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That means 150 of the best 13- and 14-year olds from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky (Central Division) and Colorado, Arizona and New Mexi- co (Rocky Mountain Division) are here skiing on Golden Peak this weekend. “There’s going to be some great competition there, so these kids have to come with their A games,” says Jensen. Representing Vail are Ski and Snowboard Club Vail athletes Caroline Byrne, Olivia Swift, Ka- tie Talbot, Erika McCormick, Genevieve Soden, Haley Wallace, Sara Gezon, Leah Newton, Nich- olas Romano, Nick Sataniello, Clayton Kirwood, Junior Olympics opening ceremonies are tonight Golden Peak on Vail Mountain hosts exclusive event March 5, 2010 Kinetix in West Vail FRIDAY Kinetico in Minturn Connoisseur’s Trail in Vail Village page 2 page 2 page 15 page 19 page 17 page 16 page 6 Banned in Seattle since 2008 Wyclef Jean will headline this year’s Spring Back to Vail end- of-season bash, which runs April 12-18. “The 2010 concert lineup is out- standing with Wyclef Jean taking a break from his Haiti homeland sup- port efforts,” said James Deighan of Highline Sports & Entertainment, the event’s producers. “Wyclef and all of the bands are known for their amazing live shows. Vail Mountain is once again offering free con- certs, helping make Spring Back the best spring bash in the country. This year’s festival is poised to be the greatest ever.” Singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen will bring his alternative country music to Vail on Saturday, April 17. Following Keen’s perfor- mance, Haitian-American multi-platinum musician, rapper and record producer Wyclef Jean will take center stage. His show at Spring Back will be the first concert to debut songs from his new album “Wyclef Jean,” which was released in February 2010. Local Paralympians leave for Games today From left is James Millar, Dominic Moneypenny and Ski and Snowboard Club Vail Nordic program director Dan Weiland. Millar and Moneypenny are representing Australia and SSCV at the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver. They have been training and living in Vail while being coached by SSCV Weiland, who is also the Aus- tralian Federation head coach. The crew leaves for the Games today. Photo courtesy SSCV. Wyclef to headline Spring Back to Vail Byrne wins DH training run Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s Carolyn Byrne tied for first in yes- terday’s downhill training run, the first official training run of the 2010 J3 Junior Olympics. Carolyn Byrne, whose sister Gretta is a former SSCV athlete now racing on the U.S. Ski Team, is going to be one of the “Ath- lete’s to watch” at these JOs, says Coach James “JJ” Jensen. “Carolyn is definitely capable of pulling out a win at these Games,” said Jensen earlier this week. “But all the athletes are, really. Anything could happen.” Jensen also said Byrne’s team- mate Kendall VanHee will also be a local athlete to watch, but point- ed out that she’ll still be racing in the Trofeo Topolino World Champi- onships this weekend, not here at the JO’s, as incorrectly reported in the Mountaineer this week. See yesterday’s complete train- ing results inside. [See JUNIOR OLYMPICS, page 19] +47.38 Optimism about the government’s February jobs report sent the Dow Jones industrials back into the black for 2010. Stocks ended Thursday with a moder- ate advance after managing only small moves for much of the day. Dow Jones Industrials, Close: 10,444.14 Change: +47.38 Standard&Poors 500 Index, Close: 1122.97 Change +4.18 NYSE In- dex, Close: 7173.07 Change: +8.41 Nas- daq Composite Index, Close: 2292.91 Change: +11.63 AMEX Composite In- dex, Close: 1902.72 Change: +4.35 House passes $35 billion stimulus The House today passed a $15 bil- lion jobs bill that gives tax breaks to companies that make new hires. The scaled-down measure passed 217-201 on a mostly party-line vote and now heads back to the Senate. The bill also includes $20 billion for road and bridge construction. Democrats characterized [See THE UPDATE, pages 10-13] Josiah Middaugh makes return to racing after injury
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THE UPDATE
For junior ski racers, there is no World Cup. There’s no Olympics.
But there’s a Junior Olympics, held right here at Golden Peak in Vail.
For these kids, it’s the Olympics and World Cup rolled into one, and they treat it as such.
“It’s the one thing they work all season toward, to qualify for the Junior Olympics and make it to the race,” says Ski and Snowboard Club Vail J3 coach James “JJ” Jensen.
“For many of them this is the biggest race of their life.”
This particular branch of the Junior Olympics is the Rocky and Central Divisions of the J3 age group. That means 150 of the best 13- and
14-year olds from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky (Central Division) and Colorado, Arizona and New Mexi-co (Rocky Mountain Division) are here skiing on Golden Peak this weekend.
“There’s going to be some great competition there, so these kids have to come with their A games,” says Jensen.
Representing Vail are Ski and Snowboard Club Vail athletes Caroline Byrne, Olivia Swift, Ka-tie Talbot, Erika McCormick, Genevieve Soden, Haley Wallace, Sara Gezon, Leah Newton, Nich-olas Romano, Nick Sataniello, Clayton Kirwood,
Junior Olympics opening ceremonies are tonightGolden Peak on Vail Mountain hosts exclusive event
March 5, 2010
Kinetix in West Vail
FRIDAY
Kinetico in Minturn
Connoisseur’s Trail in Vail Village
page 2 page 2 page 15 page 19 page 17 page 16
page 6Banned in Seattle since 2008
Wyclef Jean will headline this year’s Spring Back to Vail end-of-season bash, which runs April 12-18.
