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Deschutes banks more locally, cites better rates Potentially boosting the area’s economy is an added benefit, the treasurer says

By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

Over the past few months, Deschutes County’s treasurer has quietly moved nearly all of the county’s certificates of deposit into Northwest community banks.

The county now has more than $9 million in 12- to 18-month certificates with community banks. That’s in addition to the $10 million it has in an interest-bearing account at Bank of the Cascades, said county Treasurer Marty Wynne.

The decision came down to which banks offered the best rate of return. Lately, community banks have offered the most competitive rates, said Wynne, the county’s finance director and elected treasurer. A permanent increase in the federal deposit insurance limit also helped.

And it’s an added benefit that depositing the money in community banks may also help the local economy.

“It’s our way of trying to help the local economy,” Wynne said. “If there’s more money to loan to businesses and those businesses have more money to expand, hopefully that has some minor impact on creating jobs.”

Currently, community banks’ certificate of deposit rates are roughly 0.35 to 1 percentage point higher than rates that some of the larger financial institutions offered to Deschutes County government.

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Mirror Pond was created in 1910. Over the years, silt has become an issue.

Fixing Mirror Pond demands a new look, officials say New project manager will ‘carry the ball,’ examine analysis costs

By Nick Grube The Bulletin

Officials from local government and the private sector recently teamed up to hire someone who they hope can find a solution to the longstanding sedimentation problem in Bend’s Mirror Pond.

The pond, which was created in 1910 after the construction of the Pacific Power and Light dam on the Deschutes River near Newport Avenue, is considered by many to be a crown jewel of downtown Bend.

But over the years, increased deposits of silt from upstream have essentially clogged the pond, creating shallow mud flats that have altered its aesthetic character while also contributing to water quality problems on the river.

To find a fix, the city of Bend, the Park & Recreation District, Pacific Power and the company behind the Old Mill District, William Smith Properties, pooled some money to pay for a project manager who will now study the problem and find out how much it would cost to hire someone to then analyze the various options to get rid of the sediment.

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Amy and Robert Ahleman were able to keep their home through a loan modification, but such a success story remains the exception.

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Latest argument over wilderness: border security

Mark Speck with his parents, Rose and Paul Speck, at their home in Bend. As a team manager, Mark is helping the Oregon football team prepare for the national title game on Jan. 10 in Glendale, Ariz. Paul Speck has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

A former Bend High running back, Speck, 22, plays a big role in Oregon’s preparation for the national championship game — even as his father struggles with a grim disease

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POTRILLO MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, N.M. — A new front has opened in the centuries-old battle over preserving federal lands in the West, with some advocates of a tighter border arguing that designating some lands as wilderness — meaning they are so precious that no mechanized vehicle can enter — hinders border security.

The U.S. Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies can take vehicles into wilderness areas while chasing lawbreakers. But to patrol the lands by vehicle, plant sensors or build operating bases, they must get permission from the federal agency controlling the region.

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EUGENE — he pace, as always, is relentless.

Hip-hop music blares in the Moshofsky Center indoor practice facility as the University of Oregon football team runs play after play in a hastened, but organized, blur.

All the stars of the nation’s leading offense are here: quarterback Darron Thomas, running back LaMichael James, wide receiver Jeff Maehl. They’re fast, and they know they have to be even faster as they prepare to play topranked Auburn in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 10 in Glendale, Ariz.

But Bend’s Mark Speck has to be a step ahead of the entire offense — he is spotting the ball be-

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tween each and every play.

“Tempo! Tempo!” yells head coach Chip Kelly.

He gets in players’ faces, ordering them to sprint back to the line of scrimmage, where Speck has positioned the ball for the next snap.

Onlookers hardly notice Speck, a blondhaired senior student manager in gym shorts and a T-shirt, lost in a jumble of massive offensive and defensive linemen.

But Kelly knows the importance of Speck — a 22-year-old former standout running back and kicker at Bend High — and the six other managers who help facilitate practice, among other duties.

“Great hustler, great kid,” Kelly says of Speck following the practice. “He’s got a great understanding of football. He’s really an unsung hero for us.”

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Two and a half years ago, Robert and Amy Ahleman, a construction contractor and a financial services employee, were mired in a mortgage nightmare.

After missing just one loan payment on their modest, well-kept bungalow in Bensalem, Pa., the couple began receiving notices from their lender. Default fees and eviction threats followed.

As the amounts they owed ballooned because of mounting late fees and other dubious charges, their lender refused to take their payments, claiming they were insufficient — which put the Ahlemans even further behind.

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White House returns to end-of-life plan

By Robert Pear New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.

Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for endof-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.

Congressional supporters of the new policy, though pleased, have kept quiet. They fear provoking another furor like the one in 2009 when Republicans seized on the idea of end-of-life counseling to argue that the Democrats’ bill would allow the government to cut off care for the critically ill.

The final version of the health care legislation, signed into law

by President Barack Obama in March, authorized Medicare coverage of yearly physical examinations, or wellness visits. The new rule says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of the annual visit.

Under the rule, doctors can provide information to patients on how to prepare an “advance directive,” stating how aggressively they wish to be treated if they are so sick that they cannot make health care decisions for themselves.

While the new law does not mention advance care planning, the Obama administration has

Blumenauer urges ‘quiet victory’ Several Democratic members of Congress, led by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, of Oregon, and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, had urged the administration to cover end-oflife planning as a service offered under the Medicare wellness benefit. A national organization of hospice care providers made the same recommendation.

Blumenauer, author of the original end-of-life proposal, praised the rule as “a step in the right direction.”

After learning of the administration’s decision, Blumenauer’s office celebrated “a quiet victory,” but urged supporters been able to achieve its policy goal through the regulation-writing process, a strategy that could become more prevalent in the next two years as the president deals with a strengthened Republican opposition in Congress.

In this case, the administration said research had shown the value of end-of-life planning.

“Advance care planning improves end-of-life care and patient and family satisfaction, and reduces stress, anxiety and depression in surviving relatives,” the administration said in the preamble to the Medicare regulation, quoting research published this year in the British Medical Journal.

Opponents said the Obama administration was bringing back a procedure that could be used to justify the premature withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from

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“While we are very happy with the result, we won’t be shouting it from the rooftops because we aren’t out of the woods yet,” Blumenauer’s office said in an e-mail in early November to people working with him on the issue. “This regulation could be modified or reversed, especially if Republican leaders try to use this small provision to perpetuate the ‘death panel’ myth.”

Moreover, the e-mail said: “We would ask that you not broadcast this accomplishment out to any of your lists, even if they are ‘supporters’ — e-mails can too easily be forwarded.”

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people with severe illnesses and disabilities.

Section 1233 of the bill passed by the House in November 2009 — but not included in the final legislation — allowed Medicare to pay for consultations about advance care planning every five years. In contrast, the new rule allows annual discussions as part of the wellness visit.

Elizabeth Wickham, executive director of LifeTree, which describes itself as “a pro-life Christian educational ministry,” said she was concerned that end-oflife counseling would encourage patients to forgo or curtail care, thus hastening death.

“The infamous Section 1233 is still alive and kicking,” Wickham said. “Patients will lose the ability to control treatments at the end of life.”

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Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during the “Urbi et Orbi” (to the City and to the World) message Saturday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

The pope used his Christmas Day message to urge Catholics in China to face limits on religious freedom and conscience in an address laced with worry for the world’s Christian minorities.

Saturday’s grim news seemed to highlight the pope’s concern for his flock’s welfare.

In northern Nigeria, attacks on two churches by Muslim sect members claimed six lives, while bombings in central Nigeria, a region plagued by Christian-Muslim violence, killed 32 people.

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Leaked diplomatic cables portray DEA as global intelligence network

By Ginger Thompson and Scott Shane New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables.

In far greater detail than previously seen, the cables, from the cache obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to some news organizations, offer glimpses of drug agents balancing diplomacy and law enforcement in places where it can be hard to tell the politicians from the traffickers, and where drug rings are themselves ministates whose wealth and violence permit them to run roughshod over struggling governments.

Diplomats recorded unforgettable vignettes from the largely unseen war on drugs: • In Panama, an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the U.S. ambassador demanded that the DEA go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones.”

• In Sierra Leone, a major cocaine-trafficking prosecution was almost upended by the attorney general’s attempt to solicit $2.5 million in bribes.

• In Guinea, the country’s biggest narcotics kingpin turned out to be the president’s son, and diplomats discovered that before the police destroyed a huge narcotics seizure, the drugs had been replaced by flour.

• Leaders of Mexico’s beleaguered military issued private pleas for closer collaboration with the drug agency, confessing that they had little faith in their own country’s police forces.

• Cables from Myanmar, the target of strict U.S. sanctions, describe the drug agency informants’ reporting both on how the military junta enriches itself with drug money and on the political activities of the junta’s opponents.

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Like many of the cables made public in recent weeks, those describing the drug war do not offer large disclosures. Rather, it is the details that add up to a clearer picture of the corrupting influence of big traffickers, the tricky game of figuring out which foreign officials are actually controlled by drug lords, and the story of how an entrepreneurial agency operat-

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Pond Continued from A1 “We need someone to sort of carry the ball,” City Manager Eric King said. “None of us (has) the resources on our respective staffs to dedicate to this project.”

In November, the group, working through the nonprofit, Bend 2030, decided unanimously to hire Michael McLandress of Brightwater Collaborative LLC to spearhead the Mirror Pond sedimentation project over the next year.

McLandress has lived in Bend for the past six years, and before that was in the San Francisco Bay area. Most recently, he was the construction project manager for the 67,000-square-foot Miller Elementary School in Bend that became the first Oregon school east of the Cascades to receive a gold certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design from the U.S. Green Building Council.

“There was a consensus among the four funding partners that he was the best guy for the job,” King said. “He definitely has a project management background, which is what we were looking for, and he has kind of immersed himself in the community.”

The contract between Bend 2030 and Brightwater Collaborative LLC is for $44,100, and goes through the end of next year. As a part of the deal, McLandress will have to review and refine the cost estimates and scope of work outlined in a 2009 study that was prepared by the city, Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and Portland consulting firm ICF Jones & Stokes. That study found it could cost up to $5 million to finish work on a solution for Mirror Pond’s sedimentation issue.

While McLandress’ contract does not call for him to actually come up with the various solutions — which could range anywhere from dredging the pond to removing the Newport Avenue dam to doing nothing and letting nature take its course — he will be responsible for finding a firm to do that study. He will also be involved in finding the funds to perform that alternatives analysis, which some have estimated could cost up to $500,000.

Matt Shinderman, who is a Bend 2030 board member and professor of natural resources at Oregon State University-Cascades Campus, said the hefty cost of the alternatives analysis is one of the major reasons officials wanted to hire a third party like McLandress to scrutinize figures and come up with a refined budget. He added that even if McLandress’s review doesn’t change anything, it is warranted

Banking Continued from A1 Officials at other Oregon municipalities have launched similar local investment efforts. In early November, the city of Beaverton began depositing $1.7 million with community banks, in increments of $240,000, according to a city news release. Later that month, Multnomah County commissioners established a Community Advantage Banking Program, to inject up to $10 million into locally owned banks, The Oregonian reported.

Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle said the city’s banking initiative is part of his plan to increase the availability of credit for small businesses. But local governments cannot force banks to lend out public money that’s deposited, so Beaverton officials simply asked the banks to make an effort to increase lending, Doyle said.

“They are starting to talk to people, so I think it’s starting to have a very positive effect for the small businesses we have here, and that to me is very exciting,” Doyle said Thursday.

Reform act is a factor The recent change in federal law also influenced Wynne’s decision to seek more certificates of deposit with community banks.

In July, the maximum deposit insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was permanently set at $250,000, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Previously, the FDIC insured deposits up to $100,000.

The limit was temporarily raised to $250,000 during the height of the financial meltdown.

“Now that it’s permanent, I feel more comfortable with a 12-

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Michael McLandress of Brightwater Collaborative LLC was recently hired as the project manager for a Mirror Pond sediment removal project.

“It’s just a really complicated project, and as much as I would like for there to be a neat and tidy solution, you’re dealing with almost 100 years of legacy there that you can’t make that go away.”

— Matt Shinderman, natural resources professor at Oregon State University-Cascades Campus because it’s such a lofty project with a number of different facets.

“It’s just a really complicated project, and as much as I would like for there to be a neat and tidy solution, you’re dealing with almost 100 years of legacy there that you can’t make that go away,” Shinderman said. “I think the group is really interested in not rushing the process because it is highly visible. It’s a big deal, and I think there’s genuine interest in coming up with a longterm viable solution that kind of maximizes the net benefits.”

Perhaps the easiest, and certainly most visible, culprit of Mirror Pond’s sedimentation problem is the dam at the Newport Avenue Bridge. The dam slows the movement of the water and whatever sediment that might be in it, causing the sediment to build up along the edges of the pond. But studies have found there are a number of other factors leading to the high amount of sediment.

“It’s really a symptom of the problems upstream,” Shinderman said. “And it’s not just one problem.”

He said there are some places along the Deschutes River that have had the native vegetation

removed or replaced by “turf grass.” The loss of that vegetation makes the banks unstable and causes erosion that deposits sediment in the river.

A much larger issue, however, is the management of the Wickiup Reservoir about 60 miles upstream, Shinderman said. Water released from the reservoir can have a dramatic impact on flows and discharge more sediment into the river depending on the season. According to the 2009 Mirror Pond study, water flows can vary by more than 1,500 cubic feet per second between summer and winter.

“The Mirror Pond group is not going to resolve those issues,” Shinderman said. “(But) what we would like to do is, through this process we would like to bring in all the various partners upstream. And as we’re doing this project, have them do projects upstream that will make this worthwhile.”

McLandress said he’s looking forward to undertaking such a complex project, and is especially excited about it since it’s one that will leave a lasting impression on the community where he now lives.

“Mirror Pond is such an iconic part of Bend that it begs to be

month or 18-month certificate of deposit,” Wynne said. Some banks do not want to take deposits above the $250,000 insurance limit, since they would have to provide collateral of at least 100 percent, he noted.

Deschutes County already had certificates of deposit with community banks, but added $2.9 million starting in the last six months, according to a county document.

Now, the county’s only remaining time certificate with a larger bank, outside the Northwest, is one for $2 million with Cleveland-based Key Bank, Wynne said.

James Sinks, a spokesman for state Treasurer Ted Wheeler, said the treasurer is working with federal lawmakers to try to further raise FDIC insurance limits.

“If you raise the insurance limit, the treasurer said it would unlock Oregon’s lending power,” Sinks said.

and lend that money to local businesses.

“You have to have capital first, before the deposit brings you any beneficial opportunity to turn that deposit into a lendable asset,” Castle said.

In Oregon, the amount of public funds a bank can accept is determined by how well capitalized the bank is.

Since July 2008, the Oregon State Treasury has required banks to have collateral ranging from 10 to 110 percent of public funds deposited above the FDIC insurance limit, depending on how well capitalized the banks are. The amount of collateral is based on a bank’s quarterly FDIC rating.

But right now, low interest rates mean community banks “can’t match the collateral yield to the deposit price,” Castle said.

“It’s forcing community banks to exit the public deposit arena.”

Wynne said he’s familiar with this problem.

“Frankly, a lot of local banks aren’t interested in public funds for that reason,” Wynne said.

Castle acknowledged that it’s still difficult for some businesses to get loans in Central Oregon.

“Qualifications are being enhanced or made more difficult, because of the consequences of loose credit in the past,” Castle said. “The loan dollars will not free up until some of these issues are resolved, and some of the uncertainty is gone, and the money flows more freely.”

As for the duration of Wynne’s deposits in community banks, he said it depends upon the rate of return.

“This lasts only as long as the rates are competitive,” Wynne said.

Banks differ on impact Two of the banks where Deschutes County has certificates of deposit are Umpqua Bank and South Valley Bank and Trust.

Steve Braden, executive vice president and regional manager for Umpqua Bank, said those deposits do help the bank lend to the local community.

“Deposits in general are great for the bank, so we can in turn lend out money directly to our local communities that we serve,” Braden said. “Any and all deposits certainly help with lending activity and growth in business and consumer opportunities.”

Bill Castle, chief executive officer at South Valley Bank and Trust in Klamath Falls, said, though, that more county deposits do not necessarily mean community banks can turn around

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fixed,” McLandress said. “This is the first time that we’re really coming to a great synergy in trying to solve the problem.”

One of the most important aspects of his job, he said, will be getting input from the public on what should be included in the scope of work for the alternatives analysis. Like Shinderman, he understands the complexities of the project and realizes a solution will likely involve stakeholders from throughout the region.

He also said he realized this won’t be easy, and with all the various stakeholders, might even involve some controversy.

“The trick is how as a community, based on our values and our changing social fabric, can we adapt to the change that’s happening in Mirror Pond and the change that has been occurring in Mirror Pond for generations,” McLandress said.

“Mother Nature has been altered, and she’s fighting back. We have to make a decision on how we want to adapt to the changes of the appearance of Mirror Pond and to what degree we want to pay for the fix to keep it as is or modify it so water flows faster through the pond and distributes the silt in a different way.”

Nick Grube can be reached at 541-633-2160 or at ngrube@bendbulletin.com.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A winter storm that brought a rare white Christmas to parts of the South barreled up the East Coast on Saturday night, with forecasters predicting 6 to 10 inches of snow today for Washington and blizzard conditions for New York City and the New Jersey shore.

Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency as crews tried to clear snowy and icy highways. Authorities in the Mid-Atlantic states spent Christmas Day preparing for up to a foot of snow. And airlines began canceling flights in the Northeast corridor before the intensifying storm descended.

The storm was already scrambling the plans of holiday travelers along the Eastern Seaboard. Motorists will be facing treacherous road conditions in many states today

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Continental Airlines canceled 250 departures from Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City.

United Airlines announced late Saturday that it had canceled 61 Sunday departures from Newark, Philadelphia, New York’s LaGuardia and JFK, Boston, Bradley International in Connecticut, Providence, Albany International and Manchester Boston Regional Airport.

“Our concern is tomorrow it’s going to get significantly colder,” Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell told The Weather Channel.

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“Given how much we love the house and our neighborhood, being able to go through that and get out of it makes you look at life totally different,” says Amy Ahleman, 33. “We can wake up every morning now and not worry about our house being ripped out from underneath us.”

Continued from A1 The couple soon realized that filing for bankruptcy was the only way to save their home.

At the time, the Ahlemans had two mortgages, one for just under $200,000 and a second for $50,000, and the debt was smothering them.

Today, however, the Ahlemans have a happier story to tell. Not only did they survive their harrowing experience with their home intact, but they say they have emerged happier and thriftier for it.

“Given how much we love the house and our neighborhood, being able to go through that and get out of it makes you look at life totally different,” says Amy Ahleman, 33. “We can wake up every morning now and not worry about our house being ripped out from underneath us.”

In July 2008, when the Ahlemans’ troubles were first detailed in a front-page article in The New York Times, their experience was less common than it is today (read the story online at www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/ business/20debtside.html). Since then, of course, millions of average Americans have been sucked into a foreclosure maelstrom that is ruining their finances and their lives.

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a unit of Goldman Sachs.

Amy Ahleman said she immediately began pestering Litton for a loan modification.

“I harassed and harassed Litton,” she recalls. “We had to submit the paperwork right when our loan was transferred. We didn’t hear anything through January and February. I would call them hysterical, crying.”

After months of no progress, in spring 2009, a reporter called Litton to ask why the Ahlemans’ loan modification was stalled.

Litton responded quickly and later made the couple a compelling offer: It said it would cut the interest rate on their first mortgage from a variable rate of 9.3 percent to a fixed rate of 4.59 percent. Litton also offered to waive $38,332 in arrears on their loan, which included late fees and legal costs that had accumulated while the loan was in default.

Separately, Banco Popular, the bank that owned the $50,000 second mortgage on the Ahlemans’ property — which carried a whopping interest rate of 12 percent — wrote it off entirely.

This eliminated the couple’s obligation to pay the debt, which had grown to $62,000, including fees and other charges. (The couple paid taxes on the forgiven mortgage.)

Under the terms of the new loan, the Ahlemans’ mortgage obligations dropped from almost $250,000 to roughly $198,000.

Their monthly payment fell to $1,376 from $1,959.

The Ahlemans say their loan deal gave them a life-changing second chance. Since they received it in June 2009, they have made their payments on time; they emerged from bankruptcy a year ago.

With work busy for both of them, they have been able to put money away in case they hit another rough spot.

“We like to have one or two mortgage payments in a savings account so that money is there to fall back on if we do have a bad month,” Amy Ahleman says.

“From going through that whole experience, we became very frugal. Every now and then, we’ll go out to dinner, but we don’t splurge or go on shopping sprees.”

Newly thrifty The Ahlemans hold no credit cards, except for the one that Robert Ahleman, 36, uses for his contracting business. They cut up their credit cards in 2008, when they filed for bankruptcy, paying them off under a courtapproved plan.

“If we can’t pay cash for it, we don’t buy it,” Amy Ahleman says.

“That’s one thing we learned.

Credit cards will get you in trouble. I will never allow myself to get in that position again, regardless of what I have to do.”

For policymakers interested in designing loan modification programs that actually work, the Ahlemans’ story may be instructive. Because most banks refuse to provide principal write-downs on troubled loans, the kind of modification the couple received is the exception rather than the

14,000 have fled Ivory Coast havoc The Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The man who refuses to leave Ivory Coast’s presidency faced new threats to his grasp on power after regional leaders threatened to remove him by force if necessary.

Meanwhile, the U.N.’s refugee agency said Saturday that at least 14,000 Ivorians have fled the chaos of their homeland, trekking for days to reach safety in Liberia.

Diplomatic pressure and sanctions have left Laurent Gbagbo increasingly isolated though he has been able to maintain his rule nearly a month after the disputed vote because of the loyalty of security forces and the military.

Late Friday, West Africa leaders from the 15-country regional bloc ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African States — threatened to send

military intervention into Ivory Coast if incumbent Gbagbo refuses to step down peacefully.

“In the event that Mr. Gbagbo fails to heed this immutable demand of ECOWAS, the Community would be left with no alternative but to take other measures, including the use of legitimate force, to achieve the goals of the Ivorian people,” said a statement from ECOWAS.

rule across America today.

Most loan modifications, if they can be wrangled out of lenders at all, reduce the interest rate only slightly and tack onto the mortgage all the late fees, legal fees and other questionable costs that have accrued in the foreclosure process — simply adding to the debt that borrowers must repay.

“While focusing on the safety and soundness of banking institutions, regulators have focused too little on protecting borrowers from abusive practices,” says Eggert, the law professor.

The Congressional Oversight Panel noted the possibility that conflicts of interest among loan servicers were preventing loan modifications from being struck.

Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., is advocating that loan servicers be separated from the institutions that hold a borrower’s loan, in order to eliminate such potential conflicts. He is also urging regulators to create strict criteria that loan servicers will have to follow when working on modifications.

Miller is circulating a letter among his colleagues that outlines his suggestions. It is addressed to top officials at six federal agencies or regulators: the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the

Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the U.S. Treasury.

For the loan modification criteria, Miller pointed to the rules set out by Farmer Mac, a government-sponsored enterprise that finances farm loans. Those rules include requirements about who qualifies for a change in the terms of his or her mortgage, and a calculation of the likely loss that a foreclosure might create.

“The criteria are designed to lead to a sensible modification that the farmer can sustain,” Miller says, “and it protects the investor as well by getting people into mortgages rather than undergoing the horrific expense of foreclosure.”

Miller also aims to end affiliations between servicers and banks, which he said were proving to be a genuine impediment to loan modifications.

“Having a servicer be affiliated with a big bank does not really

National standard?

The FDIC has proposed a set of loan servicer requirements that, among other things, would try to eliminate conflicts of interest.

Under its proposal, a servicer would have to disclose an ownership interest that it or an affiliate had in a loan secured by the same property on which another mortgage was outstanding. The servicer would also have to establish a process to address any second lien that it might own where the first mortgage is seriously delinquent.

Eggert said a national set of servicing standards would be a crucial step toward putting consumers and investors onto a level playing field with loan servicers.

“At the recent Senate testimony where all the federal agencies came forward and testified about servicer problems, it was telling that they didn’t talk about what they have already done about it,” he says. “Instead, they talked about the investigations they are conducting that they hoped would inform them on what to do next. How many years are we into this crisis? We are long past the point of where we should be investigating to see what’s happening.”

For the Ahlemans, at least, their flirtation with financial disaster — and the modification that helped them survive — has made them appreciate life more.

“We’re just really, really happy all the time,” says Amy Ahleman.

“I used to say to myself, ‘When I wake up in the morning, I just want to feel how people who are comfortable in life feel.’ And now we have the ability to do that. It can be done.”

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Speck Continued from A1 During drills, Speck works closely with Kelly and the Oregon quarterbacks, snapping the ball to them or running pass routes as a receiver.

After practice, as most of the players trickle out of the Moshofsky Center, Speck works with Thomas one-on-one, tossing footballs to the starting quarterback, who in turn passes downfield to receivers. The drill is repeated over and over. Eventually, the quarterback and the manager talk quietly with each other before heading off the field.

“He’s one of our tempo guys,” Thomas says of Speck. “He’s gotta be in front of us, so you watch him in practice, and he’s running faster than us. Coach Kelly treats him just like he treats us.

“Managers here ... it seems like they don’t have a big job, but with this team here, they’ve got a big job. I don’t know about other teams.”

Speck will know if he’s moving too slowly during practice.

“Chip, he’s sure to ride me if I’m not getting the ball down fast enough,” Speck says. “The tempo — that’s definitely a main part of my job.”

Sure, Speck — a former backup punter at Northern Arizona University and then at Oregon — could be playing football for a smaller school. But he likes where he is now, helping the Ducks prepare for the first national championship game in the program’s history, and being right in the middle of the practices that have gained national attention for their likeness to a fire drill in shoulder pads. In fact, earlier this season, a New York Times story featured the UO practices and claimed that the team managers were so active in the workouts that they had their ankles taped before each session.

Speck denies that he tapes his ankles. But there is no denying his numerous contributions to the team.

QB guidance The big question before this season was who would start at quarterback for Oregon after Jeremiah Masoli was kicked off the squad for violating team rules last offseason.

The last of several incidents — and the one that sent Masoli packing — was being cited for marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license.

A passenger in Masoli’s car at the time of his arrest, according to accounts in the Eugene Register-Guard, was Darron Thomas.

So questions lingered before this season about Thomas’ character, and about his capabilities as a leader.

“The thing that Darron really struggled with was his leadership qualities,” Speck says over lunch after practice. “Even a lot of the offensive linemen were kind of unsure about him. He just didn’t understand ... who he was. That’s been the coolest thing for me out of everything I’ve watched — how much Darron has grown.”

After Thomas, now a sophomore, won the starting job just before the season opener against New Mexico, Speck anonymously posted some motivational quotations about leadership in the quarterback’s locker.

“He just needed a couple more things to see and understand and just grow more as a player and a leader,” Speck reflects. “You need to make others believe in you and respect you. Late in the game, everybody can look in his eyes and believe in him.”

Whether the quotations helped or not, Thomas responded. He has blossomed into an unquestionable leader for the undefeated Ducks, passing for 2,518 yards and 28 touchdowns, with just seven interceptions.

And he is quick to credit Speck with having a role in his success.

“He’s helping us every day,” says the quarterback of the manager. “He does a lot of little things (to make me better).”

From player to manager Speck was a first-team all-Intermountain Conference tailback who rushed for 1,799 yards in his senior year at Bend High. After graduating from high school in 2007, Speck had a chance to play for several smaller colleges as a running back. But he had suffered multiple concussions in high school, he says, and was weary of taking hits. So he headed to Northern Arizona University — as a punter.

After just seven months at NAU in Flagstaff, Ariz., Speck decided to transfer.

“I felt like I was good enough to go play at Oregon,” he recalls.

“I’m not just going to settle. I

uting in untold ways behind the scenes as Oregon prepares for the much-anticipated title game.

‘An unbelievable job’

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Bend’s Mark Speck watches Oregon’s 37-20 victory over Oregon State on Dec. 4, which propelled the Ducks to the BCS National Championship Game. important to Speck lately, as his father, Paul Speck, battles amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Joy in a trying time

Submitted photo

Paul and Rose Speck attended the 2010 Rose Bowl game, in which Ohio State defeated Oregon. Paul, who is battling ALS, was still able to walk at the time. needed the atmosphere of majorcollege football to drive me.”

Speck tried out as a walk-on for the Ducks in spring 2008 and made the team as a backup punter. NCAA transfer rules prohibited him from playing that fall, but he was allowed to suit up for home games.

Speck’s prospects for earning a scholarship dimmed when Oregon signed current starting punter Jackson Rice to a full scholarship. But Speck’s priority was to fund his education, so he looked into a job as a team manager.

“I could get a full scholarship (as a manager) and essentially have the same role,” Speck remembers thinking. “Honestly ... a backup punter ... you’re just kind of hanging out. One period

during practice, you punt.”

Speck began his new role in spring 2009, when Kelly was beginning his first year as head coach. Currently, Speck works closely with Kelly and offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich.

“With this job, I’ve done more than I did as a player,” Speck observes.

He says he works about 60 hours per week during the fall, performing a variety of tasks ranging from delivering packages within the university’s athletic department to analyzing film with Helfrich.

During the winter and spring, Speck enjoys more free time, and he often makes the trip back to Bend to be with his parents.

Family has become even more

Paul Speck was diagnosed with ALS — a neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness and atrophy throughout the body — about 2½ years ago.

The life expectancy of an ALS patient averages about two to five years from the time of diagnosis, according to the ALS Association.

“It’s definitely progressed,” Mark Speck says of his father’s disease.

Tears well in his eyes as he talks about his dad’s battle with ALS. “It’s kind of towards the end, I would say,” he offers. “So that’s been difficult. But one thing, with the football program and the games, he’s been given stuff to look forward to. And that’s been really neat for me, to kind of give him an inside scoop with the team.”

Paul now uses a power wheelchair. But he still has use of his upper body and, as Mark observes, his speech remains clear though the ALS is beginning to affect it.

He was able to attend several Oregon home games this season along with his wife, Rose Speck, who is Mark’s mother. Rose and Paul plan to drive to Arizona to attend the national champion-

ship game at University of Phoenix Stadium, where Mark will be on the UO sideline.

“I’m trying to put it into perspective,” says Paul Speck at his home in southeast Bend. “You have better days than others, but for the most part, you just try to do what you can do. I’m fortunate in that I have a tremendous amount of help.”

A former running back and kicker at UC Davis, Paul would practice punting with Mark when his son was growing up. He enjoys watching Mark’s success in football and in school — Mark maintains a 3.5 grade-point average as a political science major and has plans to pursue a career in either education or law.

“I know that, as a father, I’ve done a pretty decent job,” says Paul, a former attorney who recently celebrated his 65th birthday with family in Bend. “For my part, I’ve given him the wisdom that I can pass on, and I like to see him succeed in what he’s doing.”

Mark is the only child of Paul and Rose Speck, but he is by no means an only child. Paul and Rose each had three children from previous marriages, so Mark has had the support and guidance of six older siblings.

“He’s a natural leader, and he’s exceptional with people,” Rose says of Mark. “He just figures out people pretty quick. Of all our children, he’s probably the most mature. He just has always been a little old man.”

That “little old man” is contrib-

After most of Oregon’s 12 wins this year, Chip Kelly has made some comment about how the Ducks’ performance is a reflection of how they practice.

“We’re successful because of our preparation,” the coach says.

Speck and the six other UO football managers have a key role in that preparation.

“They’re huge,” Kelly says.

“They do a real integral job, you know, spotting the ball, getting lined up, down and distance, making sure we’ve got all the right equipment. Those guys do an unbelievable job.”

“The coaches are there to coach, but we’re there to provide them with all the tools so they can coach,” Speck explains. “I have to be a step ahead spotting the ball.

“You could make the argument that I’m more in shape than anybody else out there because I’m running around all the time,” he adds, smiling.

Yes, Speck is busy helping coaches and players prepare for the biggest game of their lives.

But his father is never far from his mind, and visits to Bend have been more and more frequent in recent weeks during time off before the national championship game.

“I’ve been amazed with how positive he’s been,” Mark says of his dad. “He just really has a good grasp with his faith and just understanding life.”

Paul, who has lived in Bend since 1974, was once an avid runner, cyclist and skier. He competed in the Pole Pedal Paddle — Central Oregon’s popular annual multisport race — five times as an individual competitor.

He still spends time outdoors, powering his wheelchair around the neighborhood when road conditions allow. He also loves to fish, and he is writing a novel about the life of a steelhead in the Lower Deschutes.

“It’s a complex book, I suppose, but it’s about the beauty and wonder of creation, told through the fish,” Paul explains with an easy smile. “It’s about the mysteries of life and spirituality.”

Out on the field before Oregon home games the past two seasons, Mark always made sure to signal his dad in the stands at Autzen Stadium.

He will look for him Jan. 10 in Glendale as well.

“I’m really thankful he’s done so much for me and been so influential in my life,” Mark says of his father. “He’s given me a lot of character and taught me the right things.

“From here on out, I just really want to try and make him proud.”

Mark Morical can be reached at 541-383-0318 or at mmorical@bendbulletin.com.

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Wilderness Continued from A1 Some retired agents say they were told by managers of wilderness areas that they could not use helicopters to pick up injured migrants, or that they could patrol only on horseback.

Critics point to Arizona, the main gateway for illegal immigrants and drugs from Mexico; much of that traffic passes through wilderness areas in the south-central and eastern parts of the state.

A Border Patrol agent was shot to death this month in an isolated canyon south of Tucson, in an area being studied for wilderness designation.

Republican Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah has proposed a law to allow the Border Patrol unlimited access to federal lands along the border, just as it has access to all private land. The current situation, he said, forces the agency to ask permission to do its job.

“There is now a conflict,” he said, “between wilderness and border security.”

Exaggerated conflict?

Environmental groups and some federal officials, however, contend that the conflict is overblown and that there is more cooperation than confrontation between the Border Patrol and land managers. They point to a Government Accountability Office report issued in October that found 22 of 26 Border Patrol station chiefs in the southwest said that though environmental regulations can cause delays, they have no effect on overall security.

Lynn Scarlett, who as deputy secretary of Interior under President George W. Bush in 2006 drew up an agreement with the patrol on how to police wilderness lands, acknowledged there have been misunderstandings over the issue.

But she argued that the belief that Border Patrol efforts are hindered in wilderness areas stems not from facts, but a deep distrust of federal environmental protections among some in the West.

“The debate about the Border Patrol becomes another vehicle for that long-standing debate,” she said.

Environmental groups say that wilderness areas can be designed to enhance border security. The centerpiece of their argument is this swath of desert grasslands, volcanic craters and serrated peaks 40 miles from the war zone of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has proposed a new, 250,000acre wilderness that would halt five miles from the border, allowing the Border Patrol to intercept smugglers and illegal migrants.

Deeper in, a road would be built to allow the patrol to check the wilderness area. “We believe the result is both better protection of the community and the landscape,” said Jude McMartin, a spokeswoman for Bingaman.

The head of Customs and Border Protection, Alan Bersin, has endorsed the proposal, saying it would make what is currently a little-traveled stretch of the border even more secure.

But, in a sign of how contentious the debate has become, some retired Border Patrol officials, ranchers and local business leaders oppose the deal.

In a report, Janice Kephart of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which advocates for tighter border security, calls the proposed wilderness “a gift to the drug cartels.” She argued that if the wilderness is approved, New Mexico could see Arizona-level problems.

It’s a contention that has picked up steam locally. “It scares us to think that what happened there could be replicated in New Mexico,” said Tom Hutchinson, owner of a well-known restaurant in Las Cruces and a former head of the local Chamber of Commerce, which opposes the wilderness designation.

Remote area So far, this area looks nothing like the border battlegrounds of Arizona, where migrants have worn tracks and left trash in some of the most environmentally sensitive deserts in the nation, including Organ Pipe National Monument and Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge.

In New Mexico and west Texas, the Border Patrol reports that arrests of illegal immigrants have dropped 90 percent in the last five years, a sign of how rarely smugglers travel this land. Environmental groups note that this region was set aside as a wilderness study area three decades ago under President Ronald Reagan, with heavy restrictions on how it can be used.

“It’s been here for more than 25 years,” said Nathan Small of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. “Yet there has not been an

explosion in either drug or human smuggling.”

Still, rancher Dudley Williams keeps a pistol strapped to his side while on his property here, about a dozen miles from the border.

He says he’s seen migrants hiking through the land, stopping to grab water from the tanks used by his cattle. The other night, his wife was driving home when a car full of drug smugglers sped right at her, he said, and tried to force her off the road. The Border Patrol caught them.

Williams scoffed at the idea that setting aside five miles at the border would enable Border Patrol agents to keep the area secure.

“Only three roads will be allowed in here,” he said, gesturing to the horizon. “There’s miles and miles of country.”

The proposed wilderness encompasses a wide swath of southern New Mexico desert, cobbling together a number of wilderness study areas and other federal land.

It would create 350 square miles of new wilderness and national con-

servation areas, bisected by Interstate 10. The section closest to the border is dominated by the Potrillo Mountains study area, which encompasses lumpy volcanic mountains that jut out of the desert floor just north of Mexico.

The proposal is supported by the local county commission, sporting groups and the City Council of Las Cruces, the nearest city.

Gene Wood, a retired Border Patrol agent who once ran the agency’s San Diego station, said it’d be easy for immigrants to hus-

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 26, 2010 A7 tle through the first five miles and melt into the desert. Once they exited the wilderness, they could reach the interstate and move out across the country.

“A good backpacker with a customary 80 pounds of drugs could get across those five miles in, I’ll say, two hours,” Wood said. “Once they’re across those five miles, they’re home free.”

Another retired Border Patrol official supports the wilderness, however. Ron Colburn was deputy chief of the agency and also over-

saw wilderness-heavy parts of the Arizona border.

He said there have been problems in wilderness areas before, but also successes, and that they have to be evaluated on a case-bycase basis. He praised Bingaman’s approach of preserving wilderness while allowing the Border Patrol freedom to do its job.

“It’s healthy to seek a balance,” Colburn said. “Border security, while seeking preservation of pristine wild lands, can be achieved.”

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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2010

SNOW-CLEARING CONUNDRUMS When the white stuff falls, not all streets are created equal ...

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The dog who rescued another from freezing to death several weeks ago is still looking for someone to save her.

Nala, the pit bull mix who helped save a blind cocker spaniel from freezing to death in a ditch, has not yet been adopted from the Humane Society of Redmond.

Chris Bauersfeld, shelter manager, said, though, Nala’s prospects of getting adopted are still very much alive. “There’s been a ton of interest in Nala from people back East,� said Bauersfeld. “But we’ve been very reluctant to ship her there in case there’s a problem with her new home, and they end up turning her over to a new shelter.�

Nala has also met with several local families interested in adopting her, but so far, the shelter has had no success in finding her a permanent home. Part of the problem is that Nala has some social problems. “She’s definitely not a dog park dog,� said Bauersfeld. “And she’s choosy about who she gets along with.�

About three weeks ago, Nala came to the rescue of a cocker spaniel named Chadwick. Nala discovered Chadwick collapsed in a ditch near the shelter. Adopted just a month earlier from the shelter himself, Chadwick escaped from his owner’s residence, and had spent a week roaming the snowy streets of Redmond before being found.

Nala came to the shelter in April as a stray, after being found herself in the Ochoco National Forest. It took three weeks to capture her and bring her into the shelter. “She’d been on her own for weeks in the wilderness, and she didn’t really have any attachment to humans,� said Monica Rendon, a trainer at the Humane Society who has worked with Nala since she first arrived. “But she’s already gotten so much better since then.�

Though Nala has been at the shelter for about nine months, Bauersfeld said that the staff is committed to finding the dog a permanent home, no matter how long it takes. “We don’t even look in that direction,� said Bauersfeld of not finding Nala an owner and having to put her down.

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... and officials acknowledge they can’t please all residents

By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

he flurry of irritated phone callers that comes in after most major storms is one of the most predictable parts of the job for the people who manage snow removal across Central Oregon.

Between berms of snow blocking driveways, mailboxes knocked down by flying snow and roads that never seem to get plowed, there are plenty of ways for the public to find fault with snow removal, according

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Skyliner Road heading west from Bend is one of the first roads Deschutes County crews plow, Olson said, and often serves as a good indicator of what drivers should expect as they move to higher-elevation county roads near Sunriver and La Pine. Drivers

will try to get to the Cline Falls Highway near Eaglecrest and a few pockets in the Sunriver and Spring River areas as early as possible, he said, as they’ve been found to ice up faster than other areas.

With more than 600 miles of road in his jurisdiction, Olson said many of Deschutes County’s roads go unplowed, and the county makes a point of not promising too much in terms of how quickly it can get to those that will be plowed.

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Water test has Bend, Redmond officials talking

By Molly Black The Bulletin

When the report came out last week that Bend’s tap water contained a carcinogen, city officials were scrambling.

It turned out the toxic chemical came from a single sample of

an Avion Water company source, which serves a smaller segment of Bend residents, completely separate from the city’s water. And many questions were also raised about the scientific credibility of the Environmental Working Group’s testing.

But that didn’t stop concerns

about the possibility of hexavalent chromium contaminating Central Oregon water. City officials in both Bend and Redmond are trying to reassure area residents the water is safe to drink. “The fact is, our water levels meet all EPA water levels and stan-

dards,� said Justin Finestone, communications manager for Bend. “We test for total chromium, which is both chromium 6 (hexavalent chromium) and the other beneficial chromium, and we are always well below the levels.�

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U.S. Forest Service OKs more trails for off-highway vehicles

By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

The Deschutes National Forest has approved a plan that will establish 142 miles of off-highway vehicle trails, and 80 miles of roads for high-clearance vehicles, in the Three Trails area of the Crescent Ranger District.

The plan also calls for closing about 115 miles of roads through the forest, as well as closing and rehabilitating almost 100 miles of trails that motorized vehicle users have created over the years in the area, to the west and south of Gilchrist. “It reduces open motorized routes and eliminates cross-country motorized travel,� said Robin Gyorgyfalvy, spokeswoman for the Deschutes National Forest.

The Three Trails OHV Project is independent from the U.S. Forest Service’s nationwide travel management rule, she said.

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On the web For more information, visit www.fs.fed.us/r6/ centraloregon/travel-mgmt/threetrails/index.shtml.

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By Jennifer Medina New York Times News Service

LOS ANGELES — Body bags go for $20. Yellow crime scene tape is $6. Toe tags are normally $5, but they were sold out this month. The merchandise comes in a white plastic shopping bag that says “Los Angeles County Department of Coroner.”

Tucked in the corner of a squat brick building that houses a huge depository of the dead is the strangest of gift shops. For years, the county coroner has run the shop, aptly named Skeletons in the Closet, selling knickknacks playing off the rather morbid humor that the department’s business arouses in many people.

But it turns out that the shop’s slogan — “We’re dying for your business!” — is all too accurate.

The shop was once supposed to make enough money to pay for an anti-drunken-driving course for teenagers that includes a visit to the morgue.

But a recent report from county auditors shows that it has not made a profit for years and is actually subsidized by the very program it was meant to finance.

So the shop needs county money to order more of the “undertaker” boxer shorts and the business card holders shaped like skulls.

But all that kitsch does not necessarily translate into a return on investment.

“It’s certainly a problem for us from a financial sense,” said Craig Harvey, director of operations for the coroner. “We’re not necessarily a place that has a lot of experience in business, so this is simply a kind of wake-up call to see if we can do better at selling what we have.”

Still, Harvey said, the store is quite a draw for a “certain segment of people.” It has particular cachet among foreign tour guides. During the summer, busloads of Asian and European tourists come to the out-of-theway office a few miles east of downtown. The most popular item is the $30 beach towel with

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Items are displayed at Skeletons in the Closet, the gift shop run by the Los Angeles County coroner’s department in Los Angeles. With items like “undertaker” boxer shorts and $20 body bags, the coroner is out to make its gift shop, Skeletons in the Closet, profitable.

“We’re not necessarily a place that has a lot of experience in business, so this is simply a kind of wakeup call to see if we can do better at selling what we have.”

— Craig Harvey, director of operations, Los Angeles County coroner’s department a life-size body outline.

But for the most part, the shop’s only marketing has been word of mouth and free publicity in the news media. The store has a rudimentary website and is only now starting to explore ways to use the Internet to drive

sales through Amazon, eBay and Facebook. There, it hopes to find a larger market for sweatshirts, notepads and pens bearing the same logo that department officials display in the field.

At its peak, in 2003, Skeletons in the Closet pulled in $280,000.

Last year, it made $151,000.

The store was created almost by accident nearly 20 years ago by a secretary who noticed how popular mugs and T-shirts with the coroner’s logo were at the forensic conferences the department held each year. So she began ordering more and selling them from her desk. Eventually, there was enough business that the merchandise moved to a small closet (the name came not long after that). Now the shop fills a small room just off the department’s only public entrance.

A sign reminds visitors of the real

purpose of a coroner, pleading with potentially overeager shoppers to “Please be considerate of our families here on business.”

“Everyone who comes in here is kind of weird,” said Edna Pereyda, who handles the shop’s day-to-day operations. “Why else would you come here?”

The occasional celebrity stops in if he or she is filming nearby; local detectives and police officers are typically the most loyal customers.

“I advise if you like something you should get it now,” Pereyda told Officer Robert Alvarado of the Los Angeles Police Department, who stopped by one recent morning. “You never know when it will be gone.”

Alvarado, who was there with his girlfriend, said he frequently wore his favorite purchase — a barbecue apron emblazoned

“L.A. County Coroner Has (HEART)” in the center and two pockets labeled “spare ribs” and “spare hands.”

As they looked around the small wood-paneled shop, a large couch resembling the inside of a coffin caught the eye of his girlfriend, Monica Rodriguez. It was not for sale, but Pereyda said she could order a custom version from a company that advertised at the store, promising “eternal comfort” for $3,000.

Rodriguez’s 10-year-old son stood by, looking rather confused.

“What’s that?” he asked, pointing at the outlined image on a T-shirt that read “Our Bodies of Work Speak for Themselves.”

Alvarado smiled before answering. “Back in the old days, they traced dead bodies with chalk,” he said. “They don’t do that anymore. Now they just leave you there on the ground.”

A few minutes later, they left without buying anything.

Pereyda said that much of the merchandise in the store had been the same for years, leaving many regular customers eager for more. So she is brainstorming new ideas and is particularly excited about a shipment of water bottles that is supposed to arrive next month.

The containers will be labeled “bodily fluids.”

REUNION USS Iwo Jima (LPH2/LHD7) shipmates will hold a reunion June 1-5 at Marriott City Center Hotel, 740 Town Center Drive, Newport News, Va. Contact Robert G. McAnally at 757-7230317 or yujack@megalink.net.

MILITARY NOTES Marine Corps 1st Lt. Landon Palmer has received the “Wings of Gold” on completion of flight training at Naval Air Station, Kingsville, Texas. He is a 2003 graduate of Mountain View High School, a 2007 graduate of U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., and the son of Kevin Palmer, of Bend, and Trish Palmer, of Santa Ynez, Calif.

• Second Lt. William McKinnell has graduated from United States Air Force training at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala. He is a 2005 graduate of Mountain View High School, a 2010 graduate of the University of Oregon, and the son of Edirne Peck, of Bend, and William McKinnell, of Littleton, Colo.

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ON THIS DATE In 1776, the British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first African-American boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.

In 1910, the London Palladium, Britain’s famous variety theatre, first opened.

In 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.

In 1960, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Green Bay Packers, 17-13, in the NFL Championship game, played at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

In 1972, the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Mo., at age 88.

In 1980, Iranian television footage was broadcast in the United States, showing a dozen of the American hostages sending messages to their families.

In 1990, Nancy Cruzan, the young woman in an irreversible vegetative state whose case led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the right to die, died at a Missouri hospital.

In 2004, some 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a tsunami triggered by the world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the Indian Ocean.

In 2006, former President Gerald R. Ford died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 93.

T O D AY IN HISTORY TEN YEARS AGO Michael McDermott, an employee at an Internet firm in Wakefield, Mass., shot and killed seven co-workers. (McDermott was later convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.)

FIVE YEARS AGO Survivors wept and prayed beside mass graves and at beachside memorials in Indonesia, marking one year since earthquake-churned walls of water crashed ashore in a dozen nations, sweeping away hundreds of thousands of lives. “Monday Night Football” ended an unprecedented 36-year run on ABC-TV with a lackluster game, a 31-21 New England Patriots victory over the New York Jets. (The series switched to ESPN the following season.)

ONE YEAR AGO A 23-year-old Nigerian man (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab) who claimed to have ties to alQaida was charged with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actor Donald Moffat is 80.

Actor Caroll Spinney (Big Bird on TV’s “Sesame Street”) is 77.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Abdul “Duke” Fakir (The Four Tops) is 75. Record producer Phil Spector is 71. “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh is 65. Country musician Bob Carpenter (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 64. Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk is 63. Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith is 56. Humorist David Sedaris is 54. Rock musician James Kottak (The Scorpions) is 48. Country musician Brian Westrum (Sons of the Desert) is 48. Rock musician Lars Ulrich (Metallica) is 47. Actress Nadia Dajani is 45. Rock musician J is 43.

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As a condition of purchase, the new owner must invest 500 hours of sweat equity into the construction or renovation of the house.

Making that commitment appealed to Myles, 42. “The most fun thing was driving the nails into the foundation.”

Myles, who “doesn’t bring home $1,500 a month” as a teacher’s assistant in the Reynolds School District, almost didn’t qualify because her income was too low.

Her 21-year-old son who works at Ikea will sign on as a co-owner.

“It’s going to give me a really stable environment. I’m not going to have to move,” she says.

“My kids are not going to change schools. Habitat, I mean, I wish I would have known about it years ago. It is the most wonderful program.”

Myles is counting the days until she takes possession of her Jubilee Commons house and can hang curtains.

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“What’s unusual about Habitat is that it’s so much more than housing,” says Steve Messinetti, executive director of Habitat’s Portland/Metro East affiliate.

“It’s about wealth-building, rather than a temporary or immediate solution to a family’s housing crisis.”

That ambition came true for Ursula and David Hernandez on May 22, 1994, when they bought one of the first houses that Habitat for Humanity rehabilitated in Oregon, a bungalow just north of Northeast Alberta Street. The sale price was $42,000.

David Hernandez is a welder with 19 years at Pacific Fence and Wire Co.; Ursula was a teacher’s

assistant in Portland Public Schools until a recent layoff. They reared five sons in their Habitat house, and in March, they threw a party with tamales and a big pot of posole to celebrate paying off the $315-a-month mortgage.

Now that their youngest child is nearly grown, she and David are considering selling the house to downsize and to pay college tuition. “This has been good,” says Ursula Hernandez, 56, sitting in her dining room with a towering Christmas tree an arm’s length away. “We could walk everywhere — to the school, to church, to the bank, the post office. The bus runs right over there.”

A Habitat “partner family” promises not to sell the house for at least 10 years, to prevent flipping. If a family wants or has to sell, the house has to be offered back to Habitat first.

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If the family sells the house, that second mortgage must be paid.

After 25 years of residency, the second mortgage is forgiven.

The recession has delivered a pounding to other nonprofits that build “affordable housing.” After 21 years and 400 homes for lower-income buyers, the local non-

His solution? Create hydrant snorkels — basically 2.5-inch to 4-inch extension water pipes — that extend up from the hydrant and reach above the snow. Extensions can be added as the snow piles up, and removed when warmer weather arrives.

A second “wrench” extension is used to turn water on and off. Some of the first snorkels at Government Camp have had pipe extensions as long as 10 feet, Creel said.

“The benefit is to access your water immediately just as if it was the summertime,” said Scott Freeman, a Hoodland Fire volunteer who works at the Brightwood station. “In the old days, the rule of thumb was that a fire doubles in size every 60 seconds. Now, because of new materials and all the stuff in people’s homes, it’s 35 seconds.”

There are now 27 of the hydrant snorkels in Government Camp, and the National Park Service is testing one of the snorkels at Crater Lake — which averages 44 feet of snow each year. If it’s up to snuff, park service officials may add more at Crater Lake and other national parks, Freeman said.

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“All my life, I’ve been working and struggling,” says Myles, 42, of northeast Portland. “But this?

This will be ours. If I die tomorrow, my kids will be able to afford to live in this house.”

Habitat for Humanity, the global housing nonprofit, has rehabilitated and built homes for Oregon’s lowest-income families since 1985. This fall, the group finished its 1,000th house in the state; nearly 200 are in the Portland area.

“All my life, I’ve been working and struggling.

But this? This will be ours. If I die tomorrow, my kids will be able to afford to live in this house.”

profit HOST Development, which launched the New Columbia affordable-housing community, shut down operations in August.

HOST helped buyers, who make closer to $50,000 for a family of four, get conventional mortgages from lenders.

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LINE TO BE EXTENDED Encouraged by the business conditions in Oregon, James J. Hill, the railroad builder, who arrived in Portland on Wednesday night, announced the eventual extension of the Oregon Trunk Line from the present proposed terminus at Bend; the extension of the United Electric Railways to the coast, and the ultimate consolidation of all the Hill roads radiating out of Portland into one large corporation similar to that formed by the Harriman lines a few weeks ago.

Mr. Hill arrived on a special train that operated through from St. Paul, starting there Monday afternoon. He is accompanied

by George B. Harris, chairman of the board of directors of the Burlington system; W.P. Dean, director of Great Northern; W.H. Dunwoody and E.C. Cooke, capitalists from Minneapolis: Samuel Hill, his son-in-law, who continued his trip to Seattle, and M.R. Browne, his private secretary.

“We will extend the line beyond Bend,” said Mr. Hill, “as fast as the country develops and justifies us in the expenditure.

Whether we will build directly south or whether we will strike out in another direction depends largely upon the future development of that portion of the state.

“We are trying to call attention to Central Oregon and to help build up the country. We have brought in a great many people in the last few years and expect to bring up more. All of this will help the business of the railroads and will enable us to do the improvement work that we count upon doing. Thus far, we have been encouraged with the success that has followed our efforts to exploit Oregon.

On Friday the members of the Hill party took a trip of inspection over the Oregon Trunk Railway up the Deschutes Canyon as far as Shearer’s bridge. They traveled over about 46 miles of the new roadbed, and everyone was well pleased with the construction work that they saw.

The roadbed they traveled over impressed all as being of the best construction, very similar to that along the North Bank Road.

FINED FOR DRUNKENNESS As a result of their consumption of Christmas spirit, four men were fined for drunkenness on Monday.

George Morgan was fined $15, and the fine was suspended provided he left town by sundown. Morgan was so inebriated that he had to be taken to the jail in a wheelbarrow.

Barney Mulligan was fined $10.

“Charley the Swede” and an Italian were each fined $7.50.

For the week ending Dec. 25, 1935 CHRISTMAS AND SNOW Because Bend is the chief news center in the Central Oregon country and it is from here that the northwest gets most of its news about snow conditions in the nearby mountains there is a widely prevalent impression that winter in Bend itself means snow in almost unlimited quantities. This, of course, is not the fact. No section that has an annual precipitation of less than 14 inches can have very much snow and the truth about Bend is that its winters are usually open, that many days and even weeks in the winter months are warm and spring like and that snow, here in town, is the exception rather than the rule.

Only 10 miles to the south, it is true, and less than that distance directly west toward the mountains there will be snow on the ground all winter. That is one reason why the winter sport of skiing is so easily enjoyed here. Bend, in short, ordinarily has moderate winters with little snow though nearby true winter season conditions may prevail.

These thoughts occur to us as we contemplate the world outside the window and decide that Bend is not likely this year to have snow for Christmas. The children who find sleds under the tree will have no chance to use them on a hill in town. Winter is not far away, however, and but a few miles out there is ice for the skaters and snow for the sleds and skis.

Snow helps to make things Christmassy, as the word is, but it is not an essential adjunct. The world over there are probably more who know the day without snow than with and so we shall be with the majority. Snow is fun in the picture but after all the reality of the day is found in what is within, not on the outside and around us.

With snow or without, Christmas is here and a happier holiday this year than for several seasons. To all we wish the pleasure and enjoyment of a Merry Christmas.

50 YEARS AGO For the week ending Dec. 25, 1960 JACK EDWARDS OF HISTORIC MID-OREGON RANCH KNOWN TO FEW OF PRESENT ERA A man known to few Central Oregonians of the present was once tall in the horizon on Central Oregon ranges.

He was John Griffith Ed-

wards, a native of Wales who founded not one but two stock empires. The first was in Wyoming, where in 1879 Edwards entered the cattle business on a fork of Green River, watched his venture fade as his stock died in a severe winter, then entered the sheep business to become the center of a range war.

From Wyoming, where he fought warring Utes as well as stockmen, Jack Edwards came to the Oregon country, to the highlands of Hay Creek in the vast triangle bounded by Prineville, Madras and Ashwood.

On Hay Creek, Dr. David M. Baldwin in 1873 had established a big ranch later sold to C.A. and J.P. Van Houton and H. Longcoy.

In 1898, Jack Edwards moved into Hay Creek as half owner of the Baldwin Sheep and Land Co. He remained to make that ranch the greatest Merino sheep breeding station in the world.

More than 20,000 sheep grazed on the hills that sloped up into the green pines of the Ochocos, where Blizzard Ridge dominated a frontier range.

The Hay Creek Ranch once boasted a market of 500,000 pounds of wool a year, and an annual harvest of 2500 tons of alfalfa, in a region which it was once said alfalfa could not be grown. The ranch covered 70,000 acres of land on which grazed thousands of sheep.

Jack Edwards in 1903 was married to Elizabeth Justice Bell Smith, of Yorkshire, England.

He brought his bride to America, and they moved into the long, rambling ranch house at Hay Creek. That house became famous as a center of Oregon hospitality. Portland society made it a rendezvous.

To the friendly doors came governors and mayors, cultural and business leaders and visiting celebrities. E.H. Harriman, who later was to engage James J. Hill in an epochal railroad battle in the Deschutes gorge, was a frequent visitor there.

The cattlemen of early day Wyoming turned sheepmen in early years acquired the Oregon King mine, on the west-sloping gulch facing the gorge on Trout Creek.

There was a time when the Hay Creek Ranch was the unofficial capitol of Central Oregon.

Edwards sold his holding in 1910, and moved to Portland, but he long remained active. In 1945, Jack Edwards died. His wife died this past year.

Now the memories of Jack Edwards, rancher and sheep king, are back in the news. A charitable trust fund of some $600,000 he conceived nearly 20 years ago

is to be distributed. At present, allocations will be limited to income earnings of the trust. Only charities operating in Oregon will be considered for benefits.

25 YEARS AGO For the week ending Dec. 25, 1985 A DECEMBER NIGHT IN THE BUS DEPOT The bus south from Biggs Junction is two hours late, and the Bend depot is quiet, empty except for a few passengers waiting patiently and Trailways employees answering questions at the desk.

When the bus finally arrives the employees start to work.

They unload luggage and packages from the cargo compartment, separating the items by destination: This one goes to Ontario, this one stays in Bend, that box there goes back on for the trip to Klamath Falls.

