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America’s return to exporting democracy?

By Peter Baker New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The cheers of Tahrir Square were heard around the world. But if you listened carefully, you might have heard cheering from another quarter 7,000 miles from Cairo as well, in Dallas.

The revolution in Egypt has reopened a long-simmering debate about the “freedom agenda” that animated George W. Bush’s presidency. Was he right after all, as his supporters have argued? Or are they claiming credit he might not deserve? And has Barack Obama picked up the mantle of democracy and made it his own?

The debate in Washington, and Dallas, where Bush now lives, tends to overlook the reality that revolutions in far-off countries are for the most part built from the ground up, not triggered by policy made in the halls of the West Wing. But the lessons of the Egyptian uprising will ripple through American politics, policymaking and history-shaping for some time to come.

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By Sheila G. Miller and Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

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A white plague The “dramatic” invasive disease sweeping the

mysterious disease has wiped out bat populations in Northeastern states, killing between 80 and 100 percent of the hibernating mammals in some caves and spreading to 16 states and two Canadian provinces since its 2006 discovery.

“It’s just moving like wildfire,” said Pat Ormsbee, bat specialist for the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Oregon and Washington.

To prevent the disease, called white-nose syndrome, from taking hold locally, the Forest Service is developing a plan to try to protect the area’s bats. The

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agency is considering ideas that include setting up decontamination stations at Lava River Cave, requiring visitors to be with a guided group in the popular tourist site, or possibly closing some caves to visitors.

“This is considered, if not the (then) one of the most dramatic invasive wildlife diseases we’ve ever seen,” Ormsbee said. “And we’ve got to do what we have to do to take care of it.”

Forest Service biologists have not yet developed an official plan for how to protect bats from the white-nose syndrome, she said. But they’re hoping to have a draft of options sometime this spring with a plan in hand before next winter.

“There’s still a lot to work

Signs of unrest, even in a newly democratic Iraq

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Central Oregon school districts, already stretched thin from rounds of cuts, face millions in budget gaps if the governor’s two-year spending plan is adopted as written.

Bend-La Pine Expected gap:

$19M Redmond Expected gap:

$10M Sisters Expected gap:

$1.5M Crook County Expected gap:

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“With Kitzhaber’s budget, we’re not as bad as we originally thought now that the numbers are out, but it’s still not good for us.”

— Crook County Superintendent Ivan Hernandez

This photo shows a little brown bat hanging at Greeley Mine in Stockbridge, Vt. The bat is affected by white-nose syndrome, caused by a newly discovered cold-loving fungus, Geomyces destructans, that invades the skin of bats.

Millions of bats from New Hampshire to Tennessee have been discovered dead.

In some colonies, 80 to 100 percent of the bats have died. Bats affected with the disease exhibit low body fat, fly around during the day when the insects they prey upon are not available, and often move to colder parts of the cave.

Although the disease has not been documented in Central Oregon bats, wildlife experts are developing strategies to deal with the invasion, if it comes.

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through on this,” she said. “We’re hoping we have a little time.”

Scientists believe that white-nose syndrome, characterized by a white ring around a bat’s nose, is caused by a fungus called Geomyces destructans. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that since 2008, more than a million bats have died from white-nose syndrome, and the fungus has spread as far west as Oklahoma.

How the fungus might kill bats is still something that scientists are trying to decipher, Ormsbee said.

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Spreading fast: white-nose syndrome

By Liz Sly BAGHDAD — If there is to be a revolution in Iraq akin to the one that toppled Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, it is off to an inauspicious start. There were only 200 to 300 people here Friday, all of them male, watched over by an equal number of Iraqi soldiers who lounged casually in the sunshine against their Humvees.

Yet there seems to be little doubt that the tumult in Egypt is stirring a deep well of discontent not only among Arabs living under autocratic rule elsewhere but also in Iraq, the one country in the region that can claim to have experienced democracy after dictatorship.

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On Friday, Neil Marchington, with the Oregon High Desert Grotto caving group, pointed out typical bat habitat in Boyd Cave. He and a growing number of other cavers decontaminate their gear after exploring to help prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome.

it may have consequences for local spelunkers.

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Across Baghdad on Friday, protesters painted a picture of a country they said has fewer services and more corruption than Egypt. Banners in Arabic read, “From Cairo to Baghdad, no for corruption.”

In our caves

country has local wildlife experts on alert — and

By Kate Ramsayer

Khalid Mohammed / The Associated Press

Over the past two years, school district officials in the region have talked of cutting the fat out of their budgets. Now it’s looking more like bone to superintendents anticipating less state support than they received over the past two biennia.

The governor’s proposed budget provides Oregon public schools with $5.56 billion for the biennium, with 52 percent of that coming in the 2011-12 school year. In his budget, John Kitzhaber wrote that front-loading the two-year budget would allow districts to spend the first year finding cost savings through efficiencies and consolidation.

In 2009-11, the state handed $5.73 billion to school districts; in 2007-09, it gave them $6.13 billion.

Bend-La Pine Schools alone faces a budget gap of $19 million at worst. According to Superintendent Ron Wilkinson, the district needs a $130 million budget to return to a full school year, to cover pay increases in the Public Employees Retirement System, and to get teacher and staff contracts back in line. It’s currently budgeting to operate on between $110 million and $115 million.

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THE FEDERAL BUDGET

As threat list grows, realizing few cuts at the Pentagon

By Nancy A. Youssef McClatchy-Tribune News Service

The rise of do-it-yourself redistricting

By Josh Goodman Stateline.org

Dave Bradlee was a software developer for Micro-soft for 20 years.

He also has a fanatical interest in politics and maps. Not long ago, with the states’ once-a-decade task of redrawing political district lines approaching, there was a question Bradlee couldn’t

get out of his head: “Wouldn’t it be cool if people could actually draw districts themselves?”

On his own time, he built an online mapping tool he calls “Dave’s Redistricting App.” It’s free, and anyone can use it. You choose a state, decide how many districts to slice it into, and then click away, coloring the map into lots

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of tiny pieces. As you draw your own congressional or state legislative districts, the app spits out census data on each one’s population and racial composition. With a little persistence, anyone can produce a redistricting plan.

And Bradlee quickly discovered he wasn’t alone in his passions.

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Despite calls on Capitol Hill for major defense budget cuts, the Pentagon this week will unveil the largest budget in its history — driven by an expanding list of what defines national security.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said his proposed $553 billion budget represents “the minimum level of defense spending that is necessary, given the complex and unpredictable array of security chal- Inside lenges the United States faces.”

• Obama to Those challenges now include unveil budget pandemic diseases, piracy, human Monday, trafficking, rising oceans, national Page A3 debt, education, cyberwarfare, the wars on terrorism and traditional state-to-state threats.

But defense analysts, budget experts and some members of Congress take a more jaundiced view, saying the insistence that the U.S. fund a military poised to address every type of possible threat not only thwarts efforts to control the deficit but also makes it difficult to set priorities on what threats the nation really faces.

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Will Egypt’s revolution echo Iran’s?

Military assures Egypt and neighbors: Don’t be afraid

By Anthony Shadid

The promises: Democracy will come soon; peace treaty with Israel will stay

New York Times News Service

CAIRO — Two Egyptian leaders have been struck down in 30 years: one by an Islamist assassin’s bullets, the other by the demands of hundreds of thousands of protesters in a peaceful uprising. The first event, the death of President Anwar Sadat, marked a spectacle of the most militant brand of political Islam. The revolution the world witnessed Friday, the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, may herald the dawn of something else.

There is a fear in the West, one rarely echoed here, that Egypt’s revolution could go the way of Iran’s, when radical Islamists ultimately commandeered a movement that began with a far broader base. But the two are very different countries. In Egypt, the uprising offers the possibility of an accommodation with political Islam rare in the Arab world — that without the repression that accompanied Mubarak’s rule, Islam could present itself in a more moderate guise.

Egypt’s was a revolution of diversity, a proliferation of voices — of youth, women and workers as well as the religious — all of which will struggle for influence. Here, political Islam will most likely face a new kind of challenge: proving its relevance and popularity in a country undergoing seismic change.

Of countries in the region, only Turkey has managed to incorporate currents of political Islam into a system that has so far proven viable, but its bold experiment remains unfinished. The rest of the region is strewn with disasters.

Repression of Islamists In Egypt, repression of its Islamic activists helped give rise to the most extremist forces in the Muslim world — leadership of alQaida in Afghanistan and an insurgency against its own government in the 1990s.

But at its core the revolt that finally toppled Mubarak had a very different set of demands. Its organizers rallied to broad calls for freedom, social justice and a vague sense of nationalism that coalesced around a demand that distant and often incompetent rulers had to treat them with respect. They were voiced by youth, women, workers and adherents of revived currents of liberalism, the left and Arab nationalism, spread by social networks made possible by new technology.

The Muslim Brotherhood, a mainstream group that stands as the most venerable of the Arab world’s Islamic movements, is of course also a contender to lead a new Egypt. It has long been the most organized and credible opposition to Mubarak. But it also must prepare to enter the fray of an emerging democratic system.

“This is not yesterday’s Egypt,” declared Amal Borham, a protester in the square.

“It is their right to participate as much as it is mine, as much as it is anyone else’s in this country,” added Borham, who considers herself secular. “They are part of this society, and they have been made to stay in the shadows for a very long time.”

The protests illustrated the challenges before the Brotherhood and other Islamic groups.

While the Brotherhood eventually brought its organizational prowess to the demonstrations — organizing security and deploying its followers overnight, when the protests lulled — it was reluctant to join at first. Indeed, many protesters saw it as a representative of an old guard that they believed had for so long failed to answer society’s problems.

Perhaps most importantly, the revolutions occurred a generation apart, a note echoed in the Brotherhood stronghold of Munira, along streets of graceful balustrades of the colonial era and the utilitarian architecture of Nasser and his successors.

“The people are aware this time,” said Essam Salem, a 50year-old resident there. “They’re not going to let them seize power.

People aren’t going to be deceived again. This is a popular revolution, a revolution of the youth, not an Islamic revolution.”

By Kareem Fahim New York Times News Service

CAIRO — As a new era dawned in Egypt on Saturday, the army leadership sought to reassure Egyptians and the world that it would shepherd a transition to civilian rule and honor international commitments like the peace treaty with Israel.

Exultant and exhausted opposition leaders claimed their role in the country’s future, pressing the army to lift the country’s emergency law and release political prisoners and saying they would present their vision for the government. And they vowed to return to Tahrir Square this week to honor those who had died in the 18-day uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule.

In an announcement broadcast on state television, an army spokesman said Egypt would continue to abide by all of its international and regional treaties and the current civilian leadership would manage the country’s affairs until the formation of a new government. But he did not discuss a timetable for any transfer of power, and it was unclear how and when talks with opposition figures would take place.

The impact of Egypt’s uprising rippled across the Arab world, as protesters turned out in Algeria, where the police arrested leading organizers, and in Yemen, where pro-government forces beat demonstrators with clubs.

The Palestinian leadership responded by announcing that it planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections

by September. And in Tunisia, which inspired Egypt’s uprising, hundreds demonstrated to cheer Mubarak’s ouster.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will travel to Jordan and Israel for talks as both countries deal with the reverberations from Egypt’s revolution.

Amr Hamzawy, who has acted as a mediator between the protesters and the government, said that “everyone is taking a break,” though he expressed concern with the vague nature of the army’s most recent statements.

“What is the timeline we are looking at?” he said. “Is it September?” He also said it was unclear whether the army council ruling the country favored amending the constitution or starting from scratch, which is

Scott Nelson / New York Times News Service

Egyptian soldiers pose with children for pictures following Friday’s announcement that President Hosni Mubarak was stepping down. Many in Tahrir Square were pouring love on the military: Families put babies on the laps of soldiers on tanks for photos; crowds cheered when a line of soldiers jogged by. But there was also the realization that the military’s ultimate intention is unclear. “We don’t know what they’ll do; they might keep hanging on to power,” said Muhammed Ali, a 22-yearold archaeology student who argued for the protests to continue. the preferred solution for many of the protesters.

There was also no clear sign from the military about whether it intended to abolish Parliament, Hamzawy said, adding that so far the military’s tone had been “very, very positive.”

Much of the confusion was caused by the way Mubarak left, he said. “He was trying very hard to stay in office, and he played his last card” by delegating authority to Vice President Omar Suleiman, he said. “It badly failed, and they pushed him out.”

Protesters’ demands A coalition of youth groups that organized the protests issued their first cohesive list of demands for handling the transition to democracy. Their focus was on ensuring they — not just the military or members of Mubarak’s regime — have a seat at the table in deliberations shaping the future.

Among their demands: lifting of emergency law; creation of a presidential council, made up of a military representative and two “trusted personalities”; the dissolving of the ruling party-

dominated parliament; and the forming of a broad-based unity government and a committee to either amend or rewrite completely the constitution.

“The revolution is not over.

This is just a beginning. We are working on how to move into a second republic,” said Shady el-Ghazali Harb, the representative on the coalition from one of the youth organizing groups, the Democratic Front.

Protesters were debating whether to lift their 24-houra-day demonstration camp in Tahrir. The coalition called for it to end and be replaced by weekly mass demonstrations every Friday to keep pressure on. But many in the square argued to remain. One man on a megaphone encouraged everyone to stay until all their demands were met, while others chanted “the people want the square to be cleared,” referring to public grumbling that the protest camp is disrupting life downtown.

With Mubarak gone, Egypt’s future will likely be shaped by three powers: the military, the protesters, and the sprawling autocratic infrastructure of Mubarak’s regime that remains

in place, dominating the bureaucracy, the police, state media and parts of the economy. Right now, the protesters’ intentions are the clearest of the bunch.

The Armed Forces Supreme Council is now the official ruler after Mubarak handed it power on Friday. It consists of the commanders of each military branch, the chief of staff and Defense Minister Hussein Tantawy. It has not explicitly canceled the constitution drawn up by Mubarak’s regime, but the constitution seems to have effectively been put in a cupboard for the time being until it is decided what to do with it.

The Supreme Council has pledged to ensure free elections and constitutional reforms, not to punish demonstrators and to defend “the legitimate demands of the people” who took to the streets for 18 days to force Mubarak from power. Behind the scenes, however, soldiers and military police are said to be carrying out the same kinds of arbitrary arrests and torture of which Egyptian police have long been accused.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Obama wields scalpel to budget; GOP, an ax

By Andrew Taylor The Associated Press

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At the halfway point of a first term in which President Barack Obama has relied mostly on the counsel of a tightly closed inner circle, Vice President Joe Biden, shown with the president in October, is assuming a more prominent and influential role.

The president’s new point person: his VP

By Margaret Talev McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Suddenly, Vice President Joe Biden is everywhere.

Leading talks in Egypt to help shape the transition to democracy.

Meeting with prominent deficit and tax policy experts as President Barack Obama seeks bipartisan agreements on both fronts.

Zipping through Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq on a whirlwind war-policy tour.

And that’s just since January.

From the start of his presidency, Obama looked for Biden to play a substantive role. That role has grown more visible, and probably more important, since Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in November, forcing Obama to work more cooperatively with Republicans, something Biden’s done for a lifetime.

“What’s changed is who’s up there on the Hill,” said Ron Klain, who stepped down last month as Biden’s chief of staff. “The vice president has good relationships with Republicans, and he’ll try to use those relationships to the administration’s advantage.”

White House aides and former Senate colleagues say the rise of the Republicans in Congress coincided with an evolution in the Biden-Obama relationship.

They didn’t know each other all that well before their election and forged a partnership while combating the worst economic downturn in 70 years.

Over the past two years, said top adviser David Axelrod, who left the White House last month to plot the 2012 re-election campaign, Obama learned “what a faithful adviser and advocate Biden could be.”

Daily interaction Obama and Biden see each other nearly every day when they’re in town, often for three or four hours. Biden typically attends the president’s morning briefing, as well as economic huddles and meetings of the Cabinet and national security teams. In Oval Office sessions, Biden typically sits in the wing chair next to the president. They share weekly lunches.

They’ve also spent some time bonding over girls’ basketball, with Obama’s younger daughter and one of Biden’s granddaughters playing for the same team.

Obama hopes to focus his administration’s attention this year on economic issues, and Biden, 68, after a 36-year year Senate career and long friendships on both sides of the aisle, is poised to play a prominent role in negotiations on Capitol Hill.

Many of Biden’s former Senate colleagues saw the lame-duck congressional session that followed last November’s elections as a transition for the vice president, a sign that Obama empow-

“When you had big Democratic majorities, you didn’t really need to negotiate with anybody, and now you do. Joe is a product of the Congress and getting things done.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. ered him to negotiate and see what he could accomplish.

Biden was key to the $858 billion tax cut extension deal that also extended unemployment benefits. He also gave Senate Republicans enough reassurance to pass a stalled nuclear arms treaty with Russia.

“I think in a divided government, he’s going to be more valuable,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “When you had big Democratic majorities, you didn’t really need to negotiate with anybody, and now you do. Joe is a product of the Congress and getting things done.”

Despite Biden’s center-left views, Graham said, “He never asks you to do things you can’t.

He knows there’s a limit to what a politician from South Carolina can do, or a politician from Pennsylvania.” In the nuclear and tax negotiations, Graham said, “Republicans knew you could trust Joe.”

Behind the scenes In contrast, Biden’s early White House duties seemed more about carrying out set policy than shaping the deals. He was the point man on Iraq and a middle-class task force. He was the lead cheerleader for the implementation of the $862 billion stimulus, even as it faced criticism from Republicans.

Behind the scenes, he often weighed in as a contrarian. He held a pessimistic view of the war in Afghanistan and pushed against a large troop escalation.

He didn’t prevail, but he influenced Obama’s controversial decision to announce that troop withdrawals would begin in July.

Biden also schedules regular breakfasts with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Foreign policy analysts say the two have remained close, even as Biden has been tasked with the sometimes overlapping role of diplomacy management. Besides his multiple trips to Iraq, Biden has visited 22 other countries and the Palestinian territories in his first two years on the job. He often meets with foreign leaders in Washington. What remains to be seen is how much of Biden’s energies shift toward domestic issues — namely, the economy.

Pakistani court issues warrant for Musharraf band. The stunning alISLAMABAD — A legation that Musharraf Pakistani court issued — a self-declared oppoan arrest warrant for nent of Islamic militancy ousted military leader — was linked to extremPervez Musharraf on ists accused in the attack Saturday over allegawas likely to keep him tions he played a role in out of Pakistan, at least the 2007 assassination Gen. Pervez in the short term. of an ex-prime minister Musharraf His possible arrest and rival. It was a major abroad did not appear setback for the one-time imminent. Musharraf’s U.S. ally, who was plotspokesman said the forting a political comeback from mer leader was in Dubai, with no outside the country. plans to go to Pakistan. MushMusharraf, who has not been arraf left Pakistan for Britain in charged, described accusations 2008 after being forced out of the that he had a hand in the attack on presidency he secured in a 1999 ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto military coup. The new presias a smear campaign by a govern- dent, Asif Ali Zardari, is Bhutto’s ment led by her aggrieved hus- widower.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s budget submission on Monday will take a surgical approach to a deficit problem that his Republican rivals say warrants a meat ax.

As Obama seeks $53 billion for high-speed rail over the next few years, House Republicans are trying to pull back $2.5 billion that’s already been promised. He’s seeking increases for his “Race to the Top” initiative that provides grants to better-performing schools; Republicans on Friday unveiled a 5 percent cut to schools serving the disadvantaged.

Monday’s release of next year’s budget plan will be likely ignored by resurgent Republicans intent on cutting $100 billion from the presi-

A N A LY S I S dent’s old budget. The GOP drive to slash 2011 spending and much of the savings sought by Obama involve just a small piece of the budget pie — the annual domestic agency budgets that make up just one-tenth of federal spending. Tea party-backed House Republicans are trying to slash tens of billions of dollars in such programs to return them to levels when Obama first took office.

Obama’s promise to freeze budgets of domestic agencies at 2010 levels for five years — an austere plan by itself — looks generous by comparison.

In fact, the upcoming budget is unlikely to even meet the president’s own goal set last year of getting the deficit down to 3 percent of the size of the economy by 2015.

Republicans say that Obama’s freeze on domestic accounts funded by Congress each year — which amounts to just about 10 cents of every dollar the government spends — simply keeps in place a generous 24 percent increase awarded by Democrats over the past two years.

The House GOP budget measure unveiled Friday is loaded with pain: a $1.1 billion, 15 percent cut to Head Start; a massive $3 billion — or two-thirds — cut in community development block grants that are treasured by local officials. Health research, foreign aid and the Peace Corps would be sharply cut. That measure was drafted after an earlier version was too timid for freshmen elected last fall with help from tea party activists. Some $26 billion in cuts were added, almost doubling those in the earlier measure.

CPAC closes, introducing a wide-open 2012 field Bulletin wire reports The Conservative Political Action Conference wrapped up three days of speeches in Washington on Saturday with a straw poll listing 15 potential Republican candidates for president in 2012. This is the first important event in the dawning 2012 election cycle.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, with 30 percent of the 3,742 votes cast, won, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with 23 percent, finished in a strong second. Paul is a hero to libertarians and has a fiercely loyal following; Romney won in 2007 and 2008.

Others were grouped far behind. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who devoted much of his Friday speech to marijuana legalization; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has pledged not to run for president or vice president; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty; Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a tea party darling; and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a fiscal conservative, were among those in single digits. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, two high-profile Republicans who did not attend, were also in single digits.

Many potential candidates made speeches at the conference, attended by more than 11,000 conservative leaders and activists.

The poll found the top issues for those at the conference were reducing the size of the federal government, reducing government spending and lowering taxes.

But another possible candidate who spoke Saturday was former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, a Bush administration appointee. Bolton has said he would like to run largely to ensure that foreign policy is central to the 2012 debate.

Though most other potential contenders said little about the situation in Egypt, Bolton devoted nearly his entire speech to the subject. He gave a fiery condemnation of the Obama administration’s approach, calling it “hesitant, inconsistent, confused and just plain wrong.”

CPAC organizers acknowledged that the poll is less an indicator than it is a way to stir up debate and encourage political participation. “At one level, it’s entertainment,” said David Keene, outgoing chairman of the group that organizes CPAC, the American Conservative Union.

Alex Brandon / The Associated Press

Martha Stamp, of Wakefield, R.I. — wearing teabags on her hat — applauds Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.

Big promises — can Republicans deliver?

By Liz Sidoti The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republicans who want to be the one to make Barack Obama a oneterm president are promising big changes should the GOP win the White House in 2012.

“Economic growth, job creation, smaller government, less spending, lower taxes, rational regulation and a stronger presence in the world,” as Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour put it Saturday — echoing a slew of others also considering running.

These grandiose pledges sell well to the die-hard conservatives who play an outsized early role in determining the GOP nominee. But would — could — Republicans do all they say?

The realities of governing often conflict with the rhetoric of campaigning. Just ask Obama, who often says: “Change is hard.”

He had some major achievements in his first two years, including the new health care law. But he failed to make good on other campaign promises — closing the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists, for example.

Now in charge of the House, Republican leaders are discovering for themselves that it’s not easy to keep pledges made in the heat of a campaign.

They said last fall they would cut $100 billion from the federal budget. Once put into power, they soon scaled back their goal, a concession to the difficulty of slicing into pet projects.

Under pressure now from freshman lawmakers backed by the tea party, they’re trying to stick to their original goal.

Still, unforeseen circumstances — wars, a recession — also can derail the best-laid plans. And all that was lost on the Republican presidential wannabes who auditioned

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before more than 10,000 people at this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest such gathering of the year so far and the unofficial kickoff of the 2012 GOP nomination fight.

One by one, Republican hopefuls sketched out a broad vision of America under GOP rule, hoping to woo conservatives whose support is critical. There was little daylight on the major policy issues. Most emphasized longtime conservative tenets — lower taxes, smaller government, a strong defense — and called for scrapping Obama’s health care plan.

“We need to restore American confidence, American optimism and America’s hope for the future,” said former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. “None of this is going to be easy.”

Others started to try to distinguish themselves from the pack with proposals that at first blush seem extraordinarily difficult — if not unlikely — to accomplish.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for replacing the Environmental Protection Agency with an agency focused on environmental and energy solutions.

One-upping Gingrich was former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. He pledged to legalize marijuana.

Defense Continued from A1 During the Cold War, the military had to be prepared to fight two simultaneous wars. Now, it must be good at everything.

“The strategy doesn’t drive the budget. It’s the other way around,” said Christopher Preble, director for foreign policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “What you have is an existing force structure, and then Washington trying to figure out how to use it.”

Pentagon planning documents show the extent of the problem — experts said the list of threats the military cites has never been so expansive.

In his annual guidance this year to U.S. troops on what he thinks should be the Pentagon’s priorities, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, named Afghanistan, China, Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan as areas the U.S. must focus on. He called for stressing cyberwarfare and the health of the force as well.

The Pentagon’s quadrennial defense review, which the military produces in part to outline its priorities, last year called for U.S. forces to be prepared for a range of warfare “from homeland defense and defense support to civil authorities, to deterrence and preparedness missions — occurring in multiple and unpredictable combinations.”

It called climate change “an accelerant of instability,” marking the first time such a document linked environmental issues with national security.

And on piracy and human trafficking, it found the U.S. must invest more in “regional maritime security organizations in order to protect vital sea lines of communication.”

Doing all that requires 3 percent more money next year, Gates has said, not including spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such a boost would mark the 14th year in a row that Pentagon spending has increased, despite the disappearing presence in Iraq. In dollar terms, Pentagon spending has more than doubled in 10 years. Even adjusted for inflation, the Defense Department budget has risen 65 percent over the past decade.

Gates has proposed some trims that total about $78 billion over five years, and shrinking by 47,000 the size of the Army and the Marines Corps in 2015.

But the bottom line figure would still go up during that time, with projected spending totaling $643 billion in 2015 and $735 billion on 2020. Even with the reduction in staffing forecast for 2015, the Army and Marines Corps would be larger than they were when the Iraq and Afghanistan wars began.

That approach has angered some and frustrated others.

“It’s hard to say (Washington) made tough choices,” said Lawrence Korb, a budget expert at the Center for American Progress.

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CLEANUP, NOT PROTEST, THE IMPERATIVE IN TAHRIR SQUARE

Continued from A1 Bush made “ending tyranny in our world” the centerpiece of his second inaugural address, and, although he appeared to pursue it selectively, he considers it one of his signature legacies. The very notion of democracy promotion became so associated with him, and with the war in Iraq, that Democrats believed it was now discredited. Never mind that Republican and Democratic presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan, had championed liberty overseas; by the time Bush left office, it had become a polarizing concept.

New York Times News Service

Not Obama’s mission?

Obama was seen by some supporters as the realist counterbalance who would put aside the zealous rhetoric in favor of a more nuanced approach. He preached the virtues of democracy in speeches but did not portray it as the mission of his presidency.

When the Green Movement protesters of Iran took to the streets of Tehran, Obama’s relatively muted response generated strong criticism.

By contrast, foreign policy specialists said, Obama’s embrace of the Egyptian protesters in the past couple of weeks, if cautious at times and confused by conflicting signals from others in his administration, seemed to suggest a turning point.

“He got on the right side of this thing when a lot of the foreign policy establishment was cautioning otherwise,” said Robert Kagan, a Brookings Institution scholar who long before the revolution helped assemble a nonpartisan group of policy experts to press for democratic change in Egypt. “And he got it right. This may strengthen his confidence the next time this kind of thing happens.”

For Obama, the challenge may be to define the spread of liberty and democracy as a nonpartisan American goal, removing it from the political debate that has surrounded it in recent years. Democrats who have long worked on the issue have expressed hope that he can shed the goal’s association with Bush, while framing it in a way that accounts for perceived mistakes of the last administration.

“The stirring events in Egypt and Tunisia should reinforce what has always been a bipartisan ambition because they are vivid reminders of universal democratic aspirations and America’s role in supporting those aspirations,” said Kenneth Wollock, president of the National Democratic Institute, a government-financed group affiliated with the Democratic Party that promotes civil society abroad.

Finding the right balance has never been easy. Bush focused on democracy as a goal after the invasion of Iraq found none of the weapons of mass destruction reported by U.S. intelligence agencies. He elevated it to a central theme in his second inaugural address, according to advisers, to infuse the war on terrorism with a positive mission beyond simply hunting down terrorists. His argument was that more freedom would undercut radicalism.

But there was always an internal tension in his administration. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld makes clear in his new memoir that he thought the emphasis on democracy was misplaced, given the difficulties of transplanting Western-style institutions in regions accustomed to autocracy. Then, in 2006, the election of a Palestinian government led by Hamas quieted some of the administration’s ardor for democracy.

Political reform Matt Latimer, a former Bush speechwriter, recalled in a recent column in The Daily Beast that he prepared a ringing speech on democracy for the president to deliver while in Egypt in his final year in office, only to have it watered down at the last minute.

“Demands for reform in Egypt became a mere ‘hope’ that Egypt might ‘one day’ lead the way for political reform,” Latimer wrote.

Still, in recent days, former Bush advisers like Elliott Abrams and Peter Wehner have written columns recalling the former president’s calls for change, and crediting them with setting the stage for what would come later in the Middle East, a region that skeptics often said would never move toward democracy. Whatever the final language of the 2008 appearance in Sharm elSheikh, they said Bush spoke to democratic ideals.

“He was right in saying, for the first time, that people in the Middle East wanted freedom as much as people in any other region, and in beginning through

Officials to open ‘all the files’ to track Mubarak’s wealth

Scott Nelson / New York Times News Service

On Egypt’s first day in nearly 30 years without Hosni Mubarak as president, the protesters’ first act was deeply symbolic of their ambition to build a new Egypt and their determination to do it themselves: Thousands began cleaning up Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, the epicenter of their movement. The sprawling plaza was battered and trashed by 18 days of street battles and rallies by hundreds of thousands.

Even as thousands flowed in to celebrate, broom brigades fanned out, with smiling young men and women — some in stylish clothes and earrings — sweeping up rubble and garbage. Others repaired sidewalks torn apart for concrete chunks to use as ammunition in fightdiplomacy and programs to help,” said Lorne Craner, a Bush assistant secretary of state for democracy and currently president of the International Republican Institute.

Craner said, “His message became conflated with the method of displacing Saddam Hussein in Iraq,” and to too many, “the freedom agenda meant invading a country and staying there while IEDs were going off.” But, he added, “Bush placed us on the right side of history, and that served the interests of democrats in the region and the United States as well.”

Not everyone sees it that way, especially in the Obama White House, where the assertion ran-

ing with pro-regime gangs. Young veiled girls painted the metal railings of fences along the sidewalk. “Sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re building Egypt,” read placards many wore.

“We are cleaning the square now because it is ours,” said Omar Mohammed, a 20-year-old student. “After living here for three weeks, it has become our home.”

Piles of trash were packed into bags. Young men repainted curbs in the black-and-white pattern used in Cairo, then stood in lines to prevent crowds from marring the wet paint. Burnt-out vehicles used as barricades during the fighting were towed away.

— The Associated Press

kles deeply. “Was Bush right?” scoffed one Obama adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Give me a break. How many democratic transformations like this took place when he was in office?”

Several, actually, in Ukraine, Georgia, Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan, where popular risings also toppled entrenched ruling systems. But later events in those countries also showed that such first steps did not necessarily point in a straight line to lasting Jeffersonian democracy. Similarly, the change in Egypt has only begun, as Obama pointed out Friday. Its final destination is still very much up in the air.

So, too, is Obama’s destina-

tion. Aides said he has been focused on the issue of democracy abroad since the beginning of his tenure. Last fall, they compiled a 17-page, single-spaced compendium of speech excerpts to show it. But he seems to have found more of a voice in the past six months.

On Aug. 16, officials said, he issued a formal but unpublicized presidential study directive seeking a review of political reform in the Middle East and North Africa.

The following month, he gave a speech at the United Nations in which he declared that “part of the price of our own freedom is standing up for the freedom of others.” And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likewise gave

After Hosni Mubarak’s younger son, Gamal, left his job as an executive with Bank of America in London in the mid-1990s, he joined forces with Egypt’s largest investment bank. Today, he has a significant stake in a private equity company with interests throughout the Egyptian economy, from oil to agriculture to tourism, corporate records and interviews show.

During President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30year rule, he and his family were not flamboyant with their wealth. While there is no indication that Gamal Mubarak or the bank were involved in illegal activity, his investments show how deeply the family is woven into the Egypt’s economy.

Now with Hosni Mubarak out of power, there are growing calls for an accounting to begin.

Swiss officials ordered all banks in Switzerland to search for — and freeze — any assets of the former president, his family or close associates. In Egypt, opposition leaders vowed to press for a full investigation of Mubarak’s finances.

Tracing the money is likely to be difficult because business in Egypt was largely conducted in secret. “Now we open all the files,” said George Ishak, head of the National Association for Change, an opposition umbrella group. “We will research everything, all of them.”

Estimates of the Mubaraks’ fortune vary wildly, including a widespread rumor that they are worth as much as $70 billion. U.S. officials put the family’s wealth at $2 billion to $3 billion.

speeches pressing governments in the Middle East and elsewhere to reform.

Aides to Obama said he can make progress where Bush faltered because the current president has made reaching out to the Muslim world a priority and has de-emphasized the idea that the fight against terrorism means a war on Islam. While Bush also sent such messages, Obama aides said the baggage of Iraq and Guantánamo Bay undercut the impact.

“We do not make this about us,” said one senior administration official, who was not authorized to be identified. “We very carefully say this is about the people. We’re on the sidelines, we never talk

about our values; we talk about universal values.”

The question then becomes whether democracy promotion will again become a bipartisan aspiration. Damon Wilson, a former Bush aide and now executive vice president of the Atlantic Council, said he was surprised Obama did not take ownership of democracy as an issue from the start. But with Egypt, he now has a chance to do that, Wilson said, expressing hope that Republicans will not turn away from the notion simply because Obama is embracing it.

“Of all the issues to fight on,” he said, “democracy is not one where we should be declaring partisan differences.”

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Iraq Continued from A1 Dozens of small-scale demonstrations have taken place across the country over the past two weeks, most of them protesting poor services, particularly the lack of electricity — a perennial complaint that has spurred Iraqis to take to the streets many times before. But a new movement seems to be emerging, too, among students and young professionals clearly inspired by the events in Egypt and also by their own disappointments with Iraq’s democratic experiment.

On Friday, the men gathered in Tahrir Square — the Baghdad version, not Cairo’s — were young and old, employed and jobless, Sunni and Shiite. But they spoke with one voice as they chanted: “No, no to corruption,” “The government is thieves” and “Baghdad, Baghdad, spark a revolution.”

Multiple groups are springing up on Facebook calling for protests to demand reforms, among them No to Silence, Baghdad Won’t Be Kandahar, the Blue Revolution and one simply called Join US Soon for the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In in Baghdad, which initiated the small protest in Tahrir Square.

Another is planned Monday, but the biggest buzz is building around what has been billed on various websites as a “Revolution of Iraqi Rage” scheduled for Feb. 25 in the same square, the city’s most prominent public space, just across the Tigris River from the fortified Green Zone.

What do Iraqis want?

The groups say their goal is not to overthrow the government — which is still not fully formed after elections nearly a year ago, another source of frustration — but to demand change on multiple fronts, from specifics such as the provision of electricity and jobs to more general issues such as good governance and accountability.

“People are boiling,” said Adel Salman, 33, a businessman who was among those attending the protest Friday. “If this continues, it could grow very big.”

How big is in question. A macabre joke making the rounds in Baghdad observes that if an Iraqi were to set himself on fire in a gesture of protest, as did the young Tunisian whose death sparked the Tunis uprising last month, Iraqis freezing without electricity in the winter chill would merely gather round to warm themselves.

The circumstances in Egypt and Tunisia are very different from those in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was toppled by a foreign army, not a popular revolt, and the deep sectarian divide that triggered widespread bloodshed in the wake of his fall persists, precluding the emergence of a unifying Iraqi point of view.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is beginning his second four-year term after elections judged largely free by the U.N., in which multiple parties and a clear majority of the electorate participated. Yet all the ills that provoked Egyptians and Tunisians to take to the streets are thriving in Iraq, too, demonstrating that it is possible to have both democracy and human rights abuses, an elected government and chronic corruption, and constitutional guarantees of freedom alongside intimidation and fear.

“Elections are a mechanism, a means, but they are not the destination,” said Hadi Jalu of the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory.

“We have a sort of democracy in Iraq, but this democracy is being run in a very bad way.”

U.S. officials say the recent demonstrations offer evidence that democracy is flourishing.

“These are healthy indicators of the Iraqi people’s freedom and ability to exercise their freedom of speech,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the former deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.

But many Iraqis question how free they are. An expanding roster of rules regulating the media and the closure of media outlets critical of the government have raised concerns.

Although Iraqis are undeniably freer to speak out than they were under Saddam, “there is a kind of ghost hanging over the head of every Iraqi person,” said Ali Anbori, a health consultant and civil rights activist. “You cannot say everything you want to say all the time. You ... never know what might happen to you.”

One of the new Facebook activists behind the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In group was so nervous about meeting a journalist that he changed the location three times and came accompanied by a bodybuilder cousin for protection.

“I’m just afraid of some kind of act of violence, I won’t say specifically from the government, but from people who don’t like what we’re doing,” said Omar Fabiano, a 21year-old student who requested that he only be identified by his Facebook nickname.

Palestinian elections set The Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank on Saturday promised to hold long-overdue general elections by September, a surprise move spurred by political unrest rocking the Arab world and embarrassing TV leaks about peace talks with Israel.

In principle, elections could

help end the deep political split between West Bank-based President Mahmoud Abbas and the militant Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, the other territory the Palestinians want for a state.

Hamas immediately ruled out participation, but it could become difficult for Hamas to reject elections at a time of growing calls for democracy throughout the Middle East.

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Algerian riot police break up protest ALGIERS, Algeria — Heavily outnumbered by riot police, as many as 10,000 defied government warnings and dodged barricades to rally Saturday, demanding democratic reforms. No violence was reported.

Algeria, too, has long been ruled by a repressive government and is beset by widespread poverty and high unemployment.

Sidali Djarboub / The Associated Press

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Schools Continued from A1 “All this ($130 million) does is bring back the full year. It honors the contracts,” Wilkinson said. “It doesn’t bring back the teachers (whose contracts weren’t renewed).”

This year, the district cut two days from the end of the 2009-10 school year, then tacked on another five days, several of them before Christmas. Administrators, supervisors and classified staff with longer contracts have taken an additional three to five days off without pay. Reinstating them would cost the district about $3.1 million.

That’s significant for two reasons. One, Wilkinson said, is the district would like to have students in school as much as possible. And two, all three of the district’s unions will be bargaining contracts this spring. If they can’t come to agreement, the district must return to the status quo — that is, what the groups agreed on in their past contracts.

While days have been cut, teachers have received pay step increases for experience and education. To return to that status quo level, the district expects it would have to come up with $4.25 million.

The district expects to see slight growth in 2011-12, as it did this year. To maintain class sizes, Wilkinson believes the district would need to add about $1 million in staffing, including teachers. Meanwhile, the district will lose about $1.85 million in stimulus dollars for special education and Title I funding.

Moreover, the state has told the district it will owe $5.6 million in PERS rate increases. But Wilkinson is hoping to get some help on that front. “At this point,” he said, “we’re hoping for modifications by both the Legislature and the PERS board.”

Barring an increase in education funding, Wilkinson said the district will look for contract modifications from employee groups.

“I would say our employees are all sensitive to the economy and the financial crisis we’re facing,” he said. “They could say we won’t reach an agreement, and (the contracts) will go to the status quo. We’ve been working really hard with our employee groups for a decade, which leads me to believe we’ll get through this, too.”

As it has done over the past couple of years, the district could save about $1 million by deferring technology upgrades and textbook purchases. It can also fill some of the gap with about $2.45 million that it has saved beyond its required ending fund balance this school year.

District officials are also holding out hope for assistance from the Legislature, which could reduce its PERS commitment, provide more money than the governor has recommended, and allow Bend-La Pine and other districts to opt out of the Oregon Educators Benefit Board. By leaving the OEBB, the district believes, it could save money on health insurance.

But beyond those things, it looks as if the district will have to consider further cuts of both days and personnel.

Other local districts Bend-La Pine is not alone in its struggle to find new places to cut funds.

The Redmond School District, which operates on a $50 million budget, might have to reduce its anticipated spending by about $10 million under the governor’s plan. That shortfall is significantly more than the $7 million gap the district faced for the 2009-10 school year, when it adopted a four-day school week and cut almost 60 teaching positions.

For the 2011-12 year, the district had projected between a $6 million and $10 million shortfall. The bottom end of that range, though, presumed con-

cessions from unions that the district has yet to receive. Those concessions, which would save more than $2.5 million, include deferring cost-of-living raises, step increases and adding back six days that were cut from this year.

Those cuts have taken a toll on both teachers and the quality of education, according to Judy Newman, president of the Redmond Education Association, who recently told the Redmond School Board that there is a “continuing devaluation to our educational system and how education is perceived.”

The district arrived at the shortfall by estimating losses of about $850,000 in state funding and $780,000 from declining enrollment. The district may also have to spend about $2.5 million on salary-related increases, more than $1.4 million of that coming from adding the six cut days back to the calendar. Adding back cost-of-living raises and step increases accounts for the remaining $1 million, according to the district.

If the district holds a 5 percent fund balance at the end of the year, that would cost another $2.3 million.

Making increased PERS contributions is projected to cost the district $1.5 million.

Redmond Superintendent Shay Mikalson said the contractual obligations, such as cost-of-living raises, are being considered like everything else for possible savings. Nothing, he said, has been taken off the table.

Meanwhile, the governor’s budget could create a $1.5 million shortfall for the Sisters School District, which operates on a roughly $12 million budget, An expected drop in per-student funding accounts for about $400,000 of the shortfall, according to Superintendent Jim Golden, with the rest coming from projected spending increases.

For instance, adding back days that were cut this year and last, paying cost-of-living raises and contributing to PERS would cost a total of about $900,000.

Various expenditures make up the rest of the shortfall, including $155,000 in debt payments and a $42,000 increase in employee insurance cost increases.

Golden emphasized the shortfall estimate is preliminary, though he is not optimistic the situation will improve.

“We’ll have better numbers in March,” Golden said. “These are very rough.”

In Crook County, Superintendent Ivan Hernandez said the projected budget isn’t as bad as he expected.

“With Kitzhaber’s budget, we’re not as bad as we originally thought now that the numbers are out, but it’s still not good for us,” he said.

The district’s $26 million budget faces a $4.5 million shortfall.

But Hernandez noted the district could use some of its reserve to make up for some of that.

Hernandez expects an increase of about $392,000 in PERS expenses. In addition, the district has lost about 170 students this year, which means it will lose that money — about $1 million — from next year’s state funding. Hernandez also said his district will lose about $1.34 million in Title I and special education stimulus funding, and must negotiate any cost of living adjustment deferrals.

“These are estimates, but the costs of steps and lanes next year will be an additional $392,356,” Hernandez said. “We still have to negotiate (furlough days and COLA deferrals). With a decrease in funds, we only have so many choices. We can shorten days, shorten pay or cut programs.”

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

Patrick Cliff can be reached at 541-633-2161 or at pcliff@bendbulletin.com.

Bulletin reporter Erik Hidle contributed to this article.

Strong quake jolts Chile The Associated Press CAUQUENES, Chile — A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck central Chile on Friday, centered in almost exactly the same spot where last year’s magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities.

Electricity and phone service were disrupted, and thousands of people fled to higher ground following Friday’s quake, but the government quickly announced that there was no risk of a tsunami, and there were no reports of damage or injuries.

In the following hours, a dozen aftershocks ranging from magnitude-3.9 to magnitude6.3 shook the seismically active area.

President Sebastian Pinera appealed for calm, and praised his government and Chileans in general for responding quickly.

“Today, we’re better prepared. I think we’ve learned the lesson of February 27, 2010.”

Still, the strong earthquake frightened many Chileans, especially along the coast, where people quickly moved to higher ground.

Bombs kill scores in Iraq, Afghanistan Bulletin wire reports A suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims home from Samarra, Iraq, on Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the latest of several recent assaults on pilgrims.

It was the second attack in three days against Shiite pilgrims near Samarra, whose gold-domed shrine was damaged in a 2006 bombing that led to waves of sectarian killings between Iraq’s Sunni and Shiite populations.

The bombing happened at one

Redistricting Continued from A1 Since the app went live in 2009, hundreds of people have used it to draw political maps — the site is now live for every state but Alaska. Some of the user-created maps were jokes: One person striped the state of New York with districts that all stretched from Buffalo to the Big Apple. But Bradlee says most of the maps created with his app represent serious efforts by well-intentioned citizens to engage in the redistricting process in ways they’ve never been able to before.

Influencing the process As states begin redistricting in the next few months, Web tools like Bradlee’s will provide a new way for the public to try to influence the outcome. Ten years ago, during the last round of redistricting, Google Maps didn’t exist, let alone all the interactive and social tools that are so ubiquitous online today, such as YouTube and Facebook.

This time, it will be different. In addition to Bradlee’s app, there are a number of other efforts under way to give citizens more mapping power. Some of them are officially sanctioned, such as a pair of online redistricting apps being developed by the Florida Legislature and another in Idaho. Others are coming from outside government, including one that promises to give citizens every bit as much data-drilling power as the systems state legislators and redistricting commissions will use.

In Oregon, both houses of the Legislature have redistricting committees, but if lawmakers can’t agree on a plan, the job falls

Bats Continued from A1 The fungus grows on the bats while they are hibernating and spreads into their cells, she said.

Going into winter hibernation, bats have fat stored up — about the same amount as a slice of butter. While they hibernate, their metabolism and heart rate slow significantly. But when they are disturbed and come out of hibernation, they burn through that fat.

The white-nose fungus could irritate hibernating bats, Ormsbee said, arousing them from their hibernation enough to use up the whole butter pat worth of fat. And since it’s winter and few insects are available, the diseased bats can’t replenish the nutrients they burn off.

