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questions remain unanswered Denver
by the North Denver News
about DPS pension scheme
by Guerin Lee Green and
Christopher Scott
Last month, Denver Public Schools
Superintendent Tom Boasberg appeared
on two radio shows to defend a com-
plex finan-
cial deal Instead, DPS
refinanc- made a bad bet
ing DPS’s on the direction of
p e n s i o n interest rates that
debt thatis currently costing
had been taxpayers and
subject to
a exposé
schoolchildren
in the New money.
York Times
( N o r t h
Denver News Publisher Green appeared
with Boasberg, and school board mem-
ber Jeanne Kaplin on the David Sirota
show on 760 AM, and prior to Boasberg
on the Kaplis-Silverman show on 630
KHOW). On both shows Boasberg
made claims that simply can’t be sus-
tained.
Most egregiously, Boasberg claimed
that over 100 government entities in
Colorado had done similar deals in
Colorado over the past decade. While
this contains a kernel of truth, the claim
is much closer to an outright false-
hood. While the base element of the
DPS deal is a type of municipal finance
tool called certificates of participation
(much like taking out a second mort-
gage or home equity line of credit), the
unusual elements of the deal are a syn-
thetic interest rate swap and the exotic
market maker/insurance agreement
with the Belgian financier Dexia. What
makes the deal entirely unusual is the
weekly auctions— which makes the
public schools
entire deal much more volatile, subject
to weekly fluctuations in interest rates,
and creates as much as millions in
additional fees for the bankers in the
transactions.
Our research shows that the total
deal is unique in Colorado (in fact,
Boasberg trumpeted their innovation
when selling it to the school board and
the public). Certificates of Participation
are as common as dirt in munici-
pal finance in Colorado. Governments
use them instead of other tools like
bond issues because they avoid the
voter approval element required by
the TABOR provisions of the Colorado
Constitution. If DPS had only used the
common Certificates of Participation
financing tool, as had been done by
DPS in the past, there would be no
Michael Bennet’s official Senate portrait
continued on page THREE
This month
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Opinion and Comment
Race to the Top... or
Bottom?
“Weak finish” blared the headline
of The Denver Post’s lead story that
revealed Colorado had lost its bid for
Race to the Top funding. That typified
the predictable reaction of local elected
and appointed officials. There was the
usual finger pointing and scapegoating
rather than study and analysis of the
fiscal predicament that Colorado’s pub-
lic schools have been suffering through
since the 1970s. During that decisive
decade, Colorado began its slide in per
pupil funding from the top ten states
to the bottom ten. Colorado remains
in the bottom one-third of states in
per pupil funding. Have the state’s
elected and appointed leaders tracked
student achievement since the 1970s
to determine if it has declined accord-
ingly? Teachers are blamed for the lack
of student achievement and students
in so-called “failing schools” are ste-
reotyped as failing students regardless
of individual students’ progress. What
What They Do in Our Name
Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic leak-
ers inside the military, we now know
the U.S. government has killed many
more innocent Afghan civilians than
we were aware of heretofore. We also
know that American military and intel-
ligence personnel roam Afghanistan
assassinating suspected bad guys.
Sometimes they kill people they later
acknowledge weren’t bad guys at all.
“Bad guys,” like “Taliban,” is implicitly
defined as anyone who resists the U.S.
occupation force and the corrupt pup-
pet government it keeps in power.
What other atrocities are our mis-
leaders and misrepresentatives com-
mitting in our name?
Let’s get something straight: to be
an enemy of American occupation,
bombing, and “nation building” is not
the same thing as being an enemy
of America or its people. It’s time
Americans understood that. When you
invade another country and people
there object, even forcibly, they are
not aggressors. You are. To understand
this, imagine our being invaded by a
foreign military force. Would resistance
be aggression?
The U.S. government goes to appall-
ing lengths to deny this truth. It is
about to try before a military commis-
sion a young Canadian, Omar Ahmed
Khadr, who was taken into custody
in Afghanistan eight years ago when
he was 15 years old. The charge? War
crimes, among them “murder in viola-
tion of the rules of war,” which lawyer
Chase Madar calls “a newly minted
war crime novel to the history of armed
conflict.”
Khadr was captured after a four-
hour firefight between American forces
and so-called militants in the village of
Ayub Kheyl near Kabul, during which
the Afghans’ homes were flattened by
500-pound bombs. One American died
later from wounds inflicted by a gre-
nade. Reports conflict, but Khadr was
shot several times in the chest and back,
then later was found under the rubble,
unconscious and seriously wounded —
he lost an eye from shrapnel.