Passengers shuffle off the bus to congregate in the four corners of the lobby. Some go to the candy machine next to the Christmas tree, others to the pay phones by the door or to the desk to pick up luggage, but the biggest crowd heads for the pop machine near the window.

“Oh, they closed down the cafe,” one lady exclaims, seeing the boards over what was once the entrance to The Walking Horse Cafe.

Cigarette smokers ignore the “Thank You For Not Smoking” sign posted on the desk under a potted poinsettia and light up. It is too cold to stand outside for a smoke, and soon the lobby takes on a hazy blue tint.

Sue Blakley, a student at Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash., is heading south to be home for Christmas vacation.

“I tried to fly out of Spokane.

I was on standby for three days but with the fog and so many people traveling I couldn’t get a seat. I finally decided to just take the bus,” she explains.

It’s already been a long trip for her and she’s not even halfway yet, but her drooping eyes perk up when she thinks of getting home.

“I can’t wait to see that first palm tree,” she says.

The bus has been unloaded, reloaded, refueled and the windshield cleaned.

The loudspeaker blares: Will the passengers who already have seats on the bus return to them?

A line forms at the door.

In the same unhurried shuffle the passengers climb back onto the bus for their ride to the next depot.

Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at the Des Chutes Historical Museum.

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BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Margaret Hardy seems to have a quip for everything. After all, the 90-year-old just had to point out that her daughter-in-law had been waiting years to bury her.

Under crocheted hats, that is.

Hardy has donated thousands of hats over the years to soldiers abroad and to local charities.

Earlier this month, she was honored by the Republican Women of Whatcom County, Wash.

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— Justin Finestone, Bend communications manager

Water Continued from B1 The city of Redmond also says that the water in Redmond shows no sign at all of chromium.

“We test our water from the wells, and have never had any detectable levels of chromium,” said David Brandt, Redmond’s city manager. “This group sampled water in Bend, but no one really knows where or how they got it, so it’s all unclear. The levels of hexavalent chromium that were found could have been from traces in the plumbing. It’s just unclear.”

Hexavalent chromium is a toxic form of chromium that can enter the water through erosion from natural deposits, as well as from emissions from the manufacturers of stainless steel, metal plating and wood products or textiles.

The Environmental Protection Agency concluded that levels of this carcinogen under 100 parts per billion are safe, therefore placing Bend’s water, regardless of where the contaminated sample came from, in the drinkable zone.

“If the EPA changes its standards and regulations, then we will adjust our testing to take the necessary measures to deliver safe water,” said Finestone. “If our water isn’t safe, we won’t deliver it. But like I said, our water is safe.”

The city of Bend utilizes an extensive process for testing the area’s water supply, said Steve Prazak, laboratory manager at Bend’s water quality laboratory.

“We test for total chromium and have never had any maximum contamination violation levels for metals, organic compounds, nonorganic compounds,” said Prazak. “It is a very complicated testing process that is not easy to explain unless you do it, but we send off all our testing results to DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) for review and have never had a violation.”

Prazak said he understands why area residents may be concerned with the safety of their water, but stated there is no need to worry.

“First of all, let me just point out that according to what they have put on their website, it appears they (the Environmental Working Group) did not sample correctly,” he said. “There are EPA rules and guidelines that must be followed to make a sample viable. The information that was on the EWG website gives the impression that it was not done correctly. They said they took the sample from the city of Bend, but they did not. They also implied some of the samples did not reach the correct amount of hold time. You have 24 hours from the time the sample is collected to the time of analysis.

They said on their website that some samples were outside that window.”

As far as the sampling process is concerned, there are two methods the city of Bend utilizes to test the water, specifically for chromium.

The main testing process, ICP-MS as Prazak refers to it, is complicated but involves using a plasma flame to ionize and draw out the metals.

“This method looks for a lot of metal and possibly harmless chemicals. Get on the periodic table, and you will see most of them,” he said.

If residents are still not convinced about the safety of the region’s water, Finestone encourages them to visit the city of Bend website and view the water reports.

“All our water reports are available on our website, so if people are interested, they can pull that up and view everything that we find in our testing process each time we test,” he said.

“And, if people are still unsure, I know there are quite a few filtration systems that are always an option also.”

Bend was one of 35 cities included in the EWG study to help illustrate what can be found in the nation’s water supply.

The study selected cities in 23 states that had traces of chromium in past water quality reports.

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Trails Continued from B1 That 2005 rule stated each national forest should map out where people can ride off-highway vehicles, and then make the rest of the areas off-limits to the vehicles. But the recently approved plan for Crescent will be consistent with the national rule, she said.

The new trail system will be less dense in areas where big game migrate, Gyorgyfalvy said, and will also cut down on the number of places where vehicles drive through potential spotted owl habitat.

“The area that was previously being disturbed was reduced by changing the OHV trail locations and really paying attention to wildlife habitat,” she said.

The goal of the project was to get a system of trails in place that also balanced sustainabil-

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Continued from B1 “She’s an adoptable dog with no medical conditions — she has problems, but they’re completely manageable. We would never let that happen to her.”

Although no one has reached out to adopt the dog yet, almost $1,000 has been donated specifically to Nala after the story of her heroism appeared. The shelter has used this money to buy the dog some chew toys, and will also use it to pay for her expenses.

Bauersfeld says that the ideal owner would be someone who can provide Nala with a lot of activity and understands her needs.

“She’s very much retrainable,” says Bauersfeld. “Dogs learn until the day they die — it might take longer for them to retain it, but they can still learn.”

Rendon said that Nala’s future owner should be someone who can provide her with an active life, and also, someone who is dog savvy.

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Those interested in adopting Nala should call the Humane Society of Redmond at 541923-0882.

“She wouldn’t be appropriate for a first-time dog owner,” said Rendon. “But she’s very bright and easy to train.”

Rendon also mentioned that though Nala sometimes has problems getting along with other pets, she has never shown aggression toward any person.

Bauersfeld said that even though it may take some time, the Humane Society is certain they will find Nala a permanent home.

“Time and time again, we learn that there are homes out there for every one of them,” said Bauersfeld. “We’re not giving up — we know that she has a home out there somewhere.”

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ity, said Holly Jewkes, Crescent District ranger.

Officials with the Forest Service selected the option that was the “best balance between providing some quality OHV riding opportunities and balancing that with other resources, particularly the game and riparian areas,” she said.

A 45-day appeal period is now ongoing for the project, after which the agency will start planning how to implement the project, which includes building new trails and closing and rehabilitating old ones, Jewkes said. The work will probably occur in phases, starting this summer and lasting for several years.

“There’s 142 miles of trails going in,” she said. “We’re not going to build that all at once.”

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Snow Continued from B1 Olson said the most common complaint he hears comes from residents who feel county plows and graders are driving too fast. However, Olson said county drivers try to plow at right around 25 mph all the time — too fast, they’ll lose control, and too slow, they’ll be unable to move the 11⁄2 to 2 tons of snow that builds up on the blade.

Hardy Hanson, Bend’s streets manager, said Bend divides the city into eight regions, each of which should take roughly the same amount of time to plow.

Splitting the city into eight regions probably slows the clearing of Bend’s most heavily traveled roads a bit, Hanson said, but ensures most residents will be able to find their way out of their neighborhoods to a mostly cleared main road in time to get to school or work.

When a storm hits, crews are dispatched to each of the regions to work their way through high-traffic arterials and collectors. Once those streets are cleared, supervisors direct the drivers to tackle select residential streets — not always the same ones every time.

“I wish it were a complete science, but it is an art,” Hanson said.

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Differences in how neighborhoods are laid out in different parts of town can lead to some complaints, Hanson said. Alleys are the city’s lowest priority and are seldom plowed, even when the city calls on contractors, he said, but are widely used by residents in neighborhoods like NorthWest Crossing and the areas surrounding downtown.

Chris Doty, Redmond’s director of public works, said his city is fortunate to be in a “banana belt” that usually escapes heavy snow. Doty said there’s no set standard for how much snow needs to fall before the plows come out, but when they do, they go after emergency routes first, the roads around the hospital and those that allow police and fire to get to U.S. Highway 97 and other main routes. On school days, school bus routes are second on Redmond’s list, followed by arterials and collectors.

Local residential streets will generally go unplowed in Redmond unless there’s at least 4 inches of snow, and even then, the city will pass on plowing local streets if it appears the snow will melt within a few days.

“We try to hold off on that because every nickel we spend comes out of the pavement budget, and once it’s spent, it’s gone forever,” Doty said. “What can be a convenience issue for one day can rob your asset

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Joe Harman from the Oregon Department of Transportation said his crews try to get to hightraffic commuter routes first, usually U.S. Highway 97, and the north portion of Third Street and the east portion of Greenwood Avenue in Bend — both of which are classified as state roads.

With only six people working snow removal on a fully staffed day, and an area ranging from the High Bridge over the Crooked River to south of Sunriver, ODOT crews are stretched — even during a typical storm. State Highway 372 leading from Bend to Mount Bachelor can get enough snow to require one driver for most of the day, Harman said, while most of highways 97 and 20 require two drivers in each direction.

“We can’t be everywhere at once, that’s the biggest thing. We have a big area to cover with limited resources,” he said. “It may take awhile until you see us, but you’ll see us. We’re out there.”

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Dorothy Twedt March 26, 1936 - Dec. 17, 2010 It is with great sadness that on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, loving wife, mother and grandmother, Dorothy Twedt preceded us to heaven. She was 74 years old.

Dorothy was born on March 26, 1936, in Woodland, where she lived with her family until she went to nursing school in 1955. After graduation she married and moved to Oregon where she lived, raised her daughters and worked as a registered nurse. In 1975, she received her advanced degree as a woman’s health care nurse practitioner.

She enjoyed cooking, gardening, traveling, dancing and listening to music. Dorothy was described as a sweet happy person, and was loved by many.

She is survived by her husband, Carroll Aebi; daughters, Tina Ramm and Kelly Taylor-Northrop; and granddaughter, Shannen Taylor.

At the family’s request in lieu of a memorial service, a donation will be made in Memory of Dorothy Twedt, to Serenity Hospice, who we can’t thank enough for providing her such wonderful care. In lieu of flowers and to honor Dorothy’s love for life and family, please take some time this holiday season to reconnect with your own families and friends, and cherish them as we cherished our beloved wife, mother and grandmother.

Nov. 17, 1907 - Dec. 19, 2010 Lee Evans passed away in Santa Rosa, CA, on December 19, 2010, at the age of 103.

Dearly beloved husband of Frances Evans of Santa Rosa, CA; loving father of Darla E. Bastoni and her husband, Richard M. of San Francisco; step father of Thomas Gerhart; step grandfather of Christy and Jennifer Gerhart and Lisa Nasr; also survived by numerous Lee Evans nieces and nephews; preceded in death by his late wife, Goldie Hudspeth Evans.

Lee graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma, he was a grade school principal, and Chief Deputy Court Clerk in Seminole, OK. In 1935, along with Goldie, they formed Evans Lumber Company, which sold almost all its timber holdings in timber in the mid-1950s, when it became a diversified company with mineral rights, joint ventures, oil and real estate. One of the larger projects included Sunriver Resort, Bend, OR. He was one of the original investors and member of the Board of Directors of Codding Enterprises. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, SIRS, Masonic Lodge and a long-time member of the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club. Lee was in his office on a daily basis until June 2010.

The family would like to thank the nurses and staff at Creekside Convalescent for the wonderful care given to Lee. Private family services were held. Interment was at Santa Rosa Memorial Park. If desired, donations in Lee's memory may be made to the Sonoma County Humane Society, P.O. Box 1296, Santa Rosa, CA, or to the charity of your choice.

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Sally Goodrich, aided Afghans after losing son

By Dennis Hevesi New York Times News Service

Just three months after losing her son Peter on Sept. 11, 2001, aboard United Airlines Flight 175 — the second plane to crash into the World Trade Center — Sally Goodrich received a diagnosis of ovarian cancer.

For three years, through chemotherapy, grief for her son and thoughts of suicide, Goodrich fought depression and continued to work as a remedial reading teacher and program coordinator for at-risk children in the North Adams, Vt., school system.

Then, in August 2004, an e-mail from a friend of Peter’s arrived from Afghanistan.

Maj. Rush Filson, a Marine, asked if Goodrich and her husband, Donald, could collect school supplies for children in a village southeast of Kabul.

“That was the beginning,” Goodrich later told The Boston Globe. “I call it the moment of grace. I knew Peter would have responded to that e-mail; I knew I had to in his name. For the first time, I felt Peter’s spirit back in my life.”

That spirit evolved into the Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation, which has since built one school and helped support two other schools and an orphanage in Afghanistan.

Goodrich died of ovarian cancer Dec. 18 at her home in Bennington, Vt., her husband said. She was 65.

“The idea that we could go to Afghanistan — where the Afghan people were taken advantage of by al-Qaida, manipulated, and where the planning for our son’s death took place — and provide an alternative way of looking at

Clay Cole, host of teenage dance shows, dies at 72

By William Grimes New York Times News Service

Clay Cole, whose dance program “The Clay Cole Show” had a loyal following among adolescent television viewers in the New York area in the 1960s and gave many groups, including the Rolling Stones, early exposure on American television, died Saturday at his home on Oak Island, N.C. He was 72.

The cause was a heart attack, his brother Richard Rucker said.

From 1959 through 1967, Cole offered teenagers a concentrated dose of their own culture on his show, which was initially broadcast on Saturday nights on WNTA (Channel 13). After WNTA’s license was sold to the Educational Broadcasting Corp. in 1963, the show moved to WPIX (Channel 11), where it was renamed “Clay Cole’s Diskotek” in October 1965.

Like Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand,” which reached a national audience, “The Clay Cole Show” was taped before a studio audience and featured a regular cast of young dancers who moved to the latest Top 10 records and thrilled to the sight of pop stars lip-synching their hits.

The acts were top drawer.

Cole’s show was one of the first to present Dion, the Four Sea-

sons, Dionne Warwick, Richie Havens, Simon & Garfunkel, the Doors, Neil Diamond and the Young Rascals, as well as comics like George Carlin and Richard Pryor. When the British invasion gathered force, visiting groups like The Who appeared on his show as a matter of course, often before they took the stage on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

In June 1964, on their first American tour, the Rolling Stones performed on a special edition of the show billed as “The Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones,” since it also featured concert footage of the Beatles fed in from WPIX’s sister station in Chicago, WGN. The Stones returned in May 1965, unaware that Cole, as he later told The Daily News in New York, had been “appalled at their grubby long hair and grimy appearance.” In his 2003 memoir “2Stoned,” Andrew Loog Oldham, the group’s manager, returned the favor. “Clay Cole looked like an electro-shock Anthony Perkins on steroids,” he wrote.

Like Clark, Cole chatted with his guest stars. Unlike Clark, he got on the floor and danced.

Sometimes he performed with his guests or did comedy skits with Chuck McCann, his announcer and sidekick.

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the world was very appealing to us,” Donald Goodrich told The Associated Press.

With donations from friends, neighbors, schoolchildren, local clubs, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the Goodrich Foundation has raised more than $1 million, Goodrich said.

It has built a school for 500 girls in Logar province and supported two smaller schools and an orphanage in Wardak province. It has also helped exchange students from Afghanistan attend schools in New England, and some have gone on to receive scholarships to colleges like Williams, Mount Holyoke and Bates.

Donations came from all sorts of people, Sally Goodrich told ABC News in 2005.

“We have Jews and Muslims and Christians,” she said. “We have ardent Republicans, and we have Democrats and Red Sox and, I hate to use that word, Yankees. I’m a Red Sox fan.”

Peter Goodrich was 33 when he died. “As time went on,” Sally Goodrich said, “I realized that I had, in fact, this opportunity to use my life to continue his.”

Sarah Wales Donavan, known as Sally, was born in Newton, Mass., on May 12, 1945. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1967 with a degree in sociology, and later earned a master’s degree in education from Boston University and another master’s as a reading specialist from Simmons College.

Besides her husband, Goodrich is survived by her son, Foster; her daughter, Kim Trimarchi; three brothers, Peter, Mark and Jed Donavan; and five grandchildren.

‘Creek’ or ‘Crete’, depending on which side of the Crooked River you are on, was born in McCall, Idaho, one of 12 children born to Otto and Sylvia Close.

He wore several hats over the years ... he was a chauffeur for Metro Goldwyn Mayer during the two-year filming of Northwest Passage in Idaho, in the 1930s.

When WWII broke out in the Pacific, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and spent two years in Samoa building airstrips with the SeaBees, where, in one of lifes’ amazing coincidences, his younger brother, Clarence (‘Corn’), who was in the Air Force, was stationed at the same time. After the war, he joined his brothers in the Prineville area, owned and ran a sawmill near Post with partner, Bob Cato. He married Marie Hixson in 1952 (they divorced in 1972) and ranched in Mitchell for a few years until moving to California to drive log trucks. The family returned to Prineville in 1962, to pursue his life’s passion of ranching. They purchased a cattle ranch and owned and operated Marie’s Fine Food for many years. He raised registered Angus cattle and registered Quarter Horses, and was well-known as an expert horseman.

‘Creek’ resisted taking up golf until well into his 60s - after years of making fun of his brothers for being addicted to the game - he gave in and ended up playing every day for years. Sports Illustrated featured the brothers in an article which highlighted their skill, and challenged any other group of five brothers in the world to step up and match or beat their combined handicap of twelve.

‘Crete’ obtained his real estate broker’s license, specializing in selling large ranches (including one to baseball great, Rollie Fingers) and worked in offices including Morris Real Estate in Bend, through which he met the love of his life, Bernice ‘Bee’ Edgar. They married in 1979 and blended their two families. He opened Close Realty and actively sold property well into his 90s.

Known for his quick wit and incredible stories, he entertained everyone around him and kept everyone laughing literally up until the end. He could recall minute details of life, clear back into his early childhood. He fell in love with the writings of William Shakespeare in his teens, read the dictionary for fun, studied science, religion, philosophy, politics and the Old West continually, and read every non-fiction book he could get his hands on. He took several classes at COCC, including a welding class when he was 90. When asked how the class went, he said “I did so good, that I can weld buttons on a shirt.”

Creston leaves his beloved wife, Bee; children, Ron and Nena Close of Tumalo, OR, Kathleen Close and Jason Naiman of Portland, OR, Lorin and Connie Close of Prineville, Terry and Joyce Edgar, of Phoenix, AZ, Cheryl and Don Spagnolini of Bend, OR, Robin Edgar, of Salem, OR, and Jay and Toni Edgar of Beaver Creek, OR; 11 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson; he is also survived by his sister, Edythe Cummings of Beatty, Nevada. He was preceded in death by his parents, ten brothers and sisters, and son, John Close.

In lieu of flowers, contributions to Hospice of Bend through St. Charles Hospital and/or The National Audubon Society, would be greatly appreciated.

Back to McCall Of this place, the raw, wild Idaho of our early past century, they came.

There were twelve… spirits into being, some close, all close, they scattered to the winds.

Lives lead along unexpected paths, world journeys, connected by threads of blood & love.

Sisters, brothers, fathers, mothers & so many, many elders, later, husbands, wives, & yes… second wives.

Daughters, sons, with aunts & uncles… oh, such wonderful uncles! Grands, & friends, always friends… the tribe.

Almost all of it, all 100 years of it, to all twelve but one now, he returns… being into spirit, scattered, to the winds.

By Jason Naiman

Clarence David “Bill” Raper Clarence “Bill” Raper, 92 years, peacefully left this earth December 22 , 2010, at his home in Bend with his loving wife, Jeanice by his side. Bill and Jeanice celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary on September 2nd, but their years together began in 1936 at a dance in Terrebonne when Jeanice was 14 and Bill was 18. It was a 74 year love story.

Bill was born on Mother’s Day, May 12, 1918, in a logging camp near Benham Falls.

His birth certificate shows Shevlin, Oregon as his place of birth. He was brought into the world by Mrs. Rooney, a mid wife, because the country doctor, Dr. Vandervert, could not reach their home as a tree had fallen across the road.

One of Bill’s most memorable people during his years at Shevlin Camp was George Redden, known as the Pastor of the Pines. George didn’t preach to the kids, but instead told them stories and sang songs for them.

His schooling began in a boxcar at Shevlin Camp. There was one teacher for all 8 grades. One of his classmates was Les Schwab. The Raper family moved to Bend in 1928 when Bill was 10. There were several “Clarences” on his Bend High School football team, so Coach Jack Schute pointed to him and said “from now on, you’re name is “Bill.” Bill graduated from BHS in 1936, three years before Jeanice graduated in 1939.

Bill entered the Army Air Corp in 1944, was crew chief on a B-17 Bomber and was promoted to Top Turret Gunner. He returned to civilian life in 1946 and began working for Shell Oil Company, as a relief driver that summer. He and his partner, Robert Nordby, purchased the Company in 1964. Shell Oil, now Bend Oil Company is currently owned and operated by Robert Nordby’s son, Robb Nordby. Bill retired in 2004 at the age of 85.

Bill was known for his love of the outdoors and as an avid hunter and fly fisherman.

Bill boasted that there was a time that he could “catch a fish with every cast” at beautiful Sparks Lake. He was a member of the Bend Elks Club #1371, Fraternal Order of the Eagles, Pheasants Forever, Quail Unlimited, Trout Unlimited, Deschutes Historical Society and Deschutes Pioneer Association. He was Past President of the Oregon Chapter of Ducks Unlimited. As a member of the Bend Lions Club, he volunteered for the Demolition Derby each Father’s Day from its inception and for the next 37 years. His friend, Dean Cardin and Bill raised pheasants and quail for many years, releasing them to their natural habitat.

Bill was an avid fan of Country Western and Bluegrass music. Jeanice and Bill attended every concert and event they could possibly make. They traveled in their motor home to Sweet Home for the Country Jamboree and Bluegrass Festival for 14 years. They saw the likes of Willy Nelson, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, just to name a few.

Bill Raper is survived by his wife, Jeanice; Grandson, Jeff Raper; Granddaughter, Kristin Voisin; Daughter-in-law, Susie Raper Moore of Whitefish, MT; and nephew, Bob Sande, Gresham, OR. He is preceded in death by his sons, Ronnie and Gary Raper; his Grandson, Ronald Scott Raper; his Father and Mother, Alma ‘Slick’ and Audrey Raper; his sister, Alma Sande and his brother, Melvin Raper. Bill and Jeanice have 7 Great Grandchildren, Corey Anne Russell, Vancouver, WA; David and Carly Anne Raper, Rapid City, SD; Kelsey Koch, Portland, OR; Michael, Tucker and Maggie Voisin, Whitefish.

In lieu of flowers, Bill asked that donations be made to Hospice: Partners In Care - 2599 NE Wyatt Court, Bend, Oregon

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 26, 2010 B7

Farmers, filmmakers fight over market Film school working to prevent Sunday morning staple from renewing its permit

their legal and oratorical voices and ramp up their neighborly ones,” Garcetti said.

The film school, which opened in 1999, is an accredited institution that offers associate of science degrees in film, game production, animation and recording arts. Tuition goes up to $41,000 for an 18-month program, with classes and workshops devoted to film editing, sound recording, directing and writing.

Since the school opened, it has in many ways become a symbol of the neighborhood’s transformation, along with Amoeba Music, a warehouse-sized independent record store across Sunset Boulevard. The school owns two buildings and has 1,700 students.

B y Ad am Nagou rney New York Times News Service

LOS ANGELES — On weekdays, Ivar Avenue is a quiet strip of Hollywood with a theater, a recording studio, a Jack in the Box, a gay and lesbian elderly housing complex and a film school. Every Sunday morning, it becomes the Hollywood Farmers Market, four bustling blocks of farm and food stands offering everything from oyster mushrooms to California sea bass to a crowd of 8,000 people.

But after 19 years in existence, the Hollywood Farmers Market is endangered, at the center of a fight that has put on display three of this city’s most powerful passions: food, film and parking. The Los Angeles Film School, a relative newcomer to what was once a seedy pocket of Hollywood, has moved to prevent the market from renewing its permit because farm stands obstruct the driveway to its most convenient parking lot.

“We do support the market; we want it to continue to operate,” said Antoine Ibrahim, a spokesman for the film school. “But what we did was ask them to tailor their configuration so we can have our street back.”

Twitter and T-shirts This dispute has set off a food firestorm that is playing out in Facebook postings and Twitter feeds — and even, testifying to the demographics of some of the clientele, in paper petitions that were being passed out at the market on a recent Sunday.

Between weighing heirloom tomatoes (yes, they are still in season here), farmers handed out T-shirts reading “Save the Hollywood Farmers’ Market” and urged customers to put them on before the television cameras arrived.

“It’s not only somewhere I go shopping, it’s a big party for me, a moment of pleasure on Sunday morning,” said Corinne Simon-

No Sunday classes

Eric Thayer / New York Times News Service

Shirts are displayed at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles on Dec. 19.

After 19 years in existence, the market is at the center of a dispute with the Los Angeles Film School, which is fighting to prevent the market from renewing its permit because farm stands obstruct the driveway to its most convenient parking lot.

Duneau, 63, who lives in South Pasadena.

Simon-Duneau said that she had been making the drive to the Hollywood market just about every Sunday since it opened in 1991, and that she knew “almost all the vendors by name.”

“People love it because it’s the antithesis of the supermarket,” she said.

There were, at last count, 99 certified farmers markets in Los Angeles County, meaning that on nearly any day, you can find one open someplace: on a Santa Monica thoroughfare on Saturdays, the Plummer Park parking lot in West Hollywood on Mondays, the center of downtown Los Angeles on Thursdays. The markets have an avid following of customers who know which farmers to seek out and which months are right to look for persimmons and pears.

The Hollywood Farmers Market, which is among the biggest, stands out, with notably good produce and a good location for spotting celebrities buying vegetables.

The mutual distrust in the

current dispute is deep, reflecting long-simmering tensions between established businesses and stand owners who command the streets from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The film school has emboldened other business owners to vent long-held frustrations with a market that they say hurts business and often leaves them cleaning up a mess when the farmers pack up.

“In the early 1990s, the farmers market came in, and I thought it was good — the area was down, and it improved the area,” said Paul Camarata, the owner of Sound Factory, a recording studio on Selma Avenue at the crossroads of the market.

“It started to expand, and all of a sudden, we found it in front of our place, encircling it on Sunday mornings.

“It’s been frustrating,” Camarata added.

And referring to the film school, he said: “They’ve only had a couple of years’ taste of this. I’ve had 19 years.”

Kerry Morrison, executive director of the Hollywood Prop-

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The market, which stretches from Hollywood Boulevard to Sunset Boulevard and along two blocks of Selma, attracts about 100 farmers. Closing the block to accommodate the film school would force the moving (or closing) of farmers stands. Organizers are reluctant to move to another part of Hollywood after being on Ivar Avenue for so long, and there are no obvious adjacent streets to take up the slack.

“We don’t want to lose any farmers,” said Pompea Smith, executive director of Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles, which runs the markets.

“We don’t want to lose any space.

We want to make sure whatever space is safe for the community.”

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“The film school has been advising the folks at the farmers market that this day was going to come,” Morrison said. “For the film school, which has made a $65 million investment in this facility, to not be able to fully utilize it is not fair. And I’m looking at this and saying, ‘Wow, this is exactly the kind of business that in the early days of the business district we were hoping to attract here.’”

City officials have tried to find a compromise — have the film students park elsewhere? move the market? — to resolve the dispute. Eric Garcetti, president of the Los Angeles City Council, recently spent two hours negotiating with both sides before settling, in best diplomatic fashion, on an agreement to try to come to an agreement. (In the process, he bought the market 90 more days, as both sides explore various options.)

“I asked them to dial down

What it does not have is class on Sunday morning. In explaining the need for the 120space parking lot, Ibrahim said students came in to use the school’s production facilities on weekends.

“Even though operationally we are not open seven days a week, educationally we are,” he said.

“Sunday is a great day to come in and use the lab.”

Ibrahim declined to say how

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B8 Sunday, December 26, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

THE BULLETIN WEATHER FORECAST

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

TODAY, DECEMBER 26

HIGH Ben Burkel

FORECASTS: LOCAL

STATE Western

41/32

Warm Springs 48/35

41/35

41/34

40/30

32/23

Ruggs

Condon

Maupin

Marion Forks

Willowdale

Chance of showers under mostly cloudy skies.

47/34

Mitchell

Madras

Camp Sherman 40/25 Redmond Prineville 45/28 Cascadia 47/29 44/39 Sisters 43/27 Bend Post 41/29

33/16

42/25

41/23

Chemult 41/22

Vancouver 44/39

Missoula

Portland

30/25

Burns 43/26

Eugene

Mostly cloudy skies with showers and mountain snowfall.

Eastern

45/39

Helena

Bend

42/29

Grants Pass 44/36

Idaho Falls

Redding

Elko

51/42

Reno

Cloudy with a chance of snowfall.

Crater Lake 29/23

34/23

38/20

44/27

36/25

34/22

Boise

41/29

Christmas Valley Silver Lake

43/39

40/25

Fort Rock

47/37

43/25

San Francisco

Salt Lake City

55/46

46/30

Sunrise today . . . . . . 7:39 a.m.

Sunset today . . . . . . 4:33 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow . . 7:39 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow. . . 4:34 p.m.

Moonrise today . . . 11:22 p.m.

Moonset today . . . 10:49 a.m.

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4

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Yesterday’s weather through 4 p.m. in Bend High/Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48/33 24 hours ending 4 p.m.. . . . . . . . 0.00” Record high . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 in 1950 Month to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.15” Record low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . -6 in 1983 Average month to date. . . . . . . . 1.42” Average high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Year to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.87” Average low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Average year to date. . . . . . . . . 11.37” Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.. . . 29.57 Record 24 hours . . . . . . . 0.52 in 1928 *Melted liquid equivalent

Tomorrow Rise Set Mercury . . . . . .6:19 a.m. . . . . . .3:39 p.m.

Venus . . . . . . . .3:47 a.m. . . . . . .1:59 p.m.

Mars. . . . . . . . .8:23 a.m. . . . . . .5:11 p.m.

Jupiter. . . . . . .11:35 a.m. . . . . .11:19 p.m.

Saturn. . . . . . . .1:00 a.m. . . . . .12:31 p.m.

Uranus . . . . . .11:35 a.m. . . . . .11:24 p.m.

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OREGON CITIES

Calgary

Seattle

44/26

36/18

42/24

Hampton

Crescent

Crescent Lake

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THURSDAY

Mostly cloudy, chance of showers.

38 25

SUN AND MOON SCHEDULE

43/25

La Pine

HIGH

NORTHWEST

Paulina

Brothers

LOW

43 28

Yesterday’s regional extremes • 58° Medford • 10° Lakeview

WEDNESDAY Partly cloudy.

Widespread cloudy and breezy conditions, chance of coastal showers and inland snow showers.

Central

43/26

Sunriver 43/24

HIGH

29

39/23

42/37

LOW

TUESDAY Mostly cloudy, chance of mixed showers.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, chance of mixed showers.

48/30

46/33

Oakridge Elk Lake

Today: Cloudy, chance of mixed showers.

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Bob Shaw

Government Camp

MONDAY

V.HIGH 8

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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 . . . . . . . . 36 Hoodoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . . . 46 Mt. Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 46-79 Mt. Bachelor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0-0 . . . . . . 64-79 Mt. Hood Meadows . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . 69 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . 38-43 Timberline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0-0 . . . . . . . . 78 Warner Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . .0-0 . . . . . . 30-32 Willamette Pass . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 29-54

Pass Conditions I-5 at Siskiyou Summit . . . . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires I-84 at Cabbage Hill . . . . . . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 20 at Santiam Pass . . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires 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 . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 138 at Diamond Lake . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 242 at McKenzie Pass . . . . . . . . .Closed for season

Aspen, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Mammoth Mtn., California . . . 0.0 Park City, Utah . . . . . . . . . . . .0-0 Squaw Valley, California . . . . . 0.0 Sun Valley, Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 Taos, New Mexico. . . . . . . . . .0-0 Vail, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . .0-0

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

. . . . . . 37-40 . . . . 134-220 . . . . . . . . 83 . . . . . . . 128 . . . . . . 39-55 . . . . . . 28-33 . . . . . . . . 41

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.

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Yesterday’s U.S. extremes

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Vancouver 44/39

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Calgary 39/23

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Saskatoon 28/19

Seattle 47/37

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Thunder Bay 18/6

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Quebec 17/8

Halifax 38/27 P ortland Billings Portland To ronto (in the 48 25/25 43/39 40/27 27/14 St. Paul Green Bay contiguous states): Boston 18/4 26/8 Boise 35/28 Buffalo Rapid City Detroit 42/29 24/16 New York 40/23 • 77° 29/18 33/24 Mesa, Ariz.

Cheyenne Philadelphia Columbus Chicago 50/27 26/20 34/23 • -13° Omaha Des Moines 29/11 San Francisco Salt Lake W ashington, D. C. 20/10 Big Piney, Wyo. 55/46 17/4 City 32/23 Las Denver Louisville 46/30 • 1.61” Kansas City Vegas 53/28 28/19 26/14 St. Louis 56/42 Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Charlotte 27/13 35/20 Albuquerque Los Angeles Oklahoma City Nashville Little Rock 54/29 60/50 41/20 31/19 39/22 Phoenix Atlanta 69/49 Honolulu 33/19 Birmingham 80/71 Dallas Tijuana 34/22 47/28 59/44 New Orleans 46/29 Orlando Houston 57/31 Chihuahua 50/31 66/33 Miami 68/40 Monterrey La Paz 61/37 78/51 Mazatlan Anchorage 78/54 21/10 Juneau 31/22 Bismarck 21/11

FRONTS

Backyard goose hunt has Oregon family up in arms State says with landowner’s consent, sportsmen can seek fowl on fairway

By Paul Daquilante The (McMinnville) News-Register

MCMINNVILLE — The Williams family has spent 17 mostly enjoyable years living across from the ninth hole of the Bayou Golf Course on scenic Southwest Bayou Drive. They have gorgeous green views beckoning from their bedroom, dining room, family room and kitchen windows.

Unsettling late fall incidents, however, have intruded last year and this year.

The first came about 5:30 one morning last fall. A startling series of gunshots had everyone getting out of bed to see what was causing the commotion.

To their horror, Claudia Williams said, they spotted a group of rifle-toting men decked out in camouflage with hunting dogs at their sides.

“They were slaughtering the geese,” she said. “We had a direct view of what was going on.

“They were setting up decoys, hiding behind bushes and shooting them. It was upsetting to watch.”

Williams found it so upsetting she called law enforcement authorities.

She was told that licensed hunters are free to hunt on private property during the season with the owner’s permission. She learned the Canada goose season was open; the 2010-11 season runs Nov. 20-Jan. 12 and Feb. 5-March 9, and the hunters had permission.

Firing at first light It has happened several times this year, the most recent last Wednesday morning.

“It started at the first hint of light,” she said. “It woke us up.

It’s loud. It started about 6:45, and went on for at least two hours.

If hunters were out that early, they were in clear violation of the law, because goose hunting is prohibited before 8 a.m. and after 3 p.m., according to Oregon

“We use licensed hunters. They’re looking for places to hunt. This is a public course on private property. They are abiding by all the rules that are set down.

They’re not out to slaughter the geese.

They hunt what is allowed.”

— Greg Brown, part owner of Bayou Golf Course Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Michelle Dennehy.

On a Sunday morning earlier this month, the family looked out and spotted two hunters on the course.

“I yelled at them, ‘Please don’t do this. We can see what you are doing, and it’s upsetting to us,’” she said. “They just ignored us.”

The following Wednesday, family members were having breakfast when they looked out to see someone carrying a live goose by its neck, according to Williams. She said it was fighting for its life.

“We’re back to the same thing,” she said. “I have tried to have a dialogue with the owner so I can explain to him how this is directly impacting people who are watching this happen.

“I’ve made seven or eight calls to him, and none of them have been returned. I have talked to workers at the course. And I have called the Yamhill County Mediators (now known as Your Community Mediators).”

Greg and Irmi Brown, who bought into the Bayou after many years owning and operating the old Riverwood Golf Course in Dundee, have no qualms about

sending hunters out onto the course in search of geese.

Greg Brown said geese are attracted to ponds, water features, grassy fairways and manicured greens. In large numbers, he said, they inflict a lot of damage, especially on the greens.

He said the goose problem is worst at holes 6 and 7, due to the proximity of the pond gracing the Williams family’s prized view.

“They can peck huge holes in the greens,” Brown said. “We can fill them, but this time of the year, you’re not going to get anything to grow. In the spring, it takes a while for those holes to seal. And they poop all over the greens.

Golfers don’t want to chip to a green and then have to walk in it.”

Williams said research shows there are other ways course owners can deal with the problem.

Larry Gilhuly, northwest director of the United States Golf Association, said conversations he has had with officials and two Portland courses supports that claim.

Brown insists, “Nothing else really works.”

He added, “We use licensed hunters. They’re looking for places to hunt. This is a public course on private property. They are abiding by all the rules that are set down. They’re not out to slaughter the geese. They hunt what is allowed.”

Up to the owners The state’s fish and wildlife agency is well aware of the affinity of geese for golf courses and the damage they can do. It comes down firmly with the ownership side.

“Hunting is legal,” Dennehy said. “The season is open. Hunters need to have the appropriate licenses and tags, and the landowner must allow the hunt. If everything is in place, the hunt is legal.”

The daily bag limit is four dark geese and four white geese. Within the bag limit of dark geese, a hunter may not have more than two Cackling Canada or two Aleutian Canada combined. If a hunter harvests a Dusky Canada goose, the permit is invalid.

Yesterday Sunday Monday City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Abilene, TX . . . . .37/28/0.00 . . .46/26/s . . 53/41/pc Akron . . . . . . . . .28/24/0.03 . .27/20/sn . . 26/15/sn Albany. . . . . . . . .25/15/0.00 . .28/18/sn . . 25/11/sn Albuquerque. . . .49/30/0.00 . . .54/29/s . . 51/24/pc Anchorage . . . . . .11/2/0.00 . .21/10/sn . . . . 22/9/c Atlanta . . . . . . . .40/32/0.30 . .33/19/sn . . . 37/20/s Atlantic City . . . .35/24/0.00 . .36/28/sn . . 31/21/sn Austin . . . . . . . . .47/37/0.00 . . .53/23/s . . 59/45/pc Baltimore . . . . . .34/28/0.01 . .32/23/sn . . . 31/21/c Billings. . . . . . . . .40/22/0.00 . 40/27/pc . . 39/24/pc Birmingham . . . .39/33/0.32 . . 34/22/sf . . . 35/16/s Bismarck . . . . . . .19/16/0.00 . . .21/11/s . . . 28/15/c Boise . . . . . . . . . .47/31/0.00 . .42/29/sn . . . 40/31/c Boston. . . . . . . . .31/23/0.00 . .35/28/sn . . 29/17/sn Bridgeport, CT. . .33/22/0.00 . .37/24/sn . . 30/17/sn Buffalo . . . . . . . .26/22/0.03 . .24/16/sn . . 21/19/pc Burlington, VT. . . .18/7/0.00 . 22/13/pc . . . 18/4/sn Caribou, ME . . . .22/13/0.00 . . .23/14/s . . . 23/8/sn Charleston, SC . .55/27/0.00 . .41/29/sh . . 44/27/pc Charlotte. . . . . . .42/33/0.11 . .35/20/sn . . . 34/19/s Chattanooga. . . .40/32/0.40 . .34/22/sn . . 33/15/pc Cheyenne . . . . . .47/13/0.00 . . .50/27/s . . 40/23/pc Chicago. . . . . . . .31/20/0.01 . .29/11/sn . . . 26/16/s Cincinnati . . . . . .29/24/0.01 . .27/18/sn . . 27/12/pc Cleveland . . . . . .29/26/0.00 . .28/23/sn . . 28/21/sn Colorado Springs 47/14/0.00 . . .50/25/s . . 42/21/pc Columbia, MO . .31/24/0.00 . 25/10/pc . . . 31/20/s Columbia, SC . . .51/26/0.00 . .38/23/sn . . 43/22/pc Columbus, GA. . .45/30/0.08 . 36/22/pc . . . 42/22/s Columbus, OH. . .29/23/0.01 . .26/20/sn . . 25/14/pc Concord, NH . . . .30/10/0.00 . 27/21/pc . . 27/11/sn Corpus Christi. . .55/45/0.00 . . .55/35/s . . 63/56/pc Dallas Ft Worth. .41/36/0.00 . . .47/28/s . . 52/40/pc Dayton . . . . . . . .27/19/0.02 . .25/17/sn . . 25/12/pc Denver. . . . . . . . .52/17/0.00 . . .53/28/s . . 47/26/pc Des Moines. . . . .25/17/0.00 . . . .17/4/s . . . 24/17/s Detroit. . . . . . . . .30/24/0.00 . .29/18/sn . . . 30/19/c Duluth . . . . . . . . .20/12/0.00 . . .19/1/pc . . . 23/10/s El Paso. . . . . . . . .58/37/0.00 . . .61/35/s . . 59/33/pc Fairbanks. . . . . . . 0/-23/0.00 . -22/-34/c . . -24/-34/c Fargo. . . . . . . . . . 13/-3/0.00 . . . .15/4/s . . 26/11/pc Flagstaff . . . . . . .41/31/0.00 . 40/17/pc . . 42/17/pc

Yesterday Sunday Monday City Hi/Lo/Pcp Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Grand Rapids . . .28/21/0.00 . . .26/20/c . . 28/15/pc Green Bay. . . . . .30/27/0.01 . . . .26/8/c . . . 23/13/s Greensboro. . . . .40/32/0.35 . .34/21/sn . . 34/19/pc Harrisburg. . . . . .32/27/0.00 . .30/22/sn . . 29/18/pc Hartford, CT . . . .31/21/0.00 . .32/21/sn . . 27/12/sn Helena. . . . . . . . . 22/-4/0.00 . 34/22/pc . . 32/20/sn Honolulu . . . . . . .80/70/0.00 . . .80/71/r . . . .79/71/r Houston . . . . . . .46/40/0.00 . . .50/31/s . . 55/44/pc Huntsville . . . . . .41/30/0.48 . .30/20/sn . . . 33/12/s Indianapolis . . . .30/24/0.03 . .25/11/sn . . 28/12/pc Jackson, MS . . . .43/37/0.10 . 38/19/pc . . . 45/25/s Madison, WI . . . .30/20/0.00 . . .22/1/pc . . . 24/11/s Jacksonville. . . . .71/28/0.00 . 48/27/pc . . . 50/25/s Juneau. . . . . . . . .31/21/0.01 . .31/22/sn . . 30/22/sn Kansas City. . . . .30/23/0.00 . . .26/14/s . . 35/25/pc Lansing . . . . . . . .27/19/0.00 . . 26/16/sf . . 28/14/pc Las Vegas . . . . . .58/41/0.00 . .56/42/sh . . . 55/38/s Lexington . . . . . .27/25/0.04 . .26/17/sn . . 25/13/pc Lincoln. . . . . . . . .25/21/0.00 . . .24/11/s . . 34/19/pc Little Rock. . . . . .39/36/0.01 . 39/22/pc . . . 42/24/s Los Angeles. . . . .61/47/0.00 . . .60/50/s . . . 61/49/s Louisville . . . . . . .31/28/0.03 . .28/19/sn . . 29/11/pc Memphis. . . . . . .36/34/0.00 . .35/23/sn . . . 37/19/s Miami . . . . . . . . .75/57/0.00 . .68/40/sh . . . 58/36/s Milwaukee . . . . .33/28/0.00 . .29/14/sn . . . 27/17/s Minneapolis . . . .20/16/0.00 . . .18/4/pc . . . 23/14/s Nashville . . . . . . .32/30/0.06 . .31/19/sn . . . 32/14/s New Orleans. . . .54/42/0.63 . . .46/29/s . . . 49/32/s New York . . . . . .32/25/0.00 . .33/24/sn . . 30/21/sn Newark, NJ . . . . .34/26/0.00 . .36/26/sn . . 32/21/sn Norfolk, VA . . . . .37/30/0.00 . .36/26/sn . . 34/22/sn Oklahoma City . .34/30/0.00 . . .41/20/s . . 47/31/pc Omaha . . . . . . . .25/18/0.00 . . .20/10/s . . 31/17/pc Orlando. . . . . . . .73/40/0.00 . . .57/31/s . . . 56/32/s Palm Springs. . . .70/48/0.00 . . .59/46/s . . . 62/44/s Peoria . . . . . . . . .29/25/0.01 . . . 25/5/sf . . . 22/12/s Philadelphia . . . .33/26/0.00 . .34/23/sn . . 32/20/sn Phoenix. . . . . . . .76/48/0.00 . 69/49/pc . . 67/47/pc Pittsburgh . . . . . .29/23/0.06 . .26/18/sn . . 25/17/pc Portland, ME. . . .33/17/0.01 . 25/25/pc . . 33/22/sn Providence . . . . .33/20/0.00 . .36/27/sn . . 31/17/sn Raleigh . . . . . . . .44/32/0.02 . .33/22/sn . . . 34/19/c

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 . . . . . .28/20/0.00 . . .40/23/s . . 43/21/pc Savannah . . . . . .60/27/0.00 . .43/28/sh . . 45/27/pc Reno . . . . . . . . . .51/25/0.00 . . .43/25/c . . 45/28/pc Seattle. . . . . . . . .54/45/0.52 . .47/37/sh . . 47/41/sh Richmond . . . . . .37/30/0.09 . .34/23/sn . . 35/20/sn Sioux Falls. . . . . . .21/6/0.00 . . .14/7/pc . . 23/12/pc Rochester, NY . . .26/22/0.01 . .25/18/sn . . 22/19/pc Spokane . . . . . . .35/26/0.00 . . 38/27/rs . . 35/28/sn Sacramento. . . . .51/49/0.29 . .55/44/sh . . . 56/44/c Springfield, MO. .31/26/0.01 . 29/12/pc . . . 36/23/s St. Louis. . . . . . . .31/28/0.05 . . 27/13/sf . . . 30/20/s Tampa . . . . . . . . .71/45/0.00 . . .56/35/s . . . 56/34/s Salt Lake City . . .40/31/0.00 . .46/30/sh . . 39/28/pc Tucson. . . . . . . . .71/52/0.00 . 68/41/pc . . . 65/39/s San Antonio . . . .52/40/0.00 . . .55/30/s . . 57/49/pc Tulsa . . . . . . . . . .36/32/0.00 . . .37/18/s . . . 44/29/s San Diego . . . . . .61/50/0.00 . . .59/50/s . . . 60/50/s Washington, DC .36/32/0.00 . .32/23/sn . . . 32/22/c San Francisco . . .56/49/0.59 . .55/46/sh . . . 56/49/c Wichita . . . . . . . .31/26/0.00 . . .35/15/s . . 41/25/pc San Jose . . . . . . .59/47/0.15 . .56/44/sh . . 59/47/pc Yakima . . . . . . . .37/32/0.06 . .37/26/sn . . .36/26/rs Santa Fe . . . . . . .49/28/0.00 . 48/22/pc . . 44/20/pc Yuma. . . . . . . . . .72/49/0.00 . 69/50/pc . . . 68/48/s

INTERNATIONAL Amsterdam. . . . .34/23/0.00 . 35/26/pc . . . 32/21/c Athens. . . . . . . . .67/59/0.00 . 62/51/pc . . 60/50/sh Auckland. . . . . . .68/61/0.00 . . .73/63/s . . 74/62/pc Baghdad . . . . . . .63/41/0.00 . . .69/45/s . . . 70/44/s Bangkok . . . . . . .93/77/0.00 . .87/76/sh . . . 87/74/s Beijing. . . . . . . . . .27/9/0.00 . 33/14/pc . . 35/16/pc Beirut. . . . . . . . . .70/59/0.00 . 72/61/pc . . . 75/63/s Berlin. . . . . . . . . .28/19/0.00 . 22/12/pc . . . 24/6/pc Bogota . . . . . . . .64/48/0.00 . .67/49/sh . . 65/48/sh Budapest. . . . . . .43/28/0.39 . 32/26/pc . . 31/21/pc Buenos Aires. . . .97/63/0.00 . . .93/67/s . . 97/73/pc Cabo San Lucas .75/52/0.00 . . .75/55/s . . . 77/54/s Cairo . . . . . . . . . .75/52/0.00 . . .76/54/s . . . 78/53/s Calgary . . . . . . . .43/18/0.00 . 39/23/pc . . . 34/19/s Cancun . . . . . . . 79/NA/0.00 . .75/55/sh . . 72/54/pc Dublin . . . . . . . . .25/12/0.00 . .41/32/sh . . 46/35/sh Edinburgh . . . . . .36/10/0.00 . . .35/26/c . . 37/29/sh Geneva . . . . . . . .30/27/0.06 . . .28/12/s . . . 33/17/s Harare . . . . . . . . .86/64/0.03 . . .77/61/t . . . .74/60/t Hong Kong . . . . .66/50/0.00 . 69/59/pc . . . 71/60/s Istanbul. . . . . . . .64/55/0.00 . .60/44/sh . . 57/45/sh Jerusalem . . . . . .64/28/0.00 . . .64/44/s . . . 65/43/s Johannesburg . . .84/61/0.00 . . .75/60/t . . . .76/59/t Lima . . . . . . . . . .75/64/0.00 . 74/64/pc . . 72/63/pc Lisbon . . . . . . . . .46/45/0.00 . . .51/42/s . . 60/55/sh London . . . . . . . .32/23/0.00 . 34/30/pc . . . 41/37/c Madrid . . . . . . . .45/30/0.00 . . .44/26/s . . 45/32/pc Manila. . . . . . . . .82/77/0.00 . .86/75/sh . . 86/76/sh

Mecca . . . . . . . . .93/68/0.00 . . .95/69/s . . . 96/70/s Mexico City. . . . .63/43/0.00 . 69/38/pc . . . 72/37/s Montreal. . . . . . . .19/7/0.00 . 16/10/pc . . . 18/11/s Moscow . . . . . . .28/19/0.13 . .45/24/sn . . . 37/19/c Nairobi . . . . . . . .82/61/0.00 . . .79/59/t . . . .77/58/t Nassau . . . . . . . .77/57/0.00 . .74/61/sh . . . 70/56/s New Delhi. . . . . .50/46/0.00 . . .69/45/s . . . 71/46/s Osaka . . . . . . . . .41/34/0.00 . .44/36/sh . . 45/36/sh Oslo. . . . . . . . . . . 10/-6/0.00 . . .12/4/pc . . .10/-4/pc Ottawa . . . . . . . .19/10/0.00 . . .18/9/pc . . . 15/4/pc Paris. . . . . . . . . . .32/19/0.00 . 35/23/pc . . . 32/22/c Rio de Janeiro. . .91/79/0.00 . 87/76/pc . . . .86/75/t Rome. . . . . . . . . .54/48/0.00 . .48/35/sh . . . 44/32/s Santiago . . . . . . .88/57/0.00 . . .84/54/s . . . 85/52/s Sao Paulo . . . . . .86/66/0.00 . . .81/68/t . . . .80/67/t Sapporo. . . . . . . .25/25/0.00 . .33/20/sn . . 30/26/sn Seoul . . . . . . . . . . .21/7/0.00 . . 30/15/sf . . 31/16/pc Shanghai. . . . . . .39/32/0.00 . . .45/32/s . . . 52/36/s Singapore . . . . . .86/73/0.07 . . .87/76/t . . . .86/77/t Stockholm. . . . . .25/18/0.00 . . 26/20/sf . . 27/23/pc Sydney. . . . . . . . .82/61/0.00 . . .85/67/t . . 70/64/sh Taipei. . . . . . . . . .59/55/0.00 . .63/49/sh . . . 68/50/s Tel Aviv . . . . . . . .72/52/0.00 . . .75/52/s . . . 77/54/s Tokyo. . . . . . . . . .48/37/0.00 . . .50/37/s . . . 51/38/s Toronto . . . . . . . .23/19/0.00 . . 27/14/sf . . . 23/19/s Vancouver. . . . . .48/45/0.73 . .44/39/sh . . . .45/41/r Vienna. . . . . . . . .37/28/0.08 . 26/21/pc . . 30/19/pc Warsaw. . . . . . . .37/30/0.06 . . 30/17/sf . . . 26/8/pc

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Volunteering against violence

Finding Solitude in Utah’s mountains Ski resort keeps things low key compared with busy neighbors

By Christopher Reynolds Los Angeles Times

SOLITUDE MOUNTAIN RESORT, Utah — At last — a ski area suitable for our readers in the federal witness protection program.

Solitude Mountain Resort lies about 30 miles from downtown Salt Lake City, tucked into the same Wasatch range that harbors such famed ski destinations as Park City, Deer Valley and the Canyons. But Solitude occupies a different canyon and a different category. It makes less fuss and draws fewer people than most of those other resorts. Yet it gets just as much snow, often more. And as I found a few weeks ago, it gives skiers plenty to handle.

To reach Solitude, you fly to Salt Lake City and drive (or get driven) southeast, concluding with a careful cruise up curvy Big Cottonwood Canyon Road. As you near 8,000 feet above sea level, a little lodge will pop up on your right, then a pedestrianonly neo-Bavarian village. You have arrived at the retreat Ski magazine calls “North America’s most aptly named ski resort.”

Despite this low profile, Solitude’s mountain towers a little more than 10,000 feet, and by early December, when many Western ski resorts were just turning on the lights, Solitude already had its 65 runs open and 4 feet of snow on the ground. The annual average is about 500 inches.

When it comes to lodging, however, the resort is tiny.

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Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Stan Robson, 67, photographed outside the Saving Grace office in Bend on Tuesday , is a former Benton County sheriff who investigated domestic violence cases for many years. He began volunteering at the nonprofit after retiring to Sisters nine years ago.

At Saving Grace, former Sheriff Stan Robson is working to support victims and prevent domestic abuse

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The heart of Utah’s Solitude Mountain Resort is a snug neo-Bavarian village with one hotel, several restaurants and about 200 condos.

tan Robson had some experience with domestic violence before he began volunteering nine years ago at Saving Grace, a Central Oregon nonprofit that offers services to the victims of

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family violence and sexual assault.

Robson, of Sisters, served the Benton County Sheriff’s Office for three decades, the last six of

them as sheriff. In 2000, shortly before his January 2001 retirement, the Oregon State Sheriffs’

Webfoot Painting offers giveaway

Association named him Sheriff of the Year, capping a 30-year career, 14 spent in investigations.

Webfoot Painting Co., a residential painting company serving Central Oregon, has announced its second annual $5,000 Charity Paint Giveaway.

The Bend-based company will select one recipient in the Bend or Redmond area, based on need and compelling story, to receive $5,000 in free paint, labor and materials.

The only criteria: telling a compelling story of why you or someone you care about deserves free painting services.

Webfoot Painting will begin collecting stories from potential recipients for the giveaway via its website, www.webfootpainting.com, on Jan. 3. Stories will be collected through Feb. 28. The company will select a winner in March.

Last year’s winner, the Ronald McDonald House of Bend, hadn’t been painted in more than 12 years and was in severe need; $5,000 worth of painting would only enable the painters and volunteers to put “lipstick and mascara” on the building. Instead, the paint donation was tripled, and the team worked for four days restoring the exterior of the house. In all, the project would have cost about $20,000 had house manager Mardi Bruce not submitted the charity’s story for consideration.

Contact: www.webfootpainting.com or gavin@ webfootpainting.com.

Within six months of leaving law enforcement, Robson, and his wife, Marjorie, packed up and moved to Sisters.

“We’d always been looking to come east of the mountains,” explains Robson, who grew up in the Portland area. While life in Benton County had been good, “it was still nice to make a break for two reasons: One, the weather is better, and (two), I was still in a fishbowl, and people were still calling me for help — even staff.”

His specialty as an investigator had been domestic violence, and skipping ahead almost a decade, Robson, 67, is still helping people escape the clutches of domestic violence through his efforts as a volunteer at Saving Grace. Founded in 1977 as Central Oregon Battering and Rape Alliance, the nonprofit’s services include a shelter and crisis hot line (541-389-7021). Other services include emergency transportation, children’s support services, court advocacy, support groups, sexual assault services and a lot more.

Within a year of his arrival in Bend, he’d given domestic violence awareness trainings and attended a few meetings. Robson also began helping at Cascades Children’s Festival, a fundraiser for Saving Grace. He also gives orientations to new volunteers about safety issues and law enforcement response. The past two years, he served on the Saving Grace board of directors.

About once a month, he gives “Inside Saving Grace” talks explaining to citizens what the organization is all about. Robson

Volunteer opportunities Volunteer opportunities at Saving Grace include helping with direct services, such as answering calls on its crisis line, facilitating support groups and working with shelter residents. Direct services volunteers must go through a 35-hour training program.

Helping with support services requires a two-hour orientation and includes involvement with the board of directors, helping with the Cascade Children’s Festival, office work and sorting donations, among other possible tasks.

Contact: sarahjade@saving-grace.org or call 541-504-2550, ext. 2.

knows all too well the scourge of domestic violence. He estimates that there were about 20 homicides during his 30 years in Benton County, a relatively quiet county in the Willamette Valley, “and I’ll bet 75 percent of them were domestic-related.”

Encouraging men to step up By and large, the victims of domestic violence are women.

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“Ninety-plus percent of the domestic violence cases are perpetrated by men. It (came) almost as an epiphany that all these years, all we do is try to set up safety plans for women, self-defense, and make sure there’s a shelter and a crisis line, instead of working just as hard, if not harder, on the causal factor, which is men.”

— Stan Robson

Madras hospital seeks greeters Mountain View Hospital in Madras is looking for volunteers to serve as hospital greeters, welcoming people and helping them get to their destinations.

Volunteers will get free vaccinations and participation in hospital events. They must be 16 or older and willing to sign a service agreement. Greeters will work on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Contact: JoDee Tittle, jtittle@mvhd.org or 541475-3882, ext. 5097.

— From staff reports

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C2 Sunday, December 26, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Should wife end call if hubby rings?

Charlie, Rudolph usher in 2011

By Chuck Barn ey Contra Costa Times

Dear Abby: When my husband, “Mac,” calls me on the phone, he expects me to look at the caller ID and immediately interrupt whatever conversation I’m having to take his call.

Unless I expect an important call (from a doctor or my children’s school), I do not look at the caller ID. I give my full attention to the person I’m speaking to. If I hear someone “beep,” I’ll attempt to quickly bring the conversation to a polite and natural end before calling back the person who tried to reach me.

Mac believes that anyone I’m talking to should understand that he takes priority. Today, he called seven times in two minutes to then berate me for not instantly taking his call about an unimportant matter.

Abby, in Mac’s defense, he’s a high-level executive with limited free time during the day. He is not otherwise demanding and usually calls me only once a day. I make every effort to quickly wrap up my phone calls and return his within minutes. Who is right?

— On a Short Phone Leash Dear On a Short Phone Leash: As your husband is a high-level executive, his time may be tightly scheduled. Because he calls you only once a day, it’s not too much to ask that you take the call. I can understand that he finds it frustrating that you refuse. If I were you, I’d start taking these calls — unless you would prefer getting your messages from your husband via his personal assistant.