“They starve to death,” she said.

Another theory for white-nose syndrome’s lethality is that the fungus disrupts the normal cell functions, leading to dehydration — which would get the bats out of hibernation.

Local cave access The federal agencies are asking people who go into caves not to bring any gear that has been in caves outside of the Northwest, because it could be contaminated with the fungus, Ormsbee said.

And people should stay out of abandoned mines, which are also prime bat habitat.

“We have to assume that humans can play a role” in whitenose syndrome’s spread, she said.

“And we do not want a new epicenter in the Northwest.”

A regional team is looking at how to deal with the issue, she said, both by educating the public about the disease and preventing it from getting to the Northwest.

One concern is with “show caves,” or caves that attract many visitors, often from far away — like Lava River Cave south of Bend.

“We’re looking (at) options to reduce the risk of white-nose and still allow people to come to these beautiful show caves,” she said.

One option could be to set up a decontamination station, where people clean off their shoes in a foot bath or leave behind jackets or gear that has been in caves outside the region, she said. Or people could be provided with dispos-

of about 40 checkpoints that line the road between Samarra and Baghdad, highlighting how easily attackers are able to exploit security flaws at the remote outposts.

The checkpoints often cause traffic to back up, leaving vehicles open to attack.

In Afghanistan on Saturday, a team of Taliban gunmen and bombers struck provincial police headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar, killing at least 19 people and demonstrating a continued ability to mount complex

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to Secretary of State Kate Brown.

Already, reform-minded groups are planning on using these tools to create a shadow redistricting process, intended to provide alternatives to the political gerrymanders that partisan legislatures often produce. In Indiana, for example, Common Cause, the League of Women Voters and AARP have come together to sponsor a citizen redistricting commission. The commission, led by two former legislators — one Democrat and one Republican — will conduct hearings around the state and then formulate its own redistricting plan. If the Indiana Legislature draws maps that promote the interest of the majority Republicans, or that protect incumbents, the citizen commission will be ready to go to the public and the media with its alternative.

“The purpose of the commission,” says Julia Vaughn, policy director for the state chapter of Common Cause, “is to bird-dog the Indiana General Assembly.”

Maps drawn through a shadow redistricting process not only could be used or adapted by legislators themselves, but also could be considered by judges in states where the official maps ultimately wind up in court.

With the new technology, there’s no question that there’s more potential than ever for citizens to have a say in a process historically controlled by partisan and self-interested lawmakers. The question is whether the

able outerwear or rubber boots to explore the cave. Another option could be to require visitors to join guided groups, she said.

“We haven’t really sat down and written out all those options,” Ormsbee said. “And it will be the Deschutes National Forest that takes the lead on that.”

Closing caves?

In some cases, closing caves could be an option to ensure that people aren’t spreading the fungus to sensitive areas.

“I would suspect that as (whitenose syndrome) moves closer, that would be a more attractive option,” she said, noting that the caves would probably still be open to caving groups helping to gather data or survey bat populations for the disease.

In areas that have been affected by white-nose syndrome, show caves have remained open, she said, in part because they provide a good opportunity to educate visitors about what’s going on.

“We’d rather have those people coming to a place like Lava River, where we can connect with them,” Ormsbee said.

Meanwhile, Ormsbee said, the hope is that regulations can help stave off the disease until another solution is found.

Central Oregon’s bats The 15 different species of bats in the area play an important role in Central Oregon’s ecosystem, said Jim Dawson, curator of living collections at the High Desert Museum. They live in caves, mines, crevasses of cliffs and sometimes even in the bark of trees.

One bat can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour, he noted — so during a night of hunting they can have a significant effect on bug populations.

Something like white-nose syndrome, Dawson said, could devastate Oregon’s population.

Measures like decontamination requirements, or cave closures, might be a necessity.

“It’s something that inconveniences people ... but it shouldn’t be permanent,” Dawson said.

“But we have to take efforts to try to contain it and keep it out of Oregon.”

Many Central Oregon spelunkers — people who explore caves

attacks in a metropolis that has been a principal focus of Western military efforts.

The chaotic battle killed at least 15 Afghan policemen, two Afghan soldiers and two civilians, Kandahar Gov. Tooryalai Wesa told reporters. Civilians, including nine children, made up nearly half of the 49 injured. Four of the assailants were killed and one was captured, Wesa said.

The attack began at noon and paralyzed Afghanistan’s secondlargest city for hours. Automat-

ic-weapons fire and explosions echoed through the dusty streets.

Shopkeepers and passersby scrambled for cover as helicopters circled overhead.

Taliban leaders have pledged to keep a grip on Kandahar, the movement’s spiritual home.

Every year in Iraq, meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Iranian pilgrims flock to Samarra to visit the shrine. Saturday was the anniversary of the death of one of the imams, an occasion that drew large crowds.

power of do-it-yourself redistricting will actually lead to maps that look any different than those from past decades.

vices Agency, says that when he was talking with vendors about online redistricting last year, they told him it would cost the state $125,000 to $150,000. But Indiana’s redistricting budget — for hardware, software and staff — is only $250,000. While prices have dropped since then, Stratton says a big effort at online outreach simply wasn’t practical financially.

States have other concerns.

Who should provide technical support to citizens who have trouble with these fairly sophisticated applications? How should publicly submitted plans be catalogued and presented to legislators? And will enough of those plans be valid to make the exercise worth it? Redistricting, after all, is a not just a political process but also a very technical one, requiring map makers to consider everything from a district’s compactness to the Supreme Court’s latest interpretation of the Voting Rights Act. Ultimately, it may not matter whether the states are reluctant to give up control over redistricting.

That’s because there are people like Dave Bradlee who have made it their mission to give the public tools to make the process more collaborative. Bradlee sees his app as much more than a toy for political and geographic junkies like himself.

“This is a tool that helps inform citizens to see what the process is like,” he says. “Ultimately, influencing the people who control the process is a goal.”

And even if citizen plans don’t prove popular with legislators, they could find a more receptive audience in court. If past decades are any guide, court is exactly where many states’ redistricting plans will end up.

New technology, again Each new round of redistricting, it seems, ushers in a new technological leap. Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services, a redistricting consulting firm, remembers how in 1981 in Illinois, paper maps were tacked to the wall in the House Speaker’s office, which had a conveniently high ceiling. “We could put the entire city of Chicago on one wall,” Brace says. The line drawers would spend all day drawing their map, then it would take a mainframe computer all night to analyze the demographics of what they had created.

By 1991, lawmakers had personal computers at their disposal.

By 2001, those computers and the software on them were dramatically more powerful. Insiders could fiddle with new district lines relentlessly, allowing them to ponder thousands of possibilities that previously would have taken too much time to consider.

As the technology progressed, some states set up computers in libraries or state offices where anyone could come and use the same software legislators were using.

But relatively few people were willing to travel for miles and then sit down for hours to do it.

At the state level, the efforts in Idaho and Florida are exceptions, not the rule. Most states are making no further plans to engage the public in 2011 than they did a decade ago.

One reason is money. Mark Stratton, who works on redistricting for Indiana’s Legislative Ser-

— have been decontaminating their gear for about a year now, all to help prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome, said Neil Marchington, with the Oregon High Desert Grotto, a local caving group associated with the National Speleological Society.

“It’s still an evolving concept, but I’d say that cavers as a group, and organized cavers in the National Speleological Society, are very, very conservation-minded,” he said. “And we want to keep this and other diseases and other invasive species in a localized area.

We don’t want to spread things around inadvertently.”

Marchington said scientists aren’t sure what role people play in the spread of the disease, and how much of a problem human visitors are compared with bats

and other animals going in and out of caves.

But spelunkers, he said, have been some of the biggest supporters of white-nose syndrome research. And to him, decontamination is worth the 10 minutes or so it takes to help stop the spread of invasive species.

“It’s not just for this fungus, but other things we may not know exist yet,” Marchington said.

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By Cain Burdeau The Associated Press

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An artist’s rendering of Jared Loughner, who is charged in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting, in federal court in Phoenix with his lawyer, Judy Clarke, on Jan. 24.

NEW ORLEANS — The dark blue rescue van pulls up in front of a sad shell of a house, a few blocks from the police station and criminal court. It’s turning into a cold January night.

Slipping on gloves, social workers Mike Miller and Katy Quigley head in. “Homeless outreach! Anybody home?” Miller shouts as he climbs over a balcony and up a flight of stairs.

No one’s home. But the signs of life are disturbing: A slept-on mattress, bits of food, smells of urine and feces.

It’s creepy: The upstairs apartment hasn’t been touched since Hurricane Katrina. There’s paperwork, letters, clothing, medicine bottles, a child’s stuffed animal, a Star Wars X-Wing fighter plane on the carpeted stairs.

A business card they left on the fetid mattress during their last

trip is gone. That’s a good sign.

They move on.

At an abandoned 100-year-old factory, they find a few squatters.

The factory has become a spot for day laborers working for temp services, restaurants, construction crews. The wages and tips, plus side tricks like collecting aluminum cans, aren’t enough to get them into an apartment since rents skyrocketed after the storm.

Quigley pauses outside a room overlooking the factory floor.

“On New Year’s Day, a guy was hit by a cab and killed on Claiborne and Gravier on his way to his temp job,” she says. “He lived right here.”

Enter America’s Queen City of Blight. More than five years after Katrina, New Orleans is struggling to deal with about 43,000 blighted residential properties — in various states of neglect and collapse. The city has a larger percentage of blighted properties

ARIZONA SHOOTING CASE

Familiar turf for Loughner’s lawyer

By Joseph Goldstein and Marc Lacey New York Times News Service

TUCSON, Ariz. — Judy Clarke, the public defender for the man charged in the Tucson shooting rampage, Jared Loughner, has made motions on his behalf and entered a plea for him of not guilty.

But one of her most essential acts of lawyering came when she patted Loughner on the back in court last month, leaned in close and whispered in his ear.

For the small cadre of lawyers specializing in federal death penalty cases, getting the defendant to trust them, or just to grudgingly accept them, can be half the battle. That is especially true when mental illness is a factor, as it may be in the case of Loughner, a troubled young man accused of opening fire on a crowd on Jan. 8 in an attempt to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

In her unassuming, almost motherly way, Clarke excels at getting close to people implicated in awful crimes. In jailhouse meetings that can stretch most of the day, she listens intently and grows to know her outcast clients in a way few ever have in their troubled lives, colleagues say.

Other infamous cases Still, Clarke, who has made a name for herself representing notorious murderers and terrorists, sometimes falls short. One client threatened to kill her during his trial. More than one has tried to dump her midway through.

How Loughner and Clark get along, or fail to, will set the course for how the criminal case unfolds.

One of Clarke’s biggest challenges may be persuading Loughner to allow her to raise questions about his mental health; that issue led to conflict between Clarke and some of her previous clients, like the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, and the al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui.

“It could go many different ways,” said Michael First, a psychiatrist who has worked on a case with Clarke. “He could be totally acknowledging he’s mentally ill, or he could be the Kaczynski and Moussaoui type and be absolutely adamant there is nothing wrong with him.”

Kaczynski severed ties with Clarke and the rest of his legal team when they pushed the idea of presenting his mental illness to the jury as a reason to spare his life. Once a mathematician, he was proud of his mind and found his lawyers’ suggestion offensive.

And Moussaoui, who faced the death penalty on charges that he helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks, opposed the efforts of his legal team, which Clarke was assisting, to portray him as mentally ill. First recalled spending hours outside Moussaoui’s cell, being rebuffed in his efforts to coax him into a conversation.

Next to nothing is known of what Loughner and Clarke have spoken about in the month since he was arrested. But it is unlikely, former colleagues of Clarke say, that she and her two co-counsels, Mark Fleming and Reuben Cahn, are very far along in planning his defense. It is possible, lawyers say, that they have not even broached the extent of Loughner’s mental illness or the shooting that left six dead and 13 wounded, among them Giffords, who is recovering in a rehabilitation center in Houston.

“I like the antagonism.

I like the adversarial nature of the business.

I love all of that.”

— Judy Clarke, who has defended the Unabomber and an al-Qaida operative, once told the Los Angeles Times “That’s not something you jump into during the first or the fourth or even the 10th interview,” said Michael Burt, an experienced capital defender who worked with Clarke to defend Eric Rudolph, a serial bomber responsible for the fatal blast at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. “It takes a long time to get to that point.”

In the Loughner case, Clarke agreed with the prosecution’s request to move the court proceedings from Phoenix to Tucson, but she said she had questions about the facility where he would be held. Clarke last week temporarily prevented the U.S. Marshals Service from releasing new photographs of him.

In past cases, Clarke has used her initial meetings with defendants to improve their lot in the short term, by trying to get them less restrictive conditions in jail or relaying messages to family members.

Matter of life and death Clarke, rather than focusing on her clients’ innocence, spends much of her defense work trying to persuade jurors to spare her clients’ lives. She does this by presenting what lawyers call a “mitigating social history” — a narrative of abuse, violence or mental illness that the defendant may have suffered. She sends investigators to find grade-school teachers, former girlfriends, classmates, anyone who can provide insight into what made her client go awry.

Clarke rarely gives interviews to the news media, but she did explain her philosophy last year in a law school publication at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. “None of us, including those accused of crime, wants to be defined by the worst moment or worst day of our lives,” she said.

In representing Susan Smith, a South Carolina mother who killed her two boys, Clarke focused the jury’s attention on the facts that Smith’s father had committed suicide and that her stepfather had sexually abused her.

“She was able to change her from Susan the monster to Susan the victim,” said Tommy Pope, a South Carolina legislator who prosecuted the case against Smith. A jury spared her life.

In her court arguments, Clarke can be quite vehement, lawyers who have seen her at work say.

Clarke once told the Los Angeles Times: “I like the antagonism. I like the adversarial nature of the business. I love all of that.”

But her demeanor changes to that of a social worker when meeting with her clients one on one.

“Even people who are quite mentally ill can identify someone who is real and who wants to protect them,” said David Bruck, a lawyer at Washington and Lee University’s School of Law who has worked with Clarke. “She’s a great listener, and she’s focused on the client. She tries to understand the client. The client becomes her world.”

than any other U.S. city, about a quarter of its housing stock.

And in these wastelands, an estimated 3,000 homeless find refuge every night. They are wretched people suffering from mental illness, disability or substance abuse, or simply downon-their-luck working poor. They can be found sleeping in schools, rundown shotgun-style houses, warehouses, sprawling factories, and even funeral homes and hospitals.

In the wake of Katrina, New Orleans became a laboratory for many things — urban planning, eco-friendly building, school reforms, community-driven politics, volunteerism, adaptation to a world facing global climate change.

But social workers and homeless advocates say an opportunity was missed to make New Orleans a laboratory for ending homelessness in an American

city. Overnight, a majority were left homeless by Katrina, which struck on Aug. 29, 2005.

It took Congress until the summer of 2008 to give the New Orleans metro area enough money — funneled through a Department of Housing and Urban Development voucher program — to house 875 of the most vulnerable people living on the streets.

By then, tent cities had sprung up in front of City Hall and along Canal Boulevard, the city’s main thoroughfare.

“There was a lot of hope at the beginning (after Katrina) that since everyone had left the city, that we could prevent the recurrence of homelessness at all as people came back,” said Nan Roman, the head of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Not enough was done, she said — “not what we had hoped, something like a game changer.

That didn’t happen.”

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EDUCATION IN OREGON

Salem Week

What of ESDs in efficiency push?

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

Examining each week of the 2011 Legislature from a Central Oregon perspective Analysis

When Gov. John Kitzhaber released his proposed 2011-13 budget in early February, he floated the idea of creating incentives to school districts and schools that consolidate. He also called for front-loaded first-year funding that would allow schools and

districts to find efficiencies to save money for 2012-13.

High Desert Education Service District Superintendent Dennis Dempsey and other local officials want Oregon legislators to know they’re working on it. And they’re also asking the Legislature to hang on to education service districts, which they say provide im-

At work: ‘store’ for health plans

By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

SALEM — Every December, Sunriver business owner Aelea Christofferson and her employees sit around a table and vote on their health care plan.

“Do we want vision care?

Raise your hand if you want vision care,” Christofferson said, describing the process.

Christofferson’s ATL Communications employs six people, who range in age from 21 to about 60.

Their salaries differ substantially, and so do their life circumstances — some have children, for instance, while others don’t. Unfortunately, she says, there isn’t

portant services to area districts.

Dempsey traveled to Salem on Thursday to discuss these issues with legislators, while local superintendents have worked on legislation they think could help the state fund education more efficiently.

“I am a big advocate for reorganizing ESDs and school districts

to serve children for the 21st century,” Dempsey said. “ESDs are needed. They serve a big role in the equity of educational access for all kids.”

Education service districts provide services to their component districts that might be too expensive to provide independently.

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one plan that could perfectly fit such a range of people, and buying different plans for all of them would be too expensive. But that could change.

Christofferson is hoping that a concept working through the state Legislature right now — the health insurance exchange — could help her. The exchange is a key part of federal health care reform, but Oregon, like many states, is working to create its own insurance exchange. The exchange would allow her employees to join what are, in essence, separate plans with no extra cost to her.

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Who’s making news Age: 57 job as the principal of the new Sisters High Education: School.

Augustana College, Ill., 1975 This week in Salem: There is a lot of Family: Wife, Nancy, talk in Salem right now three grown daughters, about ESD reform. Gov. three grandchildren John Kitzhaber’s budget Occupation: proposes sending funds Dennis Superintendent of that were allocated to Dempsey High Desert Education ESDs directly to school Service District districts. Dempsey Central Oregon believes ESDs are long overdue for connections: Moved to Sisters some restructuring. from Alaska in 1992 to take a See Dempsey / B3

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Recommended by the Oregon Department of Transportation, Senate Bill 130 would recognize a practice — already begun in Portland — of adding red, yellow and green bike signals to some intersections. By making the signals officially accepted, it would allow law enforcement to give cyclists tickets if they disobey the signals. The bill will bear no direct cost to the state; the only cost would be to cities if they choose to install the signals.

Passed 60-0 on Wednesday.

House Bill 2240 would renew a law that allows employees who receive tips and serve food or beverages to waive their meal periods — while prohibiting employers from requiring employees to do so. It’s intended to allow servers to keep working through their prime tipping periods if they want to.

Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R....... Yes Sen. Chris Telfer, R ...... Yes Sen. Doug Whitsett, R... Yes

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A “Pink Panther” doll flies down the slope Saturday at Hoodoo during the Dummy Downhill at the annual Winter Carnival.

On the flimsiest of skis?

In Dummy Downhill, the dummies don’t fair so well. Not that that’s a problem.

By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

Kevin McManigal scanned the slopes of Hoodoo ski area Saturday afternoon, looking increasingly worried.

“Has anyone seen a head?”

McManigal asked, of no one in particular. “It’s kind of an expensive head.”

The head, a bald rubber

Pie-eating champ Keenan O’Hern, 15, of Sisters, says it’s important not to be too fussy about getting all the pie in your mouth.

Rep. Jason Conger, R... Yes Rep. John Huffman, R... Yes Rep. Mike McLane, R ... Yes Rep. Gene Whisnant, R ...Yes

What’s ahead • UPDATED BUDGET FORECAST Tuesday, 8 a.m.: A joint meeting of the Senate and House Revenue committees is scheduled to hear from state economists what Oregon’s economy looks like over the next two-year budget cycle. The forecast will be used by lawmakers and Gov. John Kitzhaber to craft the next budget.

• WAYS TO SAVE ON STATE VEHICLES Tuesday, 8 a.m.: The House General Government and Consumer Protection Committee is scheduled to hear House Bill 2854, intended to encourage state and other public agencies to seek efficiencies by consolidating motor pools and related services.

• BUSINESS OMBUDSMAN CONSIDERED Wednesday, 8 a.m.: The House Business and Labor Committee will consider HB 2770, which would create a new business ombudsman who will investigate complaints filed by businesses. The new ombudsman would be paid as much as a county judge, and also be granted an office and staff. Those who feel like their complaints to the ombudsman were met with retaliation will be allowed to sue for damages by the state. A fiscal impact of the measure has not been calculated.

On the blog Read updates throughout the week from our reporters in Salem at www.bendbulletin.com/politicsblog.

thing with staring green glass eyes, had been borrowed from a neighbor as part of McManigal’s “Cat Lady” sculpture for the Dummy Downhill, the premier event at the ski area’s annual Winter Carnival.

Contestants build their sculptures like sleds, using old skis as a platform to propel any number of items — a “Pink Panther” doll, a cardboard scorpion or, in McManigal’s case, a woman in a rocking chair crawling with stuffed toy cats — down the hill and over a large jump.

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Carnival Continued from B1 Like nearly every other entrant in the Dummy Downhill, McManigal’s Cat Lady exploded into countless pieces on impact, scattering debris in all directions. This, insisted McManigal, 52, of Lake Oswego, was not a design flaw, but the predicted result of a fast, well-built platform.

Hoodoo Mountain Resort owner Chuck Shepard said the Dummy Downhill is easily his favorite part of the annual carnival. The carnival predates Shepard’s family’s purchase of the resort and is

Education Continued from B1 For example, High Desert ESD works with Bend-La Pine, Sisters, Redmond and Crook school districts to provide services like foreign language translation, a large number of special education services and substitute teacher assignments to local schools. Small districts, in particular, count on the services, while some larger districts have staff to handle many of the services offered.

Dempsey’s been advocating for ESD consolidation for 10 years.

But, he said, “it gets bogged down by this issue of local control.”

The last consolidation of school districts happened in the early 1990s, when the Legislature passed a law requiring all independent elementary and high school districts to consolidate by 1996.

Dempsey believes it might be time for another round.

“I’m not convinced we need all these ESDs and school districts,” he said.

Though he recognizes that schools are a major component of many small-town identities, he said a reorganization doesn’t have to involve closing schools so much as consolidating central-office work and handing off more to ESDs. There are 197 school districts in Oregon. Of those, the 15 largest serve more than 50 percent of all Oregon students.

To Dempsey, that’s an important number: How do you ensure that students living in tiny school districts like Paisley are getting the same educational opportunities as those in Bend?

“Those kids didn’t choose to live there, for good or bad. Their parents or their grandparents did,” he said. “We have so many rural areas.”

That’s where ESDs come into play. According to the Oregon School Board Association, there are 20 education service districts.

The largest ESDs are all in the valley, like Multnomah, Willamette and Northwest Regional

at least 30 years old.

The workers at Hoodoo play a big part in putting together each year’s carnival, Shepard said, and they outdid themselves this year. The women in the ticket office dressed as stewardesses, periodically leaving their post to pass out peanuts and Kool-Aid to guests. Meanwhile, employees in the rental shop went disco, bouncing around in their white suits and gold chains as they fitted people for boots and skis.

Beyond the Dummy Downhill, this year’s Winter Carnival included axe throwing, a snow sculpture contest, three-legged races through an obstacle course, a pie-eating contest and a torch-

light parade down the mountain to top off a full day.

In the pie-eating contest, 15year-old Keenan O’Hern, of Sisters, took top honors, scarfing down his pie tin of chocolate pudding and whipped cream faster than any of dozens of contenders.

A two-time winner of the pieeating contest at the Deschutes County Fair, Keenan said the key is to be unconcerned with getting all of the pie in your mouth — in your hair or up your nose works just fine in competition.

Keenan admitted table manners are not one of his strong suits.

“They’re pretty bad,” he said.

“I eat really fast.”

His neighbor’s rubber head safely retrieved after the Dummy Downhill, meanwhile, McManigal headed for the lodge and turned his thoughts to next year’s competition. Most likely it’s going to involve a plywood canoe, but if it’s thrown together at the last minute, that’s fine, too.

That’s the spirit of the event, he said, a creative outlet for those with limited creative skills.

“I am not the most artistic guy — so for me, it’s easiest to do the Dummy Downhill,” he said.

education service districts, and serve between 78,000 and 96,000 students. But far-flung ESDs like North Central ESD and Region 18 ESD in Condon and Enterprise serve fewer than 1,000 students.

Bend-La Pine Superintendent Ron Wilkinson said those small ESDs are where the problems lie.

“I believe there are too many ESDs, but I’m not a fan of shutting down all of them,” Wilkinson said. “We believe our ESD, with the way they’re delivering programs, we get the full bang for our buck. Small districts may use it in different ways.”

Wilkinson is more concerned with the smallest ESDs — those that serve fewer than 1,000 students. For example, he said, an ESD with 800 students might be in line to receive about $240,000 for a year. But the state has a rule requiring all ESDs to have a budget floor of $1 million, so a small ESD would receive additional state funds it doesn’t necessarily need or deserve.

“They automatically get $1 million, so there’s (an additional) $750,000 that went to a tiny ESD just because it’s tiny,” he said.

Wilkinson and his colleagues have other ideas. For example, counties serving fewer than 10,000 students could operate as a county unit, thereby saving state funds.

But while there may be room to reorganize and consolidate some of the current ESDs, Dempsey is not convinced of the possible savings.

“You’re going to have some savings, but it’s not going to be dramatic,” he said. “Where the savings is going to be is reorganizing school districts.”

But even if school districts or ESDs do consolidate, Dempsey doesn’t believe the savings will be realized by 2012-13, as Kitzhaber pushes for in his budget message.

Realizing budget savings, Dempsey said, will take time.

And that’s why, instead of consolidating school districts or shutting down all the ESDs, Dempsey and other area leaders support finding efficiencies among districts. He doesn’t

know of any other ESD working with its component districts to find efficiencies. In the Portland area, he said, ESDs are working together to find areas to consolidate. For example, he said, the four metro area ESDs are considering giving one ESD control over all their student information systems.

The High Desert ESD began a human resources consortium with the Sisters, Crook County and Redmond school districts this year after an efficiency study conducted by an education nonprofit and the ESD revealed possible cost savings in a variety of areas.

Redmond Human Resources Director Lynn Evans said a Redmond employee is handling worker compensation, health insurance, risk management and liability insurance, and volunteer and employee background checks for all Sisters, Crook County, Redmond and High Desert ESD employees.

High Desert ESD’s human resources director, Jayel Hayden, has essentially filled in as the human resources director at Sisters and Crook County school districts this year. Next year, Hayden said, he’d like to see one central human resources office for all four districts with each employee having expertise in one area.

Evans and Hayden are the only human resources directors in the consortium. Evans said the pair is considering cutting or reducing one of their positions.

“Most likely we’d do it on a trial basis for a year, to see how it works out,” she said. “I see this as a short-term solution to get through the really critical financial crisis.”

That likely wouldn’t be the only layoff in the human resources departments.

“We don’t have a lot of choice.

We’d love to create jobs for everybody, but when you have a finite amount of funding, it leaves you no choice. It’s good to be working on efficiencies, but (school districts are) in a place in some areas ... where we have cut any fat that there may have been over the past couple years. We’re definitely in crisis mode.”

There will be unions to contend with. In most school districts, about 80 percent of the budget goes to pay staff. That means if financial savings are to be realized, people who have redundant jobs would no longer be needed.

“We’ll propose the plan, and the superintendents agree or disagree or change it,” Dempsey said. “At some point this impacts employees, and it may involve unions. With HR and business, most employees are not in bargaining groups. But some are and some aren’t, and there’s no doubt they’ll be involved in this discussion.”

Sisters Superintendent Jim Golden also handles special education, federal title funding and curriculum for the district. High Desert ESD has taken over the district’s payroll and human resources work, which has helped him.

“If the truth is told, the scary part for folks is some folks are probably going to lose their jobs, but because of budget cutting, we have to do it,” he said. “We’re trying to keep as much cutting away from people who directly serve and work with kids.”

In addition to the HR consortium, the ESD and Crook County, Redmond and Sisters school districts are identifying further cost savings and consolidation efforts in special education, business services, information technology, and custodial and maintenance work.

Golden and Dempsey estimated that combined, the districts can likely save between $500,000 and $1 million with the efficiencies they find.

“Given the extreme nature of this budget situation, shame on us if we don’t explore this,” Golden said.

Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s 5th wife, executed for adultery in 1542 The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2011. There are 321 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY On Feb. 13, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.

ON THIS DATE In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.

In 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Haupt-

T O D AY I N H I S T O R Y mann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

ing in Doha, Qatar, as part of his effort to repair strained U.S. relations with the world’s Muslims.

FIVE YEARS AGO Auditors reported that millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid had been squandered, paying for such items as a $450 tattoo and $375-dollar-aday beachfront condos.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Former test pilot Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager is 88. Talk-show host Jerry Springer is 67.

ONE YEAR AGO President Barack Obama delivered a video address to the 7th U.S.-Islamic World Forum meet-

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COLLEGE NOTES The following local students have been named to the fall 2010 Dean’s List at Pacific University in Forest Grove: Shannon Brown, Gabriel Corwin, Hannah Poirier and Samm Schimke, of Bend, and Brandi Palmer, of Sisters.

• Courtney Acarregui and Kirby Garrett, both of Bend, have been named to the fall 2010 Dean’s List at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Fire kills 2 Milwaukie children The Associated Press MILWAUKIE — Two children died Saturday in a fast-moving apartment fire in Milwaukie that blocked the exit from a second-floor apartment.

The Oregonian reports Milwaukie firefighter Steve McAdoo says a woman in the apartment was forced to throw a child from the second floor on Saturday morning, and followed the child out.

When firefighters entered the apartment, they found the two children dead inside.

The woman and child who survived were taken to a local hospital.

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Health Continued from B1 Plus, starting in 2014, through the federal health reform act, small businesses with fewer than 25 employees will be able to take a 50 percent tax credit if they pay at least half of their employees’ premiums. The goal is to help offset the cost of buying insurance for small businesses.

Boiled down, the idea of an insurance exchange is to create a kind of marketplace. An individual or employer could go to an exchange’s website and compare different plans by insurance providers in what is being pitched as a clear apples-to-apples format. If a person had a chronic condition, the website would help him identify what specialists are available under which plan. Or, if someone qualified for government-subsidized options, the exchange would help identify them. People could pick a variety of plans, and each employer, like Christofferson, would send in a single check for its contribution. The administrative portion would be handled by the exchange. If Christofferson’s employees joined the exchange, they would be pooled with other employees from different companies.

“It’s a simple idea. We’re building a store where people can go in and buy health insurance in a rational way,” said Rep. Mitch Greenlick, D-Portland, cochair of the House Health Care Committee.

The exchange, which has been worked on for the past couple of years in Oregon, is meant to make buying insurance more transparent. Proponents say it would insure thousands of lowincome Oregonians who aren’t currently insured.

But Rep. Julie Parrish, R-West Linn, who is also on the House Health Care Committee, said she’s worried that no alternative ideas have been suggested or, for that matter, projections of potential savings.

“This sounds to me like another government solution,” she said.

“The outcome with the health care exchange is we want to get coverage and make things cheaper. I want that outcome, too,” she said. “I’m not convinced this is the way to get there. I’m going to ask questions as a consumer and business owner. How do we drive down the costs, and is this the best solution we can come up with?”

Ronda Ealy, co-owner of Strictly Organic Coffee Co., in Bend, said she’s holding out hope the insurance exchange will give her and other small-business

Dempsey Continued from B1 He spent his time in Salem last week speaking to local lawmakers, including Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend, and Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend. He thinks the reform bills in the Legislature right now are simply “nibbling” around the

Washington Continued from B1

• ASKING THE UNITED NATIONS TO RETURN $179 MILLION TO THE U.S. Failed 259-169 on Wednesday, where two-thirds were needed

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• Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Dist. 27 (portion of Deschutes County) 900 Court St. N.E., S-423 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-986-1727 E-mail: sen.christelfer@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/telfer • Sen. Doug Whitsett, R-Dist. 28 (Crook, Klamath, Lake counties and portions of Deschutes County) 900 Court St. N.E., S-303 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-986-1728 E-mail: sen.dougwhitsett@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/whitsett • Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-Dist. 30 (Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Malheur, Sherman, Wasco, Wheeler counties and portions of Clackamas, Deschutes and Marion counties) 900 Court St. N.E., S-323 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-986-1950 E-mail: sen.tedferrioli@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/ferrioli

• Rep. Gene Whisnant, R-Dist. 53 (portion of Deschutes County) 900 Court St. N.E., H-471 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-986-1453 E-mail: rep.genewhisnant@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/whisnant • Rep. Jason Conger, R-Dist. 54 (portion of Deschutes County) 900 Court St. N.E., H-477 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-986-1454 E-mail: rep.jasonconger@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/conger • Rep. Mike McLane, R-Dist. 55 (Crook County and portions of Deschutes County) 900 Court St. N.E., H-385 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-986-1455 E-mail: rep.mikemclane@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/mclane • Rep. John Huffman, R-Dist. 59 (Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Jefferson counties, most of Grant County, and small portions of Deschutes, Clackamas and Marion counties) 900 Court St. N.E., H-476 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: 503-986-1459 E-mail: rep.johnhuffman@state.or.us Web: www.leg.state.or.us/huffman

owners who band together more bargaining power, thus keeping costs down. She said she employes 30 people, 12 of whom are full time and fully covered.

“We struggle every month to pay insurance for our employees,” she said. “At some point, it will be just catastrophic coverage or none at all.”

By January 2014, small businesses and individuals will be able to purchase insurance through the exchange, said Nora Leibowitz with the Oregon Health Authority. The authority, created by lawmakers in 2009, will oversee most health-related programs by 2011.

Under the exchange, no one can be turned down for an existing or prior health issue. No insurers or businesses would be mandated to join. But the only way to receive the federal tax credits is through the exchange.

Leibowitz said the cost for developing and implementing the exchange for the first year would be covered by the federal government. Starting on Jan. 1, 2015, the program would need to be self-sustaining.

Leibowitz told lawmakers the Health Authority is hoping legislation would create a govern-

edges. It’s time, he’s advocating, for a bigger look at how ESDs can be more economically efficient. One idea he has is consolidating services every school district needs, like payroll and accounts payable and receivable into some large, regional ESDs. Under Dempsey’s vision, smaller ESDs would provide unique services that are more locally focused.

“We have to take big bites here,” he said. “Everyone means well. The truth

to pass. The bill would have asked the U.N. to return $179 million that the U.S. paid to the multinational organization as a credit for taxes paid by U.N. employees. Republicans targeted the money because the U.S. is paying for $100 million worth of security upgrades at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York City.

ing board of nine members, six of whom would be elected by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. The board would determine how, exactly, the health exchange would operate.

Duncan Wyse, president of the Oregon Business Council, said he believes the exchange could create opportunities for Oregon’s small-business owners. But, he said, details matter. Without knowing the choices that will be available in the exchange, or how restrictive the options might be, or what the requirements to participate will be, he can’t say if he thinks it’s the right way to go for Oregon’s small businesses.

Giving people and small-business owners an opportunity to “come and look at a range of options of health plans and select among them, and have it be portable so if you move from one employer to the next you can move your insurance, it creates a real value,” he said.

“We are eager to participate in the dialogue. If it’s appropriately designed, it’s an important opportunity to Oregon.”

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is we need to step up as a state and do business differently.”

Hobbies: Sits on the St. Charles health board, volunteers as a track coach in Sisters, enjoys the outdoors, running and hiking.

Last book read: “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman,” by Jon Krakauer.

— Lauren Dake, The Bulletin

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

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Gift of Eugene home lays cost on universities

By Greg Bolt The (Eugene) Register-Guard

EUGENE — The Oregon University System is paying almost $50,000 a year to maintain a turn-of-the-century house in Eugene that it might not need but it also can’t sell.

Perched on a hill in one of Eugene’s toniest neighborhoods is the one-time mansion known as Treetops. Once the home of one of the town’s wealthiest merchants, it has been the home of the OUS chancellor since the owner gave it to the state university system in 1938.

In fact, the deed requires that the 8,111-square-foot house be used only as the official residence of either the OUS chancellor or the president of the University of Oregon. The UO president already has an official stateowned residence just down the hill, McMorran House, so Treetops always has been used as the chancellor’s residence.

Split residences But it’s not the chancellor’s only residence and might not even be his primary one, although that’s where he receives mail and has his voter registration. As did at least the two men who preceded him, OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner also owns a home in Portland, where his family lives and where he stays when the state Board of Higher Education holds its meetings or when other business keeps him at the north end of the Willamette Valley.

In fact, the university system pays him an extra $26,000 a year, on top of his salary of $280,900, as a housing allowance, at least in part because he has to divide his time between the various campuses in Portland, Corvallis and Eugene. He also receives about $36,000 a year for expenses and deferred compensation.

The OUS oversees the state’s seven public universi-

The deed requires that the house be used “solely as the place of actual residence” of the (Oregon University System) chancellor. ties, and the chancellor directs the overall system operations.

These include offices that handle academic issues, budgets and finance, communications and government relations.

Pernsteiner said he roughly splits his time between the Eugene and Portland residences, although he sometimes goes long stretches at one or the other.

“I’m not in Portland a whole lot more than I’m in Eugene,” he said. “It waxes and wanes.

There’s certain times of the year or certain years where there will be weeks on end where you’re in one place or the other.”

Back to the heirs?

Whether it makes budgetary sense to continue to maintain Treetops, given that Pernsteiner acknowledges he only uses it part time, is an open question.

What’s certain, though, is that if he stops using it, the university system can’t sell it; the deed requires that in such a case the house revert to the heirs of Campbell Church, the Eugene merchant who donated it.

The deed requires that the house be used “solely as the place of actual residence” of the chancellor. Pernsteiner says Treetops, at 2237 Spring Blvd., is his legal residence because that’s his mailing address and where he’s registered to vote.

But it’s not clear whether legal residence and actual residence are the same thing. And it’s also not clear that the house has been used solely as the chancellor’s residence, as Pernsteiner acknowledges that friends of his children also lived at the house while attending the UO. They have since graduated and moved out, he said.

He also doesn’t always use the Eugene house as his sole mailing address. Campaign finance records show that Pernsteiner used the Portland house as his mailing address when he made a campaign donation in 2008.

Ultimately, it probably would be up to a court to decide if the way the university system is using the house meets with the deed’s requirements. And it would only come before a judge if the heirs challenge the current use.

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‘Sale of the century’: Rancho Rajneesh up for grabs for $40 million in 1986 100 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 12, 1911 KEEPS ON SOUTH On Feb. 2, Judge Lovett, head of the Harriman system, announced in New York that the Deschutes railroad will be continued south of Redmond, through Bend to Crescent, where it will connect with the Natron Cut-off and with the proposed Ontario-Natron line.

Nothing was said concerning the time when the proposed extensions would be undertaken.

It is supposed the work south of Redmond will be commenced as soon as the rails reach that point.

Last night, Oregon Trunk rails were nine miles north of Madras.

It is expected they will reach that town by Feb. 14, on which date a celebration will be held. According to those who have come up the Deschutes Canyon during the last week, the Harriman line is from two to five months behind its Hill rival as regards its stage of completion.

TO VIEW OUT ROAD Yesterday’s development in regard to the proposed Bend-Burns road is that a committee will go partway over the route the latter part of this week to view out the best road and discuss the matter with settlers in the affected territory preparatory to getting up a petition and taking up the matter with the Burns Commercial Club.

A.C. Lucas has donated the use of his car for this work. Road Supervisor Richardson will be a member of the party: other members may be W.H. Staats, S.C. Caldwell and one or two of the locators familiar with the territory.

EDITORIAL All lots in Bend are 140 feet in depth. This allows the construction of dwellings at a distance back from the street. Too often the mistake is made of placing residences close to the street; particularly as this is a poor move when lots are of such depth that even when houses are constructed 50 feet from the sidewalk line, ample room will remain in the rear for backyards, wood sheds and clothesline room.

Nothing so adds to the appearance of a town, as well as to that of the residences themselves, as handsome lawns and ample space between house and street.

Bend has a great opportunity to build up beautiful residential districts: next to handsome houses, their location on the lots well back from the street — say 50 feet — is the most important factor in bringing about this result.

75 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 12, 1936 FREMONT — NOT MODOC (Editorial) The name Modoc — chosen for the Boy Scout area covering Jefferson, Crook, Deschutes, Klamath and Lake counties in Oregon and Modoc in California — is fair enough in its way, but there is a name so much better that a change should be made.

Y E S T E R D AY Modoc is not at all distinctive for the whole area, and unless there is some ancient connection up here in Central Oregon with which we are not familiar, the name has no local significance whatever. The same thing is true of the name in Lake County.

It is in Klamath County that the name has any background.

There, of course, it does stand for a good deal, going back to the early Indians and through them connecting with the lava beds and the prominent point on the east shore of Upper Klamath Lake.

According to McArthur’s invaluable “Oregon Geographic Names,” the name Modoc “is derived from the Klamath (Indian) words Moa, meaning south, Takni, meaning a native of that place or country, hence from the point of view of the Klamath Indians, natives of the country just to the south.” This explanation alone points to the unfitness of the name for the Boy Scout area including so much country to the north.

Instead of Modoc, it is suggested that the name of Fremont should be used.

Fremont stands for John Charles Fremont, the United States Army lieutenant who led an exploring expedition across country and down into California in 1843 and 1844. In his journey south through Oregon, Fremont touched every one of the counties in the area except Crook, and Crook was once the name for two of the counties in the list.

He crossed Jefferson and Deschutes from north to south, he camped on Klamath marsh, and crossing to the east found and named Winter Ridge and Summer Lake. Thence he crossed Lake County into what is now Modoc in California and crossed it. Later, coming up from the south, he visited Klamath again.

Because of the identification of the name with so much of the territory in this Boy Scout area and because as a Scout himself his name is an inspiration to boys of today, Fremont is the proper designation.

The use of the name would open a large field of local exploration and study, and to some suggest an even more extensive research in American historical and biographical study.

Make it Fremont — not Modoc.

OLYMPIC GAMES OPEN TOMORROW Germany plays host tomorrow to its first Olympic games in history.

Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler will officially open the winter Olympiad in Bavaria — the forerunner of the summer games to be held in Berlin in August.

50 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 12, 1961 ARE COMMUNITY CELEBRATIONS WORTHWHILE IN THIS AGE OF ADVANCED SOPHISTICATION? It was only after a great deal of soul searching that the Bend Chamber of Commerce directors

decided to call off the July 4th Water Pageant this year.

General “lack of interest” was given as the reason. The decision wasn’t made in haste.

Chamber President Gordon Robberson sought advice from several groups. It was the general consensus of opinion that the show wasn’t worth the effort.

At the same time, Chamber of Commerce directors aren’t sure that this is the end of the Water Pageant. A study will be made during the next few months to see if resumption of the Pageant in 1962 is warranted.

In recent years, success of the Water Pageant has been at most, mild. Crowds have been down.

Interest has waned, especially on the local level. It has been difficult to recruit workers for the demanding job of putting a Pageant together.

Twenty years ago, people weren’t able to get around as well as they do today. Super highways, increased leisure time, speedy cars and a general rise in consumer income have changed this.

Instead of staying at home on the Fourth of July, people travel.

They visit new places, or old places. They explore.

In the age of television and Disneyland, it takes a super show to attract people year after year. And it takes something different.

Of course, Bend is different.

The “high country” has much to offer visitors. Our lakes, streams, parks, fishing, hunting and camping are second to none.

In this, we can compete with Disneyland anytime.

But our pursuits don’t solve the problems of a Water Pageant.

The people of Bend will have a year to make up their minds on whether or not they really want a Pageant.

If the answer is yes, the general complacency of recent years will have to be reversed.

SUTTLE LAKE ONCE STUDIED AS RESERVOIR FOR AREA

By Phil F. Brogan Forty-five years ago, it appeared that Suttle Lake, known at the time as “Suttles Lake,” was doomed to be a big reservoir.

A contract for construction of the Suttles Lake Irrigation Project was let in February 1916, to a Seattle, Wash., firm, none other than the Henry J. Kaiser company.

It was proposed to build a dam above the bed of Lake Creek, which would store 21,500 acrefeet of water.

The project was designed to deliver water to the Grandview area. A tunnel 545 feet in length was planned.

For various reasons, that project did not materialize. Now, in 1961, the U.S. Forest Service is constructing a dam on Lake Creek at the outlet to make sure that the lake level will remain stable.

25 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 12, 1986 CRUMBLED DREAMS The bhagwan, explains Swami Satya, taught his followers that “life is a dance.”

Right now, the music has stopped.

Rajneeshpuram today is far from looking like the world headquarters of a meditation and consciousness-raising movement that claims a million followers across the globe.

The modern city, located on the former Big Muddy Ranch east of Antelope, is like Alice’s Restaurant — “you can get anything you want.”

Right now, this “sale of the century” is gearing up to unload its biggest asset: Rancho Rajneesh itself.

At $40 million, it should be a steal, because while the bulk of the smaller goods and chattel have been sold in what is virtually a giant garage sale, there are still a few items left.

For instance, there’s the remaining fleet of Air Rajneesh — a few aircraft, including a DC-3 sitting on the tarmac just west of the city.

The buyer would get the luxury 140-room Hotel Rajneesh, currently occupied by the 125 sannyasins — “searchers,” as the departed guru’s disciples are called — who elected to stay on as caretakers and maintenance men after the bhagwan’s exit last November.

The buildings include the 2.2acre meditation center, which nowadays looks like a giant supermarket.

Many of the goods have been sold off, but there is still a range of products, such as restaurant equipment, casino tables and leftover clothing.

The sale is being handled by two Australian brothers, Swami Dipak and Swami Prem Hari.

For the remaining sannyasins, life is taken one day at a time, in keeping with the bhagwan’s teachings.

“There’s no headquarters for the movement right now,” says Ma Anand Sarita, a Californian who for 13 years has been with the bhagwan. “It’s a state of flux.”

She says there is no bitterness toward Ma Anand Sheela, who arrived back in the U.S. on Thursday to face trial on attempted murder and other charges.

“There’s no anger,” Sarita says. “Sheela was given a situation of power. Instead she used it for her own corrupt greed.”

Sarita says it was Sheela who really established the religion, not the bhagwan.

“She became a pope. He was like a distant god,” she said.

The bhagwan’s decision to speak out and denounce Sheela after three years of silence was “an incredible lesson for all of us,” Sarita said.

