Chart 598: COVID Test Positivity Rates 12-6-21 To 2-7-22
This chart shows the test positivity rate versus date in Los Alamos. These rates were calculated using weekly total number of tests and diagnoses. Since the start of the pandemic, 4.7 percent of about 52,000 COVID-19 tests in the county were positive. Courtesy/New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-Naim Read More
Didier Saumon: Why Preserve Dark Skies?
Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ . Courtesy image
By DIDIER SAUMON
White Rock
“It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day, colored in the most intense violets, blues, and greens.” –Vincent Van Gogh
When I moved to Los Alamos 20 years ago, it was more than an opportunity to reorient my career and do exciting work. It was the realization of my long-held dream of living in a relatively remote area with dark skies, lots of clear nights and dry, transparent air. You see, for amateur astronomers like me, New Mexico offers some of the best conditions to explore Read More
Wallace: Tying A Mineral Specimen To History
Silver specimen likely from a 5 metal deposit, is from an incredibly obscure locality that is tied to Scottish history. Courtesy/Terry Wallace
By TERRY WALLACE
Los Alamos
Specimens are more than molecular structures: tying a specimen to history. When I observe a mineral specimen, I first view it through a science prism – how was it formed, what does the particular crystal structure (or lack of) mean in terms of chemistry and thermodynamics, and what must the geologic processes been that created the environment for the mineral formation?
Invariably, I then think about the mining or collecting, Read More
Leonard: Breath And Panic Attacks
By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos
Have you ever experienced the out of control feeling of a panic attack?
I was in my mid-30s when I learned first-hand what a panic attack felt like. I had pulled up at a red light and boom … my heart started beating out of my chest and I felt like I was going to pass out. The first clue that I wasn’t dying was that I was able to drive myself to the nearest ER.
It’s funny now looking back on how illogical my mind was at that moment. Clearly, I wasn’t dying but how would I know, I had never experienced anything like this before. After several months of repeated panic Read More
Gruninger: Strength Pose Of The Month Side Arm Plank
By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT, ERYT500
Los Alamos
Balance, strength and grace. We all want it don’t we?
Okay, maybe I am only looking for the combination of those three things. Side Arm Plank Pose, to me, is the epitome of these three characteristics. I remember when this pose was out of my league and so difficult.
Yes, even yoga teachers have to start somewhere. However, with patience first, then practice, I also remember the day I moved into this posture with confidence and ease.
It was incredible (I’ll admit it took me a year) to feel myself float from down dog or plank into side arm plank without Read More
Posts From The Road: Pearl District And Emma Hotel
Pearl District: The Pearl District in San Antonio sits on 22 acres just north of downtown. Pearl Brewery was operated on this site from 1883-2001 before closing. The area has been saved from destruction and is now a multi-use destination featuring restaurants, offices, apartments, a park, and a hotel. The centerpiece of the complex is the former brewhouse seen in the center of this photo, which has been repurposed into the Hotel Emma. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Park: A family-oriented park sits in the middle of the Pearl District complex next to several restaurants and retail outlets. Read More
Fr. Glenn: The Wider View
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
We have sort of a love/hate relationship with our mailbox, or, in these days, maybe our inbox. Oh boy … maybe I’ll get some letter/email from a friend or long-absent relation whom I’ve missed, or some other good or fun news. But … then there’s the inevitable bills, taxes, periodic bad news, unexpected problem that crops up—some more often than others.
So, we often get consumed with our day-to-day concerns and problems. Indeed, we tend to magnify even the more minor things until they seem looming above us like the mythical sword of Damocles, sometimes making for toss-and-turn Read More
