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Ballantine Communications, Inc. is hiring! Reporter (Durango, CO) - The Durango Herald, Southwest Colorado’s awardwinning newspaper, is hiring a reporter to cover some of the Southwest’s biggest issues: immigration, health care, energy, water and land use, and education. Required: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, or similar degree and 4+ years proven experience as a reporter. To apply, go to: https://ballantinecommunicationsinc.com/ careers

BCI offers a comprehensive benefit plan with medical, dental, and vision coverage. Employees also have an opportunity to participate in a 401(k) plan. BCI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Inventory Administrator (Hesperus). GCC Energy King II coal mine has an immediate opening for an experienced Inv entory Administrator. Provide a high level of service to support mine operations for our internal and external customers by maintaining an accurate inventory of spare parts, materials, and shipping and receiving tasks using SAP and othe r systems. Minimum three years of inventory control, warehouse or similar experience. Competitive salary depending on experience + bonus program. Full benefits 1st of the month following date of hire. Online application can be found at www.GCC.com click on careers, then current openings and you will see the link to apply posting under the CO drop down box.

Customer Service Representative (Durango, CO): BCI is hiring a full-time Customer Service Representative! Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday. Requirements: Excellent customer services skills, and 1+ year(s) experience in an office setting. Please apply at: https:// ballantinecommunicationsinc. com/careers

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Outside Digital Sales Representative: BCI is hiring! The likely candidate will have a solid understanding of all our digital-marketing products or services offered by the company and how these services meet the client’s needs. Responsibilities will be focused on outside sales approximately 90% of the time. If you are self-driven, able to work independently, and have proven ability to sell digital media products and services—we’re looking for someone like you to join the BCI team! Required: Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field, and 3+ years proven ability in digital sales. Apply at: https:// ballantinecommunicationsinc. com/careers Sales Administrative Assistant (Durango, CO): Ballantine Communications Inc. is seeking a Sales Administrative Assistant who is a self-starter, organized, and proven ability to work in a fast paced environment. This position will act as the point of contact for sales representatives, creative teams, and finance teams. Required: HS Diploma; AA in Business preferred and 1+ year(s) experience in an administrative role. Apply at: https:// ballantinecommunicationsinc. com/careers We offer a comprehensive benefit plan. BCI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Dear February 14th: It’s not you; it’s us. [ love and sex]

Let’s see other people ... er, days.

Dear February 14th, You are the day where we throw little hearts in the air and pressure us to express our love all at once. You ask us to perform perfection with an emotion. You give us one day to express all the little and big things we feel. You tell us to buy roses by the dozen, reserve dinners, present chocolates — all to express our love. You are a day dreaded by those of us who are single. You are dreaded by those of us in relationships. You are an excuse for other days to not be full of joyous celebrations of love. You are a weight. You expect too much.

In all honesty, it’s not really you. It’s us. We can’t go on this way. We need to start seeing other days for love. Sincerely, Lovers Everywhere

When we choose to be connected to other humans through friendship, romance, and/or sex we often forget that it is a job. We have to show up, put energy in, communicate, and often create something — a life together, memories, a child, shared values, maybe even a legacy. This doesn’t mean that a single celebratory day doesn’t have value but I support small, daily celebrations. Acts of simple kindness, fully listening, small gestures or words to let the ones we love know that every day we celebrate our connection.

Love is often mistaken with symbols of affection or painted stories that promise ease of living if we just have that perfect day, perfect ceremony, perfect perfection. Truthfully, love is vulnerability. Love is stripping down and sharing every flaw of ourselves with others and not expecting anything in return. To be truly vulnerable we have to accept responsibility for our moral failings and work every day to be a human that values other humans. The mess of love is my favorite part. It is embracing the imperfections and still feeling deeply for other humans. Love is not the great days or the best memories. Love is the hard shit. Love is the broken dreams, the grief in loss, the mistakes, the struggle for forgiveness. it sets its roots, watered with tears, and no one—no one—can escape the heart’s progress

as it runs, silent and carnivorous.

LXXI - Pablo Neruda

Love crosses its islands, from grief to grief, You and I searched for a wide valley, for another planet foliage,

a plain, a rock, hard and unoccupied:

we wanted to build a strong nest.

with our own hands, without hurt or harm or speech,

but love was not like that: love was a lunatic city

with crowds of people blanching on their porches.

where the salt wouldn’t touch your hair,

where sorrows couldn’t grow because of anything I did,

where bread could live and not grow old.

