Chris Clark

Los Alamos FIRST Lego League Team 240-Radioactive Fireflies Wins Champions Award

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The Radioactive Fireflies receiving the Champions Award. Courtesy photo
 
SPORTS News:
 
Saturday Dec. 19, at the Los Alamos FIRST Lego League Qualifying Tournament, Team 240―Radioactive Fireflies from Los Alamos, won the Champions Award for the Tournament.
 
The Tournament was at Los Alamos Middle School. The Champions award is the highest award for the team that demonstrates the best all around team including their project, team values, and robot performance.
 
The top three finishers at the Los Alamos FIRST Lego League Qualifying Tournament advance
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Letter To The Editor: About TV News…

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By ROY M. MOORE
Los Alamos
 
TV news. Is it an oxymoron?
 
As a news junkie, I’m continually disappointed by the lack of news on our three “local” stations. The same stories are played over and over and the only talent I think it takes to be a news reader, is to be able to read the same story over and over and pretend it is new.
 
The best I can tell, the root of News is New. Is new news redundant? Is old news, news at all?
 
As I tune in to local news, I hear the same stories. But wait! Now they tell me they have some “real” news, but I have to wait until after the commercial before they will
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Closing New Mexico’s Child Pornography & Exploitation Loophole: Representatives Pre-File Legislation

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STATE News:
 
SANTA FE ― Representatives Sarah Maestas Barnes, R-Bernalillo, Javier Martinez, D-Bernalillo and Randal Crowder, R-Curry have pre-filed legislation backed by Attorney General Hector Balderas to close New Mexico’s child pornography and exploitation loophole. 
 
The current law limits the ability of prosecutors to charge defendants who possess multiple images of children being raped, objectified, and exploited in multiple forms of media and online.
Currently, these child predators are only subject to prosecution of one count of child exploitation
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Gray Matters: Making Sense (Cents) Of WIPP Incident

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By LARRY JOHNSON
Los Alamos
 
Introduction:
 
There has been extensive media coverage of the February 2014 release of radioactive material at WIPP, which has resulted in the shutdown of the facility.
 
The purpose of this column is to examine the incident and point out that there has been a massive over-reaction to the release resulting in a tremendous waste of taxpayer’s money.
 
In more common terms it is “making a mountain out of a mole hill” and “much ado about nothing”. The incident should have resulted in a shutdown of the facility of no more than a week or two
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Manhattan Project: ‘Jupiter’ Ep. 210 Discussion

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Los Alamos Historical Society News:
 
 
WGN MANHATTAN PROJET 
 
 
Was there a storm before the test?
 
There were thunderstorms before the test, which raised the threat of cancellation.
 
Unlike in the episode, there were weathermen monitoring the situation and advising leaders on the suitability of the conditions.
 
Jack Hubbard was the chief meteorologist, and on his recommendation the test was postponed from its planned 4:00 a.m. detonation because of rain and lightning.
 
In his journal
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Pajarito Mountain Ski Area Receives Acclaim From Skiing Magazine And National Geographic

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PMS News:
 
Pajarito Mountain Ski Area recently received recognition by Skiing Magazine and National Geographic Magazine as well as New Mexico’s association of ski resorts.
 
And, the good news keeps coming for the Los Alamos ski area: thanks to this week’s winter storms that dropped nearly two feet of snow on the mountain, resort officials announced that most of the skiable terrain will be open for powder skiing this Saturday.

Two winter storms blanketed Pajarito this week with 22” of snow.

 
Pajarito expects to open three lifts and 12 trailstomorrow when
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Manhattan Project: ‘Brooklyn’ Ep. 209 Discussion

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Los Alamos Historical Society News:
 
 
WGN MANHATTAN PROJET 
 
Were women allowed at Trinity?
 
In this episode, Helen wasn’t allowed to go to the test site, probably because she is working on Little Boy and not on the gadget.
 
Liza has been at the Trinity site for several episodes, collecting specimens for her research on the biological effects of radioactivity.
 
In real life, there was only one female Division Leader, and she was the only Division Leader not permitted to attend the Trinity Test.
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Commission For Environmental Cooperation Taps Brumwell To Chair Joint Public Advisory Committee

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CEC News:
 
MONTREAL — The Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) has chosen Canadian JPAC member Lindsay Brumwell as committee chair for 2016.

She will succeed Mexican JPAC member Gustavo Alanís-Ortega, a lawyer and university professor at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, who has been chair during 2015.

“The Commission for Environmental Cooperation is increasingly relevant as a force for trinational cooperation on environmental issues,” Brumwell said. “I look forward to working

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New Mexico School For The Arts Dance Department Presents Winter Dances 2016

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NMSA News:
 
SANTA FE ― The Dance Department of New Mexico School for the Arts will offer its annual presentation of mixed repertoire, Winter Dances 2016, at the James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road, New Mexico School for the Deaf, in Santa Fe.
 
Four performances will take place: At 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 22; at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 23; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 24.
 
Adult Tickets are $10, while student and senior tickets are $5. 
 
For information on purchasing tickets, please visit here.
 
Winter
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