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And 45 percent of U.S. households will pay nothing WASHINGTON (AP) — As millions of procrastinators scramble to meet today’s tax filing deadline, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all.

The Internal Revenue Service tracks the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes each year.

The average income on those returns in 2007, the latest year for IRS data, was nearly $345 million. Their average federal income tax rate was 17 percent, down from 26 percent in 1992.

Over the same period, the average federal income tax rate for all taxpayers declined to 9.3 percent from 9.9 percent.

The top income tax rate is 35 percent, so how can people who make so much pay so little in taxes? The nation’s tax laws are packed with breaks for people at every income level. There are breaks for having children, paying a mortgage, going to college, and even for paying other taxes. Plus, the top rate on capital gains is only 15 percent.

There are so many breaks that 45 percent of U.S. households will pay no federal income tax for 2010, according to estimates by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.

“It’s the fact that we are using the tax code both to collect revenue, which is its primary purpose, and to deliver these spending benefits that we run into the situation where so many people are

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A.J. No Braid, right, and her daughters Larissa, 17, middle, and Lara, 13, get ready to participate in the grand entry Sunday during the Spring Contest Powwow and Indian Art Show at the B.W. Pickett Equine Center in Fort Collins.

One tribe Powwow an opportunity for all to embrace Native American tradition

By Tom Hacker

Reporter-Herald Staff Writer

FORT COLLINS — License plates on pickup trucks outside the 19th annual Spring Contest Powwow told the story of long road trips.

Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, New Mexico and Idaho were represented.

Bumper stickers telegraphed values, such as pride: “Proud to be Blackfeet.” Patriotism: “Native American Vietnam Veteran.” Good nature: “Stompdancer,” “Horseshoe Pitchin’ Indian.”

At the gathering of tribes inside the B.W. Pickett Equine Center at Colorado State University, the atmosphere could be summed up in a pair of Lakota words: “mitakuye oyasin,” meaning “We are all relatives.”

“It’s a time when all the names come down, really,” said Charlie Spring, an Arapa-

Mark Pemberton, left, and Dee Pemberton of Omaha, Neb., look at Navajo jewelry on display at Page, Ariz., resident Alice Hudson’s booth on Sunday during the Spring Contest Powwow and Indian Art Market. ho tribal member from Riverton, Wyo. “We’re not so much Arapaho, or Shoshone or Ute or Blackfeet. We all get together and we’re pretty much all one tribe.”

Spring traveled with his wife, Raina, to the powwow as they’ve done to this and others in the region for the past 20 years or so.

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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says Republican leaders have privately assured the Obama administration that Congress will raise the government’s borrowing limit in time to prevent an unprecedented default on the nation’s debt.

But a top Republican quickly pushed back Sunday and said there was no guarantee the GOP would agree to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling without further controls on federal spending.

Geithner told ABC’s “This Week” and NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans told President Barack Obama in a White House meeting last Wednesday that they will go along with a higher limit.

“I want to make it perfectly clear that Congress will raise the debt ceiling,” Geithner said in the interviews taped Saturday and aired Sunday.

He said the leaders told Obama that they couldn’t play around with the government’s credit rating. “They recognize it, and they told the president that on Wednesday in the White House,” Geithner said.

But Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, said that while it was true nobody wants the country to default, it’s essential to address future borrowing at the same time.

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Movie documents families’ lives after Columbine DENVER — A movie opening in Denver this week documents the different ways that families who lost loved ones at Columbine have coped with their loss.

Five years in the making, the film “13 Families” is the work of Nicole Corbin, Steve LuKanic and Mark Katchur. Corbin and LuKanic came up with the idea after helping produce an hourlong TV program looking at the April 20,1999, tragedy.

Family members in the film introduce loved ones in their own words and then describe their individual journeys and frustrations, including the reality of grieving in public. The film does not include pictures of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, reflecting frustration expressed by families at the attention focused on the teenage gunmen.

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left their mark on 33 transformer boxes across town as part of the Transformations project, a subset of the Art in Public Places Program.

This summer, the Visual Arts Commission is looking to pay 10 more Loveland artists

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government said Sunday it is giving air traffic controllers an extra hour off between shifts so they don’t doze off at work, a problem that stretches back decades.

But officials rejected the remedy that sleep experts say would make a real difference: on-the-job napping.

“On my watch, controllers will not be paid to take naps. We’re not going to allow that,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.

That’s exactly the opposite of what scientists and the Federal Aviation Administration’s own fatigue working group say is needed after five cases disclosed since late March of sleeping controllers. The latest one occurred

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Artist Ross Lampshire poses next to a city transformer he painted at First Street and Cleveland Avenue. Lampshire has submitted a design in the One day in early summer of next round of public art.

2009, Ross Lampshire took a paintbrush to his first electric transformer box on First Street and Cleveland Avenue.

Working on the box’s top, he had gotten quite a bit of lightning and a stormy navy, gray and black sky painted as he watched the clouds above his head start to build. When it began to sprinkle, Lampshire

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‘Times change, but the tradition doesn’t’

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While their nieces and nephews participate in the dances — where traditional dress, ankle bells, thumping drum circles and Indian songs reign — the Springs are more observers.

“It’s just a lot of fun to see everyone together,” he said.

At the Indian Art Market, another feature of the annual Northern Colorado-based powwow, venders hoped for more in the way of traffic from local visitors, rather than just the tribal members who share the powwow circuit with them.

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were more buyers here,” said Maleri Standing Rock, a Navajo from Window Rock, Ariz., who now lives in Rio Rancho, N.M., a sprawling suburb on Albuquerque’s western edge.

Before her, spread on three tables, were examples of the silver jewelry and beadwork that she and her husband, Milton Yazzie, make by hand.

“We do this every weekend,” she said “This is our job.”

Another vender, Longmont resident Rose Red Elk, traces her tribal roots to the Fort Peck reservation in northeastern Montana, where her Lakota and Assiniboine par-

ents raised her.

“The times change, but the tradition doesn’t,” said Red Elk, who as a traditional storyteller and singer-songwriter goes by the name Red Feather Woman.

She went to Texas A&M University’s law school, then worked for IBM before returning to her roots as an Indian artist.

“I have four children, and seven grandchildren, and they all embrace the tradition,” she said. “That’s a good thing.”

Tom Hacker can be reached at 6695050, ext. 521, or thacker@reporterherald.com.

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paying no taxes,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the center, which generated the estimate of people who pay no income taxes.

The sheer volume of credits, deductions and exemptions has both Democrats and Republicans calling for tax laws to be overhauled.

House Republicans want to eliminate breaks to pay for lower overall rates, reducing the top tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. Republicans oppose raising taxes, but they argue that a more efficient tax code would increase economic activity, generating additional tax revenue.

President Barack Obama said last week he wants to do away with tax breaks to lower the rates and to reduce government borrowing. Obama’s proposal would result in $1 trillion in tax increases over the next 12 years. Neither proposal included many details, putting off hard choices about which tax breaks to eliminate.

In all, the tax code is filled with a total of $1.1 trillion in credits, deductions and exemptions, an average of about $8,000 per taxpayer, according to an analysis by the National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog within the IRS. More than half of the nation’s tax revenue came from the top 10 percent of earners in 2007. More than 44 percent came from the top 5 percent.

Still, the wealthy have access to much more lucrative tax breaks than people with lower incomes.

Obama wants the wealthy to pay so “the amount of taxes you pay isn’t determined by what kind of accountant you can afford.”

Eric Schoenberg says to sign him up for paying higher taxes. Schoenberg, who inherited money and has a healthy portfolio from his days as an investment banker, has joined a group of other wealthy Americans called United for a Fair Economy. Their goal: Raise taxes on rich people like themselves.

Schoenberg, who now teaches a business class at Columbia University, said his income is usually “north of half a million a year.” But 2009 was a bad year for investments, so his income dropped to a little over $200,000. His federal income tax bill was a little more than $2,000.

“I simply point out to people, ‘Do you think this is rea-

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President Barack Obama outlines his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington University. Obama said in April that he wants to do away with tax breaks to lower the rates and to reduce government borrowing. sonable, that somebody in my circumstances should only be paying 1 percent of their income in tax?’”

Schoenberg said.

Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said he has a solution for rich people who want to pay more in taxes: Write a check to the IRS. There’s nothing stopping you.

“There’s still time before the filing deadline for them to give Uncle Sam some more money,” Hatch said.

Schoenberg said Hatch’s suggestion misses the point.

“This voluntary idea clearly represents a mindset that basically pretends there’s no such things as collective goods that we produce,” Schoenberg said. “Are you

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The law is packed with tax breaks that help narrow special interests. But many of the biggest tax breaks benefit millions of American families at just about every income level, making them difficult for politicians to touch.

The vast majority of those who escape federal income taxes have low and medium incomes, and most of them pay other taxes, including Social Security and Medicare taxes, property taxes and retail sales taxes.

The share of people paying no federal income tax has dropped slightly the past two years. It was 47 percent for 2009.

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By Shelley Widhalm

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Fourteen-year-old Cosette Klingler sat at a makeshift worktable in the middle of her living room, painting an image of a girl’s face without use of a model.

The Loveland girl spent part of her spring break trying to finish the painting and one to two others for an art show next Saturday.

“I’m really excited because I love to paint,” Cosette said. “I like to be creative and show what’s on my mind.”

Cosette is the only youth artist who will be showing her work alongside 14 professional Colorado artists during the first-ever Art for a Child’s Sake, a benefit for

If You Go What: Art for a Child’s Sake, original artwork from 15 artists.

When: 6-9 p.m. Saturday.

Where: The Bonnell Building, 129 E. Fourth St., Loveland.

Tickets: Go to www.larimer cac.org or contact Liz Rowe at 407-9739 or liz@larimercac.org.

Cost: $25 individual/ $40 couple. the Larimer County Child Advocacy Center.

“It’s a great way to get out there and start my career as an artist,” Cosette said.

Cheryl Allin, an oils and photography artist in Fort Collins, started the art show as part of a series that will marry local nonprofits and

Health Fair is Saturday

By Ann Schimke

For the Reporter-Herald

If you have a suspicious spot on your skin that you’d like a doctor to examine, the 31st annual Loveland Community Health Fair is the place to be on Saturday morning.

The fair’s skin cancer screening is the most popular screening offered, said Sheryl Fahrenbruch, the Wellness Services director at McKee Medical Center.

The event, which runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the McKee Conference and Wellness Center, will feature more than a dozen health screenings, as well as virtual fitness planning, nutrition assessment, ear acupressure and chair massage. Participants who had blood drawn for the event in the past few weeks can pick up their results and consult with physicians on-site about the labs.

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In addition to the skin cancer screening, the fair’s most popular screenings are expected to be the bone density, diabetes and hearing screenings. “If you don’t have insurance, those are the most expensive tests,” said Fahrenbruch.

Fahrenbruch said organizers hope the health fair will attract around 2,000 people this year, up from 1,600-1,800 in the past.

“We’ve tried to get more screeners this year as opposed to informational booths,” she said.

All told, there will be about 75 staff and volunteers working at the fair, which represents an expense of more than $75,000.

New this year will be vein screening using ultrasound machines. In addition, Gold’s Gym will be providing body fat testing and virtual fitness planning. Balance and fallrisk screening and ear acupressure are also relatively new, said Fahrenbruch.

Although most of the fair’s offerings target people ages 16 and up, asthma screening is one of the tests that is also available for school-aged children.

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the arts in a way that benefits both.

“It’s harder now with the economic times,” Allin said.

“People aren’t giving as much. They aren’t going to events as much.”

As a volunteer at the Child Advocacy Center, Allin has seen firsthand the difficulty in finding funding for nonprofits, many of which compete for the same grants.

“We are very small but very powerful,” said Laura Hunt, executive director of the Child Advocacy Center in Fort Collins. “With the economy the way it is, although our numbers are growing, we’re doing more with less staff.”

Nonprofits such as the Child Advocacy Center have

to develop other ways to find money, so Allin came up with the combined art and nonprofits show.

The artists each will donate one of their pieces, which guests can bid on by purchasing $10 tickets. The proceeds from admission fees and the art sales will go to the nonprofit.

The artists can bring four to five pieces to show and sell during the one-day event.

“It’s going to be an evening of food, fun and entertainment,” Allin said.

“You can’t go anywhere on Saturday night and get all of that and have the networking opportunity and help kids of Larimer County.”

Allin plans to organize the combined shows on a quar-

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Bill Reed Middle School eighth-grader Cosette Klingler, 14, works on an acrylic painting in her Loveland home in preparation for next Saturday’s Art for a Child’s Sake show. terly basis in businesses and galleries in Loveland and Fort Collins. She plans to find young artists through the Thompson and Poudre school districts and churches in both communities, she said.

“The kids are so excited

that someone wants to showcase their creativity,” Allin said. “It gives them confidence in their abilities.”

Shelley Widhalm can be reached at 669-5050, ext. 531, or swidhalm@ reporter-herald.com.

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Local veteran lived to tell tale of Kamikaze attack Editor’s note: In this occasional series, the Reporter-Herald shares the stories of Loveland-area veterans of World War II. All stories are archived on www.reporterherald.com, in the roundup section found under the “Web extras” menu.

By Glenna Murdock

For the Reporter-Herald

It was Aug. 13, 1945, and rumors of a Japanese surrender were swirling on the USS Lagrange.

The ship typically traveled as part of a convoy, and Russ Dieterle and his fellow crewmen had witnessed dozens of kamikaze attacks on other convoy vessels during their year at sea, a fate the Lagrange had escaped. Now, with the end of the war at hand, it seemed the attack transport and her crew of 530 would come out of it unscathed.

That was not to be.

Dieterle had enlisted in the Navy at Rochester, N.Y., on Jan. 8, 1944, his 17th birthday.

WAR STORIES “I had four older cousins I looked up to who were all Navy men,” Dieterle explained. “I never considered any other service branch.”

Boot camp was followed by diesel and engineering school, after which Dieterle was rated a motor machinist’s mate, whose job it was to maintain a ship’s engines and cooling system. After five months of amphibious training at Coronado Island, Calif., and nearly a year after enlisting, Dieterle was aboard the Lagrange and finally at sea, heading to Papua, New Guinea.

During the next year the ship sailed the South Pacific transporting cargo and troops. The Lagrange participated in a number of beach invasions, including the

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Russ Dieterle points to pictures of damage done to the USS Lagrange, a ship he served on that was hit Aug. 13, 1945, by a Japanese kamikaze pilot in the last days of World War II. largest amphibious assault of the Pacific war, the invasion of Okinawa.

In mid-August 1945 the Lagrange departed Okinawa’s Buckner Bay in a convoy headed to a destination known only to the Navy brass.

She was a day out to sea when the port authority ordered the Lagrange to leave the convoy and return to the bay.

“There was a lot of speculation among the crew,” Dieterle said. “Were we being recalled to prepare for an invasion of Japan or maybe for the occupation if there was a surrender?”

The Lagrange arrived at Buckner Bay on Aug. 13. At eight o’clock that evening signalmen on the ship’s bridge saw a Japanese plane flying across the bay toward them.

There was no indication that the plane would attack, and as it passed by the crew was puzzled as to how it had flown past the picket (sentinel) ships without being shot down.

“Maybe the war is over,” they thought.

In a matter of minutes the

plane was back, diving toward the ship and crashing fullforce into the ship’s communication room, resulting in a tremendous explosion and fire. Crew members scrambled to their battle stations.

“I rushed up the ladder on the port side to find a wall of flames,” Dieterle said. “I did a 180 and went to the starboard ladders to reach my station in the bow of the main deck. I had just got into my position, passing ammo to the gunners, when we saw a second plane coming in low and flat.

Fortunately, its wing hit the king post, causing it to cartwheel and crash into the water rather than into the ship.”

It took several hours, with the help of crews from nearby ships, to extinguish the fire onboard the extensively damaged vessel.

Twenty-one crewmen perished in the attack, 89 were injured. The next day, Aug. 14, 1945, President Harry Truman announced Japan’s surrender.

The Lagrange had suffered the last known kamikaze attacks of the war.

After his discharge in

November 1947, Dieterle returned to upstate New York and finished high school in a class made up entirely of veterans. He married Lucille, a hometown girl he’d known since seventh grade.

The couple relocated to Loveland with their two children in 1971 when Russ transferred to the new Kodak plant in Windsor. He retired in 1984 as a sectional supervisor for vocational training after 31 years with the company.

In April 2010 Dieterle visited the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C., as a guest of the Northern Colorado Honor Flight, an experience he cherishes.

“I can’t say enough good about that organization,” he said. “The trip was perfectly planned; everything about it was A-1.”

Commenting on his war service, Dieterle emphatically says, “If you’re looking for a hero, I am not your man. I’m one of the lucky ones. The heroes are those who died. I think of them always and every day I fly the flag for them.”

Briefs Fort Collins offering wood mulch at $5 per load FORT COLLINS — The city of Fort Collins Forestry Division will offer wood mulch to the public for $5 per load 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The forestry department also will accept donations of nonperishable food items for the Food Bank for

Larimer County during the event.

The wood mulch will be distributed at the city’s park shop location, 413 S. Bryan Ave., in City Park. Enter and exit on Bryan Avenue at Mulberry Street.

Bring exact funds to cover the cost and a tarp or cover to secure the mulch once it has been loaded, to prevent scattering.

Loading will be performed by a

front loader while supplies last.

Wood mulch will be loaded into open-top vehicles or trailers.

Hand shoveling into vehicles or enclosed trailers will not be provided.

Self-loading wood mulch sites are available to residents throughout the year at the Gardens on Spring Creek and the Rivendell Recycle Center.

Volunteers needed to aid tree-planting effort FORT COLLINS — Volunteers are being sought to help with treeplanting next weekend.

Groups will be planting trees from 9 a.m. to noon at Running Deer Natural Area, which is south of Prospect Street west of Interstate 25.

Parking will be limited, so residents are asked to carpool or ride their bicycles to the site.

Registration is required by contacting the Natural Areas Program office at 416-2815 or naturalareas @fcgov.com. Participants should plan to bring close-toed shoes, a hat, sunscreen, water and work gloves.

— Reporter-Herald staff

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OPINION April 18, 2011

The First Amendment

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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Reporter-Herald Editorial

Shutdown came too close for comfort

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he potential shutdown of the federal government was averted at the last minute April 8, but it brought up many questions about what the effects of a shutdown might be.

Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith caused much confusion by announcing he would lend deputies to help keep Rocky Mountain National Park open, even though he has no jurisdiction to do so.

Though his intentions were good — to prevent loss of business in Estes Park — had the shutdown occurred many people might have tried to visit the park, only to find it closed. Some might even have thought it was OK to trespass and possibly cause damage, which happened during the last government shutdown.

Confusion over the potential closure wasn’t limited to the national park.

Across the country, many military families wondered whether they would get paychecks. Social Security recipients wondered if they would get their checks. Other people wondered about the status of their income tax refunds or if government offices they needed to visit would be open.

The last government shutdowns came in 1995-96, when a similarly divided Congress bickered over spending priorities.

Like 15 years ago, the current political atmosphere in Washington, D.C., gives little confidence that legislators will reach future budget agreements in a timely manner. After all, the federal government’s fiscal year started Oct. 1, and they still haven’t worked out all the appropriations for the year that’s now more than half over.

The near-miss on April 8 did give people a chance to see how they might be affected by a shutdown.

Armed with that knowledge, people might want to make plans for possible closures and to set aside money in household budgets in case another shutdown looms.

Or they might want to contact their legislators and ask them to start doing their jobs and approve government appropriations in a more timely manner.

Our View

Like 15 years ago, the current political atmosphere in Washington, D.C., gives little confidence that legislators will reach future budget agreements in a timely manner.

Other Views The San Jose Mercury News on Planned Parenthood: The Republican Party’s vendetta against Planned Parenthood is not about abortion. It is an attack on poor women.

President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders need to constantly make that point as the long-term budget battle rages on.

The assault on the nonprofit will not end with last week’s temporary budget compromise.

Planned Parenthood has become a symbol for abortion in this country, even though 90 percent of its work is preventive and general health care. Federal grants now go toward that 90 percent of services; not a penny of federal money goes toward abortion. So cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood actually would cut off millions of women from health care, including cancer screenings, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and, yes, contraception, which, arguably, is the best way to prevent abortions and help low-income women escape poverty.

Already fear is spreading among poor communities. In California’s Central Valley, women are calling their health care providers at Planned Parenthood in a panic because they see in the news that they might lose access to birth control.

Opponents of abortion have a right to argue for making it illegal, as it was in the dark ages of women’s rights. But using Planned Parenthood as a symbol and cutting its funding will create massive collateral damage among the poor women who will lose health care. Democratic leaders have to be relentless in pointing this out.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The morning Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve’s regional bank here, announced that he would retire Oct. 1, newspapers nationwide reported that henceforth the Fed’s chairmen will hold quarterly news conferences.

