS SHELTEROXYGEN AREA

## FIRST AID CLINIC

## INSIDE 1ST AID TRAILER

## CLINIC PATIENTS

## ANOTHER CLINIC PATIENT

## OLD FASHIONED NURSING

## PRE-HURRICANE OPERATIONAL PLANS

*Deploy via ESF 8 at Emergency Operations Center*
*Use Incident Command System*
*Automated Phone System or Phone Tree*
*Task Force Structure*
*Use of Retired Volunteers with Out of State Licenses*

## DEPLOY VIA ESF 8AT COUNTY EOC’s

*Deployed Via ESF 8 in Lee County*
*State Capitol Staff Took Command of All Personnel in Other Affected Counties*
*Phone Calls, E-Mails For Help*
*Hospital DASH System*

## USE INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM

*Incident Command Structure in place through Emergency Operations Center*
*Few Members Trained in System*
*Some members “creative”*

## AUTOMATED PHONE SYSTEM OR PHONE TREE

*Phone System Down*
*Cell Towers Down*
*Electricity Out*
*Automated System, Phone Trees Nonexistent*

## TASK FORCE STRUCTURE

*Not Fully Developed*
*Requests for Strike Teams*

## USE OF RETIRED VOLUNTEERS WITH OUT OF STATE LICENSES

*Authorized by State Statute*
*Wording of Governor’s Declarations of Emergency*

## LESSONS LEARNED

*Back-up Plans*
*Be Flexible*
*Training Is Essential*
*More Call for Strike Teams*
*Educate Headquarters Staff*
*Stay Cool*
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## Alexander Sergienko

**Alexander Sergienko**

- Optical Entanglement and
- Single-Photon Detection

**Quantum Imaging Laboratory**
**Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering**
**Department of Physics**
**Photonics Center**
**Boston University**
- AlexSerg@bu.edu** **
- http://people.bu.edu/alexserg ; http://www.bu.edu/qil

##     Incorporating QKD into the Internet

**    ****Incorporating QKD into the Internet**

**Harvard**
- University

**Building the DARPA Quantum Network**
- Copyright © 2001 by BBN Technologies.All Rights Reserved.

## Generation

- ALICE

- BOB

**continuous**
**      ****or **
**   ****pulsed**

-   **near IR**
**      ****or **
**telecom IR**

**fiber or free-space transmission**

**phase or  polarization qubits**

**Single-photon or number sensitive**

- Propagation

- Detection

## Entangled State Generation

*Entangled State Generation*

**to Alice**

##     Entangled Source point-to-point link

**Femto **
**Output**

**    ****Entangled Source point-to-point link**

## Implementation of Quantum Hardware for Secure Key Distribution (Quantum Cryptography)  

**Implementation of Quantum Hardware for ****Secure Key Distribution (Quantum Cryptography)  **

##  NIST (Boulder) Photon-Number Resolving  Detector at BU

** ****NIST (Boulder) Photon-Number Resolving  Detector at BU**

## Post-selection and Entanglement

**UV laser**

**************crystal**

**  **_**Type - II**_
**(polarization)**

******t**

**C**

**polarization **
**analyzers**

******t**

**R****c**

**~L****crystal**

******SPDC********| H ********| V ******** | V ********| H ********  + | H V ********| 0******** | 0********| V H ******

******SPDC********| H ********| V ******

## 1 

- 2 

## 

**DELAY**

**BBO**
**1.5 mm**
**TYPE-II**

**cw LASER (****351.1 nm****)**

**COUNTING**
**ELECTRONICS**

**APERTURE**
**2 mm**

**DICHROIC**
**MIRROR**

**PNR**
**DETECTOR**

**A**

**B**

**FILTER**
**RG 630**

**BEAM**
**SPLITTER**

**POLARIZATION**
**ANALYZERS**

**PNR**
**DETECTOR**

******

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Generation

**x**A

*H*B*j** *(**x**B,**q**;**)

**x**B

*H*A*j** *(**x**A,**q**;**)

- *z*

-            **Role of detection time and detection area****in multi-photon excitation processes**

- Propagation

- Detection
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## Hybrid Pixel R&D After BTeV

- As of two years ago:
- FNAL-designed readout chip had two minor fatal flaws.
- No system demonstration had yet been done.
- An “extended closeout” R&D program was approved
- 1 more readout chip submission.
- Pixel R&D refocused on ILC.
- Two system tests approved:
- Telescope for the forward direction of PHENIX (at RHIC)
- Test beam telescope
- Both efforts in collaboration with LANL & Columbia U.

## Sensor & FPIX2.1 wafers

- Sensor wafers produced for PHENIX by CiS (LANL has agreed to donate the x4 sensors for use in MTest)

- FPIX2.1 fabricated on wafer with “TripT” for D0; fatal flaws fixed; 11 wafers purchased by LANL for PHENIX, 11 by FNAL to support R&D - 2 required for MTest telescope.

## Sensors & ROCs probed – yield is high

**Typical FPIX2.1 wafer map**

**Typical sensor IV curve**

## Hybridization – solder bump bonding done by VTT (Finland)

- X-ray made at FCC

- VTT bump-deposition process flow

- Production orders placed ~10/15/07
- Delivery of hybrids is the schedule driver.

