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Cooking with Trace My Almond Meal
What the heck is that? It’s
ground almonds. Simple as that…
almond flour is ground blanched
almonds, and almond meal is
just ground almonds. Not just
chopped nuts, but ground into a
consistency somewhere between
cornmeal and wheat flour.
Why almond meal? As I‘ve mentioned, I’m trying to remove grain
from my diet as much as possible,
and almond meal allows me to
hold on to a few favorite foods.
For example: Breaded pork
chops—I bread my marinated
boneless pork loin chops in
almond meal and then either fry
or bake them; Pie crust—instead
of using a traditional pie crust or
a graham cracker crust, I mixed
2 cups almond meal with 3
tablespoons melted butter and 2
tablespoons sugar. I pressed the
mixture into a sturdy pie pan and
prebaked for about 10 minutes. I
added a pumpkin pie batter to the
crust and baked into a delicious
grain-free pumpkin pie; Banana
bread—this was delicious. I made
a quick bread with almond meal
in place of flour, and results were
amazing. The family loved it, and
it was devoured fairly quickly.
Cautions? Well, almond meal is
very calorie dense; it carries a load
of fat, protein, and fiber greater
than regular wheat flour…but it is
very low in carbohydrates.
One-quarter cup almond meal
harbors 160 calories, 14 grams of
fat (1 gram saturated), 6 grams of
carbohydrates (only 3 are sugar),
3 grams of fiber, 5 grams of protein.
One-quarter cup all-purpose
white flour carries 114 calories,
.25 grams fat, 24 grams of carbohydrates (0 are sugar), .6 grams of
fiber, 3 grams of protein.
Although almond flour has a
higher total fat content, the fat is
made up of fatty acids that were
shown to reduce cholesterol levels in a 2002 study conducted by
Canadian researchers. (source:
http://www.livestrong.com/
article/90491-nutrition-information-almond-flour/)
So which one is better? That’s
up to you; for me, having a lighter
carbohydrate load is excellent for
my diabetes.
Here is a quick and easy banana
bread that I made this weekend.
My only warning is to watch the
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Almond Flour Banana
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(http://www.thewannabechef.
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Almond Flour Banana Bread
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 55 minutes
the almond flour, eggs, oil, sugar,
mashed bananas, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, and
salt until there are no clumps.
Fold the walnuts, chocolate
chips, or any other mix-ins you
might want into the batter.
Lightly grease a 5 x 10 or similar-sized loaf pan and pour in the
batter.
Bake for 55 minutes or until a
cake tester inserted in the center
comes out clean. (watch carefully)
Remove from the oven and let
cool completely before slicing.
The bread was delicious and
I cannot wait to try again. Try
your hand at something different
in 2013… and let me know what
you think of this recipe on facebook.com/cookingwithtrace or on
my Web site at cookingwithtrace.
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Ingredients (Makes 1 loaf):
1 1/2 cups almond meal or
almond flour
4 eggs
1/4 cup oil (I used butter)
3/4 cup light or dark brown
sugar
3 medium bananas, mashed
(about 3/4 cup banana puree)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (was out
of nutmeg, substituted cinnamon)
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup walnuts (optional) ( I
added some delicious local walnuts)
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional—maybe next time)
Method:
Preheat your oven to 350
degrees.
In a large bowl, mix together
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Well, it looks as if we are out of
the deep freeze we’ve all had to
endure this winter. I imagine if we
had winters as cold as this winter
every year, there would be a fair
share of residents who would be
inclined to move somewhere else.
It’s like we all got a sample of what
it must feel like to live in Alaska. I,
for one, don’t think I could handle
living in the sub-zero conditions
year for long after year.
The Source welcomes a new
member to our crew—Casey
Smith. Casey hails from Houston
TX via Atchinson KS. He recently
got his degree in Journalism from
Benedictine College. Casey took
an irregular path to land in Grand
Junction. He served four years in
the Navy after high school, then
received a soccer scholarship from
Benedictine. He’s been doing a
great job, especially considering
the weather conditions. It’s a given
that business around here slows
down severely in January. He’s
managed not to let that get him
down. He’s been out there meeting business owners, presenting
the benefits of advertising in The
Source. You’ll see some stories
penned by him in this issue.
Look for Casey to expand our
coverage of sports. He’s working
on a new section that will keep our
readers more informed about the
various sports programs going on
at Colorado Mesa University.
Personally, I think it’s going to
be a few more years before I get
used to calling it Colorado Mesa
University. It has been amazing to
see the changes made to CMU over
that last few years. If you haven’t
wandered around the campus
lately, I suggest you put on your
walking shoes and take a stroll.
The semi-new athletic center is a
great addition to Grand Junction.
Add to that the new dorms, soccer field and student center, and
the entire campus looks huge and
completely different.
I recently checked out the student center, and it’s very impressive. When you check it out, bring
your appetite and sit down for
lunch or dinner. Their food selection is much better than my dorm
experience at University of New
Mexico. At any rate, CMU is making some great changes that benefit
all of Grand Junction and especially our economic growth here.
We bumped [increased] this
issue by four pages. So you’ll have
a lot of useful reading to entertain
you during the month of February.
We’ve got our regular columnists
doing what they do best—being
funny, insightful, witty and provocative. We also have added some
real estate, health and sports to the
mix. I haven’t had the opportunity to
check out the new Sprouts store or
Del Taco, but I’m hearing that their
openings have been well received
by the public. It’s always good to
see new business opening up in
Grand Junction. I’ve also heard that there is a new
residential development happening in the Redlands—Red Rocks
Valley, over 90 new homes being
built with affordable price points.
It’s always a good sign when you
see new homes being built—especially when interest rates on loans
for new homes are so low.
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fever. Hang tough, people, spring
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Community Corner...
County Corner ...
Citizen Attitude Survey 2011
Q3: How
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These
graphs
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http://www.mesacounty.us/
There is
a 93 page
PDF document
with a wealth
of information.
Mesa
County
to Emphasize
the Following
Items Over the Next Two Years:
Q3: How Important Do You Think It Will Be For
Mesa County
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the64%Following 24%
Promote and protect
public safety
Items Over the Next Two Years:
by percentage of respondents who rated the item as a 1 to 5 on a 5-point scale (excluding don't knows)
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Promote and protect public safety
Protect and manage all public resources
Beginning in 2013, the Grand
Valley Health Fair will be an entirely
local event planned by a volunteer
committee composed of various
community organizations, and
blood-screening analysis will be provided through St. Mary’s Hospital.
The new Grand Valley Health Fair
dates will be scheduled in Fall 2013
and will be announced in the near
future. Information about the health
fair will be posted online at mesahealth.org and available through
2-1-1, as dates are firmed up. The
local health fair was associated with
9Health Organization for over 30
years, reaching 3,000 to 4,000 people
every year. In order to reach more
of the Valley’s population, the committee is expanding local partnerships to improve community outreach and include the uninsured
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Q4: Level of Satisfaction with County Resources
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Quality of the County's website
20%
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Info available on Mesa County's programs/services
County's local election services
Services by County motor vehicle offices
Ease of locating County services
Ease of using County services
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Mesa County Fairgrounds
Info available on Mesa County's programs/services
Quality of the County's cable television channel
Services by County motor vehicle offices
Timeliness of info provided by local government
Ease of using County services
Public involvement in County decision-making
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Efforts to inform residents about local issues
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15%
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right move for your business
By Randall Cupp, U.S. Bank
Senior Commercial Team Leader for
Western Colorado 422 White Ave.,
970-244-7250.
Short on cash, but need equipment to run your business? Consider
equipment financing. Also known
as leasing, equipment financing
may be a better alternative to buying, depending on your situation
and needs.
Equipment financing is increasingly more common in business
today. Over the past two years,
equipment leasing has grown
approximately 20%, according to
recent research by the US Small
Business Administration (SBA).
In total, 8 out of 10, US businesses
lease all or part of their equipment,
reports the Equipment Finance
Leasing Association.
Leasing vs. Buying
According to research by the SBA,
the most commonly leased items are
office equipment, computers, and
trucks and vehicles.
When you buy equipment or a
vehicle, you typically have to pay
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Employment & Economics
ket and rebuilding efforts after
Superstorm Sandy.
Caranci is predicting that construction alone will account for
roughly a quarter of all the jobs
added in 2013. “The housing market is gaining more momentum
on its own, and we think it could
be a leader in the job market,” she
said.
