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The U.S. Navy’s latest very low-tech and budget-friendly anti-submarine gadget.
ARTHUR D. ORTEGA, Albuquerque
A brand new TikTok problem: Swim beneath the spears with out getting impaled.
JOAN NEWMAN, Albuquerque
That appears just like the Grinch’s laundry hanging out to dry.
PREMETIVO R. GABALDON JR., Albuquerque
Scientists put together to launch the 2023 model of the Deluxe Tingler Whale Massager.
LINDA KAY LIVINGSTON, Albuquerque
“Who wants bait when you may fish with this?”
NATHAN PHILLIPS, Albuquerque
Fisherman spearheads the no-net possibility.
ROBERT WAYNE, Albuquerque
Right here is Elon Musk’s newest enterprise: Industrial energy spear fishing.
TODD TIBBALS, Albuquerque
A spokesamphibian for Kermit’s hedge fund mentioned, “We’re all about making it straightforward to be inexperienced.”
KEMPTON LINDQUIST, Albuquerque
Oral-B is now prepared to check out their ‘tremendous responsibility’ octopus mint floss picks.
ELIZABETH A. SAAVEDRA, Los Lunas
“Shark Tank” contestants Billy and Bob Smith of La Jolla, Calif., reveal their enjoyable, if not tasty, new product. All day plankton popsicles. They arrive in three flavors: fish, crab and sea urchin.
MARK YARNELLE, Albuquerque
Inventors of the Energy MultiSpear 9000 hope that potential patrons get the purpose.
RICK WELLER, Albuquerque
“Drop it actual arduous, boys. These spikes gotta go all the best way in.”
CHERYL HAAKER, Albuquerque
“We solely want a small blood pattern, Mr. Shark — 6 gallons instances 27 vials. You’ll be effective. I’m an expert. Oops! I, uh, by chance nicked your artery. So sorry.”
LAWRENCE TALAHONGVA, Gallup
Fred Flintstone by no means had it so good.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — State officers introduced New Mexico’s public well being order will expire late Friday evening. The rules have been put in place to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
KOB 4 requested folks to replicate on their time spent underneath COVID restrictions and their present masks carrying habits. Their feedback might be seen within the video above.
Officers with the most important well being programs in New Mexico made a joint announcement, saying they won’t require masks in well being care settings beginning April 16.
“We’re asking folks to make use of their greatest judgment in understanding their very own rik and the danger to these round them,” mentioned the College of New Mexico Well being’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steve McLaughlin.
He mentioned the variety of COVID sufferers is now decrease than at any level within the final yr at UNMH.
The hospital system acknowledges there may be not a consensus on the subject of masks carrying.
“There are people that really feel this transformation ought to have been made a very long time in the past. There are different people who wish to see us wait longer,” Dr. McLaughlin mentioned.
There are comparable modifications within the guidelines for colleges and courts.
The New Mexico Public Training Division is retiring its COVID-19 Response Toolkit. A spokesperson mentioned colleges will now use the handbook that covers all communicable illnesses – just like the flu, measles and pink eye.
The state court docket system lifted its necessities for masks and social distancing. A spokesperson mentioned folks will nonetheless be showing remotely in order that they don’t have to point out up in-person.
ESPAÑOLA, N.M. — Española Humane employees by no means know what’s going to return by means of their doorways, however Wednesday introduced an unusually uncommon case.
“Virtually unrecognizable as a canine,” stated Mattie Allen, director of communications for Española Humane. “It’s fairly stunning to see a canine are available in that’s clearly strangulated.”
Rio Arriba County Animal Management officers introduced in a seven-month-old pet with a severely swollen head and an plain snare round his neck. The pet was having a tough time respiratory.
A superb Samaritan known as officers once they noticed the canine operating simply north of Española.
“Thankfully, for this canine, he was in a position to really pull the cable from no matter it was connected to and break himself free,” stated Allen.
A vet group was in a position to sedate the canine and reduce off the snare.
Two days later, the little man, briefly generally known as Muffin, is trying good as new.
However the incident raises questions on New Mexico’s trapping legal guidelines.
“The issue with these snares is that they’re indiscriminate. Whenever you set a snare like you could entice something it doesn’t discriminate what sort of dwelling being is getting strangled by this factor,” stated Allen.
Roxy’s regulation went into impact final April in New Mexico, making it unlawful to make use of traps, snares, or poisons to seize, damage, or kill an animal on public lands. It doesn’t apply to personal land.
Officers don’t know the place precisely Muffin received caught, however advocates say they hope all property house owners assume twice about snares.
“I do hope that individuals are not setting these snares to entice canines,” stated Allen. “It could possibly be any sort of wildlife, it could possibly be a cat, it could possibly be your loved ones’s canine, it could possibly be a child. And it’ll go round a head and a neck, a foot, a hand, a paw, it doesn’t discriminate.”
Española Humane is taking recommendations for Muffin’s everlasting identify on its social media pages.
He’s getting neutered and up-to-date on pictures and might be up for adoption quickly.
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