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Column: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

Column by ANN SHAFER
Los Alamos

You’ve just hit 50 and you are now aware that you are in the second half of your life. What are you going to do with the rest of your life? 

You know what you don’t want to do. You don’t want to spend your life sitting in front of your TV watching show after show or spending hours playing computer games.

Sage-ing International is an organization that honors living the second half of your life in a joyful, fulfilling, and beneficial manner. It is also known as conscious aging. 

We now live longer and spend more of our retirement Read More

Money IQ: Too Good to be True (Continued)

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Money IQ
By MELISSA ROMERO

Too Good to be True (Continued)

Last week we discussed how criminals are always looking for unsuspecting victims to help them steal and launder funds.

“Money mules” are individuals who are usually tricked into helping transfer stolen funds from one country to another.

The fraudster uses social websites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter to locate their victims. Below is another example of “Too good to be true.” 

Mr. Right – You receive a notification on Facebook that someone is asking to be your friend. You don’t recognize the name, Tom Morgan, but you think to Read More

Column: Fiscal Disaster Zone

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Fiscal Disaster Zone

Column by T. JACKSON KING
Los Alamos
 
Amidst the current talk of sequestering of already budgeted federal monies, federal budget cuts and “Do This Or Else” threats from politicians, we taxpayers should know one simple truth—our federal and state budget problems come from the problem of greed.

The major contributor to our national crisis is large corporate greed, as in the 200 plus large corporations that pay no federal income tax on their earnings.

Some of these corporations were bailed out by Washington D.C. in 2009 and then in 2010 they decided to “gift” their stupid Read More

Food on the Hill: Greek Style Chicken

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“Food on the Hill” by Sue York

This Week’s Recipe:

Greek Style Chicken

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients…

2 pounds chicken- breast and thighs, skinned
1 small can black olives, drained
1 head of garlic, crush with side of knife
1 tablespoon dried oregano
salt and pepper
capers, do not drain
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup pitted dried prunes, quartered
3/4 cup Spanish olives with juice
4-6 bay leaves
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1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white wine

Directions…

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
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Pajarito Reads: Robert Fuselier Explores How Survival Strategies Rooted Deep in the Brain Control our Behavior

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Column by BONNIE GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Robert (Bob) Fuselier may be the ideal person to tackle the subject of his new book, “From Violence to Freedom.”

Fuselier is a veterinarian, which of course gives him a lot of insight into animal behavior and a background in medicine and biology.

Bob Fuselier

He’s also a world traveler, having done volunteer work in Honduras and more recently, in Afghanistan, where he saw how different cultures cope with human behavior. Fuselier also has a lifelong fascination with exploring our spiritual nature and a passionate interest in the brain and how it functions. Read More

Column: Great Skis, Great Skiing, to Great Organizations… Part 1

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Great Skis, Great Skiing, to Great Organizations – From Personal Development to Organizational Development Part I

Column by ELENA YANG

I have been working on four books for the past few weeks; two are about personal development and the other two are about organizations (see listing below.)

The overlapping messages are generally about living with passion, learning to release creative energy, staying disciplined and having fun.

On a recent skiing trip, they began to meld together for me. So, this entry is both personal and organizational.

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Thoughts From the Big Chair: ‘Ziggy and Brubeck and Crocs, Oh My!’

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Thoughts From the Big Chair
Comments on Television and Associated Media From a Lifelong Addict
Column by RALPH E. CHAPMAN

“Ziggy and Brubeck and Crocs, Oh My!”

Hey gang! This week, I think I’m going to stick to a couple shorter topics on different ends of the Reality Show continuum…

The Grammys

The Grammys were on last week and I managed to watch a good deal of the telecast over a few days using the old DVR.

It’s tough to watch the whole program at one time because, as with most Hollywood awards shows, it overflows with lots of ego, over-hyped records and performances, and, of course, mindless banter. Read More

Column: Trinity Drive and the Entrance to Town … What are Your Thoughts?

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Column by KRISTIN HENDERSON
Los Alamos County Councilor

Trinity Drive and the entrance to town … what are your thoughts?

This process has been going on for years – but is coming to a conclusion now and your input is needed.

The short (ish) of it is, Trinity Drive is really, as we know, N.M. 502 – a state highway. We are on the schedule to get funding for the stretch just before the pool into town to Knecht Street – just past where all the dirt is torn up for Trinity Site.

Funding is available essentially now and the road could be re-done in the next year.

Because it would be federal Read More

Real Estate & Neighborhood History: Western Area

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Western Area in Los Alamos. Courtesy/Google Earth

 

Real Estate & Neighborhood History
Column by JAMES CHROBOCINSKI

Western Area

 Any discussion of the real estate and the history of our neighborhoods in Los Alamos must begin with the first neighborhood developed in our mountain community – “the Western Area.”

The Western Area derived its name from the location in which it resides. At the time it was being developed, it was thought that Los Alamos would remain on only one mesa.

Therefore it was believed that a distinction between East and West would be all that is necessary. The Read More

Money IQ: Too Good to be True

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Money IQ
By MELISSA ROMERO

Too Good to be True

We’ve all heard the phrase, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” Well, unfortunately, this phrase applies largely to many incentive deals, job offers, and even relationships that we may find on the Internet today.

Criminals are always looking for new ways to steal someone else’s money and they’re looking for unsuspecting victims, like you, to help them. Job websites and social media websites (like Facebook and Twitter) are the new tool of choice to find money mules.

The term “money mules” is defined as individuals Read More