FYI there is a pointer to the updated status ands schedule ---------------------------------------------------------------- Flemming Videbaek Physics Department Brookhaven National Laboratory e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov phone: 631-344-4106 ----- Original Message ----- From: Kin Yip To: kinyip@fnal.gov Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:28 PM Subject: A-SPY news: Signing off as Christoph will be back tonight ... final update of mine ... last words ====== Acting Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. A-SPY) news channel ======== (0) Christoph Montag will come back and take his position back as the Scheduling Physicist starting on Dec. 18, 2004. *********************************************************************************************** (1) Schedule update I've put my final schedule prediction at the same place (top of the following webpage): http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/kinyip/SchedPhys/RHIC_shorts_2004/ Cool-down started earlier by > 1 day. After talking with the Cryogenic group (about now), we may need to be conservative in when the cool-down would finish. The Blue ring may be ready for beam on Dec. 24/25, assuming that George & Co. need 1 day for testing the magnets. Yellow ring hopefully will be ready ~3 days later. *********************************************************************************************** (2) Last batch of personal comments ... "pushing" mystery During these 2 weeks, it is actually not easy to gain information. Though the Main Control Room (MCR) has never been my best friend, I have actually missed the function of MCR a bit. Because if MCR were working as usual, people would naturally report things to MCR or MCR would routinely ask for progress, then I could just check with MCR. Perhaps, more importantly, I don't need to worry about communication problem that much. So, I've been making a fair no. of phone calls/paging people/emails etc. to different parties. I've just realized in the last couple of days that some of them might have felt that I have been pushing them in the last 2 weeks to get things go quicker ! Honestly, at the 99.5% level, my intention was only to ask for information and updates. But if things actually worked faster after my "subtle pushing", I wouldn't mind either :-) :-) To be even more honest, I think the most important part is that the people in this Dept. just sort of "automatically and spontaneously" know what/how/when things should be done. I had similar feeling when I watched Donald Trump's apprentice candidates manage the charity events last night. I felt that things seemed to work out not mainly because of the candidates' management for a couple days but because the "real workers" involved just knew more or less what needed to be done. The final outcome in history is the integration of all the actions of all the infinitesimal differentials (each person involved !) --- something that I "remember" from Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace". The Russian defeating the French at that time was not really due to a particular Russian general being better than Napoleon; but rather due to the integrated minds of all the Russians involved in the war. OK ... I believe I go far enough :-) Have a nice holiday ! ======= ====== ======= ======= ====== ======= ======= ====== ======= This A-SPY news channel solicits YOUR input of any sorts. You'll be paid back with loads of gratefulness :-) ================================================================= Disclaimer: Whatever is being said here is not always 100% accurate though I try my best to avoid being 100% inaccurate :-) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ A-SPY contacts during these 2 weeks before Dec. 17, 2004 : Pager: x4300 Cell Phone: 631-8062433 Office Phone: x4116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ Brahms-l mailing list Brahms-l@lists.bnl.gov http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-lReceived on Fri Dec 17 15:35:40 2004
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