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DENVER • Gov. John Hickenlooper said Monday that although the state is expecting an average wildfire season this year, Colorado needs to prepare for the worst — and that includes investing $20 million in aerial firefighting.

Hickenlooper joined wildfire experts from across the state in a hangar at Centennial Airport to not only release a report on the severity of the upcoming fire season but also to sign three wildfire-related bills. “It is important that we sign these —

2014 fire season forecast

• Overall, expected to be average, thanks to snowpack, moisture and improving drought conditions. • Above-normal wildfire potential in June and July for southwestern Colorado if warm and dry conditions persist. • Although snowpack is above normal in most major drainage basins in Colorado, southern Colorado is slightly below average and the state is still recovering from long-term severe drought.

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Turmoil strikes Sheriff’s Office Three commanders placed on leave by LISA WALTON AND DAVE PHILIPPS

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Sue Saunders walks her dog, Pogel, in the Garden of the Gods on Monday. She said she doesn’t mind the snow but could do without the wind after Sunday’s storm left a blanket of heavy wet snow throughout the region. According to local forecasts, a warming trend will bring temperatures into the 70s by the weekend.

Three El Paso County Sheriff ’s Office commanders were put on administrative leave Monday, reportedly after filing an employment complaint against Sheriff Terry Maketa, according to sources in the department. The three commanders — Mitch Lincoln, who is in charge of detentions; Rodney Gehrett, who oversees Professional Standards; and Rob King, who heads up the patrol division — were escorted out of the office Monday afternoon, according to three sources in the Sheriff ’s Office. The sources told The Gazette the commanders’ suspensions were in response to a complaint they made with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the sheriff. The sources did not know the specifics of the complaint. Sheriff ’s Office spokesman Lt. Jeff Kramer confirmed that while three people had been placed on administrative leave, it was not as a result of an EEOC complaint. The moves Monday come two days after a Sheriff ’s Office statement vowed to hold two commanders accountable for talking anonymously with The Gazette, calling them “a cancer.” The Gazette story published Saturday detailed how some unnamed, top-ranking commanders had felt pressured to nominate Sheriff Maketa for the One Hundred Club award, a prestigious honor presented annually to first responders who go above and beyond the call of duty. The winner gets a gold watch awarded —

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battle gRoUnd, wash. • Clark County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man who fired a shotgun inside his home to scare off someone he saw going out an upper story window. It turns out the “intruder” early Sunday was one of several teens invited into the home by the man’s 15-year-old granddaughter who lives there. The teens fled when they heard him approach. None was hurt. The man was arrested on suspicion of assault.

sPokane, wash. • Officials say a backyard fire pit exploded because it was built over a natural gas line. Heat melted the plastic pipe and the line exploded Saturday night with a 15-foot flame. A man who was having a birthday party suffered minor injuries when he was blown into a fence. The man who lives at the house says the pit was there when he moved in. Officials say that’s one reason they ask people to call utilities before digging.

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a sudden spring snowstorm Sunday may have confused local wildlife, but hummingbirds found feeders outside the house of Darline grubbs in Manitou Springs. Several hummingbirds visited the feeders Sunday and Monday. at one point, about 15 birds were flitting around two feeders. the weather is forecast to warm as we progress through the week. See the weather forecast on B8.

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The week’s Peak Performer, St. Mary’s junior Kylie Cleary, is a driving force behind the soccer team’s path to the 3A state quarterfinals. Coach Gregg Braha said, “She’s very special.” C3

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• The “Inside” column on Monday’s front page indicated that an accompanying photo depicted El Paso County Commissioner Amy Lathen. The photo featured El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton. Both women are shown, above. • A listing on Page A12 on Sunday misstated details about Colorado Springs Early Colleges’ graduation. The ceremony is 3-5:30 p.m. May 24 at First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada Ave. • The graduation list on Page A12 on Sunday misstated the affiliation of The Vanguard School. It is chartered under Cheyenne Mountain School District 12.

3. Heaviest snow missed El Paso County, but school schedules disrupted 4. Body found in Colorado Springs apartment building 5. Extremist video appears to show abducted Nigerian girls praying carol lawrence, the gazette

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Anonymous email targets councilman Despite recent calls for more civility in the local political scene, people are still slinging mud. An anonymous email making the rounds accuses Colorado Springs City Council President Keith King of being a “traitor” because he has raised concerns about a proposed eminent domain ordinance. The email subject line says “Keith King is a traitor,” but the body of the email asks if King will vote against the proposed ordinance or “stand up for conservatives?” The council is expected to vote on the issue Tuesday. King said the email from a hushmail.com address (a website that promises unlimited email aliases) — has not intimidated him. “I’ve been in politics a long time,” he said. Follow developments on this and other city issues on my blog.

We’ve all seen BMW’s “ultimate driving machine.” Meet the ultimate drinking glass — for enjoying a stout. Left Hand Brewing Co. in Longmont, Rogue Ales in Newport, Ore., and Spiegelau, a German glassware company with 500 years of experience, partnered to create the world’s first stout-specific glass. “We don’t have a desire to make it pretentious at all; we want to be relentless,” said Spiegelau VP Matt Rutkowski, whose excitement over the glass is infectious. “This is not meant to be ‘phoo-phoo’ or fancy, this is the best glass for stout beer, hands down.” Read more and see a photo of the glass on my blog.

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The maker of the popular hot sauce Sriracha said Monday that he has no plans to move his contested plant out of California but would consider expanding into Texas if the state can produce peppers as hot as the ones grown especially for him in California.

Americans awakened early and waited in line to be among the first to ride to the top of the Washington Monument, open to the public Monday for the first time in nearly three years after an earthquake cracked the towering symbol. The monument was built between 1848 and 1884 to honor the first president.

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N.C. candidate dies at home ASHEBORO, N.C. • The entrepreneur who was locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic primary with former “American Idol” singer Clay Aiken died Monday, his family said. Keith Crisco, 71, died “after an accidental fall” at his home in Asheboro, about 65 miles west of Raleigh, according to a statement from his family. “He was a remarkable man with a tremendous dedication to his family and to public service,” the statement said. Aiken was leading Crisco by fewer than 400 votes after the contest Tuesday. Unless Crisco can come from behind during a final tally of the votes this week, Aiken will be the nominee, state elections board spokesman Josh Lawson said. If Crisco does win, local Democrats would select the nominee, Lawson said. The vote is expected to be certified Thursday. —

Militants: Abducted won’t be seen again until government releases fighters by MICHELLE FAUL AND SUNDAy ALAMbA The Associated Press —

LAGOS, NiGeriA • Looking sad and frightened, dozens of barefoot girls sat huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils as they chanted Quranic verses in Arabic. Some Christians among them said they had converted to Islam. In the video released Monday, the Boko Haram terrorist network offered the first public glimpse of what it claimed were some of the nearly 300 girls kid-

napped from a Nigerian school a month ago — and issued an ominous threat. The girls will not be seen again, the group’s leader said menacingly, until the government frees his imprisoned fighters. “I swear to almighty Allah, you will not see them again until you release our brothers that you have captured,” Abubakar Shekau warned, an assault rifle slung across his chest. It is not known how many suspected Boko Haram members are detained by security forces.

Hundreds were killed last month when Shekau’s fighters stormed the military’s main northeastern barracks in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the headquarters of a year-old military state of emergency to put down the 5-year-old Islamic uprising. In the video, two of the girls were singled out for questioning. “Why have you become a Muslim?” one girl, who looked to be in her early teens, was asked. “The reason why I became a

Muslim is because the path we are on is not the right path,” the girl said, nervously shifting her body from side to side, her eyes darting back and forth. “We should enter the right path so that Allah will be happy with us,” added the girl. Like the other girls, she wore a bulky gray hijab that covered her body from head to toe, revealing only her face. A second girl, who appeared to be in her mid-teens, was asked —

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Stampede at stadium kills 15 KINSHASA, CONgO • A stampede at a soccer stadium in Congo’s capital killed at least 15 people after angry fans threw rocks from the stands, prompting security officers to fire tear gas that caused crowds to flee in panic, government officials and witnesses said Monday. The stampede at the Tata Raphael Stadium in Kinshasa happened toward the end of a match Sunday. —

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Wildfire destroys 89 homes FRITCH, TExAS • Firefighters had stopped the spread of flames in a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle and were focusing Monday afternoon on hotspots and buildings still smoldering 24 hours after they first turned their hoses on the blaze. No injuries were reported in the fire, but hundreds of people from a 4-square-mile area around Lake Meredith, between the towns of Sanford and Fritch, evacuated their homes Sunday afternoon. Some moved to an ad hoc shelter in a high school gymnasium, others to the sanctuary of a local church serving the rural communities about 30 miles northeast of Amarillo. Dozens of pets were taken in by a local animal hospital. The fire destroyed 131 structures, 89 of which were homes, Hutchinson County Emergency Management said. —

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Pro-Russian residents applaud insurgent leader Denis Pushilin after his speech Monday in front of a regional administration building seized by activists in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Eastern Ukraine insurgents declare their independence

Officers shoot, kill gunman LOS ANgELES • A gunman opened fire in a crowd at the Universal CityWalk before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said Monday. James Renee White Jr., 21, was pronounced dead at the scene after the 1:15 a.m. shooting, police said. A report of a disturbance sent officers to the Infusion Lounge, a nightclub at the shopping and entertainment complex outside the Universal Studios tourist attraction. —

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DONETSK, UKraiNE • ProMoscow insurgents in eastern Ukraine declared independence Monday and sought to join Russia, undermining upcoming presidential elections, strengthening the Kremlin’s hand and putting pressure on Kiev to hold talks with the separatists after a referendum on self-rule. Russia signaled it has no intention of subsuming eastern Ukraine the way it annexed Crimea in March. Instead, Moscow is pushing to include eastern regions in negotiations on Ukraine’s future — suggesting that Russia pre-

Harvard club drops satanic event CAMBRIDgE, MASS. • A Harvard University club says it has dropped sponsorship of a satanic ceremony that drew condemnation from the Archdiocese of Boston and the university’s president. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club said Monday that a Cambridge restaurant and nightclub would not host the black mass as planned. It says no other location offered a site. The Harvard group says event organizer Satanic Temple will stage its own ceremony at an undisclosed location. NEWS SERVICES

fers a political rather than a military solution to its worst standoff with the West since the Cold War. Such talks are central to a potential path toward peace outlined Monday by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The plan laid out by Swiss President Didier Burkhalter calls for a refrain from violence and urges immediate amnesty, talks on decentralization and the status of the Russian language. That’s a key complaint of insurgents who have seized power in eastern regions and clashed with government troops and police. But it’s up to the Ukrainian government to take the next

step. Acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk pledged to hold a dialogue with Ukraine’s east. But he gave no specifics and stopped short of addressing Sunday’s referendum and the declarations of independence in the proMoscow regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. “We would like to launch the broad national dialogue with the east, center, the west, and all of Ukraine,” Yatsenyuk told a news conference in Brussels. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the U.S. does not recognize the results and is focusing on making sure Ukraine’s election takes place as planned in 13 days.

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OrLaNDO, FLa. • A growing global threat of the potentially deadly MERS virus has spread to Orlando with the case of a 44-year-old man visiting from Saudi Arabia, health officials reported Monday. He becomes the second U.S. patient with the respiratory illness, which has infected more than 500 people worldwide and killed 114. MERS — or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome — is considered serious because of its fatality rate of about 30 percent and because there is no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment. But health officials emphasize that it is spread only through close contact, including touching, coughing or contaminated fluids. About one-fifth of those infected are health care workers, as is the Orlando patient. The man, who works in a Saudi Arabia hospital, arrived in Orlando on May 1 but did not seek treatment until May 8, when he went to the Dr. P. Phillips emergency room. A trio of laboratory tests confirmed MERS. “The patient is in good condition and is improving,” said Dr. Antonio Crespo, an infectious disease specialist for the hospital. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said they expected additional MERS cases in the U.S. because of a recent spike in cases in the Arabian Peninsula, primarily in Saudi Arabia.

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WASHINGTON • A widely popular, bipartisan energy savings bill fell victim in the Senate on Monday to election-year politics and the Obama administration’s continued indecision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline. A procedural motion to limit debate and send the measure to the Senate floor without amendments fell five votes short of the 60 votes needed for approval. The legislation would tighten efficiency guidelines for new federal buildings and provide tax incentives to make homes and commercial buildings more efficient. It easily cleared a procedural hurdle last week but stalled after Republican demand for votes on the Canada-to-Texas pipeline and on new administration-proposed greenhouse gas limits for coal-burning power plants. Republicans are united in favor of the pipeline and against the new power plant regulations, while Democrats are deeply divided on both. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said that Republicans were “still seeking a ransom” on the energy bill. Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, called Reid’s maneuver disappointing. “The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship,” he said.

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A NASA photo shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured.

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WASHINGTON • The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new studies show. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. The worrisome outcomes won’t be seen soon. Scientists are talking hundreds of years, but over that time, the melt that has started could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels. A NASA study looking at 40 years of ground, airplane and satellite data of what researchers call “the weak underbelly of West Antarctica”

shows the melt is happening faster than scientists had predicted, crossing a critical threshold that has begun a domino-like process. “It does seem to be happening quickly,” said University of Washington glaciologist Ian Joughin, lead author of one study. “We really are witnessing the beginning stages.” It’s likely because of manmade global warming and the ozone hole that have changed the Antarctic winds and warmed the water that eats away at the feet of the ice, researchers said at a NASA news conference Monday. “The system is in sort of a chain reaction that is unstoppable,” said NASA glaciologist

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year, which began Oct. 1, the deficit totals $306.4 billion. That’s down 37 percent from the same period last year. The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting a deficit of $492 billion for the full budget year. That would be the narrowest gap since 2008. In 2008, the government recorded a deficit of $458.6 billion. But that record was soon eclipsed as the government ran annual deficits surpassing $1 trillion for the next four years. Those deficits reflected a deep recession. The downturn reduced tax revenue and increased government spending to stabilize the financial

system and pay benefits for people who had lost jobs. So far this budget year, revenue totals $1.74 trillion, up 8.2 percent from the same period in 2013. Revenue has been boosted by a stronger economy, which means more people working and paying taxes, thereby reducing the deficit. Government spending totals $1.6 trillion, down 8.2 percent from a year ago. The decline reflects efforts by Congress and the Obama administration to trim spending. After peaking at $1.4 trillion in 2009, the deficit has been falling. Last year, it dropped to $680.2 billion.

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Eric Rignot, chief author of the NASA study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. “Every process in this reaction is feeding the next one.” Curbing emissions from fossil fuels to slow climate change will probably not halt the melting, but it could slow the speed of the problem, Rignot said. Rignot, who also is a scientist at the University of California Irvine, and other scientists said the “grounding line” that could be considered a dam that stops glacier retreat has essentially been breached. The only thing that could stop the retreat in this low-altitude region is a mountain or hill, and there is none, he said.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. • More than 200 gay couples obtained Arkansas marriage licenses Monday after a judge tossed out the state’s 10-year-old same-sex marriage ban but only at a handful of courthouses as an overwhelming majority of county clerks in this part of the Bible Belt said they first wanted the state Supreme Court to weigh in. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel — who recently announced his personal support for same-sex marriage rights but said he would defend the law — filed paperwork Monday to at least temporarily preserve the ban, which voters approved by a 3-to-1 margin. In other states that have seen gay-marriage bans overturned, judges either issued stays with their orders or state lawyers sought them with some immediacy. McDaniel’s office requested a stay from the local judge Friday night but had to wait until the full court record was available Monday before going to the state Supreme Court, under the justices’ rules. Justices gave both sides until midday Tuesday to file arguments. Seventy of the state’s 75 clerks have not granted licenses. A handful of clerks, including one who granted licenses Monday, filed a stay request saying the judge’s decision didn’t address a law that threatens clerks with fines for “wrongful issuance of a marriage license.” With the weddings Saturday and Monday, Arkansas became the 18th state to allow same-sex marriages and

the first among former states of the Confederacy. “On our licenses, it automatically prints ‘Mr.’ and I told the girls just to change that to ‘Ms.’ ” said Becky Lewallen, the county clerk in Washington County, which is home to the University of Arkansas. She was among those who requested a stay. A Pulaski County circuit judge tossed out the 2004 constitutional amendment, along with a 1997 state law, after business hours Friday. Carroll County, home to the town of Eureka Springs and known for its arts environment and liberal policies, issued 15 licenses to samesex couples Saturday but stopped Monday to await word from the state’s high court. The 2004 gay marriage ban passed in all 75 counties but fared poorest around Eureka Springs, Fayetteville and Little Rock — where the bulk of the licenses have been issued. Pulaski County said an overwhelming majority of the 170 licenses it issued Monday were to same-sex couples. Washington County had 84 gay couples — with office employees at Fayetteville using White-Out to correct “Mr.” or “Ms.” where necessary. Shelly Butler, 51, and Susan Barr, 48, of Dallas were the first to marry at Little Rock, arriving from Texas late Sunday. They were allowed to go to the head of the line because Barr, who has a form of muscular dystrophy, is in a wheelchair. “I am just in shock, I think. You go from being so private and hidden to such a public display of commitment. It’s just so nice,” Barr said.

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if she or any of the others had been mistreated. No, she said, adding that they had experienced nothing “except righteousness.” As the girls chanted Islamic verses, some clasped their hands together in what appeared to be the Christian style of prayer before quickly turning their palms upward, as Muslim worshippers do. The girls’ families have said most of those seized April 15 from a school in the northeastern town of Chibok are Christians. It was impossible to fully authenticate the video, though parents were trying to turn on a generator in Chibok, hoping to watch the video and identify their daughters, said a town leader, Pogu Bitrus. “There’s an atmosphere of hope — hope that these girls are alive, whether they have been forced to convert to Islam or not,” he told The Associated Press by telephone. “We want to be able to say, ‘These are our girls.’ ”

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A video released Monday by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. The video showed about 100 girls, indicating they may have been broken up into smaller groups as some reports have indicated. Fifty-three girls managed to escape and 276 remain missing, police say. Bitrus said vegetation in the video looked like the Sambisa Forest, about 20 miles from Chibok, where the girls were believed to have been spirited away. In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said

U.S. intelligence experts were “combing over every detail” of the latest recording. He said administration officials have seen the video and “have no reason to question its authenticity.” The mass abductions and failure of Nigeria’s government to rescue the girls have aroused outrage at home and abroad. Last week, Nigeria belatedly accepted offers of help from the United States, Britain and other nations.

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In 2012, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa speaks during the 19th annual Pikes Peak Region Peace Officers’ Memorial Day Service at America the Beautiful Park in Colorado Springs. Maketa, a three-term sheriff, cannot run for re-election because of term limits.

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at a Broadmoor gala May 20 that doubles as a fundraiser for the families of fallen first responders. El Paso County spokesman Dave Rose said Monday that the El Paso County Commission would get a legal briefing Tuesday about the matter during an executive session with the county attorney. According to El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton, the complaint was outlined in a confidential, internal memorandum sent from three sheriff ’s commanders to Sheriff Maketa and several county commissioners. Littleton said she could not say more about the email because of the confidential nature of the communication. In an emailed statement, Rose also said additional details would not be provided. “Because this could be a matter for possible future litigation, and because it involves potential personnel matters, no further specifics or additional comments can be released at this time,” he said. The Sheriff ’s Office, in its online response to the story,

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three bills … into law today to make sure that we further secure our ability to fight fires, get to fires sooner, do a better job of diminishing the damage that they cause and, most importantly, increase public safety,” Hickenlooper said, adding he wished for more of the rain and snow that were falling outside. The most prominent of the trio of bills was championed by Sen. Steve King, R-Grand Junction, to fund an aerial firefighting fleet managed by the state. Senate Bill 164 sets aside $19.4 million to purchase two high-technology fire-detecting aircraft and also contract with up to four firefighting helicopters and four single-engine air tankers. Paul Cooke, director of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, said the request for bids on the firedetecting planes — what they are calling multimission aircraft — could go out as early as May 19. He also said the division is actively working on procuring contracts for the use of helicopters during the 2014 fire season. “We really don’t know what the fire season is going to bring,” Cooke said. “Our hope is that this moisture is a sign of things to come. We are hopeful that we can have a mild fire season, but as the governor said, we believe we are prepared for the eventuality we are going to see fire.” Hickenlooper emphasized that even a normal fire season in Colorado will burn up to 100,000 acres. The past two fire seasons for El Paso County have been devastating. In 2012, the Waldo Canyon fire destroyed almost 350 homes; last summer’s

lambasted the commanders for talking with The Gazette. “Calling The Gazette each time they disagree is completely inappropriate and frankly, immature and will be held accountable for these inappropriate actions,” the statement on the website says. “In this case, this time, the Sheriff will hold them accountable. They clearly are not committed to the words which are inscribed on each badge of Honesty, Loyalty, Unity. … “The Sheriff plans to remove these two Commanders from his Command Staff as they are too cowardly and dishonest to remain in positions of leadership. They are a cancer and detrimental to our organizational success.” The statement also defended Maketa’s nomination for the One Hundred Club award. Votes for the award were taken during a command staff meeting. Kramer, the Sheriff ’s Office spokesman, said Maketa was the unanimous choice of a vote by the command staff, who wanted to recognize his “long years of service and dedication.” But the nomination angered some in the Sheriff’s Office, who thought others were more deserving. According to

documents the Sheriff’s Office made available with the response, two deputies were recommended for the award. Undersheriff Paula Presley nominated Maketa for the award. The sheriff is responsible for submitting the nomination, and this year will mark the first time in the 20-year history of the recognition that a sitting sheriff, police or fire chief receives the recognition, The Gazette reported. “I think it is crap,” one division commander told The Gazette about the award going to Maketa. He did not want his name used because he feared losing his job. “This is an award that is supposed to be for line-level guys, not someone behind a desk.” Maketa, a three-term sheriff who cannot run for re-election in November because of term limits, was not available for comment Monday. According to sources, he was vacationing last week. Requests for information about his whereabouts were not answered. Maketa is expected to be succeeded by Bill Elder, who pulled 65 percent of the more than 1,000 delegates at the El Paso County Republican Assembly in March to get on the ballot.

BRENTWOOD, N.H. • A New Hampshire police officer was shot to death after he responded to a domestic disturbance at a home that later exploded and burned, authorities said Monday. The gunman was presumed dead in the ensuing blaze. Attorney General Joseph Foster said late Monday that 48-year-old Stephen Arkell of Brentwood was shot to death when he answered the call in a suburban neighborhood for people older than 55. After the shooting, the house burst into flames. A massive explosion blew the front off the house, and within an hour, it was leveled. Foster said Michael Nolan, 47, the son of the homeowner, is the suspected gunman. He is presumed dead. “The entire state of New Hampshire is in mourning over the tragic loss of Brentwood officer Steve Arkell,” Gov. Maggie Hassan said. “Officer Arkell bravely answered the call of duty and made the ultimate sacrifice, a heroic demonstration of his commitment to the safety of his fellow citizens. Like so many of our first responders do on a daily basis, officer Arkell courageously put his life on the line to protect others, and in doing so, was tragically taken far too soon.” Debra Vasapolli, director of public relations at Exeter Hospital, said that

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home and then heard “rapid gun fire.” She said she saw Walter Nolan, 86, being taken from the scene by ambulance before she was evacuated from the area. Public records indicate the house is owned by Nolan and he apparently lived in the home with his son. After the blaze started around 4 p.m., firefighters were kept away from the scene.

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The governor signed these three bills into law Monday: House Bill 1008: Authorizes the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority to make loans for forest health projects, including biomass projects that will help mitigate wildfire conditions by removing dead trees from the forest to use as fuel in power plants. House Bill 1010: In 2013, lawmakers made changes to the state’s prescribed burn program in an effort to make controlled burns safer in Colorado, and this bill makes three technical corrections to the earlier bill. Senate Bill 164: Creates and funds the Colorado Aerial Firefighting Fleet, which will include purchasing two hightech planes to detect fires earlier and help ground crews respond to active fire conditions; leasing two single-engine planes to help with fire detection; leasing four helicopters; and creating a center to study firefighting technology.

