LLNL NewsLine - 02/09/2017
Since the founding of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1952, a dozen presidential administrations have come and gone. Each transition came with questions about program shifts and funding impacts. While each administration has set its own priorities, the Laboratory's core mission -- to apply cutting-edge science and technology to make the nation and world safer and more secure -- has stayed the same.
Lawrence Livermore was created as the "new ideas" Lab, a multidisciplinary institution working at the cutting-edge to respond to the world's greatest challenges. Over the past six decades, our approach to innovation has served the nation exceptionally well. We changed the paradigm for nuclear weapons design with the Polaris missile; invented stockpile stewardship to assure the safety, security and reliability of the nuclear deterrent without testing; helped stem proliferation and respond to terrorist threats around the world; and, with our colleagues at Los Alamos and Berkeley Lab, initiated the human genome project.
Change is inevitable when any new administration takes over. Since the inauguration, a federal hiring freeze has been ordered; an immigration ban has been implemented, amended and litigated; and a new Nuclear Posture Review has commenced. As we learn more about these and other developments, and their impacts on the Lab, we will be sharing them with you. So far, it's clear that the hiring freeze does not affect the Lab, since we are not federal employees. We've been carefully tracking the immigration ban, and closely monitoring its immediate and potential impacts on employees and visitors. Our Immigration Services Office in the Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) Organization is a resource available to staff with questions. Through the Center for Global Security Research, and in other forums, we maintain tight connections to the nuclear policy community.
In addition, the government continues to operate under a continuing resolution (CR) enacted last December, expiring April 28. In other words, FY17 budgets have not yet been established. New budget priorities under consideration by the administration and Congress could impact funding in the current fiscal year through either a follow-on CR or an omnibus appropriation. Also in play is the federal debt limit, which will have to be increased or suspended by March 15, though the Treasury Department has a variety of means available to temporarily finance the government. The Lab will continue to operate in the event of a lapse in appropriations associated with either the CR or the debt limit, since our programs have healthy carry-over funding. On the whole, I expect budget impacts to the Lab this year to be minimal, despite these uncertainties.
Above all, it is important that we continue our important work through this period of change with a commitment to excellence and integrity, safety and security, that are the hallmarks of our Lab.
- Lab Director Bill Goldstein
Comments
Are we sharing centrifuge designs with Iran such that the temporary ban would prove a disruption?
It is starting to remind me of a typical wigged out CNN anchor.
You are obviously not keeping up, try to pay more attention. There is no "ban" and never was. Stop watching CNN.
February 10, 2017 at 6:32 PM
It is an immigration ban, yet we are a nation of immigrants. This world is going crazy.
Under Obungle, we were letting people in from countries that sponsor terrorism without knowing anything about their background.
Why are so many liberals lying about this?
February 10, 2017 at 8:22 PM
It is a temporary (90 day) suspension of immigration and granting of visas from 7 countries identified by Congress and President Obama over a year ago as presenting terrorist risks requiring additional vetting of immigrants and visitors. It is not a "ban" in any meaningful sense. Perhaps it is you who are "going crazy."
PS: Ask Native Americans if they are happy we are "a nation of immigrants."
Why are so many liberals lying about this?
February 11, 2017 at 8:49 AM
Actually, that's a lie that conservatives are using. Too many lies all around.
Iranian baby with heart defect to undergo surgery soon in Oregon.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/iranian-baby-with-heart-defect-to-undergo-surgery-soon/article_eb32451d-0bdf-5518-9aa1-73b1c8f63b31.html
February 11, 2017 at 5:28 PM
Prove the "without reliable background information" claim. You can't because it is not true. The whole reason Obama and Congress settled on the 7 countries was to increase vetting above what was already being done. BTW, I am not a "snowflake" (as far as I know I was the first to use that term on this blog). I am a conservative and I am just tired of the lies from both sides who don't care about facts or history or anything but their rabid ideology. Intellectual dishonesty is disgusting and a symptom of the downfall of the United States. Get honest and get talking honestly, or we all doomed. Do it for your kids.
Want to influence people, Snowflake? Stop lying.
Pretty obvious to those who have been around the block a time or two.
February 12, 2017 at 7:12 AM
Please troll somewhere else.
February 12, 2017 at 7:12 AM
Please troll somewhere else.
February 12, 2017 at 4:17 PM
Yeah, good luck with that. He is on a roll - a true Trumpeter. Never mind that everything he knows is wrong. He has the same level of intelligence as our esteemed Commander in Chief. Yikes.
Read the article. Learn something. It might whet your appetite to learn a second thing. If you do, then you will know two things.
By the way, I didn't vote for Trump. Can't stand the man. However, Hilliar is clearly worse, she is just another lying liberal so I couldn't vote for her either.
I hope the heck we are not hiring Iranian nationals (Death to America) to work at our National Labs.
Bastard - not putting money into the Pension Plan are we ?
As I said, troll somewhere else. This topic has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.
I am sure Breitbart has many forums, where you can discuss the Syrian refugee article, and people will probably all agree with you. So why come here?
