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Tuesday, August 5 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Blood drive, WH Ground floor NE ES&H training room 1:30 pm Computing Techniques Seminar - 1 West Speaker: P. Dinda, Northwestern University Title: Virtuoso - Distributed Computing Using Virtual Machines 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover
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Tuesday, August 5 Garden Vegetable Cajun Catfish $3.75 Spanish Rice Casserole $3.50 Italian Hero $4.75 Hot Ham and Cheese $4.75 Chicken Caesar Salad $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
 Partly Cloudy 80º/58º
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Secon Level 3 |
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Late Start for Today The delivery of Fermilab Today was delayed when the server was lost due to a power failure at Feynman Computing Center. The earlier move of the central Unix Web server went off without a hitch. |
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High visibility for MINOS building |
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The MINOS Service Building, currently going up west of the Lederman Science Center along Pine Street, will house support equipment and provide access to the MINOS tunnel, 350 feet below the surface.
This "signature" building, providing a strong visual image for Fermilab's neutrino program, is scheduled to be turned over to the NuMI project in late December 2003. It houses pumping equipment to move water from the underground NuMI complex. The masonry spiral on the north end resembles the pump house adjacent to Casey's pond. Both are based on the Archimedes screw, invented in the third century BC to raise water from a lower to a higher level.
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Luminosity Nearing Goal The weekly integrated luminosity for last week was 6.0 pb-1. It raised the total integrated luminosity for FY03 to 208.8 pb-1. The goal is to reach 225 pb-1 before the end of the fiscal year. |
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Astronomers debate Hubble's future Leading astronomers clashed in Washington DC last week over when or whether to shut down the Hubble Space Telescope.NASA wants to decommission Hubble in 2010, primarily to divert money to the bigger and better James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to launch in 2011. A growing number of astronomers want it to keep going at least until JWST is launched. read more |
Today we're pleased to welcome to Fermilab a group of staff members and interns from the local office of our Congressman, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. I'm delighted that they could come for a tour. Last Sunday, a science tour for the public drew 80 of our neighbors from the community, with a waiting list big enough to fill up a second tour. I'm always pleased to have visitors come to Fermilab, because over the years we've found that there's no better way to get people excited about the science that we do than to show them the laboratory where it happens.
Special thanks go to the volunteers for the Ask-a-Scientist program who spend their Sunday afternoons talking with our visitors. The best ambassadors for Fermilab, in the lab and in our community, are our own employees.
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- RF problems troubled nearly every machine - Experts trace Linac instability to a faulty multiwire - The Tevatron Electron Lens suffers an anode short - Operations established one store during this period. That store plus one already started on Friday delivered approximately twenty-six hours and nine minutes of luminosity. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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Power Outages Wednesday, August 6, 8:30 am to 4:40 pm at NS7 service building, including NM2 (PL17, 17A, 17B)
Downtime for Web Servers
Scottish Country Dancing |