This is probably both regrettable and inevitable.

The Fed is called “independent” because it was Washington Post created to insulate monWriters Group etary policy from political pressures. But it was created by Congress, which can do what it wants with the Fed. Also, for more than three decades the Fed has had a “dual mandate” — to protect the currency as a store of value (restraining inflation) and to promote “maximum employment.” The latter inserts the Fed into political calculations and decisions.

Furthermore, the Fed’s current chairman, Ben Bernanke, speaks of the Fed’s tasks of “economic management” and “economic engineering.” (See his Sept. 24, 2010, speech at Princeton.) Such language, Hoenig says, is “the language of a central planner.” If the central bank acts like this, it will face the scrutiny that comes with the political functions of consciously shaping society’s allocation of wealth and opportunity. One of Hoenig’s peers, Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, recently said: “The liquidity tanks are full, if not brimming over. ... What is needed now is for business to be incentivized to commit that liquidity to creating American jobs. This is the task of the fiscal authorities, not the Federal Reserve.”

Hoenig can see a liquidity-created bubble from where he sits. He sees farmland, the value of which is soaring throughout the Midwest, for several reasons. One is that food prices are increasing rapidly because the Chinese, Indians, Brazilians and others in emerging markets are eating more calories and more of them in meat produced by turning cereals into animal feed.

But another reason is that extremely low interest rates and the rapid expansion of the money supply have caused lots of money to slosh around, seeking assets that will produce higher returns. The Fed’s policy seems designed to pursue a very elastic interpretation of its mandate — to manipulate the stock market.

Since Bernanke’s speech last August signaling another “quantitative easing” (printing another $600 billion), the Dow market is up more than 20 percent. In theory, with interest rates low and lots of liquidity, enough money will flow into equities to create a “wealth effect” stimulus: The expanding portfolios of the 20 percent of people who own 93 percent of equities will quicken their owners’ acquisitiveness.

Hoenig is proof that the phrase “conservative populist” is not quite an oxymoron: “One of the great tragedies of this era is that ‘too big to fail’ has been codified.” He thinks that if something is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. He believes, as Milton Friedman said, that America has a profit and loss system — the possibility of profit is an incentive for risk, the possibility of loss is an incentive for prudence in the pursuit of profit. Because “too big to fail” short-circuits this, Hoenig favors restoration of “something like” the Glass-Steagall law — passed in 1933, repealed in 1999 — that separated commercial banking from the more risky investment banking. So he favors breaking up the largest banks: He says the 20 biggest are, cumulatively, 20 percent larger than they were before the crisis.

Is it, he is asked, mere coincidence that the Great Depression was (a) America’s longest slump and (b) the one combated by the most government activism?

Is it mere correlation, not causation, that the recession which ended in June 2009, although not the nation’s most severe, has received the most ambitious government attempts at amelioration yet has been followed by the most sluggish recovery from a sharp contraction in modern times?

Hoenig’s answer is oblique but suggestive: Given uncertainties, including those created by government policies, investors “freeze up and pull back. When you don’t know, you go still.” He says, “Capitalism isn’t a straight line, it’s a zigzag, and when you introduce policies to eliminate the zigzag you can introduce instability.”

Or stagnation. Or the faux dynamism created by a “buy now” spirit fueled by inflation expectations. They are inevitably unleashed by dramatic, protracted expansion of the money supply because confidence in fiat money eventually varies inversely with the quantity of such money.

George Will can be reached at georgewill@washpost.com.

Obama’s equivalent of death panels I’ve never felt so simpatico with Joe Biden as I did after President Obama’s Great Deficit Speech. Ol’ lunch bucket Joe seemed to doze off during the president’s oration. Perhaps he only appeared to be snoozing. But I can report that your faithful correspondent, despite the best intentions, did actually nod off a few times in the course of the address myself.

The first time I found my lids drooping was around paragraph four, when the president rhapsodized about the greatness of government: “We’ve laid down railroads and highways to facilitate travel and commerce. We’ve supported the work of scientists and researchers whose discoveries have saved lives, unleashed repeated technological revolutions and led to countless new jobs and entire industries. Each of us has benefited from these investments, and we are a more prosperous country as a result.”

Who would not, at this point, yawn and grumble, “I’ve seen this movie before”? Obama never tires of invoking the interstate highway system as the model of government activism (though we do tire of hearing about it). He’s mentioned it in all three of his State of the Union addresses, when proclaiming the glories of the stimulus bill (“We will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s”), and in defense of his “investment” in highspeed rail.

It’s a truism that, as the president said, some tasks can be performed only by government (national defense, courts of law, etc.).

But Obama’s frequent invocation of government’s greatest hits, along with his tendency to attribute economic growth to government action is part of his

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utterly conventional, myopic, Great Society, liberal worldview. Snore.

What startled me out of my slumber was this nugget in paragraph 11: “America’s finances were in great shape by the year 2000. We went from deficit to surplus. America was actually on track to becoming completely debt-free, and we were prepared for the retirement of the baby boomers. But after Democrats and Republicans committed to fiscal discipline during the 1990s, we lost our way in the decade that followed.”

This “it all started with George W. Bush” trope is more than tiresome — it’s shallow, pandering and dishonest. The entitlement crisis was the most predictable (and predicted) fiscal train wreck in history. The math about entitlement spending has been evident for decades. In 1994, to cite just one warning that predated the Bush bogeyman presidency, President Clinton’s bipartisan commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform reported that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and civilian and military pensions would exceed total federal revenues by 2030.

We know today that things are worse. The American Enterprise Institute’s Andrew Biggs reminds us that “the joke among entitlement analysts is that the government will eventually turn into a pension plan with an army.” Or maybe without the Army.

Remember, the pre-speech buzz suggested that Obama was going to debut a new seriousness about America’s looming debt. We were led to expect, if not a full embrace of entitlement reform, at least an honest grapple with the scope of the problem. Instead, he

stooped to full “mediscare” scurrilousness. Under the Republican plan, Obama warned darkly, the elderly would have their Medicare withdrawn, to be replaced with “a voucher.” Kids with autism and other debilitating diseases would be told “to fend for themselves.”

Obama basically accused Republicans of sponsoring death panels. And “50 million Americans would have to lose their health insurance in order for us to reduce the deficit.” The president didn’t identify those 50 million — except to suggest to his college audience that it might be “someone’s grandmother” — but he may have been referring to the “uninsured” who would be covered by Obamacare. If so, that’s a figure that’s been through more changes than Hillary Clinton’s hairstyle. In July 2009, the president said there were “47 million uninsured Americans.” The following month, he used the figure of 46 million. And in September, he and his administration began to speak of “30 million” uninsured. Is the president now boosting the estimate to 50? None of the numbers, incidentally, was correct.

But that wouldn’t trouble someone bent not on leading but on misleading.

Last week, Rep. Paul Ryan was asked whether he and the Republicans were making themselves vulnerable to demagogic attacks by taking on entitlement spending directly.

“We are,” he replied.

“They are going to demagogue us, and it’s that demagoguery that has always prevented political leaders in the past from actually trying to fix the problem.”

You might have expected Obama to be shamed out of his worst instincts by that prediction. He wasn’t.

Mona Charen can be reached at the Creators Syndicate, 5777 Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, 90060.

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Lawmakers eyeing bear-hunting rules

Human encounters are sharply rising DENVER (AP) — Bears beware — Colorado lawmakers worried about the animals’ growing population are talking about giving wildlife officials more say over when bears can be hunted.

A proposal set for its first hearing today would repeal a 1992 voterapproved initiative that prohibits hunting bears from March 1 to Sept. 1 and give the state Division of Wildlife authority to expand hunting dates.

Voters overwhelmingly approved the initiative amid concern that female bears were being hunted in the spring, when they are taking care of their cubs. The initiative also banned hunting bears with dogs and baiting bears with food to kill them.

The bill sponsored by Rep. J. Paul Brown would not eliminate those provisions.

Brown, a lawmaker from southwestern Colorado, said he’s concerned that the animals are becoming less afraid of people.

“If at all possible, I just don’t want to have a tragedy with some little kid getting killed by a bear if there’s a bad bear around,” he said.

But a wildlife rights group argues the bear population is still vulnerable and its numbers could dwindle fast if more hunting is allowed.

“Sure, if you wipe out the whole

population there’s going to be no conflicts” with people, said Wendy Keefover, director of carnivore protection for WildEarth Guardians.

Brown insists he’s not advocating a spring bear hunt and that it’s unlikely that hunters will be allowed to take the animals during spring.

He’s also not offering an opinion as to when more hunting should happen.

“The Division of Wildlife, I think, are the experts, and they’re the ones that need to make those decisions,” he said.

“It’s just that right now, as it is in statute, they just don’t have that flexibility.”

Randy Hampton, a DOW spokesman, said the agency is not taking a position on the bill. But he said having additional season-setting flexibility would permit the department to allow bear hunting during the late summer “in areas where bear densities are determined to be too high.”

“Just because we are given authority to hunt year-round doesn’t mean the spring hunt would come back. We’re not discussing the spring hunt as an option,” Hampton said.

Hampton said that wildlife officials estimated the bear population at close to 8,000 in the early 1990s.

Additional research is under way and wildlife officials “have conser-

The Associated Press

Aspen firefighter Craig Melville, left, and others hold on tight as a bear cub screams in September 2007, on the Hyman Avenue Mall in Aspen. Colorado's bear population has soared over the last 20 years, triggering more encounters with people and a call from lawmakers to extend the season to hunt them to manage their population. vatively estimated the black bear population in Colorado at approximately 12,000 bears,” Hampton said.

Bear encounters with people have increased as more Coloradans move into rugged areas and people explore more of the state’s backcountry, Hampton said. Urban development, persistent droughts and late frosts also have brought bears and humans closer as the animals search for food.

In 2009, wildlife officers and landowners killed 211 bears because of their interaction with peo-

In Brief

ple or property, and another 219 in 2010. In 2008, 107 problem bears were killed, according to DOW. Last week, a man in suburban Colorado Springs told police he had to take refuge on top of his truck after he was chased by a mother bear and her two cubs.

Last summer, wildlife agents killed a bear that bit a man in Durango who was sleeping in his backyard.

The man wasn’t seriously hurt.

Keefover, with WildEarth Guardians, said bear-versus-human conflicts are a matter of people taking personal responsibility

and being smart about not attracting bears by leaving food or trash where it’s easily accessible.

She said that despite Brown’s reassurance that a spring bear hunt won’t happen, she’s still worried that bears will be targeted when cubs are most dependent on their mothers.

“The idea that we need to hunt when cubs are vulnerable is just completely unethical and wrong,” she said.

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Wildfire burns about 100 acres in Morgan County

fire was reported. Residents have been allowed to return home. McCracken says fire crews from five agencies responded to the fire.

No structures were damaged. No injuries were reported.

FORT MORGAN — A wildfire northwest of Fort Morgan prompted the precautionary evacuation of three homes and scorched about 100 acres before crews were able to stop its Plane makes emergency advance. landing in Colo. Springs Morgan County CommisCOLORADO SPRINGS — sioner Brian McCracken says the fire was 70 percent Landing gear problems contained at 5 p.m. Sunday, prompted a California Air about five hours after the National Guard C-130J mili-

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Crews reported a problem with the landing gear at about 10 a.m. Sunday and circled the airport for about an hour and a half. The plane landed around noon after the crew was unable to resolve the problem.

No injuries were reported.

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“I’m a proud independent voter. I vote for the best person regardless of party affiliation. However, every now and then, there comes a time to take a stance against a party. Several years ago, the Republican party had nothing but negative ads.

The consequence for them is I did not vote for a Republican. Just this last week, the Democrats pushed through a bill that allowed criminal children in-state tuition, referring to illegal immigrants.

This is just plain wrong to be able to do this. Therefore, I will not vote for a Democrat in the next election. That’s the price they pay.”

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‘Police State’ Call

“This is referring to the ‘police state’ caller. The old saying goes, better to have too much than not enough.

I would rather have too ‘Napoleon Tried It’ many police on scene than “This is about the national not enough. The guy already debt. Our problems will nev- ran in a (possibly) stolen veer go away as long as we are hicle. Who knows what he’ll in a three-front war. Hitler do next.” tried it. Napoleon tried it. A ——— trillion dollars a month is going to bring us down ev“Whatever happened to ery month that we’re in it. the sheriff with the badge That’s all I need to say.” and the patrol car? The question is, what happened Mostly Empty Buses to the citizen who used to “Just a thought concerning respect the sheriff with the busing: Busing is not manbadge in the patrol car?” dated by the state of Colorado. It is, indeed, optional. ‘Great Place To Live’ If you want to see what to do Loveland is such a great with busing, go to any of the place to live. Where else can three local high schools and you park free, walk to a check out how many kids restaurant and have a reaare riding the bus in the afsonable meal, go to a twoternoon. There are some 45- and-a-half-hour concert at passenger buses that will go the beautiful Rialto Theater out with fewer than 10 kids with Hazel Miller and her on them. Check it out.” band for only $15, and then walk down the street and lisGardner, Medicare ten to Wendy Woo sing?

“Rep. Cory Gardner claims Great place to live.” his support of Paul Ryan’s Messy Redistricting Medicare cuts does not mean he supports privatiza“The issue of redistricting tion. The plan will give secould get messy, as the paniors a voucher to cover per said. Do you realize that

in one plan Boulder would be in our group, in Loveland’s group? Let’s think this one through real carefully before we jump in.”

Clean Energy Quota “To the misinformed caller who believes that government can do little or nothing about the cost of living: When you get your electric bill in July, due to the government’s requirement that clean energy make up at least 30 percent of the electricity we get, we’re going be getting a nice, fat increased electric bill thanks to the government, not big business.”

Five-Story Building “In considering the new proposal for a five-story building at Lincoln and Sixth Street, has City Council noticed that Lincoln Place has never been filled to capacity in either the residential or the retail space?”

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In this September 2010 file photo, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood listens to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt talk about proposed rules to help prevent dangerous pilot fatigue at the Transportation Department in Washington.

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Sleep on job an ‘open secret’

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Special to the Reporter-Herald/MARK LEFFINGWELL

Ed and Gina Gazvoda with an image depicting the Coffin Spa, Ed’s invention that is slated to hit the market sometime this summer. The Coffin Spa uses alkaline hydrolysis, which mimics natural decomposition.

A greener way to go

By John Aguilar

For the Reporter-Herald

LAFAYETTE — Dying is a dirty business. One Lafayette entrepreneur is looking to clean it up.

Ed Gazvoda wants to use a process called alkaline hydrolysis to reduce a corpse to a bag of bone powder and a barrel of gray water.

The 51-year-old “serial entrepreneur” started a company called CycledLife out of the basement of his Waneka Lake home a couple of years ago in order to develop a way of making the disposition of human remains environmentally friendly.

His invention, dubbed the Coffin Spa, is being designed by Lafayette’s API Engineering LLC. It is slated to hit the market sometime this summer.

Gazvoda argues that alkaline hydrolysis mimics natural decomposition — albeit compressed into hours rather than weeks or months. It works by breaking down proteins and destroying DNA and leaving behind nothing but harmless pathogen-free byproducts clean enough to fertilize pastureland or a farmer’s field.

The process has been around for nearly two decades, but has mostly been used to decompose animal carcasses and donated human cadavers. CycledLife for the first time

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‘Coffin Spa’ method eliminates harmful byproducts from decomposition

brings the procedure to the nation’s funeral homes.

In the Coffin Spa, a body is submerged in an alkaline/water mixture that is pumped through the “coffin” and heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. After six to eight hours, the corpse is reduced to a brown liquid and a small pile of bone residue.

The advantages of liquefaction over cremation or burial, Gazvoda claims, are numerous.

“With cremation, you get back about 5 percent of the body,” he said. “Where did the rest of it go? It got spewed out of a smokestack.”

That means the release of nitrogen oxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and dioxins. Worse, Gazvoda said, mercury from dental fillings vaporizes and goes into the atmosphere.

“If a crematory were a power plant, people would be up in arms,” Gazvoda said.

With burials, he said, bodies filled with medications and pathogens act as sources of groundwater contamination.

“They are full of pills, full of embalming fluid, full of prions,” he said.

During alkaline hydrolysis, medical devices, mercury fillings and other contaminants easily can be removed after the fact and disposed of properly, Gazvoda said.

“I think cremation is dead — it will be dead in five to 10 years,” he said.

Arlen Brown, president of the Colorado Funeral Directors Association, said breaking down bodies with alkaline is the wave of the future, but he said much needs to be accomplished on the regulatory and technological side before the practice will be given the same legitimacy as existing methods.

“There’s going to be a permitting issue on getting this done,” he said.

Gazvoda, who is trying to land $1.5 million in funding for CycledLife, said he will first have to do battle with those in the industry who aren’t ready for something new and with regulators who don’t understand alkaline hydrolysis.

“The industry has no incentive to change until customers demand it,” Gazvoda said.

Alkaline hydrolysis advocates got a boost earlier this year when the Colorado Legislature passed a bill that makes “chemical methods” an accepted form of body disposition in the state. The measure was signed by the governor April 6.

Applications for Transformations due by 5 p.m. Friday, April 29

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Want to leave your artistic mark on Loveland?

Apply to paint one of 10 electrical transformer boxes across town.

Get application information at: http://www.ci.loveland.co.us/cultural_ services/cultural_services_AIPP%20calls%20for%20entry.htm.

Applications must be received or postmarked by 5 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave. The Visual Arts Commission will pay artists between $1,000 and $2,000 per box, depending on size.

Artists have from early June through Aug. 31 to complete their boxes using their own, artist-grade materials. pending on the box’s size, and must complete their box

by Aug. 31. They are asked to provide their own artistgrade materials.

Full project and application details are available on the city of Loveland website or at the Loveland Museum/Gallery.

Started in 2009, the Transformations project is an arm of Art in Public Places, an initiative designed to “beautify downtown” and act as “graffiti abatement,” said Suzanne Janssen, the public art/business services manager for the museum. But, because Loveland doesn’t have much graf-

fiti, she said, it’s more geared to the former: giving artists the opportunity to do something they love and share that with the public.

Lampshire agreed. When working on transformer boxes the past two years, he said he has changed the tone of his design after listening to feedback from passers-by “to make it a little more acceptable to the public it’s (the art is) serving.”

For the first time, the Visual Arts Commission has selected a theme, “Historic Loveland,” to direct the coming brush strokes.

It was an old photo of an

old car –– maybe a “1950s Cadillac” –– driving through the Big Thompson Canyon that inspired Lampshire’s design submission this year.

Don’t know how to start the process? His advice is for artists to pick a design they like and stick with it because “you’re going to be involved in it, and it’s going to consume you for several weeks.”

Lampshire said the project forces artists to learn to work in new environments and under new conditions. Mixing paint takes on new meaning when the sun is so hot that brush dries to box almost on contact. The threat of rain and dust-laden wind is ever-present, and finding time to work –– around one’s day job and in good light –– is challenging.

But, he said, it’s worth it.

There’s nothing like driving about town and being able to see your own work, he said, and fostering public enjoyment is at the core.

“The people enjoy it because, a lot of times, it ends up in their yard, as part of their landscape,” he said.

just before 5 a.m. Saturday at a busy regional radar facility that handles high altitude air traffic for much of Florida, portions of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Several other countries, including Germany and Japan, permit controllers to take sleeping breaks and they provide quiet rooms with cots for that purpose.

“Given the body of scientific evidence, that decision clearly demonstrates that politics remain more important than public safety,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation of Alexandria, Va. “People are concerned about a political backlash if they allow controllers to have rest periods in their work shifts the same way firefighters and trauma physicians do.”

It has been an open secret in the FAA dating to at least the early 1990s that controllers sometimes sleep on the job. Toughest are the midnight shifts, which usually begin about 10 p.m. and end about 6 a.m.

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to do the same.

By 5 p.m. Friday, April 29, artists must submit an application to the Transformations project at the Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave. Full submissions must include: • A current resume or curriculum vitae complete with contact information and references.

• Images of past work on slides that are no more than 2 MB apiece.

• A completed artist application.

• A letter of intent.

• A 3-D model of a design concept using any medium.

This should not exceed 11by-11-by-7 inches and is a scale model of the average 75-by-75-by-45-inch transformer box.

On May 11, a jury of residents and city staff will recommend to the Visual Arts Commission the names of 10 artists to participate this year.

Once chosen, artists are paid between $1,000 and $2,000 for their work, de-

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day when the body naturally craves sleep.

Studies show that 30 percent to 50 percent of nightshift workers report falling asleep at least once a week while on the job, according to Dr. Charles Czeisler, chief of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Six of eight present and former controllers interviewed by The Associated Press acknowledged they briefly fell asleep while working alone at night at least once in their careers.