In case you have forgotten, this is about a LLNL and Goldstein (neither of them are from Syria)
In that message, Goldstein falsely characterized President Trump's Executive Order as an "immigration ban" which it is not. That led to some liberals parroting liberal lies about immigration, the non-ban, Syrians being fully vetted, and other such bullshit. You awful liberals didn't call those liars "trolls", now did you? Nooo. But when someone who doesn't agree with you and your dishonest ilk posts facts, you try to intimidate. How very tolerant of you.
Guess what? Your despicable liberal tactics don't work anymore.
You really need to get back on your meds. Then wipe the spittle off your keyboard.
We told you to get back on your meds. Once you are on your meds the next time you post something I disagree with I will once again ask you to go on your meds. Now things are problematic since you are already on your meds. Another option is to call you fascist. I could call you a brown shirt but no one knows what that means I will stick with fascist. Good now that is out of the way.
What Bill and the APS are doing is very simple and very useless. It is called "Virtue signalling".
Virtue signalling is the conspicuous expression of moral values by an individual done primarily to enhance their standing within a social group. The term was first used in signalling theory, to describe any behavior that could be used to signal virtue – especially piety among the religious faithful.[1] Since 2015, the term has become more commonly used as a pejorative characterization by commentators to criticize what they regard as the platitudinous, empty, or superficial support of certain political views on social media; and also used within groups to criticize their own members for valuing outward appearance over substantive action.[2][3][4]
Snowflake, you're going to keep getting squeezed with facts until you pop like the big, festering liberal pimple you are.
Snowflake, you're going to keep getting squeezed with facts until you pop like the big, festering liberal pimple you are.
February 13, 2017 at 9:03 PM
Back in fairy land?
February 14, 2017 at 5:03 AM
You really need to get back on your meds. Then wipe the spittle off your keyboard.
Bill knows that there are no illegal aliens at LLNL and that we are bringing in new staff members from Yemen next week and that is exactly why he is saying it. It has no meaning but it makes you sound virtuous. It is like saying "At LLNL we will not stand for KKK rallies in the cafeteria". Sounds virtuous but it is meaningless since this is not issue at LLNL. It is a cheap and easy way to score points but only among the totally naive. Why not just come out and say that LLNL stands in solidarity with the human rights of the native people of Antarctica and we can all feel good about how virtuous we are.
Memos such as this have no place in a professional setting and Goldstein should be smart enough to know that. With all the UC news in past weeks that is against any moves the administration makes, the memo might have come from UC. Pattiz or perhaps UCOP was the origin of it. UC President Napalitano or the UCOP lab affairs office of Budil may be calling the shots here and Goldstein is just the mouthpiece.
Either that, or he's lost sense of reality and is headed toward delusion?
February 11, 2017 at 8:55 AM
Hey, Pal. It all aint' bad. I've seen Dances with Wolves!
I agree however I thought most of the modern Native American that we know of
from 1000AD onward killed off earlier groups of native people.
There used to be Clovis people and Dorset people who could make a claim of being the first native Americans but no one speaks for them anymore.
from 1000AD onward killed off earlier groups of native people. "
Sometime after 9/11 wife and I were on a trip to Morro Bay, CA, and we saw a tee shirt at an American Indian store which read something like, "American Indians - the First Homeland Security Force".
February 17, 2017 at 12:51 AM
Odd, I just watched the press conference on YouTube. He did not seem manic, he did not seem like Robin Williams, and you have very little knowledge of Stanley Kubrick.
To be honest it seemed pretty great. The main point was to attack the MSM which certainly deserves to be attacked.
Every single poster on this thread needs to be on serious medication. It is total derangement, craziness and delusion on all sides. Please, please people take your meds.
That part sounds about right. When some person thinks everyone else is deranged, the simplest explanation is that person is the only deranged one.
February 17, 2017 at 12:28 PM
I did watch it, MSM is calling it manic, however the speech seemed normal to me. So what should I do (1) Believe the MSM and assume I am insane. (2) Assume I am not insane and force myself to believe the MSM. (3) Assume that MSM is incorrect and am sane (4) Ignore this and think about Kim Kardashian and sort just go with the MSM even though I don't really care.
(1) and (4) seem like the best way to go because after all I am part of the 43% of people who did not vote yet I think Trump is Hitler and at the same time not really care. Wow I am am an amazing person!
What does a press conference have to do with the posted article?
"You seem either very young or very naive and maybe bipolar or schizo". I think this was actually the point of the poster in that it describes large portion of the current population.
Under Obungle, we were letting people in from countries that sponsor terrorism without knowing anything about their background.
Why are so many liberals lying about this?
February 11, 2017 at 8:49 AM"
Where did you get those "alternative facts"? Breitbart? Newsmax? Fox News? So you seriously think that the US was letting immigrants in from the Middle East without any background checks or vetting at all?
Didn't the FBI, Homeland Security and CIA directors under Obama all testify that the US could not adequately "vet" most of the refugees from Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Iran ? I thought that's what I remember hearing on CNN, not Fox news !
February 22, 2017 at 3:20 AM
Well, there's your mistake.
Another total joke of a Department, much like Staff Relations.
Neither represents staff or employees...what a disaster...You know who you are.