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Volume 21 • Number 48

C O U P O N S • C O L O R A D O H I S T O R Y • C A S I N O G U I D E • G A M I N G • M A P • E N T E R T A I N M E N T

February 18 - March 3, 2014

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GamblerThe Last Hand

Tony ThorpeMaverick Sharp

Future looms bright for Broncos

I presume we’re all at-tempting to drown and put behind us the sorrow that we suffered from the defeat of our beloved Broncos. I don’t think the loss was as bad as the way in which it occurred. We are a better team than the squad that showed up in New Jersey.

It was our chance to show the world how good the team was and we failed miserably. I say “we” be-cause almost all Broncos fans love the team no mat-

ter what. We are now in that category!

We can look forward to next year. Peyton Man-ning and John Elway are winners, not losers. Noth-ing like getting your fanny

whacked to make you jump higher, run faster and learn from past mistakes.

The Broncos will be even better next year; they are smart folks and can see their own weaknesses. I hope that they keep Decker and Moreno; this is a good team now.

The game should remind us all of just how hard it is to win a Super Bowl and that’s why those two Elway wins are so precious.

The win meant every-thing to Seattle and they had that fire in the belly that makes winners in sports and politics for those who go the extra mile.

We can see that in the

winter Olympic games, just having a reputation isn’t enough; the athletes must go out and perform to a very high level.

Teams and players must play to win and everyone is just as good as their last game.

It was a bitter pill for Denver and all Broncos fans to swallow but we did make it to the World Cham-pionship game winning the AFC Championship.

We know that our team can play better and they will have that opportunity next year.

Go Broncos – we eagerly await the new season!

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Saturday, Feb. 22, from noon – 9 p.m., 10 guests will each win $500 Promo Play, plus an extra $250 Promo Play to give to someone special. At 10 p.m., Cupid will award one winner $5,000 cash, plus an additional $2,500 to share with a loved one. Earn entries all month.

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Tuesday, Feb. 25, bring a friend and share the wealth. $3,000 in prizes to the top five teams with the highest combined scores. Register at the host stand between 11 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. after earning 50 base points on the day of the tournament. Tournament will begin at 1 p.m.

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7’s until the Bad Beat is hit)Be in a game by 10 a.m. Sunday-Friday

and receive $10 in Bounce Back Coupons after three hours of play. Be in a game by 10 a.m. Sunday-Friday and receive $20 in Bounce Back Coupons after four hours of play. Be in a game by 10 a.m. Sunday-Friday and receive $30 in Bounce Back Coupons after five hours of play. Be in a game by 11 a.m. Sunday-Friday and receive $10 in Bounce Back Coupons after three hours of play. Earn $2 in comp for every hour of live play. Play 3 hours and have your bus ticket reimbursed up to $18. Play 6 hours of live action Sunday’s – Wednesday’s and earn a Free Night Stay (excludes holidays and blackout dates)

Breakfast is BackStop into Otis and Henry’s for breakfast

specials now served all day long. Whet your appetite with our house specialty spinach and artichoke dip or appetizer sampler platter. Try a delicious milkshake. Otis & Henry’s offers great food at great prices, Sunday-Thursday, 7 a.m. – 10 p.m., Friday, 7 a.m. – midnight and Saturday, 7 a.m. – 1 a.m.

Moolah Monday Sign up for Lady Luck’s FREE slot

tournament Monday mornings from 9 – 10:45 a.m. Starting at 11 a.m., play for the Moolah. After the conclusion of the first round, players who earn 5 points on their players club account can play in the newly added redemption round for a second chance at the top score. The top five high scorers will be awarded a cash prize. Top prize $250! Two bonus drawings for $100 will be held at 2 p.m. for all tournament players. Guests must be present to win cash drawing. See guest services for rules and additional details on all promotions.

Mystery Point Multiplier Thursdays

Every Thursday in February, starting at noon until 8 p.m., guests will swipe their player’s card at the SCA Kiosks and choose one symbol to reveal their point multiplier

for the promotional day. Point multipliers can be 2X, 3X, 5X, 7X, 10X or 20X. Guests must redeem voucher at the promotions area with a marketing representative prior to playing to receive points. Point multiplier is valid from time of registration until midnight on Thursdays in February.

Medal MoneyBring home the gold, silver or bronze.

Come in for Medal Money every Tuesday in February. One winner will be selected every half hour from noon to 8 p.m. to play for their chance to earn some Medal Money. Top prize $250! Guests will receive one free entry and will earn additional entries for every 50 unadjusted points. Guests can swipe their Lady Luck Player’s card starting at 10 a.m.

Flag of Nations ScratcherEvery Saturday in February, earn a Flag of

Nations scratch play for every 200 unadjusted points. Scratch plays can be redeemed between 2 – 10 p.m. at SCA kiosks. Guests must swipe their player’s card at the SCA kiosks and scratch their champion’s flag to reveal a prize. Guests can then redeem prize vouchers at the promotions area with a marketing representative. Cash prizes will range from $5 all the way up to $500. Otis & Henry food voucher prizes will range from $10 to $30. Limit 10 scratch plays per player each promotional day.

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Join your friends at Lady Luck every Saturday in March from 2 – 8 p.m. for our Lucky Loot of the Leprechaun. Players could win up to $250 instantly when they play for the Leprechaun’s Loot. Every Player is guaranteed to win cash! Select the correct symbols and you could score $100,000. Earn one free entry for coming in and one for every 100 unadjusted points. See guest services for rules and additional details.

Club 40 Club 40 is now twice as nice. Join us twice a

week, Wednesdays and Fridays, for Club 40. All guests age 40 or better will receive 4X points on slots and 2X points on video poker. Guests will also receive a free entrée at Otis & Henry’s once they earn 50 unadjusted points on their Lady Luck Player’s Card. Make sure to check out Otis & Henry’s brand new menu. You can eat the most important meal of the day, breakfast, all day long!

