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[
"Greeley Tribune"
] | 2016-08-29T14:46:33 | null | 2016-08-29T13:50:55 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fweld-county-infant-mortality-rate%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/greeleytribune-com-news-22202117-113-jpeg.jpg?w=620&h=485 | en | null | Weld County infant mortality rate runs twice as high as neighboring counties | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Weld County’s infant mortality rate is twice as high as neighboring Larimer and Boulder counties.
Melanie Cyphers works for the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment, and she specializes in infant, fetal and fertility health. As a part of her duties, she also helps run two committees of health specialists and community leaders who want to solve Weld County’s infant mortality problem. The mothers, Cyphers said, are the place to start.
Cyphers meets with mothers who lost their babies either before they were born or when they were infants. She asks them all the same questions. What were they eating? Were they smoking? Drinking? Did they get enough rest? She’s learned how to ask them in a non-judgmental way.
The information she gathers from them is important. If they didn’t agree to speak to her, the committees would have no way of establishing some kind of pattern that could hold the answer to Weld’s troubling fetal and infant death rates.
Read the full story on GreeleyTribune.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/weld-county-infant-mortality-rate/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/01518da0064c9480e94c391a7bb8a99361b615d54ae8c7acc2cc28f7df718fe2.json |
[
"Terry Frei"
] | 2016-08-26T22:46:00 | null | 2016-08-26T20:46:15 | The new Avalanche coach had been waiting for a question about never having coached in the NHL before, and when it didn't come, he brought up the subject himself as the news conference was about to end. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fjared-bednar-avalanche-head-coach%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jared-bednar-coach.jpg?w=1024&h=680 | en | null | Avalanche’s Jared Bednar joins long list of NHL coaches who came from AHL | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The new Avalanche coach had been waiting for a question about never having coached in the NHL before, and when it didn’t come, he brought up the subject himself as the news conference was about to end.
“I was surprised that no one asked me a question about experience and stuff like that,” he said. “And to be honest with you, I checked one very interesting stat: 100 percent of the coaches who are coaching now in the NHL were rookies at one time in their career.”
That was Patrick Roy, 39 months ago.
All of Roy’s coaching experience was at the major-junior level, where he was co-owner, general manager and coach of the Quebec Remparts. While jumping from major junior to the NHL is far from unprecedented, the path Roy’s successor — Jared Bednar — has taken is far more typical.
After Bednar’s Thursday hiring, all but seven NHL head coaches have done the same job at the American Hockey League level. And Bednar is coming off an AHL championship with the since-renamed Lake Erie Monsters in Cleveland. The Monsters finished off a sweep of the Hershey Bears in the AHL finals with a 1-0 overtime victory on June 12 — one week before the Cavaliers ended Cleveland’s major-league title drought with a Game 7 victory over the Golden State Warriors.
There’s some irony in all of that because Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert also owns the Monsters, which a year ago became the AHL affiliate of the just-down-the-road (143 miles southwest) Columbus Blue Jackets. Before that, the Monsters were affiliated with the Avalanche, now affiliated with the San Antonio Rampage — another franchise owned by an NBA team, in this case, Spurs owner Peter Holt.
“I just look around the league, there’s a lot of great coaches that have come up from the American Hockey League,” Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic said Thursday. “I won two Stanley Cups with coaches that didn’t have head coaching experience when they came in. The best coaches around came right from the American Hockey League and I look at the track record and I place a lot of value in winning championships, and I know Jared’s won in the (ECHL) and he’s just won the Calder Cup. And after my interview process and going through the different candidates, I just felt that, comfort-wise, this was the best fit for our team and to get them to the next level. The next level is learning how to win, and I believe Jared’s going to get them there.”
Sakic was referring to Marc Crawford, who moved over from the St. John’s Maple Leafs of the AHL to coach the Quebec Nordiques, who soon moved to Colorado; and Bob Hartley, promoted from Hershey — then affiliated with the Avalanche — to succeed Crawford in 1998. The Avalanche also promoted its AHL head coach, Joe Sacco, from the Monsters to Colorado in 2009. Elevating Colorado’s AHL coach to the Avalanche wasn’t a viable option this time, since Dean Chynoweth was fired as Rampage coach after last season and replaced by Eric Veilleux, head coach of the ECHL’s Norfolk Admirals.
Bednar emerged from a field that included Washington assistant Lane Lambert, Chicago assistant Kevin Dineen, San Jose assistant Bob Boughner and AHL coach Travis Green. Dineen previously had been a head coach at Florida, as well as in the AHL with Portland (Maine), and Lambert previously was head coach of the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals for four seasons. Boughner, the longtime CEO, president and coach of major junior’s Windsor Spitfires, was the only one among that group without AHL head coaching experience.
With the Columbus organization, Bednar worked closely with Avalanche assistant general manager Chris MacFarland, who oversaw the Blue Jackets’ minor-league affiliations before joining the Colorado front office a year ago. Boughner also had served as a Blue Jackets assistant for one year, and former Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel — now associate coach for the New York Rangers — also was considered a possibility for the Colorado job at one point.
A rugged defenseman in his journeyman minor-league career, Bednar will be charged with getting the most out of a much-touted core and also nurturing the organization’s younger players, such as defensemen Nikita Zadorov and Chris Bigras, and 2015 first-round choice Mikko Rantaten, who spent most of the past season with San Antonio.
“The league’s getting faster every day, and we have to find a way to put a structure in place that gets these guys playing an up-tempo style and have support all over the ice as well,” Bednar said. “Paying attention to the process and getting better and coming together as a team and working to get better and improving daily is going to be a focus early on. But implementing that style where we’re aggressive in all areas of the arena and organized is very important to me. It’s how I’ve had success in the past and how I see us having success in the future.
“When I look at the pieces and I look at the young core guys, not just up front, but on D as well, it’s going to suit their style of play and only help them improve as individuals and as a team as quickly as possible.”
His hiring came three weeks before the opening of training camp. Colorado’s current assistant coaches are holdovers Dave Farrish and Tim Army, plus the recently hired Nolan Pratt, who was Bednar’s assistant with the Monsters. Neither Sakic nor Bednar committed to retaining all three assistants, but Bednar at least hinted of it.
“It’s probably not the ideal situation, but I think that I’ll rely heavily on the coaching staff that’s in place and the management team and get into Denver as quickly as possible and utilize everyone’s expertise and their experience in a lot of those areas and help us get organized here as quickly as possible,” he said. “We still have a significant amount of time before main camp opens and I think there’s plenty of time here to get organized and prepared for that. I’ll spend my time familiarizing myself with not only digging deeper into the players and the way we want to play, but talking with those guys and getting their expertise and opinions on everything as we put our plan together going into training camp.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/jared-bednar-avalanche-head-coach/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/528d7b78e80083bd3a90b6556d6ed70b0610d8e8061e3aee9b844b6fd7cc9973.json |
[
"Tom Mcghee"
] | 2016-08-28T16:46:12 | null | 2016-08-28T16:43:19 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Ffort-collins-police-investigating-fatal-motorcycle-collision%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Fort Collins police investigating fatal motorcycle collision | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Fort Collins police are investigating a fatal collision between a Jeep Cherokee and a motorcyclist early Sunday.
Police responded to the 1200 block of West Elizabeth Street after someone reported the accident at 2:30 a.m.
The motorcycle was driving west when it slammed into the side of a Jeep Cherokee as the Jeep was pulling out a parking lot. Daniel Mansfield, 21, the driver of the Jeep, wasn’t hurt, according to a release.
The motorcyclist died after being taken to Medical Center of the Rockies.
Police believe speed may have contributed to the accident. The investigation is continuing.
Police ask that anyone with information about the collision, contact Officer Tim Brennan at (970)-416-2229. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/fort-collins-police-investigating-fatal-motorcycle-collision/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/75a34a9ff01550af16654a54dc0e6178a56afd997977eee5d3764fc590f87c3a.json |
[
"Albert R. Hunt"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:34 | null | 2016-08-29T21:49:42 | Any American political strategist or reporter -- I've been one for more than four decades -- loves the map: That's the electoral map that decides the presidential election every four years. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fwill-2016-election-come-down-to-the-electoral-map%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/electoral-map-hunt.jpg?w=1024&h=661 | en | null | Will 2016 election come down to the electoral map? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg View
Any American political strategist or reporter — I’ve been one for more than four decades — loves the map: That’s the electoral map that decides the presidential election every four years.
Each of the 50 states is awarded electors based on its members of Congress, essentially by population; Washington, D.C., for example, gets three votes. In almost all states it’s a winner-take-all system: there are 538 votes nationally; it takes 270 to win.
For about two thirds of the states, including the biggest, California and Texas, the outcome is a near-certainty. Thus the battle is over no more than 15 states with fewer than 200 electoral votes.
That’s what makes it fun, or serious, if you’re a campaign manager trying to figure out who will take Florida’s 29 votes or Ohio’s 18, North Carolina’s 15 or even Iowa’s 6.
Usually, the drama is exaggerated. The map follows the votes. Thus it only matters in a close contest, say within a two-point margin.
Over the past 14 elections, there have been four such contests: 1960, 1968, 1976 and 2000. The last one (Al Gore vs. George W. Bush) was the only contest in more than a century in which the popular vote winner lost the Electoral College under circumstances that remain disputed.
Some Republicans still claim that John F. Kennedy won the presidency in 1960 — the nationwide popular vote margin was only 118,000 — because of vote fraud in Illinois. Yet if Kennedy had lost that state, he still would have won the electoral vote. So critics then throw in Texas, which had a razor tight election. But multiple election boards, some with Republican majorities, and judicial reviews have upheld the results.
The 1976 Jimmy Carter-Gerald Ford contest and especially the 1968 race, in which Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey by about 500,000 votes, were close, too, but the Electoral College outcome was clear. (Some Democrats point to 2004, when John Kerry would have won the electoral vote if he’d carried Ohio. True, but he lost the state by 118,000 votes.)
Academics and politicians continuously debate the merits of the Electoral College. Defenders say it enhances the role of smaller states and retail campaigning and can produce a more conclusive verdict. Critics say voters in most states are ignored and a popular vote is more consistent with democratic values.
Still, campaign strategists and reporters have to assume it will be close this year and thus emphasize the map in setting priorities and coverage.
“Two or three points gives you comfort,” says Jefrey Pollock, a Democratic pollster who works with the Hillary Clinton super PAC. “But you have to allocate resources where the electoral votes are.”
If the race, where Clinton currently holds about a five-point advantage, closes to within a point or two, it will still be an uphill climb for Donald Trump. The starting point is the 2012 election, when Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney by four points in the popular vote and 332-206 in the Electoral College. To win this time, the Republican nominee would have to hold all the Romney states and pick up an additional 64 electoral votes.
Florida and Ohio are must-wins. Even in a close race, it appears that three states once considered competitive — Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania — may be beyond Trump’s reach.
That means the Republican would have to win three smaller states, Nevada, Iowa and New Hampshire, where some polls show a tight race. These states have a total of 16 electoral votes, which would produce a 269-269 tie that would send the election to the House, where chaos would reign.
More likely, the final margin will be beyond a couple points. Then we’ll have to put aside our map for four years.
E-mail Bloomberg View columnist Albert R. Hunt at ahunt1@bloomberg.net. Follow him on Twitter: @AlHuntDC
To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/will-2016-election-come-down-to-the-electoral-map/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/7f8856c6053e9e3779ecad7469bb2ced61244b6ee24eb1751edbc026742b7c45.json |
[
"Nick Groke"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:43 | null | 2016-08-30T22:38:05 | Paxton Lynch will likely play from first snap to last Thursday in the Broncos' final preseason game, in Arizona against the Cardinals. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fpaxton-lynch-wont-wait-long-to-play-quarterback-for-the-broncos%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Paxton Lynch won't wait long to play quarterback for the Broncos | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The Broncos used a first-round draft pick on quarterback Paxton Lynch, then told him to wait. They put Trevor Siemian and Mark Sanchez through a ringer to decide on a starting quarterback. But the competition will not stop when the season starts.
Lynch is on a fast track, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said Tuesday. And Denver is pressing the 22-year-old rookie from Memphis as much as he can be pushed.
“As fast as we can get it,” Kubiak said. “You never know what’s going to happen.”
Lynch will likely play the first snap to last Thursday in the Broncos’ final preseason game, at Arizona against the Cardinals. Siemian, who will start when the season opens Sept. 8 against the Carolina Panthers, will not play. If there’s a moment when Lynch can’t go Thursday, Sanchez would be his backup, Kubiak said.
“I want to see him consistently improve,” Kubiak said of Lynch, who is listed as the Broncos’ third-string quarterback. “He’s going to play a little faster and see if he can take another step.”
Lynch has excelled in the preseason, dodging pressure. But his size — Lynch is one of the tallest players on the team at 6-foot-7 — occasionally puts him out of position in shotgun formations.
“In the gun, he’s such a big and long guy, he gets too deep with these NFL edges, which he’s not used to,” Kubiak said of opposing defenses. “He’s so long, that when he drops, he ends up about a yard and half deeper than Mark or Trevor. What you have to do is adjust him on the front end, not the back end. We try to move him up a little bit.”
It remains possible that Sanchez could be cut or traded before the season begins. But one way or the other, the Broncos are rushing toward their future quarterback.
“I don’t think he was sacked one time (in the preseason),” Kubiak said. “That’s an internal clock, playing the game fast, getting the ball going and understanding situations. That’s a part that we are really impressed with. That will definitely help Paxton.”
Footnotes. Injured offensive lineman Ty Sambrailo (elbow) won’t take part in football activities until next week, at the earliest, Kubiak said. Sambrailo, who hyper-extended his elbow in training camp, has been working only on the sideline during practice… Wide receiver Bennie Fowler (shoulder) also remains out… Tight end Jeff Heuerman (hamstring) will be available to play Thursday… Wide receiver Cody Latimer (knee) was limited Tuesday, but may play, Kubiak said… Offensive lineman Darrion Weems (concussion) was cleared to play Tuesday and should be available. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/paxton-lynch-wont-wait-long-to-play-quarterback-for-the-broncos/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/363ba90de3fff565a6f61c64e3e98995c230ff8b976eb16083b989cca73a7676.json |
[
"Yesenia Robles"
] | 2016-08-29T06:46:24 | null | 2016-08-29T06:01:00 | This year, some organizations and the Secretary of State’s office are targeting voter registration efforts at people who are homeless. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fmore-voter-registration-efforts-targeting-homeless-population%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/prdetc01_medianewsgroup_com1.jpg?w=1024&h=681 | en | null | More voter registration efforts targeting homeless population | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Sandra Abdoulaye wants to cast a vote in this year’s presidential election but wasn’t sure she was eligible to register, because she is homeless.
On Friday, volunteers at the resource center run by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless asked the 60-year-old a few questions, and soon, Abdoulaye was filling out the one-page form to register to vote, listing a shelter for both her home and her mailing address so the state can send her a ballot.
“It was fast and easy,” Abdoulaye said. “I don’t know why anyone would refuse.”
This year, some organizations and the Secretary of State’s office are targeting voter registration efforts at people who are homeless. In Colorado, voters have long been able to use any location — a shelter or a park — as a home address, as long as they also list a mailing address where they can receive ballots. Having an identification card isn’t a requirement to register.
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The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless partnered this year with the National Coalition for the Homeless, committing to a goal of registering 100 new voters.
“It’s important for them to be able to have the opportunity to be engaged,” said Cathy Alderman, vice president of communications and public policy for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. “I believe there really is nothing more powerful than the opportunity to vote and be part of solutions.”
Denver shelters already have a number of voters registered at their addresses, according to numbers from the Secretary of State. There are 1,499 active registered voters just at the St. Francis Center.
Andrew Spinks, development director at the St. Francis Center, said the shelter’s staff hasn’t had voter registration efforts recently, he but believes many of those voters may have registered while getting an identification at the Department of Motor Vehicles or in registration drives of past years.
In Aurora shelters, voter registration numbers are lower — less than 20 active registered voters at two shelters, according to recent numbers — so the Secretary of State partnered with organizations and hosted a drive Tuesday to register more homeless people to vote. By noon, organizers had registered 13 new voters.
But other challenges to participate in the election process remain, advocates say.
In Colorado, those going to vote in person have to present a form of identification. The list of acceptable documents is long — 17 possible documents — but some people have none, or don’t know all their options. For others, there are challenges in getting to a polling place. Alderman said the coalition asked about hosting a polling center but was told there were already enough nearby.
One local organization, Metro Caring, got recent funding to expand statewide a program helping the homeless obtain identification documents. The organization surveys all clients about why they are seeking identification documents. Ten percent of the people who went through Metro Caring in the 2015-16 fiscal year, or 815, reported they wanted their documents to be able to vote.
Abdoulaye doesn’t have identification documents and hasn’t tried recently to get them because she was unsuccessful so many times before, she said. When she registered to vote Friday, volunteers directed her to Metro Caring.
Some say the biggest challenge is misinformation about how to register and their eligibility if they have criminal convictions or lack any identification. After that it’s about engaging people.
Tristzette Morton, one of the coalition staff members who volunteered helping register people to vote Friday, said she had encountered one woman who said she didn’t believe her vote mattered. Abdoulaye, on the other hand, was motivated to vote because of the presidential election.
“People who have traditionally been left behind by the system feel a little more weary and feel like they don’t have a voice,” Alderman said. “Just encouraging people is kind of a first step.”
Following are the requirements for registering to vote in Colorado, including the list of usable identification that the state will accept. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/more-voter-registration-efforts-targeting-homeless-population/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b9e2996b57da91a43ae20676c52ff89a62c73e50b4a367701e1a2489ce28dfc9.json |
[
"Daniel Boniface"
] | 2016-08-31T00:46:42 | null | 2016-08-30T23:46:50 | A new angle of the play provided by Colorado Sports Video shows compelling evidence that a goal that a Columbine soccer player's amazing flip goal should have counted. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fcolumbine-soccer-goal-flip-somersault-onside%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/soccer-goal-onside-arrows.jpg?w=1009&h=612 | en | null | Was that viral somersault soccer goal actually onside? Here’s what a new angle shows. | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By now you’ve probably seen the footage. Columbine High School junior Dylan Prichett-Ettner runs onto a long ball, flips over the goalkeeper, sticks the landing and finishes the easy tap-in.
The goal was disallowed because Prichett-Ettner was ruled offside.
But a new angle of the play provided by Colorado Sports Video shows compelling evidence that the goal should have stood.
By rule, the attacking player must be in an onside position when the ball is struck. An onside position means two defenders must be between the attacking player and the goal. The goalie counts as one of the two defenders, so one field player needs to be between Prichett-Ettner and the goal when the ball is played.
In the new video, Prichett-Ettner is not in the frame when the ball is struck, but when he first comes into frame, it appears the ThunderRidge central defender keeps him in an onside position.
“From the angle of the video, and really from all angles where I was standing on the sideline, it’s really inconclusive,” said Columbine High School coach Zach Martin. “They did call it a step or two before the flip over the goalkeeper.”
Columbine lost the match 2-1 to ThunderRidge. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/columbine-soccer-goal-flip-somersault-onside/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/877a293603949b1593793af6b8e042c05e4cfdd3efca03bf1bc33c658e4e166e.json |
[
"Mike Chambers"
] | 2016-08-27T04:46:00 | null | 2016-08-27T04:19:25 | Uriah Vigil's touchdown with 26.6 seconds remaining in the Zero Week nonconference showdown gave the Panthers a 28-21 victory at Brother Bernard Kinneavy de La Salle Stadium. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fpomona-rallies-late-to-beat-mullen-in-zero-week-showdown%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp27prpgame_1ks9381.jpg?w=1024&h=681 | en | null | Pomona rallies late to beat Mullen in Zero Week showdown | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Pomona junior quarterback Ryan Marquez threw a hard slant pass to Uriah Vigil and the senior broke a tackle before reaching the end zone on a 17-yard play that proved to be the difference Friday night at Mullen.
Vigil’s touchdown with 26.6 seconds remaining in the Zero Week nonconference showdown gave the Panthers a 28-21 victory at Brother Bernard Kinneavy de La Salle Stadium. Marquez was sharp on slant routes throughout the game, setting up on the game-tying touchdown on a short slant to Billy Pospisil, who went 48 yards to the Mullen 4-yard line.
“We were just reading the defense, taking what they were giving us,” Marquez said. “We weren’t conceding our deep ball; it was going earlier in the game. But when time matters, you have to take what they give you.”
Mullen, which trailed 14-0 in the second quarter, took a 21-14 lead on Adrian Jackson 5-yard’s touchdown catch early in the fourth quarter but the Panthers answered by converting on a fourth-and-1 from the Mustangs’ 1 with 7:29 left.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Mullen's Marcus McElroy (28) is stopped after a run in the first quarter. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Mullen's quarterback Dominic Depizzol (3) keeps the ball and makes his way up field int he first half. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Mullen's quarterback Dominic Depizzol (3) keeps the ball and makes his way up field int he first half. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Mullen's Marcus McElroy (28) carries the ball past Pomona's Garrett Zanon (31). Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Pomona's Billy Pospisil (9) goes up in the air to for a reception. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Pomona's quarterback Ryan Marquez makes a completed pass over the heads of Pomona's defense. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Mullen's Christian Cumber (17) intercepts the ball from Max Borghi just short of the Pomona goal line. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Mullen's Shamond Hamilton (5) cuts through Pomona's defense. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Pomona's Jake Bielat (21) cuts around the Mullen defense. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Pomona's Jake Bielat (21) cuts around the Mullen defense. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Post Pomona's Jake Bielat (21) cuts around the Mullen defense. Mullen High School football takes on Pomona High School at de La Salle Stadium.
“I trusted my teammates. I know, no matter what the score is, I have faith in them,” Marquez said.
Pomona opened the scoring with 6:32 left in the second quarter. Marquez began the six play, 82-yard drive with a 36-yard pass to Max Borghi, the speedy junior running back. Borghi proved his worth on the following play, a 24-yard run, and after a 23-yard touchdown reception to Pospisil was called back because of a penalty, the Panthers continued to drive and made it 7-0 with Jeremy Gonzales’ 8-yard TD catch from Marquez and Tyler Thimsen’s PAT.
Mullen went three-and-out on its ensuing possession and Pomona rewarded Pospisil with the points that it previously took away from the sophomore wide receiver. He caught a 2-yard TD pass from Marquez to cap a 63-yard drive that featured a successful deep route from Marquez to Borghi that amassed 44 yards and gave the Panthers new downs on Mullen’s 4-yard line.
With less than 2 minutes to work with, Mullen rallied before halftime to cut Pomona’s lead in half. Sophomore quarterback Dominic Depizzol hit A’Jon Vivens on a flag route for a 56-yard gain and, on the next play, running back Marcus McElroy ran it in from 5-yards out.
The Mustangs tied it 14-14 on their first drive of the second half, thanks to a big punt return that started the drive on the Pomona 25. Zach Krause scored on a 3-yard run with 7:31 left in the third.
Pomona 0 14 0 14 — 28
Mullen 0 7 7 7 — 21
P — J. Gonzales 8 pass from Marquez (Thimsen kick). P — Pospisil 2 pass from Marquez (Thimsen kick). M — McElroy 5 run (Freeman kick). M — Krause 3 run (Freeman kick). M — Jackson 5 pass from Depizzol (Freeman kick). P — C. Gonzales 1 run (Thimsen kick). P — Vigil 17 pass from Marquez (Thimsen kick). | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/pomona-rallies-late-to-beat-mullen-in-zero-week-showdown/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/077f122a1f8031d04e8d308a36f6f90fc34c1fab7d81a500a70577c79fc251db.json |
[
"Nicki Jhabvala"
] | 2016-08-29T16:46:35 | null | 2016-08-29T16:13:24 | After six months of evaluating and examining, the Broncos’ Big Decision at quarterback has suddenly spun into two. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fmark-sanchez-broncos-quarterback-question%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp21fbnbroncos_jpl3061x.jpg?w=1024&h=646 | en | null | What happens to Mark Sanchez with Trevor Siemian being named Broncos' starter? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | After six months of evaluating and examining, the Broncos’ big decision at quarterback has suddenly spun into two.
The biggest one was made Monday, with the selection of Trevor Siemian as the team’s starter for a Week 1 rematch with Carolina on Sept. 8.
The other — the one that was created in the past week when Siemian gained an edge in the summer-long QB battle — still needs an answer.
What happens to veteran Mark Sanchez, who did not play Saturday night against Los Angeles as rookie Paxton Lynch took all the second half snaps at quarterback.
The veteran, who was acquired in a trade with Philadelphia in early March, shortly after Peyton Manning retired and Brock Osweiler left for Houston, seemed to have an instant advantage because of his experience alone. He had played in six postseason games and had seven years in the NFL, while his counterparts had one regular-season snap between them.
But as Siemian won out and Lynch showed continued improvement in coach Gary Kubiak’s system, Sanchez’s place on the depth chart remains unclear.
The Broncos gave up a conditional draft pick for Sanchez, who has a cap hit of $4.5 million for 2016, the final year on his contract. NFL teams must pare their roster to 75 players by Tuesday and 53 by Saturday. Should Sanchez fail to make the final cut, the Broncos would be on the hook for only $1 million and they would save their 2017 conditional draft pick.
Although the market for an inexpensive veteran quarterback is thin, the Broncos would have $3.5 million to play with in finding one — should they want a third quarterback on the roster.
“I have to continue this evaluation process and decide what I think is best for the team,” coach Kubiak said Saturday night. “You all asked me that question about experience (and) it’s really hard for me to answer. I have two of them that have no experience. That’s just the way it is. We have young guys at that position. They’ve been battling and I think they’re getting better. Like I said, I have to sit down and decide what I think is best for our group and we’ll go to work.”
However, it’s reasonable to think the Broncos would want to keep Sanchez around but at a smaller price. The team could ask him to take a pay cut, to reduce his cap charge but keep him on the roster as a backup and mentor to the younger quarterbacks. But Sanchez has to agree it; his shot at becoming the Broncos’ starter hasn’t completely closed, as Kubiak made it clear last year that he won’t hesitate to bench the starter if needed. And Sanchez could still find work elsewhere, with a team in need of quarterback help (hello, Dallas).
Of course, the option to trade Sanchez remains a possibility, too, and it would save the Broncos $4.5 million and that draft pick if they did so. But they’d have to feel they’re getting at least equal value in return.
So for now, the quarterback conundrum remains only half-answered. Siemian will start Sept. 8, but Sanchez’s place on the depth chart and the sideline is TBD. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/mark-sanchez-broncos-quarterback-question/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/28c24669a2c3c51cdb4176ce152b4282067eefb2c11467a58ea97e11c81473f0.json |
[
"Kirk Mitchell"
] | 2016-08-26T12:51:04 | null | 2016-08-26T12:13:25 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fmorning-rain-possible-denver-warm-up-ahead%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Rain possible in Denver area before warmer weekend | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Scattered showers are expected in the Denver metro area Friday morning and afternoon.
Cloudy conditions will help keep temperatures below normal at around 75 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder.
There is a 30 percent chance of rain in the morning and a 30 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms in the afternoon, mostly before 5 p.m., the NWS forecast says.
The low temperature Friday night will be about 52 degrees.
It will be mostly sunny on Saturday, when temperatures climb back into the lower 80s, according to the NWS.
Still, there is a 10 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Next week through Thursday, sunny skies and no rain is in the forecast in the Denver area. Temperatures will float in the mid-to-upper 80s Sunday through Thursday, according to the NWS. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/morning-rain-possible-denver-warm-up-ahead/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/5ffe732bfa675bdf5c928d3cdfd2a80bd9221f76541beafb7fb251cd6a2dd06b.json |
[
"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-27T06:46:06 | null | 2016-08-27T05:57:17 | Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen signaled growing conviction that the central bank will raise short-term interest rates in the weeks or months ahead. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ffeds-yellen-sees-stronger-case-for-interest-rate-rise%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Federal Reserve Chairwoman Yellen sees stronger case for interest-rate rise | null | null | www.denverpost.com | JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.— Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen signaled growing conviction that the central bank will raise short-term interest rates in the weeks or months ahead.
“In light of the continued solid performance of the labor market and our outlook for economic activity and inflation, I believe the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months,” Ms. Yellen said in remarks delivered here Friday.
The remarks left the door open for a Fed rate increase at its Sept. 20-21 policy meeting, but the chairwoman hedged her comments in ways that give the central bank an out if economic data disappoint in the next few weeks.
Most important, the Fed’s decision appears to hinge on whether the Labor Department’s Sept. 2 jobs report shows steady gains in hiring. Job gains have averaged 190,000 a month over the past three months.
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“Our decisions always depend on the degree to which incoming data continues to confirm the [Fed’s] outlook,” she said. If the Fed doesn’t move in September, it has two more meetings this year, one in November just before U.S. elections and another in December. Her comments suggest she expects a move at one of these meetings if the central bank doesn’t raise rates in September.
Investors seem to have been cheered by Ms. Yellen’s modest optimism about the economic outlook. Stocks rose after the text of her remarks was released. Yields on 10-year Treasury notes also rose initially, but then pulled back. Analysts said the decline in Treasury yields came because Ms. Yellen also indicated rates will remain lower in the long run.
Traders after her comments put a 24% probability on a Fed rate increase in September and a 57% probability for a raise by December.
The Fed pushed rates to near zero in December 2008, kept them there for seven years and then nudged them up a quarter percentage point last December. Officials began the year expecting to raise rates four times in quarter-point increments but have delayed moving them because economic growth disappointed in the first half of the year and because they were uncertain about developments overseas and about the strength of the U.S. job market after some soft reports.
Ms. Yellen said her worries had dissipated, thanks in part to “solid” consumer spending and a job market rebound after a spring slump in hiring.
“While economic growth has not been rapid, it has been sufficient to generate further improvement in the labor market,” Ms. Yellen said. Broad measures of labor-market slack are improving, even though the unemployment rate has been steady most of the year near 5%, she added.
The Fed leader suggested that internal forecasts for the outlook have been steady since officials at the central bank last wrote down their projections for growth, unemployment and inflation. The evolution of these forecasts helps drive Fed decisions about rates. If the forecasts were deteriorating, the Fed would be more likely to stand pat on rates or to look for new ways to support growth.
“The [Fed] expects moderate growth in real gross domestic product, additional strengthening in the labor market, and inflation rising to 2% over the next few years,” Ms. Yellen said. “Based on this economic outlook, the [Fed] continues to anticipate gradual increases in the federal funds rate will be appropriate over time.”
Despite the bolder signal on rates from the Fed leader, Ms. Yellen sought to place new emphasis on her own uncertainty about the longer-run outlook for rates.
Fed officials make projections every three months about where they expect short-term rates to be at year-end. As of June, for example, the median estimate among them for the federal-funds rate at the end of 2017 was 1.625% and the median estimate for 2018 was 2.375%.
Instead of focusing on these point estimates, Ms. Yellen highlighted the range of possibilities for rates in the years ahead, noting there is a 70% probability rates could be anywhere between zero and 3.25% at the end of 2017 and between zero and 4.25% at the end of 2018.
“The reason for the wide range is that the economy is frequently buffeted by shocks and thus rarely evolves as predicted,” she said.
She dedicated much of the rest of her talk to examining how the Fed might behave in future downturns.
Traditionally, the Fed cuts rates in a downturn to spur borrowing, investing and spending. With rates so low, the Fed has little room to cut them if the economy sinks now.
Ms. Yellen said the Fed in some hypothetical future downturn might need to return to tools used in the recent past—purchases of bonds to bring down long-term interest rates and promises of low rates far into the future. She said the Fed might even expand the range of securities it buys beyond the Treasury and mortgage securities it accumulated after the 2007-09 financial crisis.
Other tools developed by the Fed—including payments it makes to banks on the reserves they deposit with the central bank—could be another long-run feature of Fed policy.
Write to Jon Hilsenrath at jon.hilsenrath@wsj.com and Harriet Torry at harriet.torry@wsj.com | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/feds-yellen-sees-stronger-case-for-interest-rate-rise/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d7ed5ded16ca373f28c3b3541571d990ad52923937bc35ab28b80c69d18f4747.json |
[
"Daniel Petty"
] | 2016-08-30T18:46:50 | null | 2016-08-30T17:56:57 | Coldplay performed during their A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center in Denver on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fcoldplay-denver-pepsi-center-photos%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/coldplay_117.jpg?w=1024&h=681 | en | null | Coldplay performs in Denver at the Pepsi Center | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post From left, Jonny Buckland, Chris Martin and Will Champion of Coldplay perform during their A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during their A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during their A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Jonny Buckland of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post From left, Jonny Buckland and Chris Martin of Coldplay perform during their A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during their A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay holds up a Colorado flag while performing during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Guy Berryman of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during their A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Jonny Buckland of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Daniel Petty, The Denver Post Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the band's A Head Full of Dreams Tour at the Pepsi Center on Aug. 29, 2016, in Denver.
Coldplay was just two songs into its massive Pepsi Center show on Monday night, and it already felt like a finale. A blast of ROYGBI confetti — the first of many — rained down over the floor of the band’s opening song, “A Head Full of Dreams,” which frontman Chris Martin greeted with his first of several fancy-free balletic leaps on the night. Read a recap of the rest of the show on Reverb. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/coldplay-denver-pepsi-center-photos/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/96755221bd19a6f570a77180d65a7757bb125b23b396a85494cc0d916e52d9f7.json |
[
"Kirk Mitchell"
] | 2016-08-31T12:46:47 | null | 2016-08-31T12:16:26 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fmild-temperatures-chance-for-rain-denver%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Mild temperatures Wednesday with a slight chance for rain in Denver | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Light winds, mild temperatures and a small chance for rain is forecast Wednesday for the Denver metro area.
The high temperature of 80 is more in line with autumn than late summer.
Light winds between 5 to 10 mph are expected in the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder.
There is a 10 percent chance of rain between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Winds will pick up in the afternoon, gusting up to 20 mph, the NWS predicts. The low temperature could be 57 degrees.
It gets warmer on the tail end of the week. The high will be around 84 on Thursday and 87 on Friday.
It will be sunny and breezy Thursday, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
There’s another chance for rain and thunderstorms in the afternoon on Friday.
It should be mostly sunny Labor Day weekend with highs in the mid 80s Saturday and Sunday, and dropping slightly to 83 degrees on Monday.
