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Vintage Rolls-Royces Tour Los Alamos

Fourteen vintage Rolls-Royce cars with owners from Europe toured Los Alamos Monday. The drivers stopped for lunch at Time Out Pizzeria on Central Avenue. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Staff Report
 
Fourteen vintage Rolls-Royce cars with owners from Europe toured Los Alamos Monday. The drivers stopped for lunch at Time Out Pizzeria at 1350 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos. 

History of the Rolls-Royce:

In 1884 Henry Royce started an electrical and mechanical business.

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Destructive Khapra Beetles Discovered In Household Goods Shipment From Saudi Arabia To Philadelphia

The Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium), photographed by the US Department of Agriculture, originated in South Asia and is one of the world’s most destructive pests of grain products and seeds. It is considered one of the 100 worst invasive species in the world. Infestations are difficult to control because of the insect’s ability to survive without food for long periods, its preference for dry conditions and low-moisture food, and its resistance to many insecticides. There is a federal quarantine restricting the importation of rice into the U.S,. from countries with known infestations
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Presidential Proclamation: Death Of Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres

From the Office of the President:

Shimon Peres, one of the last surviving members of Israel’s founding generation who during his long career served as the nation’s defense minister, minister of foreign affairs, prime minister and president has died at 93.

President Barack Obama has issued the following proclamation:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION

As a mark of respect for the memory of Shimon Peres, former President and Prime Minister of Israel, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, Read More

Newman And Chathasaigh Perform In New Mexico

Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh. Courtesy/marieandchris.com
 
MUSIC News:
 
Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh will be presented in concert at 7 p.m., Saturday Oct. 1, at Apple Mountain Music, Albuquerque. Admission is $20; for reservations call 505.237.2048 or go to www.applemtnmusic.com.
 
The celebrated partnership of Chris Newman, “one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” (fROOTS), with Máire Ní Chathasaigh, “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (Scotland on Sunday), is a breathtaking
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Deep Moonquakes Reveal Thickness Of Lunar Crust

Photo of the Moon. Courtesy/NASA
 
LANL News:
 
Charlotte Rowe of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Geophysics group and collaborators from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have reported the first use of the seismic interferometry technique applied to study the internal structure of the Moon. The Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets published the research and featured it as an Editor’s Highlight.

During the NASA Apollo missions, astronauts installed seismometers on the near side of the Moon to record moonquakes.

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Secretary Moniz Announces Removal Of All Highly Enriched Uranium From Poland

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

NNSA Helps Poland Become 31st Country Plus Taiwan to Be HEU-free 

VIENNA – At the 60th IAEA General Conference, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in cooperation with Poland, the Russian Federation and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has successfully repatriated 61 kilograms of Russian-origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the Maria Research Reactor in Otwock-Swierk, Poland.

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Garage Sale For Orphans 8:30-Noon Saturday

Volunteers are hard at work getting everything ready for Saturday’s Garage Sale for Orphans at First Baptist Church. Courtesy photo

The community is invited to check out the many items for sale Saturday, Sept. 24 for which the proceeds benefit the orphans of Ferrier Village, Haiti. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Members of First Baptist Church of Los Alamos announce that they have already received overwhelming support in the form of donations for their Garage Sale for Orphans, happening Saturday, Sept. 24.

This means they have a large amount of items for sale, including children’s
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Introducing The Daily Minor Planet: Delivering The Latest Asteroid News

 
CfA News:
 
Have you ever wondered what piece of cosmic debris is whizzing past the Earth right now? Do you crave up-to-the-minute information about asteroids large and small? Well you’re in luck because today you can subscribe to a new service: the Daily Minor Planet.

Developed through a partnership between scientists at the Minor Planet Center and volunteers from the Oracle Corporation, the Daily Minor Planet will deliver reports on the latest asteroid happenings straight to your inbox.

“Most people don’t realize how common asteroid flybys are,” said Matt Holman, director

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CIR Fall 2016 Lecture Series Begins With ‘China/Japan Confrontation In The East China Sea’ Oct. 8

CIR News:
 
Council on International Relations’ Fall 2016 lecture series on the China Seas begins with a talk by Ambassador Michael Armacost of Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
 
Armacost is a former ambassador to Japan and the Philippines and his talk is entitled: The China/Japan Confrontation in the East China Sea.
 
The talk is 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 8 at the Forum at Santa Fe University of Art and Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr. Tickets are $20 for non-members and $15 CIR members.
 
Register at www.sfcir.org
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Universal News: This Just In – Gravity Waves Are Real

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston, La. Courtesy/CalTech
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

Gravity waves were detected in the universe for the first time on Sept. 14, 2015, a hundred years after they were predicted by Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity. Even at the speed of light, they took 1.3 billion years to get here. The first detected gravitational waves were produced by a specific cataclysmic event, identified as two black holes coalescing, releasing enough energy in the last fraction of a second to warp time

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