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22 MONTHS Any construction CSU hopes to complete for the proposed on-campus stadium will come down to the progress of all things plant growth.

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Police seek source of alcohol at limo party LONGMONT — Police are searching for the source of alcohol after a 16-year-old girl was found abandoned by her friends in the back of a limousine with a potentially fatal 0.40 blood alcohol content.

The Longmont Daily Times-Call reported Saturday that 13 teenagers attended a limousine birthday party for a 14-year-old girl. Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said they have information on who provided the alcohol but are still seeking witnesses.

Police say the limousine driver found the girl in the back of the car during a stop and called for help.

The girl was hospitalized and has since told police the alcohol was in the limousine when she got in.

No adults were present for the limo party April 4, which spanned Frederick, Fort Collins and Longmont.

Members of the Guinean Red Cross distribute information leaflets during an awareness campaign on the Ebola virus Friday in Conakry, Guinea. Guinea has been hit by the most severe strain of the virus, known as Zaire Ebola, which has had a fatality rate of up to 90 percent in past outbreaks, and for which there is no vaccine, cure or even specific treatment. The World Health Organization has described West Africa’s first outbreak among humans as one of the most challenging since the virus emerged in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. CELLOU BINANICELLOU BINANI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Broomfield’s Corgenix helps with effort to halt Ebola outbreak

By Alicia Wallace Boulder Daily Camera

BOULDER — When an Ebola virus

outbreak occurred in West Africa last month, officials for Broomfield-based Corgenix Medical Corp. scrambled and raided their laboratory coolers to assemble a potential line of defense: prototype tests developed to detect the deadly virus in a matter of minutes.

More than 100 people have reportedly died in south Guinea since the outbreak started three weeks ago.

Amid heightened concerns that the deadly virus might spread and affect people in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone — where scientists are researching and conducting tests for Corgenix and the global Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium — Corgenix shipped the entire stock of its prototype tests to Africa.

“We have to set up sort of a front line of defense in Sierra Leone,” said Corgenix president and CEO Douglass Simpson. “We also are getting a lot of interesting requests (from other research teams and agencies) screaming for the product. Everyone over there is literally scared to death.

“It just spreads like wildfire and then it goes quiet.”

Ebola outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90 percent, according to the World Health Organization. The virus is fastspreading and can kill an infected person in a matter of days or weeks.

There is no vaccine or specific treatment for Ebola. Some potential therapies are being evaluated.

Corgenix, founded in 1990, develops diagnostic products that range from tests to determine aspirin’s effectiveness in individual humans to assays that can rapidly detect viral hemorrhagic fever.

Sitting on the sidelines of that cache of 50-plus products was the Ebola test, which resulted from a 2010-2012 research program conducted with the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and funded with nearly $600,000 from the National Institutes of Health.

The Ebola assay has identified potential indications of Ebola virus in 15 minutes after an initial screen and confirmed the diagnosis in an “hour and change,” Simpson said.

That test, however, has not been cleared or approved for diagnostic use by any worldwide agency.

“We couldn’t get any more funding for it,” Simpson said. “The funding ran out, but we actually developed programs that worked.”

Since the National Institutes of Health study concluded, work related to the Ebola assay have been relegated to limited laboratory testing at Corgenix’s facility in Broomfield and in consortium partner facilities such as the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The tests do not involve any live samples of the virus.

Corgenix needed additional funding to conduct tests in the field, but the company’s follow-up proposal for an additional research grant was not approved, he said. A reason for the denial was not provided, but Simpson said he knows there are limitations in research funding and that there are needs to address more immediate and endemic diseases and viruses.

Testing procedures for Ebola involve sending blood samples to a laboratory in France, where “the highest level of testing possible” occurs, Simpson said.

Simpson estimated that it would take about $1 million and two to three years to bring the Ebola product to where Corgenix’s Lassa fever test is now.

ReLASV last year received CE Mark approval, which allows for the product’s sale and diagnostic use in the European Union and other international markets.

Auto racing event set for Colorado Springs Airport

By Joe Paisley The Gazette

COLORADO SPRINGS — The deafen-

ing roar of engines at Colorado Springs Airport might have little to do with airplanes in late June.

Organizers of a new auto racing event hope to attract 200 drivers and as many as 4,000 fans to the airport June 27 and 28 as part of the weeklong buildup to the 92nd Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on June 29.

The Airstrip Attack will feature side-by-side racing and use one of the three runways. The event will not affect flights, according to airport aviation director Dan Gallagher.

Holding the event at a commercial airport is a first for Revvolution.com of Colorado Springs and California-based Shift-S3ctor.

The co-organizers have staged six similar events at small, private airfields where there are fewer

flights and safety concerns.

“Colorado has never seen an event like this,” Revvolution.com president Ryan Randels said.

“This style of competition is taking off around the country, but the nearest events are in Chicago and Texas. It is an opportunity to bring more auto enthusiasts in for the whole week.”

Cooperation from the city and the airport board is helping to make the event happen, said Colorado Springs Sports Corp.’s Lincoln Floyd, the hill climb’s development director.

The races will cover a halfmile, and another half-mile is required for the vehicles, ranging from 500 horsepower to 2,000 horsepower, to come to a stop.

Airport runways provide the necessary space and a flat surface, which led to a 224.9 mph record during a recent California event. The Pikes Peak International Raceway’s mile oval is too

small to host the event.

Gallagher said the Federal Aviation Administration approved the event after a safety plan, similar to what is required for an air show, was devised. He said the event will generate rent revenue for the airport, although specific figures were not available.

Under normal circumstances, only one of the airport’s three runways is used for commercial flights so there is no conflict with the airport’s day-to-day operations, Gallagher said.

The week of events, now dubbed Pikes Peak Speedweek, will kick off June 20 with the Pikes Peak International Auto Show, which previously was held in fall.

Other events include the June 23 technical inspections, hill climb practices June 24-27 and the Fan Fest on June 27 that brings an estimated 35,000 fans to downtown Colorado Springs.

Man sentenced to 36 years for sex assault BOULDER — A 49-year-old man has been sentenced to 36 years to life in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman less than half his age.

George Tiba had been convicted in December of two counts of sexual assault, one count of second-degree burglary and one count of theft.

A judge handed down the sentence Friday.

The Boulder Daily Camera reported Saturday that a jury determined the 22-year-old woman he met at the Walrus Saloon in February 2013 was too drunk to consent to sex. A jury found that Tiba assaulted the victim twice in her home, stole some of her property and took sexually explicit pictures of her while she was incapacitated.

Tiba had maintained that the sex was consensual.

Fannie Mae cuts ties with 2 law firms DENVER — Mortgage-finance giant Fannie Mae has cut ties with Colorado’s two largest foreclosure law firms.

The Denver Post reported Saturday that the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., known as Freddie Mac, is also reviewing the possible need to take similar action.

Fannie Mae spokeswoman Keosha Burns in a statement said existing foreclosure cases at Aronowitz & Mecklenburg and the Castle Law Group will be transferred to other firms. Burns also said mortgage servicers have been instructed to stop referring new cases to the firms.

Neither firm immediately responded to efforts by the Post to reach them Friday.

Both firms have consistently denied any allegations in an ongoing investigation

by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers.

Suthers’ inquiry into five law firms began last year and is focused primarily on bill padding.

Denver police defend handling of injured dog DENVER — Denver police

are defending an officer’s decision to deny a bystander’s attempt to help a dog that lay dying on the street after being hit by an SUV. The dog laid injured on the side of the road for 90 minutes Wednesday before animal control officers responded to the scene. The dog later died.

An online petition demanding an apology from police had nearly 4,500 signatures as of early Saturday.

KMGH-TV reported that an officer threatened bystander Rose Knapp with arrest if he helped the dog.

Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said the department cares about dogs but the officer’s decision was based on public safety.

Concerns included the animal injuring somebody by lashing out or further suffering to the animal from improper handling.

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The perfect grilled cheese Readers share their tips for a great meal on National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day.

“Maybe it’s basic, but keep the sandwich at low heat — you will get that lovely golden-brown color and melt the cheese nicely. Too hot, and you’ll burn the bread without melting the cheese.”

“Open faced on a baguette with tomatoes, onions, garlic and Havarti cheese, then broil it for 4-7 minutes.”

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“Butter, cheese and bread. No need to alter what is already perfect.”

“Mustard is a good addition.”

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“Homemade Italian bread makes perfect grilled cheese, at least in our house. Cheddar cheese or American, or a mix, depending on tastes, plus onions for those who like them.”

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With potholes, if you see something, say something

1. Family-owned bike store shuts down in Fort Collins

2. Police: Driver hid in bathroom after injuring cyclist

3. Photo gallery: Project Homeless Connect, 2014

4. Horsetooth Half Marathon: 5 things to know

5. Fort Collins to receive less water than hoped for

6. Snow, wind may take aim on Fort Collins Saturday night

7. Blue Agave Grill opens below Fort Collins art museum

8. Motorcyclist hid in dumpster, arrested at gunpoint

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9. Looking for marijuana in Colorado?

Here’s a map of retail pot shops

Gillian Hadfield shows off her project dealing with robotic moving equipment at the 21st annual PSD Science Fair on Saturday at Boltz Middle School. ERIN HULL/THE COLORADOAN

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Senior Center to close for construction

ELDER CARE NETWORK

Free class eyes medical care decisions

EDUCATION

The Fort Collins Senior Center will be closed April 28 to May 11 for construction.

The center, 1200 Raintree Drive, is undergoing a major expansion project that will include increased fitness, health, wellness and social amenities.

The $7 million expansion is scheduled to be completed this summer.

For information, call (970) 2216644 or visit www.fcgov.com/rec reation.

Making decisions about medical care can be a bit of a maze. Elder Care Network of Northern Colorado is hosting a class to help bring some clarity to the confusion.

The free class will be at 5 p.m.

Tuesday at the Harmony Library in Fort Collins. The discussion will focus on how to communicate about medical care and how to give authority for decisions to others, as well as cover a variety of special directives such as living wills and do not resuscitate orders.

Registration is not required.

For more information, call Elder Care Network at (970) 4953442 or visit www.eldercarenet .org.

Students who want to apply for Fort Collins police’s Youth Police Academy need to submit their applications this week.

Sessions run June 9-16 and include demonstrations of crime scene investigations, evidence collection, court procedures and car chases.

The academy is open to Poudre School District students in grades 9-12 who have an interest in law enforcement, have good standing with the school and carry a GPA of 2.5 or higher.

Applications are available from school resource officers.

Contact Sgt. Dave Wilson at dwilson@fcgov.com or call (970) 221-6561 for more information.

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WATCH: HOW POTHOLES GET FILLED The city fills around 10,000 potholes each year. See how it’s done: http://noconow.co/potholes.

CALLING NOCO SUPER WOMEN! Mind+Body is looking for women to highlight in our magazine as a part of a feature about remarkable women in Northern Colorado.

Please submit your nominations to noconow.co/P6WbHP by May 5th, 2014.

Warm weather has brought on a spike in a scourge on Fort Collins streets — potholes.

Crews from the streets department have been busy filling in the safety hazards as quickly as they can. So far this year they’ve filled 5,235.

But much work lies ahead. Last year, crews filled 13,519, said Larry Schneider, the city’s street superintendant, at a cost of about $170,000.

Most years the number runs around 10,000, although in 2010 it was 14,900.

Potholes are filled year-round.

They are formed when moisture gets into cracks in pavement. The freeze-thaw cycle of fall, winter and spring makes the water expand and contract, breaking down the asphalt around it.

Vehicles roll over the damaged material, hastening its deterioration. Eventually, it pops out and there’s a pothole.

If left unrepaired, a hole will get deeper and wider and lead to further damage to the roadway.

Vehicles and bikes can be damaged; people can end up getting hurt.

The city welcomes reports about potholes — really. Crews go out looking for them but they can’t be everywhere at once. Residents play a role in keeping an eye out for holes and notifying the city.

Two ways of communicating are most effective: calling the city’s pothole hotline — (970) 2216615 — or through the Access Fort Collins program on the city’s website, fcgov.com.

Click on the icon and follow the steps to send an email to the streets department. Crews try to respond within 48 hours of a request, including on weekends.

Crews have a few ways to deal with potholes, but the basic technique is to blow out dirt and debris from the hole, heap on asphalt and tamp it down.

To see photos and a video of how it’s done, see this column on Coloradoan.com.

Members of a pothole repair crew I met Friday told me patches usually hold up pretty well. But the work never ends.

Keep in mind, the city’s pothole repair service does not apply to private property. If the parking lot at your favorite shopping center has gaping holes, fixing them is the responsibility of the property owner or property manager. Let them know about it, just as letting the city know about problems on the streets is a good move.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as the saying goes, or in this case, the asphalt.

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Stevie Kaplan, an employee at Choice Organics in Fort Collins, organizes the product counter Dec. 18, 2013. Choice Organics on Wednesday became the first shop in Northern Colorado to sell recreational marijuana and related products. V. RICHARD HARO/THE COLORADOAN

People line up for pot Saturday Crews work to renovate Eyestone Elementary’s entrance in summer 2012. The goal is to route visitors through the front desk at all PSD schools, have them check in and wear an ID badge to improve security. COLORADOAN LIBRARY

With school violence on the brain, PSD hastened security upgrades

By Madeline Novey

MadelineNovey@coloradoan.com

Just after 7 a.m. Wednesday, 16-year-old Alex Hribal went on a slashing and stabbing rampage that injured 21 students and a security guard at his high school near Pittsburgh, Pa. When tragedy such as this strikes in U.S. schools, parents may wonder: How safe is my child’s school?

Officials say Poudre School District works to ensure schools aren’t just places to learn and play but a space where children are kept safe. As a result of past violence in American schools, the school district has hastened security upgrades.

Using bond dollars approved by voters in 2000 and 2010, the district is in the process of upgrading a number of school features.

Today, all PSD schools have video camera security systems, and middle and high

schools are slated for upgrades, school district security manager Norm Bastian said. As recently as last January, the former estimated year of completion was 2016.

After 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adult staff members Dec. 14, 2013, at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary, PSD Board of Education members asked district staff members whether safety upgrades could be completed quicker than planned.

PSD staff heeded this request.

To date, 32 PSD schools have entrances that direct visitors through the front office; officials don’t want people to have access to the school building prior to signing in and acquiring an ID badge. Schools built using 2000 bond money have entrances that are deemed safe and appropriate, while 18 still need to be retrofitted with new entrances.

All will be completed by

the time kids return to school in 2015, PSD construction manager Tammy Knauer said. The original goal — prior to the Sandy Hook shooting — was 2016.

The following schools will get updated entries this summer: Beattie, Bennett, Dunn, Irish, Kruse, McGraw, O’Dea, Putnam and Riffenburgh elementary schools; and Lesher Middle School.

The Barton Early Childhood Center; Cache La Poudre, Laurel, Traut Core Knowledge elementary schools; Lab School; Preston and Lincoln middle schools; and Polaris Expeditionary Learning will get new entrances in summer 2015.

Those currently without new entrances lock school front doors and require visitors to gain admittance through use of an intercom/ buzzer system.

On a continual basis through 2016, PSD is also replacing doors and door hardware to ensure quick and

Choice Organics is Larimer County’s first and only recreational marijuana shop.

By Jason Pohl JasonPohl@coloradoan.com

proper locking.

Physically altering schools is only part of the district’s strategy.

“Really, one of the big things that is on people’s minds right now is mental health,” Bastian said.

“We can put barriers in place, but we really need to focus on individuals and getting them the help they need long before things happen.”

During budget talks, PSD administrators and school board members have committed to maintaining and growing mental health services. Bastian also recommended that students, staff and community members alike speak up when something — or someone — doesn’t seem right.

PSD has a program that allows educators concerned about a child’s behavior to make a report to the Threat Assessment Team, made up of experts such as counselors, psychologists and school resource officers.

There wasn’t a line around the building or a mad dash through the door Saturday, but by noon it was clear that word was out about Larimer County’s first and only recreational marijuana shop, Choice Organics.

The retail marijuana store opened Wednesday and has stayed busy in the few days since. A steady wait of about 15 minutes welcomed curious cannabis seekers after 11 a.m.

Saturday — the first weekend day for recreational sales at the Fort Collinsarea business.

Ashley Lowery, 27, has made three trips to Denver since legal sales began Jan. 1. She went to Choice Organics on Friday night and ran into a 45 minute wait right before closing time.

“It was packed,” she said.

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State law allows Colorado residents to buy up to an ounce of pot at a time. For the time being, Choice Organics is limiting sales to grams up to 3.5 grams, or an eighth of an ounce. The store wants to make sure it has sufficient supplies to meet the initial demand, shop owner Eric Freeman said previously.

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In a month, the Glacier View Fire Protection District is putting its budget to vote, and chiefs and administers hope that residents of the foothills community will approve a tax hike that will triple the department’s funds.

Fire Chief Greg Niswender asked Glacier View Meadows’ nearly 2,000 residents to approve a mill levy increase that will add full-

time and part-time positions to the department, as well as fund future equipment replacements within 10 to 15 years. The proposed increase, from 7.6080 to around 23.5, would also triple the department’s budget but cost residents around $300 a year.

Residents will vote on the increase May 6.

If it passes, the department’s mill levy would be the highest in the county when it comes to fire protection districts, according to data from

the Larimer County Assessors Office. The current highest mill levy is in the Poudre Canyon Fire Protection District at 21.1990.

The Glacier View Fire Protection District acts as the ambulance for the remote mountain community, which is about an hour west of Fort Collins along State Highway 14. The department of 18 firefighters gets about 120 calls for service a year, according to Niswender’s letter.

The mill levy increase is long overdue for a growing community that lost nearly 60 homes to the 2012 High Park Fire, said Bill Smith, the district’s president. The department is still operating on the same budget that was set when it was founded 23 years ago, he added.

“We want to raise it because it hasn’t been done in 20 years,” he said of the mill levy.

Recently, the department replaced its four 28-year-old

engines with four new engines, which it paid for with a $80,000 loan. While $140,000 worth of donations buoyed the department after the High Park Fire, Niswender would like to see the budget bumped to $371,000 a year.

There are at least a few residents who were shocked by the proposed increase.

Two residents vehemently opposed the mill levy raise, but as former volunteers for the department asked that their names not be used.

One woman said she was “disgusted” with the proposal to raise the mill levy. She said she could pay the increase — set at $300 for the average $250,000 home — but was worried that many of her neighbors could not.

But Smith still hopes the community will approve the increase come May. “We’ve lost money, and we’re just trying to get back up where we think it should be,” he said of the department’s budget.

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Data FEMA FLOOD MONEY The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has sent $285 million and counting in aid to Colorado after the September 2013 flood. Boulder and Larimer counties sustained the most damage from the disaster and have received the most aid. A breakdown:

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$60.42 MILLION: Grants for emergency home repairs, repair or replacement of essential personal property, rental assistance and help with medical, dental, legal and other disaster expenses.

$13.43 MILLION: Includes repair and replacement money for 1,082 homes, including 17 receiving the maximum $31,900 and rental assistance for 1,360 households.

Where FEMA spent $285M in flood money $58 million went to Larimer County for roads, home repairs, more.

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Email him at NickColtrain@ coloradoan.com. Follow him on Twitter @NColtrain. $28.44 MILLION: Helped repair roads and bridges in Estes Park, Fort Collins and Berthoud, as well as in the county and public utilities.

Federal dollars cover 75 percent of costs, with state and local making up the remainder.

$62 MILLION: Public assistance to state and local governments for emergency response efforts, debris cleanup, infrastructure repair and restoration of critical services.

$63.64 MILLION: National Flood Insurance Program payments on 2,071 claims in the state.

$98.75 MILLION: Low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration spread among 2,440 homeowners, renters and businesses.

$16.65 MILLION: Includes almost $9 million for residential and personal property losses and $7.77 in loans to businesses and private nonprofits.

SOURCE: FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

ARAPAHOE

COUNTIES WITH MOST ASSISTANCE RECEIVED

The September 2013 flood killed 10 people, destroyed 1,800 structures and damaged at least 1,600 more.

More than 17 inches of rain poured on some parts of the Front Range over five days, marring a region still reeling from other devastation.

Some 1,200 FEMA workers responded in the days following the flood and money has followed. Volunteers toiled as well.

The federal government has sent almost $285 million to Colorado in low-interest loans; national flood insurance payments; and grants to individuals, families and local governments.

FEMA grants and Small Business Administration loans totaled more than $221 million, more than a quarter of which went to Larimer County. Only Boulder County received more. In all, 18 counties received federal money following the flood.

More is on the way in the form of federal community development block grants that will almost double the amount of federal money spent on Colorado flood recovery.

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Boulder $139,601,332 Larimer $58,523,792 Weld $35,786,269 Arapahoe $11,111,616 Jefferson $8,102,572 OTHER COUNTIES RECEIVING DISASTER RELIEF MONEY $0 $249,999 RECEIVED

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“Forty-thousand is a relatively small stadium, and that sounds like a very generous amount of time for the builders to take,” Koffman said. “But your weather will be a factor there, too, and that’s not something we experience here.”

Similar-sized on-campus venue TCF Bank Stadium (50,805) at the University of Minnesota took 35 months to complete. Central Florida’s Bright House Network Stadium (45,323) opened 17 months after breaking ground but has a much simpler design than what’s proposed at CSU. So when could Fort Collins join cities such as Minneapolis and Orlando, both of which recently opened multipurpose outdoor venues?

CSU isn’t making any promises and Frank acknowledges a 2016 kickoff is optimistic. But the sooner a stadium is approved, the sooner the PERC can relocate and make way for construction.

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CSU president Tony Frank and athletic director Jack Graham referred all questions about construction to ICON Senior Vice President Mike Harms, who helped create a detailed timetable of what he’s expecting if given the green light.

Harms, the project lead whose resume includes Coors Field, the Pepsi Center and the new Minnesota Vikings stadium, said stadium construction at CSU — from breaking ground to opening — is expected to take 20 to 22 months. That includes rerouting Meridian Avenue to the east and making it a decorative corridor.

It does not include adding parking structures or moving the PERC, which fall under the university’s master plan and Bay Farm projects.

Still, the PERC plays an important role since it overlaps the site at which noticeable construction will start.

“There are some sanitary lines under the site and some storm lines, and we’ll have to get those relocated first. ... That’s when we’ll be able to start doing mass excavation and commencing with the foundation work,” Harms said. “The PERC

building will need to be moved. The greenhouses will be taken apart and reused and the other building will get demo’d.”

“Laying the (stadium) foundation will start in the southwest corner, which is where the PERC building is,” he added, acknowledging the gardens have to be taken care of first.

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Gardner, a two-term congressman from eastern Colorado, edged two GOP rivals Saturday in a statewide Republican assembly.

Gardner was expected to cruise to victory in a June 24 primary and go on to face Udall, who is running for a second term. But Gardner’s performance at the assembly means the other Republican hopefuls won’t even appear on ballots.

Gardner never acknowledged his GOP rivals in a speech Saturday, talking only about Colorado’s importance to the national political landscape.

Colorado is among a handful of states Republicans hope to pick up in order to take control of the chamber.

“Colorado is the fulcrum of the balance of power,” Gardner told some 4,000 GOP delegates at the assembly.

Republicans also narrowed down the list of gubernatorial hopefuls from seven to four.

Former state Sen. Mike Kopp and Secretary of State Scott Gessler won the right to appear on June 24 ballots.

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Tancredo’s petition has already been certified as sufficient to make ballots. Beauprez’s petition is still pending, but he is thought certain to have met the threshold.

The Republicans’ eventual gubernatorial nominee will challenge incumbent Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in November.

Kopp and Gessler edged three additional Republicans hoping to make primary ballots through assembly votes.

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A fire dog memorial sculpture named “Ashes to Answers” — created by Loveland artist and Windsor volunteer firefighter Austin Weishel — faced off against several other monuments in the Washington Post’s first Monument Madness competition.

As a play on March Madness, the monument competition put 32 monuments from the northeast region head to head in a bracket divided into four categories: presidents and Founding Fathers, war and peace, arts and sciences, and “What the heck is that?”

Occupying the “What the heck is that?” category, “Ashes to Answers” swept the competition, coming out victorious against the National Seabee Monument in Arlington, Va., winning by more than 900 votes.

Weishel, 24, said he didn’t know his sculpture was in the competition until he received an email about it, asking if he’d seen it yet.

The memorials involved, which ranged from the Washington Monument — dedicated in 1885 — to a sculpture of Kermit the Frog, were selected by the Post’s Monument Madness selection committee.

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“I didn’t think I’d win, honestly, and I was OK with that,” Weishel said. “But this is just amazing of the fire community and the community voting for the sculpture.

A lot of people I don’t even know voted for it, so it was pretty special for me.”

As a graduate of one of Colorado’s fire academies and a certified EMT, Weishel applied to Windsor-Severance Fire Rescue and was

brought on as a volunteer firefighter in 2010.

Long before that, at 16, he started pursuing his passion for art through sculpture.

He now gets to combine his two loves by creating bronze statues centered around fire rescue. One of his works, a life-sized piece featuring a firefighter helping a young boy, currently sits outside of Windsor-Severance Fire Rescue’s Station 1.

Weishel also runs the business Honorable Sculptures out of his Loveland home and studio, where he sculpts custom pieces that range in size from a small pin to one weighing 400 pounds.

Most recently, he finished a police memorial that is set to be installed in Modesto, Calif., this May. “That’s actually really cool for me because now I will have sculptures coast to coast,” Weishel said.

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Car sales, construction fuel tax growth A growth of 16 percent in sales tax collections for vehicle sales, parts and repairs boosts growth, as Fort Collins sales tax collections jump nearly 3 percent in March.

By Pat Ferrier PatFerrier@coloradoan.com

Fueled by strong vehicle sales and a sustained construction boom, Fort Collins sales and use tax collections continue to exceed last year’s totals.

Sales tax collections for vehicle sales, parts and repairs were up 16.3 percent in March from the prior year, according to the city’s sales and use tax report released Thursday. Use taxes paid on vehicles purchased outside city limits were up more than 11 percent.

Mike Croce, general sales manager of Pedersen Toyota, 4455 S. College Ave., reported sales are up about 8 percent at his dealership this year, with strong March sales.

The addition of several redesigned models, strong manufacturer rebates and incentives “have worked really well,” said Croce, who is projecting 7 to 10 percent growth this year.

“There’s been a lot of unpredictability in the last few years, but there are positive signs from the manufacturer and customers.”

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Sales at Ed Carroll Motors, which sells Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche, are up about 5 percent through March.

Poor weather in January and February tamed sales slightly, but March came roaring back, said owner John Carroll.

Clean diesel models that get good gas mileage have been popular, Carroll said.

“The high-mileage cars are selling well; clean diesel cars are very green, and that’s very important to other folks.”

Lower-priced luxury cars are also hot, he said.

Carroll is sold out of the Macan, a new SUV produced by Porsche that is expected to hit the showroom in about 30 days. The new Audi A3, which just arrived, is also

selling well, Carroll said.

The Macan, starting in the mid-$50,000 range, and the A3 at about $31,000, are lower entries into the luxury segment, he said.

Although March sales tax collections fell $29,000 short of what the city had budgeted, they are still $275,000 over budget for the year, said Jessica PingSmall, the city’s sales tax manager.

“Considering those numbers, we’re not concerned about the little variances” as part of the $7 million overall collections, she said.

Much of the decline came because of late payment last year that is throwing off this year’s number in the building materials, garden equipment and supplies

Salesman Dave Hess, center, works with Yousef Alkout as Alkout looks to buy a car at Ed Carroll Motors on Friday in Fort Collins. Auto sales continued their strong performance in March, sales and use tax data from the city show. ERIN HULL/THE COLORADOAN

category, she said.

“It’s a matter of timing more than an matter of concern,” Ping-Small said. The city only needs about 1.3 percent growth from last year to make its 2014 budget. Combined sales and use taxes, excluding rebates,

are up 8.2 percent.

Building permits continue to generate an increase in use taxes, including an 83.6 percent increase in March.

Avago Technologies pulled a building permit for interior work on a clean

room as part of an ongoing expansion at its Ziegler Road facility.

The use tax deposit brought in more than $600,000, more than the total taxes paid on building permits for the entire month of March 2013.

CSU plans research, teaching center in Mexico The facility in Todos Santos will be built through a public-private partnership and is expected to open in spring 2015.

By Coloradoan staff

Colorado State University

last week announced plans to build its first international research and teaching center in Mexico.

Located in Todos Santos, the facility to be built through a partnership with Colorado developer Black Creek Capital will provide teaching and research op-

portunities focused on a variety of agricultural, environmental and educational topics, according to a university release.

A Mexican real estate investment company is donating $4.3 million in land and facilities to the project, including a housing facility

for up to 24 students and faculty, classrooms, a library, and a kitchen and dining facility. Ground will be broken on new facilities this spring, with the center expected to open in spring 2015.

“The opportunities for collaboration in Todos San-

tos build on our existing partnerships in Mexico, and the range and breadth of the potential areas of work span nearly the entire university,” CSU President Tony Frank said in a written release.

“Collaborations in Mexico are important given the

vital nature of the ColoradoMexico trade partnership.

We’re excited to see the benefits of the new collaboration that will arise in the coming years.”

Learn more about the project at http://todos santos.colostate.edu.

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Cowboys line a fence while preparing for the Skyline Stampede Rodeo at the B.W. Pickett Arena in Fort Collins on Friday. The Stampede is the oldest intercollegiate rodeo in the country and is organized by the CSU Rodeo Club.

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Senate approves Judge sides with driver, rules snap inspections flashing lights is free speech of abortion clinics

By Jeff Barnard Associated Press

By Bob Christie Associated Press

PHOENIX — A bill allowing surprise inspections of abortion clinics without a search warrant was approved by the Arizona Senate.

House Bill 2284 was previously passed by the House on Wednesday, meaning it will now go to Gov. Jan Brewer for consideration.

The Senate approved the bill 17-13 along party lines.

Litigation is likely if the bill becomes law because requiring warrants for such searches is part of a 2010 lawsuit settlement.

Majority Republicans said the change is needed to ensure abortion clinics can be inspected without delays.

Sen. Nancy Barto, RPhoenix, said abortion clinics are the only health care institutions in the state that are not subject to unannounced inspections.

Democrats countered that removing the warrant requirement would open clinics to harassment by unfriendly regulators and could subject the state to even more lawsuits over its abortion rules. Democrats

also say the bill is unnecessary, since only one warrant has been issued in the past four years.

“This bill is nothing more than a solution in search of a problem,” said Sen. Katie Hobbs, D-Phoenix.

The warrant requirement was put in place as part of the settlement of a lawsuit filed over a 2004 state law. The deal came after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that snap inspections at the clinics violate women’s privacy.

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An initial report found issues with some staff licenses and patient care, but Planned Parenthood said it has either provided the needed paperwork or disputes the findings.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Hauling

a truckload of logs to a Southern Oregon mill last fall, Chris Hill noticed a sheriff’s deputy behind him and flashed his lights to warn a UPS driver coming the other way.

The deputy pulled Hill over on U.S. Highway 140 in White City and handed him a $260 ticket for improperly using his headlights, saying another deputy had seen the flashing lights from behind the UPS truck and alerted him to stop the log truck because of the signaling.

Outraged, Hill decided to fight the ticket, and on Wednesday, a Jackson County Justice Court judge dismissed the citation, finding that motorists flashing their

headlights amounts to speech protected by the Oregon Constitution.

Judge Joseph Carter determined the law covering the use of high beams was valid but was unconstitutional as it was applied by the deputy.

“The citation was clearly given to punish the defendant for that expression,” the judge wrote. “The government certainly can and should enforce the traffic laws for the safety of all drivers on the road. However, the government cannot enforce the traffic laws, or any other laws, to punish drivers for their expressive conduct.”

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ed in seeing his insurance rates go up for getting a ticket. He initially told the deputy the UPS driver was his neighbor and he was just saying hello.

“My point to the cop was his partner didn’t know why I was flashing my lights,” Hill said.

By the time his case went to court last month, Hill had researched the law and found nothing that expressly prohibited the use of headlights to signal other drivers.

He also recalled a TV news story about a federal judge in the Midwest barring police from handing out tickets to drivers who flashed their lights to warn others of a speed trap ahead.

Acting as his own attorney in a hearing conducted by telephone, Hill said he acknowledged the UPS driver

wasn’t his neighbor, and he raised the free speech argument.

“What I did wasn’t illegal, whether it’s freedom of speech or not,” he told The Associated Press.

Dave Fidanque, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, noted the Oregon Court of Appeals overturned a traffic law prohibiting horn honking for nontraffic purposes on similar grounds in the 1990s after a number of people got tickets for honking in support of U.S. troops during the first Gulf War. “If the motive of the sheriff’s deputies was in fact not to make the roads safer, but to raise more revenue from traffic enforcement, that would be even more reason why it should be unconstitutional,” Fidanque said.

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forced cattle roundup on a rural Nevada range have sent ripples through the West, prompting elected officials in several states to weigh in, militia members to

mobilize and federal land managers to reshape elements of the operation.

Bureau of Land Management officials dismantled designated protest areas as the fight over Cliven Bundy’s cattle widened into a debate about states’ rights and fed-

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His muscles ached like nothing he’d ever felt before as he passed Mile 13. Pushing against a runner’s wall and a strong headwind, it was like running uphill the whole way.

As a distraction, Alok Gupta reminded himself, as he often has these past four months, why he voluntarily subjected himself to such torture.

If his former patients could survive twin explosions, multiple surgeries, physical therapy and the emotional strain of last April’s Boston Marathon

bombings, he thought, he could certainly run a few — OK, 26 — miles in their honor.

Gupta, a trauma surgeon, helped coordinate the response at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of five trauma centers that received patients that day. He also was involved in the care of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother who has been charged in the April 15 attack that killed three and wounded more than 260.

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‘If they can go through something like that, I can run 26 miles.’

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A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth and moon line up so the Earth’s shadow falls on the moon, darkening it. The one Tuesday will begin at 1:20 a.m. on the East Coast, according to Sky and Telescope magazine. The total phase lasts about 78 minutes, from 3:07 a.m. to 4:25 a.m. ET. (Adjust for your time zone.)

“Eclipses are one of the few astronomical events that can easily be enjoyed with the naked eye,” though a pair of binoculars brings it into even greater focus, astronomy writer Gary Kronk said.

As it begins, “the Earth’s shad-

A lunar eclipse photographed in St. Louis by astronomy writer Gary Kronk in 2008.

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At first, the full moon will appear to be a little darker than normal, “but eventually people will notice a much darker arc moving across the moon, with a distinct rusty reddish-brown color,” said astronomer Gerald McKeegan at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland.

The bloody red color the moon takes on is caused by refraction of sunlight by Earth’s atmosphere.

Sunday talk ABC This Week: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick.

CBS Face the Nation: Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

CNN State of the Union: Reps.

Steve Israel, D-N.Y., chairman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman, National Republican Congressional Committee.

Fox News Sunday: Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.

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A rapid shift to less-polluting energy will be needed to avoid catastrophic global warming because worldwide emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have accelerated to unprecedented levels, the United Nations says.

These emissions — largely from the burning of oil, gas and coal — grew more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in any of the three previous decades, according to a landmark report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They will need to be slashed 40% to 70% by midcentury and almost entirely by century’s end to keep global temperatures from spiraling out of control, the panel says.

Even those emissions cuts might not be enough.

The IPCC report, striking a particularly urgent tone, says countries might even need to enlist controversial technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

“There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual,” said Germany’s Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who co-chaired the report, the third in a series released in the past year.

The report, written by 235 scientists from 57 countries, looks at myriad ways to fight climate change and serves as a potential road map for policymakers.

“If we do nothing, temperatures will continue to rise,” coauthor Leon Clarke, a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, said from Berlin. “It’s not necessarily a phaseout of fossil fuels,” he said, but rather “a phaseout” of power plants and other facilities that don’t capture the carbon they emit.

Despite global efforts to mitigate climate change, the report says global greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.2% annually in the past decade — nearly twice the annual rate of 1.3% from 1970 to 2000.

Exxon Mobil, the largest U.S. oil and gas company, said in a March 31 report that fossil fuels will continue to meet about three-quarters of global energy needs through 2040.

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Marathon on April 21. Like many other Bostonians, they feel a compulsion to run to honor the injured and prove that the city will not be cowed by terrorists, homegrown or otherwise.

Overall, 36,000 marathoners will don running shoes and numbers this year — up from 27,000 last year — plus an additional 10,000 will run a 5K race. Other area hospitals that treated victims are seeing a spike in the number of staffers who will run.

At Boston Medical Center, the marathon team numbers 105 this year, up from 35 last year. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the team is up to 122 participants from 67. More than 200 are running on Massachusetts General Hospital’s team, up from 119 last year. Many, like Gupta, are tackling their first marathon.

Most of the medical personnel talk about the solidarity they feel with last year’s victims, whether they treated them or not.

Tamara Rozental, an orthopedic surgeon at Beth Israel and a longtime runner of shorter distances, says three things prompted her to tackle the marathon.

One was the patients she treated last April. “If they can go through something like that, I can run 26 miles,” she says. The second was to pay tribute to her medical colleagues: “Nobody who made it to a hospital that day died. That’s a pretty amazing thing.” She’s also running for her two daughters, the older of whom was born on Marathon Monday six years ago: “I want to show my daughters you can do anything you want to do.”

For Rozental, the step up to a marathon was relatively easy. After a long day at the hospital, she says, running is meditative, a refreshing break and a time to review her caseload or think through a problem. Last year’s tragedy left her with a lot on her mind, so her long runs had already kept edging up. It didn’t seem like such a leap to go for 26 miles, she says, though she has new respect for marathoners.

“Now I understand what it takes.”

For Gupta, the transition has been much tougher. He’d never run more than a few miles at a time, and that was in high school.

“Before all this happened, I used to ask people (who were running marathons), ‘What would possess you to do something so silly?’ ” he says.

HE TRAINED FOR THIS

When Gupta relives last year’s marathon in his mind, he starts with the minute he came in the door from an early shift at work, eager to take his 3-month-old daughter to the finish line. It was an annual tradition for him to walk the few blocks from his apartment to celebrate the run-

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Surgeon Tamara Rozental goes on a training run in preparation for this year’s marathon.

learning to walk again: Take it one step at a time.

A few of his patients from that haunting day would have to adjust to life with just one leg. Others had perforated eardrums, head injuries or other leg wounds.

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Alok Gupta with his wife, Priya Gupta, and daughter, Ishani. ners’ success.

But she was napping, so Gupta resigned himself to waiting and seeing only the slowest of finishers. Then his phone rang. The connection was terrible, but he made out the word “bomb.” Less than a minute later, after making sure his mother-in-law could stay with the baby, Gupta rushed out the door. He arrived at Beth Israel’s emergency room just ahead of the first victims.

He had trained for moments such as this for years through medical school simulations and during the 9/11 attacks, when he was a medical student in New York’s Jacobi Medical Center. He assumed he’d never experience such a mass tragedy again.

This time, at Beth Israel, he was in charge.

Gupta identified the most grievously injured patients and made sure the treatment teams were well-matched to those 24 patients’ specific problems: an orthopedic surgeon for a man with an injured leg; a vascular one for the patient losing too much blood.

It wasn’t until a few hours later that the thought crossed his mind: It could have been me.

If his daughter hadn’t been napping, he would have bundled her into her stroller and walked to his traditional spot near the finish line — right near where one of the bombs went off.

Struggling toward the hills of the Boston suburb of Newton on his recent training run, getting close to his target distance for the day, Gupta focuses on one footfall at a time. It’s what physical therapists tell their patients who are

“Nobody who made it to a hospital that day died.

That’s a pretty amazing thing.”

Tamara Rozental, orthopedic surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

A few days after the attack, when patients and families began asking to meet other survivors, Gupta arranged to have a room set aside where they could gather and share their stories. The dedicated space allowed them to go or stay as they wished, without compromising their privacy.

Then, after all of the patients were discharged — the last one went home 50 days after the bombing — Gupta set up a clinic for the victims. He didn’t want them to have to come to the hospital multiple times to meet with different specialists, so he had the specialists come to them, packing a half-dozen follow-up appointments into a few hours.

Gupta is proud of how his hospital and community handled the bombings. He has given a dozen speeches about it and is preparing a paper with colleagues on lessons learned. There will be more tragedies for people in his field to cope with. There always are.

Just before Mile 18 on his recent training run — 3½ hours after leaving from the Hopkinton, Mass., starting line and 5 miles after the searing pain started — he reaches a hill in Newton. He can’t stop short of his goal, so he climbs, one step at a time, to the top.

From the summit, he decides he can’t deprive himself the pleasure of going down, so he keeps on. He runs a few more hills, a few more summits before he finally stops, within sight of the marathon landmark known as Heartbreak Hill.

Gupta, after running at least 6.2 miles longer than he ever thought possible, still can’t picture what it will be like when he crosses that finish line April 21.

But, he promises, he’ll get there, despite whatever pain he feels that day, alongside 36,000 other runners, many of whom hold the same goals.

“I’m not going to stop now,” he says.

IN BRIEF AS PINGS FADE, JET SEARCH REMAINS MASSIVE TASK

Search crews worked Saturday to capture any final pings from the data recorder thought to belong to the missing Malaysian jet as the signals slowly faded, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on the final day of his trip to China.

Abbott said the signals, critical in narrowing the search area, were “rapidly failing” and hightech detection instruments had captured no new pings since Tuesday. The batteries in the data recorder are designed to last about a month.

Triangulation of the four pings captured so far had narrowed the search area to 500 square miles in the southern Indian Ocean, a swath of seabed the size of Los Angeles and nearly 3 miles deep.

With those parameters, Abbott said, the search is a “massive, massive task” that is likely to take a long time.

But Abbott said he remains confident the signals came from the “black box” data recorder belonging to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 with 239 people aboard.

In Taiwan, insurance salesman Zhao Yukuan did his parents proud. “They taught me to obey traffic rules. I never ran red lights,” he says. Then Zhao, 33, moved to China. In carchoked, smog-bound Beijing, vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians compete to break the rules.

Wearing a sandwich board, a box-like head mask and big hand signs bearing the Chinese character for “stop,” Zhao joined volunteers last week at a busy Beijing intersection on the final day of their year-long, daily promotion: “I promise not to run a red light.”

Changing bad behavior remains an uphill struggle even in a police state. Beijing and other cities began fining jaywalkers a year ago.Breaking the law can be deadly. Over 60,000 people die in road accidents each year in China, according to the police, but national disease surveillance system statistics put the real toll at more than four times higher. By comparison, there were almost 33,000 road traffic deaths in 2010 in the USA, according to the BEIJING

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A volunteer directs traffic.

World Health Organization.

Though China has more than four times the population of the United States, the two countries have similar numbers of registered vehicles — about 250 million. Child fatalities in traffic accidents are over 2½ times the rate in the United States, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reported last year.

Up to 200 million electric bikes now cruise China’s roads.

These e-bike users are former cyclists and wannabe car owners, says Brent Powis, a road safety consultant for the World Health Organization, who engage in “lots of risky behavior.”

Unlicensed and uninsured, speedy e-bikes are leading to a rising numbers of crashes, injuries and deaths, says He Jinglin, a safety officer for WHO in Beijing.

Graphic videos of crashes are increasingly common on Chinese media, as officials aim to scare citizens into obeying the law.

Contributing: Sunny Yang

PROTESTS CONTINUE IN UKRAINE

State-run Syrian television blamed members of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front for using chlorine gas at Kfar Zeita, killing two people and injuring more than 100.

The TV report claimed the Nusra Front is preparing for a chemical attack against the Wadi Deif area in the northern province of Idlib, as well as another area in Hama. It did not explain how it knew the Nusra Front’s plans.

REPORT: FORMER MARINE GETS 10 YEARS IN IRAN

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Demonstrators waving Russian flags ride through the streets of Donetsk, Ukraine, on Saturday.

REPORTS OF POISON GAS ATTACK SURFACE IN SYRIA

Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday that poison gas had been used in a central village, injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack.

The main, Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the attack

Friday hurt dozens of people in the village of Kfar Zeita in the central province of Hama. It did not say what type of gas was used.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that people suffered from suffocation and breathing problems after the attack, apparently conducted during air raids that left heavy smoke over the area. It gave no further details.

An Iranian news agency reports that an appeals court has overturned a death sentence of an American man convicted of working for the CIA, instead sentencing him to 10 years in prison.

The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported Saturday that lawyer Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei says a Revolutionary Court issued the verdict for former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati. Tabatabaei described the verdict as final.

The Associated Press could not reach Tabatabaei on Saturday.

Hekmati, 31, is a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen born in Arizona.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

IS A DEGREE NEEDED TO BE PRESIDENT? Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he doesn’t believe a college degree is a “requirement” to be president. The possible 2016 GOP candidate attended Marquette University for four years but left without a diploma. “I don’t think I needed a college degree to be in the state Assembly, to be county executive nor to be governor,” said Walker, who is up for re-election in November. He’d like to complete his coursework online through the University of Wisconsin system.

Harry Truman was the last president in the White House without a college degree.

DEMOCRATS BLAST ‘FOUL’ PELOSI IMAGE

The Democratic National Committee was furious about an ad campaign for a conservative website that depicted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wearing a bikini, in a provocative post with her tongue sticking out. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the party chairwoman, called on Breitbart News to remove the artwork from its new California site. She called the ad “foul, offensive and disrespectful to all women.”

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pulled his column from the site.

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Ted Kennedy Jr.

ANOTHER KENNEDY ENTERS POLITICS Ted Kennedy Jr. officially made his move to join the family business by declaring himself a candidate for a state Senate seat in Connecticut. It is the first political race for Kennedy, the namesake and eldest son of U.S. senator Edward Kennedy. The younger Kennedy, 52, is a health care lawyer who has rebuffed numerous entreaties to run for office. Kennedy’s brother, Patrick, was a member of Congress from 1995 to 2011.

KISSING LAWMAKER URGED TO RESIGN

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal led a host of GOP officials in calling for the resignation of Rep. Vance McAllister, a married congressman who was caught on security video kissing a female staffer.

