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Letter to the Editor: Details of Personal Experience With Los Alamos Phone Scammer

Public Service Alert 
Los Alamos Resident
 
I got a call yesterday afternoon from a Lt. Carl Lewis stating that I (he gave me my address as well) had failed to report for jury duty, and that I had fines of ~$423 for failure to appear, ~$415 for contempt of court, and a $177 court processing fee (roughly $1,000 dollars). 
 
He was actually very convincing and talked with a thick southern drawl, and when I mentioned I never got informed of jury duty he had quick authoritative responses, mentioned how he wasn’t there to dispute the charges, just inform me of my rights and that
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Letter to the Editor: Sharing Necessary Information

By LINDA GOFORTH
Los Alamos

For the public and for Historical Society members specifically, I have received some valuable feedback from my previous letter (see letter here) that contained the suggestion that Certified Preservationists were not being consulted.

A lack of trust among people in the same genre of interests, such as the history of the area can be remedied by the equal sharing of information so that those who donate funds, and those who advise the County Council are aware of their shared concerns. When trusted people begin to complain on the basis of withheld (not intending secretive Read More

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How the Hen House Turns: Imprinting and the Importance of Hands

How the Hen House Turns:
Imprinting and the Importance of Hands
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Animal behaviorists now agree that we humans are not very different from animals in many ways—like our susceptibility to imprinting. Some call it “phase-sensitive learning” or “filial imprinting.”

I doubt many animal behaviorists would argue with the psychologists who suggest that young humans (and young animals) learn behavior from their parents and  that environmental factors and experience can influence brain development.

A recent more ominous finding that humans abused Read More

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This Week at the Reel Deal

Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater                   

This week we are opening Transcendence. We will hold Captain America, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Rio 2. Need for Speed will end this Thursday.  

Movie Poster for ‘Transcendence.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

In Transcendence,Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence Read More

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Letter to the Editor: In the United States, the People Are the Government

By GERRY WIGGINS
Los Alamos

Mr. Vincent Chiravalle recently wrote a letter to your paper suggesting that, “When government gets out of the way, we can compete and win in any industry” and “To get our economy moving and creating jobs, government simply must get out of the way of the job creators.”

Sadly, Mr. Chiravalle is forgetting that in the United States, the people are the government. Our laws and regulations have been passed through due process, supported by democratic votes, and are often in place to protect us from the abuses of industry.

It seems that Mr. Chiravalle suggesting that if we vote Read More

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Pegg: Crank Up Your Metabolism

Crank Up Your Metabolism
By KENT PEGG

One of the key factors to weight loss and weight management is your metabolism. If you are want to lose weight and keep the weight off, one important thing to do is to rev up your metabolism.

Metabolism is a term that refers to how your body transforms the calories in the food you eat into energy. The food is broken down into sugars and amino acids that the body then has available for use as energy. The energy is then either used or it is stored as muscle or fat.

One very important key to keeping your metabolism high is to have a large amount of lean muscle mass. Lean muscle Read More

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Food on the Hill: Loco Moco

 

This Week’s Recipe: Loco Moco

This is considered Hawaiian comfort food.

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients:

1 cup of cooked rice
cooked hamburger patty (I like to smoke it on the grill)
Slice of cheddar cheese
3/4 cup of brown gravy, heated
1 or 2 poached eggs

Directions:

Poach eggs in simmering water with a tablespoon of vinegar.
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
You can also use an egg poacher, usually use an egg poacher, you end up losing less of the egg white that way.
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Layer this in a bowl, rice, hamburger,
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