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KITZHABER’S BUDGET PROPOSAL
Big targets in budget plan For local schools, K-12 cuts and college tuition hikes could be coming
Deer Ridge prison is among them, but local legislators are ‘optimistic’ By Nick Budnick The Bulletin
Gov. John Kitzhaber on Tuesday unveiled a broad-brush austerity 2011-13 budget that proposes holding down state spending while relying on reforms that have neither been crafted nor approved to preserve
school days and health care for needy Oregonians. Kitzhaber proposes to divvy up more than $14.5 billion in spending in ways that will make him few friends. It amounts to an increase of less than $200 million over the budget adopted by the 2009 Legislature. See Budget / A5
TSA tests new body scanners By Brian Bennett
tendent Ron Wilkinson called the governor’s proposal a continued “disinvestment in education.” But COCC President Jim Middleton said although the budget plan would mean tuition hikes, it allocated more money than he expected for community colleges. See Schools / A5
By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — For Central Oregon students, Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposed budget could mean more cuts for kindergarten through 12 grade and higher tuition for college students. Bend-La Pine Schools Superin-
Breaking down the budget blueprint Projected revenue vs. expenditures through 2019
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$20 $15 $10 ’09-’11
Kitzhaber’s budget ’11-’13
’13-’15 ’15-’17 ’17-’19
Proposed General Fund/ Lottery budget for 2011-13
Resources: $14.76 billion Cigarette/tobacco tax 1% All other
Estate tax
1%
Corporate income tax
4%
Expenditures: $14.55 billion Higher ed 6% Other education 4% Community colleges 3% Economic & community dev. 1% Natural resources 2% All other 3%
6%
Personal income tax
82%
Lottery (including beginning balance and carry forward) 6%
State school funding
38%
Public safety/ judicial
Human services 26%
17%
Source: governor.oregon.gov
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By Scott Hammers • The Bulletin
From her home in Cairo, Redmond’s Margaret Maffai has been a witness to the widespread demonstrations that have spread across the Arab world over the last few weeks.
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WASHINGTON — As the uproar over the government’s use of pat-downs and full-body scanners at airports ebbs, new technology is being tested that is designed to allay privacy concerns over the grainy nude images produced by the machines. Scanners being tested in three U.S. airports starting this week will only display for screeners a generic stick figure, and any suspicious object on a passenger’s body will be flagged for inspection by a pale red box on the drawing. A passenger cleared to go will see the screen flash green and read “OK.” Yet even as the new software debuts, the brief public outcry over the new measures during the holiday travel season did not produce a significant surge in complaints by air travelers. While 100 million fliers have passed through airport checkpoints since Nov. 1, the Transportation Security Administration has received fewer than 5,500 complaints about the procedures, or less than .01 percent. And most of those complaints, TSA officials said, were not from individuals who were flying. See Scanners / A5
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Maffai, 28, a 1999 graduate of Redmond High School, has lived in
Excerpts from Margaret Maffai’s e-mails to her parents: Jan. 26, 1:24 a.m.: “My neighborhood was actually the most peaceful I’ve ever seen it yesterday. I had a nice stroll with [dog] Whiskey around noon and it was the warmest day we’ve had so far, blue sky, not a lot of traffic (because the police had blocked the bridge that connects my neighborhood directly to downtown). ... In the evening ... people were dressed to go out to dinner or to bars and didn’t seem overly concerned. ... Around midnight, I could hear shooting coming from the downtown area. ... Our best guess was that these were rubber crowd control bullets. ... But rest assured, today is just a normal (boring) day at the office.”
Jan 26, 1:05 p.m.: “I went home from work a little early today since we didn’t like the look of the streets around our office a little after 5. Too quiet with a few too many young guys hanging around not doing anything. Waiting for protests to start. ... I heard some banging earlier but it was hard to tell [what] I was hearing. ... The air outside has a sort of cordite hot metal sulphury smell like gunfire. There’s no way they were shooting in my neighborhood. ... The government has called for a total crackdown. ... I am set to hunker down in my apartment and make casseroles for a few days if necessary. ... If the roads are ever actually closed off, my friend Amani has said she can have someone pick us up in her boat and drive us on the Nile back to Zamalek [Maffai’s Cairo neighborhood].”
