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SFI: Understanding Genius – The Neuroscience Of Extraordinary Creativity

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Nancy C. Andreasen
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents community lecture “Understanding Genius: The Neuroscience of Extraordinary Creativity” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, at James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road.
 
How does one define extraordinary creativity? Is creative genius a product of nature or nurture? And can those of us who are less creative enhance the creative capacity in ourselves and others?
 
Andreasen uses neuroscience to analyze the connections between extraordinary creativity, intelligence, the social
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Spots Still Available For YMCA Earth Service Corps

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YESC busy at work and having fun. Courtesy photo
 
YESC getting it done. Courtesy photo
 
 
YMCA News:
 
YMCA Earth Service Corps is an innovative service-learning program that gives youth entering 7th through 9th grades the opportunity to develop job skills, practice leadership, and create a more sustainable future by doing volunteer service projects in our community.
 
The Family YMCA’s 2015 Earth Service Corps (YESC) is having a fun and busy summer. With three weeks remaining, the YESC has put in 734 volunteer hours of community service since June
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Pinon Park Pool’s 25 Percent Membership Discount Ends Today

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Big splash cannonball contest at Pinon Park Pool. Courtesy photo
 
 
PPP News:
 
Members of Piñon Park Pool in White Rock celebrated July 4th with good friends and good fun with swimming; water races; diving, big splash, and best trick competitions; greased watermelon pool-football, and other games.
 
It’s not too late to join the fun at Piñon Park Pool this summer, but hurry to get 25 percent off membership fees for new members, which ends today, Friday, July 10.
 
Membership options, with the 25 percent discount: single membership for $150; two-person
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Supplemental Ventilation System Arrives At WIPP

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WIPP employees unload sections of the SVS early this week at the WIPP facility. Courtesy/WIPP
 
 
WIPP News:
 
Sections of the new Supplemental Ventilation System (SVS) arrived this week at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad.
 
The SVS is designed to increase the total amount of air supplied to the underground. The fan assembly underwent factory acceptance testing last week and arrived at the WIPP facility early this week. The fan and associated equipment will be transported to the WIPP underground in four pieces where it will be assembled
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American Moderns And The West Traveling Exhibition Opens In Taos, May 2016

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HMA News:
 
TAOS ― The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos announces one of its largest and most important traveling exhibitions, coming in the spring of 2016.
 
The exhibition will be the first to showcase the impact of Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962), and her circle of artist, writer, and activist friends, on shaping American Modernism.
 
The exhibition is an exploration Mabel Dodge Luhan’s life and influence, within the context of early 20th century American history and the Southwest, and an exploration of how the tiny multicultural community of Taos became an
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Northern’s RN-BSN Program Recognized For Excellence In Holistic Nursing

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Northern RN-BSN alumnus Christine Woolsey, Assistant Program Director Darlene Hess and holistic nursing educator Barbara Dossey. Courtesy photo
 
 
AHNA News:
 
ESPANOLA ― Northern New Mexico College’s RN-BSN Nursing Program was awarded the Excellence in Holistic Nursing Award by the American Holistic Nurse Association this June.
 
The award was accepted by assistant program director Dr. Darlene Hess and alumnus Christine Woolsey at the 35th Annual AHNA Conference in Branson, Missouri. More than 400 holistic nurses from across the country
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New Mexicans To Ride The Havana Express

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NMJW News:
 
History is being made with a group of New Mexicans traveling to Cuba for the first time since the US legalized travel there earlier this year.
 
The New Mexico Jazz Workshop is sponsoring a trip to the land of Rumba, Ritmo and Rum with the theme “Havana, Then and Now.”
 
Cuba is the birthplace of the Cuba Libre, the Cha-Cha, Mambo and Latin Jazz and travelers on the Jazz Workshop tour can drink in the rhythmic music for seven days and six nights starting March 16th through March 21st 2016.
 
This is the first organized trip to Havana from the New Mexico Jazz Workshop
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Heinrich, Risch Introduce Bill To Reduce Federal Government Energy Use

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.  ― Tuesday, July 7, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. and Jim Risch, R-Idaho, members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced the Energy Efficient Government Technology Act in an effort to reduce the federal government’s energy consumption and save taxpayer dollars.
 
The bipartisan legislation would require the federal government to develop plans to reduce energy consumption at federal data centers.
 
“This common sense approach will improve energy
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Los Alamos Sends 21 Local Athletes To Compete At State Senior Olympic Games In Roswell

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Terry Goodwin and Selmo Jaramillo on stage at the New Mexico Senior Olympics with dance medalists in Roswell. Athletes 50+ years old can qualify for the July, 2016 State Games in Roswell by registering at the Family Y March 1-31, 2016. Senior Olympics is about fun and comaraderie. If you are 50+ come play with us! Contact Assistant Coordinator Ann ReVelle for information at 505.662.3526. Courtesy photo
 
Local Senior Olympic Athletes, front row, Carmen Gill, Jackie Peckham, Dave Delanoy, Teresa Goodwin, Susan Krohn and Ernie Bryant. Back row, Roy Cope, Bob Gill, Mike Benelli,
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Scenes From Acoma Pueblo

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From Mesa top at Acoma Pueblo. Photo by Jenn Bartrum
 
Acoma Pueblo Church. Photo by Jenn Bartrum
 

Staff Report

The beauty and history of the Pueblo of Acoma were revealed during a recent visit.

There is a great difference of opinion as to the age of the Acoma Nation. While traditional Acoma oral history reflects on a time far beyond our imagination, a time of creation and emergence onto this world, the Acoma people have always known of a special place called “Haaku,” a spiritual homeland prepared for their eternal settlement.

Recent excavations on Acoma Mesa tend to suggest Read More