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Swing shift on February 4 was lost due to several power dips and equipment failures caused by the weekend storm. The next ALS shutdown will begin April 15 for installation of the wiggler for protein crystallography. User beamtime is scheduled to resume on May 22. The shutdown which had been tentatively scheduled to begin in mid-September has been postponed to 1997 to provide increased beamtime to users from the end of the April shutdown through the rest of the year. The extra days allotted to maintenance work will be taken from accelerator-physics time and user time in alternate months.