From:   MUFSON         15-JUL-1994 08:19
To:     MONOPOLE
Subj:   shift report July 9, 1994
 
SHIFT REPORT, JULY 3-JULY 9, 1994
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Present at GS: Alan Alda(*), Rich Baker, Kael Hanson(**), Doug 'Hollywood'
Michael(***), Stuart Mufson(****), Colin Okada(*****), Chris Orth, Paolo 
Saggese(******)

(*) At Gran Sasso to make Doug a STAR
(**) Continuing shift worker.
(***) Alan thinks his left side is his best side
(****) Returning Shift Worker
(*****) No, maybe Colin is the continuing shift worker.  
(******) Record for most stars in a shift report name list

The big news of the week of course is THE VISIT by Alan Alda on Tuesday.
Your shift worker has no real knowledge of what went on during the visit
since he did not actually get to meet the STAR.  But there can be no doubt
that IMPORTANT THINGS were discussed. How else can we explain Doug's
remarkable display of on-camera arm waving?  The attempt to fly?  In a 
tunnel?  And your shift worker can report that Alan is much taller than 
someone that rich has any right to be.

On July 4 there was an upward muon meeting held mostly in Doug's honor.  
There was some agreement on the issues still remaining like the need to 
hold more meetings.  Other issues like where do the neutrinos point in the 
sky (of obvious interest to your shift reporter) were less satisfactorily
resolved. In the end it was decided that the paper was making satisfactory
progress for a document being assembled a molecule at a time.  And we 
should have another meeting.

On Tuesday, not only did we have Alan's visit (he left word that it was ok
to call him that since I am a professor -- he forgot I wasn't from a
coast), there was also a complete power blackout.  It lasted so long that
it screwed up the shots of Alan driving into the lab.  Of obvious lesser
concern was the fact that it also screwed the ST monopole trigger (which
was still not operational at the time of the US group meeting). 
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