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A girl was expelled. So what next?

Situation in Bend highlights school policies — basically, that education doesn’t just end when expulsion begins

Wounded at war, Madras man fights on 23-year-old is recovering in D.C. area, but a life of struggles is likely ahead

By Keith Chu The Bulletin

Ryan Craig

WASHINGTON — Army Sgt. Ryan James Craig, of Madras, was protecting a fellow soldier in Afghanistan last month when he was shot in the

head and, somehow, lived.

He is a hero, his family says.

“I don’t know how you could be more proud,” said his mother, Jennifer Miller. She spoke by phone from the National Naval Medical Center

in Bethesda, Md., where Craig is being treated for severe head and brain trauma. She’s been there since he arrived Nov. 28, and she plans on staying by his side for several months as he recovers — though his injuries

might cause permanent damage.

Family described Craig as a walking encyclopedia, an athlete, an adventurer, a fisherman, a by-the-book kind of guy.

He joined the Army at 19, following in the footsteps of his older brother Steven, who serves in the Navy, said Miller, a medical assistant in Redmond.

See Craig / A4

‘Crazy’ with the lights once more

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

Several weeks ago, a letter went out to Cascade Middle School students explaining an afternoon bus ride gone awry.

According to the letter and a news release from the Bend Police Department, a 13-year-old boy riding the bus home from school was stabbed with an X-Acto-style knife by a 13-year-old girl. The boy was evaluated by paramedics and received a small bandage to cover the wound; the girl, who was enrolled in a district program for those who have been expelled, was arrested on charges of second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon and lodged in Deschutes County Juvenile Detention.

There was no serious injury, but the event raises the questions of what happens when students get violent and just how many chances they get to show they’re capable of going to school in a mainstream setting.

See Expelled / A7

A scientific first: Decoded DNA reveals diagnosis and treatment

By Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Doctors and scientists in Wisconsin have published the first detailed account of a groundbreaking medical case in which they sequenced all the genes of a very sick young boy and used the information to treat the child.

Genetic experts said the Wisconsin case signals a new era in medicine in which doctors will be able to read our genetic script to diagnose and sometimes treat maladies, especially cancers and rare hereditary diseases.

The boy, of Monona, Wis., suffered from a disease and mutation never before seen in medicine.

When he ate, painful holes called fistulas would open, leading from his intestine to his skin. The child, now 6, became so sick that doctors had to remove his colon in 2009.

In a paper published online Friday in the journal Genetics in Medicine, doctors and scientists at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin described how they were able to read the boy’s genetic script in 2009 and pinpoint the mutation responsible for his disease.

See DNA / A5

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Damien Bevando’s home is at 1154 Redfield Circle, about three-quarters of the way up Awbrey Butte. He encourages people to drive by and check out his handiwork. Bevando, pictured below, puts up all of his lights at night to better monitor his progress. He expects to spend about 100 hours putting up the display this year — and another 40 hours taking it down and packing away his decorations.

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This year, as he has most years since 2002, Bevando got started decorating just after Thanksgiving. As of Saturday, he had multiple nativity scenes, herds of mechanical reindeer, trees, snowmen, presents and more in a display that spills over into the yards of his neighbors on both sides — and still has dozens of strings of lights in the basement waiting to go up.

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Today the military, tomorrow marriage?

‘Don’t ask’ repeal caps a landmark year for gay rights

By Robin Abcarian Los Angeles Times

In an era when gay Americans have seen stunning progress and many setbacks in their quest for equality under the law, many believe 2010 will go down in history as a watershed that will lead inexorably to more legal rights.

Saturday’s vote in the Senate to al-

low the repeal of the federal law banning gays from openly serving in the military is “one of the greatest, if not the greatest, victory in the history of the movement for gay and lesbian equality,” said Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, a University of California-Santa Barbara think tank that studies the military issue. “Going

back thousands of years, the marker of a first-class citizen has always been someone who’s been allowed to serve in the military.”

Most countries that allow gay marriage, he added, lifted their military bans on gays first.

Still, the wrangling in the halls of Congress, in courts and at ballot boxes about how gays are treated shows no sign of abating anytime soon.

See Gays / A5

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Bulletin wire reports WASHINGTON — In a historic vote for gay rights, the Senate agreed Saturday to do away with the military’s 17-year ban on openly gay troops and sent President Barack Obama legislation to overturn the Clinton-era policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Obama was expected to sign the bill into law this week, although changes to military policy probably wouldn’t take effect for at least several months. Under the bill, the president and top military advisers must first certify that lifting the ban won’t hurt troops’ ability to fight. After that, the military would undergo a 60-day wait period.

Repeal would mean that, for the first time in U.S. history, gays would be openly accepted by the armed forces and could acknowledge their sexual orientation without fear of being kicked out. More than 13,500 have been dismissed under the 1993 law.

“It is time to close this chapter in our history,” Obama said in a statement. “It is time to recognize that sacrifice, valor and integrity are no more defined by sexual orientation than they are by race or gender, religion or creed.”

The Senate voted 65-31 to pass the bill, with eight Republicans siding with 55 Democrats and two independents in favor of repeal.

The House had passed an identical version of the bill, 250-175, earlier this week.

Supporters hailed the Senate vote as a major step forward for gay rights. Many activists hope integrating openly gay troops within the military will lead to greater acceptance in the civilian world, as it did for blacks after President Harry Truman’s 1948 executive order on equal treatment regardless of race in the military.

“The military remains the great equalizer,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. “... We’ll someday look back and wonder what took Washington so long to fix it.”

Sen. John McCain, Obama’s Republican rival in 2008, led the opposition. Speaking on the Senate floor minutes before a crucial test vote, he acknowledged he couldn’t stop the bill. He blamed elite liberals with no military experience for pushing their social agenda on troops during wartime.

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Next: Pentagon review How the military will implement a change in policy and how long that will take remain unclear.

Senior Pentagon officials have said the new policy could be rolled out incrementally, service by service or unit by unit. In a statement, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will begin the certification process immediately.

The fate of “don’t ask, don’t tell” had been far from certain earlier this year when Obama called for its repeal in his State of the Union address, but Gates ordered a yearlong study on the impact of repeal, including a survey of troops and their families. The study, released Nov. 30, found that two-thirds of service members didn’t think changing the law would have much of an effect. But of those who did predict negative consequences, most were assigned to combat arms units.

The Republicans who voted for repeal said the Pentagon study and assurances from senior military leaders played a crucial role.

They were Richard Burr of North Carolina, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, George Voinovich of Ohio, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, John Ensign of Nevada, and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine.

(Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was heavily criticized in the blogosphere Saturday as being the only Democrat to miss votes on “don’t ask” and the Dream Act, two highly anticipated actions of Congress’ lame-duck session. The absence of Manchin, who was sworn into office last month and had voiced his opposition to both measures, stood in contrast to the presence of another Democrat, Oregon’s Ron Wyden, who despite a recent diagnosis of prostate cancer made it in for Saturday’s votes.

Wyden is scheduled to undergo surgery Monday.)

At least 25 countries allow gays to serve openly in the armed forces, among them Britain, Canada and Israel, according to the Palm Center, a research institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

U.N. powers to meet as South Korea plans drills The Associated Press

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Retired Navy Cmdr. Zoe Dunning, center, celebrates with supporters in San Francisco the Senate’s vote to abolish the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which for 17 years has forced gay and lesbian members of the armed forces to keep hidden their sexual orientation. For Dunning, the vote ended a long struggle that included two military discharge hearings after she declared she was gay.

Dream Act’s death a blow to Obama’s immigration efforts The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students was a painful setback to an emerging movement of young immigrants and also appeared to leave the immigration policy of the Obama administration, which has supported the bill and the movement, in disarray.

The bill, known as the Dream Act, gained only 55 votes in favor, though from members of both parties. The result, not unexpected, was still a rebuff to President Barack Obama by newly empowered Republicans in Congress on an issue he has called one of his priorities. The bill, tailored to benefit only college-bound immigrants brought here illegally when they were children, was regarded as the easiest piece to pass of a larger overhaul of immigration laws that Obama supports. Experts estimated that about 1.2 million immigrants would have taken advantage of the legislation.

Treaty with Russia survives first vote The Senate on Saturday beat back the most serious Republican effort to block approval of a new arms control treaty with Russia this year, after Obama reassured law-

More GOP support for 9/11 health bill

New York Times News Service

Supporters of the Dream Act console each other after watching the Senate block the bill Saturday on Capitol Hill. makers it would not constrain American plans to build a missile defense system in Europe.

Lawmakers rejected 59-37 an amendment to strip language from the treaty preamble that, despite Obama’s denial, critics had argued could inhibit missile defense. Democrats considered the amendment a treaty killer because any change would require the U.S. and Russia to go back to the negotiating table.

Supporters needed only a majority to defeat the amendment but fell short of the twothirds they will need for final approval, suggesting they may need to satisfy the concerns of as many as eight senators who voted for the amendment.

The treaty, signed in April

by Obama and Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev, would limit each country’s nuclear arsenal to 1,550 warheads, down from the current limit of 2,200.

Sponsors of a stalled 9/11 health bill have won new Republican support. The bill provides care to workers and others who became ill at the site of the World Trade Center attack in 2001.

But with Congress trying to adjourn before Christmas, time is running short. Leaders said it could be considered after debate over the nuclear treaty concludes.

— From wire reports

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — South Korea’s military waited for better weather to hold live-fire drills that the North warned would cause it to retaliate, but the high tensions prompted the U.N. Security Council to schedule an emergency meeting at Russia’s request.

The one-day firing drills are planned on the same front-line island the North shelled last month as the South’s military conducted similar drills. The military’s position to hold the drills remains unchanged, a Defense Ministry official said, indicating they could take place on either Monday or Tuesday.

The North’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that South Korea would face an unspecified “catastrophe” if the drills take place, in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

The North also said it would strike harder than before.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry urged South Korea to cancel to avoid escalating tensions.

The Security Council scheduled emergency closed-door consultations on North Korea for this morning at Russia’s request.

Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said his government believes the Security Council must send “a restraining signal” to North Korea and help launch diplomatic actions to resolve all disputes between the Koreas.

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Iraqis doubt U.S. presence after 2011 New York Times News Service

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Julian Assange gives two thumbs up as he gets back into a car Friday at an English police station, where he was complying with bail conditions.

Police report leaks details of case against Assange

By John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya New York Times News Service

LONDON — Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy organization who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Assange’s legal troubles. The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August when Assange had what he has called consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women. Their accounts form the basis of an extradition case against Assange.

Conspiracy, supporters of Assange have said, is the explanation for what they described as an improbable coincidence — that he should be facing potential criminal charges just as he is taking on the U.S. government. These critics have pointed to Swedish prosecutors’ flip-flopping on whether to bring charges.

But the police report bolsters, to some degree, the women’s assertions that they were not put up to the charges by enemies of Assange as well as prosecutors’ claims that the reversal was quite normal. They say it resulted from different levels of prosecutors having different opinions on the seriousness of the allegations. The report was obtained by The New York Times and translated from the original Swedish.

Bank stops WikiLeaks payments Bank of America Corp. has joined several other financial institutions in refusing to handle payments for WikiLeaks. The bank’s move adds to similar actions by MasterCard Inc. and PayPal Inc. Though previous moves have prompted reprisals by hackers, Bank of America’s site is as well-protected as they come, security experts say. Its site was problem-free through midafternoon Saturday.

In a tweet, WikiLeaks asked that “all people who love freedom close out their accounts at Bank of America.”

— From wire reports

BAGHDAD — The protracted political turmoil that saw the resurgence of a fiercely anti-American political bloc here is casting new doubt on establishing any enduring U.S. military role in Iraq after the last of nearly 50,000 troops is scheduled to withdraw in the next 12 months, military and administration officials say.

Given Iraq’s military shortcomings, U.S. and Iraqi officials had long expected that some U.S. military presence, even if only in an advisory role, would continue beyond 2011. That is the deadline for a troop withdrawal negotiated under George W. Bush more than three years ago and adhered to by President Barack Obama.

Even as contingency planning for any lasting American mission has

quietly continued in Baghdad and at the Pentagon, however, the shifting political landscape in both countries has made it increasingly possible that the 2011 withdrawal could truly be total, the officials said.

The military and administration officials emphasized in interviews that the White House had made no final decision on whether any troops might remain beyond the scheduled withdrawal — and that it would not consider one unless asked by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government.

The question is so politically delicate — here and in Washington — that officials would speak only on condition of anonymity.

“Maliki can’t start asking right now for a large, extended American footprint,” a senior administration

official said. “... It would introduce a hugely controversial issue just when he doesn’t need it.”

Closer to a government Iraq did move one step closer to finally forming a government Saturday as lawmakers overturned a contentious decision banning three prominent Sunnis from national politics.

The vote in Parliament helped to resolve a furor that erupted nearly a year ago, after an Iraqi panel sought to disqualify hundreds of Sunni Arab candidates from elections because of their alleged ties to Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. Lifting the ban should help to cement the participation of a large Sunni-backed political alliance in Iraq’s fragile unity government.

The U.S. is planning a reduction of troops and bases, which will begin in earnest by spring and is to reach zero by this time next year. Those plans have been complicated by the uncertainty over what troops will replace them — or whether any will at all.

After elections in March led to a protracted period of deadlock and deal-making, al-Maliki now leads an unwieldy coalition with parties pursuing conflicting agendas, including lawmakers allied with Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric in exile whose fighters actively battled against American and Iraqi forces until they were routed in 2008. Their new partnership, which propelled al-Maliki’s nomination to a second term, will make it politically risky for him to now reverse himself.

Reassuring hands: U.S. crew’s flight into the Afghan desert

By C.J. Chivers

An American medical evacuation crew recently transported Bibi-Shakira, an Afghan woman in labor, and her husband to a hospital near Kandahar.

U.S. choppers and medevac crews at small Afghan outposts help wounded soldiers but often aid Afghan civilians.

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WILSON, Afghanistan — Beneath the blanket, the veiled Afghan woman slid her feet along the stretcher toward her hips, causing her knees to rise. She was in labor, with contractions two minutes apart, seeking a comfortable position in a military helicopter as it rushed over the desert below. Her baby was in a breech position, lodged in the birth canal.

The crew did not know her name, nor that of her husband, who was sitting nearby. The soldiers knew this: She had been in labor almost nine hours, and the intensity with which she clutched Charles Williams, a flight medic, suggested worry and pain.

“She’s clamping on my hand like she’s about to tear it off,” the specialist said into his helmet’s microphone.

For a Black Hawk crew and an Afghan woman in a life-threatening labor, a fast and roaring flight this month was a tour of separate worlds, and of both the promise and the difficulties when these worlds meet.

The poverty and absence of medical services in rural Kandahar province are nearly total. Since last summer, there has been another possibility.

U.S. helicopters and medical evacuation crews have been positioned in small outposts along the river. The helicopters have been assigned away from the large airfield at Kandahar to reduce flight times for wounded

Tyler Hicks New York Times News Service

troops to reach trauma care. But a patient is a patient.

On Dec. 11, the mission assignment came to a tent at Forward Operating Base Wilson, where medics waited for its next call. It was just past 1:25 p.m. The flight to pick up the pregnant woman was approved.

The patient was about 30 miles away, in the desert south of Khakrez.

Sgt. Patrick Schultz, the senior flight medic, issued instructions, wondering how to balance medical

and cultural demands.

At 1:45 p.m., the helicopter descended and landed. The soldiers quickly loaded the woman and her husband then took off for Kandahar.

Williams gestured to the woman’s husband to get permission to lift her veil and put on an oxygen mask.

Schultz started an IV on her left arm.

At 2:07 p.m., the helicopter settled onto a landing pad beside the Afghan National Army’s hospital. The medics escorted the woman inside.

Upon arrival, the military said, the Afghan woman had refused treatment and asked to be transferred to Mirwais Hospital, the hospital corun by Afghans and the Red Cross, in Kandahar. Registration records at Mirwais seemed to tell much of the rest. Late in the day, a man named Karimullah Jan had arrived with his wife, Bibi-Shakira, who needed a surgical delivery. A caesarean was performed at about 6 p.m. It was successful. Her baby, a boy, was healthy.

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Craig Continued from A1 A few years ago, both brothers were deployed to Iraq at the same time, to the worry of their mom and sister, Katie Christensen.

“It was pretty rough,” said Christensen, 20. “You check the names every day.”

This time, Craig, 23, deployed to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division on Oct. 20.

He called home just after landing in Logar province, a rocky region on the Pakistan border, Miller said.

“He said where he was at, it was actually pretty, and it was mountainous, and it made him feel like he was home,” she said. “They were supposed to be going around to civilians ... and knock on doors and that kind of stuff.”

Craig called his mom again on Nov. 16, her birthday.

“He called … to wish me happy birthday, and tell me he loved me and missed me,” Miller said.

On Nov. 17, he told Miller he’d be leaving for a few weeks on a patrol, and that she shouldn’t worry if she didn’t hear from him for a while.

Two days later, Craig was shot.

How to help Donations may be made to Sgt. Ryan Craig and his mother, Jennifer Miller, at Bank of the Cascades. Miller’s co-workers at Redmond Family Medical Center established the account.

pieces of his skull to allow for brain swelling. He was then flown to a military hospital in Germany.

Miller met him there, where they stayed for nine days, until they were flown to the states on a C-17 transport plane.

“It is amazing that he is even still here,” Miller said.

Even big brother Steven was impressed.

“When we heard the story and they told us about Ryan, he just looked at me and he said, ‘I can’t believe my little brother has more cojones than I do,’” Miller said.

Craig’s outlook

Miller said her family has received an outpouring of support from friends and co-workers. Her employer has been understanding about her need to take months off to be by Craig’s side.

“You don’t even know how blessed I am,” Miller said.

What happened It’s still too early to know for The military’s incident report sure, but doctors told Miller the was not immediately available injuries will probably cause per— Miller has not seen it either, she manent damage. Craig will have said — but other soldiers related to relearn some everyday tasks. what happened to Miller: He could have trouble managing While on patrol near a small his finances. His personality may village, Craig’s group of soldiers have changed. He’ll need care for came under attack, a long time. and one man was Craig underwent injured. Craig stayed “He always had several surgeries — close by, laying the motto that most recently this down covering fire, past week, after he while other soldiers he would not began running a dragged the man to let his soldiers fever and doctors safety. found an abscess in “He would have and his battle his brain, Miller said. done it as many buddies down.”

On Friday, though, times as he needed the fever had subsidto, and that’s how — Jennifer Miller, ed and he appeared Ryan was,” Miller Ryan Craig’s mother to be doing better, said. “He always had Miller said. the motto that he (Military public would not let his soldiers and his relations officials would not grant battle buddies down.” access to The Bulletin to the mediChristensen said it’s always cal center in Bethesda, although been his nature to help others. visitors are allowed with the per“He has always been there, mission of family members.) and he’s like my protector,” Craig can’t talk and breathes Christensen said. “He just cares through a tube, Miller said, but he more about people than he does was conscious. He even smiled. himself.”

His sister knew how to make Another soldier was shot, and him laugh.

Craig again ran to protect the “I told him if he didn’t stick his wounded man. tongue out by my birthday (toThen a large-caliber bullet day), I would paint his toenails sliced through Craig’s helmet. pink,” Christensen said.

The bullet, according to Miller, Because of that laugh, Miller entered the frontal lobe of Craig’s said, “it’s a good day.” brain and shattered, causing a wave of damage.

Keith Chu can be Craig was taken to a field hos- reached at 202-662-7456 or pital, where doctors removed at kchu@bendbulletin.com.

Did faith cost him a job?

Scientist says yes, and sues

By Mark Oppenheimer New York Times News Service

In 2007, C. Martin Gaskell, an astronomer at the University of Nebraska, was a leading candidate for a job running an observatory at the University of Kentucky.

But then somebody did what one does nowadays: an Internet search. That search turned up evidence of Gaskell’s evangelical Christian faith.

The University of Kentucky hired someone else. And Gaskell sued the institution.

Whether his faith cost him the job and whether certain religious beliefs may legally render people unfit for certain jobs are among the questions raised by the case, Gaskell v. University of Kentucky.

In late November, a federal judge in Kentucky ruled that the case could go forward, and a trial is scheduled for February. The case represents a rare example, experts say, of a lawsuit by a scientist who alleges academic persecution for his religious faith.

Both sides agree that Gaskell, 57, was invited to the university, in Lexington, for a job interview. In his lawsuit, he says that at the end of the interview, Michael Cavagnero, the chairman of the physics and astronomy department, asked about his religious beliefs.

Federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion, so interviewers typically do not ask about an applicant’s faith. Depositions and e-mails submitted as evidence suggest why Cavagnero may have raised the issue with Gaskell.

For the plaintiff, the smoking gun is an e-mail dated Sept. 21, 2007, from a department staff member, Sally Shafer, to Cavagnero and another colleague. Shafer wrote that she did a Web search on Gaskell and found links to his notes for a lecture that explores, among other topics, how the Bible

could relate to contemporary astronomy. “Clearly this man is complex and likely fascinating to talk with,” Shafer wrote, “but potentially evangelical. If we hire him, we should expect similar content to be posted on or directly linked from the department website.”

In his deposition, Cavagnero recalled reading Shafer’s e-mail and said he discussed Gaskell’s faith with the department chairman at the University of Nebraska, where Gaskell worked at the time.

Cavagnero also said a colleague, Moshe Elitzur, worried that Gaskell “had outspoken public views about creationism and evolution.”

Elitzur, in his deposition, said he feared that bad publicity could arise from bringing Gaskell to the university, which is less than 100 miles from the Creation Museum, in Petersburg, Ky. “There’s no way you can avoid the headline in The Herald-Leader saying ‘U.K. hires a creationist for public outreach,’” Elitzur remembered saying.

Referring to Shafer’s concern that Gaskell was “potentially evangelical,” Francis Manion, Gaskell’s lawyer, said: “I couldn’t have made up a better quote. ‘We like this guy, but he is potentially Jewish’? ‘Potentially Muslim’?”

Gaskell has written that “there are significant scientific problems in evolutionary theory (a good thing or else many biologists and geologists would be out of a job.)”

And in the lecture notes Shafer found online, Gaskell tried to reconcile the creation account in Genesis with recent astronomical findings. Gaskell, however, said he accepted standard evolutionary science. In e-mail responses to questions, he said he was not a creationist and did not deny the theory of evolution.

For its part, the University of Kentucky says it chose another candidate based on “bona fide occupational qualifications.”

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U.N. PEACEKEEPERS ORDERED OUT OF TROUBLED IVORY COAST Ivorian troops stand guard during a youth rally in the city of Abidjanon on Saturday.

Laurent Gbagbo, the man who refuses to step down from the presidency, ordered thousands of U.N. peacekeepers to leave his country immediately, calling the global body that has endorsed his political rival an “agent of destabilization.”

The move was the latest act of defiance by Gbagbo, who has been in power since 2000 and maintains he is the rightful winner of last month’s runoff vote in the West African nation, despite growing international pressure on him to concede defeat.

The statement read on state television came just two days after as many as 30 people were killed in street violence in Ivory Coast. Earlier Saturday, masked gunmen opened fire on the U.N. base; no one from the U.N. was harmed in the attack.

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In redistricting, South, West and GOP are set to benefit

By Les Blumenthal McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Sun Belt states and those in the West are expected to gain even more political clout when the Census Bureau announces Tuesday which states will gain congressional seats and which will lose them.

Among the likely winners are Washington state, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, South Carolina and Utah. The likely losers are such Rust Belt states as Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania,

DNA Continued from A1 “For the patient and his family, it’s a benefit and something we all feel really good about,” said Howard Jacob, one of the paper’s authors and director of the Medical College’s Human and Molecular Genetics Center. “It demonstrates that this technology can start being used in the clinic today.”

The case is believed to be one of the first in the world in which the sequencing of a patient’s DNA has led to a diagnosis and treatment — though a team at Yale University may have accomplished the feat earlier, using a similar technique to diagnose a baby in Turkey born with congenital chloride diarrhea.

“Everyone’s talking the talk about personalized medicine, and this is a real example. We don’t have too many of those,” said Richard Gibbs, director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

A sea of 21,000 genes The Wisconsin case shows how, with a patient’s life at stake, doctors, geneticists and computer experts can work together to make sense out of the vast ocean of information in our 21,000 genes.

“It seems like every month now there’s a publication like this that demonstrates the power of this technology,” said Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

“The novelty of this story is that

New Jersey, New York and Ohio.

While it may be an insider’s game, the political stakes are high. Every 10 years since 1787, the census has determined how many House seats each state will have. The 435 seats in the House will be divvied up among the 50 states based on population figures collected in the decennial census.

If the projections hold true, it could be good news for Republicans, according to some political analysts. Rust Belt states have

trended Democratic, while Republicans have done well across the South and into the Southwest.

“It’s impossible to see how Republicans don’t pick up a dozen or more House seats,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

Experts cautioned that until the census figures are released and the states draw up their congressional boundaries, it’s all a guess.

But it fits with a trend that’s been under way since the 1940s.

it was done in real time to help make a decision about clinical management.”

As a result of sequencing, the Wisconsin scientists learned the boy had a defect in his immune system caused by a single mutation in a gene called XIAP. The mutation also caused a second extremely rare disease called XLP, which affects just 400 boys worldwide, rendering them unable to survive Epstein-Barr virus.

Doctors had not previously known the child had XLP, which can be treated with a bone marrow transplant. In mid-July, the boy received an umbilical cord blood transplant, which is similar to a bone-marrow transplant. He left the hospital in October.

to make proteins correctly causes many diseases. The sequencing and analysis of the Wisconsin child’s exons cost roughly $75,000 in 2009, though the cost in a couple of years should be $1,000, Jacob said.

Even when doctors decided to sequence all of the boy’s genes using this more efficient technique, the task was not simply a matter of waiting for a machine to spit out an answer. Initially, they got a list of 16,124 potential answers — differences between his genetic script and the reference genome that is used as a yardstick of what is “normal.”

The Wisconsin researchers developed a software program to help them weed out harmless variations. The child’s DNA was run through the sequencing machine five times to reduce the chances of missing a mutation.

Researchers also consulted the medical literature on many genes and the latest database of genetic variations. They were able to drop their list of potential suspects to 32, then to eight and finally to one, XIAP, a gene involved in regulating the immune system. Scientists then ran two tests of the boy’s cells in order to confirm that the XIAP mutation caused his illness.

Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., called the Wisconsin case “impressive” and said he believes more institutions will use sequencing in the practice of medicine.

“You can just see it taking off,” Topol said. “There will be hundreds of these in the next few years, if not much more.”

DNA breakthroughs As the doctors point out in their commentary, the new case underscores how the fast-moving revolution in technology is driving breakthroughs in genomics.

“The tools available to make this diagnosis,” they write, “were not available when the child first (was hospitalized) four years ago.”

Before deciding to sequence his DNA, doctors conducted dozens of tests on individual genes and on his immune system. Yet they were unable to reach a diagnosis.

In Wisconsin, as in the Yale case, scientists decided against sequencing the patient’s entire genome, all 3.2 billion chemical base pairs. Instead, they read a little more than 1 percent of the genome, the exons. Exons, part of every gene, carry the instructions for making proteins. The failure

Gays Continued from A1 “All social justice movements are two steps forward, three steps back,” said Fred Sainz, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay-rights group.

“It’s always been a lot of highs and sometimes more lows, but the highs tend to be more momentous than the lows.”

Social conservatives, though disappointed with the Senate vote, disagree there is a link between the military and marriage altogether. “It’s a tragic day for America,” said Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, “but I don’t think this will really affect the marriage issue very much. It’s been rejected by voters in 31 states.”

The scorecard Indeed, the most important victories for gays have been won this year in the courts and Congress, rather than among the electorate.

In July, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional.

The Obama administration supported the statute, saying it is obligated to defend federal laws even though President Barack Obama has called it “abhorrent.”

In August, a federal judge ruled that Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban passed by California voters, is unconstitutional. The ruling is on hold pending appeal.

And in September, another federal judge ruled the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law unconstitutional in response to a lawsuit brought by the gay group Log Cabin Republicans.

“The momentum in America,” said Evan Wolfson, executive director of the national advocacy organization Freedom to Marry, is “toward the freedom to marry and ending unfair treatment of gay people.”

Gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia. Oregon is one state that constitutionally has banned same-sex marriage but allows for domestic partnerships.

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“All social justice movements are two steps forward, three steps back. It’s always been a lot of highs and sometimes more lows, but the highs tend to be more momentous.”

— Fred Sainz, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign Wolfson noted that 40 percent of Americans now live in states where some form of marriage or civil union for gay couples is recognized.

Although many in the gay community have accused Obama of being slow and inconsistent on the issue, his administration has supported a number of legislative and policy advancements on behalf of gay Americans. Those include a hate crimes law that would allow federal prosecution of crimes where a victim is targeted because of sexual orientation or sexual identity, such as transgender.

The administration also extended certain benefits to partners of federal employees, recognized same-sex marriage certificates for the purposes of name changes on passports and gave hospital visitation protections to the samesex partners of patients on Medicare and Medicaid, among other things.

But those who oppose gay marriage also scored important victories.

In Iowa, three state Supreme Court justices who joined in a unanimous ruling that legalized gay marriage in 2009 were ousted by voters in November. National groups, including the Family Research Council, the American Family Association and the National Organization for Marriage, were deeply involved in the effort.

This month, several Republican lawmakers in Iowa said they would try to impeach the four other justices who joined the ruling. And in New Hampshire, a legislator has introduced a bill to overturn the state’s same-sex marriage law.

A bright spot for social con-

servatives has been the failure of Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity for civilian, nonreligious employers.

“Having failed to do that in this Congress, its chances in the new Congress will be even less,” Sprigg said.

Shift in public opinion But gay-rights advocates remain encouraged.

“This is the first year in which we saw not one, but two polls showing the majority of Americans nationwide support the freedom to marry,” Wolfson said.

Fifteen years ago, little more than a quarter of Americans supported same-sex marriage.

Much of the shift reflects generational differences.

“Anyone born after 1980 has a large number of positive cultural references out there,” said R. Clarke Cooper, 38, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans and an Iraq combat veteran.

For him, the generational divide was exemplified in a meeting with an older, conservative House member: “He sat down, shut his door and said, ‘When did you become a gay, Clarke?’ I laughed and said, ‘Well, Congressman, I have always been that way.’ He said, ‘You don’t look it.’”

Chad Griffin, president of the board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, said he’ll celebrate the likely demise of “don’t ask, don’t tell” — for five minutes.

“Gay and lesbian people are the last class of people in America that are actively discriminated against, overtly and directly in our state and federal laws, and a tremendous amount of progress was made in 2010 in knocking down that overt discrimination,” Griffin said. “Having said that, there is a long way to go.”

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Expelled Continued from A1 So far this school year, 49 students have been expelled from Bend-La Pine Schools, a district with more than 16,000 students.

Of those expelled, 23 had hearings, and 26 waived them. Bob Jones, who oversees alternative education programs and student safety in the district, said that’s a typical number of students in the first half of the year. More expulsions happen at the high school level, and more males than females face expulsion.

The consequences for serious behavioral incidents are clearly listed in school handbooks.

“Basically, at any school, there is a range of actions administrators can take,” said Bob Jones, who oversees alternative education programs and student safety in the district. “We can talk to the student, warn them, call their parents, turn them over to a counselor or another adult for some help. At the middle and high schools, we often involve the (school resource officer), or the school may or may not have in-school suspension.”

Some schools have eliminated in-school suspension because of the cost of supervising those students. Other schools have a detention or study hall that students may be required to attend.

If it’s a serious incident or a continued pattern of bad behavior, a student can be suspended for up to 10 days. And if the violation is very serious, a student can be subject to expulsion.

Jones said most students are expelled for assaults, continued harassment, and drug and alcohol violations; others are expelled for what he calls a “pattern of noncompliance,” terrible attendance or across-the-board failure in academics.

The state’s weapons policy requires that any student found with a weapon receive a mandatory one-year expulsion, though that can be shortened based on a recommendation from a hearings officer or the superintendent, Jones said.

Expulsions can last anywhere from 11 days up to a full year. Any student facing expulsion has the right to a disciplinary hearing before a hearings officer. The officer listens to the information from the school, and also the student’s and family’s version of events before making a decision.

Many students and families choose to waive the hearing, essentially admitting guilt.

Education continues But just because a student has been expelled doesn’t mean a school district is done with the child.

By state law, school districts must offer alternative options for expelled students.

In Bend-La Pine, high school students have several choices.

They can attend an after-hours program at Marshall High School, the district’s alternative high school. They can also attend a second-chance program, where students who have been expelled take classes at the district office.

Or, in some cases, they might attend a contract alternative school, such as through classes offered at the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council. Middle school students mostly attend a secondchance program, although some receive home tutoring. And once in awhile, Jones said, the district will allow students to take online classes.

Rarely do elementary schools expel students. “We may have a disciplinary hearing and put them under some behavioral terms,” Jones said. “But removing them from the school, that would be the last resort. Usually there just isn’t the severe disciplinary issues at elementary schools that there are in middle schools and high schools.”

Whatever the choices, Jones said, the district works to keep expelled students from dropping out or taking a year off.

The trick with expulsions, though, is that they’re not permanent. Once the expulsion is over, students can return to the school where they had problems.

Jones noted that the hearings officer often requires students to show good progress at their

alternative program before allowing them to go back to their home schools, and that once there they often must sign a “behavior contract.”

Other times, Jones said, the district will suggest alternative options, like GED preparation classes or a credit-recovery program, which allows students to earn the class credits they need to catch up on classes they’ve failed.

And hearings officers can also recommend students not return to their home schools.

“They may make a recommendation, because of their group of friends or their lack of success, that it would be better if they were at a different school,” Jones said.

Repeat offenders are unlikely to get so many chances. For example, a student who has already been expelled from and returned to a school will have fewer chances the second time around.

“You can be suspended or expelled based on your record,” Jones said. “The consequences get more severe each time you violate a policy or a regulation.”

Second chances Teri Manselle, the coordinator and teacher for the middle school second-chance program, believes it’s important that students have that opportunity for another chance at a mainstream school.

“When they come to me, they’ve made a mistake,” she said. “And when they come to me, they’ve learned from that mistake.”

Manselle looks at her job as an opportunity to build students back up after their errors have cost them so much and to ensure they’re better prepared when they eventually return.

“Academically, we try to strengthen any areas they might have been weaker in at their home schools and try to help them get their confidence back,” she said. “... We want to get them ready and get them making the right decisions, thinking before they act, knowing there are consequences for everything they do.”

More than 90 percent of students she teaches in the secondchance program never return to her classroom. Some do, and it’s often because they have a hard time in the large, traditional classrooms at their home schools, she said.

“It’s secure here,” she said.

“They feel safe. They don’t feel judged here.”

But she wants them to stay gone, and Manselle tells the students just that. “‘I don’t want to see you again,’” she said she tells students. “‘I want to see you be successful.’ I’ll check on them, I don’t just leave them, but when they leave here, I hope they walk taller.”

Earning the right to come back Ivan Hernandez, the superintendent of Crook County School District, said he oversees expulsion hearings when there are weapons involved. Since he took over as superintendent in 2009, he’s handled two weapons expulsions.

One of those took place earlier this year at Ochoco Elementary, when a student allegedly brought a knife to school. He said students must earn the right to return to school.

“What I try to do is put out there a number of variables that the student has to consider and adopt to earn the right to come back,” he said. “To get back in, you’ve got to do it all — you’ve got to eat your veggies and clean your room, usually get counseling at your cost, you’ve got to stay clean if you’re on drugs.”

Hernandez said the student who had a knife at the elementary school will be allowed to return, but he’ll have to be on his best behavior.

“He’ll come back to us with a whole bunch of variables,” Hernandez said. “He will not have the same recess. He can’t use a backpack. He has to check in and out every day at the office. We’ll check him before he gets to go into school, turning out his pockets.”

Of the students who are expelled, Hernandez said, about 80 percent successfully return to their schools after the expulsion period.

Sometimes, though, students

Travel shut down across Europe The Associated Press LONDON — Blizzards and freezing temperatures shut down runways, train tracks and highways across Europe, disrupting flights and leaving shivering drivers stranded on roadsides.

Airports in Britain, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark reported cancellations or delays to most flights on Saturday.

Retailers, too, said the poor weather would likely dent sales on what is traditionally the busiest shopping weekend before Christmas. London’s Brent Cross indoor shopping mall closed its doors early Saturday afternoon.

Britain may experience its coldest December on record, weather service forecaster Mark Seltzer said. “Temperatures will struggle to get over freezing,” he added.

and their families aren’t so compliant.

“Sometimes, parents are very willing to work with the child now that (he or she stands) the risk of not coming back to school,” he said, “and other times parents don’t even show up for the hearing.”

When parents fail to get involved, Hernandez tries to find a way to help out.

“I don’t want to just leave them at home alone,” he said. “It’s all that data that we use as we’re trying to ascertain how to get the change in behavior, to get their attention.

We look at their whole history.”

Hernandez believes many behavior problems stem from a lack of parenting, and he believes the system sometimes rewards students for behaviors they should do without expectation of reward.

But in spite of his many years in education, he still hasn’t figured out the answer to make students behave.

“I wish I had the magic antidote that if I implemented it the kid would excel,” he said. “But I haven’t come up with one single answer yet.”

Sheila G. Miller can be reached at 541-617-7831 or at smiller@bendbulletin.com.

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To alleviate sanctions, Iran slashes subsidies

PERUGIA, Italy — American Amanda Knox won an important victory in her appeals trial of her murder conviction in Italy on Saturday, when a court ruled that it will allow an independent review of crucial DNA evidence after defense claims that samples were inconclusive and possibly contaminated.

The lower court trial, which convicted the student a year ago and sentenced her to 26 years in an Italian prison, had rejected a similar defense request for an outside review of DNA found on the bra clasp of the victim, her British roommate Meredith Kercher, and on a knife the prosecution alleged was used in the fatal stabbing attack.

The court also will allow several witnesses the defense hopes will refute testimony that placed Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, near the house on the night Kercher was killed.

Knox’s mother, Edda Mellas,

TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Saturday the start of a plan to slash energy and food subsidies, part of government efforts to boost the country’s ailing economy.

In an interview with state TV, Ahmadinejad said the deep subsidy cuts will start today and vowed to fully cut all subsidies by the end of his term in 2013.

The cuts come as Iran remains deadlocked with the U.S. and its allies over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. The U.N. Security Council slapped a fourth round of sanctions on Iran last summer over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, and there are signs those penalties are taking a toll.

After the president announced the cuts, long lines of cars were seen at several gas stations in Tehran as Iranians rushed to fill their tanks at subsidized prices before the new ones took effect at midnight.

— From wire reports

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Amanda Knox, a 23-year-old student raised in Seattle, is serving a 26-year prison sentence for murder. burst into tears in the courtroom when the appeals court announced its decision. “Finally, a little bit of good news,” Mellas said.

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Wider authority sought for tribal police

Washington Week WASHINGTON — The U.S. Congress, following its pattern of recent years, finished its two-year term with a flurry of activity. Members passed measures preventing a government shutdown and creating hundreds of billions in tax cuts, before leaving town for the year.

Here’s how Oregon’s lawmakers voted last week:

By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

U.S. Senate • CUTTING TAXES AND EXTENDING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS Passed 81-19 on Wednesday.

The $858 billion bill extends unemployment benefits through next year. It extends tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 for all taxpayers, including wealthy families. It also sets the estate tax at 35 percent for estates of more than $5 million. Other estates won’t be taxed. Finally, it extends a host of other tax credits, including a grant in lieu of tax credit that funds up to 30 percent of renewable energy projects. The measure passed the House early Friday morning.

Photos by Scott Hammers / The Bulletin

Ryan Black, 21, of Bend, launches off a jump at the sledding hill at Wanoga Sno-park on Saturday afternoon.

Wanna go sledding?

Sen. Ron Wyden, D ..........No Sen. Jeff Merkley, D .........No

Then you wanna go to Wanoga

• ALLOWING TAXES FOR UPPER-INCOME FAMILIES TO EXPIRE

By Scott Hammers • The Bulletin

Failed 43-57 on Wednesday.

The amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would have allowed tax credits for individuals earning more than $200,000 and families earning more than $250,000 to expire at the end of this year. It also would have set the estate tax at 45 percent for estates of more than $3.5 million and given Social Security recipients a one-time payment of $250.

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Rep. Greg Walden, R .......Yes Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D ..No Rep. Peter DeFazio, D ......No Rep. Kurt Schrader, D ......No Rep. David Wu, D .............No

• REPEALING “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” Passed 250-175 on Wednesday.

The bill would allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.

It’s the second time this year the House voted to repeal the policy. The measure passed the U.S. Senate on Saturday.

Rep. Greg Walden, R ........No Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D..Yes Rep. Peter DeFazio, D .....Yes Rep. Kurt Schrader, D .....Yes Rep. David Wu, D ............Yes — Keith Chu, The Bulletin

dozens of people to brave slick roads and make the trip to Wanoga Sno-park for a day of sledding.

Lakes Highway, the sledding hill is free to the public, though a sno-park permit is required to park in the adjacent parking lot.

Warm Springs officials are working to change Oregon law this legislative session to give tribal police officers statewide authority.

Currently, Oregon law does not give tribal police officers jurisdiction off the reservation. When something happens on Highway 26 across the Deschutes River from the reservation, it’s usually Warm Springs police officers who are first to the scene. But technically, they can’t arrest anyone.

Instead, unless the officers have been cross-deputized, they must wait for officers from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

The way the law is written now, tribal officials said, threatens public safety. Warm Springs officials were joined by officials from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation at a committee hearing in Salem this week, where they discussed the early stages of a bill that would give them authority off the reservation.

“Based on my extensive experience in both tribal and non-tribal enforcement, I can tell you how critically important it is that the 2011 Oregon Legislature enact the proposal before you,” said Jim Soules, who was formerly the Warm Springs public safety general manager and who has extensive law enforcement experience, including 23 years with the Prineville Police Department.

In 2005, a Warm Springs police officer followed a vehicle traveling through the reservation on U.S. Highway 26. The driver crossed the center line into the oncoming lane of traffic and the police officer, Joseph Davino, turned on his lights. The car sped across the reservation’s boundary. The officer continued to follow the driver and eventually arrested him. Thomas Kurtz was charged and convicted of attempting to elude a police officer and resisting arrest.

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Cassidy Hornbeck, 22, of Portland, bounces off her inner tube while sledding Saturday afternoon at Wanoga.

The Wanoga Snoplay Area offers a wide and even slope as compared to the long-popular narrow and treelined sledding hill west of Bend at Skyliner Sno-park. Sledding has been officially banned by the Forest Service at Skyliner since the Wanoga area opened in 2007.

Steady snow through the early part of the day had cleared by midafternoon at Wanoga, allowing just a hint of blue skies to peek through the clouds.

Taking a short break from shoveling snow to build a jump with a group of friends, Chad Groves, 24, of Bend, said he’d never heard of the sledding hill at Wanoga until Saturday. He’ll likely be back — Groves said sledding is some of the best free winter entertainment around.

Cassidy Hornbeck, 22, a student at Portland State University, said she came home to Central Oregon for the holidays.

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State sends 19th Street extension plan back to county

By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

Low-income Oregonians can earn $3 toward a goal for every $1 they save

By Molly Black The Bulletin

Few Central Oregonians may have heard of an individual development account, but it’s a state program designed to reward low-income families for saving money. Begun in 1988, it offers participants $3 for every $1 saved.

The Valley Individual Development Account program is a collaboration of 42 community development corporations, housing authorities and nonprofit organizations, assisting participants in reaching financial goals, such as saving enough money to own a home or return to school.

Housing Works, in Redmond, is one of the community devel-

To learn more For more information about the VIDA initiative, visit www .vidaoregon.org.

opment corporations that partners with VIDA, helping tricounty area residents increase financial stability through goal setting and budgeting.

“Our clients come to us wanting to purchase a home or open a restaurant. We sit down with them and evaluate their goal to make sure it is reasonable.

Then we help them create a time frame to set aside money on a monthly basis until their goal

is reached,” said Kelly Fisher, home ownership manager for Housing Works.

Once a participant is accepted into the program, he or she is required to set up a savings account at one of the VIDA partner banks. For every $1 a participant deposits into his or her bank account, $3 are placed into a matched account through CASA (Community and Shelter Assistance Corporation) of Oregon. CASA of Oregon, the fiduciary and administrator of VIDA, requires participants to be in the program for a minimum of six months with a threeyear maximum.

The matched money is funded through the Oregon Housing

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“I was in the program for three years, and it has completely changed my life,” said Redmond resident Jayne Wallace.

Wallace entered the program initially to purchase a home, but switched her goal in order to start a business.

“I am a child care provider in Redmond, and I have nine children on my roster. With the money I saved, I have everything I need. I was able to purchase items for the kids. But I also bought a computer for my business,” she said.

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Deschutes County officials will have to redo a controversial decision to add the planned 19th Street extension south of Redmond to the county’s road development plan, following a decision by Oregon’s Land Use Board of Appeals.

Deschutes County commissioners said they do not plan to appeal the board’s finding. Instead, county staff will fix problems in the original decision, and it will go through another round of public hearings.

The county failed to prove it would be necessary to extend 19th Street approximately 6 miles south, from Redmond to Deschutes Junction, the Land Use Board of Appeals found in a Dec. 9 ruling.

The Deschutes County Commission voted 2-1 in April to add the extension to its road development blueprint, despite complaints from residents and a land use watchdog group that said commissioners disregarded their concerns.

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Vacant home burns in southeast Bend A vacant home in southeast Bend suffered significant damage in a fire Saturday evening, according to the Bend Fire Department.

Several people called 911 at around 5:30 p.m. to report that the home at 210 S.E. Wilson Ave. was on fire. Firefighters arrived

to find flames coming out of a first-floor window, and were able to knock down the fire from outside the building. Upon entering the house, firefighters determined that initial reports suggesting someone was inside the building were unfounded.

Damage to the home was estimated at $80,000, a total loss.

The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

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Oregon bank bomb sentencing to resume The Associated Press SALEM — After presenting witnesses who said Joshua Turnidge isn’t likely to pose a danger in prison, the defense for the 34-year-old convicted of killing two police officers in a bank bombing two years ago will resume Monday as the trial heads toward a conclusion.

Turnidge and his father, 59year-old Bruce Turnidge, have been convicted of aggravated murder, and the jury has already decided on a sentence for the elder Turnidge.

That is being withheld until the jury renders its decision on the son. The prosecution is seeking the death penalty. The jury could also decide on a life sentence with the possibility of release after 30 years, or life with no possibility of release.

The bomb at the West Coast Bank branch in December 2008 killed a State Police bomb tech-

nician, William Hakim, and a Woodburn police captain, Tom Tennant.

The potential future danger of the two is one thing the jury considers as it decides whether to sentence someone to death or to prison.

The Salem Statesman Journal reported that the prosecution rested Friday after Marion County jail personnel testified that since he was arrested shortly after the bombing of the West Coast Bank office in Woodburn, Joshua Turnidge made rude, “hateful� and disrespectful comments that resulted in him losing privileges.

Jail Sgt. Megan Gonzalez said Joshua Turnidge drew a swastika over a U.S. flag on a postcard that shows the jail facility and wrote other things including “pigs for sale!� “human rights?� “gas chamber,� on the card before trying to send it.

‘A Christmas Carol’ published in 1843 The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2010. There are 12 days left in the year.

TOD A Y’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY On Dec. 19, 1960, a fire broke out on the hangar deck of the nearly completed aircraft carrier USS Constellation at the New York Naval Shipyard; 50 civilian workers were killed.

ON THIS DATE In 1777, Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.

In 1813, British forces captured Fort Niagara in the War of 1812.

In 1843, “A Christmas Carol,�

by Charles Dickens, was first published in England.

In 1910, the artificial fiber rayon was first commercially produced by the American Viscose Co. of Marcus Hook, Pa. French author and dramatist Jean Genet was born in Paris.

In 1946, war broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French.

In 1950, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

In 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, winding up the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.

In 1974, Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States.

In 1984, a fire at the Wilberg Mine near Orangeville, Utah, killed 27 people. Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the Republican-controlled House for perjury and obstruction of justice (he was later acquitted by the Senate).

TEN YEARS AGO President-elect George W. Bush met with President Bill Clinton in Washington. The U.N. Security Council voted to impose broad sanctions on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers unless they closed terrorist training camps and surrendered U.S. Embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden. Death claimed jazz bassist Milt Hinton at age 90; gospel singer “Pops�

Staples at age 85; former New York City mayor John V. Lindsay at age 79; and Rob Buck, lead guitarist for the rock band 10,000 Maniacs, at age 42.

T O D AY IN HISTORY

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Sections of the new navigation lock gate, lower left, and the crane that will lift them, are seen last week at Lower Monumental Dam near Kahlotus, Wash. Long-needed repairs at the dam will bring cargo shipping to a standstill for 14 weeks, the longest shutdown in the history of the Columbia and Snake river system.

Columbia and Snake closed for lock repairs

By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press

KAHLOTUS, Wash. — The giant navigation lock at Lower Monumental Dam is nearly empty of water, its concrete walls dry.

The lock will stay that way for the next 14 weeks, as longneeded repairs will bring cargo shipping to a standstill.

It is the longest shutdown in the history of the Columbia and Snake river system, as lock gates on three different dams are replaced between Dec. 10 and March 13. “The gates have developed cracks and corrosion,� said Steve Hartman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is managing the work.

The lock at Lower Monumental Dam is 700 feet long, 84 feet wide and 100 feet deep. It takes 43 million gallons of water to lift or drop barges to the other side

of the massive hydroelectric dam. The lock was built in 1969, and this is the first time a gate is being replaced, the Corps said.

The downstream gate, which is eight stories tall, is made of steel and weighs 1.2 million pounds. Moved up and down for 41 years, it has been weakened by age and has become brittle. “The gate is cracking itself apart,� Hartman said.

Similar gates are also being replaced at The Dalles Dam and John Day Dam, both downstream on the Columbia River. The budget for all the gates is about $50 million, and was funded by the federal government’s stimulus package, the Corps said.

Hartman said the closure had been in the planning stages for years, and was scheduled for the slowest time of the year in shipping.

The Columbia-Snake system

FIVE YEARS AGO A Chalk’s Ocean Airways seaplane crashed off Miami Beach, killing all 18 passengers and both pilots. President George W. Bush forcefully defended a domestic spying program as an effective tool in disrupting terrorists and insisted it was not an abuse of Americans’ civil liberties.

A video posted online by an extremist group, the Islamic Army of Iraq, purportedly showed the killing of American contractor Ronald Allen Schulz.

Afghanistan’s first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.

Southern California running back Reggie Bush was named Associated Press Player of the Year. Mob boss Vincent “The Chin� Gigante died in the federal prison in Springfield, Mo., at the age of 77.

is typically shut down for two to three weeks each March for routine maintenance, but an outage of this length is unprecedented.

Forty percent of the nation’s exported wheat, from 13 states, is barged down the system each year to West Coast ports, where it is loaded on ships for Asia.

Petroleum products, fertilizers and pesticides move upriver to farm communities. “It’s the third-largest grain export gateway in the world,� said Kristin Meira, spokeswoman for the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, which represents businesses that use the river for transport.

The association supports the extended closure, Meira said.

That’s because the unplanned failure of a lock gate could close the river for a year as a new gate is designed, manufactured and installed, she said.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.� — Jean Genet, novelist, poet and playwright (1910-1986)

CORVALLIS — Religious leaders from Corvallis plan a rally against violence today in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, where federal authorities say a Corvallis teenager plotted to set off a bomb at a Christmas celebration.

A 19-year-old former Oregon State University student was arrested Nov. 26 after an FBI sting. Two days later, the Corvallis mosque he sometimes attended was hit by an arsonist.

Police crash leaves thousands powerless PORTLAND — Authorities say a Gresham police officer responding to an emergency call crashed into a power line, cutting energy to thousands of customers.

Gresham police spokesman Sgt. Rick Wilson says the accident occurred about 8:30 p.m. Friday as the officer was driving to an area where a man was reported wielding a gun.

Portland General Electric tells The Oregonian that the crash left about 3,500 customers in Gresham without power.

The man with the gun was eventually arrested. — From wire reports

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ONE YEAR AGO A U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen ended with a nonbinding accord to show for two weeks of debate and frustration.

A snowstorm paralyzed much of the Eastern U.S. on the last holiday shopping weekend.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Country singer Little Jimmy Dickens is 90. Composer-lyricist Robert Sherman (“Mary Poppins�) is 85. Actress Cicely Tyson is 77. Rhythm-andblues singer-musician Maurice White (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 69. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is 69. Actress Elaine Joyce is 67. Actor Tim Reid is 66. Paleontologist Richard E. Leakey is 66. Rock singer Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) is 66. Musician John McEuen is 65. Singer Janie Fricke is 63.

Jazz musician Lenny White is 61. Actor Mike Lookinland is 50. Actress Jennifer Beals is 47.

Actor Scott Cohen is 46. Actor Robert MacNaughton is 44. Magician Criss Angel is 43. Rock musician Kevin Shepard is 42.

Actress Kristy Swanson is 41.

Model Tyson Beckford is 40. Actress Alyssa Milano is 38. Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is 30.

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Rich Daniels has built more than 100 minimalist homes, ranging in size from 144 square feet to 800 square feet, with some on wheels so they can be towed behind a pickup.

Tough times, tiny homes: Builder urges subdivision Rich Daniels promotes a planned community of his pint-sized homes

By Richard Cockle The Oregonian

NORTH POWDER — Exlogger and gold miner Rich Daniels was making his living building storage sheds when his customers began commenting, “If this shed was bigger, I could live in it.” That got Daniels to thinking.

“So I made a cabin on wheels,” he said. He’s built and sold more than 100 minimalist homes — some that can be towed behind a pickup — over the past five years.

Now the 50-year-old builder has come up with an idea that may prove both brilliant and quixotic: a subdivision for 50 to 100 pint-size homes geared to folks hurt by the real estate bust, jobless or on fixed incomes. Increasingly, he’s approached by people desperate to cut their living expenses, he said.

“It’s obvious they are looking for a cheap place to live while they get back on their feet,” Daniels said. “There are a lot of people getting kicked out of their 2,000- and 3,000-squarefoot homes. Where are they gonna go?”

While some may be ready to simplify and live smaller, the trick will be to weave that idea through Oregon’s land use laws.

The subdivision location Daniels has in mind is a former Idaho Timber Co. sawmill log yard southeast of North Powder, population less than 500.

It’s between La Grande and Baker City.

Part is zoned exclusive farm

Rich’s Portable Cabins. He still operates the sawmill and occasionally builds a shed, but seldom uses milled timber from his own property these days.

Daniels’ customers someuse, and the rest is industrial times request such off-the-grid — and neither allows for a sub- options as solar panels, banks division, said Union County of electrical storage batteries, planner Hanley Jenkins, of La holding tanks, wood-burning Grande. Winning county ap- fireplaces and propane-powproval is likely to be impossible, ered forced-air stoves, water he said. heaters and refrigerators.

Still, it might have a chance if He’s promoting the idea of North Powder annexed the spot placing some of his cabins into the city, and extended wa- along the circular, 870-mile ter and sewer lines there, Jen- Blue Mountain Heritage Trail, kins said. a European-style North Powder “bed-to-bed” hikMayor Bonita “There are a lot ing and horse trail Hebert said that’s of people getting under developa possibility bement as a tourism cause utility lines kicked out of draw. The trail is already reach to their 2,000- and the brainchild of the edge of the 84-year-old Loproperty. But the 3,000-square-foot ren Hughes, of La city would have homes. Where are Grande, and the to change an ordesign calls for dinance that re- they gonna go?” meals and beds quires dwellings — Rich Daniels to await hikers at to be at least 900 the end of each square feet, she day’s trekking, so said. they only need to “They are just beautiful, well- carry day packs. built,” the mayor said of the cabBut his boldest idea is the ins. “They would be very com- North Powder subdivision. fortable for a couple to live in.”

Daniels owns about 50 acres For the past five years, Dan- on the edge of North Powder iels has built 20 rustic cabins and proposes developing it like a year, some as small as 144 an RV park, but with residents square feet. The biggest are 400 committed to downsizing to save square feet — or with a loft, 800 money. They would buy and square feet. Costs so far have own the cabins, and he would ranged from $15,000 to $95,000. retain ownership of the land.

It’s his second new profes“The biggest problem with sion since the shrinking wood the whole (tiny home) moveproducts industry pushed him ment is the counties and cities out of his job as a U.S. Forest are having a hard time acceptService contract timber cruiser. ing these small homes,” Daniels He bought a small sawmill and said. “It has to do with revenue built and sold utility sheds, us- — small homes don’t generate ing lumber milled on his prop- the tax revenues for the counerty. And that gave way to ties and cities.”

EUGENE — Veteran Tom Egan’s cold and lonely death two years ago in Eugene inspired the creation of overnight shelters where homeless people can escape frigid, life-threatening weather.

On Friday, near where Egan’s body was found in the Whiteaker neighborhood, more than three dozen people gathered to commemorate the second anniversary of his death and to acknowledge that something good came from it.

“There are times when the character of our community is changed by tragedy, and this was one of those times,” Rep. Val Hoyle, D-Eugene, said.

The crowd also learned that two more churches and the city of Veneta have agreed to let their facilities be used as shelters when overnight temperatures drop below 30 degrees. The additions boost the number of shelters to 12 in the EugeneSpringfield area.

“It’s amazing what comes out of tragedy,” said Veneta resident Tom Laing of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

The shelters, which open as needed from November through March, are run by a coalition of nonprofit groups, churches and social service and government agencies.

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County coordinates the program.

Veneta, a town of 5,000 people 10 miles west of Eugene, decided to let its community center be used as a shelter in collaboration with ministers in the Fern Ridge area.

The City Council “agreed to the cause and thought if

we had the means to participate, we should be an active partner,” said City Administrator Ric Ingham.

At least 16 volunteers must staff the shelter in three shifts in order for the city to keep the doors open overnight, he said.

It’s estimated the overnight shelter in Veneta might be used by 12 to 18 people when the weather gets especially cold, Ingham said.

Anne Williams, St. Vincent de Paul’s housing programs director, said some of them might be homeless veterans who camp in the woods.

“The number of homeless veterans living in the woods is staggering,” she said.

Egan’s death troubled many local veterans — especially those who came to know him during his 20-year career with the Army and the Oregon

National Guard.

The 60-year-old Egan did not take advantage of monthly retirement benefits that could have provided him a home, a fact that made his death more upsetting to his friends.

A passer-by on the morning of Dec. 16, 2008, found Egan’s body partially covered in snow along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks north of West First Avenue and Blair Boulevard.

A bottle of liquor was by his side.

The night before Egan’s body was found, the temperature had dropped to 28 degrees. But an autopsy found he had died at least 36 hours earlier, and the temperature during the two previous nights had dropped to about 10 degrees.

On Friday, there were signs that people are still sleeping near where Egan died.

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Prineville, Bend play to 0-0 tie on the gridiron 100 years ago 100 YEARS AGO For the week ending Dec. 18, 1910 NO SCORE GAME The football game between the Prineville and Bend “All Star” teams Monday afternoon resulted in a 0-0 score. Although marred by many discussions, the game was interesting to watch, as the result was not certain until time was called.

The decisions throughout the game were very unsatisfactory.

M.S. Lattin, and Dr. Rosenberg, of Prineville, officiated as referee and umpire. As neither of the officials have ever played under the revised rules, it was to be expected that the decisions would not all be in accordance with the rules.

As for a comparison of the two teams, they were very evenly matched. During the first quarter, Bend was able to go through Prineville’s line for her yards; at other times, it seemed to be impossible for Bend to make her distance. Prineville, on the other hand, was able to go through Bend’s line for her yards with about the same ease, though often she was thrown back.

The punting was very good, and the two teams were about even in the distance gained by punting. The forward pass made more yards for the Prineville team than did straight bucking of the line. Bend did not try anything other than straight football, and seemingly was not expecting any forward pass plays.

When the whistle was blown at the end of the second quarter, the ball was on Bend’s 10-yard line, having been advanced from the center of the field by a wellexecuted forward pass. The ball was in neutral territory a large part of the time.

There were several pretty plays during the game. When Prineville had the ball within about 15 yards of her own goal, Houston broke through the line and with the aid of Kinnear, smothered a play which forced Prineville to punt from her 2-yard line.

Richardson, in the latter part of the game, endeavored to dropkick a goal, but was unable to do so as he had not caught the pass clean. Had Bend tried to score by bucking the line, the result might have been different.

Prineville claimed a touchdown in the last quarter, but it was not allowed as Brewster was 10 yards down the field before the ball was passed.

There were no injuries of any serious consequence throughout the game, although the pace proved too fast for some. Brewster and Ellis played the best game for Prineville, and Pringle, Houston, Steidl and Kinnear shared the honors for Bend.

75 YEARS AGO For the week ending Dec. 18, 1935 A NIGHT LANDING (Editorial) The plight of an airliner blown off its Portland-Medford course and into Central Oregon long before daylight Tuesday morning by a storm raging west of the Cascades drew attention once again to the need here for an improved airport, capable of being lighted in emergencies. Had the air transport crashed in the darkness that night, the attention of much of western America would probably have been centered on this need.

The airliner escaped a possible crash as a result of the quick thinking of Lawrence J. Sohler, a local pilot who was summoned out of bed at about 2:30 a.m. by night officer Harris Meagher.

When the two men came to the aid of the airmen, the transport, with lights flashing, was circling over Bend, its pilot entirely unaware of the location of this city’s unlighted and only partly improved landing field.

The first information received here that an airplane was in distress over Bend, with its gasoline supply running dangerously low, was in a long-distance telephone call from Portland. Pilot Stephens of the transport, in touch with Portland by radio, attempted to learn the location of the Bend field. Sohler telephoned this information to United Airways officials at Swan Island, and the directions were then radioed back to pilot Stephens, who continued to circle over Bend. Sohler also telephoned to Portland that he would mark the proper runway with flares, and this information

Y E S T E R D AY was also radioed from Portland back to the pilot, whose gasoline supply was now near the emergency point.

Assisted on the ground by Sohler and Meagher, the big transport with its four occupants was safely landed on the local airport at 2:45 a.m. A full moon, shining from a cloudless sky, aided the fliers to skim over hilltops, power lines and junipers to a safe landing between red flares.

With the reserve gasoline supply running low, the crew of the airliner would probably have had to make a forced landing if ground aid had not been given here. Such a night landing might have been disastrous.

A lighted, fully improved airport in this part of the state might prove a haven for many a pilot who finds his course west of the Cascades fog blocked or in the grip of storms.

50 YEARS AGO For the week ending Dec. 18, 1960 GNARLED, WIND-WHIPPED JUNIPERS OF DESERT GET NEW ATTENTION AS CHRISTMAS NEARS Seasonally, the lowly juniper of the high Central Oregon plateau comes into its own.

It has a place in the Christmas picture.

Wood from the aged trees, among the oldest found on the continent, is shaped into novelties by Bend artisans for yule gifts.

Berry-laden branches are gaining in popularity as Christmas greenery. Sprigs of juniper mistletoe, with their tiny, pearl-like berries are in much demand.

Of course, the juniper also has uses outside the Christmas season.

Acrid oil of the juniper is used in medicine. Resin of the tree has many uses. The juice of the berries, with its warm pungent taste, also has its uses, some of which were recognized by illegal gin makers on Oregon’s high desert in prohibition days.

The wood of some species of juniper, especially that found in the Virginia region, is valued by cabinet and pencil makers.

Old-timers of the Bend area may recall that once, long ago, Bend had a pencil factory. It was an unsuccessful venture, however.

Junipers also have an aesthetic value. Consider the aged monarchs of the lava ridges in the high desert to the east of Bend: Some of those trees were old before Columbus discovered America. Gnarled, twisted and whipped by desert winds, they were living spectres of the sage lands long before the first white men sighted the Oregon country.

Those trees are still alive, part of one of the world’s largest juniper forests.

Possibly because aged junipers are so patriarchal in appearance, some people consider them harbingers of severe winters, if laden with blue, berrylike

fruit which are in reality cones that never open.

This fall, according to information from many sources, Central Oregon junipers are virtually barren of berries. This might lead some to believe that the region faces a mild winter.

But naturalists are not so certain the long-range forecasters who base their predictions on juniper berries are correct. They note it takes two years for the berries to mature.

This year’s berry shortage may be due to the aridity of 1959.

But regardless of the role of junipers as weather vanes, they are interesting trees, especially in this season of the year when their mistaken kin, the cedars of Holy Lands, are in the limelight.

ing first in one school and then another.

That constant moving probably explains why Rodriguez intends to continue living in and practicing law in Madras — a practice that will not tie him to scheduled meetings.

He recalls that when he and his wife decided in 1949 to settle in Madras, “There were no paved (city) streets in the county, let alone in the town.”

There were a lot of the amenities missing, including an adequate water supply. The system didn’t furnish enough water to serve the people, even though there weren’t many people to serve, Rodriguez said.

According to the Oregon Blue Book, the town’s population in 1950 was 1,258. By 1984, that number had climbed to 2,260.

