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    <p>Colleagues,</p>
    <p>Please find the notes below and at
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    <p>  -- Mark</p>
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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,
            Patrizia Rossi, Elton Smith, Steve Smith, Sascha Somov,
            Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Zhenyu Zhang, Beni Zihlmann
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          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Safety_Survey.2C_Steve">Safety
              Survey, Steve</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> latest results of the survey for Physics Division
              presented</li>
            <li> lots of text comments this time, survey around time of
              LERF incidents and safety stand-down</li>
            <li> see his slides at <a rel="nofollow" class="external
                free"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2016/PHY%20-%20Safety%20Culture%20questions%20updated%20Sept%202016.pptx">https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2016/PHY%20-%20Safety%20Culture%20questions%20updated%20Sept%202016.pptx</a></li>
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          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcement.2C_Eugene">Announcement,
              Eugene</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> Thanks to all for completing their self-assessments</li>
            <li> report from Diversity and Inclusion Training
              <ul>
                <li> team building an important aspect</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> all-staff photo on Oct. 24</li>
            <li> all travel goes through Allison Lung for now
              <ul>
                <li> do not make financial commitments (e. g.,
                  registration fees) until travel is approved</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li> Prizes: Cynthia Hellman, Charles Perdrisat</li>
            <li> Hall B solenoid late, will not be energized for
              upcoming run</li>
            <li> No new news from accelerator, Nov. 9 still the start
              date
              <ul>
                <li> Danfysik expert has been here, root cause of
                  problem not known</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Engineering.2C_Tim">Engineering,
              Tim</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> fuse was blown on heater for vapor cooled lead,
              replaced</li>
            <li> no news on goniometer</li>
          </ul>
          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="DAQ.2C_Sascha">DAQ, Sascha</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> have been running cosmics overnight</li>
            <li> busy from F125s good at 100 kHz</li>
            <li> Problems:
              <ol>
                <li> baseline setting on F250, failure on
                  initialization, intermittent</li>
                <li> crate with start counter and pair spectrometer
                  TDCs, DMA bus errors</li>
                <li> optical links give problems once in a while</li>
                <li> tagger crates have new firmware, 160 in trigger
                  latency recovered, but problem with DMA scalers not
                  being recorded properly</li>
                <li> flash125 reporting not-ready-for-readout, fixed by
                  new firmware from Cody Dickover</li>
                <li> TOF1 crate is disassembled now to facilitate
                  flash250 debugging</li>
              </ol>
            </li>
          </ul>
          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Production.2C_Paul">Production,
              Paul</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> last reconstruction attempt: issue with FDC timing</li>
            <li> over weekend, did launch for calibrations</li>
            <li> Adesh contributed FCAL timing calibration code</li>
            <li> will do monitoring launch, then full ver03
              reconstruction by end of week</li>
          </ul>
          <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Conferences">Conferences</span></h2>
          <ul>
            <li> for now: only invited talks at plenary sessions</li>
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