BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 108881

## 		STRIP CHARTS

- The slow controls EPICS software provides a method to display a scrolling strip chart display for any variable that is measured. As part of the TPC controls I usually pop 6 of these charts and display them on the Linux box nest to the TPC control computer. This provides some feedback for the operators and allowed me to scroll back to look at the previous 24 hours to check on the state of the chamber over night etc.
- 	The six standard charts can be brought up by using an alias on the main slow controls computer. In the past this has been SC3, but since that is being retired, it may be necessary to ask slow controls to install the same pointers on SC5. The current aliases are:
- 	strip2 = PT8, the TPC pressure
- 	strip3 = PTB, the barometric pressure
- 	strip4 = the sum of the inner anode currents and the sum of the outer
- 	strip6 = the outer field cages currents, east and west
- 	strip7 = inner field cage currents, east and west
- To pop these charts, login to SC3 (or SC5) and type the corresponding alias. (You need to have X windowing software running).
- A strip chart looks like:

- The two arrow buttons on the bottom will scroll the chart forward and backward in time. The next two buttons expand and contract the time axis. The fifth button starts the chart data collection and display. The x and y axes can be changed via the controls dialog for the chart. To access this, right click on the chart and select “Controls Dialog”. This pops the window:

## From this window you can change the y axis by clicking on the “Modify” button for each variable and typing in new values. For two variables you have to change both. One can also remove a variable from the plot (“Remove” button) or add a new variable by typing the variable name into the “Plot New Signal” box and clicking on “Connect”

- To change the time axis and plotting frequency, click on the “Controls” tab next to the “Curves” tab:

## Here one can change can change the time span for the display, the ring buffer size, the data sample interval and the data sample redraw interval. Note that the strip chart only reads the last value stored in that variable name, it does NOT actually go out and measure it at the device. So it makes no sense to plot faster than the variable is getting updated.

- If the changes to the plot are meant to be temporary, you can kill the controls dialog box after your changes. The display will keep the temporary changes, but if you kill the plot, the next time it comes up it will revert to the canonical values. To save your changes to the plots you must click on “file” in the controls GUI and drag down to “save”.
# Presentation: 620859

## GLAS Instrument(Geoscience Laser Altimeter System)

- Measures polar ice-sheet topography and temporal changes in topography; cloud heights, planetary boundary heights, and aerosol vertical structure; and land and water topography

- GLAS Instrument (ICESat Spacecraft)

- Picture Courtesy of Ball Aerospace

## GLAS Instrument Structure w/ Mass Simulators

**Optical Bench**
- 4” Honeycomb Core
- 0.08” Composite Facesheets

**Telescope Bench**
- 2” Honeycomb Core
- 0.06” Composite Facesheets

## STOP Analysis(Structural-Thermal-OPtical) 

- Used to predict optical performance of a system degraded by thermal distortions
- NASTRAN used to predict motion and deformation of optical components

- Accurate Material Thermal Properties Required for STOP Analysis

- GLAS NASTRAN Thermal Model

## Laser Interferometer Used to Measure GLAS Bench CTE

- Laser Interferometer suitable for real time displacement of components with CTE values as low as 10-9 /K
- Temperature can be accurately cycled over wide range
- 8” x 8” Samples

- Information Provided By Precision Measurements and Instruments Corporation (PMIC)

## Michelson Laser Interferometer

- Helium-neon laser provides stable frequency beam
- Laser is split by beam splitter (BS)
- First beam is reflected off mirror PZT and passes into vacuum chamber
- Second beam passes though BS and enters vacuum chamber
- Beams are reflected off sample mounted mirrors and return along their respective paths and interfere, forming a fringe pattern
- Beam splitter SP separates finge pattern light and directs them to photo-detectors PD1 and PD2
- Each shift in the fringe pattern corresponds to a change in sample length equal to 1/2 the wavelength of the laser light (12.456 in)

- Information Provided By Precision Measurements and Instruments Corporation (PMIC)

## Optical Bench Thermal Expansion in Ribbon Direction

## Optical Bench Thermal Expansion in Cross-Ribbon Direction

## GLAS Optical Bench NASTRAN Model
# Presentation: 016408

## Principles and limitations of histologic diagnosis

- <date/time>

**Standard parameters of diagnosis**
**Pattern recognition**
**Resemblance to normal histology**
**Cost and availability**
**Adult vs. pediatric tumors**

## Principles and limitations of histologic diagnosis

- <date/time>

**Standard parameters of diagnosis**

## Parameters used in diagnosis of pediatric tumors

- <date/time>

**Clinical features**
**Primary sites**
**Metastatic patterns**
**Radiographic features**

## Parameters used in diagnosis of pediatric tumors

- <date/time>

**Gross appearance**
**Microscopic appearance**
**histologic pattern**
**tumor cell cytology**
**Immunohistochemistry**
**Electron microscopy**
**Cytogenetics/molecular pathology**

## Principles and limitations of histologic diagnosis

- <date/time>

**Standard parameters of diagnosis**
**Pattern recognition**

## Pediatric Pathology Review Groups

- <date/time>

**Pediatric Pathology Review Groups**

**Children’s Oncology Group**
**Pediatric Oncology Group**
**Children’s Cancer Group**
**Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group**
**National Wilms Tumor Study Group**
**SIOP**
**CWS**

## Principles and limitations of histologic diagnosis

- <date/time>

**Standard parameters of diagnosis**
**Pattern recognition**
**Resemblance to normal histology**

## Cellula est cellulas omnia (i.e.  tumor cells come from normal cells).

- <date/time>

***Cellula est cellulas omnia*** (***i.e.***  tumor cells come from normal cells).

**Rudolph Virchow**

## Principles and limitations of histologic diagnosis

- <date/time>

**Standard parameters of diagnosis**
**Pattern recognition**
**Resemblance to normal histology**
**Cost and availability**

