Tickets Available For Guitarist Genevieve Leitner’s Performance at Bethe House Thursday
Genevieve Leitner
PEEC News:
A few tickets remain for the benefit concert the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) will hold at 7p.m. Thursday, July 24.
Renowned guitarist Genevieve Leitner will perform for the intimate audience, at the beautifully renovated and historic Hans Bethe House on Bathtub Row. Tickets are on sale now on PEEC’s website for $35. If tickets remain on the day of the show, they also will be sold at the door for $40.
The proceeds of the concert will go toward funding exhibits and gardens at the new Los Alamos County Nature Center, a public-private partnership Read More
OBITUARY: Emily Mares-Lang – July 21, 2014
EMILY MARES-LANG July 21, 2014
My beloved Wife, Emily Mares-Lang, 73, a native of Taos, NM, went to be with the Lord on July 21, 2014.
She died at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico of a head trauma after a reckless driver hit her while she was walking.
Emily grew up on La Loma in Taos surrounded by her three sisters, Mom and Dad and neighbors who were all called Tio and Tia. As a young woman Emily was a talented seamstress who taught herself ine tecnniques of making her own cloths.
Family and friends knew her as a person who was totally generous, kind, thoughtful, and charitable. She cherished her Read More
Show Your Passion For Innovation With A Creative Talk
Image/Los Alamos MainStreet
LANL News:
- Presentations sought for TechRev Day at Los Alamos ScienceFest
Organizers of Los Alamos ScienceFest, a weeklong celebration of science, are seeking innovative presentations from passionate people with a love of innovation.
“TechRev Day, a ScienceFest event, will showcase a series of 15-minute presentations from students, educators, scientists, engineers, bloggers, inventors and other creative types who are just bursting at the seams to share their contagious enthusiasm about innovation or innovation-related topics,” said Shandra Clow Read More
Curiosity’s Rock-Zapping Laser Sparks New Interest
PrintScreen/JPL
LANL News:
Last week the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the arm of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover captured a series of images that showed the rover’s Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) rock-zapping laser in action.
Although the ChemCam laser has fired more than 150,000 times on Mars, this marks the first time the plasma plume created by the laser has been captured on film.
Each time the laser hits a target, the plasma light is captured by the system’s 4.3-inch aperture telescope, which sends the light down an optical fiber to a spectrometer located in the body of
Hiking, Biking, Beer & Music July 26
LABC News:
The Second Annual Los Alamos Beer Co-op Fiesta is Saturday, July 26 at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. The Fiesta features lift-served biking and hiking 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. as well as a New Mexico brewers fest with live music noon to 6 p.m. Atomic City Transit Shuttle will run every ½ hour from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Sullivan Field.
As part of the Fiesta, other Los Alamos cooperative businesses will attend to support their community and fellow cooperative. Representatives of the co-ops will be on hand to provide information about their cooperative business and tell Read More
This Week at the Reel Deal
Column by JIM O’DONNELL This week we are opening Lucy, with Scarlett Johansson. Begin Again, Planes: Fire and Rescue, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will run for another week. Jersey Boys will end this Thursday so don’t miss it.
Next week on Aug. 1, we will definitely open Guardians of the Galaxy, and the following week Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is certain. The film I’ve been working hard to open on Aug. 8 is The Hundred Foot Journey which is perfect for this town. Disney is saying we don’t make the cut again for opening weekend but we can get it by Aug. Read More
Three Los Alamos Scientists Named ‘Most Influential Scientific Minds’
LANL News:
- Aiken, Korber and Perelson spotlighted in Thomson Reuters report
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Allison Aiken, Bette Korber and Alan Perelson have been named to Thomson Reuters list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.”
“To have three of our premier scientists recognized on this list is a great honor and attests to the intellectual vitality that feeds the breadth of disciplines essential to our national security mission,” LANL Director Charles McMillan said. “The fact that one of those named is a former student and postdoctoral researcher makes me confident Read More
Nobel Laureate to Deliver Lecture in Los Alamos
Dr. Harold Varmus. Courtesy/vcihr.ca
JROMC News:
- The upcoming lecture by Dr. Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, is sponsored by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee
Nobel laureate Dr. Harold Varmus will deliver the 44th Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 28, in the Duane Smith Auditorium, 1300 Diamond Dr. in Los Alamos.
The lecture, titled “The History and Future of Cancer Research,” is free and open to the public.
Dr. Varmus, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, became director Read More
Letter to the Editor: Stop The Cones, Stop The Madness
NICOLAS PILATAnyone who has been through the center of town lately knows there’s a lot of road work. As a result of said road work, motorists need to re-route themselves often and many oft-traveled trails are missing in action.
Alas, road work is often a necessary evil. Be it for repairing, adding to, or updating the roads and other infrastructure, construction usually has a place in Los Alamos. However, these projects introduce a new feature to the vehicular landscape that creates a threat equaled by no other: Cones. These orange, cone-shaped objects serve to do nothing other
Udall On Report That U.S. Military’s Burn Pits May Have Broken Federal Law
Open-Air Burn Pit, Feb. 14, 2014, at Shindand Airbase, with unused Afghan-operated incinerators in background. Courtesy/SIGAR
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall responded to a new report that the U.S. military’s use of open-air burn pits at Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan may have violated federal law.
