County’s Janet Bettinger Retires
Retiring Department of Public Utilities Assistant Manager-Administration Janet Bettinger with DPU Manager John Arrowsmith at Fuller Lodge Wednesday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By Carol A. Clark
Janet Bettinger went to work for Los Alamos County as a student intern in the finance department when she was 18 years old.
“I always said I would retire when I was 46 and that seemed so old,” Bettinger said at her farewell party at Fuller Lodge Wednesday. “Now I’m 46 and it doesn’t seem so old.”
Bettinger moved over to the Department of Public Utilities Read More
Shoplifting Drama Unfolds in Downtown Los Alamos
Melissa Carpenter of Los Alamos is in jail charged with fourth degree felony shoplifting. Courtesy/LAPD
Staff Report
Police arrested Melissa Carpenter of Los Alamos Wednesday afternoon and charged her with shoplifting $250-$2,500 worth of merchandise, which is a fourth degree felony.
Carpenter, 36, was captured with the help of Deborah Stone-Richard, a native of Virginia, who is on an extended visit to Los Alamos.
Stone-Richard was volunteering Wednesday at Fuller Lodge Art Center, 2132 Central Ave., when she heard a crash of sales items on the floor.
She saw that a woman, who turned Read More
Local Author Explores Sustainability, Practical Economics Through Fiction
BOOK News:
Longtime Los Alamos resident Cary Neeper’s second novel, “The Webs of Varok” launches Tuesday, Dec. 4.
California micropublisher Penscript Publishing House will release the book to online booksellers in hardcopy, paperback and ebook formats.
The second book in “The Archives of Varok” series, this young‐adult/crossover science fiction title follows the human and alien cast from Neeper’s 1975 first‐contact novel A Place Beyond Man as they leave a troubled 21st Century Earth for the promise of stability on another world.
What will it Read More
Udall: $275,000 in NEA Grants for NM Arts
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall has announced that New Mexico will receive $275,000 in matching grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA.)‘Paradocs’ Plays Coffee House Cafe Friday
COFFEE HOUSE News:
The jazz trio “Paradocs” will be playing at the Coffee House Cafe, 723 Central Ave., across from Smith’s 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30.
The Paradocs Trio of piano, guitar and saxophone performs acoustic jazz standards and classic tunes.
The Coffee House Cafe, 505-662-CAFE offers a dinner menu of American, Italian and New Mexican selections. Read More
Race Volunteers Needed
YES Corp youth on a campout last year. Courtesy/YMCA
FAMILY YMCA News:
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Event to Support Youth Programs
Race guides, set-up and registration volunteers are needed to assist with The Family YMCA’s Holiday Half Marathon and Festive 5K set for Dec. 8.
Helpers are asked to call the Y as soon as possible at 662-3100 so staff may plan for needs. Volunteers can work from one to three hours in shifts starting at 7:30 a.m. for this event that will benefit youth programs.
Courtesy/YMCA
In 2011, the Y served a total of 3,067 youth and teens in 77 youth programs.
The Y provides scholarships to ensure that no one is Read More
Traveling the World
Jason, Sydney and Kerri Frazier prepare to spend the next two years traveling the world. Photo by Teralene Foxx
Our youngest daughter, Kerri (1991 graduate of Los Alamos High School) and her husband Jason Frazier told us six years ago they were planning on quitting their jobs, selling everything, and sailing around the world when they were in mid-life.
All I could think of was pirates, large waves and being cramped together on a small boat for days. That is something I could not imagine.
It certainly did not appeal to me, but it was their lives. Read More
Eat Breakfast With Santa This Saturday
Santa listens to Christmas wish lists at the annual Breakfast with Santa. Courtesy photo
KIWANIS News:
The community is invited to the annual Breakfast with Santa, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos, with support from Del Norte Credit Union, from 7-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center, 1101 Bathtub Row.
The breakfast is free. In return, attendees are requested to donate either non-perishable food items or money.
Food collected will be used by LA Cares to feed local families in need. Money donated will be used for the Kiwanis/CYFD Foster Children Christmas Party. Read More
Baldrige in Education: Roots and Reasons for Hope
By Christine Schaefer
How did a quality awards program originally aimed at helping U.S. manufacturers become more competitive evolve to help school districts and other education institutions improve their performance, too?
Long story, and it starts before 1999, when Congress expanded the eligibility of the Baldrige Awards to health care and education organizations.
In fact, the Baldrige Program began preparing for that expansion in the mid-1990s. Early efforts included outreach to education organizations to seek their input on the criteria and to develop other resources to help such Read More
Marshal’s New Tip Capabilities Net 23 Year Fugitive
U.S. MARSHALS News:
DETROIT – The Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team (DFAT) has made its first arrest using the new TIP411 system that it rolled out a few weeks ago.
Shannon Gene Ring, 46, of Monroe, Mich., was arrested by the Marshals led DFAT earlier today.
The arrest came as a direct result of a tip received via the new texting tip service.
Ring was wanted in Monroe County from 1989 for Failure to Appear for a Probation Violation with the underlying charge being Manufacture and Deliver a Controlled Substance.