Taken to Bagram Airbase, where the
U.S. government maintains a prison,
Khadr received some medical treat-
ment and was interrogated about his
role that day. He was thought to have
information about al-Qaeda, since his
father was a jihadist and knew Osama
bin Laden. Khadr says he was denied
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consideration has been given to the
decline in state financial support for its
public schools?
Colorado has allowed its educa-
tional infrastructure to deteriorate as is
evidenced by the decline in Colorado’s
state ranking in per pupil expendi-
ture. Yet, Lt.Gov. Barbara O’Brien,
remains “…convinced we have the
right platform.” What that platform
is, exactly, she has yet to explain. How
does Colorado’s infrastructure com-
pare to Massachusetts’, the state that
scored highest among those apply-
ing? Massachusetts spends $9856 per
pupil and ranks fifth in state fund-
ing. Colorado spends $6,864 and ranks
37th. Of the states who won funding,
only Florida and North Carolina spend
less per pupil and rank lower than
this state. It appears that those states
awarded Race to the Top funds are
those who have, generally, maintained
their states’ infrastructure.
pain killers, subjected to what can only
be called torture, and forced to do
hard work, aggravating his wounds. It
was only after this torture that he said
he had helped the militants because
America was at war with Islam. Despite
Canada’s request, Khadr was trans-
ferred to the prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, where he was again tortured
and kept in solitary confinement for
long spells. He claims that because of
the torture he gave false confessions,
including that he threw a grenade.
Later he said he had no recollection
of throwing a grenade and was in fact
rendered unconscious by an American-
caused explosion.
Unfortunately, the presiding judge
has refused to exclude Khadr’s state-
ments made under torture and other
cruel treatment, such as threats of gang
rape. Militarily commissions are as
much the travesty of justice that candi-
date Obama said they were in 2008. But
now he’s in charge.
Even if Khadr threw the grenade
and killed an American, how can that
be a war crime? At worst his actions
look like self-defense but at any rate,
fighters in combat aren’t typically
charged with murder.
Is the American military to be per-
mitted to go anywhere the politicians
wish and expect the people of the
invaded countries meekly to accept
their fate and pledge allegiance to the
United States? Would we receive an
invader that way?
The U.S. government and its well-
paid military contractors have an agen-
da in the Middle East and South Central
Asia that has nothing to do with the
welfare or safety of average Americans.
On the contrary, it is bankrupting them
and has made them targets of revenge.
There’s a simple way to keep American
military personnel safe: bring them
home.
Obama has shown himself to be
worse than his predecessor and the
neoconservative empire enthusi-
asts. His promises to leave Iraq and
Afghanistan are hedged so thick that
we can expect the occupations to con-
tinue for many years ... all in our name.
Despite Obama’s words, the death and
destruction at America’s hands are not
nearing an end.
Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The
Future of Freedom Foundation
Despite the loss of $13 million
to change how teachers are evaluated,
promoted and rewarded, based partly
on student achievement, State Sen.
Michael Johnston, author of SB 191,
remains upbeat , and stated that the
loss of funding will not be a problem.
However, he has not identified where
the necessary funding will come from
for teacher evaluations, promotions
and rewards given current budget
restrictions and shortfalls.
Arne Duncan, Secretary of
Education, discounted lack of support
by the state’s largest teachers’ union,
the Colorado Education Association
(CEA), as a significant factor in
Colorado’s “weak finish”. However,
local leaders such as Van Schoales,
director of Education Reform Now, an
educational advisory organized based
in Denver, complained that CEA’s lack
of support was a major factor. The
deteriorating condition of the state’s
educational infrastructure suggests
otherwise. It should also be noted
that Education Reform Now’s board
of directors appears to include only
corporate types. Not a single educa-
tor is listed on its web site as a board
member. Among staff members, only
Schoales appears to have any teaching
experience. One wonders if Education
Don’t sell off our Parks-
Doug Linkhart
Denver residents treasure our
parks. We get protective when peo-
ple, including the City, does any-
thing to harm our enjoyment of a
system created nearly 100 years ago
for all of our use and enjoyment.
Now the City’s Parks and
Recreation Department is poised
to start renting out parks for com-
mercial events; events that charge
admission for attendance and keep
out the general public. I think it’s a
bad idea.
I was walking in City Park a
while back and came across a yellow
police tape set up to keep people out
for some kind of special event later
that day. Indignant, I stepped over
the tape, thinking “this is my park.
You can’t keep me out.”
Next summer a private company
will fence off a large section of City
Park for two months, erect grand-
stands and show movies every night
for 30 days for patrons who pay $15
or more to attend. The general public
will be kept out, with a small walk-
way around the site to direct people
around the area.
