Art in Public Places Board Meets June 17
COUNTY News:
The Art in Public Places Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 17 at Mesa Public Library.
No action will be taken. The Board will hear a presentation on the Historic Sculpture Master Plan given by Nancy Bartlit. Read More
Rock Snot and Whirling Disease also Formidable Foes for Wildland Firefighters
‘Rock Snot’ (Didymosphenia geminata), is an invasive (non-native) algae. Courtesy photo
Tres Lagunas Fire Update
- Engines and water tenders must be decontaminated before leaving the fire
PECOS—Firefighters on the Tres Lagunas Fire are now ramping down their fire suppression efforts and transitioning to “mop up” operations.
But before being released from the fire, all water handling equipment, such as engines and water tenders, must be decontaminated.
“The decontamination process is not standard procedure, but it is becoming more common as we travel from fire to fire,” Read More
NNSA’s Mike Duvall Speaks to Los Alamos Rotarians
Former New Mexico Homeland Security and Emergency Management Cabinet Secretary Mike Duvall presented a program on Terrorism and Security: International, Homeland, and Cyber during a May 28 meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos.
Duvall, left the position
Yang: From Branding To Identity
From Branding To IdentityI appreciate people taking the time to give me feedback. The branding piece last week evoked some strong feelings.
I cannot claim that a large number of readers resonated with my piece; I can only say that the people who responded to me by and large shared my expressed sentiment. One of the suggestions that struck me – and I have heard this view repeatedly since we moved here in 2002 – is that this town takes forever to make decisions.
Based on my brief sojourn at the Lab, as well as the steady stream of stories I have been hearing for more than a decade, it is not Read More
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Three Finalist, Three Concertos
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano CompetitionThree Finalist, Three Concertos
Something unique in my concert-going experience happened last night. Cliburn Competition finalist Nikita Mndoyants played his own cadenzas.
A cadenza is a virtuosic solo interlude inserted into a movement of a concerto, an opportunity toreally show off. In the good old days, when pianists were trained to do this, they often improvised elaborate cadenzas on the spot. Composers usually wrote cadenzas for their pieces and those the ones most frequently performed.
Mndoyants has Read More
Hydroseeding Underway At Student Housing
Workers have been Hydroseeding the property around the student housing on 9th Street at Iris Street. Hydroseeding or hydraulic mulch seeding is a planting process, which utilizes a slurry of seed and mulch. The slurry is transported in a tank, either truck- or trailer-mounted and sprayed over prepared ground. Helicopters have been used to cover larger areas. Aircraft application may also be used on burned wilderness areas after a fire, and in such uses may contain only soil stabilizer to avoid introducing non-native plant species. Hydroseeding is an alternative to the traditional process Read More
Tour de Los Alamos Race 2013 Results
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| Licensed Men, Pro/1/2/3 | 24.02 MPH | |||||||
| 1 | 27:18.0 | Fortunato Ferrara | Sports Systems Mountaintop Cycling – RGR | |||||
| 2 | 27:18.0 | Damian Calvert | Sport Systems MountainTop Cycling | |||||
| 3 | 27:18.0 | Kip Taylor | Sport Systems MountainTop Cycling | |||||
| 4 | 33:05.0 | Joseph Petrowski | Primal Racing p/b McDonald Audi | |||||
| 5 | 33:43.0 | David Carey | Sports Systems | |||||
Thompson Ridge Fire Update June 9 Evening
Smoke from the Thompson Ridge Fire. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.comAcres: 20,700; Start date: May 31, 2013; Cause: Downed powerline; Location: Valles Caldera National Preserve; Containment: 40 percent; Fuels: Mixed conifer and Ponderosa pine; Terrain: Steep, rugged; Resources: 21 crews, 49 engines, 31 water tenders, 4 dozers; Total personnel: 1,014 and Available air support: 3 air tankers, 6 helicopters.
Summary: Today there was a small amount of rainfall near the northeast area of the fire. The elevated humidity contributed Read More
Los Alamos National Bank Celebrates 50 Year Anniversary
LANB News:
Los Alamos National Bank Celebrates its 50 Year Anniversary
- LANB was opened in 1963 by group of local investors.
WHAT: Celebration to include sweepstakes, gifts and refreshments at all offices.
Members of the community are invited to help LANB celebrate 50 years of creating a better way. Los Alamos National Bank was established in June 1963 by a group of local investors who saw the need for a convenient, full-service community bank. Now one of the largest and strongest banks in the state, LANB has more than 360 employees and offices in Los Alamos, White Rock, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Read More
Rotary 4th Grader Event Raises Funds for Kids
Children gather to hear a trivia question at the recent “Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader’ fundraiser at Dixie Girl. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Rotary Projects Chair Skip King auctions items during the STARS fundraiser June 2 at the Dixie Girl with assistance from Rotarian Tom Nagawiecki. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Laura Loy, left, of STARS presents Rotary President Linda Hull with a check from the ‘Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader’ June 2 fundraiser during Tuesday’s Rotary Club lunch meeting. The money will be used to send local Read More
N.M. 4 Road Closure Update
VCNP News:
N.M. 4 is closed from New Mexico Highway 126 to New Mexico Highway 501.