Dear Abby: My mother-in-law, “Thelma,” came to live with us two years ago because at 82, she was no longer financially able to support herself. Because she likes

DEAR ABBY to cook, she has done most of the meal preparation. It has been a big help since my husband and I work full time.

Over the last year, Thelma’s judgment has deteriorated and so have her cooking skills. She’ll often prepare meals by 2 p.m. that won’t be served until 6 or 7. The food sits on the stove or kitchen counter for hours. She also overcooks to the point of burning, and meats are tough and difficult to eat. Everything has become increasingly less appetizing, to put it mildly.

My mother-in-law is so kind, I don’t want to offend her. My husband refuses to discuss it with her because he doesn’t want to upset her. Please help. I’m worried about the length of time the food sits out after being prepared. Plus, I’d really like to have a good meal!

— Hungry in Missouri Dear Hungry: Food is the least of your problems. Your mother-inlaw is showing signs of dementia.

Does her doctor know about this change in her? If not, that should be the first thing on your agenda.

If so, then you and your husband need to understand that what’s happening may be progressive.

A point may come when, if a fire should start while she’s cooking, she would no longer remember what to do.

“The Sound of Music” 7 tonight, ABC The hills are once again alive with “The Sound of Music” as the Julie Andrews classic returns for another holiday airing.

Feel free to sing along.

“Framed” 9 tonight, PBS “Framed” is the latest “Masterpiece Contemporary” offering. It’s about a curator (Trevor Eve) who is charged with secretly moving London’s National Gallery collection to a Wales mine when a plumbing disaster threatens the artworks.

“Ax Men” 9 tonight, History Channel The “Ax Men” cometh, and they bring an ominous episode called “Day From Hell.” We don’t like the sound of that.

“American Chocolate Championship 10 p.m. Monday, TLC How sweet it is: On the “American Chocolate Championship,” five top chocolatiers create their best concoctions to see who reigns supreme. Please refrain from licking the TV screen.

“Men of a Certain Age” 10 p.m. Monday, TNT Poor Joe (Ray Romano), the hard-luck guy on “Men of a Certain Age.” Just as he’s finalizing his divorce, his teen daughter becomes a pain in his neck.

“Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” 8 p.m. Tuesday, CBS OK, so “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” isn’t as beloved as its classic predecessor, but the rednosed reindeer still is faced with a crucial mission: Find Baby New Year, who has run away.

“The 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors”

9 p.m. Tuesday, CBS Oprah Winfrey and Paul McCartney are among those being saluted at “The 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors.”

The event, which pays respects to arts standouts for their lifetime achievements, also puts country singer Merle Haggard, composer Jerry Herman and choreographer Bill T. Jones in the spotlight.

“I Used to Be Fat” 10 p.m. Wednesday, MTV “I Used to Be Fat” is a new series pegged to teens who are determined to lose weight as they prepare for their freshman year in college. The opener focuses on a homecoming queen who tries to slim down with the help of a personal trainer.

“Happy New Year, Charlie Brown” 8 p.m. Thursday, ABC In “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown,” our round-headed hero

isn’t very happy at all. Why? His teacher has ordered him to read “War and Peace” over the holiday break. Good grief, indeed.

“Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On” 9 p.m. Friday, HBO “Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On” has the Divine Miss M presenting her Las Vegas act in all its bawdy, over-the-top glory. The hits include “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “Wind Beneath My Wings.”

“Primeval” 9 p.m. Saturday, BBC America The fourth season of “Primeval” gets off to a suspenseful start as Abby (Hannah Spearritt) and Conner (Andrew-Lee Potts) finally escape back to the present from the Cretaceous period, where they’ve been dueling with all kinds of scary creatures.

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.

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CALENDAR TODAY OWL LEGENDS: Meet the largest owl in the world, along with other owls, and hear talks from a raptor biologist; $7, $5 museum members, plus admission; 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754.

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; 541-447-7659.

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.

MONDAY OWL LEGENDS: Meet the largest owl in the world, along with other owls, and hear talks from a raptor biologist; $7, $5 museum members, plus admission; 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754.

TUESDAY OWL LEGENDS: Meet the largest owl in the world, along with other owls, and hear talks from a raptor biologist; $7, $5 museum members, plus admission; 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754.

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 CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT: Birdwatchers of all levels walk with a 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.

OWL LEGENDS: Meet the largest owl in the world, along with other owls, and hear talks from a raptor biologist; $7, $5 museum members, plus admission; 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541382-4754.

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; 541-788-2989 or www. randompresents.com.

THURSDAY OWL LEGENDS: Meet the largest owl in the world, along with other owls, and hear talks from a raptor biologist; $7, $5 museum members, plus admission; 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754.

EAGLES: Celebrate the eagle, with tall tales, entertainment and food; reservations requested; $20; 7-9 p.m.; Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, 57245 River Road; 541-593-4394 or www. sunrivernaturecenter.org.

MAGIC SHOW: Mr. Magic presents

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an evening of humor, interaction and magic; $5, free ages 12 and younger with an adult; 7 p.m.; Sunriver Lodge, North Pole, 17728 Abbot Drive; 800486-8591 or www.sunriver-resort. com/traditions.

FRIDAY NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: With skiing, followed by fireworks, sledding and live music; $22; skiing until 9 p.m., party continues through midnight; Hoodoo Mountain Resort, summit of Santiam Pass on U.S. Highway 20, west of Sisters; 541-822-3799 or www.hoodoo.com/events. htm.

BEND’S FIRST 1,000 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 PARTY: Featuring a performance by the Armadillos and dinner; $12; 5-9 p.m.; La Pine Senior Activity Center, 16450 Victory Way; 541-536-6237.

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 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; 541-5934609 or www.sunriver-resort. com/traditions.

RISE UP NEW YEAR’S EVE BASH: With performances by Larry and His Flask, Barefoot Surrender, McDougall and Ether Circus; ages 21 and older; $7; 8 p.m.; Old Mill Music Lounge, 360 S.W. Powerhouse Drive, #210, Bend; www. bendticket.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: Featuring a performance by the M80’s; $10; 8:30 p.m.; Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort & Casino, 100 Main St., Warm Springs; 541-553-1112 or http:// kahneeta.com.

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 AT THE MOON: Featuring performances by The Prairie Rockets and the River Pigs; $10; 9 p.m.; Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom, 24 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-388-8331 or www. silvermoonbrewing.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.541389-8359 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; 541-382-5174 or www. mcmenamins.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT: With a performance by Sagebrush Rock; free; 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Original Kayo’s Dinner House and Lounge, 415 N.E. Third St., Bend; 541-323-2520.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: With performances by Shade 13, and DJs Harlo, Rada, Ells and Defekt; free; 9 p.m.; MadHappy Lounge, 850 N.W. Brooks St., Bend; 541-388-6868.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: Featuring a performance by Out of the Blue; $10; 9 p.m.-midnight; Bend Municipal Airport, 63132 Powell Butte Highway; 541-408-6149 or 541-480-6660.

MESSAGES THROUGH MUSIC: A Slipmat Science party featuring Eternal, Roommate, Mindscape, Defekt, Ells, Kleverkill and more; ages 18 and older; $10 before 10 p.m., $15 after; 10 p.m.; Midtown complex, The Annex, Midtown Ballroom and Domino Room, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend.

SATURDAY 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.

SUNDAY Jan. 2 FIDDLERS JAM: Listen or dance at the Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Jam; donations accepted; 1-3 p.m.; Pine Forest Grange, 63214 N.E. Boyd Acres Road, Bend; 541-447-5451.

MONDAY Jan. 3 GOOD CHAIR, GREAT BOOKS: Read and discuss “Finding Nouf” by Zoe Ferraris; free; noon; Bend Public Library, Brooks Room, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-617-7085 or www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.

TUESDAY Jan. 4 GREEN TEAM MOVIE NIGHT: Featuring a screening of “I AM BECAUSE WE ARE,” which explores Madonna’s journey to Malawi to see how AIDS and poverty affect children; free; 6:30-8 p.m.; First Presbyterian Church, 230 N.E. Ninth St., Bend; 541-815-6504.

WEDNESDAY Jan. 5 “THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, DON CARLO”: Starring Roberto Alagna, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Simon Keenlyside and Ferruccio Furlanetto in an encore presentation of Verdi’s masterpiece; opera performance transmitted in high definition; $18; 6:30 p.m.; Regal Old Mill Stadium 16, 680

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BLACK SWAN (R) 11:50 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG-13) 11:30 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 8 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG-13) 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 THE KING’S SPEECH (R) 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10:20 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG-13) 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10

REGAL OLD MILL STADIUM 16 680 S.W. Powerhouse Drive, Bend 541-382-6347

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) 11:40 a.m., 9:15 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3-D (PG) 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 THE FIGHTER (R) 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 3-D (PG) 11:55 a.m., 2, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG-13)

11:20 a.m., 2:30, 6:25, 9:35 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG-13) 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) 11:50 a.m., 12:20, 2:10, 2:40, 4:30, 5:15, 6:50, 7:45, 9:20, 10:05 TANGLED (PG) 11:15 a.m., 1:35, 4, 6:35, 9:10 THE TOURIST (PG-13) 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 TRON: LEGACY 3-D (PG) Noon, 3:55, 6:40, 9:40, 10:45 TRON: LEGACY (PG) 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:20 TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 11:10 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:40, 2:25, 4:15, 5, 7:10, 7:35, 9:50, 10:15 UNSTOPPABLE (PG-13) 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10 YOGI BEAR (PG) 2:20, 4:40, 7 YOGI BEAR 3-D (PG) 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:10, 6:30, 8:40 EDITOR’S NOTE: Movie times in bold are open-captioned showtimes.

EDITOR’S NOTE: There is an additional $3.50 fee for 3-D movies.

MCMENAMINS OLD ST. FRANCIS SCHOOL 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend 541-330-8562

(After 7 p.m. shows 21 and over only. Under 21 may attend screenings before 7 p.m. if accompanied by a legal guardian.)

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG-13) 10 a.m., 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) 10:30 a.m., 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30 TRON: LEGACY (PG) 10:15 a.m., 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 YOGI BEAR (PG) 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Noon, 2:30 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8 TANGLED (PG) Noon THE TOURIST (PG-13) 5:15, 7:45 TRON: LEGACY (PG) 2, 4:45, 7:30 TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45

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PAGAN JUG BAND: The Portland-based classic country band performs; free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-382-5174 or www. mcmenamins.com.

THURSDAY Jan. 6 GOOD CHAIR, GREAT BOOKS: Read and discuss “The Zookeeper’s Wife”

by Diane Ackerman; bring a lunch; free; noon; Sunriver Area Public Library, 56855 Venture Lane; 541-3121081 or www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.

“BOOMERS, XERS, AND MILLENNIALS — CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?”: Explore characteristics, communications styles and more about different generations; free; 6 p.m.; Bend Public Library, Brooks Room, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-3121034 or www.deschuteslibrary. org/calendar.

PAGAN JUG BAND: The Portland-based classic country band performs; free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-382-5174 or www. mcmenamins.com.

“LOVE, LAUGHTER AND LUCCI”: Preview night for the comedy

by Cricket Daniel about three generations of an Italian Catholic family living together; $10; 8 p.m.; 2nd Street Theater, 220 N.E. Lafayette Ave., Bend; 541-312-9626 or www.beattickets.org.

FRIDAY Jan. 7 “BOOMERS, XERS, AND MILLENNIALS — CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?”: Explore characteristics, communications styles and more about different generations; free; 1 p.m.; Sisters Public Library, 110 N. Cedar St.; 541-312-1034 or www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY WALK: Event includes art exhibit openings, artist talks, live music, wine and food in downtown Bend, the Old Mill District and NorthWest Crossing; free; 5-9 p.m., and until 8 p.m. in NorthWest Crossing; throughout Bend.

P P Guitar gift brings joy We are sending out heartfelt gratitude to an anonymous couple from Bend who were at the Red Lotus Music store in Newport last month. My son was playing a guitar while I was making a small payment on it.

Last week I received a call from the Red Lotus that the guitar had been paid off by an anonymous couple who had seen him playing.

We are so thankful and are filled with joy that we will have a Christmas after all.

Our gift we send this couple is “May love, joy, peace and hope fill their hearts as it has ours this Christmas season.”

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

We are forever grateful L a ura Partlow and son, Russell Toledo

Person to Person Policy We welcome your letters, expressing thanks and appreciation of extraordinary deeds done by area residents.

Letters should be no longer than 250 words, signed, and include the writer’s phone number and address for verification. We edit letters for brevity, grammar, taste and legal reasons.

We reject those published elsewhere.

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C4 Sunday, December 26, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Balancing safety and savings in Mexico

By Michelle Higgins

“A lot of clients will come here and say, ‘I’ll go anywhere except Mexico.’ Quite often we’ll be able to talk them back around to it based on the value.”

New York Times News Service

When Alex Trettin and his wife, Jenn, suggested to family and friends that they take a group vacation to Mexico, the reaction was mixed. About half of the group of 29 immediately signed on for the November trip to the Riviera Maya, south of Cancun, where they would visit Mayan ruins, fish and lounge by the pool at an upscale resort for the bargain price of $150 a person a night.

The other half hesitated, citing concern about Mexico’s continuing drug war.

“My aunt stated she hoped we didn’t have any issues with the drug cartels,” said Trettin, a Mexico-travel specialist in Tacoma, Wash., who assured everyone that the beach resort they were going to near Playa del Carmen was far from the violent clashes they had seen on TV. Ultimately, they all went, but the concerns that some in the group expressed are indicative of the quandary many travelers face when they consider the safety risks versus the convenience and affordability of a vacation in Mexico.

While most of the drug-related violence has been in the northern border region of Mexico, far from the Mayan temples of the Yucatán, the regional cuisine of Oaxaca or the beaches of Baja California Sur, violence has erupted in tourist destinations like Acapulco and the state of Michoacan, home to the famous monarch butterfly sanctuaries. Even Cancun’s safety was questioned earlier this year after eight employees of a strip club there were killed when a group of men threw Molotov cocktails into the building in an area not frequented by tourists.

Advice to travelers To combat the perception that violence has been widespread, tourism officials in Mexico have invested $30 million in advertising and social media initiatives to spread the word that much of the country is safe for tourists.

“Visitors have the right to be well informed,” said Alfonso Sumano, the regional director of the Mexico Tourism Board for the Americas. Many of the affected areas, he said, “are very far from the destinations tourists visit.”

The latest travel warning, issued by the State Department in September, urged American citizens to defer unnecessary travel specifically to Michoacan and areas along the northern border, including Tamaulipas, and parts of Chihuahua, Durango and Coahuila, where tourists generally don’t go. Yet, ever cautious, it stated, “violence has occurred throughout the country, including in areas frequented by American tourists.” Visitors were encouraged to stay on main roads in daylight hours and to remain in wellknown tourist areas.

All of this has made travel to Mexico a hard sell lately, but trav-

— Kate Rosevear, travel agent, Plymouth, Mich.

New York Times News Service ile photo

Tourists walk along the beach in front of Zazilkin, a hotel with rustic cabanas in Tulum, on the Yucatán Peninsula. The Yucatán is far from the drug-related violence that has broken out in the northern border region of Mexico.

Travel warnings as families take traditional trips FORT WORTH, Texas — Fernando Hernandez heard the travel warnings before he booked a bus trip to central Mexico, but he shrugged off reports of crime and kidnappings because he wants to spend the holidays among cherished friends and familiar traditions.

“We have to see the family,” Hernandez said before boarding a bus Tuesday at a small station in south Fort Worth.

He was traveling with his wife to the Mexican state of Queretaro some 18 hours south of the Metroplex.

U.S. and Texas officials have issued several warnings about travel to Mexico this year. The latest round — sent last week by the Texas Department of Public Safety — was aimed largely at the thousands of families that embark on yearly pilgrimages to cities and towns where they celebrate Christmas, New Year’s Day and Dia de Reyes (Epiphany).

“We are certainly very concerned,” said Tela Mange, a DPS spokeswoman. “Christmas is a time when a lot of people travel to Mexico.” DPS cited several concerns, including drug cartel-related violence along the northern Mexican border and in cities such as Monterrey and Acapulco.

Drug-related and other crimes have been documented in popular tourist spots such as Cancun and Mazatlan, officials said. Kidnappings of tourists, assaults along Mexican highways and rapes at resort areas have also been reported.

“If they choose to travel to Mexico, they need to be very, very careful,” Mange said, adding: “We just wanted to make sure people understood that it’s dangerous.”

In Dallas, Mexican General Consul Juan Carlos Cue-Vega said it is still safe to travel in Mexico, but he also stressed caution. He said people should avoid driving at night and use the main thoroughfares. He advised travelers to caravan.

— McClatchy-Tribune News Service

stays starting Jan. 11.

Mexican Destinations, the Mexico Villa brand of the rental company VacationRoost, has trained its agents to educate clients who call with safety concerns about how far its villas are from reported violence, and is offering specials of 25 percent to 50 percent off. One deal is Casa del Sol, a four-bedroom, five-bath property on the Pacific Coast in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, where rates have been slashed to $750 a night, from $1,500, in early January.

The pricing strategy seems to be working. The number of international tourists arriving in Mexico by air from January to October was 8.2 million, according to the latest data from the Mexico Tourist Board. That is an increase of 17.8 percent compared with the same period last year, when Mexico endured a down economy, H1N1 scares and drug violence. Visitors are up 6.4 percent over the same period in 2008, which was considered to be one of the best years for travel to Mexico. The number of American travelers increased by 13.4 percent, compared with the same time period in 2009.

Safety measures el agents say the negative publicity has also made Mexico among the best values out there as resorts lower rates or add free incentives to entice travelers. When asked where agents are recommending travelers go to get the most for their dollar this year, 70 percent said Mexico, according to Travel Leaders, a major network of agents.

“A lot of clients will come here and say, ‘I’ll go anywhere except Mexico,’” said Kate Rosevear, owner of a Travel Leaders agency in Plymouth, Mich. “Quite often we’ll be able to talk them back around to it based on the value.”

Some of the deals agents and

tourism officials point out include Casa Ticul, a boutique hotel in Playa del Carmen, which is offering 20 percent off rates of $171 a night to travelers who book a January stay by the end of December. Villa del Palmar Cancun, a new all-inclusive resort in Playa Mujeres with a Greg Norman-designed golf course, has rates from $186 a person a night during the holidays and a rate of $142 a person a night after that — up to 60 percent off. And St. Regis Punta Mita is offering butler service, a third night free, a $50 resort credit per room and a glass of champagne with its Welcome to Paradise deal from $580 a night for

Many resorts say safety is at the top of their guests’ minds.

“When our reservations manager receives requests, the first question that is asked is if there has been violence in this area,” said Giorgio Brignone, the proprietor of Costa Careyes, a luxury resort two hours south of Puerto Vallarta, which has added free airport transfers to and from Manzanillo.

To put jittery travelers at ease, the company has placed ads in magazines promoting “a different Mexico.” In addition, the company’s website highlighted the 24-hour security at the resort.

Part of the problem is that many travelers are unclear about

where the violence has occurred and how it might affect their vacations, Brignone said. “People don’t realize that there are many regions and areas in the country that are not affected by the violence and drug wars,” he said. “It’s like saying I will not go to Dallas, or New York, because there are problems or riots in Los Angeles.” Still, there are some tourist destinations travelers should steer clear of, at least for now. “I would not encourage my family to visit Acapulco right now,” said Josh Miller, who lives in Mexico City and is the general director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for Control Risks, a risk management firm. “While a wonderful place to visit,” he said, “violent confrontations have been spilling over from the military effort against the cartels.” Travelers should also hold off on visits to Michoacan, in central Mexico.

The state is a stronghold of La Familia, a drug cartel known for bold ambushes.

Popular resort areas, including Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Ixtapa and Cancun’s resort strip are generally safe for travelers, Miller said, particularly if visitors

stay within the resorts’ boundaries. “Mexico is a volatile place,” he said. “You have to have your itinerary planned out quite well, consider transportation and stay abreast of latest developments.”

Some travelers who have been to Mexico before are surprised when friends express safety concerns.

“Everybody was like, ‘What? You are going to Mexico?’” said Tina Youtsey, a dog groomer from Milan, Mich., who went to the Riviera Maya with her teenage daughter last month. “Seriously,” she said, “the drug lords aren’t hanging out at the resort.” Having visited Mexico two times before, she added, “I wasn’t really worried.”

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I have a $1,500 flight credit with Continental that I need to use, and I’m planning a nine- or 10-day trip sometime in January or February, but I don’t have my heart set on a destination. My only stipulations are that the destination be reasonably inexpensive (looking to spend around $100 to $150 a day) and reasonably safe for a 24-year-old female solo traveler. I’ve traveled solo to Indonesia, Jordan, Syria and Tanzania. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Why not use your $1,500 flight credit to explore Delhi and Rajasthan in India? A recent online search found round-trip flights to New Delhi in January starting at $1,137 on Continental. In an e-mail, Kabir Chibber, a contributor to the New York Times Travel section, including “36 Hours in Rajasthan” (Nov. 22, 2009), agreed. Chibber suggested staying in Delhi for two or three days to take in sites like the 17th-century Red Fort and Jama Masjid mosque in Old Delhi. He

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added that the city has a new subway, which is clean and safe. But avoid walking around alone at night, he said.

Next, take a train to Rajasthan to explore the forts and palaces in the state’s three largest cities: Jaipur, Jodphur and Udaipur. Rajasthan, with a vibrant history and excellent food, is a great place to visit, Chibber wrote. However, “it’s still unusual for women to travel by themselves in India, and you might face some unwanted attention.” He recommended paying extra for more privacy when traveling by train. You can find Chibber’s article as well as Somini Sengupta’s “36 Hours in New Delhi” (March 23, 2008) at nytimes.com/travel.

— New York Times News Service

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If you go For a fee, resort-area lodgings can arrange ground transport. If you rent a car in winter, it’s worth the extra cost to pay for four-wheel drive.

Continued from C1 It has 46 hotel rooms and 212 condos, townhouses and vacation homes, all built between 1995 and 2009. In a 2010 ranking of the 30 biggest ski resorts in the Western U.S. and Canada, Ski magazine’s readers put Solitude near the top for weather and snow quality, near the bottom in dining, night life, off-mountain activities, lifts and terrain parks.

WHERE TO SKI Solitude Ski Resort, 12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude; 800 -748-4754, www .skisolitude.com. Includes 65 runs on 1,200 acres. Adult day pass is $68 (or $78 for a combined Solitude-Brighton Ski Resort pass).

Living up to the name “The plus about Solitude is that you rarely have lines,” said Sherree Luke of Salt Lake City, a 15year Solitude skier whom I found warming up by the resort’s Moonbeam Lodge fireplace. Especially in Solitude’s Honeycomb Canyon area, “you’re away from everyone,” she said. “It’s just like you’re out in the woods by yourself.”

Solitude offers eight lifts, serving about 1,200 skiable acres.

About 20 percent of the slopes are suitable for beginners, 50 percent for intermediates and 30 percent for those in the “advanced/expert” category — a more beginnerfriendly mix than at many of the 13 major resorts in Utah. The most ambitious Solitude skiers gravitate toward Honeycomb Canyon, which includes about 400 acres of lift-accessible, off-piste terrain.

Begin at the top of the Summit lift and you have a 3.2-mile blue odyssey (that is, mostly intermediate difficulty) to the bottom of the Eagle Express lift. A day pass costs $68, versus $85 to $90 a day at the Canyons, Deer Valley or Park City (all of which have much more territory).

As for Solitude’s village, it’s handsome, especially the atmospheric clock tower. But it’s a resort, not a real town. If you’re cooking in one of the condos, you’ll need to buy groceries in Salt Lake City before entering the canyon. And though you’ll hear a pleasant tolling every 15 minutes that sounds like a church bell, it’s just a bit of recorded neo-Bavarian stagecraft — no church, no bell.

The village is better for couples and families than singles. It’s not a place to go shopping, and it’s a fair bet that nobody has ever gone there to see and be seen. Basically, it’s witness protection heaven, which I pointed out to resort spokesman Nick Como.

“How do you know that’s not why I’m here?” he asked.

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WHERE TO STAY • The Inn at Solitude, 12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude; 877-517-7717, www.innatsolitude .com. It has 46 rooms, Wi-Fi and a heated pool. Winter and holiday rates from $269 to $449 a night.

• Solitude condos, 12000 Big

Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude; 800 -748-4754, www .skisolitude.com. Winter, holiday rates are from $260 to $835 a night.

WHERE TO EAT • Kimi’s Mountainside Bistro, Solitude Mountain Resort, 12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude; 801-536-5787, www .kimismountainsidebistro.com.

Upscale slope-side dining. Entrees $17-$28.

• St. Bernard’s at the Inn, Solitude Mountain Resort, 12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, Solitude; 801-535-4120; www .skisolitude.com/dining/st_bs.php.

The fanciest restaurant in the village. Dinner entrees from $29 to $36.

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The Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah, popular with locals and families, includes eight chairlifts on its 1,200 skiable acres. place about as empty as it gets: late November, just a week after the resort opened for the season, before all the lifts were running, when just three of the village’s five restaurants were serving dinner and two of the four casual eateries on the mountain had yet to open. Traveling anonymously and paying the beginning-of-theseason rate of $169 a night, I was the Inn at Solitude’s first guest of the season.

Fresh powder I was also fortunate. Within a few hours of my arrival, the dense, gray sky dumped the season’s first serious snowstorm. Pretty soon, a foot of powder had fallen on an existing 2-foot snowpack, and the next day, a lucky few hundred of us had the responsibility of defiling it. Up, down, up, down, with scarcely a pause at the bottom.

In two days, I never stood in a lift line for more than 60 seconds. (Instead of old-fashioned lift tickets, Solitude issues radio-frequencyidentification pass cards with embedded electronic chips that you can leave in your pocket.)

“Lucky dog!” one of the lift attendants said as I edged up for my second run around 9:20 a.m. “I’ll be out there tomorrow.”

For two days, I skied green and blue (beginner and intermediate) runs until my thighs burned. After the first day, I headed for Ki-

mi’s Mountainside Bistro, where I dined alone. Not alone at my table.

Alone in the restaurant, except for the staff.

“When they say Solitude,” I thought, “they’re not kidding.”

Then my food came, and I had another thought: “Great chanterelle mushroom soup.”

The next day, the storm was still on and conditions were stiffer, including gusts up to 50 mph that drove the snowflakes — and occasionally the skiers — sideways.

Before long, the upper half of my face was numb and the lower half was stinging from the pelting flakes.

“This is, like, totally insane,” I heard a woman say on my way into the Moonbeam Lodge’s Argenta Pub. “I haven’t skied in powder like this in two years. It’s totally kicking my butt.”

Open to all Until the early 20th century, Big Cottonwood Canyon was known mostly for silver mining. In 1936, the canyon’s first ski area opened, Brighton, where many Utahans still learn to ski or snowboard.

About two miles up the canyon from Solitude, Brighton draws young snowboarders, who line up next to local families chasing nofrill thrills. Management offers picnic tables for local skiers who bring their own lunches.

Solitude has a brown-bag din-

ing area too — indoors, on the bottom level of its Snowsports Academy — and a great creation story that might even be true. In the 1950s, the story goes, a uranium tycoon from Moab, Utah, named Robert Barrett was visiting the Alta ski area in Little Cottonwood Canyon when nature called. Sorry, he was told, Alta’s restrooms are reserved for overnight guests. I don’t know how the uranium magnate met his immediate needs, but the upshot was that he resolved to open his own less-exclusive ski resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon. That was Solitude, which began with two chairlifts in 1957.

These days, the Alta experience still comes with restrictions.

It’s one of the few winter resorts in North America that still bans snowboarders. Meanwhile, Solitude has grown to eight lifts, accepting skiers and boarders alike, with a mountain sports academy.

Its Nordic ski center offers about 12 miles of cross-country trails and six miles of snowshoe trails.

Downhill skiers and boarders begin their days at the Solitude village area (where Sunrise and Apex Express lifts begin) or the Moonbeam Lodge, about a mile downhill (where the Moonbeam Express and Eagle Express lifts begin and where day-tripping locals park). The village and Moonbeam areas are connected by the Link lift and free shuttle-

van service. In theory, the resort’s lifts can handle 14,450 skiers and boarders an hour.

In practice? “I don’t think we’ve ever had that many people here in a single day,” Como said.

Just the essentials In Solitude’s pedestrian village, the clock tower looms above about 10 buildings, which house the inn, spa, condos and homes; the lone retail shop (ski wear, mostly) and real estate office; Kimi’s Mountainside Bistro; St. Bernard’s (the fancy restaurant inside the Inn at Solitude); the Stone Haus Pizzeria & Creamery (which is more of a snack bar); and the Thirsty Squirrel pub, where I found a pair of the resort ski patrol’s avalanche rescue dogs, off duty but ready to help if I fell off my stool.

In the village’s Eagle Springs condo building, there’s a lounge area called Club Solitude, for condo and inn guests. It has a big fireplace, board games and movie screenings.

It looks like a fine place to unwind, even if joining Club Solitude sounds a bit like running for president of the anarchists’ guild.

If you check out Solitude on TripAdvisor, you get mixed readings on the service in general, which I understand. Though I knew I’d miss a few things by arriving so early in the season, the reservationist didn’t make clear on the phone that the inn’s pool, hot tub, two fanciest dinner restaurants and the most convenient equipment rental shop would still be

closed when I arrived. Once I was on the scene, however, everyone I met was cheerful and helpful — and I was especially happy to hand over a $20 tip to the hotel staffer who spent most of an hour digging my rental car out from under 2 feet of new snow.

“You don’t have the amenities that maybe some families from the East Coast and West Coast are looking for,” said Josh Dixon, a former Los Angeles resident who splits his time between Seattle and Park City. “You’re not going to find your Rodeo Drive-type shops. You have to go to Park City for that, or perhaps Vail, in Colorado. But the great thing about Solitude and the other resorts up in these canyons is it’s world-class skiing, and you’re just not paying for the amenities that are nice but not necessary.”

If you do feel like splurging, Solitude offers this: On any night but Monday for most of the winter, you can snowshoe or cross-country ski from the village through the early-evening darkness (for less than a mile) to a secluded round tent that’s lighted up like a Thomas Kinkade painting, if Thomas Kinkade painted Mongolian yurts.

That’s the Yurt restaurant, which seats no more than 22 diners, by reservation only. A chef does much of the food preparation on site, with help from St. Bernard’s kitchen and a snowmobile.

The five-course fixed-price meal is $100 — a lot for most people but chicken feed if you’re burning through a federal witness stipend.

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Maryfrances Nyman, of Portland, and Dustin Wyant, of Carlton, plan to marry July 16 in Oregon’s wine country.

The future bride is the daughter of Del and Maryjane Nyman, of Bend. She is a 1995 graduate of Mountain View High School and a 2000 graduate of Oregon State University, where she studied

business management. She works as human resources administrator for Pacific Crest Securities.

The future groom is the son of Douglas and Ann Wyant, of Crooked River Ranch. He is a 1988 graduate of Bend High School and a 1992 graduate of the University of Virginia, where he studied management and marketing. He works as hotel and restaurant manager as the owner of Wyant Hospitality.

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The couple were married Dec. 31, 1960, in Mt. Angel, with the Rev. Anthony Terhaar, a great uncle of the bride, officiating.

They have three children, Tim (and Kimberly), of

Redmond, Steve (and Sheri), of Portland, and Patricia Copeland, of Dallas, Ore.; and nine grandchildren.

Mr. Fitzsimmons worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the state of Oregon until his retirement in 1998. Mrs. Fitzsimmons worked as an administrative specialist in the special education program for the state of Oregon, retiring in 1998.

They have lived in Central Oregon for 10 years.

Ben Duda and Stephony Duda, a boy, Declan Zane Zippity Duda, 8 pounds, 1 ounce, Dec. 15.

Jeffery and Carol Procsal, a boy, Laken Robert Procsal, 6 pounds, 8 ounces, Dec. 18.

Kyel and Allyson Wright, a girl, Amialya Lane Wright, 7 pounds, 1 ounce, Dec. 17.

Jake and Maggie Akerberg, a girl, Camille Rose Akerberg, 7 pounds, 13 ounces, Dec. 18.

Aaron Dougherty and Faith Beauchemin, a boy, Jack Sawyer Dougherty, 8 pounds, 5 ounces, Dec. 17.

Scott and Sara Blanchard, a boy, Tyson Scott Blanchard, 8 pounds, 14 ounces, Dec. 16.

Nabil Elias Saleh and Kelly Diane Windolph, a girl, Ava Kourtney Grace Saleh, 6 pounds, 11 ounces, Dec. 15.

Steel and Kara Bailey, a boy, Paxton Bennet Bailey, 7 pounds, 6 ounces, Dec. 15.

Caleb and Ellie Anderson, a girl, Anna Grace Anderson, 8 pounds, 5 ounces, Dec. 14.

Brandon Powers and Tomomi Soma, a boy, Miro Frederick Soma Powers, 6 pounds, 8 ounces, Dec. 14.

Carlose Lopez and Nancy Mendez, a girl, Adamaris Elyssa Lopez, 8 pounds, 14 ounces, Dec. 14.

Jason Pihl and Roberta Althiser, a girl, Kaitlyn Charlene Pihl, 7 pounds, 2 ounces, Dec. 15.

Chad and Sara Morris, a boy, Grayson Stanley Morris, 8 pounds, 3 ounces, Dec. 13.

Nicholas Aschoff and Hali Neeley, a boy, Kason Daniel Aschoff, 7 pounds, 13 ounces, Dec. 13.

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Scott and Heather Satterlee, a boy, Cash Montgomery Satterlee, 8 pounds, 15 ounces, Dec. 12.

Cheyne and Amanda Sexsmith, a girl, Akianna Rain Sexsmith, 6 pounds, 12 ounces, Dec. 10.

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The bride is the daughter of Guy and Madeleine Lewis, of Albany. She is a 2004 graduate of West Albany High School and a 2008 graduate of Linfield College, where she studied finance.

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The couple honeymooned in Palm Springs, Calif.

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Unorthodox fabric dyer gains a fashion following

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By Katie Benner New York Times News Service

NEW YORK — It is rare for fabric makers to get much buzz, let alone credit in fashion bibles like Vogue and Lucky magazines.

But Audrey Louise Reynolds, a 27year-old self-taught designer who lives in Brooklyn, has emerged as the fashion world’s artisanal fabric dyer.

Her earthy, one-of-a-kind dyes, which she makes in small batches in her backyard in Red Hook, Brooklyn, using only natural and organic ingredients like bark and squid ink, have earned her a loyal following. Avant-garde designers like Rogan, Loomstate, No. 6, Bodkin and Wendy Nichol commission her to create unique colors and patterns.

For Rogan, Reynolds suffused a floor-length silk dress using five types of gray dye, including one made from recycled rubber tires that she dip-dyed, splattered and over-dyed to create deep waves of color.

For Wendy Nichol, she soaked the designer’s leather tote bags, creating a light wash that wrinkled the leather. She accentuated the look with hand-painted accents and used pigments made from berries, Carolina red clay and recycled rubber.

In the fall, she was tapped by the Brooklyn-based designer Kaelen Farncombe to dye a series of flouncy silk dresses that were meant to evoke the stormy grays of tornadoes.

“It’s very collaborative,” Reynolds said, in describing her approach. “It could be as simple as someone saying they prefer a single ingredient, like weeping-willow bark. Or it could be as elaborate as a whole story line that they want to evoke.”

Her most attention-getting commission to date was not for a dressmaker but for a jewelry designer.

For New York Fashion Week last fall, Reynolds was asked by Pamela Love, a gothic jewelry designer, to help create a series of black dresses that would make it look as if the models were “being consumed by fire,” she said.

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Audrey Reynolds, a self-taught artisanal fabric dyer, is collaborating with designers for one-of-a-kind looks.

Reynolds achieved the swirl of purples, grays and burnt orange by hand-pressing dyes directly into the silk, soaking them in dyes made from rust and creating chemical reactions with powdered minerals. She also used woodburning tools to melt and burn pieces of the fabric and even buried them in dirt to make them look aged and distressed.

“She created more than flat color,” Love said. “She created texture and patterns that can never be recreated.”

Fashion blogs took notice. “Just as compelling as the baubles were the dresses,” Style.com wrote.

Crafting a look Fashion came early and naturally to Reynolds, even though she was born in Detroit, far from the fashion capitals, and was raised in Charlotte, N.C., the daughter of an auto industry consultant. Like Molly Ringwald’s character in “Pretty in Pink,” she spent much of her youth making her own clothes, collage-style, from vintage pieces.

“I found things from the ’80s and married them with what people wore in the ’90s,” she said.

“I bleached and stained my jeans.

I added contrast stitching or em-

bellishments, like leather-covered back pockets. They were always a little over-the-top.”

She started experimenting with dyes and paints in high school, and customized clothing, skate decks and shoes for friends. “I wasn’t really aware of high fashion then,” she said. “I created things to capture a certain attitude, like steam punk or old timey sailor.”

Reynolds attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied painting and video. But she liked fashion more than film, and she moved to New York in 2004 to pursue her craft.

Today, her business averages 100 to 200 pieces a month, which she completes on her own. Current jobs include a collaboration with Dieppa Restrepo, a shoemaker, and working with private clients who pick her to dye items from their closets. Meanwhile, she is branching out into costume design for movies and, for the home, textiles and hand-dyed wallpapers.

“I am lucky to have found success doing this because my work is a reflection of my life and of my curiosity,” Reynolds said. “As I grow, I’ll do something totally different. The dyes will likely be a part of it, but I’ll always move in new directions.”

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010: This year, many of you have the rare opportunity to travel, visit and see people you haven’t seen in a while. Broaden your horizons and eliminate self-imposed limitations.

Some of you will decide to go back to school or take classes. If you are single, a different type of person enters your life. Know that this will be an interesting bond. If you are attached, share your desire to open up to a different type of experience. Your partner just might want to join you. VIRGO can help you see another perspective.

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 An authority figure who can be demanding seems impossible to satisfy. Detail recent efforts, without complaining.

This person takes a lot for granted. News from a distance could be stunning. Tonight: Start thinking about Monday and what needs to happen.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Kick back and enjoy yourself. You have pushed very hard in the past few weeks. Relax and only do what you want. A lucky friend, child or loved one joins right in. Tonight: Go until you cannot go anymore.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Take a much-needed break. You might be more tired from recent holiday celebrations

than you realize. In fact, when you let go, besides snoozing, you might be able to really enjoy certain recent happenings in your life.

Tonight: Leftovers are in order.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH While others collapse on their sofa to recuperate, you can be found out and about.

Whether visiting a friend, off at a sporting event or returning a gift or two, you will be a busy bee. Tonight: Pick up the phone and make your thank-yous.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Stop and take a serious assessment of recent spending and what you still would like to do before 2011 arrives. A little thought and a conversation with a knowledgeable friend could be important. Tonight: Your treat.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH Finally, you have some time to yourself, if you so choose. The freedom “to choose” rather than having “to do” makes you feel good. A child devours extra attention, as does a loved one. Tonight: Whatever knocks your socks off.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Take a personal day.

Don’t respond to an internal need to explain to anyone the hows and whys. You recycle. A domestic or personal situation needs rethinking. Curb an argument before it begins. Not today! You don’t need it. Tonight: Go for couch-potato status.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Visit with friends you haven’t seen in a while. Catch

up on their Christmas. Some of you might be off at the gym, soaking away the holiday stress while chatting with your pals. Get ready for another round. Tonight: Only where the action is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You might want to take advantage of a semi-free day to catch up on some responsibilities you have let go. Still, spend some time with a special person in your life. You never seem to get enough of this person. Tonight: Could go till the wee hours.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Is there someone you haven’t seen but you really want to? Why not now, if it is just a day trip? Otherwise, make a call and plan to get together as soon as the two of you can make time. You feel great connecting. Tonight: Don’t let insecurity ruin the moment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH A close loved one or partner makes it clear he or she wants your time. Incorporate this person into your plans for the day, but also make sure that you take some personal time.

A friend could be quite critical and difficult. Let it go. Tonight: Enjoy wherever you are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You might want a partner, family member, roommate or bossy friend to take over! Don’t you think you have done enough?

Get together with a friend, but don’t forget to call someone near and dear who’s at a distance.

Tonight: Follow another’s lead. © 2010 by King Features Syndicate

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men to step up and take a stand against domestic violence.”

Continued from C1 “Ninety-plus percent of the domestic violence cases are perpetrated by men,” notes Robson.

“It (came) almost as an epiphany that all these years, all we do is try to set up safety plans for women, self-defense, and make sure there’s a shelter and a crisis line, instead of working just as hard, if not harder, on the causal factor, which is men.”

To that end, Robson aims to speak to men’s groups about domestic violence. He’d also like to see more men become involved at Saving Grace. Its volunteers — about 75 in all — are mostly female, according to Trish Meyer, assistant executive director at Saving Grace.

“We have a lot fewer men,” she says. “There may be men who don’t know there are opportunities to volunteer with us. They may feel like they have a target on their head during training.”

To volunteer in direct services, such as answering the crisis line, becoming a shelter volunteer, facilitating support groups and similar contact with domestic and sexual violence survivors, requires 35 hours of training.

Such extensive training is necessary, Meyer says, because volunteers in those roles are doing the same work as the 26 people working on staff.

There are usually some men who go through each direct services training. “We have men who’ve helped at the shelter before, and we have men who respond to the hospital for male victims of abuse who want to meet with a man,” Meyer says.

For support services — office duties, involvement with fundraising or public relations and sorting donations — only a two-hour orientation is required.

Meyer says Robson “has been, really, the driving force within our organization in encouraging

Strong role models “I grew up experiencing no violence,” Robson says.

Because of that, he led a blessed childhood, he says, even though his mother died in a car accident when he was just 6. Before his father remarried, they lived for three years with his grandparents.

“So I had two role models,” he says. There was his father, who was working two and three jobs to pay for accident-related expenses, “and my grandfather, who had come over from Scotland at the turn of the last century. Through the old type of hierarchy, Grandpa was supposed to be boss, but Grandma had (said) everything she wanted to say before he made that type of decision.” He laughs softly at the memory.

“I can’t remember them, even though I was fairly young, ever even arguing much. They may have a harsh word about, ‘Put this away,’ or ‘Where’s this?’ But that was it. It was nothing.”

Robson also chuckles when asked why he went into law enforcement.

He earned his degree in wildlife management at Oregon State University, but he graduated in the winter, and there “wasn’t much going on except going out and counting ducks and geese, and I wasn’t thrilled about that,” he says.

When his neighbor was elected sheriff, “I happened to be talking to him one day, and he said he had an opening, and, ‘Do you want to come in and compete?’ I didn’t have anything else going on. That was 40 years ago.”

Hooked on investigations He joined the Benton County Sheriff’s Office in 1971, and wasn’t crazy about “the road,”

What to expect when the kids return from college

By Melissa Sturm-Smith Special to The Washington Post

As first-year college students return home for winter break, what can parents expect their behavior to be like once they had a taste of freedom away from home?

The biggest thing parents should know is that the first semester of college brings something different for every student.

This means that when students come home for the holidays, you could see anything from a drastic change in personality and outlook on life to no change at all (and anything in between).

Some students spend their first semester at college making friends and getting to know people who are very different from themselves. This could mean that your student is learning about new perspectives that he or she has never encountered before.

One piece of advice is to engage your student in a conver-

sation about the new things he or she has encountered thus far.

The most important thing you can do is listen to what your student has to say and keep an open mind. Try not to judge or evaluate the merit of the thoughts and opinions your student brings to the discussion.

Another change that parents might see when their student comes home for the holidays is an increased need for independence.

When your student arrives home, it is important to discuss your expectations thoroughly.

Again, try to make this a conversation — where you let your student know what your expectations are, but also give him or her the chance to contribute their expectations.

Melissa Sturm-Smith is the assistant dean of students at Drake University in Iowa.

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“The way I got into investigation was working a domestic violence case, a homicide,” he explains. That was after he’d been with the department for about two and a half years.

“They pulled me off the road to do follow-up” on the investigation, he says. “They liked what I did, I guess, because they kept me around for a year.”

When a detective sergeant retired, Robson competed for, and received, that open position. “I was hooked. I got into investigation. Just really enjoyed it.”

He was an investigator for 14 years, “mainly (investigating) crimes against persons, and I specialized in child abuse, sexual exploitation of children and domestic violence follow-ups, sometimes.”

He worked somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 child abuse cases; close to 500 of them related to sex abuse.

The case that affected him the most emotionally involved 6- and 9-year-old girls who were being abused by their stepfather.

“I’d interviewed them, and the grandparents lived next door. I’d gone over and got a confession from dad,” he recalls. When he returned to the girls next door at

the grandparents’, he told them that they wouldn’t have to worry about their stepfather anymore.

“The 6-year-old looked up at me and said, ‘Thank you for helping.’ God, it was ... ” he says, but he doesn’t finish the thought.

The heavy nature of his investigations “took a toll on my family some,” he says. “I was gone a lot more than I should have been.

I’m not proud of it, (but) my job came first, them second, and that wasn’t right.”

As Robson began doing more administrative work, he was able to reverse that trend.

“My wife was the strong one, and we’ve been married over 45 years. I always say it’s her fault,” he says. Together, they raised two children, a son who’s served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a daughter, who works as an assistant district attorney in Bend.

Retired life Robson also volunteers with Deschutes County Search and Rescue, tracking lost individuals and training search and rescue, law enforcement and military personnel.

“That’s another hat I’ve worn for 30 years,” he says. All told, his volunteer efforts amount to

about 40 hours a month.

Robson doesn’t hunt anymore, but he fishes occasionally. He and his wife also enjoy travel.

The first trip they took after he retired was to Fiji. They’ve also enjoyed trips to Mexico and Hawaii. Upcoming travel itineraries include Tahiti and an Alaskan cruise.

It was a given that his efforts to help people suffering domestic violence would continue in retirement, he says.

“There’s no way I could stay off the bandwagon with domestic violence issues,” he says. He’s gone before the state Legislature with Saving Grace, as well as in his law enforcement career, and has served on dozens of committees and task forces.

If one can’t volunteer, Robson points out that “there are so many things that can be done, just through financial support.

That’s always a necessity, especially with various government funding drying up.”

Perhaps even more important is for people — neighbors, family and friends — to pay attention to signs of domestic violence, he says.

According to the Domestic Violence Resource Center, 18 people die annually in Oregon

due to domestic violence. At least one in 10 Oregon women between the ages of 20 and 55 have been physically or sexually assaulted by a current or former intimate partner in the preceding five years. Children have been witnesses to 33 percent of those assaults.

“Report suspicious things,” says Robson.

“I always find it important when I’m giving training to law enforcement is that we look at domestic violence as the most important call a police officer or deputy can go on. To me, it’s pre-homicide. Homicide isn’t more important. A person’s already dead. And robberies aren’t as important, if nobody’s life is threatened. If it’s one occurring, yes, it’s more important. But a DV,” as he shorthands domestic violence, “is a pre-homicide, in many, many cases.”

Asked if he’s found his career and volunteer efforts rewarding, Robson replies, “It has been for me. When I got that comment from that little 6-year-old, it made me get up the next day to go work some more.”

David Jasper can be reached at 541-383-0349 or at djasper@bendbulletin.com.

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NBA

PREP NORDIC SKIING PREVIEW

Magic coach: More games on Christmas?

Summit boys eye fifth straight state title

ORLANDO, Fla. — Magic coach Stan Van Gundy has gone from being a Scrooge about playing on Christmas to perhaps spreading a little too much holiday cheer.

Van Gundy sarcastically suggested Saturday Orlando that the Magic head NBA go coach Stan from five to Van Gundy 10 games on Christmas and start them at midnight.

Orlando was hosting Boston for the second straight year on Christmas. Van Gundy has said the Magic were hit with a “hefty” fine for his critical comments last year about playing on the holiday.

He has refrained from making such remarks again to avoid another fine from NBA Commissioner David Stern.

Instead, he went a different route this year.

“I have no comments at all on Christmas Day games,” Van Gundy began. “My suggestion to my staff this morning was that I think the NBA is so important to Christmas that what we really need to do is increase from five games to 10, and we need to start them at midnight on what would have been Christmas Eve and play them all through the day so there’s not a minute of Christmas Day where there’s not an NBA game on TV. Because, it’s great.

“The NBA is Christmas, to me, anyway. It’s what it’s all about.”

Lakers coach Phil Jackson and Miami’s LeBron James are among those who have expressed their discontent with playing on Christmas this year, saying they would rather be home with their families.

Celtics coach Doc Rivers said he had accepted the fact the NBA was going to play games on Christmas and considered it an honor to be one of the marquee games.

— The Associated Press

By James Williams and Beau Eastes The Bulletin

If the high school skate race on Dec. 18 was any indication of things to come in Oregon prep nordic racing this season, the Summit boys could clean house — again.

The Storm hogged the top five spots during the first race of the 2010-11 Oregon High School Nordic Organization

season, just as they did at the 2010 state championships en route to their fourth OHSNO state title in as many years.

“That’s the goal again this year,” Summit coach Gregg Strome says about winning state. “We want them to continue that (tradition).”

Senior Reitler Hodgert is expected to lead the charge for Summit this season.

Hodgert, who won OHSNO’s opening

race for the current season, posted the third-fastest time among all male finishers at the Par Fore the Course 10,000meter skate race at Mount Bachelor on Dec. 11.

“He took a couple years off from high school cross-country skiing to get to that next level,” Strome says about Hodgert, a Bend Endurance Academy athlete.

“But this year he wanted to be part of

that high school experience.”

Behind Reitler is sophomore Kelly Smallwood and juniors Nick and Ryan St. Clair. Those three placed fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively, in last season’s combined standings at the state meet.

Sophomore Max Millslagle is expected to round out Summit’s top five this season.

See Skiing / D4

NFL

Playoff picture With two weeks to go in the regular season, who will be playing in the postseason should become a lot clearer after today’s games Playoff six-pack

Six teams can clinch playoff spots this week. Five just need to win, while one needs some help.

NEW YORK GIANTS In playoffs with win over Green Bay

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES

NEW YORK JETS

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS

In playoffs with win over Chicago

In playoffs with win over Tennessee, San Diego loss

BALTIMORE RAVENS

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS

In playoffs with win over Minnesota

In playoffs with win over Cleveland

In playoffs with win over Atlanta

INSIDE NBA Heat .............96 Lakers ..........80

Warriors.....109 Blazers .......102

Knicks ........103 Bulls.............95

Magic...........86 Celtics .........78

Thunder ..... 114 Nuggets .....106

Blazers lose, Heat take out Lakers Roundup, see Page D3

By Barry Wilner The Associated Press

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here it is, within grasp, for a half-dozen teams: that coveted playoff berth.

The chore is simple for five of them. If the Saints, Eagles, Giants, Jets or Ravens win, they are in. Doesn’t matter what anybody else does; no help required.

Kansas City needs a victory and a loss by San Diego to capture the AFC West. The Chiefs host Tennessee, while the Chargers are at Cincinnati, and many expect that race to come down to the season finales.

“What you work and play all year for is to play after the regular season,” says Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson. “And that’s what we plan to

do.”

San Diego has made its usual charge in the second half of the schedule, winning six of seven. Star quarterback Philip Rivers figures it will take eight of nine to stay alive.

“We know we need to win the next two to even have a chance, and we still need some help,” says the NFL’s highest-ranked passer in December.

“We’ve always wanted to finish strong, and we’ve been able to do that. But it’s certainly going to be a challenge these last two weeks.”

Well, maybe not that big a challenge: The Chargers’ other game is at woeful Denver. Kansas City hosts its biggest rival, Oakland, next weekend.

New England, Pittsburgh and Atlanta already

own postseason spots. The Saints get one if they win at Atlanta, which also would keep the defending Super Bowl champions in position to take the AFC South that the Falcons currently lead by two games.

The winner of that division figures to get a first-round bye.

“It’s a huge advantage to have that bye and have that home game, but there’s been teams that haven’t had that luxury and moved on to do special things,” says Saints linebacker Scott Shanle.

“I won’t deny that (playing on the road) does make your job harder. But it’s not impossible.”

The Eagles win the NFC East by beating Minnesota in the Sunday night game.

See Playoff / D5

Big-time sports following big-time money to the Gulf

By Brian Murphy The Associated Press

Portland Trail Blazers guard Wesley Matthews drives to the basket on Saturday.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It was hardly a marquee moment in the history of world sports.

Curious crowds on a Middle Eastern beach watched events that included horse riders slicing a lemon with a sword and a cousin of croquet called woodball.

Yet there was the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, looking on from the VIP seats and then coming down to present some medals at the Asian Beach Games in Oman earlier this month.

If Rogge seemed out of place, he wasn’t. The scene was just a sign of the times. Fans can expect more — perhaps many more — such courtesy calls to the Gulf by the stewards of international sports as the money-soaked region that once

begged for attention from the IOC and others is now bursting with eager suitors.

They are emissaries along the new silk road of sports. In little more than a decade, the Gulf’s wealth and boundless ambitions have lured bigname events and A-list athletes, while the region’s leaders have developed a reputation as deeppocket hosts — who are still hungry for more.

“We go to new lands,” FIFA President Seth Blatter said Dec. 2 after announcing tiny Qatar’s surprise selection for the 2022 World Cup. So new that sports fans in some places had to consult a map.

Searches for Qatar on Google instantly spiked.

Announcers outside the Middle East tried to wrap their tongues around the correct pronunciation: KAT-tar or GUH-tur but definitely not Cutter.

See Gulf / D4

Kamran Jebreili / The Associated Press ile

Tiger Woods poses with a trophy next to Sheik Ahmad bin Mohmmad Al Maktoum after he won the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2008. The Gulf’s wealth and boundless ambitions have lured big-name events and A-list athletes.

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TELEVISION TODAY FOOTBALL

Monday, Dec. 27 Girls basketball: Nike Interstate Tournament at Lake Oswego: Redmond vs. Silverton, 6:30 p.m.; Mountain View vs. West Salem, 1 p.m.

Boys basketball: Madras vs. Barlow at Barlow Invitational, 7 p.m.

10 a.m. — NFL, New York Jets at Chicago Bears, CBS. 10 a.m. — NFL, San Francisco 49ers at St. Louis Rams, Fox. 1 p.m. — NFL, Seattle Seahawks at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Fox. 5:15 p.m. — NFL, Minnesota Vikings at Philadelphia Eagles, NBC. 5:30 p.m. — College, Little Caesars Bowl, Florida International vs. Tulsa, ESPN.

WINTER SPORTS Noon — U.S. Snowboard Cross Cup, NBC (taped).

MONDAY SOCCER 11:55 a.m. — English Premier League, Arsenal vs. Chelsea, ESPN2.

2 p.m. — English Premier League, Manchester vs.

Sunderland, FSNW (taped).

FOOTBALL 2 p.m. — College, Independence Bowl, Air Force vs.

Georgia Tech, ESPN2.

5:30 p.m. — NFL, New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons, ESPN.

HOCKEY 4:30 p.m. — NHL, Minnesota Wild at Columbus Blue Jackets, VS. network.

BASKETBALL 5:30 p.m. — Men’s college, Connecticut at Pittsburgh, ESPN2.

6 p.m. — NBA, Portland Trail Blazers at Utah Jazz, Blazer network.

RADIO TODAY FOOTBALL 1 p.m. — NFL, Seattle Seahawks at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, KBNW-FM 96.5.

MONDAY BASKETBALL 6 p.m. — NBA, Portland Trail Blazers at Utah Jazz, KBNDAM 1110, KRCO-AM 690.

Listings are the most accurate available. The Bulletin is not responsible for late changes made by TV or radio stations.

FOOTBALL NFL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE All Times PST ——— AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct x-New England 12 2 0 .857 N.Y. Jets 10 4 0 .714 Miami 7 7 0 .500 Buffalo 4 10 0 .286 South W L T Pct Indianapolis 8 6 0 .571 Jacksonville 8 6 0 .571 Tennessee 6 8 0 .429 Houston 5 9 0 .357 North W L T Pct x-Pittsburgh 11 4 0 .733 Baltimore 10 4 0 .714 Cleveland 5 9 0 .357 Cincinnati 3 11 0 .214 West W L T Pct Kansas City 9 5 0 .643 San Diego 8 6 0 .571 Oakland 7 7 0 .500 Denver 3 11 0 .214 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 10 4 0 .714 N.Y. Giants 9 5 0 .643 Washington 5 9 0 .357 Dallas 5 10 0 .333 South W L T Pct x-Atlanta 12 2 0 .857 New Orleans 10 4 0 .714 Tampa Bay 8 6 0 .571 Carolina 2 13 0 .133 North W L T Pct y-Chicago 10 4 0 .714 Green Bay 8 6 0 .571 Minnesota 5 9 0 .357 Detroit 4 10 0 .286 West W L T Pct St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 Seattle 6 8 0 .429 San Francisco 5 9 0 .357 Arizona 5 10 0 .333 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division ——— Saturday’s Game Arizona 27, Dallas 26 Today’s Games Tennessee at Kansas City, 10 a.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Chicago, 10 a.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 10 a.m.

New England at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Miami, 10 a.m.

Washington at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Indianapolis at Oakland, 1:05 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 1:05 p.m.

San Diego at Cincinnati, 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 1:15 p.m.

Seattle at Tampa Bay, 1:15 p.m.

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 5:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 27 New Orleans at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

PF 446 295 239 273

PA 303 259 261 353

PF 381 319 322 333

PA 342 365 282 386

PF 334 324 252 281

PA 223 253 271 362

PF 322 388 353 292

PA 281 260 330 415

PF 412 360 268 380

PA 339 288 343 423

PF 369 354 280 186

PA 261 270 290 377

PF 293 333 244 308

PA 242 220 314 329

PF 258 279 250 282

PA 295 363 314 396

Cardinals 27, Cowboys 26 Dallas Arizona

0 10 10 6 — 26 14 7 0 6 — 27 First Quarter Ari—Rodgers-Cromartie 32 interception return (Feely kick), 12:47.

Ari—Toler 66 interception return (Feely kick), 8:24.

Second Quarter Dal—FG Buehler 42, 12:49.

Ari—Roberts 74 pass from Skelton (Feely kick), 11:57.

Dal—Witten 2 pass from Kitna (Buehler kick), 5:11.

Third Quarter Dal—FG Buehler 53, 6:46.

Dal—Barber 24 run (Buehler kick), 1:58.

Fourth Quarter Ari—FG Feely 49, 3:45.

Dal—Austin 37 pass from McGee (kick failed), 1:41.

Ari—FG Feely 48, :05.

A—66,971.

——— Dal Ari First downs 24 10 Total Net Yards 382 271 Rushes-yards 34-183 21-93 Passing 199 178 Punt Returns 3-27 4-25 Kickoff Returns 4-69 5-109 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-98 Comp-Att-Int 23-37-2 11-25-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 5-27 1-5 Punts 5-53.4 6-46.8 Fumbles-Lost 4-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 7-49 6-43 Time of Possession 38:05 21:55 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Dallas: Jones 16-77, Barber 8-58, McGee 4-19, Choice 4-16, Kitna 1-7, Austin 1-6. Arizona: Wells 11-47, Hightower 6-23, Skelton 3-21, Wright 1-2.

