New NIST Tests Explore Safety of Nanotubes in Modern Plastics Over Time
Exposed to intense ultraviolet light and high temperatures, samples of epoxy containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes deteriorated. Exposure tended to destroy the epoxy, but on the surface remained a network of nanotubes, which NIST tests indicated were less damaged than the epoxy over time, ranging from approximately 6 months (A) to 18 months (B) to 4 years (C) in subtropical conditions. Courtesy/NIST
NIST News:
Who cares about old plastic? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) do, so that you won’t have to years down the road, when today’s plastic concoctions Read More
MainStreet Center Releases Findings of Economic Impact on New Mexico
Los Alamos MainStreet Executive Director Suzette Fox with National President/CEO Patrice Frey at the Chamber in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost
MAINSTREET News:
The New Mexico Economic Development Department’s New Mexico MainStreet program hosted a visit by Patrice Frey, President and CEO of the National MainStreet Center.
Frey took time during her visit to tour downtown Los Alamos and meet with Los Alamos MainStreet and local officials to discuss economic impact of the New Mexico MainStreet program on 27 accredited downtown programs, of which Los Alamos Read More
Heinrich: Declassify Report Detailing CIA’s Interrogation Program
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is calling for a full and transparent accounting of the CIA’s interrogation program and full declassification of the committee’s study on the program.
Last year, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to adopt the study, which is a 6,000-page comprehensive review of the Bush administration’s CIA interrogation program based on a documentary review of more than 6 million pages of CIA and other records. Read More
Winter Solstice Sunrise Walk at Bandelier Saturday
The rising sun on Winter Solstice casts shadows aligned with the walls of the entry to Tyuonyi Pueblo. Courtesy/NPS
BNM News:
All over the world, people have kept track of the passing of the seasons with markers built into such things as structures, stones, and the horizon.
At Bandelier National Monument, there are several places that may mark the position of the sun on dates including the solstices and equinoxes, and one of them is the entryway to Tyuonyi, the large pueblo in Frijoles Canyon.
This Saturday, Dec. 21, Winter Solstice will be the annual ranger-guided walk to watch as Read More
Udall, Rubio Introduce Bill to Promote Historic Preservation Education
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Marco Rubio, R-FL., introduced a bill that would give Hispanic-serving colleges and universities increased access to a grant program designed to encourage more students to pursue historic and cultural preservation. The program is similar to one already available to historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and nontribal colleges with a high enrollment of Native Americans or Native Hawaiians.
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall
The Preservation Research at Institutions Read More
FBI Offering $1,500 for Information on Murder
Roland A. Cantsee
The FBI is offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the death of Roland A. Cantsee.
The body of Cantsee, 45, of Shiprock was found Nov. 27, 2011, in a field approximately eight miles north of the Flowing Water Navajo Casino, in Hogback, N.M. on the Navajo Indian reservation.
The cause of death was determined to be blunt impact trauma to the head. Cantsee had been reported missing by a relative Nov. 26, 2011, after not being seen since Nov. 11, 2011.
The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety are investigating Read More
Udall Statement on NSA Phone Surveillance Program
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monday, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M, responded to the D.C. District Court ruling regarding the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program.
Udall has long pushed for reforms that would balance national security with Americans’ constitutional rights, including the USA FREEDOM Act to end the bulk collection of phone records, and two bills to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts.
He has also led a bipartisan push to ask for an independent investigation of these programs by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Read More
Governor Appoints LAPS’ John Wolfe to Risk Management Advisory Board
John Wolfe speaks during a County Council meeting. File photo
STATE News:
Gov. Susana Martinez announced today the she has appointed John Wolfe of Los Alamos Public Schools to the state’s Risk Management Advisory Board.
Wolfe serves as chief financial officer for LAPS. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran with nearly 30 years of leadership experience in finance and administration. Read More
Los Alamos American Legion Riders Honor Fallen Veterans
American Legion Rider Davis Bullock salutes a fallen soldier during a ‘Wreaths Across America’ ceremony Saturday at Guaje Pines Cemetery at the end of Range Road in Los Alamos. Wreaths Across America is a national program designed to honor fallen veterans of all wars at national, state and local cemeteries. The mission, ‘Remember, Honor, Teach’ is carried out in part by coordinating wreath laying ceremonies in December at national cemeteries, veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states, ceremonies at sea and 24 national cemeteries on foreign soil.Volunteers Place Wreaths at Santa Fe National Cemetery
Military personnel gather at Saturday’s Wreaths Across America ceremony at Snata Fe National Cemetery to honor fallen soldiers. Photo by Diane Swan
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall honors fallen military personnel during Saturday’s ceremony at Santa Fe National Cemetery. Photo by Diane Swan
Photo by Diane Swan
Staff Report
Remembering fallen military, one wreath at a time, volunteers from across the area including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Security, SOC Los Alamos and local community partners, sponsored holiday wreaths for a military Read More