## Half-plane = three 1x4 modules

- Station = two half-planes
- offset by active area of sensor
- read out by 1 FPGA

- 2 stations upstream of DUT & 2-4 downstream (precision x & precision y)

**Test beam telescope**

## MT6-1A Assets

- Climate controlled hut.
- Aluminum table on rails allows entire setup to be removed from beam.
- Dark box with feed throughs for signals, power, & cooling fluid.
- Remotely controlled motors determine (x,y) position of both ends of box.
- Local chiller provides closed loop cooling system
- CAEN power system can provide LV & sensor bias (“HV”).
- Plenty of quiet power is available.

## Schedule

- Goal = installation in February 2008 (depends on delivery of bump bonded hybrids).
- First user = LHCb.
- Hybrid pixel telescope will measure every beam particle with good timing and moderate precision (5-10 m).
- Anticipate the addition of one station with very high precision (& probably much less good time resolution), such as MAPS.
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## MTAC Workgroup 107 Update

- May 2007
- Washington DC

## Progress

- Goal
- To provide key visibility points for parcels and obtain pre-notification for all parcel drops to support improved workload management
- February
- Reviewed updated conceptual design for eVS-FAST-SV integration
- Reviewed e-VS status with MTAC Workgroup 107
- Discussed FAST Web Services functionality with MTAC Workgroup 107

- © 2006 Accenture. All rights reserved.

## Next Steps

- Review e-VS/FAST/SV integration requirements with workgroup by mid-June
- Plan next meeting

- © 2006 Accenture. All rights reserved.
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## Predicting Tree Species Diversity across the Contiguous USAfrom Seasonal Patterns in Photosynthesis Derived withSatellite-driven Models

*R.H. Waring, N.C. Coops,*
*W. Fan, and J. Nightingale*

## Hypotheses

- Tree diversity is related to the productive capacity of forests at all geographic scales
-  Forest productivity is related to the amount of leafy canopy and the duration of its display
- MODIS enhanced vegetation index (EVI) is  a remotely sensed measure of forest productivity

## Approach

- Acquire Federal Inventory & Analysis data from all level III ecoregions in the U.S.A. to estimate tree richness
- Acquire MODIS EVI data for all forested areas in ecoregions with >200 FIA plots
- Evaluate relation between EVI and tree richness patterns across 65 forested ecoregions

## Results

## Maximum EVI, all vegetation

## Mean Growing Season EVI 

## Definition of Growing Season EVIfunction of max EVI and Type of Vegetation

**Notes:**
Growing season denoted by varying EVI thresholds depending on type of vegetation. Average EVI for the growing season is denoted by the dotted line.  A = Mediterranean shrub; B dense deciduous forest; C mixed hardwood & evergreen forest;
D temperate shrub; E desert shrub

## Measured Tree Richness

## EVI Predicted Tree Richness

## Difference between predicted and observed tree richness

## Conclusions

- EVI averaged for the growing season is a good predictor of tree richness at the level of ecoregions
- In some ecoregions the flora may not be in equilibrium with present environment
- The degree that future changes in regional patterns of EVI are in concert with bioclimatic model predictions of growth would be indicative of the role of climate change
# Presentation: 404451

## DHHS Pandemic InfluenzaPreparedness and Response Plan

**Interim comments of NVAC Workgroup**
**October 5, 2004**

## Workgroup members and process

**Alan Hinman**
**Mary Beth Koslap-Petraco**
**Dick Raymond**
**Bill Schaffner**
**Conference call September 22, 2004, including Emma English, Sarah Landry, and Ben Schwartz**

## Workgroup comments - 1

**Excellent description of all the factors that need to be considered**
**Incomplete in that it does not make specific recommendations for action**
**Several key policy decisions need to be made well in advance of the pandemic (i.e., now)**
**Public discussion/debate is needed**

## Workgroup comments - 2

**Key policy decisions to be made now:**
**Role of federal government in purchasing/distributing vaccine**
**Identification of priority groups for vaccination**
**?need for stockpiling syringes/needles**
**Role of federal government in purchasing/distributing antivirals**
**Identification of priority groups for antivirals – prophylaxis or treatment**

## Workgroup comments - 3

**Shifting priorities from individual protection of those at highest risk to maintaining and protecting essential services needs thoughtful and extensive discussions**
**National guidance is needed now so individual state/local plans can take this into account**
**Specific examples of plans would be very useful**

## Workgroup comments - 4

**Regulatory harmonization of vaccine requirements would be helpful**
**Need to identify “go/no go” decision points and who would make decisions**

## Workgroup recommendations

**NVAC should propose a mechanism for full discussion of key policy/priority issues so decisions can be made before the pandemic occurs**
**This process should be completed by June 30, 2005**
**NVPO staff should explore possible models for this discussion and present at this meeting**
# Presentation: 362665

## Human Centred Measures of Success in Web Site Design

- Jurek Kirakowski
*Human Factors Research Group,*
*University College Cork, Ireland.*
- Nigel Claridge & Richard Whitehand
*Nomos AB,*
*Stockholm, Sweden.*

## Usability Testing - Guidelines

- Not just behaviour, but reasons for it
- performance data  
- satisfaction data
- Don’t just craft it, evaluate it as well
- many WWW design guidelines/ heuristics
- very little evaluation of their efficacy

## Partners in WAMMIWeb Analysis and Measurement Inventory

- Human Factors Research Group
- University College Cork, Ireland
- questionnaires for end-user based testing
- Nomos Management, AB
- Stockholm, Sweden
- WWW design and evaluation specialists

## WAMMI Objectives

- Produce a short, psychometrically valid questionnaire for measuring *user satisfaction...*
- to be used in a *multi-lingual environment;*
- Establish *population norms* and *criteria for interpretation;*
- Develop a professional *delivery method*.

