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Pastor Granillo: This Is Our Story

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By PASTOR RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” – M.C. Escher

I doubt that too many would argue about mankind’s inherit desire to produce order out the chaos of this world. As soon as we are born we seem to struggle against chaos by trying to order our lives and predict their paths. But it seems that bringing order from the chaos—both at a personal level and a global level—may be a losing battle. For all the good we bring into life, we often find we may bring just as much bad.

The Bible talks about this issue, in fact, I would say that this issue is interwoven into the entire Read More

Gibson: LANL Contract Change Merits Attention More Than Worry

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By ROBERT GIBSON
Los Alamos
 

Here we go again. Another change in the LANL management contract is coming in two to three years. What can we expect? What can we do about it?

Few would claim that the Lab has been more productive under LANS than its pre-2006 predecessor, UC. How fault should be apportioned among this particular management team, the for-profit business model, or DOE’s bureaucratic oversight is debatable. The first will change, the second may or may not. The third won’t.

In any case, the sun will keep rising. Virtually all employees, with the exception of some senior managers, will

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Roger This: 800 Years Of The Magna Carta

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By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

In the movies, Prince John of England is associated with the legend of Robin Hood. In popular literature, he was the bad prince, who became the acting ruler of the country in the absence of his brother, the idealized crusader Richard I, who was known as the Lionheart.

In history, Prince John maneuvered to replace his brother before it was his turn to wear the crown. John failed at that, but was forgiven and went on to ascend to the throne after Richard died in 1199. King John then fought a disastrous war in France, expending his political capital very quickly, Read More

Letter To The Editor: ‘Learning Dishonesty By Example’

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By CHARLES BAYFIELD
Los Alamos
 
Most young people learn best by the example displayed by their parents, siblings, teachers and peers.
 
Recently the local school administration has been setting a bad example for the students demonstrating dishonesty and involving the student in that dishonesty. Let me explain:
 
In the state of New Mexico school funds are distributed by a process which depends on counting the number of students three times a school year. These are called the 40 day count, the 80 day count, and the 120 day count.
 
These one day counts of students determines
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Yang: Change In Organizations Is Very Personal…

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Change In Organizations Is Very Personal:  If it’s not about “me,” why would I resist/embrace changes coming my way?

Once in a while, I let my fingers make the decision on what to review and write about. These 10 digits came across two decade-old articles in my file. Both are Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles about “change”; one is by John Kotter, a big name in organizational change, but his article didn’t do much for me. The other is by two psychologists, Robert Kegan and Laskow Lahey; after my initial irritation subsided – which I will explain below – I found the Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: 2016 Trend Forecast

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Warm metallics are all the rage. Courtesy photo
 
Pendant lighting in a kitchen. Courtesy photo
 
By SUZETTE FOX
Los Alamos

Whether your style is contemporary, eclectic or minimalist, interior design trends for the New Year are focused towards turning your home into a desirable space that will embody definitive style.

Trends don’t follow a calendar – they evolve. They reach from one year into the next, giving interior design professional’s time to identify them with confidence. Here’s what’s expected to be hot in the months ahead that will be driving retail Read More

Pastor Granillo: This Is Our Story

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1 NIV)

In the beginning God created (Genesis 1:1). From the account of the Bible, we can surmise that God created because God is love. But to understand this, we have to do some unpacking.

Imagine, even before Genesis 1:1, what God was like. We know that He was holy and glorious (Isaiah 6:3). And when Isaiah had his vision in the throne room he said, “‘Woe to me!’ I cried. ‘I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, Read More

Diabetes Mellitus – A Problem Sneaking Up On Us

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By Toshi Shiina, James Ziomek, MD, Mary Beugelsdijk, RN
 
We are facing a diabetes epidemic. The CDC reported that, in 2014, more than 29 million Americans (about one in 11 people) had diabetes – a 10 percent increase from 2010.
 
The concerning fact is that one in four people with diabetes do not know that they have it.
 
[1] While scientific research is still in progress, we know that certain groups of people are known to be at higher risk of having diabetes. The known risk factors for diabetes which we cannot control are: age, genetics, race,
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Pastor Granillo: I AM

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By Pastor Raul Granillo
Los Alamos

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Exodus 3:14 (NIV)

When God came to Moses in a burning bush and told him that he was sending him back to free the Israelites from slavery, Moses asked a couple of fair questions. Who am I to do this, and who are you to send me? In our lives today, we may often ask these same questions: “Who am I to interfere with what is happening?” and “Who are you God to command me to do so?”

What we may not understand, and what Moses seemed to have missed as well, is that who God is and how we understand Read More

How The Hen House Turns: Grateful Birds

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How the Hen House Turns
By CAROLYN (CARY) NEEPER Ph.D.
 
Grateful Birds

In this season of giving, we were treated to a story that left us puzzled and awestuck, not sure how to interpret the giving of gifts that is more than simple gratitude.

Here is the link that we received from  Madison, Wis.:

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/03/1368072/-An-8-year-old-girl-receives-gifts-from-the-crows-she-feeds?detail=emailclassic

The link itself describes what is a bit hard to believe and yet hard to deny. After the young girl put out food for the crows everyday for some time, Read More