Pain Free Athlete: Should You Stretch A Tight Muscle?
Pain Free Athlete:Should You Stretch A Tight Muscle?
Seems like a silly question with an obvious answer, right? Wrong!
When we stretch a tight muscle we make the assumption that the muscle is tight because it is shortened and needs to be lengthened, but this is not always the case. A muscle can also be tight because it is too long. To illustrate this idea we’ll need to review our muscle anatomy.
Muscle contraction is achieved when muscle filaments slide over each other, increasing their overlap and shortening the muscle. You may recall the sliding filament theory Read More
Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Divergent’
‘Divergent’ movie poster. Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
“Divergent” is classic science fiction, the context of the story being a post-apocalyptic society divided into five “factions” and a coming of age personality test to fit young people into one of them. Seeing the film has made this sci-fi fan want to read the books.
Divergent is, like the book from which it originates, directed at an audience of young adults (YA) and teens. (We were witness to this most poignantly in the squeals of delight Read More
Letter to the Editor: Big Band Musicians Want to Thank Los Alamos in Person Friday Night!
By LINDA HULLThe Los Alamos Big Band, a 16-instrument 1940s Glenn Miller-style swing band, celebrates its 30th birthday this year! As a way to thank the community for its steadfast support, director Jan McDonald invites the community to a free concert and dance at 7 p.m. Friday, March 28 at Fuller Lodge.
Music was always an important part of the lives of the scientists, engineers, support staff, military members, and families who came to Los Alamos during WWII to serve in the Manhattan Project, and ‘big band’ was the popular music of the day. The Big Band began in Los Alamos in 1945 Read More
Tips For Spring Clean Up
Spring Clean Up!The idea of a New Year’s resolution can be a bit of a non sequitur for some. True, it happens as we turn over the calendar in an effort to create a new start in various aspects of our lives, but it also happens while many of us are in the throes of the dead of winter.
Springtime may offer a more appropriate metaphor for fresh starts — birds chirping, flowers blooming, renewal upon us.
So take advantage of the coming spring days — they are coming, aren’t they? — to cut the clutter, clean things up and get things organized around the house and in your car. Read More
This Week at the Reel Deal
Column By JIM O’DONNELL This week we are opening the much anticipated and controversial Noah. Muppets Most Wanted, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, and Divergent will hold for another week. Non-Stop ends Thursday.
Movie poster for ‘Noah.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater
The following is an excerpt from Kathleen Parker’s review of Noah for Read More
Letter to the Editor: Thank You for Donations to Komfort for Kids Project
By CECELIA DIMPFEL Beta Sigma Phi sisters of Laureate Rho Chapter #PL882 give a big thank you to the Los Alamos community for their donations for the Komfort for Kids kits project to supply Los Alamos Police Department cruisers with Komfort Kits to be handed out to children when police officers have been called to a distressed situation where young children are involved.
Thank you to the Los Alamos Daily Post for your excellent coverage of this project.
For more information on this project or how to help, email komfortforkids@gmail.com Read More
Letter to the Editor: In Support of Los Alamos County Council Anti-Trapping Resolution
By TINA SIBBITTI urge the County Council to vote in favor of the proposed resolution to support banning trapping on public lands in the County.