“The 2010 concert lineup is out-standing with Wyclef Jean taking a break from his Haiti homeland sup-port efforts,” said James Deighan of Highline Sports & Entertainment, the event’s producers. “Wyclef and all of the bands are known for their amazing live shows. Vail Mountain is once again offering free con-certs, helping make Spring Back the best spring bash in the country. This year’s festival is poised to be the greatest ever.”
Singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen will bring his alternative country music to Vail on Saturday, April 17. Following Keen’s perfor-
mance, Haitian-American multi-platinum musician, rapper and record producer Wyclef Jean will take center stage. His show at Spring Back will be the first concert to debut songs from his new album “Wyclef Jean,” which was released in February 2010.
Local Paralympians leave for Games today
From left is James Millar, Dominic Moneypenny and Ski and Snowboard Club Vail Nordic program director Dan Weiland. Millar and Moneypenny are representing Australia and SSCV at the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver. They have been training and living in Vail while being coached by SSCV Weiland, who is also the Aus-tralian Federation head coach. The crew leaves for the Games today. Photo courtesy SSCV.
Wyclef to headline Spring Back to Vail
Byrne wins DH training runSki and Snowboard Club Vail’s
Carolyn Byrne tied for first in yes-terday’s downhill training run, the first official training run of the 2010 J3 Junior Olympics.
Carolyn Byrne, whose sister Gretta is a former SSCV athlete now racing on the U.S. Ski Team, is going to be one of the “Ath-lete’s to watch” at these JOs, says Coach James “JJ” Jensen.
“Carolyn is definitely capable of pulling out a win at these
Games,” said Jensen earlier this week. “But all the athletes are, really. Anything could happen.”
Jensen also said Byrne’s team-mate Kendall VanHee will also be a local athlete to watch, but point-ed out that she’ll still be racing in the Trofeo Topolino World Champi-onships this weekend, not here at the JO’s, as incorrectly reported in the Mountaineer this week.
See yesterday’s complete train-ing results inside.
[See JUNIOR OLYMPICS, page 19]
+47.38Optimism about the government’s
February jobs report sent the Dow Jones industrials back into the black for 2010. Stocks ended Thursday with a moder-ate advance after managing only small moves for much of the day. Dow Jones Industrials, Close: 10,444.14 Change: +47.38 Standard&Poors 500 Index, Close: 1122.97 Change +4.18 NYSE In-dex, Close: 7173.07 Change: +8.41 Nas-daq Composite Index, Close: 2292.91 Change: +11.63 AMEX Composite In-dex, Close: 1902.72 Change: +4.35
House passes $35 billion stimulus
The House today passed a $15 bil-lion jobs bill that gives tax breaks to companies that make new hires. The scaled-down measure passed 217-201 on a mostly party-line vote and now heads back to the Senate. The bill also includes $20 billion for road and bridge construction. Democrats characterized
[See THE UPDATE, pages 10-13]
Josiah Middaugh makes return to
racing after injury
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Andrew Romanoff is like that old T-shirt with the word “DEFIANCE!” emblazoned on the front, under a drawing of an attacking hawk with its talons about to crush a mouse, and the mouse is flipping the bird to the bird.
You remember that T-shirt?Romanoff is not the hawk, but he might take down
the hawk. In that defiant extended hand, Romanoff’s packing heat.
You’ve heard of Romanoff. He’s a Democrat running for the U.S Senate. He’s challenging Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary.
He did a couple terms in the state legislature as Speaker of the House, and was named Legislator of the Year by three different national publications that keep track of that sort of thing. He has lots of political expe-rience with cantankerous crews of humans.
Bennet has the money, backing and blessing of the Democratic Party machine.
Romanoff says when he decided to get into the race, and refused to get out, he got phone calls saying, “You’ve established a good little reputation out there in Colorado. I hope nothing happens to it.”
“I expected to wake up with a donkey head in my bed,” he told a crowd of like-minded Democrats in E-Town yesterday.
It’s pretty easy to understand why he might not be named among The Beltway’s Best Beloved.
He says things like:• “Not only do you have to stand up to your oppo-
nents, you have to be willing to stand up to your own party when you think it’s wrong.”
• And, “We’re in charge. We should act like it.”• And, “We’re fighting an incumbent protection rack-
et based in Washington, D.C.”• And, “You have to be careful when you put citizens
in harm’s way in far off lands, like Washington, D.C.”• And, “Americans will punish the party that doesn’t
deliver.”• And, “I won’t make a lot of friends in Washington,
D.C.”Romanoff doesn’t mince words about his political
positions.The health insurance system should be single-payer
with a public option. If not that, then a non-profit system.“Health care isn’t necessarily about care, it’s also about
financing it,” he said. “We should divorce ourselves from the system of employer-provided insurance.”
He says the window of opportunity is quickly closing on climate change, and that the Senate’s retreat from the issue shows “cowardice.”
The Employee Free Choice Act should be law al-ready, he says. The act would make it easier for work-ers to unionize their workplace, or make it impossible for employers to discourage it – depending on who’s describing it.
Romanoff says he’s running a grassroots campaign, and is not taking contributions from “special interests,” He took a poke at the U.S. Supreme Court campaign finance ruling that, he said, essentially gives corpora-tions the same speech protections as people.
“If corporations are really people, we should cut out the middle man and let them run for political office,” he said.
And then, because campaigns cost money, he passed out contribution envelopes.
Romanoff rolls through townU.S. Senate hopeful stumps for local Democrats
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U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff campaigned in Edwards yesterday. Romanoff is the former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, and is running against Michael Bennet for the Dem-ocratic nomination. Randy Wyrick photo
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To Vail with loveWounded Warrior’s ski trip was an 11 year old’s Christmas present
Dominik Romero did not hide his light under a bush-el; he let it shine on a Wounded Warrior – Anthony Vil-larreal.
