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Weekly Users' Meeting Minutes -- April 8, 2009

Schedule

X-ray: No special requests.

VUV: No special requests.

**The official weekly x-ray ring schedule is posted on NSLS TV Channel 11, which is also available on the schedules page by click on Short Range Schedules.

**The official weekly VUV ring schedule is posted on NSLS TV Channel 5, which is also available on the schedules page by click on Short Range Schedules.

Machine Status

Both rings are running well.

Maintenance Period (X-ray: 4/14/09-4/15/09, VUV: 4/13/09-4/14/09)

Plug doors to be opened are: X11-12, X15-16, X17-18, X23-24 and X27-28 (man access).

May Shutdown Electrical Outage

Power going off on May 9 to substations 1, 2, 3 and 4. There is very
limited emergency power to use.

Cross-training of machine physicists - J. Murphy

More accelerator physicists are being trained on the x-ray and VUV rings,
and the LINAC/booster. They will now rotate responsibilities from time to time.

Xi Yang described recent improvement in machine operation. The final result
is that now it is possible to inject the X-ray ring in about 4-5 min.

SpiG Elections

Nominations for SPIG representatives are still open. Please go to
http://www.nslsuec.org/elections/spig_nom.asp.

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