Black Forest fire eclipsed that, destroying 488 homes. “We have had over the past two years tremendous losses in our community,” said Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, who co-sponsored the aerial firefighting bill. “These resources will help us in the future in all of our communities fight those fires, which are inevitable. We are better prepared.” The bill doesn’t include funding for large air tankers that are used to drop fire retardant. Instead, the state will rely on federal resources for those aircraft. Brian Ferebee, deputy regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service, said the agency will have available 10 air tankers to drop slurry on active fires. He said the division hopes to acquire an additional seven tankers, which would be part of the next generation of air tankers and bring updated technology to the fleet. Additionally, Ferebee said the Rocky Mountain Region — Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and most of South Dakota and Wyoming — will have 64 engines, 550 firefighters, seven Hotshot crews and three incident management teams. Ferebee said the resources

on hand this year are about the same as in recent years. Colorado has relied on 12 C-130 aircraft stationed at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. But hefty federal budget cuts have raised the question of whether all of those planes will be available during the 2014 wildfire season. U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, have raised concerns over those planes and their crews being included in budget cuts. “I raised this issue when the chief of staff and the secretary (of the Air Force) appeared before our committee,” Lamborn said. “I let them know it was a big concern to us here in the West.” Lamborn said he is hopeful that an amendment to the defense budget will ensure those air tankers don’t fall victim to budget cuts. The amendment requires the cuts at Peterson’s 302nd Airlift Wing don’t take place unless it’s ensured they won’t harm the national response to wildfires. —

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was devastating. She was visiting her son in a psychiatric ward, after he lashed out at school and later threatened to kill himself and staff at a crisis-stabilization center. Her son is 7. Across the state, the same story plays out. A shortage of treatment options for people with mental illnesses means waiting months to see a psychiatrist or driving hundreds of miles for a psychiatric bed. Police and emergency rooms bear the brunt of a splintered system that juggles crises but falls short on treatment. The questions that swirled after the brutal massacre at an Aurora movie theater in 2012 are the same ones that followed Jared Loughner’s attack on Gabrielle Giffords and her staff in 2011. They came even louder after the elementary Rocky MouNtAiN PBS i-NewS school killings in Connecticut. Danielle Nordeen hugs her 7-year-old son at a playground near their Grand Junction home. They circulate privately after A shortage of treatment options for people with mental illnesses means waiting months to suicides. The signs of mental see a psychiatrist or driving across the state for a psychiatric bed. illness and the threats were apparent: Why didn’t anyone person. A plan for new cri- more support for treatment Danielle Nordeen’s son away intervene? sis centers in Colorado — and recovery in the communi- in handcuffs. Medical professionals and while stalled — is intended ties where they live. The latest crisis was set off advocates cite a combination to relieve the burden on first Jennifer Hill, who manages when another child remindof barriers: Adults have the responders. a mental health advocacy or- ed him of that very fact. The right to refuse intervention; Legal improvements, better ganization called the Colora- 7-year-old tore posters from parents are often reluctant education and increased ca- do Mental Wellness Network the wall, kicked and hit the to call 911, when it can mean pacity “don’t guarantee that and has personal experience teachers, flooded the toilets. that their children are cuffed bad things won’t happen,” with recovering from illness, The Grand Junction elemenby police; schools, employers Clark said. “But we’re going to said that recovery is stymied tary school went on lockand hospitals are too quick to decrease the likelihood it’s go- by a system that can seem to down. Nordeen showed up to find say it’s not their problem; and ing to happen.” offer lockup or nothing. acquaintances and friends Routine care also can be “You’re in or you’re out,” Hill her boy rolling around in dirty water in the bathroom. feel ill-equipped to act. hard to come by, particularly said. When a local crisis center “We regularly hear people in rural areas where psychiaBetter treatment requires say things like, ‘I knew some- trist shortages are acute. more than an infusion of re- placed him on an emergenthing was wrong, but I didn’t “There are people saying sources and improved access, cy psychiatric hold for his know what to do,’ ” said Carl there’s something going wrong Hill said. People won’t sign up threats, only Parkview HospiClark, who heads the Men- and I have to get treatment,” for treatment that isn’t thera- tal in Pueblo had a bed available. Nordeen works a lowtal Health Center of Denver, Clark said. When treatment peutic. which counsels workplaces isn’t immediately available, “It’s treating people with wage job in Grand Junction after suicides. “they throw up their hands dignity and respect,” Hill said, and had to return to work In response to the mass and give up.” “and not treating them like after leaving him there or risk shooting in Aurora, the state For some people who live they’re dangerous and hor- losing her apartment. “I literally just felt like I was recently passed a law that ex- with mental illnesses and rible people.” dropping him off and walking pands the duty of therapists their families, efforts to make away,” said Nordeen, holding to warn of threats against an intervention easier can miss No shelter The other second-graders back tears, “which as a mom, institution such as a school the point. They want help, 269062_4.88_x_10 5/1/14 11:59 AM Page 1 or theater, not just against a they say. What they need is have watched the police take that’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.” The number of people placed into involuntary mental health treatment has jumped in recent years. Court filings show a 35 percent jump in 72-hour holds, short- and long-term certifications and other court-ordered treatment between fiscal years 2009 and 2013. Mental health providers reported 31,317 emergency mental health holds in fiscal year 2013, according to state officials, a 21 percent increase from a year earlier. But the growing demand for we’ll turn your initials into beds hasn’t been met by an ina wearable work of art crease in availability. Instead,

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Here are what some of The Gazette readers are saying on Facebook about this issue. To comment, go to The Gazette Facebook page or to gazette.com. “The only answer is to re-open mental hospital and relocate the inmates to them.” Pam Aldrich-Clemens “This makes me sad. … We need to provide funding for mental clinics and provide access to affordable services. The need is so great and the jail system is not equipped to handle mental cases.” Jennifer Carazo “There needs to be some way to help people before they get to the point they are locked up. It’s all about community! But then again what do I know? I’m just a citizen in the community.” Christine Hyatt “How is this ok? How can people read about things like this and say ‘well that is just the way it is.’ ” Anthony Daniels “Most people don’t get it. mental illness is in every family … May be you don’t know about it … But it’s there. It’s everywhere! People open your eyes and help these people out!” Christine Hyatt

the options for low-income Coloradans in particular have shrunk as beds at the two state psychiatric hospitals have closed. In 2014, the state mental health institutes at Fort Logan and Pueblo have 553 beds, down from 734 in 2000. All told, there are only 1,093 inpatient psychiatric beds in all hospitals around the state, according to the state Department of Human Services, around 20 percent fewer than five years ago. That’s about 21 beds for every 100,000 Coloradans, among the worst rates in the U.S. The state is evaluating what services might be lacking across its various regions. In part, said Dr. Patrick Fox, an official with human services, the hope is that private-sector psychiatric hospitals will meet some of the need. He gave the example of Clear View Be-

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Growing demand for intensive mental health treatment in the state and a decline in the supply of psychiatric beds have put added pressure on emergency rooms. In cases when patients pose a danger to themselves or others, ERs become the default holding place. But without the capacity to offer psychiatric treatment or support, these ER holds offer little therapeutic benefit to patients and drain resources for other urgent care, doctors and health officials say. No state agency or association tracks the number of emergency mental health holds in ERs across Colorado, but it’s safe to say the number runs well into the thousands every year. Several of the state’s major hospital operators, including the nonprofit Centura Health, which is Colorado’s largest hospital network, said they couldn’t provide the data for their own emergency rooms. An exception was HealthONE, part of the for-profit Hospital Corporation of America that runs several hospitals and emergency departments in the Denver area, including the Medical Center of Auro-

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at Porter Hospital, she didn’t recognize the symptoms of a stroke that permanently affected her speech. She thought she was experiencing the side effects of shock therapy. Edwards said she’s grateful for the mental health treatment that has allowed her to live in the community, supported by her peers. But when the stress of moving to an assisted-living situation in July sent her into a deep depression, she needed more intensive treatment. What she got instead was a disorienting ride across the mountains with strangers in the middle of the night. Placed in an involuntary mental health hold because she was suicidal, Edwards was handcuffed. She landed at a hospital in Colorado Springs. “I felt very afraid, very alone,” Edwards said.

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If people at the receiving end of flawed mental health services feel frustrated, it’s a feeling often shared by those at the giving end. Matt Skwiot is an emergency room doctor at Grand River Hospital in Rifle, an oil and gas town between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction with a population of less than 10,000. He sees workers injured by explosions, car crash victims, elderly people with broken hips And like other ERs, this one has become a holding pen for people in a psychiatric crisis. About once a week at Grand River Hospital, there’s just no psychiatric facility available to take a patient. So a room in the ER is cleared of equipment with cords and other tools that could be used in a suicide attempt. Security is called, and a camera is monitored. For as long as three days, the patients are kept alone in the room. None see a psychiatrist, Skwiot said. And then, once they’re stable, they’re sent home. “You’re trying to provide a safe place, you’re trying to provide the best care that you can,” Skwiot said. But ER doctors don’t have the training or skills to give people the therapy and other support they need. “If it was me locked up in this room for 72 hours, with minimal interaction, mini-

ra, Rose Medical Center and Swedish Medical Center. In 2013, HealthONE emergency rooms had 2,600 mental health visits that resulted in mental health holds because patients were a danger to themselves or others or were gravely disabled. One in five was held in the ER for 24 hours or longer because no alternative was available. Emergency rooms aren’t set up to offer patients long-term help. Just keeping patients secure can be a challenge. In September, for example, a patient at Aurora Medical Center “was unable to clarify to the (physician’s assistant) that he was not a threat to others,” according to an incident report filed with the state. The patient was being read his rights when he bolted from the room, through three sets of doors, out of the emergency department and into the street. He hadn’t been found more than three weeks later, when the report was filed. The state in March made an effort to crack down on the use of emergency rooms to hold patients against their will. The Office of Behavioral Health warned that facilities that aren’t specially designated to provide psychiatric ser-

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A third National Dialogue on Mental Health event in Colorado Springs happens 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 20 at The Mining Exchange hotel, 8 S. Nevada Ave. in downtown Colorado Springs. The event is open to the public. Reservations are requested at www. facebook.com/mental healthbeginswithme or 473-8477. The event will continue a community dialogue on the question “What can we do to continue to build a community that cares about the mental health and wellbeing of all our citizens?”

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Sunday: A number of patients who repeatedly visit hospital emergency rooms suffer from an underlying mental illness. These “frequent fliers” rack up eight times more in medical costs on average than their peers. Monday: People with mental illnesses in Colorado are more than five times as likely to be housed in jails or in prisons than in hospital psychiatric beds. Tuesday: Family members of people with mental illness who are in danger of harming themselves or others say they can’t find treatment when they need it.

mal stimulation, I’m already depressed and suicidal, that seems like it … would make things worse,” Skwiot said.

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On a sunny Monday in April two months after he came back from the hospital in Pueblo, Nordeen was playing with her son at a park behind their home. The gap-toothed kid was affectionate and energetic, alternately asking for and receiving hugs from his mom, and shouting captain’s orders in a game of pirates. Things were calm and happy. But Nordeen felt like the family was in a holding pattern. Her son was out of school, with a psychiatrist’s note saying that school’s stresses would be too much for him. Nordeen was apprehensive about sending him back and

vices “would be in violation of state law and could face legal actions for civil liberty violations” if they house people in involuntary mental health holds. Dr. Patrick Fox, an official with the Colorado Department of Human Services, said the state was concerned that mental health holds in emergency rooms weren’t being tracked. Undesignated hospitals and emergency rooms aren’t subject to audits or inspections that go along with involuntary treatment, Fox added. The Colorado Hospital Association quickly objected, saying hospitals have an obligation to evaluate and stabilize patients placed on mental-health holds by police or doctors. Gail Finley, the hospital association’s vice president of rural health, added that rural hospitals in particular often have no choice but to try to provide a safe place for patients. “We have a shortage of mental health providers,” Finley said, and poor reimbursement for psychiatric services. “It leads to sort of a weak system in providing care.” The state later rescinded its warning.

worried about the future. “What’s scary,” Nordeen said, “is that who’s to say he’s not going to be one of those kids that follows through on his threats?” Echoing complaints of people in similar situations, she said she can’t find the support she needs. “I almost feel like I’ve exhausted every option in Grand Junction,” Nordeen said. “Because there’s not a lot of options available.” Community-based mental health treatment and support is chronically underfunded, mental health advocates say. An analysis by Rocky Mountain PBS I-News found that overall funding for mental health in the state hasn’t kept up with inflation since the 1980s. A well-intentioned push to remove people from institutionalized care led to the closing of state psychiatric hospitals beds, but equal attention was never given to building a replacement. As a result, community mental health services continue to defer to first responders and emergency services when the threat of violence looms. In Colorado Springs, the mother of Anthony Martinez said she has struggled for years to help her son get adequate treatment for schizophrenia. When he’s stable, Martinez, 34, is good-natured and loving. When he’s not, he can be violent. He has been in and out of the state hospital in Pueblo, and sometimes jail, for years. In August, Martinez was released from the state psychiatric hospital to live with his mother, along with his sister, her husband and their two young children. The family was told that no other place — including group homes — would take him. In November, the family called 911 after Martinez threatened a family friend. When he returned home, they consulted with a community mental health center, expressing fears about their safety. They were told to call the police again if they felt unsafe. By January, Martinez was holding a large kitchen knife up to his mother’s face, threatening to kill her. With coaxing, Martinez laid down his knife and was taken back to the state hospital. —

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Washington leaders promote class envy to divide America Harry Reid’s hometown This is not the kind of newspaper — the Las Vegas America we want our chilReview-Journal — offers an dren to grow up in. Today’s important observation: “As economic challenges result majority leader of the U.S. Senfrom years of Republican ate, Harry Reid is supposed to inaction and failed policies lead. The Nevada Democrat that have left more and should be focused on the more Americans behind.” concerns of Americans and on In Pelosi’s world, Demoshaping debate on important crats are for “every Amerimatters of national interest. can,” while Republicans Sen. Reid is doing neither. In favor only “the privileged fact, he’s working so hard to few.” ignore the taxpaying public’s THE ASSOCIATED pRESS These are not new themes priorities that he has become a Congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy pelosi have from Democrats. To hear helped make division along sociopolitical lines the Demo- Obama and his partisan parody of his position.” cratic party’s central theme. The Review-Journal pointed colleagues tell it in 2012, to Reid’s obsession with Republican presidential “billionaire oil businessAmerican Progress in which the word nominee Mitt Romney’s men Charles and David Koch,” citing “inequality” appeared 26 times, Obama greatest sin was the fact he was imthe “over-the-top frequency in recent called reversing “the dangerous and mensely successful in his business months — calling them out by name growing inequality” in America “the career. In what was quite possibly the more than 100 times on the Senate defining challenge of our time.” The most intense, expensive and sustained floor alone. He inserts a reference to the situation has become so bad, according negative ad campaign in American brothers in virtually every statement to Obama, that “the combined trends political history, Obama “defined” Romhe makes, whether he’s asked about the of increased inequality and decreasing ney as unfit for the White House mainly economy or his support for an increase mobility pose a fundamental threat to because he was a rich man. in the federal minimum wage.” For Reid, the American dream, our way of life and Whether it’s the incessant attacks the Koch brothers represent the allegwhat we stand for around the globe.” on the Koch brothers, or the constant edly malevolent influence of “the Rich” Then there is Nancy Pelosi. This state- repetition of the idea that America’s and the many injustices of inequality ment appears on the House minority biggest problem is “inequality,” or the that are the result. leader’s website: “Democrats are build“privileged few” smear against the GOP, President Barack Obama hasn’t ing an economic approach that lifts dividing Americans is the basic strategy trashed the Kochs nearly as often as every American, not just the privileged of these Democratic leaders. For them, Reid, but the president and the Nevada few. The average American CEO earns the few can only become wealthy by opsenator are clearly on the same page. more before lunchtime in one day than pressing the many. They are the great During a Dec. 4 speech at the Center for a minimum wage worker earns all year. dividers. — Washington Examiner

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Perils of children in cars with drunken drivers Four-year-old Taylor Dyer died in what authorities say was a drunken driving car crash last weekend. He was a passenger in an SUV that struck a concrete median on Interstate 55 in Bolingbrook, Ill., flipped and ejected him and two other young boys from the back seat. The other boys, 2 and 7, were seriously injured. The alleged drunken driver who caused this horrific accident? Shannard Dyer, Taylor’s father. He has been charged with six counts of aggravated DUI. Many people think DUI-related deaths among children typically happen when an impaired driver crashes into a car in which children are riding. But a study published recently in the journal Pediatrics confirmed earlier studies that show that’s not true. The study found that 65 percent of children killed in crashes involving alcohol are riding with the impaired driver. The horrific toll: From 2001 to 2010, 2,344 children under age 15 were killed

in crashes involving at least one alcohol-impaired driver, the study found. Other disturbing findings: • Child seat belt use decreased as the child’s age and the blood-alcohol level of the driver increased. The drunker the driver, the older a child, the less chance the child will be belted in. • In more than 7 of 10 cases, the impaired drivers survived the crash in which their child passenger died. That strongly suggests that had the child been properly restrained, he or she would have survived as well. • Drunken driving crashes in which child passengers died were more likely to involve only one vehicle and happen at night compared with crashes in which children died as passengers of nondrinking drivers. Encouragingly, the number of children killed riding with an alcohol-impaired driver decreased by 41 percent in the decade studied, the authors reported.

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What will it take to drive down these appalling figures? The study’s authors suggest expanded use of sobriety checkpoints, tougher enforcement of DUI laws and seat belt laws and wider use of ignition locks for DUI offenders, even first-time offenders. “These are tragedies that we’ve got to find ways to prevent,” said lead author Dr. Kyran Quinlan, a pediatrician at Erie Family Health Center in Chicago. Shannard Dyer is out of the hospital and in jail, awaiting trial. The courts will decide Dyer’s innocence or guilt. If he is convicted, the punishment may be harsh or light. His son will still be dead. Anyone who gets drunk and then piles kids unrestrained in the back seat of an SUV isn’t likely to be persuaded by all the powerful reasons not to do that. That person serves best as a warning to others: You may not die from your recklessness but … you may wish you had. — MCT Information Services

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Currents, shifts in the political road defy demography Demography is destiny, we are often told, and rightly — up to a point. The American electorate is made up of multiple identifiable segments, defined in various ways, by race and ethnicity, by age cohort, by region and religiosity (or lack thereof ), by economic status and interest. Over time, some segments become larger michael and some smaller. Some prove to be politibarone cally crucial, given the political alignments of the time. Others become irrelevant as they lose cohesion and identity. From the results of the 2008 presidential election, many pundits prophesied a bleak future for the Republican Party, and not implausibly. The exit poll showed that President Barack Obama carried by overwhelming margins two demographic segments that were bound to become a larger share of the electorate over time. He carried Hispanics 67 to 31 percent, despite Republican opponent John McCain’s support of comprehensive immigration legislation. Obama carried voters under 30 — the socalled millennial generation — by 66 to 32 percent. But Democrats’ hold on these groups has weakened. In Gallup polls, Obama’s job approval among Hispanics declined from 75 percent in 2012 to 52 percent in 2013 and among millennials from 61 percent in 2012 to 46 percent in 2013. The recent Harvard Institute of Politics poll of millennials showed Democrats with a big party identification edge among those over 25 but ahead of Republicans by only 41 percent to 38 percent among those 18 to 20. The older millennials came of political age during the late George W. Bush years and were transfixed by the glamor of candidate Obama in 2008. The younger millennials are coming of political age in the middle Obama years and are plainly less enchanted and open to the other party. There are other rifts in what some saw as the emerging eternal Democratic majority. National Journal’s astute analyst, Ronald Brownstein, often contrasts whites and nonwhites, but nonwhites are not a single homogeneous group. Hispanics usually tend to vote more like whites than blacks, with high-income Hispanics trending Republican. When California Democrats tried to use their legislative supermajorities to put on a ballot proposition repealing the state’s ban on racial discrimination in state college and university admissions, Asian-American legislators withdrew their support. They had been getting hundreds of calls from parents concerned about their kids’ chances to get into Berkeley and UCLA. Campus-based Asian activists maintained solidarity with their fellow “people of color.” Asian parents with their families’ futures at stake saw things differently. Union members were long a key Democratic constituency. But there are increasing splits between unions representing public sector and private sector employees. In New Jersey, Democrats with private sector union backgrounds have backed Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s fiscal reforms. On the national level, Laborers International Union President Terry O’Sullivan has spoken out bitterly against the Obama administration’s repeated refusals to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. But in administration councils that counts for less than billionaire Tom Steyer’s pledge to spend $100 million against the pipeline. Meanwhile, other constituencies have been growing with concerns opposite to those of Democratic interest groups without much notice. Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, a board member of the National Rifle Association, points out that 9 million Americans today hold state permits to carry concealed weapons. Back in 1987, when Florida passed its concealed weapons law, there were none. That is now a powerful constituency with an interest in opposing restrictive gun control legislation, which Hillary Clinton called for in a speech last week. In 1990, there were no charter schools, home schooling was widely illegal and the first student voucher programs were just beginning in Milwaukee. Today, there are 1 million children in charter schools, 2 million children being home-schooled and hundreds of thousands of students in voucher programs from Arizona to Indiana to Tennessee. These form the basis of emerging constituencies, consisting of millions of parents, with interests in opposition to or in tension with those of teacher unions. Increasingly, the unions’ claims that they are the only champions of “the kids” are coming into question. All these eddies and currents have the potential to shift the nation’s political focus and partisan balance, in various directions. Any single, straight-line extrapolation, like those from the 2008 exit poll, risks missing the next turn in the political road. opinion

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Democrats’ campaign strategic balancing act opinion Bragging about what they’ve ment “hasn’t translated into greater achieved is what incumbent politifinancial security.” cians do. Obama’s be-happy-but-worry theme Ronald Reagan brought morning is justified by the facts, but it leads to to America. Nelson Rockefeller, runa peculiar imbalance in the campaign ning for his fourth term as governor dialogue. Republicans rail against of New York in 1970, had a snappy everything Obama has done. Their slogan: “He’s done a lot. He’ll do agenda may look like a catalog of Fox e.J. Dionne News obsessions — last month it was more.” British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told voters in the late ’50s Obamacare, currently it’s Benghazi. But they will not stop blaming Obama and his party that they “never had it so good.” But as Democrats struggle to hang on to for all the country’s shortcomings. Democrats, the Senate this year (and try against the by contrast, feel constrained from offering an odds to take over the House), they are not in unambiguously sunny rebuttal. the usual boasting mood. The long-term stall in middle-class incomes Obama described is one reason they Some of the party’s candidates actively can’t. Most Democrats also have a philopraise the Affordable Care Act, but others sophical commitment to reducing inequalitalk more about how they would fix it. Most ties. They may hold the White House, but Democrats hailed this month’s excellent jobs numbers, but much of their message they are not championing the status quo. The party’s candidates fear that if they are this year stresses a squeezed middle class too upbeat, they’ll look out of touch with a and the problems of stagnating wages and country whose spirits aren’t very high. The economic inequality. “You’ve never had it so RealClearPolitics polling averages show good” is not in their talking points. that over the past month, only 28 percent of More than anyone, President Barack Americans saw the country as being on the Obama can expound on how much better right track; 63 percent said it was moving in things are now than they were when the the wrong direction. economy was near collapse in 2009. But a “It’s not a contradiction, but there is a campaign speech he offered at a Democratic fundraiser last week in La Jolla, Calif., nicely tension between the administration wanting to argue for success on health care and the captured the party’s two-track argument. economy and House and Senate candidates Yes, he began by accentuating the positive. “When I came into office, the American who want to identify with the many voters economy was in a free fall that people don’t still who are still struggling in the economy,” said Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster fully appreciate,” Obama said. “And by most measures, what we’ve accomplished together as with many clients on the ballot this fall. “And many of the independent expendia country over the last five years has been sigture groups will be talking about the Koch nificant: 9.2 million new jobs, an auto industry brothers and other big-money groups on the that has come roaring back, a financial system that’s stabilized, trillions of dollars of wealth right who are tilting Washington against the interests of average people.” recovered and restored because housing came A lot of this Democratic advertising will back and people’s 401 pensions bounced back.” be directed at Republicans who control It’s a lot of good news. But note that word the House and have blocking power in “significant.” It’s less buoyant than, say, “fanthe Senate. Placing the burden for Washtastic” or “wonderful.” The understatement ington’s failures on Republicans and their reflected what Obama said a moment later: “What we also know is that the American pubbig funders is a necessary element of any lic is anxious.” Democratic campaign. It will be especially persuasive on an issue like the minimum The president listed the many sources wage. But this is not the same as making a of that anxiety, concluding with a central positive case that could ease the electorate’s Democratic theme: that “for a couple of overall alienation. decades now, even when we’re growing, even when corporate profits are soaring, Reality is what reality is, and it will take many more months of growth to change the incomes, wages have not gone up.” For “ordinary Americans,” he said, the improvecountry’s disposition.