“It’s just been a history of building ever since,” he said of those early days.

“A pretty progressive group of men” had initiated zoning and had tried to get a building code established, he said.

It was a time, he recalled, when everyone knew everyone else. But knowing everybody also meant you knew everyone’s problems. And one of the biggest problems then was that no one had any capital.

“Everybody over here talked about being broke together,” he said.

Since then, Rodriguez has seen 58,000 acres of sagebrush and juniper transformed into fertile irrigated land, almost all Madras city streets paved, a City Hall constructed, a sewer system installed, a new fire department approved and operating, a hospital and nursing home built and numerous private building projects completed, including a retirement home.

25 YEARS AGO For the week ending Dec. 18, 1985 RODRIGUEZ HAS WATCHED MADRAS CHANGE Sumner Charles Rodriguez will step down this month as Madras city attorney. But the city of Madras hasn’t seen the last of “Rod,” a nickname that has stuck with him since high school days.

He doesn’t intend to retire from private practice.

Recently, Rodriguez recalled how he had watched Madras grow from “nothing to something.”

Ironically, perhaps, he was born here in 1920 to parents who never stayed put. His “whiz kid” father jumped from being a Portland service station attendant in 1919 to secretary of the Australian Socony Oil Co. board in 1930.

In Madras, he had established the first oil plant for Standard Oil Co. and then moved on.

But as his father climbed the success ladder, Rodriguez swung from his coattails, land-

Study cites narcotic meds’ dangers to older patients

By Barry Meier New York Times News Service

Older patients with arthritis who take narcotic-based drugs to relieve pain face a higher risk of bone fracture, heart attack and death when compared to those taking non-narcotic drugs, according to a government-financed study published earlier this month.

The study, in a medical journal, The Archives of Internal Medicine, appears to be the first large-scale effort to look at the comparative safety risks for the elderly taking different classes of painkillers. It comes amid a large increase in the use of narcotic painkillers in recent years because of a prevailing belief that such drugs were safer for older patients than non-narcotic drugs like Advil and Motrin.

The review, financed by the federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, appears to undercut that assumption. The report, based on an analysis of patient health care records, was conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

“Doctors should not assume that opioids are a safer alternative” to other painkillers, Daniel Solomon, the study’s researcher, said in a telephone interview Monday.

“They seem to carry profound risks to the cardiovascular system as well as increased risk fractures and appear to

be associated with increased risk of death.”

The study does not raise questions about the use of powerful narcotics like OxyContin to treat severe pain resulting from cancer or other conditions.

To conduct the study, Solomon reviewed the experience of Medicare recipients in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania who were found during a six-year period to have osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. Using statistical methods, researchers divided those patients, predominantly women with a mean age of 80 years, into three groups based on their pain medications.

Patients in one group received a narcotic-based painkiller. The second group took a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Aleve. The third group took another class of pain drugs called coxibs, which includes Celebrex and Vioxx, a drug that is no longer on the market.

Because the study was based on records, it could not identify all the factors that might have contributed to a patient’s problems. But in following their experiences, researchers found the overall risk of death was twice as high for patients taking a narcotic painkiller when compared to those taking a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

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Continued from B1 Central Oregon LandWatch filed a notice of intent to appeal the county’s decision in mid-May. Paul Dewey, an attorney for Central Oregon LandWatch, called the decision a “sweeping rejection of the County’s decision and its justifications,” in an e-mail Tuesday.

Boonesborough neighborhood resident Jeff Boyer, 53, said he was happy about the decision.

“The county did not show a strong need for this project at all,” said Boyer, a retired transportation planner. “This is why it’s important to have state land use laws, to prevent rural sprawl.”

Deschutes County commissioners Alan Unger and Dennis Luke have touted an extension of 19th Street as an economic development measure that would open land in south Redmond and at Bend’s Juniper Ridge to more industry and businesses.

“We need to make a stronger case why this is so important,” Unger said.

The extension has been the county’s top-priority road project for many years, and it would help ease anticipated future traffic problems, Unger said.

Luke will leave office at the end of the year. Luke was voted out of office in the May primary election, and his successor, Tony DeBone, also has said he supports the project.

Commissioner Tammy Baney voted in April against adding the project to the county’s roads blueprint. Baney said the Land

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PORTLAND — One of two college students accused of robbing credit union offices has told a newspaper the idea was hatched after a running joke between the two women turned into a serious idea.

Federal authorities have accused 23-year-old Brittney Sykes, a nursing student at Mount Hood Community College, and 19-year-old Emma Westhusing, a student at Linfield College, of two holdups this fall. They were arraigned Friday.

The Oregonian newspaper reported Saturday that Sykes is a divorced mother of a 2year-old and a member of the military police and funeral honor guard for the Oregon

National Guard.

She told the paper she was having money troubles, and after the idea turned serious, she started doing research.

She concluded that most institutions try to get robbers out the door quickly, so that would minimize their chance of having a dangerous confrontation.

“Plus, we really didn’t want to hurt anybody,” Sykes said.

“We knew you didn’t have to use a weapon to rob a bank — just a note.”

“I’m sorry that I did it. I am really sorry,” she told the paper. “It was a mistake — I understand that. I have no problem facing my mistakes. It’s just part of life.”

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“For me, it’s exactly the reason I voted no,” Baney said. “I did not feel the record had the factual findings to support the need.”

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Sledding Continued from B1 “Sledding is just a great way for family and friends to spend time together,” she said. “Sledding is the best part of Central Oregon.”

While the Wanoga Snoplay Area attracts fun-seekers of all ages, the sled hill is largely ruled by kids and their families.

Jason Klepper, 33, said he was taking his 4-year-old daughter, Maddie, sledding for the first time, and it took her an hour or so to warm up to the idea.

“I think she was a little overwhelmed, more snow than she’s ever seen, people all over the place, a few dogs,” said Klepper, from Tigard. “But she’s having a blast now.”

Abby Brown, 23, who only recently moved to Bend from Cottage Grove, said she’s excited to spend the winter in a place that looks like winter.

“Coming from a place where there’s no snow, this is awesome,” she said.

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up in Albany and joined the Guard after graduating from high school in 2006. She was married the next year and in 2008 had a daughter. The father has custody.

The paper said Sykes met Westhusing after developing a relationship with another Linfield student who also lived in the college’s McMinnville dorms.

Westhusing graduated from high school in Washougal, Wash., in 2009, winning several scholarships, the paper said.

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Police Continued from B1 The Oregon Court of Appeals overturned the Jefferson County Circuit Court’s decision to charge Kurtz. The court ruled Kurtz couldn’t be charged with resisting a police officer or attempting to elude a police officer because Davino wasn’t a police officer. The court pointed to the statute that says a police officer is someone acting on behalf of an Oregon governmental entity, and tribal police officers aren’t acting on behalf of the state.

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Save Continued from B1 Wallace worked with Housing Works to develop a threeyear savings plan in which she deposited $68 every month into her savings account. CASA deposited $204 into her matched account until her goal amount was reached.

“It was a struggle at times to come up with the money, but I did it because I had set this goal,” Wallace said.

On top of setting up a bank account and selecting a goal to work toward, Wallace was also required to attend financial education and asset-specific training courses.

“Asset-specific training courses are courses grounded in the asset the participant is trying to acquire. For example, this can be House Ownership 101, or simply meeting with a school counselor if their goal is to help them attend college,” said MESA (Matched Education Savings Account) Program Manager, Maggie Reilly. “We are trying to present each participant with the tools they need to reach their goal and become more financially independent.”

Each year, companies like Housing Works are required to apply to CASA of Oregon requesting money to be presented to program participants once they complete the campaign.

“We apply each year requesting money for our participants, and then we work with them to determine how much money each participant needs to reach their goal,” said Fisher. “Housing Works then works with the client, going through goal setting and presenting them with money-saving ideas. And through the VIDA program, they take financial and goal-based classes.”

Once participants reach their goal, the collaborative company they are working with will contact CASA of Oregon, requesting the matched money. The money is then presented, via check, to the goal organization the client was working toward.

“If the participant is looking to

sion has created a serious public safety problem for our tribal officers, who represent the primary law enforcement agency on the 1,000-square-mile Warm Springs Indian Reservation,” Soules told the committee. “Thousands of non-Indian motorists travel across the reservation each year on U.S. Highway 26. Warm Springs officers are the only responders to traffic accidents on the reservations and are often the first responders to accidents off the reservation in Jefferson, Wasco and Clackamas counties.”

Soules said officers have reason to worry about their safety if they are helping law enforce-

own a home, the matched money will be presented directly to the title company,” said Reilly. “The money never touches the hands of the client.”

Currently serving more than 900 participants, VIDA is looking to promote the program to more lower-income Central Oregon residents. Housing Works has been partnering with VIDA for the past four years and has had 26 participants graduate from the program. Twenty-three of those graduates went on to purchase a home, two went into education and one graduate, Wallace, used the money for business purposes.

“We would like to see more participants go through the program. The purpose of this program is really put into perspective when you think about what it brings to the Central Oregon community. Just think of those 23 homebuyers who could have used 23 different Realtors. It has a huge impact on the community,” said Fisher.

In order to qualify for this initiative, participants must meet the following criteria: People must be able to save at least $25 a month for at least six months; be an Oregon resident at least 12 years of age; have a net worth equal to or less than $20,000; and have an adjusted gross income less than or equal to 80 percent of the area median income by county of residence or 80 percent of the state of Oregon’s median income level of 200 percent of poverty, whichever is higher.

“I would love to see other people change their lives. My life is so much better than it was three years ago. I don’t need any assistance, I have a home and I have a business because of this program,” said Wallace. “You just have to make your own personal goals, and anyone can do it. So many times I talk to people who say there is no way they could save $68 a month, but that is the price of eating out three times.

It is just about evaluating your priorities.”

According to Reilly, the purpose of the program can have an impact on every part of a participant’s life.

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A teller tripped a silent alarm and planted an electronic tracking device in the cash, according to court documents.

Portland police, Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies and FBI agents tracked them to southeast Portland.

The court documents say investigators found $1,370 in cash on Sykes’ bed and the tracking device tucked under the driverside floor mat of the car.

At their arraignment Friday, federal prosecutors revealed an indictment charging the two with taking a similar amount from the Gresham office of the credit union on Oct. 18.

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ment off the reservation. He said when officers aren’t covered by criminal laws to protect them, such as attempting to elude and resist arrest, it increases the danger of their job.

The Warm Springs Indian Reservation is working with Oregon’s nine other American Indian tribes to change the law.

Tribal officers go through the same training as state-certified police officers. They attend the same police academy as any other state police officer.

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Don Van Vliet, rock’s ‘Captain Beefheart’

By Ben Ratliff New York Times News Service

Don Van Vliet, an artist of protean creativity who was known as Captain Beefheart during his days as an influential rock musician and who later led a reclusive life as a painter, died Friday. He was 69 and lived in Trinidad, Calif.

The cause was complications of multiple sclerosis, said Gordon VeneKlasen, a partner at the Michael Werner gallery in New York, where Van Vliet had shown his art, many of them abstract, colorful oils, since 1985. The gallery said he died in a hospital in Northern California.

Captain Beefheart’s music career stretched from 1966 to 1982 and from straight rhythm and blues by way of the early Rolling Stones to music that sounded like a strange uncle of post-punk.

He is probably best known for “Trout Mask Replica,” a double album from 1969 with his Magic Band.

A bolt-from-the-blue collection of precise, careening, surrealist songs with clashing meters, brightly imagistic poetry and raw blues shouting, “Trout Mask Replica” had particular resonance with the punk and new wave generation to come a decade later, influencing bands like Devo, the Residents, Pere Ubu and the Fall.

By Margalit Fox New York Times News Service

George Pickow, a photographer best known for the thousands of album covers in which he captured the titans of folk, jazz and pop music — including Theodore Bikel, Louis Armstrong and Lena Horne — in their midcentury prime, died Dec. 10 in Roslyn, N.Y. He was 88 and lived in Port Washington, on Long Island.

The cause was respiratory failure, his son Jon said. Pickow also had a home in Viper, Ky., the birthplace of his wife, the folk singer Jean Ritchie.

Working quietly behind the scenes, Pickow documented the bubbling cultural ferment of New York City, and in particular Greenwich Village, where he and Ritchie lived after their marriage in 1950.

For Elektra Records and other labels, he photographed folk singers like Josh White, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and, of course, Ritchie, as well as jazz and pop artists like Little Richard, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Nina Simone and Louis Jordan.

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Early talent Van Vliet’s life story is caked with half-believable tales, some of which he himself spread in Dadaist, elliptical interviews. He claimed he had never read a book and had never been to school, and answered questions with riddles.

“We see the moon, don’t we?” he asked in a 1969 interview. “So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.”

The facts, or those most often stated, are that he was born Jan. 15, 1941, in Glendale, Calif., as Don Vliet. (He added the “Van” in 1965.) His father, Glen, drove a bakery truck.

Don demonstrated artistic talent before the age of 10, especially in sculpture, and at 13 was offered a scholarship to study sculpture in Europe, but his parents forbade him. Concurrently, they moved to the Mojave Desert town of Lancaster, where one of Don’s high school friends was Frank Zappa.

His adopted vocal style came partly from Howlin’ Wolf: a deep, rough-riding moan turned up into swooped falsettos at the end of lines, pinched and bellowing and sounding as if it caused pain.

“When it comes to capturing the feeling of archaic, Delta-style blues,” Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote in 1982, “he is the only white performer who really gets it right.”

He enrolled at Antelope Valley Junior College to study art in 1959 but dropped out after one semester. By the early 1960s, he had started spending time in

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Don Van Vliet, a musician and artist who performed a complex brand of experimental rock under the name Captain Beefheart, died Friday at age 69.

Cucamonga, Calif., in Zappa’s studio. The two men worked on what was perhaps the first rock opera (still unperformed and unpublished), “I Was a Teenage Maltshop,” and built sets and wrote some of the script for a film to be titled “Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People.”

Becoming Beefheart The origins of Van Vliet’s stage name are unclear, but he told interviewers later in life that he used it because he had “a beef in my heart against this society.”

By 1965 a quintet called Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (the “his” was later changed to “the”) was born. By the end of the year, the band was playing at teenage fairs and car-club dances around Lancaster and signed

by A&M Records to record two singles.

The guitarist Ry Cooder, then a young blues fanatic whose skill was much admired by Van Vliet, served as pro forma musical director for the next record, “Safe as Milk” (1967), which showed the band working on something different: a rhythmically jerky style, with stuttering melodies.

The next album, “Strictly Per-

sonal” (1968), went even further in the direction of rhythmic originality.

But it was “Trout Mask Replica” that earned Van Vliet his biggest mark. And it was the making of that album that provided some of the most durable myths about Van Vliet as an imperious, uncompromising artist.

The musicians lived together in a house in Woodland Hills, in the San Fernando Valley; what money there was for food and rent was supplied by Van Vliet’s mother, Sue, and the parents of Bill Harkleroad, the band’s guitarist (whom Van Vliet renamed Zoot Horn Rollo).

One persistent myth has it that Van Vliet, who had no formal ability at any instrument, sat at the piano, turned on tapes and spontaneously composed most of the record in a single marathon 8½-hour session.

What really happened, according to later accounts, was that his drummer, John French (whose stage name was Drumbo), transcribed and arranged music as Van Vliet whistled, sang or played it on the piano, and the band learned the wobbly, intricately arranged songs through French’s transcriptions.

Movie-marketing maven Karen Sortito at the fore of new era for product tie-ins

By Bruce Weber New York Times News Service

Karen Sortito, a movie-marketing executive who pushed the limits of product tie-ins when she put the world’s most famous Aston Martin driver, James Bond, behind the wheel of a BMW and put him in business with Visa credit cards, Smirnoff vodka, Heineken beer and even L’Oreal lipstick (“Bond Bordeaux”), died in New York on Monday. She was 49.

The cause was cancer, her sister Diane Ritucci said.

A specialist in what marketers call brand enhancement, Sortito was at the forefront in a relatively new era of product tie-ins in movies. (The era is generally acknowledged to have begun in 1982, when the shy, stranded alien in “E.T.” is lured out of hiding with a trail of Reese’s Pieces.) Moving from New York to Los Angeles

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It’s all cool and hip. If this wasn’t creative, we would not be doing it.”

— Karen Sortito

in the late 1980s, she worked for 20th Century Fox, MGM/UA and other Hollywood film companies, earning a reputation for being a character herself, brash, spikily intelligent and forthright to a fault.

“If she was passionate about something, you didn’t want to be on the other side of the table,” said Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who was her boss at Fox and at Revolution Studios.

“I once bought her a pair of boxing gloves.”

Sortito came to prominence in

1995 when, helping to rejuvenate the James Bond franchise for MGM, she created a tie-in for the film “GoldenEye” with BMW, putting a new Bond (Pierce Brosnan) in a new model, the sleek and sporty Z3; sales of the car spiked (Sortito bought one herself), and the film was No. 1 at the box office its opening week.

For the next Bond film, “Tomorrow Never Dies” in 1997, the studio ordered up a $100 million promotional campaign, and Sortito engineered product tie-ins with Visa (Brosnan as Bond appeared in television commercials using a

Visa card), L’Oreal, Ericsson cell phones, Heineken, Avis rental cars and Omega watches, in addition to BMW. The film earned more than $333 million worldwide, but the product-placement saturation campaign was criticized as interfering with the art of filmmaking and cheapening Bond’s image.

“Perhaps the problem is that a lot of these products are kind of pedestrian,” an article in The New York Times, headlined “Agent 007: License to Shill,” suggested in 1997. “Bond and Heineken? Beer cans, unlike martinis, are not supposed to be shaken. Bond and Avis? Avis may boast that ‘We Try Harder,’ but the real Bond makes everything look effortless.”

Sortito defended the tie-ins.

“It’s all cool and hip,” she said at the time. “If this wasn’t creative, we would not be doing it.”

Pickow, who was originally trained as a painter, also shot many distinguished visual artists, among them Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh, Chaim Gross and Edward Hopper, images that have since been exhibited around the country.

Some of his most striking photographs, in stark black and white, depict an array of artisans and ordinary people around the world plying their trades: women weaving and churning butter, men binding books and making harps and pipe organs, and even waxwork heads.

Pickow, who helped his wife collect traditional songs from singers in Appalachia and Britain, contributed photographs to many of her books, among them “The Swapping Song Book” (Oxford University, 1952), a volume of songs from the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky.

Also an independent filmmaker, he was a cinematographer on “Festival” (1967), a documentary film about the Newport Folk Festival, directed

by Murray Lerner.

From the late 1970s until shortly before his death, Pickow ran a small record label, Greenhays Recordings, which produced several of Ritchie’s albums, including “Mountain Born,” “High Hills and Mountains” and “The Most Dulcimer.” Greenhays also recorded folk artists like John McCutcheon, Mike Seeger, Alice Gerrard and Lily May Ledford.

Painting and film George Pickow was born on Feb. 11, 1922, in Los Angeles and reared in Brooklyn. He studied painting at the Cooper Union and during World War II made training films for the Navy.

In 1948 in New York, Pickow met Ritchie, who was not yet widely known, at a square dance at the Henry Street Settlement, where she was a social worker. The next day, for their first date, he took her along on a photo shoot at the Fulton Fish Market. The result — Ritchie perched on the hood of a truck, holding a rather large lobster — was published in a truckingindustry magazine.

Perhaps more impressive to Ritchie was the Appalachian dulcimer Pickow made for her, a copy of the traditional one she had brought from Kentucky. It proved so successful that for about a decade, starting in the early 1960s, he ran a small family dulcimer-making business, located on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge and presided over by his uncle, a millwright and cabinetmaker.

Neither Pickow nor his uncle was especially musical, so Ritchie painstakingly marked each nascent dulcimer to indicate the placement of the frets.

Besides Ritchie, Pickow is survived by their sons, Jon and Peter, who sang on many of their mother’s albums, and a sister, Lenette, named for Vladimir Lenin.

While Ritchie was born to folk music, Pickow came to it by degrees. “I was mainly into old jazz and blues then,” he told The New York Times in 1980, recalling their meeting, “and thought nothing was any good unless it was down and dirty.

She wasn’t Bessie Smith.”

But, he added, “I’ve learned a lot since then.”

GM’s Charles Jordan led design of iconic cars

By Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Charles “Chuck” Jordan, a former General Motors vice president of design whose early successes as a chief designer included the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, a space-age icon with enormous tail fins, has died. He was 83.

Jordan died of lymphoma Dec. 9 at his home in Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego County, said his wife, Sally.

In his 43-year career at General Motors, Jordan was involved in designing vehicles such as the 1958 Chevy Corvette and the 1968 Opel GT. In 1986, he became the fourth man in GM history to be named vice president of design.

When he retired as design chief in 1992, one design staff-

er reportedly called Jordan “the last of the great design dinosaurs.”

“He was a strong creative force at GM design, and a passionate leader,” Ed Welburn, GM vice president of global design, said in a statement.

“It always felt as if every new project he was leading represented a new mountain to climb and was a fresh opportunity to create new trends and statements in automotive design,” Welburn said. “He had the charisma and passion of few others in the industry.”

A native of Whittier, near Los Angeles, Jordan launched his career in 1949 as a junior engineer in GM’s design division after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Paul Sakuma / The Associated Press

David Genovese stands outside of his closed San Jose Patients Group office in San Jose, Calif. A crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries has pitted the shop owners, who say they have much to contribute to the city’s hard-hit economy, against law enforcement officials, who accuse them of old-fashioned drug trafficking.

Medical pot battle shapes up in San Jose

By Marcus Wohlsen The Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As marijuana goes mainstream in communities across California, the state’s third-largest city has become the next big battleground over the drug’s future.

Medical marijuana retailers this fall have faced raids and stings by narcotics agents who accuse them of old-fashioned drug trafficking, even as the San Jose City Council debated regulations for pot dispensaries and voters approved a cannabis tax to fill depleted city coffers.

The crackdown highlights a stubborn legal reality that persists despite a growing sense that storefront pot shops have become a permanent part of the California landscape: The law around medical marijuana is vague, and you can still get busted.

“They’re trying to make money off it, and that’s ridiculous,” Bob Cooke, the state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent overseeing the raids, said of the dispensary owners who have been targeted.

Legal confusion Medical marijuana advocates say the raids have undermined efforts by dispensaries to comply with the law and to act as good neighbors who have much to contribute to the city’s hard-hit economy.

Dispensaries shut down by law enforcement include members of the city’s Medical Cannabis Collectives Coalition, a group that lobbies the City Council on behalf of dispensaries, said MC3 spokesman Paul Stewart. Dispensary owners in the group were acting in good faith and feel tricked by the raids, he said.

“We’re stepping back saying, ‘we’re the ones trying to work with you to come up with sensible regulations,’” Stewart said. “Now

you’re hitting the same collectives trying to help you and will ultimately generate revenue for you?”

Much of the confusion over the state law hinges on a provision that prohibits making a profit from medical marijuana. Dispensaries get around this by describing themselves as collectives or cooperatives, and requiring patients to designate the dispensary as a “primary caregiver.”

Under the state’s medical marijuana law passed by voters in 1996, only a patient with a doctor’s recommendation or that patient’s primary caregiver can grow or obtain pot.

Law enforcement critics complain that dispensaries — some with tens of thousands of members — are no more primary caregivers to their customers than are liquor store owners.

Still, raids on dispensaries have become increasingly rare, especially in other Bay Area cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, which have passed ordinances regulating pot shops like other small businesses.

San Jose officials by contrast have had difficulty reaching agreement on how to regulate dispensaries. This city of 1 million has seen an explosion in the number of pot shops in the two years since the Obama administration declared a hands-off approach in states where the drug is approved for medical use.

Santa Clara County prosecutor Frank Carrubba, who heads the narcotics enforcement division of the district attorney’s office, estimates that San Jose has nearly 90 medical marijuana dispensaries and the county more than 100 in all.

San Francisco, with a slightly smaller population, has around 30 dispensaries. Oakland, a city a little less than half the size of San Jose, has four.

“We’re weeding out the people

who are selling drugs. The ones who are providing medicine are allowed to exist,” Carrubba said.

How police and prosecutors decide who is a drug dealer and who is a caregiver has become the main point of contention between investigators and the dispensaries in the San Jose cases.

The Angel’s Care case County investigators spelled out their standards in a search warrant affidavit for a recent raid on the Angel’s Care Collective in Santa Clara, a city of 100,000 neighboring San Jose.

District attorney investigator Dean Ackermann, an undercover officer, stated that he bought marijuana at Angel’s Care multiple times without ever receiving any kind of health care advice. The officer said he was charged $12 to $13 per gram of pot. He said that’s more than 10 times the cost of cultivating a gram of marijuana.

If the dispensary was truly a collective, the affidavit said the undercover officer was never told how to participate.

The officer’s “only involvement in the collective was to purchase marijuana at street-level prices,” the affidavit said.

According to the affidavit, Angel’s Care’s operators told investigators they do not run the dispensary as a business and that all the money goes to cover utilities, wages for 15 employees and “donations” to collective members who supply the dispensary with marijuana.

At no point in the affidavit is Angel’s Care accused of providing pot to anyone who does not have a physician’s recommendation.

San Jose attorney Jim Roberts, who represents Angel’s Care and two other raided dispensaries, said all were operating as nonprofits in full compliance with California law.

LOS ANGELES — A series of winter storms bearing down on California on Saturday was threatening parts of the state with flooding, and officials were posting mudflow warnings in areas recently affected by wildfires ahead of this weekend’s rains.

Southern California will be hit especially hard by the storms, and officials were preparing for possible mudslides in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.

“This is one big mother, and it’s going to have a lot of waves in it,” National Weather Service spokesman Bill Hoffer said.

The storms could be the largest system the region has seen in the last decade, the agency said Saturday.

Northern California was expecting 5 inches of rain in places over the weekend, and officials in San Francisco were distributing sandbags to residents.

Southern California could see 2 to 4 inches along the coasts and valleys with triple that in the mountains.

The Central Valley will likely get 1 to 3 inches of rain by Monday with up to 15 inches of rain in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which could prompt flooding in streams and rivers, National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Dudley said Friday.

There already have been reports of flooding across all lanes of the southbound Interstate 5 south of the Antelope Valley Freeway interchange in Southern California, the California Highway Patrol said.

The patrol said Saturday that they’d already seen a fivefold increase in traffic accidents in Los Angeles County because of the weather. There were 264 accidents in comparison to 48 the same time last week.

The wet conditions were expected to last through Thursday morning with the weather drying up in time for the Christmas holidays.

Damian Dovarganes / The Associated Press

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THE BULLETIN WEATHER FORECAST

Maps and national forecast provided by Weather Central LLC ©2010.

TODAY, DECEMBER 19

MONDAY

Today: Mostly cloudy, snow showers.

Ben Burkel

Bob Shaw

FORECASTS: LOCAL

LOW

38

22

STATE Western

Maupin

Government Camp

29/20

Warm Springs 38/30

31/30

Willowdale Mitchell

Madras

38/22

23/11

Vancouver 37/33

32/20

32/19

Burns

46/36

Grants Pass 43/37

Eastern

30/20

Bend

Boise

38/22

26/11

39/29

Idaho Falls 32/29

49/39

34/22

Silver Lake

31/17

Helena

Redding Christmas Valley

Chemult

28/17

Eugene

34/21

26/13

Missoula

41/36

Hampton Fort Rock

Reno

33/24

Mostly cloudy with snow showers likely.

Crater Lake 27/21

47/29

San Francisco

Elko 35/22

56/48

Sunrise today . . . . . . 7:36 a.m.

Sunset today . . . . . . 4:29 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow . . 7:37 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow. . . 4:29 p.m.

Moonrise today . . . . 3:05 p.m.

Moonset today . . . . 6:06 a.m.

Salt Lake City 46/34

City

Yesterday Hi/Lo/Pcp

LOW

HIGH

Moon phases Full

Last

New

First

Dec. 21 Dec. 27 Jan. 4

Jan. 12

Sunday Hi/Lo/W

LOW

HIGH

Astoria . . . . . . . . 46/38/0.33 . . . . . 44/37/sh. . . . . . 45/36/sh Baker City . . . . . .33/20/trace . . . . . 33/21/sn. . . . . . 34/24/sn Brookings . . . . . . 50/43/0.82 . . . . . . 49/44/r. . . . . . 49/45/sh Burns. . . . . . . . . . 27/17/0.13 . . . . . 34/20/sn. . . . . . 32/23/sn Eugene . . . . . . . . 46/35/0.46 . . . . . 46/36/sh. . . . . . 45/37/sh Klamath Falls . . . 40/34/0.10 . . . . . 34/23/sn. . . . . . 32/26/sn Lakeview. . . . . . . 37/28/0.21 . . . . . .34/21/rs. . . . . . 31/23/sn La Pine . . . . . . . . 35/22/0.00 . . . . . 33/19/sn. . . . . . 33/21/sn Medford . . . . . . . 48/38/0.35 . . . . . . 44/35/r. . . . . . 45/36/sh Newport . . . . . . . 52/39/0.36 . . . . . 47/41/sh. . . . . . 48/40/sh North Bend . . . . . 50/43/0.69 . . . . . . 47/41/r. . . . . . 48/41/sh Ontario . . . . . . . . 32/16/0.01 . . . . . .33/26/rs. . . . . . 32/27/rs Pendleton . . . . . . 40/26/0.00 . . . . . 34/26/sn. . . . . . . 34/24/r Portland . . . . . . . 41/35/0.23 . . . . . 41/36/sh. . . . . . . 41/35/r Prineville . . . . . . . 33/22/0.02 . . . . . 37/24/sn. . . . . . 36/22/rs Redmond. . . . . . . 39/21/0.47 . . . . . 38/22/sn. . . . . . 39/22/rs Roseburg. . . . . . . 47/39/0.37 . . . . . 45/38/sh. . . . . . 46/39/sh Salem . . . . . . . . . 47/38/0.44 . . . . . 44/38/sh. . . . . . 45/37/sh Sisters . . . . . . . . . 35/21/0.00 . . . . . 33/22/sn. . . . . . 34/21/sn The Dalles . . . . . . 38/32/0.09 . . . . . .35/28/rs. . . . . . . 33/28/r

TEMPERATURE

SKI REPORT

The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Index is for solar at noon.

LOW 0

MEDIUM 2

4

HIGH 6

PRECIPITATION

Yesterday’s weather through 4 p.m. in Bend High/Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34/23 24 hours ending 4 p.m.. . . . . . . . 0.08” Record high . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 in 1980 Month to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.15” Record low. . . . . . . . . . . . . -12 in 1964 Average month to date. . . . . . . . 1.00” Average high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Year to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.87” Average low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Average year to date. . . . . . . . . 10.95” Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.. . . 29.62 Record 24 hours . . . . . . . 0.94 in 1929 *Melted liquid equivalent

Tomorrow Rise Set Mercury . . . . . .7:22 a.m. . . . . . .4:29 p.m.

Venus . . . . . . . .3:44 a.m. . . . . . .2:08 p.m.

Mars. . . . . . . . .8:29 a.m. . . . . . .5:12 p.m.

Jupiter. . . . . . .12:01 p.m. . . . . .11:42 p.m.

Saturn. . . . . . . .1:25 a.m. . . . . .12:58 p.m.

Uranus . . . . . .12:02 p.m. . . . . .11:51 p.m.

1

LOW

40 27

ULTRAVIOLET INDEX Monday Hi/Lo/W

Mostly cloudy.

38 24

PLANET WATCH

OREGON CITIES

Calgary

Portland

33/21

Crescent

42/35

33/20

La Pine 31/18

SUN AND MOON SCHEDULE

Yesterday’s regional extremes • 52° Newport • 12° Joseph

THURSDAY

Mostly cloudy.

37 23

Low pressure will produce rain and higher elevation snow across much of the region today.

Seattle

Mostly cloudy with snow showers likely.

HIGH

BEND ALMANAC

Paulina

Brothers

Sunriver

LOW

NORTHWEST

Central

33/21

Mostly cloudy.

38 20

10/-2

33/19

Crescent Lake

HIGH

38/25

Camp Sherman 30/20 Redmond Prineville 35/23 Cascadia 37/24 34/33 Sisters 33/22 Bend Post 32/31

Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely.

37/29 36/28

Oakridge Elk Lake

30/24

27/21

33/26

Marion Forks

Ruggs

Condon

WEDNESDAY

Mostly cloudy, chance of rain showers.

Tonight: Snow showers.

HIGH

TUESDAY

V.HIGH 8

10

ROAD CONDITIONS Snow level and road conditions representing conditions at 5 p.m. yesterday. Key: T.T. = Traction Tires.

Ski report from around the state, representing conditions at 5 p.m. yesterday: Snow accumulation in inches Ski area Last 24 hours Base Depth Anthony Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . . 2-24 Hoodoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . 42 Mt. Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . 26-59 Mt. Bachelor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . 60-85 Mt. Hood Meadows . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . 65 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . 34-37 Timberline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-0 . . . . . . . . 78 Warner Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 30-32 Willamette Pass . . . . . . . . . . .0-0 . . . . . . 20-48

Pass Conditions I-5 at Siskiyou Summit . . . . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires I-84 at Cabbage Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . Chains > 10,000 lbs.

Hwy. 20 at Santiam Pass . . . . . Chains or T.T. all vehicles Hwy. 26 at Government Camp. . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 26 at Ochoco Divide . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 58 at Willamette Pass . . . Chains or T.T. all vehicles Hwy. 138 at Diamond Lake . . . . . . Chains > 10,000 lbs.

Hwy. 242 at McKenzie Pass . . . . . . . . .Closed for season

Aspen, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 Mammoth Mtn., California 32-48 Park City, Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Squaw Valley, California . . . . . 24 Sun Valley, Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Taos, New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vail, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-0

For up-to-minute conditions turn to: www.tripcheck.com or call 511

For links to the latest ski conditions visit: www.skicentral.com/oregon.html

. . . . . . 26-27 . . . . . 78-121 . . . . . . . . 54 . . . . . . . . 80 . . . . . . 32-49 . . . . . . 22-27 . . . . . . . . 38

Legend:W-weather, Pcp-precipitation, s-sun, pc-partial clouds, c-clouds, h-haze, sh-showers, r-rain, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, rs-rain-snow mix, w-wind, f-fog, dr-drizzle, tr-trace

TRAVELERS’ FORECAST NATIONAL

NATIONAL WEATHER SYSTEMS Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are high for the day.

S

S

S

S

S

Vancouver 37/33

Yesterday’s U.S. extremes

S

S

Calgary 10/-2

S

Saskatoon 3/-4

Seattle 42/35

S Winnipeg 14/-4

S

S

S

Thunder Bay 23/12

S

S

S S

Quebec 21/3

Halifax 34/25 Portland Billings (in the 48 To ronto Portland 32/21 22/10 25/21 contiguous states): 41/36 St. Paul Green Bay Boston 15/3 17/5 Boise 36/26 Buffalo Rapid City Detroit 39/29 27/20 New York • 80° 23/14 26/14 Des Moines 37/26 Hollywood, Fla. Philadelphia Omaha 27/24 Chicago Columbus San Francisco 36/23 • -15° 33/26 24/19 26/13 Cheyenne 56/49 Salt Lake W ashington, D. C. 43/28 Havre, Mont.

Louisville City 36/22 Las 35/20 Denver 46/34 • 3.99” Kansas City Vegas 54/32 44/36 St. Louis 59/52 Blue Canyon, Calif.

Charlotte 40/26 45/25 Oklahoma City Albuquerque Nashville 50/38 Little Rock 56/34 Los Angeles 40/26 49/32 60/56 Phoenix Atlanta 74/51 Honolulu 48/32 Birmingham 78/68 Dallas Tijuana 49/28 60/44 60/54 New Orleans 57/39 Orlando Houston 66/43 Chihuahua 62/53 73/39 Miami 76/56 Monterrey La Paz 72/49 79/53 Mazatlan Anchorage 78/52 18/6 Juneau 20/10 Bismarck 16/-3

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and thank you for your ongoing support.

— Sparrow Clubs Staff and Board of Directors

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Yesterday Sunday Monday City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Abilene, TX . . . . .53/22/0.00 . 71/44/pc . . 78/45/pc Akron . . . . . . . . .24/11/0.00 . 23/11/pc . . 26/15/pc Albany. . . . . . . . .33/21/0.00 . 30/17/pc . . 31/17/pc Albuquerque. . . .48/30/0.00 . 56/34/pc . . 59/32/pc Anchorage . . . . . 11/-2/0.00 . . .18/6/pc . . . 19/4/sn Atlanta . . . . . . . .43/34/0.19 . 48/32/pc . . 53/38/pc Atlantic City . . . .37/16/0.01 . 39/24/pc . . 36/26/pc Austin . . . . . . . . .57/32/0.00 . 67/45/pc . . 74/49/pc Baltimore . . . . . .37/22/0.00 . 35/21/pc . . 32/24/pc Billings. . . . . . . . .17/14/0.00 . . .22/10/c . . 27/13/sn Birmingham . . . .51/34/0.00 . 49/28/pc . . 59/44/pc Bismarck . . . . . . . .13/6/0.01 . . . 16/-3/c . . . . 18/0/c Boise . . . . . . . . . .41/29/0.02 . . 39/29/rs . . .36/29/rs Boston. . . . . . . . .38/24/0.00 . . .36/26/c . . 33/23/pc Bridgeport, CT. . .37/20/0.00 . 35/25/pc . . 34/23/pc Buffalo . . . . . . . .28/19/0.02 . .27/20/sn . . 28/19/sn Burlington, VT. . .33/21/0.00 . 27/17/pc . . 26/16/pc Caribou, ME . . . . .21/1/1.77 . 24/16/pc . . 27/25/sn Charleston, SC . .51/37/1.13 . 51/35/pc . . 53/35/pc Charlotte. . . . . . .37/32/0.07 . 45/25/pc . . 48/29/pc Chattanooga. . . .46/34/0.00 . 46/25/pc . . . 50/34/c Cheyenne . . . . . .32/13/0.00 . .43/28/sn . . . 42/27/c Chicago. . . . . . . .19/10/0.00 . 24/19/pc . . . 33/28/c Cincinnati . . . . . .30/16/0.00 . 28/14/pc . . . 33/25/c Cleveland . . . . . .26/14/0.00 . .24/12/sn . . 26/17/pc Colorado Springs 36/20/0.00 . . .52/34/c . . 55/25/pc Columbia, MO . .34/17/0.00 . . .40/27/c . . . 43/32/c Columbia, SC . . .45/36/0.32 . 49/27/pc . . 52/32/pc Columbus, GA. . .45/40/0.21 . 52/32/pc . . . 57/37/s Columbus, OH. . .25/10/0.00 . 26/13/pc . . . 28/22/c Concord, NH . . . . .35/8/0.00 . 29/15/pc . . . 29/15/c Corpus Christi. . .63/40/0.00 . 71/54/pc . . . 77/59/s Dallas Ft Worth. .54/32/0.00 . 60/44/pc . . 77/48/pc Dayton . . . . . . . .25/11/0.00 . 26/12/pc . . 28/22/sn Denver. . . . . . . . .40/11/0.00 . . .54/32/c . . 55/30/pc Des Moines. . . . .26/15/0.00 . .27/24/sn . . 33/26/sn Detroit. . . . . . . . 21/10/trace . . .26/14/c . . 25/19/pc Duluth . . . . . . . . . .17/9/0.00 . . .16/2/pc . . . 19/15/c El Paso. . . . . . . . .64/38/0.00 . 69/44/pc . . . 70/39/s Fairbanks. . . . . -17/-28/0.00 -15/-19/pc . . -9/-21/sn Fargo. . . . . . . . . . .16/6/0.01 . . 12/-1/pc . . . . 19/8/c Flagstaff . . . . . . .37/32/0.07 . .42/34/sh . . 43/33/sh

Yesterday Sunday Monday City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Grand Rapids . . 25/20/trace . .26/17/sn . . 27/25/sn Green Bay. . . . . .17/10/0.00 . . .17/5/pc . . 24/19/pc Greensboro. . . . .36/30/0.00 . . .41/23/s . . 42/28/pc Harrisburg. . . . . .34/17/0.00 . 35/19/pc . . 32/21/pc Hartford, CT . . . .39/26/0.00 . 37/19/pc . . 30/17/pc Helena. . . . . . . . .16/13/0.05 . .26/11/sn . . 24/10/sn Honolulu . . . . . . .77/70/0.00 . . .78/68/r . . . .78/69/r Houston . . . . . . .60/45/0.00 . 62/53/pc . . 73/62/pc Huntsville . . . . . .44/32/0.00 . 45/25/pc . . 52/41/pc Indianapolis . . . .26/12/0.01 . 27/20/pc . . . 32/27/c Jackson, MS . . . .54/37/0.00 . 54/34/pc . . 62/52/pc Madison, WI . . . . .18/8/0.00 . 17/10/pc . . . 29/25/c Jacksonville. . . . .73/54/0.00 . 56/38/pc . . 60/36/pc Juneau. . . . . . . . . .17/8/0.00 . 20/10/pc . . . 21/14/s Kansas City. . . . .33/16/0.00 . . .44/36/c . . . 49/31/c Lansing . . . . . . . 23/15/trace . . .25/14/c . . 26/22/sn Las Vegas . . . . . .63/44/0.00 . .59/52/sh . . 59/48/sh Lexington . . . . . .28/23/0.00 . 31/16/pc . . 37/27/sn Lincoln. . . . . . . . .28/10/0.00 . .38/25/sn . . . 41/22/c Little Rock. . . . . .47/30/0.00 . 49/32/pc . . 56/48/pc Los Angeles. . . . .62/57/0.72 . . .60/56/r . . . .56/53/r Louisville . . . . . . .30/27/0.00 . 35/20/pc . . . 38/31/c Memphis. . . . . . .44/30/0.02 . 46/34/pc . . . 56/52/c Miami . . . . . . . . .77/66/0.65 . 76/56/pc . . . 74/60/s Milwaukee . . . . .20/12/0.00 . 21/16/pc . . . 31/28/c Minneapolis . . . . .17/8/0.00 . . .15/3/pc . . . 23/18/c Nashville . . . . . . .40/28/0.00 . 40/26/pc . . . 49/40/c New Orleans. . . .53/43/0.01 . 57/39/pc . . 65/55/pc New York . . . . . .36/28/0.00 . 37/26/pc . . 34/25/pc Newark, NJ . . . . .38/21/0.00 . 38/26/pc . . 35/24/pc Norfolk, VA . . . . .40/24/0.00 . 40/25/pc . . 37/26/pc Oklahoma City . .46/32/0.00 . 50/38/pc . . 68/34/pc Omaha . . . . . . . .29/10/0.00 . .33/26/sn . . . 36/22/c Orlando. . . . . . . .67/44/0.53 . 66/43/pc . . . 68/46/s Palm Springs. . . .65/56/0.00 . .64/53/sh . . . .64/54/r Peoria . . . . . . . . .28/10/0.00 . 27/21/pc . . 32/28/sn Philadelphia . . . .36/21/0.00 . 36/23/pc . . 33/23/pc Phoenix. . . . . . . .70/54/0.00 . 74/51/pc . . 74/52/pc Pittsburgh . . . . . .27/19/0.00 . 24/13/pc . . 28/17/pc Portland, ME. . . .32/13/0.01 . 32/21/pc . . 31/21/sn Providence . . . . .39/18/0.00 . . .39/25/c . . 34/22/pc Raleigh . . . . . . . .39/29/0.01 . 42/25/pc . . 42/27/pc

Yesterday Sunday Monday Yesterday Sunday Monday City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Rapid City . . . . . .18/14/0.00 . .23/14/sn . . . 22/7/sn Savannah . . . . . .55/40/0.55 . 53/33/pc . . 56/36/pc Reno . . . . . . . . . .50/33/0.00 . . 47/29/rs . . .41/28/rs Seattle. . . . . . . . .48/40/0.08 . .42/35/sh . . . .44/39/r Richmond . . . . . .36/23/0.00 . . .38/22/s . . 36/24/pc Sioux Falls. . . . . . .15/0/0.00 . .20/15/sn . . 27/12/sn Rochester, NY . . .29/21/0.00 . .27/20/sn . . 31/19/sn Spokane . . . . . . .28/23/0.11 . .29/22/sn . . 31/24/sn Sacramento. . . . .58/52/0.86 . . .55/47/r . . . .53/44/r Springfield, MO. .34/15/0.00 . . .43/34/c . . . 50/34/c St. Louis. . . . . . . .37/20/0.00 . . .40/26/c . . . 42/31/c Tampa . . . . . . . . .70/54/0.28 . 66/45/pc . . . 68/49/s Salt Lake City . . .35/27/0.04 . .46/34/sh . . .42/30/rs Tucson. . . . . . . . .68/44/0.00 . 73/46/pc . . 74/46/pc San Antonio . . . .58/34/0.00 . 68/46/pc . . 74/52/pc Tulsa . . . . . . . . . .40/23/0.00 . 53/38/pc . . 60/36/pc San Diego . . . . . .63/59/0.04 . . .61/56/r . . . .63/55/r Washington, DC .36/23/0.00 . 36/22/pc . . 34/24/pc San Francisco . . .61/50/0.64 . . .56/48/r . . . .55/48/r Wichita . . . . . . . .37/28/0.00 . 47/32/pc . . 53/30/pc San Jose . . . . . . .61/54/0.15 . . .58/48/r . . . .57/46/r Yakima . . . . . . . .42/24/0.00 . .32/22/sn . . 28/24/sn Santa Fe . . . . . . .39/18/0.00 . 46/35/pc . . 52/32/pc Yuma. . . . . . . . . .70/56/0.00 . 75/55/pc . . 75/56/pc

INTERNATIONAL Amsterdam. . . . .30/23/0.00 . . .31/27/c . . . .36/30/r Athens. . . . . . . . .60/46/0.00 . 56/43/pc . . 57/42/pc Auckland. . . . . . .73/68/0.00 . . .73/67/r . . 72/66/sh Baghdad . . . . . . .64/50/0.00 . . .69/48/s . . 67/47/pc Bangkok . . . . . . .82/66/0.00 . 79/73/pc . . 80/75/pc Beijing. . . . . . . . .41/16/0.00 . . .44/22/s . . 47/25/pc Beirut. . . . . . . . . .68/59/0.22 . 76/60/pc . . 77/62/pc Berlin. . . . . . . . . . .25/9/0.00 . 23/17/pc . . 35/20/sn Bogota . . . . . . . .64/52/0.07 . .66/49/sh . . . 65/48/c Budapest. . . . . . . .21/9/0.08 . . .29/12/s . . 32/20/pc Buenos Aires. . . .73/61/0.00 . .83/63/sh . . . 91/64/s Cabo San Lucas .77/59/0.00 . . .78/58/s . . . 81/57/s Cairo . . . . . . . . . .64/50/0.00 . . .68/54/s . . . 70/56/s Calgary . . . . . . . . .10/9/0.00 . . 10/-2/sf . . . . 7/5/pc Cancun . . . . . . . .81/57/0.00 . 80/57/pc . . 78/56/pc Dublin . . . . . . . . .30/18/0.00 . . 34/29/rs . . .32/26/sf Edinburgh . . . . . .30/18/0.00 . 32/26/pc . . 31/25/sn Geneva . . . . . . . .28/14/0.00 . 38/27/pc . . .42/34/rs Harare . . . . . . . . .84/63/0.47 . . .83/65/t . . 74/62/sh Hong Kong . . . . .64/48/0.00 . 61/52/pc . . . 63/53/s Istanbul. . . . . . . .54/36/0.00 . .50/39/sh . . . .47/40/r Jerusalem . . . . . .57/45/0.00 . . .59/42/s . . 63/44/pc Johannesburg . . .81/63/0.00 . . .78/57/s . . . 81/56/s Lima . . . . . . . . . .73/64/0.00 . 73/63/pc . . 72/64/pc Lisbon . . . . . . . . .52/43/0.00 . 54/40/pc . . 60/48/sh London . . . . . . . .32/21/0.00 . . 40/31/rs . . 35/28/pc Madrid . . . . . . . .45/25/0.00 . .52/34/sh . . 51/35/pc Manila. . . . . . . . .86/77/0.01 . . .87/78/t . . . .86/73/t

Mecca . . . . . . . . .91/75/0.00 . . .95/71/s . . . 94/73/s Mexico City. . . . .72/36/0.00 . . .74/39/s . . . 76/41/s Montreal. . . . . . .30/19/0.04 . 21/16/pc . . 25/19/pc Moscow . . . . . . . .14/9/0.11 . .24/17/sn . . 17/11/sn Nairobi . . . . . . . .79/57/0.00 . . .82/59/s . . . 79/58/s Nassau . . . . . . . .77/66/0.11 . .79/56/sh . . 75/54/pc New Delhi. . . . . .48/46/0.00 . . .67/47/s . . . 71/48/s Osaka . . . . . . . . .54/39/0.00 . . .54/36/s . . 59/43/sh Oslo. . . . . . . . . . .27/16/0.07 . . .13/5/sn . . . . 8/1/sn Ottawa . . . . . . . .30/23/0.00 . 25/10/pc . . 21/16/pc Paris. . . . . . . . . . .34/23/0.07 . . 39/27/rs . . 40/32/sh Rio de Janeiro. . .88/77/0.00 . . .85/75/t . . . .86/76/t Rome. . . . . . . . . .52/36/0.94 . .51/35/sh . . 57/46/sh Santiago . . . . . . .79/52/0.00 . . .84/53/s . . . 86/52/s Sao Paulo . . . . . .75/68/0.00 . . .80/65/t . . . .86/67/t Sapporo. . . . . . . .32/25/0.31 . . 35/28/rs . . 39/33/sh Seoul . . . . . . . . . .43/18/0.00 . . .46/29/c . . 43/30/pc Shanghai. . . . . . .52/30/0.00 . . .48/33/s . . . 44/34/s Singapore . . . . . .86/75/0.05 . . .89/75/t . . . .87/76/t Stockholm. . . . . .28/16/0.00 . .21/16/sn . . . 20/17/c Sydney. . . . . . . . .81/66/0.00 . . .73/58/c . . . 72/59/s Taipei. . . . . . . . . .70/50/0.00 . .71/54/sh . . 70/53/sh Tel Aviv . . . . . . . .66/54/0.00 . . .69/51/s . . 70/53/pc Tokyo. . . . . . . . . .55/37/0.00 . . .53/44/s . . 58/43/sh Toronto . . . . . . . .27/19/0.00 . . .25/21/c . . 30/25/pc Vancouver. . . . . .43/30/0.00 . .37/33/sh . . .41/40/rs Vienna. . . . . . . . . .23/9/0.11 . . .26/17/s . . 32/20/pc Warsaw. . . . . . . . .18/9/0.00 . . 18/13/sf . . 27/15/pc

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Feeling lucky?

Oregon is home to 9 tribal casinos — each one a world of its own

By John Gottberg Anderson For The Bulletin

GRANDE RONDE — he moment I walked through the main doors

of the Spirit Mountain Casino and Lodge, I found myself in another world.

All around me, bells rang and

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Couple’s Vital Provisions Packs give homeless the essentials First 350 kits were distributed this fall to several local agencies

By David Jasper The Bulletin

In August 2008, Danny and Wendy Evans were involved in a serious car accident in Eastern Oregon.

It could have been more serious, says Wendy, 37.

Therefore, on Aug. 5 of this year, the second anniversary of the accident, “I kind of woke up and said, ‘OK, I definitely want to do something positive, because we were fortunate. It definitely could have turned out a lot worse.’

“It was kind of a wake-up call on a day that we always think about how thankful we are.”

She said to husband Danny, 41, “What do you think of this nonprofit idea?”

The idea was to help, in a concrete manner, the homeless.

“Homelessness is something we’ve been very interested in,” explains Wendy, who has volunteered in soup kitchens in cities they’d lived in previously, and at Bend’s emergency shelter, the Bethlehem Inn. The Evanses have lived in Bend since 2004.

The two began talking to Bethlehem Inn and other local nonprofits and, in September, attended the Homeless Leadership Coalition’s monthly meeting.

They came up with the idea to provide Vital Provisions Packs — 1-gallon ziplock bags stuffed with items homeless people can use: first-aid items such as Band-Aids and Neosporin ointment, hygiene items such as shampoo, along with bottles of water and, perhaps most importantly, socks. Warm adult socks, new or used.

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siren howled

as a woman screamed in glee. The ching-ching of coins in slot machines — plus the clack of a steel ball as it dropped into a whirring roulette

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Wendy and Danny Evans, of Bend, created Vital Provision Packs, which contain first-aid items and other supplies for the homeless. In November, they distributed 350 kits to area homeless people through Bethlehem Inn and other agencies, paying for many of the items out of pocket.

wheel and the shouts of excited gamblers as dice caromed off the walls of a craps table — were in sharp contrast to the hushed tones of an adjacent poker room.

Perhaps it is this titillating burst of energy that draws so many people to gambling casinos, from Las Vegas to Florence and Chiloquin. Perhaps it is the dream of immediate wealth or merely the thrill of adventure on a gaming floor. No matter that the odds of making money are distinctly in favor of the casino, the gambling industry is big business throughout the United States.

Photos by John Gottberg Anderson / For The Bulletin

Employee Christa McDougal spins the roulette wheel for gaming aficionados at the Spirit Mountain Casino. Of the 1,500 people who work at the resort, fully 10 percent are members of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who own and operate the casino.

There are nine casinos in Oregon, each of them owned and operated by a different American Indian nation. Spirit Mountain is the largest of the group, and the one nearest to the Portland population hub.

Located near the junction of state highways 18 and 22, about 30 miles west of Salem, Spirit Mountain is a venture of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Members come mainly from the Kalapuya, Molalla, Chasta, Rogue River (Tekelma) and Umpqua tribes. Of the resort’s 1,500 employees, 10 percent are tribal members.

Opened in October 1995, Spirit Mountain lays claim to being the state’s classiest casino as well as its largest. “We take pride in being a notch above the rest,” said marketing manager Greg Fritz.

The handsome lodge, which blends into a backdrop of forested Coast Range hills, has 254 spacious rooms with prices that begin at $89 or less, depending on seasonal specials. It is linked to the casino through a corridor that features displays on Grand Ronde tribal history, including a video that runs on a continuous loop.

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A casino visitor plays the slot machines on the gaming floor of the Spirit Mountain Casino and Lodge in Grand Ronde. Spirit Mountain is the largest of Oregon’s nine tribal casinos.

Oregon tribal casinos

Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort & Casino

Madras

Three Rivers Casino & Hotel Florence

Bend Burns

The Mill Casino Hotel Old Camp Casino

North Bend Canyonville Seven Feathers Casino Resort

Lecture set on forest fires, ecology Learn about fire’s role in the health and development of Oregon’s forest ecosystems on Tuesday in the next installment of Oregon State UniversityCascades Campus’ Science Pub lectures.

The featured speaker is Oregon State University Associate Professor John Bailey, who will present some of his own research on how fire frequency and severity are changing forests in the West. Bailey specializes in silviculture and fire management in OSU’s Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management.

Reservations are required for Science Pub lectures. Participants must confirm at one of the contacts below by 5 p.m. Monday.

The lecture is free and will take place in Father Luke’s Room at McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., in Bend. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture will go from 6 to 7 p.m.

Contact: 541-322-3100 or info@osucascades.edu.

Humanitarians to convene in Bend

Grand Ronde Chinook Winds Casino Lincoln City Resort

Wildhorse Resort & Casino

Pendleton

Spirit Mountain Casino and Lodge

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Kla-Mo-Ya Casino Chiloquin Greg Cross / The Bulletin

Humanitarian thinkers from around the globe will gather in Bend in February for the Justice Conference, a two-day seminar focusing on issues ranging from human slavery to worldwide poverty.

The seminar, which is open to the public, is being put on by the local office of World Relief, a 65year-old Christian nonprofit organization devoted to humanitarian efforts worldwide. Speakers include Nicholas Wolterstorff, a Yale University theology professor emeritus, and workers from World Relief’s international locations.

The seminar will take place Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 11 and 12, at the Riverhouse Convention Center in Bend. Registration is $109 per person before Jan. 10 and $119 after that date.

Contact: 541-550-7115 or www.thejusticeconfer ence.com.

— From staff reports

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Man shocks ailing wife on dog care Dear Abby: Since being diagnosed with two types of cancer, I have been unable to work. I have two wonderful dogs, and all my time is invested in them.

I show them in obedience and agility exhibitions and love them dearly.

While talking with my husband of 25 years, I casually asked him about the dogs’ care if I should pass away. His answer was shocking. He said he is prepared to give the dogs away — to a good home, of course — because he doesn’t have the time and doesn’t want to be bothered with them. What does this say about how he truly feels about me?

— Doggie Blues in Pennsylvania Dear Doggie Blues: What it says is your husband does not regard your dogs as extensions of you. It also says he is completely honest. Now that you know how he feels about your dogs, if you’re smart, you will contact some of your friends on the dog show circuit and ensure that your dogs will be placed in homes where they are loved and appreciated — preferably together — should they outlive you. It will give you peace of mind, and your husband will have two less things to be “bothered” about in the event that you predecease him.

Dear Abby: My sister, who is six years younger, married for the first time at 42. Until she met her husband, who is overweight, she was never heavy.

She always tried to watch her weight and exercised to a moderate degree. Once she met him, they found fine dining to

DEAR ABBY be a favorite pleasure. She also has discovered that she loves to cook and watch the food channels on TV. When we visit, talk or write, food dominates the topics. My sister has gained 70 or 80 pounds in six years. She doesn’t exercise and won’t buy a scale. My husband and I mention exercise or calories every time they discuss food. She does not appreciate “Big Sis” giving her advice, but I’m concerned about her. She doesn’t read or watch the news, so I feel if I’m not telling her the risks, I’m just standing by watching her kill herself. What can I do?

— Battling a Weighty Issue Dear Battling: First, stop lecturing your sister about her weight problem. Until she wants to address it, you will only alienate her. When she and her husband experience the health problems that may occur because of their obesity and sedentary lifestyle, be supportive and offer suggestions only if they are requested.

The most unwelcome advice in the world is that which is unasked for. She will deal with her weight only when she’s ready, and nothing you can do, however well-intentioned, will change that.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby .com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

What craziness awaits on ‘Survivor’?

By Chuck Barney

Former football coach Jimmy Johnson, left, gets bounced earlier this season by host Jeff Probst on “Survivor: Nicaragua.”

Contra Costa Times

“Survivor: Nicaragua” 8 tonight, CBS In its 21st season, the fabled reality series had it all: Smackdowns between the young and old, a couple of pouty quitters, some loopy nicknames (Sash?

Benry? Fabio? Purple Kelly?), and even a tearful funeral for a chicken. But the craziness comes to an end with the two-hour finale and the crowning of our million-dollar champ. As usual, that will be followed by a reunion special in which host Jeff Probst peppers the cast with lots of inane questions.

“Gene Simmons Family Jewels” 9:30 tonight, A&E Better duck for cover. On “Gene Simmons Family Jewels,” the Kiss star volunteers to participate in a charity golf event despite knowing little about the sport.

“Top Gear” 10 tonight, History Tony Hawk may be a whiz when it comes to skateboarding, but he’s dealing with a different set of wheels when he drops by “Top Gear,” where the guys put some old GM cars through a series of fun challenges.

“Robot Chicken” 11:30 tonight, Cartoon Network The Farce is with them as “Robot Chicken” presents its third irreverent send-up of the “Star Wars” saga. Among those lending their voices to the hilarious hour is Zac Efron

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as Anakin Skywalker.

“Million Dollar Money Drop” 8 p.m. Monday, Fox Kevin Pollack hosts “Million Dollar Money Drop,” a new game show that hands contestants $1 million up front. But here’s the catch: They’ve got to answer seven questions in order to keep the cash from dropping down a chute.

“Skating With the Stars” 8 p.m. Tuesday, ABC A winner will be crowned tonight on the finale of “Skating With the Stars,” but let’s be honest: We’re really rooting for more wipeouts on the ice.

“Top Chef: All-Stars”

10 p.m. Wednesday, Bravo Julia Child never had it this rough. Tonight’s quick-fire challenge on “Top Chef: All-Stars” has the contestants creating a holiday stuffing dish — using only their hands (and no utensils).

mas.” First up is the much-beloved animated classic, followed by the not-so-beloved film starring Jim Carrey.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” 8 p.m. Friday, NBC Everyone talks about the sweetness and sentiment of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but what about the sizzle? That telephone scene between Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed remains one of the sexiest ever filmed.

“Scrooged” 8 p.m. Saturday, AMC Bill Murray is at the top of his game in the hilarious 1988 film “Scrooged.” He plays a miserly TV executive who has a bah-humbug attitude until some ghostly visits change his ways.

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 19, 2010 C3

CALENDAR TODAY THE TRAIN MAN: Watch Michael Lavrich’s extensive collection of toy trains running on a track and ask questions; free; 1-5 p.m.; Bend Public Library, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-617-7050 or www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.

“MOON OVER BUFFALO”: Final performance of Cascades Theatrical Company’s presentation of Ken Ludwig’s comedy about two fading stars hoping to stage a comeback; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 2 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www. cascadestheatrical.org.

“MURDER ON THE MENU”: Buckboard Mysteries presents an interactive murder mystery dinner theater event; $49, $45 seniors, $39 ages 2-12; 3:30 p.m.; Cascade Village Shopping Center, 63455 N. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-350-0018 or www.buckboardmysteries.com.

CELEBRATION OF LIGHT: Drive or take a wagon ride through an outdoor nativity and light display, with caroling; free; 6:30-8 p.m.; Madras Conservative Baptist Church, 751 N.E. 10th St.; 541-475-7287.

ON A CLEAR WINTER’S NIGHT JAZZ CHRISTMAS: Featuring performances

by Peter White, Mindi Abair and Rick Braun; with Santa, live reindeer, carolers and more; $26, $56 reserved; 7 p.m., doors open 6 p.m.; The Riverhouse Convention Center, 2850 N.W. Rippling River Court, Bend; www.c3events.com.

“A CHRISTMAS CAROL”: Bend Experimental Art Theatre presents an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale, performed by a youth and adult cast; $19 or $25, $15 ages 12 and younger; 7:30 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-3170700 or www.towertheatre.org.

SUNRIVER MUSIC FESTIVAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT: An evening of classical and Christmas music emceed by Bob Shaw; $30, $40 reserved, $25 ages 65 and older, $10 ages 18 and younger; 7:30 p.m.; Sunriver Resort Great Hall, 17728 Abbot Drive; 541-593-9310, tickets@sunrivermusic.org or www. sunrivermusic.org.

MONDAY THE TRAIN MAN: Watch Michael Lavrich’s extensive collection of toy trains running on a track and ask questions; free; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-6 p.m.; Bend Public Library, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-617-7050 or www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.

THE REPTILE ZONE: Jeff from The Reptile Zone will show lizards, pythons and a tortoise; all ages welcome; free; 3 p.m.; Play Outdoors, 840 S.E. Woodland Blvd., Suite 110, Bend; 866-608-2423.

“A CHRISTMAS CAROL”: Bend

Experimental Art Theatre presents an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale, performed by a youth and adult cast; $19 or $25, $15 ages 12 and younger; 7:30 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-317-0700 or www. towertheatre.org.

LUNAR ECLIPSE PARTY: Watch a presentation on lunar eclipses then watch the eclipse through telescopes; dress for cold weather; $6, $4 ages 2-12, free for observatory members; 9-11 p.m.; Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, 57245 River Road; 541-5934394.

TUESDAY “SHARING OUR FAVORITE GENEALOGY STORIES”: Bend Genealogical Society presents a program followed by a holiday potluck; free; 10 a.m.; Rock Arbor Villa, Williamson Hall, 2200 N.E. U.S. Highway 20, Bend; 541-3178978,541-317-9553 or www. orgenweb.org/deschutes/bend-gs.

WEDNESDAY VEGETARIAN POTLUCK: Bring a vegetarian dish with a list of its ingredients, a gift worth less than $5 for a gift exchange, and 24 of your favorite cookies; free; 6 p.m.; The Environmental Center, 16 N.W. Kansas Ave., Bend; 541-480-3017.

LIVE READ: Sit in comfy chairs and listen to short fiction read aloud by library staff; free; 6:30-7:30 p.m.; Sunriver Area Public Library, 56855 Venture Lane; 541-312-1080.

FRIDAY COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE: With food, carols, a choir performance and a performance by Annie Bethancourt; reservations recommended; free; 4, 5:30 and 7 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-317-0700 or www. towertheatre.org.

STARFEST: Explore the festive holiday light display; through Jan. 2; free; 5:50-9:30 p.m.; Eagle Crest Resort, 1522 Cline Falls Road, Redmond; www.eagle-crest.com.

‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: Featuring holiday trivia, caroling and a live reading of the holiday poem; free admission; 78 p.m.; Sunriver Resort, Homestead Room, 57081 Meadow Road; 800486-8591 or www.sunriver-resort. com/traditions.

SATURDAY STARFEST: Explore the festive holiday light display; through Jan.

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2; free; 5:50-9:30 p.m.; Eagle Crest Resort, 1522 Cline Falls Road, Redmond; www.eagle-crest.com.