Is this why we pay taxes, to allow
companies to use our public parks
for profit? The City’s Charter says
that “no park or portion of any
park…shall be sold or leased at any
time…provided, however, that prop-
erty in parks may be leased for park
purposes to concessionaires, to char-
itable or nonprofit organizations, or
September 9, 2010
Reform Now (ERN) actually meets
with regular classroom teachers or
communicates with teachers’ unions.
Just what “reform” does ERN seek?
True reform must begin in local
communities and with the recogni-
tion that some students begin school
already with the ability to read and
write while others lack the necessary
vocabulary to progress at a compa-
rable rate.
To this retired public school
teacher, Race to theTop also appears
to be discriminatory. Rich states hired
professional grant writers while small-
er, poorer states used teachers and
volunteers. States who didn’t apply
or failed in the process will not receive
funds from Race to the Top. Isn’t
that blatant discrimination against the
poor? If this is part of public school
reform, it seems to be a return to earlier
times when treating certain students
better than others was common prac-
tice. Such a formula is certain to be
protested and challenged in court. It
should be.-
­—Ed Augden is a long-time North
Denver resident
to governmental jurisdictions.” In
my mind this does not allow for-
profit organizations to use parks for
admission-based events.
Nonetheless, Parks and Recreation
is proposing that admission-based
events be allowed in eight “festival”
parks on up to four days per month,
with up to 7,500 people attending per
day. These parks include City Park,
Civic Center, Confluence, Skyline,
Sloan’s Lake, Parkfield, Central Park
in Stapleton and Ruby Hill.
One potential scenario under the
current proposal is for a company to
reserve an area in these parks virtu-
ally every Saturday of the year for
an admission-based event, making
this area off-limits to the public on
those days.
On a recent hike in a state park
I thought about how people would
react if businesses could rent a trail
and charge admission for people
participating in events on that trail
every Saturday. Shouldn’t our
city parks be treated with as much
respect as we give our state and
national parks?
Doug Linkhart is City Councilman
at-large
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has been realized by the district on the
deal. We can find no evidence of this in
any of DPS’ documentation of the 2008
financing deal. What is known is this:
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DPS
undercontributes
to state pension
fund, leaving gap
continued from page 2
Under legislation that forced PERA
to accept DPS (PERA refused an earlier
voluntary merger with the DPS pen-
sion fund, which occasioned this entire
mess), DPS is underfunding its con-
tribution to PERA, on the basis of its
refinancing. Colorado Revised Statutes
(CRS) 24-51-412(d), states:
(d) IN RECOGNITION OF THE
FACT THAT DENVER PUBLIC
SCHOOLS RETIREMENT SYSTEM’S
FUNDED RATIO EXCEEDS THAT
OF THE SCHOOL DIVISION OF
THE ASSOCIATION AS A RESULT
OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
THE PCOPS, THE PAYMENTS
THE DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MAKES IN RESPECT TO THE PCOPS
PROVIDES A BASIS FOR THE USE
OF AN OFFSET IN CALCULATING
THE TOTAL OF ITS EMPLOYER
CONTRIBUTION AND THE
AMORTIZATION EQUALIZATION
DISBURSEMENT AND
SUPPLEMENTAL AMORTIZATION
EQUALIZATION DISBURSEMENT.
This allows DPS to realize a sav-
ings, but means the District is not
making the full contribution to PERA
would otherwise be required to fully
fund the pension.
No evidence exists that the 2009
merger required DPS’s pension to be
fully funded. Because of this, rather
than contribute at par value of the
DPS’ payroll (about 16%), DPS will
send about 1% of its payroll to PERA
in 2010. Boasberg’s claim that DPS’
portion of PERA is better funded than
other school districts is, thus, mislead-
ing. The level of pension funding for
Colorado’s other school districts is
improving, while DPS’ level of fund-
ing is getting worse.
However, the legislation requires a
2015 “true-up,” in which the chickens
come home to roost in which PERA
must be made whole for DPS’ under-
contributions. No where has DPS bud-
geted to deal with this eventuality.