When Romero’s parents sat the family down in mid 2009, they decided to give away their Christmas fund, instead of spending it on presents for each other.
Each of Chris and Tara’s kids got $100, along with the admonition to make it go forth and multiply. By the time Christmas rolled around, the kids had raised and given away more than $14,000 in cash and gifts.
Dominik gave his to Villarreal, one of two dozen Wounded Warriors skiing this week with the Vail Vet-erans Program.
Dominik made it happen, a tall accomplishment for one so young.
Dominik is 11, but is quick to point out he’ll be 12 in May. His sisters are 14, 6 and 2 years old.
“My siblings and I were being a little selfish. We needed to stop focusing on ourselves and think about someone else,” Dominik said. “Most people would think it’s tough, but it was an awesome feeling and so much fun.”
Dominik wanted to help a wounded veteran, and after searching for programs and Marines, he and Anthony found each other.
Their roads took a while to wind together, and it’s a great story.
Anthony’s roadOn June 20, 2008, Anthony Villarreal of the U.S. Ma-
rine Corps was in Afghanistan driving a supply truck. With him were his squad leader, Joe Piram, another Marine manning the gun on top of the truck, and a Navy corpsman.
Al Qaida fighters are growing more creative. The truck detonated a roadside bomb taped to a propane tank. The blast was horrific.
The Navy corpsman was killed instantly. Villarreal was blown up and badly burned. He’s alive. Piram is also alive.
The explosion blasted the gunner 13 stories into the Afghanistan sky. He landed in the burned out engine compartment. He’s alive, too.
It took three days to transport Anthony from Afghan-istan to Brooke Army Hospital in Texas.
Like all Wounded Warriors, Anthony’s wounds go
well beyond the physical, and he’s seen some dark days.
He was ready for some good news when Dominik started looking for places to share some.
Dominik’s roadHe’s 11, so he let his fingers do a little web walking
when he began his search.A website he found looked shady. “Just send the
money. We’ll take care of the rest,” it said.He called Fort Carson in Colorado Springs where
their family lives, and was told that while his mission was noble, they couldn’t name the soldiers who would benefit.
Then he found Marine Corps Capt. Kelly Hoag, who put him in touch with Cheryl Jensen, who helps run the local Vail Veterans Program.
Dominik found out Anthony wanted to ski and that Jensen wanted him to ski. The rest is just details.
That was late October. Dominik hammered the air-lines for tickets, he raised money, he contacted Jensen about the Vail Veterans Program.
The kid did it all. Did we mention that he’s 11? He even did the Christmas shopping.
“When he was out Christmas shopping, he never pouted that this was all for someone else,” Tara said, Dominik’s mom.
The emails started flying back and forth between Do-
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[See VAIL VETERANS, page 18]
Vail Ski Instructor Paul Cumutte helps get wounded vet-eran Sgt. Juan Roldan down the hill yesterday as part of the Vail Veteran’s Program. Avery Cunliffe photo.
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The Connoisseur’s Trail is like a sophisticated bar crawl; replace the Snuggies, beer specials, and mid-night pizza with benefiting a good cause, distinctive wines, and fine-dining cuisine.
The Connoisseur’s Trail hits Vail Village tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. It’s a benefit gallery stroll including visual art, jewelry, wine and food tasting, and an end of the evening auction to benefit the Bright Future Foun-dation.
The auction includes an original sculpture created by famed artist Jane De-Decker entitled Fresh Air, featured at the Clagget/Rey Gallery. The sculp-ture of a child seated and swaddled in tattered clothing conjures the struggles and triumphs of disadvantaged children, but also the hope embodied within our younger generations. DeDecker was inspired to create the sculpture by a conversation between a new mother and a doctor. DeDecker is a committed support-er of women’s and children’s causes, and is serving as a beneficiary by donating the sculpture.
There will also be an auction of a piece of fine jew-elry and a gift card.
“It’s an opportunity at a very affordable price to go to an event that has fabulous food and wine,” said Kristin Jennings, Publisher of Rocky Mountain Media.
The participating galleries span all of Vail Village, including the Claggett/Rey Gallery, Cogswell Gallery, The Golden Bear, J. Cotter Gallery, Karats, Masters Gallery, Pismo Gallery and Squash Blossom.
Restaurants and caters, carefully paired with the gal-leries and the wines include Avondale, Balata, La Tour, Larkspur, The Lord Gore, Sapphire Restaurant & Oys-ter Bar, Sonnenalp Resort (Ludwig’s) and Vail Catering Concepts.
Wineries represented to date include Silver Oak Win-ery, Twomey, Rex Hill, and Desert Wind, with more on the way.
About the FoundationThe Bright Future Foundation is a non-profit com-
mitted to helping victims of domestic violence through a variety of services such as a crisis hot line, safe hous-es in Eagle County and transitional housing. The Bright Future Foundation recognizes the lasting trauma that domestic violence causes, and has been working to-wards amelioration of domestic violence on all fronts
“Domestic violence and abuse affects women across the socioeconomic spectrum and in some cases, wom-en who were previously financially secure may turn to public assistance and other resources when fleeing an abusive situation,” state Sheri Mintz, program Director, in an e-mail. “In 2009, Bright Future Foundation served over 500 women and children in Eagle County.”