By Tuesday, the high will fall just shy of 80 degrees, according to the NWS. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/31/mild-temperatures-chance-for-rain-denver/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/39b79fda31d1dad35d58fe1251c3b3dcc22f8b77a4f390d6a87addaba0a82f5b.json |
[
"Boulder Daily Camera"
] | 2016-08-27T04:46:01 | null | 2016-08-27T03:24:24 | The Boulder County Coroner's Office ruled Friday that a Nederland man found dead outside a home that had been used as an illegal marijuana grow operation had ingested two designer drugs that killed him. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fdesigner-drugs-kill-man-nederland-pot-grow-house%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/marijuana_leaf.jpg?w=640&h=480 | en | null | Designer drugs kill man found at Nederland pot grow house | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The Boulder County Coroner’s Office ruled Friday that a Nederland man found dead outside a home that had been used as an illegal marijuana grow operation had ingested two designer drugs that killed him.
Sebastian Smith, 22, died from the toxic effects of 25C-NBOMe and 25H-NBOMe, according to a news release from the coroner’s office, which classified his death as accidental.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the two chemicals are two of three drugs sold online and through other illegal channels that are sometimes passed off as LSD, a schedule I hallucinogen.
Smith was found dead outside a home in the 100 block of Alpine Drive on July 20, and police said at the time that the home had been used as an illegal marijuana grow house, but had been abandoned for more than a year.
Read the full story at DailyCamera.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/designer-drugs-kill-man-nederland-pot-grow-house/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/dd5630ec6cbc48cd4fd2c918bdbe51563c3e62a2f1058ebc742b59f4420ab0f1.json |
[
"Jon Murray"
] | 2016-08-30T04:46:35 | null | 2016-08-30T02:48:32 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fdenver-council-gives-green-light-for-dia-terminal-project-negotiations%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/denver-international-airport-terminal.jpg?w=1024&h=681 | en | null | Denver council gives green light for DIA terminal project negotiations | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Denver International Airport officials received the go-ahead Monday from the City Council to negotiate a long-term contract for a massive renovation of Jeppesen Terminal.
But first, several council members expressed misgivings — about the fate of concessions workers when terminal businesses shut down during construction, about the privatization of some terminal operations and about lead bidder Ferrovial’s track record.
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August 17, 2016 Denver council advances DIA terminal project bid after hearing from Magic Johnson “I don’t think any of the votes tonight that may be moving this forward should be interpreted as in-the-bag six months down the road, when the real deal moves forward,” said Councilman Paul Kashmann. He urged DIA officials and Ferrovial to take the concerns seriously.
The council approved a “pre-development” agreement 10-2, setting in motion six months of formal negotiations between Madrid-based Ferrovial Airports’ team and DIA. It also approved a $600,000 contract with Los Angeles-based law firm Nossaman LLP to serve as DIA’s special counsel in the matter.
DIA’s goal is to submit the resulting full contract to the council in the spring. If officials decide against striking a deal with Ferrovial, the city will owe the bid team $9 million.
The preferred bid team, also led by Centennial-based Saunders Construction, is seeking a long-term public-private partnership potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The companies would renovate much of the 1.5 million-square-foot terminal then would oversee commercial operations in that part of the airport — including lucrative concessions — for more than two decades, depending on the final terms.
The outlines of the potential partnership include the sharing of future terminal revenues between the operators and the airport.
Ferrovial has operations contracts at four airports in the United Kingdom, including Heathrow in London. But DIA would be its first airport venture in the United States.
Councilwoman Debbie Ortega pressed DIA and Ferrovial to discuss toll road project bankruptcies under a subsidiary and allegations of bribery in Spain. Chris Butler, Ferrovial’s project director, said that in Texas, the subsidiary, Cintra, absorbed the hit from toll revenue that missed forecasts amid the recession. He said the two former employees accused in the Spanish court case have not gone on trial, adding that the whole story hasn’t been told yet.
“I can say absolutely that Ferrovial’s approach to ethical management is of the topmost quality,” Butler said, concluding his response: “It is a large company, and we take our reputation very seriously.”
DIA CEO Kim Day said that during the bid process the airport hired an outside adviser, KPMG, to vet the teams. DIA has not released the bid documents from Ferrovial or two competing bid teams but said Ferrovial scored highest on financial scoring.
An equity partner in the bid team is JLC Infrastructure, an investment fund started by former NBA star Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Loop Capital. Johnson testified to a council committee this month.
Ortega was joined in voting no on the pre-development agreement by fellow at-large member Robin Kniech. Among the yes votes, some members — including president Albus Brooks, Mary Beth Susman and Chris Herndon — said they were enthusiastic about the likely partnership arrangement.
Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore recused herself from voting or participating in discussions because her brother-in-law’s company, Gilmore Construction, is on Ferrovial’s bid.
What the project would do
Airport plans call for moving the main security checkpoints from the open areas on the terminal’s main floor to the north end of Level 6, modernizing screening for the post-9/11 era, while consolidating ticket counters on the south end. Other components include adapting and upgrading parts of the baggage system, adding more space for shops and restaurants, reclaiming the main floor for a public plaza and adding Colorado touches, such as a zipline or climbing wall.
The Unite Here union that represents airport concession workers has expressed concern about Ferrovial’s track record as well as about job security for employees at current terminal concessionaires.
Couple dozen picketers outside Denver city hall call attn to job retention as council considers terminal contract pic.twitter.com/9aHtqEH6sq — Jon Murray (@JonMurray) August 29, 2016
Several workers picketed outside the City and County Building before Monday’s meaning to press job concerns.
“We would like to see Ferrovial give priority to current employees and allow us to keep our jobs,” as was done in a recent concession deal for other concourses, said Abel Villa, a bartender for a decade at the Boulder Beer Tap House in the terminal. “I would like to retire there, if possible.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/denver-council-gives-green-light-for-dia-terminal-project-negotiations/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/ddda5f3073ab15d04c57d46596f1c310ac0e4f68a83faa3e83221c0d69beb6cd.json |
[
"John Frank"
] | 2016-08-31T00:46:46 | null | 2016-08-31T00:17:12 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fjohn-hickenlooper-to-fracking-critics%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hickenlooper_dnc.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to fracking critics: I hear you | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Two anti-fracking measures failed to make the November ballot, but Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said the effort sent a clear message.
“Maybe they didn’t get enough signatures, but tens of thousands of people signed those initiatives and want more local voice — and I listen to that,” he said in an interview Tuesday, a day after the measures died. “Just because they didn’t get on the ballot doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t respond to them.”
Hickenlooper’s next steps are less clear. The Democratic governor said he wants to “continue the discussions” between the energy sector and supporters of the two unsuccessful ballot measures, which would have prohibited new oil and gas facilities within 2,500 feet of homes, and given more power to local governments to restrict fracking. But he offered no specifics.
“I think most of the people I’ve talked to both in the environmental community and the oil and gas industry recognize that there is more work to be done,” he said.
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Hickenlooper opposed both proposals and brokered a deal two years ago to keep like-minded initiatives off the 2014 ballot by promising a commission to address the issues. The oil and gas task force made a number of modest recommendations but the thorniest issues remain. At the Democratic National Convention in July, fracking protesters shouted him down at a Politico event and confronted him on stage.
When it comes to the initiatives that did make the 2016 ballot — whether a minimum wage hike, open primaries or “aid in dying” — Hickenlooper said he needs to evaluate each before taking a stance.
But after attending an event for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Denver on Tuesday, he expressed a willingness to get involved — particularly regarding those related to the Building a Better Colorado initiative.
“Usually we stay out,” he told Reeves Brown, a former cabinet official who led the initiative and attended the event. This time, “I think we’ll stride in.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/john-hickenlooper-to-fracking-critics/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1344135115519a542d089feea865fcded1cd864e288bb51b52c70435e607dfb1.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T08:46:41 | null | 2016-08-30T06:48:28 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fbombing-kills-54-government-recruits-yemen%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/afp_fp267.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Bombing kills 54 government recruits in Yemen | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Ahmed Al-Haj, The Associated Press
SANA, Yemen — A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Monday killed at least 54 pro-government recruits, officials said, underscoring how the militant group has been able to exploit Yemen’s civil war to stage large-scale attacks.
In the attack in Aden, the men were gathered at a staging area near two schools and a mosque when a pickup suddenly accelerated through the building’s gate as a food delivery arrived, exploding amid the crowd, witnesses said. “Bodies and body parts are scattered all over the place,” said Mohammed Osman, a neighbor who rushed to the scene. “It was a massacre.”
The death toll steadily rose through the day and by afternoon, the director of Aden’s Health Ministry, Khidra Lasour, said 54 had died from the explosion. Almost 70 people were wounded, including 30 seriously, and were being treated in hospitals.
Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the bomber as Ahmed Seif, distributing a photo of him smiling and holding an assault rifle next to a flag used by Islamic extremists as well as a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Yemen is embroiled in a civil war pitting the internationally recognized government and a Saudi-led coalition against the Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who are allied with army units loyal to a former president. The fighting has allowed al-Qaeda and an Islamic State affiliate to expand their reach. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/bombing-kills-54-government-recruits-yemen/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/050c427a240831060ca70c67ffa72b5e0e685d5e9cbb29fb75c4588e668bfae5.json |
[
"The Wall Street Journal"
] | 2016-08-31T06:46:58 | null | 2016-08-31T05:41:48 | The Chicago Tribune's former parent company Tribune Media Co. is selling the Tribune Tower, one of the city's most iconic skyscrapers, in a deal valued at about $240 million. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Ftribune-media-to-sell-iconic-tribune-tower-in-roughly-240-million-deal%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Tribune Media to sell iconic Tribune Tower in roughly $240 million deal | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The Chicago Tribune’s former parent company Tribune Media Co. is selling the Tribune Tower, one of the city’s most iconic skyscrapers, in a deal valued at about $240 million.
“Tribune Tower has been a unique part of Chicago’s skyline since the 1920s,” Chief Executive Peter Liguori said Tuesday in a news release. “It is a gem of architectural and structural accomplishment and a constant reminder of the important role that Tribune has played in the development of the city itself.”
Built at the southern tip of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the neo-gothic tower is home to the Chicago daily newspaper. It was the winning design of a competition organized by the newspaper’s publishers, coinciding with the Tribune’s 75th anniversary.
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Tribune Media—which last year spun off its publishing business, home to such titles as the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times—has been selling a number of its properties, including the historic Los Angeles Times building near City Hall and the Olympic printing plant in downtown L.A., to boost its flagging stock.
The stock, which set a low on Feb. 11, closed Tuesday at $39.01, up 15% for the year.
The latest sale, expected to close in the current quarter, would also include a 36,000-quare-foot development at the east of the tower, fronting Cityfront Plaza, the company said.
Under the terms of the deal, CIM Group would pay $205 million in cash at closing and an additional $35 million after certain conditions are met. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/tribune-media-to-sell-iconic-tribune-tower-in-roughly-240-million-deal/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/71620b35689d484e46bd2c7f0996b7566e65c243d5a4fa21f0b4d44ff2b0be1a.json |
[
"Colorado Springs Gazette"
] | 2016-08-31T14:46:55 | null | 2016-08-31T14:17:35 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fgustavo-torres-gonzalez-trial-set-killing-colorado-springs-firefighter%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Trial set for man charged in killing Colorado Springs firefighter | null | null | www.denverpost.com | As retired Colorado Springs firefighter Daryl B. Ritz lay wounded from three gunshots, his assailant paused before firing one more round from a .40-caliber Ruger pistol — this time at Ritz’s head.
The delay between shots — captured on a dashboard camera from a nearby vehicle — was among the evidence cited by prosecutors Tuesday in arguing that suspect Gustavo Torres-Gonzalez, 43, had only one purpose in mind: To kill.
District Judge Barbara Hughes ruled that evidence in the slaying, which occurred May 16 north of Colorado Springs, was persuasive enough to constitute the presumption Torres-Gonzales will be convicted at trial.
Torres-Gonzalez, who pleaded not guilty at the hearing’s conclusion, will remain in El Paso County jail without bond pending a Jan. 9 trial, the judge ruled.
Read the full story on Gazette.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/31/gustavo-torres-gonzalez-trial-set-killing-colorado-springs-firefighter/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/ff7e0688fb21d44b39508059403264dcfea60b8a5956ad2d98b194fdff39f1a2.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-26T18:46:06 | null | 2016-08-26T18:44:29 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fzika-screening-blood%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16239535049262.jpg?w=1024&h=695 | en | null | FDA expands Zika screening to all US blood centers | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON — The government told all U.S. blood banks Friday to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation’s blood supply from the mosquito-borne virus.
Previously, blood testing was mostly limited to parts of Florida and Puerto Rico, where there is local transmission. Screening will initially extend to states along the Gulf Coast and a few others.
“There is still much uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of Zika virus transmission,” Dr. Peter Marks said in a Food and Drug Administration release. “At this time, the recommendation for testing the entire blood supply will help ensure that safe blood is available for all individuals who might need transfusion.”
Blood banks already test donations for HIV, hepatitis, West Nile virus and other blood-borne viruses. The Zika virus stays in the blood for about one week, but is thought to remain in other bodily fluids longer.
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August 22, 2016 21 Coloradans have been infected with Zika this year, county health official says While Zika is primarily spread through mosquito bites, there have been reports in Brazil of Zika transmission through blood transfusion. No such cases have been reported in the United States. One Zika-positive blood donation, though, was recently intercepted in Florida, Marks disclosed Friday.
“The donation was identified while the blood bag was still in quarantine, before it was released,” Marks told reporters on a media call. “The system worked correctly.”
Zika can also be spread through sex, and Marks said that played into the decision to expand testing. Current evidence suggests that infected men can spread the virus for several months through sex, and women can transmit it for several weeks.
Adding to the challenge is that 4 out of 5 people infected never develop symptoms, such as fever, joint pain and rash.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported the first U.S. case of a man spreading Zika through sex even though he never had any symptoms. The Maryland man had traveled to the Dominican Republic, one of the many countries in the Caribbean and Latin America hit with a Zika outbreak.
There have been nearly 2,500 cases of Zika in the U.S. linked to travel to outbreak areas. Since February, blood banks have turned away people who had recently visited those regions, under a previous FDA directive.
While the virus causes only a mild illness in most people, infection during pregnancy can lead to severe brain-related birth defects.
Blood testing began last month in parts of Florida after the first cases of homegrown Zika occurred in Miami. So far, there have been about 40 cases of Zika caused by mosquito bites in Florida. Health officials, however, don’t expect widespread outbreaks to occur in the U.S.
The FDA has authorized use of two experimental blood screening tests for Zika, one made by Roche and another from Hologic Inc. and Grifols. Several testing sites are already voluntarily using the technology, including blood centers in Texas. The cost of adding Zika testing to the screening process is less than $10 per blood donation, according to officials at South Texas Blood and Tissue Center.
FDA officials said they do not anticipate any problems supplying the tests throughout the U.S.
The tropical mosquito that spreads Zika and other viruses is found along the southern U.S. Friday’s directive lists 11 states that will need to begin screening blood in the next month because of their location or because of the influx of travelers from Zika outbreak countries.
On the list: Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, South Carolina and Texas.
All other U.S. states and territories will have three months to comply.
The FDA works with other federal agencies to set standards for screening, testing and handling blood donations. Blood banks and donation centers adhere to those guidelines.
Friday’s announcement follows recent pressure from members of Congress to expand Zika screening. The move is “a strong step forward in protecting our nation’s blood supply,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said in a statement. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/zika-screening-blood/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/5db238e72f6f7627f2789ac080e82746cef7215ab876fa88103d6d237c0afbc8.json |
[
"Tamara Chuang"
] | 2016-08-31T00:46:54 | null | 2016-08-31T00:06:23 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fcraftsy-cuts-24-content-jobs%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20150401__20150412_T17_BZ12TOPWORKPLACEMEDQAp1.jpg?w=654&h=456 | en | null | Craftsy reshuffles as it expands into e-commerce, cuts 24 content jobs | null | null | www.denverpost.com | In an effort to speed up profitability, digital edutainment site Craftsy this week laid off 24 employees who helped produce the Denver firm’s signature video tutorials.
It was a tough decision, Craftsy co-founder and CEO John Levisay said. But Craftsy has been expanding into new markets, including creating and selling its own yarns (sourced in Peru) and quilting fabrics (sourced in Japan). Craftsy in June opened a 180,000-square-foot warehouse in Indianapolis to handle its e-commerce expansion and the company is moving ahead with hiring 40 people for logistics jobs.
“The business has really grown, and like any business, at various times, when there is fast growth particularly in the tech industry, it’s really difficult to match strategic resources with growth,” he said. “It’s never a pleasant thing to have to reduce in a given area. I take this very personally (because of) folks who have been great for us for a lot of time. Ultimately, you’ve got to make prudent business decisions.”
Levisay said that as expansion ramped up and investors pushed for profitability, management decided they could slow down how many videos will be produced. The current video library includes 1,300 classes on cooking, sewing, cake decorating, and other arts and crafts.
“We still have a team that is filming every week and we’re still bringing instructors in,” he said.
Craftsy, which initially made the bulk of its money from on-demand videos, ventured into selling materials from other brands a few years ago. But this year it began adding its own branded quilting fabrics and yarns. The company, which has raised about $106 million in venture capital, has partnered with major brands such as King Arthur Flour to produce artisan bread videos and Food Network star Ellie Krieger on healthy meals.
The company in October also cut 32 employees, mostly from production. It currently employs about 175 people, Levisay said. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/craftsy-cuts-24-content-jobs/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/68ddbe39a32e62632787f3679f880af271bb971f568a34ec8a3b4f25505da03e.json |
[
"Aldo Svaldi"
] | 2016-08-28T06:46:17 | null | 2016-08-28T06:01:54 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Foil-and-gas-producers-colorado-dj-basin%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/djr_07_29_2010_oil_228_2.jpg?w=1024&h=676 | en | null | Top producers invest in west Texas but insist Colorado’s D-J Basin still has room to run | null | null | www.denverpost.com | PDC Energy last week said it plans to invest $1.5 billion in the Delaware Basin in west Texas — money it won’t have available to boost production in the Denver-Julesburg Basin northeast of Denver.
Late last month, Encana Oil & Gas completed a $900 million sale of its holdings in the D-J Basin to Crestone Peak Resources, ending a long-running commitment.
PDC Energy and Encana were the basin’s fourth- and third-largest producers. Their moves, one a diversion and the other a divorce, raise the question of whether more Colorado petroleum producers will seek their future fulfillment in other fields.
Executives with Noble Energy, Anadarko Petroleum and Whiting Petroleum — three other big players in the D-J’s Wattenberg Field — offered reassurances Thursday of their commitment to Colorado’s most prolific petroleum play.
“It is hard to not see it being a key, core area where we invest money,” Noble Energy chairman, president and CEO Dave Stover said during the Rocky Mountain Energy Summit in Denver.
“We are always looking at our core basins, and we are still committed to the D-J,” Craig Walters, vice president of Wattenberg operations for Anadarko, said in a separate interview.
Anadarko, based in The Woodlands, Texas, and Noble, based in Houston, are the top two producers in the D-J Basin. But they are also active in the Delaware Basin, a subset of the larger Permian Basin of west Texas.
“Economically, they are very competitive,” Stover said of the two areas.
When oil prices started falling sharply in late 2014 and into 2015, Anadarko, Noble and Whiting cut their capital budgets but directed a larger share of what remained into the D-J Basin. Noble directs about 40 percent of its capital investment to the D-J.
Anadarko and Noble swapped holdings to create more consolidated positions, allowing them to drill much longer horizontal laterals. They invested billions building networks of pipes to carry oil and gas and production water, as well as processing facilities, reducing their environmental impact.
Stover said Noble has become twice as efficient at drilling and completing wells in the D-J in just the past year. Anadarko also has become more efficient and has an added edge in that it owns mineral rights in the basin, saving it 20 percent that might otherwise go to royalty payments.
Producers say they continue to value the D-J Basin for its consistency and predictability. The basin, which saw its first well in 1901, has consistently proven those who viewed it as old and tired wrong. The most dramatic example has been in the past decade, when hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling unleashed a revival.
Jim Volker, chairman, president and CEO of Denver-based Whiting Petroleum, said drilling results in the D-J have proven more consistent than those in the Delaware or the Baaken Formation in North Dakota.
“We sold a large chunk in the Permian,” Volker told attendees at the summit. “I’m still happy we did.”
So why would the Denver-based PDC Energy take on $800 million or more in debt and dilute its common stock 20 percent to add 57,000 acres in Reeves and Culberson counties in northwest Texas?
The move will at the very least stretch the company financially at a time when investors offer little mercy for missteps by energy firms.
The short answer is that the Delaware Basin is stacked in a way that the D-J Basin isn’t. In petro-speak stacked means it contains multiple layers of hydrocarbon formations, one on top of the other. Producers can pull up more oil and gas with a given well, which pushes down costs to levels that work even with current prices in the $40 a barrel range.
The top third of positions in the Delaware Basin can produce oil at under $40 a barrel, and the next third at $55, said Bernadette Johnson, a managing partner with Ponderosa Advisors in Denver.
Parts of the Wattenberg Field remain competitive with that, but there is a sense that D-J producers have uncovered most of the cost savings they are going to get. Producers in the Delaware are still on a steep learning curve and are pushing costs continually lower, Johnson said.
PDC Energy has about eight to 11 years left in the Wattenberg Field and needed to find other opportunities, she said. The Delaware Basin covers a much larger area with larger reserves that will take years to develop, something investors like to see.
Also, PDC Energy doesn’t have to worry about ballot initiatives or other political risks that could limit its ability to drill in Texas, which isn’t the case in Weld County.
Effectively, PDC Energy will use the money it is making in the Wattenberg to fund its drilling program in the Delaware Basin, creating a Colorado to Texas transfer that others may repeat.
Anadarko Petroleum has six rigs active in west Texas, but only one in Weld County, Walters said. But it employs about 500 in the Wattenberg Field and another 600 in Denver, compared with 100 in the Delaware Basin.
Granted, that single rig is a lot more productive than it was a year or two ago. But Anadarko needs higher oil and gas prices before it makes sense for it to get more active in the D-J, Walters said.
Most of the drilling in the D-J Basin occurs in three layers of the Niobrara shale formation rich with oil and gas. Underneath it is the Codell, a tight-sand formation producers are tapping into more with horizontal drilling. Even deeper is the Greenhorn, an unexplored layer with undetermined potential.
For the D-J Basin to remain competitive, producers will need to find a way to get at multiple formations and recover a larger share of the available resource.
Producers estimate wells are recovering about 10 percent of the surrounding hydrocarbons. Boosting that to a 15 percent recovery rate would represent a 50 percent jump in production and help the D-J Basin to remain competitive with rivals. That will take additional technological and operational breakthroughs.
“There is still a tremendous amount of value,” Stover said. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/oil-and-gas-producers-colorado-dj-basin/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2e3d34e2c3c203b9e252bc520fcd5a928d3e8b432d55222f34f3d7918e52b0fc.json |
[
"Karin Brulliard"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:44 | null | 2016-08-30T21:57:13 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fdogs-understand-language%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/secret-dog.jpg?w=1024&h=635 | en | null | Your dog really does know what you’re saying, and a brain scan shows how | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Your dog gets you. I mean, he really gets you.
No, really — he actually does. So say scientists in Hungary, who have published a groundbreaking study that found dogs understand both the meaning of words and the intonation used to speak them. Put simply: Even if you use a very excited tone of voice to tell the dog he’s going to the vet, he’ll probably see through you and be bummed about going.
It had already been established that dogs respond to human voices better than their wolf brethren, are able to match hundreds of objects to words, and can be directed by human speech. But the new findings mean dogs are more like humans than was previously known: They process language using the same regions of the brain as people, according to the researchers, whose paper was published in Science.
To determine this, Attila Andics and colleagues at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest recruited 13 family dogs — mostly golden retrievers and border collies – and trained them to sit totally still for seven minutes in an fMRI scanner that measured their brain activity. (The pups were not restrained, and they “could leave the scanner at any time,” the authors assured.)
A female trainer familiar to the dogs then spoke words of praise that all their owners said they used — “that’s it,” “clever,” and “well done” — and neutral words such as “yet” and “if,” which the researchers believed were meaningless to the animals. Each dog heard each word in both a neutral tone and a happy, atta-boy tone.
Using the brain activity images, the researchers saw that the dogs processed the familiar words regardless of intonation, and they did so using the left hemisphere, just like humans. Tone, on the other hand, was analyzed in the auditory regions of the right hemisphere — just as it is in people, the study said.
And finally, they saw that the dogs’ “rewards center” — which is stimulated by pleasant things such as petting and food and sex — did the brain equivalent of jumping and yelping when positive words were spoken in a positive tone.
“It shows that for dogs, a nice praise can very well work as a reward, but it works best if both words and intonation match,” Andics said in a statement. “So dogs not only tell apart what we say and how we say it, but they can also combine the two, for a correct interpretation of what those words really meant.”
The researchers said it’s unlikely that human selection of dogs during their domestication, which occurred at least 15,000 years ago, could have led to this sort of brain function; instead, they say, it’s probably far more ancient.
That means we aren’t as special as we like to think, at least when it comes to how our brains deal with language. What makes words uniquely human, Andics said, is that we came up with using them. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/dogs-understand-language/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/5ef1501e3de10e178ad5e645f05682222cef10e666f4c36cdb001c4e787a7f45.json |
[
"Tamara Chuang"
] | 2016-08-29T12:46:32 | null | 2016-08-29T11:06:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Famazon-tap-homework-heritage-elementary%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bz29amazontap6867_vc_08242016a.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | How intelligent is the Amazon Tap when it comes to homework? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Within one morning of playing around with a new Amazon Tap device, my 8-year-old daughter resorted to the scatological. To which the artificially-intelligent Alexa software responded, “Sorry, I can’t find the answer to the question I heard,” like an unflappable librarian with no sense of humor.
Alexa is smart enough not to go there. Thank goodness. And within a few days, Amazon.com’s latest personal assistant appeared to be learning.
My daughter figured out how to use her voice to get Alexa to play music, define words and get it to meow. No more poop jokes.
Perhaps, it was the user who was learning how to ask Alexa better questions?
Related Articles August 10, 2016 Amazon will pay you $18-25 per hour to make deliveries in your own car To experiment further, I took the Tap, which is the younger sibling of Amazon’s Echo, to the fifth-grade computer class at Heritage Elementary in Highlands Ranch. The gracious Melissa Daniels welcomed me and a video crew to her classroom to explore a different question: Is the Amazon Tap a good homework tool?
Amazon Tap is a portable Bluetooth speaker with amazing sound quality and only a few buttons. Tap the microphone button to wake her up, which is unlike the original Echo that is always listening for a cue word: Alexa. The $130 device includes a charging base. Tap uses a mobile app during set up to link Alexa to internet — that’s where her brains are. On the app, one can also see everything Alexa is responding to, from updating you with the weather to answers for questions asked.
And the students loved asking questions, even if Alexa only seemed to answer half of them. She didn’t respond well to matters of opinion — “Who is the most popular artist in the world?” or “Who is the most funniest man in the world?” or “What is the most favorited pop song in the U.S.?”
“Sorry I couldn’t find the answer to your question.”
But other questions that seemed straightforward, she inexplicably responded the same way: “In math what is pi?”
“Sorry I couldn’t find the answer to your question.”
“Stumped!” shrieked the students.
With some teacher prompting, students refined questions.
“How cold is liquid nitrogen,” asked one student. “Sorry, I couldn’t find the answer to your question,” Alexa replied.
The student tried again. “What is the temperature of liquid nitrogen?” To that, Alexa responded, “Liquid nitrogen has a boiling point of -322 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Or, “How much money does a pilot earn a day?” “Sorry, I couldn’t find the answer to your question.”
Asked again, “What is a pilot salary?” Alexa responded, “It depends where you live. A pilot typically earns $70,608.”
According to Amazon, Alexa does learn: “Alexa is developed to get better over time. Alexa uses your voice recordings and other information, including from third-party services, to answer your questions, fulfill your requests, and improve your experience and our services.”
Watching her responses on the mobile app, a user can indicate with a yes or no whether Alexa did what you asked — and continue the training of this digital assistant.
And there’s still a lot to learn for new owners. A number of sites, like CNET, track phrases and commands Alexa responds to. A Reddit thread is dedicated to Alexa Easter eggs.
Now just over a week old, my Amazon Tap is still young. And apparently still learning. But even with Alexa’s dismal homework-answering track record, the students’ response to “Is Alexa a good homework buddy?” was a resounding “Yes!” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/amazon-tap-homework-heritage-elementary/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/4c59d2d811da8228cce35fe615a0bf95af5d34c815707f46ba5a987653654c57.json |
[
"Jesse Paul"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:35 | null | 2016-08-29T21:25:04 | A man has been arrested Monday after a homicide in Sheridan, police say. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fpolice-arrest-man-after-homicide-in-sheridan%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Police arrest man after homicide in Sheridan | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A man was arrested Monday after a homicide in Sheridan, police said.
Officers were called about 8 a.m. Monday to an apartment on the 1600 block of West Girard Avenue on reports of a slaying. First responders entered the home and found a man dead.
Police said they arrested 30-year-old Michael Jon Stevens in the case but did not elaborate on how he was connected to the killing. Authorities have not said what charges he could face.
Cmdr. Sam Realmuto, a police spokesman, told The Denver Post that investigators are not ready to say what they believe precipitated the killing.
“Right now, we’re not releasing the cause of death until we have the autopsy completed,” he added. “We still are interviewing witnesses.”
Realmuto explained that authorities are still investigating the killing.
“We got a 911 call this morning from a roommate, and that’s what started the investigation,” he said.
The slain man’s name and age have not been released. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/police-arrest-man-after-homicide-in-sheridan/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/ef8661087ef5c478496511ea0497e65bdff9ad240299da13d1cd397c74cd10a5.json |
[
"Brian Howell"
] | 2016-08-29T04:46:24 | null | 2016-08-29T03:32:33 | Throughout his long career in coaching, Gary Bernardi has spent a lot of time coaching tight ends. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fgary-bernardi-becoming-tight-with-buffaloes-tight-ends%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bernardi2.jpg?w=1024&h=806 | en | null | Gary Bernardi becoming tight with Buffaloes tight ends | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Throughout his long career in coaching, Gary Bernardi has spent a lot of time coaching tight ends.
Returning to that position this year, however, has presented Bernardi with a new challenge.
“Fifteen, sixteen years ago when I coached the tight ends, you coached the tight ends and tackles and you worked on things that were more of a Pro-I, or some would say a conservative offense in this day,” said Bernardi, who is in his first year as Colorado’s tight ends coach after coaching the Buffaloes’ offensive line the past three years.
“Football has changed so much over the years. It makes you a little bit broader and makes you expand some things I’ve been away from for a long time.”
The change has been embraced by Bernardi, in large part because he enjoys the group he works with, but also because he simply enjoys coaching.
“When you get out there, if you really enjoy coaching, I could be coaching the defensive line and having a good time,” he said. “You enjoy coaching and that’s what it’s about.”
So far, the man the players call, “Chief,” has enjoyed his new role, and the players have enjoyed having him as a mentor.
“Especially in this offense, it’s changed,” senior tight end Sean Irwin said. “There’s a lot of versatility. Those swing screens out wide that we have to block, we have to come inside, we have to tackle-over, all this other stuff. The game has changed a lot since the last time he was (coaching tight ends), but he’s done really great and he’s really football smart, so that’s helped a lot.”
Together, Bernardi and the players are doing their best to give CU some dangerous weapons at tight end this season.
CU’s offense, which will aim to play at a lightning pace, is loaded with talented receivers and running backs, as well as a four-year starter at quarterback in Sefo Liufau.
During head coach Mike MacIntyre’s first three years in Boulder, the tight ends have mainly been blockers. Last year, tight ends caught just 27 passes.
CU has re-tooled its offense a bit this year, with co-coordinator Darrin Chiaverini joining the staff. Chiaverini spent two seasons at Texas Tech, and has brought some of the Red Raiders’ air-raid concepts to Boulder. With that, the tight ends — mainly Irwin, junior George Frazier and sophomore Dylan Keeney — could have opportunities to catch passes not only in traditional tight sets, but as split receivers.
“I really feel like there are a lot of opportunities for them out there,” Bernardi said.
As a group, the tight ends have become close. Frazier and Irwin are two of the top leaders on the entire team. Frazier has been named a captain, while Irwin has made it a priority to build a bond within the group. Being closer off the field has paid off, Irwin said.
“This summer, I took them camping and I tried to get some camaraderie in there and get them to know each other, and this (August) camp was really smooth for us,” Irwin said. We didn’t really have anybody messing anything up a lot.
“Over the years me and (Frazier) have really grown close together. It’s been good. It’s been really beneficial for us to get together.”
Irwin’s presence has been valuable to Bernardi as he has transitioned to his new role.
“We have a good group of seniors, and (Irwin) is one of them that is strong willed, a tough kid and football is important to him,” Bernardi said. “That’s such a big deal when football is truly important to you and not just on Saturdays or not just in the fall. I think he’s that type of guy.”
With the amount of veterans on the entire team, Irwin said he’s looking forward to not only a good season from the tight ends, but from everybody.
“I’m really excited, because this year it’s my last year,” he said. “It just feels special. If we just turn a couple more things around this year, we’ll be really successful. I have a lot of hope and faith in this team.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/gary-bernardi-becoming-tight-with-buffaloes-tight-ends/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/244de3c90cd9ba156f00adea4827a44435fdfe733bdd55c83937f36fef71f978.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T14:46:27 | null | 2016-08-29T13:56:54 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fmylan-generic-epipen%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16238410648858.jpg?w=1024&h=705 | en | null | Mylan launching cheaper, generic version of EpiPen | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Tom Murphy, AP Health Writer
Mylan will start selling a cheaper version of its EpiPen after absorbing waves of criticism over a list price for the emergency allergy treatment that has grown to $608 for a two-pack, making it unaffordable for many patients without insurance or with high-deductible coverage.
The drugmaker says it will make available in the next several weeks a generic EpiPen version that is identical to the branded option but will have a list price of $300 for a two-pack.
It will be available in both 0.15-milligram and 0.30-milligram strengths, like the current version on the market.
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August 23, 2016 Lawmakers demand information on EpiPen price increase EpiPens are used in emergencies to treat severe allergies to insect bites and foods like nuts and eggs that can lead to anaphylactic shock. People usually keep a number of EpiPens handy at home, school or work. The syringes, prefilled with the hormone epinephrine, expire after a year.
Consumers and politicians have accused the company of price-gouging, since the list price for a pair of EpiPens has climbed repeatedly from around $94 in 2007, when Mylan acquired the product.
Mylan NV CEO Heather Bresch defended the price hikes last week, saying the company only received $274 of the total price for a twin-package while insurers, pharmacies and other parties divvy up the rest.