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

C. Aluka Berry / The State

Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens volunteers Ruth Ouzts, left, and Jo Hines clean a display window at the zoo earlier this month in Columbia, S.C. Ouzts has been a volunteer at the zoo for 25 years and Hines for 35 years.

After decades at zoo, volunteers keep on cleaning

By Joey Holleman McClatchy-Tribune News Service

COLUMBIA, S.C. — They trundle through Riverbanks Zoo every Thursday morning, Jo Hines carrying a broom and pulling a small dolly loaded with cleaning supplies, while Ruth Ouzts totes a longhandled squeegee and a litter picker-upper.

Most zoo visitors probably don’t notice the gray-haired volunteers, but they see the results of the duo’s work. They wash the dust and grime off the many informational signs, clean the windows on some of the outdoors exhibits and pick up trash.

In by 8:30 a.m. and done with their loop around the zoo in less than two hours, Hines and Ouzts in many ways are typical of the nearly 150 volunteers that routinely help out at Riverbanks. But they stand out in some ways — especially longevity.

Career volunteers Hines, who’d rather not reveal her age, began volunteering at Riverbanks a month after the zoo opened in 1974.

“A friend of mine called and said ‘We’re going to the zoo and learn all about it,’” Hines said.

Satch Krantz, then the zoo’s chief curator and now its executive director, taught the four women the ins and outs of the zoo, its exhibits and its animals. Then he put them to work as volunteers.

“We did the schoolchildren tours for years,” Hines said. “I always had the second group, and (a friend) had the first group. It didn’t matter what time I came through, it seemed all the animals were mating when we came through.

I asked (her friend) what she

was doing up there ahead of us.”

Eventually, the zoo hired staffers to direct school groups, but new roles kept popping up for volunteers such as Hines.

She especially enjoys helping keepers observe animal behavior. About a decade ago — they can’t recall exactly when — Hines and Ouzts got together for their Thursday morning spic-and-span patrol.

Ouzts, 86, is a Riverbanks newcomer compared to Hines.

She joined the zoo volunteer effort when she retired in the Columbia area in 1986. She had family in the area to keep her busy, but she was looking for another outlet for her energy.

Opportunities and animals “The most fascinating thing I’ve done here was walking the African cranes,” Ouzts said.

“They had a new chick, and a big one picked on him. We’d have to take him out and walk him for 20 minutes.”

Opportunities like that draw volunteers to the zoo. Riverbanks volunteer manager Christie Vondrak said recruiting isn’t part of her job. People just call and ask how they can help. But most volunteers stick around only a year or two, until some change in life makes it difficult to routinely give up time.

More common are the teens looking to fulfill school volunteer requirements or groups that want to help with the big events, such as Boo at the Zoo or Lights Before Christmas.

“The new trend is different from these ladies,” Vondrak said. “They don’t stay around for 35 years. I don’t think we’ll ever see this sort of thing again.”

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Conor Josef Baune, of Bend Feb. 26, 1993 - Feb. 10, 2011 Arrangements: Autumn Funerals, Bend 541-318-0842 www.autumnfunerals.com Services: Memorial Service will be held 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 16, 2011, Trinity Lutheran Church, 2550 NE Butler Market Rd., Bend, Oregon 97701.

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In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Trinity Lutheran School, 2550 NE Butler Market Rd., Bend, Oregon 97701.

Gail Norton Swanson, of Salem, Oregon Oct. 2, 1927-Feb.11, 2011 Arrangements: Crown Memorial Centers, 412 Lancaster Dr. NE, Salem, OR 97301 503-581-6265 Services: Memorial Service will be held 3:00 p.m. February 16, 2011, Keizer Church of Christ, 5405 Ridge Drive NE, Keizer, OR 503-393-5424

Justice Michael Harrison, of Bend Feb. 6, 2011 - Feb. 6, 2011 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend (541) 382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: A Memorial Service will be held at a later date.

Leon Kenneth Kennedy, of La Pine April 25, 1939 - Feb. 10, 2011 Arrangements: Baird Memorial Chapel, La Pine, 541-536-5104 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: No service.

Sally Ann Hudson, of Bend April 9, 1943 - Feb. 8, 2011 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend (541) 382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: No memorial services are planned at this time.

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Timothy Harris Symons November 8, 1946 - Feb. 3, 2011 Timothy Harris Symons, 64, died Thursday, February 3, 2011, at Midland Hospice in Topeka, Kansas. He was a resident of White City, Kansas and former resident of Bend, Oregon. Tim was born on November 8, 1946, in Bend, to Norman and Dorothy C. (Sanborn) Symons.

Tim enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1966, during the Vietnam war. He spent the next 21 years as a proud soldier. The recipient of numerous military honors, Tim spent 13 years serving in Germany and retired with the rank of Sergeant First Class at Ft. Riley as part of the Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Division. He is survived by four nephews, Kurt Symons, of Madras, OR, Charlie Ruble, and Bill and Lance Chaffin, Two great nieces and two great-nephews. He is also survived by his former wife and good friend, Beverly Metcalf and sisters-in-law, Charlotte Symons, Lois Ruble and Dana Chaffin.

A graveside committal service was held February 7, 2011, at Star Cemetery in Rural Burrton, KS, with The Reverend Stephen Baxter officiating. Military Honors were provided by the soldiers of Ft. Riley. Memorial contributions may be made to Paralyzed Veterans of America or Mirror, Inc., Newton, Kansas.

Fred Kirby built giant insurance company New York Times News Service Fred Morgan Kirby II, an heir to the Woolworth fortune who transformed the Alleghany Corp. from largely a railroad holding company controlled by his father into an insurance and investment giant, died Tuesday in North Carolina. He was 91 and lived in New Vernon., N.J. His family confirmed the death but provided no other details.

As its longtime chairman and chief executive, Kirby completely reinvented Alleghany, boldly selling its biggest asset, Investors Diversified Services, to the American Express Co. for $800 million in 1983.

Three years later, he pumped the proceeds into insurance, buying up the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and the Security Union Title Insurance Co. to make Alleghany the biggest player in title insurance. Title insurance is sold to protect against losses stemming from problems with the title to a property.

To benefit its shareholders, Kirby later came up with a plan to liquidate Alleghany and then restructure it so they could receive a hefty cash distribution before valuable tax breaks expired in 1987. In 2007, Barron’s reported that shares of Alleghany had produced a 15 percent annualized return since Kirby took over, exceeding the returns of the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index by five percentage points.

His business acumen mirrored that of his grandfather and namesake, Fred Kirby, who used a series of acquisitions and mergers to parlay a five-anddime store in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., into what became the F.W. Woolworth Co.

TV actress Peggy Rea dies New York Times News Service Peggy Rea, a matronly actress who had supporting roles on popular television series from the 1970s to the ’90s, died Feb. 5 at her home in Toluca Lake, Calif. She was 89.

The cause was complications of heart failure, Kimmie Burks, a friend, said.

Rea played Rose Burton, Olivia Walton’s cousin, on “The Waltons”; Lulu Hogg, Boss

Hogg’s wife, on “The Dukes of Hazzard”; and Jean Kelly, the mother-in-law of Brett Butler’s character, on “Grace Under Fire.”

Rea’s first role on television was as a nurse on “I Love Lucy” in 1953. She also appeared on “All in the Family,” “Step by Step” and “Gunsmoke,” among other shows.

Burks said no immediate family members survive.

Film rep, WWII spy Quigley dies

By Adam Bernstein The Washington Post

Martin Quigley, an executive with movie-industry trade publications who used his ties to the film world as cover for espionage in Europe during World War II, died of a heart ailment Feb. 5 at his home in West Hartford, Conn. He was 93.

While posing as a commercial film rep in Ireland, he was in fact working for the Office of Strategic Services and its director, Maj. Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan. Toward the end of the war, he took a similar assignment in Italy, where he sent back-channel peace feelers to the Japanese government.

Quigley, who wrote two books about his years as a secret agent,

came from a family with deep connections to the Catholic Church and the movie industry.

His father, whose name also was Martin, was a publisher of movie trade papers and a power broker between the church and Hollywood moguls. As one of the country’s most prominent lay Catholics, the senior Quigley was credited with co-authorship of the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code that for decades imposed taboos on depictions of such things as “excessive and lustful kissing.”

Martin Quigley joined his father’s New York-based publishing empire in 1939 after graduating from Georgetown University. During World War II, he was turned down for Navy service

because of poor eyesight. But his family was close with Donovan, a corporate lawyer who led the OSS, forerunner of the CIA. In 1943, Donovan sent Quigley to Ireland to gather intelligence on everything from the state of official Irish neutrality to local sentiments about the Allied and Axis powers. Both sides had legations on the Emerald Isle, and Quigley said his cover proved effective.

“It was a passport to be able to communicate with all kinds of people at every conceivable level,” Quigley later said. “I traveled around the country and would go to a provincial city and see the bishop, the newspaper editor, the cinema owner and the man on the street. People opened up. It was an ideal cover.”

Quigley said his government work often overlapped with the legitimate interests of the American movie industry.

“I used to sit next to (Irish film censor) Richard Hayes, and I would argue with him, trying to get him not to cut scenes where background ‘Buy War Bonds’ posters were included,” Quigley told the Irish Emigrant newsletter. “He was adamant that anything visual alluding to the war would be cut.”

Quigley reported to Donovan that he thought the Irish, despite their animosity toward the English, were confident of eventual Allied victory. At any rate, he noted, the Irish were too economically entwined with England to risk a pro-German alliance.

Miriam Hansen studied film past New York Times News Service

New York Times News Service ile photo

Dennis Oppenheim with “Blood Breathe,” upturned nostrils, in New York in 2007. Oppenheim, a pioneer of earthworks, body art and Conceptual art, died Jan. 21 in Manhattan.

Dennis Oppenheim, pioneer in earthworks, Conceptual art

By Roberta Smith New York Times News Service

Dennis Oppenheim, a pioneer of earthworks, body art and Conceptual art who later made emphatically tangible installations and public sculptures that veered between the demonically chaotic and the cheerfully Pop, died Jan. 21 in Manhattan.

He was 72.

The cause was liver cancer, his wife, Amy Van Winkle Plumb, said. Oppenheim, who died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, had homes in Manhattan and the Springs section of East Hampton on Long Island.

Belonging to a generation of artists who saw portable painting and sculpture as obsolete, Oppenheim started out in the realm of the esoteric, the immaterial and the chronically unsalable. But he was always a showman, not averse to the circuslike, or to courting danger.

For “Rocked Circle — Fear,” a 1971 body art piece, he stood at the center of a 5-foot-wide circle painted on a New York sidewalk while a friend dropped fist-size stones from three stories above, aiming for inside the circle without hitting the artist.

There were no mishaps.

Oppenheim had a penchant for grandiosity. It was implicit in the close-up photograph of a splinter in his finger, portentously titled “Material Interchange.”

It was explicit in “Charmed Journey Through a Step-Down Transformer,” a Rube Goldberg-like outdoor installation from 1980 that sprawled 125 feet down a slope at the Wave Hill garden and cultural center

in the Bronx, its disparate parts suggesting engines, tracks, organ pipes and much else.

Sculptures like these, from Oppenheim’s Factories series, combined aspects of machines and industrial architecture with intimations of mysterious human processes, presenting what he called “a parallel to the mental processing of a raw idea” by both the artist and the viewer.

Many works involved moving parts, casts of animals (whole or partial), upturned or tilted building silhouettes and sound, water and fireworks, which on occasion prompted unscheduled visits by the fire department.

An athletic, ruggedly handsome man who maintained a shock of blond hair longer than seemed biologically possible, Oppenheim had a knack for the oddly poetic title — as in “A Station for Detaining and Blinding Radio-Active Horses” — and a penchant for the occasional sensational remark.

“Korea is a nice place to be,” he said after executing sculptural commissions for the 1988 summer Olympics in Seoul, “if your work is hysterical.”

Dennis Allan Oppenheim was born in Electric City, Wash., on Sept. 6, 1938. His father was an engineer; his mother promoted his early interest in art.

In the mid-1960s, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and an MFA from Stanford. He moved to New York in 1966.

He first became known for works in which, like an environmentally inclined Marcel Duchamp, using engineers’

stakes and photographs, he simply designated parts of the urban landscape as artworks. Then, in step with artists like Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria and Lawrence Weiner, he began making temporary outdoor sculptures, soon to be known as land art or earthworks. “Landslide,” from 1968, for example, was an immense bank of loose dirt near Exit 52 of the Long Island Expressway in central Long Island that he punctuated with rows of steplike right angles made of painted wood.

Miriam Hansen, a scholar of cinema who studied not only film itself but also the early 20th-century creation known as the film audience, died Feb. 5 in Chicago. She was 61 and a Chicago resident.

Her death, from cancer, was announced by the University of Chicago, where she was the Ferdinand Schevill distinguished service professor in the humanities. Hansen also founded what is now the university’s cinema and media studies department.

If films are made to be seen, then they engender, in turn, particular ways of seeing. On these ways Hansen trained her professional gaze.

She was among the first film scholars to examine the viewing of film as a distinct cultural phenomenon — looking, in other words, at the art of looking.

Hansen was known in particular for her book “Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film,” published by Harvard University Press in 1991.

“She was in the first generation of scholars to see film viewing as a historically defined and shaped activity,” Daniel Morgan, an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Pittsburgh and a former doctoral student of Hansen’s, said on Friday.

Susanne (Alexander) Staws November 30, 1940 - January 14, 2011 Susanne (Alexander) Staws passed away peacefully Friday, January 14, 2011, after a long courageous battle with a liver disease.

Her devoted brother, John Alexander and family and friends, were by her side.

She was born November 30, 1940, in Salem, Oregon, to Sidney and Bernice Alexander. At the age of nine years, she moved to Bend, Oregon and attended Bend public schools. Susanne graduated from Bend Senior High School in 1959. She went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts in Bible from Biola College in 1964. One of her first jobs was working at Healy’s Furniture Store in downtown Bend to help fund her education.

Susanne later attended Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon and went on to teach thirty-three years in Simi Valley, California. On July 27, 1985, she married Irwin Staws.

Susanne loved Jesus with all her heart and for many years served Him as the head pianist and organist at First Baptist Church. In addition to her love of music, Susanne co-authored a children’s educational book called, “Inch by Inch Anything’s a Cinch.”

Susanne enjoyed reading, her students, friends, and family especially the special times she spent with her two nephews.

Susanne is survived by brother, John Alexander of Bend and his wife, Nancy; nephew, James Alexander of Maple Valley, WA and his wife, Kyung Sook Kim; and nephew, Timothy Alexander of Portland, Oregon and his wife, Hannah.

She was preceded in death by her husband of twenty-five years, Irwin Staws on December 11, 2010, and her parents, Sidney and Bernice Alexander.

The family would like to thank the doctors and caregivers at the OHSU Transplant Center, Kaiser Hospital, and Crestview Skilled Nursing Center in Portland, Oregon for their kindness, consideration and excellent care.

A memorial service honoring Susanne’s life will be held Saturday, February 19, at 11:00 a.m., at the First Baptist Church at 60 NW Avenue, Bend, Oregon.

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THE BULLETIN WEATHER FORECAST

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TODAY, FEBRUARY 13

MONDAY

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FORECASTS: LOCAL

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56

30

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Western Maupin

Government Camp

Ruggs

Condon

54/34

51/34

54/35

40/30

Warm Springs

Marion Forks

56/43

49/43

Willowdale 55/42

Mitchell

Madras

56/38

54/41

Camp Sherman 48/33 Redmond Prineville 53/36 Cascadia 55/37 52/47 Sisters 51/35 Bend Post 56/30

Oakridge Elk Lake 50/45

50/33

50/32

49/31

48/33

Fort Rock 52/34

44/26

Chemult 49/30

45/42

Calgary 39/25

Missoula 47/31

Helena Bend

50/32

Idaho Falls Elko

66/39

32/14

55/28

52/35

Reno

Isolated to scattered showers are possible across the area today.

Crater Lake

48/26

Boise

56/30

Redding

53/29

44/27

65/33

San Francisco

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61/49

51/32

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Astoria . . . . . . . . 53/36/0.14 . . . . . 51/42/sh. . . . . . 51/43/sh Baker City . . . . . . 43/25/0.00 . . . . . . 40/28/c. . . . . . 46/32/rs Brookings . . . . . .51/42/trace . . . . . . 55/46/c. . . . . . 54/46/sh Burns. . . . . . . . . . 49/18/0.00 . . . . . . 41/27/c. . . . . . 47/32/rs Eugene . . . . . . . . 57/36/0.00 . . . . . 53/39/sh. . . . . . 53/38/sh Klamath Falls . . . 60/19/0.00 . . . . . 52/26/pc. . . . . . 46/27/sh Lakeview. . . . . . . .NA/19/NA . . . . . 49/27/pc. . . . . . 45/29/sh La Pine . . . . . . . . 58/29/0.00 . . . . . .51/32/rs. . . . . . 48/27/sn Medford . . . . . . . 67/28/0.00 . . . . . 56/32/pc. . . . . . 52/34/sh Newport . . . . . . . 52/39/0.00 . . . . . 51/46/sh. . . . . . 51/47/sh North Bend . . . . . 55/37/0.00 . . . . . 55/44/sh. . . . . . 54/39/sh Ontario . . . . . . . . 45/28/0.00 . . . . . . 47/30/c. . . . . . 52/34/sh Pendleton . . . . . . 63/52/0.00 . . . . . 59/38/pc. . . . . . 52/36/sh Portland . . . . . . . 57/40/0.00 . . . . . 51/44/sh. . . . . . 51/40/sh Prineville . . . . . . . 59/34/0.00 . . . . . 55/37/sh. . . . . . 53/31/rs Redmond. . . . . . . 65/32/0.00 . . . . . . 58/34/c. . . . . . 50/29/rs Roseburg. . . . . . . 67/35/0.00 . . . . . 58/39/sh. . . . . . 55/38/sh Salem . . . . . . . . . 58/39/0.00 . . . . . 52/42/sh. . . . . . 52/39/sh Sisters . . . . . . . . . 59/36/0.01 . . . . . .51/35/rs. . . . . . 50/28/rs The Dalles . . . . . . 61/28/0.00 . . . . . 58/37/sh. . . . . . 50/33/sh

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SKI REPORT

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LOW 0

2

MEDIUM 4

HIGH 6

V.HIGH 8

10

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

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

PRECIPITATION

Yesterday’s weather through 4 p.m. in Bend High/Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61/36 24 hours ending 4 p.m.. . . . . . . . 0.00” Record high . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 in 1988 Month to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00” Record low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 in 1929 Average month to date. . . . . . . . 0.53” Average high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Year to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.48” Average low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Average year to date. . . . . . . . . . 2.29” Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.. . . 29.83 Record 24 hours . . . . . . . 0.35 in 1958 *Melted liquid equivalent

Tomorrow Rise Set Mercury . . . . . .6:58 a.m. . . . . . .4:44 p.m.

Venus . . . . . . . .4:43 a.m. . . . . . .1:56 p.m.

Mars. . . . . . . . .7:08 a.m. . . . . . .5:17 p.m.

Jupiter. . . . . . . .8:40 a.m. . . . . . .8:51 p.m.

Saturn. . . . . . . .9:45 p.m. . . . . . .9:21 a.m.

Uranus . . . . . . .8:25 a.m. . . . . . .8:21 p.m.

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38 20

ULTRAVIOLET INDEX Monday Hi/Lo/W

Mostly cloudy, chance of snow showers.

41 20

PLANET WATCH

OREGON CITIES City

47/41

Christmas Valley Silver Lake

Seattle

Eugene Isolated showers are pos53/39 sible today under mostly Grants Pass cloudy skies.

52/34 Eastern

Hampton

Crescent

Crescent Lake

Vancouver

Sunrise today . . . . . . 7:08 a.m.

Sunset today . . . . . . 5:32 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow . . 7:06 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow. . . 5:33 p.m.

Moonrise today . . . 12:27 p.m.

Moonset today . . . . 3:30 a.m.

THURSDAY

Mostly cloudy, chance of snow showers.

45 25

SUN AND MOON SCHEDULE

51/44

51/34

51/32

HIGH

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Portland

Burns

La Pine

LOW

54 30

BEND ALMANAC

51/33

Brothers

Cloudy, chance of mixed showers.

NORTHWEST

Paulina

51/34

Sunriver

41/24

Showers are likely across the western portion of the state today.

Central

HIGH

Yesterday’s regional extremes • 68° Hermiston • 18° Burns

WEDNESDAY

Cloudy, breezy, chance of evening showers.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy.

Today: Mostly cloudy.

TUESDAY

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 . . . . . . 36-55 Hoodoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 38-40 Mt. Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 36-81 Mt. Bachelor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 73-90 Mt. Hood Meadows . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . . . 74 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . 30-39 Timberline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . . 103 Warner Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . . . 22 Willamette Pass . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 20-60 Aspen, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 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

. . . . . . 50-52 . . . . 101-200 . . . . . . . . 87 . . . . . 30-109 . . . . . . 43-60 . . . . . . 48-55 . . . . . . . . 69

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Phoenix 79/46

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Mines reopen in revival of California’s gold rush

By Jesse McKinley New York Times News Service

SUTTER CREEK, Calif. — Standing in a cramped, slanted and slippery crevice some 500 feet below the earth’s surface, David Cochrane turned his eyes to a ribbon of marbled quartz — mainly gray, amber and white — and found the one hue he was actually looking for.

“Right there, see? It’s small, but it’s very colorful,” Cochrane said, pointing at a shiny speck no bigger than a seed. “It’s got that nice yellow color.”

It was gold, and if people like Cochrane have their way, gold will soon be big business again in California’s Mother Lode, in the same area of the Sierra — and occasionally the same mines — where the old-time prospectors once used pickaxes, ore carts and burros to chase their riches.

“People say the Mother Lode’s mined out,” said Cochrane, a vice president with Sutter Gold Mining Inc., based in Colorado. “But that’s not the case.”

Sutter Gold is just one of several companies seeking to reignite a stagnant industry in California, a state whose early history and growth were intertwined with gold’s discovery, excavation and exploitation.

Mining largely dried up in California after World War II as price controls made the business model unappealing. But with controls gone, and gold now selling at more than $1,000 an ounce, the math makes sense again.

“The price is there,” said James Hesketh, president and chief executive of Atna Resources, which reopened the Briggs Mine on the western border of Death Valley National Park in 2009. “It’s still a very well-endowed resource state.”

Sutter Gold estimates that there could be $800 million or more in ore under the 3.6-mile stretch it owns in the Mother Lode. And with most of about three dozen local, state and federal permits already in hand, its new Lincoln Mine could be producing gold as early as next year.

But Sutter Gold will not be

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“People say the Mother Lode’s mined out,” says David Cochrane, a vice president with Sutter Gold Mining Inc., inside Sutter Gold’s mine in Grass Valley, Calif. “But that’s not the case.” the first to get back in the game in California. In addition to the Briggs Mine, which last year produced some 25,000 ounces of gold — or about $30 million worth — there is the Mesquite Mine, in Imperial County on the Mexican border, which reopened in 2008.

In 2010, that mine outstripped company estimates to produce nearly 170,000 ounces of gold.

Both the Briggs and Mesquite projects are open-pit mines. But here in the Sierra foothills, where the discovery of nuggets in 1848 set off the global rush of prospectors to California, miners are headed back underground. In addition to the Lincoln Mine, plans are afoot to reopen the IdahoMaryland mine in Grass Valley, a family-friendly area 50 miles northeast of Sacramento.

That mine — now flooded — has not had hard hats in it since 1956, but a Canadian company is convinced that more than 1 million ounces of gold were left behind. “This was a world-class ore body,” said David Watkinson, chief executive of the Emgold Mining Corp., which is spearheading the project.

The Idaho-Maryland project is further from being shovel-ready than the Lincoln Mine: Pumping out more than 50 years of water

will take time, after all, as does completing a variety of environmental impact reports and permitting processes. And the prospect of a newly opened mine has also been met with opposition from some local activists, whose worries are rooted in both the legacy of the first Gold Rush — including contaminated and sediment-filled rivers and hillsides denuded by hydraulic cannons — and by more modern quality-of-life concerns like traffic, noise and water rights.

Like many of the other towns in the Mother Lode, Grass Valley has long since moved its economy away from mining toward things like software and tourism. The Gold Rush itself peaked in 1852, according to the state’s Department of Conservation, when nearly 4 million ounces were discovered in California. By 1971, when the nation went off the gold standard, less than 2,000 ounces were produced in California.

But the rebound in price has led to a rebound in production.

Domestic gold mine production in 2010 increased for the first time in a decade, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Nevada is by far the largest gold-producing state, producing roughly four times that of all other states combined.

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FACES AND PLACES OF THE HIGH DESERT Inside

Mad about hats After falling out of favor, men’s hats are once again coming out ahead, Page C7

Playwright puts a comic spin on life as a boomer

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Food festivals offer everything from truffles to crawfish and apples to garlic

By David Jasper The Bulletin

Photo courtesy Barb Gonzalez

There will be no shortage of Dungeness crab at seafood festivals from one end of the Oregon Coast to the other. The Astoria-Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival (April 29-May 1) will offer full crab dinners for three straight nights.

When the Actors Theatre of Louisville commissioned David Rambo to write a play in 2000, the company was very exact in naming what it wanted.

“It was to look at baby boomers at the dawn of the new century, squeezed between finally having grown up and finding that, at the same time, their parents’ lives were dwindling and they were needed there as well,” the 55-year-old playwright told The Bulletin last week by phone from his Los Angeles home.

A boomer himself, but with “incredibly healthy” parents, Rambo sought out people to interview who were going through something akin to what the the- David Ramater wanted in the play. bo’s play “The Among the people he spoke to Spin Cycle” was Chris Rennolds — co-founder opens at Innoof Innovation Theatre Works and vation Theatre a longtime acquaintance of Ram- Works in Bend bo’s from the Los Angeles theater on Feb. 18. scene. At the time, Rennolds was caring for her mother, Eadie, then in an early stage of Alzheimer’s disease.

“She was an adorable character: smart, quick, loving, wise. One of the wisest people I ever met,” Rambo says.

According to Rennolds, “He researched a lot of people. But he knew both my mom and me very well and had seen our interactions for years, so I think he incorporated some of that.”

Rennolds and her mother lived together for six years, until Eadie died one morning while sitting in her recliner and watching Katie Couric on “The Today Show.”

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Does the world’s largest strawberry shortcake sound tempting?

It’s among the treats that visitors to the Lebanon Strawberry Festival — up to 20,000 of them each year — can get a taste of. If you’d like to join them, this year’s celebration of all things strawberry will take place June 2-5 at Cheadle Lake Regional Park.

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Keith Ellis of Eugene store Cook’s Pots & Tabletops shaves truffles for addition to a pasta dish at the Oregon Truffle Festival. Ellis was one of several chefs offering demonstrations during the three-day festival.

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magine an entire festival built around the lowly truffle.

For the past seven years, on the last weekend of Janu-

Fans of the “stinking rose,” rejoice: There’s an entire festival devoted to garlic.

Follow your nose to the Portland suburb of North Plains on Aug. 12-14, where the Elephant Garlic Festival features fresh roasted garlic and garlic ice cream, among other treats, as well as a parade that introduces the “smelly king and queen.”

ary in the heart of harvest season, the Oregon Truffle Festival has sung the praises of this improbable epicurean delight. This has helped to focus attention not only upon the truffle itself but upon Oregon as a center for its cultivation.

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Apple lovers pick through the produce selection at the Harry & David Country Village in Medford. The international merchandising company hosts A Taste of Harry & David, an annual benefit festival, over Labor Day weekend.

A nondescript fungus that grows symbiotically with the trees under which it may cluster, the truffle is favored by gourmet chefs throughout the Western world, both for its distinct flavor and for the infused oil made from the tuber.

In Europe’s Mediterranean region, where they have been used extensively in cuisine since the 18th century, food lovers may pay upward of $1,000 per pound for truffles.

They have been formally grown in the Pacific Northwest region for fewer than three decades.

Oregon State University agronomists helped to establish a successful growing region between Corvallis and Eugene. Dogs are specially trained to sniff them out beneath Douglas fir trees, where they flourish between the surface layer of fallen needles and the hard ground.

“Oregon white truffles are underappreciated,” said Dr. Charles Lefevre, who founded and continues to

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Wine is a centerpiece at a number of food festivals, including the St. Josef’s Winery Grape Stomp, held Sept. 24-25 at the Canby-area vineyard. As the stomp takes place in an 8-foot oak barrel, Bavarian music plays and visitors enjoy bratwurst and Hungarian goulash.

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The 2011 BendFilm Festival may be several months away, but BendFilm is keeping busy with several events in the weeks ahead.

On Thursday at 7 p.m., “Lovely, Still,” which stars Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn and screened at the 2010 festival, will show at Sisters Movie House, 720 Desperado Court, Sisters (541-549-8800). Tickets are $10.

On Feb. 27, BendFilm will benefit from the Academy Awards Oscar Party at the Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend. The event starts at 5 p.m. Admission is $50, $75 per couple (www.towertheatre .org or 541-317-0700).

On March 3, the documentary “Bicycle Dreams” will be shown at 6:45 p.m. on two screens at Sisters Movie House. Tickets are $10. After the screening, director Stephen Auerbach will participate in an 8:30 p.m. Q&A session via Skype, an online video chat service.

BendFilm recently moved its offices to 2748 N.W. Crossing Drive. Suite 130, in Bend. The 2011 festival will be held Oct. 6-9 and is now accepting film submissions at www.withoutabox.com.

Contact: www.bendfilm.org or 541-388-3378.

Celebrate mountains, help nonprofit

NORTHWEST TR AVE L Next week: Vancouver Island in winter direct the Oregon Truffle Festival with his wife, Leslie Scott. “They are more powerful than their reputation and their price would suggest.

“They smell like model glue. But it’s beautiful model glue!”

My visit to the 2011 Eugene festival taught me more about truffles than I knew was possible to learn. Experts from as far away as Italy and Australia offered lectures and workshops, field trips, dog-training seminars, a public marketplace and, of course, cooking demonstrations and gourmet dining events.

The truffle is certainly not the only food in this bountiful state with a dedicated festival. There are celebrations of garlic and huckleberries, of clams and crawfish, of pumpkins and sauerkraut, to name but a few.

What follows is a weekend-byweekend selection of special events in Western Oregon in which a particular food or style of cooking gets primary attention.

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Veggies galore will fill the Oregon Convention Center on the weekend of Sept. 17-18, at the Portland VegFest. The festival promotes the vegetarian lifestyle as well as healthy nutrition for everyone.

Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour will bring two nights of thought-provoking films celebrating mountain people, culture, adventure, conservation and the power of film to create social change.

Mountainfilm will screen at the Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend, at 7 p.m. Feb. 25 and 26, with different films showing each night. Proceeds from the event will benefit The Environmental Center, a local nonprofit that works to embed sustainability into daily life in Central Oregon.

Tickets are $17.50 in advance; $30 in advance for both shows. Tickets at the door are $20. Student tickets are $12.50 for Feb. 25 only. There is a 10 percent discount for groups of six or more. Tickets are available at the Tower Theatre box office or online at www.towertheatre.org.

Contact: www.envirocenter.org or 541-385-6908, ext. 18.

Corrections In the “Newton” Milestone, which appeared Sunday, Feb. 6, on Page C6, the anniversary celebration information was incorrect. The couple will celebrate in August with a family gathering. The corrected Milestone appears today on Page C6.

In the “Births” listing, which appeared Sunday, Feb. 6, on Page C6, Caden Andrew Warner’s name was spelled incorrectly due to incorrect information provided to The Bulletin. The accurate listing appears today on Page C6.

The Bulletin regrets the errors.

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Boy seen abusing cat desperately needs help Dear Abby: A friend told me something recently that was so disturbing I’m having trouble sleeping. “Marie” was at a minimall when a man parked his car next to hers and walked into one of the stores, leaving a boy about 8 years old in the back seat with a cat. Marie saw the boy abuse and torture the animal. She said she could hear the cat howling through the closed vehicle. When the man returned to the car, my friend approached him and told him what she’d seen.

Abby, the man did not say one word. He climbed into his car and drove off. I haven’t been able to get the image out of my head. That child learned his behavior somewhere, and his father condones it!

If Marie hadn’t been so shocked, she would have scribbled down the license number and reported the incident to the police or SPCA. — Horrified in Wisconsin Dear Horrified: What your friend witnessed was a child in dire need of emotional help, and a parent with his head in the sand.

Emotionally healthy children do not abuse animals. For the father to have ignored what your friend told him is very sad. Of most concern to me is the fact that children who abuse animals become increasingly aggressive, and sometimes go on to abuse other children. I hope the father reads my column and recognizes the fact that his son desperately needs counseling now!

Dear Abby: I just turned 28. I have a full-time job and am also pursuing a career as an actress, which takes up a lot of my spare time. I have good friends and I’m a people person. I’m attractive, have a good personality and consider myself to be intelligent.

I’m pretty good at putting myself out there. I talk to guys I see in the store, in my office building, anywhere I can. I ask friends to set me up, but haven’t met any nice single men who are interested in dating. Almost all my close friends are married or in re-

DEAR ABBY lationships. At parties it’s usually a bunch of couples and me. I feel like the token single friend.

I have a busy life, and the theater hasn’t exactly been a great place to meet straight guys, but where IS a good place? I have tried speed dating, online dating, barhopping and singles events to no avail. Why can’t I find a nice guy who’s ready for a real relationship? I’m starting to lose hope.

— Looking for Love in California Dear Looking: Please don’t lose hope. But let’s review the venues in which you have been searching. With speed dating you establish that you’re both available and there’s a superficial attraction, but not much else. Bars are the worst places I can think of to look for a serious relationship. The Internet has been known to bring results, but many people are wary because so many users fudge the facts on dating sites.

Singles events are better, but you might have more luck meeting men if you go places that nice people go, where there’s less pressure. How about volunteering some time in your community — the library, a hospital, the police department, a shelter? I recommend places like these because they offer the chance to form relationships with more depth. Even if you don’t find Mr. Right, you may meet someone who can introduce you to someone eligible.

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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“Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior” 10 p.m. Wednesday, CBS In network television, the rule is: If you don’t have the will to create, just regurgitate. Which brings us to yet another crimeshow spinoff in “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.” Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker stars.

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The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards 8 p.m. today, CBS They’ll be handing out loads of hardware when the bigwigs of the music biz gather in Los Angeles to stroke their egos. But while shiny trophies are nice, we mainly crave the performances.

And to that end, it shapes up to be a memorable night with legends like Mick Jagger and Barbra Streisand scheduled to take the stage, as well as Lady Gaga, Eminem, Cee Lo Green, Miranda Lambert, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and others. Feel free to jump off the couch and strum your air guitar.

“The Simpsons” 8 p.m. today, Fox Say it isn’t so! Marge’s famous blue hair is turning gray and her family has a hard time adjusting to the change.

“Nature” 8 p.m. today, PBS The latest installment whisks viewers to the icy slopes of the Himalayas to examine the wildlife there. We suggest you pack a very thick sweater for the trip.

“The Queen” 9 p.m. today, TLC As another royal wedding approaches, it seems fitting to hang out with “The Queen.”

It’s a two-hour special that follows the perspective of Queen Elizabeth, who, from the first year of her reign, has had to balance tradition

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Beyoncé performs at the 2010 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

This year, Mick Jagger, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber are among those scheduled to take the stage.

with the love lives of her family members.

135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Begins 8 p.m. today, USA Release the hounds! We expect some off-the-leash action at this year’s Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, where six newly recognized breeds join the competition. The show concludes Tuesday.

“Mad Love” 8:30 p.m. Monday, CBS Sarah Chalke, who won our hearts on “Scrubs,” returns to prime time in a new sitcom about four pals in New York and their romantic buffoonery.

rated drama has the team working to protect the daughter of a Belgravian defense minister. Unfortunately, she develops a crush on McGee (Sean Murray).

“Parenthood” 10 p.m. Tuesday , NBC Michael Emerson, who played creepy Ben on “Lost,” does a guest stint on “Parenthood.”

Let’s hope he doesn’t bring along the Others.

“Bones” 9 p.m. Thursday, Fox The gang investigates the icky death of a wedding planner whose liquefied remains were found in her tanning bed.

Let this be a lesson to us all: Never set the knob beyond “medium-rare.”

“Who Do You Think You Are?” 8 p.m. Friday, NBC Rosie O’Donnell explores her ancestry by focusing on her mother, who died at a young age.

Her quest takes her to New Jersey and then to Ireland.

“Being Human” 9 p.m. Saturday, BBC America While the Americanized version of “Being Human” is just getting started on Syfy, its British predecessor begins its third season. In the opener, Annie finds herself stuck in purgatory.

“Survivor” 8 p.m. Wednesday, CBS Like a recurring stomachache, Russell Hantz and “Boston” Rob Mariano keep popping up on “Survivor.” And yes, we’ve already inquired: Cannibalism is against the rules.

“NCIS” 8 p.m. Tuesday, CBS The love for “NCIS” just continues to grow. Tonight, TV’s top-

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CALENDAR TODAY ART WEEKEND: Share ideas and learn to make books or other projects; $10, free for those who bring art supplies; noon-4 p.m.; Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe, 135 N.W. Minnesota Ave., Bend; 541749-2010.

“OLIVER!”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents Lionel Bart’s musical about a lovable orphan who asks for more; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 2 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www. cascadestheatrical.org.

“THE JACKET”: Nanda, a four-man circus-ninja-dancecomedy-action performing arts group, presents the story of a magical jacket that gives its wearer superhuman power; $12, $8 ages 12 and younger; 2 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-317-0700 or www .towertheatre.org.

CHARITY BINGO: Event includes a baked-goods sale; proceeds benefit Prineville Habitat for Humanity; $5; 2 p.m.; Eagles Lodge & Club, 235 N.E. Fourth St., Prineville; 541-447-7659.

SECOND SUNDAY: Ellen Waterston reads from a selection of her works; followed by an open mic; free; 2 p.m.; Bend Public Library, Brooks Room, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-312-1034 or www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.

BUNCO FOR CHARITY: Play the dice game; instructions provided; registration requested; proceeds benefit the service projects of Soroptimist International of Bend; $15; 2:30-5:30 p.m.; Suntree Village Mobile Home Park, Clubhouse, 1001 S.E. 15th St., Bend; 541-382-4580.

BENEFIT CONCERT: Featuring students and local musicians; proceeds benefit the Sisters High School graduation party; $10 suggested donation; 7 p.m.; The Barn in Sisters, 68467 Three Creeks Road; 541-588-0083.

BUSDRIVER: The underground hip-hop artist performs, with Dark Time Sunshine, Northern Lights and Driftwood Insomnia; free; 9 p.m.; MadHappy Lounge, 850 N.W. Brooks St., Bend; 541-388-6868 or madhappymusik@gmail.com.

TUESDAY “CREATING LEGACY OR HERITAGE ALBUMS”: Bend Genealogical Society presents a program by Lori Hill; free; 10 a.m.; Rock Arbor Villa, Williamson Hall, 2200 N.E. U.S. Highway 20, Bend; 541-317-8978,541-317-9553 or www.orgenweb.org/deschutes/bendgs.

“THE CARTEL”: A screening of the documentary about America’s public school crisis; free; 6:15 p.m.; Highland Baptist Church, 3100 S.W. Highland Ave., Redmond; rdmpatriot@gmail .com.

“TWELVE ANGRY JURORS”: The Sisters High School drama department presents the story of a jury trying to decide the fate of a man charged with murder; $7, free students and staff with ID; 7 p.m.; Sisters High School, 1700 W. McKinney Butte Road; 541-549-4045, ext. 1020.

KY-MANI MARLEY: The Grammynominated reggae and hip-hop musician performs; $30 or $35; 7:30 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-317-0700 or www .towertheatre.org.

WEDNESDAY “DEAD MAN WALKING”: A screening of the R-rated film inspired by Sister Helen Prejean, followed by a discussion; free; 4 p.m.; Central

Please e-mail event information to communitylife@bendbulletin.com or click on “Submit an Event” on our website at bendbulletin.com.

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Oregon Community College, Hitchcock Auditorium, 2600 N.W. College Way, Bend; 541-383-7412 or http://multicultural.cocc.edu/events.

YOUNG READERS BOOK DISCUSSION: Discuss “Call Me Hope”

by Gretchen Olson; free; 6:30 p.m.; Camalli Book Co., 1288 S.W. Simpson Ave., Suite C, Bend; 541323-6134.

“TWELVE ANGRY JURORS”: The Sisters High School drama department presents the story of a jury trying to decide the fate of a man charged with murder; $7, $4 students; 7 p.m.; Sisters High School, 1700 W. McKinney Butte Road; 541-5494045, ext. 1020.

Y LA BAMBA: The Portland-based acoustic folk band performs; part of the Great Northwest Music Tour; free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541382-5174 or www.mcmenamins.com.

“OLIVER!”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents Lionel Bart’s musical about a lovable orphan who asks for more; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www .cascadestheatrical.org.

THURSDAY BACKPACK EXPLORERS: Parents and children ages 3 and 4 explore nature and participate in activities; themed “Chinese Lantern Festival”; $15, $10 museum members, plus accompanying adult admission ($10, $9 seniors); 10 a.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www .highdesertmuseum.org.

GOOD CHAIR, GREAT BOOKS: Read and discuss “Finding Nouf”

by Zoe Ferraris; bring a lunch; free; noon; La Pine Public Library, 16425 First St.; 541-312-1092 or www .deschuteslibrary.org/calendar.

“THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”: The Redmond High School drama department presents an irreverent comedy featuring 37 abridged Shakespeare plays in 97 minutes; $5; 7 p.m.; Redmond High School, 675 S.W. Rimrock Way; 541-923-4800, ext. 2125 or phil.neely@redmond.k12 .or.us.

“TWELVE ANGRY JURORS”: The Sisters High School drama department presents the story of a jury trying to decide the fate of a man charged with murder; $7, $4 students; 7 p.m.; Sisters High School, 1700 W. McKinney Butte Road; 541-549-4045, ext. 1020.

WINTERFRINGE: Fire dancers and street performers parade through downtown Bend, followed by performances

by Mosley Wotta and Larry and His Flask at the center; prelude to WinterFest; $6 for WinterFest button in advance, $7 at the gate, free ages 5 and younger; 7-9 p.m. street performers, 9 p.m. music begins; Century Center, 70 S.W. Century Drive, Bend; 541-323-0964 or www.bendwinterfest.com.

“OLIVER!”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents Lionel Bart’s musical about a lovable orphan who asks for more; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www .cascadestheatrical.org.

MARTY STUART AND THE FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES: The country music legend performs with his band; $30 or $35; 7:30 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-

317-0700 or www.towertheatre.org.

“THE SPIN CYCLE”: Preview night of Innovation Theatre Works’ presentation of the comedy about a baby boomer who returns home for Thanksgiving; $17; 8 p.m.; Bend Performing Arts Center, 1155 S.W. Division St.; 541-504-6721 or www .innovationtw.org.

FRIDAY BACKPACK EXPLORERS: Parents and children ages 3 and 4 explore nature and participate in activities; themed “Chinese Lantern Festival”; $15, $10 museum members, plus accompanying adult admission ($10, $9 seniors); 10 a.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www .highdesertmuseum.org.

BEND WINTERFEST: Winter carnival featuring ice carving, children’s activities, rail jams, live music, beer gardens and more; a portion of proceeds benefits Saving Grace; $6 for WinterFest button in advance, $7 at the gate, free ages 5 and younger; 5-10 p.m.; Old Mill District, 661 S.W. Powerhouse Drive; 541-323-0964 or www.bendwinterfest.com.

“THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”: The Redmond High School drama department presents an irreverent comedy featuring 37 abridged Shakespeare plays in 97 minutes; $5; 7 p.m.; Redmond High School, 675 S.W. Rimrock Way; 541-923-4800, ext 2125 or phil.neely@ redmond.k12.or.us.

“TWELVE ANGRY JURORS”: The Sisters High School drama department presents the story of a jury trying to decide the fate of a man charged with murder; $7, $4 students; 7 p.m.; Sisters High School, 1700 W. McKinney Butte Road; 541-549-4045, ext. 1020.

“OLIVER!”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents Lionel Bart’s musical about a lovable orphan who asks for more; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www .cascadestheatrical.org.

“TEMPLE GRANDIN”: A screening of the 2010 unrated film; free; 7:30 p.m.; Jefferson County Library, Rodriguez Annex, 134 S.E. E St., Madras; 541475-3351 or www.jcld.org.

“THE RAINMAKER”: Opening night of the production of the romantic comedy by Richard Nash about a family overcoming challenges during the dust bowl; with a champagne and dessert reception; $20, $18 students and seniors; 8 p.m., 7 p.m. reception; 2nd Street Theater, 220 N.E. Lafayette Ave., Bend; 541-312-9626 or www.2ndstreettheater.com.

“THE SPIN CYCLE”: Innovation Theatre Works presents the comedy about a baby boomer who returns home for Thanksgiving; $15-$20; 8 p.m.; Bend Performing Arts Center, 1155 S.W. Division St.; 541-504-6721 or www .innovationtw.org.

JAZZ AT THE OXFORD: Patrick Lamb performs; $25 plus fees in advance, $30 at the door; 8 p.m.; The Oxford Hotel, 10 N.W. Minnesota Ave., Bend; 541-382-8436 or www .bendticket.com.

SATURDAY RUN FOR CHOCOLATE 5K: The run/walk is followed by coffee and chocolates; proceeds benefit New Generations; $25 in advance, $30 day of race; 9 a.m. number pick up, 10

a.m. race; Sunriver Resort, 17600 Center Drive; www.sunriver-resort .com/chocolate.

BEND WINTERFEST: Winter carnival featuring ice carving, children’s activities, rail jams, live music, beer gardens and more; a portion of proceeds benefits Saving Grace; $6 for WinterFest button in advance, $7 at the gate, free ages 5 and younger; 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Old Mill District, 661 S.W. Powerhouse Drive; 541-323-0964 or www.bendwinterfest.com.