Receive $5Did you know your email is worth $5?

Guests who provide a new email address will receive $5 cash. Stay up to date with Lady Luck promotions and receive special offers via email. Visit guest services to redeem offer.

Play and StaySundays through Thursdays in February

earn a free room. To earn play 500 unadjusted points on Lady Luck Player’s Card. Poker and table games guests can earn too. Play 4 hours at table games or play 6 hours in a live poker game. Offer subject to availability. Excludes holidays and blackout dates.

Table GamesWe always have multiple $5 games. Play

$2 craps Monday through Thursday with 10 X’s odds daily. We Offer Craps, Roulette, Buffalo Blackjack Bonus, and 21 + 3 Xtreme. Club 40 – Play 2 hours and receive a $10 Meal at Otis & Henry’s every Friday. Play 4 hours Sunday’s – Thursday’s and earn a free night Stay (Excludes Holidays and Blackout Dates). Play 3 hours and have your bus ticket reimbursed up to $18. Earn Cash Offers, Match Play Coupons, Food Comps and other Great Offers based on play.

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Play 30 – Play 60Mondays in February, receive a free buffet

or $50 to Farraddays’. Play 30 minutes on your Players Card and receive a free Calypsos’ Buffet. Play 60 minutes and receive $50 at Farraddays’. Must visit the Players Club or Cashier Services prior to playing to register.

Sizzlin’ Progressive Hot SeatsGuests can earn $100 or more instantly

simply by playing their favorite machine or table game. Random hot seat drawings will take place Tuesday, Feb. 18 and 25 from 3 – 7 p.m. If a winner is not present, the cash will roll to the next drawing

Heartbreak GiveawayWin your share of $20,000. Drawings will

take place every Friday in February from 5:30 – 10 p.m. Winners will break a heart to win $200, $400 or $600. Guests will receive one free entry on promotion days and additional entries with each set of 20 unadjusted points earned.

Earn 5X Points on PenniesEach Thursday, 8 a.m. – midnight in

February, earn 5X Points on all Penny slot machines. Point multiplier is not valid on video poker and you must register at the players club or cashier services prior to playing.

Paradise 50 Plus Each Sunday, all guests age 50 or better

can join the Paradise 50 Plus club. You will receive 3X points on all slots, 2X points on video poker, a free ice cream and a Free Calypso’s

Buffet after earning five unadjusted points. For complete details, visit the player’s club.

Bus Fare RefundDo you ride the bus to Black Hawk? The Isle

will refund your bus fare up to $20. Simply earn 35 unadjusted points on your player’s card and present your return bus ticket to the player’s club or cashier services. Table Games and Poker players will receive their bus fare back with four hours of consecutive play.

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Play And StayPlay 30 unadjusted points on your IsleOne

club card Sundays through Thursdays between 8 a.m. and midnight and stay the night on us! Check with the Player’s Club or Cashier Services once you have earned your points to receive your hotel offer. This offer is valid only on the day the points are earned and is based on availability, blackout days may apply.

Table GamesThe Isle has all your favorite table games

including blackjack, craps with 10 times odds and roulette! Also available at the Isle, Three Card Poker, Bonus 6, Buffalo blackjack, Double Deck blackjack, and 21+3. Mississippi Stud, Ultimate Texas Hold’Em and Let-It-Ride are all linked to one progressive jackpot that as of Feb. 10 is $99,045. Three Card Poker has its own progressive jackpot and is at $3,077. And now exclusively at the Isle you can play “Craps-Free Craps” with 10 times odds.

Poker RoomBad Beat – The Isle has the easiest bad

beat to win in Black Hawk. The Bad Beat Jackpot Pool as of Feb. 10 is $122,485. That means Aces full of 10’s through Kings beaten would pay over $12,248 or 10% of the total jackpot pool. With 3 Aces on the board still qualifying, this is the easiest way to win a bad beat around. Quad 2’s through 7’s beaten would pay more than $61,242 or 50% and Quad 8’s or better beaten would pay over $91,863 or 75%! For complete rules, please contact the Poker Room at 303-998-7905.

Free Food – The Isle provides free food for poker players seated in a live cash game or tournament including: Hot & Fresh Pizza, hot dogs, brats, 2 varieties of soup, nacho’s & cheese, chili, as well as vanilla, strawberry or chocolate milkshakes made to order!

Tournaments – Monday through Friday, there will be two tournaments each day at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Every Thursday is Omaha Day at the Isle with 2 weekly Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Tournaments to choose from. For complete information, please contact the Poker room at 303-998-7905.

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TradewindsTradewinds at the Isle has a new

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$100,000 Cupid’s Arrow Giveaway

Drawings are every Friday, start-ing at 5 p.m. and Saturday, starting at 3 p.m. The final drawing will be held Saturday, Feb. 22. Three winners will be randomly selected at each drawing time to punch the board for their chance at up to $2,000 cash.

$16,000 Sweet Sunday Giveaway

Drawings every Sunday in February at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Three winners at each drawing will select a heart from our prize board. Prizes range from $100 in QuickPlay to $500 in cash. Earn period midnight Monday through 3 p.m. Sunday. Carded Players - Every 10 base points or ½ hour of tracked table play = 1 entry. Non-Carded Players - Players will receive 1 entry from a team member approximately every ½ hour they are seated at slot machine or 1 hour of live table play. Paper entries for carded players must be received from the A-Play Club prior to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Ladies NightEvery Tuesday from 5 – 9 p.m. Must

be a female, 21 years or older and an A-Play Club member to participate. Spe-cialty Drinks and appetizers available for $2 at the Masquerade Bar, Gold Bar, and Gulch Bar*. Drawing: raffle tickets are given with each purchase of a spe-cialty drink or appetizer between 5 – 9 p.m., drawing is at 9 p.m. Three winners will be picked at the Masquerade Bar

and Gold Bar. One winner will be picked at the Gulch Bar. Winners will be award-ed their choice of either $100 in free slot QuickPlay or $100 in table games non-cashable chips.

