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How The Hen House Turns: … Language Of Caring

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How the Hen House Turns
By CAROLYN (CARY) NEEPER PhD
 
The Universal Language of Caring

Not only lions respond to a kind gesture. Androcles plucked a thorn from the lion’s paw, but he lucked out; the lion seemed to understand that Andy was trying to help. I wasn’t so lucky.

For three long weeks I watched as Peeky, our daughter’s first chicken, sat on her nest full of eggs. Her dedication worried me. Setting hens are not like normal chickens. They are totally dedicated beings—focused on the task at hand. When they set, they set, and they don’t move except to fluff their feathers and cluck at intruders. Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday is the beginning of our spring break here in Los Alamos so we have put together an awesome line-up for our students as well as additional showtimes every day. On Friday we’re opening It Follows which is reportedly the scariest horro film to hit the screen in years and has been getting 9.5 out 10 from the critics.

Furious 7 also opens on Friday. This is the last Furious film, shot before Paul  Walker’s untimely death in November 2013 In an auto accident. Furious is also receiving great reviews.

For the younger kids we will Read More

Food On The Hill: Chocolate Bird Nests

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Chocolate Bird Nests. Photo by Felicia Orth
 
By FELICIA ORTH
Los Alamos

This Week’s Recipe: Chocolate Bird Nests

I contributed refreshments to a party Friday night at Fuller Lodge for the first night of an art show connected to the imminent opening of the new Nature Center. It’s a wonderful show based on PEEC’s mission in operating the new Center: inspiring connection with the canyons, mesas, mountains and skies of the Pajarito Plateau. 

The two recipes most frequently requested that night were the Pueblo Stew and the Chocolate Bird Nests. I’ll share the stew recipe next week; Read More

Yang: *$

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

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I like to think that if I were a public figure, I would recognize myself as being target-rich, and for my own protection I would develop a higher sense of self-awareness so that I wouldn’t trip on my own hubris. 

However, target-rich people and organizations … well, just keep providing new targets. This is how I should have replied when friends asked about my thoughts of the recent brouhaha surrounding Starbucks’ “#RaceTogether” campaign.

At the time, I just shrugged it off, but  afterwards, I thought more about it, and my delayed reaction was the above Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: How To Design A Home Office

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Home Office. Courtesy photo
 
Smart Design With Suzette
By SUZETTE FOX
How To Design A Home Office

Whether your home office is designated for running a business, the occasional telecommute, or simply a nook for paying bills, a well-designed home office is a necessity. It should be a place you want to work in.

Purpose

Designers make very conscious decisions about what to emphasize in a space, because the focal point immediately determines its purpose. When it comes to your home office, it’s important to emphasize objects that instinctively tell your brain “this is a space for  Read More

How The Hen House Turns: Nanny And A Book

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How The Hen House Turns
By Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.
 
Nanny and A Book

When the Hen House was ready, complete with hand-picked straw in the nest boxes, we packed everyone into the car on the pretense of visiting friends in the valley.

When we turned into the yard where we were to choose Shawne’s birthday present, we found to our horror that many chickens were running around loose, with no insulated, bomb-sturdy Hen House to shelter them.

Shawne took great delight in picking out three hens to take home. Nanny was a little hen with dark red feathers. She was easy to catch. What amazed me most, Read More

Pastor Granillo: Embracing The Big Picture

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

I can relate to poor ol’ Peter in the Bible. He means well but has a tendency of putting his foot in his mouth at all the wrong times. I think I relate to him because I see so many of us “regular folk” in his methods and in his heart. He loves Jesus, he knows Jesus is the Messiah, he anticipates all the great things that are being done through Jesus; but when Jesus tells him something that doesn’t fit into his picture of what God is supposed to do, Peter actually pulls Him aside and rebukes Him! (Mark 8:31-32).

Can you imagine hearing God say one thing and then you pull Him to the Read More

Griggs: Dateline San Salvador February 2015

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Bishop Romero at the Tivoli Fountain in  Rome in the 1950’s when he was a simple parish priest. The Lutheran and Anglican Churches celebrate his feast day on March 25. Courtesy/Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen

 

Pilgrimage To San Salvador
By DAVID H. GRIGGS
Formerly of Los Alamos 

At the end of January, I planned to travel south from Guatemala to Nicaragua to attend a Rotary Project Fair. Planes would be faster, but buses give you a chance to see more of the country. Central America has a great system of public transportation. I chose one of the Tica Bus “Pullmans”, Read More

TALES OF OUR TIMES: Consensus Looked To The Data

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By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Consensus Looked To The Data

Tension always exists between team loyalty and advancing your team’s interests with sound evidence.

In about 1975, I was appointed to a national panel of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in Washington, D.C. This rare experience revealed the many worthy souls at work on all sides, and it shapes my point of view still today.

Our panel had the formidable task of assessing the impact of regulations on the nation’s economy. The regulations of concern were all those that protect the environment, Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By Jim O’Donnell
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Home. We will hold Cinderella, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, and The Second Best Marigold Hotel. We were only going to show Marigold Hotel for one week but it did so well, we have to hold it for one more week. Run All Night will end this Thursday but the caveat is that projector broke down and we are waiting on parts so it most likely won’t be repaired by Thursday. I hope to get it up and running by Friday.

Movie poster for ‘Home.’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

Home: When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth Read More