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For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or sent to
mobile phones, is packed with information about the customer who uses it. While the coupons look standard, their bar codes can be loaded with a startling amount of data, including identification about the customer, Internet address, Facebook page
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A giant, speeding rock: our next space target By Seth Borenstein
Landing on the surface of an asteroid, even one as large as the Eros, at right, will involve far greater risks than traveling to the moon. The crater visible on Eros measures 4 miles across.
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SALEM — Local political junkies have to be wondering what sort of election 2010 will bring for Oregon House District 59, a sprawling area that extends across much of Central and Eastern Oregon. Inside In a No• Meet the vember 2006 House shocker, a District 59 Democrat and candidates, hay farmer Page A7 named Jim G i l b e r t s o n , • Whisnant running a lowwill face one budget camchallenger paign, came for District within 300 53 seat, votes of oustPage C1 ing the thenincumbent, Republican John Dallum of The Dalles. Two years later, after Dallum moved away mid-term, the man appointed to replace him, John Huffman, crushed a different Democratic opponent by more than 4,000 votes, garnering 59 percent of the vote. This year, Huffman faces an opponent in the May 18 primary as well as — if he wins the Republican nomination — another opponent in the November general election. His Republican opponent is Britt Storkson, a business owner in The Dalles, who says Huffman is too liberal. However, Storkson does not intend to raise money or run much of a campaign, and his critique of Huffman lacks specifics. “I haven’t examined his voting record,” Storkson said, adding that “I don’t want to run this like a machine candidate. I don’t want to be a run-of-the-mill Joe. I think people can relate to that.” See District 59 / A7
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Efforts to purchase Skyline Forest west of Bend got a $2.5 million boost Friday, as the Deschutes Land Trust received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Legacy Program. “It’s essentially one more step along the long road to acquire Skyline Forest,” said Brad Chalfant, executive director of the land trust, a Bend-based nonprofit. The 50-square-mile forest parcel, at the foothills of the Three Sisters, is currently owned by Fidelity National Timber Resources. Last summer, the Legislature passed a bill allowing the company to develop a corner of the forest, if it sells the rest of the property to the land trust to manage as a community forest. This is the second Forest Legacy Program grant the land trust has received, bringing its total grant money to $4 million. But that’s still only about a quarter of the funds the nonprofit hopes to raise, Chalfant said. Additional funds could come from private fundraising and Community Forest Authority bonds, which would be repaid through sustainable timber projects. Fidelity could develop a plan for the parcel and its sale in the next year or so, Chalfant said. “In the meantime, we’ve got an awful lot to do,” he said. — Kate Ramsayer, The Bulletin
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SEC brings fraud suit vs. once-envied firm By Walter Hamilton and Nathaniel Popper
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NEW YORK — Federal regulators accused powerhouse Goldman Sachs & Co. of fraud Friday for peddling tainted mortgage investments, a move that could lead to more lawsuits against major banks. The civil complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Goldman and one of its young vice presidents alleges that they created securities based on subprime mortgages that would probably collapse. Those securities were secretly selected by hedge fund Paulson & Co., which was separately betting that such mortgage-backed securities were going to fail. Paulson & Co. paid Goldman a $15 million fee but made $1 billion, the SEC said, while investors who bought the mortgage-related securities lost $1 billion. Their losses were almost immediate. Less than a year after the securities were issued, 99 percent had been downgraded by credit-rating firms. Goldman denied any wrongdoing, saying in a statement that it provided full disclosure to the sophisticated investors who bought the securities. Goldman claimed that it lost $90 million from its own investment in the security. “We are disappointed that the SEC would bring this action related to a single transaction in the face of an extensive record which establishes that the accusations are unfounded in law and fact,� the company said. Paulson & Co. founder John Paulson, no relation to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, said he had no role in choosing the mortgages. The case goes to the heart of the complaints about the role that Wall Street, and particularly Goldman, played in fanning the excesses of the subprime mortgage era. Those transactions helped lead to the paralyzing recession during which the government gave billions of dollars in bailouts to Goldman and other Wall Street firms. At its core, the SEC alleged that Goldman sold out some clients to score huge fees from a deep-pocketed hedge fund.
)PX EJE (PMENBO 4BDIT HFU IFSF Aug. 21, 2008: Goldman reaches settlement with regulators after an investigation into collapse of auction-rate securities market; agrees to repurchase securities held by private clients; pays hefty fine.
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Traffic passes in front of the new Goldman Sachs world headquarters in the Lower Manhattan area of New York on Friday. “This exposes the cynical, savage culture of Wall Street,� said Christopher Whalen, managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics, a Torrance, Calif., financial research firm. “You have a basic conflict of telling one client to buy it and telling another client to (bet against) it.� Goldman, one of the most successful and envied firms on Wall Street, has been widely criticized for profiting from the crisis. Before Friday the firm had not faced any legal fallout, and it appeared that Goldman might emerge with only a damaged public reputation. The suit involves only one fi-
nancial device created by Goldman, but it signals the SEC’s new willingness to take legal action against Wall Street firms for their behavior during the crisis. “We are looking very closely at these products and transactions,� said Robert Khuzami, the SEC’s enforcement chief. “If we see that same profile repeated elsewhere, we will look at it very closely.� The SEC action also sparked frenzied selling of financial stocks, leading to a 13 percent drop in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the bank’s parent, and a 126-point slide in the Dow Jones industrial average, to 11,018.66.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil complaint Friday that Goldman Sachs & Co. failed to reveal that one of its clients create — and bet against — subprime mortgage securities that were sold to other investors. Dec. 16: Posts its first quarterly loss since going public in 1999, loses $2.29 billion during its fiscal fourth quarter. May 11, 2009: Bank agrees to pay a $10 million fee and let some 714 Massachusetts homeowners rework mortgages after a state investigation into subprime lending.
Sept. 22: Changes status to a bank holding company amid investor worry. Oct. 29: Receives $10 billion in rescue funds as part of the government’s $700 billion bank bailout program.
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Three and half years ago, a New York hedge fund manager with a bearish view on the housing market was pounding the pavement on Wall Street. Eager to increase his bets against subprime mortgages, the investor, John Paulson, canvassed firm after firm, looking for new ways to profit from home loans that he was sure would go sour. Only a few investment banks agreed to help him. One was Deutsche Bank. The other was the mighty Goldman Sachs. Paulson struck gold. His prescience made him billions and transformed him from a relative nobody into something of a rock star on Wall Street and in Washington. But now his brassy bets have thrust Paulson into an uncomfortable spotlight. On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud lawsuit against Goldman for neglecting to tell its customers that mortgage investments they were buying consisted of pools of dubious loans that Paulson had selected because they were highly likely to fail. By betting against the pool of questionable mortgage bonds, Paulson made $1 billion when they collapsed just a few months later, the SEC said. Investors, who bought what
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Goldman Sachs case likely to increase calls for reform By Jim Puzzanghera and Nathaniel Popper McClatchy-Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was once a darling in Washington, handing out millions of dollars in campaign contributions and supplying so many executives for key federal positions — including two recent Treasury secretaries — that some people called the firm “Government Sachs.� But the Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegation of fraud in Goldman’s marketing of mortgage-backed securities is exacerbating the Wall Street firm’s already substantial PR woes in the wake of the financial crisis and its receipt of $10 billion in bailout funds. The case also is likely to not only further diminish the firm’s already weakened influence in the capital but also fuel efforts by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats to pass the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression. “When Goldman Sachs and their friends come into Con-
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The complex jargon of Wall Street McClatchy-Tribune News Service WASHINGTON — Here is a glossary of terms involved in the Goldman Sachs fraud case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission: Hedge fund — A fund that’s open only to sophisticated investors who are able to meet steep minimum investment requirements. They are mostly unregulated. Securities — An instrument that represents a financial value, expressed either as debt securities reflecting bonds and government banknotes, or equities. Mortgage bond — Often called mortgage-backed securities or asset-backed securities, these involve pools of mortgages that are packaged together and sold to investors as a security.
Tranche — In an effort to spread and thus minimize investment risk, Wall Street firms that issue mortgage bonds layer the pools of mortgages into different levels of risk, or tranches. Investment grade — Credit-rating agencies give investment grades to the safest investments, ensuring investors there’s little chance of default in a product carrying an investment-grade rating. Collateralized Debt Obligation — CDOs are pools of debt securities whose underlying debt obligations are held as collateral. Investors are promised the payments derived from the underlying assets. Special purpose vehicles — Created to package and issue CDOs.
Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligation — In these complex products, the special purpose vehicle doesn’t actually own the portfolio of underlying mortgages but enters into private two-party deals, called credit-default swaps, which reference the performance of the underlying assets. Credit-default swaps — A contract, negotiated privately between two parties, in which one party seeking protection from a credit default agrees to make regular payments similar to insurance premiums to a seller selling this protection. In exchange the seller who has agreed to “swap� the risk is liable for an agreed upon payout should there be a default on the bond on which the protection was purchased.
regulators are calling a pig in a poke, lost the same amount. Paulson, 54, was not named as a defendant in the SEC suit, but his role in devising the instrument that caused $1 billion in losses for Goldman’s customers is detailed in the complaint. Robert Khuzami, the director of enforcement at the SEC, explained that, unlike Goldman, the manager of the hedge fund, Paulson & Co., had not made misrepresentations to investors buying the security, known as a collateralized debt obligation. “While it’s unfortunate that people lost money investing in mortgage-backed securities, Paulson has never been involved in the origination, distribution or structuring of such securities,� Stefan Prelog, a spokesman for Paulson, said in a statement. “We have always been forthright in expressing our opinion as to the quality of the underlying mortgages “There’s no question we made money in these transactions. However, all our dealings were through arms-length transactions with experienced counterparties who had opposing views based on all available information at the time. We were straightforward in our dislike of these securities, but the vast majority of people in the market thought we were dead wrong and openly and aggressively purchased the securities we were selling.�
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gress and say, ‘Leave us alone. You don’t need to regulate us,’ I think that argument becomes weaker and weaker,� said Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., a supporter of tougher financial regulation. Lawmakers from both parties scrambled Friday to use the case against Goldman to their advantage. Democrats said the allegations showed the need for their regulatory proposals, particularly for a provision opposed by Goldman that would increase transparency in the trading of derivatives, the complex securities at the center of the SEC charges. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, meanwhile, depicted Goldman as one of Obama’s “Wall Street allies� and “a key supporter� of a part of the legislation that would create an industry-paid fund to cover the cost of future seizures of large financial firms. Boehner and other Republicans said those seizures would turn into bailouts.