## Methodology Overview

## Working Hypothesis: 5 - Factor Model of User Satisfaction

- Developed during SUMI
- replicated twice by factor analysis
- produces high scale reliabilities
- Modified for WAMMI:
*Attractiveness*
*Efficiency*
*Control(-ability)*
*Helpfulness*
*Learnability*

## Version 1 (view 1/3)

## Version 1 (view 2/3)

## Version 1 (view 3/3)

## Version 1 Results

- Cluster analysis replicates 5-factor model
- Overall reliability is good (0.96)
- Subscale reliabilities are high
- from 0.70 - 0.90
- Subscales can be re-expressed:
*average = 50*
*standard deviation = 10*

*‘**good enough *
*for US Govt. *
*work’*

## Site 2: Quick View

## Site 2: Metrics Data

## Site 2: Item Analysis Points

- Links are useful
- Downloading is easy
- Over-complex
- Some parts are difficult to access
- Changes unpredictably
- Provides information that can’t be displayed

## Site 3: Quick View

## Site 3: Metrics Data

## Site 3: Item Analysis Points

- Easy to navigate around it
- Links are understandable
- Confusing extraneous graphics and pictures
- Pages do not have clear titles
- Too advanced for capabilities of some users’ platforms

## Human Factors vs ‘the Rest’

## Reflections on the Data...

- How valid is this data?
- Partial records, malicious attacks, benign visits, low user representation (1% +) ...
- Presumably a ‘noise factor’ over all sites?
*Standard deviations remarkably small*
*Little evidence of distribution asymmetry*
- WAMMI seems to provide
- formative *(metric)* assessment
- summative *(item analysis)* assessment

## ...Thoughts for the Future

- A way of ‘certifying’ human factors work
- other HFRG products used in this way by *purchasers* and *developers*
- WAMMI should be used in conjunction with
- performance measures
- preference data

## The Model

- Satisfaction

- Performance

- Preference
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## L3/DAQ Monitoring Displays

- Online Meeting
-       25 January 2002

- Sean Mattingly

## Goals for Effective Display of Data

- Clear and Truthful
- Labeling, size proportionate to quantity,etc.
- Maximize data/ink ratio
- Avoid extraneous junk on screen
- Color often ineffective
- Show data variation, not design variation
- Dense
- Don’t be afraid to include lots of information in a small space
- Don’t underestimate user’s ability to learn to interpret
- Simplicity of Design and Complexity of Data

## Goals for DZero L3/DAQ Monitoring

- Control Room Usability
- Must be easily usable by shifters
- Build on what is already known in the control room
- Should be helpful for experts too
- Can be done all in one application
- Shifters can become experts
- Stable
- Portable
- Easy to install/run anywhere
- Cross platform
- Not too dependent on specifics of CRT being used
- Use ubiquitous tools
- External access
- No controls of system, etc.

## Current Non-goal Driven L3/DAQ Monitoring

- Logfile Web Pages
- DAQ-Node Connections Web Page
- Not graphical
- When small number of quantities (<20-30?) need to be shown, text is usually the right answer
- # of nodes is growing...needs to become graphical
- Shows connections between NT farm nodes and Linux farm nodes
- Connection status
- Data transfer rate
- Event sizes/rate
- Systray Monitor
- Windows specific
- Our first live monitoring
- Shows current rate on dynamic scale
- Also shows if >N% incomplete events

## DAQ-Node Connections Web Page

## Graphical cDAQ Monitoring

- Qt Based Display (CVS: l3x_qt_display)
- Only existing monitoring for cDAQ
- First stab at cDAQ monitoring
- Displays status of _all_ components of cDAQ
- Design improvements needed
- Some missing info since system is still growing and being built
- Includes some system controls
- Can be compiled on many platforms
- Install time on new platform?
- Fast and responsive

## l3x_qt_display

## Current Graphical L3/DAQ Displays

- jMon
- Shows state of all of DAQ components upstream of farm nodes
- First try at a graphical monitor with some of the design goals in mind
- Additions needed before final
- Missing or poorly presented information
- Have a mock-up of ~final jMon for ZRL DAQ
- Java
- Easily portable, <5 minutes to install anywhere
- Doesn’t use any special toolkits
- Fast and responsive
- My coding mistake has introduced an instability...know how to correct

## jMon

## The Future

- Monitor entire system in one display
- Combine Qt and jMon features
- Monitor entire system
- Good graphical design
- Flat design (avoid drilling when we can)
- Tool choice
- Java(Swing) vs. Qt vs. ????
- Probably stick with either Java or Qt since we know them some now and like what we see
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## Preparing the boat to Leave:

- Hook boat trailer up to golf cart (securely ... i.e. check this!)
- Remove boat cover and stow in shed (fold front to back)
- Install drain plug
- Verify as many checklist items as you can, now.
- Install lifting harness (harness straddles the boom on both sides)
- THEN, maneuver boat under lifting winch (align to wheel guides on dock)
- Attach winch hook and lift to slightly tension the harness
- Unhook bow attachment to trailer
- Lift and put boat into the water – crew helps guide/push with painter in hand
- Move boat to end of pier using the painter and shroud (push shroud, don’t pull)
- Tie off at the end of the pier – remove & stow lifting harness – finish checklist items
- Free the main sheet, jib sheets and centerboard pennant, vang should be loose (for now)
- Remove boom crutch & gently place boom on the deck in preparation to raise mainsail
- Raise mainsail – look for sail battens, outhaul, halyard integrity (sheets are free)
- Install mainsail turtle attachment if needed/desired
- Reef the mainsail if needed/desired
- Install jib, route sheets accordingly and stow the jib bag
- REVIEW the checklist – Make decision if YOU and the BOAT are ready (weather ?)
- Rudder & Centerboard down and tension vang accordingly
- Loosen boomvang for downwind and snug for upwind (per tide/wind at the pier)
- Instruct crew on the take off plan; i.e. initial point of sail and exit strategy
- Cast off paainter (bow line) and push bow in the desired direction (as you step on boat)
- Readjust Centerboard depth as needed when in deeper water
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## ENERGY STAR Energy-Efficiency Guide for the Public Drinking Water Industry

- Rich Brown, Christie Galitsky, Bailey Green
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- August 9, 2006

## ENERGY STAR Energy Guide

- Summarize available knowledge on energy use and energy efficiency in the drinking water sector
- Identify opportunities for energy-efficient practices and technologies that are commercially available
- Include characteristics like costs, benefits, energy savings
- Include practical experiences of their use and application
- Based on assessment of proven energy-efficient practices in the U.S. and *internationally*
- Target audience: plant or system operators and energy managers within medium to large utilities

**Notes:**
To summarize what the purpose of the guides is

## Drinking Water Topics

- Energy management systems
- Pumps
- Motors
- Compressed air
- Lighting
- HVAC
- Materials handling
- System controls

- Coagulation/ flocculation
- Sedimentation
- Ozonation
- UV disinfection
- Filtration
- Solids processing
- Water use & loss reduction

**Notes:**
These are the general topic areas we are covering in the drinking water guide; the goal is to identify major energy-efficiency opportunities in each of these areas.

## Strategic Energy Management

- Organization-wide commitment to energy efficiency
- Continuous process of upgrades, operation, and maintenance
- Use benchmarks to gauge improvement

**Notes:**
The foundation of the ENERGY STAR approach is a strategic energy management process that is used to identify and implement the specific technical measures addressed elsewhere.

## Guidebook Status

- Initial draft guide is nearly complete
- Next step is initial review by technical committee
- Distribute draft in September
- Provide comments in October (~1 month turnaround)
- Need volunteers for this committee (~ 6)
- Is the target audience correct?
- Need case studies of good energy management practices

## Contacts for Energy Guides

**Rich Brown**
**(510) 486-5896**
**REBrown@lbl.gov**
**Christina Galitsky**
**(510) 486-5137**
**CGalitsky@lbl.gov**
**Bailey Green****	**
**(510) ****495-2612**
**FBGreen@lbl.gov**
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## Report Tile

**EXCEPTED SERVICE **
**APPOINTMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES**

- UNITED STATES OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

**Notes:**
Section slide

## Excepted Service Appointing Authorities

- Excepted by Statute, Executive Order, or OPM action
- OPM’s Governmentwide excepted authorities listed under Schedules A, B, and C
- No public notice required by OPM
- No time in grade required by OPM

## Excepted Service Appointing Authorities

- Schedule A – Cannot use traditional examining methods and not subject to OPM qualifications (e.g., Attorneys, Presidential Management Fellows Program)
- Schedule B –  Can not hold open competition and must meet OPM qualifications (e.g., Student Education Employment Program, Federal Career Intern Programs
- Schedule C – Political appointees

## Schedule A – Appointment of Persons with Disabilities

- Regulation published in Federal Register on July 26, 2006
- Applies to appointment of persons with severe physical disabilities, mental retardation, or psychiatric disabilities
- Improves the Federal Government’s ability to hire persons with these disabilities
- Designed to remove barriers and increase employment opportunities for these individuals

## Schedule A – Appointment of Persons with Disabilities

- New Regulation:
- Broader certifying entities:
- A licensed medical professional (e.g., a physician or other medical professional certified by a State, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory to practice medicine)
- A licensed vocational rehabilitation specialist (i.e., State or private)
- Any Federal agency, State agency, or agency of the District of Columbia or a U.S. territory that issues or provides disability benefits

## Schedule A – Appointment of Persons with Disabilities

- New Regulation (continued):
- 5 CFR 213.3102 (u) now replaces the following three Schedule A appointing authorities:
- 5 CFR 213.3102 (t) (mental retardation)
- 5 CFR 213.3102 (u) (severe physical disabilities)
- 5 CFR 213.3102 (gg) (psychiatric disabilities)

## Schedule A – Appointment of Persons with Disabilities

- New Regulation (continued):
- Clarifies the following employment options:
- Temporary appointments
- Time limited appointments
- Permanent appointments
- Clarifies distinctions between proof of disability and certification of job readiness
- Retains noncompetitive conversion to competitive service upon two years service

