Bandelier Hosts 3rd Naturalization Ceremony July 4
Last year’s naturalization ceremony. Courtesy/NPSBeginning
Udall: Supreme Court Wrong to Put Corporate Interests Ahead of Women’s Health
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall
U.S. SENATE News:
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to protect corporate interests while rolling back women’s access to contraception:
Luján Issues Statement on Immigration Reform
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan
CONGRESSIONAL News:
Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., of New Mexico’s Third District released the following statement on President Obama’s speech on immigration reform and the announcement that Speaker John Boehner will not allow the House to act on comprehensive immigration reform this year:
“It is shameful that the Republican House leadership has failed to act on immigration reform and has now confirmed that they have no intention of doing so. Over a year ago, after working on a bipartisan good-faith compromise, Senate Democrats and Republicans were Read More
Additional Evacuations Ordered For Diego Fire Area
Smoke from the Diego Fire seen from Los Alamos a short while ago. Photo by Leland Lehman/ldailypost.com
DIEGO FIRE Update:
The communities of Wetherall Estates and Dunlap Spring are being evacuated along with Jarosa. An evacuation shelter has been established at the Rural Events Center in Abiquiu, located near the junction of High Way 84 and State Road 554.
Fire crews are fighting the 1,000 plus acre Diego Fire, which is burning southeast of Coyote. Currently the Northern New Mexico Type III Incident Management Team is in command of the fire, but they will be transitioning Read More
Significant Shift to Weather Pattern Coming
Courtesy/NWS
NWS News:
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Abluquerque reports that the hot and mostly dry conditions of late will be abruptly altered.
Event:
- Type – Hot and mostly dry period coming to an end with significant increase in showers/storms.
- Timing – Today through Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Location – All of northern and central New Mexico.
Key Impacts:
- Hot and mostly dry conditions today with potential for strong downburst winds from dry T-storms this afternoon.
- Strong back door cold front to bring gusty winds over eastern New Mexico tonight. Strong
Scientists Say Tall, Wide Walls Will Calm Tornado Alley
Researchers uncover a surprising way of neutralizing tornado threat. Courtesy/wadanka.com
HSWN News:
In the United States, most devastating tornadoes occur in Tornado Alley, which is a strip of land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains, including most American Midwest states.
In 2013, there were 811 confirmed tornadoes in the United States, 57 in Europe, and 3 in China. Among 811 tornadoes in the United States, most, especially the most devastating ones, occurred in Tornado Alley.
Scientists say that building three 300 meter high and 50 meter wide walls, at the cost Read More
LANL: Scientists Ignite Aluminum Water Mix
LANL chemist Bryce Tappan ignites a small quantity of aluminum nanoparticle water mixture. In open air, the compound burns like a Fourth of July sparkler. Courtesy/LANL
When dry, aluminum nanoparticles look like simple dark gray dust. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Combustion mechanism of aluminum nanoparticles and water published in prestigious German chemistry journal
Don’t worry, that beer can you’re holding is not going to spontaneously burst into flames, but under the right circumstances aluminum does catch fire, and the exact mechanism that governs how, has long Read More
Today Marks Anniversary of Granite Mountain Tragedy
Staff Report
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona, which killed 19 “hotshot” firefighters. This summer, the interagency wildland fire community will mark the one-year anniversary of the Yarnell Hill Fire accident and the 20-year anniversary of the South Canyon Fire accident of July 6, 1994.
Although these accidents were separated in time by 19 years, they are bound together by several tragic commonalities. Both accidents were burnovers; both accidents resulted in multiple fatalities of highly trained, skilled, and experienced wildland firefighters; Read More
SSCI’s Cybersecurity Bill Would Chill News Reporting
NNA News:
By RICK BLUM / The Sunshine in Government Initiative
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA), released as a draft by Chairman Dianne Feinstein June 17 and soon to be considered by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, would threaten the flow of accurate news and information to the public and policymakers.
The bill would allow government agencies to collect, without a warrant or other traditional legal process, journalists’ phone and other records if the government considers the journalists or their sources threats to the security of information stored Read More
WIPP: Plans Ongoing to Evaluate All Drums in Panel 7, Room 7
WIPP has created a mock-up of Room 7 to test various ‘reach’ tools. Courtesy/WIPP
WIPP News:
As the investigation into the cause of the Feb. 14 radiological release continues, WIPP teams are working to create a system to examine all containers in Panel 7, Room 7. To date, visual inspection of the room’s 24 rows of
waste containers has been limited to rows 15 to 24.
Workers are evaluating several different systems that would allow recovery teams to obtain video imaging, thermography, and sampling data on the waste containers in rows 1-14 – those that are the furthest back in the Read More