McAllister wasn’t seen on Capitol Hill after the scandal erupted. The video taken two days before Christmas was leaked to The Ouchita Citizen, a weekly newspaper. Jindal said McAllister’s behavior was “an embarrassment.” Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Vallere Jr. slammed the “extreme hypocrisy” of McAllister, who touted his Christian values during his special election in November.

FINAL WORD “Thank goodness she didn’t play softball like I did.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton, after dodging a shoe thrown at her during a speech in Las Vegas.

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Army Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning watched in horror as a shooting spree again unfolded at Fort Hood, his former post.

A victim of a similar 2009 Fort Hood attack, in which an Army psychiatrist shot and killed 13 people and injured more than 30, Manning thought not only of the excruciating physical and mental pain of the victims and their families after the April 2 rampage, but also of the potential financial turmoil that lies ahead.

“I’m sad to know these guys who are wounded, many of them are going to be stuck in the same situation we are in,” said Manning, 38, who was shot six times and still has bullets lodged in his back and right leg. “After our shooting, I always thought the Army would do the right thing.

But now, 4½ years later, we’re still waiting.”

Manning is part of a group of several dozen victims and families from the 2009 shooting who have been lobbying the military to classify their assault as a “terrorist attack,” which would unlock greater benefits and compensation. The designation would put them in the same classification as someone killed or wounded in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan and line them up for a Purple Heart, which brings further compensation and recognition.

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“Anyone in his right mind would see it as a terrorist act,” said Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, 47, who was shot seven times by Hasan. “I wished they’d recognize our shooting for what it is.”

Hasan yelled “Allahu Akbar!” — or “God is great!” — on Nov. 5, 2009, just before firing at unarmed soldiers and civilians inside an on-post processing center.

Shortly after the attack, investigators found more than a dozen email exchanges between Hasan and known terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki.

In the opening statement of his court-martial last year, Hasan, an American-born Muslim, admitted to carrying out the attack and being a mujahedin — or holy warrior in defense of Islam. Hasan was convicted on murder charges and sentenced to death.

But an initial review by the Army showed that Hasan —

though radicalized — acted alone and was not directed by an outside terrorist group, as required for the classification, said Lt. Col. Alayne Conway, an Army spokeswoman. Another review known as the Webster Commission report stated that, besides the communication with Al-Awlaki, Hasan “had no known contact and no known relationships with criminal elements, agents of foreign powers or potential terrorists.”

The Army can’t review evidence from the court-martial until it’s authenticated by the post commander, a process that could take months, Conway said. “We stand ready to act accordingly should any evidence to the contrary be presented,” she said.

NASA has ordered spacewalking repairs for a serious computer outage at the International Space Station.

A backup computer for some robotic systems failed Friday. The main computer is fine and the six-man crew is safe. But the malfunction puts next week’s supply run in jeopardy.

Mission managers agreed Saturday that a spacewalk is needed to replace the bad computer. But officials want one more day before deciding whether the situation is safe enough in orbit to proceed with Monday’s SpaceX launch as planned.

NASA said it would decide today whether to delay the delivery mission. No date for the spacewalk has been set yet.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule is loaded with more than 2 tons of supplies at Cape Canaveral. The shipment is already a month late.

nance during the Thursday incident at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.

She is accused of bypassing security and walking quickly toward a rope line about six rows from the front of a conference audience. Police say she reached into a purse, removed the shoe and threw it overhand toward the stage. Clinton ducked and wasn’t struck.

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“Anyone in his right mind would see it as a terrorist act.”

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The Military Order of the Purple Heart, a war veterans group, backed the Army’s decision, saying the military should strictly adhere to the rules of the medal.

“To do otherwise is a slap in the face to all those that have received this award and would demean the significance of the award to future recipients,” it said in a statement.

The only time Purple Hearts were given to service members not wounded or killed in overseas combat was when military victims of the 9/11 attacks were honored, the group said.

WOMAN ACCUSED OF SHOE TOSS AT CLINTON FREED

A Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe 60 feet toward Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared aware during questioning

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People visit the Jefferson Memorial early Saturday in Washington. Today marks the 271st anniversary of Jefferson’s birth. thorities said Friday.

Alison Michelle Ernst, 36, was given a misdemeanor disorderly conduct summons and freed after she was booked at the Clark County Jail, according to a Las Vegas police arrest report.

“Ms. Ernst appeared to be in an agitated state but aware of what she had just done,” the report said.

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Students react after learning of a classmate’s death Friday.

The truck hit the back door and trunk of the car before crashing into the charter bus filled with a dozen high school students and their chaperones who were on their way to visit Humboldt State University.

Early reports from California Highway Patrol officials said the fire began after the collision, but the crash is still being investigated by the CHP and the National Transportation Safety Board.

NTSB investigator Mark Rosekind told the NBC Today’s Erica Hill that the agency is aware of the witness accounts and will be analyzing tracking modules on the bus to glean information about the vehicle speed and braking. Fire may have destroyed a similar device on the FedEx truck, he said.

FedEx spokeswoman Bonny Harrison said she did not know whether tracking data from the truck would be transmitted in real time to FedEx. “We’re just letting the investigators do their work,” Harrison said.

The crash killed five teens, three adult chaperones and the drivers of both the truck and the bus. The CHP confirmed more than 30 people were injured, Humboldt State said in a statement.

Among the dead were newly engaged couple Michael Myvett and Mattison Haywood, who had agreed to chaperone the 44 teens.

Myvett, who graduated from Humboldt State with a psychology degree in 2007 and worked with autistic children, was eager to make the trip with his fiancée.

Haywood was “the love of his life,” and “to be a liaison and representative for high school students who wanted to attend Humboldt was in sync with his personality, wanting to facilitate people’s achievement of their dreams,” Kyle Farris, a colleague at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders in Torrance, told the Associated Press.

Among the high school students were 17-year-old identical twins Marisol and Marisa Serrato, who traveled on separate buses. Marisol’s bus arrived safely.

Marisa died in the crash, her brother Miguel Serrato told AP. “Marisol is devastated,” he said.

The teenagers, who hailed from dozens of Southern California high schools, were traveling as part of the university’s Preview Plus program, which began in 1989 as a way to introduce lowincome or first-generation prospective college students to the university.

IN BRIEF NASA ORDERS SPACEWALK TO FIX SPACE STATION OUTAGE

The FedEx truck that plowed head-on into a bus filled with prospective college students was already on fire before the deadly crash, witnesses told two California TV stations.

Bonnie and Joe Duran, who were driving in a Nissan Altima in front of the bus, told KNBC-TV Los Angeles that they saw flames behind the cab of the truck before it crossed the median into the path of the tour bus Thursday evening on Interstate 5 near Orland, Calif.

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WORLD Mideast peace talks: Doomed from the start?

Analysts say the Jewish state issue was a deal-breaker

Michele Chabin

Special for USA TODAY

The Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is at the core of why a negotiated settlement between the two is all but dead, say experts on both sides of the divide.

Public sentiment and the positions of political leaders indicate that neither side will bend on the issue Israel says is critical, which means talks pursued by Secretary of State John Kerry had little chance of working from the start.

“After 65 years of Arab rejection and warfare, closure for Israelis can come in the form of acceptance of the legitimacy of the Jewish state, in Palestinian renunciation of refugee claims, or perhaps simply a statement that this is the end of the conflict,” says Gerald Steinberg of Bar Ilan University.

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Israel has in the past offered compromises on hurdles such as settlements on disputed land. But the refusal by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to concede that Israel is a Jewish state is a deal-breaker, Steinberg says.

The refusal means Israel has no confidence a Palestinian state on its border will end the decades-long attempt by Arab nations to destroy it, so there is no reason to agree to a two-state solution, he says. Israelis worry that “an agreement will be signed, Israel will give up territory, and the wars, terrorism will continue.”

Kerry spent months shuttling between the two sides to broker a deal, and when talks fell apart, he blamed both sides for taking steps that hurt progress. He cited Israel for refusing to release more Palestinian prisoners, including some involved in terrorism against Israelis, and Palestinians for seeking recognition at international organizations, something they promised not to do.

Palestinian experts say the hurdle of recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state was always there and Kerry should

JAAFAR ASHTIYEH, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

“When it happens, and how it happens, has to be part of the (talks).”

Secretary of State John Kerry

have recognized it.

“Israelis are free to declare that Israel is a Jewish country, but it is unjust to ask the Palestinians to support that narrative,” says Basem Ezbidi, a professor at Birzeit University in the West Bank. “We will never get even close to this kind of recognition, and I can’t see any decent Palestinian entertaining this idea.”

Kerry says the Palestinian Authority should acknowledge that Israel is the homeland of the Jew-

A Palestinian woman talks to an Israeli soldier during a land protest in the West Bank.

3rd World parasite found to be a biter

THEIR MINDS ARE ELSEWHERE When foreign students in the United States see their home countries in turmoil, the distance can be hard to bear.

EGYPT: Ahmed Abdelmohsen is working on his doctorate in civil engineering at the University of Illinois-UrbanaChampaign. Facebook brings bad news from his home country, so he and other Egyptian students disabled their accounts.

SYRIA: Tarif Homsi transferred in the fall to the University of Rochester to study economics, even as his country’s civil war raged. The “normal” quiet of the United States was jarring to him: “It’s not normal to hear bullets around you, to hear a bombing 15 minutes away from your home.”

UKRAINE: The turmoil in her home city of Kiev sent Shalika Khindurangala in a new direction: The chemistry student at Iowa State University now wants to study government and policy. Her goal: becoming the ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations.

VENEZUELA: The thoughts of Jose Clavijo, a student at the University of Florida, are never far from his fellow citizens in that violence-riddled nation. Seeing students “getting detained, beaten or killed” keeps him up at night.

VENEZUELA: Romina Rivadeneira, a junior computer engineering student at Iowa State University, felt drawn to help back home, yet she worried about giving up the educational opportunities in the United States. “It’s a huge mix of emotions,” the 19-year-old says.

KHINDURANGALA AND RIVADENEIRA: BRIAN ACHENBACH FOR THE DES MOINES REGISTER

Sharyn Jackson

USA TODAY

In the pivotal final months before he finishes his doctorate, Jose Clavijo often finds himself too distracted to work.

The 31-year-old University of Florida student is one of more than 6,000 Venezuelans now studying at a university in the United States. As his home country has erupted with anti-government protests that have turned violent, his mind is sometimes more focused on unrest than agronomy.

“I’m writing a dissertation, and I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time on Twitter and going to bed very late catching up on the news,” Clavijo says. “Just knowing so many students are out there protesting and getting detained, beaten or killed, it’s very hard being here.”

Like Clavijo, thousands of students across the USA come from nations in turmoil.

Some students fear for family members’ safety or feel guilty for being secure when loved ones are not. For others, problems come in the form of visa complications or

a drastic change in finances.

And some feel an urge to return home and join the fight, putting their lives and their educations at risk. All of that can take its toll on homework.

“Students that are here from the affected areas could really be lost,” says President Allan Goodman of the Institute of International Education, an organization that offers financing for global higher education, including emergency assistance for students and scholars from regions where conflict is especially hot.

Ahmed Abdelmohsen, who is getting his doctorate in civil engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, says he and other Egyptian students have disabled their Facebook accounts “to avoid hearing bad news and focus on their research.”

Twenty-four-hour access to news, status updates and dispatches from citizens on the ground are “a double-edged sword,” says Fanta Aw, president and chairwoman of the board of directors of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. “You know what’s going on, but as a direct result of that it increases anxiety level.”

Aw was an international student in the late 1980s at American University, where she is now a professor in the School of International Service.

A regime change and riots back home in Mali had riddled her with worry — and back then, news from home was far less available than it is today.

Tarif Homsi was one year away from finishing his undergraduate degree in Damascus, Syria, when he applied for a scholarship through the Institute of International Education. He transferred in the fall to the University of Rochester to study economics.

“You don’t realize until you leave the country that what I was going through was not exactly normal,” Homsi says. “It’s not normal to hear bullets around you, to hear a bombing 15 minutes away from your home.”

When student-led riots broke out in Venezuela, Romina Rivadeneira wanted to leave Iowa State University and join her peers. But the junior computer engineering student worried about giving up the opportunities in the U.S., and she feared the growing violence in her home country.

“I want to fight for what I be-

ish people, but “it’s not going to happen” at this stage of the negotiations.

“The government of the United States and the president support the notion of Israel being defined as a Jewish state,” Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We believe that that should happen. But when it happens, and how it happens, has to be part of the negotiations. It’s not going to happen in the beginning.”

But if it is not recognized at the beginning, then what makes Kerry think it will happen at all, critics wonder. Abbas asked the Arab League, a coalition of 22 Arab states that includes U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, to back his refusal of recognition, and it did.

Samir Awad, another political scientist at Birzeit University, says he believes Abbas will never relent “because the recognition of Jewish statehood hurts the cause of the refugees who were expelled

by Israel, and they want to the right to return home.” Awad emphasizes that a Palestinian right to move to Israel doesn’t necessarily mean all refugees will do so.

lieve in,” says Rivadeneira, 19.

“But then at the same time, it is very dangerous there. People are dying every day, and what if it’s me? It’s a huge mix of emotions.”

International education experts point out that by staying in the U.S. to complete their educations, politically active students can contribute to their home countries on a larger scale. A number of global leaders throughout history did just that.

Rather than return to her home in Kiev, Ukraine, at a time of upheaval, Shalika Khindurangala has her eye on the future.

The revolution that unseated the country’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych, inspired the undergraduate chemistry student at Iowa State University to shift her career goal from the sciences to government and policy.

The 21-year-old sets her sights on one day becoming the ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations.

“I would take the best of this education, put it in a basket, and take it back to my country,” she says.

Jackson also reports for The Des Moines Register

Amoeba surprises scientists by carving up, devouring cells Traci Watson

Special for USA TODAY

It’s microscopic, blob-shaped and toothless. But the amoeba known as Entamoeba histolytica turns out to be the werewolf of parasites.

New research shows this nearly transparent microbe, a significant scourge in parts of the developing world, carves chunks off a living cell and devours them, leading to the cell’s disintegration and death. Never before have scientists discovered an organism that kills cells by biting. The finding could lead to new medications to treat the dysentery and diarrhea caused by the amoeba or to vaccines to prevent infection.

“I’ve spent my entire career

A disease-causing amoeba eats bits of human tissue. studying this parasite … and I didn’t realize this was happening,” says study co-author William Petri of the University of Virginia. The amoeba’s brutal modus operandi is “something everyone had completely missed for literally 100 years.”

Most people infected with the amoeba don’t have symptoms, but anyone who does is likely to be very unhappy.

The amoebas colonize the large intestine and bore their way into the intestinal wall, in some cases bursting all the way through the intestine and invading organs such as the liver.

Victims may suffer anything from diarrhea to — in rare cases — death. Numbers are hard to come by, but one study of seven low-income countries found the amoeba is one of the top 10 causes of moderate to severe diarrhea in young children.

Good sanitation and hygiene keep the amoeba from spreading widely in countries such as the United States, but it’s a significant problem in India, Somalia and other developing nations.

The study, published in Nature, is a “technical tour de force,” says Christopher Huston of the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

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APRIL IS ALWAYS A TAXING TIME April 15 is the deadline for filing 2013 taxes. A look at how we file:

HOW TAXPAYERS SPEND THEIR REFUNDS

WHERE YOUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS GO The federal government spent $3.5 trillion in 2013. Of that, 80%, or $2.8 trillion, was financed by tax revenue (income tax, payroll tax, corporate income tax and other taxes). The rest came from borrowing. How federal spending breaks down:

Defense and international security 19%

30% Save or invest it 28% Necessities 26% Pay down debt

Social Security

Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program 22%

Vacation or shopping spree 7% Other/don’t know

24%

12% Interest on the debt 6% Other programs 18% Safety net programs

9%

(2010 data)

$

A LOOK AT HOW TAXES ARE PAID AND WHERE TAX REVENUE GOES SOURCES OF FEDERAL TAX REVENUE (2013)

WHO PAYS?

E-FILING ON THE RISE Since 1990, taxpayers have filed 1 billion 1040 forms electronically.

Number of individual tax returns the IRS expects to receive this year.

Number of tax returns filed electronically.

47% Payroll tax 34%

CONTRIBUTIONS In billions Total given to charity

148

MILLION

125

MILLION

$316 Individuals

$229 BENEFICIARIES

$102

American households that pay federal 56.7% income tax

Income tax

Corporate income tax

CHARITABLE DONATIONS (2012)

10%

Excise, estate and other taxes

American households that do not pay federal income tax 43.3%

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$42

BILLION

Largest charitable donations went to religious groups.

BILLION

Education. The majority went to four-year colleges and universities.

AMONG THE MOST COMMON ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS Mortgage interest

Real estate taxes

Interest on student loans

Medical expenses

Self-employment expenses

A STATE-BY-STATE LOOK AT DEDUCTIONS Maryland (47.9%) had the largest percentage of filers claiming tax deductions, while West Virginia (18.8%) had the smallest.

The percentage of tax filers in each state who claimed deductions, and the average amount of deductions for each return:

U.S. average Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas

Claim rate

Per-claimant average

32.1% 28.7% 24.7% 31.9% 24.6% 35.3% 36.9% 43.2% 35.1% 39.7% 24.3% 34.0% 31.2% 32.0% 34.7% 26.7% 31.8% 30.6%

$26,706 $21,640 $20,559 $24,249 $22,638 $34,168 $24,824 $32,089 $22,980 $32,357 $25,274 $23,210 $25,414 $25,219 $25,975 $21,871 $20,683 $23,522

Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota

Claim rate

Per-claimant average

29.0% 23.2% 30.9% 47.9% 39.3% 30.1% 38.8% 23.5% 29.8% 30.5% 30.5% 28.1% 34.9% 42.9% 25.4% 35.9% 33.7% 21.0%

$20,933 $22,340 $21,954 $27,940 $28,726 $21,888 $24,420 $21,5753 $23,532 $21,886 $22,719 $26,569 $24,435 $32,317 $21,691 $34,145 $24,660 $23,964

Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Claim rate

Per-claimant average

30.5% 26.3% 38.8% 30.8% 36.0% 29.6% 19.4% 23.4% 24.7% 38.4% 29.8% 39.8% 34.4% 18.8% 35.8% 23.8%

$21,081 $24,009 $24,642 $23,434 $26,786 $23,847 $22,692 $23,046 $24,735 $24,426 $22,610 $29,182 $23,692 $21,460 $22,696 $25,743

(2011, the most recent information available.

Data rounded.)

TAX HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

1862

Abraham Lincoln signs law creating the first income tax to help pay for the Civil War.

1913

The 16th Amendment is ratified, establishing that Congress has the power to collect income tax.

The 1040 form is introduced.

1933

The repeal of Prohibition means the IRS can tax alcohol again.

1944

Congress passes legislation creating standard deductions on the 1040 form.

1953

Dwight Eisenhower changes the name from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the Internal Revenue Service.

1990

E–file expands nationwide; 4.2 million returns filed.

AND TAKE HEART: ACCORDING TO THE TAX FOUNDATION, NATIONAL TAX FREEDOM DAY (WHEN THE NATION HAS EARNED ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY ITS TOTAL TAX BILL FOR THE YEAR) IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER - APRIL 21.

Sources Internal Revenue Service; H&R Block; Tax Foundation; Tax Policy Center; Bankrate.com; Giving USA; Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Pew Charitable Trusts Note: Some percentages do not add up to 100 due to rounding.

ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ, JANET LOEHRKE AND JOAN MURPHY, USA TODAY

2011

E–filed returns exceed 100 million.

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MONEY Where are stocks heading?

MONEYLINE

Wall Street on edge about whether the sell-off will spread

Beth Belton

@bethbelton USA TODAY

Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

TOMOHIRO OHSUMI, BLOOMBERG

BUSINESS SURVEILLANCE COW JUMPS OVER MOON In a nutshell: The highest beef prices in almost three decades have arrived just as grilling season approaches, causing sticker shock for both consumers and restaurant owners with no relief in sight.

The star: Take your pick: London Broil, T-Bone, Prime Rib, not to mention double cheeseburgers and meatloaf.

The money: A dwindling number of cattle and growing export demand from countries such as China and Japan have caused the average retail cost of fresh beef to climb to $5.28 a pound in February, up almost 25% and the highest price since 1987.

ON THE FRONT BURNER AMAZON’S SMARTPHONE Amazon.com will join the smartphone wars with Apple, Samsung Electronics and others later this year, with a new handset of its own, says a Wall Street Journal report. The e-commerce giant has been demonstrating versions of the phone to developers in its hometown, Seattle, and San Francisco recently. The handsets will start shipping by Sept. 30. No word yet on pricing.

IN THE HOT SEAT CBS CEO’s BIG PAYDAY CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, who led the move to name Stephen Colbert as David Letterman’s “Late Night” replacement, snagged $65.6 million in 2013, up 8% from 2012, according to a proxy filing out Friday. The pay package GETTY IMAGES included a Moonves $28.5 million bonus, stock valued at $26.5 million, stock options worth $1.3 million and $1.2 million in perks, including personal use of corporate aircraft and security services.

Is the worst over?

After last week’s sizable stock market downdraft, which crushed the Nasdaq’s priciest and riskiest names the most, investors will be watching to see whether the bleeding stops when trading resumes Monday — or if the pain spreads in a more significant way to the market’s blue chips.

There’s one big difference between the current pullback and the steep drop at the start of the year: Losses are concentrated in pockets of the market deemed

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Least expensive 2014 cars to insure Top 3 by average annual premium:

Jeep Wrangler Sport

$1,080

Honda Odyssey LX

$1,103

Jeep Patriot Sport

$1,104

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The ingredients for a broader market correction are in place, Adams warns.

“We have not seen broad-based selling yet, but we will,” he says, adding that he thinks a “slowmoving top is forming” and that a full-fledged bear market is coming.

Corporate earnings growth has stalled, says a bearish Adams. Investors are becoming more risk averse as the aging bull pushes deeper into its fifth year. The shift in Fed policy to less stimulus represents a new headwind. The later stages of the market’s run to record highs, he adds, smacks of speculation and hasn’t been backed by good enough readings on the economy or earnings.

“The market sucked everyone in last year,” Adams says. “I don’t think it will let investors out without punishing them.”

12 tax tips you can still use RUDYANTO WIJAYA, GETTY IMAGES, VIA ISTOCKPHOTO

Just days to go until the April 15 deadline, and we’re rolling out 12 tax tips for 2013 returns. Some might save you a little money; some might save a few headaches.

Susan Tompor

stompor@usatoday.com USA TODAY

1changed, The rules haven’t but there is a new,

simplified method for 2013 returns for figuring out a home office deduction.

Mark Steber, chief tax officer at Jackson Hewitt, said many taxpayers who own a small business or work from home may qualify for a home office deduction but don’t take it because of the complexity. The new method might help. The office area must be used on a regular basis for business and be either for the convenience of the employer or used by a self-employed person to meet clients.

The space must be used exclusively for the business; it can’t be used to store seasonal decorations, as a guest room or entertainment room

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Do you have an adjusted gross income of $58,000 or less? The Free File program offered via the Internal Revenue Service website connects tax filers to free software to prepare and file taxes online. See www.irs.gov.

8 Did your child attend day camp last summer?

JEFF MOREHEAD, AP

4 Casualty losses are generally deductible in the year the casualty occurred. But not always. Barbara

Weltman, author of J.K. Lasser’s 1,001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2014, noted there are some cases where you can take the disaster loss in the preceding tax year, if you have a casualty loss from a federally declared disaster that occurred in an area warranting public or individual assistance. For example, Colorado flood victims have until Oct. 15 to decide when to claim disaster losses arising from last September’s flooding.

What does that have to do with taxes? If you’re working, the cost of day camp can count as an expense toward the Child and Dependent Care Credit. The expenses must be needed so you and your spouse, if filing jointly, could work or look for work. The child must be younger than 13 when the care was provided. The credit could be 20%-35% up to $3,000 in work-related expenses for one child; or $6,000 for two or more. On the 2013 return, your adjusted gross income can be more than $43,000 — but at that income, the percentage used to calculate the credit is 20%.

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MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ, AP

WHO’S ONLINE NOT INSTAGRAM Photo- and video-sharing service Instagram wasn’t functioning for about nine hours Saturday, sparking a stampede of griping on Twitter. Tens of thousands of users tweeted complaints, many using the hashtag “#instagramnotworking.” Until it was fixed, Instagram took to Twitter with updates.

Investors with lessspeculative, such as aggressive and moretechnology, biotech Damage and small-company assessment diversified portfolios haven’t suffered portstocks.

Drop from earlier folio-crippling losses The Nasdaq, home closing highs to Feb. 3 lows — at least not yet. to many former highDow -7.3% The worst pain has fliers, has plunged S&P 500 -5.8% been inflicted on pop8.2% since its March 5 Nasdaq -5.8% ular stocks that shot high, vs. a 5.8% drop Russell 2000 -7.4% up the most in 2013 during its early-year Current correction and earlier this year, dive that ended Feb 3. since recent highs only to flame out as The Dow Jones indusDow -3.3% the “momentum” trial average, which fell S&P 500 -4.0% trade reversed.

7.3% at the start of Nasdaq -8.2% The iShares Nasdaq 2014 before rallying Russell 2000 -8.0% Biotechnology ETF is back within 4 points of in bear market territoits record close, is ry, defined as a drop of down 3.3% in the cur20%, after plunging 22% since its rent funk.

“The more conservative names late-February peak. The recent have been holding up well, and slide has also trimmed the value the more aggressive names are in of video-streaming service Neta bear market,” says Patrick Ad- flix’s shares by 29% and shaved ams, a portfolio manager at PVG 20% off social media darling Facebook’s shares.

Asset Management.

ERIC RISBERG, AP

2 Do you have college-age children? Or did you head back

to college yourself? The American Opportunity Credit is worth up to $2,500 per eligible college student. The Lifetime Learning Credit can apply for college students, graduate school and professional degrees. Income limits and other rules apply. Get Form 1098-T to show the student attended an eligible institution.

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Don’t overlook a 0% rate on long-term capital gains.

Yes, it’s a limited tax break that applies in 2013 for married couples with a taxable income of $72,500 or less; the limit is $36,250 for single filers. If you hold onto stock for longer than 12 months, you can benefit from a reduced tax rate on long-term capital gains. But remember, your taxable income is going to include capital gains.

Cash any U.S. savings bonds in 2013? Typically, interest is taxable on federal returns but not on the state income tax return. Some very complex rules give you a shot at being able to exclude income on federal taxes if the savings bonds were cashed in the same year that the money was used for college tuition. The college-education-related tax break would apply to a Series EE bond issued in 1990 or after, or a Series I Bond if your modified adjusted gross income is less than $142,050 if married filing jointly. Another twist: The bond owner listed on the bond must be at least 24 years old before the bond’s issue date. If you claim the exclusion, the IRS warns that it will check it against bond redemption information from the Department of Treasury. You’d have to pay qualified education expenses for yourself, your spouse or a dependent for whom you claim an exemption on your return. So, no, grandparents cannot use the tax break unless the grandchild is their dependent.

6 Alternative Motor Vehicle

credits can be confusing. IRS publications note upfront that the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Credit has expired. But these credits have different names and rules. And the Plug-In Electric RICK BOWMER, AP Drive Motor Vehicle Credit still applies to cars like the Chevy Volt and has not expired. We’re looking at a potential $7,500 federal tax credit.

The Plug-In Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit begins to phase out once 200,000 of the vehicles per manufacturer have been sold for use in the U.S., said Mark Luscombe, principal analyst for CCH Tax & Accounting North America.

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9 It’s OK, really, to hang up on the IRS. Ignore fraudsters who are claiming to be from the IRS and demanding money or promising refund money.

10 Slow down. Did you review all of the Social Security

numbers on your return? Double check the math. Mistakes can delay refunds.

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Running late? See Form 4868 for an automatic six-month extension, until Oct. 15. If you qualify, this form does not give you more time to pay taxes. If you do not pay the amount due by the regular due date, the IRS notes, you will owe interest and possibly penalties.

12 Did you pay for private mortgage insurance?

The PMI premiums could be deductible if your adjusted gross income didn’t exceed $109,000 in 2013 and you took out that mortgage in 2007 or after.

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RETIREMENT

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big mistakes couples make in retirement

Getting ready for retirement?

Just salivating at the thought of Rodney Brooks you and your spouse getting in @perfiguy that RV and roaming around the USA country? Or is your dream to sit TODAY on that deck in the morning with your spouse, a cup of coffee and a good book?

If you and your spouse haven’t yet sat down and talked about what you will do in retirement, you’d better do it now. Retirement experts say there are a lot of mistakes couples make in retirement and

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They never talked about what each of them expected retirement to be.

Author Joe Duran, of United Capital in Newport Beach, Calif., says that when one or both spouses stop work, they spend lots of time together. “For most of their lives they are raising kids, and that is their distraction,” he says.

“When kids leave, it is an awkward period — and a time when divorces happen. They stare at each other and ask if they like the person they’re with, Duran says.

“If they get close to retirement and they haven’t talked about what they want life to look like, they may find the answer is widely different,” Duran says.

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, author and founder of AskTheMoneyCoach.com, says many consider retirement their “second act.”

They explore personal interests or professional goals, such as starting a business. “That can lead them to drift apart from

many of them involve communication and planning, or the lack of it.

“It’s easy to make mistakes because retirement can be complicated, so it’s not a rare thing,” says Matthew Shafer, economist and author of The Future of Your Wealth. “Most mistakes have to do with not doing planning.”

So, here are seven of the biggest mistakes couples make in planning for and living in retirement.

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their mates and squeeze their finances, too,” she says.

Unfortunately, she says, some older couples are getting dissatisfied with one another — as evidenced by the fact that divorce after age 50 is getting more common. “Divorce can sap a couple’s retirement assets due to big legal bills, and the process of splitting resources to accommodate two households instead of one.”

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They haven’t planned for emergencies.

“Just because a financial situation looks healthy today, you can’t assume you will be ready for an emergency tomorrow,” says Bradley Zucker, president of Safe Money Advisors in Las Vegas. “Illnesses, accidents, home repair — you need to turn to your emergency reserve account. If you don’t have one, it could lead to tax implications. You need a liquid account, three to six months of expenses.”

Couples in second and third marriages didn’t think to plan for their potentially unique problems.

“A record number of Baby Boomers are in second marriages,” says Manhattan estate attorney Ann-Margaret Carrozza. “That brings up very specific retirement planning challenges — specifically, how do we deal with adult children who need money?”

“A big source of conflict is when you have a blended family and, for example, one partner’s child keeps calling for funds, needing

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The couple didn’t consider the costs of health care or long-term care.

“If they want to go to any doctor they want, health care may be out of their insurance or Medicaid service system,” Shafer says. “They may have to set aside their own assets.”

Carrozza says couples need to consider long-term care insurance, especially the newer hybrid policies that are being offered as riders to traditional life insurance policies. “Eight out of every 10 couples will have an individual who requires long-term care,” she says.

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Do not assume that just because you’re married you can automatically act for each other in business and health care decision-making.

“Every couple needs health care proxy and power of attorney over each other,” says Carrozza. “Power of attorney will allow them to move assets as needed should one of them become incapacitated.”

She says she recently had a case of a couple in which one had a stroke. The other partner discovered too late that she was not able to legally sign for her spouse. She had to go before a judge to become her husband’s court-appointed guardian, which took several months and cost several thousand dollars. “That would not have been necessary if they had power of attorney,” she says. more and more money,” she says.

“You must ensure that the children’s needs are not going to jeopardize your own retirement security. I would caution folks planning for retirement against co-signing loans for children and co-signing grandchildren’s student loans,” she says.

“First and foremost, you must fully disclose all debt and financial obligations — car loans, credit card debt, loans to family and friends,” says Zucker. “And it’s important they they get copies of credit reports.”

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They didn’t do proper financial planning.

Many retirees aren’t realistic about spending related to the money they saved, says Shafer.

“Either they are not accumulating enough assets for their lifestyle, or the lifestyle they plan to live costs more than what their assets will cover,” he says.

“My clients fail to properly calculate the amount of money they will need in retirement,” says Carrozza. “There is an idea somehow that expenses will be much less in retirement. In reality, we should expect expenses to increase because of greater medical needs.

Medical costs go up, especially long-term care. We can also expect to see inflation come back. We would all do well to live below our means as we are embarking on retirement planning.”

Only a small portion of retirees have a financial plan, says Duran.

Too often, they realize that their money isn’t growing, which is fine if they live to 80, but not if they live to 90. “Unfortunately, if you are not working you have a finite level of resources,” he says.

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Only one partner is handling financial matters.

“A very big mistake to have one partner who is completely in charge of financial and estate planning,” says Carrozza. “I see that with clients often; one person is in charge of everything and the other doesn’t quite know what is going on. It’s important that both parties be fully conversant with estate planning and financial planning, and in the habit of sitting down with their planner to make sure life changes and law changes are properly accounted for in the plan.”

Zucker said couples need to talk often about finances and financial decisions. “You have to regularly make time to talk about finances,” he says. “It’s important that both partners actively participate in these discussions. Keep it a conversation. Do not make it a business meeting. If one spouse dominates finances and becomes ill, it leaves the uninformed spouse without direction.”

He says if a couple can’t have civil discussions about finances, they need to seek help.

RETIREMENT LIVING

How to see the world and not go broke

LYNNE MARTIN

Lynne Martin wrote the book “Home Sweet Anywhere.”

Couple gave away their possessions and sold their California home to travel around the globe Nanci Hellmich USA TODAY

Three years ago, Lynne Martin, 73, and her husband, Tim, 68, decided to live a “home-free” lifestyle in retirement.

They gave away most of their possessions, sold their house in Paso Robles, Calif., found a new home for their dog and started traveling the world. Since then, they’ve lived in furnished apartments in Mexico, Turkey, Paris, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, Morocco, Portugal and Germany.

The Martins, who each travel with a 32-inch suitcase, see themselves as “senior gypsies” who love this lifestyle because “we wanted to have the luxury of really getting to know the people” in the countries they visit, says Lynne, who has written a book about their experiences, Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World. She blogs about their travels on homefreeadventures.com.

This adventurous lifestyle comes naturally for both of them.

Lynne was an entrepreneur who had careers in public relations, interior design and gourmet cheese manufacturing. Tim has been a lyricist and owned an electronics business. Both have two daughters from previous marriages, and they have seven grandchildren between them.

“We’re amazingly happy doing this,” Tim says.

The two got married eight

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Tim Martin sees the colors of Morocco at a market.

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years ago and decided to “unretire” to become temporary locals in countries on their dream lists.

To do that, they realized they needed to sell their home because “we couldn’t travel in a relaxed way with all the responsibilities of a house,” Lynne says.

Downsizing and getting rid of most of their belongings, except what they could fit into a small storage unit, “was hard” but not “horrible,” she says. “We held on to treasures such as photos, jewelry, little memorabilia, but desks, lamps, chairs and coffee tables — those are all gone.”

They had to find a home for their Jack Russell terrier. “That was incredibly hard, but we found the right people. He lives on a 20-

LYNNE MARTIN

A charcuterie in Italy reflects a slice of life.

“We’re amazingly happy doing this.”

Tim Martin

acre vineyard with five other terriers.”

She says you don’t have to be rich to do this. They live on income from their investments (about $6,000 a month), Social Security and a small pension. They haven’t had to touch their nest egg, which they are saving so “we can take care of ourselves for the rest of our lives and aren’t a burden to our children.”

“We have never spent one more dime than we did when we lived in California,” Lynne says. “If you take the amount that it costs in overhead to live in a house with insurance, taxes, upkeep, repairs — for us it has come out the same.”

Tim says he enjoys doing the travel planning, including finding onebedroom apartments on homeaway-

.com. An apartment on the beach in Portugal costs less than $1,800 a month, Lynne says. The vacation rentals are always clean, “but there has never been one that has a really truly comfortable sofa,” she says.

Other people interested in doing this could live cheaper by renting studio apartments, and those with more money could get bigger, more luxurious accommodations, she says.

To try to keep their costs under control, they rotate stays in pricey cities like London and Paris with stints in cheaper countries like Mexico and Turkey, Lynne says. One of their favorite modes of transportation is repositioning voyages, which is when cruise lines move their ships seasonally and offer great bargains, she says.

“We’ve crossed the Atlantic four times like that.”

When it comes to communicating with people in other countries, they aren’t fluent in any foreign languages but are able to get by knowing words such as please, thank you and excuse me.

They have had plenty of trials and tribulations along the way, including trying to figure out how to operate microwaves, televisions and washers and dryers in other countries.

They have no plans to settle down “until the wheels fall off,” she says, but when they’re ready, they’ll probably go back to California.

To enjoy this lifestyle, you need to have “some wanderlust and a sense of adventure,” Lynne says.

“You have to be curious and flexible because there are always surprises every day.”

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TECH

Samsung Galaxy S5 is a phone with heart

TALKING YOUR TECH

The latest model proves less is more, and in a good way

THE BOTTOM LINE

Samsung Galaxy S5 www.samsung.com $200 with two-year contract (other pricing options available).

Pro. Solid phone cuts down on certain over-the-top features while adding heart-rate monitor and water resistance. Good camera. Good voice quality. Fast. Powersaving mode.

Con. Ran into issues with fingerprint scanner. Some camera features could be simpler.

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Nikki, left, and Brie are the Bella Twins.

Brie is getting married Friday.

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Bella Twins ‘tech’ charge of lives Garmin GPS helps on road; Knot works for planning a wedding Jefferson Graham @jeffersongraham USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES Brie and Nikki Bella travel the world for WWE, but their employer doesn’t book hotel rooms or rental cars for the wrestling duo, who also co-star in E Entertainment Television’s Total Divas reality series.

So once they end up at their hotel, they’re pulling up the Hotwire app on their iPhones to find the next great deal, as they told us, in a recent interview, at E’s offices here.

apps and websites such as Pinterest and the Knot.

“If it wasn’t for technology and the Internet, I wouldn’t have been able to plan a wedding because I’m never home. I’ve shared probably a thousand e-mails with my wedding planner.” She picked out everything online — from the wedding venue, bridesmaid dresses to the invitations. (She did pick out her dress in person.)

EVERYTHING TOGETHER

The twins have more than 1 million followers on Twitter, but fans might wonder — who is doing the writing?

Nikki: “We used to write ‘B’ or ‘N’ so people would know, but ... we’re the Bella TWINS. Now, it’s like if I’m writing about (boyfriend) John (Cena), people will know it’s TRAVELING DEVICES Nikki — if she’s writing MORE ONLINE The twins travel with a about Brian, it’s Brie Garmin GPS and iPad TECH. obviously talking.”

USATODAY.COM everywhere they go.

Why not separate Brie: “The GPS is our Hear more of Twitter pages? savior. We use the GPS Jefferson Brie: “Because of on our phone, but Graham’s branding. We stand there’s nothing like hav- interview with strong on our own but ing a nice big GPS in the Bella Twins. not everyone is a twin, your rental car. It gives so that’s something you the restaurants en route; if special. With us, it’s the Bella there’s traffic, it reroutes you. Twins; that’s what everyone That’s one thing we cannot live knows. So for us to have one without is GPS.” name and be a part of it, that’s Nikki likes the iPad for watch- stronger.” ing TV shows. “I don’t have cable.

I like to relax in the hotel room or APPS airplane and watch shows.”

We asked the twins to predict the one app the other couldn’t live WEDDING PLANNING without.

Brie is getting married Friday in Nikki picked Instagram for Sedona, Ariz., to fellow WWE Brie, but she said no, the app she performer Daniel Bryan. couldn’t live without is Uber, the No, the ceremony won’t be smartphone-based taxi alternastreamed live on WWE’s new mo- tive. On their visit to Los Angeles, bile app, but it will be captured by they used it six times that day.

E’s cameras for the season finale Brie’s pick for sis: Twitter. of Divas.

Nikki rejected the suggestion Given she’s touring and far and picked Yelp. “I’m all about from home in Arizona, she ratings and reviews and finding a planned the wedding online using great restaurant.”

The way Samsung hawked the features in prior versions of its Galaxy S series smartphones, you’d think the devices belonged in a circus act: Step right up and see all the tricks your phone can do.

However, this wow-the-consumer strategy too often went over the top. Things such as waving your hand to take a call made a neat demonstration, but I don’t know many people who actually answered that way.

Not that you could blame Samsung for trying to make its phones stand out. Along with Apple’s iPhones, the Galaxy phones are the most popular premium smartphones around the world.

With the Galaxy S5, which will be available on Friday, Samsung has made a strategic decision to tone things down, which actually makes things better. Certain gimmicky features have been pushed to the background, and for others you must visit the Samsung store.

While the global version of the Galaxy S4 had more than 50 preloaded apps, the S5 knocks the pre-load list down to 40. That bit about waving your hand? Gone.

Samsung hasn’t done away with new features and this latest flagship arguably goes further than any rival device in pushing health and fitness and a connection to wearable computers such as Samsung’s own new Gear Fit. The Galaxy S5 is the first smartphone to boast a dedicated heart-rate monitor. The phone is dust- and water-resistant, too, to a depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes.

The USB connector is sealed under a protective flap.

Samsung also added a fingerprint scanner that you can use to unlock the phone, log on to your Samsung.com account or to make payments through PayPal. Alas, I had trouble with the first test unit Samsung supplied — my fingerprint batting average was no better than 30%. To be fair, Samsung suspected I had gotten a wonky phone, and on a replacement device, I did a lot better (though results weren’t perfect). The fingerprint scanner doesn’t work as well as the similar feature Apple has on the iPhone 5s.

But it’s the basics that should sell this solid Android handset. I can easily recommend it, even if it doesn’t break a lot of ground.

The S5 has an eye-popping, 5.1inch, Super Amoled 1080p display that can adapt to its lighting environment. It’s thin but a bit longer than the S4. At 5.1-ounces (vs. 4.6 ounces), it adds some heft, PERSONAL TECH

Samsung made a strategic decision to tone things down, which actually makes things better. but not to the point where I was bothered. Samsung chose a design with a dimpled plastic back.

It doesn’t come close to measuring up to the premium feel of the HTC One (M8), crafted from an all-metal uni-body design. But the S5 is comfortable to hold.

The S5 does have a big advantage over HTC’s phone in that you can remove the back to swap out the battery. Speaking of the battery, this one is higher-capacity than the one in the S4. And Samsung includes an ultra-power-saving mode that can bail you out if you have only a little juice.

You can still get calls and messages, but network speeds are slowed, and mobile data is suspended if the screen is off. Back in regular mode, the S5 exploits the latest network speeds and flavors of Wi-Fi. The fast quad-core phone has a paltry 16 gigabytes of storage (with less available to the user)

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but is expandable via MicroSD (up to 128 GB).

HTC gets the nod over Galaxy for its external stereo speakers.

As with other phones, you can use the S5 as a TV remote.

I tested the Galaxy S5 in New York, New Jersey and parts of South Korea. I employed a T-Mobile SIM inside the device; in Korea, the phone roamed via KT’s (Korea Telecom) Olleh service. I was impressed with the voice quality of calls back to the U.S. The 16-megapixel rear camera on the S5 is excellent, especially on images captured with Samsung’s real-time HDR (High Dynamic Range) setting. Video and audio quality were also good.

(Front camera is 2-megapixels.)

Other camera features are holdovers from the Galaxy S4, including Dual Camera mode (which lets you shoot stills or images using the front and rear cameras simultaneously) and Eraser mode (erasing movement moving subjects in the background).

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular are charging about $200 for the S5 under a two-year plan, with other pricing options. The full T-Mobile retail price is $660, or $27.50 per month over 24 months.

The Galaxy S5 doesn’t have all of the circus tricks. But water resistance (if it works as advertised) and heart-rate sensor are definitely welcome, and this is a solid device. Sometimes less is more.

High-tech Game Golf program tees off

$249 system that tracks scores has social component Mike Snider

@MikeSnider USA TODAY

Smart golf program Game Golf is teed up, just in time for those first rounds of the spring.

Just 11 months ago, Game Golf CEO John McGuire announced the system for tracking your scores and game play on indiegogo.com.

The campaign raised more than $280,000 and since then has gained some big backers, including the PGA of America and The Golf Channel.

The $249 system can now be ordered online and purchased in Apple retail stores nationwide.

The company has shipped several thousand units since its official launch at the PGA Merchandise show in January.

“The analogy that everyone is starting to use is that this is the

Shotlink for the amateur,” McGuire says.

To use the system, you wear a small data-collecting sensor clipped on the belt — or at the hip on a skirt. Before you take each shot on the course, you tap the sensor with the end of the club where a sensor has been inserted into the grip.

Using near-field communication technology, a connection is made between the device and the sensors, allowing it to record each shot and the club used.

After your round, you connect the wearable sensor to your computer to transfer the data. That data is combined with the map of your course and your GPS position for each shot to track shot length — about 30,000 courses are already in the system.

The resulting information, which shows each shot and distance with each club, tracked over multiple rounds, is valuable to golfers and teaching pros alike, said PGA of America CEO Pete Bevacqua when he announced the group’s partnership with Game Golf at the PGA Merchandise show in January.

GAME GOLF

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Pro golfer Graeme McDowell uses Game Golf sensors, shown at top. Here’s a screen shot from a round that USA TODAY’s Mike Snider recorded using Game Golf.

GAME GOLF

“It represents where sports are headed at the participatory level, that convergence of playing a game in technology and, in our opinion, this really nailed it in the

golf space,” Bevacqua said at the time. “We also love the social element, how can you connect to people around the country. If I’m in New York and want to play a

match against Mike, who is down at Bay Hill, we can say, ‘Let’s do a greens in regulation or a fairways in regulation or a nine-hole match’ and to be able to share that data and to have this social component to connect golfers all around the country and inevitably all around the world, for us was tremendously exciting.”

Tour pro and 2010 U.S. open champion Graeme McDowell, who along with Lee Westwood and Jim Furyk uses the technology during practice and proam rounds, thinks other tour pros, as well as amateurs, will gravitate to the system.