We as a community have been debating the future of the Martin Drake Power Plant for a while. Getting old, expensive to keep up, questionable about meeting new EPA standards and now disabled and even going to cost us more just to get it running again. In the 15 years I have lived here, the issue of landfill space has come up for Pueblo and Colorado Springs. About every two to three years, we are told about an ecological disaster building between us and Pueblo with a tire refuse site. Now at least two of the three are bearing down on us again. Drake has had a crippling that will cost us even more. A plan was announced out of Denver that would take care of some of the estimated million-plus old tires waiting to catch fire that even the fire chief says scares him. However, this recycle plan still won’t take care of them all and will close that area for old tires. Then where do they go? My question is: Has anybody approached the possibility of dealing with all three at the same time? There are incinerator/power plants in over a dozen communities across the country. They are natural gas fired (cheaper than coal and EPA compliant), and these use less natural gas than the standard because the furnaces are primarily fed with refuse and they eliminate much of the need for massive landfills that will never go away. Old tires and 90-95 percent of our refuse can be burned in it. West Michigan residents found themselves in the same situation of old power plant and landfill space running out. In cooperation with Consumer Power of W. Michigan, they built an incinerator power plant and fixed both problems. Instead of the waste removal companies in the area paying to add to a landfill that will never go away, they pay the same charge to dump at the power plant. This is an idea that takes less natural gas than a plant that runs exclusively off it. It would clean up the old tire dump issue, release fewer toxins in the air to deal with, is supplemented by the refuse (“renewable” because we are constantly creating it?) and generate dumping fees to help pay for maintenance and operations. Jim Coda Colorado Springs

Keith King, dedicated public servant A cowardly, scurrilous anonymous letter was sent to me as a “fellow conservative.” Let me state in the clearest terms that you are not my “fellow,” and you are a disgrace to conservatives. Disagreeing with City Council President Keith King is fair game; calling him a traitor is not! Under no circumstances can that characterization be defended, explained or remotely justified. It is predictable and understandable that you would not sign your name to this, as it represents the lowest form of gutless name calling. Being a longtime supporter, friend, ally and admirer of King, he has accepted my strong disagreement and disappointment with many of his actions, and failures to act, as president of the council. But they are done with full recognition of, and appreciation for, our mutual commitment to the fundamental principles

of small, cost-effective government, fiscal and personal responsibility, private property rights and market-driven free enterprise. King has dedicated much of his life to advancing conservatism, serving in various public offices, from school board to state legislator, always at great personal and financial sacrifice. Fortunately, he is a bigger person than you. He stands up publicly on behalf of what he thinks is right, doing so in the face of private disagreements with his friends, like me, and public attacks from those, like you, who don’t have the courage to identify yourself. You do the conservative cause no favor by practicing the politics of personal destruction. King has a well-documented, highly regarded track record of defending and advancing conservative values and policies, earning the respect of those of us whom he occasionally disappoints. To call him a traitor does a disservice to him, to the conservative movement and to the idea of civil discourse. You should be ashamed. You are the traitor! Steve Schuck Colorado Springs

Public lands are our legacy Our parks and public lands are in the national news again. Not because of another government shutdown but because of another extremist group trying to claim our public lands for their private use. Some people are threatening to illegally ride ATVs all over public lands in Utah littered with archaeological treasures and ancient sites sacred to the Navajo. As a veteran, I believe our public lands are our legacy to the future, deserving protection for all Americans — not desecration by a few felons. Here in Colorado, Sen. Mark Udall and Sen. Michael Bennet, sportsmen, business owners and groups like the Friends of Browns Canyon are working collaboratively to protect such important public lands like Browns Canyon National Monument so that our kids and grandkids can see the best of the nation I and other veterans served to protect. Our public lands are the pride of our nation, and no American should stand for this kind of violation of our heritage. Matt Stys Colorado Springs

Feinstein and ‘mentally ill’ vets Every veteran and veterans organization should be “making as much noise” as the public did against Donald Sterling against Dianne Feinstein. The following comes from the L.A. Times: “At a meeting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein said, ‘All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.’ ” L.A. Times columnist Burt Prelutsky’s Quote of the Day: “Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we’re Number One. “There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on ‘Macbeth.’ The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.” I hope all “mentally ill” vets get upset by this; especially the ones with guns. Joan Neugebauer Colorado Springs

Nigeria’s clueless government leaders let its schoolchildren down Why, many are asking, did it take the world so long to pay much attention to the kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls by Muslim fanatics in clarence Nigeria? page For starters, the buck stops with President Goodluck Jonathan, among other Nigerian political leaders who clumsily tried to sweep the crisis under a rug. Fortunately, this particular story of a monstrous terror-crime also offers glimmers of hope for Africa’s future: inspiring examples of ordinary Nigerians who proved to be better than their governmental leaders. The fecklessness of their political and military leaders in response to the April 15 raid on a girls’ boarding school by Boko Haram terrorists was a deplorable betrayal of the Nigerian public’s trust. A day after the attack in northeastopinion

ern Nigeria, the country’s military announced that all but eight of the girls had been rescued. They soon retracted that statement. None of the girls had been rescued, although about 50 escaped on their own. Worse, Amnesty International charged Friday that Nigerian authorities knew the attack was coming as much as four hours before it occurred but failed to act. They should have been prepared. Boko Haram, whose name in the Hausa language roughly means “Western education is sinful,” has turned school attendance into a death-defying risk in recent years — and not only for girls. A similar raid on another northeast regional boarding school killed 29 teenage boys in February. At least 1,200 people are estimated to have died in Boko Haram violence and the Nigerian military’s security crackdowns this year alone. It is hard to exaggerate the courage that it must take for children and their parents to pursue an

education under such conditions. Yet secondary school enrollment in Nigeria has increased dramatically over the past 10 years, according to the World Bank. That’s a tribute to how much Christian and Muslim children and their families value education as a route to upward mobility, even at great risk of violence from anti-education terrorists. It also is hard to overstate the courage of parents and other volunteers who pursued the kidnappers into the dangerous Sambisa forest and came within 2 miles of the girls, according to The Associated Press. Yet their pleas for military assistance were repeatedly rebuffed. For almost three weeks, Nigeria’s Jonathan did not call for outside assistance in the search, even though it was offered by the United States and others. He seemed to be far more focused on preparations for the World Economic Forum for Africa that he convened Wednesday in the capital, Abuja, itself the scene of two Boko

Haram bomb attacks in recent months. Ironically, Jonathan’s efforts to downplay the kidnapping crisis might have worked better in the days before Nigeria became the sort of global economic power that he is trying to expand. Nigeria’s oil-rich economy this year official passed South Africa and Egypt to become the continent’s wealthiest nation. The summit is expected to attract billions of new investment dollars to Nigeria, whose economy grew by 6.7 percent in 2012, boosted by e-commerce, telecommunications, music and “Nollywood,” the country’s bustling movie industry. Money attracts money, but the new global economy also attracts transparency, especially in the Twitter age. As their government let them down, Nigerian civil society and social networks gave the world a new model of digital-age activism. Women’s rights advocates, includ-

ing mothers of the kidnapped girls, rallied in four Nigerian cities. Social media popularized the Twitter hashtag BringBackOurGirls, which was started by a Nigerian lawyer. By the time first lady Michelle Obama joined the Twitter crusade, world outrage grew loud enough for Nigeria’s president to hear it. Jonathan announced he had accepted offers from the U.S. to help in the search. Better late than never, I hope. Boko Haram wants to draw attention to their supposedly Islamic cause, but they mainly display the worst of Africa’s past (tribalism, fanaticism, primitivism, sexism … ) as the continent struggles to enter a new global economic future. As Nigerians and other Africans become more educated and empowered by their own possibilities, it is their leaders who will have to rush to catch up. —

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Tour gives scoop on building your coop Our chickens have it pretty good: an enclosure that protects them from predators, a fenced side yard to roam in at times and a coop that’s decent-sized and quite sturdy. The coop is a bit plain, though, compared to some where chickens truly live in style. This weekend offers an opportunity to see a variety of abodes for chickens. About 20 coops — most in Colorado Springs, a couple in Black Forest — will be open to view during the fifth annual Take a Peak Chicken Coop Tour. The free, self-guided tour is the brainchild of John Conner, whose coop in the Shooks Run neighborhood has been part of the tour since the start. He got chickens about seven years ago after spotting another home with them. “I wondered, ‘Is that legal here?’ I went and looked and sure enough, it is. I thought that sounded like something fun to do.” Homeowners are allowed to keep up to 10 chickens — no roosters — in Colorado Springs. (There’s no restriction on flock size — or roosters — out in the country where I live.) I asked Conner how many chickens he has and got a surprising answer. “At the moment, I’ve got about 45 of them,” he said with a laugh. Most of them, though, are chicks that he’s raising in his garage for other people; he has five adult hens of his own. He built his chicken coop, based on plans for what is called the Playhouse Coop. “It’s a coop that you see all over the Internet,” he said. You can spend as little or as much as you’d like on a coop. The Big R in Falcon has one for sale that I’ve always admired: a red “Amish style,” with two windows, a chicken door and a walk-in door, five nesting boxes — and a price tag of $1,400. Looking online, I found other high-end coops. The Alexandria Chicken Coop & Run from Williams-Sonoma will run you about $1,500. It’s hand-built from solid pine, has an “easy-care” linoleum floor and is topped with a cedar-shake roof; the coop also has large rubber wheels so you can move it. For the same price, Williams-Sonoma has its Cedar Chicken Coop & Run with Planter; the planter box is equipped with a drainage system that keeps water from falling into the run below. Conner has also eyed some extravagant coops. “I’ve seen some really extreme ones, like Martha Stewart’s,” he said. Some get —

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Council to vote on blight Members split on when, why Springs can use eminent domain by monica mendoza monica.mendoza@gazette.com —

Colorado Springs City Council member Joel Miller will likely find out Tuesday if his fellow council members support his proposal to tighten the city’s rules on government takeover of private property. Miller’s proposed eminent domain

ordinance has rallied supporters who believe it is necessary to protect property owners from government’s grip as the city moves forward with a number of urban renewal projects. It also has galvanized critics who say the ordinance would strangle economic development. Miller began pursuing changes to

the city’s eminent domain policy in January shortly after the city released artist renderings of the City for Champions project. Some property owners wondered aloud why the drawings of a downtown stadium, parking structure and U.S. Olympic museum were —

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The Colorado Springs City Council will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall, 107 N. Nevada Ave. The council is expected to vote on a proposed ordinance calling for changes to the city’s use of eminent domain.

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A sweet kiss home

julia moss, the gazette

Beth Jacks kisses her husband, Spc. Erik Johansson, on Monday evening during a Fort Carson homecoming ceremony for the 28 members of the 749th Ordnance Company at the Special Events Center. The soldiers had been deployed in Afghanistan since October.

Utilities’ Forte updates council on Drake blaze by Monica Mendoza monica.mendoza@gazette.com —

Colorado Springs firefighters and police officers made split-second decisions that got the Martin Drake Power Plant fire knocked down quickly, the CEO of Colorado Springs Utilities told the City Council on Monday. Utilities chief Jerry Forte recounted the details of the fire, including the thoughts of one firefighter who climbed to the roof the morning of the May 5 blaze. “He said he wasn’t sure if he was going to come off that roof,” Forte said in an update to the council a week after a fire broke out in the city’s downtown coal-fired power plant. Forte added that first responders were on scene in five minutes and that no one

was injured. “They used a technique they had just trained on and were able to save the structure and minimize the damage,” Forte said. Half of the 90 employees assigned to Drake will be back to work Tuesday. They will work with contractors to assess damage and design a restoration plan, Forte said. The rest of the employees will temporarily work at other Utilities properties. Drake’s electrical wiring took the hardest hit and will be the area that needs the most attention, said Dan Higgins, Utilities interim general manager of energy supply. “There will be miles and miles of —

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D-2 to offer students free breakfast, lunch New government program to start in fall by debbie Kelley debbie.kelley@gazette.com —

It will be a free-for-all in cafeterias in Harrison School District 2 starting in the fall. No, not a food fight. A fight against hunger. Every student in the district will be able to eat breakfast and lunch for free at school, regardless of household income or other qualifiers. The opportunity comes through a new government program to “improve access to free school meals for highpoverty schools,” according to the Colorado Department of Education.

“We’re going to give it a try. We believe it is a good offering to our students — breakfast and lunch at no charge,” said Tammy Brunnar, supervisor of nutrition services for Harrison D-2. The district just barely met the requirements. To participate, districts or individual schools must have at least 40 percent of a “student identifier” formula that counts students who are homeless, migrant youth, foster children, Head Start enrollees or those whose families receive —

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who we are today in history In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (they went ashore the next day). In 1846, the United States declared that a state of war existed with Mexico. In 1914, heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Ala. In 1917, three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. In 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were issued to the public. (On a few stamps, the biplane was inadvertently printed upside-down, making them collector’s items.) In 1940, Britain’s new prime minister, Winston Churchill, told Parliament: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act. In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1968, a one-day general strike took place in France in support of student protesters. In 1973, in tennis’ first so-called “Battle of the Sexes,” Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1 in Ramona, Calif. (Riggs had his standing challenge to female players accepted by Billie Jean King, who soundly defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in September.) In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb onto the group’s row house; 11 people died in the resulting fire that destroyed 61 homes. In 1994, President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun. 10 years ago: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited the Abu Ghraib prison camp in Iraq, where he insisted the Pentagon did not try to cover up abuses there. During a campaign swing in West Virginia, President George W. Bush said he felt “disgraced” by the images of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners but reminded his listeners that actions of a handful of Americans should not sully the nation’s military. 5 years ago: A judge in West Palm Beach sentenced two men to death for the drug-debt slaying of a family of four on the side of a Florida highway, including two young boys who died in their mother’s arms. 1 year ago: Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his clinic. (Gosnell is serving a life sentence.)

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The police yesterday arrested a 16-year-old boy on a charge of stealing pocketbooks at the public library. He will be turned over to juvenile court authorities. Several complaints have been received by the police recently about theft of pocketbooks in the library and a decoy purse was used yesterday, which it is said the boy was caught taking. No large amounts were stolen.

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CourteSy of jan (WolSleben) and erneSt Spillane

L.G. and Henrietta Wolsleben hold snowshoes as they stand outside Colorado Springs Municipal power plant No. 3 in the hills above Manitou Springs. L.G. Wolsleben was the operator and caretaker of the plant for years, and the couple lived in the utilities’ caretaker’s house in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Their daughter, Jan (Wolsleben) Spillane and her husband, Ernest, live in the Pikes Peak region.

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Go wild at expanded nature center After months of planning and construction, El Paso County is ready to celebrate the expansion of the Fountain Creek Nature Center, just south of Colorado Springs. You’re invited to join the celebration and check out the new building and expanded displays, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the park, 320 Pepper Grass Lane in Fountain. The nature center sits next to a large pond and Fountain Creek, which draw a variety of wildlife to the area. Trails circle the pond and visitors can see the changing habitat up close. Displays inside the nature center introduce visitors to the plants and animals in the area. In addition to exploring the area on your own, you can join nature programs, such as an edible plant workshop May 31, and guided hikes, such as the sunset hike May 23. CourteSy of el paSo County

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Use your eyes, ears at bird count El Paso County also offers great programs at Bear Creek Nature Center, 245 Bear Creek Road, off south 26th Street in southwest Colorado Springs. This week’s events include a “Storytelling Hike & Campfire” 7-8:30 p.m. Friday ($4; $5 for nonmembers) and the annual bird county 7-11 a.m. Saturday ($5 donation requested for bird seed). Birding enthusiasts of all ages and abilities are invited to participate in this “citizen science project.” Call ahead for information and reservations. jerilee bennett, the gazette

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rather ridiculous, he added. “We don’t have any extreme ones that I’ve seen here in town,” he said. “I’ve seen some nice ones, some pretty funky ones.” Many of the coops each year have been part of the tour before. “We usually get a few new ones,” Conner said. Some tours — such as the Funky Chicken Coop Tour in Austin, Texas, or the Denver Chicken Coop tour — charge admission. Conner likes that his is free and somewhat casual — “You just go see the ones you want to look at.” The Take a Peak tour is Saturday and Sunday; a tour map will be posted online at takeapeakcoop tour.com and will also be available this weekend at Conner’s home, 712 N. Cedar St., and Buckley’s Homestead Supply, 1501 W. Colorado Ave. (Not all coops will be available both days.) People are asked not

Stepping high, scornful of the drizzling rain which threatened to wilt their white shakos and spot their trim brown cadet uniforms, members of the Abilene, Kan., high school band marched their way into the parade championship of the National School Music Competition. A crowd estimated at 15,000 lined Tejon Street for more than seven blocks to watch the youngsters. Only 10 bands paraded, compared to 35 scheduled.

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Professor Richard M. Pearl of the geology department at Colorado College, author of numerous books on geology and gemology, has received the Colorado Author’s Top Hand Award for Juvenile Non-Fiction. “Wonders of Gems” is the book that won Pearl the award. Colorado SpringS pioneerS MuSeuM

coMMents WHAt yoU sAiD on gAzette.com El Paso County Commissioner Amy Lathen is leading a movement to give local governments the chance to bypass Social Security and move retirement money to more lucrative options. Here’s some of the reaction: “... We’re all free to put as much as we want and can into the market, but Social Security is there for when that doesn’t work. ...” NIel pOwers

“As a 20-year-old American citizen fixing to enter the work force, I want the end of Social Security. It’s a crime that it is forced upon all of us when we can clearly invest our money better and elsewhere. ...” JustIN brOwN

“Great idea, not! See how well all those private investments did during the Great Recession. Every one took a bath. Imagine how this would have worked if Social Security had been privatized.” rObert cONNIe thew

“Amy, look into PERA. It is for local governments, has been around longer than Social Security, and is a much better way to go. The most important thing is that it is not run by the Feds.” mark hardy pHoTo CouRTeSy oF JoHn ConneR

John Conner will open his backyard in downtown Colorado Springs to visitors this weekend during the annual chicken coop tour that he organizes. He has five hens. to bring dogs or other pets, not to chase or handle the birds and to supervise their children. Since you can’t bring animals, I guess I can’t bring my chickens to

see how their city slicker counterparts live. —

Bill Radford and his wife live in the country with a menagerie that includes a horse, a mule, two goats,

three dogs, two cats, a half-dozen chickens, two rabbits and two parrots. Contact him: Twitter @billradfordiii, gazettebillradford on Facebook. Follow his blog at blogs.gazette.com/thecountrylife.

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Fountain council to Man: Fatal shot a mercy killing vote on ordinances

Man convicted again in killings

Fountain residents opposed to “smart meters” might have lost an attempt to ban them, but the City Council in the southern El Paso County town is poised to vote on three ordinances Tuesday to address some of the concerns that forced the issue onto the November 2013 ballot. Opponents of Fountain Utilities’ use of smart-meter technology tried to force the city to uninstall the meters at more than 15,000 homes. Some called the utility provider “Big Brother,” claiming the technology was nothing more than a government surveillance maneuver designed to not only monitor electric usage, but to control it. The three ordinances that council will vote on Tuesday will limit Fountain Utilities’ use of customer information, ban residential “time-of-day” pricing and keep rates stable for those who opt out of the smart-meter program. “There has just been a bit of lack of trust,” said Fountain Utilities Director Curtis Mitchell. Mitchell said the ordinances grew out of a workshop that Fountain City Council held in mid-March to specifically address smart-meter concerns. “I think we’re in a good place to move forward now,” he said. The first ordinance before council will underscore existing rules that limit the use of information transmitted from smart meters to the utilities office every 24 hours. Mitchell said such rules — based on federal and state law and the city’s identify theft policy — were in place even before Fountain Utilities began installing smart meters in summer 2013. Utilities officials and the city simply want to

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A man who was granted a retrial for a 1991 double murder for which he was serving life in prison did not get the acquittal, and the freedom, he sought. For the second time, a jury found Tim Kennedy guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. Kennedy was charged in the execution-style shootings of Steve Staskiewicz, 37, and his 15-year-old girlfriend, Jennifer Carpenter, whose bodies were found in a mobile home in Old Colorado City. Kennedy was arrested in 1995 and convicted of firstdegree murder in 1997. He was sentenced to two life terms in prison. The decision later was upheld by the Colorado Court of Appeals. In 2009, 14 years into his life sentence, new evidence brought his guilt into question, and 4th Judicial District Judge Thomas Kane ruled that Kennedy was entitled to a new trial. A letter written by a man whom public defender Sheilagh McAteer pointed to as a viable suspect, suggested a cover-up in the homicides. Additionally, forensic evidence that was tested in 2008 showed none of Kennedy’s DNA was found at the crime scene. Kennedy’s monthlong retrial began April 3. A sentencing hearing for Kennedy is set for June 9, according to court documents.

Admits to shooting 3 people in Black Forest

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reinforce their desire to keep sensitive, private information secure. “Their usage is private, and it was private before we did the smart meters,” Mitchell said. “It’s very important for the new council to reaffirm that.” Mitchell said the biggest privacy concern was a misconception that the utility would be able to see what customers are doing in “real time.” The meters transmit information only at midnight each day, he said. The second ordinance will ensure that Fountain Utilities does not start charging residential customers more during peak usage hours. Mitchell said the utilities provider does not generate its own electricity and purchases power from other sources. Fountain Utilities does not pay any different rate for the electricity. no matter what the time of day or the amount of usage. So, Mitchell said, “There’s no financial incentive.” The utilities director said time-of-day rates are used for larger commercial business customers in town, but not for restaurants, convenience stores and other small businesses, nor residential The final ordinance would establish a permanent “optout” program, and guarantee that those who participate would not face additional charges for having their meters read monthly. Before the November election, Fountain Utilities spokeswoman Erin Garcia said a ban on smart meters would have cost customers about $5.43 million to replace those already installed and to hire an army of meter readers. That cost, and a predicted 7 percent rate increase, did not come to fruition: The bal-

Health exchange chief gets raise, bonus The Denver Post —

Connect for Health Colorado’s board gave chief executive Patty Fontneau a 2.5 percent raise and a $14,291 bonus Monday morning. Fontneau’s salary for this year increases to $195,314, making her the third-highest paid executive of an independent state health exchange under the Affordable Care Act. Only the California and Connecticut exchanges pay their chief executives more. The issue of Fontneau’s raise was first brought up in December, but the board and staff deferred discussion of

it because of the demands of the open enrollment period, said board member Gretchen Hammer of the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved. “We had agreed to put the conversation on hold until after open enrollment ended,” Hammer said. The raise and bonus are in recognition that Fontneau met all the exchange’s stated objectives for the period before the beginning of the first enrollment period, Oct. 1, 2013, Hammer said. Hammer said the salary boost was a cost of living increase and the bonus was for

meeting objectives. Only one member of the seven-person board, businesswoman Ellen Daehnick, voted against it. Board member Steve ErkenBrack wasn’t present for the vote. “If this were my company, I would have given her a bigger bonus and a bigger raise,” said board member Arnold Salazar, executive director of Colorado Health Partnerships. “She pulled off an incredible job in record time under incredible pressure.” He said the Colorado health marketplace has performed better than most of the state exchanges.

lot measure to prohibit use of the technology was voted down, with 1,519 for it and 2,295 opposed. According to Mitchell, 15,574 smart meters have been installed in Fountain and only a couple dozen had to be removed because of opt-outs. The director said the cost to change out the meters was “still fairly minimal” and did not raise rates. Fountain Utilities has 16,800 customers, and Mitchell said 700 to 800 have opted out of using smart meters. That was not enough to require additional meter readers. The director expects opponents of the meters to eventually warm up to the idea. “Over time, we feel that once customers know more about the technology, once it’s proven, we expect the number (of opt outs) to go down a little bit,” Mitchell said. Proponents of smart meters say the technology allows customers easy access to their utility accounts online and improves service during emergencies and natural disasters. In the case of Hurricane Sandy, utility companies were “able to identify damaged equipment and respond more efficiently,” the city of Fountain says on its website. —

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Kenneth Lankford, 47, is scheduled to be arraigned June 12.

