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This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL 
Reel Deal Theater  

Reel Deal Tuesday’s are back! All movies, all day Tuesday, are only $6.50! Holidays, winter and summer break excluded.

This week we are opening The Book of Life and John Wick. We will hold Fury and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for another week.

The Judge and Gone Girl will end this Thursday. I liked both of these films very much. Do see them on the big screen if you can.

Movie poster for ‘The Book of Life.’ Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

The Book of Life is a vibrant fantasy-adventure, tells the legend Read More

Peterson: Weight Of Head Can Be 42 Pound Gorilla

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The Weight of Your Head Can Become a 42 Pound Gorilla
By Kreig Peterson
Medical Massage Therapist

I would like to talk about forward head posture (FHP) a painful and insidious condition, and how it occurs.

The average human head weighs around 8 to 12 pounds all stacked up nice and neat on seven little vertebrae. This wasn’t a problem until we developed a forward head leaning world through extended the use of computers and decided to load our children down with 60 pounds of books to carry around all day at school. 

Normally, the head should sit directly on the spine and shoulders nice and balanced Read More

Yang: Conceptual Foundation For Understanding Power Differentials: Social Comparison And Dynamic Conservatism – Part II

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Action, interaction, reaction, and inaction are all important factors to weigh in understanding the dynamics of interactions among individuals and groups. Characters and qualities of personality acquire meanings through all those (___) actions. 

When I first moved to this part of the world, I was more or less an unknown to others. Gradually, friends and colleagues built a store of descriptors of me, some probably are always true; others are couched in certain contexts, and a few I probably would never know about. In our social being, we often rely on others as our Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Time Lapse’

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Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Judge’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

“The Judge” stars Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall as estranged son and father, Hank and Joseph “Judge” Palmer. Vincent D’Onofrio and Jeremy Strong play Judge’s other two sons, who, unlike Hank, still live in the same small town as their father.

Hank must suddenly leave his successful Chicago defense attorney practice (and his much less successful marriage) to attend his mother’s funeral back in Indiana. Hank’s return to the family home is key to the dysfunction and mistrust that erupt when he shows up.

As happens in such coming home movies, Hank meets up with his past Read More

How the Hen House Turns: The Human Factor and Dolphins

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How the Hen House Turns
The Human Factor and Dolphins
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Just what do we mean when we refer to something unique about humans? 

All life recognizes other life, so that’s not it. Recent science magazines report that bacteria communicate with chemicals, so individuals can form mats or colonies, when there are enough fellow bacteria nearby. Communication doesn’t make us unique. Perhaps we assume too much.

We experienced a fascinating example of shared experience in the Bahamas with bottlenose dolphins. Our boat was parked near a dolphin feeding ground. Read More

Yang: Conceptual Foundation For Understanding Power Differentials: Competing Multiple Realities Get Us Trapped – Part I

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

How do you tell the difference between GM and Ford, as organizations? There may not be that many differences, but somehow we know. 

So, how do you tell the difference between different groups? Implied in my question is the answer that groups have identity, too, just like organizations and individuals. Hence, the cautionary principle for describing individuals applies also to groups: We should take care not to describe groups in static terms, as if their assigned characters were part of their permanent being. What do I mean?  Essentially, avoid using blanket Read More

Food on the Hill: Apple Cake

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Food on the Hill
By FELICIA ORTH
 
Editor’s note: We are pleased to announce that longtime Los Alamos resident and local home cook Felica Orth has taken over writing the weekly ‘Food on the Hill’ column from Sue York. York recently retired from writing the column after sharing her delicious recipes with our readers for more than two years.

This Week’s Recipe:

Apple Cake

Photo by Felicia Orth

Fall usually brings multitudes of fresh, crisp apples. Delicious eaten from the hand, chopped into salads, simmered into apple butter or pressed into cider, fresh apples also Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘The Equalizer’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“The Equalizer” stars one of my favorite leading men, Denzel Washington, as a quiet man living a mundane life in Boston until the day he has a brush with the Russian Mob.

As the story unfolds, we learn very few details about Robert McCall, Denzel’s character in the film. He appears to be a person with a strong sense of justice and some expertise in health and fitness. He lives in an upstairs apartment in a modest neighborhood, rides the bus to work, and seems well liked by his co-workers at Home Mart, where he has a job in the lumber department.

Movie poster for ‘The

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Solo Traveler: Permanent Changes

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Natzil with his pet chicken, mother and grandmother were Los Alamos Daily Post columnist Sherry Hardage’s neighbors in Ortahisar, Turkey. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler: Permanent Changes
By SHERRY HARDAGE

Anyone who has traveled to other countries, or the Deep South, knows how travel changes your perspective.

Visiting any culture different from our own is interesting and challenging. It’s impossible to come away with our preconceived ideas intact. I grew up in the South. I was taught prejudice and many of my relatives are still strongly opinionated about people who Read More