SUNDAY Dec. 26 CHARITY BINGO: Event includes a canned food drive and baked-goods sale; proceeds benefit the St. Vincent de Paul food bank; $7; 2 p.m.; Eagles Lodge & Club, 235 N.E. Fourth St., Prineville; 541-4477659.

STARFEST: Explore the festive holiday light display; through Jan. 2; free; 5:50-9:30 p.m.; Eagle Crest Resort, 1522 Cline Falls Road, Redmond; www.eagle-crest.com.

TUESDAY Dec. 28 CLASSICS BOOK CLUB: Read and discuss short stories by Henry James; free; 6-8 p.m.; Bend Public Library, Brooks Room, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-617-7087, kevinb@dpls.us or www.dpls.us/calendar.

WEDNESDAY Dec. 29 CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT: Bird watchers of all levels walk with naturalist or independently for the annual bird survey; free; 8 a.m.4 p.m.; Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, 57245 River Road; 541-593-4394 or www. sunrivernaturecenter.org.

REVEREND HORTON HEAT: The Dallas-based rockabilly band performs, with Hillstomp; $20 plus fees in advance, $25 at the door; 8 p.m., doors open 7 p.m.; Midtown Ballroom, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541788-2989 or www. randompresents. com.

FRIDAY

Shopping Center, 63455 N. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-350-0018 or www.buckboardmysteries.com.

ROCKIN’ NEW YEAR’S EVE: Featuring costumes, cardboard instruments, games, crafts and more; reservations requested; $65, $55 resort guests; 6:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Fort Funnigan, 17600 Center Drive, Sunriver; 541-593-4609 or www.sunriver-resort.com/traditions.

ROCK THE OX: A New Year’s Eve party with a DJ, dancing, champagne and more; ages 21 and older; $35 plus fees; 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; The Oxford Hotel, 10 N.W. Minnesota Ave., Bend; 541-382-8436 or www. bendticket.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE BONFIRE ON THE SNOW: Wanderlust Tours leads a short snowshoe hike to a bonfire and hand-carved snow amphitheater in the forest; a naturalist shares facts about the forest, animals and the night sky; reservations required; adults only; trips depart from Sunriver and Bend; $85 includes guide, snowshoes, transportation, food and drink; 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.541-389-8359 or www.wanderlusttours.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION: Featuring a performance by the Moon Mountain Ramblers and Jukebot; free, $10 for Moon Mountain Ramblers; 9 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-3825174 or www.mcmenamins.com.

SATURDAY Jan. 1 POLAR BEAR PLUNGE: Take an icy plunge into the Lodge Village’s outdoor pool; hot chocolate served; free; 10 a.m.; Sunriver Resort, 17600 Center Drive; 800-486-8591 or www.sunriver-resort.com/traditions.

“EAT DRINK & BE DEADLY”: Buckboard Mysteries presents an interactive murder mystery dinner theater event; $49, $45 seniors, $39 ages 2-12; 6:30 p.m.; Cascade Village Shopping Center, 63455 N. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-350-0018 or www. buckboardmysteries.com.

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Jan. 2

BEND’S FIRST 1000 LIGHTS COMMUNITY WALK: Event includes a family festival, a magic show, live music and an illuminated walk; proceeds benefit the La Pine Community Kitchen; $18, $25 for families, free ages 13 and younger; all participants are asked to donate three cans of food, warm clothing or pet food; 4 p.m., walk begins 6 p.m.; Juniper Elementary School, 1300 N.E. Norton St.; www. bendsfirst1000lightswalk.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE BASH: Buckboard Mysteries presents an interactive murder mystery dinner theater event, with “The Mafioso Murders,” casino games and more; $59, $110 per couple; 6:30 p.m.; Cascade Village

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Dark-horse inductees give Rock and Roll Hall respite from its mission

By Ann Powers Los Angeles Times

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions are all about musical history, but the producers of March’s fete might want to consider playing a current hit to greet the latest batch of inductees.

“Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways — all my underdogs,” Pink sings in the titular chorus of her No. 1 song.

The rabble-rousing diva had no way of knowing that her trash anthem would apply so perfectly to those being honored by the Cleveland-based canonizing institution. But the strongest quality shared by 2011’s chosen ones is that they’re five dark horses.

That’s not to say that Neil Diamond isn’t a towering figure in genre-spanning postwar pop or that Darlene Love doesn’t possess one of the signature voices of the girl-group era or that Tom Waits hasn’t produced one of the most enduring recorded legacies of the rock era. I would never underestimate Alice Cooper’s influence on several generations of theatrical rockers or marginalize New Orleans piano man Dr. John, who has turned on millions to the magic of the Crescent City under that name and as “Mac” Rebennack.

Each 2011 Hall of Famer deserves a spot. What’s unusual is that they’re all arriving together,

minus any of the central figures who’ve defined rock’s classic chronology. Each stands tall in a different spot: Diamond on rock’s poppiest plateau and Waits at its artiest edge, Love emerging from behind better-known girl group stars such as Diana Ross and Ronnie Spector, Cooper from within heavy metal, a genre he helped invent, and Dr. John, willingly bound to his particular locale, New Orleans.

Obviously, the greatest figures from rock’s early and classic years have been in the hall for a while.

Yet by taking a year out to honor mostly older, overlooked figures (Waits, at 61, is the youngest), the Rock Hall’s voting constituency is giving the institution a breather from its task of figuring out how to tell pop music’s tale after the classic rock period.

With a few exceptions, the nominees snubbed for 2011 were artists who would have helped the Rock Hall define its next steps.

Chic and Donna Summer would have widened its appreciation of disco, a move already begun by this year’s ABBA induction. The Beastie Boys and LL Cool J are key future inductees as the Hall wrestles with the hip-hop era.

And Bon Jovi must eventually be included as a way of acknowledging that commercial rock during the 1980s mattered even when it wasn’t critically admired.

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The Chinook Winds Casino Resort overlooks the Pacific Ocean on the north side of Lincoln City. One of three tribal casinos in Oregon coastal towns, it is owned and operated by the Siletz tribe and features an adjacent hotel, convention center and 18-hole golf course.

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Performers like Clint Black and the Smothers Brothers have appeared in the showroom, located near a gaming area with 700 slot machines and 11 table games. Five food outlets include an upscale steakhouse, a buffet restaurant, a sports bar and a three-meals-a-day coffee shop. The hotel has 90 nicely maintained guest rooms. It offers golf-and-casino packages in connection to a pair of 18-hole courses, Sandpines and Ocean Dunes.

The Mill Casino Hotel, an enterprise of the Coquille tribe, was built on the Coos Bay waterfront in North Bend on the site of an abandoned lumber mill.

Currently the property is undergoing a major expansion to turn it into a full-fledged convention center.

The Mill has more than 200 guest rooms, 92 of them in a seven-story bayfront tower. It has five restaurants, including the Plank House steak-and-seafood restaurant, a buffet, a pub and a martini lounge. Its showroom has hosted such concert performers as Wayne Newton and Herman’s Hermits, and its gam-

ing room offers more than 700 slot machines as well as table games, poker and bingo.

Inland destinations Oregon’s first casino, and its largest after Spirit Mountain, is the Seven Feathers Casino Resort. Located in Canyonville, midway between Roseburg and Grants Pass off Interstate 5, it was established in April 1994 by the Cow Creek band of the Umpqua tribe, two years after the Indians went into the gaming business with a bingo hall.

Today the resort has 1,300 slot machines and 17 table games, as well as bingo, keno and poker.

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Casinos Continued from C1 Spirit Mountain has seven food outlets, all under the direction of Richard Burr, once a Team USA Culinary Olympian. He and three other executive chefs prepare meals 23 hours a day; their restaurants include the Cedar Plank Buffet, the state’s largest buffet with seven chef stations, and Legends, an upscale establishment with a steak-and-seafood menu.

The gaming area has nearly 2,000 slot machines; areas for poker, bingo and keno; and 35 table games that include blackjack, craps and roulette. A couple of times a month, a showroom brings in such big-name concert performers as Bret Michaels, Tracy Lawrence and the Goo Goo Dolls. A large sports bar with 17 flat-screen TVs and the hip Raindrops Nightclub, open weekends, provide additional entertainment.

Tribal gaming The tribal casino movement was launched in 1988 when Congress passed the Indian Gaming and Regulatory Act. The U.S. Constitution specifies that each tribe is a sovereign government with full administrative powers (so long as they do not conflict with national interests).

That means that tribes like the Klamath, Siletz and Umatilla, the Coos, Coquille and Umpqua, can build casinos and associated resorts on their lands to stimulate their local economies and provide employment opportunities that may not previously have existed.

In Oregon, there are certain caveats attached. In particular, the Oregon State Police added a dedicated Indian Gaming Unit to monitor the gambling activity, and its cost of operation — $3.2 million per year — must be borne entirely by the casinos.

Because they are considered independent nations, the tribes are not required to tell the state how much revenue their casinos generate. But the amount is substantial. How much?

“I can’t tell you that,” said Spirit Mountain’s Fritz. “But I can tell you that the Spirit Mountain Community Fund gets 6 percent of our profits, and we give them between $5 million and $6 mil-

A veterans memorial outside the Grand Ronde tribal headquarters in Grand Ronde honors Native American men and women who have served in the American armed forces. The U.S. Constitution assures every tribal nation the rights of a sovereign government.

lion each year. And in the eight years since I’ve been at the casino, we’ve given the fund nearly $50 million.”

Do the math, and that translates to about $100 million in annual revenues from just one casino.

Tribes use their gaming profits to pay for tribal government operations and services, including police, courts, roads and construction, according to a publication of the Oregon Legislative Policy and Research Office. They provide for tribal welfare through social services and charitable contributions. And they invest in further economic development projects, promoting financial independence for

people who for decades suffered widespread poverty and dependence upon welfare income.

3 coastal options The nearest casino to Spirit Mountain is the Chinook Winds Casino Resort, which sits on a low bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the north side of Lincoln City, about 25 miles to the west. Opened by the Siletz people, Chinook Winds has more than 1,200 slot machines and 15 table games, as well as poker and keno. Monthly headline concerts in its showroom (which doubles as a bingo hall) will include Meat Loaf in January and Charley Pride in March.

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Visitors are greeted to the casino by a two-story waterfall, which cascades from the foot of an artificial tree topped by a bald eagle’s aerie. Designed to resemble a traditional Siletz tribal site, the rivulet ends in a small pond whose bed is speckled with coins destined for the tribe’s educational fund.

The gaming area is at the right of the entrance, the showroom to the left. An escalator rises beside the waterfall to a pair of restaurants — a buffet and a steakhouse, the latter with a wonderful ocean view — and a sprawling convention center. An adjacent 227-room hotel has its own restaurant and lounge, as well as a shuttle that runs back and forth to the casino entrance.

The 18-hole Chinook Winds Golf Resort is just a short distance north, also served by shuttles.

Three Rivers Casino & Hotel became Oregon’s youngest casino in June 2004. It is on the eastern edge of Florence, 60 miles west of Eugene off state Highway 126, and is owned by the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw tribes. Three Rivers occupied a temporary structure until the end of 2007, when it moved into a permanent home ringed

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C OV ER S T ORY From previous page A glass walkway links the gaming floor to the original 147-room hotel, whose amenities include an indoor pool and fitness center. A new five-story addition will add 154 more rooms, as well as a day spa and additional conference facilities.

Seven Feathers’ four restaurants include the Camas Room for fine dining, a 250-seat buffet, a 24hour cafe and a sports bar with 19 televisions. The Cabaret Lounge has live entertainment seven nights a week, and the showroom features such star power as Tanya Tucker, Nelson and the Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley.

In the Umatilla Indian Reservation just east of Pendleton is the Wildhorse Resort & Casino.

Already a good-size destination resort, it is undergoing an expansion — scheduled for completion by next September — that will add 202 guest rooms to the 100 already on the property, and more than double the number of slot machines in the gaming area to about 1,400.

The new rooms will be contained within a 10-story hotel tower with indoor and outdoor swimming pools. The tower will adjoin a four-theater cinema complex with a 3-D movie screen, and will allow for new retail and video arcade space. Wildhorse presently has a half-dozen restaurants, including the fine-dining Plateau; a concert venue that has hosted the likes of Merle Haggard and Los Lonely Boys; and an 18-hole golf course.

A unique element of the complex is its museum, the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute. The outstanding exhibits highlight the history and traditions of the Umatilla tribe and its neighboring Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes. Further displays tell the story of the greater Pendleton area, with focus on its 100-yearold rodeo and the famous Pendleton Woolen Mill blankets.

In the vicinity No tribal casino is nearer to the Bend area than the Kah-NeeTa High Desert Resort & Casino, in the heart of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation northwest of Madras. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs — which include members of the Wasco, Paiute and Warm Springs tribes — organized as a sovereign nation in 1937. They built Kah-Nee-Ta Village around a set of natural hot springs in 1964, and opened a lodge and convention center nearby in 1972.

In 1995, after passage of the Indian Gaming Act, the casino was added. In some ways, it still feels like an afterthought. The gaming area is small compared with most of the state’s other casinos: only 325 slot machines and a half-dozen table games, including blackjack. There are two full-service restaurants and a patio area for

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TRIBAL CASINOS

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• Chinook Winds Casino Resort.

1777 N.W. 44th St., Lincoln City; 541-996-5825, 877-423-2241, www.chinookwindscasino.com.

Hotel rates from $79.

• Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort & Casino. Warm Springs; 541-5531112, 800-554-4786, www.kahneeta .com. Room rates from $149 (lodge) or $69 (summer tepees).

• Kla-Mo-Ya Casino. 34333 U.S. Highway 97, Chiloquin; 541-7837529, www.klamoyacasino.com.

No lodging.

• The Mill Casino Hotel. 3201 Tremont Ave., North Bend; 541756-8800, 800-953-4800, www .themillcasino.com. Hotel rates

from $102.

• Old Camp Casino. 2205 W. Monroe St., Burns; 541-573-1500, 888-343-7568, www.oldcamp casino.com. No lodging.

• Seven Feathers Casino Resort.

146 Chief Miwaleta Lane, Canyonville; 541-839-1111, 800548-8461, www.sevenfeathers .com. Rates from $59.

• Spirit Mountain Casino and Lodge. 27100 Salmon River Highway, Grand Ronde; 503-8793764, 800-760-7977, www .spiritmountain.com. Hotel rates from $89.

• Three Rivers Casino & Hotel.

5647 State Highway 126, Florence; 541-997-7529, 877-374-8377, www.threeriverscasino.com. Hotel rates from $109.

• Wildhorse Resort & Casino.

72777 State Highway 331, Pendleton; 541-278-2274, 800654-9453, www.wildhorseresort .com. Hotel rates from $70.

Located on the Coos Bay waterfront in the city of North Bend, owned and operated by the Coquille tribe, the 200-room Mill Casino Hotel stands on the site of an abandoned lumber mill. A reminder of its past is evident at the large active mill immediately to its south. outdoor salmon bakes in summer.

The tidy entertainment lounge brings in performers like singers Terri Clark and Juice Newton and the comedian Gallagher.

Outdoor recreation takes center stage at Kah-Nee-Ta. In addition to the original hot springs pools, visitors find an 18-hole golf course and excellent riding stables. A full-service spa is located in the Village, where summer guests may stay in condo-style suites or casual family tepees. Seasonal shuttles connect the Village to the main lodge, which contains 139 upscale rooms.

Two other smaller casinos, each less than three hours’ drive from Bend, offer gaming opportunities but no lodging.

Beside U.S. Highway 97 in Chiloquin is the Kla-Mo-Ya Casino, an enterprise of the Klamath peoples, who are members of the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin tribes.

There are 380 slot machines and a handful of blackjack tables, as well as a casual buffet and a fastfood deli.

Smaller yet is the Old Camp Casino, owned by the 300-member Burns Paiute tribe (the Wadatika Paiute). Occupying a large tent on the northwest edge of Burns, the casino has a single restaurant and fewer than 100 slot machines, plus blackjack and bingo.

But even these “little guys” have a draw. Even in Burns and Chiloquin, an excited energy flows together with dreams of sudden fortune. The bells ring and the lights flash. Welcome to the casino world, Oregon-style.

Exhibits on Umatilla tribal heritage are presented at the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute museum at Pendleton’s Wildhorse Resort & Casino.

The destination resort is undergoing an expansion that includes a 10-story hotel tower and a four-theater cinema complex.

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Some families make Hanukkah more festive for sake of kids

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kids, Josh, Naomi and Maytal, especially since their mother, Carol, is a convert to Judaism. “We’re very clear on the fact that when we’re visiting a family member and sharing in their religious holiday, it’s the same as when they come and be a part of our Passover Seder or Shabbat dinner,� he says. “You must make that distinction early. We’re not trying to live an isolationist life.

I think it’s great for kids to learn about and be able to see the different practices and beliefs other people in the community have.�

The issue didn’t come up for Josie and Ben Levi of Oakland, Calif., until their children wrapped up Jewish preschool and joined the public school system. After that, it seemed Christmas was everywhere. And both of their daughters, Talia, 6, and Maya, 9, asked, “Why can’t we do Christmas?� “We tell them that different people celebrate different things

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looked, while hers felt dark. “My mom would put out one of those little electric menorahs in the window and a banner that said ‘Happy Hanukkah,’ � Miller recalls. “I remember sort of feeling left out. I didn’t want a Christmas tree, but I remember feeling sad. Now, we try to make it a bigger deal so our kids can learn to be proud of it.�

Rabbi David Booth of Congregation Kole Emeth, a conservative synagogue in Palo Alto, Calif., says it’s easy to fall into the trap of building up Hanukkah to compete with Christmas. “But there’s no reason to do that. It’s a minor holiday for us,� he says of the eight-day celebration that commemorates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem during the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the second century B.C. “Even the practice of gift gifting associated with Hanukkah is a post-World War II tradition created here in the United States as American Jews became more integrated into the culture.

It’s not really a practice outside of the U.S.�

Booth advises beginning the Christmas talk with kids as young as 3. That’s what he did with his

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Recently, Jennifer Miller’s son came to his mother with a problem. The boy sings in his school’s choir, and their current program is full of Christmas carols. But, because he is Jewish, Noah, 7, thought he shouldn’t participate in the chorus. “I explained to him that even though Christmas is not our holiday, he can still sing and enjoy the songs,� says Miller, 39, of Mountain View, Calif. And then she proceeded to sing one of her favorites, “Merry Christmas Bells,� with her son.

Many Jews call it an inherent dilemma: how and when to explain to their children what is arguably the nation’s biggest holiday and why they don’t celebrate it inside their homes.

Many parents and religious experts believe that educating children at a young age about the differences between Christmas and Hanukkah, which wrapped up Dec. 9, is the best way to address the issue.

Each year, Miller and her husband, Adin, throw a big Hanukkah party complete with lights, decorations and spinning dreidel — a dreidel is a four-sided toy marked with Hebrew letters and spun like a top — to show their sons, including 4-year-old Jesse, how festive Hanukkah is.

The Millers showcase Hanukkah, which is considered a minor Jewish holiday, in part because of Jennifer’s memories of growing up as the only Jewish kid on the block in her Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood.

Every December, Miller says, she remembers thinking how big, bright and festive all the other houses on the block

and it’s important to respect everyone’s beliefs,� says Josie, 39. “We let them participate in decorating a tree at a friend’s house, but it doesn’t mean we’re going to midnight Mass.�

The Levis haven’t addressed the actual religious differences with their children because that hasn’t come up yet, Josie says.

“I remember sort of feeling left out. I didn’t want a Christmas tree, but I remember feeling sad.

Now, we try to make it (Hanukkah) a bigger deal so our kids can learn to be proud of it.�

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“There’s never enough time. But there’s never enough time in the day for everything anyway. So, you know, might as well make it productive.”

Kit contents

Continued from C1 The Evanses distributed their first 350 kits this fall through Bethlehem Inn, Bend’s Community Center, Cascade Youth & Family Center’s LOFT and Central Oregon Veterans Outreach, the last of which takes the kits directly into homeless camps.

The Evanses operate the program under Bethlehem Inn’s nonprofit status, so donations to the cause are tax-deductible without the Evanses having to form their own 501(c)3 nonprofit. “They’ve given us a lot of mentoring, and they manage the funds,” says Wendy.

Bethlehem Inn received about 250 of the kits, estimates Chris Clouart, its managing director.

There are only about 40 left.

He recalls how the Evanses had approached Bethlehem Inn wanting to put together “small packets of vital provisions, things people need on an emergency basis, and try to make them available to ... nonprofits that deal with folks who are either experiencing homelessness or are close to it,” he says.

“It’s really helpful for us to be able to hand these things out,” he says. “Inside of the bags is essentially just the kinds of things that you might need: toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, soap, hand warmers, maybe a candy bar, just something that you can pass out to people that would have a direct impact, an immediate impact, on their lives.

“It saves us a real hassle when it comes to people either leaving the Inn or people who are just coming in, or people who are just stopping by the Inn for provisions. We have a lot of folks who just come by and say, ‘Listen, have you got a sleeping bag?’ That kind of thing. We also hand them out to residents, too, because a lot of folks will come in and they just don’t have much of anything.”

The Vital Provisions Packs include the following items, in travel size when applicable: soap Band-Aids shampoo Neosporin toothbrush toothpaste lip balm dental floss cough drops deodorant hand sanitizer razor shaving cream lotion

comb nail file feminine products water high-protein snacks socks (wool) hand warmers (winter) emergency contact listing hand towel stamps envelopes

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SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

— Wendy Evans, co-creator of Vital Provisions Packs

Contact: 541-610-9889 or vitalprovisionsprogram@ yahoo.com.

Clouart considers the project “truly a remarkable piece of bootstrap kind of stuff,” he says. “If you think about it, it’s ‘Vital Provisions.’ It means exactly that. It means the sort of basic, hygienic, needful items that everybody goes through on a daily basis. I think they were really quite thoughtful in deciding to refer to this as Vital Provisions.”

The Evanses received some donations from people, including friends and family, but have been paying for many of the provisions directly out of their own pockets. A recent $4,000 grant from Bank of America, where Wendy works, will help matters, but they can use more help.

In particular, they need warm socks, new or used, for adults.

“You hear from people who are homeless, and from all the agencies, I mean everybody, says, ‘Oh, my gosh, socks just mean so much,’ and they’re so important to people,” says

Wendy. “Unit cost-wise, that is the most expensive item in our packs, and the most difficult to come by.”

Neosporin ointment is similarly expensive.

“We consider this to be a critical item, given its first-aid qualities, but for our first distribution we were only able to provide a one-use packet given the unit cost,” says Wendy, who hopes to increase the amount included in future packs.

The Evanses are preparing for their next distribution of 350 more Vital Provisions Packs in January.

“This is an ongoing thing, so we’ll be doing this in April, in June, throughout the year,” she says, adding that she and her husband are “desperate for help.”

“It’s truly just my husband and myself doing this on our own,” says Wendy, who telecommutes, working East Coast banking hours. Her husband, Danny, works as a business consultant. They have a 3-yearold daughter.

Along with their efforts to help the homeless, they’re plenty busy.

“There’s never enough time,” says Wendy. “But there’s never enough time in the day for everything anyway. So, you know, might as well make it productive.”

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010: This year, events and people test your way of reasoning and processing. Use these experiences to explore different ideas, moving away from right and wrong, as well as black-and-white thinking.

Curb spending, and don’t let impulse impact your habits. You will be much happier in the long run. If you are single or attached, others express more interest in your ideas. Those single and born today will have quite a few potential suitors, but many will blow out. Remember, it only takes one person to fall in love. If you are attached, give-and-take becomes even more important.

GEMINI has similar issues as you but a different approach.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You could be out of sorts for a myriad of reasons, but why not get past the feeling? Someone spontaneously invites you on an adventure. Whether it is physical or mental might not matter.

Tonight: Make it an early night.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Watch an innate tendency to go overboard without thinking.

You might be forced to look at your reaction to a situation. It might even seem a little strange to you. An invitation or discussion distracts you even more. Tonight: Have fun with a favorite person.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You easily could get aggravated by a partner, dear friend or loved one. Rather than being grumpy, go for a walk or do a little shopping. Distraction proves to be very healing. Tonight: Let others give suggestions!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HH Know when you are best off pleading for private time, for whatever reason. You simply need some downtime. You could trigger far too easily, as you are on overload. Tonight: An important talk.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You might want to rethink plans if you wake up feeling weathered. That dragging energy most likely will be part of your day until you have a perky conversation with a child or loved one late this afternoon.

Tonight: Hang with friends.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Unlike many people, you have a high visibility right now.

Your responsibilities seem endless. Don’t forget to check in on an older relative or friend.

Your thoughtfulness means a lot.

This person has an interesting way of saying thank you. Tonight: Wherever you are, you are a star.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Keep reaching out for others at a distance. Whether addressing holiday cards, wrapping presents or making calls to those who are not near, your thoughts will be appreciated. A call revives your spirit, leaving you smiling. Tonight: Detach from an immediate situation,

then use your imagination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH It seems you have little choice. You must dedicate some time to a key partner or loved one.

If you feel resentful, think twice, as that attitude could flow into your day.

Tonight: Time to have some fun!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH A money issue could be irritating, but are you going to allow it to ruin your day? We hope not. Excellent communication with a friend, family member or loved one allows a greater closeness this afternoon.

Tonight: Be where people are.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Take extra time to clear out any last-minute Santa chores or to do a project that will make the next few weeks flow. Share a great idea with a loved one.

You will get intriguing feedback.

Tonight: Relax, relax ...

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You cannot prevent a frisky playfulness that emanates from you. Even if you are personally aggravated about several issues, this attitude still comes out. A friend taps into your naughtiness in the late afternoon. Enjoy the fun.

Tonight: Where you want to be.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Tension could be an issue, not only on the home front but also with a friend or a goal that might be harder to realize than you thought possible. Catch up with an older friend or relative. Tonight: Mellow out; you choose how. © 2010 by King Features Syndicate

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The fix is in: finding beauty in the broken

By Andrea Codrington Lippke New York Times News Service

Reuse is all the rage these days: Witness the rise of fixers, tinkerers and hackers — that scrappy set of do-it-yourselfers who gather in collectives from Brooklyn to Berlin to breathe new life into broken objects that would have been consigned to the junk heap a few years earlier.

It turns out, though, that the current fixing fad is just another instance of history repeating itself.

“I call them the orphans of the antiques world,” said Andrew Baseman, 50, an interior designer in Manhattan, referring to his collection of what are often called make-do’s — domestic objects dating back centuries that bear evidence of having been broken and repaired in unusual and often artful ways.

Scattered throughout the Chelsea apartment that Baseman shares with his partner, Mark Randall, 51 — and their upstate New York farmhouse — are more than 300 stunning examples of historical “hacks,” to use the parlance of today’s fixer culture. Baseman’s objects may be centuries-old antiques, but they have a deconstructed aesthetic that would look equally at home in a high-end SoHo design store or at Milan’s annual furniture fair.

There is a surprising set of blue-and-white 18th-century Chinese export plates that were broken into pieces and fused back together with a train track of metal-wire staples. There is an array of 18th- and 19th-century teapots, jugs, cups and mugs — made of porcelain, pottery, glass and metal, among other things — whose broken handles, spouts and bases have been replaced with new ones made of tin, pewter, bronze, silver and wood.

There is even a selection of toys.

“I’m amazed in some cases that these objects didn’t get thrown away,” said Baseman, handling a small cast-lead dog from the 1930s whose missing leg was replaced by a nail.

For someone like Baseman, though, broken is beautiful. “The scrappier the better,” he said.

He offers up his favorite pos-

have a well-documented appreciation of the wonky and worn down, having developed an aesthetic philosophy around it in the form of wabi-sabi. But what about Americans, who are used to the promise of things shiny and new — or if not new, then at least perfect?

As David Revere McFadden, the chief curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, observed, “Make-do’s definitely used to be considered the downside of decorative arts.”

McFadden developed an interest in such objects when he was a curator at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, from 1978 to 1995, and started noticing examples in the collection. He is one of a number of people who believe that the make-do moment has come.

“There is something profoundly human about these repairs,” he said. “They’ve been around from Day 1, since the first hunter broke his first spear.”

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Three 19th century objects repaired with add-on metal armatures and handles are displayed at Andrew Baseman’s apartment in New York. “I call them the orphans of the antiques world,” said Baseman, 50, an interior designer, of his collection of domestic objects dating back centuries that bear evidence of having been broken and repaired in unusual and often artful ways. session as a case in point: a 1920s Eastern European teapot he bought five years ago for $40.

Polka-dotted and diminutive, it has at least five repairs, including an add-on aluminum base (hand-hammered), 18 staples and rivets (hand- and machinemade), grafted bits of porcelain (from another lid), twisted wire (to attach the lid to the handle) and a tin patch on the side. “It’s almost too good to be true,” he said.

Fine repairs Not all make-do’s are so cobbled together. For every glass attached to a clunky wooden base in Baseman’s collection, there is a piece of fine porcelain that has been enhanced in appearance and function, sometimes with expertly wrought silver handles or gold cuffs. “The level of repair really reveals the status of the owner,” he noted.

His oldest objects are a pair of 17th-century Kangxi period porcelain miniature vases that

he cradles in his hands, careful not to crush the finely crafted hallmark silver mounts that were added in Holland in the mid-1800s.

Baseman, whose parents were antiques dealers in the Berkshires, remembers seeing his first make-do when he was a boy: a stapled plate stowed in a cupboard of objects that wouldn’t sell.

When he was a teenager, his mother took him to visit a friend with a collection of inventively repaired teapots, and Baseman was fascinated. “It was the beautiful china I had grown up with,” he said, “but with spouts and handles that were just so cool.”

In his early 20s, he began traveling to London, where he would see similar objects for sale for a pittance at the Portobello Market, and he was hooked. He has since been building his collection and writing about it on his blog, Past Imperfect. Although Baseman notes on his blog that make-do objects can be found at established institutions like

the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he maintains that historically they have largely been overlooked. There is evidence that this is changing, though. In 2009, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington mounted an exhibition called “Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics,” which focused on kintsugi, or repairs made with lacquer and powdered gold.

Broken on purpose Legend has it that this technique was developed after the 15th-century shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa sent his favorite celadon tea bowl back to China to be fixed and was displeased with the chunky staples that were used to repair it. By the 17th century, kintsugi was such a fashionable phenomenon that some people were known to smash their tea bowls on purpose in order to embed them with golden-veined repairs.

The Japanese, of course,

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Skier Vonn takes 2010 AP Female Athlete of the Year Lindsey Vonn is the 2010 Female Athlete of the Year, chosen by members of The Associated Press.

Never before has a skier — male or female — won one of the annual AP awards, which date Inside to 1931.

• Vonn wins Vonn World Cup received downhill, 77 of 175 Page D7 votes submitted by news organizations that make up the AP’s membership. That is more than double what anyone else got in the tally announced Saturday.

Vonn won two medals at the Vancouver Olympics, including the first downhill gold for an American woman, and captured her third consecutive World Cup overall title.

Racehorse Zenyatta’s 32 votes placed her No. 2 in the AP balloting for the second consecutive year. The 6-yearold mare retired with a 19-1 record.

Connecticut basketball player Maya Moore finished third with 29 votes.

— The Associated Press

Lindsey Vonn of the United States holds the women’s World Cup overall title trophy in March.

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Jazz..............95 Bucks ...........86

Heat .............95 Wizards........94

Spurs ......... 112 Grizzlies .....106

Cavaliers....109 Knicks ........102

Nuggets ..... 115 T’wolves .... 113

Clippers .....100 Bulls.............99

Blazers .........96 Warriors.......95

Trail Blazers hold off Warriors late Short-handed Portland wins its second straight, see Page D3

Newton, Tigers start title game preparation

By John Zenor The Associated Press

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Redmond’s Colby Fultz fights to keep Eagle Point’s Travis Woods from getting up while wrestling in the 140-pound semifinal match of the Adrian Irwin Memorial Tournament at Mountain View High School on Saturday. Fultz went on to win his weight class.

Redmond second at Bend tourney Three Panthers take titles at Adrian Irwin Memorial Tournament Bulletin staff report No Dallas wrestler won an individual title at Friday and Saturday’s Adrian Irwin Memorial Tournament at Mountain View High School, but seven Dragons placed to give the team a two-point victory — 287 1⁄2 to 285 1⁄2 — over Redmond High.

The Panthers may have fallen just short as a group, but three Redmond wrestlers were crowned as individual champions. Ryan Haney won his bracket at 119 pounds, Levi Brinkley was tops at 130, and Colby Fultz finished first at 140.

“Those are the guys that we’re looking for points from on a regular basis,” said Redmond coach Nathan Stanley.

Chance Lindquist also impressed

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Stanley with his third-place finish at 125 pounds. The Panthers closed the gap with Dallas late in the day, but could not pass Class 5A’s third-ranked team (according to the The Oregon Wrestling Forum).

“They (Dallas) were the leaders from the start to the finish,” Stanley said. “We had plenty of chances to make up those two points.”

Traditionally strong Pendleton proved difficult to beat at the lighter weights, recording wins at 103, 112 and 125 pounds

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to finish in third place with 266 1⁄2 points.

Rounding out the top nine teams in the 18-team event were Sandy in fourth place, followed by Eagle Point, Burns, Clackamas, Cascade and Gresham.

The next highest finish for a Central Oregon school after runner-up Redmond was Bend High in 10th place. Madras, which was led by Travis Williams’ tournament title at 215 pounds, placed 11th.

“He’s on track for a state title,” White Buffalo coach Ron Oliver said about Williams. “That’s what he’s trying for.”

The host Cougars finished 12th, with Conner Wiese wrestling strong during the second day of the tournament to take third at 189 pounds.

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Summit sweeps team competition in first OHSNO meet of season

By Scott Sonner The Associated Press

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With a determined effort in soft and snowy conditions Saturday, Redmond High’s Sarah MacKenzie glided to victory in the first Oregon High School Nordic Organization (OHSNO) freestyle nordic race of the season at Virginia Meissner Sno-park.

The Panther senior finished the time-trial format course, estimated to be 5,600 meters by OHSNO official and Redmond coach Ken Roadman, in 23 minutes, 34 seconds.

“She’s always had that potential,” Roadman said about MacKenzie’s form.

Summit’s Keelin Moehl finished two seconds back from MacKenzie and her teammate, Melanie Hopkins, took third place just a few tenths of a second behind Moehl.

“It was a snow-globe type of day,” said Summit coach Gregg Strome of the picturesque fat flakes that fell from the sky for most of the race.

Summit won the girls team competition with 10 points, while Redmond was second (19 points), Bend took third (26), and Sisters finished fourth (54) out of the eight teams represented at the meet.

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AUBURN, Ala. — Cam Newton and No. 1 Auburn finally got to return to the football practice field — sort of.

On Saturday night, the Tigers (13-0) and their Heisman Trophy-winning qua r terback began preparation for the BCS national championship Next up game against • BCS national Oregon. But title game, they’re doing Oregon vs. it on the socAuburn cer field while their regular • When: surface is beJan. 10 ing redone across the street.

Coach Gene Chizik said the move across the street doesn’t disrupt the routine.

“If we’ve got to practice in a parking lot,” he said, “we’ll practice out there.”

It might be a welcome respite for Newton after a seven-day whirlwind when he collected the Heisman, the Davey O’Brien Award and the Maxwell Award, read the Top 10 list for David Letterman and appeared on “Good Morning America.” And before that, he dealt with a pay-for-play investigation by the NCAA. Newton can focus on football again.

“It’s been kind of crazy for me lately, but I’m embracing this whole process: Practicing for the bowl game,” Newton said. “Just being around the guys. That’s what I’m used to. It’s been fun so far. I look forward to preparing for this football game.”

The Jan. 10 game in Glendale, Ariz., is still more than three weeks away. The Tigers will practice three more times before breaking for Christmas on Wednesday.

And Newton has come back to normalcy after returning from trips to New York City and Orlando.

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Fight Hunger Bowl has a cause, and sells cheese

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Redmond’s MacKenzie wins girls race, Storm’s Hodgert first for boys

Golden State Warriors’ Monta Ellis (8) goes to the basket as Portland Trail Blazers’ Sean Marks (4) defends on Saturday.

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Bend’s Nathan Jacobson catches some air while competing in the Night Rail Jam held Saturday at Mount Bachelor. Snowriders competed in a variety of divisions during the event, which took place from late afternoon through the early evening at Bachelor.

RENO, Nev. — Sure, the folks at Kraft Foods Inc. want you to pile their Ritz crackers with cheese, pass the Planters nuts and polish off a bag of Oreos while watching any of nearly three dozen college football bowl games this holiday season.

But by the time the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl rolls around Jan. 9, they’re aiming to tie a bowl game to a specific social cause to help fill millions of empty stomachs — as well as seats at AT&T Park in San Francisco, where No. 13 Nevada will play Boston College.

“We’re the only bowl named after a cause. We are very proud of that,” said Gary Cavalli, cofounder and executive director of the game. It started in San Francisco in 2002 as the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl before becoming the Emerald Bowl.

From the Humanitarian Bowl in Idaho to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, most bowls have a charitable component. Cavalli said the difference is that no specific cause is identified.

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Monday Girls basketball: Summit at Eagle Point, 6 p.m.; Western Mennonite at Culver, 5 p.m.

Boys basketball: Western Mennonite at Culver, 6:30 p.m.

6:30 a.m. — PGA European Tour, South African Open, final round, Golf Channel.

FOOTBALL 10 a.m. — NFL, Kansas City Chiefs at St. Louis Rams, CBS. 1 p.m. — NFL, regional coverage, New York Jets at Pittsburgh Steelers or Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders, CBS. 1 p.m. — NFL, Atlanta Falcons at Seattle Seahawks, Fox. 5:15 p.m. — NFL, Green Bay Packers at New England Patriots, NBC.

BASKETBALL 1:30 p.m. — Men’s college, Arizona at North Carolina State, FSNW. 4 p.m. — Women’s college, Stanford at Tennessee, ESPN2.

MONDAY SOCCER 11:55 a.m. — English Premier League, Manchester City vs. Everton, ESPN2.

2 p.m. — English Premier League, Chelsea vs. Manchester United (taped), FSNW.

HOCKEY 4:30 p.m. — NHL, Anaheim Ducks at Boston Bruins, VS. network.

FOOTBALL 5:30 p.m. — NFL, Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings, ESPN.

BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — NBA, Milwaukee Bucks at Portland Trail Blazers, Comcast SportsNet Northwest.

RADIO TODAY FOOTBALL 1 p.m. — NFL, Atlanta Falcons at Seattle Seahawks, KBNW-FM 96.5.

MONDAY BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — NBA, Milwaukee Bucks at Portland Trail Blazers, KBND-AM 1110, KRCO-AM 690.

Listings are the most accurate available. The Bulletin is not responsible for late changes made by TV or radio stations.

S B Football • TCF Bank Stadium preparation nearly complete: The finishing touches are being put on TCF Bank Stadium for the Bears-Vikings game on Monday night in Minneapolis.

University of Minnesota spokesman Garry Bowman says the tarp and heating system were put in place Saturday to protect the field. More than 1,500 workers have moved 40,000 cubic yards of snow from the stadium over four days to get it ready. Vikings chief marketing officer Steve LaCroix says the team remains “very confident” all ticketholders will get in. Based on returns and feedback, they’re expecting a turnout of just under the stadium’s normal capacity of 50,000 people.

• Delaware beats Georgia Southern 27-10 in FCS semis: Pat Devlin threw two touchdown passes and Delaware forced five turnovers to beat Georgia Southern 27-10 in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision semifinals Saturday in Newark, Del. Delaware (12-2) advanced to the championship game, where it will face Eastern Washington on Jan. 7 in Frisco, Texas. Eastern Washington beat Villanova 41-31 in the other semifinal on Friday night.

Baseball • Red Sox bolster bullpen with right-hander Wheeler: The Boston Red Sox have signed right-hander Dan Wheeler to a $3 million, one-year contract with a club option for 2012. Red Sox executive vice president and general manager Theo Epstein announced the deal in a statement Saturday. Wheeler’s 2012 option guarantees him another $3 million if he appears in 65 games in 2011, and $3.25 million if he reaches 70 appearances.

Golf • South Africa’s stars playing for 100th SA title: Fourtime winner Ernie Els took a two-shot lead into a marathon last day of the South African Open in Durban, South Africa, after the country’s biggest stars rose into contention on Saturday for the 100th national title. Els’ second straight 65, a flawless second round of 7-under par, lifted him to the top of the leaderboard at 14-under 130, two strokes clear of Retief Goosen, who finished with a 68.

Basketball • Nuggets’ Karl, Blazers’ Miller hit with fines: Denver Nuggets coach George Karl and Portland Trail Blazers guard Andre Miller have each been fined $25,000 for separate incidents. NBA vice president Stu Jackson announced the punishments Saturday. Karl was fined for public comments about the officiating following the Nuggets’ 113-112 home loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday. Miller was fined for throwing the ball in the stands following the Blazers’ 103-98 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday.

Volleyball • Penn State wins fourth straight NCAA volleyball title: Penn State won its fourth straight NCAA women’s volleyball title Saturday night in Kansas City, Mo., sweeping upstart California in three sets behind the power of Blair Brown and Deja McClendon and a gutsy performance in the key second set. Brown had 18 kills and 10 digs and McClendon added 16 kills for the Nittany Lions (32-5), who won 19 of their last 20 matches and extended their record number of consecutive national titles.

Boxing • Hopkins, Pascal fight to draw: Bernard Hopkins missed a chance to become the oldest boxer to hold a major world title, fighting to a technical draw with Canadian Jean Pascal on Saturday night in Quebec City. The 45year-old Hopkins rallied after being knocked down in the first and third rounds. American judge Steve Morrow scored it 114-112 for Hopkins, but Canadian Claude Paquette (113113) and Belgium’s Daniel Van de Wiele (114-114) had it even, which made it a technical draw and allowed Pascal to keep his WBC and IBO light heavyweight titles.

— The Associated Press

Tuesday Girls basketball: Crook County at Mountain View, 7 p.m.; La Pine at Lakeview, 5 p.m.; Sisters at Burns, 7 p.m.; Bend at Madras, 7 p.m.; Grant Union at Culver, 5 p.m.

Boys basketball: Mountain View at Crook County, 7 p.m.; La Pine at Lakeview, 6:30 p.m.; Burns at Sisters, 5 p.m.; Madras at Bend, 7 p.m.; Eagle Point at Summit, 6 p.m.; Redmond tournament, TBA; Grant Union at Culver, 6:30 p.m.

Wrestling: Crook County at Pasco Tournament at Pasco High, TBA Wednesday Boys basketball: Redmond tournament, TBA Wrestling: Crook County at Pasco Tournament at Pasco High, TBA Thursday Girls basketball: Culver at Ione, 4 p.m.

Boys basketball: Culver at Ione, 5:30 p.m.

ALPINE SKIING RUSS READ MEMORIAL At Mt. Bachelor Saturday’s results Men’s Giant Slalom Place, name, (first run, second run), total time 1, Aidan Daly-Jensen, (1:03.42, 1:02.16), 2:05.58. 2, Timothy Hill, (1:03.04, 1:03.89), 2:06.93. 3, Tyler Horton, (1:03.15, 1:05:09), 2:08.24. 4, Kristoff Fowler, (1:04.20, 1:04.06), 2:08.26. 5, Pierce Whalen, (1:04.16, 1:04.18), 2:08.34. 6, Joseph Estrella, (1:04.75, 1:03.88), 2:08.63. 7, Colin Yost, (1:04.60, 1:04.25), 2:08.85. 8, Stephan Splitstoser, (1:03.93, 1:04.97), 2:08.90. 9, Max Stamler, (1:04.63, 1:04.31), 2:08.94. 10, Trevor Olsen, (1:04.46, 1:04.90), 2:09.36.

11, Scotty Daletas, (1:04.43, 1:05.17), 2:09.60. 12, Jordan DeJarnett, (1:04.54, 1:05.71), 2:10.25. 13, Danny W. O’Neal, (1:05.13, 1:05.25), 2:10.38. 14, Wilder Von Rohr, (1:05.06, 1:05.39), 2:10.45. 15, Tanner Olson, (1:04.99, 1:05.75), 2:10.74. 16, Michael Allen, (1:05.78, 1:05.30), 2:11.08. 17, Andrew Black, (1:06.04, 1:05.58), 2:11.62. 18, Kurt Vetterlein, (1:05.83, 1:06.68), 2:12.51. 19, Grant Hamlin, (1:06.43, 1:06.10), 2:12.53. 20, Ryan Sidley, (1:06.35, 1:06.57), 2:12.92.

21, Luke Winters, (1:06.04, 1:07.30), 2:13.34. 22, Marc Lodmell, (1:06.38, 1:07.08), 2:13.46. 23, Dalton Tuor, (1:06.17, 1:07.29). 24, Alec Ramsey (1:07.10, 1:06.50), 2:13.60. 25, Steven Lantz, (1:07.59, 1:06.46), 2:14.05. 26, Tobias Macedo, (1:06.43, 1:08.04), 2:14.47. 27, Greg Wanta, (1:06.52, 1:08.26), 2:14.78.

28, Nicolas Lanker, (1:07.11, 1:07.92), 2:15.03. 29, Douglas Lyons, (1:07.59, 1:07.59), 2:15.18. 30, Cade J. Scroggins, (1:07.02, 1:08.21), 2:15.23.

31, Riley Shearer, (1:07.85, 1:07.64), 2:15.49. 32, Jackson Hukari, (1:06.24, 1:09.31), 2:15.55. 33, Reed Conway, (1:06.55, 1:09.05), 2:15.60. 34, Davis Keeney, (1:07.80, 1:08.19), 2:15.99. 35, David Carter, (1:08.23, 1:07.95), 2:16.18. 36, Cody Winters, (1:08.16, 1:08.16), 2:16.32. 37, Nicholas Dodds, (1:07.84, 1:08.50), 2:16.34. 38, Jared Schiemer, (1:07.07, 1:09.35), 2:16.42. 39, Chase Ganim, (1:06.78, 1:09.89), 2:16.67. 40, James Ralston, (1:08.31, 1:08.42), 2:16.73.

41, Montana Kurahara, (1:08.91, 1:08.46), 2:17.37.

42, Tanner Lujan, (1:09.48, 1:08.29), 2:17.77. 43, Michael, Ewers, (1:10.62, 1:07.82), 2:18.44. 44, Casey Shannon, (1:08.83, 1:09.70), 2:18.53. 45, Coliin Maxwell, (1:07.75, 1:10.79), 2:18.54. 46, Kenneth Collins, (1:09.23, 1:09.34), 2:18.57. 47, Nathan Hoyt, (1:09.27, 1:09.47) 2:18.74. 48, Elliot Wiitala, (1:08.85, 1:10.04), 2:18.89. 49, Alex Reuland, (1:09.61, 1:09.51), 2:19.12. 50, Chase Fuller, (1:09.81, 1:10.45), 2:20.26.

51, Nolan Skerbeck, (1:09.49, 1:11.34), 2:20.83. 52, Brian Evans, (1:10.31, 1:10.66), 2:20.97. 53, Jeremy Wood, (1:10.44, 1:10.84), 2:21.28. 54. Michael J. Estrella, (1:09.85, 1:11.52), 2:21.37. 55, Oscar Stevenson, (1:12.16, 1:09.86), 2:22.02. 56, Hanson Urdahl, (1:12.65, 1:19.82), 2:22.47. 57, Thomas Wimberly, (1:10.43, 1:12.87), 2:23.30. 58, William Reuland, (1:11.43, 1:11.90), 2:23.33. 59, Jordan Riesterer, (1:11.19, 1:12.28), 2:23.47. 60, Hunter Kern, (1:12.19, 1:11.52), 2:23.71.

61, James Cory, (1:12.64, 1:12.37), 2:25.01. 62, Isaac Grebisz, (1:12.29, 1:13.37), 2:25.66. 63, Andis Solomon, (1:12.44, 1:13.28), 2:25.72. 64, Samuel Flecker, (1:13.95, 1:12.29), 2:26.24. 65, Kevin Panton, (1:12.51, 1:14.03), 2:26.54. 66, Austin Pena, (1:14.97, 1:12.43), 2:27.40. 67, Mitchell Law, (1:13.74, 1:13.71), 2:27.45. 68, A.J. Flores Alatorre, (1:13.69, 1:15.20), 2:28.89. 69, Aubrey Anderson, (1:14.51, 1:15.00), 2:29.51. 70, Christian W. Bennett, (1:14.79, 1:15.11), 2:29.90.

71, Andrew Beckwith, (1:14.68, 1:15.24), 2:29.92. 72, Jack Benziger, (1:16.24, 1:14.39), 2:30.63. 73, Nicholas Dixon, (1:14.67, 1:16.50), 2:31.17. 74, Christopher McNabb, (1:14.40, 1:18.19), 2:32.59. 75, Parker Spear, (1:18.35, 1:19.32), 2:37.67. 76, Coby Pruder, (1:21.46, 1:22.38), 2:43.84.

Women’s Giant Slalom 1. Kyla Miller, (1:03.69, 1:05.96), 2:09.65. 2, Jetta Rackleff, (1:04.91, 1:06.48), 2:11.39. 3, Mackenzie Green, (1:05.73, 1:07.39), 2:13.12. 4. Kate Puddy, (1:06.65, 1:08.19), 2:14.84. 5, Jenna Lou Jansky, (1:07.96, 1:07.75), 2:15.71. 6, Nikita Norton, (1:07.28, 1:08.83), 2:16.11. 7, Nahanni Lukes, (1:08.14, 1:08.25), 2:16.39. 8, Elyse Burandt, (1:08.23, 1:08.53), 2:16.76.

9, Taylor N. Bauernfeind, (1:07.50, 1:09.27), 2:16.77.

10, Brooke Kelley, (1:08.17, 1:08.89), 2:17.06.

11, Allie R. Spadaro, (1:07:59, 1:09.52), 2:17.11. 12, Sofia Clement, (1:08.84, 1:08.63), 2:17.47. 13, Elle Truax, (1:08.66, 1:09.26), 2:17.92. 14, Lucy McLean, (1:08.82, 1:09.22), 2:18.04. 15, Dena L. Horstkotte (1:09.36, 1:09.12), 2:18.48. 16, Kathleen Daly-Jensen, (1:08.08, 1:10.40), 2:18.48. 17, Meera Champawat, (1:09.31, 1:09.24), 2:18.55. 18, Phoebe Rogers, (1:09.61, 1:08.98). 19, Izzie Raitt, (1:08.46, 1:10.58), 2:19.04. 20, Madison Hayes-Lattin, (1:10.26, 1:08.99), 2:19.25.

21, Alyson Mat, (1:08.71, 1:10.84), 2:19.55. 22, Gracie Struthers, (1:10.17, 1:09.71), 2:19.88. 23, Beth S. Mixon, (1:10.65, 1:09.37), 2:20.02. 24, Tessa Yost, (1:09.50, 1:10.70), 2:20.20. 25, Kate Christoferson, (1:10.66, 1:10.09), 2:20.75. 26, Wahl Lani, (1:08.97, 1:12.10), 2:21.07. 27, Breanne Mat, (1:10.04, 1:11.44), 2:21.48. 28, Kendra Ash, (1:09.88, 1:12.11), 2:21.99.

29, Megan M. Olson, (1:09.56, 1:12.83), 2:22.39. 30, Mckinley Guenzel, (1:10.82, 1:11.58), 2:22.40.

31, Emily Sarich, (1:10.28, 1:12.30), 2:22.58. 32, Megan Ganim (1:11.71, 1:11.52), 2:23.23. 33, Madeline Chaves, (1:11.32, 1:12.08), 2:23.40. 34, Abby Howard, (1:11.37, 1:12.32), 2:23.69. 35, Elinor Wilson, (1:11.47, 1:12.70), 2:24.17. 36, Kelli Clarke, (1:11:16, 1:13.09), 2:24.25. 37, Kelsey McKelvey, (1:12.16, 1:12.88), 2:25.04. 38, Shannen N. Burton, (1:14.37, 1:10.93), 2:25.30. 39, Molly Clarke, (1:11.78, 1:13.68), 2:25.46. 40, Jessica Berge, (1:13.89, 1:11.58), 2:25.47.

41, Kayla Lanker, (1:13.52, 1:12.12), 2:25.64. 42, Madeline Ewers, (1:13.58, 1:13.42), 2:27.00. 43, Hailey Kern, (1:14.70, 1:13.65), 2:28.35. 44. Carline Suppiger, (1:14.29, 1:14.15), 2:28.44. 45, Cadence Pearce (1:15.22, 1:14.53), 2:29.75. 46, Carlisle Topping, (1:16.27, 1:16.46), 2:32.73. 47, Anna Rischitelli, (1:23.83, 1:08.81), 2:32.74. 48, Shelby Cutter, (1:17.03, 1:16.80), 2:33.83. 49, Eloise Loen, (1:34.25, 1:14.88), 2:49.13.

FOOTBALL NFL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE All Times PST ——— AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF x-New England 11 2 0 .846 415 N.Y. Jets 9 4 0 .692 273 Miami 7 6 0 .538 225 Buffalo 3 10 0 .231 256 South W L T Pct PF Jacksonville 8 5 0 .615 295 Indianapolis 7 6 0 .538 347 Houston 5 8 0 .385 316 Tennessee 5 8 0 .385 291 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 10 3 0 .769 290 Baltimore 9 4 0 .692 294 Cleveland 5 8 0 .385 235 Cincinnati 2 11 0 .154 262 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 8 5 0 .615 295 San Diego 8 6 0 .571 388 Oakland 6 7 0 .462 314 Denver 3 10 0 .231 269 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 9 4 0 .692 374

PA 276 242 244 339 PA 331 318 355 265 PA 198 229 252 345 PA 268 260 307 376 PA 308

N.Y. Giants Washington Dallas

9 5 4

4 0 .692 8 0 .385 9 0 .308 South W L T Pct Atlanta 11 2 0 .846 New Orleans 10 3 0 .769 Tampa Bay 8 5 0 .615 Carolina 1 12 0 .077 North W L T Pct Chicago 9 4 0 .692 Green Bay 8 5 0 .615 Minnesota 5 8 0 .385 Detroit 3 10 0 .231 West W L T Pct St. Louis 6 7 0 .462 Seattle 6 7 0 .462 San Francisco 5 9 0 .357 Arizona 4 9 0 .308 x-clinched playoff spot Today’s Games Kansas City at St. Louis, 10 a.m.

Washington at Dallas, 10 a.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 10 a.m.

Arizona at Carolina, 10 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 10 a.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

New Orleans at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at Seattle, 1:05 p.m.

Denver at Oakland, 1:15 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 1:15 p.m.

Green Bay at New England, 5:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game Chicago at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m.

329 250 238 310 321 366 PF 335 330 260 164

PA 243 240 267 338

PF 253 306 230 285

PA 228 189 274 309

PF 245 261 250 243

PA 268 329 314 351

NFL Injury Report NEW YORK — The National Football League injury report, as provided by the league (OUT - Definitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited participation in practice; FULL - Full participation in practice): SUNDAY KANSAS CITY CHIEFS at ST. LOUIS RAMS — CHIEFS: QUESTIONABLE: QB Matt Cassel (illness).

RAMS: OUT: TE Michael Hoomanawanui (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: RB Kenneth Darby (chest), LB David Nixon (hand). PROBABLE: CB Ron Bartell (neck), G Jacob Bell (knee), P Donnie Jones (illness).

ARIZONA CARDINALS at CAROLINA PANTHERS — CARDINALS: DOUBTFUL: QB Derek Anderson (head). QUESTIONABLE: LB Clark Haggans (groin).

PROBABLE: WR Steve Breaston (knee), DE Calais Campbell (ankle), K Jay Feely (right groin), LB Joey Porter (knee), LB O’Brien Schofield (hamstring), LB Daryl Washington (groin), RB Beanie Wells (illness). PANTHERS: DOUBTFUL: WR Armanti Edwards (illness). PROBABLE: LB James Anderson (ankle), CB Chris Gamble (hamstring), DE Greg Hardy (knee), LB Nic Harris (head), CB Marcus Hudson (ankle), LB Jordan Senn (ankle).

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES at NEW YORK GIANTS — EAGLES: OUT: LB Stewart Bradley (elbow), LB Keenan Clayton (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: WR DeSean Jackson (foot), T Winston Justice (knee), CB Asante Samuel (knee). PROBABLE: CB Jorrick Calvin (back), G Nick Cole (knee), TE Clay Harbor (abdomen).

GIANTS: QUESTIONABLE: G Shawn Andrews (back), LB Michael Boley (shoulder), C Shaun O’Hara (foot), WR Devin Thomas (hamstring). PROBABLE: WR Mario Manningham (hip), G Chris Snee (hip), DE Justin Tuck (abdomen), DE Osi Umenyiora (knee).

DETROIT LIONS at TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — LIONS: OUT: QB Matthew Stafford (right shoulder).

DOUBTFUL: LB Landon Johnson (neck). QUESTIONABLE: DE Cliff Avril (rib), LB Vinny Ciurciu (concussion), WR Brian Clark (not injury related), QB Shaun Hill (right finger). PROBABLE: RB Jahvid Best (toe), LB DeAndre Levy (groin), DE Turk McBride (ankle), RB Maurice Morris (chest). BUCCANEERS: PROBABLE: WR Mike Williams (knee), TE Kellen Winslow (knee).

CLEVELAND BROWNS at CINCINNATI BENGALS — BROWNS: DOUBTFUL: LB Scott Fujita (knee), TE Evan Moore (hip). QUESTIONABLE: LB Marcus Benard (shoulder), LB David Bowens (head), CB Sheldon Brown (shoulder), DE Kenyon Coleman (knee), DT Shaun Rogers (ankle, hip). PROBABLE: WR Joshua Cribbs (foot), QB Colt McCoy (ankle), DT Brian Schaefering (illness), T John St. Clair (ankle), RB Lawrence Vickers (shoulder, hamstring), G Floyd Womack (shoulder), CB Eric Wright (knee). BENGALS: DOUBTFUL: CB Jonathan Wade (knee). QUESTIONABLE: WR Terrell Owens (knee). PROBABLE: CB Johnathan Joseph (ankle), WR Chad Ochocinco (ankle), LB Keith Rivers (foot), DT Pat Sims (knee).

BUFFALO BILLS at MIAMI DOLPHINS — BILLS: OUT: C Geoff Hangartner (knee). PROBABLE: T Demetrius Bell (knee), CB Drayton Florence (fibula), LB Chris Kelsay (knee), G Andy Levitre (knee). DOLPHINS: PROBABLE: G Joe Berger (ankle), CB Nolan Carroll (knee), S Chris Clemons (not injury related), S Reshad Jones (rib, hamstring), CB Sean Smith (ankle).

WASHINGTON REDSKINS at DALLAS COWBOYS — REDSKINS: OUT: DT Kedric Golston (groin, elbow). QUESTIONABLE: LB Lorenzo Alexander (hamstring), WR Brandon Banks (knee), DE Phillip Daniels (abdomen), S Kareem Moore (knee), C Casey Rabach (knee), CB Carlos Rogers (hamstring), RB Ryan Torain (hamstring). PROBABLE: K Graham Gano (ribs), QB Donovan McNabb (hamstring). COWBOYS: OUT: QB Tony Romo (left shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: RB Marion Barber (calf), WR Jesse Holley (knee), WR Roy Williams (groin). PROBABLE: TE Martellus Bennett (illness), LB Keith Brooking (foot), LB Bradie James (knee), LB Sean Lee (shoulder), CB Terence Newman (illness).

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS at INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — JAGUARS: OUT: LB Justin Durant (groin), S Courtney Greene (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: QB David Garrard (hamstring), RB Maurice Jones-Drew (knee), LB Aaron Morgan (hamstring). PROBABLE: DT Tyson Alualu (knee), DE Austen Lane (knee), G Vince Manuwai (foot), TE Zach Miller (ankle), RB Montell Owens (hamstring).

COLTS: QUESTIONABLE: RB Joseph Addai (neck), WR Austin Collie (concussion), RB Mike Hart (ankle), CB Kelvin Hayden (neck), T Charlie Johnson (chest), DT Fili Moala (knee), G Jamey Richard (hip), LB Clint Session (elbow), TE Jacob Tamme (knee). PROBABLE: G Jaimie Thomas (illness).

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at BALTIMORE RAVENS — SAINTS: OUT: WR Courtney Roby (head), TE David Thomas (knee). QUESTIONABLE: DE Anthony Hargrove (knee), RB Christopher Ivory (hamstring). PROBABLE: NT Remi Ayodele (ankle), T Jermon Bushrod (ankle), CB Malcolm Jenkins (rib), CB Tracy Porter (shoulder), TE Jeremy Shockey (groin), T Zach Strief (knee), LB Jonathan Vilma (quadriceps). RAVENS: OUT: TE Todd Heap (thigh), S Tom Zbikowski (back). QUESTIONABLE: RB Le’Ron McClain (illness), RB Willis McGahee (illness).

PROBABLE: LB Tavares Gooden (calf), WR Derrick Mason (ankle), CB Fabian Washington (thigh).

HOUSTON TEXANS at TENNESSEE TITANS — TEXANS: OUT: TE Garrett Graham (hamstring).

PROBABLE: LB Xavier Adibi (hamstring), LB Brian Cushing (knee, finger, neck), TE Owen Daniels (hamstring), TE Joel Dreessen (hand), RB Arian Foster (hip), WR Andre Johnson (ankle), CB Glover Quin (hand), K Neil Rackers (right hamstring), QB Matt Schaub (left arm), LB Darryl Sharpton (neck), WR Kevin Walter (knee), T Eric Winston (shoulder). TITANS: OUT: DE Dave Ball (hip, concussion), CB Ryan Mouton (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: DT Jovan Haye (concussion), DT Sen’Derrick Marks (ankle).

ATLANTA FALCONS at SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — FALCONS: QUESTIONABLE: LB Curtis Lofton (knee), RB Jason Snelling (hamstring). PROBABLE: DE John Abraham (groin), DT Jonathan Babineaux (shoulder), T Tyson Clabo (ankle), LB Stephen Nicholas (knee), WR Roddy White (knee), LB Coy Wire (head). SEAHAWKS: QUESTIONABLE: CB Roy Lewis (knee), WR Brandon Stokley (hamstring), CB Walter Thurmond (hamstring).

PROBABLE: QB Matt Hasselbeck (wrist), K Olindo Mare (hamstring), WR Ben Obomanu (hand), C Chris Spencer (shoulder), WR Mike Williams (ankle).

NEW YORK JETS at PITTSBURGH STEELERS — JETS: OUT: DE Trevor Pryce (hip), S Eric Smith (concussion), T Damien Woody (knee). QUESTIONABLE: S James Ihedigbo (ankle, knee). PROBABLE: C Nick Mangold (shoulder), DT Sione Pouha (finger), CB Darrelle Revis (hamstring), WR Brad Smith (hand). STEELERS: OUT: DE Aaron Smith (triceps). DOUBTFUL: DT Steve McLendon (stinger), S Troy Polamalu (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: TE Heath Miller (concussion). PROBABLE: T Flozell Adams (ankle), LB James Harrison (illness), CB Bryant McFadden (hamstring).

DENVER BRONCOS at OAKLAND RAIDERS — BRONCOS: OUT: S Brian Dawkins (knee), K Matt Prater (right groin), WR Demaryius Thomas (ankle).

QUESTIONABLE: S David Bruton (ribs), S Darcel McBath (quadriceps), QB Kyle Orton (ribs). PROBABLE: LB Kevin Alexander (ankle), WR Eric Decker (foot), RB Spencer Larsen (hamstring), WR Brandon Lloyd (calf), RB Marcus Thomas (ankle). RAIDERS: QUESTIONABLE: CB Nnamdi Asomugha (ankle), S Hiram Eugene (ribs), WR Johnnie Lee Higgins (ankle), LB Rolando McClain (foot), WR Nick Miller (ankle). PROBABLE: T Khalif Barnes (back), QB Kyle Boller (quadriceps), S Tyvon Branch (shoulder), LB Travis Goethel (knee), CB Chris Johnson (groin), TE Zach Miller (foot), DE Richard Seymour (knee).

GREEN BAY PACKERS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — PACKERS: OUT: DE Cullen Jenkins (calf).

DOUBTFUL: QB Aaron Rodgers (concussion), LB Frank Zombo (knee). QUESTIONABLE: LB Diyral Briggs (ankle), CB Pat Lee (ankle), S Anthony Smith (ankle). PROBABLE: S Atari Bigby (hamstring), LB Desmond Bishop (hamstring), T Chad Clifton (knees), G Daryn Colledge (knee), RB Korey Hall (knee), LB Clay Matthews (shin), DE Ryan Pickett (ankle), G Josh Sitton (knee), CB Charles

Woodson (toe, ankle). PATRIOTS: QUESTIONABLE: DT Ron Brace (concussion), TE Aaron Hernandez (illness), CB Devin McCourty (rib), DT Myron Pryor (back), DT Gerard Warren (knee), DT Mike Wright (concussion).

PROBABLE: CB Kyle Arrington (elbow), QB Tom Brady (right shoulder, foot), WR Deion Branch (knee), CB Darius Butler (thigh).

College NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times PST ——— Semifinals Friday’s Game Eastern Washington 41, Villanova 31 Saturday’s Game Delaware 27, Georgia Southern 10 Championship Friday, Jan. 7 At Pizza Hut Park Frisco, Texas Eastern Washington (12-2) vs. Delaware (12-2), 4 p.m.

NCAA Division II Football Playoff Glance Championship Saturday, Dec. 18 At Braly Municipal Stadium Florence, Ala. Minnesota-Duluth 20, Delta State 17 NCAA Division III Football Playoff Glance Championship Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl Saturday, Dec. 18 At Salem Stadium Salem, Va. Wisconsin-Whitewater 31, Mount Union 21 NAIA Football Playoff Glance Championship Saturday, Dec. 18 At Barron Stadium Rome, Ga. Carroll, Mont. 10, Sioux Falls 7 BOWLS Subject to Change All Times PST ——— Saturday New Mexico Bowl: BYU 52, UTEP 24 Humanitarian Bowl: Northern Illinois 40, Fresno State 17 New Orleans Bowl: Troy 48, Ohio 21 Tuesday, Dec. 21 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl: Louisville (6-6) vs. Southern Mississippi (8-4), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl: Utah (10-2) vs. Boise State (11-1), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl: San Diego State (8-4) vs. Navy (8-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl: Hawaii (10-3) vs. Tulsa (9-3), 5 p.m.

(ESPN) Sunday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl: Toledo (8-4) vs. Florida International (6-6), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Monday, Dec. 27 Independence Bowl: Georgia Tech (6-6) vs. Air Force (8-4), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 28 Champs Sports Bowl: North Carolina State (8-4) vs.

West Virginia (9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl: Missouri (10-2) vs. Iowa (7-5), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 29 Military Bowl: East Carolina (6-6) vs. Maryland (8-4), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl: Baylor (7-5) vs. Illinois (6-6), 3 p.m.

(ESPN) Alamo Bowl: Arizona (7-5) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl: SMU (7-6) vs. Army (6-5), 9 a.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl: Syracuse (7-5) vs. Kansas State (7-5), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl: North Carolina (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl: Nebraska (10-3) vs. Washington (6-6), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 31 Meineke Bowl: Clemson (6-6) vs. South Florida (7-5), 9 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl: Notre Dame (7-5) vs. Miami (7-5), 11 a.m.

(CBS) Liberty Bowl: Georgia (6-6) vs. UCF (10-3), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl: South Carolina (9-4) vs. Florida State (9-4), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 1 TicketCity Bowl: Northwestern (7-5) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 9 a.m. (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl: Michigan State (11-1) vs. Alabama (9-3), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Outback Bowl: Florida (7-5) vs. Penn State (7-5), 10 a.m. (ABC) Gator Bowl: Michigan (7-5) vs. Mississippi State (84), 10:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Rose Bowl: TCU (12-0) vs. Wisconsin (11-1), 2 p.m.

(ESPN) Fiesta Bowl: Connecticut (8-4) vs. Oklahoma (11-2), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 3 Orange Bowl: Stanford (11-1) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl: Ohio State (11-1) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl: Miami (Ohio) (9-4) vs. Middle Tennessee (6-6), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 7 Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M (9-3) vs. LSU (10-2), 5 p.m.

(Fox) Saturday, Jan. 8 BBVA Compass Bowl: Pittsburgh (7-5) vs. Kentucky (6-6), 9 a.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 9 Fight Hunger Bowl: Boston College (7-5) vs. Nevada (12-1), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 10 BCS National Championship: Auburn (13-0) vs.

Oregon (12-0), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Betting Line NFL (Home teams in Caps) Opening Current Underdog Today RAMS 1 (KC) 3 Chiefs TITANS 1.5 1.5 Texans COLTS 5 5 Jaguars PANTHERS 2.5 2.5 Cardinals BENGALS 1 1 Browns DOLPHINS 6 5.5 Bills GIANTS 3 3 Eagles COWBOYS 6 7 Redskins BUCCANEERS 5.5 4.5 Lions RAVENS 2 1.5 Saints Falcons 6.5 6.5 SEAHAWKS STEELERS 6.5 5.5 Jets RAIDERS 6.5 7.5 Broncos PATRIOTS 10 14 Packers Monday Bears 6 7.5 VIKINGS Note: Chiefs opened as favorite over Rams.

Favorite

Louisville

College December 21 St. Petersburg Bowl 3 3 Southern Miss

Boise St

December 22 Las Vegas Bowl 16.5 17

Utah

San Diego St

December 23 Poinsettia Bowl 1.5 5

Navy

Hawaii

December 24 Hawaii Bowl 12.5 10.5

Tulsa

Toledo

Air Force

West Virginia Missouri

Maryland Baylor

December 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl 2 1.5 Florida Int’l December 27 Independence Bowl 1.5 3 Georgia Tech December 28 Champ Sports Bowl 1.5 2.5 Insight Bowl PK 1

NC State Iowa

December 29 Eagle Bank Bowl 8 7 East Carolina Texas Bowl 2 1.5 Illinois

Oklahoma St

Burton. A—4,018.

Alamo Bowl 5.5 5.5

Arizona

December 30 Armed Forces Bowl Smu 7 8 Army Pinstripe Bowl Kansas St 3 PK Syracuse Music City Bowl North Carolina 1 2 Tennessee Holiday Bowl Nebraska 13.5 14 Washington December 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl Clemson 4.5 5.5 South Florida Sun Bowl Miami (Fla.) 2.5 3 Notre Dame Liberty Bowl Georgia 7 6.5 Central Florida Chick-Fil-A Bowl South Carolina 3 3 Florida St January 1 Dallas Ticket City Bowl 9.5 9.5 Northwestern Outback Bowl 7 7.5 Penn State Capital One Bowl 11 10 Michigan State Gator Bowl 5.5 5.5 Michigan Rose Bowl 2.5 2.5 Wisconsin Fiesta Bowl 17 17 Connecticut

Texas Tech Florida Alabama Miss. State Tcu Oklahoma

Stanford

January 3 Orange Bowl 3 3

Virginia Tech

Ohio State

January 4 Sugar Bowl 3.5 3.5

Arkansas

Miami (Ohio)

January 6 GMAC Bowl 1.5 1

Mid. Tenn. St.

Lsu

January 7 Cotton Bowl PK 1

Texas A&M

Pitt

January 8 BBVA Compass Bowl 2.5 3.5

Kentucky

Nevada

January 9 Fight Hunger Bowl 9 9.5 Boston College

Auburn

January 10 BCS National Championship 2.5 3 Oregon

BASKETBALL Men’s college Saturday’s Games ——— EAST Albany, N.Y. 77, Mount St. Mary’s, Md. 57 Binghamton 69, Cornell 68 Drexel 61, St. Francis, Pa. 57 Duquesne 81, IUPUI 54 Georgetown 99, Loyola, Md. 75 Hofstra 71, Manhattan 58 Pittsburgh 97, Md.-Eastern Shore 64 Rhode Island 64, New Hampshire 52 Rutgers 79, Monmouth, N.J. 56 St. Bonaventure 112, Ohio 107, 4OT St. Peter’s 60, Fairleigh Dickinson 57 Syracuse 83, Iona 77 Temple 84, N. Illinois 74 Villanova 78, Delaware 59 West Virginia 74, Cleveland St. 63 SOUTH Appalachian St. 71, Robert Morris 66 Austin Peay 78, E. Kentucky 51 Belmont 98, Troy 63 Coastal Carolina 59, East Carolina 58 Florida 57, Kansas St. 44 Furman 60, North Florida 49 Georgia 68, Arkansas St. 59 Georgia St. 76, Florida A&M 67 Georgia Tech 67, Richmond 54 James Madison 66, South Florida 61 Kentucky 85, MVSU 60 Liberty 71, William & Mary 62 Lipscomb 99, Kennesaw St. 73 Louisiana Tech 62, Texas-Arlington 61 Louisville 78, Gardner-Webb 49 Mississippi 71, ETSU 50 Morgan St. 75, UMBC 62 Murray St. 69, W. Kentucky 60 Presbyterian 62, Auburn 59 Sam Houston St. 74, Fla. International 71 Samford 80, Asbury 67 South Alabama 68, Georgia Southern 58 Texas 78, North Carolina 76 UCF 84, Miami 78 UNC Wilmington 64, Radford 50 Va. Commonwealth 70, Tulane 67 Vanderbilt 85, SE Louisiana 52 Virginia Tech 88, Mississippi St. 57 Wichita St. 70, LSU 69 Wofford 79, High Point 65 MIDWEST Akron 77, Bethune-Cookman 66, OT Butler 83, Stanford 50 Creighton 66, Idaho St. 60 Dayton 71, W. Carolina 60 DePaul 81, Loyola of Chicago 74 Detroit 75, Cent. Michigan 49 Evansville 81, Middle Tennessee 79 Ill.-Chicago 57, Illinois 54 Iowa 59, Drake 52 Kansas 70, Southern Cal 68 Marquette 81, Centenary 52 Michigan 69, Oakland, Mich. 51 Michigan St. 90, Prairie View 51 Missouri 116, Cent. Arkansas 63 Missouri St. 81, Saint Louis 65 Nebraska 72, E. Washington 42 Ohio St. 79, South Carolina 57 Purdue 65, Indiana St. 52 Toledo 75, Florida Gulf Coast 63 UMKC 69, North Dakota 61 Valparaiso 63, IPFW 47 W. Michigan 77, S. Dakota St. 74 Wis.-Milwaukee 72, Bowling Green 69 Wright St. 66, Miami (Ohio) 51 Xavier 83, Wake Forest 75 SOUTHWEST Cincinnati 66, Oklahoma 56 Gonzaga 68, Baylor 64 Oklahoma St. 68, Alabama 60 SMU 70, McMurry 67 Stephen F.Austin 76, Jarvis Christian 45 Texas A&M 71, Arkansas 62, OT Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 81, Houston 78, OT UTEP 82, Texas Tech 71 FAR WEST Air Force 63, Ark.-Pine Bluff 52 CS Bakersfield 70, CS Northridge 69 Cal St.-Fullerton 76, Occidental 48 California 51, Cal Poly 41 Denver 71, N. Colorado 68 Fresno St. 82, N. Dakota St. 69 George Washington 87, Oregon St. 79 Montana 64, Idaho 63 New Mexico St. 69, Pacific 64 Pepperdine 76, UC Irvine 69 Portland 78, Portland St. 67 Saint Mary’s, Calif. 82, Long Beach St. 74 San Diego St. 90, UC Santa Barbara 64 San Jose St. 86, Seattle 70 UCLA 86, BYU 79 UNLV 72, S. Utah 50 Utah St. 76, Utah Valley 58 Washington 80, San Francisco 52 Weber St. 94, Southwest 54 Saturday’s Summary ——— GEORGE WASHINGTON 87, OREGON ST. 79 GEORGE WASHINGTON (4-5) Pellom 2-4 3-6 7, Mikic 6-11 1-3 19, Katuka 1-1 0-0 2, Taylor 6-9 5-6 19, Guest 2-4 0-0 4, Smith 5-9 4-7 15, Fitzgerald 0-1 0-0 0, Bynes 3-7 2-2 10, Ware 3-4 1-2 7, Johnson 1-4 0-2 2, Warren 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 30-55 16-28 87.

OREGON ST. (4-6) Burton 3-4 0-0 6, Johnson 1-4 0-0 2, Brandt 3-6 2-2 9, Cunningham 3-5 15-15 21, Haynes 4-10 6-8 16, McShane 0-0 0-0 0, Starks 2-6 4-4 8, Wallace 2-4 2-2 6, Collier 2-2 4-5 8, Nelson 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 21-44 33-36 79.

Halftime—George Washington 37-36. 3-Point Goals—George Washington 11-23 (Mikic 6-10, Taylor 2-3, Bynes 2-4, Smith 1-2, Fitzgerald 0-1, Johnson 01, Guest 0-2), Oregon St. 4-19 (Haynes 2-4, Brandt 1-2, Nelson 1-3, Johnson 0-2, Cunningham 0-2, Wallace 0-2, Starks 0-4). Fouled Out—Burton. Rebounds—George Washington 22 (Smith, Taylor 5), Oregon St. 34 (Johnson 6). Assists—George Washington 16 (Taylor 11), Oregon St. 9 (Burton, Haynes, Nelson 2). Total Fouls—George Washington 24, Oregon St. 20. Technicals—Pellom,

Women’s college Saturday’s Games ——— EAST Albany, N.Y. 63, Niagara 47 American U. 64, George Washington 60 Binghamton 53, Mount St. Mary’s, Md. 39 Hofstra 76, Seton Hall 65 West Virginia 83, St. Francis, Pa. 55 Yale 91, Florida St. 85 SOUTH Alabama 64, Belmont 46 Furman 63, Appalachian St. 62 Georgia Southern 77, Chattanooga 69, OT Indiana 64, Fla. International 60 Kentucky 84, Alabama A&M 58 Lipscomb 68, Kennesaw St. 58 Marist 74, Louisville 68 Marshall 71, Cleveland St. 67 Miami 81, UC Riverside 59 N.C. Central 50, Liberty 48 Nicholls St. 72, Georgia St. 63 Norfolk St. 75, McNeese St. 70, OT North Florida 68, Troy 52 Oakland, Mich. 73, Clemson 49 S. Illinois 62, Murray St. 61 S.C.-Upstate 87, Radford 81 SE Louisiana 65, Centenary 55 Samford 62, Coll. of Charleston 53 Southern U. 76, Tougaloo 51 Towson 61, Md.-Eastern Shore 50 UNC-Greensboro 80, Wofford 67 Va. Commonwealth 79, Longwood 69 Virginia 61, UMBC 46 Virginia Tech 94, William & Mary 78, 2OT W. Carolina 74, Elon 64 MIDWEST Bradley 57, N. Illinois 48 Cent. Michigan 82, Mississippi 66 Chicago St. 72, Valparaiso 67 Creighton 54, N. Dakota St. 44 Detroit 67, Michigan 48 Houston 79, Nebraska 70 Illinois 65, Ill.-Chicago 56 Iowa 65, S. Dakota St. 54 Marquette 75, UNC Asheville 46 Michigan St. 88, Dartmouth 33 N. Iowa 78, North Dakota 54 Purdue 76, Auburn 56 South Dakota 71, CS Northridge 62 UMKC 60, Bethune-Cookman 51 Wis.-Green Bay 72, Evansville 48 Wright St. 65, Cincinnati 50 SOUTHWEST Ark.-Little Rock 64, Rice 40 Cent. Arkansas 75, Ark.-Pine Bluff 61 Texas 91, SMU 73 FAR WEST BYU 82, Portland St. 67 CS Bakersfield 81, Utah Valley 74 Pepperdine 80, Cal St.-Fullerton 52 San Diego 72, E. Washington 61 South Florida 59, UNLV 54, OT UC Irvine 60, Loyola Marymount 39 Weber St. 79, Boise St. 70 Wyoming 63, Washington St. 43 TOURNAMENT St. John’s Chartwell Holiday Classi First Round St. John’s 81, Southern Miss. 50 UC Santa Barbara 64, Fresno St. 62 Women of Troy Tournament First Round San Diego St. 74, Dayton 62 Southern Cal 68, Colorado 54

HOCKEY NHL NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE All Times PST ——— EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Philadelphia 34 22 7 5 49 117 82 Pittsburgh 33 21 10 2 44 104 78 N.Y. Rangers 35 20 14 1 41 105 91 New Jersey 32 9 21 2 20 58 98 N.Y. Islanders 30 6 18 6 18 65 104 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 32 19 11 2 40 85 69 Boston 31 17 10 4 38 89 65 Ottawa 34 14 16 4 32 79 103 Buffalo 33 13 16 4 30 84 95 Toronto 32 12 16 4 28 72 96 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Atlanta 34 18 11 5 41 109 97 Tampa Bay 32 18 10 4 40 99 108 Washington 34 18 12 4 40 101 97 Carolina 31 15 12 4 34 89 94 Florida 30 14 16 0 28 80 78 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 31 20 8 3 43 102 84 Nashville 32 17 9 6 40 83 79 Chicago 34 17 14 3 37 108 101 St. Louis 31 15 11 5 35 81 88 Columbus 32 16 13 3 35 82 90 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 30 18 8 4 40 98 77 Colorado 32 18 10 4 40 118 103 Minnesota 31 14 13 4 32 75 90 Calgary 33 14 16 3 31 90 96 Edmonton 31 12 14 5 29 84 108 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 32 19 10 3 41 91 87 San Jose 33 17 11 5 39 100 94 Anaheim 36 17 15 4 38 93 106 Los Angeles 30 18 11 1 37 88 72 Phoenix 31 15 9 7 37 88 87 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Phoenix 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, SO Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Rangers 1 Boston 3, Washington 2 Carolina 4, Anaheim 2 Atlanta 7, New Jersey 1 Dallas 2, Columbus 1 Vancouver 4, Toronto 1 Tampa Bay 3, Buffalo 1 San Jose 4, St. Louis 1 Los Angeles 6, Nashville 1 Minnesota 3, Calgary 1 Today’s Games Dallas at Detroit, 2 p.m.

Los Angeles at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Washington at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m.

Montreal at Colorado, 5 p.m.

DEALS Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Dan Wheeler on a one-year contract.

TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP Seth McClung, OF Endy Chavez and INF Brian Barden on minor league contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Denver coach George Karl $25,000 for public comments about the officiating following Thursday’s game against Denver and Portland G Andre Miller $25,000 for throwing the ball in the stands following Wednesday’s game against Dallas. Suspended Memphis F Rudy Gay one game for a flagrant foul, penalty two against Houston’s Luis Scola during Friday’s game.

ORLANDO MAGIC — Traded F Rashard Lewis to Washington for G Gilbert Arenas and G Vince Carter, G Mickael Pietrus and C Marcin Gortat to Phoenix for F Hedo Turkoglu, G-F Jason Richardson and F Earl Clark.

FOOTBALL National Football League GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed QB Graham Harrell from the practice squad. Placed S Anthony Smith on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed CB Tony Carter off the practice squad. Released DB Chevis Jackson.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed LB Travis LaBoy and PK Joe Nedney on injured reserve. Signed TE Colin Cloherty and DT Will Tukuafu from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — Elected Don Fehr executive director.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Called-up G Nathan Lawson from Bridgeport (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned D Nikita Nikitin to Peoria (AHL).

COLLEGE RUTGERS — Named Jeff Hafley assistant football coach.

UCLA — Fired defensive coordinator Chuck Bullough and wide receivers coach Reggie Moore.

N B A NBA SCOREBOARD

NBA ROUNDUP

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston New York Philadelphia Toronto New Jersey

W 21 16 11 10 7

L 4 12 16 17 20

Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington

W 21 16 17 9 6

L 8 10 11 17 19

Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Cleveland Detroit

W 16 12 10 8 8

L 9 13 15 19 19

Pct .840 .571 .407 .370 .259

GB — 6½ 11 12 15

L10 10-0 7-3 7-3 4-6 1-9

Str W-12 L-3 W-1 W-1 L-1

Home 11-1 6-7 8-6 7-7 5-8

Away 10-3 10-5 3-10 3-10 2-12

Conf 17-2 10-7 8-12 8-11 4-14

Away 9-5 7-6 8-6 3-11 0-13

Conf 15-4 12-5 13-7 5-12 3-15

Away 6-6 5-7 3-9 3-12 2-12

Conf 5-4 8-7 7-5 7-13 5-9

Southeast Division Pct .724 .615 .607 .346 .240

GB — 3½ 3½ 10½ 13

L10 10-0 4-6 6-4 3-7 1-9

Str W-12 L-2 W-1 L-2 L-7

Home 12-3 9-4 9-5 6-6 6-6

Central Division Pct .640 .480 .400 .296 .296

GB — 4 6 9 9

L10 7-3 4-6 5-5 1-9 2-8

Str L-1 W-1 L-2 W-1 L-1

Home 10-3 7-6 7-6 5-7 6-7

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Dallas New Orleans Memphis Houston

W 23 21 16 12 11

L 3 5 10 16 15

Oklahoma City Utah Denver Portland Minnesota

W 19 19 16 14 6

L 8 9 10 14 22

L.A. Lakers Phoenix Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento

W 20 12 9 7 5

L 7 13 17 21 19

Pct .885 .808 .615 .429 .423

GB — 2 7 12 12

L10 9-1 9-1 4-6 4-6 6-4

Str W-8 W-2 W-2 L-2 W-1

Home 14-2 13-4 11-3 8-5 8-4

Away 9-1 8-1 5-7 4-11 3-11

Conf 15-3 14-3 10-7 9-10 7-9

Away 9-4 8-4 4-8 5-11 1-16

Conf 11-5 9-8 10-5 9-9 2-15

Away 10-5 5-8 3-12 2-11 2-9

Conf 11-5 9-9 6-12 5-15 1-13

Northwest Division Pct .704 .679 .615 .500 .214

GB — ½ 2½ 5½ 13½

L10 8-2 6-4 6-4 6-4 2-8

Str W-5 W-1 W-1 W-2 L-5

Home 10-4 11-5 12-2 9-3 5-6

Paciic Division Pct .741 .480 .346 .250 .208

GB — 7 10½ 13½ 13½

L10 Str 7-3 W-4 5-5 L-1 2-8 L-1 4-6 W-2 1-9 L-4 ——— Saturday’s Games

Philadelphia 97, Orlando 89 Cleveland 109, New York 102, OT Utah 95, Milwaukee 86 Denver 115, Minnesota 113

Home 10-2 7-5 6-5 5-10 3-10

Miami 95, Washington 94 L.A. Clippers 100, Chicago 99 San Antonio 112, Memphis 106, OT Portland 96, Golden State 95 Today’s Games

Indiana at Boston, 10 a.m.

L.A. Lakers at Toronto, 10 a.m.

New Orleans at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Atlanta at New Jersey, 10 a.m.

Houston at Sacramento, 3 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Orlando at Atlanta, 4 p.m.

New Orleans at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Portland, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Charlotte at Washington, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

——— All Times PST

SUMMARIES Saturday’s Games

Blazers 96, Warriors 95 GOLDEN STATE (95) D.Wright 5-14 2-4 12, Amundson 1-3 1-2 3, Lee 5-11 3-3 13, Ellis 9-20 7-9 26, R.Williams 6-14 3-3 16, Gadzuric 2-4 0-1 4, Law 1-3 0-0 2, Radmanovic 3-6 1-1 9, Carney 4-6 0-0 10.

Totals 36-81 17-23 95.

PORTLAND (96) Fernandez 6-12 1-2 15, Aldridge 6-10 5-8 17, Cunningham 6-13 1-2 13, Miller 7-12 3-4 17, Matthews 5-12 1-1 13, Marks 3-4 0-0 6, Mills 4-10 2-4 12, Babbitt 1-5 1-1 3, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-78 14-22 96.

Golden State 18 24 23 30 — 95 Portland 21 30 23 22 — 96 3-Point Goals—Golden State 6-17 (Carney 2-2, Radmanovic 2-4, Ellis 1-3, R.Williams 1-5, D.Wright 0-3), Portland 6-15 (Fernandez 2-4, Mills 2-5, Matthews 2-5, Babbitt 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Golden State 50 (Lee 11), Portland 49 (Aldridge 12). Assists—Golden State 17 (Ellis 5), Portland 24 (Miller 8). Total Fouls—Golden State 23, Portland 19. Technicals—Matthews, Portland defensive three second. A—20,398 (19,980).

Jazz 95, Bucks 86 UTAH (95) Kirilenko 4-7 4-6 12, Millsap 6-12 3-5 15, Jefferson 7-15 4-5 18, Williams 7-15 5-8 22, Bell 1-7 0-0 3, Miles 6-16 2-2 16, Okur 1-5 0-0 3, Elson 2-5 0-0 4, Watson 1-1 0-0 2, Fesenko 0-0 0-0 0, Price 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-83 1826 95.

MILWAUKEE (86) Douglas-Roberts 3-9 7-7 13, Ilyasova 1-5 0-0 2, Bogut 8-13 3-6 19, Jennings 3-7 0-0 6, Salmons 5-15 4-4 18, Gooden 6-8 0-0 12, Dooling 5-7 1-1 14, Maggette 0-5 0-0 0, Mbah a Moute 0-1 0-0 0, Brockman 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 32-71 15-18 86.

Utah 19 24 28 24 — 95 Milwaukee 25 21 22 18 — 86 3-Point Goals—Utah 7-15 (Williams 3-3, Miles 2-5, Okur 1-2, Bell 1-4, Kirilenko 0-1), Milwaukee 7-18 (Salmons 4-6, Dooling 3-4, Gooden 0-1, Bogut 0-1, Douglas-Roberts 0-1, Ilyasova 0-2, Jennings 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Utah 57 (Millsap, Jefferson, Kirilenko 9), Milwaukee 41 (Bogut 9). Assists—Utah 25 (Williams 11), Milwaukee 21 (Dooling 5). Total Fouls—Utah 15, Milwaukee 20. Technicals— Williams. Flagrant Fouls—Gooden. A—16,004 (18,717).

Cavaliers 109, Knicks 102 (OT) NEW YORK (102) Chandler 5-14 1-2 13, Gallinari 3-14 0-0 7, Stoudemire 8-19 6-6 23, Felton 9-19 2-2 23, Fields 5-8 0-0 11, Douglas 3-11 0-0 7, Turiaf 2-4 2-2 6, S.Williams 4-6 2-2 12. Totals 39-95 13-14 102.

CLEVELAND (109) Parker 5-9 5-7 17, Jamison 8-16 4-6 21, Varejao 7-13 0-0 14, M.Williams 9-21 2-2 23, Gibson 4-20 0-0 11, Sessions 4-10 4-5 12, Hickson 4-7 0-0 8, Moon 1-5 0-0 3, J.Williams 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 42-102 15-20 109.

New York 27 25 22 19 9 — 102 Cleveland 21 28 25 19 16 — 109 3-Point Goals—New York 11-34 (Felton 3-7, S.Williams 2-3, Chandler 2-6, Stoudemire 1-1, Fields 1-2, Douglas 1-5, Gallinari 1-10), Cleveland 10-27 (M.Williams 3-8, Gibson 3-8, Parker 2-3, Moon 1-3, Jamison 1-4, J.Williams 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New York 58 (Stoudemire 11), Cleveland 64 (Varejao 17).

Assists—New York 22 (Felton 11), Cleveland 28 (M.Williams 14). Total Fouls—New York 20, Cleveland 11. A—20,562 (20,562).

Heat 95, Wizards 94 MIAMI (95) James 9-19 11-12 32, Bosh 6-10 7-10 20, Ilgauskas 2-3 0-0 4, Arroyo 1-5 0-0 2, Wade 7-19 4-6 20, Dampier 1-2 0-0 2, Ju.Howard 2-4 0-0 4, Jones 0-2 2-2 2, Chalmers 3-7 0-0 8, House 0-0 0-0 0, Anthony 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 31-72 25-32 95.

WASHINGTON (94) Thornton 4-8 2-2 10, Blatche 8-21 4-6 20, McGee 2-7 1-2 5, Hinrich 4-16 5-6 13, Young 13-23 2-2 30, Jo.Howard 5-9 3-6 13, Armstrong 0-1 1-2 1, Martin 0-0 0-0 0, Booker 1-2 0-0 2, Gee 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-87 18-26 94.

Miami 19 27 26 23 — 95 Washington 25 22 27 20 — 94 3-Point Goals—Miami 8-22 (James 3-7, Wade 2-5, Chalmers 2-5, Bosh 1-1, Jones 0-2, Arroyo 0-2), Washington 2-9 (Young 2-2, McGee 0-1, Jo.Howard 0-2, Hinrich 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Miami 53 (Bosh 9), Washington 53 (Blatche 12). Assists—Miami 18 (James 6), Washington 22 (Hinrich 12). Total Fouls—Miami 20, Washington 23. A—20,278 (20,173).

76ers 97, Magic 89 PHILADELPHIA (97) Iguodala 8-15 3-4 21, Brand 8-14 4-5 20, Hawes 1-7 0-0 2, Holiday 2-7 1-2 5, Meeks 3-6 3-3 9, L.Williams 5-9 13-14 24, Young 2-5 1-2 5, Speights 3-7 1-1 7, Turner 1-5 0-0 2, Nocioni 1-2

0-0 2. Totals 34-77 26-31 97.

ORLANDO (89) Q.Richardson 3-9 0-0 6, Bass 8-19 2-2 18, Howard 8-18 10-17 26, Nelson 7-16 1-1 17, Redick 4-10 0-1 9, Allen 2-7 0-0 4, J.Williams 0-2 0-0 0, Duhon 4-6 1-1 9. Totals 36-87 1422 89.

Philadelphia 20 20 31 26 — 97 Orlando 21 18 25 25 — 89 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 3-11 (Iguodala 2-4, L.Williams 1-2, Hawes 0-1, Nocioni 0-1, Meeks 0-3), Orlando 3-15 (Nelson 2-5, Redick 1-3, J.Williams 0-1, Duhon 0-2, Q.Richardson 0-4). Fouled Out—Hawes. Rebounds—Philadelphia 45 (Brand 13), Orlando 62 (Howard 20).

Assists—Philadelphia 18 (Iguodala 7), Orlando 19 (Nelson 9). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 20, Orlando 23. Technicals—Iguodala, Orlando Coach Van Gundy, Orlando defensive three second.

A—18,846 (18,500).

Spurs 112, Grizzlies 106 (OT) MEMPHIS (106) Allen 5-9 4-7 15, Randolph 11-23 2-3 24, Gasol 3-11 5-8 11, Conley 6-12 0-0 13, Mayo 11-19 0-0 27, Young 4-9 3-3 11, Arthur 1-6 0-0 2, Henry 0-2 0-0 0, Vasquez 1-4 0-0 3, Thabeet 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-95 14-21 106.

SAN ANTONIO (112) Jefferson 5-8 0-0 12, Duncan 6-13 1-1 13, Blair 1-6 0-0 2, Parker 15-21 6-10 37, Ginobili 4-10 6-7 15, Neal 4-10 1-1 11, Udoka 0-2 0-0 0, Bonner 2-6 0-0 6, Quinn 4-7 0-0 10, Splitter 0-0 0-0 0, McDyess 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 44-86 14-19 112.

Memphis 31 18 22 29 6 — 106 S.A. 28 25 27 20 12 — 112 3-Point Goals—Memphis 8-14 (Mayo 58, Vasquez 1-1, Allen 1-1, Conley 1-2, Gasol 0-1, Randolph 0-1), San Antonio 10-23 (Quinn 2-4, Jefferson 2-4, Bonner 2-5, Neal 2-6, Parker 1-1, Ginobili 1-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Memphis 57 (Randolph 21), San Antonio 50 (Duncan 10). Assists—Memphis 23 (Conley 8), San Antonio 31 (Parker, Ginobili 9). Total Fouls—Memphis 17, San Antonio 19.

Technicals—Memphis defensive three second.

A—18,581 (18,797).

Clippers 100, Bulls 99 L.A. CLIPPERS (100) Gomes 1-4 1-2 3, Griffin 10-18 8-12 29, Jordan 2-3 0-2 4, Davis 7-13 1-3 16, Gordon 513 3-4 15, Bledsoe 3-4 0-0 7, Smith 4-7 5-7 13, Butler 4-10 0-0 11, Collins 0-0 0-0 0, Foye 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 37-73 18-30 100.

CHICAGO (99) Deng 7-15 1-1 17, Boozer 12-20 1-2 25, Gibson 1-1 1-2 3, Rose 12-24 7-9 34, Bogans 0-1 0-0 0, Asik 0-1 3-6 3, Brewer 3-7 0-0 6, Korver 1-5 1-1 3, Watson 2-4 0-0 5, Thomas 1-4 1-2 3, Scalabrine 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-82 15-23 99.

L.A. Clippers 28 33 22 17 — 100 Chicago 31 22 23 23 — 99 3-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 8-17 (Butler 3-6, Gordon 2-4, Bledsoe 1-1, Griffin 1-1, Davis 1-4, Gomes 0-1), Chicago 6-15 (Rose 3-6, Deng 2-6, Watson 1-1, Bogans 0-1, Korver 0-1).

Fouled Out—Thomas. Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 54 (Griffin 12), Chicago 45 (Deng 8). Assists— L.A. Clippers 20 (Davis 7), Chicago 17 (Rose 8). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 24, Chicago 25.

Technicals—Gordon. A—21,760 (20,917).

Nuggets 115, T’wolves 113 MINNESOTA (113) Beasley 7-18 3-5 17, Love 14-23 10-12 43, Koufos 2-5 0-0 4, Ridnour 1-7 1-1 3, Johnson 47 0-0 8, Brewer 2-8 5-5 9, Webster 2-5 8-10 12, Flynn 5-7 2-2 12, Hayward 2-3 0-0 5, Ellington 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-84 29-35 113.

DENVER (115) Anthony 8-19 8-10 24, Williams 3-5 0-0 6, Nene 2-4 2-2 6, Lawson 8-16 6-7 23, Afflalo 5-11 4-5 17, Smith 5-11 6-7 18, Harrington 5-14 1-2 15, Ely 0-0 0-0 0, Forbes 1-2 0-0 2, Carter 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 39-86 27-33 115.

Minnesota 27 23 25 38 — 113 Denver 35 27 26 27 — 115 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 6-22 (Love 5-5, Hayward 1-2, Ellington 0-1, Beasley 0-1, Flynn 0-2, Webster 0-2, Brewer 0-3, Ridnour 0-3, Johnson 0-3), Denver 10-27 (Harrington 4-10, Afflalo 3-6, Smith 2-7, Lawson 1-2, Carter 0-1, Anthony 0-1). Fouled Out—Nene. Rebounds—Minnesota 61 (Love 17), Denver 43 (Anthony 7).

Assists—Minnesota 24 (Ridnour 5), Denver 25 (Lawson 9). Total Fouls—Minnesota 23, Denver 26. A—15,409 (19,155).

LEADERS Through Friday’s Games SCORING G FG FT PTS Durant, OKC 23 205 185 630 Stoudemire, NYK 27 273 168 719 Bryant, LAL 27 240 183 704 Nowitzki, DAL 26 244 131 644 Ellis, GOL 25 236 101 610 James, MIA 28 229 187 678 Anthony, DEN 23 192 153 552 Rose, CHI 23 212 86 550 Gordon, LAC 25 191 179 594 Wade, MIA 27 221 176 640 Westbrook, OKC 27 212 194 627 Martin, HOU 26 172 200 603 Williams, UTA 27 201 162 607 Beasley, MIN 25 218 80 537 Howard, ORL 23 174 146 494

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 19, 2010 D3

AVG 27.4 26.6 26.1 24.8 24.4 24.2 24.0 23.9 23.8 23.7 23.2 23.2 22.5 21.5 21.5

Trail Blazers hold off Warriors The Associated Press PORTLAND — These Portland Trail Blazers could nearly be dubbed The Replacements.

With starters Brandon Roy, Nicolas Batum and Marcus Camby among those out with injuries, the Blazers had just nine available players but held off the Golden State Warriors for a 96-95 victory on Friday night.

Six of the available Blazers scored in double figures.

“Being shorthanded it was tough, said second-year forward Dante Cunningham, who made his first start of the season and had 13 points.

“We definitely needed everybody.”

“Definitely,” echoed LaMarcus Aldridge, standing nearby.

Aldridge had 17 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Blazers, but he missed a key jumper with 9.9 seconds to go in the game. That gave the Warriors a chance to win it on the other end, but Monta Ellis’ long jumper with 0.8 seconds left was off and fell into the hands of Portland swingman Rudy Fernandez to end it.

“It sure felt good leaving my hand,” Ellis said. “It wasn’t a bad shot. It just didn’t go down.”

Golden State was coming off a 108-99 victory Tuesday over Minnesota, which snapped a seven-game losing streak. The Warriors have dropped 13 of 15 overall.

Andre Miller contributed 17 points and eight assists while Fernandez had 15 points for the Blazers.

“Tonight was a little bit tough.

We’re used to playing without guys, but we’re playing without guys,” Aldridge said, emphasizing the final “guys.”

The Blazers led by 15 in the second half but the Warriors narrowed it to 92-89 on Rodney Carney’s 3-pointer with 3:14 left. Miller answered for the Blazers with a falling fadeaway and a free throw to make it 95-89.

After Ellis hit a pair of free throws, Reggie Williams added a short jumper and Golden State closed to 95-93. Aldridge made one of two free throws before Ellis sank a pair to make it 96-95 with 33.5 seconds left.

Aldridge missed his 19-footer before Ellis’ failed final attempt for the Warriors.

Camby, Batum, Roy and Joel Przybilla were all sitting out because of injuries.

Przybilla has a left ankle injury, while Camby and Batum have right shoulder soreness. All three were hurt during Friday night’s 107-102 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The trio will be re-evaluated today.

Roy was sitting out the second of at least three games with a sore left

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Portland Trail Blazers’ Dante Cunningham (33) comes away with the loose ball as teammate LaMarcus Aldridge (12) and Golden State Warriors center Louis Amundson, center, look on in the first quarter of Saturday night’s game in Portland. knee. The three-time All-Star also missed three games earlier this season with knee trouble, and coach Nate McMillan has at times limited Roy’s minutes.

Roy is averaging 16.9 points per game, falling behind Aldridge in scoring for the Blazers. Roy will be looked at again by doctors next week.

“You look around. You’re missing Nico (Batum), Marcus, Roy. The list goes on. It’s amazing,” said Cunningham.

Aldridge said it was weird having so much room on the bench.

“Everybody got like three chairs,” he joked.

The Warriors, meanwhile, were without center Andris Biedrins, out with a sprained left ankle, and guard Stephen Curry, who missed his fourth game with a sprained right ankle. Carney returned after missing six games with a sprained left foot.

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With so many regulars sitting out, the pace of the game was slowed considerably.

Portland led by as many as five points early, but Vladimir Radmanovic hit a 3-pointer to pull Golden State to 29-27. Acie Law’s layup tied it.

Portland reclaimed the lead when Wesley Matthews’ 3-pointer made it 33-31.

The Blazers went on a 16-6 run to close the first half. Miller hit a jumper before a steal by Ellis and finished off by a fast-break layup to give the Blazers a 51-42 lead at the break.

Also on Saturday: Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Wizards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 WASHINGTON — LeBron James had 32 points, seven rebounds and six assists, and Miami beat Washington for its 12th straight victory.

James and Chris Bosh got away with contact on Kirk Hinrich on a poten-

tial game-winning layup, letting the Heat escape the last-place Wizards, who nearly pulled off the upset without injured No. 1 pick John Wall and the just-traded Gilbert Arenas.

Spurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Grizzlies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 SAN ANTONIO — Tony Parker scored 16 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, leading San Antonio over Memphis for its eighth straight victory. Parker was 15 for 21 from the field, putting up a season high while scoring nine of San Antonio’s final 10 points in regulation.

Clippers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 CHICAGO — Blake Griffin scored 29 points and Vinny Del Negro made a triumphant return to the United Center as Los Angeles stopped Chicago’s seven-game winning streak.

Chicago guard Derrick Rose, fouled with 0.8 seconds remaining as he drove to the basket, hit the first free throw but missed the second with a chance to tie.

76ers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Magic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 ORLANDO, Fla. — Lou Williams scored 24 points, Andre Iguodala had 21 and Philadelphia beat undermanned Orlando. Elton Brand finished with 20 points to help Philadelphia to a relatively easy victory on a day the Magic made a pair of blockbuster moves to overhaul their roster (see story below).

Cavaliers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Knicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 CLEVELAND— Mo Williams scored 23 points, including the tying basket late in regulation and six points in overtime, and Cleveland snapped a 10-game losing streak by beating New York. Antawn Jamison, who added 21 points, and Anderson Varejao each made two baskets in the extra session.

Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Bucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 MILWAUKEE — Deron Williams scored 22 points and added 11 assists, leading Utah past Milwaukee and overcoming a double-digit deficit for the ninth time this season. The Jazz (19-9) avoided losing consecutive games for the first time since starting 0-2.

Nuggets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Timberwolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 DENVER — Carmelo Anthony scored 24 points and had a key block to help Denver overcome Kevin Love’s career-high 43-point performance in a victory over Minnesota.

Ty Lawson added 23 points and J.R. Smith had 18 for the Nuggets, who dealt the short-handed Timberwolves their 11th straight road loss.

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A rough patch early this season was enough to convince the Orlando Magic that perhaps they weren’t good enough to contend in the Eastern Conference after all. They acquired troubled guard Gilbert Arenas from the Washington Wizards and Hedo Turkoglu and Jason Richardson from the Phoenix Suns in a major roster shakeup Saturday.

The Magic sent forward Rashard Lewis to Washington and Vince Carter, Mickael Pietrus and Marcin Gilbert Arenas Gortat to Phoenix in a separate trade. Orlando also gave Phoenix its 2011 first-round draft pick and cash and received Suns forward Earl Clark.

“We needed a little bit more punch,” Magic president Otis Smith said. “All those guys coming in have an ability to move the ball. After looking at our team through 25 games, we were missing a little something. I thought change was needed.”

The overhaul was a major move for a franchise that began the season believing it had all the pieces for its first championship.

Instead, Orlando had lost five of its last six games to drop from first to fourth in the Eastern Conference. The slide was magnified by winning streaks of 11 by Miami and 12 by Boston, a ripple effect that was enough to force Orlando to revamp the roster.

Again.

After losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals in the 2008-09 season, the Magic parted ways with Turkoglu — a fan favorite who went to Toronto — and traded with New Jersey to get Carter. The decision turned out to be a disaster; Carter struggled mightily in Orlando’s disappointing exit in the East finals last season against Boston.

An early season skid forced Smith to reverse course.

“I don’t think it’s admitting a mistake,” he said. “I don’t regret breaking up the finals team.

I think it was the right decision at the time.”

The Magic made strong pushes to acquire Denver’s Carmelo Anthony or New Orleans’ Chris Paul, but after little progress, they began seeking other options.

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PREP ROUNDUP

Madras girls win Seaside Holiday Classic, improve to 7-0 Bulletin staff report SEASIDE — The Madras White Buffaloes have started the girls basketball season on a stampede. With a 64-47 victory over Mark Morris of Longview, Wash., in the championship game of the Seaside Holiday Classic on Saturday, Madras improved to 7-0 on the year.

“The best thing about it is we’ve beaten some good teams along the way,” said White Buffaloes coach Rory Oster.

The Suppah sisters, senior Lucy and junior Rosey, combined to score 30 points Saturday night. “Rosey had a great tournament and a big night,” Oster said about the younger Suppah, who was selected to the all-tournament team after she scored a career-high 17 points against Mark Morris.

JoElla Smith joined Rosey Suppah and Abby Scott on the all-tournament team.

Scott, who scored 10 points in the championship game, was named the tournament’s most valuable player.

The Buffaloes will put their perfect record to the test against bigger schools in their next four games, starting with a home contest against Bend High on Tuesday.

In other prep events Saturday: GIRLS BASKETBALL South Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 EUGENE — The Panthers trailed 31-19 at halftime, but the Axemen went on a 19-2 run in the third quarter to put the game out of reach. Jesslyn Albrecht recorded 10 points and nine rebounds to lead Redmond, which fell to 0-6 on the season. The Panthers host North Medford on Tuesday.

Summit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Ashland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 ASHLAND — Junior forward Sarah Edwards scored nine of her game-high 15 points during a 19-8 Summit run in the third quarter to lead the Storm in the consolationround win over host Ashland in the Ashland Rotary Hoops Classic. Freshman Raja Char added nine points for the Storm and Kaleigh Phillips scored seven. Summit (4-3) will play on Monday night at Eagle Point.

Mountain View (Wash.). . . . . 50 Mountain View . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 VANCOUVER, Wash.

— The Cougars fell to 4-2 on the season with the nonleague loss, struggling in their second road game in two days. Hopper Cashman led Bend’s Mountain View with 11 points. After falling behind by 10 points in the second half, the Cougars rallied to within two points of the host Thunder, but never could take the lead. The Cougs start Intermountain Hybrid play on Tuesday with a home contest against Crook County.

Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 North Medford JV . . . . . . . . . 43 PHOENIX — Chelsie McConville scored 16 points, and Taylor Nieri and Marin Allen added 14 apiece to lead Sisters to a consolation-game victory on the final day of the Phoenix Invitational. Carissa Kernutt and Harley Rowe booked eight points each and were among nine Outlaws to score in the contest. Sisters won two of three games in the tournament to improve to 2-3. The Outlaws play at Burns on Tuesday.

La Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Seaside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 SEASIDE — The Hawks ended the Seaside Holiday Classic with a win over the host Seagulls and improved to 3-5 overall. Brittany Glenn scored a team-high 10 points for La Pine, which has now won three of its last four games.

“This was a breakout game for us,” said first-year Hawk coach Kelly Garvin. “Defense won the game. We locked them down.” The Hawks are back on the road Tuesday with a nonleague contest at Lakeview.

Culver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Gervais. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 GERVAIS — Culver posted a 7-5 first-quarter lead but struggled to make easy shots, said coach Scott Fritz. The Bulldogs (5-3) battled through-

out the back-and-forth nonconference matchup and outlasted the Cougars with a fourthquarter surge, outscoring the home team 12-5. Junior forward Sam Donnelly scored a team-high 10 points for Culver, which hosts Western Mennonite on Monday.

Imbler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 North Lake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 BURNS — The Cowgirls fell to 3-4 on the season with the loss to the Panthers in the Crane tournament, which was played in Burns. Lesley Dark scored 15 points and Cheyenne Strong added 14 for North Lake.

BOYS BASKETBALL Central Linn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Madras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 SEASIDE — The White Buffaloes came out flat in the third quarter of their game against Central Linn at the Seaside Holiday Classic, prompting Madras coach Allen Hair to pull his starters and put an entirely different lineup in the game. That change sparked a rally by the White Buffaloes and they trailed by just two points with two minutes to go.

The Cobras held on by converting nearly all of their free throws, going 17 for 20 at the line. Kyle Palmer led Madras with 12 points and Bobby Ahern and Edward Zacarias each added 10. The White Buffaloes (1-6) play at Bend on Tuesday.

Henley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Summit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 ASHLAND — Summit’s Dylan Cramer scored all of his game-high 15 points on threepoint baskets, but the Storm struggled to generate much offense beyond that against Henley of Klamath Falls on the final day of the Ashland Rotary Hoops Classic. Summit (16) plays a nonconference game at home Tuesday night against Eagle Point.

La Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Taft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 SEASIDE — The Hawks stopped their six-game skid with a win in their final game of the Seaside Holiday Classic.

The victory did not come easy for La Pine. After taking a 70 lead in the first quarter, La Pine allowed Taft to score 20 consecutive points to close out the period. But the Hawks (27) shored up their defense, reduced turnovers, and chipped away at the Tigers’ advantage.

By the end of the third quarter, La Pine recaptured the lead for good. Austin Pierce contributed 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Glenn Lavine added four points, eight boards and four steals. The Hawks play at Lakeview on Tuesday.

Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mount Shasta (Calif.). . . . . . . 37 PHOENIX — Sisters outscored Mount Shasta 14-7 in the fourth quarter to break open a game that was close through the first three periods on the final day of the Phoenix Invitational. (No individual scoring statistics were available.) The Outlaws finished 1-2 and in seventh place in the eight-team tournament. Now 3-3 overall, Sisters entertains Burns in a nonconference game on Tuesday.

Culver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Gervais. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 GERVAIS — Down 19-18 at the half, Culver battled back to edge out Gervais in a nonleague contest. The Bulldogs (2-5), still down three points with less than thirty seconds remaining, stole the lead from the home team as Gerson Gonzalez scored Culver’s final four points. The Bulldogs return to Tri-River Conference action on Monday with a home game against Western Mennonite.

CANCELLATIONS Snowy conditions caused several area teams to miss scheduled events. Bend High’s girls (at Klamath Union) and boys (vs. Klamath Union) basketball teams did not play.

Redmond boys (at South Eugene) also did not play. The Mountain View and Summit swim teams did not travel to the CVC Invitational in Salem, while Culver wrestling did not compete in a meet at Thurston High.

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Redmond’s Ty George gets thrown to the mat by Cascade High School’s Travis Bledsoe during the 112-pound semifinal match of the Adrian Irwin Memorial Tournament at Mountain View High School on Saturday.

Wrestling Continued from D1 Kyler Ayers was Mountain View’s lone semifinalist, but he lost twice Saturday, finishing sixth at 135 pounds. Cougar coach Les Combs said he was exhausted by the end of the two-day event, which had action taking place on seven mats in two different gyms, but was very pleased with the competition level.

“Just look at the battles for first and second, third and fourth, fifth and sixth,” Combs analyzed while looking over the final standings.

“All of the top eight teams were right there with each other.”

Summit’s wrestlers finished 15th, La Pine was 16th, Sisters took 17th and North Lake ended the tourney 18th. The Hawks’ Garrett Searcy highlighted the tournament for La Pine, taking runner-up honors at 189 pounds.

The Adrian Irwin Memorial is held in memory of former Bend High and Mountain View wrestler Adrian Irwin, who drowned at Lake Shasta in 1997. Combs says the long-term goal for the tournament, which raises money for a scholarship fund to assist students of Bend-La Pine schools, is to have a field of 40 teams and

Madras’ Lane McDonald fights to get Cody Brown of Clackamas High School into position for a pin during a 125-pound consolation match on Saturday. expand the scholarship recipients to include all Central Oregon schools.

“When you get a couple quality programs other people want to compete against them,” Red-

mond’s Stanley explained. “We’re definitely drawing a lot of the best teams.”

PREP SCOREBOARD WRESTLING ADRIAN IRWIN MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT Final Team Standings 1, Dallas, 287.5; 2, Redmond, 285.5; 3, Pendleton, 266.5; 4, Sandy, 259.5; 5, Eagle Point, 200.5; 6, Burns, 185.5; 7, Clackamas, 168.5; 8, Cascade, 168; 9, Gresham, 151.5; 10, Bend, 140; 11, Madras, 132; 12, Mountain View, 121.5; 13, Cleveland, 96; 14, Nyssa, 94; 15, Summit, 71; 16, La Pine, 57; 17, Sisters, 22; 18, North Lake, 6.

SKIING Cross-country Saturday’s results 2010 MEISSNER SKATE RACE at Virginia Meissner Sno-park Boys Team scores — Summit 6, Redmond 35, Bend 36, Sisters 50, South Eugene 53, Crescent Valley 79.

Top 10 placers — 1, Reitler Hodgert, Summit, 18 minutes, 6.9 seconds; 2, Nick St. Clair, Summit, 18:23.3; 3, Ryan St. Clair, Summit, 19:17.1; 4, Max Millslagle, Summit, 19:43.6; 5, Kelly Smallwood, Summit, 19:58.4; 6, Eli Forman, Redmond, 20:08.7; 7, Peter Schwarz, Bend, 20:16.7; 8, Skyler Kenna, Summit, 20:33.3; 9, Benjamin Pratt, Grant, 20:35.9; 10, Misha Miller-Hughes, Cleveland, 20:42.4.

Girls Team scores — Summit 10, Redmond 19, Bend 26, Sisters 54, Crescent Valley 60, Cleveland 61, Hood River Valley 100, Grant 115.

Top 10 placers — 1, Sarah MacKenzie, Redmond, 23:34.5; 2, Keelin Moehl, Summit, 23:36.5; 3, Melanie Hopkins, Summit, 23:48.5; 4, In Marie Raa, Redmond, 23:56.1; 5, Megan Fristoe, Summit, 24:26.7; 6, Melissa Hubler, Bend, 24:26.7; 7, Kiera Degener-O’Brien, Cleveland, 24:46; 8, Vivian Hawkinson, South Salem, 25:05.6; 9, Aidan Washatka, Bend, 25:26.9; 10, Courtney Blust, Sisters, 25:33.7.

BASKETBALL Boys Saturday’s results ——— ASHLAND ROTARY HOOPS CLASSIC ———

Nordic Continued from D1 Norwegian exchange student Ine Marie posted the secondfastest time for the Redmond girls, finishing in 23:56, which was good for fourth place. Twotime cross-country state champion Megan Fristoe skated to fifth place for Summit in 24:26. Aiden Washatka led Bend High with a ninth-place result (25:26), while Courtney Blust (25:33) recorded the best finish for Sisters, taking 10th.

In the boys race, Summit swept the top five spots behind Reitler Hodgert’s first-place finish. Hodgert stopped the clock in 18:06, while Nick St. Clair (18:23) edged out his older brother Ryan

SUMMIT (27) — Dylan Cramer 15, Soto 4, Menefee 4, Peters 2, Mouser 2, Laubacher, Cattell, Hamann, Michalski. Totals 11 0-1 27.

HENLEY (39) — Peterson 11, Pena 6, Johnson 6, North 4, Collin 4, Gordon 3, Aldes 3, Sherrill 2, Hosack, Thomas. Totals 13 7-8 39.

Summit 9 7 7 4 — 27 Henley 12 7 11 9 — 39 Three-point goals — Summit: Cramer 5; Henley: Gordon, Aldes.

——— SEASIDE HOLIDAY CLASSIC ——— CENTRAL LINN (62) — Nightingale 18, Holloway 15, Leopard 11, Hansen 8, Wesley Smith 6, Walker 3, Warren Smith, Putney. Totals 21 17-20 62.

MADRAS (53) — Kyle Palmer 12, Ahern 10, Zacarias 10, Yeahquo 6, McConnell 3, Quintana 3, Conner 2, Brown 2, Borja 2, QueaphamaMehlberg 2, Haugen 1. Totals 19 13-18 53.

Central Linn 17 12 20 13 — 62 Madras 16 7 14 16 — 53 Three-point goals — Central Linn: Holloway. Madras: Palmer, Zacarias.

——— SEASIDE HOLIDAY CLASSIC ——— LA PINE (46) — Austin Pierce 14, Manley 13, O’Casey 11, Lavine 4, Ebner 2, Bowen 2, Kuehn, Brown, Steinebach. Totals 16 11-13 46.

TAFT (43) — Brent Martin 19, Brock Martin 12, B. Phelps 5, Bhernslot 5, Holmes 2, Butler, S. Lopez, Send, T. Phelps. Totals 16 6-7 43.

La Pine 7 15 12 12 — 46 Taft 20 9 4 10 — 43 Three-point goals — La Pine: Manley 3; Taft: Brent Martin 3, Brock Martin, B. Phelps.

——— PHOENIX INVITATIONAL ——— SISTERS (46) — Individual scoring not available. Totals not available.

MOUNT SHASTA (CALIF.) (37) — Individual scoring not available. Totals not available.

Sisters 10 11 11 14 — 46 Mount Shasta (Calif.) 12 8 10 7 — 37 Three-point goals — Sisters: not available; Mount Shasta: not available.

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NONCONFERENCE ——— CULVER (38) — Tyler Funk 9, Gonzalez 7, Fisher 6, Talbert 5, Calderon 5, Sledge 3, Gibson 2, Swagerty 1, Hanson, Fritz. Totals 15 6-14 30.

GERVAIS (37) — K. Bellacue 8, Martinez 7, E. Cortes 7, M. Bellacue 5, Paniagua 5, Aaraminallo 3, C. Cortes 2. Totals 14 6-14 37.

Culver 7 11 10 12 — 38 Gervais 9 10 11 7 — 37 Three-point goals — Culver: Talbert, Gonzalez; Gervais: Martinez 2, K. Bellacue.

Saturday’s results ——— CLASS 6A NONCONFERENCE ——— REDMOND (25) — Johnson 5, Jesslyn Albrecht 10, Nordstrom 4, Capps 4, Quackernack 2. Totals 9 6-7 25.

SOUTH EUGENE (61) — Witherspoon 6, Cook 8, Brabender 12, Vanverkley 4, Henshaw 2, Shivers 17, Phallan 6. Totals 24 6-9 61.

Redmond 7 12 2 4 — 25 South Eugene 15 16 19 9 — 61 Three-point goals — Redmond: Johnson; South Eugene: Brabender.

——— NONCONFERENCE ——— MOUNTAIN VIEW (44) — Hopper Cashman 11, K. Wilcox 8, Jordan 8, J. Wilcox 8, Rogers 5, Seevers 2, Durre 2,Abbey, Noel. Totals 12 14-19 44.

MOUNTAIN VIEW (WASH.) (50) — H. Holbroke 19, C. Holbroke 15, Duchesne 7, Dean 5, Shadale 2, Gaspar 2. Totals 15 15-24 50.

Mountain View 11 12 8 13 — 44 Mountain View (Wash.) 13 14 14 9 — 50 Three-point goals — Mountain View: Cashman 3, J. Wilcox 2, K. Wilcox; Mountain View (Wash.): C. Holbroke 2, Duchesne 2, H. Holbroke.

——— SEASIDE HOLIDAY CLASSIC ——— MADRAS (64) — R. Suppah 17, L. Suppah 30, J. Smith 12, Scott

10, Juanita 8, Simmons 2, M. Smith 2, Spino, Sampson. Totals 22 15-20 64.

MARK MORRIS (WASH.) (47) — Peters 9, Irgman 9, Kirkpatrick 8, K. Dubois 7, Blackmon 6, Reeves 4, B. Dubois 2, Sluder 2, Ke. Dubois, Lambert, Baierl, Nickerson, Hanes, Parvas. Totals 13 15-20 47.

Madras 16 23 13 12 — 64 Mark Morris (Wash.)

15 7 14 11 — 47 Three-point goals — Madras: L. Suppah 3, J. Smith 2. Madras: Kirkpatrick, K. Dubois.

——— CULVER (45) — Sam Donnelly 10, Wofford 8, Fulton 8, Anglen 8, Daugherty 5, Seehawer 2, Hanslovan 2, Sandy, Alley. Totals 20 417 45.

GERVAIS (40) — Rush 17, Cheelotie 10, Stet 5, Vanessa 5, Marenia 4, Rojas 2, Meiddy 2. Totals not available.

Culver 7 12 14 12 — 45 Gervais 5 16 14 5 — 40 Three-point goals — Culver: Daugherty; Gervais: Cheelotie 3, Marenia.

——— ASHLAND ROTARY HOOPS CLASSIC ——— SUMMIT (42) — Edwards 15, Char 9, Phillips 7, Alhart 6, Parr 4, Taylor 1, Audia, Solomon. Totals 16 7-10 42.

ASHLAND (31) — Pavlich 9, Shullenberger 8, Sad. Kasiah 5, Michiels 5, Minor 4, Cochrane, Zehren, Sad. Kasiah, Bottimore. Totals 12 6-13 31.

Summit 8 9 19 6 — 42 Ashland 9 6 8 8 — 31 Three-point goals — Summit: Char, Alhart, Edwards. Sandy: Sar. Kasiah.

——— PHOENIX INVITATIONAL ——— SISTERS (72) — Chelsie McConville 16, Nieri 14, Allen 14, Kernutt 8, Rowe 8, Hanson 4, Chauncey 4, Spear 2, Vogel 2, Yozamp, Peterson, Herron. Totals not available.

NORTH MEDFORD JV (43) — Williamson 12, Erb 10, Hogue 7, Tonkia 6, (name not available) 4, Barryessa 3, Smith 1, Rundleman, Masterson. Totals not available.

Sisters 17 26 19 10 — 72 North Medford JV 10 8 15 10 — 43 Three-point goals — Sisters: McConville 2, Allen, Rowe; North Medford JV: Tonkia 2, Williamson 2.

St. Clair (19:17) for second place.

Max Millslagle took fourth (19:43) and Kelly Smallwood grabbed fifth (19:58).

Redmond’s Eli Forman broke up the Storm boys dominating performance with a sixth-place finish (20:08). Peter Schwartz of Bend High finished eight seconds later for seventh place. Mason

Calmettes led Sisters with a 14thplace effort (21:41).

The Storm also won the boys overall with six points, Redmond placed second (35 points), Bend was third (36) and Sisters was fourth (50).

Saturday’s race boasted 170 participants, a new OHSNO record. The increase in size was

due in part to visiting schools from South Salem, South Eugene and North Eugene, all of whom are members of the Oregon Interscholastic Ski Race Association.

OHSNO schools Summit, Bend, Redmond and Sisters are off until Jan. 15, when Bend High hosts the Meissner Pursuit at Meissner Sno-park.

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This time they had a little help.

Brad Richards scored twice and the Stars benefited from a controversial call to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 on Saturday night.

With the score tied 1-1 with 5 minutes left in the second period, Columbus’ Derek Dorsett beat Loui Eriksson to a loose puck and drilled a shot into an almost empty net. But the goal was immediately disallowed by referee Chris Rooney, who waved it off because of goaltender interference involving the Blue Jackets’ Ethan Moreau.

NHL Rule 69.3 permits a goal to be erased even if a penalty is not called — and Moreau wasn’t sent to the box.

“They said it was goaltender contact — they said — in the crease,” Columbus coach Scott Arniel said. “We looked at it and we feel Ethan was outside the blue paint. The goalie came out to challenge and ran into him and proceeded to throw his arms in the air. Ethan’s feet were planted. There’s not much you can do; you’re not going to change a referee’s mind.”

Subsequent replays appeared to show minor, incidental contact between Moreau and goalie Kari Lehtonen.

Needless to say, Stars coach Marc Crawford agreed with the call that helped his team improve to 13-2-3 in one-goal games.

“I thought it was probably a penalty, more than just a guy in the crease,” he said. “They have to make that call in a split-second. And that’s the way it went.”

Dorsett, of course, saw it differently.

“It was obviously a goal after seeing the replay,” he said. “That is a key point in the game. (Moreau) and (captain Rick) Nash talked to the referee and they said Moreau touched or bumped into the goalie. You can clearly see on the replay that he didn’t.”

A crowd of 13,973 booed the officials the rest of the night.

Richards netted the winner at 6:17 of the third period on a hard, low wrist shot from the top of the left circle that eluded goalie Mathieu Garon while the teams were each a man down.

He was flying down the left wing on a 2-on-1 break with Eriksson at the time.

“I had some good speed,” Richards said. “I think he (Garon) was cheating a little bit to Loui. I think he thought I was going to pass. I saw that and just because I had speed I shot it.”

Fedor Tyutin scored for the Blue Jackets, who have lost four in a row and 10

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Avs defender O’Byrne finds himself at home in Denver

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Dallas Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen, left, stops a shot by Columbus Blue Jackets’ Mike Commodore in the second period of Saturday’s an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio. The Stars took a 2-1 win. of 12.

The Stars have earned points in 11 of 13 games (9-2-2).

Richards hadn’t played well on the road, totaling just 12 of his team-leading 35 points away from home. But he made up for it by burying two low, hard shots.

In other games on Saturday: Flyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Rangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PHILADELPHIA — Nikolay Zherdev scored two goals and Brian Boucher stopped 24 shots in Philadelphia’s win over the New York Rangers.

Bruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Capitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 BOSTON — Andrew Ference scored his first goal in 100 games to help Boston send Washington to its eighth straight loss.

Thrashers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ATLANTA — Eric Boulton scored three times for his first career NHL hat trick, Chris Thorburn added a goal and two assists, and Atlanta routed reeling New Jersey.

Sharks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ST. LOUIS — Rookie Logan Couture scored twice to lead San Jose to a victory over St. Louis.

Hurricanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ducks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 RALEIGH, N.C. — Eric Staal scored

three goals for Carolina, which held on to beat Anaheim and extend its seasonbest winning streak to four.

Coyotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Islanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Kyle Turris scored Phoenix’s third goal of the shootout and the Coyotes rallied to beat the New York Islanders in a shootout.

Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sabres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos scored his 25th goal of the season, Martin St. Louis had an empty-net goal and two assists, and Tampa Bay topped Buffalo.

Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Predators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Ryan Smyth scored twice and Los Angeles broke loose for four goals in the first period of a rout against Nashville.

Canucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Maple Leafs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Alex Burrows scored with 1:07 left in the first period, Jannik Hansen scored with 2:06 remaining in the second, and Vancouver beat Toronto.

Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CALGARY, Alberta — Mikko Koivu had a goal and two assists for Minnesota, which opened up a home-andhome series by beating Calgary.

DENVER — Unwanted in Montreal, defenseman Ryan O’Byrne hasn’t taken long to find a home with the Colorado Avalanche.

On the ice, anyway.

Away from it, he’s still searching for a place of his own.

O’Byrne has been living at a hotel since he was acquired last month, too wrapped up in making a solid impression with his new team to comb the local neighborhoods for a new abode.

After all, the last thing he wants to go through again is what transpired in Montreal.

O’Byrne played a career-high 55 games last year with the Canadiens but fell out of favor early this season and registered more idle time than ice time.

Traded to the Avalanche, he’s gone from a forgotten man to a fixture in the lineup.

“They’ve welcomed me with open arms,” said O’Byrne, who will face his former team tonight. “The times were tough in Montreal. But I’ve got that pleasure back in the game.”

This was exactly what the Avalanche envisioned when they made the deal: a big, bruising defenseman to pair with John-Michael Liles, freeing him up to get more involved in the offense. Liles has emerged as quite a scoring threat this season, leading the highest-scoring team in the league with 23 assists.

With O’Byrne around, Liles can roam around the ice and jump into a play whenever he sees fit, knowing his defensive partner has his back.

“He’s been like a security blanket,” Liles said. “I know where he is on the ice all of the time. He hits, he blocks shots and plays fantastic for us. He was a great pickup for us.”