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A 47-year-old man accused of killing two people in Black Forest, including his wife, appeared at the El Paso County courthouse Monday for a preliminary hearing. Kenneth Lankford allegedly told sheriff ’s detectives that he fatally shot his wife as a mercy killing after a gun accidentally went off and badly injured her, then lashed out and intentionally shot a Black Forest woman to death, also shooting the woman’s husband in the face. The shootings occurred last November. “He said he didn’t mean to shoot his wife, and he didn’t mean to hurt the man, but that the woman’s death was definitely a murder,” said Sheriff ’s Sgt. Greg White, recalling part of the sevenhour interview he had with Lankford the day after the killings. Lankford is accused of fatally shooting Carol Fowler, 51, and wounding her husband Thomas, 52, at their home at 11725 Timberlane Court, and killing his own wife, Terry Lankford, 51, at a home at 6685 Burrows Road on Nov. 9. According to White’s statement, Lankford had been read his Miranda rights and

agreed to speak with sheriff ’s deputies after he was taken into custody after an overnight manhunt for him in Black Forest. Lankford told detectives that he and his wife had gotten into an argument when a man and a woman had knocked at their front door on Burrows Road, White said. During the argument, Terry Lankford had reached for her husband’s gun and it had accidentally fired, seriously wounding her. “[Lankford] said Terry was making the most ‘God-awful gurgling sound,’ and he felt horrible, so he held the gun with both hands and shot her to put her out of her misery,” White said. According to White’s account, Lankford then went to the Timberlane Court culde-sac where he allegedly shot Thomas Fowler once in the face and Carol Fowler in the chest, collarbone and back of the head. Lankford is scheduled to be arraigned June 12, court records show.

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Greccio purchases 54 apartments

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wires to replace … .” he said. “In some cases wiring was just plain melted right through.” Utilities has hired consulting engineers to assess the structural damage, has begun preliminary electrical evaluations and has had visits from the insurance adjustors, Higgins said. Utilities also hired a cleanup crew, additional security and installed additional lights. Cost estimates on the contracts, security and lights were not available Monday, a Utilities spokesman said. Forte said he will have more details for the council May 21 when it meets as the Colorado Springs Utilities Board. Forte and Higgins credited evacuation and safety drills as the reason no employee was injured. “The speed at which employees were able to evacuate is absolutely the reason why we didn’t have tragedy at the plant,” Higgins said. “There is value in those drills.” Firefighters determined that lubricating oil that hit hot steam pipes caused the fire. But the investigation as to how the oil escaped is ongoing, Forte said. Drake has three generation units called No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7. Unit No. 5 is where the fire erupted and the area of the plant that was most damaged. But it could be two weeks before Utilities knows the full extent of the damage and cost to make repairs. “I’ve had a lot of questions in the last week on what firefighters faced,” Fire Chief Christopher Riley said. “The courage and skill was pretty phenomenal, and I don’t use that term lightly.” Drake provides about a

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food stamps or other federal assistance. Harrison’s count: 40.03 percent. The Community Eligibility Provision is based on policy requirements of the Health Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. It essentially will replace the federal free and reduced lunch program within D-2 when the next school year begins, Brunnar said. While no conditions are placed on the students who take advantage of the service, parents will have to fill out paperwork to register their kids for the free meals. But “this isn’t about qualifying,” Brunnar said. “Studies show children who are hun-

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depicted as sitting on their properties. “They are nervous, and justifiably so,” Miller said at the time. At first, Miller wanted the ordinance to say that the city would not condemn private property for a private development. State law prohibits taking private property “for transfer to a private entity for the purpose of economic development or enhancement of tax revenue.” But Miller learned through research that Colorado cities often use the Urban Renewal Authority to declare an area as “blight” — which could include such factors as inadequate street layout, unsafe conditions, unusual topography or conditions that endanger life or property. Typically, Miller said, developers pay for the blight studies. Once a property is declared a blight, the city can attempt to purchase it. Then, in accordance with state law, the Urban Renewal Authority sends a letter called a “Notice of Intent to Acquire Property”

Greccio Housing purchased the Santa Fe Apartments in a deal that will add 54 apartments to its stock of affordable housing, the nonprofit announced Monday. Greccio’s addition will increase the number of apartments that it oversees to 487 across 22 properties, according to a news release. The $2 million deal included support from Ent Federal Credit Union, the city of Colorado Springs housing development office, the El Paso County Housing Authority and the Colorado Division of Housing. An additional $500,000, possibly more, in renovations are planned for the apartment complex at 1228 Delaware Drive, southwest of Palmer Park and Academy boulevards. Greccio offers affordable housing to low-income families across the Pikes Peak region. It recently partnered with Family Life Services to oversee its 10-unit campus at 1880 S. Cascade Ave. —

Body of man found in stairwell ChriStian MurDoCk, the gazette

Firefighters stand watch over the Martin Drake Power Plant last week as crews prepare to begin the fire investigation of the blaze that ripped through the coal-fired power plant May 5 in downtown Colorado Springs. third of the community’s power. Now, Utilities will rely more on the Ray Nixon, Birdsall and Front Range plants. It also will buy fuel from other Front Range power companies. At Drake, electricity is produced at 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour. It could cost about 4 cents per kilowatt hour to buy the fuel

gry don’t perform as well in school. “We’re really hoping to create a better learning environment for our students.” Harrison normally has a high percentage of students who receive free and reduced meals. Of this school year’s 11,179 students, the average daily participation for free or reduced breakfast is 29 percent and for lunch, 61 percent. Brunnar said with the new free meals program that’s not restricted by eligibility, the district expects to see the numbers jump by an additional 15 percent for breakfast and 50 percent for lunch. If the projections are on track, more than 90 percent of students will eat lunch for free at school in the 2014-15 academic year.

to property owners. The letter says the city can use eminent domain to take the property. Those letters act as threats, Miller said. People who get one are likely to sell their property because they cannot afford to take the issue to court. Vikki Walton, a supporter of the ordinance who spoke at City Hall in April, likened the “Notice of Intent to Acquire Property” letters as being mugged at gunpoint. “He says give me all your money. Does he have to shoot you to get the money? Or is the threat enough?” she said. Miller’s proposed ordinance says the city could not send letters that threaten or imply the use of eminent domain unless they’re approved by the City Council. The proposed ordinance also would give a property owner a chance to correct the blighted property. “The blight loophole in the Colorado law is big enough to drive a bulldozer through,” said Kanda Calef, Business Chamber of Southern Colorado government affairs officer. “It makes it easy for property to be determined as blighted and ultimately transferred to developers.” Miller’s proposal also would

to produce it. The City Council may consider an electric rate increase this month to cover the increased cost of buying fuel. Forte was asked by a council member if there is a lesson learned. “A lot of the lessons learned are still to come,” he said. “We are still trying to sort

The estimated cost per plate for breakfast will be $1.42 and for lunch $2.25, Brunnar said. The cost will be picked up by the CDE. The program seems like a good idea, said Shannon Gonzalez, the mother of a kindergartner, a first-grader and a sixth-grader who attend schools in D-2. Her children qualify for reduced lunch prices. “It sounds like an all-around fantastic deal,” she said. “Some parents don’t qualify for the free and reduced programs but need them.” Although her children haven’t eaten school-provided breakfast in the past, they may join the program next year, said Gonzalez, who also works part time in the kitchen at a D-2 elementary school.

limit the city’s power to take private property for “traditional public purposes” — such as building streets or highways — and the city could not take property for private economic development or a combination of public and private economic development. It also would require a public hearing if the city wants to use its eminent domain power. Deputy City Attorney Tom Florczak, who worked on the draft of the ordinance, said in a Jan. 23 email to Miller that the proposed ordinance would severely restrict the use of eminent domain, even for traditional public and municipal purposes. “For example, eliminating public buildings means the city could not use the power to acquire land for a city hall or a fire station,” he wrote in the email. Opponents of the ordinance say there is no need to change existing rules because the city rarely uses condemnation. But Miller says the city has plans for many urban renewal projects, including the Southwest Downtown Urban Renewal Area where the proposed City for Champions sports and events center would be built. He also says there are plans

out what we need to do to get this up and running.” Forte said Utilities will prepare a report with an assessment of what went wrong and a plan for improvement. “There will be a formal after-action report, and we will do everything we can to make sure it never happens again,” Forte said.

“I’ve wanted to get a fulltime job, and this might be the thing that helps me do that, knowing my kids could get free breakfast at school,” she said. The food is good, too, Gonzalez said, with plenty of fruits and vegetables and other nutritious fare that follow U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines for healthy school meals. Food service workers will be gearing up to feed the extra mouths, Brunnar said. “Hopefully, we’ll be serving a lot more students, but that’s a good thing, not a bad thing,” she said. In December, D-2 began offering dinner to students who stay for after-school activities, but that meal is not included in the new free meals program.

for a Railroad Loft urban area and potential plans for South Academy Boulevard and North Nevada Avenue. “All of those projects, which could cover thousands of parcels of private property, must be undertaken with assurances to property owners that their private property rights will be respected and that the city’s power of eminent domain will not be used inappropriately,” he wrote in a memo to the City Council. In April, Miller made his pitch to the council, but council member Jill Gaebler said she was concerned that stakeholders such as developers and the Housing and Building Association were not included in the discussion. The council then voted to postpone the decision. Since then, the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance, the Housing and Building Association and the Downtown Partnership have publicly opposed the proposed eminent domain changes and urged their members to work against the ordinance. “We don’t think the current process is broken,” said Joe Loidolt, president of the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs.

The body of an 18-year-old man was found Monday in the stairwell of an apartment building on the 1200 block of Potter Drive, but the death was determined not to be suspicious, according to Colorado Springs police. “The death is not being investigated as suspicious or as a suicide, so that’s as far as we’re going to go with it,” Lt. Catherine Buckley said. Major Crimes detectives responded to the apartment building, across the street from Mitchell High School. —

Body found on mountain ID’d GOLDEN • Authorities have identified a woman whose body was found on Lookout Mountain west of Denver. A spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff ’s Office said 38-year-old Sandra Mercado was stabbed to death. Investigators originally said Mercado had no known connection to Colorado, but they now say she lived and worked in Aurora. Authorities also say she has relatives who live out of state, but investigators did not release any details. A hiker found the body near Windy Saddle Park and the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave on Thursday morning. Investigators believe the woman was killed within 24 hours of her body being found, but they have not

“What this ordinance is trying to accomplish is already addressed by state law.” Loidolt said the ordinance would tie the city’s hands in cases when it wanted to develop blighted areas. The checks and balances already reside with the City Council, he said. “The city shouldn’t paint itself into a corner,” he said. In an email to its members, the Downtown Partnership said “the ordinance virtually eliminates the possibility of future public-private partnerships, which are the key to economic development.” One public-private partnership on the horizon is the City for Champions downtown sports and events center. The project was approved by the state as part of four tourism projects that will receive state sales tax rebates to help finance bonds to construct the buildings. It would be built in the southwest downtown urban renewal site. Council member Merv Bennett said the City Council has final authority on all Urban Renewal Authority plans and also views the ordinance as limiting the city’s options for economic development. “I consider it a strategic tool in the tool box,” Bennett said.

determined where she was killed. —

Former sheriff violates probation DENVER • A former Arapahoe County sheriff convicted in a meth-for-sex case has violated his probation by testing positive for methamphetamine and alcohol. Court documents released Monday show 71-year-old Patrick Sullivan tested positive for methamphetamine use three times between September and March. The documents say Sullivan tested positive for alcohol use four times between April 2012 and last August. Sullivan was sentenced in 2012 to 38 days in jail and placed on two years’ probation after pleading guilty to felony possession of methamphetamine and soliciting for prostitution. A judge in March extended Sullivan’s probation after he failed a urine test. The court documents say Sullivan also left the state without permission three times this year. A hearing on his probation is scheduled for Thursday. —

Spring storm raises avalanche danger DENVER • Colorado’s May snowstorm is increasing the state’s avalanche danger. Ethan Greene of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said the new snow is landing on top of a thick hard pack of earlier snowfall. Strong winds can dislodge it and start avalanches. The danger may persist for several more weeks because much of the snow in the Rockies hasn’t started to melt. More than a foot of snow has fallen in some parts of Colorado’s mountains since the storm began Sunday. Eight people have died in avalanches this year in the state. —

Gypsum teen appears in court The Gypsum 13-year-old accused of fatally shooting his father April 30 appeared in court Monday so an attorney could be appointed to represent him. The boy will be represented by 5th Judicial District public defender Reed Owens as he faces charges of first-degree murder after deliberation, criminal mischief and a crime of violence enhancement. No decision has been made about charging him as an adult. The GazeTTe and news services

Council member Helen Collins disagrees. She said she found an alarming number of examples of the use of eminent domain in Colorado, including a highly publicized case in Breckenridge where the government wanted a private mountainside residence for open space. The case was settled April 16 with the landowners reluctantly agreeing to a payment of $115,000. “This has gone on all over in different cities,” she said. “It’s a pattern all over the U.S.” City Council President Keith King, who may be the deciding vote on a split council, said Monday that he has concerns about limiting the use of eminent domain for public use. He said the ordinance also is unclear if it would apply to entities including a Stormwater Authority. He still is hopeful that Miller may compromise on some of the definitions of public use to include such things as buildings. “This ordinance is about public use and how you define public use and how it plays into economic development,” King said. “Some of my concerns center around those issues and the definitions, and some of the wording he has used is concerning.”

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State inspects edibles makers Products pulled for health safety hazards The Denver Post —

Food safety inspections of businesses that manufacture and sell marijuana edibles in Denver have found products that should be refrigerated sitting out on shelves and preparation methods insufficient to kill bacteria that can cause serious food-borne illness. The unannounced visits by the Denver Department of Environmental Health have led to three product recalls and the destruction of thousands of dollars’ worth of products. State and local health authorities have not linked edibles to any confirmed cases of food-borne illnesses. City officials say the marijuana industry has been responsive to their concerns and all products identified as unsafe have been taken off the market. The violations mark the first time a Colorado health agency has held kitchens producing pot-infused brownies, cookies and tinctures to the same food-safety standards as restaurants. “Overall, I think there is a high level of compliance in the industry,” said Bob McDonald, the city of Denver’s director of public health inspections. “That doesn’t mean we don’t come across critical violations from time to time.” A Denver Post review of city records found inspectors have identified 58 critical violations at 24 businesses, most of them since March. City officials said that since January 2013, inspectors have made at least 340 visits to edibles manufacturers and the medical dispensaries and recreational pot shops that sell their products. The food-safety push — so far unique to Denver but under consideration elsewhere — comes at a sensitive time for Colorado’s edibles industry. Two recent deaths have been tied to infused candy and cookies, emergency rooms are reporting more bad reactions and cases of children becoming ill, and state regulators are weighing new restrictions on potency and serving sizes. Scott Henderson, food program supervisor for the Denver Department of Environmental Health, said the city began applying existing food regulations to edibles because of rising safety concerns. Plant-infused oils can support the growth of dangerous bacteria that can cause illness if eaten, Henderson said. The city’s food safety regulations classify plant-infused oils as “potentially hazardous foods,” meaning they must be stored refrigerated to prevent bacterial growth unless otherwise approved. The oils are used as the active ingredient in many infused foods. City health authorities are especially concerned that edibles will become breeding grounds for the bacteria that can lead to botulism, a potentially fatal but extremely rare food-borne illness. Henderson said the bacterial threat exists if temperatures are not hot enough during the extraction process or if certain store-ready edible products are not stored at 41 degrees or colder. Most infused baked goods are fine on shelves if the marijuana extraction or concentrate has been continuously refrigerated before being added, according to a department memo last month. The state Department of Revenue began requiring edible manufacturers to test for potency May 1, but does not require testing of bacteria.

Obituaries deaths elsewhere • Nancy Malone was on the cover of Life magazine at age 11, had a starring role on Broadway at 17 and worked steadily as an actress in television in her 20s and 30s. Though she was in demand, she feared for the future. “I’d seen actresses getting to the age of 45, having nowhere to go except Bloomingdale’s or regional theater,” Malone said in an interview for the 2002 book “Women

Who Run the Show.” Malone became not only an Emmy-winning producer and studio executive but also — in a move highly unusual for a woman at the time — a director, working on shows such as “Dynasty,” “Cagney & Lacey” and “Star Trek: Voyager.” Malone, 79, died Thursday at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. The cause was pneumonia that arose from complica-

tions of leukemia, publicist Harlan Boll said. • A.J. watson, a mechanic and designer who played a key role in several Indianapolis 500 victories in the 1950s and ’60s, died Monday at age 90. Speedway President Doug Boles called Watson one of the most innovative mechanics and car builders in the track’s 105-year history. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

deaths MiCHAEL E. DAwSON Born May 18, 1940. Died Feb. 12, 2014. Retired real estate broker, fouryear Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his wife, Lisa Cross; two daughters, Dana Denney and Jennifer Rice; four brothers and sisters; and four grandchildren. Memorial service, 11 a.m. May 17, Grace Episcopal Church. Inurnment to take place at a later date. Alternative Cremation. GEORGE MATHiAS “DuTCH” HESCHELE Born April 16, 1921. Died May 9, 2014. U.S. Air Force, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his wife, Lois; a son, Steve Earley; and three daughters, Susan George, Jane Heschele and Nancy Phillyas. Services pending. The Springs Funeral Services. LYDiA G. KOELLiNG Born June 14, 1959. Died May 6, 2014. Merchandising representative, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by her parents, Simon E. and Lucinda Valdez; a sister, Donna Valdez; and two brothers, Lee and Larry Valdez. Viewing, 10 a.m., with rosary to follow, May 15, Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 2318 N. Cascade Ave. Mass, 11 a.m. May 15, with reception to follow, Corpus Christi Catholic Church. Cappadona Funeral Home. EDwARD KOHLMEYER Born April 24, 1940. Died May 9, 2014. Construction worker, U.S. Army veteran, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his wife, Gloria “Regina”; two sons, Tim and Jeffrey; a daughter, Jennifer Fodge; a sister, Ethel; and three grandchildren. Visitation, 5 to 7 p.m. May 14, followed by a rosary, Shrine of Remembrance. Service, 10 a.m. May 15, Shrine of Remembrance “America the Beautiful” Chapel. Interment, 2:30 p.m. May 15, Fort Logan National Cemetery, Staging Area “B.” Burial, Fort Logan National Cemetery. Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory.

FLORENCE L. MuNDiNE Born May 30, 1946. Died May 7, 2014. Cook, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by her husband, Leonion Brown; a son, Louis Mitchell; and three daughters, Rita and LaRhonda Mitchell and Jacklyn Mundine-Williams. Visitation, 4 to 7 p.m. May 14, Angelus Funeral Directors. Service, 1 p.m. May 14, Angelus Funeral Directors. Burial, Evergreen Cemetery. Angelus Funeral Directors. JOHN CHARLES OuSLEY Born Sept. 22, 1948. Died May 10, 2014. Appointment setter, served in U.S. Navy, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by a brother, Mark; and two sisters, Sue Doucette and Mary Holder. Memorial service, 1 p.m. May 17, The Springs Funeral Services. The Springs Funeral Services. ROBERT PEPiN Born Sept. 10, 1927. Died May 10, 2014. Retired U.S. Air Force, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his wife, Agnes; a son, Kenneth Willis; and a daughter, Judith Cahoon. Celebration of life service, 10 a.m. May 15, Sunnyside Christian Church, 2025 N. Murray Blvd. The Springs Funeral Services. THEODORE J. TEGELER Born Dec. 4, 1948. Died May 10, 2014. Nuclear physicist at a power plant, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his wife, Elizabeth Perrino. Front Range Crematory. BRiAN BERNARD THOMAS Born May 19, 1967. Died April 3, 2014. Former Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his mother, Gala; his father, James Elam; three daughters, Breanna Thomas-Carter, Jasmine Delker and Shaybrian Thomas; a son, Brian Thomas Jr.; sisters and brothers; and three grandsons. Celebration of life, 3 p.m. May 17, Meadows Community Center, 1943 S. El Paso Ave. Memorial service, 3:30 p.m. May 18, New Resurrection Baptist Church, 601 S. Prospect St.

DOYLE TRENT Born May 7, 1925. Died May 11, 2014. Author, journalist, served in the U.S. Army, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his wife, Joyce. Private family graveside service. Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory. COL. wiNTHROP wiLLiAM “BiLL” wiLDMAN Born April 14, 1924. Died Feb. 4, 2014. Retired U.S. Air Force, longtime Colorado Springs resident. Survived by his wife, Ann; his children, Karen Spiker and David; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Roland Jr. and Kenneth. Services, 1 p.m. May 19, Memorial Pavilion, Air Force Academy Cemetery. Reception, Eisenhower Room. Swan-Law Funeral Directors.

services Ruth E. Crowther Memorial service, 2 p.m. May 17, Shrine of Remembrance. Private inurnment, Fort Logan National Cemetery. Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory. David Delgado Service, 11:30 a.m. May 13, Fort Logan National Cemetery. Burial, Fort Logan National Cemetery. Swan-Law Funeral Directors. Mildred Haux Visitation, 10 to 11 a.m. May 13, with service to follow, Central United Methodist Church, 4373 Galley Road. Burial, Evergreen Cemetery. Evergreen Funeral Home. Col. Robert L. Hunt Memorial service, 11 a.m. May 14, Air Force Academy Memorial Pavilion, North Entrance, Exit 156. Reception after service, Colorado Springs Country Club, 3333 Templeton Gap Road. Inurnment, Air Force Academy Cemetery, Air Force Academy. Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory. Jane Ooley Manchester Celebration of life, 2 p.m. May 17, Mountain View Church of Christ. Swan-Law Funeral Directors. Mary Maude Moore Visitation, 4 to 7 p.m. May 15,

Angelus Funeral Directors. Service, 10 a.m. May 16, Friendship Baptist Church. Burial, Fort Logan National Cemetery. Angelus Funeral Directors. Stephen R. Richards Memorial service, 6 p.m. May 16, Shrine of Remembrance “America the Beautiful” Chapel. Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory. Cathleen Alice Ring Celebration of life service, 3 p.m. May 13, 557 Rose Drive. The Springs Funeral Services. Richard Leo Rikli Memorial service, 2 p.m. May 17, First Baptist Church, 317 E. Kiowa St. Private burial, Fort Logan National Cemetery. Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory. Timothy R. Simmons Memorial service, 2 p.m. May 17, Dayspring Christian Fellowship, 1601 Rampart Range Road, Woodland Park. Cappadona Funeral Home. Lana Yeakel Memorial service, 1:30 p.m. May 16, First Lutheran Church, 1515 N. Cascade Ave. Celebration of life reception, 2:30 p.m. May 16, El Paso Club, 30 E. Platte Ave. Cappadona Funeral Home.

locations of services Alternative Cremations and Funeral Services 2377 N. Academy Blvd., 633-9999. Angelus Chapel Funeral Directors 1104 S. Circle Drive, 391-1918. Cappadona Funeral Home 1020 E. Fillmore St., 520-1817. Evergreen Cemetery 1005 S. Hancock Ave. Evergreen Funeral Home 1830 E. Fountain Blvd., 475-8303.

