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The community benefit grant will sup-port Denver Bike Sharing, the non-profit organization that owns and oper-ates the program. In addition, KaiserPermanente, the states largest non-profit health plan, will provide in-kindsupport, expertise and resources forresearch and evaluation, community

and worksite outreach, and volunteersupport for special projects.

We are very excited to be a partof this ground-breaking program thatpromotes a healthy lifestyle and anactive mode of transportation for ourcitys residents and employers, saidDonna Lynne, DrPH, president, KaiserPermanente Colorado. With metroDenver ranking as the third-fittest cityin the United States, it is the perfect

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Getting Fit, part 4page 3

Recession real, not mentalpage 2

Locks for Cancerpage 11

Parenting coach

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Teslas remarkable coupeCrossoverpage 14

Lowry Steam Plant Re-Energizedbenefit as planting 9 acres of trees eachyear, or, not driving 76,000 miles eachyear in a typical gas-powered vehicle.Over the anticipated 40 year life ofthese systems, the benefit is the sameas planting 360 acres of trees (20% ofLowrys entire area), or, not driving3,040,000 miles.

The Steam Plant Loft building nowgenerates the most renewable energyof any building in the entire 1,800 acreLowry Community.

The award winning SteamPlant building was Lowrys originalPowerHouse, but generated ener-

gy using coal-fired boilers. The Steam

Getting around Denver alterna-tively just go a whole lot easier andhealthier.

When the system launches onEarth Day, April 22, Denver B-cycle

will feature more than 375 bicycles

at 38-40 stations around downtownDenver, Cherry Creek North, andthe University of Denver campus. Bythe end of June, Denver B-Cycle willfeature 50 stations and 500 bicycles.From running errands to commutingto work, Denver B-cycle is a quick,easy and healthy way to get aroundthe city.

Kaiser Permanentes three-year$450,000 sponsorship is a critical dis-play of confidence in the long termpromise of the Denver B-cycle system.

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Bicycle share comes toDenver in a big way

Donna Lynne, DrPH, president, Kaiser Permanente Colorado (left) and DenverMayor John Hickenlooper

With 2009 gone with the turning ofthe calendar, its hardly forgotten. Theyear was one of the worst for severestorms in memory, with serious hail-storms leaving their wake in May, Juneand July, including storms powerfulenough to damage homes and storm-water systems.

What many homeowners dontknow, is that storm damage is covered by your homeowners policy, but onlyif you act quickly. So while leaks andthe like may be slow in appearing,you have to be quick to report it to the

insurance company, and just as quickto fix damage before it causes real, per-manent damage to your home.

There are companies that specializein both detecting and repairing stormdamage. Many roofers are effectivelyinsurance restoration specialists, andthey know how to get your insurancecompany to recognize your issues, andhow to fix them as well.

Heres a short check-list of how totell if your home has suffered stormdamage: Leakage in Attic after DrivingRain. Possible causes: Roof shingledamaged by hail; Dented or CrackedSiding, Fascia, Window Wraps andGutters. Possible cause: Hail damage,

Vandalism, Fire and Tree Damages;Stains on Interior Ceilings and Walls.Possible cause: Roof leaks from hailimpacts to the shingles witch put hairline cracks and make bruises to theshingles;

Missing Shingles. Possible cause:Wind damage to the roof; DamagedScreens and Cracked or BrokenWindows. Possible cause: Hail Damageor Vandalism; Dark, dirty-lookingareas on your roof. Possible causes:Environmental pollutants; vegetation,fungus or algae growth; loss of granules

due to age of shingles; Excessive ener-gy costs. Possible cause: Insufficientattic ventilation causes heating/cool-ing systems to run excessively.

A good roofer will meet with a rep-resentative of your insurance compa-ny, and negotiate for you. Even if youdont think you have storm damage, aquality roofer can inspect your home,from the roof. Since most insurancerequire that you make a claim withinone year, you need to act quickly, asour last major storm was in July.

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Lowrys Steam Plant neighbor-hood has taken an additional step togenerate renewable energy, supportColorados New Energy Economy andhelp achieve the national goal of moreenergy independence.

Seven Steam Plant homeownersand the Steam Plant Lofts HOA haveinstalled solar power systems totaling48.81KW of power. Those systems pro-duce the same annual environmental


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Opinion and Comment

How much longer will Americasgravest recession last? Of course, no oneknows for sure, but a table produced bythe Bureau of Labor Statistics, which since1939 has tracked the changes in non-farmjobs as reported in its monthly Employer

Survey, offers a very cautionary note.From its post-Great Depression base

of 29.2 million, America added 109.6million non-farm jobs until reaching thepeak figure of 138.8 million in 2007. SinceDecember 2007, when this Great Recessionstarted, non-farm payrolls have declined by 11.2 million, and employment overallhas declined by 13.0 million jobs.