## Test availability hierarchy

- <date/time>

**Routine histology**
**Immunostains**
**EM**
**Cytogenetics**
**Molecular testing**
**Gene arrays**

## Relative costs*(*Mayo, Clonitech)

- <date/time>

- Relative costs***(*Mayo, Clonitech)**

## Relative turnaround times

- <date/time>

## Principles and limitations of histologic diagnosis

- <date/time>

**Standard parameters of diagnosis**
**Pattern recognition**
**Resemblance to normal histology**
**Cost and availability**
**Adult vs. pediatric tumors**

## Summary

- <date/time>

**Histologic diagnosis is part of a synthesis of clinical and pathological data.**
**Pattern recognition is the major technique used in histologic diagnosis and is a talent akin to bird-watching.**
**Diagnosis of tumors is based in part on their resemblance to normal cells.**

## Summary, cont.

- <date/time>

**Histologic examination is currently the most cost effective, readily available, and time efficient method of diagnosis.**
**Tumor diagnosis in children differs markedly from that of adults, but in some circumstances (*****e.g.***** sarcomas) it is the same.**
# Presentation: 590196

## Information Discovery Panel

- October 5, 2006

- Daniel Kern – Bank of America Kelly Pennock – Intelligent Results Alicia Saia – i2 / ChoicePoint Government Services
- Skip Walter – Attenex Larry Becker – PNNL

**Notes:**
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

## Discussion Points – Typical Police Report

- 1.  “We Know What We Know”
- 2.  “We Know What We Don’t Know”
- 3.  “We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know”

## "We know what we know" 

- The information we gather or exists in our heads, experience, files, databases, etc., that we can readily access and use as comparisons to new information.
- This one is relatively easy and can be solved with simple searches, extractions and reporting.
- Example:
- When was the break-in (May 3, 2006)
- What was taken (laptop and other usual break-in items)
- Any physical evidence...etc

## "We know what we don't know"

- After processing #1 we are confident of the information we have, and from experience know what information is missing from our analysis.
- The information may or may not be in our database and so additional searching or requests for additional information are required to help complete the picture.
- Example:  (Data gathered by police over next three weeks)
- Who are the bad guys (unknown)
- What else was taken (anything of value)
- Any weapons used (no)
- Will they try again (probably)
- Any connections with victim (none)
- Any property recovered...etc

## "We don't know what we don't know"

- This is the most difficult for both people and software, but can be absolutely vital to analysis.
- Here the information may or may not reside in the information database, but is not necessarily directly connected.
- ### Need new techniques, inter-connected databases, hypothesis generation software, i.e. “Information Discovery”
- Example:  (May 22, 2006)
- “Victim” worked for VA
- Stolen laptop had 26.5 million veteran records
- With a three week lead, information invaluable if in the right (wrong) hands.

## Panel discussion – Information Discovery

- Daniel Kern – Bank of America
- Kelly Pennock – Intelligent Results
- Alicia Saia – i2 / ChoicePoint Government Services
- Skip Walter – Attenex
# Presentation: 265858

##  Care and Maintenance of the Weigh Balance

## Ohaus Voyager Series Weigh Balance

## Importance of Calibrating Weigh Balance

- To ensure that the instrument accurately weighs substances for reagent preparation

## Weigh Balance Location

**Best environment for a weigh balance:**

- Free of vibration
- No large temperature fluctuations
- No direct sunlight and
- No drafts

## Weigh Balance Calibration

- Calibration is important to ensure that the instrument accurately weighs substances for reagent preparation
- Test results may be incorrect due to instrument malfunction

## Use NIST Class S weights for calibration
Verify that class S weights and balance pan are free from dust and fingerprints
Only “User” calibration will be discussed here
Note: NEVER touch the weights or the balance pan with bare hands!

- Verify that class S weights and balance pan are free from dust and fingerprints
- Only “User” calibration will be discussed here
- Note: NEVER touch the weights or the balance pan with bare hands!

**Weigh Balance Calibration****(continued)**

## The “User” method is used to calibrate the balance using a mass of known value
Three readings should be taken for the six specified weights: 50, 100, 200, 500, 2000 and 4000
Record value in grams  

- Three readings should be taken for the six specified weights: 50, 100, 200, 500, 2000 and 4000
- Record value in grams

**“****User” Calibration Method**

## Place selected mass value on balance pan 
Record reading of weight of the calibration masses.  Removing masses from pan returns balance to weighing mode.

- Record reading of weight of the calibration masses.  Removing masses from pan returns balance to weighing mode.

**“****User” Calibration Method**
**(continued)**

## Balance Calibration Worksheet

- Document each time the balance is calibrated
- How often?
- Log should contain at least the following information:

##  Verify Sensitivity of the Balance 

- To check sensitivity of the balance, keep weighing paper on balance pan
- Make sure the balance reads ‘zero’
- Using tweezers, gently place the 10 mg weight on the balance weighing pan
- After the balance stops fluctuating, read the weighing and record on the Balance Calibration Worksheet

## Verify Sensitivity of the Balance (continued)

- While the 10 mg weight remains on the balance pan, using the tweezers, gently add the 1 mg weight
- After the balance stops fluctuating, record the reading in the Balance Calibration Worksheet
- Repeat the above steps for each weighing to complete the Sensitivity Verification section on the Balance Calibration Worksheet

## Maintenance and Care of Balance

- Keep balance clean - daily, wipe balance with a damp cloth
- A mild detergent may be used
- Never weigh materials directly on weigh pan
- Keep calibration masses in a safe, dry place
- Never touch the masses with bare hands
- Cover balance when not in use
# Presentation: 351265

