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Call For Proposals: VAF Accepting 2016 Applications

Dr. Matt Bergren, left, and Dr. Hunter McDaniel of UBiQD, a 2015 VAF award winner. Courtesy photo
 
VAF News:
 
ESPANOLA  Applications are now being accepted for the Venture Acceleration Fund (VAF) from northern New Mexican technology and manufacturing firms.
 
Applications for the 2016 calendar year are due March 18 to the Regional Development Corporation (RDC), the program administrator. Selected companies will receive financial awards to assist in taking their innovations to market more quickly. The median award amount has averaged $45,000.
 
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Del Norte Credit Union Takes Shape In White Rock

Contruction underway on the new Del Norte Credit Union branch on the vacant SE corner of Rover Boulevard and N.M. 4 in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Contruction underway on the new Del Norte Credit Union branch  in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Contruction underway on the new Del Norte Credit Union branch  in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

The new Del Norte Credit Union branch under contruction in White Rock is taking shape.

Workers are busy erecting walls at the contruction site on the vacant SE corner Read More

Los Alamos Medical Center Unveils New CT Scanner

From left, LAMC CEO Feliciano Jiron, Director of Diagnostic Imaging Fred Walker, Medical Director of Diagnostic Imaging Dr. Melanie Pickering and CT Technologist Charlie Trujillo prepare to cut the ribbon Tuesday on the long-awaited, much-anticipated Optima 660 64 slice CT scanner. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
LAMC’s Director of Diagnostic Imaging Fred Walker discusses the new CT scanner during a gathering Tuesday at the hospital. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
LAMC Marketing Diector Mary Bath Maassen listens to Director of Diagnostic
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Roger This: Limiting Liability For Our Nuclear Nightmares

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

In his novel, Odds Against Tomorrow, a talented young writer Nathaniel Rich, explores the converging vectors of risk, natural and manmade disaster and finance in the wisp of time folded between today and tomorrow.

Published in 2013, a few months after Superstorm Sandy battered the entire East Cost while pounding New York and the Jersey Shore, this story of an apocalyptic inundation of Manhattan could not have been better timed. Introducing a  “long-short” scheme to profit from a whole market basket of global fears, Rich spins up a valuable parable Read More

Yang: Bringing Arts Into Organizations…

By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Bringing Arts Into Organizations: Not just for leadership education; art is about life for us all – Part I

It takes a while for a management theory or a framework to catch the imagination of practitioners and become commonly known and practiced.  The converse is also true; it takes a while for management academics to notice what’s been developed into recent practice in the working world. This is by way of excusing myself to write about a decade-old article. 

In the Academy of Management Learning & Education December 2006 issue, there is a special section Read More

UbiQD Of Los Alamos Wins ABQid Ski Lift Pitch Contest

From left, Katie Szczepaniak Rice, Dr. Hunter McDaniel and Dr. Matt Bergren. Photo by Kat Gardenswartz

BUSINESS News:

Los Alamos-based UbiQD, LLC has won the second annual ABQid Ski Lift Pitch Contest in Taos, which carries a $10,000 first prize.

UbiQD Founder and President Dr. Hunter McDaniel, along with 11 other entrepreneurs, pitched their companies on the slopes of Taos Ski Valley to a group of approximately 20 venture capitalists. 

“We are honored to receive this validation from potential investors that our business can be scaled and financed in Northern New Mexico,” McDaniel Read More

First National Santa Fe Welcomes Back Private Banking Manager Mark French

Mark French
 
FNSF News:
 
SANTA FE  First National Santa Fe has appointed Mark French, senior vice president and private banking manager, after a brief hiatus. French comes with a wealth of experience within the industry. In his role, French focuses on serving First National’s private banking clients as well as taking the services beyond Santa Fe and into the Albuquerque and Denver markets.
 
French previously served First National’s customers for over 27 years in private banking.
 
“We are elated to welcome back Mark to First National. Throughout our years
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IRS Alerts Payroll And HR Professionals To Phishing Scheme Involving W-2’s

IRS News:
 
PHOENIX  The Internal Revenue Service has issued an alert to payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests personal information on employees.
 
The IRS has learned this scheme – part of the surge in phishing emails seen this year – already has claimed several victims as payroll and human resources offices mistakenly email payroll data including Forms W-2 that contain Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information to cybercriminals posing
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United Way Of Northern New Mexico Recognizes Donors

Guests gather Thursday evening at the annual United Way of Northern New Mexico Donor Recognition Night at UnQuarked the Wine Room. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

LANL Community Programs Office Director Kathy Keith, left, accepts the Philanthropist of the Year Award for LANL/LANS, the largest Employee Giving Campaign in Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties, from United Way Director Kristy Ortega. ‘This past year, with no confirmation for a match to donations, LANL employees pledged more than $2.3 million for nonprofits around the world,’ Ortega said. Photo by Bonnie
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Frivolous Tax Arguments Completes IRS ‘Dirty Dozen’ List Of Tax Scams For 2016 Filing Season

IRS News:
 
PHOENIX  The Internal Revenue Service finished its 2016 “Dirty Dozen” tax scams list by warning taxpayers against using frivolous tax arguments to avoid paying their taxes.
 
Also, the IRS released the 2016 version of “The Truth about Frivolous Tax Arguments.” The document describes and responds to some of the common frivolous tax arguments made by those who oppose compliance with federal tax laws.
 
Examples include contentions that taxpayers can refuse to pay taxes on religious or moral grounds by invoking the First Amendment. The cases cited in
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