Column: I Am Flummoxed!
Column by Elena Yang I just wanted to find a way to use “flummoxed.” One story and one news item put me in this state.
Here is the story: Lynn Harrell, an internationally renowned cellist, found himself banned by Delta Airlines for violating their Frequent Flyer Program terms.
Travel is always a tricky venture for musicians who play large instruments, especially by plane. How many of us would trust the airlines these days to check in our luggage that contains our livelihood?
So, Mr. Harrell has for years been buying a full-price ticket for his cello, and registered “Mr. Cello” with Read More
Simple Steps Put ‘Green’ Back in Holidays
National Regifting Day is Dec. 18. Courtesy photo
COUNTY News:
The New Mexico Recycling Coalition Offers Solutions to Reduce your Holiday Trash
Did you know that Americans produce 25 percent more waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day? That means we’re adding one million more tons to the landfill in the span of a month (EPA.)
“Greening the holidays” began as a grass-roots movement, but it practically has turned into an industry. There’s a reason the topic gets so much attention. Many of us yearn for healthier, more meaningful, less expensive and less wasteful holidays. Read More
Relay For Life of Los Alamos Holding Volunteer Informational Meeting Wednesday
RFL News:
American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Los Alamos will hold a volunteer informational meeting 5:30–6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 2455 Trinity Dr., in Los Alamos.
The organization is seeking walkers, cancer survivors, caregivers and community leaders to help plan the 2013 Relay For Life of Los Alamos.
Holiday treats and refreshments will be served. Thanks to General Manager Felicia Duran and the Comfort Inn for donating the meeting space.
RSVP to gloria.martinez@cancer.org. Read More
Newly Elected Representative Hosts Town Hall
Dist. 43 Representative-elect Stephanie G. Richard with her husband Eric Vasquez at her Town Hall meeting at UNM-LA Sunday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Dist. 43 Representative-elect Stephanie G. Richard answers questions during her Town Hall meeting Sunday at UNM-LA. County Councilor Mike Wismer, standing at left, passed the microphone to audience members during the Q&A portion of the event and her husband Eric Vasquez, at right, operates her PowerPoint presentation. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Staff Report
Twenty-five community members attended Read More
Rock Displays Fill Earth Treasure Show
Los Alamos Geological Society member Lisa Kratzer, right, assists a group of young people to create sand art, inspired by artist Robert Stoufer’s work, during the society’s Earth Treasure Show Saturday at the Masonic Lodge. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Martha Zumbro and Dave Bowman check out a display case Saturday at the Los Alamos Geological Society’s Earth Treasure Show. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Mary Thompson and Jan Studebaker admire some of the geological treasures on display Saturday at the Los Alamos Geological Society’s Read More
Mountaineers Share Adventures From at Least Four Continents
Cholatse and Taboche Peaks, both above 21,000 feet, and Ngozumba glacier. About a mile below the peaks lies the village of Gokyo, one of the highest inhabited places in the world. Photo by Don Krier.
MOUNTAINEER News:
The community is invited to join Los Alamos Mountaineers as they celebrate another great year with a potpourri of their 2012 accomplishments.
The “Annual Potpourri Event” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19 at Fuller Lodge will tell of member adventures from as far afield as the Khumbu in Nepal.
During the past year, the club offered 43 official outings, and members had Read More
Annual Creche Festival Offers Artistic Inspiration
Carol Neal’s creche is on display at the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Los Alamos Ward’s creche festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Bryan and Ellen Spaulding check out the creche festival Saturday. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Mary Barrus looks at the nativity scenes displayed at the Los Alamos Ward. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Sally Cassil donated her nativity scene for the creche festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Lawry and Alice Mann donated their creche for the festival. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More
Dixie Girl Brunch Draws Steady Crowd
Dixie Girl servers Victor Medina, left, and Fernando Rodriguez near the Bloody Mary Bar set up as part of the restauraunt’s new Sunday Brunch Menu, which launched Dec. 9 . Owner Denise Lane reported a “steady flow’ of diners throughout the 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. event at the Dixie Girl, 1789 Central Ave. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Live Nativity Christmas Eve At United Church
Courtesy/United Church
UNITED CHURCH News:
The United Church is planning a living Nativity 5-8 p.m., Christmas Eve in the parking lot west of the Church at 2525 Canyon Road, across Canyon Road from the Aquatics Center.
The nativity will be held between a family service at 4 p.m. and a candlelight service at 11 p.m. and the public is invited to attend and interact with the Living Nativity, greet the Holy Family, shepherds and kings and pet the stable animals.
For information, visit www.unitedchurchla.org Read More
Massage Therapist Strives for Deeper Connection
Owner Michelle Harkey of Mullein Leaf Massage. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
By Mandy Marksteiner
“I enjoy being able to help people,” said Michelle Harkey, who opened Mullein Leaf Massage, 3500 Trinity Dr., Ste. A-5, a year and a half ago when she moved to Los Alamos. “I want to connect with people and make a difference on a level that not everyone is willing to make: a deeper level that is physical, intellectual and emotional.”