Replacing these millions of jobs andadding the 140,000 a month needed inorder to keep pace with growth in thelabor force must be our nations highestpriority. And yet, sadly, it isnt.

The White House and Congress seemwildly disconnected from the jobs crisis,perhaps because they spend so muchtime aiming a strobe light on health carereform, Iraqi elections, a new STARTtreaty, financial industry reform, climatechange, an amended No Child Left Behind,Afghanistan and a balanced budget.

The BLS non-farm payroll table offersa focused summary of job creation inthe past and a strong sense of what may be possible in the future: Americas bestthree-year job creation total was 10.3 mil-lion, which occurred from 1997 to 1999;its second best effort produced 9.4 mil-lion jobs, 2004-2006; and the third-bestperformance was 7.7 million new jobs,1984-1986.

But America needs to find at least 11.2to 13.0 million jobs right now just to getus back to December 2007s employment

level, which itself was no great shakes,and 22 million new jobs if we want tohave, as morally we should, near full realemployment. For every month we delayfurther, the total increases by 140,000 jobs,if measured over three years, would totala further 5.0 million jobs.

Yet not once in seven decades have we

ever added more than 10.3 million jobs inthree years.

Economists can debate which singlelever can best add millions of jobs ayear for the next several years but, todate, we have used almost none of the

arrows in the nations job recovery quiver.Meanwhile 18 to 20% of Americas work-ers have been unemployed or extremelyunderemployed for 27 months. The leverswhich we have ignored most consistentlyare programs modeled after FDRs WorksProgress Administration which from 1938through 1940 employed 5.8 million job-less Americans. Thats roughly 17% of thethen entire non-farm workforce, a figurecomparable to the task confronting ournation today.

This White House and this Congressseem intent on proving that historyrepeats itself, first as tragedy and thenas farce. Their initial jobs programs havebeen missing in action, and their use ofphantom jobs saved versus real jobs notcreated is beyond misleading.

Like the unemployables of theGreat Depression before FDR came along,Americas jobless today face the cruel-est of choices: hunger, homelessness anddeclining heath. Their anxiety and angerare growing as their hope fades.

But the jobless are not completely des-titute in a democracy. They still own theirvotes which can be spent on electiondays -- or not. Given their sheer numbers,the jobless can determine the outcomeof any election. Their decision to go vote-- or to boycott an election -- make them apower block to be courted and convincedthat jobs, jobs, jobs is more that cheappolitical rhetoric.

If the BLS total non-farm payroll his-tory is any indication, the jobless will haveat least three election cycles - 2010, 2012and 2014 - to spend those votes, and then,as embittered as they will be, theirs will bethe last (sad) laughs.

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Opinion and Comment

John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayorand candidate for Govenor said a while

back a recession like this really isdriven by peoples mental state.

But lets get this clear. This is no

mental recession. And no, Im not talk-ing about the bad politics of missingthe real pain and suffering in millionsof households, and the unemploymentrate, which is nominally ten percent,and shows no likelihood of meaning-fully abating in short term. Things aretough for lots of Colorado families,as there are ample reminders in everyeconomic report.

No, this recession is very, very struc-tural. The mayor probably doesnt readour newspapers, but many rememberour series Apex and Foundation,two years ago. Or our reporting on thecollapse of the auction rate securitiesmarket, which presaged the financial

collapse ten months later, in the fallof 2008. The news since then has beenloud and clear. The economy shows fewlong-term prospects for strong growth.And as the effects of the Obama stimu-lus package, now a year old, fade, thereis not enough private sector growth tosustain a job producing recovery. Asthe Federal Reserve ends its role as theprincipal buyer of home mortgages,and home-buying tax credits conclude,we risk another leg down on homevalues, crippling the principle asset ofmillions of American families. We arein a limp-home mode, yet where weare heading is as yet unclear.

Mayor Hickenlooper might have

missed all those columns by PaulKrugman in the New York Times andthe comments of Elizabeth Warren,chairperson of the CongressionalOversight Panel for the TARP pro-gram. But myriad voices, including thehearings on the economic collapse, thetestimony of Ben Bernanke, or remarksbefore the Congress by Alan Greenspandescribe a not pretty picture of thefuture.

