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August 2nd, 2017: Day 20

The morning meeting was standard, we did a few more outlines and some people gave feedback. Paige was back today and I was so happy to see her, I am no longer alone!!! She has been making image cubes all day while I got some useful results, finally. Five of us went to see Chris Gloudeman's presentation on the third floor in room 3215. He leaves for home on Saturday and I'm really sad to see him go. At least David Lewis is back from Chicago. I started putting our final presentation together and it's not half bad. I took out the insignificant slides and put in a few about the Jubilees and Ambrosiana Library. We're trying to get it down to about 50 slides so we'll have to make some tough decisions about what to cut. The data Roger gave us Amb_C73_001-004 are all really good. The narrowbands show some good information but the fluorescence doesn't have much on it.

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