<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><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"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">October 14 Briefs Excerpts:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Performance Appraisals: Self Assessments Due Today</span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Today is the deadline for employees to forward self assessments to supervisors. The lab-wide goal is to have all appraisals completed by Dec. 16. The online appraisal system is composed of a predetermined sequence of events and is user friendly. If you have specific questions, call Bruce Ullman at x7170 or Cassandra Andrews at x7068. The appraisal system, a timeline for the appraisal process, a tutorial slideshow and a frequently asked questions document are available online: </span></font><a href="http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/admin/HR/appraisal_system.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/admin/HR/appraisal_system.html</span></font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Computing Maintenance Day Set for October 20, 5-10 p.m. </span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The CNI group is planning a minor maintenance day next Tuesday from 5-10 p.m. During this outage, the group will shut down and relocate jlabs1, jlabs2 and the /scratch file server. Each outage should last no more than 15 minutes. There may also be some web server outages during this time. As before, each web server outage will last no more than 15 minutes.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Access Your United Way Pledge Form Electronically</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br>Donors can access the United Way pledge form electronically this year. Print the form at the following link, fill it out and send it with any check payments attached to Joshua Cameron, CEBAF Center, room B214, MS 12B by Monday, Nov. 2. As always with charitable donations, make a copy of the signed form for your records. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">If you wish to use the traditional form, it is available for pickup at the following locations: CEBAF Center Lobby, VARC Lobby, ARC Lobby, Test Lab 2nd Floor Lobby and MCC Lobby. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The pledge form can be accessed here: <a href="http://www.uwvp.org/give_help/donate_temp.html">http://www.uwvp.org/give_help/donate_temp.html</a></span></span></span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">REVTeX 4.1 Released</span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The first update to REVTeX since 2001 is now available. REVTeX 4.1 is a set of macro packages designed to be used with LaTeX2e. REVTeX 4.1 includes bug fixes, improved functionality and support for a wider range of journals, including those of the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. For more information and a link to the updates, visit the AIP website: </span></font><a href="http://authors.aps.org/revtex4/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">http://authors.aps.org/revtex4/</span></font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">APS April Meeting Abstract Submission Deadline is Oct. 23</span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The 2010 APS April Meeting will take place at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Because the April Meeting will be held in conjunction with the annual winter meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), it has been moved to February. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. EDT (2 p.m. PDT). More information is available online: </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.aps.org/meetings/april/info/index.cfm">http://www.aps.org/meetings/april/info/index.cfm</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" 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" 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" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div></font></div></div></span></body></html>