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Parsons: The Core Energy Coaching Difference

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The Core Energy Coaching Difference
By LEANNE PARSONS

One of the most important things that most individuals want to know about Life and Leadership coaching is the underlying philosophy and principles. Most coaches base their practice on the traditional coach approach, which is about helping people take their goals to fruition, or taking them “from where they are to where they want to go.”

Essentially, this philosophy of coaching involves working with individuals, couples, groups, or organizations to help them clarify and focus on a goal, determine action plans and next steps, hold them Read More

CHCR: Reading Policy Description Carefully is Key to Using Health Insurance Coverage Effectively

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By Los Alamos Community Health Care Roundtable

It’s four months into the new health insurance plan year, and if provider experiences are any indication, that hasn’t been enough time for people to figure out exactly what “High Deductible” – especially as it relates to Los Alamos National Laboratory’s new insurance offerings – means.

As defined by the healthcare.gov glossary, “Deductible” is “The amount you owe for health care services your health insurance or plan covers before your health insurance or plan begins to pay. For example, if your deductible is $1,000, your plan won’t pay Read More

This Week at the Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater         

This week we are opening The Fault in our Stars and How to Train your Dragon 2. We will hold Edge of Tomorrow,and Maleficent. X-Men, and A Million Ways to Die in the West will end this Thursday.

We had so many requests for The Fault in our Stars we managed to get a second-week print which is almost impossible, so here it is. Come and see it. Unfortunately, we had to pass on 22 Jump St. for now, but hope to open it in a couple of weeks if we have room. It was a difficult decision.

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How the Hen House Turns: Prelude

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How the Hen House Turns
Prelude
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Years ago, while driving down to the State Fair in our grand old Chevy station wagon loaded with daughters and assorted three to eight-year-olds, no seat belts, and sharp fins the height of a child’s eyes, one of our daughter’s friends got car sick. We stopped the car, cleaned up the mess as best we could, and proceeded to the fair, not realizing it was a warning sign of things to come.

It must have been the next summer of 1971, five years before Don built the Hen House, when we drove my dad, Mom and Auntie Flo to Albuquerque for a short Read More

Food on the Hill: Cappuccino Bars

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This week’s recipe: Cappuccino Bars
 
 
Ingredients:
 
6 Tablespoons of instant cappuccino
2 Tablespoons hot water
1 cup butter, softened
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
2 2/3 cup flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt

Topping:

12 oz white chocolate
3 tablespoons of instant cappuccino
1 ½  tablespoons VERY  HOT water
4 tablespoons sugar
 
5 to 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate
1 quart size freezer Ziploc bag

Directions:

In a large bowl combine the butter and sugar and mix until it is light and smooth.  In a small bowl add together the
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Yang: Messiness: Creativity = Neatness: Organization

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Messiness: Creativity = Neatness: Organization

By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

How to be messy and neat at the same time? Can organizations foster the often haphazard and unpredictable creative or innovative process? I have known many individuals who are both messy (in certain areas) and organized (in other areas), or, who are both creative, especially in outcomes, and methodical in their minds. However, it is much tougher for organizations, especially of large size, to incorporate both flow-chart orderliness and trial-and-error playfulness. 

Bill Barnett, a professor of the Business Read More

Solo Traveler: Beautiful City Has No Tides

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Barcelona, on a clear day you can see……a cucumber! Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Sculptural vents on top of Casa Batlló, a Gaudí apartment building. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler:  Beautiful City Has No Tides
By SHERRY HARDAGE
 
I spent three weeks in Barcelona in September, 2011, sharing an apartment with a Moroccan woman I found on the AirBnB website. We had some marvelous adventures together and she gave me great advice on what to see and do.

Dalila hadn’t been enthusiastic about recommending the Teleferico gondola, as there was usually a long wait. Read More

Food on the Hill: Cheesy Baked Onions

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This Week’s Recipe: Cheesy Baked Onions
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Ingredients:
  • 1 medium onion, sliced in rings
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup milk or cream
  • 1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Directions:
 
Spray a 1 quart baking dish with non-stick spray. Place sliced onions in the baking dish.
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
In a small sauce pan melt butter and add flour
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
and cook for 1 minute (making a roux). Add milk and salt.
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Yang: Counter Culture, Counter Intuition – Sometimes it Makes Sense

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Counter Culture, Counter Intuition: Sometimes it Makes Sense
By ELENA YANG

One of the cases in my dissertation study offers two important lessons, or principles: 1. the weakness of strong ties, and 2. the competitive advantage of being the first deviant. “First move advantage” is easy to understand, but conceiving that “first” isn’t so easy. Some people undertake an unconventional move out of desperation, and many who strategically create something new bear the “high risks” to hopefully gain that “high reward.” But “first move advantage” is not guaranteed; we award the “advantage” label Read More

Monday Morning Health and Fitness Tip: Drink More Water!

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Monday Morning Health and Fitness Tip: Drink More Water!
By KENT PEGG

Everyone knows that drinking water is good for you. Water prevents dehydration, which can drain your energy and make you feel tired. But the act of drinking water has benefits as well.

If, like many, you work at a desk or in front of a computer, keep a water bottle next to you and drink from it frequently. Think of the many things your body does to take that sip of water.

First, you turn your head to the side preventing the muscle stiffness in your neck that often comes with staring into a computer screen. Try to put the water bottle first Read More