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# Presentation: 515038

## EBT Grant Applicationsand AdministrationWIC EBT Users Group MeetingSan Diego, CA November 2008

## Topics

**Funding Overview for EBT Grants**
**Solicitation Requirements **
**Budget Submission**
**Reporting Requirements**

## EBT Funding - General

**Normal source of funding is infrastructure/multipurpose funding**
**Separate line item in appropriations bill**
**Legislation requires USDA/FNS to use these funds for specific things**
**Special/targeted technology funding**

## FY 2008 EBT Funding

-    **Total funds available for infrastructure/ multipurpose funding was $13.6 million**
- _Major items funded_:
- Regional infrastructure funds for SAs to assist with new food package implementation
- FNS/WIC reports, educational and monitoring tools (PC Study, TIP, WIC Works website, automated ME tool)
-  Breastfeeding initiative
- SAM and EBT

## FY 2008 EBT Funding

- Majority of funds from infrastructure/ multipurpose went for technology related projects
- SAM funding = almost $5.2 million (38%)
- SAM consortia
- SAM transfers (4 State agencies)
- EBT funding = just over $5 million
- Nearly $3.9 million for grants to States
- Approx. $1 million for contracted technical assistance
- $175,000 for UPC database

## FY 2009 EBT Funding

- Appropriation unknown at this time
- Currently under a CR
- Funding for technology may be similar to FY 08
- Unless........
_**Priority of funding:**_
- SAM consortia & existing transfers
- Existing EBT
- New SAM transfers
- EBT planning/new projects

## Solicitation Requirements

- Timing of solicitation and funding awards
- Number and type of award dependent on available funding and staffing resources
- Follow solicitation instructions/guidelines!
- Pay attention to:
- Submission deadlines and process
- Eligibility requirements
- Project description, to include narrative introduction, procurement plan, resource/staffing overview, schedule, vendor support, MIS capabilities, and budget

## EBT Budgets

- Proposals must include a project budget
- SF 424, 424A and B must be completed
- For grant funding purposes, need funding request/need broken out by fiscal year by quarter
- We fund for “immediate need” which usually means 15 months

## EBT Budgets

- For existing projects, fiscal year integrity must be maintained
- Budgets and reporting must follow the fiscal year in which the funds are appropriated
- Funds may be redirected from one line item to another, but cannot be “reassigned” to another fiscal year
- FIFO rules apply to the extent practicable under existing EBT contracts

## EBT Budgets

- Should use suggested Budget Format for assessment of unspent prior year funds and requested redirection of grant funds (handout)
- Prior to the award of new funding, current funding levels and remaining funds will be verified using the 269A reports
# Presentation: 028992

## THE POES SATELLITE SYSTEM

**NESDIS****Headquarters Suitland, MD**

**Central Environmental Satellite Computer System (CEMSCS)**

**SARSAT U. S. Mission Control Center**

***THE POES SATELLITE SYSTEM***

**SAR Local User Terminals**

**APT Real-Time Stations**

**HRPT Real-Time Stations**

**Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC)**

**Anchorage National Weather Service Forecast Office**

**United Kingdom**

**Toulouse, France**

**ERL Boulder, CO**

**HRPT/LAC**

**SEM**

**DCS**

**AMSU**

**       ****Automatic Picture**
**      ****Transmission (APT)**
**      ****High Resolution Picture**
**      ****Transmission (HRPT) **
**      ****Search & Rescue**
**      ****Data Collection System**
**      ****Commands**
**      ****Telemetry**
**NOTE:  Uplinks/Downlinks are identical for both NOAA AM /PM**
# Presentation: 067893

## LBNL/NERSC Site Report

- Cary Whitney
- NERSC
- clwhitney@lbl.gov

## Outline

- Changes at NERSC
- What's new at PDSF
- Computational Systems Group (CSG)
- Advanced Systems Group (ASG)
- Mass Storage
- Future Technologies Group (FTG)
- Networking/Security
- Grid

## LBNL/NERSC

## LBNL/NERSC

## NERSC

- Oakland building expansion (of sorts)
- Finishing existing floor
- Widening loading dock to create a parking structure
- Building a new building next door.  (Not NERSC funded.)

## PDSF

- Purchased a Zambeel system to use as /home and /spool
- Added 60 Dual Athlons to the cluster
- Added 15 - - 1 TB disk vaults
- Demo of Maximum-Throughput system in works
- Demo of AMD Hammer in works

## CSG

- We say good by to the Crays.  The T3E and SV1 were decommissioned on Oct 1st.

## CSG

- Seaborg upgraded to AIX 5.1

- Announcement of Blue Planet
- Http://www.nersc.gov/news/blueplanet.html

## ASG

- Batch schedulers testing
- Between LSF 5.1, OpenPBS/Maui, SGE, MauiME
- Unlimited Scale SSI testing
- Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)
- GUPFS
- Max-T, Ibrix, GFS, Yotta Yotta, 3Par Data
- EMC, Dot Hill, Qlogic
- PCI-X
- Rei Lee (rclee@lbl.gov)

## Mass Storage

- Added 20TB of cache for HPSS
- Moving to 200GB tapes
- Starting evaluation of Linux Movers
- Beta for HPSS 5.1 DMAPI
- Linux XFS/DMAPI

## FTG

- IB technologies
- Linux checkpoint/restart

## Network/Security

- iperf.nersc.gov
- Tested/beta 10GE
- HIPPI/FIDDI removal from center
- Planning stages for OC48 upgrade
- SC2002 work
- Eli Dart (dart@nersc.gov)

## Grid

- Getting grid services running on Seaborg
- NERSC wide grid ldap server
- Enabling Bro to recognize gsiftp and cactus sessions, or simple making Bro grid aware
- Steve Chan (SYChan@lbl.gov)
# Presentation: 259489

## Transition  to the USGS Regional Executives Realignment Structure

**Frank D’Erchia, Chief Scientist, Central Region **
*February, 2008*

## Realignment of Regional Executives 

- Assign each REx responsibility for all scientific disciplines within a smaller geographic area.

