Lifestyles

Tourism Booming Thanks To ‘New Mexico True’

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By REBECCA LATHAM
NM Tourism Cabinet Secretary

Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to join Gov. Susana Martinez as she delivers an important message across the Land of Enchantment: tourism is on the rise and is bringing dollars and jobs to New Mexico.

For the third straight year, New Mexico saw record-breaking tourism growth, with 32.7 million people traveling our state in 2014. That’s 500,000 more visitors than in 2013, a boost that is exposing more people than ever before to our cultural heritage and unparalleled adventure.   

In fact, since Governor Martinez came into office, Read More

This Week At Farmers Market July 16

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LAFM News:
 
Look at what’s at the Farmers Market this week:
 
Shrimp, peas, salad greens, green beans, yellow beans & purple beans, squash blossoms, squash, filet beans, onions, green onions, garlic, garlic scapes, fresh herbs, carrots, beets, radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, honey, honey sticks, potatoes, sage decorations, weavings, sauces, pot pies, fruit pies, quiches, quinoa salads, old world breads baked in a pizza style oven, herb & fruit breads, scones, muffins, cakes, cookies, pizzas, and gluten free baked goods, apple cider, tea
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Solo Traveler: Delaying Dreams

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Solo Traveler
By SHERRY HARDAGE
Delaying Dreams

If there is one thing everybody learns eventually, it is that nothing is under our control.

We might think we have control as we work to earn money to pay bills, keep our lives organized, and discipline our wayward children. But just as every child is unpredictable, so is the rest of life.

In 2002 I read The Female Nomad by Rita Gelman. It was her memoir about going from rich movie producer’s wife, living in a big house in LA, to owning nothing more than she could carry. She began an adventure to live at large in the world. During the next 20 years she visited Read More

United States Is First Country To Reach Pluto

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Despite traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), it took four and a half hours for this photo to reach Earth as it crossed the 3 billion miles between here and Pluto. Courtesy/The White House

 

The WHITE HOUSE News:

This morning, the United States became the first country to reach Pluto — and the first country to explore the entire classical solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons interplanetary probe has been making its way to Pluto since Jan. 19, 2006, and has been providing the world with the sharpest Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: Design That Inspires

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A window wall brings the outside in. Courtesy photo
 
Smart Design With Suzette
By SUZETTE FOX
Design That Inspires

Design that inspires creates emotions that make us feel, make us think and look at the world in a different light. Good design influences us.

It makes us feel peaceful and happy. Good design stimulates the five senses – not all at the same time of course – but deeply.

In America we spend around 90 percent of our time indoors, whether it’s at school, work, home, in shops, cafés, events, museums and galleries. Our environment says a lot about us, and the spaces that we inhabit Read More

Pastor Granillo: Freedom To Live

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

“Do you have any regrets?”

I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked that question. I hear it asked of people all the time. We seem to be very interested in how people feel about their choices. And why not? After all, how they feel about a choice they’ve made helps us decide if it a path is worth the effort or not.

For the longest time when asked, I would always answer, “No, of course not. My decisions created the path that got me where I am.” (I think this is the most common answer I hear from others.) Today when I consider my past before I met Christ, I look at it more holistically Read More

How The Hen House Turns: Turkey Poults

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How The Hen House Turns
By CAROLYN (CARY) NEEPER Ph.D.
 
Turkey Poults

From May 26  to June 1, 1982, I traveled to Española with my friend Marge.

At the Country Farm Supply, all the turkey poults were crowded together at one end of a large metal tray in the chick room. Their feathers stuck together. The storekeeper tried to relieve their crowding by pulling them apart, but they continued to crowd themselves together. Finally, he put some older roosters in the tray to keep them stirred up.

“I need a turkey hen,” I said, out of ignorance.

“We don’t sex turkeys,” the clerk said.

I took two, when Read More

New Mexicans To Ride The Havana Express

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NMJW News:
 
History is being made with a group of New Mexicans traveling to Cuba for the first time since the US legalized travel there earlier this year.
 
The New Mexico Jazz Workshop is sponsoring a trip to the land of Rumba, Ritmo and Rum with the theme “Havana, Then and Now.”
 
Cuba is the birthplace of the Cuba Libre, the Cha-Cha, Mambo and Latin Jazz and travelers on the Jazz Workshop tour can drink in the rhythmic music for seven days and six nights starting March 16th through March 21st 2016.
 
This is the first organized trip to Havana from the New Mexico Jazz Workshop
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Skin Care Column: Minimizing Aging Factors

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Skin Care Colum
By JUNE ENGLISH and JENNIFER LINDER, M.D. (PCA)
 
Minimizing Aging Factors

Although we can’t stop the hands of time, the factors thought to be responsible for 85 percent of visible aging are largely preventable.

One of the primary offenders is UV exposure. Other forces responsible for extrinsic aging are less frequently discussed, such as pollution, sleep deprivation and smoking.

By addressing these extrinsic factors, our fight against skin aging can be more successful:

  • Pollution – Car exhaust produces copious amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are
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