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Education 101: New Lawsuit Questions Sufficiency of New Mexico Education Funding

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Education 101:
New Lawsuit Questions Sufficiency of New Mexico Education Funding
By Save Our Schools Los Alamos

We’ve written 16 columns over the past six months with the intentions of both learning about K-12 funding in New Mexico, and sharing that information with the community. You can read the columns at our website https:////soslosalamos.com; or by searching the Los Alamos Daily Post archives.

We started this work with the view that the state of New Mexico, which controls 70 percent of K-12 funding in Los Alamos and which actually caps local spending on education, has been systemically Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Muppets Most Wanted’

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‘Muppets Most Wanted’ movie poster..Courtes/Reel Deal Theater

‘Muppets Most Wanted’
Review by CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB

“Muppets Most Wanted” has just opened at our local movie house, the Reel Deal. It is a fun, feel good movie, with lots of laughs and surprise guest cameos. It’s vastly entertaining if you can just relax and let your funny bone be tickled.

All your favorite Muppets are in this one, plus several you may not have seen before. It’s even fun for people like me who weren’t raised on the Muppets and didn’t raise any kids on the Muppets. Read More

Solo Traveler: Sustainability

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A home at the permaculture community. Edible plants are grown with flowers and grasses to eliminate the need for pesticides. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
A composting toilet used at the permaculture community. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler: Sustainability
By SHERRY HARDAGE

I have mentioned in earlier columns that one of the huge benefits to solo travel is meeting people you probably wouldn’t have met if you’d traveled with a friend. While friends are great for security, companionship and sharing costs, traveling alone forces you to connect with locals and other travelers. Read More

Fitness Column: Tendonitis

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Fitness Column: Tendonitis
By KENT PEGG

Tendonitis is a painful condition that affects millions of Americans each year. It is an inflammation of the connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone. The most common symptoms of tendonitis are pain, tenderness and limited range of motion.

Every time a muscle contracts it places stress on the tendons. Too much stress placed on these tendons causes inflammation and tendonitis. Events that often trigger tendonitis include excessive repetitive motions, poor biomechanics, over-working muscles and strength imbalances between opposing muscle 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 Muppets Most Wanted and Divergent. Mr. Peabody and Non-Stop will hold for another week, while 300: Rise of an Empire and Dallas Buyers Club end Thursday.  

‘Divergent’ movie poster. Courtesy/Reel Deal Theater

Divergent is a thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader (Kate Winslet) Read More

How the Hen House Turns: For DeeDee — An Impossible Dilemma

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How the Hen House Turns:
For DeeDee—An Impossible Dilemma
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Ahimsa, a central concept in Hindu and Jain morality, means non-harming or non-violence.

I remember the Dalai Lama, speaking to a hushed crowd in Santa Fe, saying he had occasionally sinned against mosquitoes. He was reflecting on the fact that the concept is also important in Buddhism. One of the five precepts of Sila (ethical conduct) is not harming living creatures.

Hindu history includes both the rejection of animal sacrifice and vegetarianism, with tension arising from duties to protect Read More

Food on the Hill: Cream Wafers

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This Week’s Recipe: Cream Wafers
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Ingredients:
 
Cookies:
3 cups butter, room temperature
1 cup whipping cream
6 cups flour
sugar
 
Filling:
 
3/4 cup butter
2 1/4 cup powdered sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla
different colors of food color
 
Directions:
 
Cookies:
 Mix together the flour and the butter by cutting the butter into the flour until it looks like small peas.
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
I use a pastry blender, but it can be done with knifes. Add the whipping cream and
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Skin Care Column: Using Eye Cosmetics Safely

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Skin Care Column: Using Eye Cosmetics Safely
By JUNE ENGLISH

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates all cosmetics marketed in the United States, including mascara, eye shadows, eye liner, concealers and eyebrow pencils.

Here is some advice:

  • Keep everything clean. Dangerous bacteria or fungi can grow in some cosmetic products,as well as their containers. Cleanliness can help prevent eye infections. Always wash your hands before applying eye cosmetics, and be sure that any instrument you place near your eye is clean. Be especially careful not to contaminate cosmetics by introducing
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Yang: Tiger Mom – Afterthoughts and Self-Reflective Thoughts

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Tiger Mom – afterthoughts and self-reflective thoughts
Final Column in a 3-Part Series
By ELENA YANG

Reading “Battle Hymn” and “Triple Package” (review to follow) have made me look inward in the past few weeks.

The status of “immigrant” is like a layer of clothing we immigrants constantly have to attend. Does it fit? Is it the right fabric and color? Is there a point when I can shed it? Is there a way to shed it that doesn’t offend anyone, least of all my fellow country folk? (indeed, why should it offend anyone?) My “Chinese-ness” only became an “issue” when I came to the States. This extra layer of status Read More

Healing Hands: Therapeutic Massage and Sleep

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Healing Hands: Therapeutic Massage and Sleep
By GREGORY BARTHELL

Sleep, diet, and exercise are three points of a triad, which is a stable basis for creating health and wellness using self-care. This triangle is formed because diet, exercise, and sleep share certain major mutual characteristics, such as, the need for commitment to setting and achieving long term health goals.

Diet and exercise have long been considered partners in health while somewhat excluding sleep. In this article, the focus is on sleep and how therapeutic massage can improve sleep. In further articles the focus will Read More