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Commissioners to discuss uranium mining
Park County Development Services Coordinator Tom Eisenman met with Horizon Nevada Uranium Inc. President Bill Wilson on March 14, and Eisenman was scheduled to meet with county commissioners on March 19, but it’s unclear at this point what input the commissioners will have in the decision-making process on uranium mining in Park County.
Eisenman said on March 18 that he was in the process of determining what rights the county has with the proposed in-situ recovery uranium mines planned for South Park near Hartsel, in terms of using county land use regulations.
The proposed uranium mines are a priority issue for the county, and officials would be watching the progress closely, Eisenman said.
According to information provided by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, three agencies each share a portion of the permitting process: the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A radioactive materials license must be issued by CDPHE to an applicant in order for a company to handle radioactive materials and uranium recovery operations.
Part of the application process requires two public meetings and input from county commissioners.
According to an e-mail from Warren Smith, community involvement manager for the CDPHE, when making a decision on the application, the CDPHE will take into consideration the county commissioners’ comments, but “in the end, it comes down to a question of does the application demonstrate that the operation can be done in a way that protects people and the environment.”
The public input meetings would be further along in the process of applying for permits and could be years away, according to CDPHE documents.
The Colorado Department of Natural Resources also requires a notice of intent of prospecting activities be sent to property owners whose land might be mined. A mining company must also obtain a reclamation permit.

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A post went up this morning on Ain’t It Cool News purporting to pass on word from a South Park staffer who calls tonight’s new episode, “Major Boobage,” “one of the greatest things [he’s] ever seen.” South Park being one of the only shows that we actually wish we watched more often (as opposed to “I should watch more documentaries about the migrant-worker experience”), we’re intrigued.
Apparently the episode is an homage to 1981 cult-classic feature-length cartoon Heavy Metal — a series of sci-fi vignettes whose soundtrack features songs by Sammy Hagar, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Journey, and many more beloved/ironically beloved rockers. (It’s also voiced by a crew that includes John Candy, Harold Ramis, and Eugene Levy; the film’s Wikipedia page explains the project’s Canadian origins and also notes its “unusual amount of bloody violence, nudity and sexuality” vis-à-vis other cartoons.) Completely suckered by what may or may not be a clever marketing ploy, we YouTubed Heavy Metal so as to chuckle more knowledgeably tonight. The first five minutes are above.
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BY CHRISTOPHER WYNN
Nestled beneath American Airlines Center’s massive video screen, and across the plaza from mega-watt eateries N9NE and Nove, two upstart tastemakers are bringing their own electricity to Victory Park. Late last month, they flipped the switch on a boutique Mexican cafe and tequileria (it gets easier to pronounce after a margarita) dubbed La Condesa Comida y Tequila.
Consider it the little eatery that could.
Named after the chic Mexico City neighborhood that inspired it, the restaurant is a reflection of creators Donald Chick and Jesse Herman: youthful, casual, more worldly than you’d initially expect.
The men’s friendship turned business venture began in 2006, when their paths crossed at Victory Park. Chick was the project’s creative director at the time, overseeing retail and restaurant development and leasing. But he also had quite the hospitality résumé, including a lounge opened during his SMU days and an event-planning stint with Mico Rodriguez’s M-Crowd (Mi Cocina, Taco Diner, Mercury Grill).
Herman, a Boston native, made his name as a nightclub guru in New York and Miami before branching into mixed-use developments, which led him (naturally) to Dallas – and to Chick. Drinks were poured, conversation was made, and over time, a fanciful idea to launch a boutique eatery began to take flight.
"There are many great restaurants and venues at Victory," acknowledges Herman over midafternoon drinks at the Uptown townhouse Chick shares with BeE Woman magazine creator Celine Gumbiner. (The two walk the aisle this month.) "But what we felt was missing was some place more casual, more low-key."
Skimping on design was not an option. In fact, quite the opposite. When their concept developed a Mexican bent, the two well-traveled architecture- and design-philes headed south of the border to do their homework.