GO MINING: Pan for gold and try to strike it rich in a re-created placer mine; included in the price of admission; $10 adults, $9 ages 65 and older, $6 ages 5-12, free ages 4 and younger; 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www .highdesertmuseum.org.

OREGON BREWERY TOUR: Tour breweries, meet brewers and sample beers; see website for participating breweries; free; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; http://oregonbeer .org/zwickelmania.

OREGON OLD TIME FIDDLERS: Listen to fiddle music; a portion of proceeds benefits the community center; $5 suggested donation; 1-3 p.m.; Bend’s Community Center, 1036 N.E. Fifth St.; 541-3122069.

“OLIVER!”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents Lionel Bart’s musical about a lovable orphan who asks for more; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 2 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www .cascadestheatrical.org.

“THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”: The Redmond High School drama department presents an irreverent comedy featuring 37 abridged Shakespeare plays in 97 minutes; $5; 7 p.m.; Redmond High School, 675 S.W. Rimrock Way; 541-9234800, ext 2125 or phil.neely@ redmond.k12.or.us.

“OLIVER!”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents Lionel Bart’s musical about a lovable orphan who asks for more; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-3890803 or www.cascadestheatrical .org.

CENTRAL OREGON SYMPHONY WINTER CONCERT: The Central Oregon Symphony performs a winter concert, under the direction of Michael Gesme; featuring soloists Nick Loeffler and Kiarra Saito-Beckman; free but a ticket is required; 7:30 p.m.; Bend High School, 230 N.E. Sixth St.; 541317-3941 or www.cosymphony .com.

“THE RAINMAKER”: A production of the romantic comedy by Richard Nash about a family overcoming challenges during the dust bowl; $20, $18 students and seniors; 8 p.m.; 2nd Street Theater, 220 N.E. Lafayette Ave., Bend; 541-3129626 or www.2ndstreettheater .com.

“THE SPIN CYCLE”: Innovation Theatre Works presents the comedy about a baby boomer who returns home for Thanksgiving; $15-$20; 8 p.m.; Bend Performing Arts Center, 1155 S.W. Division St.; 541-504-6721 or www .innovationtw.org.

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127 HOURS (R) Noon, 2:30, 5:10, 7:20 ANOTHER YEAR (PG-13) 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:45, 7:25 BLACK SWAN (R) 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:45 THE KING’S SPEECH (R) 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 RABBIT HOLE (PG-13) 11:35 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:15 TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:35, 7:35

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

THE EAGLE (PG-13) 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 10:15 THE FIGHTER (R) 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 GNOMEO & JULIET (G) Noon, 2:20, 5, 7:10, 9:50 GNOMEO & JULIET 3-D (G) 11:25 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 6:40, 9:20 THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) 12:20, 3:40, 6:25, 9:35 JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13) 11:30 a.m., 1:35, 2:15, 4:20, 4:55, 7:05, 7:40, 9:55, 10:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G)

1:25, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3-D (G) 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7, 9:45 THE MECHANIC (DP — R) 12:05, 2:30, 5:10, 8, 10:20 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) 12:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 THE RITE (PG-13) 1:40, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 THE ROOMMATE (PG-13) 1:50, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 SANCTUM 3-D (R) 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10 TANGLED (PG) 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 EDITOR’S NOTE: Movie times in bold are open-captioned showtimes.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Digitally projected shows (marked as DP) use one of several different technologies to provide maximum fidelity. The result is a picture with clarity, brilliance and color and a lack of scratches, fading and flutter.

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.)

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Noon, 3 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG-13) 6 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) 9:30

REDMOND CINEMAS 1535 S.W. Odem Medo Road, Redmond, 541-548-8777

GNOMEO & JULIET (G) 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) 10 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 10:45 a.m., 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9

SISTERS MOVIE HOUSE 720 Desperado Court, Sisters, 541-549-8800

THE EAGLE (PG-13) 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 GNOMEO & JULIET (G) 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13) 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 THE KING’S SPEECH (R) 1:30, 4 TRUE GRIT (PG-13) 6:30

PINE THEATER 214 N. Main St., Prineville, 541-416-1014

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How ‘The Social Network’ became Zuckerberg’s friend

By Patrick Goldstein

and critical acclaim, and, along the way, Zuckerberg’s image has It seems pretty clear by now undergone elaborate transforthat “The Social Network,” which mation. The once Machiavellian was supposed to be a PR disaster Harvard student has become the for Facebook co-founder Mark philanthropic humanitarian. ...

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Lesson from Egypt: Double-check tours and travel insurance

By Carol Pucci The Seattle Times

Most travelers would rather spend their time seeing Egypt’s pyramids or cruising the Nile than thinking about the consequences of a major tourist destination turning into a battle zone, literally overnight.

But hot spots are just that, and traveling always carries some risk. When things go wrong, it pays to know what tour companies, cruise lines and travel insurers will and won’t do for you.

Tour policies

Photos by John Gottberg Anderson / For The Bulletin

The Rogue Creamery in Central Point, just outside of Medford, is known worldwide for the quality of its blue cheese. On March 19, the creamery will host the Oregon Cheese Festival, which will include an artisan cheese and wine market.

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Late winter events Confluence 2011 Wine, Beer, Seafood & Music Festival will be held this weekend (Feb. 19-20) in Gardiner, just north of Reedsport in the heart of the Oregon Dunes.

Blues artist Curtis Salgado highlights a full two-day schedule of music, supported by eight wineries, three breweries (including Bend’s Deschutes) and several food outlets, including a chowder house and asparagus farm. The festival takes over the old W.F. Jewett School building in historic Gardiner, once a thriving logging town. 541-271-3495, www .reedsportcc.org/confluence.

There’s no bigger winter food event on the Coast than the annual Newport Seafood and Wine Festival, Feb. 25-27. Ongoing since 1978, it has grown to 86 wineries and 33 food purveyors — from Mo’s Clam Chowder and Sada’s Sushi Bar to the Oregon Oyster Farms and local fishing-boat operators. Each year about 15,000 people attend the festival, which takes over the South Beach Marina parking lot on OSU Drive, between the Rogue Ales Warehouse and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. 541-265-8801, www.newport seafoodandwinefestival.com.

Three straight nights of clambake dinners highlight the Southcoast Clambake Jazz Festival, March 11-13 in North Bend and Coos Bay. Based at the Mill Casino Hotel, with other performances at the Red Lion Hotel, the Egyptian Theatre and the North Bend Presbyterian Church, the festival will gather 11 bands from the West Coast and Canada to play Dixieland, big-band, doowop and other genres of jazz.

541-269-0112, www.clambake jazz.org.

The Rogue Creamery in Central Point, just outside of Medford, is world-renowned for its blue-cheese production. On March 19, the creamery hosts the Oregon Cheese Festival. An artisan cheese and wine market kicks off the event, which is climaxed by a gourmet feast. 541665-1155, www.roguecreamery .com.

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Most tour companies have canceled and offered refunds for trips to Egypt in February.

Some have extended those policies through March. Less clear is what will happen to those who booked trips and paid deposits for trips later in the year.

The luxury tour company Abercrombie & Kent canceled 16 Egypt tours and cruises through March. It’s providing a full refund or a credit plus a 10 percent discount on the new trip.

If things improve and the U.S. State Department lifts its warning issued Jan. 30 advising Americans not to travel in Egypt, Abercrombie and most other tour operators will likely go ahead with their trips.

For now, at least, most companies are sticking to their normal cancellation policies for trips beyond February or March. In Abercrombie’s case,

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(541) 647-1646 Tillamook Cheese Factory workers produce blocks of cheddar cheese that are the coastal dairy town’s biggest claim to national fame. The Tillamook June Dairy Parade pays homage to the community’s agricultural heritage.

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April and May Now in its 58th year, Medford’s annual Pear Blossom Festival takes place the weekend of April 8-9. A Saturday parade with 5,000 participants and 150 bands and floats is the most visible component, but the celebration also includes a large street fair, a fun run, a dance competition and local restaurant challenges that pair wine with recipes featuring — what else? — pears. 541-8407327, www.pearblossomparade .org.

The Hood River Valley Blossom Festival, April 16-17, highlights the roadside stands and blossoming apple, cherry and pear orchards of the Hood River Valley. A 47-mile scenic route winds through 15,000 acres of orchard land, accessing activities at more than 20 different area farms.

Among them are craft and quilt shows, wine and beer tastings, formal dinners and a fire department all-you-can-eat breakfast.

541-386-2000, www.hoodriver .org/events-festivals.

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200th birthday, the AstoriaWarrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival will feature three consecutive days of traditional crab dinners at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds, prepared by the Rotary Club of Astoria. Scheduled April 29-May 1, it will include a wide choice of foods, wines and beers, an arts-and-crafts show, and continuous live music on stage in an exhibit hall. 503325-6311. www.oldoregon.com/ events/entry/astoria-warrentoncrab-seafood-wine-festival/.

A lamb dinner will be a key element of the annual Linn County Lamb & Wool Fair, May 20-22 in Scio. A family-oriented festival, it also features sheep shows, fiber arts and crafts, and the Northwest championship sheepdog trials. 503-394-3374, www .lambfair.org.

June and July Since 1909, the Lebanon Strawberry Festival has been serving “the world’s largest strawberry shortcake” to as many as 20,000 spectators. Held June 2-5 at

Cheadle Lake Regional Park, it features junior and grand parades, an open-air country fair and carnival, a fun run, a fireworks display and other events.

541-258-7164, www.lebanon strawberryfestival.info.

The northern Coast’s long heritage as a center of the dairy industry is celebrated June 25 in the Tillamook June Dairy Parade, nicknamed “the biggest little show on the Coast.” About 150 entries march from the Tillamook County Fairgrounds, down Third Street into downtown Tillamook. A rodeo follows.

503-842-7525, www.gotillamook .com.

The eighth annual Newport Clambake and Seafood BBQ will be held July 3 on Nye Beach, at the Beach Drive turnabout. A fundraiser for Newport-area schools and nonprofits, its seaside food offerings include steamed clams, shrimp cocktails, lobster gumbo and barbecued fish.

Events range from live music to horse-drawn wagon rides. 866592-5556, www.nyebeach.org.

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Valid until March 17, 2011.

that’s a $500 per person penalty to cancel within 90 days of departure — or customers can choose another trip.

Travel insurance Many travelers were surprised to find out that most insurance policies don’t include civil unrest in their trip cancellation/interruption coverage.

A few types of policies cover the costs of trip delays caused by civil disorder, just as they do for weather or strikes. They include reimbursement for additional hotel nights, meals and local transportation.

“Cancel for Any Reason” insurance policies provide coverage for civil unrest, but they’re expensive.

Standard travel insurance adds 4 to 8 percent to the cost of a trip.

“Cancel for Any Reason” coverage can cost 50 percent more, and reimburses only 50 to 75 percent of prepaid trip costs.

Just as many insurers added terrorism coverage to their plans after 9/11, some may look at adding civil unrest, says Vikki Corliss, of Insuremytrip.com.

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August and September The second weekend of August is one of the biggest of the year for food festivals. Chief among them is the Bite of Oregon at Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park. More than 120 restaurants offered food and drink at the 2010 event, and the roster on Aug. 12-14, 2011, is expected to be even stronger.

An Iron Chef Oregon contest is part of the proceedings, and live music will be presented on three stages. 877-678-5263, www.bite oforegon.com.

Simultaneous with the Bite of Oregon, the Best of Oregon Food and Wine Festival will be held Aug. 13, at the Reserve Vineyards & Golf Club in Aloha, immediately following a golf tournament. Much like Bend’s Sagebrush Classic in July, the benefit for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital attracts about a dozen top-end restaurants and another half-dozen food purveyors. 503998-9580, www.bestoforegonfood andwine.com.

In the Portland suburb of North Plains, the Aug. 12-14 Elephant Garlic Festival features fresh roasted garlic, garlic ice cream, a car show and a parade that introduces the “smelly king and queen.” 503-647-2619, www.funstinks.com. And those same days, in Tualatin, the Tualatin Crawfish Festival features crawfish-eating contests among its other activities. 503-692-0780, www.tualatin crawfishfestival.com.

The foods of northern Europe are prepared and served at Junction City’s annual Scandinavian Festival, which will take place for the 51st time Aug. 1114. Swedish meatballs and pancakes, Danish aebelskiver, and various Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic pastries are served by dozens of vendors. The fourday cultural celebration also includes folk music and dancing, a variety of handicraft demonstrations, storytelling and historical recreations. 541-998-9372, www .scandinavianfestival.com.

The Mount Hood Huckleberry Festival in Welches, Aug. 2628, celebrates not only the native mountain berry — offered fresh and in jams, sauces, pies and tarts — but also watermelons. In fact, in a festival feature, homemade catapults are used to launch watermelons. There’s a salmon bake, a barbecue, plenty of live music and free historical tours of the Oregon Trail.

503-622-4798, www.cgs-mthood .tripod.com.

On Labor Day weekend, Sept.

3-4, Medford’s Harry & David store — a major national fruit merchandiser — collects canned and dry goods for local food banks during A Taste of Harry & David. Southern Oregon restaurants will prepare recipes with

By Michelle Higgins New York Times News Service

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The Reserve Vineyards & Golf Club in Aloha provides a scenic setting for the Best of Oregon Food and Wine Festival (the 2010 event is shown above). The festival is a benefit for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and includes about a dozen top-tier restaurants and other food and wine purveyors.

If you go INFORMATION Oregon Tourism Commission, 670 Hawthorne Ave. S.E., Suite 240, Salem; 503-3788850, 800-547-7842, www .traveloregon.com

John Gottberg Anderson / For The Bulletin

A mushroom hunter displays large bolete and chanterelle mushrooms gathered while foraging at Cape Perpetua.

Hunters multiply in mid-October during the annual Yachats Mushroom Festival.

local stone fruits and pair them with wines of the region. Music performances will run concurrently with specialty food-andwine classes through both days.

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The Winston-Dillard Melon Festival, Sept. 9-11 near Roseburg, celebrates watermelons with many activities, from a parade to a car show. 541-679-0118, www.winstonoregon.net.

The Scappoose Sauerkraut Festival, Sept. 17-18 northwest of Portland, is highlighted by a cabbage bowling event and a sauerkraut-eating contest. 503-5438969, www.scappoosecommunity .org. That same weekend at the Oregon Convention Center,

the Portland VegFest promotes healthy nutrition and the vegetarian lifestyle. 503-746-8344, www.nwveg.org/vegfest.php.

The 29th annual St. Josef’s Winery Grape Stomp, Sept. 2425, honors the patron saint of the Canby-area winery. Bavarian music provides the soundtrack to the “stomp,” in an 8-foot oak barrel, as visitors enjoy bratwurst and Hungarian goulash.

503-651-3190, www.stjosefs winery.com/events.

Fall festivals In Florence, the annual Chowder, Blues & Brews festival takes place Oct. 7-8. Chefs from Astoria to Brookings compete in the Oregon Coast Professional Chowder Cook-off, encouraging festivalgoers to sample their recipes as blues bands play in the background. 541-997-3128, w w w.f lorencechamber.com / events/.

Molalla’s Apple Festival takes over the Clackamas County town’s historical museum complex on Oct. 8-9. Demonstrations of pioneer heritage include a traditional cider press, which produces tasty drinks for visitors. Homemade apple pie and

ice cream are a crowd favorite.

503-829-6941, www.molalla chamber.com.

During the Yachats Mushroom Festival, Oct. 14-16, lovers of wild fungi can explore the Cape Perpetua State Natural Area on guided mushroom hunts and hop among Yachats restaurants to sample different mushroom-oriented menu choices. Workshops discuss identifying, growing, harvesting, cooking and even fiber-dyeing mushrooms. 541-547-3530, www.yachats.org.

The Hood River Harvest Fest, also Oct. 14-16, welcomes visitors to the Hood River waterfront. The region’s fruit and vegetable growers supply an abundance of freshly harvested produce, including apples and pears, berries, pumpkins, nuts and even Columbia River salmon. There’s also local wine and beer, arts and crafts, musical performances and much more.

800-366-3530, www.hoodriver .org.

On the weekend preceding Halloween — this year, Oct. 22 — the Portland suburb of Tualatin welcomes the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta. Competitors sit inside their giant pumpkins and paddle them frantically through the Lake of the Tualatin Commons. There are prizes for costumes and decoration, as well as for pumpkin carving, pumpkin-pie eating and other events.

503-691-3064, www.ci.tualatin .or.us.

Airport scanners that create naked-looking images of screened passengers may soon be a thing of the past.

The Transportation Security Administration announced that it is testing a software upgrade that changes the way the scanners depict objects hidden under clothing. The new software has the scanners point out any anomaly, such as a foreign lump under the clothes, on a gender-neutral avatar shown on a screen.

If tests go well at airports in Las Vegas, Atlanta and Washington, the upgraded system could be used nationwide within six months, said Tom Ripp, president of L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.’s Security and Detection Group. L-3 developed nearly half of the 500 scanners used nationwide.

But the upgrade has not appeased the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington nonprofit that sued the TSA in November to halt the use of the scan-

ners. Ginger McCall, an attorney for the group, said she wants proof that the scanners can’t record and store “naked” images despite the software upgrade.

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To secure the best rates, travelers must act soon as seasonal promotions designed to spur early bookings are drying up.

Expedia’s Winter Getaways Cruise Sale, for example, which offers savings of up to 75 percent off certain sailings, ends Feb. 28. Some of the best deals also have limited availability or are offered for just a few sailing dates.

While it’s possible that cruise lines will cut rates at the last minute, procrastinators risk being closed out if ships fill up.

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Unlike the airlines, which have been severing ties with travel agents and online agencies in recent years, cruise lines still rely on outside travel sellers. In some cases, they offer special promotions through agencies. In others, the agen-

cies buy up blocks of rooms in advance to secure the best rates for their clients.

• Consider an older ship.

Not surprisingly, the newest vessels command the highest prices. But as cruise lines continue to build new ships with bigger and better pools, spas and other features, booking an older ship doesn’t necessarily mean less comfort or fewer amenities.

Opting for a ship one generation older than the newest can save travelers 12 to 27 percent on average for a seven-day Caribbean vacation, according to SureCruise.com.

• Time it right.

In general, the cheapest rates for a given sailing tend to be at the very beginning or end of a cruising season, according to CruiseCritic.com. Prices often drop on Alaska cruises in May and September, for example, when the weather is cooler. But be prepared for a shift in itinerary if a hurricane threatens a port of call.

Being flexible with your travel dates may also result in savings.

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Milestones guidelines and forms are available at The Bulletin, or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Milestones, The Bulletin, P.O. Box 6020, Bend, OR 97708. To ensure timely publication, The Bulletin requests that notice forms and photos be submitted within one month of the celebration.

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Ella, left, and James Beatty

Beatty James and Ella (Snoekstra) Beatty, of Bend, will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary by attending a concert at the Tower Theatre with their daughter and son-in-law.

The couple were married Feb. 16, 1946, in Vienna, N.J. They have three children, Karen (and Mark) Vieu, of Bend, the late Joan Gould, and the late John; and one grandchild. Their family

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Larry, left, and Becky Kierulff also includes son-in-law Robin (and Debra) Gould, of Bend.

Mr. Beatty served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. He worked as a route salesman for Drake’s Bakeries in Hackettstown, N.J., until his retirement in 1990.

Mrs. Beatty worked in the research department for M&M⁄Mars, also in Hackettstown, retiring in 1990.

They have lived in Central Oregon for nine years.

Kierulff Larry and Becky (Shuck) Kierulff, of Bend, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with a trip to Kauai, Hawaii.

The couple were married Feb. 13, 1971, at Calvary Presbyterian Church in Portland.

They have two children, Amy (and Randy) James, of Bend, and Kristoffer, of Seattle; and two grandchildren.

Mr. Kierulff worked as a me-

Tiffany Gotchy, left, and Isaac Plagmann teorologist with the National Weather Service until his retirement in 2001. Mrs. Kierulff worked as a preschool teacher in Bellevue, Wash.

He is chairman of the Boyd Acres neighborhood association and a mountain host at Mt. Bachelor. She volunteers with Cancer Hope Network and St. Charles Cancer Center, and they both serve with Volunteers in Medicine.

They have lived in Central Oregon for 10 years.

Gotchy — Plagmann Tiffany Gotchy and Isaac Plagmann were married July 17 in Bend.

The bride is the daughter of Mike and Nancy Gotchy, of Bend. She is a 1994 graduate of Bend High School and a 2008

graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where she studied turfgrass management.

The groom is the son of Sam and Joyce Plagmann, of Kelso, Wash. He is a 1998 graduate of Reedsport High School. He works as a journeyman electrician for ConAgra Foods.

Catching a glimpse on the royal wedding day

By Josh Noel Chicago Tribune

Elfriede, left, and Dean Catlett Dwight, left, and Mary Jane Newton

Catlett Dean and Elfriede (Foitzik) Catlett, of Bend, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

The couple were married Feb. 17, 1961, in Upland, Calif. They met while he was serving in the Army in Germany, and she moved to the United States in 1961 to marry him. They have two children, Jeanette Ronelle

(and Mark) Fairlee, of Bend, and Christine (and Rick) Dehlinger, of Pilot Hill, Calif.; and six grandchildren.

Mr. Catlett serves as minister for the Newport Avenue Church of Christ.

Mrs. Catlett worked as a kindergarten teacher, retiring in 1989.

They have lived in Central Oregon for 44 years.

Newton Dwight and Mary Jane (Kregel) Newton, of Bend, will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary in August with a family gathering.

The couple were married Jan. 29, 1941, in Kansas City, Mo. They have two children,

Jennifer Kirkpatrick, of Scappoose, and Janet Schutte, of Bend; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Mr. Newton worked as a selfemployed writer until his retirement in 2005. Mrs. Newton works as a homemaker.

They have lived in Central Oregon for 65 years.

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Joe and Samantha Warner, a boy, Caden Andrew Warner, 6 pounds, 12 ounces, Jan. 24.

Aaron and Shannon Martin, a boy, Brennan Lee Martin, 6 pounds, 14 ounces, Feb. 4.

Allen and Stephani Hicks, a girl, Brittnie Ann Hicks, 6 pounds, 8 ounces, Feb. 4.

Andrew and Diane Mitchell, a boy, Nathan Ellis Mitchell, 8 pounds, 3 ounces, Feb. 2.

Chester and Megan Dzienis, a girl, Karma Christine Dzienis, 6

Chris, left, and Cyndi Griffin

Griffin Chris and Cyndi (Campbell) Griffin, of Bend, will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

The couple were married Feb. 14, 1986, at First Christian Church of Bend.

They have two children, Lisa Ross and David, both of Bend; and one grandchild.

The couple are owners of several Subway restaurants in Bend and Redmond.

They have lived in Central Oregon for 25 years.

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pounds, 12 ounces, Feb. 3.

Eric Koontz and Tiffany Hayes, a girl, Mikala Rose Koontz, 5 pounds, 14 ounces, Feb. 2.

Robin and Alandra Johnson, a girl, Phoebe Ryal Johnson, 7 pounds, 5 ounces, Feb. 1.

Adrian and Cesilia Garcia, a boy, Amaury Cuauhtemoc Garcia, 6 pounds, 2 ounces, Feb. 2.

Steve and Susan Maple, a girl, Emilee Brianne Maple, 6 pounds, 14 ounces, Jan. 31.

Juan Miranda and Ofelia Barajas, a girl, Monique Alejandra Miranda, 6 pounds, 14 ounces, Jan. 29.

Should you regret that we don’t have a royal family of our own, you might consider crossing the Pond this spring for the nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

If so, you will indeed have a few options for enjoying the festivities.

Though you can forget a ticket into Westminster Abbey for the wedding or Buckingham Palace for the reception, you will be able to see the procession on the route from the royal palace to the church and back.

There also usually is a decent chance of seeing the bride and groom during the reception from a palace balcony, if you’re in the mood to camp patiently.

Should none of that be your style, there will be other ways to soak up royal fever.

Hotels, restaurants and tour companies across London are ramping up promotions and plans that tie in to the wedding.

“If anyone knows how to put on a great show, it’s the Brits with this kind of thing,” said Meredith Pearson, spokeswoman for Visit Britain, the national tourist board for the United King-

Find out more More information can be found at visitbritain.com or princeofwales.gov.uk.

dom. “It was the case 30 years ago, when Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married, and this year we’re expecting an even bigger experience.”

Most pubs and restaurants will likely show the event on TV, and “we imagine a lot of parties breaking out,” Pearson said.

More elaborate events also are being planned to tie in with the wedding, but keep scouring the Internet for developments.

The hotel One Aldwych, for example, is assembling a package that will provide guests with picnic lunches to take to the wedding route. It also will introduce “Will and Kate” cocktails in the lobby bar and serve a menu inspired by previous royal weddings at its restaurant, Axis.

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A model walks the runway wearing a hat during the Lanvin fashion show in Paris, on Jan. 22. Hats were also featured on models at the Dior Homme show, held on the same day, below.

After declining over the last few decades, hats have been enjoying a resurgence at menswear shows. “The stigma of looking like your father, or even your grandfather, if you wear a hat is gone,” said Don Rongione, president of the Bollman Hat Co.

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Designers tipping their hats to the return of the chapeau Caten’s deployment of broadbrimmed Stetsons in requisite bad-guy black. At Dai Fujiwara’s show for Issey Miyake, the cocked hats with their midsize brims were pure James Cagney (“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”), while at Massimiliano Giornetti’s show for Ferragamo the slouchbrimmed Borsalinos in muted jewel tones seemed like a loving, although perhaps unintentional, homage to George Raft.

By Guy Trebay New York Times News Service

There was a time when only beggars went bareheaded. Up until World War II and the period just after, a gentleman was not considered properly dressed without a hat. Even the names of hats were rich in character and historical association. The bowler, or derby, was named for a 19th-century English earl who popularized the style. The fedora’s name came from a play of that title, written for Sarah Bernhardt by the otherwise largely forgotten French dramatist Victorien Sardou.

Then the hat went the way of the dodo. Social historians are divided about the cause of the sartorial die-off, although an often-repeated canard attributes it to President Kennedy and his rarely covered thatch of luxuriant hair. The real blame probably belongs to automobiles, though.

Hats were knocked off when you entered a car and inevitably got squashed beneath a passenger or went into orbit when you lowered the top to a convertible.

Whatever the reason, there is no arguing with the facts of the hat’s decline. In 1940, there were 180 independent major manufacturers of hats operating in the United States. Today there are 10. And while it is true that the headwear business is not altogether on the skids (retail sales of hats in the U.S. are estimated at $1.75 billion annually, roughly 40 percent of that figure being hats sold to men), it would be stretching things to say the future looks bright.

On the runway Or it would have been before the recent menswear shows in Paris and Milan.

Who knows what happened in Europe? Was it that the stingybrim trilby, so popular in Williamsburg that no Halloween hipster costume would be complete without one, made it safe for men to experiment again

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with broader brims? Was it the influence of a fine museum show sponsored by the Borsalino Foundation at the Triennale in Milan demonstrating cinema’s long love affair with the hat? Or was it, as Don Rongione — the president of the Bollman Hat Co., a Pennsylvania manufacturer founded in 1868 — said, that hatfriendly entertainers like Justin Timberlake, Usher and Neo have helped acquaint a generation of consumers with the idea that hats might be cool?

“The stigma of looking like your father, or even your grandfather, if you wear a hat is gone,” Rongione said. “A young person doesn’t relate to a hat that way anymore.”

Designers must certainly think so, because the runway shows in Europe looked as if everyone had visited the same hatters’ convention. At the Armani and Emporio Armani shows, the designers favored slouchy berets were replaced with a modernized rendition of the trilby: duotone, highcrowned and often with a pert midsize brim. At Etro, the hats had crowns so high they lent the models a resemblance to Rastafarians or coneheads.

At Dsquared, a latent Sergio Leone theme was suggested by the designer twins Dean and Dan

Having exhausted the usual narratives of power and gender as expressed through clothing, and wary of runway stunts unlikely to produce much cash register action, designers may have merely been casting about for new tools and communally fell upon the hat. How else to explain the use of hats by designers as unalike as Angela Missoni and Thom Browne?

To her show of subdued knits that looked a lot like pj’s, Missoni added flowerpot hats with brims pulled so low over the models’ faces that it wasn’t obvious how they knew which way to walk.

For Thom Browne’s show, a single hat became the signifying design gesture: Flat-crowned, the color of ground nutmeg, the modified boater made from feathers was a testament to Browne’s affection for the fast-disappearing skills of artisans everywhere, in this case of the feather craftsmen known as plumassiers.

At the Roberto Cavalli presentation, which owed a lot to Jim Morrison in the guise of the Lizard King, a literal crowning touch was provided by Borsalinos with brims as broad as pizzas. At Yohji Yamamoto, models came out wearing the steep-crowned brimmed hats that the designer himself has favored for years.

But “a regular guy could actually pull off some of these hats,” Rongione pointed out, “as opposed to something no one in his right mind would wear out of the house.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011: Your soaring creativity could define your year. Your mind breaks past previously self-imposed barriers, allowing a whole new set of options to open up. Excitement and newness mark your interactions.

Communication flourishes, and a greater sense of happiness with your personal life emerges. If you are single, you could find it very easy to be in a relationship. Enjoy rather than look to the future. If you are attached, the relationship benefits from your new mind-set. GEMINI is an endless source of fun.

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) HHHHH Communicate, even if you would like to pull back. If you need inspiration, go into your imagination.

Unexpected jolts will only strengthen an idea. Others cloud an issue.

Decide what is more important: being with this person or having your way.

Tonight: At a favorite munchies spot.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Whatever you do, you do 125 percent. Enjoying yourself takes a high priority. Because there could be a toll, your tendency to go overboard might not be a possibility. Treat a loved one, but don’t overdo it.

Inspiration comes from a respected friend. Tonight: Stick to your budget — be it money or calories.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Use your magnetism to heat up a relationship and add that magic. Isn’t that better?

Others are naturally responsive at this moment, with the exception of one authority figure. You can count on this person to do the unexpected! Tonight: Your choice.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Everyone needs a day off to center and/or take care of personal needs. You could be exhausted by your own need to keep the peace. Though it might be good to be responsive, it is also important to remain responsive to oneself.

Tonight: Take care of yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Do what you do naturally — socialize and be with others.

You will be happiest where the crowds are, whether it is a movie, a favorite haunt or a ballgame.

A loved one or dear friend often inspires you. Right now, you might wonder if this person is realitybound! Tonight: Living the moment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Taking a stand gives you an opportunity to express your values and good will. On the other hand, this type of leadership might limit your options as far as enjoying yourself.

A partner or close associate might decide to go in a different direction.

Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Keep someone who’s at a distance in mind. Meeting this person midway could delight you and bond this tie even more. Escaping your present environment helps relieve stress. What is to stop you but you?

Tonight: Express your inspiration.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Bond with a favorite person.

Indulge in what this person loves most. Do what makes him or her

happy. At the same time, you will innately relax, knowing you are eliminating an inner tension that might exist between you. Follow an idea that proves to be inspirational.

Tonight: Add your unique touch.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Defer to loved ones, honoring the fact that really nothing has to be done today. Ease up when dealing with someone who can be vague and maybe even deceptive.

Unexpected developments could force another set of plans. Tonight: Go with another person’s ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH A project could become very frustrating. You might decide to toss it in your cosmic wastebasket. You could be wasting your time, and might enjoy going to the movies or some other pastime instead. Use care with spending. Tonight: You don’t need to treat all the time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Your playfulness emerges when dealing with a child or another person. Your sense of humor helps others understand a foible that they too might have. Be careful not to spend wildly without reason. You could feel pushed by what you think is someone’s expectation. Tonight: Be your happy-go-lucky self.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Perhaps your unpredictability causes other people to leave you out or to not want to get together.

If this pattern bothers you, the time has come to change it.

Your intuition guides you with a personal or domestic matter.

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Continued from C1 When she was caring for her mother, people would tell Rennolds, “ ‘Oh, you are so good to take care of your mom and you’re such an angel, blah blah blah,’ she recalls. “The real truth is that I got much more out of this than I gave — even though some of what I got wasn’t all that much fun. I would do it again in a heartbeat.”

Play’s journey to the stage The work Rambo wrote based on his interviews was “The Spin Cycle,” opening Friday at Innovation Theatre Works in Bend (see “If you go”). He says that, in direct and indirect ways, Rennolds inspired Wendy, the character she will play.

“Now, by the time that you put them in the world of your play, they’re not exactly recognizable as moments from your own life,” Rambo says. “But if Chris hadn’t told me about those things, they wouldn’t be in the play.”

The three-character play also stars Ashland stage veteran Eileen DeSandre along with Bendbased actor Derek Sitter. It concerns an aging mother and her two adult children, one of whom we believe has been a functioning adult, and another who’s never grown up.

“He’s Peter Pan, and of course he’s mother’s favorite,” Rambo explains. The point of view shifts in the play, Rambo’s exploration of how “the last 60 years or so is seen so incredibly differently by different generations,” he says.

“It’s a very funny play. It’s all about the family.”

The Louisville theater opted not to perform the play. Instead, it premiered a couple of years ago in Ventura, Calif.

“I never thought it would see the light of day,” Rambo says. “It was (Rennolds) who has always, always believed in this play, from my early draft.”

You can bet that when “The Spin Cycle” opens Friday, Rambo will be there.

“An audience in the theater is making the play with the actors at that moment, simply by being an audience. And I just love that,” he says. “I like to be in the audience, in the theater, even at my own plays.”

He has plenty from which to choose. One of his earliest plays, “God’s Man in Texas,” written in 1998 and concerning power struggles within a church, became by 2002 one of the most often-produced regional theater plays in the country, according to his website.

His other works include “The Lady with all the Answers,” a one-woman play about Ann Landers. His 2003 stage adaptation of the film “All About Eve” starred, among others,

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David Rambo with Faye Dunaway, who gueststarred on “CSI.” Rambo says the 2006 episode in which Dunaway appeared, “Kiss Kiss — Bye Bye,” was among his best scripts.

What: “The Spin Cycle,” a comedy by David Rambo When: Preview at 8 p.m. Thursday; play opens Friday, with shows at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, through March 6 Where: Innovation Theatre Works, 1155 S.W. Division St., Bend Cost: All seats $17 for Thursday preview; regular prices are $20 adults, $17 students and seniors. Early bird discount offered through Wednesday for online purchasers only, $17 regular admission, $15 for students and seniors Contact: www.innovationtw.org

“An audience in the theater is making the play with the actors at that moment, simply by being an audience. And I just love that. I like to be in the audience, in the theater, even at my own plays.”

— David Rambo, playwright and TV scriptwriter Kirk Douglas, Stockard Channing, Angela Lansbury and John Ritter. Another such adaptation, “Sunset Boulevard,” starred Anjelica Huston and Ben Kingsley.

His newest work, “The Lifeguard: Ronald Reagan and His Story,” a new one-man show, is set to begin a national run in April.

A passion for theater Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Rambo acted in Philadelphia before moving to New York when he was just 19, according to his bio on www.davidrambo. com. There, he appeared in offBroadway productions and performed as a cabaret pianist to pay the bills.

His next move was to Los Angeles to pursue television and film acting. One early role was for the pilot of an ABC show called “The Best of Times,” in which he co-starred with Nicolas Coppola (now known as Nicolas Cage) and Crispin Glover, the inimitable actor known for his eccentricity and roles in “Back to the Future” and “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.”

But for Rambo, acting would not prove the path to success that it was for Cage and Glover.

While acting was working out well enough, “I just didn’t really like acting in front of a camera, and wanted to go back to the theater,” Rambo says.

“But in L.A., you know, that’s so impossible. That’s why I started selling real estate. If I could make enough money from a couple of sales a year, I could work in the theater all I wanted to. What happened was, I was really good at real estate. I liked it.”

For 14 years, he worked as a Realtor to actors such as “Golden Girls” star Rue McLanahan.

“I had a lot of celebrity clients, and I kept all their secrets,” he says. “But it was while I was a real estate agent that I really felt the urge to start writing. That’s what I was supposed to do all along, I think.”

Around 1991, during downtime at open houses, he began jotting down ideas for plays on the backs of sales brochures.

The early ’90s marked a tough time to be in real estate, he says.

“Those big, big houses we were trying to sell … nobody was coming into on Sunday afternoon. So I had plenty of time to write, and I did.”

Soon after Rambo completed his first play, real estate became merely his day job, “until I could make my living as a writer. It’s what I wanted to do more than anything.”

Some surprises Writing for TV came along unexpectedly. “I would have been happy only writing plays the rest of my life,” Rambo says, but when “CSI” star William Petersen wanted to add a playwright to the writing roster after the third season, “I got a shot.”

The freelance script Rambo wrote turned out “spectacularly,” he says. “Billy (Petersen) liked it, the cast liked working with me, the producers liked working with me, and I was put on staff the next season. And I stayed there for a long time.”

Seven seasons, to be exact. His decision to leave and try writing science fiction for the ABC series “V” was “gut-wrenching,” he says.

“I wanted to leave while I was still really proud of the show and of my work. And I knew that if I didn’t start to spread my wings then, I would be a crime writer the rest of my career.”

ABC scaled back its order of

episodes to just 10 this year, “so we didn’t get to do everything we wanted to do this season,” Rambo says. The direction in which the series will go is up in the air while ABC, under new management, decides its fate.

His Reagan play, “The Lifeguard” is just beginning rehearsals and will keep him busy in the meantime.

“It’s the play I never thought I’d write. I wasn’t a big Reagan fan in the ’80s or the ’90s,” he says. When he was tapped to write it, he admits, “at first, I was very reluctant.”

Then he met Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter, “who I liked immediately,” he says. “She had to make the journey past politics and, additionally, past family history, to come to see her father, eventually, as the man he was, and the man so many people around the globe adored.”

Thanks to her, Rambo became interested in the project and began researching and writing the play, which will star actor Robert Forster.

Want info on nudists?

There’s an app for that

By Sarah Lundy The Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, Fla. — Looking for information about the nudist lifestyle? Now there’s even an app for that. Just don’t expect to see any photos — at least not nude ones.

The largest and oldest nudist organization in the country, based in Kissimmee, Fla., unveiled the free “Nakation” app on iPhone as part of a social-media push to keep nearly 50,000 members connected and to share news from the clothingoptional world.

It’s the first nudist app, which the American Association of Nude Recreation says has been downloaded nearly 800 times so far.

“I’m not a computer person,” said Susan Weaver, the group’s president. “But it’s obvious to everyone, including me, that social media is going to be dominating the future. It’s the new way people interact socially, legislatively and in marketing.”

A redesigned website, http:// www.aanr.com, went live in September, the same time that the group added Twitter (aanr— nudist). The group’s Facebook page has 1,600 fans.

The iPhone app happened after AARN member Mark Strickland, who owns SimplyBASICsoftware.com, offered his skills for free. The app gained Apple’s approval and was ready for downloads on Jan. 6.

The app has a news section and another devoted to clubs throughout the country. It also lists answers to 20 frequently asked questions, including why people choose nude recreation (relaxation and embracing nature in the most natural way possible) and whether people really play nude volleyball (it’s a favorite sport at many clubs).

Available for the iPhone only so far, the app is getting good reviews. CNET, a popular technology-news service, mentioned it in a blog. An Android version is expected soon.

TV vs. stage Writing for TV is a more collaborative process than the relatively solitary act of writing a play.

In TV, upwards of 100 people play a role in the creation of the moment. Content is determined by a number of factors, including what the producers want to see and the actors’ strengths and weaknesses. “Through all that, you try really hard to tell a compelling story,” Rambo says.

“In the theater, the only voice you hear in your head is your own, or those of your characters. There aren’t a lot of other demands. And it’s a poetic medium, as opposed to a literal medium,” he says.

Nevertheless, he loves writing for TV. The gratification is almost instant, Rambo says.

“There’s a hole in the airtime, and you get to fill it. So often, you write a play, and you never know if it’s going to see the light of day.”

David Jasper can be reached at 541-383-0349 or at djasper@bendbulletin.com.

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The Clairol question came up again recently on the “Today” show when Michelle Obama was shown side-by-side photos of the president taken on Jan. 19: His hair is salt-and-pepper in the morning but looks darker later in the day. A dye job?

“No, he’s pretty gray,” said the first lady, who blamed the difference on lighting. “I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dy-

ing his hair 10 years ago.”

The topic of a dyed head of state pops up every couple of years, when gray streaks (or lack thereof) are cited as evidence of presidential stress, gravitas or fibbing. When Obama was running in 2008, he was accused of adding gray to his temples to look wiser; now some folks believe he’s hitting the dye bottle.

(Reality check, people: Male politicians are not going to admit that they dye their hair, so you might as well stop asking.)

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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011

AUTO R ACING: NASCAR Kurt Busch wins Shootout after Hamlin is DQ’d DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It was a two-car tango at Daytona International Speedway, where the wild, pack racing was replaced Saturday night by sizzling fast speeds and a strange ending that Kurt Busch gave Kurt Busch the win in the Budweiser Shootout.

The exhibition race was the first test on Daytona’s smooth new pavement, and speeds at times hit 206 mph in a race that saw a record 28 lead changes among nine different drivers.

The final pass, though, was ruled illegal as Denny Hamlin was disqualified for going below the out-of-bounds line.

It made Busch, who actually crossed the finish line in second place, the first Dodge driver to win the non-points race that has opened Speedweeks for the last 33 years.

“What an unbelievable experience, this two-car draft.

I had no idea what to expect going in,” Busch said. “I was just going to take it one lap at a time and see how it played out.”

The ruling against Hamlin

by NASCAR was not controversial. The yellow-line rule has been in effect and enforced since NASCAR returned to Daytona in July 2001, nearly five months following the last-lap accident that killed Dale Earnhardt.

“I thought it was a great, three-wide finish,” said Hamlin said, “but obviously I used some pavement I shouldn’t have.”

— The Associated Press

INSIDE MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Oregon tops USC Ducks beat Trojans for fourth straight time, see Page D3

NORDIC SKIING

Tour de Meissner puts local sno-park’s assets on display Inside

By Amanda Miles The Bulletin

The Tour de Meissner offered something for pretty much everyone Saturday.

The community ski festival, which took place in somewhat blustery conditions under hazy skies at Virginia Meissner Sno-park southwest of Bend, provided racing and touring opportunities for both the experienced racer and the novice skier.

“Overall, the course turned out fantastic,” said Bill Warburton, cycling director for the Bend Endurance Academy and the event’s race director.

“People are posting really fast times. Everybody seemed to really like the course.”

• Tour de Meissner results, Page D2

BEA hosted the event, along with Tumalo Langlauf Club/Meissner Nordic. Skiers chose to race or tour a 15-kilometer course throughout the sno-park using either skate or classic technique, and youths had their own moment in the limelight with a three-kilometer event to kick off the morning’s festivities.

Warburton said Saturday was the first time the event was held in its current format.

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Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Adam Carter (43) attempts to break away from the pack shortly after the start of the 15-kilometer skate ski race Saturday morning during the Tour de Meissner at Virginia Meissner Sno-park.

PREP SWIMMING

PREP WRESTLING

Bend schools send 12 to 5A state meet Bulletin staff report

Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Summit’s Madi Brewer competes in the 200-yard freestyle final during the Class 5A Special District 1 swim championships held Saturday at Juniper Swim & Fitness Center in Bend. Brewer won the event.

Bend High breaks through at districts The Lava Bears boys take the Class 5A Special District 1 swim title, while the Summit girls win a 10th straight district championship The Bulletin

Bend High’s Doug Steinhauff had no shortage of success at this weekend’s Class 5A Special District 1 swim championships.

The Lava Bear junior won the boys 50- and 100-yard freestyle races going away — he uncorked a time of 21.98 seconds in the 50 free and a mark of 48.84 seconds in the 100 — and helped host Bend to a runner-up finish in the 200 medley relay.

But Steinhauff saved his best performance for last on Saturday as he rallied the Bears to a come-from-behind victory over Summit in the 200 freestyle relay, with a win that helped Bend end the Storm’s reign of four consecutive boys district championships. With Steinhauff posting a sub-21-second split time in the relay, the Lava Bears won in 1 minute, 33.22 seconds. Summit hit the wall a fraction of a second later in 1:33.49.

Wisconsin hands Ohio State first loss No. 13 Badgers beat No. 1 Buckeyes, leaving no undefeated teams in Division I, see Page D3

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EUGENE — Shane Buck of Bend High and Keelin Crew from Mountain View won individual titles at the Class 5A Special District 4 regional wrestling tournament Saturday at Willamette High as 12 local wrestlers qualified for the 5A state championships on Feb. 25 and 26 in Portland.

The Lava Bear junior pinned every opponent he faced during the two-day tournament, including Jake Browning of Marshfield in the third period of the 215-pound championship final.

“Shane is a really explosive athlete on the mat and a competitive wrestler,” Bend coach Luke Larwin said about Buck, the first Lava Bear wrestler to win a district tournament since 2001.

“He’s exciting to watch.”

As a team, the Bears finished in third place with 207 points, behind only Eugene’s Churchill (351.5 points) and runner-up Eagle Point (299).

Crew’s title for Mountain View came at 119 pounds after the Cougar lightweight posted a dramatic 10-9 win in the championship final over Matt Perkey of Springfield. Mountain View finished in fifth place as a team with 142 points.

See 5A Wrestling / D4

Eight Panthers qualify for 6A state tourney Bulletin staff report

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By Beau Eastes

Wisconsin’s Keaton Nankivil (52) blocks a shot by Ohio State’s David Lighty (23) during Saturday’s game.

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• Results from district swim meets and more prep coverage, Pages D4-D5

The Bears claimed the four-team district title at the Juniper Swim & Fitness Center with 505 points, besting the runner-up Storm (363 points) by a healthy margin. Ashland finished third with 344 points, and Mountain View placed fourth with 244. In the girls meet, Summit won its 10th consecutive district championship. The Storm outscored runner-up Bend 516-460.

First-place finishers from each event Saturday earned automatic berths to next weekend’s Class 5A state championships.

