From cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu  Mon Apr  7 10:49:14 2008
From: cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu (Cheryl Olman)
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:49:14 -0500
Subject: [3tf-list] CPR certification
Message-ID: <47FA427A.2000803@cmrr.umn.edu>

As most of you know, current CPR certification is now a requirement for 
having off-hours (card-swipe) access at the CMRR.  I'm looking into the 
feasibility of coordinating a site-specific CPR certification course for 
3T users later this month.  Please respond to me (cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu) 
in the next 2 days if you are interested in participating.  Please also 
indicate (with an X) your availability for a 2 1/2 hour session on any 
of the following dates/times

Tuesday, April 22nd, 9:30am ___  1pm ___  3pm ___
Wednesday, April 23rd, 1pm ___   3pm ___
Wednesday, April 30th, 9:30am ___  1pm ___  3pm ___
Thursday, May 1st, 9:30am ___  1pm ___  3pm ___
Friday, May 2nd, 9:30am ___  1pm ___  3pm ___

Here are some more details:
- Training would be provided by Cathy Miller, Chance for Life CPR, and 
is tailored to the specifics of the CMRR (what # to dial in emergency, 
where the AED is stored and training on the specific model)
- The session is appropriate for either new or renewal certification
- Certification is good for 2 years
- Individuals would pay for their training at the start of the session.

From cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu  Thu Apr 10 12:35:44 2008
From: cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu (Cheryl Olman)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:35:44 -0500
Subject: [3tf-list] CPR training at CMRR May 1, 9:30am and May 2, 9:30am
Message-ID: <47FE4FF0.6000803@cmrr.umn.edu>

Based on an initial query of interest and availability among 3T users, 
I've arranged with Cathy Miller of Chance for Life CPR to have two 
Health Care Provider CPR certification classes at the CMRR.  The cost 
will be $50, paid to Cathy on the day of the training.

Please reply to me (cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu) by April 17 if you will 
participate.  If you've already contacted me once, please email me again 
to let me know which session you will attend.

This is organized primarily to help researchers from across campus get 
site-specific training so they can work effectively on the 3T, but 
there's also room for CMRR denizens to participate if it's time to 
update your CPR training and you missed the last ones that Jeramy 
organized.  Just let me know.

From deb at cmrr.umn.edu  Thu Apr 10 13:00:00 2008
From: deb at cmrr.umn.edu (Deb Morgan)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:00:00 -0500
Subject: [3tf-list] BTRR P41 RR008079 Annual Report Needs
Message-ID: <47FE55A0.9020007@cmrr.umn.edu>

If you had any papers published or abstracts accepted - where you 
acknowledged the CMRR's BTRR P41 RR008079 - could you please do the 
following for me as soon as possible for the use in our Annual Report 
for this grant.

1.   For Publications - I need you to send me your publications from the 
past year (May 2007 - to current)  I don't need the publication just a 
list - which includes title, authors, Journal  year and volume and 
pages.  (or if an abstract - where presented and date presented).  You 
can just cut and paste from your CV - and e-mail them to me.

Your quick help with this is greatly appreciated!!

Deb

Deb Morgan
Center Administrator
CMRR / Univ of Minnesota
deb at cmrr.umn.edu
612-626-9591 Phone
612-626-2004 Fax

From kolim at umn.edu  Wed Apr 16 05:55:44 2008
From: kolim at umn.edu (Kelvin O. Lim)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:55:44 -0500
Subject: [3tf-list] CMRR security - please read!
Message-ID: <4805DB30.3040708@umn.edu>


Subject:
CMRR Security
From:
Jeramy Kulesa <kulesa at cmrr.umn.edu>
Date:
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:55:12 -0500

To:
local at cmrr.umn.edu, 3tf-list at cmrr.umn.edu


All,

Following is an email from Moira Keane from the Research Subjects' 
Protection Program.

In light of this I would like to remind everyone to:

1) Prevent unauthorized individuals from entering the building.

2) If you see someone you do not recognize, ask them if they need 
assistance. If appropriate, escort them to the receptionist or the door.

3) Visitors must be accompanied by authorized personnel and met at the 
receptionist's desk, where they must sign in.

4) Visitors must be accompanied by authorized personnel at all times, 
evenings and weekends included.

5) Keep all doors locked and closed.

6) Report anyone exhibiting unusual interest in the facility, procedures 
that are not relevant to their current activity. If you feel 
uncomfortable, call 911.