O’Byrne hasn’t been the only one.

Colorado also acquired forward Tomas Fleischmann from the Washington Capitals on Nov. 30, another player who has reignited his game with a change of scenery.

Fleischmann has five goals and six assists in eight games with the Avalanche.

He had four goals in 23 contests with the Capitals.

“It’s a good group to be around,” Fleischmann said. “It’s great for my career.”

O’Byrne felt the same way about the trade that landed him in the Mile High City.

Anything was better than sitting in Montreal.

For nearly five weeks, O’Byrne wondered what he did to slide so deep into the doghouse. He tried skating harder

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Colorado’s Tomas Fleischmann, right, and Ryan O’Byrne celebrate during Wednesday’s game in Chicago. at practice — no help. He attempted to keep a positive attitude — didn’t work.

So O’Byrne did the only thing left to do — inquire, repeatedly, as to what was going on.

“More or less, they had some veteran defensemen ahead of me and those guys were playing well,” O’Byrne explained with a casual shrug. “Montreal’s having a good year this year and for whatever reason, I couldn’t get myself in the lineup. ... Sometimes, I felt like a spare part.”

O’Byrne would show up on game day hoping to see his name in the lineup, only to be disappointed.

That hasn’t been the case in Colorado, where the team’s uptempo system fits his game.

“They want me to be more aggressive here and there, as opposed to sitting back more in Montreal,” said O’Byrne, a thirdround pick of the Canadiens in 2003. “I don’t try to change my game too much — play physical, block shots, make that first pass. If I do that, I’ll be successful.”

He’s definitely been successful so far this season, logging more than 20 minutes a game for Colorado and boasting a plus-13 rating, meaning the team is scoring more goals than it’s surrendering when he’s on the ice.

Although he’s quickly found a home with his new team, he’s in no rush to buy one. Hotel life suits him just fine.

“We’re hockey players, we’re used to living in hotels,” O’Byrne said, grinning.

“You get accustomed to it. It’s not a big deal.

“I couldn’t get in a groove in Montreal.

But for whatever reason here, I’ve been able to find a home for myself and play some good hockey. I really feel like I’m contributing.”

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Gonzaga upsets No. 9 Baylor George Washington knocks off Oregon State in Corvallis

The Associated Press DALLAS — Remember those giant killers from Gonzaga? They finally have another big victory after several missed chances already this season.

The Bulldogs, who earned a reputation for themselves with big upsets in NCAA tournaments past, got a go-ahead 3-pointer from Kelly Olynyk with 1:46 remaining Saturday and handed ninth-ranked Baylor its first loss of the season, 68-64 in a game played only about 100 miles from the Bears’ campus.

“When I saw that I was like ‘Woohoo!’ That was a great feeling. It took the weight off our shoulders and you knew the game was ours,” said Robert Sacre, who led the Bulldogs with 17 points.

“We’ve been here so many times, we just haven’t been able to pull it out. We knew what we needed to do was keep grinding and keep sawing wood to get the win.”

The big shot by Olynyk came right after Baylor (7-1), with its highest ranking ever, scored four points on one possession.

Gonzaga (6-5) made seven of nine free throws after that to seal the long-awaited victory. Four of the Bulldogs’ losses this season came against Top 25 teams: San Diego State, Kansas State, Illinois and Notre Dame.

“Through this murder’s row we’ve been through, it’s been hard to get any momentum,” coach Mark Few said. “Teams have made a lot shots against us. We defended well and we rebounded good because that’s a good rebounding club.”

Baylor, playing away from home for the first time this season, was among the national leaders in rebounding margin (plus 12.5 a game) and scoring margin (plus 21.7 per game). Gonzaga matched the Bears with 33 rebounds.

With Gonzaga’s leading scorer Steven Gray out of the game because of back spasms after a hard fall in the first half, Olynyk made his only 3-pointer of the game. It was the last of 12 lead changes after halftime.

Olynyk came through after Baylor had taken a 59-58 lead with 2 minutes left. Perry Jones hit a jumper from near the free throw line. While the ball was in the air, a foul was called under the basket and Quincy Acy made two free throws.

“That was a big-time play by Kelly,” Few said. “For us to survive all that, to survive a run like that, with the crowd into it and Kelly steps up and hits a big 3-pointer.”

Jones then came up short on a jumper, and Baylor had two quick fouls. Demetri Goodson made two free throws after being fouled

by LaceDarius Dunn in the backcourt for a 63-59 lead — matching the biggest point differential after halftime.

After Goodson lost the ball out of bounds on the sideline in a crowd of Bears and then fouled Dunn, Baylor’s senior made only one of the two free throws.

Marquise Carter made two free throws with 47 seconds left to make it 65-60, then Goodson had a steal on a turnover by Dunn.

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Baylor guard LaceDarius Dunn (24) reacts as Gonzaga guard Demetri Goodson (3) steals the ball from him in the first half of Saturday’s game in Dallas. Baylor’s Quincy Acy is in the foreground.

Portland tops Portland State PORTLAND — Tim Douglas came off the bench to score 27 points and lead Portland to a 78-67 win over Portland State on Saturday night.

Luke Sikma contributed 16 points for the Pilots (9-3) and shot eight of nine from the floor. Derrick Rodgers added 12 points for Portland.

Chehales Tapscott led the Vikings (6-4) with 25 points, while Chris Harriel chipped in 12 points.

— The Associated Press

Jones, the freshman, had 19 points for Baylor after two fouls early. Dunn finished with 17 to end his streak of seven consecutive 20-point games.

Also on Saturday: No. 2 Ohio State . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Freshman Jared Sullinger had 30 points and a career-high 19 rebounds to lead Ohio State. William Buford added 12 points and Jon Diebler had 11 for the Buckeyes (10-0).

No. 5 Syracuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Iona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Kris Joseph scored 21 points to help Syracuse extend its perfect start to 11 games, while Brandon Triche added 14 points and seven assists.

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 No. 6 Kansas State. . . . . . . . . . . .44 SUNRISE, Fla. — Kenny Boynton scored 15 points to shake a slump and Florida held Kansas State to 27 percent shooting in the Orange Bowl Classic. Florida (82) ended a streak of 14 consecutive December wins for Kansas State (9-2) dating to 2008.

No. 8 Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Maryland-Eastern Shore . . . . . .64 PITTSBURGH — Gilbert

Brown missed only two shots while scoring a career-high 28 points. Ashton Gibbs added 15 points and seven assists, and Gary McGhee had 10 points and 10 rebounds for Pitt (11-1).

No. 10 Villanova . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 PHILADELPHIA — Corey Fisher scored 21 points and Maalik Wayns had 14 to lead Villanova to its fourth straight win. The Wildcats (9-1) used a 14-0 run early in the second half to pull away from the Blue Hens.

No. 11 San Diego State . . . . . . . .90 UC Santa Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . .64 SAN DIEGO — Malcolm Thomas had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and keyed a 17-1 run at the end of the first half that carried the undefeated Aztecs to victory. The Aztecs, making a push for their first-ever top-10 ranking, improved to 12-0 for the first time in school history.

Illinois-Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 No. 12 Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 CHICAGO — Darrin Williams scored five points in the final 1:10 and Illinois-Chicago (5-7) rallied from an eight-point second-half deficit to end a seven-game winning streak for the Illini (10-2).

No. 13 Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Central Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 COLUMBIA, Mo. — Marcus Denmon scored 21 points and Laurence Bowers added 20 on eight-of-nine shooting to lead Missouri. The Tigers (10-1) set a Mizzou Arena record for points in a game.

No. 14 Michigan State . . . . . . . . .90 Prairie View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State coach Tom Izzo served a one-game suspension and Durrell Summers scored a season-high 25 points. Izzo watched the game on TV from home.

No. 15 Georgetown . . . . . . . . . . .99 Loyola, Md. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 WASHINGTON — Georgetown shot 78 percent in the first

half and Austin Freeman broke out of a shooting slump to score 14 points for the Hoyas (10-1), who led by 15 points after 10 minutes and by 23 at halftime.

No. 17 Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85 Mississippi Valley State . . . . . . .60 LEXINGTON, Ky. — Terrence Jones scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half and Kentucky rolled. Doron Lamb and DeAndre Liggins scored 16 points apiece for the Wildcats (8-2), who played the last 6:26 without coach John Calipari, who was ejected.

No. 19 Purdue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Indiana State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 INDIANAPOLIS — JaJuan Johnson scored 25 of his careerhigh 31 points in the first half for Purdue. Purdue (10-1) led 32-30 at halftime, then held Indiana State to 22 points and 32 percent shooting in the second half.

No. 20 Louisville . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Gardner-Webb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Preston Knowles scored a career-high 24 points and Louisville (9-1) bounced back from its first loss of the season.

No. 22 Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 GREENSBORO, N.C. — Freshman Cory Joseph hit a turnaround jumper over Dexter Strickland with 1.4 seconds for Texas (9-2).

No. 22 UNLV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Southern Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 LAS VEGAS — Anthony Marshall scored a career high 17 points to lead UNLV over Southern Utah. Freshman forward Carlos Lopez had season-highs of 12 points and 11 rebounds for UNLV (10-2).

No. 25 Texas A&M . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 DALLAS — Khris Middleton scored 19 of his 31 points after a bench-clearing scuffle early in the second half, including the goahead free throw in overtime, and Texas A&M (10-1) extended its winning streak to seven games.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — ig 12 basketball programs in the past five seasons have added beef to what for many were anemic nonconference schedules loaded with directional schools and others that represented easy wins and no-pain guarantees.

Some — such as Texas and Kansas — needed no prodding.

Others did.

Better schedules have boosted team and conference RPIs and helped build the conference into one of college basketball’s best.

The Big 12 had the nation’s best RPI last season. Scheduling was part of the reason.

The soon-to-be-defunct Hardwood Series with the Pac-10 was a part of that schedule upgrade.

But the real winners were the season ticket-holders, who, more often than not, were fed a constant menu of Disco Tech and other less notables — certainly a part of the necessary nonconference record-building process but opponents that are best served in

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moderation.

Case in point: Last Saturday’s WashingtonTexas A&M game drew a seasonbest crowd of 10,296 to Reed Arena in College Station. The only crowd close to that this season was the 7,741 that showed for the A&M-TAMU International game Nov. 19 — the night before the Nebraska football game, when a ticket to the kickoff got you in the door.

A year ago, the Aggies drew 10,393 for Arizona. That and the Washington game are among only seven nonconference crowds in the history of the arena that topped 10 grand.

Adding quality nonconference draws was one of the main selling points when the Hardwood Series was arranged and one of the reasons why the apparent demise of the series should be a concern.

On the surface, the Pac-10 killed the deal because a faction of the conference programs wanted to shift the games to neutral sites in bigger markets. The Big 12 liked the home-and-home arrangement, and wanted to con-

tinue it.

The Big East vs. SEC neutralsite games failed miserably. They just announced a new two-year deal that switched all games to campus sites. Duh. The other facet that sunk the Hardwood Series was, of course, television. The Pac-10 has Fox as a basketball partner. The Big 12’s partner is ESPN. The Left Coast League only has one year left on its Fox agreement.

“What really pushed it over the top, to the feeling that we just couldn’t keep it going at this time, was the uncertainty about

points in that run and Taylor the last five.

Oregon State slowly closed the deficit. The Beavers went on an 11-1 run — the first eight at the foul line followed by Calvin Haynes’ 3-pointer — to close within 34-31.

Another 3-pointer by Haynes got Oregon State within one at halftime at 37-36. Haynes finished with 16 points.

Also on Saturday: No. 3 Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 LAWRENCE, Kan. — Josh Selby made his long-awaited collegiate debut one to remember with a go-ahead 3-pointer with 26 seconds left to lead Kansas. Selby, a freshman point guard ordered by the NCAA to sit out the first nine games, had 21 points for the Jayhawks (100). Donte Smith had 20 points for USC (6-5).

UCLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 No. 16 BYU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Reeves Nelson scored a career-high 23 points for UCLA in the John R. Wooden Classic doubleheader, handing BYU (10-1) its first loss. The Bruins (6-4) earned their first quality win of the season after road losses to ranked teams Villanova and Kansas.

California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Cal Poly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 BERKELEY, Calif. — Jorge Gutierrez overcame a terrible shooting night to make a key 3pointer with 1:09 left to play as California held on to beat Cal Poly. California (6-4) shot just 38.6 percent from the field as a team but outscored Cal Poly (37) 12-2 over the final 3 minutes.

Butler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 INDIANAPOLIS — Matt Howard opened the second half with 10 straight points and finished with 27, leading Butler (6-4) past Stanford. Stanford (6-3) was led by Jeremy Green with 16 points but shot just 31.4 percent.

Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 SEATTLE — Isaiah Thomas scored the first 10 points of the second half in helping Washington coast to victory over San Francisco. Thomas, the team’s leading scorer at 15.3 points per game, was held in check with just two points in the first half.

He then hit successive 3-pointers to open the half, giving the Huskies (7-3) a 45-24 lead.

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CORVALLIS — Tony Taylor had 19 points, 11 assists and five rebounds to lead George Washington to an 8779 win against Oregon State at Gill Coliseum.

Nemanja Mikic also had 19 points, including six 3-pointers, for the Colonials (4-5), who held the lead for the last 36 minutes of the game.

Jared Cunningham had 21 points and four rebounds for the Beavers (4-6), who have lost four of their last five.

George Washington, which has now won two straight after losing four in a row, held off numerous Oregon State runs in the second half.

“We showed a lot of maturity. We were able to stay focused throughout the game,” George Washington coach Karl Hobbs said. “The good part is we never lost our confidence even when they made runs. We never felt like we were out of control.”

The Beavers came into the game second in the country in steals, averaging 13 per game. But the Colonials were able to negate that with patience and good passing.

George Washington finished with just nine turnovers, including two in the second half.

The Colonials scored eight straight points in the first 1:01 after halftime. Consecutive 3pointers by Mikic put George Washington ahead 45-36.

Aaron Ware later scored four straight to end a 7-0 Colonials run that made it 55-42.

Oregon State answered with eight points in a row, four by Devon Collier.

The Beavers kept chipping away at the deficit. Robert Nelson’s 3-pointer with 8:26 left made it 60-59 George Washington.

But Taylor followed with five straight points to make it a six-point game.

Oregon State got no closer than four points until Cunningham’s two free throws with 2:45 remaining closed the Colonials’ lead to 75-72.

Mikic’s sixth 3-pointer put George Washington ahead 78-72.

The Beavers got no closer than five from there.

Oregon State was 33 of 36 from the free-throw line, including a single-game school record 15 of 15 by Cunningham. George Washington was 16 of 28 from the line.

The Colonials had a 34-22 rebounding edge.

George Washington scored seven straight points to go up 12-9 and take the lead for good in the first half.

The Colonials later used a 14-2 stretch to take a 28-15 lead with 7:10 left in the half.

Smith scored the first five

where we would end up with our television (deal),” Pac-10 deputy commissioner Kevin Weiberg (formerly the Big 12 commish) said Wednesday. “It didn’t make sense to extend (the series) out for a longer period until we get that piece resolved.

“I don’t think from our perspective that absolutely closes the door to the future. But we would want to understand where we wind up on our television and how that might work going forward.”

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Lindsey Vonn speeds down the course on the way to win an alpine ski World Cup women’s downhill race, in Val d’Isere, France, Saturday.

Vonn wins World Cup downhill race in France The Associated Press VAL D’ISERE, France — American skier Lindsey Vonn won her first downhill race of the season Saturday to close the gap on overall World Cup leader Maria Riesch, who finished 24th.

The three-time defending World Cup and reigning Olympic downhill champion had finished second behind her German rival in both downhills at Lake Louise two weeks ago. But Vonn turned the tables at Val d’Isere, one of her favorite stops.

Despite a wobble near the top section of the 1.7-mile OreillerKilly course, Vonn finished in a time of 1 minute, 51.42 seconds.

“I love Val d’Isere, I’ve always had a good feeling here. It’s great to have another victory,” said Vonn, who a downhill-Super-G world championship double and World Cup super combined race last year.

She also won World Cup downhill races here in 2005 and 2006.

This time, she made a spectacular recovery after nearly crashing on the turn just below the second jump. Vonn feared that slip would cost her, but Riesch fared much worse than expected.

“I made a big mistake at the top but I tried to make up time on the bottom, and I think I skied pretty well on the turns,” Vonn said. “At the finish I thought it was a good time, but for sure Maria would beat me.”

Vonn’s win moves her to the top of the downhill standings ahead of Riesch, who leads Vonn by 52 points in the overall standings before today’s super combined race.

Swiss pair Nadja Kamer and Lara Gut were second and third, respectively.

Vonn was .001 behind Kamer at the second time split, but picked up speed on the second part of the course to beat her by 0.68 seconds and the 19-year-old Gut by 0.80.

Riesch started poorly in soft conditions and kept losing more time to Vonn, finishing 2.28 seconds back.

Riesch’s run went from bad to worse. She was 1.09 behind Vonn on the first time split, then 1.10 and 1.95. Moments after crossing the line, Riesch looked startled, shrugged her shoulders and bowed her head.

Vonn expected a better performance from her friend.

“I was definitely surprised,” Vonn said.

Vonn’s goals this season include breaking the American single-season record of 11 wins she set last year. She’s aiming for the all-time record of 14 victories established by Swiss great Vreni Schneider in 1988-89.

“I feel like my confidence is at a great place right now,” Vonn said. “I feel like all my events are pretty good.”

Elisabeth Goergl of Austria

finished fourth, with French veteran Ingrid Jacquemod tied for fifth with Johanna Schnarf of Italy.

The clear blue skies and bright sunshine were a stark contrast to Friday’s weather when the super-G race — already postponed last weekend at the Swiss resort of St. Moritz — was called off because of heavy snowfall and almost no visibility.

Andrea Dettling was one of the first down on Saturday and crashed near the top section, flying sideways into the netting.

But the Swiss skier got back up on her feet after a few seconds without assistance and appeared unharmed.

Also on Saturday: Swiss skier tops downhill VAL GARDENA, Italy — Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland won a World Cup downhill to take the lead in the overall standings.

Zurbriggen clocked 1 minute, 57.21 seconds, edging Austria’s Romed Baumann by 0.06 seconds on a fast, bumpy track.

Defending World Cup downhill champion Didier Cuche was third.

Bode Miller was the fastest American in 17th place on the Saslong course.

Zurbriggen had never finished on the podium in a World Cup downhill. He punched both fists in the air repeatedly in the finish area after taking the lead.

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In NFC West, Sub-.500 teams battle for a division crown

By Mark Maske The Washington Post

Someone has to win the NFC West and reach the playoffs, fully deserving or otherwise.

On a Sunday filled with big games across the NFL landscape — matchups in which both participants have enviable records and are jockeying for postseason positioning — there also are significant games for the two teams that are tied atop the sport’s also-ran division with identical 6-7 records.

One co-leader, the St. Louis Rams, hosts the Kansas City Chiefs. The other, the Seattle Seahawks, plays at home against the Atlanta Falcons. The bestcase scenario for the self-esteem of the NFC West is that either the Rams or Seahawks — or both — will win, and the division leader will have a .500 record at 7-7.

But given that the Chiefs and Falcons lead their own divisions, perhaps the more likely outcome is that both the Rams and Seahawks will lose. If that happens, they would remain the co-leaders of the NFC West at 6-8, and the NFL would move a step closer to having a team with a losing record reach the playoffs for the first time ever in a nonstrike season.

“We’re building. . . . We’ll be good when we play really good, and we’re not there yet,” Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll said at a midweek news conference. “We’re not consistently playing the way that a good team plays, where you don’t hurt yourself and you don’t put yourself in bad situations and give away opportunities to your opponent.

We’re still working at that.”

The refrain is similar in St. Louis.

“We’ve been a team that we show up, and some games we play absolutely good football,” Rams running back Steven Jackson said at a news conference during the week, “and some games we come up short.”

The Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns reached the playoffs with 4-5 records in the strike-shortened 1982 season.

The NFL record book lists 10 teams as reaching the playoffs in full seasons with .500 records.

Those around the league aren’t necessarily begrudging the NFC West winner its spot in the playoffs.

“I believe if you do win your division, you should be in the playoffs,” Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said at an owners’ meeting Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas.

There is some consternation, however, that the NFC West winner will host a first-round postseason game against a wild-card playoff team that presumably will have a better record.

Falcons President Rich McKay, the co-chairman of the NFL’s competition committee, said at the owners’ meeting that he thinks there should be discussion this offseason of a possible re-seeding proposal that, if enacted, would enable a wild-card team with a superior record to be seeded ahead of a division winner.

“I think it should be discussed,” McKay said, “and I think it would get more support than the last time.”

Currently, the division winners get the top four postseason seeds in each conference, and the wild-card teams are seeded fifth and sixth. The higher-seeded team in each playoff matchup plays at home.

Such a measure would have to be approved by at least 24 of the 32 teams, and similar proposals have been rejected by the owners in the past. McKay acknowledged that getting 24 votes for a playoff re-seeding proposal “is a tough hill to climb.”

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said: “It’s not a new conversation. We’ve had an awful lot of discussion about that over the past several years, and I’m sure it will come up again for discussion. I see the merits of what they’re talking about.

But I also believe that our playoff system has worked quite well also.”

Goodell said that owners in the past “were focused a lot on that the priority should be win your division, get a home game.

And that’s what clubs really felt should be the priority.”

In the meantime, the Rams and Seahawks will go about the business of trying to win their division, apparently unapologetically.

“The fact that we’re still playing big games in mid-December, I think that’s really good for this team and this organization,” Rams rookie quarterback Sam Bradford said at a news conference during the week. “Hopefully the games will only continue to get bigger.”

Jackson said: “Our goal is to be the NFC West champs.”

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The conference with best bowl record during BCS era: Big East N. Illinois routs Fresno in Humanitarian Bowl BOWL ROUNDUP

By Steve Megargee Rivals.com

You could win plenty of bets in sports bars across the country by asking what conference has posted the best bowl record during the BCS era.

It’s not the mighty SEC, which has produced each of the past four national champions. Nor is it the Big Ten, Big 12 or Pac-10.

The answer instead is the much-maligned Big East, which has gone 36-23 in bowl games since the 1998 season. The only league with a higher bowl winning percentage is the Big West, which went 3-0 in bowl games from 1998-2000 before it got out of the FBS business.

The Big East’s .610 winning percentage in the BCS era gives it a razor-thin edge over the Mountain West, which has posted a 2516 bowl record (.609) since forming in 1999. The SEC has the best record in BCS games with a 14-5 mark (.737).

As we kick off the 2010 bowl season, we decided to see how each conference has fared in overall bowl games and BCS contests since the start of the BCS era.

For the purposes of this report, we didn’t erase any bowl wins that have been vacated as a result of NCAA investigations. We also didn’t allow teams to transfer bowl wins to their new conferences after they switched leagues. For example, TCU played in the WAC from 1998-2000 and Conference USA from 2001-04 before joining the Mountain West in 2005. The Horned Frogs’ results are attributed to whatever league they belonged to at the time of the game.

The most remarkable element of the Big East’s bowl success is that it continued to succeed in the postseason after Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College left for the ACC. Miami and Virginia Tech joined the ACC in 2004 and Boston College followed in ’05.

The Big East is a sizzling 166 during the past four years and hasn’t had a losing record in the postseason since 2005.

The caveat: That postseason success is due in part to a relatively lightweight bowl schedule. That 16-6 mark includes an 8-0 record in bowl games against teams from outside the six major conferences.

The Big East has played 36.3 percent of its bowl games in the past four seasons against teams from the MAC or Conference USA. The Pac-10 also faced non-AQ teams in one-third of its bowls during the past four seasons — with the bulk of those games coming against MWC heavyweights BYU and Utah — but none of the other four major conferences played more than 16.7 percent of its bowl games against non-AQ programs during that stretch.

Our research underscored how much the balance of power has shifted in the past several seasons. For instance, the Big Ten posted a 19-12 bowl record and a 5-3 mark in BCS games from 1998-2002. The SEC was 20-20 in all bowls and 5-3 in BCS games during that same stretch. Since the 2003 season, though, the SEC

Auburn Continued from D1 “He handled himself exactly the way we’d have wanted him to,” Chizik said. “He’s handled himself with his teammates, coming back and being one of the guys. I think he appreciates being that. I think the team appreciates him being who he’s been for 13 weeks. He hasn’t changed a lick.

Bowl Continued from D1 The East-West Shrine Game, to be played Jan. 22 in Orlando, has raised money since 1925 for Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Cavalli called it an all-star game rather than a bowl game.

Cavalli said the Fight Hunger Bowl has sold more than 34,000 tickets and could sell out for the Nevada-Boston College matchup the night before the national title game between No. 1 Auburn and No. 2 Oregon.

“Part of our mission is to generate 20 million meals for hungry people throughout the United States,” Cavalli said. “It’s an opportunity for all of us to do some good while we are having a football game.”

Besides raising awareness, the bowl is donating a meal to a food bank for every ticket sold.

That’s part of Kraft’s Huddle to

has a bowl record of 36-19 (9-2 in BCS games), while the Big Ten is 19-31 (5-8 in BCS games).

Here are the best overall bowl records (before Saturday’s games). The standings are limited to current FBS conferences.

The Big West was 3-0 in bowls from 1998-2000 (Idaho winning the 1998 Humanitarian and Boise State winning the 1999 and 2000 Humanitarian before both schools joined the WAC and the Big West left the FBS).

Record: 39-42, .481; 2-10 in BCS games Buzz: The ACC’s dismal 2-10 record in BCS games has overshadowed the league’s relatively sold 37-32 mark in non-BCS contests.

The ACC actually was faring better in bowl games before Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College joined the league.

1. Big East

7. Big Ten

Record in bowl games: 36-23, .6101 winning percentage; 5-5 in BCS bowls Buzz: The Big East benefited in the early part of the BCS era because Miami was one of the nation’s dominant programs and Boston College began a string of eight consecutive bowl wins in 2000. Still, the Big East has gone 16-6 in bowl games over the past four seasons even after the exodus of Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech.

Record: 38-43, .469; 10-11 in BCS bowls Buzz: After going 19-12 in bowl games through the first five seasons of the BCS era, the Big Ten has tailed off dramatically. Last season was the first the Big Ten had posted a winning bowl record since 2002.

2. Mountain West Record: 25-16, .6097; 2-1 in BCS bowls Buzz: How close is the Mountain West to taking over the lead?

The Big East has a bowl winning percentage of .6101 in the BCS era, while the MWC is at .6097 since launching in 1999. The MWC is 18-8 overall and 2-1 in BCS games since the 2004 season, which featured the first of Utah’s two perfect seasons.

3. SEC Record: 56-39, .589 winning per; 14-5 in BCS bowls Buzz: The SEC struggled in the postseason during the early part of the BCS era, but it has been dominant across the entire bowl spectrum during its current run of four consecutive national championships. The SEC is 25-11 in bowl games over the past four years and hasn’t posted a losing bowl record since 2002.

4. BIG 12 Record: 45-45, .500; 7-10 in BCS bowls Buzz: While other conferences have endured plenty of peaks and valleys in their recent bowl history, the Big 12 has been remarkably steady. The Big 12’s 2-6 record in 2003, including losses in the Fiesta and Sugar, marked the only time in the BCS era the league has been more than two games above or below .500 in a given postseason.

5. Pac-10

since 2002.

6. ACC

8. WAC Record: 19-24, .442; 2-1 in BCS bowls Buzz: Considering Hawaii and Boise State have played a combined eight bowls as WAC members that were home games, you’d think the WAC would have a better bowl record.

9. Conference USA Record: 23-35, .397 Buzz: Conference USA has a remarkable number of bowl partners (six) for a league that isn’t one of the six major conferences, and it therefore has played in more bowl games than the other non-major leagues.

10. MAC Record: 13-20, .394 Buzz: The Big Ten isn’t the only conference in the Midwest that has struggled in bowl games recently. The MAC has gone an astounding 2-15 in bowl games over the past four seasons. The MAC owes its impressive bowl record from early in the BCS era to former member Marshall, which went 5-1 in the postseason from 1998-2004 before leaving for Conference USA.

The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — After Northern Illinois lost a conference title and its head coach, Tom Matukewicz’s first objective was to make the Huskies’ bowl trip fun.

He constantly cracked jokes.

He made the coaches go oneon-one in practice. No matter what happened, Matukewicz was going to take a lighter approach.

“I had a lot to do with the fun part,” Matukewicz said. “I wanted them to walk out and have a good time.”

The reward? That came Saturday night when the Huskies closed out the best season in school history in resounding fashion.

Quarterback Chandler Harnish ran for two touchdowns and threw for another, and Northern Illinois made Matukewicz a winner in his only game in charge with a 40-17 victory over Fresno State in the Humanitarian Bowl.

Northern Illinois (11-3) earned a school-record 11th victory and ended an emotional two-week stretch that started with a loss to Miami, Ohio in the Mid-American Conference title game, then was compounded 48 hours later by the departure of head coach Jerry Kill for Minnesota.

The players uniformly credited Matukewicz for bringing stability and focus — and a little fun — at a time the Huskies needed it most. He started his postgame comments saying he was going to “milk this thing out” since he’ll no longer be the guy in charge.

Harnish finished 17 of 26 for 300 yards passing and another 72 yards rushing. It helped his

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11. Sun Belt Record: 5-8, .385 Buzz: The Sun Belt routinely is rated as the nation’s weakest conference, yet its recent bowl record is somewhat encouraging.

The league is 4-3 in bowl games over the past four seasons and has won one bowl in each of those seasons.

12. Independents

Record: 33-34, .493; 9-5 in BCS games Buzz: The Pac-10 struggled early in the BCS era before riding the wave of USC’s emergence as one of the nation’s dominant programs. The Pac-10’s 2-5 mark last season represented the conference’s first losing bowl record

Record: 4-10, .286 Buzz: Notre Dame’s 2008 Hawaii Bowl victory over Hawaii ended the Irish’s nine-game bowl skid, which included six losses in the BCS era. This season is the first time in the BCS era that each of the three major independents (Army, Navy and Notre Dame) is bowling in the same season.

“I think he’s ready to get back into football, ready to get back with his team. I think he’s done a fabulous job of handling all that stuff.”

And now the team has to handle the national championship hype. The Tigers have moved into this position with eight come-from-behind wins and a 56-17 rout of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference championship game on Dec. 4.

Linebacker Josh Bynes said

they aren’t getting carried away with the situation.

“We’re not letting any magnitude of the game, being the national championship, get to us,” Bynes said. “It’s not like, ‘Oh dang. The national championship. Oh, wow.’ We’re more like, it’s the next game, it’s the next team on the map that we know we’re going to have to defeat.

We’re 60 minutes away from being crowned national champions.

But we have to play ball first.”

Fight Hunger program, in conjunction with Feeding America — a nonprofit network of more than 200 food banks that fed more than 37 million people last year.

“We didn’t want to just be a marketing platform for the Fight Hunger initiative, we wanted to get involved in it,” Cavalli said.

Cavalli said 15,359 meals — at a cost of four meals per $1 — will go to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada in recognition of the Nevada share of tickets that sold out last week.

Cherie Jamason, executive director of the Reno-based food bank, said the help couldn’t come at a better time in a state with 14.3 percent unemployment and one in five children living in poverty. Jamason said they’ve helped provide food to a record 153,000 people this year, almost half of them children.

“We are really pleased and thrilled about Kraft’s commit-

ment,” Jamason said.

She said she’s been familiar with Kraft’s participation on Feeding America’s board of directors for more than 30 years.

Nevada football coach Chris Ault said it helps the Fight Hunger Bowl stand out during a postseason that now includes 35 bowl games.

The closest thing to the Fight Hunger Bowl might by the one and only Mercy Bowl played Thanksgiving Day in 1961. It came following an airplane crash in Ohio the year before that killed 22 people, including 16 members of the Cal Poly football team, a manager and a booster.

More than 33,000 turned out to see Fresno State beat Bowling Green 36-6 in a game at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Funds went to offset burial costs, pay medical expenses and set up an educational fund for the victims’ families and survivors.

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Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish (12) celebrates a first-half touchdown against Fresno State in the Humanitarian Bowl at Bronco Stadium, in Boise, Idaho, on Saturday. receivers make highlight catches — like Perez Ashford’s fingertip grab on the sideline and Willie Clark’s mid-route adjustment for a 32-yard gain — and Fresno State’s defensive line got no pressure on Harnish.

Running back Chad Spann added 95 yards and two touchdowns, giving him 22 rushing TDs on the season and, for now, put him one ahead of Oregon’s LaMichael James for most in the country.

In other bowl games on Saturday: New Mexico Bowl BYU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 UTEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Freshman Jake Heaps threw four touchdown passes, connecting with Cody Hoffman on three scores, and finished with 264 yards passing to help BYU beat overmatched Texas-El

Paso. It capped a big turnaround for the Cougars (7-6), whose 1-4 start included a rare loss to instate rival Utah State.

New Orleans Bowl Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 NEW ORLEANS — Corey Robinson threw for 387 yards and four touchdowns, and Troy set a New Orleans Bowl scoring record. Robinson completed 23 passes for 285 yards and four TDs in the first half alone, when Troy (8-5) raced to a 38-7 lead.

Tebiarus Gill had a New Orleans Bowl-record three touchdowns, all on receptions in the first half.

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Sectional, 3-piece, Navy, Natuzzi Leather, bought for $4000 at M. Jacobs, $750, 541-504-7171.

The Bulletin recommends extra caution when purchasing products or services from out of the area. Sending cash, checks, or credit information may be subjected to F R A U D .

For more information about an advertiser, you may call the Oregon State Attorney General’s Office Consumer Protection hotline at 1-877-877-9392.

Cavalier King Charles Span- German Shepherd pups ready

by Christmas. $350 to $450. iels $1200 to $1500 AKC Reg. 541-410-7388 ww.companioncavaliers.com needs/senior cats 541-382-7614 German Shorthair Pointer Special seeking new homes! 3 A K C , champ lines, 4 male, 3 CHIHUAHUA, 12-week-old su'wobbly' cats, born w/neurofemale, $375, 541-550-9992. per sweet black female. Perlogical imbalance issues, fect gift. $225. Madras Golden Retriever English Cream otherwise healthy, social, 541-475-2039 after 10 a.m. okay w/litter box, etc., inAKC Christmas pups! Males, side only & no stairs. Sweet 14 wks, $550.

541-852-2991 Check out the middle-aged cat w/limited Kittens & great cats avail. for classiieds online vision in one eye, declawed, adoption! Cat Rescue, Adopwww.bendbulletin.com inside only. Two nice de- Tower entertainment center, 3 tion & Foster Team, the glass shelves + drawer, $60. clawed cats, inside only. Shy Updated daily area's only no-kill, all volun541-647-2685, or 633-5629. but sweet cat with no teeth, teer cat rescue, will be at okay w/canned or small Petco on Sat. 12/18. Foster Chihuahua pups, Great 212 kibble dry food. Two senior kittens avail. @ Tom-Tom Christmas Gift! 6 weeks cats, very loving. Very nice Antiques & Motel (next to Sonic) all old. $300. 541-977-4817 cat who needs $15/mo.

Collectibles week, 541-815-7278. Sancjesse1215@gmail.com worth of asthma meds. Aftuary open for adoptions on fectionate three legged cat, Thurs/Sat/Sun 1-4 PM, other inside only.

Gorgeous & days by appt. Will hold your sweet cat that has to have new pet up to 2 wks. Closed daily heart meds. Two young Christmas Day except for cats w/limited vision in one those picking up their new eye. Six shy older kittens that pet. Open Sun., Dec. 26. Gift need a quiet home & socialcertificates avail. so someizing. See many of them at 3 Hummel music boxes, 3, one can pick their pet, call Chihuahuas, 2 purebred fem.,9 www.craftcats.org.

Most $50 each. for details! Altered, shots, ID wks old, great Christmas gift! would not be accepted or 8 Hummel pictures, $40 chip, more. Low adoption $200/obo. 541-815-9728 kept for long at a traditional each. Call 541.408.2215, or fees; we still have a lot due shelter, but they are safe at Chow/Mix male, 2 yrs, gentle, pamwilson_3@msn.com to Redmond shelter refusing CRAFT even if they stay for sweet disposition, free to all. 541-389-8420; 647-2181; the rest of their natural lives. good home. 541-389-9753 598-5488; www.craftcats.org We'd love to see them all Antique Clocks: Refurbished have great new homes, for Sale. Come pick one out Cowboy Corgis ready to go unthough. Adoption fee refor the Holidays. der your tree. Corgi/Aussie duced or waived for right 1627 NE 3rd, #5, Bend. cross. Lots of color! 7 fehome. If you have room in 541-678-8923. males $250 ea 541-792-0808 your heart & home for a very DACHSHUNDS, AKC MINI special cat that has seen LONGHAIRED, Reds, Black & some hard times, please visit LAB MIX Free to good home! tans, Creams. $300-$600.

Cat Rescue, Adoption & FosDARBY I am a cute, active 541-548-7514 ter Team's sanctuary or call 7-yr old Black Lab/Border 541-389-8420; 541-598-5488 collie mix looking for a new Dachshunds, AKC, mini’s, (5) feAlso have many other cats & energetic place to call home. males,chocolate dapple, $375, kittens that just need loving COWGIRL RESALE I am house trained with all 541-420-6044, 541-447-3060 forever homes. Open house/ Gently Used Western Wear shots and love to romp outadoptions Thurs/Sat/Sun 1-4 English Bulldog puppy, AKC, Turquoise, Old Pawn doors. Call my owners for PM, other days by appt.

If Grand sire by Champion Squash Blossoms, Cuffs more info, 541-382-7829. you cannot adopt, please Cherokee Legend Rock, #1 541-549-6950 support our work. We are all Bulldog in USA ‘06, ‘07 and Lab Pups AKC - 2 blacks, 6 volunteer & receive no gov’t Doll, Porcelain, Disney’s Belle, chocolates, dew claws, 1st ‘08, 1 male! $1000. funds, so must rely on kind brand new in box, $65, shots & wormed. Hunters.

541-306-0372 people to help us care for the 541-508-3886. $450-$500. 541-536-5385 English Springer Spaniels, AKC cats that have no one else www.welcomelabs.com Reg, black/white, housebroke, looking out for them. CRAFT, The Bulletin reserves the right LAB PUPS AKC, titled parents, to publish all ads from The ready to go! 541-408-6322 P O Box 6441, Bend 97708.

FC/AFC, Blackwater Rudy is Bulletin newspaper onto The www.kennykennels.com Have a safe & warm holiday! grand sire. Deep pedigreed Bulletin Internet website.

FREE KITTENS ready for performance/titles, OFA hips VIZSLA AKC Pups, ready 1/10.

Christmas! To good homes. & elbows. 541-771-2330 M/$600 F/$750. Deposits.

541-777-0470. www.royalflushretrievers.com 541-430-9335 (Roseburg)

Schwinn mtn bike, shock, Shimano equipped, 6 mo. new. $120. 541-480-5950

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Exercise Equipment Elliptical trainer, Schwinn, Model 438, great cond., heart rate monitor in Bag, owner manual, $600 OBO, 541-317-9280.

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Guns & Hunting and Fishing 30-06 rifle, 30-32 rifle; also quality horse tack for sale; Cash only. 541-420-0021.

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TV, Stereo and Video Samsung 52” box big screen, 2006 excellent cond. Must sell, $400. 541-480-2652.

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Computers THE BULLETIN requires computer advertisers with multiple ad schedules or those selling multiple systems/ software, to disclose the name of the business or the term "dealer" in their ads.

Private party advertisers are defined as those who sell one computer.

9 MM, Ruger, P89DC, Stainless, full-size semi-auto pistol, w/ ammo. $425. 541-647-8931 9 MM, S&W 6904, full metal, sub-compact semi-auto pistol, $475. 541-647-8931 Astra 380 semi-auto, old/reliable, box & ammo, $200.

541-647-8931 Browning A-Bolt .338 Win Mag w/Boss & Nikon 3-9x40 scope, $780 cash. 541-306-6511 Bushmaster XM-15 Predator semi-auto .223 on bipod w/Swift scope 6-18x44, 4 clips 30, 20, 10 & 5. $1000.

541-948-7280 CASH!!

For Guns, Ammo & Reloading Supplies. 541-408-6900.

Crab Pods (2), commercial size, 12”x40”, 40 lbs ea., $50 ea., 541-617-1133 GUNS Buy, Sell, Trade 541-728-1036.

Juniper Rim Game Preserve - Brothers, OR Pheasants (both roosters/hens) & Chukars, all on special!

541-419-3923; 541-419-8963

M-1 Garand, $750. Remington Model 725, .30-06, $700. Call 541-610-3732

Oregon's Largest 3 Day Gun & Knife Show December 17-18-19 Portland Expo Center I-5 exit #306B Fri. 12-6 Sat. 9-5 and Sun 10-4 Admission $9 1(800)659-3440 collectorswest.com Remington 1100 12 ga. Shotgun. Includes 2 stocks-wood and synthetic, 2 barrels, screw in chokes, case, great shape, $500. 541.390.5866 Rossi 12 gauge 3 inch magnum double barrel stagecoach gun. 20 inch barrels w/hammers. $275.

541-548-0675

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Fender Acoustic, DG7, American made,hardshell case, exc cond, $175, 503-933-0814.

300 Weatherby Magnum Mach V, USA, 99.9%,call for details, Piano, 1978 Wurlitzer #2860, upright,exc cond,matching seat, 541-536-3889,541-420-6215 $1150 OBO, 541-318-9096.

380 AMT Back-up, $300; Fox 260 B-SE 12 ga., $375, others, 541-771-5648.

Misc. Items .38 Special S&W, 14-2 revolver, 6” barrel, 95% condition, $475 OBO. 541-647-8931

"Quick Cash Special" 1 week 3 lines $10 bucks or 2 weeks $16 bucks!

BUYING AND SELLING All gold jewelry, silver and gold coins, bars, rounds, wedding sets, class rings, sterling silver, coin collect, vintage watches, dental gold. Bill Fleming, 541-382-9419.

The Bulletin Offers Free Private Party Ads • 3 lines - 3 days • Private Party Only • Total of items advertised must equal $200 or Less • Limit one ad per month • 3-ad limit for same item advertised within 3 months 541-385-5809 • Fax 541-385-5802 Turkey Fryer, Brinkmann 30 qt., 3 gallons of oil, new, unopened, $50, 541-350-9782 Wanted - paying cash for Hi-fi audio & studio equip. McIntosh, JBL, Marantz, Dynaco, Heathkit, Sansui, Carver, NAD, etc. Call 541-261-1808

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Medical Equipment Electronic Adjustable Bed, twin size, wireless remote adjusts foot & head for max comfort.

3 yrs old with minimum use. $495. 541-504-0975

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Tools Chop Saw, Delta 10” mitre, $100, please call 541-617-1133 Chop Saw, Delta, Saw Buck, 8” compound mitre., $200, 541-617-1133

BEND’S HOMELESS NEED OUR HELP The cold weather is upon us and sadly there are still over 2,000 folks in our community without permanent shelter, living in cars, makeshift camps, getting by as best they can.

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Rain Gear, Boots * 50 TURKEYS and 80 pounds of HAM desperately needed for the annual Christmas Day Dinner, Saturday, Dec. 25.* Please drop off your donations at the BEND COMMUNITY CENTER 1036 NE FIFTH STREET (312-2069) Questions: Call Ken Boyer, 389-3296, or Don Auxier, 383-0448 PLEASE HELP. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

HOLIDAY DEADLINES Wishes you a Safe and Merry Christmas The Bulletin will be closed on Friday, Christmas Eve and Saturday, Christmas Day

Retail & Classified Display Advertising Deadlines PUBLICATION ............................................. DEADLINE Friday 12/24 ..................................................Tuesday 12/21 Noon Go! Magazine 12/24 .....................................Tuesday 12/21 Noon Saturday 12/25 .............................................Tuesday 12/21 Noon Sunday 12/26 ..............................................Tuesday 12/21 4 p.m.

Monday 12/27 ......................................... Wednesday 12/22 Noon At Home 12/28........................................ Wednesday 12/22 Noon Scene 1/1 .................................................. Thursday 12/23 8 a.m.

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CLASSIFIED LINE AD DEADLINES Friday 12/24 - Deadline is Noon Thursday 12/23 Saturday 12/25 - Deadline is Noon Thursday 12/23 Sunday 12/26 - Deadline is 2 p.m. Thursday 12/23 Monday 12/27 - Deadline is 2 p.m. Thursday 12/23

Classifieds • 541-385-5809 The Bulletin Circulation Telephone Service (at 541-385-5800) will be open 12/25 from 6:30 am to 10:30 am to help with your delivery needs.

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Saturday Real Estate . . . . 11:00am Fri. Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 Fri. Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noon Sat.

Starting at 3 lines *UNDER $500 in total merchandise 7 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.00 14 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16.00

Place a photo in your private party ad for only $15.00 per week.

Garage Sale Special

OVER $500 in total merchandise 4 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.50 7 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23.00 14 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $32.50 28 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $60.50

4 lines for 4 days. . . . . . . . . $20.00

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*Must state prices in ad

A Payment Drop Box is available at Bend City Hall. CLASSIFICATIONS BELOW MARKED WITH AN (*) REQUIRE PREPAYMENT as well as any out-of-area ads. The Bulletin reserves the right to reject any ad at any time

CLASSIFIED OFFICE HOURS: MON.-FRI. 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SATURDAY by telephone 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

is located at: 1777 S.W. Chandler Ave., Bend, Oregon 97702

PLEASE NOTE; Check your ad for accuracy the first day it appears. Please call us immediately if a correction is needed. We will gladly accept responsibility for one incorrect insertion. The publisher reserves the right to accept or reject any ad at anytime, classify and index any advertising based on the policies of these newspapers. The publisher shall not be liable for any advertisement omitted for any reason. Private Party Classified ads running 7 or more days will publish in the Central Oregon Marketplace each Tuesday.

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Compactor, gas powered, Jumping Jack, $115, 541-410-3425.

CRUISE THROUGH classified when you're in the market for a new or used car.

Look What I Found!

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SNOW PLOW, Boss 8 ft. with power turn , excellent condition $3,000. 541-385-4790.

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Building Materials Bend Habitat RESTORE Building Supply Resale Quality at LOW PRICES 740 NE 1st 312-6709 Open to the public .

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Heating and Stoves NOTICE TO ADVERTISER Since September 29, 1991, advertising for used woodstoves has been limited to models which have been certified by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as having met smoke emission standards. A certified woodstove can be identified by its certification label, which is permanently attached to the stove. The Bulletin will not knowingly accept advertising for the sale of uncertified woodstoves.

Pellet Stove, Westfield, like new, extra parts. $500 cash.

You haul. 541-548-3467

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DRY MIXED, SEASONED FIREWOOD. $130 each cord split & delivered.

Please call 541-610-6713.

Lodgepole CASH price: Rounds $119/cord; 2 cords/more $115 ea. Split, $149/cord; 2 cords/more, $145 ea. (Visa/ MC: $129/cord or Split $159 ea) Deliv avail. 541-771-8534 SPLIT, DRY LODGEPOLE DELIVERY INCLUDED! $175/CORD. Call for half-cord prices!

Leave message, 541-923-6987

To avoid fraud, The Bulletin recommends payment for Firewood only upon delivery & inspection.

• A cord is 128 cu. ft.

4’ x 4’ x 8’ • Receipts should include, name, phone, price and kind of wood purchased.

All Year Dependable Firewood: SPLIT dry Lodgepole, $150 for 1 cord or $290 for 2, Bend del. Cash Check Visa/MC 541-420-3484

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Tractor, Case 22 hp., fewer than 50 hrs. 48 in. mower deck, bucket, auger, blade, move forces sale $11,800. 541-325-1508.

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KIT INCLUDES: • 4 Garage Sale Signs • $1.00 Off Coupon To Use Toward Your Next Ad • 10 Tips For “Garage Sale Success!”

• And Inventory Sheet PICK UP YOUR GARAGE SALE KIT AT: 1777 SW Chandler Ave. Bend, OR 97702

Lost and Found Found Camera: 12/11, near Deschutes River Trail at Reed Mkt bridge,call to ID 541-389-8799 FIND IT! BUY IT! FOUND Camera on Awbrey Rd, SELL IT! 12/17. Call to identify.

The Bulletin Classiieds 541-385-8538.

Found Rx Glasses, rectangular frame, near Badlands Wilderness, 12/12, 541-318-1686

Lost Keys on Keyring, East Side of Bend, week of 12/6, please call 541-382-4924.

Lost Kodak camera on Dec. 14th at Cascade Middle School gym. 541-480-3122.

REMEMBER: If you have lost an animal don't forget to check The Humane Society in Bend, 382-3537 or Redmond, 923-0882 or Prineville, 447-7178

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Advertise in 30 Daily newspapers! $525/25-words, 3days. Reach 3 million classified readers in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington & Utah. (916) 288-6019 email: elizabeth@cnpa.com for the Pacific Northwest Daily Connection. (PNDC)

Caregiver Prineville senior care home looking for Care Manager for two 24-hour shifts per week.

Must be mature and compassionate, and pass criminal background check. Ref. required. 541-447-5773.

READY FOR A CHANGE? Don't just sit there, let the Classified Help Wanted column find a new challenging job for you. www.bendbulletin.com

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Llamas/Exotic Animals CENTRAL OREGON LLAMA ASSOCIATION For help, info, events.

Call Marilyn at 541-447-5519 www.centraloregonllamas.org

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Experienced Male Caregiver offering assistance with medical & non-medical tasks & activities. Refs. avail. upon request, 541-548-3660.

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Schools and Training Advertise and Reach over 3 million readers in the Pacific Northwest! 30 daily newspapers, six states. 25-word classified $525 for a 3-day ad. Call (916) 288-6010; (916) 288-6019 or visit www.pnna.com/advertising_ pndc.cfm for the Pacific Northwest Daily Connection.

(PNDC)

Find It in AIRLINES ARE HIRING - Train for high paying Aviation Maintenance Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified - Housing available. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance.

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Wheat Straw: Certified & Bedding Straw & Garden Straw; Kentucky Bluegrass; Compost; 541-546-6171.

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Poultry, Rabbits, and Supplies 2 New Hampshire Red & 1 Sussex bantam roosters need own flocks. Not for eating! $5 ea. 541-389-9861 Leave msg.

Looking for your next employee?

Place a Bulletin help wanted ad today and reach over 60,000 readers each week.

Your classified ad will also appear on bendbulletin.com which currently receives over 1.5 million page views every month at no extra cost.

Bulletin Classifieds Get Results!

Call 385-5809 or place your ad on-line at bendbulletin.com

ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE from Home. *Medical, *Business, *Paralegal, *Accounting, *Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified.

Call 866-688-7078 www.CenturaOnline.com (PNDC) Oregon Contractor License Education Home Study Format. $169 Includes ALL Course Materials Call COBA (541) 389-1058 TRUCK SCHOOL www.IITR.net Redmond Campus Student Loans/Job Waiting Toll Free 1-888-438-2235

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Horses and Equipment 200 ACRES BOARDING Indoor/outdoor arenas, stalls, & pastures, lessons & kid’s programs. 541-923-6372 www.clinefallsranch.com

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Meat & Animal Processing Angus Beef, 1/2 or whole, grain fed, no hormones $3.44/lb., hanging weight, cut & wrap included, please call 541-383-2523.

Harney Behavioral Health is seeking an Adult Care Coordinator to provide coordination of services to adult individuals enrolled in behavioral health services.

This coordination includes assisting individuals’ transition between levels of care, administrating the peer service programs and supported employment programs.

The successful applicant will have a bachelor’s degree, preferred master’s degree, in human services or related field with two (2) years’ experience in a behavioral health related field; and/or any combination of experience and training which demonstrates the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the above duties. The successful applicant will demonstrate broad knowledge of the principles and practices of behavioral health & mental health diagnosis, treatment and prevention; counseling and interviewing techniques; the dynamics of interpersonal relationships; and community resources/programs.

Salary beings at $34,600 annually, and includes an excellent County benefit package. Send resume and letter of interest to Cathy Stauffer at Harney Behavioral Health, 348 W. Adams St., Burns, OR 97720 Phone (541)573-8376 Position open until filled.

The Bulletin Classifieds is your Employment Marketplace Call 541-385-5809 today!

BUSINESS

ADVOCATE

The City of Bend is seeking applicants for a professional senior-level position, responsible to actively promote and advocate for the business sector in the City of Bend through actions that facilitate the planning, coordination, development and implementation of business and economic development programs and projects within the City. Acts as a facilitator and liaison between the business community and City staff.

This position includes management and performance of specific project tasks and may include direct supervision of personnel.

Annual Salary Range: benefit package.

What are you looking for? You’ll find it in The Bulletin Classifieds

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Adult Care Coordinator

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Place an ad in The Bulletin for your garage sale and receive a Garage Sale Kit FREE!

FOUND ½” hammer drill, intersection Hwy 20 & 126, Sisters, 12/17. 541-526-1462

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First cutting Alfalfa, $155/ton.

Orchard grass, $165/ton.

Feeder hay, $115/ton. Small bales, Madras area. Phone 541-390-2678

HH FREE HH Garage Sale Kit

SUPER TOP SOIL www.hersheysoilandbark.com Screened, soil & compost mixed, no rocks/clods. High humus level, exc. for flower beds, lawns, gardens, straight screened top soil.

Bark. Clean fill. Deliver/you haul. 541-548-3949.

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Bluegrass Straw mid-size 3x3, $25/bale; Orchard grass hay mid-size 3x3 $45/bale. Volume discounts; delivery available. 541-480-8648.

Sales Northeast Bend

RYOBI electric rototiller, used once, superb cond, easy handling, $125 obo.541-385-0178

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Shetland Pony, $100, please call 541-383-4552 for more info.

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BarkTurfSoil.com Instant Landscaping Co. PROMPT DELIVERY 541-389-9663

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Gardening Supplies & Equipment

LOST Bifocals w/gold chain, Cascade Village Shopping Ctr, 12/14? 541-317-1942

Firewood ads MUST include species and cost per cord to better serve our customers. Thank you.

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You'll find a little bit of everything in The Bulletin's daily garage and yard sale section.

From clothes to collectibles, from housewares to hardware, classified is always the first stop for cost-conscious consumers. And if you're planning your own garage or yard sale, look to the classifieds to bring in the buyers.

You won't find a better place for bargains!

Farm Market

541-385-5809

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Caregiver:

Nursing Assistant for elder care. Must have reliable transportation and be avail. on weekends. 30 hrs/ week, $15/hr. Smoke free workplace, 541-385-9673

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$10 - 3 lines, 7 days $16 - 3 lines, 14 days (Private Party ads only)

DESCHUTES COUNTY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY (162-10) – District Attorney’s Office. Two full-time positions available, $6,258 - $8,406 per month for a 172.67 hour work month. Deadline: THURSDAY, 12/30/10.

MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST I (164-10) – Behavioral Health Division. Temporary, full-time position $3,320 - $4,544 per month. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. NURSE PRACTITIONER (158-10) – Public Health Division, School Based Health Center. On-call position $32.10 - $43.92 per hour. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER (145-10) – Adult Treatment Program, Behavioral Health Division.

Half-time position $2,804 - $3,838 per month for an 86.34 hour work month. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. SUMMER INTERN (165-10) – District Attorney’s Office. Two temporary, full-time positions available, not to exceed 3 ½ months. $12.00 per hour for a 40-hour work week. Deadline: FRIDAY, 01/28/10.

TO OBTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE LISTED POSITIONS APPLY TO: Deschutes County Personnel Dept., 1300 NW Wall Street, Suite 201, Bend, OR 97701 (541) 388-6553. Application and Supplemental Questionnaire (if applicable) required and accepted until 5:00 p.m. on above listed deadline dates.

Visit our website at www.co.deschutes.or.us.

Mandatory employment application and formal job announcement with detailed job description and position requirements available at www.ci.bend.or.us.

Inquiries: (541) 693-2156.

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For hearing impaired, please call TTY/TDD 711

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CRUISE THROUGH Classified when you're in the market for a new or used car.

Central Oregon Community College has openings listed below. Go to https://jobs.cocc.edu to view details & apply online.

Human Resources, Metolius Hall, 2600 NW College Way, Bend OR 97701; (541)383 7216. For hearing/speech impaired, Oregon Relay Services number is 7-1-1. COCC is an AA/EO employer.

Sr. Network Administrator Manage & maintain the integrity of the COCC local & wide-area data/video/voice networks working closely with the IT dept. Requires CompTIA Network+ certification. $49,744-$59,220.

Deadline 12/27/10.

MIS Sr. Business Systems Programmer Responsible for programming & maintaining COCC's SunGardHE Banner enterprise resource planning system & related systems. See web for requirements. $46,817-$55-734. Open Until Filled

All COCC positions include an exceptional benefits package, including health, paid retirement, tuition waiver and plenty of paid time off.

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Driver Regional CDL Drivers Needed!!!

Current Openings on our 97 Fleet

Need Help?

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REACH THOUSANDS OF POTENTIAL EMPLOYEES EVERY DAY! Call the Classified Department for more information: 541-385-5809 Development Director: DESCHUTES LAND TRUST in Bend, OR seeks experienced Development Director to manage fundraising programs, major donors, grant writing, membership, and events.

Candidates must have 3-5 years successful non-profit fundraising experience and be highly organized, committed to conservation, and have excellent communication and people skills. For additional information please visit: www.deschuteslandtrust.org

Home Weekly Available!

Consistent Miles & Time Off Full Benefits, 401k.

Run 90% along Hwy 97.

Late Model Equipment.

Call 888-832-6484 www.TEAMGTI.com EOE Drivers - Taking applications for Owner Operators with 4-axle tractor trucks, or the ability to convert 3-axle truck to a 4-axle truck. Steady haul out of Madras, OR and return. 2 trips per day. Must be willing to add a driver for 2nd shift. Please contact 541-419-1125;541-546-6489

DRIVER - CDL A or B NAPA DC is seeking experienced driver for a FT, temporary position. Current CDL w/HazMat. Min 2 yrs experience, good driving record, dependable, drug free, Able to drive nights in winter conditions. An EEO employer.

Fax resume to 503-286-1485.

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Glaziers: Part-time, experienced, through January, to start immediately. Please Contact Mike at 503-956-5645.

Housekeeping Part time position, some hotel resort cleaning exp. preferred. Must be able to work weekends. Please apply at Worldmark Eagle Crest, 1522 Cline Falls Rd. Redmond (3rd floor of Hotel)

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Ortho Tech The Center-Orthopedic & Neurosurgical Care seeks a certified Ortho Tech to join our team. Prior experience in orthopedic surgery desired, and ATC certification preferred. Prior experience in casting helpful. This position is full-time and we offer a competitive compensation package. Apply online at www.thecenteroregon.com or mail resume to The Center, Attn: HR Dept.

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Human Resources, Metolius Hall, 2600 NW College Way, Bend OR 97701; (541)383 7216. For hearing/speech impaired, Oregon Relay Services number is 7-1-1. COCC is an AA/EO employer.

Library Specialist Interlibrary Loan Coordinator Responsible for coordinating daily work of the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department, utilizing multiple software applications & customer service skills. Requires AA + exp. $2,402-$2,860/mo.

Deadline 1/10/11.

Sr. Network Administrator See ad under "Computers."

Deadline 12/27/10.

Limited Energy Technician 'B' License Apprenticeship Open from Dec. 10 thru Dec. 23, 2010 to accept apprenticeship applications for future employment opportunities in Central Oregon.

APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE December 10 thru December 23, 2010 at WorkSource Oregon Employment Dept.

For info call 541-279-1543 For Directions call 541-388-6070 Minorities and females are urged to apply.

LAKE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST Assess, diagnose, treat, and counsel individuals and families affected by mental illness and emotional issues. Master's degree in a behavioral, social, health science, special education, or human service area. Salary $40,000 - $47,000, DOE. To apply complete and submit a Lake County job application, available at lakecounty.or.org. Full job description available on website.

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Mountain View Hospital Madras, Oregon has the following Career Opportunities available.

For more Information please visit our website at www.mvhd.org or email jtittle@mvhd.org • RN Team Leader, OB - Full Time Position, Day Shift.

• RN Team Leader, Acute Care - Full Time Position, Day Shift.

• RN Surgical Services - Per Diem Position, Various Shifts • RN Home Health and Hospice - Full Time Position, Day Shift.

• Med Tech - Full Time Position, Night Shift • Aide, Home Health and Hospice - Per Diem Position, Various Shifts • Physical Therapist Home Health/Inpatient Full Time Position, Day Shift.

• Physical Therapist - Per Diem Position, Day Shifts • Ultra Sound Technologist - Per Diem Position, Various Shifts • CT X-ray Technologist - Per Diem Position, Various Shifts • Registration Clerk Per Diem Position Various Shifts • Insurance Verification Clerk - Full Time Position, Day Shift.

Hospice Volunteer Coordinator - Full Time Position, Day Shift.

• Kitchen Aide - Per Diem Position, Various Shifts Mountain View Hospital is an EOE

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Residential Coach: Needed to work with young adults age 17 1/2 - 24 in a recovery program located in Bend.

We offer outstanding benefits. We are seeking individuals with proven skills in communicating & supervising this age group. 3-5 years experience in related field preferred. Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.

Apply by faxing resume to; Operations Director at: 541-383-3176.

A CRC Health program. www.northstarcenter.com www.crchealth.com

RN Touchmark at Mt. Bachelor Village is now recruiting for a Registered Nurse for Residential Care. The RN is responsible for the management of health care for our assisted living residents and assists the administrator with managing resident and staff needs. A current Oregon RN license and four years health care management or related experience is required. Gerontology skills are preferred.

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Teacher - Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC) is recruiting a temporary/ full-time Classroom Instructor to teach high school alternative education classes in Prineville. End date is June 24, 2011. Compensation is a Grade 7- $3,495 per month ($20.16 per hour).

Bachelor’s degree in related field or the equivalent combination of education and experience in related field may be substituted, plus Oregon Teaching Certificate required. Application and full job description available on the COIC website www.coic.org, at local COIC offices or at Administration – 2363 SW Glacier Place, Redmond, OR 97756. In order to be considered for this position, a completed application must be received by 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 27, 2010, in the Redmond Administration office. Faxed applications will be accepted (541)923-3416.

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1934 SW 29th St $850 (Private Party ads only) Charming 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 2 car garage, 1279 sq ft, spacious kitchen, bay window, w/d, 664 large yard, nice neighborHouses for Rent hood. 541-526-1700 Furnished www.FirstRatePM.com 1 Bdrm, 1 bath, 547 1/2 NW 7th, 1800 Sq.ft. Pahlish Townhome, $550; 2 bdrm, 1 bath, 626 1/2 off Brosterhous, 3 bdrm., SW 8th, $595; 2 bdrm, 1 bath, fully furnished, all dishes & 135 NW 10th St., $650, cookware, W/D, hardwood 541-815-1709, CopperDog PM. floors, stainless appl., plasma TV, stereo & DVD, gas fire3 Bdrm., 2 bath, dbl. garage, place & grill, small side yard, Summerfield location, near dbl. garage, $1100/mo., incl.

97, fresh interior paint, new W/S & cable, 541-749-0546 Pergo, fully fenced. 1st & dep., $850. 503-997-7870.

671 4/2 Mfd 1605 sq.ft., family Mobile/Mfd. room, w/woodstove, new carpet/paint, single garage for Rent w/opener. $795/mo.

541-480-3393,541-610-7803 3 Bedroom, 2 bath mobile home for rent, $600/mo.

253-241-4152

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3 bdrm 3 bath 3500+ sq. ft. home, all appliances, family room, office, triple garage, 2 woodstoves, sunroom, lrg. utility room including w/d, pantry, landscaping incl, pet OK. $3000 mo. 541-382-7727

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3 bdrm, 2½ bath, 1675 sq. ft. gas fireplace, fenced yard, pets ok! $950 541-382-7727

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$675 3/2 w/d hookups, family room, fenced, deck, sheds 3125 SW Pumice Ave $695 3/1.5, new paint, single garage, w/d hookups, oil heat.

915 SW Dogwood Ave $775 3/2, double garage w/ opener, w/d hookups, breakfast bar, patio, fenced 1748 SW Kalama Ave $795 3/2.5 double garage w/opener, w/d, gas fireplace, fenced, yard maint 2885 SW Indian Circle $825 3/2 double garage w/opener, W/D, vaulted, fenced, sprinkler system 1425 SW 31st St $875 3/2 double garage w/Opener, breakfast bar, w/d hookups, gas forced air heat, fenced.

735 NE Negus Place $895 4/2 single garage, w/d hookups, wood fireplace, formal dining, deck, fenced 458 SW 12th St $995 4/2.5 new carpet! double garage, w/d hookups, gas forced air, fenced.

730 NE Negus Place $1200 - Move in Special! $600 off 1st month rent, 3/2.5 double garage w/opener, w/d, central air, den/family room, large deck.

486 Nutcracker Dr. $1250 3/2 Gated, views, .5 acre lot, dbl garage, large deck. 2345 Linnet Ln

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Chaparral, 541-923-5008 www.redmondrents.com

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638 Bend's Finest $200 off 1st month

438 NW 19th St #59 $895 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage, large decks, stainless steel appl., gas stove, fireplace.