PASSING—Dallas: Kitna 12-20-2-115, McGee 1117-0-111. Arizona: Skelton 11-25-0-183.

RECEIVING—Dallas: Witten 8-45, Austin 6-115, Bennett 3-22, Choice 3-16, Hurd 2-17, Jones 1-11.

Arizona: Roberts 5-110, Komar 3-31, Fitzgerald 1-26, Maui’a 1-10, Hightower 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Arizona: Feely 49 (WR).

NFL PLAYOFF SCENARIOS Week 16 ——— AFC NEW ENGLAND CLINCHED: Playoff spot.

— Clinches AFC East and homefield advantage with: 1) Win or tie OR 2) N.Y. Jets loss or tie PITTSBURGH CLINCHED: AFC North.

— Clinches a first-round bye with: 1) Baltimore loss KANSAS CITY — Clinches AFC West with: 1) Win and San Diego loss or tie OR 2) Tie and San Diego loss BALTIMORE — Clinches a playoff spot with: 1) Win or tie OR 2) Kansas City loss and Jacksonville loss or tie OR 3) Kansas City loss and Indianapolis loss or tie OR 4) San Diego loss or tie and Jacksonville loss or tie OR 5) San Diego loss or tie and Indianapolis loss or tie N.Y. JETS — Clinches a playoff spot with: 1) Win or tie OR 2) Jacksonville loss or tie OR 3) Indianapolis loss or tie ELIMINATED: Buffalo, Cincinnati, Denver, Cleveland, Houston, Miami.

——— NFC ATLANTA CLINCHED: Playoff spot.

— Clinches NFC South and homefield advantage with: 1) Win or tie PHILADELPHIA — Clinches NFC East with: 1) Win OR 2) Tie and N.Y. Giants loss or tie OR 3) N.Y. Giants loss — Clinches a playoff spot with: 1) Tie OR 2) Tampa Bay loss or tie CHICAGO CLINCHED: NFC North.

— Clinches a first-round bye with: 1) Win and Philadelphia loss and N.Y. Giants loss or tie NEW ORLEANS — Clinches a playoff spot with: 1) Win or tie OR 2) Tampa Bay loss or tie N.Y. GIANTS — Clinches a playoff spot with: 1) Win ELIMINATED: Carolina, Detroit, Washington, Dallas, Minnesota, Arizona.

NFL INJURY REPORT NEW YORK — The National Football League injury report, as provided by the league: SUNDAY TENNESSEE TITANS at KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — TITANS: PROBABLE: DE Jason Babin (shoulder), K Rob Bironas (right groin), QB Kerry Collins (finger), DT Jason Jones (shoulder), DT Sen’Derrick Marks (ankle), QB Chris Simms (illness), LB David Thornton (hip).

CHIEFS: OUT: S Donald Washington (ankle). PROBABLE: LB Cory Greenwood (illness).

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS at TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — SEAHAWKS: QUESTIONABLE: LB Will Herring (hamstring). PROBABLE: DE Chris Clemons (ankle), C Chris Spencer (shoulder), LB Lofa Tatupu (knee), CB Marcus Trufant (back). BUCCANEERS: QUESTIONABLE:

T James Lee (ankle), WR Sammie Stroughter (hamstring).

PROBABLE: CB Myron Lewis (hip), LB Dekoda Watson (ankle), TE Kellen Winslow (knee).

MINNESOTA VIKINGS at PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — VIKINGS: OUT: S Tyrell Johnson (knee).

DOUBTFUL: QB Brett Favre (concussion, neck, right shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: RB Adrian Peterson (knee), S Madieu Williams (concussion). PROBABLE: S Jamarca Sanford (concussion), CB Frank Walker (hamstring).

EAGLES: OUT: LB Stewart Bradley (elbow). DOUBTFUL: LB Keenan Clayton (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: DT Mike Patterson (knee). PROBABLE: G Nick Cole (knee), LB Moise Fokou (wrist), TE Clay Harbor (abdomen), WR DeSean Jackson (foot), T Winston Justice (knee), CB Asante Samuel (knee).

BALTIMORE RAVENS at CLEVELAND BROWNS — RAVENS: OUT: WR David Reed (head), S Tom Zbikowski (back). QUESTIONABLE: CB Chris Carr (illness), TE Todd Heap (thigh). PROBABLE: LB Brendon Ayanbadejo (knee), C Matt Birk (knee), WR Derrick Mason (ankle), G Tony Moll (illness), S Haruki Nakamura (illness), LB Jason Phillips (illness), DE Cory Redding (elbow), WR Marcus Smith (shoulder). BROWNS: DOUBTFUL: TE Robert Royal (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: LB Eric Alexander (groin), DE Kenyon Coleman (knee), DT Shaun Rogers (ankle, hip). PROBABLE: LB Marcus Benard (shoulder), CB Sheldon Brown (shoulder), WR Joshua Cribbs (foot), RB Peyton Hillis (knee), QB Colt McCoy (illness), T John St. Clair (ankle), WR Chansi Stuckey (thigh), G Floyd Womack (knee).

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS at BUFFALO BILLS — PATRIOTS: DOUBTFUL: C Dan Connolly (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: LB Tully Banta-Cain (groin), DT Ron Brace (concussion), DE Jermaine Cunningham (calf), DE Brandon Deaderick (shoulder, flu), TE Aaron Hernandez (hip), DT Myron Pryor (back), S James Sanders (flu), DT Mike Wright (concussion). PROBABLE: CB Kyle Arrington (elbow), QB Tom Brady (right shoulder, foot), WR Deion Branch (knee), CB Devin McCourty (rib). BILLS: QUESTIONABLE: C Geoff Hangartner (knee). PROBABLE: T Demetrius Bell (knee), LB Chris Kelsay (knee).

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS at ST. LOUIS RAMS — 49ERS: OUT: TE Nate Byham (heel), T Joe Staley (fibula). QUESTIONABLE: RB Anthony Dixon (ankle).

PROBABLE: CB Nate Clements (knee), WR Josh Morgan (shoulder), LB Takeo Spikes (hand), RB Brian Westbrook (not injury related), LB Patrick Willis (hand), RB DeShawn Wynn (ankle). RAMS: OUT: TE Michael Hoomanawanui (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: DE Chris Long (thigh), T Jason Smith (ankle). PROBABLE: RB Kenneth Darby (chest).

DETROIT LIONS at MIAMI DOLPHINS — LIONS: OUT: QB Matthew Stafford (right shoulder). DOUBTFUL: S Louis Delmas (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: QB Shaun Hill (right finger), LB Landon Johnson (neck), QB Drew Stanton (left shoulder). PROBABLE: DE Cliff Avril (rib), RB Jahvid Best (toe), LB Vinny Ciurciu (concussion), DE Lawrence Jackson (groin), WR Calvin Johnson (ankle), DE Turk McBride (ankle), RB Maurice Morris (chest), CB Amari Spievey (back). DOLPHINS: DOUBTFUL: LB Karlos Dansby (toe). PROBABLE: S Chris Clemons (groin).

WASHINGTON REDSKINS at JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — REDSKINS: OUT: S Reed Doughty (head), DT Kedric Golston (groin), LB Brian Orakpo (groin, hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: LB Lorenzo Alexander (hamstring), WR Brandon Banks (knee), S Macho Harris (hip), G Artis Hicks (back), LB Rocky McIntosh (hamstring), S Kareem Moore (knee), C Casey Rabach (knee), RB Mike Sellers (calf). PROBABLE: QB Donovan McNabb (hamstring). JAGUARS: OUT: LB Justin Durant (groin). DOUBTFUL: RB Maurice Jones-Drew (knee). QUESTIONABLE: WR Mike Sims-Walker (ankle).

PROBABLE: T Jordan Black (ankle), S Courtney Greene (shoulder), RB Greg Jones (back), DT Terrance Knighton (back), DE Austen Lane (knee), G Vince Manuwai (foot), G Justin Smiley (head).

NEW YORK JETS at CHICAGO BEARS — JETS: OUT: DE Trevor Pryce (hip), T Damien Woody (knee).

DOUBTFUL: S Eric Smith (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: S James Ihedigbo (knee, ankle). PROBABLE: CB Drew Coleman (groin), CB Antonio Cromartie (groin), WR Santonio Holmes (toe), C Nick Mangold (shoulder), CB Darrelle Revis (hamstring), QB Mark Sanchez (right shoulder), WR Brad Smith (hand). BEARS: PROBABLE: WR Earl Bennett (ankle), LB Pisa Tinoisamoa (knee).

HOUSTON TEXANS at DENVER BRONCOS — TEXANS: OUT: TE Garrett Graham (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: WR Andre Johnson (ankle). PROBABLE: DE Mark Anderson (knee), T Duane Brown (shoulder), LB Brian Cushing (knee, ankle, foot), RB Arian Foster (hip), DT Damione Lewis (illness), K Neil Rackers (right hamstring), QB Matt Schaub (right elbow). BRONCOS: QUESTIONABLE: S David Bruton (ribs), S Brian Dawkins (knee), S Darcel McBath (quadricep), RB Knowshon Moreno (ribs), QB Kyle Orton (ribs), WR Demaryius Thomas (ankle). PROBABLE: TE Daniel Coats (finger), WR Eddie Royal (lower back).

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS at OAKLAND RAIDERS — COLTS: OUT: S Al Afalava (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: RB Joseph Addai (neck), TE Brody Eldridge (rib), RB Mike Hart (ankle), CB Kelvin Hayden (neck), T Charlie Johnson (groin), DT Daniel Muir (chest), CB Mike Newton (neck), G Jamey Richard (hip), LB Clint Session (elbow). PROBABLE: LB Tyjuan Hagler (illness), TE Gijon Robinson (illness). RAIDERS: QUESTIONABLE: WR Johnnie Lee Higgins (ankle), P Shane Lechler (right hamstring), DE Richard Seymour (hamstring), T Langston Walker (concussion). PROBABLE: CB Nnamdi Asomugha (ankle), CB

Chris Johnson (groin), WR Nick Miller (ankle), TE Zach Miller (foot), S Mike Mitchell (ribs).

NEW YORK GIANTS at GREEN BAY PACKERS — GIANTS: OUT: S Will Blackmon (knee), DE Dave Tollefson (knee). PROBABLE: G Shawn Andrews (back), T David Diehl (illness), WR Mario Manningham (heel), C Shaun O’Hara (foot), WR Devin Thomas (hamstring), DE Osi Umenyiora (knee). PACKERS: OUT: DE Cullen Jenkins (calf), G Marshall Newhouse (back). DOUBTFUL: LB Frank Zombo (knee). QUESTIONABLE: LB Diyral Briggs (ankle), S Nick Collins (ribs), LB Erik Walden (quadricep).

PROBABLE: T Chad Clifton (knees), CB Pat Lee (ankle), LB Clay Matthews (shin), DE Ryan Pickett (ankle), QB Aaron Rodgers (concussion), C Scott Wells (back), CB Charles Woodson (toe).

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS at CINCINNATI BENGALS — CHARGERS: OUT: LB Stephen Cooper (knee), TE Antonio Gates (toe, foot). DOUBTFUL: WR Patrick Crayton (wrist), WR Malcom Floyd (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: LB Larry English (foot), C Scott Mruczkowski (ankle). PROBABLE: LB Antwan Applewhite (ankle), RB Jacob Hester (illness), RB Ryan Mathews (illness), LB Brandon Siler (ribs), G Louis Vasquez (neck), WR Kelley Washington (hip). BENGALS: OUT: RB Brian Leonard (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: WR Chad Ochocinco (ankle), T Dennis Roland (knee), RB Bernard Scott (toe), CB Jonathan Wade (knee). PROBABLE: C Kyle Cook (elbow).

MONDAY NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at ATLANTA FALCONS — SAINTS: OUT: TE David Thomas (knee). QUESTIONABLE: RB Christopher Ivory (hamstring). PROBABLE: NT Remi Ayodele (ankle), T Charles Brown (back), LB Danny Clark (hamstring), DT Sedrick Ellis (wrist), CB Jabari Greer (knee), DE Anthony Hargrove (knee), WR Robert Meachem (toe), LB Kawika Mitchell (hamstring), WR Courtney Roby (head), LB Jonathan Vilma (quadriceps).

FALCONS: QUESTIONABLE: DE John Abraham (groin), DT Jonathan Babineaux (shoulder), LB Curtis Lofton (knee), RB Ovie Mughelli (shoulder), WR Eric Weems (knee), WR Roddy White (knee).

Orange Bowl: Stanford (11-1) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 5 p.m. (ESPN)

Nevada

Fight Hunger Bowl 9 8 Boston College

Tuesday, Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl: Ohio State (11-1) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 5 p.m. (ESPN)

Auburn

January 10 BCS National Championship 2.5 3 Oregon

Betting Line NFL (Home teams in Caps) Favorite Opening Current Today DOLPHINS 3.5 3.5 EAGLES 14 14.5 JAGUARS 6.5 7 RAMS 2.5 2.5 BUCCANEERS 6.5 6.5 Patriots 8 8 BEARS 1 1 Ravens 3 3.5 CHIEFS 5 5 Colts 3 3 Texans 2.5 2.5 PACKERS 3 3 Chargers 7.5 7.5 Monday FALCONS 2.5 2.5

Toledo

Air Force

West Virginia

College NCAA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUBDIVISION All Times PST ——— BOWLS Subject to Change All Times PST ——— Today, 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)

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Underdog Lions Vikings Redskins 49ers Seahawks BILLS Jets BROWNS Titans RAIDERS BRONCOS Giants BENGALS Saints

College Today Little Caesars Pizza Bowl 2 1.5 Florida Int’l Monday Independence Bowl 1.5 3 Georgia Tech December 28 Champ Sports Bowl 1.5 2.5 Insight Bowl PK 3

NC State Iowa

December 29 Eagle Bank Bowl 8 7.5 East Carolina Texas Bowl 2 1.5 Illinois Alamo Bowl 5.5 5.5 Arizona

December 30 Armed Forces Bowl 7 7 Army Pinstripe Bowl Kansas St 3 PK Syracuse Music City Bowl North Carolina 1 2 Tennessee Holiday Bowl Nebraska 13.5 14 Washington Smu

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

Texas Tech Florida Alabama Miss. State

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 Michigan Rose Bowl 2.5 3 Wisconsin Fiesta Bowl 17 17 Connecticut

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)

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Stanford

January 3 Orange Bowl 3 3

Virginia Tech

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 (8-4), 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)

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

Oklahoma

Monday, Jan. 3

January 9

Kentucky

BASKETBALL Men’s college Saturday’s Games ——— TOURNAMENTS Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic Championship Butler 84, Washington St. 68 Third Place Florida St. 68, Baylor 61 Fifth Place Hawaii 68, Mississippi St. 57 Seventh Place San Diego 67, Utah 64

HOCKEY NHL NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE All Times PST ——— EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 36 24 10 2 50 118 83 Philadelphia 35 22 8 5 49 117 87 N.Y. Rangers 36 20 14 2 42 108 95 N.Y. Islanders 32 8 18 6 22 72 106 New Jersey 34 9 23 2 20 60 108 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 35 20 13 2 42 92 79 Boston 33 18 11 4 40 93 69 Ottawa 36 15 17 4 34 83 107 Buffalo 35 14 17 4 32 92 101 Toronto 33 12 17 4 28 75 102 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 35 20 10 5 45 109 114 Washington 37 20 12 5 45 111 103 Atlanta 37 19 13 5 43 118 108 Carolina 33 15 14 4 34 92 102 Florida 33 16 17 0 32 91 86 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 34 21 9 4 46 113 96 Chicago 36 19 14 3 41 115 104 Nashville 34 17 11 6 40 85 85 St. Louis 34 17 12 5 39 90 96 Columbus 34 17 14 3 37 88 98 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 33 20 8 5 45 112 86 Colorado 35 19 12 4 42 122 113 Minnesota 33 16 13 4 36 82 92 Calgary 36 15 18 3 33 95 105 Edmonton 33 12 15 6 30 87 113 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 35 21 10 4 46 102 95 San Jose 35 19 11 5 43 106 96 Los Angeles 33 20 12 1 41 98 77 Anaheim 38 18 16 4 40 98 111 Phoenix 33 15 11 7 37 90 97 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games No games scheduled Today’s Games Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

Toronto at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 4 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 6 p.m.

DEALS Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS—Suspended F Andray Blatche and C JaVale McGee for one game each for conduct detrimental to the team.

FOOTBALL National Football League WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Placed DL Kedric Golston on injured reserve. Released DL Jeremy Clark.

Signed S Sha’reff Rashad and DL Joe Joseph from the practice squad.

Boxing turns to silver screen for silver lining

By D ave Skretta The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Thousands of moviegoers filled theaters across the country last weekend to see Mark Wahlberg’s stirring portrayal of Micky Ward in “The Fighter.”

The film about the hard-scrabble Boston-area boxer raked in more than $12 million its first full weekend, has been nominated for six Golden Globes and figures to be an Oscar darling when nominations are announced next month. Wahlberg and co-star Christian Bale even graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, which trumpeted the film as an instant classic.

The sport itself only wishes it could get the same kind of publicity.

While boxing remains one of the great storytelling backdrops, with its inherent drama and truthful cliches about long odds and overcoming adversity, the sport continues to suffer. Empty seats greeted fighters stepping into the ring in 2010, and the one fight that many hoped would generate some verve — Manny Pacquiao against Floyd Mayweather Jr. — still hasn’t happened.

It creates this seemingly incongruous juxtaposition: Boxing has never been more popular on the big screen, and perhaps never less popular in real life.

“You’ve got a couple things happening, you’ve got mixed martial arts and you’ve got no great heavyweight champion. You’re going to need great boxers to bring people back to the sport,” said Wahlberg, who first met Ward about two decades ago and has spent plenty of time with him at Arthur Ramalho’s unpretentious West End Gym in Lowell, Mass.

“My thing is, every boxer that I’ve ever met has a story worth telling on the big screen or a book or television,” Wahlberg said. “It takes a very special individual to choose boxing as a career, and usually the sport chooses them anyway, not having any alternatives.”

Boxing at the box office Perhaps that is why boxing has been a formula for cinematic success.

Martin Scorsese’s epic “Raging Bull,”

Jojo Whilden Paramount Pictures via The Associated Press

Mark Wahlberg, left, and director David O. Russell are shown on the set of “The Fighter.” Although boxing continues to decline in popularity, Hollywood continues to churn out movies on the sport. which landed Robert DeNiro the Academy Award for best actor in 1981, is still considered a masterpiece. “Cinderella Man” got three Oscar nominations in 2006, two years after “Million Dollar Baby” nabbed golden statuettes for best picture, best director (Clint Eastwood), best actress (Hilary Swank) and supporting actor (Morgan Freeman).

Then there’s the film that started it all, the original “Rocky,” which took home two Oscars in 1976 and is still spawning sequels. Sylvester Stallone’s portrayal of the fictional fighter from Philadelphia even got him elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame this year.

“The two things that brought boxing back to the forefront with the public was the great success of the 1976 Olympic team and when Sylvester Stallone gave us our heavyweight champion, Rocky Balboa,” Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward said. “Stallone gave to boxing just as much as any promoter or network in the history of boxing.”

It helped the sport experience a shortlived renaissance in the 1970s and ’80s,

though the steady stream of folks who walked from movie theaters straight into arenas ran dry years ago.

Losing a draw Exorbitant ticket prices during a poor economy, squabbling among promoters, out-of-control sanctioning bodies and few identifiable stars have crippled attendance, especially in the United States.

When Pacquiao fought Antonio Margarito at Cowboys Stadium last month, the 41,734 paid patrons were less than what promoters and team owner Jerry Jones had hoped.

Bob Arum, who has been promoting fights for more than four decades, was optimistic that 30,000 fans would come to see Miguel Cotto face Yuri Foreman in June. The first fight at the new Yankee Stadium instead drew just over 20,000 to the grand ballpark in the Bronx.

Both of those events had major attractions — Pacquiao, boxing’s biggest star, and Cotto, wildly popular in New York — along with novel venues. But when

those ingredients were missing, even fewer fans were turning the turnstiles.

Sergio Martinez’s stunning one-punch knockout of Paul Williams in a middleweight title fight was witnessed by 5,502 fans at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall.

In Las Vegas, the self-proclaimed “Fight Town,” junior welterweight champion Amir Khan and Marcos Maidana drew 4,632 people.

“If we were doing one fight a month and all the promoters were combined into one shell, I think it would be overflowing crowds,” promoter Dan Goossen said. “But we do so many multiple fights in each and every state, you’re obviously not always going to have overflow crowds.

“What is hurt is getting the message out to the fans. Sometimes you get that television fee from HBO or Showtime, and you get your site deal done, you sit back and divvy up the money, and you kind of forget about the grass roots effort, and I think that’s where we’ve been negligent, not having promoters actively doing what their titles suggest.”

Help on the way?

Goossen admits that he’s hoping to see an uptick in attendance with the success of “The Fighter,” along with numerous other boxing-themed films and television series on tap.

In the past year, ESPN’s groundbreaking “30 for 30” series featured a documentary about the 1980 fight between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, and Frederick Wiseman earned rave reviews for a separate documentary called “Boxing Gym” that showed at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly star in a film called “Real Steel” that’s scheduled for release in 2011. Produced

by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, Jackman plays a washed-up fighter who promotes matches in the future in which boxers have been replaced by machines.

On the small screen, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson stars in a reality show about his passion for pigeon racing on Animal Planet next year.

And cable channel FX has filmed the first season of the drama “Lights Out,” debuting in January, about a former heavyweight champion who struggles to find an identity and support his family outside the ring.

“I don’t know that boxing is coming back, but drama about boxing is coming back,” said the show’s executive producer, Warren Leight. “One of the reasons I found ‘Lights Out’ a compelling project, the last few years everyone has been beaten up pretty badly, its been a pretty rough time. I came in and thought this is a perfect metaphor for what we’re all going through.”

Bringing the buzz Leight remembers how, when he was a kid, Ali and Joe Frazier brought boxing the same kind of attention that professional football and baseball have enjoyed. He equated the sport to jazz and theater, which “have been dying for a hundred years” but still have passionate devotees.

“On some level, America is hungry for a hero again, and the other thing I think is there’s no whiners in boxing. We’re at a point where the NBA is cracking down on whining,” Leight said with a chuckle.

“Boxing is really kind of a pure sport. It’s two guys, no team, no coach, and there’s something elemental — a beauty — that works for drama.”

Those who make their living in the sport realize the drama is real.

Devon Alexander survived the crackinfested streets of Hyde Park in St. Louis to become a world champion. Pacquiao has gone from impoverished child of Manila streets to a Congressman in the Philippines. Welterweight champ Andre Berto took aid to Haiti following an earthquake that ravaged the island nation, and robbed him of eight family members who’d been living there.

“I guess my sense is, you want to tell a story about people coming back and getting up after getting knocked down,” Leight said. “The world of boxing, it’s a very tight-knit community, and they’re hoping these shows catch on. Maybe put a little spotlight on what they do.”

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 26, 2010 D3

Ellis scores 39 points, LeBron’s triple-double Warriors defeat Blazers leads Heat past Lakers NBA ROUNDUP

By Josh Dubow The Associated Press

The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — Monta Ellis again carried the Golden State Warriors another comeback victory.

Ellis had 39 points, and the Warriors scored 11 straight to erase a six-point deficit in the fourth quarter and beat the Portland Trail Blazers 109-102 on Saturday night in their first Christmas home game.

Ellis, who is third in the NBA in scoring at 26 points per game, has netted 119 points the past three games, the best scoring stretch of his career.

“He’s our MVP,” coach Keith Smart said. “He’s doing the job that’s necessary for a player like him who can do so many things for a team. He’s our MVP and he’s moving into that selective group of players in the NBA that play at a high level every single night and that’s what he’s done.”

David Lee added 21 points, and Dorell Wright scored five of his 16 during the decisive spurt to help the Warriors win backto-back games for the first time since Nov. 8-10.

LaMarcus Aldridge gave the Blazers a 97-91 lead with just over five minutes left and it looked as if Portland was in position to win for the second straight time in Oakland following nine losses in a row here.

But Wesley Matthews fouled Ellis on a 3-pointer to start Golden State’s run. Ellis made all three free throws, and Wright hit a tying 3-pointer on the Warriors’ next possession. Wright then stole a pass from Rudy Fernandez and went the other way for a dunk that gave the Warriors their first lead of the quarter.

Reggie Williams capped the run with another 3-pointer that made it 102-97. Ellis put the game away with a long jumper, followed by a steal and layup that gave the Warriors a 106-99 lead with 1:04 to play.

The Blazers shot 31 percent in the fourth quarter, missing 10 straight shots from the field in one key stretch.

“We got after it,” Ellis said.

“We played defense, contested every shot, and did whatever we needed to do to get this win because we needed it.”

Matthews led Portland with 25 points and Nicolas Batum added 18. Aldridge scored 15,

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James and Kobe Bryant ran their mouths while they jogged downcourt, not quite making eye contact during an unpleasant conversation in the closing minutes.

“Just asked him what he got for Christmas,” James said.

Although the two superstars wouldn’t reveal what angry words they exchanged, it wasn’t tough to pick out a few statements Saturday. While Kobe and the Los Angeles Lakers got a disturbing first look at the Miami Heat, LeBron got the last word at Staples Center yet again.

James had 27 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists while hitting a season-high five 3-pointers, and the Heat thrived on the holiday stage in a 96-80 victory.

Although both teams called the game a television curiosity rather than a potential NBA finals preview, it clearly meant something to James, who had his third triple-double with Miami and the 31st of his career. James also outplayed Bryant, who scored 17 points, in his second straight Christmas win in the Lakers’ home arena, following last season’s victory for LeBron’s Cavaliers.

“We’re not trying to make a statement to anyone,” James said.

“We’re trying to show each other that we can play at a high level and try to get better every game.

This is one game. ... We’re happy because we got better today.”

While the Heat realize Boston and Orlando are much more important obstacles to their championship hopes, and while the Lakers don’t get terribly excited about playing anybody until the playoffs, there was a palpable edge in the crowd at Staples Center for this intersectional matchup — until the Heat’s steady defensive effort flattened the Lakers in the second half.

Chris Bosh had 24 points and 13 rebounds, Dwyane Wade added 18 points on a sore knee and the Heat won for the 14th time in 15 games while flustering the two-time defending champions into a terrible offensive performance, starting with Los Angeles’ 14-point first quarter.

“Our whole thing is just playing solid defense the whole game,” Bosh said. “That’s the primary part of our identity. Our backbone right now is defense.”

James played a balanced, patient game, even after a technical foul near halftime for an underthe-basket scuffle with Lakers defensive stopper Ron Artest.

James’ teammates contributed enough to keep the Heat comfortably ahead, with Bosh playing an outstanding first half and Mario Chalmers contributing 13 points in a reserve role, including three 3-pointers.

“Offensively, it’s probably the most trust and the most poise we’ve played (with) this season,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said.

Pau Gasol scored 17 points for the Lakers, who fell behind early and never caught up to the tantalizing new contenders for their title.

Also on Saturday:

Tony Avelar / The Associated Press

Portland Trail Blazers shooting guard Rudy Fernandez takes a shot past Golden State Warriors small forward Dorell Wright during the first half of Saturday’s game in Oakland, Calif. and Andre Miller had 12 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds.

“They got momentum on their side and they just ran with it,” said Aldridge, who missed a dunk in the fourth quarter. “We got to take care of the ball better.

We weren’t scoring but we were turning it over and they were running out getting easy shots on us.”

The teams met for the second straight Saturday night, following last week’s 96-95 win in Portland by the Blazers when Ellis missed a potential gamewinner at the buzzer. Portland won that game despite missing injured starters Brandon Roy, Batum and Marcus Camby. Roy was the only one of those three not back for this game, missing his fourth straight with an injured left knee.

The Warriors got point guard Stephen Curry back after he missed six games with a sprained right ankle. Curry was more a facilitator than shooter,

with 11 assists and only four points on two-for-15 shooting.

It was a tight first half with neither team leading by more than five points at any juncture.

Ellis single-handedly kept the Warriors close, scoring 18 of his 24 first-half points in the second quarter. He scored on a scintillating left-handed reverse to cut Portland’s lead to 49-48 as the fans chanted “M-V-P!” repeatedly late in the half.

He barely missed a half-court shot at the buzzer, shortly after Matthews gave Portland a 57-56 lead with a dunk. This marked the fourth time this season Ellis scored at least 24 points in the opening half — a mark reached only seven other times by everyone else in the NBA. “He’s very aggressive,” Portland coach Nate McMillan said.

“He can flat out score. He’s fearless going to the basket. When he has his jump shot going it’s very tough to defend him, and he had it going early.’

NBA SCOREBOARD SUMMARIES

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Saturday’s Games

Warriors 109, Blazers 102 PORTLAND (102) Batum 8-14 0-0 18, Aldridge 7-21 1-2 15, Camby 3-4 1-1 7, Miller 4-15 4-6 12, Matthews 9-19 6-6 25, Cunningham 4-8 1-1 9, Fernandez 3-8 1-2 8, Mills 3-7 0-0 7, Marks 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 41-97 15-20 102.

GOLDEN STATE (109) D.Wright 6-9 0-0 16, Lee 8-11 5-6 21, Amundson 3-5 0-0 6, Curry 2-15 0-0 4, Ellis 13-26 10-11 39, Radmanovic 1-4 2-2 5, R.Williams 4-9 0-0 9, Carney 1-1 2-2 5, Udoh 2-3 0-0 4, Law 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-83 1921 109.

Portland 28 29 23 22 — 102 Golden State 25 31 22 31 — 109 3-Point Goals—Portland 5-18 (Batum 2-6, Mills 1-2, Fernandez 1-4, Matthews 16), Golden State 10-22 (D.Wright 4-4, Ellis 3-5, Carney 1-1, Radmanovic 1-3, R.Williams 1-4, Curry 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Portland 62 (Camby 13), Golden State 44 (D.Wright 8). Assists—Portland 27 (Miller 15), Golden State 31 (Curry 11).

Total Fouls—Portland 20, Golden State 16.

A—19,596 (19,596).

Thunder 114, Nuggets 106 DENVER (106) Smith 1-4 4-4 6, Martin 4-8 2-4 10, Nene 8-13 5-7 21, Billups 10-16 7-7 30, Afflalo 14 0-0 2, Lawson 7-13 3-4 19, Harrington 3-5 0-0 9, Forbes 2-4 2-2 6, Andersen 1-3 1-2 3.

Totals 37-70 24-30 106.

OKLAHOMA CITY (114) Durant 14-20 12-15 44, Green 5-15 2-3 12, Krstic 2-4 0-0 4, Westbrook 7-19 5-7 19, Sefolosha 1-2 2-2 4, Ibaka 2-2 0-0 4, Harden 6-11 7-8 21, Collison 0-3 0-0 0, Maynor 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 40-81 28-35 114.

Denver 34 24 27 21 — 106 Oklahoma City 26 30 32 26 — 114 3-Point Goals—Denver 8-17 (Billups 34, Harrington 3-4, Lawson 2-5, Forbes 0-1, Afflalo 0-1, Smith 0-2), Oklahoma City 6-17 (Durant 4-7, Harden 2-6, Green 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Denver 44 (Nene 12), Oklahoma City 43 (Krstic 8). Assists—Denver 15 (Lawson 5), Oklahoma City 22 (Green 6).

Total Fouls—Denver 25, Oklahoma City 21.

Technicals—Oklahoma City defensive three second. A—18,203 (18,203).

Heat 96, Lakers 80 MIAMI (96) James 8-14 6-6 27, Bosh 11-17 2-3 24, Ilgauskas 3-5 0-0 6, Arroyo 1-5 0-0 2, Wade 6-17 6-6 18, Howard 0-2 1-2 1, Jones 1-6 0-0 3, Dampier 1-1 0-0 2, Chalmers 4-11 2-3 13, Anthony 0-0 0-0 0, Miller 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-79 17-20 96.

L.A. LAKERS (80) Artest 3-8 0-0 8, Odom 6-12 2-6 14, Gasol 8-17 1-1 17, Fisher 2-3 0-0 6, Bryant 6-16 4-5 17, Barnes 1-4 0-0 2, Bynum 3-5 0-0 6, Blake 0-5 0-0 0, Brown 3-9 3-3 10, Walton 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-79 10-15 80.

Miami 20 27 28 21 — 96 L.A. Lakers 14 24 26 16 — 80 3-Point Goals—Miami 9-25 (James 5-6, Chalmers 3-9, Jones 1-6, Wade 0-1, Arroyo

Atlantic Division Boston New York Philadelphia Toronto New Jersey

W 23 18 11 10 9

L 5 12 18 19 21

Miami Atlanta Orlando Charlotte Washington

W 23 19 18 9 7

L 9 12 12 19 20

Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

W 18 13 12 10 8

L 10 14 16 19 21

Pct .821 .600 .379 .345 .300

GB — 6 12½ 13½ 15

L10 9-1 7-3 6-4 2-8 3-7

Str L-1 W-2 L-2 L-2 L-1

Home 13-1 8-7 8-6 7-9 6-8

Away 10-4 10-5 3-12 3-10 3-13

Conf 19-3 11-7 8-14 8-12 5-14

Away 11-5 8-7 7-7 3-12 0-13

Conf 15-4 15-8 13-6 5-13 4-16

Away 7-7 5-8 5-10 3-12 3-13

Conf 7-5 8-8 7-5 6-9 7-14

Southeast Division Pct .719 .613 .600 .321 .259

GB — 3½ 4 12 13½

L10 9-1 6-4 3-7 3-7 2-8

Str W-2 W-2 W-2 L-4 L-1

Home 12-4 11-5 11-5 6-7 7-7

Central Division Pct .643 .481 .429 .345 .276

GB — 4½ 6 8½ 10½

L10 7-3 4-6 6-4 4-6 1-9

Str L-1 W-1 W-2 W-2 L-2

Home 11-3 8-6 7-6 7-7 5-8

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis

W 25 23 17 14 12

L 4 5 12 15 17

Utah Oklahoma City Denver Portland Minnesota

W 21 21 16 15 6

L 9 10 12 15 24

L.A. Lakers Phoenix Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento

W 21 13 11 8 5

L 9 15 18 22 22

Pct .862 .821 .586 .483 .414

GB — 1½ 8 11 13

L10 9-1 9-1 4-6 7-3 4-6

Str L-1 W-4 W-1 W-4 L-3

Home 16-2 13-4 12-3 8-4 8-6

Away 9-2 10-1 5-9 6-11 4-11

Conf 17-3 14-3 10-7 10-9 9-10

Away 10-4 10-5 4-10 5-12 1-17

Conf 10-8 12-6 10-7 9-10 2-17

Away 11-5 6-9 4-12 2-11 2-9

Conf 11-5 10-10 8-13 6-16 1-15

Northwest Division Pct .700 .677 .571 .500 .200

GB — ½ 4 6 15

L10 6-4 7-3 4-6 6-4 1-9

Str W-3 W-1 L-2 L-1 L-7

Home 11-5 11-5 12-2 10-3 5-7

Paciic Division Pct .700 .464 .379 .267 .185

GB L10 Str — 7-3 L-2 7 4-6 L-2 9½ 3-7 W-2 13 4-6 L-1 14½ 1-9 L-7 ——— Saturday’s Games

New York 103, Chicago 95 Miami 96, L.A. Lakers 80 Golden State 109, Portland 102

Home 10-4 7-6 7-6 6-11 3-13

Orlando 86, Boston 78 Oklahoma City 114, Denver 106 Today’s Games

Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, noon Chicago at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Washington at San Antonio, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Denver, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 3 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 4 p.m.

Memphis at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Detroit at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Memphis, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Washington at Houston, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 7 p.m.

Orlando at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

Atlanta at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Portland at Utah, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

All Times PST

0-3), L.A. Lakers 6-19 (Artest 2-2, Fisher 2-3, Brown 1-3, Bryant 1-3, Barnes 0-1, Odom 0-2, Blake 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Miami 52 (Bosh 13), L.A. Lakers 47 (Odom 9).

Assists—Miami 25 (James 10), L.A. Lakers 22 (Bryant 7). Total Fouls—Miami 17, L.A. Lakers 23. Technicals—James, Miami defensive three

second, Artest, Bryant. A—18,997 (18,997).

Magic 86, Celtics 78 BOSTON (78) Pierce 6-14 4-4 18, Garnett 10-14 2-4

22, S.O’Neal 1-3 0-0 2, Robinson 2-15 2-2 7, R.Allen 3-13 2-3 9, Davis 4-12 8-8 16, Daniels 1-6 0-0 2, J.O’Neal 1-4 0-0 2, Bradley 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-81 18-21 78.

ORLANDO (86) Turkoglu 6-10 0-0 16, Bass 8-15 5-6 21, Howard 1-4 4-10 6, Nelson 3-9 4-4 12, J.Richardson 2-8 0-0 5, Anderson 2-9 5-6 10, Redick 4-7 1-1 11, Arenas 2-9 0-2 5. Totals 28-71 19-29 86.

Boston 20 26 17 15 — 78 Orlando 19 17 21 29 — 86 3-Point Goals—Boston 4-17 (Pierce 2-4, R.Allen 1-5, Robinson 1-7, Daniels 0-1), Orlando 11-29 (Turkoglu 4-8, Redick 2-4, Nelson 2-6, J.Richardson 1-3, Arenas 1-3, Anderson 1-5). Fouled Out—S.O’Neal. Rebounds— Boston 53 (Pierce, Davis 8), Orlando 56 (Howard 11). Assists—Boston 15 (Pierce 5), Orlando 16 (Turkoglu 4). Total Fouls—Boston 24, Orlando 18. Technicals—Pierce, Boston Coach Rivers, Boston defensive three second, Howard, Orlando Coach Van Gundy, Orlando defensive three second. A—19,013 (18,500).

Mark J. Terrill / The Associated Press

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, left, fouls Miami Heat forward LeBron James during the first half of Saturday’s game in L.A. Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Celtics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 ORLANDO, Fla. — Brandon Bass scored 21 points, Hedo Turkoglu added 16 and Orlando ended Boston’s winning streak at 14 — two days after snapping San Antonio’s 10-game run.

Jameer Nelson and J.J. Redick each made a jumper in the final minutes to help Orlando rally from 12 points down in the second half. Kevin Garnett had 22 points, and Paul Pierce added 18 for the Celtics in their first loss since Nov. 21 at Toronto.

Thunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Nuggets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 OKLAHOMA CITY — NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant had a season-high 44 points — 21 in the third quarter — for Oklahoma City in the Thunder’s first Christmas game Denver played for the second straight

game without star Carmelo Anthony following his sister’s death Wednesday. Chauncey Billups led the Nuggets with 30 points, and Nene had 21 points and 12 rebounds.

Knicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 NEW YORK — Amare Stoudemire and Raymond Felton each scored 20 points, and New York limited Chicago to two baskets in the first 10 minutes of the fourth quarter. Carlos Boozer had 26 points and 19 rebounds for the Bulls, 9-2 in their last 11.

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Knicks 103, Bulls 95 CHICAGO (95) Deng 5-12 4-4 15, Boozer 11-25 4-7 26, Thomas 2-5 0-0 4, Rose 12-28 1-3 25, Bogans 1-3 0-0 3, Brewer 3-5 0-3 6, Asik 0-0 0-0 0, Gibson 2-2 0-0 4, Watson 2-5 1-1 5, Korver 2-6 1-2 7. Totals 40-91 11-20 95.

NEW YORK (103) Gallinari 5-9 2-4 15, Chandler 6-14 2-2 15, Stoudemire 10-18 0-2 20, Felton 9-18 0-0 20, Fields 5-7 2-2 14, Williams 2-2 0-0 6, Douglas 3-8 0-0 8, Turiaf 2-3 1-2 5. Totals 42-79 7-12 103.

Chicago 20 34 29 12 — 95 New York 21 31 33 18 — 103 3-Point Goals—Chicago 4-14 (Korver 2-4, Bogans 1-3, Deng 1-4, Watson 0-1, Rose 0-2), New York 12-22 (Gallinari 3-4, Williams 2-2, Fields 2-2, Douglas 2-3, Felton 2-7, Chandler 1-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago 53 (Boozer 19), New York 49 (Fields 11).

Assists—Chicago 15 (Rose 8), New York 25 (Felton 12). Total Fouls—Chicago 20, New York 16. A—19,763 (19,763).

LEADERS Through Saturday’s Games SCORING G FG FT PTS Durant, OKC 27 244 229 760 Stoudemire, NYK 30 298 183 785 Ellis, GOL 29 285 139 755 Bryant, LAL 30 261 198 762 James, MIA 32 265 217 792 Nowitzki, DAL 28 256 149 687 Rose, CHI 27 252 107 656 Anthony, DEN 24 200 161 576 Gordon, LAC 28 217 188 663 Martin, HOU 29 193 229 683 Wade, MIA 30 242 189 700 Westbrook, OKC 31 239 215 703 Williams, UTA 30 220 184 671 Howard, ORL 28 211 178 600 Beasley, MIN 28 240 96 598 Granger, IND 26 191 111 553 Bargnani, TOR 27 217 106 572 Love, MIN 30 211 166 628 Griffin, LAC 30 243 138 626 Gay, MEM 28 223 94 577 REBOUNDS G OFF DEF TOT Love, MIN 30 148 320 468 Howard, ORL 28 94 273 367 Randolph, MEM 25 111 200 311 Griffin, LAC 30 114 258 372

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Former Masters champ Immelman is on the mend Two years after winning a green jacket, the South African is at No. 269 in the world

By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Trevor Immelman has no interest in looking at the world ranking these days.

It’s not that he doesn’t have time to scroll through the pages until he finds his name at No. 269. Immelman has lost the better part of two years with a left wrist injury, and these are the consequences. He accepts that.

He just has trouble recognizing that guy so far down the list.

Of all the major champions from the last five seasons, all but Immelman remain in the top 60 in the world.

“Really, in the last 18 months, that hasn’t been me playing,” he said. “I don’t mean that in an arrogant sense. I know what I’m capable of when I’m feeling good and feeling strong. I’m going to give myself a full season, and then see how that pans out.”

For the first time in two years, Immelman wakes up without feeling a pounding sensation in his left wrist. He has been working diligently on the practice range at Lake Nona for a new season. It feels like a new beginning, complete with an equipment deal soon to be announced.

“I’m excited,” he said. “Everything is right on track. I’m looking forward to a full season again. It’s been a few years.”

The last time Immelman felt this good about his health was in 2008, and it featured a masterful performance.

The 30-year-old South African

Gulf Continued from D1 Then critics got busy. A running theme, particularly in the runner-up bidder America, was a shrill retort: How does Qatar merit one of crown jewels of international sports?

Such comments just mean the questioner hasn’t been paying attention.

The sports migration to the Gulf has been going on for years — part of a new world landscape of sports in which economic clout has shifted from Europe and North America to markets where authorities see Rafael Nadal, Tiger Woods and roaring F-1 races as something more.

In the Gulf, it’s a way to matter beyond just being the world’s fuel pump.

“The old thinking in the Gulf was to try to stay out of sight,” said Patrick Nikolas Theros, a former U.S. ambassador to Qatar and currently president of the U.S.-Qatar business council.

“Now they see sports as an effective way to make Qatar and other Gulf countries important and important to other people.”

The Gulf strategy to buy respectability takes other forms, such as bringing in annexes of top schools including New York University and Georgetown, and museums such as the planned Louvre and Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi and architect I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.

But sports adds some of the Gulf’s favorite currencies: celebrity and splash.

The Gulf states — led by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — have elevated sports to something akin to a national cause.

Their treasuries are thrown open to bankroll first-class facilities such as the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix circuit (complete with Ferrari theme park), Dubai’s airportsize Meydan horse racing complex and the array of air-conditioned stadiums planned for the World Cup. Sports councils and federations — even the most modest — hire high-priced Western PR talent to champion their cause. The latest drive: Qatar’s quest for the 2015 men’s handball championships.

Dubai, meanwhile, is mulling a run at a far bigger prize — the 2020 Olympics. But if not Dubai, certainly another pitch for the games will come someday from the Gulf if the current momentum remains.

Even Rogge gave a personal nudge while in Oman, saying

The Associated Press file

Trevor Immelman reacts after winning the 2008 Masters. An injury has caused him to plummet in the world rankings. was so dominant at Augusta National that he built a six-shot lead on the back nine and went on to win the Masters by three shots over Tiger Woods. One of the lasting images was Immelman striking a muscleman pose on the 18th green.

Such strength has not come easily since then.

Immelman already has dealt with a few health scares even before slipping on the green jacket.

He lost 25 pounds from a stomach parasite in 2007. Later that year, doctors had to slice open his back to remove a tumor from inside his rib cage, and only after the operation did they learn it was benign.

The most recent scar doesn’t look like that big of a deal. Immelman rolled up a winter coat on a cold day in Orlando, then brushed back some hair to show a tiny scar from his wrist surgery last December.

So small, yet so much trouble.

He first noticed a twinge in his left wrist toward the end of 2008, and it got so bad the following

the IOC would welcome another Olympic bid from the Middle East after Qatar’s failed effort the 2016 games.

“The geography of sports is changing,” said Ahmad Mohammed Al Rahoomi, international spokesman for the Dubai Sports Council, during the SportAccord gathering in April that brought together sports officials from around the world. “When people used to think of this region it was only oil. Now they are starting to think of sports.”

In reality, one feeds off the other. The Gulf’s staggering oil and gas wealth powers the sports boom. And the more the events shift to the booming region, the more money that’s set aside to try to get more.

How’s this for an expected guest list: Nadal, Roger Federer and other top men’s tennis players in Abu Dhabi and Qatar’s capital Doha; Asia’s top soccer teams in Doha for a continentwide tournament; Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson at the Abu Dhabi golf championships; Colin Montgomerie and Europe’s other Ryder Cup champions in Bahrain; rising Kenyan marathon star Eliud Kiptanui in Dubai.

That’s just the calendar for January.

A veteran sports marketer, Donal Kilalea, said the initial push to bring competitions to the region began with companies such as Emirates airline looking to raise their profile.

“They saw it as a way for branding,” said Kilalea, head of Promoseven in Dubai. “Later, the region’s leaders began to pay attention. Now, it has coalesced into a priority on all sides.”

But the sports parade also drags the region in some uncomfortable directions.

Opening to the sporting world also means open to Israel, which has no diplomatic ties with Gulf states and whose presence gives Arab security forces the jitters.

Last year, the UAE suffered a serious image blow when it denied a visa to Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer for the Dubai championships. This year, Peer was allowed to play, but was limited to her hotel and the courts. A special security squad also was assigned for Israel’s delegation at this month’s FINA short-course swimming championships in Dubai.

Being in the world spotlight also leaves deeper social issues exposed. Among them: Is local Gulf Arab culture being steamrolled in the quest for sports prestige?

year he had to withdraw from the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship. He thought the rest would help, but the few times he tried to play, he didn’t finish higher than 50th if he made the cut.

“The final straw was in Las Vegas last year,” he said. “I played a Tuesday practice round, and I was in so much pain that I went back to the hotel and said to (wife) Carminita, ‘I don’t think I can muscle through this.”

He withdrew from the tournament, flew to New York and had surgery a short time later. Immelman was in a cast for three weeks, and it was three months before he had enough strength to even grip a putter.

It was an exercise in patience in so many other ways.

Immelman is the opposite of another Masters champion — Phil Mickelson — in that he does everything left-handed except playing golf and playing the guitar. He had to learn simple chores like brushing his teeth with his right hand.

It’s not a new question. The Gulf’s staggering growth is built on importing cheap laborers and expensive white-collar talent, creating lopsided demographics such as five foreigners for every local-born Emirati in Dubai.

But in Doha, the questions were being tossed around with new urgency even before the last bleat of the vuvuzelas to celebrate the World Cup selection. Some conservative Muslim clerics called it a sellout of Islamic values to invite the World Cup party, including the prospect of boozy “fan zones” in a capital once so sleepy that, a generation ago, the big nightspot was a Dairy Queen.

One cleric suggested Qataris consider an Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia to escape the Cup. Then, too, there is the sensitive issue of who actually builds the sports palaces, including the $4 billion in new World Cup arenas.

Gulf nations have been under considerable pressure from rights groups to improve conditions in the labor camps housing the mostly South Asian workers who have raised the towering cities of Dubai, Doha and elsewhere.

Earlier this month, the International Labor Organization urged Gulf countries to boost protections for hard-hat workers, including establishing a minimum wage. In many countries, the workers receive less than $300 a month and have their passports held by companies to ensure they don’t seek other jobs.

None of these messier questions, however, got in the way of Gulf leaders toasting Qatar.

At a summit of Gulf sheiks and monarchs in Abu Dhabi this month, a joint statement called the World Cup award a “source of pride” for the entire Muslim world.

It also sets the bar high.

The UAE quickly funneled an extra $3.8 million to its Olympic teams to boost homegrown competitors in a region that embraced passport-for-play policies. Qatar, for example, began shopping for Bulgarian weightlifters in the 1990s with international medals in mind. Swimmers, runners and others have also been recruited and often given freshly minted Arab names to go with their new Gulf passports.

In Oman, the world track and field governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, is “99 percent” ready to approve its first Olympic-standard training center in the Middle East, IAAF official Elio Locatelli told the Muscat Daily.

The facility will give Gulf ath-

Swing coach David Leadbetter says the strength in his wrist is about 95 percent, and the desire is as strong as ever.

“I think he’s in a good place,” Leadbetter said. “I fully expect him to really get it back. It wasn’t a shock he won Augusta because he’s been a very, very good player for a long time. Since that time, people say, ‘Geez, what happened to him? He dropped off the face of the earth.’ Not quite. Certain injuries can derail a player.

“The good thing is he’s young enough, and experienced enough, that he’s looking at a new dawn, so to speak.”

Immelman plans to start his new season at the Bob Hope Classic. The only change might be travel, for while he is loyal to the European Tour, the new minimum requirement of 13 tournaments might be tough on him because of his status. Having fallen so far in the ranking, Immelman is not in the World Golf Championships that count toward both tours.

Now, Immelman can only wonder if he did as much damage to his confidence as to his wrist.

His doctors told him that while it was safe to play this year after surgery, he might not trust himself until later in the year, and that proved correct. Immelman doesn’t believe he can find confidence hitting balls on the range or fine-tuning his swing with Leadbetter.

“Confidence only grows when you shoot 65, when you hit 18 greens in regulation, when you get your name on the leaderboard,” he said. “It’s never fun not playing how you know you can play. You see that in aging athletes. The game peels off strictly because of age, but they know how great they are and it’s tough.”

letes a chance for world-class training and coaching.

Even the NBA is now eyeing the Gulf.

The league held its first event in Abu Dhabi this month with slam dunk exhibitions, clinics and former Houston Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon as the ambassador.

Aly El Hamamsy, managing director of the NBA’s Middle East operations, noted: “We are continually working to promote the game across the Middle East.”

Continued from D1 Millslagle, who finished ninth in last season’s state combined standings, has shown good form this season, Strome says, and is expected to improve throughout the year.

“He was a bit of a surprise,” Strome says about Millslagle’s early-season form. “But he worked hard over the summer.”

In OHSNO’s girls division, Redmond has proven it can compete with just about anyone. Sarah MacKenzie, who placed second in the 2010 combined state standings, won the first league race of the 2010-11 season, and Norwegian exchange student Ina Maria Raa finished fourth.

“She’s a pretty motivated young lady,” Panther coach Ken Roadman says about MacKenzie, who both ran cross-country and played soccer for Redmond High this past fall. “She’s really focused. She’ll also be doing some Junior Olympic qualifier (races) as well.”

Roadman has been equally as impressed with Raa, who along with MacKenzie could help the Panthers challenge reigning OHSNO girls state champion Summit for the 2011 title.

“Technique-wise she’s one of the best skiers I’ve ever seen,” Roadman says about Raa. “She’s always out there teaching us skills and little drills they do back home (in Norway).”

Keelin Moehl returns to lead the Storm girls after a third-place finish in the combined standings at last season’s state race.

“She (Moehl) and MacKenzie

should go back and forth,” Strome says of OHSNO’s top two returning girl skiers.

Melanie Hopkins, Megan Fristoe, Sara Fristoe, Kira Kelly, Emma Su and Taylor Westland all are expected to contribute for Summit this season. Hopkins finished ninth in the combined standings at the 2010 state race, and multisport endurance athlete Megan Fristoe, who placed fifth at the Dec. 18 ski race, is a two-time defending state champion in high school cross-country in the fall.

Bend High also looks to be competitive this season in both the boys and girls OHSNO divisions. Melissa Hubler and Aidan Washatka are expected to lead the Lava Bears’ girls squad, while Peter Schwarz and Jack Widmer figure to be among the top skiers for the Bend boys.

In the Oregon Interscholastic Ski Race Association’s nordic division, in which Mountain View competes, the Cougars are expected to challenge again for state titles in 2011. Mountain View’s boys and girls teams won OISRA nordic championships last February at Mount Hood.

Mikhaila Thornton and Hayati Wolfenden are both back for the Cougars after taking third and fourth, respectively, in the OISRA’s combined standings at state last season. For the Mountain View boys, senior Chase Nachtmann returns after winning the 2010 OISRA combined state title.

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Oregon High School Nordic Organization 2010-2011 schedule Dec. 18 — Meissner Sno-park, skate race hosted by Redmond Jan. 15 — Meissner Pursuit, hosted by Bend High Jan. 29 — Skadi Cup at Teacup, classic race hosted by Crescent Valley and Corvallis Feb. 12 — Teacup, skate and relay, hosted by Cleveland, Franklin and Grant Feb. 17 — Hoodoo Night Race, skate, hosted by Sisters Feb. 25, 26 — OHSNO State Championship at Mt. Bachelor, hosted by Summit

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ond matchup of each season over the past seven years. QB Tom Brady is 16-1 against the Bills, having gone 339 of 514 for 3,965 yards with 36 TDs and 12 interceptions.

A win secures the AFC East, a bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

Continued from D1 Also today, the Giants are at Green Bay and the Jets visit Chicago. With wins at their NFC North opponents, both New York teams can secure wild cards.

Baltimore travels to Cleveland with a chance to secure a postseason berth; New England is at Buffalo with a shot at grabbing the AFC East crown and a first-round bye; Indianapolis tries to hold onto the top spot in the AFC South when it visits Oakland while division runnerup Jacksonville hosts Washington; San Francisco is at St. Louis and Seattle visits Tampa Bay in the not-so-wild NFC West race.

A few games have no meaning whatsoever in the playoff races: a rare Saturday night affair that has Dallas at Arizona, plus Houston at Denver and Detroit at Miami today.

The weekend’s action began Thursday night with Pittsburgh beating Carolina 27-3.

• Tennessee (6-8) at Kansas City (9-5) Matt Cassel showed tremendous grit last Sunday by returning from an appendectomy to guide Kansas City past Missouri rival St. Louis. But it’s the staunch running of Jamaal Charles and Thomas Jones that makes the offense go, and the defense under coordinator Romeo Crennel is among the most improved in the league.

“I’m happy we’re in a situation where we can control our own destiny. I’m happy that no matter what, we’re going to have a winning season. There are a lot of pluses,” Chiefs guard Brian Waters says.

“I’m very excited about it all. But now we have a responsibility to our fans and to ourselves not to get carried away and not to look too far ahead.”

The Titans aren’t eliminated from the AFC South race, but they need to get their house in order for next season and they broke a six-game slide by beating the Texans last weekend.

• San Diego (8-6) at Cincinnati (3-11) You sort of expect the Chargers to be a factor in the division and behind the superb work of Rivers, despite a slew of injuries around him, they are. A stumble in their longest trip east all season doesn’t seem likely, and they don’t have to worry about covering Terrell Owens: T.O. is MIA, on injured reserve.

• New Orleans (10-4) at Atlanta (12-2), Monday night Ah, the marquee matchup of the weekend. Atlanta won on an overtime field goal at New Orleans in Week 3, a victory that provided tremendous impetus toward the league’s best record. The Falcons can shut up any remaining doubters that they are a championship quality outfit by handing the Saints a second con-

• Indianapolis (8-6) at Oakland (7-7) • Washington (5-9) at Jacksonville (8-6) The Jaguars kicked away a chance to win the AFC South when they fell at Indy last Sunday. Now, they must take care of their last two weak opponents (Houston is next up) and hope the Colts trip up, or the Ravens and Jets both drop their final two games.

Indy appears to be back on track for the postseason, but hardly is an elite club this year. Injuries throughout the roster and lots of growing pains for Peyton Manning’s receiving corps and running backs has the four-time MVP in the unusual position of scrambling to qualify one season after going to the Super Bowl.

“The scenario has not changed,” coach Jim Caldwell said Monday. “If we get a couple of victories, we’ll be in basically the same position.”

The Associated Press file

The Atlanta Falcons and quarterback Matt Ryan can clinch homefield advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with a win against New Orleans on Monday night. secutive defeat, which also gives Atlanta home-field advantage throughout the conference playoffs.

New Orleans struggled against the run in its loss at Baltimore last Sunday, which bodes well for the Falcons, who can ram the ball through most defenses.

“We know what’s at stake,” Atlanta coach Mike Smith says. “The one thing I will say, though, is there’s a lot of football left to be played over the next couple of weeks.”

• Minnesota (5-9) at Philadelphia (10-4) Don’t expect a 7-minute, 28-point explosion from the Eagles again. Then again, why not with the way Michael Vick, DeSean Jackson, Brent Celek, Jeremy Maclin and LeSean McCoy are performing behind an inconsistent line that they make look better than it actually is.

NBC wanted this game for prime time, perhaps hoping for a Vick vs. Brett Favre matchup. At least the network gets the most entertaining and dynamic offense in football — and it can recount, once again, all the tribulations in Minnesota, even if Favre isn’t on the field.

• N.Y. Giants (9-5) at Green Bay (8-6) One day after that stunning collapse

against Philly, Giants QB Eli Manning got vocal with his teammates. Is that a sign of leadership or are the Giants on the verge of panic?

Manning had one of the best games of his career in the 2007 NFC title game at frigid Lambeau Field, and he’s pretty good at bouncing back from disappointment. Plus, a win and the Giants are in at least as a wild card, not a bad scenario if they then can emulate ’07’s run to the championship.

Green Bay is hopeful of getting back its star quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, from a concussion. The Pack must win its last two games to get into the postseason as a wild card.

• N.Y. Jets (10-4) at Chicago (10-4) No coach deserves more credit for his team’s success this year than Lovie Smith.

The Bears were projected as a .500 or below squad when the season began, yet if they win this one and the Eagles and Giants both lose, Chicago adds a bye to its NFC North crown.

Both teams excel on kick returns, Chicago with record-setting Devin Hester, New York with versatile Brad Smith. But this game figures to come down to which defense dominates, or which quarterback

— the Jets’ Mark Sanchez or the Bears’ Jay Cutler — makes fewer mistakes.

Losses by Indianapolis or Jacksonville would lift the Jets into the playoffs even if they don’t win.

