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New information on Fermilab Fermilab, DOE, elected officials Is this up-to-date? layoffs, including an up-to-date celebrate science funding Q&A section, appears on the layoff Web pages.

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Information on the furloughs at Fermilab, which stopped May 31, 2008, is available on the furlough Web pages.

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At Wednesday's all-hands meeting, Acting Deputy Monday, July 7 Secretary of Energy Jeffrey Kupfer (left) 2:30 p.m. announced that Fermilab will receive about $29.5 Do you use up-to-date documents for your work Particle Astrophysics Seminar million in supplemental funds. Other speakers at and hazard analyses? - Curia II the event (from left): Fermilab Director Pier Speaker: J. Bunton, ICT Oddone, Senator Richard Durbin, Congresswoman Using out-of-date manuals and safety Centre, Marsfield Judy Biggert and Congressman . documents can be a serious safety hazard. Title: ASKAP - The Australian Fermilab reviewed the employee ES&H SKA Pathfinder Fermilab employees breathed a collective sigh Manual use as part of its preparations for the 3:30 p.m. of relief on Wednesday at an all-hands ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 registrations. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE meeting on July 2. Acting Deputy Secretary of The review found workers using out-of-date BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over Energy Jeffrey Kupfer announced that materials. 4 p.m. Fermilab will receive about $29.5 million in All Experimenters' Meeting - supplemental funds for the current fiscal year, In response, the laboratory put together a new Curia II including $9.5 million for the NOvA neutrino chapter of the ES&H Manual that outlines Special Topics: CMS experiment. Thanks to the funding, Fermilab content control procedures. Here are some Installation and can avoid the involuntary layoff of about 90 recommendations for keeping your ES&H Commissioning; CDMS employees. information up-to-date: Progress and Plans “We all recognize our ability to innovate and ● Add yourself to the ES&H mailing list to Tuesday, July 8 discover depends on our willingness to monitor ES&H Manual changes. You will Noon support the kind of fundamental research that Summer Lecture Seminar - is the mission here at Fermilab,” Kupfer said. receive e-mail alerts every time this document is revised. One West “I commit to you that we will do whatever we Speaker: S. Dodelson, can to continue to support your vital mission.” Fermilab ● Track the status of your internal documents. Title: Fundamental Physics The standing-room only meeting came just Is there an obvious revision date for each from Space days after President George W. Bush signed a document? Are out-of-date versions tossed 3:30 p.m. supplemental spending bill that included $62.5 out or clearly marked as obsolete? DIRECTOR'S COFFEE million for the DOE Office of Science. BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over ● Keep external documents, such as

“Today we celebrate the first steps toward equipment manuals, up to date and make THERE WILL BE NO restoration of basic science funding in our sure that end users have ready access to ACCELERATOR PHYSICS country,” Congressman Bill Foster said at the current information. AND TECHNOLOGY meeting. “The door that was slammed shut in SEMINAR TODAY the omnibus bill last Christmas is now cracked ● Avoid stockpiling paper copies of electronic open. We have the light to see a brighter forms for use in the “distant” future. Click here for NALCAL, file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2008/today08-07-07.html (1 of 3)7/7/2008 10:39:10 AM Fermilab Today

future for basic science at Fermilab, and we a weekly calendar with links To make sure that all employees always have have the oxygen we need to get to work on to additional information. access to the most current ES&H materials, that future.” Weather the complete Fermilab ES&H Manual is available online. Following the latest ES&H

