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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 4181988" data-attributes="member: 7533">It's down to about 160 people (due to people voluntarily retiring, and to any budgetary windfall), the list has already been made up, and management will notify who's what in a couple of weeks.In the meantime, everyone at the lab is taking a mandatory week of unpaid furlough every two months. Unless a miracle happens, that'll continue into the foreseeable and indefinite future.Hard to say...  We had plans for a couple of major projects to replace the Tevatron, the ILC among them, but the funding for those projects was cut so severely that we've had to essentially halt R&D on almost all of them.If we don't get enough money in future budgets to rebuild our credibility for multinational collaborations, we'd effectively become the world's biggest support facility for CERN and the LHC.In other words, for the moment, at least, we're up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> creek. :\</blockquote>

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