## NIH ACQUISITION ORGANIZATION

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE **
**ON ALCOHOL & ALCOHOLISM**
**CONTRACTS:  $13.3 M**
**EDWARD KOSTOLANSKY**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTEOF**
**DIABETES & DIGESTIVE **
**& KIDNEY DISEASES**
**CONTRACTS:  $35.6 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.: $14.0 M**
**TOTAL:  $49.6 M**
**PATRICK SULLIVAN**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE **
**OF NEUROLOGICAL **
**DISORDERS AND STROKE**
**CONTRACTS:  $26.9 M**
**KIRK DAVIS**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE **
**ON MENTAL HEALTH**
**CONTRACTS:  $37.1 M**
**GMACS:  $0.7 M**
**TOTAL:  $37.8 M**
**DAVID ESKENAZI**

**OFFICE OF RESEARCH **
**FACILITIES**
**DEV. & OPERATIONS**
**CONTRACTS:  $281.7 M**
**LEASES:   $110.6 M**
**TOTAL:  $392.3 M**
**MELISSA RICHARDSON**

**NATIONAL LIBRARY **
**OF MEDICINE**
**CONTRACTS:  $62.5 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.:  $260.0M**
**TOTAL:  $322.5 M**
**PATRICIA GIBBONS**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE**
**OF CHILD HEALTH AND **
**HUMAN DEVELOPMENT**
**CONTRACTS:  $106.9 M**
**TOTAL:  $106.9 M**
**JAMES QUINN**

**NATIONAL  CANCER**
**INSTITUTE**
**CONTRACTS:  $680.5 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.:  $43.2 M**
**GMACS:  $0.8 M**
**TOTAL:   $724.5 M**
**JOHN CAMPBELL**

**OFFICE OF LOGISTICS**
**AND ACQUISTION OPERATION**
**ALLYSON STOKES**
**DIVISION OF STATION SUPPORT ACQUISITION**
**CONTRACTS:  $473.6 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.:  $286.1 M**
**TOTAL:  $759.7 M**
**DIVISION OF**
** ****RESEARCH ACQUISITION**
**VALERIE PICKETT **
**CONTRACTS:  $64.7 M**
**TOTAL:  $824.4 M**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF**
** ****ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES**
**CONTRACTS:  $754.6**
**CHARLES GREWE**
**CONTRACTS:  $74.6 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.:  $16.9  M**
**TOTAL:  $91.5**
**OLGA ACOSTA-POLSTEN**
**TOTAL:  $846.1 M**

**NATIONAL HEART, LUNG**
**AND BLOOD INSTITUTE**
**CONTRACTS:  $356.3 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.:  $20.3 M**
**GMACS:  $2.4 M**
**TOTAL:  $379.0 M**
**JOHN TAYLOR**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE**
**OF ENVIRONMENTAL**
**HEALTH SCIENCES**
**CONTRACTS:  $130.5 M**
**ALLAN BENTON**
**CONTRACTS:  $45.3 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.:  $13.7 M**
**TOTAL:  $ 59.0 M**
**ANTOINETTE BRIDGES**
**TOTAL:  $189.5 M**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE**
**ON DRUG ABUSE**
**CONTRACTS:  $82.5 M**
**JOHN HAMILL**

**NATIONAL INSTITUTE **
**OF ARTHRITIS  AND**
**MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES**
**CONTRACTS:  $24.7 M**
**EILEEN WEBSTER** **CISSEL **

**NIH ACQUISITION ORGANIZATION**
**FY 2005**

- 3/6/2006

**NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH**
**OFFICE OF**
** ****ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT AND POLICY**
**DIANE J. FRASIER**
***(HEAD CONTRACTING ACTIVITY, NIH)***
**TOTAL:  $4,944.4 M**
**R&D CONTRACTS :  $1,965.7 M**
**NON R&D CONTRACTS & SIMP. ACQ.:  $2,034.7 M**
**PURCHASE CARDS:  $284.5  M**
**DELPRO:  $4.6 M**
**BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENTS:  $133.0 M**
**MISCELLANEOUS:  $369.3 M**
**LEASES:  $110.6  M**
**GWACS:  $42.5 M**

**CLINICAL CENTER**
**CONTRACTS:     $18.8 M**
**SIMP. ACQ.:  $75.6 M**
**GMACS:  38.6 M**
**TOTAL:  $133.0 M**
**SYDNEY JONES**

- Non R&D total includes contracts and Simplified Acquisitions (simp.acq.).  NLM figures do not include NTIS funds.
- DELPRO includes repairs, reprints and professional services.  MISCELLANEOUS. includes training, loan repayments, misc. services, utilities, and GSA Fedstrip.
# Presentation: 287374

## CSS Positioning vs. HTML Tables:HELP!

- Jean ReisingFermilab

## CSS Introduced

- YEAH!!!
- Easy way to update pages
- Better control of design

## CSS Positioning Introduced

- Boo!!!
- In concept, yeah!!!
- Create a layer
- Add text or design element
- Move anywhere
- Easy and quick intricate design
- Page more accessible
- No need for a table, w/in a table, w/in a table

## Sing it Mick

- You Can’t Always Get What you Want

## Case in Point

- _[http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/benefits_table.html](http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/benefits_table.html)_
- Table layout stays consistent across all browsers – pretty
- However, take out the table and use CSS positioning, and . . . . .  .

