Business

Yang: Practice, Practice, Practice … Are 10,000 Hours Really The Key?

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Practice, Practice, Practice … Are 10,000 Hours Really The Key?
By ELENA YANG

Drawing for 10,000 hours would not automatically make a person into the next Da Vinci. One needs both the quantity of hours of doing and quality of thinking.

What’s more, the keys to quality practice lie in making mistakes and getting informative feedback. Otherwise, the monotonous practice is at best, rote learning.

It’s ironic that in the age of stressful lives, jam-packed schedules, and perpetual shortcuts, there has been this buzz about practicing 10,000 hours to reach excellence and expertise. Yet, the ultimate Read More

Co+op Launches New Look and Messaging

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CO+OP News:

The Los Alamos Co+op Market’s new look and messaging has a “Good. Local. Food.” focus. Launched in March, the new branding strengthens the Co+op’s identity as a thriving, professional cooperative business that values the environment and the local community.

The Co+op’s new look resulted from collaboration with the National Cooperative Grocers Association, a service organization that supports food co-ops with their operations. NCGA’s marketing team incorporated the Co+op’s identity with NCGA’s Co+op, stronger together branding, seen on Co+op Deals sales and at StrongerTogether.coop. Read More

LACDC Withdraws Proposal to Develop 1010 Central

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The LACDC has withdrawn its proposal to pursue development of the 1010 Central project in downtown Los Alamos. Courtesy photo
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 

Los Alamos County Administrator Harry Burgess has received notification that the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation (LACDC) has withdrawn its proposal to pursue development at 1010 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos.

The project included new construction of a two-story, 32,000-square-foot retail/office condominium building in the west parking lot of the new Municipal Building Complex.

“The

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Santa Fe Business Incubator Nets Big Boost from Los Alamos Lab

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Modern flow cytometers were invented at Los Alamos National Laboratory and can be used to count and sort individual cells from a stream of liquid. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • BioScience Lab receives funding for cell-sorting machine

Los Alamos National Laboratory is providing funding to the Santa Fe Business Incubator BioScience Laboratory for the purchase of a commercial flow cytometer—a technology originally developed at Los Alamos and then later successfully commercialized by a Santa Fe company. The SFBI BioScience Lab is holding its open house today.

“The commercialization of flow Read More

Tax Day Celebration at Local Businesses!

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COMMUNITY News:

Come celebrate Tax Day with your favorite local businesses, and we’ll pay your gross receipts taxes for you!

Tuesday, April 15, we’re waving goodbye to all the stacks of paper and constant headaches at least for a little while, and saying a great big “Thank You” to all of our customers who give us a reason to pay taxes in the first place!

Stop by:
  •   The Fuller Lodge Art Center;
  •   Pet Pangaea;
  •   Village Arts; and
  •   Warm Hearts Yarn.

… and make sure you wish us all a “Happy Tax Day” at the check out counter before the merchandise

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Yang: Those Little Annoying Things In Our Daily Life Can Add Up

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Those Little Annoying Things In Our Daily Life Can Add Up
BY ELENA YANG

For instance, if the phone computerized recording tells me, “Remember, you must first dial ‘1’,” why couldn’t a program have been written that just inserts the “1” automatically? Or, when I key in my library ID number, with spaces as it appears on my card, I get, “please do not use space.” Then, why do you issue the card with the spaces (or, why not program to accommodate or ignore the “spaces”)? I am computer illiterate, so I am sure I miss nuances about programming. However, from a user’s point of view, my queries stand. 

When Read More

AT Tax Time Don’t Forget How Corporate Income Tax Breaks Impact Your Tax Bill

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By GERRY BRADLEY, MA
Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst
New Mexico Voices for Children

In mid-April, as we prepare our income tax returns, it’s likely we equate the amount of tax we owe with how much money we make and how many deductions we can take.

In truth, what we pay in all taxes, including income taxes, is dependent on many other variables, such as how much—or how little—profitable corporations are paying.

Corporate America is very good at lowering its income tax bills. It has been so successful, in fact, that corporate income taxes (CIT) make up a much smaller share of total federal tax revenue Read More

Chiravalle: New Mexico Needs to be More Business Friendly

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New Mexico Needs to be More Business Friendly

By VINCENT P. CHIRAVALLE
Candidate for State Representative, Dist. 43

I hear the owners of businesses of New Mexico District 43 echoing the same message, “I am a small business person who is over taxed and over regulated.”

Small businesses are the innovation centers of our communities and the engines of our economy. However, Democratic leadership in our state legislature has not produced the results needed to move New Mexico businesses forward.

Politicians do not create jobs they often create obstacles. Seven out of every ten jobs are created by Read More

Construction Work Continues at Smith’s Marketplace

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Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News:

Final exterior finishes are being installed on the retail shops around the perimeter of the Smith’s Marketplace site. Concrete is being poured on the interior and framing is underway for the interior and exterior at the Smith’s Marketplace Store.

The County anticipates completing  roadwork at DP Road and Trinity Drive soon. Smith’s Marketplace has started work on the Mari Mac shopping Center entrance and parking lot. 

There will be a Read More

BioScience Lab Opening Festivities Slated For Tuesday

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SFBI CEO Marie Longserre

SFBI News:

SANTA FE – The official grand opening ceremony for a new BioScience Lab at the Santa Fe Business Incubator (SFBI) takes place 9:45-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 15 at 3900 del Sol.

Program remarks will be followed by tours of the facility.

Speakers include:

  • The Honorable Tom Udall, U.S. Senator;
  • The Honorable Ben Ray Lujan, U.S. Congressman;
  • The Honorable Javier Gonzales, Mayor of Santa Fe;
  • Mr. Pedro Garza, EDA Regional Director U.S. Department of Commerce ; and
  • Mr. Jasper Welch, President of the National Business Incubation Association.

The BioScience Laboratory, Read More