Lets get some economic basicsdown. Wages are flat for a decade,adjusted for inflation. We have had

bubbles in equities, commodities (thinkoil) and housing. All three have sappedthe productive strength of our economy.Worse, yet productivity has becomedecoupled from wages. Workers can domore, make more, innovate, but theywont be compensated more, on thewhole. Our economy has become dan-gerously unbalanced (google Apexand Foundation). Finance, Insurance

Recession real, not mentaland Real Estate, the FIRE sectors, whichfrequently add little value to the over-all economy, far overshadow the pro-ductive sectors of the economy. And,energy has become dangerously vola-tile, vulnerable to speculation, while itsfundamentals worsen. Health care wasthe fastest growing part of the econo-my for most of the last decade, whilemanufacturing shriveled. Making stuffis now a smaller part of the economythan government. Can America livewith less than 15% of GDP attributedto making stuff? And less than 10% ofthe jobs?

This is not good news. And it cer-tainly isnt mental. Its structural. Theway our economy is structured is outof whack, disadvantages the middleclass and working families and limitsopportunities. It concentrates wealthin a few hands, in a few sectors, and

pushes the consequences of recklessfinancial risk broadly, and weighs uponfuture generations.

If we fail to understand the real ori-gins of our economic distress we cantcreate policies to address them, and wecant budget with an eye to future.

It means that CongressionalDemocrats who fought to limit the sizeof the Obama stimulus couldnt do

basic arithmetic (output gap - stimulussize > 0). It means that we continueto pursue economic objectives thatdont create wealth, and dont spread it

broadly enough to leverage that wealthinto improving the lives of all people.It means that we are clueless when it

comes to the economy.The sooner we can face up to theconsequences of failures to regulatefinance, the off-shoring of manufac-turing, the metastasizing of a bubbleeconomy and the failure of monetarypolicy over the last twenty years, thesooner we can restore Americas prom-ise. And Colorados.

FIVE SMART THINGS YOU CANSAY ABOUT THE ECONOMY:

1) Our economy should be aboutcreating value. Value creation equals

job creation and economic growth.

2) Economic regulation should placespeculation in its rightful place in theregime of economic activity. Tradingmarkets create winners and losers withevery trade, but we cant subsidize los-ers and over reward winners.

3) Weve got to get health care andenergy right if we are to be competitiveas a state and a nation. The rest of thedeveloped world is ahead of us in bothareas. Preserving the middle class is asmuch about these two critical areas asanything else.

4) Making stuff matters. Addingvalue to raw material is the tap root

of economic activity. The other sectorsmatter, but at the end of the day, add-ing value is what makes everythingelse possible.

5) We cant get the jobs problemfixed unless we are intellectually hon-est about the rest of our challenges. Wedidnt dig this hole in a day, and theresno miracle waiting to rescue us now.But we can fix this by being smart, boldand persistent.

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What is fitness?That is an extremely difficult ques-

tion. The core of the difficulty lies inthe adaptable nature of the human

body. The body adapts to the demandswe place upon it in widely differingways and it even responds to obesityand starvation (anorexia) in divergent

manners. Anorexics, when they addweight, are so metabolically screwedup that almost all the weight they addis fat their bodies wont put on leanmuscle mass, a strange survival mecha-nism that makes the disease even moredifficult to treat. And the obese canhave a very hard time adding leanmuscle mass that would speed theirmetabolism, because the adipose (fattissue) they have in abundance is meta-

bolically inert.Consider some models: The elite

endurance athlete, who trains to com-pete in events of a duration longer thanthirty minutes, turns their body into ahighly efficient-fat burning machine.Its a well-documented interference

effect, that high levels of endurancetraining will interfere with putting onmuscle, pretty much without regard tothe time spent in a weight room. TheOlympic weight lifter, in the 170-lb classwill have tremendous power, liftingthree times their body weight, coupledwith great flexibility, but not the showy

muscles of a body builder (womenOlympic weight lifters can lift 2.5 timestheir body weight). The bodybuildermight compete with 6% body fat, andeat five thousand calories daily. Look atthe Olympic sprinter, the human stickof dynamite, or an athletic NBA player,the very definition of explosive power.Or the master yoga practitioner, whocombines non-explosive strength withgreat balance and supreme flexibility.Which of these models, or archetypesrepresent fitness?

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Defining fitnessnervous system and adjust its metabo-lism to meet particular demands. The

body will even convert fast twitchmuscle fibers to slow twitch, and viceversa. That adaptation to stress is ulti-mately the measure of fitness.