Last week, Mylan said it was expanding programs that help people pay for EpiPens. It doubled the limit for eligibility for its patient assistance program, so a family of four making up to $97,200 would pay nothing out of pocket. It also said it will offer $300 copay cards, up from the current $100 per-prescription savings.
A company representative said Monday that the $300 cards would be available only for the branded version, but patients could use its assistance program for both the branded and generic versions of the medicine.
Mylan’s announcement Monday comes a few days after the compounding pharmacy Imprimis Pharmaceuticals said it might be able to sell a version of the allergy treatment in a few months and would likely charge around $100 for two injectors.
There is currently little competition for EpiPen, with the only rival product being Adrenaclick, which carries a list price of $461. But that could change.
At least two companies are trying to get U.S. approval to sell a rival brand or generic version of EpiPen. None is likely to hit the U.S. market until well into next year.
Numerous members of Congress and other politicians this week have called for congressional hearings on Mylan’s pricing, an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and action by the Food and Drug Administration to increase competition by speeding up approvals of any rival products.
Shares of Mylan jumped more than 2 percent, or $1.02, to $44.05 Monday, before markets opened.
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AP Business Writers Damian Troise and Michelle Chapman contributed to this report from New York. Murphy contributed from Indianapolis. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/mylan-generic-epipen/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/17b2ecaf3955f9340c4c82c0f3ee04f65411580f909083676df6b6764e20cf32.json |
[
"Tamara Chuang"
] | 2016-08-29T12:46:32 | null | 2016-08-29T10:59:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fstryd-heck-yeah-were-from-boulder%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/stryd-exploded.jpg?w=1024&h=576 | en | null | Stryd: Heck yeah, we’re from Boulder | null | null | www.denverpost.com | If running 10 percent more efficiently could help you shave 30 seconds off your next 5K run, would you? That’s the goal of a power meter from startup Stryd. The company created a power meter that attaches to a shoe and measures 12 key metrics, including running technique, training intensity, muscle strength, external running environment, etc. The end result is one number, the power number. The power number gives runners a better sense of what to strive for and how to recycle one’s energy between strides. Custom training programs can improve strength and good form and ultimately, you’ll speed up. It may sound like a gimmick but Stryd is based on research and trials of engineering and computer professors from University of Colorado and the University of Michigan. And its latest users? Olympians like Ben Kanute, who is now collaborating with Stryd.
Headquarters: 5353 Manhattan Circle, Suite 205 in Boulder
Founded: 2015
Founders: Robert Dick, CEO; Li Shang, President
Employees: 8
Contact: stryd@stryd.com
Home on the Web: stryd.com
Are you a Colorado tech business in the consumer world? Submit your information at dpo.st/coinfo for consideration.
Visit the Heck Yeah Archive | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/stryd-heck-yeah-were-from-boulder/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/362fbdb7adf1557ad6a092c7dd80a3b834ae0839a7cdbf08280292416216f736.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T14:46:39 | null | 2016-08-30T14:16:03 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fus-home-prices-june%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16242766011193.jpg?w=1024&h=664 | en | null | U.S. home prices rise in June at slowest pace in 10 months | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Christopher S. Rugaber, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices rose modestly in June, pushed up by strong sales and a limited supply of available properties.
The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday, increased 5.1 percent in June compared with a year ago. That’s down from a 5.3 percent annual gain in May and is the slowest year-over-year pace since last August.
Home values are still soaring in the Northwest, but have slowed to more sustainable rates elsewhere. In Northeastern cities such as New York and Washington, D.C., they are rising at roughly the rate of inflation, and in Boston, less than 5 percent.
Still, nationwide prices are increasing more quickly than incomes as buyers compete for the dwindling supply of available homes. That reflects an ongoing imbalance in the housing market that could stifle sales in the coming months.
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August 17, 2016 Denver leaders continue to question how city will pay to create affordable housing “June represents the fifth straight month of flat or decreasing year-over-year price gains, but homebuyers are still being challenged as prices outpace income growth,” Ralph McLaughlin, chief economist at real estate data provider Trulia, said.
Home prices in the Northwest continued to climb at a double-digit pace. They rose 12.6 percent in Portland, 11 percent in Seattle, and 9.2 percent in Denver. Those three cities have topped the list of price gains for the past five months.
Yet those cities are increasingly outliers. Price gains in the Midwest were mixed. Home prices in Cleveland and Chicago rose just 2.5 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively, while in Minneapolis they climbed a faster 5.1 percent.
Southern cities saw stronger price gains. They rose 8.9 percent in Dallas, 7.9 percent in Tampa, and 5.8 percent in Atlanta.
The 20-city price index plunged after the housing bubble started to burst in 2006, plummeting by more than a third before prices began to rise again in March 2012. In June, they were still 8.1 percent below their peak level.
That suggests there are still many homeowners who bought near the peak and have little equity in their homes. Or they remain underwater, owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. In either case it is difficult for them to sell.
The number of homes for sale has fallen 5.8 percent from a year ago, leaving would-be buyers with fewer choices, according to the National Association of Realtors.
That may have hobbled sales in July. Purchases of existing homes fell 3.2 percent that month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.39 million. Still, that decline came after sales reached their highest level in more than nine years in June.
Low mortgage rates are pushing in the other direction by making home purchases more affordable. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 3.43 percent last week, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac, not far from its record low.
The Case-Shiller index covers roughly half of U.S. homes. The index measures prices compared with those in January 2000 and creates a three-month moving average. The June figures are the latest available. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/us-home-prices-june/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/a71ae2562b8be4059389851c911629b3eb53434bf18c36065a4c2813ff4b9190.json |
[
"Greg Dobbs"
] | 2016-08-26T20:45:58 | null | 2016-08-26T19:00:50 | Life isn’t always black and white. Especially not for journalists. Occasionally, we end up shoulder-to-shoulder with the people we’re covering. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fwhere-should-journalists-draw-the-line-on-helping-sources%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/journalism-dobbs.jpg?w=800&h=533 | en | null | Where should journalists draw the line on helping sources? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | When you’re a journalist and on assignment overseas, you’re a subject of no nation. Your only job is to report the story through the eyes of the citizens it affects.
When you’re a journalist and on assignment at home, you’re a servant to no government. Your only job is to report the story as it impacts that government’s constituents.
That’s how it works. In theory.
But the fact is, life isn’t always black and white. Especially not for journalists. Occasionally, we end up shoulder-to-shoulder with the people we’re covering. They might generally be perceived as good guys, like soldiers or police. Or they might be perceived as bad guys, like drug dealers or terrorists. As The Denver Post put it in an opinion poll, when we combine in any way with those we cover, it’s “a thin blue line.”
The issue comes up because of an incident Wednesday morning in Boulder. After searching fruitlessly all night for a man they were trying to arrest who escaped after firing four gunshots, Boulder police asked to use the helicopter that is shared by four local television stations and a radio station. They wanted to put an officer up in the air to coordinate with SWAT team members down on the ground. They already had tried to get the Denver police helicopter, then air support from the FBI, but neither worked out.
But with the help of the news organizations’ helicopter, the suspect was apprehended without incident. The fugitive — who has a long criminal history — had left a trail of blood, and the officer in the helicopter was able to spot him and direct his arrest on the ground. Residents of 6,000 nearby homes who had been notified by robocalls to “shelter in place” could relax.
However, now the news organizations can’t relax because they’re under fire. A Denver-based correspondent for ABC News tweeted, “Journalists are not agents of law enforcement.” The chairman of the journalism department at the University of Colorado called the situation a “gray area” and told the Daily Camera, “We have to pay attention to the slippery slope, where one seemingly harmless lapse is deemed to be acceptable.” A CU professor of media ethics said, “It’s about being too close to your sources.”
Here’s where I think they have it wrong.
No, we are not agents of law enforcement. But I can’t count the number of times I’ve begged law enforcement — or the military in cases like earthquakes and floods — to take me and a camera crew up in their own aircraft to get a better picture of what I was covering. Which simply meant better coverage for our viewers. Anyway, no journalist in Boulder was beholden to the police; it was the other way around.
Yes, we do have to pay attention to the slippery slope. But we’re not machines who can’t keep ourselves from slipping farther, we’re human beings who make human judgments about where to start and where to stop.
And no, we don’t want to be too close to our sources. But none of that was at stake in Boulder. Because of a mutual reliance on information, police and journalists are thrown together every day of the week, whether they like it or not. If I hadn’t had relationships with some of my sources over 40 years of reporting, I wouldn’t have had half the information I got.
But here’s the best argument on the other side: many years ago, network news luminaries Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace were on a panel and were asked the following hypothetical question: If you were covering an enemy army during a war and learned of an ambush they were plotting against American soldiers, would you act as a patriot and try to warn your countrymen, or just cover it as a neutral journalist? To the disgust of other panelists, they ultimately opted to just cover it, because that’s the “higher duty” of a journalist.
So critics are right to worry. But one size doesn’t fit all. Sometimes there’s harm done. Sometimes there’s not.
Greg Dobbs of Evergreen is an author, public speaker, and former foreign correspondent for ABC News.
To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/where-should-journalists-draw-the-line-on-helping-sources/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/aa5d467fb423a0d30657da53550c1a1174b01f1caa9844ae902224556bd27cdb.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T20:46:38 | null | 2016-08-29T19:28:12 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fgene-wilder-dies%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/gene_wilder_001.jpg?w=1024&h=733 | en | null | Gene Wilder, star of “Willy Wonka” and Mel Brooks comedies, dies at 83, family says | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired actor who brought his deft comedic touch to such unforgettable roles as the neurotic accountant in “The Producers” and the deranged animator of “Young Frankenstein,” has died. He was 83.
Wilder’s nephew said Monday that the actor and writer died late Sunday at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement that Wilder was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, but kept the condition private so as not to disappoint fans.
“He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world,” Walker-Pearlman said.
The Associated Press Actor Gene Wilder is shown in December 1980.
Hulton Archive, Getty Images American comic actor Gene Wilder, originally Jerry Silkman stars with nightclub comedian Richard Pryor in the action comedy 'Silver Streak'. Directed by Arthur Hiller, the film was chosen for the 31st Royal Film Festival.
Bill Polo, The Associated Press Gilda Radner, left, and Gene Wilder are shown in a scene from the film "Hanky Panky," directed by Sidney Poitier, Aug. 27, 1981.
The Associated Press Comedian Gilda Radner, left, and Gene Wilder, kiss for photographers in this photograph following their private wedding ceremony, 1984, France.
Bill Polo, The Associated Press Actor/director Sidney Poitier, left, gestures on Wednesday, August 26, 1981 in Boston while speaking with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, two of the stars of Traces, a comedy currently being filmed in several locations in Boston. This scene is taking place at the Commonwealth Pier. Poitier has put aside his acting talents to direct Traces, which also stars Richard Widmark.
Dave Pickoff, The Associated Press Actor Gene Wilder is shown at NBC studios, June 26, 1979, New York. Wilder had just appeared on the Today show to promote his Warners Bros. film, The Frisco Kid.
Jessica Hill, The Associated Press FILE - In this April 9, 2008 file photo, actor Gene Wilder listens as he is introduced to receive the Governor's Awards for Excellence in Culture and Tourism at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn. Wilder, who starred in such film classics as "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and "Young Frankenstein" has died. He was 83.
Al Bello, Getty Images Gene Wilder and his wife Karen Boyer watch as Shahar Peer of Israel takes on Anna Chakvetadze of Russia during day ten of the 2007 U.S. Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 5, 2007 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
MJ Kim, Getty Images Actor Gene Wilder poses as he signs copies of his autobiography "Kiss Me Like A Stranger", at Waterstone's, Oxford Street on June 7, 2005 in London, England. The memoirs give an insight into Wilder's failed love life, his experiences of working with stars such as Richard Pryor and Woody Allen, his fight with, and victory over, cancer, and his time in the UK studying acting at the Bristol Old Vic.
Steven Senne, The Associated Press In this March 16, 2005 file photo, actor Gene Wilder speaks about his life and career at Boston University in Boston. Wilder, who starred in such film classics as "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and "Young Frankenstein" has died. He was 83.
The Associated Press Lee Meredith, upper right, and Kenneth Mars, upper left with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel in a scene from the movie "The Producers" July 1967.
The Associated Press Gene Wilder is shown in character as he films Tri Star Pictures "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" with Richard Pryor in 1989.
Charley Gallay, Getty Images Actor and author Gene Wilder autographs copies of his new book 'The Woman Who Wouldn't' at Barnes & Noble Bookstore at The Grove on March 17, 2008 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images)
Wilder started his acting career on the stage, but millions knew him from his work in the movies, especially his collaborations with Mel Brooks on “The Producers,” ”Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein.” The last film — with Wilder playing a California-born descendant of the mad scientist, insisting that his name is pronounced “Frahn-ken-SHTEEN” — was co-written by Brooks and Wilder.
“One of the truly great talents of our time,” Mel Brooks tweeted. “He blessed every film we did with his magic & he blessed me with his friendship.”
With his unkempt hair and big, buggy eyes, Wilder was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes that only a madman such as Brooks could devise, whether reviving a monster in “Young Frankenstein” or bilking Broadway in “The Producers.” Brooks would call him “God’s perfect prey, the victim in all of us.”
But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozy gunslinger in “Blazing Saddles” or the charming candy man in the children’s favorite “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” His craziest role: the therapist having an affair with a sheep in Woody Allen’s “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex.”
He was close friends with Richard Pryor and their contrasting personas — Wilder uptight, Pryor loose — were ideal for comedy. They co-starred in four films: “Silver Streak,” ”Stir Crazy,” ”See No Evil, Hear No Evil” and “Another You.” And they created several memorable scenes, particularly when Pryor provided Wilder with directions on how to “act black” as they tried to avoid police in “Silver Streak.”
In 1968, Wilder received an Oscar nomination for his work in Brooks’ “The Producers.” He played the introverted Leo Bloom, an accountant who discovers the liberating joys of greed and corruption as he and Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) conceive a Broadway flop titled “Springtime For Hitler” and plan to flee with the money raised for the show’s production.
Matthew Broderick played Wilder’s role in the 2001 Broadway stage revival of the show.
Though they collaborated on film, Wilder and Brooks met through the theater. Wilder was in a play with Brooks’ then-future wife, Anne Bancroft, who introduced the pair backstage in 1963.
Wilder, a Milwaukee native, was born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1935. His father was a Russian emigre, his mother was of Polish descent. When he was 6, Wilder’s mother suffered a heart attack that left her a semi-invalid. He soon began improvising comedy skits to entertain her, the first indication of his future career.
He started taking acting classes at age 12 and continued performing and taking lesson through college. In 1961, Wilder became a member of Lee Strasberg’s prestigious Actor’s Studio in Manhattan.
That same year, he made both his off-Broadway and Broadway debuts. He won the Clarence Derwent Award, given to promising newcomers, for the Broadway work in Graham Greene’s comedy “The Complaisant Lover.”
He used his new name, Gene Wilder, for the off-Broadway and Broadway roles. He lifted the first name from the character Eugene Gant in Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Back, Homeward Angel,” while the last name was clipped from playwright Thornton Wilder. A key break came when he co-starred with Bancroft in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage,” and met Brooks, her future husband.
“I was having trouble with one little section of the play, and he gave me tips on how to act. He said, ‘That’s a song and dance. He’s proselytizing about communism. Just skip over it, sing and dance over it, and get on to the good stuff.’ And he was right,” Wilder later explained.
Before starring in “The Producers,” he had a small role as the hostage of gangsters in the 1967 classic “Bonnie and Clyde.” He peaked in the mid-1970s with the twin Brooks hits “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein.”
He went on to write several screenplays and direct several films. In 1982, while making the generally forgettable “Hanky-Panky,” he fell in love with co-star Gilda Radner. They were married in 1984, and co-starred in two Wilder-penned films: “The Lady in Red” and “Haunted Honeymoon.”
After Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, Wilder spent much of his time after promoting cancer research. He opened a support facility for cancer patients called “Gilda’s Place.” In 1991, he testified before Congress about the need for increased testing for cancer.
Wilder is survived by his wife, Karen, whom he married in 1991. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/gene-wilder-dies/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/578505347f4c34ee2ebe85d5431f82b436a06bf52a0b4e7f5b4184fb37b1aaec.json |
[
"The Longmont Times-Call"
] | 2016-08-28T02:46:17 | null | 2016-08-28T01:00:23 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fdogs-haze-geese-longmont-golf-courses%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/doggeese.jpg?w=1024&h=699 | en | null | Dogs volunteer to haze geese at Longmont golf courses | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Katie, a 5-year-old golden retriever, strained against her leash Friday evening, eager to chase away some Canada geese from Longmont’s valuable golf course grass.
Emma Massey, 11, let Katie off her leash and the dog straightened out into a blond arrow aiming straight for a smattering of the geese on Twin Peaks Golf Course.
Katie’s one of 30 dogs enrolled in a special Longmont geese-hazing program. And Larry Mills, Longmont golf operations manager, would like to have more like her.
“It’s only effective if there’s constant hazing. In other words if a dog chases them once in awhile, the geese get aware of it,” Mills said. “It’s somewhat effective but we’re not getting the constant geese hazing we’re after.”
Read the full story on Times-Call.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/dogs-haze-geese-longmont-golf-courses/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/29f1c783dab4d00ab21cedf86510886091c18b4b75cbce72e7f1715ff4214cc7.json |
[
"Yesenia Robles"
] | 2016-08-26T18:46:12 | null | 2016-08-26T18:19:08 | Visitors reported two vehicle break-ins at the east Alluvial Fan parking lot in Rocky Mountain National Park. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Frocky-mountain-national-park-cars-broken-into%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/rocky-mountain-national-park-person-interest.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Cars broken into at Rocky Mountain National Park; officials seek info on person of interest | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Rangers from Rocky Mountain National Park are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who on Sunday broke into two cars at the park.
On Sunday, between 11 a.m. and 11:45 a.m., visitors reported two vehicle break-ins at the east Alluvial Fan parking lot in Rocky Mountain National Park, according to a news release from the park. The car windows were broken and purses containing credit cards were stolen and then used in nearby businesses immediately.
Video surveillance captured an image of a man using the stolen credit card to purchase camping equipment.
Park Rangers are working with the Estes Park Police Department and Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, where the fraudulent credit card activity took place.
Anyone with information about the break-ins can call the tip line at Rocky Mountain National Park at (970) 586-1290. Officials also remind visitors to be aware of any suspicious activity and not leave valuables in vehicles. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/rocky-mountain-national-park-cars-broken-into/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/814c890d317447e5317be65b0a2eff479742673f6f73b7c3da13cefc2c7a0c6d.json |
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"Ann Schimke",
"Melanie Asmar"
] | 2016-08-30T18:46:39 | null | 2016-08-30T18:21:07 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fschool-discipline-data-mistakes-cause-problems-groups-battling-school-to-prison-pipeline%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp21runchavez_0095.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | School discipline data mistakes cause problems for groups battling school-to-prison pipeline | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Faulty student discipline numbers for at least three Colorado school districts have muddied efforts to track suspension and expulsion trends, complicated advocates’ plans to press for change and caused state officials in one case to take the unusual step of correcting wrong data.
In early August, the advocacy group Padres & Jovenes Unidos, relying on numbers school districts provide to the state, reported surprising news: The rate of out-of-school suspensions in Colorado schools had shot up by 19 percent in the 2014-15 school year after years of decline.
However, three school districts portrayed as largely responsible for the spike all said their data were wrong, turning what had been a big jump in the suspension rate into a small one.
Getting school discipline data right is critical because advocacy groups campaigning to end the “school-to-prison pipeline” rely on the numbers to define the problem and push for changes in state law. Bad numbers can equal bad policy.
“We’re really, really invested in the accuracy of these numbers,” said Daniel Kim, director of youth organizing for Padres, which is widely known for its efforts to prevent harsh school discipline.
“These aren’t just numbers. These are students’ lives. These are the conditions they walk into every day at school. This is the environment of their school. That’s what these numbers reflect.”
For more on this story, go to Chalkbeat Colorado.
Chalkbeat Colorado is a nonprofit news organization covering education issues. For more, visit chalkbeat.org. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/school-discipline-data-mistakes-cause-problems-groups-battling-school-to-prison-pipeline/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/27c90dbbaace07c302bb1b2625d4b40162857f70988391cee29e1743a33f58c2.json |
[
"Bloomberg News"
] | 2016-08-28T06:46:08 | null | 2016-08-28T06:18:51 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F401k-retirement-chaos-pensions-inequality%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | How the 401(k) is wreaking havoc on retirement | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The shift from pensions to 401(k) plans is making retirement inequality much worse — and education is what separates the haves from the have-nots, a new study has found.
College graduates have always been able to get better jobs. What’s new in recent decades is that traditional pensions have all but vanished, replaced by 401(k)-style plans.
In 1980, 38 percent of private sector workers had a pension and 19 percent a 401(k). By last year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, the numbers had more or less reversed-just 15 percent had a pension and 43 percent a 401(k).
That shift is creating “double disadvantages for the less educated,” wrote University of Kansas sociology professor ChangHwan Kim and Social Security Administration researcher Christopher Tamborini in a paper presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual conference on Tuesday.
The authors analyzed surveys linked to W-2 tax data to figure out how much Americans with varying levels of education were saving in their retirement accounts.
Among workers who hold similar jobs with the same pay and who both contribute to 401(k) plans, a college graduate tends to save 26 percent more than a worker with just a high school diploma, the study concluded.
Workers with college degrees aren’t only far more likely to hold jobs that offer retirement plans. When offered the plans, they’re also far more likely to sign up and to contribute enough to retire comfortably.
The median private sector worker without a college degree is contributing nothing to a retirement plan, while the median college graduate pitches in more than $2,000 a year, the study found.
One reason is that less educated workers are likelier to hold lower-paying jobs that don’t offer retirement plans. According to the study, 83 percent of workers with a bachelor’s degree have access to some kind of retirement plan-compared with 62 percent of high school graduates and 43 percent of high school dropouts.
Even when they are offered 401(k)s, less educated workers find it much more difficult to take full advantage of them.
One advantage of a traditional pension is that it’s automatic: A set amount is contributed for each worker-an amount that’s supposed to guarantee a good income in retirement-and investments are managed by professionals.
The typical 401(k) is anything but automatic. Workers must decide whether to participate, how much to contribute, and which investments to choose.
While more than 80 percent of college graduates sign up for the 401(k) offered to them, only 69 percent of high school graduates do the same. Less than 61 percent of those without a high school diploma fill out the 401(k) paperwork.
College graduates are also saving more, pitching in 7.3 percent of their salaries if they’re participating in a retirement plan-still less than the 10 percent or 15 percent experts usually recommend, but more than the 5.1 percent that workers with high school degrees contribute.
That’s not necessarily surprising: By earning more, the college-educated can afford to save more. Tamborini and Kim found that if workers earn an extra 1 percent in salary, they tend to contribute an extra 1.28 percent to their retirement plans.
But the researchers also wanted to know if factors other than income are influencing how workers save. When they controlled for these factors-income, occupation, industry, company size, and years on the job-they found college graduates were still saving 26 percent more than similar high school graduates.
To explain this gap, the researchers looked at surveys that asked about savings habits and financial knowledge. Less educated workers tended to be less financially sophisticated, with less familiarity with investing and how to save for the future.
“The advantage of college education goes beyond the monetary return during the work-life,” Tamborini and Kim write. “College educated workers are taking steps to better prepare financially for retirement, even when the earnings levels are taken into account.”
As workers spend their entire careers in this system, the authors warn, the inequalities will widen between the well-educated and everyone else. The only fallback for many workers will be Social Security, which now covers 40 percent to 45 percent of the average retiree’s career earnings (and has its own fiscal challenges).
What might be done to narrow the retirement savings gap?
Financial education could help, although studies have cast doubt on the effectiveness of financial literacy programs.
Some employers have experimented with making the 401(k) more automatic-signing up all workers and setting default contribution rates and investments, while letting workers adjust them or decline to participate. (Few workers do.)
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But the number of new companies introducing these automatic features is no longer rising. Vast swaths of the workforce aren’t covered by any retirement plan at all.
In response, lawmakers in a growing number of states are passing legislation to force employers without 401(k)s to sign up workers for state plans, with the goal of ensuring they can save for retirement without filling out confusing paperwork or picking their own investments.
The next state to approve such a plan could be the largest: California lawmakers could vote as early as this week to create what’s known as the Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/401k-retirement-chaos-pensions-inequality/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/db30d8c8f918ec15d52ab53ac794a565c694c0538eb1c688a67a877b620abc9e.json |
[
"Kieran Nicholson"
] | 2016-08-27T00:46:05 | null | 2016-08-26T23:11:36 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fman-atally-shot-by-fort-collins-police-identified%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Man, 63, fatally shot by Fort Collins police identified | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A man fatally shot by Fort Collins police has been identified.
Jerry Jackson, 63, of Fort Collins, was shot multiple times Thursday night, according to a Larimer County Coroner’s Office news release. His death has been ruled a homicide by the coroner.
Police said Jackson was brandishing a gun and not responding to commands when officers opened fire.
Jackson was shot after police responded at about 7:20 p.m. to a report of a domestic disturbance involving a weapon, police said.
The shooting happened in the 900 block of U.S. 287, between Colorado 1 and Shields Street.
Police said they saw Jackson, identified as a suspect in the domestic disturbance, “illegally” enter the home of the woman who had called to report the disturbance. When Jackson came out of the home, he was brandishing a weapon.
An investigation by the Larimer County Critical Incident Response Team is ongoing. The names of the officers involved have not been released. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/man-atally-shot-by-fort-collins-police-identified/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/955069c23c2bc950684904f4e56e4122989b3d380f7b043d7e5c108e89d7d425.json |
[
"The Denver Post"
] | 2016-08-26T16:45:57 | null | 2016-08-26T16:12:13 | Lakewood police and four other police agencies will conduct DUI-sobriety checkpoints in the city this Friday as part of a statewide high-visibility campaign, according to an announcement. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Flakewood-police-dui-checkpoints-friday%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Lakewood police team up for DUI checkpoints Friday | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Lakewood police and four other police agencies will conduct DUI-sobriety checkpoints in the city Aug. 26 as part of a statewide high-visibility campaign, according to an announcement.
Known as Checkpoint Colorado, the campaign will set up a pair of late-night checkpoints in locations where a high number of DUI-related accidents and arrests have occurred. Their locations have not been disclosed.
Assisting Lakewood police will be officers from the Denver and Arvada departments, the Colorado State Patrol and deputies from Jefferson County’s sheriff’s patrol. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/lakewood-police-dui-checkpoints-friday/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/28b8f382ca03f9d4c18d48126af256fa6c7e84ef153076d1723d5bd0b19878bb.json |
[
"Mark Kiszla"
] | 2016-08-30T00:46:44 | null | 2016-08-29T23:02:32 | The Broncos have named a starting quarterback, and around the NFL, there's only one question: Trevor who? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fkiszla-trevor-siemian-next-tom-brady-next-gus-frerotte%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/broncos_1091.jpg?w=1024&h=662 | en | null | Kiszla: Is Trevor Siemian the next Tom Brady, or the next Gus Frerotte? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The Broncos have named a starting quarterback, and around the NFL, there’s only one question: Trevor who?
His name is Trevor Siemian. He might become the league’s most unlikely success story since Tom Brady. But it’s more likely he will be the goofiest choice of a starting quarterback for the Broncos since Gus Frerotte.
There’s only one thing for certain. If Siemian’s heart beats any slower, he would be required to change his name to Rip Van Winkle. Searching for an heir to football royalty that has included John Elway and Peyton Manning, the Broncos found their next quarterback napping in a hammock.
Denver coach Gary Kubiak did not waste any time leveraging his shiny Super Bowl ring. Kubiak took all the goodwill of winning a championship and reinvested it by giving the most pressurized, scrutinized and brutalized job in Denver to Siemian, who has yet to throw a pass that counts in the NFL.
I asked Kubiak: Did he feel like his choice was a bold decision?
“No, I felt like it’s the right decision,” Kubiak said Monday. “I knew I was going to have to make a tough decision, one way or the other. … But I feel strong about it.”
Say goodbye to Mark Sanchez, who was acquired in a trade. He was such a bust it’s a minor miracle he did not fumble the $1 million check the Broncos guaranteed him. And keep an eye on Paxton Lynch, because if the rookie is anywhere near ready at any point in the season, the office politics of being a first-round draft pick will work in his favor.
I will give Siemian props on one count: He is one cool customer. If he were any cooler, Siemian could skip the cost of renting an apartment in Denver and live in a cryogenics lab.
As a Northwestern alum, Siemian is also smart enough to know he is not Manning.
“I’m not trying to be Peyton,” Siemian said. “I feel like I could get in a lot of trouble trying to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Those shoes are way too big to fill.”
Know which former NFL quarterback is an apt comparison with Siemian? This guy is Kubiak with a better gun. Maybe that explains why Kubiak has such a mancrush on him. Analyze the stats any way you want. Siemian won the gig the way the United States chooses a president, by settling for the lesser of evils.
Hey, the dude deserves a fair chance … or at least until Carolina bolts to a 17-3 lead in the third quarter of the season opener. Whichever comes first.
You, I and Kyle Orton know how Broncos Country treats a QB that messes up. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/kiszla-trevor-siemian-next-tom-brady-next-gus-frerotte/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/3bbfbf7211afd28d065eb7b8b4c1e7419e1d14fa1fffcb5c40bfe3a7183c2ec6.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T22:46:10 | null | 2016-08-27T19:12:50 | Turkey's official news agency says one Turkish soldier has been killed and three wounded in Syria. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fturkish-soldier-killed-syria-rocket-attack%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/turkish-troops-in-syria.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | The Latest: Turkish soldier killed in Syria by rocket attack | null | null | www.denverpost.com | BEIRUT — The Latest developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):
10 p.m.
Turkey’s official news agency says one Turkish soldier has been killed and three wounded in Syria.
The Anadolu Agency says two Turkish tanks in the Syrian town of Jarablus came under rocket attack Saturday by Kurdish militants.
The Turkish military began its so-called Euphrates Shield operation in Syria with Free Syrian Army units and coalition airplanes Wednesday to push Islamic State militants out of Jarablus and to limit the advance of Kurdish forces to the west of the Euphrates River.
The soldier’s death is the first reported fatality on the Turkish side.
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6:30 p.m.
Syria state TV is reporting that the evacuation of the Damascus suburb of Daraya following a deal to end a four-year siege and a grueling bombing campaign has been completed.
The declaration Saturday comes only a day after the evacuation of nearly 5,000 residents and fighters from the suburb began. The deal followed an extensive government campaign of aerial bombing and shelling of Daraya, the last bastion against President Bashar Assad in the western Ghouta region, southwest of Damascus.
Some 700 gunmen and 4,000 civilians were evacuated. The gunmen and their families headed to the northern rebel-controlled Idlib province. Other civilians were escorted to shelters in government-controlled suburbs of Damascus.
State TV said Saturday that Daraya was clear of gunmen, and is under the control of the Syrian army. Control of Daraya is a boost to Assad’s forces and increases security to the capital, his seat of power. Meanwhile a bloody battle for the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest, is ongoing.
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5:45 p.m.
Syrian rebel-groups backed by Turkey say they are clashing with fighters affiliated with Kurdish forces in northern Syria, in a bid to wrestle control of territory from them south of a town they recently seized from Islamic State militants.
The clashes Saturday highlight concerns that Turkey’s incursion into Syria was likely to raise the potential for an all-out confrontation between the two American allies.
The Turkish-backed Nour el-din el-Zinki rebel group said fighters, backed by Turkish tanks, advanced Saturday on the village of Youssef Beik that lies southwest of Jarablus, seizing it from Kurdish-affiliated forces. The group claimed to have captured two Kurdish fighters.
There was no immediate comment from the Syria Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-affiliated forces.
Earlier an SDF-affiliated group said Turkish airstrikes targeted its bases and civilian homes south of Jarablus.
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5:15 p.m.
Turkey’s state news agency says the Turkish Military Joint Special Task Forces and coalition airplanes have targeted the bases of suspected “terror groups” south of the Syrian town of Jarablus.
The Saturday statement, citing military sources, comes hours after Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria said Turkish airstrikes had hit their bases near Jarablus, a town seized by Turkey-backed rebels earlier this week. It said the target was an ammunition depot and a command center for “terror groups” but didn’t name the area or the group.
The Jarablus Military Council, supported by the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces, said the airstrikes on their bases in the village of Amarneh marked an “unprecedented and dangerous escalation.”
Turkey sent tanks across the border to help Syrian rebels capture Jarablus from the Islamic State group, and to contain Kurdish-led forces. Turkey says the Kurds must withdraw to the east of the nearby Euphrates River.
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3:45 p.m.
Syria activists say at least 15 civilians have been killed when suspected government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a wake for children killed in earlier airstrikes in rebel-held Aleppo.
Hospital officials in rebel-held Aleppo say the death toll from the two barrel bombs dropped Saturday in the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood is likely to rise. Mohammed Khandakani, a hospital volunteer, said one of the injured told him a barrel bomb was dropped as people paid their condolences for children killed Thursday in an airstrike that left 11 children dead in the same neighborhood. Minutes later, Khandakani said another barrel bomb was dropped, injuring an ambulance driver, and hampering rescue efforts.
The Syrian government and its Russian ally are the only ones operating helicopters over Aleppo. The government denies it uses barrel bombs.
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1:15 p.m.
Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria say Turkish airstrikes have hit their bases near Jarablus, a town seized by Turkey-backed rebels earlier this week.
The Jarablus Military Council says the airstrikes Saturday on their bases in Amarneh village marked an “unprecedented and dangerous escalation” and came after Turkish artillery shelled the positions the day before.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the airstrikes. Turkish officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Jarablus Military Council is supported by the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces. Turkey sent tanks across the border to help Syrian rebels capture Jarablus from the Islamic State group.
The incursion was partly aimed at containing Kurdish-led forces. Turkey says the Kurds must withdraw to the east of the nearby Euphrates River. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/turkish-soldier-killed-syria-rocket-attack/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/5f1485318d67b015c9a490b38be6c4327e283a95e7c75675f40075ad318f73f4.json |
[
"Interview With Yourhub"
] | 2016-08-29T18:46:33 | null | 2016-08-29T18:26:23 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbusiness-qa-sam-hills-barbershop-englewood%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/zll25samhill_web1.jpg?w=1024&h=681 | en | null | Business Q&A: Sam Hill’s Barbershop, Englewood | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Business: Sam Hill’s Barbershop
Address: 3456 S. Broadway, Englewood
Hours: 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday
Founded: 1909
Contact: 303-761-4138
Employees: 1
Interview with Rick Lozano, owner
Q: How did you get involved in this business?