That said, political uncertainty
is still hanging over employers, as they wait for Congress to
hash out a budget deal. Amid an
impasse between Democrats and
Republicans, chances are growing that automatic spending cuts,
which aim to reduce deficits by $1.2
trillion over a decade, could take
effect in early March.
“Today’s report is a reminder
of the importance of the need for
Congress to act to avoid self-inflicted wounds to the economy,” said
Alan Krueger, head of President
Obama’s Council of Economic
Advisers, in a White House blog
post.
In January, health care continued
to be a strong sector for job growth,
adding 23,000 jobs. Most of those
jobs were in ambulatory healthcare
services, a category that includes
doctors’ offices and outpatient care
centers. Retail added 33,000 jobs,
with about a third of those gains at
clothing stores. Manufacturers added about 4,000 jobs, but the Labor
Department noted that employment in this sector has changed
little since July 2012.
Overall, the US economy lost 8.8
million jobs in the financial crisis,
and is still down about 3.2 million
jobs from the labor market’s height
in January 2008. Investors were
impressed by the jobs report, however. Stocks rallied, briefly pushing
the Dow above 14,000 for the first
time since October 2007.
Sources: NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
First Published: February 1, 2013: 8:46
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Molly van Lawick.
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Real Estate
2013 – Short Sale Update
Let’s start by defining what a
“short sale” is. A short sale is when
a homeowner owes more on his
home than what the house will
sell for in the current market. The
Grand Junction area has seen an uptick in short sale activity over the
last two years. Over the past few
years, banks have streamlined the
process and have put together better systems to process short sales
for the buyer and seller, ultimately,
allowing the homeowner to avoid
a foreclosure.
The key to a great short sale is
starting early—when you first realize the need to sell the property
or you can no longer stay current
with payments. Short sales become
more difficult as the public sale date
nears. Many banks are willing to
extend the public sale date, which
allows owners to participate in a
short sale.
The most common reasons I see
for a short sale situation are job relocation, loss of a job, family tragedy,
divorce, etc. In helping sellers with
the short sale process, I have found
that homeowners often don’t know
whom to contact when they start
facing a challenge with their home.
They know that they cannot sell the
home for what they bought it for,
or they are unable to stay current
with the payments. Typically, the
first call is to the bank holding the
mortgage, and the bank unfortunately does not offer many feasible
solutions. Homeowners often end
these phone conversations feeling
more confused and frustrated.
One solution banks offer most
homeowners is loan modifications.
If homeowners meet certain requirements, they can qualify for HARP, a
program that will modify loan terms
to make payments affordable.
Some banks are starting to allow
short sales to homeowners who are
not delinquent on their payments
but are in a situation where they
have to sell their home. In years
past, it was typical for the bank not
to work with owners until they were
at least 30 days late on a payment.
Owners facing challenges with
selling their home at market value
or owners not able to continue to
make their payment can contact a
REALTOR® to help navigate the
short sale process. A short sale-
fifth largest commercial bank in
the nation. We provide the financial strength and stability that your
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This information represents the
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intended to be a forecast of future
events or a guarantee of future
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certified REALTOR® can assist an
owner to help alleviate the stress
of dealing with the bank and make
the process easier for the seller.
Something to keep in mind: With
a short sale, the lender is the one
that pays commissions and all
closing costs. The REALTOR® will
also negotiate with the bank for any
deficiency to be forgiven. With the
current Debt Relief Act in place for
the remainder of 2013, homeowners
can rest assured that they will not
be taxed on that deficiency.
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facing hardship making a house
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less than what they owe, suggest
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By Molly van Lawick
The jobs recovery continued to
crawl forward at a slow pace in
January, and there’s little hope it
will pick up any time soon. The
US economy added 157,000 jobs
in January, according to a Labor
Department report released in
January. That’s slower growth
than in December, when employers hired 196,000 workers.
Call it “Groundhog Day in the
labor market,” said Heidi Shierholz,
economist with the Economic Policy
Institute. “It’s the same old crap.
We’ve been waking up to this same
story for two years.”
The unemployment rate was
7.9% in January, as 12.3 million people were counted as unemployed.
Overall, hiring is barely keeping
pace with population growth, and
the Labor Department noted that
the unemployment rate has barely
changed since September 2012.
Economists surveyed by
CNNMoney are expecting job
growth to continue in 2013 at
roughly the same pace as last year,
when the economy added 2.2 million jobs. They predict the unemployment rate will end the year at
7.5%.
Beata Caranci, vice president
and deputy chief economist at
TD Economics, said that many
of the job gains are likely to happen at the end of the year, though.
Construction hiring could be one
of the highlights this year. It was
the single hardest-hit sector in the
recession but has recently shown
some signs of life. In January, construction firms added 28,000 jobs,
reflecting a stronger housing mar-
by obtaining a loan for the balance.
Once you finish paying for it, you
own it.
With equipment financing, the
lender actually buys and owns
the equipment and then “rents” it
to back to your business at a flat
monthly rate for a set number of
months. At the end of the lease, your
business has several options: One
is that it can purchase the equipment for its fair market value (or
a fixed or predetermined amount),
continue leasing, return it or lease
new equipment. In other words,
with equipment financing, you are
merely paying for the use of the
equipment.
So why lease?
By financing equipment, you
leave money in the bank that can
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Sicko Inclinations
TV commercials thoughtfully warned me to expect the flu,
so I was ready when it came.
I bought the remedy whose TV
ads featured a disheveled, snotty,
boo-hoo-for-me woman whose
husband, thanks to the remedy, is
suddenly feeling so much better
that he whisks himself off to work,
whistling merrily, to infect countless others; while she is forced to
whine, snivel snottily and boohoo-hoo at ho-ho-home. I think it
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And it did! I could have had that
flu a full seven days, whereas, with
the medicine, I was over it in just a
week. However, I do have an aweinspiring sensitivity to medicines.
Case in point: One morning
years ago, prior to eye surgery, I
was given just one half of a tablet of Veloceraptoralium, I think it
was; and I misplaced the rest of the
day! My mother, who tended me
during those drugged, eye-patched
hours, told me that I fell asleep in
the bathtub. When awakened, I
discussed at length the snow tires
my brother had purchased months
before. When a repair truck drove
into the yard late that afternoon, I
ran from window to window, she
said, angered because I couldn’t
find a door to open for the repairman. She said I kept insisting he
was a florist with a truckload of
flowers from people wishing me a
speedy recovery.
Days later, when she relayed all
this, I was astonished. I’d never
known that Mother had such a gift
for exaggeration.
But I digress. Flu-ish, phlegmish and mucusly-muckish, I read
the tiny-type instructions on the
Diplodocustrofin box. They said
I shouldn’t take the medicine if I
were pregnant, asthmatic, hypertensive, anemic, threatened, endangered or extinct. “Do not use this
medication when operating heavy
equipment,” the box warned.
“Heavy equipment,” I mulled
stuffily, “like this pencil.”
I’m not a born nurse. I haven’t
met a sicko yet—including
myself—to whom I was raring to
cater. My method with my own
illness is to deny its existence for
three days. I then fall on my face
for a couple more, so sick I’d have
to rally in order to die. I finally
rise from my own ashes, Phoenixfashion, immediately after I’ve
made an appointment with the
doctor.
I always like the way my three
sons handled illness. They surrendered to it immediately, aware that
doing so transformed them into
pampered and peevish tyrants,
impossible to placate.
“There’s a wrinkle on the pillow,
and I can’t sleep,” one kid moaned.
“This juice is too orange,” another
whined. “My eye lashes ache,” the
third complained.
I also liked the way they got well.
Their progress was swift, obvious
and gratifying. Told I would keep
him home from school, a boy might
feign protest, feebly attempting to
rise from his bed of pain. I’d push
fluids and dose him liberally with
tri-buffered Pachycephalominic-T.
rex.
Within two hours, he would
rasp through parched lips, “Mom,
I don’t think I can eat anything
except maybe 7-Up—and some
ravioli with hot sauce.”
Four hours later, holding court
on the couch, he’d plaintively
announce he sensed strength
returning. “I could maybe draw
pictures of dinosaurs,” he’d sigh.
By noon, he’d developed a monstrous craving for watermelon Jolly
Ranchers. Twenty minutes before
his brothers were due from school,
he was suffering only from nearterminal boredom.
“Can I go to the bike jumps? I’m
better now, and I’ll go to school
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“Aha!” I yell out loud, all alone,
several times a day. “Now, THAT
is a great idea for a column.”