“However, we must provide more than crisis inter-vention to really serve our clients,” said Mintz. The foundation serves this need by “[providing] transitional housing to clients in the interim between the abusive relationship and self-sufficiency along with a Financial Literacy/ Life Skills program to foster lasting change,”
said Katie Riley, Legal Advocate. “We also pro-vide a Buddy Mentor Program for youth in the valley that is modeled after Big Brothers/ Big Sisters in an attempt to break the cycle of vio-
lence and serve children”Mintz stresses the necessity of such an event to keep
the foundation thriving and providing necessary servic-es for the Vail Valley community, but also to increase awareness of the domestic violence issues we face as a nation. Truly the only way to overcome these issues is through donation of time or finances to organizations such as the Bright Future Foundation.
“We are so thankful for those that give money and/or time,” said Riley. “Investment in this organization is a direct investment in this community because it all flows right back in through our services.”
Jennings said that it’s a fabulous community event that supports a great non-profit, and a chance “to enjoy yourself while looking at great art and jewelry.”
4th yearTonight is The Connoisseur’s Trail’s fourth year, and
those at the Bright Future Foundation are working hard for its success. “All proceeds of the event will benefit our families, so of course, we are hoping to sell out the event,” Mintz said.
Tickets are $30, which includes five wine tastings and food samplings at participating galleries. All pro-ceeds form the event will support local anti domestic violence programs. This winters stroll will be held to-night, Friday, March 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. Reserve your tickets in advance by calling 970-476-6600. Tickets will also be available at the Vail-Beaver Creek Maga-zine tent located by the Covered Bridge in Vail Village the day of the event. For more information, visit www.vailbeavercreekmag.com
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Masters Gallery hosts Maya Eventov tonightPost-Impressionist inspired paintings by artist prodigy
Masters Gallery will be hosting international visual artist Maya Eventov tonight and tomorrow night.
Evantov was classically trained, but during every trip that her family took to the museums in St. Petersburg, Russia, Eventov went immediately to the Impression-ist floor, followed by the Post-Impressionists, and the Russian Avante-Garde.
Eventov welcomes influences such as Matisse, Gau-guin, and Van Gogh, but one of her primary influences are Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzki and Kazimir Malevich, the triumvirate of the Russian Avant-Garde.
From these artists she learned her sense of balance, light and color, using geometric shapes and tri-tone hues to give the paintings a sense of motion and vibrancy.
She began her official study of art in 1972 at the age of six, she went on to earn a Master’s Degree in graphic design in 1987 from St. Petersburg State Academy of Industrial and Applied Art.
Eventov traveled to Italy and was primarily painting landscapes, but she soon got homesick.
“I came home and painted the trees that surrounded me, because I use to paint only Tuscany landscapes.” She said. Her paintings of birches are perhaps the most striking example of using painting as a sculptable me-dia. She uses the paing to make the trunks of the trees literally jump off the page.
She’s a fantastic painter, that’s evident, but what about her personality?
“She’s one of the happiest people I’ve ever met in my life,” says Kundolf. Eventov says that she’s very excited to come to Vail and hopes to share her art with
a new audience. “Sometimes people who have never seen my work come,” Eventov said. “I’m in my studio and I never know who it appeals to.”
Eventov’s paintings rely heavily on movement, both in the finished canvas and in the painting process.
“It’s a very passionate process,” Eventov says. “I slap paint on, I run back to look at it, I slap more paint on, my ceiling is covered in paint, I’m covered in paint.” The kinetic energy is evident in her paintings; some of the canvases have paint pushing off the canvas a good number of inches. The rich paint on each canvas is a result of using no less than three palette tones to create each color on the canvas, and the fact that Eventov’s primary painting tool is the palette knife.
Eventov said that it is much more like sculpting with paint than traditional brushwork. Many artists agonize over their work until they believe it’s perfected, but Eventov tends to let the painting speak for it self.
“It’s almost like writing a story, then creating it… it happens, and it appears on the Canvas,” she said.
Kundolf points to Eventov as an artist that truly reaches out to the audience, and devotes much of her time to that cause.
“She has to work, every day,” Kundolf says. “It’s part of her training, what’s inside her is in her paintings, and that’s the feeling of happiness, of well-being, and the joy of life, and when you meet her you get that immedi-ately, because she wants to share with you the warmth of what’s happening in the color and what’s happening with the light.”
To experience some of that light yourself, make sure to stop by the Masters Gallery, tonight Friday 5th, and Saturday 6th. Eventov will be there to answer questions from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. each night. Admission is free.
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Kinetico comes to MinturnLocal Sundance Plumbing and Heating expands
Sundance Plumbing and Heating, servicing commer-cial, residential, remodel and new construction prop-erties for the past 12 years, has expanded to include Kinetico water filtration and softeners systems.
“I’ve always had an interest in water quality and wa-ter filtration and the opportunity came up to buy the local Kinetico water filter dealership,” said Sundance owner Ken Netzeband. “We recently closed on that deal and opened our new showroom here.”
Sundance Plumbing employees were trained and cer-tified to service and install Kinetico systems last month in Newbury, Ohio, said Netzebrand.
“We are now the only authorized Kinetico dealer for Eagle, Summit, Garfield and Pitkin counties,” said Netzebrand, adding it is essential for existing Kinetico customers to use approved installers to maintain the va-lidity of their warranty. “We can do whole house water systems or we could do something like filtered water in the kitchen.”
Once they’ve been installed, you’ll wonder how you ever went without Kinetico’s high quality softeners and filtration systems, said Kent Gilbert, a Sundance em-ployee for the past 10 years.
“The water is very tasty and it’s healthy, we can elim-inate all the bad stuff and even put more good stuff in ... magnesium, calcium and phosphorous.” he said. “The
soft water systems will save you in laundry detergent and you’ll end up using half as much dish soap and shampoo.”
Soft water in your home makes your skin and hair noticeably soft when you step out of the shower and eliminates water spots on your glass windows, Gilbert added.