Here’s what the law says:
24-51-401(e) IN RECOGNITION
OF THE EFFORT TO EQUALIZE THE
FUNDED STATUS OF THE DENVER
PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIVISION AND ACTUAL UNFUNDED ACTUARIAL
THE ASSOCIATION’S SCHOOL ACCRUED LIABILITY AND PAYROLL
DIVISION AS MORE FULLY EXPERIENCE AT EVERY POINT
PROVIDED IN SECTION 24-51- OF TRUE-UP. IF THE RATIOS OF
412, BEGINNING JANUARY 1, UNFUNDED ACTUARIAL ACCRUED
2015, AND EVERY FIFTH YEAR LIABILITY OVER PAYROLL BASED
THEREAFTER, THE ASSOCIATION ON ACTUAL EXPERIENCE ARE NOT
SHALL CALCULATE A TRUE-UP PROJECTED TO EQUALIZE OVER
TO CONFIRM THE EQUALIZATION THE THIRTY-YEAR PERIOD, THE
STATUS OF THE DENVER PUBLIC BOARD SHALL RECOMMEND THAT
SCHOOLS DIVISION AND THE THE DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ASSOCIATION’S SCHOOL DIVISION, DIVISION TOTAL EMPLOYER RATE
AND IF NECESSARY, THE BOARD BE ADJUSTED BY THE GENERAL
SHALL RECOMMEND THAT THE ASSEMBLY.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADJUST THE The matter is yet more complicated.
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS TOTAL A review of the bond documents from
EMPLOYER RATE TO ASSURE THE 2008 shows that Denver Public Schools
EQUALIZATION OF THE DENVER won’t pay a dime of principal on the
PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIVISION’S Certificates of Participation until 2018.
RATIO OF UNFUNDED ACTUARIAL Taxpayers won’t even begin to pay
ACCRUED LIABILITY OVER down the debt for 10 years — essen-
PAYROLL TO THE ASSOCIATION’S tially, taxpayers have an interest-only
SCHOOL DIVISION’S RATIO OF mortgage for a decade (from the origi-
UNFUNDED ACTUARIALACCRUED nal sale of the bonds). The current DPS
LIABILITY OVER PAYROLL AT budget for school year 2010/2011 sets
THE END OF THE THIRTY-YEAR aside $64 million for servicing the debt
PERIOD. THE TRUE-UP SHALL BE (and fees). That’s a big chunk of money
BASED ON AUDITED RESULTS in the DPS budget that gets Denver’s
OF THE ASSOCIATION’S SCHOOL taxpayers no closer to paying off Bennet
DIVISION’S AND THE DENVER and Boasberg’s Wall Street debt.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIVISION’S
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Mike and Philippe at the top of Green Mountain
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• “Civil Rights”as a corporate slogan
Complex adjust our performance and mind-
• Strong women facing the Goliath political machine set. My best friend is stronger and
• School privatization, gentrification & corporate
interests faster than I am as an athlete, but
• Community engagement: the missing link he has a great degree of patience.
• Critique of pro-reform infomercials like “The Lottery” For a dozen years of friendship
• Power to the people through grassroots story telling
and “Waiting for Superman” I’ve always noticed how patient and
• Grassroots “trouble-makers” vs. corporate saviors completely at peace he is with my
Supporting Organizations: Northeast Community Congress for Education, Colorado Black Round Table, Colorado pace. This spring, as we climbed
Progressive Coalition, Black Education Advisory Council, and the Diverse Neighborhood Collective a mountain, I mentioned my grati-
For more information or to join the DeFENSE coalition, please contact: tude for his consistent acceptance of
democrats4excellentschools@gmail.com my rhythm. Many friends he par-
ticipates in sports with require him
to slow down. He told me how he
came to this point of peace.
Years ago, as a marathon runner,
he was always leaving his friends
behind or feeling impatient. His
inner competitive drive and capa-
bility to move fast was the prior-
ity. He frequently found himself
alone doing his favorite things, even
if he had begun in the company
of friends. In a moment of self-
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plenty of opportunities to run or
bike solo, but sometimes he’d rather
slow down to enjoy companion-
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a conscious decision to prioritize
the friendships rather than get his
adrenalin-fix when doing athletic
activities with friends not interested
in the competition.
Competition can be fun when you
want to engage in it and frustrating
if your companion is driving you
to perform in a way that prevents
you from
enjoy-
ing the
moment.
B e i n g
pushed
a little
harder
than you
w o u l d
p u s h
yourself
helps ele-
vate your
g a m e .
Yet, if
you are
pushed
without
regard to
the reality
of your ability or feel-
ing your companion’s impatience, it
distracts from the pleasure of being
out in nature, moving your body.
My friend’s insight helped me
realize a principle that I have applied
to other areas of my life when I’ve
felt impatient, had to hold myself
back or tone my energy down for
others. In the course of a day on the
slopes, these needs for companion-
ship, friendly competition and inner
peace can all be achieved with a lit-
tle communication. There is a point
of balance that makes any group
endeavor more fun for everyone.