Thunderstorms Director Pier Oddone applauded Fermilab procedures and precautions will help you keep 89°/68° employees for their dedication and success yourself and your colleagues safe. despite furloughs and the threat of layoffs. He pointed out the many accelerator records the Tevatron had set during the last six months Announcements Extended Forecast and described the benefits of basic science Weather at Fermilab research at Fermilab. Have a safe day! Current Security Status “All of the above could not be possible without Cap lifted on vacation balance Secon Level 3 the support of the public and of our elected Because of the supplemental funding that the representatives,” Oddone said. "Mayors, laboratory will receive, Director Pier Oddone teachers, union members, the business has removed the special cap imposed on Wilson Hall Cafe community, our neighbors and universities and vacation time balances earlier this year. professional societies rose together and spoke Employees can again accumulate vacation Monday, July 7 for the importance of the science and time according to standard laboratory policy. - Not available technologies that we do and for its future in The Payroll Office will remove the special the nation.” vacation cap statement ("max. vac. hrs/days Wilson Hall Cafe Menu permitted in Sept. 08") from all payroll stubs issued after July 14. Chez Leon Sen. Richard Durbin as well as Congressman Foster, Congresswoman Judy Biggert and Wednesday, July 9 Director Oddone expressed their appreciation Fermilab Housing Office reservation Lunch of the communities that supported the requests due July 14 - Stuffed portabella mushroom laboratory in its continued success. Reservation requests can now be made to the - Salad of field greens Fermilab Housing Office for houses, apartments and dormitory rooms for the - Fresh fruit tarts “The fact is that you’re here today in remainder of 2008 and spring of 2009. Since celebration, not only of the money coming in, there will be a large influx of experimenters but the community spirit that came forward. Thursday, July 10 and requests may exceed our available Here at the lab, the surrounding towns, Dinner facilities, please submit your request for - Green bean, feta & walnut organized labor, the business community, reservations to the Housing Office by Monday, salad across the board, that kind of support made July 14. Requests can be made for any period - Medallions of beef w/ the real difference,” Durbin said. and need not commence on any particular cabernet sauce date. For further information, please contact - Roasted baby potatoes Attendees gave standing ovations to Director the Housing Office at (630) 840-3777 or via e- - Vegetables of the season Oddone, for his leadership through a difficult mail. Individual housing requests can be made - Pear tart time, and to elected officials, for their by using our online housing request form . successful efforts to restore funding. Requests for multiple housing units are best Chez Leon Menu handled by direct e-mail. Call x4598 to make your Foster cautioned that the battle is far from reservation. over. “While this is a substantial and terrific Archives victory, we must ensure that our scientists are Tango lessons able to do the work that is vital to the long- Beginning July 16, the International Folk term future of our country,” Foster said. Dancing group and NALWO will start a new Fermilab Today group and offer tango lessons by experienced tango dancers from . The lessons will View the streaming video of the all-hands take place in Ramsey Auditorium on Result of the Week meeting Wednesdays from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. for beginners and 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. for Safety Tip of the Week -- Rhianna Wisniewski intermediate/advanced level. To sign up call Pamela Noyes at (630) 840-5779 or e-mail her. Editor’s Note: ILC NewsLine Since December, Fermilab has kept a log of Accelerated C++ Short Course news stories and their headlines to chronicle On August 4, Fermilab will offer the first the budget crisis. By beginning at the bottom session of Accelerated C++: A Short Course in Practical Programming by Example. The eight- file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2008/today08-07-07.html (2 of 3)7/7/2008 10:39:10 AM Fermilab Today

Info of the page, in December 2007, and scrolling session course teaches computer up, readers can view Fermilab’s roller-coaster programming in modern standard C++. Fermilab Today journey. Participants receive TRAIN credit upon is online at: successful completion of the course. No tuition www.fnal.gov/today/ In the News is charged; the only cost is for the required textbooks. A subsidy is available for most students. Walter Brown, who participates on Send comments and New, next life for Fermilab Fermilab's behalf in the international C++ suggestions to: standardization effort, is the course instructor. [email protected] From Kane County Chronicle Editorial, July Register here. 7, 2008 Fermilab pool to offer children's swimming There was much celebrating at Fermilab last lessons week, when political heavies showed up to an Fermilab employees and users can now enjoy “all-hands” meeting to mark a funding boost to the Fermilab pool. The pool opened last week the U.S. Department of Energy facility. and will host swimming lessons for both youth and pre-schoolers. The Naperville YMCA will This is welcome news, of course. But it’s offer three sessions of swimming lessons unlikely leaders at Fermilab will rest on these between July 7 and Aug. 11. Swimming lesson laurels. The lab faces huge challenges that will registration information and forms are require continuous innovation and creativity on available at Fermilab daycare and daycamp. the part of scientists at this lab. For more information on lessons please contact Peter Wilson ([email protected], x2156). It’s in the community’s overwhelming interest Daily admission to the pool is $5. that Fermilab remain viable and visible. Memberships are payable only by cash or check and are available at the pool through Tuesday, July 8. For information about the In December 2007, Congress authorized $320 pool and memberships please contact Dee million for Fermilab, roughly $52 million less Hahn ([email protected], x2354). For more than requested and $22 million less than the information on pool hours and swimming laboratory received in 2007. lesson sessions, see the Fermilab Today article on July 2. Thanks in large part to lobbying by U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Geneva, and U.S. Sen. , as well as other members of the Congressional delegation, threats of Additional Activities layoffs, furloughs and doomed programs have subsided.

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