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Have a safe day!
Friday, Dec. 17
1-5 p.m.
Tevatron 25th Anniversary of first collisions symposium - Ramsey Auditorium
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
4 p.m.
THERE WILL BE NO JOINT EXPERIMENTAL-THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK
5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Potluck party - Wilson Hall atrium
Monday, Dec. 20
THERE WILL BE NO PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
4 p.m.
All Experimenters' Meeting - Curia II
Operation of First Cryomodule at NML Test Facility
Click here for NALCAL,
a weekly calendar with links to additional information.
Upcoming conferences
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Friday, Dec. 17
- Breakfast: Chorizo burrito
- *Chunky vegetable soup w/ orzo
- Buffalo chicken wings
- Cajun breaded catfish
- *Teriyaki pork stir-fry
- Honey mustard ham & swiss panini
- Assorted sliced pizza
- *Carved turkey
*carb-restricted alternative
Wilson Hall Cafe Menu
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Wednesday, Dec. 22
Closed
Thursday, Dec. 23
Closed
Chez Leon Menu
Call x3524 to make your reservation.
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January Wellness Feature of the Month
Fitness classes, wellness offerings, employee club and discount information for January.
This month, the Wellness Office will sponsor the following fitness classes:
- Kyuki-Do: 5-6 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, Jan. 3 – Feb. 9, at the Fitness Center Exercise Room. Fee is $55/person.
- Yoga: 12-1 p.m. Tuesdays, Jan. 4 – Feb. 22, at Wilson Hall Auditorium. Fee is $85/person.
- Muscle Toning: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Jan. 11 – March 3, at Fitness Center Exercise Room. Fee is $77/person.
- Butts & Guts: 12-12:45 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 20 – March 10, at the Fitness Center Exercise Room. Fee is $53/person.
This month, the Wellness Office will also sponsor the following free wellness offerings:
- Lunch & Learn: Healthy Eating with Antioxidants from noon – 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 13, in WH, Curia II. Learn how to eat healthy by adding antioxidants and making simple lifestyle changes that allow you to lose weight, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, while decreasing risk of heart disease and diabetes. Presenter: Dr. Bryce Staker
- Qigong, Mindfulness & Tai Chi Easy® for Stress Reduction Classes from 7 – 8 a.m. on Wednesdays in WH Auditorium; from 4:45 – 5:45 p.m. on Thursdays in Users Center Music Room and from noon – 12:45 p.m. on Fridays in WH Auditorium.
Employee clubs:
- Scrappers: Open 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4, in the Wilson Hall Aquarium conference room. Scrapbookers bring your scissors, adhesive and journaling pen. Supplies provided for themed and generic layouts. $10/person.
- Card Stampers: Open 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, in the Wilson Hall Aquarium conference room. Interested stampers should bring scissors, adhesive and journaling pen. Supplies provided for three cards. $10/person.
Employee discounts:
- Movie tickets: AMC and Regal Theaters, $7-8. Goodrich Theaters, $7.
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Pine Street closed briefly Saturday
Pine Street will be closed from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday while City of Batavia crews remove overhead temporary power lines and wooden power poles. The Wilson Street entrance will be open during this time.
Notification signs along Kirk Road will tell drivers of the Pine Street closure and a flagger on site will help direct traffic that enters Pine Street and needs to turn around.
The road closure signals the near end of a power line project by Batavia. Crews have already run the 138-kilovolt power line cable underneath Pine Street in a duct bank, eliminating the need for the overhead lines. Crews will use bucket trucks on both sides of the street to lower the four overhead wires. It will take about 15 minutes to lower each wire.
City crews will fix the landscaping and fill the pole holes as part of the project completion.
The power lines are part of a Batavia project to run their 138-kilovolt power line under the road way in the easement granted by the DOE.
-Tona Kunz |
NSF won't build underground lab; scientists hope that DOE will
From Science, December 17, 2010
Plans to convert an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota into the world's largest underground lab may have to be scaled back and could fall apart entirely after the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) oversight board rejected the current proposal.
On 30 November, the National Science Board (NSB), which sets policy for NSF, turned down the agency's own request for additional money to support development through 2011 of the $875 million Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) at the Homestake mine in Lead, South Dakota. That puts the onus on the Department of Energy (DOE), NSF's partner in the project, to pay for whatever it wants to build.
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Panel urges reprieve for the Tevatron
From Physics Today, December 2010
After much delay, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been accumulating proton–proton data since April, albeit at only half the 14-TeV collision energy for which it was designed. Its predecessor, the 2-TeV Tevatron proton–antiproton collider at Fermilab, was scheduled to shut down for good at the end of 2011. But the Tevatron’s excellent performance over the past two years and the LHC’s delayed ramp-up to its design parameters prompted Fermilab’s program advisory committee in August to recommend that the Tevatron be kept running through 2014.
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Potluck, skits and Tevatron anniversary symposium today
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Celebrate 25 years of the Tevatron at the symposium and potluck today |
Fermilab celebrates its scientific history and community spirit with a day full of celebrations.
From 1 to 4:45 p.m. in Ramsey Auditorium a series of speakers will recount the construction and scientific achievements of the last 25 years of running the Tevatron. The talks are in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron. See a list of speakers and topics on the Tevatron symposium website.
Between 5 and 6:45 p.m., Fermilab employees, retired employees, users, contractors, funding agency employees and their families and friends will gather in the Wilson Hall atrium for the Potluck Party to enjoy a wide variety of cultural cuisine. See when and where to drop off food at the Potluck Party website.
At 5:30 p.m., children from the Fermilab daycare will sing Christmas songs in the Fermilab atrium. From 7 to 8:30 p.m., the evening's entertainment will take place in Ramsey Auditorium. Fermilab theorist Joe Lykken will emcee the event, which will include skits, songs and more.
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Police to calibrate on site gunfire detector Friday
Kane County Sheriff’s deputies will conduct controlled handgun shooting on site starting at about 10 a.m. today to help the laboratory calibrate an acoustic triangulation device. A total of about 48 shots will be fired within a two-hour period near the Main Injector. Deputies will be stationed near testing areas where test firing is occurring. The shooting won’t interfere with laboratory operations. Anyone with questions about the calibration should contact the Fermilab Office of Communication at (630) 840-3351. See additional information here.
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Holidays and contractor gratuities
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Gary Leonard, Fermilab general counsel |
The holidays are upon us, and I wish you and your loved ones a very merry holiday season. This is just a reminder that it is against laboratory policy to accept a gift or gratuity from a prospective or current Fermilab vendor. You should refuse or return gratuities and gifts to avoid any appearance of impropriety on the part of the laboratory.
Read an Ask the Ethicist column on this issue.
-- Gary Leonard, Fermilab General Counsel |
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