Disclaimer: Guests may win one prize per day. Guests must be present to win. *Appetizers only available at the Mardi Gras and Golden Gates.

Fat TuesdayEvery Tuesday

is Fat Tuesday. Earn 100 base points and receive Fat Tuesday Beads (Classic). Earn 250 base points and receive Fat Tuesday Premium Beads. Beginning March 1, purchase a 25oz Souvenir Tumbler at any bar for $6.99, fill it with your favorite beverage for $2 each time you visit with the cup. The tumbler is valid for the entirety of the promotion. Once purchased, a guest may bring it with them on a subsequent visit and fill it for $2. Enjoy Louisiana-style food specials every Tuesday at Bourbon Street Café & Buffet.

New Member OfferNew members may receive up to

$15 in free slot QuickPlay. Earn $5 just for enrolling in A-Play. Receive $5 for a valid email address. Get $5 if the guest is staying at any Black Hawk Hotel if they show a room key upon sign-up. Earn 50 base points or 1 hour of tracked table or live poker play on the day of sign-up and receive a free meal up to an $8.99 value. Free meal voucher may be redeemed at any pro-motional kiosk and taken directly to the food outlet.

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Take a ride on usBullwhackers offers convenient

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Exciting new menuTry our specialties, which include

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Gaming

What are your true motives for playing b l a c k j a c k ?

Do you play for the sport of it, or do you play cold bloodedly to win? Either way if you are not playing “per-fect” Basic Strategy then you are pretty much throwing your hard earned dollars away and lining the casinos’ pockets.

In my Table Appraisal Cover Story article dated Dec. 4, 2013, I disclosed the House Edge for all the blackjack tables in Black Hawk and Central City. For ex-ample, Johnny Z’s 2-Deck game, where the dealer stands on soft 17’s and allows double after split, the house edge clocked in at a scant 0.204 percent. What this is saying is that if you were to flat bet $10 per hand and played ap-proximately 100 hands per hour, then you can expect to lose, on av-erage, $2.04 per hour of play. This would be pretty much a “break-even” game. However, the only

possible way to get the house edge down that far without counting is via Optimal Play With Basic Strategy.

In a single-deck blackjack game there are 1,326 possible two-card combinations,

with only 55 distinct two card hands allowable for the player. The dealer’s up card can only consist of one of 10 different card values. (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and Ace) This makes up a total of 550 possible cases for the player to solve and decide whether they should hit, stand, double down, pair split, or even surrender. Keep in mind that there is only one op-timal play for any scenario. Each and every decision you make needs to be a function of the laws of probabilities and the results of your overall expected value, based from each possibility. Do not fret…this is what our blackjack founding fathers quantified for us years ago when they developed Basic Strategy by performing

complete combinatorial analysis on the game of blackjack.

There is a lot of literature out there that you can read and get a Basic Strategy for blackjack. There are one-size fits all Basic Strategy tables in which you can utilize in pretty much every stan-dard game. On the other end of the spectrum, there are distinct Basic Strategy tables that are de-pendent on the number of decks used. For example, in Appendix B: in Dynamic Blackjack-The Professional Approach I reveal advanced Basic Strategy Charts for the 1, 2, and 4+ Deck games. These distinct and specialized Ba-sic Strategy tables squeak out ev-ery possible gain achievable when playing in that particular game. I truly understand that trying to memorize all these tables can at first be a daunting and grueling endeavor. What I have done is created a set of six Basic Strat-egy Cards for the 1, 2, and the 4+ Decks. The cards can be used in all of the games dealt in the Colorado casinos where the dealer stands or

hits on soft 17. You can sit down at any table, use these cards and play with utter confidence that you will always be making the proper play. No more guessing and throwing your money away from improper play.

These cards are pocket size and easy to read. They have been lam-inated for durability and will last you many-many years. This article is not merely to promote my cards but also to get my readers to only bring their “A” Game to the table when they play! The full set of six Basic Strategy Cards retails for $11.95. Let me go through some of the mathematical gymnastics of this for a minute. The average player playing by the seat of their pants, i.e., guessing, in the previ-ously mentioned 2-Deck game will lose approximately 3 percent of their total action. Wagering $10 per hand, playing 100 hands per hour, their net loss would be $30. If you were playing utilizing the Basic Strategy Cards then your net loss, on average, would only be $2. The cost of the set of cards would more than double within the first hour of play in expected gain. These Basic Strategy Cards can be purchased directly through

DiamondBack Publishing, LLC, which is a Colorado based busi-ness.

In conclusion, I truly hope that the next time you walk into a ca-sino you come equipped with the essential ammo needed to stop the casinos from beating you se-verely long-term. Fight fire with fire and stick it to them. Until then, Maverick Sharp does not believe in luck but wishes nothing but the “Best of Cards.”

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For Christmas this year my sweetie and I boarded the Magic Carpet and flew south all the way to Gulfport, Miss.

A neat little town right on the Gulf of Mexico, it is still recovering from the devastation of Hurri-cane Katrina. All the damage has been cleared, of course, but along the shoreline drive there are still many vacant lots where homes and other buildings stood. The Gulf was placid the days we were there and the gorgeous white sand beaches stretched for miles, invit-ing walks along the shore and toes dipping into the warm waters.

A few miles east of Gulfport lies Biloxi, Miss., where we usually like to stay. The Beau Rivage hotel and casino is right on the ocean front boasting pleasant (and af-fordable) rooms and all the gam-ing you could want. As my only vice in that area is poker, the fact they have a nice 12-table poker room offering two tournaments a day and a wide range of games

makes it all the more attractive to stay there. Once we were checked in and stabilized, I went down to check out the action and see if I could pay for the trip – or instead, have other people pay for the trip by their contributing to my bank-roll.

