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This is very hard for me to write no longer believe but I think it would be fun to see what input this will bring. I sincerely hope only positive comments about LLNL future will be posted under this topics no matter how bad people are going to want to jump all over the poster anatomy. I'm hoping the nay-sayers will just allow the people who have a positive attitude and out look for LLNL to post their honest opinions, hopes and dreams. Maybe some of us will actually be able to see some hope and light at the end of the tunnel.
So lets assume George is not lying and FY-09 funding is adequate to sustain the life of all who remain at LLNL after Oct 1st, 2008 and all projects are funded 100%. Can anyone paint a picture of what we'll be doing at LLNL for the next year and how the outcome of these jobs will benefit the nation?
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"people with a positive outlook for LLNL" should wake up from their leave-it-to-beaver fantasy world. They need to watch out for the sucker punch from LLNS. The one that ends their career with no warning. A "Heres a box..pack your stuff" kind of punch.
Yes, there is a future - this post actually made me do something I've not done in months . . . laugh!
Positive! It's all about perspective now isn't it. If this Blog was to really serve the interests of the people, then it wouldn't be asking for a response to this silly *!@# post, because topics like this, wouldn't be posted!
For a place claiming to have the best and the brightest, I haven't seen any post that reflects anything close to what's actually going on at the Lab, let alone the world. If you did, you would understand that LLNS is just doing what it has to do if it wants to play in the Global capital market. Let's face it, big science is dead in a Global economy. Nuclear bombs are relics of the cold war and we can't use them to fight terrorists who use box-cutters. If you have paid attention to the two presidential candidates, its no new stuff and lets down size via a renegotiated treaty with Russia, just keeping a few for deterrence.
Homeland security of course is a new growth industry based upon fear. Again, with another administration, this might fall apart, especially when we find out the boogie man is not real.
Energy, hell the private sector, which includes just about every country with a science base, is competing, so why invest in another National Lab, especially when we have NREL.
Future of LLNL: Big Computers (for now)as most anyone with a few million, can buy them. NIF, yeah we have the corner on this, all we need are paying customers. What else is unique to LLNL? And who will pay the enormous rates?
Oh yeah, a positive statement: Since you all are on your own since 10/1, if you have marketable SKA, get out, if not get them and get out, else stay and pray.
There is a bright future at LLNL for many, and the more we cooperate to build that future, the more will share in it. My prediction, a year from now we'll be doing more work for others - especially in analytical devices for medicine, alternative energy, and information mining and management.
Neko, thank you. I also have not laughed for months... until reading your post.
To the original poster: The Lab as we knew it has seen much adversity and change in it's 58-year history. They have always managed to come back strong and survive. Note I said "The Lab as we knew it". Unfortunately, I think that Lab is dead. The new corporate mind-set is all about profit and not at all about employees.
I'd like to me more positive. I was extremely proud to work at the Lab. And I had hoped to finish out my career there, but all that changed on May 22.
It will be critical for those of you remaining to have positive attitudes. I wish you the best, but please (for your own sake) be prepared for the worst.
I happened to run into someone that I worked with at Sandia years ago. His comments gave me an idea of what people at the other labs think of LLNL - let's just say they are NOT impressed. So I am -- positive-- that has achieved mediocrity in management and has nowhere to go but down.
A 'semi-NNSA' lab like Sandia looks OK, while some of the other DOE labs look like they have a great future. I would take a closer look at working for a DOE lab like ORNL or PNNL.
There is a bright future for America's National Labs, it just won't be happening at the labs that are controlled by the idiots over at NNSA.
Make use of your Q clearance and look elsewhere in the DOE complex for a scientific position. The exodus of good scientists from the weapon labs are going to flood the other DOE labs with a lot of eager applicants. Get in line before this line grows too long.
It should be clear by now that the nuclear weapon labs are facing a dismal future. They are not the place at which to nurture your career. That doesn't mean you can't leverage your Q clearance to snag a great job from somewhere else within the DOE complex.
Here's a positive note, finally. I wonder how this will afect LLNL budget.
Hillary to endorse Obama; drop out by week's end
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Article Launched: 06/04/2008 04:39:06 PM PDT
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to end her historic presidential campaign while leaving her options open to retain her delegates and promote her issue agenda, a campaign official says.
The former first lady told House Democrats during a private conference call Wednesday that she will express support for Barack Obama's candidacy and congratulate him for gathering the necessary delegates to be the party's nominee.
"Senator Clinton will be hosting an event in Washington, D.C., to thank her supporters and express her support for Senator Obama and party unity. This event will be held on Saturday to accommodate more of Senator Clinton's supporters who want to attend," her communications director Howard Wolfson said.
Also in the speech, Clinton will urge once-warring Democrats to focus on the general election and defeating Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
The announcement brought to a close an epic five-month nominating battle pitting the first serious female candidate against the most viable black contender ever.
Obama Tuesday night secured the 2,118 delegates to claim the Democratic nomination, but Clinton stopped short of acknowledging that milestone, saying she would.
An adviser said Clinton and her lieutenants had discussed various ways a presidential candidacy can end, including suspending the campaign to retain control of her convention delegates and sustain her visibility in an effort to promote her signature issue of health care.
The other options include freeing her delegates to back Obama and ending her candidacy unconditionally. The official stressed that neither Clinton nor her inner circle had decided specifically what course to take other than to recognize that the active state of her bid to become the nation's first female president had ended.
On the telephone call with impatient congressional supporters, Clinton was urged to draw a close to the contentious campaign, or at least express support for Obama. Her decision to acquiesce caught many in the campaign by surprise and left the campaign scrambling to finalize the logistics and specifics behind her campaign departure.
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