***REx’s will be responsible for leadership and management (people, funds, science) of a multidisciplinary portfolio within a geographic area of the region.****** ***

## REx Role and Responsibilities

- Provides Executive leadership for a geographic area.
- Assume multidisciplinary responsibilities for a geographic area
- Serve as the regional interface with the discipline Chief Scientists
- Coordinate/lead within their geographic area of responsibility
- Facilitate integration across disciplines
- Provide executive representation to Federal, State, and other groups
- Manage people, funds, and science
- Program development and implementation

**Notes:**
The position descriptions have already been developed.  
Here are the key responsibilities of the REx’s in the new structure.
The primary difference between the current responsibilities and these are their representation of all USGS science disciplines in a smaller geographic area

## Regions and AreasBefore and After

**Western**
**Region**

**Central**
**Region**

**Eastern**
**Region**

**Notes:**
Regional boundaries will not change
Each region will comprise 3 geographical areas
Each Rex will have a minimal staff; the composition varies depending on the issues in that area and the customer needs
Handout (to be provided by Kelly Bradley):  Rex staffing for each of the 9 areas

## Central Region Organization 

- Deputy Regional Director

- Staff
- Assistants

- Chief, Office of
- Communications

- Program
- Analyst

- Budget
- Officer

- Regional Executive      North Central

- Regional  Executive       Rocky Mountain

- Office of Regional Services

- Regional Geospatial Information Office

- Regional Science Office

**Central Region Organization**** **

- Regional  Executive      South Central

- Regional Approval
- Team

- Discipline Program
- Support Team
# Presentation: 773486

## Non-Volatile, Solid-State Recorder for SpacecraftSeakr Engineering, Inc.Englewood, CO

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Developed software to control flash memory in a low earth environment.
- Designed flash based memory for operation in a low earth orbit.
- Delivered flash based solid state recorder for a low earth orbit.
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Commercial potential exists in imaging satellites, commercial store and forward satellites, and avionics crash recorders.

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

- 1990 Phase 2,  SS5-004 11/30/95

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Use of flash memory to replace shuttle tape recorders, for low earth satellites such as Gravity Probe B, and on space vehicles such as Pluto Flyby.
- Provided data recording for the GSFC Spartan 207/Inflatable Antenna Experiment which flew May 16, 1996.

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

**INNOVATION**
**	**Developed application of non-volatile memory for spacecraft.

***SPARTAN Solid State Recorder***

- Points of Contact:
- 	-  NASA - Dennis Olivares; 301-286-3214
- 	-  Seakr - Scott Anderson; 303-790-8499
# Presentation: 122320

## Transfusion Reaction

- September 2008 Coding and Maintenance Committee Meeting
- Presented by
- Patrick S. Romano, MD, MPH
- on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

## Background

- Transfusion reactions occur when antibodies in the patient’s blood react to components in the transfused blood
- Can be life threatening or minor
- Types of transfusion reaction
- Major types: ABO and Rh
- Minor types: e.g. Kell, Duffy, Kidd, Lewis, E
- Minor antigens may cause serious or mild reactions, but are uncommon in the general population (major risk factor is prior transfusion therapy)

## Preventing transfusion reaction

- Major antibodies (ABO/Rh) routinely screened through type and cross in non-emergent cases
- Minor antibodies are not screened, unless patient has a history of transfusion reaction to one of these minor antibodies
- Failure to screen or faulty screening for major antibodies before non-emergent transfusions is a serious medical error (usually occurs at POC)
- National Quality Forum Serious Reportable Event
- AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator
- CMS Hospital Acquired Condition

## Current Coding Structure

- 999.6 ABO incompatibility reaction
- Index instructs coders to code minor specified blood group antigens (Duffy, E, Kell, Kidd, Lewis, M, N, P, S) to 999.6
- This code combines preventable ABO reactions with those generally considered nonpreventable in most patients
- Record review study (7 cases) by National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) in 2008: 2 POA, 4 clearly nonpreventable, 1 uncertain

## Proposed coding structure

- 999.6 ABO incompatibility reaction
- Exclude minor blood group antigens
- Add new code
- 999.87 “Other specified transfusion reaction”
- Revise 999.89
- _Unspecified _transfusion reaction
- Permits tracking of ABO and minor incompatibility reactions separately
- Limits 999.6 to preventable reactions
# Presentation: 361045

## Department of Energy CORPORATE NETWORK (DOEnet)

**Office of the Associate CIO for Operations**
**Site Coordinating Committee Video Teleconference**
**February 13, 2001**

## Agenda

- Introductions
- Network Performance/Operations
- Implementation/Design Review
- Network Security
- Open Discussion/Next Meeting

## Network Outages

- December Outages
- 1 Circuit or PVC Outages
- 16 Hours of Site Outages (99.942% Availability)
- January Outages
- 2 Circuit or PVC Outages
- 13.6 Hours of Site Outages (99.952% Availability)

## Help Desk Activities

- December 2000 – 40 Tickets
- 18 Firewall Configuration
- 2 Circuit Outages
- 3 Performance Anomalies
- 2 Site Configuration
- 1 DNS
- 4 E-mail
- 8 Other / NTF / Request
- 2 Education/Information

## Help Desk Activities

- January 2001 – 20 Tickets
- 1 Circuit Outages
- 4 Firewall Configuration
- 5 Performance Anomalies
- 2 Site Configuration/1 Child
- 1 Power
- 1 Network Hardware
- 4 Other / NTF / Request
- 1 E-mail

## Implementation StatusInitial Connectivity

- Carlsbad Area Office - Construction has not been completed to the Site; no firm order commitment date available.