Most of the controllers asked not to be identified because they didn’t want to jeopardize their jobs or the jobs of colleagues.

Much more common is taking a nap on purpose, they said. On midnight shifts, one controller will work two positions while the other one sleeps and then they switch off, controllers said. The unsanctioned arrangements sometimes allow controllers to sleep as much as three hours or four hours out of an eight-hour shift, they said.

The FAA does not allow controllers to sleep at work, even during breaks. Controllers who are caught can be suspended or fired.

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NICE TO KNOW The conditions that allowed for Saturday’s storms occur on the Great Plains maybe twice a year, but almost never in North Carolina.

Plan to remedy nuke crisis revealed

The Associated Press

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, second right, gets briefed Sunday during his inspection in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. It was his first visit to the area hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant laid out a blueprint Sunday for stopping radiation leaks and stabilizing damaged reactors within the next six to nine months as a first step toward allowing some of the tens of thousands of evacuees to return to the area.

While the government said the time frame was realistic, those forced to flee their homes, jobs and farms were frustrated that their exile is not going to end soon. And officials ac-

knowledge that unforeseen complications, or even another natural disaster, could set that timetable back even further.

“Well, this year is lost,” said Kenji Matsueda, 49, who is living in an evacuation center in Fukushima after being forced from his home 12 miles from the plant. “I have no idea what I will do. Nine months is a long time. And it could be longer. I don’t think they really know.”

Pressure has been building on the government

and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to resolve Japan’s worst-ever nuclear power accident since a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit the country March 11, knocking out power and cooling systems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex.

On orders from Prime Minister Naoto Kan, TEPCO drew up the blueprint and publicly explained its long-term strategy — for the first time since the disaster — for containing the crisis that has cast a cloud of fear over the country.

Climate dispute heads to court

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with.

But they’re on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case over the ability of states and groups such as the Audubon Society that want to sue large electric utilities and force power plants in 20 states to cut their emissions.

The administration is siding with American Electric Power Co. and three other companies in urging the high court to throw out the lawsuit on grounds the Environmental Protection Agency, not a federal court, is the proper authority to make rules about climate change.

The justices will hear arguments in the case Tuesday.

The court is taking up a climate change case for the second time in four years. In 2007, the court declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. By a 5-4 vote, the justices said the EPA has the authority to regulate those emissions from new cars and trucks under that landmark law. The same reasoning applies to power plants.

The administration says one reason to end the current suit is that the EPA is considering rules that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the administration also acknowledges that it is not certain that limits will be imposed.

At the same time, Republicans in Congress are leading an effort to strip the EPA of its power to regulate greenhouse gases.

The uncertainty about legislation and regulation is the best reason for allowing the case to proceed, said David Doniger, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which represents Audubon and other private groups dedicated to land conservation.

“This case was always the ultimate backstop,” Doniger said, even as he noted that the council would prefer legislation or EPA regulation to court decisions.

A Syrian protester flashes the victory sign during a protest calling for President Bashar Assad to step down Sunday in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan.

Three killed at Syrian protest after Assad vows reform BEIRUT — Gunmen opened fire during a funeral for a slain anti-government protester Sunday, killing at least three people on a day when tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide as part of an uprising against the country’s authoritarian regime, witnesses and activists said.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the shooting at the funeral near Homs, 100 miles from the capital, Damascus.

In the past four weeks, Syrian security forces in uniforms and plain clothes have launched a deadly crackdown on demonstrations, killing at least 200 people, according to human rights groups.

The government has blamed armed gangs looking to stir up unrest for many of the killings.

— The Associated Press

Day of Afghan attacks kills eight NATO service members

Associated Press photos

Chris Nelson, left, hugs his daughter Andrea Nelson, 15, Sunday in the parking lot of Lowe’s hardware store in Sanford, N.C., a day after a tornado destroyed the building while the Nelsons were shopping inside. The Nelsons returned Sunday to reclaim their truck, back right.

Savage storms

NC gets worst of deadly weather that ransacked swath of US

ASKEWVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the country unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where residents in the capital city and rural hamlets alike on Sunday mourned the dead, marveled at their survival and began to clean up devastated neighborhoods.

Observers reported more than 60 tornadoes across North Carolina on Saturday, but most of the state’s 21 confirmed deaths occurred in two rural counties. A thunderstorm spawning a tornado killed four people in southeastern Bladen County, then kept dropping tornadoes as it hopscotched more than 150 miles, eventually moving into Bertie County and killing 11 more.

Some homes were swept from their foundations, others were demolished and cars flipped on tiny rural roads between Askewville and Colerain, Bertie County Manager Zee Lamb said. At least three of those who died were from the same family, he said.

The winds ripped to shreds

KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan killed eight NATO service members in one of the deadliest days for the military coalition this year, signaling the start of what many fear will be a particularly violent fighting season as President Barack Obama looks to start drawing down troops, authorities said Sunday.

The spate of attacks happened Saturday, when two separate bomb blasts in the south killed three soldiers and a suicide bombing by a Taliban sleeper agent killed five NATO service members at a U.S. base in the east.

Fighting usually increases in Afghanistan as the weather warms and insurgents climb back over the mountainous border with Pakistan. This year, NATO has pushed further into Taliban strongholds in the south and has said the goal is to hold these areas so that militants cannot re-establish their dominance.

— The Associated Press

Rebels struggle to maintain key Libyan city, 17 killed in fighting

A tornado moves through Colerain, N.C. The photographer, Richard Burkett, snapped the picture shortly before he and his wife took cover in a closet underneath their stairs. The tornado hit their barn and came over their house seconds after the picture was taken. the doublewide mobile home in Askewville where Justin Dunlow had sought shelter for his 3-year-old daughter, 5-yearold son and himself. The 23-year-old roofer, whose own mobile home nearby also was destroyed, lay on both children as the storm did its worst.

“I just started praying, and the wall fell on top of us and that’s what kept us there,” he said. “I can replace the house, but I can’t replace my babies.

And that’s what I thought about. I’m alive. My babies are alive.”

Bertie County resident Richard Watford said he found the body of his neighbor face-

down on the ground, in the spot where the man’s house had been. Some wooden planks provided the only sign that a house had even been there.

The violent weather began Thursday in Oklahoma, where two people died, before cutting across the Deep South on Friday and hitting North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday.

Authorities said seven people died in Arkansas; seven in Alabama; seven in Virginia; and one in Mississippi.

More than 240 tornadoes were reported from the storm system, including 62 in North Carolina.

AJDABIYA, Libya — Holding out under a rain of shelling and sniper fire, Libyan rebels fought Moammar Gadhafi’s forces Sunday in close-quarters battles in the city center of Misrata, the last major rebel foothold in western Libya. Seventeen people were killed, an NGO worker and an opposition activist said.

Government troops have been laying siege to the city on Libya’s Mediterranean coast for weeks, prompting repeated international warnings of a dire humanitarian situation as well as calls for NATO forces to intensify airstrikes on Gadhafi’s forces there.

On Sunday, government troops, who have pushed into the city center from the outskirts in recent days, pounded Misrata with mortar rounds and rocketpropelled grenades, said resident AbdelSalam, who only provided his given name for fear of retribution.

“Residents have become so accustomed to the sound of mortars and missiles,” he said. “Snipers are still on the roofs of tall buildings shooting at anything that moves in the city center.”

Rebels fought government forces back from an area around a central produce market, regaining a small sliver of territory, said Rida al-Montasser, a local activist reached by Skype.

— The Associated Press

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C OMMUNITY

Mark Your Calendar

Club Notes

TODAY

Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12-step program for people who have a problem with alcohol. Meetings at 1528 N. Lincoln Ave., Suite 3, Loveland, are held 6:45 a.m., noon, 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except Wednesday when there is no 5:30 p.m. meeting; 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Meetings at 102 E. Third St., Loveland, are at noon, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday; noon, 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Tuesday and Wednesday; noon, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (young people’s meeting) Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m. (men’s meeting), noon and 8 p.m. and a 9:30 p.m. (candlelight meeting) Saturday; 8:30 a.m., noon and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Meetings are held at 801 N. Cleveland, Loveland, at noon Monday through Friday with a 10 a.m. men’s meeting on Saturdays.

Meetings are held at 2500 N. Garfield Ave., Loveland, at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Meetings are held at 217 W. Fourth St., Loveland, at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, 1 Aspen Drive, Loveland, 7 a.m., noon, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. MondayFriday except Wednesday when there is no 5:30 meeting; 7 a.m. 10 a.m., noon and 8 p.m. Saturday; 8:30 a.m., noon and 8 p.m. Sunday. For more information on AA, call the 24-hour hotline, 224-3552.

Big Thompson Kiwanis Club, 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, Egg and I, 2525 N. Lincoln Ave, Loveland. Gary Letourneau, pastor of the Mountain View Presbyterian Church, will speak.

Guests are welcome. Call 667-1054 for information.

Cancer Fighters, a group for those in their 20s and 30s, is being organized in Northern Colorado. People in their 20s and 30s with cancer can face different issues than older people affected by the disease, so the group is designed to let them meet and share resources. For information visit www.meetup.com/CancerFighters.

Celebrate Recovery, 7-9 p.m.

Wednesday, Grace Place, 250 Moun-

• Author Talk by Jonathan Waterman, noon, Loveland Public Library, Gertrude Scott meeting room, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland. Waterman will discuss his book, “Running Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River.” Free. Call 9622404.

• Living with Job Loss or Income Reduction, 6 p.m., Loveland Habitat for Humanity, 1154 Second St. SE, Loveland. A great class for folks who have lost their jobs, have had their hours cut, or are looking for positive ways to live on less. Free. Call 6699769. Email susan@LovelandHabitatForHumanity.org. Website: www.LovelandHabitatfor Humanity.org.

• Receive Free Information about Advance Care Planning, Loveland. Call 635-4097 to schedule an appointment or receive more information. Website: www .nationalhealthcaredecisionsday.org.

• Bingo to Support Colorado North Stars Volleyball, 7 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m., Bingo Planet, 281 E. 29th St., Loveland. Bingo, raffles, other fun games. $8 packet. Call 663-4545.

• Free Tax Preparation, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., First United Methodist Church of Loveland, 533 N. Grant Ave., Loveland. Volunteer tax assistants help those with low to moderate incomes with their taxes, including claiming special credits and deductions for which they may be eligible. Free. Call 211 or 800-906-9887. For homebound taxpayers, call 599-1794.

• Humpty Dumpty Storytime, 9 and 10 a.m., Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland. For ages birth to 21/2 and caregivers. Free. Call 962-2587.

• Award-Winning Screenwriter and Activist Speaks, 7 p.m., Lory Student Center, 501 University Ave., Fort Collins. Dustin Lance Black will be the final speaker for the spring 2011 Distinguished Speaker Series at Colorado State University. Free for students, $5 for public. Call 491-3754. Email slice_marketing@mail.colostate.edu.

• The Savvy Caregiver, 5-8 p.m., Alzheimer’s Association, 415 Peterson St., Fort Collins. Free workshop provides training and support for families and friends who are facing the challenges of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Call 4729798. Email marlene.brown@alz.org.

• Earth Day Bike Parade, 2-3 p.m., Colorado State University Oval, Laurel and Howes streets, Fort Collins. Ride through campus in costume. Website: http://BikeFort Collins.org.

TUESDAY

• Community Budget Forum, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Mary Blair Elementary School, 860 E. 29th St., Loveland. To reveal proposed plans for making millions of dollars of cuts to the 2011-12 Thompson School District budget and gather input on the proposals. Call 613-5051.

• Informal Meeting with Thompson School District Superintendent Ron Cabrera, 7-8:30 a.m., Mandolin Cafe, 210 E. Fourth St., Loveland. Cabrera will answer questions from staff, parents and other members of the community. Call 6135011.

• Philo Bonfils Community Blood Drive , 10 a.m.-4 p.m., First United Methodist Church of Loveland, 533 N. Grant Ave., Loveland. Call 303-363-2300 or 800365-0006. Website: www.bonfils.org.

• Sword Swallower Talks Individuality, Noon and 7 p.m., Lifetree Cafe, 1515 Cascade Ave., Loveland. “Be Yourself: Everyone Else is Taken” provides cutting-edge insights from champion sword swallower Dan Meyer about how to find your unique place in the world and what to do once you get there. Free. Call 292-4938. Email ccable@life treecafe.com. Website: http://goo.gl/L3Va9.

• Preschool Storytime, 10:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., Loveland Public Library Gertrude Scott Meeting Room, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland. Ages 4 and up. Each session includes stories, finger plays and a craft. There is no registration or fee. Call 962-2587.

• Toddler Storytime, 11 a.m., Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland.

For ages 2-3. Each session includes stories, finger plays and a craft. No registration or fee required. Call 962-2587.

• Month of the Young Child Proclamation, 5:30 p.m., Fort Collins City Hall West, Council Chambers, 300 Laporte Ave., Fort Collins. Mayor Karen Weitkunat and the City Council will read a proclamation proclaiming April the Month of the Young Child.

Call 221-6695. Email vhays@poudrelibraries.org.

WEDNESDAY

• “Plant a Row for the Hungry” Kickoff Meeting, 5:30 p.m., Loveland Youth Gardeners, 1854 Piney River Drive, Loveland. Local gardeners can dedicate part of their gardens or simply share excess bounty with Loveland families in need of fresh, nutritious produce. Call 669-7182 by April 18 to RSVP. Free. Email sbriggs545@hotmail.com.

Website: www.LovelandYouthGardeners.org.

• Bee Day at Big Thompson Elementary, 10-11 a.m., Big Thompson Elementary School of Nature and Science, 7702 W. U.S. 34, Loveland. David Hartman will unveil the new bee observation hive in the Big T Science Lab. Tour the Outdoor Education Center with Rocky Mountain National Park Rangers. Free. Call 613-5600. Website: www.BigThompsonElementary.org.

• Spring Expo, 4-8 p.m., The Ranch — First National Bank Exhibition Hall, 5280 Arena Circle, Loveland. A spring-themed evening event featuring family-friendly entertainment and a chance to meet and learn about local businesses. Call 667-6311. Email info@loveland.org.

• Bingo to Support Colorado North Stars Volleyball, 7 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m., Bingo Planet, 281 29th St., Loveland. Raffles and other fun. $8 packet. Call 663-4545.

• Preschool Storytime, 11 a.m., Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland. Ages 4 and up. Each session includes stories, finger plays and a craft. Call 9622587.

• Toddler Storytime, 10:15 a.m., Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland. For ages 2-3. Each session includes stories, finger plays and a craft. Call 962-2587.

• “Do Something Reel” Film Festival: Planeat, 5 p.m., Lyric Cinema Cafe, 300 E. Mountain Ave., Fort Collins. Film Fest to support budding filmmakers of environmental films. Includes six character-driven films focused on food, environmental issues and everyday people with the greater vision of making a world of difference. $8. Website: www.dosomethingreel.com and www.planeat.tv.

• From Conflict to Peace Building: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment, 5-6:30 p.m., Avogadro’s Number, 605 S. Mason, Fort Collins. Join an interdisciplinary panel of CSU experts as they discuss environmental security, how conflict threatens natural resources, and local and national capacities for coping with disasters. Free. Call 492-4215. Email kerri.mcdermid@colostate.edu. Website: http:// soges.colostate.edu.

• Health and Wellness Expo, 4-7 p.m., Fort Collins Senior Center, 1200 Raintree Drive, Fort Collins. Vendors will include medical, fitness, retirement tips, and free screenings to aid in promoting a healthier lifestyle for the entire family. Call 221-6644.

ON THE NET: For further listings in a searchable database, visit the Reporter-Herald’s online calendar at www.reporterherald.com/calendar. Community members can submit information for consideration for Reporter-Herald calendars at www.reporterherald.com/forms/announcements/calendar-submission.asp.

What do you know about frozen food?

By Sam McManis

]stored foods? a) The use of tinfoil rather than plastic wrap for storage Test your knowledge of b) Air coming in contact with the freezing foods, courtesy of food’s surface the USDA. c) Placing the food in the freezer 1. Which food can stay in the freezer while it is still heated the longest without losing flavor and 4. Which food is said by the USDA to nutritional value? “not freeze well”? a) Soup a) Tomatoes b) Uncooked chicken b) Salad c) Frozen dinner c) Mashed potatoes 2. What is the minimum tempera5. Which food is deemed to be imture a freezer needs to be set at to possible to freeze? ensure food safety? a) Eggs in the shell a) Minus 20 degrees b) Beer b) Minus 10 degrees c) Whipped cream c) Zero degrees Answers: 1: b (up to 12 months); 3. What causes freezer burn on 2: c; 3: b; 4: b; 5: a.

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Woman who rejects a gift shouldn’t get another one

DEAR ABBY: I was recently invited to a relative’s home because my nephew was introducing his fiancee, “Macy,” to the family. I asked my nephew what gift Macy might like, and he suggested a sweater and told me her size. I bought her a lovely one — at least, I thought it was lovely.

Jeanne Phillips Dear Abby

After Macy tried it on, I was shocked when she handed it back to me and said she didn’t like it. I couldn’t exchange or return it because it had been purchased from a store where I live, and this store doesn’t have a branch in their state. I took the gift home with me and got a refund. Now I don’t know what to do.

Because Macy gave it back to me, does she forfeit the gift? Should I send her the amount of the store refund? Do I owe her anything as a substitute for the gift she refused? — GIFT-CHALLENGED IN IOWA DEAR GIFT-CHALLENGED: If ever I heard about someone who needs an etiquette book, it’s your nephew’s fiancee.

As to what to do if this happens again — you can prevent it from happening by not selecting any more gifts for her. A donation in her name to a favorite charity might work if you feel obligated to give her something.

TO MY JEWISH READERS: It’s time to hide the matzo again — Passover begins at sundown. Happy Passover, everyone!

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

tain Ave., Berthoud. This is a Christian-based, 12-step recovery program available for anyone with any type of hurt, habit, hang-up or addiction.

Child care is provided. Dinner is available 6-7 p.m. for a small fee. All are welcome. For details go to www.crgraceplace.org or call 532-9886.

Compulsive Eaters AnonymousHOW, a 12-step recovery program offering a structured approach for anyone who wants to stop eating compulsively, meets 7 p.m. Tuesdays, upstairs classroom, Faith Evangelical Church, 2707 N. Wilson Ave., Loveland. No dues, fees or weigh-ins. For information call Nancy, 669-3028, or visit www.ceahow.org.

Displaced Dads, a discussion group for fathers separated by divorce from their minor children, will meet 7 p.m. Thursday at the House of Neighborly Service, 565 N. Cleveland Ave., Loveland. For details call 308-3310.

Gamblers Anonymous is a 12-step program for people who have a gambling problem. Meetings are 7 p.m. every Thursday at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, room 9N, 2000 S. Lemay, Fort Collins. Enter through the northeast door. For details, call 888-424-3577 or visit www.colorado ga.org.

General Cancer Support Group, 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, McKee Cancer Center, 2050 N. Boise Ave., north side of McKee Medical Center, Loveland.

Use Hoffman Drive. The group welcomes anyone who is touched by cancer. Call 635-4129.

Kiwanis Club of Loveland, 11:30 a.m. Friday, The Egg and I, 2525 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland. Jon Warkentin from Special Youth Challenge Colorado will discuss the program for physically challenged youths. The club’s emphasis is on supporting youths through club projects and by volunteering within the community. Visitors and new members are welcome. For details call Gaylen at 203-2635.

Loveland Breakfast Optimist

Club, 7 a.m. Wednesday, Dorothy’s Catering, 2248 W. First St., Loveland.

The Rev. Dave Bakery will discuss his new book. Guests are welcome.

Loveland Fishing Club, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Chilson Center, 700 E. Fourth St., Loveland. Former U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard will present the program, “Wayne’s Wildlife Experiences.” All those interested are welcome. Call Tom Miller, 669-3583.

Loveland Garden Club, 10 a.m.

Wednesday, All Saints Episcopal Church, 3448 N Taft Ave., Loveland.

Charlotte Hardy will present a program about antique roses. Visitors are welcome. The group is open to all northern Colorado residents. Contact Laura, 223-2265.

Loveland Lions Club, noon Wednesday, Pulliam Building, 545 N. Cleveland Ave., Loveland. Forrest Smith and Dan Baty from the city of Loveland will present a discussion/workshop on the Northern Buckhorn Railroad, in preparation for the upcoming season. All Lions and volunteers who drive the train are urged to attend. Lunch reservations are needed by today. For information/reservations, call President Denny Soucek, 290-6787. Anyone interested in volunteering should visit www.lovelandlionsclubs.org.

Loveland Rotary Club luncheon meeting, noon Tuesday, The Fountains of Loveland, 1480 Cascade Ave., Loveland. The program will be “The Tunetastic Time Machine,” a preview of Loveland Choral Society’s spring production. Anyone interested in community service is welcome. Call Randy King, club secretary, 669-3077, or visit www.LovelandRotary.org.