See Swimming / D4

ROSEBURG — Eight Redmond High wrestlers earned berths to the Class 6A state wrestling tournament Saturday as the Panthers closed out the 6A Special District 4 regional tournament with a third-place finish.

“It was exactly the number we thought we would (send),” Redmond coach Nathan Stanley said.

Four Panther wrestlers advanced to the regional finals, but all four fell short in their championship matches. According to Stanley, Ty George (112 pounds) outwrestled his North Medford opponent, but a quick reverse and a pin put George away. Ryan Haney (119) was tied with his Grants Pass opponent with two seconds to go when a two-point near fall decided the match. Levi Brinkley (125) and Boomer Fleming (140) also fell in championship matches.

See 6A Wrestling / D4

Could this be the end of road for a cycling legend?

“Every day, wherever I go, in the shops, people say, ‘So are you going to stop?

You can’t stop!’

People talk to me only of cycling.

It’s tiring. It’s tiring just thinking about continuing.”

—French pro cyclist Jeannie Longo

By John Leicester The Associated Press

GRENOBLE, France — here are few better symbols of freedom than a bicycle. Let’s go, it says, the open road beckons.

For four decades, Jeannie Longo has been bewitched by that siren call.

Longo’s bike has taken her to all corners of the globe and to seven Olympics, given her fame and so many trophies she now uses one of them — “a nice old silver one,” she says — as a flower pot. Into her 50s, she is still collecting titles. She is France’s reigning time trial champion.

“I’m a bit like a dog … always willing to have a go,” she says.

But Longo’s visceral, almost lifelong

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relationship with her bike has made her its slave, too. The question for the quadruple Olympic medalist boils down to this: What will become of her if — make that when — she stops competing? Longo even sacrificed motherhood to race. She is, in her own words, “the girl who knows only how to ride a bike.”

So who would she be without it?

“It freed me because I did things that I would never have done with a normal life,” she says. But she also calls herself “a prisoner of cycling,” someone “caught in a web.”

“I invested myself so heavily into cycling,” she says, “that there were other things I never did.”

See Cycling / D6

Jean-Christophe Bott / Keystone via The Associated Press

French cyclist Jeannie Longo is still near the top of her sport at the age of 52, but she is seriously contemplating retirement.

D2 Sunday, February 13, 2011 • THE BULLETIN

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SCOREBOARD

Auto racing ON DECK

TELEVISION TODAY GOLF 5:30 a.m. — PGA European Tour, Dubai Desert Classic, final round, Golf Channel.

10 a.m. — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach Invitational Pro-Am, final round, Golf Channel.

Noon — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach Invitational Pro-Am, final round, CBS. 4 p.m. — Champions Tour, Allianz Championship, final round, Golf Channel.

WINTER SPORTS 9 a.m. — Skiing, FIS Alpine World Championships, NBC (taped).

HOCKEY 9:30 a.m. — NHL, regional coverage, Boston Bruins at Detroit Red Wings or Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers or Los Angeles Kings at Philadelphia Flyers, NBC.

BASKETBALL 10 a.m. — NBA, Miami Heat at Boston Celtics, ABC. 10 a.m. — Men’s college, Purdue at Illinois, CBS. 10 a.m. — Men’s college, Marquette at Georgetown, ESPN. 11:30 a.m. — Women’s college, whiparound coverage, East Carolina at Houston, Georgetown at St. John’s, LSU at Kentucky and Michigan at Michigan State, ESPN2.

12:30 p.m. — NBA, Los Angeles Lakers at Orlando Magic, ABC. 1 p.m. — Women’s college, Arizona State at Arizona, FSNW. 2 p.m. — Women’s college, whiparound coverage, Auburn at Arkansas, Kansas State at Iowa State, North Carolina State at Georgia Tech and West Virginia at Louisville, ESPN2.

3 p.m. — NBA, Portland Trail Blazers at Detroit Pistons, Comcast SportsNet Northwest.

3:30 p.m. — Men’s college, Duke at Miami, FSNW. 5 p.m. — NBA, Oklahoma City Thunder at Golden State Warriors, ESPN. 6 p.m. — Men’s college, Arizona at Arizona State, FSNW.

AUTO RACING 10 a.m. — NASCAR, Sprint Cup: Daytona 500, qualifying, Fox.

BOWLING Noon — PBA, Bayer USBC Masters, ESPN.

RUGBY 1:30 p.m. — USA Sevens World Series, NBC.

RODEO 5:30 p.m. — Professional Bull Riders, Oklahoma City Invitational, VS. network (taped).

MONDAY SOCCER 11:55 a.m. — English Premier League, Fulham vs. Chelsea, ESPN2.

BASKETBALL 4 p.m. — Men’s college, West Virginia at Syracuse, ESPN. 4 p.m. — Women’s college, Oklahoma at Connecticut, ESPN2.

5 p.m. — NBA, Portland Trail Blazers at Minnesota Timberwolves, Comcast SportsNet Northwest.

6 p.m. — Men’s college, Kansas at Kansas State, ESPN. 6 p.m. — Women’s college, Texas A&M at Baylor, ESPN2.

HOCKEY 5 p.m. — NHL, Washington Capitals at Phoenix Coyotes, VS. network.

RADIO TODAY BASKETBALL 10 a.m. — NBA, Miami Heat at Boston Celtics, KICE-AM 940.

12:30 p.m. — NBA, Los Angeles Lakers at Orlando Magic, KICE-AM 940.

3 p.m. — NBA, Portland Trail Blazers at Detroit Pistons, KBND-AM 1110, KRCO-AM 690.

MONDAY BASKETBALL 5 p.m. — NBA, Portland Trail Blazers at Minnesota Timberwolves, KBND-AM 1110, KRCO-AM 690.

Listings are the most accurate available. The Bulletin is not responsible for late changes made by TV or radio stations.

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Tuesday Girls basketball: Mountain View at Summit, 5:15 p.m.; Sisters at La Pine, 5:45 p.m.; Madras at North Marion, 5:30 p.m.

Boys basketball: Mountain View at Summit, 7:15 p.m.; Sisters at La Pine, 7;15 p.m.; Madras at North Marion, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Girls basketball: Crook County at Marshall, 5:45 p.m.; Redmond at Grant, 5:45 p.m.

Boys basketball: Crook County at Marshall, 7:30 p.m.; Redmond at Grant, 7:15 p.m.

Thursday Nordic skiing: OHSNO Hoodoo Night Races at Hoodoo, 6 p.m.

Friday Girls basketball: Bend at Mountain View, 5:15 p.m.; La Salle at Madras, 7 p.m.; Crook County at Summit, 7 p.m.

Boys basketball: Bend at Mountain View, 7:15 p.m., Madras at La Salle, 7 p.m.; Summit at Crook County, 7 p.m.

Wrestling: Crook County, La Pine, Sisters and Madras at 4A regionals in Ontario, TBA; Culver at 2A/1A district meet in Chiloquin, TBA Swimming: OSAA state championships in Gresham, 9 a.m.

Saturday Wrestling: Crook County, La Pine at regionals in Ontario, TBA; Culver, Gilchrist at 2A/1A district meet in Chiloquin, 8 a.m.

Swimming: OSAA state championships in Gresham, 8 a.m.

Nordic skiing: OISRA skate race/paintball biathlon at TBA, 11:30 a.m.

SKIING Cross-country TOUR DE MEISSNER At Virginia Meissner Sno-park Feb. 12 Boys’ three kilometers 1, Teddy Widmer, 9:46.2, Ryan Smallwood, 10:05.

3, Sam Biskup, 10:10. 4, Peter Biskup, 11:47. 5, Tom Schoderbenk, 12:03. 6, Nate Henson, 12:20. 7, Scott Allen, 12:41. 8, Spencer Scott, 12:53. 9, Reed Kellar, 13:06. 9, Jett Ballantyre, 13:14. 10, Dawson Stallings, 14:15.

11, Reese Ringo, 15:01. 12, Matthew Finney-Jordet, 15:35. 13, Eames Smallwood, 15:37. 14, Calvin Keane, 16:02. 15, Damon Iraggi, 16:54. 16, Sam Drutman, 18:31.

17, Max Asevedo, 20:09. 18, Cooper Palubeski, 20:43. 19, Sam Schultz, 21:19. 20, Ethan Barker, 26:37.

Girls’ three kilometers 1, Vivian Hawkinson, 10:53. 2, Rebecca Christensen, 12:28. 3, Alex Heisler, 14:10. 4, Kate Ballantyne, 14:33. 5, Libby McKnight, 15:43. 6, Hannah Mavis, 15:43. 7, Sydney Scott, 15:44. 8, Emily Touchette, 18:49. 9, Ivy Taylor, 19:18.

10, Ani Husaby, 19:18.

11, Megan Strait, 21:52.

Men’s 15-kilometer skate 1, Joe Madden, Bend, 42:23. 2, David Sjogren, 46:27.

3, Theodore Ford, 46:58. 4, Joel Myers, 47:37. 5, Scott Yount, 47:48. 6, Rick Peters, 48:27. 7, Honza Jan Vrbata, 48:49. 8, David Blair, 48:56. 9, Joseph Sebulsky, 48:59. 10, Dennis Oliphant, 49:05.

11, Brett Golden, 49:44. 12, Scott Smallwood, 49:55.

13, Marcel Russenberger, 49:55. 14, Adam Carter, 51:02.

15, Sean Kiger, 53:26. 16, William Myers, 54:16. 17, Greg Morgan, 54:54. 18, Walter Mcknight, 55:32. 19, Dean Prud’Homme, 55:36. 20, Reider Peterson, 58:15.

21, Kent Reynolds, 58:23. 22, Fred Christensen, 58:50. 23, Steve Greening, 59:25. 24, Charles Hildreth, 1:02:16. 25, Brian Rees Bend, 1:06:37. 26, Stephen Crozier, 1:07:20.

Women’s 15-kilometer skate 1, Darragh Hildreth, 46:22. 2, Cynthia Engel, 50:47.

3, Lauri Powers, 52:58. 4, Heather Clark, 53:49. 4, Unicorn Magic, 55:15. 5, Becky Smallwood, 58:33. 6, Linda English, 1:00:16. 7, Alison Cobb, 1:09:28. 8, Sha Brown, 1:11:25. 9, Sue Carroll, 1:16:12.

Men’s 15-kilometer classic 1, Randy Scott, 53:45. 2, Collin Rymer, 56:20. 3, Aaron Tarnow, 59:50. 4, Paul Reznick, 1:33:39. 5, Doug Shaw, 1:55:36.

Tour 1, Bill Wood, 1:14:01. 2, Dave Bowman, 1:19:52. 3, Kathy Baker-Katz, 1:37:15. 4, Loren Cogdill, 1:37:16. 5, Janet Bowman, 1:55:20. 6, Jeness Christensen, 1:57:15.

7, Beth Miller, 1:58:38. 8, Paul Gauthier, 2:00:39. 9, Shari Hogshead, 2:00:40.

GOLF PGA Tour Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Saturday Purse: $6.3 million p-Pebble Beach Golf Links (Host Course); 6,816 yards; Par 72 s-Spyglass Hill; 6,953 yards; Par 72 m-Monterey Peninsula Country Club; 6,838 yards; Par 70 Third Round Steve Marino 65s-66p-71m—202 Jimmy Walker 72s-68p-63m—203 Bryce Molder 69p-66m-68s—203 D.A. Points 63m-70s-71p—204 Alex Cejka 64m-74s-67p—205 Tom Gillis 67p-68m-70s—205 Spencer Levin 71p-68m-67s—206 Aaron Baddeley 68s-71p-67m—206 Kevin Sutherland 69m-69s-68p—206 J.J. Henry 69p-66m-71s—206 Robert Garrigus 70s-70p-67m—207 Matt Jones 70s-69p-68m—207 Michael Connell 69s-69p-69m—207 Phil Mickelson 71m-67s-69p—207 Hunter Mahan 70s-67p-70m—207 Zack Miller 72p-69m-66s—207 J.B. Holmes 71p-64m-73s—208 Kris Blanks 70s-69p-69m—208 Stuart Appleby 70p-66m-72s—208 Bill Lunde 70s-67p-71m—208 William McGirt 70s-70p-68m—208 Keegan Bradley 65m-69s-74p—208 Steven Bowditch 71m-69s-69p—209 James Driscoll 72m-67s-70p—209 Marc Leishman 74s-69p-66m—209 Vaughn Taylor 74p-67m-68s—209 Chris Riley 69s-68p-72m—209 Sam Saunders 70s-67p-72m—209 Chris DiMarco 70m-72s-68p—210 Nick Watney 68p-67m-75s—210 Michael Allen 74s-70p-66m—210 Lee Janzen 72p-67m-71s—210 Kevin Stadler 73p-70m-67s—210 Tommy Gainey 69m-70s-71p—210 Padraig Harrington 69s-68p-73m—210 Trevor Immelman 70m-68s-72p—210 Vijay Singh 69p-68m-73s—210 Rory Sabbatini 68s-70p-72m—210 Matt Bettencourt 68m-70s-72p—210 Alex Prugh 68m-73s-69p—210 Tom Pernice, Jr. 73s-68p-69m—210 Shane Bertsch 71p-69m-71s—211 Jeff Maggert 75s-74p-62m—211 Michael Putnam 72p-68m-71s—211 K.J. Choi 71s-71p-69m—211 Kevin Kisner 74p-65m-72s—211 Arjun Atwal 75p-66m-70s—211 John Merrick 70p-69m-72s—211 Sean O’Hair 72s-70p-69m—211 D.J. Trahan 69m-72s-70p—211 Richard S. Johnson 71s-71p-69m—211 Dean Wilson 71p-69m-71s—211 Davis Love III 70m-70s-72p—212 Scott McCarron 71p-69m-72s—212 Kevin Streelman 74s-69p-69m—212 Joe Ogilvie 71s-72p-69m—212 Nick O’Hern 74s-70p-68m—212 Dustin Johnson 71m-71s-70p—212 Sunghoon Kang 69m-71s-72p—212 Kevin Chappell 69p-73m-70s—212 Andres Romero 68m-74s-70p—212 Jesper Parnevik 69m-73s-70p—212 David Mathis 75s-69p-68m—212 Brett Quigley 72p-65m-75s—212 Michael Thompson 70m-67s-75p—212 Kyle Stanley 68p-71m-73s—212 Daniel Summerhays 73p-68m-71s—212 Paul Stankowski 72m-70s-70p—212 David Duval 77p-65m-70s—212 Charlie Wi 70m-66s-76p—212 Nate Smith 70s-72p-70m—212 Bio Kim 74p-68m-70s—212 Matt Every 71s-71p-70m—212 Failed to qualify Brian Gay 72p-71m-70s—213 Tag Ridings 69m-73s-71p—213 D.J. Brigman 76p-64m-73s—213 Hunter Haas 71m-71s-71p—213 Johnson Wagner 72p-71m-70s—213 Gary Woodland 67p-72m-74s—213 Kevin Na 71p-72m-70s—213 Blake Adams 73p-71m-69s—213 Brandt Jobe 71s-77p-65m—213 Chris Kirk 73p-69m-72s—214 Bo Van Pelt 72s-74p-68m—214

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77s-68p-69m—214 69m-75s-70p—214 71s-71p-72m—214 78p-69m-68s—215 72p-69m-74s—215 68s-73p-74m—215 70m-71s-74p—215 72s-70p-73m—215 72p-69m-74s—215 75s-72p-68m—215 70m-75s-70p—215 70s-73p-72m—215 75s-71p-70m—216 72m-72s-72p—216 72s-73p-71m—216 70m-73s-73p—216 72p-68m-76s—216 77s-69p-70m—216 70p-70m-76s—216 71m-73s-72p—216 69p-71m-76s—216 76p-68m-72s—216 72m-72s-73p—217 69m-76s-72p—217 78m-70s-69p—217 73m-74s-70p—217 72s-69p-76m—217 76p-68m-73s—217 71m-77s-69p—217 71m-75s-72p—218 75s-73p-70m—218 72m-76s-70p—218 68m-76s-74p—218 73p-71m-74s—218 72p-73m-73s—218 73s-73p-72m—218 70s-78p-70m—218 78s-70p-71m—219 76s-72p-71m—219 76s-74p-69m—219 74p-70m-75s—219 69m-75s-75p—219 70m-70s-79p—219 70m-75s-75p—220 75s-78p-67m—220 76s-76p-68m—220 75s-75p-70m—220 77s-75p-68m—220 77p-71m-72s—220 77p-72m-71s—220 71m-74s-75p—220 73p-70m-77s—220 71p-77m-73s—221 75s-75p-71m—221 72m-76s-74p—222 71m-78s-73p—222 80p-68m-74s—222 75p-74m-73s—222 77p-70m-75s—222 76s-74p-72m—222 74m-76s-72p—222 74m-73s-75p—222 78m-76s-71p—225 73m-79s-73p—225 73p-77m-75s—225 75m-75s-75p—225 74m-75s-76p—225 70m-79s-79p—228 71m-80s-79p—230 75p-77m-80s—232 78s-85p-72m—235

Champions Tour Allianz Championship Saturday At The Old Course at Broken Sound Boca Raton, Fla. Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 6,807; Par: 72 Second Round Peter Senior 66-67—133 Rod Spittle 67-67—134 Tom Lehman 65-69—134 Russ Cochran 69-67—136 Hale Irwin 68-68—136 Mike Reid 67-69—136 Keith Fergus 68-69—137 Larry Mize 67-70—137 Jeff Sluman 66-71—137 Jay Don Blake 64-73—137 Corey Pavin 70-68—138 Tom Kite 69-69—138 David Frost 67-71—138 Chien Soon Lu 67-71—138 Olin Browne 69-70—139 Andy Bean 69-70—139 Chip Beck 68-71—139 Nick Price 67-72—139 Bobby Wadkins 70-70—140 Ted Schulz 71-69—140 Jim Rutledge 69-71—140 Steve Lowery 72-68—140 Blaine McCallister 69-71—140 Bob Tway 69-71—140 Bernhard Langer 68-72—140 Don Pooley 68-72—140 Joe Daley 67-73—140 Tom Purtzer 68-72—140 John Harris 70-71—141 J.L. Lewis 71-70—141 Mike Goodes 68-73—141 Lee Rinker 71-71—142 John Cook 71-71—142 Morris Hatalsky 70-72—142 Dan Forsman 71-71—142 Joey Sindelar 72-70—142 Willie Wood 69-73—142 Jay Haas 72-70—142 Mark McNulty 68-74—142 Tom Jenkins 66-76—142 Scott Simpson 66-76—142 Tim Simpson 70-73—143 Leonard Thompson 71-72—143 Bobby Clampett 70-73—143 Gary Koch 70-73—143 Hal Sutton 70-73—143 Bruce Fleisher 73-70—143 Gil Morgan 75-68—143 Mark Wiebe 70-74—144 Roger Chapman 71-73—144 Joe Ozaki 70-74—144 Bill Glasson 69-75—144 Fred Funk 73-71—144 Dana Quigley 71-74—145 Trevor Dodds 72-73—145 Mark Calcavecchia 72-73—145 Larry Nelson 73-72—145 David Eger 75-70—145 Wayne Levi 72-74—146 David Peoples 73-73—146 Brad Bryant 70-77—147 Ben Crenshaw 70-77—147 Lonnie Nielsen 75-72—147 Fuzzy Zoeller 76-71—147 Allen Doyle 70-78—148 Tommy Armour III 73-75—148 Bob Gilder 74-74—148 John Morse 73-76—149 Jay Delsing 73-76—149 Bob Murphy 74-75—149 Jay Sigel 74-75—149 Craig Stadler 73-77—150 Keith Clearwater 77-74—151 Curtis Strange 74-78—152 Mike McCullough 78-74—152 Frankie Minoza 71-82—153 Tom Wargo 74-79—153 Sandy Lyle 78-75—153 Gary Hallberg 80-73—153 Jim Colbert 75-79—154

BASKETBALL Men’s college Saturday’s Games ——— FAR WEST BYU 72, Utah 59 Cal Poly 56, UC Riverside 40 Colorado 58, Kansas St. 56 Colorado St. 68, New Mexico 62 Gonzaga 63, Pepperdine 44 Idaho St. 90, N. Arizona 88, OT Long Beach St. 79, CS Northridge 62 Montana 55, N. Colorado 42 Nevada 84, San Jose St. 76, OT Oral Roberts 71, S. Utah 69 Oregon 61, Southern Cal 51 Pacific 70, UC Davis 66 Portland 71, Loyola Marymount 48 Saint Mary’s, Calif. 86, San Francisco 68 San Diego St. 63, UNLV 57 Santa Clara 60, San Diego 56 UC Irvine 66, UC Santa Barbara 63 UCLA 69, Oregon St. 61 Utah St. 71, Fresno St. 55 Utah Valley 64, Texas-Pan American 42 Washington 87, Stanford 76 Washington St. 75, California 71 Weber St. 80, E. Washington 68 Wyoming 77, TCU 67 SOUTHWEST Ark.-Pine Bluff 64, Southern U. 51 Arkansas 80, LSU 61 Houston 79, Tulane 68 Lamar 84, Nicholls St. 71

Sam Houston St. 75, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 67 Stephen F.Austin 70, UTSA 66 Texas 69, Baylor 60 Texas A&M 70, Texas Tech 67 Texas St. 79, Texas-Arlington 71 UTEP 67, SMU 57 MIDWEST Akron 75, Ball St. 60 Bradley 68, Evansville 54 Butler 66, Detroit 51 Cent. Michigan 69, Bowling Green 64 Cleveland St. 86, Youngstown St. 76 E. Michigan 78, Buffalo 65 IUPUI 76, N. Dakota St. 72 Indiana St. 75, Drake 63 Kansas 89, Iowa St. 66 Kent St. 84, N. Illinois 77 Loyola of Chicago 79, Wis.-Green Bay 62 Miami (Ohio) 68, Toledo 66 Michigan 73, Indiana 69 Missouri 84, Oklahoma 61 Missouri St. 68, Illinois St. 59 Nebraska 65, Oklahoma St. 54 North Dakota 80, Chicago St. 70 Oakland, Mich. 86, IPFW 78 S. Dakota St. 82, W. Illinois 61 SIU-Edwardsville 74, Robert Morris-Chicago 40 Temple 75, Dayton 63 UMKC 91, Centenary 58 Valparaiso 58, Wright St. 56 W. Michigan 85, Ohio 83 Wichita St. 73, N. Iowa 55 Wis.-Milwaukee 70, Ill.-Chicago 59 Wisconsin 71, Ohio St. 67 SOUTH Alabama 74, Mississippi 64 Alabama St. 82, Alabama A&M 68 Appalachian St. 78, Chattanooga 68 Ark.-Little Rock 61, Louisiana-Monroe 53 Auburn 65, Mississippi St. 62 Austin Peay 79, Tennessee St. 64 Belmont 78, Campbell 57 Bethune-Cookman 61, Delaware St. 48 Coastal Carolina 61, Winthrop 56 Coll. of Charleston 87, UNC Greensboro 69 Coppin St. 70, S. Carolina St. 62 E. Kentucky 67, E. Illinois 47 Elon 79, The Citadel 72 Florida 61, Tennessee 60 Florida A&M 63, Md.-Eastern Shore 55 Florida St. 63, Virginia 56 Furman 88, Davidson 79 George Mason 82, James Madison 68 Georgia 60, South Carolina 56 Georgia St. 74, Northeastern 71, OT Hampton 86, Norfolk St. 72 Kennesaw St. 67, Stetson 65 Liberty 65, High Point 54 Longwood 75, Savannah St. 56 Louisiana-Lafayette 72, Florida Atlantic 64 Louisville 73, Syracuse 69 MVSU 91, Alcorn St. 83 Marshall 78, East Carolina 65 McNeese St. 81, Cent. Arkansas 67 Memphis 67, Southern Miss. 61 Mercer 74, Florida Gulf Coast 61 Middle Tennessee 80, Fla. International 68 Morehead St. 64, SE Missouri 52 Murray St. 60, Jacksonville St. 59 N. Carolina A&T 68, Howard 49 New Mexico St. 50, Louisiana Tech 49 North Carolina 64, Clemson 62 Notre Dame 78, South Florida 55 Old Dominion 70, Va. Commonwealth 59 Presbyterian 61, Charleston Southern 48 Richmond 64, Saint Louis 52 SE Louisiana 76, Northwestern St. 68 Tennessee Tech 85, Tenn.-Martin 71 Texas Southern 70, Jackson St. 67 Troy 64, Denver 55 UAB 74, Rice 68 UCF 58, Tulsa 57 UNC Asheville 57, Gardner-Webb 54 VMI 71, Radford 58 Vanderbilt 81, Kentucky 77 W. Carolina 85, Samford 63 W. Kentucky 87, North Texas 76 Wofford 69, Georgia Southern 61 EAST American U. 69, Colgate 60 Boston College 76, Maryland 72 Boston U. 61, Hartford 50 Bryant 85, Cent. Connecticut St. 80, OT Bucknell 60, Holy Cross 56 Columbia 75, Penn 62 Drexel 54, William & Mary 52 Harvard 85, Brown 78 Hofstra 61, Delaware 58 Lehigh 78, Army 64 Long Island U. 82, St. Francis, NY 80 Navy 57, Lafayette 52 Pittsburgh 57, Villanova 54 Princeton 57, Cornell 55 Rhode Island 71, Charlotte 70, OT Seton Hall 69, Rutgers 64 West Virginia 82, DePaul 71 Yale 69, Dartmouth 60 PAC-10 STANDINGS All Times PST ——— Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Arizona 9 2 .818 20 4 .833 UCLA 9 3 .750 18 7 .720 Washington 9 4 .692 17 7 .708 Washington St. 7 6 .538 17 8 .680 Stanford 6 7 .461 13 11 .542 California 6 7 .461 13 12 .520 Oregon 6 7 .461 13 12 .520 Southern Cal 5 7 .416 13 12 .520 Oregon St. 4 9 .307 9 15 .375 Arizona St. 1 10 .091 9 14 .391 Saturday’s Games UCLA 69, Oregon State 61 Washington State 75, California 71 Washington 87, Stanford 76 Oregon 61, Southern Cal 51 Today’s Game Arizona at Arizona State, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Summaries

UCLA 69, Oregon St. 61 OREGON ST. (9-15) Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Collier 4-10 2-4 10, Brandt 3-5 0-0 6, Cunningham 4-15 6-9 14, Starks 2-11 0-0 5, McShane 1-3 0-0 2, Brown 2-3 0-0 4, Haynes 2-7 3-4 8, Wallace 0-3 0-0 0, Nelson 4-11 0-0 10. Totals 23-70 11-17 61.

UCLA (18-7) Nelson 2-4 5-8 9, Honeycutt 3-9 2-3 9, Stover 0-0 2-2 2, Lee 6-9 6-6 19, L. Jones 1-2 1-2 4, Lamb 1-2 0-0 3, Trapani 0-0 0-0 0, Anderson 0-4 3-4 3, Schrempf 0-0 0-0 0, DeMarcus 0-0 0-0 0, Arnet 0-0 0-0 0, Lane 2-3 1-4 5, Smith 4-6 7-8 15. Totals 19-39 27-37 69.

Halftime—UCLA 29-24. 3-Point Goals—Oregon St. 411 (Nelson 2-4, Haynes 1-2, Starks 1-3, Cunningham 0-2), UCLA 4-14 (L. Jones 1-1, Lamb 1-2, Lee 1-4, Honeycutt 1-4, Lane 0-1, Anderson 0-2). Fouled Out—Brandt, Lee, McShane. Rebounds—Oregon St. 37 (Collier 7), UCLA 38 (Nelson 7). Assists—Oregon St. 12 (Starks 4), UCLA 14 (Honeycutt 5). Total Fouls—Oregon St. 28, UCLA 17.

A—8,534.

Oregon 61, Southern Cal 51 OREGON (13-12) Fearn 0-0 0-0 0, Sim 2-5 0-0 5, Loyd 2-5 0-0 5, Armstead 5-9 3-4 14, Williams 2-4 0-0 4, Jacob 0-3 0-0 0, Singler 4-8 0-0 11, Nared 3-4 0-0 7, Catron 4-10 0-0 9, Strowbridge 1-7 3-4 6. Totals 23-55 6-8 61.

SOUTHERN CAL (13-12) Stepheson 1-3 1-3 3, Fontan 1-5 2-2 4, Vucevic 11-22 0-1 22, Jones 3-10 1-4 9, D. Smith 3-10 2-2 9, Jackson 2-5 0-0 4, Simmons 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 21-57 6-12 51.

Halftime—Oregon 25-19. 3-Point Goals—Oregon 9-21 (Singler 3-4, Armstead 1-1, Loyd 1-2, Nared 1-2, Catron 1-3, Sim 1-3, Strowbridge 1-5, Williams 0-1), Southern Cal 3-19 (Jones 2-5, D. Smith 1-8, Fontan 0-1, Jackson 0-2, Vucevic 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Oregon 34 (Catron 7), Southern Cal 32 (Vucevic 16). Assists—Oregon 9 (Armstead 5), Southern Cal 15 (Fontan, Jones 6). Total Fouls—Oregon 16, Southern Cal 14. A—4,421.

Women’s college Saturday’s Games ——— FAR WEST

BYU 61, Utah 58 CS Bakersfield 77, Seattle 71 CS Northridge 71, Cal St.-Fullerton 65 Cal Poly 80, UC Irvine 70 E. Washington 73, Weber St. 67 Fresno St. 81, Utah St. 63 Gonzaga 73, Pepperdine 59 Idaho 61, Boise St. 46 Long Beach St. 60, UC Davis 59 Louisiana Tech 88, New Mexico St. 79 Montana 53, N. Colorado 51 Montana St. 92, Sacramento St. 79 N. Arizona 59, Idaho St. 55 Nevada 69, Hawaii 42 New Mexico 86, Colorado St. 53 Portland 78, Loyola Marymount 69

S. Utah 101, Oral Roberts 93 Saint Mary’s, Calif. 73, San Francisco 57 San Diego 66, Santa Clara 57 San Diego St. 77, UNLV 60 Southern Cal 85, Oregon 63 Stanford 62, Washington 52 Texas Tech 72, Colorado 44 UC Santa Barbara 59, UC Riverside 37 UCLA 58, Oregon St. 48 Utah Valley 82, Texas-Pan American 70 SOUTHWEST Baylor 96, Texas 68 Oklahoma 69, Missouri 47 Oklahoma St. 80, Nebraska 57 Sam Houston St. 76, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 70 Southern U. 72, Ark.-Pine Bluff 49 TCU 65, Wyoming 54 Texas A&M 81, Kansas 58 Texas-Arlington 79, Texas St. 63 UTSA 65, Stephen F.Austin 61 MIDWEST Akron 78, Ball St. 65 Bowling Green 60, E. Michigan 55 Notre Dame 71, Rutgers 49 Toledo 68, Ohio 48 Xavier 77, Fordham 55 EAST American U. 69, Colgate 49 Brown 57, Harvard 56 Bucknell 68, Holy Cross 52 Connecticut 68, Providence 38 George Washington 62, Massachusetts 46 Lafayette 58, Navy 53 Penn 60, Columbia 40 Pittsburgh 70, South Florida 66 Princeton 65, Cornell 43 Syracuse 70, Villanova 49 Temple 72, La Salle 63

TENNIS WTA WOMEN’S TENNIS ASSOCIATION ——— Open Gaz de France Saturday Paris Singles Semifinals Petra Kvitova (4), Czech Republic, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, 6-2, 6-0.

Kim Clijsters (1), Belgium, def. Kaia Kanepi (3), Estonia, 6-1, 7-5.

Pattaya Women’s Open Saturday Pattaya, Thailand Singles Semifinals Sara Errani (8), Italy, def. Roberta Vinci (5), Italy, 6-1, 6-4.

Daniela Hantuchova (4), Slovakia, def. Vera Zvonareva (1), Russia, 7-6 (3), 6-4.

ATP ASSOCIATION OF TENNIS PROFESSIONALS ——— AMRO World Tournament Saturday Rotterdam, Netherlands Singles Semifinals Ivan Ljubicic (7), Croatia, def. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (8), France, 6-4, 7-6 (6).

Robin Soderling (1), Sweden, def. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 7-5, 6-4.

SAP Open San Jose, Calif.

Singles Semifinals Milos Raonic, Canada, def. Gael Monfils (2), France, walkover.

Fernando Verdasco (1), Spain, def. Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, 6-4, 6-4.

Brasil Open Saturday Costa do Sauipe, Brazil Singles Championship Nicolas Almagro (1), Spain, def. Alexandr Dolgopolov (4), Ukraine, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

HOCKEY NHL NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE All Times PST ——— EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Philadelphia 54 36 13 5 77 182 138 Pittsburgh 57 35 18 4 74 170 136 N.Y. Rangers 57 29 24 4 62 157 141 New Jersey 56 22 30 4 48 120 158 N.Y. Islanders 55 19 29 7 45 144 180 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 55 31 17 7 69 170 131 Montreal 57 31 20 6 68 151 143 Buffalo 53 26 22 5 57 155 155 Toronto 56 23 27 6 52 144 174 Ottawa 56 18 30 8 44 126 186 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 56 34 17 5 73 172 172 Washington 56 29 17 10 68 151 140 Carolina 56 26 22 8 60 165 173 Atlanta 57 25 22 10 60 165 185 Florida 54 23 24 7 53 143 146 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 55 33 16 6 72 183 161 Nashville 56 30 19 7 67 150 133 Chicago 56 28 22 6 62 177 158 Columbus 55 27 23 5 59 150 167 St. Louis 54 24 21 9 57 145 162 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 56 36 11 9 81 190 133 Minnesota 55 30 20 5 65 146 145 Calgary 58 28 22 8 64 168 172 Colorado 56 25 25 6 56 170 186 Edmonton 55 16 31 8 40 137 189 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 55 31 18 6 68 158 156 Phoenix 57 29 19 9 67 162 160 Anaheim 56 31 21 4 66 155 157 San Jose 56 30 20 6 66 156 148 Los Angeles 55 30 22 3 63 155 132 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, SO Los Angeles 4, Washington 1 Ottawa 5, Edmonton 3 Montreal 3, Toronto 0 Tampa Bay 4, Carolina 3, OT Nashville 5, Colorado 3 Minnesota 3, St. Louis 1 Vancouver 4, Calgary 2 Today’s Games Boston at Detroit, 9:30 a.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, noon Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, noon Columbus at Dallas, noon Los Angeles at Philadelphia, noon Carolina at Atlanta, 2 p.m.

San Jose at Florida, 2 p.m.

Anaheim at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

DEALS Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS—Signed G Mustafa Shakur to a second 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Named Mike Sheppard quarterbacks coach.

TENNESSEE TITANS—Named Jerry Gray defensive coordinator.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES—Reassigned D Brett Carson to Charlotte (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Recalled F Jeff Taffe from Rockford (AHL). Placed F Ryan Johnson on injured reserve.

DALLAS STARS—Agreed to terms with F Jason Williams. Assigned LW Francis Wathier to Texas (AHL).

COLLEGE SETON HALL—Dismissed senior G Keon Lawrence and G Jamel Jackson from the men’s basketball team for a violation of team rules and an ongoing pattern of conduct unbecoming of a representative of Seton Hall athletics.

TEXAS—Agreed to terms with men’s athletic director DeLoss Dodds on a contract extension through Aug. 31, 2015 and women’s athletic director Chris Plonsky on a contract extension through Aug. 31, 2017.

• Gerhart wins 7th career Daytona ARCA race: New pavement, same result: Bobby Gerhart won the ARCA race at Daytona. Gerhart held off the field for the final 10 laps to win Saturday’s ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway — his seventh Daytona win in the minor league stock car racing series. Chris Buescher finished second, followed by Matt Merrell, former motocross star Ricky Carmichael and Jason Bowles.

• Annett admits driving while impaired, apologizes: NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Michael Annett admits he drank too much and got behind the wheel. Now he’s apologizing for his “horrible” judgment and hopes to prove he can turn around his life. Speaking to reporters at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, Annett says he is “definitely owning up” to his mistake. Annett was arrested last Sunday and charged with driving while impaired following a two-car accident in Mooresville, N.C.

Tennis • Verdasco reaches SAP Open final against Raonic: Fernando Verdasco made it to the SAP Open final for the second straight year, surviving a tough second set to beat Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals Saturday night in San Jose, Calif. Verdasco will play today against unseeded Milos Raonic, who advanced to his first ATP Tour final in a walkover after second-seeded Gael Monfils pulled out of the tournament with an injured left wrist. Verdasco beat Andy Roddick in three sets in last year’s final.

• Clijsters, Kvitova reach final in Paris: Kim Clijsters will face Petra Kvitova in the final of the Open Gaz de France today in Paris. Clijsters, who will be ranked No. 1 on Monday, defeated Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-1, 7-5 on her third match point. Kvitova cruised past Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States 6-2, 6-0.

• Almagro takes second Brazil Open title: Nicolas Almagro of Spain won his eighth ATP title, defeating Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 6-3, 7-6 (3) in the final Saturday of the Brazil Open in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil. The Spaniard also won this event in 2008 and has won all eight of his tournament titles on clay.

• Tsonga, Soderling reach Rotterdam final: Robin Soderling will defend his title against JoWilfried Tsonga in the final of the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The top-seeded Swede rallied from 4-1 down to dismiss Viktor Troicki 7-5, 6-4, breaking the Serb twice in each set Saturday. The eighthseeded Tsonga dispatched two-time finalist Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-4, 7-6 (6) in the first semifinal.

• Errani beats Vinci to advance to final at Pattaya: Eighth-seeded Sara Errani beat fifthseeded Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-4 in the all-Italian semifinal at the Pattaya Open on Saturday in Thailand. Vinci made 29 unforced errors as Errani reached her first final since losing to Dinara Safina in Portoroz in 2009.

Football • Haynesworth formally charged with assault: Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth has been formally charged with misdemeanor assault stemming from a road rage incident earlier this month. Fairfax County police say the 29-year-old Haynesworth and his attorney appeared at a police station Saturday morning. Haynesworth signed a summons warrant charging him with assault and left. He’s scheduled to appear in court on March 31.

• Fiesta Bowl hires criminal defense lawyer: Officials at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl have retained a high-profile Southern California attorney specializing in representing individuals and organizations involved in state and federal criminal investigations. The hiring of Nathan J. Hochman comes as federal and state investigators continue looking into the bowl group’s financial and political dealings. The state Attorney General’s Office is looking at whether bowl staff members made illegal campaign contributions.

Winter sports • Jacobellis, Cheever win U.S. snowboarding titles: Lindsey Jacobellis cruised to victory in the Snowboarding Gran Prix on Saturday to capture the ladies U.S. title in Park City, Utah. Jonathan Cheever was second in the men’s Gran Prix final behind Canadian Kevin Hill but as the top American finisher still claimed the U.S. crown. Only American racers qualified for the U.S. title, while foreign racers competed for the $10,000 first prize.

• Pechstein qualifies for World Cup after doping ban: Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein marked her return from a two-year doping ban by qualifying for the Speed Skating World Cup in Salt Lake City. Pechstein posted a time of 4 minutes, 10.05 seconds Saturday in the 3,000 meters at an event in Erfurt, Germany. It was under the 4:15 limit set by the sport’s governing body.

• American Cook wins freestyle worlds: American Emily Cook scored a 93.06 on Saturday in Moscow to earn the second World Cup freestyle victory of her career. Cook, from Belmont, Mass., who has been competing with the U.S. team for 13 years, last won a World Cup event in 2008. That victory also came in Moscow.

• Norway’s Svendsen, Germany’s Henkel win biathlon: Emil Svendsen of Norway won the 12.5-kilometer pursuit in a photo finish in Fort Kent, Maine, at the World Cup biathlon on Saturday for his second consecutive victory. Andrea Henkel won the women’s 10-kilometer pursuit, finishing 24.8 seconds ahead of German teammate Magdalena Neuner.

Mixed martial arts • Emelianenko defeated in Strikeforce Grand Prix: Brazilian jiujitsu star Antonio Silva beat Fedor Emelianenko when the ringside doctor refused to allow him to continue, Emelianenko’s right eye swollen shut from numerous blows after a wild second round in the Strikeforce heavyweight Grand Prix on Saturday night in East Rutherford, N.J. In the co-main event, Sergei Kharitonov stunned the packed crowd by knocking out Andrei Arlovski in brutally efficient fashion. It was the fourth straight loss for the former UFC champion.

— The Associated Press

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 13, 2011 D3

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Ducks pull away for victory over Trojans The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — It didn’t take long for Kevin O’Neill to realize it might be a long night.

About three minutes into Southern Cal’s 61-51 loss to Oregon on Saturday night, the USC head coach looked at the scorer’s table and saw five more Ducks getting ready to check in.

“I just kind of look at them like ‘Oh boy, here they come,’ ” O’Neill said. “They knew what they wanted to do and they did it.

“They had a good strategy and went after us.”

Oregon guard Malcolm Armstead was particularly effective at attacking the Trojans late in the game.

He scored nine of his 14 points in the final 7 minutes, including two free throws with 20 seconds left to help keep the Ducks safely ahead and allow them to post their fourth straight victory over the Trojans.

Trailing 55-40, USC went on a 9-2 run capped

by Maurice Jones’ three-pointer with 2:55 remaining.

But Armstead knifed through the lane twice in the final three minutes for lay-ups. He also had five assists.

“Armstead killed us,” O’Neill said. “Not one guy on our team stayed in front of Armstead all night long.”

E.J. Singler added 11 points for the Ducks (13-12, 6-7 Pac-10), who led by as many as 15 in the second half.

Oregon employed a soft press and played mostly

Wisconsin hands No. 1 Ohio State its first loss

zone while trying to wear down the depleted Trojans, who have only a seven-player rotation.

“That’s our system right now, we’re pressing,” Oregon head coach Dana Altman said. “It gives us an opportunity to play nine or 10 guys.

“I like what we’re doing with the press, I think it helps us get our defense set and creates a little tempo for us.”

In other Saturday games: Washington State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 PULLMAN, Wash. — Brock Motum scored 19 points off the bench to lead Washington State to a victory over California. The Cougars (17-8, 76) saw five players score in double figures — and those five did all the scoring for the winners. Faisal Aden, a reserve like Motum, scored 18 points.

DeAngelo Casto scored 14, Klay Thompson had 13 and Reggie Moore finished with 11 points.

Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 SEATTLE — Isaiah Thomas scored 14 of his 22 points in the final three minutes of the first half, Venoy Overton had his best game of the season with 14 off the bench, and Washington beat Stanford. Washington (17-7, 9-4 Pac-10) avenged a loss last month at Stanford when the Huskies blew an 11-point lead in the final 9 minutes and suffered their first Pac-10 setback. This time, the Cardinal served as validation that the Huskies have corrected the problems that surfaced a week ago during their three-game losing streak.

The Associated Press

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Oregon guard Malcolm Armstead (11) drives to the basket against Southern Cal forward Garrett Jackson, right, during the first half of Saturday’s game in Los Angeles.

UCLA extends winning streak against OSU to 13 OSU BASKETBALL

By Beth Harris The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — UCLA is 17-0 when building leads of 10 points or more. Good thing, too, because the Bruins needed the extra cushion after allowing big leads in both halves to dwindle against Oregon State.

Malcolm Lee scored 19 points before fouling out and UCLA won 69-61 Saturday, extending the Bruins’ winning streak against the Beavers to 13 games.

Joshua Smith added 15 points for UCLA (18-7, 9-3 Pac10), which won its fifth in a row and ninth in 10 games.

Of course, it helped that the Bruins were playing the Beavers, who haven’t beaten them since the 2005 Pac-10 tournament, making UCLA’s domination the longest active streak between two league teams.

“Our defense in the first half was just outstanding,” UCLA coach Ben Howland said. “Then we started turning the ball over with their press. We were up 10, 12 and

didn’t know what we were going to do.”

Oregon State (9-15, 4-9) was led by Jared Cunningham with 14 points, and Devon Collier and Roberto Nelson had 10 each. The young Beavers — who started one senior, two sophomores and two freshmen — have lost three in a row and nine of 11. Third-year coach Craig Robinson has beaten every other Pac-10 team, but he’s 0-6 against the Bruins.

“We played hard, we just didn’t execute,” Robinson said. “The entire effort out here is pretty good for a road game. We mostly have freshmen and sophomores on the floor. We’re trying to teach them how to play hard in the game all the time and in practice.”

Lee had a season-high 25 points in UCLA’s win over Oregon on Thursday, giving him 44 in the weekend sweep.

NBA SCOREBOARD

NBA ROUNDUP

Rose leads Bulls to victory over Hornets The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Derrick Rose’s latest matchup against one of the NBA’s top point guards left the New Orleans Arena crowd gasping at the Chicago star’s array of spinning dribbles, slashing drives and running jump shots.

Rose scored 23 points while holding Western Conference AllStar starter Chris Paul in check, and the Bulls turned a 12-point third-quarter deficit into a 97-88 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Saturday night.

“Every night, there’s a good point guard in front of him and he’s been geared up to play every one of them,” said Bulls forward Carols Boozer, who had 17 points. “He carries us offensively, and on the defensive end he locks up as well. He’s a monster, man. And I keep telling people, when it’s all said and done — he’s 22 — he’s going to be the best one.”

Rose’s dominant performance in New Orleans came one game after he scored 29 points — while matched up against Derron Williams — in the Bulls’ victory in Utah on Wednesday night.

Paul came in averaging 16.5 points and 9.7 assists and had 15 points on three of 10 shooting and six assists against the Bulls.

“My rhythm is off. I’m missing everything I shoot at the rim. I’ve just got to keep shooting,” Paul said. “I’ve got to somehow, some way, find a rhythm and find a way to get some easy baskets.”

Rose downplayed his role in the victory and said his success against Paul stemmed from the team’s defensive scheme.

“I think I contested all his shots and just tried to make him work for it,” said Rose, who seemed more inclined to discuss the performance of the Bulls’ reserve unit, which contributed 30 points and 20 rebounds.

“They’re the reason why we won this game,” Rose said.

Luol Deng had 14 points for the Bulls, who outscored the

Hornets 25-14 in the fourth quarter to close out a five-game road trip at 3-2.