Recent research says that muscles

actually determine how the body usesfat. Muscle energy levels affect the cre-ation of proteins that instruct the bodyhow to use the fatty acids we consume.Its another argument as to why exer-cise matters far more than diet.

Making it personalIve been trying the Tabata intervals

mentioned last month (check it out on-line at northdenvernews.com). Theyare definitely trying I hit a peak heartrate of 187 BPM while doing them.I dont know if they have had a bigimpact yet. Ive been trying a SuuntoTC6 watch and heart monitor duringsome of my workouts, which is inter-esting. Ill have more about that next

month.As I suggested last month, go to

Youtube.com and search for Tabata toget some examples Ive been doingdumbbell thrusters, perhaps the goofi-est named exercise ever.

Research from McMaster Universityin Canada has broadened the argumentfor interval training. The authors havealready shown with young healthycollege students that this produces thesame physical benefits as convention-al long-duration endurance training,despite taking much less time (andamazingly, actually doing less exer-cise!). However, their previous workused a relatively extreme set-up that

involved all out pedaling on a spe-cialized laboratory bicycle. The newstudy used a standard stationary bicy-cle and a workload that was still abovemost peoples comfort zone about95% of maximum heart rate but onlyabout half of what can be achievedwhen people sprint at an all-out pace.

This less extreme HIT method maywork well for people (the older, lessfit, and slightly overweight amongus) whose doctors might have worriesabout them exercising all-out. Wehave known for years that repeatedmoderate long-term exercise tunes up

fuel and oxygen delivery to musclesand aids the removal of waste prod-ucts. Exercise also improves the waymuscles use the oxygen to burn thefuel in mitochondria, the microscopicpower station of cells.

Running or cycling for hours a weekwidens the network of vessels supply-ing muscle cells and also boosts thenumbers of mitochondria in them sothat a person can carry out activities ofdaily living more effectively and with-out strain, and crucially with less riskof a heart attack, stroke or diabetes.

But the traditional approach to exer-cise is time consuming. Martin Gibalaand his team have shown that the sameresults can be obtained in far less timewith brief spurts of higher-intensityexercise.

Keeping it personal, that 225-poundbench press goal is looking better. I lift-ed 320lb. on a flat bench press machineat the end of a workout last week. Now,that isnt the same as actually bench-pressing that weight, as the machineprovides some leverage, plus movesonly in a single plane, so you donthave to stabilize the bar. So while Imstill well short of my goal, Im clearlystronger. I have made personal bestsin back and tricep exercises as well,which is both gratifying and encourag-ing. Im hoping to easily bench pressover 200lb by my 43rd birthday thismonth. I also saw my inspiration thispast month, a fairly ordinary lookingguy who I judged to be a few yearsolder, and maybe an inch taller than I.Bespectacled, without showy muscles,he incline pressed 175lb easily, about20 times. ***

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The Steam Plants solar energy sys-tems and many other energy eventsthroughout the Lowry communitysince 2007 have been important cata-lysts to raise community awareness

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We debate in kitchens while mak-ing dinner for the family; we discussissues in community meetings as weprepare to give thanks for what wehave. Discussion brings us togetherand allows us to hear each other. Thewords I hear today are pulling peopleapart, closing doors not openingthem.

As a candidate, I pledge to partici-

pate in an open dialogue throughoutthe race and while in office, if elected. Ipledge to hear from and listen to voic-es from many sides of each debate. Ialso pledge to not stand idly by if I see bullying actions or hear a discourse

of disrespect from my colleagues orfellow citizens. One of the best waysto stop bullying is to publicly addressand denounce it.

Being a representative of the peopleis a position that carries many respon-sibilities. I welcome the privilege torepresent you and will bring to theoffice the deep respect and honor thatit deserves. I will also work with my

colleagues to build a collegial bodythat deserves your respect one thatdebates issues and examines ideas,in the end creating laws that supportand nurture the American Dream forevery citizen.

place to help pave the way for moreAmericans to lead active and healthylifestyle. We are proud to support suchan innovative program that aligns withour nonprofit mission to build healthiercommunities.

Users can sign up for 7-day ($20),30-day ($30) or annual memberships($65) online. Users can also purchasethe $5 24-hour membership at theB-cycle station with his/her credit card.Discounts are offered for students andseniors. With membership, every timea member checks out a B-cycle froma station, the first 30 minutes is nocharge. Escalating usage fee chargesapply for longer rides. Simply check

out a bike from one of the many DenverB-stations and return it to a B-stationnear your final destination.

