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FEMA Region 6 Urges Public To ‘Be Disaster Aware, Take Action To Prepare’

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FEMA News:

September is National Preparedness Month, so the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region 6 office is urging the public to “Be Disaster Aware, Take Action To Prepare.”

National Preparedness Month (NPM) is part of a campaign called America’s PrepareAthon! The theme this year for NPM is “Be Disaster Aware, Take Action To Prepare.” Emergency managers are asking individuals, families, friends and co-workers to take action by planning a National PrepareAthon! Day on or around Sept. 30. It can be a simple, specific activity to increase personal preparedness, Read More

Veterans of USS Curtiss Visit Los Alamos

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Veterans, spouses and widows of veterans of the USS Curtiss during a tour Thursday of the Bradbury Science Museum. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
 
Archive photo of the USS Curtiss. Courtesy/LANL
 
STAFF REPORT

Some 25 WWII veterans, spouses and widows of veterans of the USS Curtiss paid a special visit Thursday to Los Alamos. 

Members of the American Legion Riders escorted the group during their visit. Los Alamos National Laboratory Historian Alan Carr presented a talk to the group at the Bradbury Science Museum on the Lab’s history and impact on the world.

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WIPP Personnel Completing Preparations For Underground Facility Rock Bolting Activities

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Mining personnel install a rock bolt that helps stabilize the rock formation in the WIPP underground facility. Courtesy/WIPP

WIPP News:

Personnel at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are completing preparations to resume rock bolting activities maintaining the WIPP underground facility in a safe and stable condition as the recovery process continues.

At WIPP, rock bolts are typically installed in a pattern that optimizes the bolt’s effectiveness to ensure stability of disposal rooms and access tunnels. Mechanics must first perform preventative maintenance on the mine equipment, Read More

Udall, Heinrich Invite Outstanding N.M. High School Students to Apply for U.S. Senate Youth Program

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced the beginning of the statewide application process for the highly competitive United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP), and encouraged outstanding New Mexico high school juniors and seniors to apply.

Two New Mexico students will be selected as delegates to the 53rd annual Washington Week program. They will join 102 student delegates from around the country on an all expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C., March 7-14, 2015, for an intensive educational program about the workings Read More

Comedian Joan Rivers Dies At Age 81

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Joan Rivers

Comedian Joan Rivers has died at the age of 81. 

Rivers was undergoing surgery on her vocal cords Aug. 28 at a clinic in New York City when she stopped breathing and had to be transported to Mount Sinai Hospital.

Her daughter Melissa announced that her mother passed away peacefully at 1:17 p.m., today surrounded by family and close friends. 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

WIPP: Employees Can Enter Radiological Buffer Areas

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WIPP News:

Work continues to recover areas of the WIPP underground facility and steadily move toward resuming normal operations.

Radiological control technicians and geophysical engineers enter the facility regularly to evaluate the different zones for radioactive contamination and structural integrity. Zones determined to be structurally sound and within release limits for radioactive contamination are reclassified as radiological buffer areas.

Employees can enter radiological buffer areas in the underground facility without respirators and will be able to start restoration Read More

Udall Announces $2 Million Grant For New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services

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U.S. SENATE News:

New pilot program seeks to improve veterans’ access to health care and benefits in rural and underserved communities

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall announced that the New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services has been selected to participate in a new pilot program to help better serve rural veterans.

The department will receive $2 million in federal grants to increase access to health care and benefits for veterans and their families living in rural and underserved New Mexico communities. The N.M. Department of Veterans’ Services was one of five entities selected

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Labor Day Celebrates Union Movement Achievements

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First labor Day Parade in New York City in 1882. Courtesy/wikipedia.org

Staff Report

Today is Labor Day, an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, which originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal chapters.

In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions in some states, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult counterparts’ wages. Read More

AHF: A Secrecy Sieve

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AHF News:

 

In 1944, General Leslie Groves commissioned a history of the Manhattan Project. The Department of Energy has just released the 36-volume, declassified history. There are many interesting stories in the texts, from the science to counterespionage programs. Science blog io9 did a story on the “Manhattan District History,” focusing on the security leaks investigated during the project.

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“Since September 1943, investigations were conducted of more than 1,500 ‘loose talk’ or leakage of information cases Read More