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Market Carvery: Chicken & Broccoli
Pasta Toss with Creamy Alfredo Sauce
Fresh Grille: French Dip Sandwich
with Fries
Menutainment: Veal Picatta with Pasta
Alfredo and Steamed Vegetable
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DOE
Gives NERSC 4.9
Million Hours of Work
The
DOE's Office of Science recently announced that
three key computational science projects have
been chosen to receive a total of 4.9 million
hours of supercomputing time at the Lab's NERSC
Center. The projects are expected to significantly
advance the understanding of the makeup of the
universe, the chemical process by which plants
convert sunlight to energy while removing carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere, and the turbulent
forces that affect everything from weather to
industrial processes. Full
story.
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Ultra-Thin Nanoscale
Fibers Are Developed
Researchers
have developed a process to create wires only 50
nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick. Made from
silica, the same mineral found in quartz, the wires
carry light in an unusual way. Because the wires
are thinner than the wavelengths of light they transport,
the material serves as a guide around which light
waves flow. In addition, because the researchers
can fabricate the wires with a uniform diameter
and smooth surfaces down to the atomic level, the
light waves remain coherent as they travel. Full
story.
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Computer Protection
Publication Released
The
latest issue of the Computer Protection Quarterly newsletter
is now available online, with articles on such topics
as keeping your Mac OS X system secure, a new service
for automatically installing Windows security patches,
news about upcoming classes and the latest Internet scams,
and a review of the most prevalent worms and viruses caught
by the Lab’s virus wall. Go here
to read the newsletter.
Enhanced 911 Service
Introduced This Month
To
provide better emergency responses, ITSD’s Networking
and Telecommunications Department will be implementing
Enhanced 9-1-1 (E911) starting this month. When a call
is placed to x7911 (from the main Lab site) or 9-911
(from offsite facilities) from a Lab extension, the
E911 system automatically pinpoints the location of
the caller by providing their extension, name, building
and room. To ensure that this information is accurate,
approval for all room changes or new room number assignments
must now go through Facilities. Updates will appear
in future editions of “Today at Berkeley Lab.”
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Lab Employees Excluded
From UC Unit 99 Vote
The
Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has approved
a Consent Election Agreement between the University
of California (UC) and the University Professional Technical
Employees (UPTE) that excludes Berkeley Lab from the
UC Administrative Professional employees' representation
election, which is likely to occur in February or March
2004. The Berkeley Lab Administrative Professionals
may possibly vote at a later time if an employee organization
files a new petition with PERB. Job classifications
that would be included or excluded in the unit and whether
certain employees are appropriately identified as supervisors
or confidential employees are among the questions that
remain to be addressed if such a petition is filed.
Full
story is available in Word Format.
Technology
Glitch
Leads to Message Errors
A
renegade prompt in the new "test phase" version
of the Asset Management System erroneously distributed
notices last Friday advising a number of Lab employees
that their property information had been changed. These
messages, generated from the "test" system,
can be identified by the source e-mail address [email protected].
They are not linked to the current property records
and should be disregarded.
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