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Russian adoption ban passes By David M. Herszenhorn New York Times News Service

MOSCOW — The upper chamber of Parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill to ban adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens, sending the measure to President Vladimir Putin, who has expressed support but not yet said if he will sign it. Enactment of the adoption ban, which was developed in retaliation for a U.S. law punishing Russians accused of violating human rights, would be the most severe blow yet to relations between Russia and the United States in a year marked by a series of setbacks. The vote in the Federal Council was 143-0, with 43 senators absent. By law, Putin has two weeks to act on the bill, but a decision is expected sooner. The bill calls for the ban to take effect Tuesday. The U.S. ambassador, Michael McFaul, who criticized the bill after the lower house passed it lastweek, posted a more restrained comment on Twitter on Wednesday noting the fierce disagreement that has erupted within Russian government and society. "I agree with hundreds of thousands of Russians who want children removed from political debate," McFaul wrote. "Saddened by Federal Council vote today." See Russia/A6

s Bend officials ponder how to catch up on a backlog of sewer improvements, citizens and elected officials have wondered aloud why previous city leaders allowed the problem to grow so large. "The timing is atrocious because we're talking about a very large water project and a very large sewer

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Mike Riley, executive director of The Environmental Center, raised a similar concern at the meeting, where Riley and other members of a city sewer advisory group presented an update on their work. "A lot of questions were asked about why weren't we building some kind of reserve (account), knowing we wouldhave to make infrastructure investments," Riley said. The city has approximately $20 million in reserves for sewer work, said Assistant City Manager Jon Skidmore. However, that is far short of what it will cost to fix the sewer system. The last cost estimate to expand the water treatment plant, install major gravity sewer lines and repair collapsed sewer lines and manholes was $174 million. That bill accumulated over decades, as the city delayed implementing a plan to expand the existing system of gravity-fed sewer lines and instead built a piecemeal system with 336 pump stations to serve new development. Planning officials also approved subdivisions that, when they are all built, will generate an estimated

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SALEM — Discussion surrounding reforming the state's pension system will likely intensify with the approach of the legislative session. And Rep. Gene Whisnant, R-Sunriver, wants the public at the table. Last week, the state added a new feature to its transparency website: how much is owed in retirement benefits to Oregon's retired public servants. Whisnant pushed unsuccessfully to add the link to the state website last session, but was recently able to win approval from the Transparency Oregon Advisory Commission. In light of the likely conversations surrounding the Public Employees Retirement System, Whisnant said he wants Oregonians to easily click a link and find out the unfunded liability in the retirement system. "My intent is to let people become aware of how much debt is in your city, county, school district, in addition to the state," Whisnant said. SeePERS/A4

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What'snext In November, anadvisory group of businesspeople, conservationists and other citizens in Bend identified three problem spots in the city sewer system whereshort-term improvements could

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prevent sewage overflows and allow development to continue while the city figures out a long-term

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plan. An engineering consultant hired by the city is researching possible fixes, and will report back to the city with recommendations andcost estimates on Jan. 17,said Assistant City ManagerJon

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Skidmore. Tom Hickmann, the city engineer and assistant public works director, said that if the advisory

committee makes arecommendation Jan. 17,the City Council could meet to consider whether to sign off on it as early as Jan. 21. The goal is to construct these improvements in 2013 and 2014. Once the short-term fixes have been determined, the advisory group will turn its attention to rec-

ommendations on long-term solutions. Hickmann said theadvisory group andconsultants could work until fall 2014 produce a final draft of the sewer collection system master plan. 8.5 million gallons of wastewater per day. The city wastewater treatment plant was designed to handle up to 6 million gallons of water per day and is functioning at its capacity, according to the Public Works Department. The city is working on upgrading the plant, but that could take several years to complete. Over the years, the city

has essentially backed itself into a corner, said Tom Hickmann, the city engineer and assistant public works director, last summer. "It's taken us many, manyyears ... to get ourselves into this situation." City officials have known fordecades that they needed more money for work that would allow the sewer system to keep up with new development and population

growth. In 1993, the city began collecting fees from builders to pay for sewer improvementstoserve new homes and businesses. In 2005, an analysis by city finance staff revealed that the cityundercharged developersforwastewater fees by roughly $13 million over the previous 12 years, The Bulletin reported. SeeSewer /A4

When people talk about "the whole nine yards," just what are theytalking about? For decades the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins, chased around wild speculative corners by amateur word freaks, with exasperated lexicographers and debunkers of folk etymologies in hot pursuit. Does the phrase derive from the length of ammunition belts in World War II aircraft? The contents of a standardconcrete mixer? The amount of beer a British naval recruit had to drink? Yardage in football? The length of fabric in a Scottish kilt (or sari, or kimono, or burial shroud)2 SeeOrigin/A5

Reminders abound aslife in Connecticut goes on By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times

MONROE, Conn. — Little girls hopped out of SUVs and skipped up the steps to the Connecticut Dance! studio. They slipped on black leotards, petal-pink tights and slippers, and padded off with giggling friends to ballet, jazz

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and tap classes. Some of the tiny dancers wore green ribbons, the favorite color of slain first-grade teacher Victoria Soto, or had scrawled the names of dead students on their wrists. Some arrived from funerals, having lost close friends, karate club and soccerteammates, fellow

Daisy and Tiger scouts. Twenty children have gone missing not just from Sandy Hook Elementary School, but from the intricate network of childhood activities that connect suburban Newtown. In the weeks ahead, as anguished families resume their schedules and social

lives, they will be repeatedly reminded of those missing faces, their sorrow testing the daily routines that bind them. None of the dancers' classmates was killed at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14. But the studio's owner, Andrea Stratford — Miss Andrea to the children — has a 5-year-old son, Luke,

who saw his teacher's aide after she was shot in the foot. Stratford's husband, Dennis, who works for the Newtown Board of Education, rushed to the school to make sure Luke had escaped the carnage, and then stayed to help the first responders. SeeShooting /A5

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W ASHINGTON — Wi t h historic tax increases set to hit virtually every American in five days, President Barack Obama and members of the Senate are headed back to Washington today to take one last shot at a deal to protect taxpayers and the gathering economic recovery. Ifanything, hope forsuccess appearedtohave dimmed over the Christmas holiday. The Republican-controlled House last week abdicated responsibility for resolving the crisis, leaving all eyes on the Senate. But senior aides in both parties said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have not met or even spoken since leaving town for the weekend. One small sign of progress came from House GOP leaders, who vowed Wednesday to call the House into session and stage a vote on anything the Democratic-controlled Senate approved. But Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and other top Republicans also demanded that Senate leaders take up a bill ap-

proved by the House months ago that would preserve expiring tax cuts for the wealthy as well as the middle class. After failing t o p ersuade their fellow Republicans last week to let taxes rise on income over $1 million, GOP leaders offered no guidance on the shape of a package the House could ultimately accept. "The House will take ... action on whatever the Senate can pass, but the Senate first must act," the leaders said in a joint statement. The White House, meanwhile, was working with Reid on an alternative package that would keep Obama's vow to let taxes rise on income over $250,000. Top Senate aides said their approach also would protect millions of m i d dleclass Americans from having to pay the costly alternative minimum tax for the first time and would keep benefits flowing to 2 million unemployed workers who otherwise would be cut off in January. The measure also could delay deep spending cutsset to strike at the Pentagon and other federal agencies next m onth. But a ides said t h e

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to own were on the mend Wednesday and said they were thankful for the support they've received. Investigators, meanwhile, traced

the gunman's weaponsand tried to confirm a body found in his destroyed house in Webster, N.Y., near Rochester, was his sister's.

Syria SetbaCkS —Syria's wounded interior minister cut short his treatment at a Beirut hospital Wednesday and returned home for fear of being arrested by Lebanese authorities, while Syria's chief of mili-

tary police defected to the opposition, becoming one of the highestranking officers to switch sides. The twin developments reflected the deepening isolation of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government,

which has suffered a number of setbacks on thebattlefield as well. OIItorg OVeI' gIIII maP —Following the Connecticut school killings, a newspaper in nearbyWestchester County, N.Y.,published the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in its readership

area. The newspaper,TheJournal News, said that informing people about legal weapons in their neighborhoods was a public service. Not everyone agreed. The posting of the information online over the weekend has touched off an outcry that has underscored the raw

emotions surrounding the issue of guns. Afghan dembilIg —A suicide bomber killed three Afghans on Wednesday in anunsuccessful attempt to enter anAmerican military

toward the front gate but was stopped by an Afghan guard. The attacker detonated his explosives and killed the guard, as well as two

civilians, Baqizoi said.

gest high-speed rail line, which more than halves the time required

to travel from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China. Wednesday's opening of the1,428mile line was commemorated by the 9 a.m. departure of a train from

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scores of motorists got stuck on icy roads or slid into

mas Day tornado in Mobile, Ala. A powerful winter storm system that pounded the

drifts, and blizzard warnings were issued amid snowy gusts of 30 mph that blanketed roads and wind-

nation's midsection, wrecking holiday travel plans and dumping a record snowfall in Arkansas, began

shields, at times causing whiteout conditions.

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time between the two cities by train was morethan 20 hours. Japan'S neW leader —Parliament formally elected Shinzo Abe as prime minister on Wednesday,ending athree-year break from decades of near-constant rule by his conservative Liberal Democratic Party. The victory puts Abe, 58, a former prime minister and an out-

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Coral reefs could be decimated by 2100

FiSCal CriSiS —President Barack Obamaand members of the Senate are back in Washington to make a lastditch effort at a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.A2

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Senate —Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz of Hawaii is sworn in

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As consumers grow more sophisticated about what they eat, food sellers say they cannot get enough antibiotic-free meat. Farmers seeking a solution have turned to oregano oil and cinnamon. Some swear by it, but where food safety is concerned, opinions remain mixed.

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Manhattan. (Openingnight, consisting of several hours of live acts, was considered a disaster, prompting the owners to shift

toaformatof showing amovie followed by astageshow.) In 1512, King Ferdinand II issued the original Laws of Burgos, which were intended to regulate the treatment of in-

digenous people on Hispaniola by Spanish settlers. In1822, scientist Louis Pas-

teur was born in Dole, France. In1831, naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-

world voyageaboard the HMS Beagle. In1904, James Barrie's play "Peter Pan: TheBoyWho Wouldn't Grow Up" opened at the Duke of York's Theater in

London. In1927,the musical play "Show Boat," with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by

Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. In1945, 28 nations signed an

agreement creating the World Bank. In1947,the original version of the puppet character Howdy Doody made its TV debut on NBC's "Puppet Playhouse." In1949, Queen Juliana of the

Netherlands signed anact recognizing lndonesia's sovereignty after more than three

centuries of Dutch rule. In1968, Apollo 8 and its three astronauts made a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific. In1979, Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. Presi-

dent Hafizullah Amin, whowas overthrown and executed, was

replaced by BabrakKarmal. In 1985, Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; 19 victims were killed, plus four attackers

who were slain by police and security personnel. American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied gorillas in the wild

in Rwanda, wasfound hacked to death.

Ten years ago:A defiant North Korea ordered U.N.nuclear inspectors to leavethecountry and said it would restart a

laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. But the U.N. nuclear

watchdog said its inspectors were "staying put" for the time being.

Five yearsago:Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was

assassinated during a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan fol-

lowing a campaign rally. One year ago:Tensof thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad

shortly after his army pulled its tanks backand allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising.

BIRTHDAYS Actor Gerard Depardieu is 64. Jazz singer-musician T.S. M onk is 63.Rock musician

David Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 60. Actress Theresa Randle is 48. Actress Eva LaRue is 46.

Former professional wrestler and actor Bill Goldberg is 46. Actor Masi Oka is 38. Actor

Aaron Stanford is 36. Actress Emilie de Ravin is 31. — From wire reports

Nearly every coral reef

could be dying by 2100 if current c a rbon d i o x ide emission trends continue, according to a new review of major climate models from around the world. The only way to maintain the current chemical environment in which reefs now live, the study suggests, would be to deeply cut emissions as soon as possible. It may even become necessary to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, say with massive tree-planting efforts or machines. The world's open-ocean reefsarealreadyunderattack by the combined stresses of

effectiveness of oregano oil on 18 mice infected with staph FREDERICKSBURG, Pa. bacteria. Six mice were given The smell of oregano wafting oregano oil, and half survived from Scott Sechler's office is for the full 30 days of the treatso strong that anyone visiting ment. Six received carvacrol, Bell & Evans these days could regarded by many experts to be forgiven fo r w o ndering be the antibacterial component whether Sechler has forsaken in oregano, in olive oil, and the production of chicken and none of them survived longer gone into pizza. than 21 days. Six other mice Oregano lies loose in trays received only olive oil and died and tied into bunches on tablewithin three days. tops and counters, and a big, The study, which was underblue drum that held oregano written by a company, North oil stands in the corner. "Have American Herb and Spice, and acidifying and warming wayou ever tried oregano tea'?" presented at a meeting of the ter, overfishing, and coastal Sechlerasked, mashing leaves American College of Nutrition pollution. Carbon emissions between his broad fingers. Jessica Kourkounis/New YorkTimes NewsService in 2001, was repeated and all have already lowered the pH Off and on over the last Scott Sechler, of Bell & Evans, holds one of his chickens at a barn those findings were corroboof the ocean a full 0.1 unit, three years or so, his chickens in Fredericksburg, Pa. Some chicken farms, including Bell & Evans, rated, Preuss said. which has harmed reefs and have been eating a specially are using oregano-based products as substitutes for antibiotics, but Preuss said he had applied hindered bivalves' ability to milled diet laced with oregano research on their effectiveness is scant, and many remain skeptical. to the National Institutes of grow. The historical record oil and a touch of cinnamon. Health for financing of a larger of previous mass extinctions Sechler swears by the concocstudy, with no luck so far. "This suggests that acidified seas tion as a way to fight off bacte- "I have worried a bit about how I'm going to is really promising, particuwere accompanied by widerial diseases that plague meat sound talking about this. But I really do think larly when you consider that spread die-offs but not total and poultry producers without we're on to something here." we are facing a crisis in our extinction. resorting to antibiotics, which hospitals and health systems To study how the world's some experts say can be detslowly souring seas would — Scott Sechler with the increasing resistance rimental to the humans who to antibiotics," he said. affect reefs in the future, scieat the meat. Products at Bell After hearing about Bell 8 entists with the Carnegie In& Evans, based in this town Evans' use of oregano oil, Bob stitution for Science in Palo about 30 miles east of Harris- pay at least 5 cents a pound E. coli with that of four of the Ruth, the president of Country Alto, Calif., analyzed the burg, have long been free of more for meat raised without company's products. View Family Farms, a Pennresults of computer simulaantibiotics, contributing to the antibiotics. In all four test groups, Ropa- sylvania-based company, detions performed by 13 teams "Before, it was kind of a nice diar outperformed the Bayer company's financialsuccess cided to test it on some of his around the world. The modas consumers have demanded little business, and while it's products. "Strange but true!" pigs. Over the last six months, els include simulations of purer foods. still microscopic in the grand Dr. Lucio Nisoli, the Bayer about 5,000 pigs have eaten how ocean chemistry would But Sechler said nothing he scheme of things, we're see- product manager, wrote in his feed laced with By-0-Reg afinteract with an atmosphere had used as a substitute in the ing acceptance from retailers report on the trial. "Compared ter being weaned from their with higher carbon dioxide past worked as well as oregano across the country, not just to the various anti-infectives, mothers. levels in the future. oil. "I have worried a bit about in California and on the East with Ropadiar I have obtained "The preliminary results are Using the models' predichow I'm going to sound talking Coast," said Stephen McDon- m uch m or e e ff ective a n d encouraging, but we need to be tionsfor futurephysicaltraits about this," he said. "But I re- nell, founder and chief execu- quicker results.Furthermore, sure it's giving us the results such as pH and temperature ally do think we're on to some- tive of Applegate, an organic piglets treated with Ropadiar we need to give us the confiin different sections of the thing here." and natural meats company. look much more healthy and dence to start using it more ocean, the scientists were Skeptics of herbal medicines McDonnell said a c onflu- were not so dehydrated and broadly," Ruth said. able to calculate a key chemiabound, as any quick Internet ence of trends, from height- wasted." Ruth and Sechler warned cal measurement that affects search demonstrates. ened interest in whole and natAstrid Kohler, a s p okes- that using oregano oil to concoral. Corals make their "Oil of oregano is a peren- ural foods to growing concerns woman i n M o n heim, Ger- trol bacterial infection also reshells out of the dissolved nialone, advertised as a cure about medical problems like many, for Bayer Healthcare's quires maintaining high stancarbonate mineral known for just a bout everything," diabetes, obesity and gluten animal health business, con- dards of sanitation in barns as aragonite. But as carbon said Scott Gavura, a pharma- allergies, were contributing to firmed that the company had where animals are sheltered, dioxide pollution steadily cist in Toronto who writes for the demand for antibiotic-free done the trial but said that "in as well as good ventilation acidifies the ocean, chemical the w ebsite S c ience-Based meat. further evaluations the results and light, and a good nutrition reactions change the extent Medicine. "But there isn't any There is growing concern of the first study could not be program. to which the carbonate is evidence, there are too many among health care experts replicated with the same speAfter a chicken flock leaves available. That availability is unanswered questions and the and policymakers about anti- cies, nor with other species." a barn at Bell 8 E v ans for known as its saturation, and only proponents of it are the biotic resistance and the rise Other testing is rare. A test slaughter, for instance, the fais generally thought to be a of "superbugs," bacteria that of oregano oil on four small ones producing it." cility is hosed down, its water number between 3 and 3.5. Nonetheless, Gavura said are impervious to one or more farms in Maine, which was lines are cleaned out and evNo precise rule of thumb he would welcome areduction antibiotics. T hose b a cteria financed by a $ 9,914 grant erything is disinfected. It sits exists to link t hat f igure in the use of antibiotics in ani- can be passed on to consum- from the Agriculture Depart- empty for two to three weeks and the health of reefs. But mals. At the same time, con- ers, who eat meat infected ment, found it was effective in to allow bacteria to die off and the Carnegie scientists say sumers are growing increas- with them and then cannot be controlling the parasites and to ensure that the rodents that paleoclimate data suggests ingly sophisticated about the treated. worms that afflict goats and carry salmonella and campythat the s aturation level content of the foods they eat. In November, the Centers sheep. lobacter are eliminated. during preindustrial times "You can't just replace anData on sales of antibiotic- for Disease Control and PreDr. Harry Preuss, a profes— before carbon pollution free meatis hard to come by, vention and 25 national health sor of physiology and biology tibiotics with oregano oil and began to accumulate in the but the sales are a tiny frac- organizations and advocacy at the Georgetown University expect it t o w o rk," Sechler sky and seas — was greater tion of the overall meat mar- groups issued a statement on Medical Center, studied the said. than 3.5. ket. Sales in the United States antibiotics that, among other of organic meat, poultry and things, called for "limiting the fish, which by law must be use of medically important raised without antibiotics, to- human antibiotics in food anitaled $538 million in 2011, ac- mals" and "supporting the use cording to the Organic Trade of such antibiotics in animals Association. By comparison, only for those uses that are sales of all beef that year were considered necessary for as$79 billion. suring animal health." Still, retailers like Costco, Analysis of Food and Drug Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, A dministration data by t h e as well as some restaurant Center for Science in the Pub+> C~ l i chains, complain that t h ey lic Interest found that 80 perQ( cannot get enough antibiotic- cent of all antibiotics sold in free meat. the United States are used in Noodles & Co., a fast-grow- animals. The majority of those ing chain of more than 300 antibiotics are used to spur restaurants, recently added growth or prevent infections a ntibiotic-free pork t o th e from spreading in the crowdchoices of ingredients that cused conditions in which most tomers can add to their made- animal production takes place • I to-order pastas. It ensured its today. supply by ordering cuts of meat The European Union has I. that were not in relatively high banned the use of antibiotics demand and by committing in to accelerate growth, and the advance to buy a year's worth, European Parliament is pushsaid Dan Fogarty, its executive ing to end their use as tools to vice president for marketing. prevent disease as well. "We're deliberately voting The oregano oil p r oduct with ou r p o cketbooks," he Sechler uses, By-0-Reg Plus, said. is made by aDutch company, In a nationwide telephone Ropapharm Inte r national. 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Continued from A1 The state's pension system is facing an unfunded liability of $16 billion. Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend, who sits on the transparency commission, said the PERS information is an improvement, but she hopes the website offers more in the future. "The transparency website basically makes a bunch of links available, and this makes it easier for people to see," she said. "But I was always hoping to make it more robust."

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A street market in Yangon, Myanmar. Nearly five decades of isolation have left the capital city of 4 million people resembling the old-fashioned colonial capital it was during more than a century of British rule.

By Anita Kumar YANGON, M y anmar There are no credit cards. The Internet is virtually impossible to access. Other everyday conveniences we've grown accustomed to in the United States are nonexistent. You couldn't even find a C oke in M y anmar u nti l a couple of months ago, when the Coca-Cola Co. announced that it would start exporting its drinks to th e Southeast Asian nation for the first time in six decades. Diet Coke still seems tobe out ofreach. In many ways, Myanmar is the land time forgot. Tourists arriving inthe country for the first time in two generations find it still looks much as it must have in the 1960s, when the military seized control of the government and began its 49-year rule. International isolation has left the nation's largest city, Yangon, resembling the oldfashioned colonial capital it was during more than a century of British rule instead of a large Asian metropolis buzzing with technology. Massive colonial structures the size of Washington's federal buildings — which once housed government agencies, courtsand department stores — span block after block of downtown Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon. Even the

heavily guarded pale blue City Hall has a colonial motif, though with Asian overtones. History books tell us that the M y anmar g o vernment kicked out squatters and be-

gan sprucing up the buildings 20 years ago. But while some have beenrestored to theirformer grandeur, most have been abandoned in desperate need of repair or covered in blue scaffolding. Yangon, home to 4 million of the country's 55 million people, doesn't feel like the massive urban centers that dot Asia, such as neighboring Bangkok or Mumbai. There are no skyscrapers. Visitors flying into the former capital city can still see lush green fields, oxen hauling supplies and homes made of bamboo and dried leaves. Everywhere you look, the i nfrastructure a p p ears t o have failed to keep up with the times. Large d i lapidated apartment buildings that appear uninhabitable are overflowing wit h r e sidents. Streets and sidewalks, uneven right to left and up and down, are crammed wit h f o o d s t a lls s elling f r ui t u n f amiliar t o Americans, fried treats and cold drinks i n p l astic bags with straws. Vendors hawk T-shirts, jewelry made from Myanmar jade and traditional lacquerware handicrafts. S econdhand b o ok s t h a t look like third- or fourth-hand books are sold on Pansodan Street in what some call Yangon's open-air library. Women wearing traditional longyi sa-

rongs and heavy beige powder on their faces carry baskets on their heads, while men crowd the ubiquitous teahouses and the Myanmar version of food trucks, small carts where meat is cooked in front of the one or two people who are able to snag seats. A 2010 election launched a series of political changes

Pump stations City Councilor Jim Clinton, first elected in 2004 and the longestserving member currently on the council, said the city ended up with so many pump stations because of a combinationofpressure from developersto allow cheaper sewer infrastructure and the belief among previous public works officials that sewer

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Coca-Cola returned to Myanmar just a couple of months ago. in the country — cease-fires in some ethnic conflicts, the release of political prisoners, loosened restrictions on the news media — and with political changes came cultural

changes. Last month, in an attempt to encourage the emerging democracy, Barack O bama became the first U.S. president to visit a nation still known to most people as Burma, arriving to throngs of jubilant fans, who filled the streets, chanting his name and waving American flags. A team from AT8rT accompanied his staff an d p ress corps, setting up phone and computer lines in a n a t ion where only one in four people have electricity. They even managed to p r ovide w i r eless communication — somewhat intermittently — for the U .S. media working on t he manicured lawn outside the home of f a med o pposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the same place where the activist known in Myanmar simply as "the lady" spent 15 years under house arrest, presumably with no communication with the outside world. When Air Force One left, so did the technology. International visitors quickly realized that cellphone service providers don't provide service in Myanmar, putting it in the same category as a handful of countries that include Cuba and North Korea. Some residents have c ellphones, but many others make calls at stalls equipped with land-line phones and people standing by to collect money. Finding wireless service is even more difficult. Only a handful of hotels and cafes have such service, but like air conditioning and electricity, it often doesn't last for long. There are signs that, finally, in small ways Myanmar is starting to catch up with the world. Guides offer English tours at the 2,000-year-old Shwedagon Pagoda, a massive structure that despite the nation's immense poverty gleams with gold and diamonds. A few of t he fortune-tellers that l i ne busy Sule Paya Road now cater to foreigners. Billboards, w ritten i n My a n ma r a n d English, advertise Samsung, Panasonic and Rolex products. One promoted cappuccino with "real foamy Italian taste!" Credit cards still aren't accepted, but visitors can pay some hotels, now filled to capacity, in U.S. dollars. The airport, however, can still barely handle one flight taking off at a time. And in a nation where English isn't r egularly spoken,

young men have found the couple of words needed for a job that they never could have anticipated a few years ago. Standing on busy streets, they forcefully offer to change foreign money into Myanmar kyat, for a small fee, of course.

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money'?" they insistently ask anyone who doesn't look as if he belongs. Those living in near-isolation for five decades are just getting a sense of what the rest of the world is likeand some apparently are finding they like it.

In Yangon's huge Bogyoke Aung San Market, where stall after stall displays Myanmar's traditional white cotton shirts and velvet sli ppers, vendors have added a new item: red, beige and blue T-shirts with an image of Obama, the same one that became famous during the 2008 election. But instead of the word "hope," the shirts are adorned with another word that better reflects Myanmar's state: "progress."

Andy High, vice president for government affairs at the Central Oregon Builders Association and a member of thecit y sewer advisory group, could not b e r eached for comment. Clinton said "there was a lot of pressurefrom developers," who are required to build the infrastructure to connect new projects with the sewer system, for the city to allow pump stations. Pumps allowbuilders to dig a shallower trench for sewer lines — which reduces the initial cost because of the

Whisnant was one of the original backers of the idea to create the state's transparency website in 2009. The idea is to get citizens more engaged with state government and demonstrate how taxpayer dollars are being used. When it comes to the recently added PERS information, he's pushing to simplify the

language more.

"We're s till working o n clarifying it, so not just an accountant can understand it," Whisnant said. — Reporter, 541-554-1162 ldahe@bendbulletin.com

lion gallons of wastewater or more, he said. The plant has handled that much during storms, Hickman

agreed. "But that is not a sustainable threshold for the plant," he said. "If that became the sustained flow, the plant would be overloaded and would not be able to process that fast enough." When wastewater flowing to the plant exceeded 8 million gallons per day, "what happens

is in each of those (cases), the water spills out of the facilities. ... Water just spills out of the tank and goes on the ground." Now, developers face i ncreased costs and other obstacles due to the decisions of previous city officials. Many businesses on the north end of the city connected to the sewer using pressurized lines and pumps. That is no longer an option in many cases, so when Panda Express wanted to build a restaurant in the area, Oberst said, "we worked with them for six months to figure out an alternative for where theywere going todischargetheirsewer,because they were going to discharge into a line that was at capacity." Inthe end, Panda Express built a more expensive gravity line to a major regional pump station. Pam Hardy, staff attorney for 1000 Friends of Oregon and a member of the city sewer advisory group, said 1000 Friends believed the previous city plan to expand the gravity lines would have encouraged urban sprawl, but the city is now headed in a positive direction. "Essentially the way we see it is,there was some serious overexuberance during the boom, and decisionswere made that were probably not the wisest and most forward-looking," Hardy said."Butmysenseis atthispoint, coolerheadsare prevailing."

