Currents arrives this week
February 7, 2008
New internal publication
Did you get it? Have you checked your mail box for Currents, the Laboratory's new internal publication?
The monthly publication, which replaces the LANL NewsLetter, should be in employee mail boxes this week. Currents focuses on the people behind the Laboratory's science and other initiatives. People are what make Los Alamos great, and it is the Lab's people and their research, achievements, and opinions that will take center stage in Currents.
Employees will receive the publication through interoffice mail; retirees who received the newsletter also will get Currents. Featured in the inaugural issue is Laboratory researcher Bette Korber, who talks about "the grandest thing I've ever done."
Also in the first issue, Glenn Mara, principal associate director for weapons
programs (ADWP), shares his thoughts about the Laboratory's proposed role in the transformation of the nation's nuclear weapons enterprise, and earthquake researcher Paul Johnson discusses a recent "eureka!" moment in his research. These and other items await you in the February Currents.
The Communications Office produces Currents. Send questions, comments, or story ideas to currents@lanl.gov.
I hope it's of better quality than the error-riddled 1663 tripe
ReplyDeleteJust another example of the "Communications" Office trying to do what the 7th floor won't let it/doesn't want it to do.
ReplyDeleteWhat good are they?
Another example of how our funding is being put to good use by LANS. I am sure the funding for this is not coming out the sacred fee.
ReplyDeleteNah, it's probably being paid for with another program tax of some sort or another. Add it to the growing pile.
ReplyDeleteJust another in a long series of LANL PR glossies that end up in the trash cans of almost all employees. Who cares? What's the production cost? Who pays? Yep - you got it; the programs pay through overhead for these worthless pieces of crap. Isn't the web supposed to obviate the need for killing all these trees (and then creating such enormous stinking piles of unrecyclable, except at great cost, clay-soaked material)? BTW, who the hell cares what Glenn Mara thinks about anything? In a righteous world, this guy with his bad rug would be selling used cars in Fresno.
ReplyDeleteI hope they print it on some highly expensive glossy paper stock. That will help everyone to feel much better about the current state of the lab.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Paul Johson just get a spread in last week's NewsLetter? Is this going to be another "friends and family plan" publication like 1663?
ReplyDelete2/7/08 10:49 PM and others ...
ReplyDeleteYes, a waste of paper in the digital age.
But, I do care about what Glen Mara thinks about as he is the only AD that has actually had USEFUL face-to-face meetings with 'his' people. Some of us work for him and his vision for the future dictates the road that I and my co-workers must walk if we are to stay at LANL.
Maybe understanding what he thinks will help me decide if I stay or if I go. I really don't care if he does or doesn't wear a 'rug'. It is what he does to promote the lab and our mission that I care about.
I am glad to hear that at least one AD talks to the plebes. You NEVER see Seastrom do that - she writes us every 3 months to tell us about her trips and to make sure we don't tell her about any problems we are having getting work done or about Concur or procurement, etc. I still haven't figured out exactly what she has accomplished except force Sarrao and Shlackter out.
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ReplyDelete"But, I do care about what Glen Mara thinks about as he is the only AD that has actually had USEFUL face-to-face meetings with 'his' people."
Maybe, but as a result of several one-on-ones with Mara, I can report that he 1) has a compulsion to appear knowledgeable when he is embarrasingly not; 2) does not listen to or care about important detail; 3) insists on having the last word, and 4) does not have LANL's reputation at heart and has no knowledge of LANL technical or programmatic history.
How about having Currents do an article on the new Concur travel system?
ReplyDeleteThey can do an interview with Mike and his PADs after they have entered their own travel into this system. They can tell us how much they really love this new POS.
I disappointed in Currents. The paper used in this new magazine is not thick and glossy enough. It's not 'Signature' quality paper.
ReplyDeleteComplete garbage. No substance- all fluff.
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