The first day I joined a $1 - $3 TRUE no-limit game; each player had $200 - $300 in chips and most had a few hundred-dollar bills backing up the stacks. This casino allows cash to play – if it’s on the table it’s fair game – and the games are indeed “No-Limit,”

as there is no state-mandated cap on the size of any wager. I ended up playing for 3 hours that first night winning $312. The game was a fairly loose-passive one and a little aggression on my part won me some pots I probably didn’t deserve to win, but no-one stood up to the bet and so was I forced to pull the chips into my stack.

The next day I went down in the early afternoon after luxuriat-ing in bed for most of the morn-ing to find another $1 - $3 game just beginning. I bought into it for $200 and kept a C-note in re-serve on the table. After an hour or so where everyone was sort-of dancing around each other, the following hand came up, one that prompts the title to this ar-ticle. I was in late position when a player in early position raised to $12; he got two callers; I then looked down to see the 8s – 7s in my hand. We all know that suited connectors (drawing cards) play better against a larger field, so I

called the $12.On the flop was 5 – 6 – Q rain-

bow; I had flopped open-ended with a lonely Queen to provide any apparent threat. The origi-nal lead bettor lead again with a $20 bet, folding the next player and enticing player #2 to call. An open-ended draw like that with no flush possibilities is a good deal for that price and pot odds, so I called. The Turn brought a 4, again a rainbow board and giving me the stone nuts – so far. Player #1 checked, player #2 bet $50 getting a call from me and an ap-parently reluctant player #1. The river brought a 9 – I still had the nuts and so far at least one player was betting into me. Player #1 checked again, player #2 bet $65 and before I gave myself a chance to think out a strategy, I heard myself saying “All in” for maybe $195 more.

Player #1 thought about it for a while, then mucked his cards. Player #2 seemed more pained at my bet, he held his cards up to look at them, placed them face-down on the table and looked my way, picked them up again; this

went on back and forth for a min-ute or so. He finally said “You’ve got the straight.” And mucked his pocket Queens face up. I admit I then revealed my hand for the nuts they were and scooped in a great pot.

I then began thinking about how I could have milked the play-ers for more – in my eagerness and excitement at having the nuts I forgot about what I should be do-ing at all times while at the tables, something forming the title of this article. I should be thinking about poker! I could have made a raise twice the river bet, enticing player #1 to stay in. A bet that size could have elicited an all-in bet from player #2 – which I would have immediately called, of course. Ei-ther one of those actions might have pulled more chips into the pot and provided a bigger payoff for my great hand.

All-in-all, it just goes to prove that all the time you’re sitting there, all the times you muck hand after hand, you must be alert to the possibilities of the game. To do that, you’ve always got to be thinking about poker.

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Are you confused about what type of new light bulbs to buy that will save energy and not break the bank? Did you know that you can go green and cut 75-80 per-cent of your lighting bill with these new bulbs? Soon the old bulbs will be phased out of the market because they just use too much valu-able energy.

If every 60 watt incandes-cent bulb in the U.S. alone was replaced with these new bulbs, that would result in a savings of 35 terawatt-hours of electricity. If you have no idea what a terawatt is, think of it this way: it’s nearly triple the annual power appetite of Washington, DC and enough juice to light up 18 million house-holds!

Tests have shown that new CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) and LEDs (light emit-

ting diodes) are light years ahead in en-ergy savings because they use less electric-ity and last so much longer. Unfortunate-ly the LEDs now cost much more than the CFLs, but they do save more electricity.

While LEDs are very expensive at this early stage, they still save money because they last a longer

time and have very low energy use. As with other electronics, prices are expected to come down as more products enter the market.

That’s why I have cho-sen to replace my old light bulbs with CFLs. When the LEDs become lower priced, I will consider buying them. Recently,

however, I purchased a solar-powered green flashlight for my husband, and I learned that its wonderful intense light was due to its LED bulb. Even though the LED bulb increased the cost of the flashlight, I also enjoy sav-ings from not having to replace the batteries. I have had a solar-powered watch for many years,

and I love not having to buy new batteries.

What are CFLs? They are simply

curly versions of the long

tube fluo-r e s c e n t

l i g h t s you may already h a v e in a

kitchen or garage.

Because they use about 75 percent less electricity than traditional incandescents, typical CFLs can pay for them-selves in less than nine months. Plus, they can start saving you

money each month and also last ten times longer than a compa-rable incandescent bulb that puts out the same amount of light.

The LED are a type of solid-state lighting – semiconductors that convert electricity into light. Although previously mostly used for indicator and traffic lights, LEDs are one of today’s most energy-efficient and rapidly-de-veloping technologies. LED bulbs save about one fourth more en-ergy than CFL bulbs and last up to 25 times longer than the tra-ditional incandescent bulbs they replace.

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More than 200 mil-lion years ago stood a lush tropical forest with giant trees and tropi-cal flora. Rivers flowed through green forests like the Amazon does today. Swamps popu-lated with fish, reptiles, logs and thousands of unimaginable insects moved like blue arter-ies that drained into an inland sea. Volcanic mountains spewed fire and lava in the southern skyline. It’s a scene that is hard to imagine when the same land we see today is an arid desert scattered with wood that has since turned to stone.

P e t -r i f i e d w o o d is real wood that has turned into rock composed of quartz crys-tals. Petrified wood has been preserved for millions of years by a process call petrification. This process turns the wood into quartz crystal, which is very brittle and shatters. Even though petrified wood is fragile, it is also harder than steel.