• Baltimore (10-4) at Cleveland (5-9) Coming off a sturdy win against the Saints, Baltimore is in the same position as the New York teams: win and get a wild card. Baltimore also can win the AFC North — the Steelers hold the tiebreaker — and can make the postseason with a combination of losses by other teams today.

The Ravens, with a staunch running game and diverse passing attack, aren’t the overwhelming defensive team fans are used to watching. But they showed plenty of strength on D against New Orleans.

Yes, the Browns upset the Saints this year, but they definitely are not of the caliber of New Orleans.

• New England (12-2) at Buffalo (4-10) It only seems like the last time the Bills won in this series was in the old AFL. The Patriots have won 14 straight and 19 of the past 20 meetings, outscoring Buffalo by a combined 209-39 in the sec-

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• San Francisco (5-9) at St. Louis (6-8) • Seattle (6-8) at Tampa Bay (8-6) Consider this, and if you’re a true football fan, it’s not something you want to think about: losses by the Rams and Seahawks will guarantee a losing record will win the NFC West because those teams meet next week. It also would keep the 49ers in the chase.

Oh, for relegation in the NFL. Tampa Bay is slumping, done in somewhat by its inexperience, and the loss to the Lions last weekend pretty much shattered postseason hopes for the Bucs. Yet they could finish 10-6 and see a 7-9 club emerge from the West.

At least the Rams deserve some credit for a turnaround year behind top overall draft pick Sam Bradford and secondyear coach Steve Spagnuolo. Maybe the Seahawks do, too, for making some strides in Pete Carroll’s first season back in charge of a pro team.

• Detroit (4-10) at Miami (7-7) • Houston (5-9) at Denver (3-11) Shield your eyes for these games, the exact type of matchups the NFL hopes to avoid in late December.

Houston doesn’t even have a .500 record to play for, and that could cost coach Gary Kubiak his job. Denver has already fired coach Josh McDaniels, and a Mile High housecleaning is in the forecast.

Detroit deserves praise for breaking its record road skid with a win at Tampa last Sunday. The Lions could get another away victory in the Sunshine State because Miami is 1-6 at home.

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Detroit has been outscored by only 21 points compared with deficits of 232 last year and 249 in its winless 2008 season.

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C O M M E N TA RY

Seattle still seeks identity

By Danny O’Neil The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — There’s a chance Seattle’s game at Tampa Bay will have no bearing on the Seahawks’ playoff chances.

But that won’t make it meaningless. There’s too much at stake for this franchise, for its future to dismiss it as irrelevant. This is a team still trying to establish an identity, a franchise trying to find a way to summon a closing kick after a disappointing two months.

“We see the finish line is out there for the season,” coach Pete Carroll said.

And it just might come down to the wire. If St. Louis beats San Francisco today, the division will be decided by the regular-season finale between the Rams and the Seahawks next weekend at Qwest Field.

The outcome of Seattle’s game in Tampa Bay wouldn’t affect that at all. If the 49ers beat the Rams, Seattle must win its final two games to eliminate the possibility of finishing tied with San Francisco because the 49ers would win that tiebreaker.

The Seahawks have lost six of their past eight games, and quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has committed 13 turnovers in the past four games. Yet after all that, Seattle is in control of its own playoff fate: Two victories, and the Seahawks are in.

“I’m really fired up that we get to be in this situation that we’re in,” Hasselbeck said.

“We have a chance to win our division again. It has been two years. There’s two games to do it. We don’t have to depend on anybody else. We just win two games.”

And they might not even have to do that if the Rams beat the 49ers. Then, all Seattle has to do is beat St. Louis in Week 17 to reach the playoffs.

Will Carroll keep an eye — or an ear — out for a score from that Rams-49ers game, which begins at 10 a.m. Pacific?

“I’ll keep track,” he said.

“Let me just tell you, I’ll know what’s going on.”

That doesn’t mean it will impact anything Seattle does when the game in Tampa kicks off at 1:15 Pacific.

Not in terms of strategy, not in terms of playing time.

“As far as what we’re trying to get done on this Sunday, it doesn’t figure in,” Carroll said.

He’s not a coach who talks about who’s the underdog and who’s the favorite. He doesn’t dangle those things as carrots in front of the team or use them as sticks.

“We’re going to deal with the stuff that we control,” Carroll said.

And this is what the Seahawks control: If they win their final two games, they make the playoffs. It’s not any more complicated than that.

But this is Year 1 of a process, the start of Carroll’s regime, not the end. And while Carroll has avoided the word rebuilding, that is the reality.

These next two games will determine whether this season can be a springboard to brighter days or it will be a sign of just how much more change is needed.

Two games will shape how this first season under Carroll is remember.

The Seahawks can’t finish above .500, but then again, no one really expected them to.

These next two games, however, are the difference between winning the division and not.

They are the difference between Hasselbeck showing he might be a consideration at quarterback going forward or not.

So with all due respect to playoff mathematics, this game means something. No team has ever made the playoffs with a losing record.

Human nature says the Seahawks’ energy level will subside in Tampa should St. Louis win, rendering the outcome of Seattle’s game irrelevant to playoff positioning.

“We don’t want to be normal in that regard,” Carroll said.

“We don’t want to be human nature. We want to be above and beyond.”

Can they?

That’s a question that will be answered in Tampa regardless of the outcome in St. Louis.

Cards top Cowboys with late field goal

“On any given Sunday, one team can beat another because of the television money that ensures they can compete. The Redskins have been one of the five most valuable teams for a long time, but I can’t remember the last time they were in the Super Bowl. Atlanta might win the Super Bowl this year and not move up in valuation rankings.”

— Scott Minto, the director of the sports business MBA program at San Diego State University

In the NFL, a team’s wealth says little about its record

The Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — Thirdstring quarterbacks when the season began, John Skelton and Stephen McGee had lead parts in a Christmas night drama staged by a pair of NFL teams headed nowhere.

Jay Feely’s 48-yard field goal inched over the crossbar with 5 seconds to play, giving the Arizona Cardinals a 27-26 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.

“Really, nothing’s bigger than beating the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas Day right now,” Cardinals rookie QB Skelton said. “Whiz (coach Ken Whisenhunt) was shaking my hand before the game and I said, ‘We have one last gift to unwrap.’ Sure enough, it took the last minute, but we got it.”

Dallas (5-10) rallied from 18 points down to take a 26-24 lead when Stephen McGee, in his first NFL game, threw 45 yards to Miles Austin for a touchdown with 1:46 to play.

But David Buehler’s extra point went wide left.

“I’m not feeling too good,” Buehler said. “I feel bad for Stephen. He drove the team down there and got the touchdown.

PATs are something that is something automatic. You have to put them through the uprights. I think I just rushed it a little bit.”

Arizona (5-10) was in deep trouble after the kickoff, but Skelton, on fourth-and-15 from the Cardinals 19, threw 26 yards to Larry Fitzgerald, his only catch of the game.

Then Skelton threw 19 yards to fellow rookie Max Komar.

An illegal formation penalty moved the ball back 5 yards but still well within Feely’s range. Feely, who had a 49-yarder earlier, has missed three kicks all season, including a 49-yard attempt Saturday night.

Many Cowboys thought they had won it when the penalty was called because they expected a 10-second runoff.

But referee Jeff Triplette said that the runoff does not apply to an illegal formation call.

Competitive balance reigns once again throughout the league

By Ken Belson New York Times News Service

Money doesn’t buy everything, especially wins in the NFL. Parity is again the major topic this season, and for good reason: After 14 weeks, only four of the 12 playoffs spots have been claimed, and several divisions are unlikely to be decided until the last weekend.

Off the field, the NFL is witnessing financial parity of sorts this year. The Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins, the league’s two most valuable franchises, have losing records, yet the Atlanta Falcons, one of the least valuable, are tied for the best record. The 16 most valuable franchises as ranked by Forbes have won a combined 117 games through 14 games, just 10 games more than the bottom 16 teams in the league.

The competitive balance up and down the valuation chart reflects not just the drawing power of the NFL, but the league’s lucrative television contracts, licensing contracts and other revenue that is shared evenly among its 32 teams. The sharing of revenue keeps the financial divide between larger-market teams like the Giants and smaller-market teams like the Jacksonville Jaguars from exploding, as it has in baseball.

Like hockey and basketball, the NFL also has a salary cap (though not this year because the league and players let their cap run out as they negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement), which prevents teams from spending far more on player payrolls than others the way, say, the Yankees outspend the Kansas City Royals in baseball.

A deep pool of talented collegiate players makes it possible for weaker, smaller market teams to rebuild relatively quickly.

“On any given Sunday, one team can beat another because of the television money that ensures they can compete,” said Scott Minto, the director of the sports business MBA program at San Diego State University.

“The Redskins have been one of the five most valuable teams for a long time, but I can’t remember the last time they were in the Super Bowl. Atlanta might win the Super Bowl this year and not move up in valuation rankings.”

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Washington Redskins running back Ryan Torain is tackled by Dallas Cowboys’ Victor Butler during the second half of a game last Sunday. Despite being two of the wealthier franchises in the NFL, neither team is doing well this season. the NFL and the NBA have the most financial parity. Based on Forbes’ valuations, the wealthiest team in these leagues is worth only about 2.5 times that of the least valuable franchise.

In the NHL, the Toronto Maple Leafs are worth 3.8 times that of the Phoenix Coyotes, while in baseball, the Yankees are worth 5.7 times that of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Teams in smaller markets or with limited payrolls like the San Antonio Spurs or the Florida Marlins occasionally bubble to the top and break up the long line of powerful franchises that dominate in these leagues. The NFL, though, is filled with teams that, regardless of their market, can rebound a year or two after being left for dead, and vice versa. The Cowboys, who are worth $1.8 billion according to Forbes, have won only five games this year after winning 11 games and their division last season. The Houston Texans and the Carolina Panthers, ranked fifth and 12th in the Forbes survey, are having terrible seasons after finishing strongly last year.

At the same time, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (13th most valu-

and the Jacksonville Jaguars (32nd and last on the survey) have had surprisingly competitive seasons after winning a combined 15 games last season.

Instead of spending heavily on free agents, they have used the college draft to sign young players.

“In baseball, there seems to be a direct correlation between what you spend on free agents and the quality of your players,” said Maury Brown, the president of the Business of Sports, a series of websites devoted to sports business research. “Of all the major sports, the draft means the most in football.”

Still, wealthy clubs can make plenty of money even when they repeatedly fail to make the playoffs.

The Redskins, for instance, earned $103.7 million in operating income last year, according to Forbes. They can thrive financially because they play in a stadium that lets them capture relatively large amounts of money through the sale of suites, private seat licenses, parking, naming rights and sponsorships.

Indeed, eight out of the 10 most valuable teams on the

opened or refurbished in the past decade. The average age of the stadiums of the 10 least valuable franchises is 22 years old. Not surprisingly, the owners of the San Diego Chargers (24th most valuable), the Falcons (26th) and the Minnesota Vikings (30th) are clamoring for new stadiums.

“It really boils down to what kind of stadium you play in,” said David Carter, who teaches sports business at the University of Southern California and wrote “Money Games,” a book about sports and entertainment.

“Owners are all about revenue streams that they don’t have to share” with the other teams, he said.

Of course, parity in the NFL is partly driven by chance. With so few regular-season games, even a handful of injuries to key players or a couple of muffed plays can vault an also-ran into first place or plunge a front-runner into last place. Over the course of baseball, basketball and hockey seasons, teams can compensate for these mishaps.

Yet this year’s roster of NFL playoff teams has shown once again that money is no guarantee of success on the field.

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HONOLULU — Shelvin Mack scored 20 points to pace Butler to an 84-68 victory over Washington State in the championship game of the Diamond Head Classic on Saturday night.

A 15-0 second-half run fueled the Bulldogs (9-4) to their fifth straight win.

Klay Thompson scored a game-high 31 points to lead the Cougars (10-2), whose five-game winning streak ended.

Butler, which made a magical run in last season’s NCAA tournament before losing to Duke in the national title game, shot 50 percent (28 of 56), including 11 of 27 on 3-pointers.

The Bulldogs scored on their first six possessions of the second half, including three straight 3-pointers. Two came from Zach Hahn, who finished with 14 points and four assists.

Andrew Smith and tournament MVP Matt Howard also had 14 points each. Howard notched a double-double with 11 rebounds, including nine on the defensive side.

Mack, a junior guard, scored 15 in the first half. He finished 8 of 13 shooting in 33 minutes.

He, Howard and Thompson made the all-tournament team, along with Baylor’s LaceDarius Dunn and Florida State’s Chris Singleton.

Thompson, son of former No. 1 overall NBA draft choice Mychal Thompson, was 10 of 18 from the field and made all seven free throw attempts. He made four of his 10 3-point tries and grabbed five rebounds.

Washington State shot just 33.3 percent in the second half and 40.7 percent for the game.

There were eight ties and 18 lead changes in the game.

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Washington State forward Brock Motum, left, and Butler center Andrew Smith, right, battle for a loose basketball in the first half of a game at the Diamond Head Classic, Saturday in Honolulu.

Butler defeated Utah in a quarterfinal game Wednesday and beat Florida State in the semifinals Thursday. Washington State’s road to the title game included a quarterfinal win over Mississippi State and a semifinal victory over Baylor.

Also on Saturday: F lorida State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 No. 15 Baylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 HONOLULU — Derwin Kitchen scored 19 points and Chris

Singleton added 17 and 10 rebounds in Florida State’s victory in the third-place game of the Diamond Head Classic. Bernard James had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Seminoles (11-3), who recorded their first win over a ranked team this season. It was a disappointing trip for the Bears (8-3), who dropped two straight in Hawaii and three this week after reaching No. 9, the highest ranking in school history.

Referees struggling with new rule on elbows, fouls

By Steve Yanda The Washington Post

Virginia Tech forward Victor Davila pulled down his fourth defensive rebound of the night on Nov. 26, held the ball near his chin and turned to make an outlet pass, technique he’d been taught for years. But because he was being swarmed by defenders, his elbow made contact with an opponent above the shoulders.

By rule, that left the referee two choices: Call either an intentional or a flagrant foul. Nearly everyone involved — including the referee who blew his whistle — agreed the punishment did not fit the crime.

Over the first seven weeks of the college basketball season, referees have struggled to adapt to new rules designed to protect players from blows to the head, according to the NCAA’s coordinator of basketball officiating, and that has irritated some coaches.

“The intent of the rule makes sense, because the intent of the rule is precautionary and safetyrelated,” Virginia Tech Coach Seth Greenberg said in a telephone interview. “No one wants to have a kid be severely injured by a malicious elbow.”

But, Greenberg and other coaches noted, the sequence begins not when the rebounder turns with the ball held high, but once the rebound is made and the opposing team applies pressure.

“In the old days, people said when they put pressure on you, chin-to-ball,” said Greenberg, whose team defeated Oklahoma State, 56-51, on Nov. 26. “Well now if you chin-to-ball, you’re going to hit someone with your elbow. If you chin the ball and pivot, odds are the foul is going to be on you.”

In previous seasons, referees could call either a player-control foul or a flagrant foul on such high-elbow situations. But in May, the organization’s basketball rules committee unanimously decided that further measures needed to be taken to curb what John Adams, the NCAA coordinator of basketball officiating, said was a “perceived” escalation in elbow-to-head hits.

“We felt like in college basketball we were way behind the curve with regard to concussive injuries,” Adams said. “We had not addressed it in any way, shape

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The Citadel’s Cameron Wells, right, catches the elbow of SIU-Edwardsville’s Nikola Bundalo (12) during a game on Thursday. Elbows to the head are a point of emphasis in college officiating this season. or form.”

So the committee eliminated the option of calling a player control foul in such situations, regardless of the circumstance.

If a ballhandler is swinging his elbows as part of a full-body movement and at the same speed as the rest of his body at the time of contact, an intentional foul is to be assessed, giving the opponent two free throws and possession of the ball.

The act draws a flagrant foul when the elbow swinging is judged by the official to be “excessive,” or, as Adams described it, “in a violent manner much faster than the rest of your body, and in general has some intent to it, to harm or to hurt or to injure another player.” A flagrant foul leads to the offender being ejected from the game, in addition to the opposing squad being awarded two free throws and possession of the ball.

Kansas forward Marcus Morris, the team’s leading scorer, was ejected for a flagrant elbow to the head early in the second half of the Jayhawks’ 78-63 road win Wednesday. Kansas Coach Bill Self told reporters afterward that Morris “got exactly what he deserved.”

An official may review a play if he feels a flagrant foul may have been missed and may upgrade an intentional foul to a flagrant foul.

But an official may not downgrade a call upon further review from a flagrant to an intentional

foul, or from an intentional to a no-call.

“Officials are human,” said Bobby Lutz, an assistant coach at Iowa State who served as the chair of the NCAA basketball rules committee last May. “They could make a mistake. But we try to tell them to err on the side of caution because once they’ve called a foul, you can’t take it away.”

Adams said that in four to six weeks he anticipates this type of call will be “much more consistently handled and much less talked about.” Until then, elbowswinging will continue to be a contentious — and potentially game-altering — issue.

With just more than two minutes to play in a Nov. 17 contest at Brigham Young, Utah State’s leading scorer, Tai Wesley, pulled down a defensive rebound, swung his elbows and connected with an opponent above the shoulders.

The foul, ruled intentional, was Wesley’s fifth, requiring him to watch the rest of the game from the bench. Utah State trailed by three at the time and lost, 78-72.

“I thought it wasn’t great judgment on the official’s part,” Utah State Coach Stew Morrill said in a telephone interview.

“And he’s a guy I really like. He’s a good official. In his mind, he was just doing what he’s been told to do. The problem is sometimes we overreact. And I’m sure the rules people wouldn’t see it that way, but that’s the way I saw it.”

John Clougherty, the coordinator of basketball officiating for the Atlantic Coast Conference, said officials that have been put in a position to make such a call know they have to adjudicate the rule as it is written. But, he noted, “in some cases they have felt like, ‘Wow, that’s just a basketball play.’ ” Clougherty said he has reviewed extensively the elbowing call made against Davila in the Virginia Tech-Oklahoma State game, and he believes the official made the correct decision.

“The coach simply says, ‘That’s a basketball play,’ ” Clougherty said. “And the official basically says, ‘Coach, I agree, but my job is to enforce the rule as it’s written.’ So, I think . . . officials don’t make the rules, and I’m sure they have opinions. But so far, I think, at least in my league, they’ve enforced it as it’s written.”

As the Toronto Maple Leafs continue to languish near the bottom of the NHL standings, showing no signs of ending their 42-season Stanley Cup drought, an unusual protest developed. A fan identified only as Jack M. by The Toronto Sun threw frozen waffles at the team as it left the ice at Air Canada Centre in Toronto after a loss this month to Edmonton.

“They need to wake up and eat some breakfast,” the fan told the paper. “I’m just trying to help them out with a balanced diet.”

That inspired two fans clad in lime-green jumpsuits at Vancouver to taunt penalized Leafs players by tossing waffles against the penalty-box glass.

Back in Toronto last week, another fan flung an entire box of frozen waffles onto the ice during play at the LeafsThrashers game. He was arrested and barred from future Leafs games.

Toronto fans sided with the accused waffle thrower, 31year-old Joseph Robb, who was charged with mischief and is scheduled to appear in court next month.

Hundreds of comments followed The Globe and Mail’s account of the incident. Most were sympathetic to Robb, like the one that read, “If they really want to punish the waffle thrower, they should upgrade his seats to front row.”

dyk has done so despite the financial problems of the owner Tom Hicks, which have forced the team to keep the payroll well below the salary cap.

Brad Richards, the captain and the only recognized elite talent on the roster, has provided inspiration by playing through a nose badly broken after being hit by a puck Dec. 13. He has scored four goals in the five games since the injury.

“He’s uncomfortable, we’re uncomfortable for him just watching him, but that’s leadership,” coach Marc Crawford said. “You can’t help but be somewhat motivated when you see your captain come out and play the way that he does.”

Thrashers on the rise The Atlanta Thrashers, who are battling Tampa Bay and Washington for the top spot in the Southeast Division despite having the lowest payroll in the league, have been another surprise team in the season’s first half.

Fortified by players they received from the Devils last season for Ilya Kovalchuk and by off-season trades that brought in members of the champion Chicago Blackhawks — including Dustin Byfuglien, the league’s top scorer among defensemen, and Andrew Ladd, who became the team captain — Atlanta accumulated 26 of a possible 32 points from mid-November until mid-December.

They also had some good

news off the ice, as a protracted lawsuit that pitted one member of their ownership group against seven others was finally settled, leaving the seven with all the ownership shares.

Two of the seven, Michael Gearon and Bruce Levenson, will be managing partners for the Thrashers, the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA and both teams’ home building, Philips Arena. Speaking to reporters last week after the settlement, Levenson said: “I think if you talk to anyone in either organization, they will tell you that this lawsuit has had zero impact. Zero.”

Perhaps, but the group had been unable to attract new investors and a needed infusion of cash during the six years the lawsuit lingered. Court documents reveal that both teams have been losing money for years, including more than $50 million in 2008 and 2009 combined. The owners have had to inject more of their own money to keep the operation afloat.

They hope now, with the litigation behind them, that will change.

The Thrashers, who have played to crowds well below capacity in recent years, have been considered a prime candidate for relocation, with Quebec foremost in the conversation.

But Gearon and Levenson have repeatedly said they are committed to keeping the Thrashers in Atlanta. They told reporters Wednesday that “no other changes are planned.”

Hard-nosed leader As the week ended, the Dallas Stars were fighting Detroit for the top spot in the Western Conference, which was surprising because few observers considered Dallas a playoff team this season.

But general manager Joe Nieuwendyk has assembled a blue-collar team that over the past month has picked up 25 of a possible 32 points. Nieuwen-

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Bend Habitat RESTORE 258 Building Supply Resale Quality at LOW PRICES Travel/Tickets 740 NE 1st 312-6709 Open to the public .

Disneyland (4) 6-day Park Hoppers. Regular $216 each; sell 266 $195 each. 541-419-2753

Misc. Items 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.

Buying Diamonds /Gold for Cash SAXON'S FINE JEWELERS

541-389-6655 BUYING Lionel/American Flyer trains, accessories. 541-408-2191.

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.

DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL FOR $500 OR LESS?

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WHEN BUYING FIREWOOD...

"Quick Cash Special" 1 week 3 lines $10 bucks or 2 weeks $16 bucks!

Ad must include price of item

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Rescue, Adoption & Foster Free Del. Also wanted W/D’s Team will be open for those dead or alive.

541-280-7355. holiday adoptions on Friday & Sunday 1-4 PM (closed Christmas Day). Gift certifi- Appliances, new & reconditioned, guaranteed. Over- Nordic Trak elliptical with I-Fit cates also avail. so someone can pick out their new pet adapt, used little, mint cond., stock sale. Lance & Sandy’s later. Altered, vaccinated, ID $250 cash/you haul.

Maytag, 541-385-5418 chipped, more. 389-8420, Pro-Form treadmill, EKG/grip 598-5488, 65480 78th St, Coffee Table,oak,w/3 matchpulse, like new, $150 cash ing end tables & lamps, exc.

Bend, visit www.craftcats.org you haul. Buy both $350. cond, $300, 541-504-7483 for photos, map & more.

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Farm Equipment and Machinery

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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SPLIT, DRY LODGEPOLE DELIVERY INCLUDED! $175/CORD. Call for half-cord prices!

Leave message, 541-923-6987

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Gardening Supplies & Equipment BarkTurfSoil.com Instant Landscaping Co. PROMPT DELIVERY 541-389-9663

Horses and Equipment 200 ACRES BOARDING Indoor/outdoor arenas, stalls, & pastures, lessons & kid’s programs. 541-923-6372 www.clinefallsranch.com

Prices Reduced: Quarterhorses, females $300, males & geldings $500, 541-382-7995

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T o a v o i d fr a u d , T h e Bulletin recommends payment for Firewood only upon delivery & inspection.

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4’ x 4’ x 8’ • Receipts should include, name, phone, price and kind of wood purchased.

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.

The following items are badly needed to help them get through the winter:

d CAMPING GEAR of any sort: d Used tents, sleeping bags, tarps, blankets.

d WARM CLOTHING d Rain Gear, Boots 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.

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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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Barn stored Alfalfa $9 per bale.

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Place an ad in The Bulletin for your garage sale and receive a Garage Sale Kit FREE! 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

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All Year Dependable Firewood: SPLIT dry Lodgepole, $150 for 1 cord or $290 for 2, Bend del. Cash Check Visa/MC 541-420-3484

CASH!!

For Guns, Ammo & Reloading Supplies. 541-408-6900.

LAB PUPS AKC, titled parents, FC/AFC, Blackwater Rudy is grand sire. Deep pedigreed performance/titles, OFA hips & elbows. 541-771-2330 www.royalflushretrievers.com

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SCHNOODLE Male pup, 4 mos, $100. ALSO Tiny toy POODLE English Springer Spaniels, AKC Female 4 mos, cinnamon red, Reg, black/white, housebroke, $150. 541-306-1807 ready to go! 541-408-6322 Siamese Kittens (4) purewww.kennykennels.com bred, M/F, Seal & Lilac point, Frenchie Faux puppies, excel$125 ea. 541-318-3396 lent! $750. Ready at 6 weeks on 12/31. 541-447-0210

German Shorthair Pointer A K C , champ lines, 1 male, 1 female, $300, 541-550-9992.

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Pomeranian Puppies: Don’t wait, only a few left! Christmas special $475. 541-475-3496 www.pom-a-rama.com

Chihuahua pups, Registered males, Long coats, apple heads. $300. 541-977-4454 sagetreeacres@yahoo.com

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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.

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DON'T FORGET to take your First cutting Alfalfa, $155/ton.

Orchard grass, $165/ton. signs down after your gaFeeder hay, $115/ton. Small rage sale and be careful not bales, Madras area. Phone to place signs on utility 541-390-2678 poles! www.bendbulletin.com Wheat Straw: Certified & Bedding Straw & Garden Straw; Kentucky Bluegrass; Compost; 541-546-6171.

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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.

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Lost and Found FOUND remote control, Sirius satellite sys, Forum Shopping Center, 12/20. 541-480-2510 FOUND RING Call 541-420-7322 with exact description & area it was lost.

Lost Dog: Male Border Collie mix, black, red collar, between Bend/Redmond on Hwy 97, 12/18, 541-604-4221 Lost: Full set of keys,w/car fob, Bi-Mart tag, Subaru key, near Costco, 12/13, 541-388-2408 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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Estate Sales Look What I Found!

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!

Call Classifieds: 385-5809 or Fax 385-5802

Wishes you a Safe and Happy New Year!

The Bulletin will be closed on Friday, New Year’s Eve and Saturday, New Year’s Day Retail & Classified Display Advertising Deadlines PUBLICATION ............................................. DEADLINE Friday 12/31 ..................................................Tuesday 12/28 Noon Go! Magazine 12/31 .....................................Tuesday 12/28 Noon Saturday 1/1 .................................................Tuesday 12/28 Noon Sunday 1/2 ..................................................Tuesday 12/28 4 p.m.

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CLASSIFIED LINE AD DEADLINES Friday 12/31 - Deadline is Noon Thursday 12/30 Saturday 1/1 - Deadline is Noon Thursday 12/30 Sunday 1/1 - Deadline is 2 p.m. Thursday 12/30 Monday 1/2 - Deadline is 2 p.m. Thursday 12/30

Classifieds • 541-385-5809 The Bulletin Circulation Telephone Service at 541-385-5800 will be open 1/1 from 6:30 am to 10:30 am to help with your delivery needs.

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Place a photo in your private party ad for only $15.00 per week.

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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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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.

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Have an item to sell quick? If it’s under $500 you can place it in The Bulletin Classiieds for $ 10 - 3 lines, 7 days $ 16 - 3 lines, 14 days (Private Party ads only) 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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Glazier -- Residential: Must have 5 years experience & clean driving record, Shower doors & mirrors a plus. Pay DOE. Call 541-382-2500.

ATTENTION: Recruiters and Businesses -

CAUTION

READERS:

Ads published in "Employment Opportunities" include employee and independent positions. Ads for positions that require a fee or upfront investment must be stated.

With any independent job opportunity, please investigate thoroughly.

Use extra caution when applying for jobs online and never provide personal information to any source you may not have researched and deemed to be reputable.

Use extreme caution when responding to ANY online employment ad from out-of-state.

We suggest you call the State of Oregon Consumer Hotline at 1-503-378-4320 For Equal Opportunity Laws: Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industry, Civil Rights Division, 503-731-4075 If you have any questions, concerns or comments, contact: Shawn Antoni, Classified Dept , The Bulletin

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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

Accounting Supervisor The City of Klamath Falls is accepting applications for the position of Accounting Supervisor. Under the general direction of the Finance Director, this position is responsible for the supervision and training of assigned professional, technical and clerical support staff. Work includes the performance of advanced professional accounting work related to the preparation and maintenance of financial records including budget preparation and analysis, and the preparation and audit of financial statements. Required: B.S. in Accounting or related degree with emphasis on accounting and six (6) years of professional level accounting experience, which included two (2) years of supervisory experience. CPA, CMA, GFOA Certified Public Finance Officer and/or OMFOA Professional Finance Officer Certification Public Agency experience desired.

For more information, including full job description and application packet, go to www.ci.klamath-falls.or.us/jobs or contact 541.883.5317.

Open until filled. EOE

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) Computers

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.

CRUISE THROUGH Classified when you're in the market for a new or used car.

Driver

Emergency Executive Director Juniper Junction Services Director

Regional CDL Drivers Needed!!!

Community Council

Current Openings on our 97 Fleet

Responsible for staff supervision and training, contract management, budget development, fiscal oversight, program operations, program development. Resource development for programs and services including design and production of grant applications, marketing of programs/ services, community outreach/ integration of volunteers.

Member of ExecuNeed Seasonal help? tive Director’s leadership Need Part-time help? team which implements Need Full-time help?

Advertise your open positions.

NeighborImpact’s strategic The Bulletin Classifieds plan.

Fully benefited, exempt, Bend office location.

Please see neighborimpact.org Drivers - Taking applications for full details, requirements. for Owner Operators with Fully benefited, exempt.

4-axle tractor trucks, or the Bend office location. You ability to convert 3-axle truck may scan email to to a 4-axle truck. Steady haul hr@neighborimpact.org, out of Madras, OR and resnail mail, drop off at 2303 turn. 2 trips per day. Must be SE First St., Redmond, OR willing to add a driver for 97756, or fax to 2nd shift. Please contact 541-316-2007.

541-419-1125;541-546-6489 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

Responsible for developing, planning, directing, and reviewing the activities and MEDICAL operations of the adminisSurgery Scheduler tration of the Juniper JuncThe Center seeks a positive, Toyota-Scion of Bend looktion Community Council, detail-oriented person to join ing for capable and qualimanaging the Relief Nursery our Surgery Scheduling fied applicants. must have program in accordance with team. This position requires auto experience. Applicathe policies set forth by the knowledge of medical termition and resumes accepted JJCC board of directors. Dunology and excellent written in person only. Must pass ties include supervising proand verbal communication drug test, good driving fessional and support staff, skills. Must be detail orirecord, and be insurable. fundraising and grant writing, ented and able to multi-task.

Apply in person @ Toyota developing and managing Prior exp in medical enviof Bend, (Ask for Casey budgets and maintaining ronment required. Position is Cooper) 2225 NE Hwy. 20, compliance with all relevant Full time with benefits, comBend. standards and licensing repensation DOE. Application quirements. Job requireavailable online at ments include BS and five General www.thecenteroregon.com years of increasingly responor e-mail resume to sible administrative and hr@thecenteroregon.com Central managerial experience in a Oregon or may fax to 541-322-2286 social service agency; Community driver’s license. Salary range College DOE. The Bulletin For complete job description, has openings listed below. Go is your please contact Kelly Kerbow to https://jobs.cocc.edu to Employment Marketplace or Tryna Muilenburg, view details & apply online.

541-325-5040. To apply Call Human Resources, Metolius please send resume and Hall, 2600 NW College Way, 541-385-5809 cover letter to: JJCC, PO Box Bend OR 97701; (541)383 940, Madras, OR 97741.

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Closes January 14, 2011. impaired, Oregon Relay Serwww.bendbulletin.com vices number is 7-1-1. COCC is an AA/EO employer.

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Newspaper Delivery Independent Contractor 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

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Must have reliable, insured vehicle.

Please call 541.385.5800 or 800.503.3933 during business hours apply via email at online@bendbulletin.com

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.

MIS Sr. Business Systems Programmer See ad under "Computers."

Open Until Filled.

Part-Time Instructors Instructors needed for Winter/Spring terms. $496 per load unit (load unit ~= class credit): • Biology • Developmental Reading & Writing • College Level Writing • Nursing • Computerized Accounting • Lodging and Food Service Mgmt.

• Human Resources Mgmt.

• Event Planning

General DO YOU NEED A GREAT EMPLOYEE RIGHT NOW? Call The Bulletin before noon and get an ad in to publish the next day!

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The Bulletin's classified ads include publication on our Internet site. Our site is currently receiving over 1,500,000 page views every month. Place your employment ad with The Bulletin and reach a world of potential applicants through the Internet....at no extra cost!

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Make a change for the New Year Join the local dogs!

Bend Broadband has been a Local Company since 1955. We are in search of people who are forward thinking, open to change, excited by challenge, and committed to making things happen. In every position of our organization we take time to listen to our customers, understand their specific needs, propose realistic solutions, and exceed their expectations.

Commercial Services Voice Engineer We are looking for an experienced PBX Engineer to support existing commercial clients, help generate and close new sales and services opportunities Installs and maintains voice products. ShoreTel, Mitel and/or Avaya experience desired.

Materials Planning Analyst We have an opening for an experienced planner to optimize parts order quantities and warehouse safety stock levels to ensure equipment requirements are fulfilled on a timely basis. Will develop and maintain material strategies that integrate new products and cycle out obsolete products. Will also fulfill other warehouse tasks.

View full job descriptions and apply online at www.bendbroadband.com As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage minorities, women, and people with disabilities to apply.

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CAUTION

READERS:

Ads published in "Employment Opportunities" include employee and independent positions. Ads for positions that require a fee or upfront investment must be stated.

With any independent job opportunity, please investigate thoroughly.

Use extra caution when applying for jobs online and never provide personal information to any source you may not have researched and deemed to be reputable.

Use extreme caution when responding to ANY online employment ad from out-of-state.

We suggest you call the State of Oregon Consumer Hotline at 1-503-378-4320 For Equal Opportunity Laws: Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industry, Civil Rights Division, 503-731-4075 If you have any questions, concerns or comments, contact: Shawn Antoni Classified Dept.

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The Bulletin Classifieds is your Employment Marketplace Call 541-385-5809 today!

Sales Consultants

Ready to join a dynamic & growing organization in southern Oregon ?

AAA Oregon’s Klamath Falls and Medford Service Centers seeks energetic, self motivated and experienced full-time Sales Consultants to join our Property & Casualty Insurance sales team. If you have had success in sales, apply those skills in a career of insurance. This base plus incentive compensation plan offers you the opportunity to earn what you deserve, we also offer medical/dental, 401(k), continuing education and more. Comprehensive training program available.

We’d like to discuss the opportunity with you. Candidates may mail resumes to: AAA Oregon/Idaho, 600 SW Market Street, Portland OR 97201 Attn. Human Resources. Or fax resumes to: (503) 222-6379. Or please feel free to email resume to: recruiter@aaaoregon.com We are proud to be a drug-free workplace with pre-employment drug screening. Criminal background check. EOE. Please, no calls.

Security See our website for our available Security positions, along with the 42 reasons to join our team! www.securityprosbend.com

SUTERRA is hiring! Chemical Systems Operators for new facility. $17/hour w/ built in OT, 38K first year.

To apply go to http://www.suterra.com or fax resume to 310-966-8310 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.

COIC is an EOE.

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.

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Real Estate Contracts LOCAL MONEY We buy secured trust deeds & note, some hard money loans. Call Pat Kelley 541-382-3099 extension 13.

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Loans and Mortgages WARNING The Bulletin recommends you use caution when you provide personal information to companies offering loans or credit, especially those asking for advance loan fees or companies from out of state.

If you have concerns or questions, we suggest you consult your attorney or call CONSUMER HOTLINE, 1-877-877-9392.

BANK TURNED YOU DOWN? Private party will loan on real estate equity. Credit, no problem, good equity is all you need. Call now. Oregon Land Mortgage 388-4200.

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Medical

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 • Project Manager - Full Time Position, Day Shift.

• 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.

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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. SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT (16610) – Public Health Division, Immunization Program.

Full-time position $2,476 - $3,385 per month. Deadline: FRIDAY, 01/07/11.

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, 01/28/11.

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.

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LEGAL NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF DESCHUTES In the Matter of the Estate of: Michael D. McKinnon, Deceased.

Case No. 10PB0141MS NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with proper vouchers attached, to the undersigned Personal Representative in care of Max Merrill of Merrill, O'Sullivan, LLP, 805 SW Industrial Way, Suite 5, Bend, OR 97702, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or they may be barred.

All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the Personal Representative, or the attorney for the Personal Representative at the address shown below.

Dated and first published December 29, 2010.

Teri L. McKinnon Personal Representative PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Teri L. McKinnon 3542 NW Mesa Verde Court Bend, Oregon 97701 Phone: (541) 382-1255 ATTORNEY FOR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Max Merrill, OSB #71002 Merrill O’Sullivan, LLP 805 SW Industrial Way, Suite 5 Bend, OR 97702 Phone: (541) 389-1770 Fax: (541) 389-1777 Email: max@merrill-osullivan.com LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Preliminary Determination for Water Right Transfer T-10952 T-10952 filed by the Deschutes River Conservancy (700 NW Hill St., Bend, OR 97701) proposes a change in place of use and a change in character of use under Certificates 85384, 85385, and 85390 to instream use. Certificate 85384 allows the use of 0.15 Cubic Foot per Second (CFS) (priority date 1880) from Whychus Creek, tributary to the Deschutes River, in T15S, R10E, Sec 21, W.M., for Irrigation in T15S, R10E, Sec 10, W.M. Certificate 85385 allows the use of 0.51 CFS (priority date 1881) from Whychus Creek, tributary to the Deschutes River, in T15S, R10E, Sec 21 W.M., for Irrigation in T15S, R10E, Sec 10, W.M. Certificate 83590 allows the use of 0.95 CFS (priority date 1880) from Whychus Creek, tributary to the Deschutes River, in T15S R10E, Sec 21, W.M., for Irrigation in T15S, R10E, Sec 10, W.M. The applicant proposes to create an instream use in Whychus Creek from the points of diversion, at a maximum of 1.61 CFS, to the mouth of Whychus Creek.

The Water Resources Department has concluded that the proposed transfer appears to be consistent with the requirements of ORS Chapter 540, OAR 690 380-5000, and OAR 690-077-0075.

Any person may file, jointly or severally, with the Department a protest or standing statement within 30 days after the date of final publication of notice in the Department's weekly notice or of this newspaper notice, whichever is later. A protest form and additional information on filing protests may be obtained by calling (503) 986-0883. The last date of newspaper publication is Jan. 9, 2011. If no protests are filed, the Department will issue a final order consistent with the preliminary determination.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SEIZURE FOR FORFEITURE Notice to Potential Claimant Read Carefully ! !

If you have any interest in the seized property described in this notice, you must claim that interest or you will automatically lose that interest.

If you do not file a claim for the property, the property may be forfeited even if you are not convicted of any crime. To claim an interest, you must file a written claim with the forfeiture counsel named below. The written claim must be signed by you, sworn to under penalty of perjury before a notary public, and state: (a) Your true name; (b) The address at which you will accept future mailings from the court and forfeiture counsel; and (3) A statement that you have an interest in the seized property. Your deadline for filing the claim document with the forfeiture counsel named below is 21 days from the last publication date of this notice. This notice will be published on four successive weeks, beginning and ending . If you have any questions, you should see an attorney immediately.

FORFEITURE COUNSEL:Asset Forfeiture Counsel, Oregon Department of Justice 610 Hawthorne Avenue, S.E., Suite 210, Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 378-6347 SEIZING AGENCY:Oregon State Police CASE #: 10-407950 Address 255 Capitol St. NE, 4th floor, Salem, OR 97310 Phone: 503-378-3720 NOTICE OF REASON FOR SEIZURE FOR FORFEITURE: The property described in this notice was seized for forfeiture because it: (1) Constitutes the proceeds of the violation of, solicitation to violate, attempt to violate, or conspiracy to violate, the criminal laws of the State of Oregon regarding the manufacture, distribution, or possession of controlled substances (ORS Chapter 475); and/or (2) Was used or intended for use in committing or facilitating the violation of, solicitation to violate, attempt to violate, or conspiracy to violate the criminal laws of the State of Oregon regarding the manufacture, distribution or possession of controlled substances (ORS Chapter 475).

PROPERTY SEIZED FOR FORFEITURE: $33,120.00 DATE PROPERTY SEIZED: 10/19/10 PERSON FROM WHOM PROPERTY SEIZED: Gregory Donofiro and Ticmil Ashley For further information concerning the seizure and forfeiture of the property described in this notice contact: Oregon State Police Drug Enforcement Section, Asset Forfeiture Unit 255 Capitol St. NE, 4th Floor; Salem, OR 97310 Phone: (503) 934-0161 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

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 personal representative c/o Richard E. Forcum, Attorney at Law, 141 NW Greenwood Ave. Ste. 101, Bend, OR 97701, within four months from the date of first publication of this notice as stated below, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by this proceeding may obtain additional information from the court records, the personal representative, or the attorney for the personal representative. DATED and first published: December 12, 2010.

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The Trust Deed to be foreclosed pursuant to Oregon law is referred to as follows (the "Trust Deed"): 1.TRUST DEED INFORMATION: Grantor: Barry Michael Seaton Beneficiary: Columbia State Bank, successor in interest to Columbia River Bank Trustee:Amerititle Successor Trustee: Heather J. Hepburn, 360 SW Bond St., Ste. 400, Bend, OR 97702, (541) 749-4044 Recording Date:April 26, 2004 Recording Reference:Document No. 2004-23650 County of Recording:Deschutes County, Oregon 2.LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY (the "Property"): Lot Seven (7), Block Seven (7), KENWOOD GARDENS, Deschutes County, Oregon 3.DEFAULT: The Grantor or any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the Trust Deed, is in default and the Beneficiary seeks to foreclose the Trust Deed. The default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor's failure to do the following: Failure to make monthly interest payments due January 23, 2010; February 23, 2010 and March 23, 2010, failure to pay the entire amount due under the note and trust deed on April 23, 2010, the maturity date and failure to pay real property taxes for the years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09, plus interest and penalties when due.

4.AMOUNT DUE: By reason of the default just described, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed immediately due and payable, those sums being the following: Principal balance of $59,216.37, together with unpaid interest of $6,330.20 through August 17, 2010,Late Charges and fees of $3,577.78, Trustee's fees, attorney's fees, costs RICHARD E. FORCUM, of foreclosure and any sums advanced by the Beneficiary pursuant to the terms of the Trust Deed.

OSB #640340 Interest continues to accrue on the unpaid principal balance at the rate of 18.00% per annum Attorney for Personal from August 18, 2010, until paid.

Representative 5.ELECTION TO SELL: The Beneficiary hereby elects to foreclose the Trust Deed by advertisement 141 NW Greenwood Ave. and sale as provided under ORS 86.705 to 86.795, and to cause the property to be sold at public Ste. 101 auction to the highest bidder for cash, the Grantor's interest in the described property which the Bend, OR 97701 Grantor had, or had the power to convey, at the time of the execution by the Grantor of the Trust Tel: 541-389-6964 Deed, together with any interest the Grantor or Grantor's successor in interest acquired after the Fax: 541-389-6969 execution of the Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed, including the E-mail: info@forcumlaw.com expenses of the sale, compensation of the Trustee as provided by law and the reasonable fees of the Trustee's attorneys.

6.DATE AND TIME OF SALE: Date: February 17, 2011 Public NOTICE Time: 10:00 A.M. (in accord with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110) Housing Works will open the Location: Bond Street Entrance to the Deschutes County Justice Building Housing Choice Voucher (brick building) 1100 NW Bond Street, Bend, Or 97701 waiting list on January 10th 7.RIGHT TO REINSTATE: Any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five 14th, 2011. Pre-applications days before the Trustee conducts the sale, to have this foreclosure dismissed and the Trust Deed received by Housing Works reinstated by doing all of the following: before or after this period are not admissible. The Housing a. payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due, other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred; Choice Voucher Program provides rental assistance for b.curing any other default that is capable of being cured, by tendering the performance required under the obligation or Trust Deed; and low-income households that meet income eligibility re- c.paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Trust Deed, together with the Trustee's and attorney's fees not exceeding the amount provided in ORS 86.753. quirements. This is a lottery draw to be placed onto the 8.NOTICE FOR PROPERTIES INCLUDING ONE OR MORE DWELLING UNITS: NOTICE TO RESIDENTIAL TENANTS. The property in which you are living is in foreclosure. A foreclosure sale waiting list. Should funding is scheduled for February 17, 2011. Unless the lender who is foreclosing on this property is paid, become available within a the foreclosure will go through and someone new will own this property. The following one year time frame, appliinformation applies to you only if you occupy and rent this property as a residential dwelling cants will be processed in the under a legitimate rental agreement. The information does not apply to you if you own this order of their waiting list poproperty or if you are not a residential tenant. If the foreclosure goes through, the business or sition. If selected, the appliindividual who buys this property at the foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out. cant will be contracted by The buyer must first give you an eviction notice in writing that specifies the date by which you mail to proceed with the elimust move out. The buyer may not give you this notice until after the foreclosure sale happens. gibility process. At the conIf you do not leave before the move-out date, the buyer can have the sheriff remove you from the clusion of one year, if fundproperty after a court hearing. You will receive notice of the court hearing. FEDERAL LAW REing had not been allocated, a QUIRES YOU TO BE NOTIFIED IF YOU ARE OCCUPYING AND RENTING THIS PROPERTY AS A new waiting list will be RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNDER A LEGITIMATE RENTAL AGREEMENT, FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES opened and previous appliTHE cants must reapply. Pre-apUYER TO GIVE YOU NOTICE IN WRITING A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DAYS BEFORE THE BUYER CAN plication forms are available REQUIRE YOU TO MOVE OUT. THE FEDERAL LAW THAT REQUIRES THE BUYER TO GIVE YOU now at Housing Works' ofTHIS NOTICE IS EFFECTIVE UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2014. Under federal law, the buyer must give fice at 405 SW 6th Street, you at least 90 days' notice in writing before requiring you to move out. If you are renting this Redmond, Oregon, from 8:00 property under a fixed-term lease (for example, a six-month or one-year lease), you may stay until am to 5:00 pm. For further the end of your lease term. If the buyer wants to move in and use this property as the buyer's information please contact primary residence, the buyer can give you written notice and require you to move out after 90 Housing Works at (541) days, even if you have a fixed-term lease with more than 90 days left. STATE LAW NOTIFICATION 923-1018. Housing Works REQUIREMENTS IF THE FEDERAL LAW DOES NOT APPLY, STATE LAW STILL REQUIRES THE does not discriminate on the BUYER TO GIVE YOU NOTICE IN WRITING BEFORE REQUIRING YOU TO MOVE OUT IF YOU ARE basis of race, color, national OCCUPYING AND RENTING THE PROPERTY AS A TENANT IN GOOD FAITH. EVEN IF THE origin, religion, sex, physical FEDERAL LAW REQUIREMENT IS NO LONGER EFFECTIVE AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2012, THE or mental disability or familREQUIREMENT UNDER STATE LAW STILL APPLIES TO YOUR SITUATION. Under state law, if you ial status. have a fixed-term lease (for example, a six-month or one-year lease), the buyer must give you at least 60 days' notice in writing before requiring you to move out. If the buyer wants to move in and use this property as the buyer's primary residence, the buyer can give you written notice and require you to move out after 30 days, even if you have a fixed-term lease with more than 30 days PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS left. If you are renting under a month-to-month or week-to-week rental agreement, the buyer PUBLIC TRANSIT DIVISION must give you at least 30 days' notice in writing before requiring you to move out. IMPORTANT: For the buyer to be required to give you notice under state law, you must prove to the business or DISCRETIONARY GRANTS individual who is handling the foreclosure sale that you are occupying and renting this property as a residential dwelling under a legitimate rental agreement. The name and address of the business The Deschutes County Department of Administrative or individual who is handling the foreclosure sale is shown on this notice under the heading Services, in Deschutes "TRUSTEE". You must mail or deliver your proof not later than January 18, 2011 (30 days before the date first set for the foreclosure County, Oregon, announces an opportunity for eligible ale). Your proof must be in writing and should be a copy of your rental agreement or lease. If transportation providers to you do not have a written rental agreement or lease, you can provide other proof, such as receipts apply for state Special Transfor rent you paid. ABOUT YOUR SECURITY DEPOSIT Under state law, you may apply your security portation Fund (STF) discredeposit and any rent you paid in advance against the current rent you owe your landlord. To do tionary and federal section this, you must notify your landlord in writing that you want to subtract the amount of your 5310 funds. Funds are allosecurity deposit or prepaid rent from your rent payment. You may do this only for the rent you cated to Deschutes County owe your current landlord. If you do this, you must do so before the foreclosure sale. The by the Oregon Department of business or individual who buys this property at the foreclosure sale is not responsible to you for any deposit or prepaid rent you paid to your landlord. ABOUT YOUR TENANCY AFTER THE Transportation (ODOT). Successful grant applications will FORECLOSURE SALE The business or individual who buys this property at the foreclosure sale may be willing to allow you to stay as a tenant instead of requiring you to move out. You should be funded for activities which take place during the contact the buyer to discuss that possibility if you would like to stay. Under state law, if the buyer 2011-2013 biennium. accepts rent from you, signs a new residential rental agreement with you or does not notify you in writing within 30 days after the date of the foreclosure sale that you must move out, the buyer Projects offering transportation services for seniors and becomes your new landlord and must maintain the property. Otherwise, the buyer is not your landlord and is not responsible for maintaining the property on your behalf and you must move people with disabilities are eligible for grant funding. out by the date the buyer specifies in a notice to you. YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO PAY RENT TO Applications are available at YOUR LANDLORD UNTIL THE PROPERTY IS SOLD TO ANOTHER BUSINESS OR INDIVIDUAL OR the ODOT Public Transit DiviUNTIL A COURT OR A LENDER TELLS YOU OTHERWISE. IF YOU DO NOT PAY RENT, YOU CAN BE sion web site: EVICTED. AS EXPLAINED ABOVE, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO APPLY A DEPOSIT YOU MADE OR PREPAID RENT YOU PAID AGAINST YOUR CURRENT RENT OBLIGATION. BE SURE TO KEEP http://www.oregon.gov/OD OT/PT/PROGRAMS/disc_gra PROOF OF ANY PAYMENTS YOU MAKE AND OF ANY NOTICE YOU GIVE OR RECEIVE nt_program.shtml. The apCONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF YOUR DEPOSIT OR YOUR PREPAID RENT. IT IS UNLAWFUL plication packet includes inFOR ANY PERSON TO TRY TO FORCE YOU TO LEAVE YOUR HOME WITHOUT FIRST GOING TO structions and program COURT TO EVICT YOU. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS, YOU MAY WISH TO guidelines.

An additional CONSULT A LAWYER. If you believe you need legal assistance, contact the Oregon State Bar and checklist of applicant and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice. If you do not have enough money to pay a lawyer and are otherwise eligible, you may project eligibility criteria can be requested from the Desbe able to receive legal assistance for free. Information about whom to contact for free legal chutes County contact listed assistance is included with this notice. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, below. Applications submityou may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information ted for projects in Deschutes for the Oregon State Bar is 503-684-3763 or toll-free in Oregon at 800-452-7636 or you may visit its website at: www.osbar.org. If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines, you County must be received by the Deschutes County Demay be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information and a directory of legal aid programs for where you can obtain free legal assistance is available at http://www.oregonlawhelp.org. In partment of Administrative Services no later than 5:00 construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular p.m. on January 7, 2011. includes the plural, the word "Grantor" includes any successor in interest to the Grantor as well as Postmarks will not be acany other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the Trust Deed, and cepted as an alternative to the words "Trustee" and "Beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. receipt by the due date and late applications will not be DATED: September 23, 2010. considered. Contact Judith Ure at 541-330-4627 for /s/ Heather J. Hepburn further information.

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3 Bedroom, 2 bath mobile home for rent, $625/mo.

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CROOKED RIVER RANCH $675 2/2 Views! 1 Acre, single garage w/ opener, w/d hookups, deck, fence.

8797 Sand Ridge Rd. TERREBONNE $995 4/2.5 Move in special! $500 off first month w/1 yr lease, views, fireplace, RV area, dbl garage.

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103” motor, 2-tone, candy teal, 18,000 miles, exc. cond. $19,999 OBO, please call 541-480-8080.

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.

Honda Shadow Deluxe American Classic Edition.

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Beaver Patriot 2000, Walnut cabinets, solar, Bose, Corian, tile, 4 door fridge., 1 slide, w/d, $99,000. 541-215-0077

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.

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.

rear end, new tires, runs excellent, $1800 OBO, 541-932-4919.

YAMAHA 1998 230CC motor, 4WD, used as utility vehicle. excellent running condition. $2000 OBO. 541-923-4161 541-788-3896

1999, 4X4, 4 stroke, racks front & rear, strong machine, excellent condition. $2,200 541-382-4115,541-280-7024

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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.

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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Yamaha YFZ450 2006, very low hrs., exc. cond., reduced to $3000, also boots, helmet, tires, avail., 541-410-0429

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Malibu Skier 1988, w/center pylon, low hours, always garaged, new upholstery, great fun. $9500.

OBO. 541-389-2012.

Harley Davidson Heritage Soft Tail 2009, 400 mi., extras incl. pipes, lowering kit, chrome pkg., $16,900 OBO. 541-944-9753

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Yamaha 2008 Nitro 1049cc, 4 stroke, bought new Feb 2010, still under warranty, 550 miles, too much power for wife! $6000.

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Homes with Acreage 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 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.

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 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.

Travel Queen 34’ 1987 65K miles, oak cabinets, exc interior. Great extra bdrm! Reduced to $5000. 541-480-3286

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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

Winnebago Class C 28’ 2003, Ford V10, 2

20.5’ Seaswirl Spyder 1989 H.O. 302, 285 hrs., exc. cond., stored indoors for life $11,900 OBO. 541-379-3530

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.

slides, 44k mi., A/C, awning, good cond., 1 owner. $37,000. 541-815-4121

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35 Acre irrigated, hay & cattle farm, close to Prineville, 76 year old widower will sacrifice for $395,000, 541-410-3425

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Gearbox 30’ 2005, all the bells & whistles, sleeps 8, 4 queen beds, reduced to $17,000, 541-536-8105

Hitchiker II 32’ 1998 w/solar system, awnings, Arizona rm. great shape! $15,500 541-589-0767, in Burns.

JAYCO 31 ft. 1998 slideout, upgraded model, exc. cond. $10,500. 1-541-454-0437.

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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.

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CHEVY BLAZER 2000, ZR2 LS 4x4, 130k miles, 90% tread left on $2000 worth of tires. Under KBB at $4995. Can be seen at Redmond’s Hwy 97 Park & Sell. 541-546-6838.

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152K mi. on chassis, 4 spd. transmission, 250 6 cyl. engine w/60K, new brakes & master cylinder, $2500.

Please call 503-551-7406 or 541-367-0800.

Cadillac El Dorado 1977, very beautiful blue, 1/3 interest in Columbia 400, located at Sunriver. $150,000. Call 541-647-3718

Weekend Warrior Toy Hauler 28’ 2007, Gen, fuel station,exc.

cond. sleeps 8, black/gray interior, used 3X, $29,900.

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Mercedes 380SL 1983, Convertible, blue color, new tires, cloth top & fuel pump, call for details 541-536-3962

real nice inside & out, low mileage, $2500, please call 541-383-3888 for more information.

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.

KOMFORT 27’ 5th wheel 2000 trailer: fiberglass with 12’ slide, stored inside, in excellent condition.

Only $13,500 firm.

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Mobile Suites, 2007, 36TK3 with 3 slide-outs, king bed, ultimate living comfort, large kitchen, fully loaded, well insulated, hydraulic jacks and so much more. Priced to sell at $59,500! 541-317-9185

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

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TERRY 27’ 5th wheel 1995 with big slide-out, generator and extras. Great condition and hunting rig, $9,900 OBO. 541-923-0231 days.

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

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

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Utility Trailers COLLINS 18’ 1981, gooseneck hitch, sleeps 4, good condition, $1950. Leave message.

541-325-6934

Ford F-150 2006, Triton STX, X-cab, 4WD, tow pkg., V-8, auto, reduced to $14,999 obo 541-554-5212,702-501-0600

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 Mercedes-Benz 280c 1975 145k, good body & mechanical, fair interior, can email pics. $2950. 541-548-3628

Chevy Suburban 1969, classic 3-door, very

Chevy Colorado 2004, LS, 4x4, 5 cyl., 4 spd., auto, A/C, ps, pl, pw, CD, 60K mi., $8925.

541-598-5111.

clean, all original good condition, $5500, call 541-536-2792.

Case 780 CK Extend-a-hoe, 120 HP,

3 slides, washer and dryer, new A/C. Very nice & livable! $12,500. 541-923-7351.

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.

AWD, leather, video sys, 3.5 liter V6, loaded, 21,500 mi, $13,950. 541-382-3666

Toyota RAV 4 Ltd. 2007 80K miles, moonroof, tow pkg, great condition! $13,750. 541-848-7876

Ford Excursion 4x4 2000. Nice Red, like new, only 68k, seats 9. Just $16,700. 541-601-6350 Look: www.SeeThisRig.com Infinity QX4 1998, luxury SUV 4WD, loaded, leather, 80K miles, $7500.

CORRECTED PHONE # = 541-815-4052

X-Cab, 460, A/C, 4-spd., exc. shape, low miles, $3250 OBO, 541-419-1871.

Jeep CJ7 1986 Classic, 6-cyl, 5-spd., 4x4, good cond, price reduced to $7950, 541-593-4437.

Ford F-350 Crew 4x4 2002.

Triton V-10, 118k, new tires, wheels, brakes. Very nice.

Just $14,700. 541-601-6350 Look: www.SeeThisRig.com

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Vans 1998 Dodge Ram Wagon SE 2500, Mark III conversion, 100k miles, 4 captains chairs, rear fold-down bed, hitch, $4000 and worth it! Travel in luxury. 541-318-9999 or 541-508-8522.

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Chevy Gladiator 1993, great shape, great

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mileage, full pwr., all leather, auto, 4 captains chairs, fold down bed, fully loaded, $4500 OBO, call 541-536-6223.

Trucks and Heavy Equipment

MONTANA 2000 36’

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.

Chevy Corvette 1979, 30K mi., glass t-top, runs & looks great, $12,500,541-280-5677

Toyota Land Cruiser 1970, 350 Chevy engine, ps, auto, electric winch, new 16” tires and wheels, $12,000.

541-932-4921.