A planet entwined with vistas and To truly and deeply love others, the first person we should wake loving is ourselves. Every day we should love ourselves deeply, intently, and gracefully. A ritual that feeds our souls. A practice of self celebration. A series of goals that promote us, the individual. The world we live in tells us in thousands of ways that we are imperfect and undeserving of love unless we tweak this, change that, be this other better version of ourselves. When we love ourselves and fill ourselves with this love, we become the ambassadors of love. We find it easier to be kind, patient, and understanding of others. So on this one day stop and ask yourself if you are vulnerable in your love. Do you show up in your relationships with more than roses? Do you love yourself first? Do you embrace love in the dark moments of living? Erin Brandt (she/her/hers) has been a sexologist for 15 years. When she’s not spreading sexual knowledge, Erin can be found learning from her child, hiking with her partner, cuddling with her pitbull, knitting with her cat, dancing with friends, and searching for the nearest hammock and ocean breeze. Want more? Visit www.positivesexed.com Mateus Campos Felipe/Unsplash

Horoscope

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) What a happy coincidence that this year Valentine’s Day happens to be a lovely day to receive gifts, goodies and favors from others! It’s also a romantic couple of weeks. Party on! TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a lovely couple of weeks to enjoy with your main squeeze. All relations with partners, close friends and members of the public will be upbeat and positive. Lucky you! GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Relations with co-workers are positive these next couple of weeks. This is also an excellent time for work-related travel. Meanwhile, support from others will come your way during this time. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a fun-filled, playful time! Accept invitations to party and socialize with others. Romance is blessed. Enjoy playful activities with kids, as well as sports events. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) A group gathering at home or a chance to entertain at home will please you during this time. Family discussions also will go well. Good food and drink for everyone! VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) The power of positive thinking is a fact. These next couple of weeks you will have a positive outlook on life, which is why your interactions with others are upbeat and happy. Enjoy good times! LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Business and commerce are favored right now, which is why this is an excellent time to pursue financial negotiations. If shopping, you might go overboard, so save your receipts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Right now, the Moon is in your sign dancing with lucky Jupiter. This promotes good feelings with old friends and establishes strong emotional ties with others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You might choose to be low-key and private right now. Nevertheless, you’re in a happy mood and will enjoy quiet times with others, especially children.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a lovely day to socialize with others — friends or groups. Share your hopes and dreams with someone to see what he or she thinks about your ideas.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You look positive in the eyes of others right now, especially bosses, parents and teachers! This is an excellent time to

Bizarro From Page 9 loads of game cartridges and video game equipment 90 miles north to Alamogordo, New Mexico’s then-new city landfill.

“Guards kept reporters and spectators away from the area yesterday as workers poured concrete over the dumped merchandise,” the Times reported. The concrete was added to keep kids from looting the dump site, but somehow they got in anyway.

Over time, the story of the massive burial grew until the urban legend described the burial as containing all 3.5 million unsold E.T. cartridges.

It also became a cautionary tale warning about hubris and poor business practices. As time passed and sand covered the site, some began to doubt that the burial had ever happened.

Over three decades later, a Canadian entertainment company got permission to excavate the burial site while filming a documentary, “Atari: Game Over.” On April 26, 2014, excavation began with an event that was open to the public and was attended by the E.T. game programmer, Warshaw; “Ready Player One” author Ernest Cline; Armando Ortega, an Alamogordo city official who was one of the kids who looted the dump in the ’80s; and a team of archaeologists.

Of an estimated 700,000 game cartridges buried in the New Mexico desert, 1,300 were recovered by the excavation. Some were given to Alamogordo’s New Mexico Museum of Space History for display and the city sold off many of the others. One E.T. cartridge was donated to the Smithsonian Institution because it represents “the ongoing challenge of making a good film to video game adaptation, the decline of Atari, the end of an era for video game manufacturing, and the video game cartridge life cycle.”

Alamogordo has since moved its municipal landfill to another location, but the old landfill with the rest of the Atari stash is still located on the south side of First Street, just west of White Sands Boulevard. The city of Alamogordo was, at one point, considering making the old site a tourist attraction, but it is unclear what happened to those plans. — Nick Gonzales work on a project with others or join in a group activity.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Travel of any kind will appeal to you right now because you want to broaden your horizons. This is also an excellent time to study and enjoy talking to people from other cultures and different lands.

BORN DURING THESE TWO WEEKS You are a great communicator and an excellent problem-solver. You are witty, compassionate and loyal. This will be a more relaxed year for you. Because your interactions with others will be important, do your best to cooperate with others. Look for ways to be kind and helpful. Be open to engaging with others, because business and personal relationships will benefit you.

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