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BEIJING — Driving balls toward the empty metal bleachers behind the outfield wall during batting practice Saturday, Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp was admittedly worried.
“Really, I was,” Kemp said. “I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ “
But a crowd that was officially counted at 12,224 gradually flowed into the Wukesong Baseball Stadium over the first two innings to watch the first major league baseball game in China, a 3-3 tie between the Dodgers and San Diego Padres. The two-game exhibition series concludes today.
“I guess it’s like any other Dodger game — they don’t show up until the second inning,” Kemp said.
Responsible for the late arrivals — “Where is everybody?” Padres closer Trevor Hoffman recalled asking himself — was the tight security at the ballpark entrance. Inside, the government declared media credentials issued by the participating clubs invalid and issued its own. At one point before the game, reporters were warned that their notebooks would be confiscated if they didn’t stop their interviews.
Dodgers Manager Joe Torre, chuckling, asked General Manager Ned Colletti if the same could be done at Dodger Stadium.
Torre had to do some policing of his own when the game was over, intervening in a heated discussion between starting pitcher Chan Ho Park and baseball officials outside the Dodgers’ clubhouse. Park initially refused to board the team bus, insisting on signing items that a throng of Korean fans held over the heads of arm-linked security guards.

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The temperatures were hovering in the freezing teens Friday, but the mood on the Northwest Side set of ”Humboldt Park” was very warm — despite the fact the cast and crew of the upcoming film had to spend most of the day and night dealing with the lingering cold weather of winter 2008.
”Everyone feels good about this one, that’s why everyone’s smiling — even though we’re all freezing,” says Chicago native Freddy Rodriguez, one of the major stars in the film, which is being called the first holiday family movie to focus on the Latino community.
”It’s about time,” Rodriguez says. “I can’t believe someone didn’t do this already.”
Produced by Columbia College Chicago grads Bob Teitel and George Tillman Jr., who previously shot ”Soul Food,” the two ”Barbershop” films and ”Roll-Bounce” here, ”Humboldt Park” is about a Christmas reunion of family members largely apart for the past three years.
Coincidentally, Rodriguez is also the family’s name in the film, ”which made it even easier for me to get into character,” quipped the non-fictional Rodriguez, who plays Jesse, a soldier returning from Iraq — wounded both inside and out.
His parents are portrayed by veteran actors Alfred Molina and Elizabeth Pena, with John Leguizamo as the older brother — a New York lawyer struggling to begin a family with his Jewish wife, played by Debra Messing of ”Will & Grace” fame.

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Mt. Hebron’s Kristen Bilney, right, celebrates with her teammates after Qiana Coleman scored the winning shot at the buzzer to give Mt. Hebron a 39-37 win over Gwynn Park March 7.
Quick pass. Open player. Easy basket. Buzzer. Regional championship.
That sums up the essence of Mt. Hebron’s first regional title since 1995. What the brief bottom line synopsis leaves out, though, is the utter disbelief of the Gwynn Park players, who were anticipating overtime, and the surge of Mt. Hebron’s student body who mobbed the court in celebration following the 39-37 Class 2A South thriller.
Mt. Hebron sophomore Aja Wallpher tied the game, 37-all, on a 3-point shot with 44 seconds remaining to play. It was the Vikings’ sixth triple of the night, a scoring pattern that ultimately helped set up the final outcome.
After Wallpher scored, Gwynn Park’s Lynnae Lampkins, a superb athlete who will play for Syracuse next year, missed a potential go-ahead basket. In the scramble for the rebound, Deanna Dydynski forced a jump ball. The possession arrow was in Mt. Hebron’s favor with just over 27 seconds left.
Mt. Hebron worked the ball to midcourt and called timeout to set up a final play. The clock read 10.5.

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(S12E01) After a routine tonsillectomy goes horribly wrong, Cartman comes face to face with his own mortality.
Season Twelve is out of the gate pretty strong. Unfortunately, it seemed to lose momentum towards the end.
Matt and Trey tackle the issue of AIDS…again (they have done so before, such as in the episode mocking Jared from the Subway commercials). They tend to present AIDS as a shock-value joke, but this time their take is slightly different.
Rather than the disease itself, the creators analyze the media treatment of AIDS. The disease has fallen out of favor and is not really in popular culture anymore. Perhaps it’s because we better understand and can control the disease, or perhaps it’s just an old hat. In either case, it’s really not in the spotlight anymore.
I love the psychedelic style of the new intro. The music is the same, but I laughed at the silly angles in which the kids suddenly appeared to say their lines.
The “f” bomb is dropped a few times in this episode. “F**k your ice cream!” “F**k you, Jimmy Buffett!” This is nothing new for the series, but it was still very noticeable.
Butters kissing Cartman was a classic moment, as was Kyle’s reaction to learning that Eric was HIV positive. What was up with the cap Cartman wore after he was diagnosed? There was a “P” on it. Was that a baseball reference? I don’t think so, otherwise he wouldn’t have been wearing a Rockies cap.

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