## Schedule A – Appointment of Persons with Disabilities

- Previous Procedures:
- Certified by Department of Veterans Affairs or State Vocational Rehabilitative Services Agency

## Questions?

- _[Michael.Mahoney@opm.gov](mailto:Michael.Mahoney@opm.gov)_ – (202) 606-1142
- _[Dede.Dessommes@opm.gov](mailto:Dede.Dessommes@opm.gov)_ – (202) 606-2174

## Report Tile

- UNITED STATES OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

- Thank You

**EXCEPTED SERVICE **
**APPOINTMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES**

**Notes:**
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## Slide 1

## Clocking Super-Massive Black Hole Spin with Accuracy

- Observations by Suzaku unambiguously confirm the extremely broad Fe K line in MCG–6-30-15
- We accurately quantify how far in the accretion disk reaches (< 2 gravitational radii)
- The presence of a Kerr, or spinning, black hole is confirmed
- We measure the black hole spin parameter to be 90% of maximum

**MCG–6-30-15:**

## Warped Space-Time & Light-Bending Near the Black Hole in MCG–6-30-15

- Observationally confirm that space-time very close to the black hole is "warped", a key component in Einstein's General Relatively
- Light paths close to the black hole can be sharply curved: photons traveling away from the accretion disk can be redirected onto the disk
- Confirmation made possible only via Suzaku’s broad energy coverage

## Evidence for gravitational light bending around the black hole in MCG–6-30-15

**Constant Reflection hump and iron line**

**Suzaku lightcurve**

**Strong iron K line and disk reflection from around a Kerr (spinning) black hole.**
**No strong variations in iron line - gravitational light bending around a Kerr Black hole.**

- In **MCG–5-23-16**, the disk is viewed at an inclination angle of 50 degrees

- In **MCG–6-30-15**, the disk is viewed more face-on, at an angle of 30 degrees

**Suzaku can measure the geometry of the accretion disk**

- “Face-on” Disk

- “Edge-on” Disk

## Suzaku Black Hole Spin Measurements

**MCG–5-23-16 (no evidence for black hole spin) **

**MCG–6-30-15 (spinning black hole)**

## Iron Line Emission From Multiple Regions of Gas

- Suzaku has unambiguously measured the broad and narrow iron lines.
- Narrow line emission denotes (low velocity) gas, distant from the black hole, far from the region of extreme gravity
- X-ray emission is seen both from gas very close to the black hole and gas that is distant
- Confirms our picture of the geometry and accretion flow in AGN

- Broad line

- Narrow line

**MCG -5-23-16**

## 

**Compton Reflection hump**

**Iron K Line **

**X-ray Continuum**

**Absorption from outflow**

****

**Thermal Disk Emission?**

**Suzaku**

**XMM/Chandra**

***Suzaku’s Broad Bandpass***
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## The NVPO Unmet Needs Program: FY 2005 Update 

- Ben Schwartz
- National Vaccine Program Office

- National Vaccine Advisory Committee Meeting, October 2004

## The NVPO Unmet Needs Funding Program, 1

- Provides support for high priority vaccine and immunization projects
- Based on National Vaccine Plan (1994) & current HHS, NVPO, and NVAC priorities
- “Seed money” and “catalytic funding” to address new and emerging issues
- Addresses needs that arise outside the normal funding cycle
- Applicants include scientists/project officers from HHS agencies, DoD, and USAID

## The NVPO Unmet Needs Funding Program, 2

- Projects funded for a maximum of 2-years
- About $5 million distributed annually for new and continuation projects
- Funding decisions made competitively based on a defined review process
- Application deadline November 19, 2004

## NVPO Unmet Needs Priority Categories: FY04 and FY05

- FY 2004
- Adolescent vaccines
- Adult vaccines
- Future vaccines
- Recently licensed vaccines
- Maternal immunization
- Racial/ethnic disparities
- Pandemic influenza
- Vaccine supply & financing
- Vaccine safety
- Vaccine risk communications

- FY 2005
- Adolescent vaccination
- Future vaccines for emerging infections or with near term U.S. licensure
- Annual or pandemic influenza
- Vaccine supply, financing, & economic analysis
- Vaccine safety

## Criteria & Process for Selection of Projects for Unmet Needs Funding

- Proposal review criteria
- Meets NVPO priority criterion (absolute requirement)
- Importance
- Scientific quality and feasibility
- Inter-Agency collaboration
- Proposal review process
- Review committee composed of Agency representatives and NVAC members (to be identified)

## Next Steps for the Unmet Needs Program 

- Program review – identify accomplishments of projects funded between 1995 and 2001
- Process review – assess potential improvements in establishing priorities; soliciting proposals; and selecting projects for funding
- Potential greater role for NVAC
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## Clean Technology Exports Conference:Medium and Long Term Financing

- November 16, 2006

## About PowerLight

## Who We Are

- PowerLight is a leading global provider of large-scale solar power systems

- We bring unmatched experience and proven financial performance to commercial, utility, public sector and residential customers worldwide.