• Jan. 25: Dubbed the “Day of Rage,” last Tuesday saw the first large-scale protest organized by young Egyptians who were inspired by a popular uprising in Tunisia. It began peacefully, but police used tear gas and water hoses to disperse crowds in downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square. • Jan. 26: Despite a government order against protests, small-scale gatherings continued last Wednesday. The next night, Thursday, the government shut down Internet service. On Friday, the peaceful protests turned into violent riots across Egypt.
Egypt’s capital for about 1½ years, said her mother, Susan Maffai. After attending the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin law school, Margaret Maffai took a job in Egypt working for a construction company. Tuesday, Susan Maffai shared a series of e-mails between her, her daughter, and friends and family with The Bulletin as a way of shedding some light on what the demonstrations look like up close. Beginning Jan. 25, millions of Egyptians have poured into the streets of Cairo and other major cities, demonstrating in opposition to the government of President Hosni Mubarak. See Egypt / A4
When the Internet was blocked, Margaret’s mother remained in contact with her over the phone and sent these e-mails about her daughter’s situation to friends and family:
Jan 30: “I just got off the phone with Margaret. She is getting a cold and is tired. Otherwise she is fine. ... She is frustrated with the guidance from the US Embassy. It is ‘encouraging US citizens to consider’ leaving Egypt. (Whatever that means!) She has considered it and has determined, at least for the near future, that she will stay. ... A retired general in her [neighborhood] has organized the shop owners and young men ... into a nonviolent local defense group (armed with sticks and pipes, not guns) to protect the neighborhood from intruders during curfew hours.” Jan 31: “She reports that her neighborhood watch has been successful in protecting it from those with hurtful intent. She made more banana bread for the group saying it was a hit when eaten with tea. ... The demonstrators are ignoring all the curfews and today began to assemble in Tahrir Square for tomorrow’s ... demonstration.”
• Jan. 30: Over the weekend, residents were forming neighborhoodwatch groups as the protests continued. On Sunday, grocery staples disappeared from store shelves as Egyptians stockpiled goods. • Jan. 31: Protesters gathered downtown again Monday. Opposition groups rejected the new Cabinet and planned a “million-strong” march. Victoria Hazou / The Associated Press
Feb 1: “She says her neighborhood is extremely quiet because of many residents
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going to the [demonstration] today. She said the demonstration is peaceful with a great spirit of camaraderie. She wants the U.S. to publicly support the cause of the Egyptian people. She said that the rumor of Mubarak agreeing not to run in the next election is, if true, a huge concession, but she doesn’t think it will be enough to satisfy the people. They want him gone now. She saw a sign in Tahrir Square that said, YES, WE CAN, TOO.”
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A different kind of Lab test to detect colorectal cancer By Karen Kaplan
Vol. 108, No. 33, 32 pages, 6 sections
LOS ANGELES — The doctor will see you now — and she has four legs and a tail. Japanese researchers have trained an 8-year-old Labrador retriever to diagnose colorectal
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• Feb. 1: Hundreds of thousands flooded into Tahrir Square for the biggest rally of the week. In the afternoon, Hosni Mubarak announced he’d step down in September.
More than a quarter-million people flooded Cairo Tuesday, filling Tahrir Square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. In a nationally televised address, Mubarak, right, said he would not seek re-election in September, but refused to step down.
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cancer by smelling a patient’s breath and/or stool. The dog, which previously worked in water rescue, had an overall accuracy of 95 percent when using the breath test and 98 percent for the stool test, according to a study published
this week in the journal Gut. To train the dog, researchers first let her sniff a breath sample from a patient with colorectal cancer. Then they presented her with a panel of breath samples — one from a cancer patient and four from healthy people. When
the dog recognized the sample from the cancer patient, the reward was some quality time with a tennis ball. In the Gut study, the dog was presented with 36 panels of breath samples. Overall, she correctly identified 91 per-
cent of the samples that were from cancer patients, and she correctly ignored 99 percent of the samples from healthy volunteers. The dog did a better job evaluating 38 panels of stool samples. See Cancer / A5