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As for why the city approved subdivisions in excess of what the sewer system can serve, Oberst said part of the problem was that the city did not have much data on how geology of Central Oregon. the sewer system was funcAlthough gravity sewer lines tioning until recently. "Back in the late '90s and require less m a intenance, their up-front cost is greater the early part of the last debecause builders must dig cade, we didn't have computer deep into basalt rock to obtain modeling to evaluate our sewthe correct slope, Clinton said. er system, and we had no idea Public works employees also what the flows would be from supported the pump stations. the platting (of lots) we were "The wave of the future, as doing," Oberst said. it was being described, was The city hired Oberst in instead of (gravity lines) to 2005; like Rheault, he was not put in pumping stations, and at the city when some of the then you can put in a small problems developed. pipe closer to the surface and However, Oberst also disthat's all less expensive," Clin- agreed with the Public Works ton said. "What happens, of Department assessment that course, is once the develop- the treatment plant cannot ment is completed, the devel- handle 8.5 million gallons of oper turns all that over to the wastewater per day. On some city, and that becomes the re- days, during a storm for exsponsibility of the city for per- ample, the plant treated 7 mil-

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SIDNEY, Mont. -

It is a lucrative but risky decision for any 18-year-old to make, one that

For most high school seniors, a college degree is the surest path to a decent could foreclose on their future if the frenzied pace of oil and gas drilling from job and a stable future.

here to North Dakota to Texas falters and work dries up. But with youth

But here in oil country, some teenagers are choosing the oil fields over

unemployment at 12 percent nationwide and college tuition soaring, students

universities, forgoing higher education for jobs with salaries that can start at here on the snow-glazed plains of eastern Montana said they were ready to take their chances.

$50,000 a year. "I just figured, the oil field is here andI'dmake the money while I c o uld," said Tegan Sivertson, 19, who monitors pipelines for a gas company, sometimes working 15-hour days. "I didn't want to waste the money and go to school when I could make just as much." L ess than a y e a r a w ay from proms and homecoming games, teenagers li k e S ivertson now w a k e a t 4 a.m. to make the three-hour trek to remote oil rigs. They fish busted machinery out of 2-mile-deep hydraulic f r acturing wells and repair safety devices that keep the wells from rupturing, often working alongside men old enough to be their fathers. Some live at home; others drive back on weekends to eat their mothers' food, do loads of laundry and go to high school basketball games, still straddling the blurredborder between childhood and adulthood. Just as gold r ushes and silver booms once brought opera houses and armies of prospectors to rugged corners of the West, today's headlong race foroil and gas is reshaping staid communities in the northern P l a ins, b r i n ging once untold floods of cash and job prospects, but also deep anxieties about crime, growth and a future newly vulnerable to cycles of boom and bust.

Shay Findlay began working in the oil industry right out of high school. He still lives at his parents' house and has bought a flatscreen television and a dirt bike and taken out a loan on a truck. About his friends who went away to college, he says, "They're going to have to come back and look for work. And there's nothing but oil fields over here."

ing the fracking techniques that have driven this energy Photos by Matthew Staver / New York Times News Service rush. If they go back to school, Oil equipment is an increasingly common sight in North Dakota and the northern Plains, and jobs in they could be hurt by the dethe oil fields can start at $50,000 a year. lay. A 2005 federal Education Department report s howed that students who delayed colsaid that few of their students degrees. way i n n o r theastern Mon- lege were more likely to drop "It's the allure of the montana, graduating seniors in were abandoning college for out. energy jobs. And even here, ey," said Thom Barnhart, a Bainville are asking similar School officials said that a majority of graduates are guidance counselor at Sidney questions about their future. few teenagers were working still choosing universities and High. Should they get an education directly for energy companies. community colleges. As more f a milies arrive and pursue their i nterests'? Instead, they ar e w o r k i ng But school officials in east- from Florida and M ichigan Or should they stick close to with the wide range of supern Montana said more and and t h r oughout M o n tana, home and surf a wave of cash port companies that excavate, more students were interested seeking a n e w s t ar t a f t er and jobs that will only grow build and maintain the wells, in working for at least a year bankruptcies a n d l a y o ffs, as companies begin to build or, in a race with the dizzyafter graduation and getting schools in places like Sidney a new industrial rail terminal ing pace of growth, construct technical training instead of a are buckling. School enroll- and worker camps, forever the hotels, apartments and four-year degree. ment leapt to 863 students transforming this quiet farm camps for employees. Starved 'Allure of the money' Last year, one-third of the from 723 in three years. The town where residents say the for workers, many companies Even gas stations are en- graduating seniors at Sidney district is scrambling to hire population has doubled since offer $20 an hour to start, plus t icing students away f r o m H igh School headed off t o good teachers who can get by the 2010 census counted 300. benefits. "They've come here lookcollege. Katorina Pippenger, work instead of going to col- on a $32,000 yearly salary in Dmetri Ross, 17, said he a high school senior in t he lege or joining the military, a town where apartments can would join his father and uncle ing for dropouts in the past," tiny town of Bainville, Mont., a record percentage. Some rent for $1,500 a month. Fresh- at an outpost of Nabors Indus- said Bruce Clausen, the prinsaid she makes $24 an hour found work making deliver- men are sharing lockers, and tries in western North Dakota, cipal of Dawson County High as a cashier in nearby Willis- ies to oil rigs, doing construc- the district reopened a school working in a lab running tests School in Glendive, who said ton, N.D., the epicenter of the tion and repairing machinery. that had been shuttered for on water samples and cement that a few students had gone boom. Her plan is to work for Others decided to first seek years. related to drilling. to work in the oil fields after "I'd be happy to make a ca- dropping out. "I told them I apa few years after she gradu- training as welders or diesel But every year, hundreds ates this spring, save up and mechanics, which pay more of those new students depart reer out of it," he said. preciate them not coming out flee. She likes the look of Den- than entry-level jobs. within a few weeks, tugged here." ver. "I just want to make monMeanwhile, enr o l l ment along by parents heading School officials worry Nobody needed to recruit ey and get out," she said. at Dawson Community Coloff to another job in another Renee Rasmussen, the Ba- Shay Findlay. One day after T he shift a ppears to b e lege in Glendive, about an town. inville school superintendent, he graduated from S i dney "It's a revolving door," said said she worried about young High School, he drove into localized around centers of hour from Sidney, has fallen oil production l ik e S i dney. to 225 students from 446 just Daniel Farr, t h e d i s t rict's people like these if oil prices town and started looking for School counselorsin western a few years ago, as fewer losuperintendent. plunged or the government work. He found a job on the Montana, far from the boom, cal studentspursue two-year At the end of a gravel high- passed new regulations limit- first try, doing repair work on

Shooting Continued from A1 At first, Stratford wasn't sure when to reopen her school. She has taught dance for 23 years, long enough to line the walls with annual recital photos. She consulted her 10 instructors. "They were clearly distraught and couldn't really put on a front and do dance class," Stratford said. She went to see a grief counselor at the middle school in Newtovtm, who advised that routine gives children a sense of safety. So she reopened Dec. 17, three days after the rampage. Attendance dipped the first few days, and then picked up. She was relieved. "I don't want them to be afraid," Stratford said. "Life needs to be normal because that's all they have." Elyse Scholl,34, brought her 6-yearold daughter, Marisa, to ballet and tap class a couple days later. The family moved to Newtown from Michigan just six months ago, but they already feel connected to the community. Marisa, who goes to Middle Gate Elementary School, is a Daisy Girl Scout, and other girls in her troop are fine. But her mother knows that eight Daisy Scouts from the Sandy Hook troop are among the 12 girls who were killed, including Charlotte Bacon, daughter of their troop leader. Two of the girls played on Marisa's youth soccerteam. The father ofone, Caroline Previdi, coached the team. Another youth soccer coach, James Belden, said the town of 28,000 was so tightly knit that almost every family felt the impact. "There's only 2 degrees of separation in Newtown," said Belden, whose 5-year-old niece was at Sandy Hook during the shooting. "If you don't know someone, someone you know does. That's why he and some others formed Newtown United as a grassroots group to help reduce gun vio-

lence. Many members are parents who know each other from the soccer field and grocery store, he said, and being together gave them purpose. They've set up a Twitter account and a Facebook page,organized a committee "for sensible gun legislation" and are considering a course of action. "We have a shared grief, " Belden said. "First ... there was a shock and awe and a feeling of isolation. It's good to come together." Some parents said their children were too scared to go out in the days after the shooting, even to karate class. Barbara Moscova, 41, of nearby Trumbull, let her 12-year-old daughter, Maia,decide whether she was ready to dance again. During the drive to Stratford's studio, Maia asked probing questions about the shooting. "She's going to tell me more today, because some of her friends she's dancing with are from Newtown," said her mother, who waited uneasily outside in her minivan. "I'm sure she's going to have stories." But few children inside the studio talked of the shootings. One young girl mentioned that she was wearing green"for thebad thingthat happened in Newtown." Lindsey Gallagher, 11, had written the name of Chase Kowalski, one of the two slain Tiger Cub Scouts, in black marker on her wrist, next to a heart. But she remained bubbly, laughing with friends. An hour earlier, Lindsey had been sobbing at Chase's wake, according to her father, Ray Gallagher. The day before, he said, she broke down at her middle school in Newtown. The father, his eyesteary and hisvoice hoarse, wore a green cable-knit sweater with a green ribbon pinned on it. "We're trying to keep it status quo," said Gallagher, 51, who runs a landscaping business. "I don't totally believe in getting them back into their routine right away. You let them experience what they want to."

Origin Continued from A1 Type the phrase into Google and you're likely to get any of these answers, usually backed by nothing more than vaguely remembered conversations with someone's Great Uncle Ed. But now two researchers using high-powered database search tools have delivered a confident "none of the above," supported by a surprise twist. Before we were going the whole nine yards, it turns out, we were

drilling pumps. He is 19 and on his second job now, earning about $40,000 a year and still sleeping in a bedroom in his parents' basement decorated with his high school graduation picture and diploma. He bought a dirt bike and a flatscreen television, and took out a loan on a hulking black Chevy Silverado truck with personalized license platesFDLSTIX — for his childhood nickname, "Fiddlesticks." His mother, Stacy G u stafson, said she worried about exposing her son to the accidents, alcoholism and violence that haunt oil workers. She is glad he still comes home after each shift. Findlay said he had no complaints about the job. His family comes from the oil fields, and he said he liked the work and was good at it. Now, his friends are filtering back to Sidney after their first semesters at college, and their stories of d o rm-room dramas and drunken scuffles with campus police officers are like reports from another world. He said he misses them s ometimes, but w o ul d n o t trade places with them. "They're going to have to come back and look for work," he said. "And there's nothing but oil fields over here."

"The phrase is interesting because it's so mysterious. It's been a kind of Holy Grail." — Ben Zimmer, executive producer of Visual Thesaurus.com and Vocabulary.com

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The first new break on "the whole nine yards"came in2007,when Sam Clements, a coin dealer and avid word sleuth from Akron, Ohio, discovered it in a 1964 article in The Tucson Daily Citizen about space program only going six. slang. By 2009 two other researchThe recent discovery ofseveral ers had pushed it back to 1962, when instances of "the whole six yards" in it appeared in a short story about a newspapersfrom the 1910s — four brush salesman and an article in a decades before the earliest known car magazine. references to "the whole nine yards" Some lexicographers thought the — opens a new window onto "the evidence was creeping closer to a most prominent etymological riddle World War II-era origin, and posof our time," said Fred Shapiro, a li- sibly some connection to the milibrarianatYale Law School who an- tary, though there was still no hard nounced the findings in next month's evidence for the popular ammuniissue of The Yale Alumni Magazine. tion-belt theory. Then, in August, Other language experts agree Bonnie Taylor-Blake, a neuroscience about the import of the discovery. researcher in North Carolina who "The phrase is interesting because had been searching for variants of it's so mysterious," said Ben Zim- the phrase via Google News Archive mer, the executive producer of Visu- and Google Books for five years, alThesaurus.com and Vocabulary posted a message on the email list .com, who has written previously on of the American Dialect Society notthe search for its origin. "It's been a ing a 1956 occurrence in an outdoors kind of Holy Grail." magazine called Kentucky Happy Like the Holy Grail "the whole Hunting Ground, followed in Sepnine yards" has inspired both arm- tember by a more startling twist: a chair mythologizing and years of 1921 headline from The Spartanburg hard and often fruitless searching Herald-Journal in South Carolina through random books and miles reading "The Whole Six Yards of It." of newspaper microfilm. Not that The somewhat cryptic headline, the expression is necessarily all atop a detailed account of a baseball that old. The first scholarly dating, game that did not use the phrase, in a 1986 supplement to the Oxinitially caused some head scratchford English Dictionary, traced it ing. One person asked whether the to 1970. The Historical Dictionary headline referred to the ball fields, or of American Slang then pushed "yards," of the six teams in the league it back to 1967, with a c i tation discussed in the article. from "The Doom Pussy," Elaine But then Shapiro, searching in Shepard's novel about Air Force pi- Chronicling A merica, a L i b r ary

of Congress database of pre-1923 newspapers, found two 1912 articles in The Mount Vernon Signal in Kentucky promising to "give" or "tell" the "whole six yards" of a story. TaylorBlake also found another instance from 1916, in the same paper. The dating clearly refutes the popular ammunition-belt and concretemixer theories, Shapiro said, while the Kentucky focus suggests a probable "backwoods provenance." As for the meaning of the phrase, he added, the slippage from six yards to ninepart of the same "numerical phrase inflation," as he puts it, that turned "Cloud 7" to "Cloud 9" — suggests it doesn't refer to anything in particular any more than, say, "the whole she-

bang" does.

Jesse Sheidlower, the editor-atlarge of the Oxford English Dictionary, agrees. "The existence of a sixyard variant shows pretty clearlythat this is not about yards of anything," he said. "It's just a random number." S hapiro concedes that he a n d Taylor-Blake have found only "negative evidence," and a firm origin story may yet emerge.But neither he nor Sheidlower is confident that scholarly research will dispel the urban legends that cling to expressions like "the whole nine yards." Sheidlower points to the persistent belief that Chicago's reputation as "the Windy City" springs from its blowhard politicians boasting about the 1893 World's Columbian Expositionand not,asoccurrences in newspaper articles dating to the 1860s suggest, its weather. "People are drawn to colorful etymologies," Shapiro said. "But they are almost always wrong."

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With a year-end deadline looming, a handful of citizens are trying to take matters into their own hands. One woman left $1 million in her will to the Department of the Treasury. And then there is Scott Soucy. He is aiming smaller: $1 from each paycheck. By Eli Sasiow

Wall Street and revealing the ineffectiveness of Washington, M IDDLETOWN, D e l . the debate on Capitol Hill reScott Soucy, 46, left the home volves around who or what is he purchasedwith a mortgage most responsible: Is it the fault and climbed into the limousine of Democratsor Republicans? he financed with an equity Barack Obama or George W. loan. He charged his breakfast Bush? Skyrocketing entitleto a credit card and then drove ment spending or ill-advised across town to work on paying tax cuts for the rich? back the one debt he worried In Middletown, Soucy has about most. concluded something else. "You are responsible," he He pulled up to a Starbucks in a q uiet shopping center, said now, pointing to a woman backing his limousine up to in herlate 20s, as she hurried the curb a few minutes after from Starbucks to her car with 8 a.m. The weekday rush was a large latte. She spun around well under way i n c e ntral and looked at his display. "Excuse me?" she said. "ReDelaware, and customers at the register scanned news- sponsible for what?" "For the debt," he said, smilpaper headlines warning of "Fiscal Disaster" and a "Sty- ing, bouncing his knee in his mied Congress." Meanwhile, chair. "It's our country. It's our Soucy opened his trunk and debt. We are all responsible. assembled his selfdescribed We can't just sit around wait"marketing display" at a table ing for government to fix this." "No, thanks," she said, huroutside, with T-shirts, window decals and a 5-foot-tall banner rying past. inscribed with his slogan. "The National Debt: The So- Stream of skepticism lution Lies Here." Soucy waited for the next As the deadlocked U.S. gov- customer to exit and imagined ernment flirts with the "fiscal what the people inside thought cliff" and the national debt of him. "Wacko. Idiot. Dreamrises beyond $16.2 trillion, er. Childish. Naive," he said. He Soucy and a handful of other is a retired Army captain and Americans have decided to a business-school graduate take actions on their own. A raising a family of five in the woman in Ohio left $1 million suburbs. He owns a limousine in her will for the Department company, a T-shirt business of the Treasury. An elemen- and hosts a local TV show. "I'm taking a huge reputatary school in Houston raised $692 at a bake sale. A man in tional risk doing this," he said. the Pacific Northwest started "Everybody here knows me, a "debt-busting" nonprofit. and they think this plan is too Soucy has spent the past simple. Too crazy." two years sending a small For the next two hours, he portion of his earnings to the sat at his table, repeated the Bureau of the Public Debt in details of his plan and then lisParkersburg, W.Va., writing tened to their skepticism. checks so often it has become A middle-aged woman, pep" like muscle m emory," h e permint latte: "Why pay at all? says. Now he has begun try- Can't we just forgive our debt ing to persuade everyone else like w e f o r give everybody to pledge the same donation: else's?" $1 from each paycheck for emA retired airline pilot, coffee ployees, and $1 from each ma- black: "You're feeding a dragjor transaction for businesses. on. As admirable as it seems, He believes the plan could pay you're asking me to send more down the debt — over decades, money to a government I don't if perfectly executed. trust." "It's patriotism when our T he next person out t h e country needs us, plain and door was a m a nager from simple," he said. Starbucks. She had read the Already this year, Ameri- company rule book, she said, cans have donated a record and it forbade solicitation. She amount to pay down the debt, toldSoucy he needed to leave. "OK," Soucy said. "We can sending the Treasury more than $7 million in personal take the message somewhere checks. else." All told, it is enough to keep Long before he began paythe American economy run- ing down th e d ebt, Soucy ning on b udget for a l most spent much ofhis career conthree minutes. tributing to it. As the debt continues to H e was in th e A rmy f o r mount, causing instability on more than a decade, serving The Washington Post

in Iraq and later becoming a budget officer in Washington who wrote funding requests for military construction. Every week, he filled out another Department of Defense 1391 form and submitted it to Congress, stuffing zeros into a column that asked for "Proposed Cost." He requested $2 million for afleet of dump trucks,$20 million for a hospital and $600 million for an electrical grid. "Dizzy money," he called it. The spending never seemed wasteful to him so much as the country's needs seemed endless. He tried to compensate by brainstorming ways to save taxpayer money, winning medals for manufacturing a cheaper shipping device and improving the efficiency of contract bids. He had always adhered to a code of responsible citizenship, enlisting in th e N avy after graduation from h i gh school in New York and serving for six years before later joining the Army. He gutted out six months in Iraq with a bad back, swallowing painkillers in secret so nobody would know he was hurting. Then he retired voluntarily earlier than he had planned, because it was more forthr ight than shirking the A r my's annual fitness test. In the years since, he had applied the same tenets of d uty and a ccountability t o civilian life. His family gave 10 percent of its income to charity, exercised daily and paid debts on time. As a father, he considered it his "responsibility to give the country a good product," he said, so each of his three children — ages 18, 16 and 13 — sat down for annual contract negotiations with their parents.

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Scott Soucy sits in front of a Starbucks in Middletown, Del., waiting to engage people. His usual opening line is: "Hi there, do you want to talk about the national debt?" Most are skeptical of his plan. paper and a pen to formulate a plan. Every adult, from millionaires to welfare recipients, would donate $1 per paycheck — or about $20 a year. "We're already talking billions right there," he said. Bigbusinesses would donate $1 from each transaction over $10, an act of selflessness that would appeal to customers. "Suddenly we're in the trillions," he said. "Are you kidding me? You can't afford to lose a dollar? It's that easy."

ers walking on the beach and politicians hosting campaign fundraisers. "The debt is t h e b i ggest problem we have," he told them. "Back in the day, people gave their lives to save this country. I'm just asking you to give a check." Another day, another $4 billion added to the national debt, and another statement of "no progress" from leaders in Congress. Soucy left his house and drove tothe post office,w here 'Biggest problem we have' the employee at the door greetHe presented the plan at a ed him by name. The past two Dunkin' Donuts to the mayor months had been the hardest of Middletown, who directed since Soucy opened the limhim to a state senator, who ousine business, with only six published Soucy's idea on a transactions in all of October. website.Soucy sent messages His eldest daughter was apto Donald Trump, Fox News plying to private colleges such and Vice P resident Biden. as Cornell and Stanford. He When none responded, he had a mortgage and business started buying tables at busi- loans to pay off in the coming ness banquets and chatting up weeks. chief executives. He advertised He addressed his envelope on local cable. He personally to the Bureau of Public Debt sent in more than $300 to the in Parkersburg, W.Va., a town debt. He approached strang- of 33,000 on the Ohio River

They promised good grades, community serviceor soccer goals in exchange for iPads and computers. "I want them to learn that lifeis based on concrete cause and effect,"he said. "You do something, and you get paid. You owe something, and you pay it." It was one reason why the national debt had always bothered him: Here was a place that defied the rule — a place where debt went only in one direction and seemingly no one was held accountable. "Maybe I'm accountable," Soucy thought while watching a story on TV about the debt early in 2011, as it surpassed $14 trillion. He sat down with

Russia

a lready received court a p proval, and he expressed no Continued from A1 regrets over the likely emoSince Putin returned to the tional turmoil for the families presidency in May, Russian of- involved. "The children who h a ve ficials have used a juggernaut of legislation and executive been chosen by foreign Amerdecisions to curtail U.S. influ- ican parents — we know of ence and involvement in Rus- 46 children who were seen, sia, undoing major partner- whose paperwork was proships that began after the fall cessed,who came in the sights of the Soviet Union. of American agencies," AstakThe adoption ban, however, hov said i n h i s s t atement. is the first step to take direct "They will not be able to go to aim at the American public America, to those who wanted and would effectively undo a to see them as their adopted bilateral agreement on interna- children. There is no need to tional adoptions that was rati- go outand make a tragedy out fied this year and took effect of it." Nov. 1. That agreement called Astakhov, who is a longtime for heightened oversight in re- advocate of restricting intersponse to several high-profile national adoptions, said he cases of abuse and deaths of would seek to extend the ban adopted Russian children in to all countries. "I think any foreign adopthe United States. About 1,000 Russian chil- tion is bad for the country," he dren were adopted in 2011 by sa>d. parents from the U.S., which That r e m ar k pr o m pted leads in adoptions in Russia, Sergei Parkhomenko, a welland more than 45,000 such known journalist and comchildren have been adopted by menter, to reply tartly, "AdopU.S. parents since 1999. tion when needed is for the Pavel Astakhov, Russia's good of the child, not the good child r i g ht s c o m missioner of the country." And he acand a m ajor p r oponent of cused Astakhov of neglecting the ban, told news agencies his duty to serve children in Wednesday that he expected favor of serving Putin, who it to be enacted and to imme- appointed him. diately block the departure of Some Russian lawmakers 46 children ready to be adopt- said they believed that the ed by parents from the United bilateral agreement on adopStates. He said the adoptions tions with the United States would be blocked regardless would be void as of Tuesday, of previous agreements with even though Putin, at his anthe U.S. and even t hough nual news c onference last some of the adoptions had w eek, said changes to t h e

where 2,000 people are now employed to manage the debt. The office discourages citizens from sending coins because they costtoo much to process. It auctions off donated items such as paintings and TVs and then funnels all gifts into a general fund, which is used to pay down the country's maturing securities. When people such as Soucy call to request the mailing address,a representative sometimes reminds them that: "You can't get your money back" and "You know, each American would have to pay about $52,000 to get us even" and "This is a little like picking one tiny grain of sand off the beach." But, for Soucy, it was also an act of muscle memory — less about the principal of the debt than the principle of the habit — so he stepped up to the post officecounter. "Somebody has to do somet hing," he said, and so h e handed over an envelope with a check, for $32.

agreement required a year's notice by either side. T he p r oposed ba n h a s opened a rare split at the highest levels of the Russian government, with several senior officials speaking out against it. And it has provoked a huge public outcry a n d d e b ate, with critics of the ban saying it would most hurt Russian orphans, many of whom are already suffering in the country's deeply troubled child welfare system. In their debate on Wednesday, lawmakers said they felt compelled to retaliate for a law signed by President Barack Obama this month that will punish Russian citizens accused of v i o lating h u man rights, by p r ohibiting them from traveling to the United States and from owning real estate or other assets there. Lawmakers also said that Russia, which has more than 650,000children livingwithout parental supervision, should take care of them on its own. At the same time, the lawmakers acknowledged the flaws in the system and Wednesday adopted a resolution calling for measures to make adoption by Russian citizens easier. "The attitude toward the protection of parenthood and childhood has to change drastically on every level," the resolution said, citing excessive bureaucracy, lack of financing for children's medical care and insufficient efforts to promote adoption.

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with 23-year-old Jess Larsen to steal more than $7,000 from Home Federal Bank in Redmond. Lt. Michael Kidwell said Larsen, Finley and Ballard are allegedto have made fraudulent deposits into Larsen's bank account, then spent the nonexistent funds at several businesses in the Redmond area between Dec. 14 and Dec 16.

Larsen was arrested Saturday during a traffic stop, and Finley turned himself in Wednesday evening, but Ballard is still at large. A passenger in Larsen's vehicle, Lily Santulli-Matthews, 29, was arrested Saturday on a charge of possession of a controlled substance and a probation violation, according to police. The bank reported the

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whelming," Dunne said. "We've been getting a lot." The family, which owns the house, got an insurance check to cover hotel expenses. But with four dogs, the family members are looking for larger quarters in which to live while they either rebuild

see s o m e or look for a new house, Dunne said. The family has a Chihuahua, two retrievers and a Shih Tzu. Anything they get that they don't need, he said, will go to help others in tough straits. Deputies and the La Pine Rural Fire Protection District responded to the DunneCavaness home, 15781 Lava Drive, at about 3 p.m. Monday; heavy smoke was coming from the roof. Most of the residence was on fire and only the garage and one bedroom were intact, according to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office. A natural Christmas tree was plugged in when the family was away from the house, fire officials said. The Christmas tree ap-

peared to be the fire's point of origin, said La Pine Fire Chief Mike Supkis. The house had a burned hole in the floor where the tree had been, he said. The tree's Christmas lights were nowhere to be found and only a stem from the tree was remaining after the fire, Supkis said. In addition, furniture in the room was charred on the side facing the tree, he said. Fire officials found no evidence that the fire started because of faulty wiring, electrical outlets or kitchen appliances such as the oven and refrigerator. The appliances were damaged from the outside, not from within, Supkis said. — Reporter: 541-977-71 85, bbothi n~bendbulleti n.com

A recent survey of parking in downtown Redmond confirms what many already suspected: Plenty of parking is available, but its availability is poorly understood by both businesses and customers. "Ninety percent of business owners downtown see the value of protecting parking for customersbutnot everyone agrees how to best do that," said Jon Williams, economic development director for Redmond. As a result of the survey, the city is re-evaluating its parking policy for the downtown core. Prior to the opening of the Highway 97 bypass and reconstruction of Sixth Street in Redmond's historic blocks, parking was restricted downtovtm, said Williams. But concern by business owners prompted the city to leave the area with more than 500 unrestricted on-street parking spots.In fact,the survey found only 15 on-street parking spots downtown with posted limits of two hours or less. Rick Williams Consulting undertook the survey on a lateSeptember weekday.Itfocused on the area between Fourth and Ninth streets and Glacier and Black Butte avenues. The consultant counted spaces in parking lots and on the streets; both areas were monitored hourly from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. See Parking /B3

Coming up What: Merchants meeting When:8:30 a.m., Jan 9

Where:Redmond Proficiency Academy conference room; 657 N.W. Glacier Ave.

