Bataan Survivors’ Stories Entered Into Library of Congress
U.S. SENATE News:President Signs Katie Sepich Bill Into Law
President Barack Obama. Courtesy photoLWVLA and AAUW Host Annual Legislative Preview
Annual legislative preview in Fuller Lodge Wednesday. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
LWVLA News:
Some 50 people turned out for the League of Women Voters of Los Alamos and the American Association of University Women’s annual legislative preview in Fuller Lodge Wednesday, Jan. 9.
Los Alamos legislators including Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard and Senators Carlos Cisneros and Richard Martinez shared their views on the upcoming session.
Also, Dick Mason of Health Action New Mexico and Marcela Diaz of Somos Un Pueblo Unido addressed issues of health care and immigrant concerns. Read More
Sig Hecker to Talk on Los Alamos and Kazakhstan
Sig HeckerOn Jan. 19, Hecker will present a public talk titled, “One of the Greatest Nuclear Stories Never Told – Los Alamos and Kazakhstan.”
Community Invited to UNM-LA Dedication of Jeannette O. Wallace Lecture Hall Sunday
Courtesy/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
The community is invited to pay tribute to the memory of longtime Legislator Jeannette O. Wallace from 12:30-2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13 in room 505 (Building 5) at UNM-Los Alamos.
In honor of her long service to the Los Alamos community and tireless commitment to education, the faculty and staff of UNM-Los Alamos are privileged to dedicate UNM-LA’s newest lecture hall in her name. The dedication will take place at 1 p.m.
The long time community leader died from illness in April 2011. She was serving her 11th term as a New Mexico State Representative, which she had won at Read More
Former Bernalillo County Corrections Officer Sentenced for Civil Rights Violations
FBI News:
WASHINGTON—Demetrio Juan Gonzales, 40, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 33 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for violating the civil rights of an individual in his custody when he struck and choked the victim in the shower room/dress-out area of MDC. Gonzales pleaded guilty in October 2012.
According to court documents, during the early morning hours of December 21, 2011, Gonzales was assigned to the Receiving-Discharge-Transfer Read More
New Mexico in Focus Features Udall, Martinez
Host/Commentator Gene Grant
NMiF News:
With a new Congress assembling in Washington, D.C. and the upcoming legislative session in Santa Fe, this week NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS talks to key leaders.
• U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., just four years into his first term, is now the senior senator from New Mexico. NMiF producer Matt Grubs speaks with Udall about the fiscal cliff’s real cost to middle class taxpayers and the battle the senator is leading to reform the filibuster in the Senate.
• New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is already making news with the announcement that she’ll accept a federal offer to expand Read More
NNSA Selects CNS to Manage Consolidated Contract for Nuclear Production Operations
NNSA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Courtesy/NNSA
NNSA News:
- New Partnership Shapes Future of Nuclear Security, Saves Taxpayers more than $3 Billion
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In a move that shapes the future of the United States’ nuclear security enterprise and will save $3.27 billion in taxpayer dollars over the next decade, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) has been selected to be the management and operating contractor for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Read More
Bringing Calorimetry to CT Dose Assessment
Heather Chen-Mayer at the PET/CT scanner with HDPE phantoms. The large sections are for whole-torso measurements; the small cylinder is one of two other sizes tested in the course of the project. Courtesy/NIST.
NIST News:
In the United States, about 80 million x-ray computed tomography (CT) scans are made every year – 7 million of them on children – according to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM.)
Not surprisingly, there is intense interest in accurate determination of the radiation doses that patients receive from CT machines, and researchers are actively seeking Read More
Posts From Abroad: Christmas in Paris
Kerri Frazier is the youngest daughter of longtime Los Alamos resident Terry Foxx. Late last fall, Frazier and her husband Jason Frazier and their 8-year-old daughter embarked on a two-year trip around the world. The family’s first stop was Paris on Dec. 1 and during their month-long stay, Jason Frazier wrote about their experience of Christmas in Paris. The family left Paris Jan. 1 and is now visiting Southern France. Courtesy/Frazier Family
Christmas season in the United States assaults all your senses. From Christmas lights, bell ringers, Read More
