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Hannemann’s Music Corner: Instrument Malfunctions – Avoiding the Gremlins

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Hannemann’s Music Corner
By RICHARD HANNEMANN

Instrument Malfunctions: Avoiding the Gremlins

There you are on stage. You have a solo part. Murphy is rubbing his hands in evil glee. Waiting. Do you know how many things can go wrong with your instrument at this magic moment?

Strings, reeds, pads, corks, felts, springs do not last forever. Tolerances in thousandths of an inch do not tolerate wear.
 
Adjustments re-adjust. Delicate parts get bumped, bent, dinged, dented altering the air flow of a wind instrument thereby altering the tonal quality and intonation.
 
Glues unstick
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Pajarito Reads: Visit the Worlds of T. Jackson King

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Column by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

This column will explore books that have something to do with Los Alamos and its surroundings, whether because the book is by someone who lives here, or lived here, or worked here or because of the subject matter.

Author T. Jackson “Tom” King

The sci-fi novels of T. Jackson King are a great place to start, because I met him signing books in, of all places, Smith’s Food and Drug Center in White Rock.

It doesn’t get much more local than that. It also just goes to show that interesting writers can turn up anywhere.

How did King end up in White Rock? Read More

Food on the Hill: Rice Pudding

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This Week’s Recipe:

Rice Pudding
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients…

3  1/3 cups whole milk
1 large orange- zested (use zest only)
1 1/2 lemon -zested (use zest only)
7 Tablespoons long grain rice
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/3 cup heavy cream

Directions…

 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Put everything but the vanilla in a 2 quart non-stick pan and cook on stove top on very low until rice is tender, stir every few minutes, watch the rice carefully so it does not burn.

Refrigerate Read More

The Pain Free Athlete: Straighten Then Strengthen Your Body

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Jessica Kisiel

The Pain Free Athlete
Column by Jessica Kisiel

Straighten Then Strengthen Your Body

Lifting weights is a great way to increase strength. Unfortunately, it can also engrain postural disparities and movement compensations.

This reality has spawned the term, dysfunctional fitness,  whereby we are doing our bodies more harm than good in the weight room.

Real strength comes from a stable and aligned posture. Joints that are out of alignment are weak. The position of the joints is dictated by the muscles that are attached to them.

When our skeleton is in a symmetrical position, Read More

Thoughts From the Big Chair: Comments on Television and Associated Media From a Lifelong Addict

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Thoughts From the Big Chair
Column by RALPH E. CHAPMAN

Comments on Television and Associated Media From a Lifelong Addict

Welcome to the first of an anticipated series of weekly columns about television and associated media.

The title is taken from one of the iconic music albums from the 1980’s, “Songs from the Big Chair” by Tears for Fears (1985) and it, of course, refers directly to my lounge chair in our (that’s Linda, my lovely bride, and me) living room here in White Rock (N.M.)

I am a lifelong lover of television, starting in the late 1950’s, and my love for television has run unabated since Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Working Without a Net

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Hannemann’s Music Corner
Column by RICHARD HANNEMANN
 
Working Without a Net
 
Being a solo guitarist, whether you are doing straight instrumentals or vocal with instrumental accompaniment, is a tough gig.
 
You have no music stand or music in front of you because the music is supposed to be fully memorized: if it isn’t memorized it isn’t ready for performance.
 
You have no one you are working with. You have no one to cover you if you make a mistake. You are alone on the stage. It is just you and the audience – people you do not know and who are staring at you hanging
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Help With The Hard Stuff: Legal Process is All about Negotiation

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Help With The Hard Stuff

Part 1 (of 10) – Legal Process is All about Negotiation

By GINI NELSON, JD, MA
 

“Legal process” is different from “law.” Law is comprised of the compromises that have been negotiated or otherwise made into enforceable rules.

Legal process is what you are “in” if you are in a dispute with someone over what the rules are or how they are applied – it’s the enforcement part of “enforceable rules.”

Let’s assume that consulting with a lawyer is involvement in “legal process” even if the lawyer does not end up representing you in a formal legal action.

You are already a problem Read More

Money IQ: Wi-Fi Security

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Money IQ
By Michael Carson
 
Wi-Fi Security

Wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) seems to be everywhere these days. Laptops, phones and tablets all take advantage of it.

Businesses often offer free Wi-Fi hotspots to their customers such as in a coffee shop, book store, bank, or hotel. Most people however, don’t realize that the person next to them could be electronically eavesdropping on everything that they are doing online. So, you may ask, why is there a higher security risk in Wi-Fi?

It’s because your device is broadcasting over the air to a wireless access point (WAP.) Any other Wi-Fi device within Read More

Food on the Hill: Cooking for Valentine’s Day II

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This Week’s Recipe:

Quiche Lorraine

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

For Valentine’s Day, I have two recipes that ANYONE can cook. I feel it is very important that you show the people that you love (sweethearts, family and friends) that you think they are important. Surprise your loved ones with a great dinner. Last week’s recipe was Cherry Chocolate Cake. This week’s is as easy as you can get, if you can make scrambled eggs you can make this. I tried to get everything in this dish pre-made, and that is what makes it so easy. Special thanks to Sam Montoya for helping Read More

Column: A Sensible Organization Is Not A Perfect Organization – Part II

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A Sensible Organization Is Not A Perfect Organization: Drawing Boundary, Yes; Generating Unlimited Rules, Not So Much – Part II

By Elena Yang

Let me try to recap and explain the third law of thermodynamics (maybe I should say regurgitate?): To drive all imperfections out of a system requires an infinite amount of work. 

Scientists can remove thermal energy from a system and lower the temperature to close to zero absolute. However, the process is nonlinear in the sense that as the temperature drops, the effort required to remove the remaining thermal energy from the system increases.  Read More