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For a limited time, buy a HP XW4200 workstation and receive $100 off your purchase or $150 off the purchase if you buy a 19, 20 or 23 inch HP LCD display with the XW4200. Offer ends April 30. For more information, contact us the the Lab's JIT Team line at (505)
343-3552 or go to 3/31/05 Unisource closed Friday Unisource, the JIT subcontractor for our copy, printer papers and janitorial supplies, will be closed Friday to conduct its annual inventory. All orders must be placed from your desk tops, as Unisource personnel will not be available to answer the phone. Stock orders placed by 3 p.m. Friday will be delivered on Tuesday, April 5. Questions? Contact Charlotte Carter at 5-9153 or Paul Schwarz at 5-4524. 3/30/05 Volunteer opportunities The Crisis Center of Northern New Mexico First Responder Program needs you, if you have a concern about the subject of family violence among our neighbors. Volunteer First Responders are needed to assist victims of domestic violence in Los Alamos and Española. Schedules are flexible. A training will be held on Saturday, April 2. Call Lesley Olsher, MSW, coordinator of the Los Alamos office for more information at 929-0291 (cell). Volunteers needed for the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair event that will be in Albuquerque in May of 2007. Judges and co-chairs are needed for this event. The co-chairs assist in recruiting the judges for their categories. The Intel ISEF requires over 1,000 judges to judge the projects in fourteen science and engineering categories. To volunteer, contact Len Duda at (505) 844-3304 or write to leduda@sandia.gov by electronic mail. Volunteer wish list for Española Valley/Los Alamos Habitat for Humanity -- New home foundation to be poured April 1 (weather permitting). Volunteers to do construction every weekend. Volunteers to assist with sales at the Re-Store in Arroyo Seco. Members and/or chairpersons for the following standing committees: Family Selection, Public Relations, Resource Development (includes grant writing), Family Support, Volunteer (makes food for builders and yearly meetings, provides construction assistance), Administration, and Church Relations Committees. Committee meetings can be in Los Alamos or Española depending on the most convenient location for the members. If interested in volunteering, call Yvonne at (505) 747-2690. Hospice volunteers needed in Española area. Many patients and families in Northern New Mexico are making the hospice choice for their final days. The hospice care team includes medical personnel, counselors and volunteers. Odyssey Hospice is currently recruiting volunteers in the northern Española and Los Alamos area. Training is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m., April 7, and from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., April 9 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Española. For more information, contact Phoebe Girard at 988-5331. Employees participating in science and/or math outreach activities may be eligible for Community Service time (paid leave, up to 32 hours per calendar year). For more information, go to the Science and Technology Base (STB) Web site. The Laboratory Volunteer Program is a Laboratory-approved community relations and support activity. Updated 3/30/05 Skolnik training classes Skolnik Technical will host the following classes:
For more information on any of the classes, go to www.skolnik-tech.com online or call 299-1157. Updated 3/30/05 Procedures change for time and effort and travel approval authorities A Director's Instruction recently was posted changing the procedure for the approval of time and effort and domestic travel (approvals needed both before and after travel occurs). To be reimbursed for travel expenses or to process T&E, both must be approved electronically by a group-level manager or above; this authority may be delegated. The instruction also defined responsibilities for employees to report attendance and submit travel expenses and managers to approve. The instruction went into effect March 28. To read the Director's Instruction, click here. Updated 3/28/05 "Women in America" to be on LABNET this week As part of Women's History Month, the five-part series, "Women in America," is scheduled to be shown this week on LABNET Channel 10 and on desktop computers using Real Media stream and IPTV technology. Check the LABNET Channel 10 schedule at http://www.hr.lanl.gov/TIO/labnet10.htm online for times. Updated 3/28/05 Spring 2005 TIG-Dell product demonstrations Join TIG and Dell to see the newest technology and learn about upcoming products from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., April 13, in the MSL Auditorium. Dell will be conducting roadmap presentations for news on upcoming products. Lunch will be catered by Nana's Italian Restaurant from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. For more information, contact Charlotte Carter of Streamlined Purchasing at 5-9153. Updated 3/25/05 Wellness Center Spring classes The Spring 2005 exercise class brochure is available online. Registration for Spring 2005 classes began March 30. Classes begin April 11. Some exercise classes do have pre-requisites that will need to be met before registration. For more information about exercise class pre-requisites, go to theWellness Center Web site at www.wellness.lanl.gov online or call Gina Koehler at 7-7166. Updated 3/31/05 Pick up, drop off location changing for Albuquerque commuters Laboratory employees who use the All Aboard America commuter bus service from Albuquerque have a temporary new pick up and drop off location. Users of the commuter bus service from Albuquerque will catch the bus from the Balloon Fiesta Park off Alameda Boulevard, said Dan Villa of All Aboard America, which operates the service