Each of these “great” column
ideas gets jotted down and
eventually assigned its very own
file on my computer. And there
they sit, these unrealized kernels of
brilliance, for months and months
and sometimes years. The lucky
ones get to experience life as an
actually Irrelativity column, while
the rest languish in the lonely dark
corners of my “WRITING TO GET
DONE NOW” folder, yelling “pick
me, pick me” each time I open it up
to poke around.
Every so often, like today, I do
a little cleaning, tossing out all
the files that I know I’ll never see
through to full column-hood.
But tossing them out seems
like such a waste, right? I mean,
just because I’ll never bother to
write them doesn’t mean that you
shouldn’t. So, here are…
IRRELATIVITY
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I’LL NEVER WRITE (BUT YOU
SHOULD)
IDEA: “CB Radio” Here’s a
column premise based on the
fact that my van has a CB radio
in it. Remember those? Didn’t
think so. I suggest, when writing
this one, that you focus on the
humorous opportunities available
when dealing with archaic
communication devices. Perhaps
liken having a CB to having a
telegraph key on the dash or a
trunk full of carrier pigeons. Also,
when I was 10 years old, I wanted
a CB more than anything in the
world; now that I’m an adult, I
have one, and I don’t care. See?
Pretty poignant stuff, what with
the growing older and all that. CB
radios are deep wells of serious
emotion, good buddy.
IDEA: “Dalai Lama vs. TSA”
I suspect that the Dalai Lama
doesn’t have to fly commercial, but
if he did, I wonder how he’d fare
going through security at Logan
Airport at 5am. Would he be able
to hold true to his conviction that
“my religion is kindness” with
someone yelling at him in a grating
Boston accent, “ALL SHOES OFF!
REMOVE YOUR BELTS, COATS
AND SCARVES! NOTHING IN
YOUR
POCKETS!
LAPTOPS
OUT OF YOUR BAGS! YOU TOO,
BALDY!” For maximum humor,
this column should conclude with
His Holiness using a series of
incredibly filthy swear words or
kneeing a TSA agent in the groin.
Or both, preferably.
IDEA: “Screened Hard Drive”
Yes, another air travel-based idea.
How could you possibly have
too many of these? My bag got
searched when I flew out of the
quaint and friendly Grand Junction
Airport. The woman pulled the
LaCie Rugged portable hard drive,
the kind with the orange rubber
case around it, from my bag. She
turned it over in her hands, looked
at me and said, “What is it?” I told
her it was a hard drive. She replied,
“What’s it do?” She had never
seen a hard drive, nor even heard
of one. Yet, she was in charge of
keeping explosives off of planes.
Whoa. When you write this one,
don’t be too mean to her, because
she really was very nice about the
whole thing.
IDEA: “Lassie the Cat” Last
summer my sprinkler went
haywire and was spraying into my
open front door. I was upstairs and
didn’t realize anything was wrong,
but it freaked out my cat, and her
resulting loud squalling alerted me
to the situation. She saved me from
some serious water damage to
my floor. I think this story would
make a great column about how
dependable, loyal and helpful cats
can be. But I can’t write it because
I’m trying really, really hard not to
write about my cat. So, when YOU
write it, make sure you mention
how cute she is, and how smart,
and how she likes to ride around
on my shoulders, and how, if I ever
fell down a well, she would, just
like Lassie, definitely go for help.
Provided there’s nothing around
to distract her, such as a bird, or a
bit of string, or a sunbeam, or an
empty box, or a pinecone, or some
invisible thing that only she can
see.
on it. That’s it—an angry, impatient,
heavily-caffeinated
GPS!
The
whole column spelled itself out in
my head at that moment, word for
word, but I was too tired to write
down anything more than “Spilled
Coffee on my GPS.” And now, so
far removed from that moment,
and no longer groggy from a nap,
the idea doesn’t seem nearly as
funny. Good luck.
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By Lyle Stout
[email protected]
Wi t h t h e i r
usual smug
attitude, members of the City
Council of Grand Junction recently
announced that they would present
a plan on the next ballot to allow the
citizens to levy another stupid tax
upon themselves. This comes about
because of the fact that the city has
once again stolen more money from
its citizens than is allowed by law
through over-taxation, so the stupid
tax is to test the intelligence of the
taxpayers to see if they really are
stupid enough to allow the city to
keep that stolen money and then
allow the council to decide how to
spend it. In the words of the councilors, they will be deliberately vague
on exactly how they will spend the
money and later take some suggestions from taxpayers on how best to
spend it. That plan does not mean
they will use any of the ideas presented, but, as all parents know, it’s
best to let the children think they
have a say in things. The council has been emboldened in these
endeavors by the recent state ballot
question that failed regarding the
rollback of the $45 extra charge on
vehicle registrations that has cost
the taxpayers millions of dollars but
was allowed to stand by the very
people on whom the extra tax was
levied.
If the stupid tax passes and council members do ask the taxpayers
where they should spend the stolen
money, I think a few ideas should
be added to the proposal. Why not
Bollan’s Beefs
A recent
Facebook post
by a fourteenyear-old said,
“I believe that hard work will pay
off.” Because it was so refreshing
to hear such words in an era where
this idea is anachronistic, I didn’t
bother telling her countless stories
of hard work that didn’t pay off.
And I didn’t tell her that, in America
today, hard work rarely pays off
for the person who does the hard
work.
America has slipped into freemarket free-fall. And we’ve been
falling for so long that this little girl
and her generation will never even
understand what hit them. The rich
have been getting richer for a half a
century, while the poor have gotten
poorer. The middle class has held its
ground, for the most part, but has
done so by having fewer children
and more incomes. Productivity
gains because of globalization and
computerization have been stolen by
the well-placed few. Income mobility is low and has trended lower for
ask the taxpayers
if they want to put
the extra taxes into
their child’s college fund—or their
own retirement
fund? How about
asking the taxpayers if they want to
use it to help pay
the rising cost of
their utilities in this unusually cold
winter? What about using it to fill
the car up a time or two with $2.75/
gallon gas, or put it toward the family’s food costs, or prepaying a little
on the home mortgage?
The reason those proposals will
not be considered is because they
would require giving the money
back to the people from whom it
was actually stolen. I know the City
Council will explain that it really
isn’t enough to give each taxpayer
much, and some of it will go back to
big companies from which the city
stole money. But if those businesses paid the taxes, don’t they logically have a presence in the area?
Don’t they all have employees who
might benefit from the taxes being
By Jack Bollan
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A Slow, Painful Death
half a century. Less than one in five
Americans born at or below middle
income make their way into the
upper-income reaches. That is the
worst record in the Western World.
Europe was once the bastion of aristocracy, now it is us.
Unions have no power today. The
few that exist are severely weakened
by the billions of dollars spent each
year by corporations to minimize
the say of workers in how wealth is
allocated. Labor Day is now a confusing holiday understood mostly
as a day that laborers get a day off
rather than as a celebration of the
importance and centrality of workers and the power of workers united in creating and sustaining the
wealth and greatness of our country.
The worker has been emasculated;
unions defeated.
So no one stepped in to say,
“NO!” when NAFTA was passed,
sending hundreds of thousands of
decent-paying jobs to Mexico. It all
happened in a flash. The minute
the border opened, savvy corporations with too-tight government
ties had in place facilitiesnorthern
Mexico. Those who worry about
job losses in America because of
illegals seem naively unaware that
American corporations have moved
millions of jobs overseas in the past
20 years. It’s legal immigration of
American jobs overseas so that a
few people can make a lot of money
on the backs of poor foreigners and
American workers.
Our manufacturing jobs vanished in a heartbeat, and they
won’t be back. WalMart is nothing
but a Chinese manufacturing outlet chain. Sam Walton and family
got filthy rich by selling out the
American worker. They now claim
to treat their workers well, but that’s
bull. They could treat their workers
well if they refused to buy anything
not made in America, to allow the
return of manufacturing jobs to
America. “Paying workers well”
in America today means paying
pennies on the dollar compared to
20 years ago.
And we are not exposed to
alternatives. We live in a box. The
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rather than spent on things such
as the Avalon Theater renovation
and that ultimate pie-in-the-sky
Lost Colonies Parko? If the city has
$3 million to sink into the Avalon
Theater, after it easily “found” $34
million to build the new Public
Safety Building on Fifth and Ute,
do it really need more of the public’s
hard-earned money?
I think this proposal exposes the
root of the problem in our system.
