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Solo Traveler: Culture Shock

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Solo Traveler: Culture Shock
By SHERRY HARDAGE

No matter where you go, even if they speak your language, every country in the world presents something to the traveler that is surprising, possibly even shocking.

Coming home after being away for some time can be a kind of culture shock as well. Each time I return to the U.S., I am struck with how little time people spend meeting my gaze. In many other countries, when people speak to you they look you in the eye the whole time. It’s not meant to be threatening. The steady gaze is just their way of seeing you as a human being. But to Americans, who don’t spend Read More

How the Hen House Turns: Rabbits

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

Middle Daughter’s rabbits didn’t live in the Hen House, of course, but they impacted our lives, and I would be remiss if I didn’t include them in these animal tales.

There were lots of them, especially one summer. Most of them lived in hutches behind the garage. We tried very hard to segregates the sexes. We failed, but they didn’t. Somehow rabbits know who’s who.

We housed two “females” together, and the one named Pepper produced a litter of ten adorable balls of fur—each one a different

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This Week at The Reel Deal

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Column By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

Friday, Jan. 17 the Reel Deal will be opening Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, starring Chris Pine (Star Trek), Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley. This action thriller is getting very good preliminary reviews and will probably be the basis for a trilogy or series if it does well. Paramount Studios is looking for Chris Pine to continue as the new and permanent Jack Ryan if things go as planned.

We will hold Frozen, Her, American Hustle, andThe Wolf of Wall St. All of these films or actors garnered a Golden Globe Award this past weekend. We also brought back Read More

Pain Free Athlete: Stop Chasing Symptoms, Treat the Cause of Your Pain

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Pain Free Athlete
By JESSICA KISIEL
 
Stop Chasing Symptoms, Treat the Cause of Your Pain

When we have pain, we focus on where it hurts. If your ankle hurts the reaction is to assume there is something wrong with the ankle that needs to be fixed. With chronic joint and muscle pain this is often not the case. The pain is a symptom of an asymmetry elsewhere in the body.

A joint can hurt without being damaged. The pain is because the joint is compensating for another part of the body that is not functioning correctly. Tom Myers, world renowned manual therapist, uses the analogy of victims and criminals Read More

Youth Matters: Drug of Denial─Awareness and Impact

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Editor’s note: This column (the first in a three-part series) is sponsored by the Los Alamos Juvenile Justice Advisory Board. Columns will appear periodically with the goal of informing parents and the community about issues that impact local young people and their families.
 
Youth Matters
Drug of Denial─Awareness and Impact
By a Los Alamos Parent

You know us. We may greet each other at the grocery store. Our kids might have played on sports teams together. We may cross paths in our work, at church, the library, post office, Gordon’s concerts, ski hill or pool. It’s a small town. There’s Read More

Food on the Hill: Berry Tiramisu

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This Week’s Recipe: Berry Tiramisu

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients:

Small jar of raspberry preserves
12 oz. of mascarpone cheese, at room temperature  
½ cup of orange juice
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
16 oz. of heavy whipping cream, cold
45-50 ladyfingers, dried
2 ½ cups of orange juice
½ cup Grand Marnier liqueur (optional)
16 oz. fresh raspberries
16 oz. fresh strawberries
¼ cup sugar

Directions:

In a large mixing bowl, mix together with a hand mixer, the whipping cream and sugar until you start to get peaks. In another large mixing bowl, mix together with Read More

Yang: The Many Paradoxes Of Group Dynamics …

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The Many Paradoxes Of Group Dynamics: In this case, knowledge does help action
By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

I am not one to willingly join a group; I go out of my way to avoid group projects. One of my favorite professors once altered his syllabus so that I could opt out a team project (and thereby kept me in the class!) That was the pinnacle of my “no group work” principle in school, and since then the more I study groups, the less I desire to be part of them. However, I have also, willingly, been involved in some fabulous group works. The main reasons for these groups to have succeeded were because (1) all of us Read More

Sydney’s Corner: Foods of Turkey

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Sidney Frazier dining on frog legs in Turkey. Photo by Jason Frazier

Sydney’s Corner: Foods of Turkey

Introduction: Teralene Foxx. Photos by Jason Frazier

Over the past year, Sydney, our grandaughter, traveling the world with her parents has blogged about different foods: Foods of the Netherlands, Foods of  Poland, and now foods of Turkey. She was eight when then began their travels and turned nine in September. What amazes me is that this 8/9 year old is willing to try all these different foods. When they were in Bulgaria, she tried frog legs, which she proclaimed “They were really good.” Read More

How the Hen House Turns: Geese in a Hail Storm

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How the Hen House Turns: Geese in a Hail Storm
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned in the way geese respond to weather—or not.

On a bright sunny day, Lucy and the Hen House gang cut loose whenever I appear outside. I am greeted with a cacophony of loud honks and squawks. Their message is quite clear, “Let us out of here.” And I do.

But then, when the wind starts blowing the Ponderosas into a wavering dance, usually after noon, they retreat to the safety of the pen.

If the day is not bright and sunny—or if I need to open the Hen House doors a little too early—they do not Read More

Classical Music World: Finding LACA Concert Artists

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Cellist Joahua Roman will perform in Los Alamos Jan. 24. Photo by Tina Su.
 
Classical Music World: Finding LACA Concert Artists
By ANN McLaughlin

There are two questions I’m often asked as artistic director of the Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA). How do you find the artists that appear on LACA’s concert series and how do you entice them to come to this little dot on the map? 

The answers are pretty simple. They find us and we pay them.

Of course it is a little more complicated than that, but those short answers are for real. We hear regularly from 60 or 70 agents, hoping that we will book Read More