## Case in Point (cont’d)

- _[http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/benefits_css_netscape.html](http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/benefits_css_netscape.html)_
- http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/benefits_css_firefox.html
- Page breaks in Netscape
- Page breaks in Firefox

## Case in Point #2

- http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/css_example1_ie.html
- In IE, pretty
- But, I’m hearing Mick again . . .  .
- http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/css_example1_netscape.html
- http://lss.fnal.gov/interlab/css_example1_firefox.html

## Frustrating	

- If I was getting what I wanted, using CSS, the page would have been designed in 10 minutes
- Since the CSS pages broke, design time increased to over 30 minutes – not to mention wasted time it took to try to get CSS to work

## What to Do?

- Keep using tables? So much for accessibility (Sorry W3C)
- Use CSS?Pray no one uses Firefox
- Find a work around?How?
- Wait until browsers catch up to W3C recommendations?

## Final Thoughts

- Be aware if designing in CSS positioning for the first time
- If you have had success, send me tips, tricks, work-arounds

## Jean Reising

- joan@fnal.gov
- 630-840-6010

## Disclaimer

- To optimally view this site, come to my office and I’ll show it to you on my system!
# Presentation: 755442

## Status of SNS

- 				Carl Lionberger

## Spallation Neutron Source

- The SNS will begin operation in 2006
- At 1.4 MW it will be ~8x ISIS, the world’s leading pulsed spallation source
- The peak neutron flux will be ~20-100x ILL
- SNS will be the world’s leading facility for neutron scattering.

## SNS Construction Progress

## Project Status 

- The FY 2003 request was $225M, fully funded minus $3M due to rescission
- Impact being evaluated
- The FY 2004 request is $143M as expected
- Overall project design is 87% complete
- Overall the project is 58% complete (through January 2003) and within budget and schedule constraints
- $1.4B and June 2006 completion
- Contingency is adequate at 19%
- ES&H performance outstanding
- >1.9 million construction site work hours without lost workday injury

- .....  BCWS
- ___  BCWP
- ___  ACWP

## Multi-Lab project

## SNS Project Staffing

**FY 2003 Project Average Staffing Through Jan. 2003:**
-  2 FTEs above the FY 2003 plan average - 670
-  672 FTEs, a decrease of 4 FTEs from December
**Staffing Actuals  for Jan.  2003:**
- 655 FTEs, a decrease of 38 FTEs from 693 FTEs in December

## Multiple Labs Advantages

- Many teams working concurrently
- Labs working on parts that are their specialties

## Multiple Labs Problems

- All using EPICS, but often differently
- Naming conventions and other standardizations are more important than they seem
- Last minute integration (at least from ORNL point of view)
- Developers don’t come with the system

## How far along are controls?

- Much is still at other labs but ready for installation; task of local staff largely integration.
- CF, Front end and 2 DTLS as well as overall patterns of timing, MPS, PPS and vacuum controls done.
- 25 iocs out of 150 online
- Also 250 NADS

## EPICS components

- Operator screens
- We have lots, often eng level
- Alarm Handler previously not used- next run will indicate current success.
- Archiver – archiving lots of channels, needs some refinement
- Lots of physics apps that use JCA are well along.
- Matlab also useable tool with MCA
- BURT not in use previously – we have developed jburt -  again, next run will tell.

## EPICS components 2

- Striptool heavily used in operations
- Bumpless reboot widely used
- Elog developed and used
- IOC logging using EPICS logserver

## Conclusions

- We couldn’t do things this way without EPICS
- Need fewer people
- Equipment shows up with a compatible control system
- Even with EPICS there are still ownership and local practices issues
- We have a lot of work left to do.
# Presentation: 792566

## United States Department of Agriculture

- Rural Development
**Rural Business Opportunity Grants**

- OBJECTIVE
- The purpose is to promote sustainable economic development in rural areas of under 50,000 population, which have exceptional needs.
-  ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS
- Public bodies, nonprofit corporations, Indian Tribes on Federal or State reservations and other Federally-recognized tribal groups, and cooperatives with members that are primarily rural residents.
- ELIGIBLE GRANT PURPOSES
- Identify and analyze business opportunities, including export markets, that will use local natural and human resources.
- Identify, train, and provide technical assistance to existing or prospective rural entrepreneurs and managers.
- Establish business support centers and otherwise assist in the creation of new rural businesses.
- Conduct local community or multi-county economic development planning.
- Establish centers for training, technology, and trade that will provide training to rural businesses in the utilization of interactive communications technologies to develop international trade opportunities and markets.
- Conduct leadership development training of existing or prospective rural entrepreneurs and managers.
- Pay reasonable fees and charges for professional services necessary to conduct the technical assistance, training, or planning functions.
- USE RESTRICTIONS
- Grants may be made only when there is a reasonable prospect that the project will result in the economic development of a rural area and must be consistent with local and area wide strategic plans for community and economic development.
- For more information regarding Community Facility and Rural Business-Cooperative                                       Service and other programs, contact the **Rural Development State Office**:
**UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE**
**RURAL DEVELOPMENT**
**967 ILLINOIS AVENUE, SUITE 4**
**PO BOX 405, BANGOR, MAINE  04402-0405**
**TEL:  (207) 990-9168**
**TDD/TTY: (207) 942-7331**
**E-MAIL:  rbs.info@me.usda.gov**
**Website:  www.rurdev.usda.gov**
- Rural Development is an Equal Opportunity Lender, Provider, and Employer.  02/05
# Presentation: 786036

## Natural Gas Market Monitoring, Natural Gas and Electric Price Indices, What is New at FERC?  

- Natural Gas Market Monitoring, Natural Gas and Electric Price Indices, What is New at FERC?