Petrified wood is known for its exquisite color and detail. Some pieces have retained the original cel-lular structure of the wood and the grain can easily be seen. Petrified wood can be found throughout the desert regions. One of the greatest concentra-tions of petrified wood in the world is found in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Logs as long as 200 feet and 10 feet in diameter have been found in the park. This was once part of a large forest that extend-ed from Texas into Utah. The trees were similar to modern-day conifers

and existed at the same time as the dinosaurs, fossils of which are often found in the park.

Petrified wood (from the Greek root “pet-ro” meaning “rock” or “stone,” literally “wood turned into stone”) is a process that begins with three raw ingredients: wood, water and mud. Petrification began

when the primitive trees fell to the ground and into the wa-terways on a journey through time. The logs were swept and tumbled downstream with sediment and oth-

er debris. The streams trav-eled through a plain

of lakes and swamps w h e r e w o o d , s e d i -

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logs contained volcanic ash,

which was a key ingredient in the

petrification process. When the volcanic ash

began to decompose, it re-leased chemicals into the water and mud. As the water seeped into the wood the chemicals from the volcanic ash reacted with the wood and formed into quartz crystals. As the crystals grew over time, the wood became incased in the crys-

tals, which, over millions of years, turned the wood into stone. The petrified logs were buried in the sediment for millions of years, pro-tected from the elements of decay. During this time the land in a par-ticular area called the Chinle For-mation, was covered by an ocean and another layer of sediments on top of the wood-rich formation. About 60 million years ago the ocean moved away and the erosion process began. More than 2000 feet of sediment have eroded to expose the top 100 feet contain-ing the petrified logs.

It is not the wood that makes petrified wood col-orful, but the chemistry of the petrifying ground-water. Minerals such as manganese, iron and copper were in the water/mud during the petrification process. These miner-als give petrified wood a variety of color ranges. Quartz crystals are col-orless, but when iron is added to the process, the crystals become stained with a yellow or red tint. The usual color of petrified wood is red, with yellow, black and white bands al-though other shades such as blue are often found. Sometimes the wood is much less colorful and comes in a dull gray or brown.

Petrified wood also can become opalized, that is, instead of the wood being replaced with quartz crystal, it is replaced with fire opal. The opalized wood contains bands or seams of fire opal. The opalized wood is usually found in hard, heavy, clay layers. The clay layers consist of volcanic ash de-posited between 12 and 20 million years ago. Opalized petrified wood

is rare and expensive.Instant Petrified

Wood? Yongsoon Shin and colleagues at the Department of Energy lab have converted wood to mineral, achieving in days what it takes nature millions of years to do. Shin started the process by giving a one centime-ter cube of wood a two-day acid bath, soaked it in a silica solution for two more days, air-dried it, put it into an argon-

filled furnace at 1,400 degrees centi-grade for two hours, then let it cool in argon to room temperature. The resulting material “replicates exactly the wood architecture,” according to Shin.

Mineraloid JetJet (ignite) is a geological mate-

rial and is considered to be a minor gemstone. Jet is not considered a true mineral gemstone, but rather a mineraloid, as it has an organic or-igin, being derived from decaying wood trees under extreme pressure over millions of years. It formed as a result of the compaction of driftwood that sank to the sea bot-tom and became imbedded in fine-grained mud. Jet is found in one of two forms: hard and soft. “Hard” jet is the result of the carbon com-pression and salt water; “soft” jet is the result of the carbon compres-sion and fresh water.

The name “jet” is an English word derived from the French word “jaiet” of the same meaning. It is

usually black and easily polished. It is used in making jewelry as far back as 10,000 BC in parts of modern day Germany. The oldest jet jewelry was found in Asturias, Spain, dating from 17,000 BC. During the days of the Roman occupation of Britain and up to the present time, it has had a varying degree of popularity, finding

its widest use as mourning jewelry. Jet as a gem material was high-ly popular during the reign of Queen Victoria, during which the queen wore jet as part of her mourning dress. Jet was popu-lar jewelry in the 19th century because of its somber color and

modest appearance, and has been traditionally fashioned into rosaries

for monks. Mourning jewelry is no longer in vogue.

Purity of the black color, freedom from inclusions of other minerals and absence of fine cracks increases its value, which is never particularly high. The polish should be bright, a dull polish is considered undesir-able. Jet has also been known as black amber, as it may induce an electric charge like that of amber when rubbed.

The finest jet has always been found and worked near the coast of Whithy, Yorkshire, England. It oc-curs in lumps of variable sizes, often retaining the shape of the branches and twigs of the trees of which it evolved. Jet is also found in Spain, Germany and the U.S. Material from El Paso County, Colorado, takes a fine polish and Utah jet from Wayne County is generally an inferior qual-ity with many cracks.

Petrified wood & jet, a mineraloidGemstone & Minerals

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Colorado History

In Honor of Black History MonthBy Rosemary Fetter

When Justina Ford applied to practice medicine in Denver, the li-censing examiner told her, “Ma’am, I’d feel dishonest taking a fee from you. You’ve got two strikes against you to begin with. First off, you’re a lady. Second, you’re colored.”

“I know it,” she replied. “I thought it through before I came. This is just the place I want to practice.”

Unthinkable today, the above exchange took place in 1902. Com-pared to the rest of the nation, however, the city’s race relations were cordial at the time. Denver’s relatively small African American population clustered within a few blocks of the Five Points area, with boundaries at Park Avenue, Down-ing Street, Stout Street and Tremont Place. Until the Ku Klux Klan took over Colorado during the 1920s, they were a relatively well-educated and prosperous group, with only 222 out of 5,442 blacks older than age 10 categorized as illiterate. Still, segregation was everywhere.

The legendary Dr. Ford was never one to let obstacles stand in her way, however. She was born Justina Laurena Carter on Jan. 22, 1871, near Galesburg, Ill. According to most sources, she grew up and at-tended high school in Knoxville. The daughter of a nurse, Justina knew from childhood that she wanted to practice medicine. But unlike her mother, she wanted to be a doctor. While other little girls were play-ing with dolls, she was volunteering to dress chickens for dinner, “so I could get in there and see what the insides were like.”