These duly elected officials cannot see a dollar they don’t want to
spend. If they over-tax you, there
is never a concept that they should
give the money back. They feel as if
they’ve lost money by returning the
stolen funds. If your utility bill was
in error, and you were overcharged
one month, wouldn’t you expect the
utility company to refund the overcharge? If a grocery store charged
you $20 instead of $2 for a can of
soup, and you back to get a refund,
would you tolerate it if the market
told you that the amount they overcharge all the customers would be
so small a refund individually that
they wanted to keep the money to
make some improvement in their
store?
Then why should the city entity be
any different? In a sense, city dwellers are their customers, and they’ve
stolen money from those customers.
Now, they ask if you’ll vote to let
them keep the stolen money. If the
voters give them this money, what
incentive will they have not to steal
more next year?!
I’ve never thought that city council members or the county commissioners or other elected governing
groups are intrinsically dishonest or
evil. I just think that it gives them
a greater feeling of importance if
they’re spending money and awarding contracts and building stuff they
can hang a plaque on that may
include their names.
The last time they stole extra money from the taxpayers, they said that
there was really no mechanism in
place to give stolen tax money back.
I would say to them: Either make
that mechanism, or quit illegally
taking money from your struggling,
already overtaxed populace.
American press was purchased by
corporate America 30 years ago.
At the time, I remember the oftvoiced concerns about what would
happen to free speech in a nation
where every major news resource
was owned by a corporation. Now,
no one is concerned because it is
a mundane fact of life. Our press
is boring, myopic and serves only
to produce profit for some or other
corporation. It does not tackle tough
questions because it has forgotten
what those questions might be.
America has become a nation
of sheep. Right here in Grand
Junction, I have watched as company after company has shut its
doors and moved operations overseas. Management at Choice Hotels
should have been tarred and feathered as they moved hundreds of
jobs overseas for the sake of a few
pennies’ profit, for the benefit of
some rich guy somewhere.
Politics have become a meaningless joke. The Republican Party is a
party of rich people and wanna-bes.
“Wanna-bes” are white guys making $35 to $60 thousand who fancy
that they have “made it.” That’s the
first joke. The second joke is that
they think they “made it” by luck,
pluck and hard work. They’re too
self-satisfied to realize how badly
they have been screwed because
they continue to espouse a political
belief bought and paid for by people
intent on transferring wealth to a
new uber-wealthy aristocracy.
To be able to stay in the race, the
Democratic Party says one thing
and does another as it panders to
the wealthy. Politics is politics from
within the box that blinds us to the
gradual but steady decay of our
culture. We have no alternatives.
Slogan-based reasoning blinds us
to out-of-the-box alternatives that
would allow us to shake this nation
hard enough to break and repair
persistent problems.
We live in a box. John Lennon
wrote, “Keep ‘em doped with religion and sex and TV. And they
think they’re so clever and classless and free.” But we’re not. What
this country needs is a good, hard
shaking, an awakening to the fact
that the free market is a contrivance that leads right back to where
this nation started, with a few rich
people governing a bunch of poor,
ignorant peasants.
A fourteen-year-old can still hear
and believe a voice from a bygone
era in American that said, “Hard
work will pay off.” But without
the hard work and courage of millions of workers united in unions or
behind a strong government willing
to pass labor laws with teeth, hard
work will do nothing but generate
wealth for the new aristocracy.
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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing,
housing, flying and entertaining
President Obama and his family
last year, according to the author
of a new book on taxpayer-funded
presidential perks.
In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the
royal family.
Author Robert Keith Gray
writes in “Presidential Perks Gone
Royal” that Obama isn’t the only
president to have taken advantage
of the expensive trappings of his
office. But the amount of money
spent on the first family, he argues,
has risen tremendously under the
Obama administration and needs
to be reined in.
Gray told The Daily Caller that
the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama
family last year is the “total cost of
the presidency,” factoring the cost
of the “biggest staff in history at
the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of
appointed czars and an Air Force
One “running with the frequency
of a scheduled air line.”
“The most concerning thing,
I think, is the use of taxpayer
funds to actually abet his re-election,” Gray, who worked in the
Eisenhower administration and
for other Republican presidents,
said in an interview with TheDC
on Wednesday.
“The press has been so slow in
picking up on this extraordinary
increase in the president’s expenses,” Gray told TheDC.
Specifically, Gray said taxpayer
dollars are subsidizing Obama’s
re-election effort when he uses Air
Force One to jet across the country
campaigning.
When the trip is deemed political, it’s customary for the president
to pay the equivalent of a first class
commercial ticket for certain passengers. But Gray says that hardly
covers the taxpayer cost of flying the president and his staffers
around on Air Force One.
“When the United States’ billiondollar air armada is being used
politically, is it fair to taxpayers that
we only be reimbursed by the president’s campaign committee for the
value of one first-class commercial
ticket for each passenger who is
deemed aboard ‘for political purposes?’” Gray asks in the book.
“And is that bargain-price
advantage fair to those opposing
an incumbent president?”
In the book, Gray admits
Americans want their president to
be safe and comfortable but argues
the system should be reformed to
stop the amount of unquestioned
perks given to the president.
“There is no mechanism for any-
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The president can to appoint
high-paid staffers without Senate
confirmation: Obama has 469 senior
staffers and 226 are paid more than
$100,000 a year, according to the
book. Seventy-seven are paid as
much as $172,000 per year. He also
has appointed 43 “czars.”
The president can vacation for
free at Camp David: Gray writes
that each round trip made to Camp
David costs the taxpayers $25,350.
It’s also estimated that the combined transportation and personnel costs for a Camp David visit are
$295,000 per night.
The president has a full-time
movie projectionist in the White
House theater: Projectionists sleep
at the White House and are there 24
hours a day in case anyone needs
to see a movie. “Compared to the
450 times President Carter used
the movie theater in his four years
in the White House, the average
American citizen, according to
industry statistics, goes out to see
a movie slightly less than five times
a year,” Gray writes.
The president’s family’s gets certain travel and security expenses
paid while vacationing: “First Lady
Michelle Obama drew flack from
the media and irate citizens when
it was disclosed that, not counting
Saturdays and Sundays, she spent
42 days on vacation — within the
span of one year.”
The president’s dog gets its own
high-paid staffer: “Bo made the
news when he and his handler were
flown to join the president on vacation in Maine,” Gray wrote about
the Obama family dog. “It has been
reported that the first family’s dog
handler was paid $102,000, last
year.”
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help you reach your nutritional
expectations, but the company has
its own personal fitness gym.
Owner and certified personal
trainer and nutritionist Bill
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supplement store,” Shumate said.
“That’s when I discovered I
didn’t want necessarily to give up
the joy that I have from working
with people. So when we found this
place, I realized I could combine the
two.”Shumate is currently helping
many people push their limits and
become better athletes on top of
supplementation. His training
tactics are altered from person
to person. Shumate’s different
exercise strategies target certain
areas, such as weight loss, muscle
gain, cardiovascular endurance,
lean muscle attainability, flexibility,
implementing sports specific
criteria and more. From an MMA
fighter to a ballerina, Shumate can
guide you to be the best at what
you do.
If you go into a gym, they are
looking at you physically. If you go
into a nutritionist, they are looking
Shumate is putting all of his talents
to work by helping people reach
their highest potential in all areas
related to nutrition and physical
fitness.
By incorporating state-of-theart nutrition software, Shumate
will pinpoint where you currently
stand healthwise, and literally map
out where you can go.
The best part of it is, Shumate
will not only give you the
knowledge of how to attain your
desired health and fitness level, he
can also personally train you on
the spot.
“My goal is to empower you
to be the best person you can
be. Whether that’s knowledge,
overcoming some success issues
or just becoming a better athlete,
here it’s all about creating the best
environment for you to thrive in,”
said Shumate.
“At Alpha Sports we take
the time to help our customers
learn,” Shumate continued.
“Learning what the muscles do,
why we take breaks, why we add
these combinations of exercises
and the benefits of taking certain
supplements.”
“We do that through exercise,
nutrition, supplementation, and I
think the emotional and spiritual
value is always there, too,”
Shumate said.
Shumate has been NASM
(National Association of Sports
Medicine) certified for three years,
and a certified nutritionist for a
year and a half.
“I have been in town working
with a local franchise gym for the
past four years, and when I decided
to start my own business, I was
really looking into just opening a
at you nutritionally. If you go into
buy supplements, they are just
trying to sell you something
“So here at Alpha Sports, you
get the total package because I am
a coach,” Shumate said. “We are
going to start off with nutrition,
next we’ll look at your exercise,
and then I’m going to make a
recommendation for a supplement
that is more appropriate for what
you’re doing and what you’re
eating. Lastly, we’ll absorb all the
exercise considerations and take
you to the next level with your
training and see if we can get you
the results you’re looking for.”