- Our Mission
- To make solar power a mainstream source of the world’s energy supply

## PowerLight Corporation

- Incorporated in 1995
- HQ offices in California and Switzerland
- Worldwide Leader in Large, Grid-Connected PV Systems
- Technology Leader with over 75 patents
- 70% CAGR over the past 10 years
- Over 150 million kWh produced to date
- Member of INC 500 Hall of Fame

## Select PowerLight Customers

- Commercial

- Public Sector

## PowerLight Financing Solutions prior to Ex-Im 

## Solutions Overview

- Commercial and Public Sector

- Residential

## Korean Solar Project (Case Study):

**Project Information:**
-  Approx. 1 MW installed above 2    parking lots
-  Power produced will be sold into      main grid
-  New customer and new market
-  Largest solar facility in Gwangju

## Case Study: South Korea Power Plant 

- Challenge:
- PL customer in S. Korea wanted to purchase a solar project
- Local funding sources were unfamiliar with solar assets
- New Feed-in tariff with limited history or documentation
- Solution:
- PL brought the opportunity to Ex-Im under its medium term guaranteed loan program
- Project qualified for a 15 year repayment term under OECD guidelines and Ex-Im’s Environmental Exports Program

## Result: First, there was gravel...

## Then there was a sign...

## Then there was furious construction...

## Then generating electricity!

## Thank You!

- Mark Fillinger
- _[Mfillinger@powerlight.com](mailto:Mfillinger@powerlight.com)_
- (510) 868-1220
# Presentation: 919215

## Objective Interpretation of Numerical Weather Prediction Model Output – A Perspective Based on Verification of Temperature and Precipitation Guidance

**J. Paul Dallavalle and Valery J. Dagostaro**
**Meteorological Development Laboratory**
**National Weather Service/NOAA**
**Symposium on the 50****th**** Anniversary of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction**
**June 14-17, 2004**
**University of Maryland**
**College Park, MD**

## Outline

** ****History of NWS verification program**
** ****Methodology**
** ****Results**
** ****Conclusions**

## History of NWS Verification Program

** ****April 1966 – begins**
***Initially compared NMC subjective guidance and NWS local forecasts for max/min temperature and PoP***
** ****April 1970 –perfect prog max/min guidance replaces NMC guidance**
** ****January 1972 – MOS PoP guidance replaces NMC guidance**
** ****August 1973 – MOS max/min guidance replaces perfect prog guidance**

## Forecast Elements

**Max/Min Temperature**
**Probability of Precipitation**

**Local forecast is for **
**daytime max/nighttime min**
**Local forecast is for 1200-0000 UTC (day) and 0000-1200 UTC (night)**

## Forecast Projections

**0000 UTC cycle**
**(* Added in October 1975 **
**for temperature; in Summer 2002 for PoP)**
**1200 UTC cycle**

** ****Today **
** ****Tonight **
** ****Tomorrow**
** ****Tomorrow Night ***
**Tonight**
**Tomorrow**
**Tomorrow Night**
**Day after Tomorrow ***

## Methodology

** ****80 CONUS sites**
** ****Verification statistics for warm (Apr. - Sept.) and cool (Oct. – Mar.) seasons**
** “****Official” verification observation**
** “****Official” guidance**
** ****Fixed climate standard (1961- 90 normals for max/min; 1972- 85 relative frequencies for PoP)**** **

## Verification Sites

## Verification Measures

** ****Max/Min Temperature**
***Mean Absolute Error***
**PoP**
***Improvement in Brier Score relative to climate***

## Significant Changes to “Official” Guidance

** ****January 1972 -- PE-based MOS PoP**
** ****August 1973 -- PE-based MOS max/min**
** ****April 1980 -- LFM-based MOS **
** ****November 1985 -- daytime max/nighttime min**
** ****June 1993 -- NGM-based MOS **
** ****Summer 2002 -- GFS-based MOS**

## Max Temperature – Cool Season (0000 UTC Cycle)

## Max Temperature – Warm Season (0000 UTC Cycle)

## Min Temperature – Cool Season (1200 UTC Cycle)

## Min Temperature – Warm Season (1200 UTC Cycle)

## PoP – Cool Season(0000/1200 UTC Cycles Combined)

## PoP – Warm Season(0000/1200 UTC Cycles Combined)

## Conclusions

**  ****Public weather forecasts and guidance have improved during the period**
**  ****Quality of day 2 local forecasts now is equal to that of the day 1 forecasts ~ 20 years ago**
**  ****Quality of day 2 guidance now is equal to that of the day 1 guidance ~ 10 years ago**
**  ****Skill of PoPs is higher in cool season; errors in max/min are greater in cool season, but so is rate of improvement **
** ****High correlation between quality of guidance and local forecasts**
# Presentation: 672353

## MTAC Address Quality Steering Committee

## Summary of Activity:Steering Committee met on July 19, 2005Goal: To achieve excellence in Address QualityObjective: To achieve significant reductions in UAA mail and Increase Address Accuracy, enabling a higher percentage of accurate 11-digit address coding 

## MTAC Work Group #97Address Quality MethodologySponsors:Industry:    Jim Schemmel, Joe Lubenow  USPS:        Charles Bravo, Nick BarrancaWork Group Leaders:	Industry:    Chris Lien, FirstlogicUSPS:        Jim Wilson, Wayne Orbke					