Denver is the ideal city with its 350miles of trails and 300 days of sunshineto launch the nations first city-wide

bike sharing program, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said. DenverB-cycle will offer our residents andvisitors an alternative form of pub-lic transportation that eases conges-tion on our roadways and promotessustainability. We are very grateful toKaiser Permanente for its support ofDenver B-cycle and encourage othersto embrace this new era of fun, sustain-able and healthy transportation.

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Spinal FusionThere is something wonderfulabout these two quotes: All poli-tics is local, in the words of formerSpeaker of the House Tip ONeil, and,All politics is personal, attributed toHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Thesestatements articulate the essence ofthe political process. An issue maybe debated and legislated in DC or inColorados Capitol, but it is lived outin our homes and our communities.

In our recent national dialogueabout health care, many citizens havetaken action by showing up at rallies,writing letters, mak-ing phone calls, talk-ing with their neighbors and reading thepaper to learn moreabout the issues. Thiscitizen engagementshould be acknowl-edged and celebrat-ed.

However, thereis another side tothe engagement thatis less positive. It isdisturbing. Namecalling, disruption,disrespect, the spreadof un-truths, threatsof violence and threats of inactionare bullying tactics and should beswiftly confronted and stopped. Rocksthrown through windows, slanderous

name calling, violent words and dis-torted pictures of political leaders, andthreats have become commonplace inthis discourse. It is a destructive andugly turn of events, and one we thepeople should not tolerate. Incivility inour public dialogue must stop.

Our kids understand bullying.Bullying is aggressive behavior that is

intentional and is repeated over time.Bullying can take many forms, suchas physical bullying; teasing or name-calling; intimidation using gestures orsocial exclusion; and sending insultingmessages by mail or e-mail.

How can we, as adults, teach ourchildren that these behaviors are unac-ceptable, and then go out onto thestreets and become bullies ourselves,or watch as someone else does anddo nothing to stop it? How can wesupport a political leader who is a

bully? We cannot. Kidsare smart, and they seeour actions and inac-tions and learn fromthem. As the old say-ing goes, our actionsspeak more loudlythan our words.

Discourse anddebate are theAmerican way. Whiledebate has often beenviolent and ugly, thecurrent bi-partisanrancor weakens us.The late David FosterWallace argued thattodays political shills,

strict partisanship and shallow think-ing alters democratic discourse froma battle of ideas to a battle of salespitches for ideas.

I agree. I come from a culture ofdebaters as a Latina, a woman and apastor. Taking on ideas, examining allsides of the issue and arguing for aparticular path is part of my DNA. ButI also learned to do this with respect.

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He wasnt sure how long it hadbeen going on but he felt as though hiswife was drifting further and furtheraway from him. Many of their interac-

tions now seemed cordial and perfectlyuneventful. But what had happenedto the chemistry? And when had shestopped becoming enthused aboutspending time with him? She seemedso indifferent about his presence now.

He could recall a time, back beforethe kids were born, when he felt closerto her. Life was lighter then, easi-er. Connecting with her was fun.He missed that light-hearted sense of

being in sync with one another, ofbeing happy to see one another at theend of the day.

Their sex life had become quietand dull these days as well. He hadwaited patiently when their physicalintimacy decreased for months wheneach of the kids was born. Inside hismind he fumed, but she isnt pregnantnow so why did she think a marriagewithout sex was acceptable? It was

becoming increasingly frustrating totry to resolve the issue. The tension intheir bedroom had been going on forso long that a nonphysical relationshiphad become their new norm.

There were moments in which hesecretly wondered if she was having anaffair. At least that would explain whyher focus was always on somethingelse, he thought. She assured him shesimply had a lot of work to do thatpulled her away from home. He didntknow what to believe. Yet the longertheir disconnection from one anothercontinued, the more peripheral he feltin her life, and the more fragile themarriage felt to him.

He dreaded bringing this stuff up toher. He was no relationship expert andsometimes he struggled to find a wayto spit out what was bothering him.Other times he just felt pissed whenshe ignored him! But he knew thatthis wasnt a way that anybody would

want to spend the next 40 years of theirlives together.

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Every autumn elm bugs invadethe house. Just a few ten or twenty.Friends are taken aback, but to me,thats a livable number; when I livedin the country, hundredswould darken my picture

window to the point whereI couldnt see out.As winter draws on, I begin to

find their little Halloween-coloredcarcasses. Im always relieved whenthe last are gone. For all that I dontfight the invasion, I am not happyabout sharing space with them.