## Implementation Status - DS-3 Circuits Upgrades

- Idaho Operations Office - Reprovisioned
- NREL/Golden - Cancelled
- Ohio Field Office - On hold

## DOEnet Design Review - Rightsizing

- Evaluation of Carrier Recommendations
- Reduce PVC Size/potential - no significant cost savings
- Deliver full T-1s where DS-3s cannot be justified (Bundled T-1s not cost effective)
- Add traffic to the network (Video Pilot)

## Connectivity Requests

- Request for Connectivity
- BPA Completed
- IN-1 and Idaho/IN Function being worked

## Network Security Pilot - 10 Sites

- DOEnet Security Enhancements partially completed
- Network Intrusion Detection Systems-
- functioning and monitoring on-going
- Stateful Inspection Firewalls
- Continuing to configure

## Network Security PilotIndividual Site Status

- Richland Ops			Completed
- Oakland Ops			Completed
- SPRO (New Orleans)		Completed
- WAPA				Completed
- Oak Ridge Ops			Completed
- NREL/Golden			Completed
- Nevada Ops			Completed
- Albuquerque Ops		Completed
- Chicago Ops			Scheduled for 2/01
- Idaho Ops			Scheduled for 2/01

## Customer Service & Support

- Help Desk 877-823-3205
- Network Operations & Security (Firewall)
- Voice Mail automatically rings to Network Engineer on-call (importance of leaving a message)
- Continue to coordinate requirements as soon as they are known

## Next Meeting(s)

- SCC Video Teleconference -
- March 14, 2001
- SCC Face-to-Face Meeting - ?
- Topics:  Network Security, E-mail, Video, Circuit Consolidation,  Maximizing use of the Network

## DOEnet HQ Team

- Federal Project Manager	Rich Otis	301-903-5310
- Project Coordinator		Toni Love	757-365-0039
- Network Engineers		Hieu Dang
- 					Warren Jordan
- 					Greg Magann
- 					Bobby Rizvi
- Help Desk					877-823-3205
# Presentation: 426866

## Federal Utilities Partnership Working Group

- May 12-13 2005
- Army Energy Security Plan
- James Paton
- Army Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management

## Purpose and Agenda

- _Purpose_
-  Discuss the Army’s installation energy security strategy

- _Agenda_
- Background
- Planning
- Development
- Pulling it all together

- Army Energy Security Plan

## Background

-  Increased interest on utility system security
-  Build on existing Dept. of Defense guidance
-  Assess utility system vulnerability
-  Emergency preparedness requirements
-  Remedial actions needed
-  Integrate into overall security plans

- Army Energy Security Plan

## Army Energy Strategy

-  Eliminate energy waste in existing facilities
-  Increase energy efficiency in new construction
-  Reduce dependence on fossil fuels
-  Conserve water resources
-  Improve energy security

- Army Energy Security Plan

## Energy Security Strategy

- Safe and reliable energy and water are critical to most activities and operations on Army installations.
- Programs to reduce energy consumption reduce utility supply and distribution requirements, yet most of the Army’s energy and water demands will continue to be met through extensive and vulnerable utility distribution systems.
- Intentional or accidental contamination or destruction of utility systems or failure of deteriorated and overburdened infrastructure can have severe, if not catastrophic effects on military performance.
- Privatized utility systems must conform to energy and water security and operational requirements.  When utility systems are privatized, installations will pursue support from utility suppliers for possible stand-by and uninterrupted power sources for mission critical facilities.
- The Army will continue to diversify its energy portfolio, to include distributed generation, particularly at critical mission facilities.  Installations will leverage private industry expertise and explore partnering with utility suppliers for additional capabilities they may provide.

- _Energy Security Strategy_

- Army Energy Security Plan

## Refine Strategy

-  What are *critical* facilities?
- - Collaborating with the Army Research and Development Command to develop a methodology for determining installation critical loads as a function of mission
-  How much does energy security cost?
-  Working with DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop modeling tool to assist installations assess types and cost of measures needed to address vulnerabilities

- Army Energy Security Plan

## Campaign Plan & Implementation

-  Bring together working groups
-  Energy Services Companies
-  Installations
-  Army and DOE technical resources
-  Utility providers
-  Develop Army Energy Campaign Plan
-  Address energy security objectives
-  Program for resource requirements

- Army Energy Security Plan

## James Paton

- Headquarters Department of the Army
- Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management
- 703-601-0364
- james.paton@hqda.army.mil
# Presentation: 670835

## Real Property

## Real Property Reports

- The CAPR 87-1 Attachment Number 3 along with New Lease or License (as needed) or letter of Verbal Agreement. The form should be dated for the year it is due.
- Due on January 30th every year if changes or additions have occurred.

## CAP Lease/License

- CAPR 87-1 Attachment 2
- Submit the original plus 4 copies.
- Only the Wing Commander can sign a Lease or license for CAP, because the Wing CC is the only corporate Officer in the Wing
- After the Wing Commander signs the Lease/ License, one copy (for your file) will be sent back to you.

## Updating 

- CAWG/LGR should be given updates when:
-       A Lease or License has been updated or
-       renewed and/or:
-       There is a change of address in Meeting
-       Place (Form 27).
# Presentation: 048371

## EPA’s Version of America’s Pathway to Sustainable Water Utility Management

- Better management
- Water efficiency
- Full cost pricing
- Watershed approach

***The****** ***
***Agenda***
***For ***
***Sustainability***

## The One Thing That Is Critical To Sustainability Is That Utilities Are Able to Do Their Work Expertly  On Into The Future

## Becoming Expert at Maintenance, Repair, Renewal or Replacement Is the Heart of Managing a Successful Water or Wastewater Service

**Renew**

**Repair**

**Maintain**

**Replace**

## The Focus Of Advanced Asset Management

**Core Questions, Process**
**& Life Cycle Cost**

## The Five Core AM Questions

## Core AAM Program Process Tools

- Inventory
- Assets

- Assess
- Condition

- Determine
- Residual
- Life

- Determine
- Replacement
- $ & Date

- Set Target
- LOS

- Assign
- BRE Rating
- (Criticality)

- Determine
- Appropriate
- Maintenance

- Determine
- Appropriate
- CIP

- Fund
- Your Strategy

- Build the AMP

## USEPAAdvanced Asset Management Training

- USEPAAdvanced Asset Management Training

- Prior Locations
- Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Phoenix, AZ,
- Gainesville, Florida
- San Antonio, Texas
- N. Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
- Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
- St Louis, Missouri.