***Matthew Hunter, Trading Advisor******Office of Market Oversight and Investigations***
***Federal Energy Regulatory Commission***

## Opening Remarks

- Disclaimer
- Personal Notes and History
- Activities at the FERC

## What is New at FERC

- New Chairman
- New Director
- Newly Enacted Legislation
- New Authorities

## Changes to OMOI

- OMOI Importance
- Business as Usual
- Assure that Prices are Driven by Fundamentals
- Increase in OMOI’s Intensity of Scrutiny

## Market Monitoring and Hunting Manipulation

- Daily and Ongoing
- Tools
- Market Monitors at ISO/RTO
- Staff
- EQR
- CFTC MOU
- Enforcement

## Indices

- Quality
- Reliability
- Formation
- Liquidity

## Market Integrity is Everyone’s Business

- FERC Hotline:
- 1-888-889-8030
# Presentation: 575015

## DOE P2 WORKSHOPCORPORATE SESSIONDOE IG AUDIT

- Greg McBrien, EM-23
- May 3, 2005

## Findings and Outcome for EM

- Operational Assessments for pollution prevention opportunities are not carried out, as required by DOE Order 450.1
- Site pollution prevention managers did not have adequate funding for their activities
- Pollution prevention managers at all of the sites visited did not believe they had adequate program support to maintain an effective program

## Response by EM Management

**August 12, 2004 memo from Paul Golan to the EM Field Office managers discussed DOE Order 450.1 requirements and ongoing IG audit of P2**
**Response memo to IG dated February 17, 2005 stated that EM would:**
**Provide additional guidance to Field managers on the need to conduct pollution prevention opportunity assessments, and**
**Will develop and implement performance measures for pollution prevention in conjunction with EH**

## Action Items and Follow-up

- EM Field Office managers were asked to provide current and future actions planned to meet the IG Report findings via a memo from Paul Golan dated 2/24/05
- EM Field Offices provided summaries of their current and planned actions by the end of March 2005
- While actions are taking place, a coordinated response needs to be formed to improve the program over the next year
- Specifically, actions to address funding are hindered by the budget cycle

## Future Plans Based on DOE IG Audit

- Require sites to conduct and submit operational assessments to EM HQ over the next year
- Begin work on performance standards for Field Managers tied to new P2 goals from EH
- Continue internal discussions on funding mechanisms for P2 implementation in the field
- Explore other innovative funding strategies such as GSAF with EH and other PSOs
# Presentation: 306746

## Observed Land Impacts on 

- Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science
- University of Maryland, College Park

**Observed Land Impacts on **
**Clouds, Water Vapor, and Rainfall at Continental Scales**** **

- Michael D. King
- Earth-Sun Exploration Division
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Greenbelt, Maryland

- January 5, 2006
- MODIS Science Team Meeting

## How important can one continent be to the climate system?  

**How important can one ****continent**** be to the climate system?****  **

- 1. Scientific Questions:

- 2. Data Sets Used:
- 5-years of NASA Terra MODIS observations;
- 3-year NASA Aqua MODIS observations;
- TRMM observations;
- Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP); global precipitation analysis;
- NCEP reanalysis;
- to assess the _*land impacts*_ on clouds, rainfall, and water vapor at continental scales.

## 3. Why Continental Scale? - Importance of Continental Scale

-  Features at continental scale is index of land impact on climate

-  Continental scale is critical in testing the accuracy of GCM
-        	       Coe, M.T. (2000, J. of Climate),
- 	       Jin, M.  et al. (1997 J. of Climate)

-  Few studies focus on continental scale

- With knowledge of local/global features,
- can we extend to know the features at continental scale?

- Answer: No. As  climate system is nonlinear

## Knowing other scales cannot ensure understanding at continental scale

- Knowing other scales _cannot_ ensure understanding at continental scale

- Cloud Features at Various Spatial Scales

## 5 year averaged 

- 5 year averaged
- Cloud Optical Thickness

## Land Impacts on Cloud Optical Thickness

## Continent Impacts on Cloud Optical Thickness

## Probability Density Function

- Globe

- Northern Hemisphere

## Temporal Variations of PDF for Cloud Optical Thickness

- land

- ocean

## MODIS Cloud Fraction Daytime

- Ocean Only (90°N-90°S, 180°E-180°W)

- Land

- Average

- 0.693

- 0.536

- Ocean

- Land

- Seasonal range

- 0.04

- 0.11

## MODIS Cloud Fraction Daytime

## Ocean Only

- MODIS Cloud Fraction Daytime

- Land Only

## MODIS Cloud Effective Radius

- Ice clouds

- Liquid water clouds

## Cirrus Fraction

- Land enlarges seasonality of cirrus fraction

## Column Water Vapor

- Land enlarges seasonality, and reduces the absolute value of water vapor

## Probability Density Function

## Monthly rainfall for

- Northern Hemisphere, North America,and Eurasia.

- Continents have larger rainfall seasonality

## Mechanisms for Land Impacts on Clouds

- Mechanism 1.
- Surface
- Temperature
- Difference

- Mechanism 2.
- Temperature
- Seasonality Difference

##  Summary

- <date/time>

-  **Summary**

- MODIS observations are extremely useful.

- Land mass enhances seasonality of clouds, water vapor, and rainfall

- Land decreases the liquid cloud effective radius, cloud fraction, and water vapor

- Need More Work on providing
- 			insightful statistics
-   			physical interpretation

## MODIS Column Water Vapor

- NCEP Reanalysis Water Vapor

- MODIS is valuable to evaluate Reanalysis and model simulations
# Presentation: 677118

## The GREAT GAME PLAN   

- The GREAT GAME PLAN:
- Telehealth in Action

- Carol A. Rice, RN, BSN, MA

## Telehealth is using telephone technology to manage healthcare. 

- The right care...	at the right place...		at the right time!

