Carol A. Clark

LANL Sets Waste Shipping Record for Fourth Consecutive Year

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LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory has set another record for shipments of transuranic waste in a single fiscal year. Here, the Laboratory’s 172nd shipment leaves the Laboratory on Aug. 2, headed for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Lab has sent 172 shipments so far this year; aiming for 200 by Sept. 30

For the fourth consecutive year, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s TRU Waste Program has shipped a record number of transuranic (TRU) waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M, for permanent disposal.

The Laboratory’s 172nd Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: July 27 to Aug. 1, 2012

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The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.

Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.

July 26 at 10:38 p.m. / A 46-year-old Los Alamos woman reported that someone burglarized her vehicle parked in the 100 block of La Mesa Circle. The estimated loss is unknown.

DONAVEN VANWIJKWEIJER

July 27 at 4:09 p.m. / Police arrested Donaven Wanwijkweijer, 18, of Los Alamos on Trinity Drive an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant.

 

 

ADA MARTINEZ

July 29 at 5:12 a.m. / Police arrested Read More

Thursday Talk Features Dinosaur Expert Ralph Chapman at The Hive in White Rock

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Photo: Paleontologist Ralph Chapman at a recent event at the Bradbury Science Museum. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

LAEN News:

The public is invited to attend a free presentation by paleontologist Ralph Chapman titled, Virtualizing Dinosaurs: Problems, Strategies and Solutions, (from dinosaur bones to images and models.

The talk is hosted Jointly by LAEN  (Los Alamos Entrepreneurs’ Network) and The Hive (community hacker space.)

  • When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9
  • Where: The Hive, 134 State Road 4 in White Rock (just east of the Metzger’s gas station.)

Chapman is an owner/partner Read More

CB FOX Opens Temporary Mattress Store Downtown

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Dave Fox of CB FOX welcomes customers into his new mattress store Saturday. The store has opened temporarily in the space recently vacated by the flower shop adjacent to the CB FOX Department store on Central Avenue. The mattress store is designed to accommodate customers who have trouble using the stairs in the department store as well as allow more space for the large variety of mattress available at CB FOX. The mattresses will remain on display until the space is leased. Photo by Katy Korkos Read More

Curiosity Made it to Mars!

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Curiosity made it to Mars! There was restrained clapping and a big sigh of relief in the audience of some 400 people gathered at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Bradbury Science Museum Sunday night when NASA announced Curiosity had landed on Mars. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
 
The NASA commentator provided a lively blow-by-blow of the Rover’s journey to Mars on the big screen in the Bradbury Science Museum’s auditorium Sunday night. Photo by TK Thompson/ladailypost.com
 
The first thumbnail photo from Curiosity on Mars shows a wheel on the ground.
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Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Method to Change an Organization

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Column by Elena Yang

People always lament that change is very difficult, especially in an organization. 

They usually don’t mean that they themselves would resist all changes, as long as they are reasonable. 

So, what’s reasonable? That, right there, begins the messy process of change. 

In a crude manner, I break organizational change into three categories:

(1) Change for the sake of making changes. It strikes me that a lot of new managers when taking on their new title feel the need to demonstrate that they are doing something different. They feel compelled to make a few changes Read More

LANL Protesters Released From Jail

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From left, Catherine Euler, Cathie Sullivan, Janet Greenwald, Benjamin (Summer) Abbott, Barbara Grothus and Pamela Gilchrist have been released on their own recognizance from the Los Alamos County Detention Facility after being issued criminal citations to appear in court. The six protesters were arrested this morning at Los Alamos National Laboratory and charged with trespassing, failure to obey a lawful order and obstructing traffic. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Security lined the parking structure at Los Alamos National Laboratory this morning in preparation Read More

Daughter of Los Alamos Activist Arrested at LANL

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Barbara Grothus is arrested this morning along with five other protesters after blocking traffic near the entrance to Los Alamos National Laboratory. Grothus is the daughter of longtime Los Alamos activist Ed Grothus who died from cancer. Following this morning’s arrest, several more protesters entered the street near the same location and blocked traffic for about five minutes. No arrests were made during that action. The protesters have now left LANL property and are marching across the Omega Bridge heading toward the Los Alamos County Detention Facility. They said that they intend Read More