This year, all winter long andinto spring, one surviving insect hasstalked my kitchen. For days at atime, he will disappear, then he reap-pears on the counter, on the floor.Every time I see him, I say, Die!

I cant imagine that he wants tolive like this, in a hot house, far awayfrom sun and wind and fresh greenthings to eat. I cant imagine that hewants to live at all, solitary, like anold man in a nursing home, all ofwhose friends have long since died.

Yet I do not put him out in thesnowy yard where he could come toa natural end. And when I find himlegs up on the far side of the kitchenfrom his usual haunt by the window, Iflip him over gently, and inquire howon earth he ended up on his back. Iask if he walked all the way aroundthe counter, or whether he flew. Hedoes not answer, but limps away, gaitdignified, almost huffy, toward the

sink, as if he knew his way.As I watch him go, I say, as usual,

Die!The next day at breakfast I am star-

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Movement catches my eye.My bug is climbing patient-ly up the shiny side.

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but are wavy and softened.Bug reaches the top, traverses the

lid, goes back along the handle in thefront, as if he were a stagehand on acatwalk adjusting lights for the nextperformance. He makes me thinkabout proportion in a different way.To that bug my house is as vast asNew York City, my kitchen as big asa neighborhood. These spaces must

be invisible to him by their sheervolume, while the shining, distortedstage kitchen is only a few sizestoo big. If he were on that stage, hewould be able to understand its formin a way he cannot that of the largerroom.

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary is a Catholiccommunity composed of both Roman andByzantine Rites under theauthority of the Ordinary of theArchdiocese of Denver.

The Roman Rite Mass is cel-ebrated at 9am every Sunday, and

has over 300 families and singleparticipants. The Byzantine RiteDivine Liturgy is celebrated everySunday at 12:00pm. The liturgy isin English and follows the Russian tradition.

HISTORYSt. Elizabeths

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ish from BishopMachebeuf. Thepresent church,dedicated in1898, is the sec-ond building. It became famousin Colorado his-tory when Fr. LeoHeinrich, thenpastor, was assas-sinated whiledistributing HolyCommunion atearly morningMass on February23, 1908.

In the 1960s,

after the SecondVatican Councilintroduced sweeping changes in Catholic lit-urgy, the church interior was completely reno-vated to its present form. The beautiful stainedglass windows were installed at that time.

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After more than a centuryof service to Colorado, the New Jersey Franciscans left in 1983.The Capuchins, another order ofFranciscans, took over the parishduties. In later years the parish

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fixed-income investments. Then you can better prepare your portfolio today forthe possibility of rising rates at somepoint down the road.

For much of the past 30 years, bondrates have generally declined. In fact,its been awhile since bonds have beenthrough a rising rate environment:

The last instance of rising bondinterest rates occurred from October1998 to January 2000.

The last multiyear period of risingbond rates took place from 1976 to 1981.

As a result, you may not be familiarwith or have forgotten what it feels liketo be in that type of environment. We

believe there is little near-term risk of

rates rising significantly due to currenteconomic weakness and lack of inflation-ary pressures. Therefore, there is nothingimmediate that should cause you toanticipate plummeting bond prices.

Bond Prices and Interest RatesMost investors own bonds for the

income they provide as well as thediversification benefits when combinedwith stocks. However, you enjoy those

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Dont sell based on price changes Bond prices will rise and fall some-times considerably due to changing

interest rates. Price declines are a normalpart of owning bonds. But remember,even if a bonds price changes, its inter-est payments stay the same. In addition,you can expect to receive your principal

back at maturity, assuming the issuerdoesnt default. Selling prior to maturityonly ensures you lock in your loss.

Understanding interest rate risk With short-term fixed- income invest-ments at historically low rates, moreinvestors have been buying longer-term

bonds with higher rates to get moreincome. Thats not necessarily a badidea, and in some cases it may be appro-

Owning fixed income in various

interest rate environmentspriate. However, owning too many long-term bonds can increase your portfoliosinterest rate risk, because bond priceswill tend to decline as interest rates rise.

Maturities offer different trade-offs

and can work together to help balanceout swings in price and income in yourportfolio. This relationship can be illus-trated with a teeter-totter. The fartheryou move toward the ends of the teeter-totter, the more you swing up and down.Similarly, the longer the bonds maturity,the more its price can change. As youshorten the maturities of your fixed-income investments, the price swingstend to decrease. There are other bondfeatures that may affect this relation-ship, including call features and creditquality.