“Measurability is what we are into right now and sharing that with friends via Facebook and Twitter and comparing ourselves,” he said at the PGA show.

The PGA of America and Golf Channel invested in Game Golf and each plans to use and promote the system. “They both believe this smart club technology is going to grow the game,” McGuire says.

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TRENDING Sound off: Old vs. new violins

“If you haven’t been (to Burning Man), you just don’t get (Silicon Valley).”

Tesla founder Elon Musk

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Study’s surprising results: Experts can’t distinguish Mary Bowerman

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THE REAL TECHIES RATE

“The show “Look, Old Italian violins are delivers real laughs, we are often deemed the king of all violins. not just chuckles, and A Stradivarius can rake in mil- completely ridiculous, that is almost as rare because that’s what lions at auction, and players these days as starting it takes to dive into have long noted the superior a company that this world.” tonal qualities of violins from becomes the next the 1700s compared with newDropbox.”

Marcus Weller, founder er violins. of motorcycle helmet BuzzFeed founder start-up Skully Researchers have tried to exJonah Peretti PAUL ARCHULETA, FILMMAGIC plain the supposed superiority of In HBO’s Silicon Valley, Thomas Middleditch, center, plays a low-rung programmer who comes up with a compression algorithm that promises to revolutionize the tech world — and possibly his life. the old Italian violins, testing everything from the old wood to inrequires a solid business idea to gredients in the varnish used on even get people to look at you,” the violins. says Taylor, a veteran of Cisco A new study published this Systems and other big tech compast week in Proceedings of the panies, and currently CEO of National Academy of Sciences, by Sideband. “We’re not all Steve acoustic scientist Claudia Fritz Jobses here. But Silicon Valley is and violin maker and researcher a place where people come from Joseph Curtin, shows that there all over the world who are pasMarco della Cava really may not be a distinguishsionate about tech and solving @marcodellacava able difference between old and really hard problems.”

USA TODAY new violins.

The HBO comedy, he con“When you see a fantastic viocludes, “had me kind of laughing, linist confused and unable to tell but it’s so skewed for entertainSAN FRANCISCO Marc Andreesthe difference between a Strad ment value.” sen loves it. Elon Musk hates it. and a newer instrument, it really Ray Wang, founder of ConBut it seems everyone in Silicon makes an impression,” Curtin stellation Research, says his Valley has an opinion about Silisays.

JAIMIE TRUEBLOOD, HBO friends “are saying, ‘Oh, now I con Valley, HBO’s new Mike Valley, a new HBO show that’s the brainchild of Mike Judge, get you.’ I have to tell them, ‘It’s Judge-helmed comedy whose Silicon follows the antics of the tech crowd. From left, Zach Woods, Thomas not us any more than The West premiere episode aired last Sun- Middleditch, Alec Berg, Judge, T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani.

Wing was how everyone in day and is currently streaming Most of the tech world is Washington, D.C., lives.’ It’s not a con Valley. If you haven’t been, on YouTube. bad show, but it doesn’t get us.”

“Disclaimer,” fabled engineer- you just don’t get it. ... The show chuckling, with an asterisk.

BuzzFeed founder Jonah Pe“My friends and I are talking turned-venture-capitalist An- didn’t have any of that.”

Silicon Valley follows, Entou- about the show, which is defi- retti shared his thoughts about dreessen tweeted after the show’s launch. “All quotes I am rage-like, a group of program- nitely funny but doesn’t resem- Silicon Valley via an online essay tweeting today are from Mike mers as they try to capitalize on ble our experience here,” says saying “the show will not eluciJudge’s TV show Silicon Valley, a compression algorithm that Ben Nader, who is busy burning date what Silicon Valley is ‘really the midnight oil turning his like,’ except in a highly fictionalpromises to revolutionize the not from my own mouth :-)” photo-sharing start-up, ized, exaggerated, absurdist Among the lines Andreessen consumer tech experiButterfleye, into a re- form. But the show delivers real cited was a money man’s discon- ence. It takes the laughs, not just chuckles, and ality. nected praise as he fobs off de- quirky-but-true sta“It's not “The show had that is almost as rare these days tails on an assistant: “Here’s the ples of start-up life us any more than the guys sitting as starting a company that bething … I LOVE what you did. … — frantic bidding ‘The West Wing’ AP around late at comes the next Dropbox.” wars, late-night Fill him in, Jerry.” was how everyone Margaret Batjer with the On the flip side, some Valley working, sessions in Washington, D.C., night Judge took notice of the coding 1716 Milstein Stradivarius. smoking marijua- voices are grateful Silicon Valley tweets and pinged Andreessen and intra-company lives.”

Researchers asked 10 world-rena and drinking helps explain the strange petri squabbles over back: “So glad you liked it!”

Ray Wang, founder nowned soloists to choose a violin beer,” he says, laugh- dish they call home.

Tesla founder Musk did not. company shares — of Constellation to hypothetically replace their “Finally, someone gets what ing. “I’m up then, too, The opinionated visionary at- and tweaks them for Research own from a batch of six new and on calls with Asia, but I we’re going through on a daily tended the show’s official pre- effect. six old Italian violins, five of Facebook famously made its can tell you the most we have is basis,” says Marcus Weller, founmiere in the Valley hub of which were Stradivarius models. der of high-tech motorcycle helRedwood City, and was quoted early-days muralist wildly rich tea and coffee.”

In the blind study, the violinZane Taylor feels the show met start-up Skully. “For a (and then re-quoted) by Re/ when the company went public; ists wore dark goggles and tested code’s Nellie Bowles as saying, “I in Silicon Valley, the gang behind minimizes the sheer sweat equi- 20-something to have to make the instruments in 75-minute really feel like Mike Judge has the start-up Pied Piper hire an ty required to succeed in the multimillion-dollar decisions is sessions, one in a rehearsal room insane. ... The way the show capnever been to Burning Man (the inner-city graffiti artist to jazz tech world’s California hub. and one in a 300-seat concert hall “Raising (venture capital) tures all the intellectual and annual bacchanal in Nevada’s up their garage door, with hilarioutside Paris. money is extremely hard, and it emotional trauma is awesome.”

Black Rock desert), which is Sili- ously disastrous results.

Six of the 10 soloists chose new violins as their preference, and when comparing playing qualities of their favorite new violin and favorite old violin, they rated the new violin higher, on average.

Most of the violinists in the phia Daily News columnist Chuck An Afghan study went in with the notion A few of an embattled Stone, a man whose writing enboy flies his that old is better than new, says industry’s best pay gendered such trust in the comkite on a hill Giora Schmidt, a solo violinist munity that scores of criminal overlooking who played old Italian instru- the ultimate price suspects surrendered to him Kabul, in ments like Stradivarius for most rather than to the police, a man this photo by of his career.

Rem Rieder who once successfully negotiated an acclaimed “I was expecting my first @remrieder a hostage situation at a prison at AP photogchoice to be old,” Schmidt says. USA TODAY great personal risk. rapher who “It’s almost inherent for profesNiedringhaus and Gannon was killed sional violinists to believe they were shot by a police commander April 4 in need an old Italian to be in the perilous terrain of Khost in Afghanistan. successful.” eastern Afghanistan. No surprise Schmidt, who has played violin ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS, AP So much of the that they were there. The mission since he was 4 and now plays an MEDIA talk about journal- reflected their determination to each other. Anthony Shadid boom-boom and the risk. But instrument made in 2000, says he ism these days re- get close to the story, the real sto- succumbed to an asthma attack Colvin, who had lost an eye covwas surprised when his top three volves around new ry, the real people, whatever the while covering the fighting in Syr- ering combat, hated being porchoices were all new instruments. ia for The New York Times. Marie trayed that way. “I don’t do this business models and risk.

“Many of us would sit around clicks and platforms.

Carlotta Gall, no stranger to Colvin, an American-born war for fun,” she once said. “I do it beand try to figure out whether an It’s easy to forget about the un- danger herself during her many correspondent for Britain’s Sun- cause it is necessary.” instrument we played was old or derlying public service role of the years covering Afghanistan for day Times, was killed along with Stone, who crusaded against new,” says Schmidt. “What felt field, the reason the press gets The New York French photojournalist Remi injustice in his columns, was a new to me may have felt old to singled out for protection under Times, was with Ochlik when the media center different type of journalist, but someone else. The choice was the First Amendment. the two AP jour- where they were working was also a brave and impressive one. really about personal connection All told, 75 suspects reluctant to nalists just be- shelled by the Syrian army.

Journalism at its best is about with an instrument.”

Like Niedringhaus and Gan- turn themselves in to the Philafore the fatal truth telling, about providing While the researchers found people with information they non, both were known for their delphia police because of the journey. similar results in a study two need to understand their world.

Gall, now the determination to put a human beatings they feared might ensue years ago, they faced criticism It’s a deeply imperfect enterprise Times’ Tunis face on warfare, for their first- surrendered to him in the Daily over having the violinists practice — and a critically important one. bureau chief, hand reportage on war’s impact News newsroom. in a hotel room, with a shorter And sometimes those carrying it In addition to that negotiation, warned she was rather than settling for bland protrial time, which could have af- out pay the ultimate price.

AP he was once summoned by bank hearing the Tali- nouncements by policymakers. fected results. The current study In a 2004 interview with Amer- robbers holding a hostage. Stone ban planned to We were reminded of this pow- Kathy Ganis the first in a set of three papers erfully April 4, when Anja Nie- non in 2012. attack foreign- ican Journalism Review’s Sherry defused that situation, too. examining each instrument’s pro- dringhaus, a photographer for the ers and government officials that Ricchiardi, Shadid summed up He was, former Daily News edijection in the hall, and listeners’ Associated Press, and Kathy Gan- Friday. “But Anja and Kathy took his approach: “You want to find torial page editor Rich Aregood preference in instruments. non, an AP correspondent, were it in stride,” Gall wrote. “They the human moment — that’s your wrote on Facebook, “the only Un“It’s an exciting time to be a vio- shot while covering the run-up to knew the dangers.” challenge as a reporter. And you derground Railroad for criminal lin maker,” Curtin says. “You used the election in Afghanistan. NieThey went to Khost because have to be on the scene to do suspects a newspaper ever to hear that violins could never dringhaus died from her injuries. that is what they did. maintained.” that.” reach the level of an old Italian, It’s easy to see war corresponJust two years ago, two splenAnother reminder of journalbut this second study confirms it’s ism’s heft came with the death did journalists lost their lives in dents as adrenaline junkies, as Rieder is USA TODAY’s media editor really about violin quality.” last Sunday of former Philadel- combat zones within a week of adventurers who get off on the and columnist

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Daniel Bejarano could see he wasn’t going to get as much playing time as he wanted at Arizona under a new coach. A.J. Newton felt like she didn’t fit into the plans of a new coach at San Jose State. And Chane Behanan was kicked off the team at Louisville for a “violation of university policy” just seven months after helping the Cardinals win a national championship.

All three were seeking a fresh start when they decided to transfer to CSU, becoming part of a growing number of college athletes choosing to play for a school other than the one they originally signed with coming out of high school.

About 40 percent of Division I men’s basketball players transfer by the end of their sophomore year, a recent NCAA study found, primarily for athletic reasons. That’s slightly higher than the transfer rate for undergraduate students in general, which was 33 percent within five years of entering college, according to a 2012 report by the National Student Clearinghouse.

Two high-profile players, running back Donnell Alexander and backup quarterback Conner Smith, have left the CSU football program this spring hoping to finish their careers elsewhere. And Michelle Lawrence, one of the top hitters on the Rams’ volleyball team last fall, left at the end of the season to transfer to a program closer to her family’s Walnut Creek, Calif., home, she said.

So it’s not just basketball players who are transferring in and out of NCAA Division I programs. But they seem to do so at a much higher rate than in other sports.

Six of the 15 players on the CSU men’s basketball team this past season, including leading scorers J.J. Avila (Navy) and Bejarano, came to Fort Collins after a year or two at another four-year school. Three of the15 players on the CSU women’s basketball team, including starters Gritt Ryder (Alaska-Anchorage) and Newton, were transfers.

Some players who transfer, CSU men’s basketball coach Larry Eustachy said, probably wish they hadn’t.

But the ability to transfer also helps some athletes get to where they belong, he said, noting that two players leavSee TRANSFERS, Page C7

A.J. Newton, who played one year apiece at San Jose State and Foothill College before transferring to CSU, was the second-leading scorer for the Rams this season.

Daniel Bejarano, who came to CSU after one year at Arizona, was the leading rebounder and second-leading scorer for the Rams this season. PHOTOS BY ERIN HULL/THE COLORADOAN

Why you should drink the McElwain Kool-Aid The last time the CSU football team had back-toback winning seasons was 2002 and 2003.

Sobering.

Coach Jim McElwain has hopes of changing that this year.

The Rams are coming off a miracle 8-6 season, but they suffered heavy losses from last year’s team. Gone is record-setting Kapri Bibbs, four of the five starters on the offensive line, all three starting defensive lineman and the Rams’ best defensive player in Shaquil Barrett.

Bibbs was simply incredible.

The offensive line started off terrible but molded into a very good unit. Led by departed nose guard Calvin Tonga, the defensive line was difficult to run against up the middle. Barrett was a playmaker.

So how do the Rams accomplish something that has not happened in more than a decade?

They return quarterback Garrett Grayson, who had a remarkable turnaround to set several offensive records. They have a promising wide receiver in Rashard Higgins. Kivon Cartwright returns at tight end. The linebackers are solid and deep.

But the real reason they might do something that hasn’t been accomplished since Sonny Lubick was coach is because of the McElwain way.

The coach proved last year that he can mold a team into a winning team and put an exclamation point on it with an improbable win against Washington State.

It appears that it might be even more difficult to repeat that success given the team’s losses, but McElwain has made believers that his way is a winning way.

He’s done it by making fundamentals a priority, by being a stickler for details, by conditioning his players beyond their physical and mental capacity, by making competition a daily ritual, and by recruiting to fill glaring needs.

It’s a foundation that could just get the Rams back to a bowl.

He’s got a schedule that — on paper in April — looks doable, despite all the questions. He’s got See BLUMHARDT, Page C7

CSU FOOTBALL

Converted safety looks like a running back in scrimmage

By Kelly Lyell KellyLyell@coloradoan.com

COMMERCE CITY — Jasen

Oden still isn’t comfortable calling himself a running back.

But the CSU junior sure looked like one Saturday, running for 69 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries during a public scrimmage in front of about 1,000 fans at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.

He followed his blockers, made some nice cuts and even carried the pile forward for a 6-yard gain on one play after being hit at the line of scrimmage.

“Today was a big day for me, honestly,” Oden said after the Rams’ annual spring practice in front of their Denver-area fans. “... It really is confidence. Once you develop your confidence, you begin to make moves that you didn’t see yourself making.”

The converted safety is one of two players getting work at running back with the No. 1 offense this spring.

Colorado State University lost its top two rushers from last season when Kapri Bibbs declared himself eligible for the NFL draft and Donnell Alexander asked for a release from his scholarship to transfer.

See FOOTBALL, Page C12

SCRIMMAGE STARS » Jasen Oden — Converted safety, a junior, ran for 69 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries » Garrett Grayson — Senior quarterback completed 17 of 21 passes for 222 yards and one touchdown » Rashard Higgins — Sophomore receiver caught five passes for 93 yards » Deonte Clyburn — Sophomore linebacker had a team-leading six tackles, all solo » Saladin McCullough — Junior cornerback returned an interception 41 yards for a touchdown

Running back Jasen Oden, a safety for CSU the past two seasons, ran for 69 yards and two touchdowns Saturday. DON REICHERT/FOR THE COLORADOAN

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Colorado Sports MLB Eagles Sun. 4-13

Avalanche Nuggets

Rockies

at Anaheim 6 p.m.

at San Francisco 2:05 p.m.

Mon. 4-14

at San Diego 8:10 p.m.

Tue. 4-15

at L.A. Clippers 8:30 p.m.

at San Diego 8:10 p.m.

Wed. 4-16

Golden State 8:30 p.m.

at San Diego 8:10 p.m.

Thu. 4-17

at San Diego 4:40 p.m.

Fri. 4-18

Philadelphia 6:40 p.m.

Sat. 4-19

Philadelphia 6:10 p.m.

SCHEDULE SUNDAY Indoor football

Fever at Ice..................................................................................3 p.m.

ON TV SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS Auto racing

Indy Lights (NBCSN) ..........................................................12:30 p.m.

IndyCar: Grand Prix of Long Beach (NBCSN)......................2 p.m.

NHRA: Four-Wide Nationals (ESPN2) ...................................6 p.m.

College baseball

Texas at Oklahoma (ESPNU)..............................................1:30 p.m.

Golf

Masters Tournament, final round (CBS) ...............................Noon

MLB

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati (MLB) ............................................11 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis (WGN) ...................................12:10 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees (ESPN)...............................................6 p.m.

NBA

Rockies win; Anderson hurt

By Michael Wagaman

ROCKIES 1, GIANTS 0

Associated Press

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SAN FRANCISCO —

Tommy Kahnle has been trying to tell anyone who will listen how good Colorado’s bullpen is, even if the numbers suggest otherwise.

The Rockies middle reliever finally has some solid proof to back his claim. On a day the National League’s top scoring offense was held to one run, the timing was perfect.

Kahnle and four relievers combined for two-hit ball over six innings after Brett Anderson was injured, leading Colorado to a 1-0 victory over Matt Cain and the San Francisco Giants on Saturday.

“It’s definitely special,” said Kahnle after the Rockies’ bullpen lowered its collective ERA by nearly full point to 4.20. “Our bullpen’s real good, especially coming into that spot where our starter gets taken out by a freak injury.

Really it’s just a big spot by us.”

Troy Tulowitzki drove in the game’s only run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning to help lift Colorado to just its second win in six road games this season. It’s also just the Rockies’ third win in their last 17 games at San Francisco’s waterfront ballpark.

Kahnle (2-0) allowed one baserunner in two innings.

Totals

The Rockies' Charlie Blackmon scores past San Francisco Giants catcher Hector Sanchez, right, on a sacrifice fly by Troy Tulowitzki, not pictured, during the third inning on Saturday in San Francisco.

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Matt Belisle, Adam Ottavino, Rex Brothers and LaTroy Hawkins pitched an inning apiece to complete the threehitter with Hawkins finishing for his second save.

“Usually if it’s a one-run game here we’re going the other way on it and probably lose,” said Ottavino, who pitched a perfect seventh inning for Colorado. “Today was a good day. Everybody stepped up that needed to and we were able to hold them down and keep them quiet.”

Anderson left the game with a bruised left index finger after allowing a hit in three innings. He did not require Xrays and is scheduled to be reevaluated on Sunday.

Rockies relievers picked up the slack and extended their scoreless streak to 9 2-3 innings in this series.

A day after pitcher Madison Bumgarner hit a grand slam and drove in five runs, the Giants managed only three hits and were shut out for the first time this season.

“Their bullpen did a great job,” San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. “We pitched good. They just pitched a little better.”

Cain (0-2) allowed four hits over seven innings with eight strikeouts and three walks. He is winless in his last seven starts at AT&T Park.

Charlie Blackmon, the majors’ leading hitter going in,

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Colorado IP H R ER BB SO Anderson 3 1 0 0 1 2 Kahnle W,2-0 2 1 0 0 1 2 Belisle H,2 1 0 0 0 0 1 Ottavino H,3 1 0 0 0 0 1 Brothers H,3 1 1 0 0 2 1 Hawkins S,2-2 1 0 0 0 0 1

San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO M.Cain L,0-2 7 4 1 1 3 8 Machi 1 0 0 0 0 1 Petit 1 0 0 0 0 1 Umpires—Home, Marvin Hudson; First, Hal Gibson; Second, Dale Scott; Third, Dan Iassogna.

T—2:48. A—41,917 (41,915).

scored after leading off the third with a walk. Blackmon took second on Brandon Barnes’ infield single, moved to third as part of a double steal then came home on Tulowitzki’s sacrifice fly.

“At the time you’re not thinking that’s the run that’s going to win the game, but it was a big one,” Colorado manager Walt Weiss said.

Tulowitzki went hitless in three at-bats in his return to Colorado’s lineup.

Oklahoma City at Indiana (ABC)..........................................11 a.m.

NHL

Detroit at St. Louis (NBC) .................................................10:30 a.m.

Ottowa at Pittsburgh (NBCSN).........................................5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Phoenix (NBCSN) ......................................................7 p.m.

Soccer

Premier League: Manchester City at Liverpool (NBCSN) ....6:30 a.m.

FA Cup Semifinal: Hull City vs. Sheffield (FS1)....................9 a.m.

Premier League: Chelsea at Swansea City (NBCSN)..........9 a.m.

Note: Listings are for live events only unless noted.

For full listings, go to tvguide.com

NBA

Faried, Nuggets rally past Jazz

By Arnie Stapleton Associated Press

DENVER — Ken-

IN BRIEF CSU softball falls to UNLV The Colorado State University softball team lost its seven-run lead, then lost the game, a 13-12 loss to UNLV that took 10 innings to decide.

CSU (23-10, 4-4 Mountain West) took a 12-5 lead into the bottom of the fourth inning before UNLV responded with four in the bottom of the fourth, two in the fifth and another run in the sixth to tie the game.

UNLV (17-22, 7-4 MW) got the win from Amanda Aliveto.

CSU’s Holly Reinke took the loss.

Haley Hutton was 2-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBIs. Chelsea O’Connor was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and four RBIs, and Jaelyn Manzanares was 3-for-5 for CSU.

Ice looking for third-straight win

Two teams going in opposite directions meet Sunday afternoon when the Colorado Ice host the Tri-Cities Fever.

The Ice (3-2) have won two-straight games after holding on to beat the Wyoming Cavalry on the road last weekend.

The Fever (1-4) have lost four games in a row by an average of almost 20 points per game.

Ice quarterback Willie Copeland is first in the Indoor Football League with 19 passing touchdowns and his main target, Kyle Kaiser, is second with eight touchdowns.

The Fever have the third-highest scoring offense in the league at 48.6 points per game. They’ll have to face an Ice defense that is fourth in the league with 38.6 points allowed per game.

Kickoff is 3 p.m. Sunday at the Budweiser Events Center.

The Ice don’t play at home again until May 10.

— Coloradoan staff

neth Faried scored 24 points and pulled down 21 rebounds Saturday night in the short-handed Denver Nuggets’ 101-94 come-from-behind win over the Utah Jazz.

Randy Foye added 26 points and Evan Fornier 23 for the Nuggets, who trailed most of the night before send-

ing Utah to its fourth straight loss and evening the season series with their rivals at two games each.

Foye’s 3-pointer with 6:54 left gave Denver its first lead of the night at 77-76.

Seconds later, Fornier made the most unlikely of baskets. He was driving in to the lane when he got tripped and let go of the ball as he fell backward into the paint. The ball fluttered through the net just as he hit the floor, and his

NUGGETS 101, JAZZ 94

Utah Denver

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UTAH (94) Hayward 7-18 9-10 23, Favors 6-10 1-5 13, Kanter 8-14 6-7 22, Burke 5-13 1-1 12, Burks 1-3 2-2 5, Jefferson 3-8 1-2 7, Evans 3-7 4-5 10, Clark 0-1 0-0 0, Garrett 1-4 0-0 2, Gobert 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-79 24-32 94.

DENVER (101) Miller 0-2 0-0 0, Faried 11-19 2-3 24, Mozgov 4-11 3-6 11, Brooks 3-13 2-2 8, Foye 7-13 9-9 26, Fournier 7-16 6-7 23, Chandler 3-7 2-2 9, Arthur 0-1 0-0 0, Vesely 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 35-84 24-29 101.

3-Point Goals—Utah 2-13 (Burks 1-2, Burke 1-5, Jefferson 0-1, Garrett 0-1, Hayward 0-4), Denver 722 (Foye 3-4, Fournier 3-8, Chandler 1-2, Arthur 0-1, Mozgov 0-2, Miller 0-2, Brooks 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Utah 47 (Kanter 14), Denver 60 (Faried 21). Assists—Utah 20 (Burke 8), Denver 23 (Foye 6). Total Fouls—Utah 23, Denver 26.

Technicals—Utah defensive three second, Denver defensive three second. A—18,832 (19,155).

subsequent free throw put Denver on top 80-76.

Foye and Fornier teamed up for back-to-back 3s that gave the Nuggets a 90-82 lead with three minutes left.

Gordon Hayward led Utah with 23 points, and Enes Kanter added 22 points and 14 rebounds.

The Nuggets scored a season-low 34 in the first half.

MLS

ECHL

Buddle, Rapids edge Toronto FC

Eagles score in final minute to beat Aces

Associated Press

TORONTO — Former Toronto forward Edson Buddle scored his 99th MLS goal — from close range in the 77th minute — to help the Colorado Rapids beat Toronto FC 1-0 on Saturday.

“There was only a few spells of decent soccer being played out there,” Colorado coach Pablo Mastroeni said.

“The rest of it was grit, rolling up your sleeves, second balls and battles. That’s what I said to the guys going in. This game is not going to be about soccer, it’s going to be about determination and will and fight and getting those second balls and shielding and putting balls in dangerous spots.”

Colorado (3-1-1) had lost all six of its previous games at BMO Field against Toronto although it did win the MLS Cup in Toronto in 2010, beating FC Dallas.

“Bitterly disappointing,” Toronto captain Steven Caldwell said. “We just feel if we put in performances like that,

By Kevin Lytle KevinLytle@coloradoan.com

The Rapids’ Edson Buddle, center, celebrates his goal with Jose Mari, left, and Deshorn Brown. USA TODAY SPORTS

we’re going to win a lot more games than we’re going to lose.”

Colorado’s Vicente Sanchez missed the game to remain in Colorado because his wife is expecting their first child. Toronto (3-2-0) played without injured starters Jermain Defoe (hamstring) and Michael Bradley (quadriceps), whose combined salaries are almost $13 million this season. Also missing were Jonathan Osorio (hamstring) and Alvaro Rey (hamstring) and Doneil Henry (knee).

“I think their depth was tested today,” Colorado defender Drew Moor said.

EAGLES 3, ACES 2

Alaska 1 1 0 —2 The Colorado Ea- Colorado 0 2 1 —3 gles finished the First period — 1, Alaska, regular season Taranto 13 (Sivak, Trupp), 4:28. with a bang, beatSecond period — 2, Alaska, ing the Alaska Ac- Sivak 31 (Taranto, Trupp), 1:11. 3, es 3-2 Saturday with the Colorado, Johnston 6 (Ulanski), game-winning goal coming 13:55 (PP). 4, Colorado, Beatty 2 in the final minute.

(Hudson, Ulanski), 14:38.

With overtime looming, Third period — 5, Colorado, former Alaska player Alex Hudson 13 (Birch, Daavettila), Hudson slammed home a re- 19:28. bound to give the Eagles the win after trailing 2-0 in the 6-4 over Alaska (45-19-3-4, 97 points), the top team in the second period.

Alaska’s Andy Taranto ECHL. The Eagles are still No. 5 opened the scoring 4:28 into the game with a wrist shot in the Western Conference. from the circle over the Bakersfield, currently No. 6, blocker of Eagles’ goalie plays Sunday. If the Condors beat Las Vegas, they will finDustin Butler.

Peter Sivak scored 1:11 ish No. 5 and play Idaho, and into the second to make it 2-0 the Eagles would play Utah Alaska, but the Eagles fin- in the first round. If Bakersished the second with a flur- field loses, the Eagles will be ry, as two goals from de- No. 5 and face Idaho, beginfensemen tied the game at 2. ning April 18.

The Eagles finished with Daniel Johnston scored on a wrister from the circle to 78 points in 71 games played. make it 2-1, and a Jason Beat- They played one less game ty one-timer slapshot tied than originally scheduled the game less than a minute due to San Francisco folding later to send the teams into midseason. Colorado had 75 points in 72 games last year the third tied.

Colorado (33-26-7-5, 78 and was the No. 6 seed in the points) won the season series ECHL playoffs.

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Colorado Avalanche hockey fans — avid or newcomers — should join Avalanche players Paul Stastny (26), forward Nathan MacKinnon (29) and defenseman Erik Johnson (6), shown here after a goal against Vancouver on Thursday, in celebrating the team’s sensational season. ANNE-MARIE SORVIN/USA TODAY

Don’t rain on the Avalanche parade that’s coming to town Last week, when the Colorado Avalanche bested the New York Rangers in a shootout, I tweeted the following: “If you’re not getting sucked in by the Avs, you aren’t much of a Colorado sports fan. Just a phenomenal story. Wow!” That notion still rings pretty true. Sure, the emotion of the moment, provided by another heart-pounding victory in a season filled with plenty of them, probably added a dose of hyperbole to the statement.

But the simple idea remains sound: The Avalanche are a fun team, one it’s almost impossible not to get behind if you root for Colorado teams.

The fact that they’re playing this well — and doing it on the heels of a season in which they finished with the worst record in the NHL — makes it an achievement of stunning proportions. That kind of turnaround is incredibly rare.

Colorado has done it with a roster full of young, exciting players, a group of up-andcomers that makes it easy for fans to get behind. Barring something totally out of the ordinary, guys like Matt Duchene, Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon and Ryan O’Reilly — all of whom were born in the 1990s — will be donning Avalanche sweaters for years to come, providing hope for a bright future.

Their head coach doesn’t offer much more experience, as Patrick Roy heads toward the end of his first season behind an NHL bench.

But his fiery, demanding and competitive ways are infectious, inspiring his players and galvanizing the fan base.

The fact that he’s a Hall of Fame player who brought two Stanley Cups to the Mile High City doesn’t hurt, either. But mainly, it’s fun to root for a coach who seems to care as much as everyone in the stands does.

And they have a catchy slogan. “Why Not Us?” has started to make the rounds as the Avs’ mantra for the upcoming playoffs. It’s the perfect mindset for the upstarts, a group that doesn’t know or care that the odds are stacked against them. That’s often the best formula for shocking the sports world, something a playoff

Nathan MacKinnon

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run by a team that held the No. 1 overall pick less than a year ago would certainly accomplish.

It’s a great story, one that has been fun to watch up until this point and will be thrilling to see play out in the coming weeks. Everyone who is even a casual sports fan in Colorado should join in on the fun.

Ultimately, there’s only one thing that can spoil the party: Hockey Guy. It’s a singular term that can be applied to anyone, regardless of gender, who is too much of a puck head. It’s used for the group of über-fans who take themselves, and their sport, way too seriously.

They all follow the same basic pattern, doing things that drive away fair-weather supporters and turn would-be hockey fans into haters. And they’ll be in full force during the coming days.

They’ll lament the fact that anyone is focusing on anything other than the Avalanche right now, as it’s the only important sports story in town at the moment — at least in their minds. The Nuggets are playing out the string, the Rapids and Rockies are just commencing long seasons, and the Broncos are months away from taking the field for training camp; so there’s no reason to pay attention to anything other than hockey.

Of course, once people do start watching and talking about the Avs, they’ll complain that people are just now

starting to recognize the team, having ignored them during Broncos season, the NCAA tournament and spring training.

They suddenly become very territorial about their game and team, upset that late arrivals at the party are allowed in on the good time.

And to top it all off, they’ll gripe that those people who now dare to talk about hockey don’t know enough about the game, angered that “novices’’ would dare to analyze their beloved sport. They’ll turn into the film critic who wouldn’t be caught dead at an Oscar party, only wanting to rub elbows with others who have a true appreciation for their favorite craft.

While they might have a point on all three fronts, being combative about it doesn’t help welcome in new loyalists.

It simply makes hockey fans look petty, insecure and elitist.

Who wants to join that club?

Yes, hockey is a great game that is oft-ignored and muchmaligned for no good reason.

So that probably justifies a small amount of defensiveness on the part of the sport’s fans.

But it’s time to get over it. A meteor just landed in your field, turning a wasteland into a tourist attraction; it’s time to welcome the visitors with open arms, collect their money and embrace your good fortune.

If that’ll happen, maybe all of us — from the diehards to the bandwagon jumpers — can enjoy the upcoming ride.

The Avs are certainly worthy of every bit of attention that’s about to come their way.

Contact James Merilatt at @jamesmerilatt.

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Colorado State’s Daniel Bejarano and the CSU Rams aren’t getting any early-season love despite a slew of talented transfers. ISAAC BREKKEN/AP

Little love for Rams in early basketball rankings “You have to see if a team of such assorted personalities can really work together before assessing their collective potential.

Bejarano has to avoid strangling Eustachy. Behanan, once he finally is eligible to play, needs to stay out of trouble that could translate on the court (when the Rams play the Aztecs, Chol and Spencer ought to both outsize and outplay him anyway). It’s premature to call anything preseason a snub; CSU isn’t yet in the conversation about top-25 anything, though I would expect them to be a < 60 RPI team by February.”

Sean Upton via Coloradoan.com.

Reader questions Several readers: Where has the Xplore section gone, and it seems smaller than in the past?

Miles Blumhardt: The Xplore section is now located in the back of Sports. It was placed there because it flows nicely with

the Sports section. The back of Sports is now the cover of Xplore. The section has fewer pages, but there aren’t nearly as many ads. So, although the number of pages in Xplore has been reduced, there actually is more room. The only thing we moved out of Xplore is the running column, which now appears in the Monday Your Health section. Also, we are adding another trainer columnist: Ainslie MacEachran is a well-respected fitness training coach.

David Stolte: So what is going on in the (CSU men’s) basketball program? Something is?

Matt Stephens: I don’t think there is any reason to be alarmed about issues happening behind closed doors. The reality of the situation with two players leaving is that CSU wasn’t the best fit for them.

Marcus Holt likely wasn’t going to see much playing time as a senior next year, and David Cohn was probably going to redshirt. It’s actually a good thing for CSU in the long run and fixes the Rams’ problem of being over the scholarship limit.

Newcomers leaving a college basketball program happens all the time. A few freshmen to play one season before leaving CSU in recent years are: Jordan Mason (2012-13), Cody Mann and Chad Calcaterra (2011-12), and Moe Wiltz (201011).

“You guys will be a real good team, I think. ... It will not be easy for my Aztecs against you guys ...”

Brandon Stender, via Coloradoan.com

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Garrett Bryant returns home. ERIN HOOLEY/THE COLORADOAN

Silvy’s coverage of Garrett Bryant’s story is admirable Tyler, I wanted to reach out and let you know again how very nice it was to meet you Friday night at the Bryants. And, again, I want to thank you for your amazing coverage of Garrett Bryant’s journey since January 26. The way in which you have handled a very sad, difficult and sensi-

tive topic is so admirable. Each story has been thorough, informative and reflective of what Garrett and his family were dealing with. I thank you again for your talent and most of all, for your heart. You definitely showed true professionalism and did an awesome job of representing the Coloradoan well.

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High School Sports HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD

ROUNDUP

Rocky baseball team snaps losing streak, beats Fossil

By Tyler Silvy

BOYS: Colorado State University signee Jeremiah Paige had 20 points but his Blue team, coached

by Fossil Ridge’s Matt Johannson, lost 83-79 to the Gold team. Fossil Ridge’s Alex Semadeni had four points and six rebounds for the Blue team. Fort Collins’ Toby Van Ry, a CSU signee, scored 10 for the Gold team.

GIRLS: Fossil Ridge’s Savannah Smith and Poudre’s Myanne Hamm helped their Blue team to a 45-38 win against the White team. Hamm, a CSU signee, had nine points and eight rebounds.

University of Northern Colorado signee Smith had six points.

TylerSilvy@coloradoan.com

The Rocky Mountain High School baseball team snapped a two-game skid with a 9-1 win against Fossil Ridge on Saturday at Rocky Mountain High School.

Rocky Mountain (4-5, 1-2) got the win from Marc Bachman.

Fossil Ridge (6-5, 0-3 FRL) has lost three-straight league contests, as Keegan Lecher picked up the loss.

GREELEY WEST 9, FORT COLLINS 6:

The Lambkins committed all three of their errors in the second inning and trailed 7-1 going into the third. Fort Collins (3-6) couldn’t rally, despite three runs in the fourth.Greeley West (4-7) piled up 11 hits to Fort Collins’ eight. The Spartans’ Chris Tellez got the win. Zach Fees got the loss for the Lambkins.

BOYS LACROSSE REGIS JESUIT 13, FORT COLLINS UNIFIED 5: Jake Fane had three

goals and Bradley Sobotka had a goal and two assists but it wasn’t enough for the Fort Collins unified lacrosse team to top Regis Jesuit. Regis Jesuit (11-0) is the top-ranked 5A lacrosse team in the state.Fort Collins unified fell to 2-6.

LIBERTY COMMON 24, DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN 3: Liberty Common had

14 hits to win its second-straight after dropping its last six. Liberty Common (4-7) got the win from Austin Geary. Dayspring Christian (3-6) had Jonathan Cowles take the loss.

WINDSOR 3, BERTHOUD 2: Windsor’s Stephen had a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Wizards the win. Windsor (12-1) got the win from Cole Brandon, who moves to 5-0. Berthoud fell to 3-9, with Caden Wyse getting the loss.

BOYS SWIMMING SMOKY HILL INVITATIONAL: The

Fossil Ridge High School boys swimming and diving team dominated the Smoky Hill Invitational without winning a single race at Smoky Hill High School. Fossil Ridge won with 542 points, topping closest competitor, Discovery Canyon, by 139 points.

GIRLS SOCCER ARAPAHOE 3, FORT COLLINS 2, OT:

Fort Collins scored two late, second-half goals but could not close out Arapahoe in overtime.

‘THE SHOW’ BASKETBALL

BASEBALL

1:31.18; Pomona 1:32.14; 1,600 relay - Littleton 3:28.68; Cherokee Trail 3:28.76; Grandview 3:30.83; 3,200 relay - Fountain-Fort Carson 8:11.10; Fossil Ridge 8:12.70; Arapahoe 8:17.62; High jump - Tyler Russell (Fossil Ridge) 6-06.00; Jack Lamb (Rock Canyon) 6-03.00; Jacob Bejarano (Roosevelt) 6-00.00; Pole vault - Harley Korte (Cherokee Trail) 14-01.00; Colin Borner (Rock Canyon) 13-07.00; Dylan King (Fossil Ridge) 13-07.00; Long jump - Junior Smith (Grandview) 22-01.25; Charles Tigner (Fountain-Fort Carson) 21-04.00; Nathan Gish (Poudre) 20-09.25; Triple jump - Michael Gaines (Fountain-Fort Carson) 43-03.75; Tyler Russell (Fossil Ridge) 42-08.75; Jacob Shinkle (Chatfield) 42-04.00; Shot put - Deyon Sizer (Eaglecrest) 51-11.50; Joey Roselli (Chatfield) 50-10.00; Miles Rivera (Longmont) 48-11.00; Discus - Miles Rivera (Longmont) 169-06; Adrian Brukner (Rampart) 161-00; Michael Robinson (Poudre) 147-10.

Girls Team scores (Top 5) - Grandview 77.2, Fossil Ridge 76, Poudre 74.5, Fruita Monument 51, Fountain-Fort Carson 51.

Individuals (Top 3) - 100-meter dash - Lettia Wilson (Grandview) 12.41; Tara Pelton (Legend) 12.65; Joelle LeFevre (Fruita Monument) 12.71; 200 - Omotumininu Olatipo (Eaglecrest) 25.65; Sarah Lark (Ponderosa) 26.03; Octavia McFadden (Fountain-Fort Carson) 26.58; 400 - Alicia Taurchini (Eaglecrest) 56.65; Tashay Brown (Eaglecrest) 57.48; Sylvana Ross (Grandview) 57.83; 800 - Brynell Yount (Smoky Hill) 2:21.03; Molly Reicher (Mountain Vista) 2:24.54; Marah Guzman (Fossil Ridge) 2:24.86; 1,600 - Catherine Liggett (Legend) 5:14.92; Emma Gee (Legacy) 5:16.33; Miriam Roberts (Lyons) 5:20.76; 3,200 - Alaina Anderson (Pomona) 11:21.50; Emily Wolff (Arapahoe) 11:21.68; Gee (Legacy) 11:25.23; 100 hurdles - Karli Cumber (Grandview) 15.13; Rhyan Pettaway (Rock Canyon) 15.41; Sarah Yocum (Faith Christian) 15.78; 300 hurdles - Molly Klotz (Longmont) 45.37; Michaela Hoffman (Fruita Monument) 45.80; Victoria Coombe (Eaglecrest) 47.27; 400 relay - Fountain-Fort Carson 49.09; Grandview 50.32; Fruita Monument 50.66; 800 relay - Fountain-Fort Carson 1:44.53; Poudre 1:45.50; Fruita Monument 1:46.57; 1,600 relay - Grandview 4:07.95; Arapahoe 4:11.17; Fossil Ridge 4:12.31; 3,200 relay - Fossil Ridge 9:59.12; Evergreen 10:09.02; Lyons 10:09.31; 800 sprint medley - Arapahoe 1:52.32; Platte Valley 1:52.76; Eaglecrest 1:52.87; High jump - Carly Paul (Poudre) 5-06.00; Ashlyn Hare (Rampart) 5-06.00; Kiara Kearney (Rampart) 5-02.00; Pole vault - Chloe Woest (Fossil Ridge) 10-00.00; Kiera Maldonado (Roosevelt) 10-00.00; Maddi Steffen (Poudre) 9-00.00; Long jump - Savannah Mercado (Poudre) 16-10.50; Tarah Vijayasarathy (Poudre) 16-09.75; Jayla Balman (Rock Canyon) 16-07.50; Triple jump - Tarah Vijayasarathy (Poudre) 35-11.25; Jae Ferrin (Dakota Ridge) 35-04.25; Jazmin Montes (Platte Valley) 34-10.00; Shot put - Dailyn Johnson (Longmont) 41-00.00; Kathleen Dorman (Ponderosa) 37-02.00; Gina Coleman (Fountain-Fort Carson) 35-09.50; Discus - Keely Parish (Longmont) 146-00; Dailyn Johnson (Longmont) 135-02; Maddie Leatherbeury (Cherokee Trail) 117-01.

GREELEY WEST 9, FORT COLLINS 6 at Greeley West High School Fort Collins 011 300 1 -6 8 3 Greeley West 340 200 X 9 11 4 WP – Tellez; LP – Fees; 2B – Oblender (FC), Fowler (GW); HR - Delacroix ROCKY MOUNTAIN 9, FOSSIL RIDGE 1 at Fossil Ridge High School Fossil Ridge 000 000 1 -1 7 2 Rocky Mountain 100 017 X -9 11 0 WP - Bachman; LP - Lecher; 2B - Anderson (RM), Stajduhar (RM), Tapia (FR), Orphan (FR), Cronin (FR); HR - Stajduhar (RM), Reisman (RM).

WINDSOR 3, BERTHOUD 2 at Windsor High School Berthoud 000 020 0 -2 5 2 Windsor 000 200 1 -3 4 0 WP - Brandon (5-0); LP - Wyse; 3B - Watson (W).

BOYS SWIMMING

Fossil Ridge’s Dylan Hodgson can’t handle the throw to second, allowing Rocky Mountain’s Zach Hahn to slide safely into second Saturday. ERIN HULL/THE COLORADOAN The Lambkins (2-5) got two goals from Aubrey Weappa, who scored on a penalty kick in the 67th minute and then scored unassisted in the 70th minute.

Arapahoe improves to 5-2.

HOLY FAMILY 5, LIBERTY COMMON 0: The Eagles were outshot 19-5,

and weren’t able to finish any opportunities against the fifthranked team in 3A. Against Holy Family (5-1-1), the Eagles (4-1-1) couldn’t get anything going.

HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 6, COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN 3: Three Heritage

Christian Academy girls soccer players had two goals to push the Eagles above .500. Heritage Christian (4-3) got two goals apiece from Micaela Bush, Mariah Green and Ellie Beery. Community Christian dropped to 1-6.

TRACK AND FIELD POMONA INVITATIONAL: The

Fossil Ridge and Poudre boys and

girls track teams both logged top five finishes at the prestigious Pomona Invitational at Pomona High School. The Fossil Ridge girls team was second, and Poudre was third. On the boys’ side, Fossil Ridge was fourth and Poudre finished fifth.

MAX MARR SPARTAN CLASSIC:

Both Windsor boys and girls teams finished among the top five, and Liberty Common sprinters put their stamp on the Max Marr Spartan Classic at Berthoud High School. The Windsor girls finished fourth with 55.5 points.

The Eaton girls won with 122.5 points. The Liberty Common girls finished eighth with 41 points.

Heritage Christian finished 18th.

The Windsor boys were fifth, with 53.33 points. The Erie boys won the meet with 128 points.

Liberty Common was eighth.

SMOKY HILL INVITATIONAL at Smoky Hill High School Team scores (Top 5) - Fossil Ridge 542, Discovery Canyon 403, Smoky Hill 399, Cherokee Trail 371, Heritage 285.

Individual results (Local top 3) - 200-yard freestyle - Walter Dauksher (3rd, 1:47.50); 500 freestyle - Dauksher (2nd, 4:58.83); 200 free relay Fossil Ridge (2nd,1:30.21) George Hu, Mason Fine, Ranon Pritchard, Walter Dauksher; 400 free relay Fossil Rige (3rd, 3:21.41) Walter Dauksher, Wesley Stutzman, Sam Ybarra, George Hu.

TRACK AND FIELD POMONA INVITATIONAL at Pomona High School Boys Team scores (Top 5) - Fountain-Fort Carson 121, Cherokee Trail 87.5, Grandview 87, Fossil Ridge 77, Poudre 47.