A: My father owned a barbershop. He supported a family with it. I went to Colorado Barber College back in 1986. I worked with my dad for two years and then I came to Sam Hill’s in 1988. I bought the shop in 2005.
Q: What distinguishes you from other businesses in your category?
A: It’s the oldest business in Englewood. It opened in 1909 as the O.K. Bathhouse and Barbershop. Sam Hill purchased it from the original owner in 1935 and renamed it. Then the guy I came to work for, Dick Konecne, started working for Sam in 1957 and purchased it from him in 1969.
Q: What do you like best about your line of work?
A: The people. It’s a diverse group of people who come in here. We might talk hunting or fishing. People come in here and we might talk about anything. Just good, old barbershop talk.
Q: What is your business’ biggest challenge?
A: None right now. I’m happy with my life and everything here at Sam Hill’s.
Q: Something people might be surprised to learn about you or your business:
A: I’m just an old-school barbershop. I don’t do new age haircuts with lines and designs and all that. You want tradition, you come in here. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/business-qa-sam-hills-barbershop-englewood/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/60169a6479192b241e93789e795d759ccf87399fd2ce4b10b4375ad78f8149dd.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T04:46:18 | null | 2016-08-29T03:55:15 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Flouisiana-town-picking-up-pieces-after-flooding%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ed1c7afab52849738983209eefb4802a-fryz.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Louisiana town picking up the pieces after flooding | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. — In 23 years of coaching football, Dru Nettles never had to deliver a pep talk like this.
Most of his players and coaches on Denham Springs High School’s football team lost homes when floodwaters ravaged their city in suburban Baton Rouge. Their battered school remains closed, but the team has a season-opening home game to play in two weeks.
Before they practiced Wednesday for the first time since the floods, Nettles sat them down on the purple logo at midfield and asked if they had seen aerial photographs of their inundated school.
“If you look at the back of campus, the one thing that didn’t go underwater was this logo,” Nettles said. “Awesome sign right there that this ‘DS’ was shining … to give people hope.”
The promise of Friday night football is tonic for a city at the epicenter of the catastrophe. Even the most modest signs of recovery are lifting weary spirits in Denham Springs, where flooding damaged an estimated 90 percent of homes and businesses.
Block by block, garbage trucks equipped with metal jaws are scooping up mounds of rancid debris from curbs and yards. Postal workers are delivering mail again. Insurance adjusters are inspecting gutted houses. A fast-food restaurant reopened close to nearby Interstate 12 that had been underwater.
“Everybody is trying so hard to get back to normalcy as much as they can. Yes, we are seeing progress. Every day, we finally see another business come back online,” said Denham Springs Mayor Gerard Landry.
But he fears it could take years for this city to fully recover after more than 2 feet of rain fell in the area over a three-day period two weeks ago.
Elvin Watts had no flood insurance for his shop in the touristy downtown antiques district. Watts, 69, estimates he lost up to $85,000 of inventory — almost everything he had inside Theatre Antiques Mall.
“Little by little, it’s going to the curb because it’s starting to mildew,” Watts said. “We’re pretty much back to square one here.”
Watts and his brother-in-law, John Houston, were cleaning up the shop Wednesday when a postal worker delivered his mail for the first time since the floods.
“Is that your renewal for your flood insurance?” Houston jokingly asked Watts, who laughed.
Gallows humor helps many cope with numbing loss.
Richard and Bridgette Harrington moved into their dream home a few weeks before nearly 4 feet of water demolished the house and ruined more than $20,000 in brand-new furniture.
Their flood policy doesn’t cover the home’s contents, including a $5,000 bed in which they slept just one night before the deluge came.
“The most expensive night’s sleep ever,” Richard Harrington said.
The Harringtons and their two daughters, 16 and 12, took a break from cleaning to watch a debris removal crew haul away their waterlogged possessions.
“It’s weird to be excited by your lifetime’s collection being trashed,” his wife said.
A football game at Denham Springs High School can draw thousands. The stands are bound to be filled when the team plays its first game Sept. 9.
The school’s band rehearsed Thursday for the first time since the storm, practicing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and singing their school’s alma mater. Band director Andrew Hunter said many of them arrived an hour early.
“Just beating us to the door, ready to go. Hugging each other. Catching up. Talking about how many feet of water they got in their homes,” Hunter said. “That’s what we talk about now.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/louisiana-town-picking-up-pieces-after-flooding/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/c526f2802538d17c79c3324e2553cf323561472d9d76ec90b509692699f0fbe2.json |
[
"Patrick Saunders"
] | 2016-08-31T04:46:45 | null | 2016-08-31T04:13:02 | Tuesday night's game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Rockies at Coors Field was postponed because of heavy and persistent rain. The game will be made up Wednesday as part of a split doubleheader. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Frockies-dodgers-rained-out-tuesday-doubleheader-on-tap-wednesday%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/colorado-rockies.jpg?w=1024&h=702 | en | null | Rockies-Dodgers rained out Tuesday night; split doubleheader on tap Wednesday | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Tuesday night’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Rockies at Coors Field was postponed because of heavy and persistent rain. The game will be made up Wednesday as part of a split doubleheader.
The game originally scheduled for Tuesday night is now scheduled to start at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday as the second game of the doubleheader. The first game is scheduled for 1:10 p.m. Separate tickets will be required for each game. Gates for the 6:10 p.m. game will open at about 5 p.m.
In Game 1, the Rockies will start left-hander Tyler Anderson against Dodgers right-hander Ross Stripling. In Game 2, the Rockies will start right-hander Jeff Hoffman vs. Dodgers lefty Rich Hill.
Rain began Tuesday night just before the game was scheduled to start at 6:40 p.m.. The game was officially postponed at 9:12 p.m. after a 2-hour, 32-minute delay.
“The storm just kept building and building,” manager Walt Weiss said. “Weather is unpredictable around here. We thought it was just going to be a little fly-by at first, a 20- or 30-minute delay. But it just never went away.”
Anderson stayed active throughout Tuesday night’s delay, riding a bike and playing catch, in case he had to pitch. But Weiss said Anderson would be fresh and ready to go for the first game Wednesday.
“There will be no restrictions,” Weiss said. “I guess it would be like he threw a side (session) today.”
Tickets from Tuesday night’s game are valid for Wednesday’s 6:10 p.m. game only. Exchanges for Tuesday’s game may be made for any game throughout the rest of the season — value for value, best available seating. However, exchanges must be made before Oct. 2. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/rockies-dodgers-rained-out-tuesday-doubleheader-on-tap-wednesday/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/cb6d359c67dc260a87ec87f285a423d3ed2928dede123b526270c392ff10fa89.json |
[
"Hugh Johnson"
] | 2016-08-27T00:45:58 | null | 2016-08-27T00:31:45 | Bengals running back Jeremy Hill was one of fantasy’s disappointments last year when he totaled just 794 rushing yards after rushing for more than 1,200 in 2014. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ffantasy-football-trust-jeremy-hill-eddie-lacy%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/591909252.jpg?w=1024&h=638 | en | null | Why fantasy football owners should trust Jeremy Hill and Eddie Lacy | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Fantasy owners, we’re entering the all important dress rehearsal for the NFL preseason. Let’s take a look at who’s stock is rising and falling around the league.
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Jeremy Hill, RB, Cincinnati Bengals
Bengals running back Jeremy Hill was one of fantasy’s disappointments last year when he totaled just 794 rushing yards after rushing for more than 1,200 in 2014. The good news is that Hill scored 11 touchdowns last season, two more than he did in 2014. During the Bengals’ second preseason game against Detroit, Hill scored on a 9-yard run. It was one of his three carries on the day.
Reports from Bengals blog Cincy Jungle show a different, more mature Hill entering 2016. A far cry from the gyrating rookie of 2014, Hill seems more confident and ready to become a leader on this team. His new attitude could lead to improved production and hence an increased workload.
Bottom line, though he may split carries with running back Giovani Bernard, Hill’s ability to score touchdowns is a valuable asset.
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Eddie Lacy, RB, Green Bay Packers
Running back Eddie Lacy has rushed for at least five yards per carry in both preseason games for Green Bay. That bodes well for his return to elite status in fantasy and reality. The Green Bay running back has lost the extra pounds he had during last season and seems poised for a bounce-back year. He rushed for 45 yards on nine carries and a touchdown in the Packers’ second preseason game.
Virgil Green, TE, Denver Broncos
The Broncos seem to have rediscovered the tight end position. Virgil Green’s role has been crucial to the Broncos’ offense. In the team’s first preseason game against Chicago, quarterback Mark Sanchez threw to Green on 3rd and 8 for a crucial third down conversion. The best part about Green is that he seems to have chemistry with both of the quarterbacks vying for a starting position. Trevor Siemian and Sanchez found Green four different times during Denver’s second preseason game, each reception went for more than 10 yards. If the Broncos continue to alternate between Sanchez, Sieman and perhaps Paxton Lynch at quarterback this season (which reporter Nick Groke says is a possibility), Green could be valuable especially in points per reception formats as a security blanket for the three.
Tyler Lockett, WR, Seattle Seahawks
As the Seahawks transitioned to a more pass-happy offense with running back Marshawn Lynch out last season, then-rookie receiver Tyler Lockett saw his production increase. He ended 2015 with 51 catches for 664 yards and six scores. This year, he figures to be an even bigger piece of the Seahawks offense. Quarterback Russell Wilson threw a beautiful pass to Lockett in the team’s second preseason game against Minnesota. He threaded the ball between two defenders. Wilson seems confident in his young receiver. Lockett has a high ceiling as he’ll likely be Seattle’s second option in the passing game. Who knows? He could even become top dog in Seattle. If Lockett is available in the middle of the draft, pick him up.
Terrelle Pryor, WR, Cleveland Browns
Don’t look now but it looks like quarterback turned receiver Terrelle Pryor has found some success with the Browns and quarterback Robert Griffin III. Pryor looks like he will be Cleveland’s deep threat. He’s caught two passes of 49 and 50 yards over the span of two preseason games. His 50-yard catch went for a touchdown last week against Atlanta. The chemistry between Pryor and RGIII is there. If that continues, the receiver could be a worthwhile pick late in drafts.
Blake Bortles, QB, Jacksonville Jaguars
Jacksonville’s offense is just clicking and perhaps the most impressive piece has been the stellar play of quarterback Blake Bortles. Bortles has been able to find receiver Allen Robinson seemingly at will. Through two games, Robinson has caught seven passes for 114 yards. Bortles threw two touchdowns in the Jaguars’ second preseason game. One to receiver Allen Hurns and another to running back T.J. Yeldon. Bortles should be drafted as a top ten quarterback with top five upside.
Eagles defense
Defense is an afterthought when it comes to fantasy football. But having a solid 8-to-10 reliable points each week can lead to victories. When it comes to dominant defenses, the conversation begins with the Denver Broncos who had far and away the best defense in 2015. But the Eagles are getting a lot of turnovers in the early going. Through two preseason games, the Eagles’ defense has nine turnovers, including a four-interception, shut-out performance against in-state rival Pittsburgh. Also, the team’s special teams is capable of making big plays.
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Jay Ajayi RB, Miami Dolphins
When Texans running back Lamar Miller left Miami for Houston, running back Jay Ajayi seemed like the next man up for the Dolphins. However, since the Dolphins got new head coach Adam Gase, Ajayi’s stock has gone down. There are many reasons to believe that Gase and the Dolphins aren’t sold on Ajayi as the main guy. When Broncos back C.J. Anderson tested the market as a restricted free agent, he received an offer sheet from Miami. In the end, the Dolphins brought in the oft-injured Arian Foster to complement the team’s backfield. In Miami’s important third preseason game, Ajayi continued to disappoint rushing for 11 yards on seven carries. Foster didn’t fare much better on the ground with 10 yards on five carries but he did score a touchdown. Foster was also the more productive of the two as a pass catcher. I doubt Foster can carry a full load after seven years so Ajayi will get some work during this season but a committee approach will likely hurt his production.
Tevin Coleman, RB, Atlanta Falcons
Many fantasy pundits thought that Falcons running back Tevin Coleman would turn Atlanta’s backfield into a full blown committee alongside 2015’s breakout star Devonta Freeman. While Freeman dashed for a 19-yard score in the Falcons’ second preseason matchup against Cleveland, Coleman was limited to 16 yards on five carries. The competition is far from over but right now, it doesn’t look like Coleman will be anything more than a handcuff.
Matt Jones, RB, Washington Redskins
There’s a lot to like about the Redskins this year. Offensively, this team seems to be on the rise. But what about the running game? Matt Jones is the top back in Washington after Alfred Morris joined the Cowboys during the offseason. Jones showed his perimeter speed more than once last year racking up 490 yards and three touchdowns. However, Jones suffered a second-degree AC sprain during Washington’s second preseason game that will sideline him for the remainder of the preseason. In the meantime rookie running backs Keith Marshall and Robert Kelley will get more carries and work, meaning they’ll inch closer to Jones in terms of the depth chart. If Jones isn’t able to get back in and acclimate to game speed quickly during the regular season, one of the rookies may surpass him.
Justin Forsett, RB, Baltimore Ravens
In 2014, Ravens running back Justin Forsett took over Baltimore’s backfield by storm making fans forget all about former back Ray Rice. Under then-offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak, Forsett rushed for 1,529 yards and eight touchdowns. Last year, Forsett had 794 rushing yards and two scores before he missed the final six games of the season after he broke his arm. This year, Forsett looks to be headed into a committee with Javorius “Buck” Allen and former Titans back Terrance West. Forsett shared carries with Allen in the first quarter of the Ravens’ second preseason game against the Colts. During the second quarter, West got mixed into the backfield. Forsett still favors to be the starter but the two backs behind him won’t be underutilized. Forsett should be targeted as a flex play. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/fantasy-football-trust-jeremy-hill-eddie-lacy/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/cf4eea58607896b428738b914ad0116e1aca9c395f70d43cf0c3131514f0794c.json |
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"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-26T12:49:28 | null | 2016-08-26T06:01:09 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsouthside-with-you-movie-review%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/movie.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Barack Obama takes Michelle Robinson on a first date in “Southside With You” | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Ann Hornday, The Washington Post
Three stars. Rated PG-13. 84 minutes.
Like the warm summer day it chronicles, “Southside With You” possesses a mellow, languorous vibe, an infectious easygoing charm that insinuates itself gently, then seductively, as the couple at its center experiences the stirrings of what might be true love.
That the two young people in question are named Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson almost feels like an afterthought in Richard Tanne’s modest but enormously enjoyable throwback of a movie. Imagine a cross between John Ford’s “Young Mr. Lincoln” and Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise,” and you get a sense of the tone of a movie that tiptoes to the edge of hagiography but never falls in, at least entirely.
It’s unlikely that Obama’s most pathological haters will want to see “Southside With You,” but they’ll be missing a delightfully low-key portrait that is as universal as it is grounded in a well-chronicled public-private life. Fans, on the other hand, will discover a movie that presents the president not as the ready-made icon who seemed to emerge fully formed at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but as an instinctive communicator and politician, for whom the word “no” merely offers the opportunity for skillful negotiation.
Played in an uncannily on-point physical and verbal portrayal by Parker Sawyers, the Barack Obama of “Southside With You” is a gangly, somewhat cocky first-year law associate and community organizer in Chicago, who as the movie opens in 1989 has finally convinced Michelle — his adviser at the corporate law firm — to spend a day with him. Prim, direct and protective of her professional reputation in an office where she’s the only African-American woman, Michelle — played in a persuasively assured, straightforward turn by Tika Sumpter — has so far made a convincing case for why the two should remain colleagues, albeit friendly ones.
But as the two wend their way through a day that will include an art exhibit, a community meeting at a church, a screening of “Do the Right Thing” and a fateful ice cream cone, her intransigence begins to soften. Sharing their histories with everything from family, religion and the psychic commute between “planet black” and “planet white” to “Good Times,” Ernie Barnes and Stevie Wonder, Michelle and Barack’s discursive, ambling date takes on the contours of romantic destiny as, to quote Rilke, two strong, self-identified solitudes tentatively reach out to protect and touch and greet each other.
Tanne, who makes an impressively sensitive feature debut here, drenches “Southside With You” with deliciously textured atmosphere and 1980s nostalgia, from the rickety Nissan Sentra that Barack drives — his ashtray full of cigarette butts — to Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much” that blares from the dashboard radio. Although the filmmaker has taken the slight liberty of inserting an organizing meeting where it didn’t literally exist on the day, the license gives him — and, more crucially, Michelle — a chance to see Barack in action, delivering a brilliant extemporaneous speech on the need for mutual understanding and the inherent messiness of democracy.
That’s one of the few winks to what lies ahead for Obama in “Southside With You,” which does an admirable job of keeping the focus on the simple question of whether this relationship can be saved before it even has a chance to begin. (For a minute there, in a tense, well-staged scene at the movie screening, all seems lost.) Of course, part of the pleasure of watching “Southside With You” is the audience knowing what the characters don’t — the frisson playing at the edges of a scene when Barack tells Michelle that he feels like something’s pulling at him, he just can’t tell what.
“Southside With You” is the first of what will surely be a spate of mythmaking movies about the Obamas as they prepare to leave the White House. But seen through another lens, it’s about anyone who has experienced the mystery of discernment, and heard the whispers of a still, small voice that cannot be ignored. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/southside-with-you-movie-review/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/ce8d4086b998ad3408a46c957597721d960888ea092362a7a9ac6ef1c6e6d2bb.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T14:46:47 | null | 2016-08-30T13:43:12 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fgene-wilder-serious-side-off-camera%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16242740850428.jpg?w=1024&h=747 | en | null | Comic performer Gene Wilder kept his serious side off camera | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES — Revered as a comedic and storytelling genius by Hollywood’s top entertainers, Gene Wilder was a humble man who downplayed his comic gifts, was a serious director and remained deferential to his longtime collaborator, Mel Brooks.
“I am him in fantasy,” Wilder once said of playing the lead in Brooks’ films.
After Wilder’s death was announced Monday, Brooks called his colleague “one of the truly great talents of our time.”
“He blessed every film we did together with his special magic and he blessed my life with his friendship,” Brooks said in a statement. “He will be so missed.”
Related Articles August 29, 2016 Gene Wilder, star of “Willy Wonka” and Mel Brooks comedies, dies at 83, family says Wilder died Sunday night of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at age 83. His nephew, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, said Wilder was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, but kept the condition private so as not to disappoint fans.
Though Wilder started his acting career on the stage, millions knew him from his work in the movies, especially the ones he made with Brooks, such as “The Producers,” ”Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein.” The last film — with Wilder playing a California-born descendant of the mad scientist, insisting that his name is pronounced “Frahn-ken-SHTEEN” — was co-written by Brooks and Wilder and earned the pair an Oscar nod for adapted screenplay.
With his unkempt hair and big, buggy eyes, Wilder was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes that only a madman such as Brooks could devise, whether reviving a monster in “Young Frankenstein” or bilking Broadway in “The Producers.” Brooks would call him “God’s perfect prey, the victim in all of us.”
But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozing gunslinger in “Blazing Saddles” or the charming candy man in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” His craziest role: the therapist having an affair with a sheep in Woody Allen’s “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex.”
Wilder was close friends with Richard Pryor and their contrasting personas — Wilder uptight, Pryor loose — were ideal for comedy. They co-starred in four films: “Silver Streak,” ”Stir Crazy,” ”See No Evil, Hear No Evil” and “Another You.”
But Wilder insisted he was not a comedian. He told Robert Osborne in 2013 it was the biggest misconception about him.
“What a comic, what a funny guy, all that stuff! And I’m not. I’m really not. Except in a comedy in films,” Wilder said. “But I make my wife laugh once or twice in the house, but nothing special. But when people see me in a movie and it’s funny then they stop and say things to me about ‘how funny you were.’ But I don’t think I’m that funny. I think I can be in the movies.”
He could be quite serious, said actress Carol Kane, his co-star in 1977’s “The World’s Greatest Lover.”
“I don’t think Gene was depressed, but he was very serious and very sensitive and not afraid to expose what many people would call a feminine side, an emotional side,” she said Monday.
A Milwaukee native, Wilder was born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933. When he was 6, his mother suffered a heart attack that left her a semi-invalid. He soon began improvising comedy skits to entertain her, the first indication of his future career.
He started taking acting classes at age 12 and continued studying through college. In 1961, Wilder became a member of Lee Strasberg’s prestigious Actor’s Studio in Manhattan.
That same year, he adopted the stage name Gene Wilder and made both his off-Broadway and Broadway debuts. He won the Clarence Derwent Award, given to promising newcomers, for the Broadway work in Graham Greene’s comedy “The Complaisant Lover.” A key break came when he co-starred with Anne Bancroft in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage” in 1963.
A few years later, Brooks cast Wilder in “The Producers,” for which Wilder was nominated for a supporting actor Academy Award. Brooks also encouraged Wilder to become a director himself.
“He gave me the chutzpah to stand up on a chair and shout out: ‘I don’t know what the answer is! Somebody help me,'” Wilder told The Associated Press in a 1977 interview. “And when you can do that, people usually love you for it and rush in to help.”
He went on to write several screenplays and direct five films. He married “Saturday Night Live” headliner Gilda Radner in 1984 and they costarred in two of his films: “The Woman in Red” and “Haunted Honeymoon.”
“He was compassionate and inspirational and poetic as a director,” Kane recalled. “And clearly one of the great clowns — the Chaplin of talkies in some way, I would say.”
Wilder’s desire to tell his stories well led him to pay special attention to directing himself.
“The tendency for most directors who direct themselves is to spend too little time on themselves, oddly enough. When you can finally say, ‘Me, me,’ you want to say, ‘Oh, that’s enough of me,’ because it’s more fun to direct the other actors than it is to direct yourself,” he said in the 1977 AP interview. “When I look at the film with an audience, and I look up at the screen, I say, ‘This is what I intended.'”
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AP film writers Lindsey Bahr in Los Angeles and Jake Coyle in New York and former AP reporter Larry McShane contributed to this story. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/gene-wilder-serious-side-off-camera/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2ef6ee807bbd3d1450f42f39e287694b8447670570a2dd04929075f1e4c1969c.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T12:46:30 | null | 2016-08-29T12:38:07 | World Wrestling Entertainment says the former star wrestler and manager Harry Fujiwara, better known as Mr. Fuji, has died at age 82. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fmr-fuji-dies-wwe-hall-fame%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mr-fuji.jpg?w=1024&h=623 | en | null | Mr. Fuji, WWE Hall of Famer, dies at 82 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | STAMFORD, Conn. — World Wrestling Entertainment says the former star wrestler and manager Harry Fujiwara, better known as Mr. Fuji, has died at age 82. An obituary posted on WWE’s website Sunday said Fujiwara died that morning. The obituary doesn’t say where he died or list a cause of death. The WWE hasn’t responded to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
Fujiwara starred as a tag team champion in the ring before shifting into a bad guy manager role in the 1980s. “Magnificent” Don Muraco, Yokozuna and George “The Animal” Steele were among those he managed. He was known for his trademark tactic of throwing salt into the eyes of opponents.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/mr-fuji-dies-wwe-hall-fame/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/7907ee4bb6dd8eee133e144d7ecb08fd6e47e743a35b9fb7d7a2662d922ef06f.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T18:46:04 | null | 2016-08-26T17:04:10 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fdenver-selected-as-anchor-city-for-the-national-poetry-slam-will-host-in-2017%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Denver selected as anchor city for the National Poetry Slam, will host in 2017 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Denver poetry lovers are in for a week of the best slam poetry in the country next August as teams descend on the Mile High City for a fierce competition in front of a microphone.
After a competitive bid process in 2015, Denver will serve as one of the four anchor cities for the 28th annual National Poetry Slam. Hundreds of the country’s best and brightest slam poets will stack their poems against each other in a week-long festival before thousands of audience members. The event will be the largest poetry slam event that Colorado has ever hosted.
Poetry slams, born in the mid-’80s in Chicago, are poetry competitions where individuals or teams present a poem in front of an audience, from which five random people are selected as judges. The judges then score each poem on content, originality and performance.
Suzi Smith, the executive director of Poetry Slam Inc., was a major driving force behind bringing the National Poetry Slam to Denver. Smith teaches her art in Denver and performs throughout the country.
“During the selection process of the anchor cities, we were looking for diversity, ability to have multiple venues hosting events at the same time, access to great hotels, restaurants and airports,” she said. “People who have been here before just want to come back. Most of all, we were looking for cities that have a thriving local poetry scene.”
Denver’s colorful slam poetry scene includes Andrea Gibson, winner of the 2008 Women of the World Poetry Slam championship, and Amy Everhart, winner of the 2009 Individual World Poetry Slam championship, as well as Denver’s Slam Nuba and Mercury Slam, the National Poetry Slam championship teams in 2011 and 2006 respectively.
But it wasn’t always that way. Ian Dougherty, one of the co-founders of Mercury Slam, said that Mercury Cafe struggled to find poets and judges in the beginning, when slam poetry was just getting started in Denver. But Dougherty — drawn to slam poetry because of its politically and socially aware nature — was determined to help the community develop.
“I first got interested in slam poetry because it wasn’t just this disengaged, disembodied thing that academic poetry can be,” he said. “Slam doesn’t really allow that, because it has a performance element that focuses on storytelling. It hits the reset button on what poetry is and can be.”
“The Denver slam poetry scene is very, very familial,” said Mary McDonough, who has been involved with Minor Disturbance, Denver’s youth slam poetry organization, since 2009 — first as a member, then as a coach and organizer. She has also performed with Slam Nuba and Mercury Slam at previous National Poetry Slams.
“It speaks to everyone’s dedication to the art form and the community,” she said. “No one’s getting healthcare from poetry, but everyone’s getting spiritual care.”
Over the past few years, McDonough has been working on formalizing a lot of the positions in the slam community. She said one thing she’s been striving toward is holding space for different intersecting communities to express their art within Denver’s slam community.
Dougherty also mentioned the welcoming nature of the slam community as a reason why Denver appealed to the National Poetry Slam selection committee.
“When touring poets come to Denver, they connect with what we have going on here,” he said. “We always hear other poets remarking about how different things seem here, in terms of how our community supports one another. It’s not just a bunch of people coming in to promote their individual careers.”
Denver is on track to host the National Poetry Slam every five years — thus again in 2022, 2027 and so on. The other three anchor cities are Chicago, Oakland and Atlanta. The Slam leaves room in the rotation for a new city to be added.
Smith said she expects the event to bring between 500 and 700 poets to Colorado and about 5,000 audience members.
Events will take place in downtown Denver and Five Points, along the Welton Street corridor. During the day, there will be writing workshops, a haiku competition, open mic events and poetry slams open to the public. The tournament itself kicks off on Aug. 8, 2017, in six venues simultaneously and the final night of competition will be on Aug. 12 at the Paramount Theater.
McDonough said she’s “unbelievably excited” for the National Poetry Slam in Denver next year because it’s a chance for people who have recently moved to the city to check out how the slam community is a vibrant scene for art and social justice.
“Since I’m primarily a youth organizer, just getting to see dynamic spoken word and artistic spaces that are welcoming to youth that the National Poetry Slam will bring is what I’m looking forward to the most,” McDonough said. “A lot of youth in the city are feeling really disempowered as Denver is shifting, and these are great spaces for them. I’m ready for Denver to get a B-12 shot of poetry!”
Smith cited inclusivity as why poetry slams are unique in the literary world. She said there are no gatekeepers at the event, so everyone’s voices contribute to the diversity of the event.
“At any poetry slam, there’s someone onstage who’s going to connect with you,” she said. “It’s impossible to go to a poetry slam and leave unmoved.”
Tickets go on sale in December. For more information, visit poetryslam.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/denver-selected-as-anchor-city-for-the-national-poetry-slam-will-host-in-2017/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b75bf6e9065c93cffd959550b77cd7c1b878b2fa48203bd6db170862a63846aa.json |
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"Yesenia Robles"
] | 2016-08-30T18:46:43 | null | 2016-08-30T18:30:23 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fsuspect-wearing-motorcycle-helmet-robs-denver-bank%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Suspect wearing motorcycle helmet robs Denver bank | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Police responded to a bank robbery Tuesday morning on South Broadway.
Christine Downs, a spokeswoman for Denver Police Department, said officers responded to a bank robbery call at about 9:48 a.m. to the 1200 block of South Broadway.
The suspect who was wearing all black, and a motorcycle helmet, jumped over the counter and demanded money.
Downs said no one was injured in the robbery and the suspect did not appear to have a weapon.
The suspect fled on foot. No further description has been made available. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/suspect-wearing-motorcycle-helmet-robs-denver-bank/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/de06fdcb043f75b3707f8ff226243666c05c0d293c9cfa81907c1b657c04f4aa.json |
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"Dylan Owens"
] | 2016-08-30T20:46:42 | null | 2016-08-30T20:39:42 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fblue-moon-brewery-rino-grand-opening-party%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/taps.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | New Blue Moon in RiNo announces free grand opening party | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Blue Moon Brewing Co. has been quietly pouring pints since opening its doors in RiNo on July 17. If you haven’t been by yet, the brewery is about to give you a good reason to fix that.
On Sept. 16, under a harvest moon, the Belgian-style beer purveyors will throw a grand opening party at their newly minted taproom in RiNo.
More on who is playing the event and other perks on Reverb. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/blue-moon-brewery-rino-grand-opening-party/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/09783ae4850e34d09f68786ea543969a4497bf7708d0111a019102e21e27610c.json |
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"Dylan Owens"
] | 2016-08-30T18:46:42 | null | 2016-08-30T17:08:44 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Ftaste-of-colorado-music-headliners-2016%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bluestraveler.jpg?w=1024&h=680 | en | null | A look at the Taste of Colorado headliners, and the food you should be eating while you groove | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Music, as Shakespeare once suggested, is the food of love.
Just like a big bite of hamburger can make a weak person hearty, a Taylor Dayne song can go a long way to fill an empty heart.
So it makes sense that Denver food festival A Taste of Colorado has kicked the caliber of its musical acts up a notch in recent years. Last year, the festival brought Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers to Civic Center downtown. This year, there are seven headliners in addition to 67 other bands booked across five stages.
Find Reverb’s guide to each of the festival’s seven headliners, including the food that goes best with each of their tunes. Bon appétit, right? | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/taste-of-colorado-music-headliners-2016/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/8849cd6de72d107d59602975e336ac77c690e3cddd132d07923d902bba8f3d32.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T20:46:12 | null | 2016-08-27T18:56:03 | Max Ritvo, a poet who chronicled his long battle with cancer in works that were both humorous and searing, has died. He was 25. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fmax-ritvo-poet-who-chronicled-cancer-battle-dies-at-25%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Max Ritvo, poet who chronicled cancer battle, dies at 25 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LOS ANGELES — Max Ritvo, a poet who chronicled his long battle with cancer in works that were both humorous and searing, has died. He was 25.
Ritvo died Tuesday morning at his home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, his mother, Ariella Ritvo-Slifka, said Friday.
Ritvo was diagnosed at 16 with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare cancer that affects bones and soft tissue in children and young adults.
Treatment brought about a remission that permitted Ritvo to finish high school and attend Yale University, where he performed in an improv comedy group. His teachers included Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck.
Ritvo’s cancer returned in his senior year, but he completed Yale and this year earned a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Ritvo’s battle with the disease informed his works. A June poem in The New Yorker discussed an experiment where cells from his tumors were used in cancer drug treatment experiments with mice.
“I want my mice to be just like me,” Ritvo wrote. “I don’t have any children. I named them all Max. First they were Max 1, Max 2, but now they’re all just Max. No playing favorites.”
Ritvo’s first book of poetry, “Four Reincarnations,” is scheduled to be published this fall.
In radio and podcast interviews, Ritvo spoke about his suffering. But he rejected any idea that he was a victim of the disease — especially a heroic one.
At their wedding last summer, Ritvo and his wife, Victoria, banned words such as “inspirational” from the speeches, his mother said.
“He was about love and compassion, human and animal rights and about writing and sharing himself with the world,” she said. “He didn’t want people to see him as an invalid.”
Ritvo saw humor not as a coping mechanism but as an intrinsic part of dealing with his illness.
“You know, we imagine in our hysteria that it’s disrespectful for the sadness. But when you laugh at something horrible, you’re just illuminating a different side of it that was already there and it’s not a deflection, it makes it deeper and makes it realer,” he said last month in the WNYC Studios podcast “Only Human.”
Ritvo also inspired people with his attitude, his wife said.
“Max said ‘I love you’ to everyone. He hugged everyone. He just wanted there to be more love and laughter,” she said.
Ritvo was writing until just days before his death and had told his family that the end would be near when he was no longer able to write.
The day before his death, he told his mother and wife: “I can’t write anymore, I can’t speak, I can’t breathe…I’m not me…You guys have to be OK with me going,” his mother said.
Earlier this month, Ritvo tweeted a link to poem called “The Final Voicemails,” which he said was “about goin a bit loopy under quarantine and what Death is.”
Its final lines: “Red as earth, red as a dying berry, red as your lips, red as the last thing I saw — and whatever next thing I will see.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/max-ritvo-poet-who-chronicled-cancer-battle-dies-at-25/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/92ebce8f61f05146797dbe9f2527b2af26eb422153b64a9ddfcd27a10cb838dc.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T14:46:29 | null | 2016-08-29T14:42:39 | Defiant, and determined to be a conduit for change, Colin Kaepernick plans to sit through the national anthem for as long as he feels is appropriate and until he sees significant progress — specifically when it comes to race relations in the United States. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fcolin-kaepernick-national-anthem%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/colin-kaepernick1.jpg?w=1024&h=756 | en | null | Colin Kaepernick will sit through anthem until there’s change | null | null | www.denverpost.com | SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Defiant, and determined to be a conduit for change, Colin Kaepernick plans to sit through the national anthem for as long as he feels is appropriate and until he sees significant progress — specifically when it comes to race relations in the United States.
He knows he could be cut by San Francisco for this stand. Criticized and ostracized, he’ll go it alone if need be.
The quarterback realizes he might be treated poorly in some road cities, and he’s ready for that, too, saying he’s not overly concerned about his safety, but “if something happens that’s only proving my point.”
“I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed,” Kaepernick said Sunday at his locker. “To me this is something that has to change. When there’s significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it’s supposed to represent, this country is representing people the way that it’s supposed to, I’ll stand.”
Two days after he refused to stand for the “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the 49ers’ preseason loss to the Packers, Kaepernick insists whatever the consequences, he will know “I did what’s right.” He said he hasn’t heard from the NFL or anyone else about his actions — and it won’t matter if he does.