Fort Logan National Cemetery 3698 S. Sheridan Blvd., Denver. Front Range Crematory 1020 E. Fillmore St., 314-0748. Shrine of Remembrance Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory 1730 E. Fountain Blvd., 634-1597, shrineofremembrance.com. The Springs Funeral Services 3115 E. Platte Ave., 328-1793. Swan-Law Funeral Directors 501 N. Cascade Ave., 471-9900.

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Breakfast chain headed to Denver, Springs

The First Watch restaurant chain, which specializes in breakfast, brunch and lunch, is expanding into Colorado Springs and Denver, with plans to open eight Colorado locations in five years. The Bradenton, Fla.based chain said in a news release Monday that it has signed a multiunit franchise agreement with Fresh Start Colorado LLC, whose major players include longtime restaurant developer Rich Boyle and real estate developer Bill Schuck. The Denver location is expected to open this year. No location or opening date was provided for the Colorado Springs restaurant.

MoVers & shaKers Nigel Cass, an American Family Insurance agent in Colorado Springs, has received the American Star Excellence in Customer Experience certification. The honor is based on an evaluation process that includes a customer satisfaction survey that measures customers’ experience with their American Family agent. Cass has been an American Family agent since November 1991. get More, subMIt IteM

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The military and aerospace industries account for half of all labor income in the Pikes Peak region, according to a report released Monday by the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance. The sector has 67,900 military and civilian workers who make an average of $54,900, and the combined impact of military and aerospace pumps $12.55 billion annually into the region’s economy, the report found. That’s 44 cents of every dollar generated in the region. The business alliance is making sure politicians see the survey so they know how important Pentagon cash is to the Pikes Peak region’s economy. “We’ve already sent this information to elected officials,” Andy Merritt, the alliance’s military expert, said Monday. The analysis is part of a wider effort to show the military’s impact in Colorado to galvanize support for troops and bases as the Pentagon mulls another

base closure round for 2017. Economist Paul Rochette of Summit Economics said financial thinkers in the Pikes Peak region knew the military had a big impact — estimated at 40 percent of the economy for at least the past decade — but didn’t have numbers to back it up. Of the jobs in the sector, nearly 40,000 workers are members of the military. And 12,525 are civilians in Defense Department jobs, while 13,277 work for defense contractors, and 3,198 are in aerospace. “When you look at the military and aerospace, it is actually quite diverse within that sector,” Rochette said. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is expected to sign a pair of bills this week to boost support of Colorado’s defense industry. One would pay for a statewide economic impact analysis of the military, and a second would bolster Colorado’s lobbying efforts to attract military money. —

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But wait, there’s more: Area’s apartment Networks pile on ads vacancy rate falls

Addition of complexes helps market

By Joe Flint

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he number of commercials in the typical hour of television has grown steadily during the past five years, according to a new study from the ratings measurement firm Nielsen. The rise in commercials can be attributed to two factors: Broadcast and cable networks are allotting more time for commercials, and advertisers are increasingly using shorter spots to hawk their products. In 2009, the broadcast networks averaged 13 minutes and 25 seconds of commercial time per hour. In 2013, that figure grew to 14 minutes and 15 seconds. The growth has been even more significant on cable television. In 2009, cable networks averaged 14 minutes

and 27 seconds per hour. Last year, the average was 15 minutes and 38 seconds. At the same time, the number of 30-second commercials has declined while 15-second spots have increased. Not only is more time being devoted to ads, but more spots are being jammed into commercial breaks. In 2009, 30-second spots accounted for 62 percent of all ads on television; 15-second spots were just 35 percent. In 2013, the percentage of 30-second ads fell to 53 percent and 15-second spots increased to 44 percent. The increased number of commercials has translated to more money flowing into television. According to Nielsen, advertisers spent $78 billion on TV commercials in 2013,

compared with $64 billion in 2009. But the cost of a typical 30-second spot in prime time has declined. In 2013, the average cost for a commercial was $7,800. In 2009, the figure was $8,900. The rise in commercials likely will concern some marketers who fear their spots are being lost in all the ad clutter. Also, as more viewers embrace digital video recorders, many of those ads are being lost to the fast-forward button. Nielsen’s study comes the same week the big broadcast networks start unveiling their fall schedules to advertisers. Several major cable networks including ESPN and USA also will pitch advertisers this week. —

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The apartment vacancy rate in the Colorado Springs area fell in the first quarter from three months earlier, as developers have added more than 1,400 units to the market during the past two years. Still, the first-quarter vacancy rate is higher than a year ago: 6.7 percent, compared with 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013, according to a report released Monday by the Colorado Division of Housing. The 2013 figure was the second-lowest level for any quarter in nearly 12 years. “The new construction in the market has taken some pressure off the vacancy rates in the Colorado

“I would call the Colorado Springs market solid but not frothy or overheated. It is a healthy apartment market.” Ryan McMaken, Housing Division economist Springs market. You are not facing a 3 percent vacancy rate that you would have without any new construction,” said Ryan McMaken, a Housing Division economist. “I would call the Colorado Springs market solid but not frothy or overheated. It is a healthy apartment market. —

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Longtime Agilent executive gets post with spinoff by WAyNE HEILMAN wayneh@gazette.com —

Jay Alexander, a longtime executive at Agilent Technologies Inc. in Colorado Springs, has been named chief technology officer of Keysight Technologies Inc., a new public company that will be created this year when Agilent spins

off its test and measurement operations. Alexander will lead technology development and related operations for Keysight at its Santa Rosa, Calif., headquarters. The company will have 9,500 employees and generate an estimated $2.9 billion in annual revenue

when the spinoff is completed in November. Alexander has been vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Oscilloscope and Protocol Division for five years and has spent 28 years in various engineering and management positions with Hewlett-Packard Co.

and Agilent, which was spun off from HP in 1999. “We looked inside and outside our company for someone who not only knows technology but has led a business organization and therefore understands busi—

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Quiznos: Court OKs reorganization • Quiznos, which filed for bankruptcy protection in March, says that the court has confirmed its plan of reorganization. The Denver-based sandwich chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to reduce its debt after losing ground to competitors. The company’s restructuring plan, which includes cutting its debt by more than $400 million and increasing its financial flexibility, had already been approved by its creditors when it filed for bankruptcy. — DENVER

FCC chief revises Net neutrality plan WASHINGTON • Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has revised his proposal for Net neutrality after receiving considerable backlash on a plan unveiled in April. Under the previous version of Wheeler’s proposal, broadband providers would be allowed to charge for faster delivery of Internet content. Those who advocate for Net neutrality, or the concept that all Internet content should be equally accessible, were critical of the previous proposal. The revised draft, detailed this weekend by the Wall Street Journal, essentially sticks to the original plan, but it stresses that the FCC will highly scrutinize any deals for faster delivery of content to ensure consumers are not hurt by them and that nonpaying companies are not put at a disadvantage. —

Merger with Fiat costing Chrysler DETROIT • Chrysler Group’s first-quarter sales jumped thanks to the new Jeep Cherokee and Ram pickup, but it lost money because of charges related to its merger with Italian automaker Fiat SpA. Chrysler posted a loss of $690 million for the quarter. Without one-time costs of $1.2 billion, the company’s net income more than doubled to $486 million. In January, Fiat paid $3.65 billion to acquire Chrysler’s remaining shares. The companies are combining to form Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. —

Inmarsat offers free jet tracking • Inmarsat Plc, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, says it will offer free basic tracking services for planes flying over oceans in the hope of preventing another incident such as the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The British company said Monday that the service is being offered to all 11,000 commercial passenger aircraft already equipped with an Inmarsat satellite connection — most of the world’s long-haul commercial fleet. — LONDON

Gas station strike hits Cambodia PHNOM PENH, CAMbODIA

• Workers at U.S.-owned Caltex gas stations in Cambodia went on strike Monday to demand higher wages and better working conditions. A strike leader, Sar Mora, said at least 250 Cambodian employees halted work, forcing at least 17 of the country’s 26 Caltex stations to suspend operations. Sar Mora said workers were demanding a minimum wage of $160 a month, up from the current pay scale of $100-$130. news services

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In total, the report found, the military creates an estimated 105,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Pikes Peak region, with more than 37,000 in other sectors dependent on aerospace and military spending, including 4,746 at restaurants and bars. The true impact of the military and aerospace industries could be even larger than what the alliance’s study found. Researchers didn’t factor in military retirement checks to the Pikes Peak region or benefits paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The study also doesn’t include money from the so-called “black budget”, which funds top-secret military and intelligence programs. The study is one of several

TELEVISION from page 6 —

Once the presentations are done, advertisers and networks will start to negotiate deals. The process is known as the upfront market because commercial inventory is sold in advance of the new TV season. Nielsen’s report also revealed that Thursday — often seen as a crucial night for advertisers, particularly auto manufacturers and movie studios — is now just the fifth-mostwatched night of television. An average of 112 million people watch TV on Thursday night, compared with 125 million on Sunday and 120 million on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday also have more viewers than Thursday. Much of Nielsen’s study is devoted to audience fragmentation. Not only are cable networks, Netflix and other competitors giving consumers more options to choose from, but technology makes it easi-

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You are seeing some solid employment growth, and the level of new construction is not immense.” The area’s apartment vacancy rate was 7.1 percent in the fourth quarter, when the percentage of vacant units typically reaches its seasonal peak. The area’s first-quarter vacancy rate would have been 4.9 percent without including apartment complexes that were still trying to fill units after completing construction. As apartments filled up, rents increased by 4.4 percent during the 12 months ending March 31, according to the report. The average monthly rent in the first quarter rose to $822.14, or up $34.40 from the first quarter of 2013. It was the 17th consecutive quarter in which average rents increased from the same quarter a year earlier. Local apartment vacancies

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ness issues as well,” Keysight CEO Ron Nersesian said in a news release announcing Alexander’s appointment. “This will help drive the right product strategy for Keysight. Jay has a strong R&D background, is highly respected in the industry, and has helped drive key growth and profit increases in the company.” Alexander joined HP in 1986 as a manufacturing and test engineer and was promoted three years later to test engineering manager of oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.

the alliance hopes to complete in coming months, examining 10 sectors of the economy. Merritt said the goal of the surveys is to determine where the region’s money comes from so those industries can be better supported by the alliance and local government. The military aerospace study will also be used as part of a sales pitch for the Pikes Peak region, Merritt said. Next week, hundreds of aerospace executives will gather at The Broadmoor for the Space Symposium, the largest trade show in America for the satellite and space exportation business. Merritt said the study will show businesses how much support they would see if they located in Colorado Springs. “You want to go where something is strong and vibrant,” Merritt said, practicing his pitch.

er for viewers to watch TV on their own schedules. Besides DVRs, many viewers are also embracing video-ondemand. Networks are making more content available on VOD. Those offerings typically include commercials and fast-forwarding is disabled. TV networks are also putting their shows online. All these changing habits in media consumption don’t have to be a negative for advertisers, Nielsen said. “The ever-increasing range of media channels available for viewer consumption has allowed marketers to connect with consumers in new ways and opened the minds of intended audiences to embracing new mediums for receiving information about goods and services,” the study said. Yet for all these new choices, most viewers are loyal to just a few channels. Last year, the typical home had 189 channels to choose from yet only watched 17.5 on a regular basis. That figure is the same as in 2009, when the average home received 129 channels.

and average rents were highest in northwest Colorado Springs at 13.7 percent and $903.13 a month, respectively, and lowest in the SecurityWidefield-Fountain area near Fort Carson at 3.9 percent and $627.35 a month, respectively. Complexes still in the initial lease-up phase added more than 10 percentage points to vacancies in northwest Colorado Springs, which would have ranked as the area’s lowest with those units subtracted, the report said. Rental discounts and concessions also were up for the first quarter, averaging 11.9 percent compared with 7.3 percent during the previous quarter and 8.7 percent in the first quarter of 2013. Average rents in the report do not include discounts or concessions. The report is based on a survey of apartment owners and landlords and included 21,444 units.

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COLORADO

MIKE DANIELS Dress warmly again Tuesday. Wind out of the north from 10 to 20 mph will keep a chill in the air. Cold Tuesday night with below freezing temperatures.

City

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AQI Scale: 0-50 is good; 51-100 moderate; 101-199 unhealthy; 200-299 very unhealthy; 300 or higher is considered hazardous. Ozone measured at the Air Force Academy and Manitou Springs Particulates measured at Colorado College Carbon Monoxide Measured at Highway 24 and Eighth Street.

WATERING GUIDE

Source: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. All data are collected real-time and have not been corrected nor validated.

Watering restrictions are have in place or are pendWatering restrictions been lifted ing throughout thePikes Pikes Peak See for much of the Peakregion. region. details at gazette.com under “Special Reports.” Water conservation is encouraged.

RESERVOIRS RESERVOIRS

Tree pollens Mold pollens Grass pollens Weed pollens

Source: Colorado Springs Utilities

moderate na absent low

Source: Dr. Robert A Nathan, Asthma & Allergy Associates PC.

SNOWFALL Yesterday Month-to-date Season-to-date Normal month-to-date Normal season-to-date

Reservoirs are Reservoirs are 60.6% Reservoirs are normally

Reservoirs are normally 76.2%

ALLERGY INDEX

T" 0.40" 34.80" 0.60" 37.60"

FIRE DANGER

El Paso County Teller County Pike National Forest Colorado Springs

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Pueblo 50/32/pc

La Junta 54/34/pc

Walsenburg 47/29/pc

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Penrose

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NOAA weather radio: 162.475 MHz

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EXTREMES STATEWIDE YESTERDAY Hottest 51 Sterling Coolest 12 Monarch Pass

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Castle Rock

c=cloudy 45/27/pc dr=drizzle Larkspur f=fair Deckers 43/25/pc fg=fog Elbert 45/25/pc h=hazy 40/22/pc i=ice Palmer Lake Monument pc=partly cloudy Calhan 38/25/pc 40/22/pc r=rain 45/27/pc Woodland Black Forest rs=rain/snow Park 36/23/pc s=sunny 38/20/pc Peyton sf=snow flurries Divide 43/25/pc sh=showers Colorado Florissant 40/20/pc Springs sn=snow 40/20/pc Manitou 46/29/pc t=thunderstorms Ellicott Springs Security w=windy Cripple 43/25/pc & Widefield 45/27/pc wx=weather Creek

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AIR QUALITY INDEX

Aspen Breckenridge Copper Mountain Keystone Monarch Pass Steamboat Spgs. Vail Winter Park

Steamboat Springs 43/23/pc

KEY TO CONDITIONS:

Greeley 52/29/pc

Fort Collins 49/31/pc

Fort Boulder Morgan Copper 50/31/pc Glenwood Mountain Keystone 52/31/pc Springs 34/16/pc Rifle 31/16/pc 50/25/pc 52/25/pc Denver Breckenridge 49/31/pc Limon Aspen 32/16/pc 49/27/pc 40/20/pc Grand Leadville Junction 31/9/pc 58/32/s Colorado Crested Butte Springs Buena Vista 38/16/fl 43/22/pc 46/29/pc

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Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Casper Charlotte Chattanooga Cheyenne Chicago Chrlston, SC Chrlston, WV Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia, SC

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68/53/s 66/46/pc 68/40/pc 67/44/pc 84/66/ts 72/61/sh 72/46/pc 74/65/sh 64/44/sh 83/56/ts 57/31/pc 78/48/pc 63/59/sh 68/50/ts 59/34/pc 88/64/pc 83/64/ts 52/36/pc 57/44/sh 86/68/pc 84/59/ts 71/57/ts 65/52/ts 90/66/pc

87/65/ts 74/58/ts 69/51/pc 63/44/pc 62/47/r 52/30/pc 71/52/s 62/40/pc 51/33/pc 65/30/s 98/68/s 62/35/pc 69/43/pc 59/40/pc 67/58/ts 71/44/pc 86/70/pc 72/56/ts 61/48/ts 85/69/ts 61/44/pc 86/64/ts 89/69/s 63/45/ts

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83/45/s 98/60/s 68/48/pc 75/52/pc 87/68/s 83/58/s 96/63/s 86/76/sh 62/35/pc 81/52/pc 60/36/ts 75/51/pc 57/44/sh 59/46/sh 88/72/ts 65/45/pc 89/59/s 77/68/ts 66/44/pc

EXTREMES NATIONWIDE YESTERDAY Hottest 96 in Death Valley, CA Coolest 17 in Yellowstone, WY

Salt Lake CityH 63/40

Las Vegas 82/62

Colorado Springs 46/29

Albuquerque 56/35

Chicago 66/45

Washington D.C. 86/61 Cincinnati 85/58

HAtlanta 87/67

Dallas 64/51

Houston 79/61

Honolulu 86/70 Juneau 61/48

Orlando 89/71

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Minn. St. Paul 55/40

Los Angeles 93/63

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San Francisco 81/58

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CC HOCKEY

HigH scHooL socceR/TRAcK And FieLd » ALLY WATT: Pine Creek junior is the 5A CSML soccer Player of the Year and owns top four 5A track times in the 100, 200 and 400 meters.

Courtesy Colorado College

Mike Haviland will try to keep players accountable on and off the ice.

Academic emphasis continues next year

» KATie RAinsbeRgeR: Air Academy sophomore has second-fastest 4A time in 800 and 1,600 meters and finished with four soccer goals.

Double duo

Haviland to have to sustain excellence by JOE PAISLEy joe.paisley@gazette.com —

New Colorado College coach Mike Haviland is appreciated as a leader who knows his players well. That may prove critical in the demanding balancing act of academics and athletics at the National Collegiate Hockey Conference program. The Division I hockey team, along with women’s soccer, was recognized last week by INSIDE the NCAA for The public an academic is invited to progress rate meet new in the top 10 Colorado Colpercent for lege hockey 2009-10 to coach Mike 2012-13. The Haviland at 3 Tigers were p.m. Tuesday honored last on the CC year for 2008campus. For 09 to 2011-12 more informa- as well. tion, see C2 That high graduation rate, embraced by Haviland’s predecessor Scott Owens, is a priority. His new bosses also want more victories. If Haviland can accomplish both, his tenure will be considered as success. “I know the school wants that and nothing will change in that way at all,” he said. “I am committed to excellence in the classroom.” Haviland, 46, said he will hold players accountable on the ice and in the classroom. Of course that can mean taking it easy on them periodically if it helps players juggle practices, games, travel and the classroom demands of the block plan, which has finals every few weeks. “If they need a day off, they’ll get it,” he said. “That usually means a better practice the —

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Pine creek’s ally Watt, center, is a state-championship contender in multiple events. she won state titles in the 100 meters and 200 meters as a freshman. now a junior, Watt is also the eagles’ leading scorer for the girls’ soccer team. Photo courtesy Marty France

Same-season, two-sport spring athletes find proper balance to excel in both

By KEVIN CARMODy • ThE gAzETTE

he Pikes Peak region has its share of multidimensional athletes who excel at a variety of sports. Most have the ability to transition from one season to the next, without much of a break between the seasons. Then there are a select few who find a way to not only play, but excel, at two sports in the same season. “It definitely requires two flexible coaches,” said Air Academy sophomore middle-distance runner and midfielder/forward Katie Rainsberger. “I wouldn’t recommend it unless you know you’re wholeheartedly committed to both sports.” —

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KATie RAinsbeRgeR AiR AcAdemY, so. Track highlights • 800 meters: Second fastest time in 4A (2 minutes, 14.38 seconds) • 1,600 meters: Second fastest time in state (4:56.4)

Soccer highlights • Finished season with four goals and one assist • Scored game’s only goal in win over Discovery Canyon Gazette File Photo

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St. Mary’s Kylie Cleary put up plenty of goals over the weekend to help the Pirates advance to the Class 3A quarterfinals. C3

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Pine Creek’s Conner Deeds was a big reason the Eagles reached the state baseball tournament. Gazette.com

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Check out the next round’s matchups for all the upcoming games across the state in various playoff tournaments. C3

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OLYMPIC SPORTS

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Area: UCCS hires Nelson as women’s basketball coach radio gazette on the air Gazette sports reporters and columnists are scheduled to be on AM 1300 (The Animal) during the “MC Sports Daily” show at 3:15 p.m. weekdays. The station’s Matt Pauley will conduct the sessions. The lineup and their specialty is: Monday: Brent Briggeman, Air Force Tuesday: David Ramsey, columnist Wednesday: Joe Paisley, college hockey Thursday: Paul Klee, columnist Friday: Scott Kaniewski and Kevin Carmody, preps

three games out Rockies 303-762-5437

Sky Sox 719-597-1449

tuesday Kansas City 6:10 p.m. ROOT 850 AM

wednesday Kansas City 12:10 p.m. ROOT 850 AM

friday San Diego 6:40 p.m. ROOT 850 AM

tuesday Okla. City 10:05 a.m. 1300 AM

thursday New Orleans 6:35 p.m. 1300 AM

friday New Orleans 6:35 p.m. 1300 AM

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Russia forward Viktor Tikhonov, right, scores past USA goaltender David Leggio during the Group B preliminary-round match between Russia and USA in Minsk, Belarus, on Monday.

Russia routs U.S. 6-1 at ice hockey worlds

At Minsk, Belarus: Viktor Tikhonov scored twice and Alex Ovechkin added a goal and two assists Monday as Russia routed the United States 6-1 for its third straight victory at the ice hockey world championships. In another big matchup, Canada downed the Czech Republic 4-3. Nikolai Kolyomin opened the scoring for Russia and Alex Ovechkin beat veteran goaltender Tim Thomas with backhand on a penalty shot in the first period for his third goal of the tournament. Ovechkin set up both of Tikhonov’s goals in the second, with Yevgeni Kuznetsov and Sergei Plotnikov also scoring for Russia. Justin Abdelkader pulled one back for the U.S. to make it 3-1. Russia leads Group G with nine points from three games, while the U.S. has six. Earlier, France overcame Slovakia 5-3 for another upset victory and Belarus stunned Switzerland 4-3. Canada took control with three second-period goals by Kyle Turris, Colorado Avalanche player Nathan MacKinnon and Morgan Rielly — the last two on power plays in a 17-second span — having trailed 1-0. France followed up its upset win over Canada by coming from 3-1

down to beat Slovakia. Damien Fleury scored the winner on a rebound with 3:41 left in regulation to complete the comeback. Baptiste Amar also scored twice for France. Ladislav Nagy had two goals for Slovakia, with captain Miroslav Satan also scoring. Mikhail Grabovski netted the decisive goal with 2:06 remaining in the final period in Belarus’ second victory at the worlds to thrill 15,000 home fans at the Minsk Arena. Goals from Yannick Weber, Reto Schappi and Etienne Froidevaux had given Switzerland a 3-2 lead in the third but Belarus equalized through Sergei Kostitsy’s second goal. • Russian player Vadim Shipachyov was banned for three games for a big hit on Finland’s Pekka Jormakka. After receiving the hit Sunday, Jormakka was unconscious for four minutes and was taken to a hospital with a concussion. The International Ice Hockey Federation says the disciplinary panel ruled that Shipachyov performed an illegal hit with his right shoulder to Jormakka’s head, following through with his upper arm. Shipachyov will miss Monday’s game against the U.S. and the following games against Kazakhstan on Wednesday and Latvia on Saturday. Shipachyov was not penalized.

Psychiatrist: Pistorius has ‘anxiety disorder’

The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius said that the double-amputee athlete should be placed under psychiatric observation after an expert called by the defense said Pistorius has an anxiety disorder. Judge Thokozile Masipa has not yet ruled on the request. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said he had no other option but to ask for a study of Pistorius’ mental health after testimony by a psychiatrist, who said the Olympic runner’s anxiety could have shaped the way he responded to perceived threats. Pistorius has said he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp by mistake last year, fearing that there was an intruder in his home when he fired through a closed toilet door in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2013. The prosecution says he killed her intentionally after an argument. Psychiatrist Dr. Merryll Vorster said events during Pistorius’ life, including the amputation of his lower legs as a baby and his late mother’s habit of sleeping with a gun under her pillow, contributed to his “increasing stress.” “Overall, Mr. Pistorius appears to be a mistrustful and guarded person,” Vorster testified.

