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Kent Pegg: Progressive Overload Principle

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By KENT PEGG
Los Alamos

Most everyone would like to increase their level of health and fitness. By doing so we know we will have a better lifestyle, enjoy a more active life, and delay the aging process.

Whether you’re currently on an exercise program or not, you can benefit from a workout program that utilizes the progressive overload principle. The progressive overload principle states that to consistently increase your level of health and fitness you must increase the frequency, duration, or intensity of your workout sessions.

What you’re doing by increasing one of these things is placing Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater  

I went and saw Ricki and the Flash last night. I’m sorry now I didn’t book it for another week. If you like Meryl Streep you will love this film. Among her other talents, that woman can sing! It ends this Thursday along with Fantastic Four, which is no loss.

This Friday we are opening Paper Towns and The Gift. The Man from UNCLE and Mission Impossible will hold for one more week. We will have an early opening of No Escape with Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnon on Wednesday, Aug. 26.

Movie poster for ‘The Gift.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

The Gift: Read More

Food On The Hill: Watermelon Radishes, Shishito Peppers And Figs

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Watermelon radish salad with plums and avacado. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
Food on the Hill
By FELICIA ORTH
Los Alamos
 
Watermelon Radishes, Shishito Peppers And Figs

The fruit and vegetable bounty of summer is especially colorful, sometimes surprisingly so. Whole watermelon radishes, for example, resemble smooth white or light green turnips. Trim and slice them, however, and you’ll find a cheerful bright pink starburst interior.

Related to the daikon radish, watermelon radishes are mildly peppery, delicious raw, and make an excellent pickle. I paired them with sliced red heart Read More

Yang: Management Equation

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Ambiguity of causality underlies most social/management issues. Even when we detect a strong correlation, it is based on long horizons and large data sets. Yet, we tend to blame managers for most problems and begrudge them credit for any accomplishments. 

On the other hand, managers seem to claim credit all too easily and too quickly while rarely, if ever, honestly admitting their mistakes. Of course, before we can even assign credits and mistakes, we have to define them.

For profit-making organizations, the definitions may be relatively easier to define. Advertisement, Read More

Pastor Granillo: I Wasn’t Born A Pastor

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By Pastor Raul Granillo
Los Alamos

“I wasn’t born a pastor.”

I will never forget the moment I heard these words from Pastor Dave West during a pre-marital counseling session with my then future wife. Neither of us had any real intention of becoming part of a church, we just wanted to get married. So we went into this session hoping to only disclose enough about ourselves so that this pastor would be satisfied and preside over our wedding. Heck, we had only been attending the church for about three weeks and with just the intention of finding a pastor to marry us and a church to do it in.

When I went into that Read More

Mrs. Beadsley’s Jewel Box: Adventures With Animals

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By DEBRA LOWENSTEIN, owner
Mrs. Beadsley Vintage Jewelry

It’s been a busy summer and I’ve had a short vacation from writing my column. However, I have been extremely “jewelry” busy in the last two months.

Two weeks ago was the 3rd annual Santa Fe Opera costume assistants shopping party at Mrs. Beadsley. It was a lot of fun as usual.

A month ago my hubby and I took a road trip through Colorado. I did some treasure hunting in every small town we passed through. And, if I’m not mistaken, a few Los Alamos ladies have started to spruce up their wardrobes and collections with Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Mr. Holmes’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Mr. Holmes” may have left the local theater, but he will live on in the hearts of those who saw this film. We know Sherlock Holmes stories enough to know he is one who values reason, logic and true facts above all else. In this film, emotion, compassion and companionable friends find their place in his life, as well.

Ian McKellan expertly plays a 93-year-old Holmes (as well as a 63 year old Holmes). Laura Linney so inhabits the character and Irish accent of his housekeeper, Mrs. Munro, that we don’t recognize the actress in her first scenes. The brilliant young son, Read More

PEEC Amateur Naturalist: Visualizing Nature With Art

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Maple leaf. Courtesy photo
 
Maple leaf painting by Cathy Hillegas. Courtesy image
 
 
PEEC Amateur Naturalist
By ROBERT DRYJA
 
Visualizing Nature with Art
 
The natural world can be visualized with a digital technology in a variety of ways.
 
A digital photograph may have its contrast, spectrum, or color saturation manipulated to create a more interesting image or emphasize some characteristic. The maple leaf photograph is an example of this.
 
The leaf is lit from behind in order to emphasize the rib pattern in it. The contrast also has been increased
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This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

Unfortunately we have to quit a couple good movies after only one week to make room for new ones. Alas, it would be nice to have 6 or 8 screens!

Mr. Holmes and Southpaw are ending this Thursday. This Friday we are opening the much requested Ricki and the Flash and The Man from UNCLE.  Mission Impossible and Fantastic Four will hold for one more week.

Ricki and the Flash:  Three-time Academy Award (R) winner Meryl Streep goes electric and takes on a whole new gig – a hard-rocking singer/guitarist – for Oscar (R)-winning director Jonathan Read More

Living Well Los Alamos: 4Hs…Head, Heart, Hands & Health

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Living Well Los Alamos
By HELEN IDZOREK
 
The 4 Hs: Head, Heart, Hands And Health

The green four-leaf clover with the white H’s may conjure images of raising rabbits or baking a cake. But 4H is this and so much more. Youth from large cities to rural areas can and do participate in 4H.

For instance, in Los Alamos more than 20 youths participated in shooting sports this year and even placed in the district competition in Raton. New Mexico State University 4H offers a myriad of programs including Robotics, Karate, Vegetable Gardening, Fashion Design, even a Clowning project, to name just a few.

The Read More