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New Mexico SOS Toulouse Oliver Announces Rules To Strengthen Financial Disclosure And Procedures For Candidates And Officeholders

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Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver

From the Office of the Secretary of State:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver announced details Tuesday for two administrative rules that will strengthen financial disclosure and campaign finance procedures for candidates and officeholders. 

“Administrative rules like these continue my Office’s commitment to providing the public with transparency about the money that flows into and influences our elections and our elected officials,” Secretary Toulouse Oliver said. “These rules are designed to help filers meet Read More

Town Of The Day: Santa Fe

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The City of Santa Fe. Courtesy/townoftheday.org

By JAMES HOGAN
Town of the Day

Featured as the Town of the Day, New Mexico’s city of Santa Fe clearly lives up to its title, “The City Different At Every Corner”.

You’re bound to learn something new about yourself when you visit, thanks to the city’s storied history and culture, its diverse art scene, its world-class lodgings, its award-winning food, and the endless opportunities for discovery that await you.

The Readers’ Choice Awards 2019 ranked Santa Fe as the world’s sixth best city (Condé Nast Traveler). Dresden, Merida and Tokyo were all in Read More

On This Day In History: Mahatma Gandhi Marches For Peace

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On this day in 1947, Mahatma Gandhi began his march for peace in East Bengal. Courtesy/TDH.org

This Day In History:

On Jan. 2, 1947, Mahatma Gandhi began his march for peace in East Bengal, one of his last significant protests before his assassination the following year.

Religious intolerance was on the rise across the subcontinent, and Gandhi, dismayed by this, wanted to end the tensions and promote cooperation between the main religions in the region. With this in mind, he began another march, following on from his more famous Salt March in 1930.

After many years of campaigning for independence, Read More

McCormick: Let’s Keep Building North American Automobiles And Economy Together

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By Rachel McCormick
Consul General of Canada for New Mexico

As Consul General of Canada in New Mexico, I’ve seen firsthand the prosperity that comes from trade between the United States and Canada. For example, Canada is the number one export market for Hatch chiles. And look no further than the auto industry. Through years of specialization and integration, our two countries now lead the world in producing cars, trucks and other vehicles. And as we fight climate change together, the U.S. and Canada are better positioned than nearly any other countries to become the global leaders in zero-emission Read More

Huang: Why Biden Should Go To Beijing 2022

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The Beijing 2022 emblem, designed by Lin Cunzhen, combines traditional and modern elements of Chinese culture and features embodying the passion and vitality of winter sports. Inspired by 冬, the Chinese character for ‘winter’, the emblem resembles a skater at the top and a skier at the bottom. The flowing ribbon-like motif between them symbolises the host country’s rolling mountains, Olympic venues, ski pistes and skating rinks. It also points to the fact that the Games will coincide with the Chinese New Year. Courtesy/https://olympics.com/en/beijing-2022/logo-design

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LANL: Estimating Strength Of Selection For COVID Variants

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LANL scientists have developed methods to quantify how more or less transmissible new COVID variants are, which could have far-reaching implications for public health in terms of COVID-19 risk and vaccination levels required to obtain herd immunity. At left, frequency of the B.1.1.7 strain in the UK (black dots) with model prediction (blue line) assuming a transmission advantage of 45 percent over baseline. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

As the discovery of the new omicron variant illustrates, new COVID-19 variants will continue to regularly emerge. In an effort to make sense of these new variants, Read More

Tsunamis Magnetic Fields Detectable Before Sea Level Change

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The aftermath of a 2010 tsunami in Chile, which was analyzed in a new study in JGR Solid Earth. Earlier warnings made possible by the study of tsunami-generated magnetic fields could better prepare coastal areas for impending disasters. Courtesy/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

AGU News:

WASHINGTON — A new study finds the magnetic field generated by a tsunami can be detected a few minutes earlier than changes in sea level and could improve warnings of these giant waves.

Tsunamis generate magnetic fields as they move conductive seawater through the Earth’s Read More

‘Cold Moon’ Out Tonight As Viewed From White Rock

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The ‘Cold Moon’ is out tonight as viewed at 5:20 p.m. in White Rock. The Cold Moon is the longest full moon of the year and the last full moon before the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. To catch the Cold Moon at its fullest, look up at 11:36 p.m. EST (0432 GMT Sunday. Source: space.com. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More

AGU: High-Speed Impacts May Have Shaped Venus History

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An example of a smoothed particle hydrodynamics impact simulation of a large planetesimal striking a Venus-like planet. The middle and right panels show Venus 1 hour and 11 hours after impact. Colors indicate temperature. Courtesy/Southwest Research Institute/Simone Marchi & Raluca Rufu

AGU News:

NEW ORLEANS — New modeling suggests large, high-speed impacts during Venus’ early history could reconcile the differences between Venus and its rocky sister planet, Earth.

The two planets are alike in many ways. They have similar sizes, masses and densities, and they are relatively similar Read More

Skolnik: COVID Briefing Note #8 – Omicron is Coming

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos

Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a series of COVID-19 Updates by Richard Skolnik that appear bi-weekly in the Los Alamos Daily Post. These are meant to keep the community informed on the status of the pandemic, critical new findings on the pandemic, and what this information suggests for our community’s response to COVID-19. These updates complement the data that Eli Ben-Naim prepares for the Post. Unless otherwise noted, data is from the New York Times and the New Mexico Department of Health.

Pandemic Data and Trends – For the Week Ending Dec. 13, 2021

Globally, Read More