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A car drives through ash Friday from the volcano eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland. The volcano erupted this week for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air. The resulting ash cloud has reached as far as Hungary and the steppes of Russia.
Volcanic cloud casts pall over an interwoven world By Arthur Max and Angela Charlton
W. Va. mine explosion record to be reviewed By Steven Mufson The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The Labor Department will establish an independent team of safety experts to evaluate the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s internal review of the April 5 explosion at a West Virginia coal mine that killed 29 workers, officials said Friday. The decision follows criticism of MSHA’s own internal review team, which is being led by Norman Page, a veteran agency employee who oversaw inspections in a district where a similar explosion occurred in 2006. John Howard, the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will lead the independent analysis and identify people with the appropriate experience to serve on his team. Howard coordinated programs monitoring the effects of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks on people in the area.
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Federal immigration agents stand outside Sergio’s Shuttle Thursday in Phoneix. The van shuttle service offers transportation from northern Mexico to cities in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington and is accused of working with smugglers, a charge the owner denies. busiest illegal gateway into the United States. Investigators said the shuttlevan companies served illegal immigrants who had already slipped into the country by walking dozens of miles through the desert past Border Patrol checkpoints. They climbed aboard the vans in Tucson and were driven
to Phoenix. Sergio Rodriguez, owner of Sergio’s Shuttle, a Phoenix transportation service accused of working with smugglers, said there has been “a big mistake.” “If somebody gets on my bus, I’m not Border Patrol,” he said. “I don’t know how to check if he’s legal or not.”
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PARIS — A cloud of ash hovered over Europe on Friday, causing ripples throughout the world. Made up of microscopic particles as hard as a knife’s blade, the dust cloud coughed up by an Icelandic volcano crept across the industrial powerhouses of Europe, into the steppes of Russia and as far south as Hungary. It left behind stranded travelers, grounded cargo flights, political confusion and even fears the cloud of grit settling on Earth will endanger the lungs of children, asthmatics and others with respiratory ailments. How long it lasts and how far it spreads depends entirely on two unpredictable events: Whether the volcano beneath Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH’plah-yer-kuh-duhl) glacier keeps pumping tons of dust into the air and what wind patterns do. The invisible cloud could split, reaching down into northern Italy, and perhaps break apart over the Alps. Scientists say the volcano could continue erupting for months, with more chaos ensuing with each big belch of basalt powder and gas. “It’s going to be a mess,” said volcanologist Michael Rampino of New York University. “It’s a menace to air traffic, just sitting there, waiting to go off.” Henry Margusity, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather.com, predicted the jet stream winds will continue picking up dust over Iceland and carry it to Britain and Europe “like a spray can of ash” through next Wednesday. Is it a first? The devastating 19th-century eruption of Indonesia’s Krakatau island was bigger. In ancient times, Mount Ve-
PHOENIX — The illegal immigrants being sneaked into the country were allegedly given phony $30 tickets and receipts for a van ride. And they were warned that if the van got pulled over by police, they should show the receipt. Federal investigators Thursday raided five shuttle-van services in Tucson and Phoenix and accused them of knowingly helping to smuggle tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into the U.S. over four years. A total of 49 van operators and alleged smugglers from Mexico and the U.S. were arrested. The raids exposed a piece of what authorities say is a network of seemingly legitimate businesses that sneak people across the Mexican border. “The goal of the shuttle operators is to make the aliens look like any other person who would get into a shuttle, like they were going from the airport to their hotel or on a journey around the Southwest,” said Matthew Allen, chief of investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona, the
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Travelers hoping to take flights to Europe found themselves stuck Friday at Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey as flights were canceled due to the ash cloud from the volcano in Iceland. suvius buried an entire city and in the 17th century, a series of eruptions from Peru to the South Pacific blocked the sun’s energy and sent the Earth’s temperatures plunging. But in this era of global trade crisscrossing the planet by air, the Icelandic eruption has implications that underscore the particular vulnerabilities of the modern world. The airline industry said it was losing $200 million a day in cancellations — not counting additional costs for rerouting or taking care of grumpy passengers. Almost two-thirds of Europe’s usual 28,000 flights were grounded Friday — twice as many as a day earlier, according to the air traffic agency Eurocontrol. Even powerful politicians were left far from home. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was
forced to govern Europe’s biggest economy from Portugal after her flight from the United States was diverted. The World Health Organization warned the ash could cause breathing problems. Europeans, especially those with respiratory ailments or asthma, should try to stay indoors if the ash starts settling. “We’re very concerned about it,” said WHO spokesman Daniel Epstein. “These particles when inhaled can reach the peripheral regions of … the lungs and can cause problems.” Other experts, however, weren’t convinced the volcanic ash would have a major health effect. Ken Donaldson, a professor of respiratory toxicology at the University of Edinburgh, said volcanic ash was much less dangerous than cigarette smoke or pollution.
N B 5 former officials of Blackwater indicted WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors charged the former president of Blackwater Worldwide and four other former senior company officials on Friday with weapons violations and making false statements in the first criminal inquiry to reach into the top management ranks of the private security company. The executives were some of the closest advisers to Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, and helped him steer the company during its swift rise to become the leading contractor providing security for American diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan, working for the State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon. They were also the senior executives in charge during the company’s most turbulent period, after its security guards were involved in a series of shootings, including one in Baghdad in 2007 that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. Prince, who was not charged, remains at the helm of the company, now known as Xe Services.
Obama, Republicans face off on regulations WASHINGTON — President Obama accused Republicans on
Friday of trying to carve out “special loopholes” for the financial sector in regulatory reform legislation and warned they would soon face a choice, whether to side with an unpopular industry or ordinary Americans. His pointed comments came as all 41 Senate Republicans signed a letter criticizing a bill before the Senate to overhaul financial oversight. They said the measure would stifle the economy by giving the government “unlimited regulatory powers” and called on the administration to start a new round of negotiations.
Sex offender guilty in killing of teens SAN DIEGO — With two teary-eyed mothers looking on, convicted sex offender John Albert Gardner pleaded guilty Friday to raping and murdering their teenage daughters. Gardner, 31, admitted kidnapping, raping and stabbing 14-year-old Amber Dubois, and dragging 17-year-old Chelsea King to a remote area where he raped, strangled and buried her. As part of the plea deal, he also admitted trying to rape a female jogger last year in San Diego who managed to escape. — From wire reports
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of Western and Southwestern senators has come together to try to get critical funding restored in the federal budget for prosecuting alleged drug traffickers and other lawbreakers along the Southwest border. The senators representing California, Texas and New Mexico want the Senate Appropriations Committee to restore $31 million for the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative,
which the Obama administration did not fund in the 2011 budget. The senators are California Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Texas Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, and New Mexico Democrats Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall. In a letter to Sens. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chair and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee for Justice Department funding, the six sena-
tors asked that the $31 million be included in the 2011 appropriations bill that funds the agency. The senators from the remaining border state, Arizona — Republicans John McCain and Jon Kyl — did not sign the letter but on Monday they plan to unveil a 10-point plan to secure the border.
