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Column: BRAIN Main Resource in Los Alamos

June 7, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Column by Liviu Popa-Simil

Los Alamos

I agree with all the facts presented in the column: ‘How Los Alamos and Little New Mexico Can Help Feed the World’ by William Sellers (June 1, 2013 ladailypost.com):

Earth population by March 2012 > 7 billion;
Food a security issue;
Fresh water abundance started to be a main concern and a problem too – desalinization technology may help – but not too much; and
DOE funded SMRs.

But here we are of divergent opinions:

DOE’s nuclear funding is more shy than ever; and
SMR is just a trick to go around a misinformed public opinion, because all the technologies

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Plumbing – The Sublime to the Ridiculous

June 7, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

PLUMBING: THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS

With just five hours remaining before the Cliburn Competition final round begins, I want to turn from pianists and music to a topic of vital concern to every female concert-goer ─ bathrooms.

Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall is an admirable venue: lovely to look at, comfortable, with great acoustics. But even the most beautiful performing arts facility can shortchange women when it comes to bathrooms, so I faced my first trip to this necessity with the usual nagging Read More

How the Hen House Turns: Two Bear Attacks

June 7, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

How the Hen House Turns: Two Bear Attacks

Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

During late summer 2002, I split the pen surrounding the Hen House in order to provide egg-laying privacy and security for an old red hen named Jupiter. A white Silkie chicken was busy raising the two Polish chicks and one turkey chick who had recently survived two bear attacks.

It was the second summer after the big fire of 2000 that had burned over 400 homes and acres of forest on the periphery of town. The bears were very hungry. One bear ate great chunks from the redwood posts on our front deck and tore several shingles Read More

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Finalists Announced!

June 7, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!

The judges have ruled and the six Cliburn Competition finalists have been announced. The result met our expectations with one curious surprise.

I have been smitten with Russian Nikita Mndoyants since hearing his performance in the preliminaries via the Cliburn’s web stream. Mndoyants, 24, has made a clear statement about his artistic intentions. He is a musical storyteller. His performances of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and three Debussy Preludes were gorgeous, vivid, illuminating.

Help With The Hard Stuff: ‘Be An Informed Shopper For Your Legal Services’

June 6, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

HELP WITH THE HARD STUFF:

Part 9 (of 10)–“Be An Informed Shopper For Your Legal Services”

By GINI NELSON, JD, MA

Last column looked at some of the reasons agreements fail. This column notes some forms of legal services variously called “cutting edge” law or a “comprehensive law” movement, which try to better address the reasons agreements fail, especially the reasons of shallow peace, and lack of informed consent.

Remember, all forms of legal services, conventional or innovative, are very human, to me meaning that the practical, on-the-ground reality can be very different from the idealized Read More

Hofmann: The LTC Basics #3

June 6, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services offers insights into Long Term Care:

Column by SUE HOFMANN

Consumers may hear many confusing statements regarding the topic of long term care, both published in the public domain and repeated by misinformed individuals. Over the next few weeks, I will be submitting a series of columns containing accurate information provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, website https:////longtermcare.gov. I encourage you to watch for and read these informative columns.

The LTC Basics #3:

How much Long Term Care will you need?

The duration Read More

Pajarito Reads: Discover the Divine in Yourself with Henry Ahlefelder

June 4, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Column by BONNIE J. GORDON

Los Alamos Daily Post

Henry Ahlefelder didn’t start out to be a teacher, healer and follower of a spiritual path.

“I was the opposite of a new age type of person,” Ahlefelder said. “I was into rock and motorcycles.”

On a whim, he asked a friend to teach him to meditate. The results amazed him and set him on his path to become a healer and a teacher. The journey let him to his first teacher, Yogi Behjan. He learned the practice of kundalini yoga and studied healing from a Japanese monk.

The journey led him to India where Yogi Bhajan’s teacher, Baba Virsa Sign took him as a student. Read More

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Behind the Scenes at the Semifinals

June 4, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE SEMIFINALS

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has been called the Piano Olympics. There are similarities.

Both are quadrennial. Both attract competitors from around the globe. Both generate constant rumblings about biased judges, which suggests that playing the piano has more in common with gymnastics or figure skating than with, say, running marathons. Competing in the Cliburn requires intense preparation over many years, careful coaching, physical and mental Read More

Your Money: Is Your Investment Philosophy Based On The Daily News?

June 4, 2013 by Submitted by Carol A. Clark

Your Money: Is Your Investment Philosophy Based On The Daily News?

By KATE STALTER

Let’s face it: Many of us are addicted to the news, whether or not we want to admit it. Every second of every day, there is a non-stop barrage of fresh, new events to scare us.

Yes, to scare us.

Consider this: When you watch TV news or read a newspaper or follow your social media news feed, there is generally a smattering of feel-good stories. But doesn’t most of what you see fall under the broad categories of “doom and gloom” or “run for the hills.” (In New Mexico, that assumes, of course, that the hills are not burning at the Read More