Alpha Sports and Nutrition is
located at 2490 Patterson Rd., Suite
#7 Grand Junction,. Store hours
are Monday-Friday 9am-7pm,
Saturday 10am-6pm and closed on
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Philanthropy
By Jade Inks
Philanthropy—one word, four syllables,
and a world of meanings. Etymologically,
it means “love of man.” The BOW project,
(Better Our World) breathes life and meaning
into the word “philanthropy.” The project
challenged me to find my own definition of
philanthropy.
Philanthropy is everywhere. It’s a New
York Times headline; it’s volunteering at your
local homeless shelter, or even helping your
mom bring the groceries inside. Philanthropy
can be right under your nose—I know now
that it’s definitely under mine. It’s a healthy
sacrifice of your time or money just to help a
specific cause, such as a charity. Philanthropy
has many meanings, but what I’ve learned
is that the root of philanthropy comes from
love, need and a duty to improve the general
welfare of mankind.
There are important reasons to help others
through philanthropy. When you use your
skills to help others, you can help make the
world a better place to live. I believe a very
important reason to help others is because,
in the end, it helps yourself. By giving, you
create a balance. I feel when I help others
I gain a new perspective on the world. In
return, I gain a greater appreciation for the
things that are really important.
It’s also important to help others because,
when you help, you can inspire those whom
you helped (or people who observed you
helping) to help others. In the end, it creates
a cycle of giving. If people didn’t realize the
importance of helping others, we could be
living in a very selfish world. The BOW project has raised my awareness of important reasons to help others through philanthropy.
After completing The BOW project, I know
of several different causes I would be interested in helping. I would love to volunteer at
Hospice, a place where many people spend
have made a difference caring for someone.
Another cause I would be interested in
helping is the Humane Society/Animal
Shelter. I love animals. I know that, if I volunteered my time at the animal shelter, it
would be worthwhile. I’d especially like to
learn about caring for animals and helping
them find loving homes.
The BOW project has changed my understanding of the word “philanthropy” and
increased my desire to help. I never truly
knew what philanthropy meant. I always
thought it was just donating money or help-
ing at the homeless shelter. I never understood that philanthropy is everywhere and
that you don’t have to be a certain age to be
able to give back. Philanthropy is the true
spirit of giving without expecting anything
back in the hopes of making the world a better place.
Note: The BOW project is a school project where we interview local philanthropic
organizations and recognize them for their
service and impact on the community. The
whole point is to discover what it means to
us to Better our World.
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their time caring
for those nearing
the end of life.
There is always
a need to help
people who are
growing elderly
and those who are
dying. A reason I
am extremely interested in volunteering here
is because I would enjoy bringing comfort
to those nearing the end. It would be a very
rewarding experience knowing that I could
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a taste of the country's rich culinary
heritage with a delicious variety of recipes
painstakingly gathered from the royal
kitchens of Nepal to the seaswept shores of
South India. These recipes offer a truly
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Appetizer
Soup & Salad
Breads
Vegetarian
Kawab & Grill
Chicken
Lamb
Tibetian
Seafood
Biryani
House Specials
Kathmandu Sampler
Desserts
Beverages
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Entertainment Calendar
February
Thru 15 Feb-Between Here and
There, CMU Art Department pres-
ents a dialogue in fiber, Art Gallery,
University Center, 1100 North
Avenue. 248-1833.
A Month of Love
Couples Spa Treatment
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Invite You to Experience
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Evergreen Grass Band from Wisconsin
FlAT TOP REED
Compete for Fun & Prizes
02-10 BAR OLYMPICS 8 Categories to Play
Pick a partner & become a Cruiser’s CHAMP
02-15 THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR
Alt Rock from Boulder
02-16
02-22 Cat
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02-23
03-02 Lowlands
03-07 Velvet Truck Stop
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Thru14 Mar-Young at Heart at
Powderhorn. Thursdays throughout Powderhorn Season, skiers
over age 50 ski with friends and
guide from Ski & Ride School. 2685700.
6 Feb-1 May-Wacky Wednesdays,
9-10am, Bookcliff Activity Center
540 29.25 Road. For ages 6 months
to 5 yearse254-3866.
7 Feb-30 May-Senior Dances
w/Live Music, every Thursday
7:30-10pm, Senior Center, 550
Ouray Ave. Agest 50+ are free!
254-3866.
7 Feb-Deuces Wild, Senior
Center, 550 Ouray. For ages 50+.
Enjoy dinner, then play Vegas-style
games for prizes. 243-7408.
7 Feb-Mesa Fiber Arts Guild
Meeting, 6pm, City Clerk’s Office
Breakroom, 250 N. Fifth St. All are
welcome. Park on street and enter
from the west side of the building.
Bugs and Fiber; share your interest
in spinning, weaving, knitting. M.
Eversole, 818-269-9948.
7 Feb-Family Science NightUnderwater Adventure, 2660
Unaweep. Call for time, info: 2541626.
8 Feb-The Hunts, 7:30pm, GJHS
Auditorium, 1400 N. Fifth St.
General seating. Award-winning
family of 9, the Hunts mix fiddling with world-ranked step
dancing and vocal harmonies.
Mesa Community Concert Assn,
243-1979l.
9 Feb-Two River Sams Chapter
Good Sam RV Club lunch, 11:30am.
Call for location: 523-5625 or 2700471.
9 Feb-Sweet Heart 5k/10k Run
& Health Expo, Fruita Community
Center, 324 N. Coulson, Fruita.
Times, info: 858-0360.
9 Feb-Saxophone Day Final
Concert, 4pm, Moss Performing
Arts Center Recital Hall. Free! 970248-1604.
9 Feb-Sweetheart Gala, Bookcliff
Country Club, High Desert Opera.
Info: 523-9605.
11 Feb-Home Loan Taste of
the Grand Valley-11th Annual,
4-7:30pm, Two Rivers Convention
Center, 159 Main Street. Adults $13,
seniors $10, children ages 4-12, $6.
At door, tickets prices are $2 more.
243-5364.
12 Feb-The Notebook, Dinner
and Movie at the Avalon, 7:15pm,
645 Main. Bring dinner receipt
from downtown restaurant and get
in free. No receipt? $5 per person.
14 Feb-Valentines for Veterans
Concert, 7pm, Avalon Theater, 645
Main. Complimentary event for
Veterans.
14 Feb-Jazz, Champagne and
Chocolate Valentine’s Day at
Varaison Winery, 405 W. First
St., Palisade, 6:30-8:30pm. Bring
your sweetie for a romantic event
or enjoy a girls’ night out on
Valentine’s Day. Every woman
receives a red rose. $50/person;
souvenir wine glass and wine
glass holder tray with every ticket!
Listen to live jazz while sipping
champagne and enjoying chocolate
in many forms, including dripping
fountain. Atasteofthevalley.net,
(970) 216-6922.
14 Feb-Dennis Parker Cello
Concert, accompanied by Lina
Morita on piano, 1221 N. Twelfth.
Call CMU box office for info, time:
248-1604.
14-16 Feb-Beyond Boundaries
Dance Collective winter Dance
Concert, 1100 North Avenue
(CMU). Details: 248-1604.
14-16 Feb-“I Love You, You’re
Perfect, Now Change,” Creative
Avenues presentation, 7:30pm, 835
N. 26th St. $15 adult, $10 student/
senior. Season passes (4 shows)
for $50; senior/student $36. 2615363.
15 Feb-22 Mar-Knights of
Columbus Fish Fry, 4-7pm, Council
1321 Immaculate Heart of Hary,790
26.5 Road, Grand Junction. $8
adults, $7 children 6-12; children
under 6 free. All proceeds benefit
Knights of Columbus local charities. Great food, fun with family
and friends in Christian community. Baked cod, breaded Pollock
fish, green beans, mashed potatoes,
French fried, clam chowder, coleslaw, dessert, drinks. 260-7664.
19 Feb-Flute Day Final Concert,
4pm, Moss Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall. Free! 970-248-1604.
19 Feb-A Hard Day’s Night,
Dinner and Movie at Avalon,
7:15pm, 645 Main. Bring dinner
receipt from downtown restaurant
and get in free. No receipt? $5 per
person.