With typical humor, she once told a reporter, “I was a seventh child. I wouldn’t play with the oth-ers unless we played hospital and I wouldn’t play even that unless they let me be the doctor…I didn’t know the names of sicknesses, so I invent-ed names. I had one standard pre-scription: tobacco pills. I remember that when neighbor folks were ill, I liked to tend them. I hope I didn’t do any harm.”

Ford received her college degree in Chicago and studied at Chicago’s Herring Medical School at a time when African American female medical students were a rarity. After graduating in 1899 she briefly prac-ticed medicine in Normal, Ala., but

her race and sex worked against her. Believing correctly that her options were better in the West, she decided to try her luck in Colorado, becom-ing possibly the first African Ameri-can female physician west of the Mississippi. Faced with racial and sexual discrimination all her life, “I fought like a tiger against both,” she said.

She was granted a Colorado medical license on Oct. 7, 1902. With a no-nonsense attitude and a soft heart, she began a lifelong ca-reer in general practice, Denver, de-

livering approximately 7,000 babies in the process. Although she cared for what she later called “plain black folks” and “plain white folks,” many of her patients were foreign-born, Latinos, Greeks, Japanese, Koreans and even immigrants from India. Often these ethnic groups preferred a woman physician rather than a man to assist with childbirth. Also, many distrusted or could not afford hospital care, and Denver physi-cians often refused to deliver a child at home.

“Yet there was a little one about to come onto the scene and some-one had to bring it, so why not me?” Ford said later.

As a result, Ford learned to speak anywhere from eight to 11 languag-es, including the language of com-passion.

In 1911, she purchased her own home at 2335 Arapahoe St., where she set up practice. In addition to the special situations created by her constituents, she faced the same problems shared by most physicians – irregular pay, odd hours and the need to be constantly on the move.

“I can go two days without sleep,” she once said. “I’ve done it often. The trick is not to slow down.”

Often her patients were unable to pay or paid in goods or groceries rather than cash.

“Some of the things they gave me are more precious than cash,” she would say, pointing to a brightly col-ored oriental cloth on her table or a hand-woven Mexican blanket. “You can’t buy things like that.”

She traveled first by horse and buggy, then by taxi (during her ca-reer she paid a small fortune in taxi fees) and finally by a private car driven by her nephew, Mateo Tor-res. (Another nephew, Jack Bradley, received a master’s degree from the University of Denver and became one of the few African Americans at the time to play in a major sympho-ny orchestra.)

A small, plump woman with prominent cheekbones, Ford was said to have a spiritual quality about her that gave her patients reassur-ance. She was married twice, origi-nally to a Rev. Ford, minister of Zion Baptist Church. After he died, she wed Albert Allen, but kept “Dr. Ford” as her professional name. Although she served on the staff of Denver General Hospital for years, as late as the 1940s, she was unable to practice at some of Denver’s hos-pitals. Her race and sex did not allow her to be a member of the Colorado

Medical Society, and as a result, of the American Medical Association. Fortunately, that situation was rem-edied during the post World War II years.

Even with a booming obstetri-cal practice, her financial situation never seemed to change. She was that rare breed of crusader, more in-terested in humanitarian goals than in money.

Four months before she died, she was quoted as saying, “When all the fears, hate and even some death is over, we will really be brothers as God intended us to be in this land. This I believe. For this I have worked all my life.”

Dr. Ford worked until two weeks before her death on in Oct. 15, 1952, at age 81. Survived by her second husband and several nieces and nephews, she was buried at Fair-mount Cemetery.

In 1983, her home on Arapahoe Street, built in 1890, was slated for the wrecking ball. Community lead-ers arranged for a stay of execution for the structure, after which the owners donated the house to a non-profit organization that could pay for relocation. The following year, Historic Denver, Inc. used preserva-

tion funds to move the property to a nearby site at the southwest cor-ner of 31st and California streets. In September 1985, the Black America West Museum and Heritage Center (founded in 1971 by Dr. Paul Stew-art) obtained a $197,000 grant from the Denver Community Develop-ment agency for the restoration of Dr. Ford’s house. By 1988, the Black America West Museum and Heri-tage Center had opened as a perma-nent fixture in the neighborhood. The museum houses an extensive collection of more than 35,000 per-sonal artifacts, memorabilia, news-papers, legal documents, clothing, letters, photographs and oral his-tories celebrating to contributions of African American pioneers. For more information, visit www.black-americawest.org.

In 1998, the Regional Transpor-tation District Art-At-the Stations commissioned Jess. E. DuBois to cast a bronze image of Dr. Ford. The statue stands on the plaza at 30th and Downing, a fitting tribute to the lady who never stopped fighting injustice and a monument to one of Denver’s great humanitarians.

Dr. Justina Ford fought racial and sexual discrimination

Statue of Dr. Ford at 30th and Downing.

Dr. Ford holds her nephew, Gene Carter, one of the 7,000 babies she delivered in Denver during her career.

Photo circa 1927, courtesy of the Denver Public Library Western

History Department

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Trail’s End

By Linda Wommack“He could track a grasshopper

through the sagebrush.”One of the many attributes paid

to Tom Tobin by his friends on the Colorado frontier, Tobin was truly a force to be reckoned with. A trapper, and a scout with excellent tracking skills, Tobin worked with the likes of Cols. Price and Tappan, and Major Grier in forging the frontier of the Colorado Terri-tory. Tom Tobin was an instru-mental figure in several famous incidents of Colo-rado’s early history. It was his exploration, knowledge, and keen in-sight of the land that helped to bring settlement to the frontier.