“No one’s tried to quiet me and, to be honest, it’s not something I’m going to be quiet about,” he said. “I’m going to speak the truth when I’m asked about it. This isn’t for look. This isn’t for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don’t have the voice. And this is for people that are being oppressed and need to have equal opportunities to be successful. To provide for families and not live in poor circumstances.”
Letting his hair go au natural and sprinting between drills as usual, Kaepernick took the field Sunday with the 49ers as his stance drew chatter across NFL camps.
He explained his viewpoints to teammates in the morning, some agreeing with his message but not necessarily his method. Some said they know he has offended his countrymen, others didn’t even know what he had done.
“Every guy on this team is entitled to their opinion. We’re all grown men,” linebacker NaVorro Bowman said.
“I agree with what he did, but not in the way he did it,” wideout Torrey Smith said. “That’s not for me. He has that right. Soldiers have died for his right to do exactly what he did. … I know he’s taken a lot of heat for it. He understands that when you do something like that it does offend a lot of people.”
Bowman and Smith are African-American.
Kaepernick criticized presidential candidates Donald Trump (“openly racist”) and Hillary Clinton;” called out police brutality against minorities; and pushed for accountability of public officials.
“You can become a cop in six months and don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist,” Kaepernick said. “That’s insane. Someone that’s holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.”
In college at Nevada, Kaepernick said, police were called one day “because we were the only black people in that neighborhood.” Officers entered without knocking and drew guns on him and his teammates and roommates as they were moving their belongings, he said.
He said his stand is not against men and women in the military.
Kaepernick, whose hair had been in cornrows during training camp, sat on the bench during Friday’s national anthem at Levi’s Stadium. Giants wideout Victor Cruz and Bills coach Rex Ryan said standing for the anthem shows respect.
“There’s a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality,” said Kaepernick, who is biracial and whose adoptive parents are white. “There’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That’s not right. That’s not right by anyone’s standards.”
On Sunday, he stopped briefly on a side field to talk with Harry Edwards and they shared a quick embrace before the quarterback grabbed his helmet and took the field. Edwards is a sociologist and African-American activist who helped plan the “Olympic Project for Human Rights” before the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos took the medal podium barefoot and bowed their heads through the anthem, raising gloved fists in a black power protest.
After swirling trade talks all offseason following Kaepernick’s three operations and sub-par 2015 season, he has done everything so far but play good football — and he doesn’t plan for this to be a distraction.
Coach Chip Kelly did not speak to the media Sunday. He said Saturday he still hasn’t decided on his starting quarterback in a competition between Kaepernick and Blaine Gabbert, who took over the job from Kaepernick last November and has vowed to be the No. 1 again.
Kaepernick hasn’t stood for the anthem in any of the team’s three preseason games “and I don’t see it as going about it the wrong way.”
“That’s his right as a citizen,” Kelly said. “We recognize his right as an individual to choose to participate or not participate in the national anthem.”
Now, Kaepernick is prepared for whatever comes next.
“I think there’s a lot of consequences that come along with this. There’s a lot of people that don’t want to have this conversation,” he said. “They’re scared they might lose their job. Or they might not get the endorsements. They might not to be treated the same way. Those are things I’m prepared to handle. …
“At this point, I’ve been blessed to be able to get this far and have the privilege of being able to be in the NFL, making the kind of money I make and enjoy luxuries like that. I can’t look in the mirror and see people dying on the street that should have the same opportunities that I’ve had.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/10436b8cbb6d9fee71948d28fadd093189b836cf46840c2f86af1dfdaf2de6c6.json |
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"Sarah Kuta",
"Daily Camera"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:48 | null | 2016-08-30T22:27:06 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fcu-business-school-dean-david-ikenberry-step-down%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | CU business school dean David Ikenberry to step down after discrimination complaints | null | null | www.denverpost.com | University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business dean David Ikenberry, who faced three federal gender discrimination complaints between 2013 and 2015, will step down from his post, according to a resignation letter he submitted this week.
David Ikenberry wrote to his supervisor, provost Russ Moore, on Monday that he believes the business school “needs a fresh start.”
“It is clear to me that the climate within Leeds needs to improve if it is to meet its full potential to be a top business school,” Ikenberry wrote. “To continue to grow and move forward, Leeds must have among its top priorities the need to strengthen its collegiality and culture, something which is at the heart and soul of any academic community.”
Ikenberry will continue serving as dean until some point this semester, when Bill Kaempfer, senior vice provost and associate vice chancellor for budget and planning, will take over as interim dean of the business school. Ikenberry plans to continue teaching and research in the business school.
The university will launch a formal search for a new business dean.
Ikenberry was hired as dean in 2011. Earlier this summer, Moore reappointed Ikenberry to another five-year term, a decision that marked the first time in 30 years that a CU business dean had been reappointed to a second term.
But as the summer went on, questions about Ikenberry’s leadership began to surface.
A 2015-16 faculty review of the dean, which Moore took into account when he made his reappointment decision, highlighted professors’ concerns with Ikenberry’s treatment of women. The same issue came up in his three-year faculty review.
“Best dean we have had in decades. Just wish he could find a way to respect women,” one respondent wrote in Ikenberry’s recent faculty review.
Five of the eight members on the committee tasked with summarizing the faculty’s comments said they felt Ikenberry was not meeting the expectations of the job.
After learning about the faculty evaluation this summer, the Daily Camera requested all legal documents or complaints related to Ikenberry during his five years on campus.
The university provided a number of records, including three federal gender discrimination complaints filed by female Leeds employees between 2013 and 2015.
Ikenberry’s resignation comes on the heels of a Camera story that one of those complaints resulted in a $40,000 settlement with the woman, Robin Miglarese. As part of that 2013 settlement agreement, the university also spent $7,845 for a leadership coach to work with Ikenberry and other business school leaders on “emotional intelligence.”
The complaint filed by former Leeds instructor Lauren Ramsay in May 2015 is still pending, while the complaint filed by Tip-Arpar Karasudhi, the business school’s former budget and finance director, was dismissed in April.
To read more about dean David Ikenberry’s resignation visit dailycamera.com | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/cu-business-school-dean-david-ikenberry-step-down/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/6bc7b220b37110b61612bfe7c6da08f1c8edd29946db1e4be41dfa11d9a46e99.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T16:46:01 | null | 2016-08-26T16:08:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fyellen-suggests-rate-hike-coming-offers-no-timetable%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c299207343c64f14afd5bb95c63cb8e2.jpg?w=1024&h=708 | en | null | Yellen suggests rate hike is coming but offers no timetable | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Martin Crutsinger, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the case for raising interest rates has strengthened in light of a solid job market and an improved outlook for the U.S. economy and inflation. But she stopped short of offering any timetable.
Yellen sketched a generally upbeat assessment of the economy in a speech to an annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She pointed to steady gains in employment and strength in consumer spending.
Related Articles July 28, 2016 Fed’s more upbeat tone suggests rate hike as early as Sept. She also noted that while inflation is still running below the Fed’s 2 percent target, it is being depressed mainly by temporary factors.
“In light of the continued solid performance of the labor market and our outlook for economic activity and inflation,” Yellen said, “I believe the case for an increase (in the Fed’s benchmark borrowing rate) has strengthened in recent months.”
Still Yellen declined to hint at whether the Fed might raise rates at its next policy meeting, Sept, 20-21, or at its subsequent meetings in early November and mid-December. Instead, she stressed, as she frequently has, that the Fed’s rate decisions will depend on whether the freshest economic data continues to confirm its outlook.
“As ever,” she said, “the economic outlook is uncertain, and so monetary policy is not on a preset course.”
Economists took her remarks to mean that while a rate hike remains possible at the Fed’s September meeting, it isn’t necessarily likely.
“We think most officials will want to see more concrete evidence of a rebound in GDP growth and a rise in inflation towards the 2 percent target with a December move still appearing the most likely outcome,” said Andrew Hunter, an economist with Capital Economics.
Hunter pointed to a government report Friday that the economy, as measured by the gross domestic product, grew at an anemic 1.1 percent annual rate last quarter as evidence that the Fed likely wants to see stronger growth.
In December, the Fed raised its benchmark rate modestly in response to a brighter economic picture, notably a job market nearing full health. The rate had been kept at a record low near zero since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis.
At the time, the Fed foresaw four additional rate increases in 2016. But since then, global economic pressures, financial market turmoil and a brief slump in the U.S. job market have kept the Fed on the sidelines.
Some economists have said they think conditions are ripe for the Fed to boost rates next month. Others say they foresee no action until after the election in December at the earliest.
Two close Yellen allies — William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s vice chairman — suggested in the past week that a strengthening economy would soon warrant a resumption of rate increases.
In her speech Friday, Yellen added that the Fed still believes that future rate increases, whenever they occur, will be “gradual.”
Some have said that if the Fed does decide to act in September, it would need to further prepare investors. After Yellen’s speech, data from the CME Group indicated that investors foresee only a 24 percent probability of a rate hike in September and about a 58 percent chance by December.
Yellen was the lead-off speaker Friday for the annual conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and attended by members of the Fed’s board of governors in Washington and officials from the Fed’s 12 regional banks and monetary leaders from around the world.
The conference’s theme is “Designing Resilient Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future,” reflecting concern that the global economy has become trapped in a slump of low growth and low inflation and uncertainty about how central banks should respond.
In advance of Yellen’s speech Friday, George, Fischer and eight other Fed officials met Thursday with about 120 activists from the Campaign for Popular Democracy’s Fed Up coalition. The group of policy activists, labor unions and community groups has been lobbying the Fed to keep rates low to allow the economy to strengthen enough to benefit more Americans.
The group, wearing T-shirts bearing the slogan, “We Need a People’s Fed,” posed questions about economic policy and the need for diversity to the Fed officials who took part in the hour-long discussion.
The coalition also wants the Fed and Congress to consider changes in the makeup of the boards of directors of the 12 regional banks to promote more diversity among a group of officials that is mainly white and male and dominated by bankers. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/yellen-suggests-rate-hike-coming-offers-no-timetable/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/62ae96e8bc5c4a86d2fe9af0455a344a0cf255d377492281c1ad0785cc34ad53.json |
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"Dp Opinion"
] | 2016-08-28T00:46:12 | null | 2016-08-27T23:00:46 | My wife, who died of ovarian cancer, should have had the option to end her life on her terms. Yes, I will vote for Colorado End of Life Options ballot initiative. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fwhy-i-will-vote-for-colorado-aid-in-dying-initiative%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Why I will vote for Colorado aid-in-dying initiative | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Re: “Terminally ill Coloradans deserve the option of a peaceful death,” Aug. 18 guest commentary.
I agree with Julie Selsberg’s guest commentary. My wife died on Feb. 4, 2011. We were informed by her critical care doctor on Dec. 29, 2010 that she had stage IV ovarian cancer. We were also informed that it was of a very aggressive type. That is only a 38-day time frame. I am sure she was aware that she had some sort of cancer from the severe pain she suffered for a couple of years prior to being told.
Before this occurred, I had quadruple bypass surgery and suffered a stroke, with surgery on Oct 22, 2010. My wife was brave and courageous enough to help me through all of my health problems. Then she suffered unbearable pain for almost three months before her last breath left her weakened body.
The final three months of her life, my wife was in extreme pain. She should have had the option to end her life on her terms.
Yes, I will vote for Colorado End of Life Options ballot initiative.
Dennis Reuss, Denver
Submit a letter to the editor via this form or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/why-i-will-vote-for-colorado-aid-in-dying-initiative/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/71d65749c9d86ade48fe85e13ea87dfa5d97d57b341af2610ce1b4790bbc671a.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T06:46:10 | null | 2016-08-27T05:36:15 | In the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where two nuns were slain, forgiveness for their killer is hard to find, even if forgiveness is what the victims would have wanted. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fkilling-of-2-nuns-leaves-gaping-hole-in-poor-community%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nuns.jpg?w=1024&h=783 | en | null | Killing of 2 nuns leaves gaping hole in poor community | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LEXINGTON, Miss. — In the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where two nuns were slain, forgiveness for their killer is hard to find, even if forgiveness is what the victims would have wanted.
Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill were nurse practitioners who dedicated their lives to providing health care to people in the poorest county in the state. And as authorities search for the killer, many residents wonder how they will fill the hole the women’s deaths have left.
“Right now, I don’t see no forgiveness on my heart,” said Joe Morgan Jr., a 58-year-old former factory worker who has diabetes and was a patient of Merrill’s at the clinic where the two nuns worked.
He said Merrill would want him to forgive whoever killed the women, but he hopes the perpetrator is arrested, convicted and executed.
“She doesn’t deserve to die like this, doing God’s work,” Morgan said, shaking his head. “There’s something wrong with the world.”
The women, both 68, were found dead at their home Thursday morning after they failed to show up for work at the clinic, where they gave flu shots, dispensed insulin and provided other medical care for children and adults who couldn’t afford it.
Their stolen car was found abandoned a mile from their home, and there were signs of a break-in, but police haven’t disclosed a motive.
Authorities have not said how the women were killed, but the Rev. Greg Plata of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the nuns had led Bible study for years, said police told him they were stabbed.
The state posted a reward of $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Plata said both nuns’ religious communities have asked that people pray for the killer or killers. Asked about people’s struggles to forgive, the priest said: “Forgiveness is at the heart of being a Christian. Look at Jesus on the cross: ‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'”
On Friday, a handwritten sign on the front door of Lexington Medical Clinic said it was closed until Monday.
The clinic and the nuns’ home in Durant are in Holmes County, population 18,000. With 44 percent of its residents living in poverty, Holmes is the seventh-poorest county in America, according to the Census Bureau.
The slayings did more than shock people and plunge the county into mourning. They leave a gaping hole in what was already a strapped health care system.
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the clinic, said it provided about 25 percent of all medical care in the county.
The two nuns cultivated relationships with drug company representatives, who often left extra free samples, according to clinic manager Lisa Dew.
“This is a poor area, and they dignified those who are poor with outreach and respect for them,” Plata said. “They treated each person as a child of God.”
Merrill’s sister Rosemarie, speaking by telephone from her Stoneham, Massachusetts, home, said her sister had been in Mississippi helping the poor since 1981 and had previously worked in Holly Springs, where she used to ride around on a moped and was instrumental in locating the source of a tuberculosis outbreak.
Merrill was raised in the suburbs of Boston and came from a working-class family, her father a laborer and her mother a bookkeeper, her nephew David said. He said his aunt had worked with Held for many years.
“We always considered Margaret just part of the family,” he said. “The word ‘sister’ has many meanings, and they fulfilled all of them.”
Rosemarie Merrill said she doesn’t know what will happen to the clinic now and worries about the effect on health care in Holmes County. She said her sister and Held would often go into the clinic on Sundays after Mass or on their days off.
“It’s just going to be a disaster,” she said.
Genette Pierce, who works at a home health and hospice business a few doors down from the clinic, said: “Their patients — all of them — they’re going to be lost without them right now.”
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Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana in New Orleans contributed to this report. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/killing-of-2-nuns-leaves-gaping-hole-in-poor-community/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/71366e815885462039c25b8904a6ac0a5c25ed9f99a3de3abc0f3400f19c11ce.json |
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"Leroy Garcia"
] | 2016-08-30T20:46:44 | null | 2016-08-30T19:42:03 | Colorado Parks and Wildlife's conclusion that the only way to preserve our outdoors industry is to increase fees by 100 percent on our in-state hunters and fishers is not acceptable. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fdont-double-the-price-of-colorado-hunting-and-fishing-licenses%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/161325724.jpg?w=1024&h=671 | en | null | Don't double the price of Colorado hunting and fishing licenses | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Protecting Colorado’s lands is a mission I take very seriously. The protection of our air, water and natural environment is not only critical to the Colorado way of life, but it’s also crucial to ensuring the continued growth of our booming tourism and outdoors industries. One major reason visitors come is for the excellent hunting and fishing that residents like ourselves enjoy across the state.
For residents in Southern Colorado and across the state, going hunting and fishing is a way of life. For some, they are means to providing food for themselves and their families through an affordable license. For others like myself, hunting and fishing are great American traditions we grew up with and carry on with our kids. That was why I was dismayed to learn about the financial struggles and budgetary shortfalls Colorado Parks and Wildlife is facing, as reported in The Denver Post last week, and what that could mean for sportsmen and women.
As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I am 100 percent committed to working with the Parks and Wildlife towards solutions to prevent such outcomes like hatcheries being shut down or state lands being gated. But I struggle with the conclusion presented by the department that the only way to preserve our identity as a premier hunting and fishing destination is to double the cost of in-state hunting and fishing licenses for Colorado residents.
I attended one of the department’s public meetings on the subject of increasing fees on residents at a Lake Pueblo office recently. Based on the numbers presented, I can appreciate the steps they have taken so far to trim their budget. But I came away frustrated that I couldn’t get clear answers of how the department got into such a deep hole to begin with, and if they’re using their funding effectively and efficiently.
If Parks and Wildlife is going to ask for a 100 percent fee increase on in-state hunting and fishing licenses for residents, the people of Colorado should know exactly where the money is going, how it is being used, and how the department is taking steps to keep costs down. These are just a few of the questions I have before I would even want to consider a request by the department to enact such an enormous fee increase that could prevent Colorado sportsmen and women from accessing this way of life.
As any avid hunter or fisher would attest to, the equipment and supplies we purchase are quite expensive as it is. While Colorado remains home to a robust outdoors industry, there is still a slow decline in the number of people across the country who hunt and fish. I am seriously concerned that such a massive fee increase would cut access to traditions that are integral to our identity as a state and as a country. By raising the costs of hunting and fishing through fees for in-state residents, we would only make the decline worse.
I am fully committed to working with Colorado Parks and Wildlife on constructive solutions that will preserve our outdoors way of life. However, to me, the department concluding that the only way to preserve our outdoors industry is to increase fees by 100 percent on our in-state hunters and fishers is not acceptable.
State Sen. Leroy Garcia is a Democrat from Pueblo.
To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/dont-double-the-price-of-colorado-hunting-and-fishing-licenses/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/eeaccc2f8c1521c25d64a22abcc76954182410e97a9566ca57ff4bc8efb37de6.json |
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"Kieran Nicholson"
] | 2016-08-30T08:46:38 | null | 2016-08-30T08:10:42 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fjunior-livestock-sale-at-the-colorado-state-fair-benefits-youths-future-farmers%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/state_fair_005.jpg?w=1024&h=687 | en | null | Junior Livestock Sale at the Colorado State Fair benefits youths, future farmers | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The annual Junior Livestock Sale at the state fair will be held Tuesday in Pueblo.
The largest event of its kind in Colorado, according to Fair organizers, the sale is the championship event for Colorado Ag Youth involved in 4-H and FFA.
The junior livestock sale, on the fairgrounds at 1001 Beulah Ave., starts with presale activities at 2 p.m. and the public sale at 3:30 p.m.
The junior tradition draws hundreds of business and community leaders to Pueblo to “bid on the best of the best” while supporting Ag Youth, according to organizers.
The 2015 Revised Junior Livestock Sale raised $534,650. Sale proceeds go directly to the youth exhibitors. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/junior-livestock-sale-at-the-colorado-state-fair-benefits-youths-future-farmers/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/65b11f0315491e4362bb7d4be51a6a01554208714cb0f96d16ec3e17432e203c.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T16:46:13 | null | 2016-08-28T16:08:24 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fchicago-men-charged-shooting-nba-dwayne-wade-cousin%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/584549468.jpg?w=1024&h=728 | en | null | 2 Chicago men charged in shooting of NBA star Dwayne Wade’s cousin | null | null | www.denverpost.com | CHICAGO (AP) — Two brothers have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade as she was walking to register her children for school, Chicago police announced Sunday.
Darwin Sorrells Jr. and Derren Sorrells, 22, also were charged with attempted murder in Friday’s shooting.
Nykea Aldridge, a 32-year-old mother of four, was pushing her baby in a stroller near the school when two men walked up and fired shots at a third man but hit Aldridge in the head and arm. Police say she wasn’t the intended target, and the baby was not injured.
Police say the suspects in the shooting have criminal records. Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson plans to release more information at a news conference later Sunday.
Authorities are investigating whether the encounter between the men was a robbery, possibly involving a driver from a ridesharing company, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Saturday.
Chicago has been in the throes of a major uptick in gun violence this year, largely centered in a few South and West Side neighborhoods, after years of seeing declines. This July alone, there were 65 homicides — the most that month since 2006.
Wade, whose charitable organization, Wade’s World Foundation, does community outreach in the Chicago area, signed with the Chicago Bulls in July after 13 years with the Miami Heat. He and his mother, pastor Jolinda Wade, participated Thursday via satellite in a town hall meeting in Chicago on gun violence hosted by ESPN.
Wade has reacted to his cousin’s shooting only online, tweeting Friday: “My cousin was killed today in Chicago. Another act of senseless gun violence. 4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON. Unreal. #EnoughIsEnough.”
Wade also tweeted Saturday morning: “The city of Chicago is hurting. We need more help& more hands on deck. Not for me and my family but for the future of our world. The YOUTH!” adding in a following tweet, “These young kids are screaming for help!!! #EnoughIsEnough.”
It is not the first time Dwyane Wade’s family in Chicago has been affected by gun violence. His nephew, Darin Johnson, was shot twice in the leg in 2012 but recovered. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/chicago-men-charged-shooting-nba-dwayne-wade-cousin/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/424a5c882403865016ff53c5144432171439e1da730a6e680a1c60f881e56e57.json |
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"Mario Sanelli"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:08 | null | 2016-08-26T13:40:36 | It's been said before and will be said again (because this is the last time it can be said), Saturday's game against the Los Angeles Rams is the "dress rehearsal" for Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fbroncos-insider-quarterback-questions%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/594390152.jpg?w=1024&h=559 | en | null | Broncos Insider: More questions to answer than QBs vs. Los Angeles Rams | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Caution, content hot! Freshly brewed by Mario Sanelli: msanelli@denverpost.com
It’s been said before and will be said again (because this is the last time it can be said), Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Rams is the “dress rehearsal” for Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers. I’ve been waiting all summer for that Thursday night, and so has Carrie Underwood. But first things first, let’s get caught up on all the happenings around Broncos Country leading up to the dress rehearsal. There it is again.
The Big Stuff
Evaluation eyes: All three quarterbacks should see the field against the Los Angeles Rams, but there’s also 87 other Broncos that need evaluation ahead of Tuesday’s first roster cuts. With position battles galore, here is the state of the Broncos heading into Saturday’s game.
Touchback firing: The NFL revised its touchback rule this past offseason for the second time in five years to help make one of the most dangerous plays in the game more safe. The new rule — which moved touchbacks from the 20-yard line to the 25-yard line — is having the opposite effect of the league’s intended impact.
Three’s company: The contrasting styles of the Broncos’ three quarterbacks has become apparent as the race to replace Peyton Manning in the pocket intensifies.
By the Numbers
66.7
Mark Sanchez’s completion percentage on 30 attempts through two preseason games. Trevor Siemian: 65.4 percent on 26 attempts; Paxton Lynch: 63.6 percent on 33 attempts.
Quick Hits
+ This player’s constant injuries are a concern, while another is aiming at Week 1 to return from his injury.
+ Does Mark Sanchez still have a chance to be the starting quarterback?
+ First-and-Orange podcast: Ep. 2 — Gimme a quarterback!
+ Remember that time DeMarcus Ware raced Shane Ray?
+ Peyton Manning can’t stand how brother Eli eats potato chips.
By the Numbers
4.56
DeMarcus Ware’s 40-yard dash time, in seconds, which was 0.12 faster than Shane Ray’s 4.68. Ware and Ray recently raced at practice.
What We’re Reading
+ Los Angeles Times: Rams looking for top pick Jared Goff to take the “next step” against the Broncos.
+ The L.A. Rams are this year’s “Hard Knocks” darlings on HBO. Check out this week’s episode recap.
+ The NFL’s easiest and hardest jobs.
By the Numbers
1,106
Rushing yards last season by Rams running back Todd Gurley, who won Offensive Rookie of the Year in February.
Hat Tips and Corrections
Remember, if you see something that doesn’t look right or just have a comment, thought or suggestion, email me at msanelli@denverpost.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/broncos-insider-quarterback-questions/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0218f12343f7095af758a5f286f06dfea2fdac649e9c3501748855bf761be73f.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T02:46:46 | null | 2016-08-31T00:47:38 | Los Angeles police say they've arrested singer Chris Brown on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fchris-brown-arrested-assault-charge%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/chrisbrownhouse.jpg?w=900&h=520 | en | null | Singer Chris Brown arrested at home on assault charge | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say they’ve arrested singer Chris Brown on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Police Lt. Chris Ramirez says Brown was arrested Tuesday and was being taken to downtown Los Angeles for booking.
The arrest came after a lengthy search of Brown’s home.
Brown says in video posts on Instagram that he’s innocent and rebutted reports that he had barricaded himself in his home.
Baylee Curran told the Los Angeles Times that Brown pointed a gun at her face in his home early Tuesday. She says another man at his home and Brown became angry with her when she admired the man’s diamond necklace.
Curran hasn’t responded to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Police said the woman who made the call for help about 3 a.m. was not inside the hilltop estate in the San Fernando Valley. Ramirez did not identify the woman or elaborate on the assistance she needed. He did not know if she was injured.
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Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos arrived at the home shortly before the warrant was served.
Earlier, Brown posted several videos to social media declaring his innocence. The singer has been in repeated legal trouble since his felony conviction in the 2009 assault of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna.
“I don’t care. Y’all gonna stop playing with me like I’m the villain out here, like I’m going crazy,” he said in one Instagram video Tuesday, waving a cigarette and looking at the camera. “When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you’re going to walk right up in here and you’re going to see nothing. You idiots.”
Calls and emails seeking comments from Geragos and other representatives were not returned Tuesday.
After several missteps, Brown completed his probation last year in the case involving Rihanna.
In 2013, Brown struck a man outside a Washington, D.C., hotel and was charged with misdemeanor assault. The singer was ordered into rehab but was dismissed from the facility for violating its rules.
He spent 2½ months in custody, with U.S. marshals shuttling him between Los Angeles and the nation’s capital for court hearings.
In another incident while in treatment, Brown was accused of throwing a brick at his mother’s car following a counseling session. It came after Brown had completed court-ordered anger management classes.
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Associated Press writers Christopher Weber and Sandy Cohen contributed to this story. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/chris-brown-arrested-assault-charge/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/991f7370ff95c0a91130c2967c3890b19cda415666a563c4a8c943243e6e5a50.json |
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"Joe Nguyen"
] | 2016-08-28T02:46:12 | null | 2016-08-28T01:25:07 | Early in the first quarter of Saturday's preseason game, Broncos linebacker Von Miller blew past the Rams' offensive line and sacked quarterback Case Keenum. The play forced Los Angeles to punt on the subsequent down. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fvon-miller-sacks-rams-quarterback%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/von-miller3.jpg?w=1024&h=709 | en | null | Von Miller sacks Rams quarterback Case Keenum | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Early in the first quarter of Saturday’s preseason game, Broncos linebacker Von Miller blew past the Rams’ offensive line and sacked quarterback Case Keenum. The play forced Los Angeles to punt on the subsequent down. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/von-miller-sacks-rams-quarterback/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2d29163549c75efe2f61d0fde6e5c30947cc112a6f26e499f2c432c21bd8c10f.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T14:46:34 | null | 2016-08-29T14:16:50 | Authorities in Garfield County have identified the 22-year-old man killed Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 70. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fgarfield-county-i-70-crash-identity%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Coroner identifies man killed in Garfield County I-70 crash | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Authorities in Garfield County have identified the 22-year-old man killed Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 70.
Matthew Day, of Rifle, died in the wreck about 8 a.m. in Silt.
Coroner Robert Glassmire said Day, who was driving, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A passenger who was also said to not be wearing a seat belt was not seriously hurt, the coroner’s office said.
Day’s manner of death is being investigated as an accident, authorities said.
The Post Independent reports Day was driving a 2007 Toyota pickup eastbound on I-70 when it ran off the right shoulder and rolled as he steered back onto the roadway. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/garfield-county-i-70-crash-identity/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/248447c3df56131273d656418ed1d8c2d1db37c19c824358f58ee150dec87103.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T20:46:46 | null | 2016-08-30T19:40:19 | Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater went down with an injury in practice on Tuesday, causing the team to cut short its session after 25 minutes. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fteddy-bridgewater-vikings-injury%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/teddy-bridgewater.jpg?w=1024&h=705 | en | null | Teddy Bridgewater goes down in Vikings practice with injury | null | null | www.denverpost.com | EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater went down with an injury in practice on Tuesday, causing the team to cut short its session after 25 minutes.
Bridgewater dropped back to pass during a drill, planted his foot and immediately went down. He grabbed his left knee while concerned teammates and athletic trainers huddled around him.
Coach Mike Zimmer eventually called off practice, and the rest of the team walked off the field while Bridgewater was being attended to. Moments later, a siren-blaring ambulance pulled into the team’s Winter Park headquarters, stayed for about 10 minutes and then pulled away.
The nature of Bridgewater’s injury was not immediately clear. The team said Zimmer would address the situation at a later time.
Players were visibly distraught as they exited the field, some hurling expletives into the air. A small group remained behind, huddled around him in prayer as team athletic trainers worked to immobilize his leg.
If Bridgewater is unable to return in a timely manner, there is little behind him on the depth chart. Shaun Hill is the primary backup, but he’s 36 years old and has played only sparingly over the last five years.
Bridgewater is entering his third season in the NFL and the Vikings were counting on him to take some major steps forward after a promising start to his career. He helped lead the Vikings to the NFC North championship last season as more of a game manager, but Zimmer and offensive coordinator Norv Turner have said that they expected him to be much more of a playmaker in 2016.
Bridgewater missed the second preseason game with a sore shoulder, but was very sharp on Sunday against San Diego. He went 12 for 16 for 161 yards and a touchdown in two quarters of work, leaving Vikings players and fans fully confident as the team starts to prepare for the season opener at Tennessee on Sept. 11.
The Vikings host the Los Angeles Rams in their final preseason game Thursday night, though Bridgewater and most of the starters were not expected to play. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/teddy-bridgewater-vikings-injury/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b5166e1a1191cc1d0f75ef8d4c725fea5fdd4891b6f7eea675e008d128f355b6.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T06:46:09 | null | 2016-08-27T06:07:27 | A man has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of two nuns who were slain in Mississippi, police said. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fman-faces-2-capital-murder-charges-in-mississippi-nun-deaths%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nuns2.jpg?w=1024&h=740 | en | null | Man faces 2 capital murder charges in Mississippi nun deaths | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LEXINGTON, Miss. — A man has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of two nuns who were slain in Mississippi, police said.
Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, was charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said in a statement released late Friday night.
Their bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
“Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation,” Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan said in the statement.
Sanders was being held in an undisclosed detention center awaiting his initial court appearance.
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Meanwhile, in the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where the two nuns were slain, forgiveness for their killer is hard to find, even if forgiveness is what the victims would have wanted.
Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill were nurse practitioners who dedicated their lives to providing health care to people in the poorest county in the state. And as authorities sought the killer, many residents wondered how they will fill the hole the women’s deaths have left.
“Right now, I don’t see no forgiveness on my heart,” said Joe Morgan Jr., a 58-year-old former factory worker who has diabetes and was a patient of Merrill’s at the clinic where the two nuns worked.
He said Merrill would want him to forgive whoever killed the women, but he hopes the perpetrator is arrested, convicted and executed.
“She doesn’t deserve to die like this, doing God’s work,” Morgan said, shaking his head. “There’s something wrong with the world.”
Both women worked Man, 46, faces 2 at the clinic, where they gave flu shots, dispensed insulin and provided other medical care for children and adults who couldn’t afford it.
Their stolen car was found abandoned a mile from their home, and there were signs of a break-in, but police haven’t disclosed a motive.
Authorities have not said how the women were killed, but the Rev. Greg Plata of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the nuns had led Bible study for years, said police told him they were stabbed.
The state posted a reward of $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Plata said both nuns’ religious communities have asked that people pray for the killer or killers. Asked about people’s struggles to forgive, the priest said: “Forgiveness is at the heart of being a Christian. Look at Jesus on the cross: ‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'”
On Friday, a handwritten sign on the front door of Lexington Medical Clinic said it was closed until Monday.
The clinic and the nuns’ home in Durant are in Holmes County, population 18,000. With 44 percent of its residents living in poverty, Holmes is the seventh-poorest county in America, according to the Census Bureau.
The slayings did more than shock people and plunge the county into mourning. They leave a gaping hole in what was already a strapped health care system.
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the clinic, said it provided about 25 percent of all medical care in the county.
The two nuns cultivated relationships with drug company representatives, who often left extra free samples, according to clinic manager Lisa Dew.
“This is a poor area, and they dignified those who are poor with outreach and respect for them,” Plata said. “They treated each person as a child of God.”
Merrill’s sister Rosemarie, speaking by telephone from her Stoneham, Massachusetts, home, said her sister had been in Mississippi helping the poor since 1981 and had previously worked in Holly Springs, where she used to ride around on a moped and was instrumental in locating the source of a tuberculosis outbreak.
Merrill was raised in the suburbs of Boston and came from a working-class family, her father a laborer and her mother a bookkeeper, her nephew David said. He said his aunt had worked with Held for many years.
“We always considered Margaret just part of the family,” he said. “The word ‘sister’ has many meanings, and they fulfilled all of them.”
Rosemarie Merrill said she doesn’t know what will happen to the clinic now and worries about the effect on health care in Holmes County. She said her sister and Held would often go into the clinic on Sundays after Mass or on their days off.
“It’s just going to be a disaster,” she said.
Genette Pierce, who works at a home health and hospice business a few doors down from the clinic, said: “Their patients — all of them — they’re going to be lost without them right now.”
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Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana in New Orleans contributed to this report. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/man-faces-2-capital-murder-charges-in-mississippi-nun-deaths/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/f7753bec1832bb2799f68b8abe89cec3f8c0acd5db103660557f6e6d7d247ff5.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T04:46:11 | null | 2016-08-28T03:36:28 | Demian Maia backed up his calls for a welterweight title shot with an early submission victory over Carlos Condit in the main event of UFC Fight Night at Rogers Arena on Saturday night. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fufc-fight-night-demian-maia-carlos-condit-vancouver%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/demian-maia.jpg?w=1024&h=690 | en | null | UFC Fight Night: Demian Maia stops Carlos Condit in Vancouver | null | null | www.denverpost.com | VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Demian Maia backed up his calls for a welterweight title shot with an early submission victory over Carlos Condit in the main event of UFC Fight Night at Rogers Arena on Saturday night.
Ranked third in the division, Maia said this week that with a victory over Condit, he should be in line for a title fight against Tyron Woodley. And, at 38 years of age, Maia may get his wish later in the year after forcing Condit to tap out at 3:08 of the opening round.