- 2005

## How to make a Deal!

- Typically attendance runs 80 to 100 attendees.
- The Partnership (we don’t act alone).
- Attendee fees.
- Cosponsors Responsibilities.
- Continuing Education
- The Brochure
- Timing
- Note: All of the materials that will be presented during the training session will be available on the Website. The materials from past sessions at:
- _http://www.epa.gov/owm/asses_management.htm_
# Presentation: 011553

## FelCom/GSC Holiday Party

_**Thursday December 11**__**th**__** 6-11PM**_

_**Where**_**: FAES House**
**9101 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda**

**For more information, please contact:**
**Chaya Pooput (pooputc@niddk.nih.gov)**
**Philip Wang (wangph@nidcd.nih.gov)**
**Gayani Weerasinghe (weerasingheg@niddk.nih.gov)**

**In partnership with the Graduate Student Council, FelCom is organizing the Holiday Party at ****the**** FAES House. A jazz band will perform at the event! **
**So bring your good mood and come celebrate the holidays!**

_**Tickets selling points**_**:**
**Chaya Pooput**** : Bldg 8, Rm B1A06**
**Philip Wang****: Bldg 50, Rm 4148**
**Nuria Gavara****: Bld 10, Rm 5D49**
**Megan Cleland****: Bldg 35, Rm 2C1016**
_**Buy your ticket in advance to enter the $25 VISA gift card raffle!**_

_**Tickets**_**: $10 for all you can eat and drink!**
# Presentation: 195619

##                                  U.S. Department of Energy’s                                Office of Science

**High Performance Computing**
**Challenges and Opportunities**

**Dr. Daniel Hitchcock**
**Daniel.Hitchcock@science.doe.gov**
*12/5/2005*

## Why is high performance computing hard?

- Amdahl’s Law (No Free Lunch)
- Moore’s Law (Even when you think there’s a free lunch there isn’t)
- Software Complexity

- DOE's Office of Science

## Amdahl’s Law

**The time needed to complete a task is about the same as the sum of the times required to complete the subtasks.**

**T ~ T****cpu**** + T****comm ****+ T****i/o**

**T ~ T****mesh**** + T****comp ****+ T****interpret**

**T ~ T****growth**** + T****exp ****+ T****analysis**

- DOE's Office of Science

## Moore’s Law

**The number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles about every 2 years.**

- A business principle not a law of nature!
- Contributes to but not directly responsible for increases in performance!
- In combination with Amdahl yields increased software complexity!
- Memory slower than CPU’s
- I/O slower than memory

- DOE's Office of Science

## CPU Performance

- Increases in clock rate but power goes as square of frequency.
- Multiple instructions per clock cycle.
- Memory management
- Caches
- Pin management

***Clock rate increases are expected to slow and all chips will go to 4 or more cpu’s by 2010.***

- DOE's Office of Science

## Computer Architecture PrimerComputers are like cities!

- DOE's Office of Science

## What does this have to do with biology?

**It’s all so complicated, maybe I’ll just go infect someone**

**Stop Complaining! Plague...You won’t catch me from computer scientists or mathematicians**

**I’m way more dangerous than either of you or them!**

**If I get to them first there’ll be no flesh to infect!!!**

- DOE's Office of Science

## Software and Hardware Complexity

- The desktop of 2010 will have 4-8 processors.
- Today’s 64 processor clusters will have over 500 processors
- Petascale systems may have hundreds of thousands of processors.
- How to divide up the work
- Dealing with hardware failure
- Managing the software
- Enabling science

- DOE's Office of Science

## How to Succeed in High Performance Computing without really dying...

- Never forget Amdahl
- Remember Willy Sutton (Go where the money is.)
- The least expensive piece of software to develop is the one you can use from someone else.
- Use wetware...Collaborate

- DOE's Office of Science

## SciDAC Wetware for Scientific Discovery

**Computers and Networks**

**Scientific Teams**

- Scientific Discovery

**ASCR**

**BES,**
**BER,**
**FES,**
**HEP,**
**NP**

**I love Wetware!!!**

- DOE's Office of Science
# Presentation: 605436

## Goddard Sailing Association

- Lecture 2

- Boat Theory
- Changing Tacks
- Man Overboard

## Class Outline

- Lecture 1 - Wind, Sails, Rigging
- Lecture 2 - Boat theory, How to change tacks, Man Overboard
- Lecture 3 - How to sail well, heaving-to, right-of-way, capsize
- Lecture 4 - Weather, thunderstorm drill, anchors, navigation
- Lecture 5 - Dock, Required Equipment, Checklist, Chartering
- Lecture 6 - Review, Test

## Boat Theory

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## See Page 34

*See Page 34*

## Slide 7

## Reefing (shortening sail) moves CE Forward

- Also, flattening the sail via outhaul (foot) tension

## Slide 9

## Hull Shapes

**Different shapes (design) for different functions ...**

## Page 64

**Page 64**

## Page 65

**Page 65**

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## Page 71

**Page 71**

## Page71

## Changing Tacks

**Page 42-43**

## Tacking Sequence

- Helmsman Command
- “Ready About”
- “Helm to Lee”
- Adjust tiller for point of sail
- 90 deg. course change

- Crew Response
- “Ready”
- Free jib sheet (but still hold fast)
- Release jib sheet when head to wind
- Shift weight
- Trim opposite sheet after through the wind

## Page 49

**Page 49**

## Jibe Sequence

- Helmsman Command
- “Prepare to jibe”
- “Jibe Ho”
- Adjust tiller for point of sail
- 20 -30 deg. course change

- Crew Response
- “Ready”
- Free jib sheet (but still hold fast)
- Release jib sheet when boom swings across
- Shift weight as needed
- Trim opposite sheet after through the wind

## Man Overboard

## Man Overboard

- Wind

- 2 Boat Lengths

- Help!!!