Marcus Thornton had a season-high 24 points and David West added 17 for New Orleans, which missed 13 of 39 free throws in losing for the seventh time in nine games.

Also on Saturday: Bobcats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Hawks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 ATLANTA — Stephen Jackson hit a last-second jumper over two Atlanta defenders and Charlotte rallied after trailing by 22 points to beat the Hawks.

Knicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 NEWARK, N.J. — Wilson Chandler replaced the injured Amare Stoudemire in the lineup and scored 21 points, and New York beat New Jersey to avoid falling below .500.

76ers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Timberwolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 MINNEAPOLIS — Thaddeus Young led seven 76ers in double figures with 18 points and Philadelphia cruised to a victory over Minnesota.

Spurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Wizards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 WASHINGTON — Tony Parker scored 10 of his 18 points in less than two minutes during the first quarter to jump-start San Antonio to a rout of Washington.

Mavericks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Rockets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 HOUSTON — Peja Stojakovic scored 22 points and broke a tie with Dale Ellis for fourth place in career three-pointers as Dallas beat Houston.

Pacers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Bucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 MILWAUKEE — Danny Granger scored 14 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter to help Indiana snap a six-game losing streak to Milwaukee.

Thunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kevin Durant scored 10 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter to help lead Oklahoma City past Sacramento.

Tyler Honeycutt added nine points, a career-high eight blocked shots — tops in the league this season — five assists and five rebounds.

“I just tried to protect that rim,” he said. “Every time I went down, it seemed like I was getting a high-five.”

Honeycutt also had a team-high seven of UCLA’s 26 turnovers.

“He only had five (turnovers) in the first half,” Howland said. “I’m rosy, I’m trying to look at the bright side.

We won the game.”

The Bruins’ 16 blocks were a Pac-10 best this season and the most during Howland’s eight years in Westwood.

But they barely edged the Beavers on the boards, 38-37, while getting dominated 24-12 on the offensive glass.

UCLA allowed another commanding lead in the second half to dwindle to eight points by game’s end.

Oregon State took 31 more shots than the Bruins, who made 20 more trips to the free throw line.

SUMMARIES

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Friday’s games

Knicks 105, Nets 95 NEW YORK (105) Gallinari 2-5 2-2 7, Chandler 8-21 2-2 21, Mozgov 2-6 2-2 6, Felton 4-13 4-4 13, Fields 5-7 1-2 14, Williams 3-11 0-0 8, Douglas 8-13 0-2 19, Turiaf 1-4 4-4 6, Walker 4-6 0-0 11. Totals 37-86 15-18 105.

NEW JERSEY (95) Outlaw 0-4 2-2 2, Favors 3-10 3-6 9, Lopez 614 7-9 19, Harris 7-13 7-9 22, Morrow 3-9 0-0 8, Vujacic 5-9 3-4 15, Humphries 4-8 0-0 8, Farmar 5-10 0-1 12, Petro 0-1 0-0 0, Ross 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 33-79 22-31 95.

New York 27 32 13 33 — 105 New Jersey 21 33 14 27 — 95 3-Point Goals—New York 16-34 (Fields 3-4, Walker 3-4, Douglas 3-6, Chandler 36, Williams 2-6, Gallinari 1-2, Felton 1-6), New Jersey 7-14 (Morrow 2-2, Vujacic 2-5, Farmar 2-6, Harris 1-1). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—New York 50 (Chandler, Gallinari 8), New Jersey 57 (Favors 14). Assists—New York 25 (Felton 11), New Jersey 15 (Vujacic 4). Total Fouls—New York 26, New Jersey 20.

A—18,711 (18,500).

Atlantic Division Boston New York Philadelphia New Jersey Toronto

W 38 27 26 17 14

Miami Atlanta Orlando Charlotte Washington

W 39 33 34 23 14

L 14 20 21 31 38

Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

W 36 24 20 20 9

L 16 28 33 34 45

76ers 107, T’wolves 87 PHILADELPHIA (107) Iguodala 3-9 8-9 15, Brand 4-10 4-4 12, Hawes 6-7 0-0 12, Holiday 5-10 0-0 10, Meeks 5-8 4-5 16, Williams 3-9 6-6 13, Turner 4-9 0-0 9, Songaila 1-1 0-2 2, Young 9-13 0-0 18, Speights 0-0 0-0 0, Nocioni 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 40-78 22-26 107.

MINNESOTA (87) Johnson 2-10 2-3 6, Love 6-13 3-3 16, Pekovic 2-2 2-2 6, Flynn 4-11 2-2 12, Brewer 5-12 5-7 15, Koufos 1-3 0-0 2, Ellington 2-10 0-0 4, Hayward 1-4 2-2 4, Ridnour 5-11 2-2 13, Tolliver 4-12 1-1 9. Totals 32-88 19-22 87.

Philadelphia 28 26 31 22 — 107 Minnesota 32 18 24 13 — 87 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 5-12 (Meeks 23, Turner 1-1, Iguodala 1-3, Williams 1-3, Nocioni 0-1, Holiday 0-1), Minnesota 4-23 (Flynn 2-4, Love 1-3, Ridnour 1-4, Brewer 0-1, Hayward 0-1, Tolliver 0-2, Ellington 0-2, Johnson 0-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Philadelphia 45 (Brand 9), Minnesota 56 (Love 13). Assists—Philadelphia 24 (Iguodala 7), Minnesota 15 (Ridnour 5).

Total Fouls—Philadelphia 21, Minnesota 18.

A—17,011 (19,356).

Spurs 118, Wizards 94 SAN ANTONIO (118) Jefferson 5-9 2-2 14, Duncan 3-4 0-0 6, Blair 6-11 1-2 13, Parker 7-9 4-4 18, Hill 5-8 4-4 18, Ginobili 3-5 0-0 6, Bonner 5-6 0-0 12, Neal 6-8 2-3 16, McDyess 1-2 0-0 2, Novak 2-6

Pct .731 .509 .481 .309 .259

GB — 11½ 13 22½ 25

L10 5-5 5-5 7-3 4-6 1-9

Str L-2 W-1 W-2 L-1 L-3

Home 23-5 14-12 17-9 13-14 9-17

Away 15-9 13-14 9-19 4-24 5-23

Conf 27-7 17-11 16-20 9-24 9-25

Away 19-9 16-11 15-13 10-17 0-25

Conf 26-7 23-11 23-11 14-20 9-23

Away 13-12 9-17 8-21 7-21 3-27

Conf 20-9 16-16 14-15 13-18 7-26

Southeast Division Pct .736 .623 .618 .426 .269

GB — 6 6 16½ 24½

L10 9-1 5-5 5-5 4-6 1-9

Str W-8 L-2 L-1 W-1 L-1

Home 20-5 17-9 19-8 13-14 14-13

Central Division Pct .692 .462 .377 .370 .167

GB — 12 16½ 17 28

L10 8-2 8-2 3-7 4-6 1-9

Str W-2 W-3 L-3 L-1 W-1

Home 23-4 15-11 12-12 13-13 6-18

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

Bobcats 88, Hawks 86 CHARLOTTE (88) Diaw 1-5 0-0 2, Wallace 6-15 0-0 16, K.Brown 1-3 0-0 2, Augustin 1-6 2-2 4, Jackson 12-24 7-8 32, Mohammed 2-5 1-1 5, Livingston 8-13 6-6 22, Najera 1-3 0-2 2, Henderson 1-4 1-2 3. Totals 33-78 17-21 88.

ATLANTA (86) Smith 11-17 4-7 28, Horford 8-15 0-0 16, J.Collins 1-1 2-2 4, Bibby 4-10 0-0 11, Johnson 4-14 3-3 11, Ja.Crawford 1-9 0-0 2, Evans 0-1 2-2 2, Williams 1-7 0-0 2, Pachulia 3-8 4-4 10, Wilkins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-82 15-18 86.

Charlotte 27 12 29 20 — 88 Atlanta 27 25 20 14 — 86 3-Point Goals—Charlotte 5-19 (Wallace 46, Jackson 1-6, Najera 0-1, Augustin 0-3, Diaw 0-3), Atlanta 5-23 (Bibby 3-8, Smith 2-4, Williams 0-1, Evans 0-1, Ja.Crawford 0-4, Johnson 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Charlotte 49 (Wallace 13), Atlanta 52 (Horford 10). Assists—Charlotte 24 (Wallace 7), Atlanta 26 (Ja.Crawford 7). Total Fouls—Charlotte 17, Atlanta 19. Technicals—Livingston. A—16,948 (18,729).

L 14 26 28 38 40

San Antonio Dallas New Orleans Memphis Houston

W 45 38 33 29 25

L 9 16 23 26 30

Pct .833 .704 .589 .527 .455

GB — 7 13 16½ 20½

L10 8-2 9-1 3-7 7-3 5-5

Str W-1 W-1 L-1 W-2 L-2

Home 25-2 20-8 20-8 17-8 14-12

Away 20-7 18-8 13-15 12-18 11-18

Conf 29-5 21-8 16-16 16-16 15-21

Away 16-10 9-16 14-12 11-17 4-24

Conf 20-13 19-15 16-17 18-15 5-28

Away 19-8 11-14 6-18 4-19 5-16

Conf 21-11 15-15 13-20 13-21 7-23

Northwest Division Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland Minnesota

W 34 31 31 29 13

L 18 23 24 24 41

L.A. Lakers Phoenix Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento

W 38 26 23 20 12

L 16 25 29 33 38

Pct .654 .574 .564 .547 .241

GB — 4 4½ 5½ 22

L10 7-3 5-5 4-6 6-4 3-7

Str W-1 W-1 L-2 W-3 L-2

Home 18-8 22-7 17-12 18-7 9-17

Paciic Division Pct .704 .510 .442 .377 .240

GB — 10½ 14 17½ 24

L10 Str 7-3 W-4 6-4 W-3 4-6 L-1 3-7 L-1 3-7 L-5 ——— Saturday’s Games

Charlotte 88, Atlanta 86 Philadelphia 107, Minnesota 87 San Antonio 118, Washington 94 Indiana 103, Milwaukee 97

Home 19-8 15-11 17-11 16-14 7-22

New York 105, New Jersey 95 Chicago 97, New Orleans 88 Dallas 106, Houston 102 Oklahoma City 99, Sacramento 97 Today’s Games

Miami at Boston, 10 a.m.

Denver at Memphis, 3 p.m.

Portland at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 12:30 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 3 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Sacramento at Phoenix, 5 p.m.

3-Point Goals—Chicago 6-13 (Bogans 3-4, Watson 1-1, Rose 1-2, Korver 1-3, Deng 0-3), New Orleans 6-15 (Thornton 3-4, Green 2-4, Paul 1-2, Andersen 0-1, Jack 0-1, Ariza 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago 51 (Thomas, Asik 11), New Orleans 37 (Gray, Thornton 6).

Assists—Chicago 20 (Rose 6), New Orleans 16 (Paul 6). Total Fouls—Chicago 26, New Orleans 21. Technicals—Chicago defensive three second, New Orleans defensive three second. A—17,831 (17,188).

Mavs 106, Rockets 102 DALLAS (106) Stojakovic 8-12 2-2 22, Nowitzki 8-16 5-5 22, Chandler 6-8 0-0 12, Kidd 4-6 1-2 11, Stevenson 0-3 0-0 0, Mahinmi 3-6 1-2 7, Terry 2-7 3-4 7, Marion 7-12 0-0 14, Barea 5-8 0-0 11. Totals 43-78 12-15 106.

HOUSTON (102) Battier 5-9 0-0 14, Scola 4-9 0-0 8, Hayes 4-8 2-2 10, Lowry 10-24 2-2 26, Martin 6-15 5-6 17, Miller 0-1 0-0 0, Brooks 2-14 2-3 7, Budinger 02 1-2 1, Lee 3-5 1-2 9, Hill 5-8 0-0 10, Patterson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-96 13-17 102.

Dallas 23 34 26 23 — 106 Houston 25 19 23 35 — 102 3-Point Goals—Dallas 8-15 (Stojakovic 46, Kidd 2-4, Barea 1-1, Nowitzki 1-1, Terry 0-1, Stevenson 0-2), Houston 11-29 (Battier 4-6, Lowry 4-10, Lee 2-3, Brooks 1-4, Miller 0-1, Budinger 0-1, Martin 0-4). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Dallas 50 (Marion 9), Houston 49 (Hill 9). Assists—Dallas 26 (Terry 7), Houston 21 (Lowry 8). Total Fouls—Dallas 13, Houston 22.

Technicals—Chandler. A—17,009 (18,043).

Pacers 103, Bucks 97 INDIANA (103) Granger 8-15 10-13 30, McRoberts 4-4 0-0 9, Hibbert 5-9 3-4 13, Collison 6-13 9-11 22, Dunleavy 2-6 0-0 4, Hansbrough 1-5 0-0 2, D.Jones 2-4 3-3 7, George 3-6 4-8 11, Foster 1-3 0-0 2, Price 1-4 1-2 3. Totals 33-69 30-41 103.

MILWAUKEE (97) Maggette 3-7 0-0 8, Ilyasova 4-12 0-0 10, Bogut 4-10 1-2 9, Jennings 3-10 3-4 10, Salmons 4-11 0-0 9, Delfino 7-15 6-6 21, Mbah a Moute 2-5 2-2 6, Dooling 5-8 2-2 13, Boykins 4-7 2-2 11, Brockman 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 36-85 16-20 97.

Indiana 32 19 24 28 — 103 Milwaukee 29 20 23 25 — 97 3-Point Goals—Indiana 7-17 (Granger 46, McRoberts 1-1, Collison 1-2, George 1-3, D.Jones 0-1, Price 0-1, Dunleavy 0-3), Milwaukee 9-23 (Maggette 2-4, Ilyasova 2-4, Boykins 1-2, Dooling 1-2, Salmons 1-3, Jennings 1-4, Delfino 1-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Indiana 59 (Hibbert 8), Milwaukee 41 (Bogut 12). Assists—Indiana 17 (Hibbert 6), Milwaukee 20 (Delfino 5). Total Fouls—Indiana 18, Milwaukee 24. Technicals—Indiana defensive three second, Milwaukee defensive three second 2. A—17,046 (18,717).

Monday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Denver at Houston, 5:30 p.m.

All Times PST

2-2 7, Quinn 2-9 0-0 6. Totals 45-77 15-17 118.

WASHINGTON (94) Hinrich 3-10 0-0 6, Blatche 6-12 4-6 16, McGee 7-10 0-0 14, Wall 3-9 2-3 8, Young 2-10 0-0 4, Martin 5-9 4-7 16, Booker 3-5 12 7, Yi 4-7 1-2 9, Seraphin 2-4 3-4 7, Shakur 1-4 0-0 2, Armstrong 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 38-82 15-24 94.

San Antonio 37 35 29 17 — 118 Washington 18 27 20 29 — 94 3-Point Goals—San Antonio 13-25 (Hill 45, Bonner 2-2, Neal 2-3, Quinn 2-4, Jefferson 2-5, Novak 1-5, Ginobili 0-1), Washington 3-11 (Martin 2-4, Armstrong 1-1, Yi 0-1, Hinrich 0-1, Shakur 0-1, Young 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San Antonio 43 (Blair 12), Washington 44 (Blatche 9). Assists—San Antonio 27 (Parker 8), Washington 15 (Wall 7). Total Fouls—San Antonio 19, Washington 17. Technicals—San

Antonio defensive three second. A—20,435 (20,173).

Bulls 97, Hornets 88 CHICAGO (97) Deng 5-10 4-4 14, Boozer 7-12 3-3 17, Thomas 1-4 0-0 2, Rose 7-15 8-8 23, Bogans 4-5 0-0 11, Brewer 3-5 3-4 9, Gibson 3-4 0-0 6, Asik 1-3 2-2 4, Korver 1-5 1-1 4, Watson 3-5 0-0 7.

Totals 35-68 21-22 97.

NEW ORLEANS (88) Ariza 2-8 2-4 6, West 6-11 5-7 17, Gray 1-2 3-6 5, Paul 3-10 8-10 15, Green 3-7 0-0 8, Belinelli 1-2 0-2 2, Smith 0-3 1-2 1, Andersen 0-3 0-0 0, Jack 3-7 4-4 10, Thornton 9-15 3-4 24, Mbenga 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-69 26-39 88.

Chicago 24 18 30 25 — 97 New Orleans 22 31 21 14 — 88

Thunder 99, Kings 97 OKLAHOMA CITY (99) Durant 13-22 8-13 35, Green 4-10 0-2 8, Krstic 3-7 2-2 8, Westbrook 8-16 6-7 22, Sefolosha 0-0 0-0 0, Ibaka 3-5 0-0 6, Harden 3-9 5-8 11, Collison 0-0 0-0 0, Maynor 4-8 0-0 9, Cook 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 38-80 21-32 99.

SACRAMENTO (97) Casspi 5-13 3-4 14, Thompson 1-7 0-0 2, Cousins 5-14 4-7 14, Udrih 5-10 3-4 13, Evans 11-22 8-11 30, Dalembert 4-7 2-2 10, Jeter 0-2 0-0 0, Landry 5-7 0-0 10, Greene 2-2 0-0 4, Head 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-84 20-28 97.

Oklahoma City 27 27 21 24 — 99 Sacramento 24 21 27 25 — 97 3-Point Goals—Oklahoma City 2-13 (Maynor 1-3, Durant 1-3, Westbrook 0-1, Cook 0-2, Harden 0-4), Sacramento 1-12 (Casspi 1-5, Jeter 0-1, Evans 0-3, Udrih 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Oklahoma City 46 (Durant, Ibaka 6), Sacramento 61 (Cousins 12). Assists—Oklahoma City 12 (Westbrook 7), Sacramento 18 (Udrih 7). Total Fouls—Oklahoma City 21, Sacramento 27. Technicals—Ibaka, Maynor, Westbrook, Oklahoma City defensive three second, Evans.

A—14,987 (17,317).

MADISON, Wis. — Nobody’s perfect.

Jordan Taylor and Wisconsin found themselves in a huge hole against previously unbeaten Ohio State, but the Badgers only needed about 13 minutes to shatter the Buckeyes’ chase at an undefeated season.

“We knew we had a run in us,” Taylor said.

Taylor scored 21 of his 27 points in the second half, rallying No. 13 Wisconsin from a 15-point deficit to beat No. 1 Ohio State 71-67 on Saturday and keep Division I without a perfect team since Indiana in 1975-76.

Taylor was the catalyst, sparking a 15-0 run with eight straight points, then keeping the Badgers calm down the stretch with his poise.

Also on Saturday: No. 2 Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Iowa State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 LAWRENCE, Kan. — Twin brothers Marcus and Markieff Morris each had a double-double and keyed a 23-4 first-half run for Kansas.

No. 3 Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 Baylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 AUSTIN, Texas — Freshman Tristan Thompson had 17 points and 13 rebounds and Texas held off a furious rally.

No. 4 Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . .57 No. 9 Villanova. . . . . . . . . . . .54 VILLANOVA, Pa. — Brad Wanamaker scored 21 points, Nasir Robinson had 15 and Pittsburgh escaped with a win over Villanova.

No. 6 San Diego State . . . . .63 UNLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 LAS VEGAS — D.J. Gay scored 20 points and Kawhi Leonard had 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead San Diego State to a victory over UNLV. No. 7 BYU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 PROVO, Utah — Jimmer Fredette scored 23 points, fillin starter Charles Abouo added 22 and BYU pulled away late from rival Utah.

No. 8 Notre Dame . . . . . . . . .78 South Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . .55 TAMPA, Fla. — Jack Cooley came off the bench during an early 22-0 run and finished with a career-high 18 points to lead Notre Dame.

No. 16 Louisville . . . . . . . . . .73 No. 12 Syracuse . . . . . . . . . .69 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kyle Kuric scored 23 points, Preston Knowles added 22 and Peyton Siva dropped in the clinching free throws in the final moments to lead Louisville.

No. 17 Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Erving Walker hit a driving, goahead layup with 14 seconds left and Florida overcame a six-point halftime deficit.

No. 23 Vanderbilt. . . . . . . . . .81 No. 18 Kentucky . . . . . . . . . .77 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt’s John Jenkins scored a career-high 32 points, including six three-pointers.

No. 19 Missouri . . . . . . . . . . .84 Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri overwhelmed Oklahoma with its bench, getting 16 points from Michael Dixon and 11 from Justin Safford.

No. 20 North Carolina. . . . . .64 Clemson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 CLEMSON, S.C. — Freshman Harrison Barnes scored 20 points and John Henson had 14 points and 12 rebounds for North Carolina.

No. 21 Utah State . . . . . . . . .71 Fresno State. . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 LOGAN, Utah — Nate Bendall scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead four Utah State players in double figures.

No. 22 Texas A&M. . . . . . . . .70 Texas Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 LUBBOCK, Texas — Khris Middleton scored 16 points and Texas A&M handed Texas Tech its third straight loss.

No. 24 Temple . . . . . . . . . . . .75 Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 DAYTON, Ohio — Ramone Moore scored 26 points and Temple won its sixth straight.

No. 25 West Virginia . . . . . . .82 DePaul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — John Flowers led West Virginia’s balanced offense with 15 points.

D4 Sunday, February 13, 2011 • THE BULLETIN

PREP ROUNDUP

Panther girls second at district swim meet Bulletin staff report

Photos by Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Mountain View’s Brandon Deckard competes in the 200-yard individual medley final during the Class 5A Special District 1 swim championships Saturday at Juniper Swim & Fitness Center in Bend. Deckard went on to win the event.

Swimming Continued from D1 Additionally, the top six nonwinning times in each event from Class 5A’s six district meets will also advance to state as atlarge qualifiers.

“It’s been a long time,” Steinhauff said about the Summit boys’ dominance over the other Bend schools. “This is great. I swim with a lot of those (Summit swimmers with the Bend Swim Club) so it makes it even more competitive.”

Joshua DeCelles added a win in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.28) for the Lava Bears, and Bend High also claimed first-place points in the 400 freestyle relay (3:38.90).

“It’s just awesome,” said Bend High coach Kendra Anderson.

“We were just a lot deeper than we have been before.”

While Summit posted three wins of its own — Chris Nyaradi won the 200 free (1:48.62) and 500 free (4:55.48) races, and the Storm finished first in the 200 medley relay (1:43.96) — the Lava Bears wore down the three-time defending state champion with swimmers scoring points all over the board.

Bend had 20 swimmers in the pool for the district swim meet compared with Summit’s 10.

“We’ve just got a lot of kids swimming,” said Steinhauff, who last year helped the Lava Bears to a fourth-place team finish at the 5A state meet. “All those points add up.”

Mountain View also had its moments in the boys district meet Saturday as Cougar freshman Brandon Deckard recorded victories in both the 200 individual medley (1:58.94) and the 100 backstroke (52.82).

5A Wrestling Continued from D1 Summit ended the two-day tournament in eighth place with 116.5 points. The Storm will send sophomore Gabe Thompson (125 pounds) and junior Kaden Olson (215) to state as both wrestlers finished third in their respective weight classes.

Summit’s Suzy Foster competes in the 200-yard individual medley at districts on Saturday. Foster won the race.

Storm swimmers Madi Brewer and Suzy Foster paced the Summit girls in their victory.

Brewer won all four times she competed in the water Saturday, finishing first in the 200 free (1:57.90) and 100 backstroke (1:00.98) in addition to swimming legs on two of the Storm’s winning relay teams: the 200 medley relay (1:57.61) and the 200 freestyle squad (1:43.55).

Foster was also perfect in the pool Saturday, adding wins in the 200 IM (2:11.17) and 100 butterfly (100:14) in addition to swimming on the 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay squads that both won district titles.

Other winners of girls events Saturday included Bend’s Jennifer Tornay (50 free, 25.94), Summit’s Brooke Walsh (100 free, 56.43), Mountain View’s Phoebe Weedman (500 free, 5:14.97) and Ashland’s Kirsten Ericksen (100 breast, 1:08.69).

“They did really well,” Storm coach Amy Halligan said about her girls team. “Suzy Foster and Madi Brewer obviously had

good days, but girls like Abbie Sorlie and Sydney Steinberg came up big too.”

Sorlie, a freshman, anchored Summit’s winning 200 medley relay squad, swam another leg on the Storm’s first-place 200 free relay team, and placed third in the 100 back. Steinberg, a senior who helped Summit take second at state a year ago, competed Saturday on two of the Storm’s championship relay squads (400 free and 200 medley) and posted fourth-place finishes in the 200 IM and 100 fly.

While winners from Saturday’s meet are assured spots in the 5A state championships, the six at-large bids in each event are not expected to be posted by the Oregon School Activities Association until later today.

The Class 5A state swim championships will be held Feb. 18 and 19 at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham.

The top four finishers from each of 5A’s four regional tournaments advance to the 5A state championship tournament.

Including Buck, Bend High had six wrestlers finish among the top four in their weight classes and earn a spot at state: Isaac Simar placed third at 140 pounds, Jason Vinton finished third at 145 pounds, Gunner Crawford was the tournament runner-up at 152 pounds,

Gavin Gerdes ended the competition in third at 171 pounds, and Kenny Dailey took fourth at 189 pounds.

For Mountain View, Crew is one of four wrestlers who will represent the Cougars at the 5A state championships. Forrest Samples lost in the final at 140 pounds, Andrew Bright finished fourth at 152 pounds, and Conner Wiese took runner-up honors at 189 pounds.

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SALEM — Without benefit of a first-place finish, Redmond’s girls placed second among six teams at the Central Valley Conference district swimming championships, which concluded Saturday at the Kroc Corps Community Center.

Meanwhile, the Panther boys, led by sophomore Matt Carpenter, claimed third place.

Redmond’s girls scored a total of 242 points to finish behind only West Salem (343) in the final standings.

Among the top performers for the Redmond girls was sophomore Teagan Perkins, who finished second in both the 200yard individual medley and the 100 breaststroke. Perkins also was part of the Panthers’ secondplace 200 medley relay and their third-place 200 freestyle relay.

“We had no first places (in the girls meet),” noted Redmond coach Kelsey Holmberg, “so we did it (finished second in the team standings) with a lot of kids doing real well and placing high in the finals.”

In the boys portion of the meet, Redmond sophomore Matt Carpenter won the 200- and 500yard freestyle events and helped the Panthers place first in the 400 freestyle relay with teammates Jake White, Korbin Kiblinger and Tom Gilbert.

Redmond racked up 235 points to finish third in the seven-team boys meet behind champion McNary (262) and runner-up South Salem (248).

Holmberg noted that in addition to Carpenter, senior Korbin Kiblinger had an especially strong meet for the Redmond boys. Kiblinger notched personal-record times to place seventh in both the 200 freestyle and the 100 free, and he also posted PR split times for both the Panthers’ third-place 200 freestyle relay and the district-champion 400 free relay.

District winners automatically qualify for the Class 6A state championship meet, set for this coming Friday and Saturday at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham. Other district swimmers could qualify for state by landing an at-large berth.

In other prep events Saturday: PREP SWIMMING Sisters relay teams qualify for Class 4A/3A/2A/1A state meet ALBANY — A pair of Sisters girls relay teams earned spots at the upcoming state championships with first-place finishes at the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A Special District 3 championship. Katie Stewart, Tia Berg, Michelle Young and Samantha Williamson won the 200-yard medley

6A Wrestling Continued from D1 The top four finishers from each weight class at the four 6A regionals advance to the Class 6A state tournament Feb. 25 and 26 at Portland’s Memorial Coliseum.

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relay with a time of 2 minutes and 3.89 seconds. Additionally, Stewart, Young, Williamson and Codie Lagao claimed the 200 freestyle relay (1:50.19). Young finished second in the 100 butterfly (1:06.26) and Stewart posted a third-place effort in the 200 individual medley (2:25.56). The Sisters girls finished fourth in the team standings behind winner Sweet Home, Philomath and Stayton. The Sisters boys did not win any events, but also finished fourth in the team standings. Tyler Baldessari paced the Outlaw boys with a runner-up finish in the 100 backstroke (1:00.26). The 2011 state swim championships take place Friday and Saturday at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham.

Madras boys first at district meet MADRAS — Two individual wins helped launch the Madras boys into first place with 206 points at the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A Special District 2 meet at the Madras Aquatic Center. Ian Goodwin gave the White Buffaloes a win in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4 minutes, 59.03 seconds, and teammate Caleb Flu followed up in second with a time of 5:55.22. Madras’ Jordan Gemelas grabbed first in the boys 100 breaststroke in 1:06.88. North Marion finished second with 178 points. On the girls side, Elizabeth Armitage tallied wins in the 50 and 100 free for the Buffs, finishing in 26.47 and 58.25 seconds, respectively. The Madras girls slotted in at eighth place (77 points) in the 12-team meet. La Grande won with 233 points. All winners from Saturday’s meet will advance to the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A state championships on Friday and Saturday in Gresham.

NORDIC SKIING Cougars take top honors CHEMULT — Mountain View’s Chase Nachtmann not only won Saturday’s 5.5 kilometer individual-start classic race (18 minutes, 6 seconds) but also secured the top spot in the individual league standings over the course of the season (162 points).

Teammate Jordan Zettle finished the season second in the league standings (146) and Mckenna Hand ended the season in third (132). Mikhaila Thornton won the girls race in 22:08, but was edged out in the final individual standings by South Eugene’s Anna Persmark. Persmark finished with 229 points to Thornton’s 228. Hayati Wolfenden placed third overall with 218 points in the season standings.

The Cougars’ boys and girls teams both clinched first in Saturday’s team overall as well as in the final league standings. South

Eugene’s boys and girls teams each finished second after a season of racing. Mountain View will travel to Mount Shasta on Feb. 25 and 26 to compete in the Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing nordic state championships.

Storm cleans up in pursuit race MOUNT HOOD — Summit swept the 7-kilometer pursuit race, taking wins in both the boys and girls individual events as well as the boys and girls team overall. The Storm’s Max Millslagle posted the fastest time in the 3K classic and 4K skate pursuit, leading his team to first overall with seven points. Eli Forman paced Redmond skiers with a third-place finish, while Jack Widmer was Bend’s top skier in ninth place. The Panthers finished behind Summit in second place with 29 points and Bend was third with 32 points.

In the girls race, Summit’s Keelin Moehl beat out Ine Mare Raa of Redmond for first place.

Mellissa Hubler led the Bend girls with a fourth-place result.

The Storm girls won with 10 points, Redmond placed second (18) and Bend third (26). Times were unavailable.

ALPINE SKIING Lyons, Puddy fastest through the gates MOUNT BACHELOR — Summit’s Doug Lyons won the slalom race in what was the final Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing Association alpine league event of the season. Ian Bristow of Mountain View finished second. Kate Puddy gave the Cougars a win in the girls race, while Bend High’s Kori Coggin placed second. Summit won the boys team overall Saturday and Bend took top honors in the girls team overall. Complete results were not available. The OISRA alpine state championships are scheduled for March 3 and 4 at Mount Bachelor.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Butte Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Gilchrist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 BUTTE FALLS — The Grizzlies ended their season with a Class 1A Mountain Valley League loss on the road to the Loggers. Butte Falls outscored Gilchrist 17-2 in the third quarter. Ashley James posted a teamhigh 12 points for the Grizzlies (6-8 Mountain Valley League, 812 overall), who finished in sixth place in league play.

BOYS BASKETBALL Butte Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Gilchrist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 BUTTE FALLS — The Grizzlies ended their season with a defeat to the Loggers. Tyler Shuey recorded 12 points to lead Gilchrist (0-14 Mountain Valley League, 3-18 overall).

be happy but we were a little disappointed by a couple of the losses,” Stanley said after the meet. “The good thing is we have the state tournament to work toward now and right the ship.”

Host Roseburg won the tournament and Grants Pass placed second.

Joining George, Haney, Brin-

kley and Fleming in Portland at state in two weeks will be their teammates Brandon Short, Chance Lindquist, David Peebles and Colby Fultz.

Short finished in third place at 103 pounds, Chance Lindquist took third at 119, Peebles ended the tournament in fourth at 135 pounds and Fultz placed third at 140.

CYCLING

No decision soon in Armstrong probe

By Pete Yost The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — News reports since last fall have said criminal charges against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong could be just around the corner. But a decision on whether to indict America’s most famous cyclist in a performance-enhancing drug case is not imminent and the federal investigation has encountered serious hurdles, according to lawyers familiar with the matter.

What is clear is that it will be some time before the probe ends and a decision is made.

One of Armstrong’s former teammates, Floyd Landis, made headlines last May when he accused Armstrong of cheating to win — using performanceenhancing drugs and teaching others how to beat drug testing. Speculation ran rampant that criminal charges soon would follow. They didn’t.

A grand jury investigation based in Los Angeles appeared to be moving fast last summer.

Then the published reports

emerged. The new year and the Super Bowl, both reported target dates for a decision, came and went without charges.

In fact, the nine months since Landis made his allegations have only served to illustrate the difficulty of translating them into legal charges.

Armstrong has never been found to have failed a drug test and there is a dispute over whether any forensic evidence exists that could be used against him. So far, Landis, whose credibility is open to question, is the only person to say publicly he saw Armstrong doping. Whether investigators have found other eyewitnesses among current or former Armstrong associates remains unclear.

Investigators have many more witnesses to interview, and the assistant U.S. attorney supervising the investigation, Doug Miller, is set to handle an unrelated criminal case, according to lawyers familiar with the investigation.

The reports of an impending indictment led Armstrong’s

lawyers to reach out to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Over the past month and a half, that office has assured Armstrong’s legal team that no decision on whether to indict is imminent, according to the lawyers. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal probe is continuing.

In line with Justice Department policy, Armstrong’s lawyers will get time to argue privately against the indictment if the government decides to move toward charging their client, three of the lawyers said.

The only certainty is that it will be quite a while before the Armstrong probe ends.

The lead investigator in the Armstrong probe, Jeff Novitzky, was instrumental in getting federal criminal charges filed against baseball home run king Barry Bonds and seventime Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens related to their alleged involvement with performance-enhancing drugs.

The Bonds trial is to begin in March; Clemens’ case in July.

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PREP SCOREBOARD WRESTLING Class 5A Special District 4 Championships Willamette HS in Eugene Final team scores — 1, Churchill, 351.5; 2, Eagle Point, 299; 3, Bend, 207; 4, Marshfield, 166.5; 5, Mountain View, 142; 6, Willamette, 135.5; 7, Springfield, 129; 8, Summit, 116.5; 9, Ashland, 79.5; 10, North Eugene, 40; 11, Marist, 7.

——— Championship matches 103 — Thaddeus Nelson, Marshfield, def. Orlando De La Cruz, Eagle Point, 3:00; 112 — Aaron Lorenz, Eagle Point, def.

JR Pascual, Willamette, 6-4 ; 119 — Keelin Crew, Mountain View, def. Matt Perkey, Springfield, 10-9; 125 — Housten Ezell, Churchill, def. Hunter Gouguen, Churchill, 7-1; 130 — Joe Potts, Churchill, def. Tyler Nixon, Marshfield, 14-5; 135 — DJ Ishihara, Churchill, def. Max Thomas, Churchill, 4-2 (OT); 140 — Travis Woods, Eagle Point, def. Forrest Samples, Mountain View, 3;12; 145 — David Tena, Churchill, def. Gage Redden, Willamette, :33; 152 — Chase Kearney, Churchill, def. Gunner Crawford, Bend 13-2; 160 — Zac Brunson, Churchill, def. Daniel Morgan, Eagle Point, 3:00; 171 — Gage Baumer, Eagle Point, def. Trevor Davis, Churchill, 4:53; 189 — Kody Campbell, Marshfield, def. Conner Wiese, Mountain View, 4:55; 215 — Shane Buck, Bend, def. Jake Browning, Marshfield, 5:03; 285 — Sam Cowan, Ashland, def. Manny Valdovinos, Eagle Point, 2-1.

——— Third-place matches 103 — Joe Bendix, Willamette, def. Jorrin Ishihara, Churchill, 3:14; 112 — Clayton Lopez, North Eugene, def.

Pat Sumner, Ashland, forfeit; 119 — Dylan Beneat, Churchill def. Sherman Hammond, Eagle Point, 1:57; 125 — Gabe Thompson, Summit, def. Taylor Mitchell, Eagle Point, 1:42; 130 — Ben Zomerdyk, Eagle Point, def. Nathan Lucas, Eagle Point, 1:31; 135 — Eli Siegle, Springfield, def. Noah Smith, Willamette, 3:01; 140 — Isaac Simar, Bend, def. Aaron Bordeaux, Churchill, 9-2; 145 — Jason Vinton, Bend, def. Jesus Lara, Springfield, 4:36; 152 — Jesse Moore, Marshfield, def.

Andrew Bright, Mountain View, 2:59; 160 — Johnny Wilkerson, Eagle Point, def. Joe Jones, Willamette, 8-5; 171 — Jake Scarminach, Ashland, def. Gavin Gerdes, Bend, 9-2; 189 — Mason Montgomery, Ashland, def. Kenny Dailey, Bend, 3-2; 215 — Kaden Olson, Summit, def. Graham Bellerby, Churchill, 2:16; 285 — Johnny Castro, Marshfield, def. Will Dawson, Churchill, 13-6.

——— Fifth-place matches 103 — Noah Haines, Bend, def. Brandon Campbell, Marshfield, 10-8 (OT); 112 — Austin Alexander, North Eugene, def.

Jake McDonald, Mountain View, forfeit; 119 — Russell Pascual, Willamette, def. Eddie Perez, Eagle Point, 10-1; 125 — Evan Chinadle, Bend, def. Skyler Harvey, Marshfield, 6-4; 130 — Greg Prescott, Bend, def. Redge Phillips, Churchill, :50; 135 — Hunter Giffen, Summit, def. Jimmy Radaford, Mountain View, 4-2 (OT); 140 — Eric Thompson, Summit, def. Hunter Hoeptner, Eagle Point, 9-5; 145 — Edward Martinez, Eagle Point, def. Mack Amodeo, Mountain View, 8-5; 152 — Caleb Ash, Eagle Point, def. Jeremy Byrd, Ashland, forfeit; 160 — Willy Abt, Bend, def. Nick Gates, Churchill, 16-3; 171 — Sean Seefeldt, Summit, def. Kris Hunt, Bend, 7-2; 189 — Steven Early, Springfield, def. Trevor Olson, Eagle Point, 1:51; 215 — Christian Adams, Churchill, def. Keaton White, Summit, 3-1; 285 — Chase Towlerton, Springfield, def. Dylan Johnson, Mountain View, :49.

SWIMMING Saturday’s results ——— CLASS 5A SPECIAL DISTRICT 1 CHAMPIONSHIPS At Juniper Swim & Fitness Center (All placers) ——— Girls Team scores —Summit 516, Bend 460, Mountain View 335, Ashland 293 200 medley relay — 1, Summit , 1:57.61; 2, Bend , 1:58.32; 3, Mountain View , 2:02.78; Ashland, 2:29.99. 200 freestyle — 1, Madi Brewer, S, 1:57.9; 2, Phoebe Weedman, MV, 2:01.32; 3, Morgan Hostetler, S, 2:19.83; 4, Alyssa Bjork, B, 2:25.53; 5, Zoie Wesenberg, B, 2:25.79; 6, Kameran Joel, B, 2:35.67; 7, Aubrie Georgevitch, A, 2:39.08; 8, Sara Andre, MV, 2:42.55; 9, Kelly Abbe, MV, 2:37.88; 10, Paige Simoneau, S, 2:40.41; 11, Elizabeth, Mallory, A, 2:44.9; 12, Katie Simpson, S, 2:47.74; 13, Lyric Randall, A, 2:50.28; 14, Kristen Hofer, B, 2:50.5; 15, Mileah Tiernen, MV, 2:55.73.

200 individual medley— 1, Suzy Foster, S, 2:11.17; 2, Kirsten Ericksen, A, 2:20.6; 3, Brooke Miller, B, 2:23.93; 4, Sydney Steinberg, S, 2:29.51; 5, Ciara Hogue, B, 2:29.98; 6, Kaitlyn Deckard, MV, 2:30.05; 7, Abbie Sorlie, S, 2:31.71; 8, Anna Zerger, B, 2:42.8; 9, Charissa Miller, MV, 2:42.66; 10, Molly Hover, B, 2:51.51; 11, Holly England, S, 2:53.97; 12, Grace Riley-Adams, A, 3:20.17; 50 freestyle — 1, Jennifer Tornay, B, 25.94; 2, Brooke Walsh, S, 25.96; 3, Sheralyn Shumway, A, 26.41; 4, Maddy Longshore, A, 27.08; 5, Andi Leesley B, 27.19; 6, Madeleine Torres, B, 27.26; 7, Cassie Hall, A, 27.7; 8, Kenzie Vincent, S, 28.29; 9, Grace Geisslinger, A, 29.1; 10, April Gerlicher, B, 29.97; 11, Emily Lawrence, MV, 30.04; 12, Mileah Tiernen, MV, 33.51; 13, Emma Krueger, S, 34.37; 14, Katie Simpson, S, 36.72; Nat Anacharoenpakorn, MV, 38.68.

100 butterfly — 1, Suzy Foster, S, 1:00.14; 2, Brooke Miller, B, 1:02.59; 3, Kaylin Ivy, B, 1:07.21; 4, Sydney Steinberg, S, 1:07.42; 5, Jennifer Lyon, S, 1:09.62; 6, Kaitlyn Deckard, MV, 1:10.53; 7, Jacki Nonweiler, S, 1:12.04; 8, Charissa Miller, MV, 1:18.01; 9, Carriann Elms, MV, 1:16.63; 10, Kameran Jel, B, 1:19.04; 11, Nikki Hancock, B, 1:29.22.

100 freestyle — 1, Brooke Walsh, S, 56.43; 2, Jennifer Tornay, B, 57.25; 3, Andi Leesley, B, 59.13; 4, Sheralyn Shumway, A, 59.46; 5, Madeleine Torres, B, 59.99; 6, Bailey Anderson, MV, 1:00.21; 7, Maddy Longshore, A, 1:00.41; 8, Anna Zerger, B, 1:03.20; 9, Kenzie Vincent, S, 1:03.95; 10, Julianne Belza, S, 1:04.59; 11, Megan Rodden, A, 1:04.82; 12, Emily Lawrence, MV, 1:06.06; 13, Ky Heffner, S, 1:07.99; 14, Aubrie Georgevitch, A, 1:10.45; 15, Kelly Abbe, MV, 1:17.6.

500 freestyle — 1, Phoebe Weedman, MV, 5:14.97; 2, Marley Weedman, MV, 5:31.3; 3, Jennifer Lyon, S, 6:02.47; 4, Sydney Lind, S, 6:08.42; 5, Jade Marken, MV, 6:25.41; 6, Morgan Hostetler, S, 6:37.14; 7, Alyssa Bjork, B, 6:44.67; 8, Kara Buccino, A, 7:05.89; 9, Holly England, S, 6:59.52; 10, Jenny Hoffer, B, 7:05.29; 11, Elizabeth Mallory, A, 7:38.99.

200 freestyle relay — 1, Summit 1:43.55; 2, Bend 1:45.34; 3, Ashland 1:46.53; 4, Mountain View 1:59.93.

100 backstroke — 1, Madi Brewer, S, 1:00.98; 2, Marley Weedman, MV, 1:05.42; 3, Abbie Sorlie, S, 1:07.06; 4, Sydney Lind, S, 1:09.41; 5, Zoie Wesenberg, B, 1:10.62; 6, Julianne Belza, S, 1:11.7; 7, Carriann Elms, MV, 1:12.74; 8, Bailey Anderson, MV, 1:16.04; 9, Kaylee Tornay, B, 1:17.08; 10, Nikki Hancock, B, 1:22.52; 11, Marisa Baptista, B, 1:22.98; 12, Kara Bucino, A, 1:23.23; 13, Teague Teece, A, 1:24.64; 14, Kathryn Reynolds, A, 1:33.20; 15, Paige Whitaker, A, 1:34.93.

100 breaststroke — 1, Kirsten Ericksen, A, 1:08.69; 2, Jackie Nonweiler, S, 1:13.65; 3, Ciara Hogue, B, 1:15.23; 4, Kaylin Ivy, B, 1:16.07; 5, Ky Heffner, S, 1:20.31; 6, Jade Marken, MV, 1:24.60; 7, Molly Hover, 1:27.22; 8, April Gerlicher, B, 1:27.39; 9, Emma Frantz, A, 1:27.45; 10, Emma Krueger, S, 1:28.82; 11, Rayna Ahern, A, 1:31.65; 12, Sara Andre, MV, 1:33.3; 13, Paige Simoneau, S, 1:33.88; 14, Sarah Cotton-Honeywell, A, 1:36.18.

400 freestyle relay — 1, Summit 3:53.13; 2, Mountain View 4:02.05; 3, Bend, 4:07.69; 4, Ashland, 4:08.22.

Boys Team scores — Bend 505, Summit 363, Ashland 344, Mountain View 244 200 medley relay — 1, Summit 1:43.96; 2, Bend 1:44.99; 3, Mountain View 1:46.41; 4, Ashland 1:49.01.

200 freestyle— 1, Chris Nyaradi, S, 1:48.62; 2, Parker Massie, A, 1:56.21; 3, Matthew Kerins, B, 2:03.25; 4, Taos Cadarette-Stewart, A, 2:05.58; 5, Alex Sukles, A, 2:09.87; 6, Michael Hartmeier, S, 2:11.37; 7, Jake VanCampen, A, 2:13.23; Patrick Ely, B, 2:22.9; 9, Nick Adamo, MV, 2:23.49; 10, Gage Kauffman, B, 2:35.62; 11, Tianwei Gu, MV, 2:41.86.

200 individual medley — 1, Brandon Deckard, MV, 1:58.94; 2, Connor Brenda, S, 2:06.5; 3, Mitchell McGinnis, B, 2:21.21; 4, Alio Losch, S, 2:22.71; 5, Justin Gillette, B, 2:24.54; 6, John Turner, MV, 2:28.21; 7, Brandon Brown, B, 2:38.04.