20 Feb-Cross Country Skiing at
County Line, Grand Mesa, Mesa
CO. Meet 10am @ Lincoln Park
Barn, transportation provided, $25;
if you have your own transportation, meet @ 11am at County Line,
$5. 254-3866.
20 Feb-Adult Art Class &
Evening Workshop, making your
own garden journals w/Maxine
Buchholtz, including folded packet
accordion book, Botanical Gardens,
655 Struthers. Material fee $6.
Register by 17 Feb: 245-9030.
20 Feb-Old Spanish Trail Lecture,
7-8:30pm, Museum of the West, 462
Ute Avenue. Doors open at 6:30pm,
free, open to the public. 970-2637902.
20 Feb-Orchids 101, Garden Talk
Brown Bag Lunch Class, noon1pm, Western Colorado Botanical
Gardens Library, 655 Struthers. $5;
registration encouraged: 254-3866;
drop-ins welcome, too! More info:
245-3288.
21 Feb-Poets & Writers of CMU
Reading Series continues with
Charles McLeod, Randy Phillis,
Alana Voth, Planet Earth & 4
Directions Gallery, 524 Colorado
Avenue. Time, info: 256-9630.
22 Feb-The Oak Ridge Boys,
7pm (doors), 8pm (show), the
Avalon Theater, 645 Main St. All
seats reserved; everyone must
have a ticket for admission. Will
Call available at door; all ages welcome. 243-8497.
23 Feb-Clarinet Day Final
Concert, CMU, 1231 N. Twelfth St.
Info: CMU Box Office: 248-1604.
23 Feb-We’ll always have Paris,
1940s Benefit Ball, CMU Ballroom,
Colorado Mesa University campus. This event is to raise funds
for a People to People Student
Ambassador ’s Australian
Adventure program. Info: 8123863.
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Competition Finals, 1100 North
Avenue. 243-6787 (Symphony
office).
26 Feb-Gran Torino, Dinner
and Movie at Avalon, 7:15pm, 645
Main. Bring dinner receipt from
downtown restaurant and get in
free. No receipt? $5 per person.
28 Feb-9 Mar-Pirates of
Penzance, 1100 N. Twelfth Street.
Call CMU box office for info, times,
costs: 248-1604.
March
1 Mar-Super Fun Friday, 9-11am,
ages 3-5, Bookcliff Activity Center,
540 29.25 Road. $5. 254-3866.
1-3 Mar-Home Improvement
& Remodeling Expo, Two Rivers
Convention Center, 159 Main
Street. Hours: Friday, March 1:
10am - 6pm; Saturday, March 2:
10am - 6pm; Sunday, March 3:
10am - 4pm. Join the Housing
& Building Association of
Northwestern Colorado’s 2013
Home Improvement & Remodeling
Expo! With over 100 different
vendors, there is something here
for everyone—an event not to be
missed! For more Information call
970-245-0253.
2 Mar-Mesa County Library
One Book One Mesa County, 7pm,
Avalon Theater, 645 Main. This
year’s selection is “The Dog Stars”
by Peter Heller, a novel with an
apocalyptic theme. Call 243-7033
for more info.
5 Mar-American Portrait Concert
w/ Elsie Helmke, harp, Grand
Junction High School Auditorium,
1400 N. Fifth St. Call Symphony
office: 243-6787.
5 Mar-From Russia with Love,
Dinner and Movie at Avalon,
7:15pm, 645 Main. Bring dinner
receipt from downtown restaurant
and get in free. No receipt? $5 per
person.
7 Mar-Mesa Fiber Arts Guild
Meeting, 6pm, City Clerk’s Office
Breakroom, 250 N. Fifth St. All are
welcome. Share a historic or vintage piece! Park on street and enter
from the west side of the building.
Bugs and Fiber; share your interest
in spinning, weaving, knitting. M.
Eversole, 818-269-9948.
9 Mar-Celtic Fire, 7:30pm, GJHS
Auditorium, 1400 N. Fifth St.
Dazzling Irish music and dance!
243-1979.
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Tunes
By Frank Moore
[email protected]
Discover New/Old Music
As a lover of music (and its
being a HUGE part of my daily
life), I am constantly searching for
new, and in some cases, NOT so
new bands to discover. Although
all the classic bands are great for
picking up your mood and taking
you to a better place in your life’s
daily grind, I find it refreshing
to search for and open my mind
to new treasures in the music
world.
I stumbled upon a band not so
long ago called the Big Wu...yeah,
it seems like an odd name for a
band, but these guys really rock—
a great “jam band,” some would
call it…. The Big Wu, a band out
of Minnesota that derived its
name from the movie “Joe vs.
the Volcano,” has actually been
around since 1992, but, again, they
are new to me! If you get a chance,
check them out! Leaning toward
the album “Spring Reverb,” the
song “Break of day” will get you
grooving, for sure!
Another awesome band I have
been listening to lately is called
Thievery Corporation. Again,
it’s not so much a “new” band—
it was formed in 1995—but it’s
going strong with a release in 2011
called “Culture of Fear.” It fits my
own description of trippy acid jazz
and Reggae mashed together with
psychedelic grooves. It’s got great
instrumental guitar riffs, trippy
synthesizer tracks and vocals that
will have you hooked in no time!
To get acquainted, try a jam titled
“Web of Deception” off the album
“Culture of Fear.”
If you want just to chill, sample
another great band I’ve stumbled
upon recently called Explosions
in the Sky. It’s mainly an instrumental band, out of Austin TX,
formed in 1999. It’s not your average “rock band” nor a band to get
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your blood pumping with upbeat
jams, but it delivers some very
relaxing tracks, for sure.
I will leave you with one more
band I’ve been listening to, a band
by the name of Elephant Revival,
formed in 2006, from Nederland
CO! I happened to see the band
live here last June! if you like
Mumford and Sons, you will
definitely dig these guys! They’re
kind of a bluegrass/folk with a
Celtic nature thrown into the mix.
Instruments include upright bass,
washboard, electric banjo, viola,
mandolin, acoustic guitar and
musical saw. The band has opened
for acts such as Bela Fleck and
the Flecktones, George Clinton
and Parliament Funkadelic, and
Leftover Salmon.
While the music we usually
rely on to help us through life,
the bands we have grown to love
and depend on, still move us and
calm us, it’s always a good thing
to discover new jams. Most likely, none of the above mentioned
bands will ever have a Top-40 hit.
But it’s great to open your mind to
new things—and you never know
what you might find to tame the
beast that lives in all of us. There
is an endless universe of new/old
music to discover out there!
A ‘Greenhorn’ skis
Powderhorn!
By Casey Smith
[email protected]
The sun was shining, the powder was fresh, and
the groundhog misinterpreted his shadow. Over the
weekend of February 2, one thing is for sure—my first
experience on Powderhorn Mountain was NOT misinterpreted.
Located on the Grand Mesa, the world’s largest
flat-topped mountain, Powderhorn offers everyone a
challenging yet fun experience. No matter what your
skill level is, Powderhorn Mountain Resort, a mere
90-minute round trip from Grand Junction, is waiting
for you!
It was my first time to ski Powderhorn this past weekend, and I embraced every minute of it. The slopes were
freshly coated, and the air was thin. The mountains
are a beautiful sight. As a newcomer to the western
slope, and to Colorado for that matter, I truly appreciate
Tubing Hill & Bungee Tramp
Powderhorn’s Tubing Hill and Bungee Tramp offer
families and friends two other ways to get out and play
this winter! Open mid December through mid March,
tubing is available in 2 hour sessions and is limited to
35 guests at a time. This helps keep the line down and
ensures that everyone gets a lot of tube time. Fun for
all ages, a specially-designed surface lift takes riders
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490 28-1/4 Road 242-3581
Step out of the cold weather &
onto the beach front property here at After Shock
Thursday—College Night
Open at 9pm and play the card war game with
bartenders for a free drink. The only night for 18+
Friday—FAC
Open at 8pm with drink specials on wine, wells & drafts
and Free food (first come first serve)
Saturday—Xtreme Entertainment
Open at 9pm
Sunday Latino Night
Open at 7pm with live Mexican bands
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Free Limousine Service
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the breathtaking views and peaceful sounds atop this
Western Colorado landscape.
In its 46th season, Powderhorn’s skiing and snowboarding can be a wonderful experience for first-timers
or mountain regulars. From group to private lessons,
you can learn how to glide down the slopes with the
best of them.