for the New Mexico Department of Transportation. To get to the new location, take Alameda west from Interstate 25 to the Balloon Fiesta Park and museum and north to the pick up and drop off location. Route times and fares from Albuquerque remain the same, Villa said, adding that the temporary location is needed while a new, permanent location is constructed. Lab employees who ride the bus from Albuquerque currently catch the bus at the transportation department's District 3 office off the Pan American freeway east of I-25. The Department of Transportation is building a new pick up and drop off location at San Diego Avenue and San Mateo Boulevard N.E. It will have space to accommodate 300 vehicles, about a dozen which will be for handicapped parking, and will have off-street pick up and drop off for passengers. For more information, see Thursday's Daily Newsbulletin or contact Villa of All Aboard America at 424-1110. Updated 3/22/05 Integrity Networking Systems news For a limited time, receive an instant $200 rebate, an additional one year warranty and a supplies start-up kit with the purchase of the Xerox Phaser 6250. Available on N, DP, DT and DX models. Offer ends today. For more information, contact Tish Romero of INS at (505) 294-7747 ext. 150. Updated 3/31/05 UPTE e-mail to Lab workers Many Laboratory employees received an electronic mail message from UPTE-CWA and have inquired as to why they were on the recipient list. UPTE has informed the Laboratory that the e-mail was intended for UC employees in California and was inadvertently sent to Laboratory employees. UPTE apologizes for any inconvenience. Updated 3/25/05 Prescribed burn planned by San Idelfonso San Ildefonso Pueblo is burning 175 acres north of Technical Area 46 east to NM 4. The prescribed burn is scheduled for April 13, weather permitting. Smoke and fire will be visible from TA-46, TA-51 and TA-54 and from Los Alamos and White Rock. Updated 3/30/05 Judges, speakers needed for upcoming supercomputing challenge Laboratory personnel are needed to give talks, tours or demonstrations to students between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., April 25, at the 15th annual New Mexico Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge. The students will be divided up into groups of about 25 and visit several sites, mainly around Technical Area 3, both inside and outside the fence. The tours will originate from the Los Alamos Research Park across from the Otowi Building at TA-3. Approximately 200 middle and high school students and their teachers will be at the Laboratory for the Expo and Awards Ceremony activities of the Lab sponsored challenge. The students will be presenting their projects to judges on the morning of April 25. Approximately 30 judges are needed to evaluate the projects that morning and select about half a dozen teams to move on in the competition. After the team's projects are judged students will tour some of the research activities taking place at the Lab. Laboratory personnel interested in assisting with the challenge should write to David Kratzer of High Performance Computing Systems (CCN-7), Laboratory coordinator of the challenge at dhk@lanl.gov by electronic mail. For more information about the New Mexico Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge, go to http://www.challenge.nm.org online. Updated 3/14/05 "Project Management Toolbox" scheduled June 28-30 Projects produce funding. Doing projects right (delivering results on time and within budget) is the most effective tool for obtaining future funding. This three-day workshop focuses upon individual skill building, and addresses the essential elements of project management:
Learning is reinforced by application case studies throughout the workshop. The course is customized for Los Alamos and presented by Erika Jones and Associates, who have a history of successful project facilitations throughout the Laboratory. For additional information and registration, go to http://www.hr.lanl.gov/TIOCourses/TIOAha.asp?CourseNumber=19692 online or call Harry Thomas at 7-4002. Updated 3/11/05 SWANS radios being inventoried Emergency Management and Response (EM&R) is conducting a Labwide inventory of all SWANS (Motorola HT 1000) radios. EM&R uses the SWANS system to contact individual radios, groups of radios, or all radios Labwide with important information and instructions in the event of an emergency. Emergency Management and Response needs to know the correct location and point of contact for all SWANS radios. Individuals or Lab organizations with a radio are asked to contact Debbi Maez at 7-6211. Updated 3/9/05 Trinity Site spring tour is April 2 The annual tour of Trinity Site in southern New Mexico is scheduled for April 2. The tour includes lectures, walking Ground Zero, viewing of Jumbo and visiting the McDonald Ranch House. The National Atomic Museum sponsors the Trinity Site tours. Registration in advance is required by calling the museum at 505 242-6083 or writing to store@atomicmuseum.com by electronic mail. The tour costs $50 and includes lunch at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. Buses leave the museum in Albuquerque at 6 a.m., and return about 4 p.m. As part of the tour weekend, a lecture by Ben Benjamin, who was at the Trinity Site during the first test in July 1945, is scheduled for 7 p.m., April 1. The cost is $3 to the public but free to people who sign up for the tour. Updated 3/1/05 EMBA call for candidates Candidates are now being selected for the 2005-07 Executive MBA program which begins in late June. The Executive MBA Program at the University of New Mexico's Anderson Schools of Management is a Master's degree program in business administration designed for high-potential managers with an undergraduate degree in any field and at least three years of significant work experience.
