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Column: Couldn’t Believe Marriage Equality Becoming Reality in New Mexico So Rapidly

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Wedding Gifts
Column by MARILEE HARRISON
Santa Fe

I stared at the screen in shock. Not that I wasn’t pleased – I couldn’t have been more pleased, but I could not believe marriage equality was becoming a reality in New Mexico so rapidly. Only two days before, the Doña Ana County Clerk began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Now, the Santa Fe County Clerk had been ordered by a judge to start issuing them, or explain later in court why she would not. Collective breath was held. Then came word that she would start issuing the licenses to same-sex couples at 2 p.m. Oh my! I had read an El Paso Times Read More

Column By UNM President: Higher Education Fundamental to Los Alamos

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Higher Education Fundamental to Los Alamos

By Robert G. Frank

UNM President

As the President of New Mexico’s flagship institution, I am proud to have a branch campus in Los Alamos, located in the heart of a premier science and technology community and home to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

UNM Los Alamos (UNM-LA) has been serving Los Alamos and northern New Mexico since 1980 by preparing talented students to continue their academic journey at UNM’s main campus in Albuquerque. Our students’ foundational instruction at UNM Los Alamos is exceptional, as demonstrated by their high graduation Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: An Instrument for a Lifetime

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Hannemann’s Music Corner: An Instrument for a Lifetime
Column by RICHARD HANNEMAN

Sometime between eighth grade and high school graduation, every young music student should come into possession of what is called a “step-up” or “performance” level instrument. And that instrument should be new. Here’s why.

You will recall from a previous column (Hannemann’s Music Corner: And Now a Word From Your instrument – July 9, 2013) that there are essentially five levels of instruments: beginning, student, performance (step-up), professional and custom.  Read More

PEEC Amateur Naturalist: Mud Is Important

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Deeply mindful of mud.Photo by Michele Altherr
 
PEEC Amateur Naturalist: Mud Is Important
By Robert Dryja

Particular thanks to Michele Altherr and the Nature Odyssey

“Holmes, I have been thinking about our little expedition the other week to observe harvester ants. You quite clearly already knew that the ants built their nest entrance to face to the east or the south. I, on the other hand, needed to look at nest after nest before realizing what direction the entrances faced. How did you know so quickly what was going on?” 

Holmes paused for several moments, thinking deeply and creating Read More

How the Hen House Turns: Dogs Aren’t Enough When It Comes to Hawks

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How the Hen House Turns: Dogs Aren’t Enough When It Comes to Hawks
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

My neighbors enjoy the fact that Coopers Hawks nest in their back yard, which edges on the steep canyon that houses tall Ponderosa pines and a pleasant stream in Walnut Canyon. Trouble is, there is no way that the dogs can protect a lone chicken from a hungry chicken hawk.

Years ago, when Jupiter, an old red hen I rescued from another bird-lover who had rescued her from someone else, went missing, all I found was a tuft of red feathers. It simply happened too fast. The neighboring hawk took Read More

Food on the Hill: Cuban Sandwiches

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This Week’s Recipe:

Cuban Sandwiches

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 

Ingredients:

4 Ciabatta buns, sliced horizontally
8 slices of baby Swiss cheese
Long sliced refrigerated dill pickles
½ pound sliced ham
1 pound of roast pork, shredded (I get mine in the prepared dinner section of the meat department – Get the no sauce flavor. Don’t use the moisture in the pack, dry off the meat)
Mayonnaise
Country mustard

Directions:

Mix together the mustard and mayo in 50/50 portions. You can get the cheese and the ham at the deli counter, that way you can get as much or as little Read More

Solo Traveler: Themed Travel – Art

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Palau Güell, looking up into the atrium. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
 
La Familia Sagrada seen from Park Güell. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
 
Solo Traveler: Themed Travel – Art
Column by SHERRY HARDAGE

Themed travel was something I found myself doing without being aware of it. It appears, in retrospect, that my trip to Spain was all about tracking down modern art.

Seven of Antoni Gaudí’s projects are now World Heritage sites. It’s hard to be in Barcelona for one hour without running across his name, seeing something inspired by him or viewing a building that he designed.

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How the Hen House Turns: Bobbi the Baby Goose and Hawks

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How the Hen House Turns: Bobbi the Baby Goose and Hawks
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

It’s been five years now. Lucy the goose decided to sit on eggs, again, in the wrong place ─ the Khaki Campbells’ nest box. I hated to move the ducks. They were new to the Hen House, and Ms. Khaki was laying gorgeous green eggs for the allergic kid down the block. Fortunately, they didn’t object to sleeping in the Hen House for four weeks.

End of that story─ Lucy wouldn’t move. She sat in the nest box for four solid weeks. All I could manage was to get her up for no more than two minutes to eliminate, Read More

Food on the Hill: Chocolate Raspberry French Toast

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The Week’s Recipe:
 
Chocolate Raspberry French Toast
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients:

 
Hawaiian Sweet bread cut into ½ inch slices
Nutella Hazelnut spread
Raspberry preserves
Eggs
Cream, small amount
A good bread knife
 
Directions:

I like to use the Hawaiian sweet bread in the round loaf for this. I was unable to find the bread shape that I wanted, so I used the Sweet Rolls instead. Just don’t break them apart. If you only can find the rolls, carefully slice off a VERY thin layer of the crust off the bottom and just the very top of the rolls. Slice Read More

Fitness Column: High Intensity Interval Training

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Fitness Column
High Intensity Interval Training
By KENT PEGG

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is an increasingly popular method of cardiovascular exercise for many people. 

As opposed to more traditional aerobic training where individuals maintain roughly the same level of exertion throughout the exercise session, HIIT changes the exertion level throughout the workout.

A typical HIIT sessions has the individual warm up, then increase the intensity of the workout to a level of five to six on a scale of 10, then increase the level of intensity to seven or higher (usually 8 to 8.5), Read More