To comment on downtown parking, call 541-923-7761 or email jon.williamsto

ci.redmond.or.us.

Carry c ains onpasses:Sic roa s in t e orecast By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin

After driving with chains on his tires for 100 miles to make it to Central Oregon

on Sunday, Josh Gregory, of Tualatin, was relieved Wednesday to only have to chain up for a 20-mile stretch of Santiam Pass. "... Today, it wasn't too bad," he said Wednesday afternoon after completing the return trip from Sunriver to Tualatin. Gregory, 30, and his family spent Christmas in Central Oregon. On their trip herethey used chains from just east of Detroit Lake to Sunriver. While snow made for a scenic holiday in and around Bend, it also made for messy highways. The forecast is offeringa short break from snowfall, but chilly temperatures could keep the roads slick, said Peter Murphy,

spokesman for the Oregon Department of Transportation in Bend. "So, the icy conditions are not leaving us for the foreseeable future," he said. High temperaturesare not expected to get warmer than 37 degrees during the next week, according to the National Weather Service. Lows should be in the teens until Monday. The high temperature today in Bend should be near freezing, 32 degrees. Although there is a chance of snow before 10 a.m., today should be partly sunny. Friday should be mostly cloudy with a high around 34 and a low near 17. More snow could fall in Bend late Friday and early Saturday, said Joe Solomon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pendleton. See Weather /B2

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Josh Gregory, of Tualatin, puts chains on his tires at a chain-up area along U.S. Highway 20 west of Sisters on Wednesday.

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E VENT TODAY THE TRAIN MAN:Watch Michael Lavrich's extensive collection of toy trains running on a track and ask questions; free; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-6 p.m.; Downtown Bend Public Library, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-6177050 or www.deschuteslibrary .org/calendar. SURVIVOR:ANIMALS ADAPT!: Learn about animal adaptations to dramatic environmental shifts in the High Desert, featuring live animals; $6 plus museum admission, $4 for members plus museum admission; 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. highdesertmuseum.org. "MADAGASCAR3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED": A screening of the PG-rated 2012 film; free; 2 p.m.; Jefferson County Library, Rodriguez Annex, 134 S.E. E St., Madras; 541475-3351 or www.jcld.org. MAGIC SHOW:Mr. Magic presents an evening of humor, interaction and magic; $5, free ages12 and younger with an adult; 7 p.m.; Sunriver Lodge, North Pole, 17728 Abbot Drive; 800-486-8591 or www. sunriver-resort.com/traditions.

FRIDAY SURVIVOR:ANIMALS ADAPT!: Learn about animal adaptations to dramatic environmental shifts in the High Desert, featuring live animals; $6 plus museum admission, $4 for members plus museum admission; 11 a.m. and1:30 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. highdesertmuseum.org. SCOTT PEMBERTON BAND: The Portland-based rockers perform;

Email events at least 10 days before publication date to communitylife@bendbulletin.com or click on "Submit an Event" at vtftvtv.bendbulletin.com. Ongoing listings must be updated monthly. Contact: 541-383-0351.

AL E N D A R free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-382-5174 or www. mcmenamins.com. "FLOW STATE": A screening of the Warren Miller film about skiing and snowboarding; $10; 7:30 p.m.; Sunriver Resort, 17600 Center Drive; 800-486-8591 or www. sunriver-resort.com. DJT-WRECKS:The Los Angelesbased DJ performs, with DJ Harlo and DJ Codi Carroll; free; 9:30 p.m.; Astro Lounge, 939 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-388-0116.

SATURDAY FREEZE YOURFANNY: Featuring a 5K run and 500-yard swim biathlon or 5K run and walk, a chili and cornbread feed and a free pass to swim or hot tub after the race; proceeds benefit the Juniper Junction Relief Nursery; donations requested; 10 a.m.; Madras Aquatic Center, 1195 S.E. Kemper Way; 541-948-3321. INDOOR SWAP MEET:Featuring 70 local vendors, with new and used items, antique collectibles, crafts and more; free admission; 10 a.m.5 p.m.; 694 S.E. Third St., Bend; 541-317-4847. SURVIVOR:ANIMALS ADAPT!: Learn about animal adaptations to dramatic environmental shifts in the High Desert, featuring live animals; $6 plus museum admission, $4 for members plus museum admission; 11 a.m. and1:30 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. highdesertmuseum.org. SASSPARILLA: The Portland-based blues band performs; $7; 7 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m.; The Belfry, 302 E. Main Ave., Sisters; 541-8159122 or www.belfryevents.com.

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People jump into an icy pool during the 2010 Polar Plunge at the lodge village outdoor pool in Sunriver. This year's event is 10 a.m. Tuesday at Sunriver Resort.

CASH LEVY: CROWD CONTROL: Stand-up comedian Cash Levy performs; $14 plus fees; 8 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W.Wall St., Bend; 541-317-0700 or www. towertheatre.org. DJ T-WRECKS:The Los Angelesbased DJ performs, with DJ Harlo and DJ Codi Carroll; free; 9:30 p.m.; Astro Lounge, 939 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-388-0116.

SUNDAY SURVIVOR:ANIMALS ADAPT!: Learn about animal adaptations to dramatic environmental shifts in the High Desert, featuring live animals; $6 plus museum admission, $4 for members plus museum admission; 11 a.m. and1:30 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. highdesertmuseum.org. THE HOLLANDS!: Thefolksy

family band performs; free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; www.thehollands.org.

MONDAY SURVIVOR:ANIMALS ADAPT!: Learn about animal adaptations to dramatic environmental shifts in the High Desert, featuring live animals; $6 plus museum admission, $4 for members plus museum admission; 11 a.m. and1:30 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. highdesertmuseum.org. ROCKIN' NEWYEAR'S EVE: Featuring cardboard instruments, singing and more; reservations requested; $70; 6:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Fort Funnigan, 17600 Center Drive, Sunriver; 800-486-8591 or www.sunriver-resort.com. RISE UPNEWYEAR'S EVEBASH:

Weather Continued from B1 "It doesn't look like a lot though," he said. A bout an i n c h o f s n o w could fall on Bend, Solomon said, while 1 to 3 inches could fall in Sunriver and La Pine. Passes through the Cascades, such as Santiam Pass, may receive lessthan 6 inches of new snow. An automated snow measurement site a t S a n t iam Junction — where U.S. Highway 20/State Highway 126 and State Highway 22 meet about 25 miles west of Sisters — shows there is nearly 4 t/z feet of snow on the ground. The bulk of the snowfall has come since Dec. 15, according to data from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The federal agency maintains the snow-measurement site. About 4 inches of snow fell

Josh Gregory, of Tualatin, helps Johanna Johnson, of Sisters, put chains on her tires at a chain-up area along U.S. Highway 20 west of Sisters on Wednesday. Joe Kllne The Bulletin

Sunday, the dayGregory made his trek over Santiam Pass, according to the data. A cold weather system is expected to move into the state

from Canada on Sunday, but Solomon said the brunt of the system will likely miss Central

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PUBLIC OFFICIALS CONGRESS U.S. Senate • Sett. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. 107 Russell SenateOffice Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone:202-224-3753 Web: http://merkley.senate.gov Bend office: 131 N.W.Hawthorne Ave., Suite 208 Bend, OR97701 Phone: 541-318-1298 • Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. 223 Dirksen SenateOffice Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-5244 W eb: http://wyden.senate.gov Bend office: 131 N.W. Hawthorne Ave., Suite107 Bend, OR97701 Phone: 541-330-9142

U.S. House of Representatives • Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River 2182 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone:202-225-6730 W eb: http://walden.house.gov Bend office: 1051 N.W. BondSt., Suite 400 Bend, OR97701 Phone: 541-389-4408 Fax: 541-389-4452

STATE OF OREGON • Gov. John Kltzhaber, D 160 State Capitol, 900 Court St. Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-378-4582 Fax: 503-378-6872 Web: http://governor.oregon.gov • Secretary of State Kate Brown, 0 136 State Capitol Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1616 Fax: 503-986-1616 Email: oregon.sos@state.or.us • Treasurer Ted Wheeler, D 159 Oregon StateCapitol 900 Court St. N.E. Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-378-4329 Email: oregon.treasurer@state.or.us Web: www.ost.state.or.us • Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, D 1162 Court St. N.E. Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-378-4400 Fax: 503-378-4017 Web: www.doj.state.or.us • Labor Commissioner Brad Avakiatt 800 N.E. Oregon St., Suite1045 Portland, OR97232 Phone: 91--673-0711 Fax: 971-673-0762 Email: boli.mail©state.or.us

Web: www.oregon.gov/boli

LEGISLATURE Senate • Sen. Ted Ferrloll, 6-District 30 (includesJefferson,portion of Deschutes) 900 Court St. N.E., S-323 Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1950 Email: sen.tedferrioli@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/ferrioli • Sen. Chris Telfer, R-District27 (inclffdes portion of Deschutes) 900 Court St. N.E., S-423 Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1727 Email: sen.christelfer©state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/telfer • Sen. Doug Whitsett, 8-District28 (includes Crook, portion of Deschutes) 900 Court St. N.E., S-303 Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1728 Email: sen.dougwhitsett©state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/whitsett

House • Rep. Jason Conger, R-District 54 (portion of Deschutes) 900 Court St. N.E., H-477 Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1454 Email: rep.jasoncongerOstate.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/conger • Rep. John Huffman, R-District 59 (portion of Jefferson) 900 Court St. N.E., H-476 Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1459 Email: rep.johnhuffman©state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/huffman • Rep. Mike McLane, R-District55 (Crcok, portion of Deschutes) 900 Court St. N.E., H-385 Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1455 Email: rep.mikemclane@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/mclane • Rep. Gene Whisttattt, R-District53 (portion of DeschutesCounty) 900 Court St. N.E., H-471 Salem, OR97301 Phone: 503-986-1453 Email: rep.genewhisnant@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/whisnant

Email: Tammy Baney@co.deschutes .or.Us • Alan Unger, 0-Redmond Phone: 541-388-6569 Email: Alan Unger@co.deschutes .OI'. US

• Tony DeBone, R-La Pine Phone: 541-388-6568 Email: Tony DeBone©co.deschutes .OI'. US

CROOK COUNTY 300 N.E. Third St. Prineville, OR 97754 Phone:541-447-6555 Fax:541-416-3891 Email: administration©co.crook.or.us Web: co.crook.or.us

•CrookCountyJudge MikeM cCabe Phone: 541-447-6555 Email: mike.mccabe@co.crook.or.us

County Court • Ken Fahlgren Phone: 541-447-6555 Email: ken.fahlgren@co.crcok.or.us • Seth Crawford Phone: 541-447-6555 Email: seth.crawford@co.crook.or.us

JEFFERSON COUNTY 66S.E. Dst. Madras, OR97741

Phonic 541-475-2449 Fax: 541-475-4454

Web: www.co.jefferson.or.us

County Commission • Mike Ahern, John Hatfield,

Wayne Fording

Phone: 541-475-2449 Email: commissioner@co.jefferson .OI'. US

CITY OF BEND 710 N.W.Wall St. Bend, OR97701 Phone: 541-388-5505 Web: www.ci.bend.or.us

• City Manager Eric King Phone:541-388-5505 Email: citymanager@ci.bend.or.us

DESCHUTES COUNTY

City Council

1300 N.W.Wall St. Bend, OR97701 Web: www.deschutes.org Phone:541-388-6571 Fax: 541-382-1692

• Tom Greene Phonel 541-388-5505 Email: tgreene©ci.bend.or.us • Jeff Eager Phone:541-388-5505 Email: jeager©ci.bend.or.us • Sally Russell Contact info to be determined • Jim Clinton

County Commission • Tammy Baney, R-Bend Phone: 541-388-6567

Phone:541-388-5505 Email: jclinton@ci.bend.or.us • Mark Capell Phone:541-388-5505 Email: mcapell@ci.bend.or.us • Jodie Barram Phone:541-388-5505 Email: jbarram@ci.bend.or.us • Scott Ramsay Phone:541-388-5505 Email: sramsay©ci.bend.or.us

CITY OF REDMOND 716S.W. EvergreenAve. Redmond, OR 97756 Phone: 541-923-7710 Fax: 541-548-0706

City Council • Mayor George Endicott Phone:541-948-3219 Email: George.Endicott©ci.redmond .Qr.us • Jay Patrick Phone:541-508-8408 Email: Jay.Patrick©ci.redmond.or.us • Margie Dawson Phone:541-604-5400 Email: Margie.Dawson@ci.redmond. OI.US

• Joe Centanni Phone: 541-923-7710 • Shlrlee Evans Phone:541-604-5401 Email: Shirlee.Evans@ci.redmond.or.us • Camden King Phone:541-604-5402 Email: Camden.King@ci.redmond .Or.us • Ed Onimus Phone:541-604-5403 Email: Ed.0nimus@ci.redmond.or.us

CITY OF SISTERS 520 E. CascadeAvenue P.O. Box39 Sisters, OR 97759 Phone: 541-549-6022 Fax: 541-549-0561

With performances by Larry & His Flask, Possessed by Paul James, Hopeless Jackand Terrible Buttons; $10 in advance, $13 at the door; 7 p.m.; Century Center, 70 S.W. Century Drive, Bend; www. bendticket.com. MADNESS ATTHE MIDTOWN: With performances by NastyNasty, Samples, Woody McBride, Medium Troy and more; ages 18and over; $20-$25 8 p.m. Midtown Ballroom 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; www slipmatscience com MOON MOUNTAINRAMBLERS: The Americana band performs, with Grit & Grizzle; $15; 8 p.m., doors openat6:30 p.m.;The Belfry,302 E. Main Ave., Sisters; 541-815-9122 or www.belfryevents.com. NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY: Live music by FunBobby, an 80s dance competition, games, food and drinks; all ages welcome; $13, $10 ages 21 and under in advance, $15at the door; 8 p.m.;2nd Street Theater, 220 N.E. Lafayette Ave., Bend; 541-312-9626 or www. newyearsmashup.eventbrite.com. HOTTEACOLD: The Portland-based classic rock act performs; $10; 8:30 p.m.; Northside Bar & Grill, 62860 Boyd Acres Road, Bend; 541-383-0889. ANIGHTATTHEROXBURYPARTY: Featuring ULTRADJGIRL and a costumeparty;9 p.m .;Seven Nightclub, 1033 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-385-3320 or www. humandignitycoalition.org. NEW YEAR'S EVECELEBRATION: Featuring performances by Harley Bourbon and Across the Great Divide; $5; 9 p.m.; McMenamins Old St.FrancisSchool,700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-382-5174 or www. mcmenamins.com. RED SOLOCUPNEWYEAR'S EVE PARTY: Featuring live music and prizes; free; 9 p.m.; Maverick's

Country Bar & Grill, 20565 Brinson Blvd., Bend; 541-325-1886 or www. maverickscountrybar.com.

TUESDAY POLAR BEARPLUNGE:Take an icy plunge intothe Lodge Village's outdoor pool; hot chocolate served; free; 10 a.m.; Sunriver Resort, 17600 Center Drive; 800-486-8591 or www.sunriver-resort .com/traditions. SURVIVOR:ANIMALS ADAPT!: Learn about animal adaptations to dramatic environmental shifts in the High Desert, featuring live animals; $6 plus museum admission, $4 for members plus museum admission; 11 a.m. and1:30 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. hlghdesertmuseum.org. POSSESSED BY PAULJAMES: The Texas-based folk act peforms; $5; 8 p.m.; The Horned Hand, 507 N.W. Colorado Ave., Bend; 541728-0879 or www.reverbnation. com/venue/thehornedhand.

WEDNESDAY SURVIVOR:ANIMALS ADAPT!: Learn about animal adaptations to dramatic environmental shifts in the High Desert, featuring live animals; $6 plus museum admission, $4 for members plus museum admission; 11 a.m. and1:30 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. highdesertmuseum.org. FRANCHOTTONE:The Californiabased pop-rock act performs; free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-382-5174 or www. mcmenamins.com.

NEWS OF RECORD Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Vehicle crash — Anaccident was The Bulletin will update items reported Dec. 17, inthe area of U.S. in the Police Log when such Highway 26 near milepost16. a request is received. Any Vehicle crash — Anaccident was new information, such as reported Dec.18, in the areaof U.S. the dismissal of charges or Highway 97 north of Culver Highway. acquittal, must be verifiable. Theft — A theft was reported Dec. For more information, 18, in the 200 block of Meadow Drive call 541-383-0358. in Culver. Burglary — A burglary and an act of Bend Police criminal mischief were reported Dec. Department 19, in the 3400 block of Southwest Burglary — A burglary was Park Lane in Culver. reported at 2:54 p.m. Dec. 21, Criminal mischief — An act of in the100 block of Northwest criminal mischief was reported Dec. Hawthorne Avenue. 19, in the 800 block of Northwest DUII — Daniel Patrick Tovar, Third Street in Madras. 21, was arrested on suspicion Unlawful entry — A vehicle was of driving under the influence of reported entered and items stolen intoxicants at1:37 a.m. Dec. 22, and an act of criminal mischief in the area of Northwest Bond Street and Northwest Greenwood reported Dec. 19, in the 3200 block of Southwest Jericho Lane inCulver. Avenue. Vehicle crash — Anaccident was Unlawful entry — A vehicle was reported entered at 6:41p.m. Dec. reported Dec. 23, in the area of U.S. Highway 97and Southwest Bear Drive 22, in the area of BoydAcres Road in Madras. and Sierra Drive. Oregon State Police DUII — Joshua Jacob Hogan, 25, was arrested onsuspicion Vehicle crash — Anaccident was of driving under the influence of reported at 8:45 p.m. Dec. 24, in the intoxicants at 9:01 p.m. Dec. 22, area of U.S. Highway 97near milepost in the area of Northeast Purcell 144. Boulevard and Northeast Francis Vehicle crash — Anaccident was Court. reported at 3:45 p.m. Dec. 24, in the Burglary — A burglary was area of U.S. Highway 20 near milepost reported at 5:36 p.m. Dec.23, in 7. the 700 block of Northeast Second DUII — Margaret A. Koodrich, 64, Street. was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants at Unlawful entry — A vehicle was reported entered at 7:05 p.m. Dec. 11:23 a.m. Dec.24, in thearea of U.S. Highway 97 near milepost193. 23, in the 900 block of Northwest Newport Avenue. Burglary — A burglary was reported at 8:12 p.m.Dec.23, in the1600 block of Northeast Second Street. HIGH DESERT BANK Theft — A theft was reported at 5:06 a.m. Dec. 22, in the 2500 block of Northeast Twin Knolls Drive.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012 • THE BULLETIN

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Treasurerwill ask to dumpWall Street consultants

AROUND THE STATE Missing California couple foundsafe in Oregon —A couple reported missing after failing to arrive at their daughter's

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more than average on investment management and could save about $12 million a year. The report by CEM Benchmarking of Toronto found Oregon spends 0.69 percent of the $60 billion pension fund on management each year,compared with an average rate of 0.59 percent. Wheeler will ask for hiring authority during the legislative session that begins in February, Treasury spokesman James Sinks told the Salem

SALEM — State Treasurer Ted Wheeler plans to ask the Oregon Legislature for authority to hire more investment managers toreplace some of the Wall Street consultants now handling portions of the state pension fund. The treasurer's office says s tate workers could do t h e same work for less money. An annual analysis of the world's largest pension systems found Oregon spends

Statesman Journal. The bottom line for the treasurer, Sinks said, is, "Why would you pay someone to do something when you can do it yourself for less?" The same report also found that Oregon gets better investment returns than most of its peers. That's partly because Oregon has emphasized real estate and p r i v ate e q uity funds, which weathered the Great Recession better than the bonds and publicly traded

stocks that c omprise most pension funds. Thatfocusprobablywouldn't change much with more inhouse management, although some emphasis would probably shift from private to public stocks, Sinks said. Public pension costs have been in the spotlight lately as l ocal governments and t h e state contend with a sharp rise in required taxpayer contributions due to substantial losses during the recession.

Redding, Calif., home for Christmas Evedinner were found safe about 400 miles away in Oregon. The Oregon State Police says the 85-year-old man and 83-year-old woman were found late Christ-

mas night in their car, which ran out of gas on lnterstate 5 near W oodburn. Police say the two seemed confused and were taken to Salem Hospital for medical evaluations. The daughter who was

hosting the Christmas Eve dinner told police her stepfather was picking up her mother at a care facility, and the drive to her home should have taken about10 minutes.

U.S. 97 closed at California line after crash, reOpened —Oregon State Police closed and later reopened U.S. 97 at the border with California to allow the investigation of a fatal traffic accident in Dorris, Calif., just south of the state line. KFLS in Klamath Falls reported that California authorities asked for the

roadtobeclosed.ItwasreopenedaboutnoonWednesday.

State Police report 3 dead in holiday crashes — The State Police say three people died in Oregon in traffic accidents during the Friday-Tuesday holiday period. They were a 21-year-old Newberg man, who died Friday in a two-car crash on Highway

99E south of Woodburn; a 20-year-old West Linn man, who died Sunday in a collision on Highway 26; and a 44-year-old Portland motorcyclist who died in a collision Monday. Troopers said they ar-

rested 53 people on charges of driving under the influence during the period that started at 6 p.m. Friday — nearly twice as many as during the 2011 Christmas holiday period.

Search for missing Klamath Falls mansuspended — After snowfalls that total up to 3 feet, authorities have sus-

pended the search for a missing Klamath Falls man. Searchers said a car belonging to 39-year-old Robert Lear was found near L•

the community of Keno in southern Klamath County. But search-

ers say they found no trace of him beyond the car. It is believed to have been on aspur road for about two weeks. Searchers said they hadn't ruled out the possibility he had gotten a ride or hiked out of

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Officers wound man in Bandon after 911 call —The Coos County district attorney says officers in Bandon wounded a man who had called 911 and later came to the door of his trailer

with what appeared to be a rifle. District Attorney Paul Frasier said in a statement the man was hit twice in the arm Tuesday night but .

refused medical treatment and was arrested on two warrants for

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Four Pacific Northwest grain terminal owners say they will implement the terms of their final contract offer to the longshore union today. The union's options include accepting the offer, calling for a strike or seeking further bargaining while working under the new terms.

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earlier misdemeanor charges. Frasier identified the man as Charles Wayne Crum. He said Crum has a history of violence with officers.

2 firefighters taken to hospital after Salem fireTwo firefighters and a passing pedestrian were taken to a hospital

after a Christmas Day house fire in Salem. The Statesman Journal reported the passerby saw smoke coming out of the residence and reported the fire. Salem Fire Capt. Paul Telfer says the family who lives in the home was not there at the time of the fire, which appeared to have started in the kitchen. The rest of the house was

damaged by smoke. A dogand acat were rescued without injuries. Two firefighters were taken to the hospital with minor injuries and the caller was transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation after knocking on the door of the burning house.

Police investigate death in Portland apartment By Steven Dubois

union that ILWU members are The Associated Press welcome to come to work unPORTLAND — The owners der the new terms and condiof four Pacific Northwest grain tions of employment." terminals have informed the Wednesday's action puts the longshore union they will not International Longshore and lock them out of their jobs. In- Warehouse Union on the spot. stead, they will implement the Its options include accepting terms of their final contract of- the offer, calling for a strike fer today. or seeking further bargaining Under federal law, employ- while working under the new ers can take that step when terms. parties reach a b a rgaining The union is reviewing the impasse. The l ast c ontract owners' letter, ILWU spokesexpired Sept. 30 and negotia- woman Jennifer Sargent said tions have stalled. in a statement. For now, em"This is not a lock out," the ployees "intend to continue employers said in a statement. working despite the substan"The companies informed the dard provisions of the employ-

Parking

er'slastoffer,"she said. The owners submitted their final offer Nov. 16 and it was rejected by union membership 94 percent to 6 percent. The union, contending talks were not at an impasse, offered additional dates. Though it's unknown for how long the longshoremen will work under terms they oppose, each day without a strike or lockout is good for farmers and their customers in Asia. More than a quarter of all U.S. grain exports and nearly half of U.S. wheat exports move through grain terminals on the Willamette

lower than considered optihave any obstacles for cusmal, at 4.72. According to the tomers visiting d owntown. Continued from B1 report, downtown Bend's av- But, he suggested, if the city In th e h i ghest-use area, erage turnover is 7.60 and in is considering a t w o -hour Sixth Street between Des- Hood River, it is 6.06. limit on some blocks of Sixth chutes and Forest, more than A two-hour parking limit Street, it should extend that 84 percent of th e on-street in the key blocks along Sixth limit to side streets on those spots were o c cupied d u r - Street might be the most ef- blocks, where many downing the peak hour of noon to fective solution for turnover, town workers park all day. l p.m.; 17 percent of those for according to the report. Yet limits have their limmore than three hours. The consultant found that its, according to Williams; if "I've been involved with a Redmond'sless-than-desirable that's the direction business number of 'parking solutions' turnover wasnot a serious is- owners want to go, then the in different cities," said Brad sue, but as downtown store- city of R edmond needs to Smith, co-owner of Paulina front occupancy increases, it determine whether it has the Springs Books. "And really, may become a problem. resources to enforce parking there is no simple solution William Gilbert, co-owner restrictions. unless it's t hat A m e ricans o f Green Plow C o ffee o n A meeting i s s c heduled need to learn to walk. It's like Sixth Street, sees that day if they can't park at the door, coming. "This isn't like Hawthorne there's a problem." Business owners and em- in Portland (a popular retail/ ployees using close-in street restaurant district), where it's parking is an ongoing prob- hard to find parking on the lem in downtown Redmond, side streets," he said. "But by Smith said, one that neigh- 2020, when our population inboring businesses are often creases, parking in Redmond hesitant to address face to is going to be horrendous if face. something's not changed." "I park on Fifth Street (PauRedmond's supply of offlina is on Sixth) and I know street parking presents an no one else on my block is odd dilemma, according using that area because usu- to the study. Of more than ally I'm the only one there," 1,000 spots in the downtown he said. "The best solutions core,90 percent are privately are often th e h a rdest and owned and posted as such. sometimes for merchants, it's Only 17 2 o f f -street s p ots heightened awareness about (most next to city hall and the importance of making it the library) are considered easier for customers to visit public. our businesses." Yet the survey count found Outside those key blocks, occupancy of the private lots the survey found only 36 per- was fairly low — around 48 cent of the on-street spots oc- percent — a n d s u g gested cupied during the peak hour. shared-use agreements for But turnover, measured as the those off-street spots would number ofcars to use a single benefit the retail core. spot over a 10-hour day, was Smith said he'd rather not

River and Puget Sound. T he dispute i n itially i n volved those terminals that operate under a single collective b argaining a g reement with the ILWU. But one of the owners, the Cargill and CHS joint venture, has broken away from t he consortium and i s b e lieved to be negotiating separately with the union. Cargill and CHS were not included in the letter the other owners emailed Wednesday to Leal Sundet, an ILWU coast committeeman, informing him of their decision to implement the terms ofthe lastoffer.