Applications must be approved by the appropriate manager and received by Leslie Knowlton of HR-TD (MS M589) by May 4. An information session will be offered in Albuquerque on April 2 (morning) at the Anderson Schools of Management on the UNM campus. They also are offering a free GMAT workshop. For details and location, call (505) 277-2525 or write to emba.mgt.unm.edu by electronic mail. For more information on the program, contact Knowlton at 5-8646 or write to lesliekn@lanl.gov by electronic mail. Updated 3/2/05 FEMA guide offers emergency preparedness tips A new guide from the Federal Emergency Management Agency provides the public with tips on emergency preparedness. Called "Are You Ready?" the guide is available to individuals, families and community preparedness groups who are looking for a comprehensive source of what to do when disaster strikes. The guide provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by teaching individuals how to become informed about local emergency plans, identify hazards that affect their area, develop and maintain an emergency communications plan for family members, and build a disaster supplies kit. Other guide topics include evacuation, emergency public shelters, animals in disaster and information specific to people with disabilities. The preparedness facts are based on the most reliable hazard awareness and emergency education information including advances in scientific knowledge, the most accurate technical language and the latest physical research on what happens in disasters. The guide is available from the FEMA Web site in both English and Spanish. Go to www.fema.gov online to obtain a free copy or call FEMA's Publications Warehouse at 1-800-480-2520. Updated 2/22/05 Support for tsunami victims Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos asked employees to consider how they might assist the victims of the Dec. 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami in southeast Asia. To read a all-employee memo, click here (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Updated 1/13/05 Employees leaving Lab must attend termination presentation Employees who are leaving the Laboratory or changing to casual status must attend a benefits termination presentation held by Benefits (HR-B). The termination presentations are held every Laboratory pay day for University of California Lab employees. Employees who are retiring aren't required to attend a presentation, but rather, they should schedule a meeting with their designated benefits specialist. The presentations begin at 8:30 a.m. in room P280 on the second floor of the Otowi Building at Technical Area 3. Pre-registration is required. Employees should register on line at http://hrcluster.lanl.gov/TIOCourses/TIOAha.asp?CourseNumber=21013 one to two weeks prior to their last scheduled work day to sign up for a benefits termination presentation. Employees also must obtain a departure processing form from Staffing (HR-S) before the presentation. This form is available at http://www.hr.lanl.gov/hrstaffing/Terminations/index.stm online. At the presentation, employees will receive a packet of information about their benefits and savings balances. They will learn about options to continue or convert insurance plans and distribution options for savings funds. Employees who require a sign language interpreter should write to benefits@lanl.gov by e-mail three days in advance of the presentation they plan to attend. Or call the benefits office at 5-3842 (TDD). Because of limited parking, employees should plan to arrive early and/or make alternative transportation arrangements, such as using Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico's ride service. Updated 10/25/02 Lost and found Lost: set of keys on Wednesday at the SM-30 building or at the SM-30 parking lot. If found, call 5-8934 or (425) 246-3740. Lost: white gold wedding ring/band with yellow gold milled edges, size 5.5. Lost possibly near the White Rock Training Center. If found, please contact Karen at kmbrown@lanl.gov by electronic mail. Found: black remote car-door opener key ring (no keys) in the Satellite Dish parking lot by gate on Pajarito Road. To claim, call Jody at 7-8465. Lost: Olympus camera in a blue camera bag (I think it is a Samsonite bag). Camera was lost Saturday night (3/5/05) somewhere near the Unitarian church. If found, please contact Melissa at 5-1746. Lost: black badge pouch with two keys in it and no ID in the back parking lot of the Administration Building. If found, call Yolanda at 7-8597. Found: ladies Bulova watch in parking lot near old Van der Graff facility. Call Juan at 5-5873 to claim. Found: men's bifocal glasses in leather case in parking lot south of SM-410. Call L. Steen at 5-3146 to claim. Found: ladies pearl earring at southwest entrance to SM-30. Call John at 4-0597 to claim. Lost: Toyota keyless remote in TA-53 area. Black with gray button. If found, please contact Sara at 665-7854. Found: two pairs of prescription glasses (1) sunglasses, (2) reading glasses. Possibly left in the Director's Conference Room. Please call 7-5101 to claim. Found: ladies silver bracelet at TA-3, Bldg. 200, 2nd floor. Call Dawnetta at 5-0424 to claim. Found: a onyx necklace with a bear pendant in the HOV parking lot between the Ad Building and CMR. To claim the necklace, call 7-9774. Found: one key on green holder marked BWXT #5. Found outside Motorola building on Jan. 24. Please contact Lou at 663-5555 to claim. Lost: rhinestone pendant, inch wide with chains/rhinestones attached around the Otowi Building at Technical Area 3 on Jan. 19. If found, please contact Belinda Valdez at 5-1364. Lost: pair of ladies black leather gloves. Hole in the right thumb liner. Perhaps at Canyon Complex, Research Park or in parking lot off Truck route and Pajarito. Contact Veronica at vencinas@lanl.gov if found. They were a gift from my husband. Lost: Nissan thermal travel mug, stainless steel, on Jan. 13 near entrance to commuter bus lot off of Truck Route. If found, call Chris at 5-6228. Commuter's Corner To run an ad, contact the Newsbulletin at newsbulletin@lanl.gov or 7-6103. |
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