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Education board to oversee preschool to college
Who shot our cat?
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Family finds Calvin bleeding from .22; police are investigating
Home tech devices to merge into 1 package
By Lauren Dake
By Tim Doran
The Bulletin
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SALEM — Gov. John Kitzhaber announced Friday he was creating a board that will be charged with overseeing Oregonians’ education from preschool to postsecondary education. The new Oregon Education Investment Team, created Friday IN THE by the goverLEGISLATURE nor’s executive order, has been tasked with making the new board — a mainstay of the governor’s proposed budget — a reality. Creating a more integrated approach was a plan Kitzhaber laid out early on and included in his proposed budget. The Oregon Education Investment Team created Friday will take a holistic approach. The team will be responsible for finding efficiencies in the K-12 system and design a performance-based budget to be considered by the 2012 Legislature. Under such a budget, a school would receive funds based on student performance rather than enrollment. And the team, consisting of 12 members appointed by the governor, will eventually create the Oregon Education Investment Board. The new board would be a state entity responsible for integrating early childhood programs with the public school system and higher education, creating a seamless system designed to achieve measurable goals, such as improving dropout rates and testing outcomes. See Education / A6
BendBroadband will be rolling out a first-inthe-nation service, called Alpha, that will combine many home digital devices and services — cable Internet, telephone and video — into one hub, enhance them with more content and features and allow them to communicate. “This is literally revolutionary,” Frank Miller, BendBroadband chief technology officer, said Friday. Miller joined Amy Tykeson, BendBroadband CEO; John Farwell, vice president of operations; and John Childress, product development manager, in a demonstration of the new system, which the company has teased in television commercials and on billboards. At the heart of Alpha is a box, called a media gateway, that’s about the size of a digital video recorder, such as BendBroadband’s DVR with Moxi. It combines into one package the cable Internet modem, wireless router, telephone-service modem and DVR that clutter some BendBroadband customers’ living rooms today. It also will be the platform to provide even more enhanced services in the future. The media gateway’s DVR allows users to record six live shows at once. It also will allow them to play back recordings in bedrooms or other rooms in the home that have televisions equipped with media players, at the same time — even at different points in the show. See Device / A6
Under Obama’s proposal, fewer to own homes
Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin
The Arris media gateway, bottom, combines the functions of a wireless router, cable Internet modem and phone modem. It also includes a digital video recorder that will play back shows in other rooms on TVs equipped with the media player, top.
After Tahrir Square, uncharted ground
Photos by Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin
Colby Scott, 12, holds his cat, Calvin, who turned up bleeding earlier this month from what the Scotts later learned was a .22-caliber bullet.
By Anthony Shadid New York Times News Service
By Binyamin Appelbaum New York Times News Service
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s much-anticipated report on redesigning the government’s role in housing finance, published Friday, is not solely a proposal to dissolve unpopular finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It is also a more audacious call for the federal government to cut back its broadly popular, long-running campaign to help Americans own homes. The three ideas the report outlines for replacing Fannie and Freddie all would raise the cost of mortgage loans and push homeownership beyond reach for some families. That fact is already generating opposition in Congress and among groups ranging from community banks to consumer advocates. See Mortgages / A6
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By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Russ and Colby Scott were surprised Feb. 1 to find their cat, Calvin, wounded on the front steps of their home on Awbrey Butte’s south side. Unable to stop the bleeding from Calvin’s neck and foot, the father and son scooped him up and rushed him to a veterinarian. A few hours later, the vet called to explain that Calvin had been shot. The bullet had passed through the left side of the cat’s neck, then lodged in his right rear foot. “When she came through the door, we saw her foot was messed up, we figured it was a coyote or something at that time,” said Russ, 51. “When they called and said it was definitely a .22, wow, that was the last thing I would imagine.” Both Russ and 12-year-old Colby
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swing back and forth between calling Calvin “he” and “she.” Until they had to take the cat to the vet after the shooting, they didn’t really know either way. Though the Scotts reported the shooting to the Bend Police that day, officers didn’t visit the family’s home on Northwest City Heights Drive until Thursday. But that evening, three officers turned up to speak with Russ and Colby. When the officers left, they took with them the .22-caliber bullet the vet had pulled from Calvin’s foot. They’re keeping it as evidence. Russ was a little disappointed that Bend Police officers didn’t come to his home to take a report promptly after Calvin’s shooting, but he understood that they had more pressing things to do. See Cat / A6
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Vol. 108, No. 43, 64 pages, 6 sections
CAIRO — One revolution ended Friday. Another may soon begin. In a moment that may prove as decisive to the Middle East as the 1967 A N A L Y S I S Arab-Israeli war, 18 days of protest hurtled Egypt once again to the forefront of politics in the Middle East. In the uprising’s ambition, young protesters, savvy with technology and more organized than their rulers, began to rewrite the formula that has underpinned a U.S.-backed order: the nation in the service of a strongman. The ecstatic moments of triumph in Tahrir Square seemed to wash away a lifetime of defeats and humiliations, invasions and occupations that, in the weeks before the revolution, had seemed to mark the bitterest time for both Egypt and the Arab world. See Egypt / A8
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An X-ray shows where the bullet lodged in Calvin’s foot.
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