Friday, August 22
3:30 pm Wine & Cheese - 2nd Floor Crossover
4:00 pm Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West
Speaker: J. Link, Columbia University
Title: Future Measurements of sin2(2?13) at Nuclear Reactors
8:00 pm Fermilab International Film Society - Auditorium
Tickets: Adults $4
Title: Yin Shi Nan Nu (Eat Drink Man Woman)
Saturday, August 23
8:00 p.m. Fermilab Arts Series - Auditorium
Tickets: $20/$10
Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues with Special Guest Bonnie Koloc
Monday, August 25
3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover
4:00 pm All Experimenters' Meeting
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Breaking News: Tevatron Achieves 225 Inverse Picobarns
At approximately 6:53 a.m. this morning, the Tevatron exceeded 225 inverse
picobarns - the goal for this fiscal year. Peter Garbincius,
the Beams Division deputy head, was very pleased. "Everyone in the
Beams Division and the laboratory has worked very hard to achieve this
goal," he said.
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Virus Attack Continues; Patch Immediately
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Feynman Computing Center Operations
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The Nachi/Welchia worm continues to pop up at FNAL and we find a number of
systems vulnerable to the Microsoft RPC exploit from onsite
addresses. Since the risk of infection is now very high onsite, this is
declared to be a Critical Vulnerability. Patching this vulnerability is
now MANDATORY. This worm selects first on the local subnet of its victim,
so the fact that the vulnerable machines seem to cluster by subnet may
indicate that they've just managed to avoid the scan so far rather than
any particular immunity. If you're having trouble getting a DHCP address
from a Windows machine, you may well be infected and blocked from the net.
Seek help from the helpdesk at x2345 or helpdesk@fnal.gov
Systems that are not patched by noon Wednesday August 27 will be
isolated from the network and not reconnected until a registered
sysadmin verifies that current virus scanning has been done on the
machine and that the machine has been patched against the MS RPC
vulnerability (Microsoft Bulletin MS03-026). See instructions.
It is highly recommended that all appropriate Microsoft security
patches be applied and that regular virus scanning with regularly
updated virus signatures be performed.
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Fermilab International and Silk & Thistle Dancers entertain at Folk Festival
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Doug Jensen (Beams division) and Mady Newfield at the head of a set, dancing "Flowers of Edinburgh"
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The folk and Scottish dancers in local groups are preparing for the Fox Valley Folk Festival this year with considerable excitement. The Festival takes place Sunday and Monday, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, on Island Park in Geneva, and features dance performances and workshops, as well as a traditional barn dance.
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NALWO Hosts Coffee Hour
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A NALWO member in training
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The laboratory's women's organization, NALWO, met for a social coffee
morning yesterday at the Aspen East Patio organized by the Housing Office.
About 20 women, many with young children, met and chatted over coffee,
scones, doughnuts, and fruit. Open to women working at the laboratory and
wives of employees, visiting physicists, and guests, NALWO's activities are
especially useful to the wives of foreign visiting scientists who live
on site. "It is a great place for them to meet each other and find out where
things are," said Linda Olson-Roach of the Housing Office.
NALWO's members volunteer on all sorts of committees here. Last week,
many of them acted as companions
for wives of physicists attending the Lepton-Photon Symposium. NALWO also
sponsors English classes at the Users Center for foreign visitors. "We need
more volunteers to arrange even more activities," said Rose Moore, the NALWO
president.
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Bill Griffing (left) with Liz May (middle) and Minnie Koch (right) at the ES&H fiesta
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ES&H Celebrates at Safety Picnic
The theme was "Fiesta", but that would be obvious to anyone who happened to
step into the Kuhn Barn yesterday where ES&H had its annual picnic. As the
temperature soared to 93 degrees outside on one
of the hottest days of the year, about 50 people enjoyed mouthwatering tacos,
burritos, and frijoles, killing the heat and spice with fresh fruit
salad and cold drinks. Bill Griffing, head of ES&H, thanked his section
for going through a record 960 days without serious injury. Gerald Brown,
the laboratory's associate director, also attended the event.
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From Physics World, August 2003
How particles can be therapeutic
By Matthew Chalmers
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Proton Therapy (Photo Courtesy PSI)
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Until a cure for cancer is found, about one in three of us will probably have to undergo surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy at some point in our lives. Traditional radiotherapy uses X-rays to target cancerous tissue, but there is growing interest in using particles instead. Beams of hadrons, such as protons, neutrons and ions, offer important advantages over X-ray radiotherapy. Their clinical applications, however, are much less widespread.
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SoBig Virus
Since the onslaught of the SoBig virus began Sunday night the FNAL email
gateways have stopped over 40,000 copies of the virus from getting onsite!
The daily number continues to grow and some of you may notice a longer delay
in receiving email from offsite. Please be patient as we weather this 'viral
epidemic' of unwanted email.
Butterfly Walk - August 22
Tom Peterson will lead a butterfly walk at noon on Friday, August 22.
Meet at the Interpretive Trail parking area on Pine Street. No signup
necessary. The group will walk on the mowed trail in the prairie and woods.
It is a moderately strenuous walk. Mosquito repellant is recommended.
The woods/prairie edge hosts a nice variety of butterflies at this
time of year. Please call (x4458) or tommy@fnal.gov
if you have questions about the walk.
Window Washing - 8/25
Window washing for the exterior of Wilson Hall will begin on Monday, August 25. Scaffolds will be
set up on Friday, August 22. Please avoid walking underneath the scaffolds. The window washing is expected
to take two weeks. For more information, please call Enixe at x2798.
Fermilab International Film Series - 8/22
Title: Yin Shi Nan Nu (Eat Drink Man Woman)
Tickets: $4 (adults)
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Fermilab Arts Series - 8/23
Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues with Bonnie Koloc
Tickets: $20/$10
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Village Pool Schedule
Due to personnel shortages the pool will be closed Monday, August 25
through Thursday, August 28. The pool will re-open on Friday, August 29.
The pool will close Labor Day weekend, Monday, September 1 at 5 PM.
Fermilab Habitat Restoration Volunteers - 8/23
This Saturday, August 23, meet at Roads & Grounds, site 37, at 8:00 am. We will work on clearing brush on the driveway at the Witherell's residence and cut down some small trees.
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