Individuals (Top 3) - 100-meter dash - Jaysean Skrine (Fountain-Fort Carson) 10.88; Brandon Singleton (Cherokee Trail) 10.91; Nathan Gish (Poudre) 11.10; 200 - Singleton (Cherokee Trail) 21.68; Skrine (Fountain-Fort Carson) 22.24; Kossi Tchenawou (Grandview) 22.37; 400 - Singleton (Cherokee Trail) 47.97; Collin Molleur (Evergreen) 50.14; Julian Sherrell (Cherokee Trail) 50.71; 800 Blake Yount (Smoky Hill) 1:55.90; Phillip Benjamin Thomas (Fountain-Fort Carson) 1:57.49; Parker Nostrand (Fossil Ridge) 1:58.57; 1,600 - Marcel Such (Lyons) 4:25.18; Louis Hood (Arapahoe) 4:25.60; Dylan Day (Fountain-Fort Carson) 4:28.12; 3,200 - Paul Miller (Poudre) 9:45.08; Chuck Bisbee (Fruita Monument) 9:52.01; Keaton Schelir (Fossil Ridge) 9:53.96; 110 hurdles - Ryan Willis (Holy Family) 14.65; Tyler Russell (Fossil Ridge) 14.79; Spencer Long (Poudre) 14.94; 300 hurdles - Isaiah Kaiser (Cherokee Trail) 38.96; Tyler Russell (Fossil Ridge) 39.66; Josh Schreiber (Roosevelt) 39.90; 400 relay - Fountain-Fort Carson 43.08; Grandview 43.31; Pomona 44.75; 800 relay - Fountain-Fort Carson 1:29.22; Cherokee Trail

BASEBALL Standings

Results

American League

Saturday’s games

Today's probable pitchers and lines

YANKEES 7, Red Sox 4

Pitchers

East Tampa Bay Toronto New York Boston Baltimore

W 7 6 6 5 5

L 5 6 6 7 6

Central Detroit Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City

W 6 6 6 5 4

L 3 6 6 6 6

West x-Seattle x-Oakland x-LAA Texas Houston

W 6 6 5 5 5

L 3 4 5 6 7

Last vs.

Pct. GB Strk. 10 Div. Home Away .583 — W-2 6-4 2-2 4-3 3-2 3-3 3-3 .500 1 L-1 5-5 4-5 .500 1 W-1 6-4 5-4 3-3 3-3 3-3 2-4 .417 2 L-1 4-6 3-3 2-3 3-3 .455 11/2 W-1 4-6 4-4 Last vs.

Pct. GB Strk. 10 Div. Home Away 2-2 4-1 .667 — W-1 6-3 2-0 4-2 2-4 .500 11/2 L-1 4-6 5-4 3-3 .500 11/2 W-1 5-5 2-4 3-3 .455 2 W-2 5-5 5-3 2-3 3-3 0-4 .400 21/2 L-2 4-6 2-5 4-2 Last vs.

Pct. GB Strk. 10 Div. Home Away .667 — W-1 6-3 6-3 2-1 4-2 3-1 .600 1/2 L-1 6-4 2-2 3-3 1-3 4-2 .500 11/2 W-2 5-5 4-5 2-4 3-2 .455 2 L-1 5-5 1-1 3-4 2-3 .417 21/2 W-1 3-7 2-4

National League East Washington Atlanta Philadelphia Miami New York

W 7 7 6 5 4

L 4 4 6 7 6

Pct. .636 .636 .500 .417 .400

GB — — 2 21/2 21/2

Strk.

L-2 W-2 W-2 L-6 L-1

Central Milwaukee Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati

W 9 6 6 4 3

L 2 5 5 7 8

Pct. GB Strk. .818 — W-8 .545 3 L-2 .545 3 W-1 .364 5 L-1 .273 6 L-2

West Los Angeles San Fran.

Colorado San Diego Arizona

W 8 7 6 4 4

L 4 5 6 7 10

Pct. GB Strk. .667 — W-2 .583 1 L-1 .500 2 W-1 .364 31/2 L-1 .286 5 L-2

Last 10 6-4 7-3 4-6 3-7 4-6 Last 10 8-2 6-4 5-5 4-6 3-7 Last 10 6-4 6-4 6-4 4-6 3-7

vs.

Div. Home Away 3-2 4-2 7-4 5-3 3-2 4-2 3-3 2-0 2-3 0-5 5-2 0-5 2-2 2-4 2-4 vs.

Div. Home Away 2-0 3-2 6-0 2-3 4-2 5-5 6-5 3-2 3-3 2-3 2-4 3-5 2-4 1-4 2-4 vs.

Div. Home Away 6-1 2-3 7-3 5-2 2-3 7-5 2-4 4-2 3-2 2-4 2-3 1-2 3-3 4-10 1-7

x-Saturday’s game not included

AL pitching leaders

Today in baseball

Through Friday ERA Darvish, Texas...................0.00 Feldman, Houston ...........0.44 Buehrle, Toronto ..............0.64 Richards, Los Angeles......0.75 Gray, Oakland ...................0.75 Tillman, Baltimore...........0.84 Saves Santos, Toronto ......................4 Axford, Cleveland ..................4 Holland, Kansas City .............3 Rodney, Seattle.......................3 Balfour, Tampa Bay ...............3 TomHunter, Baltimore .........3

1954 Henry Aaron made his major league debut in left field for the Milwaukee Braves and went 0-for-5 in a 9-8 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.

1963 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds tripled off Pittsburgh’s Bob Friend for his first major league hit.

1984 Pete Rose got his 4,000th hit, a double off Philadelphia pitcher Jerry Koosman. The hit came exactly 21 years after his first hit.

— Paul Montella, AP

HOME team in caps

New York’s Brian McCann put an emphatic end to his season-opening slump, hitting his first two home runs for the Yankees.

Rays 1, Tampa Bay’s Alex Cobb went seven innings REDS 0 on Saturday, extending the Rays’ run of solid starting pitching, and James Loney homered.

Indians 12, Cleveland’s Ryan Raburn hit a tiebreaking, WHITE SOX 6 two-run single with two outs in the seventh.

TWINS 7, Minnesota’s Joe Mauer hit his first home Royals 1 run of the season and free-agent acquisition Ricky Nolasco earned his first win.

CARDS 10, St. Louis’ Matt Adams homered, Matt Cubs 4 Carpenter drove in two runs and Adam Wainwright saved a tired bullpen by lasting seven innings.

Rockies 1, Colorado’s Tommy Kahnle and four relievGIANTS 0 ers combined for two-hit ball over six innings after Brett Anderson was injured.

Troy Tulowitzki had a sacrifice fly in the third inning for the Rockies.

BREWERS 3, Milwaukee’s Carlos Gomez hit a leadoff Pirates 2 homer, and Jonathan Lucroy drove in the tiebreaking run with an eighth-inning single.

PHILLIES 5, Philadelphia’s Jimmy Rollins homered with Marlins 4 two outs in the 10th inning, and the Phillies (10 innings) overcame two home runs by Giancarlo Stanton.

BRAVES 6, Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman had three hits, Nationals 3 including a homer. Washington’s Ryan Zimmerman broke his right thumb diving back to second on a pickoff attempt and is expected to miss four to six weeks.

ORIOLES 2, Baltimore’s Steve Lombardozzi tripled and Blue Jays 1 scored on a single by David Lough in the (12 innings) 12th inning. As soon as Lombardozzi crossed the plate, the Orioles sprinted from the dugout to embrace Lough, who had scored their other run five innings earlier.

Astros 6, Houston’s Jason Castro tripled with one out RANGERS 5 in the 10th and Jose Altuve had a tiebreak(10 innings) ing sacrifice fly, helping the Astros end a 12-game skid against their state rival.

Tigers 6, Detroit’s Justin Verlander singled up the PADRES 2 middle off Ian Kennedy in the second inning and had a base hit to right in the fourth — the first two hits of his career. He also pitched seven strong innings.

Dodgers 8, Friday: Los Angeles’ Hyun-Jin Ryu gave up D’BACKS 5 two hits in seven dominant innings, Adrian Gonzalez drove in five runs and the Dodgers beat Arizona 6-0.

Mets at Friday: Los Angeles’ Hank Conger was hit ANGELS by a pitch with the bases loaded in the 11th (late) inning after rookie Jeurys Familia intentionally walked the previous two batters, and the Angels got home runs from Mike Trout and J.B. Shuck in a 5-4 victory over New York.

Friday: Seattle’s Felix Hernandez took a Athletics at shutout into the eighth inning, Mike Zunino MARINERS and Brad Miller both homered and the (late) Mariners held on for a 6-4 win over Oakland.

Look ahead

All times Eastern

AMERICAN LEAGUE

GS

Toronto at Baltimore, 1:35 ET TOR: Buehrle (L) BAL: Jimenez (R)

W-L

2 2

CLE: Kluber (R) CWS: Quintana (L)

1-0 1.000 .73 1.20 15.0 .167 0-1 .000 1.46 6.17 11.2 .298

2 2

(Line: Tex, -210)

Oakland at Seattle, 4:10 ET

2 2

(Line: Oak, -120)

2 0

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 8:05 ET

(Line: CWS, -120)

1-1 .500 2.14 7.71 9.1 .395 1-0 1.000 1.15 2.77 13.0 .208

(Line: KC, -130)

KC: Vargas (L) MIN: Correia (R)

OAK: Kazmir (L) SEA: Young (R)

0-2 .000 1.09 4.91 11.0 .211 1-0 1.000 1.50 4.50 12.0 .341 2-0 1.000 .98 0-0 .000 .00

(Line: NYY, -115)

BOS: Doubront (L) NYY: Nova (R)

2 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE

1-1 1-1

Washington at Atlanta, 1:35 ET

(Line: Was, -115)

Miami at Philadelphia, 1:35 ET

(Line: Phi, -135)

WAS: Gonzalez (L) ATL: Harang (R) MIA: Alvarez (R) PHI: Kendrick (R)

2 2

2 2

2-0 1-1 0-2 0-1

1.000 .500 .000 .000

(Line: Mil, -140)

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 2:15 ET

(Line: StL, -230)

CHC: Jackson (R) STL: Wacha (R)

2 2

2 2

0-0 1-1

0-0 1-0

Colorado at San Francisco, 4:05 ET COL: Chatwood (R) SF: Hudson (R)

0 2

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 4:10 ET

LAD: Haren (R) ARI: Cahill (R)

INTERLEAGUE

2 3

0 2

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Angels, 3:35 ET NYM: Colon (R) LAA: Wilson (L)

Detroit at San Diego, 4:10 ET

DET: Scherzer (R) SD: Ross (R)

2 2

.000 1.000

.000 1.000

(Line: Ari, -105)

1-0 0-3

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 1:10 ET TB: Ramos (L) CIN: Cingrani (L)

.000 .500

(Line: SF, -165)

0-0 2-0

1.000 .000

(Line: Cin, -135)

0-0 0-1

.000 .000

(Line: LAA, -150)

1-1 1-1

.500 .500

(Line: Det, -140)

2 2

0-0 0-2

.000 .000

2.03 13.1 .184 .00 2.0 .000

.500 2.00 9.00 .500 2.25 8.68

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 2:10 ET

PIT: Morton (R) MIL: Lohse (R)

BA

2-0 1.000 1.00 .64 14.0 .240 0-2 .000 1.97 6.75 10.2 .310

2 2

Kansas City at Minnesota, 2:10 ET Houston at Texas, 3:05 ET

IP

(Line: Bal, -110)

Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 ET

HOU: Oberholtzer (L) TEX: Perez (L)

2014 Statistics Pct. WHIP ERA

8.0 9.1

.353 .432

.75 .71

.75 .71

12.0 12.2

.150 .098

1.96 1.42

4.15 3.75

8.2 12.0

.342 .280

1.17 1.58

3.75 4.50

12.0 12.0

.255 .255

1.90 .95

6.30 .71

10.0 12.2

.306 .217

.00 .64

.00 1.15

0.0 15.2

.000 .182

.67 2.05

.75 7.90

12.0 13.2

.167 .364

.75 1.00

2.25 2.45

4.0 11.0

.154 .139

1.15 1.10

2.08 4.61

13.0 13.2

.273 .235

.93 1.84

1.20 4.35

15.0 10.1

.231 .256

Thursday Oak 6, Min 1 Pit 5, ChC 4 Was 7, Mia 1 NYY 4, Bos 1 Mil 6, Phi 2 Hou 6, Tor 4 NYM 6, Atl 4 CWS 7, Cle 3 Ari 6, SF 5 (10) Friday Bos 4, NYY 2 Tor 2, Bal 0 Phi 6, Mia 3 TB 2, Cin 1 Atl 7, Was 6 (10) Tex 1, Hou 0 (12) CWS 9, Cle 6 Min 10, KC 1 Mil 4, Pit 2 ChC 6, StL 3 (11) LAD 6, Ari 0 LAA 5, NYM 4 (11) SD 6, Det 0 Sea 6, Oak 4 SF 6, Col 5 Monday TB at Bal ........... 7:05 Atl at Phi .......... 7:05 Was at Mia ...... 7:10 Pit at Cin........... 7:10 Sea at Tex ........ 8:05 StL at Mil.......... 8:10 NYM at Ari ...... 9:40 Oak at LAA .... 10:05 Col at SD ........ 10:10 Tuesday ChC at NYY...... 7:05 TB at Bal ........... 7:05 Atl at Phi .......... 7:05 Cle at Det ......... 7:08 Was at Mia ...... 7:10 Pit at Cin........... 7:10 Sea at Tex ........ 8:05 Bos at CWS...... 8:10 Tor at Min........ 8:10 KC at Hou......... 8:10 StL at Mil.......... 8:10 NYM at Ari ...... 9:40 Oak at LAA .... 10:05 Col at SD ........ 10:10 LAD at SF ....... 10:15

Chicago’s Anthony Rizzo dives back to third base safely as St. Louis’ Matt Carpenter attempts a pickoff.

Scott Rovak, USA TODAY Sports

FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN

SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014

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QUOTE OF THE DAY THE GUY STANDING CLOSEST TO ME MIGHT GET TO GO IN.” South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier, on not yet naming Connor Mitch or Brendan Nosovitch as the backup quarterback.

SPURRIER BY JOSHUA S. KELLY, USA TODAY SPORTS

AT 50, JIMENEZ STILL MASTER OF STYLE, SKILL

SPORTSLINE

KUCHAR BY MICHAEL MADRID, USA TODAY SPORTS

FIRST WORD REMBRANDT COULD NOT HAVE PAINTED

THAT.” CBS analyst David Feherty, on the approach shot by Matt Kuchar on the 15th hole Saturday in the Masters. Kuchar made a birdie to get into a then-tie for the third-round lead.

TODAY’S NAMES TO KNOW ALBERTO CONTADOR, RYAN MALONE, KOJI UEHARA, KEVIN WARE, DON GARBER, BRIAN MCCANN MAGIC NUMBER

117

Points for the Boston Bruins, clinching the Presidents’ Trophy for the NHL’s best regular-season record. It is also the third-most points in franchise history.

JENNINGS BY PAT LOVELL, USA TODAY SPORTS

TWEET OF THE DAY @BrandonJennings NEW RULE FOR MY FRIENDS/ FAMILY. IF WE GO OUT TO EAT AND U PICK UP UR PHONE, U PAYING FOR THE BILL Detroit Pistons guard Brandon Jennings.

ALMOST LAST WORD “JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE 50 DOES NOT MEAN YOU CANNOT PLAY GOLF.” Miguel Angel Jimenez, after shooting 6-under-par 66 in the Masters on Saturday. He matched Ben Hogan and Fred Couples for lowest score at the Masters by a player 50 or older.

Nancy Armour

narmour@usatoday.com USA TODAY Sports

AUGUSTA , GA . The most interesting man in the (golf ) world got even more interesting.

If that’s possible.

Miguel Angel Jimenez, 50, is better known for his curly orange ponytail. Or the fine cigars he smokes during practice rounds.

Or his pre-round warm-up routine that looks as if it were choreographed by Richard Simmons.

Or his very ungolf-like nickname, “The Mechanic.”

Make no mistake, however.

The most interesting thing about the most interesting man is his game. Jimenez shot the low round of the week Saturday, a 6-under-par 66 that matched the Masters record for the best 18hole score by a player 50 or over.

He is tied for fifth heading into the final round, two strokes behind leaders Jordan Spieth and Bubba Watson.

“Playing very solid all day, all day long. I feel very nice,” the Spaniard said. “Minus six, you cannot complain.”

Not that he would, anyway.

Other players might toss clubs or drop expletives after poor shots or let out roars and fist pumps after good ones. But Jimenez oozes a free-spirited cool, strolling the golf course as if he doesn’t have a care in the world.

And why not, Jimenez asked?

He grew up collecting balls and caddying. Now, after a career that has included 20 European Tour wins, he can afford the best cigars, the finest wines (Rioja, preferably) and the fanciest cars.

Best of all, he can still play. He won the first event of the season on the European Tour, the Hong Kong Open, and has three other top-15 finishes. He led last year’s British Open after 36 holes, winding up tied for 13th.

“When you reach the 50s, it’s not about how you feel now, be-

JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY SPORTS

Miguel Angel Jimenez shot the low round of the tournament Saturday, 6-under-par 66. cause people take more care of themselves and you are more healthier at this age, no?” Jimenez said. “Probably the main thing is that I’m doing what I like to do in my life, and I’m enjoying it completely.

“It’s my 26th year on Tour. And probably some people say, ‘That’s so many years, that’s got to be hard and that’s got to be hard on the body,’ ” Jimenez said. “No, I love what I’m doing. I hope I’m still in the same conditions for another 25.”

The secret at Augusta National is patience, Jimenez said. It’s tempting to think about making a birdie on the tee, but that will only lead to trouble. He was reminded of that Friday, when he shot 4-over 76 that left him one stroke above the cut line.

But when Jimenez returned to the course Saturday, he was at peace with himself and Augusta.

“Yesterday, not being patient and stressing myself, those things, you pay the bill. And then you’re the whole day off your pace, off your rhythm,” he said.

“The main thing is to keep that pace, keep that rhythm and keep on your song. That’s the main thing. That’s the secret to the golf course.

“Doesn’t matter how you play, you need to keep patience and keep always below the hole.

That’s the only thing,” he added.

“The rest just happens.”

Well, there’s a little more to it than that. Jimenez hit all but one fairway Saturday and reached 14 of 18 greens in regulation. He took just 25 putts and has yet to three-putt this week.

His only bogey came on the par-3 12th, and he got the stroke right back on the next hole.

“If you are fine with the short game, don’t miss any putts also,

you’re not going to make a very high score here,” Jimenez said.

“You can, of course, if you lose your mind.”

But the most interesting man in golf doesn’t lose his mind. Life is too short not to have fun — even when it’s coming at his expense. A YouTube video of Jimenez’s warm-up has been viewed more than 300,000 times. He swivels his hips, does deep squats and twirls his clubs like a contestant in a beauty pageant.

“That is a little funny what you see there,” he said. “But it helps to move the joints, you know.

“Sometimes,” Jimenez admitted, “I’m looking at myself on video, and I’m laughing, too.”

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LAST WORD “I WASN’T HIRED TO PUT ON A FAREWELL TOUR.” New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, after announcing shortstop Derek Jeter would sit out Saturday’s game.

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Largest margin of victory at the Masters Player (year)

Strokes

Tiger Woods (1997) Jack Nicklaus (1965) Raymond Floyd (1976) Cary Middlecoff (1955)

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12 9 8 7

AUGUSTA , GA .

At 6:22 p.m. ET Saturday, Jordan Spieth’s name popped to the top of the leaderboard at the 2014 Masters.

Bubba Watson had just bogeyed the 16th hole, falling into a tie with Spieth, but because the 20-year-old Texan was in the process of finishing with a par at 18 and further along in his round, he received top billing.

Little more than a year ago, Spieth was hoping to earn his PGA Tour card through the Web .com Tour. Now he goes into today tied for the lead of the Masters, for when the third round was over, Watson could only match Spieth’s total of 5-under par, ensuring Spieth would be playing in the final pairing on the final day of his first Masters.

Perhaps even more important, a major tournament desperately in need of a serious jolt of star power without Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson here on the weekend for the first time in 20 years just might have it in Spieth. Were he to win, he would become the youngest Masters champion ever, beating Tiger, circa 1997, by near-

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Jordan Spieth, chipping on the 10th hole Saturday, shares the lead with Bubba Watson.

ly seven months. If you’re missing a couple of big-name veterans, replacing them with the newest new thing isn’t a bad alternative.

“I’m 20 and this is the Masters, and this is a tournament I’ve always dreamt about and, like Mr. (Ben) Crenshaw has always said, it brings out more emotion than ever in somebody,” Spieth said after his second consecutive round of 2-under 70 followed his 71 Thursday.

“I’m able to take a lot of confi-

dence out of today, a lot of positives,” he said. “I wanted to get into contention, not just as a goal to get into contention, but to see how I can perform on a Sunday.

Today was a day to stay patient and try and get myself a later tee time even than today, and that goal was accomplished. And tomorrow is about seeing how I can control my game and emotions out on the golf course against guys that have won here recently.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that they have an advantage in any way. I think that I’m very confident in the way things are going, and really looking forward to tomorrow.”

Can you believe a 20-year-old who didn’t make it through the second stage of Q School in 2012 and had no playing status on the PGA Tour at the start of the 2013 season is talking like this, with such poise and confidence? Or that he is in this position?

Though Spieth is the only player besides Woods to have won multiple U.S. Junior Amateur titles, there is very little else about his rise to the top of the thirdround leaderboard that is reminiscent of Tiger.

Spieth was without a Tour card when he started the 2013 season, but a tie for second in the Puerto Rico Open that March changed everything. Then he won the John Deere Classic in July by sinking a bunker shot to get into

what turned into a five-hole playoff. At 19, he became the youngest winner on the PGA Tour in 82 years.

He then became the youngest player in U.S. Presidents Cup history and has finished in the top 10 four times this year on tour. But everything pales in comparison to what he has done here this week.

The first two days, playing with Rory McIlroy, he beat him by seven strokes. Saturday, he played with defending champion Adam Scott and beat him by six strokes.

Whether this can last is anyone’s guess, but so far it’s a dream come true for a kid from Dallas who has grown up trying to picture what it might be like to win the Masters.

“You draw on memories of guys that have made the putts on the last hole, from Phil to Tiger to last year with Adam on 18 and then on 10,” said Spieth, who could be the first Masters firsttimer to win since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.

“You just dream of what it would mean and how cool it would be and all those putts I hit when I was real young with my friends trying to make it to win the Masters. I would love the opportunity to test it tomorrow.”

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SHOES TO FILL IN PORTLAND

Small firms find their footing in footwear capital of USA Jeffrey Martin @JayMart USA TODAY Sports

PORTLAND, ORE . They’re not Nike, Adidas, Columbia or Keen, footwear and sports apparel behemoths based in this area with instant name recognition.

Bogs, Skora and On hope to reach that level.

They’re the self-proclaimed little guys, content with being in the conversation and admittedly drafting behind the giants in terms of creativity and connections.

The giants have a huge head start. Estimated sales this year in the USA are $10.4 billion for Nike and $4.7 billion for Adidas.

Worldwide, it’s $25.3 billion for Nike and $20 billion for Adidas.

Nike employs more than 44,000 worldwide and Adidas more than 46,000.

“To start out in the Silicon Valley of the sports shoe industry is not a bad place to be,” said David Allemann, co-founder of On, which originally was based in Switzerland.

David Sypniewski, founder and CEO of Skora, sees an upside for these smaller companies: “The talent pool is here, no question. ...

When I knew early on that I was going to launch Skora, saying the next new running shoe was launched in Jacksonville, Fla., wouldn’t have had the same ring to it.”

Each of their stories has a unique origin.

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Bill Combs, right, the founder of Bogs, encourages his employees to bring their pets to the office in southeast Portland.

Bogs

Founded: 2002.

Employees: Eight, based in Portland.

Products: Outdoor shoes.

Sales: Estimated $30 million in 2013. uArriving at Bogs headquarters in southeast Portland, a mature and sizable dog greets a visitor at the door with an eager and loud bark. It’s momentarily unsettling, but the dog quickly retreats, racing down the hall and joining another dog.

Employees are encouraged to bring their pets to work, any day, any time. Bill Combs, the founder and CEO of Bogs, didn’t want it any other way. Pets are part of the family, and he’s surrounded by his family when he arrives at work — his two sons are the vice presidents of sales and his wife was employed there until her recent retirement.

It’s quirky, and it might be offputting for some, but then again, that’s Portland.

“Everything is relaxed,” said Combs, whose manufacturing background includes initially tending to the needs of farming and agricultural types.

Combs thinks Bogs, with its extensive line of waterproof and weather-resistant products, is uniquely suited for the Northwest.

“The thing about Portland is, we’re in the outdoor business, but we’re in the industrial boot business, the snow boot business — and we have all of that weather here,” Combs said. “We can go out to one of the dairies we’re working with or be at Mount Hood in an hour.

“It’s a great area to do what we do.”

Combs touts Bogs’ Neo-Tech, a four-way stretch material that is waterproof and insulated, and EverDry, a lightweight fabric that absorbs and evaporates sweat.

“It works,” Combs said. “Plus, we control the moisture — our boots don’t breathe.”

Combs, who sold Bogs to the Weyco Group in March 2011 but remains president, transforms into a science teacher in describing how DuraFresh works. When the body sweats, the partially decomposed odor-causing bacteria yields a smell. That’s what happens in shoes and boots. With DuraFresh, the sweat is treated as a food source, broken down into carbon dioxide and water, eliminating anything to feed on for the odor-causing bacteria.

Once upon a time, boots were utilitarian. Now, appearance, especially for women, must be styl-

Skora founder and CEO David Sypniewski shows off one of his company’s running shoes. ish. Even baby shoes need to have some appeal.

“It’s all about us taking the same technical functional features and spreading it out over more categories,” Combs said.

“That’s what has helped us grow. ... Waterproof, warm and machine-washable.”

All three are vital in the Northwest, where Bogs seems to be a perfect fit.

“Nike, Adidas, Columbia, Keen, all of those vendors want to be here, catering to those people,” Combs said.

“It’s great for little people like us to have that around. If we need a certain type of leather, we can call a guy up and he can come over in the afternoon. It’s a huge advantage.”

er, he couldn’t run for 10 minutes.

But barefoot, he managed a painfree 30 minutes. He was hooked.

Still, he set out to design a better solution. He had moved from Calgary to Florida, where the searing heat was a problem — his feet would need protection. Initially, he took regular socks and poured latex rubber into the sole, creating a thin membrane. He thought maybe he’d be able to sell enough online to other frustrated runners to make a few bucks.

But then Nike introduced Free — “specifically designed to let your feet move more naturally and freely than traditional athletic shoes,” the company states.

The minimalist movement was afoot. As more products were introduced, Sypniewski decided to act. It was 2007, and over the next

“To start out in the Silicon Valley of the sports shoe industry is not a bad place to be.”

David Allemann, co-founder of On, on being based in Portland, Ore.

Skora Founded: 2010.

Employees: Seven, most in Portland.

Products: Neutral, lightweight, premium running shoes.

Sales: Estimated between $1 million and $5 million in 2013. uSypniewski thought he would have to give up running after being unable to shake a nagging IT band injury. Orthotics didn’t work, and doctors were suggesting surgery. Sypniewski went online to investigate running form.

That was about a dozen years ago. It also was the first time Sypniewski ran barefoot. Days earli-

four years he moved across the country, cobbled together his team, located a factory in China and raised his first million dollars of working capital. The official launch of Skora was in 2012, men’s only, but a women’s line followed six months later.

All the while, Sypniewski continued to mine his own pain for guidance.

“The goal is to bring an honest approach to design and really provide what a runner needs and nothing more,” he said. “We took everything out of the shoe, all of the BS stuff. You are the technology. ... We want people to be healthy for life, to love their run.

We don’t want people to blow out

their knees by 45. It’s a return to a balanced approach, and our shoes take that approach.”

Sypniewski says his shoes have minimal cushioning, not unlike those crude socks he constructed almost a decade earlier. The difference now? Quality — fine goat leather provides elegance and strength.

The response has been positive. Sypniewski said Skora has distribution in 10 countries and is adding every quarter. But dedicated runners remain the core customers, and as a result the focus remains in Portland.

“People here love cool gear,” he said. “They love their bicycles.

They love their shoes. ... It all stems from crafting something better. People here appreciate something that is (custom-made).

“One of the most challenging parts of the world for us to get momentum is California. Why? You’d think it’d be progressive and liberal. But they’re not early adopters — they’ll look at what’s happening or what’s cool in New York and copy that style.”

On

Founded: 2010.

Employees: 40 worldwide.

Products: Premium running shoes.

Sales: Estimated $10 million in 2013. uCloud computer technology is all the buzz, but cloud shoe technology?

“It’s visible, not something magical hidden in the midsole,” said Allemann, the co-founder.

“You can touch it. You can understand it. Once people try the shoe, the immediate reaction is, ‘Wow, that’s different.’ ” Visually, any pair of On shoes is striking. The little pockets on the

bottom — the clouds — are filled with air while off the ground but collapse and lock upon landing.

“What you see as well is the On shoe lands last in the forefoot but it is off the ground first,” Allemann said. “It’s a delayed landing, but then, because it’s very direct, it’s first off. You have a softer landing.”

That actually happens with traditional running shoes. You can hear that when you go running with people, especially when they’re tired. You hear the slapping sound. Here, it’s very smooth and you don’t hear that sound.”

Allemann and his partners — Caspar Coppetti and two-time world duathlon champion and multiple Ironman winner Olivier Bernhard — designed the first shoe and created the company in January 2010.

For several years, Bernhard had collaborated with a Swiss engineer to develop technology in hopes of alleviating some of the discomfort from the chronic inflammation of his Achilles tendons. The most promising version was built by super-gluing cut-up pieces of garden hose to the bottom of soles.

The cushioning didn’t hurt Bernhard. Of course, the garden hose didn’t stay in place long, either.

But the inspiration was born.

And so was On, whose logo is inspired by the power button found on certain electronics.

The name?

“People were coming back to us, saying, ‘I just feel switched on,’ ” Allemann said. “That’s basically how the name came about.”

A prototype won a prestigious international sports fair award for innovation in sports. Fivehundred pairs were manufactured and sold at various fairs and even out of the trunks of cars.

Soon, there was word of mouth buy-in from a key athlete in Kenya, marathoner Tegla Loroupe, who tried On in April 2010 and became an enthusiastic supporter. Then, more growth.

But Allemann and his partners had their sights set higher — in the clouds, if you will — which explains the sterile and serene digs in Portland’s trendy Pearl District.

“We feel very excited about the U.S.,” Allemann said. “What we love about the U.S. and the U.S. consumer is they embrace the new or latest thing. In the U.S., where they often see opportunity, others just see change. In Europe, people tend to be much more conservative, or they say, ‘Hey, if this would be good, somebody would have already invented it.’

“Truth is, whenever innovation happens, it’s something that hasn’t been invented before, so somebody must be the first one.

Even if it’s unlikely, innovation happens. We love that about the U.S.” And Portland in particular.

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ing his program this spring — David Cohn and Marcus Holt — will have the opportunity to play bigger roles at new schools.

Eustachy said he’s never forced a player to leave because of performance, but he said he tries to be “brutally honest” about where a player fits into his plans in the recruiting process and again in individual meetings at the end of each season. “(Cohn) just thought that he needed to drop a level, so he can really play, and sometimes that happens,” Eustachy said.

Eustachy declined to comment further on the status of Behanan, who is taking online courses through CSU this spring and was cited by police in Louisville, Ky., last week for marijuana possession during a traffic stop.

Eustachy called news of that citation “very concerning” and said he was gathering more information.

Every college basketball program in the country has players transfer in and out on a regular basis these days.

ESPN counted 455 men’s basketball transfers at the Division I level during and after the 2012-13 season, and it had 179 on this year’s list as of March 31.

Men’s basketball programs can have 13 players on scholarship at a time under NCAA rules, while women’s programs can carry 15.

Those two additional scholar-

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his players drinking the McElwain Kool-Aid, and that is critical.

Truly believing you can win turns losses — like when the Rams were down late against Washington State in

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ships, added to help schools meet federal Title IX equity in athletics requirements, make it even harder to keep everyone happy when you’re playing only six to eight players in most games, CSU women’s coach Ryun Williams said.

Athletic scholarships are awarded on a year-to-year basis, so coaches can drop players they believe don’t have the talent needed to help the team get better. Four players transferred out of the CSU women’s program between Williams’ first and second seasons.

Some coaches have no qualms about “poaching” players from other programs, Eustachy and CSU volleyball coach Tom Hilbert said. Volleyball players don’t even have to sit out a year, as basketball and football players do, when they transfer from one NCAA Division I program to another.

“At CSU, we have made our living off the underrecruited players who need development and making them better,” Hilbert said.

“Other programs see the development and realize that player can help them now, and say, ‘We’re going to get that kid as a transfer now.’ ” Newton, a native of San Jose, Calif., said most of the players she knows who have transferred were better off as a result. In her case, she was the second-leading scorer this season, averaging 11.4 points a game, on a CSU team that went 25-8 and won its first conference title in 12 years.

It’s worked out well for

Bejarano, too. The Phoenix native was the Mountain West’s Sixth Player of the Year in 2012-13 and a secondteam All-MW selection this year after averaging 16.3 points and 8.3 rebounds a game.

“It’s a risk you take, but if you’re that unhappy, you transfer,” said Newton, who spent a year at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, Calif., so she wouldn’t have to sit out her first year at CSU. “If you end up in a bad situation, at least you took the risk.”

Accepting transfers is a big risk for the college programs who take them, too, CSU coaches said. You have to do some extra homework when you’re recruiting them to make sure you get players who meet your needs and are the “right fit” for your program, CSU football coach Jim McElwain said.

Eustachy said he likes recruiting transfers because they have “more background.” You can learn more about their character, academic habits and work ethic than you can about a kid who’s still in high school.

Some transfers thrive in their new surroundings.

Some don’t and can drag a program down quickly.

“It’s their last stop; they have to get it right,” Williams said. “And getting it right means they want a responsible role, so you have to have that for them. You have to be pretty selective for the harmony of your team.”

the bowl game — into wins.

It will be interesting to see the Rams in the spring Green and Gold game Saturday. But don’t go all negative if you don’t see spectacular play in the game at Hughes Stadium. The Rams are still a work in progress.

Just know that between now and next fall, the McElwain way will slowly creep

deeper into these Rams.

And just maybe, McElwain will defy the odds and post another winning season.

That surely would put a smile on the face of fans and Sonny Lubick.

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Oden was nursing a leg injury in the Rams’ first spring scrimmage April 6 and had just one carry for 5 yards, while redshirt freshman Bryce Peters got the bulk of the work. Peters had 27 yards and two touchdowns on11carries Saturday while working primarily with the No. 2 offense, which failed to score on its first two possessions but got into the end zone on the third with the help of a passinterference penalty in the end zone on cornerback DeAndre Elliott.

Third-year coach Jim McElwain said after the 98play session that he feels “pretty good” about the running back position at this point, knowing he’s got three freshmen running backs coming this summer who will compete for carries with Oden and Peters next fall.

Senior quarterback Garrett Grayson, who is coming off a record-breaking 3,696 passing yards in 2013, looked confident and efficient while leading the No. 1 offense on 70-yard scoring drives for touchdowns on its first two possessions and to another score in a simulated overtime period at the end of the 98play session.

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score of the day.

Redshirt freshman Nick Stevens also took a turn with the No. 1 offense, leading the unit on a two-play touchdown drive by throwing a 24-yard pass to sophomore Rashard Higgins on the first play and a 39-yarder for a touchdown to junior Joe Hansley on the next. Stevens completed 12 of 18 passes for 166 yards and two touchdowns, but also threw an interception that junior Saladin McCullough returned for a 41-yard touchdown.

That, and a stop by the No.1 defense against the No. 1 offense on fourth-and-inches in overtime on the final play, were the highlights for a defensive unit that generally was outplayed by the offense.

Higgins, who dropped a pass at the 2-yard line in overtime, finished with five catches for 93 yards.

With three more practices leading up to Saturday’s annual Green and Gold Game, the Rams are feeling pretty good about the progress they’ve made this spring.

“We’re ahead of where we wanted to be, to be honest,” Grayson said.

“I didn’t expect us to be in this far in install, moving the ball the way we’re moving it. ... I think expectations, we’ve definitely met them, and I think we’re moving on up.”

Follow reporter Kelly Lyell at twitter.com/KellyLyell and facebook.com/KellyLyell.news.

FOR THE RECORD

NBA All times MDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W

y-Indiana y-Miami x-Chicago y-Toronto x-Brooklyn x-Washington x-Charlotte x-Atlanta New York Cleveland Detroit Boston Orlando Philadelphia Milwaukee

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Saturday’s Games L.A. Clippers 117, Sacramento 101 Washington 104, Milwaukee 91 Charlotte 111, Philadelphia 105 Boston 111, Cleveland 99 Atlanta 98, Miami 85 Houston 111, New Orleans 104 Dallas 101, Phoenix 98 Denver 101, Utah 94 Sunday’s Games Oklahoma City at Indiana, 11 a.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 1:30 p.m.

Orlando at Brooklyn, 4 p.m.

Chicago at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Portland, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Sacramento, 7 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

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GP W L OT Pts

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NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Saturday’s Games Boston 4, Buffalo 1 Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Montreal 1, N.Y. Rangers 0, OT Ottawa 1, Toronto 0 Columbus 3, Florida 2 Nashville 7, Chicago 5 San Jose 3, Phoenix 2 Vancouver at Edmonton, late Anaheim at Los Angeles, late Sunday’s Games Detroit at St. Louis, 10:30 p.m.

Boston at New Jersey, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

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Washington New Jersey Ottawa Toronto Carolina N.Y. Islanders Florida Buffalo

117 108 100 96 99 93 93 91

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Masters Par Scores Saturday At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Third Round a-amateur Jordan Spieth 71-70-70 211 Bubba Watson 69-68-74 211 Jonas Blixt 70-71-71 212 Matt Kuchar 73-71-68 212 Miguel Angel Jimenez 71-76-66 213 Rickie Fowler 71-75-67 213 Thomas Bjorn 73-68-73 214

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74-68-72 214 -2 73-71-70 214 -2 71-71-73 215 -1 76-70-69 215 -1 72-68-75 215 -1 70-73-72 215 -1 76-70-70 216 E 70-77-69 216 E 69-72-76 217 +1 72-71-74 217 +1 75-73-70 218 +2 75-69-74 218 +2 73-70-75 218 +2 75-72-71 218 +2 72-73-73 218 +2 70-72-76 218 +2 73-70-76 219 +3 72-74-73 219 +3 71-77-71 219 +3 69-75-75 219 +3 73-72-74 219 +3 74-72-74 220 +4 75-72-73 220 +4 74-72-74 220 +4 68-78-74 220 +4 75-71-74 220 +4 73-72-76 221 +5 75-69-77 221 +5 74-74-73 221 +5 74-74-73 221 +5 74-72-76 222 +6 75-72-75 222 +6 73-74-75 222 +6 74-72-76 222 +6 70-75-78 223 +7 76-71-76 223 +7 71-76-76 223 +7 72-75-76 223 +7 76-72-76 224 +8 70-74-80 224 +8 73-72-79 224 +8 71-72-81 224 +8 75-73-77 225 +9 74-72-79 225 +9

Masters Tee Times At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Sunday All Times MDT Final Round a-amateur 8:10 a.m. - Larry Mize 8:20 a.m. - Stephen Gallacher, Joost Luiten 8:30 a.m. - Mike Weir, Brandt Snedeker 8:40 a.m. - K.J. Choi, Sandy Lyle 8:50 a.m. - Francesco Molinari, Nick Watney 9:00 a.m. - Brendon de Jonge, a-Oliver Goss 9:10 a.m. - Thongchai Jaidee, Thorbjorn Olesen 9:20 a.m. - Lucas Glover, Billy Horschel 9:30 a.m. - Darren Clarke, Stewart Cink 9:50 a.m. - Vijay Singh, Jose Maria Olazabal 9:00 a.m. - Steven Bowditch, Hunter Mahan 10:10 a.m. - Martin Kaymer, Bill Haas 10:20 a.m. - Louis Oosthuizen, Jamie Donaldson 10:30 a.m. - Bernhard Langer, Henrik Stenson 10:40 a.m. - Jimmy Walker, Rory McIlroy 10:50 a.m. - Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Russell Henley 11:00 a.m. - Chris Kirk, Steve Stricker 11:10 a.m. - Adam Scott, Jason Day 11:30 a.m. - Ian Poulter, Kevin Streelman 11:40 a.m. - John Senden, Gary Woodland 11:50 a.m. - Kevin Stadler, Fred Couples 12:00 p.m. - Thomas Bjorn, Justin Rose 12:10 p.m. - Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk 12:20 p.m. - Miguel Angel Jimenez, Rickie Fowler 12:30 p.m. - Matt Kuchar, Jonas Blixt 12:40 p.m. - Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson

AUTO RACING NASCAR Sprint Cup-Bojangles’ Southern 500 Results Saturday

At Darlington Raceway Darlington, S.C. Lap length: 1.366 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 374 laps, 148.9 rating, 48 points.

2. (15) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 374, 120, 43.

3. (26) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 374, 101.2, 42.

4. (25) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 374, 114.2, 41.

5. (19) Greg Biffle, Ford, 374, 90, 40.

6. (8) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 374, 104.9, 38.

7. (9) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 374, 120.2, 38.

8. (17) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 374, 81.7, 36.

9. (23) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 374, 74.8, 35.

10. (7) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 374, 95.7, 34.

11. (20) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 374, 77.6, 33.

12. (16) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 374, 85.2, 32.

13. (21) Carl Edwards, Ford, 374, 69.2, 31.

14. (4) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 374, 71, 30.

15. (18) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 374, 72, 29.

16. (6) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 374, 82.4, 28.

17. (5) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 374, 100.6, 28.

18. (31) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 374, 63.1, 26.

19. (10) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 374, 92.4, 26.

20. (28) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 374, 56.4, 24.

21. (29) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 374, 56.3, 23.

22. (33) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 374, 54.5, 22.

23. (24) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 372, 61, 21.

24. (3) Aric Almirola, Ford, 372, 67.9, 20.

25. (35) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 372, 46.2, 0.

26. (14) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 371, 80.6, 19.

27. (12) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 371, 70.9, 17.

28. (27) David Gilliland, Ford, 370, 43.9, 16.

29. (34) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 369, 39.6, 15.

30. (38) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 369, 40.7, 14.

31. (13) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, accident, 368, 75,13.

32. (32) David Ragan, Ford, 367, 44.5, 13.

33. (41) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 367, 32.9, 11.

34. (43) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 366, 29.8, 0.

35. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, front hub, 359, 84.5, 10.

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KEVIN J. COOK PATHFINDER

You’ll find a beautiful moodiness at night Night offers so many more moods than does day.

Stars make the sky seem so distant; clouds make the sky seem so close. Trees can impose a sense of crowding; no trees at all can instill a sense of emptiness.

A breeze in the night can make the world seem as if it were moving; a wind at night can make the world seem scary, somehow frightful in some inexplicable way.

Yet night lays claim to fully half our lives. Given a proper chance, night can deliver its own brand of beauty.

And April is the perfect month to coax you into giving night a fair chance.

On a calm night listen for a sound I call “leafle,” the sound of dead leaves talking.

Nothing spooky, the leafle comes from nightcrawlers pulling the leaves into their burrows in the soil. The dry, brittle leaves crackle as the big earthworms tug on them.

Leafle is the poesy of leaves returning to the soil from which they came, of nightcrawlers sustaining themselves that they might one day sustain a robin, which just might become the repast of a Cooper’s hawk.

On a clear night listen to the realm of sky just above the ground but well below the stars.

Hour after hour, night after night, silence rules this realm that can be heard but neither seen nor touched.

Then one night, a choir of sounds without names will bring this realm to life.

It is a choir sung by birds on the wing, migrating from where they have been to

where they are going. Thrush and curlew, godwit and warbler: they’re all up there, calling as they pass unseen, giving voice to the muted stars.

Striped chorus-frogs begin singing in April. Small enough to sit on a quarter coin, they sing loudly enough to suggest a creature many times their size. Together, they create a roar of unique sound that blends attributes of chirp and croak into something for which we have no descriptive term or name.

And that nameless sound is how we know it is them, the little frogs, singing in the night.

The lovely, moody night.

Every place has its own

way of presenting night. A spruce forest with its calling boreal owls; a cattail marsh with its calling Virginia rails.

Flammulated owls in the aspens; eastern screech-owls in the cottonwoods. A bobcat growl here, a marten yowl there. A black bear grunt. An elk bleat. A raccoon purr.

In the dark of night, life goes on.

You can hear it, and you can feel it. But only on its own terms.

Somewhere out there you have a favorite place. A lake, a meadow, a grove. But have you allowed yourself to visit that special place when night is in charge?

Night can make a theater

DAVE COULSON FISH EXPLORER

Write to Kevin J. Cook at the Coloradoan, 1300 Riverside Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524.

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Find some warm water for hot fishing Most of my catching this spring has been trout.

While I’ve fished hard for other species and managed a few, the reality is trout have been the most cooperative. As more waters warm to the magic number of 50 degrees, the warm-water bite will pick up.

While it’s not critical that the water be more than 50 degrees to catch warm-water fish, experience tells me it helps. So this time of year, I actively monitor the temperature readings on my depth finder unit, seeking out and concentrating my efforts on areas with warmer water.

You don’t need a thermometer to find the warmest water. There are environmental indicators you can use. Typically, the northern shorelines warm faster than the southern edges. Personally, I concern myself more with water depth, bottom composition and water clarity than exposure to the sun.

Sunlight warms the bottom of shallow waters faster than deeper waters, especially if it’s protected from mixing with the main reservoir, such as in a cove. Dark, muddy bottoms warm faster than light-colored sandy bottoms, as they absorb more of the sunlight. Greening aquatic vegetation is also a good sign of warming water. Further, stained water warms quicker than clear water. Needless to say, smaller bodies of water, especially shallow ones, warm first.

When there’s a breeze out, the windblown shore will often be the warmest one. As the surface water warms, it gets pushed across the lake and concentrated there. The bonus is, so does any “fish” food. So fishing into the wind is almost always a good strat-

of a mountain lake, a garden of a wildflower meadow, a chapel of an aspen grove.

Night is the great transformer.

It can bring a hush to a mind that won’t stop talking; it can bring a stillness to a heart that won’t stop fretting.