With these skills and the work with the military, Tobin’s reputation, while well known among the fron-tiersmen in southeastern Colorado, grew considerably across Colorado Territory. Tobin kept company with the likes of Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, the Bent brothers, Ceran St. Vrain and Dick Wootton, and is considered as one of the last of the famous fron-tier scouts who blazed the trail for permanent settlement.

Thomas Tate Tobin was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1823. His father, Bartholomew Tobin, was an Irish immigrant who had married a young widow, Sarah Autobees, in St. Louis. The young widow had a son, Charles, from her previous mar-riage. In 1823, she gave birth to Tom. A year lat-er, a daughter, Catherine was born. In 1828, at age 16, Charles Autobees left home to join the beaver trappers heading west. He returned to St. Louis in 1837, to fetch his half-brother, Tom, then 14. Tobin spent the next few years accompanying his brother Charles on pack trips delivering dry food supplies, and whiskey to frontier outposts and trading for beaver pelts

and buffalo skins. Included in their itinerary was Fort Jackson, near what later became Fort Lupton, Bent’s Fort and El Pueblo. The newly acquired pelts and skins were either traded at other forts, or taken to St.

Louis annually by William Bent.

For the next sev-eral years, Tobin

stayed with the Bent brothers at their fort on the Arkansas River, where he became an expert trapper and scout. It was also during

this time, that Tobin became an

expert tracker, his reputation as a great

marksman now served him well.

By 1846, following the war between Mexico and the United States, Tobin had married, and with his wife Pascuala and their young children, they were living in Arroyo Hondo, a ranch Tobin had built. This was located a few miles north of Taos, N.M., a place Charles Bent had first brought Tobin to. It was here at his ranch, that Tobin received military orders through General Ste-phen Kearny. Civil unrest remained following the War, particularly in the Taos area. Traveling alone and with

no word to anyone, save the military, Tobin car-ried dispatches to military authorities at Fort Leav-enworth. Returning to his home and family, Tobin found himself involved in a rebellion that would end in murder; the death of his beloved friend, Charles Bent.

Boiling feelings of re-venge and hatred spilled over onto the streets of Taos on the night of Jan. 19, 1847. A group of Santa Fe men, planning the at-tack for a month, broke into the home of New Mexico Gov. Charles Bent. They killed Gov. Bent, the sheriff and several men in the immediate area, while women and children fled. Among them were the wives and children of Kit Carson, and Thomas Boggs. Tobin, who was in the area, ran to the aid of his friend, Charles Bent, but to no avail.

With buildings burn-ing and fires set in alley-ways, Tobin managed to escape the carnage. The following day, an Indian runner came into Taos with a notice from the conspirators promis-

ing revenge against the Americans and murder to their enemy: the Catholic Church. Military troops from Santa Fe soon ar-rived, led by General Stephen Kearny, and Captain Ceran St. Vrain, who immediately re-cruited Tobin and his brother, Charles Au-tobees, to join their detachment in track-ing down the conspira-tors. Another legend-ary scout joined the military group, James Beckwourth. Following their trail, it was a few short days before the group was surrounded. A short battle of resis-tance ensued and a few of the conspiring group were killed. Tobin and his men brought the

others to Santa Fe. They were later tried, convicted and hanged.

By 1852, Tobin had moved his family north to serve as a scout near Fort Massachusetts, (later moved and renamed Fort Garland,) in southern Colorado. He spent his time farming on his small ranch. He sold his produce to the military, including Lt. Col. William Gilpin, (who would later become the first Territorial Gov-ernor of Colorado.) The two became friends and Tobin seemed content in this time of his life.

Then, in fall 1863, Tobin was called out of retirement. Territory Gov. John Evans, and Col. Sam Tap-pen, commander of Fort Garland, requested Tobin’s services to help in the apprehension of the Espinosa gang of outlaws. The Espinosas had murdered 28 men from Fairplay to Canon City in the summer of 1863, by the time Tobin took over the search. Tobin was offered a reward of $2,500 to track down the murderous gang. He was given a full militia, but

insisted on tracking the vi-cious killers alone, taking only three military men as backup. Tobin followed their trail from the site of the 28th victim for three days, leading into the San-gre de Cristo mountains.

He ambushed the dead-ly trio in a meadow and methodically shot them one by one. The leader, Vivian Espinosa was not dead, so Tobin slit his throat, decapitating him. Tobin then cut off the head of Espinosa’s nephew, and placed both heads in a gunnysack. Tobin brought the heads to Gov. Evans in Denver, as proof to col-lect his reward. He never received the reward, but was given a fine rifle at an honorary dinner.

Tom Tobin was known by all for his short temper, and was ready to fight at the worst provocation. He was also known to be a true friend, his loyalty knew no bounds. Yet he was also a man of few words.

Kit Carson III, the grandson of both Tom Tobin and Kit Carson, (Tobin’s daughter married Carson’s son,) said in an interview in 1946, “Grand-pa Tobin had known

Grandpa Carson a long time, they both came from the same town in what is now Missouri, Grandpa To-bin was a lot younger than Grandpa Carson, he looked on him as a sort of hero. Both of my Grandfathers were well respected and trusted.”

Tobin’s grandson remembered his childhood at Fort Garland as a happy one, living with his family, and really understanding the impor-tance of his grandfather. And yet the grandfather, Tobin went on to serve the military in 1868 as a chief scout on an Indian-hunting campaign, again under General Kearny. Among the scouts were again, his brother Charles Autobees and a new scout to the frontier, James William Hickok, who later gained fame as “Wild Bill” Hickok.

Tom Tobin, trail blazer, scout and tracker led a colorful life and lived among the pioneers of the state. He never thought that of himself. His-tory shows otherwise.

Colorado’s Legendary Tracker:

Tom Tobin helped construct Fort Garand, which his friend, Kit Carson later commanded.Photos courtesy of Denver Public Library

T om T obin

Character and wisdom are revealed in an aged Tom Tobin.