## Area of Focus – Address Accuracy
	Evaluate existing AQ methodology
	Identify New Options
	Focus on Excellence

**	****Evaluate existing AQ methodology**
**	****Identify New Options**
**	****Focus on Excellence**

**MTAC Work Group #97**

## 	Overarching Issues
Address by Address Level AQ documentation
Mailing List Certification methodology
Complete and Correct Addressing
Electronic Mail Stream Address Validation

- Address by Address Level AQ documentation
- Mailing List Certification methodology
- Complete and Correct Addressing
- Electronic Mail Stream Address Validation

**MTAC Work Group #97**

## Desired Result
	Identify methodology changes needed to support the achievement of the USPS goal of 50% reduction in UAA mail by 2010 and for all mail to have accurate 11 digit barcodes

Expected Date of Completion – March 31,2006

**	**Identify methodology changes needed to support the achievement of the USPS goal of 50% reduction in UAA mail by 2010 and for all mail to have accurate 11 digit barcodes
**Expected Date of Completion**** – March 31,2006**

**MTAC Work Group #97**

## MTAC Work Group #98Address Quality ToolsSponsors:Industry:    Jim Schemmel, Joe Lubenow USPS:        Charles Bravo, Nick BarrancaWork Group Leaders:Industry:    Carole Morrow, BMG DirectUSPS:         Ruth Jones, Charles Hunt

## Area of Focus – Address Accuracy
	Evaluate how the Address Change Service (ACS) can be made more useful for Standard Mail
	Identify Potential New “Electronic Only” ACS Options

**	****Evaluate how the Address Change Service (ACS) can be made more useful for Standard Mail**
**	****Identify Potential New “Electronic Only” ACS Options**

**MTAC Work Group #98**

## 	Overarching Issues
Manual Return Volumes on ACS mailings
ACS Returns to Rental List Owner
Expense of “weighted fee” Manual Returns

- Manual Return Volumes on ACS mailings
- ACS Returns to Rental List Owner
- Expense of “weighted fee” Manual Returns

**MTAC Work Group #98**

## Desired Result
	A list of proposed changes designed to eliminate the negative effects of manual returns that are believed to be limiting the use of ACS as a Standard Mail AQ tool.

Expected Date of Completion – March 31,2006

**	****A list of proposed changes designed to eliminate the negative effects of manual returns that are believed to be limiting the use of ACS as a Standard Mail AQ tool.**
**Expected Date of Completion**** – March 31,2006**

**MTAC Work Group #98**

## Thank You
# Presentation: 689383

## Regions/ORD Science Review 

***Summit Regional Priorities ***
***III. Biofuels***** ****	**
**April 8, 2008**
**Alan D. Hecht, Ph.D. **
**Director for Sustainable Development **
**Office of Research and Development**** **

## The Biofuel System: Framework for EPA Strategy

- Agricultural crops
- Agricultural residues
- Energy crops
- Forest residues
- Algae
- Wastes

- Harvesting & collecting
- Storage
- Pre-processing
- Transportation

- Fuel types
- Biochemical conversion
- Thermochemical conversion
- Biological conversion
- Chemical conversion

- Distribution by barge, truck, rail, pipeline
- Storage in tanks
- Dispensing

*Transportation fuels   * in light- & heavy-duty vehicles & trucks,      off-road vehicles, locomotives, flight technologies, boats & ships
- Power generators
- Chemical feedstocks for manufacturing

**The Biofuel System: Framework for EPA Strategy**

## Outline of EPA Biofuel Strategy

- Purpose
- Environmental Benefits and Impacts
- Role of EPA
- International Impacts
- Research Gaps and Challenges
- Action Items

## EISA Section 204: EPA Report to Congress  

** **SEC. 204.  Not later than 3 years after the enactment of this section and **every 3 years thereafter,** the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Energy, shall assess and report to Congress on the impacts to date and likely future impacts of the requirements of section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act on the following:
- Environmental issues, including air quality, effects on hypoxia, pesticides, sediment, nutrient and pathogen levels in waters, acreage and function of waters, and soil environmental quality.
- Resource conservation issues, including soil conservation, water availability, and ecosystem health and biodiversity, including impacts on forests, grasslands, and wetlands.
- The growth and use of cultivated invasive or noxious plants and their impacts on the environment and agriculture.
- 	In advance of preparing the report required by this subsection, the Administrator may seek the views of the National Academy of Sciences or another appropriate independent research institute.
# Presentation: 201473

## Notes on NWP and the History of Long Range Forecasting  Don Gilman (ret) and Huug van den Dool,               NOAA/NCEP/CPC

## Slide 3

## Legend written by Namias.

- Very little NWP-influence on operational seasonal forecasts (at NMC/NCEP) prior to 1995.
- Beginning in 1995 the coupled ocean/atmosphere model routinely became a tool for the seasonal forecast. NWP NCP

## The precursors of NWP ( NCP) are:1. Pioneering integrations by Miyakoda, Gilchrist, Shukla and others. 1970s, 1980s2. (linear, steady state) Global models describing Rossby wave dispersion from long-lived tropical sources of heat and vorticity. Explained Teleconnections?? 1980 onward3. AMIP runs from 1989 onward (Gates, PCMDI)4. An ocean data assimilation system (Leetmaa et al) for initial conditions of the coupled system..Missing: a proper land initial condition

- The _two-tiered_ approach to ‘Coupled’ Modeling (still widespread)
- Invented to deal with (very) large biases
- Can the ‘anomaly’ be salvaged when the mean is that far off??  (history of bias correction)
- Summer 2004: NCEP is going ‘1-tiered’

- Defensive approaches with a profound impact:

## Coupled Models at NCEP

- Ji, Leetmaa and Kumar (CMP12/14; 1995 
- Kanamitsu et al (SFM; 2001 
- Saha et al (CFS; 2004 
- CMP and SFM had only Pacific Tropical ocean and were 2-tiered. CFS is global, 1-tiered, and at T62L64 (atmosphere), 1/3rd degreeL40 (ocean) resolution. CFS has 2500 years worth of hindcasts.