Loveland Sweettalkers Toastmaster Club, 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Medical Center of the Rockies, 2500 Rocky Mountain Blvd., downstairs in the Horsetooth Mountain Room. Support and encouragement offered to those who wish to improve and practice their public speaking and leadership skills in a friendly environment.

For details go to www.sweettalkers .freetoasthost.us or call 303-548-2108.

Mountain View Peggers Cribbage Club, 6:45 p.m. Thursdays, Associated Veterans of Loveland, 305 N. Cleveland Ave. Cost is $7. Newcomers welcome; need not be a member of the veterans club. For details, contact club director Troy Thorson, 669-5686 or e-mail mvpeggers@earthlink.net.

Mountain View Rotary Club, noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Best Western Crossroads Inn and Conference Center, U.S. 34 and Interstate 25, Loveland. Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith will speak. Anyone interested is welcome. Call Shelley Richards, 303-913-1234.

Narcotics Anonymous, a 12-step program for individuals who want to recover from drug addiction. Meetings are every day of the week in Loveland. The local meeting schedule is at www.fortnet.org/na. For immediate help, call Larimer County NA at 2828079. In Loveland, call Joe, 227-6238.

Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program open to anyone who wants to stop eating compulsively, meets 7 p.m. Wednesday at Trinity United Methodist Church, 801 N. Cleveland Ave., Loveland. For details, call 282-5019 or visit www.oa.org.

Rocky Mountain Flycasters, 6:30 p.m. social time, 7 p.m. meeting, Wednesday, Fort Collins Senior Center, 1200 Raintree Drive, Fort Collins, just west of Shields and north of Drake.

Pat Dorsey, an expert on tailwater fishing, will give a lecture on tailwater flies. He will sign copies of his books after the talk. Admission is free and the public is welcome. For details, visit www.rockymtnflycasters.org.

Thompson Valley Rotary Club, noon Thursday, 302 Third St. SE, Loveland. John Kinkade, executive director of the National Sculptors Guild, will discuss public art planning and installations throughout the United States.

Guests and prospective members are welcome. Call Joan Shaffer, 669-0030.

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H EALTH & S CIENCE

Brain surgery breakthrough

The mummy Isis is prepped for return to its display in the Egyptian Museum after CT scanning at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

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New research helps in removing more of the tumor, raises survival rates McClatchy-Tribune

Mummies teach doctors more about a not-so

modern malady

McClatchy-Tribune

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — She didn’t smoke. Never ate a double bacon cheeseburger. Never sacked out on the couch watching cable. Yet by the time she reached her early 40s, she was a candidate for a heart attack.

That was nearly 3,600 years ago.

Princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon of Egypt’s 17th Dynasty had the world’s oldest known case of coronary heart disease, researchers say.

Atherosclerosis — commonly called hardening of the arteries — was surprisingly widespread in ancient times, at least among the Egyptian mummies examined by an international team of scientists and heart specialists, including one from St. Luke’s Hospital.

Their research, presented April 3 in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, found that 45 percent of the mummies they put through CT scans had signs of atherosclerosis.

That raises questions about whether hardening of the arteries is the disease of modern civilization that we thought it was.

“We found it so easily and fre-

Ancients also suffered from atherosclerosis

quently that it appears to have been common in this society,” said Randall Thompson, a St. Luke’s cardiologist.

“It was so common we have to wonder, are we missing something?

Maybe we don’t understand atherosclerosis as well as we think.

Maybe there’s a missing risk factor we haven’t found yet.”

Thompson and the other researchers performed CT scans on 52 mummies, mostly from the Egyptian National Museum of Antiquities in Cairo. It was the largest number of mummies ever assembled for such a study.

Among the 44 mummies with hearts or identifiable blood vessels, 20 probably or definitely had atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis occurs when fatty material collects along artery walls.

As this material thickens and hardens, it may block the arteries.

The researchers found atherosclerosis most often in the aorta, the body’s main trunk artery. In some mummies, the condition was found in arteries supplying blood to the legs or the pelvis. In eight mummies, arteries to the brain were affected, suggesting that these ancients may have been at risk of stroke.

“It looks like atherosclerosis you see on a CT scan of modern patients,” Thompson said.

As with modern people, the likelihood that a mummy had atherosclerosis increased with its age.

But ancient Egyptians weren’t like modern people, or so we thought.

“They didn’t smoke. They didn’t eat trans fats,” Thompson said.

Diseases of the heart and blood vessels are now among the world’s leading causes of death. Most Americans have some atherosclerosis by the time they are in their 50s.

The problems have spread to developing countries. That has made it easy to view cardiovascular diseases as exclusively modern maladies that didn’t affect our ancient ancestors, the researchers said.

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DETROIT — Donna Vinson suddenly felt she “couldn’t think well.” She was far off from choosing the right words, even pointing to a garbage can once as she asked a family member to pass the potatoes.

She and her doctor hoped stress from her father’s death was causing the problem. But a scan found four menacing tumors deep in her brain.

Vinson, 53, of Sterling Heights, Mich., has glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive types of tumor. She wants to be in the group of one in 20 alive five years after diagnosis, so she can return to traveling, camping and doting on her five grandchildren.

New advances in brain imaging and tumor genetics from researchers in Detroit and elsewhere are helping more patients like Vinson survive longer, from just months to several years or more.

The imaging breakthroughs are giving surgeons better visual information before and during operations so they can remove nearly all of a tumor and increase survival rates.

“Clinical studies show if we get 98 percent or more of the tumor out, that puts the patient into a very different prognostic class” where life expectancy and quality of life improve, said her cancer surgeon, Dr. Steven Kalkanis, codirector of the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Less-toxic chemotherapy drugs that attack specific genetic markers in tumors also are coming.

Henry Ford researchers are leaders in the area of mapping brain tumor genomes through a national project. As one of the nation’s 10 largest brain tumor centers, Henry Ford provides Vinson and other patients access to some of these latest technologies.

The center sees 700 new patients a year and handles about 7,000 annual visits from people with the tumors.

“What we’re hoping is that this will allow a patient ... to have double, even triple, the time they otherwise wouldn’t have had,” Kalkanis said of the advances in imaging. He called the technology “the missing link” for removing almost all of a brain tumor on the first try.

As little as a decade ago, Vinson’s doctor might have opened her up only to end the surgery quickly after finding tumors too deep to reach safely without the benefit of more detailed scans.

But new technology, known as intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging, allows surgeons to remove more of a tumor by comparing pre-surgery pictures of a patient’s brain with ones taken during an operation.

After a patient’s head is opened, the brain changes shape as it shifts slightly. The new scans give doctors upto-the-minute information about where tumors are located.

The system, referred to as iMRI, lets surgeons pause during surgery and inspect two screens next to the operating table that display the iMRI images.

Surgeons acknowledge that, in the past, too many brain tumor operations involved skill and some educated guesswork. But “(the new imaging technology) helps bring more scientific guidance to a surgery. Before, it was me and my hands and whatever knowledge and ex-

Brain Tumors • More than 64,500 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed this year with primary brain tumors — ones that begin in the brain.

• Brain tumors can be malignant (cancerous), or benign (noncancerous).

• Survival after diagnosis is improving: More than 31 percent of patients are alive five years later, up from 21 percent in the 1990s.

• After leukemia, brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer death in children and other patients younger than 20.

Symptoms

• Morning headaches or headaches that go away after vomiting.

• Frequent nausea and vomiting.

• Vision, hearing and speech problems.

• Loss of balance and trouble walking.

• Weakness on one side.

• Unusual sleepiness or change in activity level.

• Unusual changes in personality or behavior.

• Seizures.

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• National Cancer Institute: www.cancer.gov; 800-4-CANCER (800-422-6237) • American Brain Tumor Association: www.abta.org perience I could bring to bear,” said Dr. Jack Rock, a Henry Ford neurosurgeon.

Henry Ford also is testing new chemotherapy drugs that target molecular signals in brain tumors. Henry Ford has contributed 150 brain tumors to the Cancer Genome Atlas, a federally funded effort to catalogue hundreds of cancer genes. Only one other center has provided more to the project.

“We have a fire hose of data coming on hundreds and hundreds of tumors,” said Dr. Tom Mikkelsen, co-director of the Hermelin center.

“There’s a whole new era of bioinformatics and systems biology about how genes talk to each other ... through interconnecting networks,” he said.

Though more work needs to be done, the emerging brain tumor therapies should allow doctors to “legitimately offer patients less-toxic therapy and certainly more benefit” in longer survival, Mikkelsen said.

For now, some centers are taking a wait-and-see attitude as they compare one costly piece of equipment with another.

Henry Ford spent $6 million on its operating suite and advanced imaging machine.

“We have to see how the technology plays out and whether it will have a substantial benefit,” said Dr. Geoffrey Thomas, a neurosurgeon at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital just outside of Ann Arbor.

Dr. Andy Sloan, chairman of the brain tumor institute at University Hospital in Cleveland, said more study is needed to see which therapies are most effective. He is testing a drug that illuminates tumor cells on a scan when a blue light is shined on them. Then he can go back with a laser and remove the remaining tumor traces.

Neurosurgeons say brain tumor patients most likely will continue to receive an array of treatments because no single therapy reliably works alone.

Kalkanis, who performed Vinson’s operation March 31, said the iMRI technology helped him see, and then remove, nearly all of a large tumor in the area of her brain responsible for speech and communication.

There also were three clusters of smaller tumors in the same region that he removed.

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NICE TO KNOW Chicago’s Starlin Castro at 21 years, 24 days old is the youngest player in the major leagues. In going 4-for-5 on Saturday against the Rockies, he became the first Cubs player to get four hits, including a home run, in a game, before his 22nd birthday since Ron Santo did it twice in 1961.

Thunderstruck OKC’s superstars tally combined 72

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 41 points, Russell Westbrook had two crucial late baskets among his 31 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder pulled out a 107-103 win against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.

The Thunder leaned heavily on their two All-Stars, who both scored their most points in the postseason.

The Associated Press Westbrook had the go-ahead jumper from Denver center Nene drives past Oklahoma City for- the right side with 1 minute, 6 seconds left, ward Serge Ibaka in the second quarter Sunday in as several Nuggets looked for it to be waved Oklahoma City. off with several hands near the rim anxious

Game 1, West Conf. Quarterfinals Oklahoma City 107, Denver 103 COMING UP, Game 2 at Oklahoma City Wednesday, 6 p.m.

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for a tip-in. Kenyon Martin then missed a jumper from the left wing before Westbrook struck again to make it 104-101 with 22.4 seconds remaining.

Raymond Felton missed a potential tying 3-pointer with 12 seconds left, and Oklahoma City closed it out at the foul line.

Nene led Denver with 22 points and eight rebounds, and Danilo Gallinari scored 18.

See Nuggets, Page B3

Johnson edges Bowyer by a whisker to win Talladega TALLADEGA, Ala. — Jimmie Johnson won a Talladega two-step Sunday, edging Clint Bowyer by about a foot with a big push from Dale Earnhardt Jr. The official margin was 0.002 seconds, tied for the closest finish in NASCAR Sprint Cup history.

The tag-team race came down to an eight-car sprint — actually, four pairs of cars — with only the guys at the front of the duos having a chance to win the Aaron’s 499.

After laying back most of the day, fivetime series champion Johnson came on strong at the end for his 54th career victory and first of the season.

“We were just the lucky guy at the end with a good run,” Johnson said. “We had some big mo on our side, and off we went.”

— The Associated Press

COLD PRECISION Offense comes alive to help Ice claim 7-0 mark

Jimmie Johnson (48, right) crosses the finish line Sunday slightly ahead of Clint Bowyer (33) to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.

By Mike Brohard Sports Editor

For most of the season, it was Colorado’s defense that had carried the day to an undefeated start.

On Sunday afternoon, the Ice offense picked a prime time to put their best foot forward — even shoeless, if necessary — to a season-best output in a 59-54 victory over Wyoming at the Budweiser Events Center in front of a crowd of 2,300-plus, the largest in more than two years.

The victory puts Colorado at 7-0 at the halfway point of the season, and more importantly two and a half games in front of Wyoming (4-2) in the Mountain West Division.

“We knew it was going to be a tough game. We win this game, and unless we completely implode, we win the division,” ColColorado 59, orado coach Collins Sanders said.

Wyoming 54 “They have some tough games ahead of them, COMING UP and to be able to win at Tri-Cities those games and catch us Saturday, 8 p.m. is going to be a difficult KJMP (870 AM) task for them. If we take care of business, we should be able to get a home playoff game by winning our division.”

The offense did on the day, especially in the fourth quarter in coming back from a 33-30 deficit after three quarters.

Colorado scored 29 points in the final frame, getting bit plays off short passes from Duane Brooks and Kenneth Witter.

That was the emphasis at practice this week, according to Brooks, who had a bit extra of his own.

The teams were tied 23-all at half, in part because Brooks dropped a pass from quarterback David Knighton on the goal line with no one around him, forcing the Ice to settle for a field goal. But with the Ice nursing a 43-40 lead and backed up with a third-and-10 on their own 3, Brooks pulled in a pass on a crossing route and pulled free from a tackler — who had only Brooks’ left shoe to show for his efforts — and scampered

Nadal wins seventh straight Monte Carlo Masters title

Reporter-Herald/STEVE STONER

Colorado Ice quarterback David Knighton throws a pass in the second quarter of a game against the Wyoming Cavalry on Sunday at the Budweiser Events Center. The Ice won, 59-54, to remain undefeated on the season. Knighton was sharp all day in leading Colorado to what was easily its best offensive performance of the season.

47 yards for the score.

“We’ve been in position all year to make plays all year,” Brooks said. “Miscommunications, dropped balls … Today Dave was on the money and the offense finally clicked. Things just came together like we expected them to.

“That killed me dropping that ball. I owed Dave. That was a perfect ball. I shouldn’t have dropped it. I can’t believe I dropped it to this moment. I had to make up for that in the second half. He

gave me an opportunity, and I did what I could with it.”

A series later, Witter took a short pass down the sideline for a 24-yard scoring play to give the Ice a 56-47 lead.

It was a season-high in points for the Ice, who previously scored 52 in a victory, but hadn’t surpassed 39 in any other contest. For Sanders, it was a perfect time for a breakout performance.

See Ice, Page B2

For Brown, the waiting is the hardest part Mike Brohard

Sports Editor

T

he spring hasn’t been a setback for Dorian Brown in the slightest.

Even though there were whispers at the beginning of Colorado State’s spring drills that the former Thompson Valley High School standout could get some team work in, it was in fact, shooting for the stars.

Coming off major knee

surgery in August, the comment by head coach Steve Fairchild was hopeful more than anything.

Hope is still there, for Brown and and the coaching staff. How can it not be when they look at his build and remember the brute force and speed he ran with when healthy for the Eagles?

But for him to step out

on the field now would be a mistake. His mind is there. More importantly, his knee is not quite to that point.

So while his teammates were running around Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium on Friday afternoon, Brown was walking up and down the stairs of the layout along with others on the team in his situation.

During practice, instead of taking part in individual drills with the running backs, he stands dutifully on the sidelines, picking up all that he can in Fairchild’s complex system. During 7-on-7 sessions, it is much the same. Either that or he is working out on the side with the training staff.

See Brown, Page B2

MONACO — Rafael Nadal won his seventh straight Monte Carlo Masters title Sunday by beating David Ferrer, 6-4, 7-5, in an all-Spanish final. This was his first tournament victory since October, ending a run of three consecutive defeats in title matches.

The top-ranked Nadal won for the 37th straight time at this clay-court event, where he has not lost since 2003.

It was his 44th career title — but first since the Japan Open — and 19th at a Masters event.

“To start the clay season like this is fantastic, but it’s more fantastic to win Monte Carlo another time,” Nadal said.

“This is the Masters tournament where I feel more emotion when I’m playing, because here in 2003 everything starts. I played qualifiers here, won two matches, and was for the very first time in my career top 100.”

Nadal won when Ferrer, seeded fourth, sent the ball into the net following a brief exchange.

— The Associated Press

Nadal

Manassero wins in Malaysia; McIlroy comes up short KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Italian teenager Matteo Manassero shot a 4-under 68 Sunday to earn a one-stroke victory at the Malaysian Open, upstaging Masters champion Charl Schwartzel and Rory McIlroy.

Manassero had an eagle on the par-5 10th and added two birdies on the back nine to finish at 16-under 272 two days before his 18th birthday.

Gregory Bourdy was second after a 67 that included eight birdies. The Frenchman charged up the leaderboard with four consecutive birdies beginning at the third hole, but he bogeyed the eighth and had a double bogey on No. 11.

McIlroy had a 69 and was third, two shots back, after a holding the secondround lead as he tried to bounce back from his Masters collapse last Sunday.

Schwartzel shot a 70 and finished tied for 11th at 7-under 281.

— The Associated Press

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S PORTS

Canucks near sweep Defending champs facing elimination

The Blackhawks had seven power-play opportunities overall, including a 5-on-3 in the first period when they led 1-0, but were turned away by Luongo and the Canucks’ penalty kill.

Rangers 3, Capitals 2

The Associated Press CHICAGO — Mikael Samuelsson scored the go-ahead goal in the third period, and Roberto Luongo made 30 saves as the Vancouver Canucks moved within a victory of sweeping defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago, beating the Blackhawks, 3-2, on Sunday night.

The Canucks, with the best record in the NHL during the regular season, lead the Western Conference first-round series, 3-0, and can finish it off Tuesday night at the United Center.

Christian Ehrhoff and Daniel Sedin also scored for the Canucks, eliminated by the Blackhawks the previous two seasons.

Duncan Keith and Patrick Sharp had power-play goals for the Blackhawks, but it was a night of missed chances for Chicago.

NHL

NEW YORK — Brandon Dubinsky broke a tie with 1 minute, 39 seconds left as New York beat Washington to cut the Capitals’ lead to 2-1 in the Eastern Conference series.

After the Rangers managed only one goal in two losses at Washington, Dubinsky, Vinny Prospal and Erik Christensen figured out young Capitals goalie Michal Neuvirth.

Henrik Lundqvist was sharp again, making 24 saves.

Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist, The Associated Press and Mike Knuble also scored for the CapiAnaheim goalie Ray Emery blocks a shot as Nashville center David Legwand (11) looks for the rebound tals.

Game 4 is in New York on Wednesday along with the Ducks’ Lubomir Visnovsky (17); Corey Perry (10); and Ryan Getzlaf (15) in the third period of Game 3 of a first-round Stanley Cup playoffs series Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. The Predators won, 4-3, night.

Predators 4, Ducks 3

to take a 2-1 lead in the series.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mike Fisher scored Ryan sitting out the first of his two-game The NHL suspended Ryan on Saturday for the go-ahead goal at 10:21 of the third peri- suspension by beating Anaheim to take a stomping Predators defenseman Jonathon od as Nashville took advantage of Bobby 2-1 lead in the Western Conference series.

Blum’s foot late in the Ducks’ victory Friday.

Lockout hasn’t scared draft entries

Reporter-Herald photos/STEVE STONER

Colorado defensive lineman Brandon Fanney, right, fights around a block by Wyoming offensive lineman Nolan Fisher to get at Cavalry quarterback Joe McClain in the second quarter Sunday at the Budweiser Events Center. The Ice won, 59-54, to remain undefeated on the season.

ICE:

Offense held up its end of the bargain on Sunday

NEW YORK (AP) — Lockout. Such a bad, scary word.

Apparently not for college football players interested in early entry into this year’s draft.

A total of 56 underclassmen went that route, confident the lockout either wouldn’t occur — it did on March 11 — or wouldn’t last long. With the NFL work stoppage a month old and counting, the reality of having nowhere to go after the draft is beginning to hit those prospects like an unblocked blitzing linebacker.

“The type of stuff going on with the lockout is not in my control and never was,” Connecticut running back Jordan Todman says. “I

could not be sure if it would happen or not, and I had to make a decision based on what I felt was best for my career.

“I felt this was my time, and I felt I could compete with the best running backs in this class and do well.

And so, based on that, I made the decision. The potential lockout wasn’t a big part of it.”

Many other players agreed the time was right to move on, even though they might be moving into limbo, with three more early entrants declaring this year than last, and 10 more than in 2009.

“It was discussed, sure,” Notre Dame tight end Kyle Rudolph says. “At no point has anyone really feared missing the whole season, and I got advice from

enough people that figured things would be OK. It never played into my decision.”

Even now, with the April 28-30 draft at hand and no labor peace on the horizon, these youngsters are preparing to be selected, meet the staffs of their new team, then go about getting ready to be pros. Yet, they know minicamps, where they first get immersed in the playbook, could be lost to the lockout. Voluntary offseason training sessions wouldn’t exist. Nor training camps.

