Conscious Aging: Are You Ready for an ‘Encore’ Career?
Column By Ann Shafer
Are you ready for an encore career? You ask, “What in the world is an encore career?”
An encore career is employment after you retire from a major job such as from the Lab.
The term “encore” comes from the book, “Encore” by Marc Freedman with the subtitle, “Finding work that matters in the second half of life.”
What happens when you retire and feel like your life is going in a downward spiral?
You are definitely not ready to become a senior citizen. As Freedman stated in “Encore,” “Neither young or old, they are closing a chapter in their lives and their work, yet Read More
Asterman’s Movie Reviews for Pitch Perfect, Seven Psychopaths and Paranormal Activity 4
The Deal Down Movie Reviews by Rick Asterman
(Film score range: +1, 0 or –1)
Pitch Perfect
+1
Advisory – Gleefully vulgar. The whole time I was watching the film, I was convinced of two things: how unbelievable I felt actually enjoying the movie, how obvious it was the film was just barely pared down from an R-Rating. Any kid mature enough to watch the original Austin Powers movie should be fine with Pitch Perfect, but it still remains a judgment call for the parents.
The greatest positive of writing movie reviews is when, against all odds, the film you’d instinctively avoid otherwise inverts your Read More
Food on the Hill: Chicken Tetrazzini
“Food on the Hill” by Sue York
This week’s recipe:
Chicken Tetrazzini
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
- 4-6 chicken breasts, cut up and fried in 5 garlic cloves that have been pressed and 1 ½ tablespoons butter & 1 ½ tablespoons olive oil. After frying set aside, reserve any liquid
- 8 Tablespoons flour
- 8 Tablespoons butter
- 4 cups chicken broth or 2 cans of progressive starters (garlic flavor)
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1 small jar pimentos, drained
- 1/2 pound sliced mushrooms
- salt and pepper
- 3/4 of a 16 oz box of thin spaghetti, cook and drained
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese, grated
Letter to the Editor: Attack Ads
By Khalil J SpencerIf Citizens United is not overturned or modified, the County is going to have to send us larger recycling and garbage bins at election season to handle the third-party PAC attack ads in our mailboxes.
In local races, we have to see each other on the street the next morning. PACs, on
Column: Management of Power – The Slytherins Have Won
Column By Elena Yang
Management of Power: the Slytherins have won
In the last entry, I noted that those who craved extreme power seemed to be one dimensional in their evilness and their use of power was inevitably unidirectional.
This doesn’t happen very often in real life – thank goodness – and probably even less likely in organizations, one hopes.
However, in modern organizations, most managers with a lot of power rather resemble those described for the Slytherin House members in Harry Potter books; by that I mean most managers, especially at the top levels, make their way (acquiring Read More
Letter to the Editor: What Are We Voting On Anyway?
By Joel M. WilliamsOne would gather that the voters are voting on a bunch of amendments to the charter so that the revision is final and ratified by us.
Apparently, NOT SO. We have just gotten a new administrator whose input would be valuable, but there seems to be an effort to drive the CRC’s revision through with all haste.
So, why are we now in the throes of MORE amendments by the council while we are voting?
Sounds like the CRC and the council are piecemealing it to us and certainly do NOT have a firm grasp on the total situation/package. So much for a comprehensive review!
Are we to believe Read More
PEEC Amateur Naturalist: Hoodoos for Halloween?
PEEC Amateur NaturalistColumn by Robert Dryja
How many of us remember when we had to evacuate Los Alamos due to the Cerro Grande forest fire?
Many drove down the forest road through Rendija Canyon that passes by the Sportsmen’s Club as part of evacuating Los Alamos and remember this part of the evacuation very well.
But how many of us recall the tall, silent hoodoo rock formations that stood beside the road as we drove by?
About six of these sentinels stand near the road, one of them almost 20 feet tall. Other hoodoo formations in our area occur in lower Pueblo Canyon, the trail to Upper Read More