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R I B Lead Pastor Ken Wytsma will share part three of a series titled “Give Your Life Away” at the 9:30 a.m. service and will lead a follow-up Q-and-A Redux 11:15 a.m. service Sunday at Antioch Church, held at Summit High School, 2855 N.W. Clearwater Drive, Bend. • Pastor Dave Miller will share the message at 10 a.m. Sunday at Bend Christian Fellowship, 19831 Rocking Horse Road. A marriage seminar titled “The State of the Union” will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The 4twelve youth group meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m. • Pastor Virgil Askren will share a sermon titled “Go in Peace and be Healed” at 10:15 a.m. Sunday at Bend Church of the Nazarene, 1270 N.E. 27th St. • Prophetic speaker and teacher with Eagles Gathering Ministries Dorothy Biamont will share “Learn How to Abide in God’s Glory” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Bend Faith Center, 63830 Clausen Drive, Suite 100, Bend. • A team of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry students lead by Ben George will share at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Celebration Church, 1245 S. Third St., Bend. • Pastor Dean Catlett will share the message “Finding Joy in Every Day,” based on Philippians 3:1-21, at 10:45 a.m. Sunday at Church of Christ, 554 N.W. Newport Ave., Bend. • Pastor Dave Drullinger will share the message “Terrible Logic,” based on Matthew 12:22-37, at 10:45 a.m. Sunday at Discovery Christian Church, 334 N.W. Newport Ave., Bend. • Pastor John Lodwick will share the message “… for the Doubtful” as the part of the series “Easter Changes Everything” at 6 p.m. today and at 9 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Eastmont Church, 62425 Eagle Road, Bend. • Pastor Mike Johnson will share the message “Foodies” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Faith Christian Center, 1049 N.E. 11th St., Bend. Fuel youth services are held Wednesdays at 7 p.m. • Pastor Randy Wills will share the message “Living in the Light” at 10 a.m. Sunday at Father’s House Church of God, 61690 Pettigrew Road, Bend. • Pastor Syd Brestel will conclude the “Lost Stories” series with a message based on the book of Joel at 10:15 a.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church, 60 N.W. Oregon Ave., Bend. • The Rev. Dr. Steven Koski will speak on the topic “What Is the Message of Your Life” at the 9 a.m. contemporary and 10:45 a.m. traditional services with a “Poetry Jam” at the 5:01 p.m. service Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 230 N.E. Ninth St., Bend. • Pastor Thom Larson will share the message “Feeding Sheep,” based on Rev. 5:11-14 and John 21:1-19, at the 8:30 a.m. contemporary and 11 a.m. traditional services Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 680 N.W. Bond St., Bend. • Pastor Joel LiaBraaten will share the messages “Left Behind” and “Fishing With Jesus” at 10 a.m. Sunday at Grace First Lutheran Church, 2265 N.W. Shevlin Park Road, Bend. • Guest speaker Erik Himbert, paralyzed in a snowboarding accident, will share his story as part of the series “Different”
at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Journey Church, held at Bend High School, 230 N.E. Sixth St., Bend. • There will be no services today at New Hope Church, 20080 Pinebrook Blvd., Bend. Members will be out serving in the community. • Jim Pasmore will share the message “Return to Your Cosmic Home! How to find your way to, and remain at home, in the heart of God (or whatever name you find comfortable for Source; All That Is)” at 9 a.m. Sunday at Spiritual Awareness Community of the Cascades, held at Old Stone Church, 157 N.W. Franklin Ave., Bend. • The Society of St. Gregory the Great will sponsor a Latinsung Mass at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 409 N.W. Franklin Ave., Bend. • Pastor David Carnahan will share the message “Open Our Eyes, Lord!” based on Acts 9:1-22, at 8 and 11 a.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church & School, 2550 N.E. Butler Market Road, Bend. • Gandhi’s “The Message of the Gita” will be the topic at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon, held at Old Stone Church, 157 N.W. Franklin Ave., Bend. • The Rev. Teri Hawkins will speak on the topic “The Promise of a New Day” at 10 a.m. Sunday at The Unity Community of Central Oregon, held at Eastern Star Grange, 62855 Powell Butte Highway, Bend. • A series titled “Ungoogleable” concludes at 6:30 p.m. today and at 8, 9 and 10:45 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Westside Church, 2051 N.W. Shevlin Park Road, Bend. and at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Westside South Campus, held at Elk Meadow Elementary School, 60880 Brookswood Blvd., Bend. • Youth Pastor Darin Hollingsworth will share the message “The Wicked Vinedressers,” based on Matthew 21:33-46, at the 9 a.m. traditional and 10:30 a.m. contemporary services Sunday at Christian Church of Redmond, 536 S.W. 10th St. • Pastor Rob Anderson will share the message “At a Crossroad — Which Way Do You Go?,” based on Acts 9:1-19, at the 8:30 a.m. contemporary and 11 a.m. traditional services Sunday at Community Presbyterian Church, 529 N.W. 19th Street, Redmond. • A blend of scripture, witness and music with The Mud Springs Gospel Band will be presented at the 10 a.m. service Sunday at Zion Lutheran Church, 1113 Black Butte Blvd., Redmond. • Pastor Glen Schaumloeffel will share the message “Courage in Finishing Well,” based on Acts 28, as part of the series “Acts — First Century Church: Blueprint for 21st Century Living” at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at Community Bible Church at Sunriver, 1 Theater Drive. • The Rev. Willis Jenson will share the message “The Gospel of Christ Crucified and Risen Reveals the Caring Heart of God Toward Men,” based on John 21:12, at 11 a.m. Sunday at Concordia Lutheran Mission held at Terrebonne Grange Hall, 8286 11th St., Terrebonne. • A Spring Gospel Concert will be presented at 7 p.m. today at First Baptist Church, 450 S.E. Fairview St., Prineville.
A struggle to maintain relevance in a new land Life of Buddhist monks has lost appeal for youths By Matt O’Brien McClatchy-Tribune News Service
RICHMOND, Calif. — Many men who grew up in Laos have stories of how they became a novice Buddhist monk, donning the orange robes and leaving family homes for the temple. They served for weeks, months or maybe years, but that was in another land. At the Wat Lao Rattanaram in downtown Richmond, Calif., children crowd the urban temple for monthly religious gatherings, but few of them will leap into the monkhood as their fathers or grandfathers did. “Young people are losing interest in the religion,” said temple board member Khammany Mathavongsy. “In Laos, the temple is the center of the entire community. Each village is named after the temple. But here, lifestyles have changed so much. People are working, people are busy, trying to build a career. They have less time to maintain the practice.” The loss of Lao traditions in the United States is a worry commonly expressed by elder members of the Theravada Buddhist temple in Richmond, but sometimes the next generation surprises them. Mikey Vongthichack, 13, shaved his head when his uncle died three years ago and entered the Lao Rattanaram temple to spend several weeks living there as a novice monk. The Sacramento boy returns to Richmond with other youths every summer, learning Buddhist teachings and building merits to improve the life of his deceased uncle. “It makes me a better person,” he said. “It makes him less hungry, less cold. It just makes him happy. And it makes me happy.” Four bhikkus, or fully ordained adult monks, live and pray at the
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Monks, including Bey Souvannarath, left, eat their last meal of the day before noon at the Wat Lao Rattanaram temple in Richmond, Calif. Richmond temple. None, as lay members point out, listens to iPods or logs on to Facebook. Their simple life begins before dawn with chants and prayer and ends with prayer. They live by the 227 rules of the monastic order. They eat twice a day, but never after noon. “When you get used to it, it’s not very hard,” Mikey said of his summers as a novice monk. Still, the middle-schooler is quick to point out he has other plans once he grows up. “I kind of want to have a family,” he said. “I’ll probably go to college, and after that, I’ll probably stop being a monk, because I want to raise a family.” Mikey is following a trajectory that is rare among his American peers, but common in Laos, where young men are encouraged to temporarily join the clergy. “Before you get married, you must spend some time in the monkhood,” said Bounmy Som-
sanith, a former temple president. “In the olden days, when there was no school, young men learned from the monks about everything, from basic writing to basic speaking, how to survive.” The youngest monk, Bey Souvannarath, stands out, though he tries his best not to. He is the only monk who grew up in the schools and streets of Richmond, Calif., and the only one ordained in the Richmond temple and not in Laos. The 32-year-old came to the clergy after considering the Navy. Souvannarath and the other monks all declined formal interviews, but temple leaders say Souvannarath has become a role model who helps guide young Lao-Americans away from gangs, drugs and other temptations of modern life. Northern California remains the hub of America’s ethnic Lao immigrants, many of whom fled their homeland after the Com-
munist Pathet Lao took over the government in 1975. Community members see the Richmond temple, which opened in 2004, as a symbol of how far they have come. Now settled in a comfortable space, members said the challenge is maintaining interest in temple life as the immigrant generation grows older. The number of monks is down to four from six after some left for the Central Valley and Laos. Monk Souvannarath has helped the institution connect with younger members, but the pull of technology, work and other distractions is strong. “We’re adapting to the change,” Mathavongsy said. “We’re still new — one of the youngest Asian Buddhist communities in this area. It’s only been 25, 30 years since our community moved here through the refugee experience. Hopefully, we will survive in the next generation.”
A battle for Haitian souls is stirring By Jacqueline Charles and Trenton Daniel McClatchy Newspapers
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At first Haitians of all faiths turned inward, transforming their bedsheet camps into all-night religious revivals as they clung to faith and resilience, crying and praising Jezi. But in the three months after the earthquake, the relationship among faiths has evolved from one of rare unity to a fight for the Haitian soul. All hope to increase followers even as they assign blame for the quake. In the makeshift camps, along rubble-filled streets, Protestant preachers are battling Catholics as well as followers of Vodou, hoping to lure more congregants. “When I hear some of the Protestant churches in the neighborhoods, you have the impression that only Catholics lost people in the earthquake,” said William Smarth, a theology professor and diocese priest who was part of the liberation theology movement that helped oust former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. “They say, ‘We (Catholics) don’t believe in God, we don’t be-
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Father Paul Raphael, center, blesses the crowd with Holy water during the mass procession in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. lieve in Jesus Christ.’ “ And both Catholics and Protestants clash with the followers of Vodou — blaming the ancestral religion of Haiti’s slavesturned-freedom fighters — for the monstrous quake. They lay blame on a centuries-old covenant taken on the eve of the Haitian revolution for the disastrous earthquake. Fighting back, some Vodou-
ists say it’s not the curse of freedom that caused the quake, but the price for failing to properly bury one of Haiti’s leading freedom fighters, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The tensions have only mounted as Evangelical and other religious groups from the United States fly en masse to a ravaged Haiti to feed and preach the Gospel.
Last month, Mario Joseph, a Haitian human rights lawyer, went before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking an investigation of attacks against Vodouists after several were stoned by Evangelical pastors in the Cite Soleil slum. “In other zones of the country,” he told the commission, “particularly in the commune of Verrettes in the Artibonite, literal witch hunts have been launched against priests and practitioners of this religion.” Sitting in the courtyard of his cracked home on Good Friday, Smarth said the Catholic Church, which has lost more than 60 parishes and 100 nuns and priests in the disaster, has turned to science to explain the earthquake, and to counter myths fueled by conservative religious figures in the United States like Pat Robertson. A day after the quake, Robertson told his Christian Broadcasting Network audience that Haiti’s pact with Satan is to blame. “After the earthquake, we tried to give some light to the Haitian people about the meaning of what happened,” Smarth said. “We asked people to understand how the world works and to understand the laws of physics.”
PETA: Kosher slaughterhouse employs inhumane technique, ‘shackle and hoist’ By Nathaniel Popper Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — Two years after U.S. kosher-food authorities said they wanted to stop use of a cattle-killing method widely criticized as inhumane, the country’s largest seller of kosher meat is importing beef from a South
American plant that employs the technique, import records and an undercover video show. The video, recorded in December by animal-rights activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at a slaughterhouse in Uruguay, depicts cows being lifted by one leg and then
restrained for the slaughter. PETA identified the slaughterhouse as Frigorifico Las Piedras. The plant is a major supplier of Alle Processing in New York, according to import records. Alle’s owner, Mottel Bergman, declined to comment, as did Enrique Badano, the South Ameri-
can firm’s export manager. Meat from Las Piedras and other South America factories is used to produce most of the processed kosher meat consumed in America, kosher authorities say. The Orthodox Union, which runs the largest U.S. organization certifying food as con-
forming to Jewish dietary laws, has rabbis observing the procedures at Las Piedras. An official of the organization confirmed the plant uses the controversial killing method, “shackle and hoist.” The Orthodox Union is following the lead of Israel’s kosher au-
thorities, who allow the shackleand-hoist method because they require that cows be slaughtered while upside down if their meat is to be considered kosher. There is a mechanical pen that can keep the animal inverted while it is killed, but it is expensive to install.
