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U. S. Senators Udall, Heinrich Cosponsor USA RIGHTS Act To Reform Secretive Warrantless Spy Program

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U.S. SENATE News:

  • Bill Reforms FISA Sec. 702 to Protect Americans’ Security and Liberties, Reduce Secret Law and Focus Spy Program on Foreign Threats

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced bipartisan legislation they are cosponsoring that reforms a sweeping, secretive government spying program to protect the constitutional rights of Americans, while giving intelligence agencies authority to target foreign terrorists, criminals, and other overseas intelligence targets.

The USA RIGHTS Act reforms Section 702 of the Read More

SFCC Presents ‘From Days Of Infamy To Days Of Remembrance’ Nov. 2

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SFCC News:
 
Santa Fe Community College’s Center for Diversity and Integrated Learning (CDIL) presents From Days of Infamy to Days of Remembrance, a multimedia presentation commemorating the 75th anniversary of Japanese-American incarceration, at 6 p.m. Thursday Nov. 2, in Boardroom Room 223 at SFCC, 6401 Richards Ave..
 
Nikki Louis, a Japanese-American writer who spent her early childhood in WWII American prison camps will be in attendance and participate in a conversation after the presentation. 
 
Free event. Call 505.428.1467
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Shin: If Sanctuary Schools, Then Why Citizenship?

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By LISA SHIN
Los Alamos

On Oct. 13, 2017, the Los Alamos Public School Board passed an immigration resolution, under which the immigration status of students would not be recorded or reported to federal immigration officials. The resolution would be the first step in creating a policy aimed at supporting our students.

I applaud efforts to welcome and not alienate, those from diverse ethnic backgrounds. When I was in grade school, there were no such efforts to protect me from the ridicule of classmates or the mockery of a teacher. No Chuck Schumer tears condemning “mean-spirited” Read More

Rotary: Los Alamos Students Get Pinkies Painted Purple To Eradicate Polio … Tuesday Is World Polio Day

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Ty Morris of Pinon Elementary School participates in the Purple Pinkie event recently hosted by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos to bring awareness to polio and its eradication. Photo by Oliver Morris
Kaya Loy, right, and a friend show their purple pinkies during a special even hosted  by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos to bring awareness to polio eradication. Photo by Laura Loy
Aspen Elementary teacher Stacy Martin and Rotarian Alison Pannell support the eradication of polio through a recent Purple Pinkie event. Photo by Mary Beth Maassen

ROTARY News:

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Los Alamos Rotary Welcomes Visitors From Nepal

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Rotarian Tribhuvan Sharma from Pokhara, Nepal, addresses the crowd Tuesday at the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos at Cottonwood on the Greens as his wife Vabma Sharma videos the event. The Sharmas are visiting their daughter and son-in-law who live in Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Rotarian Tribhuvan Sharma from Pokhara, Nepal, presents a prayer scarf to Rotary Club of Los Alamos President Laura Loy during Tuesday’s lunch meeting at Cottonwood on the Greens as his wife Vabma Sharma looks on. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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NNSA: Production Of W76-1/Mk4A Arming Fuzing Subsystem Completed On Time And Budget

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NNSA News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has completed production of the U.S. Navy-sponsored Arming Fuzing Subsystem in support of the W76-1/Mk4A Life Extension Program (LEP) on time and on budget.
 
The subsystem is a key component of the W76-1 LEP that will extend the original warhead service life from 20 to 60 years.
 
“Completing this subsystem is a major achievement for NNSA and the many gifted engineers, scientists and technicians dedicated to serving our vital national security mission
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NIST: How Bright Is The Moon, Really?

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Moonset on the NIST campus. These white domes will house the equipment used in the moon brightness experiment. Eventually the domes and equipment will be moved to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Courtesy/Jennifer Lauren Lee/NIST
 
NIST News:
 
The “inconstant moon,” as Shakespeare called it in Romeo and Juliet, is more reliable than his pair of star-crossed lovers might have thought. Now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plan to make the moon even more reliable with a new project to measure its brightness.
 
Scientists put
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LAPS Students Create Libraries For Kenyan Schools

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Courtesy photo
 
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COMMUNITY News:
 
Each of the seven Los Alamos pubic schools is well on its way to creating school libraries in Kenya. Chamisa, Barranca and Pinon elementary schools have already reached the 1,000+ book goal. Mountain and Aspen elementary schools are very close to that goal, while Los Alamos High School and Los Alamos Middle School are still actively soliciting books so they, too, can create 1,000 book libraries.
 
Book donations (preschool-8th grade reading level) can be dropped off at any of these school. Bake sales, bookmark making
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World Futures: Money, Trade, Value And Time Part 2

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World Futures: What Do We Need?

By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

In last week’s column, we looked at Uruk 5,000 years ago and saw the emergence of cuneiform, a system of writing, apparently used to document trades and inventory.  

Flash forward to 1394 A.D. and Prato, Italy. Francesco di Marco Datini ordered wool from Mallorca, an island off the coast of Spain about 1,342 km away.  

Remember, the order had to be written and delivered before any product fulfillment could be achieved and there was no airmail or Internet. Six months later the sheep were shorn and several Read More