All the while, the guys lucky enough to be drafted can’t use club facilities or have their agents negotiate contracts. Perhaps the best they can hope for is to be called by their new team’s offensive and defensive leaders for workouts organized by the players.

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BROWN:

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Colorado defensive back Josh Morris, left, breaks up a pass intended for Wyoming Cavalry wide receiver James Newson in the third quarter Sunday.

“The coaching staff does a really good job of putting us in positions like that in practice so that when it happens in the game, it makes it really easy,” Anders said. “You take the reps into the game.

“Our defense gave up a few more points than usual, but with all the injuries, I’m just really proud of our team and our resiliency.

They basically threw us in the fire, and I think we reacted really well to adversity. It really showed the character of this team.”

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rehab schedule, which is a positive sign.

It’s all part of the process, Brown can run straight but not necessarily one he ahead just fine, and does so enjoys. now without a brace. Mak“That’s the worst. You ing cuts and changing direccan’t describe how terrible it tion, which he’s starting to is to just stand there and do, still requires him to wear watch,” Brown said. “It’s the hardware. pretty cool at the same time, The meeting room is also too, because I can get used important, and Lewis for one to college football.” is convinced Brown is pickThe coaches know as ing up all he can in those much. Running backs coach sessions. He also offers up Larry Lewis said they are ba- one key point — a guy who sically protecting Brown was in high school just four from Brown, making sure his months ago is being able to knee is solid before he takes acclimate himself to college his first handoff. The last life and the game itself. thing Brown wants is to take That was an eye-opener a step back. Besides, Lewis for Brown, even from the said Brown is ahead in his sidelines. He’d never see

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All of these experiences will leave him more prepared for when fall camp opens in August. That’s where hope will be pushed to the side and his skills will be tested. The knee, too.

So while he’s gotten a feel for the college game, he’s ready for the final step.

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“There were times we struggled in those seven games, and the defense has stepped up for the majority of it and kept us in games,” Sanders said. “Today, the offense rose to the occasion and kept putting points on the board and never gave up. I think David Knighton may have had one of his best games I’ve seen him have.”

Knighton hit 14 of his 24 passes (with a few drops) for 195 yards and three scores. He also used his feet to make plays, rushing for 56 yards against the Cavalry. The Ice were effective on the ground, with Maurice Greer rushing for 38 yards and four touchdowns.

It was that hard of a loss for Wyoming, with coach Don Maciejczak gracious in defeat, but mad at other unspoken elements.

“Our kids played their hearts out. It’s just too bad,” he said. “That’s all I’ve got to say.

Hats off to them, because they’re a great football team, they deserved it and they played well, but it’s just a crying shame, and that’s all I’ve got to say.”

Colorado’s defense entered the game allowing just 27.8 points per game, but was also without three starters. Midway through the first quarter, it became four as Tyrone King, who leads the team with four interceptions, went down on a fluke play on a kickoff. It is believed he will be out the remainder of the season with a knee injury.

But with some switching around, the Ice were able to hold up enough in the end.

Eryk Anders, normally a linebacker, moved to defensive end and came up with five tackles, two of them sacks. Idly Etienne, a safety who spent time at linebacker, picked off a pass late that helped ensure the win.

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S PORTS

Kemp saves L.A.

Indians extend misery of O’s

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Matt Kemp hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday that ended their five-game skid.

Kemp homered to center field on the first pitch he saw from Ryan Franklin (0-2). Andre Ethier led off with a double off Trever Miller, extending his major league-leading hitting streak to 14 games.

The Associated Press CLEVELAND — Grady Sizemore homered in his return for Cleveland after major knee surgery as the Indians beat Baltimore, 4-2, on Sunday for the Orioles’ seventh straight loss.

Brian Roberts went 3-for-4 for the Orioles, who have lost eight of 10.

NL

Diamondbacks 6, Giants 5

PHOENIX — Stephen Drew drove in Justin Upton with one out in the 12th inning as Arizona rallied to beat San Francisco.

Padres 8, Astros 6 HOUSTON — Will Venable hit a two-run single in a four-run eighth inning as San Diego rallied for a win.

Pirates 7, Reds 6 CINCINNATI — Andrew McCutchen opened the game with a homer against slow-starting Edinson Volquez, then singled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning, rallying Pittsburgh to a win over Cincinnati.

Nats 8, Brewers 4 Nats 5, Brewers 1

WASHINGTON — Danny Espinosa followed up a three-run homer in the opening game with a basesloaded triple in the seventh inning of the second that helped Washington Nationals to a doubleheader sweep over Milwaukee.

Phillies 3, Marlins 2 PHILADELPHIA — Carlos Ruiz hit the go-ahead sacrifice fly in the eighth inning after an error by the Marlins defense.

Mets 3, Braves 2 ATLANTA — New York’s new No. 2 hitter Josh Thole had two run-scoring singles, Dillon Gee came up from the minors to earn the win as New York ended its sevengame losing streak.

Gee (1-0) gave up five hits and a run in 52/3 innings to beat Tommy Hanson (1-3).

AL

Yankees 6, Rangers 5 The Associated Press

Colorado center fielder Dexter Fowler slides past Chicago catcher Geovany Soto into home on a Jonathan Herrera single in the eighth inning Sunday in Denver. The Rockies won, 9-5, their eighth win in their past nine games.

Crazy eighth Fowler’s clutch at-bat keys 4-run uprising

DENVER (AP) — Dexter Fowler swung through the first slider that he saw from Cubs reliever Marcos Mateo.

He didn’t miss the next one.

Fowler’s two-out, two-run double ignited a four-run eighth inning as the Colorado Rockies went on to beat the Chicago Cubs, 9-5, Sunday for their eighth victory in nine games.

With the score tied at 5, the Rockies sent 10 batters to the plate in the eighth to break the game open. Ryan Spilborghs began the inning with an infield single off Mateo (0-1) and Jose Lopez doubled, breaking out of an 0-for-18 skid.

After Jose Morales and pinch-hitter Ty Wiggington each fanned on sliders

by Mateo, Fowler lashed Mateo’s 2-2 offering to right center to give the Rockies the lead. Jonathan Herrera and Carlos Gonzalez, who had four hits on the day, followed with RBI singles.

“He tried to get ahead of me with the fastball but his slider is his go-to pitch,” Fowler said. “I swung through one, but I just had to stay patient. He threw another, and I just wanted to put the barrel on it and do something with it.”

He did enough to help Colorado bounce back from a rare early season loss the day before, 8-3, to the Cubs.

“We have a bunch of different weapons, and we can hurt you a bunch of different ways,” Fowler said.

“I’m just happy it was my turn. And it

Colorado 9, Chicago 5

COMING UP, vs. San Francisco Today, 6:40 p.m.

ROOT (Ch. 26), KOA (850 AM) was important to come off (Saturday’s loss) like we did. It shows the character of the team. We had lost a couple of close games but that was our first real blowout. We bounced back nicely.”

Chicago manager Mike Quade said Fowler helped make the difference by getting hold of a good pitch.

“The one thing that Matty couldn’t do, because he made some good pitches, was he couldn’t finish somebody with a slider down and out of the strike zone, and that’s what he needed to do,” Quade said. “It’s a quality slider but just couldn’t get it down enough.”

Neither starter figured in the decision and both Chicago’s Ryan Dempster and Colorado’s Alan Johnson, who was making his major league debut, did not fare well in the cool, blustery conditions at Coors Field.

Dempster gave up five runs on seven hits in five innings while Johnson was touched for five runs on six hits in four innings.

“I give Alan Johnson credit. He battled,” Colorado manager Jim Tracy said. “He got himself into some pickles due to the fact he was trying to pitch out of hitters’ counts. They dinged him here. They dinged him there.”

But Chicago didn’t touch Colorado’s four relievers, who pitched five scoreless innings.

Rafael Betancourt (1-0), the fourth of five Rockies pitchers, entered in the eighth and picked up the win with two-thirds innings of hitless relief.

“They’ve been absolutely tremendous, to take the game over from the fifth inning on and put zeroes up there,” Tracy said. “You can’t say enough.”

The Rockies overcame the loss of a key part of their offense when Seth Smith was lifted in the top of the fifth inning because of tightness in his left groin. He hit a two-run homer and doubled and scored before being replaced by Spilborghs. His playing status was day to day.

The Rockies got to Dempster for four runs in the first inning but fell behind 5-4 in the fourth after Geovany Soto walked, was sacrificed to second and then scored on Starlin Castro’s two-out double off Johnson.

The game was tied again in the bottom of the fourth when Smith scored from third on a groundout by Jose Morales after doubling to start the inning.

Upsets rule the day

Red Sox 8, Blue Jays 1 BOSTON — Jacoby Ellsbury hit a three-run homer, Jarrod Saltalamacchia drove in three runs and Jon Lester pitched a solid six innings to carry Boston.

Twins 4, Rays 2 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Brian Duensing allowed two runs over seven innings, and Matt Tolbert had an RBI triple as Minnesota stopped a four-game losing streak.

Duensing (1-0) scattered seven hits, walked two and struck out five.

Angels 4, White Sox 2

CHICAGO — Dan Haren pitched into the seventh inning for his fourth win of the season, and Maicer Izturis had three hits as Los Angeles finished a three-game sweep.

Mariners 3, Royals 2 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Michael Pineda pitched six strong innings, and Brendan Ryan had a two-run tiebreaking single as Seattle snapped a four-game losing streak.

Athletics 5, Tigers 1 OAKLAND, Calif. — Trevor Cahill pitched eight solid innings, and Josh Willingham broke out of a slump with a two-run single in the fifth as Oakland won its second straight at home.

Mark Ellis doubled twice and Daric Barton walked twice and scored both times for the A’s.

NUGGETS:

Denver cold at the end

Lakers, Spurs drop Game 1s against lower seeds

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The Associated Press

Paul, who inscribed his sneakers with the No. 30 of injured teammate David West, LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul and a few New Orleans’ leading scorer. “It’s the playteammates sneaked across the street from offs. It’s a whole other energy.” their hotel to Staples Center the night before Game 2 is Wednesday at Staples Center. the New Orleans Hornets began the postseaGrizzlies 101, Spurs 98 son, eagerly hoisting up a few shots in the shadows of the LakSAN ANTONIO — The Memphis Grizzlies ers’ imposing championship own the first upset of the NBA playoffs, and banners. they made history in the process.

With their tumultuous regular season fiZach Randolph had 25 points and 14 renally a memory, Paul said the Hornets were bounds, and Shane Battier hit the go-ahead almost unbearably eager for the playoffs to 3-pointer with 23.9 seconds left as eighthstart. seeded Memphis won the first playoff game Maybe that’s why New Orleans got the in franchise history, over San Antonio. drop on the defending champs in a stunning Randolph, who scored nine in the fourth series opener. quarter and punished San Antonio under Paul had 33 points, 14 assists and seven the basket, might have saved his hardest rebounds, flawlessly leading the Hornets contact for a chest bump with Mike Conley down the stretch of a 109-100 victory Sun- after the final buzzer. The rest of the Grizday. zlies bench spilled onto the court, waving Carl Landry scored 17 points, and Jarrett towels and leaping back into the locker Jack added 15 for the seventh-seeded Hor- room. nets, who overcame Los Angeles’ major size Celtics 87, Knicks 85 advantage with cagey defense and a disciplined offensive approach that led to just BOSTON — Ray Allen hit a go-ahead three turnovers, tying an NBA playoff record. 3-pointer with 12 seconds left, and Paul New Orleans also got a phenomenal game Pierce shut down Carmelo Anthony as from Paul, who scored 17 points in the Boston rallied to beat New York in their fourth quarter and led a decisive 8-0 run af- playoff opener. ter the Lakers trimmed their lead to four New York led, 85-84, before Anthony was points. called for an offensive foul for pushing “I’ve struggled all season long, trying to Pierce with 21 seconds remaining. Allen, figure out where to pick my spots,” said who led the Celtics with 24 points, sank the

NEW YORK — Eric Chavez, filling in for an ailing Alex Rodriguez, singled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning as New York hit three homers off previously untouchable Alexi Ogando to beat Texas.

NBA

The Associated Press

Boston’s Paul Pierce passes around New York’s Ronny Turiaf during the first quarter in Game 1 of a first-round NBA playoff series in Boston on Sunday.

The Celtics overcame the Knicks, 87-85, to grab a 1-0 best-of-seven series lead. decisive basket from beyond the left arc.

The Knicks then rushed downcourt and Anthony missed a long 3-point attempt with 2 seconds left. The superstar forward went 1-for-11 from the field in the second half.

Amare Stoudemire had 28 points and 11 rebounds for New York, and Anthony finished with 15.

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is set for Tuesday night in Boston.

Pierce scored 18 points, and Kevin Garnett added 15 points and 13 rebounds for Boston.

Gallinari hit a jumper from the right side to give the Nuggets a 101-100 edge with 3:06 to play, but Denver didn’t connect on any of its final five shots down the stretch.

The Nuggets — without an All-Star after trading Carmelo Anthony away at the deadline — used a well-rounded effort but it wasn’t enough to overcome Oklahoma City’s top tandem.

With a one-point lead in the closing moments, Westbrook waited patiently deep on the left wing while Durant tried to fight his way open, but then took matters into his own hands. He darted to the left wing and hit a jumper to give the Thunder a 104-101 advantage and Denver couldn’t come up with a response.

The Thunder had taken control down the stretch in each of the teams’ two meetings in the final eight days of the regular season, and tried to do it again.

Durant hit three jumpers and the free throw that followed Raymond Felton’s technical foul during a 12-4 run, and Westbrook’s jumper from the left wing put Oklahoma City ahead 98-90 midway through the fourth. But this time, Denver had a response.

Felton stripped Westbrook to set up a three-point play by J.R. Smith on a fast break, and Nene followed with another three-point play off of a left-handed jam through Durant’s foul. Nene dunked again with his right hand to finish the 9-0 answer and put Denver up 99-98.

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Monday Reporter-Herald April 18, 2011

Coming Up Today Prep baseball — Resurrection Christian at Dayspring Christian, 4 p.m.

Prep girls golf — Loveland at Rocky Mountain league meet, Collindale GC, 10 a.m.; Mountain View, Berthoud at Littleton Invite, Glenmoor GC, 11 a.m.

Prep girls lacrosse — Thompson Valley vs. St. Mary’s Academy, Patterson Stadium, 5:30 p.m.

Prep girls tennis — Thompson Valley vs. Longmont, TVHS courts, 3:30 p.m.

Pro baseball — Colorado vs. San Francisco, Coors Field, 6:40 p.m.

Tuesday

Prep baseball — Loveland vs. Greeley West, Swift Field, 4 p.m.; Roosevelt vs. Thompson Valley, RHS field, 4 p.m.; Berthoud vs. Lyons, Sommers Field, 4 p.m.; Resurrection Christian vs. Denver Academy, RCS field, 4 p.m.; Fossil Ridge vs. Poudre, FRHS field, 4 p.m.

Prep girls golf — Roosevelt league meet, Mad Russian GC, 9 a.m.

Prep boys lacrosse — Thompson Valley at Prairie View, 6 p.m.

Prep girls soccer — Thompson Valley at Niwot, 4 p.m.; Mountain View vs. Longmont, MVHS field, 4 p.m.; Berthoud at Weld Central, 4 p.m.; Roosevelt vs. Fort Morgan, RHS field, 4 p.m.; Loveland at Fort Collins, Fossil Ridge HS, 6:30 p.m.; Fossil Ridge at Greeley West (Dist. 6), 7 p.m.

Prep boys swimming — Loveland, Thompson Valley, Mountain View at City Meet, LHS pool, 4 p.m.

Prep girls tennis — Loveland vs.

Rocky Mountain, LHS courts, 3:30 p.m.; Berthoud at Erie, 3:30 p.m.; Fossil Ridge vs. Greeley West, FRHS courts, 3:30 p.m.

Prep track — Roosevelt at Eaton Invite, TBA; Fossil Ridge at City Invite, French Field, 3 p.m.

Pro baseball — Colorado vs. San Francisco, Coors Field, 6:40 p.m.

Pro hockey — CHL Playoffs: Colorado Eagles at Missouri, 6:05 p.m.

Tuning In Today Baseball 5 p.m. — Milwaukee Brewers at Philadelphia Phillies (ESPN-27) 6:30 p.m. — San Francisco Giants at Colorado Rockies (ROOT-26) Basketball 5 p.m. — Philadelphia 76ers at Miami Heat (TNT-29) 7:30 p.m. — Indiana Pacers at Chicago Bulls (TNT-29) Hockey 5 p.m. — Philadelphia Flyers at Buffalo Sabres (VERSUS-55) 7:30 p.m. — Pittsburgh Penguins at Tampa Bay Lightning (VERSUS-55) 8:30 p.m. — Detroit Red Wings at Phoenix Coyotes (VERSUS-55)

Radio

Baseball 6:30 p.m. — Colorado Rockies vs.

San Francisco Giants (850 AM)

In Brief Preps

’Cats second at Invite The Fossil Ridge High School boys swim team took second at the Jeffco Invite on Saturday, a meet coach Mark Morehouse called a great tuneup for the postseason stretch.

Kincaid Hoffman picked up his first Class 5A state cut, going 58.28 seconds to finish eighth in the 100-yard backstroke.

“We’ve been waiting for that breakthrough,” Morehouse said. “We knew he would get it. Now that he does, we can get him in a couple of other events and he can get a few more.”

Ranon Pritchard hit a seasonbest in the 500 free, and Alex Tooley produced the only victory in the 100 breaststroke.

College Basketball

UConn honored HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Basketball fans lined up four and five deep at spots Sunday to catch a glimpse of Connecticut’s men’s basketball team as it paraded through downtown Hartford to celebrate the program’s third national title.

The Huskies rode on a double-decker bus waving at fans who celebrated their 5341 win over Butler on April 4.

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NBA----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NBA PLAYOFF GLANCE Chicago 1, Indiana 0 Saturday, April 16: Chicago 104, Indiana 99 Monday, April 18: Indiana at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Chicago at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: Chicago at Indiana, 12:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 26: Indiana at Chicago, TBD x-Thursday, April 28: Chicago at Indiana, TBD x-Saturday, April 30: Indiana at Chicago, TBD Miami 1, Philadelphia 0 Saturday, April 16: Miami 97, Philadelphia 89 Monday, April 18: Philadelphia at Miami, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Miami at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: Miami at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. x-Wednesday, April 27: Philadelphia at Miami, TBD x-Friday, April 29: Miami at Philadelphia, TBD x-Sunday, May 1: Philadelphia at Miami, TBD Boston 1, New York 0 Sunday, April 17: Boston 87, New York 85 Tuesday, April 19: New York at Boston, 5 p.m.

Friday, April 22: Boston at New York, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: Boston at New York, 1:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 26: New York at Boston, TBD x-Friday, April 29: Boston at New York, TBD x-Sunday, May 1: New York at Boston, TBD Atlanta 1, Orlando 0 Saturday, April 16: Atlanta 103, Orlando 93 Tuesday, April 19: Atlanta at Orlando, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, April 22: Orlando at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: Orlando at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

x-Tuesday, April 26: Atlanta at Orlando, TBD x-Thursday, April 28: Orlando at Atlanta, TBD x-Saturday, April 30: Atlanta at Orlando, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Memphis 1, San Antonio 0 Sunday, April 17: Memphis 101, San Antonio 98 Wednesday, April 20: Memphis at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: San Antonio at Memphis, 5:30 p.m.

Monday, April 25: San Antonio at Memphis, TBD x-Wednesday, April 27: Memphis at San Antonio, TBD x-Friday, April 29: San Antonio at Memphis, TBD x-Sunday, May 1: Memphis at San Antonio, TBD New Orleans 1, L.A. Lakers 0 Sunday, April 17: New Orleans 109, L.A. Lakers 100 Wednesday, April 20: New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Friday, April 22: L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 24: L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 26: New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, TBD x-Thursday, April 28: L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, TBD x-Saturday, April 30: New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, TBD Dallas 1, Portland 0 Saturday, April 16: Dallas 89, Portland 81 Tuesday, April 19: Portland at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Dallas at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: Dallas at Portland, 3 p.m. x-Monday, April 25: Portland at Dallas, TBD x-Thursday, April 28: Dallas at Portland, TBD x-Saturday, April 30: Portland at Dallas, TBD Oklahoma City 1, Denver 0

Sunday, April 17: Oklahoma City 107, Denver 103 Wednesday, April 20: Denver at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 23: Oklahoma City at Denver, 8 p.m.