Price declines due to rising interestrates are separate from declines due toconcerns about credit quality. With cred-

it quality issues, theres a greater riskthe bond issuer might not make regularinterest payments or repay principalat maturity. Remember, at some pointa bonds price will go down maybequite a

bit but thats usually due to inter-est rate changes and not credit qualityconcerns. Even prices of U.S. Treasury

bonds change due to changes in interestrates.

The first step is to discuss your fixed-income investments with your financialadvisor. Together you can determinewhat, if any, changes should be consid-ered. Remember, the trade- off for thehigher income that longer-term bonds

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retired teamster returned to Denver afterhis working days concluded. Like somany Colorado boys of his generation,he still loves the outdoors, hunting andfishing.

When it came time to raise moneyfor St. Baldricks, he sent out 53 letters,and pitched the venture on his Facebookpage, and asked his church for help.

In twenty years in Denver on JulianStreet, Spaur, dressed in a naval avia-tors flight jacket, is full of lifes lessonsand passions. Ive had one sensationallife. I dont think Id change anything Ihave ever done. He rattles off his threedaughters, seven grand daughters, onegrandson, with great grand child on theway.

Of his fundraising, he says I havenever done something that I so muchappreciate as the support hes receivedfor the St. Baldricks.

At an age when many are stepping back, World War II vet Glen Spauris stepping up. Joining with others,and raising money from his Denverneighbors, Spaur shaved his hair highand tight for St. Baldricks foundation,

the largest funder for childhood cancerresearch grants outside the U.S. govern-ment, more than $12 million in 2009

alone. St. Baldrickss raises a substan-tial part of its funds from supporters,who contribute on behalf of volunteerswho shave their heads.

For Spaur, who raised some $1500,its part of a long story. In 1933, hisfather brought his family to Coloradofrom Nebraska. They settled in Lyons,

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The City of Denver finalized its pur-chase of the Church in the City site onMarch 9, 2010.

The land, located at 1530 JosephineStreet, was acquired for $6 million andwill be the future home of the centralDenver recreation center. Numerous cen-trally-located sites were considered forthe central Denver recreation center, withthe Church in the City eventually beingidentified as the most feasible after sev-

eral public meetings.The purchase includes approximate-

ly 2.56 acres, which will eventually bedeveloped into a recreation center andmay also allow for additional retail pos-sibilities. In the interim, Denver Parksand Recreation will fence off the site forsafety during the assessment process,which will last a few months. DenverCity Councilmembers Jeanne Robb andCarla Madison, along with Denver Parks

and Recreation, are meeting with areaneighborhood organizations and EastHigh school representatives to determineinterim uses for the property.

In 2006, Denver Parks and Recreationcompleted a Recreation Center NeedsAssessment, which identified Capitol Hilland Stapleton as two areas not served bya recreation center. In 2007, both loca-tions were included in the Better DenverBond package that was passed by Denver

voters.Voters specifically approved $11 mil-

lion in bond funding for land purchase,planning and design of a new recreationcenter in central Denver. A portion of the

bond funds remaining after acquisitionwill be used toward demolition of thecurrent building and planning of the newcenter. Separate funds must be raised forconstruction of the facility.

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Northwestern University research-ers have found that even before infants

begin to speak, words play an important

role in their cognition. For 3-month-oldinfants, words influence performancein a cognitive task in a way that goes

beyond the influence of other kinds ofsounds, including musical tones.

The research by Alissa Ferry,Susan Hespos and Sandra Waxmanin the psychology department in theWeinberg College of Arts and Sciences,will appear in the March/April editionof the journal Child Development. Inthe study, infants who heard wordsprovided evidence of categorization,while infants who heard tone sequenc-es did not.

Three-month-old infants wereshown a series of pictures of fish that

were paired with words or beeps.Infants in the word group were told,for example, "Look at the toma!" -- amade-up word for fish, as they viewedeach picture. Other infants heard aseries of beeps carefully matched to thelabeling phrases for tone and duration.Then infants were shown a pictureof a new fish and a dinosaur side-by-side as the researchers measured howlong they looked at each picture. Ifthe infants formed the category, theywould look longer at one picture thanthe other.

The results, say the authors, werestriking. The researchers found thatalthough infants who heard in the word

and tone groups saw exactly the samepictures for exactly the same amount oftime, those who heard words formedthe category fish; those who heard

tones did not."For infants as young as threemonths of age, words exert a specialinfluence that supports the ability toform a category," said Hespos, associ-ate professor of psychology and oneof the authors of the study. These find-ings offer the earliest evidence to datefor a link between words and objectcategories."