_**Man Overboard**_
**Sailing Downwind**

- 1st - Head up to a beam reach

- 2nd - Tack

- 3rd - Head downwind of person in the water

- Yell “Man Overboard”
- Throw Flotation Device
- Assign someone to watch person and point

- 4th - Turn sharply into irons and _coast_ – _sheets loose_, steer with rudder using boat momentum
- Note:  _DO NOT_ try to rescue while under sail

## Man Overboard

- Wind

- 2 Boat Lengths

- Help!!!

_**Man Overboard**_
**Sailing to Windward**

- 2nd - Tack

- 1st - Fall-off to a beam reach

- 3rd - Head downwind of person in the water

- Yell “Man Overboard”
- Throw Flotation Device
- Assign someone to watch person and point

- 4th - Turn sharply into irons and _coast_ – _sheets loose_, steer with rudder using boat momentum
- Note:  _DO NOT_ try to rescue while under sail

## Class Outline

- Lecture 1 - Wind, Sails, Rigging
- Lecture 2 - Boat theory, How to change tacks, Man Overboard
- Lecture 3 - How to sail well, heaving-to, right-of-way, capsize
- Lecture 4 - Weather, thunderstorm drill, anchors, navigation
- Lecture 5 - Dock, Required Equipment, Checklist, Chartering
- Lecture 6 - Review, Test
# Presentation: 896410

## NOA Engineering needs

- R. Ray & J. Cooper
- 7/28/2008

## Plans for the next year

- The goal is to get to CD-3b in about a year
- Requires final designs
- Major Activities using PPD Tech & Eng. Resources:
- Block pivoter
- PVC Extrusions & Modules
- Liquid sintillator R&D
- ASICs
- FEA simulations
- Electronics (cooling system)
- IPND

## Recent History

- Last year NOvA developed a cost and schedule with an FY08 start in preparation for CD-2 reviews:
- Director’s Review - June 4-6, 2007
- DOE (Lehman) Review - Oct. 23-25, 2007
- External Independent Review (EIR) - Nov. 26-30, 2007
- In Dec. Congress set out FY08 budget to zero
- In Feb, NOvA appeared in the President’s budget request for FY09 and DOE told us to re-plan for an FY09 start.

## Recent History - Cont.

- Told to expect a prolonged CR and to plan for no money before Feb 1, 2009.
- We re-worked our cost & schedule to these guidelines and went through a series of mini-reviews:
- Directors Mini Review - April 17, 2008
- DOE mini-Review - April 30, 2008
- Remote interactions with EIR over a 2 month period that concluded 2 weeks ago.

## Recent History - Cont.

- In July, the supplemental appropriations bill was passed providing $9.5M for NOvA.  This money becomes available to NOvA in August.
- We have not changed our cost and schedule to reflect the new funding (DOE agrees) but we will use the new funding to advance as many activities as possible, consistent with our priorities.

## Details

- $9.5M is not sufficient to simply slide our schedule from Feb 2009 to Sept 2008 unless we continue to receive funding during the CR.
- In addition, it is too late in the FY to put any money into the Cooperative Agreement, making it difficult to just slide the schedule.
- No impact on PPD.
- The resources we are showing today are from our schedule that begins in Feb.  For now we are just sliding it to Sept 1.

## Change Requests

- We have some requests for resources that are not currently in our cost & schedule.  We have added these into the plot and table on the following pages:
- 9 months of Ang Lee for additional FEA studies
- Additional Mech Engineer for block pivoter
- In addition, we are counting on a replacement for Don Friend.

## PPD Resources Required for the Next 13 Months

## PPD Resources by Month

- 1 FTE = 1768 hrs
# Presentation: 197233

## FLAT MAIL PREPARATION OPTIMIZATIONWORK GROUP #81

- MTAC Report
- May 6, 2004

## MAJOR TOPICS COVERED

- Simplified Mail Prep Proposal
- Full Merging of Non-AFSM 100 Flats
- APPS Issues:
- 1		Address Block
- 	2	OEL Update
- 	3	“Clear” strapping and shrinkwrap
- Rename packages to bundles
- Cost-based rates market research

## SIMPLIFIED MAIL PREP PROPOSAL

- Presented by Gary Hegsted
- Issue: adapt mail preparation for AFSM 100
- Consider bypass of SPBS, APPS
- Orient mail on pallets for manual offloading
- Less shrinkwrapping and strapping
- Consider standard package sizes
- Applies to 3DG, SCF, ADC, BMC pallets

## SIMPLIFIED MAIL PREP PROPOSAL

- Mailers save materials
- USPS reduces work hours
- Mail pieces need fewer handlings
- Concerns: differences from SPBS, APPS requirements
- Concerns: pallet integrity
- Concerns: skills required in mail production
- Concerns: software modifications

## SIMPLIFIED MAIL PREP PROPOSAL

- Could fit in to future flats processing
- Further testing needed
- Looking for a test facility
- Not expected to be ready for next rate case

## FULL MERGING OF NON-AFSM 100 FLATS

- Presented by Neil Berger
- Creates more pallet options
- Non-automation mail to bypass machines
- No “5% rule” for this situation
- Federal Register notice issued
- Comments needed by May 26