Ring was arrested in the 400 block of Antoinette in the City of Detroit without incident. Read More
SFI Seminar: A Hidden Markov
SFI Seminar: A Hidden Markov
Tuesday, Dec, 6 • 12:15 p.m. • Medium Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park, Santa Fe
Abstract: A Hidden Markov
Model (HMM) is a Markov process observed through a noisy channel. HMMs are used extensively for modeling sequential data and have various applications in natural language processing, bioinformatics, mathematical economics, and so on.
One of the main problems underlying HMMs is inferring the hidden state sequence based on noise-corrupted observations, which is usually solved via the maximum a posteriori Read More
Aquatomics Swimmers Set New State Record!
CHAMPIONS New state record holders, from left, Andy Corliss, Wayne Williams, Matias Rougier and Ming-Yuan Lo of Los Alamos Aquatomics. Courtesy photo
LAA News:
The Los Alamos Aquatomics 8 & Under boys relay team set a New Mexico State Record in the 100 short course yards Freestyle Relay.
Champions Andy Corliss, Wayne Williams, Matias Rougier and Ming-Yuan Lo set the new state record during the STAR (Sudden Thunder Aquatic Racers) Veteran’s Day Classic Swim Meet held Nov. 9-10 in Rio Rancho.
The boys finished with a blistering time of 1:05.23, beating the previous New Mexico State Read More
NIST Experiments Challenge Fundamental Understanding of Electromagnetism
Photo: Observations made with NIST’s Electron Beam Ion Trap indicate that in ions with a strongly positive charge, electrons can behave in ways inconsistent with quantum electrodynamics (QED) theory, which describes electromagnetism. While more experiments are needed, the data could imply that some aspects of QED theory require revision. Courtesy/NIST
NIST News:
A cornerstone of physics may require a rethink if findings at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are confirmed.
Recent experiments suggest* that the most rigorous predictions based on the fundamental Read More
Coping With The Holidays
LAVNS News:
The Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service Hospice is sponsoring two Grief Support Groups this holiday season.
Meetings will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11 or 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center, 1101 Bathtub Row.
For those coping with loss due to the death of a loved one, holidays are portrayed as merry times, but they may be times of intense emotion, stress and loneliness when we are experiencing grief.
Groups will be facilitated by Cynthia Goldblatt, LPCC, PHD, MSW and longtime Los Alamos resident.
Please join us to share your feelings and to talk Read More
Full Slate of Public Affairs Coverage on Friday’s New Mexico In Focus
“NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS” is back after the holiday with a full slate of public affairs coverage.
Airs this Friday, Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. on Ch. 5.1 – There is no Sunday repeat this week:
Fred Nathan
• After voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the New Mexico Constitution requiring qualifications for Public Regulation Commissioners, the legislature must now decide on those standards. Fred Nathan of the influential think tank Think New Mexico talks about how he shepherded the amendments through the legislature and what PRC qualifications he’ll push for in the coming session Read More
Day Journeys to the Middle of Nowhere: Cordova
Travel Column by Kirsten LaskeyWhen my sister and I were kids, we would spin a plastic globe, close our eyes and halt the sphere with our index fingers.
Wherever our fingers landed was where we would travel when we were older.
I can not remember any of the far-flung spots my fingers touched upon but I do know I never got around to seeing any of them. Until now.
Last week I did not spin a globe but used a similar method, a random Internet search, to determine which New Mexico town I should visit next.
Dragonfly painting on Cundiyo art gallery wall. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More
Udall, Bingaman Offer Amendments to Defense Authorization Act
Key Amendments Target Energy & Defense Industries, Support NM Military Communities
Sen. Jeff BingamanClark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview: Nov. 29
This week’s preview sponsored by www.fyila.com
Kiwanis Breakfast with Santa – 7-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at Betty Ehart Senior Center. Free breakfast and photos with Santa. Request a donation of non-perishable food or a monetary donation to help with the Kiwanis annual Foster Children Christmas Party. LA Cares will distribute the food donations.
Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at Knights of Columbus on DP Road. Arts, crafts, breakfast and lunch available for purchase.
Meet Me at Mesa – Making the Arts Accessible to People with Dementia. 9:30 to 11 a.m. Read More
Tonight’s Powerball Skyrockets to $550 Million
Powerball lottery tickets are selling at a rate of 130,000 a minute across the United States today, according to reports, and the jackpot has risen to $550 million. Unlike the long lines seen in cities across the nation, local ticket sales were much slower this evening with a line beginning to form at Smiths on Central Avenue at 7 p.m. and just two people in line at Chevron on Trinity Drive. Victor Martinez is shown purchasing four tickets at 7:15 p.m. from Chevron clerk Robert Torres. “The first thing I will do if I win is help the homeless,” Martinez said. “Then I will pay off my Read More
Money IQ: What is FDIC Insurance?
Money IQWhat is FDIC Insurance?
This week’s Money IQ examines Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance, its background, coverage and who pays for it.
During the 1930’s, the financial markets experienced a lot of turmoil and it was common to have runs on a bank because there was no insurance on customers’ deposits.
As a result, the FDIC was created as part of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. Since then, the FDIC has provided deposit insurance to guarantee the safety of deposits at any member bank.
Credit Unions are not covered by the FDIC, however, they are covered by Read More