W/S/L pd. 541-526-1700 www.FirstRatePM.com

541-923-8222 $875 3Bdrm 2Bath, dbl garage, fenced, all appls, woodstove & heat pump. W/S pd, no smkg. Crooked River Realty, Nancy Popp, 541-815-8000.

A Beautiful 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath duplex in Canyon Rim Village, Redmond, all appl., incl. gardener, reduced to $749/mo. 541-408-0877.

Spacious 3 bdrm., 2 bath + bonus, single story, large fenced yard, dbl. garage, $950/mo. + $500 dep. 2120 NW 11th St. 541-771-6599 Terrebonne 3 Bedroom, 1 Bath in private, treed setting. Has deck, detached garage and storage, $725/month. Call 541-419-8370; 541-548-4727

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Houses for Rent Sunriver A newer 3/2 mfd. home, 1755 sq.ft., living room, family room, on private .5 acre lot near Sunriver, $895.

541-480-3393, 541-610-7803.

VILLAGE PROPERTIES Sunriver, Three Rivers, La Pine. Great Selection.

Prices range from $425 - $2000/mo. View our full inventory online at Village-Properties.com 1-866-931-1061

On 10 acres, between Sisters & Bend, 3 Bdrm., 2 bath, 1484 sq.ft., mfd., family room w/ wood stove, all new carpet & paint, + 1800 sq.ft. shop, fenced for horses, $1295.

541-480-3393, 541-610-7803

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Commercial for Rent/Lease 1944½ NW 2nd St Need storage or a craft studio?

570 sq. ft. garage, w/ Alley Access, Wired, Sheetrocked, Insulated, Wood or Electric Heat. $275.

Call 541-382-7727

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4628 SW 21st St., Redmond - 2250 sq ft office & warehouse. 15¢/sq ft for 1st 6 mos., + $300 cleaning dep.

Avail Jan 15. 541-480-9041

Light Industrial, various sizes, North and South Bend locations, office w/bath from $400/mo. 541-317-8717

Office / Warehouse space • 1792 sq ft 827 Business Way, Bend 30¢/sq ft; 1st mo + $200 dep Paula, 541-678-1404 Office/Warehouse Space, 6400 sq.ft., (3) 12x14 doors, on Boyd Acres Rd, 541-382-8998.

The Bulletin offers a LOWER, MORE AFFORDABLE Rental rate! If you have a home to rent, call a Bulletin Classified Rep. to get the new rates and get your ad started ASAP! 541-385-5809

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Ofice/Retail Space for Rent 335 NE Greenwood Ave. Prime retail/office space, Greenwood frontage, 1147 sq. ft., ample parking, includes w/s. $1200 mo.

541-382-7727

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347 NE Greenwood Ave. 400 sq. ft. office space, private entrance & restroom, 3 small offices + reception area, ample parking, includes water/sewer/ electric. $500!

541-382-7727

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An Office with bath, various sizes and locations from $250 per month, including utilities. 541-317-8717 Downtown Redmond Retail/Office space, 947 sq ft. $650/mo + utils; $650 security deposit. 425 SW Sixth St. Call Norb, 541-420-9848

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Fifth Wheels

YAMAHA 1998 230CC motor, 4WD, used as utility vehicle. excellent running condition. $2000 OBO. 541-923-4161 541-788-3896

Yamaha 350 Big Bear Yamaha 2008 Nitro 1049cc, 4 stroke, bought new Feb 2010, still under warranty, 550 miles, too much power for wife! $6000.

Call 541-430-5444

1999, 4X4, 4 stroke, racks front & rear, strong machine, excellent condition. $2,200 541-382-4115,541-280-7024

20.5’ Seaswirl Spyder 1989 H.O. 302, 285 hrs., exc. cond., stored indoors for life $11,900 OBO. 541-379-3530 Ads published in the "Boats" classification include: Speed, fishing, drift, canoe, house and sail boats. For all other types of watercraft, please see Class 875. 541-385-5809

Waverider Trailer, 2-place, new paint, rail covers, & wiring, good cond., $495, 541-923-3490.

Houseboat 38X10, w/triple axle trailer, incl. private moorage w/24/7 security at Prinville resort. PRICE REDUCED, $21,500. 541-788-4844.

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Timeshares for Sale 2 Bdrm 2 Bath, Villa del Palmar, Puerto Vallarta, weeks 18-43.

No loan balance. Maintenance fee paid thru 2011. $2000. 541-382-0899

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Open Houses Open House: Sun. Dec 19th 1-4, Mt. Bachelor Village, 19717 SW Mt. Bachelor Dr., #510. 2 Bdrm., 2 bath, great room, dining area, full kitchen, stackable W/D, single garage, $405,000, Prudential NW Properties, 541-390-5746.

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Motorhomes

Yamaha YFZ450 2006, very low hrs., exc. cond., reduced to $3000, also boots, helmet, tires, avail., 541-410-0429

Beaver Patriot 2000, Walnut cabinets, solar, Bose, Corian, tile, 4 door fridge., 1 slide, w/d, $99,000. 541-215-0077

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HARLEY Davidson Fat Boy - LO 2010, Health forces sale, 1900 mi., 1K mi. service done, black on black, detachable windshield, back rest & luggage rack, $13,900, Mario, 541-549-4949, 619-203-4707

17½’ 2006 BAYLINER 175 XT Ski Boat, 3.0L Merc, mint condition, includes ski tower w/2 racks - everything we have, ski jackets adult and kids several, water skis, wakeboard, gloves, ropes and many other boating items. $11,300 OBO . 541-417-0829

GENERATE SOME excitement in your neigborhood. Plan a garage sale and don't forget to advertise in classified!

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Malibu Skier 1988, w/center pylon, low hours, always garaged, new upholstery, great fun. $9500.

OBO. 541-389-2012.

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Homes for Sale PUBLISHER'S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to Harley Davidson Heritage Soft the Fair Housing Act which Tail 2009, 400 mi., extras makes it illegal to advertise incl. pipes, lowering kit, "any preference, limitation or chrome pkg., $16,900 OBO. discrimination based on race, 541-944-9753 color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, marital status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." Familial status 541-322-7253 includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our Harley Davidson Police Bike readers are hereby informed 2001, low mi., custom bike that all dwellings advertised very nice.Stage 1, new tires in this newspaper are avail& brakes, too much to list! able on an equal opportunity A Must See Bike $10,500 basis. To complain of disOBO. 541-383-1782 crimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-877-0246. The toll free telephone number for the hearing impaired is Harley Davidson 1-800-927-9275.

Screamin’ Eagle Electric-Glide 2005, *** 103” motor, 2-tone, candy CHECK YOUR AD teal, 18,000 miles, exc.

Please check your ad on the cond. $19,999 OBO, please first day it runs to make sure call 541-480-8080. it is correct. Sometimes instructions over the phone are misunderstood and an error can occur in your ad. If this happens to your ad, please contact us the first day your ad appears and we will be happy to fix it as soon as we can. Deadlines are: Weekdays 12:00 noon for next day, Sat. 11:00 a.m. for Sunday; Sat. 12:00 for Monday.

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Redmond Homes Bank Owned: ON-SITE Real Estate Auction

Harley Davidson Ultra Classic 2008, clean, lots of upgrades, custom exhaust, dual control heated gloves & vest, luggage access. 15K, $17,000 OBO 541-693-3975.

Redmond 817 NW Canyon Drive 4 bdrm., 2.5 bath, 3567 sq.ft.

Sale Date: Sat. Jan. 22nd, 1 pm FREE COLOR BROCHURE 800-229-9793 www.AuctionServicesIntl.com Danny Hill, OR: 890100056 Looking for your next employee?

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Honda Shadow Deluxe American Classic Edition.

2002, black, perfect, garaged, 5,200 mi. $3495.

541-610-5799.

KTM 400 EXC Enduro 2006, like new cond, low miles, street legal, hvy duty receiver hitch basket. $4500. 541-385-4975

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Homes with Acreage Motorcycle Trailer

Beautiful Prineville home, wood and tile throughout, 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, master on main level, bonus room, office, 6.87 acres, conveniently located between town & lake, $415,000. 541-771-3093

Kendon stand-up motorcycle trailer, torsion bar suspension, easy load and unload, used seldom and only locally. $1700 OBO. Call 541-306-3010.

Sisters, turnkey horse setup, 4 acres, great barn, 3 pastures, updated house, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, pond,irrigation, RV pad w/hook ups, $575,000, 541-549-9945.

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POLARIS PHOENIX 2005, 2X4, 200cc, new

35 Acre irrigated, hay & cattle farm, close to Prineville, 76 year old widower will sacrifice for $395,000, 541-410-3425

rear end, new tires, runs excellent, $1800 OBO, 541-932-4919.

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Acreages OWN 20ACRES LAND! $99/ month! $0-Down, $12,900, great deal! Near El Paso, Texas. Owner Financing, No Credit Checks. Money Back Guarantee. Free Map/Pictures. 800-343-9444.

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Manufactured/ Mobile Homes For sale by owner, 2 Bdrm 2 bath, 1970 double wide mobile home. Partially furnished. As is - $5000, cash only. 541-389-6249 day/eve

the bells & whistles, sleeps 8, 4 queen beds, reduced to $17,000, 541-536-8105 JAYCO 31 ft. 1998 slideout, upgraded model, exc. cond. $10,500. 1-541-454-0437.

880 Weekend Warrior Toy Hauler 28’ 2007, Gen, fuel station,exc.

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Gearbox 30’ 2005, all

19’ Blue Water Executive Overnighter 1988, very low hours, been in dry storage for 12 years, new camper top, 185HP I/O Merc engine, all new tires on trailer, $7995 OBO, 541-447-8664.

Bounder 34’ 1994, only 18K miles, 1 owner, garage kept, rear walk round queen island bed, TV’s,leveling hyd. jacks, backup camera, awnings, non smoker, no pets, must see to appreciate, too many options to list, won’t last long, $18,950, 541-389-3921,503-789-1202

Dodge Brougham Motorhome, 1977, Needs TLC, $1995, Pilgrim Camper 1981, Self contained, Cab-over, needs TLC, $595, 541-382-2335 or 503-585-3240.

Find exactly what you are looking for in the CLASSIFIEDS

Marathon V.I.P. Prevost H3-40 Luxury Coach. Like new after $132,000 purchase & $130,000 in renovations. Only 129k orig. mi. 541-601-6350.

Rare bargain at just $122,000.

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Sell your old one in the classiieds! Ask about our Super Seller rates!

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Travel Queen 34’ 1987 65K miles, oak cabinets, exc interior. Great extra bdrm! Reduced to $5000. 541-480-3286

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slides, 44k mi., A/C, awning, good cond., 1 owner. $37,000. 541-815-4121

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20.5’ 2004 Bayliner 205 Run About, 220 HP, V8, open bow, exc. cond., very fast w/very low hours, lots of extras incl. tower, Bimini & custom trailer, $19,500. 541-389-1413

2 Wet-Jet personal water crafts, new batteries & covers, “SHORE“ trailer, incl spare & lights, $1995 for all. Bill 541-480-7930.

Ads published in "Watercraft" include: Kayaks, rafts and motorized personal watercrafts. For "boats" please see Class 870.

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Dutch Star DP 39 ft. 2001, 2 slides, Cat engine, many options, very clean, PRICE REDUCED! 541-388-7552.

Gulfstream Scenic Cruiser 36 ft. 1999, Cummins 330 hp. diesel, 42K, 1 owner, 13 in. kitchen slide out, new tires, under cover, hwy. miles only, 4 door fridge/freezer icemaker, W/D combo, Interbath tub & shower, 50 amp. propane gen & more! $55,000. 541-948-2310.

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Everest 2006 35' 3 slides/ awnings, island king bed, W/D, 2 roof air, built-in vac, pristine, reduced to $34,000 OBO 541-610-4472; 541-689-1351

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Fleetwood Wilderness 2004 36½’, 4 slide-outs, fireplace, A/C, TV, used 3 times. Like new! List $52,000, sell $22,950.

541-390-2678, Madras

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Winnebago Itasca Horizon 2002, 330 Cat, 2 slides, loaded with leather. 4x4 Chevy Tracker w/tow bar available, exc. cond. $65,000 OBO. 509-552-6013.

MONTANA 2000 36’ 3 slides, washer and dryer, new A/C. Very nice & livable! $12,500. 541-923-7351.

TERRY 27’ 5th wheel 1995 with big slide-out, generator and extras. Great condition and hunting rig, $9,900 OBO. 541-923-0231 days.

slides, island kitchen, air, surround sound, micro., full oven, more, in exc. cond., 2 trips on it, 1 owner, like new, REDUCED NOW $26,000. 541-228-5944

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COLLINS 18’ 1981, gooseneck hitch, sleeps 4, good condition, $1950. Leave message.

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cond. sleeps 8, black/gray interior, used 3X, $29,900.

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Cedar Creek 2006, RDQF. Loaded, 4 slides, 37.5’, king bed, W/D, 5500W gen., fireplace, Corian countertops, skylight shower, central vac, much more, like new, $43,000, please call 541-330-9149.

Canopies and Campers

Fleetwood Elkhorn 9.5’ 1999,

Alpha “See Ya” 30’ 1996, 2 slides, A/C, heat pump, exc. cond. for Snowbirds, solid oak cabs day & night shades, Corian, tile, hardwood. $14,900. 541-923-3417.

Hitchhiker II 2000 32’ 2 slides, very clean

extended overhead cab, stereo, self-contained,outdoor shower, TV, 2nd owner, exc. cond., non smoker, $8900 541-815-1523.

and in excellent condition.

Only $18,000!

(541) 410-9423, (541) 536-6116.

KOMFORT 27’ 5th wheel 2000 trailer: fiberglass with 12’ slide, stored inside, in excellent condition.

Only $13,500 firm.

Call 541-536-3916.

When ONLY the BEST will do!

2003 Lance 1030 Deluxe Model Camper, loaded, phenomenal condition. $17,500.

2007 Dodge 6.7 Cummins Diesel 3500 4x4 long bed, 58K mi, $34,900. Or buy as unit, $48,500. 541-331-1160

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Sport Utility Vehicles

Smolich Auto Mall

Chevy 1/2 Ton 1995, 4X4, 350 engine, auto, cold A/C, new tires, brakes, shocks, & muffler, w/ camper shell, runs great. $4000.

541-706-1568

FORD 350 LARIAT 2002 4x4 crewcab, 7.3 diesel 135k, dually, matching canopy, towing special, gooseneck, too! Orig. 63-year-old construction owner needs money, will trade, $17,500.

(541) 815-3639 or (541) 508-8522

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Wheels, Milanni 20’s,fit Mustang, Veutus SportK104,245/402R20 95Y, $1250, 541-408-7972

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Ford T-Bird 1955, White soft & hard tops, new paint, carpet, upholstery, rechromed, nice! $32,000. 541-912-1833

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Antique and Classic Autos

1/3 interest in Columbia 400, located at Sunriver. $150,000. Call 541-647-3718 Beechcraft A36 BDN 1978 3000TT, 1300 SRMAN, 100 TOP, Garmins, Sandel HSI, 55X A/P, WX 500, Leather, Bose, 1/3 share - $40,000 OBO/terms, 541-948-2126.

Cadillac El Dorado 1977, very beautiful blue, real nice inside & out, low mileage, $2500, please call 541-383-3888 for more information.

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Grumman AA-5 Traveler, 1/4 interest, beautiful, clean plane, $9500, 619-822-8036 www.carymathis.blogspot.com

Redmond Airport hangar, heated, 55’ x 75’ x 18’, 12’ x 24’ office, bath with shower, $229,500. 20-year lease. Call 503-803-2051

Chevrolet Nova, 1976 2-door, 20,200 mi. New tires, seat covers, windshield & more. $5800. 541-330-0852.

Chevy Corvette 1979, 30K mi., glass t-top, runs & looks great, $12,500,541-280-5677 Mercedes-Benz 280c 1975 145k, good body & mechanical, fair interior, can email pics. $2950. 541-548-3628

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Chevy Suburban 1969, classic 3-door, very

Trucks and Heavy Equipment

clean, all original good condition, $5500, call 541-536-2792.

International 1981,T-axle-300 13 spd.Cummins/Jake Brake,good tires/body paint;1993 27’ stepdeck trailer, T-axle, Dove tail, ramps. $7950, 541-350-3866

Chevy

Wabco 666 Grader - New tires, clean, runs good -$8,500.

Austin Western Super 500 Grader - All wheel drive, low hours on engine - $10,500.

1986 Autocar cement truck Cat engine, 10 yd mixer $10,000. Call 541-771-4980

Chrysler 300 Coupe 1967, 440 engine, auto. trans, ps, air, frame on rebuild, repainted original blue, original blue interior, original hub caps, exc. chrome, asking $10,000 or make offer. 541-385-9350.

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4-dr., complete, $15,000 OBO, trades, please call 541-420-5453.

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MUST SELL due to death.

1970 Monte Carlo, all original, many extras. Sacrifice $6000. 541-593-3072

OLDS 98 1969 2 door hardtop, $1600.

541-389-5355

Corvette 1956, rebuilt 2006, 3 spd., 2, 4 barrel, 225 hp.

Matching numbers $62,500, 541-280-1227.

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All workmanship, materials, and conditions shall conform to the current City of Redmond Public Works Standards and Specifications dated April 2003.

This is a Public Works Contract and subject to Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) Corrections and Amendments Prevailing Wage Rates Effective July 1, 2010 for Region 10.

Contract Documents Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations: • City of Redmond Engineering Department, 716 SW Evergreen Avenue, Redmond, Oregon.

• Central Oregon Builder's Exchange, 1902 NE 4th Street, Bend, Oregon.

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PUBLISH: Bend Bulletin Sunday, December 19, 2010 Redmond Spokesman Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Daily Journal of Commerce Once the Week of December 12, 2010 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS JOANNE M. ROBINSON has been appointed personal representative of the Estate of VALERIE ROBINSON SMITH, deceased, by the circuit court, State of Oregon, Deschutes County, Probate No. 10 PB 0139 ST. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them with proper vouchers attached, to the

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO INTERESTED PARTIES BEND PLANNING COMMISSION PROJECT NUMBER: 10-244.

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The Planning Commission will accept new written testimony from the Bend Metro Park and Recreation District and the Bend LaPine School District submitted by 4 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010.

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the Bend Planning Division, 710 NW Wall Street, Bend, OR, 97701. All testimony must be limited to park and school issues. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Planning Commission will meet in the Council Chambers at City Hall on Jan. 24, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. to deliberate. A copy of the staff report will be available 7 days prior to the meeting. CONTACT: Aaron Henson at (541) 383-4885, ahenson@ci.bend.or.us.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF DESCHUTES. In the matter of the Estate of JAMES H. JACKSON, Deceased, Case No. 09PB0160BH. NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS notice is HEREBY GIVEN that MONTY J. JACKSON has been appointed Administrator. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them with proper voucher attached to the administrator MONTY J. JACKSON in care of David W. Smiley, 70 SW Century Drive, Suite 100-333, Bend, OR 97702 within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be effected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the personal representative or the attorneys for the Administrator MONTY J. JACKSON; David W. Smiley. Dated and first published Sunday, December 19, 2010, DAVID W. SMILEY, OSB #954164, 70 SW Century Drive, Suite 100-333, Bend, OR 97702 Tel: 541-318-1288 Fax: 541-318-1289 E-mail: david@dwsmiley.com PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS PUBLIC TRANSIT DIVISION DISCRETIONARY GRANTS The Deschutes County Department of Administrative Services, in Deschutes County, Oregon, announces an opportunity for eligible transportation providers to apply for state Special Transportation Fund (STF) discretionary and federal section 5310 funds. Funds are allo-

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Projects offering transportation services for seniors and people with disabilities are eligible for grant funding.

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An additional checklist of applicant and project eligibility criteria can be requested from the Deschutes County contact listed below. Applications submitted for projects in Deschutes County must be received by the Deschutes County Department of Administrative Services no later than 5:00 p.m. on January 7, 2011.

Postmarks will not be accepted as an alternative to receipt by the due date and late applications will not be considered. Contact Judith Ure at 541-330-4627 for further information.

PUBLIC NOTICE The December 21, 2010, meeting of the Bend Park & Recreation District Board of Directors has been cancelled.

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he tax deal is reasonable policy, supported by majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents — an easy sell by presidential standards.

And still President Barack Obama managed to blow the politics of the thing.

Rather than explaining the economic benefits of the bill and taking quiet credit for a moment of bipartisanship, Obama launched into an assault on both partners and opponents. Republicans are “hostage-takers” who worship the “Holy Grail” of trickle-down economics. Liberal opponents are “sanctimonious,” preferring their own purity to the interests of the poor. The president did not just attack the policy positions of nearly everyone in the political class. He publicly questioned their motives.

It is difficult to imagine the president’s advisers sitting in the Oval Office and urging this approach: “Mr. President, the best course here would be to savage likely supporters of the bill and to embitter your political base. This will show just how principled you are, in contrast to the corruption and fanaticism all around you.”

There can be little doubt this communications strategy was Obama’s own.

It is the president’s favorite rhetorical pose: the hectorer in chief. He is alternately defiant, defensive, exasperated, resentful, harsh, scolding, prickly. He is both the smartest kid in class and the schoolyard bully.

There are many problems with this mode of presidential communication, but mainly its supreme self-regard. The tax deal, in Obama’s presentation, was not about the economy or the country. It was about him. It was about the absurd concessions he was forced to make, the absurd opposition he was forced to endure.

The administration further complicated its communications task by presenting Obama as ideologically superior to his own agreement. The upper-income tax rates and the estate tax provisions, in David Axelrod’s description, are “odious.”

As a rule, staffers should not use such a word to describe policies a president has agreed to accept. It makes a president look both compromised and weak.

Instead of a leader brokering a popular agreement, Obama appears to be a politician forced under threat to violate his deepest convictions.

At this point in the Obama presidency, even Democrats must be asking: Is he really this bad at politics? The list of miscalculations grows longer. To pass the stimulus package, the administration predicts 8 percent unemployment — a prediction that became an indictment. It pledges the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison — without a realistic plan to do so. It sends the president to secure the Chicago Olympics — and comes away empty-handed.

It announces a “summer of recovery” — which becomes a source of ridicule.

It unveils a Manhattan trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed — which nearly every local official promptly turns against.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs picks fights with both conservative talk radio hosts and the “professional left” — which uniformly backfire. The president seems to endorse the Ground Zero mosque — before retreating 24 hours later. He suggests that Republicans are “enemies” of Latinos — apparently unable to distinguish between hardball and trash talk.

In some areas, such as education reform or the tax deal, Obama’s governing practice is better than his political skills.

But these skills matter precisely because political capital is limited. The early pursuit of ambitious health care reform, as former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel internally argued, was a mistake. But every president has the right to spend his popularity on what he regards as matters of principle. Political risks, taken out of conviction with open eyes, are an admirable element of leadership. Yet political errors made out of pique or poor planning undermine the possibility of achievement.

Why so many unforced mistakes? The ineffectiveness of Obama’s political and communications staff may be part of the problem — and the administration is now hinting at significant White House personnel changes in the new year.

In the tax debate, Obama has proved a quarrelsome ally and a dismissive foe, generally dismayed by the grubby realities of politics. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Unfortunately, he seems to put just about everyone who disagrees with him in that category.

Michael Gerson is a columnist for The Washington Post.

John Costa’s column will return.

Judgment day for health care law Federal judge’s ruling that a key provision is unconstitutional sets stage for legal war

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federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that the keystone provision in the Obama health care law is unconstitutional, becoming the first judge to invalidate any part of the sprawling act and ensuring that appellate courts will receive contradictory

opinions from below. The judge, Henry Hudson of U.S. District Court in Richmond, said the law’s requirement that most Americans obtain insurance exceeded the regulatory authority granted to Congress under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

Hudson, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, declined the plaintiff’s request to suspend the act’s implementation pending appeal, so there should be no immediate effect on the act’s rollout.

But the ruling seemed likely to create confusion among the public and to further destabilize political support for a law that is under fierce attack from Republicans in Congress and in many statehouses. Party leaders, including the incoming House speaker, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, quickly used the opinion to reiterate their call for repealing the law.

In a 42-page opinion, Hudson wrote: “Neither the Supreme Court nor any federal circuit court of appeals has extended Commerce Clause powers to compel an individual to involuntarily enter the stream of commerce by purchasing a commodity in the private market.”

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Monday’s decision is a political score for Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, who filed the health care lawsuit against the federal government.

By contradicting two prior opinions, the court ruling in Virginia against the Obama health care law highlighted both the novelty of the constitutional issues and the difficulty of forging consensus among judges who bring differences in experience, philosophy and partisan background to the bench.

Judge Henry Hudson of U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., wrote with conviction that the law’s requirement that most Americans obtain insurance goes “beyond the historical reach” of Supreme Court cases that limit federal regulation of commercial activity.

During the past two months, however, two other federal judges ruled with equal force that the provision fell squarely within the authority Congress was granted under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

Ultimately, the Supreme Court will have to resolve the conflict, and many court watchers already expect a characteristically close decision. But what is now clear is that the challenges from dozens of states to the law’s constitutionality can no longer be dismissed as frivolous, as they were earlier this year by some scholars and Democratic partisans.

— New York Times News Service

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he Bend-La Pine School Board did, as promised, discuss its public records policies — and our Sept. 27 records request — during its Tuesday meeting. Board Chair Peggy

Kinkade has circulated an account of the discussion, which we’ve reprinted to the right as a letter to the editor. We urge you to read it before continuing.

Done?

The board, writes Kinkade, has agreed to halve the roughly $2,000 fee for releasing the records we’ve requested. She and her colleagues would like us to accept this offer, thus meeting them “halfway.” The board’s “gesture of good faith” is notable, the letter strongly implies, because we’ve been unreasonably demanding, and even a little ungrateful.

We do appreciate the board’s willingness to discuss the issue, and we acknowledge that $1,000 is more appropriate than $2,000. But the amount is still wrong, as is the board’s rationale for charging it.

State law allows public bodies to “establish fees reasonably calculated to reimburse the public body for the public body’s actual cost of making public records available. ...” But BendLa Pine’s actual cost isn’t $2,000 or even $1,000. It’s zero, excluding roughly $100 for the cost of copies. The big money supposedly reimburses the district for the cost of legal review, but the district obtains legal services by paying a flat fee every year to the High Desert Education Service District. The legal time has already been paid for, and the district would simply pocket our “reimbursement” and consider it revenue.

The appropriate fee — the one that covers the district’s actual cost — is $100.

Why would a public entity overcharge for the release of public documents? The question has many possible answers, but Kinkade explains the school board’s reasoning as follows: “requiring a requester to bear

some cost protects a public entity from unreasonable requests and ‘fishing expeditions.’ ” And ours, presumably, is somewhat unreasonable: “You have previously declined to narrow the focus of your request for e-mails, presumably because you feel there is a value in having every possible record associated with” the district initiative in question.

So much for the idea that public records fees exist only to reimburse public entities for real costs. The school board apparently believes it’s appropriate to use fees to discourage excessive curiosity. Since when is it government’s role to determine the appropriate level of public scrutiny?

We have not, in fact, requested “every possible record associated with” the CLASS Project, a voluntary reform effort spearheaded by the Chalkboard Project. Rather, we’ve requested more records than district officials consider appropriate, for which they feel entitled to demand reimbursement for phantom costs. The school board, elected to represent the public, seems to think this is just fine.

It’s not, of course, which is why we intend to appeal the district’s estimate and — more importantly — why the Legislature should change Oregon’s public records law. Public entities should not be free to charge the public for staff time devoted to fulfilling records requests. All too frequently, public bodies misuse their authority in order to keep public records under wraps.

County Commission did right by Flaherty, voters

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he Deschutes County Commission did not, in fact, tell voters to stuff it on Wednesday. Rather, all three of them voted to give incoming District Attorney Patrick Flaherty an opportunity to shape his staff without having to contend with a union contract that protects the jobs of most deputy DAs. Such a contract will go into effect at some point, assuming the office’s attorneys continue to pursue it. But thanks to the board’s vote this week, it won’t happen soon enough to protect the handful of deputies Flaherty has said he intends to replace. Thus, the board chose, in effect, to defend an elected official’s authority rather than a small number of his predecessor’s employees. Making such a choice may have been uncomfortable, but it was right.

It is — and should be — each elected DA’s prerogative to select the people who perform the core functions of his office. Voters chose Flaherty to run that office, just as they’d chosen Mike Dugan to run the office for so many years. Ramming through a contract that denies Flaherty the staff-selection authority Dugan had enjoyed for so long would have created a split between his office and county commissioners and, perhaps more importantly, eroded his ability to function effectively.

Flaherty won voters’ support in May, and as he prepares to enter office he deserves an opportunity to succeed. County commissioners gave it to him this week, and we hope the deputy DAs who keep their jobs do likewise in the coming months.

My Nickel’s Worth Editor’s Note: This letter accompanies the editorial to the left.

Meet us halfway Last night in public session, the Bend-La Pine School Board spent about 30 minutes discussing public records requests in general and your CLASS Project-related request specifically.

The board supports and respects the public’s right to review records. We also have an obligation to protect the privacy of our district’s children and to act responsibly in allocating school district resources. Concerns were raised about the possibility or likelihood that charging fees (as allowed by the Oregon statute) will have a “chilling effect” on the public’s ability to obtain public records. On the other hand, requiring a requester to bear some cost protects a public entity from unreasonable requests and “fishing expeditions.”

We want to strike a balance and work together in good faith to provide you with the information you desire.

The school district has already provided you (without charge) a notebook of materials distributed during the first year of the CLASS Project design process and other relevant, readily available materials. You have previously declined to narrow the focus of your request for related e-mails, presumably because you feel there is value in having every possible record associated with the CLASS Project. The school board therefore voted last night to reduce the fee for the requested records by 50 percent.

We hope you will reciprocate this gesture of good faith by meeting us halfway on the fee. We have no secrets to hide; our primary responsibility and focus is

providing an excellent education for the students of Bend-La Pine schools while using district resources wisely.

Peggy Kinkade Chair, Bend-La Pine School Board

Fishy regulations In case anyone needed an example of the stupid actions of our out-of-control government regulators, your Dec. 7 editorial provides it. In adopting standards for pollutant levels in state waters, the geniuses in Salem and Washington, D.C., have come to the conclusion, they say based on evidence, that the average Oregonian consumes a half pound of fish 23 days per month.

That’s obviously a lot of fish, especially given that, since it is an average, half of the people must consume more than that. But it gets worse. Since the water standards apply only to Oregon, it follows that the fish consumed must be harvested only from Oregon waters and only in those waters downstream from the source of pollutants that are being regulated.

So what we are being asked to swallow (pun intended) is an argument that the average Oregonian at least three days per week, every week, consumes a very large serving of fish that cannot have come from the ocean or any other body of water outside Oregon, the Columbia River, or any river or lake upstream from a source of the pollutants.

Does anyone know of a single person, let alone everyone you know, who does this?

Just how stupid do they think we are, and when will we stand up and say we’ve had enough of this foolishness?

Jeff Keller Bend

Teacher pay I read Robert Hickman’s Dec. 8 letter, “Union pay,” with some interest.

Specifically, the defense of union pay for schoolteachers, especially since funding PERS is one of the biggest budget problems this state has.

It was ironic that a recent headline on Page One reads “U.S. students firmly in the middle of a global pack.” The piece goes on to say that U.S. students are 17th in reading, 23rd in science, and 31st in math among 15-year-old students worldwide.

I don’t think union pay is making much difference in the quality of education of our children. I wonder if all those teachers are unionized in the countries whose students are ahead of the U.S. The following is from the Manhattan Institute For Policy Research, quoting the U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics in its annual National Compensation Survey: • The average public school teacher in the U.S. earned $34.06 per hour in 2005.

• Public school teachers are paid, on average, 61 percent more per hour than private school teachers.

• The average public school teacher was paid 36 percent more per hour than the average non-sales white-collar worker and 11 percent more than the average professional specialty and technical worker.

• We find no evidence that average teacher pay relative to that of other white-collar or professional specialty workers is related to high school graduation rates.

Cliff Cornett La Pine

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John Boehner and his tear ducts prepare to rule the House

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e’ve had to adjust to so many strange developments lately.

I’m sure we’ll get used to having a speaker of the House who weeps a lot.

That would be John Boehner, the new guy.

“He is known to cry,” the outgoing speaker, Nancy Pelosi, told Deborah Solomon in The Times Magazine. “He cries sometimes when we’re having a debate on bills.”

Pelosi, of course, does not cry in public. We will stop here briefly to contemplate what would happen if she, or any female lawmaker, broke into loud, noserunning sobs while discussing Iraq troop funding or giving a TV interview.

(Pause) OK, moving forward.

Boehner is a gravel-voiced Ohioan who wears snazzy suits and hangs out a lot with lobbyists. One of the few cheery prospects the new year holds for Democrats is his upcoming demonization,

since there is no such thing in 21st-century America as a lovable leader of the House of Representatives. Unless America is totally won over by the idea of a Sobbing Speaker.

“I think people are going to like him,” said Lesley Stahl, who interviewed Boehner for a “60 Minutes” segment shown last Sunday, during which he broke down several times.

The most arresting moment came when Boehner told Stahl he can no longer make visits to schools, or even look at the little kids on the playground, because he immediately starts crying.

That had me alarmed. I thought there was going to be some terrible story about an ailing child that would then force me to have warm and sympathetic thoughts about John Boehner.

But no. The reason, Boehner finally choked out, was that “making sure these kids have a shot at the American dream, like I did, is important.”

We will stop again briefly to imagine

GAIL COLLINS what would have happened if Nancy Pelosi, upon being elected speaker, had confessed on national TV that she was unable to visit schools in her district because the sight of little children made her break into sobs.

(Pause) OK. About Boehner. Many of us first noticed his tendency toward tears when he appeared on election night to celebrate his party’s taking control of the House. He had hardly gotten in front of the microphone before things got watery.

“I spent my whole life chasing (sob) the American dream,” he told the cam-

eras. “Put myself through school, working every rotten job there was. ...”

The American Dream has had such a bad year. During the campaign, it was tossed around by billionaire candidates who insisted on telling groups of underprivileged children that they, too, could someday own a mega-yacht or run a slimy but extremely profitable health care corporation.

Now, John Boehner is blaming the Dream for making him howl like an abandoned puppy. It’s what my friend Rebecca Traister calls “Boehner doing Masterpiece Theater on the hard life of John Boehner.”

Traister is the author of “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” a chronicle of the ClintonObama battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. One of the best-remembered moments in that campaign — Hillary Clinton cries in New Hampshire — is an excellent example of the difference between what men and women can get away with, tear-wise.

“Hillary didn’t cry,” Traister pointed out. “Not a drop of liquid fell below her lower lash.” With her back to the wall and the presidency on the line, Clinton approached the edge of a sniffle and we are still talking about it. Boehner is driven to great, noisy sobs when he contemplates the fact that as a youth, he mopped the floor at his father’s tavern.

In 2007, Boehner cried while delivering a speech on the floor of the House, in support of funding for the war in Iraq.

“After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to stand up and take them on?” he sobbed.

Then this year, he voted against providing money to take care of our fellow citizens who became ill while doing rescue and reclamation work at ground zero after the terrorist attack.

Twice.

Gail Collins is a columnist for The New York Times.

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he liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits. Budget-cutting won’t spare education.

The public is already angry over fraud, waste and incompetence in our schools and universities. And in these tough times, taxpayers rightly question everything about traditional education — from teachers unions and faculty tenure to the secrecy of university admissions policies and which courses really need to be taught.

Opportunistic private trade schools have sprouted in every community, offering online certification in practical skills without the frills and costs of socalled liberal arts “electives.”

In response to these challenges, the therapeutic academic Left proved often incapable of defending the traditional liberal arts. After three decades of defining the study of literature and history as too often a melodrama of race, class and gender oppression, it managed to turn off much of the college audience and the general reading public.

And cheek by jowl, the utilitarian Right succeeded in reclassifying business and finance not just as undergraduate university majors, but also core elements in general education requirements.

In such a climate, it is natural that once again we are hearing talk of cutting the “nonessentials” in our colleges

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON such as Latin, Renaissance history, Shakespeare, Plato, Rembrandt and Chopin. Why do we cling to the arts and humanities in a high-tech world in which we have instant recall at our fingertips through a Google search and such studies do not guarantee sure 21stcentury careers?

But the liberal arts train students to write, think and argue inductively, while drawing upon evidence from a shared body of knowledge. Without that foundation, it is harder to make — or demand from others — logical, informed decisions about managing our supercharged society as it speeds on by.

Citizens — shocked and awed by technological change — become overwhelmed by the Internet, cable news, talk radio, video games and popular culture of the moment. Without links to our past heritage, we in ignorance begin to think our own modern challenges — the war in Afghanistan, gay marriage, cloning or massive deficits — are unique and don’t raise issues comparable to those dealt with and solved in the past.

And without citizens broadly informed by humanities, we descend into a pyramidal society. A tiny technocratic elite on top crafts everything from cell phones and search engines to foreign policy and economic strategy. A growing mass below lacks understanding of the present complexity and the basic skills to question what they are told.

During the 1960s and 1970s, committed liberals thought we could shortcircuit the process of liberal education by creating advocacy classes with the suffix “studies.” Black studies, Chicano studies, community studies, environmental studies, leisure studies, peace studies, women’s studies and hundreds more were designed to turn out more socially responsible youths. Instead, universities too often graduated zealous advocates who lacked the broadly educated means to achieve their predetermined politicized ends.

On the other hand, pragmatists argued that our future CEOs needed to learn spread sheets at 20 rather than why Homer’s Achilles does not receive the honors he deserved, or how civilization was lost in fifth-century Rome and 1930s Germany. Yet Latin or a course in rhetoric might better teach a wouldbe captain of industry how to dazzle his audience than a class in Microsoft PowerPoint.

The more instantaneous our technology, the more we are losing the ability to communicate with it. Twitter and

text-messaging result in an economy of expression, not in clarity or beauty.

Millions are becoming premodern — communicating in electronic grunts that substitute for the ability to express themselves effectively and with dignity.

Indeed, by inventing new abbreviations and linguistic shortcuts, we are losing a shared written language altogether, much like the fragmentation of Latin as the Roman Empire imploded into tribal provinces.

No wonder the public is drawn to stories like “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Chronicles of Narnia” in which characters speak beautifully and believe in age-old values that transcend themselves.

Life is not just acquisition and consumption. Engaging English prose uplifts the spirit in a way Twittering cannot. The latest anti-Christ video shown at the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian will fade when the Delphic Charioteer or Michelangelo’s David does not. Appreciation of the history of great art and music fortifies the soul, and recognizes beauty that does not fade with the passing fad.

America has lots of problems. A population immersed in and informed by literature, history, art and music is not one of them.

wife bought for $6.5 million shortly before Bernie’s arrest is on the market.

But the sorrow caused by treachery is never all about money. Mark’s college buddies had put their savings into the crooked Madoff investments, so these friends are gone. Mark had been trying without success to get another job. No one would touch him. And he was said to be “distraught” over suggestions that he was part of the fraud.

While Andrew’s chief interests had moved to a foundation involved in lymphoma research, Mark was made the face of the Madoff enterprises. When some questioned the source of the enormous returns on Madoff investments, Mark was given the job of publicly defending the company. We may never learn all he knew, but there is little doubt that his father used him.

Like other Madoff victims, Mark lost money. Unlike them, he suffered the cruelest form of betrayal. He was his father’s saddest victim.

Froma Harrop is a columnist for The Providence Journal.

Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

FRIEDMAN China would not release him from prison — only the fifth time in the 109-year history of the prize that the winner was not in attendance. Under pressure from Beijing, the following countries joined China’s boycott of the ceremony: Serbia, Morocco, Pakistan, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Colombia, Ukraine, Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Vietnam and the Philippines. What a pathetic bunch.

“The empty chair in Oslo’s Town Hall last Friday was not only that of Liu, but of China itself,” observed Rowan Callick, a columnist for The Australian.

“The world is still waiting for China to play its proper, full role in international affairs. The perversity of such a successful, civilized nation playing a dominant role as a backer — if sometimes merely by default — of cruel, failed or failing states is intensely frustrating.”

It gets worse. The Financial Times reported that “outside Mr. Liu’s apartment in Beijing, where his wife Liu Xia has been held under house arrest since the award was announced, large blue screens were erected, preventing television cameras from having a view of the building.”

Honestly, I thought China’s leaders had more self-confidence than that.

Clearly, they are feeling very insecure.

Think if China had said instead: “We disagree with this award and we will not be attending. But anytime one of our citizens is honored with a Nobel, it is an honor for all of China — and so we will pass this on to his family.” It would have been a one-day story, and China’s lead-

ers would have looked so strong.

As for the superempowered individuals — some are constructive, some are destructive. I read many WikiLeaks and learned some useful things. But their release also raises some troubling questions. I don’t want to live a country where they throw whistle-blowers in jail. That’s China. But I also don’t want to live in a country where any individual feels entitled to just dump out all the internal communications of a government or a bank in a way that undermines the ability to have private, confidential communications that are vital to the functioning of any society.

That’s anarchy.

But here’s the fact: A China that can choke off conversations far beyond its borders and superempowered individuals who can expose conversations far beyond their borders — or create posses of “cyber-hacktivists” who can melt down the computers of people they don’t

like — are now a reality. They are rising powers. A stable world requires that we learn how to get the best from both and limit the worst; it will require smart legal and technological responses.

For that job, there is no alternative to a strong America. Critics said of the British Labour Party of the 1960s that the Britain they were trying to build was half-Sweden and half-heaven. The alternative today to a world ordered by American power is not some cuddly multipolar system — half-Sweden and half-heaven. It is half-China and half superempowered individuals.

Managing that will never be easy.

But it will be a lot easier with a healthy America, committed to its core values, powerful enough to project them and successful enough that others want to follow our lead — voluntarily.

Thomas Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times.

Bernie Madoff’s latest — and saddest — victim

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ernard Madoff went to jail for his stupendous financial con.

His eldest son, Mark, has gone to oblivion, having hanged himself from a dog leash on the second anniversary of his father’s outing as perpetrator of a $20 billion con.

Let us grieve awhile for a 47-year-old father of two who dramatically killed himself during this so-called season of joy. Mark Madoff had no angel Clarence — as George Bailey had in “It’s a Wonderful Life” — to show him that his financial reversals did not make him worthless; that he had a loving family which depended on him. Mark’s family was his tormenter.

One doesn’t know the extent of Mark’s complicity in his father’s fraud.

The sons insist they knew nothing of it.

Mark and his brother ran the legitimate trading arm of the Madoff business, which was separate from the father’s crooked investment scheme.

The sons reportedly haven’t spoken with either parent since the scandal broke open. Before his death, a family spokesman said that “Mark re-

FROMA HARROP mains unalterably bitter about his father’s deception and the injury his father has caused.” Whatever the case, a desire for revenge must have also driven Mark’s carefully timed self-destruction. It is often said that suicide is anger turned 180 degrees. Mark may have wanted to exact the ultimate pain on his father. Sadly, one can’t be sure that Bernie Madoff had feelings to be hurt.

Mark’s brother, Andrew, on the other hand, had been toughened up by his struggle with lymphoma. He had confronted a far more formidable foe than the loss of fortune and face.

A discussion of betrayal, illness and death must include the tragedy of Elizabeth Edwards. She did not die unexpectedly — her aggressive breast can-

cer had been spreading. But one can imagine that the tabloid coverage of her husband’s crude infidelities had made her last days especially miserable.

Like Madoff, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards double-dealt both inside and outside his family circle. He pursued his sloppy affair as thousands were putting their money, sweat and faith into his campaign for president.

(Suppose he had become the Democratic nominee, and then the vulgar details emerged.)

Making the Edwards story tawdrier still was his use of Elizabeth’s illness during the campaign to portray their troubled marriage as a romantic fairy tale. Elizabeth has said that she knew about the affair during the campaign, which made her complicit in the charade. Was it family loyalty of a complicated political kind? One thing is clear: She handled her physical and emotional pain with enormous grace.

Back at the Madoff drama, the victims are seeking restitution from the sons and their children, as well. The Nantucket house that Mark and his

A military birther’s day in court FORT MEADE, Md. — e can’t handle the truth.

At least not while he’s facing the brig.

Lt. Col. Terry Lakin of the Army had a motley crew of frustrated birthers at his court-martial here Tuesday. The decorated Pentagon doctor from Colorado became the movement’s hero when he went on YouTube in March to brazenly urge President Barack Obama to show “honesty and integrity” by releasing his “original signed birth certificate, if you have one.” He vowed to disobey what he called “illegal orders” to deploy to Afghanistan because he did not regard Obama as a legitimate commander in chief.

Originally, Lakin and his frenzied supporters had wanted to reveal the Ultimate Truth, what they consider the biggest hoax ever perpetrated — that a foreigner, a “usurper in chief,” had seized control of the Oval Office.

But then the military judge, Col. Denise Lind, denied a request for Obama to testify and for his birth certificate to be entered into evidence.

So now the birthers consider the court-martial part of the dastardly conspiracy. “This whole trial looks like a sham,” said Orly Taitz, a tall, blond California dentist, lawyer and leader in the birther movement. “I was raised in the Soviet Union. This was worse than what I’ve seen in the Soviet Union.”

If Lakin ever envisioned his courtmartial as the slingshot that could bring down a presidency and prove that the birthers are heroes rather than loonies, he had given up that dream by the time he entered a guilty plea and backed up a not guilty plea with a technicality.

The balding, gray colonel may not have truly changed his beliefs, but he looked small and shaken as he admitted to disobeying orders from his boss, Gordon Roberts, a Medal of Honor recipient.

He murmured “Yes, ma’am” over and over in a low voice as the precise Lind pressed him on whether he understood that “the dictates of conscience do not justify disobeying a lawful order.”

Sobered by the prospect of a dishonorable dismissal, losing his pension and serving hard time, as well as facing a panel of military superiors in dress uniforms, Lakin said the winter had been “a confusing time, a very emotional time for me.” His shoulders slumped, he offered excuses about how he had gotten conflicting advice from lawyers — his defense was underwritten by birthers.

“I understand that it was my decision, and I made the wrong choice,” he told the judge.

His civilian lawyer, Neal Puckett, said Lakin is innocent of the charge of “missing a movement”; simply because he missed U.S. Airways Flight 1123 on April 12, which was supposed to be the start of his journey to Fort Campbell, Ky., to join his unit, the lawyer argued, does not mean he couldn’t have gotten another flight or driven.

This was an attempt to get him off on a technicality because Lakin had stated back then that he had no intention of joining the unit at all.

In the voir dire, Puckett asked some colonels who were prospective panelists if they considered the birther movement to be racist.

While disappointed there wasn’t a more full-throated trial of Obama’s provenance — unlike Lakin, the president is considered by birthers to be guilty until he proves himself innocent — the birthers, who had come from all over the country to the trial, stood by their man.

Eldon Bell, a 76-year-old retired Air Force officer and doctor from Rapid City, S.D., said he “drove three days through a damn blizzard just to get here.” Comparing the president to Hitler, another “usurper,” he said “if he is not legitimate, our soldiers serving under him can be tried and hanged like the Nazis at Nuremberg.”

James Haven, a black preacher from New York, dismissed Obama as “the long-legged Mack Daddy, the president of all pimps.”

With the last three presidents, there has been an attempt to go beyond criticism to delegitimization, to paint them as not just wrong, but charlatans who have no right to the job. With Obama, the craziness is infused with biases about race and religion.

But, in the end, the court-martial offers one big truth: Obama doesn’t have to show Terry Lakin anything. The colonel should have followed orders.

U.S., China and superempowered individuals F THOMAS ormer President Jose Maria Figueres of Costa Rica has a saying I like: “There is no Planet B” — so we’d better make Plan A work to preserve a stable environment. I feel the same way about America these days.

There is no America B, so we’d better make this one work a lot better than we’ve been doing, and not only for our sake. When Britain went into decline as the globe’s stabilizing power, America was right there, ready to pick up the role. Even with all our imperfections and mistakes, the world has been a better place for it. If America goes weak, though, and cannot project power the way it has, your kids won’t just grow up in a different America. They will grow up in a different world. You will not like who picks up the pieces. Just glance at a few recent headlines.

The world system is currently being challenged by two new forces: a rising superpower, called China, and a rising collection of superempowered individuals, as represented by the WikiLeakers, among others. What globalization, technological integration and the general flattening of the world have done is to superempower individuals to such a degree that they can actually challenge any hierarchy — from a global bank to a nation state — as individuals.

China has put on a sound and light show these past few weeks that underscored just how much its rising economic clout can be used to warp the U.S.-led international order when it so chooses. I am talking specifically about the lengths to which China went to not only reject the Nobel Peace Prize given to one of its citizens — Liu Xiaobo, a democracy advocate who is serving an 11-year sentence in China for “subversion of state power” — but to intimidate China’s trading partners from even sending representatives to attend the Nobel award ceremony at Oslo’s City Hall.

Liu was represented at the Nobel ceremony by an empty chair because

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B E S T- S E L L E R S Publishers Weekly ranks best-sellers for the week ending Dec. 11.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Dead or Alive” by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood (Putnam) 2. “The Confession” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. “Cross Fire” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 4. “Port Mortuary” by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) 5. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

Independents’ day

By Dan Voorhis

3. “Life” by Keith Richards (Little, Brown)

WICHITA, Kan. — Watermark Books & Cafe on a midweek morning was bustling with book browsers and coffee sippers.

It’s been a surprisingly good year for the Wichita bookstore, as it has been for many independent bookstores across the nation.

Watermark owner Sarah Bagby estimates her book sales have risen 20 percent in the past 12 months compared with the prior year.

Yet bookstore owners are girding for the changes shaking the industry, with the big chains possibly consolidating, the continued growth of online booksellers, and the rapid rise of e-books.

Bagby doesn’t sound alarmed.

She’s gotten better at her business, she said, and created a strong niche for the present and a strategy for the future. Even so, the future is hazy.

“The future will certainly be different,” she said. “But I don’t know how it’s going to look.”

4. “Autobiography of Mark Twain” Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith (University of California Press)

Weathering turbulent times

5. “Earth (The Book)” by Jon Stewart (Grand Central)

Many independents have gone out of business over the past 20 years, first with the rise of national chains such as Barnes & Noble and Borders, then followed a few years later by Amazon.com and other online booksellers.

But the independent bookstore is not a thing of the past. In Wichita, Eighth Day Books’ owner Warren Farha saw sales rise close to 10 percent in the past 12 months. And David Lovett, owner of Wichita’s Book-a-Holic, which sells used books, estimated his sales were up 7 percent.

Independent booksellers say the e-book phenomenon hasn’t had much impact on their business — so far. That will change with the rapid growth in sales of e-readers and e-books.

Many independents have an Internet strategy, selling online and, for some, selling e-books.

But they say that, at heart, they are bricks-and-mortar stores and always will depend on the prefer-

6. “Full Dark, No Stars” by Stephen King (Scribner) 7. “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 8. “Hell’s Corner” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 9. “Fall of Giants” by Ken Follett (Dutton) 10. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn) 11. “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) 12. “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) 13. “An Object of Beauty” by Steve Martin (Grand Central) 14. “Crescent Dawn” by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Putnam)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Decision Points” by George W. Bush (Crown) 2. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)

6. “Straight Talk, No Chaser” by Steve Harvey (Amistad) 7. “Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter) 8. “Cleopatra” by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown) 9. “Broke” by Glenn Beck (Threshold) 10. “America by Heart” by Sarah Palin (Harper) 11. “Decoded” by Jay-Z (Spiegel & Grau” 12. “I Remember Nothing” by Nora Ephron (Knopf) 13. “Kardashian Konfidential,” by Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian (St. Martin’s) 14. “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern (It Books)

MASS MARKET 1. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown (Anchor) 2. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)

“(E-books) will have an impact eventually.

But I also believe both markets will compete side by side. True book lovers want the feel and smell of a bound book. E-readers don’t give you that.”

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— David Lovett, owner of Book-a-Holic

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Patrons have lunch and enjoy books at the Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, Kan. Owner Sarah Bagby estimates book sales have risen 20 percent in the past 12 months compared with last year. ence for words printed on a page.

“It will have an impact eventually,” Lovett said of e-books. “But I also believe both markets will compete side by side. True book lovers want the feel and smell of a bound book. E-readers don’t give you that.”

It’s hard to know whether this is a good or bad time to be an independent, given the seismic changes taking place. But several recent developments seem positive.

The big chains, which have made life miserable for the little guys over the past 20 years with their large selections, volume pricing and high-dollar locations, are hurting.

Borders, which relies heavily on selling music, was viewed as a candidate for bankruptcy earlier this year before it got an infusion of money from a private investor.

During the summer, its larger competitor, Barnes & Noble, put itself up for sale. The company has spent heavily to develop the Nook to compete with Amazon’s

Kindle and Apple’s iPad, and has been losing money.

Last week, one of Borders’ major shareholders, William Ackman of the New York-based Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund, offered to help fund the purchase of Barnes & Noble.

His idea is to merge companies and cut costs by closing stores so it can better compete in the coming explosion of online books.

Consolidation could mean local independents face a stronger remaining competitor, but it also would mean fewer competing retail outlets, potentially giving them market share.

E-books usher in a new chapter But, of course, the real war is moving from the street to online.

The advent of e-books is still early and the major players are still staking out positions, introducing their own technologies.

Amazon, whose Kindle initially had the e-book market to itself and was building an audience by selling them for $9.99, has essentially been forced by five of the major publishers to agree to a new pricing model in which the publishers set the prices in return for the bookseller getting 30 percent of the sales.

The result may be a level playing field for retailers. Local booksellers wouldn’t be offering a hardback for $25 while Amazon was selling the e-book for $9.99.

Just as important, when Google announced last week that it was introducing its own e-book platform, it also announced that it will cooperate with the American Booksellers Association, the trade group of independent bookstores.

This gives the small stores access to a sophisticated e-book platform.

“It’s a huge thing,” said the association’s Meg Smith. “We were counted out, and now there is an

opportunity for our members to serve their customers however they want to read the book.”

Watermark’s Bagby said she expects to be able to offer e-books through her website, running Google’s platform behind the scenes, later this month.

In this new e-book market, Watermark would compete directly with all other booksellers, large and small. It’s more of a defensive move to capture sales from those who already like the store.

“It gives customers who want to shop locally a place in town to get an e-book,” she said. “A lot of the ways we compete are because we are local.”

Book-a-Holic’s Lovett said he already offers 100,000 titles through Amazon.com, eBay and other sites, and he plans to offer e-books early next year.

Eighth Day Books’ Farha, though, said that while he markets printed books through the Web, he’s reluctant to get into e-books.

Eighth Day Books sells heavyweight books on philosophy and religion. He said reading books on a computer has its limits.

“I can’t see reading Hegel on a Kindle,” Farha said. “I can’t imagine it.”

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TRADE PAPERBACK 1. “Inside of a Dog” by Alexandra Horwitz (Scribner) 2. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 3. “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) 4. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 5. “House Rules” by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press) 6. “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) 7. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein (Harper) 8. “Happy Ever After” by Nora Roberts (Berkley) 9. “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster) 10. “A Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens (Penguin) 11. “Half Broke Horses” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) 12. “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Griffin) 13. “The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks (Three Rivers Press) 14. “Resilience” by Elizabeth Edwards (Broadway) — McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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Scholars examine ‘Lady Justice’ Gifts to please all the readers icon through ages, around world HOLIDAY SHOPPING

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By Maggie Galehouse H ou ston Chronicle

Around the holidays, our lives become a lot like our bookshelves: crowded, messy, unattended. And when we decide to give books as gifts, we struggle to pair the right person with the right title — an art under the best of circumstances. Here are some suggestions for giving the gift of words:

For the femme fatale To a certain generation, she is Elizabeth Taylor with heavy eyeliner and a fabulous gold frock.

That’s just one of the many public perceptions of Cleopatra, Egypt’s ancient queen. Stacy Schiff’s “Cleopatra: A Life” (Little, Brown and Co.) seeks to restore some context to a woman who still beguiles us 2,000 years after her death.

For the historian Isabel Wilkerson spent more than a decade researching and writing “The Warmth of Other Suns” (Random House) — and it shows. It’s the story of the Great Migration, when African-Americans left southern U.S. states to settle in other parts of the country. Wilkerson focuses on three individuals, narrating their lifetimes from beginning to end.

Along the way, the stunning realities of the Jim Crow era come alive for contemporary readers.

For the newspaper buff Here’s a debut novel with panache. In “The Imperfectionists” (Dial Press), Tom Rachman chronicles life at a fictional English-language newspaper in Rome from the point of view of the employees. The obit writer gets a chapter. A copy editor gets a chapter. There’s even a chapter devoted to the woman who had to lay off a bunch of employees (her

story really doesn’t end well).

Chronicling the birth and declining days of a daily, Rachman’s writing is funny and poignant.

For the wizard wannabe Designed for ages 4-8, “Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book” (Insight Editions) offers a 3-D glimpse of a famous fantasy world. Turn the pages and up springs Hogwarts Castle, the Triwizard Tournament, Diagon Alley and more.

Bruce Foster engineered the 12 pages of pop-up magic, Lucy Kee wrote the text, and Andrew Williamson provided the original artwork.

For the home chef Certain cuisines can intimidate. Indian food is a case in point: For some Americans, the mysteries of vindaloo are best left to restaurants. But in “India: The Cookbook” (Phaidon), author Pushpesh Pant gives home cooks no reason to order out for korma.

Pant lives, works and teaches in Delhi, where he’s been collecting authentic recipes from across India for years. There are 1,000 recipes in this cookbook. Surely, there’s something for everyone.

For the pessimist Jonathan Franzen’s skewering of a contemporary family in “The Corrections” earned him a National Book Award in 2001.

With “Freedom” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), his bent for satire hasn’t disappeared so much as it has been tamed. This is the story of the Berglund family, who have their rifts and reunions like the rest of us. On the one hand, “Freedom” is a commentary on the quiet anguish of the middle class. On the other, it’s an eyeswide-open view of marriage that is not without its share of — dare I say it? — optimism.

‘In a Strange Room’ chronicles a journey toward connection “In a Strange Room”

by Damon Galgut (Europa Editions, 212 pgs., $15 )

By Carolyn Kellogg Los Angeles Times

The traveler at the center of Damon Galgut’s new novel “In a Strange Room,” a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, is walking down a remote road in Greece when he sees a stranger in the distance. The two draw closer, mirror images of one another. They meet, then continue in opposite directions, but will meet again.

The stranger is a handsome German named Reiner. As easy as it is to get a handle on him — self-possessed, focused, a little vain — the first traveler is harder to pin down. We don’t know his history, or even his name — just that he’s a young man who’s been to a half-dozen countries in half as many months.

This is his story, and the story bears a resemblance to the author’s. Galgut eventually reveals that his character, like him, is named Damon and from South Africa.

The book is divided into three sections — “The Follower,” “The Lover” and “The Guardian.” In each, Damon journeys through different parts of the world, growing older as the novel progresses.

He is driven by a restlessness that the travel both exacerbates and feeds.

In “The Follower,” Reiner comes to visit Damon, after they spend time together in Greece and form a deep yet unarticulated bond.

The two take a walking-andbackpacking trip through Lesotho, into remote and stunning landscapes. Yet Damon observes it intermittently, so busy is he spinning through waves of feel-

ing toward Reiner — eagerness to please, disappointment, anger, desire.

That trip helps Damon define himself. In “The Lover,” he is still an itinerant traveler, but he better understands what he wants in his traveling companions, eventually falling in with a group of Europeans that includes the gorgeous, soft-spoken Jerome. The trip takes Damon from Zimbabwe to Malawi to Tanzania to Kenya, and after it is over, he goes to Europe, and Jerome. More than the meandering travelogue it seems to be, it shows how the man who at first lived so much in his head has learned to inhabit his yearnings and pursue connection.

That ability to maintain connections is put to the test in the last section, when an older Damon brings his friend Anna along on a trip to India. He hopes it will help heal her, a highpowered creative professional experiencing the recurrence of an unnamed mental illness. She’s revved up, heedless and emotionally raw, taking handfuls of pills to keep a teetering balance. Caring for someone in that state might be challenging in a controlled environment; while traveling, with trains and hotels and a shifting backdrop of strangers, it’s nearly impossible.

In the first part of the book, young Damon observes that Reiner cares for only the landscape and his path through it — he wears earplugs as they walk — not for the people he might encounter. But Damon spends the rest of the book moving in the opposite direction: His focus shifts from the trips he’s taking to the companionship he finds to the consuming nature of another individual’s needs.

“Representing Justice”

by Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis (Yale University Press, 720 pgs, $75)

Yale Law School professors Dennis Curtis and Judith Resnik explore the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold in “Representing Justice.”

By Randy Kennedy New York Times News Service

In ancient Egypt she was known as Maat, the goddess of harmony and order, depicted in the Book of the Dead as a kind of personified jeweler’s scale, weighing a human heart against a feather to determine a soul’s fate in the afterlife.

In Greece she became Themis, sister, wife and counselor to Zeus, and the Romans then rolled her and her daughter Dike together to form Justitia, the only one of the cardinal virtues to have a signature look in ancient art. But the look of the grande dame we have come to know as Lady Justice — as interpreted by artists like Giotto, Bruegel and Reynolds — has been as changeable as a catwalk model’s.

She has strode forth naked and clothed, shoeless and shod, sword wielding and weaponless. She has been accompanied by a dog (for fidelity), a snake (for hatred) and a whole menagerie of other sidekicks.

Blind? Not always As the Yale Law School professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis show in an unusual new book just out, “Representing Justice” — an academic treatise on threats to the modern judiciary that doubles as an obsessive’s tour of Western art through the lens of the law — Lady Justice’s familiar blindfold did not become an accessory until well into the 17th century. And even then

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it was uncommon because of the profoundly negative connotations blindfolds carried for medieval and Renaissance audiences, who viewed them as emblems not of impartiality but of deception.

“Sight was the desired state,” Resnik and Curtis write, “connected to insight, light and the rays of God’s sun.”

Even in modern times the blindfold continues to fit uneasily in Lady Justice’s wardrobe, used as a handy prop by political cartoonists and a symbol of dysfunction by others.

It might convey some idea of the depth of Resnik and Curtis’ mutual interest in the art life of Lady Justice that their examination of the history of her blindfold alone takes up one whole chapter and part of another in the book, following ideas of sight and veiling through the philosophy of Locke, Diderot and Bentham. The book traces the remarkable ubiquity of the figure of justice around the world, from the statue at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa to one presiding over a con-

stitutional court in Azerbaijan to others in Zambia, Iraq, Brazil and Japan.

She sits atop City Hall in Manhattan and the Old Bailey in London. For a few months in 2002, on the campus of the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, where Charles M. Schulz was raised, she took the shape of Lucy van Pelt, blindfolded, with sword, scales and a big smile.

‘They’re all over’ “They’re all over,” said Resnik, who specializes in the federal court system and who along with Curtis, her husband and sometime collaborator on legal publications, grew fascinated more than two decades ago with the visual history of justice and the judiciary.

It led them to write a 1987 law journal article together and to spend countless hours among the renowned stacks at the Warburg Institute at the University of London following threads of

classical scholarship they hoped would lead to discoveries about the evolution of Justice in art and architecture.

Several years ago they began work on an ambitious academic study looking at the central role the judiciary has played in the development of democracies and warning of an increasing international movement away from public adjudication toward private dispute resolution, bureaucratic hearings and closed courts. And they saw a way to put their art leanings to work as a means of telling that story.

The book charts how the iconography of justice has both reflected and influenced the development of courts and national governments and how that imagery is now often no longer able to carry the weight of the legal demands of the modern world.

“The precepts of good democratic governance encoded and iterated in the symbolism of Justice are far too narrow,” the authors write. And along with the triumphal architecture of modern courthouses themselves, the images can end up masking the problems that lie beneath what they are supposed to represent.

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Health care Continued from F1 Allowing Congress to exert such authority, he said, “would invite unbridled exercise of federal police powers.”

Compelling vehicle owners to carry accident insurance, as states do, is considered a different matter because the Constitution gives the states broad police powers that have been interpreted to encompass that. Furthermore, there is no statutory requirement that people possess cars, only a requirement that they have insurance as a condition of doing so. By contrast, the plaintiffs in the health care case argue that the new law requires people to obtain health insurance simply because they exist.

The insurance mandate is central to the law’s mission of covering more than 30 million uninsured. Insurers argue that only by requiring healthy people to have policies can they afford to pay for those with expensive conditions. But Hudson ruled many of the law’s other provisions could be severed legally from the insurance requirement and would survive even if that mandate is invalidated.

Dissenting opinion Hudson is the third district court judge to reach a determination on the merits in one of the two dozen lawsuits challenging the health care law. The other judges — in Detroit and Lynchburg, Va. — have upheld the law.

Lawyers say the appellate process could last another two years before the Supreme Court settles the dispute.

The opinion by Hudson, who has a long history in Republican politics in northern Virginia, continued a partisan pattern in the health care cases. Thus far, judges appointed by Republican presidents have ruled consistently against the Obama administration while Democratic appointees have found for it.

