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Solo Traveler: Why Go Alone?

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Solo Traveler
Column by SHERRY HARDAGE
 
Why Go Alone?

The disadvantages of traveling alone are all too obvious. Nobody knows exactly where you are, who you’re with, or what you are doing.

Without a companion, it can be terribly lonely, especially while traveling in countries with different languages. It can be downright scary if a country has a bad reputation for violence or mistreatment of women. So you rarely hear about the advantages of solo travel.

When traveling with someone, we tend to speak our own language. We share experiences and observations with our companion. We are tourists. Read More

Food on the Hill: Panini with Prosciutto, Peaches and Provolone

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This week’s Recipe:
Panini with Prosciutto, Peaches and Provolone
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
This recipe makes one sandwich. It is wonderful with the sweet of the peaches and the salty of the prosciutto and the gooey of the melted cheese.
 
Ingredients:
Ciabatta bun or Telera sandwich buns
Butter
2 slices of provolone cheese
1 ripe peach, peeled and sliced
3 slices of prosciutto
PAM spray
 

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Directions:

You can get the cheese and the meat at the deli counter, that way you can get as much or as little as you need. Cut and butter Read More

Column: Parents, Children, and Divorce

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Parents, Children, and Divorce
By “Concerned Student”
Los Alamos

With an ever-increasing world population, marriages are becoming more and more common. However, with the increasing number of marriages, there comes a subsequent increase in the number of divorces. Statistics suggest that every one in two marriages will end in divorce, and 40 percent of the children born in this decade will have to experience the marital transition of their parents. Additionally, an abundance of research collected by various groups suggest that children who are present for a marital transition Read More

Pajarito Reads: Local Sci-Fi Writer Carolyn Neeper Explores Creating a Sustainable Society

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Column by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos science fiction writer Carolyn Neeper has been contemplating and engaging in interspecies communication for many years.

As readers of her column in the Los Alamos Daily Post, “How the Hen House Turns“ know, Neeper is deeply involved with the animals in her life, be they skunks, dogs or turkeys. It doesn’t hurt that Neeper also is a microbiologist.

“We aren’t unique in our emotional responses,” Neeper said. “We exaggerate our uniqueness. We need to appreciate more that we’re simply a part of it all.”

Neeper has watched the Read More

Yang: Cooperate To Cheat … To Get A Good Grade, Or, To Learn?

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Cooperate To Cheat … To Get A Good Grade, Or, To Learn?
By ELENA YANG

Here is an interesting read: https:////blogs.kcrw.com/whichwayla/2013/04/cheating-to-learn-how-a-ucla-professor-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm

To sum it up: An UCLA professor of Behavioral Ecology allowed his students to create their own rules for a midterm test. Instead of the usual closed-book test, he told his students a week in advance that they could bring to the test: notes, books, laptop, experts (if they could locate one or two in time), calling former students who had taken this test before … anything not in Read More

Heart to Heart: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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Heart to Heart: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Column by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
 
June English of Professional Skin Care Choices hosted “Spring Forward,” a make-over event in April. As part of the event, guest makeup artist Jenna from Rock, Paper, Scissors in Santa Fe gave me a make-over and a make-up lesson with the Jane Iredale makeup products English carries.

As I looked in the mirror at the new me, I could see that I looked a lot better. But for some reason what I felt was nervous. I looked better, but did I look good enough yet? Was this the best I could look? Could I reproduce the effects Read More

How the Hen House Turns: Hunting With Turkey One

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How the Hen House Turns: Turkeys are not Chickens
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

Turkey One, we called her Turkey, arrived from the feed store with one other turkey poult and three chicken chicks. She didn’t bond with the latter three, not even after the second turkey poult refused to live.

They do that. Some newly hatched turkeys give up. It doesn’t make sense after all that work getting out of the shell. Some simply refuse to eat. Websites tell me that commercial turkey raisers run colored beads through the feed so they will be stimulated to “hunt.”

When our two new turkey Read More

Money IQ: Financial Institution Lingo – Jargon and Acronyms

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Money IQ
By FIDEL L. GUTIERREZ
 
Financial Institution Lingo – Jargon and Acronyms      

Let’s begin this week’s Money IQ column with two examples of financial institution lingo. 

  • It is a dark, cold afternoon when you notice that your deposit account is overdrawn. You call your financial institution to ask about the situation. You are told, “Your DD wasn’t received from the FRB ACH and a POS posted against your DDA, which caused an OD and NSF item.”  

You stop by your financial institution to ask them what the status is on your mortgage loan refinance Read More

Column: Stressed Lately? Stress Busters to the Rescue!

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Stressed Lately? Stress Busters to the Rescue!
 Column by Kristine Coblentz, Secretary/Treasurer
 Los Alamos Community Health Council

The month of May can be a stressful time for youth and adults alike. There are deadlines and exams and reports due, field trips and awards ceremonies, banquets and graduations to attend. Sometimes it can all seem like too much!

Stress is a normal part of life and can actually have a positive effect on motivation and performance. There are, however, times when stress becomes too much and we begin to experience negative health effects: headaches, Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: A Little Light Summer Reading List

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Hannemann’s Music Corner: A little light Summer Reading List
By RICHARD HANNEMANN
 
Over the many years various books on music have found their way into my library. Often I’ve found these at a used bookstore, or a thrift store, sometimes they have been a gift, sometimes they were recommended.
 
They usually show up when I need them. I keep prowling for more and some I’ve found at Friends of the Bookstore.
 
Here are all the books I currently have in my music library. It’s an incomplete list – some have wandered off to other readers over the years (probably
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