## APPS ISSUES: ADDRESS BLOCK

- Presented by Barry Walsh
- Visibility of address block has been required in DMM
- Clarification to define that in terms of readability
- Upcoming Federal Register notice
- Linked to OEL revisions
- Linked to issue of clear strapping and shrinkwrap

## APPS ISSUES: OEL UPDATE 

- Revised proposal unchanged
- Based on 30 character line length
- Includes backup designation of package types
- Allows room for ACS codes
- USPS tests needed before final requirements definition
- Federal Register notice eventually

## APPS ISSUES: CLEAR STRAPPING AND SHRINKWRAP 

- Term “clear” needs definition
- Includes issues of welds, seams, bubbles
- USPS Engineering has been testing
- Industry seeks greater involvement
- Concern about costs of materials
- Concern about Federal Register notice too early in process
- USPS will facilitate industry participation
- Barry Walsh: 202-268-7595

## RENAME PACKAGES TO BUNDLES 

- Presented by Cheryl Beller
- Current term “packages” is confusing
- Had earlier eliminated concept of packages being combined to make bundles
- Now want to change references to packages as strapped or wrapped mail pieces to “bundles”
- Packages would be akin to parcels
- Put in DMM, gradual transition for other references

## COST-BASED RATES MARKET RESEARCH 

- Presented by Cheryl Beller
- For Periodicals and Standard, begin with Standard
- Avoid conflict with complaint case in Periodicals
- Mailers could access scenarios
- Mailers would forecast responses to new rate structure using supplied “non-final” rates
- Consistent with simpler rules for small mailings
# Presentation: 359436

## “Celebrate the Past and Discuss the Future”A Centennial Celebration of theAnimal Improvement Programs Laboratory (AIPL)

**Breed associations research needs and priorities**

## Outline

**The wisdom of many was solicited for this talk.**
**J.F.K. **
**Donald Rumsfeld**
**Johnny Cochran**
**Barney the dinosaur**

## Ask not what AIPL can do for us ask what we can do for AIPL.    J.F.K

**Science deserves and needs our support.**
- Funding for USDA-ARS-AIPL research is a necessity for our industry.
- Tell us straight about the politics of funding. How can we help secure funding for dairy cattle genetics?

## Research needs

- I know what I know.
- I know what I don’t know.
- But, I don’t know what I don’t know.
- 						*Donald Rumsfeld*

## Research needs

**Selection of high-producing cattle** (maximize production of valuable milk components in an efficient and sustainable way).
**Dairy Products** – need to focus more on the products manufactured from milk.

## Research needs

**HEALTH RELATED TRAITS** - affecting fertility, net income, longevity, and lifetime profit - (including calves).
**INBREEDING CHALLENGES** - Breeding plans to optimize genetic gain while maintaining genetic diversity.
**DAIRY BEEF – **need information on the current beef characteristics of our cattle and how to modify or improve them.

## Genomics

- How do we best utilize this new information?
- How do we use genomic information for on-farm management decisions?
- Surveillance program for undesirable genes and efficient control methods .
- Identification of desirable genes for improving the properties of milk for human health.

## International

- First priority – U.S. farmers and consumers.
- We need a thriving dairy industry here in the U.S., in order for the U.S. dairy industry to be fully engaged in the AIPL research program.
- Unique time ahead, where we want to work cooperatively with foreign researchers while protecting the investments of the U.S. genetics industry.
- Help in quantifying the merit and value of U.S. cattle.

## Did somebody call for a lawyer?                                      Johnny Cochran

- In recent years, there have been a number of times when lawyers have been involved.
- Exclusive agreements with segments of US industry - are they necessary?
- CDCB provides opportunity for review by and input from at least 3 segments of industry interacting with AIPL

## Highpoints of the first 100 Years                               

- 1984 – 1985.
- Now.
- 	The value of AIPL to the industry is as great now as it has ever been before.

## We love you, you love us!                                 Barney the dinosaur

- Working together.
- No group in USDA has a closer relationship with the breed associations than AIPL and BFGL.
- One of our greatest needs and priorities for the breed associations is for AIPL to continue to thrive and continue to work with the industry.
- The interaction and technology transfer of AIPL with us and other segments of dairy genetics industry is essential.

## Thank you AIPL for all that you have done.Enjoy the rest of the day, then get back to work!
# Presentation: 757781

## AERSCREEN  8TH MODELING CONFERENCESEPTEMBER 22, 23  2005

## AERSCREEN WORKGROUP PROGRESS REPORT

**WORKGROUP GOAL**: Develop an AERMOD screening procedure (AERSCREEN) that will provide concentrations as conservative as predicted by AERMOD in refined mode and allow quick run time.
**CURRENT PROGRESS**: AERSCREEN v1.6 (Beta) has been developed and is currently being tested.  This version contains all desired elements (i.e. including wake, terrain and averaging period ratios) for point sources.  The documentation is being developed.  We plan to release this version within the next several weeks.

## AERSCREENFINALIZATION WORKGROUP

- Jim Haywood, Chair, Michigan
- Roger Brode, MACTEC
- Herman Wong, EPA
- Warren Peters, EPA
- Karen Wesson, EPA
- Bob Paine, ENSR
- Anna Maria Coulter, EPA

## AERSCREENBETA VERSION CURRENT CAPABILITY

- Interactive data entry (DOS Screen)
- Point source only
- Flat and Complex terrain (DEM 1-degree files)
- PRIME building downwash (specific stack location)
- MAKEMET meteorology with site specific surface profiling
- Re-Use of Previous AERSCREEN Run Files
- Stand-alone version of MAKEMET for “refined” screen runs

## AERSCREEN SCALABLE RATIOS

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## AERSCREENPROGRAM RUN – BUILDING DATA