“Here at Powderhorn, we have an extremely easy
and user-friendly mountain,” said Gabrielle Michna,
Marketing Manager. “We are dedicated to delivering
the best guest experience we can, regardless if you’re
beginner or an advanced skier or rider. Powderhorn
welcomes all friends and family of the Grand Valley.”
I have only been skiing a few times, and one of those
times was at Breckenridge. With Powderhorn so close
to where I live now in Grand Junction, it would be
hard to bypass it on I-70. I love to ski, but lately I am
seriously considering switching over to the board to
satisfy my personal preferences. I am certain, whether
I’m on a board or skis, the feeling
I get inside of me when I’m cruising down the mountain can’t be
mimicked by any other activity.
“Boarding truly is an enjoyable
experience; it’s a natural high,”
said Powderhorn riders.
Powderhorn thrives on some of
their promotional bullet points:
powder, views, value, excellence
and challenge.
The resort offers a ski and ride center for ages eight
and up and a children’s learning center for ages 3-7.
Both are designed for affordable and professional
instruction to help children learn how to ski and board.
Once kids get the hang of it, they can move up to skillbased classes.
On top of that, on
the mountain lies
the versatility of
Powderhorn’s terrain park. The different slopes range
among normal colors—green, blue and
black. Green is the
easiest, and black is
the hardest. Set up
with three lifts and
easy accessibility
around the mountain, Powderhorn
can almost promises
there’ll be no lines to
get on the lift.
Also on the mountain, be sure to check out the tubing
hill and the brand new bungee tramp for those looking
for alternative ways to have fun. There are many other
aspects to the resort, too, such as dining, shopping,
wine-tasting and much more.
To explore more of what Powderhorn has to offer,
as well as special upcoming events such as racing and
daily specials, log onto Powderhorn’s Web site at powderhorn.com, and look at Powderhorn’s calendar
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Tunes
By Randy Raisch • [email protected]
A Heavier Kind of “Valentine”
So here we are in February. The
groundhog has NOT seen his
shadow, and my resolutions to
exercise more, drink less and live
better have already gone up in
whiskey-fueled flames. The store
aisles are filled with corny greeting cards, heart-shaped boxes filled
with chocolates (of which I always
seem to get the ones loaded with
toothpaste), and other pretentious
fare commemorating quite possibly the stupidest holiday on the
calendar—Valentine’s Day.
Making a big ruckus over loving someone seems a bit contrived.
After all, I love myself EVERY day
(sometimes twice), and surely
don’t need a holiday to remind
me to do so.
If the overkill of pink and lavender decor had any redeeming
value this year, it at least reminded
me that the month was going to
bring one positive thing—the latest
release from England’s Bullet for
my Valentine.
With three commercially successful albums already in their
pockets, the foursome is ready
to unleash Temper Temper to the
masses on February 12. The release
is gathering a ton of hype, as the
band has rocketed to the front of
the metal-core scene over the last
six years with its unique style and
sound.
I refuse to buy into hype the same
way I refuse to buy flowers for my
wife (I’m more of a substance type
of guy); and honestly, I felt the
band’s last album Fever lacked a
bit. While music rags everywhere
have been calling Temper Temper one
of the “most anticipated releases of
the year,” I’m sticking to my triedand-true method of listening first
and praising later.
In fact, BFMV (as the kids like to
call them) are in a precarious state
with me. I loved their swagger
when they first hit the scene, but
felt like they had tapered off a bit
with every release since. The new
album had me (possibly unfairly)
putting the band at the unfortunate “shit-or-get-off-the-pot”
crossroads where so many groups
eventually land. Granted, I’m a
selfish soul who expects greatness at all times from the bands I
listen to, but the reality holds true
that most of the records that come
out these days fall into the category of “average” in a scene that
is becoming diluted a lot faster
than it is becoming great.
Don’t get me wrong, the band
still has plenty going for it. Lead
singer Matt Tuck has one of
the best combinations of clean,
melodic vocals coupled with hairraising screams of anyone in hard
rock and heavy metal these days.
Mix that in with immense skill
from his band mates (Michael
Paget/guitar, Moose Thomas/
drums, and Jason James/bass),
and it’s easy to see why the band
has garnered the attention it has.
So how on earth—with so much
in their favor—could Temper
Temper possibly suck?
The good news is that fortunately it doesn’t suck.
Part of BFMV’s allure over the
years has been the bands ability to
write songs with mainstream rock
sensibility, and serve them with
a dipping sauce of heavy metal.
The combination was genius, as
it made them radio-friendly while
still maintaining some “heavy”
credibility. For many fans, the
band served as a “gateway drug”
of sorts that tempted them away
from such bands as My Chemical
Romance and 30 Seconds to
Mars and brought them closer
to acts such as Iron Maiden,
Metallica and Trivium.
This time around, though, most
of the tracks have the heavy metal
sauce slathered on thick, leaving
little doubt as to what you are
tasting, and it’s the recipe this
author was waiting for. Sure, you
are still going to get a couple of
softer tracks (“POW,” “Dead to
the World”), a weak link in the
chain, the inexplicable sequel
to the band’s hit “Tears Don’t
Fall” off of the 2005 album The
Poison)—but the rest is nothing
short of impressive.
“Leech” and “Riot” (the first
single off the album) are footstomping rock radio anthems
that are sure to sell enough copies
of Temper Temper to pay the bills,
while the rest of the album (most
notably the album’s opening
cut, “Breaking Point”) is simply a
shred-tastic wet dream of monster
guitar hooks, bone-shaking drum
beats, and, dare I say, the perfect
balance of hard rock and heavy
metal. While I doubted the band’s
sincerity in the past, it appears
as if the energy, effort, and focus
have returned, and it couldn’t
have come at a better time.
With Fever Fever, Bullet For My
Valentine has not only pulled
back Cupid’s bow and shot an
arrow straight through the heart
of the metal-core scene, but it’s
left an exit wound big enough to
fit your fist through.
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A Haunted House to Die For
If you haven’t figured it out by
now, I’m a huge fan of the horror
movie genre. The good part of being
such a sucker for a scare is that some
of the most interesting films in the
history of cinema have come from
the horror arena. The bad part? For
every masterpiece made, there are
several dozen abortions that insult
your fear with cheesy effects, overplayed stories and laughable acting.
While blood and gore used to rule
the day, the modern horror fan is
usually looking for something a bit
more stimulating. Today’s filmmakers seem to have shifted away from
the slice-and-splatter and are focusing instead on sticking the knife into
your brain and twisting it a bit.
For me, being pinned back in
your seat with terror is much more
fun that being scared off the edge
of it with a cheap shock. When a
movie makes you sleep with the
lights on, gives you vivid night-
mares and makes you think about
it days and weeks after watching
it, it has successfully done its job,
and that’s exactly what you get
with Sinister.
Wr i t e r a n d D i re c t o r S c o t t
Derrickson (Hellraiser: Inferno,
The Messengers) gives us the tale
of Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke),
a true-crime novelist on the downswing trying desperately to find
inspiration for a new book to revive
both his career and reputation. He
moves his family into a new home
where, unbeknownst to them, a
family had been murdered. Oswalt
hopes that, through research of the
case facts, he can help solve the
crime, as well as gather material
for his writing. Shortly after moving in, he discovers a box of Super
8 movies in the attic. The labels
on the films are simple enough—
”Family BBQ,” “Pool Party,” etc.—
but Oswalt soon discovers that
each of these home movies shows
yet another family being murdered.
Through further investigation into
each of these incidents, he discovers that, in every instance, a child
from each family remains missing.
After consulting with the uncooperative police and a local professor (Vincent D’Onofrio), Oswalt
becomes convinced that something
far more evil is responsible.
He digs deeper and deeper
into each case, leaving his sanity
and family’s safety behind a little
bit at a time. The “creepy” factor
runs high, and the forces of evil
at work here will have you hiding under your blanket before the
film is even half over. You won’t
scream out loud much while watch-
Rated R, 110 minutes
Available on DVD and BluRay
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A Psychotic Ride Through Hollywood
If you didn’t catch writer/
director/producer Martin
McDonagh’s In Bruges in 2008,
don’t feel bad. After all, he is more
known for playwriting in his native
Ireland than for movie writing here
in the States, and the film didn’t
exactly light the box office on fire
when it was released.