Kit Carson

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AQUARIUS - (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)You maybe burning the candles on both ends. You will want to work on your projects, which will prove profitable. You also have work and family responsibilities. Be careful to get rest when needed, otherwise your health will force you to get the rest you need Lucky Numbers: 9, 11, 12, 31, 40, 45 PISCES (Feb 20 - March 20)If you’ve been crafting financial enterprises this is the time to reap rewards. If you haven’t been investing time or effort in such ventures, start now. You will get the support you need to be successful Lucky Numbers: 6, 17, 21, 31, 40, 50

ARIES - (March 21 - April 20)Don’t waste your time on unproductive relationships. They will only bring you frustration at this time. You have energy to go, use wisely. Continue your work out project, focus on business. That would be a better use of your energy at this time. Lucky Numbers: 2, 6, 9, 29, 39, 59 TAURUS - (April 21 - May 21)You feel upbeat and it is contagious. Romance is on the rise. People gravitate to you. This is the time present yourself before the public if you so desire. Lucky Numbers: 12, 15, 18, 39, 45, 56

GEMINI - (May 22 - June 21)Your mind is clear and sharp. Issues that may have perplexed you in past are easily figured out at this time. You are lucky in general at this time. Go for it. Lucky Numbers: 6, 7, 21, 25, 43, 59 CANCER - (June 22 - July 22)Romance is on the rise for you. You will be successful in your relationships if you are generous in your thinking. Being selfish in your relationships will ruin your good fortune. Lucky Numbers: 3, 4, 16, 27, 33, 45 LEO - (July 23 – Aug 22)Seems like you’ve been handed lots of responsibility lately. Perhaps family or even lots of overtime at work is required of you. Perhaps the tasks required of you at this time seem burdensome. The burdens are temporary the positive results of your effort are long lasting. Lucky Numbers: 4, 9, 18, 23, 26, 27 VIRGO - (Aug. 23 - Sept. 23)You have the aura of charm at this time. You maybe invited to social gatherings that will prove fortuitous. If you are invited to a business gathering, may provide a leg up. A social gathering could bring romance to you. Lucky Numbers: 1, 3, 11, 16, 25, 42

LIBRA - (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23)Be careful driving or using any kind of machinery at this time. Accidents can easily happen while driving close to home, around guns or any mechanical device. Have machines checked before use and you will avoid any trouble. Lucky Numbers: 2, 6, 7, 16, 17, 47 SCORPIO - (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)Is there somebody you like but you don’t know how to tell them? Don’t spend your time trying to figure that out. If there’s meant to be romance there it will happen. Your good fortune lies elsewhere. Your luck is in financial speculation or creative endeavors at this time. Lucky Numbers: 3, 9, 14, 26, 27, 43 SAGITTARIUS - (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)Romance is in your stars. If in a relationship this is great time, if not you will likely meet a special someone. Also a good time for getting along with superiors at work. Maybe time for that promotion?Lucky Numbers: 2, 12, 15, 21, 33, 42 CAPRICORN - (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)If you have been in an intense relationship that has been life changing, the relationship maybe losing its steam. This doesn’t mean the changes you’ve made in your life were not desired by you or that you will go back to the way you were. This is what you wanted. Lucky Numbers: 1, 5, 7, 12, 27, 50

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birds don’t even want worms any-more. A penny saved might be a penny earned, but it won’t buy you squat. And if it ain’t broke, we don’t fix it anyway; we redesign it. And the old one, which was perfectly fine, becomes obsolete and starts taking up valuable space in the landfill.

Of course, I mean “we” in the universal, royal sort of way, not me personally. I’ve never rede-signed anything myself, except I once tried to use American cheese in a recipe that called for cheddar because I didn’t want to run to the store.

But today, I’m going to try redesigning some old maxims to be more in tune with the way

we live today. Frank-ly, some of them have let me down. I really fell for that old ad-age that nothing is impossible. Then I tried pouring ten ounces of hot water into an eight ounce cup. Yes, my watched pots never boil, but when I don’t watch, they boil dry. And I

always thought that if I kept my nose to the grindstone, it would get smaller. Maybe I misunder-stood that one.

Many old sayings can be im-proved with some additional information, for example, all the world’s a stage . . . so you better learn your lines.

Absolutely, play the hand you’re dealt . . . but first learn to play the game.

And time heals all wounds . . . but that doesn’t mean there won’t be scars.

Maybe if you choose a job

you love, you’ll never work a day in your life, but your boss might prefer you work every day.

And yes, that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but you might still wish you were dead.

A few of the old maxims need to be updated for the modern world. For example, if you’ve been looking for the silver lining, you haven’t been watching gold prices lately.

Maybe the only constant is change, but you get less of it back than you used to and you get none back at all if you use your debit card for every purchase.

Yes, life is short, and it could be even shorter if you text and drive.

And we can all stop worry-ing about too many chefs spoil-ing the broth. The extras will be eliminated on Top Chef.

A few old saws should be done away with altogether. I’ve

always thought the “good die young” is a bit of a disincentive.

Yes, most of what we wor-ry about doesn’t happen. But why quit doing something that works so well.

And I want everyone to stop saying, “If you want something done, give it to a busy person,” because I’m the busy person they keep giving it to. Not all busy people are ambitious and

efficient. Most of us just have trouble saying no.

Since I’m eliminating some adages, I’d like to add a few of my own to make sure we still have an ad-equate supply. You might have to chew on them awhile to make sense of them. They might not make sense then either.

If you want to dry off, you have to get out of the shower.

Just because it’s none of our business, doesn’t mean we don’t want to know.

A little whine is good for the heart, so try to whine a little every day.

Swim in the water you find yourself in or find a way to drain the pool.

And finally, be kind to ev-eryone! You never know who might win the lottery next.

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