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Food on the Hill: Smoked Vegetables and Pasta

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“Food on the Hill” by Sue York
 
This week’s recipe:
 
Smoked Vegetables and Pasta
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net
 
This is a very powerful dish with a lot of smoky taste, but it is still low calorie dish. It can be eaten warm or at room temperature. I use a charcoal grill and smoking chips that have been soaked in water for about ½ hour.
 
Veggies for smoking
Pasta noodles for 4 servings
1 ½ tablespoons butter
1 ½ tablespoons flour
1 ½ cups low salt chicken broth
Pepper
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net
 
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Column: Managers Are Not Leaders

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Coulumn by Elena Yang

I contend that by first denying managers can be leaders, we may actually begin to explore some links between these two roles.

There must be thousands of research articles on leadership alone, and only slightly fewer on comparing leaders and managers. 

Leadership was one of my least favorite topics when I was taking courses for my PhD. It’s interesting to talk about, but mind-boggling to read through.

To me, leadership is one of those moving targets whose full nature you can never really pin down. As for equating managers with leaders? I think this is another one of those Read More

Letter to the Editor: Ashley Pond Park Really Should Go Forward

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By Kristin Henderson
Candidate for Los Alamos County Council

Since I am running for a seat on the County Council, I would like to clarify my position about projects that have already gone through the community vetting process and been approved by Council, as my attendance at a recent Ashley Pond project meeting was noted in a recent front page article in the Monitor.

I am in favor of moving forward with projects that have already had public input and then are approved by Council. That includes this one.

The meeting I attended was about the Ashley Pond project, which includes improving ADA access, Read More

Letter to the Editor: Approve Trinity Site Lease Agreement

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By Kristin Henderson
Candidate for Los Alamos County Council
 
I am writing in regard to the Trinity Site Redevelopment project. I am strongly in favor of our County Council agreeing to the assignment of the lease from NADG to Smith’s.
 
And as opposed to Mr. (Robert) Gibson’s opinion published in Thursday’s Los Alamos Daily Post, I do not think this is the time to, once again, re-think this project. Fifteen years is enough and it’s time to keep moving forward.
 
First, the fundamentals of this project have not changed since the lease with NADG was signed.
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Money IQ: Sellers Beware of Cashier’s Check Fraud

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Money IQ
By Fidel Gutierrez
 
Sellers Beware of Cashier’s Check Fraud

The old adage of “Buyer Beware” is becoming “Seller Beware” in more and more transactions especially those involving the Internet.

Cashier’s check fraud is increasing and crooks are being more creative when it comes to stealing your money.

Simply put, cashier’s check fraud is when someone gives you or sends you a “very official” looking cashier’s check and you in turn give them the item you are selling.

You then deposit the cashier’s check and at a later date, the cashier’s check is returned to your bank and your account Read More

Letter to the Editor: NEDO: Good Investment But More is Needed…

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NEDO: A Good Investment in our Future But We Need to do More to Make it Pay Off

By Stephanie Garcia Richard
Democratic Candidate for NM House District 43
Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Sandoval and Rio Arriba Counties

Yesterday Los Alamos County hosted a significant event that many consider New Mexico’s entrance into the future of energy production for the nation.

That event was a ribbon cutting for the “smart house” demonstration project integrating photo voltaic energy production, battery storage, and computer controlled distribution and use.

The project team included a consortium Read More

PEEC Amateur Naturalist: Counting Butterflies

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PEEC Amateur Naturalist
Column by Robert Dryja

A butterfly count has been conducted each year here in Los Alamos for the past 20 years.

 A group of butterfly counters spend a Saturday at Burnt Mesa, the Valle Canyon and Camp May. 

They spread out at each location, carefully looking for butterflies to catch with their nets.

Each of the locations has a different environment.   

Is there a better way to explore Nature than on a sunny Saturday in July?

Intrepid Butterfly Counters. Courtesy photo

The Burnt Mesa had a forest fire pass through thirty five years ago in 1977. Its butterfly Read More

Letter to the Editor: From Weapons to Power Plant Fuel

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From Weapons to Power Plant Fuel
 
By James (Jim) W. Hall
District 43 State Representative and Republican candidate
Los Alamos, Sandoval and Santa Fe Counties

For several weeks, citizens in New Mexico have had the opportunity to comment on a Department of Energy plan that would take plutonium from decommissioned U.S. nuclear weapons and convert it to material that would generate electricity in nuclear reactors.

A key element of this plan would take place at the world’s most capable and secure facility for plutonium, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Scientists at Los Alamos have been proving Read More

Food on the Hill: Honey Almond Brittle

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“Food on the Hill” by Sue York
 
 
This week’s recipe:
 
Honey Almond Brittle
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailyposttest.ortizaudio.net
 
2 Cups of brown sugar (you can use white sugar if you wish, it will just be lighter)
¾ cup honey
¾ cup water
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons almond extract
1 tablespoon softened butter

1 ½ cups slivered toasted almonds (crumbled)

 
***Be careful cooking candy on the stove- it can be like molten lava if you spill it.***
 
Place slivered almonds on a baking tray and toast then in the oven at 350 degrees until golden in
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Children Have Laser-Sharp Perception: We Should Learn From Them Sometimes, if Not all the Time.

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Column by Elena Yang

When Maurice Sendak passed away last spring, I had some thoughts about learning from children.

I learned from Sendak’s interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152248901/fresh-air-remembers-author-maurice-sendak, why he stopped offering autographs and visiting classrooms: because he ended up frightening children and making them miserable. 

How so? Because adults impose on children the “social non-sense” of autographs: We teach children to not write in books but then take them to queue up (requiring patience, a rare commodity in Read More