Chrysler 2005 Pacifica

Ford F250 1986, 4x4, Chevrolet Nova, 1976 2-door, 20,200 mi. New tires, seat covers, windshield & more. $5800. 541-330-0852.

90% tires, cab & extras, 11,500 OBO, 541-420-3277

Chevy

Wagon

1957, Mercury Monterrey 1965,

4-dr., complete, $15,000 OBO, trades, please call 541-420-5453.

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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Exc. All original, 4-dr. sedan, in storage last 15 yrs., 390 High Compression engine, new tires & license, reduced to $4850, 541-410-3425.

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

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Chevy Silverado 1500 1988, 4x4, step side, tow pkg., low mi. at 98K, A/C, great tries, brakes, new rear end, runs extra super, $4000 OBO, 541-548-7396

Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 1998, like new, low mi., just in time for the snow, great cond., $7000, 541-536-6223.

FORD pickup 1977, step side, 351 Windsor, 115,000 miles, MUST SEE! $4500.

541-350-1686

Chevy Silverado 1500 4x4, 2000, full size, Reg cab w/ long bed, white, V6, 4.3L, 20 mpg, auto trans, ABS, AC, dual airbags, tow pkg, runs & drives excellent, maint’d extremely well; non-smoker. Recent brks, bearing, tune- up, tires, trans & coolant flush. 183K mi. $4700 obo. 541-633-6953

Ford Ranger 2004 Super Cab, XLT, 4X4, V6, 5-spd, A/C bed liner, tow pkg, 120K Like New! KBB Retail: $10,000 OBO 360-990-3223

DODGE D-100 1962 ½ Ton, rebuilt 225 slant 6 engine.

New glass, runs good, needs good home. $2700.

541-322-6261

GMC Sierra Crew Cab SLT 2005, loaded, detailed & in great cond. Matching shell & sprayed bed liner& mat, just over 100k. Asking $15,800, 541-280-7068

Ford Diesel 2003 16 Passenger Bus, with wheelchair lift. $4,000 Call Linda at Grant Co. Transportation, John Day 541-575-2370

Jeep Wrangler 2004, right hand drive, 51K, auto., A/C, 4x4, AM/FM/CD, exc. cond., $11,500. 541-408-2111

VW Eurovan MV 1993, seats 7, fold-out bed & table, 5-cyl 2.5L, 137K mi, newly painted white/gray, reblt AT w/warr, AM/FM CD Sirius Sat., new fr brks, plus mntd stud snows. $8500 obo. 541-330-0616

Nissan XTerra SE 2001 $5900 Auto, CD, Sun, Tow, 131K, V6, 4WD, Must See 541-617-8454

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Canopies and Campers

Everest 32’ 2004, 3 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

Ford T-Bird 1955, White soft & hard tops, new paint, carpet, upholstery, rechromed, nice! $32,000. 541-912-1833

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Big Tex Landscaping/ ATV Trailer, dual axle flatbed, 7’x16’, 7000 lb.

GVW, all steel, $1400.

541-382-4115, or 541-280-7024.

Dodge Ram 2001, short

Corvette 1956, rebuilt 2006, 3 spd., 2, 4 barrel, 225 hp.

Matching numbers $62,500, 541-280-1227.

Fleetwood Elkhorn 9.5’ 1999,

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

extended overhead cab, stereo, self-contained,outdoor shower, TV, 2nd owner, exc. cond., non smoker, $8900 541-815-1523.

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Automotive Parts, Service and Accessories

Hitchhiker II 2000 32’ 2 slides, very clean and in excellent condition.

Only $18,000!

(541) 410-9423, (541) 536-6116.

When ONLY the BEST will do!

2003 Lance 1030 Deluxe Model Camper, loaded, phe- 4 Michelin Studless ice & snow, used 1 season, 225/60/R16, nomenal condition. $17,500. $175 cash. 541-318-8668 2007 Dodge 6.7 Cummins Diesel 3500 4x4 long bed, TOOL BOX fits 1991 Toyota, 58K mi, $34,900. Or buy as Diamond-plated, $100. unit, $48,500. 541-331-1160 Call 541-389-1582

FIAT 1800 1978 5-spd., door panels w/flowers & hummingbirds, white soft top & hard top, Reduced to $5,500, 541-317-9319,541-647-8483

Porsche 914, 1974 Always garaged, family owned.

Runs good. $5500.

541-550-8256

VW Super Beetle 1974 New: 1776 CC engine, dual Dularto Carbs, trans, studded tires, brakes, shocks, struts, exhaust, windshield, tags & plates; has sheepskin seatcovers, Alpine stereo w/ subs, black on black, 25 mpg, extra tires. Only $3750 541-388-4302. Partial Trade.

bed, nice wheels & tires, 86K, $5500 OBO, call 541-410-4354.

Audi A4 3.0L 2002, Sport Pkg., Quattro, front & side air bags, leather, 92K, Reduced! $11,700. 541-350-1565

Kelley Blue Book Prices as of 12/22/2010 WAS $12,395

WAS $13,995

NOW

11,995

$

NOW

2007 VW Jetta

VW Certified. Great Buy.

VW Certified.

Stk. 90102A, VIN M504921.

Stk. 3421, VIN 071339.

Kelley Blue Book $12,290

Kelley Blue Book $14,175

WAS $16,495

WAS $18,495

NOW

NOW

NOW

15,495

$

2004 Audi A6 Quattro

2003 Mercedes C320 4-Matic

Navigation, DVD, Loaded

All Wheel Drive, Low Miles.

Stk. 3545, VIN N055454.

Stk. 3520, VIN F410694.

Kelley Blue Book $15,070

Kelley Blue Book $16,550 WAS $21,495

NOW

19,995

$

17,995

$

15,895

WAS $15,995

NOW

14,995

$

13,895

$

2007 VW Beetle

$

Audi will make your first payment on select models.

Exceptional values are yours for a limited time during the Season of Audi.

Porsche Cayenne Turbo 2008, AWD, 500HP, 21k mi., exc. cond, meteor gray, 2 sets of wheels and new tires, fully loaded, $69,000 OBO. 541-480-1884

CarreraBelowBlueBookSale!

541-322-7253

Ford Mustang Coupe 1966, original owner, V8, automatic, great shape, $9000 OBO. 530-515-8199

International Flat Bed Pickup 1963, 1 ton dually, 4 spd. trans., great MPG, could be exc. wood hauler, runs great, new brakes, $2500. 541-419-5480.

$

NOW

20,995

2008 VW Beetle

2007 Mini Cooper S

2006 BMW Z4

2009 VW Jetta TDI

VW Certified, Only 9k Miles.

Low Miles, Full Options

Top Down Fun to Drive!!

Stk. 90162A, VIN C366044.

Stk. 3414, VIN L84656

Stk. N1030, VIN LW91534.

Only 16k Miles, Nav., Moonroof.

Kelley Blue Book $15,960

Kelley Blue Book $21,230

Kelley Blue Book $22,675 WAS $23,995

WAS $21,495 $

Stk. AA30167J, VIN 134876.

Kelley Blue Book $21,290

NOW

20,995

$

NOW

22,995

Available on every vehicle.

2005 Audi A6 Quattro Immaculate, Hard to Find.

2007 Audi A4 Quattro Audi Certified, Low Miles.

Stk. 3465, VIN 125841.

Stk. A30149A, VIN N081500.

Kelley Blue Book $25,135

Kelley Blue Book $21,245

CarreraAutoOutlet cars you can get into GREAT VALUES ON RECENT TRADE-INS!

9,995

NOW

485*/Mo.

$

2011 Audi A4 quattro 2.0T Sedan

36-Month Lease

ZERO due at lease inception. Excludes taxes, title, other options and dealer charges.

NOW

$

9,995

WAS $11,995

10,995

$

2003 Toyota Camry LE

2008 Smart Fortwo

Great Condition, 2 Tire Sets

Full Options, Great Value.

Stk. 71013L; VIN U723135.

Stk. 3534; VIN K178943.

4x4, Canopy, Low Miles.

Stk. 91000A; VIN 0207885.

Kelley Blue Book $10,045

Kelley Blue Book $12,235

Stk. 99110B; VIN CA79670.

13,995

$

2006 Toyota Prius 48 MPG, 1 Owner, Must See!

Stk. 3485A; VIN 7514304.

Kelley Blue Book $13,145

WAS $16,995

14,995

$

NOW

2008 Honda CRV-LX

19,995

$

2001 Porsche Boxster

Great Buy and MPG!

Low Miles, Well Equipped

Stk. 3454A; VIN C025561.

Kelley Blue Book $16,550

Kelley Blue Book $15,160

Stk. 3371B; VIN U660080.

Kelley Blue Book $21,525

NOW

$

26,995

WAS $27,995

$

26,995

NOW

$

25,995

2011 Jeep Liberty Almost New! Only 460 Miles

Stk. 91062A; VIN W523066 Photo for Illustration only

WAS $33,995

$

31,995

2011 Audi Q5 Models

Carrera Audi 1045 SE Third Street Bend, OR 97702 541-382-1711 carreraaudi.com

2002 Ford F-150 Super Cab

Passion Model, Low Miles.

NOW

1.9%* APR

11,995

$

Photo for Illustration only

2005 Scion xB Wagon

Kelley Blue Book $10,295

Financing as low as

WAS $12,995

Audi will make the first months payment up to $1,000 Must be financed thru Audi Financial Services. Offer ends Jan 5th, 2011.

Lease and premier purchases are not eligible for this offer.

†Audi of America, Inc. defines the A4 competitive class as automatic transmission versions of the 2010 Audi A4 2.0T, and the 2010 BMW 328i, Mercedes-Benz C300 and Lexus IS 250. “Fuel-efficiency” and “best in class highway mpg” based on EPA highway fuel economy estimates for each model; 30 highway mpg for A4 2.0T automatic. Your mileage may vary. *Rate based on MSRP $36,940 of 2011 A4 and destination charge. Monthly payments total $17,469.36. Purchase option at lease end for $21,055.80. 36-month closed-end lease offered to qualified customers in [state(s) or market(s) here] by Audi Financial Services through participating dealers. Must take delivery by 12/31/2010. Lessee responsible for $0.25/mile over 10,000 miles per year, insurance, a disposition fee of $350 and other financial liabilities at lease end. Advertised offer requires dealer contribution. Model shown: . Higher MSRP will affect lease price. Prices exclude taxes, title, other options and dealer charges. ©2010 Audi of America, Inc. See your dealer, visit audiusa.com or call 1-800-FOR-AUDI for more details. †Audi of America, Inc. defines the A4 competitive class as automatic transmission versions of the 2010 Audi A4 2.0T, and the 2010 BMW 328i, Mercedes-Benz C300 and Lexus IS 250. “Fuel-efficiency” and “best in class highway mpg” based on EPA highway fuel economy estimates for each model; 30 highway mpg for A4 2.0T automatic. Your mileage may vary. *1.9% APR financing available on select new 2011 Audi A4 models through Audi Financial Services to qualified buyers through Dec. 31, 2010. Model shown: A4.

Prices exclude taxes, title, other options and dealer charges. ©2010 Audi of America, Inc. See your dealer, visit audiusa.com or call 1-800-FOR-AUDI for more details.

2008 Cadillac SRX

2006 Ford F250 Super Cab

Stk. A31053A; VIN 199406

Stk. 91047A; VIN EA47639

Kelley Blue Book $27,265

Kelley Blue Book $31,670

AWD, Full Options!

Porsche | Audi

Diesel, 4x4, Canopy, Low Miles.

2006 Lexus GX 470

AWD, One Owner, Loaded!

Stk. 71087A; VIN 0098007

Kelley Blue Book $34,240

M O T O R S

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CHEVY CORVETTE 1998, 66K mi., 20/30 m.p.g., exc. cond., $16,000.

541- 379-3530

Honda S 2000, 2002. Truly like new, 9K original owner miles. Black on Black. This is Honda’s true sports machine.

I bought it with my wife in mind but she never liked the 6 speed trans. Bought it new for $32K. It has never been out of Oregon. Price $17K. Call 541-546-8810 8am-8pm.

Audi A4 Avant Quattro 2003 3.0L., 92K mi, garaged, serviced, silver, fully loaded, $9300. 541-420-9478

Audi S4 2005, 4.2 Avant Quattro, tiptronic, premium & winter wheels & tires, Bilstein shocks, coil over springs, HD anti sway, APR exhaust, K40 radar, dolphin gray, ext. warranty, 56K, garaged, $30,000.

541-593-2227 BMW 328IX Wagon 2009, 4WD, white w/chestnut leather interior, loaded, exc. cond., premium pkg., auto, Bluetooth & iPad connection, 42K mi., 100K transferrable warranty & snow tires, $28,500, 541-915-9170.

Chrysler Cordoba 1978, 360 cu. in. engine, $400.

Lincoln Continental Mark VII 1990, HO engine, SOLD. 541-318-4641.

Ford Mustang Cobra 2003, SVT, perfect, super charged, 1700 mi., $25,000/trade for newer RV+cash,541-923-3567

Ford Mustang Convertible 2000, V6 with excellent maintenance records, 144K miles. Asking $4500, call for more information or to schedule a test drive, 208-301-4081.

BMW M3 COUPE E36 1998, mint condition, adult owned, low miles, needs nothing, $12,500. 541-419-2181

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custom, 113k hwy miles, white, looks/drives perfect. $6000; also 1995 Limited LeSabre, 108k, leather, almost perfect, you’ll agree. $2900. Call 541-508-8522, or 541-318-9999.

Mercury Grand Marquis 1984. Grandpa’s car! Like new, all lthr, loaded, garaged, 40K mi, $3495. 541-382-8399

Buick LeSabre Limited Edition 1985, 1 owner, always garaged, clean, runs great, 90K, $1895, 541-771-3133.

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Subaru Outback 2005 AWD, 4cyl, auto, lthr htd seats, 89K mi, reduced to $13,995 OBO 541-508-0214; 541-554-5212

SUBARUS!!!

Give winter’s icy grip a firm handshake.

Nice clean and fully serviced . Most come with 3 year, 36,000 mile warranty.

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2011 SUBARU

2011 SUBARU

2.5i Premium • Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive • 31 mpg hwy2 • 170-hp SUBARU BOXER® engine • 2010 IIHS Top Safety Pick1

2.5i Premium • Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive • 31 mpg hwy2 • 170-hp SUBARU BOXER® engine • 2010 IIHS Top Safety Pick1

$

$

LEGACY

22,599

MSRP $23,985

279 per month

MSRP $23,985

Sale Price $22,599 Automatic BAD-02 VIN: B3231812

MAZDA MIATA 1992, black, 81k miles, new top, stock throughout. See craigslist. $4,990. 541-610-6150.

LEGACY

Automatic

$2,195 down, 84 months as low as 3.99% A.P.R. On Approved Credit.

Dealer’s installed options, title and license not included.

BAD-02 VIN: B3236292

2011 SUBARU Honda Accord EX 1990, in great cond., 109K original mi., 5 spd., 2 door, black, A/C, sun roof, snow tires incl., $3500. 541-548-5302

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Kia Spectra LS, 2002 96K miles, black, 5-speed, runs good, $2600.

Phone 541-749-0316

Mitsubishi 3000 GT 1999, auto., pearl white, very low mi. $9500. 541-788-8218.

Pontiac Firebird 1998, exc cond, no wrecks. T-top, V6, loaded, 22/29 mpg (reg gas). $4995. 541-475-3984

Buick LeSabre Cstm 1996. Go anywhere in snow, great gas mi. 44K on eng. Comfortable, reliable! $1599. 916-690-1529

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541-385-5809 Mercedes V-12 Limousine.

Hand crafted for Donald Trump. Cost: $1/2 million.

Just $27k. 541.601.6350 Look: www.SeeThisRig.com

Mazda 3, 2005 5-door, dark bronze, 47,500 mi, fully loaded, very good cond, $11,950. Kent, 541-923-6723

Ford Mustang Convertible LX 1989, V8 engine, white w/red interior, 44K mi., exc. cond., $6995, 541-389-9188.

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Mercedes S430-4Matic, 2003 AWD, silver, loaded & pampered. Excellent in snow! $16,395. 541-390-3596

Jeep Cherokee Laredo, 2003, 135K miles, fully loaded, excellent condition. $6500. Call 541-749-0316

Lincoln Continental 2000, loaded, all pwr, sunroof, A/C, exc. cond. 87K, $6250 OBO/ trade for comparable truck, 541-408-2671,541-408-7267

Buick LeSabre 2004,

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convertible, 2 door, Navy with black soft top, tan interior, very good condition. $5200 firm. 541-317-2929.

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Saab 9-3 SE 1999

FORESTER VOLKSWAGEN BUG 1965 Black , Excellent condition.

Runs good. $6995.

541-416-0541.

Mazda Miata MX5 2003, silver w/black interior, 4-cyl., 5 spd., A/C, cruise, new tires, 23K, $10,500, 541-410-8617.

Pontiac Grand Am 2004 FWD Honda Civic LX 2006, 4-door, 45K miles, automatic, 34-mpg, exc. cond., $12,480, please call 541-419-4018.

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Mercedes 320SL 1995, mint. cond., 69K, CD, A/C, new tires, soft & hard top, $12,500. Call 541-815-7160.

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s journalists approach the end of a year, they are, by tradition, compelled to recount what they believe are the best stories of that year.

2010 is no exception. It is a year filled with important news.

Joblessness remains high as the economy remains anemic. Our region, as well as the nation, continues to cope with crushing budget challenges and immense pain and suffering among our fellow citizens. We witnessed a sea-change election and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico whose enormity could only be captured by satellite.

But to me, the most important news story of the year is not a single event.

It is the continuation of a massive shift.

It is the expanding and increasingly rapid transformation, for better and — not or — worse, of information dissemination.

It promises the best in free expression, while it threatens a brand of information anarchy. What’s worse, very little in our history prepares us to preserve the best and control the worst.

Just over the past month, we have reeled over the broadcast of secret American documents by WikiLeaks, an event significant for only one reason: How did hundreds of thousands of classified documents get away from our government, regardless of the banal and dated quality of most of them?

Our shock doesn’t say much for our knowledge of current events, since most of the material has been reported in the press. Unless, of course, you find it shocking that the Mideast is a dangerous and distrustful place, that diplomats can be privately judgmental or that the world community believes there are a few screws loose in North Korea’s leaders.

And just this week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve “Net neutrality,” the meaning of which enrages as many as it confuses. How the FCC is going to set rules for an Internet that is worldwide is mind-boggling.

There is an instructive and repetitive historic parallel.

The generals and admirals who were successful in the last war try to extend those tactics to the next war.

The great example is World War II in the Pacific. The leadership of the U.S. Navy planned, as did the Japanese, that we would send our fleets into a decisive sea battle, with battleships determining the winner. Surface ships certainly had their battles in that war, but the outcome was determined by aircraft carriers, submarines and ground-pounding foot soldiers, with battleships largely providing escort or floating artillery support for island assaults.

Thinking about the transformation of information technology today, we try, like aging admirals and generals, to apply the models that have gotten us where we are today. As in the past, that instinct simply doesn’t satisfy the questions we confront.

And the questions are profound. In this new age, who owns the intellectual product? How do we protect sensitive information? Are our historic notions of character defamation or invasion of privacy out the window?

Should the government be able to command a private company — as the FCC apparently thinks it can — to amend its business plan? What is the future of taxation of the commercial marketplace of the Internet?

There are easier answers to those questions if they are asked about the world outside the Internet. But when applied to the transforming world of information, the metaphors, as a colleague of mine has observed, simply collapse.

I don’t pretend to have answers to any of these questions, though instinct and experience suggests that if the use of this freedom becomes manifestly abusive, there will be a pushback.

It will be supremely ironic, as one of my 20-something children recently observed, if the freest exercise of the Internet could lead to its own restriction.

Indeed, but it would be equally surprising to see a society or government, court system, commercial or artistic world not respond to protect its own interests.

There will be many great individual stories in the years to come, but other than confronting the world of terror, adapting to the great information revolution will be the top continuing challenge and story.

John Costa is editor-in-chief of The Bulletin.

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ow that “don’t ask, don’t tell” is dead, ROTC can return to the Ivy League.

Left and right seem to agree on this, although, curiously, the more energetic arguments come from conservatives who deplore the politics of America’s universities.

No matter; it is the right sentiment. The problem will be taking this proposal beyond mere words.

Many elite universities kicked ROTC off campus during the Vietnam War and never brought it back. (Not the one at which I work, I hasten to add: Johns Hopkins has had ROTC since 1916.)

But in truth, the military’s policies toward homosexuals were, for the most part, merely an excuse for keeping recruiters at bay. The attenuated memories of Vietnam,

a restoration of patriotic sentiment, a far less turbulent student body and the trauma of the Sept.

11, 2001, attacks have made it easier to contemplate the return of ROTC. During the 2008 election campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain both supported it.

And in theory, who could object? ROTC offers another career path and tuition assistance to recession-spooked undergraduates; it is entirely voluntary, and even if the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are unpopular among the professoriate, faculty have made some

progress since 1968 in their ability to distinguish between a policy and those who execute it.

This moment of apparent reconciliation between academic gowns and uniforms, however, will yield little unless all concerned realize how difficult it will be actually to return ROTC to elite campuses.

The two cultures have, over more than a generation, grown apart.

Neither relishes the idea of coming back together.

Let’s consider the players: Except for a tiny minority of the professionally discontented, students

Students who go to top colleges and universities are smart,hardworking and able.

Our armed forces need them.

will not oppose ROTC. Faculty of a certain generation are more likely to have reservations. Some will stereotype those stiff-backed, austerely groomed young men and women in uniform, many of whom will not embrace the politics of the modern campus. The military is, in the nature of things, conservative; and for some time, elite universities have been liberal. (That, by the way, is an excellent reason to force them to interact.) As any dean knows, faculties are masters of passive-aggressive behavior, and while they may not overtly reject ROTC they can find ways of containing, obstructing or subverting it. Tussles for office space, refusal of excused absences for training or merely a stream of disparaging remarks can make it clear that ROTC may be present but is not welcome.

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Demonstrators rally against the Reserve Officers Training Corps program on the Columbia University campus in 1965, during the Vietnam War. Many elite universities kicked ROTC off campus during the Vietnam War. With the military’s policies toward gays and lesbians no longer an excuse for keeping recruiters at bay, the question remains how eager the two parties are to come back together.

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PERS benefits by the numbers

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n the spirit of the holidays, when all of us indulge in a little excess, we offer the following chart, which shows who gets what under Oregon’s embattled Public Employees Retirement

System. The column on the left shows the monthly benefit range, which retirees receive for life. The column on the right shows the number of retirees who receive benefits in that range. The numbers were current as of Dec. 31, 2009.

The chart speaks for itself, but a few explanatory points are in order.

First, the chart doesn’t reflect lumpsum benefits collected by roughly 17,000 current retirees. Second, it takes five years for Tier 1 and 2 employees to become vested, so in many cases the benefits listed reflect years of public service rather than decades.

Finally, according to PERS officials, some of the very low monthly benefits are for people who retired decades ago, when $500 or $1,000 per month was a comparatively large sum. Though PERS beneficiaries do receive cost-of-living increases, the compounding effects do have their limits.

In any case, the chart shows that nearly 12,400 PERS retirees earn at least $54,000 per year for life. Nearly 8,500 earn more than $60,000. More than 3,700 earn at least $72,000.

About 1,200 earn more than $90,000.

Two hundred and thirty-five make more than $120,000 per year. And in the very top tier, 34 PERS retirees pull down more than $168,000 per year.

The Oregonian newspaper has asked the state for information about all PERS retirees whose benefits exceed $100,000 per year. Attorney General John Kroger has issued an opinion urging PERS to comply with the request, but PERS officials have decided to fight. If any secrecy effort deserves to be doomed, this is it. Taxpayers and lawmakers alike deserve to know how hundreds of public employees came to qualify for

Monthly PERS benefits As of Dec. 31, 2009 Monthly benefit

Number of Retirees

0-$500 ........................... 12,837 $501-$1,000................... 14,466 $1,001-$1,500 .................11,876 $1,501-$2,000.................. 9,431 $2,001-$2,500 ................. 7,893 $2,501-$3,000 ................. 6,969 $3,001-$3,500 ................. 6,339 $3,501-$4,000 ................. 5,783 $4,001-$4,500 ..................5,128 $4,501-$5,000 ................. 3,920 $5,001-$5,500 ................. 2,831 $5,501-$6,000 ................. 1,938 $6,001-$6,500 ..................1,184 $6,501-$7,000..................... 824 $7,001-$7,500 ..................... 501 $7,501-$8,000..................... 382 $8,001-$8,500 .................... 232 $8,501-$9,000 .................... 144 $9,001-$10,000................... 206 $10,001-$11,000 ................... 99 $11,001-$12,000 ................... 46 $12,001-$13,000 ................... 35 $13,001-$14,000 ................... 21 $14,000 and up..................... 34 Source: Public Employees Retirement System

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six-figure retirement benefits, and how dozens now pocket more than $150,000 per year.

County decision correct on deputy DA contract

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eschutes County’s commissioners recently agreed — unanimously, no less — not to approve a contract with deputy district attorneys until the middle of January. Now, at least two of them seem to have contracted a case of the wobblies. Late last week, Alan Unger and Dennis Luke expressed a willingness to reopen the discussion, which means that they might decide to approve the contract this month. The commission may tell voters to stuff it after all.

The timing matters so much because incoming DA Patrick Flaherty, who’ll take office early next month, has indicated he won’t rehire a handful of deputy DAs. The pending contract contains “just cause” language that protects the jobs of those depu-

ties, who are now “at will” employees. If it approves the contract before Flaherty takes office, the commission would effectively second-guess voters, who replaced longtime DA Mike Dugan with Flaherty in May. Voters gave Flaherty an important job. Who are county commissioners to place obstacles in front of him?

Commissioners are afraid of being sued, and we understand that. But legal problems loom regardless of what they do now. Flaherty has said he’ll exercise his hiring (and firing) prerogative even if commissioners approve a contract, which he doesn’t believe he’s bound to honor. That being the case, commissioners should sit on their hands and let the person voters chose do the job they elected him to do.

How the president ate the GOP’s lunch WASHINGTON — iding the lamest of ducks, President Obama just won the Triple Crown. He fulfilled (1) his most important economic priority, passage of Stimulus II, aka the tax cut deal (the perfect pre-re-election fiscal sugar high — the piper gets paid in 2013 and beyond); (2) his most important social policy objective, repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”; and (3) his most cherished (achievable) foreign policy goal, ratification of the New START treaty with Russia.

Politically, these are all synergistic.

The bipartisan nature of the tax deal instantly repositioned Obama back to the center. And just when conventional wisdom decided the deal had caused irreparable alienation from his liberal base, Obama almost immediately won it back — by delivering one of the gay rights movement’s most elusive and coveted breakthroughs.

Do not underestimate the symbolism of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal.

It’s not just that for the civil rights community, it represents a long-awaited extension of the historic arc — first blacks, then women, now gays. It was also Obama decisively transcending the triangulated trimming of Bill Clinton, who instituted “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the first place.

Even more subtly and understatedly, the repeal represents the taming of the most conservative of the nation’s institutions, the military, by a movement historically among the most avantgarde. Whatever your views, that is a cultural landmark.

Then came START, which was important for Obama not just because of the dearth of foreign policy achievements in these last two years but because treaties, especially grand-sounding treaties on strategic arms, carry the aura of presidential authority and diplomatic mastery.

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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER No matter how useless they are, or even how damaging. New START was significantly, if subtly, damaging, which made the rear-guard Republican opposition it engendered so salutary. The debate it sparked garnered the treaty more attention than it would have otherwise and thus gave Obama a larger PR victory. But that debate also amplified the major flaw in the treaty — the gratuitous re-establishment of the link between offensive and defensive weaponry.

One of the great achievements of the last decade was the Bush administration’s severing of that link — first, by its withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, which had expressly prevented major advances in missile defense, and then with the 2002 Treaty of Moscow, which regulated offensive weapons but ostentatiously contained not a single word about any connection to missile defense. Why is this important? Because missile defense is essential for protecting ourselves from the most menacing threat of the coming century — nuclear hyper-proliferation.

The relinking that we acquiesced to in the preamble to New START is a major reversal of that achievement.

Sure, Obama sought to reassure critics with his letter to the Senate promising unimpeded development of our European missile defense system. But the Russians have already watched this president cancel our painstakingly planned Polish and Czech missile defenses in response to Russian protests and threats. That’s why they insisted

we formally acknowledge an “interrelationship” between offense and defense. They know that their threat to withdraw from START, if the U.S. were to build defenses that displease them, will inevitably color — and restrain — future U.S. missile defense advances and deployments.

The difficulty Obama had overcoming the missile defense objection will serve to temper the rest of his nuclear agenda, including U.S. entry into the test ban treaty, and place Obama’s ultimate goal of total nuclear disarmament blessedly out of reach. Conservatives can thus take solace that their vigorous opposition to START will likely prevent further disarmament mischief down the road. But what they cannot deny is the political boost the treaty’s ratification gives Obama today, a mere seven weeks after his Election Day debacle.

The great liberal ascendancy of 2008, destined to last 40 years (predicted James Carville), lasted less than two. Yet, the great Republican ascendancy of 2010 lasted less than two months. Republicans will enter the 112th Congress with larger numbers but no longer with the wind — the overwhelming Nov. 2 repudiation of Obama’s social-democratic agenda — at their backs.

“Harry Reid has eaten our lunch,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, lamenting his side’s “capitulation” in the lame-duck session. Yes, but it was less Harry than Barry. Obama came back with a vengeance. His string of lameduck successes is a singular political achievement. Because of it, the epic battles of the 112th Congress begin on what would have seemed impossible just one month ago — a level playing field.

Charles Krauthammer is a member of The Washington Post Writers Group.

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What the hard-charging lame-duck Congress has accomplished

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ow, we’re getting a new nuclear arms control treaty for Christmas. I know some of you were hoping for iPads. But still, big news.

Good work, White House! Thank heavens we got rid of our former president, Barack Obama, who couldn’t even get the trade agreement he went all the way to South Korea to sign. Our current president, Barack Obama, would never let that happen, and, in fact, came up with a really excellent trade agreement with the South Koreans just the other day.

“Administration officials have bent over backwards to try to solve every problem that’s come up,” said Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, one of the Republicans who reached across the aisle to get the New START treaty with Russia ratified.

The treaty, which needed a two-thirds vote, was actually approved 71 to 26. The Democrats did not have to go scrambling madly around looking for one last vote. And even the opponents were winners since they got to spend more than a week beating up on the Russians, revisiting the golden days when life was

simple and wars were cold.

“They cheat. They are serial cheaters,” said Sen. James Risch of Idaho, the author of my favorite unsuccessful amendment to the treaty. It would have made the entire groundbreaking nuclear-reduction program contingent on the return of four American Humvees that the Russians picked up during their conflict with Georgia. Risch hauled out blowups of one of the enslaved military vehicles, shouting: “You can watch your property right here being towed away by the Russians! Back to Moscow!” If the former Red Menace wants to “hold hands and sing ‘Kumbaya,’ ” he added, “well, that is fine. But give us back our stolen military equipment.”

When was it that the singing of “Kumbaya” became a shorthand for weenieness? “Kumbaya” is an excellent campfire song, especially for groups that border on tone-deafness and don’t know the words to anything. I remember singing it in Girl Scout camp with friends who emerged unscathed and became conservative Republicans. Some may be writing letters protesting the New START treaty at this very moment. Please, give

GAIL COLLINS “Kumbaya” a break.

But I digress. Nothing, not even Humvees in chains, was going to stop the progress of what has recently become known as the “hard-charging lameduck Congress.” It is a perfect image, with its suggestion of a flock racing along in the clumsiest manner possible but still stumbling over the finish line.

“When it’s all going to be said and done, Harry Reid has eaten our lunch,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who called the hard-charging lame duck “a capitulation in two weeks of dramatic proportions.” This is the rapidly evolving new hyperpartisan Lindsey Graham, who was so ticked off at the fact that the Senate was devoting a mere eight days to the treaty that he told the antitreaty obstructionist Jon Kyl

of Arizona: “I want to apologize to you for the way you’ve been treated by your colleagues.”

His START-supporting fellow Republicans appeared quietly unrepentant.

Perhaps they were afraid that if they said anything in response, Graham would continue his evolution into awfulness right there on the Senate floor and start gnawing on the ankles of elderly legislators.

Good work, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry. We appreciate the way you’ve evolved from one of the world’s worst presidential candidates into an extremely useful senator.

Unlike some unsuccessful presidential candidates we could name.

Good work, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the lone Republican who stuck with the treaty through thick and thin and never mutated into a scary new entity.

Good work, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Unlike your hapless predecessor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, you’ve had legislation shooting off to the White House like angry birds in that video game. Unemployment com-

pensation! Gay rights! Food safety! Judicial appointments! Arms control! Health care for 9/11 responders!

But let’s admit it. Nothing would have gotten done if Obama hadn’t swallowed that loathsome compromise on tax cuts for the wealthy.

If he’d taken the high road, Congress would be in a holiday war. The longterm unemployed would be staggering into the new year without benefits. The rest of the world would look upon the United States as a country so dysfunctional that it can’t even ratify a treaty to help keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists. The people who worked at ground zero would still be uncertain about their future, and our gay and lesbian soldiers would still be living in fear.

It’s depressing to think that there was no way to win that would not have involved giving away billions of dollars to people who don’t need it. But it’s kind of cheery to think we have a president who actually does know what he’s doing.

Gail Collins is a columnist for The New York Times.

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s the year in politics closed, Congress and President Obama were arguing over maintaining the Bush-era income tax rates. Conservatives insisted that the top 5 percent of households already accounted for nearly 60 percent of the aggregate tax revenue and that it was suicidal to hike taxes on the job-creating classes.

Liberals countered that the wages of the middle class have become stagnant over the last decade, and it is time for the wealthy to pay more for others.

Meanwhile, both sides talked of American decline and assumed that the federal government was either the problem or the solution.

These debates were predicated on ossified notions of relative wealth and poverty as calibrated in money, and ignored that such methods of measurement are now archaic in our brave new world. Imagine if just 30 years ago we had dreamed that soon most Americans would have small mobile phones that let users talk or send text messages and photos to anyone in the world for mere pennies per minute — a veritable revolution in daily life brought about without the aid of a massive Manhattan Project-like federal effort. We have gone from “a chicken in every pot” to a “cell phone in every hand.”

Could yesteryear’s Great Society have ever promised to nearly all

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Americans that they would soon have instant information at their fingertips on almost any topic imaginable, from treating migraines to wiring a house to a crash course in Dante’s “Inferno”?

Surely the kings, corporate magnates and fat cats of the old Wall Street would have paid millions for such knowledge that is now accorded to almost anyone with a computer at home, work, school or a library, without the need of expensive specialists, scholars or books.

Today, Americans have cheap GPS navigation systems superior to what jet pilots used 30 years ago. Secret agent James Bond’s gadgets seem passé in comparison to the accessories available on today’s iPhones — all made available to us without a government program.

The country tore itself apart over health care in 2010. What was rarely mentioned is that dozens of cancers that were not long ago tantamount to death sentences are now treatable.

For all the talk of an epidemic of obesity and couch-potato sloth, today’s 80year-olds — thanks to new life-saving

drugs, and rapid advances in correcting chronic bone, joint, hearing, vision and dental problems — often resemble yesterday’s 60-year-olds.

As gas exceeds $3 a gallon in many parts of the country this Christmas, we rail about the rising cost, forgetting that in inflation-adjusted dollars, gas prices are not much more than what we paid three decades ago. Our far more cleanly burning cars get almost twice as many miles per gallon as their predecessors in 1975 — cutting our real price of gas in half.

In 1970, I was once given a ride in a plush luxury Cadillac Coup de Ville.

Now, a midlevel Malibu, Taurus, Accord or Camry is safer, quieter, more comfortable and replete with a host of standard features that were yesterday’s highticket luxury options. I would wager that a basic-model Kia would run more reliably than the vintage Bentleys and Rolls-Royces of Britain’s Royal Family.

I grew up listening to scratchy vinyl records on a huge awkward needle player. Now, thumb-sized digital music pods at cheaper prices hold far more songs and play them with far better quality. Flying used to be an aristocratic privilege beyond the reach of most of the middle class. Today it is an American pastime. Cruises in the 1960s were synonymous with private yachts; now the middle class enjoys luxury liners.

Three-bedroom, two-bathroom suburban houses of the 21st century are warmer in winter, cooler in summer, with far more appliances and comforts than was true of the vast mansions of the old rich of the mid-20th century.

In sum, Americans are richer, healthier and have more options than at any time in their history — and in ways that do not usually register in our outdated metrics of what constitutes being wealthy or poor.

Yes, there is poverty still, and tension over relative status and influence. In addition, the good life cannot always be measured by materialism alone, but by peace of mind, security and opportunities as well.

Yet this Christmas we should all at least give ourselves some credit. In the last three decades, the United States — through technological breakthroughs, improved worker productivity and the importation of globalized production from abroad — has achieved a level of material prosperity for its 300 million citizens unmatched at any time in the history of civilization.

Quite simply, yesterday’s royalty would not make it into today’s middle class.

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he knew it as fast as Google did. But although he guessed that Al Pacino played Hummel in the Broadway debut, he wasn’t sure. (Google was.)

Me: What was the name of the narrator in “The Fantasticks”?

Peter: Uh, it was ...

Google: El Gallo.

Peter: It was a Spanish name. ...

Google: El Gallo.

Peter: I saw it in New York at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, and I actually met the guys who wrote it! I can’t remember their names.

Google: Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.

Peter: I want to say Harvey-something. ...

Thomas Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times.

Froma Harrop is a columnist for The Providence Journal.

In the end, Peter and I were feeling pretty discouraged, which was when I mentioned my SAT scores. “I remember mine, too,” he said. “I definitely had a 780 in verbal. I missed one question, the meaning of the word ‘palliate.’ I think I got 1510 total, or 1520.”

I noted that the tests were harder when I took them than when he did, and my 1468 was probably at least equal to his score.

“This is the most pathetic conversation I’ve had in a long time,” he said.

As usual, he was right. He knows a lot.

Gene Weingarten is a columnist for The Washington Post.

Military leading the way on green power A THOMAS

s I was saying, the thing I love most about America is that there’s always somebody here who doesn’t get the word — and they go out and do the right thing or invent the new thing, no matter what’s going on politically or economically. And what could save America’s energy future — at a time when a fraudulent, anti-science campaign funded largely

by Big Oil and Big Coal has blocked Congress from passing any clean energy/climate bill — is the fact that the Navy and Marine Corps just didn’t get the word.

God bless them: “The Few. The Proud. The Green.” Semper Fi. Spearheaded by Ray Mabus, President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Navy and the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the Navy and Marines are building a strategy for “out-greening” al-Qaida, “out-greening” the Taliban and “out-greening” the world’s petro-dictators. Their efforts are based in part on a recent study from 2007 data that found that the U.S. military loses one person, killed or wounded, for every 24 fuel convoys it runs in Afghanistan. Today, hundreds and hundreds of these convoys are needed to truck fuel — to run air-conditioners and power diesel generators — to remote bases all over Afghanistan.

Mabus’ argument is that if the U.S. Navy and Marines could replace those generators with renewable power and

FRIEDMAN more energy-efficient buildings, and run its ships on nuclear energy, biofuels and hybrid engines, and fly its jets with biofuels, then it could out-green the Taliban — the best way to avoid a roadside bomb is to not have vehicles on the roads — and out-green all the petro-dictators now telling the world what to do.

Unlike the Congress, which can be bought off by Big Oil and Big Coal, it is not so easy to tell the Marines that they can’t buy the solar power that could save lives. I don’t know what the final outcome in Iraq or Afghanistan will be, but if we come out of these two wars with a Pentagon-led green revolution, I know they won’t be a total loss.

Wars that were driven partly by our oil addiction end up forcing us to break our oil addiction? Wouldn’t that be interesting?

Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, the assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment, used to lead the California Energy Commission.

She listed for me what’s going on: On April 22, Earth Day, the Navy flew an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet

powered by a 50-50 blend of conventional jet fuel and camelina aviation biofuel made from pressed mustard seeds. It flew at Mach 1.2 and has since been tested on biofuels at Mach 1.7 — without a hiccup. I loved the quote in Biofuels Digest from Scott Johnson, general manager of Sustainable Oils, which produced the camelina: “It was awesome to watch camelina biofuel break the sound barrier.”

The Navy will use only “third-generation” biofuels. That means no ethanol made from corn because it doesn’t have enough energy density. The Navy is only testing fuels like camelina and algae that do not compete with food, that have a total end-to-end carbon footprint cleaner than fossil fuels and that can be grown in ways that will ultimately be cheaper than fossil fuels.

In October, the Navy launched the USS Makin Island amphibious assault ship, which is propelled by a hybrid gas turbine/electric motor. On its maiden voyage from Mississippi to San Diego, said Mabus, it saved $2 million in fuel.

In addition, the Navy has tested its RCB-X combat boat on a 50-50 blend of algae and diesel, and it has tested its SH-60 helicopter on a similar biofuel blend. Meanwhile, the Marines now have a “green” forward operating base set up in Helmand Province in Afghanistan that is testing everything from LED lights in tents to solar canopies to power refrigerators and equipment in the field to see just how efficiently one

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remote base can get by without fossil fuel.

When you factor in all the costs of transporting fuel by truck or air to a forward base in Afghanistan — that is, guarding it and delivering it over mountains — a single gallon of gasoline “could cost up to $400” once it finally arrives, Mabus said.

The Navy plans in 2012 to put out to sea a “Great Green Fleet,” a 13-ship carrier battle group powered either by nuclear energy or 50-50 blends of biofuels and with aircraft flying on 50-50 blends of biofuels.

Mabus has also set a goal for the Navy to use alternative energy sources to provide 50 percent of the energy for all its war-fighting ships, planes, vehicles and shore installations by 2020. If the Navy really uses its buying power when buying power, and setting building efficiency standards, it alone could expand the green energy market in a decisive way.

And, if Congress will simply refrain from forcing the Navy to use corn ethanol or liquid coal — neither of which are clean or efficient, but are located in many congressional districts — we might really get a green revolution in the military. That could save lives, money and the planet, and might even help us win — or avoid — the next war.

Go Navy!

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

GENE WEINGARTEN his own strongest subject was, and after the obligatory modest demurrals, he said, confidently, “American plays from the 1970s and 1980s.”

So he became the know-it-all, and I became the grade-schooler at a computer. At the same time I asked him the questions, I asked Google.

Me: What is the name of either character in “ ’Night, Mother,” Marsha Norman’s 1983 two-woman play about suicide?

Peter: Whoa. OK, let’s see. ...

Google: Jessie and Thelma.

Peter: It definitely won the Pulitzer Prize. ...

Google: Jessie and Thelma.

Peter: ... and I want to say Kathy Bates played the daughter on Broadway. ...

Google: Jessie and Thelma.

Me: Apparently, it was Jessie and Thelma.

Peter: Man. I think I might have eventually remembered Jessie. Thelma, never.

Me: Yeah, that’s because Thelma’s name was never mentioned onstage.

She was just “Mama.” According to Google.

Peter: Oh. Peter knew that the 1970s antiwar play “The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel” was written by David Rabe, and

How China is spoiling U.S. holidays while filling Santa’s bag t’s been tough watching fellow shoppers fill their carts with Chinese imports as the People’s Republic stomps on American interests and values. At Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond and other big chains, it’s hard to find goods NOT-made-in-China. Lamps, popcorn makers, kitty scratch boards.

Cuisinart toasters and Emeril cookware. Made in China.

My goodness! Drinking glasses from the Czech Republic. How did they get here? The fancier the store, the greater the chance of finding things not produced by 75-cents-an-hour labor. But even there ... I was looking through the bathrobes at an upscale department store, and every last one was made in China.

The creepy thing: China is not our friend, but it’s become our keeper.

America’s Christmas trees groan with ornaments made in the country that lets North Korea threaten our troops and Asian friends. China supports the regime of the bizarre Kim Jong-il and his son, bent on strutting the world stage as a nuclear menace.

China could close down the North Korean freak show tomorrow, but it won’t because that would create a unified Korea allied with the United States. China doesn’t want us to have strong ties in Asia.

Under the twinkling Christmas trees lie toys made in the place that imprisons a recent Nobel Peace Prize winner and threatened Norway (the Nobel’s home) with economic retaliation. Beijing called the award to human rights activist Liu Xiaobo an “anti-China farce.” Eighteen other countries, intimidated by China or in cahoots with it, boycotted the ceremony. At the same time, China blocked its citizens’ Internet access to reports on Liu and his prize.

Four years ago, the European parliament honored another jailed Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng. Beijing accused it of committing “violent interference in China’s internal affairs” and warned of harm to European interests.

This is the country to which America has put itself in hock, mainly because we don’t have the discipline to raise taxes and/or cut spending — and instead borrow from the Chinese.

Other than ruthlessness, China does have one strength that this country lacks: a leadership foursquare behind modern science. While America’s carbon cavemen question the need for green energy — going so far as trying to halt California’s efforts to promote it — China is full-speed-ahead assembling clean-power equipment (while expropriating the technology from others).

Make no mistake. China is an environmental disaster. It continues to build the most primitive coal-fired power plants, and its air is so bad that made-in-China smog drifts to our West Coast. But its dictators see the future, and so have opened the national treasury to industries making solar panels and wind turbines.

They’re also building high-speed passenger trains and rail lines. For a planned rail link between Beijing and Shanghai, one test train was clocked at over 300 mph.

Long Island’s Suffolk County is putting a solar energy farm at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and erecting solar panels over seven public parking areas. The panels for the parking lots will come from China, as will many at the lab, with the rest also not-made-in-the-USA. In one small but illustrative deal, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is buying a Chinese-built wind turbine to power a wastewater pumping station. Chinese manufacturers now hold nearly half the globe’s $45 billion market for wind turbines.

Meanwhile, a significant segment of our so-called conservative leadership slows progress on behalf of polluters — and drugs the American public with tax cuts financed by debt to China. As Beijing frustrates Washington’s program to isolate Iran, Americans load their SUV trunks with Chinese tricycles, shirts and snow domes.

Makes you worry about our future.

Makes you sad.

New technology has killed the know-it-all WASHINGTON — he other day, my family and I hauled out a 20-year-old version of the game “Trivial Pursuit.” We played for two hours, but it was a joyless plod, like trying to jog through marmalade. Those questions that were not ludicrously out of date (“Which is larger in area, East Germany or West Germany?”) seemed somehow ... pointless. It took me a while to realize why: Armed with an iPhone, any dull-witted middle-schooler could have run the table against all of us in five minutes.

This is where we are, as a society: Knowledge is garbage.

Information isn’t garbage, but being knowledgeable is severely devalued. It is nothing to aspire to or to take any particular pride in. The era of the know-it-all is over.

Because I am so knowledgeable, I know exactly what you are thinking. You are thinking: “Good! This is a long-overdue comeuppance for the smug! At last, we have marginalized the sort of insufferable twit who sprinkles his SAT scores into casual conversation.”

As someone with a 1468 out of 1600, including a 744 in math, I am deeply offended by your attitude.

To commiserate, and to test the hypothesis, I phoned my friend Peter Sagal. Peter is a professional know-it-all.

As the host of National Public Radio’s humor-quiz show “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!” he earns his living by grilling his guests about current events and esoteric knowledge. I asked Peter what

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B B E S T- S E L L E R S Publishers Weekly ranks best-sellers for the week ending Dec. 18.

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. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf) 5. “Full Dark, No Stars” by Stephen King (Scribner) 6. “Port Mortuary” by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) 7. “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 8. “Fall of Giants” by Ken Follett (Dutton) 9. “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) 10. “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) 11. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn) 12. “An Object of Beauty” by Steve Martin (Grand Central) 13. “Hell’s Corner” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 14. “Towers of Midnight” by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (Tor)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Decision Points” by George W. Bush (Crown) 2. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) 3. “Life” by Keith Richards (Little, Brown) 4. “Earth (The Book)” by Jon Stewart (Grand Central) 5. “Autobiography of Mark Twain” Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith (University of California Press) 6. “Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter) 7. “Cleopatra” by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown) 8. “Decoded” by Jay-Z (Spiegel & Grau) 9. “Broke” by Glenn Beck (Threshold) 10. “Straight Talk, No Chaser” by Steve Harvey (Amistad) 11. “America by Heart” by Sarah Palin (Harper) 12. “The 4-Hour Body” by Timothy Ferriss (Crown 13. “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern (It Books) 14. “The Last Boy” by Jane Leavy (Harper)

MASS MARKET 1. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 2. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 3. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown (Anchor) 4. “U Is for Undertow” by Sue Grafton (Berkley) 5. “Alex Cross’s Trial” by James Patterson & Richard DiLallo (Vision) 6. “Breathless” by Dean Koontz (Bantam) 7. “I, Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Vision) 8. “Lucid Intervals” by Stuart Woods (Signet) 9. “Rainwater” by Sandra Brown (Pocket) 10. “O’Hurley’s Return” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)

Chat across centuries with the father of all bloggers “How to Live”

by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press, 400 pgs., $25)

By Patricia Cohen New York Times News Service

S

ure, you could turn to selfhelp celebrities like Marianne Williamson or Joel Osteen for advice on how to live. But Sarah Bakewell, an author and part-time cataloger of rare books at the National Trust in London, decided to reach much further back than the best-seller list to a 16th-century nobleman, wine grower and essayist: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.

Bakewell’s new book, “How to Live” (Other Press), is a biography, but in the form of a delightful conversation across the centuries. The subtitle — “Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer” — serves as an organizing principle.

The book has received rave reviews in Britain, where it was published this year.

“A superb, spirited introduction to the master,” The Guardian wrote. Salon called the American edition “suavely enlightening.”

Inventing a style Montaigne is considered the creator of the essay, a form that melds the intellectual and the personal, and his musings have inspired countless writers, including William Hazlitt, Friedrich Nietzsche and Virginia Woolf. Bakewell would add every blogger, tweeter, Facebooker and YouTuber to that list.

“This idea — writing about oneself to create a mirror in which other people recognize their own humanity — has not existed forever,” Bakewell writes. “It had to be invented.

And, unlike many cultural inventions, it can be traced to a single person.”

Montaigne wrote about whatever crossed his mind: animals, sex, magic, diplomacy, violence, hermaphroditism, self-doubt.

“Essayer” means “to try” in French, or as Bakewell adds, “to test, or to taste it, or give it a whirl.”

“He has this way of adding things as they occur to him, even adding things into the middle of an essay,” she said in an interview from her home in Clapham, in south London.

Others have noted this affinity. Montaigne is “the quintessential blogger,” declared Andrew Sullivan, who writes for The Atlantic, someone who dared “to show how a writer evolves, changes his mind, learns new things, shifts perspectives, grows older.”

Bakewell’s discovery of Montaigne owes something to

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Author Sarah Bakewell stands at the London Library in London, on Dec. 13. Bakewell’s latest book is a biography on Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, a 16th-century nobleman and essayist, titled “How To Live.” kindred spirit who confessed to having a bad memory and being prone to vanity.

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An etching by G. Staal of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. chance. About to begin a long train ride from Budapest to London 20 years ago, she stopped in a secondhand bookshop across the street from the station.

“It only had one book in English, which was a selection of his essays,” she said.

She expected a turgid, heavyhanded treatise and was delighted to find airy prose, wit and a

There is a haphazard streak in Bakewell’s upbringing as well.

Her parents ran a guest house in the seaside town of Bournemouth until she was 5, and then the family set off for a twoyear excursion through India in a camper. Later they settled in Sydney, Australia, where her father worked as a bookseller and her mother as a librarian.

Educated in England at Essex University, Bakewell, 47, started work as a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library in London in the early 1990s.

Some of the extraordinary tales she encountered inspired her to return to her childhood habit of writing. Her first book, “The Smart,” is about an 18th-century forgery trial she came across at work.

“It was very much a story of its time,” she said. “It was an age when people were fascinated by money, celebrity and crime.”

The twin brothers involved in

the forgery ring were ultimately executed.

She quit working full time in 2002 to devote more energy to writing and in 2005 published “The English Dane,” about Jorgen Jorgenson, a 19th-century Danish adventurer who ended up stirring a revolution in Iceland to break from Denmark’s control.

Montaigne was next. Bakewell learned that he was the subject of an unusual experiment in childrearing. His father, Pierre, wanting his son to absorb the ways of commoners, had him live with a wet nurse until he was weaned, with only occasional visits by his parents.

Then he decided that Michel should speak Latin — the key to scholarly knowledge and a successful career — like a native.

So although he and his wife had just a bare-bones command of Latin, he ordered full immersion, hiring a tutor to speak to Michel only in Latin, and forbidding anyone else in the household from speaking to him in any other language, including his native French, until age 6.

In Bakewell’s eyes this odd education “benefited him in exactly the areas where it also damaged him.” It set Montaigne apart, she notes, and gave him an independent mind but instilled a certain detachment and skepticism that cut him off from more conventional ambitions.

In an essay on education, published in 1580 as part of his first collection, Montaigne spoke well of his own experience, emphasizing that learning should be fun. Yet everyday advice does not capture the essence of his work, Bakewell cautions.

Although other contemporary authors have turned members of the canon like Proust, Austen and even Joyce into latter-day advice gurus, Bakewell said she had something different in mind.

“The distinction between selfhelp and academic philosophy wouldn’t have made much sense to him,” she said.

The 20 attempts at an answer to “How to Live” that Bakewell describes in her book include: “Be born,” “Do a good job, but not too good a job,” and “Question everything.” But the one that resonates most strongly with her is “Read a lot, forget most of what you read and be slow-witted.”

Montaigne always complained of his “monstrously deficient” memory, so he didn’t bother accumulating facts, Bakewell explained. Much more important was the exposure to someone else’s experience and perspective. Reading and forgetting “let him follow his own thoughts wherever they led,” she writes, “which was all he really wanted to do.”

11. “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn Beck (Pocket Star) 12. “61 Hours” by Lee Child (Dell) 13. “Pirate Latitudes” by Michael Crichton (Harper) 14. “The Other Side” by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Patricia Gaffney, Ruth Ryan Langan, & Kay McComas (Jove)

2. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 3. “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) 4. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein (Harper) 5. “House Rules” by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press) 6. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 7. “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) 8. “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster) 9. “The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks (Three Rivers Press) 10. “Rachael Ray’s Look + Cook” by Rachael Ray (Clarkson Potter) 11. “Just Kids” by Patti Smith (Ecco) 12. “Half Broke Horses” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) 13. “Happy Ever After” by Nora Roberts (Berkley) 14. “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen (Algonquin) — McClatchy-Tribune News Service

“A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides”

by David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill (Viking, 362 pgs., $26.95)

By Bruce Wallace Los Angeles Times

“A Rope and a Prayer” is not the book David Rohde set out to write when he traveled to Afghanistan in 2008 on leave from his reporter’s job at the New York Times. Rohde’s plan was to write a book that would open America’s eyes to its long Afghan war gone bad, explaining how neglect, hubris and the enduring potency of the Taliban’s sting were conspiring to snatch defeat from what was once assumed to be a victory.

Rohde’s kidnapping scuttled that. Convinced his book needed the credibility of a face-to-face interview with a Taliban leader, Rohde arranged a meeting with “Abu Tayyeb,” purported to be a commander of several hundred fighters in the insurgency outside the capital, Kabul.

Instead, Abu Tayyeb took Rohde hostage, along with his Afghan translator and driver, and delivered them into the arms of the feared Haqqani network of fighters in the tribal badlands of Pakistan. Over the course of seven months in captivity in North and South Waziristan, Rohde got a rare but much-too-close look at the inner operations and the mind-set of the Haqqani’s and their Taliban allies.

Story of survival The result is a story of survival, which, rather than languishing on shelves groaning with worthy but little-noticed books on the Afghan war, may find an audience beyond the specialized tastes of the counterinsurgency crowd.

It’s a harrowing read. Rohde is a very good reporter, and he emerges from captivity not only having shown the courage to not crack and the wherewithal to finally escape but the recall to describe the details of his experience. His work exposes a Taliban movement with clear short-term motivation — the expulsion of Western forces from Muslim lands — as well as a hatred for the alliance between the West and the corrupt Karzai government in Kabul, a gap that makes the suggestion of peace talks between Afghan factions sound naive.

Intimate detail

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Held captive by the Taliban

“Of Love and Evil”

by Anne Rice (Alfred A. Knopf, 176 pgs., $24.95)

By Nick Owchar Los Angeles Times

During the Christmas season, it’s perfectly reasonable to think about angels, isn’t it? After all, didn’t they bear glad tidings about a babe born in Bethlehem?

Angels have long been message-carriers, although in Anne Rice’s new novel, “Of Love and Evil,” the news that the angel Malchiah brings to Toby O’Dare concerns something that’s hardly a reason to celebrate: a murder plot.

“A young man named Vitale ... is praying both desperately and faithfully for help,” Malchiah announces, “and you will go to him and find a complex of mysteries which only you can understand.”

Toby is whisked off to another time and place, trading present-day Riverside’s Mission Inn, where he is summoned, for Rome in the Renaissance. Why is

Toby so qualified for solving this “complex of mysteries”? He’s a professional assassin who wants God’s forgiveness for his crimes.

He and Malchiah were introduced in last year’s “Angel Time,” the first in the “Songs of the Seraphim” series, which will probably be a long one: Toby’s killed quite a few people and has a lot of penance to do.

His mission in Rome seems clear: to reveal the plot of Lodovico, a jealous young nobleman, who is slowly killing his favored brother Niccolo right under the eyes of their father, Signore Antonio. Stealing another’s inheritance is a Rice staple, and here she shows her familiar ease with exotic characters and treacherous situations.

Niccolo wastes away despite the efforts of Vitale, the family’s Jewish physician. Understandably he fears the worst if the youth dies. He will be blamed for the death with terrible consequences for himself and the city’s other Jews. Then, Toby finds a connection — an intriguing one between Niccolo’s diet and a sinister plant Lodovico is growing in a courtyard — that might save the day.

Back to 21stcentury Riverside, right?

Not so fast: Tragedy occurs on the heels of Toby’s discovery and he encounters another angel, warning him that Malchiah is not what he seems. You’re duped, the angel tells him, you’re “locked in a belief system that is nothing

but the stage machinery of lies.”

As if this weren’t enough, there’s a dybbuk in Signore Antonio’s house — an angry spirit who won’t stop throwing around the furniture. Toby’s hands are full.

So are Rice’s. For such a slender novel, “Of Love and Evil” also dramatizes the plight of the Jews in Renaissance Italy and includes plenty of meditations on religious belief that sound like Rice’s own explanations about why, earlier this year, she quit organized Christianity for a simpler form of faith. Toby’s lessons seem to be her own. “(Y)ou never know anything for certain,” he concludes, “even when your faith is great. You don’t know it. Your longing, your anguish, can be without end.”

Unfortunately, Toby doesn’t have much time to reflect on what he’s learned. A visitor appears in the book’s last pages bearing tidings of the cliffhanger sort, reminding us that believers aren’t the only ones with uncertainty in their lives.