Jan. 9 for the city and interested d owntown b u s iness owners to share ideas on the parking survey and possible solutions. " We need to hone in o n where there really is a need," said Williams. — Reporter: 541-548-2186; lpugmire@wescompapers.com

— Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman in a

Southwest Portland apartment. The Oregonian reported officers were called to the home just before10 p.m. Tuesday. Sgt. Pete Simpson didn't release any details about who called police or how

the woman may havedied. But what officers found prompted them to call homicide detectives and forensic evidence specialists. Police closed off the apartment building with crime tape and worked

through the night investigating the death, which Simpson is calling suspicious. State medical examiners conducted an autopsy on the body Wednesday. Simpson said no more details will be released until the autopsy is completed. — From uvire reports

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K idwell said t h e b a n k and thelocal businesses are Continued from B1 regarded as victims in the Larsen faces charges of case, though he does not first- a n d s e c ond-degree know who w il l b e t a king theft, c o m puter c r i m es, the loss for the fraudulentlypossession o f co n t r olled purchased items. substances and p r obation — Reporter:541-383-0387, violation. shammers@bendbulleti n.com

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Tomorrow Rise Set Mercury....6:53 a.m...... 3:39 p.m. Venus......6:00 a.m...... 3:06 p.m. Mars.......9:16 a.m...... 631 p.m. Jupiter......2 29 p m...... 5 32 a.m. Satum......2:52 a.m......1;19 p.m. Uranus....11:45 a.m.....12:03 a.m.

Yesterday's weather through 4 p.m. inBend High/Low.............. 36/28 24hours endmg 4p.m. *. . 0.11" Recordhigh........56m1980 Monthtodate.......... 2.82" Recordlow.......... 0in1983 Average monthtodate... 1.88" Average high.............. 39 Year to date........... 10.51" Average low .............. 22 Average year to date.. 11.04"

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ULTRAVIOLET INDEX

S K IREPORT

Yesterday Thursday Friday The higher the UV Index number, the greater Ski report from around the state, representing Hi/Lo/Pcp H i/Lo/W H i /Lo/Wthe need for eye and skin protection. Index is conditions at 5 p.m. yesterday:

City Precipitationvaluesare24-hour totals through4 p.m.

Astoria ........48/41/0.45....45/37/sh.....44/35/sh Baker City......30/25/0.03.....33/7/sn.....30/14/pc Brookings......45/43/0.00.....47/38/c.....47/38/sh Burns..........28/24/0.07..... 32/-4/c......27/5/pc Fugene........49/37/0.00....42/33/sh......40/32/c Klamath Falls .. 35/20/001 ....29/12/c ... 32/12/c Lakeview.......34/27/0.01 .....26/3/pc..... 28/8/pc La Pine........43/26/0.00.....30/1 4/c......28/I 0/c Medford.......44/37/0.00.....38/29/c......39/31/c Newport.......46/45/0.71....467397sh.....44737/sh North Bend.....48/43/0.60....48/37/sh.....48/36/sh Ontario........32/30/0.04....37/19/pc.....32/1 7/pc Pendleton......31/30/0.04.....39/24/c......35/24/c Portland .......41/37/0.09....42/35/sh.....42/33/sh Prineville....... 34/29/0.14.....30/1 9/c......28/1 6/c Redmond....... 37/28/0.00.....33/1 3/c......31/1 6/c Roseburg.......46/40/0.12....44/33/sh......45/32/c Salem ....... 47/42/0 01 ...43/33/sh ... 42/32/c Sisters......... 33/29/0.00.....31/1 7/c......26/1 5/c The Dages...... 38/32/0.09.....37/23/c......36/26/c

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ROAD CONDITIONS Snow level androadconditions representing conditions at 5 p.m. yesterday. Key:TT. = Traction Tires. Pass Conditions 1-5 at Siskiyou Summit........ Carry chains or T. Tires 1-84 at Cabbage Hill....... .. . Carry chains or T. Tires

Ski area Last 24 hours Base Depth Anthony Lakes ...... . . . . . . . . 6 -8 . . . . . . . . 55 Hoodoo..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0.. . . . .39-71 Mt. Ashland...... . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . 88-118 Mt. Bachelor..... . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . 96-120 Mt. Hood Meadows..... . . . . . 1 7 . . . . . . . 107 Mt. HoodSkiBowl...........0-0......52-55 Timberline..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 . . . . . . . 117

Warner Canyon....... . . . . . . . 0.0... no report Willamette Pass ....... . . . . . . 0-0. . . . . .41-64

Aspen, Colorado...... . . . . . . . 0-0. . . . . .26-35 Mammoth Mtn., California..... 18. . . .102-115 Park City, Utah ...... . . . . . . . . 0.0. . . . . .34-52 Squaw Valley, California....... 20. . . . .60-127 Hwy. 58 at Willamette Pass .. Chains or TT. all vehicles Sun Valley, Idaho....... . . . . . . . 1 ... . . .24-58 Taos, New Mexico...... . . . . . . 0.0. . . . . .31 37 Hwy. 138 at Diamond Lake .. Chains or TT. all vehicles Hwy. 242 at McKenzie Pass........ Closed for season Vail, Colorado...... . . . . . . . . . 0.0... . . .17-23 For up-to-minute conditions turn to: For links to thelatest ski conditions visit: www.skicentral.com/oregon.html www.tripcheck.com or call 511 Legend:W-weather, Pcp-precipitation,s-sun, pc-partial clouds,c-clouds,h-haze,sh-showers,r-rain, t-thunderstorms,sf-snowflurries, snsnow, i-ice,rs-rain-snowmix, w-wind,f-fog, dr-drizzle,tr-trace

Hwy. 20 at Santiam Pass.... Chains or TT, agvehicles Hwy 26 at Government Camp.. Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 26 at Ochoco Divide..... Carry chains or T. Tires

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Yesterday Thursday Friday Yesterday Thursday Friday Yesterday Thursday Friday Yesterday Thursday Friday City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Abilene TX......33/19/000...54/31/s.. 47/22/s Grandilapids... 29/25/010..31/21/pc. 30/23/sn RapidCity........9/ 7/0 00...20/8/sn.. 22/I2/c Savannah.......67/45/0 20...56733ls. 61/42/pc Akron..........31/27/049..32/19/sn..30/19/c GreenBay......27/17/trace..27/19/pc.28/18/sn Reno...........37/27/0 03...33/16/c. 34/22/pc Seattle......... 44/38/0.17..44/35/sh.. 43/34/c Albany..........25/18/000..36/23/sn.. 34/18/c Greensboro......44/36/1.19..48/27/pc.48/34/pc Richmond.......48/37/1.32..50/29/pc. 49/31/pc SiouxFalls.......15/-1/0.00..18/14/sn.. 20/5/sn Albuquerque.....41/23/000...40/23/c .. 38/20/c Harnsburg.......34/28/049 .. 37/25/rs. 36/25/pc Rochester, NY....29/21/0.03 ..30/24/sn.. 30/18/c Spokane........31/28/0.08 ..35/26/sn.. 35/24/c Anchorage......26/16/000 ..31/24/sn. 33/21/sn Hartford CT.....36/22/0 01... 42/24/r. 38/I7/pc Sacramento......53/43/0.69... 51/37/c .. 49/37/c Springfield, MO ..29/18/0.00.. 39/24/pc.. 36/19/c Atlanta.........59/36/0.68...47/32/s.54742ipc Helena...........18/7/0.22...24711i..c 27/12/c St Louis........ 33/30/trace..35/25/pc .. 35/26/c Tampa..........74/60/047...64747/s. 70/60/pc Atlantic City.....50/31/1A4 ..49/31/sh. 42732ipc Honolulu........82/70/000...80/67/s .. 80/66/s Salt Lake City....32/25/007 .. 30/22/sn.. 31/15/c Tucson..........66/39/000 ..57/36/pc.. 52/30/s Austin..........45/28/0.00 ..58/46/pc.. 61/33/s Houston........47/33/0.00 ..56752/sh. 70/40/sh SanAntonio.....51/28/000..58/49/pc .. 65/35/s Tulsa...........33/14/000..37/25/pc.. 38/19/c Baltimore .......48/31/093..42/29/sh.41/29/pc Huntsville.......54/34/0.06...43/29/s. 51/38/pc SanDiego.......61/51/004..607467p c. 627477pc Washington,DC..42/33/128..42/30/pc. 42/31/pc Billings.........13/3/000.... 22/8/c ..28714 7c lndianapolis.....33/28/038..29/16ipc .. 33/25/c SanFrancisco....55/48/020..53/42/pc.. 53/43/c Wichita..........30/9/000 ..35/20/pc.. 30/15/c Birmingham.....58/34/001 ...47/31/s. 56/43/pc JacksonMS.... 38/35/000...50/38/s .. 55/49/t SanJose........54/44/036 ..547387pc.. 54/43/c Yakima.........37/31/003... 32/21/c.. 32/24/c Bismarck.........ll/9/000....16/2/c...15/1/c Jacksonvile......70/48/017...57/34/s. 64/48/pc SantaFe........35/16/000 ..30/15/pc 31/12/s Yuma...........65/42/000 ..63/43/pc.. 63/42/s Boise...........32/28/002..35/19/sn.. 34/16/c Juneau...........18/6/0.00..30/28/sn..36/29/rs INTERNATIONAL Boston..........37/23/000... 46/28/r. 38/24/pc Kansas City.......26/7/0.00 ..32/22/pc.. 32/18/c Bndgeport,CT....34/26/0.18... 47/28/r. 39/23/pc Lansing.........28/25/0.06..29/18/sn. 28/21/sn Amsterdam......48/39/008 45/40/r 44/44/sh Mecca..........86/63/000 81/64/s .. 84/66/s Buffalo.........30/22/004..30/23/sn .. 30/19/c LasVegas.......52/38/000...49/34/c .. 48/33/s Athens..........65/51/0.00 ..56/49/pc.. 60/46/s Mexico City......72/48/0.00... 74/45/s. 76/46/pc Burlington, VT.....23/8/000 ..32/22/sn. 30/12/sn Lexington.......42/30/0 37 ..34/24/pc ..42/31/rs Auckland........73/66/000..72/61/sh.73/57/pc Montreal.........14/7/000..26/23/sn..25/13/c Caribou,ME.....19/10/000 ..24/20/sn. 25/10/sn Lincoln..........14/ I/0 00...24716ic... 24/7/6 Baghdad........62/51/0.00... 65/46/s .. 65/47/s Moscow........34/19/0.22 .. 32/28/sf. 32/19/sn Charleston, SC...68/48/0.65...55/33/s. 59741ipc Little Rock.......35/28/0.05..39729/pc...4473271Bangkok........93/75/000 ..93/74/pc. 96/72/pc Nairobi.........79/61/097... 75/60/t...72/61/t Charlotte........53/45/172...49/31/s. 51/38/pc Loshngeles......61/51/OA4..61/42/pc. 63/48/pc Beifng...........21/I/000 ..30/I7/pc .. 29/19/c Nassau.........82/70/000 ..81/67/sh. 82/68/pc Chattanooga.....54/36/022 ..43/29/pc. 53/36/pc Louisville........36/32/0.88..35/26/pc. 42/32/sh Beirut..........66/57/000...67/57/s. 66/56/pc New 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COMMENTARY

Manning leads Pro Bowl picks

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NEW YORK — Pey-

ton Manning andAdrian Peterson want to cap their sensational comebacks with Super Bowl

appearances. For now, they canbe proud of Pro Bowl spots.

So can Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, the only rook-

ie quarterback chosen Wednesday for the Jan. 27 NFL all-star game.

Manning missed all of the 2011 season with neck and back

problems that required several operations. He

By Paul Newberry

hotly contested category, considering the abundance of boneheaded calls, trades orget the Oscars or the Emmys. It's and signings that occur in any given year. time for the Newbys — my awards The New York Jets acquiring Tim Tebow, for the top people, moments and mis- for instance. But in 2012, the award goes haps in sports from 2012. to ... NFL replacement refs, for someWe'll skip the lame banter on the red how concocting a way to give the Seattle carpet and long-winded acceptance Seahawks a game-winning touchdown speeches (unless it's Les Miles). on a Green Bay Packers interception. Heck, we'll even take a pass on hand- Though, to some, this might have been ing out actual trophies (enough of those the best decision of the year because it already). forced the league to bring back the real So, without further delay, the envelopes refs. We never realized how much we please. missed those guys. WORST DECISION — This is always a See2012/C4 The Associated Press

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Stephen Brashear /The Associated Press file

The now-famous call by replacement officials at the end of a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers is one of the most memorable moments of the year.

then signed with Denver

as a free agent and has led the Broncos on a

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10-game winning streak to take the AFC West. Manning's 12th Pro Bowl is a record for

rea towrite new scrl in ese

quarterbacks. He ranks fourth in passing this year, has thrown 34

touchdowns and11 interceptions.

Minnesota's Peterson tore up his left knee on Christmas Eve last year,

underwent major surgery, then was back for the season opener. He's gone from uncertain to unstoppable, running away with the rushing title with a career-high

1,898 yards. Griffin is one of three rookie QBs who had

• Two years after losing to Auburn in theBCSnational champions hip,theDucks return to the scenein Arizona

superb debut seasons, along with Andrew Luck of lndianapolis

and Russell Wilson of Seattle. Luck and Wilson weren't voted to

the Pro Bowl by players, coaches and fans, however. San Francisco had

By Rob Moseley The Register-Guard

the most players selected, nine, including six

from its second-ranked defense. Houston was next with eight, six on

offense.

Roh Kerr /The Bulletin file

Oregon State fullback Clayton York, a Redmond High graduate, will play in his final collegiate game Saturday.

For complete rosters,

see Scoreboard,C2. — The Associated Press

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Today's bowls at a glance Bowl season gets

• Redmond High's Clayton York will wrap up his Oregon State career when heplaysin the Alamo Bowl on Saturday

started in earnest today, with three games taking

place. Here's a quick look at the rnatChup:

By Grant Lucas

Military Bowl, Bowling

The Bulletin

Green vs. SanJose State, noon, ESpN: Bowling Green hasn't

played in a postseason game since 2009, San

•

Jose State since 2006.

from Western Oregon University.

To see howfar these schools havecomein

San Jose State was 1-12. San Jose State's quick turnaround cost the school its coach: Mike Maclntyre left for

Colorado. Belk Bowl, Cincinnati vs. Duke, 3:30 p.m., ESPN:This is Duke's

first bowl game in18 seasons, and the Blue Devils haven't won one since1961, so this is a great opportunity for the Blue Devils. Cincinnati is a bowl-tested team; this is the Bearcats' sixth

postseason appearance in the past sevenyears.

teams can deliver. Baylor's offense, led by quarterback Nick Florence, is first nationally with 578.8

yards per gameandthe Bears are fifth in scoring at 44.1 points. — The Associated Press

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Now, he is set to wraP uP his colle- Alarno Bowl giatecareer as a four-year letterman O„egon State and as a part of one of the better turnarounds in major-college football this season. "It's a l earning experience," York 345 says of his time with the OSU football program. "It's a lot of hard work and a lot of time spent doing stuff you don't really want to do, but, you know, you've KICE-AM 940 got to do it, and it'll make you better. It builds character. It puts you in a position where you can pass it on to other guys. That'sbeing a leader by example because you've done it, you know?" The Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, where on Saturday No. D OSU will take on No. 23 Texas, will be the setting for York's final game as a Beaver. See York/C4

a short time, look at 2010 — when Bowling Green went 2-10 and

Holiday Bowl, Baylor vs. UGLA, 6:45 p.m., ESPN:The Holiday Bowl bills itself as "America's Most Exciting Bowl Game," and these two

This weekend, Clayton York will put on the Oregon State University orange and black one last time. In 2008, after graduating from Redmond High, York walked on to the Beaver football team after turning down a scholarship offer

Kenjon Barner brushed it off as "a distant memory," while Josh Huff recalled the "crushing" final-play field goal that Auburn kicked to beat Oregon, 22-19, for the national title two season ago. Brian Jackson remembers moist turf on which "everybody was slipping," and Michael Clay said the controversial play to set up the winning kick "stuck the knife in us a little bit deeper." On Wednesday, the Oregon football team arrived in the Phoenix area to begin onsite preparations for the Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl against Kansas State. For more than 50 of the Ducks, they'll be staying in the same hotel, practicing at the same facility and playing in the same University of Phoenix Stadium where they met Auburn for the BCS championship at the end of the 2010 season. The national championship game capped a 12-0 regular season, the best in school history. In the title game, Oregon was overwhelmed by an Auburn defensive line that featured tackle Nick Fairley, losing despite an outstanding defensive effort that mostly contained Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Cam Newton. See Ducks/C4

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Matt York / The Associated Press file

Oregon's Kenjon Barner (24) is stopped short of a touchdown against Auburn during the BCS national championship game in Glendale, Ariz., in January of 2011. The Ducks are back in Glendale for the Fiesta Bowl.

NBA

A year later, somethink a Christmasstart is best for basketball By Brian Mahoney The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Doc Rivers left home for the holiday, lost the game, and loved every minute of it. "That was p erfect," Rivers said, recalling the Boston Celtics' 2011-12 season opener. " I just think it w a s awesome." A year after the NBA started its sea-

son on Christmas out of necessity, Rivers and others think it's something the league should consider doing regularly. The 2011-12 schedule consisted of 66 games, and while even the advocates for the later start aren't certain how many should be played, they believe it's something worth exploring. "I think starting on Christmas Day would be better and then going later

into July, I think that would be better so the start of our season wasn't overshadowed as much by NFL football and college football," ABC and ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy said. "If you did that, obviously you'd have to extend into July a little bit. But I think 66 games, the only bad thing about that

would be people losing some money and so because of that, no one's ever

going to do that. It would certainly be better for the product." A normal 82-game schedule was impossible last season when owners and players couldn't agree to a new labor contract in time. The lockout dragged into November before a t e n tative agreement was struck on Thanksgiving weekend. SeeNBA/C3

TH E BULLETIN• THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012

ON THE AIR: TELEVISION TODAY FOOTBALL Noon:College, Military Bowl,

Bowling Greenvs. SanJose State, ESPN. 3:30 p.m.:College, Belk Bowl, Cincinnati vs. Duke, ESPN.

6:45 p.m.:College, Holiday Bowl, Baylor vs. UCLA, ESPN.

BASKETBALL Sp.m.: NBA, Dallas Mavericks at Oklahoma City Thunder, TNT.

6p.m.:Men's college, New Mexico at Cincinnati, ESPN2. 7:30p.m.:NBA, Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Clippers, TNT.

FOOTBALL 11a.m.:College,lndependence Bowl, Louisiana-Monroe vs. Ohio, ESPN.

2:30 p.m.:College, Russell Athletic Bowl, Rutgers vs. Virginia Tech, ESPN.

6 p.m.:College, Meineke Car CareBowl,Minnesotavs.Texas Tech, ESPN.

BASKETBALL 4 p.m.:Men's college, Providence at Brown, NBCSN.

5 p.m.:Men's college, Baylor at Gonzaga, ESPN2. 6:30 p.m.:Men's college, College of Idaho at Utah, Pac-12 Network.

7 p.m.:Men's college, Missouri atUCLA,ESPN2. 7:30 p.m.:NBA, Portland Trail

Blazers at Los Angeles Lakers, Blazer Network (Ch. 39)

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COREBOARD

FRIDAY

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6:45 p.m.:College, Holiday 2:30 p.m.:College, Russell Bowl, Baylorvs. UCLA, KICE-AM Athletic Vowl, Rutgers vs. 940. Virginia Tech, KICE-AM 940.

6 p.m.:College, Meineke Car CareBowl,Minnesotavs.Texas Tech, KICE-AM 940.

BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m.:NBA, Portland Trail

Blazers at Los Angeles Lakers, Blazer Network, KBND-AM1110, KRCO-AM 690. 4'stings are themostaccurate available. TheBulletinis not responsible for late changesmadeby TVor radiostations.

ON DECK Today Boys basketball: MountainViewvs. Ashlandat Les SchwabHoliday Hoopfestat Summit High, 12:45 p.m.;Bendvs. West Albany attheLesSchwabHoliday Hoopfestat Summit High,4:15p.m.; Horizon Christianvs.Summit at theLesSchwab Holiday Hoopfest at SummiHi t gh, 745 p.mz Ridgeview vs. Creswelat SistersHolidayToumament, 5p.m.; Sistersvs. Scappoosein Sisters HolidayTournament, 7 p.m.,Madras vs. Tigamookat Stayton Toumam ent, 1:30p.m.; Riversideat Culver,5:30 p.mzRedmondvs North MedfordatAbby's Holiday Toumament in Medtord, 7 p.m.; Gilchrist at Bend frosh tourney, TBD Girls basketball: MountainViewvs. GrantsPass at SummiHol t idayToumament, 12:45 p.m.; Bend vs. Roseburg at Summit HohdayTournament, 4:15 p.m.;Summitvs. LibertyatSummit HolidayTournament, 6p.mzRedmondvs. Junction CityatSisters HolidayTournament, 3p.m.; Sisters vs.Ridgeview at SistersHolidayToumament, 5 p.m.; Madrasvs Scappoose at StaytonTournament, noon;Riverside at Culver,4:30 p.m. Wrestling: MountainViewatSierra NevadaClassic in Reno,TBD Friday Boys basketball: Bend, MountainView, Summit at LesSchwabHoliday Hoopfest at Summit High, TRD; Ridgeview,Sisters at Sisters Tournam ent, TBD;Madrasat StaytonTournament, TBD;Culver at SouthWascoCounty, 4p.m.; Redmond at Abby's HolidayTournament in Medlord, TBD,LaPineat Lakeview,7p.m. Girls basketball: Bendvs. Corvallis at theSummit HolidayTournam ent; 12:30p.mzMountain View vs Spragueat the Summit HolidayTournament, 12:45 p.mc Summivs. t North Medford at the Summit HolidayTournament, 5:45p.mcMadras at StaytonTournament, TBD; Centra Christian vs. Monument/Dayvigeat Trinity LutheranTournament, 6 p.m.;Trinity Lutheranvs. C.S.Lewis Academyat Trinity LutheranTournament, 7:30 p.m.; Redmond,Ridgeview, Sisters at Sisters Tournament,TBD;Culver at SouthWascoCounty, 4p.m. ;LaPineatLakeview,2:30p.m Wrestling: Bendat NWDuals at Westview HS,TRD, MountainViewat Sierra NevadaClassic in Reno, TBD;Redmondat Pacific CoastChampionships in Vancouver,Wash., TBD

Saturday Boys basketball: Bend,MountainView,Summit at Les Schwab Holiday Hoopfestat Summit High,TBD; Ridgeviewat Sisters Tournament, TBD;Madrasat Stayton Tournament,TBD,RedmondatAbby's Holiday Tournam entin Medford, TBD;Gilchrist at Bend frosh toumey, TBD Girls basketball: Summivs. t Wilsonat theSummit HolidayTournament, 11:30a.m., Bendvs. The Dalles Wahtonkaat theSummit HolidayTournament, 3 ip m.; MountainViewvs WestAlbanyat the SummiHol t idayToumament, 3p.m.; Madrasat StaytonTournament, TBD;Central Christian, Trinity Lutheran at Trinity LutheranTournament, TBD, Redmond,Ridgeview,Sisters at Sisters Tournament,TBD Wrestling: Bend at NWDuals at WestviewHS TBD, Redm ond at Pacific Coast Championships

SPORTS IN BRIEF FOOTBALL Chippewas take Pizza BOWI —Ryan Radcliff threw an

11-yard touchdown pass toCody Wilson with 5:11 remaining to give Central Michigan (7-6) the lead,and Western Kentucky was

ing. Andruw Joneswasfree on bond after his arrest on a battery

Sox get closer — The Boston RedSox have acquired All-Star closer Joel Hanrahan from the Pittsburgh Pirates in

the Chippewas a 24-21 win in

a six-player deal. Boston com-

the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl on Wednesday night in Detroit.

pleted the trade Wednesday, also receiving infielder Brock Holt.

Lance Guidry, coaching the Hill- The RedSoxgave up right-handtoppers (7-6) on an interim basis ers Mark Melancon and Stolmy before Bobby Petrino takes over,

Pimentel, infielder Ivan DeJesus

decided to play for the win on

Jr. and first baseman-outfielder

fourth-and-2 from the 19 with 51 Jerry Sands. Over the past secondsleft,butKawaun Jakes two seasons, the right-handed

threw incomplete.

Hanrahan had 76saves, fourth

Tebow talks —TimTebow

most in the National League, and a 2.24 ERA. Last season, he was 5-2with a2.72 ERAand

refuses to acceptanyone calling him a quitter or phony. The New

York Jets backup quarterback insisted Wednesdaythat he

36 saves. TheRedSox also announced the signing of free agent shortstop Stephen Drew, who agreed to aone-year contract early last week.

Rangers addPierzynski

didn't ask out of running the team's wildcat plays last week,

— A.J. Pierzynski can joke with

butacknowledged whathesaid

TexasmanagerRonWashington

in a meeting with coach Rex Ryan might have been misinn terpreted as such. l never said, 'Hey, I don't want to do anything or I won't do anything,'" Tebow said. "That wasn't the talk at all.... It was just me asking to get an opportunity to play the

about last season's All-Star snub now that he's the starting catch-

position I love, which is quarter-

the All-Star issue dead after it

back. It wasn't me asking out of anything." Last Tuesday, Ryan

happened in July, eventhough

chose to go with third-stringer

when Washington explained the n

Greg McElroy over Tebow in placeofthe benched Mark San-

chezforSunday'sgameagainst the San Diego Chargers.

Cowdoys' Brent indicted — A grand jury in Texashas

formally indicted Dallas Cow-

er for the Rangers. Theyshared a laugh over lunch afew days before Wednesday's announcement that Pierzynski's one-year free agent contract with Texas

was complete. Both considered Pierzynski had a cryptic retort difficulty of the decision. Ev-

erybody keeps trying to makea big deal out of it, but I've known Wash for a really long time," Pierzynski said. "It's not going

to change theway I feel about Ron Washingtonbecause Iknow w hat he' sdone inthis game and

boys nose tackle Josh Brent

I know where hestands and

on one count of intoxication manslaughter. Brent is charged

what he's all about. It's over and n done with for me. Washington

in connection with a Dec.8

said Pierzynski will be the primarycatcher,pushing Geovany

crash that killed his friend and

Cowboys practice squadmember Jerry Brown. He isout of jail

Soto to the backup role after he

re-signed as afree agent.

on $100,000 bond. Police in the Dallas suburb of Irving say Brent

was speedin gwhenhisvehicle struck a curb and flipped. Brown

was pronounced dead atan area hospital. Intoxication manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of 20years in prison.