Thanks
Jeramy


Begin forwarded message:
*From: *"Moira Keane" <keane002 at umn.edu <mailto:keane002 at umn.edu>>
*Date: *April 15, 2008 11:45:04 AM CDT
*To: *"Moira Keane" <keane002 at umn.edu <mailto:keane002 at umn.edu>>
*Cc: *"hestness at umn.edu <mailto:hestness at umn.edu>" <hestness at umn.edu 
<mailto:hestness at umn.edu>>, "R. Timothy Mulcahy, VP, Research" 
<mulcahy at umn.edu <mailto:mulcahy at umn.edu>>
*Subject: **Activist alert to NHP researchers*

UMN NHP researchers:

Animal liberation front activist Peter Young will be in the Twin Cities 
this week and weekend.

We need to be on the alert for local interest increasing in the coming 
days. This precedes WWAIL (World Week for Animals in Labs which begins 
April 20. )

Please be on the alert for any unusual activity in your area. Urge your 
staff to report any suspicious or unusual happenings to the UMPD 
immediately. We want to avoid any disruption in our work.

UMPD wants to hear from you--don't hesitate to call them.

Of course call me if you have any questions or issues.

Moira

6-4851


/Some of you will receive this notice more than once as it is going to a 
couple lists-apologies./



Peter Young is a dangerous ideologue who has claimed multiple actions on 
behalf of the domestic terrorist group Animal Liberation Front (ALF), 
releasing over 8,000 animals in 1997. In September 2005, Young pleaded 
guilty to conspiracy to release mink from 6 fur farms in South Dakota, 
Wisconsin, and Iowa; and the actual release of 2,400 mink from a farm in 
Medford, Wisconsin.^ He was sentenced to two years in federal prison; 
360 hours of community service at a charity "to benefit humans and no 
other species"; $254,000 restitution; and one year probation. He was 
released from Victorville, California?s federal prison on February 1, 2007.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Crocker called Young, who spent seven years 
on the run, an arrogant vigilante and warned him against ever repeating 
his crimes. After being sentenced, he told the fur farmers in the 
courtroom that he would "forever mark those nights on your property as 
the most rewarding experience of my life." Young smiled at a cheering 
crowd jamming the courtroom and, in a moment that exhibited his 
self-absorbed conceit, told his victims in the audience ''it was an 
absolute pleasure to raid your farms.'' In his statement to the court, 
Young urged everyone in the courtroom to attack more farms.

-- 
Jeramy Kulesa
Lab Manager & Safety Officer
Department of Radiology/Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
University of Minnesota
2021 6th St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-8847
Fax: 612-626-2004
Email: Kulesa at cmrr.umn.edu 

-- 
===================================================
Kelvin O. Lim, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Vice Chair for Research
Drs. T.J. and Ella M. Arneson Endowed Chair
Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota
717 Delaware St. SE
Suite 516
Minneapolis, MN 55414

kolim at umn.edu
612-626-6772
fax 612-624-2344


From deb at cmrr.umn.edu  Thu Apr 17 13:29:53 2008
From: deb at cmrr.umn.edu (Deb Morgan)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:29:53 -0500
Subject: [3tf-list] Scrubs, Laundry and Garbage
Message-ID: <48079721.2080704@cmrr.umn.edu>

This is a message in regards to scrubs, garbage, consent forms, etc. 
etc. being thrown up on the shelf above the lockers - and scrubs being 
just left anywhere.

The shelf is not the garbage, the laundry bins, the newspaper receptacle 
- or even where paperwork is filed. 

Please throw garbage in the garbage - put scrubs in the laundry hampers 
(animal hampers are in the back garage) human hampers are in all of the 
magnet control rooms -

No one should have to pick up after anyone else -  No one's Mom works here

Thanks for your attention to this annoying problem.

Deb

From cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu  Mon Apr 28 11:33:30 2008
From: cheryl at cmrr.umn.edu (Cheryl Olman)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:33:30 -0500
Subject: [3tf-list] New mirror for 12-channel head coil
Message-ID: <4815FC5A.2030303@cmrr.umn.edu>

Thanks to the great patience of the physics machine shop, we have a new 
mirror for viewing stimuli projected into the bore of the scanner behind 
the subject.

Taking a gamble that people will want to take advantage of the increased 
field of view, I left it attached to the coil.  It has 3 degrees of 
freedom -- one pair of screws, when loosened a bit, will let it slide 
along the length of the coil.  A second pair of screws will let the 
mirror travel up and down and rotate.  Please be careful with this 
second pair -- it is possible to put the mirror high enough to hit the 
top of the bore on the way in.  We'll work on making this fail-safe, but 
for now, there's tape limiting the vertical range of motion.  The 
subject can adjust the mirror from inside the bore by loosening and 
tightening the screws.

It requires a bit of fiddling to get the mirror on and off the coil.  If 
you want to remove it or install it, and it's not immediately obvious 
how to go about that, please check with me or Casey.