JAG announces upcoming events: spring party, Run-A-Round

Looking for a little fun in the sun? It's not far off! The Jefferson Lab Activities Group would like to let you know about upcoming events.

A spring morale booster is tentatively planned for March 26. Watch for more information in the March newsletter, on the JLab news web page or the JAG page (www.jlab.org/intralab/committees/jag).

The JAG has scheduled the Run-A-Round for May 6. This will be the Lab's 14th annual fun run. Begin training now for that record-breaking finish, or start putting together a relay team! The JAG T-shirt subcommittee is accepting submissions for the 1999 Run-A-Round T-shirt design contest through February 26. On-line voting to pick the new design will take place during the first half of March.

If you'd like information on submitting a design, call JAG members Dave Williams, ext. 7183, or Shannan Kyte, ext. 7337, or check any of the JAG bulletin boards for details.

Engineers celebrate National Week

To celebrate National Engineering Week, all JLab engineers are invited to a party in the Residence Facility great room, February 26 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. Call Betty Beeler, ext. 7491 to make your reservation.

Staff Dev. & Training provides spring schedule, info programs

The Lab's Staff Development & Training spring curriculum catalog is available at all three Human Resources & Services information centers. You may also access the new training schedule by visiting the HR&S web page at http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/train/.

The program includes EH&S classes, general staff development programs and management development courses, as well as walk-in programs and something called Training on Demand. These are prepared programs that group leaders may order and have presented at their groups' convenience.

For more information about specific training or class schedules, pick up the catalog, visit the HR&S web site, or call the Staff Development & Training office at ext. 7128 or 7170.

The next series of JLab informational programs describing the Lab's function has begun. Building upon last fall's lectures explaining how the Lab's experiments are conducted, this spring's presentations center on how the Accelerator and the FEL work. "Accelerator Operations for Everyone" includes:

• Injectors: How to Excite an Electron
• Rf and Cavities: Things Your Dentist Didn't Tell You
• Cryogenics: Help! My Tongue's Stuck to the Cryomodule
• Beam Transport: Scotty Lauze and the Beam Benders
• Diagnostics & Optics: Say, Ah,
• 1001 Reasons Why There's No Beam
• Safety Systems: How Not to Become a JLab Legend
• FEL: And Fred said, Let there be light!
• And topping off the series is What's Around the Corner?

All programs are presented by Lab staff and are scheduled for consecutive Tuesdays at 11 a.m. in room 47 of the VARC (except for the presentation on March 16 which will be in CEBAF Center, room L104).

HR&S plans benefits open enrollment period

Remember February 22 through March 5 is the 1999 benefits open enrollment period. During this time you may sign up for or change coverage for medical and dental plans, change your pre- or post-tax elections, and purchase or waive short-term disability insurance.

Healthcare representatives will be set up in the VARC Lobby on March 1, from 8 a.m.- noon, to answer questions about Trigon (Blue Cross/Blue Shield) and Sentara (Optima).

Open enrollment forms may be picked up in the Benefits office, room 40-A in the VARC, or at any of the three satellite Human Resources & Services information centers located in the ARC Library, 2nd floor hallway in CEBAF Center, and in the MCC conference room. The completed forms must be returned to the Benefits office no later than close of business March 5. Kisha Owens, Administration, encourages hand carrying the forms to room 40-A to make sure they're received before the deadline.

For more information, call Owens at ext. 7068, or e-mail her at owens@jlab.org.

Beware: IRS changes business travel rates

Leave it to the IRS to change its mind two weeks after announcing the new standard mileage rate for business travel.

The standard mileage rate from January 1 - March 31, 1999, is 32.5 cents/mile for business travel. Beginning April 1, the rate will decrease to 31 cents/mile.

Anyone with questions concerning this change may call Travel Services, ext. 7437 or 7192. Business Services also has a per diem rates link on its home page that goes directly to the GSA rates. Go to www.jlab.org/div_dept/admin, then click on Business Services and select GSA Per Diem Rate Links under Quick Links.

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Updated January 21, 2004