## What is Pre-diabetes?

- Pre-diabetes is the term used when
- a fasting blood sugar is elevated, over
- 100, but it is not high enough for a
- diagnosis of diabetes:
**    ****(>100 mg/dL but <126 mg/dL).**

**Pre-diabetes is NOT just an early warning sign!**

**Individuals with pre-diabetes are at a 1.5 times greater risk of Cardiovascular disease**
** **_**EVEN if they NEVER develop diabetes!1**_

## METABOLIC  SYNDROME

**Elevated Glucose (>100 mg/dL but <126 mg/dL)**
**Abdominal obesity as measured by waist ****circumference****: **
**     ****Men ****≥40 inches, Women ≥35 inches**
**Triglycerides ****>150**
**HDL <40 for men and <50 for women**
**Systolic Blood Pressure >150 *****or ***
**Diastolic Blood Pressure >85**

## Lifestyle changes

***Lifestyle changes***

**THE CHANGES DO NOT HAVE **
**TO BE DRAMATIC****!**

- EXERCISE

**30 minutes of exercise, **
**5 times a week is the goal.**

**Small Steps.**

- Big Rewards!

## Lose 5% -7% of Bodyweight

- For a **200** pound person this would be **10-15 **pounds.

- The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP),
-  proved that type 2 diabetes can be prevented
- or delayed with MODEST weight loss of
- 5%-7% and exercise of 150 minutes a week
**by 58%!**

## Diabetes Trends* Among Adults in the U.S.,(Includes Gestational Diabetes)     BRFSS, 1990,1995 and 2001

**1990**

**1995**

**2001**

***Diabetes Trends* Among Adults in the U.S.,******(Includes Gestational Diabetes)****** ******    ******BRFSS, ******1990,1995****** and 2001***

- Source: Mokdad et al., *J Am Med Assoc* 2001;286:10.

- < 4%

- No data

- <4%

- <4-6%

- 6-8%

- 8-10%

- >10%

## Eat more vegetables, Especially GREEN vegetables!

**THEY ARE VERY **
**NUTRITIOUS, **
**FILLING, AND HAVE **
**LOTS OF FIBER**

## EAT FEWER SWEETS

- Eat desserts
- less frequently or smaller portions

## Limit the “White” foods

**White**** flour**
**White**** sugar**
**White ****pasta**
**White**** potatoes**
**White**** rice**

## In-Home Messaging Device

**Asks questions daily....**

**Responses are sent to the coordinator’s computer**

## Individual 

**Results Are **
**Risk-Stratified**
**And Color Coded**

**Individual **
**responses are**
** ****easily checked.**

##    It’s never too late to start...

- Lifestyle intervention works in **all** age groups but was extremely effective in people aged
**60 and older,**
- reducing the development of diabetes by **71%!**

## So how are the patients doing?

- ?

##       What are the initial results?

**WAIST MEASURMENT ****↓****3.56**** IN.**

**BODY MASS INDEX ****↓****1.59**

**WEIGHT ****↓****10.75 LBS.**

*      ****What are the initial results?***

**Initial 24 patients after 90 days in the program**

##   Questions??

**do**

**lose?**

**What**

**you**

**to**

**have**
# Presentation: 880121

## Public HearingPinnacle Airlines Flight 3701(DCA05MA003)

- Lorenda Ward
- Investigator-in-Charge

## Accident Summary

- October 14, 2004
- Pinnacle Airlines
- Bombardier CL-600 2B19
- Repositioning flight
- Two flight crewmembers killed

## Takeoff to 15,000 Feet

- Dispatched to 33,000 feet
- Stall protection system activated
- Autopilot engaged
- Flight crew changed seats

## 15,000 Feet to 25,000 Feet

- Autopilot disengaged
- Airplane leveled off
- Elevator and rudder inputs made
- Autopilot engaged

## 25,000 Feet to 41,000 Feet

- Autopilot disengaged
- Elevator inputs made
- Autopilot engaged
- Vertical speed changed
- Flight crew requested and received clearance to 41,000 feet
- Airplane climbed at 500 feet per minute

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## SGF

**SGF**

**LBO**

**TBN**

**VIH**

**AIZ**

**JEF**

## SGF

**SGF**

**LBO**

**TBN**

**VIH**

**AIZ**

**JEF**

## SGF

**SGF**

**LBO**

**TBN**

**VIH**

**AIZ**

**JEF**

## SGF

**SGF**

**LBO**

**TBN**

**VIH**

**AIZ**

**JEF**

## NTSB Investigators and Staff

- Lorenda Ward, Investigator-in-Charge
- Bob Benzon, Senior Investigator
- Carol Horgan, Powerplants
- Dave Kirchgessner, Operations
- Evan Byrne, Human Performance
- Dan Bower, Aircraft Performance
- Bob Swaim, Systems
- Scott Dunham, Air Traffic Control
- Ron Price, Structures

## NTSB Staff, continued

- Don Eick, Weather
- Anna Cushman, Cockpit Voice Recorder
- Greg Smith, Flight Data Recorder
- Clint Crookshanks, Maintenance Records
- Dana Schulze, System Safety
- Dave Tew, Operations
- Erik Grosof, TDA
- Terry Williams, Public Affairs
- Karen Stein, Report Writer

## Parties to the Investigation

- Federal Aviation Administration
- Pinnacle Airlines
- Air Line Pilots Association
- General Electric Engines
- Honeywell
- Hamilton Sundstrand
- Rockwell Collins

## Accredited Representative

- Transportation Safety Board of Canada
- Technical Advisor – Transport Canada
- Technical Advisor – Bombardier Aerospace

