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Coaching Cafe: Time To Rock Anabolically!

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By LeAnne Parsons
Los Alamos
 
It is officially “Rocktober” in Los Alamos!
 
This month take the opportunity to pay special attention to how you are showing up at work, at home, at school, at church – yes, even at the grocery store.
 
Why? Because it matters. It is time to rock anabolically!
 
Your coach LeAnne Parsons defines leadership as the ability to inspire and motivate others, as well as yourself, to take life-changing action to create extraordinary results that last.
 
According to LeAnne’s definition, each and every one of us is a leader. How
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Living Well Los Alamos: Pumpkins & Winter Squash

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Living Well Los Alamos
By HELEN IDZOREK
 
Pumpkins and Winter Squash
 
Halloween is just around the corner which means we will soon be seeing jack-o-lanterns staring at us from porches and sidewalks.
 
But pumpkins have many other uses besides scaring trick-or-treaters. Pumpkin are actually winter squash, all of which originated in the Americas. Evidence of pumpkin-type seeds has been found in Mexico dating between 7000 and 5500 BC.
 
There are many varieties of winter squash including Hubbard, butternut, acorn, spaghetti and pumpkins among others.
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Yang: Work Is Part Of Life…

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Work Is Part of Life: It’s about merging them, not balancing them on a zero-sum scale

Most of us wear the “professional suit” when we are at work; letting our hair down is for when we are at home and/or play. That means that at work, we put certain constraints on who we are, how we behave, what we say and how we choose our words.  

There is logic to such bounded approach to work, but when we feel as if we have to suppress part of our personality at work, then all manners of illness may be manifested. I am not sure I like the phrase “balancing between work and life/family;” it’s that Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: Green Living

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Green living. Courtesy photo
 
Smart Design With Suzette
By SUZETTE FOX
 
Green Living

For a while now I have wanted to write a series of articles on the latest green products for your home. One of my desires is to get the word out to folks far and wide so when it comes time to make renovations there is information available to make decisions with the least negative effect on our environment and our own health. I plan on putting these products in my own home right along with you.

Every object you own — your furniture, your clothing, your beer cans, your stuff — comes from somewhere; Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By Jim O’Donnell
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening The Martian. Everest, Hotel Transylvania 2, and The Intern will hold another week.  Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials will end Thursday.

The Martian opens at the Reel Deal this Friday on Oct 2. This film is getting 90 percent  favorable reviews and took the Toronto Film Festival by storm. I think we’ll see it competing for an Oscar this season. The film is based on Andy Weir’s 2011 novel The Martian, which was adapted into a screenplay  by Drew Goddard, who grew up in Los Alamos and is the son of Colleen Mary (Hogan), Read More

Food On The Hill: Red Green Chile With Corn, Mushrooms And Goat Cheese

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Red and green chile with corn, mushrooms and goat cheese. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
Roasted red chile. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
Food On The Hill
By FELICIA ORTH

Red Green Chile With Corn, Mushrooms And Goat Cheese

I get as excited as any New Mexican in the summer when first greeted at the market by the smell of roasting green chiles, the whoosh of the flames, and the crackling of the blistering pepper skin.

I get just as excited at the end of the chile roasting season, right about now, because this is the time the green chile is ripening to deep red. This is when I purchase my sacks of chile for the freezer, Read More

How The Hen House Turns: Nesting

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

David Attenborough has hosted a special on PBS called “Animal Dwellings”, which reminds us that we are not alone in needing shelter or knowing how to construct it.

Beavers do a fine job of building dams and water lodges that contain a vented family room, a mud room, and a moat to protect it all.

But it is the birds that practice a wide variety of specialized architectural skills. We are amazed at the Merganser ducks that hatch in a hollow tree and jump 50 feet out of the nest when mother calls for a walk through the woods to water.

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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Intern’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

“The Intern” stars two of our better contemporary actors, Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, as a retired businessman and the successful founder of an online start up.

The send up is that De Niro’s 70-year-old character, Ben Whittaker, needing something more to do with his life, applies and gets accepted for a “senior intern” program at (Hathaway’s much younger character) Jules Ostin’s company.

Movie poster for ‘The Intern.” Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

The tag line for the film, “Experience never gets old,” is descriptive of the plot. Ben Whittaker’s 40 years Read More

Yang: Buy, Buy, Buy … Now, Now, Now

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Buy, Buy, Buy … Now, Now, Now

Do consumers help shape the work environment? In some ways, of course; yet, most of us as consumers feel pretty helpless about getting quality service most of the time. 

In that light, Amazon’s success, at least as of now, could not have been possible were it not for its ferocious customer-focus operations. So, consumers definitely have helped determine the working conditions at Amazon. The evolution of their customer services has been groundbreaking for sure, and as a consumer, I have been part of their equation. 

Will I continue Read More

Pastor Granillo: Life Imitating God

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” –Oscar Wilde

I am a Gen-Xer. I was part of that group that grew up on hairbands, Nike Pumps, Goonies, and MTV. What I remember most about my youth is so desperately trying to stay in touch with the pop-culture. Fashions and slangs seemed to change more often than my shoe size did; and surviving Jr. High and High School meant never missing the newest fad. I had to really be careful which “artist” I imitated. In hindsight, I made a good choice in jamming to Metallica rather than to The New Kids on the Block.

Art is simply Read More