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Los Alamos Native Seeks Help For His International Battalion

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Jonathan Miller in uniform in Israel. Courtesy photo
 
Jonathan Miller’s IDF Unit contains soldiers from all over the world. Courtesy photo

By JONATHAN MILLER

My name is Jonathan Miller. I grew up in Los Alamos and graduated from Los Alamos High School in 2008. After graduating from the University of Tennessee in 2012, I traveled to Israel for the first time on a Taglit Birthright trip.

I had such an incredible experience on my trip and felt drawn to return to Eretz Yisrael. Less than a year later I realized my dream and enlisted in the IsraeI Defense Forces (IDF). This is my way of giving Read More

NIST: Experts Defend Operational Earthquake Forecasting

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Damage from the August 2014 earthquake in China’s Yunnan province. Courtesy/NIST

NIST News:

After the devastating 2009 L’Aquila earthquake in Italy, critics suggested that operational earthquake forecasting (OEF) is ineffective, distracting, and dangerous.

In an editorial published in the Seismological Research Letters, experts defend OEF, arguing the importance of public communication as part of a suite of activities intended to improve public safety and mitigate damage from earthquakes.

In an editorial published in the Seismological Research Letters, experts Read More

Chamisa’s Adelaide Jacobson Attends Robotics Academy At Carnegie Mellon University

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Chamisa teacher Adelaide Jacobson is among those who participated in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy. Courtesy photo

LAPSF News:

Funded by a Professional Development Grant from the Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation, Chamisa Elementary School teacher Adelaide Jacobson joined a diverse group of educators from around the United States, Indonesia, Ireland, Madagascar, Qatar and Viet Nam for a week in July at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics Academy in Pittsburgh, PA..

Of the 24 “teacher students” in the course, Jacobson estimates that about 75 percent teach Read More

CIR Lecture: Disarming Syria’s Chemical Weapons

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Cheryl Rofer

CIR News:

The Santa Fe Council on International Relations presents a world affairs lecture by Cheryl Rofer on disarming Syria’s chemical weapons Thursday, Sept. 4.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and light refreshments will be served followed by the lecture at 5:30 p.m. at the Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe. The cost for CIR members is $15 and $20 for non-members; qualifying students may attend for free.

Rofer is CEO and founder of Nuclear Diner (https:////nucleardiner.com) and contributes posts and discussion to that site. She retired after 35 years as a chemist Read More

CIR Benefit Banquet 2014 Features Talk by Ambassador Marc Grossman

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Ambassador Marc Grossman

CIR News:

Join the Citizen Diplomats of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations at the CIR Benefit Banquet 2014 at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23 at the Palace Ballroom of the New Drury Plaza Hotel, 228 East Palace Ave. in Santa Fe.

This is the kick-off event for CIR’s upcoming 50th anniversary year of hosting international visitors and bringing greater knowledge of world affairs to the community of Santa Fe.  

Festivities will begin at 6 p.m. with cocktails in the garden of the new Drury Plaza Hotel, followed by an elegant dinner in the Palace Ballroom. 

The Read More

NNSA Continues to Assist Vietnam in Enhancing its Nuclear/Radiological Emergency Program

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Joseph J. Krol. Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is conducting emergency management workshops in Vietnam to help enhance the nuclear/radiological emergency program of Vietnam emergency response personnel.

The workshops hosted by the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) were conducted in Ninh Thuan this week and in Hanoi last week. The workshop in Ninh Thuan included 60 participants representing the Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Management Board; Headquarters and Ninh Thuan regional representatives Read More

¡Globalquerque! New Mexico’s Celebration of World Music & Culture Marks 10 Years of International Music

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Courtesy/NHCC

MUSIC News:

¡Globalquerque! New Mexico’s Annual Celebration of World Music & Culture, the Southwest’s biggest world music and culture party, will again descend on the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) along the banks of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque.  

¡Globalquerque! Is celebrating 10 years of successfully mixing the most eclectic lineups of world-class acts from across the planet – from the traditional to the cutting-edge – the legendary to up-and-coming new discoveries! ¡Globalquerque! will bring the world to Albuquerque Sept. 19 and Read More

Rotary Exchange Students Spend School Year With Los Alamos Families

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Inbound exchange students, from left, Frederiek Gerretschen of the Netherlands and Markus Essl of Austria and outbound student Faith Koh of Los Alamos who is spending a year with a Rotarian family in France, attended Tuesday’s Rotary Club of Los Alamos meeting at the Manhattan Project. The inbound students will live with a variety of Rotary families throughout the 2014-15 school year before returning home next June. For more information about Rotary Exchange, email losalamosrye@gmail.com. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

U.S. Ranks Second in Installed Capacity in the World in Wind Energy

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DOE News:

The U.S. continues to be a global leader in wind energy, ranking second in installed capacity in the world, according to two reports released by the Department of Energy.

Wind power is a key component of the nation’s all-of-the-above strategy to reduce carbon pollution, diversify our energy economy, and bring innovative technologies on line. With increasing wind energy generation and decreasing prices of wind energy technologies, the U.S. wind energy market remains strong and the U.S. is moving closer to doubling renewable electricity generation from energy resources like wind Read More

Toddler May Be Ebola Outbreak’s Patient Zero

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The area of the initial locations of the Ebola virus outbreak is highlighted in red. The main road between the outbreak area and Conakry, the capital of Guinea, also is shown. The map was modified from a United Nations map. Courtesy/NEJM

HSNW News:

A recent report on the Ebola outbreak suggests that a two-year-old boy who died Dec. 6, 2013 in a village in Guéckédou, Guinea might be the virus’s Patient Zero.

Guéckédou borders Sierra Leone and Liberia, where Ebola has infected more than 1,700 people.

According to the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and reported Read More