Bulletin Daily Paper 10/16/10

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Bend company in line for $200K venture prize

“There was so much emotion and conviction behind Manzama, and I am just glad other people recognize that,” said Manzama founder and CEO Peter Ozolin.

By Ed Merriman

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Manzama, a Bend company that developed and sells software that gleans information of interest to lawyers from the Internet, won the votes of Bend Venture Conference investors on Friday — and with it, a potential $200,000 prize. The money is subject to investors’ due diligence on the company.

Rob Kerr The Bulletin

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War atrocity accusations leave families asking how By Elisabeth Bumiller and William Yardley New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Soldiers in a U.S. Army platoon accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport say they took orders from a ringleader who collected body parts as war trophies, were threatened with death if they spoke up and smoked hashish on their base almost daily. Now family members and the military are asking a central question: How could their commanders not know what was going on? “I just don’t understand how this went so far,” said Christopher Winfield, the father of Spc. Adam Winfield, one of the platoon members charged with murder. “I’ve been in management for 20 years; you know what your people are doing.” See Afghanistan / A7

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“It is great to be here as a Bend company, representing Bend, but to come out of this event as a winner is awesome,” said Peter Ozolin, a founder and CEO of Manzama,

whose 10-minute presentation about plans for marketing the company’s software designed to help lawyers get a leg up on the competition won over conference investors. Given the quality of companies with products and ideas competing in the conference, “maybe investing in two or three may not be a bad idea, but this year we will take the $200,000, subject to due diligence,” Ozolin said.

“There was so much emotion and conviction behind Manzama, and I am just glad other people recognize that. I have my money in this business, and my dad has $100,000 invested. That’s an indication of our commitment,” Ozolin said after the company was named conference winner by Bruce Juhola, managing member of the LLC that raises the venture capital prize. See Venture / A6

Geothermal Will rock beneath Newberry’s flank provide energy? Drilling crews hope core samples furnish a clearer picture

Correction In a story headlined “Student fees used to support COCC bond,” which appeared Friday, Oct. 15, on Page A1, information about the donation was incorrect due to incorrect information supplied to The Bulletin by Central Oregon Community College. The $10,000 donation was made with a student government check, and that money was eventually reimbursed by the college. The Bulletin regrets the error.

By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

LA PINE — n clearings on the western flank of Newberry Volcano, drilling crews and geologists are working to get a better picture of the rock thousands of feet below the surface. With two separate projects under way this week, the goal is to determine how geothermal power could be generated by tapping into the hot rocks just outside of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. “We’re going to map the characteristics of the outer flanks of the volcano,” said Brian Johnston, operations manager for Davenport Power’s Newberry Geothermal project. Starting in 2008, Davenport Power drilled two 10,000-foot holes into the layers of rock in the area, searching for a combination of heat and fluid that the company could tap into to generate power. While it found plenty of hot rocks, it didn’t find the necessary fluid or steam to generate power. Now the company has the OK from federal land managers to drill a dozen smaller wells across its leased land to take samples and see if there are other areas that might hold more possibility. See Geothermal / A7

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How it works Enhanced geothermal system 1) Water pumped down from drill injection well. 2) Reservoir of small fractures created using water pressure. 3) Well returns hot water to the surface.

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INDEX 2 Business

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Local

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Classified

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Movies

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Comics

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Obituaries

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Community B1-6

Sports

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Crossword B5, E2

Stocks

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Editorial

Weather

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Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Blaine Williams works on drilling a small test well Friday morning just southwest of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. Geologists will use the well to measure temperatures and take samples of the different rocks up to 3,500 feet below the surface.

Source: Department of Energy Anders Ramberg / The Bulletin

In foreclosure avalanche, judges face choice: speed or skepticism By Brady Dennis The Washington Post

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In a cramped, makeshift courtroom, Broward County Judge Victor Tobin was signing off on uncontested foreclosure cases as fast as a clerk could keep them coming, only a few seconds per file. “Batter up,” he said as he finished one stack and eyed the next. With scores of cases remaining on the day’s “rocket docket” earlier this week and tens of thousands more awaiting judgment in this court- Inside house, there • Beware was little time buying in the to pause. foreclosure On the other market, side of the state, Page C3 in a Sarasota County courtroom, another judge on a recent day was taking a dramatically different tack. Impatient with attorneys for lenders trying to seize hundreds of homes, fed up with their sloppy paperwork and errant practices, Judge Harry Rapkin dismissed 61 foreclosure cases in that single day — a quarter of those awaiting his approval. While the plaintiffs could refile, it would mean hefty fees and significant delay. These two approaches — one focused on speed, one brimming with skepticism — represent the choice confronting judges in Florida, with its backlog of a half-million cases, and increasingly across the United States as reports of problems with foreclosure filings mount. Judges in Florida are under pressure to clear their foreclosure dockets; the state’s crippled real estate market and its lagging economy cannot recover until cases work their way through the courts. Earlier this year, Florida’s legislature allocated $9.6 million to help speed up the processing of foreclosures. Much of that money went to pay retired judges and case managers to help shoulder the load and quickly dispose of cases in special foreclosure courts. But the recent reports about flawed and fraudulent filings — and a series of announcements by large lenders that they are freezing foreclosures — have given pause to some judges. See Choice / A6

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With billions on the line, GM strives to teach U.S. of Volt By Mark Phelan Detroit Free Press

DETROIT — The 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric car has taken the first lap of its public introduction, as General Motors launches

an intensive campaign to explain the unique car, set to go on sale in November, to buyers. The Volt is a multibillion-dollar bet. From the day work on it began in mid-2006, GM saw the

Volt as its best hope to reshape the company’s image. The car would combine the pollutionfree operation of earlier electric vehicles with the freedom and cruising range of conventional

gasoline cars. Success with the Volt would shatter the image of GM as a low-tech laggard. That mission is more important than ever today. The Volt is vital as GM tries to regain the

public’s trust, convince skeptics it deserved government assistance and attract investors to its first post-bankruptcy stock offering later this year. See Volt / A6


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