Having someone there to appreciate
the beauty, intensity and mystery on
the trail adds to the pleasure. It can
also be a lesson on patience, pace
and practicing intention.
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Betting the Farm on Urban tems and urban growing techniques

including aquaponics and soil build-
had access and who didn’t, and they
looked at industrial agriculture vs.
Agriculture — the reality of an ing. Aquaponics is the symbiotic cul-
tivation of plants and aquatic animals
local agricultural, and were responsi-
ble for completing individual projects
arid Denver
By Angelle C. Fouther makes a
in an underwater recirculating closed at the end of the class. Gould says that
one student took on
Denver is a desert. It’s not a better city. developing a com-
descriptor one normally hears in refer- F e e d munity garden.
ence to the Mile High City, but the rel- Denver uti- GrowHaus’
ative amount of food produced in the lizes sev- major goals include
Metropolitan area does, indeed, make eral urban offering jobs to com-
it a “food desert.” The term also refers agricul- munity members
to the fact that some Metro neighbor- ture mod- and selling food for
hoods don’t even have access to a local els includ- which they allow the
grocery store and thus residents are ing home use of food stamps.
forced to travel long distances, often gardens, “We are going to
by public transportation, to purchase communi- be signing people
healthy food unless they wish to live ty-based up here onsite,”
off of sugar- and preservative- laden gardens, says Gould. “The
convenience store food. and com- food stamp process
Several organizations are working mercial is really confusing
to address this scarcity by highlighting gardens for a lot of people,
the multiple benefits of urban agricul- and small so we want to help
ture, the most significant of which are f a r m s . them through it.”
improved health due to access to fresh T h e y The organization
produce and vegetables, lessening the recently would like to con-
use of fossil fuels and other environ- engaged tinue development
mental toxins, and community-build- e i g h t of the program to
ing that comes along with the econom- Bhutanese offer a communi-
ic opportunities and shared experience refugees ty space that will
of growing and selling food locally. through allow for growing
The Denver Foundations’ a work food as well as a
Strengthening Neighborhoods experience Worm farming part of the fun, Grow Haus Worm bin teaching space for
Program has recently made grants to program, and have turned the park- tank environment. The system has community members to learn how to
ing lot at 42nd been successfully used to simultane- do it.
& Steele into a ously cultivate fresh fish, such as “We are one of many organizations
Farm Market Tilapia and Yellow Perch, along with that are seeking to bring agriculture
Fiesta on vegetation without having to dis- into our urban communities. Our goal
Thursday eve- charge or exchange water. isn’t to be the expert in everything but
nings from 6-8 Students kept a food journal and to be a space where experts come – an
pm through recorded what they were eating daily incubation space,” Gould says.
S e p t e m b e r and how it made them feel. They
Experience
16th. Also, the looked is Everything
at Denver food system – who Experience our Vision
Urban Farm
at Stapleton
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two urban agriculture organizations:
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and GrowHaus, located in Elyria
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harvest these benefits in cooperation
with the community.
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zation that builds community-based
urban greenhouse farms and mar-
kets and empowers people to sustain
themselves and their communities by
improving year-round access to fresh
food, creating training opportunities
and jobs for youth and adults, and sup-
porting food production. According to
data presented by Feed Denver, only
.2% of food consumed in our region is
produced in Colorado. While $5.7 bil-
lion is the amount we spend on food
annually, only $4.9 million is spent pur-
chasing food directly from Colorado
farmers. Besides creating green jobs,
Feed Denver also works to train indi-
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Beverly Newton Adam DeGraff

North Denver Notions North Denver Notions
Now is the time to check your Water all bulbs this winter for vig- Brother Matthew and I were in the in there, but anyway. So then I took off
garden (both flowers and vegetables) orous growth next spring. D Note basement recently and he began the gloves to try get the sand out, but my
to see what worked and what didn’t. Some Iris specific tips from the to tell some of the kitchen staff about an hands were full of dust. How am I going
My tomatoes were all medium sized North Carolina Ag Extension Service incident he had while sandblasting the to get my eyes clean with my dusty
this year. I usually try to get one that Fertilization of iris is important to paint off the walls eight years ago when hands? So I finally found my water bottle
we were building out the D Note. After he and poured it in my eyes, glug glug
produces late with large tomatoes for obtain best results, but must be done in
