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Living Healthy The Benefits Of Pilates

Blue Sky Pilates owner Mary Lutes works with a client at her studio at

2101 Trinity Drive, Suite A in Los Alamos. Courtesy photo

 

By Mary Lutes, PMA-CPT
Owner, Blue Sky Pilates

“My back pain is gone!” “I don’t have sciatica pain for the first time in years.” “I have my life back because of Pilates.” “I am skiing better now than I ever have.” All these statements are actual testimonials from my clients. I call these Pilates moments, and these moments are celebrated every day at Blue Sky Pilates. 

Clients are always coming into the studio exclaiming how Pilates is changing their lives. Entire Read More

Millennials Invited To Pitch Ideas, Hot And Cool

Alexander Koglin and Michael Humbert of NTxBio have formed a fledgling bioinformatics and biomanufacturing startup with the help of HD3, a business accelerator. Courtesy Photo
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

High Desert Discovery District (HD3) is calling all millennials, looking in particular for innovative young entrepreneurs in their 20s and 30s to participate in HD3’s Discovery Day @ Intel April 14.

Millennials are now the largest and most diverse generation in the country and they are not just getting a lot of attention, they are coming on and coming into their own.

HD3 Read More

LANL: Small Businesses Win Technical Support To Develop Clean Energy Technologies

LANL News:

  • DOE’s Small Business Vouchers Pilot Provides Funds to Catalyze Innovation

Four small businesses will be working with Los Alamos National Laboratory to accelerate the nation’s transformation toward a clean energy economy as part of the Department of Energy’s Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot project.

These businesses will gain access to world-class laboratory resources to help move innovative ideas and technologies closer to the marketplace.

“Small businesses can be real catalysts for innovation and job creation,” said Melissa Fox, program director for Applied Energy Read More

IRS Issues Correction: Interest Rates For Second Quarter Will Increase

IRS News:

PHOENIX – The Internal Revenue Service issued a correction today saying that interest rates have increased after all for the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2016.

The rates will be:

  • 4 percent for overpayments [three percent in the case of a corporation];
  • 1.5 percent for the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000
  • 4 percent for underpayments; and
  • 6 percent for large corporate underpayments.

Under the Internal Revenue Code, the rate of interest is determined on a quarterly basis. For taxpayers other than corporations, the overpayment and underpayment rate is the Read More

UNM Announces Sale Of 9th Street Apartments

UNM-LA News:

UNM Real Estate has announced the sale of the two apartment complexes in Los Alamos that formerly served as student housing for UNM-Los Alamos. 

The sale, to local Los Alamos buyers, followed numerous discussions with UNM Real Estate, UNM Board of Regents, UNM-LA Advisory Board, and UNM-LA regarding potential use of the aging property. 

UNM, as a state agency, was bound by state procurement limitations that imposed cost prohibitive regulations and prevented the campus from implementing much needed renovations. The sale of the properties will allow the private sector Read More

Los Alamos Co+Op Hires New General Manager

Newly hired Co+Op Manager Michael J. Anderson and his family. Courtesy photo

CO+OP News:

The Los Alamos Co+operative Market Board of Directors has announced that Michael J. Anderson has accepted the position of general manager at the store.

Anderson has made a career working in the specialty foods industry, most recently as the associate director of retail at Murray’s Cheese in New York City and as the cave manager and production supervisor at Saxelby Cheesemongers in Brooklyn. 

“I thrive on working closely with local producers of excellent food and helping to sustain food systems

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USDA-NMSU Cooperative Extension Service Seek Applications To Create Economic Development Regions

Terry Brunner

ALBUQUERQUE – USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner and Dr. Michael Patrick, of New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service have announced the Stronger Economies Together (SET) program is seeking applications from rural communities wanting to strengthen existing regional development efforts.

Dr. Michael Patrick

Today’s announcement is the sixth SET initiative as part of the Department’s efforts to strengthen rural economies by providing training and technical assistance.

The program will help interested communities work together to Read More

Boy Scout Troop 129 Of White Rock Visits United Van Lines Santa Fe Terminal

Boy Scouts of Troop 129 of White Rock recently visited Johnson Storage and Moving for a tour of the United Van Lines Santa Fe terminal. Tom Springer, manager of the facility, graciously hosted them. The scouts learned how goods are stored, packaged, moved, both across the continent and locally, and how trucks are used to facilitate delivery of virtually everything we use. They learned the difference between gasoline-driven and diesel engines and why diesel is used in the transportation industry. They also learned about the wide variety of jobs necessary to run a successful storage and moving Read More

First Round Of Funding Unveiled To Commercialize Products Created Through Labs; Universities

From The Office Of The Governor:

ALBUQUERQUE — This afternoon, Gov. Susana Martinez announced the first batch of funding to help develop and commercialize several innovative products that are the result of partnerships between researchers at New Mexico’s laboratories and universities, and the private sector.

The initiative is through the Technology Research Collaborative, which Martinez reestablished in 2013 and allows teams of researchers to compete for funding to bring their ideas and products into the marketplace.

“The technology we develop and create in our labs and universities Read More

IRS Announces 2nd Quarter Interest Rates

IRS News:

PHOENIX – The Internal Revenue Service today announced that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2016. 

The rates will be:

  • Three percent for underpayments;
  • Three percent for overpayments [two percent in the case of a corporation];
  • Five percent for large corporate underpayments; and
  • One-half percent for the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000.

Under the Internal Revenue Code, the rate of interest is determined on a quarterly basis. For taxpayers other than corporations, the overpayment and underpayment Read More

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