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Photographing New Zealand With Leslie Bucklin

Los Alamos photographer Leslie Bucklin captures New Zealand during a three week visit. Courtesy photo
 
Scene in New Zealand. Photo by Leslie Bucklin
 
LA CREATIVE DISTRICT News:
 
New Zealand, photography, travel … local artist and Los Alamos County Visual Information Specialist Leslie Bucklin will be featured during the Art on Tap series at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6 at UnQuarked, The Wine Room at 145 Central Park Square.
 
Bucklin will share details from her grand 21-day photography adventure touring New Zealand on a tiny ($3,000 per person) budget! This talk will give
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OJJDP Publishes International Child Kidnapping Guide For Law Enforcement

From the Office of Justice Programs:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Office of Justice Programs’ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Tuesday published guidelines to help law enforcement prevent and respond to cases of international kidnapping of a child by a noncustodial parent.
 
In 2017 there were more than 900 cases of international kidnapping of children across 59 countries reported to the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Children’s Issues. Law enforcement agencies play a critical role in the prevention and resolution of international parental kidnapping.
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Bipartisan Interior, Environment Appropriations Bill Reaches Senate Floor

U.S. Sen. Tom Udall
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, took to the Senate floor last week to speak in support of his subcommittee’s bipartisan funding bill, the Fiscal Year 2019 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.
 
The bill, authored in the subcommittee led by Udall and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), rejects the Trump administration’s devastating proposed cuts to critical programs and includes strong
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American Federation Of Teachers NM Responds To State Appeal Of Yazzie/Martinez v. New Mexico Lawsuit

AFT-NM News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE American Federation of Teachers New Mexico (AFT-NM) President Stephanie Ly released the following statement:
 
“Words hardly express the deep disappointment educators across New Mexico feel in response to the news that Gov. Susana Martinez has chosen to appeal the recent court decision, which found New Mexico has been critically underfunding our public education system of hundreds of millions of dollars which should be flowing into classrooms and lecture halls across the state.
 
“This administration is woefully out of step even in its waning
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15th Annual Commemoration Of 1680 Pueblo Revolt At Jemez Historic Site Aug. 12

Ruins of San Jose de Los Jemez Mission, Jemez Historic Site, New Mexico. Courtesy/New Mexico Historic Sites
 
NMHS News:
 
SANTA FE The village of Jemez Springs is the site of the 15th annual Pueblo Independence Day Celebration Sunday, Aug. 12.
 
The event commemorates the events of Aug. 10, 1680— when the Pueblo People of New Mexico—aided by Apache and Navajo allies—launched a successful rebellion against Spanish colonization.
 
Commemorative activities will begin with a pilgrimage run from Walatowa plaza in Jemez Pueblo to Giusewa Pueblo kiva at Jemez Historic Site
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AGU: Researchers Find Glaciers In East Antarctica Also Imperiled By Climate Change

In this WorldView-2 satellite image of Totten Glacier’s front – acquired Oct. 11, 2015 – ice flows from left to right. The heavily crevassed surface of the floating part of Totten is visible on the left, with larger undulations in topography associated with bottom crevasses. The dark area in front of the glacier is open water, and on the right is thin and packed sea ice. Courtesy/DigitalGlobe Inc.

 

AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A team of scientists has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed,
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NMHU Students Create Digital Online Exhibits

Marie Gallegos plays the role of Goneril in a 1950 Highlands University Koshare Players production of King Lear. The photo is part of the new Donnelly Library digital online special collections exhibits. Courtesy photo
 
NMHU News:
 
LAS VEGAS History of the Las Vegas community and Highlands University come to life, thanks to a digital online special collections exhibits project the university’s media arts and technology students created for Donnelly Library.
 
Graduate media arts students in Lucia Duncan’s spring semester 2018 class, Synthesis of Media Arts and Computer
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Fort Union To Present Candlelight Tours Aug. 11

Photo by Richard Gonzales
 
FUNM News:
 
WATROUS Fort Union National Monument announces that its annual Candlelight Tours event is Saturday, Aug. 11.
 
During this evening event, visitors will be guided through the fort and through a series of skits performed by costumed interpreters. The tours and skits will be illuminated by lantern light. This is a free event, but reservations are required.
 
Tour times are 7:30 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 8:15 p.m., 8:40 p.m., 9:00 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. Each tour lasts about 45 minutes and is limited to 20 attendees. Reservations can be made by calling
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Allegations Of Victimization In Adult Correctional Facilities Nearly Tripled From 2011 To 2015

DOJ News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Correctional administrators reported 24,661 allegations of sexual victimization in prisons, jails and other adult correctional facilities in 2015, according to the most recent data available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The number of allegations in 2015 nearly tripled from 8,768 in 2011.
 
This increase coincided with the implementation of the National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape in 2012. The standards require correctional facilities to educate staff and inmates on sexual victimization, refer all allegations
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Udall, Heinrich Announce $1.1 Million Grant For NMSU Sustainable Agriculture Research

U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that New Mexico State University (NMSU) Agriculture Extension Program has received a $1.18 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
 
The Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate award will fund research into the best strategies for arid land farmers and ranchers in the Southern Great Plains in Union County, N.M.; Las Animas, Colo.; and Cimarron County, Okla., to adapt to times of drought.
 
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