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<p>Folks,</p>
<p>Please find the notes below and at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_September_19,_2016">https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_September_19,_2016</a>
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<p> -- Mark</p>
<p>P. S. The list of attendees is from memory. Please feel free to
correct errors of omission and/or commission.<br>
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<p>Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Eugene
Chudakov, Mark Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Hovanes Egiyan,
Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito, David Lawrence, Paul Mattione,
Lubomir Pentchev, Elton Smith, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Eugene">Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> budget crunch until Oct. 17
<ul>
<li> no new money from DOE, must live on carry-over</li>
<li> already: postponed DIRC contract for optical box
for 1 month, freed 100 k$</li>
<li> problem with money: goniometer, sent to
manufacturer, $28k, 1/3 of total cost for repair,
balance for expedited schedule. Curtis paying for
speed-up</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> continuing resolution, not may not be resolved for 6
months
<ul>
<li> receive 1/12 per month based on previous year,
increased operations planned, outstrips that rate of
money</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> S&T visit: collaboration has given plots to Bob
McKeown, including J/psi peak</li>
<li> Conferences, note from Rachel
<ul>
<li> plan in advance, notify management for the next
year</li>
<li> Eugene made list, found very few relevant
conferences</li>
<li> APS April meeting in January, abstracts due Sep. 30</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Introducing: Thomas Britton, new post-doc, graduate
work at Syracuse, B -> J/psi phi K</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Mark">Mark</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Software Review coming up November 10 and 11
<ul>
<li> weekly meetings have started: Curtis, Eugene,
David, Mark, Justin</li>
<li> Curtis has started writing document. Current
version outlines areas to address. Writing assignments
have been handed out.</li>
<li> Eugene: should look at how mistake with
reconstruction launch, version 2, crept in</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Shifts will be assigned later today for JLab folks
<ul>
<li> some discussion of shift credit to be awarded to
run coordinators, no decision, discussion moved
offline</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Elton">Elton</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> FCAL has run, BCAL was not ready on Friday</li>
<li> new firmware status not known</li>
<li> Elton will check w/ Adesh</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Beni">Beni</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Incident this morning: electrician fixing breaker box,
should not have cause interruption, UPS only lasted 10
minutes
<ul>
<li> result: power failure on control equipment</li>
<li> UPS did not report its status on power up, valve
did not open, helium level down to 10% on cold box</li>
<li> 2 computers talk to PLC, both dead because of
windows update</li>
<li> Nick Sandoval brought PCs to computer center (Nick
was in Hall B when incident occurred)</li>
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</li>
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