The Kinetico water filter needs to be changed every 500 gallons, roughly a year’s time to the average cus-tomer.
Kinetico systems also conserve water, when com-pared to other water softening processes, said Netze-brand.
“The unique aspect about Kinetico is, their softener is a non electric softener that uses metering technology which conserves water and salt usage,” he said. “Re-verse osmosis drinking water systems have the least amount of waste to product water ratio on the market, it wastes the least amount of water.”
Tom Cary, who has been installing Kinetico systems since 1986, explained how.
“Being a twin tank model, it uses clean water to re-generate itself, so it’s not trying to use dirty water to regenerate, it doesn’t have to use as much salt, which makes it much more economical,” he said.
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Kinetix returns to Vail tonight
The last time they played the Sandbar back in No-vember, Kinetix was serving as the opening act for fel-low Denver-based alternative, hip-hop band Flobots. Tonight, they have the stage all to themselves.
Their original music is well composed and full of en-ergy, combining elements of jazz, funk and pop with thoughtful, progressive instrumentation. It all culmi-nates into what the band calls “party rock.”
“Party rock… Another way to describe it is ‘funk rock.’ We like a lot of dance-oriented grooves,” key-boardist and lead vocalist Eric Blumenfeld said in an interview with the Mountaineer yesterday. “We dabble in everything from four-on-the-floor, house and elec-tronic side of things to straight-up funk like the Meters and Stevie Wonder. We like to combine elements of both, along with the big, heavy rock and roll sound.”
Kinetix has opened for some big-time acts like Um-phrey’s McGee, Particle and Galactic, but Blumenfeld says his favorite has to be Flobots, with whom they played thirty dates from New York City to California and everything in between.
“We’ve opened for a lot of great bands, but we learned the most from Flobots,” Blumenfeld said “We were chasing their tour bus with our van and trailer for a month. It was really hard, but we learned so much playing for their fans every night. They were like men-tors to us.”
The group has recorded two studio albums, both available on iTunes, with a third slated for release this spring. The quintet was in school at University of Den-ver while recording the first two records, making their way between classes and the studio, which they said was pretty hectic.
Kinetix has upped its game for the third record, bringing in Andy “Rok” Guerreo from Flobots as the producer.
“He’s been helping us out a lot by putting the songs under a microscope, working out the different sections of the songs – all the different instrumental parts – as well as coaching us on the lyrics,” Blumenfeld said.
The album, recorded at Blasting Room Studio in Fort Collins, builds off some of the positive energy current-ly being generated in the innovative Colorado music scene.
“I can’t put my finger on it. It is just a really great atmosphere [in Colorado] right now. There are venues that are willing to have bands come in and pay them well,” Blumenfeld said. “Music fans in Colorado are the best. People just love their music here.”
At their November show, “Mr. Sinister” and “People Start Hoppin’”, as well as a rippin’ cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, were among the crowd’s fa-vorites.
“Every time we play (People Start Hoppin’), if peo-ple hop up and down, we get just as excited as the first time we played it,” he said. “We like to reinvent the songs, change the jams – go for the jam band approach in that respect.”
The group’s goal has always been to channel the energy in the room and put on a strong performance. “You’ve got to play a show, first and foremost,” says drummer Jack Gargan. “A sold out venue or an inti-mate room, the song remains the same, so to speak. It’s all about, what can we do to make sure everyone in that room walks out with a smile?”
Denver group to bring ‘party rock’ to back SandbarBy Geoff Mintz
Mountaineer Staff Writer
Kinetix brings a unique brand of “party rock” to Sand-bar in West Vail tonight. The Denver based group has opened for some big-time national acts like Flobots, Umphrey’s McGee and Particle. Photo courtesy Ka-tie Thurmes of Jenna Walker Photography.
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Middaugh returns to racing
Three-time national snowshoe champion and Xterra Triathlon national champion Josiah Middaugh has a very big weekend of racing coming up.
The Eagle-Vail local is flying to Syracuse, N.Y. today to compete in the National Snowshoe Championships on tomorrow. Then he’ll fly back tomorrow night to compete in the Jeremy Wright snowshoe race in Beaver Creek on Sunday.
Middaugh recently came back to competition after having surgery at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic to re-pair the iliotibial band, or T-band, in his right knee. The injury, which is common for runners and cyclists, was sustained competing in France for Team Nike/Beaver Creek in the Adventure Racing series, which is a gruel-ing five-day race that combines the disciplines of run-ning, biking, whitewater kayaking and ropes with very little sleep.
Although the injury is caused by overuse, Middaugh said that the pain came on quite suddenly during a 10,000-verticle-foot, 30-mile run in the adventure rac-ing competition. He tried every kind of treatment from cortisone shots, to physical therapy; but nothing really helped, so he opted for the surgery.
He developed a rehab strategy with physical thera-
pist Neil Masters that included skate skiing followed by uphill skinning, but no biking or running until after the new year.
Middaugh returned to competition in January at a mountain bike race in Leadville, which he won. Then,
he entered the first Pedal Power winter triathlon, which he won, beating out fellow local enduro-nuts Jay Henry and Mike Kloser. Then, he raced in the Beaver Creek Snowshoe series, which he won. And, most recently, he entered in the Vail Mountain Winter Uphill, which he won.
Despite going four-for-four since his comeback, Middaugh has some con-cerns about next weekend’s National Championship.
“I’m feeling pretty good. I’m a little nervous about the pace,” he said. “I haven’t been able to run very fast, but I feel like I’m running uphill really well. This is go-ing to be a little more of a speed race.
