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Andy Sutton Raises Money For CSHD In Today’s Jemez Mountain Trail Runs

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Andy Sutton of Los Alamos in Cambodia. Courtesy photo

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos residents Andy Sutton and his wife traveled to Cambodia in 2006 for a vacation and what they encountered on their travels impacted them significantly.

“We were just traveling a little bit. We always wanted to go to Angkor Wat,” Sutton said. Besides visiting the ancient temple complex, the Suttons went to the Landmine Museum in Siem Reap where they learned about Aki Ra and his non-government organization (NGO), the Cambodian Self Help Demining (CSHD). In addition, Aki Ra operates an orphanage Read More

Los Alamos Staff Help Improve U.S. Capability To Detect Underground Nuclear Explosions

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LANL geophysicist Catherine Snelson
 
LANL News:
 
Los Alamos National Laboratory staff were instrumental in the fifth conventional explosion experiment as part of the NNSA’s Source Physics Experiment (SPE) series.
 
The SPE series, conducted at the Nevada National Security Site, advances the United States’ verification mission for detecting and understanding underground nuclear explosions.
 
“The goal of SPE is to understand the generation of S-waves from explosive sources,” said Catherine Snelson, a geophysicist at Los Alamos that led the Laboratory’s team.
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Alex Kirk Named MVP In Italy

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Alex Kirk of Los Alamos is named Most Valuable Player for his team Pistoia Basket 2000 of the Italian Serie A in Italy. Photo/ScreenShot

MVP Alex Kirk. Photo/ScreenShot

SPORTS News:

VIDEO: Watch Alex Kirk earn his MVP title, click here.

Basketball player Alex Kirk of Los Alamos has been named the Most Valuable Player on his team Pistoia Basket 2000 of the Italian Serie A in Italy.

Kirk was born in Los Alamos and played basketball at Los Alamos High School. He played college basketball at the University of New Mexico, averaging 4.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per game in the 2010–11 season. In the Read More

Cheers To World Cocktail Day May 13

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ENTERTAINMENT News:
 
One never needs much of a reason to mix up a post-work-week cocktail, but if one is looking for an excuse to get creative, this Friday, May 13 is World Cocktail Day.
 
Below is a cocktail roundup with unique recipes from Santa Margherita Wine and Sparkling Ice that can be made with just a few simple ingredients to celebrate World Cocktail Day:

Spiked Strawberry Slushie

  • 1 bottle Santa Margherita Prosecco Superiore
  • 3 cups strawberries
  • ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 sprig of fresh mint
  • ice cubes
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • Stir lemon juice and ½ Santa Margherita Prosecco
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection Of Planets Ever Discovered

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This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Courtesy/NASA/W. Stenzel
 
Courtesy/NASA
 
NASA News:

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date.

“This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth.” 

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LANL Sharpens Its ‘Genesis Code’

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The ‘Genesis Code’. Courtesy/LANL

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

A few years ago, Mark Paris, a physicist in the Nuclear and Particle, Astrophysics and Cosmology Group at Los Alamos had some questions about nuclear reactions and a colleague suggested he take a look at BBN.

BBN, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is the name given to a sliver of a time, no more than a few minutes at the beginning of the 13.8 billion-year lifespan of our universe that provides cosmological evidence for the concept that everything we know in the universe can be traced back to a sudden, furious expansion of an Read More

Exchange Student Feels Impact Of Earthquake

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The family of Carlos Lopez, center, a foreign exchange student from Portoviejo, Ecuador, is struggling in the aftermath of the 7.8 earthquake that hit Ecuador April 16. In response, members of Lopez’s host family, Nicole and David Murphy, have established a GoFundMe account to help support the Lopez family. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
 
Devastation in Ecuador caused by the recent 7.8 earthquake. Courtesy photo
 
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

News of Ecuador’s 7.8 earthquake April 16 caused Carlos Lopez, 18, an exchange student from Portoviejo in Ecuador’s Read More

Udall Welcomes Roberta Jacobson’s Confirmation As Ambassador To Mexico

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Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson. Courtesy/tufts.edu 
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a longtime advocate for Senate reform, released the following statement on the Senate’s confirmation of Roberta Jacobson as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
 
“Roberta Jacobson is one the most qualified people ever nominated to be ambassador to Mexico. Her nomination was approved with bipartisan support by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Causes And Dynamics Of The Uprising May 1

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Dr. Bassam Haddad, George Mason University
 
CFIS News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― It’s been nearly five years since Syrian rebels took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and today more than 250,000 people are dead and millions more have fled the country as a result of the bloody conflict.
 
Dr. Bassam Haddad, director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason, will attempt to put the ongoing Syrian war in perspective for a New Mexico audience during a lecture at the UNM Continuing Education Auditorium. Haddad’s talk, which includes a question-and-answer
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Authors Of ‘The Rise And Fall Of The KGB In America’ To Lecture On Soviet Espionage May 19

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Los Alamos, part of the vast government project to create the first atomic weapons. Courtesy photo
 
SFCIR News:
 
SANTA FE ― Recursos de Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Council on International Relations (CIR) presents “The KGB and Soviet Espionage,” a lecture by John Haynes and Harvey Elliott Klehr, two leading experts in Soviet espionage.
 
The lecture is 5-7 p.m., May 19 at the Forum on the campus of the Santa Fe University of Art & Design.
 
People generally think that the Soviet espionage against the American atomic project was highly successful.
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