Chris Clark

Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition

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CLIBURN News:
Online applications for the seventh annual Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition are now open and due by March 1, 2016 for the June 19-25, 2016 event at Van Cliburn Recital Hall and Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.
Jury Chairman: Olga Kern
“It is very inspiring to see incredibly talented people of different professions playing piano so beautifully. And their incredible enthusiasm and love for music—it shows through in their performances! It touches our hearts as listeners and gives all of us so much positive energy—and, for professional musicians, it gives
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Registration Open For YMCA Spring Session For Volleyball Grades 3-6 Until April 10

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YMCA News:
 
The Family YMCA Spring Session Volleyball is now open for registration up until April 10.
 
This is a developmental program focused on teaching and improving proper volleyball skills in order to provide participants the foundation to play and compete for years to come.
 
The season starts April 14 through May 21 for 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the YMCA Gymnasium in Los Alamos. Cost is $60 / $40 for Y members.
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2014 Pino Fire Recognized For Innovative Strategy, Ecosystem Benefits

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SFNF News:
 
SANTA FE ― The Southwest Fire Science Consortium named the Pino Fire on the Santa Fe National Forest the 2014 “Incident of the Year” for lightning-caused fire in the Southwest. 
 
The 4,313-acre Pino Fire was cited for the innovative suppression strategy that focused on long-term benefits to the landscape and ecosystem.
 
The Southwest Fire Science Consortium said the Pino Fire stood out for several reasons, including its proximity to neighborhoods and smoke impact on Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The Incident Management Team was recognized
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Ensemble Transforms Scrap Waste Into Music At Debut Show In Taos April 9

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TCA News:
 
TAOS ― The Taos Center for the Arts (TCA) presents the internationally renowned percussion ensemble, Scrap Arts Music, for one night only at 7:30 p.m., April 9 at the Taos Community Auditorium.
Scrap Arts Music is music that starts out as scrap, turns into art and then transforms into unforgettable sound. Hear intricate rhythms, experience raw energy and athletic choreography, and see the most inventive reuse of materials on stage today.
Instruments can be fashioned from industrial scrap and offbeat materials ranging from accordion parts to artillery shells,
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Udall, Heinrich Urge IRS To Make Paper Tax Forms Available To Rural New Mexicans

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U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich sent a letter to the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to express concerns about cuts to services, particuarly for rural and elderly New Mexicans.
 
The letter follows numerous complaints from residents of Fort Sumner, Elephant Butte, Taos and across rural New Mexico about a lack of paper filing forms and reduced office hours due to budget cuts. With just under four weeks left to file income tax returns, Udall and Heinrich encouraged the
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20th Annual Los Alamos Photo Show March 30 – May 2

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Bosque del Apache NWR Bosque 2012. Photo by Doug Coombs
 
Mintern, Colo. Photo by Ken Hanson
 
LAPC News:
 
The Los Alamos Photo Club is hosting its 20th Annual Show March 30 through May 2.
 
Anyone interested in participating in the show must drop off their work at Mesa Public Library on Central Avenue 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28.
 
Ken Hanson and Doug Coombs are co-chairs of the Los Alamos Photo Club and the Los Alamos Adobe Users Group. They explained that the show is intended to give people who live and work in Los Alamos a chance to display their photos in a formal
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SFI Colloquium: From Fourier To Forensics

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Michael B. Weissman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SFI News:
Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents ‘From Fourier To Forensics’ with Michael B. Weissman, at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 at Noyce Conference Room in Santa Fe.
Abstract: Although the statistical and systematic problems of public opinion polls are fairly widely recognized, we tend to assume that published polling results reflect some sort of actual poll.
In 2009, a prominent blog suggested that the pollster Strategic Vision might be fabricating data, based in part on surprising deviations from
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LANL Foundation ISEC Staff And Students Demonstrate Inquiry Science Kits At Roundhouse

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LANL Foundation Inquiry Science Education Consortium (ISEC) staff and student scientists demonstrated inquiry science kits to visitors at the Santa Fe Capitol Roundhouse this week. Young scientist Jakob Warniment assists New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera with a microscope from the Microworlds science kit. Standing in back from left, ISEC Director of Professional Development and Evaluation Gwen Warniment, LANL Foundation CEO Jenny Parks and ISEC Program Director Dorothy Sanchez. Courtesy photo

Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard recognized the success of the Inquiry Science Read More

SFI Seminar: ‘Exploring The Hidden Metric Space Of Complex Networks’

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Antoine Allard
University of Barcelona

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents ‘Exploring the Hidden Metric Space of Complex Networks’ at 12:15 p.m. Monday, March 23 at Collins Conference Room in Santa Fe.

Abstract: Many real world complex networks are embedded in metric spaces. In some cases, such as airport networks, the embedding is explicit, while it is hidden in other cases such as the Internet or metabolic networks.

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DOE: Eleven Tribal Communities Receiving $6 Million To Accelerate Implementation Of Renewable Energy

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that 11 tribal communities will receive nearly $6 million to accelerate the implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies on tribal lands.
 
As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to partner with Tribal Nations, these projects provide Indian Tribes and Alaska Native villages clean energy options that will reduce fossil fuel use and save money. With tribal renewable energy resources comprising approximately five percent of all U.S. renewable energy
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