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## AERSCREEN RESTART FILE

## 1-hour Results

| Database | Type | No. of sources | Max. Ratio | Min. Ratio | Median
Ratio |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jim Haywood | Misc. | 7 | 5.20 | 1.09 | 2.35 |
| Karen Wesson | Stack downwash | 32 | 2.54 | 0.75 | 1.12 |
| Karen Wesson | Stack non-downwash | 26 | 2.18 | 0.97 | 1.49 |
| Roger Brode | Varying source distances & min. wind speed | 672 | 22.16 | 0.96 | 1.25 |
| Bob Paine | Complex Terrain | 28 | 7.46 | 1.08 | 2.23 |

## Annual Results 

| Database | Type | No. of sources | Max. Ratio | Min. Ratio | Median
Ratio |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jim Haywood | Misc. | 7 | 13.2 | 1.10 | 6.37 |
| Karen Wesson | Stack downwash | 32 | 3.26 | 0.75 | 1.85 |
| Karen Wesson | Stack non-downwash | 26 | 6.45 | 0.98 | 2.75 |
| Bob Paine | Complex Terrain | 28 | 71.5 | 4.42 | 19.1 |
# Presentation: 668805

## Window Restrictions

- 	The digital companion channel filing window is limited to **incumbent** permittees and licensees.  Applicants must identify their associated analog facility.
- 	The protected contour of the proposed digital facility must overlap the protected contour of the associated analog station.  See 47 C.F.R. § 74.787(4)(b)(1).

## Window Restrictions

- 	Applicants may not have filed for an **on-channel digital conversion** of their analog station.
- 	Applicants may apply for only a **single** digital companion channel for each existing analog channel.

## Due Diligence

- 	The digital companion channel filing window will be conducted as an auction filing window.  The technical merits of the engineering portions of the Form 175 will not be evaluated by staff until after the auction.  Engineering proposals will only be reviewed to determine mutual exclusivity (MX).
- 	It is possible to go through the auction, bid, file an FCC Form 346 and have the staff determine that the proposed facility cannot be implemented.

## Due Diligence

- 	There are a number of matters that prospective applicants need to research.  These include, but are not limited to:
- 		1.  Pending  applications. They have priority processing.
- 		2.    Full service DTV and NTSC station licenses, permits and applications.  Digital companion channels (including those licensed to Class A stations) will be licensed on a secondary-basis and can be displaced.  Proposed digital companion channels must protect all full service analog and digital channels.  See 47 C.F.R. § 74.703 and 74.793.

## Due Diligence

- 	Digital companion channels proposed on channels 52-59 are secondary to and must protect new wireless facilities on those channels.  At the long-form stage, applicants for these channels will also be required to certify the unavailability of any suitable in-core channel.  Applicants will also be required to notify potentially affected wireless licensees on the spectrum comprising its proposed channel and the first adjacent channels at least 30 days prior to filing a  long-form application.** **

## Due Diligence

- It is the **bidder’s responsibility** to investigate and evaluate all these factors and any other that might be relevant.
- 	There are a number of places where a prospective applicant should conduct research.  These include the engineering database and CDBS.  You   can access CDBS at _[http://](http://www.fcc.gov/mb/)__[www.fcc.gov/mb](http://www.fcc.gov/mb/)__._** **
# Presentation: 830125

## U.S. DOE Congestion Study

- Energy Policy Act of 2005 – Section 1221
- DOE Kickoff meeting on October 28
- Western Meeting with DOE on Nov. 10
- Western Proposal
- Western Congestion Assessment TF
- W.I. perform western congestion study
- Include historical congestion analysis
- Run additional studies for U.S. DOE

- Schedule –
- Final Report to DOE by June 2006 (Draft report by March 31, 2006)
- DOE complete report by August 2006
- DOE identify National Interest Corridors
- Issues
- What is Congestion
- What is a Corridor
- Ranking Criteria for congested areas
- Granularity – how far into the system will we look
- Questions???
# Presentation: 128071

## Animal Models:  The Rosetta Stone of Translational Research

- National Advisory Research Resource Council Meeting
- May 22, 2007

**Franziska B. Grieder, DVM, PhD**
**John D. Harding, PhD**
**Division of Comparative Medicine**

## Smallpox vaccination with Cowpox

-   Edward Jenner used Cowpox virus to demonstrate the principle of vaccination
-   The observation of the similarity between Cowpox and Smallpox resulted in the new approach to protection against a deadly disease

**Infectious Disease – Pathogenesis, Vaccines and Drugs**
- Polio, Anthrax, Hepatitis B & C
**Surgical procedures **
- Open heart surgery, heart valve replacement, coronary artery bypasses, cardiac catheterization
**Drug safety evaluation**
**Anesthesia techniques**
**Diagnostic testing**

**Other contributions...**

## Animal Models in Translational Research

## Slide for full-screen images only

**MRI insertion****tube**

**NCRR**

**Slide for full-screen images only**

**Discovery**

**Exploratory Development**

**Full Development**

**0**

**5**

**10**

**Years**

**Animal Models in Drug Discovery**

## Case Study:  The Dopamine Transporter in Disease and Addiction

- Major control point at synapses involving dopamine as neurotransmitter.
-   Reabsorbs dopamine into the presynaptic neuron.
-    Involved in many psychiatric conditions and diseases.
** ****Cocaine addiction**
**  ****Parkinson’s disease**
**  ****ADHD****	**

## Case Study:  Development of an Imaging Agent for Dopamine Transporters (DAT)

**Discovery phase**
- Cocaine inhibits the DAT (mice, monkeys)
- Development of Altropane (cocaine analog) to visualize the DAT (monkeys)
**Pre-clinical phase**
- Patent licensing and commercial development
- Altropane-based imaging of Parkinson’s and ADHD patients
**Clinical phase**
- Phase III trial as Parkinson’s diagnostic
- Phase II trial as ADHD diagnostic