50 freestyle — 1, Doug Steinhauff, B, 21.98; 2, John Murphy, MV, 23.48; 3, Ben Griffin, S, 23.68; 4, Forrest Kollar, A, 23.94; 5, William O’Connell, B, 24.25; 6, Taos CadaretteStewart, A, 24.96; 7, Michael Bird, B, 24.97; 8, Kodiak Arndt, MV, 25.23; Brandon Powers, S, 24.77; 10, Miles Furuichi, A, 25.81; 11, Brandon Vaughan, A, 26.62; 12, Alec Pacheco, MV, 26.72; 13, Ricky Miller, B, 26.8; 14, Ben Schimmoller, MV, 29.66; 15, Zach Dean, S, 31.65.

100 butterfly — 1, Gus Simms, A, 54.38; 2, John Murphy, MV, 56.1; 3, Patrick Praeger, S, 59.3; 4, Justin Gillette, B, 1:00.98; 5, Kurt Svendsen, B, 1:04.87; 6, Brent Soles, S, 1:06.31; 7, Blake Kaufman, S, 1:06.33; 8, Wes Brown, B, 1:13.62; 9, Brandon Brown, B, 1:14.14 100 freestyle — 1, Doug Steinhauff, B, 48.84; 2, Gus Simms, A, 52.26; 3, Ben Griffin, S, 52.43; 4, Forrest Kollar, A, 53.21; 5, William O’Connell, B, 54.18; 6, Justin Short, B, 54.9; 6, Joshua DeCelles, B, 54.9; 8, Kodiak Arndt, MV, 55.12; 9, Brandon Powers, S, 56.64; 10, Jake VanCampen, A, 58.45; 11, Luke VanCampen, A, 1:00.25; 12, Alec Pacheco, MV, 1:00.51; 13, David Smith-Botnen, MV, 1:04.03; 14.

500 freestyle —1, Chris Nyaradi, S, 4:55.48; 2, Parker Massie, A, 5:26.39; 3, Blake Kaufman S, 5:30.66; 4, Matthew Kerins, B, 5:34.63; 5, Alex Sukles, A, 6:03.66; 6, Michael Hartmeier, S, 6:06.28; 7, Gage Kauffman, B, 7:00.28; 8, Tucker Rampton, B, 7:23.; 9, Caleb Weeks, B, 7:40.81 200 freestyle relay — 1, Bend 1:33.22; 2, Summit 1:33.49; 3, Ashland 1:37.06; 4, Mountain View 1:37.07.

100 backstroke — 1, Brandon Deckard, MV, 52.82; 2, Justin Short, B, 1:00.44; 3, Michael Bird, B, 1:01.08; 4, Dalio Losch, S, 1:04.18; 5, John Turner, 1:05.93; 6, Mitchell McGinnis, B, 1:09.39; 7, Patrick Ely, B, 1:16.26; 8, Luke VanCampen, A, 1:20.99; 9, Jack Davis, A, 1:20.6; 10, Forrest Gerogevitch, A, 1:21.24; 11, Brandon Vaughan, A, 1:21.38 100 breaststroke — 1, Joshua DeCelles, B, 1:03.28; 2, Connor Brenda, S, 1:04.56; 3, Brent Soles, S, 1:09.21; 4, Miles Furuichi, A, 1:10.73; 5, David Smith-Botnen, MV, 1:14.95; 6, Nick Adamo, MV, 1:16.74; 7, R.J. Emick, B, 1:18.44; 8, Ricky Miller, B, 1:20.07; 9, Kurt Svendsen, B, 1:18.06; 10, Forrest Georgevitch, A, 1:32.14.

400 freestyle relay — 1, Summit 3:53.13; 2, Mountain View 4:02.05; 3, Bend 4:07.69; 4, 4:08.22.

SKIING

CLASS 6A DISTRICT 5 CHAMPIONSHIPS At Kroc Corps Community Center, Salem (Winners and Redmond placers) Girls Team scores — West Salem 343, Redmond 242, Sprague 192, South Salem 178, McNary 155, North Salem 60.

200-yard medley relay — 1, West Salem, 1:56.83; 2, Redmond (Rachel Haney, Jenny White, Teagan Perkins, Bailey Kosanke), 1:58.05. 200 freestyle — 1, Kate Mathews, Spr, 1:59.71; 3, Haley Houghton, Red, 2:05.37; 5, Rita Cohen, Red, 2:11.58. 200 individual medley — 1, Megan Chong, WS, 2:18.68; 2, Teagan Perkins, Red, 2:20.28; 3, Rachel Haney, Red, 2:22.65; 7, Allison Moss, Red, 2:35.48. 50 freestyle — 1, Brittney Awalt, SS, 25.72; 6, Jenny White, Red, 26.86; 7, Bailey Kosanke, Red, 26.49. 100 butterfly — 1, Jacqueline Tran, WS, 1:02.54; 5, Marissa Vallie, Red, 1:07.46. 100 freestyle — 1, Megan Chong, WS, 55.86; 4, Rita Cohen, Red, 58.56; 8, Bailey Kosanke, Red, 57.69. 500 freestyle — 1, Maria Wetzel, WS, 5:20.80; 3, Haley Houghton, Red, 5:36.09. 200 freestyle relay — 1, Sprague, 1:44.48; 3, Redmond (Teagan Perkins, Jamie Hall, Haley Houghton, Rita Cohen), 1:47.51. 100 backstroke — 1, Jacqueline Tran, WS, 1:01.28; 2, Rachel Haney, Red, 1:02.20; 4, Allison Moss, Red, 1:09.11. 100 breaststroke — 1, Brittney Awalt, SS, 1:10.49; 2, Teagan Perkins, Red, 1:11.12; 3, Marissa Vallie, Red, 1:14.65; 4, Jenny White, Red, 1:16.55. 400 freestyle relay — 1, Sprague, 3:48.71; 3, Redmond (Bailey Kosanke, Jenny White, Rita Cohen, Rachel Haney), 3:54.94.

Boys Team scores — McNary 262, South Salem 248, Redmond 235, West Salem 149, North Salem 123, Sprague 107, McKay 70.

200-yard medley relay — 1, McNary, 1:44.22; 3, Redmond (Andrew Layton, Ryan Clark, Matt Carpenter, Jake White), 1:46.65. 200 freestyle — 1, Matt Carpenter, Red, 1:50.32; 7, Korbin Kiblinger, Red, 2:01.37; 10, Trevor Osbon, Red, 2:06.12. 200 individual medley — 1, Tyler Petersen, SS, 2:08.22; 5, Andrew Layton, Red, 2:23.32; 8, Ryan Clark, Red, 2:23.84. 50 freestyle — 1, Paul La Vine, SS, 22.03; 3, Jake White, Red, 23.02; 8, Teddy Tsai, Red, 24.87. 100 butterfly — 1, Taylor Blevins, Spr, 57.23; 2, Jake White, Red, 58.81; 3, Teddy Tsai, Red, 59.65. 100 freestyle — 1, Paul La Vine, SS, 48.56; 4, Tom Gilbert, Red, 52.02; 7, Korbin Kiblinger, Red, 54.44. 500 freestyle — 1, Matt Carpenter, Red, 4:55.44; 5, Tom Gilbert, Red, 5:31.35. 200 freestyle relay — 1, McNary, 1:33.51; 3, Redmond (Teddy Tsai, Korbin Kiblinger, Ryan Clark, Tom Gilbert), 1:35.85. 100 backstroke — 1, Alika Masei, WS, 56.57; 7, Cody Johnson, Red, 1:04.65; 10, Andrew Layton, Red, 1:05.14. 100 breaststroke — 1, Taylor Blevins, Spr, 1:02.44; 4, Ryan Clark, Red, 1:08.67; 7, Trevor Osbon, 1:10.52. 400 freestyle relay — 1, Redmond (Jake White, Korbin Kiblinger, Tom Gilbert, Matt Carpenter), 3:26.74.

CLASS 4A/3A/2A/1A SPECIAL DISTRICT 2 CHAMPIONSHIPS At Madras Aquatic center (Winners and Madras placers) Girls Team scores — La Grande 233, Baker/Powder Valley 150, Molalla 139, La Salle 138, Riverdale 133, North Marion 99, Valley Catholic 90, Madras 77, Gladstone 72, Portland Lutheran 32, Corbett 24, Roosevelt 15.

200 medley relay — 1, La Grande A, 2:07.22; 5, Madras A, 2:23.77. 200 freestyle — 1, Willa Holmes, Riverdale, 2:05.47. 200 individual medley — 1, Ali Brauer, Portland Lutheran, 2:19.16. 50 freestyle — 1, Elizabeth Armitage, Madras, 26.47. 100 butterfly — 1, Julia Anderson, Valley Catholic, 1:04.95; 5, Brianna Hunt, Madras, 1:20.20; 8, Jamie Rudd, Madras, 1:34.24. 100 freestyle — 1, Elizabeth Armitage, Madras, 58.25. 500 freestyle — 1, Logan Gomez, La Grande, 5:46.84; 6, Brianna Hunt, Madras, 6:36.23. 200 freestyle relay — 1, La Salle A, 1:52.17. 100 backstroke — 1, Bryant-Capellas, La Salle, 1:04.72; 12, Lauren Short, Madras 1:28.46. 100 breaststroke — 1, Ali Brauer, Portland Lutheran, 1:11.35. 400 freestyle relay — 1, La Grande A, 4:04.80.

Boys Team scores — Madras 206, North Marion 178, Corbett 169, Valley Catholic 157, La Salle 149, La Grande 105.5, Molalla 90, Gladstone 80, Riverdale 70.5, Baker/Powder Valley 8.

200 medley relay — 1, Corbett A, 1:43.72; 2, Madras A, 1:50.25. 200 freestyle — 1, Mathew Cook, La Grande, 1:48.56; 2, Dustin Henderson, Madras, 1:57.98; 6, Garrett Taylor, Madras, 2:18.27 200 individual medley — 1, Philip Hewitt, Corbett, 2:06.15; 4, Aaron St. John, Madras, 2:19.66; 4, Caleb Flu, Madras, 2:27.36. 50 freestyle — 1, Colin Eaton, Corbett, 21.81. 100 butterfly — 1, Andrew Pence, Riverdale, 56.80; 10, Larry Armitage, Madras, 1:26.96.

100 freestyle — 1, Colin Eaton, Corbett, 47.88; 5, Jordan Gemelas, Madras, 54.65. 500 freestyle — 1, Ian Goodwin, Madras, 4:59.03; 2, Caleb Flu, Madras, 5:55.22; 11, Larry Armitage, Madras, 6:54.71. 200 freestyle relay — 1, Corbett A, 1:38.84; 8, Madras, 1:51.83. 100 backstroke — 1, Isaac Hewitt, Corbett, 53.05; 3, Dustin Henderson, Madras, 1:01.19; 8, Garrett Taylor, Madras, 1:13.28. 100 breaststroke — 1, Jordan Gemelas, Madras, 1:06.88; 4, Aaron St. John, Madras, 1:10.53. 400 freestyle relay — 1, Corbett A, 3:26.38; 2, Madras A, 3:40.89.

NORDIC SKIING Saturday’s results ——— OREGON INTERSCHOLASTIC SKI RACING ASSOCIATION Guy Mattioda Memorial 5.5-Kilometer individual classic race At Walt Haring Sno Park Boys Team scores — Mountain View 6, South Eugene 4, Ashland 2 Top 10 placers — 1, Chase Nachtmann, MV, 18:06; 2, Hunter Martinez, MV, 18:16; 3, Jordan Zettle, MV, 18:24; 4, Nolan King, MV, 18:37; 5, Sean Andresen, SE, 18:57; 6, Trevor Merrifield, SE, 19:05; 7, Mckenna Hand, MV, 19:36; 8, Sam King, MV, 20:13; 9, Imran Wolfenden, MV, 20:56; 10, Tyler Sell, Ashland, 21:04.

Final league standings: Team — Mountain View 30, South Eugene 20, Ashland 10 Final league standings: Individual — 1, Chase Nachtmann, MV, 162 points; 2, Jordan Zettle, MV, 146; 3, Mckenna Hand MV, 132; 4, Sean Andresen, SE, 131; 5, Trevor Merrifield, SE, 126; 6, Hunter Martinez, MV, 120; 7, Imran Wolfenden, MV, 112; 8, Nolan King, MV, 105; 9, Sam King, MV, 96; 10, Francesco Amarotico, Ashland, 95.

Girls Team scores — Mountain View 10, South Eugene 8, Ashland 6, North Eugene 4, Summit 2 Top 10 placers — 1, Mikhaila Thornton, MV, 22:08; 2, Helen Cutting, NE, 22:48; 3, Anna Persmark, SE, 23:12; 4, Margie Gillespie, SE, 23:53; 5, Hayati Wolfenden, MV, 23:59; 6, Keely Torrence, MV, 24:11; 7, Karen Eberle, MV, 24:19; 8, Alexandra Kiesling, Ashland, 24:35; 9, Paige Kouba, South Eugene, 24:36; 10, Zoe Cina-Sklar, SE, 25:11.

Final league standings: Team — Mountain View 50, South Eugene 40, Ashland 24, Summit 24, North Eugene 12 Final league standings: Individual — 1, Anna Persmark, SE, 229; 2, Mikhaila Thornton, MV, 228; 3, Hayati Wolfenden MV, 218; 4, Margie Gillespie, SE, 210; 5, Karen Eberle, MV, 201; 6, Helen Cutting, NE, 191; 7, Zoe Cina-Sklar, SE, 187; 8, Cara Brasted, SE, 180; 9, Micaela Martin, Summit, 179; 10, Ally Kercher, MV, 171.

——— OREGON HIGH SCHOOL NORDIC ORGANIZATION 7-Kilometer pursuit race At Teacup, Mount Hood Boys Team scores — Summit 7, Redmond 29, Bend 32, Sisters 50.

Top 10 placers — 1, Max Millslagle, Summit; 2, Skyler Kenna, Summit; 3, Eli Forman, Redmond; 4, Colin Dunlap, Summit; 5, Luc Boileau, Summit; 6, Andy Su, Summit; 7, Peter Schwarz, Bend; 8, Misha Miller-Hughes, Cleveland; 9, Jack Widmer, Bend; 10, Travis Neuman, Summit.

Girls Team scores — Summit 10, Redmond 18, Bend 26, Sisters 50, Cleveland 60, St. Marys 75, Grant 101 Top 10 placers — 1, Keelin Moehl, Summit; 2, Ine Marie Raa, Redmond; 3, Emma Su, Summit; 4, Melissa Hubler, Bend; 5, Kira Smiley, Bend; 6, Emma Malmquist, Summit; 7, Elissa Brouillard, Redmond; 8, Kiera Degener-O’Brien, Cleveland; 9, Sierra Foster, Redmond; 10, Benita Bentlage, Redmond.

BASKETBALL Girls Saturday’s results ——— CLASS 1A MOUNTAIN VALLEY LEAGUE ——— BUTTE FALLS (45) — Moore 17, Sutfin 11, Funk 9, Garote 4, Kirkpatrick 2, Hobbs 2. Totals NA NA 45.

GILCHRIST (27) — Ashley James 12, Bean 6, Gravitt 5, McGregor 2, Scevers 2, Gordon, Harris, Heater. Totals 11 4-11 27.

Butte Falls 7 11 17 10 — 45 Gilchrist 7 6 2 12 — 27 Three-point goals — Butte Falls: NA. Gilchrist: James.

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Boys CLASS 1A MOUNTAIN VALLEY LEAGUE ——— BUTTE FALLS (71) — Gower 31, Adams 17, Bateman 9, Rameriz 6, Balero 4, McGonagle 4. Totals NA NA 71.

GILCHRIST (38) — Tyler Shuey 12, Koch 6, Link 6, Stine 5, Martinez 5, Boone 4, Getchell, Hanna, Blacketer. Totals 13 11-31 38.

Butte Falls 12 25 18 6 — 71 Gilchrist 12 12 6 8 — 38 Three-point goals — Gilchrist: Martinez. Butte Falls: NA.

Guay wins downhill title at worlds

By Eric Willemsen The Associated Press

Eric Risberg / The Associated Press

Steve Marino hits from the 11th tee of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club during the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., on Saturday.

Marino hangs on to lead at Pebble Beach The Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Thousands of fans came to Pebble Beach for sunshine, scenery and celebrity entertainment. The leaders were somewhere else Saturday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Far away from the commotion, Steve Marino struggled with the speed of the greens on the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula and ended his round with a three-putt bogey from 4 feet for a 1-over 71.

That still was enough for him to take a one-shot lead going into the final round over Jimmy Walker, who had a 63 at Monterey Peninsula, and Bryce Molder, who counted about a dozen people in his gallery at Spyglass Hill on his way to a 68.

Next up is the final round at Pebble Beach, where some measure of normalcy returns to his PGA Tour.

But not entirely.

D.A. Points was among the few players atop the leaderboard who was at Pebble Beach in the third round, and he was getting plenty of attention — or maybe that was for his amateur partner, Bill Murray, decked out in an Elmer Fudd hat.

Points took a double bogey by going over the cliffs on the ninth hole, birdied the 16th and 17th and was poised to take a share of the lead until he couldn’t get out of a fairway bunker on the 18th and wound up with a bogey.

That gave him a 71, putting him two shots out of the lead.

His pro-am team is only one shot behind, meaning Murray gets another crack at Pebble

GOLF ROUNDUP today.

Marino has been in the final group on the PGA Tour before.

He’s never had the assistant head greenskeeper at Bushwood playing in the group ahead of him.

Could he imagine trying to win on the PGA Tour for the first time with Murray in his group?

“That would have been a trip,” Marino said. “I don’t know about that.”

Murray has as many tour victories as the top four players on the leaderboard, which would be none.

Marino, who was at 12-under 202, might be the most tested, having lost in a playoff at Colonial a year ago and finishing with one of the best shots of the young season at the Sony Open last month in Honolulu to finish second.

He is not too bothered by a round that featured a trio of three-putt bogeys, an unplayable lie from a bush and an eagle.

Marino said he hit the ball better than he has all week, but could not get used to the pace on the Shore’s greens.

“A strange round,” he said.

Alex Cejka and Tom Gillis were at 9-under 205, while the group another shot back included J.J. Henry, Kevin Sutherland and Aaron Baddeley. They were the only players in the top 10 who have won on tour.

Molder has some experience being in contention, although he is trying to bury part of that memory. A year ago at Pebble Beach, he was closing in on the lead when he took a quintuple-bogey 9 on

the 14th hole. Two other players also made 9 on that hole, which is quickly growing a reputation as one of the toughest par 5s on tour without a water hazard.

“I don’t remember what you’re talking about,” Molder said with a grin. “You know, all you can do is laugh. I got there this year (on Thursday) and made a mess of it, had a good up-and-down for bogey.”

In other events on Saturday: Woods 1 behind leaders in Dubai DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Tiger Woods overcame a poor start in windy conditions to shoot a par 72, one shot behind leader Rory McIlroy and two others going into the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic. On a dusty day in the desert, Woods showed an uncanny ability to repeatedly rally. He finished with a total of 7under 209, behind second-round leader McIlroy (75), Denmark’s Anders Hansen (71) and South Africa’s Thomas Aiken (74).

Senior grabs lead at Allianz BOCA RATON, Fla. — Peter Senior shot a 67 to take a onestroke lead after two rounds of the Allianz Championship. Senior was at 11-under 133 after a blustery day in South Florida at the Champions Tour event. He trailed Rod Spittle for most of the round, but birdied the par-5 18th to grab the lead. Spittle bogeyed the 18th to finish with a 67 and a score of 10 under. Tom Lehman was tied for second after shooting a 69.

Hale Irwin (68) was tied with Russ Cochran (67) for fourth place at 8 under through two rounds.

Coyotes need shootout to beat Blackhawks The Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — Ilya Bryzgalov had a unique tactic on Patrick Kane’s breakaway late in overtime: he closed his eyes and Kane him in the chest.

In the shootout, he didn’t seem to need his eyes or his chest.

Bryzgalov stopped Kane on the overtime breakaway and only needed one save in the shootout when Chicago missed the goal on its final two chances, lifting the Phoenix Coyotes to a 4-3 win over the Blackhawks on Saturday night.

“I closed my eyes and hoped he’s not going to score,” Bryzgalov said of stopping Kane on a two-on-none with just over a minute left in overtime.

OK, so maybe it wasn’t that simplistic. Bryzgalov has, after all, been known to use the closemy-eyes line whenever he stops a breakaway.

Still, it was a big save, one that gave the Coyotes a chance to win their fourth straight in the shootout after blowing a two-goal lead at home.

“That’s one of those you call a game-saving save,” said Phoenix coach Dave Tippett, who won his 350th career game.

Playing in front of the first sellout at Jobing.com Arena since the home opener, the Coyotes withstood a furious opening flurry by Chicago and were up 2-0 early in the second period on Radim Vrbata’s fourth goal in three games and Taylor Pyatt’s 15th of the season.

NHL ROUNDUP The Blackhawks resumed their pressure, though, getting a power play goal from Troy Brouwer in the second period and another by Duncan Keith with four minutes left in regulation to send the game to overtime.

But Chicago staggered to the finish after Kane’s breakaway missed.

Bryzgalov opened the shootout with a pad save on Toews and Vrbata scored on his chance by flipping it in with his backhand after faking forehand.

Phoenix didn’t score on its other two chances, but didn’t need to.

Kane and Marian Hossa both missed the net on their turns, sending the Blackhawks to their sixth loss in eight games — second straight in a shootout.

“You never know what’s going to happen in a shootout,” Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell said. “That’s why you try not to make it go that far.”

Also on Saturday: Canucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Mikael Samuelsson scored two goals just 2:40 apart in the second period, Alex Burrows added his second into an empty net, and Vancouver beat Calgary.

Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Capitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 WASHINGTON — Andrei Loktionov scored the tiebreaking goal at 3:36 of the third period,

and Los Angeles beat punchless Washington to extend its point streak to a season-high eight games.

Senators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Oilers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 EDMONTON, Alberta — Alex Kovalev had two goals and an assist for Ottawa, which snapped an 11-game losing streak and avoided falling into the NHL basement by beating last-place Edmonton.

Canadiens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Maple Leafs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 MONTREAL — Carey Price made 27 saves for his sixth shutout, Benoit Pouliot and Brian Gionta scored 1:40 apart in the second period, and Montreal ended a three-game losing streak with a win over Toronto.

Predators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Avalanche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cody Franson scored with 2:30 left, and Nashville beat Colorado for its second straight victory and third in four games.

Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Hurricanes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 TAMPA, Fla. — Marc-Andre Bergeron scored 1:32 into overtime, helping Tampa Bay rebound after blowing a two-goal lead during the final minute of regulation against Carolina.

Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Blues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Cal Clutterbuck scored for the third time in two nights, and Minnesota beat St. Louis while sending Blues goalie Jaroslav Halak to an early exit.

GA R M ISCH -PA RT E N KIRCHEN, Germany — The Canada ski team was a flop at the Vancouver Olympics.

Erik Guay made sure it was a different story at the world championships.

Guay won the prestigious downhill title Saturday ahead of pre-race favorites Didier Cuche of Switzerland and Christof Innerhofer of Italy, speeding down the 3.3-kilometer Kandahar course in 1 minute, 58.41 seconds.

Bode Miller also charged down the course, but was at a disadvantage as the 22nd starter in warm conditions on a deteriorating course. He finished 15th and 2.42 seconds behind the winner.

When Guay crossed the line, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” blared over the loudspeakers. It turned out to be an appropriate tune as one favorite after another failed to match the 29-year-old from MontTremblant, Quebec.

“This is the best feeling in the world,” said Guay, who wore bib No. 10 to start ahead of most top racers. “It’s really amazing. Some of the best skiers in the world came down after Erik Guay me, but my time stood.”

Miller made an error near the beginning of his run, nearly touching his hip to the ground to regain his balance.

He appeared to stand up out of his tuck on the lower section, perhaps already aware he was far off the pace.

“It’s disappointing, but some days in ski racing there’s just not much else you can do,” Miller said. “Maybe I could have tucked more, but that’s not going to make up 2 1⁄2 seconds. I felt like I gave it everything.”

Miller was impressed by Guay’s nearly flawless run.

“You’ve got to be soft on your edges and you’ve got to be real smooth, and Erik is the best in the world at that,” Miller said. “He’s shown it before, and I’m proud of him. It was a great run.”

The top American finisher was Steven Nyman, who celebrated his 28th birthday by finishing 13th. The crowd sang “Happy Birthday” in the finish area and the skier from Sundance, Utah, gave a bow.

“That was cool,” Nyman said. “I skied the Olympics on my birthday once, but there was a lot of people down here today.”

Guay had a touching moment after the race, accepting flowers from 1976 two-time Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier. Cuche and Innerhofer raised Guay’s arms as he sang along to “O Canada.”

That scene never developed at the alpine venue in Whistler last year. The highly touted home ski team failed to win a single Olympic medal among the men and women.

Vonn hopes concussion does not stop her at worlds GARMISCHPARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Still dealing with the lingering effects of a concussion, Lindsey Vonn will wait until just before the start of the downhill to decide whether to defend her title today at the world championships.

“If she feels OK, then she’s going to go tomorrow,” U.S. women’s coach Alex Hoedlmoser told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Vonn has been tested according to the team’s concussion protocol each night since crashing during a training run last week in Austria. She’ll also be tested after the course inspection before the race today, Hoedlmoser said.

Vonn has described her races as “skiing in a fog” this week during the world championships.

— The Associated Press

D6 Sunday, February 13, 2011 • THE BULLETIN

Cycling

Photos by Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

Racers fight for position shortly after the start of the 15-kilometer skate ski race during the Tour de Meissner event held Saturday morning at Virginia Meissner Sno-park.

Meissner Continued from D1 In 2009, the tour was untimed. Last year, it was held later in the season on a rainy day, hampering the turnout.

This year, the 15-kilometer distance and the kids race were both new features. Fifty participants finished the 15K race and tour, and 32 skiers finished the kids race.

“The whole purpose of this race is to showcase the trails,” Warburton said, “because they have really expanded over the last few years, and racing is now possible because of what (TLC has) been doing, building the trails and grooming them.

So this is really a community ski area, and racing should be part of that.”

For Darragh Hildreth, 19, Saturday’s event was a chance to race on her home snow.

“I love Meissner,” said Hildreth, who was second overall, and the first woman, in the skate ski event. “I ski here six days a week, seven days a week. I never get tired of it.”

Hildreth is an experienced racer and a member of the

Matthew Finney-Jordet (38) fights to keep ahead of his fellow racers while competing in the youth race during the Tour de Meissner event on Saturday.

BEA’s Bend Nordic Team. Last month, she competed at the U.S. Cross Country Championships at Black Mountain in Rumford, Maine.

But Saturday gave her the opportunity to step up to one of the longer distances at which she will compete as a seniorlevel athlete. She spent much of the race dueling with thirdplace finisher David Sjogren

— the two took turns drafting off one another — before passing him up a hill late in the race and holding him off by five seconds at the finish.

“I like distance racing a lot more,” Hildreth explained. “I think I’m just a slow-twitch person. I’ve been doing 10Ks and 5Ks, but the longer stuff is just what I get. I get pretty fired up in the middle of it.”

Nate Henson was Hildreth’s complete opposite, at least in terms of experience. The 9year-old participated in the 3K youth event Saturday, his first cross-country ski race ever.

The Bend boy has been skiing for several years, but he started skate skiing only last year.

He performed like a veteran though, racing to seventh place and finishing behind several presumably older — and much taller — skiers.

Henson said he enjoyed the course, and in terms of difficulty, he rated it about a seven out of 10. He added that he plans to continue racing in the future, though he wants to go out slower at the beginning.

“I was, like, dead at the end,” he said.

Nate’s father, Aaron Henson, said he and Nate skied the course before the race, which helped the boy know what to expect during the race.

“It was kind of scary at first,” Nate said, “but then I was like, ‘Well, this isn’t so bad.’ I recommend it for a lot of people.”

Amanda Miles can be reached at 541-383-0393 or at amiles@ bendbulletin.com.

Continued from D1 Longo is not the first elite athlete contemplating retirement to wonder about coping without the intense highs and lows of top-level competition. What is unique is the age — 52.

Like an old car you don’t dare switch off for fear it won’t start again, Longo knows that her body won’t allow her to make a Lance Armstrong-like comeback should she quit now. Were she to stop training for even a few months, that would be it, she believes.

So Longo is training, although not as hard as she has in the past.

She is still hitting the velodrome two or three times a week while she grapples with her “torment” of whether to extend her career, again, for another year and to the London Olympics in 2012, or whether to heed her body’s aches and pains.

“It’s true that an Olympic goal changes your life, it is motivating,” she says, while retiring is a kind of failure, “perhaps the biggest one there is.”

“It’s admitting that you have to stop. It’s hard. That’s the dilemma because stopping means giving up, fleeing,” she says.

The alternative is daunting, too.

“Every day, wherever I go, in the shops, people say, ‘So are you going to stop? You can’t stop!’ People talk to me only of cycling,” she says. “It’s tiring. It’s tiring just thinking about continuing.”

Longo’s list of titles covers nine pages in “Jeannie by Longo,” her at times philosophical biography published last year. A self-described modest woman, she says writing it “felt a little bit like undressing.”

Longo won gold at her fourth Olympics, at Atlanta in 1996. Add to that two Olympic silvers and one bronze, 13 world titles, 57 French titles, world records, plus countless other wins, podiums and awards, and the result sounds like trophyoverload in her house overlooking Grenoble in the French Alps.

On the day of our interview, first in a Grenoble bakery where she nibbled on a quiche and later in a sunny park with a view across the city to snowcapped peaks beyond, Longo seemed gripped by fatigue and indecision. Petite and thin, she complained of an aching thigh.

Does she feel her age in the mornings?

“At the moment, yes,” she said with a laugh. “It’s a turning point in my life, plus it’s the winter. … When you have fewer goals, getting up is harder.”

But she still hasn’t decided to stop,

and when she does she won’t hold a big news conference to announce it.

“I’m feeling my way,” she says.

“I’m sure that when the sun comes back I’ll want to take part in a race or two. … If I feel I’m not strong enough, that my level has gone down, then I won’t try for (Olympic) selection. I’m not delusional.

“One of the rare reasons for going (to London) would be to give a little bit of optimism to the over-40s,” she adds. But she frets that an eighth Olympic appearance, at age 53, could make her a curiosity.

“People will point at me,” she says, “like people used to point at the fairground to those — it’s a bit pejorative to say this — who were seen as abnormal.”

Her age works against her in races, too, she says. For her invariably younger competitors, “it’s a bit humiliating now if I do well, if I’m in front. They keep an eye on me not because I’m performing well but because they don’t want me to perform, so that people won’t say, ‘The old woman beat you again.’ ” In a sport as drug-tainted as cycling, it seemed necessary to ask whether doping might be part of Longo’s longevity.

Her response was surprisingly ambiguous. Instead of a flat “no,” she launched into a long-winded explanation of how there are no level playing fields in sports “because we all do what we can to be better.” She complained that the doping controls to which elite athletes are subjected are “lamentable, unforgivable” and noted there are cheats in the finance world, too.

“Nine-tenths of the population take antibiotics, antidepressants, pain tablets and whatnot, and athletes who do no harm to anyone are pestered.”

In the absence of clarity, I suggested diplomatically that the fact she has been competing since 1979 could be seen as an indication of having lived a healthy lifestyle.

Longo agreed. She says she eats organic and is supersensitive to pollutants, even perfumes. An aerosol airfreshener in the bakery’s washroom sent her into fits of coughing.

Later, I e-mailed Longo a map of the 2012 Olympic road race route that will start and finish on London’s Mall in front of Buckingham Palace, with the question: “Tempting, no?”

“Is sunshine planned in the program??!!...,” she wrote back. “Not much temptation, for the moment!!”

John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester@ap.org.

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Assistant Superintendent - We are currently seeking an experienced, qualified construction supervisor to join our project team in Sunriver, Oregon. For complete job description go to www.lcgpence.com/ careers.asp.

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Caregiver Prineville senior care home looking for Care Manager for two 24-hour shifts per week.

Must be mature and compassionate, and pass criminal background check. Ref. required. 541-447-5773.

Caregivers Visiting Angels seeks compassionate, reliable caregivers for all shifts incl. weekends. Experience req’d. Must pass background check & drug test. Apply at our office located within Whispering Winds, 2920 NW Conners, Bend. No phone calls, please.

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Cochenour Consulting, inc is seeking integration architects, developers and interns to assist with the development and deployment of an enterprise scale integration solution on the Microsoft platform. Experience with BizTalk Server or Sharepoint Server a bonus.

Wage based on experience level. Some travel required.

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Full-time lending position in Bend includes opening new accounts, processing, approving and disbursing loan applications, and educating members about the features and benefits of the credit union's products and services.

Position requires excellent sales and customer service skills, sound decision-making, and the ability to understand and retain a variety of complex product and services information. Successful candidate must be PC-proficient in a Windows environment. 1-2 years lending experience required.

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CREATIVE SERVICES PRODUCER KOHD-TV (ABC) seeks a highly creative Writer/Producer/ Editor/Videographer to join our Creative Services team immediately. Producers at KOHD are hands-on and able to take projects from concept to completion.

Must have prior experience producing client advertisements and station promotions. Maturity, diplomacy, and a collaborative attitude are a MUST for this position.

Exceptional organization skills, customer service skills, and a team-building mentality are also required. Producers also must be comfortable working under very tight deadlines.

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Front Desk Coordinator Front desk coordinator (and a line cook, too!) for a family oriented, FUN, fast-paced business. The ideal candidate will have 1 yr. exp. in customer service; demonstrate extra special customer service skills while juggling the phone, computer and guests; 2 yrs exp. cash handling; relaxed communication style that gets along with folks from 2 to 92. This position is an evening shift (5 pm to close) with days off in the week; averages 30 hrs/week. $10/hr. DOE. Please email cover letter and resume to centraloregonjobs@bbsihq.com. Drug test & criminal background check required. EEO.

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Ophthalmic Technician Busy ophthalmology practice is looking for an experienced technician. Must have an enthusiastic personality and be a team player. We offer flexibility and a pleasant environment.

Pay/benefits commensurate with experience.

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Development Specialist The Family Access Network Foundation is seeking a highly motivated individual focused on securing funds through foundations, major gifts, grants and corporate sponsorship. The position will generate prospects independently and with the Board.

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Information Systems Technician-Admissions Part-time/20hrs/week.

Provide daily support to all facets of Banner's (college database software) student system working w/other IST & ITS staff. Requires AA + exp. $13.86-$16.51/hr. New Deadline2/14/11.

If you are currently a top-notch Front Desk Clerk or Reservation Agent, this is your chance to prove your skill level as a Supervisor. The Ranch is accepting applications for a YRFT Guest Services Supervisor in our Welcome Center. We're looking for a detail person wanting to shine by leading a team to provide and expect only the best in guest services. The ideal candidate will have 1+ years front desk and/or guest service experience.

Must possess a valid drivers license. Knowledge of •Reservations sales experience in a leadership capacity •NAVIS experience •Parr Springer-Miller experience preferred or similar contact management system •Front desk operations in a fast paced hotel or resort environment Willing to work some nights, weekends and holidays.

Duties include taking reservations, checking guests in/out of the Ranch and resolving challenges. Benefits include med/dent/life/pd vacation. $9.00 - 13:00/hr.

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Financial Aid Specialist Customer Service Part-time, 20 hrs./wk. Serve as a primary resource for finan- Instructional cial aid information to potenCentral tial students, current stuOregon dents, faculty and staff.

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College $12.70-15.12/hr. Deadline 2/27/11 has openings listed below. Go to https://jobs.cocc.edu to Instructional Dean view details & apply online.

(2 Positions) Human Resources, Metolius Provide leadership and adminHall, 2600 NW College Way, istrative oversight to faculty Bend OR 97701; (541)383 and staff in a range of in7216. For hearing/speech structional areas and provide impaired, Oregon Relay Serhighly responsible and comvices number is 7-1-1. COCC plex support to the Vice is an AA/EO employer.

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The following faculty positions begin fall 2011 at pay range $38,209-$46,309 for 9 General months/yr. Master's degree DO YOU NEED A required.

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Health & Human Performance Provide instruction in health, fitness, & wellness including core health education classes. Deadline2/27/11 Health Information Technology To provide instruction and program coordination in a well established accredited Health Information Technology Program. Deadline2/24/11 Medical AssistingProgram Director/ Instructor Provide instruction & program coordination in established Medical Assisting Program.

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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.

Psychology Teach multiple sections of undergraduate level psychology courses within the social sciences dept. Deadline 3/6/11.

View full job descriptions and apply online at www.bendbroadband.com BendBroadband is a drug free workplace.

As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage minorities, women, and people with disabilities to apply.

OPTICIAN – Established Bend specialty eyewear store seeks experienced dispensing optician. Provide optical assistance to sports enthusiasts in a fast-paced retail store and through the Internet site.

Requires AOB certification, sales experience, strong communication skills, and computer proficiency. Fulltime, requires flexible scheduling, including weekends and holidays, to best meet customer needs. Ideal candidate is confident, customeroriented, self-motivating, and a team player. Great opportunity to be part of a successful, high performing organization. Email cover letter and resume to: nancyo@nanko-hr.com

Find exactly what you are looking for in the CLASSIFIEDS Police The Sunriver Police Dept. is accepting applications until 5pm, March 11, for the summer, seasonal auxiliary bike patrol position. Please go to “Job Announcements” at www.sunriversd.org/policepage.htm for position information and application.

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Redmond Wellness Clinic, seeks assistant to create warm welcoming environment for patients. Must be vibrant, enthusiastic, detail oriented and like interacting with patients. Must have excellent communication skills and 2 yrs. exp. working in a professional office environment. F/T, Competitive salary, NO benefits. Send resume w/salary requirements to redmondwellness@gmail.c om, or fax 541-923-1598.

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Exemplary customer service skill is a must. Hotel experience preferred. Must be able to work a varied schedule.

Medical Insurance, vacation pay, and use of the Riverhouse facilities.

FREE GOLF. Come work for Bend’s finest! Bring resumes and complete application in person at The Riverhouse, 3075 N. Hwy 97, Bend, OR. Or you may apply and submit your resume/ cover letter on line at: www.riverhouse.com.

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E-mail for full job desc.: startherepreschool@gmail.com Send cover letter and resume to Start Here! Preschool, Attn. Hiring Committee, P.O. Box 1132, Redmond, OR 97756. Closes Feb. 28.

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ODOT has a vital management position that may reside in either Klamath Falls or The Dalles. The Region Bridge Program Manager is the responsible frontline bridge maintenance manager for activities, actions and results of a regional (an) area; is a member of statewide, region, districts, (area) and section teams.

If you're an innovative leader with the ability to work effectively with diverse groups of people, proven success in managing conflicting priorities, and experience leading others to reach a common goal, apply now! Salary: $4,039 - $5,957/month plus excellent benefits. For details please visit www.odotjobs.com or call 866-ODOT-JOB (TTY 503-986-3854 for the hearing impaired) for Announcement #ODOT11-0003 and an application.

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The City of Redmond seeks a Police Chief with a broad knowledge of modern law enforcement principles, procedures, techniques and equipment; a considerable knowledge of applicable laws, ordinances and department rules and regulations.

A bachelor's degree, with major coursework in Business or Public Administration, or Law Enforcement, is required; a master's degree is preferred.

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DESCHUTES COUNTY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES BUILDING SAFETY INSPECTOR III (111-11) – Community Development Dept.

Temporary, on-call $23.98 - $32.82 per hour.

Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED WITH FIRST REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011.

COMMUNITY PROJECT COORDINATOR II – EARLY CHILDHOOD (Program Development Specialist) (101-11) Full-time position $3,942 – $5,397 per month for a 172.67 hour work month. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST II (10311) – Behavioral Health Division, Community Assessment Team. Temporary, full-time position $3,942 - $5,397 per month for a 172.67 hour work month. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. NURSE PRACTITIONER (108-11) – Public Health Division, School Based Health Centers.

Part-time position $4,206 - $5,757 per month for a 129.50 hour work month (30 hrs/wk). Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED.

Experience will include at least eight years of increasingly responsible law enforcement, including at least three years of responsible managerial experience as a Deputy Chief, Captain or equivalent position.

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Business established in 1998, also has agreement with the USFS for 2 years which can be renewed for local, regional, and national emergency situations such as hurricanes, forest fires, or other disasters. Consisting of 3 portable water trucks, mobile on-site laundry complete with support truck and 25KW generator, 1-11 unit hand washing station, 1-12 unit hand washing station, office/ bunkhouse trailer, and 2 pickups. Owner is retiring. Serious inquiries only.

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Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE II (104-11) – Public Health Division, School Based Health Centers. Half-time position $2,060 - $2,819 per month for an 86.34 hour work month. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. TELECOMMUNICATOR (110-11) – 9-11 Service District. Three full-time positions available, also this recruitment will be used to create a hiring list to be used for the next twelve months. $3,062 - $4,718 for a 182.50 hour work month. Deadline: FRIDAY, 02/25/11.

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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Awbrey Heights, furn., no Apt./Multiplex NE Bend smoking/drugs/pets. $350 +$100 dep. (541) 388-2710.

Budget Inn, 1300 S. Hwy 97, 541-389-1448; & Royal Gateway Motel, 475 SE 3rd St., 541-382-5631, Furnished Rooms: 5 days/$150+tax

STUDIOS & KITCHENETTES Furnished room, TV w/ cable, micro. & fridge. Util. & linens.

New owners, $145-$165/wk.

541-382-1885

personals As of February 11th 2011, I John Cooper, am no longer responsible for any debt incurred other than my own.

Baby, it still hurts me deeply to see you cry!!

Still Friend.

$99 MOVE-IN SPECIAL! 1 & 2 bdrm apts. avail. starting at $575.

Alpine Meadows

634 1047 NE Watt Way #2 ½ off first month rent 2 bdrm, all appliance + microwave, w/d hook-up, gas heat/fireplace, garage. $695 Call 382-7727

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.bendpropertymanagement.com

1070 NE Purcell #1 1 bdrm, all appliances + washer/dryer, garage, w/s paid. $575. Call 382-7727

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1754 NE Lotus 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, all appliances, bonus room, gas fireplace, garage, w/s paid, AVAIL NOW $795.

541-382-7727

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.bendpropertymanagement.com

541-330-0719

2508 NE Conners "C" $200 off first month rent!

2 bdrm, 1½ bath, all appliances, utility rm., 1300 sq. ft., garage, w/s paid. $650 541-382-7727

½ off first month rent 2 bdrm, all appliances, w/d hook-up, gas heat/fireplace, garage, landscaping included.

Small pet ok. $675 541-382-7727

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.bendpropertymanagement.com

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Apt./Multiplex NW Bend

Apt./Multiplex Redmond

First Month’s Rent Free 130 NE 6th 1-2 bdrm/ 1 bath, W/S/G paid, onsite laundry, no pets, $450-$525+dep.

CR Property Management 541-318-1414

Westside Village Apts.

Looking for 1, 2 or 3 bedroom? $99 First mo. with 6 month lease & deposit Chaparral & Rimrock Apartments

Houses for Rent Redmond

First Month’s Rent Free 1761 NE Laredo Way 2 bdrm/ 1.5 bath, single garage, w/d hook-up, w/s/g pd. Small pet neg.$695+dep.

CR Property Management 541-318-1414

!! Snowball of a Deal !! $300 off Upstairs Apts.

2 bdrm, 1 bath as low as $495 Carports & Heat Pumps Lease Options Available Pet Friendly & No App. Fee!

Fox Hollow Apts.

(541) 383-3152 Cascade Rental Mgmt. Co.

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.bendpropertymanagement.com

Beautiful 2 Bdrms in quiet complex, park-like setting.

No pets/smoking. Near St. Charles.W/S/G pd; both w/d hkup + laundry facil. $550$595/mo. 541-385-6928.

Beutiful, single level duplex, 1100 sq.ft., located in great NE neighborhood, fenced yard, pets ?, $725mo. +dep., 541-322-0445.

1459 NW Albany (1/2 off 1st month rent!)

Studio $475 1 bdrm $495 2 bdrm $575, 3 bdrm $610 Coin-op laundry. W/S/G paid, cat or small dog OK with dep.

541-382-7727 or 388-3113

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.bendpropertymanagement.com

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Apt./Multiplex SE Bend 330 SE 15th St. ½ off first month rent Close to schools & shopping 1 bdrm, appliances, on-site coin-op laundry, carport, w/s/g paid. $465.

541-382-7727

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

$99 MOVES YOU IN !!!

www.bendpropertymanagement.com

Limited numbers available 1, 2 and 3 bdrms w/d hookups, patios or decks, Mountain Glen, 541-383-9313 Professionally managed by Norris & Stevens, Inc.

Country Terrace

NICE 2 & 3 BDRM CONDO APTS! Subsidized Low Rent. All utilities paid except phone & cable. Equal Opportunity Housing. Call Taylor RE & Mgmt at: 503-581-1813 TTY 711

Apt./Multiplex NE Bend Nice 2 bdrm., 2 bath duplex

Professionally managed by Norris & Stevens, Inc.

1042 NE Rambling #2

To place an ad call Classiied • 541-385-5809

close to amenities, walk-in closet, gas fireplace, deck, garage, no smoking/pets. $825 mo. 402-957-7261

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Apt./Multiplex NW Bend 1015 Roanoke Ave. - $575/ mo, $500 dep. W/S/G paid, 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse, view of town, no smoking or pets. Norb, 541-420-9848.

1 Month Rent Free 1550 NW Milwauke hookup, $595/mo. Large 2 Bdrm, 1 Bath, Gas heat.

W/S/G Pd. No Pets.