Maia made quick work of the fight, which was scheduled for five rounds. He broke down in tears in the middle of the octagon when it was over. Now he will await word on when a potential title fight could take place.
Anthony Pettis submitted Charles Oliveira in the third round in their featherweight bout.
Pettis, who flirted with a knockout win in the first round, was able to roll Oliveira into a guillotine choke, forcing his opponent to end the fight at 3:11 of the third round.
After taking time away from the Octagon to appear on Dancing with the Stars, Paige VanZant returned to UFC with a second-round knockout over Australia’s Bec Rawlings.
VanZant, who last fought on Dec. 10, 2015, when she lost by submission in the fifth round, was able to land a kick to the head of Rawlings, driving her opponent to the ground. VanZant continued with a series of punches before the fight was stopped.
Jim Miller opened the main card with a split-decision victory over Joe Lauzon in a rematch between the two lightweight combatants following their bloody, gruesome fight from UFC 155 four years ago. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/ufc-fight-night-demian-maia-carlos-condit-vancouver/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/f4e4abd86da1c1c9b6145b856c05e96ae936c205438aab188f404cd49398291b.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T06:46:10 | null | 2016-08-28T06:43:30 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fmeet-octobot%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/267c6c36e5bd4e04b571cc6342495485.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Meet Octobot, a robot that’s a real softie, and cheap | null | null | www.denverpost.com | WASHINGTON — The latest revolutionary robot isn’t the metallic, costly machine you’d expect: It’s squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less and made for pennies by a 3-D printer.
Meet Octobot. It looks like a tiny octopus and is designed to mimic that slithery creature to get through cracks and tight places, making it ideal as a rescue robot.
A team at Harvard University has created a robot — actually about 300 of them, since they are so cheap to make — that is opposite of the common view of a robot. Soft, not hard. Flexibl,e not rigid. It’s not mechanical, nor electrical. It’s powered by fluids. The discovery is described, photographed and on video in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday.
“It’s sort of a hybrid between octopus and robot,” said study author Jennifer Lewis, a Harvard professor of biologically inspired engineering. “We’ve done something that nobody’s been able to do.”
Soft robotics are important because “you’ve got these hard mechanical objects and soft humans” and when they interact — or collide — it can be a problem, Lewis said. That’s not the painful case with Octobot, which fits in the palm of a hand. It’s softer and more adaptive, she said.
Here’s a reality check: So far, all Octobot can do is wiggle a bit. It can’t really even move along a table yet, so this is an “extremely simple first step,” Lewis said.
Initially it was supposed to be a spider, but the team wanted both swimming and crawling and it looked more like an octopus, Lewis said.
The idea is to make this something that is powered by a chemical reaction in fluids; fluid movement moves the arms and directs the robot’s actions. It can be printed cheaply by the 3-D printer with the most costly part a really small bit of platinum. Aside from that it is essentially like bathroom caulk, “a rubbery-type object,” Lewis said.
Outside robotic experts raved about the new squishy machine.
In an -email, Tufts University professor Barry Trimmer called it “an ingenious approach to building and controlling a completely soft robot.”
Daniela Rus at MIT said the discovery was what the soft robotics community has been looking for: “The octopus robot is a first self-contained soft robot system whose components are all soft — it is a very beautiful machine.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/meet-octobot/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/deb9a01512012fc8dfe83b01df213cbc73038772c1a0c8e9273e3dc9fcb0f256.json |
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"Sarah Kuta",
"Daily Camera"
] | 2016-08-30T16:46:47 | null | 2016-08-30T15:26:38 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Ffines-that-pushed-cu-boulders-trep-cafe-out-business-debated-legislature%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cu_cafe25.jpg?w=1024&h=634 | en | null | Fines that pushed CU Boulder’s Trep Cafe out of business may be debated in legislature | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The massive state fines that helped put the student-run Trep Cafe at the University of Colorado out of business this summer are likely to be up for debate during the 2017 legislative session.
Related Articles August 29, 2016 $224K in state labor fines sink CU Boulder’s student-run Trep Cafe The student-run Trep Cafe, which operated in the Leeds School of Business Koelbel Building for more than 10 years, shut down this summer after its undergraduate managers learned they had to pay $224,200 to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment for lapses in workers’ compensation insurance.
Some business owners are questioning these one-size-fits-all fines and, if he’s re-elected, Colorado Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, said he plans to address the fines with legislation during the 2017 session.
Read the rest of the story at the Daily Camera. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/fines-that-pushed-cu-boulders-trep-cafe-out-business-debated-legislature/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/921ab0fbdbab18a18361fb9c3227e1cc9d897ef46a7fc15a9331470bc932e2cd.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T02:46:20 | null | 2016-08-29T01:05:17 | During the last couple laps of his first Sprint Cup victory, Kyle Larson was emotional. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fkyle-larson-takes-advantage-of-late-restart-for-first-cup-victory%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/597192852.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Kyle Larson takes advantage of late restart for first Cup victory | null | null | www.denverpost.com | BROOKLYN, Mich. — During the last couple laps of his first Sprint Cup victory, Kyle Larson was emotional.
“I think with two to go, I was starting to get choked up,” he said. “We worked really, really hard to get a win, and just haven’t done it. Finally all the hard work by everybody, hundreds of people at our race shop, people who have got me through to the Cup Series, it was all paying off.”
Larson took the lead on a restart with nine laps remaining and held off Chase Elliott at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday in a duel between two of NASCAR’s up-and-coming standouts. Elliott had a comfortable lead before a tire problem on Michael Annett’s car brought out the yellow flag. Larson had the better restart and went on to win by 1.48 seconds.
Brad Keselowski finished third.
Larson’s victory in his No. 42 Chevrolet snapped a 99-race losing streak for Chip Ganassi Racing dating to Jamie McMurray’s victory at Talladega in 2013.
Larson secured a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup with two races left in the regular season. Elliott remains winless, but is in solid shape to make the Chase field on points if need be.
It was the 99th career start for the 24-year-old Larson, who had 14 top-five finishes before Sunday but hadn’t won at the Cup level. The 20-year-old Elliott is winless in 29 starts, but this was an impressive showing for him after eight consecutive races outside the top 10.
Elliott finished second at Michigan in June as well, losing to Joey Logano.
“That’s a couple races in a row in just a few short months here at this place we had a really good car, had an opportunity,” Elliott said. “That’s one thing I try really hard to do is make the most of opportunities when they’re presented. Obviously I didn’t do a very good job of that here both trips.”
Elliott led by 2.86 seconds with 28 laps to go Sunday, and it looked as if Larson’s chance to catch him had been derailed when he lost ground passing a lapped car. The caution gave him another shot, though, and he took advantage.
“We both spun our tires really bad, and the No. 2 (Keselowski) pushed me really good,” Larson said. “He could have probably pulled underneath me and went by, but he stayed with me and got me the lead.”
There were only four cautions in the 200-lap, 400-mile race. Larson led a race-high 41 laps. Logano, the pole winner, finished 10th.
Chris Buescher, who has a victory but still needs to stay in the top 30 in points to make the Chase, finished 35th after some early engine trouble. Buescher is seven points ahead of David Ragan for 30th place on the season.
Alex Bowman, filling in for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 car, had a problem with the ignition system and finished 30th.
Twelve drivers have wrapped up Chase berths. Tony Stewart, who has a victory, has clinched a top-30 finish in points to secure his spot.
Buescher’s situation is still uncertain, so there could end up being as many as four drivers making it in on points. Elliott is 11th in the standings, the top driver with no victories.
WHO’S HOT: Points leader Kevin Harvick followed up his win at Bristol with a fifth-place showing at Michigan. He has 11 top-five finishes in 24 starts this year.
WHO’S NOT: It was another rough day for Kyle Busch at Michigan. He’d finished out of the top 30 in five of his previous six races at the track, and he was no factor Sunday after an early spin, although he did recover well enough to come in 19th.
“We actually had a pretty fast car. We ran some really fast laps, but we just got in a bad spot there on the restart and got sucked around and wore off part of our splitter,” crew chief Adam Stevens said. “Even after that we were one of the probably five or six quickest cars on the race track and just whenever we got in the lucky-dog spot we ran there for I can’t tell you how many laps and just didn’t get a caution.”
INSPECTION: Keselowski’s No. 2 Ford failed post-race laser inspection.
SKID: Hendrick Motorsports is winless in 19 races after Elliott fell short, but there were some positive signs for the team. At the midway point, Hendrick cars were 1-2, with Jimmie Johnson leading Elliott at the front. Kasey Kahne was in fifth at that point.
Johnson ended up sixth, and Kahne finished 14th. Bowman was the only driver for Hendrick who finished way behind.
This is Hendrick’s longest losing streak since a 22-race dry spell from 1993 into 1994.
UP NEXT: Darlington Raceway, Sept. 4. Carl Edwards is the defending race winner. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/kyle-larson-takes-advantage-of-late-restart-for-first-cup-victory/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1e37c707fecd2a9f9a55e18240836f98cb650af6c2cd413b33962588d535cb96.json |
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"Amy Brothers"
] | 2016-08-28T04:46:15 | null | 2016-08-28T03:17:02 | The Denver Broncos take on the Los Angeles Rams in their second preseason game on Aug. 27, 2016. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fphotos-denver-broncos-vs-los-angeles-rams-preseason%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/broncos_102.jpg?w=1024&h=738 | en | null | [PHOTOS] Denver Broncos vs. Los Angeles Rams, preseason game, Aug. 27, 2016 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Send to Email Address
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"Tom Mcghee"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:09 | null | 2016-08-26T14:00:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fdu-program-tackles-lack-of-cybersecurity-experts-amid-rise-in-computer-hacking-attacks%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20160412__CD26DUDEBATE___CM28638p1.jpg?w=654&h=418 | en | null | DU program tackles lack of cybersecurity experts amid rise in computer hacking attacks | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Computer hackers have pirated classified government information, raided banking and commercial data, and stolen identities, but so far their crimes haven’t turned deadly.
That could change. At a security conference presented by Black Hat Briefings, a pair of cybersecurity experts, using a laptop they manipulated while riding in the back of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee, demonstrated how they were able to steal control of the wheel, slam on the brakes and cause the vehicle to accelerate at any speed, said Joe Loughry, one of three computer science Ph.D’s who will be teaching a new cybersecurity master’s program at the University of Denver this fall.
With a string of high-profile hacks in the news, and officials from hospitals, banks and even the Democratic National Committee searching for ways to protect their information and ward off cyber breaches, DU is joining the fight. A new fast-track program could help close the gap between open positions in industries anxious to stop cyber attacks and workers who know how to do exactly that.
The vehicle hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, knocked an electronic control unit off-line, and took over its duties, Loughry said. “It’s like kidnapping and replacing the helmsman on a ship without the captain or anyone else on the bridge noticing.”
In order to take control of the vehicle their laptop had to be connected to a USB port under the dashboard, but their research shows that a sophisticated hacker on the wrong side of the law might find a way to mount a similar attack remotely.
Miller and Valasek informed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which makes Jeep, of the vulnerabilities they found and gave the company time to solve the problem before going public with the details of the hack.
The manufacturer recalled 1.4 million of the Jeeps, sending owners USB drives preloaded with a software patch to block remote access to certain systems, and updated software to eliminate the vulnerabilities found in the 2013 and 2014 computer networks in succeeding models.
While the chance that hackers will start running vehicles off the road in great numbers is remote, recent leaks of classified information by Edward Snowden, and cyber attacks on banks, and retailers, have rattled the worlds of finance, retail, and government.
In May, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly told banks to look for signs that a group of hackers that plundered $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh may have compromised their networks. In 2014, hackers stole personal information on millions of JPMorgan Chase customers.
Data breaches have also exposed credit card numbers and other crucial information of millions of retail customers.
Insurance company Lloyds estimates that globally, cyber attacks cost businesses $400 billion a year, according to Fortune Magazine. So as the danger to national security from and home-grown hackers and state actors like Russia, China and North Korea grows, so does the need for cybersecurity experts.
“On a per-capita basis, the leading states for cyber hiring are Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and Colorado; all have high concentrations of jobs in the federal government and with related contractors,” according to a 2015 cybersecurity job report by Burning Glass Job Market Intelligence.
Boulder and Denver have large numbers of cybersecurity jobs, but Colorado Springs alone ranks among the top five cities for the number of cybersecurity jobs, according to clearancejobs.com. The city will also be home to a new National Cybersecurity Intelligence Center that is expected to elevate its profile in the cybersecurity world.
There are thousands of cybersecurity job openings currently open in Colorado because there aren’t enough qualified job applicants for those positions, said Eric Hopfenbeck, deputy national director of the National Cyber Center.
“The telecommunications backbone that is built here in Colorado because of the military makes Colorado ideal. You have all the connectivity and high-speed network that you need,” said Andy Merritt, Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance chief defense industry officer.
The average salary for cybersecurity professionals is $116,000, according to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies. And in Colorado alone there are as many as 12,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs.
“There is such a dearth of trained talent right now that industry is really anxious for more folks who have training,” said JB Holston, dean of DU’s Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science. “They will take as many of these students as you can graduate.”
DU is one of five schools in the state whose cyber education programs have earned a designation from the National Security Agency, and Department of Homeland Security, as Centers of Academic Excellence.
Other schools with the designation are: the U.S. Air Force Academy, Regis University, Colorado Technical University, and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
DU’s masters level cybersecurity program differs from most, said professor Ramakrishna Thurimella, a professor in DU’s department of computer science. For one thing, students don’t need an undergraduate degree in computer science.
Someone with a degree in liberal arts, or other major unrelated to computers who does well in the quantitative portion of the Graduate Record Examination, which tests basic mathematical knowledge and reasoning skills, can be accepted, Thurimella said.
The program will provide an additional three months of instruction to those who come in without a computer background to bring them up to speed.
The program is also shorter than most. “If you come in with a computer science background it will only take nine months, otherwise, it will be 12 months,” Thurimella said.
Holston and Thurimella spent two months talking to various companies to find out what they needed in their cyber-security employees, Holston said. “We built it from the start in close conjunction with industry.”
Loughry, who recently received a Ph.D from Oxford University, spent 14 years working on security problems at Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defense contractors.
Computer networks that are scattered throughout the chasis and under the hoods of modern vehicles give them potential vulnerabilities similar to those exploited to pilfer data from retailers, and government computers, Loughry said.
“They gain access to one non-critical part of the network and leap-frog to other networks. It is the same thing that (Edward) Snowden did to hack the NSA,” Loughry said.
A hacker who can get control of an unimportant computer in a bank, “maybe in the department that makes sure potted plants get watered in the offices,” can then find a path through the network to a jackpot of cash or information, he said.
The military and intelligence communities solved similar problems in the 1980s, Loughry said.
Today, Russia and the U.S. coordinate radar and fighter planes over war-torn Syria in order to avoid downing each other’s aircraft.
“The CIA doesn’t trust Russia, but we can connect our systems to Russia’s via cross-domain systems in a secure fashion, and information gets shared without compromising either side’s security. That’s one of the things I want to teach my students in cybersecurity. There’s a solution that already exists, let’s try using it.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/du-program-tackles-lack-of-cybersecurity-experts-amid-rise-in-computer-hacking-attacks/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/031322ff0124f36d3261c119bbe95b24ee9e076dabda803a5e8fd80ebac4bfa1.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T04:46:34 | null | 2016-08-30T04:22:10 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbanks-lead-gains-on-wall-street%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wall-street.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Banks lead gains on Wall Street | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Banks led the stock market higher Monday as investors anticipate that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates this year from their historically low levels. That could help banks recover from a long slump by making lending more profitable.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 107.59 points, or 0.6 percent, to 18,502.99. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed 11.34 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,180.38. The Nasdaq composite edged up 13.41 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,232.33.
Major U.S. banks posted solid gains as traders bet that the Fed was likely to nudge interest rates higher in December or even at its next policy meeting in September. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told a conference last week that the case for raising rates was strengthening, given improvements in the economy.
Raising interest rates from their rock-bottom levels, where they have been since the 2008 financial crisis, could be a good thing not only for markets but for savers, said Rob Lutts, chief investment officer of Cabot Wealth Management.
“We’re running out of excuses not to raise interest rates,” Lutts said. “We’re the wealthiest economy on the planet, and everybody who has a bank account is earning virtually zero on those balances today. There’s a lot of spending power that may be released in the economy” if savers earn more on their bank accounts, Lutts said.
Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, rose $1.05, or 2.2 percent, to $49.56 and JPMorgan Chase gained 73 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $66.95. Banks are still one of the worst-performing sectors in the market this year. The financial sector of the S&P 500 has gained just 1.8 percent in 2016 versus a 6.7 percent increase for the broader index.
Herbalife added $2.80, or 4.6 percent, to $63.30 after backer Carl Icahn said late Friday he had bought an additional 2.3 million shares in the supplements and weight-loss products company, and that he never gave an order to sell his $1 billion stake.
Benchmark U.S. crude oil fell 66 cents to $46.98 a barrel. Brent crude, used to price oil internationally, lost 66 cents to $49.26 a barrel. In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline fell 5 cents to $1.47 a gallon, heating oil fell 1 cent to $1.49 a gallon and natural gas fell 2 cents to $2.85 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Trading was subdued before the Labor Day holiday weekend in the U.S. Few companies are reporting earnings this week and there is scant news on the economy, apart from the Labor Department’s monthly job survey coming up Friday. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/banks-lead-gains-on-wall-street/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/9079009032cec597f272cedf5c036011f05c5ddae803184744045e020c0e90bc.json |
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"The Gazette"
] | 2016-08-31T06:46:47 | null | 2016-08-31T05:13:06 | Timothy Hagins, 34, was in jail when deputies from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office served him a warrant in connection with killing David Stechman. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fpolice-arrest-in-murder-falcon-man-david-stechman%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/t-hagins.jpg?w=384&h=460 | en | null | Police make arrest in murder of Falcon man David Stechman | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Timothy Hagins, 34, was in jail when deputies from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office served him a warrant in connection with killing David Stechman.
On Tuesday, Hagins was served a warrant on suspicion of first-degree murder and burglary, several days after he was arrested in relation to a separate incident, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He is being held without bond.
He was arrested Thursday on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder, burglary, third-degree assault and criminal mischief.
On Thursday afternoon, Stechman’s wife came home… read more on The Gazette. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/police-arrest-in-murder-falcon-man-david-stechman/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/8540e78715e421bab6d96be54dc730cce5e01e3d0f3079b64c5c43894a8d1e6f.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T06:46:05 | null | 2016-08-27T06:12:20 | Stocks ended mostly lower on Friday after Federal Reserve officials said the case has strengthened for raising interest rates above the super-low levels that have helped fuel a seven-year bull market | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fstocks-end-mostly-lower-after-yellen-speech%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Stocks end mostly lower after Yellen speech | null | null | www.denverpost.com | NEW YORK — Stocks ended mostly lower on Friday after Federal Reserve officials said the case has strengthened for raising interest rates above the super-low levels that have helped fuel a seven-year bull market.
Major U.S. indexes initially climbed after a speech by Fed Chair Janet Yellen that was bullish on the economy but gave no timetable for future rate increases. Then investors began to have second thoughts, wondering if an increase was possible as early as next month, and buyers turned to sellers.
By the close of trading, seven of the 10 sectors of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index had fallen, led by a 2.1 percent drop in utilities. Investors frustrated with low-yielding bonds have flocked to utilities for their steady dividends, but higher rates would make those stocks less attractive.
The S&P 500 slipped 3.43 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,169.04. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 53.01 points, or 0.3 percent, to 18,395.40. The Nasdaq composite rose 6.71 points, or 0.1 percent, to 5,218.92.
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In her speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Yellen noted that the Fed is moving toward raising interest rates in light of a solid job market and an improved outlook for the economy. But she stopped short of signaling when the next rate hike might be.
Stocks climbed as investors perceived her comments as “dovish,” meaning a continuation of the easy money policies. Yields on government bonds fell.
But by the end of the day both stocks and bonds had reversed, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rising to 1.62 percent from 1.58 percent late Thursday.
Perhaps helping the turn of sentiment were comments on CNBC from Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer suggesting the central bank could raise rates twice before year’s end, instead of once in December as many investors had been expecting.
Lisa Kopp, senior vice president at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, said she wasn’t surprised by the selling given the “jitteriness” in the markets.
“Anything that’s not going to be straight-out dovish is going to be disappointing,” she said.
Yellen’s speech on Friday notwithstanding, not everyone is convinced a rate hike is coming soon.
“She suggests the economy is improving, but the GDP numbers for the past three quarters are closer to 1 percent than three percent,” said Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at R.W. Baird. “That is very anemic.”
A report early in the day from the Commerce Department showed GDP, or gross domestic product, for the second quarter rose by a revised 1.1 percent, slightly lower than initially forecast.
Since exiting the recession in the summer of 2009, the U.S. economy has been growing sluggishly, making it the slowest recovery since World War II.
Among stocks making moves on Friday, Herbalife fell $1.43, or 2.3 percent, to $60.50 after news reports that that Carl Icahn, the company’s biggest shareholder and defender, has been trying to unload his stake in the embattled company. After trading closed, Icahn said the reports were wrong and, in fact, he has bought more shares.
Design software company Autodesk jumped $5.17, or 8 percent, to $68.87 after reporting a small profit, beating expectations of a loss.
Earnings per share for companies in the S&P 500 index are expected to fall 1.8 percent in the second quarter, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. That would be the fourth quarter in a row of drops.
In overseas markets, Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.3 percent, Germany’s DAX gained 0.6 percent and France’s CAC 40 climbed 0.8 percent.
In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.2 percent after consumer prices fell the most in three years in July. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.4 percent.
Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose 31 cents to close at $47.64 a barrel. Brent crude, used to price oil internationally, rose 25 cents to close at $49.92 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline was little changed at $1.52 a gallon, heating oil slipped 1 cent to $1.50 a gallon and natural gas rose 2.5 cents to $2.871 per 1,000 cubic feet.
The dollar rose to 101.86 yen from 100.57 yen the previous day. The euro fell to $1.1183 from $1.1281.
Gold rose $1.30 to $1,325.90 an ounce, silver rose 13 cents to $18.75 an ounce and copper was little changed at $2.08 a pound. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/stocks-end-mostly-lower-after-yellen-speech/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d906d0a73abe10c8f089f30357addf66bff1b56570d5bb05679d9a933ea22dc8.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T14:46:40 | null | 2016-08-30T14:28:22 | Madison Keys slept until almost 11 a.m. Monday. She didn't arrive at Arthur Ashe Stadium until 6:30 p.m., knowing that a late night on court awaited her. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fmadison-keys-alison-riske-us-open%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/madison-keys1.jpg?w=1024&h=632 | en | null | Madison Keys outlasts fellow American Alison Riske in late night at U.S. Open | null | null | www.denverpost.com | NEW YORK — Madison Keys slept until almost 11 a.m. Monday. She didn’t arrive at Arthur Ashe Stadium until 6:30 p.m., knowing that a late night on court awaited her.
Keys and fellow American Alison Riske didn’t envision it going quite so late. Their first-round U.S. Open match didn’t end until 1:48 a.m. Tuesday.
It was the latest finish for a women’s match in tournament history — typically the women play first and the men second in the night session, so six men’s matches have ended later.
The first night matches of the U.S. Open always start later because of the opening ceremony, but more often than not they’re routs with a top player facing an unseeded opponent.
But on Monday, No. 1 Novak Djokovic was pushed to four sets, then Riske and Keys went three.
The eighth-seeded Keys rallied from down a set and a break to win 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 in 2 hours, 26 minutes.
Both players said they weren’t particularly aware on court of how late it was.
“Now that I’m a part of it, yay,” Keys said of setting a record. “Let’s not try to break it.”
Asked if she’s a night owl, Riske said simply: “No.”
Keys, meanwhile, is definitely not a morning person.
“This time of morning, I am,” she said in her on-court interview shortly before 2 a.m. “At 6 a.m., 7 a.m., I’m not a good person.”
The 60th-ranked Riske had two points on her serve at 5-4 in the second-set tiebreaker to try to close out the match, but Keys won them both and clinched the set on the next point.
Riske has lost 10 straight Grand Slam matches. She’s 2-16 against top-10 opponents, though one of the victories came against Petra Kvitova as Riske reached the round of 16 at the 2013 U.S. Open.
“It’s only a matter of time that things start turning my way,” she said.
Keys took a medical timeout in the second set to have a trainer work on her right shoulder. She said it was just soreness and she didn’t expect it to be an issue going forward.
Keys hasn’t lost in the first round at a major since the 2014 French Open. The 21-year-old is coming off a run to the Olympic semifinals, but she pulled out of the hard-court tuneup at New Haven because of a neck injury. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/madison-keys-alison-riske-us-open/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/3c8cb6f8b32c8722608a2fc9e0b49d2e26a5a2b1fde6463f55387c0580d10f31.json |
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"Bruce Finley"
] | 2016-08-29T04:46:22 | null | 2016-08-29T03:36:37 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fpolice-pedestrian-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-southwest-denver%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Police: Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash in southwest Denver | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian Sunday night in southwest Denver.
The crash happened near the intersection of Alameda Avenue and Morrison Road, according to a police bulletin. The intersection is closed while police investigate the accident.
No further details were available. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/police-pedestrian-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-southwest-denver/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d8ea55b199c6a369738eafd79a424e0b156701c9d9e892b0df0863a22c41eb07.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T16:46:28 | null | 2016-08-29T15:13:49 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fhillary-clinton-mental-health-treatment-plan%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16238726919175.jpg?w=1024&h=642 | en | null | Hillary Clinton proposes plan to address mental health treatment | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Ken Thomas, Associated Press
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton is rolling out a comprehensive plan to address millions of Americans coping with mental illness, pointing to the need to fully integrate mental health services into the nation’s health care system.
Clinton’s campaign released a multi-pronged approach to mental health care on Monday, aimed at ensuring that Americans would no longer separate mental health from physical health in terms of access, care and quality of treatment.
The Democratic presidential nominee’s agenda would focus on early diagnosis and intervention and create a national initiative for suicide prevention. If elected, Clinton would hold a White House conference on mental health within her first year in office.
Clinton’s proposal would also aim to enforce mental health parity laws and provide training to law enforcement officers to deal with people grappling with mental health problems while prioritizing treatment over jail for low-level offenders.
“Building on her longstanding commitment to health care for all, Hillary believes everyone should be able to access quality mental health care — without shame, stigma or barriers,” said Maya Harris, a senior policy adviser to Clinton’s campaign, in a statement.
The former secretary of state planned to hold a town hall meeting by telephone with stakeholders on Monday during a three-day fundraising spree in the Hamptons. The policy rollout would overlap with a Clinton plan to address drug and alcohol addiction which she campaigned on in Iowa and New Hampshire after hearing frequently about the problems from voters.
The federal government estimated in 2014 that about 43.6 million adults in the U.S. had mental illness in the past year, or about 1 in 5 adults age 18 and over. It estimated nearly 10 million adults suffered from serious mental illness.
An estimated 17 million children in the U.S. experience mental health problems, including 1 in 5 college students, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Nearly 1 in 5 veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan experienced post-traumatic stress or depression.
Clinton’s campaign said the plan would attempt to integrate the nation’s health care system to create a more seamless way of providing both medical and mental health treatment to patients.
It would expand the reimbursement systems for collaborative care models under Medicare and Medicaid that aim to treat patients through a team of health care professionals, including a primary care doctor, a care manager and a behavioral health specialist.
It would also be helped by a Clinton proposal to boost funding for community health centers that she announced earlier in the summer along with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her primary rival.
Money for the centers, a priority for Sanders, was increased under the Affordable Care Act. Clinton’s plan would make the money for the centers permanent and expand it by $40 billion over the next decade. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/hillary-clinton-mental-health-treatment-plan/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/4429cb551042d074987809d1e39fcd09fe8b45c206b0fbb32407d9d54ddcb5b8.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:05 | null | 2016-08-26T14:40:23 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fproposed-marine-protected-area-near-hawaii-would-be-largest-in-the-world-twice-the-size-of-texas%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/4d6f4539160c474eb8217a5c3e711831.jpg?w=1024&h=576 | en | null | Proposed marine protected area near Hawaii would be largest in the world, twice the size of Texas | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Kevin Freking, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House says that President Barack Obama will expand a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world’s largest marine protected area.
Obama’s proclamation will quadruple in size a monument originally created by President George W. Bush in 2006. The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument will contain some 582,578 square miles, more than twice the size of Texas.
Obama will travel to the monument next week to mark the designation and cite the need to protect public lands and waters from climate change.
The designation bans commercial fishing and any new mining, as is the case within the existing monument. Recreational fishing will be allowed through a permit, as will be scientific research and the removal of fish and other resources for Native Hawaiian cultural practices. Some fishing groups have voiced concerns about what an expansion of the marine national monument would mean for their industry.
Sean Martin, the president of the Hawaii Longline Association, said he was “disappointed” by Hawaii Gov. David Ige’s decision to support expanding the monument. He said the monument’s expansion would be based on political and not scientific reasons.
Hawaii’s longline fishing fleet supplies a large portion of the fresh tuna and other fish consumed in Hawaii. Martin has previously estimated the fleet catches about 2 million pounds of fish annually from the proposed expansion area.
The White House is describing the expansion as helping to protect more than 7,000 species and improving the resiliency of an ecosystem dealing with ocean acidification and warming. A fact sheet previewing the announcement states that the expanded area is considered a sacred place for Native Hawaiians.
Shipwrecks and downed aircraft from the Battle of Midway in World War II dot the expansion area. The battle marked a major shift in the war. Obama will travel to the Midway Atoll to discuss the expansion.
With the announcement, Obama will have created or expanded 26 national monuments. The administration said Obama has protected more acreage through national monument designations than any other president.
The White House said the expansion is a response to a proposal from Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz and prominent Native Hawaiian leaders. The federal government will also give Hawaii’s Department of Natural Resources and Office of Hawaiian Affairs a greater role in managing the monument, an arrangement requested by Schatz and Gov. David Ige. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/proposed-marine-protected-area-near-hawaii-would-be-largest-in-the-world-twice-the-size-of-texas/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/7837ef469a0df4bac29bf336fd000e3af0ae761f6d6401aeab169435ad779f05.json |
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"Jesse Paul"
] | 2016-08-26T22:45:59 | null | 2016-08-26T22:24:53 | The Beaver Creek fire, ignited on June 19, has forced firefighters to rethink the way they battle wildfire and is providing valuable lessons that could change the way forest fires are fought in Colorado’s millions of acres of insect-eaten timber. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fbeaver-creek-fire-burning-two-months%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cdxxbeavercreekfire_hhr_9122.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Why the Beaver Creek fire has been burning for more than two months and counting | null | null | www.denverpost.com | CARBON COUNTY, Wyo. — As white smoke wafted from the northeast edge of the Beaver Creek fire on Tuesday — the 66th day of the massive blaze — a group of firefighters stood by and watched the Wyoming wind fan lingering flames in beetle-killed trees.
Instead of chasing down and snuffing out hot spots, crews in Colorado and across the state line used their most valuable tool to safely keep the fire at bay: patience.
It’s a change in approach for the scores of firefighters from across the country who have been summoned to battle the fire, but one that officials say is necessary to fight and learn from an unpredictable blaze. Officials are using the burn as an educational tool as its flames spread across the dead and dying, orange-brown forest, where limbs and entire trunks are prone to falling.
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July 27, 2016 Beaver Creek fire blows up Wednesday in hot, humid, windy weather The Beaver Creek fire stands apart from other wildfires and is so difficult to harness because of its 37,000-plus acres of mostly beetle-kill timber, a volatile fuel that forces firefighters to rethink the way they can safely approach such large burns. The U.S. Forest Service hopes the fire provides a blueprint for how to fight blazes in the millions of acres of forest in Colorado and across the West that have been ravaged by insects.
Officials say the public can learn from the fire, too, by recognizing that the changing tactics take more time and by bracing for more blazes like Beaver Creek.
“What we’ve found on this fire is let it come to us on our terms,” said Dennis Jaeger, supervisor for the Routt and Medicine Bow National Forests, where the fire is burning. “Let it come out of the timber and catch it in the sage (grass) and put our focus on protecting the resources at risk where we can do it safely, effectively and not be so worried about acres.”
Since 1996, mountain pine beetle outbreaks have burrowed through about 4.3 million acres of forest in Colorado and southern Wyoming, according to the U.S. Forest Service. During that time, spruce beetles have hit more than 1.5 million more acres of forest in the state with varying degrees of tree mortality.
The damage is easy to see around some of the state’s most popular high country areas like Summit and Grand counties, where dead and dying trees in some places dominate the landscape.
“I think we’re realizing that we’re not out of the woods with the beetle kill, that we might actually be entering a new few years here,” said Ich Stewart, acting fire management officer for the Routt National Forest. “There’s the potential for all the forests in the (Bureau of Land Management) and the state to have more long-term, beetle-kill fires. We’re starting to understand the potential for fire behavior and we’re learning a lot of hard lessons in terms of what kinds of strategies and tactics work in the beetle kill.”
The Beaver Creek fire has made it clear that most direct tactics — hand lines dug by firefighters and crews rushing in to knock down flames — likely won’t safely work when fires ignite in those areas. Instead, commanders are waiting for fire to emerge from the danger of weakened forests to engage it, relying more upon heavy machinery and air resources. The fire ignited on June 19 in a sparsely populated area of Jackson County northwest of Walden.
A great deal of the reluctance to send firefighters into bug-killed forests stems from a renewed Forest Service emphasis on protecting firefighters after the 2013 death of 19 Hotshots in Yarnell, Ariz. Incident commanders are told to put firefighter safety first and carefully weigh risks against the probability of success when sending crews into dangerous situations.
“You put people into these and you go aggressive, people are going to get hurt,” said Jim Pitts, Salida district ranger for the Pike and San Isabel national forests. “And that’s happened. At some point in time, tactics have to change.”