Middaugh said his main focus is to prepare for the Xterra Triathlon on April 25 in Las Vegas, which con-sists of 1.5K swim, 30K Bike and 10K run. His best finish at that event is third at World Championships, and he’s won U.S. National Championship five times.
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Tiger’s caddie denies he knew of affairsTiger Woods’ caddie spoke to 60
minutes Wednesday evening and said he knew nothing about the golfer’s extramarital affairs.
Steve Williams also said he was angry at Tiger, and even more bitter at the reaction toward him from the media and members of the public.
“It’s been the most difficult time of my life, no two ways about it, be-cause every single person believed that I should know or did know or
had something to do with it,” Wil-liams said. “I knew nothing, that’s my answer. I don’t have to clarify or extend that answer, I knew noth-ing.”
The New Zealander, who has been Woods’ caddie for 11 years, said he would have spoken up if he had known about Woods’ behavior.
“If the shoe was on someone else, I would say the same thing. It would be very difficult as a caddie not to
know but I’m 100 percent telling you, I did not know, and that’s that,” he said. “I’m a straight-up sort of person. If I had known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown.”
Williams said the two haven’t discussed the scandal. Williams said Woods recently hit balls on the practice range, but would not return to golf until he felt he was in top form.
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Stricker to play Palmer Invitational
World No. 2 Steve Stricker committed Thursday to the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, a tourna-ment he has not played since 2005.
Some are speculating this increases the chances that Tiger will play. Stricker is a long time friend of Woods, and the pair went 4-0 at the Presidents Cup one month before the car crash that changed Tiger’s life forever.
Stricker was also college roommates with Woods agent Mark Steinberg. The agent, who also represents Stricker, has been with Woods since the golfer turned pro, and if there is a person who knows when Woods will return, it’s Steinberg.
Tiger won the Arnold Palmer Invitational last year with a dramatic putt on the 72nd hole.
Iverson’s wife retires marriage
Just one week after the Allen Iverson announced he was leaving the Philadelphia 76ers for the rest of the season, the star’s wife filed for divorce.
In the divorce petition filed on Tuesday, Tawanna Iverson said her 8 ½-year-long marriage to the guard was “irretrievably broken.”
In the petition, Tawanna Iverson asked for temporary and permanent custody of their five children including their sick 4-year-old daughter Messiah that Iverson left basketball to be with.
Iverson was spotted partying at a club in Charlotte last Saturday. His wife is asking for child support and alimony.
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the bill as much smaller than they would have liked but as a necessary first step. “If that’s the only thing that I can vote on ... I’ll vote for it, obviously,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell. “We’ve got to get something moving. We’ve got to get something done.”
Dean: Health care bill will hang them out to dry
Passing the health care proposals before Congress will “hang out to dry” every Democratic incumbent running for reelection this fall, Howard Dean said Thursday, in a report by The Hill.
Dean, a physician by training who’s a former chair-man of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said that Democrats in Congress -- and President Ba-rack Obama -- would do themselves more harm than good by passing the current healthcare bill, according to The Hill’s report.
“The plan, as it comes from the Senate, hangs out every Democrat who’s running for office to dry -- in-cluding the president, in 2012, because it makes him defend a plan that isn’t in effect essentially yet,” Dean reportedly said during an appearance on the liberal Bill Press Radio Show.
Rangel’s replacement replaced
Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan took over as chair-man of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee Thursday after Democrats decided they wanted a consensus builder rather than a firebrand going into the midterm elections.
Levin, a liberal, replaces Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who stepped aside Wednesday while the House ethics committee continues to investigate his fundrais-ing and finances after concluding last week that he vio-lated House rules forbidding lawmakers from taking trips paid by corporate sponsors.
Rep. Fortney “Pete” Stark, D-Calif., was next in line for the post and held it a day, until Democrats decid-ed they didn’t want one of their most confrontational members — Stark once accused Republicans of want-ing to send troops to Iraq “to get their heads blown off for the amusement of the president” — in such a high-profile job when their party already is under assault from voters.
Pelosi’s dirty dozenA dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed
to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, Representative Bart Stupak said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
“Yes. We’re prepared to take responsibility,” Stupak reportedly said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” when asked if he and his 11 Democratic allies were willing to accept the consequences for bringing down healthcare reform over abortion.
“Let’s face it. I want to see healthcare. But we’re not going to bypass the principles of belief that we feel strongly about,” he said in ABC’s report.
“The Michigan Democrat held up House legisla-tion last year until he was satisfied that its language prevented federal tax dollars from being used to fund abortions,” reported Reuters. “No specific legislation has yet surfaced. Obama began a final push for reform on Wednesday, urging Congress to vote on the plan in the next few weeks even if it means passing the mea-sure with a narrow Democratic majority and no Repub-lican support.”
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“President Barack Obama has called for Congress to approve the payments to make up for their benefits not increasing this year, but the Senate defeated it 50 to 47,” in Reuters report. “The payments would have add-ed $13 billion to a $108 billion job-creation package pending in the Senate. Congress approved payments last year as part of the $862 billion stimulus package.”
According to Reuters, Social Security payments for the elderly and disabled will stay flat this year for the first time since 1975 because they are tied to consumer prices, which decreased amid the worst economic re-cession in 70 years.
Gunman shoot police officers at Pentagon
A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pen-tagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two po-lice officers before being shot and critically wounded, officials said. Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said the two officers suffered grazing wounds that were not life-threatening.
The suspect, believed to be a U.S. citizen, walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an ap-parent attempt to get inside the Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. “He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting,” Keevill said. “He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face.” The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons.
