[Cuga] JLab Weekly Briefs - a message from Kandice Carter

[Kandice Carter]

To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: https://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/latest 

May 14 Briefs Excerpts: 

Last-Chance Open House Volunteer Session Scheduled 
There will be one more, last-chance general training and information session offered for volunteers who have missed the other sessions on Thursday, May 15, at 10 a.m in the CEBAF Center auditorium. Volunteers will receive their T-shirt, communications card, parking pass and important event information. If you have any questions, contact Open House Volunteer Coordinator, Tina Menefee, 768-4030. 

Electronic Tour Database 
Employees or users wanting to escort visitors through the accelerator site to tour radiological areas must request dosimetry (a self-reading pocket dosimeter, or SRPD) through the online tour system. This system can be found on the Radiation Control Department webpage and from Insight. The new system provides a link for the visitor to fill out required information for the tour before they actually arrive. The escort can read and electronically sign their agreement before the tour starts, which will in turn speed up the process of being issued dosimetry. This process will also allow the guards to check the visitor information online, negating the need for a paper form. If you have any questions regarding the online tour system or need help setting up a tour, contact Becky Mosbrucker, x7236. Radiation Control Department webpage: http://www.jlab.org/accel/RadCon/ 

See Jefferson Lab Researchers Speak at Particle Fever Debut 
Three researchers affiliated with Jefferson Lab will give presentations at a local showing of "Particle Fever." The film gives audiences a front row seat to a profound scientific breakthrough as it happens - the confirmation of the existence of "the god particle." Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, and edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine. The film will be shown tonight at 7:15 p.m. at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk. The post-film discussion will be led by three researchers affilitated with Jefferson Lab: Charles Hyde, a professor of physics at ODU who is working to understand how the interactions of quarks and gluons generate the 98 percent of the mass of ordinary matter that is not generated by the Higgs field; Larry Weinstein, a professor and eminent scholar in physics at ODU and author of "Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin," and Todd Satogata, a senior scientist at Jefferson Lab who has designed, built and operated particle accelerators for 25 years. 

Internet Failover on Sunday, May 18, 6-8 a.m. 
On Sunday, May 18, Jefferson Lab's primary internet provider will be performing an upgrade of their equipment. During the hours of 6-8 a.m., the lab will failover to the backup internet provider. There may be a brief outage during the failover and failback. If you have any questions or concerns about this potential outage, contact the IT Division Helpdesk, helpdesk at jlab.org or x7155. 

IT Division Maintenance on Tuesday, May 20, 5-7 p.m. 
The IT Division is planning a Systems Maintenance period for 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20. During this time, there will be a short network outage for devices in the CEBAF Center atrium, auditorium and business offices. Network connectivity will be restored by 6 p.m. There *may* be a short outage of Wiki's on wiki.jlab.org, while some underlying libraries are updated; any outage will be brief (about 5-10 minutes). Additionally, updates to Firefox, Thunderbird and Adobe Flash and Acrobat Reader will be sent out. Finally, the CNI group will release Windows and Linux patches to the site. Plan on rebooting your desktop systems on either Wednesday or Thursday, May 21-22. If you have any questions or concerns about the tasks scheduled for this maintenance period, contact the IT Division Helpdesk. 

Short Phone Outages on Saturday, May 31 
On Saturday, May 31, 8 a.m.-noon, there will be short (15-minute) rolling phone outages in these locations (ARC, Support Service Center, CEBAF Center, Experimental Equipment Lab, Test Lab, TED Building, Building 19 (Forestry Building), and Building 57. This work will provide a backup router for the phones. If you have any questions or concerns about this work, contact the IT Division Helpdesk. 

Public Zimbra Briefcase Lives Up to Its Name 
In Zimbra, you can share a Briefcase (or folder) in several ways (Internal user, External Guest or Public). This is just a reminder that choosing "Public" will allow anyone in the world to have read-only access to that Briefcase or folder without a password. If you must share a file or folder with non-Jefferson Lab users, share it to individuals specifically instead of just making the files "Public." If you have an questions or concerns about this announcement, contact the IT Division Helpdesk. 

Jefferson Lab Spam and Virus Filter Software Is Changing 
On June 17, the CNI group will migrate from the current spam and virus solutions to an updated environment. This environment is expected to provide better spam- and virus-blocking capabilities, while also providing a local (at Jefferson Lab) User Spam Quarantine server. The group is planning to provide user training a week or so prior to the migration. Watch for additional announcements as the time approaches. 

Upcoming Jefferson Lab Pager Audit 
If you carry a Jefferson Lab-issued pager, you will soon receive an email with instructions for completing a brief online audit. This is for one-way pagers and texting devices and does not apply to cell phones, which will be audited separately at another time. This audit helps the lab to control the monthly recurring cost associated with pagers by identifying those that are no longer needed. If you have any questions about the audit, contact the IT Division Helpdesk. 

To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: https://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/latest
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