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Wednesday, January 14 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West Speaker: H. Rubinstein, Stockholm University Title: Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe
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Wednesday, January 14 Chicken and Pasta soup Roast beef carved to order w/shallot and red wine gravy $4.75 Penne pasta w/Italian sausage and bell peppers tossed in a zesty marinara sauce $4.75 Italian beef sandwich w/sweet or hot peppers w/soup or fries $4.75 Turkey bacon club wrap w/side salad $4.75 Szechuan chicken stir fry over steamed jasmine rice $3.50 Smoked turkey cobb salad $3.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Safety Achievements Continue to Grow at Fermilab | ||
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As of this morning, Fermilab is again on the verge of achieving
1,000,000 person-hours worked without a lost-time injury. In addition,
almost all Divisions and Sections have reached more than 100 days
without an injury leading to work restriction or absence (DART).
The buffalo photo on the Laboratory Safety Committee's homepage measures the number of days since the last DART case. Once all Divisions and Sections reach 100 days or more without a DART case, a computer randomly selects three employees to receive Fermilab polo shirts. The picture was last complete for nine days in August 2003; 27 employees won polo shirts. Bill Griffing, ES&H Head, also reported that the workdays lost to occupational injury or illness are steadily decreasing. "One way of checking our progress on reduction of injuries is to look at how many injuries result in 'days away from work' when an employee is unable to work; or 'restricted' when an employee cannot perform all assigned tasks," Griffing said. The chart below shows that injuries in the second quarter of 2002 resulted in 64 "Days Aways from Work" and 375 "Restricted Days." The last quarter of 2003 had only 3 "Days Away from Work" and 90 "Restricted Days" -- quite an accomplishment for over 2000 employees. | ||
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From the New York Times, January 13, 2004 A New Map of the Universe, with Advice from Einstein By Dennis Overbye In his famous 1976 New Yorker cover titled "View of the World From Ninth Avenue," the cartoonist Saul Steinberg presented an unabashedly parochial version of what the world looks like to a New Yorker: streets and buildings in the foreground, the Hudson River and a narrow strip called New Jersey beyond it. Behind that were some small hills — the Rocky Mountains — an even narrower strip called California, and beyond that a Pacific Ocean barely wider than the Hudson and tiny patches labeled China and Japan. read more |
Klystron Repairs Completed During Holidays
The Linac uses 7 of these monolith
10-foot-tall vacuum tubes to energize the accelerating particles.
According to Linac department head Elliott McCrory, Linac technicians
and members of the Mechanical Support department worked
12 to 16 hour shifts around the clock from December 22 to December 28,
excluding Christmas eve and Christmas day, until they completed the
necessary repairs. Replacing the klystron
took several people 10 to 12 hours of work. "It takes a significant
amount of pushing and shoving a very heavy object," McCrory said.
Al Moretti, chief Linac RF engineer, applauded
all people involved for their efforts.
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New Book Purchase Suggestions New book purchase suggestion lists are now available online. These include book lists by Majors Scientific Books in four subject areas. There is also an Amazon suggestion list in the form of a shopping cart, viewable by entering the password "library." Please take the time to review the list of books in your area of interest. Please send your book purchase recommendations, either from these lists, or from other sources to Sandra Lee
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