In Brief

Get Ready, Get Set, Get Picnic Tickets
Don't miss this year's TSRI picnic, a Renaissance extravaganza that will include a medieval feast, court jester, magician, jousting in full steel armor, period costume contest, and juggling competition. Tickets to the event—to be held Friday, July 25, from 3:30 to 7:30 PM—are not sold at the door, so be sure to buy yours in advance.

Tickets are available during normal business hours from Monday July 14 through Wednesday July 23 as follows:

Immunology Building: Sharon Weston, Room 302E, x9015
Molecular Biology/Skaggs Building: Reception desk, x2225
CVN/Blake Building: Reception desk, x7070
ICND Building: Angela Glenn, Room 238, x7298
MEM Building: Valerie Moreau, Room L55, x8807
CIMBio/Carr Building: Reception desk, x9714
3377 Human Resources Building; 2nd floor; x8534
3301 Administration; Reception desk; x8379

Tickets will also be on sale during the lunch hour, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM, as follows:

Monday, July 14: Immunology building and in the Beckman building lobby
Tuesday, July 15: Molecular Biology building and in the Beckman building lobby
Wednesday, July 16: Immunology building and in the Beckman building lobby
Thursday, July 17: Molecular Biology building and in the Beckman building lobby
Friday, July 18: Immunology building and in the Beckman building lobby
Monday, July 21: Molecular Biology building and in the Beckman building lobby
Tuesday, July 22: Immunology building and in the Beckman building lobby
Wednesday, July 23: Molecular Biology building and in the Beckman building lobby.

For more information on this year's picnic, the visit the TSRI picnic web site.

Learn Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Power Point, or Windows
Learn how to use desktop applications such as Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Power Point, or Windows by attending a Research Computing training class. If you are interested in learning how to build a simple "lab" web site using TSRI templates, sign up for the Tuesday, July 22 Dreamweaver class. If you've been using Acrobat for basic or complex forms and would like to learn what the full program can do, including digital mark-up for group writing/editing projects and incorporation of sound and movie files into documents, sign up for the Tuesday, August 5 Acrobat Enhancements class. For more information or to enroll, visit Computer Training.

Personal Skills for Life & Work: "Civility Matters"
Jan Hill and Jeff Jones of the Employee and Graduate Student Counseling Department will lead a workshop, "Civility Matters: Confronting Workplace Incivility," on Friday, July 18, from noon to 1 PM as part of the Personal Skills for Life & Work seminar series. Questions to be addressed include: What is workplace incivility? Why is rudeness on the rise? What can be done about it? The seminar will be held in the second floor Training Room (Room 205), 3377 North Torrey Pines Court. No reservations are necessary. Cookies will be served. Contact Jan Hill, x4-2950, with any questions.

Reminder: Transit Benefit
Benefits Administration would like to remind TSRI employees about the Transit Benefit Account, which allows you to reduce your taxable income by purchasing eligible transportation fares through a pre-tax payroll deduction of up to $100 per month. Eligible expenses include bus fares, commuter van fares, and commuter railroad fairs (Coaster). To participate, you must be a benefit-eligible member of our scientific and support staff or a research associate working at least 20 hours per week, and you must receive a taxable paycheck from TSRI. For more information or enroll in this program, please contact Benefits, x4-8487 or benefits@scripps.edu.

Look for Next News&Views July 28
The next issue of News&Views, which is published every other week throughout the summer, will be posted by Monday, July 28. The deadline for announcement and calendar submissions is Wednesday at noon for the following Monday's publication.

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Yokohama Mayor Visits TSRI
Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada was briefed by Sandra L. Schmid, chair of the Department of Cell Biology, during a recent tour of TSRI. Yokohama, San Diego's Sister City, is a leading center of biomedical research and technology in Japan. Photo by BioMedical Graphics.

New Café Opens in CarrB
Patrons celebrated the opening of a new café in TSRI's CarrAmericaB Building on July 8 by eating a free lunch. "The new café is going to be a lot of fun," says restauranteur Andrew Shih. "We're offering the same menu items as the cafeteria, as well as sandwiches made to order." Photo by Kevin Fung.