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Learn About Two Recent NASA Solar Missions Feb. 22

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NMDCA News:

Learn all about NASA’s two most recent missions to the Sun at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) with ParkerPunchPalooza 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Feb. 22.

ParkerPunchPalooza lets visitors explore a pair of NASA solar missions – the NASA PUNCH mission and the Parker Solar Probe – with hands-on activities and back-to-back presentations from NASA researchers.

Learn about both missions through handouts and giveaways and enjoy all-ages solar activities and demos from local teachers who are working with the Johns Hopkins Space Exploration Maker-Place Program. Read More

SFWAF Annual Symposium—’Democracy In The Time Of Autocrats’ April 10-11

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SFWAF News:

Registration is now open for “Democracy in the Time of Autocrats”, the Santa Fe World Affairs Forum’s annual symposium held April 10-11.

We live in stormy times. The heyday following Communism’s end in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is a faded memory. History has not ended as once prophesized – it has instead moved on to the rise of populist leaders and their autocratic control domestically and internationally. The democratic model which promised so much is under challenge throughout the globe.

Can democracy survive the onslaught of autocrats? Can civil society institutions Read More

All Shall Be Well: Sadly God Is Not Glorified And America Is Not Living Up To Her Promise

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By The Rev. Mary Ann Hill
Rector
Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church

What a difference two decades makes! At the very beginning of his first term in office, President George W. Bush issued two executive orders aimed at faith-based and community organizations in order to improve the delivery of social services:

“Faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) have a long tradition of helping Americans in need and together represent Read More

Korean War Army Soldier Pfc. Arthur A. Clifton To Be Laid To Rest After His Remains Identified Nearly 75 Years Later

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Army Private First Class Arthur A. Clifton

VA News:

Korean War Army Private First Class Arthur A. Clifton will finally be laid to rest after his remains were identified almost 75 years later.

All are invited to attend the ceremony and pay their respects. The service, at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, will include full military  honors and caisson.

Clifton was a Korean War soldier who fought in the “Frozen Chosin”. The service is 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31 at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in the  Assembly Area, 1520 Harry Wurzbach Road, San Antonio, Texas 78209.

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The Great Backyard Bird Count Feb. 14-17

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GBBC News

Share in the joy of birds during the annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and help make your community stronger for you and the birds. Bird and nature lovers everywhere unite in the effort to tally as many of the world’s bird species as possible over these four days. Combined with other bird counts, GBBC results help create a clearer picture of how birds are faring—whether individual species are declining, increasing, or holding steady in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and other threats.

The 28th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is taking place Feb. 14-17, 2025.

“The Read More

Santa Fe World Affairs Forum Presents ‘One World’ 5.5 Feet Long By 4.5 Feet High Jan. 30 In Board Room At SFCC

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‘One World’ 5.5 Feet Long By 4.5 Feet High lunch buffet and talk Jan. 30 at SFCC. Courtesy image

Santa Fe World Affairs Forum News:

The community is invited to a lunch buffet and talk by artist-story teller Jeannie Hope Gibson noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30 in the Board Room (#223) at Santa Fe Community College (SFCC).

Even with our vast personal differences or location on this earth, we are all interconnected, an extended family. Migrations and intermarriages throughout our human history have impacted our DNA, altering our bloodlines. These are average everyday people from all over the world Read More

ITC Announces Election Of 12 New Board Members

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ITC News:

International Trade Council (ITC), a leading global chamber of commerce representing 28,000+ corporations across 179 countries, is proud to announce the election of 12 new members to its Board of Directors. These newly elected leaders will serve for an initial term beginning Jan. 15 2025 through Dec. 1 2027, bringing invaluable expertise to further ITC’s mission of fostering foreign market entry, reducing technical barriers to trade, and enhancing international trade education.

Since its establishment in 1956, ITC has remained at the forefront of global trade, uniquely Read More

Daily Postcard: Brewer’s Blackbird At North Mesa Stables

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Daily Postcard: Purple and green iridescence shining in the sun, this Brewer’s Blackbird posed on a power line at the North Mesa Stables during Cornell’s October Big Day birding event. Common around farm land, Brewer’s Blackbirds are often in Los Alamos in spring, early summer and again in fall. October Big Day is a citizen-science project at Cornell University, creating a snapshot of biodiversity worldwide. Last year’s event broke their world record, documenting 7,987 species in a single day from observations by 46,704 birders in 202 countries based on reports as of mid November. Los Alamos Read More

MOWW To Feature Los Alamos Historian Nancy Bartlit On ‘Ready, Willing, Able: Women in World War II’ Jan. 21

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Los Alamos Historian Nancy Bartlit

MOWW News:

This month’s meeting of Military Order Of The World Wars (MOWW) will feature Los Alamos Historian Nancy Bartlit presenting a talk on, “Ready, Willing, Able: Women in World War II”, Tuesday, Jan. 21 in Room 203A at the Los Alamos Research Park building. 

Bartlit will discuss how the performances of women to assist the Allied WWII win in Europe or the Pacific are becoming better known through new research. The experiences were extremely varied. As men were called into military service, women used multiple skills successfully, such as: to produce Read More

Heinrich On Israel-Hamas Ceasefire & Hostage Release

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement on the ceasefire and hostage deal reached between Israel and Hamas:

“I applaud President Biden and his administration’s extensive diplomatic efforts for securing a ceasefire deal to finally put an end to this brutal war, reunite families with their loved ones taken hostage by Hamas, and deliver critically needed humanitarian aid to innocent civilians in Gaza facing extreme hunger, death and widespread destruction.

“As President Read More