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• Focus turns to managing silt buildup amid uncertainty on dam By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Uncertainty over the future
of the dam that holds back
Blame the droughtWickiup and Prineville reservoirs are lower than they've been in years.B1
Mirror Pond has prompted lo-
cal officials to scale back their vision for one of Bend's most recognizable features.
Bend Park 86 Recreation District Executive Director
amore incrementalapproach
local officials have expressed interest in dredging and reshaping the banks of the pond
that would initially look at the
to deter future accumulation.
Don Horton said Wednesday an ambitious plan to replace the dam and redevelop properties along the edge of the pond has been shelved — at
area between the Newport and Galveston avenue bridges.
least temporarily — in favor of
pond was last dredged, and
The area has become choked with silt that has built up in the more than 30 years since the
dump sediment into the pond. In July, Horton estimated the
Horton said he hopes to per-
cost of this work at $5 million, compared with $11 to 14million for a project that would insplit the cost of an initial design cluderemoval andreplacement process to help determine the
of the dam.
cost of dredging, bank reshap-
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This year, Deschutes' ballot will be empty
BENDFILM FESTIVAL
Putin's birthdayRussia'spresident spent his 63rd ordering missile strikes and playing hockey.A5
And a Web exclusiveThedebate about Pope Francis' meeting with Kentucky clerk Kim Davis rages on. besdbslletin.cern/extras
ing of city storm drains that
suade the park district board and the Bend City Council to
Filming births —should it be allowed at St. Charles hospitals?D1
ing and the relocation or filter-
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By Kailey Fisicaro The Bulletin
Come November, Central Oregon will have a single election, in Jefferson Coun-
ty; a ballot measure for a
EDITOR'5CHOICE
road district that serves
only about 70 people. In Deschutes County,
Mass killers often rely on past shooters' blueprints
it's uncommon not to have
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anything on the ballot for aNovember election,even in an odd year, according to Nancy Blankenship, Deschutes County Clerk.
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elections I' ve been here, it' s only the second time it' s happened," Blankenship said Wednesday. Looking further, Blankenship found it's only the
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third time in the past 26
years that it's happened — this year, in 2011 and in
By Erica Goode snd Benedict Carey
1989. Typically, Blankenship said, the election would be a small one. Only one or two things might appear on the
New Yorft Times News Service
As mass shootings have become evermore famil-
iar, experts have come to understand them less as
ballot.
isolated expressions of
have one, but it's all district-driven," Blankenship
rageand more asactsthat build on the blueprints of previous rampages. Experts in violence prevention say that many, if not most, perpetrators
of such shootings have intensively researched earlier mass attacks, often
"Pretty unusual not to
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surrounds these killings can have an accelerating effect on other troubled
and angry would-be killers who are already heading toward violence, they say. The killing of nine people at an Oregon community college last week was a textbook example. Before opening fire, the gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, reportedly uploaded a video about the 2012
See Election /A5
while setting up merchandise for sale at the BendFilm Festival office at the Liberty Theatre on Wednesday in Bend. For more about the BendFilm Festival, see Friday's GO! Magazine or bendbulletin.corn.
expressing admiration for those who carried them out. The publicity that
sard.
BendFilm board member and merchandise coordinator Pam Paget-Wakefield arranges hats
Ofteaiagnigftt The opening night film, "Breaking a Monster", starts at 5:30 p.m. today at the TowerTheatre. The festivities shift
to the Oxford Hotel, 10 NW Minnesota Ave., for the opening night reception at 8 p.m. in the Minnesota Ballroom. Tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door.
Today's BendFilm schedule Colors below indicate thegenre of the mainfeature; accompanying shorts maynot be of the samegenre. Fli M TyPES • Nerretive ~o t her[ + shorts blocks + ~ ocomeoteries . :::3p.m. ::4 : :5 : :6 :7 : :6 : 9 Time
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The rise of product placement By Gerry Smith Bloomberfs News
Radical Gr ace
Songs My Brothers i Taught Me Embrace of the Serpent
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For all of ourBendFilmcoverage, plusSundayshowtimes, visit www.bendbulletin.corn/bendfilm
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in
Moments before dimbing into bed with supermodel Christie Brinkley, Donny Deutsch turns to the camera and tells viewers that a certain brand of vodka is
perfect fortheoccasion. The scene is from Deutsch's new comedy se-
Newtown, Connecticut.
ries "Donny!" debuting next
The perpetrator ofthe Sandy Hook murders was
month on NBCUniversal's USA Network. It's the latest
himself a student of earlier
shootings — in 1999 at Columbine High School in Colorado, where 13 people were killed, and in 2011 in
Norway, where 77 people were killed. SeeShooters/A4
Inside • President Barack Obama's visit to Roseburg on Friday has divided the town,A4 • Threats close two colleges Wednesday,A4 • Ben Carson defends his comments,A4 • Updates on the shooting,B3 • An eerie similarity with the Sandy Hookattack, B3
Nuclear black market seeks ISextremists By Desmond Butler and Vadim Ghirda The Associated Press
sian connections that sought
specifically sought a buyer
to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The
from the Islamic State group.
CHISINAU, Moldova — In the backwaters of Eastern Eu-
Associated Press has learned.
rope, authorities working with
in February, when a smuggler offered ahugecacheofdeadly
C~ org a nizations, some with ties to the Russian KGB's successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in the tiny
cesium — enough to contami-
and impoverished Eastern
nate several city blocks — and
Europeancountry ofM oldova,
the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years
by gangs with suspected Rus-
The latest known case came
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investigators say. The successful busts, how-
ever, were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away, and those arrested evaded long prison sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling. See Nuclear /A6
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example of how TV shows, which have long avoided acknowledging product placement to their viewers, are becoming increasingly upfront about it, even turn-
ing it into a joke. Product placement — or "product integration" as
it's called in Hollywood — isbecoming more over-the-top.
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