Night can make a minute seem like an hour, a clever way to get a little more time that we all seem to have too little of.

In planning your time afield, give night a chance or two. You’ll find a different beautiful moodiness there.

Larimer County seeks volunteers

Larimer County Natural Resources needs new volunteer naturalist assistants to help with school groups, guided hikes and interacting with the public on Larimer County’s parks and open spaces.

Training will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

For more information or to sign up, contact Heather Young at hyoung@larimer. org or (970) 619-4489.

Flycasters group to host reception

The Rocky Mountain Flycasters chapter of Trout Unlimited will mark its 30th anniversary with a free reception from 7 to 9 p.m. April 21 at Odell Brewing Co., 800 E. Lincoln Ave., Fort Collins.

The chapter, with nearly 1,000 members, promotes Trout Unlimited principles of protecting, reconnecting, restoring and sustaining waters in the Northern Colorado area.

For more information, visit www.rockymtnfly casters.org/.

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Dave Coulson caught this 20-inch carp Sunday at Douglas Reservoir. COURTESY OF BILL WOODWARD

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Look for animal indicators, both in and out of the water. For example, if herons are congregating at one end of the pond, it’s a good bet they’re there for a reason — dinner. They found active fish or other munchies, and you can infer that’s where the warmest water is this time of year.

One of my favorite indicators is carp. They seem to seek out the warmest waters in early spring. Find carp, whether they’re sunning, cruising or jumping, and you can be sure that’s where some

of the warmest water is.

Nearby will be active warmwater fish, such as largemouth bass.

Does this really work in practice? You bet! Sunday, despite the stiff winds, my friend Bill and I launched at Douglas Reservoir, north of Fort Collins. The main reservoir was a nippy 46 degrees. I know the north end offers some large shallow flats that typically warm first every spring. That proved to be the case, as the area is 1 to 3 feet deep and water temperature was in the low 50s.

Two things encouraged us

to fish that shallow water aside from the warmer water temperature. One, there were carp, both cruising and jumping. Two, there was a massive midge hatch in progress, evidenced by a boat covered with them and lots of “rising” trout. And the bonus was most of the anglers were fishing elsewhere, so we had the area to ourselves.

Granted, we still caught lots of trout, which I’m sure were feeding on midge pupa.

They weren’t selective and woolly buggers fished near the surface worked just fine.

In addition, we found a few

crappies and managed to catch a couple of carp that had warmed up enough to put on the feed bag. I don’t know about you, but I love catching 24-inch fish no matter what species they are.

So if you’re looking for the best fishing this time of year, pay close attention to water temperatures and seek out the warmer waters.

You just might find, as we did, an area with a heavy concentration of fish, but not many anglers.

ured out that I’m not just enjoying the extras and it’s safe to say something.

Every person is different and every pregnancy is different. But with that said, exercise is safe and recommended for most expecting moms. I personally have felt pretty good through my pregnancies, and my job keeps me moving so exercising just comes naturally to me; I wouldn’t be me without it.

I will modify things as the bump in front gets larger — maybe take more breaks as I get heavier — but I keep moving as much as I can right up to the delivery date. My workouts have become less about running and long biking, but I still feel great lifting, doing the TRX, swimming and yoga right now. I was planning on trying to run/walk the Horsetooth Half this weekend but decided to team up with my husband, who will run the first hilly section and I will

run the flat section to the finish. It’s all about what is working for you and what makes you feel good if you are pregnant or not.

All guidelines change as more and more research comes out. My knee (ACL) surgery rehab in 1993 has totally changed; before my time, they casted up your leg after surgery — I just had a huge brace with about a year rehab program. With more research and advancements toady, patients practically walk out without a brace the day of surgery and are ready to go in three to six months.

Another great example is CPR. If you have taken a class in the past couple of years, you might have noticed the guidelines change about every four years. They research what really happens, what is really being done and what works the best overall, and the guidelines evolve over the years. That doesn’t mean

what we were doing before was necessarily wrong, just maybe that there is a better way and more research to back up a theory.

The same applies to exercise and pregnancy. The theory related to exercising while pregnant is finally making some changes, with some good research thanks to all the ladies who were pregnant and would be in studies.

There used to be this magic heart rate number that you were supposed to keep below.

But there were all sorts of things wrong with this guideline. First, some people are pregnant around age 20 and I am pregnant around age 40.

Heart rate changes with age, is somewhat determined by genetics, is closely linked with your fitness level and is impacted by hydration and other factors. So thank goodness they waived that heart rate thing before my time, or else I would not have been

able to walk and talk at the same time! Now the recommendation is to use a scale and rank how you feel before, during and after a workout.

This appears to be a better way to look at intensity, health, safety and quality of the workout rather than the heart rate response.

Another guideline used to be not to start anything you haven’t been doing. I am glad they have changed this as exercise is good for everyone and sometimes you need some variety and change, especially with a changing body during pregnancy.

The other one is not to get overheated. The old thought was if you exercise hard, you would overheat and the baby would overheat. You still need to use good judgment here and listen to your body, but our body actually adapts and releases heat more efficiently while we are pregnant.

Email Dave Coulson at dave@fishexplorer.com.

Registration is open for the Sept. 6 Black Squirrel Trail Half Marathon and the Oct. 5 Blue Sky Trail Marathon.

Cost for the Black Squirrel Trail Half Marathon is $45. The race is in Lory State Park. Fore more information, visit http://gnarrun ners.com/black-squirrel -half/.

Cost for the Blue Sky Trail Marathon is $65. The race is on the Blue Sky Trail, connecting Horsetooth Mountain Open Space and Devil’s Backbone Open Space. For more information, visit www.bluesky marathon.com.

There are also a few spots available for the May 10 Quad Rock 50. Cost is $110. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/QuadRock 50.

— Coloradoan news services

JENNY POWELKA TRAINER TALK

Exercise is safe for most pregnant women I know some of you might think this doesn’t pertain to you, but please read on so you don’t look at the next pregnant lady working out next to you with a funny look.

If you are a member at the Raintree Athletic Club and see me on a steady basis, you already know I am expecting my second child. There is no hiding it anymore; you know it’s official when the retired guys start saying congratulations and start asking questions. They have finally fig-

I have felt this first hand in the weekly yoga class I attend. My hands and feet sweat really quickly in class and they might have been the last thing to start sweating before. Just make sure you take the breaks you need and stay hydrated, so keep that water bottle close.

With all that said, I hope that if you are pregnant or expecting to be someday, you embrace the experience and exercise as much as you feel fit. If you see a pregnant lady working hard, give her a thumbs-up or a smile and know they are doing just what they should be.

There are always things we might not be able to do because of pregnancy or even an injury, but there are always a lot more things we can do.

Contact personal trainer Jenny Powelka at jennypowelka@ hotmail.com.

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VIC SCHENDEL WILD SHOTS

CARRIE VISINTAINER WILD MAMA

Jake, 6, and Sasha, 7, pose near their handmade stick house on a beach in Yelapa, Mexico. COURTESY OF CARRIE VISINTAINER

Boys form friendship that teaches wisdom, love My son and his new friend met on the trail to school.

As first-graders, they were both carrying backpacks full of papers and pencils, wielding walking sticks and chattering nonstop to their parents.

When they crossed paths, they looked up and stopped.

They smiled mischievously.

A few seconds later, they began sword fighting with their sticks, giggling the entire time.

This might sound like a regular weekday morning — two kids dallying — except for a few standout things.

For starters, the scene took place in a rural village in Mexico. And the boys speak different languages.

My fair-haired son, Jake, a self-professed gringo, knows only a handful of Spanish phrases, while Sasha, a bright-eyed Mexican-American, speaks fluent Spanish and a little English.

On this morning, Sasha was walking 45 minutes to school, and Jake was traipsing to the beach, where my husband and I were teaching him that day, using workbooks from his classroom in the Poudre School District.

It was our daily routine on a two-month trip abroad.

After this initial meeting, the boys insisted they “needed” to play together as much as possible.

We’d meet on Saturdays — two families on the beach — and the boys would build elaborate houses using driftwood and boulders, speaking English peppered with Spanish. They’d share a snack, which might be a peanut butter sandwich or ceviche made with fish caught that morning.

The blossoming friendship between Jake and Sasha made me think of a question I often hear parents ask: When is the best time to start traveling with kids? Should I take them on big trips when they’re little?

My intuitive feeling has always been it’s a great idea to get babies and kids into the wild and world. We’ve done so with our children (Jake has a younger sister), and although there are challenges, I’ve watched them learn to become adaptable and openminded. I believe it’s shaping who they are.

The friendship between Jake and Sasha affirmed my gut feeling. Over time, it became clear this was more than “child’s play.” Jake and Sasha really did need each other. Jake had been sad to leave his friends in Fort Collins and hoped desperately to meet kids in Mexico. But the language barrier intimidated him.

And while Sasha had been living in different parts of Mexico for several years with his parents, he was having a hard time making friends in this village. He was lonely. The time Jake and Sasha spent together filled a hole they both had, transcending language and culture, cutting to the core of what it means to be human.

Watching this blew me away.

When it came time for our family to return to the U.S., it was heartbreaking for the boys. Yet we all recognized that an opportunity had been presented to us; an incentive to reconnect somewhere in the world. Who knows where? Plus, social media makes it easy to stay in touch.

In fact, Sasha sent Jake a message via Facebook the other day. He said, “We will see each other somewhere, because we are friends until we grow old. We will be old friends then!”

Several days later, I’m still marveling at the wisdom.

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Pristine white dunes of gypsum sand cover about 275 miles of desert at White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico.

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Beauty fills White Sands National Monument Some 600 miles south of Fort Collins, there’s a place like no other place I’ve photographed. The pristine white dunes of gypsum sand cover about 275 miles of desert, and when we arrived at White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico last week to take pictures, we were blown away, sometimes quite literally.

After a long drive, we arrived at Alamogordo early in the evening. Winds gusted to

40 mph and were stirring up waves of dust for as far as you could see (which wasn’t very far). It looked like brewing thunderstorms on every horizon.

My business partner Wayne and I decided to sit tight, check into a motel and grab some dinner rather than head out to the dunes for an evening sunset that didn’t look very promising. Although the monument’s website said it opened at 8 a.m, I thought it would be good to get there at sunup for some stunning sunrise images. The alarm was set for 5:30 and the next morning dawned clear and windless.

Off to the dunes, but unlike the other parks I have visited, this one locked the front gate.

There we sat for 90 minutes imagining how good another few winks of shuteye would have felt. It had rained violently during the night, and the dunes were pock marked

with tiny craters that made for interesting photographs.

The sky was a deep cerulean blue and the snow-white gypsum painted a fairyland of waves against it. In low-lying areas, and occasionally on the dunes themselves, soaptree yucca plants grew and, when photographed against the starkness of the environment, made for incredible, artistic compositions.

Being the last of March, you wouldn’t think a desert could be so dry, especially with a hard rain the night before.

About 10 a.m., a light breeze began to stir from the west and the dunes began drying out. The temperature eventually rose to 70 degrees, but the wind steadily increased until gusts reached 40 mph once again.

We walked across the sand and within a few minutes our tracks disappeared. I couldn’t drink water fast enough.

The place was incredibly hostile, but it was more beautiful than beautiful.

Every few steps seemed to create a new canvas, which resulted in me shooting more than 1,000 images.

My photo tips for a place like White Sands are to make sure you use a circular polarizing filter for contrast and let the waves in the dunes lead you into the photo.

Try to use interesting patterns of clouds to break up the expanse of sky and look for single plants trying to eke out a living as contrast to a neverending expanse of white.

Empty your hiking boots often, drink lots of water, use sunscreen and visit during the spring or fall when temperatures aren’t too severe.

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damaged areas along the road, causing many usercreated roads braided throughout the route. A copy of the closure order and map are located at www.fs.usda.gov/ alerts/arp/alerts-notices.

The Coal area is a permitted grazing allotment on the Pawnee National Grassland and an area popular with recreational target shooters.

The entire area itself is not closed, but Forest Road 219 going into this area is closed to motorized travel.

Those looking to target shoot can still walk into the area.

The Pawnee National

Grassland opened the Baker Draw Designated Shooting Area in January 2 miles east of the intersection of Forest Road 219 and Weld County Road 96. If visitors are looking for another location to shoot, safely disperse and follow rules and regulations associated with recreational shooting, including: » Only shoot at cardboard/paper targets, manufactured metallic targets or manufactured thrown-type clay targets. » Shoot farther than 150 yards from a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation area or occupied area.

» Do not shoot on or across a National Forest System Road or adjacent body of water. » Do not shoot in any manner or place where any person or property is exposed to injury or damage. » Do not possess an open container of an alcoholic beverage while discharging a firearm. » The area located in Township 8N, Range 63W, Section 7 is closed to recreational shooting for 1/4 mile south of Weld County Road 96 and 1/4 mile west of County Road 63.

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Road 219 in Pawnee temporarily closed A temporary closure of a small spur road (Forest Road 219) off Weld County Road 96 leading into the Coal area on the Pawnee National Grassland is in effect to facilitate repairs to the heavily damaged road and allow recovery time to the damaged areas off the road.

Barriers currently mark where the road closure starts and will be replaced with a gate.

Damage in the area occurred through use of the road in wet conditions and driving around previously

— Coloradoan staff and news services

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RACE CALENDAR

If you have a race or event you wish to add, send an email to sports news@coloradoan.com. To register for these events, visit Altitude Running, 150 E. Harmony Road, or Runners Roost, 2720 Council Tree Ave., Suite 112, in Fort Collins, or go online to www.active.com or www.running guru.com.

Aug. 1-2 Wild West Relay

5 a.m., Budweiser Tour Center, 2351 Busch Drive, Fort Collins. 200-mile relay race from Fort Collins to Steamboat Springs. Cost: $1,300 per team (seven to 12 runners). Information and registration: www.rltrelays. com/wild-west-relay.

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Aug. 14

Today

Mountain Avenue Mile 6:30 p.m., Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins. Mile run (five waves). Registration: Not yet open and cost TBD. Information: www.mountain mile.com/.

Horsetooth Half Marathon

8:30 a.m., Hughes Stadium, 1800 S. Overland Trail, Fort Collins. Half marathon and new half marathon relay. Cost: $45-$70. Registration and information: www.horsetooth halfmarathon.com/.

Aug. 16 Run for Hope 5K

9 a.m., City Park, Fort Collins. 5K benefits cancer awareness and education. Cost: TBD. Information: www.runforhope.net.

Saturday

Taking Strides to Save Lives 5K

8:15 a.m., CSU Oval. Participants are encouraged to bring photos or memorabilia from a loved one to carry as they walk. Cost: $20-$30.

Information: www.Alliancefor SuicidePrevention.org.

Aug. 23 Peach Festival 5K 8:30 a.m., Hughes Stadium, 1800 S. Overland Trail, Fort Collins. 5K and kids fun run. Peach pie awards. Cost: $25. Registration and information: http://fortcollinspeachfestival.com/ 5k-run-walk.

April 26

Fort Collins Trail Half Marathon and 10K

8 a.m., Eagles Nest Open Space, Livermore. Inaugural race, features all-dirt route. Kids race. Cost: $10$65. Registration and information: www.ftcollinshalf.com/.

April 26

Fast and the Furriest 5K

9 a.m., CSU Oval, Fort Collins. 5K and kids run, doggie demos. Benefits animals in need of emergency or life-saving treatments through the Companion Care Fund. Cost: $25.

Registration and information: http://bit.ly/FastandFurriest5K.

April 26

Nick Seaman 5K

Ben Knurr takes off with other runners in the Flying Pig 5K on April 6 at Spring Canyon Park in Fort Collins. Knurr won the race in a time of 18:29. The event benefited the Family Support Services Program, which provides support to families with a family member with developmental disabilities. ERIN HULL/THE COLORADOAN

May 10

May 17-18

Quad Rock 50

Denver Colfax Marathon

5:30 a.m., Lory State Park, 708 Lodgepole Drive. 25-mile loop in Lory State Park and Horsetooth Mountain Park.

More than 5,500 vertical feet. Cost: $85-$110. Information: www.gnar runners.com/quad-rock-50.

6 a.m., Denver City Park. Marathon, Boston qualifier. Half marathon, 5K. Cost: $95 (marathon); $79 (half marathon); $37 (5K); $245 (marathon relay). Information: www.run colfax.org/.

May 10

May 18

Run for Orphans 5K

Crazy Legs 10K

8 a.m., The Ranch. 5K and kids 1-mile fun run. Cost: $20-$35; fun run free or $10. Information: www.RunFor OrphansRace.org.

7 a.m., Devil’s Backbone Open Space, off of Hidden Valley Drive. 10K trail run. Race is limited to 100 runners.

Cost: $35-$40. Information: http:// fortcollinsrunningclub.org/calendar/.

8 a.m., Fossil Ridge High School, 5400 Ziegler Road. 5K run/walk benefiting RAMSTRENGTH. Cost: $15 for students; $25 for nonstudents; $40 for family (more than two people).

Information and registration: www.ramstrength.org.

May 10

May 3

May 11

9 a.m., Houska Automotive, 899 Riverside Ave. 5K. Cost: $35 for adults; $12 for children (ages 12 and younger). Information: www. houskaautomotive.com.

Cinco Cinco

Mother’s Day Strides for Strength 5K

May 31

9 a.m., Chapungu Park at Centerra.

5K benefits Project Self-Sufficiency.

Cost: $15-$25. Information: www.ps-s.org/.

Run F.A.S.T for Stroke

8:30 a.m., CSU Oval Drive. 5K run/ walk. Cost: $15-$22. Information: www.cincocinco.colostate. edu/.

May 4

Colorado Marathon

6:30 a.m., Poudre Canyon. Point to point marathon (full), half marathon (full), 10K, 5K. Marathon, half marathon nearly full. Cost: $35-$135.

Information: www.ftcollins marathon.com/.

New Vision 5K

8 a.m., Boyd Lake State Park. 5K run/walk. Benefits New Vision Charter School. Cost: $15. Information: http://bit.ly/NewVision5K.

May 17 Harvest Farm 5K 8:30 a.m., Harvest Farm, 4240 E. County Road 66, Wellington. Scenic, dirt course. Family friendly. Cost: $25-$30. Information: www.Harvest Farm.net/farm5k2014.

May 26 Houska Houska 5k

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rugged Andes.

Q: Dumbest thing you’ve done outdoors?

A: I was living and working at Pingree Park for the summer and decided to hike up to Stormy Peaks on a day off. It was early June and there was still a lot of snow in the high country. I decided to cut off the trail to avoid hiking up and over snow drifts. I made it above treeline when a snowstorm started moving in.

I couldn’t find the trail going back down, so instead of stopping to eat lunch or take a drink of water, I frantically searched for the trail for the next several hours, climbing over fallen timber and snow drifts. Eventually I found an old logging road that merged with the main road and made it back in time for dinner.

That was a big deal at Pingree. If you didn’t make it back for dinner, they would come looking for you, and I didn’t want that!

Q: Best outdoor recreation advice you’ve been given?

A: Know your limits.

Q: What advice do you give people?

A: Someone once told me, “There is no bad weather, only bad clothing choices.” I love this mentality. It’s never too cold/windy/hot (insert excuse here) to enjoy being outside.

Q: Most embarrassing moment?

A: Throwing up on the mountain in front of about 20 people on Cotopaxi in Ecuador.

Q: Favorite outdoors book?

don’t allow your dog to cross the trail. The leash can be hit by passing users, hurting you, your pet and the other user. » While biking, avoid startling animals by giving them extra room and time to adjust to you. » Obey all bicycle speed regulations and recommendations. The courtesy speed limit on city of Fort Collins bike trails, such as the Poudre Trail, is 15 mph.

If you know of someone we should feature in Xplorer Q+A, send their name, a little about their adventures and contact information to StephenMeyers @coloradoan.com.

9 a.m., The Ranch, 5280 Arena Circle, Loveland. Noncompetitive 5K with paint. Cost: $43. Information: www. thecolorvibe.com/fortcollins. php.

June 7 The Hope Lives Pink Boa 5K 8 a.m., Front Range Village, 2720 Council Tree Ave. 5K benefiting the Hope Lives Breast Cancer Support Center. Cost: $25-$30. Breast cancer survivor registration is $15. Information: www.hopelives.org.

June 14 Sierra’s Race Against Meningitis

Father’s Day 5K

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A: “Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life” by Arlene Blum Q: Favorite piece of gear?

A: My Buff — it’s so versatile! It’s a hat, ear warmer, headband and even an eye cover on a long bus ride.

Q: What’s still on your bucket list?

A: Trekking in the Himalayas.

Q: Something about you that most people don’t know?

A: I love musical theater — it’s a total guilty pleasure.

Q: Favorite place in Fort Collins to get a drink?

A: Road 34 Q: Childhood ambition?

A: To be a canine biologist.

I watched a lot of “Kratts’ Creatures” on PBS growing up.

Q: One outdoor activity you’d like to try?

A: Road biking Q: One outdoor activity that doesn’t interest you in the least?

A: Base jumping

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8:30 a.m., The Ranch, 5280 Arena Circle, Loveland. 5K run/walk. Benefits meningitis awareness. Cost: $22.

Information: www.sierrasrace againstmeningitis.com.

Fire Hydrant 5K

Source: city of Fort Collins Natural Areas and International Mountain Bike Association

When meeting a horse

» Get off the trail on the downhill side. Horses might become uneasy if you are uphill. » Quietly greet the rider and ask if you are OK where you are. » Stand quietly while the horses pass. » If with a dog, keep it close to you, on its leash. » If you’re an equestrian, don’t assume others know to yield the trail. Make eye-toeye contact with approaching trail users. Verbally communicate to others so everyone stays safe.

Source: city of Fort Collins Natural Areas

10 tips for hiking with your dog

» As with humans, don’t start your dog out by intense exercise when they have been couch potatoes.

Have a vet examine your dog. » Don’t take puppies younger than the age of 1 on

Recreation. Cost: $30-$55. Information: http://bit.ly/FathersDay5K FortCollins or (970) 221-6358.

June 22 Estes Park Marathon

8 a.m., Northern Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital, Johnstown. Supports awareness of stroke in Northern Colorado. Survivor walk, 5K and 1-mile run/walk. Cost: $10-$20. Information: http://bit.ly/RunFastforStroke.

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Heather Young climbs near the summit of Mexico’s 18,500foot Pico de Orizaba. COURTESY

8:30 a.m., Edora Park, 1420 E. Stuart Ave., Fort Collins. 24th annual 5K and pet expo. Registration: not yet open and cost TBD. Information: www.t.larimerhumane.org/firehydrant.

June 15 8 a.m. Old Town Fort Collins, Mountain Avenue and Remington Street.

Benefits city of Fort Collins Adaptive

big hikes. Their bones are still growing and too much activity is not good for them. » Be aware of your senior dog’s ability. A large dog turns into a senior dog as early as 7 years old. It will try to do whatever you ask it to do, so you have to be the one to set limits. » Pick a trail that has shade and water available.

If the temperature rises above 90 degrees, pick another day to hike. » Watch your dog’s body language throughout your hike. Is it lagging behind, panting excessively or plopping down every chance it gets? Turn around. » Read up on canine first aid. Know the signs and symptoms, especially of heat illnesses. » Always have ID on your dog, including your name and contact information. Microchip your dog. » Consider using booties (www.ruffwear.com) in terrain such as boulder fields and scree. » After your hike, check your pup for ticks. Go over the dog with your hands and remove any burrs or twigs.

Check its paws for cuts, torn nails or abrasions. » A good resource is Cindy Hirschfield’s book “Canine Colorado.” » Coyote Ridge, Running Deer, Bobcat Ridge, Cottonwood Hollow and Soapstone Prairie natural areas don’t allow dogs.

Source: Jill Reynolds, a certified canine massage therapist and dog handler for Larimer County Search and Rescue

Where to go HIKING » Well Gulch

Nature

7 a.m., Estes Park Aquatic Center.

Marathon, half marathon, 10K, 5K, kids fun run. Cost: $10-$95. Information: http://epmarathon.org/.

June 22 Race Against the Odds 5K 8 a.m., Spring Canyon Park, 2626 W. Horsetooth Road, Fort Collins. Fundraising run for The Cure Stars Now Foundation. Cost: $25 for adults; $15 for 12 and younger; $5 more on race day. Information: www.raceagainst theodds.com.

July 4 FireKracker 5K

Sept. 1 Colorado Run 7:30 a.m., Poudre High School, 201 Impala Drive, or EPIC, 1801 Riverside Ave. Half marathon and 5K. Cost: $50 for half marathon; $30 for 5K. Registration and information: http:// coloradorun.com/.

Sept. 6 Black Squirrel Half Marathon 7 a.m., Lory State Park, 708 Lodgepole Drive. Trail half marathon with more than 2,000 feet of vertical gain.

Cost: $45-$65. Information: http:// gnarrunners.com/black-squirrel-half/.

Sept. 13 Dayspring Dash 9 a.m., Dayspring Christian Church, Windsor. Fundraiser to help pay for athletes to play Windsor High School sports. Cost: $20. Information: http://dayspringdash.com.

Sept. 14 Colorado Classic Fall Marathon

8 a.m., City Park, 1500 W. Mulberry St. Citizens race and new elite race.

More than $3,000 in prizes. Cost: $18-$30. Information and registration: http://fortcollinsrunning club.org/firekracker-5k/.

TBD, The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park.

Cost: $100-$110. Fast marathon, downhill course. Information: http://bit.ly/ColoradoFallClassic.

July 26

Sept. 20

Human Race

Jailbreak 5K

7 a.m., Civic Center Park, Fort Collins.

Half marathon, 10K, 5K and kids race.

Race the trolley competition. Cost: TBD. Information: www.fortcollins humanrace.com.

9 a.m., Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, 2501 Midpoint, Drive, Fort Collins. Proceeds support the Child Advocacy Center. Cost: $25. Registration and information: http://bit.ly/Jailbreak5K.

Trail: This trail is great for families because of the minimal elevation gain, interpretive signs and it’s open only to hikers. The 1.2-mile trail is especially beautiful in the spring as wildflowers bloom.

Info: http:// cpw.state.co.us/places togo/parks/Lory. » Horsetooth Falls: Spring through early June is prime time to visit this 1.2-mile foot-only hike.

Soon, the falls will start flowing and the wildflowers start popping their magnificent colors. The dog and kids can cool off in the shallow pond below the falls. Info: www.co.larimer. co.us/parks/. » Lower Dadd Gulch Trail: Starting about 7,000 feet, this 3.5-mile trail climbs to about 8,500 feet.

Much of the trail is shaded by the thick forest of junipers, aspens and ponderosa pines, and features a solid wildflower show in the spring and summer. Info: www.fs.usda.gov/arp.

HORSEBACK RIDING » Coyote Ridge Natural Area: With five designated trailer parking spots and a 7-mile roundtrip ride on soft-surface trails with stunning views and varied terrain, Coyote Ridge is a good choice. Dogs are not allowed at Coyote Ridge. Info: www.fcgov.com/natural areas/finder/coyote. » Bobcat Ridge Natural Area: Check out the 4-mile Valley Loop or the 3.4-mile DR trail (horses and hikers only, no bikers), designed with equestrians in mind.

Info: www.fcgov.com/ naturalareas/finder/bobcat » Soapstone Prairie Natural Area: There are 16 horse trailer parking spots

at the south trailhead and long trails to ride, including the 11.7-mile Cheyenne Rim Trail and the 7.5-mile Pronghorn Loop. No access from the north trailhead.

Info: www.fcgov.com/naturalareas/ finder/soapstone.

MOUNTAIN BIKING » Hewlett Gulch: This 10-mile loop trail reopened in December after being closed because of damage sustained during the September flood. The area was also hit hard by the High Park and Hewlett fires, so keep an eye out for downed trees. Beginners will find the elevation gain not too challenging, and intermediate riders can be challenged by 18 stream crossings, some technical rocky sections and one challenging climb.

Info: www.fs. usda.gov/arp. » Blue Sky Trail: Connecting Horsetooth Mountain Open Space and Devil’s Backbone Open Space, the possibilities are endless.

Terrain on this stretch of singletrack includes mostly flats with some rollers and a few steeps over the hogback. Info: www.co.larimer .co.us/ parks/. » Timber Trail: Perhaps the most technical mountain bike trail in Lory State Park, the 3.7-mile Timber Trail zigzags up through the grass and shrub hills for a vertical climb of about 1,200, featuring tight switchbacks and rocky spots. For more mellow Lory rides, check out the valley trails. Info: http:// cpw.state.co.us/placestogo/ parks/Lory.

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TRAIL TIPS: AVOID A COLLISION WHILE HIKING, BIKING

By Stephen Meyers

StephenMeyers@coloradoan.com

With the warming weather, more people hit the trails around Horsetooth Reservoir or the Poudre Trail for a hike, run or bike ride.

That’s great, as I love seeing people being active and enjoying our many Fort Collins trails.

Sometimes, with so many people on the trails, conflicts happen.

On a recent trail run at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space, I came

upon a chatty group of college-age hikers who didn’t hear me call out, “On your left,” as I descended the trail.

Not wanting to startle the group, I slowed to a walk until I was close enough that one of the party’s members heard me and told her friends to get out of the way. We exchanged smiles and friendly hellos and after a brief break, I returned to my run.

Not a big deal. But what if I came screaming down a blind cor-

ner and was greeted by a horseback rider? Do you know what to do in that situation?

Now is a good time to review what to do when you encounter other trail users, such as equestrians, as well as proper trail etiquette. We go outside to escape the stress, not to create more. Make your hike, horseback tour or mountain bike ride pleasurable and collisionfree.

At top, Krestienne Gaona hikes with her dogs Lily and Oso on the Horsetooth Rock Trail. When hiking with dogs, it’s important to have your dogs leashed to avoid conflicts with other trail users.

Above, horseback riders, like these enjoying the trails at Lory State Park on a recent outing, have the right of way on trails. PHOTOS BY ERIN HOOLEY/THE COLORADOAN

Share the trail » Equestrians have the right of way on trails, meaning hikers and mountain bikers must yield. Mountain bikers yield to hikers. » No matter the mode of travel, stay to the right of the trail. » Pass on the left. When overtaking someone, cyclists should sound their bell or call out, “On your left.” » If you stop for a rest, yield to others or take in the views, move off the trail so it is free for others.

TAKE A HIKE GREYROCK TRAIL

Before doing so, look for a durable surface such as rock, dirt or snow to move to. Don’t trample vegetation. » Hikers going uphill should be given the right of way over hikers coming downhill. » When in a group, yield to single or pair users. » When in a group, hike, run or ride in single file or take no more than half of a wide trail. » If you have a dog on a leash, See TRAIL, Page C15

XPLORER Q+A

Bolivia adventure among Young’s top experiences

» Distance: 3.1 miles one-way » Difficulty: Moderate » Elevation: 5,600 to 7,600 feet » Trailhead: From Fort Collins, go north on U.S. Highway 287 for 10 miles to Colorado Highway 14. Take Colorado 14 for 8.2 miles to the parking lot, which is on the south side of the road.

By Stephen Meyers

StephenMeyers@coloradoan.com

Name: Heather Young Age: 26 Family status: Married to Nick Occupation: Education program coordinator for Larimer County Natural Resources Hometown: Grew up in a Navy family Fort Collins connection: I’ve lived in Fort Collins for the past eight years. After attending CSU, I married a Fort Collins native and stuck around.

» Fees: Free » Facilities: Restrooms available at the parking lot; parking for 39 vehicles » Information: Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, (970) 295-6770 or www.fs.usda.gov/arp » Why go: This trail is among the most popular of the Poudre Canyon trails, so going on a weekday is advisable. At the junction with the Meadows Trail, stay right and take the trail along the creek. The trail continues to climb with a rock outcropping as you near the upper trail junction. This is a pleasant place to catch your breath and take in the view of the valley.

Outdoor passions: Skiing, climbing, backpacking, running, traveling Question: Favorite local hike?

Answer: Red Mountain Open Space Q: Wildest outdoors experience?

A: Backpacking in the Cordillera Real in Bolivia. It gave me a whole new appreciation for what a steep trail looks like. We would hike up and over 16,000-foot passes each day and were surrounded by the

See Q+A, Page C15

INSIDE FROM OUR EXPERTS

At the upper junction, you’ll see Greyrock Mountain. Part of the remaining trail is on the granite rock. Follow the rock cairns to the top. The reward of reaching the peak is a beautiful panoramic view.

Pathfinder » Night offers so many more moods than does day. Kevin J. Cook, Page C13

Wild shots » A visit to White Sands National Monument prompts a few tips. Vic Schendel, Page C14

Trainer talk » Exercise is safe and recommended for most expecting moms. Jenny Powelka, Page C13

Wild mama » Boys’ friendship teaches wisdom. Carrie Visintainer, Page C14

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SUNDAY PROFILE: COLORADO EAGLES

COMMUNITY PASSION MATCHES WILL TO WIN

Stewart says being a strong part of the community is vital to the success of the organization.

By Kevin Lytle KevinLytle@coloradoan.com

On a warm spring morning several weeks ago, two women were going for a jog with their dog.

As they were running, the dog sliced its paw open after stepping on something sharp.

Without a phone, the two women tried to get a car to stop and help. Finally, someone in a truck pulled over.

Instead of giving the women a phone to call for help, the man lifted the dog into the bed of his truck and drove it and the women to the veterinarian for help.

Even though he never identified himself, when they got to the vet, the women said, “Thanks, Coach Stewart” as they parted ways.

It’s a small anecdote, something many people might have done, but the act represents a bigger philosophy for Chris Stewart and the Colorado Eagles organization.

On-ice success is obviously a big part of a hockey club’s prosperity, but for a minor league team, there’s so much more that’s gone into the Eagles’ 11 seasons in Northern Colorado.

Becoming part of the fabric of the community, whether it’s something as big as a cash donation to charity or as small as helping a hurt dog, is vital to success.

“It’s absolutely critical you’re part of the community. If you expect to stand alone in the minors as your own entity, I don’t believe you will last more than three years,” said Stewart, the president, general manager and coach of the Eagles.

“That’s what you’ve seen so many times. It’s a hit for the first two or three years as you have that honeymoon stage, but they don’t put back in to the community.”

In the 11 years since the Eagles opened as a team in the Central Hockey League, a dozen CHL franchises have ceased operations, including the Rocky Mountain Rage.

The Rage played at the1stBank Center in Broomfield but only lasted three seasons.

Stewart is quick to point out that the Eagles’ philosophy started with owner Martin Lind and founder Ralph Backstrom. Whenever talking about the organization, Stewart likes to guide the conversation to See EAGLES, Page D2

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‘The Intern’s Handbook’ is a witty, funny thriller Thrillers are not usually my “go-to” genre.

I prefer women’s fiction, nonfiction books and even emotionally driven young adult novels. So, when I was asked to review “The Intern’s Handbook,” the debut novel by Fort Collins author Shane Kuhn, I was a little apprehensive.

Seeing the cover, complete with a skull and crossbones, didn’t help either, until I looked closer and saw the scary image was created with silhouettes of office supplies. That, combined with the story’s concept that interns are basically invisible in the eyes of executives, making them ideal hit men, piqued my interest.

Told from the point of view of 25-year-old John Lago, a highly trained assassin working for an elite “placement agency,” HR Inc., the book combines Lago’s story about his final assignment and his instruction manual for future “interns.”

HR specializes in assassinating corrupt executives. (So they send out bad guys to kill other bad guys). After 17 years in the business, Lago wants to retire. For his final assignment, he is sent as an intern to a prestigious Manhattan law firm to assassinate one of the partners who has been selling names from the witness protection list to the highest bidders.

Things are going as planned until he meets Alice, who claims to be an intern at the law firm, but is actually an FBI agent assigned to take down the same partner Lago has been assigned to kill.

Once I started reading “The Intern’s Handbook,” I had a hard time putting it down. Over the course of three days, I spent any spare moment I had immersed in the book. The wit and humor had me laughing out loud at times; the twists and turns in the plot kept me wondering what was going to happen next; and the depth of the main characters made them intriguing.

Because this book is a thriller about an assassin, it is not for the fainthearted. It contains the usual elements: murder, violence and profanity, but the casual conversational tone Kuhn uses adds levity to the intense events happening in the story, while his tight writing keeps the plot moving without any lulls.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to readers who enjoy a great thriller or those seeking a See FLANAGAN, Page D2

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NORRIS BURKES SPIRITUALITY

It doesn’t matter when you start to pray

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off-ice efforts. It’s obvious he’s as proud of that work as he is of the Eagles’ two championships.

The list is too big to recite in its entirety, but highlights include: » $250,000 to help build the Inspiration Playground at 2626 W. Horsetooth Road in Fort Collins. » $50,000 to help build the Boundless Playground at 100 North Fifth Street in Windsor. » $10,000 to the American Red Cross following the Windsor tornado in 2008. » $20,000 to the construction of the Poudre Valley Hospital Cancer Center. » Raised a total of almost $100,000 to help three families in need through “Pot of Gold” fundraiser.

The championships early in the team’s time in Northern Colorado helped hook a large fan base, but Stewart has worked to strengthen the connection every year.

When the Eagles bring new players in, one of the first discussions Stewart has is explaining what they are expected to do off the ice as members of the community.

While community engagement is important, it’s still a

Occasionally, patients will ask if they should address me as “pastor.”

I tell them I’d be honored to be considered their pastor, and that they can consider the hospital room their temporary church.

Despite the fact that chaplaincy can be a bit like pastoring a parade, the analogy often encourages patients to pause long enough to discuss their spiritual issues with me. At least that’s the way it worked with Mr. Penny.

I call him “mister” because that’s how he introduced himself when I first entered his room at Houston Northwest Medical Center in 1992.

Perhaps he meant the “mister” title to formalize the relationship between young and old, but my guess was that he meant to distance himself from his stereotypical idea of the “preacher.”

Penny had inoperable brain cancer, but he didn’t want to talk about that.

The balding, bony man steered most of our conversations to things like his opinion of the Houston Oilers and my lunchtime basketball games with local clergy.

Over the next several months, Penny was admitted a half-dozen more times, but on his last hospitalization his nurse summoned me from lunch. “Mr. Penny” had a favor he wanted to ask.

Thinking his request sounded like the call to a deathbed confession, I made a quick exit from the cafeteria and hurried to ICU. I walked into the room to find Mrs. Penny stroking her husband’s fevered head.

“Oh good,” she said. “I’m glad you’re here, but I thought Tuesday was your basketball day.”

“Knee problems,” I said, patting my left knee.

She exhaled in relief. “He wants to ask you something.”

I looked at the figure on the bed, twisted and ghostly.

His raspy breathing suggested he wouldn’t have much strength for this conversation, so I leaned over the bed and called to him as if announcing my presence

Chris Stewart is the president, general manager and coach of the Colorado Eagles. V. RICHARD HARO/ THE COLORADOAN

sports franchise that Stewart is running, and results are important.

The Eagles finished the regular season Saturday and will be looking to make a run at the ECHL’s Kelly Cup with playoffs beginning this week.

Anyone who has been around Stewart understands his drive to win and has seen how he reacts when players don’t perform to his expectations. And fans aren’t going

to fill the Budweiser Events Center just because the Eagles are a charitable organization.

With the Eagles in their third season in the ECHL, there’s a pressure to win after being knocked out in the first round in each of the first two years.

Stewart knows that and continually stresses that he aims for a championship every season, but there is a softer side that emerges when

he’s talking about the Eagles’ charity work.

“I am competitive; I don’t like to lose,” Stewart said.

“But that’s the real world.

That’s not a game. I feel very fortunate to be a part of something that’s done so much. If we’re not part of the community, I don’t think we survive.”

Follow sports reporter Kevin Lytle at twitter.com/Kevin_Lytle and facebook.com/KevinSLytle.

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through a dense fog.

“Mr. Penny, it’s Chaplain Norris,” I said. “Is there something you want to ask me?”

He nodded.

“Teach me,” he said, his voice trailing off.

He took a fuller breath and added, “Teach me to pray.”

I searched his wife’s face for context. She chewed at her thumbnail as she explained that her husband was embarrassed to ask for God’s help at such a late hour.

“He’s afraid he’s being hypocritical,” she added.

I often hear this reasoning from patients, and it always reminds me of the two revolutionaries who died on the crosses beside Jesus.

The first man spent his last hours mocking Jesus and goading him to use his magical powers to save everyone.

The other guy was quite the opposite.

He felt shame for his past life, so he asked Jesus, “Remember me when you enter your kingdom.”

Instead of disqualifying the man for being hypocritically late, Jesus assured him that he would see his new spiritual home that very day.

“Mr. Penny,” I said. “I think you’ll find that God cares very little about your past. He mostly cares what you’ll do with the next minute of your life.”

Penny nodded.

“Prayer is just talking to God. It’s not theologically complicated,” I added.

“Just talk from your heart.”

Penny closed his eyes and began moving his lips. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, but when he opened his eyes his expression told me that he’d heard God’s voice.

I know this because the “mister” who had originally sought to distance himself from spiritual matters managed to say one last thing to me.

“Thank you, pastor. Thank you.”

Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and author of “No Small Miracles.” He is an Air National Guard chaplain and a board-certified hospital chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains.

Recorded comments are welcome at (843) 608-9715. You may also send your comments to ask@thechaplain.net or P.O. Box 247, Elk Grove, CA 95759.

Visit his website thechaplain.net.

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departure from their usual genre.

You can learn more about Kuhn by reading an article in the April 10 Ticket, at http://noconow.co/Kuhn, or by visiting his website at

Kerrie Flanagan is the director of Northern Colorado Writers, a group supporting and encouraging writers of all genres. In addition, she is a freelance writer, writing consultant and author of Planes, Trains and Chuck & Eddie. Learn more: www.

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Your Week Saturday: CSU Green and Gold Game Your only chance to see the CSU football team scrimmage in Fort Collins takes place Saturday. Fans will get a look at how the team is shaping up for next season when two teams picked by coaches and team members face off to end their spring session.

WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday WHERE: Hughes Stadium, 2011 S. Overland Trail, Fort Collins

Pick of the Week: Monday Stay up late to catch a glimpse of a ‘blood moon’ during full lunar eclipse Wednesday: Edge Optics hosts Fashion for Food

Wednesday: Help break book signing world record

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You’ll have to be a night owl for an evening, but look to the sky late Monday into early Tuesday to catch the full lunar eclipse. It begins about 1:07 a.m. and lasts until 2:25 a.m. The moon will turn an eerie shade of red, referred to as a “blood moon.” The Northern Colorado Astronomical Society will have telescopes available from 11:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. at Fossil Creek Reservoir Natural Area.

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Edge Optics, a locally owned eye care facility in Old Town Fort Collins, will host a Fashion for Food event Wednesday, benefiting the Food Bank for Larimer County. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., the show begins at 7 p.m. Entry is a $5 donation to the food bank. Edge Optics partnered with Screamin Peach, His and Her Salon, and Stella & Dot, to provide the jewelry, clothing, hair and makeup for the show.

“We want to continue the momentum of Great Plates by showcasing the unique retailers in downtown Fort Collins and to encourage shopping local,” said Mindy Bryant, who owns Edge Optics with her husband, Dr. Mason Bryant.

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The 2009 CSU alumnus wants to break the record for the world’s largest book signing by selling and signing 5,000 books in a single session. The current record is 4,649.

Co-authors Jeremy Donovan and Avery dissect winning speeches to help college students and business professionals improve their public speaking skills in “Speaker, Leader, Champion: Succeed at Work Through the Power of Public Speaking.” Only books ordered at www.csuworldrecord.com or onsite will count toward the record.

Northern Colorado Nonprofit Resource Center, Estes Park Nonprofit Resource Center and Community Resource Center team up for a “We’ve Seen Fire and We’ve Seen Rain: Getting Nonprofits Back on Track Again” workshop Wednesday in Estes Park. The workshop will give nonprofits the funding tools needed to recover from Colorado’s fires and floods and also prepare them for future disasters and challenges. This workshop is designed for nonprofit staff and volunteers and features sessions on grant writing, budget management, fundraising and risk management. Registration is $75. Register at www.regonline.com/Fire andRain0416.

Thursday at the Hilton, nearly 30 Fort Collins restaurants and 20 breweries, wineries and cideries will gather for The Taste, a ticketed fundraising event that donates all proceeds to the Food Bank for Larimer County. The event starts at 6 p.m. and will include food and drink tasting as well as a silent auction and live music by by Mark Sloniker and The Nu Classics.

Tickets, for $65, and VIP tickets, for $100, are available through Thursday at www.tastebenefit .org and at Wilbur’s Total Beverage, 2201 S. College Ave. With VIP entrance, attendees are invited to a Champagne reception at 5 p.m.

General admission includes food, drink and a special wine glass.

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Celebrate Mother Earth with the Sustainable Living Association’s Earth Day event. This family(and planet-) friendly event will feature informational eco-focused booths and speakers, along with arts and crafts, local food and beer, and live music by Rich with Friends, Cary Morin and Elyse Miller. Admission is free (nonperishable food items will be collected for the Food Bank for Larimer County). Stop by Drive Electric Northern Colorado’s “Ride and Drive” booth and get behind the wheel of several of the latest electric cars on the market. Bring in your small electronics ready for recycling to the I.T. Refresh booth and receive a discounted recycle rate. Information: www.SustainableLiving Association.org.

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Civic Center Park, 201 LaPorte Ave., Fort Collins

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GARY CRIST LET’S TALK

CELEBRATIONS

Use of digital devices can cause teen eye issues

APPLAUSE

The Fort Collins chapter of Ducks Unlimited earned a spot on the Top 100 list out of the more than 2,600 DU chapters nationwide. DU’s event fundraising system has become a model for other conservation organizations around the world and has funded a significant portion of the more than 13 million acres of wetlands and associated habitat DU has conserved since 1937.

The 2013 Top 100 chapters will be honored during DU’s 77th National Convention in St. Louis at the end of May, with many chapter representatives in attendance. Each year, the list is composed of the top 100 fundraising chapters in the United States that raise up to $100,000 through fundraising activities in their communities. Through the efforts of these volunteer committees, DU is able to pursue its mission of conserving, enhancing and restoring North America’s wetlands.