Monday, April 25: Oklahoma City at Denver, 8:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 27: Denver at Oklahoma City, TBD x-Friday, April 29: Oklahoma City at Denver, TBD x-Sunday, May 1: Denver at Oklahoma City, TBD SUNDAY’S BOX SCORES THUNDER 107, NUGGETS 103 DENVER — Gallinari 6-11 4-6 18, Martin 4-12 2-4 10, Nene 9-11 4-8 22, Lawson 4-7 2-2 10, Chandler 4-10 0-0 9, Felton 4-11 4-5 12, Andersen 3-4 2-4 8, Harrington 2-3 0-0 5, Smith 3-8 3-4 9. Totals 39-77 21-33 103.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Durant 13-22 12-15 41, Ibaka 1-8 1-2 3, Perkins 2-4 0-0 4, Westbrook 12-23 4-5 31, Sefolosha 0-1 2-2 2, Collison 1-1 0-0 2, Harden 1-5 3-4 5, Mohammed 1-4 0-0 2, Maynor 5-7 0-0 12, Cook 2-2 0-0 5.

Totals 38-77 22-28 107.

Denver 33 27 22 21 — 103 Oklahoma City 24 35 27 21 — 107 3-Point Goals—Denver 4-16 (Gallinari 2-4, Harrington 1-2, Chandler 1-2, Lawson 0-1, Smith 0-3, Felton 0-4), Oklahoma City 9-19 (Westbrook 3-4, Durant 3-6, Maynor 2-3, Cook 11, Sefolosha 0-1, Harden 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Denver 51 (Chandler, Nene 8), Oklahoma City 44 (Durant 9). Assists—Denver 23 (Felton 8), Oklahoma City 15 (Westbrook 7). Total Fouls—Denver 24, Oklahoma City 22.

Technicals—Felton, Denver defensive three second, Oklahoma City defensive three second. A—18,203 (18,203).

CELTICS 87, KNICKS 85

NEW YORK — Anthony 5-18 3-4 15, Stoudemire 12-18 4-6 28, Turiaf 4-5 1-2 9, Billups 3-11 2-2 10, Fields 0-3 0-0 0, Walker 3-5 0-0 7, Jeffries 1-4 1-2 3, Douglas 3-8 0-0 8, Carter 1-4 0-0 2, Sha.Williams 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 33-78 11-16 85.

BOSTON — Pierce 6-16 4-5 18, Garnett 5-14 5-6 15, J.O’Neal 6-6 0-0 12, Rondo 5-14 0-2 10, Allen 9-15 3-3 24, Davis 1-8 0-2 2, Green 2-4 0-0 4, West 1-2 0-0 2, Krstic 01 0-0 0. Totals 35-80 12-18 87.

New York 23 28 13 21 — 85 Boston 24 15 20 28 — 87 3-Point Goals—New York 8-23 (Douglas 2-5, Billups 2-6, Anthony 2-8, Walker 1-1, Sha.Williams 1-2, Carter 0-1), Boston 5-13 (Allen 3-5, Pierce 2-5, Davis 0-1, Green 0-1, Rondo 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New York 44 (Stoudemire 11), Boston 57 (Garnett 13). Assists—New York 16 (Billups, Anthony 4), Boston 20 (Rondo 9). Total Fouls—New York 17, Boston 15. A—18,624 (18,624).

HORNETS 109, LAKERS 100 NEW ORLEANS — Ariza 2-13 2-4 6, Landry 6-13 5-5 17, Okafor 2-4 0-0 4, Paul 11-18 9-12 33, Belinelli 4-9 0-0 10, Gray 5-5 2-4 12, Ja.Smith 1-3 0-0 2, Jack 5-6 5-7 15, Mbenga 1-1 0-0 2, Green 4-7 0-1 8. Totals 41-79 23-33 109.

L.A. LAKERS — Artest 4-8 6-6 16, Gasol 2-9 4-4 8, Bynum 4-7 5-7 13, Fisher 3-8 1-2 8, Bryant 13-26 7-8 34, Odom 3-6 2-4 10, Brown 4-6 0-0 8, Barnes 0-2 0-0 0, Johnson 1-2 1-2 3, Jo.Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Ratliff 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-74 26-33 100.

New Orleans 26 29 18 36 — 109

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NASCAR SPRINT CUP AARON’S 499 RESULTS Sunday 1. (2) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 188 laps, 99.3 rating, 47 points, $329,386.

2. (10) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 188, 123.2, 44, $269,058.

3. (1) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 188, 80, 42, $210,686.

4. (4) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 188, 92.6, 41, $148,725.

5. (38) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 188, 82.7, 40, $175,711.

6. (20) Carl Edwards, Ford, 188, 79, 39, $159,141.

7. (17) Greg Biffle, Ford, 188, 88.1, 38, $125,375.

8. (3) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 188, 74.1, 37, $115,625.

9. (39) David Gilliland, Ford, 188, 58.3, 35, $131,033.

10. (36) Joey Logano, Toyota, 188, 94.4, 35, $116,975.

11. (16) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 188, 86.2, 33, $135,486.

12. (5) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 188, 103.4, 33, $97,525.

13. (26) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 188, 93.2, 32, $105,350.

14. (14) David Reutimann, Toyota, 188, 90.1, 30, $123,183.

15. (18) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 188, 102.8, 30, $120,595.

16. (27) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 188, 101.6, 29, $102,575.

17. (30) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 188, 55.5, 27, $133,908.

18. (8) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 188, 104.9, 27, $132,875.

19. (37) Andy Lally, Ford, 188, 43.2, 25, $100,050.

20. (42) Robby Gordon, Dodge, 188, 46.3, 24, $107,083.

21. (21) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 188, 56.3, 24, $124,289.

22. (40) Casey Mears, Toyota, 188, 50.2, 23, $88,350.

23. (29) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 188, 69.8, 21, $133,425.

24. (15) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 188, 73.4, 21, $113,370.

25. (23) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 188, 72, 20, $125,825.

26. (43) Bill Elliott, Chevrolet, 188, 48.2, 18, $82,625.

27. (35) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 188, 66.6, 18, $99,333.

28. (12) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 187, 50.9, 16, $81,525.

29. (28) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 184, 37, 0, $97,333.

30. (13) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 177, 47.3, 14, $123,658.

31. (6) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 170, 46.5, 0, $93,872.

32. (24) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 157, 51.5, 13, $113,316.

33. (19) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 154, 80.1, 12, $89,650.

34. (41) Terry Labonte, Ford, engine, 152, 45.9, 10, $80,575.

35. (34) Kyle Busch, Toyota, accident, 144, 92.7, 10, $128,266.

36. (25) Matt Kenseth, Ford, accident, 139, 85.6, 9, $117,211.

37. (31) Kasey Kahne, Toyota, 139, 50, 8, $88,100.

38. (9) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 115, 43.6, 6, $106,964.

39. (7) David Ragan, Ford, accident, 89, 82.2, 6, $87,550.

40. (11) Trevor Bayne, Ford, accident, 89, 76.5, 0, $87,275.

41. (22) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, vibration, 5, 27.4, 0, $79,025.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 156.261 mph.

Time of Race: 3 hours, 12 minutes, 1 second.

Margin of Victory: 0.002 seconds.

Caution Flags: 6 for 24 laps.

Lead Changes: 88 among 26 drivers.

Lap Leaders: J.Gordon 1-4; C.Bowyer 5; J.Gordon 6-9; R.Newman 10; B.Keselowski 11; C.Bowyer 12-13; J.Johnson 14; C.Bowyer 15-18; K.Kahne 19; C.Bowyer 20-21; D.Ragan 22; Ku.Busch 23; Ky.Busch 24-25; D.Ragan 26; Ky.Busch 27; C.Bowyer 28; C.Edwards 29; C.Bowyer 30-34; J.Logano 35; C.Bowyer 36; M.Ambrose 37; M.Kenseth 38-42; J.Logano 43; R.Smith 44-45; J.Burton 46-47; G.Biffle 48; J.Burton 49; M.Kenseth 50-51; B.Keselowski 52; D.Earnhardt Jr. 53; M.Kenseth 54; D.Earnhardt Jr. 55-56; G.Biffle 57-58; T.Bayne 59; D.Earnhardt Jr. 60-63; T.Bayne 64-66; D.Earnhardt Jr. 6770; T.Bayne 71; C.Bowyer 72-75; J.Johnson 76-82; R.Newman 83; J.Johnson 84-88; R.Newman 89-92; C.Edwards 93; M.Martin 94; P.Menard 95-96; C.Bowyer 97; Ku.Busch 98-99; D.Blaney 100; C.Edwards 101-103; Ku.Busch 104-108; C.Bowyer 109-110; Ku.Busch 111-114; R.Smith 115; C.Bowyer 116; R.Smith 117; C.Bowyer 118; D.Blaney 119-121; K.Harvick 122; Ku.Busch 123-128; C.Edwards 129; C.Mears 130; P.Menard 131-132; R.Smith 133; J.Burton 134; D.Blaney 135140; B.Labonte 141; M.Truex Jr. 142; K.Harvick 143-146;

M.Truex Jr. 147; Ku.Busch 148; K.Harvick 149; M.Truex Jr. 150; K.Harvick 151; J.Burton 152-153; J.McMurray 154; D.Blaney 155-157; C.Bowyer 158-168; R.Smith 169; C.Bowyer 170; M.Truex Jr. 171-173; D.Blaney 174-177; K.Harvick 178-179; D.Blaney 180-183; C.Edwards 184; C.Bowyer 185; C.Edwards 186; J.Gordon 187; J.Johnson 188.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): C.Bowyer, 15 times for 38 laps; D.Blaney, 6 times for 21 laps; Ku.Busch, 6 times for 19 laps; J.Johnson, 4 times for 14 laps; D.Earnhardt Jr., 4 times for 11 laps; J.Gordon, 3 times for 9 laps; K.Harvick, 5 times for 9 laps; C.Edwards, 6 times for 8 laps; M.Kenseth, 3 times for 8 laps; M.Truex Jr., 4 times for 6 laps; R.Smith, 5 times for 6 laps; J.Burton, 4 times for 6 laps; R.Newman, 3 times for 6 laps; T.Bayne, 3 times for 5 laps; P.Menard, 2 times for 4 laps; G.Biffle, 2 times for 3 laps; Ky.Busch, 2 times for 3 laps; J.Logano, 2 times for 2 laps; B.Keselowski, 2 times for 2 laps; D.Ragan, 2 times for 2 laps; M.Martin, 1 time for 1 lap; J.McMurray, 1 time for 1 lap; C.Mears, 1 time for 1 lap; B.Labonte, 1 time for 1 lap; M.Ambrose, 1 time for 1 lap; K.Kahne, 1 time for 1 lap.

Top 12 in Points: 1. C.Edwards, 295; 2. J.Johnson, 290; 3.

D.Earnhardt Jr., 276; 4. K.Harvick, 268; 5. Ku.Busch, 267; 6.

Ky.Busch, 257; 7. R.Newman, 253; 8. M.Kenseth, 252; 9.

J.Montoya, 246; 10. C.Bowyer, 245; 11. P.Menard, 242; 12.

T.Stewart, 240.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NL------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------West Division W L Pct GB Colorado 12 3 .800 — San Francisco 8 7 .533 4 San Diego 7 8 .467 5 1 Los Angeles 7 9 .438 5 /2 Arizona 6 8 .429 51/2 East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 10 4 .714 — Florida 8 6 .571 2 Washington 8 7 .533 21/2 Atlanta 7 9 .438 4 New York 5 11 .313 6 Central Division W L Pct GB Cincinnati 9 6 .600 — St. Louis 8 8 .500 11/2 Chicago 7 8 .467 2 Milwaukee 7 8 .467 2 Pittsburgh 7 8 .467 2 1 Houston 5 11 .313 4 /2 Today’s games Milwaukee (Marcum 2-1) at Philadelphia (Blanton 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Correia 2-1) at Cincinnati (T.Wood 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Stauffer 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 2-0), 6:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 1-1) at Colorado (Rogers 2-0), 6:40 p.m.

Atlanta (T.Hudson 2-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 0-2), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Arizona at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

SUNDAY’S BOX SCORES ROCKIES 9, CUBS 5 Chicago Colorado ab r h bi ab r h bi SCastro ss 4 2 3 1 Fowler cf 4 1 1 2 Barney 2b 5 1 2 0 Herrer 2b 4 2 1 1 Byrd cf 5 0 1 0 CGnzlz lf 5 1 4 2 ArRmr 3b 4 0 1 1 Tlwtzk ss 3 0 1 0 C.Pena 1b 3 1 0 0 Helton 1b 4 1 1 1 ASorin lf 3 0 0 0 S.Smith rf 2 2 2 2 Fukdm rf 3 0 1 0 Splrghs rf 3 1 1 0 Soto c 3 1 2 1 JoLopz 3b 4 1 1 0 Dmpstr p 1 0 0 0 JMorls c 3 0 1 1 DeWitt ph 1 0 0 0 AJhnsn p 1 0 0 0 Smrdzj p 0 0 0 0 Belisle p 0 0 0 0 Colvin ph 1 0 0 0 Stewart ph 1 0 0 0 Mateo p 0 0 0 0 MtRynl p 0 0 0 0 Stevens p 0 0 0 0 RBtncr p 0 0 0 0 Wggntn ph 1 0 0 0 Street p 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 5 10 3 Totals 35 9 13 9 Chicago 112 100 000 — 5 Colorado 400 100 04x — 9 E—Herrera (1). DP—Colorado 2. LOB—Chicago 7, Colorado 9. 2B—S.Castro (4), Fowler (6), C.Gonzalez (3), S.Smith (7), Jo.Lopez (1). HR—S.Smith (2). SB—C.Gonzalez (3). CS—J.Morales (1). S—Fukudome, Dempster, A.Johnson.

Chicago IP H R ER BB SO Dempster 5 7 5 5 2 4 Samardzija 2 1 0 0 2 1 2 Mateo L,0-1 /3 5 4 4 1 2 1 Stevens /3 0 0 0 1 1 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO A.Johnson 4 6 5 4 3 3 Belisle 2 3 0 0 0 0 Mat.Reynolds 1 1/3 0 0 0 1 1 2 R.Betancourt W,1-0 /3 0 0 0 0 0 Street 1 1 0 0 0 0 WP—A.Johnson. T—3:42. A—42,212 (50,490).

PHILLIES 3, MARLINS 2 Florida Philadelphia ab r h bi ab r h bi Coghln cf 4 0 1 0 Victorn cf 4 0 1 0 Infante 2b 5 1 1 0 Polanc 3b 4 1 3 1 HRmrz ss 3 0 1 0 Rollins ss 3 1 0 0 Stanton rf 4 1 1 1 Howard 1b 3 1 1 0 GSnchz 1b 4 0 2 0 BFrncs rf 3 0 2 0 Morrsn lf 2 0 1 1 Ibanez lf 4 0 1 1 J.Buck c 3 0 0 0 Ruiz c 3 0 0 1 Cousins pr 0 0 0 0 WValdz 2b 3 0 0 0 Helms 3b 3 0 0 0 Hamels p 2 0 0 0 AnSnch p 2 0 0 0 Gload ph 1 0 0 0 Bonifac ph 1 0 1 0 Madson p 0 0 0 0

R.Webb p 0 0 0 0 Contrrs p 0 0 0 0 Dobbs ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 8 2 Totals 30 3 8 3 Florida 000 002 000 — 2 Philadelphia 200 000 01x — 3 E—J.Buck (2), Morrison (1), Ibanez (1). DP—Florida 1, Philadelphia 2. LOB—Florida 9, Philadelphia 8. 2B—Infante (4), H.Ramirez (4). HR—Polanco (1). SB—Coghlan (1), Morrison (1), Bonifacio (2), Rollins (4). S—Helms.

SF—Morrison, Ruiz.

Florida IP H R ER BB SO Ani.Sanchez 6 6 2 2 4 8 R.Webb L,0-2 2 2 1 0 0 0 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO Hamels 7 7 2 2 2 7 Madson W,1-0 1 1 0 0 0 2 Contreras S,3-3 1 0 0 0 2 0 WP—Hamels. T—2:38. A—45,716 (43,651).

METS 3, BRAVES 2 New York Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h bi JosRys ss 4 2 2 0 Prado 3b-lf 4 0 0 0 Thole c 4 1 2 2 Heywrd rf 4 1 2 1 DWrght 3b 4 0 0 0 McCnn c 3 0 1 0 Beltran rf 3 0 1 0 Uggla 2b 4 1 1 0 I.Davis 1b 3 0 2 1 Hinske lf-1b 2 0 0 0 Pagan cf 3 0 0 0 Fremn 1b 2 0 1 1 Harris lf 4 0 1 0 C.Jones ph-3b 1 0 0 0 Emaus 2b 3 0 0 0 AlGnzlz ss 3 0 1 0 FRdrgz p 0 0 0 0 MaYng cf 4 0 1 0 Gee p 2 0 0 0 Hanson p 1 0 0 0 Capuan p 0 0 0 0 McLoth ph 1 0 0 0 Hairstn ph 1 0 0 0 Sherrill p 0 0 0 0 Dickey p 0 0 0 0 CMrtnz p 0 0 0 0 Isrnghs p 0 0 0 0 Hicks ph 1 0 0 0 Hu ph-2b 1 0 0 0 OFlhrt p 0 0 0 0 Conrad ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 8 3 Totals 31 2 7 2 New York 200 010 000 — 3 Atlanta 010 000 010 — 2 DP—New York 1, Atlanta 2. LOB—New York 7, Atlanta 7.

2B—Jos.Reyes (6), I.Davis (4). 3B—Uggla (1). HR—Heyward (4). SB—Jos.Reyes (6). CS—Thole (1), McCann (1), Hinske (1). S—Pagan, Ale.Gonzalez.

New York IP H R ER BB SO Gee W,1-0 5 2/3 5 1 1 2 4 1 Capuano H,1 /3 0 0 0 0 0 Dickey H,1 1 1 0 0 0 1 Isringhausen H,1 1 1 1 1 1 2 F.Rodriguez S,2-3 1 0 0 0 1 1 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO Hanson L,1-3 5 5 3 3 2 9 2 Sherrill /3 2 0 0 0 0 1 C.Martinez 1 /3 0 0 0 1 2 O’Flaherty 2 1 0 0 0 3 HBP—by Hanson (Beltran). T—2:52. A—29,625 (49,586).

PIRATES 7, REDS 6 Pittsburgh Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h bi AMcCt cf 3 1 3 2 Stubbs cf 6 0 1 0 Tabata lf 5 1 1 1 Cairo 2b 4 1 3 1 Hanrhn p 0 0 0 0 Votto 1b 3 1 1 0 Overay 1b 3 1 0 0 Rolen 3b 5 1 1 1 Walker 2b 4 1 2 0 Gomes lf 5 1 1 1 Alvarez 3b 4 0 0 0 Bruce rf 5 2 4 2 Resop p 0 0 0 0 RHrndz c 3 0 1 0 Meek p 0 0 0 0 JrSmth p 0 0 0 0 Diaz lf 1 0 0 0 Bray p 0 0 0 0 GJones rf 4 1 2 1 Heisey ph 0 0 0 0 Snyder c 2 1 0 1 Ondrsk p 0 0 0 0 Cedeno ss 2 1 0 1 Corder p 0 0 0 0 Karstns p 2 0 0 0 Renteri ph 1 0 1 0 DMcCt p 0 0 0 0 Janish ss 5 0 2 1 Bowker ph 1 0 1 1 Volquez p 2 0 0 0 Veras p 0 0 0 0 Hanign c 2 0 0 0 Pearce 3b 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 7 9 7 Totals 41 6 15 6 Pittsburgh 400 002 010 — 7 Cincinnati 010 130 100 — 6 E—Overbay (2), A.McCutchen (1), Ondrusek (1).

DP—Pittsburgh 1, Cincinnati 2. LOB—Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 13. 2B—Walker (5), Bowker (1), Rolen (4). HR—A.McCutchen (3), Tabata (3), G.Jones (3), Cairo (1), Gomes (6), Bruce (2). SB—Tabata (8), Walker (1), G.Jones (1).

CS—A.McCutchen (3). S—Snyder. SF—Cedeno.

Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO Karstens 4 1/3 8 5 5 1 6 2 D.McCutchen /3 1 0 0 0 0 Veras BS,1-1 1 2/3 2 1 1 1 3 1 Resop W,1-0 /3 0 0 0 0 0 1 Meek H,3 /3 1 0 0 1 1 Hanrahan S,5-5 1 2/3 3 0 0 1 0 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO Volquez 5 2/3 5 6 6 6 6 1 Jor.Smith /3 1 0 0 1 1

Bray 1 1 0 0 0 0 Ondrusek L,2-1 1 2 1 0 0 0 Cordero 1 0 0 0 1 1 HBP—by Veras (Cairo). WP—Veras, Hanrahan.

T—3:29. A—32,105 (42,319).