Of the suspect, the chief said, “His injury is pretty critical.” The rush-hour assault happened outside a massively fortified building that nevertheless is near busy crowds of transit riders. The subway station is immediately adjacent to the Pentagon building. Since a redesign following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist at-tack on the Pentagon, riders can no longer disembark directly into the building. Riders take a long escalator ride to the surface from the underground station, then pass through a security check outside the doors of the
building, where further security awaits.
Jobs numbers boosted by 1.2 million census workers
Mekonnan Simore has been searching for work in Washington since losing his job as a cab driver almost a year ago. In a city with a 12.1 per cent unemployment rate it has been tough going for the 34-year-old, who moved to the US from Ethiopia when he was a child, reports the Financial Times. “I’ve got thousands in debt and I’m looking hard for work,” Mr. Simore said to the Financial Times. “It’s brutal out here. No one is hir-ing.”
“But for the first time in months Mr. Simore is op-timistic on his job prospects,” reports the Financial Times. “He applied for a job with the US Census Bu-reau, which is hiring 1.2m workers to carry out its de-cennial population count on April 1. The job, which pays $20 an hour, would make Mr Simore a foot soldier in the largest civilian mobilization of workers in US history – an effort likely to give a temporary boost to a battered jobs market.”
According to the Financial Times, the census could not come at a better time, economists say, with official data out on Friday expected to confirm that the national unemployment rate hovers just below 10 per cent.
Baltic ice not cooperating with shipping
A passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board broke free early Friday from heavy pack ice that had trapped it for hours in the Baltic Sea of Sweden’s east coast, officials said. Dozens of other ships remained stuck and awaiting assistance after gale-force winds built up large ice masses along the Swedish coastline.
Ice breakers helped release the ferry Amorella at the edge of an archipelago north of Stockholm, rescue spokesman Jonas Sundin said. Rescue helicopters and military hovercraft had been placed on standby to evac-uate passengers if needed.
Sundin said no one was hurt and the ship was con-tinuing its voyage to the Swedish capital early Friday.
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The Swedish Maritime Administration said the Amo-rella had 753 passengers and 190 crew on board. The 10-deck ship belongs to Viking Line, which operates Baltic Sea cruises between Sweden and Finland. The other ships stuck in the area were the roll-on-roll-off ferry Sea Wind with 32 people and the Regal Star, a cargo ship with 56 people on board. Sundin said the icebreakers would try to set them free Friday morning.
Germany’s advice to Greece: sell your islandsGreece should consider selling some of its islands as
one option to reduce debt, two members of the German parliament in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition said, in a Reuters report. Josef Schlarmann, a senior member of Merkel’s Christian Democrats, and Frank Schaeffler, a finance policy expert in the Free Democrats, were reportedly quoted on Thursday as saying that selling islands and other assets could help Greece out of its crisis.
“Those in insolvency have to sell everything they have to pay their creditors,” Schlarmann reportedly told Bild newspaper. “Greece owns buildings, compa-nies and uninhabited islands, which could all be used for debt redemption.”
“Greece has launched an austerity programme de-signed to secure European help to tackle its crippling debt burden,” reports Reuters. “Opinion polls show Germans are overwhelmingly against taxpayers bailing
out Greece.”According to Reuters, Greece’s deficit was 12.7 per-
cent of GDP in 2009, well ahead of the EU’s 3 per-cent of GDP limit. Merkel is scheduled to conference with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou today in Berlin.
Feds to charge tourists $10 to promote tourism
President Barack Obama has signed a bill creating a program to promote the U.S. as a premier tourism destination for international travelers.
The U.S. Travel Association calls it a major step in addressing the drop-off in such visits to the U.S. dur-ing the past decade. The association says the U.S. wel-comed 2.4 million fewer overseas visitors last year than in 2000. And that, the group says, has cost it an estimated $509 billion in total spending and $32 billion in direct tax receipts.
Government and private industry would evenly split the program’s costs, with Washington contributing up to $100 million a year. That money will come from a $10 fee paid by foreigners who do not pay for visas to enter the U.S.
Duluth to name baby boys Google Fiber
The battle to become Google’s broadband guinea
pig heats up in the Midwest, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. “In February, the company announced it was looking for cities to test out its new ultrafast in-ternet connection,” reports the Chronicle. “Hoping to be one of the Chosen Ones, Topeka renamed itself Google.” According to the chronicle on Monday the mayor said:
“I, William W. Bunten, mayor of the city of Topeka, Kansas, urge the citizens of Topeka to recognize and support the continuing efforts to bring Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ experiment to our city, and do hereby proclaim that for the month of March 2010, the city of Topeka will be known as Google, Kansas.”
“But if Topeka thinks its gesture can’t be beat, they should think again,” writs the Chronicle. “Duluth, Minn., is vowing to name all first born males Google Fiber and all first born females Googlette Fiber.”
Did an asteroid create OPEC?
Traci Watson of AOL News writes that for decades, scientists have debated exactly what kind of cataclysm was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Did a giant rock from outer space blast T. rex and his ilk off the face of the Earth? Or was a huge volcanic eruption to blame?
“Now the jury is in – maybe,” writes Watson. “In Fri-day’s issue of the prestigious journal Science, a “dream team” of 41 researchers from 12 nations declares that
the evidence points overwhelmingly to a mountain-sized asteroid that walloped the planet 65 million years ago. The monstrous boulder left an equally monstrous scar, a 120-mile-wide dimple known as the Chicxulub crater on the Mexican coast.”
“We assessed the whole picture,” Kirk Johnson, of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, said in AOL’s report. “The answer is quite simple. ... The Chicxulub crater really is the culprit.”
According to AOL’s report, the holdouts who down-play the asteroid’s role are unconvinced.