Navy Seaman Recruit Adam D. Ross, son of Cole D. Hamley and Lynda S. Ross of Windsor, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Ross completed a variety of training, which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness. Ross is a 2013 graduate of Windsor High School.

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Seth and Starlyn Haneman proudly announce the birth of their second daughter, Georgianna Leone. She was born at 2:42 a.m. Jan. 31 at home in Wellington. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 19.5 inches long. Her older sister, Charlotte, is very proud of her. Georgianna is a very content and sweet baby and loved by all around her.

ENGAGEMENT Nia Manalabe and Jared Sharpe Nia Manalabe, daughter of Mario and Vickie Manalabe, is to be married to Jared Sharpe of Grand Junction. The groomto-be is the son of Jerry and Laura Sharpe of Aurora. Nia grew up in Windsor and graduated from Windsor High School in 2006. She then got her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Colorado Mesa University where she met Jared. She is currently a nurse in an OB-GYN clinic in Grand Junction.

Jared grew up in Lake City and is in the process of finishing his bachelor’s degree in computer science at CMU. Jared proposed to Nia at Isuien Garden in Nara, Japan. They plan to be married June 6 in LaPorte.

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Dear Gary: I have a question about my 14-yearold daughter.

Like most teens, she has a smartphone in front of her most of her waking hours. The other day she was complaining of chronic headaches, so we took her to the doctor. He said that her headache issues were caused, in his opinion, by her reading small print on her phone so much. He referred us to an ophthalmologist.

Have you heard of kids having these kinds of issues from using their smartphones or similar devices?

We will see the eye doctor soon but wondered if you had any advice.

— Concerned Parent in Wellington Dear Concerned Parent: I did some research and found that many teens are presenting with vision problems that are similar to people much older. In addition to the headaches your daughter is having, other symptoms reported are red, dry or irritated eyes; blurred vision; and back, neck and shoulder pain, all from the overuse of electronic devices and the ergonomics problems associated with how the devices are used.

We see teens with their phones in front of them no matter where they are or what they are doing. They text, send photos, post videos and search the Web. In addition, they are spending long

hours in front of computers at home and at school, and using gaming systems like Xbox for entertainment.

This adds up to countless hours of digital-device use and an increased potential for eye strain along with other symptoms.

According to CBS online, there is a condition called “Computer Vision Syndrome.” According to Dr. Justin Bazan, an optometrist with Better Vision Institute in New York, the syndrome is caused by two factors.

Computer, tablet and smartphone screens are typically held close, which causes eye strain. Also, these screens show pixelated images, which causes our eyes to shift in and out of focus without people even realizing it.

“That’s weakening the eye’s focusing muscles,” the doctor said, “causing the eyes to work hard to maintain focus.”

Recommendations, as you already know, include taking your teen to an ophthalmologist. Your doctor might suggest that your daughter use glasses when using these devices. Blinking more often is a common suggestion. Blinking moistens the eyes to prevent dryness and irritation.

To reduce your daughter’s risk of tiring her eyes by constantly focusing on her phone, have her look away from her phone or computer at least every 20 minutes and gaze at a distant object (at least 20 feet away) for at least 20 seconds.

Help your daughter by kindly reminding her to take a break from her phone. She and other teens have developed a habit of overusing their smartphones, computers, iPods and iPads.

Gary Crist is a mediator, social worker, facilitator and trainer in Windsor. Reach him at crist consulting@comcast.net.

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HOROSCOPES HOLIDAY MATHIS

Aries (March 21-April 19): Some people’s best decisions are born of stillness. Your best decisions today will happen in motion.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Couples who know and love each other for a long period of time had better have a few disagreements; otherwise, at least one of them is not being completely authentic.

Gemini (May 21-June 21): If there’s one thing you will cherish above all else today, it’s the particular brand of humor you share with your loved ones.

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TRAMPOLINE: Alleyoop for Affordable Housing and Human Services Sports. Good cond.

Se solicitan comentarios del Publico sobre las Recomendaciones de Financiamiento de la Ciudad para Viviendas Asequibles y Servicios Humanos $125. You move.

Call 970-481-7975.

Public comment is being solicited by the City of Fort Collins for the Spring 2014 Competitive Process funding cycle. Recommendations were

CHEVY CORVETTE 1985: Good shape. No cracks or dents. Red. Automatic. $6,000. Call (970) 484-4480.

Fence Repair CATS doors replace all Home Improvements CATS: 2 DSH females, painting.

10 yrs. Littermates. PreBrad 970-988-8926 fer one home. $20/pair.

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Esta notificación incluye una lista de entidades que pueden recibir financiamiento, la información acerca de la oportunidad para comentarios del público y la información acerca de una reunión del Consejo de la Ciudad en donde se consideran las recomendaciones. Esta información está disponible en español u otro idioma, sin costo para la persona que le gustaría esta información traducida o comunicada en español u otro idioma.

Favor contáctese con Ana Arias al 221-6264, o aarias@fcgov.com , para solicitarlos en español. Favor llame al 416-2284 o a titlesix@fcgov.com para solicitar información en otros idiomas.

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We Buy Houses Cash Walk Away Today (970)578-0117

Dusting Divas, LLC Wkly, Bi Wkly, Monthly, Move ins/outs, one time cleans, Res./comm., Flex schd., Free estimates. 970-308-0427

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This notice includes a list of entities that may receive funding, information about the opportunity for public comment and information about a City Council meeting where the recommendations will be considered. This information is available in Spanish or other language at no cost to a person who would like this information translated to or communicated in Spanish or other language. Please contact Ana Arias at 221-6264, or aarias@fcgov.com, to make a request for Spanish. Please call 416-2284 or titlesix@fcgov.com to make a request for information in other languages.

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FATHER & SON PAINTING 25 yrs of Experience Free Estimate, Insured No Job Too Small!

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Wynne Transport Service Inc. needed to run regional, hauling petroleum/Hazmat products. Must have Class A CDL with Tanker/HazMat endorsements,Clean MVR. 23 years or older.

2 yrs. experience preferred.

Benefits include, vacation/holiday pay, 401K, health, dental, life insurance.

For more info, call recruiting @ 1-800-383-9330

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GARAGE SALES 80524 BALLARD LANE

MOVING SALE Sat 8am-2pm

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Spring 2014--- Competitive Process ID Project Requested Recommended HO-1 FCHA: Redtail Ponds Permanent Supportive Housing $ 350,000 $ 350,000 HO-2 FCHA: Seventy-Two: A Vibrant, Sustainable Community $ 720,000 $ 720,000 HO-3 FC Habitat for Humanity: Cottages at Avondale Lots Purchase $ 700,000 $ 700,000 HO-4 Housing Catalyst (FCHA): Villages on Cunningham Corner Rehabilitation $ 38,191 $ 38,191 HO-5 Villages, Ltd. (FCHA): Village on Matuka-Housing Rehabilitation $ 380,000 $ 380,000 PS-1 Alliance for Suicide Prevention: Education, Awareness and Support Programs $ 10,148 $ 4,250 PS-2 B.A.S.E. Camp: Childcare Scholarships $ 66,000 $ 56,000 PS-3 Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County: Building Great Futures$ 43,973 $ 24,927 PS-4 Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA): Program Support $ 28,487 $ 6,784 PS-5 Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA ): Harmony House Supervised Visitation Program $ 28,750 $ PS-6 Catholic Charities: Senior Services $ 15,000 $ 15,000 PS-7 Catholic Charities: Shelter and Post-Shelter Services $ 60,000 $ 40,000 PS-8 Center for Family Outreach: Low-Income Youth Scholarship Program $ 7,500 $ 7,500 PS-9 ChildSafe: Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program $ 36,000 $ 30,000 PS-10ChildSafe: Healthy Families Program$ 3,500 $ 0 PS-11 (CHN) Northern Colorado AIDS Project: Client Services & Homelessness Prevention Program $ 32,754 $ 18,514 PS-12Crossroads Safehouse: Domestic Violence Family Advocacy Program $ 60,318 $ 39,000 PS-13Disabled Resource Services (DRS): Access to Independence Program $ 28,736 $ 26,621 PS-14Education & Life Training Center (ELTC): JobReady and Circles Employment Skills Training $ 53,735 $ 0 PS-15Elderhaus Adult Day Program: Therapeutic Activity Program $ 35,355 $ 27,878 PS-16Family Center/La Familia: Childcare Scholarships $ 50,000 $ 42,500 PS-17 Feeding Our Community Ourselves: Farm-to-Fork Skill Development $ 19,800 $ 0 PS-18Food Bank for Larimer County: Kid’s Café $ 27,182 $ 27,182 PS-19GLBT Community Center of Colorado: Rainbow Alley Youth Services $ 7,500 $ 3,000 PS-20 Health District of Northern Larimer County: Dental Connections $ 54,900 $ 23,000 PS-21Homelessness Prevention Initiative (HPI): Emergency Rental Assistance$ 60,000 $ 45,000 PS-22 Larimer County Child Advocacy Center: Victim Services-Child Abuse Prevention $ 32,000 $ 22,000 PS-23 Learning House Foundation for Early Childhood Development: Project Help the House! $ 13,400 $ 0 PS-24 Learning House Foundation for Early Childhood Development: Project Playing to Learn $ 8,706 $ 0 PS-25 Matthews House: Empowering Youth Program $ 34,158 $ 34,158 $ 27,000 PS-26 Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N): Housing Counseling $ 60,000 $ 38,630 PS-27 Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N): Rent Assistance $ 36,125 $ 36,125 PS-28 Project Self-Sufficiency (PS-S): Services for Single- Parent Families $ 35,000 $ 30,000 PS-29 Rehabilitation and Visiting Nurse Association (RVNA): Home Health Care Scholarships $ 40,000 $ 35,000 PS-30 Respite Care: Childcare Scholarships $ 35,000 $ 32,500 PS-31Serve 6.8: Sister Mary Alice Murphy Center for Hope $ 30,888 $ 18,533 PS-32 Sexual Assault Victim Advocate (SAVA) Center: Sexual Assault Victim Services $ 44,725 $ 14,367 PS-33 Teaching Tree Early Childhood Learning Center (UDCC): Childcare Scholarships $ 60,000 $ 50,000 PS-34 Touchstone Health Partners: Community Dual Disorders Treatment (CDDT) Program $ 62,702 $ 31,328 PS-35 Touchstone Health Partners: Critical Mental Health Services-Murphy Center $ 24,707 $ 18,000 PS-36 Turning Point Center for Youth and Family Development: Crisis Intervention Services $ 25,000 $ 12,500 PS-37 Volunteers of America (VOA): Home Delivered Meal Service $ 33,600 $ 33,600

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All proposals were considered eligible for funding, and were subject to criteria ranking. The amount of human services funding requests exceeded the amount of available dollars by over $445,000. Of the 37 public service proposals: 6 were recommended to receive full funding; 26 were recommended to receive partial funding; and 5 were recommended to receive no funding.

Todas las propuestas se consideraron elegibles para su financiación, y estaban sujetos a los criterios de clasificación. La cantidad de solicitudes de financiación de servicios humanos excedió la cantidad de dólares disponibles en más de $445,000. De las 37 propuestas de servicio público: 6 fueron recomendados para recibir una financiación plena; 26 fueron recomendadas para recibir financiamiento parcial; y 5 fueron recomendados para recibir ninguna financiación.

The Public Comment period for these recommendations runs from April 14 - May 13, 2014. Persons with questions or comments may contact the City by: calling 970-221-6758; writing ATTN: Competitive Process, Social Sustainability Department, City of Fort Collins, PO Box 580, Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580; or by e-mailing: hphelps@fcgov.com (Competitive Process). Citizens may also arrange to personally visit to express their views.

El periodo de Comentarios Públicos para estas recomendaciones se extiende desde abril 14-mayo 13, 2014. Las personas que tengan preguntas o comentarios pueden ponerse en contacto con la Ciudad a través de: llamar a 970-221-6758; escribir ATN: Proceso Competitivo, Departamento de Sostenibilidad Social, Ciudad de Fort Collins, PO Box 580, Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580; o por correo electrónico a: hphelps@fcgov.com (Proceso Competitivo). Los ciudadanos también pueden realizar las gestiones para visitar personalmente a expresar sus puntos de vista.

City Council will take final action regarding the Commission’s recommendations on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 6 p.m., Council Chambers, 300 W. Laporte Ave., Fort Collins, CO. That meeting is also considered a Public Hearing for these proposals.

El Consejo de la Ciudad tomará acción final sobre las recomendaciones de la Comisión e martes, 20 de mayo 2014, 6 p.m., Cámara del Consejo, 300 W. Laporte Ave., Fort Collins, CO. Esa reunión se considera también una Audiencia Pública para estas propuestas.

The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs and activities, and will make special communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. All venues for meetings and public input are fully accessible. Please call 970-221-6758 for assistance. Any material or translators are available in Spanish or other languages on request. Please call 970-221-6758 for assistance. TTY/TDD assistance: 970-221-3490.

La Ciudad de Fort Collins hará arreglos razonables para el acceso a los servicios de la Ciudad, programas y actividades, y hará los arreglos especiales de comunicación para personas con discapacidad. Todos los lugares de encuentro de las reuniones y las opiniones del público son totalmente accesibles. Por favor llame a 970-221-6758 para obtener ayuda. Cualquier material o traductores están disponibles en español y otros idiomas a petición. Por favor llame a 970-221-6758 para obtener ayuda. Asistencia TTY/ TDD: 970-221-3490.

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Advertisement for Qualifications Aims Community College, Greeley, Colorado will receive submittals for qualifications for Architectural Services until 2:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at the Purchasing Office, West Farm House, 4911 West 20th Street, Greeley, CO, 80634.

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CITY OF FORT COLLINS SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY DEPARTMENT CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN UPDATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD CIUDAD DE FORT COLLINS DEPARTAMENTO DE SOSTENIBILIDAD SOCIAL ACTUALIZACIÓN DEL PLAN DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA AVISO DE PERÍODO DE REVISIÓN PÚBLICA

Aims intends to design and construct (from concept to project completion) buildings on Residents of Fort Collins are encouraged to express their views on the the Aims Windsor campus. update of the City of Fort Collins’ Citizen Participation Plan. The Plan is implemented through the City’s Social Sustainability Department. It outRequest for Qualification packets may be lines policies, procedures, and processes for citizen involvement related picked up at the Greeley Campus, Purchasing to activities through that department involving federal funds received Department, 4911 West 20th Street. Please from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). call Dorene Boyd, 970-339-6412, to receive an electronic copy.

Se alienta a los residentes de Fort Collins a expresar sus puntos de vista sobre la Actualización del Plan de Participación Ciudadana de la CiuA Mandatory conference and site visit will be dad de Fort Collins. El plan se implementa a través del Departamento held on Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 10 a.m. local de Sostenibilidad Social de la Ciudad. En él se esbozan las políticas, los time at the Windsor Campus, in the Aims Auto- procedimientos y los procesos de participación ciudadana en relación motive and Technology Center building locat- con las actividades a través de ese departamento que tiene que ver ed at 1120 Southgate Dr., Windsor, CO. The con los fondos federales recibidos del Departamento de Vivienda y conference attendee shall be an agent of the Desarrollo Urbano de EE.UU. (HUD). company. Please hold all questions and requests for clarification until the conference.

It is the City’s desire to provide for and encourage citizens to participate in the planning, implementation, and assessment of the performance of Aims Community College reserves the right to its federal community development, housing, and other federal funding accept or reject any or all submittals and to programs, including development of the Five-Year Strategic Plan, Annuwaive any informality and to accept the sub- al Action Plans, any Substantial Amendments to those Plans, and the mittal that, in the opinion of Aims Community yearly Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER).

College, is in the best interests of Aims Community College, Greeley, Colorado.

Es el deseo de la Ciudad para proveer y alentar a los ciudadanos a participar en la planificación, implementación y evaluación de los No submittal shall be withdrawn after opening resultados de su desarrollo federal de la comunidad, la vivienda y otros without the consent of the Aims Community programas de financiación federal, incluyendo el desarrollo del Plan College, Greeley, Colorado, for a period of thir- Estratégico del Cinco Años, Planes de de Acción Anuales, las ty (30) days after the scheduled time of open- Modificaciones Sustanciales de esos Planes, y el Informe Consolidado ing. de Evaluación de Desempeño Anual (CAPER).

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NOTICE TO OUT-OF-CITY CUSTOMERS OF FORT COLLINS ELECTRIC UTILITY OF PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO THE BILLING PROCEDURE FOR ELECTRIC NET METERING CUSTOMERS AND RELATED PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Fort Collins Electric Utility has proposed that the billing procedure for electric net metering customers be modified as described in more detail in the notice available for public review in the office of the Fort Collins City Clerk at 300 LaPorte Avenue in Fort Collins, and also available on the City’s website at http://www.fcgov.com/publicnotices.

The modified net metering procedure for monthly net metering electric service is proposed to go into effect for all net metering electric bills issued with meter readings on or after June 1, 2014.

The Board of Larimer County Commissioners will be receiving sealed bids at the Office of the Purchasing Director, 200 W Oak Street, Suite 4000, Fort Collins, Colorado, up to 2:00 P.M. (our clock), Thursday, May 1, 2014, at which time they will be opened and read aloud considering the following:

City Council will take final action on approving the Plan on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 6 p.m., Council Chambers, 300 W. Laporte Ave., Fort Collins, CO. That meeting is also considered a Public Hearing for the Plan update.

PUBLIC HEARINGS for consideration of the proposed schedule of rates, fees and charges and other proposed revisions by the Fort Collins City Council are scheduled for 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, and Tuesday, May 20, 2014, in the City Council Chambers at 300 LaPorte Avenue, in Fort Collins. Each municipal electric customer and all members of the gen- 34208115 eral public shall have the right to appear, per- Fort Collins Coloradoan sonally or through counsel, at said PUBLIC April 13, 2014 HEARINGS for the purpose of providing testimony regarding the proposed schedule of rates, fees and charges and other proposed revisions.

PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION TO BID Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (Northern Water) is accepting sealed bids to purchase the right to apply for up to 26 acrefoot units of Colorado-Big Thompson Project water. These units have been declared forfeited by actions of the Board of Directors of Northern Water in accordance with its Storage and Parking Agreement Rule. Interested parties meeting all bid qualifications may submit application information and sealed bids to Northern Water, 220 Water Avenue, Berthoud, CO, 80513, Attention: Sherri Rasmussen prior to 3:00 p.m., on April 22, 2014. A public opening of all sealed bids will be held at 3:00 p.m. on April 22, 2014, at Northern Water. A complete bid packet may be obtained from Northern Water during business hours or online at www.northernwater.org. Look for "Invitation to Bid on 26 acre-foot units of C-BT Project Water" at the top of the Home page in the What’s New section. For additional information please call (800) 369-7246. Late bids will not be accepted and will be returned to the bidder unopened. Sole responsibility rests with the Bidder to see that its Bid is received on time at the stated location.

El Consejo Municipal tomará acción final en la que se aprueba el Plan el Martes, 20 de mayo 2014, 6 p.m., Cámaras del Consejo Municipal, 300 W. Laporte Ave., Fort Collins, CO. Esa reunión se considera también una Audiencia Pública para BID # B14-02 la Actualización del Plan.

The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for acProject No, 306 (STM C060-063), Intersection cess to City services, programs, and activities and will make special Improvements to LCR 30/11 & 30/11C communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. All venues for public meetings or public input are fully accessible. Any material or Only Colorado Department of Transportation translators are available in Spanish or other languages on request. A transfer of a Colorado-Big Thompson Project prequalified bidders will be allowed to bid on Please call 221-6758 for assistance. TTY/TDD assistance: 221-3490. allotment contract is subject to the authority this project. and discretion of the Northern Water Board of La Ciudad de Fort Collins hará arreglos razonables para el acceso a los Directors. The Board may deny an application The work consists of the construction of servicios de la Ciudad, programas y actividades, y hará los arreglos for transfer pursuant to its authority and discreroundabouts at the intersections of County especiales de comunicación para personas con discapacidad. Todos tion under the Water Conservancy Act, other Road 30/County Road 11 & County Road los lugares de encuentro para reuniones públicas o las opiniones del relevant laws, Northern Water rules, regula30/County Road 11C north of Loveland. Appúblico son totalmente accesibles. Cualquier material o traductores tions, policies and procedures, or based on proximately 6,000 cubic yards of Excavation están disponibles en español u otros idiomas a petición. Por favor llame specific circumstances. Circumstances that and Borrow (Complete in Place), 2,000 tons of a 221-6758 para obtener ayuda. Asistencia para TTY/ TDD: 221-3490. may provide bases for denial of an application Aggregate Base Course, 5,750 tons of Hot Mix for transfer may include, without limitation, prior Asphalt, 711 square yards of Concrete Pave34208164 acquisition and subsequent transfer of CBT ment, 671 linear feet of 15" to 48" Culvert Pipe, Fort Collins Coloradoan units.

5,195 linear feet of Curb and Gutter and 825 April 13, 2014 square yards of Concrete Median Material Published: April 6, 2014 (Special) are included in the work. ConstrucApril 13, 2014 tion staking and testing will be done by Larimer April 20, 2014 County.

The project is funded by a federal bridge replacement grant. The Underutilized Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (UDBE) goal for this project has been established at 9 percent.

The CDOT Form 347, Certification of EEO Compliance, is no longer required to be submitted in the bid package. This form certified that the contractor/proposed subcontractors were in compliance with the Joint Reporting Committee EEO-1 form requirements. The EEO-1 Report must still be submitted to the Joint Reporting Committee if the contractors and subcontractors meet the eligibility requirements (29CFR 1602.7); we will, however, no longer require certification. For additional information regarding these federal requirements, please refer to: http://www.eeoc.gov/stats/jobpat/e1instruct.h tml It is estimated that the total cost of all items in the bid schedule will not exceed $1,250,000.

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The Board of Larimer County Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids and to waive irregularities and informalities.

All questions regarding this project should go to Kyle Arend at 970-498-5734 or e-mail to karend@larimer.org.

Heather MacMillan Purchasing Agent I 34208179 Fort Collins, Coloradoan April 11, 12, 13, 2014 NOTICE TO CREDITORS District Court, Larimer County, State of Colorado, 201 W. LaPorte Ave, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 Estate of ROBERT LOPEZ, a/k/a BOB LOPEZ, Deceased.

Case No. 2014PR30111 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Larimer County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

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Bid documents and specifications will be available on the Larimer County Web Site only at www.larimer.org/bids/ starting Monday, April 14, 2014.

A Prebid Conference will be held at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, April 24, at the Lake Estes Conference Room on the 3rd floor, 200 West Oak Street, , Fort Collins, Colorado. Representatives of Larimer County will be present to discuss the project and to answer questions. Bidders are requested (not required) to attend and participate in the conference.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado and the ordinances of the City of Fort Collins, 900 Degrees, LLC, on April 1, 2014, applied for a hotel-restaurant liquor license. If granted, said license is to be exercised at 900 Degrees, 111 West Prospect, Unit #B, Fort Collins CO 80525.

The Fort Collins Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on said application on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter may come on for hearing, in Municipal Court, 215 North Mason, Fort Collins, Colorado, at which time and place any interested person may be present and be heard.

Petitions or remonstrances pertaining to the granting of said license may be filed at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall West, 300 LaPorte Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado.

The City will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs, and activities and will make special communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. Please call 221-6315 for assistance.

Dated April 13, 2014.

Wanda Nelson, City Clerk

The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs and activities and will make special communication arrangements for person with Dorene Boyd The Public Comment period for the Plan runs from April 14--May 13, disabilities. Please call 970-221-6515 for assisAims Community College 2014. Persons with questions or comments may contact the City by: tance.

Director of Purchasing calling 970-221-6758; writing ATTN: Citizen Participation Plan, Social dorene.boyd@aims.edu Sustainability Department, City of Fort Collins, PO Box 580, Fort Collins, Este anuncio se trata de un cambio propuesto CO 80522-0580; or by e-mailing: hphelps@fcgov.com (Citizen Partici- de la Municipalidad en el método de 34208027 pation Plan). Citizens may also arrange to personally visit to express facturación para los clientes en Fort Collins de medición neta eléctrica ("electric net meterFort Collins, Coloradoan their views. ing") Fort Collins. Si desea esta información April 6, 7, 13, 14, 2014 El Periodo de Comentarios del Público para el Plan se extiende desde traducida al español, por favor envíe un correo abril 14 a mayo 13, 2014. Las personas que tengan preguntas o electrónico en español a esta dirección: Case No. 14PR030082 comentarios pueden ponerse en contacto con la Ciudad a través de: titlesix@fcgov.com. O puede llamar a un NOTICE TO CREDITORS District Court, Larimer County, Colorado. 201 llamar a 970-221-6758; escribir ATN: Plan de Participación Ciudadana, empleado de Servicios Públicos que habla Departamento de Sostenibilidad Social, Ciudad de Fort Collins, PO Box español con sus preguntas a este número de LaPorte Ave, Ste 100., Ft. Collins, CO 80522.

In the Matter of the Estate of MARIE R. BEAN, 580, Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580; o por correo electrónico a: teléfono: 970-212-2900. hphelps@fcgov.com (Plan de Participación Ciudadana). Los ciudadanos Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above- también pueden realizar las gestiones para visitar personalmente a 34208218 Fort Collins Coloradoan named estate are required to present them to expresar sus puntos de vista.

April 13, 2014 the Personal Representative or to the District

Court of Larimer County, Colorado on or be- Community members who are in a federally or state protected class, fore August 5, 2014, or the claims may be for- part of a special population, or who are part of a federal client category that is considered as Presumed Benefit (abused children, battered ever barred. spouses, severely disabled adults, homeless persons, persons with AIDS, illiterate adults, migrant farm workers, and elderly persons) are esDell H. Bean pecially encouraged to provide input.

P.O. Box 1277 FORT COLLINS, CO 80522-1277 Miembros de la comunidad que están en una clase protegida por el gobierno federal o estatal, parte de una población especial, o que 34203457 forman parte de una categoría de clientes federal que se considera coFort Collins, Coloradoan mo Supuesto Beneficiado (niños abusados, cónyuges maltratadas, March 30, April 6, 13, 2014 adultos con discapacidades graves, personas sin hogar, personas con SIDA, adultos analfabetos, los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes y las INVITATION TO BID personas de edad avanzada) se animan especialmente para que den sus opiniones.

LARIMER COUNTY

LEGAL NOTICES

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BY PATRICK BERRY / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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Sanders 30 Smidgen 72 Answers that may 31 Suffix with social anger 34 ___ suit 74 Farmer, at times?

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FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN

SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014

PAGE D9

LOTTERY POWERBALL Here are the winning numbers in Saturday night’s $90.7 million Powerball drawing.

14-26-45-54-55 Powerball number — 20

LOTTO Here are the winning numbers in Saturday night’s Lotto drawing. The Colorado Lottery estimated the annualized value of the jackpot at $4.5 million.

The estimated cash value was $2.2 million.

1-4-23-26-35-38

CASH 5 Here are the five numbers selected in Saturday night’s Cash 5 drawing. Anyone matching all five numbers will win $20,000.

10-11-21-22-25

PICK 3 Here are the winning numbers in Saturday night’s Pick 3 drawing.

7-2-1 Visit www.coloradolottery.com or call (900) 448-1000 (36 cents per minute) to confirm winning numbers.

COMMUNITY LINK

Editor’s note: Community link highlights free public services, support groups, meetings, reunions, calls for donations or volunteers, and the activities of charitable and nonprofit organizations in the area. If your organization is conducting a special project and would like to put a notice in the paper, please submit the information to Community Link, Fort Collins Coloradoan, 1300 Riverside Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524; citynews@coloradoan.com; or fax to (970) 224-7899.

Eco-Thrift is accepting small household electrical devices and metals for recycling at its store at 208 N. Howes St., Fort Collins. There is a fee involved for recycling these items.

Information: (970) 484-4224 or http://eco-thrift.com Elder Pet Care offers reduced-cost veterinary care for senior citizens age 55 and older who own pets. The office is at 909 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, and is open from 1 to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Appointments are also available. Information: (970) 493-2657 Family Leadership and Training Institute, or FLTI, has a series of 20 sessions on leadership training, civic literacy and civic participation skills designed to help build leadership skills and give you the confidence and connections to help you make a difference. Apply online at www. coloradofamilyleadership.com.

Foothills Gateway is a local organization working with individuals

who have cognitive disabilities and their families in Larimer County. In an effort to increase the community’s awareness about Foothills Gateway and the clients with whom it works, the organization has scheduled informational luncheons that allow attendees to get an update of the group’s mission, learn more about its unique programs and goals for empowering every ability, and see the positive impact the organization is making in the lives of people with cognitive disabilities. The luncheons are free and informational. Luncheons are from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second Thursday of each month. Information: Diana, (970) 266-5316.

Fort Collins Breakfast Optimist Club meets at 7 a.m. each Monday at Denny’s restaurant, (north side of Mulberry). Our purpose is to help

and sponsor activities for young people.

416-1385 or Bill Funke at (970) 482-0255 for more information.

Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay/ Neuter Clinic offers low-cost vaccinations and spay/neuter surgery for dogs and cats, has fee-waived services available for qualified lowincome pet owners and can provide free dog and cat food to pet owners experiencing financial hardship. It shelter houses adoptable cats and kittens and is open to the public seven days a week. Clinic: (970) 484-1861. Shelter: (970) 484-8516.

Information: www.FCCRSNC.org.

Fort Collins Municipal Railway Society — the Mountain Avenue trolley — is seeking volunteers to operate and maintain the 1919 restored Birney Safety Car for the 2014 season. Motormen, conductors, and maintenance volunteers are always needed and welcome. Information: contact Bob at (970) 817-0562.

Fort Collins Lions Club is interested in providing pancake breakfasts as a service or fundraiser for other Fort Collins nonprofits All proceeds go to your fundraising event. Do you have a fundraiser or charity walk, run, or bike event?

Contact Dan Fahrlander at (970)

Fort Collins Sertoma Club is seeking the support of the Fort Collins business community for its Flag Program, which allows businesses to display the American flag on nine holidays this year while supporting local programs such as Crossroads Safehouse and Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County. Sertoma Club members will provide and hang flags at participating busi-

nesses on the following holidays: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, 9/11, Columbus Day and Veterans Day. The annual cost is $45 per flag per year. Information: Jim Manning, jimmanning@aol.com.

Fort Collins Sertoma Club, an organization that for more than 40 years has dedicated itself to financially and physically supporting Fort Collins organizations that assist youths and those in need, meets each Friday for its weekly meeting and lunch. Information: Josh Benedict, (970) 219-6819.

Harmony Chorale, an LGBT nonauditioned chorus, is seeking new members for the spring 2014 season.

The music will focus on anti-bullying.

Call Carol for more information at (970) 568-6116.

FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN

SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014

PAGE D9

LOTTERY POWERBALL Here are the winning numbers in Saturday night’s $90.7 million Powerball drawing.

14-26-45-54-55 Powerball number — 20

LOTTO Here are the winning numbers in Saturday night’s Lotto drawing. The Colorado Lottery estimated the annualized value of the jackpot at $4.5 million.

The estimated cash value was $2.2 million.

1-4-23-26-35-38

CASH 5 Here are the five numbers selected in Saturday night’s Cash 5 drawing. Anyone matching all five numbers will win $20,000.

10-11-21-22-25

PICK 3 Here are the winning numbers in Saturday night’s Pick 3 drawing.

7-2-1 Visit www.coloradolottery.com or call (900) 448-1000 (36 cents per minute) to confirm winning numbers.

COMMUNITY LINK

Editor’s note: Community link highlights free public services, support groups, meetings, reunions, calls for donations or volunteers, and the activities of charitable and nonprofit organizations in the area. If your organization is conducting a special project and would like to put a notice in the paper, please submit the information to Community Link, Fort Collins Coloradoan, 1300 Riverside Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524; citynews@coloradoan.com; or fax to (970) 224-7899.

Eco-Thrift is accepting small household electrical devices and metals for recycling at its store at 208 N. Howes St., Fort Collins. There is a fee involved for recycling these items.

Information: (970) 484-4224 or http://eco-thrift.com Elder Pet Care offers reduced-cost veterinary care for senior citizens age 55 and older who own pets. The office is at 909 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, and is open from 1 to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Appointments are also available. Information: (970) 493-2657 Family Leadership and Training Institute, or FLTI, has a series of 20 sessions on leadership training, civic literacy and civic participation skills designed to help build leadership skills and give you the confidence and connections to help you make a difference. Apply online at www. coloradofamilyleadership.com.

Foothills Gateway is a local organization working with individuals

who have cognitive disabilities and their families in Larimer County. In an effort to increase the community’s awareness about Foothills Gateway and the clients with whom it works, the organization has scheduled informational luncheons that allow attendees to get an update of the group’s mission, learn more about its unique programs and goals for empowering every ability, and see the positive impact the organization is making in the lives of people with cognitive disabilities. The luncheons are free and informational. Luncheons are from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second Thursday of each month. Information: Diana, (970) 266-5316.

Fort Collins Breakfast Optimist Club meets at 7 a.m. each Monday at Denny’s restaurant, (north side of Mulberry). Our purpose is to help

and sponsor activities for young people.

416-1385 or Bill Funke at (970) 482-0255 for more information.

Fort Collins Cat Rescue & Spay/ Neuter Clinic offers low-cost vaccinations and spay/neuter surgery for dogs and cats, has fee-waived services available for qualified lowincome pet owners and can provide free dog and cat food to pet owners experiencing financial hardship. It shelter houses adoptable cats and kittens and is open to the public seven days a week. Clinic: (970) 484-1861. Shelter: (970) 484-8516.

Information: www.FCCRSNC.org.

Fort Collins Municipal Railway Society — the Mountain Avenue trolley — is seeking volunteers to operate and maintain the 1919 restored Birney Safety Car for the 2014 season. Motormen, conductors, and maintenance volunteers are always needed and welcome. Information: contact Bob at (970) 817-0562.

Fort Collins Lions Club is interested in providing pancake breakfasts as a service or fundraiser for other Fort Collins nonprofits All proceeds go to your fundraising event. Do you have a fundraiser or charity walk, run, or bike event?

Contact Dan Fahrlander at (970)

Fort Collins Sertoma Club is seeking the support of the Fort Collins business community for its Flag Program, which allows businesses to display the American flag on nine holidays this year while supporting local programs such as Crossroads Safehouse and Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County. Sertoma Club members will provide and hang flags at participating busi-

nesses on the following holidays: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, 9/11, Columbus Day and Veterans Day. The annual cost is $45 per flag per year. Information: Jim Manning, jimmanning@aol.com.

Fort Collins Sertoma Club, an organization that for more than 40 years has dedicated itself to financially and physically supporting Fort Collins organizations that assist youths and those in need, meets each Friday for its weekly meeting and lunch. Information: Josh Benedict, (970) 219-6819.

Harmony Chorale, an LGBT nonauditioned chorus, is seeking new members for the spring 2014 season.

The music will focus on anti-bullying.

Call Carol for more information at (970) 568-6116.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014

FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN

State forecast: Sunday/Monday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

High 37° Low 16° Snow, 2-5" melting on pavement

High 47° Low 28° Morning clouds, clearing

High 64° Low 34° A few high clouds

Craig 48° / 21°

Julesburg 37° / 25°

Greeley 36° / 25°

47° / 28°

51° / 29°

51° / 28°

Estes Park 34° / 18°

Denver 37° / 25°

Vail 36° / 15°

54° / 29°

Limon 38° / 21° 46° / 22° Burlington 42° / 25°

50° / 32°

35° / 18°

Grand Junction 61° / 31°

Colorado Springs 39° / 20°

58° / 34°

Gunnison 48° / 21°

Fort Collins: The rest of the week Friday

41° / 25°

42° / 22°

Glenwood Springs 56° / 29°

6 p.m. Partial clearing Sunday night will help temperatures drop well below freezing.

Wednesday Thursday

43° / 23°

31° / 15°

Cheyenne Fort Collins 37° / 16°

Steamboat Springs 44° / 18°

49° / 24°

Kathy’s word on the weather

Seventy degrees one day and snow the next — April sure keeps things interesting.

Snow Sunday will be heaviest from late morning to about

National roundup

45° / 28°

43° / 28°

44° / 18°

Pueblo 46° / 20°

Saturday

Lamar 50° / 24°

47° / 29°

High 62° Low 25°

High 44° Low 26°

Rain in the Very light snow afternoon and with small evening accumulation

High 61° Low 35°

High 66° Low 40°

Clearing and warmer

Nice start to the weekend

Precipitation almanac Last 24 hours 0” Record/year 0.69” in 1993 Total this month 0.06” Total this year 3.17” Normal, year to date 3.08”

Durango 59° / 28° 55° / 27°

High/low yesterday High/low last year Record high/year Record low/year Average high/low

68 / 43 56 / 33 80 in 1908 -8 in 1959 59 / 31

Observations from CSU Weather Station, valid for the 24-hour period ending at 7 p.m. yesterday

UV index today

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Mountain snowpack

0-2: Minimal 3-4: Low 5-6: Moderate 7-9: High 10+: Very high

The higher the UV index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

Sun and moon Today’s Today’s Today’s Today’s

Full April 15

sunrise sunset moonrise moonset

Last April 22

New April 29

Bear Lake Joe Wright Reservoir Medicine Bow Mountains Mummy Range

Snowpack valid as of yesterday

147% 112% 158% 119%

Recreational forecast 6:25 AM 7:38 PM 6:18 PM 5:25 AM

First May 7

Area river flows

Poudre River at canyon mouth 318 Poudre River at Ft.Collins 260

Today’s high/low

11,000 feet 9,000 feet 7,000 feet

Trinidad 50° / 22°

Alamosa 55° / 21°

42° / 27°

50° / 22°

Temperature almanac

32° / 8° 44° / 18° 34° / 18°

47° / 30°

Air quality

Snowfall almanac : Last 24 hours 0” Record/year 2.5” in 1983 Total this month Trace Total this season 40.4” Normal, season to date 53”

Air quality forecast

Visibility

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Pollutant standards indexes for yesterday

Red alertmeans elevated No ozone levels are predicted, Alert and individuals with sensitivity to

air pollution should limit outdoor exertion from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

No alert means elevated ozone levels are not forecasted.

Source: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Extremes

National weather -20 -10 0 10

Los Angeles 70 / 54 Phoenix 87 / 59

Forecasts and maps prepared by:

70 80 90 100 110

Minneapolis 45 / 27

Boise 62 / 32 San Francisco 64 / 51

Yesterday’s State Extremes: High: 87 at Lamar Low: 25 at Gunnison Yesterday’s National Extremes: High: 102 at Death Valley, Calif.

Low: 19 at Stanley, Idaho

20 30 40 50 60

Seattle 61 / 44

Chicago 65 / 39 Denver 37 / 25

Cheyenne, Wyoming www.dayweather.com

Snow

St. Louis 75 / 44

Dallas 80 / 48

Map valid to 5 p.m.today

New York 73 / 56 Raleigh 81 / 60 Atlanta 79 / 60

New Orleans 78 / 68

Mix

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Our view: New Cancer Center is a needed addition to community’s health care suite, can provide peace of mind to patients

Gilbert: We learned valuable life lessons from the recession

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When we started to get busy enough that we had trouble staying on top of specific client details, we implemented a customer relationship management, or CRM, system. The learning curve on this tool was steep, as it forced us to create standard processes and timelines for every service.

But the pain paid off, as it now sends us daily reminders of client to-dos. The CRM we chose is Capsule, and costs us less each month than a single networking lunch in Old Town.

Now that our service delivery systems are in great shape, we’re focusing on raising the quality bar by using an online survey tool. At

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Larimer County Conservation Corps worker Julien Pecquet works to make Charles Hixon’s house more energy efficient on Thursday. A major part of the corps’ work is making sure water is being efficiently used by installing new showerheads and aerators. Recent legislation in Colorado will require all water fixtures sold in Colorado after Sept. 1, 2016, to meet new efficiency standards. ERIN HULL/THE COLORADOAN

NEW LAW HELPS REINFORCE WATER-CONSERVATION HABITS The legislation sets stricter efficiency standards for water fixtures, such as toilets and showerheads, sold starting in September 2016.

By Nick Coltrain NickColtrain@Coloradoan.com

Colorado will set higher efficiency standards for its plumbing fixtures starting in September 2016 — though the stricter standards might be a case of policy catching up with practice.

The industry moves toward higher efficiency regardless, and by the time higher standards become law, they’re typically in practice, said Jeff Allen, owner of Allen Service, a plumbing, heat-

ing and air conditioning company serving Northern Colorado.

“By the time (manufacturers) hear it through legislation or it gets advertised politically, these improvements are well in place or heading down the pipelines,” Allen said.

Senate Bill 14-103, sponsored in the House by Fort Collins Democrat Rep. Randy Fischer, prohibits the sale of plumbing fixtures that don’t meet federal WaterSense standards. WaterSense certification means the plumbing fixture uses at

NoCo Feeders Supply finds potential new home

By Pat Ferrier Patferrier@coloradoan.com

Northern Colorado Feeders Supply will leave Old Town Fort Collins after 60 years, but it hopes to remain within a mile of its current location.

Jon Prouty of Lagunitas Co. purchased the Feeders Supply building, 359 Linden St., on April 1 for $1.1 million cash. He plans to redevelop the 103-year-old building into a restaurant/pub and apartments.

Feeders Supply co-owner Danielle Nater hopes to move her business to a 2-acre site on Hickory Street but needs city approval to run the retail operation from a construction trailer until a new shop is built.

That’s where the company is running into trouble.

The previous business at the site west of North College Avenue never registered as a retail operation, she said, so Nater might have to apply

for a change of use. And, because one of the buildings is more than 50 years old, she might have to get a historic review.

“It will be absolutely perfect. It’s a beautiful location, and we’re doing a lot of improvements to the property,” Nater said. “We are just trying to figure out how to make it work. Most people with the city are really cooperative and understand our timetable. There are some speed bumps, but we’re not giving up.”

Nater has less than 30 days to move a business that’s been ensconced in its existing location for six decades — no small feat by itself.

The Feeders Supply project is the latest in a series of projects approved or proposed for the Poudre River District north of Old Town Square, including the 72-unit Legacy Senior Residence; Encompass Technologies’ office building, restaurant and a dozen apartments; and

ABOUT THE APARTMENTS » Number of units: 54; 23 two-bedroom and 23 one-bedroom units; 8 studio apartments » Size of apartments: 850 to 1,050 square feet » Amenities: Each equipped with a 700-square-foot deck and a 20-squarefoot sports-equipment alcove inside the front door for bike storage » Rents: To be determined

Source: Lagunitas Co.

Woodward Inc.’s expansion of its corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility on Lincoln Avenue.

Bordered by Linden Street on the west and Willow Street on the north, Prouty’s project sits on nearly 1.2 acres in the Old Town National His- Jon Prouty of Lagunitas Co. in Fort Collins has proposed a 54-unit apartment See FEEDERS, Page E2

building on property now housing Northern Colorado Feeders Supply. COURTESY

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ON THE MOVE

Massage therapist moves to Old Town

By Coloradoan staff

Erin Maranjian, owner of Gentle Strength Massage, has moved her offices from Academy Court to 311 E. Mulberry St. in Old Town Fort Collins.

Maranjian’s area of expertise includes relaxation massage and oncology masErin sage, manual Maranjian lymph drainage and lymphedema therapy.

She has maintained a private practice in Fort Collins for more than 15 years. During the past 12 years, she has also been on staff at Longmont United Hospital.

Information: www.with gentlestrength.com or (970) 218-1443.

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the end of a service process, we send clients a link to a four-question survey about their experience via SurveyGold, another small-business gem created by a Colorado Springs company. Plus, we’re using this tool to get input from prospective clients about new services we’re developing.

In general, I’m not a technology whiz, and I’ve been known to drag my feet on change. But when the hassle of finding and implementing a better solution outweighs the growing pain, it’s worth it.

Katy Piotrowski, M.Ed., is the author of “The Career Coward’s Guides” and provides career and job search support with Career Solutions Group in Fort Collins. Reach her at (970) 224-4042 or katy@career solutionsgroup.net.

FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN

Q&A: CEO explains ‘Panera 2.0’

By Candice Choi Associated Press

NEW YORK — Panera CEO Ron Shaich realizes that ordering at his chain can be chaotic.

First, the bakery cafe’s customers are given a buzzer at some locations that lets them know when their food is ready. Then they get into a “mosh pit” to fight for their food. Next they play a game he calls “Find Your Food” — collecting a sandwich in one place, drinks in another and condiments in yet another.

The confusion is a problem for Panera Bread Co., which has seen its sales growth slow as customers go elsewhere. Last year, sales at established locations rose 2.3 percent, compared with a 5.7 percent increase the previous year.

Now, the St. Louis-based company is planning to overhaul the way people order in a project called “Panera 2.0” The plan includes letting customers order online or with their mobile devices to have their food ready to go at a set time.

Also in the works are instore touchscreens where customers can more easily customize their sandwiches.

It’s a major undertaking tested at more than a dozen locations since 2010. The first stage of the national rollout will be the “rapid pick-up” option that lets customers place mobile orders as much as five days in advance. The full rollout will take several years.

Q: How did the idea for this come about?

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transition” to fixtures that are more efficient.

“There is a certain amount of penetration in the market already from these fixtures,” he said.

Spencer William, plumbing department manager for Josephs’ Hardware and Home Center in Fort Collins, said his store carries several low-flow products already; some toilets hit the 1.28 gallon-per-flush mark and highefficiency showerheads were on sale.

Panera Bread Co. CEO Ron Shaich stands behind a counter at a location in St. Louis in 2002. TOM GANNAM/AP

A: As a CEO, I’m paid to figure out where the world is going, not where it is. Today’s consumer wants it their way. They want it customized. We have to have the system for that.

We’re three to five years away. You’re going to pick up your iPhone and you’re going to go, “Yo. Siri. I want a Bacon Turkey Bravo at Panera.”

