Letter To The Editor: Thanking Los Alamos!
By ELLEN MORRIS BOND
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, No Politics
A New Year’s Day light display in the sky above Los Alamos taken with an iPhone near Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Sean Reilly
A New Year’s Day light display in the sky above Los Alamos taken with an iPhone from a porch in White Rock. Photo by Douglas Reilly
A light display visible across Los Alamos taken by a LANL photographer using a fish-eye lens in 1988 from the roof of the old Administration Building. Courtesy/Douglas Reilly
Staff Report
Douglas Reilly explains that the sun with sun dogs are so-called because they follow (dog) the sun. Sean Reilly’s photo includes much of the circle that passes Read More
DaVita Dialysis Center Breaks Ground At LAMC
The DaVita Dialysis Center will be on the canyon side of LAMC with designated parking and a separate entrance. Courtesy photoPartnering with DaVita Kidney Care, Los Alamos Medical Center has broken ground on a six-chair dialysis center. DaVita Kidney Care is a leading provider of dialysis services in the United States, treating patients with chronic kidney failure and end stage renal disease.
DaVita Kidney Care strives to improve patients’ quality of life by innovating clinical care, and by offering integrated treatment plans, personalized care teams and convenient Read More
IUPAC: With Discovery Of Four New Chemical Elements – 7th Period Of Periodic Table Of Elements Is Complete
Simulation of an accelerated calcium-48 ion about to collide with an americium-243 target atom. Courtesy/DOE
SCIENCE News:
IUPAC – International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, announces the verification of the discoveries of four new chemical elements: The 7th period of the periodic table of elements is complete.
The fourth IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) on the priority of claims to the discovery of new elements has reviewed the relevant literature for elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 and has determined that the claims for discovery of these elements have been fulfilled, Read More
County Council Holds First Meeting Of 2016 Tuesday
COUNTY News:
The Los Alamos County Council will hold its first public meeting of 2016 at 7 p.m., Tuesday in Council Chambers at 1000 Central Ave.
The Council also is meeting in closed session at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The first order of business at Tuesday’s meeting is to elect a new council chair and vice chair to serve for the next 12 months.
Council also is scheduled to vote on amendments to the Los Alamos County Code of Ordinances:
- To Require Property And Premises Owners To Keep Clear All Adjacent And Abutting Public Ways, Right-Of-Ways, Setbacks, and Sidewalks;
- To Regulate Parking of Unhitched
Top LANL Sci-Tech & Spy Stories 2015
Courtesy/FBI
VIDEO: Leonardo Mascheroni Of Los Alamos Offering Nuclear Weapons To Venezuela
In FBI undercover video and audio recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni of Los Alamos explains to undercover agent Jimenez that he had a “top of the top” clearance and that he held a security clearance from the Department of Defense and from the Department of Energy.
Mascheroni, 79, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, was recently sentenced to 60 months in prison for Atomic Energy Act and other violations relating to his communication of classified nuclear Read More
2015 Top Stories Of The Year
From left, Los Alamos County Council Chair Kristin Henderson, former Councilor Fran Berting, Los Alamos Historical Society Executive Director Heather McClenahan, Dr. Ben Neal, second from right, and at far right, Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott join U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and seated, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz at this morning’s signing ceremony, in Washington, D.C., to officially establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Courtesy/NPS
MPNHP Field Team leader Arthur Knox wowed Read More
Sun Dogs Spotted Over White Rock Canyon
Spectacular sun dogs spotted this morning over White Rock Canyon. Photo by Bob DrakeHaving A Happy New Year’s Day At Pajarito
A snowboarder is having a Happy New Year’s Day at Pajarito. Photo by Pamela Prichard Read More
Unusual Snow Bow Or Sun Dogs Spotted In Los Alamos
This unusual and amazing snow bow or sun dog was spotted early this morning from Woodland Road in Los Alamos. Sun dogs, mock suns or phantom suns, scientific name parhelia (singular parhelion), are an atmospheric phenomenon that consists of a pair of bright spots on either side on the Sun, often co-occurring with a luminous ring known as a 22° halo. Sun dogs are a member of a large family of halos, created by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as two subtly colored patches of light to the left and right of the Sun, approximately 22° distant and at the same
Letter To The Editor: Catholicism, Gayness, Blind Men, And Elephants
By KAHLIL SPENCERHaving neither the expertise nor the interest in engaging either Roy Moore or Rev. Glenn Jones in a discussion of Catholicism vs. Gay Love, I will offer this. The story of the Blind Men and the Elephant.
