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Community Invited To Assist Foreign Exchange Student With Special Service Project Saturday

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A Shelterbox kit. Courtesy/Shelterbox USA

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

Once upon a time, an organization existed in town called, “Youth Helping Youth.” While they longer are operating under that name, there are plenty of youth helping youth and many others that continue to make this community thrive.

One such youth is Ida Mattila, a 17-year-old young lady from Finland. She is in the United States as a foreign exchange student with the Los Alamos Rotary Club and just like the local Rotary organization, has a commitment to service.

This Saturday, with the help of the Los Alamos Chamber of Read More

Whacking At Wicked Problems Of Nuclear Weapons

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William Perry, left, and Eric Schlosser converse at the Lensic Theater this weekend during the nuclear weapons summit in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com
 
An unarmed Minuteman III ICBM blasts out of the silo during an operational test launch Feb. 25, 2015 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of 30th Space Wing Public Affairs

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Minuteman III, the fixed land-based missile of the American nuclear triad, was the obvious loser during several dialogues on nuclear weapons in Santa Fe this weekend. An Read More

Dec. 7, 1941 … A Date That Lives In Infamy

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The forward magazine of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) explodes Dec. 7, 1941 during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. Courtesy/wikimedia

Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance. A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard Read More

Could There Be Life In Pluto’s Ocean?

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View of Pluto with color-coded topography as measured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Purple and blue are low and yellow and red are high, and the informally named Sputnik Planitia stands out at top as a broad, 1300 km- (800 mile-) wide, 2.5 km- (1.5 mile-) deep elliptical basin, most likely the site of an ancient impact on Pluto. New Horizons data imply that deep beneath this nitrogen-ice filled basin is an ocean of dense, salty, ammonia-rich water. (Photo: P. M. Schenk LPI / JHUAPL / SwRI / NASA)
 
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Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign
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DOE Secretary: U.S. Commits To IAEA Monitoring For Six Metric Tons Of Plutonium Disposition

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U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

VIENNA – At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz today announced the United States is embarking on an effort to dilute and dispose of six metric tons of excess plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and that the United States is prepared to work with the IAEA in 2017 to develop a monitoring and verification plan for the disposition process.

Below are Secretary Moniz’ remarks at the conference, which begin with a message from President Obama to the conference:

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Ronald Reagan: Christmas According To Marx & Lenin

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President Ronald Reagan
 
LIBERTY COUNSEL News:
 
ORLANDO, Fla. ― Between his campaign against President Gerald Ford in 1975-76 and his race against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan delivered more than 1,000 radio broadcasts.
 
In fact, Reagan wrote most of those three-minute broadcasts himself. In one broadcast during the Christmas season, Reagan shared a story about Christmas in the Ukraine before and after communism.

In an effort to resist Christians, communist leaders secularized a favorite Ukrainian Christmas carol, “Nova Radist Stala” (Joyous News Has

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Local Fundraising For Europe 2016 Educational Trip

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EDUCATION News:
 
Have a college student studying for finals? Want to surprise them with a fun gift? Send them a personalized care package this week.

Local high school seniors are putting the care packages together to raise funds for their educational tour in Europe next summer.

Care packages are $30 and will be shipped this Friday. They will be filled with items to help college kids through their exams such as: hot cocoa, inspirational quotes, tea, Emergen-C packets, stress balls, pens, pencils, tissues, jokes, candy, homemade goodies, a supportive note, local treats, and more.

To order,

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Creches Displayed From Across Globe

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More than 200 Nativity Scenes are displayed Saturday at the 23rd Annual ‘Crèches from Around the World’ exhibit at the Los Alamos chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Alamos. The event is part of the WinterFest Weekend festivities in Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 

Scene from Saturday’s 23rd Annual ‘Crèches from Around the World’ exhibit at the Los Alamos chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

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Heinrich: Declassify Information Regarding Russia And U.S. Election

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined several of his colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee in sending a letter to President Obama urging him to declassify information relating to the Russian government and the U.S. election.
 
“We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian Government and the U.S. election that should be declassified and released to the public,” wrote Heinrich and his colleagues in their letter.
 
U.S. Senator Ron
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EDGE Bioinformatics Brings Genomics To Everyone

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Los Alamos’s Cheryl Gleaner, left, demonstrates to students how to use EDGE bioinformatics to analyze their sequence data. At its annual Sequencing and Bioinformatics Training in June, Los Alamos hosted 34 participants from 10 countries to train them in sequencing and analysis, including the use of EDGE bioinformatics. EDGE tools are used in eight countries and within several government laboratories in the United States. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • New platform enables rapid genomic-sequence data analysis 

A new bioinformatics platform called Empowering the Development of Genomics Read More