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Wednesday, October 5 -Portabello Harvest Grain -Santa Fe Chicken Quesadilla -Teriyaki Chicken with Vegetables -Beef Stroganoff -Triple Decker Club -Assorted Slice Pizza -Pesto Shrimp Linguini with Leeks and Tomatoes |
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WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman takes the
"Change a Light" pledge at the Department of Energy, challenging
120,000 DOE employees and all Americans to replace at least one
traditional light bulb with an energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulb
at home.
"The Department of Energy encourages all Department employees and all Americans to answer the President's call to be more energy efficient," Secretary Bodman said. "Taking small and easy steps, such as replacing light bulbs with newer, more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, can add up to real, substantive savings."
If every household in America changed one bulb to a CFL, combined efforts
would save 5.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year or $526
million a year in electric expenses. If everyone at the Department
changed one light bulb, it would save enough energy to light 3,065 homes
for a year, would reduce carbon dioxide emissions equal to removing 886
cars from our parking lots, and would have the same effect as planting
1,260 acres of trees. To take the pledge, and for more information,
visit this website.
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Science, September 29, 2006: Embracing Small Science in a Big Way The U.S. Department of Energy redirects its big machines toward small-scale research, as materials science overtakes particle physics The heftiest building blocks of nature were discovered at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). In 1967, researchers at the Menlo Park, California, laboratory shot electrons from a 3-kilometer-long "linac" into protons and detected the first hints of smaller particles within. Those infinitesimal bits of matter, known as quarks, are now a cornerstone of the so-called Standard Model, which describes how one type of quark decays into another. Nearly 40 years later, high-energy physicists still use the linac to feed particles into a collider, called PEP-II, with which they compare quarks and antiquarks.
But in 2008, PEP-II will shut down, and a year later, researchers at SLAC will power up the world's first x-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). It won't produce exotic subatomic particles that might allow researchers to peer further into the fundamental structure of matter. Instead, by shining a billion times brighter than other x-ray sources, LCLS will probe the properties of familiar materials in unprecedented ways, determining, for example, the structure of a protein from a sample of just one molecule. "The LCLS will be revolutionary," says Persis Drell, SLAC's deputy director for particle physics.
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| Staying focused for safety | ||
| This week's column is written by Randy Ortgiesen, head of Facilities Engineering Services Section.
Did you know that a home fire is reported every 79 seconds?
I recently participated in the Director's Safety Panel on Injury Reduction--a big "Ah-ha!" experience for me. We saw clearly that lab employees are well trained and use personal protective equipment. The only common element in most of the injury cases was an apparent lack of awareness of one's surroundings. Perhaps becoming too comfortable in the work routine led to a lapse of focus for only for a moment - the wrong moment! I'd like to tell you that I work as safely at home as I do at the lab. This isn't always the case, but it should be--and I am getting better! Whether burning a brush pile, cleaning out my gutters, or lifting something heavy, why do I not feel as much risk at home? Is it because my Senior Safety Officer isn't watching, or I didn't need to complete a hazard analysis, or work is less hazardous at home, or the schedule is more important? No, no, no and no! When I say that my frame of mind changes somewhat at home as well as my focus, I am acknowledging what the panel discovered as possibly the leading cause of injuries here at work. Let's use next week's fire prevention awareness to remind us about staying focused and fresh regarding the routine of all our activities at home and at work. |
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Free training on digital certificates A new course at Fermilab will provide background on certificates, then give specific instructions on how to install certificates in your browser, including the two most popular certificates at Fermilab: KCAs and DOEGrids. Internet Explorer, the Netscape family, and Safari will be addressed. The course schedule is here.
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