THE BULLETIN • Saturday, April 17, 2010 A5 “The Wheel of Dharma” Buddhism
“Celtic Cross” Christianity
“Star of David” Judaism
You Are The Most Important Part of Our Services “Omkar” (Aum) Hinduism
“Yin/Yang” Taoist/Confucianism
“Star & Crescent” Islam
Assembly of God
Bible Church
FAITH CHRISTIAN CENTER 1049 NE 11th St. • 541-382-8274 SUNDAYS: 9:30 am SUNDAY EDUCATIONAL CLASSES 10:30 am MORNING WORSHIP Pastor Mike Johnson will share his message in the series, “Crossing over The Crimson Bridge; Illumination for the Soul” 1 John 1:9-18 10:30 am Children’s Church “Faith Town” WEDNESDAYS 7:00 PM: Priority One Youth Group Adult small groups weekly Child care provided during Sunday morning service. Pastor Michael Johnson www.bendfcc.com
COMMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL 541-593-8341 Beaver at Theater Drive, PO Box 4278, Sunriver OR 97707 “Transforming Lives Through the Truth of the Word” All are Welcome! SUNDAY WORSHIP AND THE WORD - 9:30 AM. Coffee Fellowship - 10:45 am Bible Education Hour - 11:15 am Nursery Care available • Women’s Bible Study - Tuesdays, 10 am. • Awana Kids Club (4 yrs -6th gr.) • Youth Ministry (gr. 6-12) Wednesdays 6:15 pm • Men’s Bible Study - Thursdays 9 am. • Home Bible Studies are also available. Preschool for 3 & 4 year olds Call for information Senior Pastor: Glen Schaumloeffel Associate Pastor: Jake Schwarze visit our Web site www.cbchurchsr.org
LAPINE CHRISTIAN CENTER Assembly of God 52565 Day Road LaPine, Oregon 97739 541-536-1593 SUNDAYS Sunday School 9:30am Coffee Connection 10:15am Morning Worship 10:45am Children’s Church and Nursery Care provided Sunday Night Service 6:00pm Women’s Ministries 2nd Saturday of each month at 10:00am Men of Iron Bible Study Mondays at 6:00pm Ladies’ Bible Study every other Tuesday at 10:00am WEDNESDAYS Evening Service at 7:00pm Youth Group Royal Rangers Missionettes Rainbows 3,4 & 5 year olds Pastor Wayne Wilson www.lpccag.org REDMOND ASSEMBLY OF GOD 1865 W Antler • Redmond • 541-548-4555 SUNDAYS Morning Worship 8:30 am and 10:30 am Life groups 9 am Kidz LIVE ages 3-11 10:30 am Evening Worship 6 pm WEDNESDAYS FAMILY NIGHT 7PM Adult Classes Celebrate Recovery Wednesday NITE Live Kids Youth Group Pastor Duane Pippitt www.redmondag.com
Baptist EASTMONT CHURCH NE Neff Rd., 1/2 mi. E. of St. Charles Medical Center Saturdays 6:00 pm (Contemporary) Sundays 9:00 am (Blended worship style) 10:30 am (Contemporary) Sundays 6:00 pm Hispanic Worship Service Weekly Bible Studies and Ministries for all ages Contact: 541-382-5822 Pastor John Lodwick www.eastmontchurch.com FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CBA “A Heart for Bend in the Heart of Bend” 60 NW Oregon, 541-382-3862 Pastor Syd Brestel SUNDAY 9:00 AM Sunday School for everyone 10:15 AM Worship Service Pastor Syd Brestel will conclude his Lost Stories series with a message from the Book of Joel. Come hear what God has to say about calamity. For Kidztown, Middle School and High School activities Call 541-382-3862 www.bendchurch.org FIRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Sundays Morning Worship 10:50 am Bible Study 6:00 pm Evening Worship 7:00 pm Wednesdays Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 pm Tom Counts, Senior Pastor Ernest Johnson, Pastor 21129 Reed Market Rd, Bend, OR 541-382-6081 HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH, SBC 3100 SW Highland Ave., Redmond • 541-548-4161 SUNDAYS: Worship Services: 9:00 am & 6:00 pm Traditional 10:30 am Contemporary Sunday Bible fellowship groups 9:00 am & 10:30 am For other activities for children, youth & adults, call or go to website: www.hbcredmond.org PARA LA COMUNIDAD LATINA Domingos: Servicio de Adoración y Escuela Dominical - 12:30 pm Miércoles: Estudios biblicos por edades - 6:30 pm
Bible Church BEREAN BIBLE CHURCH In Partnership with American Missionary Fellowship Near Highland and 23rd Ave. 2378 SW Glacier Pl. Redmond, OR 97756
Listen to KNLR 97.5 FM at 9:00 am. each Sunday to hear “Transforming Truth” with Pastor Glen.
Calvary Chapel CALVARY CHAPEL BEND 20225 Cooley Rd. Bend Phone: (541) 383-5097 Web site: ccbend.org Sundays: 8:30 & 10:30 am Wednesday Night Study: 7 pm Youth Group: Wednesday 7 pm Child Care provided Women’s Ministry, Youth Ministry are available, call for days and times. “Teaching the Word of God, Book by Book”
Catholic HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC PARISH Holy Redeemer Church 16137 Burgess Rd., La Pine, OR 541-536-3571 Mass Sunday 10:00 am HOLY TRINITY, SUNRIVER Masses: Sat. 5:30 pm, Sun. 8 am Rev, Jose Thomas Mudakodiyil OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS/ GILCHRIST Sunday Mass 12:30 pm HOLY FAMILY, FORT ROCK / CHRISTMAS VALLEY Sunday Mass 3:30 pm www.holyredeemerparish.net ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI 541-382-3631 Pastors: Fr. Joe Reinig Fr. Daniel Maxwell Deacon Joseph Levine Masses NEW CHURCH – CATHOLIC CENTER 2450 NE 27th Street Saturday - Vigil 5:00 PM Sunday - 7:30, 10:00 AM 12:30 PM Spanish & 5:00 PM Mon., Wed., Fri. - 7:00 AM & 12:15 PM St. Clare Chapel - Spanish Mass 1st, 3rd, 5th Thursdays 8:00 PM Masses HISTORIC DOWNTOWN CHURCH Corner of NW Franklin & Lava Tues., Thurs., Sat. 7:00 AM Tues. & Thurs. 12:15 PM Exposition & Benediction Tuesday 3:00 - 6:00 PM Reconciliation: New Church, 27th St: Sat. 3 - 5 PM* Mon., Fri. 6:45 - 7:00 AM* & 7:30 - 8:00 AM Wednesday 6:00 - 8:00 PM Historic Church Downtown: Saturday 7:30 - 10:00 AM Tues. & Thurs. 6:45 - 7:00 AM* & 7:30 - 8:00 AM Latin Mass April 18 1:30 pm at the historic St. Francis Church *No confessions will be heard during Mass. The priest will leave the confessional at least 10 minutes prior to Mass. ST. THOMAS CATHOLIC CHURCH 1720 NW 19th Street Redmond, Oregon 97756 541-923-3390 Father Todd Unger, Pastor Mass Schedule: Weekdays 8:00 a.m. (except Wednesday) Wednesday 6:00 p.m. Saturday Vigil 5:30 p.m. First Saturday 8:00 a.m. (English) Sunday 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. (English) 12:00 noon (Spanish) Confessions on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 5:45 p.m. and on Saturdays from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.
Christian CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF REDMOND 536 SW 10th Redmond, OR 97756 541-548-2974 Fax: 541-548-5818 2 Worship Services 9:00 A.M. and 10:30 A.M. Sunday School-all ages Junior Church Kidmo Friday Night Service at 6:30 P.M. Pastors Myron Wells Greg Strubhar Darin Hollingsworth
Christian
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\Lutheran
Presbyterian
POWELL BUTTE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Cowboy Fellowship Saturdays Potluck 6 pm Music and the Word 7 pm Sunday Worship Services 8:30 am - 10 am - 11 am Nursery & Children’s Church Pastors: Chris Blair & Glenn Bartnik 13720 SW Hwy 126, Powell Butte 541-548-3066 www.powellbuttechurch.com
DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN CENTER
NATIVITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
Terrebonne Foursquare Church Located in the quiet community of Terrebonne. Overlooking the impressive Cascade Range and Smith Rock. Be inspired. Enjoy encouragement. Find friends. Encounter God. Get away, every Sunday.