Q: Tell us about how Panera 2.0 is going to work.

A: Like most restaurants, Panera operates with a onesize-fits-all system. But the reality is that’s not necessar-

ily how I need it and want it.

We began to think about how we change that guest experience. Why couldn’t you order food on the Web, order your food in multiple ways and have the food made as you were driving to the store? Why couldn’t you walk into the store, walk past the line that’s always there? Walk over to a special area where your food is waiting for you?

Q: How does the eat-in experience change?

A: We began to imagine a world where you could place an eat-in order from the ta-

“There’s people that are definitely looking for this stuff,” he said. “I don’t know that they need rules to convince them to get that.”

Fischer said the bill contains only “soft enforcement.” By March 2017, manufacturers must submit to the state the percentage of WaterSense-certified products sold to retailers. Retailers have no requirement and can sell non-WaterSense fixtures after the deadlines.

The requirements should help address the Colorado Water Conservation Board’s predictions of water supplies running short by 500,000 acre-feet of water

per year in 2050 if habits don’t change. That would leave urban water users drinking up what would otherwise go to crops, Fischer said. The bill will help mitigate that without requiring a change of habits, he said.

The city of Fort Collins offers a $50 rebate for toilets and $10 for showerheads listed as WasterSense certified when they replace “waterguzzling” models.

The city issued 912 rebates for toilets in 2012, amounting to an average savings of 2.9 gallons per flush, said Laurie D’Audney, water conservation manager.

WHAT ABOUT THE MENU? The company is doing so much to change the way orders are placed.

How is the menu going to change? » “The underlying deeper trend is a huge movement toward customization and personalization,” Panera CEO Ron Shaich said. “And ultimately where this whole world of Panera 2.0 leads is to a world where we’re able to deliver the experience you want. Today we operated under a one-size-fits-all mentality — the menu board. » “Hey, I have 50 items. But I have 150 ingredients in my cafe. I can make thousands of different things. But I wait for you to customize it.

ble and have the food brought right to you. Or you could go to a kiosk and place the order. Or yet again, you could go to a register.

Everybody is talking

about technology in the restaurant industry. It’s the new thing. But technology doesn’t matter if it doesn’t change the guest experience.

FORT COLLINS REBATE PROGRAM The city of Fort Collins offers rebates on water bills if you replace inefficient toilets and showerheads with models that are WaterSensecertified or those that perform better. » $75 for a MaP-certified toilet (uses 1.06 gallons per flush or less) » $50 for a WaterSense-certified toilet (1.28 gallons or less)* » $10 for the purchase of WaterSense-certified showerhead » The city estimates 4.7 million gallons of water a year will be saved with 2012’s rebated toilets alone. » Information: http://noconow.co/waterrebates.

* May be discontinued with new law’s higher water efficiency standards.

That equaled 4.7 million gallons — or almost 14.5 acre-feet — of water that year, she said.

With the new law, she’s not sure the rebate program will continue for WaterSense-

certified products, a decision that will be made within the department.

The premium $75 rebate, for toilets that use 1.06 gallons per flush or less, will likely remain, she said.

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toric District. The city of Fort Collins and Prouty have big plans to help the River District — with its trio of breweries — become a destination that extends the intimate feel of Old Town across Jefferson Street. Prouty has often referred to the Feeders Supply building, with its parapet walls, metal gable roof and classic facade as an “architectural jewel.”

But before the building is renovated and expanded, an industrial mill-style apartment building will go up at the north end of the property fronting on Willow Street. Prouty said work will begin May 1, with the apartments ready for occupancy in summer 2015.

The project includes 23 two-bedroom units, 23 onebedroom units and eight studio apartments, all with private decks, private vehicle parking and an alcove for sports equipment storage.

The Fort Collins Planning and Zoning Board approved Prouty’s project development plan in August.

The project sits within the boundaries of the Downtown Development Authority, which agreed to provide up to $302,644 in tax-increment investment to help with facade im-

Jon Prouty of Lagunitas Co. in Fort Collins has proposed a new restaurant/pub in the former Northern Colorado Feeders Supply building at 359 Linden St. This is an illustration of how the building might look from the east. COURTESY PHOTO

provements and public improvements in the right-ofway.

Work on the restaurant/ pub will be the project’s second phase. Timing will depend on when Prouty finds the right restaurant to occupy the space.

“In the restaurant busi-

ness, there’s a lot of romantic interest and even sometimes people who have the money to do it but don’t have the sophistication or track record,” Prouty said.

“Given the historic nature and prominent location and given our investment of time and effort, we abso-

lutely want the commercial portion of the project to be very respectful of the historic building and be a home run.”

The mill’s interior will be retained, creating a ground-level dining room with a 9-foot ceiling and post-and-beam construc-

tion that supported hundreds of tons of grain above. Partitions between grain bins on the second level will be removed to create a banquet/conference room. Four small, structurally deficient buildings on the west will be razed and replaced by a

new addition set back from the main mill.

“This is an extraordinary opportunity not only to reuse a historical building but it’s also a landmark and huge stepping stone for development on Willow Street,” Prouty said.

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YOUR BUSINESS

Dave Nichols receives Legend Award Dave Nichols, founder of Loveland-based regional beer distributor High Country Beverage, received the MillerCoors Legend Award during the company’s distributor convention held March 25-26 in San Diego.

Recipients of the award must have 30 years of service as a Miller or Coors distributor while growing their MillerCoors business over that span, according to a company release.

“This recognition is very humbling and is a reflection on the entire High Country Beverage team,” Nichols said in a written statement. “Each team member works hard, has a passion for selling great beers and supporting our local communities.”

In addition to his business success, Nichols has started company programs to support nonprofits, including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the American Red Cross, United Way, Foothills Gateway and The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, according to the release.

Nichols received the MillerCoors Legend award along with Lou Amendola of ValleyWide Beverage Co. of Fresno, Calif.

Information: www.high countrybeverage.com.

Heidi’s Healing Hands celebrates five years

Heidi’s Healing Hands, a Fort Collins massage therapy practice at 1136 E. Stuart St., Building 4, Suite 205, is celebrating its fifth year in business.

Owner Heidi Johnson started the business after becoming a certified and registered massage therapist through the Fort Collins IBMC therapeutic massage program, according to a release.

“I love massage therapy because it allows me the opportunity to help heal people’s bodies, and it gives people Heidi a space to just Johnson be, breathe and rest — a space that is sorely lacking in our lives today,” Johnson said in a written statement. She offers numerous types of massages, ranging from Swedish and hot stone massage to sports massage and aromatherapy services.

Information: Heidishealinghands.com

Casey Lipok joins Juszak Realty Casey

Lipok

recently

Dave Nichols, center, is recognized with the MillerCoors Legend Award during the company’s distributor convention held March 25-26 in San Diego. COURTESY OF HIGH COUNTRY BEVERAGE

joined Juszak Realty, 19 Old Town Square, Suite 238, Fort Collins.

Lipok specializes in residential home sales, including those for first-time homebuyers and those Casey Lipok seeking investment properties, according to a release.

Lipok may be reached at (970) 631-3360 or www. juszakrealty.com/agents/ casey-lipok.

New members join Realities for Children

Realities for Children, a Fort Collins-based group of businesses that provides services and support for atrisk children and child victims of abuse and neglect, recently announced the addition of 13 business members.

They are: A Step Ahead Foot & Ankle Center; Auto Integrity Sales & Rental; Business Equipment Service; Caldera Event Group; Craig Vollmer Photography; EnviroPest; eSQUARED Events; Fort Collins Heating & Air Conditioning; LoveBug; Mountain Valley Floors; Mountain West Financial – Zach Sullivan; Platte River Power Authority; and Rocky Mountain Life Plus Information: www.

realitiesforchildren.com or (970) 484-9090.

FCBR plans shred-a-thon

Fort Collins Board of Realtors will host its shreda-thon and electronic recycling challenge April 21-26.

Eleven participating real estate offices will accept documents to be shredded in secure bins, while a truck will be located outside the board’s office to accept electronics, which will be recycled for a fee.

Electronics recycling fees range from free for cellphones and cords to $2 for computers, keyboards and speakers; $4 for printers, faxes, stereos and other small electronics; and $12 to $30 for TVs and monitors, depending on size.

The Fort Collins Board of Realtors office is located at 110 W. Harvard St., Fort Collins. Electronics recycling will be available throughout the week, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 26.

Paper recycling will be available during normal business hours April 21-25 at the following locations: Re/Max Advanced, 1018 Centre Ave.; Fort Collins Board of Realtors, 110 W. Harvard St.; ERA Herman, 112 E. Olive St.; C3 Real Estate, 2720 Council Tree Ave., Suite 178; Re/Max Alliance, 4703 Boardwalk Drive; Coldwell Banker, 2580 E. Harmony Road; The

Group Mulberry, 401 W. Mulberry St.; The Group Horsetooth, 375 E. Horsetooth Road; The Group Harmony, 2803 E. Harmony Road; Elevations Real Estate, 106 E. Oak St.; and Century 21-Humpal, 2550 Stover St., all in Fort Collins.

Local bookkeeper receives award

Dan Indermuehle of Quick Balance Bookkeeping in Fort Collins recently received the QBExpress Outstanding QuickBooks Trainer award, according to a company release. The award recognizes achievements in customer satisfaction, client success and community contributions.

“The award is a source of great pride for our firm, and we are humbled to have been selected from the hundreds of accounting firms in the QBExpress network, all QuickBooks experts,” Indermuehle said in a written statement.

Information: (970) 6908996 or www.quick balancebookkeeping.com.

Judges announced for Blue Ocean challenge

The Blue Ocean Enterprises Challenge recently released the list of 23 judges who will participate in the $250,000 business pitch challenge to be held in Fort Collins in May. The judges will evaluate 16 competing companies each in the collegiate and

enterprise tracks.

The collegiate winner will receive $20,000 cash and a year of mentoring from Blue Ocean executives, while the enterprise winner will receive $250,000 for their business.

Judges are: Collegiate challenge semifinals (9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 2): Peter Adams, founder and CEO of Rockies Ventures Club and author of “Venture Capital for Dummies”; Scott Schley, founder and former chief financial officer of Pill Pockets Inc., and Pura Vida Fitness and Spa, vice president of Synchronoss Technologies Inc., Broadband Services Division; Barry Kurokawa, co-founder, managing director of ProMed Management; Gary Salomon, founder of FASTSIGNS; and Mark Kent, investor, executive in residence at Access Venture Partners.

Collegiate challenge finals (6-10 p.m. May 2): Jim Deters, founder of Galvanize, co-founder of Ascendant Technology; John Greff, co-founder and managing partner of Sequel Venture Partners; Lisa Johnson, manager of Blue Spruce Capital; Tom Cripps, ET Capital Partners; and Kevin Tice, investor, board member and chief financial officer of Apex Ski Boots.

Trolley pitches (1-4 p.m.

May 23): Christine Hudson,

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Rally Software and StartUp Colorado; Nicole Glaros, managing director, TechStars; Josh Birks, Fort Collins economic development director; and Paul Hudnut, senior adviser-global programs, Bohemian Impact Investments.

Enterprise track semifinals (8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 24): Alex Welch, founder and CEO of Lasso, founder and former CEO of Photobucket; Pat Brady president of 1st Bank, Northern Colorado; Brad Florin, partner at Fort Equity; Lisa Tessarowicz, investor, cofounder of Epicentral Coworking; and AJ Dye, Delta Electronics Capital.

Enterprise track finals (6-9:30 p.m. May 24): Brian Thomas, CEO of OtterBox; Bill Reichart, founder and managing partner of Garage Ventures; Catharine Merigold, founder and managing partner of Vista Ventures; and Greg Osberg, CEO and founder of Revlyst, former president and worldwide publisher of Newsweek.

Information: Blueocean challenge.com or @CSU BlueOcean on Twitter.

SARA GILBERT DOLLARS AND SENSE

We learned valuable life lessons from recession Isn’t it just like life to teach us the most difficult lessons during the hard times? And yes, we appear to have learned a lot of good lessons from the Great Recession.

Our economy is rebounding, and some statistics confirm to me that we, as a nation, are doing a better job of managing our finances to be able to better handle the unforeseen. U.S. bankruptcy filings are down 16 percent from last March. Debt carried on credit cards from month to month has been on the decline for several years, too.

It seems we’ve taken to heart a number of lessons learned during the recession.

Awareness of the need for an emergency fund is growing. One study says that 40

percent of the population now reports regularly saving every month. Another shows that two of three adults have nonretirement savings. Prerecession savings levels had bottomed out, but we appear to be learning that a rainy-day fund is one of life’s necessities.

Nurturing your job is a good thing. Many Americans lost jobs during the recession.

Many are still trying to replace good jobs and income lost. GreenPath counselors have helped thousands of the unexpectedly unemployed get back on their feet by helping them tackle mortgage and debt payments.

It’s OK to drive your car for as long as possible. Making wise decisions about large purchases can help your bottom line. Usually, keeping an older car in good repair is better than replacing it with a newer model and the associated car payment. Taking on a loan payment means you are guaranteeing that you will be able to cover what’s owed. It’s OK to be a little more cautious on that front.

A “staycation” can offer rest and relaxation time close to home without the expense of travel, and it’s a trend

strongly connected to the recession.

Houses are not always good investments. The recession’s hardest lesson was probably that our homes might not be the great investment we had imagined them to be. Don’t get me wrong, a home can still be a good investment, but in some cases, the return on that investment will only come after many years. Many Americans had dreams dashed because they had taken on a mortgage with difficult loan terms or couldn’t refinance their loan like they had hoped. The housing market is on the rebound, but caution and increased awareness of the need for prepurchase education are on both the rise. A required down-payment has again become the norm.

These are important life lessons. Those who lived through the depression in the 1920s and ’30s carried those lessons for a lifetime. I expect some lessons from the recent recession will stick with us in a similar way.

Sara Gilbert is the Colorado group manager for the local GreenPath. Reach her at sgilbert@greenpath.com.

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IBM mainframe computer marks its 50th anniversary CEO insists company ‘is not exiting hardware.’

IBM CULTURE H. Bryson Ainsley, 85, remembers his first day working in an IBM mailroom — Jan. 10, 1949.

“I remember the day because I had my sincere suit on and a quiet tie, and I wore my blue oxford button-down shirt. The boss called me in and said, ‘I just wanted to let you know, we wear white shirts in IBM.’ ”

By Craig Wolf Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — One of the world’s premier high-tech machines is simultaneously new and old.

It’s 50 years old, if you track back to its ancestors.

It’s shiny-new and state-ofthe-art if you’re talking about ones that come out of the plant today. That plant is IBM Corp.’s Poughkeepsie complex, and the machine is the mainframe computer. All of the mainframe’s history is firmly planted in Poughkeepsie and Dutchess County, whose economy owes more to this single item than to any other thing made there.

So do legions of workers who wore IBM name tags over the generations and today still number an estimated 7,000, between the Poughkeepsie plant and the East Fishkill semiconductor complex.

System/360

April 7 in 1964 was the day IBM announced to the world the product of its biggest investment ever, a computer called the System/360.

It was its first system built on “solid logic” semiconductor technology and one in which different models could talk to each other — both novel at the time.

Today’s descendants are vastly more powerful. Today’s largest mainframe can push through 52,000 business transactions per second.

Today, they are known as System z.

New models of high-end systems are in the works at the Poughkeepsie plant, but under wraps.

The future

So what is the mainframe’s future?

Joe Clabby, analyst with Clabby Analytics in Yarmouth, Maine. “That’s normal.”

Clabby is among analysts who deem the future of the mainframe to be secure.

“No worries,” he said. “A huge portion of the world already runs mainframes in places where there’s no other system that can do that job,” Clabby said.

‘Far from dead’

The IBM’s System 360 was a big deal when it was unveiled 50 years ago on April 7, 1964. Technology historians say that the 360 was one of the most influential computer rollouts ever. IBM/AP

It’s a vital question for the local economy that Big Blue built up. It’s a question sharpened by the uncertainty that has been cast over the chipmaking site in East Fishkill, N.Y., by reports that IBM is a exploring possible sale of its semiconductor manufacturing business.

Virginia Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM, addressed hardware divestitures in the company’s annual report.

“We are not exiting hardware,” she said. “IBM will remain a leader in high-performance and high-end systems, storage and cognitive computing, and we will continue to invest in (research and development) for advanced semiconductor technology.”

But Larry Tucker of LaGrange is still troubled by the trend of shrinking jobs and increased outsourcing. He worked in many IBM jobs over a 35-year period, including some as a contractor, before it all ended about a year ago in another round of economizing.

He said the buildings where they do the hardware mainframes are not all IBM any more.

“They’re run by another company,” Tucker said.

IBM has turned increasingly to Jabil Circuit Inc. for in-house outsourcing. That’s when work formerly done by IBMers goes to a contractor whose people, often the same people who are now ex-IBMers, keep working inside

In the spirit of past programs “Fort Collins Noir” and “50 Shades of Fort Collins” comes our next epic adult evening at the Museum:

Party like it’s 2164!

April 18, 2014 8:00-11:00pm

$20.00 per person. Pre-registration required.

Must be 21 or older to attend.

Space is limited!

Register online at www.fcmod.org or call (970) 221-6738.

IBM’s plant.

Most people there are still IBMers, a spokesman said in August.

This job-shifting is a way for IBM and other companies to save money and stay alive in a globally competitive economy, industry experts say.

“I loved the company in the old days,” Tucker said.

“But everything changes.

And that’s life.”

Hardware sales

What hasn’t changed is IBM’s strong sales culture. H. Bryson Ainsley, 85, sold mainframes, and even had a license plate that said BA360 on his Ford Thunderbird.

He remembers the big bet that IBM made on the Sys-

tem/360.

“It was the entire IBM treasure gambled on this one system,” he said.

The cost then was $5 billion to develop it. In today’s dollars, that’s about $38 billion.

IBM has had a drop in hardware sales, but its executives don’t sound worried.

Fourth-quarter mainframe sales fell 37 percent compared with a year ago.

Executives explained that the current model of the System z line is near the end of its product cycle, and sales typically drop temporarily as buyers decide to wait and see what a new model can do.

“You get it out and it’s hot for the first 12 or 18 months and then it levels off,” said

Gartner Research issued a paper in October that said the IBM mainframe market is “far from dead,” but predicted “a growing interest among mainframe customers to migrate off this platform.”

Improvements in other, cheaper systems will attract smaller customers, Gartner said.

IBM customers “will struggle to justify the value proposition of this flagship IBM platform.”

Clabby was skeptical that many mainframe customers would find anything suitable to move to.

Mainframes excel at highvolume transaction processing, a field that is growing as more people do more online banking, buying and other activities that require both speed and security.

Patrick Toole Jr., general manager of IBM’s System z, says banking, financial, retail, government and academia are the big client bases for his mainframe sales.

“What it always has been is high-volume secure transaction processing,” Toole said.

KIM KOMANDO TECH TALK

Q&A: Using your phone abroad, Mac security Q: I will be traveling to the U.K., and I want to know how to use my iPhone to make calls and send messages, find out the weather, navigate the public transport system, all without breaking the bank. What do I do?

A: The budget way to go is to keep your phone in airplane mode, and turn on WiFi manually when you are out and about.

You can use an app like JiWire to find Wi-Fi hotspots anywhere in the world. When you’re connected to Wi-Fi, you can then connect to Skype, Google Hangouts or Pinger to make calls.

If you want to use your phone for everything, including calls, check with your service provider and see what kind of plans they have for

overseas visits.

Q: My current laptop runs Windows XP, so I’m shopping for a new computer. I have family members not happy with Windows 8, so I was wondering whether it’s OK to buy a machine with Windows 7 instead of Windows 8?

A: You certainly could get a Windows 7 machine; that’s really the way to go for people who want to minimize the trauma of the changeover. Be aware, though, that it won’t last as long — Microsoft will phase it out before they phase out Windows 8.

That should be quite a few years down the road, though.

As far as Windows 8, the company has listened to complaints and has integrated some of the missing features back into Windows 8.1.

Q: I bought an iMac desktop to replace my old computer running Windows XP. I’ve had it for a week, and my husband is worried about the security on it. Is it true that you don’t need security software on a Mac? A: Some say you don’t need security software for a Mac; it was safer, relatively speaking, because there were fewer of them. And, truth be told, the company

has had a relatively good security record. But they are actually just as vulnerable as any other piece of computer equipment.

If you’re worried, try Norton Antivirus. You could also try the free Clam AV. Q: I’m looking for a good Android tablet to replace my 17-inch laptop. I like the big screen but it’s too heavy and too clunky. What are your suggestions?

A: The Nexus 10 (starting at $300) or the Galaxy Tab 10.1 (starting at $400) both have screen sizes of 10.1 inches. I personally would go for the Galaxy Tab, which has a 5 megapixel camera and a USB port. Sony’s Xperia Tablet Z is 10 inches, too, and starts at $400.

If you’re not wedded to Android and want the biggest screen available, consider the Windows Surface Pro, which has a 10.6-inch screen and sells for $350 to $400.

On the Kim Komando Show, Kim takes calls and dispenses advice on today’s digital lifestyle, from smartphones and tablets to online privacy and data hacks. For her daily tips, newsletters and more, visit komando.com. Email her at techcomments@usatoday.com.

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SAN DIEGO — A 5-year-old San Diego boy has outwitted the sharpest minds at Microsoft: He’s found a backdoor to the Xbox.

Kristoffer Von Hassel managed to log in to his father’s Xbox Live account.

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Robert Davies said that just after Christmas he noticed his son playing games he supposedly couldn’t access.

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It’s not Kristoffer’s first triumph.

As a 1-year-old, he bypassed a cellphone toddler lock by holding down the “home” button.

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Manners make for good business

BY SUSAN RICKER

CAREERBUILDER

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hether your job regularly requires you to entertain clients or your role is more behind-the-scenes, having the ability to conduct yourself in a business-like manner and demonstrate good etiquette is important. And when you have strong social instincts, you can focus your attention on getting the job done instead of worrying about the small things.

From helpful advice on handling the bill to basic etiquette pointers, read on to sharpen your social graces and make a winning impression.

CHOOSING WHERE TO MEET AND EAT

Most client meet-ups are done outside of the office, to give both parties a chance to connect in a more casual setting. If dining out, be careful that your restaurant choice isn’t too informal.

Constance Hoffman, the owner of Social and Business Graces and a coach and speaker, says, “Use strategic thinking in planning your business luncheon meeting location. Think very carefully about choosing the right restaurant because your choice says a lot about you and about how you feel toward your guests.” That may mean taking into account how loud the venue typically is, how long the meal may take to finish and if the restaurant’s brand and background are in line with the

ideals of your client.

Once you’ve arranged where you’ll be dining, don’t leave the rest up to them. Hoffman says, “Whenever possible, meet at the other party’s office and accompany him or her to the restaurant.

Suggesting that you will meet them at the selected restaurant may save a little time and may be OK only if the other party is someone you have met before and will easily recognize.”

ENTERTAINING WHILE WINING AND DINING

Your attention will likely be focused on the conversation, not where your napkin is. However, maintaining a simple level of decorum can go a long way. When it comes to choosing your meal, keep in mind how you’ll be eating it. Hoffman says, “Remember to order food that is normally not eaten with your hands. You will want to keep your fingers clean of food so you can deal with any paperwork as well as shake hands goodbye during your departure.

Nobody wants to deal with sticky hands or sauce-covered nails.”

And chew with your mouth closed. If this isn’t a habit already, Hoffman suggests: “Instead of talking with your mouth full, take small bites, so that you can quickly swallow if somebody asks you a question.”

If alcohol is an option at your meal, consider whether it will add anything to the meeting or whether you may do better to drink something else. Hoffman says, “Drinking alcohol will impact your

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judgment; so unless your business guest takes the lead, don't suggest ordering any alcoholic beverages. If you are in a situation where the guest takes the initiative and orders alcohol, you can avoid an awkward situation by ordering something light like a wine spritzer. And then simply do not finish drinking it.”

MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION FROM START TO STOP

Finally, keep in mind all the moving parts that make up your

meal with a client. Not only are you introducing new ideas or going over old business, but you’re also interacting with restaurant staff and taking responsibility for the bill. Don’t let these last two parts be where you fumble the meal.

Show respect to the restaurant staff, who are there to make sure you have the best dining experience. And when the bill comes, Hoffman says, “never ever ask your guests to help you figure out the tip. It is hard to imagine

anything tackier at a business luncheon meeting than showing someone how much you just spent on them.” Also, “If you can’t read the check without your glasses, then have them with you at all times.”

Susan Ricker is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder.com and its job blog,TheWorkBuzz. com. She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues.

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READERS RESPOND

Column: Not vaccinating imperils too many children

“If you are vaccinated, what are you worried about?”

DEREK JOHNSON, via Facebook “There are vaccine-sensitive people out there who rely on the fact that others who can take the shot will do so, and there are young children who haven’t yet been vaccinated because they aren’t old enough and strong enough; if a vaccine might hurt them, imagine what a virulent, preventable disease could do.”

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“I considered not vaccinating. I did my research and had many great conversations with our pediatrician and decided to fully vaccinate. We spread out the shots, so she doesn’t get more than two at a time. It works for us. I feel that spreading them out helps her body to adjust and her immune system to get every benefit.

When she enters kindergarten, she will be fully vaccinated. I wasn’t too worried about her actually getting sick or dying from not vaccinating. I chose to vaccinate to protect those who can’t vaccinate, for the good of society.”

KATIE ERIKSON, via Facebook

“Not getting vaccinated puts everyone in jeopardy. It may be a personal choice, but it’s also a selfish one.”

BRAD WRIGHT, via Facebook

Local Opinions BOTH SIDES SHOULD THE CITY REPEAL THE ‘THREE-UNRELATED’ ROOMMATES RULE?

Pro: U+2 never should have happened in Fort Collins I moved to Fort Collins with two roommates in July 2007 and moved into a two-bedroom apartment. I could not believe how little space we had compared to the cost of rent. In terms of price per square foot, which was $1.19, rent was significantly higher in Fort Collins than when we lived together in Orlando. We shared a house, and before that a condo with other friends. Both were within 1520 minutes of Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World and Orlando International Airport. The price per square foot there was 30 cents for the house and 64 cents for the condo. I would never have believed it would be more expensive to rent in a college town in Colorado than in a major tourist city in Florida.

It did not take me long to discover the primary culprit. It was “the three unrelated,” also known as the “U+2”ordinance. I understand why some like it and want to keep it, but I cannot see any way to logically argue for it in a good conscience. It has to go.

The easiest argument against it goes to the intent of the ordinance: discrimination. If you don’t believe that, I challenge you to defend it without saying anything negative about students. You can’t, even if your primary argument is property value. Let’s face it, if a solid majority of homeowners did not care if a college student, or four, lived next door or down the street, this ordinance would not exist. Simply put, it is intended to keep college See PRO, Page E7

THE ISSUE A lack of affordable housing in Fort Collins has prompted some people to question the wisdom of the city’s ordinance prohibiting more than three unrelated adults from living together in a home.

WHY IT MATTERS: The cost of renting or owning a home in Fort Collins is outpacing wage growth, and many people either can’t afford a home or wind up paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Some residents believe the city should repeal the current ordinance so more people can share costs, lowering the burden. But others say the recent enforcement of the ordinance has improved the quality of life in their neighborhoods.

YOUR TAKE: What do you think? We want your feedback. Comment on this issue at Coloradoan.com/opinion.

LETTERS Roads aren’t reason we care about affordable housing In your Sunday article on affordable housing in Fort Collins by Pat Ferrier, (“Solutions require joint effort”) Eric Holspapple, director of CSU’s Everitt Real Estate Center, is quoted as saying, “To be smart, the city has to have some (affordable) housing … or you create a tiered community and create the need for all of those people to be commuting in from outside, which isn’t good for our roads.”

How about finishing that sentence instead with “which isn’t good for our society”? I’m not picking on Holspapple, however, considering he is the second real estate representative interviewed by the Coloradoan recently to have emphasized road quality as a major reason we don’t want housing prices to force lower-income citizens beyond city limits, I thought I’d share ones that I think are much more important: » Because it would be tragic for those being forced out — who wants to unwillingly leave the place they grew up in, love and contribute to. » Because the stress of commuting on top of the stress of making ends meet is not what lower-wage workers and their families need. » Because economic diversity in a community keeps everyone humble and in touch with the full spectrum of people who make a good life possible. » Because when people know

and appreciate each other, they more actively care for each other, making society more inclusive and stronger.

In the scheme of things, smooth roads just aren’t that important.

Keep Fort Collins real.

Carol Ann Moorhead, Fort Collins

Choosing not to vaccinate is a danger to our society

Congratulations to Erin Stephenson for her frank, pointed and accurate column on the vaccination issue (“You don’t have right to imperil all children with vaccine choice,” April 8).

I am old enough to remember when mumps, measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, polio and such made their regular rounds, leaving some children permanently scarred and killing a few.

Now, thanks to vaccination, those diseases are nearly things of the past.

Not to vaccinate is a danger to society. What happened to the value of greater good?

Derry Eynon, Fort Collins

Soapbox writer shouldn’t exploit connection to CSU

The Coloradoan published a Soapbox critical of climate change research by Albert Grable, Ph.D., where he implied that he is a CSU research scientist with the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

I called CSU and the USDA, and

was told that Grable no longer works there and is retired.

In my opinion, if one’s signature to a soapbox refers to employment with an organization pertinent to the subject, then the employment should be current and the soapbox should basically agree with the position of the organization.

The USDA supports the scientific consensus on global warming.

Fort Collins has recently been declared a USDA Hub site for climate change that is supposed to help the agricultural community adjust and adapt to the coming changes (www.usda.gov/oce/climate_ change/regional_hubs.htm).

CSU has a large Department of Atmospheric Science that has made many contributions to our understanding of human-caused climate change, often called anthropogenic forcing of the climate system (www.atmos.colostate.edu/ research/climate.php).

CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability has been holding climate seminars with several Ph.D. presenters (http://sustainability.colostate.edu/sogesevents).

Obviously, Grable is not in tune with the university or the government agency he claimed to be working for.

If a person is not in agreement with the policies of the organizations he references, he should state it up front and not mislead the readers into thinking that he is speaking for those organizations!

Richard Kommrusch, Fort Collins

A home is for rent in Fort Collins.

Some residents say the city should repeal its ordinance limiting the number of unrelated adults who can live in one house in order to help solve an affordable housing shortage in Fort Collins. COLORADOAN LIBRARY

Con: City’s occupancy ordinance is working The current occupancy ordinance is a success and should continue to build on its positive impacts. Affordable houses are becoming available as investors sell their illegally over-occupied units. There is less uncertainty and more predictability in city housing policy and the local housing market. Current construction of affordable higher-density housing is a benefit to our economy as well as addresses a community need. Single-family neighborhoods are being preserved and restored to their primary purpose: housing a diverse mix of owner occupants, renters, families (broadly defined) and people of all ages.

The occupancy ordinance, adopted in the 1960s, set limits on the number of unrelated adults (three) living together. Land-use planning and individual and business decisions regarding housing continue to be made in response to this policy. However, lack of enforcement of the occupancy ordinance resulted in our 40-year experiment of allowing increased-occupancy housing (i.e., more than three unrelated adults) in practice but not by law, thereby clouding our city housing policy. This practice failed our city and neighborhoods.

CSU’s expanding enrollment and other housing demand factors (i.e., our well-publicized recognition as a great place to live) continue to cause existing houses to be converted to rentals. Investors purchase lower-cost houses originally designed to be affordable and conSee CON, Page E7

FORT COLLINS COALITION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE SOAPBOX: SAFE CYCLING ENVIRONMENT

11 bike-friendly budget offers to be included in city’s budget As the city manager prepares his proposed budget for 2015-16, our Bicycle Program manager, Tessa Greegor, is writing a new Bicycle Master Plan.

While the bike plan won’t be completed until after the budget is approved, program staff are also proposing budget items for 2015 and 2016. This soapbox, offered by the Fort Collins Coalition for Infrastructure, or CFI, suggests 11 budget offers for inclusion in the budget.

Outside entities cannot propose budget “offers,” so CFI’s list is suggested with the hope that city staff will insert the offers into the 2015-16 budget. » FC Bikes should manage a program that includes a Neighborhood Bicycle Ambassadors and a Master Cyclist program called for in the 2011 Bicycle Safety Education Plan. The program could include Safe Routes to School responsibilities. Convert the current $90,000 budget item from the Platinum Bike Plan to a Diamond Bike Plan in 2015 and 2016.

» Let’s develop a strategic plan for Safe Routes to School with a one-time expenditure for a consultant to write a plan describing the best program. » Build a pilot Bike Safety Town in a park for 3- to 10-yearolds, an underserved group for bicycle safety. (We build skate parks and cyclocross courses, but these cater primarily to boys age 8 to 15.) A Bike Safety Town would cater to all children, giving both young girls and boys a venue to practice safe cycling. See photos of a bike park in Italy: www.flickr.com/photos/ expeditionplus/sets/721576 24382284854/ » Create demonstration Bicycle Boulevard and Protected Bike Lane prototypes similar to the 2014 Remington Green Street demonstration project, turning existing neighborhood streets into low-stress, low-cost north/ south and east/west throughways for bicyclists. » Launch a way-finding system for bicyclists and pedestrians. This complements No. 4 above and will implement directional way-finding signs throughout the city. » Safe Routes to Everywhere will allow transportation planners to begin to complete key routes to activity centers, including schools, shopping areas and See SOAPBOX, Page E7

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READERS RESPOND

Soapbox: Obamacare doesn’t go far enough

“A welter of regulations would be the foundation of a citizen-friendly health care system? One of the fun aspects of regulations is the inability for the average citizen to know them all, requiring an expert to help ‘navigate’ them. In fact, Obamacare includes such navigators. Would an honest person really admit that being literally incompetent to understand such a regime makes it ‘friendlier’? Or, more likely, intimidating? Just think! A health care system more complicated than the IRS!”

CRAIG ZIMMERMAN, via Coloradoan.com

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“I'll take an army of neutral government bureaucrats over middlemen claims-deniers/ agents that profit when the insurance companies deny claims, etc.”

“Medicare for all is the obvious answer — 50.7 million beneficiaries at this time.”

PAUL AVERY, via Coloradoan.com

CHRISTOPHER FRY, Coloradoan.com

“Single payer/universal health care is the ultimate answer. However, the screaming and caterwauling from the right-wingers will make this a loooonngggg drrraaaawwwwnnnn-out process.”

ROGER SINDEN, via Coloradoan.com

Opinions RUTH MARCUS COLUMN: SEXISM

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students out of family neighborhoods. I understand why this is desirable. Many college students are representative of the stereotypes, such as hosting loud parties, driving fast down neighborhood streets and showing a general lack of courtesy for others. Even if those stereotypes are true about most students, which they are not, it is morally wrong to treat any group as second-class citizens.

Plus, the students were here first. CSU was established as a Land Grant College in 1870, whereas Fort Collins was incorporated in 1873.

Also, what about the bigger picture?

By restricting occupancy, we have, by act of government, increased demand and decreased supply when it comes to rental properties. The most basic understanding of economics says if supply goes

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tinue to attempt to convert them to increased-occupancy housing. Families wishing to purchase such affordable housing are frequently outbid by investors and cannot compete with the rents charged based on increased occupancy. Owner occupants in these formerly family neighborhoods, overwhelmed by the proliferation of these rental houses, are moving. Schools suffer declining enrollments. The result is deterioration of neighborhoods’ social fabric, driven by investors and

down and demand goes up, then price goes up. To deny this is to reject logic and reasoning. This law has helped to create out-of-control housing costs in Fort Collins. At the same time, median household income in Fort Collins is on the decline. The fastest-growing job sector in Fort Collins is the service industry. We are creating a very dangerous situation. Our consumers are seeing their disposable income shrink or even vanish entirely just to pay rent. No economy can survive without consumers.

Repealing the U+2 ordinance might not bring down rental prices, but it should stop the bleeding and provide much-needed relief to many Fort Collins residents. It would also end discrimination and possibly foster a better relationship with the university. If the city treats students with more dignity, perhaps the students will show their neighbors more respect.

Gabe Fowler is a Fort Collins resident.

tenants seeking to profit from increased occupancy. Too many of these landlords (often absentee) and tenants show little concern for being good neighbors. Policing and other social problems continue to be a problem in these neighborhoods.

Improvements to the occupancy ordinance by a recent City Council produced changes that address affordability and neighborhood preservation by: (1) Allowing four (or more) bedroom suites in apartments; (2) reaffirming the opportunity for extra-occupancy housing (boarding houses) within the existing city code; (3) accommodating new family configurations such as blended families; and (4) effectively

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employment centers. Council member Gerry Horak, as well as other members have promoted this concept, as it involves high capital costs for such infrastructure, such as overpasses and underpasses, but then requires low maintenance and overhead for the long term. » A one-time specialized training program should be offered for Police Services to investigate bicycle and pedestrian crashes. » Offer League Cycling Instructor Seminar training to all transportation planners, traffic engineers, FC Moves staff and several police officers to help them understand state-of-the-art principles relative to safe cycling behavior. » Direct 100 percent of Conservation Trust Fund to trails con-

enforcing the occupancy limits.

Effective enforcement of the occupancy ordinance is creating significant positive change in my neighborhood.

We are experiencing an increase in families with young children moving in, thereby strengthening the local schools. We are maintaining and enhancing our diverse character.

There is a positive shift in attitudes of neighbors to a sense of empowerment and pride in the neighborhood, and investing their time and energy to improve the quality of life we enjoy. I regularly hear from my neighbors about how much the neighborhood has improved in these

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past few years.

The current occupancy ordinance, in effect for less than seven years, is proving to be a successful approach to providing affordable housing for all Fort Collins residents and preserving and enhancing neighborhoods.

We should learn from our 40 years of a failed increased-occupancy housing experience, embrace the new approach to occupancy and give it equal time to further develop and continue its positive impacts in addressing housing issues in Fort Collins.

Let’s have a rational discussion about the word “emotional.”

But first, I’d better calm down.

Maybe I’ll have a soothing cup of herbal tea and pet the cat. Oh wait, I don’t have a cat.

Which is lucky for former CIA Director Michael Hayden, or else we’d both be so overwrought we’d be clawing his eyes out over his diss of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Make that sexist diss.

In case you missed it, Hayden took off after the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee on “Fox News Sunday,” suggesting that Feinstein’s “emotional” reaction to the CIA’s enhanced interrogation and rendition programs had clouded her judgment.

Feinstein had said that releasing the committee’s report on the CIA would “ensure that an unAmerican, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted.”

Uh-oh. Apparently being worked up over a little torture gets you kicked out of the Big Boys clubhouse: “That sentence, that motivation for the report … may show deep, emotional feeling on the part of the senator,” Hayden snarked. “But I don’t think it leads you to an objective report.”

I don’t employ the term “sexist” lightly. Hayden was citing a column by my colleague David Ignatius describing Feinstein’s desire for a report “so tough” it would prevent any recurrence.

Interestingly, Ignatius used the adjectives “determined,” “implacable” and, more critically, “obdurate” to describe the senator. Those are accurate, and they come without gender baggage.

Unlike, say, “emotional.” If you wonder whether I am being fair in using the “s” word to describe Hayden’s comments, consider: Would he have used that word to describe Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who has been pushing for declassification?

(Talk about emotional: On Monday, Udall termed Hayden’s “baseless smear” of Feinstein “beyond the pale.”)

There is a distinction between sexist and consciously sexist.

Did Hayden intend to denigrate Feinstein in a “quien es mas macho” segment out of “Saturday Night Live”? Doubtful. Watch Hayden’s response to an astonished Chris Wallace and you can see him thinking, “Gee, maybe I went too far.”

But to give Hayden the benefit of the doubt and excuse him of conscious sexism does not excuse him of sexism. He wouldn’t have used that word about a male senator. Moreover, if he had, it wouldn’t have carried the same — pardon the phrase — emotional weight.

Emotional is a term that, applied to women, connotes weakness. In the Feinstein context, it suggests a you-can’t-handle-thetruth prissiness about the brutal business of intelligence gathering. More broadly, it conveys a sense of being overwrought or irrational.

Lloyd Walker is a resident of the west central area of Fort Collins.

Email Ruth Marcus at marcusr@washpost.com.

struction to assure timely completion of our trails network. » Fund a demonstration project to explore and design three innovative intersection treatments for bikes, cars and pedestrians. At least one of these should be across College, and one should be at a high-crash intersection (such as Shields and Prospect or Shields and Elizabeth). » Develop a diversion program for cyclists and motorists involved in bike/car infractions based on best-practice models from around the nation. A diversion program takes traffic violations from the courtroom to the classroom in the interest of education.

Meg Dunn, Kate Forgach, Bruce Henderson, Jeff Nosal, Jim Rinker, Bernie Strom, John Trone are members of the Fort Collins Coalition for Infrastructure. Join CFI on Facebook at https://www.facebook. com/groups/fococfi/?ref=br_tf.

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Both sides: Fort Collins’ U+2 ordinance Should the city repeal its “three-unrelated” roommates ordinance? Two members of the community each take a stance on the issue, considering the quality of neighborhoods, affordable housing and more factors. » Page E6

The second phase of PVH’s new Cancer Center is set to be complete in June. V. RICHARD HARO/THE COLORAODAN.

OUR VIEW

CANCER CENTER BOOSTS CARE IN FORT COLLINS In June, Poudre Valley Hospital will open the second phase of its new Cancer Center.

The 30,000-square-foot facility on Harmony Road is meant to serve as a one-stop shop — or close to it — for cancer patients.

Visitors will have access to medical oncology and infusion services, counseling, pathology and lab work in the same location, which cuts down on visits to doctors across the county and down in Denver.

In a recent visit to the Coloradoan Editorial Board, Erica Siemers, senior director for the PVH and MCR Foundation, said visits to a medical facility for a cancer patient could be cut to 40, down from 100, over the course of that patient’s treatment.

The second phase of the project provides outdoor space for patients and families, room for clinical research, and places for doc-

tors to meet and discuss the direction of a specific patient’s treatment.

The PVH and MCR Foundation, which brought the foundations of the two hospitals together last year, is raising funds for this project, as it heads toward its third and final phase.

PVH faces entirely different challenges than it did even a year ago. Hospitals and health care providers are being forced to change at a rapid rate. The introduction this year of the Affordable Care Act and changes to federal funding allotments for patient care are having a significant impact on operating budgets and,

in some places, the availability of doctors.

There is a trend at this time toward a holistic approach to care.

Insurers are changing reimbursement models, with the goal being to keep people out of hospitals.

Fundraising will continue to become an even more important model for this industry as it moves forward.

Those that adjust and are nimble — by establishing partnerships and seeking innovative solutions to funding and care — will serve their communities well.

Those that do not face a less certain future.

The PVH and MCR Foundation is making specific requests — for the Cancer Center and for funding to support innovative research for specialists working in this community and with partners at CSU. The nonprofit’s administrative costs are covered by the hospitals

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble; and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

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it supports. All funds raised go to projects.

So far, the foundation reports it has raised $4.7 million of the $6 million it is seeking for the Cancer Center. The total cost of all phases is $20 million.

Phase One included improvements to radiation treatment for patients. The third phase is a Survivorship and Wellness Center, planned for existing space that will be vacated with the new addition.

Fort Collins should offer the best available health care options to its community.

Anyone can use the Cancer Center, although out-of-network charges would apply.

The foundation reports that it makes some of funds raised available in the form of patient assistance.

As we evaluate our ability to attract and retain quality employers

THIS WEEK’S EDITORIAL BOARD AGENDA No scheduled guests.

LAST WEEK’S EDITORIAL BOARD RECAP Representatives from the Gardens on Spring Creek and Friends of the Gardens on Spring Creek — Michelle Provaznik, Korrie Johnston and Randy Morgan — shared information about the 10th anniversary and expansion plans.

THE ISSUE Poudre Valley Hospital is finishing the second phase of it new Cancer Center on Harmony Road. It’s part of a threephase project that allows cancer patients to get more of their care in one place.

and employees to the region, health care is a top concern. The Cancer Center is a needed addition to our health care suite.

A diagnosis is the last thing we wish for anyone, but the knowledge that access to quality care and facilities is here — in both Fort Collins and in Loveland at Banner Health’s facility — affords significant peace of mind.

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set to open The Blue Agave Grill is in the the first week of April Collins basement of the old Fort the post office building, below Museum of Art. The nearly at 201 S. 6,000-square-foot space College Ave. is now under Agave construction, but Blue Lucio owners Richard and Brenda a VOLUNTEER say that in just a few weeks, ern "contemporary southwest OPPORTUNIES business. restaurant" will open for the Brinkman Partners is doing BOOT GRILL work. The Lucios have READERS, TUTORS renovation , MENTOR S s — Coyote's COMES TO COLLEGE three other restaurant Would you like to volunteer ern Grill in Greeley and with behind Southwest children and youth in Boot Grill Q: What's the story our community Mexican Restaurant in you Palomino but are unsure about 201 S. College this drink (how did does where Loveland. They said to in and start?

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man in teen’s PAGE A3 Y, APRIL 1, 2014 death TUESDA A man accused of killing two 16-year-old boys after friends say the boys tried to blackmail him has pleaded notdguilty in “I am fascinate that several Colorado . William in OT Ottoclosed of Brighnts have tonrestaura faces charges of first-degr ee in a ‘south’ location but kept murder, contribut ing to the delinwant sure don’t quency FortofCollins. a minorIand tampering for trend withthis evidence. a common to be He appeared in Adams County court Tuesday.

OT.” The Denver Post reports Gustavo FRY, via Facebook EspinosaBEVERLY Gamboa was shot three times in the head and once in chest, and Jonathan Gonzalez the died from one shot to the head.

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» Rudolph’s Landing, 217 Linden St., Fort Collins, will host Stefano Fontanini, of Italian Nativity figurine designer House of Fontanini from 2 to 6 p.m.

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Admission is free. Informati Xplore682-1229 • C1 or www.rudolphs on: (970) landing. com.