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next day.” That is a lesson he learned as a professional coach (15 years, 20 overall), which applies to his new job, said former CC standout and Washington Capitals defenseman Jack Hillen. “The pros and college are quite different but as a coach you still have to gauge the energy level of your team,” Hillen said. “College has different demands with academics involved. But the principle is the same.” The NHL blue-liner added that he thought Haviland was a great hire based on his professionalism and attention to detail during Hillen’s rehabilitation stint in Hershey, the Capitals’ American Hockey League affiliate. “He gets to know his players better than any professional coach I have ever had,” said former Tiger Mark Cullen, who just completed his 13th pro season, including 2005-06 under Haviland in AHL Norfolk. “He may be the best at seeing when his team needs rest, whether it’s fatigue from three games in three nights like in the pros or at a challenging academic school like CC. I think he is a great fit.”

Meet the new coach The public is invited to welcome Mike Haviland as Colorado College hockey’s new coach at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the El Pomar Sports Center, 44 W. Cache La Poudre St., on the CC campus. The event is open to Tiger fans and their guests. A reception with light refreshments follows. There will be a live stream of the press conference on CCTigers.com. Parking is limited in front of the complex. Additional parking is available off Glen Avenue in a public city parking lot as well as by the train tracks. Overflow parking will be available in Lot C-1 (off East Uintah Street), E-1 lot (on the southeast corner of East Uintah and Nevada) and S-1 lot (south of Wooglin’s Deli off Tejon).

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Vince Young, left, throws at a practice with the Browns. Young was cut from Cleveland Monday.

Cardinals sign Northern Arizona RB Bauman

At Tempe, Ariz.: Northern Arizona running back Zach Bauman is among 15 rookie free agents signed by the Cardinals. Bauman set school records in career yards rushing, all-purpose

Dimitrov overcomes sweaty hands to advance in Rome ROME • Grigor Dimitrov overcame a slow start and sweaty hands to beat 45th-ranked Edouard RogerVasselin of France 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Italian Open. Dimitrov will next face big-serving Ivo Karlovic, who beat Spanish qualifier Pablo Carreno Busta 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4). In an upset, 13th-seeded Fabio Fognini was handily beaten by 56th-ranked Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-2. In women’s play, 11th-seeded Ana Ivanovic defeated Italian wild-card entry Karin Knapp 6-1, 6-1, 1999 champion Venus Williams cruised past Annika Beck of Germany 6-3, 6-1, local favorite Francesca Schiavone of Italy eliminated 17th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard 6-4, 6-2, and Svetlana Kuznetsova ousted fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko 7-5, 6-0. —

Ex-Minnesota QB charged A former Minnesota Gophers quarterback is charged with assault, for allegedly kicking another man in the head after an altercation in downtown Mankato, leaving him gravely injured. Authorities say he kicked 24-year-old Isaac Dallas Kolstad, a former linebacker at Minnesota State-Mankato, in the head early Sunday as bars were closing. —

NCAA: Senators ask for better athlete protection

Browns release backup QB Vince Young

The Browns released veteran quarterback Vince Young a few days after drafting Johnny Manziel. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam announced the move with Young on Monday during a speech at a Pro Football Hall of Fame luncheon. Young’s release follows the club’s selection of Manziel, Texas A&M’s dynamic and polarizing quarterback in the first round of the NFL draft. The team signed Young and quarterback Tyler Thigpen on May 1. Young was thrilled to be getting a chance to revive his career, but will now have to try to do it elsewhere. Young hasn’t played in an NFL regular-season NFL game since 2011. The 30-year-old has a 31-19 career record.

Bradley Wiggins of Britain, the 2012 Tour de France winner and Olympic time trial gold medalist, powered to a 44-second victory Monday in the Stage 2 individual time trial and moved into the race lead at the Tour of California. Rohan Dennis, of Australia, was second in 24:02. American Taylor Phinney was third in 24:10. Alison Powers of the U.S. claimed the 20-rider women’s time trial in 27:40. —

Defenders John Brooks, Timmy Chandler and DeAndre Yedlin are among the 30 players selected by U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann on his 30-man preliminary roster. Midfielder Julian Green, who made his national team debut last month, and forwards Terrence Boyd and Chris Wondolowski are among the players picked who will try to earn spots at the Americans’ pre-World Cup training camp, which opens Wednesday at Stanford, Calif. Klinsmann must submit a 23-man roster to FIFA by June 2. • MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER and U.S. Soccer have signed broadcast rights deals with ESPN, Fox and Univision. The pacts go eight years through 2022. • CROATIA DEFENDER Josip Simunic lost his appeal at sport’s highest court, ruling him out of the World Cup for leading fans in a pro-Nazi chant. —

Rams WR Bailey suspended 4 games for PED use

Wiggins leads California tour

Soccer: Brooks, Chandler, Yedlin on prelim U.S. roster

nfl St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the season for violating the NFL policy on performance enhancing substances. Bailey tweeted that he had never taken PED. “I acknowledge that a violation of league policy occurred and that I am responsible for that violation,” he added on Twitter. “I sincerely apologize” to the team. Responding to negative tweets, Bailey said, “Everyone makes mistakes.” Bailey was a third-round draft pick last year out of West Virginia, and made two starts. He had 17 receptions with a 13.3-yard average and also ran for a 27-yard touchdown. Bailey will be eligible to return to the roster on Oct. 6, before the Rams’ next game against San Francisco.

Colorado-Colorado Springs will bring a coach who averaged more than 25 wins at NAIA Division I Carroll College to lead the Mountain Lion women’s basketball program. UCCS athletic director Steve Kirkham named Shawn Nelson as the next women’s basketball coach to begin June 1. “I’m absolutely thrilled to be here,” Nelson said. Nelson was 201-70 in eight seasons as coach at Carroll Shawn College in Helena, Mont., and was Nelson the fastest and youngest coach in Frontier Conference history for men’s or women’s basketball to reach 100 wins. His teams were ranked in the NAIA Top 25 all eight seasons. Nelson coached two WBCA Kodak All-Americans, four Frontier Conference Most Valuable Players and 23 all-conference student-athletes. His teams led NAIA Division I in 3-point percentage for four consecutive seasons, played in the Frontier Conference championship game five times and were in the conference semifinals in seven of his eight seasons. The Fighting Saints were national quarterfinalists in the 2007-08. Nelson spent the past three seasons at NCAA Division II Central Washington. He replaces Corey Laster, who resigned in March. • UCCS SENIOR PITCHER and designated player Jessica Belsterling earned Daktronics all-South Central Region first-team honors. Belsterling is in the top five of the RMAC in batting average, on-base percentage, RBIs, hits and runs. —

st. Louis rams wide receiver stedman Bailey, front, was given a four-game suspension. yards and touchdowns. The list released by the Cardinals on Monday also included linebackers Jonathan Brown of Illinois and Glenn Carson of Penn State, running back Tim Cornett of UNLV, defensive tackle Bruce Gaston of Purdue and kicker Chandler Catanzaro of Clemson. Others signed by the Cardinals are Baylor tackle Kelvin Palmer, Samford wide receiver Kelsey Pope, Miami defensive tackle Justin Renfrow, UCLA cornerback Brandon Sermons, Washington wide receiver Kevin Smith

Etc.

The Lions have signed Missouri quarterback James Franklin. Detroit cut rugby star speedster Carlin Isles. The Lions signed the 5-foot-8, 165-pound Isles after an impressive workout late last season and added the former Ashland University football player to their practice squad. ... The Vikings college scouting director Scott Studwell has resigned from the position he held for 12 years, stepping back to a different role in the front office. ... The Bengals released backup quarterback Josh Johnson.

A U.S. Senate committee wants the NCAA to start providing college athletes with greater protections from “exploitative practices” on campuses. In a letter addressed to NCAA President Mark Emmert, the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation asked the NCAA to send information describing what protections are in place. • THE JUDGE in former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon’s antitrust compensation lawsuit denied a motion filed by the NCAA as part of a bid to delay the start of the trial June 9 in federal court. • FORMER OHIO STATE football coach Jim Tressel has signed on to be president of Youngstown State, where he started his college coaching career. Tressel had been an administrator at Akron the past two years. He was forced out at Ohio State after players sold memorabilia for cash and tattoos. —

Ria Antonia to run Preakness A filly is going to challenge the boys in the Preakness for the first time since 2009 when Rachel Alexandra won. Ria Antonia will be ridden by Calvin Borel, who guided Rachel Alexandra to victory. Ria Antonia is coming off a sixth-place finish in the Kentucky Oaks on May 2 at Churchill Downs, where she has been training.

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THIS WEEK’S PEAK PERFORMER KylIE ClEARy, ST. MARy’S GIRlS’ SOCCER

Ally WAtt, Pine Creek, Jr. Track highlights • 100 meters: Fourth fastest time in 5A (11.85 seconds) • 200 meters: Second fastest time in state (24.08) • 400 meters: Fourth fastest time in 5A (55.6)

Soccer highlights • 5A CSML Player of the Year • Leads Eagles with 13 goals (ranks in top 20 in 5A) • Twice netted hat tricks, including a four-goal performance against Fountain-Fort Carson Gazette file photo

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St. Mary’s forward Kylie Cleary had three goals and three assists against Resurrection Christian on Friday.

Revved up for playoffs Cleary clearly a top talent on talent-laden Pirates by Justin shaw preps@gazette.com —

The St. Mary’s girls’ soccer team is performing like a sports car hitting on all cylinders, and Kylie Cleary is the gas pedal. The junior tallied three goals and three assists in a 9-1 win over Resurrection Christian and then added a goal and an assist in a 5-0 win over Denver Science & Tech to help the Pirates reach the 3A state quarterfinals. “Kylie has a lot of energy, and it helps drive the team,” St. Mary’s coach Gregg Braha said. “Since the first day as a freshman until now she has been a girl who never takes a play off. I’ve never seen somebody who puts forth that high level of effort all the time. She’s very special.” On a team loaded with talent, Cleary has been one of its most important pieces. The junior has 21 goals and 17 assists, and is always trying to improve. The Pirates are the No. 3 seed in the Class 3A state tournament and realize that with eight seniors and

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eight juniors on the roster, this may be their best shot at a state title since 2010. Nobody on this team has been past the semifinals, something they want to change. “I get goose bumps thinking about winning the state championship,” Cleary said. “I want so bad to help bring the state championship home for the seniors. I feel like we’re more ready this year to fight and we won’t give up. We have experience, and it’s our turn now.” Braha says having Cleary on a team with other great goal scorers such as Emily Loof (32 goals) and Erin Geiger (15 goals) has made the team extremely dangerous, no matter what the competition. While Loof is the senior leader and best scorer, Cleary isn’t far behind. “Kylie’s a great team player, and you could say the same about all the rest

of the girls on this team because they play for each other,” Braha said. “But I think if Kylie played almost anywhere else she’d be the crown jewel of their program. I think if you put her anywhere in the state, she’d shine as the star player. That’s how good she is.” Braha says Cleary could become a Division I talent. Not only due to her skills, but her constantly high work ethic and thirst to be better. “The coaches are always right, and they know from experience what they’re talking about and if I get better I can help out the team,” Cleary said. “It’s an incredible experience to play with these girls, and to be with them on and off the field. We started out as a really young team a few years ago, and now we’ve gotten very close and bonded.” Things won’t get any easier for the Pirates. On Thursday, they face No. 6 Coal Ridge. With Loof and Cleary leading the way, Braha is confident. “Offense wins games, and defense wins championships, but it’s nice to know we have the ability to score quickly if we get behind,” he said. “Having scorers like Kylie and Emily is a big advantage.”

OTHER STAndOuT PERFORMAnCES Girls’ tennis

Cheyenne Mountain team The Indians won their sixth straight 4A state championship in dominating fashion in Pueblo, capturing one singles and three doubles titles. Sophomore Kalyssa Hall won her second-straight No. 1 singles title, the first Cheyenne Mountain player to do so since 1998. Girls’ sOCCer

Alex Lanning and Riley Furbush, Doherty Lanning, a sophomore, scored a goal and had an assist in a 4-1 win over George Washington,

then scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over No. 1 Fossil Ridge to send the Spartans to the Class 5A quarterfinals. Furbush, a freshman, was in net against Fossil Ridge, making several huge saves to preserve the upset.

Springs Metro League Championships by winning the 200 individual medley in 1 minute, 58.71 seconds and the 100 butterfly in 52.99. He also was part of their victorious 200-medley and 400-free relay teams.

Girls’ lACrOsse

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Kaley Holmes, Air Academy The senior led a powerful Kadet attack with four goals in a 19-2 win over Heritage/Littleton in a second-round playoff game. BOYs’ sWiMMinG

John Frank, Pine Creek The senior led the Eagles at the 5A Colorado

Jake Grubesic, Palmer Ridge The junior helped the Bears reach the 4A state tournament by going 61/3 innings in the opener of their district tournament. Grubesic notched his eighth win of the season — this one against Erie — striking out four, scattering six hits and holding the Tigers to three runs.

Rainsberger played in 10 of her team’s 14 games in the Kadets’ recently completed season, scoring four goals and adding an assist. She also has the second-fastest time among girls’ runners in the state in the 1,600 meters at 4 minutes, 56.40 seconds and ranks second in Class 4A in the 800 at 2:14.38. With Air Academy’s season over after Saturday’s playoff loss to Evergreen, Rainsberger has half as much on her plate heading into the state track meet, Thursday through Saturday at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood. That’s not the case for Pine Creek junior Ally Watt. Watt runs really fast on her track and field team and also uses that speed to find the back of the net for the soccer team. On the track, Watt has registered the second-fastest time in 5A in the 200 with a time of 24.08 seconds, also hitting the finish line in 11.85 seconds in the 100 (fourth) and 55.60 seconds in the 400 (sixth). And on the pitch, the speedy forward has scored 13 goals

in 11 games, also adding four assists for team highs in goals and points (30). Her talent this season also netted her the honor of 5A Colorado Springs Metro League player of the year. To coach such an athlete takes a certain level of give and take. “There’s a partnership Katie and I have set forward for her,” Kadets soccer coach Nancy Sibley said. “She is the one who has to find that balance, but her track coach (Phil Roiko) and I look at both schedules and see what we can do to have her at her best for both sports.” At some point, both might have to decide on playing only one sport. Rainsberger, a longtime club soccer player before high school, knows her future won’t include a ball. Then again, her mom, Lisa, was a professional runner who won the Boston Marathon in 1985. “I might have to choose pretty soon if I want to really excel in one,” Rainsberger said. “I think my soccer career might be coming to an end. I want to focus on running, and I want to run in college. Running is my passion, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like soccer.”

postseason pairings baseball

boys’ laCrosse

Friday No. 8 Cherry Creek (17-4) vs. No. 1 Chatfield (192) at All-City Field, 10 a.m. No. 5 Mountain Vista (18-3) vs. No. 13 Chaparral (13-8) at All-City Field, 12:30 p.m. No. 11 ThunderRidge (14-7) vs. No. 3 Fairview (20-1) at Machebeuf, 10 a.m. No. 7 Rocky Mountain (16-5) vs. No. 2 Regis Jesuit (18-3) at Machebeuf, 12:30 p.m.

both games Wednesday No. 4 Kent Denver vs. No. 1 Cherry Creek at All City Stadium, 5 p.m. No. 6 Arapahoe vs. No. 2 Regis Jesuit at All City Stadium, 7 p.m.

5a state pairings

4a state pairings

Friday No. 8 Evergreen (18-3) vs. No. 17 Palmer Ridge (15-6) at All-Star Park, 10 a.m. No. 12 Green Mountain (15-6) vs. No. 13 Niwot (18-3) at All-Star Park 12:30 p.m. No. 6 Wheat Ridge (18-3) vs. No. 3 Valor Christian (16-5) at Cherokee Trail, 10 a.m. No. 7 Durango (13-8) vs. No. 15 Longmont (14-7) at Cherokee Trail, 12:30 pm.

3a state pairings

Friday No. 8 Alamosa (15-6) vs. No. 1 Eaton (20-0) at Butch Butler, 10 a.m. No. 12 University (16-5) vs. No. 11 Lamar (17-4) at Butch Butler, 12:30 p.m. No. 11 Kent Denver (15-6) vs. No. 3 Faith Christian (18-3) at Niwot, 10 a.m. No. 26 Florence (14-7) vs. No. 2 Holy Family (191) at Niwot, 12:30 p.m.

2a state pairings

Friday First round No. 16 Dolores (9-10) vs. No. 1 Resurrection Christian (18-3) at Hobbs Field, 10 a.m. No. 9 Nucla (15-6) vs. No. 8 Kiowa (14-5) at Hobbs Field, 12:30 p.m. No. 14 Lyons (10-10) vs. No. 4 Swink (19-2) at Andenuccio Field, 10 a.m. No. 12 Peyton (16-5) vs. No. 5 Denver Christian (14-5) at Andenuccio Field, 12:30 p.m. saturday First round No. 14 South Park (12-7) vs. No. 3 Sedgwick County (19-1) at Hobbs Field, 10 a.m. No. 11 Center (14-7) vs. No. 6 Lutheran (12-9) at Hobbs Field, 12:30 p.m. No. 15 Sargent (9-7) vs. No. 2 Rye (18-1) at Andenuccio Field, 10 a.m. No. 10 Wray (8-11) vs. No. 7 Rocky Ford (15-7) at Andenuccio Field, 12:30 p.m.

1a state pairings

thursday Championship Dove Creek (7-14) vs. Caliche (11-11) at All-Star Park, 11 a.m.

4a state pairings both games Wednesday No. 5 Aspen vs. No. 1 Wheat Ridge at Trailblazer Stadium, 5:30 p.m. No. 6 Steamboat Springs vs. No. 2 Ponderosa at Sports Authority Field, 7 p.m.

girls’ laCrosse state pairings

all games Wednesday No. 9 Colorado Academy vs. No. 1 Centaurus at Centaurus HS, 4:30 p.m. No. 5 Cherry Creek vs. No. 4 Arapahoe at LPSS, 5 p.m. No. 6 Kent Denver vs. No. 3 Air Academy at KDome, 5 p.m. No. 7 Denver East vs. No. 2 Chatfield at Trailblazer Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

girls’ soCCer 5a state pairings

all games tuesday No. 17 Doherty vs. No. 8 Columbine at NAAC, 5:30 p.m. No. 6 Arapahoe vs. No. 3 Pine Creek at D-20 Stadium, 6:30 p.m. No. 5 Fairview vs. No. 4 Mountain Vista at Shea Stadium, 7 p.m. No. 10 Ralston Valley vs. No. 2 Rock Canyon at Shea Stadium, 4:30 p.m.

4a state pairings

all games Wednesday No. 24 Evergreen vs. No. 1 Cheyenne Mountain at Cheyenne Mountain HS, 6 p.m. No. 13 Valor Christian vs. No. 12 Green Mountain at NAAC, 6 p.m. No. 11 Palmer Ridge vs. No. 3 Sand Creek at Sand Creek HS, 5 p.m. No. 10 Lewis-Palmer vs. No. 2 Broomfield at Broomfield HS, 6 p.m.

3a state pairings

Wednesday No. 6 Coal Ridge vs. No. 3 St. Mary’s at Grace Center, 7 p.m. thursday No. 8 The Classical Academy vs. No. 1 Jefferson Academy at Jefferson Academy, 4 p.m. No. 13 Kent Denver vs. No. 5 Holy Family, TBA No. 7 Frontier Academy vs. No. 2 Colorado Academy at Colorado Academy, 5 p.m.

NHL PLAYOFFS Canadiens 4, Bruins 0 (SerieS tied 3-3)

At Montreal: Max Pacioretty had a goal and an assist in the second period and Carey Price made 26 saves and Montreal blanked Boston on Monday to force Game 7. Pacioretty, who had only one assist in the first five games, scored and set up Thomas Vanek’s goal in the second period. Lars Eller scored in the first for Montreal and Vanek added his second of the game into an empty net with 3:56 left. Rookie Nathan Beaulieu, the Canadiens’ 2011 first-round draft pick who was given a surprise start, picked up an assist in his first NHL playoff

Blackhawks’ injured shaw to miss 5th straight game

Injured Chicago forward Andrew Shaw will miss his fifth straight game against the Minnesota Wild in the Western Conference semifinal. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville says Shaw’s lower-body injury is progressing, but he won’t make the trip for Tuesday’s Game 6 in Minnesota. Quenneville hopes Shaw will skate in the next day or so.

for the only goal. Kevan Miller lost the puck off his stick behind the Boston net and then inadvertently tripped goalie Tuukka Rask as he tried to smother it, leaving Eller free to score unassisted 2:11 into the game. Next: Wednesday at Boston

Canadiens’ Max Pacioretty, center, celebrates his goal against the Bruins with teammates Brendan Gallagher, left, and David Desharnais during the second period Monday.

Ducks 4, Kings 3

(AnAheim leAdS SerieS 3-2)

game and was plus-2. The Canadiens repeated the scenario of their 2011 first-round series against the Bruins, winning at home to force a Game 7. That year, they lost Game 7 in overtime. The Bruins went on to win the Stanley Cup.

Montreal got out to a strong start after a rousing pregame show and the teams played at a ferocious pace through the first two periods. Despite having the best of the play in the opening 20 minutes, the Canadiens needed an unusual play

At Anaheim, Calif.: The Ducks scored three times in 7:14 early in the second period, two by Devante Smith-Pelley, to grab a 4-1 lead and hold on. The Kings got close on two goals by Marian Gaborik but John Gibson made 39 saves. Next: Wednesday at L.A.

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NL STANDINGS

AL STANDINGS

West San Francisco Colorado Los Angeles San Diego Arizona

W 24 23 20 18 15

L 14 17 19 21 26

Pct GB .632 — .575 2 .513 4½ .462 6½ .366 10½

West Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

W 23 19 19 20 12

L 15 18 18 19 27

Pct GB .605 — .514 3½ .514 3½ .513 3½ .308 11½

Central Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago

W 24 19 17 16 13

L 14 20 19 21 24

Pct GB .632 — .487 5½ .472 6 .432 7½ .351 10½

Central Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland Minnesota

W 22 19 18 18 17

L 12 20 19 20 19

Pct GB .647 — .487 5½ .486 5½ .474 6 .472 6

East Atlanta Miami Washington New York Philadelphia

W 21 20 20 18 17

L 15 18 18 19 19

Pct .583 .526 .526 .486 .472

East Baltimore Boston New York Toronto Tampa Bay

W 20 19 19 19 16

L 16 18 18 20 22

Pct .556 .514 .514 .487 .421

GB — 2 2 3½ 4

GB — 1½ 1½ 2½ 5

TUESDAy’S GAMES NatioNaL LEaGuE San Diego (Cashner 2-5) at Cincinnati (Leake 2-3), 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Cole 3-2) at Milwaukee (Estrada 2-1), 6:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 0-0) at St. Louis (Wainwright 6-2), 6:15 p.m. Washington (Strasburg 3-2) at Arizona (Arroyo 3-2), 7:40 p.m Miami (Ja.Turner 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 0-1), 8:10 p.m. Atlanta (Minor 0-2) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 1-1), 8:15 p.m. aMERiCaN LEaGuE Detroit (Smyly 2-2) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-4), 5:05 p.m. Cleveland (Masterson 2-1) at Toronto (Dickey 3-3), 5:07 p.m. Boston (Doubront 1-3) at Minnesota (Nolasco 2-3), 6:10 p.m. Texas (M.Harrison 1-0) at Houston (Keuchel 3-2), 6:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Carroll 1-2) at Oakland (Pomeranz 2-1), 8:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Price 3-3) at Seattle (Iwakuma 2-0), 8:10 p.m. iNtERLEaGuE L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 0-1) at Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 3-3), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 1-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Nuno 1-0), 5:05 p.m. Colorado (Morales 3-2) at Kansas City (Shields 4-3), 6:10 p.m.