Letting go of chronic tension
People with chronic tension may wonder why they always have pain in the same place. Even if they get a massage and change possible physical causes, Read More
State Offices in Santa Fe on 2-Hour Delay
NMDOT News:
The New Mexico Department of Transportation has announced that due to inclement road conditions, all state offices in Santa Fe ONLY are on a two hour delay. Read More
World’s First Hazard Scale Created for Wildland Fires
Figure 1. Matrix for Capturing Exposure from Wildland Fuels. One side of the matrix represents the four types of fuel sources considered: homogeneous surface fuels (such as prairie grasses), inhomogeneous surface fuels (such as palmetto), inhomogeneous shrubs and low vegetation (such as chaparral) and canopied forest (such as the forests of pine, cedar, juniper or aspen found in the intermountain west region between the Rockies and the Sierra Madre/Cascades.) The other two sides of the matrix represent three types of topography (ravine, slope and flat) and three local weather conditions Read More
Exploiting the Power of IBM Blue Gene/Q Supercomputers
Sequoia supercomputer. Photo by Bob Hirschfeld/LLNL
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Breaking new ground for scientific computing, two teams of Department of Energy (DOE) scientists have for the first time exceeded a sustained performance level of 10 petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second) on the Sequoia supercomputer at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL.)
A team led by Argonne National Laboratory used the recently developed Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Codes (HACC) framework to achieve Read More
Column: I’m Thankful I’m Still on the Course
I’m Thankful I’m Still on the Course. Par 4, No Bogeys … Life with CancerWhat if you were diagosed with cancer? You’d be thankful just to get through it and survive, right? Well, what if you had cancer 4 times? What would be your thoughts? Could you still be thankful? I mean, who beats cancer four times?
When I recently got news of my fourth cancer diagnosis, all I could think of was “how on earth can I go through this again? Why can’t I just beat this?”
Consumed by thoughts of my family, and not being with them, I couldn’t be thankful for anything. Here I am, desperately trying to reach Read More
Udall Statement on Disabilities Treaty
U.S. SENATE News:Brainpower & Brownbags Lectures, 2013, Part 1
Eugenia Manderfield, ca. 1884-1891, by Dana B. Chase. Palace of the Governors Photo Archives 010268.
NMHM News:
From Trail Riders to Bomb Builders with a Few Stops In-Between
SANTA FE – Experts on the Santa Fe Trail, women of the West, Clyde Tingley, “St. Kate’s” and the Manhattan Project will deliver lectures in the first half of the 2013 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series.
The annual series, organized by Tomas Jaehn of the museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, is free and open to the public (and, yes, you can bring a lunch.)
Each lecture begins at noon in the Meem Community Room; Read More
Los Alamos Honored For Building Award Winning High School
Los Alamos High School Principal Sandy Warnock with architects Sanjay Engineer, lead architect on the LAHS design project and Art Tatum of Fanning, Bard, Tatum Architects. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
It is now official. What the local community has known for the past year was validated with state awards that honored Los Alamos High School for its design and quality construction.
Simply stated, Los Alamos builds award winning schools.
The New Mexico Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors selected LAHS as its 2012 “Excellence in Construction Award” winner this past October. The National Read More
‘Dixie Diner Sundays’ Start Dec. 9
A crowd fills the bar and dining areas at Dixie Girl Restaurant in downtown Los Alamos during Happy Hour. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
DIXIE GIRL & HILL DINER NEWS:
Denise Lane, owner of both the Dixie Girl and Hill Diner has announced a change in Sunday offerings at the two restaurants.
Beginning Sunday Dec. 9, Hill Diner will not be open Sundays, but the Dixie Girl will be open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Sunday brunch and lunch.
The special “Dixie Diner Sunday Menu” will include both new items and some familiar Hill Diner favorites. Sundays will include all day Happy Hour and football on the Read More
County’s New Housing Manager Meets With Los Alamos Housing Partnership Board
Paul Andrus, third from left, introduces himself to members of the Los Alamos Housing Partnership Board from left, Anne Nobile, Cindy Hollabaugh and Bob Fuselier Tuesday during a meeting held at a residence in White Rock. The group discussed the Los Alamos Housing Partnership mission, the local housing market and how the Partnership and County might work together to enhance housing in Los Alamos. The County hired Andrus last month as manager of Housing and Special Projects in the Community and Economic Development Department. He is from Aurora, Colo., has a wife, children and three schnauzers. Read More
SFI Seminar: ‘Information Theoretic Tools for Social Media’
SFI News:
Greg Ver Steeg will present a talk on “Information Theoretic Tools for Social Media” at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Monday, Dec. 10 • 12:15 p.m. • Medium Conference Room
Abstract: Information theory provides a powerful set of tools for discovering relationships among variables with minimal assumptions. Social media platforms provide a rich source of information than can include temporal, spatial, textual and network information.
What are the interesting information theoretic measures Read More
