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Food on the Hill: Green Chile Chicken Lasagna

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This Week’s Recipe:
Green Chile Chicken Lasagne
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Ingredients:
 
1 pound chicken
3 cloves of garlic, pressed
Olive oil
12 lasagna noodles, cooked and drained
12 oz. ruff chopped roasted green chile
10 oz. Manchego Cheese, grated
16 oz. fresh mushrooms, sliced
8 oz. Kraft Grated 4 cheese Mexican blend
3 tablespoons of flour
3 tablespoons of butter
½ cup cream
½ cup milk
Vegetable non-stick spray

Directions

Fry chicken pieces in a little olive oil on medium heat. After you flip the pieces to cook the other side, put in Read More

Solo Traveler: Themed Travel – Fountains

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Solo Traveler: Themed Travel – Fountains
Column by SHERRY HARDAGE

When on a long trip, I’ve discovered that I don’t get terribly excited about visiting a place until I actually put feet on the ground. Then the smells, sounds, the struggle to understand and be understood, all conspire to light a fire in my heart and make me want to explore.

I read about the Trevi Fountain in Rome and wanted to see it, but I wasn’t savvy enough at the time to use my iPad’s map functions nor had I discovered the iPad’s GPS. Plus, I went to Rome with two other women who had their own agendas about what to see.

After their

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Yang: Balancing Between Power And Empathy

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Balancing Between Power And Empathy
By ELENA YANG

It turns out that people lose their empathy once they assume a position of power. (Who’d thought?!) This isn’t just based on hunch, or some social/psychological research findings. A recently published neuroscience study demonstrates such a link in one’s brain (https:////www.npr.org/2013/08/10/210686255/a-sense-of-power-can-do-a-number-on-your-brain.) It’s hard to quarrel with physical evidence.

By and large, I seem to be critical of managers; they bear more responsibilities, and therefore need to be judged on higher standards. Read More

Hygea Health Bite: Five Surprising Sugar Bombs…

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Hygea Health Bite:
Five Surprising Sugar Bombs in Your Kitchen Right Now
By: Lisa C. Bakosi, CHC

We do sugar in this country like we do everything else ─ in a big way, but it hasn’t always been like this. The average American now consumes about 130 pounds of sugar per year. That’s three pounds per week or 3,550 pounds over a lifetime.

You may be thinking, “There’s no way I eat that much sugar.” Most of us don’t consume that much sugar on purpose, but it comes hidden in many of our everyday foods.

Excess sugar is definitely not our friend. It has been linked to weight gain, depression, low-energy, metabolic, Read More

Help With The Hard Stuff: Managing Student Loans Part 2

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Help With The Hard Stuff: Managing Student Loans

Part 2 (of 5) – “What are the Kinds of Loans Students (and their Co-Signers) Can Get?”

By Gini Nelson, JD, MA

I referred in my last column to “the new normal” – how much more difficult life is coming to be for many because of the massive changes to the global and our own economy, and more – but I think calling it “the new reality” is more accurate. Many Los Alamos readers are not directly affected, perhaps because already well-along and well-established in careers, but even these readers might notice and wonder what is in store for their children and the children Read More

Solo Traveler: Socialized Medicine

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Solo Traveler: Socialized Medicine
Column by SHERRY HARDAGE

An issue that every traveler must eventually contend with is medical care. Inevitably travelers get colds, bellyaches, injured, or worse. So if you’re in another country, far from home, what do you do?

Most American medical insurance companies will cover you in foreign lands with the caveat that you pay for the medical services and they’ll reimburse you. Travel medical insurance is available for a reasonable fee per year, or a not quite so reasonable fee per trip. Some policies have specific riders providing a helicopter or airplane Read More

Skincare Column: Managing Dry, Itchy Skin

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Skincare Column
By JUNE ENGLISH
 
Managing Dry, Itchy Skin

Aging and years of sun exposure reduce the capacity of your skin to moisturize itself, so your skin often becomes dry, flaky and itchy.

Your skin becomes even drier when humidity is lower in the winter and in dry climates.

To help combat dry skin and itchiness try these tips:

  • Avoid using harsh soaps, which are very drying to the skin. Instead, use mild or glycerin soaps on the body such as Alpha Keri, Basis, Eucerin, Neutrogena or Dove.
  • Use anti-bacterial soaps only on underarms and genital area, hands and feet. Do not use on your
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Food on the Hill: Fall Off The Bone Baby Back Ribs

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This Week’s Recipe:
 
Fall Off The Bone Baby Back Ribs
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Ingredients:
 
1 large pot for boiling
10-12 cups of strong brew coffee
50 percent water 50 percent milk mixture
racks of baby back ribs
Grill and smoking chips
Olive oil
 
Spices: granulated garlic, onion powder, cayenne pepper, McCormick’s Grill Mates (both olasses bacon and mesquite.) You can use other spices if you want.
Barbeque sauce (I use K.C. Masterpiece Original.)  
 

Directions:

Prep the ribs by cutting off all the fat that you can, without Read More

Yang: Simple Ideas

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Simple Ideas
By ELENA YANG

Summer fantasies and lite-writing are supposed to be over…well, summer isn’t officially over, and I allow myself to cross my “black line” every so often. Black line, as in “black words,” shows on your computer white background.

The first simple idea is this: What if we dropped packages of Sarin antidote in Syria?

Do I cross the line into politics? Not really. Geopolitics has a profound impact on economics and organizations. Wall Street developed an allergic reaction to just the speculation of a potential strike against Syria, lowering the Dow Jones indices; it is likely Read More

The Pain Free Athlete: Self-Healing is Within You

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Jessica Kisiel

The Pain Free Athlete
Column by JESSICA KISIEL
 
Self-Healing is Within You

Do you believe you can heal yourself? We hear this phrase often, there are numerous books written on the subject, but is it true? How do you feel when you hear someone say you can heal yourself? Is your first reaction denial – no I can’t – or do you feel empowered to take care of yourself – yes, I can make myself better? Knowing where you stand is an important awareness that may be impacting your ability to recover. If you don’t believe you can heal yourself naturally you probably

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