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Wellness Feature of the Month: December wellness offerings, fitness classes and discounts
CMS Result: Subatomic excitement
Special Announcement: You are invited to Fermilab's Holiday Celebration
Photo of the Day: It's a full moon, by Jove
From Nature News Blog, Nov. 28, 2012: Italian particle physics facility scuttled by funding woes
From Space.com, Nov. 26, 2012: Dark matter mystery may soon be solved

From symmetry: Thanksgiving in the Main Control Room
Result of the Week: Symmetries are important
From ES&H: Environment, Safety & Health Fair - today on the 15th floor
Photos of the Day: Pages from the great blue heron photo flipbook
From Discovery News, Nov. 25, 2012: US science could face fiscal cliff doom
From Caltech News, Nov. 21, 2012: High-energy physicists smash records for network data transfer

From the ES&H Section: ES&H: Working behind the scenes to keep you safe
Director's Corner: It can be done
Photo of the Day: Do you see it? It sees you
University Profile: Vanderbilt University
Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Nov. 27
From BBC News, Nov. 25, 2012: Sesame synchrotron is a flash of unity in Middle East

IARC building aims for LEED certification
From symmetry: Contributing to an LHC experiment, no transatlantic travel required
Photo of the Day: Coyote on the move
From Scientific American, Nov. 26, 2012: The perils of translational research
From Physics, Nov. 26, 2012: Viewpoint: new temperature probe for quark-gluon plasma

Laboratory releases Physics Advisory Committee report
Tip of the Week: Health: The right stuff in dealing with the white stuff
Photo of the Day: Whirlwind night sky
Milestone: New employees - November
From Nature, Nov. 21, 2012: Physics: Let US physics commit to collaboration
From The Guardian, Nov. 17, 2012: Dark matter: the underground lab searching for wimps

Photo of the Day: Happy Thanksgiving
From the Core Computing Division: 100-gigabit Ethernet technology coming to Fermilab
From symmetry: A bouquet of options: Higgs factory ideas bloom
University Profile: The Ohio State University
Special Announcement: Main Ring Road closed next week
Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Nov. 20
From the Los Alamos Daily Post, Nov. 11, 2012: Obituary: Robert E. Shafer June 2, 1936-Nov. 11, 2012
From ISTC Catalyst, November 2012: Particle physics research: impact and applications

Rare red flower crops up in high numbers at Fermilab
Physics in a Nutshell: What are hadrons, baryons and mesons?
Photo of the Day: Here comes the sun
From ars technica, Nov. 14, 2012: New Large Hadron Collider data may thin out theories in particle physics
From New Scientist, Nov. 14, 2012: Higgs boson continues to be maddeningly well-behaved

"In Visible"—an artist's perspective of the universe
Result of the Week: Measuring the Higgs-like boson at the Tevatron
From symmetry: Passing along LHC know-how to future generations
Photo of the Day: Obelisk in sunlight
From Science, Nov. 13, 2012: Making the case for science: Representative Randy Hultgren sees room for improvement in federal role
From Science, Nov. 14, 2012: Political science: physicist Bill Foster heads back to Congress

From symmetry: How to make a neutrino beam
From the Accelerator Division: An insatiable appetite
Death: In memoriam: Steve Fry
University Profile: Syracuse University
Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Nov. 13
From Berkeley Lab News Center, Nov. 12, 2012: BOSS quasars unveil a new era in the expansion history of the universe

Profile: One minute with Jennifer Raaf, co-manager for MicroBooNE TPC assembly and installation
Director's Corner: This week's FALC meeting
Photos of the Day: Veterans Day celebration in Kuhn Barn
Special Announcement: Physics for Everyone - tomorrow at 12:30; employee site tours - Nov. 27 and 29
Construction Update: Integrating CDF Assembly Hall and the IARC OTE building
Special Announcement: Fermilab's first Physics Slam - Friday in Ramsey Auditorium
From BBC News, Nov. 12, 2012: Popular physics theory running out of hiding places

American Legionnaires, scouts spruce up Pioneer Cemetery
Tip of the Week: Safety: Caution with laser pointers
Press Release: Fermilab photo contest winners chosen; will advance to international competition
From Physics Today, November 2012: Time-reversal asymmetry in particle physics has finally been clearly seen
From Popular Science, Nov. 8, 2012: Inside the largest simulation of the universe ever created

From symmetry: Voyage to SNOLAB
Result of the Week: Digging for the golden Higgs at CDF
In Brief: Calling all veterans
Photos of the Day: Still celebrating Halloween
From New Scientist, Nov. 6, 2012: Doubt cast on Fermi's dark matter smoking gun
From Physics, Nov. 5, 2012: Viewpoint: 0 + 0 > 0

A sticky situation resolved
Director's Corner: LBNE review at Fermilab and US-PRC meeting at Daya Bay
Special Announcement: Save the date: Fermilab holiday party - Dec. 13
University Profile: University of Arizona
Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Nov. 6
From Physics World, Nov. 6, 2012: Highly charged ions could make better atomic clock

Special Announcement: Enrollment for 2013 benefits closes today
From the Finance Section: Travel card program
From symmetry: East Coasters brave Hurricane Sandy to keep neutrino project on schedule
Construction Update: Interior of the LArTF cylinder
Photo of the Day: Slice of Fermilab prairie life
From ES&H: Accelerate to a Healthy Lifestyle program concludes
From 190 North, Nov. 4, 2012: 14th Congressional District
From Stanford University News Service, Nov. 1, 2012: Taming mavericks: Stanford researchers use synthetic magnetism to control light

Press Release: You pick the winner in the Fermilab Arts & Lecture Series' first Physics Slam on Nov. 16
Tip of the Week: Cybersecurity: Computer Security Awareness Day
Fermilab's Hooper to talk Higgs at TEDxNaperville
Photo of the Day: Fermilab in orange
From NOAO, Nov. 1, 2012: Dark Energy Camera dedication begins celebration of 50th anniversary of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

Cockcroft-Walton's successor: a peep inside the new RFQ and how it works
Physics in a Nutshell: Spin!
Special Announcement: Power outages
Death: In memoriam: Danny R. Douglas
In Brief: Fermilab prairie seed harvest
From Physics World, Oct. 31, 2012: Unexpected 'ridge' seen in CMS collision data again

From symmetry: What else could the Higgs be?
Result of the Week: Charm quark's light reveals riddles in theory
Wellness Feature of the Month: November wellness offerings, fitness classes and discounts
Clarification: Rocky III report
Photos of the Day: Frightful fun on 15th floor
In Brief: The 2012-2013 Users' Executive Committee
From Nature, Oct. 30, 2012: Theorists bridge space-time rips