NATIONALS 8, BREWERS 4 Milwaukee Washington ab r h bi ab r h bi Weeks 2b 5 1 1 0 Espinos 2b 4 1 1 3 Counsll ss 4 0 1 0 Ankiel cf 4 0 2 0 Braun lf 4 0 1 1 Werth rf 4 1 1 0 Fielder 1b 5 0 1 1 AdLRc 1b 4 0 1 0 McGeh 3b 5 1 3 1 Morse lf 2 1 1 1 Kotsay rf 4 0 2 0 L.Nix lf 1 0 0 0 Lucroy c 4 0 1 0 Dsmnd ss 4 2 2 1 Gomez cf 3 1 1 0 IRdrgz c 4 1 1 3 Gallard p 2 0 1 1 Cora 3b 3 1 1 0 Stetter p 0 0 0 0 Marqus p 3 1 1 0 Morgan ph 1 0 0 0 Slaten p 0 0 0 0 Kintzlr p 0 0 0 0 Gaudin p 0 0 0 0 Kottars ph 1 1 1 0 Clipprd p 0 0 0 0 Totals 38 4 13 4 Totals 33 8 11 8 Milwaukee 100 100 002 — 4 Washington 000 133 01x — 8 DP—Milwaukee 1, Washington 2. LOB—Milwaukee 10, Washington 2. 2B—Desmond (4). HR—Espinosa (2), Desmond (2), I.Rodriguez (1). SF—Morse.

Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO Gallardo L,1-1 5 1/3 10 7 7 0 5 2 Stetter /3 0 0 0 0 0 Kintzler 2 1 1 1 0 2 Washington IP H R ER BB SO Marquis W,1-0 7 9 2 2 1 4 2 Slaten /3 2 0 0 0 0 2 Gaudin /3 1 2 2 2 2 2 Clippard /3 1 0 0 0 1 Marquis pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. WP—Gallardo.

T—3:00. A—0 (41,506).

PADRES 8, ASTROS 6 San Diego Houston ab r h bi ab r h bi Denorfi rf 2 0 0 0 Bourgs cf 5 1 1 0 Venale ph-rf 3 2 1 2 AngSnc ss 4 0 0 0 EPtrsn 2b 1 0 0 0 Pence rf 4 2 2 1 OHudsn ph- 0 0 0 1 Ca.Lee 1b 4 1 2 2 2b Headly 3b 5 1 2 0 JValdz p 0 0 0 0 Cantu 1b 4 1 1 3 Michals lf 3 1 1 0 Adams p 0 0 0 0 CJhnsn 3b 4 1 2 1 Bell p 0 0 0 0 Hall 2b 3 0 1 2 Hundly c 5 2 2 1 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 Ludwck lf 5 0 1 0 Fulchin p 0 0 0 0 Maybin cf 5 1 2 0 Wallac 1b 0 0 0 0 Bartlett ss 4 1 2 1 Bourn pr 0 0 0 0 Richrd p 3 0 0 0 Quinter c 4 0 0 0 Frieri p 0 0 0 0 Myers p 2 0 0 0 Hawpe ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Abad p 0 0 0 0 MDwns 2b 2 0 0 0 Totals 38 8 11 8 Totals 35 6 9 6 San Diego 010 020 140 — 8 Houston 022 002 000 — 6 E—Venable (1), Ang.Sanchez (5), Abad 2 (2). DP—San Diego 1, Houston 1. LOB—San Diego 10, Houston 4.

2B—Headley 2 (6), Pence (7), Ca.Lee (2), C.Johnson (2).

3B—Maybin (2). HR—Cantu (1), Hundley (3). SB—Venable (3), Maybin (4), Bourgeois (5). CS—C.Johnson (1).

SF—O.Hudson.

San Diego IP H R ER BB SO Richard 5 1/3 7 6 6 1 5 Frieri W,1-1 1 2/3 1 0 0 0 3 Adams H,4 1 0 0 0 0 0 Bell S,4-4 1 1 0 0 1 2 Houston IP H R ER BB SO Myers 6 8 3 3 2 5 2 Abad H,2 /3 0 1 0 0 1 Melancon L,1-1 2/3 3 4 2 1 0 BS,1-1 2 Fulchino /3 0 0 0 2 0 J.Valdez 1 0 0 0 1 2 T—3:07. A—22,899 (40,963).

DODGERS 2, CARDINALS 1 St. Louis Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h bi Theriot ss 4 0 0 0 Gwynn lf 4 0 0 0 Rasms cf 4 0 0 0 Carroll ss 4 0 1 0 Pujols 1b 4 0 0 0 Ethier rf 4 1 1 0 Hollidy lf 3 1 3 0 Kemp cf 4 1 3 2 Brkmn rf 3 0 0 0 Uribe 3b 3 0 1 0 Freese 3b 4 0 1 1 Loney 1b 3 0 0 0 YMolin c 4 0 0 0 Barajs c 3 0 0 0 Descals 2b 2 0 0 0 Miles 2b 3 0 1 0 Carpntr p 1 0 0 0 Blngsly p 1 0 0 0 Jay ph 1 0 0 0 DeJess ph 1 0 0 0 Boggs p 0 0 0 0 Broxtn p 0 0 0 0 Miller p 0 0 0 0 Frnkln p 0 0 0 0

Totals 30 1 4 1 Totals 30 2 7 2 St. Louis 000 000 001 — 1 Los Angeles 000 000 002 — 2 No outs when winning run scored.

E—Theriot (5), Ethier (1). DP—Los Angeles 1. LOB—St. Louis 6, Los Angeles 5. 2B—Holliday 2 (5), Ethier (4).

HR—Kemp (3). CS—Kemp (2). S—Descalso, Billingsley.

St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO Carpenter 7 5 0 0 0 6 Boggs 1 0 0 0 0 0 Miller 0 1 1 1 0 0 Franklin L,0-2 BS,4-5 0 1 1 1 0 0 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO Billingsley 8 2 0 0 2 11 Broxton W,1-0 1 2 1 1 1 1 Miller pitched to 1 batter in the 9th. Franklin pitched to 1 batter in the 9th. T—2:32. A—27,439 (56,000).

DIAMONDBACKS 6, GIANTS 5, 12 INNINGS, San Francisco Arizona ab r h bi ab r h bi Rownd cf-lf 5 1 2 0 Blmqst lf 6 1 2 0 FSnchz 2b 5 1 1 0 KJhnsn 2b 6 1 1 0 Runzler p 0 0 0 0 J.Upton rf 4 3 2 1 DeRosa 1b 0 0 0 0 CYoung cf 4 0 1 1 Huff rf-lf 3 1 1 2 S.Drew ss 6 0 2 3 Ford cf 1 0 0 0 Nady 1b 4 1 0 0 Posey c 5 1 1 2 Cllmntr p 0 0 0 0 PSndvl 3b 4 1 1 1 Monter c 5 0 1 0 Burrell lf 3 0 0 0 RRorts 3b 5 0 2 1 Schrhlt rf 2 0 0 0 Enright p 1 0 0 0 Belt 1b 4 0 0 0 Vasquz p 0 0 0 0 JaLopz p 0 0 0 0 JGutrrz p 0 0 0 0 Tejada ss 5 0 0 0 Mora ph 1 0 0 0 Bmgrn p 3 0 0 0 DHrndz p 0 0 0 0 RRmrz p 0 0 0 0 Mirand ph 1 0 0 0 Affeldt p 0 0 0 0 Putz p 0 0 0 0 Romo p 0 0 0 0 Branyn 1b 1 0 0 0 Fontent ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Totals 41 5 6 5 Totals 44 6 11 6 San Francis- 000 104 000 000 — 5 co Arizona 003 010 010 001 — 6 One out when winning run scored.

E—Tejada (3). LOB—San Francisco 3, Arizona 10.

2B—Rowand (4). 3B—S.Drew (1). HR—Huff (1), Posey (3), P.Sandoval (4), J.Upton (4). SB—Nady (1). S—Enright.

SF—Huff, C.Young.

San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO Bumgarner 6 2/3 8 4 4 1 2 R.Ramirez H,3 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 Affeldt BS,2-2 /3 2 0 0 0 1 Romo 1 0 0 0 0 1 Runzler L,1-2 2 1/3 0 1 1 2 1 Ja.Lopez 0 1 0 0 0 0 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO Enright 5 1/3 4 4 4 2 5 2 Vasquez /3 1 1 1 0 1 J.Gutierrez 1 1 0 0 0 3 D.Hernandez 1 0 0 0 0 0 Putz 2 0 0 0 0 3 Collmenter W,1-0 2 0 0 0 0 2 Ja.Lopez pitched to 1 batter in the 12th. WP—Affeldt, Enright. T—3:47. A—26,195 (48,633).

NATIONALS 5, BREWERS 1 Milwaukee Washington ab r h bi ab r h bi Weeks 2b 4 0 1 0 Espinos 2b 3 0 1 3 Gomez cf 4 0 0 0 Ankiel cf 3 0 1 0 Braun lf 4 0 2 0 Morse lf 4 0 1 0 Fielder 1b 4 1 1 0 Storen p 0 0 0 0 McGeh 3b 4 0 1 0 AdLRc 1b 3 1 2 1 YBtncr ss 4 0 1 1 WRams c 4 0 0 0 Kottars c 4 0 0 0 L.Nix rf 4 0 1 0 Almont rf 3 0 0 0 Dsmnd ss 4 1 2 0 Estrad p 2 0 1 0 HrstnJr 3b-lf 3 2 3 1 Counsll ph 1 0 0 0 LHrndz p 2 0 0 0 Loe p 0 0 0 0 Stairs ph 1 1 0 0 Brddck p 0 0 0 0 Cora 3b 1 0 0 0 Green p 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 1 7 1 Totals 32 5 11 5 Milwaukee 000 100 000 — 1 Washington 010 000 31x — 5 DP—Milwaukee 2. LOB—Milwaukee 6, Washington 7.

2B—Fielder (5), Ankiel (2), Hairston Jr. (1). 3B—Braun (1), Espinosa (1). HR—Ad.LaRoche (2), Hairston Jr. (1).

SB—Desmond (6).

Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO Estrada 6 5 1 1 1 7 1 Loe L,1-1 /3 4 3 3 0 0 Braddock 1 1/3 2 1 1 1 0 1 Green /3 0 0 0 1 0 Washington IP H R ER BB SO L.Hernandez W,2-1 7 6 1 1 0 3 Storen S,1-1 2 1 0 0 0 1 HBP—by Estrada (Espinosa). PB—Kottaras. T—2:38.

A—23,047 (41,506).

L.A. Lakers 24 23 25 28 — 100 3-Point Goals—New Orleans 4-11 (Paul 2-3, Belinelli 2-4, Jack 0-1, Green 0-1, Ariza 0-2), L.A. Lakers 6-13 (Artest 2-3, Odom 2-5, Fisher 1-1, Bryant 1-2, Brown 0-1, Gasol 0-1).

Fouled Out—Okafor. Rebounds—New Orleans 44 (Ariza, Paul 7), L.A. Lakers 51 (Artest 11). Assists—New Orleans 24 (Paul 14), L.A. Lakers 17 (Gasol 6). Total Fouls—New Orleans 22, L.A. Lakers 24. Flagrant Fouls—Ariza. A—18,997 (18,997).

GRIZZLIES 101, SPURS 98 MEMPHIS — Young 1-3 0-0 2, Randolph 10-15 5-8 25, Gasol 9-10 6-10 24, Conley 4-10 6-8 15, Allen 2-6 3-6 7, Battier 4-5 0-0 10, Mayo 5-13 0-0 13, Arthur 2-5 1-1 5, Vasquez 0-0 0-0 0, Haddadi 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-67 21-33 101.

SAN ANTONIO — Jefferson 4-6 3-4 13, Duncan 8-13 0-2 16, McDyess 1-5 1-2 3, Parker 4-16 12-16 20, Hill 2-7 11-13 15, Neal 4-10 0-0 10, Bonner 2-4 6-6 12, Blair 3-9 3-4 9, Green 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-70 36-47 98.

Memphis 27 18 25 31 — 101 San Antonio 22 21 31 24 — 98 3-Point Goals—Memphis 6-10 (Mayo 3-4, Battier 2-2, Conley 1-2, Randolph 0-1, Young 0-1), San Antonio 6-15 (Jefferson 2-3, Bonner 2-4, Neal 2-4, Parker 0-1, Hill 0-3).

Fouled Out—Mayo. Rebounds—Memphis 45 (Randolph 14), San Antonio 50 (Duncan 13). Assists—Memphis 22 (Conley 10), San Antonio 13 (Parker 5). Total Fouls—Memphis 33, San Antonio 27. Technicals—Memphis defensive three second, San Antonio defensive three second. A—18,581 (18,797).

----------------------------IFL---------------------------INDOOR FOOTBALL at Budweiser Events Center ICE 59, CAVALRY 54 Wyoming 14 9 10 21 — 54 Colorado 7 16 7 29 — 59 First Quarter W — Dante Dudley 5 pass from Joe McClain (Travis Atter kick), 12:28 C — Maurice Greer 1 run (Rocky Stevens kick), 7:22 W — Dudley 20 pass from McClain (Atter kick), 1:06 Second Quarter C — Greer 3 run (Stevens kick), 12:50 W — Atter 38 FG, 10:01 C — Greer 2 run (pass failed), 5:54 W — Atter 46 FG, 2:04 C — Stevens 35 FG, :21.15 W — Atter 41 FG, :00 Third Quarter C — Eryk Anders 2 pass from David Knighton (Stevens kick), 12:19 W — Atter 38 FG, 9:16 W — Johnny Wood 1 run (Atter kick), 2:13 Fourth Quarter C — Greer 1 run (kick failed), 14:11 C — Brandon Fanney fumble recovery in end zone (Stevens kick) 8:46 W — Wood 2 run (Atter kick), 8:20 C — Duane Brooks 47 pass from Knighton (kick failed), 6:34 W — Brooks Charlton 4 pass from McClain (Atter kick), 4:45 C — Kenneth Witter 24 pass from Knighton (Stevens kick), 3:41 C — Stevens 42 FG, :37 W — James Newson 6 pass from McClain (Atter kick), :07

--------------------------NHL-------------------------SUNDAY’S SUMMARIES RANGERS 3, CAPITALS 2 Washington 0 1 1 — 2 N.Y. Rangers 0 1 2 — 3 First Period—None.

Second Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Christensen 1 (Wolski, McCabe), 5:30 (pp). 2, Washington, Ovechkin 2 (Arnott, Green), 19:00.

Third Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Prospal 1 (Staal, Dubinsky), 8:01. 4, Washington, Knuble 1 (Backstrom, Ovechkin), 14:48 (pp). 5, N.Y. Rangers, Dubinsky 1, 18:21.

Shots on Goal—Washington 7-7-11—25. N.Y. Rangers 8-1116—35.

Goalies—Washington, Neuvirth. N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist.

A—18,200 (18,200). T—2:45.

CANUCKS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2 Vancouver 0 2 1 — 3 Chicago 1 1 0 — 2 First Period—1, Chicago, Keith 1 (Toews), 6:54 (pp).

Second Period—2, Vancouver, Ehrhoff 1 (H.Sedin, D.Sedin), 10:03 (pp). 3, Vancouver, D.Sedin 3 (Edler, Bieksa), 10:57. 4, Chicago, P.Sharp 1 (Toews, Kane), 12:40 (pp).

Third Period—5, Vancouver, Samuelsson 1 (H.Sedin, Ehrhoff), 6:48.

Shots on Goal—Vancouver 10-9-7—26. Chicago 16-97—32.

Goalies—Vancouver, Luongo. Chicago, Crawford. A—21,743 (19,717). T—2:24.

PREDATORS 4, DUCKS 3 Anaheim 0 2 1 — 3 Nashville 2 0 2 — 4 First Period—1, Nashville, Erat 1 (Franson, Ward), 15:00 (pp).

2, Nashville, Tootoo 1 (Smithson), 15:38.

Second Period—3, Anaheim, Selanne 3 (Perry), 18:10 (pp). 4, Anaheim, Selanne 4 (Perry), 18:40.

Third Period—5, Nashville, Legwand 1 (Suter, Erat), 5:25. 6, Anaheim, Beleskey 1 (Koivu), 6:48. 7, Nashville, Fisher 3 (Kostitsyn, Suter), 10:21.

Shots on Goal—Anaheim 4-6-6—16. Nashville 12-1510—37.

Goalies—Anaheim, Emery. Nashville, Rinne.

A—17,113 (17,113). T—2:27.

--------------------------GOLF-------------------------PGA VALERO TEXAS OPEN Sunday At TPC San Antonio Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Final Round FedEx Cup points in parenthesis

Brendan Steele (500), $1,116,000 Charley Hoffman (245), $545,600 Kevin Chappell (245), $545,600 Brandt Snedeker (135), $297,600 Fredrik Jacobson (100), $226,300 Pat Perez (100), $226,300 Cameron Tringale (100), $226,300 Charles Howell III (85), $192,200 Keegan Bradley (78), $173,600 Martin Laird (78), $173,600 Scott Stallings (63), $136,400 J.B. Holmes (63), $136,400 Kevin Sutherland (63), $136,400 Dean Wilson (63), $136,400 Brandt Jobe (53), $90,055 Roland Thatcher (53), $90,055 Kevin Streelman (53), $90,055 Hunter Haas (53), $90,055 Johnson Wagner (53), $90,055 Bobby Gates (53), $90,055 Steve Flesch (53), $90,055 Rich Beem (53), $90,055 John Senden (45), $52,257 Brian Gay (45), $52,257 Nathan Green (45), $52,257 Geoff Ogilvy (45), $52,257 Brendon de Jonge (45), $52,257 Martin Piller (45), $52,257 Adam Scott (45), $52,257 Troy Matteson (39), $37,665 Blake Adams (39), $37,665

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AL-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------East Division W L Pct GB 9 5 .643 — 7 8 .467 21/2 6 8 .429 3 6 9 .400 31/2 4 10 .286 5 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 11 4 .733 — Kansas City 10 5 .667 1 Chicago 7 8 .467 4 Detroit 7 9 .438 41/2 Minnesota 5 10 .333 6 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 10 5 .667 — Texas 10 5 .667 — Oakland 8 8 .500 21/2 Seattle 5 11 .313 51/2 Today’s games Toronto (R.Romero 1-1) at Boston (Matsuzaka 0-2), 9:05 a.m.

Chicago White Sox (E.Jackson 2-0) at Tampa Bay (Price 1-2), 4:40 p.m.

Minnesota (Liriano 0-3) at Baltimore (Tillman 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (E.Santana 0-1) at Texas (C.Wilson 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland (C.Carrasco 1-1) at Kansas City (Davies 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 2-0) at Seattle (Vargas 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 4:40 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Boston at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Detroit at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

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Borbon cf 3 0 1 0 Gardnr lf 2 0 0 0 Morlnd ph 1 0 0 0 AnJons ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Totals 35 5 10 5 Totals 31 6 8 6 Texas 200 101 100 — 5 New York 010 022 01x — 6 E—Sabathia (1), Martin (3). DP—Texas 1, New York 3.

LOB—Texas 6, New York 5. 2B—Mi.Young 2 (8), A.Beltre (4).

HR—A.Beltre (4), Granderson (4), Cano (4), Martin (4).

SB—Andrus (4).

Texas IP H R ER BB SO Ogando 61/3 6 5 5 1 1 Rhodes L,0-1 11/3 2 1 1 2 0 1 Strop /3 0 0 0 0 0 New York IP H R ER BB SO Sabathia 61/3 8 4 4 2 6 2 Chamberlain BS,1-1 /3 1 1 1 1 0 R.Soriano W,1-0 1 1 0 0 0 1 M.Rivera S,7-7 1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP—by Ogando (Martin). T—3:03. A—40,811 (50,291).

ATHLETICS 5, TIGERS 1 Detroit Oakland ab r h bi ab r h bi Rhyms 2b 4 0 1 0 DeJess cf 2 1 0 0 AJcksn cf 4 0 1 0 Barton 1b 2 2 0 0 Boesch dh 4 0 0 0 CJcksn rf 3 0 1 1 MiCarr 1b 4 0 0 0 Wlngh lf 4 0 1 2 Raburn lf 4 0 0 0 Matsui dh 4 0 0 1 Kelly 3b 3 0 1 0 M.Ellis 2b 4 1 2 0 JhPerlt ss 3 0 0 0 Powell c 4 1 1 0 Avila c 3 0 1 0 AnLRc 3b 2 0 0 0 C.Wells rf 3 1 1 1 Pnngtn ss 3 0 0 1 Totals 32 1 5 1 Totals 28 5 5 5 Detroit 000 001 000 — 1 Oakland 000 131 00x — 5 E—An.LaRoche (3). DP—Oakland 1. LOB—Detroit 4, Oakland 7. 2B—M.Ellis 2 (5), Powell (2). HR—C.Wells (1).

SF—Pennington.

