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The Traditional Winter Spanish Market is coming to Old Town this weekend in celebration of 25 years of traditional arts and entertainment. The event, typically held in Santa Fe Plaza, will be held for the first time in Albuquerque and is an offshoot of the larger Summer Spanish Market. Both markets are a place for artists to get together and display what they have done, said Maggie Magalnick, the Markets’ director. “The Markets are a living exhibition of Hispanic culture,” she said. “[By moving the Winter Market to ABQ], we are hoping to find a new market for the artists.” Maresa Thompson is the marketing and creative director for Hotel Albuquerque, the venue for the Winter Market’s inaugural Albuquerque event. Thompson said she is “thrilled” the hotel is hosting the 25th anniversary of the Market. “We are hoping to make this successful for both the artists and Albuquerque residents,” she said. “It will be a great opportunity for [the residents] to see traditional and local art.” Between the two markets, there are about 230 artists, 100 of which participate in the Winter Market. Artists are juried into the market via traditional categories developed by the artists themselves, Magalnick said. Seventeen of the 100 artists for the market are youth artists aged 7-17 and must be mentored by current artists to participate.
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Beginning Friday, artists will offer their wares in styles including tinwork, straw appliqué, weaving, pottery, precious metal, bone and wood carving and furniture, according to the official press release. Saturday’s festivities begin at 9 a.m. with a procession of the artists from the hotel’s chapel. Artists will continue to display their work for sale and live music and traditional New Mexican food will be available on both days. The Spanish Colonial Arts Society, a society dedicated to promoting traditional and local New Mexican art forms, is the driving force behind the markets every year. Founded in 1929, the society sets up a marketplace for artists and also hosts the only museum in the world dedicated to Spanish Colonial Art, according the website spanishcolonialblog.org. Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry said in a press release that he was excited to welcome the market, and the experience it provides, to Albuquerque. “Whether or not you are a collector or have strong interest in the art form, you owe it to yourself to see the tradition that is part of our centuries-old history,” Berry said.
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UNM and PNM Resources, Inc. have teamed up in their search for an efficient and low-price energy systems. The two organizations announced last week that they would collaborate on the Cloud-based Energy Resource Scheduling (CERES) Initiative. Mechanical engineering professor Andrea Mammoli and a team of three graduate students manage the initiative. The initiative aims to calculate how to use building resources to meet energy needs in the most effective way, without disrupting the grid too much, Mammoli said. Mammoli said he has been working with PNM on different projects related to energy distribution for many years. He said that at the beginning of 2013, UNM started planning CERES and received a $250,000 grant from PNM, which is enough to fund the project for two years. One possible solution is by optimizing power during offpeak times or by using different types of power at certain times, both of which building managers often fail to do, he said. Mammoli said that in New Mexico, 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. is considered off-peak energy consumption times for corporate use, making energy costs
about half the price. “They don’t really manage things in an optimal way. So, this system that we are testing does that,” Mammoli said. “It allows you to optimize how you operate your system, and so the benefits are that it could give you the lowest cost for example, it could give you the lowest carbon emissions, or it could give you some combination of the two.” From here, he wants all the buildings in a certain area to coordinate so they can avoid spiking their power grids, he said. “What we’re trying to do is calculating how to use resources that they have so that they meet that need in the best possible way, without disrupting the grid,” he said. Matthew Robinson, a graduate student involved with the project, said a common way for businesses to take advantage of off-peak prices is by using thermal storage. This involves chilling a large tank of water to use for cooling the building the next day, he said. However, Robinson said many buildings overcharge for water consumption, and therefore waste money and energy. “One of the facilities we’re looking at, when they overcharge it, you can see pretty significant losses to the environment,” Robinson said “So, if we can match that charge to what the model tells us, then
we can try and save that, and save on those losses.” But this model will only work on facilities with distributed energy sources, Mammoli said. While they are not particularly common right now, he said, there is a growing trend toward them. He said this model is becoming cheaper, offers more reliability and lessens the load on a power grid, which means less energy is used and the end user pays less money. Mammoli said his team has been conducting their research on several buildings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, including the One Sun Plaza Building, Hotel Andaluz, the Hyatt Regency and Santa Fe Community College. Their research is in conjunction with the optimization software that Lawrence Berkeley National Labs in Berkeley, Calif. have been working on for about 10 years. Mammoli said he hopes that this type of energy system will become the norm for buildings around the world, a goal that ties in with his research ideals. “I like to do research that is going to make an impact in a relatively short time in the real world,” he said “That’s my typical research portfolio, and this fits in because basically, this takes the outcome of research and actually deploys it to the real world. It establishes that final link.”
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Traditional Winter Spanish Market
Hotel Albuquerque 800 Rio Grande Blvd. N.W. Friday from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. $6 per person or $10 per couple Children 12 and under are free.
Paul Sancya / AP Photo Second-grader Rozie Aronov, 7, holds up a menurkey, a paper-and-paint mashup of a menorah and turkey she created at Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. The recent class project reflects one way for Jews in the United States to deal with a rare quirk of the calendar that overlaps Thanksgiving with the start of Hanukkah. The last time it happened was 1888 and the next time is 79,043 years from now, by one estimate that’s widely repeated in Jewish circles. See full story, Page 5.
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November 26, 2013
PNM gives UNM $250K for energy-use research by Stephanie Hoover
Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly discusses his economic development plan for the nationwide Navajo community Monday night at Zimmerman Library’s Willard Room. Shelly, who is the first New Mexican president of the Navajo Nation, said he plans to push for technological development as well as sustainable energy development on reservations. Shelly also spoke of young Navajo outreach, encouraging students to have a voice regarding politics and to vote during elections. The event was organized by Beta Sigma Epsilon, a Native American fraternity on campus.
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