Despite In Bruges’ lack of success
monetarily, the film created quite
the stir amongst critics and independent film fans. The ultra-violent
dark comedy instantly became a cult
classic, and hipsters everywhere
made McDonagh a “name to know”
in the world of odd, quirky cinema. In fact, I hadn’t heard so much
buzz about a movie after its release
since Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp
Fiction, so it was no surprise when
the anticipation started building
for McDonagh’s second full-length
feature, Seven Psychopaths, early
last year.
In an attempt to avoid a “sophomore slump,” McDonagh again collaborates with Colin Farrell (who
starred in In Bruges). This time
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ensemble encapsulates some of
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throughout.
There are a lot of different things
going on within Seven Psychopaths,
but that happens to be its charm.
The main story involves Farrell,
who is a down-on-his-luck writer
battling writer’s block and alcoholism in completing a screenplay. His
roommate (Rockwell), is eager to
help, but is a little busy with his side
job. That side job is the secondary
story, which has Rockwell teaming
with his partner (Walken) in a scam
that has the pair kidnapping dogs
and returning them to their owners for the reward money. All is fine
until they kidnap the shih tzu of a
half-crazed, all-violent mob boss
(Harrelson). As the mob closes in on
the dog-nappers, the third (and perhaps strangest) part of this movie
surfaces in the form of a masked
murderer known as the Jack of
Diamonds Killer—who is known
for only “murdering mass murderers.” If it all sounds weird and complicated, it is. And that’s even before
Rockwell attempts to “help” Farrell
finish his script by placing a classified ad for psychopaths to come tell
their twisted stories. But McDonagh
finds a way to keep this three-ring
circus moving in complete harmony
with dry laughs, over-the-top violence, and smart, witty dialogue.
Granted, this film is not for everyone. You almost have to have a little
psychopath in you to relate to the
humor. If your idea of a good movie is watching superheroes prance
around in their tights, or watching George Clooney charm every
woman he walks in front of, this
probably isn’t your cup of tea. But if
flicks such as Natural Born Killers,
True Romance and Fargo are more
your style, you won’t want to
miss Seven Psychopaths.
Rated R, 110 minutes
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chartered in October 1921 and immediately began raising money to help out
various projects and organizations for
the betterment of our community. To
date, the Grand Junction Lions Club
holds its annual Carnival and Parade
(which first started in 1929) as its sole
fundraiser and has given more than
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just some of the projects Lions Club
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FEATURED Grand Junction Lions Club projects
The GJ Lions launched the idea of a Rivertrail system in 1987. With
backing from the City and County, a long list of contributors, plus
hundreds of volunteers, the Colorado River Trail system has become
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to be a part of its origin, and I feel very fulfilled that it’s such a successful project.
- Brian Mahoney, Grand Junction Lions Club Member
The Western Colorado Center for the Arts was built and completed
in 1982 as a result of $100,000 seed money given by the GJ Lions Club.
The recent $350,000 addition to the Art Center has approximately
3,200 square feet of exhibit display area. The Art Center has a much
larger presence for the Grand Valley as a result of our funding.
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Several years ago, Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado
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to the generosity of the individuals and organizations who contributed so much to the Capital Campaign. The Grand Junction Lions
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campaign. Today, the patients and families, whose lives are so dramatically impacted by this beautiful facility, continually express their
deep gratitude totThe Grand Junction Lions Club and others whose
leadership gifts made the Care Center possible.
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The Two Rivers Plaza was completed in 1972 as a result of $100,000
seed money from the GJ Lions Club. This project has worked out
tremendously for the City of Grand Junction, providing meeting and
convention facilities for the last 40 years. It has been remodeled and
upgraded within the last 5 years and continues to be an excellent
civic center for Grand Junction. Two Rivers has helped the Lions Club
Carnival because it is a large enough facility for Carnival Night.
- Larry Jones, Grand Junction Lions Club Member
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few jolting moments), but you will
feel your skin crawling. The tension
comes in the subtleties of darkness,
perfectly timed suspense and a certain reality to it all that keeps you
watching even when you want to
look away.
Derrickson crafted—through
great acting by Hawke and excellent storytelling—perhaps the best
horror flick of 2012, and one any fan
of these types of movies will long
remember. When it’s all said and
done, Sinister has not only restored
my faith in modern horror cinema,
but it has upped the ante for writers
and directors moving forward.
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b) Dallas Mavericks
c) Chicago Bulls
d) Los Angeles Lakers
2) What NBA player scored 100
points on March 2, 1962?
a) Bill Russell
b) Wilt Chamberlain
c) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
d) Elgin Baylor
3) What player won All-Star
Game MVP, NBA MVP, and NBA
Finals MVP awards in 2000?
a) Michael Jordan
b) Kobe Bryant
c) Shaquille O’Neal
d) Tim Duncan
4) What new kind of shot did Joe
Fulks score a record 63 points with
in one game in 1949?
a) Jump shot
b) Three-point shot
c) Free throw
d) Hook shot
1) What team won the very first
NBA game?
a) Philadelphia Warriors
b) New York Knicks
c) Toronto Huskies
d) Chicago Stags
5) What NBA player retired unexpectedly on November 7, 1991?
a) Michael Jordan
b) Larry Bird
c) Magic Johnson
d) Moses Malone
6) Who scored the first three-point
basket in NBA history?
a) Wes Unseld
b) Gene Stump
c) Chris Ford
d) Larry Bird
8) Who won the Nestle Crunch
Slam Dunk Contest on February 6,
1988?
a) Michael Jordan
b) Dominique Wilkins
c) Spud Webb
d) Magic Johnson
9) Who sank a 60-foot shot on
April 29, 1970?
a) Wilt Chamberlain
b) Jerry West
c) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
d) Willis Reed
10) Who was the first Chinese
player to play in an NBA game?
a) Yao Ming
b) Hai Rui
c) Wang Zhizhi
d) Sen Kwong
11) Who was the number 1 draft
pick in the 2003 NBA draft?
a) Dwight Howard
b) Lebron James
c) Carmelo Anthony
d) Amare Stoudemire
12) How many active players are
among the Top 50 all-time scorers
in the NBA?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 5
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the award in 2006. Which player was
the Rookie of the Year in 2005?
a) Ben Gordon
b) Dwight Howard
c) Jameer Nelson
d) Emeka Okafor
14) During a five-minute overtime period, what is the total number of timeouts allowed (both teams
combined)?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 3
d) 2
e) 5
15) Which player led the NBA in
scoring in the 1980s?
a) Larry Bird
b) Alex English
c) Julius Erving
d) George Gervin
e) Magic Johnson
16) Which player holds the NBA
record for most assists in a game?
a) John Stockton
b) Magic Johnson
c) Scott Skiles
d) Jason Kidd
17) Which player holds the NBA
record for most three-point field
goals made in a season?
a) Ray Allen
b) Reggie Miller
c) Peja Stojakovic
d) Dennis Scott
18) Pat Riley went 18 years
between titles (1988 to 2006), the
longest such streak in NBA history.
Which coach had the longest such
stretch before Riley?
a) Bill Fitch
b) Alex Hannum
c) K.C. Jones
d) Jack Ramsay
e) Bill Sharman
19) Which of the following players has never been selected to play
in an NBA All-Star Game?
a) Mike Bibby
b) Dale Davis
c) Kenyon Martin
d) Juwan Howard
e) Wally Szczerbiak
20) Which is the only player to
win Rookie of the Year and Sixth
Man award during his career?
a) Bob McAdoo
b) Kevin McHale
c) Mike Miller
d) Regie Miller
e) Magic Johnson
21) Kobe Bryant nickname in the
NBA is________.
a) The Assassin
b) The Killer
c) The Black Mamba
d) Agent Zero
22) Who is the NBA player who
called himself Agent Zero?
a) Carmelo Anthony
b) Smush Parker
c) Gilbert Arenas
d) Shawn Marion
e) Amare Stoudomire
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b) The Matrix
c) Jumping jack
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Then you can buy your own new or used set at a place
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2. Warming up prevents injuries, improves flexibility and helps you swing better. Arrive at least 30 minutes before you tee off to have enough time to warm
up. Start with a brisk walk, which can be as short as
the distance from the clubhouse to the driving range.
Just make sure that you raise your heart rate and body
temperature. Next, stretch out with exercises like arm
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regulations were implemented, a
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of Amendment 64, yet it passed
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casual conversation, Colorado, as
well as Washington, is on the map.
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cannabis industry is, compared to
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pioneer state can do—it created and
it maintains a viable and sustainable
industry from in-house resources.
Colorado has demonstrated to
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claimed to be highly addictive
has no acceptable medical use
makes people happy
Mexican immigrants used it
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False
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