Detroit IP H R ER BB SO Penny L,0-2 5 4 5 5 4 5 Thomas 11/3 0 0 0 1 0 2 Alburquerque /3 0 0 0 0 1 Schlereth 1 1 0 0 1 1 Oakland IP H R ER BB SO Cahill W,2-0 8 4 1 1 0 9 T.Ross 1 1 0 0 0 2 Penny pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. HBP—by Penny (DeJesus). T—2:39. A—16,460 (35,067).

MARINERS 3, ROYALS 2 Seattle Kansas City

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2B—I.Suzuki (4), Francoeur (3). 3B—Bradley (1). SB—Dyson (5), Aviles (3). CS—Olivo (1), A.Escobar (2). S—Langerhans, Getz. SF—B.Pena.

Seattle IP H R ER BB SO Pineda W,2-1 6 3 1 1 4 5 J.Wright H,3 2 0 0 0 2 1 League S,3-3 1 2 1 1 0 0 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO Francis L,0-1 61/3 6 3 3 0 1 Bl.Wood 22/3 1 0 0 0 2 T—2:46. A—19,424 (37,903).

ANGELS 4, WHITE SOX 2 Los Angeles Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi MIzturs ss 4 2 3 0 Pierre lf 5 0 0 0 HKndrc 2b 3 0 1 0 Bckhm 2b 4 0 0 0 Abreu dh 4 0 1 1 A.Dunn dh 4 0 0 0 TrHntr rf 3 0 0 1 Konerk 1b 4 0 1 0 V.Wells lf 4 1 1 0 Quentin rf 4 1 2 0 Callasp 3b 4 0 1 1 Rios cf 3 1 1 0 Trumo 1b 4 1 2 1 Przyns c 3 0 2 1 Mathis c 3 0 0 0 AlRmrz ss 4 0 1 1 Bourjos cf 4 0 1 0 Vizquel 3b 3 0 1 0 Totals 33 4 10 4 Totals 34 2 8 2 Los Angeles 101 101 000 — 4 Chicago 000 000 200 — 2 DP—Los Angeles 1, Chicago 2. LOB—Los Angeles 5, Chicago 8. 2B—M.Izturis 2 (7), Abreu (3), Quentin 2 (9). 3B—V.Wells (1). HR—Trumbo (2). S—Pierzynski. SF—Tor.Hunter.

Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO Haren W,4-0 61/3 7 2 2 0 6 1 Takahashi H,3 /3 0 0 0 0 0 1 F.Rodriguez H,1 /3 0 0 0 0 0 Rodney H,2 1 0 0 0 0 1 ISuzuki rf Figgins 3b Bradly lf Cust dh Smoak 1b Olivo c Lngrhn cf Ryan ss JWilson 2b

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RED SOX 8, BLUE JAYS 1 Toronto Boston ab r h bi ab r h bi YEscor ss 4 0 0 0 Crwfrd lf 4 0 0 0 CPttrsn cf 3 0 1 0 Pedroia 2b 4 0 0 0 Bautist rf 4 0 1 0 AdGnzl 1b 4 1 2 0 Lind 1b 3 0 1 0 Youkils 3b 3 1 0 0 A.Hill 2b 3 1 1 0 Ortiz dh 3 1 1 0 Arencii c 4 0 2 0 Lowrie ss 4 2 1 1 Snider dh 4 0 0 0 J.Drew rf 3 1 1 0 JRiver lf 3 0 0 0 Sltlmch c 4 1 2 3 J.Nix 3b 2 0 1 0 Ellsury cf 4 1 1 3 Totals 30 1 7 0 Totals 33 8 8 7 Toronto 010 000 000 — 1 Boston 040 002 02x — 8 E—J.Nix (3), Lind (1), Lowrie (2). DP—Boston 3.

LOB—Toronto 8, Boston 4. 2B—C.Patterson (1), Bautista (1), Ad.Gonzalez (3). HR—Ellsbury (3). SB—C.Patterson (2), J.Nix (3). CS—C.Patterson (1), J.Rivera (1).

Toronto IP H R ER BB SO Litsch L,1-1 6 7 6 4 1 5 Janssen 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 Camp /3 1 2 1 1 1 1 Frasor /3 0 0 0 0 1 Boston IP H R ER BB SO Lester W,1-1 6 6 1 1 3 5 Bard 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 Doubront /3 1 0 0 2 0 1 Jenks /3 0 0 0 0 1 Wheeler 1 0 0 0 0 0 Lester pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. HBP—by Camp (Youkilis). PB—Arencibia 2. T—3:03. A—37,802 (37,065).

TWINS 4, RAYS 2 Minnesota Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h bi Tolbert 2b 5 0 1 1 Fuld dh 5 0 2 0 ACasill ss 5 0 0 0 Damon lf 1 0 1 1 Kubel rf 3 1 1 1 Joyce lf 2 0 0 0 Thome dh 4 0 1 0 BUpton cf 3 0 1 0 LHughs pr-dh 0 0 0 0 FLopez 3b 4 0 1 0 DYong lf 4 0 1 0 Shppch c 4 0 1 0 Cuddyr 1b 4 1 1 0 Jaso pr-c 0 0 0 0 Valenci 3b 3 0 0 0 Zobrist rf 3 1 0 0 Holm c 4 1 2 0 SRdrgz 2b 4 0 1 1

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SB—Repko (1). S—Damon.

Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO Duensing W,1-0 7 7 2 2 2 5 Perkins H,2 1 1 0 0 1 0 Capps S,1-2 1 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO Hellickson L,1-2 7 6 4 4 2 3 2 McGee /3 1 0 0 0 0 2 A.Russell /3 2 0 0 0 0 2 C.Ramos /3 0 0 0 0 1 HBP—by Capps (D.Johnson). WP—C.Ramos. T—2:51.

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SF—Scott.

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Funeral Announcements

ECKERT: Kathryn M. Eckert of Loveland. Widow of Vernon E. Eckert. Cremation has been conducted. No further services are scheduled. Memorial contributions may be made to the Food Bank for Larimer County, 1301 Blue Spruce Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524.

GUERRERO: Georgie E. Guerrero, 97, of Loveland.

Widow of Antonio “Tony” Guerrero. Arrangements pending.

RINGUS: Kathleen Ringus, 69, of Loveland.

Memorial service 1:30 p.m. today at First Christian Church.

Entrepreneurs are finding inventive new uses for tasty Maine shellfish

In this photo taken on March 31, a lobster is posed next to a golf ball made from ground lobster shells in Orono, Maine. A University of Maine engineering professor and his students have patented the process used to create the biodegradable balls. Tiles and plant pots using the biodegradable shells are also on the horizon.

ORONO, Maine (AP) — Lobsters aren’t just for eating anymore.

The shells from Maine’s signature seafood are being used to manufacture decorative tiles, trivets and drinking-glass coasters. Work is under way to utilize them in countertops and tabletops. And at the University of Maine, a professor has developed prototypes of biodegradable golf balls and plant pots made out of ground-up lobster shells.

“Instead of dumping the shells at landfills, the idea is to add value to the product, which hopefully will funnel back into the industry,” said David Neivandt, a professor of chemical and biological engineering who created a biodegradable golf ball with a core made of lobster shells.

Lobster processors dispose of tons of lobster shells that are left over after the meat is removed. Industry leaders have long wondered if there might be a way to make money from the part thrown away.

Neivandt and one of his students, Alex Caddell, together developed a golf ball using ground-up lobster shells mixed with a gluelike substance for its core. The shell is also made out of naturally derived biodegradable material, but they aren’t giving specifics because they don’t want to give away any secrets.

The ball is the same size and weight

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as a standard golf ball but is intended for use on cruise ships or at driving ranges that are on lakes or the ocean.

Dumping golf balls into the sea is prohibited under international convention because they are made of plastic and don’t break down, but the lobster golf ball is biodegradable and disintegrates in the water in about three weeks.

Caddell, who played golf in high school, said he and Neivandt tested numerous balls that cracked, didn’t fly quite right or otherwise didn’t make the cut. Finally, they came upon just the right mixture that makes the ball hit nearly like the real thing.

“The first time I hit it, I was sur-

prised it didn’t shatter into a million pieces,” Caddell said. “And it flew straight. I usually have a pretty bad slice, so to hit it straight was amazing.”

With an iron, the ball flies nearly the same distance as a standard ball. With a driver, it’ll go 60 to 70 percent of the distance.

There are other biodegradable golf balls on the market, which sell for about $1 each, Neivandt said. The raw materials for the lobster golf ball cost about 19 cents per ball, which could make it competitive in the open market.

The university has filed a provisional patent for the lobster-shell mixture. Neivandt said a private

Obama email fuels calls for Senior Calendar GOP member to step down For more information MARTIN: Ruth L. Martin of Loveland. Graveside services today 11 a.m. Resthaven Memory Gardens, Fort Collins.

CORBETT: Robert Corbett of Berthoud. Cremation.

No services scheduled.

Need space for a meeting? Call for info on use of our Reception Center.

To honor all the families we have served, we will be placing luminaries in all of our Gardens on Saturday, April 23, 2011 (Easter Eve). Beginning at dusk, please drive through and take in the beautiful display.

RH obituary policy Obituaries are a paid service of the Reporter-Herald. Obituaries must be submitted by 2 p.m. to appear in the next day’s edition. For more information, call 669-5050 or visit www. reporterherald.com/obituaries/form.asp.

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LOS ANGELES — Some Orange County, Calif., Republican leaders are denouncing an email distributed by a long-serving party committee member that portrays President Barack Obama’s face superimposed on a chimpanzee, with the words: “Now you know why — No birth certificate!”

County GOP Chairman Scott Baugh has called for the resignation of Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the party central committee who sent the email to some committee members and others last week. Baugh said he received it Friday afternoon and quickly responded with an email telling Davenport it was “dripping with

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Now’s the time to apply for preschool programs

Your memory is our keepsake, with that we will never part. God has you in his keeping: we have you in our hearts.

Nothing could be more beautiful than the memories we have of you. To us you were so special. God must have thought so too.

All our lives we will miss you, as the years come and go, but in our hearts you will live forever. Because we love you so.

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The Thompson R2-J School District is taking applications for free preschool programs for the 2011-12 school year.

Children who will be turning 3 or 4 years old prior to Oct. 1 may qualify.

Eligibility is based on federal income and program guidelines.

Programs include Head Start, Colorado Preschool Program and Special Education for children identified with an educational disability. There also will be some tuition-paying slots at some of the early childhood centers.

For information or an application, contact Diana Klundt at 613-5052 or Sharon Johnson at

• 5 p.m. Theft, Chilson Recreation Center, 700 E. Fourth St. • 6 p.m. Drug violation, Home Depot, 1100 Nickel Drive.

• 7 p.m. Theft, 3200 block of Coal Creek Street.

• 9 p.m. Physical disturbance, 1800 block of Lily Place.

• 10 p.m. Drug violation, Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center, 4705 Clydesdale Parkway.

• 11 p.m. Drug violation, North Lake Park, 2800 N. Taft Ave. Sunday • 8 a.m. Criminal trespass, 1000 block of Nyssa Drive.

• 9 a.m. Theft in progress, U Pump It, 1125 E. Eisenhower Blvd.

• Noon. Theft, Pulliam Building, 545 N. Cleveland Ave. If you have information about any crime, call Larimer County Crime Stoppers at 221-6868.

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Practice. Cost: $4, free with Senior Activity Card, Aspen Club Card, Extended Use Pass or SilverSneakers Pass.

Friday Afternoon at the Movies: 1:30 p.m. Friday.

Enjoy “Ramona and Beezus.” Popcorn, candy and drinks are available for a minimal fee. The movie is free, but you must call 9622783 to sign up.

Spa Services: Call the Spa Services information line at 962-2098 for information on how to make an appointment for massage or foot care/pedicures and manicures. All services take place in the privacy of the Senior Center clinic. For all ages.

Community Briefs

Daily Record Saturday arrests • 7:31 p.m. A 20-year-old Fort Collins man, in the 1300 block of West Eighth Street, for investigation of driving under the influence of drugs, possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and illegal possession of alcohol.

• 11:22 p.m. A 22-year-old Loveland woman, in the 3100 block of North Wilson Avenue, for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Sunday arrest • 2:47 a.m. A 35-year-old Loveland woman, in the 4200 block of Julesberg Drive, on suspicion of harassment and domestic violence.

Other notable items Saturday • 2 p.m. Shoplift, Walmart, 1325 N. Denver Ave. • 4 p.m. Theft, Office Max, 1453 E. Eisenhower Blvd.

working with Jamie Leben: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday. Learn what Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or Foursquare social networking services are, why you might want to use them and how to get started. Age: 18-plus. Cost: $8, $5 with Senior Activity Card.

GERD: 2-3:30 p.m. Thursday. If you suffer from GERD, also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease, this may help. What is acid reflux? How do you know you have it? And how is it really treated? This often-requested topic will be presented by Dr. Kevin Felix, family medicine physician at the Loveland Family

about these activities scheduled by the city’s Hatfield Chilson Senior Center, 700 E. Fourth St., call 9622783. Senior Hotline: 9622694. You must preregister for all senior classes, activities, programs, and trips.

Call 962-2783 to find out how to register.

Fishing Club Meeting: 2 p.m. Tuesday. Do you enjoy talking about fishing, going fishing, working on your fishing technique and socializing?

Then you should join the Loveland Fishing Club. Contact Tom Miller at 669-3583 for more information.

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racism and is in very poor taste.” He said the issue should be referred to the Orange County GOP’s ethics committee.

According to an email Baugh sent to committee members Saturday, Davenport described the Obama photo as a “joke” and wanted to know who had leaked the email to the OC Weekly’s R. Scott Moxley, who broke the story. She called the leak “cowardly.”

Reached at her home in Fullerton, Calif., on Saturday, Davenport declined to comment. In an email to central committee colleagues, however, she described the controversy as “much to do about nothing” and vowed that she would not resign.

company could buy the licensing rights and market the ball, or the school could spin off a company that would produce it.

While developing the golf ball, they also came up with a plant pot made out of lobster-shell mixture — which has a high calcium content beneficial to flowers and vegetables — to place directly in the ground with flowers or vegetable plants.

Turning seafood waste products — such as lobster or clam shells — into products with commercial value would benefit the seafood industry, said Bob Bayer, head of The Lobster Institute Research and Education organization at the University of Maine.

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The event will feature informational booths, live muDoctor will discuss sic, speakers and local food gastroesophageal reflux vendors.

Admission is free with a Learn about gastroesophageal reflux disease nonperishable food item dofrom 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday nated to the Food Bank for at the Chilson Senior Center, Larimer County.

700 E. Fourth St. The event is sponsored by Dr. Kevin Felix of Loveland the Rocky Mountain SustainFamily Practice will answer able Living Association. questions about the disease, For details, visit www.sus its symptoms and how it’s tainablelivingassociation.org. treated.

Show off your diapering Call 624-1860 to register.

RMNP rangers to present talk on birds, migration An “Otis Ornithologist” presentation will be 910 a.m. Saturday at the outdoor education center of the Big Thompson Elementary School of Nature and Science, 7702 W. U.S. 34.

Learn about birds and their migration patterns in the spring. Bring binoculars.

Led by Rocky Mountain National Park rangers, the free program is part of the Rocky Mountain National Park Education Series. Individuals and families with children of all ages are welcome.

Call 613-5600 or visit www .bigthompsonelementary .org.

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Celebrate Earth Day at Civic Center Park Fort Collins’ annual Earth Day celebration will be held 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at Civic Center Park, Laporte

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Babies and parents can join in a community diaper change in Fort Collins on Saturday.

Organizers at the Baby and Me Specialty store are looking for people to participate in a global, cloth-diaper changing event at 10 a.m.

Saturday.

Groups around the world will be holding diaper changes at the same time and hope to set a world record for the most cloth diapers ever changed simultaneously.

The store is located at 2601 S. Lemay, No. 18.

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2. Do your credit scores rise when you get a higher-paying job? No. Credit-scoring models don’t care whether you’re a millionaire or living paycheck to paycheck. They care only about whether you use credit and use it well. “Your income is not on your credit report, so it’s systematically impossible,” said John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com.

3. Is a household budget meant to restrict your spending? Not necessarily. A budget can allow you to free up money to spend on things you care about, even fun things. Tracking spending and budgeting are about telling your money what to do instead of wondering where it went.

4. Should I pay off highest interest rate debt first? It depends.

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credit or borrow at the most favorable rates.

About two-thirds of Americans have not ordered a copy of their credit report, according to a financial literacy survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

6. If a thief steals your credit card and charges $1,000, you’re responsible for how much? Federal law says you’re responsible for $50, but most major credit card issuers absolve you of all liability if it’s a clear case of a stolen card or number.

7. Which investment is likely to provide the highest returns over time: stocks, bonds or certificates of deposit? Historically, stocks have provided the highest returns over long periods, especially if you’re talking about decades. However, most financial advisers suggest a mix of stocks and relatively safer bonds, with the mix getting more bond-heavy as you approach the time you’ll need the money.

8. True or false: You must buy eyeglasses and contact lenses from an eye doctor. False. Federal law requires your eye doctor to give you your prescriptions so you can purchase corrective lenses anywhere. But customer-satisfaction surveys show that consumers often are more satisfied with the service they get from their eye doctor than from other sellers.

9. What is the form that discloses how financial advisers are paid?

Form ADV. Starting this year, Part 2 of the form must be a brochure written in plain English that describes the types of advisory services offered, the adviser’s fee schedule, disciplinary information, conflicts of interest, and the educational and business background of management and key advisory personnel of the adviser, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

10. Which is more expensive for a family of four: food or financing a new car? Food costs more, unless you’re talking about an especially pricey car. The American family of four spends about $8,700 on food in a year, or $725 per month, according to the most recent government Consumer Expenditure Survey. That’s far more than most monthly car payments.

People will research for months to get a good deal on a car, but many won’t look at a sales flier or clip a few coupons. Small, repeated purchases matter.

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Apartments/ Duplexes 4060 Houses 4080 Mobile Homes/ Loveland Unfurnished 4030 2 BDRM- 1557 E. 5th $695 3 BD, 2 BA, 2 CAR GAR Spaces 4090 Want to buy, 2 BDRM, 1 ba, 2nd flr, nice, N of dwntwn, ht/wtr pd, no smk, cat? $575. 970-227-7026 3 BDRM, 1-1/2 BATH Available in May. ALL utilities included, low deposit, large living room, extra storage. $815/mo. (970)669-1375

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GREAT Location! 2300 Sq. Ft. Nice office building at Hwy 34 & 287. (970)667-7774

Condos/ Townhouses 4050 2 BD- 2027 Tonopas, $1050 Unfin bsmnt, patio rmpm.com. 970-669-0842

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All real estate advertised in this paper is subject to the federal and state Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.”

The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

2 BDRM, 1 BA, 2 Bdrm 4039 Don Fox, $1250 332 E 2nd St ✭ $725 on golf course, VIEWS! Faith Property 970-377-1626 rmpm.com. 970-669-0842 3 Bdrm- 4085 Temple Gulch $1395 Unfin bsmt, GREAT! rmpm.com. 970-669-0842

2 Bdrm Apartment Homes Ground Floor Available ● Includes Washer & Dryer ● Park-Like Setting AVAIL MAY 1ST! Nice, ● Garages Available clean 2 bdrm/ 2 ba lower 1913 W. 15th St. level w/ det gar, near Lvld 970-669-7850 - Sorry no pets Outlets. Incl all applcs & W/D. $925. Call 661.414.4338

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Larimer County Court 810 E. 10th Street, Suite 110 Loveland, CO 80537-4942 -------------------------------------Case Number: L11C8 -------------------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE -------------------------------------Public Notice is given on April 7, 2011, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Larimer County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Candace Nikita Day be changed to Nikita Xylie Day. (SEAL) Sherlyn K. Sampson Clerk of Court

By Amy K Listin Deputy Clerk Publish: Loveland Reporter-Herald April 16, 17, 18, 2011

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County Court Clerk of Court 201 La Porte Avenue Suite 100 Fort Collins, CO 80521-2761 -------------------------------------Case Number: 11C166 -------------------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE -------------------------------------Public Notice is given on April 5, 2011, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Larimer County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Leona Cayou-Theriault be changed to Leona Cayou.

(SEAL) Sherlyn K. Sampson Clerk of Court

By Traci Wright Deputy Clerk Publish: Loveland Reporter-Herald April 16, 17, 18, 2011

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County Court Larimer County, Colorado 201 Laporte Ave #100 Fort Collins -------------------------------------Case Number: F11C128 -------------------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE -------------------------------------Public Notice is given on Apr 6, 2011, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Larimer County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Gaven Burke Aerne-Crespo be changed to Gaven Burke Aerne Crespo.

(SEAL) Sherlyn K. Sampson Clerk of Court

By Karen A Berg Deputy Clerk Publish: Loveland Reporter-Herald April 16, 17, 18, 2011

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