UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer The “Heinz Dilemma” and Ethical Development For the last couple of months, I’ve been writing about ethics. I’ll continue this topic this month with ethical development. You may be familiar with Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Children, according to Piaget, go through predictable stages when learning to […]
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ALL ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT By Dr. Todd Stong Water Supply Around the Lake Lake Chapala water was the primary source of life for pre-historic area communities. Mezcala and San Juan Cosala are examples of such that have existed perhaps for 1000s of years as ruins further up the mountain attest when the lake was
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Missing a makeable slam is one of the more painful experiences in bridge. Of course, bidding a hopeless slam is not much fun, either! This is an area of bidding that often confounds less experienced players who regularly launch into the Blackwood convention at the slightest hint
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A BALLOON IN CACTUS By Maggie Van Ostrand “Broken Berlitz” While lazily drinking in the Spanish language, courtesy of the PBS Destinos series and U.S. State Department audiotapes, with a little Berlitz for a chaser, it occurred to me how easy a language it is to learn. Spanish is wonderfully simple -you pronounce each
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan Did I Remember to Tell You That I Forgot? A few weeks ago, over coffee at the LCS, I told a pal that I was a little worried about starting to lose what has always been one of my few attributes, an excellent memory. Could this presage the arrival
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com July 2010 PAST EVENTS: Two of our lovely, local octogenerian ladies, Lois Schroff and Lea Ament, got together and one asked, “What can we do for our birthday that will be a thrilling experience, including a handsome young man and getting
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The Twisted Way We Gringos Speak By Tommy Clarkson By way of explaining this layperson’s autopsy of “Gringo Speak” please allow the following brief explanation to, hopefully, set up what put this all in motion. Like most folks, both my wife and I extensively use, and are highly dependent upon, our land line and
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Raging Against Old Age By Bill Franklin Raging against old age is stupid but I can’t help it. Old age won’t leave me alone so why should I let it alone. Not only do I feel like a corpse (and am mad about it) I have mirror issues. When I look in the mirror
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A Cold Killing By Mel Goldberg Rolemi Publishers, 2010, 118 PagesAvailable locally at Diane Pearl Colecciones and at Coffee y BagelsReviewed by James Tipton Lakeside author Mel Goldberg has penned and now published a collection of eight murder mysteries done in classic style, usually opening with the discovery of a body (“Something terrible has
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A MONTH IN PERUPart One By Mel Goldberg Arequipa and Colca Canyon We flew from Lima on a Lan Peru flight to Arequipa sometimes called the White City because so many buildings are constructed of white, volcanic stone. Central to the city is the Plaza de Armas, the main square, dominated by the nineteenth
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