<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: </span></font><a href="http://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/index.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/index.html</span></font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">May 26 Briefs Excerpts:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Today: Colloquium and Public Lecture</span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">E.W. Plummer, Louisiana State University, will present "Materials for the 21st Century: A Revolutionary - Not an Evolutionary - Approach" today in the CEBAF Center auditorium at 4 p.m. According to Plummer, societal needs for new materials are driven by the need for energy, preserving our environment and responding to the American Competitiveness Initiative. His presentation will describe unexpected magnetic properties observed in artificially nano-structured materials and provide examples.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Possible Computing Outages Thursday Evening</span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The CNI group is planning work for Thursday evening, May 27, at 7 p.m. that may cause a temporary loss of connection to the CUE home directories, CUE group and the mail directories. In the unlikely event that the loss of conection occurs, the group will bring the system back up as soon as possible. If you have questions, contact the IT division helpdesk at x7155, or </span></font><a href="mailto:helpdesk@jlab.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">helpdesk@jlab.org</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">JLab Strategic Plan Open Forum</span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">JLab's strategic plan will be presented in an open forum next Thursday, May 27, in the CEBAF Center auditorium, from 1:30-3 p.m. All staff and users are invited.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: </span></font><a href="http://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/index.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/index.html</span></font></a></div><div><br></div></body></html>