Rohde’s first account of his kidnapping was published in a five-part series in the New York Times last year, and it was compelling reading. His “access” to the core of the Taliban exposed him in unusually intimate detail to their thinking: radicalism with no room for nuance in its view of the non-Muslim West yet able to articulate a logic for fighting back against America’s global “war on terror,” motivated by the abuses and hypocrisy represented by Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

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What gives Rohde’s book a 21st century twist on the genre is the way it links his plight to the struggle by his recent bride, Kristen Mulvihill, a New York-based Cosmopolitan magazine photo editor, to free him. The narrative is divided between their experiences of the kidnapping, separated by thousands of miles. Chapters jump between Rohde’s daily calibration of how much humility and defiance toward his captors was the right mix needed to avoid being killed, and Mulvihill’s crash course in navigating the global business of hostage release.

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“Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses”

by Claire Dederer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 332 pgs., $26)

By Janet Maslin New York Times News Service

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Continued from F1 More serious resistance, however, may come from the military. As has become distressingly clear to me in numerous conversations with serving officers, many really do not want to return to the Harvards, Stanfords and Yales of our country.

They fear that going back to the Ivies will prove inefficient — too many cadre for too few cadets — and doubt they can recruit many elite undergraduates.

Some officers and sergeants will feel uncomfortable, if not downright insecure, dealing with Ivy League professors. The services will have to give up some (silly) rules, such as requiring that the military appoint a voting member of the host university’s faculty or insisting on course credit for military training. And deep down, some officers simply do not want all that many young people who belong to a class that is now unfamiliar with military service and out of touch with — and possibly hostile to — military culture.

So why go through this trouble? For two reasons.

First, whatever one thinks of the state of American humanities and social sciences, the students who go to top colleges and uni-

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‘Poser’ uses yoga as literary frame

Shane Hachey, an Army veteran and Columbia University graduate, on campus in 2005, campaigned to reinstate the ROTC. Many military officers say they do not want to return to Ivy League campuses because it may prove inefficient for recruiting.

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versities are smart, hardworking and able. Our armed forces need them. And the military won’t know how many of the top students it can recruit unless and until it tries hard to do so.

More important, though, these young people, who will someday run our businesses and our politics, should share the burden of national defense. The symbolism as well as the substance of having ROTC on elite campuses matters. Reaching the pinnacle of our educational system is in itself a privilege; morally healthy schools, and the society they serve, tell young people that privilege implies obligation and responsibility. There is no deeper or nobler discharge of that responsibility than putting your life on the line for your country.

If we are serious about bringing back ROTC, university presidents and deans, the secretary of defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff will struggle to make it happen. As Lincoln told Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War: “I repeat to you it will neither be done nor attempted unless you watch it every day, and hour, and force it.”

Eliot A. Cohen teaches at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and received his commission through Army ROTC.

Why did Claire Dederer take up yoga? Short answer: For the same kinds of reasons that Elizabeth Gilbert changed her life in “Eat, Pray, Love,” and to much the same funny, charming, self-deprecating, stealthily inspirational and (quite possibly) best-selling effect.

Long answer: Because she lived in Seattle, “where rain was the sky’s lingua franca.”

She felt bogged down at 31. She was married, had a young child and spent her time with other mothers, all of whom aspired to such oppressive virtue that the fear of child-rearing errors carried a whiff of existential gloom. “There was occasional pleasure, but it often consisted of the cessation of dread,” she writes. “It was as if by turning into a mother, I had also turned into Camus.”

In those days, she says, “goodness ruled me.” Goodness also ruled the neighborhood in which she, her husband and their daughter lived: Its version of a perilous-pet warning was “Please Be Mindful of Dog.” She needed an escape. And yoga came with Seattle’s hip, holier-

than-thou territory.

If “Poser” is to be believed, it also came in a step-by-step process that allowed Dederer to match sections of her memoir to specific yoga positions.

This is a gimmicky structure that smacks of the ubiquitous stunt-book format with which Dederer is doubtless familiar.

She herself is a book reviewer and writes freelance articles for assorted publications, from Yoga Journal to The New York Times. As she describes this work, “I had a nice little job that didn’t take me away from home.”

So she began investigating yoga. She started small, with a video. (“The blond woman gazed into the camera from her serene world, a place where potted orchids thrived.”) Even this was enough to teach her a lesson. (“Get a good teacher. Or at least a live one.”) So she went to her first yoga class despite her “longtime policy of never entering a structure adorned with Tibetan prayer flags.” Out came a fit blond teacher who looked to Dederer as if she ought to be named Jennifer. “I am Atosa,” the teacher said. “Like hell you are, sister,” Dederer silently replied.

The world is full of yoga books, including two histories of yoga in America that have been published in recent

“Poser” is both memoir and introductory yoga guide. And Dederer’s life has been varied enough to generate many different installments. months: “The Subtle Body” and the much better “Great Oom.” Did Dederer really need to write another? And did she need to approach yoga from a relatively cynical point of view, using phrases like “I got ready for the bossing” and “quietude on the hoof”? In fact she did, if only for personal reasons, not least of which is that this appealing writer’s first book is long overdue. It’s clear from the start that she will be transformed and find a sensible, spiritual nonsappy way to become a devotee before “Poser” is over.

“Poser” is both memoir and introductory yoga guide. And Dederer’s life has been varied enough to generate many different installments. Her childhood was wild enough to support five “child’s pose” chapters, thanks to an unorthodox, very 1970s family situation. She remembers her parents’ marriage as solid until the day her hippie mother took her to a pig roast, disappeared into a tent and later introduced her daughter to the tent’s occupant: “Honey, this is

Larry. He’s our host.” Larry became a de facto family member.

The parents stayed married for decades, Larry notwithstanding. Dederer suggests that her own 1950s approach to domesticity was a direct result of her mother’s flight from conventional family life.

In any case, “Poser” suggests that Dederer’s marriage to a fellow stay-at-home writer had lost its spark. And she needed to regain some sense of excitement.

During the 10 years that “Poser” spans, she has another baby, moves from Seattle to Boulder, savors the Colorado sunshine and mountain air, rekindles the romance and happily-ever-afterishly gets a sense of where she really belongs.

She does not pretend to have attained any deep profundity.

She doesn’t even tamp down the glibness of her narrative style. But she does manage to renew herself, regain confidence and throw off self-consciousness, to the point where she is unafraid of simple, yogarelated wisdom.

‘Storming the Castle’ a perfect holiday e-romance “Storming the Castle”

by Eloisa James (Avon, 94 pgs., $1.99 e-book)

By Lezlie Patterson McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Whether you’re looking for a quick escape amid the turmoil of holiday shopping, baking and wrapping, or if you want something to download on the new electronic reading device you get for Christmas, “Storming the Castle” is the perfect holiday story.

At 94 pages, it’s a quick read.

With Eloisa James’ writing it, it’s a well-written story guaran-

teed to capture your interest and romantic imagination.

“Storming the Castle” is a follow-up to James’ last book, “A Kiss At Midnight.” And it’s only available as an e-book.

The fairy-tale love story is the tale of Wick, the half-brother to Prince Gabriel, hero of “A Kiss at Midnight.” The illegitimate Wick chose to work as Gabriel’s butler, although Gabriel and his princess, Kate, treat him in no way like a servant.

Phillipa is a strong-minded woman engaged to a local dandy. As the wedding nears, she decides she can absolutely

not marry this guy. So when she hears that the Prince and Princess are in desperate need of medical assistance for their baby, she escapes to the castle posing as a nursemaid. (Fortunately, she is qualified.)

She does help young Prince Jonas. And falls in love with his namesake uncle (Wick).

Of course Wick thinks their love is doomed: How can an illegitimate royal working as a butler, marry a lady? Phillipa thinks it’s as easy as saying, “I do.” Wick disagrees, and doesn’t want to dishonor the woman he loves.

Another bonus aspect of this story is the reappearance of Gabriel and Kate. While they’re struggling with a colicky baby, it’s still nice to see their continued devotion to each other.

Bottom line: 5 of 5 hearts. The beauty of this story (besides the fact that it reflects the wonderful talent of the clever and gifted James) is that it’s just a delightful fairy tale in a condensed version. Often, writers struggle to write charming stories in less than 100 pages. But James’ masters that with “Storming the Castle.”

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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2010

2011 OUTLOOK

JOHN STEARNS

New flights could be in the wings

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he new year could bring new air service to Redmond Airport — and the easier it is for business and leisure fliers to work, live and play here, the better for the economy.

Reinstating nonstop service to Los Angeles is high on the list of many business travelers after Horizon Air dropped its one daily L.A. flight in August.

An air service consultant to Redmond Airport recently told Economic Development for Central Oregon members that he believes the L.A. void will be temporary, according to a meeting recap on EDCO’s website.

That consultant — Bend-based Michael Boggs, vice president of the air service consulting group for Mead & Hunt, which consults for more than 70 small- to midsize airports around the U.S. — was upbeat in a telephone interview last week about Redmond service.

Boggs believes the 76-seat Horizon aircraft was too large for one trip a day to L.A. and also cited fleet repositioning that affected the flight. L.A. remains the No. 1 destination out of Redmond, said Boggs, who’s been instrumental in all the key air service improvements at Redmond over the last decade. Those include the startup of Salt Lake City and Denver service, the first L.A. flight and launch of jet service to San Francisco.

He believes smaller planes like the 50seat jets operating the Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco routes could serve L.A. twice daily and be profitable.

Boggs believes United and Delta airlines are looking at north-south routes on the West Coast and that Redmond will be seen as a potential opportunity.

“It’s even conceivable that Horizon … recognizing the strength of this market, could at some point come back” to the L.A. flight, he said. Horizon did not return a call for comment.

Allegiant Air, which caters more to leisure travelers and serves Redmond with twice weekly service to Las Vegas and Phoenix/Mesa, Ariz., also could add L.A. service twice a week, Boggs said.

“I think it’s likely, and I think it’s something that they’re looking at,” he said.

Allegiant spokeswoman Sabrina LoPiccolo said the carrier is “always looking at how we can expand in the … markets that we’re serving,” adding L.A. “would be a natural fit, (but) I don’t have any announcements in the near future.”

Allegiant views Redmond primarily as an outbound feed to Las Vegas and Phoenix, but it has noticed the inbound business to Redmond originating from those markets, she said. Recognizing this region also is a destination, Allegiant has begun offering what she called “reverse packages” featuring local hotels and air travel and is working with Mt. Bachelor ski area to include lift tickets. The airline this year has seen about 18 percent of its passengers headed to Redmond originating in Las Vegas and 46 percent originating in Phoenix, LoPiccolo said.

Alana Audette, president and CEO of the Central Oregon Visitors Association, said Allegiant’s inclusion of this region as a destination on its website is big. She envisions this winter being a “building block” for the travel packages on which COVA and Allegiant can build.

“We’ve had a mutually supportive and developing relationship with Allegiant Air,” said Audette, who believes the carrier will continue to expand here.

L.A.’s important to reconnect with, said Roger Lee, EDCO’s executive director.

“Any access to the L.A. market in this environment … is going to be a step in the right direction for the region,” Lee said.

With airlines profitable again, it’s a good time to approach them, he noted.

Boggs also would like to see United Express add a second daily flight to Denver, a key connecting city. Loads on the current flight are high, he said. “We believe that the market is strong enough to support two” daily flights in addition to the current two Delta Connection flights to Salt Lake City. Meetings with Delta and United are occurring to discuss more flights to the cities, according to EDCO’s recap of Boggs’ presentation.

Lee believes the potential for new flights next year is “just another reassuring sign that a real recovery is upon us.

It’s a barometer of economic activity.”

More flights and more air under the local economy’s wings would indeed be welcome in 2011.

John Stearns, business editor, can be reached at 541-617-7822 or at jstearns@bendbulletin.com.

Mobile TV poised for big moves

A Bend perspective on wealth and

financial health

By Wailin Wong Chicago Tribune

Rabbit ears on a mobile phone? Well, not exactly, but broadcasters and gadget manufacturers are working to beam live television to portable devices.

The broadcast industry has been developing mobile digital TV for several years, and a few stations are on the air, but the platform’s availability remains limited.

In 2011, the technology is expected to gain momentum as the Mobile Content Venture, a group of 12 major broadcasters, will be upgrading stations to start delivering mobile DTV in 20 markets covering more than 40 percent of the U.S. population.

In the initial rollout, viewers in metropolitan areas are scheduled to receive at least two free channels during the second half of 2011.

“I wouldn’t say we’re at the tipping point,” said John Taylor, a spokesman for LG Electronics, which helped develop the industry standard for mobile DTV. “But with the impending ramp-up of widespread availability of mobile DTV signals around the country, we anticipate that manufacturers will gear up their plans to introduce more products.”

While portable television sets have been around for decades, the broadcast industry’s 2009 transition from analog to digital transmissions rendered most of those gadgets obsolete.

With the advent of smart phones and widespread wireless connectivity, technology companies hope watching live TV will become part of consumers’ mobile diet.

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Glenn Petry’s book “The Money Saving Wealth Building Guide for the New Economy,” published by Grand Avenue Press of Bend, sells for $22.95. For more information, visit www.GrandAvenuePress. com or www.financejock.com.

“I looked at 3,000 articles and websites in researching the book. My goal was to make it the best one ever written. ... I think everybody, no matter how sophisticated they are, will learn from this.”

— Glenn Petry, who lives in Bend

Photo by Ed Merriman The Bulletin

By Ed Merriman The Bulletin

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lenn Petry spent a career teaching finance, then five years and more than 5,000 hours researching and writing a book he hopes will help guide people to better financial health.

The Bend resident, a retired professor of finance and international economics at Washington State University in Pullman, lays out myriad tips in his new book, “The Money Saving Wealth Building Guide for the New Economy.”

“I looked at 3,000 articles and websites in researching the book,” Petry said. “My goal was to make it the best one ever written. It will

serve as a good reference book for most personal finance topics.

“I think everybody, no matter how sophisticated they are, will learn from this … because I learned a lot from just doing the research on topics covered in the book,” he said. “It’s got 336 websites referenced in it.”

Among his many pointers for saving and investing money, Petry said he found that being quick to earn at least a bachelor’s degree and choosing a good-paying profession make a huge difference, because those decisions affect more than your average income — they affect how much disposable income you’ll have available to invest.

To illustrate that point, Petry

refers to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education that show median annual wages, when adjusted for inflation, declined 27.5 percent for men with high school diplomas or GED certificates, from $41,400 in 1980 to $30,000 in 2006, while median annual wages increased for those with bachelor’s degrees or higher, from $48,900 to $50,000.

The median wages, adjusted for inflation, dropped during the same period, from $26,900 to $24,000, for women with those same diplomas, while wages rose for those with bachelor’s degrees or higher, from $36,300 to $41,000, according to Education Department statistics Petry cites.

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Tech forecast: mostly sunny, with chance of breakthroughs

By Rex Crum MarketWatch

Season of regifting Chicago Tribune

However well-intended, some gifts probably missed the mark. Now you’re stuck with presents you don’t want and will never use. Fortunately, there are many ways — some old, some new — to get value from unwanted gifts. Here are a few.

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RETURN IT: About one-third of shoppers say they returned a gift last year, according to the National Retail Federation. Returns are becoming easier for a few reasons. First, more people are opting for a gift receipt — a store receipt that omits the price. Six of 10 shoppers say they provide a gift receipt most or some of the time when giving a gift, the retail group says.

While most store return policies remained the same in 2010, a few extended their return periods, according to an analysis by ConsumerWorld.org. Some stores, however, added restocking fees or limited the return of opened items, said Edgar Dworsky, the website’s founder and editor.

In addition, some stores “slice and dice” their return policies, creating com-

plicated rules for different categories of items — electronics versus clothing, for example — Dworsky said. Online policies may also differ from store rules.

When returning a gift to a store, don’t fight the crowds immediately after Christmas. Go back a few days later.

Improve your chances of getting full credit by providing a sales slip or gift receipt and returning the item in new condition, unopened and with all packaging material, Dworsky said. Returns without a receipt might mean you get only a merchandise credit for the lowest price the item has sold for recently, or possibly no refund or exchange at all.

REGIFT IT: Ultimately, you’ll have to decide for yourself whether you’re comfortable giving a gift that was pre-

viously given to you.

Proper etiquette? The Emily Post Institute says gifts should be recycled only rarely, and only when circumstances meet three criteria: You’re certain the gift is something the recipient would really like to receive, the gift is brand-new and comes with its original box and instructions, and the gift isn’t one that the original giver took great care to select or make. Removing the previous note or card is a must, and rewrapping is advised. Make sure the gift is not very old, like from a company that went out of business years ago.

RESELL IT: If you can’t return an unwanted gift, try selling it on eBay or Craigslist. Unopened items typically fetch higher prices.

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SAN FRANCISCO — From Apple’s iPad to cloud computing, hot investment themes abounded in tech in 2010.

Even as the rest of the economy struggles to get back on its feet, the sector is likely to see more expansive growth in the coming year thanks to the relative strength of company balance sheets, strong consumer interest and ongoing demand for technology to drive efficiency gains in business.

“The tech sector is, arguably, one of the strongest by a financial perspective,” said Channing Smith, with the Capital Advisors Growth Fund, in Tulsa, Okla. “From a consumer side, they want tech at their fingertips, and from a business perspective, the most efficient way to drive profits is through investment (in technology).”

All the activity of 2010 is probably good news for 2011.

“The data center market did well in 2010, and I certainly expect it to an area of significant focus and investment next year, as well,” said Erik Suppiger, managing director of Signal Hill Capital Group. “There’s a growing need for work-related applications and a growth in dynamic, bandwidthintensive content that’s driving content providers to think about where to invest for their needs.”

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M NEWS OF RECORD DEEDS Cr ook County

Violet J., Donald K. and Marie A. Hargrave to Waibel Ranch LLC, T 15, R 14, Section 34, $760,000 Community First Bank to Dennis Laurie, Brasada Ranch 3, Lot 302, $492,300 Curtis V. Archer to Dusty Howling Wolf, T 14, R 15, Section 8, $175,000 HSBC Bank NA to Adali J. and Elizabeth E. Kelly, Partition Plat 1994-21, Parcel 2, $225,000 Herb L. and Kimberly C. Pearce to Cool Mountain Properties LLC, Baldwin Road Industrial Park, Lot 17, $309,000 Gary E. and Sami Dehn to Ralph M. Shirtcliff, First Addition to Prineville, Lot 8, Block 6, $358,862.55 D eschutes County

Nancy H.S. McGrath, trustee of Nancy Hunnewell Sargent McGrath Revocable Trust to Clyde S. and Mary C. Crenshaw, T 18, R 13, Section 18, $240,000 Cal-Western Reconveyance Corp., trustee to PNC Mortgage, Deschutes River Woods, Lot 9, Block V, $233,222 Regional Trustee Services Corp, trustee to Federal National Mortgage Association, Stearns, Lot 3, $239,870 Bend Equity Group LLC to Richard H. and Charley L. Holmes, Brookland Park, Lot 13, $150,000 Dan F. and Julee R. Rufener to Steven E. and Patricia L. Reder, Circle Acres, Lot 4, Block 2, $163,000 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to Reed Market LLC, Partition Plat 2001-13, Parcel 1, $1,100,000 Columbia State Bank to Stephen B. Dandurand, trustee of Stephen B. Dandurand Revocable Trust, Badger Forest Phase 1, Lots 35-36, 38, 40-42, Tract A; Phase 2, Lots 1-34, Tracts B, C, D, $510,000 John M. and Ann B. McCann to Edwin J. III and Elizabeth M. Emmet, Revised Plat of Meadow Village, Lot 13, Block 7, $275,000 2005 II LLC to National Retail Properties LP, Bend, Lots 1-2, Block 24, $365,639 Debbie J. Vaughan to Jim C. Wood and Carol A. Straubinger, Aspen Village at Mountain High, Lot 33, $226,000 Mel Lee to Northwest Loan Servicing Inc., Roaring Springs, Lots 7, 8, 10, $156,000 Patricia A. Nippert, trustee of Patricia Ann Nippert Revocable Trust to U.S. Rental Properties LLC, River Terrace, Lots 3-5, Block 9, $1,150,000 Federal National Mortgage Association to Jospeh J. and Barbara L. Murillo, Mountain Pines Planned Unit Development Phase II, Lot 73, $220,000 John C., Deborah and Sally E. Click and Arthur Furman to Carl M. and Jil I. Click, South Meadow Homesite Section First Addition, Homesite 51, $256,250 Baron Braatz to Nicholas L. Strader, Parkview Terrace Phases I and II, Lot 6, $180,000 Gary L. and Kathleen M. Colton to Robert G. and Carol J. Patrick, Horseshoe Acres, Lot 1, Block 1, $385,000 Northwest Trustee Services Inc., trustee to Vergent LLC, Awbrey Butte Homesites Phase 32, Lot 7, $339,000 Northwest Trustee Services Inc., trustee to Federal National Mortgage Association, RiverRim Planned Unit Development Phase 5, Lot 390, $256,488 Northwest Trustee Services Inc., trustee to Federal National Mortgage Association, Village Pointe Phases 2 & 3, Lot 44, $238,873 Northwest Trustee Services Inc., trustee to Federal National Mortgage Association, Steelhead Run, Lot 23, $313,412 Northwest Trustee Services Inc., trustee to Federal National Mortgage Association, Timber Ridge, Lots 7-8, Block 3, $256,884 Deborah A. Gaynor to Peter W. and Wendy K. McDougal, Cascade View Estates Phase 7, Lot 90, $239,000 Judith B. Solomon, trustee of Solomon Family Trust to Debbie J. Vaughan, Willow Creek at Mountain High, Lot 9, $250,000 Jason A. Mendell to Michael A. Larsen, Terrango Glen East Phase 1, Lot 11, $216,700 Norman S. Von Marbod to Ken A. and Mary C. Andyshak, Brightenwood Estates IV, Lot 1, Block 3, $240,000 JPMorgan Chase Bank NA to Scott A. Bassett, Cascade Village Planned Unit Development, Lot 6, $165,500 Northwest Trustee Services Inc., trustee to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., First Addition to Whispering Pines Estates, Lot 19, Block 14, $188,000 Northwest Trustee Services Inc., trustee to Federal National Mortgage Association, T 16, R 11, Section 25, $427,764 David A. Weibel, trustee to Susan L. Wells, trustee of Susan L. Wells Separate Property Trust, T 15, R 13, Section 09, $634,129 Columbia River Bank to Ann Murphy, trustee of Ann Murphy Living Trust, Centennial Glen, Lots 35, 39, $310,000 Federal National Mortgage Association to Donald C. and Hannelore Madsen, Williamsburg Park, Lot 15, $182,000 Federal National Mortgage Association to Leslie J. and Nina A. Howatt, Lazy River South First Addition, Lot 3, Block 11, $190,550

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The Mint coins a new phase After 51 years, the Lincoln Memorial graces the penny no more — and few seem to notice The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — You may have noticed a small change in your small change. More likely, you haven’t. eroning a group of fifth-graders “Now, when did they do from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said that?” asked Victor Schubert, she doesn’t like to see perfectly a lawyer from Racine, Wis., good coins get the flip, as it were. squinting at a freshly minted “If something doesn’t need chang2010 penny. “And why?” ing, don’t change it. What was Schubert and other tourists wrong with the old penny?” on the steps of the Lincoln MeNothing, Mint officials said, but morial one recent afternoon that didn’t stop Congress from were surprised to see a brand- demanding a new one, as it has new look to that most familiar about every 50 years since the of coins.

Lincoln penny was introduced in Gone from the new Lincoln 1909 to mark the centennial of the penny is the reproduction of great man’s birth. the Lincoln Memorial, complete with a really tiny seated Lincoln, that has been “tails” A decade of updates since 1959. In its place is a Just as that first design, with “Union Shield,” a simple acorn ears of wheat framing the reverse of 13 stripes capped with the side, gave way to the Memorial motto “E Pluribus Unum.” On penny in 1959, lawmakers dithe “heads” side, the iconic rected the Mint to update the coin profile of the 16th president by again this year. (For Lincoln’s acVictor David Brenner remains tual bicentennial year, 2009, the unchanged.

Mint released four commemoraThe U.S. Mint has been tive pennies depicting different stamping out the new design phases of his life.) since February; presses in “It really hasn’t made much of Philadelphia and Denver have a ripple this time except in coin already produced more than circles,” said Douglas Mudd, cura3.6 billion of them. But officials tor of the American Numismatic said the down economy has Association’s Money Museum in made banks slow to request Colorado Springs, Colo. “I think it new coins. It will be years, was a bigger deal when the wheat they said, before shield pen- penny went away. Some people nies become as common as got very worked up about that the tens of billions of Lincoln one.”

Memorial pennies now filling Part of the reason the new sofa cracks and dresser tops penny has dropped without much around the country. reaction may be a genMint spokesman eral new-coin fatigue, Michael White said “For me, Mudd said. Following they have gotten there’s a decades when almost few comments from nothing on U.S. coins the public about the little bit changed except the new design, prob- of ‘enough year they were minted, ably because few the last 10 years have already.’ have spotted it. seen almost every coin “It’s a phenome- It starts to get a makeover. non of notice — once Starting in 1999, the you see one, they’re seem like State Quarter project everywhere,” White toy money.” began replacing the said. “But you don’t long-standing eagle tend to examine — Doug Khorey, reverse with images your change un- of Pittsburgh from each state and, less you’re a coin eventually, the District collector.” of Columbia. The quarMost visitors to the Lincoln ters initiative proved to be the Memorial, where a huge mock- Mint’s most successful program up of the old penny adorns the ever, turning many thousands of entrance to an exhibit hall, citizens into collectors. (The Mint said they were sorry to see the is now releasing quarters honormemorial end its half-century ing national parks and other scerun as the most common edi- nic sites.) fice in American pockets.

Thomas Jefferson’s nickel got a “This building has a lot facelift in 2006, presenting a fullof meaning for me,” said frontal profile to cashiers with an Schubert, 73, who first came to image based on a 1800 portrait by Washington on a high school Rembrandt Peale. trip and still makes time to walk up the steps to see the giant Lincoln whenever he’s Choosing imagery here. “I stood right by that colCoin buffs gobble up every umn on the corner and looked tweak, of course, and Mint offiout over this beautiful expanse cials say it is important to revisit and decided I wanted to be- currency design every few decome a lawyer. I’ll miss seeing cades for security and aesthetic it on the penny.” purposes. But they also know that Then Schubert paused too much change makes consumto consider the scale of the ers feel funny about their money. change (literally). “Not that “For me, there’s a little bit of I look at pennies very much ‘enough already,’ ” said Doug anyway,” he said.

Khorey, an English teacher from Janey Hockenhull, chap- Pittsburgh, when he saw the new

How a royal wedding benefits retailers, too LONDON — Within a day of last month’s announcement of Britain’s next blockbuster royal wedding, Paul Hirst stepped up production at his factory in northern England.

The managing director of Marvelpress Ltd. had received an order for “thousands and thousands” of commemorative engagement mugs for Wal-Mart’s Asda supermarket chain. “We’re looking at making iPhone covers, champagne and wine boxes,” Hirst said.

Prince William’s proposal to

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By Steve Hendrix

Bloomberg News

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Kate Middleton fired the starting gun in Britain for a race by companies to profit from what probably will be the biggest royal event since the marriage of William’s parents, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, in 1981.

The wedding may add $995 million to the British economy as consumers spend more on food and drink and tourism revenue increases, according to retail analyses. Britain could use the boost: The Bank of England predicts growth of 1.8 percent this year and 2.6 percent next, after slumping 5 percent last year.

penny. “It starts to seem like toy money.”

The new shield design wasn’t dictated by Congress, White said. The law merely called for an image that would be “emblematic of President Lincoln’s preservation of the United States of America as a single and united country.”

Gary Marks, chairman of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a congressionally appointed body, pushed for the Union Shield, which he said was quite popular during the Civil War, appearing on frescoes in the Capitol and carved into a lot of public marble around town.

“It was on beer mugs, furniture,” said Marks. “For Americans of the time, the Union Shield was broadly seen as a symbol of national unity.”

Marks’ commission selected the shield design from among several proposals, and the Treasury adopted it. You can find the minuscule initials of designer Lyndall Bass and engraver Joseph Menna flanking the shield.

But another advisory body, the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, had other views.

Its members preferred other proposed images, including a stylized flag from the period and a view of the Capitol dome under construction during the Civil War. “The shield was not one of the three or four (the Fine Arts Commission) focused on, but the Mint didn’t take our advice on this one,” said commission secretary Thomas Luebke.

Luebke and Marks also disagree on whether to shed tears over the disappearance of the Lincoln Memorial from the penny. For Luebke, an architect, the Memorial on the penny and Jefferson’s Monticello on the nickel are worthy elements of the coins that jangle through the land.

“I personally feel that it’s a loss,” he said. “There is something pleasing about these edifices that represent contributions of these presidents.”

Marks prefers more abstract symbols. “A building is a building. It’s a cherished memorial, certainly, but on a coin, I think we’re better served reaching for those iconic, artistic images that communicate our national values. To me, the Union Shield does that.”

GIFT CARD SWAP: Gift cards are popular holiday presents, but you could end up with a drawer full of unwanted cards. Try selling or trading unwanted cards at such websites as PlasticJungle.com, CardPool.com, GiftCardRescue. com, CardWoo.com and Swapagift.com. Of course, you won’t get full value for your card — maybe 80 percent. Consider regifting unwanted gift cards to someone who would appreciate it more.

MEDIA SWAP: For books, CDs, DVDs and video games, try Swap. com. The site decides how much your item is worth and what you can swap it for. You pay for shipping and a small transaction fee, usually less than $1. BarterQuest. com is another swap site for goods, services and real estate.

DAILY DEAL SWAP: If you re-

ceived a gift certificate or prepaid voucher from a daily deal site, you can sell it on Lifesta.com. The online marketplace trades in daily deal coupons from such sites as Groupon, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe and about 70 others. You must sign up for a free Amazon Payments seller account. When you make a sale, Lifesta.com charges 99 cents, plus 8 percent of the sale price.

DONATE IT: You can continue the giving spirit of the holidays by donating your unwanted gift to a charitable cause.

Linda Mills, of Renton, Wash., said her church is hosting a “regift” Sunday service. Church members are asked to bring unwanted gifts to be donated to needy families. “It will be a hoot to see a gigantic Christmas tree with tons of gifts underneath it that will go to people who truly will appreciate them,” she said.

“The idea is that needs don’t end at Christmastime.”

Many happy returns Here is a sampling of popular stores with extended holiday return policies.

More details and other store policies can usually be found on store websites: • Amazon.com: Jan. 31 return • Sears: Deadline for returns is 120 deadline for most items shipped days for most items bought Nov. Nov. 1 through Dec. 31. Restocking 14 to Dec. 11. Otherwise, 90 days fee is 15 percent on open on most items, and 60 days for computers and up to 50 percent on electronics and beds. A 15 percent opened DVDs, software and worn restocking fee is charged on books. electronics for missing items, builtin appliances and special orders.

• Best Buy: Jan. 31 deadline for most purchases Nov. 1 to Dec. • Target: Deadline is 90 days from 24. Computers are only 14 days purchase. Restocking fee of 15 from purchase for in-store buyers, percent on portable electronics, from receipt date for online buyers. digital cameras and camcorders.

Effective Dec. 18, Best Buy removed Specially marked clearance items restocking fees for all products only qualify for current sale price. except special orders.

• Toys R Us: Deadline of 90 • Buy.com: Jan. 31 deadline for days on most items; 45 days for goods shipped Nov. 15 to Dec. 31. unopened electronics, video games, No returns on TVs 27 inches and up. DVDs and more; no returns if opened.

• Costco: No deadline date, but there is a 90-day return policy on • Walmart stores: Return deadline TVs, computers, cameras, portable of 90 days for most items. But for music players, cell phones and items with limited return periods other electronics. purchased from Nov. 15 to Dec. 25, days start counting on Dec. • Kohl’s: No deadline with proof of 26 — 15 days for PCs and cell purchase. phones, 30 days for cameras and • Macy’s stores: No deadline with 45 days for PC components and proof of purchase, but jewelry is 30 accessories. days. Restocking fee of 10 percent applies to furniture and mattresses.

Source: ConsumerWorld.org

No Gillette contract for Tiger Woods The Associated Press Procter & Gamble’s Gillette brand will not renew its endorsement deal with Tiger Woods at the end of the year, adding another name to the list of companies that cut ties with the golfer after last year’s revelations of marital infidelities.

Gillette used dozens of athletes as part of its three-year “Gillette Champions” marketing campaign. Gillette said last week it was phasing out the program and not renewing the contract with Woods and several other athletes.

The golfer was once the most sought-after pitchman in sports and was the first athlete to earn

$1 billion from endorsement deals. Accenture LLP, AT&T Inc. and Gatorade all dropped Woods as an endorser. (Nike Inc. and Electronic Arts, which had more invested in his skills as a golfer rather than a more general symbol of excellence, stuck with him.)

Companies such as Gillette and Tag Heuer didn’t end their relationships outright but stopped featuring him in advertisements.

C OV ER S T ORY

Petry

lifestyle here so well that we built a house and moved here permanently in 2004,” Petry said. “I Continued from G1 sold my properties in Pullman in Those figures show the college 2007 and reinvested in motels and wage difference is even bigger for other commercial properties in women than it is for men, Petry Washington and Oregon. said in a Dec. 15 interview.

“My strategy was to diversify “While there was a 2.2 percent and not have all my assets in one improvement in inflation-adjust- small town, and that has worked ed wages for men getting a col- out very well,” Petry said. “I lege degree, the biggest increase wasn’t hurt in the downturn bewas for women, whose wages in- cause I had long-term contracts creased 12.9 percent,” Petry said. and leases.”

Part of the wage difference bePetry had been planning for tween high school- and college- years to write a book to help peoeducated workers, however, is ple save money and manage their offset by the cost of a bachelor’s personal finances, but he said degree, averaging $81,155 if com- his work schedule, surroundings pleted in five years, but he pointed and lifestyle interfered with that out that the cost drops to $63,303 dream until he moved from Pullif completed in four years, or man to Bend. $50,021 if completed in three by In 2006, he began writing the taking classes year-round. book, which was published in In addition to more than $30,000 October. in tuition savings and other direct At 65, Petry said he is enjoying college costs, a bachelor’s degree traveling, fishing, hiking, hunting, completed in three years also pro- skiing, promoting his book, blogvides an opportunity to earn two ging and updating his website, years of income in a higher-pay- www.financejock.com. ing professional field as opposed “The most important thing to to part-time jobs available to stu- tell people is that it’s a good read. dents, Petry said.

There are a lot of funny stories,” The financial Petry said. benefits of completFor example, ing a degree in three “My strategy Pages 19 and 20 years can multiply if was to diversify “describe the 13 a student continues types of shoppers that fast-paced col- and not have all who can bust the lege schedule to get my assets in one family budget.” a head start on comPetry describes pleting a master’s small town, and several personality degree, which can that has worked shopping disorders, boost median insuch as the “comcome from $50,000 out very well. I pulsive shopper,” a year to more than wasn’t hurt in who must shop reg$80,000, Petry said. ularly; the “friend the downturn In Chapter 7, shopper,” who must titled “College Stu- because I treat others to gain dents Guide to Sav- had long-term friends; or what he ing Big Bucks,” Petcalls the “Oscar ry describes how contracts and Wilde devotees,” he earned his bach- leases.” who follow the phielor’s degree from losophy, “I have the Penn State in 1966 — Glenn Petry simplest of tastes. I in production manam always satisfied agement in three with the best.” years, then earned a master’s de“The point of including the 13 gree in 1967 from the University types of budget-busting shoppers of Washington in nine months. is to help people recognize some By earning those degrees, of the thinking patterns that lead and then completing his doctor- to impulsive shopping that can ate in finance and international drain a budget, often for stuff that economics at the University of later winds up in a yard sale,” PetColorado in 1973 after 19 months, ry said.

Petry said he saved and earned The book includes tips on how about $750,000 in today’s dollars. to get insurance companies to He said those who follow his tips pay off on medical claims and can do the same thing. automobile accidents; how to reFor 28 years, Petry was a pro- duce your taxes and minimize the fessor of finance and internation- risk of a tax audit; and how to get al economics at WSU, where he the best deals when purchasing and his wife, Melodie, built a com- homes and cars. fortable retirement next egg by inOne chapter is devoted to 40 vesting part of their discretionary ways to get discounts. In another, income buying up vacant lots and the book offers tips on how to imhomes in Pullman’s university prove your credit score and exdistrict and building apartment plains how much money a good complexes on those properties. credit score can save over the life“We became one of the largest time of a home loan. landowners in Pullman, in terms Yet another chapter deals with of the number of apartment units maximizing your heating, cooling we owned,” Petry said. and electrical settings.

He is well-known for bringing Petry explains strategies for the century-old Greystone Church avoiding becoming a victim of on College Hill back to life after it fraud and theft. sat vacant for 26 years. The Wash“I describe 30 to 40 scams used ington State Magazine reported in by the scammers to get your mon2006 that Petry spent about $1.5 ey,” he said. “One of the biggest million renovating the church into scams is the Internet love scam, 47 apartment units, while retain- where a younger man or woman ing much of the church’s histori- romances an older man or womcal character. an, and eventually needs money Petry taught finance to more for an airplane ticket to come for than 15,000 students during his a visit.” career, and his consulting work In the book, he describes how has included Fortune 500 com- to spot a scam and avoid getting panies such as Chevron, Beatrice taken for a bundle of money.

Foods and Boeing, as wells as “There’s a lot of work-at-home banks, state governments and scams going around where you federal agencies, including NASA pay money upfront to get inforand the National Oceanic and At- mation that turns out to be worthmospheric Administration. less,” Petry said.

Petry was 54 when he retired For those who are reluctant from WSU in 2000 and shifted to invest in the stock market, more of his energy into real estate Petry’s book points out that a $1 investing and managing the Pull- investment in the Standard and man apartment buildings.

Poor’s large stocks index in 1926 “I quit teaching because I was returned $1,518 in 2009, commaking too much money in real pared with a return of $56 if that estate,” Petry said. same dollar was invested in utility However, after vacationing in bonds or $20 from an investment Bend, Petry said he decided this is in U.S. Treasury bonds. where he wanted to spend the remainder of his retirement years.

Ed Merriman can be “We bought a vacation home reached at 541-617-7820 or in Bend in 2001, and we liked the emerriman@bendbulletin.com.

Nations wary over $100 crude Bloomberg News CAIRO — Oil importers are concerned over the impact of prices near two-year highs as some OPEC members foresee a further rally to the $100-a-barrel level and Arab oil ministers gather for a meeting here this weekend.

Libya, Iran and Venezuela have said that seems a fair price, while Saudi Arabia, the group’s biggest exporter, said it prefers prices around $75, a level that oil has traded above since September.

“An issue for OPEC will obviously be prices edging higher,” said Bill Farren-Price, chief executive officer of Winchester, Britain-based consultants Petroleum Policy Intelligence. “The issue is whether we’re in a new rally and for now the jury’s out on that. And

I don’t think anyone in OPEC would disagree with that.”

Brent crude oil on London’s ICE Futures Europe exchange advanced 21 percent this year, and traded Friday as high as $94.74 a barrel. Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 15 percent so far this year.

Japan, the world’s third-largest oil consumer after the U.S. and China, is monitoring rising crude and gasoline prices, Economy Minister Banri Kaieda said Friday.

“It’s becoming very expensive. We need to keep an eye on this. It’s unlikely this trend will continue.”

China’s central bank, meanwhile, had inflation concerns.

Global oil consumption is expected to rise to a record level next year.

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, December 26, 2010 G3

CHARITIES ON THE GO

Apps allow you to check in and give

By Austin Considine New York Times News Service

In a holiday giving season just gone, one that was ruled by economic uncertainty, it probably was tempting to skip the charity bin this year. But what if you could contribute to the cause just by shopping?

Turns out shoppers can now give to charity without actually giving, with check-in applications like Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and the latest major player to join the ranks, Facebook Places. The applications allow users to broadcast their locations using their mobile devices.

For example, each time someone checks in to a Hard Rock Cafe using Facebook Places, Hard Rock International donates a dollar to WhyHunger, a charity

fighting poverty and hunger. The effort continues through the end of the month, or up to $100,000.

Bill Ayres, a talk radio host who also founded WhyHunger, said the development was exciting. “This promotion signifies a new direction for organizations like ours to embrace social technologies and reach a wider audience with an easy way to get involved and give back.”

And it’s no cost to you!

Charity apps are nothing new.

But the concept of giving with no money from the user has only recently built steam. The idea takes its cue from CauseWorld, which began last year. Users check in to stores to earn “karma” points, which are later donated to select

charities of the user’s choice, like the National Breast Cancer Foundation or the American Red Cross. Sponsors like Kraft, Citi and Proctor & Gamble match the karma with money.

Other check-in apps have proved fertile ground for charitable partnerships. “It is definitely a concept that many nonprofits are embracing,” said Melanie Mathos, a manager at Blackbaud, which provides fund-raising technology to about 24,000 nonprofit groups. “With the explosive growth of Foursquare and with Facebook’s new check-in feature, it is sure to go mainstream.”

Because the applications are open and accessible to users and businesses, partnerships can evolve freely. Foursquare and Facebook Places, for example,

do not arrange relationships between businesses and charities.

Business owners simply join the network and promote deals, some of them charitable.

At the Gap, customers who checked in through Christmas Day got 30 percent off purchases, and for every check-in, the Gap donated a dollar to CampInteractive, which helps poor children explore nature and technology.

Bridget Forney, of Baltimore, said she had no idea she was donating to charity when she checked in at the Gap. When employees told her about it, she was thrilled. “I’m spending money at the Gap, but they’re taking care of the donation, so it takes out the guesswork and I don’t have to do as much work. I just have to spend money and shop.”

BUSI N ESS

G4 Sunday, December 26, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

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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.

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NS - Fund did not exist at the start date.

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1 yr Chg %rt

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Columbia Class Z: Acorn Z 30.25 +.28 AcornIntl Z 40.14 +.39 AcornSel Z 28.57 +.46 AcornUSA 28.68 +.35 CoreBondZ 10.90 -.02 DiviIncomeZ x13.05 +.03 FocusEqZ t 23.14 +.26 IntmBdZ n 9.02 -.01 IntmTEBd n 10.20 +.02 IntEqZ x 12.06 -.08 IntlValZ x 14.06 -.12 LgCapCoreZ 13.14 +.13 LgCapGr 12.73 +.02 LgCapGrwth 23.78 +.16 LgCapIdxZ 24.27 +.25 LgCapValZ 11.49 +.16 21CntryZ n 13.87 +.23 MarsGrPrZ 20.65 +.23 MarInOppZ rx 11.87 -.06 MidCapGr Z 26.71 +.17 MidCpIdxZ 11.56 +.11 MdCpVal p 13.44 +.20 STIncoZ 9.91 -.02 STMunZ 10.49 ...

SmlCapGrZ n 31.77 +.19 SmlCapIdxZ n17.44 +.19 SmCapVal 47.20 +.48 SCValuIIZ 13.81 +.22 TotRetBd Cl Z 9.95 -.01 ValRestr n 49.82 +1.01 CRAQlInv np 10.74 -.02 CG Cap Mkt Fds: CoreFxInco 8.34 -.01 EmgMkt n 16.95 +.23 IntlEq 10.49 +.15 LgGrw 14.78 +.13 LgVal n 8.75 +.10 Credit Suisse Comm: CommRet tx 9.13 +.17 DFA Funds: Glb6040Ins 12.76 +.09 IntlCoreEq n 11.13 +.12 USCoreEq1 n 11.01 +.13 USCoreEq2 n 10.98 +.15 DWS Invest A: BalanceA 9.05 +.05 DrmHiRA 32.64 +.39 DSmCaVal 36.96 +.47 HiIncA 4.80 +.02 MgdMuni p 8.69 +.02 StrGovSecA 8.73 ...

DWS Invest Instl: Eqty500IL 142.44 +1.51 DWS Invest Inv: ShtDurPlusS r 9.50 -.01 DWS Invest S: GNMA S 15.21 +.02 GroIncS 16.31 +.20 HiYldTx n 11.72 +.02 LgCapValS r 17.43 +.19 MgdMuni S 8.70 +.02 Davis Funds A: NYVen A 34.25 +.35 Davis Funds C & Y: NYVenY 34.59 +.35 NYVen C 33.13 +.34 Delaware Invest A: Diver Inc pe 9.16 -.36 LtdTrmDvrA 8.91 ...

Diamond Hill Fds: LongShortI 16.33 +.17 Dimensional Fds: EmMkCrEq n 21.66 +.22 EmgMktVal 35.32 +.38 IntSmVa n 16.85 +.21 LargeCo 9.89 +.10 STMuniBd n 10.23 ...

TAWexUSCr n 9.54 +.10 TAUSCorEq2 8.93 +.12 TM USSm 23.08 +.30 USVectrEq n 10.88 +.17 USLgVa n 20.01 +.38 USLgVa3 n 15.32 +.29 US Micro n 13.85 +.15 US TgdVal 16.67 +.30 US Small n 21.49 +.26 US SmVal 25.66 +.48 IntlSmCo n 16.81 +.14 GlbEqInst 13.42 +.16 EmgMktSCp n23.50 +.19 EmgMkt n 30.00 +.33 Fixd n 10.32 ...

Govt n 10.75 -.01 IntGvFxIn n 12.21 -.04 IntlREst 4.92 +.10 IntVa n 18.25 +.23 IntVa3 n 17.07 +.21 InflProSecs 11.25 -.04 Glb5FxInc 10.84 -.03 LrgCapInt n 19.77 +.23 TM USTgtV 21.54 +.39 TM IntlValue 14.95 +.20 TMMktwdeV 14.97 +.27 TMUSEq 13.57 +.14 2YGlFxd n 10.14 ...

DFARlEst n 21.16 +.54 Dodge&Cox: Balanced nx 70.20 +.23 GblStock x 8.88 +.03 IncomeFd x 13.18 -.15 Intl Stk x 35.51 ...

Stock x 107.83 +.85 DoubleLine Funds: TRBd I 11.00 +.01 TRBd N p 11.00 +.02 Dreyfus: Aprec 38.59 +.35 BasicS&P 25.75 +.27 BondMktInv p10.50 -.02 CalAMTMuZ 13.85 +.02 Dreyfus x 9.00 +.09 DreyMid r 28.59 +.26 Drey500In t 35.82 +.38 IntmTIncA 13.02 -.01 Interm nr 13.21 +.03 MidcpVal A 34.19 +.36 MunBd r 10.85 +.01 NY Tax nr 14.32 +.01 SmlCpStk r 21.17 +.24 DreihsAcInc x 11.03 -.30 Dupree Mutual: KYTF 7.48 +.01 EVPTxMEmI 51.21 +.43 Eaton Vance A: GblMacAbR p 10.27 ...

FloatRate 9.26 +.02 IncBosA 5.83 +.02 LgCpVal 18.21 +.25 NatlMunInc 8.95 +.03 Strat Income Cl A 8.19 +23.0 TMG1.1 24.04 +.15 DivBldrA 10.07 +.13 Eaton Vance C: NatlMunInc 8.95 +.03 Eaton Vance I: FltgRt 8.96 +.02 GblMacAbR 10.26 ...

LgCapVal 18.27 +.25 ParStEmMkt 15.81 +.14 TaxMgdVal x 16.82 +.06 FMI Funds: CommonStk 25.23 +.06 LargeCap p 15.62 +.05 FPA Funds: Capit 40.98 +.40 NewInc 10.84 ...

FPACres n 26.77 +.15 Fairholme 34.90 +.54 Federated A: KaufmSCA p 25.93 +.30 PrudBear p 4.71 -.03 CapAppA 19.11 +.25 KaufmA p 5.45 +.04 MuniUltshA 10.02 ...

TtlRtBd p 11.09 -.02 Federated Instl: AdjRtSecIS 9.80 ...

KaufmanK 5.46 +.04 MdCpI InSvc 21.75 +.20 MunULA p 10.02 ...

TotRetBond 11.09 -.02 TtlRtnBdS 11.09 -.02 StaValDivIS 4.42 +.04 Fidelity Advisor A: DivrIntlA r 16.00 +.21 FltRateA r 9.79 +.02 FF2030A p 12.34 +.14 LevCoStA p 34.26 +.58 MidCapA p 20.08 +.12 MidCpIIA p 17.94 +.01 NwInsghts p 19.96 +.08 SmallCapA p 25.23 +.20 StrInA e 12.31 -.26 TotalBdA r 10.67 -.01 Fidelity Advisor C: NwInsghts tn 19.04 +.08 StratIncC nte 12.28 -.26 Fidelity Advisor I: DivIntl n 16.24 +.21 EqGrI n 57.51 +.55 FltRateI n 9.77 +.01 GroIncI 17.25 +.21 HiIncAdvI 9.39 +.08 LgCapI n 18.67 +.33 MidCpII I n 18.15 +.01 NewInsightI 20.15 +.08 SmallCapI 26.38 +.21 StrInI e 12.44 -.26

3 yr %rt

+6.1 +9.0 +3.8 +15.5 +17.5 +0.4 +12.1 -13.3 +11.7 -13.9 +14.3 -20.7 +23.6 +7.4 +23.1 +6.9 NA NA +25.0 +13.9 +15.3 +7.0 +16.2 +18.1 +14.7 +16.4 +19.1 +25.5 +21.4 +21.4 +12.5 +25.0 +10.2 +9.0 +1.9 +15.9

+6.1 +1.2 -13.2 +16.1 -4.8 -8.0 -15.1 -18.0 -11.5 +12.1 -6.2 -5.6 +6.4 -0.2 -8.9 +21.9 +9.0 +16.4

+7.4 +17.4 +25.4 +21.7 +21.4 +22.5 +5.9 +12.6 +18.4 +7.3 +2.9 +8.5 +1.9 +13.4 +25.4 +17.0 +14.3 +13.6 +16.6 +19.4 +13.5 +29.0 +25.2 +21.7 +3.1 +1.0 +30.5 +26.0 +25.7 +24.6 +7.2 +17.1 NA

+7.0 -0.1 +2.4 +4.5 +18.1 -4.3 -7.4 +21.4 +11.8 -24.0 -19.3 -9.8 +0.5 -7.2 -9.7 -12.6 -17.4 -10.9 -22.3 +4.5 +9.7 -5.6 +13.2 +9.7 +2.0 +8.0 +11.0 +2.7 +20.6 -8.8 NA

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Fidelity Advisor T: EqGrT p 53.84 +.51 EqInT 23.15 +.40 GrOppT 34.63 +.23 MidCapT p 20.27 +.11 NwInsghts p 19.75 +.08 SmlCapT p 24.39 +.19 StrInT e 12.30 -.26 Fidelity Freedom: FF2000 n 12.13 +.04 FF2005 n 10.97 +.07 FF2010 n 13.81 +.10 FF2010K 12.86 +.09 FF2015 n 11.52 +.08 FF2015A 11.64 +.09 FF2015K 12.91 +.09 FF2020 n 14.00 +.11 FF2020A 12.16 +.12 FF2020K 13.38 +.11 FF2025 n 11.69 +.11 FF2025A 11.75 +.13 FF2025K 13.59 +.13 FF2030 n 13.97 +.14 FF2030K 13.79 +.14 FF2035 n 11.62 +.13 FF2035K 13.96 +.16 FF2040 n 8.12 +.09 FF2040K 14.03 +.15 FF2045 n 9.62 +.11 FF2050 n 9.49 +.11 IncomeFd n 11.34 +.03 Fidelity Invest: AllSectEq 12.65 +.17 AMgr50 n 15.36 +.12 AMgr70 nr 16.27 +.18 AMgr20 nr 12.74 +.04 Balanc 18.19 +.14 BalancedK 18.18 +.13 BlueChipGr 45.40 +.48 BluChpGrK 45.39 +.48 CA Mun n 11.65 +.01 Canada n 57.18 +.82 CapApp n 25.25 +.17 CapDevelO 10.67 +.09 CapInco nr 9.39 +.05 ChinaReg r 32.12 +.28 Contra n 67.75 +.29 ContraK 67.72 +.29 CnvSec 25.25 +.27 DisEq n 22.55 +.20 DiscEqF 22.53 +.20 DiverIntl n 30.04 +.40 DiversIntK r 30.01 +.40 DivStkO n 14.95 +.24 DivGth n 28.35 +.39 Emerg Asia r 29.96 +.21 EmrgMkt n 25.87 +.28

+23.1 +12.1 +23.8 +23.3 +16.1 +17.3 +8.9

3 yr %rt -16.4 -17.6 -19.3 -14.2 -7.7 +9.6 +28.3

+7.4 +9.9 +11.0 +11.0 +11.1 +11.7 +11.3 +12.1 +13.0 +12.3 +13.0 +14.0 +13.1 +13.3 +13.3 +13.7 +13.9 +13.9 +14.0 +14.1 +14.1 +7.1

+7.8 +2.6 +3.6 NS +1.8 +1.2 NS -1.8 -2.9 NS -2.5 -3.6 NS -6.8 NS -7.2 NS -8.3 NS -8.5 -10.4 +9.6

+16.0 +13.0 +15.1 +8.4 +13.0 +13.2 +19.2 +19.4 +3.1 +20.1 +16.9 +19.7 +16.9 +19.7 +17.2 +17.4 +19.1 +7.5 +7.8 +9.5 +9.7 +19.4 +19.8 +23.3 +18.8

NS +6.9 +1.6 +11.5 -0.3 NS +5.5 NS +9.1 -2.6 -5.1 -12.2 +36.5 +8.3 -5.1 NS +2.5 -21.6 NS -20.3 NS -7.2 +2.8 -18.0 -18.4

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

MdCpGrOp 44.10 +.02 RealEst np 17.97 +.44 First Eagle: GlobalA 46.08 +.31 OverseasA 22.43 +.19 SoGenGold p 33.05 -.04 Forum Funds: AbsolStratI r 10.86 ...

Frank/Temp Frnk A: AdjUS p 8.86 ...

AZ TFA px 10.40 +.01 BalInv p 47.38 +.68 CAHYBd px 9.03 +.01 CalInsA px 11.54 +.01 CalTFrA p 6.75 +.02 FedInterm px 11.39 +.02 FedTxFrA p 11.38 +.02 FlexCapGrA 48.27 +.26 FlRtDA p 9.15 +.01 FL TFA px 11.14 +.02 FoundFAl p 10.68 +.12 GoldPrM A 49.75 +.22 GrowthA p 44.67 +.24 HY TFA px 9.66 +.01 HiIncoA 1.99 +.01 IncoSerA p 2.17 +.02 InsTFA px 11.40 +.03 MichTFA px 11.49 -.01 MO TFA px 11.57 +.01 NJTFA px 11.61 +.01 NY TFA p 11.25 +.02 NC TFA px 11.74 +.01 OhioITFA px 11.96 +.03 ORTFA px 11.49 +.01 PA TFA px 9.92 +.03 RisDivA p 32.95 +.03 SMCpGrA 37.47 +.22 StratInc p 10.40 +.03 TotlRtnA p 10.09 ...

USGovA p 6.73 +.01 UtilitiesA p 11.63 +.11 Frank/Tmp Frnk Adv: FdTF Adv 11.39 +.02 GlbBdAdv p ...

IncomeAdv 2.16 +.02 TtlRtAdv 10.11 ...

USGovAdv p 6.74 ...

Frank/Temp Frnk B: IncomeB t 2.16 +.02 Frank/Temp Frnk C: AdjUS C t 8.86 ...

CalTFC t 6.73 +.01 FdTxFC t 11.37 +.02 FoundFAl p 10.51 +.12 HY TFC tx 9.80 +.01 IncomeC t 2.19 +.02

3 yr %rt

+27.8 +1.1 +26.6 +8.3 +16.5 +14.2 +18.0 +14.2 +30.9 +61.8 +4.1

+6.7

+1.3 +0.8 +20.8 +4.9 +1.3 +2.0 +3.0 +0.8 +16.0 +8.4 +2.0 +10.5 +45.6 +14.7 +3.0 +12.6 +12.4 +0.3 +0.3 +1.0 +1.2 +0.9 +0.8 -0.5 +1.2 +1.2 +18.9 +27.9 +10.4 +9.2 +5.3 +6.8

+9.7 +9.4 -5.1 +7.9 +5.7 +8.4 +12.2 +9.3 -2.0 +8.3 +10.1 -9.9 +77.6 +1.3 +9.1 +26.5 +5.4 +7.3 +8.3 +9.3 +10.5 +11.0 +10.4 +8.6 +11.4 +10.1 +1.2 +4.8 +24.0 +20.4 +19.0 -10.3

+1.0 +13.0 +12.6 +9.6 +5.3

+9.7 +44.5 +6.0 +21.2 +19.4

+11.5 +2.8 +1.0 +1.3 +0.2 +9.8 +2.6 +12.3

+8.5 +6.4 +7.5 -11.8 +7.4 +3.8

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Hartford Fds A: CapAppA p 34.50 +.36 Chks&Bal px 9.51 +.04 DivGthA px 18.95 +.15 FltRateA px 8.86 +.01 MidCapA p 22.08 +.21 Hartford Fds C: CapAppC t 30.62 +.31 FltRateC tx 8.85 +.01 Hartford Fds I: DivGthI nx 18.89 +.14 Hartford Fds Y: CapAppY n 37.43 +.39 CapAppI n 34.50 +.35 DivGrowthY nx19.22 +.15 FltRateI x 8.87 +.01 TotRetBdY nx 10.58 -.01 Hartford HLS IA : CapApp 42.47 +.47 DiscplEqty x 11.80 -.02 Div&Grwth x 19.45 -.11 GrwthOpp 25.80 +.23 Advisers x 19.25 -.12 Stock x 40.86 +.01 IntlOpp x 12.36 -.02 MidCap x 26.10 +.21 TotalRetBd x 10.84 -.43 USGovSecs 10.43 -.02 Hartford HLS IB: CapApprec p 42.01 +.46 Heartland Fds: ValueInv 43.48 +.78 ValPlusInv p 30.16 +.48 Henderson Glbl Fds: IntlOppA p 21.18 +.15 Hotchkis & Wiley: MidCpVal 23.85 +.73 Hussman Funds: StrTotRet r 12.15 -.02 StrGrowth 12.39 -.17 ICM SmlCo 30.47 +.40 ING Funds Cl A: GlbR E p 16.30 +.36 IVA Funds: Intl I r 16.03 +.14 WorldwideA t 16.69 +.12 WorldwideC t 16.61 +.11 Worldwide I r 16.69 +.12 Invesco Fds Instl: IntlGrow 27.66 +.27 Invesco Fds Invest: DivrsDiv p 12.27 +.11 Invesco Funds A: CapGro 13.43 +.15 Chart p 16.14 +.12 CmstkA 15.70 +.22

3 yr %rt

+12.4 -13.6 +10.6 -0.3 +11.9 -6.1 +10.8 +10.2 +22.3 +2.0 +11.7 -15.4 +10.0 +7.7 +12.2

-5.2

+12.9 +12.7 +12.3 +11.0 +6.7

-12.4 -12.8 -4.9 +11.1 +15.4

+16.0 +13.6 +12.5 +17.4 +11.4 +14.1 +14.3 +22.7 +7.0 +3.4

-8.2 -10.9 -5.5 -18.0 -0.7 -8.6 -11.8 +4.1 +14.8 +7.2

+15.7

-8.9

+21.8 +4.6 +28.7 +29.8 +6.3 -13.8 +32.4 +17.6 +6.5 +21.7 -3.5 -7.6 +22.0 +5.5 +14.1 -11.6 +16.1 +18.3 +17.4 +18.7

NS NS NS NS

+12.5

-8.9

+14.6 +3.2 +19.7 +0.4 +7.8 -0.3 +15.0 -5.6

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

SmCpValA p 25.09 +.30 LSV ValEq n 13.76 +.18 Laudus Funds: IntlMsterS r 19.02 +.19 Lazard Instl: EmgMktI 21.63 +.25 Lazard Open: EmgMktOp p 21.96 +.26 Legg Mason A: CBEqBldrA 12.86 +.12 CBAggGr p 110.36 +1.31 CBAppr p 13.89 +.11 CBFdAllCV A 13.79 +.17 WAIntTmMu 6.16 +.01 WAMgMuA p 15.13 +.03 Legg Mason C: WAIntTMuC 6.17 +.01 WAMgMuC 15.14 +.03 CMOppor t 11.09 +.03 CMSpecInv p 31.68 +.23 CMValTr p 38.83 +.42 Legg Mason Instl: CMValTr I 45.50 +.51 Legg Mason 1: CBDivStr1 16.56 +.12 Longleaf Partners: Partners 28.40 +.47 Intl n 15.43 +.05 SmCap 26.72 +.24 Loomis Sayles: GlbBdR t 16.23 +.05 LSBondI 14.10 ...