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Jeremiah Zamora, right, District Ranger with the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, checks out hundreds of feet of hose line set up to fight fire as well as a large fire line made by a masticator inside the perimeter of the Beaver Creek Fire on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post A small wisp of smoke arises from the trees in the Beaver Creek Fire which continues to burn on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Colorado Senator Cory Gardner is briefed on the status of the Beaver Creek Fire by the incident management team inside the perimeter of the Beaver Creek Fire on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Jeremiah Zamora, left, District Ranger with the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, and Aaron Voos, right, public affairs officer with the US Forest Service, look at downed and burned trees inside the perimeter of the Beaver Creek Fire on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post A deer nibbles on grass amidst a burned area of the Beaver Creek Fire which continues to burn on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Jeremiah Zamora, right, District Ranger with the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, looks at water tanks and hose line set up to fight fire if it comes near a cabin close by inside the perimeter of the Beaver Creek Fire on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Beetle killed trees lie on the burned ground of the Beaver Creek Fire which continues to burn on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post A house, surrounded by burned trees, was saved by firefighters inside the perimeter of the Beaver Creek Fire, which continues to burn on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Firefighter Matt Norden, left, and Jeremiah Zamora, right, District Ranger with the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, talk about their continued efforts fighting the Beaver Creek Fire, seen behind them, on August 23, 2016 in Walden, Colorado. The fire, which started June 19th, 2016, is approximately 24 miles northwest of Walden and is burning in heavy beetle killed timber in the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests and BLM lands. It has so far affected 37,381 acres and is 53% contained.
From the first moments of the Beaver Creek, despite their best efforts to quickly put it out, first responders realized they were battling a new beast. Flames were following beetle-killed trees in the area like a wick, both into and surprisingly against the wind, sending radiant heat hundreds of feet out and causing spontaneous combustion of other fuels.
The Beaver Creek has also stubbornly resisted cold and high altitude, igniting in an area that was covered by snow just weeks before and being highly active on July 4 when the low temperature in the area was just 27 degrees.
“Do I wish we had this thing out on day three?” Jaeger asked. “Yeah.”
While there has been debate about whether beetle-kill forests are more likely to burn, officials on the Beaver Creek burn say the behavior of the blaze is proof of the challenge dead trees pose.
Standing dead trees, tilted timber and lifeless trunks on the ground created a ladder of fuels — paired with the needles of still living evergreens — for what one forest official called a “perfect Boy Scout campfire.” Sixty to 85 percent of the forest in the area is considered beetle-kill.
“We have to look at it out of the box with a fresh set of eyes,” Stewart said. “No one’s an expert on the fire behavior in the beetle kill. We’re in the process of learning and trying to understand.”
Every forest fire is drastically different, from the fuels involved, to the weather, terrain and structures at risk, but the sheer length and cost of the Beaver Creek fire speak to the difficulty in battling it.
The 2002 Hayman fire, the largest wildfire in Colorado history, burned more than 137,000 acres and took less than a month to fully contain. The Beaver Creek fire, less than a third as large, was 53 percent contained as of the end of the week and had already cost more than $23 million to fight.
The Beaver Creek fire might not be fully contained until Oct. 21 — 121 days after its ignition. On Tuesday, 250 firefighters remained assigned to the incident. The blaze’s growth, mainly limited to the rugged terrain in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness where it is not being actively fought, is expected to slow and eventually end with the first sizable snowfall.
A similar burn this summer is the Hayden Pass fire, southeast of Salida, which consumed dead spruce over about 16,562 acres. Crews used similar tactics to the Beaver Creek fire: keeping firefighters out of dangerous dead trees and engaging flames indirectly by building bulldozer lines far away — sometimes a few miles — from flames.
The Hayden Pass fire, too, is still burning and was last listed as 60 percent contained.
“We just cannot be putting our people in an area where all these dead trees could fall on our people or compromise their escape route,” said Jay Esperance, who served stints as incident commander on Beaver Creek and then Hayden Pass just after. “Putting line directly on the fire was just not an option.”
Esperance, who is based in South Dakota but serves on a national incident management team, says he has worked beetle-kill fires across the country, including a fire near Cody, Wyo., that he was assigned to earlier in the week. Tactics he used on the Beaver Creek fire were the same ones he harnessed at Hayden Pass.
“We’ll do the best we can to provide protection to the communities and structures that are in harm’s way,” he explained. “Our firefighters’ mentality is keyed to go in and put fires out. Direct is the way we’ve been doing it for so long. It’s difficult for them.”
In both cases, officials point to the lack of serious firefighter injuries and the two cabins — one on each fire — lost to flames as proof that the new strategy works.
The trend was first really utilized in Colorado in 2013 during the massive West Fork complex fire in the southwest corner of the state.
“We need to treat dead and dying and beetle kill trees as a fuel type,” said Dan Dallas, supervisor of the Rio Grande National Forest, which took the brunt of the volatile West Fork blazes. “We were one of the first, I’ll say, to experience it on an extensive basis. It did make us change our objectives and the strategy we used to address the fire.”
Moving forward, officials say they are trying to reduce the fire risk posed by beetle-kill forests. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., visited the Beaver Creek fire last week and said he is committed to working on legislation to fund efforts to tackle the problem across the West.
“We’ve tried for so long to provide dollars, mitigation, prevention efforts to stop the spread of the beetle or the moth or whatever it may be,” Gardner said as he sat in the back seat of an SUV as it rumbled away from the Beaver Creek fire’s containment lines. “But now we’re to the point where you’ve got fires in the 70-80 percent bug-kill areas. And so, what policies are going to incentivize management of areas that have suffered the bug-kill? And how can you use that as a way and an opportunity to prevent something that turns into a big catastrophic fire?”
Bill Hahnenberg, the latest incident commander on the fire, said if beetle kill trees in the burn area had been harvested before the fire broke out, it would have “100 percent” changed how large and how intense the blaze became.
“We wouldn’t have a $23 million fire,” Hahnenberg said.
In the short term, fire managers say Beaver Creek is simply a sign of things to come.
“If you look at the scale and the extent of the problems and the available budgets,” said Vaughn Jones, sections chief for the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, “there’s not much we can do to reduce the threats statewide.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/beaver-creek-fire-burning-two-months/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/04b41701844fc10d9f4449557fb1dcfc05b84af539d2c9fe7618c381012e8ed4.json |
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"Melanie Asmar"
] | 2016-08-27T00:45:57 | null | 2016-08-27T00:02:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fdenver-public-schools-testing-drinking-water-lead%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5282373101.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | Denver Public Schools testing drinking water for lead | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Denver Public Schools is testing the drinking water in all of its buildings for lead.
The state’s largest school district is telling families the testing is proactive given that high lead levels have been found in school water elsewhere, including neighboring Jefferson County.
“While we do not have evidence at this time that our schools have elevated levels of lead in their water supply, the safety of our students and staff is our top priority,” Trena Deane, the district’s executive director of facility management, wrote this week in a letter to families.
The testing began Tuesday, according to Deane’s letter, and will include gathering water samples from drinking fountains, kitchen food-prep sinks, lounge sinks and other fixtures.
Deane said 25 schools have been tested so far.
For more on this story, go to Chalkbeat Colorado.
Chalkbeat Colorado is a nonprofit news organization covering education issues. For more, visit chalkbeat.org/co. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/denver-public-schools-testing-drinking-water-lead/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/876f6d1e443b99da870a6b804c7b6a642f529c1edff12f0ae10c9de4eba721ed.json |
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"Kieran Nicholson"
] | 2016-08-27T00:45:59 | null | 2016-08-26T23:42:22 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fman-who-impersonated-police-officer-in-aurora-sentenced%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20150519__Antonio-Marcus-Arbogastp1.jpg?w=575&h=510 | en | null | Man who impersonated police officer in Aurora sentenced to jail, probation | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A man in Aurora impersonating a police officer who followed a female driver and attempted to pull her over has been sentenced to jail.
Antonio Marcus Arbogast, 24, was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail and two years of probation, according to an Adams County District Attorney’s Office media release.
The incident happened May 18, 2015, starting near Central Park and East Montview boulevards. The female driver called 911 and reported what was happening as she drove on East Colfax Avenue in an attempt to find a police station, the release said.
Arbogast was driving a blue 1991 Subaru Legacy with flashing lights. The 24-year-old victim did not stop, at one point, driving through a red light in an attempt to shake the Subaru.
Police caught up to the pair at East Colfax east of Sable Boulevard. The victim was “terrified, trembling and crying hysterically” by that point, the DA’s office said.
According to the release, Arbogast told police that he was working for U.S. Security Associates at Walmart patrolling the parking lot. He was in uniform and on his way home from work when he said he saw the woman “driving erratically.”
On Aug. 10, after a two-day trial, Arbogast was convicted of impersonating a peace officer, a felony, and misdemeanor harassment.
As part of Friday’s sentencing, Adams District Court Judge Francis Wasserman also ordered Arbogast to undergo mental health
evaluation and treatment. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/man-who-impersonated-police-officer-in-aurora-sentenced/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/32961fbf72a3a823a936b07f8708e46c1c51e8c399b43d4688311fb1294cc1ec.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T18:46:13 | null | 2016-08-28T17:47:20 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Funited-pilots-suspected-of-being-drunk-arrested-glasgow%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/589723136.jpg?w=1024&h=700 | en | null | 2 United Airlines pilots suspected of being drunk arrested in Glasgow | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LONDON (AP) — Police and airline officials say two United Airlines pilots have been arrested for suspected intoxication before they were to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States.
United Airlines officials have confirmed Saturday’s arrest of the pilots, aged 45 and 35, at Glasgow Airport. The Police Service of Scotland says both men are expected to be arraigned Monday at a court in Paisley, a Glasgow suburb, to face charges connected to Britain’s transport safety laws.
United said Saturday’s flight from Glasgow to the U.S. city of Newark, New Jersey, was delayed for 10 hours while the airline sought replacement pilots.
Saturday’s arrests come barely a month after two Canadian pilots of an Air Transat plane were arrested at Glasgow Airport and charged with trying to fly while intoxicated. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/united-pilots-suspected-of-being-drunk-arrested-glasgow/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1482d8cdc11558f9a73224243739529a09bcdbaee64b85aa11fc22cc95801efa.json |
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"Colleen O'Connor"
] | 2016-08-30T20:46:43 | null | 2016-08-30T19:43:07 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Ffront-range-labor-day-travel%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cd01laborday_ko22055.jpg?w=1024&h=690 | en | null | Labor Day travelers should expect busy roads, crowded campgrounds and full airport parking lots | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Cheap gas prices are expected to boost Labor Day weekend travel as revelers pursue a last blast of summer fun before autumn weather begins.
About 55 percent of Americans say they’re more likely to take a road trip this year due to lower gas prices, according to an AAA survey.
Prices have edged up eight cents a gallon in the month before Labor Day, but today’s average price of $2.22 per gallon is still 27 cents less than last year at this time, according to AAA.
“It will be a heavy travel weekend,” said Amy Ford , spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Crowded roads
Travelers on Colorado roads should expect lots of traffic and be prepared for delays.
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August 19, 2016 Is this glamping thing still camping? More than 35,000 to 45,000 cars are expected to pass through the Eisenhower Tunnel each day, Ford said. The heaviest traffic is expected Thursday night and Friday as drivers get out of town and Sunday night and Monday as drivers head home, she said.
The express lane on I-70 will be open going eastbound and there will also be safety metering at the tunnel because of traffic volume. When traffic starts to backup in the tunnel, traffic lights outside stop more vehicles from entering until traffic queues clear — a wait that can be 20 minutes.
Heavy traffic is also expected on U.S. 285 and Interstate 25, both north toward Fort Collins and south toward Colorado Springs, Ford said.
Popular Labor Day destinations in Colorado include Grand Junction, Aspen and Colorado Springs.
Crowded campgrounds
Spur-of-the-moment travelers will have a tough time snagging a campsite in Colorado, because most sites at state parks are already reserved. Most parks have only one or two sites left, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said.
But about 50 sites are still open for a three-night stay starting on Sept. 2 at John Martin Reservoir State Park in Hasty. But reservations must be made by the day Aug. 30 to claim them.
Crowded airport
Denver International Airport expects about 1.1 million passengers over the holiday weekend — about a 10 percent increase over last year — said spokesman Heath Montgomery .
Travelers should not expect unusually long lines at security, Montgomery said.
Lines going through security checkpoints are expected to “move really well,” he said. “We’ve sped up processing for the summer.”
But Montgomery warned finding a parking spot could be another matter. “Parking is always the biggest thing,” he said.
The Pikes Peak Shuttle Lot, which costs $8 a day, usually fills up first. The most expensive — the airport garage parking lots, which cost $24 a day — fill up last.
Travelers headed to DIA can check real-time parking availability at flydenver.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/front-range-labor-day-travel/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1e0471cf68b7735767df0ce8089f797b7ce5fa239ebe3cb67e36a8321f5a904e.json |
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"Aldo Svaldi"
] | 2016-08-27T02:46:08 | null | 2016-08-27T01:59:29 | Gov. John Hickenlooper joined with employees of DaVita Healthcare Partners Friday to celebrate as the last piece of the Central Platte Valley puzzle fell into place. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fdavitas-second-tower-becomes-final-chapter-of-central-platte-valley-redevelopment%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20160826_133940-1.jpg?w=1024&h=576 | en | null | DaVita’s second tower becomes final chapter of Central Platte Valley redevelopment | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper remembers opposing a 1992 ballot measure to bring legalized gaming to the Central Platte Valley, then a tangle of rail lines, contaminated industrial lots and worn-out buildings.
Gaming backers touted it as a way to jump start development in a city still reeling from the oil bust. But Hickenlooper, owner of the nearby Wynkoop Brewing Co. at the time, argued the development opportunity was too valuable to fill with casinos and night clubs.
“This area could be the seed for a modern downtown,” Hickenlooper recalled thinking.
While build-out took longer than expected, about two dozen years, Hickenlooper joined with employees of DaVita Healthcare Partners Friday to celebrate as the last piece of the Central Platte Valley puzzle fell into place.
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DaVita will take about 80 percent of the space in a 19-story office tower going up on the northwest corner of 16th and Chestnut streets, across the street from its existing headquarters.
A week earlier, East West Partners broke ground on The Coloradan, a $200 million, 334-unit condo project at 1750 Wewatta St. in the Union Station neighborhood. The two projects, scheduled for completion in 2018, represent the caboose cars on billions of dollars of development in the rail yards behind Union Station since that gaming measure failed.
DaVita CEO Kent Thiry listed several things that will set the new tower, known within the company as Casa II, apart from comparable buildings — it will be 23 percent more energy efficient, 41 percent more water efficient, use 20 percent recycled materials, and source materials within a 500 mile radius at four times the typical rate.
Employees, however, cheered the most when he said 90 percent of the office space will have a view and that the tower will include an 8,700 square foot fitness center lit by natural light.
Known for morale-boosting theatrics, Thiry bounded to the stage barefoot in a Three Musketeers-inspired outfit. He awarded a new employee plucked from the audience $500 for correctly answering a set of questions about the dialysis provider.
Not to be outdone, Javier Rodriguez, CEO of Kidney Care at Davita, rode a zip line down to the stage with the song Livin’ La Vida Loca blaring. Even Hickenlooper spun and flung his jacket Elvis-style as he approached the stage.
https://twitter.com/hickforco/status/769287925129289730
When DaVita relocated its headquarters to Denver from El Segundo, Calif., in 2009, it started with 150 employees. By 2012, it moved into a new headquarters building. Currently, the company employs 1,780 workers in Denver and 2,423 in the state.
The DaVita Tower II will accommodate more than 800, although some of those workers will relocate from leased spaced in the nearby Gates building.
About two-thirds of the growth in DaVita’s Denver headcount is organic, Thiry said. But one-third has resulted from employees in other markets wanting to relocate to Denver.
As the celebration came to a close, DaVita employees put on 3-D glasses. Hickenlooper and Rodriguez pushed down on the handle of a faux-TNT detonator box, setting off confetti canons. An image of the triangular tower appeared as it would look out the windows on the 14th floor where the party was held.
Even as he celebrated the second headquarters tower, Thiry acknowledged the company’s rapid growth would fill that space in short order. And with the Central Platte Valley full too, DaVita might have to turn to a suburban campus to handle future expansions, he said. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/davitas-second-tower-becomes-final-chapter-of-central-platte-valley-redevelopment/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1ce8faca8c348c0894e780436287645a59fb3515693b40c7bf0615b5635bbf23.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T22:46:17 | null | 2016-08-28T22:14:50 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Ffarc-permanent-cease-fire-colombia-peace-deal%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/colombia_cuba.jpg?w=1024&h=665 | en | null | FARC sets permanent cease-fire under Colombia peace deal | null | null | www.denverpost.com | HAVANA (AP) — The commander of Colombia’s biggest rebel movement said Sunday its fighters will permanently cease hostilities with the government beginning with the first minute of Monday, as a result of their peace accord ending one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.
Rodrigo Londono, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, made the announcement in Havana, where the two sides negotiated for four years before announcing the peace deal Wednesday.
“Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,” said Londono, who also known as Timoshenko. “All rivalries and grudges will remain in the past.”
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Friday that his military would cease attacks on the FARC beginning Monday.
Colombia is expected to hold a national referendum Oct. 2 to give voters the chance to approve the deal for ending a half-century of political violence that has claimed more than 220,000 lives and driven more than 5 million people from their homes
After the agreement is signed, FARC guerrillas are supposed to begin handing their weapons over to United Nations-sponsored monitors. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/farc-permanent-cease-fire-colombia-peace-deal/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/41544ed82b794933bf4f8f92e991ebae5bdb6f32d0185b7fb2a4b73fec7517b4.json |
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"The Denver Post"
] | 2016-08-28T02:46:18 | null | 2016-08-28T02:45:35 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fhighline-canal-trail-assault-arrest%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Police arrest suspect in Friday assault on Highline Canal Trail | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A 25-year-old man was arrested Saturday in connection with an assault a day earlier of a woman walking along the Highline Canal Trail.
The woman was near East Dartmouth Avenue and South Forest Street when she was struck about 12:30 p.m. Friday, said Denver police spokesman Eranda Piyasena. The suspect, Demarcus Bookhart, faces a second-degree assault charge.
The woman took a photo of Bookhart as he walked away from her, police said.
Police are investigating whether Bookhart is connected to another incident that happened last week in the same spot along the trail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/highline-canal-trail-assault-arrest/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2e43a3d1faf30602d023238447e760e8284a9d5a278188e88af57f72c08b6514.json |
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"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-31T04:46:47 | null | 2016-08-31T02:59:52 | Donald Trump is considering jetting to Mexico City on Wednesday for a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fdonald-trump-mexico-visit%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/trump1.jpg?w=900&h=600 | en | null | Donald Trump may visit Mexico for meeting | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Donald Trump is considering jetting to Mexico City on Wednesday for a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before he delivers a high-stakes speech in Arizona to clarify his views on immigration policy, according to people in the United States and Mexico familiar with the discussions.
Peña Nieto last Friday invited the Republican presidential nominee and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to visit Mexico, his office said in a statement provided to The Washington Post on Tuesday night. Although no meetings have been confirmed, the statement said, both campaigns received the invitations “on good terms.”
Trump, sensing an opportunity, decided over the weekend to accept the invitation and push for a visit this week, according to the people familiar with the discussions
who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity surrounding the matter.
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They said late Tuesday that talks between the Trump campaign and Mexican officials were ongoing, with Trump interested in going but logistics and security concerns still being sorted out.
The Trump campaign declined to comment.
Trump is scheduled to hold fundraisers Wednesday morning in California and deliver his immigration speech in the evening at the Phoenix Convention Center. His trip to Mexico would occur between his events.
The potential visit comes after Trump has wavered for weeks on whether he would continue to hold his hard-line positions on the central and incendiary issue of his campaign, in particular his call to deport an estimated 11 million immigrants who are living in the United States illegally.
In addition to vows of mass deportations, Trump has repeatedly promised to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and force Mexico to pay for it. Peña Nieto and other Mexican leaders have dismissed the idea as preposterous.
“There is no way that Mexico can pay [for] a wall like that,” Peña Nieto said in a July interview on CNN, adding that he did not agree with Trump’s frequent characterization of illegal Mexican immigrants as rapists and killers.
The campaign has spent days dismissing questions about whether Trump’s positions on immigration are shifting, instead emphasizing his commitment to securing the border with Mexico. But the scale and scope of potential deportations remain subjects of intense interest – and Trump is caught between appeasing his staunchest supporters and attempting to appeal to moderate Republicans and independent voters with a softer stance.
Questions about what would become of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants if Trump is elected have gone largely unanswered by the candidate and his team in recent days. The campaign has suggested that Wednesday’s speech will address those questions and concerns.
“I expect the speech to be a refinement of the goals he’s always stated,” said Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, a Trump supporter. Cramer said that he would like to see Trump lay out a “chronology” of actions that he would try to achieve. The congressman said he is open to a plan that would afford illegal immigrants who have not committed other crimes some form of legal status.
At a campaign stop in Dalton, Georgia, on Tuesday, running mate Mike Pence billed Trump’s speech as a chance for the nominee to get highly specific about his plans. Responding to a question about illegal immigration, Pence advised, “Wait about 24 hours, you’re going to hear a lot of details.”
“Don’t miss it. OK? It’s going to be a very important address,” he added later.
Trump has offered glimpses of his policy priorities even as he has skirted questions about their implementation. He remains publicly committed to building the border wall, has extolled the need to crack down on those who overstay their visas and has proposed expanding the E-Verify program, used by employers to determine whether an immigrant is legally able to work in the country. The campaign has also said that Trump would prioritize the deportation of criminals, a policy that the Obama administration also has pursued.
Even with those broad priorities in place, it is unclear how many people would be subject to immediate deportation – all undocumented immigrants, all who have overstayed their visas or just those who have committed serious crimes.
The answers to those questions would define the mandate placed on security agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to a study by the Migration Policy Institute, an estimated 690,000 undocumented immigrants have significant criminal histories – felony convictions or serious misdemeanors – that make them top priorities for deportation under current administration policy. The number of people prioritized for deportation would grow to about 5.5 million if visa overstays were included, according to some data, although those estimates are not considered very reliable.
Immigration has been at the center of Trump’s brand since he announced his campaign, which he began by railing against Mexican immigrants. His controversial rhetoric delighted supporters and enraged critics, who accused him of bigotry. As the Republican primary contests unfolded, he vowed to kick out all of the nation’s illegal immigrants and called for a “deportation force” to get the job done.
But since securing the GOP presidential nomination this spring, Trump has had trouble shifting to an effective general-election strategy after dominating the primary race. And he has struggled to prove that he has a sufficient grasp of policy issues to implement his proposals if elected, a weakness that Clinton has repeatedly sought to exploit.
His opaque responses to questions about the implementation of those plans – and about mass deportations in particular – have raised concerns among his most vocal supporters while fueling accusations of hypocrisy from his critics.
The candidate has received a deluge of conflicting advice and perspectives from advisers and supporters.
Former Texas governor Rick Perry said in an interview Tuesday that
he and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani spent time with Trump last week in Texas and had a long discussion about how to treat undocumented immigrants who have lived in the country for years without incident.
“People who’ve been here for a long period of time, who’ve lived within our laws, who’ve paid our taxes, there is a thoughtful way for those individuals to be here legally, and Donald Trump, I am very comfortable, will find solutions to this issue that has flummoxed Washington and the political class for literally decades,” Perry said.
Mark Krikorian, a hard-line opponent of illegal immigration, said in an interview that he has been troubled by Trump’s recent language because it has echoed viewpoints championed by reform advocates such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida.
“Anything that seems to suggest the kind of guarantee of an amnesty would, I think, as a policy matter be a bad idea – and as a political matter it would be a bad idea,” Krikorian said.
On the potential trip to Mexico, Trump’s newly installed campaign chief executive, Stephen Bannon, played a key role in the discussions while the candidate met Sunday with his aides and family at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, said two people who have been briefed on the campaign’s deliberations.
Bannon, who previously headed the conservative website Breitbart News, made the case to the group that Trump must underscore his populist immigration views in the final weeks of the general-election campaign, perhaps with an audacious gesture.
Peña Nieto’s invitation was brought up, and Bannon said it offered Trump an opening to make headlines and showcase himself as a statesman who could deal directly with Mexico.
Trump was intrigued by Bannon’s proposal and agreed, but not all aides and allies were as enthusiastic, the people said.
Early this week, representatives for Trump contacted the U.S. Embassy in Mexico about his intentions, according to a person in Mexico familiar with the communications between the two camps.
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The Washington Post’s Joshua Partlow in Mexico City, Philip Rucker in Dalton, Ga. Sean Sullivan and Jenna Johnson in Washington contributed to this report. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/donald-trump-mexico-visit/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e21d55d5d710378811906e68451eb583b5062126771baa963afd66d4c685ffd0.json |
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"Cameron Wolfe"
] | 2016-08-31T00:46:52 | null | 2016-08-30T23:41:45 | Momentum has built all summer for Kapri Bibbs to overtake Hillman as the Broncos' No. 3 back. Hillman is well aware, but he put out his best two weeks of the summer to end training camp. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fronnie-hillman-fighting-to-prove-hes-worthy-broncos-roster%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/596736812.jpg?w=1024&h=636 | en | null | Ronnie Hillman fighting to prove that he's worthy of a Broncos roster spot | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The message is clear, smeared on the wall in bold ink for everyone to see. The Broncos’ 2015 leading rusher and starter for most of the season, Ronnie Hillman, is in a fierce battle to remain on the 2016 team.
C.J. Anderson and Devontae Booker have established themselves as Denver’s top two running backs, leaving Hillman searching for his role.
Momentum has built all summer for Kapri Bibbs to overtake Hillman as the Broncos’ No. 3 back. Hillman is well aware, but he put out his best two weeks of the summer to end training camp.
“I’ve still got to go out and prove I can still play and make the team, but I just came here with the mind-set of I’ve got to make it hard on the coaches,” Hillman said. “If I make it hard on the coaches, then I did my job. I had a few runs, so hopefully I gave them a of couple things to think about.”
Hillman carried the ball five times for 45 yards and a touchdown Saturday against the Los Angeles Rams, the best performance of all the backs in limited carries. Yet for the second time in three games, Hillman didn’t play on special teams. Bibbs played 21 special-teams snaps Saturday, the most of any Bronco.
What Hillman is making the Broncos consider is whether his talent as a speedy touchdown threat is enough reason to keep him when he’s not a significant special-teams player.
“That’s going to be really tough. We have four. Obviously, we could be a four-running back team. We could be three,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “I think the thing that’s happened to me, Ronnie really responded the last two weeks. He played very well. I think Kapri has had a good preseason, and he’s a special-teams player. That’s a tough decision for us. That makes us better.”
The battle has been Bibbs vs. Hillman for much of the summer, but Kubiak could decide to keep all four running backs. Add fullback Andy Janovich, and the Broncos have five backs, a heavy positional load that would require them to go light at another spot.
Juwan Thompson, who has the versatility to play running back, fullback and special teams, is also in the mix.
There’s one more preseason game, Thursday night at Arizona, for Bibbs, Hillman and Thompson to make their final cases to Kubiak and the coaching staff.
“Right now, everybody is kind of looking at C.J. as the lead dog and everybody’s chasing that dog,” running back coach Eric Studesville said this month. “Ronnie’s gotta push himself to continue to perform. He played well early last year. Hopefully we can get that for a longer period of the time.”
Hillman is in an interesting situation. He signed a one-year, $2 million contract with $500,000 guaranteed in the offseason after testing the free-agent market. Hillman expected a similar role as what he had last season, but the Broncos drafted Booker and his role diminished. Now, Hillman is being expected to play on special teams to make the roster as the No. 3 back.
“I have to be a teammate and a player and show guys that you have to go out and do certain things to make teams. If that’s what I have to do, that’s what I have to do,” Hillman said. “You just have to roll with the punches. It’s a crazy league.”
Backs in the saddle
A look at how the Broncos’ five running backs have fared this preseason.
Player | Total Offensive snaps | Total special teams snaps | Carries | Rushing Yards | Touchdowns
C.J. Anderson | 54 | 0 | 19 | 88 | 1
Devontae Booker | 77 | 0 | 21 | 60 | 0
Ronnie Hillman | 38 | 4 | 11 | 79 | 1
Kapri Bibbs | 63 | 43 | 23 | 87 | 0
Juwan Thompson | 35 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0
Cameron Wolfe, The Denver Post | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/ronnie-hillman-fighting-to-prove-hes-worthy-broncos-roster/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0aad116f85378378243ec29c0e408e452128813b779f9740328b46a9459c53c7.json |
[
"Bloomberg News"
] | 2016-08-28T08:46:09 | null | 2016-08-28T06:59:18 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fas-trump-supporters-chant-build-the-wall-americans-drink-plenty-of-what-would-be-on-the-other-side%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20150825__OP26CROOKp1.jpg?w=654&h=485 | en | null | As Trump supporters chant “build the wall,” Americans drink plenty of what would be on the other side | null | null | www.denverpost.com | While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s supporters chant “build the wall,” more Americans are drinking beer and tequila imported from what would be on the other side.
The largest alcohol producers are stressing the need to appeal to consumers, Hispanic and otherwise, who increasingly want products with Mexican heritage. U.S. beer shipments from Mexico grew 18 percent this year through June, outpacing the 1.3 percent gain for all beer shipments, according to data from the Beer Institute. From 2010 to 2015, tequila rose 30 percent by volume in the U.S., more than any other alcohol category expect cognac, according to data from Euromonitor International.
Constellation Brands’s 24 percent compound annual growth from 2010 to 2015 was driven by the popularity of its Mexican imports, including Corona and Modelo beer, according to Kenneth Shea, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst. Heineken’s Tecate franchise has grown 7.2 percent so far this year, led by Tecate Light, which is up 31 percent. Heineken also imports Dos Equis.
“Millennials and Hispanics for us are very critical,” said Ronald den Elzen, chief executive officer of Heineken USA, in an interview. “The trends coming out of Latin America over here and the attractiveness for all the American population in general in what’s happening in food, in clothing, in style — in everything — is just helping to drive that fuel.”
Constellation and Heineken aren’t alone. Other companies have taken notice of the power of Hispanic consumers: On Sept. 1, MillerCoors will introduce Zumbida, an alcoholic take on a traditional Mexican beverage called agua fresca. Diageo, the world’s largest distiller, has bolstered its tequila portfolio and invested in Mexico’s newest popular spirit: mezcal. The tequila and mezcal industry in the U.S. is expected to grow 17 percent between 2015 and 2020, according to data from Euromonitor.
Alcohol companies are caught in the crosshairs of two cultural movements: the rise of Trump and his nativist bombast, and the so-called Mexicanization of U.S. culture as seen in the food and beverage industries.
“Trump has tapped into the frustration with illegal immigrants; it’s kind of mind-boggling,” said Stephen Rannekleiv, a New York-based global beverage strategist at Rabobank International. “But at the same time, you see the growing interest in brands with Mexican heritage, in all categories. It’s not just tequila now.”
Trump’s pledge to build a wall along the southern border, deport 11 million immigrants and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement carry risks for companies like Constellation, the largest importer of Mexican beer to the U.S. Based in upstate New York, Constellation relies on Mexican imports for 55 percent of its $6.5 billion in annual revenue, and Hispanic consumers account for a third of Corona’s sales.
While Trump trails Democrat Hillary Clinton in national polls and those in key battleground states, his anti-Mexico rhetoric continues to stir up his base, some of whom shout anti-immigrant slurs at his rallies. That’s raised concern that the movement Trump unleashed could threaten brands and products connected to Mexico, even if he loses on Nov. 8.
“If you have these very divisive policies being generated, what does that mean for Brand Mexico?” said Pablo Zuanic, an analyst at Susquehanna International Group. “There is a significant impact on Constellation Brands that people have not factored.”
Constellation declined to comment. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Hispanics made up 17.6 percent of the U.S. population in 2015, up from 3.5 percent in 1960, according to U.S. Census data. That percentage is expected to reach about 29 percent by 2060. The group’s increasing influence proves that there’s room for tequila and other Mexican spirits to grow, said Alex Tomlin, a Diageo North America senior vice president who oversees tequila.
“It’s not just happening in Manhattan,” said Tomlin. “You go to any town in America now and you can see the Mexican influence.”
Trump, a billionaire real estate developer and TV personality, kicked off his campaign in June 2015 with a vow to build a wall along the southern border to keep out Mexican “rapists” and other criminals. His comments about Hispanics since then have ranged from adoring — or patronizing, depending on your view — to disdain.
He tweeted about his appreciation of Hispanic culture on May 5: “Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!” On June 3, he said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in the U.S., shouldn’t preside over a legal case against Trump University because of his Mexican parents.
According to a New York Times/CBS poll released last month, about three-quarters of Trump’s supporters favor building a wall along the Mexican border. Only 13 percent of Clinton’s backers approve of such a plan.
Whether Trump’s movement will translate into an electoral victory in November remains to be seen. In the meantime, consumer-products analysts will be watching.
“If he gets in, you can certainly change the mood and turn the tide against Mexican imports,” said Philip Gorham, an analyst at Morningstar Inc. who follows distillers and beer companies. “It’s easier said than done.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/as-trump-supporters-chant-build-the-wall-americans-drink-plenty-of-what-would-be-on-the-other-side/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d6da2418bbf89ac1dd15bb591f548c6d559a4706414238ecb76c484f6758b63e.json |
[
"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-31T02:46:49 | null | 2016-08-31T01:22:05 | Deflategate is truly, finally going to takes the final steps of its pathetic existence when Tom Brady begins the four-game suspension imposed by Commissioner Roger Goodell at 4 p.m. on Saturday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Ftom-brady-suspended-rules%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tom-brady.jpg?w=1024&h=706 | en | null | What Tom Brady can and cannot do while he’s suspended | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Cindy Boren, The Washington Post
Deflategate is truly, finally going to takes the final steps of its pathetic existence when Tom Brady begins the four-game suspension imposed by Commissioner Roger Goodell at 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Because the last thing anyone wants to see is Deflategate being dragged out by a mistake, NFL rules command that Brady SIMPLY MUST NOT:
– Attend or watch practice.
– Show up at the Patriots’ facility.
– Have any contact with any team personnel.
– Exchange game plans, playbooks, plays or videos on any electronic device.
– Engage in football-related activities or discussions with teammates, even away from the facility. This would include workouts, running drills and the line.
– Go to the stadium as a spectator or travel to road games.
– Attend press conferences (which is the real tragedy because all Patriots personnel love those).
Here’s something Brady CAN do:
– Return to the Patriots’ roster after their Oct. 2 game against the Buffalo Bills.
In the meantime, he isn’t divulging just what he’ll do with his time off. Asked in a press conference Tuesday if he would stay in Boston, he said only “We’ll see.” Asked how he would stay sharp, he said: “We’ll see.” (“We’ll see” is the new “on to Cincinnati.”)
Brady will be able to work with his buddy/body coach, Alex Guerrero, the NFL says.
“Well, that’s nice of them,” Brady said with a straight face. “We’ve been working together for over 12 years now. So, he’s one of my best friends. We’ll do what we always do. We’ll use all these days in the best way that’s possible to stay prepared and stay sharp. I have ideas of what I need to do based on the practices that we’ve had and the limited playing time that I’ve had. My goal is to come back and be the best I can be, just like every other year, every other offseason. I’m gonna do the best I can do over these next however many days, 30 days or so to do the same thing.