OKLAHOMA CITY 6, SKY SOX 2

RedHawks get solid pitching and three homers to prevail News services —

Brett Oberholtzer (1-0) was the key for the host Oklahoma City RedHawks (21-18) in their 6-2 win against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox (18-19). Oberholtzer, who was recently sent down from the Houston Astros, tossed seven shutout innings Monday, while fanning nine Sky Sox batters against just five hits and one walk. His excellent outing was accompanied by some slugging. The RedHawks’ Jon Singleton, Gregorio Petit, and Domingo Santana all smacked solo homers, including back-to-back homers in the seventh from Singleton and Santana. Facing threat of getting

Sky Sox at Oklahoma City, 10:05 a.m. Tuesday, 1300 AM

shut out for the fourth time this season, the Sky Sox rallied in the ninth, when Kyle Parker scored off of a single from Jackson Williams. Drew Garcia tacked on another run when he grounded out to score Ben Paulsen. But Rhiner Cruz buckled down to get the final out, and give OKC its first win of the series. Yohan Flande (0-6) finished with six innings, four runs (three earned) on nine hits, while striking out one and walking one. Williams finished 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI.

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NBA PLAYOFFS

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Heat 102, Nets 96

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(MiaMi leads series 3-1)

At New York: LeBron James tied his playoff career high with 49 points, Chris Bosh made the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 57 seconds left, and the Miami Heat beat the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night for a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. James carried the Heat nearly the entire way until Bosh hit the shot that put Miami ahead for good. Ray Allen followed with four free throws and James finished it off with one more, putting the Heat in position to wrap it up at home Wednesday in Game 5. James was 16 of 24 from the field and 14 of 19 from the free throw line in matching the 49 points he scored for Cleveland against Orlando in the 2009 Eastern Conference finals. He missed his second free throw with 1.1 seconds left, muttering to himself after it fell out. Joe Johnson scored 18 points for the Nets, who were 15 of 25 from 3-point range in their Game 3 victory but only 5 of 22 in this one. Paul Pierce scored 16 points, while Deron Williams and Shaun Livingston each had 13. Dwyane Wade scored 15 points on the night his Heat postseason record of 46 points was shattered. Bosh finished with 12. Brooklyn opened the fourth quarter with six straight points to grab an 82-79 edge, and neither team had a bigger margin than that in the period until Kevin Garnett’s two free throws tied it with 2:30 remaining.

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Miami ace Jose Fernandez was put on the 15-day DL because of a sprained right elbow, but ESPN reported that the team believes he will need season-ending surgery.

A hearing was set on a motion by attorneys for the Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Cuban man blaming the player for his imprisonment and torture in Cuba.

Cavs fire CoaCh again Mike Brown’s second shot with the Cavaliers lasted one season. Brown was fired Monday for the second time in four years by owner Dan Gilbert. The Cavs went 33-49 under Brown, who had four years remaining on his contract.

Both teams then couldn’t score, with Bosh missing a pair of jumpers before getting a third crack at it when the Heat swung the ball around to him in the corner in front of the Brooklyn bench for a 3 that made it 97-94. Johnson then missed a jumper while trying to draw James’ sixth foul, and Allen’s free throws put it away. Next: Wednesday at Miami

Sterling disparages Magic Johnson in interview

In a CNN interview aired Monday where he expressed sorrow for recorded racist remarks that earned him a lifetime NBA ban, Clippers owner Donald Sterling was anything but apologetic toward Magic Johnson, one of the men mentioned in the recording, repeatedly disparaging Johnson’s HIV-positive status, dismissing his work in charity and business and saying he’s not a proper role model for children. “He’s got AIDS!” Sterling said loudly at one point.

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Pacific North W l Pct. Gb Tacoma (Mariners) 18 16 .529 — Reno (Diamondbacks) 20 18 .526 — Sacramento (Athletics) 19 18 .514 ½ Fresno (Giants) 18 20 .474 2 Pacific south W l Pct. Gb Las Vegas (Mets) 26 11 .703 — Albuquerque (Dodgers) 18 20 .474 8½ El Paso (Padres) 17 21 .447 9½ Salt Lake (Angels) 13 25 .342 13½ american North W l Pct. Gb Iowa (Cubs) 20 15 .571 — Oklahoma City (Astros) 21 18 .538 1 Colorado Springs (Rockies)18 19 .486 3 Omaha (Royals) 16 20 .444 4½ american south W l Pct. Gb Nashville (Brewers) 20 18 .526 — Round Rock (Rangers) 19 18 .514 ½ Memphis (Cardinals) 18 20 .474 2 New Orleans (Marlins) 17 21 .447 3 Monday’s games Iowa 2, Nashville 1, 10 innings Omaha 19, New Orleans 1 Round Rock 3, Memphis 2 Oklahoma City 6, Colorado Springs 2 El Paso 10, Albuquerque 2 Fresno at Reno, late Salt Lake at Sacramento, late Tacoma at Las Vegas, late Tuesday’s games Round Rock at Memphis, 10:02 a.m. Colorado Springs at Oklahoma City, 10:05 a.m. New Orleans at Omaha, 10:05 a.m. Nashville at Iowa, 11:05 a.m. Albuquerque at El Paso, 11:05 a.m. Tacoma at Las Vegas, 11:35 a.m. Fresno at Reno, 12:35 p.m. Salt Lake at Sacramento, 1:05 p.m. redhaWks 6, sky sOx 2 COlOradO sPrINGs OklahOMa CITy ab r h bi ab r h bi T Wheeler RF4 0 1 0 Grossman CF4 0 1 0 Pridie CF 4 0 1 0 Chambers RF4 0 1 0 R Wheeler 3B3 0 1 0 Santana 2B 4 1 2 1 Parker 1B 4 1 1 0 Singleton 1B 4 1 2 1 Paulsen DH 3 1 1 0 Stassi C 4 1 1 0 Williams C 4 0 2 1 Petit SS 4 2 2 2 Garcia SS 4 0 0 1 Hrnandez DH 4 1 1 1 Nina 2B 3 0 0 0 Meyer 3B 3 0 0 0 Frey LF 3 0 0 0 Torreyes 2B 4 0 1 0 Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 35 6 11 5 Colorado springs 000 000 002 — 2 Oklahoma City 000 103 20x — 6 lOb—Colorado Springs 6, Oklahoma City 6. 2b— Williams (4), Petit (11). 3b—Stassi (1). hr—Petit (3), Santana (4), Singleton (12). e—R. Wheeler (6), T. Wheeler (3), Parker (6). Colorado springs IP h r er bb sO Flande (L, 0-6) 6 9 4 3 1 1 Lopez 2 2 2 2 0 0 Oklahoma City IP h r er bb sO Oberholtzer (W, 1-0) 7 5 0 0 1 9 Cruz 2 2 2 2 2 1 Umpires—Home, Thomas Newsome; First, Brian Hertzog; Third, Shaun Lampe . T—2:34. a—3,936.

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CONFereNCe seMIFINals (best-of-seven; x-if necessary) Monday, May 12 Miami 102, Brooklyn 96, Miami leads series 3-1

Rays right-hander Alex Cobb threw a 60-pitch simulated game as he continues recovery from an oblique muscle strain. Cobb threw four innings with 15 pitches per inning.

ROUNDUP

Villar (10). cs—Altuve (3), Fowler (3). iP h r er bb so texas Lewis W,3-2 5⅔ 7 0 0 2 8 N.Martinez H,2 1⅔ 3 0 0 1 1 Cotts H,4 ⅔ 0 0 0 0 2 Soria 1 1 0 0 0 3 houston Peacock L,0-4 6 8 4 4 2 11 Zeid 1 1 0 0 0 2 D.Downs 1⅓ 1 0 0 0 1 Clemens ⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 WP—N.Martinez. umpires—Home, Brian Gorman; First, David Rackley; Second, Pat Hoberg; Third, Bill Welke. chicago White sox at oaklaND, late tamPa bay at seattle, late

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The Nationals’ Danny Espinosa is greeted by third base coach Bob Henley after hitting a game-tying home run.

Cubs 17, Cardinals 5

At St. Louis: Junior Lake homered, doubled twice and drove in six runs as Chicago broke loose, routing St. Louis on Monday night. The Cubs had totaled just four runs while getting swept in a three-game series at Atlanta over the weekend.

Nationals 6, Diamondbacks 5

At Phoenix: Pinch-hitter Kevin Frandsen and Danny Espinosa each hit solo homers in the ninth inning, helping Washington rally for a win over Arizona.

Blue Jays 7, Angels 3

At Toronto: Mark Buehrle became the first seven-game winner in the majors, Jose Bautista and Brett Lawrie homered and Toronto beat Los Angeles to avoid a four-game sweep.

Tigers 4, Orioles 1

At Baltimore: Rick Porcello won his fifth straight start, and Detroit beat Baltimore in a duel between AL division leaders that included a benchesclearing confrontation.

Rangers 4, Astros 0

At Houston: Colby Lewis threw 52/3 shutout innings, and Adrian Beltre and Rougned Odor each homered to lead Texas over Houston. Lewis (3-2) struck out a season-high eight and allowed seven hits.

Mets 9, Yankees 7

At New York: Chris Young hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning, Jenrry Mejia provided a jolt after his reluctant move to the bullpen and the previously punchless Mets went deep four times. hr—Cron (2), Bautista (10), Lawrie (7). cs—J. Francisco (1). iP h r er bb so los angeles C.Wilson L,4-3 6 6 5 5 3 8 Jepsen 1 0 0 0 0 2 Cor.Rasmus ⅓ 3 2 2 1 1 Morin ⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 toronto Buehrle W,7-1 6 6 2 2 5 2 Delabar H,8 2 1 1 1 0 2 Janssen 1 0 0 0 1 0 Buehrle pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. tigers 4, orioles 1 Detroit baltimore ab r h bi ab r h bi Kinsler 2b 3 2 2 2 Markks rf 4 0 0 0 TrHntr rf 3 0 0 0 Machd 3b 4 0 1 0 MiCarr 1b 4 1 1 1 A.Jones cf 4 0 1 0 VMrtnz dh 4 0 2 0 C.Davis 1b 4 0 0 0 AJcksn cf 3 0 0 1 N.Cruz lf 4 0 0 0 Cstllns 3b 4 0 0 0 Hardy ss 4 1 1 0 Avila c 2 1 0 0 Clevngr c 4 0 3 1 AnRmn ss 3 0 0 0 DYong dh 3 0 0 0 RDavis lf 3 0 0 0 Schoop 2b 3 0 0 0 totals 29 4 5 4 totals 34 1 6 1 Detroit 000 200 020 — 4 baltimore 010 000 000 — 1 e—An.Romine (3). DP—Baltimore 1. lob—Detroit 2, Baltimore 6. 2b—V.Martinez (8), Clevenger 2 (8). hr—Kinsler (4). sb—Kinsler (5). cs—Kinsler (3). sF—A.Jackson.

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San Antonio at Portland, late Tuesday, May 13 Washington at Indiana, 5 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

Nba CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Fired coach Mike Brown.

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NFl NFL — Suspended St. Louis WR Stedman Bailey the first four games of the 2014 regular season for violating the NFL policy on performance enhancing substances. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released TE Brett Brackett, C John Estes, LB Kenny Rowe and RB Ryan Williams. ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed WR Geraldo Boldewijn, RB Jerome Smith, QB Jeff Mathews, TE Jacob Pedersen, TE Brian Wozniak, LB Brenden Daley, DE Nosa Eguae, CB Devonta Glover-Wright, FB Maurice Hagens, WR Julian Jones, WR Freddie Martino, LB Walker May, S Kimario McFadden, FB Roosevelt Nix, WR Bernard Reedy, DT Donte Rumph, LB Jacques Smith, C James Stone, WR Tramaine Thompson and P Matt Yoklic. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed LB Xavius Boyd, DT Levi Brown, WR Jeremy Butler, WR Jace Davis, OT Parker Graham, DT Derrick Hopkins, OT James Hurst, CB Tramain Jacobs, P Richie Leone, DT Jamie Meder, S Dexter Moody, CB Deji Olatoye. LB Zachary Orr, DT A.J. Pataiali’i, CB Avery Patterson, CB Sammy Seamster and OT Brett Van Sloten. BUFFALO BILLS — Released TB Anthony Allen. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Terminated the contract of QB Josh Johnson. Signed LB James Davidson, OT Curtis Feigt, G Dan France, TE-FB Ryan Hewitt, G Trey Hopkins, S Isaiah Lewis, WR Colin Lockett, WR Alex Neutz, FB Nikita Whitlock and HB James Wilder. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Released QB Vince Young. Signed FB Ray Agnew, DL Calvin Barnett, DB Darwin Cook, RB Isaiah Crowell, OL Anthony Dima, WR Chandler Jones, WR Jonathan Krause, OL Michael Philipp, QB Connor Shaw, WR Kenny Shaw and WR Willie Snead. DALLAS COWBOYS — Released G Chris Degeare, DT Frank Kearse, WR Lance Lewis, DE Tristan Okpalaugo, LB Quinton Spears and LB Jabara Williams. DETROIT LIONS — Signed FB Chad Abram, G Alex Bullard, DB Jerome Couplin, QB Franklin James, LB Justin Jackson, OT, Cornelius Lucas, DB Gabe Lynn, TE Jacob Maxwell, G D.J. Morrell, WR Andrew Peacock and DB Mohammed Seisay. Released C Sherman Carter, WR Carlin Isles, LB Jon Morgan, CB Nate Ness, S Akwasi OwusuAnsah, K John Potter, TE Matt Veldman and WR Cody Wilson. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Named Craig Benzel vice president of sales and business development and Gabrielle Valdez Dow vice president of marketing and fan engagement. Released LB Chase Thomas. Signed LB Jake Doughty, LB Jayrone Elliott, DE Carlos Gray, LB Adrian Hubbard, G Jordan McCray, RB Rajion Neal, DT Mike Pennel, TE Justin Perillo, RB LaDarius Perkins, QB Chase Rettig, LB Joe Thomas and CB Ryan White. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Agreed to terms with Gs Marcus Hall and Josh Walker; C Jonotthan Harrison; DEs Tyler Hoover and Nnamdi Obukwelu; NT Zach Kerr; QB Seth Lobato; S Dewey McDonald; WRs Gregory Moore, Eric Thomas and Tony Washington; CBs Qua Cox, Kameron Jackson, Keon Lyn and Darius Polk; K Cody Parkey; OT Eric Pike; TE Erik Swoope; and RB Zurlon Tipton.

Nhl PlayOFFs

second round (best-of-seven; x-if necessary) Monday, May 12 Montreal 4, Boston 0, series tied 3-3 Anaheim 4, Los Angeles 3, Anaheim leads series 3-2 Tuesday, May 13 N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 14 Montreal at Boston, 5 p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15 x-Minnesota at Chicago, 6 p.m. Friday, May 16 x-Los Angeles at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

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MajOr leaGUe baseball MLB — Announced San Diego minor league C Rodney Daal (Eugene-NWL) received a 50-game suspension without pay following a second violation for a drug of abuse and free agent minor league RHP Nick Fleece received a 50-game suspension following a second violation for a drug of abuse. aMerICaN leaGUe BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled RHP Preston Guilmet from Norfolk (IL). CLEVELAND INDIANS — Assigned C George Kottaras outright to Columbus (IL). DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with SS Troy Hanzawa on a minor league contract. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed INF Ian Stewart on 15-day DL. Recalled INF Luis Jimenez from Salt Lake (PCL). TEXAS RANGERS — Assigned INF Josh Wilson and RHP Scott Baker outright to Round Rock (PCL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Claimed OF Kenny Wilson off waivers and optioned him to New Hampshire (EL). Placed RHP Sergio Santos on the 15-day DL. Optioned C Erik Kratz to Buffalo (IL). Recalled INF Jonathan Diaz and RHP Chad Jenkins from Buffalo (IL). NaTIONal leaGUe LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent C. A.J. Ellis to Albuquerque (PCL) for a rehab assignment. MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP Jose Fernandez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 10. Recalled LHP Dan Jennings from New Orleans (PCL). PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent RHP Ethan Martin and OF Darin Ruf to Lehigh Valley (IL) for rehab assignments. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Sent LHP Jaime Garcia and RHP Jason Motte to Memphis (PCL) for rehab assignments.

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batting—MeCabrera, Toronto, .333; AlRamirez, Chicago, .333; VMartinez, Detroit, .331; Solarte, New York, .330; Choo, Texas, .328; Hosmer, Kansas City, .320; Loney, Tampa Bay, .316. runs—Dozier, Minnesota, 34; Bautista, Toronto, 32; Donaldson, Oakland, 29; JAbreu, Chicago, 26; MeCabrera, Toronto, 26; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 25; Kinsler, Detroit, 25; Pedroia, Boston, 25; Trout, Los Angeles, 25. rbis—JAbreu, Chicago, 37; Brantley, Cleveland, 30; MiCabrera, Detroit, 30; Colabello, Minnesota, 30; NCruz, Baltimore, 30; Bautista, Toronto, 28; Moss, Oakland, 28. hits—MeCabrera, Toronto, 55; AlRamirez, Chicago, 51; Altuve, Houston, 48; Hosmer, Kansas City, 48; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 46; Markakis, Baltimore, 46; Rios, Texas, 46. Doubles—Hosmer, Kansas City, 15; Pedroia, Boston, 14; Plouffe, Minnesota, 14; AGordon, Kansas City, 13; Altuve, Houston, 12; Encarnacion, Toronto, 12; Lowrie, Oakland, 12; SPerez, Kansas City, 12. triples—Aybar, Los Angeles, 3; Bourn, Cleveland, 3; Infante, Kansas City, 3; Rios, Texas, 3; IStewart, Los Angeles, 3; Trout, Los Angeles, 3; 14 tied at 2. home runs—JAbreu, Chicago, 13; Bautista, Toronto, 10; NCruz, Baltimore, 10; Pujols, Los Angeles, 10; Dozier, Minnesota, 9; ColRasmus, Toronto, 9; VMartinez, Detroit, 8. stolen bases—Altuve, Houston, 13; RDavis, Detroit, 12; Dozier, Minnesota, 12; Andrus, Texas, 11; AEscobar, Kansas City, 11; Ellsbury, New York, 10; Villar, Houston, 10. PitchiNg—Buehrle, Toronto, 7-1; Porcello, Detroit, 6-1; Tanaka, New York, 5-0; Kazmir, Oakland, 5-1; Scherzer, Detroit, 5-1; Lackey, Boston, 5-2; 9 tied at 4. era—Buehrle, Toronto, 2.04; Scherzer, Detroit, 2.04; Gray, Oakland, 2.17; Kazmir, Oakland, 2.28; Darvish, Texas, 2.33; Ventura, Kansas City, 2.34; JChavez, Oakland, 2.47. strikeouts—Scherzer, Detroit, 66; Lester, Boston, 66; Price, Tampa Bay, 58; Tanaka, New York, 58; Kluber, Cleveland, 57; CWilson, Los Angeles, 54; Darvish, Texas, 54. saves—Rodney, Seattle, 11; TomHunter, Baltimore, 11; Perkins, Minnesota, 10; Axford, Cleveland, 9; Holland, Kansas City, 9; Uehara, Boston, 9; Nathan, Detroit, 8.

Waived LB Alan Baxter, FB Stephen Campbell, TE Martell Webb and K Carson Wiggs. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Agreed to terms with QB Stephen Morris, K Jeff Budzien, RB Terrance Cobb, DL DeAndre Coleman, WRs Damian Copeland and Allen Hurns, LS Trevor Gillette, DT Ricky Havili-Heimuli, S Craig Loston, CB Rashaad Reynolds, G Tyler Shatley, OT Josh Wells, LB Marcus Whitfield, P Chad Zinchini and TEs Marcel Jensen, Reggie Jordan and D.J. Tialavea. Released G Will Rackley, WRs Jeremy Ebert and Stephen Williams, RB/FB Shawn Chapas, RB Delone Carter and DT Drake Nevis. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed LB Ben Johnson, S Daniel Sorensen, WR Darryl Surgent, CB David Van Dyke, RB Charcandrick West and WR Albert Wilson. Placed FB Eric Kettani and WR Rashad Ross on waivers. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived WR Michael Rios and QB Jordan Rodgers. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Announced the resignation of college scouting director Scott Studwell to take a different role in the front office. Named Jamaal Stephenson college scouting director. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed TE Tyler Beck, RB Roy Finch, S Shamiel Gary, LB Cameron Gordon, DB Travis Hawkins, RB Stephen Houston, TE Justin Jones, LB Deontae Skinner and TE Asa Watson. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Agreed to terms with LBs Kasim Edebali, Spencer Hadley and Chidera Uzo-Diribe; DL Brandon McCray, George Uko and Lawrence Virgil; OL Matthew Armstrong and Micajah Reynolds; WRs Brandon Coleman and Seantavius Jones; TEs Je’Ron Hamm and Nic Jacobs; Ss Pierre Warren and Ty Zimmerman; DB Brian Dixon; RB Tim Flanders; and QB Logan Kilgore. NEW YORK GIANTS — Terminated the contract of QB Rusty Smith. Waived LB Allen Bradford, CB Junior Mertile and P Jordan Gay. Signed DTs Kelcy Quarles and Eathyn Manumaleuna, DE Kerry Wynn, LB Justin Anderson and S Thomas Gordon. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released LS Jorgen Hus. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Agreed to terms with C Josh Allen, LB Nate Askew, WR Aaron Burks, DT Euclid Cummings, CB Keith Lewis, G Andrew Miller, OT Matt Patchan, WR Solomon Patton, QB Brett Smith, DE Chaz Sutton and S Mycal Swaim. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with RB Antonio Andrews, C Gabe Ikard, G Justin McCray, TE David Wright, CB Ri’Shard Anderson, DE Jadon Gayle, LB Jamal Merrell, S Hakeem Smith K Travis Coons and WRs Jaz Reynolds, Josh Stewart, Derel Walker and Eric Ward. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived K Jake Rogers. Released WR David Gettis.

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Nhl PHOENIX COYOTES — Signed D Chris Summers to a two-year contract.

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CENTRAL MISSOURI — Announced the retirement of baseball coach Tom Myers. MISSISSIPPI — Announced OL Austin Golson will transfer to Auburn. MOUNTAIN WEST — Announced that UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers has been suspended for four games. SAMFORD — Named Kodi Burns running backs coach.