Denver-area high school students who won Katy Perry’s lip-dub school spirit contest are donating more than $9,000 to help Coloradans affected works the scene of a by disasters, State Patrol trooper th A Colorado HorsetooPORTA near TRANS including Septembe TION r’smotorcyc floods. lists crash between two fatalStudents AN HOOLEY/THE COLORADO Lakewood ERIN High Sunday. on at Reservoir School presented a giant check to the American Red Cross during a rally Tuesday morning.

A video featuring more than 2,000 students lip-syncing to Perry’s “Roar” won the school a free concert in October. The students challenged high schools across the country to raise $1,000.

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DENVER Teen mistakenly released from jail recaptured

The animals from Yellowstone Nationa l Park are currently living on Ted Turner’s property .

expected to be more than 150 bison after spring calving.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants to pass remaining animals over the to public agencies or organiza

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Pick of the Week: Wedne sday Catch local rock band Greyweather in afternoon show at Odell Brewing

Monday: Waltz away the evening at CSU

Tuesday: Explore the art of fibers in new show

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“Nothing but support for Kapri ... looking forward to following him in the pros.”

Thursday: Wheels spin at women’s cycling clinic

Friday: Shop local in downtown Fort Collins

Saturday: Add native plants to your garden

CITY'S PLASTIC BAG PROPOSAL DOESN’T WORK

We all know plastic bags are not biodegradable.

They contam- response to inate our soil and water criticism that the preand are expensive to receive at a grocery store. remove from vious plan was simply both places.

This way for the city to bring another not a primary function of is We know we use literally our in reve- council. nue. The council is tons of them e 30 000 t d dfi

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State still in drought

SEEDLING TIME

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Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones.

MONDAY WATCH: Tax Day is tomorrow, so if you’ve already filed, FILMMAGIC kick back and relax with some guiltypleasure television. The ninth — can you believe it? — season of ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ premieres tonight at 9 ET/PT on Bravo.

TUESDAY

BUY: Catch Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig as they dare to dream in ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,’ out today on Blu-ray and DVD. WILSON WEBB, 20TH CENTURY FOX

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WATCH: Robin Thicke’s dad and ‘Growing Pains’ star Alan Thicke, 67, opens up his doors for the cameras in a 14-episode reality sitcom, ‘Unusually Thicke,’ kicking off on TVGN tonight at 10. ET/PT. INVISION /AP

THURSDAY WATCH: Lots of season finales tonight, including ‘Community’ ABC VIA AP (8 ET/PT, NBC), ‘The Crazy Ones’ (9 ET/PT, CBS) and ‘Scandal’ (10 ET/PT, ABC).

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SEE: Johnny Depp is back on the big screen in ‘Transcendence’ as a researcher working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions.

Sound too complicated? Enjoy an overload of cuteness with Disney’s ‘Bears,’ which also hits theaters today.

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In The Cripple of Inishmaan, Billy (Radcliffe, left) seeks to escape his tiny Irish town and its small-minded residents such as Kate (Ingrid Craigie), Gillian (Eileen Osborne) and Johnnypateenmike (Pat Shortt). The play opens April 20.

Daniel Radcliffe is making New York stage his world

‘Harry Potter’ star is now a serious Broadway actor Elysa Gardner USA TODAY

NEW YORK For Daniel Radcliffe, musical comedy was murder — and well worth it.

The 24-year-old actor, who stars in the Broadway premiere of The Cripple of Inishmaan April 20, says the decision to take on the title role in Martin McDonagh’s acclaimed play was an easy one — and not just because he loved the writing and wanted to work with the director, the Tony Award-winning British veteran Michael Grandage.

Radcliffe’s last outing on the New York stage was a 2011 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which required him to sing, dance and lead an ensemble for 21⁄2 hours, eight times a week, for 11 months.

“If you can do that, you can do anything,” Radcliffe says, chatting before a rehearsal. “I’ve done really big-budget films that have taken 18 months, and I’ve done really small-budget films that had to get done in 23 days, and I feel that I can definitively say that musical theater is the hardest

work an actor can do. After that, when someone asks if you can do a 14-week run in a play, you go, ‘Yeah, fine — I could do that in my sleep!’ ” Not that Radcliffe is downplaying the challenges posed by Inishmaan, which casts the young man who rocketed to fame in the Harry Potter film series as Billy Claven, a physically disabled orphan whose small town off the coast of Ireland is visited by a Hollywood film crew. Billy sees their arrival, to shoot a documentary, as his chance to escape the isolation of his life.

“Obviously there is a physical aspect to the part of Billy, and you have to understand the mechanics of his body and get them right,” Radcliffe says. “But the bigger challenge is the challenge you have with any part, which is to get inside the mind-set of the character.”

Radcliffe was especially keen to convey that this character “is not just his disability.” After accepting the role, he “spoke with friends and sought out other people who live with a disability, and the thing that came up again and again is the gap between who you

are and how other people perceive and treat you. It can be the source of so much loneliness and anger; and I think that it, rightly, infuriates actors in the disabled community when people like me do parts like this as if we’re putting on a costume.”

The production originated on the West End, where it received rave reviews. But, Radcliffe insists, “the goal in doing this show again is not to repeat what we did in London, but to make it better.”

Once he achieves that, Radcliffe would consider tackling a musical again — “I’d love to,” he says — but probably not right away.

“I’d have to put in some long hours of serious vocal training first.”

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Will a video game ever make a great movie?

‘Need for Speed’ had all the ingredients, but it sputtered fast Scott Bowles

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Hollywood’s box office stars

Need for Speed seemed poised to become the video game movie to break the mold.

Based on a game with sales of more than 140 million, the commercial potential was clear. It starred the Emmy-winning Aaron Paul, coming off the final season of TV’s Breaking Bad, giving critics hope it would be the first game adaptation worth watching.

But the $66 million Disney street racing movie stalled its first weekend out. It opened in third place, well behind Mr. Peabody & Sherman and 300: Rise of An Empire, both in their second weeks.

Critics pummeled the film, which has sputtered to $40 million as it plummets from the top 10 (though it has collected $143 million internationally).

Highest career box office grosses (domestic), in billions: Men (total movies) Tom Hanks (42) Morgan Freeman (52) Harrison Ford (38)

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Need for Speed, which opened on March 14, cost $66 million to make but has only pulled in $40 million in the USA. Will we ever see a video-game adaptation that marries commercial and artistic appeal?

Comic-book movies have made the leap; The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier manage to score critical laurels and box-office millions.

Video game movies have the

second part down. The Lara Croft franchise has spawned two popular Angelina Jolie thrillers, while Resident Evil has seen five films generate $244 million.

But critical merit? Game over.

Even 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the top-grossing video game movie of all time ($131 mil-

lion), gets a thumbs-up from less than half on Rotten Tomatoes.

That won’t stop a screenful of upcoming game adaptations: uAssassin’s Creed. Michael Fassbender plays a bartender forced to relive the memories of his ancestors, most of them assassins. It opens Aug. 7, 2015. uWarcraft. The much-anticipated adaptation of the World of Warcraft game features Ben Foster and Dominic Cooper. Warcraft opens March 11, 2016. uAngry Birds. While the plot remains a mystery, developer Rovio in 2012 announced a 3-D, computer-animated film, due to land in July 2016.

If any film came close to impressing critics, says Kirk Kjeldsen, assistant cinema professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, it was Jake Gyllenhaal’s 2010’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It did $90 million and was praised by a third of critics.

“That’s probably the best way to go with a video game adaptation — take the best parts of the game, discard the rest,” he says.

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USA TODAY’s Donna Freydkin digs through the latest celebrity news, giving thumbs-ups or eye rolls to those who earned them. Think high school yearbook superlatives — if Johnny Depp and Chelsea Handler were classmates.

THE TRUEST FIRST LADY OF COUNTRY MUSIC: MIRANDA LAMBERT

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Rose Hemingway and Daniel Radcliffe take their curtain call on the opening night of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying on Broadway in March 2011.

Radcliffe takes a big bite into life in the Big Apple

The songstress and outspoken spouse of Blake Shelton took home three trophies at last weekend’s Academy of Country Music Awards. And we hate to be superficial, but let’s face it: She absolutely killed it on the red carpet in her plunging nude Randi Rahm gown, which spotlighted her svelte bod. Shelton is one lucky guy.

Broadway — and the city — seem to agree with him Elysa Gardner USA TODAY

YORK Daniel Radcliffe made his Broadway debut in 2008, in a revival of the stark drama Equus. He returned three years later in the musical comedy How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

For his third turn on the Main Stem, Radcliffe, 24, wanted to mix things up again; so he chose what he describes as “an incredibly sad, moving, affecting play that somehow makes you laugh all the way through it.”

That would be Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, which began previews Saturday and is set to open April 20 at the Cort Theatre. The first entry in McDonagh’s Aran Islands trilogy, which includes the celebrated The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Inishmaan was first produced in 1996, but has never before been staged on Broadway.

That it is finally arriving now is probably less a testament to McDonagh’s considerable cachet — his credits also include The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara and The Pillowman, and the films In Bruges and Six Shooter — than Radcliffe’s star power. The production also drew very favorable notices on the West End, where it premiered last June as part of a series presented by acclaimed director Michael Grandage (Frost/Nixon, Red, Jude Law’s Hamlet).

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Grandage first met Radcliffe 10 years ago, when Radcliffe was 14.

“We hadn’t worked together, but he knew that theater was always something I had wanted to do,” Radcliffe says. “So he kept in contact with my agent, and he asked if I wanted to be part of this season he was doing. I said, yes, absolutely.”

Radcliffe then “found myself in the ridiculously lucky position of being sent four plays by Michael Grandage. I started reading The Cripple of Inishmaan and by the third scene I was like, ‘This is it.’ ” Discussing the play in a midtown rehearsal studio, the leading man describes it as “an ensemble piece — don’t let the fact that my face is on the poster fool you.”

He does portray the title role, Billy Claven, who is shunned and ridiculed by the denizens of his coastal town but nonetheless dreams big, especially when filmmakers show up hoping to capture life in the community.

(McDonagh was inspired by the 1934 documentary Man of Aran.)

“People treat Billy horribly all the time, but his compassion and wit and intelligence are undiminished,” Radcliffe says. “Despite the fact that he’s been beaten down, he’s able to reach out and be emotionally open.”

In person, Radcliffe still comes across as bright-eyed and bushytailed. He is polite but effusive, littering his conversation with enthusiastic adjectives and adverbs. Asked whether he feels that he’s cast off Harry Potter’s shadow, he responds, “I think more people definitely see me as Dan than Harry now — particularly in New York,” because of his

BIGGEST TRIPLE THREAT: KRISTEN BELL

We’re starting to think that Bell is invincible. Her animated flick Frozen was a major hit at the box office and the Oscars, and she’s taken on the celebrity-child-picture industry. But no, that’s not all — the lady also has a set of pipes on her. She delivered a superb, flawless and live rendition of her Frozen character’s ditty Do You Want to Build a Snowman in concert, and the video recently went viral, wowing anyone who doubted that Bell could deliver.

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Radcliffe says that when he started reading The Cripple of Inishmaan, “by the third scene I was like, ‘This is it.’ ” theater work, “which is very nice.”

Radcliffe says he feels at home in the Big Apple, where he finds the overall vibe “more positive than in London.” The Brits “like to revel in our grumpiness a bit, and you’re not like that here.”

“I’ve got friends here now — from doing shows, and filming as well. It’s an amazing feeling to touch down in another country and not feel like a foreigner.” His girlfriend (who he doesn’t name) also an actor, is with him, “so she doesn’t have to get on airplanes all the time for months, which is nice as well.”

Though Radcliffe gave up alcohol a few years ago, “I still go to bars. I’ll just meet friends there.

There’s a place I love where you can play table tennis. That’s another lovely thing about New York — you can go out without drinking. In England, when you meet up with somebody, it’s usually for a drink. Here you can just have coffee, and it’s not weird.”

And while doing eight shows a

“I think more people definitely see me as Dan than Harry now — particularly in New York.”

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Radcliffe rehearses for How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

week requires discipline, he feels liberated in the sense that “at least you have most days free, so you can have a life. When I make a film, I tend to drop off the face of the Earth a little bit. My friends don’t hear from me for weeks, which is terrible.”

NEXT MOVIE: ‘TOKYO VICE’

He’s nonetheless slated to shoot another movie after Inishmaan completes its run: Tokyo Vice, adapted from Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir. “I play an American journalist who becomes very involved, shall we say, with the Yakuza — the Japanese mafia. On one hand, it’s a very smart and interesting look at Americans in other countries, but it’s also a great, real-life thriller.”

Radcliffe has already completed screenwriter Max Landis’ new adaptation of Frankenstein, directed by Paul McGuigan, due next year. He plays legendary lab assistant Igor, “which was a lot of fun. I had very long hair extensions, and was quite glad to have them taken out. It’s a retelling of the story from Igor’s point of view, about his relationship with Frankenstein. They start off very well-intentioned, but then Frankenstein’s ego goes off the deep end, and he has to be pushed back to some sort of sanity.”

Another project that Radcliffe has in the pipeline — perhaps not surprisingly, given his affection for a certain city — is a film titled Brooklyn Bridge, with a screenplay by Douglas McGrath (Bullets Over Broadway, Emma).

“It’s one of the best scripts I’ve read,” Radcliffe says, eyes widening again. “It’s a wonderful history of how the bridge was built — an absolute love story to the city of New York, and to America in general. You know, there are hundreds of millions of people who cross that bridge every year and don’t have any idea of the amazing story behind it.”

Radcliffe hopes to get Bridge made “in the next couple of years, but you never know.”

He says his goals also include acting in a new play, “something I’m desperate to do, because it’s something I’ve never done, and it’s absolutely one of the quintessential experiences that actors should have at some point.”

For now, of course, he is focused like a laser on making Inishmaan worthy of superlatives for its new audience.

“It’s almost like London counts for nothing, unless we can make New York fantastic,” he says.

“Hopefully, we will.”

BEST ENDORSEMENT DEAL: LUPITA NYONG’O

Nyong’o has joined the ranks of Julia Roberts and Kate Winslet, both also A-list Oscar winners, as the newest face of luxury cosmetics house Lancôme.

Nyong’o’s next move, after a busy awards season for 12 Years a Slave, may be unclear, but the best-supporting-actress winner has already positioned herself as one of the sartorial stars of our time. Well done.

MOST NOTABLE RESIGNATION LETTERS: CHELSEA HANDLER, DAVID LETTERMAN

Handler announced she’s leaving her namesake show on E! when her contract is up at the end of the year. Letterman announced, on his show, he’s departing his Late Show talkfest. And suddenly, the game of late-night musical chairs is on, once again.

COOLEST ENGAGEMENT CONFIRMATION: JOHNNY DEPP

On a Today show appearance, he was asked about his lady — 27-year-old actress Amber Heard — their relationship and whether there’s a baby on the way. And instead of acting weird or dodging the question, he turned on his A-game. “Expecting what?

A child? Good god, what do you think I am, a savage?” he told the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie in a taped interview last week.

“No, no truth to that. It’s not a shotgun affair.”

MOST UNABLE TO MAKE UP HIS MIND: CHRIS EVANS

First, the Captain America star said, in repeated interviews, that acting wasn’t appealing to him anymore — and that he could foresee not doing it anymore, unless he was under contract with Marvel. But wait!

“By no means am I planning on retiring,” he said on Good Morning America last week.

Nice waffling there, Steve Rogers.

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Spruce up the kids for spring

Cool bomber-style jackets like this Appaman Barracuda topper are a must-wear. $64 at Diapers.com

Baby boom doesn’t begin to sum up what’s happening in Hollywood. Call it a spring and summer baby bonanza. And while expectant mothers Olivia Wilde, Kerry Washington and Drew Barrymore have unlimited fashion budgets for their tots, ordinary folks can take a cue from pint-sized fashion plates and dress their kids in finds inspired by some of the trends on the fashion runways. USA TODAY’s Donna Freydkin rounds up kids’ clothing that is polished and practical.

Everyone needs a statement bag like the whimsical and affordable ones from Poochie & Co. Metallics are huge now, so pick up the Masquerade Chloe in fuchsia. $24.99 at Poochieandco.com

It’s not spring, or summer, without an influx of superhero blockbusters. So get things started with Captain America, courtesy of The Children’s Place. $34.95 at Childrensplace.com Fans of springtime stripes — shown at Ruffian and Altuzarra — can line up in JoJo Maman Bebe’s slipper socks, which come in either blue or pink. $22 at Diapers .com

Florals are another big trend this season, and Splendid’s understated romper screams flower power. $58 at Splendid.com

Headphones have become the ultimate fashion statement, and pint-sized music and tech buffs can step out in nabi’s Dora the Explorer gear, with volumelimiting technology. $79.99 at nabitablet.com

Kick back with these funky Toms shoes that combine peace signs and bikes for one very attention-grabbing, unisex and comfy style. $32 at Toms.com

Graphic prints are a musthave this spring. Try Old Navy’s racerback henley dress in Goodnight Nora. $12 on sale at Oldnavy.com

HEALTH

How sweet it wasn’t: A year without sugar

For this family, there were tough times and real rewards

How to shake the sugar habit

Michelle Healy USA TODAY

There are plenty of reasons for families to put the brakes on sugar. Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver and even dementia have been linked to diets overloaded with the sweet stuff, much of it added to processed foods and sweetened beverages. Still, cutting back can be daunting. Pawlet, Vt.-based writer Eve Schaub and her family found out how tough when they went (mostly) sugar-free for 12 months. She recalls the challenges and victories in Year of No Sugar: A Memoir.

Schaub spoke with USA TODAY’s Michelle Healy.

Q: Your daughters, Greta and Ilsa, were 11 and 5 when the family initiated this project three years ago. Their initial response?

A: They burst into tears. They very quickly realized that this was going to affect so many parts of their lives. Ilsa immediately asked about her birthday and Halloween and the Easter Bunny.

Q: Parties and holidays, especially those focused on kids, are typically laden with sugary treats. Your daughters still participated?

A: We decided on the Birthday Party Rule for the girls. If they were at an event where everyone around them was having cake, dessert, what have you, the decision whether to have it was totally up to them. But I also asked them to tell me if they decided to have it. I ended up hearing about

Author Eve Schaub dug deep into the particulars of sugar.

Some no-sugar lessons the Schaub family learned and continue to live by: uMake easy homemade versions of grocery staples that have hidden sugar: salad dressings, pasta sauce, pizza dough, quick breads. uAvoid fruit juice, soda or store-bought desserts. uUse dextrose (glucose), a simple sugar for everyday baking and cooking. uCheck ingredients lists at grocery stores. If sugar used as a filler ingredient is one of the first items listed, don’t buy. uOrder simpler items at restaurants. If it has a lot of sauces, it’s probably hiding a heap of sugar. uHave a larger conversation about sugar with the whole family — especially at major sugar holidays like Halloween and Christmas.

Source: Eve Schaub

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For Ilsa and Greta Schaub, a year without sugar posed special challenges — such as what to do about those birthday parties. sugar coming at them from way more places than just the hereand-there birthday party.

Schools, play dates, social events, wherever they went, they were having sugar offered to them.

Q: You built in two other exceptions — a sweet family dessert once a month and allowing each family member one personal exception. Why? A: It seemed key since this was about taking away power and autonomy. The exception gave everyone a security blanket so they could still have that sense that they hadn’t totally abandoned every sugar thing. We each chose something pretty mild, consider-

ing. I had a glass of wine in the evening; my husband, Steve, diet soda, which of course, brought a whole separate set of things to worry about. I talked the girls into the jam, sweetened with fruit juice, because I thought we could get a lot of mileage out of it, whether on peanut butter sandwiches at lunch or on toast in the morning.

Q: How difficult was it ferreting out hidden sugars in foods when shopping?

A: I felt like I should have brought a magnifying glass for all of that teeny-tiny type and a dictionary because of all of the aliases that sugar has been given.

There’s the strange and unfamiliar, like invert sugar and treacle, and then there’s the ordinary stuff that sounds positive, like organic evaporated cane juice. And it’s everywhere. The chicken broth and beef broth really startled me. The crackers. I continue to be astounded by that. Things like tortellini, sausages, cold cuts surprised me.

Q: Taking your lead from obesity research Robert Lustig, among others, you zeroed in on eliminating all fructosecontaining sweeteners. Not only high-fructose cane sugar but things like agave, honey, even fruit juices?

A: We asked two questions: Does it have fructose, and is that fructose extracted from some other source? Sugar is made up roughly of half glucose, half fructose, and fructose, according to

the research, is the bad stuff. It’s the part our body can’t process, that turns into fat and results in all kinds of terrible things happening in our body. The things that correlate to all of these health crises that are now at epidemic proportions.

Q: Ultimately, were you healthier after a year of no sugar?

A: None of us lost any noticeable weight, and the girls didn’t have problems with hyperactivity to begin with, so I didn’t notice a big change in their demeanor. But we all had a sense of feeling healthier, having more energy.

And we noticed that over time, very sweet things became more and more disgusting to us. If I ate very sweet things, I got a pounding headache. And all of us were pooping more. People are often squeamish talking about that, but it’s a big indication of good health.

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Police officers respond to the second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The attack on Boylston Street killed three, injured more than 260 and led to a massive manhunt for Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

‘Long Mile’ zooms in on the bombing of Boston Aamer Madhani USA TODAY

On the first-year anniversary of a national tragedy, it’s inevitable for the so-called definitive account to be rolled out by publishers calculating that enough time has passed for an auBOOK thor to have develREVIEW oped perspective, but not so much time that the calamity is no longer fresh in the public’s conscience.

Publishing houses are, more often than not, wrong. Too often, readers, including this one, feel burned by investing time and cash in what too frequently reads like notebook dumps by journalists on the front line of a big story.

But with Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, The City’s Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice, The Boston Globe’s Scott Helman and JenDINA RUDICK

na Russell prove there are exceptions.

Long Mile Home, which arrives just ahead of the April 15 anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings and the manhunt of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is a riveting piece of journalism and an exceptional tribute to a great American city that manages to avoid being sentimental or syrupy.

Helman and Russell, two of the Globe’s best reporters, relied heavily on their colleagues’ outstanding coverage of the bombing and the aftermath in weaving a narrative around several principal characters.

There is Shana Cottone, a young Boston cop who is shaken to the core after helping save the life of a young woman who was grievously wounded.

Bill and Patty Campbell, the parents of one of the three victims who died in the bomb blasts on Boylston Street, grapple with the grief of losing their daughter and their uneasiness with the

Wrigley at 100: Field of thwarted dreams

LONG MILE HOME eeeE Scott Helman and Jenna Russell Dutton 352 pp.

public embrace of their child as a symbol of the city’s resurrection.

Perhaps most moving is the story of Heather Abbott, a young woman who survived the bombing but must decide whether to have her leg amputated.

Through the eyes of Cottone, the Campbells, Abbott and others, Helman and Russell craft a page-turner that takes the reader from race day to the remarkable recovery of the city.

The book is at its weakest in telling the story of the Tsarnaevs, the two immigrant brothers whose turn against their adopted country hasn’t been fully sorted.

Much more is likely to be learned about Dzhokhar when he eventually goes to trial.

The authors fall short on providing a full picture of the villains to match their evocative portraits of the heroes and victims of the Boston bombings.

A NICE LITTLE PLACE ON THE NORTH SIDE eegE George F. Will Crown Archetype 223 pp.

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Wrigley Field’s ivy-covered outfield wall appears to swallow Cincinnati Reds center fielder Willy Taveras after he catches a long fly ball during a game against the Chicago Cubs.

Kevin Nance

Special for USA TODAY

Being a Chicago Cubs fan is a frustrating business. Year after year, the Cubs have led their followers down the primrose path of BOOK REVIEW hope toward an apparently inevitable collapse. After dominating baseball for much of the early 20th century, the team had its first losing decade in the 1940s and never looked back, losing more games than it won — sometimes a lot more — in every decade since.

But for the Cubs faithful, a day at Wrigley Field, the team’s his-

toric home built in 1914, is always a good day, no matter what it says on the scoreboard.

With the fresh air and sunshine, the ivy-covered walls and handsome brick backstop, and above all the ice-cold, reasonably priced beer — really, to ask for a winning team on top of all that seems downright greedy.

The Cubs organization has counted on it. As long-suffering Cubs fan George Will suggests in his fond yet surprisingly hard-hitting A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, the team’s owners, beginning with the chewing-gum magnate P.K. Wrigley, consciously designed and marketed the ballpark as a Valhalla of the game,

a destination whose appeal was largely independent of its tenant’s won-loss record.

The strategy wasn’t always foolproof VICTORIA — attendance dipped WILL as the Cubs slogged through particularly wretched stretches — but by and large, Wrigley Field gave the team’s owners a comfy cushion of fan loyalty through thick and (mostly) thin.

But Will’s provocative hypothesis, which comes to seem indisputable, is that the ballpark is “part cause and part symptom of the Cubs’ dysfunctional performance.” If the Cubs ownership hadn’t been able to rely so heavily

on the stadium’s enduring popularity with fans, Will argues, it might actually have been forced to field a winning team.

That, of course, would have meant spending money the owners didn’t want to spend on the best players, front-office personnel and training facilities.

This is an intelligent, tough little book whose toughness is camouflaged when Will is lured away into digressions about Wrigley Field’s odd (and mostly tenuous) connections with figures such as Jack Ruby, Ray Kroc and Ronald Reagan. Perhaps Will’s own fan loyalty prevented him from delivering the sharply focused but rather too devastating critique this book could and arguably should have been, but we can forgive this.

He did it for love.

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Surprises abound in ‘Cairo Affair’ Don Oldenburg

Special for USA TODAY

You could practically rip the plotline of Olen Steinhauer’s new spy novel, The Cairo Affair, from the front pages of yesterday’s newspaper. But you wouldn’t get the whole story because you don’t have the clearance.

Fortunately for espionage fiction fans, Steinhauer engages readers with top-secret status.

That said, good luck solving this elaborate labyrinth of a spy tale set BOOK REVIEW mostly in Cairo during the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.

Prepare to guess wrong.

The novel starts in Langley.

Libyan-American CIA analyst Jibril Aziz is connecting dots and thinking his previously trashed secret plan called “Stumbler,” which plots the overthrow of crazed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, is suddenly RANA FAURE and inexplicably going operational. So, on his own, he sets out for North Africa amid revolutionary times to find out who and why.

Meanwhile, at a restaurant in Budapest, minutes after American diplomat Emmett Kohl confronts his wife, Sophie, about her affair with a CIA agent the year before when they were stationed in Cairo, he is point-blank gunned down by an Eastern European hit man. It’s another who and why that sets everything else in motion.

And self-centered, deceitful, conflicted, confused, Harvardgrad Sophie is motivated to untangle the mystery of her husband’s murder — or, more important, perhaps, reassure herself she wasn’t somehow responsible. So she sneaks back to Cairo.

This spy novel promisingly begins with a bang. And, without giving up a spoiler, the novel ends with a bang. In between, Steinhauer, author of the best seller The Tourist (2010 movie version starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp) and one of the hottest names in spy fiction today, borrows from benchmark espionage novelist John Le Carré in style and structure to create an entertaining read.

Stylistically, the author overlaps plot segments from the point of view of each character. It’s Durrell-esque, a compliment, as in The Alexandria Quartet, but in shorter form and about espionage instead of love. Yet it lends redundancy to an otherwise nicely conversational narrative.

Speaking of love, there’s not much here. Sophie doesn’t really love her husband, Emmett; she doesn’t love Cairo-based CIA agent Stan Bertolli, with whom she had an affair that had nothing to do with romance; and she doesn’t love Zora Balaševic, the disturbing, manipulative Serbian spy who seduces Sophie’s integrity more than her body.

While Steinhauer follows in the literary footsteps of le Carré, he stumbles in creating a cast of well-drawn characters who simply are not likable. So it’s hard to identify the bad guys, much less the good ones.

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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

Enigmatic Canadian singer Leonard Cohen is the subject of a new biography.

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by John F. Kasson (W.W. Norton, non-fiction, on sale Monday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT:

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by Nora Roberts (Putnam, fiction, on sale Tuesday)

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WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A young novelist witnesses a murder — Rear Windows-style — and is sucked into the case by the victim’s bachelor brother.

THE BUZZ: Roberts’ most recent debut at No. 1 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list was on April 3 with Shadow Spell.

Examines how the cherubic child star sang and tap-danced her way to stardom.

THE BUZZ: Arrives just two months after Temple Black’s death at age 85.

A portrait of troubadour Leonard Cohen, now 79, and his music.

THE BUZZ: “Leibovitz delivers a different Liel Leibovitz sort of biography that Cohen fanatics should appreciate,” says Kirkus Reviews.

The Confidence Code

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by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman (HarperBusiness, non-fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The journalist-

authors of Womenomics offer advice for working women on “the art of self-assurance.”

THE BUZZ: Features a blurb from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, author of the best seller Lean In.

New Lu: Marie Lu broke into

the young-adult world with her debut dystopian Legend series, but she turns toward fantasy for her next phase. With a cover seen here exclusively for the first time, The Young Elites — due Oct. 7 from Penguin — stars Adelina Amouteru, a survivor of a blood plague. She’s expelled from her family, yet Adelina finds a new home with the secret society of Young Elites.

The new series is a cross between X-Men comics and the Assassin’s Creed videogame franchise, Lu says. “It chronicles a good person’s downfall into becoming a villain, and I think this cover conveys that beautifully. I’m in love with it.”

‘Flash’ point: Michael Lewis’

Flash Boys, his latest Wall Street newsmaker, lands at No. 3 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list, behind Veronica Roth, who holds the top two spots. That’s Lewis’ highest debut and highest ranking on the list. The Big Short made it to No. 5 in 2010. Lewis’ new book, which looks at highfrequency trading, was released March 31 and sold 135,000 copies (print and digital) its first week, publisher W.W. Norton reports.

Sales have been helped by media attention from 60 Minutes, NPR, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Charlie Rose on PBS. Bob Minzesheimer, Brian Truitt and Jocelyn McClurg

Northanger Abbey

by Val McDermid (Grove Press, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT:

The Scottish crime writer updates Jane Austen’s Gothic novel, setting it at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Val McDermid THE BUZZ: “An accessible and enjoyable read,” says Publishers Weekly.

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Nora Roberts

Vintage ‘Grapes’: It’s the novel that inspired songs by Bruce Springsteen (The Ghost of Tom Joad) and Woody Guthrie (The Ballad of Tom Joad). Now, to mark the 75th anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel about the Great Depression, publisher Viking is releasing two anniversary editions this month, including a limited leather-bound edition.

by Liel Leibovitz (W.W. Norton, non-fiction, on sale Monday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT:

Claire Shipman, left, and Katty Kay.

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A Broken Hallelujah

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Divergent Veronica Roth

Youth: Amid unrest in dystopian Chicago, Tris harbors a secret; movie (F) (P) Katherine Tegen Books

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I’ve Got You Under My Skin Mary Higgins Clark

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Youth: War looms as conflict grows between the factions; second in series (F) (H) Katherine Tegen Books

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The Fault in Our Stars Youth: A girl with terminal cancer finds love John Green in a support group (F) (H) Dutton Children’s

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt Michael Lewis

The author returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets (NF) (H) W. W. Norton

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Shadow Spell Nora Roberts

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The King J.R. Ward

The Wrath family’s royal bloodline is compromised by a grave threat to the throne (F) (E) NAL

9 13 Heaven Is for Real Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

Subtitle: “A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back” (NF) (P) Thomas Nelson

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Allegiant Veronica Roth

Youth: Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature; final in series (F) (E) Katherine Tegen Books

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Youth: All three books in the Divergent trilogy (F) (E) Katherine Tegen Books

Divergent Series Complete Box Set Veronica Roth

A little boy witnesses the murder of his father, a Manhattan doctor, at a city playground (F) (E) Simon & Schuster

Connor O’Dwyer finds his perfect match in friend Meara Quinn; second in trilogy (F) (H) Berkley

The book list appears every Thursday.

For each title, the format and publisher listed are for the best-selling version of that title this week. Reporting outlets include Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble.com, Barnes & Noble Inc., Barnes & Noble e-books, BooksAMillion.com, Books-A-Million, Costco, Hudson Booksellers, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Charlotte, Cleveland, Pittsburgh), Kobo, Inc., Powell's Books (Portland, Ore.), Powells.com, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, Conn.), Schuler Books & Music (Grand Rapids, Okemos, Eastwood, Alpine, Mich.), Sony Reader Store, Target, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver).

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19 7 NYPD Red 2/James Patterson, Marshall Karp 20 — Illusion/Sherrilyn Kenyon 21 26 The Husband’s Secret/Liane Moriarty 22 19 The Goldfinch/Donna Tartt 23 14 Little Girl Lost/Brian McGilloway 24 28 Twelve Years a Slave/Solomon Northup 25 — Upstairs at the White House/J.B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz 26 — Starting Now/Debbie Macomber 27 12 The Hungry Girl Diet/Lisa Lillien 28 — The Women of Duck Commander/Kay Robertson, et al.

29 11 Blossom Street Brides/Debbie Macomber 30 35 Frozen Little Golden Book/RH Disney 31 129 Minecraft: Essential Handbook/Scholastic 32 25 Power Play/Danielle Steel 33 31 The Invention of Wings/Sue Monk Kidd 34 18 Daddy’s Gone A Hunting/Mary Higgins Clark 35 29 Forget Me Not/Fern Michaels 36 37 38 39 40 41 42

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Bad for You/Abbi Glines Wild Wolf/Jennifer Ashley The Baker’s Daughter/Sarah McCoy Frozen: Junior Novelization/RH Disney Mockingjay/Suzanne Collins Alphas After Dark Boxed Set/Vivian Arend, et al.

The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times Bill O’Reilly 43 46 Rush Revere and the First Patriots/Rush Limbaugh 44 99 10% Happier/Dan Harris 45 34 Sycamore Row/John Grisham 46 — The Last Bride/Beverly Lewis 47 51 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs 48 50 Looking for Alaska/John Green 49 — Whiskey Beach/Nora Roberts 50 — The Pigeon Needs a Bath!/Mo Willems

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One of Alaska’s most accessible national parks, Glacier Bay boasts rugged snowcapped mountains surrounding sheltered water that provides access to tidewater glaciers and wildlife sightings such as puffins, otters and grizzly bears. Best of all is the thunder of tidewater glaciers as they calve into the bay. Daylong cruises are offered from the dock at Glacier Bay Lodge in Bartlett Cove. In the evening, enjoy an exciting whalewatching cruise. The park is accessible by tour boat or scheduled air service from Alaska’s capital of Juneau.

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Cruise Glacier Bay in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.

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A terminal glacier on spectacular Glacier Bay in Alaska.

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NATIONAL PARK EXPERIENCES OF A LIFETIME

Travelers typically speak of Yellowstone, Yosemite or the Grand Canyon with a sense of reverence. These, along with the other 398 units managed by the National Park Service, preserve America’s most spectacular landscapes. But they also offer memorable activities. David and Kay Scott, authors of Guide to the National Park Areas: Eastern States and Guide to the National Park Areas: Western States, select 10 experiences that are especially rewarding.

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Take a full-moon walk at Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming.

Before it became the centerpiece of the popular movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, we camped in the monument during the night of a full moon. What luck! At dusk we joined a rangerled walk that ended an hour and a half later when we climbed a rise and came upon the view of a brilliant full moon glistening beside Devils Tower. It is a sight we have never forgotten. nps.gov/deto

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Stroll the beach at Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia.

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Ride a Red Jammer on Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road, Montana.

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Drive the length of the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina and Virginia.

Georgia’s southernmost barrier island boasts one of the East Coast’s most magnificent beaches. Because the seashore is reached only by boat, you can enjoy a solitary stroll along a wide beach spotted with shells, sand dollars and starfish. A concessionaire-operated passenger boat offers scheduled transportation to the island from the small village of St. Marys. Enjoy a guided tour in the historic Dungeness Historic District and visit Plum Orchard, an 1890s mansion once owned by the Carnegies.

The Blue Ridge Parkway offers 469 miles of some of the most beautiful scenery in the eastern United States. The parkway’s 45-mph speed limit results in a trip of two or more days to cover the entire length, depending on the number of stops along the way. Three park lodges along the parkway provide overnight accommodations. Make a pit stop at iconic Mabry Mill and order a plate of buckwheat pancakes or biscuits and gravy before visiting the historic water-power grist mill. Take along a cooler so you can stop and enjoy a picnic or two at one or more of the many scenic overlooks.

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Nation’s parks go ‘wild’ — and free

Jayne Clark

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National parks offer a number of impressive mountain roads, but none is better than Glacier’s Going-to-the-Sun Road that crosses the Rocky Mountains of northern Montana. Save wear and tear on your own vehicle and gain better views of the surrounding landscape by choosing a free tour on one of the park’s famous “Reds,” buses used to transport visitors. This shuttle service is available to the Logan Pass Visitor Center from both the west and east sides of the park.

Wild flowers bloom in Death Valley National Park, Calif.

Mark your calendar for April 19-20, when admission fees to all 401 national parks properties will be waived.

The free access is a highlight of National Park Week April 19-27, whose theme this year is “Go Wild.” Parks across the country will be staging special events and activities, including Junior Ranger Day April 26, aimed at families with children, along with opportunities to work on volunteer projects.

The week is co-sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation.

For information, visit national parkweek.org.

Canoe the Buffalo National River, Arkansas.

The free-flowing Buffalo National River, America’s first national river, originates in the Boston Mountains of northwest Arkansas and winds 135 miles in a jagged eastward path across the northern part of the state. The river’s rural landscape, filled with oak and hickory forests frequently bordered with impressive limestone bluffs, makes for a scenic canoe or kayak trip. Fifteen NPSapproved concessionaires offer canoe and kayak rentals along with shuttle service. Prices typically run $40 to $60 a day. A list of concessionaires is available at

One World Trade Center dominates the skyline in Lower Manhattan.

TripAdvisor has examined millions of travelers’ reviews posted on its website to come up with the top destinations for this year.

The winners are: New York City for top U.S. destination (fourth year in a row); Istanbul for top worldwide destination.

For the sixth annual Traveler’s Choice Destination awards, TripAdvisor weighed users’ rankings for hotels, attractions and restaurants at the destinations over 12 months.

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Ride a snow coach during a winter visit to Yellowstone, Wyoming/Montana/Idaho.

There’s nothing quite like visiting America’s first national park during the winter. The crowds are gone, wildlife is more easily visible, and the beauty of the park is simply stunning. Only two of the park’s nine lodges, Old Faithful Snow Lodge and Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, are open during the winter months. Scheduled public transportation is available from Bozeman to West Yellowstone, where snow coaches carry visitors to the Old Faithful area. The northern road to Mammoth remains open during winter. Snow coach tours to the beautiful Canyon area are available from both Mammoth and Old Faithful and connect Old Faithful with Mammoth. yellowstonepark.com

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Visit Death Valley’s mysterious Racetrack Playa, California.

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Visit Fort Laramie National Historic Site during the annual Fur-Trading Days, Wyoming.

Once the headquarters of the American Fur Trading Company, Fort Laramie later became an important military fort and a stop on the Oregon Trail. Each Father’s Day weekend, the historic site and nearby town of Fort Laramie present an event in which participants in historical dress relive the fort’s glory years when it served as a major hub for the fur trade. nps.gov/fola

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Take a guided 4x4 tour along the back roads of Big Bend National Park, Texas.

This isolated park along the Rio Grande is an off-roader’s paradise, with dozens of miles of both improved and primitive dirt roads through one of the most stark but beautiful landscapes anywhere. Rugged cliffs surround the park’s Chisos Basin area, where you’ll find a lodge and nearby campground.

Camping also is available at a developed campground on the Rio Grande. Enjoy a dip in the thermal waters of Langford Hot Springs. visitbigbend.com

One of the highlights of a visit to Death Valley National Park is a trip to the Racetrack, where rocks mysteriously move and leave trails along a dry lakebed. A number of theories attempt to explain the movement, which no one has actually observed. Visiting the Racetrack requires a drive of 26 miles over rough road, preferably in a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

Jeep rentals are available at Furnace Creek. Lodging is offered at four locations in the park. Inside the park, don’t miss the impressive 600-foot-deep, half-milewide Ubehebe Crater, the remains of a volcanic eruption. nps.gov/deva

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Hulu’s original content goes supernatural with Deadbeat. The 10-episode comedy follows Kevin (Tyler Labine) as “a hapless but gifted medium who will go to any lengths to help New York’s ghosts settle their unfinished business.” All episodes are available to binge-watch on Hulu.

Turbo Fast Channel: Netflix Five new episodes of Turbo Fast, the animated series about a snail stunt team, are out. netflix.com

NETFLIX OFFERS A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

The Emmy-nominated History channel miniseries The Bible is available on Netflix starting today.

The drama, which aired in 2013, stars Diogo Morgado as Jesus. As you would expect, it re-creates tales and parables.

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TV’s former quality standardbearer returns, and as usual, that’s about all the show’s creator would like critics to tell you.

Which is fine. The plot points he wants kept secret are things you’ll know by the time the hour is over. As for the question that really matters — will this year’s seven episodes be better than last season’s extremely disappointing run? — that’s as yet impossible to answer.

For its first documentary series, the cable news network offers an unusual slant on immigration and border control in America.

In this four-episode series, six ordinary Americans will retrace the footsteps of migrants who died crossing our border with Mexico.

THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE PBS, TONIGHT, 10 ET/PT (TIMES MAY VARY)

THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE: HATTIE MORAHAN, LEFT , SOPHIE RUNDLE, ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN, RACHAEL STIRLING, JULIE GRAHAM BY WORLD PRODUCTIONS

Other shows make seasonal returns Sunday. On Showtime, you have Nurse Jackie (9 ET/PT), worth watching for its ensemble alone, and Californication (9:30 ET/PT). Or for Anglophiles and mystery fans, there’s The Bletchley Circle, which finds former World War II codebreakers reuniting to help a woman they think is wrongly accused of murder.

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ON THE VERGE TY DOLLA $IGN SPOTLIGHT ON BREAKTHROUGH ARTISTS

Don Draper (Jon Hamm).

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CROSSWORD EDITED Timothy Parker

“I do melody, but people say it’s rap because I’m really hardcore.”

Melodic hip-hop is his currency Patrick Ryan USA TODAY

NOT RAP: Ty Dolla $ign is many things — a hip-hop artist, a singer/songwriter, a producer — but don’t call him a rapper. “Rappers are, like, Wiz (Khalifa), people who can really rap,” says the singer (born Tyrone Griffin Jr.).

‘TOOT’-ING HIS OWN HORN: The L.A. native broke out on YG’s Toot It and Boot It. “I was like, ‘This could really happen,’ and I believed in it more,” says Griffin, who turns 29 today. Since then, he’s written for Chris Brown (Loyal) and Trey Songz (Ordinary), and scored a hit of his own with the B.o.B-assisted Paranoid, which has gone to No. 6 on USA TODAY’s urban airplay chart.

WIZ THE MENTOR: “He

put me in front of a lot of people” on tour last summer, Griffin says. “It was different going from clubs on the West Coast to doing 20,000 people every night in every state.”

“Weed is a good thing,” says Griffin, extolling marijuana for its ability to “bring people together ... It’s never going to start fights like alcohol does.”

LEGALIZATION ADVOCATE:

Paranoid was inspired when Griffin when he went to a club with a girlfriend and encountered two of his other girlfriends. “I really didn’t know they knew about each other, but after that I did.”

ALL ABOUT THE LADIES:

Debut album Free TC, expected out later this year, is dedicated to his younger brother, whom Griffin says is wrongfully incarcerated.

“I want to raise awareness for people (facing) injustice.”

MUSIC WITH MEANING:

TIME TO SHINE: It’s no coincidence

that so many West Coast hip-hop artists — Schoolboy Q, YG, Kendrick Lamar, Kid Ink and Ty Dolla $ign among them — are finding success all at once. “Finally, everybody’s getting their payoff,” Griffin says. “It’s just our turn.”

MUSASHI ONO

Ty Dolla $ign (Tyrone Griffin) is at No. 6 on USA TODAY’s urban airplay chart with single Paranoid.

BY Tim Burr

FLOCKING TOGETHER ACROSS 1 Uncover, as information 6 Head set?

10 Head-butts 14 Flared dress style 15 Country road 16 Lend support to, criminally 17 Colorful New Guinea fliers 20 Oater bar 21 Pavement of compacted stone 22 Stiff hairs or bristles 25 Lock or ringlet 26 Fiery gemstone 30 Cooking pot 32 Melodramatic parting 35 Computer for a commuter 41 Moas and emus, e.g.

43 Add spice to 44 Items in a model’s portfolio 45 Length times width, e.g.

47 Parasite’s home 48 Like meteor paths 53 Up and about 56 Hearing aide?

58 Quit 63 They have common interests 66 More than never 67 Grab bag 68 WWI soldier 69 Pre-1917 autocrat 70 Non-permanent employee 71 Involuntary movement DOWN 1 Applies lightly, as paint 2 Trojan princess of opera 3 Young miss

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4 Edit menu command 5 Mexican money 6 Wrapper for Santa 7 Imitate an annoying dog 8 Molar matter 9 Flu fighters 10 Astronomer’s tool 11 Bear with patience 12 Southwest elevations 13 Botanical uprights 18 The loneliest number, in song 19 Circus routine 23 Fee for bridges 24 Claims without proof 26 Switch choices 27 White as a sheet 28 Oratorio piece 29 Table parts 31 “Let’s not forget . . .”

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33 “___ do you think you are?”

34 Volcanic peak 36 Belly muscles, briefly 37 “That’s hogwash!”

38 Quartet minus one 39 Emotional poems 40 “I want your attention!”

42 Bed-frame crosspiece 46 School fundraiser 48 Monastery’s main man 49 Drizzles or pours 50 Around 51 Mormon higher-up 52 Prefix for “appear” 54 Party purchase 55 Brings in at harvest time 57 Measure of length 59 On the highest rung

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60 LaBeouf of entertainment 61 Sushi fishes 62 You can beat it 64 Sight the target 65 Natty dresser

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