According to the report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), made public today, most of the solid waste at Shindand Air Base was disposed of for years in open burn pits rather than incinerators. Despite the potential health
Madelyn Creedon Confirmed as NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator
Madelyn Creedon
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON – Madelyn Creedon was confirmed by the Senate this morning as the Department of Energy’s (DOE) principal deputy administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
“Madelyn Creedon’s confirmation comes at a critical point for the National Nuclear Security Administration,” DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz said. “She is well-prepared for her new role at the Department as it follows a long career of public service in national security, including at the Department of Defense, with the Senate Armed Services Committee, and, previously, Read More
Los Alamos Community Winds Presents Free Concert at 7 p.m. Today at Ashley Pond
The Los Alamos Community Winds will present a free concert at 7 p.m. today, July 23, at Ashley Pond. The community is invited to bring a picnic dinner, spread out a blanket and enjoy a slice of Americana as LACW continues the tradition of the town band with a concert of light music and good, old-fashioned popular tunes. File photo Read More
Local Shiz Tsu Went Missing Last Week
DJ went missing last week in the North Mesa area. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
A Los Alamos family is offering a $500 reward for the return of their beloved shiz tsu DJ.
While the family was on vacation last week, DJ, along with another family dog, was under the care of a friend when he ran away.
DJ is brown and white and responds to his name being called but is shy, so might try to run away from people he doesn’t know. The family heard a report that DJ was last seen on Camino Uva but said he could be anywhere in the North Mesa area.
He is brown and white and responds to DJ. We heard he was last seen on Camino Uva but Read More
Voyager Spacecraft Might Not Have Reached Interstellar Space
The heliosphere, in which the Sun and planets reside, is a large bubble inflated from the inside by the high-speed solar wind blowing out from the Sun. Pressure from the solar wind, along with pressure from the surrounding interstellar medium, determines the size and shape of the heliosphere. The supersonic flow of solar wind abruptly slows at the termination shock, the innermost boundary of the solar system. The edge of the solar system is the heliopause. The bow shock pushes ahead through the interstellar medium as the heliosphere plows through the galaxy. Courtesy/Southwest Research Institute Read More
Zach Medin Best Predictor Tuesday Night
Courtesy/ACRR
Young participants gather after Tuesday’s race. Courtesy/ACRRACRR News:
Sweat was an issue in the minds of more than 40 youngsters-to-oldsters as monsoonal humidity added to the challenge of completing one and three mile pace race courses on North Mesa Tuesday evening.
Los Alamos Relay For Life 2014 Is All Day Event Aug. 23
ACS News:
The American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Relay for Life, a Team Fundraiser to Fight Back against cancer, is set for 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 23 at Ashley Pond.
This year’s event is a bit different in that it will be an all day event rather than overnight. The Relay for teams to raise money for the ACS will be 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., during which a few to several people will walk or jog around Ashley Pond.
Teams may signup for the ACS Los Alamos Relay for Life at http://www.relayforlife.org/losalamosnm. Team captains may schedule and coordinate the activities of their team to achieve Read More
OBITUARY: Max Brinkman Dec. 20, 1925–June 30, 2014
MAX BRINKMAN (aka Maxene Beckman) Dec. 20, 1925 – June 30, 2014
Max Brinkman of Eagle, Idaho passed away peacefully on Monday, June 30, 2014 at the age of 88. She was born in San Diego, Calif., Dec. 20, 1925.
She was a longtime resident of Los Alamos and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for more than 20 years.
Max was an avid tennis player. Once during a tennis match, Max fell and hurt her wrist but didn’t stop playing until she had won the match. Later she discovered she’d broken her wrist. She also loved to ski and taught her two granddaughters ages 2 and 4 to ski.
Max is survived by her three children, Read More
Letter to the Editor: Volunteers & Donations Made YMCA’s July Fourth Family Fun Run Successful
By JEREMY SMITHI would like to thank all those who helped with the YMCA’s July Fourth Family Fun Run. This community event would not happen each year without the sponsors, donors, volunteers and of course the participants.
The event was sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank, Los Alamos Medical Center and Southwest Safety Services Inc. Donations and prizes were provided by Ruby K’s, Viola’s Place, Pet Pangaea, Connie’s Over Your Head, The Co-op Market, 10,000 Waves, Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs and Resort, CB FOX, Pajarito Brewpub Read More
OBITUARY: JoAnn Marie Jain – July 21, 2014
JOANN MARIE JAIN – July 21, 2014
JoAnn Marie Jain, 70, of Los Alamos, NM died peacefully at home on July 21, 2014, after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.
She was born to William and Josephine Dorson in Nashua, NH. JoAnn received her RN degree at Catherine Laboure’ School of Nursing in Boston, MA. She met and married Mahavir Jain in Beltsville, MD in 1966, while working as a nurse in Washington, D.C.
Before settling in Los Alamos, NM, in 1974, JoAnn and Mahavir lived in Winnipeg, Canada and College Station, Texas. Regardless of where they were, JoAnn always followed her calling
SFI: Audrey de Nazelle On Health and Sustainability
Audrey de Nazelle, Imperial College LondonSFI News:
Audrey de Nazelle will speak on health and sustainablility at 12:15 p.m., July 23 in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute.
Abstract: There is an increasing interest in tackling multiple social, health and environmental concerns in cities with a comprehensive and holistic approach, including a recent surge in interest in developing complex systems analysis of cities. Some of the greatest public health challenges in particular such as climate change, physical inactivity, traffic injuries, urban air pollution, have Read More