Participants included 46 healthy,full-term infants, from 2 to 4 monthsof age. Half of the infants within eachage bracket were randomly assigned tothe word group. All infants in the lan-guage group were from families whereEnglish was the predominant language

spoken in the home. The remaininginfants were in the tone group."We suspect that human speech,

and perhaps especially infant-directedspeech, engenders in young infants akind of attention to the surroundingobjects that promotes categorization,"said Waxman, a co-author and profes-sor of psychology. "We proposed thatover time, this general attentional effectwould become more refined, as infants

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The Lowry Community MasterAssociation is awarding grants forlandscape-related projects. The intentof the Landscape Grant Program is toredirect funds into the community forlandscape and other outdoor beauti-fication projects that will benefit thequality of life for people who live andwork at Lowry.

Landscape Grants will only be con-sidered for common-area property thatis owned by the Master Association, theCity of Denver, HOA sub-associations,or property owned by a non-profitorganization. Requests for landscapegrants associated with private resi-dences or for-profit businesses will notbe considered.

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Grants are awarded twice a year inamounts ranging from $250 to $2,500.The LCMA values collaborative effortsand strongly favors applications thatclearly demonstrate how they serve theLowry community. To download thegrant application, visit www.lowrylink.com and click on the LCMA tab.

Applications are due on April 21stor October 1st.

As the LRA completes the redevel-opment activities and approaches thesunset of the organization the staff cre-

ated a Lowry Story Book a pictorial journey of the creation of the Lowrycommunity is available for sale.

We are so proud of what Lowry has become and your part in forming thiswonderful community. There are somany elements that contribute to theunique character of Lowry. We wantto leave behind this memento of ourappreciation and respect for the historyof Lowry and show some of the funtimes, challenges and hard work thattook place. We also want to show whatexists today that will stand as a legacyof how this community went fromvision to reality.

Thank you for whatever form of

participation you have had over thepast 15 years. The conversion of a for-mer military base to a thriving commu-nity could not have been accomplishedwithout a team effort that involvesthousands of people. The LRA appre-ciates the engineers, masons, heavyequipment operators, land developers,employees, home builders, merchants,sod layers, land planners, home buy-ers, architects, boards and committeemembers, employers, governmentalofficials and everyone who spells outthe success of Lowry. We hope youenjoy reminiscing and maybe learningsome new facts as you go through thebook.

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Tantrums are inevitable as theweather, by mastering de-escalation and

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There are manythings to pay atten-tion to before yourchild explodes histemperament, her naptime, transitions, crowds, and numerousother triggers that you know set yourchild off. But what quick methods work

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For young children, a parent mustrealize (after they are calmed downthemselves) first and foremost, thattheir child is having a tantrum for areason or a needeven if it is a reasonthe parent dislikes or disapproves of.Find out what the reason is and addressyour childs feelings empathetically. Forexample, I know you want to stay atthe park and you are enjoying yourself,

but I gave you a five minute warningand now we have to go home and cookdinner otherwise we will get hungry.Or, I am sorry play time is over andyou are disappointed, but we can come

back another day when we have moretime and you can stay longer. I knowyou will enjoy that. A simple feel-ing statement like this helps identifyand reflect for your child his feelings.

Children cannot learn to regulate feel-ings until they can clearly identify themin themselves. We help teach them howto identify and regulate when we useempathetic statements.

Once you think you understandwhat you child needs, and empathizewith her, sometimes an added level ofattention like getting down at eye level,and looking your child right in the facewhile calmly addressing her feelings/needs helps your child to feel connectedand understood. Sometimes, this simpletactic is the beginning or just enough tohelp defuse the childs frustration andstop further escalation.

Monitor you childs emotions and

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or taking space to calm their bodiesdown when they have gotten frustrated,angry, or anxious. You canmodel for them, or helpthem try it the first fewtimes. I see you get veryupset and end up throw-ing your books around

whenever you start your math home-work. We dont throw books at home orat school. I have an idea, how about wetry some other ways, like breathing, tohelp you calm down instead. Here I willdemonstrate for you. Teach a relaxation

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Other quick techniques to soothe maycome in handy in the midst of a tantrumor an explosive bout of emotions: physi-cal activity, change of scenery (inside tooutside or vice versa), tactile or sensoryplay/activity (warm bath, cold towelaround the neck, using clay). Sometimesthese are just enough to take down theintensity of the emotion for your child

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