HOCKEY NHLplayer's outdoor game —With the NHLlockout grinding through its fourth month, Montreal Canadiens

defensemanJoshGorgeslooked

BASEBALL Jones accused ofdragging Wife —The wife of former Atlanta Braves star Andruw Jonesaccused him ofdragging her down a staircase, grabbing her neck andsaying hewanted to kill her, according to police

to an unusual source to find his next hockey game: Twitter. The

28-year-old Gorgesextendedan open invitation to his followers on the social network to join him

at a Montreal rink Wednesday afternoon, during the Boxing

Day holiday. Fansresponded in droves. Dozens of players, ranging widely in age and skill

records. A police report obtained level, packed into a rink in the by The Associated Press said the city's Verdun neighborhood for fight happened around1:30 a.m. achancetoskatealongsidean on Christmas Day, after Nicole

Jones askedher husband to help

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charge, according to Gwinnett County Jail records.

a field goal would have tied the game in the final minute, giving

about his quarterback skills, his arm and how he throws. He

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her prepare their suburban Atlanta home for Christmas morn-

stopped on fourth down when

has been criticized for years

in Vancouver,Wash., TBD;CrookCounty, Culver, Ridgeview atFreeBerry Invite in Pendleton,10 a.m

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Tcu Offense Quarterbacks —Robert Gritfin RI,Washington; Aaron Rodgers,GreenBay; Matt Ryan,Atlanta Runnin gBacks— FrankGore,SanFrancisco;MarshawnLynch,Seattle; AdrianPeterson, Minnesota Fullback—JeromeFelton, Minnesota Wide Receivers —Victor Cruz,N.Y.Giants; Calvin Johnson,Detroit; Julio Jones,Atlanta;Rrandon Marshall,Chicago Tight Ends—TonyGonzalez, Atlanta;JasonWiten, Dallas Tackes —RussellOkung,Sea tle; JoeStaley, San Francisco;TrentWiliams, Wa shington Guards—Jahri Evans, NewOrleans; Mike lupati, San Francisco;Chris Snee,N.Y. Giants Centers — JeffSaturday,GreenRay, Max Unger, Seattle

Defense

Ends —JaredAllen, Minnesota;Julius Peppers, Chicago;JasonPierre-Paul, N.Y.Giants Interior Linemen —Gerald Mccoy, TampaBay; Henry Meltont Chicago; Justin Smith, SanFrancisco Outside Linebackers Clay Matthews,GreenBay; Aldon Smith, SanFrancisco; DeMarcusWare, Dallas Inside/MiddleLinebackers— NaVorro Bowman, San Francisco;PatrickWilis, SanFrancisco Cornerbacks —TimJennings, Chicago; Patrick Peterson, Arizona;CharlesTilman, Chicago StrongSafeties —DonteWhitner, SanFrancisco FreeSafeties—DashonGoldson, SanFrancisco; Earl Thomas,Seattle Specialists Placekicker—Blair Waish, Minnesota Punter ThomasMorstead,NewOrleans Kick Returner—LeonWashington, Seattle SpecialTeam —LorenzoAlexander,Washington

NFL Playoff Scenarios AFC CLINCHED:Houston, AFCSouth; Denver,AFC West;NewEngland, AFCEast; Baltimore, AFCNorth; Indianapolis, No. 5 playoff spot; Cincinnati, No. 6 playotfspot HOUSTON (at Indianapolis) Clinchesfirst-round byewith: Win ortie, or —NewEnglandlossor tie, or —Denverloss Clincheshome-field advantagethroughout AFCplayoffs with: — Win, or Tie AND Denverloss ortie, or —NewEngland lossor tie ANDDenver loss DENVER (vs KansasCity) Clinchesfirst-round byewith: —Win ortie, or —NewEnglandlossor tie Clincheshome-field advantagethroughout AFCplayoffs with: —WinANDHouston lossor tie, or —TieANDHouston loss NEWENGLAND(vs. Miami) Clinchesfirst-round byewith: Win AND Denver or Houston loss Clincheshome-field advantagethroughout AFCplayoffs with —WinANDDenver andHouston loss NFC CLINCHED :Atlanta, NFCSouthandhome-field advantage;GreenBay,NFCNorth; SanFrancisco, playoff spot; Seattle,playoffspot GREEN BAY(at Minnesota) Clinchesfirst-round byewith: — Win, or Tie AND SanFranciscoloss ortie, or —SanFranciscolossANDSeattle lossor tie SAN FRANC ISCO(vs. Arizona) ClinchesNFCWest with: —Win ortie, or —Seattlelossortie Clinchesfirst-round byewith: —WinANDGreenBay loss or tie, or —TieANDGreenBay loss SEATTLE (vs. St. Louis) ClinchesNFCWest with: Win AND SanFranciscoloss Clinchesfirst-round byewith: —WinANDSanFranciscolossANDGreenBayloss WASHINGTON (vs. Dallas) ClinchesNFCEastwith. — Win ortie Clinchesplayolf spotwith: ChicagolossANDMinnesotaloss DALLAS (at Washington) ClinchesNFCEastwith: — Win NEWYORKGIANTS(vs. Philadelphia) Clinchesplayolf spotwith: Win ANDDallas lossortie ANDChicagolossAND Minnesotaloss MINNESOTA (vs. GreenBay) Clinchesplayotf spotwith: — Win,or —TieANDChicagoloss ortie, or Dallas lossortie ANDN.Y.Giants loss or tieAND Chicagoloss CHICAGO (at Detroit) Clinchesplayotf spotwith: —WinANDMinnesotaloss or tie, or —TieANDMinnesotaloss

NFL TopPerformers 2012 season Passing 527, Schaub,HOUvs.JAC11/18 (ot) (43-55, 5TD) 510, E.Manning, NYGvs. TAM9/16(31-51,3TD) 446, Brees,NDRat GBY9/30 (35-54, 3TD) 446, srees,NDRat DAL12/23 (ot) (37-53,3 TD) 443, Stattord,DETvs.ATL12/22 (37-56,0TD) 443, Brady,NWEvs. SNF12/16(36 65,1TD) 441, Romo, DALvs. WAS11/22 (37-62, 3TD) 441, Stafford,DETvs. HDU11/22 (ot) (31-61, 2TD) 437, Romo, DALvs NYG10/28 (36-62, 1TD) 433, Luck,INDvs.MIA11/04 (30-48, 2TD) 431, Tannehill, MIA at ARI9/30 (ot) (26-41, 1TD) 420, Jo.Freeman,TAM vs.NOR10/21(24-42 3TD) 416, Romo, DALvs. NDR12/23 (ot) (26-43, 4TD) 414,C. Palmer,DAKvs. TAM11/04(39-61,4TD) 411, M.Ryan,ATLat NOR11/11 (34-52, 3TD) 395, Brady,NWEat SEA10/14 (36-58, 2TD) 391, Luck,INDatDET12/02 (24-54,4 TD) 384, Roethlisberger,PITat OAK9/23 (36-49, 4TD) 382, Flacco,BALvs. NWE9/23 (28-39, 3TD) 381,Foles,PHLatTAM12/09(3251,2TD) 381, Dalton,CINat CLE10/14 (31-46,3TD) 378, Locker, TENvs. DET9/23 (ot) (29-42, 2TD) 377, Rradtord,STLvs. MIN12/16 (35 55,3TD) 377, Brees,NDRat TAM10/21 (27-37, 4TD) 373, C.PalmerDAKat MIA9/16(24 48,1TD) 372, Jo.Freem an,TAMvs.STL12/23(30 54,1TD) 371, Vick,PHLvs.BAL9/16 (23 32,1TD) 370, srees,NDRvs SND10/07 (29-45, 4TD)

Receiving 273, And.Johnson,HOUvs. JAC11/18 (ot) (14rec., 1 TD) 253, Hartline,MIAat ARI9/30 (ot) (12rec.,1 TD) 236, Blackmon, JACat HDU11/18 (ot) (7rec.,1 TD) 225, Ca.Johnson,DETvs. ATL12/22 (11rec., 0TD) 224, D.Bryant,DALvs. NOR12/23 (ot) (9rec.,2 TD) 216,V Jackson, TAMvs. NDR10/21(7rec.,1TD) 212, Wayne, INDvs. GBY10/07(13rec.,1TD) 207, CalJohnson, . DETat MIN11/11(12 rec.,1TD) 199, H.Nicks,NYGvs.TAM9/16(10 rec.,1 TD) 190, 8 Lloyd,NWEvs. SNF12/16(10rec., 0TD) 188, And.Johnson, HDUat DET 11/22 (ot) (9 rec., 0 TD) 183, A..Green,0INatWAS9/23 (9 rec., 1TD) 180, De.Thomas, DENat NWE10/07(9 rec.,OTD) 179,Cruz,NYGvs.TAM9/16(11rec.,1TD) 171, Cal. Johnson,DETvs. IND12/02 (13rec., 1

TD)

169, R.White,ATLvs. CAR9/30 (8 rec., 2TD) 167, Witten,DALvs. NYG10/28(18 rec.,OTD) 165, B.Marshall, CHIvs. SEA12/02 (ot) (10rec., 0

TD) 164, CalJohnson, . DETat TEN9/23 (ot) (10rec., 1 TD) 160, 8.Marshall, 0HlatMIN12/09 (10rec., 1TD) 160, AmendolaSTL , vs. WA S9/16 (15rec., 1TD) 157,8.Celek,PHLvs.BAL9/16(8rec.,OTD) Rushing 251, Do. Martin, TAMatDAK11/04(25att.,4TD) 233, J.Charles,KANat NOR9/23(ot) (33att.,1 TD) 226, J.Charles,KANvs. IND12/23 (22att.,1TD) 212, A.Peterson,MINatSTL12/16 (24att.,1 TD) 210, A.Peterson,MINatGBY12/02 (21att., 1 TD) 200, sradshaw, NYGvs CLE10/07 (30att.,1 TD) 195, Chr.Johnson,TENat BUF10/21(18 att., 2TD) 182, A.Peterson,MINatSEA11/04 (17att., 2TD) 178,8. Brown, PHLvs. CAR11/26(19att,2TD) 177, Jones-Drew, JACat IND9/23 (28att.,1 TD) 172, Re. Bush, MIAvs. DAK9/16 (26 att.,2 TD) 171,A. Peterson, MINvs DET11/11(27att.,1TD) 169, 8.Brown,PHLat DAL12/02 (24att., 2TD) 169, Spiler,BUFat NYJ9/09 (14att.,1 TD) 165,A. Foster,HOUvs. IND12/16(27att.,0TD) 165, J.Charles,KANat CLE12/09 (18att., 1TD) 161, Greene, NYJvs. IND10/14(32 att., 3 TD) 154, A.Peterson,MINvs CHI12/09(31att.,2TD) 153, A.Peterson,MINvs.ARI10/21 (23att., I TD) 152, A.Foster,HOUat NYJ10/08(29att.,1TD) 151,Ridley,NWEvs. DEN10/07(28att.,1TD) 147, Redm an,PITat NYG11/04 (26att.,1 TD) 141, Chr. Johnson,TENvs. CHI11/04(16att.,1TD) 141, Chr. Johnson,TENat HOU9/30(25att,gTD) 140, J.Charles,KANvs. BAL10/07(31att.,OTD) 139, S.Jackson,STLat ARI11/25 (24att., 0 TD)

College FBSBowlGlance Subjectto Change AffTimes PST Wednesday Little CaesarsPizzaBowl CentralMichigan24,Western Kentucky21

Today

Military Bowl BowlingGreen(8-4) vs.SanJose State(10-2), noon

(ESPN)

Belk Bowl Duke(6-6)vs. Cincinnati (93),3:30p.m.(ESPN) Holiday Bowl Baylor(7-5)vs.UCLA(9-4), 6:45p.m.(ESPN) Friday IndependenceBowl Louisiana-Monroe(8-4) vs. Ohio (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl VirginiaTech(6-6) vs. Rutgers(9-3), 2:30p.m.(ESPN) MeinekeCarCareBowl Minnesota(6-6) vs.TexasTech(7-5), 6p.m.(ESPN) Saturday Armed ForcesBowl Rice(6-6)vs AirForce(6-6),845am.(ESPN) Fight HungerBowl ArizonaState(7-5) vs. Navy(8-4), 12:15p.m.(ESPN2) Pinstripe Bowl Syracuse(7-5) vs. WestVirginia (7-5), 12:15 p.m. (ESPN) AlamoBowl Texas(8-4) vs.OregonState(9-3), 3:45p.m.(ESPN) Buffalo Wild WingsBowl Michigan State(6-6) vs. TCU(7-5), 7:15p.m.(ESPN) Monday,Dec.31 Music City Bowl Vanderbilt(8-4)vs.NCState(7-5),9am. (ESPN) Sun Bowl GeorgiaTech(6-7) vs. SouthernCal (7-5), 11 a.m.

(CBS)

Liberty Bowl lowaState(6-6) vs.Tulsa(103),12:30 p.m.(ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl LSU(10-2)vs.Clemson(10-2), 4:30p.m.(ESPN) Tuesday,Jan. 1 Hearl of Dallas Bowl Purdue(6-6) vs. Dklahom a State (7-5), 9 a.m.(ESPNU) Gator Bowl MississippiState(8-4) vs.Northwestern (9-3), 9 a.m. (ESPN2 ) Capital OneBowl Georgia(11-2)vs.Nebraska(10-3),10 a.m.(ABC) OutbackBowl South Carolina(10-2) vs. Michigan(8-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl Stanford(11-2) vs.Wisconsin (8-5),2 p.m.(ESPN) OrangeBowl Northernglinois (12-1)vs. FioridaState(11-2), 5:30

p.m.(ESPN)

Wednesday,Jan.2 Sugar Bowl Florida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 5.30 p.m.

(ESPN)

Thursday,Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl KansasState(11-1) vs. Oregon(11-1), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl TexasA8M(102)vs Oklahoma(10-2),5p.m.(Fox) Saturday, Jan. 6 BBVACompassBowl Pittsburgh(6-6)vs.Mississippi (6-6), 10a.m.(ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.comBowl Kent State(11-2) vs. ArkansasState (9-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCSNational Championship Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama(12-1), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Tuesday,Jan. 1

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BASKETBALL Men's college NCAADivision I Leaders Points PerGame CI GFGM3FG FT Pts Avg Green,VaT ech Sr12 98 19 90 305 25.4 Mccolum,Lehigh Sr10 87 27 48 249 24.9 McDermott,crghtn Jr 12 90 28 69 277 23.1 Kinney,SnJose Sr 9 78 24 23 203 22.6 Jones,lona S r 1 1 82 18 62 244 22.2 Cotton,Prov. Jr 10 67 32 54 220 22.0 Vinales,cconSt So 9 73 22 30 198 22.0 Gantt,Fla.At Sr 12 88 37 48 261 21.8 Niles,ORobt Sr11 80 35 39 234 21.3 Harrison,StJohn So12 85 28 53 251 20.9 Canaan,Murray Sr11 76 36 42 230 20.9 Lyons,AFA Sr 10 68 24 45 205 20.5 Crabbe,cal J r 11 75 23 51 224 20.4 Simpson,UNC Grn Jr 10 74 25 30 203 20.3 Ireland,LMU Jr 11 78 17 50 223 20.3 Bader,oaklnd Jr 13 72 53 65 262 20.2 H unter,cconSt Jr 9 66 9 40 181 20 1 Wolters,SDakSt Sr12 78 17 67 240 20.0 Thomas,ohioSt Jr 11 77 30 36 220 20.0 Motum,Wa shSt Sr12 90 13 46 239 19.9 H unter,NichSt Sr 7 49 4 3 7139 19.9 Saddler,Dela. Jr 12 79 24 56 238 19 8 D avies,BYU Sr I2 83 3 68 237 19.8 Haws,BYU So12 83 13 57 236 19.7 Smith,L'vill J r12 77 24 58236 19.7

DEALS Transactions BASEBALL

AmericanLeague BOSTONRED SDX — Traded RHP MarkMelancon, RHP StolmyPimentel, INFIvan DeJesusand18/ DF JerrySandsto Plttsburghlor RHPJoel Hanrahan and INFBrockHolt. Agreedtotermswith SSStephen Drew on aone-year contract. SEATTLE MARINERS—Agreedto termswith DF Raul Ibanezon aone-year contract. DesignatedRHP DJ Mitchell forassignment TEXAS RANGERS— Agreed to termswith CA.J. Pierzynski onaone-year contract. DesignatedC Luis Martinezforassignment. AmericanAssociation AMARILLO SOX— Released C Jonathan Cisne-

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BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NRA —FinedDenver FJordanHamilton $25,000 for directinginappropriatelanguagetoward afan duringaDec.25gameatLosAngeles. MIAMI HEAT — Assigned C Dexter Pittmanto SiouxFalls(NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONACARDINALS — PlacedTERob Housler on injuredreserve. SignedWRKerry Taylor fromthe practicesquad.SignedDEEverrette Thompsonto the practicesquad. BUFFALO BILLS Released OTJ.B. Shugarts from thepractice squad.SignedTEDerek Butles to the practice squad. CHICAGOBEARS — SignedSTroyNolan. CLEVELANDBROWNS — PlacedS UsamaYoung on injuredreserve.SignedQBJoshJohnson. Signed DR Jordan Mabin to thepracticesquad. MINNES OTAVIKINGS—SignedTEChaseFordto the practice squad. NEW ENGLANDPATRIOTS — Signed WR WR Kamar Aiken,RBJamesDevelin andDBCyhl Quarlesto the practice squad. NEW YORKGIANTS — Placed TETravisBeckum on injured reserve.Signed DBTerrence Frederick from thepracticesquadandCBBrandonBing to the

practicesquad. PHILADE LPHIAEAGLES—PlacedQBNick Foles on injured reserve.SignedDTAntonio Dixon to a two-yearcontract. SignedLRMarcus Dowtin to the practicesquad. PITTSBURGHSTEELERS — Pl aced TE Heath Miller, CR IkeTaylor andRBBaron Batch on injured reserve.SignedS Da'MonCromartie-Smith andLB Marshall McFadden fromthe practice squadandFB JamieMccoyfromSanDiego's practicesquad. SAN DIEGOCHARGERS — Placed DT Aubrayo Franklin and SBrandonTayor on injured reserve. SignedSSeanCattouseandCBGregGatsonfrom the practicesquadandCBArthur HobbsandTEAnthony Millerto the practice squad. SAN FRANCI SCO 49ERS — Released LB Alex Hoffman-Egisfromthepractice squad SignedDTLamar Divens andSCurtis Taylor tothe practicesquad. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released DEMonteTaylor from thepractice squad TENNES SEETITANS— PlacedLBMike Mohamed on thepracticesquadinjured list. SignedRBAlvester Alexander to thepractice squad

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012 • THE BULLETIN

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• Portland rebounds with a 109-91 win after losing to Sacramento onSunday The Associated Press PORTLAND — The Portland Trail Blazers wanted to put Sunday's loss to Sacramento behind them as quickly as possible. LaMarcus Aldridge had 28 points and 12 rebounds,and the Blazers beat the Kings 109-91 Wednesday night to earn their revenge.

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wasn't us," said Nicolas Batum, who had 18 points for Portland. "We wanted to get back on track against this team. It was so good to beat them in a big way." J.J. Hickson added 17 points and 14 rebounds for the Blazers, who built a double-digit lead in the second quarter and then ran away from the Kings, leading by as many as 26 points. Rookie point guard Damian Lillard had 17 points, ll assists and eight rebounds. John Salmons led the K ings with 19 points. Reserve Isaiah Thomas had 12 points and Jason Thompson added 11. The Kings are 1-12 on the road this season — the only win coming Dec. 8 against the Blazers. Portland has won nine of its past 10 games at home. The Blazers tied up the season series with the Kings after losing to them 108-96 on Sunday in Sacramento, which snapped the Blazers' five-game winning streak. Sacramento shot 56 percent from the field in that game, but after a good start Wednesday, went cold and shot just 40 percent for the game. "We knew we got away from it in Sacramento," Lillard said."We focused more on defense. The last game, we just lost it. They took us to the rim and got what they wanted on offense. We just had to make a point to play better defense." Sacramento took a pounding in the post without leading scorer and rebounder DeMarcus Cousins, who did not make the trip despite being reinstated from an indefinite suspension. Cousins had been suspended after an argument with coach Keith Smart during halftime of a game Friday. Cousins missed Sunday's game, but practiced Monday after the suspension was lifted. Still, Smart chose to keep him at home Wednesday. Without him, the K i ngs were outrebounded 53-35. "Obviously, everyone played well at home and we didn't have that tonight," Smart said. "They rebounded the ball well and got out on the fast break." The Blazers took a 62-44 lead into halftime after an electrifying first half in which they shot 57 percent. The game was tied at 37 in the second quarter, but Sacramento's turnovers and defensive breakdowns allowed Portland to go on a 25-7 run into halftime, punctuated by rim-shaking dunks by Hickson, Lillard and rookie center Meyers Leonard. "They just got going and it's hard to stop a team that gets it going at home," Thomas said. "Especially when they have shooters and guys that can go to the hole and dunk." Also on Wednesday: Heat..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 05 B obcats ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — LeBron James had 27 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, and Miami handed Charlotte its 16th straight loss. Dwyane Wade scored 29 points and had nine rebounds as Miami extended its winning streak to six. Kemba Walker had 27 points for the Bobcats, who haven't won since Nov. 24. Hornets..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Magic ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 ORLANDO, Fla. — Robin Lopez had a season-high 29 points, and Greivis Vasquez scored a season-best 27 as New Orleans snapped an 11-game losing streak with a victory over Orlando. The

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ConferenceGlance All TimesPST EASTE RN CONFER ENCE W L Pct GB 20 6 769 21 8 724 '/r 17 9 654 3 16 12 571 5 15 12 556 5'/~ Chicago 15 12 556 5'/z Boston 14 13 519 6'/x Brooklyn 14 14 500 7 Philadelphia 14 15 483 7'/z Orlando 12 16 429 9 Toronto 9 20 310 12r/r Detroit 9 22 290 13'/z Charlotte 7 2 1 250 14 Cleveland 7 2 3 233 15 Washington 3 23 115 17 WEST ERN CONFE RENCE W L Pct GB d-L.A. Clippers 22 6 786 d-Dklahoma City 21 6 778 '/r d-SanAntonio 22 8 733 I Memphis 18 8 692 3 GoldenState 19 10 655 3 1/2 Houston 16 12 571 6 Denver 16 14 533 7 Portland 14 13 519 7'/r Minnesota 13 13 500 8 tffah 15 15 500 8 L.A. Lakers 14 15 483 8'/~ Dallas 12 16 429 10 Phoenix 11 18 379 f t'/x Sacramento 9 19 321 13 NewOrleans 6 22 214 16 d-Miami d-New York Atlanta d-Indiana Milwaukee

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Wednesday'sGames Miami105,Charlotte 92 NewOrleans97,Drando94 Cleveland87,Washington 84 Chicago at Indiana,ppd., weather conditions Atlanta126,Detroit119,20T Housto n87,Minnesota84 Philadelphia99, Memphis 89 Milwaukee108,Brooklyn93 SanAntonio100,Toronto80 Denver126,L.A.Lakers114 NewYork99, Phoenix97 GoldenState94 Utah83 Port and109,Sacramento91 Today's Games Dallas atOklahomaCity, 5p.m. Bostonat LA Clippers, 7:30 p.m. Friday's Games Phoenixat Indiana,4p.m. Dr andoatWashrngton, 4p.m. Atlanta atCleveland4:30p.m. CharlotteatBrooklyn 430pm Miami atDetroit, 4:30p.m. TorontoatNewOrleans,5 p.m. Denver at Dalas, 5:30p.m. Housto natSanAntonio,5:30p.m. L.A. ClippersatUtah,6p.m. NewYorkatSacramento, 7p.m. Philadelphiaat Golden State,7:30 p.m. Portlandat L.A.Lakers,7.30p.m.

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Magic had a chance to tie the game in the closing seconds, but came up empty on a 3-point attempt by Nikola Vucevic. Jameer Nelsonhad 28 points and 10 rebounds for Orlando.

Nuggets........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126 Lakers..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 DENVER — Corey Brewer matched his career high with 27 points, and Denver overcame a40-point effort by Kobe Bryant to beat Los Angeles for its seventh straight win at home. Bryant, who scored at least 40 points for the 116th time in his career, has netted at least 30 in 10 straight games. Kenneth Faried had 21 points and 15 rebounds for Denver. Knicks..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 S uns.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7 PHOENIX — J.R. Smith sank a baseline 21-footer at the buzzer after a Phoenix turnover with a second to play, giving depleted New York a victoryover the Suns. Smith's tough jumper from 15 feet had tied it at 97 with 10.6 seconds left. Smith scored 27. Jared Dudley had a career-high 36 for Phoenix. Cavaliers ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 W izards ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 WASHINGTON — Tristan Thompson's three-point play with 24.4 seconds remaining gave Cleveland a victory over Washington and its first two-game winning streak of the season. Kyrie Irving had 26 points to lead Cleveland. Hawks..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Pistons..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 ATLANTA — Josh Smith scored 31 points, Al Horford added 22, and Atlanta beat Detroit in double overtime. The Hawks blew a 22-point, fourth-quarter lead as Detroit reserves Will Bynum and Charlie Villanueva scored a combined 26 points in the final period of regulation. Bynum finished with 31 points. Rockets ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Timberwoives..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 MINNEAPOLIS — J ames Harden

scored 17 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter, and Houston rallied to win its fifth straight, topping Minnesota. Harden's drive to the basket gave Houston (16-12) an 85-84 lead with 39 seconds left. He drove again to make it a threepoint lead with 11.7 seconds to go and scored 15 of the Rockets' final 17 points. 7 6ers..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 Grizzlies..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dorell Wright scored 28 points, and Spencer Hawes had 20, season-highs for b oth, a nd Philadelphia snapped a six-game road losing streak with a victory over Memphis. Zach Randolph led the Grizzlies with 23 points and nine rebounds. Memphis played without leading scorer Rudy Gay, who was out because of "personal reasons." Bucks.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 08 N ets..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 MILWAUKEE — Brandon Jennings scored 25 points, Monta Ellis added 20 points and a season-high six steals, and Milwaukee beat short-handed Brooklyn for the 13th straight time. Brook Lopez had 21 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets, who were without starting guard Deron Williams, who injured his wrist on Tuesday.

Spurs .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..100 Raptors........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..80 SAN A N T O NIO — T im D u ncan scored 15 points, and San Antonio rolled to a victory over Toronto that snapped the Raptors' five-game winning streak. None of Toronto'sstarters scored in double figures as San Antonio's starters outscoredtheircounterparts 54-25. W arriors..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 J azz..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 SALT LAKE CITY — Stephen Curry scored 23 points, David Lee added 18, and Golden State beat Utah. Al Jefferson led Utah with 18 points and 10 rebounds.

lack of practice time, the frequency of back-to-back games, and other inconveniences that they've had to readjust to this season. "Of allyears I've ever coached, I don't feel like a human being very much. I just feel like a basketball coach," Denver's George Karl said. "That's all I do is watch film, prepare scouting reports, have meetings, go to practice and then travel." The demands of the schedule and the challenges of navigating it were highlighted when San Antonio sent four top players home before a nationally televised road game in Miami forextra rest,earning a $250,000 fine from an angry Commissioner David Stern. The Spurs w ere p laying t heir fourth road game in f i v e n ights, which was just as rough as anything that arose out of the lockout schedule. "I think the schedule of some of these teams is outlandish to me, a lot of it just to get games in," Van Gundy said. "To put teams on national TV on the fourth game in five nights seems counterproductive. I k now p eople

5-100-011, Fields1-20-02, Lucas 4-101-211, Acy 0-0 0-0 0.TotaIs 33-78 7-12 80. SANANTONIO(100) Leonard4-81-1 9, Duncan6-113-415, Splitter 1-4 8-1010, Parker5-10 2-313, Green2-4 2-28, Ginobili 4-64-514,Jackson2-80-04, Diaw4-72-2 10,DeColo2-20-04,8onner2-82-28 Blair1-200 2,Migs 1-10-0 3.Totals 34-71 24-29100. Toronto 18 19 20 23 — 80 22 22 26 30 — 100 SanAntonio

Hawks126, Pistons119 (2 OTj DETROIT (119)

Prince 6-120-0 14,Maxieg0-3 1-2 I, Monroe 4-11 2-210, Knight 3-82-2 9, Singler 0-3 0-0 0, Stuckey7-191-1 16,Drummond7-9 2-416, Bynum 13-261-231,Viganueva5-120-214, Daye3-60-08. Totals 48-1099-15119. ATLANTA(126) Korver 2-112-2 8, Smith 13-254-8 31, Horford 9 15 4 822,Teague4 108 817, Wil rams7 142 2 18, Stevenson 3-7 0-0 8, Pachulia1-3 2-2 4, Morrow 6-101-1 16,Johnson1-30-02. Totals 46-98 23-31 126. Detroit 1 3 3 2 17 39 7 1 1 — 119 Atlanta 2 8 2 2 31 20 7 18 — 126

76ers 99, Grizzlies 89

Nuggets126, Lakers114 L.A. LAKERS (114)

Bryant13-249-1140, Gasol 7-113 419, Howard 4-64-912, Nash 6-81-1 15,Morris0-00-00, Meeks 2-11 2-2 7,WorldPeace4-131-1 10 Hill 4-71-2 9, Duhon1-30-02. Totals 41-8321-30114.

