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Wednesday, March 2 Vegetable Beef Quarter Pound Hot Dog in a Soft Pretzel Roll $4.75 Turkey a la King over Biscuit $3.75 Country Fried Steak with Pepper Gravy $3.75 Beef & Cheddar Panini w/ Sauteed Onions $4.75 Assorted Personal Sized Pizzas $3.25 Cavatappi Pasta with Italian Sausage & Tomato Ragu $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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March 8: Lab-Wide Focus on
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Issues of computer security are ever-present for anyone with a computer,
and Director Michael Witherell has designated Tuesday, March 8 as Computer
Security Awareness Day throughout the lab. A day-long series of brown bag
seminars will be offered in WH1W and Curia II, including required courses and
talks on related topics.
There are now three levels of training and testing for computer security, with these required courses: Security Essentials for Fermilab System Administrators; Security Essentials for Desktop System Administrators; and Basic Computer Security. All lab computer users must take one of these three courses, depending on the scope of your responsibilities.
The brown bag seminars will include talks on Basics of Grid Computing; Security
and the Grid; Fundamentals of Using Kerberos; Dangers of Spyware and Phishing;
The Fermilab Network and You, and What Happens in a Computer Security Incident.
In addition, there will be kiosks in the Wilson Hall Atrium staffed by computing
security experts who can answer your questions about security issues.
- Mike Perricone
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From The New York Times, March 1, 2005 The Next Einstein? Applicants Welcome By Dennis Overybye He didn't look like much at first. He was too fat and his head was so big his mother feared it was misshapen or damaged. He didn't speak until he was well past 2, and even then with a strange echolalia that reinforced his parents' fears. He threw a small bowling ball at his little sister and chased his first violin teacher from the house by throwing a chair at her. read more |
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, February 25, 2005 Orbach Discusses FY06 Office of Science Funding Request On February 7, the day President Bush's FY 2006 budget request was released, DOE Office of Science Director Ray Orbach discussed the request for his Office, its impacts, and some of the justifications behind the budget numbers. He acknowledged several times that the tightness of the budget required priority-setting, and explained that his choices were determined by the goal of maintaining U.S. leadership in science. He warned that the budget constraints "are not going to go away in 2007 [and] it's going to be a difficult four years."
The request would cut Office of Science funding by 3.8 percent from the current
year, to $3,462.7 million. This is below both FY 2004 and FY 2005 levels. While Basic Energy Science and
Fusion Energy Sciences would be increased, the High Energy and Nuclear Physics
programs would both be reduced below FY 2004 and FY 2005 levels. Biological and
Environmental Research, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Scientific
Laboratory Infrastructure, and Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
would experience reductions from FY 2005 levels.
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Journalism Students Collect
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A dozen of tomorrow's science journalists got a first-hand view of Fermilab
on Wednesday, Feb. 23 during the annual visit by a graduate class in science
writing from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. The
group began with an overview of the lab from veteran physicist and accomplished
tour guide Dave Finley of the Technical Division, and after lunch visited
DZero with postdoc Greg Davis of Northwestern, whose program included a
demonstration of removing floor tiles for cable access with maximum sound
effects.
"Dave and Greg added immensely to the day with their insights and their humor," said Prof. Donna Leff, a former assistant city editor at The Chicago Tribune. "It's always a wonderful day for my science writing students to visit the lab, meet scientists and see how they actually do their work." The students' work ranges far beyond classroom exercises. Several write for the Medill News Service, a working news bureau in downtown Chicago that was founded in 1995. Student Katie Burns recently filed a story on the MINOS experiment for news service clients including The Daily Herald, The Daily Southtown, Conscious Choice and The Chicago Reporter. The lab visit will also provide assignment material.
"It was exciting, but now I feel there is so much to learn," said student
Miho Nagano at the end of the day. "I want to go home and read about the
Higgs boson."
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EPS High Energy Particle Physics Prizes 2005 The EPS HEPP Board is calling for nominations for the EPS High Energy Particle Physics Prizes in 2005. These prizes include the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, the Young Physicist Prize, the Gribov Medal and the Outreach Prize. A complete list of prizes and regulations is available online. The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2005. The prizes will be awarded in a ceremony on July 25, 2005 during the Internation Europhysics Conference on HEPP, Lisbon.
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