“I think we’ve still got a good day of practice. I’ve looked at all these days of practices of ways to get better with access to the fields and throwing to my receivers. Trying to use those days the best I possibly can, just like I always would. I’ve got another, hopefully, opportunity to play Thursday night [in the final preseason game] and be with the team Friday. And then try to do the best I can over the next month.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/tom-brady-suspended-rules/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/37d7864a2e376ee2a2fcad9704b4ea502bd38582b70e5fe77cf61383c4b9ff5d.json |
[
"Alicia Wallace"
] | 2016-08-28T06:46:20 | null | 2016-08-28T06:01:28 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fwhat-is-marijuana-patent-6630507%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/willie-pot-patent.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Patent No. 6,630,507: Why the U.S. government holds a patent on cannabis plant compounds | null | null | www.denverpost.com | It may not have quite the same ring to it as a certain seven-digit phone number made famous by a 1980s pop hit, but 6,630,507 has become internet-famous since the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration opted not to reschedule marijuana, leaving it in the category of drugs with no legitimate medical uses.
Since then, proponents of legalization have responded with a storm of social-media posts highlighting U.S. Patent No. 6,630,507, granted in 2003 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and covering the potential use of non-psychoactive cannabinoids to protect the brain from damage or degeneration caused by certain diseases, such as cirrhosis. They’re telling the DEA to “talk to the hand,” writing “6,630,507” on their palms, hashtagging the number and linking to past articles on the topic.
The intent of the posts is symbolic, said Sam Mendez, an intellectual property and public policy lawyer who serves as the executive director of the University of Washington’s Cannabis Law & Policy Project.
“Naturally, it shows that there is a certain amount of hypocrisy that there is ‘no accepted medical use’ for cannabis according to federal law,” Mendez said. “And yet here you have the very same government owning a patent for, ostensibly, a medical use for marijuana.”
Mendez — like patent lawyers, the research arm of the HHS and the New York biopharmaceutical firm that’s working as an exclusive licensee under the patent — cautions that the existence of Patent No. 6,630,507 doesn’t signal that legalization is on the horizon.
“The government is allowed to file and obtain patents, and that has no bearing on the Controlled Substances Act,” Mendez said.
But it does indicate what could result if cannabis were rescheduled: an explosion of marijuana-related patents, Mendez said.
No. 6,630,507’s inception
The National Institutes of Health employs roughly 6,000 Ph.D.-level scientists, said NIH special adviser for technology transfer Mark Rohrbaugh, who holds doctorates in biochemistry and law. When one of those scientists invents a new technology or makes a new discovery, the NIH evaluates the result and determines whether to file for a patent.
Over the years, the NIH has conducted and funded research involving cannabis — both as a drug of abuse and for its potential therapeutic properties, NIH spokeswoman Renate Myles said.
In the case of No. 6,630,507, the researchers discovered that non-psychoactive compounds in cannabis may have antioxidant properties that could be beneficial in the treatment of certain neurological diseases, she said.
“This patent describes the therapeutic potential for cannabinoid chemical compounds that are structurally similar to THC, but without its psychoactive properties, thereby treating specific conditions without the adverse side effects associated with smoked marijuana,” Myles said in an e-mail.
The patent doesn’t prove the chemical compound is effective in the stated treatment, Rohrbaugh said. The compound would have to be purified, synthesized in a lab setting, subjected to extensive testing in animals and humans, and ultimately require U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to show that it’s safe and effective for the intended purpose.
The intent behind patenting and licensing NIH discoveries is to keep technology that could potentially benefit the public from sitting idle, he said.
This sometimes requires looping in the private sector, he said. Laws made in the 1980s help entities such as universities and the government to make their discoveries accessible to others who are in a position to further the research and potentially commercialize the developments. The entities behind the discoveries typically receive payments as part of the licensing agreement.
NIH’s Technology Transfer Office advertises patents — including those related to cannabinoids — available for licensing on its website, and officials sometimes conduct outreach as well. The licenses often are packaged with some elements of exclusivity, Rohrbaugh said.
“It’s like a piece of land,” he said. “You wouldn’t build a million-dollar house on a piece of land you wouldn’t have some title to.”
Five years ago, the NIH granted New York-based Kannalife Sciences Inc. an exclusive license for the part of the technology outlined in the patent to develop cannabinoid- and cannabidiol-based drugs for the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy — brain damage that could result from conditions such as cirrhosis. Kannalife also has a non-exclusive license to develop drugs to treat chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a rare and progressive degenerative brain condition likely caused by repeated head trauma, Myles said.
“Other companies may also apply for licenses to use this patented technology to develop drugs to treat other neurological diseases where antioxidant properties of cannabinoid drugs may be beneficial,” she said. “The patent expires on April 21, 2019, after which anyone would be free to develop drugs based on these cannabinoids that, like all drugs, would require FDA approval to demonstrate safety and effectiveness in humans.”
No other companies have licensed portions of the 6,630,507 patent, she said.
Kannalife CEO Dean Petkanas did not disclose the specific terms of the licensing agreement, but he told The Cannabist that the deal includes milestone payments, a percentage of sales as well as royalties in “the six figures” to the government. The patent is valid in several jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and Australia, he said.
Petkanas said his company “could not have gotten a better ruling” from the DEA.
“We’ve been building our business from the pharmaceutical side from Day One,” said Petkanas, a former executive at the investment firm depicted in the film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” “We want to be on the pharmaceutical side; everything we do has to be by the book.”
Kannalife, recently featured in a football-related Sports Illustrated report regarding its research into therapies for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is about to begin raising $15 million in private investments. The money would allow it to start clinical trials related to hepatic encephalopathy as soon as the first quarter of 2018. Petkanas said Kannalife anticipates eventually seeking orphan drug status — a special FDA designation for treating rare conditions. The company also contemplating conducting chronic traumatic encephalopathy-related trials in Europe.
“Does marijuana have medicinal benefit? Well, yeah,” Petkanas said. “But it can’t be targeted and qualified for repetitive use (without the FDA-approved research).”
That one arm of the federal government is poised to make money from cannabis-derived compounds, and another has approved synthetic cannabinoid drugs such as Marinol and Syndros, tells a story different from the one told by the DEA, which lumped together the hundreds of chemical compounds of cannabis as a Schedule I substance, said Gregory F. Wesner, a Seattle-based patent and trademark attorney for Lane Powell PC.
“The interesting thing here is basically the government being two-faced,” Wesner said.
If and when national legalization comes, it’ll trigger a swarm of new patent applications, said the UW Cannabis Law Project’s Mendez.
“That’s massive growth that does not occur every day or every year That’s the kind of growth you’re talking about once in a generation,” he said of the potential sales growth in the industry. “As part of that, you’re going to see many people and many businesses research this far more intensely and file for patents.”
An analysis conducted by Christopher Freerks, a Lane Powell patent administrator, shows that the PTO already has granted at least four dozen cannabis-related utility patents, including No. 6,630,507. The analysis does not include plant patents, which have been tougher to come by for some cultivators.
San Diego patent attorney Dale C. Hunt, an Open Cannabis Project board member who has degrees in botany, genetics and biology, said one would need to develop a completely new strain in order to land a patent.
If marijuana is rescheduled, it’s realistic to believe that the innovation could carry on in the laboratories of NIH scientists, he said. But for now, the federal government’s technology transfer and patenting actions around cannabis do not appear to be widespread.
“(Tech transfer) happens all the time,” Hunt said. “It obviously doesn’t happen all the time in cannabis.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/what-is-marijuana-patent-6630507/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/996b660ce50c2a544ee21ca97a3a238d8406d04f6fa5abd7750bdb2b8eb4ad22.json |
[
"Nick Kosmider"
] | 2016-08-27T02:46:06 | null | 2016-08-27T02:15:05 | The Rockies' 8-5 loss to the Nationals, their fourth straight and seventh in a row on the road, came despite an encouraging second start from Hoffman, the centerpiece of the Troy Tulowitzki trade last summer. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fjeff-hoffman-shows-promise-in-second-start-rockies-slide-continues%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/596012008.jpg?w=1024&h=678 | en | null | Jeff Hoffman shows promise in second start, but Rockies’ slide continues | null | null | www.denverpost.com | WASHINGTON — The Rockies knew the so-called fire they tossed Jeff Hoffman into last week, when he made his debut against the red-hot Chicago Cubs, wasn’t going to simmer anytime soon.
Not when the promising young right-hander had to make his second career start on the road against the Washington Nationals, yet another first-place team with firepower to spare. Not when his fastball had to cut through the humid air in the nation’s capital that hung thick like molasses on an uncomfortably warm summer night.
That Hoffman displayed a measure of cool-headed calm Friday through all that heat provided at least some glimpse of hope during yet another defeat in a season that is quickly backpedaling toward irrelevancy.
The Rockies’ 8-5 loss to the Nationals, their fourth straight and seventh in a row on the road, came despite an encouraging second start from Hoffman, the centerpiece of the Troy Tulowitzki trade last summer. Hoffman gave up two loud solo home runs, but was otherwise sharp while surrendering three earned runs in six innings.
Unfortunately for Hoffman, his defense, an offensive stuck in quicksand and a shattered bullpen did little to help.
The Rockies mustered little against Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez. Ryan Raburn and Nick Hundley each had a single and a double off Gonzalez, but those four hits accounted for the only damage against the lefty.
Things didn’t come quite so easily for Hoffman, but the 23-year-old showed mettle. He gave up a one-out blast by Jayson Werth in the first inning, but then worked his way around a double by Bryce Harper to avoid further damage. The Nationals’ second run came after back-to-back errors by Cristhian Adames and Daniel Descalso in the third.
The Rockies tied the game at 2-2 in the fourth on Hundley’s double. But with Hundley on third after a wild pitch, Gonzalez struck out Descalso to end the threat.
The Nationals loaded the bases with no outs against Hoffman in the bottom half of the inning, but he emerged with only one run against him after coaxing Jose Lobaton into a double play and getting Gonzalez to pop out.
Hoffman’s big mistake came in the fifth. With two outs, NL batting leader Daniel Murphy crushed a 3-2 slider to center field, giving the Nationals a 4-2 lead. Still, Hoffman did enough to give the Rockies a chance. He walked four batters and struck out three while giving up six hits, generally mixing his 95 pitches well enough to stay out of major trouble.
The Rockies offense, though, cratered again. Charlie Blackmon, Nolan Arenado and Carlos Gonzalez were a combined 0-for-10 and reached base twice.
And any hope of a Rockies comeback was lost in a sea of scorching line drives off reliever Matt Carasiti in the seventh. Werth had an RBI double and Harper drove in two with a triple to center field as part of a four-run inning, another black mark on Colorado’s crumbled bullpen.
Hundley ended the night with a three-run homer. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/jeff-hoffman-shows-promise-in-second-start-rockies-slide-continues/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0eb6c74a5d427c938b2509cbaf7e7be7e8f6a70da03cc28def92c8370e14a579.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T06:46:33 | null | 2016-08-29T06:03:15 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fjuan-gabriel-latin-music-superstar-dies-at-66%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/99a8ea92c3d7497da99204ace130292e.jpg?w=1024&h=738 | en | null | Juan Gabriel, Latin music superstar, dies at 66 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Bernice Bautista, The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Mexican superstar songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel died Sunday at age 66 at his home in California, his publicist said.
Gabriel was Mexico’s leading singer-songwriter and top-selling artist, with sales of more than 100 million albums. His ballads about love and heartbreak and bouncy mariachi tunes became hymns throughout Latin America and Spain and with Spanish speakers in the United States.
He brought many adoring fans to tears as they sang along when he crooned his songs about love and heartbreak, including his top hits “Hasta Que Te Conoci” (“Until I Met You”) and “Amor Eterno” (“Eternal Love”). His hit “Querida” (“Dear”) topped Mexico’s charts for a whole year.
Gabriel, a flamboyant performer whose real name was Alberto Aguilera Valadez, liked to wear jackets covered in sequins or dress in shiny silk outfits in hot pink, turquoise blue or canary yellow, and he was known for tossing his head before dancing or jumping around the stage.
“He has passed on to become part of eternity and has left us his legacy through Juan Gabriel, the character created by him for all the music that has been sung and performed all around the world,” his press office said in a statement.
It gave no details on his death. Publicist Arturo de la Mora told The Associated Press that he died at 11:30 a.m. in his home. He said the family would provide a statement later.
Gabriel performed to packed auditoriums, including New York’s Madison Square Garden and the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. His last concert was Friday night at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles. He was scheduled to perform Sunday in El Paso.
Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, said through his official Twitter account: “I regret the death of Juan Gabriel, one of the great musical icons of our country. My condolences to his relatives and friends.”
Gabriel broke ground in Mexico in 1990 by becoming the first commercial singer to present a show at Mexico City’s majestic Palace of Fine Arts, until then a forum reserved for classical musicians. The proceeds from the three sold-out concerts went to support the National Symphony Orchestra and became his most celebrated performances. His album “Juan Gabriel live from the Palace of Fine Arts” set record sales.
A six-time Grammy nominee, Gabriel was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and received countless industry awards — including ASCAP songwriter of the year in 1995 and Latin Recording Academy’s person of the year in 2009, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that same year.
The beloved singer, who was born Jan. 7, 1950, wrote his first song at age 13 and went on to compose more than 1,500 songs.
“There are no rules when I compose songs,” he said, according to a biography published by Mexico’s Society of Music Authors and Composers. “There are times when I’m really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.”
Artists across Latin America and in the United States covered many of his songs, including Paul Anka and Marc Anthony, who broke into the salsa music world in the U.S. with Gabriel’s “Hasta Que Te Conoci.”
Gabriel also wrote and produced albums for artists such as Mexican singer Lucha Villa and Spain’s Rocio Durcal.
The youngest of 10 children, he rose rags to riches. He was born in the western state of Michoacan. His father, Gabriel Aguilera, was a farmer and his mother, Victoria Valadez, a housewife. The family lost contact with his father after he was taken to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City when Juan Gabriel was still a baby. Unable to support her children, his mother moved the family to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where he grew up as she worked as a maid.
Unable to care for Juan, she sent him to an orphanage.
He said he wrote “Eternal Love,” one of his greatest hits, thinking about his mother, who died in 1974. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/juan-gabriel-latin-music-superstar-dies-at-66/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/15c01b581fed7ad477ba90ef53830e10b305b6a63086f1245a3cfe890b303f01.json |
[
"Tom Mcghee"
] | 2016-08-30T20:46:48 | null | 2016-08-30T20:43:30 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fwrong-way-driver-parker-wreck-identified%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Wrong-way driver in Parker wreck that injured six, and killed one, identified | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A 45-year-old man who drove his truck the wrong way on South Parker Road Saturday night caused multi-vehicle wreck that killed him and injured six other people, Parker police said Tuesday.
Michael Christopher Sputh was driving a red Toyota pickup northbound in the southbound lanes when the crash happened between J Morgan Boulevard and Hess Road about 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Five vehicles and one motorcycle were involved and police suspect that alcohol was a factor. “We are waiting for toxicology” results on Sputh, said Officer Sherry Corcoran.
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Investigators are still trying to determine exactly how the wreck unfolded, Corcoran said.
“There was so much debris, between J Morgan and Hess, and there were five vehicles plus a motorcycle. Our investigators are still figuring it out. It’s going to take some time.”
“Miraculously,” she added, the two people riding on the motorcycle “walked away with minor injuries.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/wrong-way-driver-parker-wreck-identified/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0cb0184845234c70cee0f5eb3e200a3c70657a0e6ce7d8d62e70ea468493c80d.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T12:46:38 | null | 2016-08-30T12:05:47 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fnorth-carolina-tropical-weather-systems%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap982158875661.jpg?w=1024&h=680 | en | null | North Carolina warily watching 2 tropical weather systems | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Ben Finley and Jonathan Drew, Associated Press
BUXTON, N.C. — A tropical weather system off the coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks is expected to strengthen in the next day, bringing winds up to 45 mph and heavy rains that could flood low-lying areas, officials said.
Early Tuesday, the tropical depression with winds of 35 mph was about 95 miles (150 kilometers) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras and was expected to become a tropical storm Tuesday afternoon but not grow any stronger. A hurricane hunter aircraft was sent in to investigate the depression, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Tuesday.
A tropical storm warning has been issued for areas of the coast from Cape Lookout to the Oregon Inlet along North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
National Weather Service meteorologist Shane Kearns in eastern North Carolina said in an interview that “anything is possible, but we’re not really seeing any kind of significant strengthening for the storm.”
At the same time, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said that another tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico could hit northern Florida as a tropical storm later in the week and possibly head toward the Atlantic coast. They cautioned that the storm’s exact path remained uncertain days in advance, but the storm was becoming better organized Monday night.
Beachgoers, boat captains and business owners waited warily for the storm to wash out one of the summer’s last busy weeks.
Tourists in North Carolina sought to take the approaching storm in stride.
Visitor Katherine Vega, 45, of Springhill, Tennessee, said she could handle a day indoors during her vacation. By Monday afternoon, she had already fled the Atlantic’s swelling waves and strengthening currents off Hatteras Island in Buxton.
“We were just knee-deep, and there were a few times where we had to run out because it kept sucking us in,” she said, adding she’d watch movies with her husband until the storm blows through.
“We came from Tennessee,” she said with a shrug. “There are tornado threats over there.”
“I would advise everybody to take a look at the weather,” Dare County emergency management director Drew Pearson said when asked whether visitors should keep their travel plans. “They need to make those decisions based on what they see in the weather forecast.”
The second depression was about 305 miles (495 kilometers) west of Key West, Florida, with maximum winds of 35 mph (55 kph). It was moving west, but forecasters expect it could curve back to the northeast in the coming days. Authorities at some locations in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida were hauling out sandbags Monday to offer residents amid predictions of heavy rains.
On North Carolina’s Outer Banks, business owner Jennifer Scarborough said her biggest concern was that the first storm could saturate the area before another blow by the second storm.
“The second storm is the one I’m more worried about,” she said. “I’m definitely keeping an eye on it and planning accordingly. … If we have a lot of rain in a short amount of time that could be a problem.”
Roads along the thin barrier islands are prone to flooding and damage from erosion, including the two-lane N.C. Highway 12 that is the area’s main north-south artery.
“N.C. 12, our lifeline on Hatteras Island, even in a winter storm has some challenges,” Pearson said.
Scarborough, who manages Hatteras Harbor Marina and owns the Harbor Deli next door, said she’s receiving concerned calls from customers and that some captains are canceling fishing trips for Tuesday and Wednesday. With Labor Day approaching, the week represents one of the last busy stretches of summer for the area.
“It’s definitely making people think twice about coming here,” she said.
In the central Pacific, Hurricane Madeline strengthened Monday into a Category 4 storm about 515 miles (830 kilometers) east of Hilo, Hawaii. Top sustained winds reached 130 mph (215 kph) as Madeline moved west at 9 mph (15 kph). A hurricane watch was posted for Hawaii County and those in the main Hawaiian Islands were urged to monitor the storm’s progress.
Elsewhere in the Pacific, Hurricane Lester weakened to a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph (205 kph) while churning west near 14 mph (22 kph) about 1,435 miles (2,305 kilometers) east of the Hilo, Hawaii. It posed no immediate threat to land. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/north-carolina-tropical-weather-systems/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/240e23d26ddcdd1a46bf68e38c36a942a3a43cadf7285f1914cc007eee22120c.json |
[
"Bloomberg News"
] | 2016-08-27T02:45:57 | null | 2016-08-27T01:46:49 | After decades of red ink, U.S. airlines have gotten their financial houses in significantly better order. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fairlines-bring-free-meals-streaming-back-coach%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121109__20121111_K6_BZ11DREAMLINERjp3.jpg?w=400&h=600 | en | null | Airlines bringing back free meals and streaming back to coach | null | null | www.denverpost.com | After decades of red ink, U.S. airlines have gotten their financial houses in significantly better order. And while this new wherewithal certainly won’t mean more legroom or free checked bags, some carriers are exploring inexpensive ways to make flying economy class a smidge less arduous.
Free meals and booze are returning on some long domestic flights, and gratis snacks are common again. A few airlines are even dropping fees for streaming audio and video: American Airlines just matched its two-largest domestic peers by offering cattle class free access to its full menu of in-flight entertainment.
These modest steps follow years of “densification” at the back of the plane as carriers sought to boost profits by adding seats and crunching knees. At the same time, travelers at the front of the plane were courted with ever-increasing opulence. While a seat-count reduction for the less fortunate isn’t in the cards, those free movies may be sufficiently engrossing to make you forget the lack of space or your oversized neighbor.
“Even the smallest thing can seem like a big deal,” said Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst at Atmosphere Research Group in San Francisco. “When you’re an abused animal, even a tiny pat on the head can make you feel like you’re loved.”
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The improvements are funded by billions of dollars in profits, including $12 billion reported by the 10 largest U.S. carriers in the first half of this year. That’s about $700 million more than in the same period last year, according to industry trade group Airlines for America. “For the first time since the Great Recession, airlines are finally achieving profit margins on par with the average U.S. corporation,” said John Heimlich, the group’s chief economist.
This year, on their longest routes to Hawaii, American and Delta Air Lines have restored free meals and alcoholic beverages after years of charging you for snacks. The change aligns those carriers’ meal policies with those on their long-haul flights to Europe and South America.
There are smaller touches, too. United Continental Holdings has touted its new premium Italian coffee, from Illy, along with the debut in February of a Dutch snack, stroopwafel-which came with a video the carrier produced to show how to eat it. Last month, it also began stocking a more premium single malt scotch, Glenfarclas, and a craft beer from Goose Island.
On some European routes, United has begun serving an additional mid-flight snack, part of an upgraded dining experience in which the airline has divided economy-class meal service into three courses, hoping to make the experience slightly nicer.
This effort to make customers happy isn’t limited to free food, booze, and films. In April, Delta ditched its fees for purchasing a ticket over the phone or at the airport. American, like some others, will now refund money on nonrefundable tickets if the reason is suitably compelling. A company spokesman declined to say what issues American considers valid for refunds; telephone and airport agents have been given discretion to make the call.
“Airlines are taking a look at not just what drives purchases but what drives complaints,” Harteveldt said.
In the end, though, all that free stuff may not be free at all. Another factor in the analysis, Harteveldt said, is finding a way to stand out from rivals: Carriers are always keen to command higher fares, and a unique perk might allow them to charge a few additional bucks. (Delta frequently cites its “revenue premium” over others, as do JetBlue Airways Corp. and Virgin America Inc. on some of their networks.)
Moreover, any new crumbs for coach dwellers pale next to investments being plowed into new aircraft, airport terminals, and employee contracts. And some issues just aren’t on the table, no matter how much industry profits rise. The checked-bag fee is sacrosanct, as are those ubiquitous fees to select certain “better” seats at the time of ticketing. And airlines will continue to pamper their more lucrative passengers in first class and business class.
Nevertheless, back in economy-now you can get Game of Thrones and a free biscuit. And that’s better than nothing. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/airlines-bring-free-meals-streaming-back-coach/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/fe53fbcae8140095acdacbff6c37c02d28adb91dccecee89ff4046bb9a3f19bd.json |
[
"Tamara Chuang"
] | 2016-08-27T00:46:04 | null | 2016-08-26T23:18:13 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fswissport-cuts-187-jobs-frontier-changes-ground-services-provider%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/frontier_airlines.jpg?w=1024&h=681 | en | null | Swissport cuts 187 jobs as Frontier changes ground services provider | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Another shuffling of ground-service companies at Denver International Airport means that 187 full-time workers will lose their jobs.
Swissport notified the state’s labor department that it is reducing its local workforce at DIA, effective Sept. 16, due to “a result of significant loss of business,” the company said in the letter. The company learned of this business loss on July 29, and employees found out three days later they were losing their jobs.
The bulk of the jobs are customer service agents, ramp agents and bag handlers.
Officials from Switzerland-based Swissport were not available for immediate comment.
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August 8, 2016 If you think Denver International Airport is more crowded, you’re right In May, Menzies Aviation announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Simplicity USA, won the ground-handling contract from Frontier Airlines for Denver. Simplicity is expected to start Sept. 17.
John Redmond, Menzies’ senior vice president Americas, said in a statement that Simplicity will handle Frontier’s “ramp services, passenger services, short tows and operations, and will employ nearly 300 people, bringing our total roster at the station to almost 800.”
Jim Faulkner, a Frontier spokesman, confirmed Friday that the airline did switch from Swissport to Simplicity.
“Simplicity is our business partner in other stations like Phoenix and Orlando and we have a good relationship with them,” said Faulkner, adding that Simplicity was interviewing Swissport workers to fill the jobs.
Ground-service companies at DIA have seen some shuffling in recent years. United dumped SkyWest Airlines in 2014 and hired Simplicity in late 2014. The transition resulted in some of the worst lost-baggage stories for United. In May, DALGlobal Services cut 104 jobs after Spirit Airlines decided to go with Swissport for ground services. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/swissport-cuts-187-jobs-frontier-changes-ground-services-provider/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/7f0deb4642f6fc747e73577b1a007d08e3ce3de83615ace01618603a25319f3b.json |
[
"Interview With Yourhub"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:30 | null | 2016-08-29T21:28:04 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbusiness-qa-bellwether%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/zcc25bellwether_main.jpg?w=1024&h=681 | en | null | Business Q&A: Bellwether, Denver | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Business: Bellwether
Address: 5126 E. Colfax Ave.
Hours: Sunday to Thursday: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Founded: 2015
Contact: 720-398-9251
Employees: 8
Interview with Rustin Coburn, co-owner
Q: How did you get involved in this business?
A: My business partners and I wanted to create a modern day social club that would be a space where people felt comfortable but also inspired. Where people could come together to enjoy life, grab a coffee, grab a whiskey, maybe purchase some clothing or post up and work. In addition, if they want, they can also get a haircut in our members-only barbershop located in the back of the space. We had been brainstorming and developing this idea for a year or so before we found the perfect location to make it a reality.
Q: What distinguishes you from other businesses in your category?
A: Bellwether is about experience. We want to stimulate all of your senses and offer you something unique, special and intentional. It just so happens that we also serve great coffee and whiskey. We are one of the only places that has the variety of offerings that we do, which include: specialty coffee, whiskey from all over the world, a clothing and accessory retail store, a work lounge, a barbershop and more all under one roof.
Q: What do you like best about your line of work?
A: Getting to learn new things and create new opportunities every single day.
Q: What is your business’ biggest challenge?
A: Bellwether is on East Colfax, so there is not a ton of normal and consistent foot traffic. So some days are still slow, but the neighborhood is getting better and better every week.
Q: Something people might be surprised to learn about you or your business:
A: If you become a member for $10 per month, we have all sorts of other special menu items and offerings. Just ask us. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/business-qa-bellwether/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/8f7edba88c20b4e7e82ee4cd969c79d6fd8830bc4cc6e6c981750f38f654e927.json |
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"Special To The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-26T12:49:59 | null | 2016-08-26T06:01:43 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ftale-of-love-and-darkness-review%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tale.jpg?w=1024&h=685 | en | null | “Tale of Love and Darkness,” Natalie Portman’s directorial debut, falls flat | null | null | www.denverpost.com | One and one-half stars. Rated PG-13. 98 minutes.
Vanessa H. Larson, Special To The Washington Post
Disappointingly true to its title, “A Tale of Love and Darkness” is dark and somber in just about every way. In her feature directorial debut — which she also wrote and stars in — Natalie Portman has adapted celebrated Israeli author Amos Oz’s 2002 autobiographical novel of the same name into a dour and emotionally cold film.
Oz’s best-selling book chronicles his childhood in Mandatory Palestine and post-statehood Israel, the background to his birth as a writer. Set against this momentous historical period is the story of the author’s mother, Fania (Portman), a troubled woman who had a great impact on his life.
The Hebrew-language film opens in darkness, as Fania tells a bedtime story to young Amos (Amir Tessler), the pitch-black screen eventually giving way to shots of their hands and faces. An only child, Amos lives in Jerusalem with Fania, an unhappy housewife with a severe mien who is treated badly by both her mother and mother-in-law, and his intellectual father, Arieh (Gilad Kahana), a librarian and frustrated writer.
The narrator, who represents the 70-something Amos Oz today, explains that both Fania’s and Arieh’s families fled Europe due to anti-Semitism. As the years wear on, sensitive Fania becomes increasingly unable to cope with the hardships of life in Israel — which is very different from the promised land she had imagined — along with the burden of her unhappy marriage.
Were the story not already heavy, Portman’s interpretation of Oz’s engaging and even humorous (if rambling) book lacks emotional resonance. The central characters remain distant from both each other and the viewer, their feelings seemingly muted. Amos mostly reacts to Fania’s parables and ruminations with wide-eyed silence. Scenes with great dramatic potential — such as the 1947 U.N. vote to partition Palestine, which Amos’s family and neighbors hear live on the radio — are presented with an inexplicable tone of detachment.
Further, the script suffers from an excessive faithfulness to its source. Dialogues and narration that read as deep or literary in the book often seem stilted or overwrought on the screen. Scholarly Arieh’s etymological explanations and word plays, for example, come across like awkward attempts at profundity.
The movie is also gloomy on a visual level, from the family’s dreary house and drab clothes to the cinematography, which emphasizes the darker, more yellowish colors of the spectrum in a way that evokes old photographs. Only Fania’s dreamlike flashbacks to her childhood in Rovno (then Poland, now Ukraine) and her surreal fantasies of escape are shown in more a vivid palette.
It’s intriguing to watch the American-raised Portman act in fluent Hebrew. The actress, who was born in Israel, spent many years getting the film off the ground and has said it was a labor of love that grew out of her deep admiration for Oz’s memoir. Unfortunately, darkness seems to have prevailed over love in a tale that falls flat. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/tale-of-love-and-darkness-review/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b9fe60e068d60e872997a58bec473cfad7454f2048056b5266e1fe7a1ce44f84.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T18:46:52 | null | 2016-08-30T17:47:57 | It seems inevitable that either Arizona or Seattle will find itself back on top of the division in 2016, as both are considered among the elite of the NFC. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2F2016-nfl-nfc-west-preview%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/russell-wilson.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Seattle, Arizona again clear favorites in NFC West | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The kind of parity the NFL wants has been on display in the NFC West over the past half-decade.
San Francisco won two straight division titles in 2011-12, following by Seattle winning the division in 2013 and 2014. And last year, it was Arizona’s turn to snatch away the division crown from the Seahawks, the Cardinals’ first division title since 2009.
It seems inevitable that either Arizona or Seattle will find itself back on top of the division in 2016, as both are considered among the elite of the NFC.
The Rams are beginning a new chapter, returning to Los Angeles with renewed excitement but the same questions whether they can advance beyond being an average franchise.
And the 49ers are rebuilding for a second straight year, this time under new coach Chip Kelly after a failed attempt with Jim Tomsula in charge.
Here’s a look at the four teams:
LIGHT YEARS: Seattle believes it has rediscovered its swagger from the 2013 Super Bowl title season. There’s no Super Bowl hangover from winning or losing to deal with, just the bitterness of an NFC divisional playoff loss to Carolina.
Despite a calm offseason, Seattle still has flaws. It’s shaky on the offensive line and the performance of the blockers could determine Seattle’s offensive success. If given enough time, Russell Wilson appears ready to build on last year’s evolution as a passer and his connection with Doug Baldwin, who tied for the NFL lead with 14 TD catches.
The Seahawks have been the top scoring defense in the NFL the past four seasons, and that remains the expectation with the likes of Richard Sherman, Michael Bennett, Earl Thomas and Bobby Wagner still in their primes.
“I am seeing the same joy, the same intensity, same passion (as 2013),” Sherman said. “Guys just playing for one another and appreciating one another.”
LEARN TO FLY: The Cardinals were 13-3 last season to win the division and are 34-14 under Bruce Arians. They’ve proven they can win in Seattle, a prerequisite to contending in the division.
But there is urgency surrounding Arizona. Carson Palmer is coming off his best season, but threw four interceptions against the Panthers in the blowout loss in the NFC title game. Palmer turns 37 in December and Larry Fitzgerald turns 33 on Wednesday, so the opportunity for success may be shrinking.
Running back David Johnson showed last season he can be a great complement to Palmer and the passing game, while the defense should be buoyed by the acquisition of Chandler Jones, the drafting of Robert Nkemdiche, and return of Tyrann Mathieu.
BACK IN CALI: The Rams have a second honeymoon going with Los Angeles after their return home from St. Louis, with 89,140 fans setting an NFL preseason attendance record for their opener.
But the good feelings in Los Angeles will be tested if the Rams struggle early with a defense that lost a few key contributors and an offense that didn’t add much beyond No. 1 overall draft pick Jared Goff, currently the backup to Case Keenum.
“It’s not up to me. Again, it’s something that I’d love to do, but it’s not my decision,” Goff said of being the starter. “That’s what they pay the coaches for, and that’s what they’re here for.”
Jeff Fisher hasn’t coached a winning team since 2008, but he’s banking on steady improvement across the board and another big year from running back Todd Gurley to alter the steady mediocrity of his first four Rams teams.
The Rams have one of the best defensive lines in the NFL with the likes of Aaron Donald and Robert Quinn, but it may not be enough to move beyond .500.
FREE FALLIN’: The 49ers have taken a rapid fall from perennial NFC contender to also-ran in recent seasons. After a failed experiment with Jim Tomsula in place of Jim Harbaugh, the Niners are turning to Kelly in hopes that his up-tempo style that was so successful in college at Oregon and early in his tenure with the Eagles will translate to San Francisco.
Kelly has a tall task, starting with finding a quarterback. Colin Kaepernick’s career has plummeted since nearly winning a Super Bowl following the 2012 season, and his insistence on not standing for the national anthem has sparked something of a furor across the nation.
Blaine Gabbert, who was elevated last season when Kaepernick struggled and was injured, could start despite a career 55.8 completion rate. At receiver, Torrey Smith is the only proven commodity.
The solid defense is led by linebacker NaVorro Bowman and recent first-round picks Eric Reid, Arik Armstead and DeForest Buckner.
“I don’t ever put a ceiling on a team,” 49ers GM Trent Baalke said. “In 2011, a lot of people wanted to put a ceiling on this team and we did pretty well. This is a young football team. There’s a lot of competition out there.”
PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH: Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams, 49ers.
AP Sports Writers Josh Dubow and Greg Beacham contributed to this report. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/2016-nfl-nfc-west-preview/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/550a9940601b0dff3ee6d5761e4901b030843e9f60296611850ff93779e058e6.json |
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