## Issues of skill and ‘consolidation’

- What is the skill of NCP?
- What is the skill of NCP vis-à-vis other methods (like CCA)
- How to combine Methods A, B and C?
- The pioneering role of seasonal prediction in hindcasts and ‘a-priori’ skill requirements
- Will the shorter range NWP follow with hindcasts?

- Skill assessment of CFS.

## OFFicial Forecast(element, lead, location, initial month) = a * A +b * B +c * C +...Honest hindcast required 1950-present. Covariance (A,B), (A,C), (B,C), (A, obs), (B, obs), (C, obs) allows solution for a, b, c (element, lead, location, initial month) 

## Conclusions

- NWP techniques have entered the arena of seasonal forecasts, from 1995 onward, and are expanding.
- Skill remains modest (predictability?)
- Empirical techniques have not yet been retired
- Reanalysis (as such NWP related) has boosted empirical work thru availability of global data sets (1948-present). (Reanalysis was a revolution for empirical work).
# Presentation: 607953

## YAG Reinforcement Preforms for CMCs

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Single crystal YAG preforms produced in a range of YAG 	volume content, orientation, and porosity size
-   Sapphire reinforcement preforms with similar architecture 	have produced alumina matrix CMCs with a high strength 	and an outstanding creep resistance at temperatures up  	to 1500C in air
**	****	****	****   ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has 	funded a $375K program to produce 	improved transparent 	armor
-  	The base oxide processing technology has other 	commercial applications in lighting products and industrial 	applications; being pursued through US DOE and 	commercial funding
-  	Two new jobs were created

***Foster-Miller, Inc.***
***Waltham, MA ***

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

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Applications under development for YAG reinforcement 	preforms include:
- Transparent armor for ground, sea and air vehicles
- IR windows for hypersonic missiles and re-entry vehicles
- Aircraft engine structures
- Thermal protection systems for re-entry vehicles.
-   USSOCOM, US Air Force and US Navy, and their prime 	contractors, have provided $1.8M funding towards 	development of above applications
-   US DOE and suppliers are funding development of energy 	efficient lighting products using the oxide manufacturing 	process

- Glenn Research Center
- Materials
- 3-099

**YAG Reinforcement Preforms for CMCs**

***Single Crystal YAG Reinforcement Preform Technology***

**INNOVATION**

- 1996 Phase II, NAS3-98029, 1/03
- NASA Contact – Serene Farmer
- Company Contact – Ronald Roy

- Single crystal YAG reinforcement preforms produced to net shape for CMC applications
# Presentation: 076867

## Policy Academy

- Learning Meeting
- October 7–8, 2004
- Linda Povlich
- North Carolina

## ICCHP

- Created in 1992
- 29 members
- 9 State agencies/departments
- Housed within Health and Human Services

## State Policy Infrastructure

- Homeless Policy Specialist
- Policy staff to the ICCHP
- Funded by
- Correction
- Health and Human Services
- Housing Finance Agency
- Governor’s Policy Staff

**Notes:**
Creating the HPS position –

Why did the Council make the commitment to do it now, not before
Funding strategy – implementation

Walker’s special assignment to homeless issues

## Making the Case

- Written and Verbal Presentations
- Target Audiences
- State elected officials
- Local elected officials
- State agencies
- Homeless service providers
- Publicly-funded institutional staff
- Professional associations

**Notes:**
Being able to present the value of the plan to multiple audiences – in written materials, but also presentations.  Recognizing that this is an issue that can be supported by persons from all parties, levels of government, sectors of the community.  Then aggressively making this case to lots of groups of people – city councils, child health care association, jail diversion coordinators, local homeless coalitions, housing coordination and policy council, etc.

## Sample Projects

- HMIS Collaborative – Carolina Homeless Information Network
- Discharge Planning Work Group
- Employment Work Group
- Outreach to Local Government
- Partnership with United Way of NC to provide TA to United Way’s involved with 10-year plans

## Lessons Learned

- Frame the Message for the Selected Target
- Local Examples of Cost Help
- “The Asheville 19”
- Helps with the “we’re different — or might be” thinking
- Engage Council Members Intentionally
- Staff Capacity Makes a Difference

## Contact Information

- Linda Povlich, Chair
- linda.povlich@ncmail.net
- Martha Are, HPS
- martha.are@ncmail.net
- Phone: 919-733-4534 (for both)
# Presentation: 686305

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

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

***Total SARs: 34,797***

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of South Dakota

- 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 South Dakota**
**For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

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

***Total SARs: 184***

- 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 South Dakota

**Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of South Dakota**
**For the Period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006**

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

- North Sioux City

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of South Dakota

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

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