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Show us your pumpkin carvings
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Megan Bernard
megan@glencoeanchor.com
After a long weekend,
I scrolled
through my social
media feed Sunday night
and saw a similar theme
throughout everyone’s
weekends: Fall photos!
My friends and family
shared pictures of pumpkin
patches galore, visits
to local apple orchards
and even snapshots of
a suburban scarecrow
festival. Everyone was
embracing fall festivities
between those day trips,
pumpkin carvings, delicious
apple cider donuts
and Halloween decorations.
I have to admit, those
photos made me envious
and got me right off the
couch to start digging in
our shed for our Halloween
box.
Before dusk, I had
already lugged out our
ghost lights and foam
headstones to adorn our
front lawn. By nightfall,
I was already enjoying
our decorations outside
and lighting pumpkin
spice candles inside. Next
weekend, we hope to keep
it going and make it out to
the local pumpkin patch,
as well.
As we continue to gear
up for the big day on Oct.
31, I urge you to share
your pumpkin carving
photos with us here at The
Anchor.
We launched our annual
Pumpkin Photo Contest
and we’re still accepting
entries all the way through
Halloween night.
Think you got what it
takes to take first place
in the North Shore? The
pumpkin carvings can
be scary, with a spooky
ghoul or skull; funny, with
a celebrity face or clever
phrase; artistic, with a
whimsical festive scene;
or even just a jolly jacko’-lantern.
Email your photo to me
at megan@glencoeanchor.
com for a chance to win
the grand prize and be
featured in the paper.
Include your first
and last name, as well
as a phone number and
address. The top North
Shore winner will receive
Blue Man Group tickets
and several runners-up
will get a spooky surprise
from local retailers.
Winning pumpkin
photos will also be printed
in the Nov. 7 issue of
The Anchor and six other
North Shore publications.
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physics
From Page 13
with an elevator. Neutrinos
are subatomic particles
with a much smaller
mass than that of the other
known elementary particles.
Fermilab’s Main
Injector Neutrino Oscillation
Search, or MINOS,
was designed to study the
phenomena of neutrino oscillations.
“Essentially what the
students are proposing is
to measure the cosmic ray
shielding in the MINOS
tunnel,” Unterman said.
“[Fermilab] built an access
shaft and that’s how
they got everything down
there, but that means you
have this chunk not shielded.
So, the question is,
how much does the shaft
contribute to cosmic rays
that are picked up in the
neutrino detector? As you
move downstream from
the shaft, does the number
of cosmic rays change?”
For the MUSE experiment,
the students measured
the change in cosmic
ray flux in the tunnel as
they moved downstream
from the elevator, anticipating
the change in burden
would affect the flux.
To test this hypothesis, the
students assembled three
cosmic ray detectors: one
to monitor cosmic rays
above ground as a control,
an identical detector
to measure the rate underground,
and a third to measure
the muon background
in the neutrino beam.
“What they have accomplished
so far is nothing
short of amazing,” said
Jason English, New Trier
Science Department Chair.
While access to the tunnel
was limited to students
age 18 and older, the students
still visited Fermilab
almost every week in
rotating groups, recording
data from the surface of
the tunnel as needed.
“This experiment is not
just a good PR move for
Fermilab, nor is it just a
‘gift’ of time and space
for educational purposes,”
English added. “The experiment
they are running
could add to the body of
scientific knowledge. In
fact, even a null result
would do so.”
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While further analysis
is needed to verify the
group’s preliminary results,
working at Fermilab
has already heightened
their confidence in pursuing
high energy physics.
Full story at GlecnoeAnchor.
com.
An intriguing number from this week’s edition
New U.S. citizens
sworn in at the
Chicago Botanic
Garden. (Page 3)
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