DENVER (126)

Gaginari6-104-619, Faried9-133-521, Koulos 4-6 2-310, Lawson 6-15 4-517, Iguodala5-155-6 17, McGee 3-61-2 7, AMiger2-7 22 6,Brewer 9-16 3-327, Mozgov0-00-00,Hamilton1-60-02.Totals 45-94 24-32 126. L.A. Lakers 26 28 33 27 — 114 Denver 29 28 39 30 — 126

Knicks 99, Suns97 NEWYORK(99)

Brewer1-30-02, Thomas2-41-2 5, Chandler692-214, Kidd 8 162-2 23, White1-3 0-0 2,Smith 11-27 5-6 27,Prigioni 2-4 0-0 5, Novak1-30-0 3, Camby 2-70-24, Copeland 6-12 0-014. Totals 4088 10-14 99.

PHOENIX (97) Dudley11-179-936,Scola2-52-26, Gortat6-11 1-213, Dragic 2 60 24, Brown 5-131-1 11,Tucker 0-2 0-0 0, Beasley5-11 0-0 10, Morris 0-3 0-0 0, Telfair 4-9 0-011,O'Neal3-6 0-0 6. Totals 38-83 13-1697. New York 27 27 22 23 — 99 Phoenix 29 15 32 21 — 97

Warriors94, Jazz83 GOLDEN STATE(94) Barnes2-52-27,Lee7-16 4-4 18,Ezeli 1-20-02, Curry 7 185-6 23,Thompson5-13 3-315, Biedrins 0-0 0-0 0,Jack5-93-3 15, Green1-3 2-24, Landry 4-120-08, Jenkins0-00-00, Tyler 0-10-00, Bazemore1-2 0-02, R.Jefferson0-1 0-00.Totals 33-82 19-2094. UTAH(83)

Playing fewer games is the easy answer, but financially the most unlikely. Neither owners nor players would be interested in giving up a couple hundred games of revenue, which is why Stern quickly brought up the money aspect of it when asked about shortening the schedule during

TORONTO (80)

Pietrus0-21-21, Davis3-70-06, Gray2-31-45,

Calderon3-90-07, DeRozan3-9 2-28, Anderson510 0-012,Johnson6-80-012, Kleiza1-82-25, Ross

0-0 8, gyasova 4-7 8-817, Lamb0-1 0-00, Henson 0-00-00 Totals 40-8418-19108. Brooklyn 24 18 25 26 — 93 Milwaukee 22 33 23 30 — 108

SACRAMNT E O(91) Salmons6-104-419, Johnson2-9 0-04, Thompson 5-101-211,Brooks4-80-09, Thornton2-90-0 6, Hayes1-22-24, Thomas 4-112-212, Fredette2-8 3-47,Outlaw 2-50-0 4,Robinson3-7 0-26,Garcia 4-70-0 9,Honeycutt0-0 0-0 0.Totals 35-86 1216 91. PORTLAND (109) Batum 6 114-418, Aldridge11-216-728, Hickson 8-131-217, Lillard7-140 017, Claver0 40-0 0, Barton6-92-214, Price2-30-05, Leonard3-51-1 7, Babbitt 0-21-21, Pavlovic0-2 0 00,Freeland1-3 0-02, Smith0-00-20.Totals44-8715-20109. Sacramento 26 18 23 24 — 91 Portland 31 31 29 18 — 109 3-Point Goal— s Sacramento 9-24 (Salmons3-4, Thomas 2-5, Thornton2-6, Garcia1-3, Brooks1-3, Johnson 0-1,Fredette0-2), Portland6-21(l.illard 3-5, Batum2-5, Price1-2, Pavlovic0-1, Aldridge0-1,Barton 0-1,Leonard0-1, Babbitt 0-2, Claver0-3). Fouled Dut — None. Rebounds—Sacramento 40 (Hayes 9), Portland 63(Hickson14). Assists—Sacramento 28 (Thomas 6), Portland31 (Ligard 11). Total FoulsSacramento 18, Portland17. A—20,545(19,980).

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Blazers109, Kings91

will say, 'Oh, the arenas are booked,' and they'll give you many excuses. "But when you're paying as much as our fans are paying for tickets, to me ... you have to really search out how you can give them the best product, and playing four games in five nights is unfortunately almost ensuring that somebody is not going to be at their best." More than two weeks ago, Karl was already pondering a brutal holiday schedule that had the Nuggets playing the Clippers in Los Angeles on Christmas night, returning home to host the Lakers the next night, then completing a stretch of four games in five nights with a back-toback at Dallas and Memphis on Dec. 28 and 29. "Merry Christmas," he said, hard-

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Johnson5-15 2 213, Wallace 2 84-48, Lopez 9-18 3-521, Watson 2-12 4-48, Bogans4-81-1 11, Brooks2-5 1-1 5, Blatche5-10 4-5 14,Stackhouse 1-5 0-0 2,Evans0-0 2-22, Taylor3-6 0-07, Shengelia 0-0 0-0 0,Teletovic1-1 0-0 2. Totals 34-88 21-24 93. MILWAUKEE (108) Daniel s2-50-05,MbahaMoute0-30-00,Sanders 6-110-012,Jennrngs9-15 4-425,Ellis 7-143-4 20, Dunleavy6-12 3-317, Udrih2-50 04, Udoh4 11

Wednesday'sGames

Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge, left, dunks in front of Sacramento Kings forward Francisco Garcia during the second half of Wednesday night's game in Portland. Aldridge led the Trail Blazers with 28 points as they beat the Kings 109-91.

Ma.Wigiams1-6 0-0 2, Migsap4-10 6-6 14, AJefferson8152 218, Tinsiey030 00, Foye310 0-0 8 Watson0-20-0 0, Favors 3-83-4 9, Hayward 3-10 1-4 9, Burks4-11 1-2 9, Kanter4-4 2-4 10, Evans 1-1 0-0 2, Carroll1-30-0 2. Totals 32-83 15-22 83. Golden State

Bucks108, Nets 93

Summaries

with statistics galore about who's played most often, who's played best, who's wearing what uniform, and Continued from C1 lt was ratified two weeks later, anything else that can help build the abbreviated training camps opened buzz. Dec. 9, and teams had a little more It works. ESPN scored its highthan two weeks toprepare for the est-rated Christmas tripleheader for start of the season. Tuesday's games, and the KnicksAfter th e e x pected complaints Lakers matchup that opened ABC's about lack of preparation and pos- doubleheader generated a 5.9 oversibility of injury, the season opened night rating, highest ever for an ABC with hype that's rarely there for the game in that slot. usual start around Halloween. The Rivers thinks it could be even bigfirst game was in New York, where ger, proposing adding to the fun with the Knicks withstood a last shot by some kind of season-opening specKevin Garnett to hold off the Celtics. tacle, similar to the popular college "I thought that game — I thought tournaments. it was so anticipated, lot of fun. The Minnesota coach Rick Adelman buzz in Madison Square Garden was agreed the later start was fine, but amazing," Rivers said. "I really did, I like Rivers said there were too many thought it was absolutely wonderful, games crammed in afterward. The the timing with football almost over, league finished only about a week people ready for basketball." later than its regular schedule, forcWith football king, even the NBA ing teams to play on three straight seems to realize it should lie low in nights at least once to fit everything the fall. ABC doesn't begin its nation- in. al TV schedule until its Christmas Problem is, the return to the regudoubleheader, and the league and its lar schedule hasn'toffered much TV partners kick the hype machine relief. into gear leading into the holiday, Coaches are still bemoaning the

PHILADELPHIA (99) Wright 8-117-828, T.Young 6-101-213, L.Agen 2-6 2-4 6, Holiday5-16 2-2 13,Turner0-4 1-2 I, Hawes9-142-420, N.Young5-71-1 12,Ivey2-30-0 6. Totals37-7116-23 99. MEMPHIS(89) Pondexter3-10 4-4 13, Randolph 10-182-2 23, Gasol 9-150-018, Conley3-17 3-310, TAilen3-8 0-0 6, Egington1-60-0 2,Arthur3-6 2-28,Speights 2-4 3-6 7,Bayless1-60-02. Totals 35-90 14-17 89. Philadelphia 28 2 32 6 24 — 99 Memphis 29 18 23 19 — 89

Rockets87, Timberwolves 84 HOUSTON (87)

Parsons 5-120 012, Morris 3-92-38, Asik 4 612 9, Lin3-92-2 8, Harden11-226 630, Delfino4-13 0-011, Smith1-1 1-23, Douglas2-9 0-06. Totals 33-81 12-15 87.

MINNESOT A(84) Kirilenko2-6 4-68, Love3-141-1 7, Pekovic1-7 0-02, Ridnour3-101-2 8, Shved7-15 0-016, Rubio 2-54-48, Cunningham4-60-08,Barea7-142-218, Williams3-71-2 9. Totals 32-8413-17 84. 22 22 17 26 — 87 Houston Minnesota 17 30 17 20 — 84

Heat105, Bobcats 92 MIAMI (105) James9-197-827, Haslem0-40-00, Bosh 6-12 1-314, Chalmers5-103-417, Wade10-198-10 29, Battier 3-50-0 9,Anthony0-0 0-0 0, Miler 0-2 0-0 0, Cole 2-6 0-0 4,Jones2-4 0-0 5. Totals 37-81 19-25 105. CHARLO TTE(92) Kidd-Gilchrrst 2-6 2-2 6, Warrick 8-122-3 18, Biyombo3-8 1-3 7,Walker9-205-7 27,Henderson 5-19 4-514,Sessions7-124-619, Diop0-1 0-0 0, Taylor0-01-21. Totals 34-7819-28 92. Miami 27 28 23 27 — 105 Charlotte 18 20 33 21 — 92

Hornets97, Magic 94 NEWORLEANS (97)

Thomas0-2 00 0, A.Davis6 140-012, Lopez91011-1229,Vasquez12-21 2-227, Rrvers2-7 0-04, McGuire3-3 0-0 6, Anderson4-11 6-6 15, Roberts 1-50-0 2 Mason 0-10-00, Henry1-20-0 2.Totals 38-76 19-20 97.

ORLANDO (94)

Harkless1-5 0 02, Ayon2 40 04, Vucevic8-17 3-5 19, Nelson11-172-2 28, Afflalo 6-14 0-0 14, Redick2-106-612, McRoberts2-30-05, Moore4-9 0-010,Nicholson0-0 0-0 0.Totals 36-79 11-13 94. NewOrleans 26 2 3 29 19 — 97 Orlando 24 29 23 18 — 94

Cavaliers87, Wizards 84 CLEVELAND (87) Gee4-91-210, Thompson5-95-515, Zeger3-10 0-06, Irving8-237-1126, Waiters3-111-29, Gibson 3-41-310, Walton3-60-06, Miles1-6 0-0 3,Pargo 1-4 0-0 2. TotaIs 31-82 15-23 87. WASHINGTON (84) Webster5-70-012, Nene6-104-516, Dkafor8-14 1-217, Mack2-60-06, Beal0-52-22, Seraphin2-6 0-0 4, Vesely1-2 0-22, Martin 2-60-0 4, Crawford 7-15 3-317,Temple1-30-0 2, Singleton1-20-02. Totals 35-7610-14 84. Cleveland 22 23 23 19 — 87 Washington 28 17 25 16 — 84

a trip to New Orleans this season. And going into July would mean completely rearranging the summer schedule, starting with free agency and the Las Vegas summer league. Plus, the current schedule isn't actually any tougher than normal. The average number of games on backto-back nights (19.2), and maximum

number for any club (22), are at or below their totals in each of the past four full seasons, as are the figures relating to four games in five nights. But with fewer games last season, marquee matchups seemed tocome

more frequently, leading to higher TV ratings and nearly unchanged attendance. If the league could figure out how to spread the games out better, the shorter season could be a long-term improvement. "It was too many games that we played after that in t hat stretch," Rivers said, "so if there was some way we could figure it out, start off Christmas Day having a t o urnament or something like the college preseason tournament and start it there, I don't know. But it would be awesome."

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York

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: ALAMO BOWL

Continued from C1 It will be a bittersweet ending for York, who says that while this season has not gone according to plan, with injuries sidelining him for a brief time, being part of a nine-win team after Oregon State went a disappointing 3-9 in 2011 makes this season special. "Every season is a new season," says York, who as Redmond High senior in 2007 was named defensiveplayer of the year in the Class 6A Central Valley Conference. "We treat every week like a new season. The goal's to win every game, I guess, but the goal is also to make a bowl, and we did, and it's a good bowl against a good team. Of course that's special." York entered the OSU program as a walk-on, the "worst possible situation," according to Craig Ruecker, who was York's coach at Redmond High. For York not only to earn a spot on the Oregon State roster but to contribute to a Pac12 team for five years says a great deal about York's character and desire. "When you know Clayton, you know that he's going to followthrough and stick to it and do what it takes," says Ruecker, now the head football coach at Tigard High School. "To his credit, he proved himself. He was their (the Beavers') fullback for a year or two. While they don't use a fullback a whole bunch, when they did need one, he was in the ballgame. He got enough of the taste of it that kept his desire to keep working." Running backs coach Chris Brasfield, in his second season at OSU, calls York a hard-working, caring athlete who will do whatever is asked of him to help the team win. "He's proud of being a part of this

OSU coachenjoying homecoming By Cliff Kirkpatrick Corvaltis Gazette-Times

Much has been made of Storm Woods' homecoming in Saturday's Alamo Bowl. Oregon State's redshirt freshm an r u n ning b a c k i s fr o m Pflugerville, Texas, just up the road from San Antonio, and is thrilled to play near his home. However, his position coach is going back to his hometown for an unofficial family reunion. Chris Brasfield is a native of San Antonio, and coaching in the Alamodome against Texas will already be one of his career

highlights.

"It's nice to go back home, be where you come from and see all your family and friends — no question," Brasfield said. "I get to see my family down there since it's Christmas time. It will be a great deal for my kids." Both sides of his family have extensive roots in San Antonio. The Beavers playing there makes it the perfect opportunity for a get-together. "He's just excited going to a bowl game," Woods said. "We'll be able to meet his family and see where he came from. We'll meet his dad. That's really big for him. He's really close with his dad." Adding to the festivities, his

Ducks Continued from C1 The Ducks were undone by a couple of missed opportunities on offense, failing to score on four straight plays near the goal line in the third quarter, and allowing a safety in the first half. And there were some controversial moments on defense, including a possible interception by Cliff Harris that was ruled incomplete, and a run by Auburn's Michael Dyer to set up the winning field goal on which Dyer might have been down but the play was allowed to continue. "That stuck the knife in us a little bit deeper, and twisted it," Clay said. "We played our hearts out." Huff, the junior receiver who was a freshman kickreturner for the 2010 season, intends to set things right in Glendale, the Phoenix suburb where the stadium is located. "It gives us a chance to finally put that behind us and go on

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daughter's birthday is Saturday. The family hopes to plan out her celebration, the game and then a nother celebration a f ter t h e win. "I won't get to do everything with the family, but I'll get my time in," Brasfield said. "This is a big week for us. My wife and children, they don't get to see my family much, which is nearly all in Texas." Brasfield has never been to the Alamo Bowl, now in its 20th year, and rarely sees the game because he's usually working with a team

getting ready for a bowl game. "That's too bad because it's always good teams, good games and good competition," Brasfield said. "Nothing is any different this year." B rasfield played football a t TCU for two seasons and then two at UTEP. He's a Texas guy, and started out coaching in the Fort Worth area. Playing Texas, the state's premier program, is exciting for him. Beating the Longhorns would be even better. "It's a big deal," Brasfield said. "That's a good team with a lot of tradition and history. They take a lot of pride in how they do things. We are going to get their best and they play well. They play well in

to the next step," Huff said. O regon got t o t h e B C S C hampionship thanks t o a Heisman Trophy candidate of its own, sophomore running back LaMichael James, and breakout s ta r q u a r terback Darron Thomas, who recovered from a slow start against the Tigers to throw for 363 yards, with a game-tying TD pass and two-point conversion with 2:33 left. But Newton drove the Tigers to the winning field goal, thanks in no small part to the Dyer run on which he may or may not have touched his wrist to theturf.Oregon defenders

stopped pursuing the play, Dyer got up and finished off a 37-yard gain, and the Ducks' fatewas sealed, despite a game in which they pulled out all the stops with several daring special teams decisions, including a fake PAT for two points, and a converted fake punt. "There's always a little bit of sting, to come so close, and think about the way that game

haps the most inspiring races of the year — M o F a rah's Continued from C1 sweep of the 5,000 and 10,000 GENDER OF THE YEARmeters — among a bevy of Men are always tough to beat gold medals for the host counin this category, given their try. The British also claimed c enturies-long h ea d s t a r t . the Tour de France (Bradley That said, the award goes to Wiggins) and U.S. Open ten... women! From Missy Frank- nis championship (long-suflin and Gabby Douglas light- fering Andy Murray), while ing up the Summer Olympics contributing to Europe's histo Serena Williams proving toric Ryder Cup rally. she's still a tour de force with HOTTEST SPORT — For its a tennis racket. And let's not glowing presentation of the forget the small but monu- Daytona 500, the award goes mental step of every country to ... NASCAR. It helps to be a allowing women to compete sport that relies on flammable at the London Games, which liquids, but no one expected may turn out to be the biggest the biggest race of the year to victory of all. turn into Devil's Night. Juan BIGGEST FREEFALL — It's Pablo Montoya's car spun out hard to deny Felix Baumgart- during a caution period, colner, who leaped from a bal- liding with a jet fuel-powered loon at th e outer edges of dryer and igniting a towering s pace with n o t hing bu t a inferno. Fortunately, no one parachute on his back, so with was seriously hurt, and peoapologies the award goes to ple who never paid a lick of ... Bobby Petrino. The former attention to the good ol' boys Arkansas coach/Evel Knievel suddenly tuned it to see what wannabe wrecked his motor- all the flames ... uh, fuss, was cycle while on a ride with his about. mistress, lied about what hapBEST RANT —If he wasn't a pened, and lost his job when football coach, he might be a the truth emerged. Of course, comedian. His garbled vocabwe knew some school would ulary already has inspired its give Petrino another chance, own Web site. For that reason, but it's quite a plunge from the the award goes to ... Les Miles, Southeastern Conference to the LSU football coach who Western Kentucky. was really on his game after a MOST IMPROBABLE COME- win over Ole Miss. In a steadiBACK —The English Premier ly rising voice, he defended League put on a thrilling pen- his players and urged anyone nant race, the kind we used to who ran into one of them "to have in baseball before they throw your arms around them started letting everyone into and give them a big kiss on the playoffs. The award goes the mouth." Then with a smile, to ... Manchester City, for scor- he quickly added, "If you're ing two goals in extra time on a girl." Then, still smiling, he the final day of the season to giddily proclaimed, "Wow, capture its first premiership what a game!" Wow, indeed. in 44 years. The fact that Man DUMBEST RULE — W h o City edged crosstown rival knew an NFL coach couldn't Manchester United on goal challenge a call that was ald ifferential only m ad e t h e ready subject to review, and title that much sweeter for the if he did, not only would his Blues. team receive a 15-yard penCOUNTRY OF THE YEAR alty but the call would no lon— Carrying on with the royal ger be checked for accuracy? theme, the award goes to ... Truly ridiculous. But not riBritain, for putting on a stellar diculous enough. The award Olympics that included per- goes to ... baseball's "outfield"

the postseason and it's not going to be different this year." Brasfield is busy preparing his running back to face a defense that has struggled to stop the run. The Longhorns have a llowed 199.6 yards a game this season. Woods has been steady this season. He gained 101.2 all-purpose yards a game — 74.7 rushing and 26.5 receiving — in the regular season and scored 11 touchdowns. Terron Ward has developed into a steady back, averaging 32.5 yards a game and 6.3 a carry. Malcolm Agnew averages 22.4 yards a game. They have combined for six TDs. All three are in their second season at OSU. Brasfield, too, is a second-year coach with the Beavers. He's a young coach who's getting the most of his young players. They are growing and learn-

ing together. "Just because we are young, he still has an expectation of us being veterans," Woods said. "It's a learning process. He's hard on us, but not too hard. He brings the best out of us. We do a lot of film sessions with him. He does a lot of extra work with us, because we are young, to make sure we get there."

went," UO defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti said. But primarily, "I remember walking out on the field, with the noise, the pageantry, the scenery, and saying to myself, 'This is really cooL This is what it's all about. You're in the big one.' "The same thing will happen for this one, because it's a

yards in the title game, and was stopped at the goal line on fourth down in the third quarter. "I don't think about it too much," concurred junior defensive lineman Taylor Hart, a freshman reservethat season. "Obviously it was a great experience to go there, and now we just want to get this done." big game." Like Aliotti, Clay recalled The Ducks should have ex- the electric atmosphere in the perienced several moments stadium, and predicted anof familiarity Wednesday, be- other this time, even if Oregon ginning when they checked fans figure to be outnumbered into their Scottsdale hotel, the again by the opposition. "Our fans will travel," said same one that hosted them two years ago. Asked about Clay, a sophomore in the BCS his BCS Championship mem- title game who h elped the ories, B arner i m m ediately Ducks rebound with a Rose mentioned good times with Bowl win last season. " They're going t o make teammates at the hotel; he had to be prompted for comment on the game itself. "That was two years ago; if you're still holding on to that, something's wrong with you," said Barner, who has flourished as Oregon's starter this season but ran for just 32

downs (one on a blocked punt) — but he says "stats are stats." Every team has roles to fill, unsung jobs whose rewards are notmeasured on a statsheet. It is that approach that the Beavers take each week, Brasfield says: players knowing their assignments, studying their opponents, and simply playing as hard as they can. Whether a player is a scholarship athlete or a walk-on, Brasfield says the collective execution as a team does not change. "These guys come in, and they're a part of the team," Brasfield says. "That stuff ( s cholarship v e rsus w a l k-on) doesn'tmatter as much. These guys just come in, and if you can play, you're going to play and help us win. We expect that no matter what. (York) has handled that very well." One last time, York will don the orange and black, ready to end his collegiate career a winner. He says his goal Saturday against Texas is to play well, obviously, but that a win in the Alamo Bowl is the ultimate desire. "Everybody wants to be remembered as a good athlete, as a hard worker and as a talented player," York says. "Besides that, I just want to be remembered as a man of character, a man of integrity and someone with a work ethic. That's how I can be a leader." — Reporter: 541-383-0307; glucas@bendbulletin.com.

some noise, too, so hopefully we bring another'W' back to Eugene." Clay alsoremembered the w ay the Oregon defense, led by l i nebacker Casey M a tthews and safety John Boyett, limited Newton to 64 rushing yards, well under his season average. Defensive end Kenny

Clay said the Ducks, creatures of repetition, could benefit from a s i m ilar r outine from two years ago. If there's one thing they hope is not the same, it's the field conditions; Huff had issues with footing on kickoff returns, for one. "One thing that I do hope is different is that there's not as Rowe also had a big game, get- much paint on the field," safeting victimized on two passing ty Brian Jackson said. "Everytouchdowns when help from body was slipping." a defensive back didn't mateOverall, if there was any rialize, but also making four sense two years ago that Oretackles for loss. gon was just happy to be at the "I had n ever seen C am University of Phoenix StadiNewton get up so slow, from um, the Ducks say they're not the way we were hitting him," content with simply making Clay said. "It was a great ex- another return trip this week. "We're ready," Clay said. perience, being a sophomore, playing in a national champi- "We're down there for busionship. But now we're ready." ness, and to win a game."

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BRIEFING

Home prices dip in slowdown Home prices in the nation's 20 biggest cit-

ies dipped 0.1percent in October from the prior month but rose strongly

from the samemonth lastyear, according to a closely watched index, indicating the start of

the seasonal slowdown in home prices. It was the first

month-over-month dip after six months of gains for the Standard

8 Poor's/Case-Shiller index of 20 large cities. The index was up 4.3

percent compared with October 2011.

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unknown, according to Deborah McMahon, a locallandThe president of the Bend- u se planner w orking w i t h based Oxford Hotel Group Baney on the project. m ay buil d a p a rtments o r The pre-application request m ixed-use housing on f i v e indicates that Baney and Mcacres near the intersection of Mahon want to discuss a posU.S. Highway 97 and China sible urban growth boundary Hat Road, at the former Sun- expansion for the property "to river Preparatory School site. develop apartments and supCurt Baney, son of Oxford port services." Hotel Group co-founder Curtis But McMahon said WednesBaney, filed preliminary paper- day that the plan could change, work with the city of Bend last based on what they hear from week, requestinga pre-applica- city staff. "We have more questions tion meeting with Community Development Department offi- than we have plans at this cials to discuss the proposal. point," McMahon said. "We're Most of the details are still just in the very early stages of The Bulletin

e n e e o r o usin talking with the city about the process." Baney did not return phone calls seeking comment this week. McMahon said he was on vacation. Baney has owned the 5acre parcel since early 2006, Deschutes County property records show. The parcel lies on the west side of Highway 97 starting at China Hat Road and stretching south to Rocking Horse Road. The Waldorf School of Bend occupies part of the site, as well as several single-family homes, but most of the land is vacant. The parcel had served as the

site for the Sunriver Preparatory School between 1983 and 2003, when it closed, according to county property records and The Bulletin's archives. Bend's urban growthboundary ends immediately north of Baney's land, which is zoned rural residential, according to county records. Under Oregon law, urban growth boundaries dictate where housing and commercialdevelopments can be plotted within a city. The city's UGB was last expanded in 1981, though city and state officials have spent the last several years discussing an expansion, which

would include Baney's property, according to the latest

proposal. The pre-application meeting is the first step of a sometimes lengthy permitting p r ocess, where developers and city development staff meet to discuss potential zoning, construction or infrastructure concerns. It's common for developers to modify their plans following pre-application meetings, then re-submitting them to the city. That back-and-forth can continue for several months before a formal application is submitted. — Reporter: 541-617-7820 egluchlichC<bendbulletin.com

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ahead of schedule. One of the two lines sold was the 12-mile-

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Jake Devincenzi was thrilled to get his hands on Google's new Nexus 4 smartphone. He admired its sleek black case and large touch screen — and he couldn't wait to tear it apart. In a small room cluttered with discarded computer parts, Devincenzi picked up a blue plastic stylus and eased the tool into a seam on the sideofthe phone as three coworkers watched. Minutes later, a pop. The tear-down had begun. "We're in," he said, and

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grinned. Each time Devincenzi plucked a part from the Nexus 4, he took a high-resolution photo and posted it online. By the end of the week, more than 60,000 people had scrutinized the tear-down, curious to know what was inside. Devincenzi, a 20-year-old student at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, works parttime for iFixit, a company that has less of a business mission than a manifesto: "Repairisindependence. We have the right to remove 'Do Not Remove' stickers." With the helping hands of technicianssuch as Devincenzi and repair guides written by volunteer tech experts, iFixit is tapping into growing frustration with cellphones, tablets and computers that, once broken, are almost impossible to fix. The company says it wants to teach people how to repair electronic de-

Andrew Goldberg, technical writer at iFixit, photographs a teardown of a iPhone at the company's offices in San Luis Obispo, Calif. vices once again — and will sell them the tools to do it. "We'renotnecessarily actively anti-Apple or anti-'the Man,'" said Scott Dingle, 25, a customer service representative. "It's more like, we train other people to do it themselves." What is now a staff of

35 began as two people. In 2003, Cal Poly freshmen Kyle Wiens and Luke Soules started selling laptop parts out of a dorm room. When they couldn't find manufacturer-issued repair guides, they wrote their own. The first manual they posted online got 10,000 page views in

the first weekend. They moved their business to a three-car garage, then a house, then a loft-like twostory office in downtown San Luis Obispo. Last year, iFixit earned $5.9 million in revenue by selling parts, kits and tools. iFixit is not the only website that offers repair manuals, but its tear-downs are special because they expose a company's proprietary technology, said Scott Swigart, an analyst at Cascade Insights in Oregon. Persuading non-techies to tinker is one of the company'sbiggest hurdles. Repairs can go wrong, and do — even forthe professionals. Screens shatter. Wires snap. "But once people have their first fix, they're hooked," iFixit sales manager Eric Essen said. "When I fixed my iPhone and it turned on, I was like, 'I am a god! I am Frankenstein! ' "

Co. just can't seem to escape trouble with its new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet. More than three years late because of design problems and supplier issues,the muchanticipated plane has run into another bout of turbulence with fresh concerns about its safety. The Federal Aviation Administration this month ordered inspections of fuel line connectors on Dreamliners because ofrisks ofleaks and possible fires. On the same day, a United Airlines Dreamliner flight from Houston to Newark, N.J., was diverted to New Orleans after an electrical problem popped up mid-flight. After accepting delivery of the aircraft just a month earlier, Qatar Airways later said it had grounded a Dreamliner for the same problem that United experienced. Despite criticism of the

problem-plagued program, Boeing is confident that the plane will be a success once it gets more miles under its wings. "We're having what we would consider the normal number of squawks on a new airplane, consistent with other new airplanes we've introduced," Boeing Chief Executive Jim McNerney said in an interview on cable network CNBC. "We regret the impact on our customers, obviously," he said. "But we're working through it."