## Public Hearing Staff

- Jennifer Barnes
- Eunice Bellinger
- Carolyn Dargan
- Lyn Donaldson
- Antion Downs
- Bill English
- Gina John

- Melba Moye
- Alice Park
- Greg Pereria
- Shavonne Reed
- Christy Spangler
- Will Skolochenko
- Brandon Tanner

## Slide 26
# Presentation: 703549

## Nonprofit Federation

## NONPROFIT SECTOR DATA

**www.nonprofitfederation.org**

**NONPROFIT SECTOR DATA**

-  **1.4 million nonprofit organizations registered**
** ****5.2% of gross domestic product (GDP)**
** ****8.3% of wages & salaries paid in the U.S.**

** ****29% of the public volunteers**
** ****$4.2 billion spent on fundraising (in 2006)**
** ****$295 billion raised (in 2006)**
** ****$1,220/yr  (with 83% of American saying they gave)**

## ABOUT NONPROFIT FEDERATION 

**www.nonprofitfederation.org**

**ABOUT NONPROFIT FEDERATION **

**MERGER**
**DMA Nonprofit Council & National Federation of Nonprofits**
**(1999-2000)=DMA Nonprofit Federation**
**MISSION**
**Advance interest of its members in the use of dm to raise $**
**VALUE PROPOSITION**
** ****advocate on behalf on nonprofits on range of issues**
** ****produce world-class education**
** ****advance ethical practices**
**	****-NEW Commitment to Consumer Choice**

** **

## ABOUT NONPROFIT FEDERATION 

**www.nonprofitfederation.org**

**ABOUT NONPROFIT FEDERATION **

**MEMBERSHIP**
** ****NONPROFIT MEMBERS**
** **
** ****CORPORATE MEMBERS**
** **

** **

## ABOUT NONPROFIT FEDERATION 

**www.nonprofitfederation.org**

**ABOUT NONPROFIT FEDERATION **

**VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT**
** ****PLANNING COMMITTEES**
**ADVISE ON POLICY DEVELOPMENT**
**NETWORKING & BUILDING LOYALTY**

** **

##         GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS & POLICY

**www.nonprofitfederation.org**

**        ****GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS & POLICY**
**Top Issues**
**Postal matters 70.7%**
**Nonprofit governance & transparency 38.8%**
**State charitable solicitation laws 36%**
**Information security & privacy 34%**
**Do not mail 30%**
**Internet policy 26.7%**
**Telemarketing / do not call 17.2%**
**First Amendment / advocacy 5.2%**
**Committees & Grassroots/Grass Tops**
**Advisory Council & Policy Setting**
**Outside Counsel**

** **

##    COMMUNICATIONS

**www.nonprofitfederation.org**

**   ****COMMUNICATIONS**
** ****Quarterly Journal**
** ****Weekly News Update**
** ****Career Opportunities**
** ****List Serve**
** ****The Integrator Blog**
** ****Monthly Critical Issues Hot Sheet**
** **_[www.nonprofitfederation.org](http://www.nonprofitfederation.org/)_
** **_[www.dmanonprofit.org](http://www.dmanonprofit.org/)_

** **

##                   Postal Issues & Topics

**www.nonprofitfederation.org**

**                  ****Postal Issues & Topics**
**Counsel & MTAC Representatives**
*** ******State Do Not Mail legislation***
*** ******Postal Delivery***
*** ******Postal Rates***
*** ******Eligibility***
*** ******Not Flat Machinables, etc.***

** **

## Nonprofit Federation
# Presentation: 695032

## Nonbeverage Products Laboratory Overview

- Rachel K. Sanderoff, Chemist
- 202.264.1672

## NPL Mission

- To provide the quality data and technical support required by TTB and industry members

- Protect the public

- Collect the revenue through processing formulas and analyzing samples for nonbeverage and tobacco products

## Organization

- John Manfreda
- Administrator

- Vicky McDowell
- Asst. Administrator

- Bill Foster
- Asst. Administrator
- Headquarters Operations

- Abdul Mabud
- Director
- Scientific Services Division

- Janet Scalese
- Chief
- Nonbeverage Products Lab

- Management/Chief
- Financial Officer

- Chief of Staff

- Industry Liaison

- Field Operations

- Knowledgement
- Management Staff

- Regulations and
- Rulings Division

- Advertising, Labeling,
- and Formulation
- Division

- International
- Trade Division

- Jeffrey Ammann
- Chief
- Beverage Alcohol Lab

- Norma Hill
- Chief
- Compliance Monitoring Lab

## NPL Organization

- Michelle
- Williams-Ellerbe
- Legal Instruments
-  Examiner
- 240-264-1666

- Janet Scalese
- Chief
- 240-264-1589

- Edward Limowski
- Chemist
- 240-264-1593

- Julie Arthur
- Chemist
- 240-264-1663

- John Shifflett
- Chemist
- 240-264-1597

- Tomika Moore
- Senior Chemist
- 240-264-1588

- Dawit Bezabeh
- Senior Chemist
- 240-264-1594

- Rachel Sanderoff
- Chemist
- 240-264-1672

- E-mail:
- First.lastname@ttb.gov
- Rachel.Sanderoff@ttb.gov

## Products

- Nonbeverage (Drawback) Alcohol
- Food, flavor, medicine, medicinal preparations, perfumes
- Manufacturer pays excise tax on purchase of ethanol
- File formula and claims for return on some of the tax

## Products

- Specially Denatured Alcohol (SDA)
- Alcohol containing other chemicals which denature it to make it unfit
- (27 CFR Part 20 and 21)
- Companies must have permit and approved formula

- Tobacco
- Laboratory analysis to determine tax classification

## Actions on Drawback Formulas

**APPROVED (Domestic)** – alcohol eligible for drawback, unfit for beverage purposes
**NO ACTION (Domestic)** – no alcohol eligible for drawback, unfit for beverage purposes
**APPROVED/NO ACTION (Foreign)** – alcohol eligible for 5010 tax credit, unfit for beverage purposes.