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ou’ve likely heard of the placebo effect, an outcome that cannot be attributed to a specific treatment or therapy but rather is caused by a patient’s mindset alone. As it turns out, the force behind the placebo effect — namely our beliefs and perceptions — might be one of the more powerful health tools in our arsenal. A study by a Colorado College senior found that students who were told they’d gotten a good night’s sleep, even if they hadn’t, performed better on tests that assessed attention and memory skills than students who were told they’d slept poorly, even if they were well rested. Christina Draganich based her results on two experiments with 164 students, and a paper about the study, “Placebo Sleep Affects Cognitive Functioning,” was published this year in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. The placebo effect is potent, time-proven medicine. In fact, it’s speculated that between 60 percent and 90 percent of drugs and physician-prescribed therapies work, at least in part, because patients believe they will. The “nontraditional” placebo effect has been

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found to cause poison ivy in test subjects exposed to fake plants, physical improvements in people who’d undergone fake surgeries and a coffee high in those imbibing placebo caffeine. A team of Harvard researchers even found that a group of motel maids’ beliefs that they were logging significant exercise for the day — absent any other factors — led to weight loss, improved blood pressure and decreased body fat over the course of the monthlong study. “We’ve known about the regular placebo effect for thousands of years, but most of the time we hear about it in drug studies,” said Kristi Erdal, a psychology professor at CC and faculty supervisor for the study. “It’s only been in the last decade or two that people have begun exploring the nontraditional placebo effect, branching out and pushing the envelope to see how far that can take you. I think our mindset affects a lot more of our behavior and our physiology than we ever thought.” For her senior thesis in neuroscience, Draganich decided to see if the same concepts and manipulations could be applied to sleep. “Throughout college, I saw how students focused on their lack of sleep before taking an exam. I wondered if their scores were maybe —

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Exercises designed to free body from grip of trauma live well

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No matter who you are, you’ve experienced trauma of some sort. Traumas can be daily occurrences, such as going to work in a stressful environment, or bigger, isolated incidents, such as a car accident, surgery or being bitten on the mouth by a lhasa apso at age 15. The latter happened to me, and it flooded back into memory as I researched this column on Tension and Trauma Releas-

ing Exercises (TRE). After hearing about TRE from two sources in the past few months, I looked for a TRE practitioner in the area and found only one — Joanna DesRochers, who is also a certified hypnotherapist and holds certifications in NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). “You’re a walking history of everything that has happened to you,” she said. “Every trauma can be significant. The definition of trauma is when it’s more than you’re able to cope with. What’s traumatic for one person may not be for another.” DesRochers knows about trauma. She’s had two big falls in her life, both injuring her neck and shoulders and

compromising her nervous system. Her daily life was affected severely, she said. She stumbled onto TRE, created by David Berceli, an expert in the fields of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He has worked for decades in the war zones of nine countries, helping relieve both soldiers and civilians from post-traumatic stress disorder. He wrote “The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process” in 2008, which details a set of trauma release exercises. The exercises target the psoas (pronounced so-az), the large, deep muscle that links the trunk of your body to your legs. A series of movements, both standing and lying down, are meant to fatigue the muscle enough that the body goes

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into natural tremors, which Berceli believes helps release the deep tension created during a traumatic experience. When a traumatic event occurs, the body responds with a fight or flight response, which activates the sympathetic nervous system and produces a surge in adrenaline. The parts of the body not needed in the moment, such as the reproductive and digestive systems, shut down. That’s called the sympathetic response, DesRochers said. After the stressful event passes, the body natu-

rally is designed to return to a state of calm and relaxation. “The problem is some bodies get stuck in the sympathetic response,” she said, “especially in our society today, where there’s so much stress every day, and repetitive stresses. Tremoring is the body’s natural mechanism for discharging that extra energy. That’s what we’re designed to do. It wouldn’t be efficient for our bodies to get activated and not have the mechanism to deal with it.” Our bodies can suffer if they

aren’t allowed to discharge stress Those who have practiced TRE report less worry and anxiety, reduced symptoms of PTSD, better sleep, reduced muscle and back pain, healing of old injuries and relief from chronic medical conditions. DesRochers led me through the TRE exercises, starting at the wall, where I did standing calf raises on each leg. I did as many as I could until I felt a fatigue factor of 7 on a scale of 10. We later moved into a wall sit (my least favorite part), where I placed my back on the wall and sat down, like I was sitting in a chair. I held that until I had to take a break, and she had me move my back up the wall a couple —

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How safe are over-thecounter drugs? Many Americans assume that any bottle of pills you can buy without a prescription must not have side effects. After all, the Food and Drug Administration wouldn’t allow easy access to a medication unless it was super safe. This assumption can get people into serious trouble. Surveys show that some folks using over-the-counter pain relievers such as ibuprofen or naproxen think they are safer than prescription pills. Only about 20 percent bother to read the label. Fewer than 30 percent pay attention to dosing instructions. That might explain why nearly a fourth take more than the recommended dose (Journal of Rheumatology, November 2005). The trouble with such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory

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drugs (NSAIDs) is that they do not lose their side effects when they become available on the other side of the drug counter. NSAIDs can cause life-threatening bleeding ulcers, sometimes without advance warning. They also have been linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. Even acetaminophen (Tylenol), which is perceived as far safer than aspirin or other NSAIDs, can cause mischief. Some people are especially susceptible to liver or kidney

damage. Alcohol magnifies the risk. Some less wellrecognized hazards include life-threatening skin reactions, asthma in children and hearing loss in older people. Pain relievers are not the only pills that can cause problems. When the FDA cleared acid-suppressing drugs such as Prilosec (omeprazole) and Prevacid (lansoprazole) for OTC status, there was a perception that such heartburn medications also were extremely safe. These proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are quite good at shutting down acid production in the stomach. They can ease symptoms of reflux and help heal ulcers. But in recent years, there have been reports that people taking PPIs are more prone to pneumonia and intestinal infections (C. diff ) because stomach acid helps protect

the body against invaders. Some experts worry that prolonged use of a PPI could lead to weakened bones because of reduced calcium and magnesium absorption. These drugs also might reduce the flexibility of blood vessels, leading to cardiovascular complications. Vitamin B-12 deficiency also might be more common if people take PPIs for long periods of time. This can lead to neurological deficits. The label on such drugs states that people shouldn’t take PPIs for more than two weeks without a doctor’s supervision. But if patients ignore this warning, they might find that stopping such medications can be tricky. That’s because sudden withdrawal could trigger excess acid production as a rebound effect. The latest development in

the OTC sweepstakes could be Lipitor (atorvastatin). There is speculation that Pfizer is preparing to ask the FDA for permission to sell Lipitor without a prescription. Will people realize that statins can cause muscle pain, weakness, joint pain, digestive upset, nerve pain, cataracts, diabetes and sexual problems? We’re not opposed to OTC drugs. We worry, however, that too many people take them for granted. Even overthe-counter drugs can have serious or life-threatening side effects. People need to be well informed of the dangers of all medicines — prescription or OTC — before using them. —

Joe Graedon is a pharmacologist. Teresa Graedon holds a doctorate in medical anthropology and is a nutrition expert.

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Hildegard Gigl leads a twice-weekly exercise class at Hawthorne Terrace, an independent retirement center in Wauwatosa, Wis. Gigl, who turns 99 in June, is the oldest one in the class.

Exercise as the fountain of youth hEalth tip

This year, Major League Baseball revised its rules to prevent bone-jarring collisions at home plate between a base runner and the catcher. That should make “The Boys of Summer” a lot safer during spring training — and the regular season. You can make sure your spring training is safer, too, and avoid muscle, tendon and joint pain. When you head outdoors for your daily walk or other physical activities (after a winter spent in the gym, right?), make sure you start out slowly — with reduced speed and less tension. This warms up your muscles and tendons and increases your range of motion. You also might try slow stretching; it improves circulation, increases blood flow to your muscles and helps joints, tendons and sinews become more flexible. It also improves posture and balance (important for pain-free walking and other activities). And practice visualization: Imagine your muscles and tendons extending, getting more toned, as you exhale into the stretch. You will get maximum results. Want video guidance? Check out Joel Harpers’ Total Stretch on DrOz.com. Do the full 30 minutes or pick the moves that target your tightest areas, like your shoulders or hips. Bonus stretch! Did you know intimacy (OK, sex) provides a great warm-up? Contrary to popular myth (sorry, Rocky!), experiencing orgasm does not reduce stamina. In fact, sexual arousal increases blood flow to all your muscles, and if you’re energetic in the act you’ll ramp up your heart rate and loosen up your body. That’ll put some spring in your spring training! MehMet oz, M.d. aNd Mike roizeN, M.d.

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MILWAUKEE • The fitness instructor is about to start pushups, but first she has to move her walker out of the way. The exercisers at this suburban apartment complex are all older than 75 and their leader, Hildegard Gigl, will turn 99 in June. “I’m getting older, but I’m not getting old,” said Gigl, whose half-hour class includes pushups against a wall and weightlifting with soup cans to “In the Mood” and other Big Band tunes. Exercise might be the closest thing we have to a fountain of youth, one of the better ways to age happy and well. “The mantra now is, exercise is a drug” — able, like some medications are, to prevent and treat a host of age-related ailments, said Dr. Andrea Cheville, a Mayo Clinic expert on exercise in the elderly. Exercise aids weight control, healthy cholesterol, blood pressure, mood and sleep. It lowers the risk for

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influenced by their attitude regarding how tired they thought they were,” said Draganich, who graduated in 2012. Because the study hinged on students’ believing researchers could assess the quality of their previous night’s sleep, Draganich had to devise a legitimate-seeming fabrication. As setup, she first asked participants to fill out a questionnaire about how well they believed they’d slept the previous night; the, they were brought into the lab for a five -minute lesson about sleep. “I told them sleep quality can be measured by the per-

cancer, brittle bones and Alzheimer’s disease. One of the more recent studies found that walking farther or faster after age 65 — increasing activity rather than slowing in older age — helps maintain a good heart rhythm and prevent heart attacks. Even conditions such as back pain and arthritis, which many people cite as reasons they don’t exercise, often can be helped by doing that very thing. The message is catching on. Adults 50 and older — baby boomers — are the fastest growing segment of membership, said Cindy McDermott of Y-USA, the parent organization for the nation’s YMCA programs, such as the one used at the Milwaukee apartment complex. Senior programs emphasize moves that help people live independently. Some tips from fitness experts: Getting started Don’t tell an older person who hasn’t been exercising to “just do it,” Cheville warned.

The type, frequency and dose need to be appropriate for someone’s age, health and condition. If someone has pain, see a doctor to rule out tissue damage from knee pain — or a back problem that could be made worse by exercise. “Find ways to exercise that don’t exacerbate the pain,” Cheville said. Climbing stairs might hurt but cycling or water exercise might not. Physical therapy to strengthen certain muscle groups can help. How much should I do? Start light and gradually build up to at least 30 minutes of activity on most days of the week. This could be several 10-minute sessions throughout the day. Look for opportunities: The Y suggests standing on one foot while brushing your teeth to increase balance, doing squats while washing dishes and taking stretch breaks while watching TV. Take the stairs instead of an elevator or park farther from your destination and walk.

“Listen to your body when determining an appropriate exercise intensity,” advises the American Council on Exercise. What kind of exercise is best? Y programs include stretching, flexibility, balance, lowimpact aerobics and strength training. For seniors, nonjarring activities such as walking, swimming and cycling are best, says the exercise group. Some favorites: water aerobics, yoga, Pilates, tai chi and line, square or ballroom dancing. Group exercise classes such as the one Gigl leads in suburban Milwaukee also offer a chance to socialize and make friends. “What’s a wonder is her memory” to move through all the exercises with no notes, said one participant, Carole Pape, 85. “It’s just enough to move all the parts of your body.” “It’s mostly fun,” said Gigl, whose name is pronounced “giggle.” “With a name like mine, it has to be,” she said.

cent of time spent in REM sleep, and sleep quality often predicts cognitive functioning,” Draganich said. She then told them about a new, cutting-edge technique that allows researchers to assess an individual’s REM sleep from the night before by measuring lingering biological markers such as heart rate and brain wave frequency. “I know that sounds farfetched — I did make it up,” said Draganich, “but we had a lot of things on our side to lend authority.” There were “complicated drawings” up on the board in the lab and students were connected to an EEG machine that responded to their movements. Participants then were given real tests to measure cognitive functioning. Generally, those who were told

they didn’t get enough sleep scored lower, while people who were told they’d slept well achieved higher-thanaverage marks. “What we were doing is looking at how an authority figure can affect a person’s thinking and therefore their performance,” Draganich said. Draganich now works with spinal cord and brain injury patients at Craig Hospital in Denver, and plans to put what she learned from her sleep study to work in the exam room once she becomes a doctor. “I’ve always been very interested in how attitude interacts with health,” she said. “As a physician, it’s important to remember how you frame information for your patients, whether positive

or negative, can affect a patient’s motivation or willingness to comply with care and therefore potentially their outcome.” In Erdal’s 18 years at CC, this is only the fourth time one of her undergraduate research students has had a paper published in a prominent journal, which then led to coverage from media outlets including the BBC, Reader’s Digest and Scientific American. “What this says to me, proud mama of the study, is that science and the scientific method is at the disposal of anyone who will use it correctly,” Erdal said. “Even if you’re a 21-year-old in college, you can find enormously fascinating things if you do your homework and do the research.”

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Grilled jerk chicken breasts with watermelon salsa. The purpose of the salsa is to balance the heat of the chilies in the marinade for the chicken.

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It’s barbecue season and chicken is the ideal candidate to get you grilling. Why? Chicken is light, it easily picks up the marinade of your choice and it cooks quickly. But this recipe is not for your everyday grilled chicken. This is spicy, Jamaican-style jerk chicken. “Jerk” refers both to a unique blend of seasonings and to a method of slow cooking. It is said to have been invented by Jamaica’s Maroons, slaves who escaped from Spanish-owned plantations when the British took over and established free communities in Jamaica’s mountainous interior. The Maroons hunted wild boars, then preserved the meat with a spice mix that contained a hefty amount of salt. When it was time to eat, the meat was cooked in a pit or grilled very slowly over a fire. Eventually, Jamaicans began to cook all kinds of meats jerk-style. Jerk seasoning consists of a base blend of scallions, thyme, allspice (known as pimento in Jamaica), Scotch bonnet chilies, salt and, not infrequently, cinnamon or nutmeg. This might look like an awful lot of ingredients to slice and dice, but that’s not the case. Toss them all into a blender, pulverize everything to a paste, then you’re good to go. But you do need to be careful when you’re messing with those Scotch bonnets. I advise wearing gloves. Seriously.

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of inches, which helped, and hold again. Fatigue was setting in. Eventually, we got down to the ground, where I lay on my back and did a yoga-like posture with the soles of my feet placed together and knees wide. I had to lift my hips off

GRILLED JERK CHICKEN BREASTS WITH WATERMELON SALSA

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Yield: 8 servings For the marinade: 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided 8 scallions, white and green parts, coarsely chopped 1 to 2 (to taste) Scotch bonnet chilies, coarsely chopped 3 tablespoons soy sauce 3 tablespoons lime juice 1 1/2 tablespoons ground allspice

1 1/2 tablespoons Colman’s Mustard (English-style mustard) 2 bay leaves 2 large cloves garlic, crushed 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons dried thyme 4 chicken breast halves (4 pounds) on the bone with the skin, each chicken breast half cut in half

Procedure: 1. In a blender, combine 4 tablespoons of the oil, the scallions, chilies, soy sauce, lime juice, allspice, mustard, bay leaves, garlic, salt, sugar and thyme. Blend until the mixture forms a fine paste. Transfer the mixture to a resealable plastic bag. Add the chicken and turn it to coat well on all sides. Refrigerate for at least 24 hours and up to 2 days. 2. When ready to cook, heat the grill to medium. 3. To make the salsa, in a medium bowl, combine the

For the salsa: 2 cups diced seedless watermelon 1 cup diced seedless cucumber 2 tablespoons finely chopped shallot 1/4 cup finely shredded fresh mint 3 tablespoons lime juice 2 teaspoons packed brown sugar Salt

watermelon, cucumber, shallot, mint, lime juice and sugar. Season with salt, then set aside. 4. Remove the chicken from the marinade, discarding the marinade. Using an oil-soaked paper towel held with tongs, oil the grill grates. Add the chicken, skin side down, and grill for 10 to 15 minutes. Turn the pieces of chicken, then grill for another 10 to 15 minutes, or just cooked through. Transfer the chicken to a plate, cover with foil and let rest 5 minutes. Serve each portion topped with some of the salsa.

A cousin of the habanero, Scotch bonnets are serious chilies. I call for a whole chili here, but you can use less if you want to tamp down the heat. Happily, Scotch bonnets aren’t solely about heat; they also are uniquely flavorful — like a cross between a mango and chili — with a wonderfully fruity scent. If you can’t find Scotch bonnets, use a habanero. If you can’t find either, reach for a jalapeno or serrano. I left the skin on the chicken to prevent it from drying out while it’s being grilled, so when you marinate the chicken be sure to put the spice

paste under the skin as well as on top of it. If you want to cut calories, you’re welcome to discard the skin after you’re done grilling. The meat itself will be plenty spicy. The job of the watermelon salsa is to balance the heat of the chilies. All by itself, of course, ripe watermelon is one of the top reasons to love summer. But they happen to be plenty healthy, too. They’re full of water, which makes them an excellent hot weather thirst-quencher, and they’re a great source of lycopene, vitamin C and beta-carotene. And these days you don’t have to buy mega-melons.

There are plenty of smaller versions, most of them “seedless” (or at least with soft little seeds), the result of hybridization. At the supermarket, look for a melon with a large yellow spot on the bottom. The bottom, or underbelly, of a watermelon is the spot where it was resting on the ground. If that “ground spot” is white or green, the watermelon is unlikely to be fully ripe. Once your melon is home, don’t store it in the fridge, at least not until it’s sliced. So, jerk and watermelon. Hot and sweet. What could be more summery?

the ground, and hold there for two minutes. Finally, I got to place my feet on the ground. The tremors started in my legs by the time we got to the exercises on the ground. They continued to deepen until we finished and I could extend my legs on the ground in front of me. “The body has its own intelligence, and tremoring goes where it needs to go in its own sweet time,” DesRochers said.

“I can’t predict what your experience will be like. You may have a memory come up, you may have a flashback to something. It doesn’t always happen on the first time. People are a little protective the first time — they’re not sure what’s going to happen. But most people find it quite comfortable and amazingly fun.” I didn’t experience anything beyond the tremors in my legs, though on the way back

to work, I did have that feeling one gets after a good cry — cleansed somehow. But whatever a person’s experience is during a session, DesRochers believes the tremors work. It helped calm her nervous system after her accidents. “This is not about being in the head analyzing. The more you’re in your head, the less effective it’s going to be,” she said.

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A house is damaged near a flattened truck in Four Corners, Miss., after tornadoes smashed homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and injured numerous people in Mississippi and Alabama late last month.

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contract, but there was hope. The king of diamonds had to be on-side and declarer had to find the queen of trumps. West won the first two tricks with the queen and jack of spades, then shifted to a club. The spade position was clear from the auction and the clubs were likely to be splitting 5-5. South wanted some information about the red suits before tackling trumps, so he rose with dummy’s ace, discarding a spade, and led a diamond. East played low. Would you insert the jack or the 10? Doesn’t matter, right? South played the jack, winning the trick. He ruffed a spade and led another diamond, this time to the 10. The king of diamonds was known to be with East, who was now nearly certain to have started with 4-1-3-5 distribution. South cashed the king of hearts and played a heart to dummy’s 10 to score up his ambitious contract. Should East have played the king of diamonds on the second round of the suit, to deceive declarer about the distribution? Too dangerous! West might have had the 10 and he would be throwing away the setting trick. Had South played his 10 on the first round of diamonds, East might well have found this clever play.

It is well known that experts find more missing queens than the average player, but some of the subtleties involved in the search can be lovely to watch. North-South ended up in five hearts after an extremely competitive auction. It was not a good

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entertainment+advice Five TV shows that Hollywood should reboot TELEVISION

TERRY TERRONES What’s the most popular word in Hollywood? “Reboot.” Creating original programming is not only hard work, but the chances for failure are high (“The Michael J. Fox Show,” “Almost Human,” etc.). To lighten its load, Tinsel Town likes to take popular programs from the past and make them new again. We see this in films, but reboots happen more frequently on TV. “Dallas,” “Hawaii Five-O” and “Battlestar Galactica” are a few examples of shows rebooted for modern audiences. Since Hollywood constantly is looking to the past for the TV series of the future, I’m happy to give network execs some suggestions on what might resonate with today’s television viewers. While I’d love new versions of “Quantum Leap,” “Sliders” and the canceled-much-too-soon “Threshold,” I aimed for series that debuted at least 30 years ago so they’d appear fresh to a younger generation. Here are my picks for five TV programs ripe for a reboot and the actors who would be perfect for them.

“Magnum P.I.” (1980-1988)

The premise: Former naval intelligence officer turned private investigator Thomas Magnum lives in the guesthouse of famous novelist Robin Masters on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Taking cases only sporadically and get-

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“Welcome Back, Kotter,” left, and “Fantasy Island” are two long-ago TV series ripe for a reboot. ting paid little to nothing for them, the easygoing Magnum butts heads with the strict Jonathan Quail Higgins III, a former British sergeant major who is the caretaker for the lavish Robin’s Nest estate. Why it works: “Magnum P.I.” is set in a beautiful locale made for HD televisions, it has action, camaraderie, romance and humor, and there’s an opportunity for a hilarious odd couple pairing in Magnum/ Higgins. Now that “Mad Men” is wrapping up, Jon Hamm would be a perfect choice to play Magnum. John Hannah (“The Mummy,” “Spartacus”) would make an excellent foil as a modern-day Higgins.

“Fantasy Island” (1977-1984)

The premise: Welcome to Fantasy Island! This mysterious tropical island resort will

bring to life any fantasy you desire. Would you like to be a professional athlete? A billionaire? For a weekend your host, Mr. Roarke, and his diminutive right-hand man, Tattoo, can make it happen. But be prepared, there’s almost always a price to pay in getting whatever you want. Why it works: There are literally thousands of plot lines a writing team could come up with given this premise. And who doesn’t want to go to a place where all your wishes came true, even for a little while? It’s escapism TV at its best. Ricardo Montalban made the role of Mr. Roarke his own so I’d like to see Salma Hayek (“Freda,” “Desperado”) play his daughter with Kevin Hart as her comic relief-providing sidekick, Tattoo.

“Vega$” (1978-1981)

The premise: War veteran Dan Tanna is a private detective in Las Vegas. His primary client is hotel and casino owner Phillip Roth. Aided by former showgirl Bea Travis, Tanna makes Las Vegas safe for both locals and tourists by ensuring the seedier elements of the city face justice. Why it works: A new “Vega$” would max out the reboot checklist. A cool setting? Interesting profession for the lead character? An ability to modernize the original series without really changing it that much? A chance to show scantily clad women? Check, check, check and check. Karl Urban, who looks a lot like the original Tanna (Robert Urich), would be fun to watch driving up and down The Strip.

“Welcome Back, Kotter” (1975-1979)

The premise: A compassionate, wisecracking teacher returns to his inner city high school alma mater to educate a group of troublemakers. The kindhearted and funny Mr. Kotter not only teaches reading, writing and arithmetic, but also lessons about life. Why it works: Networks have a hard time handling two things — comedies that require a brain and any TV series set in a school (don’t get me started on the horrific “Boston Public.”). You’d think that would be a recipe for disaster, but this underrated 1970s series nicely balanced comedy and heart. Jason Segel as Mr. Kotter would be a great fit to go along with a cast of young, talented unknowns as his students.

“Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987-1994)

The premise: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission (if it’s not canceled before then), to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. Why it works: I’m cheating a bit here since it’s been nine years since a “Star Trek” series was last on TV (“Enterprise”), but a reboot of this beloved franchise is overdue. Picture this new version as a next “Next Generation” series with a new captain and crew. Maybe I’m trying to find work for everyone on the recently canceled “Almost Human,” but Michael Ealy would make a great captain.

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today’s horoscopes by jeraldine saunders ARIES (March 21-April 19) Things turn out best for those who make the best of things. You could be distracted by family dramas or minor emergencies. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Sometimes you feel inadequate. Rather than hiding in a corner, begin an educational journey and fill in the gaps in your knowledge. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) People are fed and fulfilled by your high energy. Someone may have a passion ignited when stirred by your example.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Keep it all in perspective. A partner or associate might seem obsessed by material success. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Measure your success against the yardstick of happiness. Remember, a sterling character is golden. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Sidestep conversations about the past that needlessly complicate the present. Hold off on major purchases.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your eyes are bigger than your stomach. Whether shopping or flirting, rein in your impulse to look for something new. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) What can’t be cured must be endured. What seems troublesome or tempting may dissipate without any action on your part. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Saddle inspiration and ride it to the finish line. Gather knowledge from an educated friend, wise relative or professional adviser.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Concentrate on considerate contacts. Casual flirtations that develop in business venues are not appropriate. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) If you’re too wrapped up in your personal passions you might mistake a minor disagreement for a major upheaval. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You could act as an adviser or mentor to someone who’s emotionally close, but be sure to stress your objectivity.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY May 13 Make vacation getaways a reality during the next three to four weeks for the greatest satisfaction. In July and August, you may have a heavy schedule and could be challenged to remain disciplined. Take the time to start a diet or arrange your furnishings or office in a more efficient manner.