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Laboratory Director John Browne talks with Physics (P) Division employees Thursday about his vision for the Laboratory, product delivery, accountability, teamwork, leadership and change, among other things. The director began a series of informal meetings this week with small groups of employees to discuss the realignment. On Tuesday and Wednesday he spoke with employees from the Applied Physics (X) and Dynamic Experimentation (DX) divisions. After talking with the P Division employees, Browne met with employees at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and at Technical Area 55. Featured in the inset photo, from right to left in the front, are LANSCE employees Peter Walstrom, Deb Kerstiens and Stuart Schaller. In the back from right to left are Michael Fazio and Tim Callaway. Browne plans to meet with other divisions in the near future. For more information on the realignment, go to http://int.lanl.gov/taskforce/director/ online. Photos by LeRoy N. Sanchez, Public Affairs
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Pioneer race-car driver speaks at Laboratory next Tuesday Talk coincides with national "Drive Safely Work Week" Pioneer race car driver, sports writer and travel photographer Denise McCluggage will talk about "Driving Distractions and How to Avoid Them" at a safety colloquium at 10 a.m. Tuesday, (Sept. 11) in the Administration Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3. The talk is open to cleared and uncleared badgeholders and the public. It also will be broadcast on LABNET Channel 9. The talk, sponsored by the Integrated Safety Management Program Office (ISM/PO) and the ISM Grassroots safety volunteers, is being held during national "Drive Safely Work Week." The week-long Drive Safely Work Week campaign Sept. 10-14 is sponsored at the Lab by the Positive Health Directions Program of Occupational Medicine (ESH-2) and Compensation and Benefits (HR-1) to help raise awareness and promote driving safety (see accompanying article). Laboratory Director John Browne last week in a note to Laboratory workers, stressed the importance of safe driving, especially with the school year now underway. (See the Aug. 31 Daily Newsbulletin). Additionally, Santa Clara and San Ildefonso pueblo governors Denny Gutierrez and Perry Martinez have expressed concerns about safe driving by motorists using NM 30 and NM 502. Both pueblo governors have been invited to attend Tuesday's talk. "Judging by e-mails and guest editorials in local newspapers, safety on our roads is a hot topic," said Hillard Howard, ISM program manager in ESH. "Driving safely is like working safely, it is a matter of personal accountability and responsibility. "Denise's talk on Tuesday will take us beyond the authority that a key and a license gives us to being more accountable and responsible to ourselves and to each other," said Howard. "If other drivers never cause you to grit your teeth or pound your steering wheel, then this talk about driving safety may not be for you," said McCluggage. "On the other hand, if your safety and that of your family is important to you, we need to talk. "We understand the complications involved in being a good driver," said McCluggage. "But in actuality it's more complicated than flying an airplane. To be safe on the road, we first must give our driving skills some status. It's more important than golf or a tennis match. Chances are pretty slim that a golf swing will kill you," she added. Described as "indisputably the best woman driver in the United States and one of the six best in the world," McCluggage she said is surprised to find she has been a pioneer. "I just thought I was doing things I liked to do -- among them drive fast cars and write about those who drove even faster cars," she said. McCluggage was involved at the inception of Competion Press (now AutoWeek) for which she is a columnist and senior-contributing editor. She has a syndicated newspaper column and edits an Internet car magazine, www.roadrunning.com. "We have to know how to pay attention when we're behind the wheel of a car," she said. "But to do that we have to understand just what concentration is and what it isn't," she said. "That's the message I want to convey." McCluggage is the recipient of Ken W. Purdy Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism, the Dean Bachelor Life Time Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Media Association. She is the first journalist to be admitted to the Automotive Hall of Fame in Novi, Mich., and has written several books. She also is a frequent speaker on driver and traffic safety. --Fran Talley |
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Paper by former Lab Director Hecker on nuclear cooperation with Russia discussed today in Washington
A paper on nuclear cooperation with Russia by former Laboratory Director and now Senior Fellow Sig Hecker is the subject of a Web cast and discussion this morning from Washington, D.C. The talk is underway and can be heard online in Windows Media or Real Audio formats.
Hecker will speak about his paper, "Thoughts About an Integrated Strategy for Nuclear Cooperation with Russia." The event is jointly sponsored by the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
To listen, download and install Windows Media Player from this address http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/default.asp online. To read the paper, click here. (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Anson Franklin named director of NNSA Congressional, Intergovernmental and Public Affairs
General John Gordon, director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has named C. Anson Franklin as head NNSA's Office of Congressional, Intergovernmental and Public Affairs.
Franklin will be responsible for the NNSA's communications and interactions with external audiences and stakeholders, including members of Congress, state, tribal and local governments and the news media. To read full news release, click here. (Adobe Acrobat required)
Stop mail program prevents paper waste
and saves time
More than a few Laboratory workers have received an unwanted catalog or letter at their Lab mail stop. In addition to mail that the employees don't want, the Lab also receives mail for employees who have left the Laboratory. This junk mail is a significant contributor to the sanitary waste stream. But the volume can be significantly reduced through the Stop Mail program. More than 60,000 pieces of unwanted mail were processed through the Stop Mail program last year.
The Stop Mail program notifies companies that send unwanted mail to Lab employees to remove [Lab employees'] names from their mailing lists. Not only does this program save the sender paper and postage costs, but it also keeps junk mail out of the Lab's sanitary waste stream. And the program saves time for employees because there is less incoming mail to process and screen every day.
The Environmental Stewardship Office (E-ESO) administers the Stop Mail program. Carl Thornton of E-ESO, coordinator for the Stop Mail program, has the following suggestions for making the Stop Mail program easy to use and effective as possible:
For more information about the Stop Mail program, contact Thornton at 5-7385 or write to cat@lanl.gov by electronic mail.
--John Bass
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