That has reinforced the notion — fueled by the White House — that the lawsuits are as much a political assault as a constitutional one. The Richmond case was filed by Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth Cuccinelli, a Republican, and all but one of the 20 attorneys general and governors who filed a similar case in Pensacola, Fla., are Republicans.

The two cases previously decided by district courts are already before the midlevel courts of appeal, with the Detroit case in the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati and the Lynchburg case in the 4th Circuit in Richmond.

The Justice Department is considering whether to appeal Hudson’s ruling to the 4th Circuit, which hears cases from Virginia and four other states. That would leave that court to consider opposite rulings handed down over two weeks in courthouses situated only 116 miles apart.

Administration officials emphasized Hudson’s opinion was just one among several, and said they were pleased he had not stopped the law from going into effect.

Administration fires back “We are disappointed in today’s ruling,” said Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokeswoman, “but continue to believe — as other federal courts in Virginia and Michigan have found — that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional.” Schmaler added, “We are confident that we will ultimately prevail.”

The administration acknowledges that if the insurance requirement falls before taking effect in 2014, related reforms would necessarily collapse with it, most notably provisions that would prevent insurers from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions or charging them discriminatory rates.

But officials said other innovations, including a vast expansion of Medicaid eligibility and the sale of subsidized insurance policies through state-based exchanges, would withstand even a Supreme Court ruling against the insurance mandate.

Some state officials said Monday’s ruling would reinforce calls by many Republican governors and lawmakers to slow down its implementation.

“I think you might see some air taken out of the balloon nationwide,” said Jason Helgerson, the Medicaid director in Wisconsin, where Republicans are about to take control of both the executive and legislative branches.

Hudson, who previously was best known for sentencing NFL quarterback Michael Vick to 23 months for his involvement in a dog fighting ring, had telegraphed his leanings in a series of hearings and preliminary opinions. But the ruling was nonetheless striking given that

only nine months ago prominent law professors were dismissing the constitutional claims as just north of frivolous.

The case centers on whether Congress can use its powers under the Commerce Clause to compel citizens to purchase a commercial product — namely health insurance — for the purpose of regulating an interstate economic market. Absent that authority, the administration argued, Congress could use the taxation powers granted by the

C OV ER S T ORY Constitution to justify the insurance requirement, because the fine for not obtaining coverage will be assessed as an income tax penalty.

While commending Congress’ “laudable intentions,” Hudson shot down both arguments.

“At its core,” he wrote, “this dispute is not simply about regulating the business of insurance — or crafting a scheme of universal health insurance coverage — it’s about an individual’s right to choose to participate.”

A coup for Cuccinelli The ruling is a political score for Cuccinelli, who filed the lawsuit on his own rather than joining the Pensacola case.

“This case is not about health insurance; it is not about health care,” he said at a news conference in Richmond. “It is about liberty.”

Cuccinelli said he had filed on his own because Virginia passed a law this year aimed at nullifying the federal insurance re-

quirement, giving the commonwealth a distinct constitutional claim.

Others attribute the strategy to political ambition, suggesting that he did not want to share the spotlight and knew he could exploit the accelerated pace of judging in Richmond’s so-called “rocket docket” to raise his profile.

Cuccinelli filed the lawsuit minutes after President Barack Obama signed the law March 23 and has been discussing the case

on cable television ever since.

By late afternoon Monday, he had already posted campaign fundraising advertisements online that cited his victory.

Even before Monday’s ruling, Cuccinelli and Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia, also a Republican, were seeking an agreement with the Justice Department to bypass the Court of Appeals and file for expedited review by the Supreme Court. That would have the effect of further marginalizing the Pensacola case.

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Investor in Bend bank sees recovery

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MORTGAGE PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM “Basically, my only hope right now is to win this lottery, get some help with the mortgage … so I can get back on my feet.”

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he capital infusion that four investors have agreed to provide Bendbased Cascade Bancorp, parent company of Bank of the Cascades, goes before shareholders Thursday. That’s when company shareholders will be asked to approve issuing $177 million in company stock to the group.

What’s that group see in the bank and the Oregon and Idaho communities in which it operates? One of the four, WL Ross & Company LLC, answered those questions and others. Responses could not be obtained from representatives of the others: David F. Bolger, an affiliate of Lightyear Fund II LP and private equity funds affiliated with Leonard Green & Partners LP. The group’s investment is central to the bank raising its capital ratios, a key provision of a regulatory order the bank has operated under since August 2009.

WL Ross, founded by Wilbur L. Ross Jr., will invest in the bank through affiliated private equity funds, giving it 24.35 percent of Cascade Bancorp’s outstanding common stock. Leonard Green and Lightyear will have the same percentage and Bolger 14.01 percent. Wilbur Ross’ e-mail responses, edited for length, provide insight into what a sophisticated investor sees in this bank and community.

Why did you invest in the bank?

As you know, it operates in markets hard-hit by the real estate collapse.

What are your thoughts on these markets’ recoveries? And how will that affect the bank going forward?

We invested in the bank because we believe that real estate in both Oregon and Idaho is near the bottom of the cycle and therefore likely to stabilize and recover over the next few years. We also believe that the combination of existing loan loss reserves and the equity (before) our investment provides an adequate buffer against losses. We do not foresee a recovery to the irrational levels achieved earlier, but that kind of irrational exuberance is not necessary for our investment to be successful. …

Aside from being well-capitalized after the pending investment, do you expect the bank to look/operate any differently after this deal is completed?

After all, it will have three new seats on the board, including one held by your company. (Bolger already has a seat.)

The depositors and borrowers of (the bank) remained very loyal to it despite recurring worrisome publicity during the last 18 months, but … management had been extremely capital constrained and … was not aggressively soliciting new business, opening branches or acquiring other banks. Hopefully, those activities will now resume.

But the bank has considerably strengthened its risk management and loan workout capabilities and therefore is very unlikely to make … future mistakes like the ones that caused the problems. If you look at the bank’s map, you will see obvious holes in geography which we would hope to fill.

The board composition will change somewhat … but the board and management remain firmly rooted in the service territories and neither WL Ross nor any of the other new investors has taken control of the institution. James Lockhart, who is our nominee to the board, was formerly a managing director at Smith Barney and more recently was designated by President Bush as the individual who took Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship and subsequently became their regulator as the director of the Federal Home Finance Agency. He … has a wealth of experience … relevant to Cascade and he will share that knowledge with the other directors and with management, but he will not be involved in the day-today management of the institution.

What would you say to current bank investors about this deal?

It is unfortunate that pre-existing stockholders suffered a major decline in the value of their holdings and … were severely diluted by the capital infusion, but management and the board negotiated fiercely to preserve as much value as they could for the old stockholders. Several hundred other banks in the U.S. instead agreed to wipe out 100 percent of the existing equity by entering into FDIC-assisted deals. Given the general banking crisis and the specific problems at Cascade, there simply was no better deal available.

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Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Kammy Langdon, of La Pine, left, reviews financial records Thursday afternoon for the Mortgage Payment Assistance Program with Kristyan Cole of NeighborImpact.

Giving hope to those

hit hardest

By Tim Doran The Bulletin

I

t’s been nearly three years since Kammy Langdon, a journeyman electrician, worked at her trade.

Her unemployment has run out, and the 48-year-old La Pine-area woman has sold everything of any value.

“I have zero income right now,” she said.

On Thursday, Langdon gained hope when she became eligible to enter a random drawing to have her mortgage paid for up to one year through the Mortgage Payment Assistance Program, part of the U.S. Treasury’s efforts to help homeowners in Oregon and 16 other states hit hardest by the economic crisis.

Langdon, who lives in the hardest-hit county in one of the hardest-hit states, could be among the 371 Deschutes County homeowners selected in the drawings, likely to be held in mid-to-late January.

“Basically, my only hope right now is to win this lottery, get some help with the mortgage … so I can get back on my feet,” she said.

Oregon received $220 million this year in federal foreclosure prevention funding, which will be distributed in four programs through the newly created Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative.

The $100 million Mortgage Payment Assistance Program, the first to launch, began taking applications Dec. 10.

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Available mortgage payment help, by county Oregon Housing and Community Services allocated 80 percent of Mortgage Payment Assistance Program to the 20 counties deemed hardest hit by the housing crisis. Deschutes and Crook counties topped the list, and Jefferson County ranked fifth. To identify the hardest-hit counties, state officials used the following five factors: unemployment rate, change in unemployment rate since 2007, housing prices, change in housing prices since 2007, rate of foreclosure and mortgage payment delinquency.

Clatsop 69

Columbia 188 Multnomah Sherman 253 Hood 50 River Gilliam 55 37

Washington 97 Tillamook 68 Yamhill 195 Polk 70 Marion 208 Lincoln 71 Benton 41

Coos 184

Curry 188 Josephine 216

Lane 186

Deschutes 371

Douglas 196 Jackson 276

Morrow Umatilla 64 Union 64 50

Baker 61

Wheeler Grant 64 98 Crook 283

Lake 51

Harney 119

Malheur 74

Klamath 197

Source: Oregon Housing and Community Services

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A people’s car that few want

Ineffective rules allow gun stores to endure

By David S. Fallis The Washington Post

About a hundred times a year, regulators strip gun dealers of their licenses for violations of federal law, an extreme step taken only when repeated infractions are deemed a threat to public safety.

But a yearlong Washington Post investigation documented about 60 cases since 2003 in which the businesses stayed open, often re-licensed through relatives, employees, associates or newly formed companies.

“We’ll just have to play musical licenses,” the owner of the Highland Gun Barn in Michigan said when a federal inspector served him with a final notice to surrender his license.

A California sports shop had its license revoked after inspectors from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the 87-year-old owner’s repeated violations of gun laws showed she was unable to run a gun business. Before she forfeited her license, the woman’s son obtained a permit to sell guns at the same shop. He said he would be at the shop two days a week and that his mother would “exclusively direct all day-to-day business.”

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By Vikas Bajaj New York Times News Service

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Clackamas Wasco 227 66 Jefferson Linn 244 194

Wallowa 126

ALBANY, Calif. — Fir or fake?

Purveyors of “real” Christmas trees say their fragrant product seems more in demand than ever this year, reflecting trends of getting back to basics and shopping locally.

“We’re getting a whole new generation of people coming in who want the smell of a fresh tree in their house,” said Raymond Anderson, who runs the Crystal River Tree Co. Christmas tree lot in Albany.

Anderson, whose silver hair and robust physique could qualify him to play Santa, was a longtime merchant who used to buy his family’s tree at the lot. Nine years ago, he bought out the previous owner, and now the trees — plus a Halloween pumpkin patch — make a comfortable supplement to his retirement income. Each year he sells about 1,200 of the trees, which are trucked down from Oregon.

Although U.S. Christmas tree sales total $2 billion annually for both grown and manufactured trees, in general, no one gets rich selling them.

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Kainaz Amaria / New York Times News Service

Deeksha Dhawan, a 21-year-old architecture student, gets into her Tata Nano in Mumbai, India, on Dec. 9. The Nano’s sales have been hurt by delays and safety concerns, while other large automakers have announced super-compact cars of their own.

MUMBAI, India — When it was introduced in early 2009, the egg-shaped Tata Nano was billed as a modern-day people’s car, an ultracheap vehicle that would bring greater mobility to the masses of India and, eventually, the world. But those ambitions have stalled — for now, at least.

Car sales have shot up across India, but because of an economy that is growing at nearly 9 percent annually, sales of the Nano — the list price of which starts at about $2,900 — have been falling for four months.

The Nano’s maker, Tata Motors, sold only 509 Nanos to its dealers in November — a stark contrast to the 9,000 it delivered in July. Last year, when media coverage and auto writers’ praise were stoking demand, Tata had orders for more than 200,000 Nanos.

But as Tata has struggled with problems like production delays and fires in some of the cars, rival cars like the Maruti Suzuki Alto have overtaken the Nano. The Alto, which starts at $6,200 here, had sales of more than 30,000 in November, making it India’s best-selling car last month.

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Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post

In 2007, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked Charles David Scheuerman’s license to run Bel Air Gun & Pawn in Fallston, Md. Soon thereafter, Scheuerman’s wife incorporated Bel Air Gun Supply & Pawn and won her own license to run the shop.

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By Thursday, 6,000 applications had been filed statewide, said Lisa Joyce, policy and communication manager for the Oregon Housing and Community Services Department.

Applications will be taken online until Jan. 14, although officials say not to wait until the last minute to apply.

State officials expect the $100 million to pay the mortgages of 5,000 Oregon homeowners for up to a year, or $20,000, whichever comes first.

Applicants must have suffered a 25 percent or greater loss of income due to unemployment or underemployment to qualify.

In Central Oregon, electricians could expect to earn a median income around $25 an hour this year, according to the state Employment Department.

But Langdon last worked as an inside wireman, as it’s known in her trade, in February 2008.

In her 12 years as an electrician, layoffs have been common, but not for this long.

“Never, ever has it been more than three months that I’ve been laid off,” she said.

Until recently, Langdon managed to keep up the house payments using her unemployment insurance and income from a fill-in job doing laundry near Sunriver. Eventually, that job laid her off, too.

With a 16-year-old daughter in high school, the single mom cannot pick up and move, as others in the construction trades have done.

In fall 2009, she sought a loan modification.

She called the bank weekly and faxed it new documents when told some of hers were outdated. Bank employees reassured her with nearly every phone call, she said, until late this summer, when she was told her modification had been denied weeks earlier — during the same period when bank employees were telling her that her paperwork looked good.

“Nobody seems to know what anybody’s doing,” she said.

Such stories prompted the state to require applicants in the Mortgage Payment Assistance Program to meet individually with a housing counselor from one of the 15 agencies administering the program at the county level across the state.

The majority of those who seek help in Bend from NeighborImpact, the agency running the program in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, have sought, or are seeking, loan modifications from their lenders, said Selef Spragg, NeighborImpact housing center manager.

Face-to-face meetings began Wednesday, and counselors in Bend, who handle applications for all of Deschutes County, saw 48 clients, Spragg said.

Between 9 a.m. Dec. 10 and about 1 p.m. Thursday, NeighborImpact had 369 applicants from all over Deschutes County, he said. No location has escaped the housing crisis.

“Everywhere in Bend, everywhere in Redmond, everywhere in Sisters, everywhere in Deschutes County,” Spragg said. “It’s (affected) everyone.”

Counselors check, verify and scan homeowner documents, and applicants learn whether they’re eligible for the drawing when they leave. Although, for some who fail to bring in all the necessary documents, it requires more than one meeting, said

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NEWS OF RECORD About the federally funded program The Mortgage Payment Assistance Program will pay selected applicants’ mortgages up to one year, or $20,000, whichever comes first.

Applications will be taken until Jan. 14.

REQUIREMENTS To be eligible, applicants and their properties must meet a list of qualifications including: • Having a household income below 120 percent of state median income, which equals $74,160 for a family of four.

• The ability to verify an income loss of 25 percent or more.

• Owning and occupying the mortgaged property, which must be the primary residence in Oregon.

• Only single-family, one-unit, detached homes are eligible.

Manufactured homes qualify if they are recorded in county deed records, but condominiums and town homes do not. They are not considered single-family, oneunit, detached homes.

• Homeowners are ineligible if they received a notice of trustee

or sheriff sale before Feb. 1, 2010, own other residential property or are currently in active bankruptcy.

TO APPLY • Applications must be made online, although those without Internet access may apply at the offices of the intake agencies in their counties. NeighborImpact serves as the intake agency for Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties.

• To apply for the Mortgage Payment Assistance Program or obtain foreclosure prevention information, visit www.oregon homeownerhelp.org.

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Laura Fritz, NeighborImpact housing director.

“A lot of people we’re having to send home because they’re missing, (for example,) two bank statements,” she said. “They need to bring all the documents that are listed on the application checklist.”

Those who do not qualify for the drawings at least leave the meetings with a packet of information about foreclosure prevention programs, which is another reason the state required individual counseling sessions.

“We’re trying to make sure people have the information they need,” Fritz said.

All those deemed eligible have a chance, no matter when they applied between Dec. 10 and Jan. 14.

Winners will be selected in 36 random drawings, one for each county, to ensure the funding reaches homeowners in every part of Oregon. But not all counties have an equal number of slots.

The state allocated slots based on a formula designed to steer 80 percent of the funding to the 20 hardest-hit counties.

To determine them, Oregon officials factored each county’s unemployment rate and how it has changed since 2007, its housing prices and their change since 2007, and the rate of foreclosure and mortgage delinquency.

That calculation gave Deschutes County 371 slots, the highest number, according to the state. Crook County will get the second most, at 283, and Jefferson County ranked fifth, earning 244 slots.

Jackson and Multnomah counties ranked third and fourth, respectively, and will get 276 and 253 slots.

The state had not set dates for the drawing as of Thursday. Eligible applicants who are not selected will be added to a waiting list, the state has said.

If those picked get a new job or leave the program for other reasons, new participants will be selected from the waiting list.

“It’s sort of like playing the lottery,” said Dan Patton, a plasterer from La Pine who met with a NeighborImpact counselor Thursday and qualified for the Mortgage Payment Assistance drawing.

His business, Patton’s Plastering, went under in mid-2009, he said.

Patton, who’s married with three of five children living at

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home, also worked for other companies, although he earned less.

But then he shattered his heel, which made any work difficult. His income has dropped 75 percent since 2008, he said.

The home Patton bought for $239,000 in 2007 is now worth about $129,000, he said, so he can’t refinance.

He got behind on the mortgage, although he worked out a payment plan with his bank. But with no income, his savings used up and anything of value already sold, Patton said he’s falling behind again.

“The way things are going, there’s not anything else” except the payment assistance program, he said. “I don’t have any other income I can pull from anymore. I don’t have anything else I can sell, hock or pawn.”

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Guns Continued from G1 A Maryland gun store that ATF said lost track of weapons and failed to do background checks was forced to surrender its license after the owner lost a court battle.

Six months later, ATF issued the dealer’s wife a license at his old shop in Fallston, Md. A Georgia gun dealer had its license revoked after ATF said it could not account for hundreds of guns. The dealer’s daughter and son-in-law secured their own license to keep the business going.

It is all legal.

“This is the way Congress wrote the law,” said James Zammillo, who was with ATF for four decades and served as deputy assistant director of industry operations before retiring this year.

“The spirit of the law is that unless the applicant is prohibited, you have to issue a license. There is no discretion.”

Because of the secrecy Congress imposed on federal gun records in 2003, the details of inspection violations are typically redacted from public records unless a case ends up in court.

When revocations are pursued, the problems can include sales done without background checks, improperly completed forms or missing weapons, one of ATF’s chief concerns.

Revoking a gun dealer’s license is ATF’s most aggressive enforcement action short of criminal prosecution. It is a rare last resort for less than one-quarter of 1 percent of dealers annually. It often follows years of warnings for serious violations and sometimes leads to years of appeals.

Although gun dealers complain that ATF harps on clerical errors, the agency says it revokes licenses only when dealers continually fail to comply with gun laws and the violations threaten public safety.

The Post investigation is the first to document the extent of the re-licensing practice, in which about 7 percent of the gun merchants that had licenses revoked continued to operate.

A clean slate Several merchants involved in the re-licensings told The Post it was the only way to keep their family businesses going.

“This is what we do for a living,” said Sandra Mitchell, who secured her own license to sell guns at Gunrunner in Merced,

Calif., after the ATF revoked her husband’s license.

At the heart of the issue is the fact that the 1968 Gun Control Act treats each new license applicant as a unique entity — even if it is a similarly named company with the same employees. As long as the applicant is a different individual or business entity, ATF cannot consider violations incurred under a former licensee when weighing the new application. Embattled operations can be reborn with a clean slate at the same location trading under the same business name.

To be licensed, applicants at a minimum need to be 21, cannot have been prohibited from owning a gun — as with felons and people with certain disabilities — and must have a fixed address. Companies can apply for licenses, but their principals must meet the restrictions for individuals. Initial fees are $200.

Licenses last three years. The agency might spend years in court revoking a license from a troubled dealer but by law must approve licenses to eligible applicants within 60 days.

Richard Gardiner, a former counsel for the National Rifle Association who has defended many dealers in ATF revocations, said family members, friends or associates who were not directly involved in the old license are legally entitled to their own licenses. “It’s not a loophole,” he said.

ATF officials say they do not keep track of how often embattled operations turn to relatives or associates, or set up new companies, for re-licensing in the face of mounting violations or impending revocation. But current and former officials say troubled dealers have increasingly resorted to the tactic.

“Our field people get very frustrated,” said Teresa Ficaretta, deputy assistant director for enforcement programs and services at ATF. “Based on the phone calls I get from the field, this is happening more often.”

The agency, she said, has been working to train attorneys and inspectors how to identify and legally block these cases, but it is extremely difficult and timeconsuming. Denied applications, like revocations, have also led to lengthy appeals and court fights.

“If you’re being cited by ATF and you feel you’re about to lose your license, you can simply get another person to get a new license and you can transfer your

Revocations can take years The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ 600 inspectors are charged with inspecting 60,000 retail dealers throughout the country. Each dealer is inspected on average about once every eight years. ATF revokes about 110 licenses a year. In another 160 cases a year, dealers voluntarily surrender their licenses when told they are at risk of revocation.

The Post identified about 15 businesses where dealers surrendered licenses but operations continued under different licenses.

Once a revocation is authorized, the process can take years to resolve. A dealer has 15 days from receiving notice to request a hearing. More than six months or even a year may pass before the hearing officer rules and ATF issues a final notice of revocation. After that, a dealer has 60 days to sue the agency in federal court and have the case heard anew.

In more than a dozen cases, records indicate ATF settled suits filed by embattled licensees. Although exact terms were often undisclosed, dealers admitted violations, surrendered their license and dropped the suit. In response, ATF issued new licenses — sometimes to the same entity they sought to put out of business.

When revocations were decided by judges, ATF has typically prevailed. Even then, a few of those dealers secured new licenses to sell guns through family members.

At one, Bel Air Gun & Pawn in Fallston, Md., inspectors said in 2005 that they found a litany

inventory to that person,” said Michael Bouchard, former ATF assistant director for field operations. “You don’t have to change location. You can keep the same business name. It’s like starting the business all over. You can still be working there. For the new licensee, it’s a clean slate.”

The Post filed public-information requests to obtain previously undisclosed ATF computer files tracking more than a thousand enforcement actions since 2003 and databases of licensed dealers. It compared the data sets to identify more than 75 gun

of problems — including more than 120 missing firearms and eight sales without background checks. Nationally, unaccounted-for firearms are a huge problem for ATF. Inspectors have found 113,642 guns missing during their visits to 3,847 inspections since 2005.

Charles David Scheuerman, who held the license for Bel Air, asked an inspector “if the findings of the inspection were unfavorable, could he put the business in his wife’s name to avoid any problems,” officials wrote. The inspectors told him that “changing ownership to avoid consequences with no real change in ownership is considered hidden ownership, is not allowable.”

That October, ATF moved to revoke his license. For nearly two years, Scheuerman fought ATF internally and in court, challenging ATF’s findings as “inadvertent, technical recordkeeping errors.” In 2007, a judge upheld the revocation.

Soon, Scheuerman’s wife incorporated her own company, Bel Air Gun Supply & Pawn, and applied for her own license.

Inspectors met with her at the shop to go over her application. She told ATF that she had not officially worked at her husband’s shop but “at times helped out with gun shows.”

They asked if “she actually had acquired” the business assets. She gave them a draft contract. Guns “would be sold on consignment and she would pay her husband as the firearms are sold,” they wrote.

ATF gave her a license.

— The Washington Post

dealers nationwide that had lost or given up licenses at premises where re-licensing occurred.

The Post studied thousands of pages of regulatory files and other public records to determine if the old and new licensees involved relatives or had other people in common. Inspectors sometimes described how inventory would be transferred, sold or simply given as a gift from the embattled licensee to the person securing the new license.

The new applicants were often family members or newly created businesses with similar-

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 19, 2010 G3 sounding names. In some cases, new applicants told ATF they took steps to remove the person responsible for prior problems.

In other cases, former licensees were listed as employees, consultants, shareholders or landlords.

In Indianapolis, as inspectors moved to take away the license from Michael Hilton at Popguns Inc., his wife, Carolyn Hilton, applied for her own. That was the only way to keep the business going, she told inspectors in 2005.

“Mrs. Hilton stated that she and her husband sat at the kitchen table one evening in September 2004 and discussed the problems he was having,” inspectors wrote. “It was at that time that she decided she was going to apply for her own license so that she could operate the business.

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton completed the application together and Mrs. Hilton signed.”

She told ATF that the shop would still have “many of the same employees.” Her husband would no longer sell guns, she said, but would sell accessories on-site.

Michael Hilton said ATF initially denied her application, arguing that she would have the same inventory, the same building and the same customers and that he would be involved. Hilton said his wife appealed, arguing that her application was a different legal entity.

A hearing officer concurred.

“You are a whole new entity,” Michael Hilton said. “By law, they have nothing to stand on.”

He said that his wife set up her own checking account and that he no longer handles day-to-day operations or gun logs. But he still helps at the store and works at an office on-site running his wife’s Internet business. He said he occasionally helps sell guns but does not handle the federal paperwork.

“I could put in 50 or 60 hours a week if I wanted to. I could open and close the place,” he said.

“There is nothing anyone can do about it.”

ATF has since warned Carolyn Hilton about violations at the shop, now called the Family Indoor Shooting Range. Michael Hilton said a more recent inspection found only minor problems.

Raising flags Nationally, ATF inspections have uncovered new violations at about a third of the shops that were revoked and re-licensed. At about a fourth, problems were serious enough that ATF warned the new operators that violations

could lead to revocation.

Gun laws differ from federal alcohol laws, under which regulators can more fully take into account an individual’s direct or indirect ties to previous businesses that were under scrutiny.

“When I was in the ATF and we investigated someone to be an alcohol wholesaler, you looked at their sources of funds,” Zammillo said. “You had the right to have them produce bank accounts and other material to show where they got the funds to go into business.”

That, he said, helped verify if the business was a front for someone else.

It is different with gun dealers. ATF, for the most part, must accept at face value what gun license applicants tell them about planned business structures and who is in control.

“If we get a new application for the same premises for someone who has the same last name as the licensee that was revoked, the red flag is going to go up,” Ficaretta said. “We will investigate to determine if it really is a sham and if the new business is the old business risen from the ashes.”

If the agency can gather evidence to prove the new business was created to circumvent a licensing restriction, then ATF can hold the applicant responsible for prior violations and deny the application.

But that evidence is very hard to get. “More and more applicants have access to very good legal counsel,” she said. “They know what they need to say and what they need to do to get a license.”

In Liberty, Ky., the new applicant was Sherry Ritter, the wife of the man who had held the license for the Gun & Gold Connection. After she applied for her own license in 2004, ATF assigned an inspector to make sure “there is no hidden ownership.”

She appealed within ATF, and an agency hearing officer ruled in her favor.

When she met with an inspector to go over her application, she presented a notarized bill of sale. It showed the transfer of “all firearms owned by the seller Charles Ritter, to Sherry Ritter for $1.00, other good and valuable consideration, specifically including funds previously invested by Sherry Ritter, and in further consideration of love and affection which Charles Ritter holds for Sherry Ritter, his wife.”

B USI N ESS

G4 Sunday, December 19, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Mutual funds Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

AcadEm n 19.70 +.01 Alger Funds I: SmCapGrI 27.87 +.27 AllianceBernstein : IntDurInstl 15.62 +.02 AllianceBern A: BlWthStrA px 11.71 -.11 GloblBdA r 8.35 ...

GlbThmGrA p 75.85 -.49 GroIncA p 3.29 +.01 HighIncoA px 9.00 -.05 IntlGroA p 14.98 ...

IntlValA p 13.81 -.01 LgCapGrA p 24.45 +.01 Allianz Admin MMS: NFJSmCpVl tx 28.21 -.40 Allianz Fds Instl: NFJDivVal x 11.26 -.05 SmCpVl nx 29.58 -.44 Allianz Funds A: NFJDivVal tx 11.18 -.05 SmCpV A x 28.26 -.35 Alpine Funds: TaxOptInco 10.05 ...

AmanaGrth n 24.56 +.07 AmanaInco n 31.83 +.34 Amer Beacon Insti: LgCapInst 19.45 +.01 SmCapInst 19.75 +.08 Amer Beacon Inv: LgCap Inv 18.45 +.01 SmCap Inv 19.26 +.08 Ameri Century 1st: Growth x 25.96 +.04 Amer Century Adv: EqtyIncA p 7.22 +.06 HeritageA p 20.41 -.09 Amer Century Inst: EqInc 7.23 +.06 Amer Century Inv: DivBond n 10.72 +.01 DivBond 10.72 +.01 EqGroInv n 20.80 +.07 EqInco 7.22 +.06 GNMAI 10.86 -.01 Gift 28.04 -.11 GlblGold e 26.83 -2.25 GovtBd 11.12 ...

GrowthI x 25.76 +.09 HeritageI 20.97 -.09 IncGro 23.90 +.05 InfAdjBond 11.88 +.12 IntTF 10.83 -.07 IntlBnd e 13.87 -.19 IntDisc 10.48 +.08 IntlGroI 10.94 +.01 SelectI x 37.60 -.20 SGov 9.75 ...

SmCapVal 8.92 +.04 Ultra nx 22.55 -.01 ValueInv 5.67 +.03 Vista 16.67 -.05 American Funds A: AmcapFA p 18.69 +.05 AmMutlA p 25.30 +.16 BalA p 17.82 +.05 BondFdA p 12.15 -.01 CapInBldA p 50.00 +.15 CapWGrA px 35.26 -.21 CapWldA p 20.43 -.03 EupacA p 41.20 -.12 FundInvA px 36.18 -.12 GovtA p 14.38 ...

GwthFdA p 30.32 +.07 HI TrstA p 11.23 -.02 HiIncMuniA 13.47 -.11 IncoFdA p 16.65 +.06 IntBdA p 13.42 ...

IntlGrIncA p 31.18 -.06 InvCoAA p 28.05 +.13 LtdTEBdA p 15.47 -.10 NwEconA p 25.24 -.04 NewPerA p 28.51 +.02 NewWorldA 54.31 -.33 STBFA p 10.07 ...

SmCpWA p 38.82 +.01 TaxExA p 11.82 -.09 TxExCAA p 15.58 -.16 WshMutA px 27.01 ...

American Funds B: BalanB p 17.74 +.06 BondB t 12.15 -.01 CapInBldB p 49.95 +.15 CapWGrB tx 35.09 -.14 GrowthB t 29.20 +.06 IncomeB p 16.51 +.06 ICAB t 27.89 +.12 WashB tx 26.84 +.04 Arbitrage Funds: Arbitrage I nx 12.77 -.33 ArbitrageR pe 12.58 -.31 Ariel Investments: Apprec 42.28 +.53 Ariel n 48.49 +.73 Artio Global Funds: GlbHiInco t 10.94 ...

GlbHiIncI r 10.52 ...

IntlEqI r 30.11 -.24 IntlEqA 29.32 -.23 IntlEqIIA t 12.37 -.10 IntlEqII I r 12.47 -.10 TotRet I 13.84 +.02 Artisan Funds: Intl s 21.39 -.38 IntlValu rs 26.88 +.15 MidCap s 33.82 +.20 MidCapVal s 20.00 -.37 SmCapVal s 16.84 +.04 Aston Funds: M&CGroN 24.24 +.18 MidCapN p 32.14 +.10 BBH Funds: BdMktN 10.42 +.01 BNY Mellon Funds: BondFund x 13.05 -.06 EmgMkts 11.52 +.04 IntlFund x 10.57 -.18 IntmBdFd x 12.90 -.02 LrgCapStk x 8.56 +.02 MidCapStk 12.11 +.03 NatlIntMuni 12.97 -.09 NtlShTrmMu 12.87 -.01 Baird Funds: AggBdInst 10.59 +.01 ShtTBdInst 9.71 +.01 Baron Fds Instl: Growth 51.11 +.96 Baron Funds: Asset ne 55.37 -.22 Growth 50.91 +.96 Partners p 20.39 +.33 SmallCap 23.62 +.09 Bernstein Fds: IntDur 13.68 +.01 Ca Mu 14.22 -.08 DivMun 14.26 -.08 NYMun 14.06 -.09 TxMgdIntl 15.43 +.04 IntlPort 15.33 +.05 EmgMkts 32.32 -.13 Berwyn Funds: Income 13.62 +.04 BlackRock A: BasValA p 25.14 +.11 CapAppr p 22.86 -.01 EqtyDivid 17.29 +.07 GlbAlA r 19.25 +.01 HiYdInvA 7.61 -.02 InflProBdA 11.14 +.10 LgCapCrA px 10.79 -.09 NatMuniA 9.85 -.06 TotRetA 11.08 -.02 USOppA 38.81 +.12 BlackRock B&C: EquityDivC 16.96 +.07 GlAlB t 18.73 ...

GlobAlC t 17.93 ...

BlackRock Fds Blrk: TotRetII 9.34 -.02 BlackRock Fds III: LP2020 I 15.82 +.01 BlackRock Instl: InflProtBd 11.24 +.11 US Opps 40.81 +.14 BasValI 25.28 +.11 EquityDiv 17.32 +.07 GlbAlloc r 19.35 +.01 TotRet 11.07 -.02 IntlOppI x 34.19 -.42 NatlMuni 9.85 -.06 S&P500 x 15.20 -.20 SCapGrI 23.76 +.05 BlackRock R: GlblAlloc r 18.62 +.01 Brandywine Fds: BlueFd 25.13 +.16 Brandywine 26.42 +.20 BrownSmCoIns e 43.96 +28.6 Buffalo Funds: SmlCap 26.13 +.20 CGM Funds: FocusFd n 34.13 +.22 Realty n 25.85 -.05 CRM Funds: MidCapValI x 28.49 +.25 Calamos Funds: ConvA px 19.43 -.67 ConvI x 18.24 -.68 Gr&IncC tx 31.29 -.05 Grth&IncA px 31.11 -.10 GrowthA p 53.02 +.04 GrowthC t 48.25 +.03 Growth I 57.74 +.05 MktNeutA px 11.94 -.03

3 yr %rt

+23.4

-7.8

+29.4 +1.6 +7.9 +23.0 +12.1 +8.5 +19.5 +13.6 +16.8 +13.5 +3.8 +13.6

-0.6 +21.9 +2.5 -19.1 +38.5 -19.1 -34.7 +6.8

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+8.4 NA NA

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+11.6 -0.4 +5.1 +6.0 +7.9 -9.7 +7.8 -12.7 +12.6 -9.1 +11.3 -2.7 +10.6 -9.5 +12.7 -11.4 +1.8 +12.1 +1.6 +11.5 +21.6 +16.7 +28.7 +9.1 +12.3 +12.5 +9.3 +9.0 +8.4 +8.7 +6.3

+30.9 +31.9 -22.9 -23.4 -18.7 -18.1 +20.7

+6.3 +19.7 +36.8 +15.5 +20.5

-19.6 +12.4 +14.1 +14.9 +29.8

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+20.5 +7.9 -19.0 +17.9 -9.3 +3.1 +13.5 +8.9

+6.9 +18.0 +3.9 +11.1 +26.2

NS

+24.1 -3.1 +25.9 +3.1 +32.7 -10.0 +25.6 +2.1 +7.6 +2.9 +2.3 +2.4 +5.1 +5.5 +17.0

+22.6 +12.2 +12.7 +12.6 -30.9 -31.1 -3.5

+10.4 +29.4 +12.8 +21.5 +13.2 +9.1 +18.3 +4.8 +11.0 +2.6 +8.1 +25.6

-7.2 +4.9 -6.6 +6.6 +28.0 +18.1 -15.6 +10.2 +12.9 +11.2

+12.3 -8.7 +8.1 +4.0 +8.2 +4.2 +6.9 +15.2 +10.6 +2.1 +5.1 +26.2 +13.2 +13.5 +9.3 +8.3 +11.5 +2.8 +15.4 +26.0

+19.1 +12.9 -6.3 -5.8 +7.4 +14.0 -10.0 +11.0 -8.7 +3.7

+8.7

+5.5

+18.8 -26.0 +23.6 -25.2 +.68 +29.1 +19.5 +14.5 +17.7 -28.3 +27.1 -6.1 +20.5 +0.9 +11.4 +11.7 +12.1 +13.0 +23.0 +22.1 +23.3 +5.6

+10.7 +11.5 +4.2 +6.5 -6.6 -8.7 -5.9 +3.5

Footnotes Table includes 1,940 largest Mutual Funds

e - Ex capital gains distribution. s - Stock dividend or split. f- Previous day’s quote n or nl - No up-front sales charge. p - Fund assets are used to pay for distribution costs. r - Redemption fee for contingent deferred sales load may apply. t - Both p and r. y - Fund not in existence for one year.

NE - Data in question.

NN - Fund does not wish to be tracked.

NS - Fund did not exist at the start date.

NA - Information unavailable.

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Calvert Group: Inco p 15.88 ...

ShDurIncA t 16.42 ...

SocEqA p 35.60 -.09 Causeway Intl: Institutnl nr 12.29 +.08 Investor nr 12.23 +.09 Clipper 61.36 +.07 Cohen & Steers: InsltRlty nx 36.41 -.70 RltyShrs nx 56.03 -1.04 ColoBondS x 9.02 -.04 Columbia Class A: Acorn te 29.03 -.69 BldModAgg p 10.37 +.01 DivEqInc x 9.93 +.01 DivrBd 4.98 ...

DivOppA x 7.70 -.04 FocusEqA t 22.40 -.11 LgCorQA p 5.39 ...

21CentryA t 13.35 +.10 MarsGroA t 20.08 -.10 MidCpGrOpp 11.33 +.02 MidCpValA 13.23 +.06 MidCVlOp p 7.79 +.03 PBModA p 10.60 +.01 SelLgCpGr t 12.63 -.11 StratAlloA x 9.37 -.08 StrtIncA 6.08 -.02 TxExA p 12.75 -.13 SelComm A 44.88 +.15 Columbia Cl I,T&G: DiverBdI 4.98 -.01 Columbia Class Z: Acorn Z x 29.97 -.69 AcornIntl Z x 39.75 -.25 AcornSel Z 28.11 -.16 AcornUSA 28.33 +.18 CoreBondZ 10.92 +.01 DiviIncomeZ 13.02 +.07 FocusEqZ t 22.88 -.11 IntmBdZ n 9.03 ...

IntmTEBd n 10.18 -.09 IntEqZ 12.14 -.06 IntlValZ 14.18 -.04 LgCapCoreZ 13.01 +.07 LgCapGr 12.71 -.12 LgCapGrwth 23.62 +.11 LgCapIdxZ 24.02 +.08 LgCapValZ 11.33 +.03 21CntryZ n 13.64 +.11 MarsGrPrZ 20.42 -.11 MarInOppZ r 11.93 -.06 MidCapGr Z 26.54 +.04 MidCpIdxZ 11.45 +.05 MdCpVal p 13.24 +.06 STIncoZ 9.93 ...

STMunZ 10.49 -.02 SmlCapGrZ n 31.58 +.14 SmlCapIdxZ n17.25 +.15 SmCapVal 46.72 ...

SCValuIIZ 13.59 -.02 TotRetBd Cl Z 9.96 +.01 ValRestr n 48.81 +.12 CRAQlInv np 10.76 +.01 CG Cap Mkt Fds: CoreFxInco 8.35 +.01 EmgMkt n 16.72 -.02 IntlEq 10.34 -.04 LgGrw 14.65 -.01 LgVal n 8.65 +.04 Credit Suisse Comm: CommRet tx 8.96 -.52 DFA Funds: Glb6040Ins 12.67 +.03 IntlCoreEq n 11.01 +.06 USCoreEq1 n 10.88 +.03 USCoreEq2 n 10.83 +.02 DWS Invest A: BalanceA x 9.00 +.01 DrmHiRA x 32.25 +.08 DSmCaVal x 36.49 -.22 HiIncA 4.78 ...

MgdMuni p 8.67 -.07 StrGovSecA 8.73 -.03 DWS Invest Instl: Eqty500IL x 140.93 -.41 DWS Invest Inv: ShtDurPlusS r 9.51 +.01 DWS Invest S: GNMA S 15.19 -.05 GroIncS x 16.11 -.06 HiYldTx n 11.70 -.09 LgCapValS rx 17.24 +.01 MgdMuni S 8.68 -.07 Davis Funds A: NYVen A 33.90 +.18 Davis Funds C & Y: NYVenY 34.24 +.18 NYVen C 32.79 +.16 Delaware Invest A: Diver Inc p 9.52 -.02 LtdTrmDvrA 8.91 ...

Diamond Hill Fds: LongShortI 16.16 ...

Dimensional Fds: EmMkCrEq n 21.44 +.02 EmgMktVal 34.94 +.19 IntSmVa n 16.64 +.19 LargeCo 9.79 +.03 STMuniBd n 10.23 -.02 TAWexUSCr n 9.44 +.03 TAUSCorEq2 8.81 +.02 TM USSm 22.78 +.02 USVectrEq n 10.71 ...

USLgVa n 19.63 -.01 USLgVa3 n 15.03 ...

US Micro n 13.70 +.08 US TgdVal 16.37 -.05 US Small n 21.23 +.04 US SmVal 25.18 -.06 IntlSmCo n 16.67 +.19 GlbEqInst 13.26 +.04 EmgMktSCp n23.31 +.03 EmgMkt n 29.67 +.06 Fixd n 10.32 +.01 Govt n 10.76 -.01 IntGvFxIn n 12.25 -.01 IntlREst 4.82 -.03 IntVa n 18.02 +.01 IntVa3 n 16.86 +.01 InflProSecs 11.29 +.11 Glb5FxInc 10.87 -.02 LrgCapInt n 19.54 +.03 TM USTgtV 21.15 -.04 TM IntlValue 14.75 +.03 TMMktwdeV 14.70 ...

TMUSEq 13.43 +.05 2YGlFxd n 10.14 ...

DFARlEst n 20.62 -.23 Dodge&Cox: Balanced n 69.97 +.25 GblStock 8.85 -.01 IncomeFd 13.33 +.02 Intl Stk 35.51 -.02 Stock 106.98 +.47 DoubleLine Funds: TRBd I 10.96 -.04 TRBd N p 10.96 -.04 Dreyfus: Aprec 38.24 +.21 BasicS&P 25.48 +.08 BondMktInv p10.52 ...

CalAMTMuZ 13.83 -.13 Dreyfus 8.91 +.04 DreyMid r 28.33 +.12 Drey500In t 35.44 +.11 IntmTIncA 13.03 ...

Interm nr 13.18 -.11 MidcpVal A 33.83 +.33 MunBd r 10.84 -.09 NY Tax nr 14.31 -.10 SmlCpStk r 20.93 +.17 DreihsAcInc 11.33 +.01 Dupree Mutual: KYTF 7.47 -.04 EVPTxMEmI 50.78 -.02 Eaton Vance A: GblMacAbR p 10.27 -.02 FloatRate 9.24 +.01 IncBosA 5.81 -.01 LgCpVal 17.96 ...

NatlMunInc 8.92 -.11 Strat Income Cl A 8.18 +22.8 TMG1.1 23.89 +.12 DivBldrA 9.94 +.03 Eaton Vance C: NatlMunInc 8.92 -.11 Eaton Vance I: FltgRt 8.94 +.02 GblMacAbR 10.26 -.02 LgCapVal 18.02 ...

ParStEmMkt 15.67 -.01 TaxMgdVal 16.76 +.01 FMI Funds: CommonStk 25.17 +.24 LargeCap p 15.57 +.26 FPA Funds: Capit 40.58 +.11 NewInc x 10.84 -.12 FPACres nx 26.62 -.37 Fairholme x 34.36 -1.66 Federated A: KaufmSCA p 25.63 +.18 PrudBear p 4.74 -.03 CapAppA 18.86 ...

KaufmA p 5.41 +.01 MuniUltshA 10.02 ...

TtlRtBd p 11.11 ...

Federated Instl: AdjRtSecIS 9.80 ...

KaufmanK 5.42 +.02 MdCpI InSvc 21.55 +.09 MunULA p 10.02 ...

TotRetBond 11.11 ...

TtlRtnBdS 11.11 ...

StaValDivIS 4.38 +.03 Fidelity Advisor A: DivrIntlA r 15.79 -.04 FltRateA r 9.77 -.04 FF2030A p 12.20 +.02 LevCoStA p 33.68 -.05 MidCapA p 19.96 -.13 MidCpIIA p 17.93 -.01 NwInsghts p 19.88 -.05 SmallCapA p 25.03 +.07 StrInA 12.57 -.12 TotalBdA re 10.68 -.10 Fidelity Advisor C: NwInsghts tn 18.96 -.05 StratIncC nt 12.54 -.12 Fidelity Advisor I: DivIntl n 16.03 -.04 EqGrI ne 56.96 +.02 FltRateI n 9.76 -.03 GroIncI 17.04 +.02 HiIncAdvI 9.31 -.19 LgCapI n 18.34 ...

MidCpII I n 18.14 -.01 NewInsightI 20.07 -.04 SmallCapI 26.17 +.08

3 yr %rt

+5.7 +9.3 +3.7 +15.5 +19.2 +2.5 +12.5 -12.5 +12.2 -13.1 +16.0 -19.4 +25.9 +8.5 +25.5 +8.0 NA NA +28.7 +14.7 +16.1 +6.2 +17.4 +19.5 +16.4 +18.1 +20.5 +29.5 +23.7 +23.7 +12.9 +29.3 +11.4 +8.5 +1.5 +20.2

+9.3 +2.3 -12.0 +16.4 -3.8 -6.6 -13.0 -17.4 -10.2 +16.9 -4.9 -4.0 +7.3 +3.2 -6.9 +21.6 +8.9 +20.0

+6.3 +17.6 +29.1 +21.4 +25.3 +26.6 +5.3 +13.6 +19.7 +6.7 +2.4 +8.7 +1.8 +14.5 +29.4 +19.4 +15.6 +14.5 +18.4 +20.8 +14.2 +32.2 +28.4 +24.0 +3.2 +1.0 +36.4 +30.4 +28.8 +27.3 +6.7 +18.0 +3.3

+10.3 +1.2 +4.0 +8.5 +18.5 -3.4 -5.9 +21.8 +11.7 -23.1 -19.0 -8.1 +3.8 -4.7 -8.2 -11.6 -16.8 -9.5 -20.9 +8.2 +12.3 -4.2 +13.5 +9.8 +7.7 +12.7 +15.6 +6.9 +20.8 -7.0 +15.1

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

StrInI 12.70 -.12 Fidelity Advisor T: EqGrT p 53.33 +.22 EqInT x 22.75 -.06 GrOppT 34.40 -.01 MidCapT p 20.16 -.12 NwInsghts p 19.67 -.04 SmlCapT p 24.20 +.07 StrInT 12.56 -.12 Fidelity Freedom: FF2000 n 12.09 +.02 FF2005 n 10.90 +.01 FF2010 n 13.71 +.02 FF2010K 12.77 +.02 FF2015 n 11.44 +.02 FF2015A 11.55 +.03 FF2015K 12.82 +.02 FF2020 n 13.89 +.02 FF2020A 12.04 +.02 FF2020K 13.27 +.02 FF2025 n 11.58 +.01 FF2025A 11.62 +.02 FF2025K 13.46 +.01 FF2030 n 13.83 +.01 FF2030K 13.65 +.01 FF2035 n 11.49 ...

FF2035K 13.80 +.01 FF2040 n 8.03 ...

FF2040K 13.88 +.01 FF2045 n 9.51 ...

FF2050 n 9.38 ...

IncomeFd n 11.31 +.02 Fidelity Invest: AllSectEq 12.48 +.02 AMgr50 nx 15.24 -.05 AMgr70 nrx 16.09 -.22 AMgr20 nrx 12.70 -.03 Balanc x 18.05 -.04 BalancedK x 18.05 -.04 BlueChipGr x 44.92 -.26 BluChpGrK x 44.91 -.29 CA Mun n 11.64 -.08 Canada n 56.36 -.27 CapApp n 25.08 -.21 CapDevelO 10.58 -.04 CapInco nr 9.34 -.11 ChinaReg r 31.84 -.38 Contra ne 67.46 -.46 ContraK e 67.43 -.54 CnvSec 24.98 -.07 DisEq n 22.35 -.08 DiscEqF 22.33 -.07 DiverIntl n 29.64 -.05 DiversIntK r 29.61 -.05 DivStkO n 14.71 -.04 DivGth n 27.96 +.03

3 yr %rt

+8.8 +29.1 +25.5 +12.7 +27.6 +25.8 +18.7 +20.0 +8.5

-14.5 -16.9 -15.7 -11.7 -5.3 +12.5 +28.2

+7.4 +10.3 +11.3 +11.4 +11.6 +12.1 +11.7 +12.9 +13.5 +13.1 +13.8 +14.7 +13.9 +14.2 +14.3 +14.7 +14.9 +14.8 +15.1 +15.1 +15.2 +7.1

+8.5 +3.7 +4.6 NS +2.9 +2.1 NS -0.5 -1.9 NS -1.1 -2.6 NS -5.3 NS -5.8 NS -6.8 NS -7.0 -8.8 +10.1

+17.5 +13.3 +15.9 +8.3 +13.7 +13.9 +22.0 +22.2 +2.8 +22.4 +19.8 +22.0 +17.0 +19.1 +19.9 +20.0 +20.5 +8.7 +9.0 +9.9 +10.1 +20.6 +21.9

NS +7.9 +2.8 +12.0 +1.2 NS +8.0 NS +9.1 -1.0 -2.8 -9.6 +36.6 +13.9 -2.6 NS +4.3 -19.8 NS -19.4 NS -5.8 +3.8

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

First Amer Fds Y: CoreBond 11.29 +.01 MdCpGrOp 44.08 +.04 RealEst np 17.53 -.16 First Eagle: GlobalA x 45.77 -.37 OverseasA x 22.24 -.36 SoGenGold px33.09 -2.19 Forum Funds: AbsolStratI r 10.86 +.02 Frank/Temp Frnk A: AdjUS p 8.86 -.01 AZ TFA p 10.39 -.09 BalInv px 46.70 -4.57 CAHYBd p 9.02 -.08 CalInsA p 11.53 -.11 CalTFrA p 6.73 -.06 FedInterm p 11.37 -.11 FedTxFrA p 11.36 -.07 FlexCapGrA 48.01 -.01 FlRtDA p 9.14 +.02 FL TFA p 11.12 -.08 FoundFAl p 10.56 +.05 GoldPrM A 49.53 -.23 GrowthA p 44.43 +.28 HY TFA p 9.65 -.09 HiIncoA 1.98 ...

IncoSerA p 2.15 ...

InsTFA p 11.37 -.11 MichTFA p 11.50 -.08 MO TFA p 11.56 -.09 NJTFA p 11.60 -.08 NY TFA p 11.23 -.06 NC TFA p 11.73 -.09 OhioITFA p 11.93 -.10 ORTFA p 11.48 -.08 PA TFA p 9.89 -.08 RisDivA p 32.92 +.33 SMCpGrA 37.25 +.13 StratInc p 10.37 ...

TotlRtnA p 10.09 -.01 USGovA p 6.72 -.01 UtilitiesA p 11.52 +.12 Frank/Tmp Frnk Adv: FdTF Adv 11.37 -.07 GlbBdAdv p ...

IncomeAdv 2.14 +.01 TtlRtAdv 10.11 -.01 USGovAdv p 6.74 -.01 Frank/Temp Frnk B: IncomeB t 2.14 ...

Frank/Temp Frnk C: AdjUS C t 8.86 ...

CalTFC t 6.72 -.06 FdTxFC t 11.35 -.07 FoundFAl p 10.39 +.05

3 yr %rt

+6.8 +20.4 +31.9 +5.3 +28.4 +9.5 +16.4 +14.7 +17.1 +13.7 +33.6 +68.2 +4.3

+7.0

+1.3 +0.6 +22.5 +4.7 +1.0 +1.7 +2.4 +0.6 +18.3 +8.5 +1.7 +11.0 +48.3 +16.7 +2.8 +12.6 +12.4 0.0 +0.2 +0.7 +1.0 +0.8 +0.6 -0.9 +1.1 +0.7 +20.5 +31.4 +10.1 +8.6 +4.3 +6.5

+9.7 +9.7 -3.6 +7.8 +5.8 +8.1 +12.1 +9.3 +1.1 +8.0 +9.9 -9.6 +85.1 +2.9 +8.9 +25.2 +4.9 +7.1 +8.3 +9.4 +10.3 +10.9 +10.4 +8.4 +11.3 +9.8 +4.1 +8.9 +23.8 +20.4 +19.0 -9.6

+0.7 +12.8 +12.7 +8.8 +4.5

+9.6 +43.6 +5.8 +21.3 +19.6

+11.6 +2.3 +0.9 +1.1 0.0 +10.3

+8.5 +6.3 +7.4 -11.5

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Harding Loevner: EmgMkts r 50.13 -.65 Hartford Fds A: CapAppA p 34.14 ...

Chks&Bal p 9.47 +.02 DivGthA p 18.80 +.07 FltRateA px 8.85 +.02 MidCapA p 21.87 +.14 Hartford Fds C: CapAppC t 30.31 ...

FltRateC tx 8.84 +.02 Hartford Fds I: DivGthI n 18.75 +.07 Hartford Fds Y: CapAppY n 37.04 +.01 CapAppI n 34.15 +.01 DivGrowthY n 19.07 +.06 FltRateI x 8.86 +.02 TotRetBdY nx 10.59 +.02 Hartford HLS IA : CapApp 42.00 +.03 DiscplEqty 11.82 +.05 Div&Grwth 19.56 +.07 GrwthOpp 25.57 +.12 Advisers 19.37 +.06 Stock 40.85 +.16 IntlOpp 12.38 +.02 MidCap 25.89 +.18 TotalRetBd 11.27 +.03 USGovSecs 10.45 ...

Hartford HLS IB: CapApprec p 41.55 +.03 Heartland Fds: ValueInv 42.70 +.51 ValPlusInv p 29.68 +.09 Henderson Glbl Fds: IntlOppA p 21.03 -.04 Hotchkis & Wiley: MidCpVal x 23.12 -.20 Hussman Funds: StrTotRet r 12.17 ...

StrGrowth 12.56 ...

ICM SmlCo 30.07 +.08 ING Funds Cl A: GlbR E p 15.94 -.12 IVA Funds: Intl I rx 15.89 -.34 WorldwideA tx16.57 -.43 WorldwideC te16.50 -.36 Worldwide I rx16.57 -.46 Invesco Fds Instl: IntlGrow 27.39 +.04 Invesco Fds Invest: DivrsDiv p 12.16 +.07 Invesco Funds A: CapGro 13.28 -.11

NA +13.8 +10.8 +12.2 +11.1 +24.1

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+13.1 -13.5 +10.3 +7.4 +12.6

-4.0

+14.4 +14.2 +12.7 +11.3 +5.9

-10.5 -10.9 -3.7 +10.7 +15.4

+17.6 +15.1 +12.9 +19.4 +12.0 +15.4 +15.5 +24.6 +6.3 +2.6

-6.3 -9.4 -4.3 -15.3 +0.5 -7.1 -9.5 +6.6 +14.9 +7.3

+17.3

-7.0

+23.0 +6.8 +31.1 +35.3 +6.3 -12.8 +31.4 +16.1 +5.8 +23.4 -2.1 -7.3 +25.6 +9.7 +13.8

-9.1

+15.1 +18.0 +17.1 +18.3

NS NS NS NS

+13.5

-7.4

+15.5 +4.6 +22.5 +3.6

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

LS Moder 12.78 +.02 Keeley Funds: SmCpValA p 24.79 +.19 LSV ValEq n 13.58 ...

Laudus Funds: IntlMsterS rx 18.83 -.13 Lazard Instl: EmgMktI 21.38 -.02 Lazard Open: EmgMktOp p 21.70 -.02 Legg Mason A: CBEqBldrA 12.73 +.08 CBAggGr p 109.05 +.31 CBAppr p 13.78 +.08 CBFdAllCV A 13.62 +.10 WAIntTmMu 6.15 -.06 WAMgMuA p 15.10 -.12 Legg Mason C: WAIntTMuC 6.16 -.06 WAMgMuC 15.11 -.12 CMOppor t 11.06 -.09 CMSpecInv p 31.45 -.03 CMValTr p 38.41 -.45 Legg Mason Instl: CMValTr I 44.99 -.52 Legg Mason 1: CBDivStr1 16.44 +.12 Longleaf Partners: Partners 27.93 +.13 Intl n 15.38 +.16 SmCap 26.48 +.07 Loomis Sayles: GlbBdR t 16.18 -.03 LSBondI 14.10 +.01 LSGlblBdI 16.32 -.04 StrInc C 14.78 ...

LSBondR 14.05 +.01 StrIncA 14.70 ...

ValueY n 18.56 +.04 Loomis Sayles Inv: InvGrBdA p 12.32 +.01 InvGrBdC p 12.23 +.01 InvGrBdY 12.33 +.02 Lord Abbett A: FloatRt pe 9.31 -.03 IntrTaxFr 10.06 -.09 ShDurTxFr 15.62 -.04 AffiliatdA px 11.32 -.04 FundlEq 12.70 -.04 BalanStratA 10.56 ...

BondDebA p 7.77 +.01 HYMunBd p 11.04 -.12 ShDurIncoA pe 4.60 -.03 MidCapA px 16.21 +.02 RsSmCpA x 31.10 +.24 TaxFrA p 10.09 -.10

3 yr %rt

+12.1 +11.0 +28.2 -5.0 +13.4 -14.7 +21.8

-2.6

+22.3 +10.1 +21.8 +8.9 +12.4 -9.0 +25.5 -4.6 +13.0 -2.6 +16.4 -6.4 +0.3 +9.4 -0.2 +12.1 -0.3 -0.8 +19.4 +20.9 +7.7

+7.4 +10.2 -23.9 -0.3 -32.8

+8.7 -30.9 +12.2

-2.2

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+19.4 +22.0 +20.6 +18.8 +20.9 +21.5 -10.5

+9.9 +25.6 +9.0 +22.8 +10.1 +26.7 +8.5 +3.1 +2.0 +13.8 +19.2 NA +12.8 +4.1 +5.2 +25.9 +28.0 +2.3

NS +15.8 NS -14.6 +6.8 NA +21.4 -5.7 +22.9 -4.1 +14.4 +8.1

1 yr Chg %rt

3 yr %rt

IDModAgg 9.10 +.02 +13.3 IDMod 9.39 +.02 +11.0 Neuberger&Berm Inv: Genesis n 33.08 +.52 +24.1 GenesInstl 45.76 +.72 +24.4 Guardn nx 14.79 +.05 +21.9 Partner nx 27.04 -.03 +14.9 Neuberger&Berm Tr: Genesis n 47.43 +.74 +24.1 Nicholas Group: Nichol n 47.21 +.26 +22.5 Northern Funds: BondIdx 10.50 -.07 NA EmgMEqIdx 12.62 -.03 NA FixIn n 10.32 -.08 NA HiYFxInc n 7.25 -.02 NA HiYldMuni 7.85 -.12 NA IntTaxEx n 10.08 -.13 NA IntlEqIdx r ... NA MMEmMkt r 24.32 -.13 NA MMIntlEq r 9.83 +.06 NA MMMidCap 11.56 -.04 NA ShIntTaxFr 10.48 -.04 NA ShIntUSGv n 10.53 -.03 NA SmlCapVal n 15.14 +.01 NA StockIdx n 15.45 +.04 NA TxExpt n 10.11 -.17 NA Nuveen Cl A: HYldMuBd p 14.59 -.21 +4.0 TWValOpp e 34.86 -1.19 +23.5 LtdMBA p 10.79 -.05 +2.5 Nuveen Cl C: HYMunBd t 14.58 -.20 +3.4 Nuveen Cl R: IntmDurMuBd 8.83 -.05 +2.7 HYMuniBd 14.59 -.20 +4.2 TWValOpp e 35.03 -1.19 +23.8 Oakmark Funds I: EqtyInc rx 27.55 +.10 +9.9 GlobalI rx 22.24 +.11 +16.8 Intl I rx 19.16 -.04 +16.5 IntlSmCp rx 13.95 ... +19.7 Oakmark rx 41.04 -.39 +13.9 Select rx 27.29 -.38 +15.0 Old Westbury Fds: GlobOpp x 7.61 -.50 +15.7 GlbSMdCap 15.29 +.16 +25.4 NonUSLgC p 10.39 +.05 +14.8 RealReturn x 10.48 -.28 +12.1 Oppenheimer A: AMTFrMuA 5.96 -.08 +0.3 AMTFrNY 10.81 -.12 +1.9 ActiveAllA 9.55 +.04 +15.0 CAMuniA p 7.49 -.07 +2.7 CapAppA p 43.39 +.26 +11.7 CapIncA p 8.65 +.02 +11.2

-2.9 +2.1

Name

NAV

+6.7 +7.5 -2.4 -11.7 +6.6 +12.5 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NS NA NA NA NA NA NA NA -12.1 +28.2 +12.0 -13.6 +12.4 -11.7 +29.2 +10.6 +0.4 +8.3 +9.7 +9.1 +9.6 -6.3 +27.6 -9.2 -8.3 -16.7 +2.8 -12.8 -9.9 -13.6 -17.0

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

RealRtn p 11.34 +.11 TotlRtn p 10.78 +.02 PIMCO Funds P: AstAllAuthP 10.86 +.03 CommdtyRR 9.02 +.16 RealRtnP 11.34 +.11 TotRtnP 10.78 +.02 Parnassus Funds: EqtyInco n 26.25 +.13 Pax World: Balanced 22.41 +.14 Paydenfunds: HiInc 7.22 -.01 Perm Port Funds: Permanent 44.76 +.01 Pioneer Funds A: CullenVal 18.11 +.14 GlbHiYld p 10.50 ...

HighYldA p 10.13 +.02 MdCpVaA p 20.94 -.01 PionFdA p 40.67 +.32 StratIncA p 10.90 ...

ValueA p 11.32 +.04 Pioneer Funds C: PioneerFdY 40.83 +.32 StratIncC t 10.67 ...

Pioneer Fds Y: CullenVal Y 18.23 +.14 GlbHiYld 10.32 ...

StratIncY p 10.91 +.01 Price Funds Adv: EqtyInc nx 23.27 +.01 Growth pn 31.69 -.23 HiYld n 6.74 -.01 MidCapGro ne57.37 -2.03 R2020A p 16.42 +.01 R2030Adv np 17.17 ...

R2040A pn 17.26 ...

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EqIdx nx 33.48 -.06 GNM n 9.89 ...

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3 yr %rt

+5.9 +19.9 +6.7 +29.7 +8.1 +20.5 +6.2 +6.9

NS NS NS NS

+10.1 +9.3 +12.7

-4.5

+11.8 +17.1 +16.9 +30.6 +10.5 +18.2 +17.8 +17.5 +16.8 +10.6 +9.6

-10.7 +22.9 +20.0 -2.8 -5.1 +29.2 -21.4

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-7.6 -1.7 +26.9 +14.4 +2.5 -0.2 -0.7 +15.3 +10.5

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+4.1 -2.8 +10.8 -4.0 +25.4 -10.2 -7.0 -8.4 +19.8 -1.0 -4.5 +11.9

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-0.4 -24.3 +11.0 +23.3 +12.0 +20.4 -8.0

+4.0 +10.3 +4.2 +20.6 +14.4 -5.2 +2.7 +9.0 +10.8 -9.3 +1.4 +12.6 +13.8 -10.5 +14.1 -9.7 +12.9 -12.6 +6.9 +29.6 +2.9 +20.2 -1.1

-9.7

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+14.0 +10.0 -4.2 -7.4 +8.0 NS +1.4 +2.8 +2.4 -8.1 -7.7 +9.9 +14.2 +17.3 +12.1 -1.2 -2.8 +20.6 +8.0 +7.5 +14.8 +20.7 -21.1 -16.3 -15.8 +17.9 +14.3 -15.4 +4.7 -14.5 -7.3 -5.8 +8.4 +0.8

+12.1 -4.5 +13.4 NS +6.1 +24.3 +13.5 -9.7 +13.8 -15.9 NS NS +15.5 +15.7 +4.3 +0.6 +17.2 +28.2 +15.3 +7.9 +2.2 +27.0 +0.9 +1.6 +30.5 NA

NS NS -5.2 -8.2 +17.5 +8.1 -6.7 +11.4 -9.0 +20.6 +11.8 +24.1 +8.0 +11.2 +12.5 NA

+1.0 +12.4 +23.4 +3.7 +4.1 +9.7 +14.9 +10.0 -1.7 ...