“It’s the same old story from them,” says Norman MacLeod of the Natural History Museum in London, in Watson’s report, referring to the team that wrote the new paper. “The authors conveniently forget to men-tion critical data.”
Convicted sniper apologizes to the one that got awayJohn Gaeta received a letter of apology this week
from the man who shot him point-blank in the neck at a Louisiana mall in 2002, reports CNN. “The shooter was Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger half of the so-called
D.C. sniper team that terrorized the Southeast and the nation’s capital that year. Malvo is serving a life sen-tence,” recounts CNN. “His mentor in crime, John Al-len Muhammad, was executed in November.”
“Mr. Gaeta,” it read. “I am truly sorry for the pain I caused you and your loved ones. I was relieved to hear that you suffered no paralyzing injuries and that you are alive. Sincerely, Lee Boyd Malvo.” Gaeta, who read the letter to CNN over the phone Wednesday, said Malvo printed and signed his name.
Fake dope nothing like the real thing -- it’s stronger
K2 has been sold since 2006 as incense or potpourri for about $30 to $40 per three gram bag – comparable in cost to marijuana, reports Live Science.
“Further testing is needed, but Scalzo says dangerous symptoms, such as fast heart beat, dangerously elevated blood pressure, pale skin and vomiting suggest that K2 is affecting the cardiovascular system of users,” reports Live Science. “It also is believed to affect the central
nervous system, causing severe, potentially life-threat-ening hallucinations and, in some cases, seizures.”
“It’s like playing Russian roulette. You don’t know what it’s going to do to you,” Huffman said in Live Sci-ence’s report. “You’re a potential winner of a Darwin award,” referring to the tongue-in-cheek awards given to people who “do a service to humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool.”
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minik and Anthony, then the phone calls.
“He called and said, ‘Hi, my name’s Dominik and I’m giving up my Christmas for you.’
“I thought it was a telephone joke and my nieces and nephews were behind it,” Anthony said.
Around Christmas, the gifts start-ed rolling in. Lots of gifts. Anthony didn’t know about the ski trip to Vail until Christmas, and he was the last to know.
After months of emails and phone calls, Dominik and Anthony finally met yesterday. Dominik is a 6th grader and missed a day of CSAP
testing to snowboard with Antho-ny. He has the best excuse ever for missing school.
“I was surprised how much could be accomplished by such a little person,” Anthony said. “It rein-forced to me that there is good in the world.”
Anthony and Jessica live in Lub-bock, Texas. They’ve never seen this much snow that wasn’t in a sci-ence fiction movie.
“I’ve never had anything like this happen. It didn’t seem real, but here we are,” said Anthony, looking up Vail Mountain from the bottom of Gold Peak. Dominik’s selfless work
has attracted some attention, but he deflects it and points out that his sib-lings accomplished just as much.
The 14-year-old girl took on a 4 year old cancer patient. The child is the only one ever diagnosed with that rare form of childhood cancer.
The 6-year-old girl embraced a family at their church, making sure Christmas presents showed up where there would have been none.
“We’re proud of them all,” Tara said. “They all were phenomenal in this whole thing. They say this was their best Christmas ever.”
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Quin Davis, Alex Leever and Kevan Aubel.For these kids, this weekend is a culmination point of
the season., and right now, they’re focus is on skiing. Everything else comes second.
“This is everything for these kids right now,” says ski mom Brenda Buglione Kirwood, who’s son, Clayton, qualified last weekend. “You bring your level up. This is it.”
Mrs. Kirwood knows what it’s like to compete at the top level. She’s a former U.S Ski Team member herself who skied slalom and GS on the World Cup circuit in the ’80s.
She says a typical day for Clayton and the Ski Club Vail kids starts earlier than most, with the kids meeting at the club at 7:45 a.m for warm-up. At 8:25 they have a team meeting and by 8:30 they’re on the lift.
Then it’s training, setting the course, memorizing the race hill, lunch, working out at the gym, school, wax-ing and preparing skis in the evening, and visualizing the big race before an early bedtime.
“There’s so much discipline,” says Mrs. Kirwood. “And so many sacrifices. But when that’s what you love, it’s not such a sacrifice.”
And parents well know the sacrifice that’s required on their end to have a child competing at this level. The Kirwoods aren’t unlike many other SSCV families; they moved to Vail especially so their child could train. Mrs. Kirwood raced with SSCV herself before joining the U.S. Ski Team, another one of the many U.S. Ski Team athletes to come out of the SSCV program.
And if the Kirwood’s story sounds familiar, it’s be-cause you may have heard a similar one recently on NBC. Another SSCV racer turned U.S. Ski Team mem-ber, Lindsey Vonn, was transplanted to Vail by her par-ents after they saw the future gold medal Olympian’s potential.
“It was impossible to be really serious without liv-ing here,” said Mrs. Kirwood. “This way [Clayton] can stay home and can train right here and we can be with him without having to send him away. And he gets to
ski this great mountain.”And now the Kirwood’s move is paying off. As the
out of town parents who are here this week can tell you, the expense of traveling adds up. Not to mention the fact that home field advantage is a very real phenomenon.
“There’s definitely an advantage to sleeping in your own bed and having your own mom cook you dinner,” says coach Jensen. “We’ve been lucky to have quite a run with JO’s at home, but it’s a great venue. When you talk about race arenas, Golden Peak is one of the greatest.”
The 2010 Rocky/Central J3 Junior Olympics open-ing ceremony is tonight on Golden Peak at 5:30 p.m. Competition starts tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.
A female competitor races at yesterday’s downhill training run at the 2010 Rocky/Central J3 Junior olympics. Avery Cunliffe photo.
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