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A personal finance to-do list for the year's end By Claudia Buck The Sacramento Bee

As the calendar ticks toward Dec. 31, here are some last-minute, yearend tips recommended by financial professionals: Do your donations: If you want a charitable deduction on this year's taxes, you need to write that donation check by Dec. 31. Donations made on a credit card by Dec. 31 are deductible for 2012, even if you pay the Visa bill in 2013, the Internal Revenue Service says. Gifts to individuals, however, are not deductible. Max out the 401(k): If you haven't

maxed out the annual contribution to your 401(k) at work, do so now. For 2012, the annual contribution limit is $17,000; next year, the annual limit goes up to $17,500. If you're over age 50, you can make an additional catchup contribution this year of $5,500. Ditto for your IRA: To boost your retirement savings, don't forget your IRA contributions. In 2012, the maximum contribution to IRAs and Roth IRAs is the smaller of $5,000 or your taxable compensation for the year. For those age 50 or older, the limit is

$6,000. If you're not covered by a retirement

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an app-y holiday By Vicky Hallett The Washington Post

Holidaytraditions varyfrom family to family, but there's one ritual that's universal. "Everyone comes together with the flu, sits around and makes eachother sick,"physician Peter Hudson said. Hudson is CEO of iTriage, a free mobile devices application (available for iOS and Android, and online at Itriage health.com) that is one of the most popular products in the emerging mobile health — or mHealth — market. With more than 8 million downloads, iTriage has tapped into something people want. It's a combination of a symptom tracker (with information reviewed by Harvard Medical School) and a virtual yellow pages,directing users to nearby doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and more.

Here are somebasic steps for challenging Medicare coveragedenials under Part A (including hospitalization, nursing homes and hospice services) and Part B (doctor visits, tests, homehealth care, durable medical equipment). In most cases, it is not necessary to hire a lawyer. Advocates say to besure to write your Medicare or member number on all documents, and to keepcopies.

For the first appeal, calledredetermination: • Circle the questionable item on your

quarterly Medicare statement, called the Medicare Summary Notice, and follow the mailing instructions on the form.

You can also complete anappeals form at www.medicare. gov/claims-and-appeals/ file-an-appeal/original-medicare/ original-medicare-appeals.html. • Make the request within120 days of

To request ahearingdefore an administrative Iawjudge, which usually isconductedvia conference

ThemHealth Summitearlier this month at National Harbor near Washington showcased several other smartphone applications designed to track your b ehaviors, encourage better habits and generally improve well-being.

your letter, provideyour name,address,

explanation from the plan for why aprescription is not covered andaskfor an exception if you or the prescriber believe youneedthe drug. You would pay for the drug during the appeal, but you should keepreceipts: If the denial is

Medicare number, document control

• Any dollar amount can be appealed.

appealing. Include any other information to

supportyour request, or complete a hearing request form available atwww.medicare. gov/claims-and-appeals/file-an-appeal/ appeals-level-3.html.

notice that the firstappeal was denied. • In a letter, explain the services or items that you received and why payment for them is in dispute. Include a copy of the initial denial or fill out the reconsideration

If you getdeniedagain, youcan make a requestfor consideration dy the MedicareAppealsCouncil:

form available at www.medicare.gov/ claims-and-appeals/file-an-appeal/ original-medicare/original-medicareappeals-level-2.html.

• In a letter, cite which parts of the decision you dispute and the date of the decision, or complete the hearing review

to lose at the first couple of l evels, they would stick i t out until they got to a judge," Murphy said. "The a dministrative l a w judge stage is the first level when you can interact with a human," said Diane Paulson, senior attorney a t G r eater Boston Legal Services, which handles about 50 appeals a year. The first two levels of ap-

WASHINGTON — Internet sale price for a standard back brace: $99.99. What Medicare pays for the item: $900-plus. A federal report released W ednesday offers a l o o k at how wasteful spending drives up health care costs as investigators found that Medicare paid $919 on average for back braces that cost suppliersan average of $191 each. "The program and its beneficiaries could have paid millions of dollars less if the Medicare re i m bursement amount ...more closely resembled the cost to suppliers," according to the report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. In a written response, Medicare's ad m i nistrator, Marilyn Tavenner, said Medicare will consider including back braces in a c ompetitive bidding plan for medical equipment. The bidding experiment, expanding across the country, has been shown to save taxpayers money. Budget t a lk s b e t w een President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio,may lead to more competitive bidding, a shift that some Democrats are urging and industry is

PillJogger Lite (free, IOS): Keep your medications straight with this virtual pillbox that sends reminders and h elps track what you've taken. For now, good behavior is rewarded with games, but the app plans to offer coupons, rebates and other prizes eventually.

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fighting. It's e stimated that t h e health-care system squanders $750 billion a y e a r, about 30 cents of every medical dollar, through unneeded care, wasteful spending and fraud. Part of the problem is prices can vary widely depending on who's paying the bill. Prices that government programs pay can be way off

graph a meal and assign a point value later), but it also focuses on your environment, says Catherine Ulrich, senior vice president of WeightWatchers.com.

the mark. M edicare spends m o r e than $10 billion a year prov iding b eneficiaries w i t h m edical equipment, f r o m power wheelchairs to blood sugar monitors. It's an area that has been rife with fraud. Unscrupulous suppliers sell beneficiaries items they may not need and bill the cost to Medicare. The $96 million that Medicare spent on back braces in 2011 was a small sliver of its t otal spending, but that amount had more than doubled in just three years, up from $36 million in 2008, the report said. Investigators decided to take a closer look, before the line item for back braces could reach the $200 million or $300 million mark. The inspector general's office focused on a type of back brace that is fairly standard. Dozens of medical device manufacturers produce such braces for thousands of suppliers around the country. The brace is worn around the midsection of the body, and usually features rigid panels on the front and back, along with straps for adjustment. It's prescribed to help back-pain sufferers maintain proper body alignment. Medicare paid for more than 121,000 of the braces in 2011, compared with fewer than 49,000 in 2008. I nvestigators p u l le d a random sample of c l aims from more than 300 suppliers and took a deep dive into the paperwork. They found that the price Medicare was willing to pay was more than four times what the braces cost suppliers. The average difference: $728 per brace. The high costs were shared

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be appealed. You should request a written

overturned, the drug plan will reimburse for its share of the bill. (While an appeal is under

way, drug discount cards or manufacturer or pharmacy discounts may reduceyour costs.) FOR MOREHELP For individual assistance andmore information, contactyour State Health Insurance Assistance

Program at https://shipnpr.shiptalk.org/ shipprofile.aspx. Additional details are at www.medicare.gov/claims-and-appeals and

• Make this request within 60 days of

receiving the hearing decision.

800-MEDICARE (800-633-4227).

The Center for Medicare Advocacy's free self-help appeals packets include tips for avoiding appeals; they areavailable at www. medicareadvocacy.org/take-action/self-helppackets-for-medicare-appeals. The Medicare Rights Center, aconsumer advocacy group, provides appeals advice and

request form available atwww.medicare. gov/claims-and-appeals/file-an-appeal/ appeals-level-4.html.

file an appeal in federal court. The amount in dispute must be at least $1,350.

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follow similar appeals procedures, except the initial appeal must bemadewithin 60 days of the denial.

number from previousdenial, dates of services or items indispute andwhyyou are

• Make therequest within180 daysof receiving

Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage plans

• Make the request within 60 days of receiving the denial of the second appeal. •To be eligible for a hearing, the amount in dispute must be at least $140 in 2103. In

receiving the denial.

If you getdeniedagain, you canmake arequest forsecond appeal, calledreconsideration:

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peals are based on documents only. Driscoll thought his case was a s l am-dunk. Following instructions on his quarterly Medicare statement, he circled the charges he was q uestioning and sent i t t o the M e dicare c o n tractor's address listed on the notice. When he was turned down, he tried again, this time in-

Medicareoverpayingfor backbraces

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Continued from 01 "People lose, and then they lose heart, or they are too sick, too tired or too old and they give up," said Margaret Murphy, associate director of the Center for M edicare A d vocacy, which has offices in Washington an d C o nnecticut. "Or their kids are handling the appeal and they are too overwhelmed caring for Mom or Dad." Medicare officials this year r edesigned b eneficiary statements to make instructions about the appeals process clearer, said an agency spokeswoman, who did not r espond to requests fo r ad d i t ional information. Some problems can be resolved without appealing, said Mary Ann Parker, an attorney with Washington's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, which advocates for nursing home residents. Sometimes a payment is denied because the doctor or other provider used the wrong treatment or billing code. If the provider resubmits a corrected claim, it will most likely be paid. Murphy said less than 10 percent of the several hundred denials that her organization handles each year for Connecticut residents are overturned in the first and second levels of appeals. "It's almost an automatic denial," she said. But at th e t h ir d l evel of appeal, the center has won roughly 60 percent of its appeals in the past three years. "If people knew that they are likely

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by beneficiaries,who are responsible for a 2 0 p e rcent co-payment. The reimbursement amount set by Medicare goes beyond just equipment cost, also including fitting and education for the patient. So the inspector general's office took a look to see if that might explain the high cost to the program. But i n vestigators f o u nd that for one-third of claims, suppliers did not report any fitting and adjustment help. Support services varied for the r e m aining t w o - thirds of cases.Some suppliers reported taking hip and waist measurements. Others said they adjusted the braces in some fashion. Nearly half the claims involved services from medical professionals such as doctors, chiropractors and physical therapists. "For the vast majority of claims, suppliers did not provide any additional services... other than general instructions," the report said. A reporter's quick I nternet search suggested there's a thriving business in back braces.One medical supplier in the Midwest aimed its pitch directly at doctors.

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His appeal was turned down again. Driscoll said he was unable to find out why. But that was enough for him. "I paidthe bill and I gave up," said Driscoll, who at the time was in the process of moving and retiring from his job at a nonprofit agency. He paid the $214 charge last year. "I spent over ayear onthis thing, and it wore me out."

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Specialty Care; and Dr. Erin Walling and Kowalski at Bend Memorial Clinic, who b oth perform general surgeries. Two additional physicians will soon to be ready to do so, said D e nise B ourassa, St. Charles Bend's operating rooms manager. O'Hallaren s aid another wave w il l b e trained after that in 20D. Kowalski said it was a significant commitment to learn how to use the robot and then to create systems for safeguards and for tracking data and outcomes. Surgeons watch videos and sit in on an operation at another hospital to observe before committing to whether they want to become trained, Curet said. They do online learning, and then travel to a California training center to do simulated work. Physicians must pass tests before they move on to live procedures. Bourassa said the committee and hospital decided that a da Vinci representative would be present during the first five procedures each surgeon performs here. A special team of nurses, anesthesiologists and o t her m edical p r o f essionals a t St. Charles was also assembled and trained in working with the robot, Bourassa said, adding that an operating room might be remodeled to specifically accommodate the da Vinci system. O'Hallaren credits the hospital — and Eixenberger and St. Charles Bend CEO Jay Henry in particular — for supporting the effort. "It's a huge investment," O'Hallaren said. A nd along the w ay, t h e committee will b e t r acking outcomes, Kowalski said. "We're putting in as many safeguards as we can to assure that it's as safe here at St. Charles as it has been demonstrated to be at so many other institutions," Kowalski said. "We're far from being the f irst community w i t h t h i s technology — it's being done all over the United States and it's growing in popularity by leaps and bounds — but we're trying to be very judicious in how we roll it out."

Continued from D1 It's a significant investment for the St . C harles Health System. While St. Charles declined to disclose its price due to the nature of its contract with thecompany, the average purchase pricefor a da Vinci system nationally is $1.45 million, according to a spokeswoman for thecompany, and

they can range from $1 million to $2.2 million, depending on the model and add-ons. Tim E i x enberger, c h i ef nursing officer for St. Charles Bend, said the hospital didn't want to buy a system until the technology seemed wellestablished and until enough surgeons l ocally i n d icated they want to move into roboticassisted surgeries. "We w ere w a n tin g t o make sure th e t e chnology was proving itself and there was a reason to be doing it," he said. "I would call us a middle-adopter, rather than an early-adopter." Bringing the technology to Bend, Eixenberger said, enables St. Charles Bend and area surgeons to serve patients who in the past had to travel out of the area to seek minimally i n v asive, r o botassisted surgery a t h o s pitals on the west side of the Cascades.

Surgeons look into this viewfinder during procedures. It offers magnification, video and data feedback as they work from a seated position. A microphone and audio devices near the eye piece allow them to communicate with staff during procedures without lifting their head from the controls.

A less invasive approach Robotic-assisted s u r g ery is part of an effort to make proceduresless traumatic for patients. The most painful part of surgery isoften trauma from the incision. Surgeons at times must cut through muscle and other tissues to get to the targeted area. Much of a patient's recovery time can be due to such incisions. Surgeries with larger incisions have been the standard fordecades and are stillnecessary, depending on the type of procedure and the individual. Within the past 20 years, surgeons wanting less invasive ways to do their work started performing a type of minimally i nvasive surgery called laparoscopy. The difference between laparoscopic — both robotic and traditional — and open surgeries is significant, said Dr. Myriam Curet, an associateprofessor of surgery at Stanford University and chief medical officer for the maker of the da Vinci system, Intuitive Surgical. "If you can now convert an open operation to a minimally invasive operation," she said, "you've saved on complication rates, you've saved on length of stay, you've saved on readmission rates, reoperation rates and return to work."

Robot-assisted surgeries Robotic-assisted procedures as a form of minimally invasive surgery started emerging a little over a decade ago. Intuitive Surgical introduced its first da Vinci Surgical System model in the U.S. in 2000. Not every situation or every individual is ideal for roboticassisted surgery.Curet said robotic-assistedsurgeries are regularly used for procedures in the chest and pelvic area, such as gallbladder removals or prostatectomies. In traditional laparoscopic surgeries, a surgeon makes a small incision or several small incisions. Then using long, tubelike tools, the s urgeon stands over the patient to perform the procedure by hand. Robotic-assisted surgeries unfold differently. The surgeon makes the incision or incisions and participates in placing the robot in the best spot over the patient. Then the surgeon goes to the da Vinci system console, which in St . C harles Bend sits in the corner of the same operating room. The surgeon conductsthe procedure from the console, with an assistant standing over the patient to help as needed. A microphone on the console allows the surgeon to give instructions witho ut turning away from t h e viewfinder. The console allows surgeons to use their hands more fully than in traditional laparoscopies, physicians said. "It gives back the use of your hands the way you have them in open surgery," Curet said. In addition, surgeons get a view of the patient's anatomy

Surgeons insert their thumb and forefinger into two controls when manipulating the da Vinci robot. The controls adjust to eliminate human tremors.

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Denise Bourassa, operating room manager for St. Charles Bend, stands next to the surgical control station.

that is magnified beyond what would be seen standing above the patient. Lenses attached to the end of one of arms provide the up-closeperspective. The images appear on a monitor apart from the console as well, so other staff in the operating room can understand what is

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added. Robotic-assisted surgeries can be more expensive than an open procedure. Also, robotic-assisted surgeries tend to take longer. Several area surgeons, however, noted that they are quickly bringing their times down as they become more proficient with the robot.

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To area physicians using the technology, however, one of the most significant differences so far between a traditional lapalaparoscopy, depending on the roscopic surgery and a robottype of procedure. The field is assisted one is in the reduced new, so more research is un- trauma to the patient afforded der way. by the da Vinci system. Curet, who performs both Dr. Peter Palacio, a physit raditional and r obo t i c- cian at Bend Obstetrics and assisted laparoscopies, said Gynecology, has been percancersin certain areas of the forming laparoscopicsurgerabdomen and pelvis are now ies for years. In August, he more often operable in ministarted offering robot-assisted mally invasive fashion besurgery. "What the da Vinci system cause of the robot. So are some surgeries on those who are has allowed us to do is address morbidly obese. She said some the shortcomings of laparossurgeries can be performed as copy," he said. well with traditional laparosUsing th e l o n g t u b elike copy as with robotic-assisted tools in a small incision in a laparoscopy. traditional laparoscopy limits Nationwide, certain medi- the surgeon's range of motion cal specialties h ave b e en and view inside the patient. using robotic-assisted tech- The physician moves the inniques for longer than others. strument at the top, with the Dr. Darren Kowalski, a gener- tool performing the task at the al surgeon for Bend Memorial bottom. Clinic, leads the committee of With the robot, once the surgeons that worked with the i nstrument is placed in t h e hospital to bring the technol- patient, the movement takes ogy here. He said gynecology place just at the location of the and urology in particular — in task itself in tiny adjustments. w hich surgeons operate in the It's the difference between a crowded pelvisarea — started sweeping motion and a more using robotic-assisted technol- precise one. ogy early on. This means less tissue dam"Many urologic procedures age during surgeries, several lend themselves to this minicaregivers said. mally invasive technique, and Palacio said he has so far with experience we not only noticed a marked difference equal open surgery outcomes, between the two techniques but w e d e c rease h ospital for hysterectomy patients. "Being a surgeon who does stays and blood loss as well as patient discomfort," said a lot laparoscopy, I wasn't preDr. Brian O'Hallaren, a physi- pared for the difference in regcian with Bend Urology who is ular laparoscopy and roboticusing the robotic technology. assistedlaparoscopy," he said. General surgeons started For instance, a hysterectoadopting robotic-assisted sur- my performed in open surgery gery later than in specialties typically requires four days in like urology, Kowalski said. the hospital and six to eight But he said they are now mov- weeks of r ecovery, Palacio ing in that direction. said. Laproscopically, it's one Given the newness of the night in the hospital and four technology, Kowalski said, the weeks of recovery. medical research on the efWith th e r o botic-assisted fectiveness of robotic-assisted laparoscopy, Palacio said, his surgeriesisemerging. patients are reporting they "In literature, we're seeing feel comfortable two weeks improvements in t echnique, after their hysterectomy. He lower recurrencerates,better credits the smaller amount of control of bleeding," he said. "It's all being looked at, and I think we'll see it becoming Find Your Dream Home clearer and clearer." "Most of those who are interested in this technology believe firmly that we're going to • • • Th e Bulletin see thatsortof difference," he

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"They're just comfortable so much faster," Palacio said.

More surgeons to offer Area surgeons and hospital staff have been in the planning and learning stages for well over a year to bring the robotic technology here. In Bend, seven surgeons presently perform robotic-assisted surgeries. T hey a r e P a l acio a n d Dr. James Carlson with Bend Obstetrics a n d Gyn e c ology; O'Hallaren and Dr. Eric Shreve with Bend Urology; Dr. Stephen Archer, who specializes in bariatrics at Advanced

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our head," Lieberman said. "We evolved to be endurance athletes." Consider our short toes, the arches in our feet, our short heel bones, long Achilles tendon and sizable glutes, which help steady our trunks when we run. We sweat, we're furfree, the ligaments in our neck hold our head in place and the semicircular canals in our ears stabil ize our gaze when we run. "All t h ese f eatures t h at make us superlativerunners are different than what we would need if we just walked," Lieberman said. But most modern humans rarely r un , u n l ess t h ey're trying to catch a bus or because a doctor ordered them to for health reasons. That's problematic. Our hearts and skeletons require stimulus to properly grow. If they're not stressed, and most people's

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By Pam LeBlanc AUSTIN, Texas — G o od luck convincing your a c hing muscles and joints of it, but some scientists believe your body evolved to run long distances. Your feet, your neck, your ears — they're all part of a physique perfectly adapted to covering 10 or 20 leg-powered miles a day. The problem is, modern humans no longer run that far to hunt down prey. We hop in a car and drive to the grocery store, where many of us load up on Fritos and Oreos, then head home and instinctively hunker down on the sofa. Dan Lieberman, an evolutionarybiologist from Harvard University, dropped by Southwestern University recently, where he shared thoughts on humans and exercise — and why we need to do it despite our general dislike of breaking a sweat. It all goes back to early humans, he says. They lived on the razor's edge, hunting and gathering to get enough fuel that they could continue to hunt and gather. They ate what they caught and rested when they could, conserving energy whenever possible. "What do foragers do when they're not foraging? They rest. It's adaptive for them not to burn energy," Lieberman said. Their normal state was lean and hungry, and they moved up to 20 or so miles a day in pursuit of prey. Fitness, for them, was all about the ability to survive and pass along genes to the next generation. Today, though, most Americans have easy access to food. Given the choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs, most opt for the escalator. We may cover twice the distance in a day, but it's in a car while we sit on our bottoms. "That's not because people are lazy slobs," said Lieberman, who was featured in the best-seller "Born to Run" by Chris McDougall. "It's instinct to take it easy when we can." In the prehistoric world of persistence hunting, before the advent of projectiles, early humans couldn't afford to relax. They hunted prey that could move more quickly than they could — over short distances. They had to get close to the animal to club it or stab it with a sharpened stick. The only way to do that was by exhausting it, and that meant covering long distances. Humans, it turns out, have an advantage. We sweat to stay cool, and have the ability to sweat while we run. Quadrupeds, on the other hand, cool themselves by panting — but can't pant on the fly. A horse can't gallop 20 miles straight; it has to stop to cool off. Thus, a human could chase its four-legged dinner. When the animal stopped to rest, the human kept going. Eventually, the animal's body temperature rose until it c ollapsed from heat stroke and the human could walk up and kill it. That typically happened in 22 or fewer miles. Humans i m proved t h eir odds by hunting in the middle of the day, when it's warmest, and by targeting larger animals, which would overheat more quickly. And our bodies, Lieberman says, were designed by natural selection to do what they had to do. "We're literally a d apted to running from our toes to

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It's a condition of our modern lifestyle, researchers say. We spend long hours in front of computers and t elevisions. We work early in the morning and late at night. We get jet lag. And we can't figure out why we can't lose weight. There may be a connection, say researchers. Studies are emerging that show a r e lationship b e t ween "partial s l ee p d e p r ivation" — sleeping less than six hours a night — and obesity. What makes weight go up when sleep goes down? Here are s o me "potential pathways" by w h ich s leep d e privation m a y interfere with our ability to lose weight, according to a recent review of this topic in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

amounts of food. In clinical trials, patients on average lost just 5 percent of body weight after taking the drug for a year along with eating less and ex-

of topiramate. Phentermine increases levels of n o repinephrine, a neurotransmitter in the part of the brain that controls appetite. This reducercising more. es hunger and increases satiConcerns: The drug could ety. Topiramate, an anticonp otentially d a m ag e h e a r t vulsant used to prevent mivalves. Fenfluramine, a simi- graine headaches, is thought lar serotonin-based weightto affect another neurotransloss drug, was taken off the mitter. But it's not known how m arket in 1997 due to t h e it reduces food intake, Ryan same heart concerns. Belviq said. Approximately 62 pershows "an increased incicent of patients who took the dence of adverse reactions re- recommended dose for a year, lated to cognition and mood," and dieted an d e x ercised, according to the FDA. Still un- lost at least 5 percent of their known: the long-term risk of body weight, according to two heart attack and stroke, and trials. the safety and efficacy when Concerns: B i rt h d e f ects used with other diet medica- are a biggie: The drug can tions. The most common side increase the risk of cleft lip effects are headache, diz- and palate. Topiramate may ziness, fatigue, nausea, dry cause suicidal thoughts or acmouth and constipation. tions. Qsymia can slow down brain function and increase Qsymia heart rate; the drug's effect on How it works: Qsymia is patients at high risk for heart a combination of two FDAattack and stroke isn't known. approved drugs, phentermine Qsymia has not been approved and an extended-releaseform by European regulators.

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Continued from D1 "That doesn't mean one diet soda a day will lead to a heart attack, but there's some sort of connection," she said. Somewhat more supportive of diet sodas is Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Centerfor Science in the Public Interest. The Washington, D.C.,-based health advocacy group just released an animated short film targeting the health impacts of regular soda and sugary drinks called "The

Real Bears" (realbears.org).