+18.2 +10.7 +24.7 -15.0 -5.1 +7.7

+13.7 -6.7 +9.4 -22.1 -2.4 +10.0 +4.4 +10.3 +22.1 +9.2

-7.2 +11.5 +19.2 -14.2 +0.9 -15.8

+23.6 +33.4 +12.0 +6.0 +24.1 +2.5 +11.4 +23.5

+25.0 +10.9 +15.1 +20.9

+33.6 -14.3 +12.5 +20.7 +1.0 +5.2

+2.3 -10.6 -9.2 -10.1 +7.1 +19.5

+1.3 +20.7 +28.1 +0.5 +5.8 +5.5 +11.8

+10.5 -10.0 +11.5 +5.7 +21.4 +20.3 -11.4

+10.2 +8.2 +15.2 +24.0 +25.9 +29.0 +19.0 +20.3 +8.6 +6.9

-20.0 +14.7 -6.9 -7.4 -11.2 +10.4 -4.6 +13.3 +28.2 +21.9

+18.1 -6.7 +7.7 +25.3 +10.6 +26.2 +8.5 +16.1 +17.9 +18.5 +29.3 +19.3 +20.6

-19.2 -13.2 +15.9 -13.7 +21.5 -5.2 +11.3 -3.9 +14.3

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IntmMuni n 10.07 -.05 IntlDisc n 32.45 -.02 InvGrBd n 11.36 ...

InvGB n 7.36 +.01 LCapCrEIdx 8.47 +.02 LargeCap n 17.26 ...

LgCapVal n 11.62 ...

LatAm n 56.90 +.22 LeveCoStT 33.10 -.06 LevCoStock 27.77 -.06 LowPr rn 37.78 +.08 LowPriStkK r 37.76 +.09 Magellan n 70.85 +.23 MagellanK 70.78 +.23 MA Muni n 11.62 -.08 MidCap nx 28.34 +.01 MidCapK rx 28.31 -.02 MuniInc n 12.28 -.07 NewMkt nre 15.59 -.33 NewMill nx 28.75 -.15 NY Mun n 12.65 -.06 OTC 54.58 -.03 OTC K 54.84 -.03 100Index 8.63 +.03 Ovrsea n 31.90 +.06 PacBas n 25.23 +.16 Puritan x 17.75 -.07 PuritanK x 17.75 -.07 RealEInc rx 10.25 -.19 RealEst nx 24.54 -.41 SrAllSecEqF 12.48 +.02 SCmdtyStrt n 12.08 +.13 SCmdtyStrF n 12.10 +.14 SrsEmrgMkt 18.55 -.11 SrsIntGrw 11.09 -.01 SrsIntVal 9.76 -.06 SrsInvGrdF 11.37 ...

ShtIntMu n 10.61 -.04 STBF n 8.46 +.01 SmCapDisc n 20.20 +.07 SmCpGrth r 15.73 +.04 SmCapOpp 10.76 +.02 SmallCapS nr 19.37 -.12 SmCapValu r 15.37 +.02 SpSTTBInv nre10.66 -.07 StkSelSmCap 18.39 +.02 StratInc ne 11.00 -.32 StratReRtn rx 9.38 -.02 TaxFreeB r 10.55 -.06 TotalBond ne 10.68 -.10 Trend n 67.04 +.08 USBI ne 11.30 -.01 ValueK 67.69 +.08 Value n 67.64 +.07 Wrldwde n 18.45 +.05 Fidelity Selects: Biotech n 73.99 +3.44 ConStaple 67.91 +.88 Electr n 47.74 -.63 Energy n 50.41 +.09 EngSvc n 72.45 +.59 Gold rn 51.78 -.84 Health n 125.51 +3.50 MedEqSys n 27.99 +1.14 NatGas n 32.29 +.15 NatRes rn 33.49 +.05 Softwr ne 87.56 -3.00 Tech n 95.01 -.95 Fidelity Spartan: ExtMktIndInv x37.72 -.39 500IdxInv nx 43.97 -.12 IntlIndxInv x 34.58 -.72 TotMktIndInv x36.01 -.37 Fidelity Spart Adv: ExtMktAdv rx 37.72 -.40 500IdxAdv x 43.97 -.12 IntlAdv rx 34.57 -.74 TotlMktAdv rx 36.01 -.38

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-14.3 -15.5 NS -13.2 -15.5 NS -10.5 -11.9 +15.8 -3.7 +22.8 +19.0 +3.8 -30.0 NS NS -7.8 +30.7 -7.5 +14.7 +19.3 +17.0 +12.7 -17.9 NS +17.2 -10.5 -5.6 NS +3.9 -8.0 -9.0 +8.2 NS -17.8 NS +11.5 +2.1 NS +11.2 +31.3 +2.1 +12.4 +8.7 NS -11.3 -27.3 -3.6 +3.3 NS +19.6 +3.8 NS NS NS NS NS NS NS +11.7 +7.7 +48.6 +3.6 +21.6 +16.2 +20.6 +21.0 -3.2 +28.0 +11.4 +12.2 +23.2 -0.5 +18.0 NS -5.4 -7.7

+17.8 +15.8 +23.1 +17.3 +27.5 +34.6 +20.3 +17.0 +5.1 +21.5 +24.2 +32.4

+12.1 +8.4 +10.9 -17.0 -20.2 +58.3 +6.8 +20.6 -26.0 -8.4 +16.8 +21.7

+30.4 +9.9 +15.7 -8.0 +8.0 -18.0 +18.3 -4.6 +30.4 +10.0 +15.8 -7.9 +8.0 -17.9 +18.4 -4.6

HY TFC t 9.79 -.08 +2.4 IncomeC t 2.17 +.01 +11.8 NY TFC t 11.22 -.06 +0.2 StratIncC p 10.37 ... +9.8 USGovC t 6.69 ... +4.0 Frank/Temp Mtl A&B: BeaconA x 12.12 -.22 +11.4 SharesA x 20.43 -.31 +12.1 Frank/Temp Mtl C: SharesC tx 20.26 -.16 +11.3 Frank/Temp Temp A: DevMktA p 24.86 -.01 +17.6 ForeignA px 6.84 -.13 +8.9 GlBondA px 13.43 -.19 +12.6 GlSmCoA px 7.31 +.02 +27.3 GrowthA p 17.60 +.10 +8.8 WorldA px 14.63 -.17 +8.7 Frank/Temp Tmp Adv: FlexCpGr 48.74 -.01 +18.6 FrgnAv x 6.76 -.15 +9.0 GrthAv 17.59 +.10 +9.1 Frank/Temp Tmp B&C: GlBdC px 13.46 -.19 +12.2 GrwthC p 17.21 +.10 +8.0 Franklin Mutual Ser: QuestA x 17.34 -1.16 +9.8 Franklin Templ: TgtModA p 14.22 ... +12.4 GE Elfun S&S: S&S Income n11.23 ... +7.2 S&S PM n 40.36 +.12 +11.8 TaxEx 11.34 -.07 +1.6 Trusts n 43.10 -.25 +14.3 GE Instl Funds: IntlEq n 11.43 -.02 +5.3 GE Investments: TRFd1 16.45 +.01 +10.1 TRFd3 p 16.38 +.01 +9.8 GMOEmMkV rx14.20 -.16 +22.4 GMO Trust: ShtDurColl r 11.55 ... NE USTreas x 25.00 ... +0.1 GMO Trust II: EmergMkt rx 14.28 -.14 +24.9 GMO Trust III: EmgMk rx 14.31 -.15 +22.3 Foreign x 11.95 -.10 +5.4 IntlCoreEqty x 28.61 -.41 +14.5 IntlIntrVal x 21.51 -.21 +7.8 Quality x 20.06 +.08 +6.8 GMO Trust IV: EmgCnDt 9.02 -.09 +17.9 EmerMkt x 14.22 -.15 +22.3 Foreign x 12.23 -.11 +5.4 IntlCoreEq x 28.59 -.43 +14.7 IntlGrEq x 22.85 -.09 +14.6 IntlIntrVal x 21.50 -.22 +7.9 Quality x 20.07 +.08 +6.8 GMO Trust VI: EmgMkts rx 14.22 -.17 +22.4 IntlCoreEq x 28.56 -.44 +11.0 Quality x 20.06 +.08 +6.9 StrFixInco 15.04 ... +4.6 USCoreEq x 11.51 +.06 +10.6 Gabelli Funds: Asset 49.05 +.18 +23.8 EqInc p 20.24 +.10 +17.4 SmCapG n 33.78 +.09 +29.6 Gateway Funds: GatewayA 26.12 +.10 +5.4 Goldman Sachs A: GrIStrA 10.55 ... +10.2 GrthOppsA 22.84 +.08 +21.9 HiYieldA 7.23 -.01 +13.0 MidCapVA p 35.35 +.25 +25.0 ShtDuGvA e 10.23 -.20 +1.2 Goldman Sachs Inst: CoreFxc 9.81 ... +6.1 GrthOppt 24.22 +.08 +22.4 HiYield 7.25 -.01 +13.4 HYMuni n 8.18 -.07 +5.2 MidCapVal 35.60 +.27 +25.5 SD Gov e 10.19 -.20 +1.5 ShrtDurTF n 10.45 -.02 +1.8 SmCapVal 40.86 +.24 +28.5 StructIntl nx 10.29 -.24 +7.5 GuideStone Funds: BalAllo GS4 x 12.29 -.04 NA GrEqGS4 18.77 -.10 +21.7 IntlEqGS4 x 13.40 -.03 +10.6 ValuEqGS4 13.85 +.02 +13.3 Harbor Funds: Bond 12.72 -.09 NA CapAppInst n 36.69 -.26 NA HiYBdInst r 11.18 -.02 NA IntlInv t 59.40 +.22 NA IntlAdmin p 59.64 +.22 NA IntlGr nr 12.36 -.03 NA Intl nr 60.13 +.22 NA

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C OV ER S T OR I ES

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 19, 2010 G5

Trees Continued from G1 Big-box stores heavily discount trees, so privately owned lots and those run by charities try to offer a little more Christmas cheer.

Anderson, for instance, keeps the carols humming and has a mechanical singing Santa and Father Winter.

His lot’s options range from foot-high “Charlie Brown trees” for around $6 — something students particularly like — to a $400 13-foot Noble fir purchased

by University of California, Berkeley’s International House.

The “choose and cut” tree farms that dot the Bay Area back roads are often run by outdoorsy folks picking up some extra cash, not ones depending on the trees for a full-time livelihood.

Paul Illingworth, owner of Castro Valley Christmas Tree Farm, has been working at tree farms for more than three decades, in between his full-time job as a fourth-grade teacher.

“When teaching kids gets frustrating, I can come out here and whack at a tree,” he said. “Then when I get tired of working out here, I’m back at school.”

The 12-acre farm sells about 1,000 to 1,500 trees a year.

Harvesting their own trees remains a popular choice for folks who opt for a real tree, said Rick Dungey, spokesman for the National Christmas Tree Association.

“People go to get the experience,” he said. “One thing we’ve also watched closely: Young adults choose to go get a farmgrown tree at a much higher rate than the rest of the population, which means the industry is about to grow. That group is more interested in traditional activities, creating memories, doing things with their families.”

Last year, Americans bought 28.2 million real trees, totaling about $1.15 billion, and 11.7 million artificial trees totaling about $901 million (their average price is higher), the association said.

Christmas tree growers and sellers emphasize that they are selling a renewable, farm-grown crop that can be recycled into mulch after the holidays. North American tree farms will plant about 41 million seedlings this year to replace the harvested trees, according to the association.

At Raccoon Gulch Christmas Tree Farm in Los Gatos, owners Karen and Jeff Fishback are in their 42nd year of selling cut-yourown trees on property that’s been family-owned since 1883.

“My father and uncle started this as a retirement business, planting in 1965 and opening for business in 1968,” said Karen Fishback.

“You don’t make a living at it,” she said. “People who think you just plunk the trees in the ground and come back and get rich have a nasty surprise.”

Generally they plant in January or February. Throughout the course of the year, like any farmer, they deal with diseases, gophers, watering, weeds, insects, “all the problems that come up,” she said. Trees must be pruned several times a year.

Douglas firs take five or six years to reach maturity; Monterey pines grow faster but are more disease-prone. “Noble firs are very popular but grow veeerrry slowly,” she said. “They take 10 to 12 years to reach 7 feet in height.

Most people have 8-foot ceilings, so that’s the size they want.”

If anything, a recession is good for business, she said.

“In 42 years we’ve had a lot of ups and downs in the economy.

When the economy is down, people tend to want to go back to basics,” she said. A nice, fresh tree is an inexpensive treat.”

LEFT: An advertisement for the Tata Nano in Mumbai, India. The Nano’s sales have been hurt by delays and safety concerns, while other large automakers have announced super-compact cars of their own.

“I have really enjoyed driving the car,” said Deeksha Dhawan, in Mumbai. Her father bought the top-end Nano for about $5,500.

Nano Continued from G1 On Thursday, Tata announced that it would extend the warranty on the Nano, including those that have already been sold, to four years from 18 months.

The Nano’s celebrated rollout had helped prompt other big automakers, like General Motors and Renault-Nissan, to announce plans for ultracheap people’s cars of their own for sale in India and other developing countries.

Those would-be competitors are still expected to appear in the next two years.

But the Nano’s poor showing could give pause to corporate executives and policymakers who are eager to see goods and services sold to people of modest means.

Analysts say the Nano situation demonstrates it may not be sufficient to make cheaper, smaller versions of existing products to win over that broad base of customers.

Companies, they say, must also make sure the products are widely available and are seen as safe, useful and alluring.

“The bottom of the pyramid continues to be where the action is,” said Hormazd Sorabjee, editor of the magazine Autocar India. “But the aspirations of people are moving up. People want to jump into something more substantial.”

That seems evident from the booming car market in India, where total sales climbed more than 22 percent, to nearly 203,000 in November.

The most popular cars here are small, fuel-efficient hatchbacks that sell for $10,000 or less. Maruti Suzuki, a division of the Japanese automaker Suzuki, now sells nearly half of all cars here.

that the state of West Bengal had forcibly acquired land at low prices for a factory where the Nano and its parts would be made. Tata had to relocate the factory to another state, Gujarat — causing it to take more than a year and a half to fill orders for the first 100,000 cars.

More recently, the Nano has been hurt by reports of fires in a handful of cars. In one widely publicized instance, a family was taking its new Nano home from a dealership in Mumbai when smoke started billowing from the back of the car. Soon, the entire car was engulfed in flames.

There were no injuries — other than to the Nano’s image.

Tata Motors has steadfastly denied that there was anything wrong with the car’s design or its parts. It has said that fires were caused by “foreign electrical equipment” found on top of the exhaust system. It has offered to retrofit Nanos with extra safety features and has taken pains to say that its offer does not amount to a recall.

But analysts, customers and others have found those explanations and the company’s offer wanting. What were these foreign objects? What is the function of the new safety features, and why weren’t they part of the car in the first place?

“The company has just mishandled the whole thing,” said Darius Lam, an analyst at J.D. Power & Associates. “First, the company said it was no big deal.

Then, it was just some foreign objects.”

Lam added that it was still not clear what had caused the fires and whether the problem had been fully addressed.

In a written response to questions, the company said it had thoroughly investigated the fires and found that the car was safe, but that it had decided to improve the exhaust and electrical systems to reassure customers.

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The Nano was the brainchild of Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata Group, who told his engineers to build a car that would sell for 100,000 rupees ($2,200) to people who would otherwise be making do with motorcycles and scooters. It is common to see Indian families of four riding on motorcycles with the father up front, the mother sitting sidesaddle with a baby in her arms and a child sandwiched between them.

But the Nano has been troubled almost from its inception.

The company’s production plans were thrown off kilter in 2008 when farmers, led by regional politicians, protested

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“The sales numbers don’t really reflect what will be the longterm potential for it,” said Sorabjee of Autocar. “It’s early days.”

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A spokesman says sales of the Nano are now back on the rise, as the company makes cars available for immediate purchase in more sites around the country, rather than only taking orders. The company has also started displaying the car and offering test drives through new small showrooms in smaller cities to reach people who may not be comfortable walking into conventional car dealerships.

“As we began open sales, our learning was that, even though the Tata Nano is affordable for thousands of customers who do not own a car, it is still a significant decision to enter the fourwheeler category,” Debasis Ray, a company spokesman, said in a written statement for this article.

Recently, the company began

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storage space and a longer track record than the Nano. Jatin Layazawala, a Mumbai businessman, recently bought an Alto after considering a fully equipped Nano, which he said would have cost only $800 less.

Layazawala said he had driven a friend’s Nano. “I was happy, but then I said I was looking for a car that would be sturdy for long drives,” he said. “I think it’s a dinky car.”

Despite the Nano’s rough road so far, analysts say that Tata Motors, which also owns Jaguar and Land Rover, has the finan-

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running advertisements for the car that stress its power and durability.

One newspaper ad, for instance, features an owner who says he took his car to the Himalayas, climbing steep slopes with ease.

Some Nano owners — there are now more than 71,000 — praise the car’s performance, its fuel efficiency (41 miles or more to the gallon) and its surprisingly spacious interior.

“I have really enjoyed driving the car,” said Deeksha Dhawan, a 21-year-old architecture student whose father bought the top-end Nano, which she has decorated with stickers of Mickey Mouse, for about $5,500. The family’s primary car is a WagonR, a bigger hatchback made by Maruti Suzuki, which starts at $7,400.

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Jaguar XF: proof that ‘affordable luxury’ must go thousands of dollars less. Multiple air bags, found in the Jaguar XF, can be found in many other cars that few people would deem luxurious. Emerging safety technologies, such as blind-side warning systems, designed to alert motorists to nearby trailing vehicles, are better designed and installed in family haulers such as the new Honda Odyssey minivan than they are in the more costly Jaguar XF. Amenities such as onboard navigation, backup camera, parking proximity warning system, premium sound system and connectivity for multiple infotainment devices come with the Jaguar XF. They are also found on many other vehicles of lesser stature and price.

Something is amiss here. And it just might be that the global automobile industry’s vehicle slotting scheme, more in place to justify prices than it is to intelligently differentiate vehicles sold, makes no real sense anymore.

By Warren Brown Special to The Washington Post

CORNWALL, N.Y. — Democracy runs amok when we try to democratize everything, including luxury. That’s especially true in the global automobile industry, which is fond of slipping its products into narrowly hewn slots to justify price differentials.

We have, for example, the 2011 Jaguar XF. It is what the industry calls an “entry-level luxury” offering, which, in this case, means it costs less than its “affordable luxury” Jaguar siblings the XF Premium and XF Supercharged — both of which are priced below the bona fide luxurious Jaguar XK and XJ models.

Also, we have the Jaguar RCollection, which includes the XFR, XKR R E V I E W and XKR Convertible.

In Jaguar parlance, the “R” bespeaks top luxury, invoking Jaguar’s racing heritage in content, styling and performance.

For the moment, there is no “R” version of the Jaguar XJ sedan. But there is the long-wheelbase “L” iteration of that car, including the truly fancy XJL Supercharged and XJL Supersport models.

The point is, in the Jaguar crowd, the base XF is a poor cousin, the scion of a family with a noble name, but in reality not much different from a slew of substantially less expensive, non-exotic cars in terms of build quality, amenities, safety and performance.

It is a thought that haunted me on a recent 300-mile drive here from my Virginia home.

Certainly, the Jaguar XF’s 5-liter V-8 engine — 385 horsepower, 380 foot-pounds of torque — is a lot of fun. But it offered no more enjoyment than the recently driven Volvo XC60 R-Design wagon with its 3.2-liter in-line six-cylinder engine (240 horsepower, 236

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With entry-level luxury in the 2011 Jaguar XF, you get the poor cousin from an automobile family with a noble name.

2011 Jaguar XF Base price: $52,500 As tested: $56,425 Type: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive sedan Engine: A 5-liter, 32-valve, direct-injection gasoline V-8 engine — 385 horsepower, 380 foot-pounds of torque. The engine is mated to a six-speed transmission that can be operated automatically or manually.

Mileage: 14 miles per gallon in the city and 21 mpg on the highway carrying three occupants and a trunk full (estimated 375 pounds) of luggage. foot-pounds of torque).

Acceleration in both vehicles was super-smooth. Both handled wonderfully well on turnpikes and highways. But while behind the wheel of the Jaguar, I found myself longing for the Volvo, which costs $14,450 less.

Some engine valves require adjustment to perform properly

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My 2005 Honda Pilot just passed 100,000 miles, and it looks like I need to have the timing belt replaced and valves adjusted soon. My repair shop is offering a special deal on the timing belt replacement, and I understand why that’s needed.

It’s the valve adjustment I don’t understand. I haven’t owned a car or truck before that needed a valve adjustment. Why is this needed? Is it something that needs to be taken seriously, like the timing belt, or could it be deferred for a while?

Good question, Dave. An engine’s valves are driven by the camshafts, which contain many egg-shaped lobes. The cam may act directly upon the valves or through a seesaw-like rocker arm, depending on the manufacturer’s design. This needs to be a precise connection, so the valves are accurately controlled, in order to provide optimum engine performance, quiet operation and long valve life.

As with any mechanical connection, temperature, wear and metal distortion can cause changes over time in the clearance between the parts. For quiet and precise operation, you want very little clearance (slop) in the connection. But if the clearance were to become zero, and a valve should remain propped open, the engine would misfire or shake, and the valve would be damaged. Valves need to close fully to transfer their heat to the cylinder head, or they’ll overheat and fail.

Most modern car and truck engines use hydraulic valve lifters, while some employ a mechanical connection between the cam and valves. Hydraulic valve lifters use the engine’s oil, within a very precise mechanism, to absorb valve train clearance and

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push the valves open. Mechanically operated valves require a small clearance to be maintained between the cam lobe and following device, and require periodic inspection/adjustment.

Which is better? Hydraulic lifters are quieter and maintenance-free, but are fussy about having clean oil of the correct viscosity. A mechanically operated valve train is simpler, lighter — which is important for rapidly moving parts — and is better suited to high-revving engine operation. A mechanical system should be less problematic from a repair standpoint, but will require occasional maintenance.

Honda employs a highly sophisticated valve-operating strategy know as V-TEC, which, depending on the version, can switch between differing cam lobes in order to optimize engine performance or shut down cylinders to save fuel. I assume that there simply isn’t room to squeeze in hydraulic lifters among all this mechanical wizardry, and trouble-free, highrpm operation is a priority. The bottom line is that you may pay slightly more over the long haul for occasional valve adjustments to enjoy exemplary engine performance.

Can you defer the valve adjustment for a while? Perhaps.

The valves went 100,000 miles without any trouble, and unlike the timing belt, there’s nothing to break. What’s a few more miles?

Keep in mind the consequences of a tight valve could be an expensive engine repair. The book time for a valve adjustment is three hours on your Pilot.

Brad Bergholdt is an automotive technology instructor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. E-mail questions to under-the-hood@earthlink.net.

It is what happens when marketing — what car companies want you to believe about the car you are driving — collides with the reality of having driven many other automobiles.

Artificial categories such as “entry-level luxury” and “family”

(aka “mainstream”) tend to lose their meaning where the rubber meets the road.

For example, I would take the seats in the Volvo XC60 wagon over those in the Jaguar XF sedan any day, any trip. The Volvo’s seats are exceptionally comfortable, embracing. The Jaguar’s are marginally comfortable, tiring after a long drive.

Under the circumstance, “entrylevel luxury” does not please me nearly as much as “family” or “mainstream.”

Perhaps it has something to do with age. The older my body gets, the less impressed it is with prestige and the more appreciative it is of comfort and safety. Luxury

thus becomes redefined.

Technology also is forcing redefinition. In its purest sense, for example, luxury speaks to exclusiveness, access to something unavailable to almost everyone else. But the Jaguar XF has little that can’t be found at a much lower price on a well-equipped Buick LaCrosse, Volvo S60 sedan or XC60 wagon, or, for that matter, a Hyundai Genesis sedan or coupe.

Start with safety. The Jaguar XF offers standard ventilated front and rear disc brakes. The Buick LaCrosse CXS and Hyundai Genesis sedan offer equally effective all-wheel disc brakes (ventilated front, solid rear) for

A rethinking is needed. I suggest the industry start with the reality that democracy and luxury are inherently at odds with each other. One is meant to exclude as many people as possible. The other is meant to do the exact opposite. A car that tries to do both winds up doing neither, appealing to neither the rich who can buy it nor the frugal who aren’t shopping for it, thereby limiting its chances for success in the marketplace.

Ride, acceleration and handling: The Jaguar XF gets excellent marks in all three. But there is little about it that marks it as exceptional.

Head-turning quotient: It is a beautiful car inside and out. But it is surrounded by beautiful cars whose appearance is more attractive because they can be had at a much lower price.

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Q Criminal Minds is a very interesting show.

Banks on 30 Rock. She has such great chemistry with Alec Baldwin.

Do they get along in real life?—Sue Chuang, Los Angeles, Calif.

So why don’t the actors—Joe Mantegna and Thomas Gibson especially—get nominated for Emmys?—Cindy Lachin, Rockville, Md.

A “Get along” would be

putting it mildly. “Alec Baldwin is my blue-eyed husky—I just adore him,” Banks feels like a major-leaguer now says the actress, 36, who also hit it off with Russell Crowe in The Next Three Days. “Working with both of these guys is like getting called up from the minors to play in the big leagues. That’s how I feel: I got the call, I’m in the game, and I’m having the time of my life.”

Q Does Mark Valley perform his own stunts on Human Target?—J. Chase, Las Vegas, Nev.

A Many of them, yes. Val-

ley, who’ll turn 46 on Christmas Eve, doesn’t mind getting his feet wet—as long as they’re Valley prefers thrills to chills warm. “For me, the toughest stunt wasn’t jumping from a helicopter or even fighting five other guys,” he says. “It was when I ended up in the water with a T-shirt on. I wasn’t faking hypothermia—it was freezing!”

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Olivia Wilde looks superbuff in the Tron: Legacy trailer. How did she bulk up?—Ry Clancy, Chicago, Ill.

A “I had to do an incredible amount of cross-training and martial arts,” Wilde, 26, reveals. “Suddenly I had all these Tough-talking muscles, and I thought, Oh Wilde my God, if somebody jumped me while I was walking home, I could take them!

Maybe not true, but I felt that way, and that was part of figuring out who my character was. That kind of inner strength affects the way you stand, the way you walk. It was extraordinary.”

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A “I think sometimes we fly under the radar,” says Mantegna, 63, who plays David Rossi. “But the fans love the series. I’ve been in the business for over 40 years, and I’m probably reaching more people now than I ever have. That’s the power of TV.” eth Q A lot has been made of Gwyneth ut Paltrow’s country-music debut. But y didn’t she release a song with Huey Lewis years ago?—Sarah Townsley,, Lake Charles, La.

A In fact, she did: “Cruisin’ ” was on

the soundtrack for the 2000 movie Duets. “I love to sing, so it was fun to pretend to be a pro,” she told us when that film was released.

These days, though, Paltrow’s not just pretending. Thanks to her appearances on Glee and at thee has CMAs, the Country Strong star, 38, h more than proved Paltrow: Something ing her pipes. to sing about

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A According to Matt, it’s just time to move on.

“We had a mission to desensitize America and the world about little people, and I think we’ve changed people’s perceptions,” he says. “Somebody told us, ‘Now you’re going to be just a dot in the history books.’ But I’ll settle for that.”

Q Are the people on courtroom TV shows compensated for their time? Do they have to pay if they lose the case?—Fran Gonda, Conneaut, Ohio

A “If we want the case badly enough and the per-

son doesn’t want to travel, we might offer them a hundred dollars for the hassle,” reveals TV judge Alex Ferrer, 40. As for restitution, he says, “When you sue somebody and win in real life, you get a piece of paper you may never collect on. We write you a check on the spot just for bringing the case to us.”

Walter Scott asks…Jessica Alba Actress, 29, co-starring in Little Fockers WS What was it like being the new kid on set?

JA It was a pinch-me moment. Robert De Niro is such a great

guy, and Dustin Hoffman is hilarious—he actually gave me pointers on how to be playful. My goal every day was to try to get Ben Stiller to laugh during a scene.

WS Besides Dustin Hoffman, who inspires you?

JA Lucille Ball was my hero growing up. Now it’s my 2-yearold daughter, Honor, because when I’m with her I’m not self-conscious. I’ll do whatever it takes to get her to giggle.

WS Has becoming a mom changed your career goals?

JA Making my family happy is the only thing I really care about. I love my job, but it’s not the reason I get up in the morning. I get up to make my daughter smile.

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Amy Adams

Unwrapped She has a new movie (The Fighter), a new baby (Aviana), and a new focus on the things that matter most

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my Adams is still thoroughly enchanting. Let’s just state that for the record right here and now. In her black skirt, red chiffon top, and purple pumps with the fourinch heels that levitate her to the 5-foot-8 stature she believes God actually intended for her, she remains the irresistible charmer who played a princess in the 2007 hit Enchanted. Still, several things are remarkably different about Adams today—starting with her latest film, a 180-degree turn from the sweet-tempered roles she’s best known for.

In The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale— the true story of junior welterweight boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, whose memorable bouts in the early 2000s made him the pride of Lowell, Mass.— she plays Ward’s girlfriend,

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Charlene, a whip-smart, nononsense, working-class barmaid who can land a few punches of her own in a street brawl. “You don’t mess with Charlene,” says Adams. “She says what she means, and I love that.”

But the most significant change in the 36-year-old actress’s life happens to be teething in the room next door at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel. In May, Adams gave birth to Aviana, her daughter with fiancé and fellow actor Darren Le Gallo. Now she’s looking forward to celebrating her first holiday season as a mom.

“There was always a lot of energy around my house during the holidays growing up—a lot of food, a lot of football. The whole season has a magical feeling for me that I don’t think ever goes away,” says this middle child of seven kids, who grew up mostly in Colorado and whose parents split when she was 11.

As she does every December, she’ll call her dad to get the recipe for the family’s traditional Banana Ice (a frozen whipped concoction featuring bananas, orange juice, lemon juice, sugar, ice, and Sprite or 7-Up). This year, she’s also looking forward to starting some new traditions: “Just little things, like a certain candy in a certain dish,” she says.

“I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”

Adams realized she was starting her own family one morning when she tugged at her refrigerator door. “I saw almond milk in the fridge—Darren drinks it, but I’d never tasted it—and it triggered an animal response,” she recalls. “I was like, ‘I need that,’ and I drank continued December 19, 2010 • 5

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I looked at Darren and said, ‘I think…yeah, I’m pregnant.’ ”

She describes the months that followed as one of the most liberating periods of her life. “Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body— meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit,” she says (though anyone who saw her 2008 pictorial homage to Rita Hayworth in Vanity Fair might disagree). “I was like, ‘Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.’ And I’ve had that relationship ever since.” Since the birth, she adds, “I’ve been working out when I can, and I’m trying to eat in a healthful way, but losing weight is not my number-one priority. It’s part of my job to return to some semblance of what I was before. But I don’t feel I’ve ever made my career on my rockin’ bod.”

It’s this kind of forthright, level-headed attitude that has made Adams such a relatable star—and it’s one reason director David O. Russell wanted the two-time Oscar nominee (for Junebug and Doubt) to play Charlene in The Fighter. “She’s the last person you’d think of for this part,” he admits.

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“But she’s fearless, and it’s great to see her bring her sweetheart qualities to a very strong girl who’s going to say the tough things and help the guy in the tough situations.”

The role required Adams to wear short shorts and a crop top for the bar scenes and lingerie in the bedroom with Wahlberg.

“David said, ‘This is kind of how we see her dressing,’ ” she recalls, “And I said, ‘I’m getting in a gym, ’cause there’s no way I’m going to end up not looking my best.’ ” But Russell KO’d that impulse, telling her he didn’t want her to look like an actress who’d gotten in shape for a role.

“He said, ‘I want you to look like a girl who drinks beer,’ ” the actress recalls with a laugh.

Adams’ discovery that she was pregnant, just as she finished filming The Fighter, brought back memories of her role as an expectant mother in Junebug— not all of them pleasant. “Because of how that film ended”—with a delivery-room stillbirth—“a lot of women have talked to me about their own similar experiences and how much that character touched them,” she says, clearly moved. But “having played somebody who went through that, I was terrified.” To combat her anxiety, she threw herself into research.

“That’s how I prepare for anything— I read whatever I See more can get my hands photos and behindon, talk to people. the-scenes video of I’m a bit of a nerd Amy Adams’ shoot at like that.” She took Parade.com /adams. birthing classes with Le Gallo, who provided the support she needed for a natural, drug-free delivery. “He

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The Shoestring

Philanthropist One man is transforming people’s lives, $5 at a time

by Linda Arking

who aren’t on the radar of the large aid groups. One day in Kolkata, India, a rickMeet three shaw ferrying Gold Americans who’ve been broke down, and the inspired into action driver wept. An inby Gold at Parade.com terpreter explained /shoestring. that the vehicle was the man’s livelihood and home.

Gold paid a mechanic $40 to repair the rickshaw and requested that the driver use it once a month to transport others in need. In Gyantse, Tibet, he saw a girl struggling with a large cart, which held her paralyzed mother. Thanks to him, the mother has a wheelchair and the daughter goes to school.

“Someone once asked me if I was playing God,” Gold says.

“The people I help don’t ask questions like that. They only know a stranger is willing to help them.” hile Gold has helped pay for the building of some schools and libraries, the bulk of his giving is small. Rather than expand, he encourages others to become shoestring philanthropists, sharing his experiences and contacts and often giving them their first $100.

Arlene Butler, a social worker and minister from Cape Charles, Va., heard about his work in 2006. “I’d saved $300, so I called Marc and asked if he’d help me give it away,” she recalls. Instead, he gave her advice, so she sent out e-mails seeking donations, netting $3000.

That year, she went to Thailand and gave the money to sick children. “Now our kids are involved in our philanthropic travel. In Panama, we helped fund the education program of a tribe in the jungle,” Butler says. “It changes you inside when you have a chance to do these things.”

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Marc Gold rejoices with students at a Tibetan orphanage school in 2008 after telling them they’d be receiving 10 donated soccer balls.

He raised $2000. Today, his donors —through his nonprofit, 100 Friends—exceed 4000. But outside of keeping them informed with a newsletter, he sends no mass mailings and has no paid employees.

His mantra is simple: “You give it to me, and I give it to them.”

Five years ago, Gold pared down his belongings to a few duffel bags and boxes. Formerly a teacher in San Francisco, he works out of a Bangkok hotel room and lives off retirement savings and a modest pension. He keeps his expenses— which may include hiring a transla-

tor or a van to deliver, for instance, the tools to help a young man open a bike-repair shop—low.

When he meets someone, Gold sits down to chat and maybe shares a cup of tea. Mostly, he listens. He has a knack for spotting people

With Gold’s small donation, a widow was able to buy a sewing machine and start a business

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is the season to give, and few people embody the spirit of altruism better than Marc Gold. For 22 years, he has trekked through Asia handing out money to the needy in small amounts, as little as 50 cents and rarely exceeding $500. But even though the dollar figures are small, the impact is big. In Vietnam, a modest donation was enough for a widow to buy a sewing machine and start a business. In Aceh, Indonesia, a fisherman fixed his boat and returned to self-sufficiency.

Compared with global aid organizations and their billion-dollar budgets, Gold’s operation is tiny, but by his own estimate, he has touched over 50,000 lives. An energetic cross between Santa Claus and Johnny Appleseed, Gold, 61, spends four months a year raising funds in friends’ living rooms and the rest on the road finding more individuals to help.

In 1989, while touring India, Gold met Thinlay, a Tibetan refugee, who invited him to his home.

Thinlay’s wife, Tsering, welcomed him but kept holding her ears— she was suffering from a painful, deadly infection. Gold found her a physician and bought the antibiotic she needed. It cost just $1— and saved Tsering’s life. Then Gold spent $35 on a hearing aid so she could return to work and her son could go to school. “When I pressed the switch to turn on the hearing aid, her burst of joy burned into my brain,” Gold recalls. “I was thunderstruck, realizing I could restore her hearing for a relative pittance. I thought you had to be wealthy to do such things.”

Returning to the U.S. with a new sense of purpose, Gold wrote to 100 friends, hoping to raise $200 to give away on his next trip.

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was really calm,� she says.

Le Gallo has also turned out to be “a great swaddler� and helpmate in managing the work/ parenting balancing act. The couple, who met in acting class, have been together nine years, but the birth of their daughter has deepened their relationship, Adams says. “Now we understand the importance of teamwork. And if we have a disagreement, we work toward a solution.� They have a policy of never spending more than two weeks apart. For example, when Adams went to New Orleans in August to film an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Le Gallo and Aviana joined her for the 11-day shoot. At home in Los Angeles, they share baby night-shift duties and have a dinner date once a week. As for a wedding, she says it’s going to happen but isn’t sure exactly when—she hasn’t been able to wrap her head around the planning process.

Mostly, Adams says, she’s been learning to focus on the moment and not be too hard on herself. “The best advice I’ve gotten as a parent is, ‘You’re not gonna be perfect‚’ � she says with a chuckle at the understatement. “Take today—she’s teething and I want to be in there with her. But I also want to do a good job here for everybody who worked on the film.�

She pushes back a lock of her naturally strawberry-blond hair. “I actually love my work more now, ’cause I feel if I’m going to be away from her, I’d better enjoy it. I’m trying to be more present in each moment of my life. She’s taught me that.�

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Sunday with...

Chris O’Donnell It’s a wonderful life: five kids, great partners (onscreen and off), fun with LEGOs, and…the Boss!

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Chris O’Donnell even apologizes for not mustering a short answer to a short question. We forgive the 40-yearold actor the occasional ramble, because his day job, chasing down criminals on NCIS: Los Angeles, is calm compared to the kiddie-land chaos at home. O’Donnell and wife Caroline wrangle a brood of five. “On Saturday morning,” he says, “it’s like we’re shot out of a cannon.” Family weekends begin—no joke— with four soccer games, two football games, and a riding lesson. “My wife and I split up and cover the town,” he explains. “All day we text each other scores.” No wonder the former Boy Wonder can only talk while he’s at work. That’s where Kate Meyers caught up with him.

PARADE Are your Sundays

calmer than Saturdays?

Sunday is payback to my wife for the rest of the week, so I usually pick up the baby and then get the full spread going—Swedish pancakes, maple-syrup-flavored sausages, bacon, and fresh orange juice. We try to get to 9:30 Mass as often as possible.

Then at this time of year we race home for the Bears game, which is must-see TV in our house. We TiVo the first half and watch the second half live. Afternoons, we tend to go to the beach.

That’s quite a routine…

I am an incredible creature of

habit. If I go to a restaurant and order something and love it, I’m going to stick with that for years.

Do you have a routine for your weekdays, too?

On my commute to work, I play Howard Stern. It’s like an addiction. When he goes to a commercial, I switch to sports talk radio. If I have a late start, I drive the kids to school. They bop between hit stations until I’ve had it. Then I’ll say, “You know what today is? Today is Daddy’s turn.”

What music plays when it’s Daddy’s turn?

Every time I ask my kids, “Who’s this?” they know it’s either Bruce Springsteen or Jimmy Buffett.

They’re my guys. I want my kids

to know all the Springsteen songs.

I’ve seen him all over the world.

Have you ever met him?

I have. It was surreal. This one time, I was with a buddy in Portland and a stage manager aid, “Hey, do do recognized me and said, you guys wanna comee back and meet Bruce?” Bruce comes over in his terry-cloth bathrobe, and he’s like, “Hey, Chris,, how you doin’? Come on in.

Have a drink.” And he says, “What do you want?” and I say, “What are you having?” and he

says, “Let’s have some Jack.” So I’m just drinking straight Jack Daniel’s with Springsteen in his dressing room. He was so nice. It was too perfect.

Continuing in a musical vein, ho it going with rapper/ how’s ac Todd Smith (a.k.a. actor L Cool J), your partner in LL cr crime-fi ghting?

He’s super-positive and incredibly confident but very humble. It’s funny—you work with s someone on a show like this and you feel like you’re in anothe marriage. We laugh another about it it. In the morning we go to

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Making a Difference Meet some heroes from the Pepsi Refresh Project

Good Neighbors, Great Causes

‘We won’t push patients beyond their comfort zones,’ says dentist Casie Burk Jones (center)

BY SHARON MALE

A spark (of inspiration), a click

O (of a mouse to vote), a check (to

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ensure an idea is worthy). Those were the only steps needed to be a winner with the Pepsi Refresh Project, which this year asked Americans to vote online for the best ways to benefit their communities. Each month the people behind the proposals that earned the most votes were awarded grants (up to $250,000) and given help executing them.

Here are a few of the 384 winning ideas.

DENTAL CARE FOR DISABLED KIDS Group Noll Dental Clinic, Springfield, Ill. Award $50,000 The prospect of a visit to the dentist can unsettle anyone. But for young people with autism and other developmental disabilities, it can be traumatic—to the point that many refuse to be treated or are forced to have routine procedures performed under costly, and risky, general anesthesia. “It may take several visits before they feel comfortable even opening their mouths,” says Joshua Renken, a dentist in Springfield, Ill. And the fact that some of these patients can’t voice what’s bothering them

can make the situation even more complicated.

Last spring, Renken, 34, opened the nonprofit Noll Dental Clinic with the goal of aiding this underserved group, and doing so with kindness and patience. Insurance is accepted, but those without coverage are charged according to what they can afford.

Casie Burk Jones, the dentist who runs the clinic, uses puppets, toys, and other props to explain the procedures and put patients at ease.

‘We want to fulfill the dreams of every veteran,’ says co-founder Kevin Haynes

She and her hygienist, Kim Trapani, also take extensive notes on their likes and dislikes.

“Maybe they don’t like mint,” Burk Jones says.

“So we’ll use a different kind of toothpaste. It can be as simple as that.”

The first time Jack

Valentine, 19, visited the clinic, he barely made it through the door. Slowly he relaxed, and by his sixth visit, though he wouldn’t sit in the dentist’s chair, he pulled a chair up to the hygienist’s tray and let her work on his teeth for

50 minutes. For most of us, a trip to the dentist means nothing more than a good cleaning. But for these patients and their families, it’s much more. “It was amazing,“ says Jack’s grateful mom, Sandy. “This is a big deal for him—a huge step.”

A BIG THANK-YOU TO AILING VETS Group Warrior’s Wish Foundation, Machias, N.Y. Award $50,000 A few years ago, when a veteran in western New York suffering from cancer needed a bathroom built on the first floor of his home

because he couldn’t climb stairs, the local American Legion post came to his aid and constructed one. But two of its members, Kevin Haynes and David Wright, wanted to do more, so they and a committed group of volunteers pitched in on

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of three who served in Iraq and was diagnosed with leukemia in January. “I thought it would be great if he could take the kids to Disneyland and make some fun memories with them,” says his wife, Christine. “My husband told me, ‘Honey, don’t ask for a wish. I don’t need anyone to pay me back; I was just doing my duty.’ But I answered, ‘It’s not about paying you back. It’s about saying thank you.’ ”

BRIDGING THE GENERATIONS Group: Sketches of a Memory, Union City, Calif.

Award: $50,000 In 2008, Janet Ballelos, then 23, suffered a stroke and had to drop out of law school. While recovering at a nursing home run by her brother in Union City, Calif., she observed that the residents had lots of stories to tell—but no one to listen. At the same time, she says, “I noticed that a lot of young people aren’t blessed to have grandparents in their lives.” So she started Sketches of a Memory, which arranges for

DOING GOOD FOR FOOD

DANCING TO SUCCESS Group KIDDS Dance Project, Lithonia, Ga. Award $50,000 Fifteen years ago, Pat Martin, a founder and executive director of KIDDS Dance Project, bought tutus for the girls at the home day care she ran. “They’d say, ‘Miss Pat, if I eat my vegetables, can I put on the tutu?’ I realized—that’s some power!” Although she has no formal training, Martin, 54, choreographed routines for her charges, who performed at a local church. More kids joined—boys, too—and she realized that dance could inspire them to succeed in their lives.

Says Mesheka Carson, 23, who has performed

‘ “Character is better than talent” is our motto,’ says volunteer Mesheka Carson

Group SHARE Program, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. Award $25,000

“If you eat, you qualify.”

That’s the principle behind SHARE—SelfHelp and Resource Exchange. In return for with the group since age performing two hours of 8 and is now a volunteer: community service each “Many kids don’t have month—from helping someplace to go after at its headquarters school to get away from and in schools to the pressure to do drugs running errands for or have sex. KIDDS seniors—people can buy Dance is that place.” groceries from SHARE With a computer lab and for 50% less than they’d ballet, karate, acting, and pay at a store. At the recording studios group’s Philadelphia opening in January, location, this may Martin wants to show include fresh produce students that their future from its small city farm. is full of possibilities.

Started in 1986, SHARE Next on her wish list: now has around 20,000 Bringing KIDDS Dance participants each month, to Broadway. about 20% “I just know of whom YOU CAN STILL VOTE! it will work!” receive Help select the final she declares. government batch of winners at Spoken like a assistance. refresheverything.com. true dreamer.

“Our clients

‘I want kids to have the feeling of being complete I got from my grandparents,’ says founder Janet Ballelos

seniors to meet regularly with local teenagers and share their recollections with them. Both groups are benefiting from the exchange. Seventeen-

come from all walks of life,” executive director Steveanna Wynn says.

“When we’re sorting potatoes, you can’t tell who works for a big corporation and who is homeless.” The foodfor-service model works because “everyone is

year-olds Audrey Miciano and Marissa Phelan now love the woman they call “Grandma Aurora” (all three, above).

While their month-long program has ended, their meetings have continued. “She’s so resilient,” Miciano says.

“She was in the hospital twice last month, but still she always smiles.”

valuable. We all have something we can contribute.”

‘Our program shows we’re all part of the larger solution,’ says executive director Steveanna Wynn

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their own and built the man a 1100-square-foot addition. “When it was over, we wanted to do it again,” Haynes says, “and again and again.” In 2008, they started Warrior’s Wish Foundation, an organization that fulfills the dreams of veterans with terminal and lifelimiting illnesses. It has granted 100 wishes since then, including sending veterans and their families to Disneyland.

One recipient was David Griffin, 26, a father

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the makeup trailer and just kind of look at each other, and we both can tell if the other one feels like talking or if we’re gonna wait a couple of hours. I think we read each other pretty well.

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What’s the best part of working on NCIS: Los Angeles?

I’m not gonna lie to you. It’s kind of fun to go around shooting people and ripping around in cars. I watch my kids at home running around playing cops and robbers. I’m doing the same thing on TV—and getting paid.

Do you have a hidden talent?

My kids think I’m pretty good at LEGOs. I can also drink a beer off my forehead without using my hands. I learned that in college. It wasn’t my major, but I did learn it there.

What else do you love to do with your family?

Grocery shop! The kids love to go to Target or Costco with me, because they know I’m obsessed. I have to walk down every aisle. They know I’ll say, “Yeah, throw one in.” They’re like, “Daddy, we don’t need one of those,” and I’ll say, “Yeah, but it’s probably good to have another one.” When I was a kid, we’d do a big shop on Saturday. You know, Mom and Dad aren’t looking, and you’re piling Cocoa Puffs into the cart.

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SundayDinner

Suspense novelist Dean Koontz offers a holiday side dish to make your heart swoon

“At holiday meals, each person at the table tells a story about a relative or friend— even a pet—who has passed on.

Remembering is a way of keeping them in our lives.”

“We roast a turkey each year, so at some point during dinner, we ‘roast’ one another, too.

Being able to laugh at yourself fosters humility.”

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I fell in love with my wife, Gerda, in high school. Her wit, intelligence, beauty, grace, and humility won my heart in the first 10 minutes of our first date. My enchantment grew when she invited me to Sunday dinner with her family—and one of the side dishes that she contributed was baked corn. Baked corn! I had fallen in love with a goddess! All these years later, I remember no other food at that dinner besides the corn.

The sight of the thin crust, golden overall and golden brown in places, brought tears of joy to my eyes. I can recall the precise aroma of that delicious dish on that long-ago evening. I’m sure that Gerda smelled wonderful, too, but her baked corn was an olfactory triumph.

Gerda and I recently celebrated our 44th anniversary. Her many fine qualities have been the glue that keeps our relationship strong. But if you’re young and hoping for a long marriage, a good baked-corn recipe cannot be overvalued.

The Best Baked Corn “The flavor, the texture—this is what God expected when He sat down at His table.”

1 cup milk 2 Tbsp butter 1 Tbsp sugar 2 Tbsp flour 1 15-oz. can of corn (whole and drained) 2 eggs (well beaten)

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Stay Healthy

Now you can help protect both your son and daughter with GARDASIL.

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by Emily Listfield

Because HPV disease can impact males and females.

Avoid Holiday

There are over 30 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that will affect an estimated 75% to 80% of males and females in their lifetime. For most, HPV clears on its own. But, for 30 women a day in the US (about 11,000 women a year), certain types of HPV lead to cervical cancer.

Weight Gain es, you can enjoy the season without packing on the pounds. Judith Beck, Ph.D., author of The Beck Diet Solution, offers these tips:

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Other types of HPV can cause genital warts in both males and females. It is estimated that each minute in the US, there is a new case of genital warts.

• Follow the 300-calorie rule.

GARDASIL is the only HPV vaccine that helps protect against 4 types of HPV. In girls and young women ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 2 types of HPV that cause about 75% of cervical cancer cases, and 2 more types that cause 90% of genital warts cases. In boys and young men ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 90% of genital warts cases.

“Don’t restrict yourself unreasonably. Instead, eat a little of what you love. One good rule of thumb: Allow yourself up to 300 extra calories only on days you have special events. You may gain a pound or two, but not the five or 10 you might otherwise.”

• Have a party strategy. “If it’s not a 300-extra-calorie day, first fill up on diet drinks. At the buffet, look over everything before choosing, then take moderate portions of the three or four foods you love most. And limit yourself to one alcoholic drink.”

• Don’t let one slip-up throw you. “If you eat an extra cupcake,

you probably won’t gain weight.

But if you say to yourself, ‘I can’t believe I did that! I might as well eat whatever I want today and start my diet again tomorrow,’ you could gain two pounds overnight. Think of it this way: If you made a mistake and went through a red light, would you continue to go through red lights for the rest of the day? Of course not.”

• Don’t write off exercise. “Take every chance you can to get it.

Walk up the stairs. Get off the elevator two floors early. Park far away from stores. It all adds up.”

Your child could be

GARDASIL may not fully protect everyone. GARDASIL does not prevent all types of cervical cancer, so it’s important for women to continue routine cervical cancer screenings. GARDASIL does not treat cervical cancer or genital warts. GARDASIL is given as 3 injections over 6 months.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION

person affected by HPV disease.

Anyone who is allergic to the ingredients of GARDASIL, including those severely allergic to yeast, should not receive the vaccine. GARDASIL is not for women who are pregnant.

The side effects include pain, swelling, itching, bruising, and redness at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, and fainting. Fainting can happen after getting GARDASIL. Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your health care professional may ask your child to sit or lie down for 15 minutes after your child gets GARDASIL. Some people who faint might shake or become stiff. This may require evaluation or treatment by your child’s health care professional.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Please see the Patient Information on the next page to discuss it with your child’s doctor or health care professional.

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9883613 USPPI Patient Information about GARDASIL® (pronounced “gard-Ah-sill”) Generic name: [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant]

What is GARDASIL? GARDASIL is a vaccine (injection/shot) that is used for girls and women 9 through 26 years of age to help protect against the following diseases caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV): • Cervical cancer • Vulvar and vaginal cancers • Genital warts • Abnormal and precancerous cervical, vaginal, and vulvar lesions The diseases listed above have many causes, and GARDASIL only protects against diseases caused by certain kinds of HPV (called Type 6, Type 11, Type 16, and Type 18). Most of the time, these 4 types of HPV are responsible for the diseases listed above.

GARDASIL cannot protect you from a disease that is caused by other types of HPV, other viruses, or bacteria.

GARDASIL does not treat HPV infection.

You cannot get HPV or any of the above diseases from GARDASIL. GARDASIL is used for boys and men 9 through 26 years of age to help protect against genital warts.

What important information about GARDASIL should I know?

• You should continue to get routine cervical cancer screening.

• GARDASIL may not fully protect everyone who gets the vaccine.

• GARDASIL will not protect against HPV types that you already have.

Who should not get GARDASIL? You should not get GARDASIL if you have, or have had: • an allergic reaction after getting a dose of GARDASIL. • a severe allergic reaction to yeast, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, polysorbate 80.

What should I tell my health care provider before getting GARDASIL? Tell your health care provider if you: • are pregnant or planning to get pregnant. GARDASIL is not recommended for use in pregnant women.

• have immune problems, like HIV infection, cancer, or you take medicines that affect your immune system.

• have a fever over 100°F (37.8°C).

• had an allergic reaction to another dose of GARDASIL. • take any medicines, even those you can buy over the counter.

Your health care provider will help decide if you should get the vaccine.

How is GARDASIL given?

GARDASIL is a shot that is usually given in the arm muscle.

You will need 3 shots given on the following schedule: • Dose 1: at a date you and your health care provider choose.

• Dose 2: 2 months after Dose 1.

• Dose 3: 6 months after Dose 1.

Fainting can happen after getting GARDASIL. Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your health care provider may ask you to sit or lie down for 15 minutes after you get GARDASIL. Some people who faint might shake or become stiff. This may require evaluation or treatment by your health care provider.

Can other vaccines and medications be given at the same time as GARDASIL? GARDASIL can be given at the same time as RECOMBIVAX HB ®1 [hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant)] or Menactra [Meningococcal (Groups A, C, Y and W-135) Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine] and Adacel [Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed (Tdap)].

What are the possible side effects of GARDASIL? The most common side effects with GARDASIL are: • pain, swelling, itching, bruising, and redness at the injection site • headache • fever • nausea • dizziness • vomiting • fainting There was no increase in side effects when GARDASIL was given at the same time as RECOMBIVAX HB [hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant)].

There was more injection-site swelling at the injection site for GARDASIL when GARDASIL was given at the same time as Menactra [Meningococcal (Groups A, C, Y and W-135) Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine] and Adacel [Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed (Tdap)].

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Harold Robbins’ once-racy The Carpetbaggers is one of several unexpected picks in this collection, which also touts classic fare like James Joyce’s Ulysses. And since each sparkling essay (by writers including Julia Glass and Francine Prose) is really a mini-memoir, it can be savored on at least two levels.

Tell your health care provider if you have any of the following problems because these may be signs of an allergic reaction: • difficulty breathing • wheezing (bronchospasm) • hives • rash Tell your health care provider if you have: • swollen glands (neck, armpit, or groin) • joint pain • unusual tiredness, weakness, or confusion • chills • generally feeling unwell • leg pain • shortness of breath • chest pain • aching muscles • muscle weakness • seizure • bad stomach ache • bleeding or bruising more easily than normal

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Contact your health care provider right away if you get any symptoms that concern you, even several months after getting the vaccine.

For a more complete list of side effects, ask your health care provider.

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Read this information with care before getting GARDASIL.1 You (the person getting GARDASIL) will need 3 doses of the vaccine.

It is important to read this leafl et when you get each dose.

This leaflet does not take the place of talking with your health care provider about GARDASIL.

What are the ingredients in GARDASIL? The ingredients are proteins of HPV Types 6, 11, 16, and 18, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, yeast protein, sodium chloride, L-histidine, polysorbate 80, sodium borate, and water for injection.

This leaflet is a summary of information about GARDASIL. If you would like more information, please talk to your health care provider or visit www.gardasil.com.

Issued June 2010

Make sure that you get all 3 doses on time so that you get the best protection. If you miss a dose, talk to your health care provider.

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and I’m a Christmasmusic addict.

In just the last hour, Brenda Lee was rockin’ around the Christmas tree, Andy Williams had the hap-happiest season of all, and Bing Crosby crooned “Mele Kalikimaka,” which always makes me want to grab a lei and do the ho-hohula across the kitchen floor.

If you don’t know that song, you’ve probably never taken the time to listen to Crosby’s album, best known for its title track, “White Christmas.” Not that I blame you—you never spent the month of December with my parents. I grew up visualizing “the land where palm trees sway,” because “Mele Kalikimaka” was on one of Dad’s favorite Christmas albums, second only to one recorded by Dean Martin.

Dad liked Dean Martin since he was from Steubenville, Ohio, which was less than 100 miles from our house in Ashtabula. Dad also liked Dean Martin because he was convinced he sounded just like him, especially when he was singing along to “Marshmallow World.”

Whenever my father sang, I went straight for favorite-daughter status by saying, “Wow, Dad, you sound just like Dean Martin.” He’d grin, and I’d pretend not to see Mom roll her eyes and mouth, “Shame. On. You.” I love the holiday season and every corny song that comes with it. So many memories. Take the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “Linus and Lucy” from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Instantly, I see Snoopy

Family Tree: The author and her younger siblings, Chuckie, Toni, and Leslie, in 1965

and the rest of the Peanuts gang bobbing their heads with their arms plastered to their sides, which is exactly how half the guys I dated danced at wedding receptions. Talk about memories.

Christmas was always a magical time when I was growing up, and not just because we had a whole month when Dad stopped yelling at us to turn off the lights. Mom would turn our house into one big snow globe. She was locally famous for her TV-top Nativity scene, which she plopped onto a pile of fake snow and accessorized with an eyepopping assortment of Christmas kitsch.

I love the holiday season and every corny song that comes with it.

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Every family on the street had a crèche, but only in the Schultz house could you find red snowmen, green elves, and 14 wise men hanging out with Baby Jesus.

One year, Mom decided we needed new Christmas stockings because our old ones didn’t match. She was big on matching, which had a tremendous impact on me. To this day, I can’t trust men who wear paisley ties with striped shirts, because once Mom tugged on my arm and pointed to a guy wearing just such a combo while we were standing in line at the drugstore. “Would you look at that?” she said. “Makes you wonder.”

Mom wanted new Christmas stockings, and there I was: 15 and the family whiz on the Singer sewing machine, having six years earlier made a pincushion and a pot holder in my single year with 4-H. To Mom, I was practically Oleg Cassini.

“You could make new stockings,” she said. “Think of the pride you’d feel.”

Off we went to Woolworth’s, where we bought enough felt to carpet the living room. When I asked if she had a design in mind, she smiled.

“Surprise me,” she said.

A week later, four new stockings were hanging in the living room when she came home from work. Mom was a nurse’s aide and usually looked exhausted when she walked through the door, but she sure snapped to attention that Friday.

“My goodness,” she said carefully, trying hard to smile. “Those stockings are as big as your little brother.”

I nodded and immediately agreed that stuffing the little pest into one and letting him hang there until

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Christmas was a fine idea.

Which turned out to be not even close to her point. For the next six years, my Christmas stocking bulged with oranges, hand towels, and personalhygiene products.

“That Santa,” Mom would say.

“He thinks of everything.”

I wanted to stop my bone loss.

But I did more. I reversed it with BONIVA.*

A Few of My Favorite Things…

1. “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” by Burl Ives, as sung by the snowman in that television classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In my mind’s eye, I can still see the Norelco Santa riding his electric shaver down snowy slopes, just the way he did during the commercial break in 1965.

2. “Trepak” (“Russian Dance”), from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, performed by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Whenever my husband hears this song, he dances. Every marriage has its secrets.

3. “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm,” by Bette Midler. I always sing along with Bette and imagine it’s me, not her, pulling off candy-apple-red gloves one finger at a time as fake snow blows through my hair and the crowd roars. Don’t tell me you haven’t had the same fantasy.

4. “Cherry Cherry Christmas,” by Neil Diamond. Neil and I, we go way back. My childhood dog was named Shilo, which makes Neil practically kin. I’m sure he joins me in wishing you a very merry cherry cherry Christmas, and a holly holy holiday, too. —C.S.

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BONIVA is a prescription medication to treat and prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis.

Ask your doctor if BONIVA is right for you.

Important Safety Information: You should not take BONIVA if you have certain problems with your esophagus (the tube that connects your mouth and stomach), low blood calcium, cannot sit or stand for at least 60 minutes, have severe kidney disease, or are allergic to BONIVA. Stop taking BONIVA and tell your doctor right away if you experience difficult or painful swallowing, chest pain, or severe or continuing heartburn, as these may be signs of serious upper digestive problems. Follow the dosing instructions for once-monthly BONIVA carefully to lower the chance of these events occurring. Side effects may include diarrhea, pain in the arms or legs, or upset stomach. Tell your doctor and dentist about all the medicines you take. Tell them if you develop jaw problems (especially following a dental procedure) or severe bone, joint, and/or muscle pain. Your doctor may also recommend a calcium and vitamin D supplement.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

*Bone density measured at the lumbar spine after 1 year of treatment. Individual results may vary. †Bone

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IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT BONIVA (bon-EE-va) ibandronate sodium 150-mg tablet

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What is BONIVA?

BONIVA, a bisphosphonate, is a prescription medicine used to treat and prevent osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, characterized by weakening of the bone.

Taken once a month in tablet form, BONIVA may stop and reverse bone loss in most women. It has been clinically proven to help build and maintain bone density, which can help reduce fractures.

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I am writing from a military base in Iraq. We are encouraged to drink a lot of water, and we keep our refrigeratorfreezer filled with it. We’ve noticed that if you put a bottle in the freezer, the water sometimes remains a crystal-clear liquid. Yet when you take the bottle out, the water starts to freeze and then turns quickly into frozen mush. Why does this happen?

—John Parrott, Alabaster, Ala.

What is the most important information about BONIVA? BONIVA may cause serious problems in the stomach and the esophagus (the tube that connects your mouth and stomach) such as trouble swallowing, heartburn, and ulcers.

Who should not take BONIVA?

Before you start BONIVA.

Do not take BONIVA if you:

Tell your health care provider if you:

• have abnormalities with your esophagus, such as restriction or difficulty swallowing • have low blood calcium (hypocalcemia) • cannot sit or stand for at least 60 minutes • have kidneys that work very poorly • are allergic to BONIVA or any of its ingredients See Patient Information for complete list.

• are pregnant or plan to become pregnant • are breast-feeding • have trouble swallowing or other problems with your esophagus • have kidney problems • are planning a dental procedure such as tooth extraction Tell your health care provider and dentist about all medications you’re taking, including vitamins, antacids, and supplements.

How should you take BONIVA?

You must take BONIVA exactly as instructed by your health care provider.

• If you miss a monthly dose and your next scheduled BONIVA day is more • Take first thing in the morning, on the same day each month. than 7 days away, take one BONIVA 150 mg tablet in the morning following • Swallow whole (do not chew or suck) with a full glass (6 to 8 oz) of the day that you remember. Do not take two 150 mg tablets within the same plain water (not sparkling or mineral). Do not take with tea, coffee, week. If your scheduled BONIVA day is only 1 to 7 days away, wait until your juice, or milk. next scheduled BONIVA day to take your tablet. Then return to taking one • After you take BONIVA, remain standing or sitting for at least BONIVA 150 mg tablet every month in the morning of your chosen day, 60 minutes before you eat, drink, lie down, or take any other oral according to your original schedule. If you are not sure what to do if you medications, including calcium, vitamins, and antacids. Some miss a dose, contact your health care provider, who will be able to advise you. medicines can stop BONIVA from getting to your bones.

• If you take too much BONIVA, drink a full glass of milk and call your local poison control center or emergency room right away.

Do not make yourself vomit. Do not lie down.

The phenomenon is called “supercooling.” Ordinarily, water freezes at 32°F, but if your bottled water is distilled or purified— and undisturbed for a while—it may not be able to crystallize into ice, even at a temperature below freezing. Yet move it, and enjoy what happens!

What are the possible side effects of BONIVA?

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Stop taking BONIVA and call your health care provider right away if you have pain or trouble swallowing, chest pain, or very bad heartburn or heartburn that does not get better. Follow dosing instructions carefully to decrease the risk of these effects.

BONIVA may cause:

Common side effects are:

Less common side effects are:

• Pain or trouble swallowing • Heartburn • Ulcers in stomach or esophagus

• Diarrhea • Pain in extremities (arms or legs) • Upset stomach

• Short-term, mild flu-like symptoms, which usually improve after the first dose

This week’s word is: TUSCH What’s the definition?

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Rarely, patients have reported allergic and skin reactions. Contact your health care provider if you develop any symptoms of an allergic reaction including skin rash (with or without blisters), hives, wheezing, or swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat. Get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing, swallowing, or feel light-headed.

Rarely, patients have reported severe bone, joint, and/or muscle pain starting within one day to several months after beginning to take oral bisphosphonate drugs. Contact your health care provider if you develop these symptoms after starting BONIVA. Rarely, patients have reported serious jaw problems associated with delayed healing and infection, often following dental procedures such as tooth extraction.

If you experience jaw problems, contact your health care provider and dentist.

This summary is not a complete list of side effects. For a complete list, consult your health care provider or pharmacist.

Want to know more?

This summary is not everything you need to know about BONIVA. It does not take the place of talking with your health care provider about your condition or treatment. For more complete information, talk to your health care provider or pharmacist.

Visit myboniva.com or call 1-888-MyBONIVA for the complete Prescribing Information, which includes the Patient Information.

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All of the many types of virgin olive oils are made from the first pressing. They vary mainly in acidity. The more virginal, the less acid! However, the differences are slight. It’s easy to pay a high price for qualities that you’ll never notice—or miss.

“Premium extra-virgin” is considered the finest, but cooking with it is a waste of money.

Better to use it as a dip for bread or drizzled onto a special salad. At the opposite end of virgin territory is “semi-fine virgin” oil. It’s good for cooking but lacks enough flavor to be enjoyed alone.

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