John Godfrey Saxe’s (1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend,
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approach’d the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God Read More
Pajarito Mountain New Year’s Eve Torch Light Parade
Kids watch the Pajarito Mountain New Year’s Eve Torch Light Parade. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com
Skiers in the Pajarito Mountain New Year’s Eve Torch Light Parade. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com
Torch light parade carriers reach the ski lodge and arrange torches in the snow to wish Pajarito Mountain a Happy New Year. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com
Folks gather to watch the torch light parade. Photo by KayLinda Crawford/ladailypost.com Read More
Board Upholds LANL Clean Air Operating Permit
Kathy Sanchez, the environmental health and justice program manager of Tewa Woman United, an intertribal women’s collective in Northern New Mexico, testified recently on behalf of additional clean air measures at LANL. Courtesy photo
SANTA FE – Despite eloquent testimony by Kathy Sanchez, the great-granddaughter of world famous Pueblo de San Ildefonso pottery maker, Maria Antonia Martinez, the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board denied a permit appeal in which she and others sought additional air quality monitoring in a Read More
Community And Alumni Meeting Targets $10 Million XQ Super School Project Grant Proposal
LAHS drama instructor David Daniel leads a XQ Grant Proposal discussion Dec. 30 at Los Alamos Teen Center along with LATC Director Sylvan Argo and Assistant Director George Marsden. Courtesy photo
LAPS News:
The work group to explore ideas for a $10 million educational grant to submit to the XQ Super School Project met Wednesday evening, Dec. 30 at the new Los Alamos Teen Center (LATC).
More than 30 community members including many Los Alamos high school alumni as far back as 1962 attended along with various school officials and teachers. Five young people in attendance were 2016 graduates. The Read More
Happy 2016 Los Alamos!
Happy New Year to the Los Alamos community and our readers across the nation and around the world. The Los Alamos Daily Post news team wishes you a peaceful January, fabulous February, magnificent March, stress-free April, fun-filled May, and joy that lasts from June to November and a wonderful December. Courtesy image Read More
Letter To The Editor: Response To Mr. Moore
By Rev. Glenn JonesLocal Group Forms Los Alamos Community Foundation
From left, Paul Andrus, Kristy Ortega and David Izraelevitz confer on the logistics of the non-profit conference ‘Non-Profit Collaboration in Los Alamos’ to be held in March 2016. Andrus is helping to coordinate the event as his community project requirement for Leadership Los Alamos. Courtesy photoAbout HB33 Referendum School Board Resolution
LAPS News:
All voters residing within the boundaries of the Los Alamos Public School District who are registered by Dec. 29, 2015 are eligible to vote. Los Alamos County Clerk will mail the ballot to all registered voters. You need not be a property owner or have students attending public schools.
What Is The HB33 Mill Levy?
Approved by voters since 1988
- Provides public schools with funds for capital improvements expenditures, including student technology, and large maintenance projects.
WIPP Emergency Operations Center Deactivated
WIPP News:
CARLSBAD – The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has been deactivated after successfully coordinating resources to improve driving conditions so that employees can possibly return to work at the WIPP site Thursday, Dec. 31.
The Level 1 EOC activation, which began at approximately 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, was ordered to support the coordination of necessary resources needed to safely restore normal operations at WIPP due to the recent severe winter storm that dumped 15 inches of snow on the area.
Icy and snow packed road conditions made it difficult Read More
NNSA Highlights Major Achievements For 2015
NNSA News: