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How the Hen House Turns: Six Weeks on Dog Trails

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How the Hen House Turns: Six Weeks on Dog Trails
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

This is the story of DeeDee’s surgery. She was adopted with Scooter at age three months, spayed at three months before her bones capped off.

Without the hormones, bones don’t mature and harden properly, so they are subject to injury with normal activity. I recognize that there are too many unwanted pregnancies in the canine world, but we adoptive dog-lovers can be responsible and have the spaying done after they have grown up, so it doesn’t commit a dog to a lifetime of unfinished bones.

When DeeDee and Read More

Food on the Hill: Baked Crab Stuffed Tomatoes

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The Week’s Recipe:

Baked Crab Stuffed Tomatoes

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients

6 medium tomatoes
6 oz crab meat
3 tablespoons onion,
½ cup celery,
6 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 cup mozzarella cheese, grated
3 tablespoons breadcrumbs
½ teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
Salt and pepper
Salad
 
Directions
 
Prepare the tomatoes first, core and scoop out the centers. I find the best scoop is a teaspoon measure. Slice off a VERY thin slice off each bottom so they sit upright during cooking. Do not slice all the way thru the bottom of the tomatoes.
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
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Yang: Lists Are Great; Lists Can Be Constraining: It’s All About How We Use Them

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Lists Are Great; Lists Can Be Constraining: It’s All About How We Use Them
Column by ELENA YANG

August signals the end of summer. People take the last chance for vacation, and the pace of life seems to take a couple of notches down … for some. So, I will continue my summer-lite writing for light reading.

I live with lists. I don’t always follow them, but they provide both a compass and a reminder. Somehow, when it comes to management issues, though, I rail against lists. 

The “10 best ideas for…,” or “7 ways to…,” or, “5 lessons or secrets…” My least favorite is “6 ways to talk like a leader.” Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Beginning Music – Continuing Music

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Hannemann’s Music Corner: Beginning Music – Continuing Music
Column by RICHARD HANNEMAN

Summer has near flown and lo and behold the school year is upon us. For many students that means “do I start band or orchestra?” and/or “do I continue with band or orchestra?” It turns out the answer to one is the answer to the other.

After lo these many years I’ve figured out that if you live long enough, you will use everything you ever learned about anything. There comes a time when one can look at where one is and, looking back a bit, ask, “Wow, who knew?” It Read More

How the Hen House Turns: A Memorial For A Tree—An Old Friend

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The Neepers say goodbye to beloved elm tree. Courtesy photos
 
How the Hen House Turns: A Memorial For A Tree—An Old Friend
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Our girls called it the Lollypop Tree when we moved into our new (old government) house in 1969.

It stood at least six feet tall on one straight trunk, now a lovely old elm stump two and a half feet in diameter.

The branches on the young tree formed a perfect sphere and stayed that way for years. Miraculously, the tree rounded up after a long spell of single-digit freezes that killed one third of its branches. The wound left a dramatic hole Read More

Help with the Hard Stuff: Managing Student Loans

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Help With The Hard Stuff

“Managing Student Loans: As Serious as a Home Mortgage Obligation and Harder to Work Out”
Part 1 (of 5)
By GINI NELSON, JD, MA

This column begins a five-part Managing Student Loans series on some things to know and think about in managing student loans.  

At this time, student loan debt is the second highest form of consumer debt behind home mortgages and is at the $1.2 trillion dollar mark. Yes, trillion.

Student loans are how many of us got to and through college and some into professional programs and practices. It was almost automatic and usually without much Read More

Column: Sports-Specific Training vs Training Function

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Sports-Specific Training vs Training Function
By JESSICA KISIEL

Sports performance is the result of coordinated movement. Pedaling a bicycle, casting a fly rod, swinging a tennis racquet or golf club, and hiking up a mountain all require multiple muscles working together in a specific sequence to create action.

If any link in this chain of musculoskeletal function is not ideal you may experience early fatigue, pain, inefficient technique, loss of power and injury.

The repetitive nature of sport can create muscle compensations and imbalances. Consequently, many athletes have movement Read More

Solo Traveler: From Riches to Rags

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Solo Traveler: Riches to Rags
Column by SHERRY HARDAGE

After a three-month trip to Europe, I told my sister I needed to buy some new clothes. “Halleluiah,” she cried.

She thinks that wearing the same clothes over and over is a sad state of affairs and she loves to shop. She’s convinced shopping will be the cure to my obsession with not having things.

You see, I’ve gone from riches to rags – literally – in my sister’s opinion. I’ve joined the small but growing number of people who want a simpler life.

Simple living begins with having as little as we can get away with and continues with not letting more Read More

Your Money: Do You Have A Social Security Strategy?

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Your Money: Do You Have A Social Security Strategy?
By KATE STALTER

Last month, I wrote about several Social Security rules or factoids that tend to be widely misunderstood.

The rules themselves can be confusing enough, which is why it’s a good idea to consult a financial planner for some input. By law, employees of the Social Security Administration cannot give advice for your individual situation. Likewise, stockbrokers are largely unfamiliar with these nuances, as they get paid to trade stocks and sell financial “products,” rather than do comprehensive financial planning in their customers’ Read More

Food on the Hill: Steamed Mahi Mahi with Coriander-Sage Butter

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This week’s recipe:
 
Steamed Mahi Mahi with Coriander-Sage Butter

 

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

 

Ingredients:
 
Steamed Mahi Mahi with Coriander-Sage Butter
Parchment paper
3 filets of Mahi Mahi
2 lemons sliced thin
1 hand full of vegetables per filet (I used green and yellow sunshine squash, yellow pepper, green onion, small carrots- you can use any veggie you like)
Any fish seasoning
Salt and pepper

Butter (make ahead of time)

1 stick non-salted butter
1 1/2 Tablespoon coriander seeds
2 tablespoon dry white wine
1 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
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