moderation. Nitrogen, potash, told the story I secretly turned glug. That whole thing
salad. This year I’ll make do
the voice recorder on the smart was evil. Sandblasting in
with what I’ve got. Down the and phosphorus are essential phone and began to record. The D Note general was evil, fourteen
Making a tea with com- for iris, but excessive nitrogen
post and letting it sit for sev- garden promotes lush growth that is following is a transcription of Chronicles days of it. We rented this
more susceptible to rot diseas- what happened next. sandblaster for a week
eral days path Adam: “So that was the #60 and we kept paying late
was a huge success. I rec- es. At planting, incorporate ½
lb of a low-nitrogen fertilizer worst it, while you were sand- fees because we thought
ommend it. blasting?” we’d be done the next
At this time of year my butterfly such as 5-10-10 per 50 ft2 (1 ½ oz per Matthew: “Whatever! That was a day. Then after buying 10,000 lbs of sand
bush is blooming. This is too late as 10 ft2). nightmare! I still have nightmares about we had to re-use 200 lbs of it and so it is
most of the butterflies are gone. My Planting
The best time to plant bearded iris is it. The worst it got?! It was 14 days of extra super fine in the air. We had Regina
garden is cold in the spring which sandblasting. It was the summer time at the Picking Parlour next door hopping
July through September. This will allow
delays my plant. If you plant this and we had to wear extra clothing. We mad at us. All the neighbors were mad
them to become well established before
shrub be sure you place it in a warm opened up the doors and people were at us because we were dusting the whole
winter. Container-grown iris can be
sunny spot so it blooms early enough complaining because there was a big neighborhood. And then there was the
planted in the spring. In a well-prepared
for butterflies. bed, dig a shallow hole large enough plume of lead paint coming out the fact that it was lead paint, which is still
Chrysanthemums are blooming to accommodate the rhizome or clump door. Oh God that was evil. The worst probably in our lungs. We had lead
now. If yours are small as mine are of rhizomes. Form a mound of soil in it got?!” paint that covered up soot from when
this year it means you didn’t pinch the center for the planting base. Make Adam: “So tell me again what hap- this place was a blacksmith and then
them back to one bud in June. I forgot, the mound high enough so the top of pened?” whatever four-cylinder engine model Ts
as I was busy with something else. the rhizome is slightly above soil level. Matthew: “Remember the hood we were in here when it was a Ford dealer-
Next year I promise myself I’ll be Spread the roots around the mound, fill wore? Remember the glasses, you put ship. So right after the gray paint, which
more alert. However I promise myself with soil, and water. For a mass of color, the lens in and out? You pull it out and would be lead, then there would be like
that every year. I guess as long as they plant at least three rhizomes (spaced 8-10 put a new heavy glass lens in? I was an octopus-in-the-ocean blackness that
bloom I won’t care. in. apart) or plant undivided clumps; like this (tilts head to side) and the glass would hit us. You remember that?”
The annuals that are still blooming point each fan of leaves away from the started coming out of the hood, without Adam: “Yeah. So then when you
this time of year are morning glories, center of the group. Clumps should be me doing it, I’m holding the thing. I’m threw the sandblaster hose down it just
cosmos, calendula, moss rose, and spaced 18 inches apart. Mulch should looking at it and thinking ‘Oh, that’s not went onto the floor?”
nasturtiums to name a few. These be applied to fall-planted iris to reduce good.’ All the sudden the sand started Matthew: “So it was doing like the
annuals self-sow easily. Zinnias and heaving during the winter. hitting my eyes and oh, that’s not good. snake thing until it got stuck in the scaf-
marigolds will keep blooming if dead- Care and Maintenance I don’t know what I did, but it was pelt- folding, because it hit me once or twice
headed. This time of year I stop dead- Before flowering, water plants often ing my eyes. And you know how when when I was blind. I’m trying to get to
enough to keep the soil moist but not you have dry mouth, and they throw the sound. I know it’s over there, so I’m
heading because I’m busy canning
wet. Reblooming iris should be watered sand in your dry mouth? Like oohg, going to shut it off. Okay, it’s off. I still
and freezing fruit.
ick, ick, ick. So my eyes are dusted and can’t see. I’m going to make it to the
If you haven’t fertilized your iris during the summer, while spring-flow-
I can’t do anything and, like, I’m on the door. Oh, that sucked.”
do it now. Better late than not at all. ering iris will tolerate drought. After
scaffolding with the stupid hose in my Adam: “But, because the sand blew
There are also many annual poppies flowers fade, cut flower stalks back to hand. Okay here it goes, I’m dropping a hole in the carpet, that’s how we knew
that you can scratch into the dirt now an inch or two above the rhizome to it! You were supposed to be right there we had a wood floor?”