## DISAPPROVED (Domestic) – alcohol is NOT ELIGIBLE for drawback, fit for beverage purposes, cannot be sold to another company
DISAPPROVED (Foreign) – alcohol NOT ELIGIBLE for 5010 tax credit, fit for beverage purposes 
RETURNED – sample needed, information not complete, etc.

**DISAPPROVED (Foreign)** – alcohol NOT ELIGIBLE for 5010 tax credit, fit for beverage purposes
**RETURNED** – sample needed, information not complete, etc.

- Actions on Drawback Formulas

## “Fitness”

- Fit for beverage purposes = the average person might mistake the product for an alcoholic beverage
- Evaluation of fitness
- Evaluate formula on paper using guidelines
- Analyze ingredients
- As a last resort, dilute to 15% EtOH and taste

## More Information

- More specific information and guidelines for “unfitness” will be discussed later in Ed’s and John’s presentations.
# Presentation: 675829

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

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

***Total SARs: 95,118***

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Arizona

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

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

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

- 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 Arizona

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

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

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

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

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
# Presentation: 185933

## MODIS Land C4 Improvements

- Incremental science improvements accumulated in C3 processing.
- Change the map projection from ISIN to SIN supported by major image processing packages.
- Produce the 250m products globally for the whole data record.
- Benefit from improvements in the Level 1B product: time dependent calibration.

- Nov. 28, 2001

## Specific Improvements (1/4)

**Fire Product:**
- More robust fire algorithm that detects more small fires and produces fewer false alarms
- Lower sensitivity to inaccuracies in the in-land water mask.

- C3 , *N*f = 267

- C4 , *N*f = 568

- C3 , *N*f = 4769

- C4 , *N*f = 5

- Zaire

- Pakistan

- Nov. 28, 2001

## Specific Improvements (2/4)

**Surface reflectance**:
- Improves cloud detection and implement a geometric cloud shadow mask algorithm
- Improves aerosol retrieval and interpolation
**Land surface temperature**:
- Uses BRDF product
- Incorporates a split window method in the day/night emissivity retrieval algorithm
- Lowers the clear sky confidence threshold over lakes to 66% to perform LST retrievals over a larger areas
**BRDF/Albedo:**
- Improves the a priori database used in the backup algorithm based on MODIS derived model data
- Uses new shortwave and NIR narrow-to-broadband conversion factors for pure snow

- Nov. 28, 2001

## Specific Improvements (3/4)

- Improves the LUT’s in the main and backup algorithms which increased the number of high quality retrievals by 10%, removed the non-physical peak in the global LAI and improved the agreement with ground measurements
- Uses the MODIS Land Cover product which reduced the uncertainties due to the at-launch land cover
** ****VI/EVI:**
- Weighted average scheme used for daily orbital observations
- Improves data filtering prior to compositing and use of the aerosol quality flag – results in better spatial consistency

- Nov. 28, 2001

## Specific Improvements (4/4)

**C3**

**C4**

**C3**

**C4**

- RGB

**VI/EVI**

- Nov. 28, 2001

## Other Collection Version 4 Changes

- New products added
- Climate Modeling Grids – currently: Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity, BRDF/Albedo; others are in progress
- Aqua Version 4 Algorithms will start in Feb. 2003 (now)
- Browse image roll-out expected soon
- Vegetation Cover Conversion – released
- Vegetation Continuous Fields – being shipped to the DAAC – too be released soon
- Net Primary Production, Burn Scar, Vegetation Dynamics (phenology, interannual change vectors) and Evapotranspiration – under development or evaluation

- Nov. 28, 2001

## MODLAND Grid Change

- Science team recently made decision to switch to Sinusoidal Grid (drop the “I”)
- Timing: started with C4 processing
- Small differences in mapped coordinates mean comparisons between C3 (ISIN) and C4 (SIN) 1km products can be made without much loss of fidelity
- maximum difference at 1km is 0.2 pixels in the column (sample) direction
- Relatively larger differences make inter-comparison of 250m and 500m ISIN and SIN products difficult
- shift is up to 0.4 of a 500m pixel and 0.8 of a 250m pixel

- Nov. 28, 2001
# Presentation: 372623

## New Concepts for Managing Continued Operational Safety of Products

## Major Discussion Points

**Continued Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO) presented by EASA**
**Maintenance management activities are shifting from the operator to the OEM.**
- New concepts presented by Boeing (Gold Care) and Rolls-Royce (Total Care). The operators contract with the OEM, and not with the repair stations.
- These contracts are flexible and modular
**The responsibility still remains with the operator.**

## Reactions from the Floor

**Request for additional information on CAMO. **
- EASA announced change in rule, to allow outsourcing of CAMO for air transport operations
**Concern that there may be an unclear situation with respect to airworthiness, because the contractual arrangements are between the repair station and the OEM, and not anymore with the operator. **

## Reactions from the Floor

**This business model expands globalisation, which in turn raises additional concerns:**
- Cultural differences, communication and human factors.
- New business model will standardise wording and promote information sharing,
- Ability of repair stations to deal with aging aircraft,
- Parts pooling and the multiple releases
- Emerging Airworthiness Authorities’ requirements.

## Outcomes/Additional Ideas

**EASA CAMO rule will be revised. It might facilitate the new business model.**
**EASA and FAA are monitoring the development of the new business model and will react accordingly.**