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All Shall Be Well: God Delights In Us

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Clergy from left, Pastor Deb Church, Deacon Amy Schmuck, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, The Rev. Lynn Finnegan, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, and Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, M.Div.
ELCA

Thanks to many of you, who read our column each week, “All Shall Be Well” has been appearing in the Los Alamos Daily Post for two years, now! We, a few women in ministry who live in Los Alamos, have had the privilege of writing this column since August of 2022. Perhaps, now is a good time to remember why we named this “All Shall Be Well.”

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An Open Book: Loving Organizations

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By DAVID IZRAELEVITZ
Los Alamos

My earliest memory of a “non-profit” organization reaching out while growing up was during the fall of 1971, some months after our family had finally immigrated to the U.S. and living in Bridgeton, a small town in southern New Jersey. My father had started a job at a knitting factory, and the five of us lived in a one-bedroom apartment.

One of the managers at the factory had noticed the Izraelevitz last name, and correctly surmising a new Jewish family, introduced my parents to the local synagogue. Attending services soon followed, and with the translation assistance Read More

Catch Of The Week: Huge Breach Of American Data

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Hitting the news this week … cyber criminals leaked 2.7 billion records of personal information for US, UK and Canadian citizens on a dark web forum. Information included names, social security numbers, all known physical addresses, and possible aliases. Yikes.

Information appears to have been stolen from a company called National Public Data, a company that collects and sells this data for use in background checks, to obtain criminal records, and for private investigators. The company is believed to scrape this data from public Read More

Catch Of The Week: Arkansas College Ransomware Attack

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Ransomware attacks are pretty indiscriminate, attackers know they can get a big payout even from smaller targets like community colleges. NWACC (Northwest Arkansas Community College) is the latest college to fall victim to a ransomware attack. NWACC is a community college in Bentonville, AR, with an enrollment of about 8,000 in 2018. The attack occurred July 30.

School officials realized they had been attacked after networked printers began printing out ransom demands across the campus. College officials did not disclose the Read More

Robinson: All’s Fair In Healthcare Worker Recruiting

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

Around Houston Medical Center are six billboards inviting its employees to come to New Mexico, where they will be “Free to Provide”. The message is repeated in full page ads in the Sunday editions of dailies in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.

New Mexico’s governor and state Health Department are taking advantage of turmoil in the Texas medical community caused by changes in abortion laws to recruit healthcare workers.

Our shortage of practitioners is well known; some rural hospitals have closed their obstetrics Read More

Home Country: Like Taking A Dry Bath In Paradise

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

The evening was one of those that come back to you time after time, year after long year. It comes back and whispers of how good life can be when you’re well fed, enjoying life, and a good friend shares the front porch with you on a summer’s evening.

It was that way with Doc and Steve the other night. Doc thought he might have to do a scientific paper on the soporific effects of ice tea, fried chicken, and corn on the cob. As long as it didn’t take any effort.

So when this huge meal had been bull-snaked down, the two grinning friends came out to the porch to watch the sun go down behind Read More

Catch Of The Week: Blood Donation Service Ransomware Attack

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

In a move proving that they are literally worse than blood sucking leeches, cyber criminals sunk to a new low and caught non-profit OneBlood in a ransomware attack. OneBlood is a non-profit blood center that provides blood to over 300 hospital partners. OneBlood serves the Southern US in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. They operate more than 90 donor centers and have a fleet of over 350 donation buses.

OneBlood is still operational, but operating under limited capacity. They have issued a critical call for donors, and the hospitals Read More

Denish: Having A Coach On The Team

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By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

“Now that we have a coach on the team, I feel great!”

Those are the words of my friend, Ray Birmingham, a retired New Mexico Junior College and UNM baseball coach when I asked him about Gov. Tim Walz. Others have made similar comments about Walz, a longtime coach and educator, who was tapped to be the running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Walz, whose name and background have just been introduced to the public over the past few days, has all the characteristics of someone who connects with people in his community – a teacher and football Read More

Posts From The Road: Craters Of The Moon National Monument And Preserve

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A’a Lava: A’a lava is identified by the jagged, rough surface as seen in this photo. A’a lava experienced a more violent eruption, moved farther and faster following eruption, and may be seen in large blocks such as the lava seen in the photo. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Pahoehoe Lava: Pahoehoe lava is characterized by a smoother surface that may appear in strands like a rope. The eruption of Pahoehoe lava was slower and flowed across the Earth’s surface in a more liquid state. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos

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Fr. Glenn: When Giving Harms

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Well, our young people go back to school this week.

Just remember, young ones, what it says in the book of Sirach … verbalizing the sentiment of all who love and care for you … wisdom gained from many years of life’s experience which you as of yet lack but will come through the bumps and bruises you’ll inevitably experience:

“My [child], from your youth choose instruction, and until you are old you will keep finding wisdom… For in her service you will toil a little while, and soon you will eat of her produce. She seems very harsh to the uninstructed; a weakling will not remain with her… Read More