60850 Brosterhous Road at Knott, 541-388-0765
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 230 NE Ninth, Bend (Across Ninth St. from Bend High)
REAL LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Adult Bible Study, Sunday 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 AM DYG (High School & Trek (Middle School)) Monday 6:30 PM
Like Hymns? We've Got 'em! at the RLCC Church, 2880 NE 27th Sunday Services 8 am Traditional Service (No child care for 8 am service) 9:30 am Contemporary Service with full child care plus Teen Ministry 11 am Service (Full child care) For information, please call ... Minister - Mike Yunker - 541-312-8844 Richard Belding, Associate Pastor “Loving people one at a time.” www.real-lifecc.org
7801 N. 7th St. Terrebonne West on “B” Avenue off of Hwy. 97; South on 7th St. at the end of the road 541-548-1232 dayspringchristiancenter.org
Christian Schools
MAIN CAMPUS
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Pre K - 12th Grade Christ Centered Academic Excellence Fully Accredited with ACSI & NAAS Comprehensive High School Educating Since 1992 15 minutes north of Target 2234 SE 6th St. Redmond, 541-548-7803 www.centralchristianschools.com EASTMONT COMMUNITY SCHOOL “Educating and Developing the Whole Child for the Glory of God” Pre K - 5th Grade 62425 Eagle Road, Bend • 541-382-2049 Principal Mary Dennis www.eastmontcommunityschool.com MORNING STAR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Pre K - 12th Grade Serving Christian Families and local churches to develop Godly leaders by providing quality Christ centered education. Fully Accredited NAAS. Member A.C .S.I. Small Classes Emphasizing: Christian Values A-Beka Curriculum, High Academics. An interdenominational ministry located on our new 18 acre campus at 19741 Baker Rd. and S. Hwy 97 (2 miles south of Wal-Mart). Phone 541-382-5091 Bus Service: from Bend, La Pine & Sunriver. www.morningstarchristianschool.org SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI SCHOOL Preschool through Grade 8 “Experience academic excellence and Christian values every day.” Limited openings in all grades. 2450 NE 27th St. Bend •541-382-4701 www.stfrancisschool.net TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL 2550 NE Butler Market Rd. 541-382-1850 Preschool ages 3 and 4 - 10th grade High Quality Education In A Loving Christian Environment Openings Still Available www.saints.org
Christian Science FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 1551 NW First St. • 541-382-6100 (South of Portland Ave.) Church Service & Sunday School: 10 am Wed. Testimony Meeting: 7:30 pm Reading Room: 115 NW Minnesota Ave. Mon. through Fri.: 11 am - 4 pm Sat. 12 noon - 2 pm
Episcopal TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH 469 NW Wall St. • 541-382-5542 www.trinitybend.org Sunday Schedule 8 am Holy Eucharist 9:30 am Christian Education for all ages 10:30 am Holy Eucharist (w/nursery care) 5 pm Holy Eucharist The Rev. Christy Close Erskine, Pastor
Evangelical THE SALVATION ARMY 755 NE 2nd Street, Bend 541-389-8888 SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP Sunday School 9:45 am Children & Adult Classes Worship Service – 11:00 am Captains John and Sabrina Tumey NEW HOPE EVANGELICAL 20080 Pinebrook Blvd.• 541-389-3436 Celebrate New Life at New Hope Church! Saturday 6:00 pm Sunday 9:00, 10:45 am, Pastor Randy Myers www.newhopebend.com
Foursquare CITY CENTER A Foursquare Fellowship Senior Pastors Steve & Ginny McPherson 549 SW 8th St., P.O. Box 475, Redmond, OR 97756 • 541-548-7128
WESTSIDE CHURCH The Riches of His Kindness Ungoogleable – Part 4 God’s kindness is magnetic, gracious, multi-faceted and eternal. When you experience it, share it.
2051 NW Shevlin Park Road, Bend 97701 Saturday at 6:30 pm Sunday at 8:00, 9:00, 10:45 am and 6:30 pm Kurios - 1st Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm Children’s Ministries for infants thru 3rd grade Saturday at 6:30 pm Sunday at 9:00, 10:45 am and 6:30 pm Kurios - 1st Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm 4th and 5th Grades Meet: Saturday at 6:30 pm Sunday 9:00 an 10:45 am 6th and 8th Grades Meet Wednesday at 6:30 pm Saturday at 6:30 pm Sunday at 9:00 am 9th thru 12th Grades Meet: Wednesday at 6:30 pm Sunday at 10:45 am SOUTH CAMPUS Elk Meadow Elementary School 60880 Brookswood Blvd, Bend 97701 Sunday at 11:00am Children’s Ministries for Infants thru 5th grade Sunday at 11:00am www.westsidechurch.org 541-382-7504
Jewish Synagogues JEWISH COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL OREGON Serving Central Oregon for 20 Years, We Are a Non-Denominational Egalitarian Jewish Community Our Synagogue is located at 21555 Modoc Lane, Bend, Oregon 541-385-6421 • www.jccobend.com Rabbi Jay Shupack Rebbetzin Judy Shupack Shabbat and High Holiday Services Religious Education Program Bar/Bat Mitzvah Training Weekly Torah Study • Adult Education
Sunday Worship Service - 10:30 a.m. Bible Study - Thursday, 10:30 a.m.
Home Bible Studies throughout the week City Care Clinic also available. Kidz Center School, Preschool
Pastor Ed Nelson 541-777-0784 www.berean-bible-church.org
Speaker: Darin Hollingsworth, Youth Pastor
www.citycenterchurch.org “Livin’ the Incredible Mission”
Sunday Evening 5:46 pm Dinner
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL Missouri Synod • 541-382-1832 2550 NE Butler Market Road, 8 am: Contemporary Worship 11 am: Traditional Worship Adult Bible Class & Sunday School - 9:30 am Nursery provided on Sundays School: 2550 NE Butler Mkt. Rd. 541-382-1850 • www.trinity359.tripod.com e-mail: church@saints.org Pastor Robert Luinstra • Pastor David Carnahan All Ages Welcome ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH ELCA Worship in the Heart of Redmond Sunday, April 18 The Mud Springs Band will be at our 10 am service! Children’s Room available during services Come Experience a warm, friendly family of worshipers. Everyone Welcome - Always. A vibrant, inclusive community. A rich and diverse music program for all ages Full Children’s Program Active Social Outreach Coffee, snacks, and fellowship hour after service. M-W-F Women’s Exercise 9:30 am Wednesday - Bible Study at noon 3rd Thursday - Women’s Circle/Bible Study 2:00 pm Youth and Family Programs 1113 SW Black Butte Blvd. Redmond, OR 97756 • 541-923-7466 Pastor Katherine Hellier, Interim www.zionrdm.com
Mennonite THE RIVER MENNONITE CHURCH Sam Adams, Pastor Sunday, 3 pm at the Old Stone Church, 157 NW Franklin Ave., Bend Sunday School 2 years - 5th grade Nursery 0-2 years Visitors welcome Church Office: 541-389-8787 E-mail: theriver@mailshack.com Send to: PO Box 808, Bend OR 97709 www.therivermennonite.org
Nazarene BEND CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 1270 NE 27 St. • 541-382-5496 Senior Pastor Virgil Askren SUNDAY 9:00 am Sunday School for all ages 10:15 am & 5 pm Worship Service 5 pm Hispanic Worship Service Nursery Care & Children’s Church ages 4 yrs–4th grade during all Worship Services “Courageous Living” on KNLR 97.5 FM 8:30am Sunday
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TEMPLE BETH TIKVAH Temple Beth Tikvah is a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. Our members represent a wide range of Jewish backgrounds. We welcome interfaith families and Jews by choice. We offer a wide range of monthly activities including social functions, services, children’s education, Torah study, and adult education Rabbi Alan Berg All services are held at the First United Methodist Church 680 NW Bond Street Friday, April 23 @ 5:30pm please join us to learn about the Jewish Sabbath at Shabbat 101dinner – call for details Rabbi Alan Berg Weekend Friday, May 14 @ 5:30pm Kaballat Shabbat Children’s Service Friday @ 7:30pm Erev Shabbat Service Saturday, May 15 @ 9:30am Torah service Sunday, May 16 @ 1:00pm Presentation on “Dignity with Death Options”
ALFALFA COMMUNITY CHURCH Alfalfa Community Hall 541-330-0593, Alfalfa, Oregon Sunday School 9:30, Worship 10:30 We sing hymns, pray for individual needs, and examine the Bible verse by verse. You can be certain of an eternity with Jesus (Eph. 2:8,9) and you can discover His plan and purpose for your life (Eph. 2:10). We welcome your fellowship with us. CASCADE PRAISE CHRISTIAN CENTER For People Like You! NE Corner of Hwy 20 W. and Cooley Service Times: Sunday, 10 am Wednesday, 7 pm Youth: Wednesday, 7 pm Nursery and children's ministries Home fellowship groups Spirit Filled Changing lives through the Word of God 541-389-4462 • www.cascadepraise.org REDMOND BIBLE FELLOWSHIP Big Sky Conference Center 3732 SW 21st Street, Suite 103 (Next to Color Tile) Expositional, verse by verse teaching with emphasis on Paul’s Epistles. Great fellowship beginning at 10 am, ending at 11:30 every Sunday morning. For more information call Dave at 541-923-5314 or Mark at 541-923-6349
For more information go online to www.bethtikvahbend.org or call 388-8826
SOVEREIGN GRACE CHURCH Meeting at the Golden Age Club 40 SE 5th St., Bend Just 2 blocks SW of Bend High School Sunday Worship 10:00 am Sovereign Grace Church is dedicated to worshipping God and teaching the Bible truths recovered through the Reformation. Call for information about other meetings 541-385-1342 or 541-420-1667
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CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MISSION (LCMS) The mission of the Church is to forgive sins through the Gospel and thereby grant eternal life. (St. John 20:22-23, Augsburg Confession XXVIII.8, 10) 10 am Sunday School 11 am Divine Service
CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER 21720 E. Hwy. 20 · 541-389-8241 Sunday Morning Worship 8:45 AM, 10:45 AM Wednesday Mid-Week Service & Youth Programs 7:00 PM Nursery Care Provided
Friday, May 28 @ 6:00pm Parent and Student lead Shabbat service
The Rev. Willis C . Jenson, Pastor. 8286 11th St (Grange Hall), Terrebonne, OR www.lutheransonline.com/ condordialutheranmission Phone: 541-325-6773
Women’s Bible Study, Tuesday 9:15 a.m. Community Bible Study, Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Men’s Bible Study, Wednesday 7:15 a.m.
The Parable formally known as “The Wicked Vinedressers.” Matthew 21:33-46
(Child care provided on Sundays.) www.nativityinbend.com Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Call 541-385-6421 for information.
GRACE FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH 2265 NW Shevlin Park Road, Bend 541-382-6862
April 18, 2010
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April 18, 2010 Our sermon title is, “Beyond Bend” Preached by: Pastor David C Nagler Ron Werner, Jr. Curt Koland
April 17 - Torah Study 10 am April 18 - Religious Education 10 am April 22 - Book Discussion 5:30 pm April 24 - Torah Service and Bar Mitzvah of Isaac Derman 10 am
We welcome everyone to our services.
Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m. (Child Care Available) Sunday School 10:50 a.m. Education Hour 11:15 a.m.
Pastor Joel LiaBraaten Evangelical Lutheran Church in America www.gflcbend.org
All Are Welcome, Always! Rev. Dr. Steven H. Koski Senior Pastor Sunday Worship “What is the Message of Your Life?” 9:00 am Contemporary 10:45 am Traditional 5:01 pm Poetry Jam Hospitality, Child Care, Programs for all ages at all services
WEDNESDAY 6:30 pm Ladies Bible Study THURSDAY 10:00 am 50+ Bible Study WEEKLY Life Groups Please visit our website for a complete listing of activities for all ages. www.bendnaz.org
Sunday Worship Services: Daybreak Café Service 7:30 am Celebration Services 9:00 am and 10:45 am Wednesday Services High Definition (Adult) 7:00 pm UTurn - Middle School 7:00 pm Children’s Ministries 7:00 pm Thursdays High School (Connection) 6:30 pm
We preach the good news of Jesus Christ, sing great hymns of faith, and search the Scriptures together.
Worship times: 9:00 AM Contemporary Junior Church 9:15 AM (ages Pre-school–5th Grade) 11:00 AM Traditional
Pastor Daniel N. LeLaCheur www.clcbend.com
Presbyterian COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 529 NW 19th Street (3/4 mile north of High School) Redmond, OR 97756 (541) 548-3367 Rev. Rob Anderson, Pastor Rev. Heidi Bolt, Associate Pastor 8:30 am - Contemporary Music & Worship 8:30 am - Church School for Children 10:00 am - Adult Christian Education 11:00 am - Traditional Music & Worship 1:00 pm - Middle School Youth Wednesday: 4:30 pm - Elementary School Program 7:00 pm - Senior High Youth Small Groups Meet Regularly (Handicapped Accessible) www.redmondchurch.org
Wednesday 6:00 pm Contemplative Worship Through the Week: Bible study, musical groups Study groups, fellowship All are Welcome, Always! www.bendfp.org 382 4401
Unitarian Universalist UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS OF CENTRAL OREGON “Diverse Beliefs, One Fellowship” We are a Welcoming Congregation April 18, 2010 Sunday, 11:00 AM “The Message of the Gita”: Mahatma Gandhi called the Bhagavad-Gita “my eternal mother. Whenever I am in difficulty or distress, I seek refuge in her bosom.” We will get a glimpse of this great sacred text of India through an essay Gandhi wrote entitled “The Message of the Gita.” Religious Education and Childcare are provided Everyone Welcome! See our website for more information Meeting place: OLD STONE CHURCH 157 NW FRANKLIN AVE., BEND Mail: PO Box 428, Bend OR 97709 (541) 385-3908
Unity Community UNITY COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL OREGON Join the Unity Community Sunday 10:00 am with Rev. Teri Hawkins Youth Program Provided The Unity Community meets at the Eastern Star Grange 62855 Powell Butte Hwy (near Bend Airport) Learn more about the Unity Community of Central Oregon at www.unitycentraloregon.com or by calling 541-388-1569
United Church of Christ ALL PEOPLES UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Diverse Spiritual Journeys Welcomed. Everyone united by the teachings of Christ. Come worship with us at 10 a.m. The next two meetings are: Sunday, April 18th in Bend, and Sunday, May 2nd in Redmond at the Summer Creek Clubhouse, 3660 SW 29th St. For information on location, directions and possible help with car-pooling, call the church at: 541-388-2230 or, email: prishardin@earthlink.net
United Church of God UNITED CHURCH OF GOD Saturday Services 1:30 pm Suite 204, Southgate Center (behind Butler Market Store South) 61396 S. Hwy. 97 at Powers Rd. 541-318-8329 We celebrate the Sabbath and Holy Days of the Bible as “a shadow of things to come” (Col. 2:16-17) and are committed to preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God (re. Christ’s coming 1000-year rule on earth). Larry J. Walker, Pastor P.O. Box 36, La Pine, OR 97739, 541-536-5227 email: Larry_Walker@ucg.org Web site: www.ucgbend.org Free sermon downloads & literature including The Good News magazine & Bible course
United Methodist FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (In the Heart of Down Town Bend) 680 NW Bond St. / 541-382-1672 *Everyone Is Welcome!* Pastor Thom Larson Sermon title “*Feeding Sheep*” Native American Awareness Sunday Scripture: Rev. 5:11-14 / John 21:1-19 8:30 am Contemporary Service 9:45 am Sunday School for all ages 11:00 am Traditional Service Child care provided on Sunday *During the Week:* Financial Peace University, Womens Groups, Mens Groups, Youth Groups, Quilting, Crafting, Music & Fellowship. Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors Rev. Thom Larson firstchurch@bendumc.org
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A6 Saturday, April 17, 2010 • THE BULLETIN
Benefits, challenges ahead for faces of health debate By David M. Herszenhorn New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — They were the human faces of the nation’s wrenching, yearlong health care debate. Natoma Canfield of Medina, Ohio, sent a letter to President Barack Obama about no longer being able to afford her health coverage, and he read it aloud to a group of insurance executives at the White House. Then Canfield learned she had leukemia, helping Obama illustrate the life-anddeath stakes of the often mindnumbing policy fight. Marcelas Owens, an 11-year-old boy from Seattle, whose mother could not get some treatment for lack of insurance and died at age 27 from pulmonary hypertension, met Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., at a rally and ended up by the president’s side at the bill-signing ceremony. “I don’t want any other kids to go through the pain our family has gone through,” Marcelas said. And Molly Secours, a filmmaker from Nashville, who battled uterine cancer, nearly lost her home because of medical bills — even though she had health insurance. Told that she would need a radical hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Secours said, “I was consumed with the fear that I’ll have to declare bankruptcy.” But if their stories helped the Democrats pass the health care overhaul, a more complicated question is: What will the health care law do for them? Revisiting their cases illustrates both the enormous potential benefits of the new law, which seeks to insure some 32 million people, and also how the complexity of the health system will continue to pose a formidable challenge for patients and health care providers in the months and years ahead.
A starring role Of the cast of Americans who made appearances in the health care debate, Canfield, who is now undergoing chemotherapy and preparing for a bone marrow transplant at the Cleveland Clinic, may have had the biggest role. Her story led Obama to hold a rally in Ohio, not far from her home, which helped secure the vote of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat who had opposed the bill. Then, Canfield’s congressman, Rep. John Boccieri, a freshman Democrat, cited her in announcing that he, too, would support the bill. As it turns out, Canfield’s grave
Prineville Continued from A1 About five years ago, when Crook County was the fastest growing county in the state, Prineville city officials knew they needed more capacity than their current wastewater treatment plant could hold. So they came up with a plan to build a mechanical treatment plant that would clean the wastewater using chemicals. It would also raise prices for customers. Then, the economy slowed, the urgency died away and city officials had some time to rethink what would come next. Klann, who was hired post-boom, started researching. Rather than using chemicals and spending $80 million, Klann thinks he can create wetlands in an environmentally friendly way and at a fraction of the price. “Right now, you don’t see that many people traveling outside of town to visit a community’s wastewater treatment facility,” Klann said. “But we’ve looked outside the box.” He’s hoping a wetland would not only treat the city’s sewer and serve as recreational hot spot, but it would also help put much-needed cold water back into the Crooked River during the summer months. The city owns 560 acres northwest of the city and hopes to turn 280 of those acres into the wetland. Klann said he hopes there will be kiosks explaining the process and the different types of habitat to visitors. He got the idea from the city of La Grande’s Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area. Several Prineville city councilors went with Klann to visit the similar project in La Grande. Councilor Betty Roppe said at a council meeting that the La Grande wetlands were beautiful, and she was amazed by the number of visitors. “When we were there, I think it was the opening day for duck season. … It was flat, with trees, a marsh, walking paths all over,” Roppe said.
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THE FACE AT THE SIGNING Marcelas Owens, left, was on hand as President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law in March. His mother could not get some treatment for lack of insurance and died at age 27 from pulmonary hypertension. Whether the new health care legislation would have prevented her from falling through the cracks is unclear, however.
HEALTH CARE REFORM Mike Levy / New York Times News Service
A LEADING CATALYST Natoma Canfield is a cancer patient at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. During the health debate, President Barack Obama read a letter from her aloud to a group of insurance executives at the White House. She has now been approved for Social Security disability benefits and Medicaid, causing some critics to argue that Democrats exaggerated her case as an example of the need for reform. illness means that her time as one of the roughly 50 million uninsured Americans was brief. In recent days, she was approved for Social Security disability benefits and Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for low-income people. “She is no longer able to work,” said her sister, Connie Anderson. “She has kind of dropped down into a different category.” Supporters of the legislation say that proves one of their main points — the existing system provides little help until catastrophe strikes and, even then, it entails a maze of bureaucracy. But for some critics, the Cleveland Clinic’s quick reassurance that Canfield need not worry about losing her home to medical costs showed that Obama exaggerated her case. On Fox News, Sean Hannity accused Obama of lying about Canfield’s situation. Canfield got a break. Her local hospital, Medina General, was taken over last year by the Cleveland Clinic, a prominent hospital
La Grande Public Works Director Norm Paullus said his city also had a problem with discharging treated sewage. The project to create the city’s 720acre wetlands cost the city about $10 million and has garnered awards from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency. Paullus said visitors from as far away as Saudi Arabia have come to visit the treatment center for research. La Grande’s wetlands are next to wetlands owned by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Like Klann is hoping to do, the city of La Grande funded a portion of its project through grants. It’s quadrupled La Grande’s capacity. “It’s been very successful,” Paullus said. Currently, the city of Prineville’s water is treated in two lagoons and then used during the summer to irrigate the city’s golf course and city-owned pastures. The difficulty and expense with wastewater, Klann said, is getting rid of it. With the wetland, the water would still travel through the lagoons, where it’s treated, and then hit the wetland. From the wetland, about 2 million gallons a day of cold water would eventually seep into the Crooked River, helping the struggling steelhead. Plus, it would cost about $5 million to complete the wetlands compared with about $80 million for a mechanical treatment plant. Klann said it would also help stabilize wastewater rates for customers. Klann said he hopes it becomes a reality within the next three or four years. It’s a solution, Klann said, that takes into account what’s best for the whole community. “The citizens of Prineville own that land, and they own the wastewater treatment plant. It’s not our choice; it’s their choice,” Klann said. Lauren Dake can be reached at 541-419-8074 or at ldake@bendbulletin.com.
