Beierschmitt: During Pride Month, A Reminder Of Why Diversity Matters
By KELLY BEIERSCMITT
Deputy Director for Operations
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Diversity is a critical component of every workplace.
As all leaders know, the more diverse employees’ backgrounds, ideas and experiences are, the more successful the organization is.
As a leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), I know this firsthand.
I’ve seen time and again how bringing together diverse teams where everyone has a voice results in more creative problem-solving and better team cohesion. It also bolsters morale.
That’s why the Laboratory is committed to creating a workplace Read More
Ryan Smelter Has Perfect Prediction In Weekly Pace Race
Runners take off Tuesday, May 24 in the ACRR weekly pace race at Firefighter’s Park. Courtesy/ACRR
ACRR News:
Ryan Smeltzer had a perfect prediction of 22:24 in the weekly pace race Tuesday, May 24 at Pinon Park (Rocket Ship) in White Rock.
Other accurate predictors:
- Cara Gattiker, 12, at 3 seconds off;
- Ted Atkins, Senior with a 15 second differential;
- Denise Robertson recording a 16 second difference; and
- Jacky Atkins at 24 seconds off
On the 1 mile course William Strother, 13, was the top finisher with a time of 9:55 and Morgan Treat, 11, was the first female at 10:30.
Paul Geimer was the best finisher Read More
Leonard: Hurting All Over? Two Powerful Anti-Inflammatory Herbs Worth Trying
By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos
Willow Bark is the active ingredient in willow tree bark is salicin, which was used in the 1800s to produce aspirin.
Salicin’s effects on pain take longer than aspirin to kick in, however some research points to the effects being longer lived.
Willow bark is considered a prodrug (metabolized to the active compound after ingestion) because it is converted in the lower intestine by intestinal bacteria to salicylic acid. Willow bark has been shown to reduce fevers, inflammation and pain.
“No serious adverse effects were reported from trials of Read More
Amateur Naturalist: The Growth Of Aspen
The aspen trees are about eight feet tall and a few feet from one other in the Quemazon mesa area that extends eastward from the rim of the Valles Caldera mountains. Photo by Robert Dryja
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
The Quemazon mesa area is a geologic thumb that extends eastward from the rim of the Valles Caldera mountains.
It has a relatively flat, sloping top that represents a kind of natural garden for plants growing after the Cerro Grande Forest fire from 22 years ago. Variations in the growth of plants can be seen over the summer. Groves of Aspen trees provide one variation for April and May.
Aspen Read More
Life After 50: Eight Is Great!
Chad Lauritzen left prepares to raise the bar as he launches the engineering of Aspen Youth to see how well their science skills paid off. Courtesy photo
During 2022, Marlene Trujillo earned her second Community Asset Award, as C’YA celebrates its 8th anniversary. Courtesy photoExecutive Director
Champions of Youth Ambitions celebrated its 8th anniversary this weekend. While our work has been drastically affected since the beginning of COVID 2022, we have found some ways to get our work done.
We started 2022 by recognizing some community heroes, with Read More
Posts From The Road: Zion National Park’s Kolob Canyons
Initial View: After leaving the visitors center, visitors travel a short distance before rounding a bend in the road giving them their initial view of the Kolob Canyons. The first of several stops allow one to get out of the car and ‘take in’ this magnificent view. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Red and Orange: Another vantagepoint gives visitors a view of the brilliant red and orange canyon walls that rise from the valley floor. Many of the cliffs in Kolob Canyons are 2,000 feet high. The light green spring growth accent the red walls and darker green conifer trees in this view. Photo by Gary Read More
Fr. Glenn: ‘You are gods!’
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
You know … when you think about it, we human beings are wonderfully made. After all, not only do we live and grow and are animate like all animals, but unlike them, we can think, plan, reflect, discern cause and effect, conduct science, etc. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that our mental ability is that which makes us most like God (though still infinitely less than Him, of course). And Jesus, when rebuffing an opponents’ challenge, quotes Psalm 82: “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said ‘you are “gods’”? (John 10:34)
We might then remember Rene Descartes’ contemplation of whether Read More