There will be no deliveries from USPS, FedEx and UPS during this closure.
Only full time residents of Cochiti Mesa and properties accessed from Forest Road 268 and Forest Road 289 will be able to go to and from their properties along N.M. 4 to Highway 501.
Only full time residents of Sierra los Pinos and properties accessed from Forest Road 10 will be able to go to and from their properties along N.M. 4 to SR 126. They will not be able to proceed east on N.M. 4. Any residents of these areas should be prepared to display Read More
Summer Family Evenings Rock On at PEEC
Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
PEEC’s popular Summer Family Evenings series is beginning again at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11 with the Los Alamos Geological Society.
These events will continue every Tuesday evening in June and July. All the Summer Family Evenings are free to PEEC members. Other families pay $5 per family at the door.
The Los Alamos Geological Society will bring lots of rocks from our area and will share information about how those rocks where formed, where they can be found, and why New Mexico is such a great place to live if you love rocks and geology.
The Los Alamos Geological Society Read More
Cone Zone: Week of June 10
COUNTY News:
Public Works Projects
For more information about the projects listed below, please e-mail lacpw@lacnm.us, call
662-8150, or visit the “Projects” link at www.losalamosnm.us. Please slow down and use caution as you travel through these construction areas.
Eastern Area 2 Concrete, Paving & Utility Project– Phase 2:
RMCI continues to use a 15-passenger van to transport pedestrians through the Canyon Road construction site. The van circulates every 5 to 7 minutes while RMCI is working, typically 7 a.m. to 5-7 p.m. depending on the job activity, Monday through Saturday (RMCI Read More
N.M. 4 Closed at SR 126 to SR 501 Junction
Smoke from the Thompson Ridge Fire visible driving west from Pojoaque early Saturday evening. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comAcres: 20,687; Start date: May 31, 2013; Cause: Downed powerline; Location: Valles Caldera National Preserve; Containment: 40 percent; Fuels: Mixed conifer and Ponderosa pine; Terrain: Steep, rugged; Resources: 21 crews, 52 engines, 35 water tenders, 2 dozers; Total personnel: 1,023 and Available air support: 3 air tankers, 6 helicopters.
Summary: Fire intensity increased significantly along Read More
SFI Seminar: The Slum as Organism
SFI Seminar
Monday, June 10, 2013 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Jan Nijman Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Slum as Organism
Abstract: Urban slums have proliferated throughout the developing world in cities of the so-called global south. In Mumbai, India, over half of the population of 12 million is now said to live in slums, a greater number in absolute and relative terms than ever before, despite a range of successive policies aimed at slum eradication or rehabilitation. Why do slums emerge and why Read More
Underground Work Continues Along 15th and Canyon
Water mains and utility conduit are installed along 15th Street and Canyon Road as work continued last week. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com 
Utility vaults. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com 
Vault interior. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com LANL: New Phase Of Matter Discovered In Superconducting Material
Arkady Shekhter setting up the resonant ultrasound measurement in a flow cryostat. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Researchers probe ‘pseudogap’ phase boundary, solve decades-old mystery
Tiny crystals, probed with a device called a resonant ultrasound spectrometer, are helping solve the long-time mystery of “pseudogap behavior” in copper oxide superconductors.
Described by an international team including Los Alamos scientists in this week’s Nature magazine, the research explored a compelling question in superconductivity, that of the strange metallic behavior of copper oxide (cuprate) Read More
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Final Three Finalists Display Their Talents
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano CompetitionThe weather in Fort Worth has been one of many very pleasant surprises during the Cliburn Competition. The oppressive heat and humidity one expects at this time of year have been blessedly absent.
The Bass Performance Hall, however, maintains the arctic chill typical of every interior space in the city. No wonder the Cliburn’s back stage “mom” keeps a heating pad on hand, reportedly clutched like a teddy bear by the competitors before each performance.
The youngest Read More
Moscow Hosts International Drug Enforcement Conference
DEA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Government of Russia, in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), presided over the 30th Annual International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) June 5-7.
The conference brought together high-level drug law enforcement officials from more than 100 countries throughout the world. IDEC typically focuses on issues such as global drug trafficking organizations, precursor chemical control, the nexus between drugs and terrorism, financial facilitators, demand reduction, and intelligence sharing across multi-national law Read More
Summer Driving Tips For Hot Weather
STATE FARM News:- Check the air conditioning. You may want to have a professional inspect the entire system;
- A service professional should inspect the radiator, pressure cap, belts, and hoses;
- Check the cooling system, and if necessary, get it serviced; and
- Check the air pressure in all