system with a sophisticated patient-support structure. In interviews, Canfield and her sister credited the hospital with helping secure government aid. Leukemia is on Social Security’s list of “compassionate allowances” for an expedited disability ruling. Were she not disabled, Canfield could not qualify for Medicaid in Ohio under current rules even though she earned well below the federal poverty limit. That will change as a result of
the new law, which will expand Medicaid in 2014. Between now and then, Ohio residents may benefit from the creation of a high-risk insurance pool, either at the state or national level. While other states already have such programs, Ohio does not. But while the bill provides $5 billion to create or expand such programs, it is not clear how they will work. Premiums are often expensive, and payment rates for providers have not been set. That makes it impossible for a hospital to know if it would be paid more by a high-risk policy or by the state’s existing Hospital Care Assurance Program, which reimburses for care of the uninsured. In the current system, Lyman Sornberger, the executive director of patient financial services at the Cleveland Clinic, said that Canfield had good reason to worry about being forced to sell her
home to pay medical bills. Even with Medicaid paying the hospital bills, Canfield’s sister said she is worried about how she will pay her basic expenses, like property taxes and utility bills.
Through the cracks In the case of Marcelas Owens’ mother, Tiffany Owens, it is unclear that the health care legislation would have prevented her from falling into a gap in coverage. Owens briefly had private insurance through her restaurant management job. But in October 2006, when she could no longer work because she was sick, she lost both her job and her benefits. She applied for Medicaid but was rejected because she had earned too much earlier in the year. She was told to reapply in January, but by then she was hospitalized. Six months later, she was dead. “There was that lapse of time where the sickness was still progressing and there was nothing she could do until she could go
back and reapply again,” said Owens’ mother, Gina Owens. “It’s just crazy that people fall through the cracks.” It is not clear if the new health care law will help when a person’s employment, insurance and health status change so rapidly. Beginning in 2014, low-income Americans who do not qualify for Medicaid could get subsidies to help buy private insurance. But a new system could have pitfalls. For Marcelas himself, the most immediate benefit of the new law may be a provision barring states from cutting Medicaid rolls. Even when his mother was alive, Marcelas and his two sisters were on Medicaid. Under the new law, primary care doctors will be paid higher rates to treat Medicaid patients for at least two years. In Nashville, Molly Secours thought she had the system figured out. She had health insurance from Blue Cross, a house and a film company. But after uterine cancer left her with huge bills, she nearly lost her home. Congress came to the rescue, not with legislation but in the form of Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., who helped her negotiate a new mortgage. Secours joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a news conference at the Capitol in July. She is still paying off some bills to Baptist Hospital, but her home is secure. As someone with a pre-existing medical condition, Secours, under the new law, is assured of being able to find coverage. And as someone who buys her policy on the individual market, she may find better insurance or at least more options. “People like me who have a major diagnosis aren’t going to get turned down because they had cancer,” she said.
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THE BULLETIN • Saturday, April 17, 2010 A7
Obama launches conservation effort By Juliet Eilperin and Scott Wilson The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — President Obama launched the America’s Great Outdoors initiative Friday, an attempt to reshape U.S. conservation policy at a time when the nation is facing new environmental threats but the government is hard-pressed to afford new spending programs. In a brief speech at the Interior Department, Obama said he
District 59 Continued from A1 Huffman’s other challenger, Democrat Will Boettner (pronounced Bitt-ner), says he is running not just for the sake of running. Although he has no opposition in his primary, he says he is already getting his campaign formed. “The party leadership has been very supportive. When I started this, I told them I wouldn’t fall on a grenade for the party, because sometimes they round (candidates) up just to waste the other guy’s money. … I told them that that was not me: I fully intend to win this race.” He said he’s put together campaign advisory committees around the district, which comprises 13,000 square miles and includes Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Sherman, Wasco and Wheeler counties as well as small portions of Deschutes, Clackamas and Marion. “Each county has its own issues, and you can’t just assume that you understand all of them,” he said. “I’ve been out and about, talking to people all over the place.” Boettner is a paleontologist and geologist, but says that’s not why he moved to Fossil, the Wheeler County seat, which was named for the fossil remains in the region. Rather, he came because he and his wife liked Oregon, and she got
Coupons Continued from A1 Coupons from the Internet are the fastest-growing part of the coupon world — their redemption increased 263 percent to about 50 million coupons in 2009, according to the couponprocessing company Inmar. Using coupons to link Internet behavior with in-store shopping lets retailers figure out which ad slogans or online product promotions work best, how long someone waits between searching and shopping, even what offers a shopper will respond to or ignore. The coupons can, in some cases, be tracked not just to an anonymous shopper but to an identifiable person: A retailer could know that Amy Smith printed a 15 percent-off coupon after searching for appliance discounts at bates.com on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and redeemed it later that afternoon at the store. “You can really key into who they are,” said Don Batsford Jr., who works on online advertising for the tax preparation company Jackson Hewitt, whose coupons include search information. “It’s almost like being able to read their mind, because they’re confessing to the search engine what they’re looking for.”
‘Anonymity ... is kind of dead’ While companies once had a slim dossier on each consumer, they now have connected databases exploding with information. And every time a person goes shopping, visits a Web site or buys something, the database gets a little more jammed. “There is a feeling that anonymity in this space is kind of dead,” said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology’s information privacy programs. None of the tracking is visible to consumers. The coupons, for companies as diverse as Ruby Tuesday and Lord & Taylor, are handled by a company called RevTrax, which displays them on the retailers’ sites or on coupon Web sites, not its own site. Even if consumers could figure out that RevTrax was creating the coupons, it does not have a privacy policy on its site — RevTrax says that is because it handles data for the retailers and does not directly interact with consumers. RevTrax can also include retailers’ own client identification numbers (Amy Smith might be client No. 2458230) —
intends to build upon “a breathtaking legacy of conservation that still enhances our lives.” He said the tradition began with Theodore Roosevelt, whom he described as “one of my favorite presidents,” although he added that “I will probably never shoot a bear.” But Obama said the nation’s growing population, pollution and other factors are “putting a rising strain on our lands.” He said government cannot address
WILL BOETTNER Age: 59 Hometown: Fossil Family: married, one child Employment: geologist, paleontologist, consultant, former executive director Oregon Paleo Lands Institute Political, community experience: Chair, Wheeler County Planning Commission; member, Wheeler County Commission on Children and Families a job in Fossil. He said he prefers to think the move was one of destiny rather than convenience. “My license plate in Texas before I came here was “fossil,’” he said. He leads geology tours and consults with ranchers on groundwater issues for a living. He said he is running because he thinks the area needs better and more active representation in Salem. “If I’m elected in this district, I intend on having frequent coffee get-togethers in the cafes in the towns, and come out to the people I represent much more frequently,” he said. Huffman says he spends much of his days driving around the district meeting constituents, and
then the retailer can connect that with the actual person if it wants to, for example, to send a followup offer or a thank-you note. Using coupons also lets the retailers get around Google hurdles. Google allows its search advertisers to see reports on which keywords are working well as a whole but not on how each person is responding to each slogan. “We’ve built privacy protections into all Google services and report Web site trends only in aggregate, without identifying individual users,” Sandra Heikkinen, a spokeswoman for Google, said in an e-mail message.
Skirting privacy guards The retailers, however, can get to an individual level by sending different keyword searches to different Web addresses. Called “destination URLs,” the distinct Web addresses are hidden to the consumer, who usually sees just a Web page with a simple address at the top of it. So clicking on an ad for Jackson Hewitt after searching for “new 2010 deductions” would send someone to a different destination URL than after searching for “Jackson Hewitt 2010,” though the Web pages and addresses might look identical. This data could be coded on a coupon. RevTrax works as closely with image-rich display ads, whose coupons also signal what ad a person saw and on what site. “Wherever we provide a link, whether it’s on search or banner, that thing you click can include actual keywords,” said Rob O’Neil, director of online marketing at Tag New Media, which works with Filene’s. “There’s some trickery.” The companies argue that the coupon strategy gives them direct feedback on how well their marketing is working. Once the shopper prints an online coupon or sends it to his cellphone and then goes to a store, the clerk scans it. The barcode information is sent to RevTrax, which, with the ad agency, analyzes it. “We break people up into teeny little cross sections of who we think they are, and we test that out against how they respond,” said Batsford, who is a partner at 31 Media, an online marketing company. RevTrax can identify online shoppers when they are signed in to a coupon site like Ebates or FatWallet or the retailer’s own site. It says it avoids connecting that number with real people to steer clear of privacy issues, but
conservation issues alone, and he urged private industry, local communities, Native American leaders and volunteers to help protect the outdoors. “Even in times of crisis, we’re called to take the long view to preserve our national heritage — because in doing so we fulfill one of the responsibilities that falls to all of us as Americans, and as inhabitants of this same small planet,” Obama said. “And that is the responsibility that we
are rising to meet today.” A memorandum Obama signed to launch the initiative is short on policy details but sketches out broad goals that the administration hopes to pursue over the next few years: forming coalitions with state and local governments as well as the private sector, encouraging outdoor recreation by Americans, connecting wildlife migration corridors and encouraging the sustainable use of private land.
