Friday, March 6
- Old fashioned ham & bean
- Philly style chicken
- Chicken pot pie
- Smart cuisine: baked fish over rice
- Roasted veggie & provolone panini
- Assorted sliced pizza
- Baked potatoes
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Wednesday, March 11
Lunch
- Chicken breast stuffed w/sun-dried tomatoes & goat cheese with a shallot thyme sauce
- Orzo
- Carmel apple shortcake
Thursday, March 12
Dinner
- Field greens w/ cranberries, bleu cheese and walnuts
- Citrus glazed mahi mahi
- Cashew basmati rice
- Sautéed pea pod & water chestnuts
- Lemon meringue ice cream pie in toasted pecan crust
Chez Leon Menu
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A first: String theory predicts an experimental result
One of the biggest criticisms of string theory is that its predictions can't be tested experimentally-a requirement for any solid scientific idea.
That's not true anymore.
At a AAAS session on Sunday, Feb. 15, physicists said string theory is making important contributions to the study of two extreme forms of matter -one heated to trillions of degrees, the other chilled to near-absolute zero. In both cases the matter became a "perfect liquid" that ripples and flows freely, like water. String theorists analyzed the results by applying what they had learned from pondering how a black hole might behave in five dimensions. Then they went on to calculate just how free-flowing these liquids might be, predictions that the experimenters are using to guide the next stage of their work.
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New Employees
From left: Steve Swantek, BSS, taxi driver; Steve Hernandez, BSS, firefighter; Wally Wittaniemi, FESS, mechanical maintenance supervisor; Yanyan Gao, PPD, guest scientist; Ronald Davis, PPD, on-call technical specialist; Marcelle Soares-Santos, FCPA, guest scientist
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Change your clock,
change your battery
The members of the Fermilab Fire Department want to remind you that Daylight-saving time begins this Sunday, March 8. When you set your clocks forward an hour, remember to check and/or change the batteries in your smoke detectors.
You should also check smoke detectors monthly for proper operation. Statistics show that properly working smoke detectors save lives. Contact the Fire Department at x3428 with any questions.
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I'm not looking, honest!
From The Economist, March 5, 2009
The good news is reality exists. The bad is it's even stranger than people thought
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." So said Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Since its birth in the 1920s, physicists and philosophers have grappled with the bizarre consequences that his theory has for reality, including the fundamental truth that it is impossible to know everything about the world and, in fact, whether it really exists at all when it is not being observed. Now two groups of physicists, working independently, have demonstrated that nature is indeed real when unobserved. When no one is peeking, however, it acts in a really odd way.
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Cosmologists seek to identify the physics of key components in their picture of the universe
From University of Chicago Chronicle, March 5, 2009
A new universe could pop into existence at just about any time, in any place, according to the theory of cosmic inflation-perhaps even in John Carlstrom's office in the Laboratory of Astrophysics and Space Research.
Scientists have no way of detecting other universes, but scientists have devised a test that could verify another key feature of cosmic inflation: gravitational waves. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that cosmic inflation should produce these extremely weak waves.
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Go green with Payroll's self-serve system
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| Seymour Green, the ES&H mascot, promotes recycling |
The Payroll Department would like to remind active employees that Fermilab's Self Serve Program allows employees to electronically:
- Change direct deposit distributions
- Change W-4 exemptions
- Change personal information
- View employee benefit information
- Sign up or change charity deductions
- View current and prior years' pay information
- View compensation history
Employees also have the option to no longer receive a hard copy of the advice, a paper document that shows an employee's earnings, taxes, deductions and more for a pay period. To opt out of receiving a hard copy, please contact the Payroll Department through interoffice mail (MS110) or by askpayroll@fnal.gov and request to stop receiving the advice. Please be sure to provide your ID number and mail station in any communication.
For those who wish to sign up for Self Serve, go to the WDRS Web site and select "Employee Self Service" from the drop-down menu. You will then be asked to:
- Enter your ID# (example: 01234N)
- Select "Forgot Your Password"
- Enter User ID where requested
- Answer the default or custom selected security question
- Select "E-mail New Password"
You will immediately receive an e-mail with a randomly generated password. Enter this password (suggest using copy/paste) and then change your password. Once this is done, select self serve to view your personal information. If you experience any problems, contact the BSS Help Desk at x8877 (xOOPS).
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