Get back on track What's a "partial sleepd eprived" person to d o ? Stick to a r e gular sleep schedule, says the National Institutes of Health. Plan a seven- to eight-hour sleep period and go to bed and get up the same time every

day if possible. • Avoid s le e p -stealers such as caffeine, nicotine and excessive alcohol. • Eat smaller meals in the evening. Or have a relaxing snack. Tryptophan a n amino a cid t h a t helps the body build protein — may help promote relaxation and sleepiness, especially when combined with a carbohydrate-containing food. Some examples: milk and crackers, yogurt and f r u it, cheese and bread. • Turn off the computer. Take a hot bath. Relax before you hit the sack. And remember that sleep time is not wasted time. It's when the body repairs itself and gets us ready for the next day. That's something to sleep on. Barbara Quinnis a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

"Diet soda is much better than regular soda. It l acks 10 teaspoons of sugar p er 12 ounces," he said, noting studies have shown people drinking regular soda have gained weight, while t hose consuming diet soda have not. "There's good evidence diet soda doesn't make you obese," he said. "I think it's better to drink diet soda (than regular), but diet soda does have its drawbacks." There's caffeine, he noted, which can affect some people. Phosphoric acids can promote tooth decay. There have been s afety questions about t h e ingredients used in caramel coloring formulas and the artificial sweeteners used. The tug of war over the relative health merits of diet sodas can bewilder consumers and cause tension in the scientific and food communities. Witness the recent kerfuffle over an article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The article outlined a scientific study of the health impacts of aspartame, an artificial sweetener used in diet sodas. The study suggested the possibility of an increased risk of lymphoma and leukemia because of diet soda consumption. But researchers affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston couldn't rule out chance as an explanation for their findings. According to NPR, which reported on the study, the hospital's public relations department issued a press release "exaggerating" the correlation between these cancers and the sweetener in diet soda. That was followed by the hospital pulling back on the press release, terming the study's data as "weak." And that touched off much speculation about

why there was apparent backpedaling on the study. There wil l b e c o n tinued research, no doubt, into diet sodas. The question for right now is: Should you drink one next time you're thirsty'? The answer, nutritionists say, dep ends very much o n y o u r h ealth, your diet an d h o w much diet soda you drink. "People who drink an occ asional soda w o n' t h a v e a problem," said M i chelle Dudash, author of the new book "Clean Eating for Busy Families." It's the folks who drink soda regularly, like two cans every day, who are more at risk for soda-related health i s sues, said Dudash, a registered dietitian from Scottsdale, Ariz. A move from regular soda to diet soda is generally seen healthwise as a good move, but not as good as forgoing soda. "One can of soda contains 140 calories, all from added sugar," Dudash said. "For someone who has the habit of drinking a six-pack of regular soda per day, switching to diet soda is a step in the right

Define moderation? One dietsoda every other day is "probably fine," said Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of wellness nutrition services at the Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute in Ohio. More f requent c onsumption c a n fostera dependency for sweet flavors, she said. Ruggiero treats herself to one diet soda a week. "But I h ave a v ery good diet," she quickly adds. "It's a little treat when I want something fizzy or sweet. It's not replacing more healthy items in my diet. I eat verywell, I exercise, so I keep a little stash in

my fridge." Diet soda and kids? "No artificial sweetener has any place in a child's diet, and that goes for diet soda too," Dudash said. Better to serve water or a nutrient-richbeverage, she added. What is sweetening that drink? While the U.S. government recognizes a number of a r t ificial sweeteners as safefor consumers, health organizations and advocacy groups have expressed differing views on them. They note some artificial s w eeteners are still being studied, others need to be studied, and still more need to be restudied

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surprised when young people don't know certain actors or are not familiar with certain films — even peoplewho are working in Hollywood, which is really alarming, are not aware of certain filmmakers if it's more than 20 years ago or 25 years ago, or maybe even

15 years ago." Television series has marked a new venue for her. "It has given me a whole new exposure that probably I wouldn't have had otherwise,because of the kinds of films that I do. I don't do big studio films that gross $100 million or whatever, I've mostly done small, independent movies. And that has a very limited audience. So this is a greater audience probably than I've had for a long, long time, and it's also the demo-

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that's all good, I guess. I don't know ultimately what t h at means, but I'm glad people are looking at the work. I'm very grateful for that." Lange is one of a handful of female actresses who've managed to transmute from blond leading lady to roles of power and substance. "I think obviously your days as leading lady are limited," she acknowledges. "You have that one little window of time from mid-20s to maybe mid40s. I'm trying to think of the last 'leading lady' I played. It might have been like what? 'Blue Sky' or something. And then I must have been early

the romantic lead, that comes to an end at a certain point.... I suppose then you could define the parts that come your way as characters, you become a character actor." But with roles in projects like "Crimes of the Heart," "A Thousand Acres," "Grey Gardens," "Cousin Bette," Lange says she's always regarded herselfas a character actor. "I was never doing — except maybe for 'Tootsie,' which was actually so well written that it didn't fall into that category, I was never playing just the girlfriend or the wife. So they were all, to my mind, I was always a character actress, even though 40s. So yes, where you played I suppose combined with that

was the element of being a leading lady — whatever that means now. That feels like a throwback to another era of filmmaking." A ccepting the role of t h e nun in "American Horror Story" marked a leap of faith for her, says Lange. "I think as an actor you have to have trust. You have to believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back, because with a part like this especially and where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness. And I really felt like, OK, I'm going to embrace this 100 percent fully. Somebody will look out for me and not let me completely humiliate myself." Each role she approaches differently, she says. "I'm relying much more now on just pure imagination that comes up in a moment, and I just follow that through rather than trying to plan anything or design anything... With fictional characters you rise and fall on the strength of your imagination, I think.... But the thing t hat I've been working o n more and more lately is finding the character through the voice, and sometimes I would work on f i nding it t h rough the emotional core, which is still the main element I work in, but the external instead of finding it through movement or body or whatever, now I try

to find it through voice." Lange says when she made "Grey Gardens" for HBO she studied t h e do c u mentary about the woman she w as playing, who was the eccentric and destitute aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "I would put on the DVD of (the documentary) 'Grey Gardens' and not look at the image but just hear the voice. And as soon as I found that voice I could drop into the character. Now, with Sister Jude this year, I've also found a voice that as soon as it's there and present I feel like I sinkinto the character. And I've done something with the voice as it's gone along that it's been changing as we go down this rabbit hole. So that's the process.... That's kind of how I f ind that I'm working now, I mean, strictly through the imagination and then looking for the character, trying to find the character mostly through the voice." She says she's relieved that she no longer needs to prove anything. "I'm not building a career anymore so I'm not trying to figure out is this going to be a wise move, or is this

going to ruin my career? I'm so beyond that. It is what it is basically. I've made my choices. I've gone a certain path for better or worse and now it's just I'll do what I want, whether it's wise or not doesn't matter to me anymore. That time has passed when I could've made wise decisions."

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HAPPY BIRTHDAYFOR THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 2012:This year you often will swing back and forth between being intellectual and being highly emotional. Some of you might try to control this seesaw of sentiments. Accept that this is Stars showthe kind unlikely to change of day you'll have an y time in the ** * * * D ynamic near future. If you ** * * P ositive are single, this ** * Average bac k -and-forth ** So-so could chase away a * Difficult potential suitor, but come summer, you are likelyto meet someone who enjoys your changeability and accepts you as you are. If you are attached, your sweetie might wonder what is going on. You need to accept that his or her responses could be different from whatyou'd expect. CANCER plays devil'sadvocate.

as prevalent as my friend stated? I find it sad that this could be true. It reminds me of the Tina Turner song — what's love got to do with it? — Inft For Love Dear In It:Ifyou'reaskingifl have statistics on the number of women who stay married only for economic reasons, the answer is no. Most of the people who write to me are unhappy, which would skew the numbers in a negative direction. I hope you realize that the women you have described — an older demographic — were probably not economically independent when they married. It was common in their generation to go straight from their parents' houses to their husbands'. For many years I — and my mother before me — haveurged women to make sure they are self-supporting before they marry, "just in case" they may have to be afterward. Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with a n i n c ompatible cellmate. Your mother and mother-in-law have my sympathy, and so do their husbands. — Write to Dear Abby at dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles,CA 90069

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** * * M a ke it OKto move slowly in the morning. Accept and understand what you have been through as of late. Consider your options in the morning, and act in the later part of the afternoon. At the right moment, you will feel alert. Tonight: The world is your oyster.

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** * * L ise the morning to the max when dealing with others. People will tend to be more responsive then. You actually might decide to keep to yourself in the ARIES(March 21-April19) afternoon. Avoid an argument with a ** * Use the morning for an important favorite person. Patching this up could be talk or meeting. By midafternoon, you difficult. Tonight: All smiles. could be conflicted or irritated about a situation. Your mood flows into other VIRGO(Aug.23-Sept. 22) dealings. Take your time and process ** * * * R ethink a decision more the irritation first, then deal with others. carefully. Take your time. In the afternoon, Tonight: M oseyon home. test out your conclusion. You might be TAURUS(April 20-May 20) causing yourself a problem if you move ** * * T a king a hard look at recent ahead blindly. Look to friends and loved expenditures might be more necessary ones for their advice and feedback. than you think. Do not let someone's Tonight: A force to be dealt with. opinion trigger an argument — just let LIBRA(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) itgo. Youknowwhatyouwant. Do not standon ceremony. Pickupthe phone ** * * Y our mind drifts to matters and call a friend. Tonight: Secure New beyond the here-and-now. What will Year's plans. it take to anchor you? A boss or key GEMINI(May 21-June20) associate needs your time and attention ** * * You are full of energy and could later in the day. Do whatever you need to be difficult to find, according to more than do in order to stay present. Tonight: Once a few people. It seems as if you flee the you let go of the day's issues, the night

** * You might find yourself caught in a financial quandary. For some, this scenario might include trying to make ends meet. For others, it might involve returning useless gifts. Take time for someone who needs an upbeat message. Tonight: Be open to a suggestion.

AQUARIUS(Jan. 20-Ped.18) ** * You might surprise yourself with the feisty words that come out of your mouth. You have swallowed a lot of anger lately. Perhaps the time has come to process these feelings. Everyone involved would prefer a discussion rather than sarcastic jabs.Tonight:The unexpected occurs.

PISCES(Feb. 19-March20) ** * * Y our ingenuity could face a problem. The issue will keep rearing its ugly head until you face facts and open up a discussion. You'll decide to let go and indulge in some playfulness. Tonight: Buy yourself that item you wanted but didn't get. © 2012 by King Features Syndicate

TV TODAY 6 p.m. on TNT, "NBABasketball" — Western Conference contenders meet tonight at ChesapeakeEnergy Arena as Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder welcome Dirk Nowitzki, O.J. Mayo and the Dallas Mavericks. 6 p.m. on NGC, "RocketCity Rednecks" —Daddy contacts Hope for the Warriors, an organization that helps disabled veterans from Afghanistan and lraq, to see if the Rednecks can lend a helping hand. They meet injured veteran Philip Labonte, who is no longer able to go hunting because he is in a wheelchair. The Rednecks design a boar-hunting vehicle for Philip, and the hunt ison. 8 p.m. on & &, "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" —Good grief! Who assigns elementary-school children "War and Peace"? Charlie Brown's teacher, that's who. He has to read it over the Christmas break and write a report, but holiday distractions keep getting in the way. 8 p.m. on E3, "The BigBang Theory" —Sheldon (Jim Parsons) hires a newassistant (Margo Harshman) in this episode. She's young, she's female, and she's making Amy (Mayim Bialik) very, very nervous. 8 p.m. on (CW), "The Vampire Diaries" —After Stefan (Paul Wesley) confides his suspicions about Elena (Nina Dobrev) to Damon (lan Somerhalder), the brothers go to New Orleans to seeifanyone— Damon'sold flame Charlotte (Madeline Zima), perhaps — remembers their previous visit in 1942. Back in Mystic Falls, Elena drops a bombshell on Caroline and Bonnie (Candice Accola, Kat Graham) during a girls night. 8:30 p.m.on I3 E3, "Up All Night" —With Chris and Scott (Will Arnett, Luka Jones) busy launching their new business, Reagan (Christina Applegate) tries to adjust to her new stay-at-home mom status and the neighborhood's quirks. Ava (Maya Rudolph) is reunited with Walter (guest star Sean Hayes, "Will 8 Grace"), her former accompanist ,and learns she may have inadvertently ruined his life. 9 p.m. on LIFE, "Project Runway All Stars" —The five remaining designers are challenged to create a ready-to-wear lookthat packs a punch but stays within a retail budget. ©Zap2it

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FORD RANGER XLT sleeps 2. comfort, util- $12,500 541-923-1781 Motorcycles &Accessories w/55' wide x 17' high 541-385-5809 1995 Ext. cab 2WD 5 Jeep Wrangler 4x4, ity road ready, nice Chevy C-20 Pickup bi-fold door. Natural 1969, all orig. Turbo 44; speed, with car alarm, cond. $4000?Trade for 1997 6-cyl, soft top, Harley Davidson Softgas heat, office, bathmini van. Call Bob, CD player, extra tires roll bar, front tow auto 4-spd, 396, model Tail De l uxe 2 0 0 7 , slide,Bunkhouse style, room. Parking for 6 541-318-9999 on rims. Runs good. bar, new tires, white/cobalt, w / pasCST /all options, orig. 7-8, excellent c ars. A d jacent t o Clean. 92,000 miles chrome rims, 103K senger kit, Vance 8 Just bought a new boat? sleeps owner, $22,000, condition, $1 6 ,900, Chevy Lumina 1 9 95 Frontage Rd; g reat 541-923-6049 o n m o t or . $ 2 6 0 0 miles, gd cond, Hines muffler system Sell your old one in the 541-390-2504 7 -pass. v a n wit h classifieds! Ask about our visibility for a viation OBO. 541-771-6511. $5700 obo. 8 kit, 1045 mi., exc. p ower c h a i r lif t , Nissan Sentra, 2012e .g Super Seller rates! 1jetjock@q.com j ' . ~ g W~ 541-504-3253 or c ond, $19,9 9 9 , People Look for Information bus. GMC 1978 4x4 Heavy $1500; 1989 Dodge 12,610 mi, full warranty, 541-385-5809 541-948-2126 503-504-2764 541-389-9188. About Products and Turbo Va n 7 - pass. PS, PB,AC,8 more! Duty Camper Special has new motor and $16,000. 541-788-0427 Services Every Daythrough P iper A r cher 1 9 8 0, 2500, 3 5 0 e n gine, Jeep Wrangler Harley Heritage Motorhomes based in Madras, alt rans., $1500. I f i nauto., 40k miles on The Bulletin Clessiffeds Softail, 2003 UnlimitedX 2008, 4x4, ways hangared since terested c a l l Jay new eng., brakes & $5,000+ in extras, Hard top, tow pkg., 503-269-1057. new. Ne w a n n ual, Chevy Wagon 1957, tires good. $ 2 495. $2000 paint job, auto pilot, IFR, one 4-dr., complete, premium wheels, 541-504-3833 30K mi. 1 owner, sunroof, running piece win d shield. $7,000 OBO, trades For more information boards, very low Fastest Archer please call Automobiles • please call miles. Vin¹ 572535. a round. 1 75 0 t o t a l 541-389-6998 541-385-8090 Was $25,999. t ime. $68,5 0 0 . Porsche 911 1974, low or 209-605-5537 BMW I Series 2008, Chrysler 300 C o upe I nternational Fla t Country Coach lntrigue Sprinter 272RLS, 2009 541-325-3556 Now $23,788. 53k mi., ¹F06662. mi., complete motor/ 1967, 44 0 e n g ine, Bed Pickup 1963, 1 HD Screaming Eagle 2002, 40' Tag axle. trans. rebuild, tuned 29', weatherized, like $17,488 f ffgljj SUBA R U . auto. trans, ps, air, t on dually, 4 s p d. Electra Glide 2005, 400hp Cummins Diesuspension, int. & ext. aeaaanolaann con n ew, f u rnished & frame on rebuild, re- trans., great MPG, 2060 NE Hwy 20 • Bend 103 n motor, two tone refurbn oil c ooling, sel. two slide-outs. ready to go, incl WineTrucks & painted original blue, could be exc. wood shows new in 8 out, candy teal, new tires, 41,000 miles, new ard S a tellite dish, Heavy Equipment 877-266-3821 Oregon original blue interior, hauler, runs great, 23K miles, CD player perf. m ech. c o n d. tires 8 batteries. Most 26,995. 541-420-9964 Dlr ¹0354 ArrtoSoNrce new brakes, $1950. original hub caps, exc. Much more! hydraulic clutch, exoptions.$95,000 OBO 541-598-3750 chrome, asking $9000 541-419-5480. $28,000 541-420-2715 cellent condition. 541-678-5712 Jeep Wrangler or make offer. Highest offer takes it. UnlimitedX 2007, 6 aaaoregonautosource.com PORSCHE 914 1974, 'ii a 541-385-9350 541-480-8080. —• -"Qm< ~OO Speed, 4x4, 3.8 Liter Roller (no engine), V6, running boards, MorePixat Bendbijletin,com lowered, full roll cage, premium wheels, low 5-pt harnesses, racWeekend Warrior Toy Softail Deluxe miles. Vin¹ 147938. Take care of Hauler 28' 2007,Gen, Diamond Reo Dump ing seats, 911 dash & 2010, 805 miles, Was $24,999. Truck 1 974, 12 -14 Chrysler SD 4-Door instruments, d e cent fuel station, exc cond. Black Chameleon. your investments Now $22,788. sleeps 8, black/gray yard box, runs good, 1930, CD S R oyal RAM 2500 2003, 5.7L shape, v e r y c o ol! $17,000 BMW Z4 Roadster with the help from $6900, 541-548-6812 Standard, B-cylinder, i nterior, u se d 3X , $1699. 541-678-3249 V8, hd, auto, cruise, g@) SU B A R U . Call Don @ 2005, 62K miles, exbody is good, needs hemi aeaaaoovaann oon The Bulletin's $24,999. am/fm/cd. $8400 obro. cellent cond. $14,000. 541-410-3823 some r e s toration, 541-389-9188 2060 NE Hwy 20 • Bend 541-420-3634/390-1285 G R X AT 541-604-9064 "Call A Service runs, taking bids, Toyota Camrysr 877-266-3821 541-383-3888, 935 Dlr ¹0354 Buick Lucerne CXL 1984, $1200 obo; Professional" Directory Looking for your 541-815-3318 2009, $12,500, low 1985 SOLD; Sport Utility Vehicles Hyster H25E, runs next employee? Nissan Armada SE IBoats & Accessories low miles; 2000 Buick 1986 parts car, well, 2982 Hours, Place a Bulletin help 2007, 4WD, auto, Century $2900. You'll $3500 call $500. wanted ad today and leather, DVD, CD. not find nicer Buicks 13' Smokercraft '85, 541-749-0724 reach over 60,000 Call for details, Vin¹ 700432. One look's worth a good cond., 15HP readers each week. 541-548-6592 Was $16,999. thousand words. Call gas Evinrude + Your classified ad Now $14,488. Bob, 541-318-9999. Minnkota 44 elec. Econoline RV 19 8 9, will also appear on for an appt. and take a Toyota Corolla 2004, bendbulletin.com S UB ARU. motor, fish finder, 2 fully loaded, exc. cond, drive in a 30 mpg car! FIAT 1800 1978, 5-spd, Buick Enclave 2008 CXL anaaaoovaalln oon auto., loaded, 2 04k which currently reextra seats, trailer, 35K m i. , R e duced door panels w/flowers AWD, V-6, black, clean, 2060 NE Hwy 20 • Bend Chrysler PT C r uiser miles. orig. owner, non ceives over 1.5 mil$16,950. 541-546-6133 i9t extra equip. $2900. & hummingbirds, mechanicall y sound, 82k 877-266-3821 exc. c o nd. lion page views ev2006, au to, pw, pl, smoker, white soft top & hard miles. $20,995. 541-388-9270 Dlr ¹0354 $6500 Prin e ville Int. 1981 Model DT466 ery month at no crus, tilt, tinted winCAN'T BEAT THIS! Call 541-815-1216 top. Just reduced to 503-358-8241 extra cost. Bulletin dump truck and heavy $3,750. 541-317-9319 dows, Vin ¹224778. Look before you 17' 1984 Chris Craft Classifieds Get Reduty trailer, 5 yd box, Chevy Suburban LTZ Was $7,999. buy, below market or 541-647-8483 VW Beetle, 2002 sults! Call 385-5809 e verything wor k s , - Scorpion, 140 HP 2007, 4x4, leather, Now $5,999. value! Size & mile5-spd, silver-gray, black or place your ad $8000. 541-421-3222. moonroof, 3rd row inboard/outboard, 2 aqe DOES matter! i !SMeeft SUBA R U . leather, moonroof, CD, on-line at depth finders, trollseat. Running boards, Class A 32' Hurriloaded, 115K miles, bendbulletin.com low miles. ing motor, full cover, cane by Four Winds, Want to impress the 2060 NE Hwy 20 • Bend well-maintained Vin¹ 228919. EZ - L oad t railer, 2007. 12,500 mi, all Porsche Cayenne 2004, 877-266-3821 relatives? Remodel (have records) Was $30,999. $3500 OBO. amenities, Ford V10, 86k, immac, dealer Dlr ¹0354 extremely clean, your home with the 541-382-3728. Ithr, cherry, slides, Now $28,488. maint'd, loaded, now $4650 obo. help of a professional Ford Galaxie500 f 963, like new! New low $17000. 503-459-1580 541-546-6920 S UB ARU. 2 dr. hardtop,fastback, price, $54,900. from The Bulletin's aeaaaoovaanneon Good classified ads tell 390 v8,auto, pwr. steer & 2060 NE Hwy 20 • Bend Subaru Forester LL 541-548-5216 "Call A Service the essential facts in an radio (orig),541-419-4989 What are you Bean edition 2005, 877-266-3821 Professional" Directory interesting Manner. Write Gulfstream 2.5 XS, leather, S cen i c Dlr ¹0354 looking for? Ford Mustang Coupe from the readers view - not Cruiser 36 ft. 1999, moonroof, roof rack, 1966, original owner, Chevy Tahoe LS 2001 Chrysler Sebring2006 You'll find it in the seller's. Convert the Cummins 330 hp diealloy wheels, V8, automatic, great 4x4. 120K mi, Power Fully loaded, exc.cond, Vin¹ 703121 facts into benefits. Show sel, 42K, 1 owner, 13 iv shape, $9000 OBO. seats, Tow Pkg, 3rd Carri-Lite Luxury 2009 very low miles (38k), The Bulletin Classifieds Was $15,995. the reader how the item will in. kitchen slide out, 530-515-8199 by Carriage, 4 slidealways garaged, row s eating, e x tra help them in someway. new tires,under cover, Now $14,995. outs, inverter, sateltires, CD, privacy tinttransferable warranty hwy. miles only,4 door This lite sys, fireplace, 2 541-385-5809 ing, upgraded rims. © 3 S U B A R U. incl. $8100 obo Peterbilt 359 p o table fridge/freezer iceFord Ranchero advertising tip aoaaanol aane con flat screen TVs. Fantastic cond. $7995 541-848-9180 water t ruck, 1 9 90, maker, W/D combo, 1979 brought to youby 2060 NE Hwy 20 • Bend Contact Tim m at $60,000. WHEN YOU SEE THIS 3200 gal. tank, 5hp Interbath t ub & with 351 Cleveland 877-266-3821 n 541-480-3923 541-408-2393 for info p ump, 4 - 3 hoses, 908'INISS I HI S The Bulletin shower, 50 amp promodified engine. Dlr ¹0354 or to view vehicle. camlocks, $ 2 5 ,000. ~Oo pane gen 8 m o r e! Body is in a4l'm. 541-820-3724 Toyota 4Runner SR5 $55,000. excellent condition, Ford Crown V i ctoria Ford Explorer 4x4, 1997, 4X4, 182K mi., 1995, LX sedan, 4 dr., $2500 obo. On a classified ad 925 1991 - 154K miles, 541-420-4677 a uto, n e w tire s V8, o r ig . ow n e r, go to rare 5-speed tranny Utility Trailers (Goodyear Wrangler) 70,300 mi., studs on, www bendbulletin com & manual hubs, on front wheels, sun to view additional reat condition. clean, straight, evFleetwood Wilderness roof, running boards, photos of the item. 3000. 541-549-0058. eryday driver. Was 36', 2005, 4 s l ides, tow pkg., roof racks, 18.5' '05 Reinell 185, V-6 $2200; now $1900! rear bdrm, fireplace, cruise, well m a int., Volvo Penta, 270HP, nebago Super Chief, Big Tex LandscapBob, 541-318-9999 Honda Civic LX I The Bulletin recomD $4995. 541-633-0255 low hrs n must see, 3 8K m i l es , gr e a t AC, W/D hkup beauing/ ATV Trailer, mends extra caution I 2008, like new, tiful u n it ! $ 3 0 ,500. $15,000, 541-330-3939 shape; 1988 Bronco II dual axle flatbed, when p u r chasing ~ always garaged, 4 x4 t o t o w , 1 3 0 K 541-815-2380 GMC t1gton 1971, Only 7'x16', 7000 lb. \t r t r \ r tl f products or services loaded. 27k mi., Vans mostly towed miles, $1 9,700! Original low • GVW, all steel, from out of the area e one owner. nice rig! $15,000 both. mile, exceptional, 3rd Q(gj[fj@~~ Say ngoodbuy n $1400. J S ending c ash , $13,500. 541-382-3964, leave owner. 951-699-7171 541-382-4115, or 20.5' 2004 Bayliner checks, or credit into that unused 541-550-0994. msg. 541-280-7024. formation may be I 205 Run About, 220 item by placing it in HP, V8, open bow, / sublect to FRAUD. GMC Envoy 2002 4WD exc. cond., very fast The Bulletin Classifieds Hyundai Sonata 2012, For more informa$6,450. Loaded, Walton 14' dump w/very low hours, 4 d oor, a uto, C D , f tion about an adverLeather, Heated trailer, power lots of extras incl. Chevrolet G20 Sports- bluetooth, pw, pl, tilt, tiser, you may call seats, Bose sound 541 -385-5809 up/power down, Oregon Statef tower, Bimini & system. Ext. roof rack man, 1993, exlnt cond, cruise. Vin ¹322715. I the 7,000 Ib tandem ax- Plymouth Attorney General's I custom trailer, B a r racuda (21 8) 478-4469 $4750 541-362 5559 or Was $19,999. Jayco Seneca 2007, 541-663-6046 les, used very little, Office C o nsumer I $19,500. 1966, original car! 300 Now $17,988. 17K mi., 35ft., Chevy new $11,900; mine, 541-389-1413 GMC Yukon Denali f Protection hotline at hp, 360 V8, center5500 d i e sel , toy ~g®SUBARU. 1-877-877-9392. $7200. lines (Original 273 2003, leather, moonFind exactly what aoaaavoraana con hauler $130 , 000. 541-350-3921 eng & wheels incl.) roof, premium wheels, you are looking for in the 2060 NE Hwy 20• Bend 541-389-2636. 541-593-2597 3rd row. Very nice. 877-266-3821 Serving Central Oregonsrnte 1903 CLASSIFIEDS K omfort 25' 2 0 06, 1 Vin ¹128449. Dlr ¹0354 PROJECT CARS: Chevy slide, AC, TV, awning. Was $15,999. g ~h i r y 20.5' Seaswirl SpyAutomotive Parts, • 2-dr FB 1949-(SOLD) & NEW: tires, converter, Now $13,788. der 1989 H.O. 302, batteries. Hardly used. Service & Accessories Chevy Coupe 1950 ) SU B A R U . rolling chassis's $1750 285 hrs., exc. cond., $15,500. 541-923-2595 anaaanovaann oon Chevy 4-dr 1949, stored indoors for Alpine Premiere Quick ea., 2060 NE Hwy 20 • Bend complete car, $ 1949; life $11,900 OBO. Fit Tire Chains, size 877-266-3821 Immaculate! Cadillac Series 61 1950, 541-379-3530 1 530, $ 3 0 . Ne v e r Dlr ¹0354 Beaver Coach Marquis 2 dr. hard top, complete used. 541-388-0345 40' 1987. New cover, w/spare f r on t cl i p ., Honda CRV2005, Ads published in the new paint (2004), new NEED HOLIDAY $$$? $3950, 541-382-7391 4WD, moonroof, alloy "Boats" classification inverter (2007). Onan We pay CASH for wheels, very clean. include: Speed, fish- 6300 watt gen, 111K mi, MONTANA 3585 2008 DON'I IIIIISS THI S Junk Cars & Trucks! Vin ¹027942. ing, drift, canoe, exc. cond., 3 slides, Also buying batteries & parked covered $35,000 Was $12,799. house and sail boats. obo. 541-419-9859 or king bed, Irg LR, Arccatalytic converters. VW Karman G hia Now $10,988 For all other types of 541-280-2014 tic insulation, all opServing all of C.O.!• 1970, good cond., watercraft, please see tions $37,500. new upholstery and Call 541-408-1090 ) SUanaaaoovaaan B A R Uoon. Class 875. 541-420-3250 convertible top. 541-385-5809 Top-loader 4-spd trans, $10,000. 2060 NE Hwy 20• Bend Nuyya 297LK H i tch- exc cond, w/shifter, $650. 877-266-3821 Hiker 2007, 3 slides, 541-536-3889 /420-6215 541-389-2636 Dlr ¹0354 32' touring coach, left l . og'< v A kitchen, rear lounge, Monaco Dynasty 2004, many extras, beautiful loaded, 3 slides, die- c ond. inside 8 o u t , Reduced - now $32,900 OBO, Prinevi YOURBOAT... i sel, Retail R Classified Display $119,000, 5 4 1 -923- ille. 541-447-5502 days with o u r spec i al Advertising Deadlines rates for selling your I 8572 or 541-749-0037 8 541-447-1641 eves. PUBLICATION .............. ................DEADLINE ~ boat or watercraft!

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