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Age: 53 Hometown: The Dalles Family: married, eight children, 12
Age: 55 Hometown: The Dalles Family: single, no kids Employment:
grandchildren Employment: developer, property manager, bumper touch-up business owner, former radio station owner Political, community experience: appointed state representative in 2007, reelected in 2008, previously ran unsuccessfully for county commission and school board says he’s proudest of his work helping them deal with government regulators on issues ranging from land use to river access. A former radio station owner, Huffman now is a developer and commercial property manager in The Dalles; he also touches up plastic bumpers for owners of dinged-up cars referred to him by a local Toyota dealership. For his accomplishments, he cites his work in helping form a coalition that helped block a bill that would have reorganized education service districts around the state, and potentially hurt the caliber of the one in Jefferson County. Like Boettner, Huffman is al-
clients can make that match. The retailer can also make that connection when it is offering coupons to its Facebook fans, like Filene’s Basement is doing. “When someone joins a fan club, the user’s Facebook ID becomes visible to the merchandiser,” said RevTrax chief executive and co-founder Jonathan Treiber said. “We take that and embed it in a bar code or promotion code.” “When the consumer redeems the offer in store, we can track it back, in this case, not to the Google search term but to the actual Facebook user ID that was signing up,” he said. Although Facebook does not signal that Amy Smith responded to a given ad, Filene’s could look up the user ID connected to the coupon and “do some more manual-type research — you could easily see your sex, your location and what you’re interested in,” Treiber said. ( O’Neil said Filene’s does not presently do this.) The coupon efforts are na-
business owner Political, community experience: volunteer middleschool electronics teacher, ran unsuccessfully for Wasco Electric Co-op 10 times ready focusing on the November election, saying he doesn’t see much campaign activity from Storkson. On Friday around lunchtime, he was out putting up campaign signs, and feeling pretty optimistic. But he said he expects Boettner to be “a formidable opponent.” The district tilts heavily toward the Republican side. As of last month, Republicans constituted more than 42 percent of the district’s 42,539 registered voters, while Democrats made up about 32 percent. So far, Boettner has raised nearly $1,800. Huffman has raised nearly $8,000 and has $30,000 in the bank. Nick Budnick can be reached at 503-566-2839 or at nbudnick@bendbulletin.com.
scent, but coupon companies say that when they get more data about how people are responding, they can make different offers to different consumers. “Over time,” Treiber said, “we’ll be able to do much better profiling around certain IP addresses, to say, hey, this IP address is showing a proclivity for printing clothing apparel coupons and is really only responding to coupons greater than 20 percent off.” That alarms some privacy advocates. Companies can “offer you, perhaps, less desirable products than they offer me, or offer you the same product as they offer me but at a higher price,” said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director for the United States Public Interest Research Group which has asked the Federal Trade Commission for tighter rules on online advertising. “There really have been no rules set up for this ecosystem.”
Asteroid Continued from A1 President Barack Obama outlined NASA’s new path during a visit to the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. “By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space,” he said. “We’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history.” On the day the president announced the goal, a NASA task force of scientists, engineers and ex-astronauts was meeting in Boston to work on a plan to protect Earth from a cataclysmic collision with an asteroid or a comet.
‘Smarter than the dinosaurs’ NASA has tracked nearly 7,000 near-Earth objects that are bigger than several feet across. Of those, 1,111 are “potentially hazardous asteroids.” Objects bigger than two-thirds of a mile are major killers and hit Earth every several hundred thousand years. Scientists believe it was a 6-milewide asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Landing on an asteroid and giving it a well-timed nudge “would demonstrate once and for all that we’re smarter than the dinosaurs and can avoid what they didn’t,” said White House science adviser John Holdren. Experts don’t have a particular asteroid in mind for the deep-space voyage, but there are a few dozen top candidates, most of which pass within about 5 million miles of Earth. That is 20 times more distant than the moon, which is about 239,000 miles from Earth on average. Most of the top asteroid candidates are less than a quarter-mile across. The moon is about 2,160 miles in diameter. Going to an asteroid could provide clues about the solar system’s formation, because asteroids are essentially fossils from 4.6 billion years ago, when planets first formed,
said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object program at the Jet Propulsion Lab. And an asteroid mission would be a Mars training ground, given the distance and alien locale. “If humans can’t make it to near-Earth objects, they can’t make it to Mars,” said MIT astronautics professor Ed Crawley. Also, asteroids contain such substances as hydrogen, carbon, iron and platinum, which could be used by astronauts to make fuel and equipment — skills that would also be necessary on a visit to Mars. While Apollo 11 took eight days to go to the moon and back in 1969, a typical round-trip mission to a near-Earth asteroid would last about 200 days, Crawley said. That would demand new propulsion and life-support technology. And it would be riskier. Aborting a mission in an emergency would still leave people stuck in space for several weeks. The space agency may need to develop special living quarters, radiation shields or other new technology to allow astronauts to live in deep space so long, said NASA chief technology officer Bobby Braun. Even though an asteroid would be farther than the moon, the voyage would use less fuel and be cheaper because an asteroid has no gravity. The rocket that carries the astronauts home would not have to expend fuel to escape the asteroid’s pull. On the other hand, because of the lack of gravity, a spaceship could not safely land on an asteroid; it would bounce off the surface. Instead, it would have to hover next to the asteroid, and the astronauts would have to spacewalk down to the ground, Yeomans said. Once there, they would need some combination of jet packs, spikes or nets to enable them to walk without skittering off the asteroid and floating away, he said. “You would need some way to hold yourself down,” Yeomans said. “You’d launch yourself into space every time you took a step.”
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U.N. report prompts new investigation of Bhutto assassination By Saeed Shah McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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A Tibetan Buddhist monk leads the way as a man carries a young girl after she was rescued from the rubble in Yushu county, west China’s Qinghai province Friday. Tibetan monks prayed over hundreds of bodies Friday at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the remote mountain town of Jiegu in western China and left at least 1,000 people dead.
Monks, Chinese officials rush to aid quake victims Heavy rescue equipment delayed two days by rain, crowded highway By Anita Chang The Associated Press
JIEGU, China — Tibetan monks in crimson robes dug through earthquake rubble alongside government rescue workers, a startling image for a Chinese region long strained by suspicion and unrest. The central government has poured in troops and equipment to this remote western region, but it is the influential Buddhist monks whom residents trust with their lives — and with their dead. As the death toll climbed to 1,144 late Friday, there was tension and some distrust over the government relief effort, with survivors scuffling over limited aid. “They have a relaxed attitude,” said Genqiu, a 22-year-old monk at the Jiegu monastery, of the government-sent rescue workers. “If someone’s taking their photo then they might dig once or twice.” Since Wednesday’s quakes, government relief efforts have been slowed by heavy traffic on the single main road from the Qinghai provincial capital, 12 hours away. On Friday, heavy equipment finally arrived. “The disaster you suffered is our disaster. Your suffering is
our suffering,” Premier Wen Jiabao said in remarks broadcast repeatedly on state TV. Though the government was reaching out, many residents turned instead to the monks and their traditions, rather than a central authority dominated by the majority Han Chinese. The groups are divided by language — the government has had to mobilize hundreds of Tibetan speakers to communicate with victims — as well as culture and religion. Cultural differences might have contributed to Friday’s sharp rise in the death toll. In a telephone call with The Associated Press on Friday, rescue officials seemed surprised to hear that hundreds of bodies were at the Jiegu monastery, taken there by Buddhist families. The new official death toll was announced hours later. It wasn’t clear whether tensions over the relief effort were driven by longtime suspicions of the government or by the stress of living outside for three days in the freezing air and digging for loved ones with bare hands. Many buildings in the town collapsed in the quakes; countless others are unsafe. Residents of the largely Tibetan town pointed out repeat-
edly that after the series of earthquakes Wednesday, the monks were the first to come to their aid — pulling people from the rubble and passing out their own limited supplies. Tibetans traditionally perform sky burials, which involve chopping a body into pieces and leaving it on a platform to be devoured by vultures. But Genqiu, who like many Tibetans goes by one name, said that would be impossible now. “The vultures can’t eat them all,” he said at Jiegu monastery, where bodies were carefully wrapped in colorful blankets and piled three or four deep on a platform. More than 200 monks chanted in the late afternoon sun in preparation for a mass cremation on a nearby mountaintop Saturday. In two blue government tents stamped “disaster relief,” hundreds of candles burned on a makeshift altar. One monk estimated 1,000 bodies were brought to a hillside clearing in the shadow of the monastery. Gerlai Tenzing said a precise count was difficult because bodies continued to arrive and families had taken some away. Nearby, two men worked to fit two bodies into the back of a taxi. Yushu county, the area impacted by the quakes, is overwhelmingly Tibetan — 93 percent by official statistics, though that does not include Han migrants who
have moved in temporarily to open restaurants, take construction jobs or work in mines. The area largely escaped the unrest that swept the Tibetan plateau in 2008. But authorities have periodically sealed off the area to foreign media and tourists.
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s government said Friday that it would revive its criminal investigation into the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto after a U.N. report blamed the former military-led government of Pervez Musharraf for failing to provide adequate security for her. If it investigates vigorously, the fragile civilian government of Pakistani President Asif Zardari almost certainly would clash with the country’s powerful military and with the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI, and that could hinder Pakistani cooperation with the U.S. against al-Qaida and the Taliban. The U.N. inquiry, released Thursday, called for an investigation into the possible role of the military and its intelligence apparatus in Bhutto’s December 2007 assassination. It also disclosed that Pakistan’s spy agencies had “severely hampered” the initial probe. Zardari, Bhutto’s widower who took over her Pakistan People’s Party after her death and led it to victory in a February 2008 election, has been criticized for supporting the U.N. inquiry. Now his government plans to use the leads and recommendations of the U.N. report to revive a domestic criminal investigation. “The government of the day was responsible first for the criminal neglect in providing security to Benazir Bhutto, and second by hushing up available evidence to cover
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Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto waves to her supporters at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in December 2007. up the crime,” said presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar. “Persons named in the report for negligence or complicity in the conspiracy will be investigated, and cases also brought against them.” Aides to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who led the country from 1999 to 2008, angrily rejected the U.N. findings. Musharraf’s official probe blamed jihadists led by thenPakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud for her murder, an assessment the Bush administration also shared.
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