for early spring growth. prevent seed formation. Plants that are
helping, I don’t know where you went, Matthew: “No, the carpet was always
Order and buy all bulbs. Here bulbs growing well (good green foliage) may and I’m yelling ‘Adam, where are you!’ missing. It was just glue. But the sand
can be planted in our soil anytime it’s not need fertilizing. If you fertilize, apply So I drop the hose. Okay, where’s the side actually blew through the glue. But yeah,
not frozen. ½ cup of 5-10-10 fertilizer per iris clump
of the scaffolding I need to come down it was such thick glue that we would
This fall when cleaning your gar- after flowering. Fertilizer can burn the on? AH THOONK! Uh, I’m down. Okay have never seen the blond, hundred
den don’t put weeds in your compost rhizomes; it should be applied around I’m gonna go toward the sound. Okay, I year-old red oak underneath.”
pile. Their seeds don’t rot and when but not directly on them. Iris respond hope I don’t put my finger in the wrong Adam: “So that was the silver lining
to shallow cultivation and should not
you use that soil they’ll spout wher- area here! Okay, it’s off. I make it outside. to your ordeal since the wood floor led to
be mulched.
ever you use it. THUNK! Oh, there’s a wall. Oh there’s us having a salsa night. The D Note prob-
a box or something. I’m finally outside. ably wouldn’t have survived without
Climate
increase in the atmospheric content of
CO2 triggering a shift in the climate. What do I do now? My eyes are gone. I salsa during the early years. The wood
In the second scenario the climate is took off the hat and I was sweating.” floor has been the biggest attraction for

change no like a ball in a trench, which represents

simple matter
continued from page 9
years, then - bang – the temperature
fell drastically and the climate changed
again. This happened several times dur-
ing the ice age and these climate shifts are
called the Dansgaard-Oeschger events
after the researchers who discovered and
described them. Such a sudden, dramatic
shift in climate from one state to another
is called a tipping point. However, the
cause of the rapid climate change is not
known and researchers have been unable
to reproduce them in modern climate
models.
“We have made a theoretical modelling
of two different scenarios that might trig-
ger climate change. We wanted to inves-
tigate if it could be determined wheth-
er there was an external factor which
caused the climate change or whether
the shift was due to an accumulation
of small, chaotic fluctuations”, explains
Peter Ditlevsen, a climate researcher at
the Niels Bohr Institute.
He explains that in one scenario the
climate is like a seesaw that has tipped
to one side. If sufficient weight is placed
on the other side the seesaw will tip – the
climate will change from one state to
another. This could be, for example, an
one climate state. The ball will be con-
Adam: “Did you think your eyes
were screwed up?”
the salsa night.”
Matthew: “Yeah, and also the biggest
Matthew: “Yeah, I thought I lost my distraction on the salsa night when the
tinuously pushed by chaos-dynamical
fluctuations such as storms, heat waves, eyes. When you are sandblasting and
you are seeing sand take paint of bricks?
old wood has popped through leaving
holes. I mean give and take. Yeah, but we
heavy rainfall and the melting of ice
sheets, which affect ocean currents and Yeah, your eyes don’t really stand a wouldn’t have had the salsa night, that’s
so on. The turmoil in the climate system chance against sandblast. So I thought true. But, Oh God, that sandblasting was
may finally push the ball over into the my eyes were completely gone. Who evil.”
other trench, which represents a different knows, there’s probably pelts from it still
climate state.
Peter Ditlevsen’s research shows that
you can actually distinguish between
the two scenarios and it was the chaos-
dynamical fluctuations that were the
triggering cause of the dramatic climate
changes during the ice age. This means
that they are very difficult to predict.
Warm future climate
But what about today – what can hap-
pen to the climate of the future? “Today
we have a different situation than during
the ice age. The Earth has not had such
a high CO2 content in the atmosphere
since more than 15 million years ago,
when the climate was very warm and
alligators lived in England. So we have
already started tilting the seesaw and at
the same time the ball is perhaps getting
kicked more and could jump over into
the other trench. This could mean that
the climate might not just slowly gets
warmer over the next 1000 years, but
that major climate changes theoretically
could happen within a few decades”,
estimates Peter Ditlevsen.
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Don Bain
North Denver Notions
We are nearing that special time Mark Simon and Paul Romaine.
of year after the first cold snap, when The striking Ellyn Rucker is a
some years we get that extra three remarkable vocalist
weeks of the best weath- and pianist well wor-
er of the year – not too Indian thy of your notice. She
hot and not too cold – Summer and will perform two shows
just perfect. Sept. 18, along with
Indian Summer is drums along tenor saxman Peter
a great time of year to Lincoln Blvd Christlieb and David
be out and about and Young. Tickets are $15
Dazzle has a number of for what promises to be
tantalizing treats in store an especially scintillat-
for those pleasantly cool ing show.
late summer evenings. Sept. 23 will usher in the think-
Kick things off Sept. 9 with a ing man’s sax player in the guise of
performance by the J.D. Allen
Rene Marie, below
the Jeff Hamilton Trio featur-
Normand Latourelle, Founder and artistic director of Cavalia Trio. Hamilton ing Ron Miles.

