Hi! I wanted to let all the good folks on the mailing list know about an imminent change in my life. This coming Friday will be my last day with my current employer, the Naval Research Lab. I will be taking a 7-week vacation, then starting a new position at Argonne working in the Environmental Research Division. My responsibilities there will include helping to build an XAS station on the Sector 10 bending magnet. My new boss knows all about the software and has encouraged me to continue working on it. Yay! For the coming 7 weeks, I'll only be posting to the mailing list sporadically. For two of those weeks, I will be traveling for fun outside of North America and I have no intention of looking at a computer during that time! Before the end of the week I intend to have a new source code tarball and new Windows executables of Athena and both versions of Artemis. Until I am settled in at the new job, it is unlikely I will update the codes, even in the event of a serious problem. Once I get to Argonne in early March, I look forward to meeting all of you whom I do not know and who pass through the APS. A period of transition is an excellent opportunity to look back upon and evaluate recent times. The last three years in which I have been working on the programs have been some of the most rewarding of my career. It has been enormously gratifying to see so many people get involved in my efforts at the level of sending me bug reports and feature suggestions and working with me to improve the quality of the codes. And it has been enormously fun to see this mailing list grow into a real community populated by some of the friendliest, smartest, and most helpful people that I know. Many of you have made a real impact on the product of my three years of labor. I am thankful for that and I hope that you see a bit of yourselves every time you fire up the codes. Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/