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Monday, June 28 THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS WILL RESUME IN THE FALL 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. All Experimenters' Meeting - Curia II
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Monday, June 28 Minestrone Soup Chicken & Mushroom Cheese Steak $4.75 Baked Chicken Enchiladas $3.50 Carved Roast Beef $4.75 Smoked Turkey Panini Pesto Mayo $4.75 Fiesta Pizza $2.75 Pacific Rim Rice Bowl $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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A Busy Week for QuarkNet | ||
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Last week, 17 physics teachers visited the Lab for the annual QuarkNet Teacher
Institute. These teachers from 12 states (California, Florida, Idaho,
Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Puerto Rico, Texas,
Oklahoma, Utah) spent one week exploring particle physics by
reconstructing Monte Carlo events to "discover" for themselves the
neutral Z boson. Fermilab physicists, Leo Bellantoni, Dave McGinnis,
Paul Nienaber and Erik Ramberg prepared talks on wide a variety of
topics.
34 QuarkNet Teachers from QuarkNet centers at Kansas State University, Purdue University and University of Missouri at St. Louis were also on site Tuesday and Wednesday, visiting with Nobel Laureate Ken Wilson and touring the facility. Wilson discussed educational policy with the teachers. These teachers are participating in three-week workshops at their home universities and built a visit to the lab into their plans.
QuarkNet, funded by the DOE Office of Science and the National Science
Foundation, reaches more than 500 high school teachers across the country,
bringing the world of particle physics to their students.
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June 23 - June 25 - During this 48 hour period Operations established two stores that combined with an existing store provided approximately 34 hours and 14 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - A TeV quench ended store 3588 - A ComEd power glitch tripped off equipment in Linac and Booster - Booster had problems with BRF12
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Interactions.org News Wire, June 24, 2004 In Hawaii, A Revolutionary Supernova Spectrograph Sees First Light: SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph BERKELEY, CA -- The Nearby Supernova Factory, an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists, has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved "first light" during the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 8, when the new instrument acquired its first astronomical target, a Type Ia supernova designated SN 2004ca. Type Ia supernovae are the kind used by astronomers to measure the expansion of the universe.
Analysis of the initial data, plus a separate observation of the newly
discovered supernova SN 2004cr on Sunday, June 20th, confirm that SNIFS
-- while still in its commissioning phase -- is meeting its design goals
as a remarkable new tool for observing supernovae.
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Poison Ivy? Get a Goat "The best solution is to get a couple of goats or borrow some from a friend. Goats eat poison oak and poison ivy like it is candy." (www.tractorbynet.com #435674) It's fairly easy to find poison ivy at Fermilab; just look along the edges of a wooded area. Touch the leaves and you
If you contact poison ivy, there are a number of remedial actions that should be tried. To completely head off a reaction, the urushiol must be washed off before it binds to the skin. This can happen in as little as 15 minutes. Since the oil is unstable in water, a thorough rinse of cold water with no soap may be the best immediate action. Itching symptoms may be alleviated by hot compresses, calamine lotion or antihistamine creams. The urushiol does not spread after a day or so, so scratching the blisters does not necessarily make the rash worse. However, scratching can lead to a nasty skin infection, so don't do that. For some people, the allergic response to poison ivy can be severe, with swelling and respiratory difficulty. If this happens onsite, dial x3131 to initiate an emergency response. An injection of corticosteroids may be necessary to reduce the swelling and control other symptoms.
Have a great day and let's work safely all week!
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