LSGlblBdI 16.37 +.05 StrInc C x 14.70 -.08 LSBondR 14.05 ...

StrIncA x 14.62 -.08 ValueY n 18.84 +.28 Loomis Sayles Inv: InvGrBdA p 12.30 -.02 InvGrBdC p 12.21 -.02 InvGrBdY 12.31 -.02 Lord Abbett A: FloatRt p 9.32 +.01 IntrTaxFr 10.08 +.02 ShDurTxFr 15.62 ...

AffiliatdA p 11.53 +.21 FundlEq 12.86 +.16 BalanStratA x 10.62 +.06 BondDebA p 7.78 +.01 HYMunBd p 11.07 +.03 ShDurIncoA p 4.59 -.01 MidCapA p 16.43 +.22 RsSmCpA 31.64 +.54 TaxFrA p 10.11 +.02 CapStruct p 11.76 +.11 Lord Abbett C:

3 yr %rt

+24.6 -9.9 +12.4 -15.8 +21.1

-4.5

+22.4 +8.0 +21.9 +6.8 +12.0 -10.3 +23.0 -6.8 +11.9 -3.9 +14.8 -7.6 +0.6 +9.5 +0.1 +12.3 0.0 -0.5 +14.8 +17.2 +5.6

+7.6 +10.4 -26.6 -3.0 -33.7

+6.7 -31.8 +11.1

-3.6

+16.9 -12.3 +13.0 -16.3 +21.8 +1.1 +6.1 +12.6 +6.4 +11.7 +12.3 +12.5 +11.2

+20.0 +21.4 +21.2 +18.4 +20.4 +21.1 -11.3

+10.1 +24.7 +9.2 +22.0 +10.3 +25.8 +8.3 +3.5 +2.1 +13.2 +17.6 +11.6 +12.5 +4.1 +5.9 +24.2 +25.4 +2.4 +14.4

NS +15.9 NS -15.3 +5.7 +4.9 +21.4 -5.1 +23.1 -4.7 +11.2 +8.3 +2.3

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Neuberger&Berm Inv: Genesis n 33.37 +.29 +20.1 GenesInstl 46.16 +.40 +20.4 Guardn n 14.86 +.07 +19.7 Partner n 27.37 +.33 +12.9 Neuberger&Berm Tr: Genesis n 47.85 +.42 +20.1 Nicholas Group: Nichol n 47.32 +.11 NA Northern Funds: BondIdx 10.49 -.08 NA EmgMEqIdx 12.57 -.07 NA FixIn n 10.09 -.31 NA HiYFxInc n 7.27 +.02 NA HiYldMuni 7.91 +.01 NA IntTaxEx n 9.98 -.15 NA IntlEqIdx r ... NA MMEmMkt r 22.57 -1.78 NA MMIntlEq r 9.82 +.02 NA MMMidCap 11.72 +.12 NA ShIntTaxFr 10.49 ... NA ShIntUSGv n 10.31 -.25 NA SmlCapVal n 15.31 +.16 NA StockIdx n 15.58 +.12 NA TxExpt n 10.02 -.17 NA Nuveen Cl A: HYldMuBd p 14.58 -.01 +3.8 TWValOpp 35.30 +.44 +21.9 LtdMBA p 10.79 ... +2.7 Nuveen Cl C: HYMunBd t 14.57 -.01 +3.3 Nuveen Cl R: IntmDurMuBd 8.84 +.01 +3.0 HYMuniBd 14.58 -.01 +4.0 TWValOpp 35.48 +.45 +22.2 Oakmark Funds I: EqtyInc r 27.73 +.18 +9.0 GlobalI r 22.50 +.26 +15.4 Intl I r 19.45 +.29 +16.9 IntlSmCp r 14.10 +.15 +20.4 Oakmark r 41.34 +.30 +12.1 Select r 27.51 +.22 +13.5 Old Westbury Fds: GlobOpp 7.67 +.06 +15.9 GlbSMdCap 15.40 +.11 +23.7 NonUSLgC p 10.61 +.22 +16.0 RealReturn 10.69 +.21 +13.4 Oppenheimer A: AMTFrMuA 5.96 ... +0.3 AMTFrNY 10.83 +.02 +2.3 ActiveAllA 9.63 +.08 +13.9 CAMuniA p 7.49 ... +2.8 CapAppA p 43.60 +.21 +9.1 CapIncA p 8.68 +.03 +11.0 DevMktA px 35.69 +.59 +25.6 Equity A 8.83 +.08 +11.4

3 yr %rt +2.0 +2.8 -3.9 -14.2 +2.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NS NA NA NA NA NA NA NA -11.9 +25.7 +12.0 -13.4 +12.5 -11.4 +26.6 +9.9 -0.5 +8.3 +10.2 +8.2 +8.9 -7.0 +23.9 -8.2 -8.9 -16.3 +3.2 -13.8 -9.8 -16.0 -17.3 +18.6 -13.4

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

PIMCO Funds P: AstAllAuthP 10.87 +.01 CommdtyRR 9.24 +.22 RealRtnP 11.30 -.04 TotRtnP 10.77 -.01 Parnassus Funds: EqtyInco n 26.41 +.16 Pax World: Balanced x 22.35 -.06 Paydenfunds: HiInc 7.25 +.03 Perm Port Funds: Permanent 45.11 +.35 Pioneer Funds A: CullenVal x 18.12 +.01 GlbHiYld p 10.52 +.02 HighYldA p 10.19 +.06 MdCpVaA px 21.12 +.18 PionFdA px 40.91 +.24 StratIncA p 10.91 +.01 ValueA px 11.38 +.06 Pioneer Funds C: PioneerFdY x 41.04 +.21 StratIncC t 10.67 ...

Pioneer Fds Y: CullenVal Y x 18.17 -.06 GlbHiYld 10.34 +.02 StratIncY p 10.91 ...

Price Funds Adv: EqtyInc n 23.58 +.31 Growth pn 31.92 +.23 HiYld n 6.76 +.02 MidCapGro n 57.59 +.22 R2020A px 16.29 -.13 R2030Adv npx17.12 -.05 R2040A pnx 17.26 ...

SmCpValA n 36.06 +.37 TF Income pn 9.58 +.01 Price Funds R Cl: Ret2020R px 16.19 -.09 Ret2030R nx 17.04 -.01 Price Funds: Balance n 19.24 +.17 BlueChipG n 38.20 +.29 CapApr n 20.30 +.17 DivGro n 22.85 +.22 EmMktB n 13.24 +.05 EmMktS n 34.80 +.42 EqInc n 23.63 +.32 EqIdx n 33.83 +.35 GNM n 9.88 -.01 Growth n 32.17 +.22 GwthIn n 20.17 +.19 HlthSci n 30.59 +.18 HiYld n 6.78 +.02 InstlCpGr n 16.41 +.17

+9.4 +22.4 +7.1 +7.6

3 yr %rt NS NS NS NS

+8.4

+6.9

+11.2

-6.4

+12.1 +17.5 +16.9 +29.0 +9.7 -11.8 NA NA NA NA +16.5 -3.9 +15.2 -6.7 NA NA +9.1 -23.1 +15.7 NA

-5.4 NA

+10.1 -10.8 NA NA NA NA +13.9 +16.9 +13.8 +27.1 NA NA NA +24.5 +1.5 NA NA +11.9 +16.6 +13.6 +12.6 +12.8 +19.4 +14.2 +14.1 +5.6 +17.2 +13.4 +16.7 +14.2 +16.4

-8.7 -4.2 +27.5 +10.9 NA NA NA +11.2 +10.5 NA NA +3.2 -5.2 +10.1 -5.5 +25.6 -13.1 -8.1 -9.9 +19.6 -3.6 -6.4 +9.5 +28.3 +4.8

+7.9 +24.0 +19.2 -8.8 +12.2 -15.3 +17.0 -6.2 +12.6 -15.7 +15.8 -10.7 +12.9 +5.1 +13.3 -11.2 +19.3 -2.2 +21.0 -1.8 +10.3 +11.5 +18.1 +14.5 +1.5 +5.4

-1.8 -25.1 +7.6 +23.8 +12.2 +20.1

+14.4

-9.5

+4.1

+9.8

+5.2 +13.3 +2.9 +10.2 +1.7

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SmCapStk n 34.58 +.39 SmCapVal n 36.27 +.37 SpecGr x 17.66 +.03 SpecIn ne 12.30 ...

SumMuInt n 11.09 +.02 TxFree n 9.58 +.01 TxFrHY n 10.41 +.01 TxFrSI n 5.54 ...

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-4.2 -1.8 +30.7 +7.2 +4.2 +20.2 +5.4 +0.2 -23.2

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Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

TxExA p 8.21 +.01 TFHYA 11.30 +.01 USGvA p 14.07 +.02 VoyA p 23.72 +.28 Putnam Funds C: DivInc t 7.95 +.04 RS Funds: CoreEqVIP 37.96 +.45 EmgMktA 26.03 +.37 RSNatRes np 37.13 +.76 RSPartners 33.06 +.64 Value Fd 25.86 +.40 Rainier Inv Mgt: LgCapEqI 25.19 +.24 SmMCap 32.83 +.36 SmMCpInst 33.63 +.37 RidgeWorth Funds: GScUltShBdI 10.06 ...

HighYldI 9.79 +.02 IntmBondI 10.36 -.04 InvGrTEBI n 11.70 +.03 LgCpValEqI 12.83 +.16 MdCValEqI 11.87 +.22 RiverSource A: HiYldBond 2.77 +.01 HiYldTxExA 4.11 +.01 Royce Funds: LowPrSkSvc r 18.16 +.22 MicroCapI n 17.42 +.13 OpptyI r 12.16 +.21 PennMuI rn 11.71 +.09 PremierI nr 20.45 +.20 SpeclEqInv r 20.99 -.01 TotRetI r 13.22 +.10 ValuSvc t 12.60 +.12 ValPlusSvc 13.41 +.06 Russell Funds S: EmerMkts x 20.48 -.12 GlobEq x 8.85 +.08 IntlDevMkt x 31.51 ...

RESec x 35.46 +.59 StratBd x 10.71 -.29 USCoreEq x 27.90 +.24 USQuan x 28.67 +.19 Russell Instl I: IntlDvMkt x 31.54 -.02 StratBd x 10.59 -.29 USCoreEq x 27.90 +.23 Russell LfePts A: BalStrat px 10.34 -.14 Russell LfePts C: BalStrat x 10.28 -.13 Rydex Investor: MgdFutStr n 25.68 +.33 SEI Portfolios: CoreFxInA n 10.73 -.01 EmMktDbt n 11.02 +.05 EmgMkt np 12.04 +.13 HiYld n 7.36 +.02 IntMuniA 10.96 +.02 IntlEqA n 8.84 +.12 LgCGroA n 21.78 +.12 LgCValA n 16.18 +.24 S&P500A n 34.45 +.36 S&P500E n 34.59 +.36 ShtGovA n 10.57 ...

TaxMgdLC 12.13 +.13 SSgA Funds: EmgMkt 22.25 +.30 EmgMktSel 22.32 +.31 IntlStock 10.02 +.16 SP500 n 20.66 +.22 Schwab Funds: CoreEqty x 16.79 +.04 DivEqtySel x 12.82 +.10 FunUSLInst r 9.61 +.13 IntlSS r 17.14 +.21 1000Inv r 37.15 +.39 S&P Sel n 19.55 +.20 SmCapSel 21.25 +.28 TotBond 9.15 -.02 TSM Sel r 22.74 +.24 Scout Funds: Intl 32.11 +.35 Security Funds: MidCapValA 32.56 +.36 Selected Funds: AmerShsD 41.29 +.43 AmShsS p 41.32 +.43 Seligman Group: GrowthA x 4.78 +.03 Sentinel Group: ComStk A px 31.36 +.19 SMGvA px 9.22 -.02 SmCoA p 7.81 +.05 Sequoia 130.23 -.04 Sit Funds: US Gov n 11.29 -.03 Sound Shore: SoundShore 31.71 +.62 St FarmAssoc: Balan nx 54.00 -.56 Gwth nx 53.06 -.15 Sun Capital Adv: GSShDurItl 10.29 -.01 IbbotsBalSv p 12.30 +.09 TCW Funds: TotlRetBdI 10.21 ...

TCW Funds N: TotRtBdN p 10.56 +.01 TFSMktNeutrl r14.71 +.04 TIAA-CREF Funds: BdIdxInst 10.23 -.03 BondInst 10.33 -.02 EqIdxInst 9.54 +.11 IntlEqIInst 16.43 +.23 IntlEqInst 9.80 +.13 IntlEqRet 10.10 +.13 LC2040Ret 10.92 +.11 MdCVlRet 16.92 +.24 Templeton Instit: EmMS p 16.66 +.29 ForEqS 20.39 +.27 Third Avenue Fds: IntlValInst rx 16.57 -.19 REValInst rx 22.92 -.48 SmCapInst x 20.86 ...

ValueInst x 51.27 +.35 Thornburg Fds C: IntValuC t 26.34 +.34 Thornburg Fds: IntlValA p 27.96 +.36 IncBuildA t 18.99 +.20 IncBuildC p 19.00 +.20 IntlValue I 28.60 +.37 LtdMunA p 13.96 +.01 LtTMuniI 13.96 +.01 ValueA t 33.73 +.39 ValueI 34.33 +.40 Thrivent Fds A: LgCapStock 22.32 +.25 MuniBd 10.84 +.01 Tocqueville Fds: Delafield 29.47 +.30 Gold t 84.10 -.46 Touchstone Family: SandsCapGrI 14.11 +.08 Transamerica A: AsAlMod p 11.61 +.08 AsAlModGr p 11.84 +.11 Transamerica C: AsAlModGr t 11.82 +.12 TA IDEX C: AsAlMod t 11.58 +.08 Tweedy Browne: GblValue 24.25 +.31 USAA Group: AgsvGth nx 33.00 +.28 CornstStr n 23.10 +.17 Gr&Inc n 15.07 +.17 HYldOpp nx 8.37 -.03 IncStk nx 11.94 +.10 Income nx 12.68 -.08 IntTerBd n 10.27 -.02 Intl nx 24.20 +.06 PrecMM x 41.86 -.48 S&P Idx n 18.87 +.14 S&P Rewrd 18.87 +.13 ShtTBnd n 9.17 -.01 TxEIT n 12.61 +.02 TxELT n 12.35 +.02 TxESh n 10.62 ...

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-2.1

-3.4

+1.0

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-4.5

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-8.9

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-9.8

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NS NS

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NA

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-5.9

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-1.9

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-11.6 -20.1 +9.1 +4.3 -10.2

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Mobile TV Continued from G1 The technical standard for the technology was formally adopted in October 2009, and about 70 stations in the U.S. will have launched mobile DTV by the end of this year, said Anne Schelle, executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition.

Mobile DTV piggybacks on the same digital signals that broadcasters use to beam programming to regular TVs. This means a consumer watching mobile DTV on a smart phone, for example, doesn’t have to worry about buffering or other issues that can snarl streaming video on a wireless carrier’s network.

“Because (mobile DTV) works outside of the cell phone network, it doesn’t matter if you have one person tuning in or 10 million people tuning in,” said Salil Dalvi, an NBC executive who also serves as co-general manager of the Mobile Content Venture.

The platform also enables live local TV, providing an alternative to on-demand mobile video services. With mobile DTV, depending on what stations offer, viewers may be able to watch local news or sports broadcasts in real time while on the go.

Challenges ahead Despite industry enthusiasm around mobile DTV, the platform faces several hurdles in gaining widespread adoption. The quality and variety of programming could vary significantly between stations and markets, particularly if broadcasters have trouble negotiating rights for certain kinds of content: national sporting events, for example.

On a broader level, mobile DTV may not appeal to consumers accustomed to on-demand content, said Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research.

“Something that adopts the broadcast model is so last century ... especially (given that) new mobile technology adoption is driven by early adopters,” he said. “It’s not only a mismatch to the expectations of consumers at large, but it’s a gross mismatch to the expectations of early adopters.”

In a blow to the budding industry, chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. has decided to shut down Flo TV, a broadcast network service it created in 2004 for mobile phones, in the spring after failing to gain enough subscribers. At a November industry event, Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs said that while live programming was popular, customers did not tune in at specific times to watch scheduled shows on their phones.

Dalvi believes the live and local nature of the Mobile Content Venture’s service will appeal to viewers who want to follow a breaking news event or catch a favorite program in real time when they’re not at home.

“I like to think about our service

and what we do as a complement to the overall experience, not that consumers decide, ‘I’m going to get live TV instead of TV over the Internet,’ ” he said.

at the center of a dispute over fees charged by cable giant Comcast Corp. to Web-content delivery companies such as Level 3 Communications Inc., which delivers videos from Netflix online.

And then there was all the talk about the billions in cash war chests built up by many of the leading tech companies and what they should do with all that money.

Part of that was answered by all the acquisitions that took place throughout the year. Intel Corp. was very active with its $7.7 billion deal for security-software company McAfee Inc. and its $1.4 billion buy of Infineon’s mobile-chip unit. EMC Corp. cut a $2.25 billion deal for data-storage technology company Isilon Systems Inc. And in the cage-fight of the year, HewlettPackard Co. and Dell Inc. battled to acquire data-storage technology company 3Par Inc., which drove the price of 3Par up from Dell’s original offer of $1.15 billion to HP’s final acquisition price of $2.4 billion. File photo, illustration

2010: Streaming, iPads and more Investors had no shortage of activity to get behind during 2010.

There was the long-awaited emergence of tablet computers, led by Apple Inc. and its release of the iPad. Anticipation was so high over the iPad’s release, and demand was so strong for the touch-screen device, that the iPad was considered one of the main drivers of Apple’s stock surging this year.

Then there was the rise of Netflix from a niche, mailorder DVD company to one of the biggest providers of streaming videos online, with a new, streamingonly video subscription service and with a stock price that climbed almost 250 percent from the end of 2009. Netflix has become such a force that the amount of its online video traffic was

Paying for content The business model for mobile DTV providers remains a matter of debate. Dalvi said the Mobile Content Venture is going to leave “flexibility” for its members to offer premium content in the future, although the first channels they offer next year will be free and supported by advertising.

Because mobile DTV is part of the transmission broadcasters already send to homes, implementation costs are minimal, especially compared with the heavy investment made during the 2009 digital transition. But broadcasters and content providers see this emerging technology providing fresh revenue streams, and viewers may be asked to fork over more money for premium content such as expanded local sports coverage or a 24-hour kids entertainment channel.

Analysts say consumers are opposed to paying more than once for TV programming.

“If they pay to receive a package of channels from either a satellite or cable provider or telephone company, they don’t want to pay again for a mobile subscription,” said Michelle Abraham, principal analyst at In-Stat.

The availability of mobile DTV-enabled devices is another crucial factor in the adoption of the technology. A gadget needs a special tuner to receive the signal.

Industry players say they expect a greater number of accessories for laptops, netbooks and phones to arrive in the market next year. The technology also will show up in portable DVD players and screens made for cars that can be installed in the back of the headrest.

Eventually, mobile DTV tuners will be embedded into products such as tablets and phones, eliminating the need for an add-on antenna. At next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, LG will show a prototype smart phone running the Android operating system that has a 4-inch screen and a telescopic antenna designed to receive mobile DTV transmissions, Taylor said.

The industry’s first task, however, is to overcome a “big marketing challenge” in explaining the benefits of mobile DTV to consumers, he said.

“Consumers don’t have widespread awareness or understanding of mobile DTV yet,” Taylor said.

“But consumers are beginning to embrace mobile video, whether it’s little clips you get on your cell phone or streaming on your computer. They understand you don’t have to just watch TV on that 42inch plasma in the living room.

“The challenge we have is to help consumers understand ... it’s different than what comes through your cell phone. It’s live, local TV.”

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Tech Continued from G1 One of the companies that Suppiger is high on for next year is Equinix Inc., a provider of data-center operations that companies often use for hosting their applications and information in a so-called “cloud” environment. On Oct. 6, Equinix shares plunged more than 33 percent after the company issued revenue warnings for its third quarter and entire fiscal year. That warning took down many other data-center operators along with Equinix.

But Suppiger said he believes the selloff was overdone. “The (stock) pullback made them even more attractive,” Suppiger said.

“Right now, a lot of investors are trying to determine whether the market is reaching maturity. We believe the demand is still there and there will be a need for more data center capacity.”

Capital Advisors’ Smith said opportunities in the mobile Internet market are numerous, as the sector is practically still in its nascent phase.

Smith points to data from research firm Gartner Inc., which estimates 3G wireless penetration at around the 20 percent to 25 percent level worldwide and smart phones expected to grow from around 16 percent of all mobile phones this year to 45 percent by 2014.

“I think what you have to do is look at the tech sector for opportunities. Some parts are more risky than others,” Smith said.

“We think the mobile Internet

“I think what you have to do is look at the tech sector for opportunities. Some parts are more risky than others. We think the mobile Internet has big opportunities and we continue to focus there. I think it’s the biggest tech cycle we have ever seen.”

has big opportunities and we continue to focus there. I think it’s the biggest tech cycle we have ever seen.”

No ignoring the giants From Smith’s perspective, investors that are interested companies that are in the mobile Internet market can’t afford to ignore either Apple or Google Inc. next year, since the companies’ iPhones and Android-based smart phones are so embedded in the public mind that many people don’t know the names of any other mobile phones.

But Smith also said that another company to consider is Qualcomm Inc., which earns royalties from the CDMA wireless technology used in many mobile phones, including those with Google’s Android operating system. And Smith said if, as expected Apple’s iPhone comes to the Verizon network next year, Qualcomm should see its fortunes continue to rise.

“That emergence (of Android) has helped Qualcomm,” Smith said. “The Android phones are selling better than the iPhone is some parts and the expectations are that when Verizon gets the iPhone, Qualcomm’s royalties

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Wolf spent years smelling, tasting and researching the growing number of artisan cheeses made in the USA. He’s fascinated with it, and he’s not alone. “There’s a huge interest.

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Patrick Becker, a principal partner of Becker Capital Management, says that for 2011, some of the tech titans that are not normally associated with rapid growth could be worth some attention. Becker cites seemingly old-school tech giants as Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Cisco Systems Inc. as companies with stocks that may actually be undervalued based on their recent performances. As of Dec. 10, Microsoft’s shares were down 10 percent for the year, while H-P and Cisco had fallen 17.5 percent each. By contrast, the S&P 500 index was up by 11.2 percent.

“These companies aren’t perceived to be ‘growth’ companies,” Becker said. “But even Cisco grew its earnings when it gave that disappointing (second-quarter) forecast (in November). If the market were to continue to do well next year, these companies could get earnings growth and multiple expansions and investors could see some nice gains.”

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That was not the case in 1976, when Wolf ran a small cheese shop. “There was nothing to sell, American. There were all kinds of imitation cheeses. … Now, we can actually do a whole class in Cheese 101, really learning all about cheese, using American-made cheeses.”

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Currencies

Here is how key international stock markets performed Thursday.

Key currency exchange rates Thursday compared with late Wednesday in New York.

Market

Dollar vs:

Amsterdam Brussels Paris London Frankfurt Hong Kong Mexico Milan New Zealand Tokyo Seoul Singapore Sydney Zurich

Close 356.21 2,635.89 3,911.32 5,996.07 7,057.69 22,902.97 38,131.47 20,774.16 3,333.76 10,346.48 2,037.53 3,137.78 4,888.20 5,912.58

Change +.01 s +.17 s -.21 t +.21 s -.14 t -.62 t -.11 t +.20 s +.34 s -.23 t -.03 t -.21 t +.38 s +.34 s

Australia Dollar Britain Pound Canada Dollar Chile Peso China Yuan Euro Euro Hong Kong Dollar Japan Yen Mexico Peso Russia Ruble So. Korea Won Sweden Krona Switzerlnd Franc Taiwan Dollar

Exchange Rate 1.0043 1.5424 .9900 .002130 .1504 1.3114 .1286 .012065 .081004 .0327 .000866 .1459 1.0421 .0334

Pvs Day .9997 1.5371 .9865 .002132 .1504 1.3089 .1285 .011964 .081126 .0326 .000867 .1457 1.0497 .0334

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Traction and ABS warning lights are not to be ignored

By Paul Brand (Minneapolis) Star Tribune

Q:

Mercedes-Benz via The Washington Post

The 2011 Mercedes-Benz CL550 4Matic coupe rates superior in looks, ride and acceleration, and its all-wheel drive system makes it a delightful drive, even in bad weather conditions.

The Mercedes-Benz CL550: proof that it’s good to be rich

By Warren Brown Special to The Washington Post

I had intended to review an affordable car this week. But when the hot, shapely, pricey 2011 Mercedes-Benz CL550 4Matic coupe arrived in my driveway, it was irresistible. And the threat of snow made it even more so.

Luxury is one thing. But luxury expressly designed to run in the nastiest of climates is quite another. The R E V I E W CL550 4Matic coupe is that kind of luxury — gifted with excess, loaded with practicality.

Its sinewy exterior, absent the central “B” pillars found in other two-door cars designed to accommodate four people, evokes envy and lust in fair weather. It’s a head-turner supreme.

But beauty, in this case, has no fear of the beasts of winter. Consider the term “4Matic.”

It refers to the advanced allwheel-drive system that is standard on the 2011 CL550. “Advanced” refers to the integration of all-wheel drive with the car’s electronic stability and traction control systems.

The result is a car that seems to “think” in the snow and in other slippery weather. Torque — the power actually driving

Mercedes-Benz CL550 coupe Base price: $113,150 As tested: $115,815 Type: Compact front-engine, all-wheel-drive two-door super-luxury car with a traditional notch-back trunk.

Engine: Twin-turbocharged 4.7-liter, double-overhead-cam, 32-valve (electronically controlled variable valve lift and timing) V-8 that delivers a maximum 429 horsepower and 516 foot-pounds of torque.

Mileage: 15 mpg city, 22 mpg highway. the wheels — is automatically transferred from wheel to wheel, favoring the wheels that have the most grip.

Automatically means instantly — nanoseconds. The car’s work here practically is imperceptible in terms of power transfer points.

What is noticeable and thoroughly satisfying is the CL550’s confidence in its place on wet and snow-covered roads. The car’s self-assuredness measurably bolsters the driver’s sense of well-being. And although the CL550 is pricey, with a base cost substantially in excess of $100,000, the complete peace of mind it offers in nasty weather is priceless.

The CL550’s long list of standard luxury amenities assists psychic comfort. It includes supple premium-leather-upholstered seats and instrument

panel, hand-polished burledwalnut trim, noise-reducing and infrared-reflecting glass, and multicolored “mood” lighting to help reduce the stress of night drives.

Cars are increasingly becoming mobile computers and communications stations — a trend led by the high end of the industry. But I wonder whether all the high-technology stuff is becoming much too much.

Consider the CL550’s Comand (Mercedes-Benz’s patented Cockpit Management and Data) system, which includes a “speech filtering” program designed to correct human imperfection in electronic voice communications.

The program filters out itinerant “ah” and “um” sounds and automatically changes “yeah” and “nah” answers to more precise “yes” and “no” responses.

Really! Who needs that?

What’s next? Will we get a Comand program that comments on your wardrobe and suggests appropriate changes, and then directs you to the nearest store where the corrective apparel might be obtained?

I had fun with the CL550 and am most grateful that it fell into my hands. It is yet more evidence that the rich are getting richer, which is a good thing if you are fortunate enough to be among them.

The vast majority of us need something that fits more easily into our increasingly constrained pocketbooks. But it’s fun, every now and then, to take a good look at how the other side lives.

Bottom line Forget the politics affecting incomes of $250,000 and much higher. It’s good to be rich.

Head-turning quotient: Necksnapper supreme.

Ride, acceleration and handling: Superior marks in all three.

Capacities: There are seats for four people. Rear seat space is tight for adults. Maximum luggage capacity is 13.5 cubic feet. The fuel tank holds 21.9 gallons of gasoline. Premium is required.

More vehicles reach top safety rank, report says

By Jerry Hirsch Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Automobiles — whether economy cars or the top luxury models — are rapidly becoming safer to drive, an insurance industry trade group says.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released its Top Safety Pick ratings for the 2011 model year, saying 66 vehicles, including 40 cars and 25 sport-utility vehicles, earned the group’s highest safety ranking.

That’s more than double the 27 vehicles achieving the group’s top safety grade at the start of this year. Big roof improvements to protect passengers in rollover accidents contributed a greater number of vehicles achieving better rankings.

“That gives consumers shopping for a safer new car or SUV plenty of choices to consider in

“The two features we like the most are electronic stability control and side-curtain airbags. No consumer should have a car without those two features.”

— Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety

most dealer showrooms,” said Adrian Lund, the institute’s president. “In fact, every major automaker has at least one winning model this year.” The institute rated 191 vehicles.

More autos are achieving the highest rating because better safety equipment is increasingly standard, Lund said. The insurance industry-funded trade group said 92 percent of 2011 model year cars, 94 percent of SUVs and 56 percent of pickup trucks now have

standard head and torso side airbags. Electronic stability control is standard on 92 percent of 2011 cars, all SUVs and 72 percent of pickups.

Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, attributed the proliferation of safety features to Congress, saying that in recent years lawmakers have pressed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to set more stringent standards.

Electronic stability control, for

example, must be standard in all 2012 model year cars, and more automakers are installing sidecurtain airbags to satisfy a phasein of stricter side-impact protection over the next several years.

“The two features we like the most are electronic stability control and side-curtain airbags,” Ditlow said. “No consumer should have a car without those two features.”

Federal safety regulators also have changed their evaluations and testing methods to give consumers a better view of vehicle safety ratings.

For the first time, the government will evaluate how women fare in accidents by using female crash dummies. The new ratings also take into account side-pole crashes and crash-prevention technology such as electronic stability control.

We have a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix with 38,500 miles. Out of the blue, the “Service ABS” and “Service Traction” warning lights came on. I did check fuses and disconnected the battery for 30 minutes — someone told me that would reset the computer — but the problems are still there. Is it safe to drive? The brakes seem to work just fine.

It may be safe to drive, but head to the dealer or shop right away. The warning lights indicate the ABS or traction-control systems have been disabled due to some type of problem. Disconnecting the battery will reboot the vehicle’s computer, but the warning lights will re-illuminate if the issue is still there.

If the warning lights stay on after the initial self test, the most likely cause is a loss of “communication” with one of the ABS wheel speed sensors.

If the warning lights go off after the self test and then come back on when you drive or apply the brakes, there may be a more serious issue.

Your next step is to have a shop connect a scan tool and read any fault codes stored in the computer. This will pinpoint the precise problem with the ABS or traction-control systems.

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Q:

I have a 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7L V8 HO with 125,000 miles. Last winter on occasion when I would start the car after it sat all night there would be no oil

pressure — the gauge would not move at all and the “check gauges” light would be on. I immediately turned off the Jeep for fear that there was no oil circulating through the engine. I checked the oil level and it was always within the normal range. I ended up starting and shutting off the Jeep from three to 10 times until it showed normal oil pressure. The problem went away over this past summer but has returned now that the temperature has dropped below 40 degrees again. Any ideas?

Almost certainly this is an electrical issue. The only mechanical possibility would be moisture/ice in the oil pan preventing the oil pickup tube from drawing oil up into the oil pump. If this were a serious loss-of-oil-pressure issue, the engine would have failed by now.

The oil pressure sensor, on the left front of the engine, sends a signal to the PCM (powertrain control module), which sends a signal to the instrument cluster circuit board which operates the gauge. Check connections and grounds in this circuit — that’s where the problem is likely hiding.

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Paul Brand, author of “How to Repair Your Car,” is an automotive troubleshooter, driving instructor and former race car driver. E-mail questions to paulbrand@ startribune.com. Please explain the problem in detail and include a daytime phone number.

Tire information for 1st-time buyer

By Brad Bergholdt McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Q:

I’m almost ready to buy my first set of new tires and haven’t a clue what to look for. I’d like to learn how to make a good buying decision rather than have someone just sell me what they want to sell me. The car is a 2006 Toyota Corolla LE, a graduation gift from my parents. I’d like to show off my new tires at Christmas and look like I made a wise choice, along with a good deal.

I’d recommend you take a tour through Tirerack. com to build an understanding of tire terms and types and to compare brands, models, quality ratings, warranties, customer reviews and prices. This will take less than an hour, and you’ll enjoy the hunt. I like the site’s easy-to-use tools to learn about tires and make informed comparisons.

Your original equipment tires were All-Season 195/65R15 Bridgestone Insignias, a hohum tire. Looking at this tire’s customer reviews and uniform tire quality grade rating, or UTQG rating, you could do better making your own choice this time.

A:

The UTQG number is the manufacturer’s rating for tread life. The higher the number, the better. It’s best used to compare tires within a tiremaker’s family of tires. The two letters that follow relate to wet-surface traction and resistance to heat.

An A is better than a B, and so on.

In addition to your original tire being available, I found more than 80 additional candidates for your car. A neat shopping tool to make sense of this myriad of choices is the Tirerack.com’s Tire Decision Guide, found under the “Shopping Tools” tab on the site’s navigation bar. You’ll identify your vehicle, indicate if occasional snow usage is likely, and rate your three personal priorities: tread life, vehicle handling and ride/noise comfort. You can then deselect any brands you don’t want and proceed to the prioritized results. You’ll find the huge list has narrowed considerably.

Brad Bergholdt is an automotive technology instructor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. E-mail questions to under-the-hood@ earthlink.net.

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Q How would Reese Witherspoon describe working with Robert Pattinson?—Kim Berg, Spokane, Wash.

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Q Where does Andrea Bocelli live? Who’s yourr

Clark’s New N Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Rya Ryan Seacrest this year.

How do does she usually celebrate?— ? brate?—Marc Allen, Miami, Fla.

favorite tenor?—Arlene Mazone, Lone Tree, Colo.

A “There’s “Ther so much pressure

A We can’t pick a favorite—but Bocelli (who

on New Year’s, and you’re always disappointed,” says McCarth McCarthy, 38. “So four minutes before midnight, mi I sit down with a friend and talk about how great thin things are and what we’re looking forward to. It’s much more meaningful to me.”

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lives in Tuscany) can. “[The late] Franco Corelli,”” ver the 52-year-old Italian tenor declares. “If I’d never r.” heard his voice, I couldn’t have become a singer.”

her 10-years-younger Water for Elephants co-star is “a wonderfully sweet boy—I mean, man. And off-the-charts handsome.” Witherspoon is attracting lots of attention herself: In both How Do You Know and 2011’s This Means War, she has not one but two suitors.

“It’s my love-triangle period,” she jokes. “I guess this is just what women in their 30s go through.”

Witherspoon: Table for three, please

McCarthy: All about Eve

Q How is last season’s American Idol runnerup, Crystal Bowersox, doing these days?—M. Oshiro, Honolulu, Hawaii

Q Jon Tenney is hot! Is he anything like his charac-

A She’s great—almost

ter on The Closer?—D. Campbell, Alexandria, Va.

too great, in fact. “Artists feed on their misfortunes, and I don’t have many now,” says the re- Bowersox: Reversal cently married 25-year- of fortune old, whose debut album, Farmer’s Daughter, is just out. “My writing isn’t as angsty as it once was. The songs are happier. But I think I like it that way.”

A “We’re both patient,” says Tenney, 49. “Our

Tenney: Art imitates life—and vice versa

writers play to our strengths.

Sometimes things you say in passing even appear on the page. A character once got a ticket because he threw a banana peel out the window. That happened to me! I got a fine and eight hours of community service.

I learned my lesson.”

Q Why does Johnny Depp keep returning to the Pirates films?

Isn’t he tired of playing the same character?—Debbie Adler, Seattle, Wash.

A Are you kidding? “Captain Jack is always going to be a part of me,” says Depp, 47. “I like going back to him and seeing what we can cook up. It’s tougher to play someone like my character in The Tourist.

I have the most fun when I can hide behind wigs or hats or makeup.”

Walter Scott asks…

Steven Curtis Chapman The Grammy-nominated Christian singer, 48, talks about his new song, his faith, and how his family is coping after the loss of 5-year-old Maria Chapman two years ago.

WS Why did you write “Meant to Be”?

SCC I think we all want to know that if

our lives don’t turn out the way we imagine, there’s still a purpose. It’s a song that I believe is true of all of us.

WS How are you and your family doing since your daughter’s death?

SCC It’s not the defining thing in our lives, but it has redefined us. My wife would call it a “wrestling match with God.” WS Are holidays especially difficult?

SCC I think we realize now more than ever the brokenness of our world, and this loss we’ll carry for the rest of our lives. But it’s also when we celebrate the coming of hope. We’re weary, but I think 2011 will be a new beginning.

Full interview at Parade.com/chapman

Q I loved Paul Newman’s Doc Hudson character in the animated movie Cars. How can they do a sequel without him?—Aly McKenzie, Los Angeles, Calif.

A Owen Wilson, who voices race car Lightning McQueen, remembers Newman fondly from the first film: “Paul loved fast cars. He said, ‘If you have to worry about the risk, you’re dead already.’ I couldn’t relate to that. I’m happy in my Prius.” As for the sequel, Wilson says, “There’s a nice homage to Paul in it.”

Newman’s beloved Doc

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12 she took of her columned house on a mountain in Hawaii, framed by double rainbows.

Wearing a navy jogging suit, white T-shirt, and ballet flats— comfort clothes after hours of taping—she’s more girlfriend than chairwoman, quick to giggle and totally focused. She sinks into her couch to discuss her new venture, which she’ll oversee from California after The Oprah Winfrey Show goes off the air in September. But there will still be plenty of Oprah on OWN. She has creative control, which means ultimate responsibility for 1200 hours of original and acquired programming in the first year, plus the burden of delivering her audience—and the entire, magical Oprah brand. An immense challenge, even for a superstar.

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As she launches her new cable network, she opens up about her biggest fears, favorite shows, and how much she actually does in one day

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6 prah Winfrey perfectly understands the power—and potential pain—of her name. As a child in Milwaukee she watched Romper Room, whose host, Miss Nancy, peered into her “magic mirror” and greeted her young viewers.

“I can see Susie and Jimmy and Bobby,” Miss Nancy might say, eliciting yelps of delight from children at home. Not little Oprah. “I used to stand there in front of the black-andwhite Magnavox thinking, Maybe today?” she tells me. She would move from one side of the TV set to the other, “thinking Miss Nancy would see me. Waiting for her to say hello to Oprah. Of course that never happened. She was handed a list of

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names and saw nobody!” Oprah reminisces slowly, hands tucked protectively under her legs. “I would have to say that my deepest feeling about myself growing up, the word that would best describe how I felt, would be lonely. And alone. It added to that feeling that there’s nobody like me.” She shifts into the present, grinning. “Now,” she adds playfully, “that’s a pretty good feeling!”

Half a century later, isolation is unthinkable. Oprah’s days are nonstop, her success unprecedented: The Oprah Winfrey Show has been the top daytime talk show since its debut in 1986. Starting Jan. 1, she goes 24/7 with the launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on cable,

reaching nearly 80 million homes on what is now the Discovery Health channel. The programs include familiar faces, new series, and emotional excursions into miracles and family roots. OWN is a 50/50 partnership with Discovery—their idea, their money, her genius, her…well, name.

A name that everyone knows today.

Oprah greets me in her livingroom-size office at Harpo Studios in Chicago. Dog toys clutter one corner; twin shelves hold 15 shiny Emmys; an elegant curved desk dominates. “I spend more time here than I do at home, so it’s important that it be comfortable,” she says, touching signed books, presidential photos. Most cherished: the snap

to the launch of OWN, how do you feel?

First it was, “Wowee, omigosh, a network!” And then it was, “What in the world have I done?” and, “Can I really do this?” So I had a lot of anxiety about it.

After you made the deal?

Yes. I was questioning, Why don’t I build a boat and sail around the world? Why don’t I learn French and find a nice little house in Provence? I could see myself bicycling with my baguettes and the whole thing. But I talked it over with my friends, and they all said, “You’re not going to be happy doing nothing.”

What’s OWN about?

It is mindful television. I think so much of television is a minefield that just zaps your energy, wastes your time. What I want to do is build a channel that is a respite for your mind, an oasis of stimulation, that you come away from with little pieces of light. I’m continued

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aiming for a moment where somebody could say, “I never thought of it that way before.” I just love that.

How many of the shows are your idea?

Master Class [see sidebar]. Finding Sarah [a six-part documentary with Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, premiering in spring]. That came from an interview I did this summer with her. We had a moment of real connection, watching the tape of her trying to get £500,000 [for access to Prince Andrew]. She said she didn’t want to go into bankruptcy. I said, “But when you look at that tape, don’t you see a morally bankrupted person?

The one thing you were trying to avoid, you already are.” She said, “I never thought of it that way before.”

Ah, there you go again!

I remember the last thing I said to her when I left that interview:

“Don’t let me see you on Dancing with the Stars.” She started e-mailing me and at one point asked what did I think of her doing a celebrity chef show. And I said, “That’s not going to help you. How are you going to rehabilitate yourself on a celebrity chef show? You should be working on yourself.”

You’re tough.

I said, “I’ve never mentioned it because I don’t want you to think I’m trying to use you, but if you’re going to do TV, this is what you should do.”

And she said?

“Let me think about it. I’d have to expose myself, and what does that really mean?” I said, “All the things in your e-mails are so fascinating.”

Like, she sent me an e-mail about how it’s so difficult to give up going to Spain this year. And I said, “You have no money. People who don’t have money don’t go to Spain

on holiday. Hello! ” And now you’ve got her doing a show.

The great benefit of having your own channel is that you can be walking down the street. . . The other day I was in a restaurant, [and there was] the most handsome waiter. I was like, “Well, what are you interested in doing? You have a very good TV face.” [laughs] I look at everything.

If I have an idea, it feels like a huge paint box. So I have moved from “Omigod, what am I going to do?” to “I can do anything.”

You’ve said, “I know that as I start out on this next chapter there will be some mistakes and what others perceive as failures.” What will you perceive as a failure?

What will be a failure is if nobody comes and watches this network.

What others will perceive as failure is if some shows don’t succeed. I’m concerned about the bigger overall

Premiering Soon on OWN Oprah’s goal? ‘To present information, insight, and inspiration in an entertaining form.’

IN THE BEDROOM WITH DR. LAURA BERMAN (JAN. 3, 10 P.M. ET/PT) Sex and relationship therapy for couples. “Every time I do Laura Berman on the show I feel like, Ugh, I really don’t want to be discussing this on daytime television,” says Oprah. “Finally she has a space to do that kind of talk.”

ENOUGH ALREADY! WITH PETER WALSH (JAN. 3, 8 P.M. ET/PT) A professional organizer helps families get a grip on their stuff. “Everybody has a mess going on somewhere,” Oprah says.

YOUR OWN SHOW: OPRAH’S SEARCH FOR THE NEXT TV STAR (JAN. 7, 9 P.M. ET/PT) Ten contestants compete to headline a show; Nancy

O’Dell and Carson Kressley co-host. “We’re looking for someone who has talent and wants to do some good in the world,” says Oprah.

CRISTINA FERRARE’S BIG BOWL OF LOVE (JAN. 3, 3:30 P.M. ET/PT) OPRAH PRESENTS MASTER CLASS (SNEAK PEEK JAN. 1, 7 P.M. ET/PT)

Famous folks (like Jay-Z, above) share personal insights.

“This was my brainstorm, my baby,” Oprah says.

“Every life has a story; every experience is a lesson.”

“I love the way Cristina loves food,” Oprah says.

KIDNAPPED BY THE KIDS (SNEAK PEEK JAN. 1, 1 P.M. ET/PT) On this reality series, kids force their parents to ditch work for family time. “One of my favorite shows on this

channel,” Oprah says.

MIRACLE DETECTIVES (JAN. 5, 10 P.M. ET/PT) Mysterious phenomena are investigated from both a spiritual and a scientific perspective. Says Oprah: “I’m intrigued by mysticism, how God operates.”

picture: my belief that people are basically good and want to see the Watch the good in them reTop 10 moments of flected through The Oprah Winfrey Show their experiences at Parade .com/oprah and the shows that they watch. This is a gamble I’m taking. I believe that the banal state of television, the kind of insipid space that we’re in—that you can have as many channels as we have and not find anything that really interests you—means that to a great extent we’ve lost our way.

As a nation?

No. I think that television programmers program to the lowest common denominator. I happened to be on the treadmill one night and passed one of the Housewives shows—I don’t know which city— and literally my mouth was open ’cause I thought, “This is on television?” I recognize that there’s a whole group of people who find that very entertaining. I wonder for how long. I think that there are people who want to be fed just a little more.

In all the years that you’ve been doing such successful television, what have you learned about people?

Everybody just wants to be heard.

Toni Morrison said that what every child wants to know is, Do your eyes light up when I enter the room? Did you hear me and did what I say mean anything to you?

That’s all they’re looking for. That’s what everybody is looking for. And the reason I think my ability to communicate with people around the world has been so rewarded is because I actually understand that.

Could you have done something like be an ambassador?

Nobody’s offered [that] to me in this continued on page 8

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A Day in Oprah’s Life

I wanted to stop my bone loss.

But I did more. I reversed it with BONIVA.*

What she makes Stedman for dinner—and much more 6:00 a.m. “Yesterday I got up at

6. I was going to get up at 5:30, but at 1 a.m. I sent an e-mail to security saying, ‘Give me an extra half hour.’ I got to the office about 6:30 and got on the treadmill downstairs in the gym. [While on the treadmill] I play Scrabble on my iPad, against the computer.”

7:30 a.m. “I got in the makeup chair, then did two shows.”

11:30 a.m. “I drank a green drink—spinach, parsley, a little bit of apple juice, celery, and cucumbers in a blender—and made some phone calls. I had to call Africa, and you have to do that before everybody goes to bed over there.”

12:35 p.m. “I got back in the makeup chair—I was running late—and then did a show with Barbra Streisand.”

2:00 p.m. “I came back upstairs, called the bank with any transfers that needed to be made, money issues. Then we had meetings about the next week’s shows, what we have coming up.”

7:50 p.m. “Yesterday was an early day, since I was on the treadmill [again] by 10 of 8. I’d already done 45 minutes in the morning, so I did 30 minutes. Actually, it took 34 minutes to finish my Scrabble game, and I stayed on to 35 to round it off. The guy next to me was at a level-50 incline, and I was at 10. I was embarrassed to stay at 10, so I moved to 20. I was like [panting]— but I was going to keep it there.”

8:50 p.m. “This almost never happens, but I came home at the same time as Stedman [Graham, Oprah’s longtime love]. I made him something for dinner— leftover shrimp and rice, a little salad with lettuce, olive oil. I shaved some truffles, chopped up rosemary. I made it for him; I had a rice cake with almond butter. I’m trying not to eat past 7:30. I sat at the kitchen table and we talked for maybe 30 minutes, then I went to bed.

10:00 p.m. “I took my little stack of books to bed. I was trying to figure out what the next book club [selection] was going to be.”

[She chose Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.]

11:10 p.m. “Lights out.”

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(bon-EE-va) ibandronate sodium 150-mg tablet What is BONIVA?

administration. But I will tell you a funny story. When I was at the Kennedy Center Honors for Tina Turner [in 2005], I was sitting at Colin Powell’s table, and he said that we were in the ambassadors room [a room at the State Department with portraits of ambassadors and secretaries of state]. And I said, “Gee, this is really—this is lovely. An ambassador, I think that would be really great.” He goes, “Name your country, baby, name your country.” [laughs] So I can say reliably,“She turned down an ambassadorship!”

I just laughed. He goes, “No, seriously, do you want to be an ambassador?” I go: “No, really, I was just—it’s just a thought. I was just saying it’s a nice room!”

Can I ask about President Obama? Are you concerned, disappointed?

No. I think that no one understands until you’ve been in that seat the enormous pressure to please and satisfy everybody.

And I think instead of being grateful for where we are and what he has done, we’ve forgotten that we were on the brink of a depression when he took over this office. And as everybody celebrates the holiday season and sits around with their families, regardless of your circumstance, we could’ve had breadlines. How soon we forget that.

And you would support him again?

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Would you ever run for office?

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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.

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:

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• 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.

What are the possible side effects of BONIVA?

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

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.

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Visit myboniva.com or call 1-888-MyBONIVA for the complete Prescribing Information, which includes the Patient Information.

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A 2008 Rose Parade float celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead, built by Tim Estes for Santa Fe Springs, Calif.

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Under every float’s delicate façade is a custom-welded steel chassis that supports up to 25 tons. Features that can pile on the poundage include a stadium-quality sound system, computer-driven hydraulics to make the figurines move, and engines and generators to operate it

all. Estes’ success comes in part from his engineering background: He and his aeronautics-engineer dad were perpetual tinkerers, and he studied the subject in college. But a float builder must also be part field marshal. Fiesta has a full-time staff of 30—and more than 6000 volunteers who help decorate in the final month-long push.

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Like sharks, floats must keep moving. Even a tiny pause can cause an ugly gap on TV or, worse, a pileup. With over 40 floats, two dozen

Know your botany.

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Each year, Fiesta floral director and vice president Jim Hynd orders over 20 million flowers in up to 500 varieties. He’s also pioneered some of the event’s craftiest uses of material.

Previously, float builders made human faces from flower petals, but since the petals would decay, the results were splotchy. Hynd’s breakthrough: walnut shells. Ground, they create a nonperishable skin base— and now they’re a parade staple.

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marching bands, and hundreds of performers on horseback navigating the 5.5-mile-long route, that can spell disaster. In 1999, Fiesta built a float for the Kingdom of Thailand; when the hundreds of dancers escorting it passed the grandstand where the Princess of Thailand sat, they unexpectedly stopped to bow. A lovely gesture, to be sure, but it caused a 20-second delay—and parade bosses slapped Estes with a $3000 fine.

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Estes’ medical chart is an orthopedist’s nightmare: Once, a chassis fell on his foot, breaking seven bones. Another time, he slipped off a truck ramp, shattering both elbows and one wrist. In total, he says he’s broken 40-plus bones on the job.

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Growing up in West Virginia, none of us were big party animals on New Year’s Eve. My mom, grandparents, extended family, and a friend or two would just try our best to stay up and watch the ball drop on TV. The next day we’d have a New Year’s Day supper, and that’s when Mom would make Hoppin’ John with greens and cornbread.

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1 Tbsp olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 1 red bell pepper, diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 15-oz. cans black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained 1/4 cup vegetable broth or water

1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper 2 green onions, thinly sliced 1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley, minced Cooked rice Shredded white cheddar Hot sauce (optional)

1. Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium. Add onion, red bell pepper, and garlic. Sauté until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.

2. Stir in black-eyed peas, broth, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat to low; cook 10 more minutes. Stir in green onions and parsley.

3. Serve on top of cooked rice and garnish with cheese. Add hot sauce, if desired.

Per serving (before cheese, rice, and hot sauce): 170 calories, 3g fat, no cholesterol, 420mg sodium, 31g carbs, 5g protein.

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†HOME SERVICES LICENSING INFORMATION The following licenses are held by or on behalf of Sears Home Improvement: Products, Inc.: AL (Res. Bldr. #7654; HVAC #8186); AZ (Res. Remodeler #ROC117628 B-03; HVAC #ROC206649 C-39R; Dual Res. & Small Comm. #ROC260459 KB-02); AR (Gen. Bldg. Contr. #203740610-B, HVACR #1004181-B); CA (Gen. Bldg. Contr. #721379-B, Insulation & Acoustical #721379-C2, Cabinet, Millwork & Finish Carpentry #721379-C6, Flooring #721379-C15, Glazing #721379-C17, HVAC #721379-C20, Roofing #721379-C39, Ceramic & Mosaic Tile Cont. #721379-C54; Weatherization & Energy Conservation #721379-D65); CT (HTG, Piping & Cooling Un-Ltd. Cont. #HTG.0400133-S1; HIC #0607669); FL (Gen. Contr. #CGC012538; HVAC #CMC1249510, Certified Roofing Cont. #CCC1329316); GA (HVAC #CR109873); ID (HVAC #C-6134, Contracting Bus. #RCE-25219); IL (City of Chicago Home Repair 1248977); IN (Evansville Res. Remodeling Cont. #RRC0185); IA (Master HVAC #677); KY (Master HVAC #HM04667); LA (Res. Bldr. #84194; HVAC#45862); MD (HIC #87854; HVAC #6528; Contractor/Salesman #46542; HVACR #75581); MA (HIC #148607, All plumbing and electrical services performed by licensed subcontractors); MI (Res. Bldr. #2102131369; HVAC #7110944); MN (Res. Remodeler #20090017); MS (Res. Bldr. #RO5222); NV (Carpentry #43242-C3; Gen. Contr. #60609-B; Plumb. & Htg. Contr. #60610-C1; Refrig. & AC Contr. #60608-C21; Gen. Serviceman #S1469; HVAC #A0072; Roofing & Siding #43240- C15); NY (NYC HIC #1225166, Nassau County HIC #H1809170000, Rockland County HIC #9990, Suffolk County #41506-H, Westchester County WC #18371-H06, Putnam County #3189-A, City of Yonkers #4213); NM (Gen. Bldg. Contr. #GB 98 58598; HVAC #MM98 52598; Elec. #EE-98 58598, MHD HVAC #MM98 C58598, MHD Elec. #EE98 C-58598); NC (Bldg. Limited. #47330; HVAC #15343 H-2, H-3-1, HVAC #30249 H-3-II); OH (HVAC #44752); OK (HVAC #106841); OR (Gen. Contr. #113202); PA (HI Contractor #PA005499); RI (Res. Contr. #27281, HVAC #6260); SC (Gen. Contr. #105836-BD5; HVAC Res. #RBH-919; Mechanical Contractor #110634); TN (HIC #2319; HVAC-Unlimited Contr. #54995; Res. & Small Comm-Unlimited BC-A #54995); TX (Res. Bldr. Remodeler #9566; HVAC Dallas #TACLB00020401E, Houston TACLB00028404E, Lubbock #TACLB00027780E; San Antonio #TACLB00029020); UT (Gen. Bldg. Contr. #B-100318604-5501; HVAC #S-350 318604-5501); VA (Class A Contr. #27-084717; HVAC #2710046587); WA (Gen. Contr. #SEARSHI011LA); Washington, DC (HIC #50006423); WV (Res. Bldr., #WV025882, HVAC WV025882); WI (Dwelling Contr. Cert. #15151; Dwelling Contr. Qualifier #982570; HVAC Contractor #15151).

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OR 51 YEARS OR SO,

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I’ve been listening to conversations that are none of my business.

And may I just say: You people are fascinating.

My habit started when I was about 2.

We lived in a house with a party line, a shared phone connection with several neighbors, not a reference to our nightly conga dances. We never had those. My parents jitterbugged. As for the party line, I’m told my mother would regularly gasp as if she’d just swallowed a wasp and then dive for the phone whenever she spotted wide-eyed me cradling the receiver.

My goodness, the things people say when they think little ears aren’t listening. Made me quite the star at the coffee klatch. I’d interrupt my mother’s gossip extravaganza with a well-timed insight gleaned from my burgeoning career as Early adopter: The author, at 17 months, toeing the party line a CIA mole, and she’d yank me into the kitchen for a lecture that started with “Young lady” and segued into, “Now, tell idea why so many women shout to each What a relief me exactly what she said.” By the time other from their porcelain perches, but it is to know I was 6, I couldn’t help wondering why I do hope never to be one of them.

Mom didn’t just invite me to grab a cup Thanks to cellphones, most of us now I’m not the of Maxwell House and pull up a chair. listen in on conversations even if we don’t only one Clearly, I was in the loop. want to. People shouting, all day long.

Up to adolescence, I spent a lot Everything sounds like an emerpretending of time hovering in doorways and gency, too, whether they’re breakmy family is perfecting an air of oblivion ing up with a lover or standing in whenever my mother caught me. the toilet-paper aisle yelling, normal. your Eventually I upgraded to conver- Share “Which!

Brand!” thoughts Connie sations in public places, particu- with My favorite eavesdrop of 2010: Schultz at Parade.com larly in airports, coffeehouses, Woman standing at gas pump in /schultz and bathroom stalls. I have no suburban Cleveland, waving the 18 • December 26, 2010

by Connie Schultz

nozzle with one hand as she screamed into the phone, “Did I not tell you that a wood turtle will run if you don’t latch the gate? You have to go get him! No, don’t call him! He’s not a dog—he’s a turtle! ” Sometimes people who are wired with those hands-free devices trick me into thinking they’re talking to me. Then they get annoyed when I answer.

Boy, that’s embarrassing. Let me offer this blanket apology: I’m sorry I smiled and thought you were talking to me. But you were looking straight at me. And could we work on our delivery? I’m a little tired of strangers rolling their eyes and snapping, “I’m not talking to you.”

Back to eavesdropping: I think overhearing the minutiae of other people’s lives fuels a sense of camaraderie. We really are in this together. And what a relief to know I’m not the only one pretending my family is normal.

At the grocery store recently, I stood for 15 minutes in front of two pretty, middle-aged sisters arguing over who had the pointier nose. We were in the checkout line, where the week before my husband and I had a rather spirited discussion over why he would not be picking out the toiletries again anytime soon. As for the women behind me, they only stopped fighting once they agreed that neither nose compared to the beak on the sister not in attendance.

Being the only daughter who wasn’t a homecoming queen, I felt an immediate solidarity with the missing sister, who was probably the smart one anyway. I’m only guessing, and that is not a statement about my own sisters’ intelligence.

Nor is it a reflection on my mother, who also was a homecoming queen.

Please, hold the sympathy. I’m over it. Really. Which is why I’m going to stop writing now.

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