## Nationwide NCRR Funded Programs

**Nationwide NCRR Funded Programs**
- CTSAs, NPRCs and NCRR Training grants for Veterinarians (T32+T35)

**CTSA**
**NPRC**
**T35**
**Pre Doc T32**
**Post Doc T32**

**JAX**

**Tufts**

**Florida**

**Stanford**

**Cornell**

**Univ. of  Washington**

**UC Davis**

**CSU**

**KSU**

**Texas A&M**

**LSU**

**Tulane**

**Va **
**Tech**

**Wake**

**Wisconsin**

**Missouri**

**Hopkins**

**Penn**

**Wash State**

**Alabama**

**OK State**

**Illinois**

**Purdue**

**Miss **
**St.**

**Ohio St.**

**MSU**

**Michigan**

**Harvard**

**MIT**

**MN**

**Oregon Health **
**Sciences Univ.**

**The Southwest**
**Foundation**

**Emory**
** ****Univ.**

**UC SF**

**Duke**

**Mayo**

**UTHSC**
**Houston**

**U. **
**Rochester**

**Yale**

**Columbia**

**Rockefeller**

## Vision: Animal Models and Translational Research

**Training of Translational Scientists**
- Rotation of fellows in Departments of Comparative Medicine
- Animal resource tutorials
- Publications and web-based tools** **
**Conferences to share information**
- Gordon-Conference format
- Annual event
**Pilot Projects**
- Collaborative projects between clinical/translational scientist and animal model/translational scientist
# Presentation: 180564

## Waterbird Conservation Council Technical Services Committee

## Vision of Technical Services  Committee

- Provide leadership and guidance on technical issues
- Focus on prioritized scientific needs, yet remain responsive

## Objectives of Technical Services Committee

- Promote research and monitoring objectives of NAWCP
- Facilitate setting population and habitat objectives
- Coordinate completion/revision of species status assessments
- Formulate and promote an overall strategy for waterbird monitoring
- Interact with other relevant organizations and partnerships

## Priority Tasks 2005

- Complete conservation status assessment of marshbirds
- Complete monitoring needs framework
- Revise status assessment process in anticipation of expanding scope of Initiative to include all of the Americas

## Marshbird Conservation Status Assessment

- “Marshbirds” include loons, grebes, bitterns, Rallidae, Sungrebe, Sunbittern, Limpkin, cranes (43 spp)
- Continental assessment comparable to colonially-nesting species in NAWCP

## Marshbird Task Force

- Kathy Parsons, Chair; Bruce Peterjohn, Chair Tech Services Committee; Jennifer Wheeler; Eric Mellink; Stephen Brown; Stephanie Schmidt; Jillian Drury

## Expert opinion sought on draft species profiles

## Compilation and Calibration

- 30 species experts provided input
- 35 scientists and managers participated in workshop
- 52 experts performed regional calibration
- Overall, 84 experts authored assessment

## Conservation Status and Global Distribution

|  | NORTH AMERICA | WESTERN HEMISPHERE | NORTHERN HEMISPHERE | COSMOPOLITAN | PERIPHERAL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UNKNOWN | Gray-breasted Crake | Rufous-necked Wood-Rail
Uniform Crake
Colombian Crake
Paint-billed Crake |  |  |  |
| HIGHEST CONCERN | Guam Rail
Zapata Rail
Caribbean Coot | Black Rail |  |  |  |
| HIGH CONCERN | American Bittern
Yellow Rail
Ruddy Crake
King Rail
Hawaiian Coot
Whooping Crane | Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Pinnated Bittern
Least Bittern
Sora
Yellow-breasted Crake
Spotted Rail
Purple Gallinule
Sungrebe
Sunbittern
Limpkin | Red-throated Loon
Yellow-billed Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe |  | Spotless Crake
Purple Swamphen |
| MODERATE CONCERN | Sandhill Crane | White-throated Crake
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
American Coot | Arctic Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon | Common Moorhen |  |
| LOW CONCERN |  | Gray-necked Wood-Rail |  |  |  |
| LOWEST CONCERN |  |  |  |  |  |

## Marshbird Assessment Next Steps:

- Finalize priorities
- Communicate results on website and in initiative update
- Utilize comments generated by project to optimize upcoming revision of assessment (enlarged geographic and taxonomic scope)

## Waterbird Monitoring Framework

- Outline for document under consideration by committee
- US monitoring priorities communicated to USNABCI
- Marshbirds
- Near-shore and pelagic
- Improve methodology for colony surveys
- Non-breeding season
- Improve access to data

## Technical Services Next Steps:

- NAWCP version 2; initiative update (marshbirds, other)
- Finalize monitoring framework
- Status assessment revision/expansion
- Geographical priorities
- Other?
# Presentation: 035228

## Unanticipated Problems in Research – Local Management

- Skye McDougall, PhD
- VISN 22 Research Officer

## Mission

- Ensure that local management of unanticipated problems in research, including Adverse Events, assures maximal protection for research participants, and complies fully with all laws, regulations, and standards

**Notes:**
Fair to individual subjects. Does not exploit or ignore one group (e.g., the poor) to benefit another group (e.g., the rich)

## Charge

- Identifying/Reporting
- What should be reported
- When should it be reported
- Where should it be reported
- Tracking/Database
- Monitoring
- Who monitors
- What is monitored
- What trends/patterns require further action

## Charge

- Research v. Patient Safety
- Corrective Action
- Who takes action
- What are appropriate actions
- When does it become research misconduct
- Education
- Communication
# Presentation: 527895

## Lock Out/Tag Out & Verification(Control of Hazardous Energy*)

**LOTO is required whenever servicing, maintenance, or modification is being performed on equipment in which the unexpected energization or start-up of the equipment, or the release of stored energy, could cause injury to people or damage to equipment.**
**Trained and authorized to perform LOTO**
**Every worker adds own lock to LOTO**
**Reference Pub-3000, Chapter 18**

- * Hazardous Energy = Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Pressure or Vacuum, Ionizing or Non-ionizing Radiation, Thermal & Other