Cavalia more than horsing is an in-demand

around
continued from page ONE
working with them. He was not a horse
person – yet.
“I found out they were the most
beautiful performers in the world. You
don’t need a costume or makeup – just
a bare horse and everyone will look at
it.”
It also struck him that by telling the
story of the horse you are telling the
story of humanity, for they have been
with us since the very beginning.
“The horse gave us the modern
world, all the freedom we needed,” he
said. “First to cover greater distances
quicker and then for labor and also
for war. The armies with the greatest
number of horses were the winners. The
horses gave us everything!”
In the telling of this story, however,
it was difficult to find an ending since
technology has replaced the horse in the
lives of most people.
“I wanted to create a tribute to what
they have achieved for us – that became
Cavalia.”
The show has thus far been seen by
over 2.5 million people and has received
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Allen is one of
the more dis-
poser, arrang- tinctive new
er and teacher
who plays with
tenor saxmen
around and
vociferously superlative reviews by the
a number of will be per-
media worldwide.
talented musi- forming with
The various 35 artists, acrobats,
cians, includ- Greg August
dancers and riders hail from Canada,
ing the members on bass and
France, the U.S., Morocco, Kyrgyzstan,
of his trio – Ray Rudy Royston
Russia and Austria.
Brown and Oscar on drums.
The 50 horses represent 12 distinct
Peterson. Catch This $20 show
breeds and come from France, Spain,
their show at 7 or is the pick of
Portugal, Canada, the Netherlands and
9 p.m. the month for
the U.S. The horses annually consume
On September saxophone
17,500 bales of hay, 36,500 lbs of grain
11, Hollywood aficionados.
and 1,750 lbs of carrots.
Contemporary Shows at 7 and
The main tent is over 10 stories high
Jazz artist Rob 9 p.m.
at 110 feet and eight other tents are nec-
Mullins will grace The final
essary to stage the show. Over 71,000 sq.
the stage in the Friday of
ft of canvas was needed to create the Big
considerable presence of Denver’s the month brings back the musical
Top, which spans an area of more than
own dazzling vocalist Hazel Miller. changes of the Ken Walker Sextet,
26,000 sq. ft.
The Grammy-nominated artist only always a pleasant way to end up your
The stage is 160-ft. wide and over
comes around once in awhile, so month. Tickets are only $12 for this
2,500 tons of sand and dirt were required
don’t miss your chance to see the show that comes with the phase of
to build it.
composer of Soulscape. the New Moon.
Performances begin Sept. 22 and
Sept. 12 offers the rare opportu- Trumpeter Nate Birkey is a rare
tickets went on sale weeks ago, ranging
nity to see a solo tabla performance jazz animal – a trumpet player who
from $54 to $99. Custom packages for
by Aloke Dutta who spends his time sings as well. Fans of male jazz vocals
true horse-lovers are available for $129
teaching, writing, recording, conduct- will not want to miss this show.
to $189.
ing workshops and performing with Birkey will perform twice at 7 and 9
For more information call 866-999-
SWATI, a popular L.A. percussion p.m. Sept. 25.
8111 or visit cavalia.net.
band. Tickets to the 7 p.m. only per- The month wraps up on Sept. 30
formance are $12. with two shows from the not-to-be-la-
At 9 p.m. a show dubbed The beled Blu7, comprised of James Barela
Orchid Set is slated and will feature on trumpet/flugelhorn, EJ Delgado
Dazzle regulars David Miller, Matt at the guitar, Rachel Delgado piano/
Skellenger and Glenn Taylor. This organ/synthesizer, Mitchell Anthony
too could be a very interesting set. on drums) and Justin Vogel plucking
Tickets are $10. the bass. This band mixes jazz with
Rene Marie is a vocalist whose multiple contemporary genres in a
life has put her through a musical musical smoothie that’s good for you
pressure cooker, resulting in music and what ails you. Tickets are $15 for
that runs very deep within her. She shows at the usual times.
will perform two shows on Sept. Make Dazzle your oasis in the
17 with a band dubbed her Denver city as summer winds down and the
Boys, including saxman extraordi- holidays loom on the horizon. See ya
naire Dexter Payne, in a rare Dazzle there!
appearance, along with Bill Kopper,

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