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TALES OF OUR TIMES: A Busy Rig Reports From Mars

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How the Hen House Turns—Time to Go Sleeping

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How the Hen House Turns
Time to Go Sleeping
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

In winter at night, a flashlight beam is enough to guide the little ducks to the warm Hen House. Lucy goose doesn’t object when they dash through the door and between her legs—probably because she raised them. Lucy gives the chickens some trouble in summer, but Gwendolyn has learned to avoid Lucy, and the hen hops up onto the roost when the goose is not being bossy.

Lucy and Bobbi, the geese, also follow the beam of light into the Hen House for the night. They are the only ones who stay up outside until someone gets there. Read More

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 Boxtrolls and Life of Crime. We will holdThe Drop and The Maze Runner for another week. Magic in the Moonlight and Dolphin Tale 2 will end this Thursday.

Sony Pictures did it to us again. They did not give us The Equalizer this week on the break. Their excuse was that we did not open a couple of their other recent films so they are withholding this one and possible others until we quit “cherry-picking” Read More

Fitness Column: Getting Started … Again

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Getting Started … Again
By KENT PEGG

I see it every day, people getting back to working out after having taken a period of time off. Lapses in workouts come for a variety of reasons with injuries, time restraints, and lack of motivation being among the most common. No matter what the cause, eventually it will be time to get back to your workout routine.

Whether it’s been a few weeks, months, or years, the important thing is that you’re back and ready to go again. But, when getting restarted, it’s imperative to know how to go about it safely and productively.

For those of you who have taken a few weeks Read More

Harkey: Restricting Joy

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By MICHELLE HARKEY
Body-Connection Coach & LMT

“Every chronic tension represents a limitation on the individual’s ability to express himself. Most individuals in our culture suffer from considerable chronic tension in their musculature – in the neck, chest, lower back, and legs to name some areas – which binds them, restricting their grace in movement and destroying their ability to express themselves freely and fully.” ~Alexander Lowen in “Joy: Surrender to the Body and to Life”

This limited ability to express is two-fold. It is easy

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Food on the Hill: Banh Mi

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This Week’s Recipe: Banh Mi
 
Photo by Sue York/ladialypost.com
 
Ingredients for marinated carrots and daikon radish:
 
About a 5-inch piece, Daikon Radish
1 carrot
3 cups of water
3 tablespoons of rice vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons salt
 
Other ingredients:
 
2 pounds country pork ribs, trimmed
one bunch green onion, chopped in small rings
2/3 cup of sugar
1 container of lemon grass paste
3 tablespoons fish sauce
1/2 tablespoon black pepper
 2 tablespoons sesame oil
5 cloves minced garlic
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon peanut
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Yang: How Many Data Points, How Strong The Evidence, To Win You Over?

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How Many Data Points, How Strong The Evidence, To Win You Over?
By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

It’s one thing for managers, or anyone, to insist on evidence, it’s another thing how they use this evidence.

You must have noticed that evidence in the face of skepticism only goes so far? How many of us, when being pointed out that we are wrong, even in the face of strong evidence, would immediately acknowledge our mistakes in front of others? And change our minds and behavior forever after? 

I am not referring to innocent little mistakes that we easily discharge with a light, “Sorry, sorry, my bad.” Admitting Read More

Johnson: Tackling The Islamic State

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By DUSTIN JOHNSON
Los Alamos
(Currently in a master’s program in Nova Scotia)

I think it is safe to say that most reasonable people in the world would agree that some sort of action needs to be taken to combat the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL and then ISIS) organization in Syria and Iraq.

While the organization has existed in one form or another since at least 1999, they have become a major concern for nations around the world due to their extremism, brutality, and rapid advances in Syria and Iraq. They have been implicated in massive atrocities by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: What Is A Musician?

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Classical Music World: A Revolution Is Underway

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By ANN MCLAUGHLIN
LACA Artistic Director
 

 

Today I went to grammy.com and got a real education. 

The Grammy organization gives awards to recording artists in 82 categories. I scrolled down the increasingly obscure list of winners, past four categories for rap, past Best Children’s Album, Best Regional Roots Music Album, Best New Age Album, on and on through 70 different categories. 

 At the deep, dark bottom of the list were the 10 categories for classical music. 

There was a time when every concert presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association sold out

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