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Tuesday, April 13 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - One West Speaker: W. Wittmer, University of Technology, Graz, Austria Title: Luminosity Optimization by Adjusting the Beta-Function in the Interaction Point at LHC and RHIC
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Tuesday, April 13 Green chili and corn soup Chef's choice $3.50 Chicken Kiev w/two sides $3.50 Roast beef w/grilled portabella mushrooms and jack cheese $4.75 Breaded chicken tenders w/a small soup or fries $4.75 Turkey club salad $3.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Two Great Horned Owls Returned Safely to Their Nest in the Fermilab Village | ||
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Last Wednesday, FESS employees safely returned
two baby great horned owls to their nest
after Eric Mieland of ES&H found
them on the
ground in the Fermilab Village. Bob Lootens of Roads & Grounds explained
that it is not clear how the baby owls fell out of their nest.
Perhaps a raccoon knocked them to the ground.
"When it comes
to nature, the best thing to do is to get it back to the nest as
soon as possible before the mother returns," he said.
FESS employees used a bucket-truck and some heavy duty rubber gloves to return the two owls to their nest. Mike Becker of Roads & Grounds reported that the mother flew past the bucket while raising the babies to the nest. "The owls appeared to be about 3-5 weeks old," he said. "One looked very healthy, the other was a little smaller but looked fairly healthy." | ||
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April 9 - April 12 - During this period Operations established two stores. One store was short lived and never provided useful luminosity. An existing store plus one good store provided approximately 24 hours and 13 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - The TeV suffered two quenches. - Recycler took shots of antiprotons from Pbar.
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From the Chicago Sun-Times, April 9, 2004: Strong acting is 'Proof' positive that casting choices were right There are two ways to look at director Chuck Smith's fascinating production of "Proof," the 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Auburn now at the Goodman Theatre....
"Proof," set in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, is the story of
Catherine (Karen Aldridge), a young woman who fears her exceptional gift
-- possibly genius -- for math may also come with a propensity for
mental illness.
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Good Morning!
As you might recall, the far detector, consisting of 486 planes of steel and scintillator with a mass of over 5 kilotons, has been observing atmospheric neutrinos in the Soudan mine for eight months. The experimenters will use the relative number of neutrino interactions in the near and far detectors to measure the neutrino oscillation rate, that is, the rate at which the muon neutrinos produced with the NuMI beam change into some other flavor.
At the rate of present progress, we will start operating
MINOS in January, only nine months away.
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Reminder: Meet with Members of the Director Search Committee Spaces Still Available A limited number of laboratory community members can meet individually with subgroups of the Fermilab Director Search Committee on Thursday, April 15. The 10-minute meetings will be held between 5:45 - 6:45 p.m. in several meeting rooms in Wilson Hall. If you wish to participate, please sign up in advance by sending a message as soon as possible to Jean Boutchyard in the URA Headquarters Office. Committee members will be able to meet with the first 36 people who sign up. The Committee also encourages members of the lab community to provide their views and candidate nominations in confidence via e-mail at search@ura.nw.dc.us, or via the "Comments" section of the Search website. |
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Fermilab Golf League The Fermilab Golf Leagues are beginning league play now. They have openings for new golfers. The leagues play: Tuesdays at Fox Valley Golf Course in North Aurora and at Bliss Creek Golf Course in Aurora; Wednesdays at Fox Valley Golf Course and at the St. Andrews Golf Club in St. Charles; Thursdays at Phillips Park in Aurora. The league's participants play 9-hole matches each week and compete for individual and team points. To find out how to join one of these leagues, go to theGolf League Web page or call Elliott McCrory at x4808.
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