Call us a t541-382-3678 or

Visit us at www.sonberg.biz A CLEAN 1 bdrm. in 4-plex next to Park, 2 decks, storage, laundry on site, great location, W/S/G paid, no dogs, $550/mo. 541-318-1973 Beautiful 1 bdrm, 2 bath fully furnished Condo, $695, $400 dep., near downtown & college, completely renovated, 2 verandas, no pets/smoking, all amenities, pics avail. by request. W/S/G/elec./A/C & cable included, Available now. call 541-279-0590 or cheritowery@yahoo.com River Views! 2 bdrm., 1½ bath, W/D hook-up. W/S/G paid, $650/mo. $600 dep. small pets allowed. 930 NW Carlon, 541-280-7188.

Small studio close to downtown and Old Mill. $450 mo., dep. $425, all util. paid. no pets. 541-330-9769 or 541-480-7870.

61550 Brosterhous Rd. ½ off first month rent !

1 Bdrm $425 • 2 Bdrm $495 All appliances, storage, on-site coin-op laundry BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 541-382-7727 www.bendpropertymanagement.com

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Apt./Multiplex SW Bend PARKS AT BROKEN TOP. Nice studio above garage, sep. entry, views! No smoking/ pets. $550/mo. + dep., incl. all util. + TV! 541-610-5242.

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Apt./Multiplex Redmond 2 Bdrm., Duplex, no garage, nice yard, great location, $550/mo; 1 Bdrm., 1 bath duplex, w/ laundry, wood floor, $450, 541-460-3424.

3 Bedroom 2.5 bath duplex in NE Redmond. Garage, fenced backyard. $800-$750 + deposit. Call 541-350-0256 or 503-200-0990 for more info.

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ASK ABOUT OUR New Year Special!

2 bdrm., 1 bath, $550 mo. includes storage unit & carport.

Close to schools, parks & shopping. On-site laundry, non-smoking units, dog run.

Pet Friendly.

OBSIDIAN APARTMENTS 541-923-1907 www.redmondrents.com

Call about our $99 Special!

Studios to 3 bedroom units from $415 to $575.

• Lots of amenities.

• Pet friendly • W/S/G paid THE BLUFFS APTS. 340 Rimrock Way, Redmond 541-548-8735 Managed by

GSL Properties

Nice, newer 1400 sq ft duplex in SW Redmond. 3Bdrm, 2.5 bath, single garage, gas heat w/AC, fenced yd, $725/mo.

Section 8 OK. 541-480-2233

Call 541-385-5809 to promote your service • Advertise for 28 days starting at $140 (This special package is not available on our website)

Barns

Domestic Services

Handyman

Landscaping, Yard Care

Masonry

Clean, energy efficient smoking & non- smoking units, w/patios, 2 on-site laundry rooms, storage units available. Close to schools, pools, skateboard park and, shopping center. Large dog run, some large breeds okay with mgr. approval. & dep.

244 SW RIMROCK WAY Chaparral, 541-923-5008 www.redmondrents.com Two-story, 3/2.5 Townhouse for rent. Large fenced yard, all appliances, single garage. $775/mo. 2752 Juniper Avenue. 541-389-9851

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Houses for Rent General BEND RENTALS Furnished also available For virtual tours & pics www.alpineprop.com 541-385-0844

1050 NE Butler Market $900 – 2 Master suites each w/ own bathrooms, showers & soaker tubs. Master suites separated by loft entertainment or offc area. Large living space downstairs w/large eat-in kitchen & ½ bath.

Nice upgraded appls. 2 car garage, access to clubhouse, pool & tennis. Great view of Pilot Butte for fireworks!

ABOVE & BEYOND PROP MGMT - 541-389-8558

Building/Contracting NOTICE: Oregon state law requires anyone who contracts for construction work to be licensed with the Construction Contractors Board (CCB).

An active license means the contractor is bonded and insured.

Verify the contractor’s CCB license through the CCB Consumer Website

• Full Housecleaning Services • Experienced and thorough, reasonable rates, one-time or regular basis.

Please call 541-306-9085 Elizabeth’s Housekeeping: 10 Yrs Exp. Licenced, Bonded & Insured. 541-480-0679.

Landscape Management

20744 Northstar $200 off first month 2 bdrm, 2 bath, all appl. + w/d, pellet stove, sunroom, decks, garage, 1112 sq. ft., near park. $850 541-382-7727

Electrical Services

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

EXPERIENCED Commercial & Residential

www.bendpropertymanagement.com

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Free Estimates Senior Discounts

or call 503-378-4621. The Bulletin recommends checking with the CCB prior to contracting with anyone.

Some other trades also require additional licenses and certifications.

Country Home!

3 bdrm 3 bath 3500+ sq. ft. home, all appliances, family room, office, triple garage, 2 woodstoves, sunroom, lrg. utility room including w/d, pantry, pet OK. $2500 mo.

541-382-7727

•Pruning Trees And Shrubs •Thinning Over Grown Areas •Removing Unwanted Shrubs •Hauling Debris Piles •Evaluate Seasonal Needs

www.hirealicensedcontractor.com

Houses for Rent SE Bend

541-390-1466 Same Day Response

713 SE Centennial

NOTICE: OREGON Landscape Contractors Law (ORS 671) requires all businesses that advertise to perform Land scape Construction which in cludes: planting, decks, fences, arbors, water-fea tures, and installation, repair of irrigation systems to be li censed with the Landscape Contractors Board. This 4-digit number is to be in cluded in all advertisements which indicate the business has a bond, insurance and workers compensation for their employees. For your protection call 503-378-5909 or use our website: www.lcb.state.or.us to check license status before con tracting with the business.

Persons doing landscape maintenance do not require a LCB license.

Carpet Cleaning

Over 40 Years Experience in Carpet Upholstery & Rug Cleaning

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.bendpropertymanagement.com

Painting, Wall Covering

Handyman

Call Now! 541-382-9498 CCB #72129 www.cleaningclinicinc.com

Debris Removal

Home Improvement

YARD WORK / YARD CLEAN-UP By the hour + dump fee to haul debris away.

CALL GARY TODAY! 541-408-2996

$575 - Large 2 bedroom / 1 Bath with a fenced yard and 2-car garage. Available soon.

ABOVE & BEYOND PROP MGMT - 541-389-8558

Remodeling, Carpentry

www.aboveandbeyondmanagement.com

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Houses for Rent SW Bend 3 Bdrm 2 bath, 1.15 ac. 800 sq ft shop/4-car garage, utilities furnished except elec. $995/mo + $750 sec dep.

541-228-5131; 541 517-4345

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Houses for Rent Redmond 2227 SW 23rd St. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, appliances, gas fireplace, utility rm., A/C, 1480 sq. ft., garage, pet considered. $895 month.

Find It in The Bulletin Classifieds!

541-385-5809

Tile, Ceramic

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

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541-389-1413 or 541-410-2422

$900 Lovely, newer 3 Bdrm 2 bath townhome in quiet area.

Gas frplc, AC, W/D hkup, O/S single garage w/storage, fenced yd. 541-350-7983

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541- 382-7727

Eagle Crest House - Desert Sky neighborhood, 1908 sq ft 2 Bdrm, 2.5 bath, garage, mountain views from Bachelor to Hood, $279,900; 3% Courtesy to agents.

541-215-0112

Investor Alert!

2449 SW 34th St., Redmond 4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1599 Sq Ft home, Built in 2001. Currently rented for $1,000 per month. $104,900 Call Peter at 541-419-5391 for more info. www.GorillaCapital.com

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Homes for Sale PUBLISHER'S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, marital status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-877-0246. The toll free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

Mountain Views 5

Acres, Eagle Crest area, very private, gated, 3+ bdrm., 2.75 bath, 3 car garage plus 1600 sq.ft. finished shop, in-ground pool, $795,000. 541-948-5832.

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Houses for Rent Furnished RIVERFRONT: walls of windows with amazing 180 degree river view with dock, canoe, piano, bikes, covered BBQ, $1250. 541-593-1414

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Mobile/Mfd. for Rent

Have an item to Sunriver/La Pine Homes sell quick? If it’s La Pine home on 1 acre. under $500 you 4 bdrm., 2 bath, like new.

All Offers Considered. can place it in www.odotproperty.com.

503-986-3638 Steve Eck. The Bulletin Classiieds for 763 $ Recreational Homes 10 - 3 lines, 7 days and Property $ 16 - 3 lines, 14 days (Private Party ads only)

Farms, Ranches and Acreage

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CHECK YOUR AD Please check your ad on the first day it runs to make sure it is correct. Sometimes instructions over the phone are misunderstood and an error can occur in your ad. If this happens to your ad, please contact us the first day your ad appears and we will be happy to fix it as soon as we can. Deadlines are: Weekdays 12:00 noon for next day, Sat. 11:00 a.m. for Sunday; Sat. 12:00 for Monday.

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Horse/Cow facility for lease 35 acres with 14 acres irrigated. 50’x50’ old barn; corrals & arena area. $400/mo.

Call 541-419-1917

827 Business Way, Bend 30¢/sq ft; 1st mo + $200 dep Paula, 541-678-1404 Old Mill District - Class A building, move-in ready, 2 floors, elevator, 28 offices, conference & lunch rooms.

Individual offcs avail 2nd flr.

Easy access from Wilson St roundabout. Peter Storton, Brkr, 541-549-2500; Joanna Goertzen, 541-549-2519 RE/MAX Town & Country Shop doors, TerreCall

The Bulletin offers a LOWER, MORE AFFORDABLE Rental rate! If you have a home to rent, call a Bulletin Classified Rep. to get the new rates and get your ad started ASAP! 541-385-5809 Warehouse/Office space, 1235 sq ft, large roll-up door.

20685 Carmen Lp. No triple net; $600/mo, 1st + dep.

541-480-7546; 541-480-7541 Warehouse with Offices in Redmond,6400 sq.ft., zoned M2, overhead crane, plenty of parking, 919 SE Lake Rd., $0.40/sq.ft., 541-420-1772.

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Lots Bargain priced Pronghorn lot, $99,900, also incl. $115,000 golf membership & partially framed 6000 sq. ft. home, too! Randy Schoning, Princ.

Broker, John L. Scott RE. 541-480-3393, 541-389-3354

10 Acres,7 mi. E. of Costco, quiet, secluded, at end of road, power at property line, water near by, $250,000 OWC 541-617-0613

ATV - Snowmobile storage etc. Shop 22’x36’ block building w/3 rooms, between Redmond & Terrebonne. $250/mo. 541-419-1917

Office / Warehouse space • 1792 sq ft

Steelhead, Bass, 26” Catfish!

Bear, Deer, Elk, Pheasants!

16 acres prime riverfront!

1000 sq. ft. cabin. $249,000. 541-934-2091.

Acreages

Commercial for Rent/Lease

Light Industrial Space, 4 x 2000 sq.ft. bays, off 18th St in N. Bend, office, w/bath, $0.45/ sq.ft. for first year, 541-312-3684.

North Fork John Day River

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RV-Boat Storage, etc.

36’x42’ with 2 roll-up between Redmond, & bonne. $400/mo.

541-419-1917.

541-322-7253

Real Estate Auction Nominal Opening Bids Start at $10,000 24815 Elk Ln, Bend 3BR 2BA 1,638sf+/mobile/mnftd home.

57521 Tamarack Lane, Sunriver 2BR 1.5BA 1,052sf+/63340 Cimarron Dr, Bend 3BR 1BA 1,441sf+/25100 Bachelor Ln, Bend 2BR 1BA 2,320sf+/All properties sell: 8:00AM Thu., Feb. 17 at 57521 Tamarack Lane, Sunriver ---------------11007 Desert Sky Loop, Redmond 2BR 2BA 1,422sf+/11060 NW Kingwood Dr, Redmond 3BR 2BA 1,704sf+/485 Seponderosa Dr, Madras 4BR 2BA 1,898sf+/2261 SE Willowdale Ln, Prineville 3BR 3BA 2,400sf+/All properties sell: 5:30PM Wed., Feb. 16 at 11060 NW Kingwood Dr, Redmond williamsauction.com 800-801-8003 Many properties now available for online bidding!

A Buyer’s Premium may apply.

Williams & Williams OR RE LIC#200507303 GLEN VANNOY BROKER

OWN 20 Acres - Only $129/ month. $13,900 near growing El Paso, Texas.

(America’s safest city) Low down, no credit checks, owner financing. Free Map/ Pictures.

800-343-9444.

(PNDC)

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Manufactured/ Mobile Homes 1985 14x70 Oak Haven, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, needs to be moved. $2000. See to appreciate. 541-279-3530, eves or weekends or 970-396-3824.

NEW & USED HOMES: Lot Models Delivered & Set Up Start at $29,900, www.JandMHomes.com 541-350-1782 Nice Home, 2 bdrm., single wide mobile in park, nice tiled bath, appl. & 2-car garage, $10,000, please call 541-788-3336.

Suntree, 3 bdrm, 2 bath,

w/carport & shed. $19,900. 541-350-1782 www.JAndMHomes.com

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Ofice/Retail Space for Rent

www.bendpropertymanagement.com

3/2 1385 sq. ft., family room, new carpet & paint, nice big yard, dbl. garage w/opener, quiet cul-de-sac. $995 541-480-3393, 541-610-7803

Kelly Kerfoot Construction: 28 years experience in Central Oregon Quality & Honesty From carpentry & handyman jobs, To quality wall covering installations & removal.

Senior discounts Licenced, Bonded, Insured, CCB#47120

$595 2/1 garage w/opener, w/d, patio, fenced, hardwood.795 NE Ochoco Ave

On 10 acres, between Sisters & Bend, 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 1484 sq.ft. mfd., family room w/ wood stove, all new carpet & paint, + 1800 sq. ft. shop, fenced for horses, $1195.

Sandlewood, 3 Bdrm., 2 bath 541-480-3393, 541-610-7803 +office, granite counters, tile 676 flooring, fenced yard, auto sprinklers, dbl. garage, $1100, Mobile/Mfd. Space pets neg., 541-306-1577 When buying a home, 83% of RV/Trailer Space in NE Redmond, near Crooked Central Oregonians turn to River Dinner Train, additional 17x20 finished bldg. w/deck, fenced area, incl.

W/S, $450/mo, Call 541-419-1917. call Classified 385-5809 to place your Real Estate ad 682

1403 NW 7th, Newer, great Westside location, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, W/D & all appl. incl., gas heat, W/S/G paid., $750, Call 541-771-4824.

Snow Removal

Houses for Rent Prineville

Custom Home in Mtn. High, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 2850 sq.ft., spacious rooms, pantry, butlers pantry, service porch, triple garage, incredible cabinet storage, A/C, 1 level, family room, formal dining, breakfast area, built in desk, shelves, 2 fireplaces, new Silestone kitchen counters, deck, gated community w/pool, tennis court, gazebo, $419,500, 541-389-9966

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Southeast Bend Homes

Redmond Homes

Houses for Rent Sunriver

541-923-8222

NOTICE:

* Real Estate Agents * * Appraisers * * Home Inspectors * Etc. The Real Estate Services classification is the perfect place to reach prospective B U Y E R S AND SELLERS of real estate in Central Oregon. To place an ad call 385-5809

541-923-8222

www.MarrManagement.com

All real estate advertised here in is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of this law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

The Bulletin Classified

Real Estate Services

www.MarrManagement.com

1435 NE Boston 3 bdrm/ 2 bath, private yard, gas frplce, all kitchen appl incld small pet neg. $895+dep.

CR Property Management 541-318-1414

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Reliable 24 Hour Service • Driveways • Walkways • Parking Lots • Roof Tops • De-Icing Have plow & shovel crew awaiting your call!

705 $750 3/2, fresh paint, new carpet, w/d hookup, family room, fenced, deck, sheds 3125 SW Pumice Ave $825 3/2 dbl garage w/opener, w/d, fenced.

1425 SW 31st St $825 3/2 large corner lot, forced air, fenced, covered deck. 1725 SW 23rd St $895 4/2 $100 off 1st month, dbl garage w/ opener, w/d hookup, A/C, fenced.

942 NW Poplar Pl $995 4/2.5 new carpet! double garage, fireplace, fenced.

730 NE Negus Pl.

www.aboveandbeyondmanagement.com

Houses for Rent NW Bend

More Than Service Peace Of Mind.

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A newer 3/2 mfd. home, 1755 sq.ft., living room, family room, new paint, private .5 acre lot near Sunriver, $895.

The Bulletin is now offering a 541-480-3393, 541-610-7803.

LOWER, MORE AFFORDABLE VILLAGE PROPERTIES Rental rate! If you have a Sunriver, Three Rivers, home to rent, call a Bulletin La Pine. Great Selection.

Classified Rep. to get the Prices range from new rates and get your ad $425 - $2000/mo. View our started ASAP! 541-385-5809 full inventory online at Village-Properties.com 650 1-866-931-1061

Houses for Rent NE Bend

Real Estate For Sale

347 NE Greenwood Ave. 400 sq. ft. office space, private entrance & restroom, 3 small offices + reception area, ample parking, includes water/sewer/ electric. $500!

541-382-7727

BEND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT www.bendpropertymanagement.com

455 Sq.ft. Office Space, high visibility on Highland Ave in Redmond, $400 per mo. incl. W/S/G, Please Call 541-419-1917.

An Office with bath, various sizes and locations from $200 per month, including utilities. 541-317-8717 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fireplace, pantry, fenced, sprinklers. No smoking/pets. $875+deposits. 541-548-5684.

Downtown Redmond Retail/Office space, 947 sq ft. $650/mo + utils; $650 security deposit. 425 SW Sixth St. Call Norb, 541-420-9848

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Northeast Bend Homes WOW! 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 1238 sq. ft., vaulted ceilings, 2 skylights, big yard, RV parking, new granite countertops, new tile backsplash, new carpet, vinyl & paint. $124,900. Randy Schoning, Princ. Broker. John L. Scott, 541-480-3393, 541-389-3354

What are you looking for? You’ll find it in The Bulletin Classifieds

541-385-5809 Your Credit Is Approved For Bank Foreclosures! www.JAndMHomes.com 541-350-1782

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To place an ad call Classiied • 541-385-5809 Boats & RV’s

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Travel Trailers

2 Wet-Jet personal water crafts, new batteries & covers, “SHORE“ trailer, incl spare & lights, $1995 for all. Bill 541-480-7930.

Snowmobiles Polaris Trail Deluxe 1991, matching pair, exc cond, under 2500 mi, elec start, covers. $550 ea. 541-430-5444 W A N T E D : 1990-1996 440 Cat for parts, please call 541-233-8944.

Yamaha Snowmobiles & Trailer, 1997

Look at: Bendhomes.com for Complete Listings of Area Real Estate for Sale Ads published in "Watercraft" include: Kayaks, rafts and motorized personal watercrafts. For "boats" please see Class 870.

541-385-5809

Waverider Trailer, 2-place, new paint, rail covers, & wiring, good cond., $495, 541-923-3490.

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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.

Motorhomes

HARLEY Davidson Fat Boy - LO 2010 Black on black, detachable windshield, backrest, and luggage rack. 2200 miles. $13,900. Please call Jack, 541-549-4949, or 619-203-4707

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, ga-

Harley Davidson Heritage Soft Tail 2009, 400 mi., extras incl. pipes, lowering kit, chrome pkg., $16,900 OBO. 541-944-9753

Harley Davidson Police Bike 2001, low mi., custom bike very nice.Stage 1, new tires & brakes, too much to list!

A Must See Bike $10,500 OBO. 541-383-1782

Harley Davidson Screamin’ Eagle Electric-Glide 2005, 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.

2002, black, perfect, garaged, 5,200 mi. $3495.

541-610-5799.

KTM 400 EXC Enduro 2006, like new cond, low miles, street legal, hvy duty receiver hitch basket. $4500. 541-385-4975

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rage 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 BROUGHAM 23½’ 1981 motorhome, 2-tone brown, perfect cond, 6 brand new tires. engine perfect, runs great, inside perfect shape.

See to appreciate at 15847 WoodChip Lane off Day Rd in La Pine. Asking $8000.

541-876-5106.

Dodge Brougham Motorhome, 1977, Needs TLC, $1995, Pilgrim Camper 1981, Self contained, Cab-over, needs TLC, $595, 541-382-2335 or 503-585-3240.

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.

Houseboat 38x10, triple axle trailer, incl. private moorage w/24/7 security at Prineville resort. PRICE REDUCED, $21,500. 541-788-4844.

Hurricane 2007 35.5’ like new, 3 slides, generator, dark cabinets, Ford V10, 4,650 mi $69,500 OBO. 541-923-3510

ATVs

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, Dixie Smith, has been appointed personal representative of the estate of Ronald L. Smith.

All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with vouchers attached, to the undersigned personal representative at 747 SW MILL VIEW WAY, BEND OR 97702, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims may be barred.

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Dated and first published: February 6, 2011.

DIXIE SMITH Personal Representative

ments and evidence submitted by or on behalf of the applicant and applicable criteria are available for inspection at the Planning Division at no cost, and can be purchased for 25 cents a page.

They are also available online at www.co.deschutes.or.us/cdd /. Please contact Cynthia Smidt, with the County Planning Division at (541) 317-3150 or cynthias@co.deschutes.or.us if you have any questions.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS BRIAN WILLIAMS NORGAARD has been appointed Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF ESTATE OF SONJA MARIE NORGAARD, Deceased, by the Circuit Court, State of Oregon, Deschutes County, under Case Number 11PB0008MS. All persons having a claim against the estate must present the claim within four months of the first publication date of this notice to Hendrix, Brinich & Bertalan, LLP at 716 NW Harriman Street, Bend, Oregon 97701, ATTN.: Lisa N. Bertalan, or they may be barred. Additional information may be obtained from the court records, the Personal Representative or the followingnamed attorney for the Personal Representative.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Date of first publication: February 6, 2011.

The Deschutes County Hearings Officer will hold a Public Hearing on March 15, 2011, at 6:30p.m. in the Barnes and Sawyer Rooms of the Deschutes Services Center located at 1300 NW Wall Street in Bend, to consider the following request: FILE NUMBERS: A-11-1 (LR-10-8).

PROPOSAL: The applicant has appealed the Planning Division's administrative decision denying the applicant's verification of a legal Lot of Record. LOCATION: The subject property is located at 17590 Forked Horn Drive, Sistersand is further identified on Deschutes County Assessor's Tax Map 15-11-19A as Tax Lot 100.

APPLICANT/OWNER: John W. Russell. ATTORNEY: Robert Lovlien, Bryant, Lovlien & Jarvis. Copies of the staff report, application, all docu-

HENDRIX BRINICH & BERTALAN, LLP 716 NW HARRIMAN BEND, OR 97701 541-382-4980 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS The undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the Estate of Marilyn P. Knowles, Deceased, by the Circuit Court, State of ORegon, County of Deschutes, Probate No. 11-PB-0010-AB. All persons having claims against the estate are required to presnet their claims with proper vouchers within four months from this date, to the undersigned, or they may be barred. Additional information may be obtained fromt he court records, the undersigned, or the attorneys

named below.

Dated and first published: February 6, 2011.

STEVEN M. KNOWLES, Personal Representative c/o C. E. FRANCIS, OSB #77006 FRANCIS HANSEN & MARTIN, LLP 1148 NW Hill Street Bend, OR 97701 LEGAL NOTICE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE The Trustee under the terms of the Trust Deed described herein, at the direction of the Beneficiary, hereby elects to sell the property described in the Trust Deed to satisfy the obligations secured thereby.

Pursuant to ORS 86.745, the following information is provided: 1. PARTIES: Grantor: JASON D. JACKSON AND ROBIN R. SMITH-JACKSON. Trustee: FIRST OREGON TITLE COMPANY. Successor Trustee: NANCY K. CARY. Beneficiary: OREGON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, STATE OF OREGON, as assignee of BANK OF THE CASCADES. 2.

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: The real property is described as follows: Lots Twenty-seven (27), Twenty-eight (28), Twenty-nine (29), Thirty (30), Thirty-one (31) and Thirty-two (32), Block Forty (40) of HILLMAN, recorded August 1, 1918 in Cabinet A, Page 77, Deschutes County, Oregon. 3. RECORDING. The Trust Deed was recorded as follows: Date Recorded: April 3, 2006. Recording No.: 2006-22608 Official Records of Deschutes County, Oregon. 4. DEFAULT. The Grantor or any other person obligated on the Trust Deed and Promissory Note secured thereby is in default and the Beneficiary seeks to foreclose the Trust Deed for failure to pay: A payment of $781.00 for the month of May 2010; plus regular monthly payments of $1,201.00 each, due the first of each month, for the months of June 2010 through November 2010; plus late charges and advances; plus any unpaid real property taxes or liens, plus interest. 5. AMOUNT DUE. The amount due on the Note which is secured by the Trust Deed referred to herein is: Principal balance in the amount of $164,304.26; plus

interest at the rate of 5.2500% per annum from April 1, 2010; plus late charges of $716.65; plus advances and foreclosure attorney fees and costs. 6. SALE OF PROPERTY. The Trustee hereby states that the property will be sold to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed. A Trustee's Notice of Default and Election to Sell Under Terms of Trust Deed has been recorded in the Official Records of Deschutes County, Oregon. 7.

TIME OF SALE. Date: April 28, 2011. Time:11:00 a.m.

Place: Deschutes County Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond Street, Bend, Oregon. 8.

RIGHT TO REINSTATE. Any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time that is not later than five days before the Trustee conducts the sale, to have this foreclosure dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by 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, by curing any other default that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or Trust Deed and by 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. You may reach the Oregon State Bar's Lawyer Referral Service at 503-684-3763 or toll-free in Oregon at 800-452-7636 or you may visit its website at: www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information and a directory of legal aid programs, go to http://www.oregonlawhelp.o rg. Any questions regarding this matter should be directed to Lisa Summers, Paralegal, (541) 686-0344 (TS #07754.30345). DATED: December 10, 2010. /s/ Nancy K. Cary. Nancy K. Cary, Successor Trustee, Hershner Hunter, LLP, P.O. Box 1475, Eugene, OR 97440.

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LEGAL NOTICE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE The Trustee under the terms of the Trust Deed described herein, at the direction of the Beneficiary, hereby elects to sell the property described in the Trust Deed to satisfy the obligations secured thereby.

Pursuant to ORS 86.745, the following information is provided: 1. PARTIES: Grantor: DEBRA M. FISHER. Trustee: AMERITITLE. Successor Trustee: NANCY K. CARY. Beneficiary: OREGON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, STATE OF OREGON, as assignee of BANK OF THE CASCADES MRTG. CENTER. 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: The real property is described as follows: Lot Thirty (30), SOUTH VILLAGE, recorded October 13, 2004, in Cabinet G-469, Deschutes County, Oregon. 3. RECORDING. The Trust Deed was recorded as follows: Date Recorded: December 30, 2005. Recording No.: 2005-90047 Official Records of Deschutes County, Oregon. 4. DEFAULT. The Grantor or any other person obligated on the Trust Deed and Promissory Note secured thereby is in default and the Beneficiary seeks to foreclose the Trust Deed for failure to pay: A payment of $946.00 for the month of August 2010; plus regular monthly payments of $953.00 each, due the first of each month, for the months of September 2010 through November 2010; plus late charges and advances; plus any unpaid real property taxes or liens, plus interest.

5. AMOUNT DUE. The amount due on the Note which is secured by the Trust Deed referred to herein is: Principal balance in the amount of $128,291.93; plus interest at the rate of 5.4500% per annum from July 1, 2010; plus advances and foreclosure attorney fees and costs. 6. SALE OF PROPERTY. The Trustee hereby states that the property will be sold to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed. A Trustee's Notice of Default and Election to Sell Under Terms of Trust Deed has been recorded in the Official Records of Deschutes County, Oregon. 7. TIME OF SALE. Date: April 28, 2011.

Time: 11:00 a.m. Place: Deschutes County Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond Street, Bend,

Oregon. 8. RIGHT TO REINSTATE. Any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time that is not later than five days before the Trustee conducts the sale, to have this foreclosure dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by 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, by curing any other default that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or Trust Deed and by 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. You may reach the Oregon State Bar's Lawyer Referral Service at 503-684-3763 or toll-free in Oregon at 800-452-7636 or you may visit its website at: www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information and a directory of legal aid programs, go to http://www.oregonlawhelp.o rg. Any questions regarding this matter should be directed to Lisa Summers, Paralegal, (541) 686-0344 (TS #07754.30343). DATED: November 29, 2010. /s/ Nancy K. Cary. Nancy K. Cary, Successor Trustee, Hershner Hunter, LLP, P.O. Box 1475, Eugene, OR 97440.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The Bend Park & recreation District Board of Directors will meet in a work session at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 15, 2011, at the district administrative offices, 799 SW Columbia, Bend, Oregon.

Agenda items include an update on the Volunteer Program, an update on the Sustainability Program and a discussion of the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The board will not meet in a regular business meeting.

The agenda supplementary reports may be viewed on the district’s web site www.bendparksandrec.org.

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JOHN COSTA

Censorship needs to justify itself

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f you were elected to the Legislature, what would you focus on right now?

The economy, state budget and jobs, right?

To say the state is in a money bind doesn’t do that characterization justice.

The government is out of money. In fact, it is short billions of dollars simply to continue doing what it is doing today.

School districts across the state are staring at a funding abyss; we are continuing to disinvest in our university system, and the folks on the Oregon Health Plan are looking at reductions in care.

Oregon, according to the United States Department of Labor, ranks near the top of all states in unemployment, and, continuing a trend we started some time ago, the median income of our private work force continues to decline.

So, as a legislator, what would you focus on?

My bet is that most people with good sense would say their top priorities are finding a way to rebuild a moribund economy and provide jobs, while protecting those who can’t protect themselves.

And I’m hoping — perhaps against hope — that most of the 90 members of the state Senate and House are doing just that.

But then you read the newspaper and realize that even in the most extreme of times, some legislator or another wants to launch a wholly unnecessary and distractive debate over an issue that has little or no relationship to, or impact on, these trying times.

They come in all political persuasions.

It’s a completely bipartisan instinct characterized most often by righteousness or intense myopia, and it gives illustrative meaning to the quip, “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Here we are with our state sinking under its own weight, and Rep. Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer, says what we need is more secrecy surrounding public records.

The records in question are concealed weapons permits, which are now public, but which Thatcher has now introduced legislation to exempt from disclosure. Her rationale is breathtaking in its inanity.

Keep in mind we are talking about people wanting to walk around in our society with a handgun hidden somewhere on their person, which is exactly what our society needs: more handgun rights.

No one is arguing that they shouldn’t have a gun. Nor is anyone arguing that some personal information shouldn’t be redacted. Nor can anyone make the case that responsible newspapers are willynilly publishing this information just because they can.

Ninety-nine percent of the newspapers in the nation believe — and follow the practice — that any revelation should have a clear and defensible public information reason.

Is your third-grader’s teacher carrying a weapon in her pocketbook? Are the police giving permits to people with felony records? Was the gun illegally sold?

Those are the questions that most newspapers want to answer. To this Thatcher declares: “This is a privacy issue.”

And, she adds, the people with these permits did not ask to be in the public spotlight. Well, in fact, they rarely are.

And even if they are, what harm is done to them?

If the standard in public information were that the individual didn’t want something disclosed, virtually anything could be exempt. And eventually, virtually nothing would be open to the public.

The lobbyist for the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association was reported in The Bulletin saying that the ONPA had no position on this law.

If the newspapers in the state are going to sit back and let this gross miscarriage of public access advance, then we have all failed. So while the ONPA tries to discover a First Amendment backbone, let me suggest one.

Censorship, which is what we are talking about, needs to justify itself. Openness does not.

So justify it. Who suffered because of disclosure?

Moments like this, I think of the great Will Rogers and his reflections on misgovernment of this quality.

“Never blame a legislative body for not doing something,” he said.

“When they do nothing, that don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.”

John Costa is editor-in-chief of The Bulletin.

Health care fraud:

This composite photo released by the FBI shows 10 suspects indicted in Los Angeles as part of an investigation that targeted the largest Medicare fraud ring by one criminal enterprise in the program’s history.

The Associated Press ile photos

No longer a faceless crime

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar • The Associated Press WASHINGTON — ealth care fraud once was a faceless crime. Now it has a mug shot, even a smile.

Medicare and Medicaid scams cost taxpayers more than $60 billion a year, but bank holdups are more likely to get greater attention.

The government wants the public’s help in trying to catch more than 170 fugitives wanted for fraud, so it’s developed a new health care most-wanted list, with its own website — www .oig.hhs.gov. Most are dour; some sport smiles.

One name on the list is Leonard Nwafor, convicted in Los Angeles of billing Medicare more than $1 million for motorized wheelchairs that people didn’t need. One person who got a wheelchair was a blind man who later testified he couldn’t see to operate it.

Facing time in federal prison, Nwafor disappeared before his sentencing.

“We’re looking for new ways to press the issue of catching fugitives,” said Gerald Roy, deputy inspector general for investigations at the Health and Human Services Department. “If someone walks into a bank and steals $3,000 or $4,000, it would be all over the newspaper. These people manage to do it from a less high-profile position, but they still have a tremendous impact.”

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CASE IN POINT Michael Dobrushin is led in handcuffs from FBI headquarters in New York. Dobrushin is one of 73 people across the country charged by federal prosecutors in a scheme to cheat Medicare out of $163 million.

“If someone walks into a bank and steals $3,000 or $4,000, it would be all over the newspaper. These people manage to do it from a less high-profile position, but they still have a tremendous impact.”

— Gerald Roy, deputy inspector general at the Health and Human Services Department

BOOKS INSIDE What he knows: Donald Rumsfeld tells his side of the story, pointing fingers at colleagues in the process, see Page F4.

It’s all OK: It’s the most-used two-letter word, and this author is going to tell you all about it, OK? see Page F5.

Ongoing conflict: Two books try to decipher the hows and whys of al-Qaida, see Page F6.

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We’d prefer smart to paper or plastic

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e’re all for a clean and healthy environment. Heck, we’re even happy with the notion of making Oregon a leader in getting us there … if. We’re in favor, that

is, if what’s being proposed actually solves the problems supporters say it will solve without causing even greater problems in the process.

That’s why we believe lawmakers rushing to ban plastic grocery bags and/or tax paper ones need to make a lot more facts known about the perceived problem and proposed solution before they vote on giving plastic bags the heave-ho.

We know the arguments against the plastic bags. They’re trashy, they clog landfills and once created, they’re there just about forever. Paper is better because it, at least, decomposes over time. Sturdier bags designed for a more or less permanent place in the shopping cart are best because they’re designed for multiple uses over time.

There’s more to the story, though, and that’s what lawmakers must get before they decide on the ban. We know, for example, that while the plastic bags do look bad when people litter with them, it’s hard to argue that flying paper looks a whole lot better. We know, too, that many of the bags in stores today are, in fact, either compostable or recyclable.

Plastic bags are also put to a whole variety of uses once they leave the market.

We don’t know, and we’d like to, what the whole cost of both paper and plastic bags is. We know that

paper bags are more expensive to produce. It would seem to be so because manufacturing them uses far more energy. Growing and harvesting trees is a time-consuming, landconsuming and water-consuming process. Is the difference in costs because something in plastic is cheap and readily available, while something in paper is in short supply and expensive?

We also know that all the arguing over the relative advantages of paper and plastic aside, we don’t like the idea of a tax on paper. One thing Oregonians really do not need right now is a new tax, even a relatively tiny one that can, with care, be avoided.

Lawmakers have more than a little work to do before they either ban or keep plastics, it seems to us. Too often they rush to judgment when “the environment” is thrown into the argument (think Business Energy Tax Credits or ethanol in gasoline) without getting all the facts. With Oregon’s economy and the state’s multibillion dollar budget shortfall, lawmakers shouldn’t have time to work on this. The problem for Oregon is not paper or plastic. It’s the economy and the budget.

Time to treat reserve police officers fairly R

ep. John Huffman, R-The Dalles, believes all those who murder or attempt to murder police officers should be treated equally. They’re not now, and the difference in treatment depends not upon the crime but on the status of the victim. It’s a distinction without a difference and one Huffman hopes lawmakers will erase.

For now, those who murder or attempt to murder a certified police officer may be charged with aggravated murder, making them eligible for the death penalty; or aggravated attempted murder, a Measure 11 offense with a 120-month sentence. If the victim is a reserve officer, however, the maximum penalty for murder is 25 years to life, while attempted murder carries a sentence of only 90 months.

As a result, when Aldo Inez Antunez appeared in Jefferson County last spring for shooting at three Madras police officers, he faced two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one of simple attempted murder. One of the officers was a reserve officer.

Reserve officers in Madras, like their counterparts in Bend, Portland

and elsewhere, perform many of the same duties as certified officers. They must undergo extensive training before they’re allowed to volunteer their time. They may ride along with certified officers and take part in arrests.

As the Madras shooting indicates, they may well put their lives on the line right next to the certified officers with whom they serve. Their duties often go well beyond the relatively safe task of showing up at a football game to keep spectators orderly. It seems, well, criminal that crimes against them are treated as less grave than those against certified officers.

Huffman hopes to right the wrong this year. He would like to introduce a measure to treat crimes against reserve officers with the same gravity as those against certified police officers.

That makes sense. Reserve officers are vital to many police agencies in Oregon. Crimes against them should be treated as seriously as those against the certified officers with whom they serve.

My Nickel’s Worth Government wants more Last Sunday’s editorial “And now, a sales tax on your home” was right on target! Government needs money in order to keep running at its normal speed. However, the unemployment rate in Oregon is incredibly high, and people are now losing their unemployment benefits. So, what can government do? Raise taxes, make new taxes, develop “fees” — most of which do not require a vote by the people. So, its philosophy is to raise taxes on those who have little or no income.

My retirement income does not increase. In fact, this year it has decreased by almost $200 a month due to the increase in health insurance premiums, and now the increase in federal and state taxes.

I wonder how long it will be before I’m sent a bill because my retirement isn’t covering all the taxes government wants to withhold!

Barb Oakley Crooked River Ranch

Logging is the issue I read The Bulletin’s editorial regarding the spotted owl recovery plan in which the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to kill barred owls in spotted owl habitat.

Your editorial amazes me that after all these years of turmoil over this issue, the editors of a newspaper still don’t get it. The central issue is not the spotted owl, but rather destruction of habitat and unsustainable levels of logging.

There’s a legal term for this. It’s called

willful blindness. That’s when someone seeks to avoid responsibility for a wrongful act by intentionally pretending to be unaware of facts which would render him liable. We as humans are responsible.

Your editorial laments the loss of logging jobs from more restrictive logging plans. But you left out little details like Americans were logging faster than the trees could reproduce their equal size and that logging is now highly mechanized, resulting in job loss. With the way things were being managed, the collapse of the logging industry was inevitable.

The spotted owl may not be savable as a self-sustaining population, but own up to the facts. The large issue is not whether the USFWS should lethally remove barred owls moving into spotted owl territory. It’s a matter of maintaining sustainable forest habitat. Time to stop pretending the problem wasn’t the massive humancaused destruction of old-growth forests over a relatively short period of time.

Gary Landers Sisters

Don’t be misled The conservative media is extremely skilled in misdirection. It can analyze the causes of a problem and then convince the voting public that factors totally unrelated to the problem actually caused that problem.

The major causes of our present sagging economy are: 1. the outsourcing of manufactur-

ing jobs; 2. the manipulation of the housing market by banking institutions; and 3. the trillions being spent on unprovoked wars.

Neither public employees’ wages nor their retirement programs caused this recession, as the conservative media would have us believe. They want to take advantage of our economic downturn to further their long-held anti-public employees convictions. In fact, the Oregon PERS system was drastically altered and diminished during the late 1990s by a conservative Legislature at a time when the economy was very strong.

Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation, the foundation of America’s social safety net, basically fund themselves through payroll deduction taxes, and are thus not a cause of our present economic woes as the conservatives would like us to believe. Again, they want to take advantage of our economic downturn to further their long-held opposition to these social programs which are highly beneficial to everyday working Americans, programs that had no part in causing this recession.

I encourage your readers to use their God-given common sense to not be misled and misdirected, to demand that the solutions of our present economic disaster be directed at the actual causes, the real perpetrators, rather than at the conservatives’ emotional scapegoats.

Dick Phay Prineville

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Don’t worry, be happy: Nowadays, that’s pretty good advice

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n troubled times, it’s important to pace yourself. There’s only so much you can worry about at once, and we’ve already got Egypt, the weird weather, rising food prices and unemployment. Plus, the secretary of Homeland Security says the terror threat is really high. It would be at least reddish-orange if we hadn’t gotten rid of the color code.

Good grief, maybe we shouldn’t have gotten rid of the color code.

At moments like this, I find it soothing to make lists of things that we don’t have to worry about at all. Such as: OUTRAGEOUS BILLS PROPOSED BY STATE LEGISLATORS In South Dakota, we recently learned that Rep. Hal Wick, R-S.D., dropped a bill into the hopper that would require every adult in the state to own a gun. In Georgia, Republican Rep. Bobby Franklin introduced legislation that would eliminate the requirement that Georgia drivers have licenses, arguing that he was tired of “agents of the state demanding your papers.”

And, people, you do not need to worry about it! These bills are not going to pass.

Besides, if we worried about every nutsy idea tossed around in state legislatures, we would never have adequate time to devote to work, family and the fate of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man.” About 10 percent of a state legislature is composed of people who are totally loony. This is in a good state. It’s possible that in yours, the proportion is much, much higher. That is probably something to worry about, but not today.

The point is, they only introduce these bills to get your attention. Resist.

GLENN BECK’S DECLINING RATINGS Honest. They’re down.

WHO WILL WIN THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION CONFERENCE STRAW POLL The conservative activists are meeting in Washington at a gathering that will culminate in a much-anticipated straw poll. It is, in theory, our civic duty to follow their activities and determine if they will provide a boost for one of the Re-

GAIL COLLINS publican presidential candidates. Even though the poll has, in the past, proved to be about as good at predicting the future as Punxsutawney Phil.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum made news this week when he said Sarah Palin was ducking the conference because she prefers events she is paid to attend. One of the few joys of following presidential politics two years in advance of the election is that it gives you a chance to ponder hopefuls like Santorum, who prepared for this quest by losing his Senate seat by 18 percentage points.

But don’t worry about Sarah Palin running for president. Even Sarah Palin doesn’t know if she’s running for presi-

dent. Mull instead the news that Bristol is now said to be writing a memoir.

THE FACT THAT CONGRESS ISN’T DOING ANYTHING Ever since the Senate reached a bipartisan agreement to speed up the legislative process, there has been not a single filibuster in the upper chamber. This may be partly because there have generally been no senators in the upper chamber.

Really, every once in a while they drop by to talk about a bill on the Federal Aviation Administration. And then they go home again.

Meanwhile, in the House, the powerful new Republican majority has continued its laserlike focus on jobs by arguing about abortion and failing to pass the bills it votes on. “We’re not going to be perfect every day,” said Speaker John Boehner.

On Wednesday, the House argued about whether it should make the government repossess $179 million from our account at the United Nations despite the State Department’s plan to have the United Nations use it to improve security

in New York City.

This is supposed to be part of the GOP budget-balancing initiative, and on that count it is somewhat like planning to lose 50 pounds by reducing your intake of kale. Mainly, it was an opportunity for Republicans to spend an enjoyable day complaining about international organizations dedicated to world peace.

“It’s a disgrace that we continue to fund an organization like the U.N.,” said Rep. Connie Mack of Florida. Did you know his real name is Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV? But I digress. Despite the Republicans’ rancor about international organizations, the leaders failed to muster the necessary two-thirds majority to get the bill through.

It’ll probably pass later, and would then be preserved in amber until sometime in the next millennium when the senators get around to it.

Works for me.

Gail Collins is a columnist for The New York Times.

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 13, 2011 F3

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alifornia Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare.

Take unemployment. It currently runs 12.6 percent in California, the nation’s second-highest rate. Take livability. A recent Forbes magazine survey listing the most miserable 20 cities in the nation ranked four California municipalities among the index’s five worst places to live.

Take education. California public schools test near rock bottom in national math and science scores. Take the business climate. A recent survey conducted among CEOs ranked California dead last for jobs and business growth.

Take taxes. California has the highest gasoline tax in the nation, and its combined sales and local/state income tax rates are among the nation’s steepest.

California incarcerates the highest number of prisoners in the nation. It costs nearly $50,000 per year to house each one, near the highest per-capita cost in the country.

I could go on, but you get the picture that the newly inaugurated Brown has problems well beyond even a massive budget shortfall.

Perhaps the state’s problems are not of its own making, but arise from a deficit of natural riches? Hardly. California has the most fertile soil and most conducive

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON farming climate in the country. Tourists flock to see the beauty of Yosemite, Death Valley and a 1,000-mile coastline.

San Diego and San Francisco Bay are among the most naturally endowed harbors in the world. The state is rich in gas, oil, minerals and timber. It has the largest population in the nation at 37 million residents.

OK, but maybe prior generations failed to develop such natural bounty?

Again, no. At one time California educators ensured that their tripartite system of higher education was the envy of the world. The Golden Gate and Oakland Bay bridges, along with the Los Angeles freeway system and the complex network of state dams and canals, were once considered engineering marvels far ahead of their time. Visionaries made Napa Valley the world’s premier wineproducing center. California’s farmers found a way to produce 400 crops and half the nation’s fruits, nuts and vegetables, and created the richest food region in the nation. Silicon Valley and Hollywood are still the global leaders in computer innovation and entertainment, respectively.

Perhaps California did not invest in its public workers, skimped on entitlements, and turned away newcomers? Not really.

Its teachers and public servants in many comparative surveys remain the highest compensated and best pensioned in the nation. Its welfare system is still the most generous in the nation. Seventy percent of its budget continues to go for education and social services. A state that accounts for 12 percent of the nation’s population generously provides for 30 percent of the national welfare load.

More than a quarter of the nation’s illegal aliens are welcomed into California.

So in truth, the state’s problems involve a larger “California philosophy” that is relatively new in its history, one that now curbs production but not consumption, and worries more about passing laws than how to pay for them.

California uses more gasoline than any other state and has the most voracious appetite for electricity. But Californians also enact the most obstacles to producing their own sources of oil, natural gas and nuclear power. State referenda and the legislature have made it the hardest state in the nation to raise taxes and the easiest to pass costly new laws.

The state’s mineral and timber industries are nearly moribund. At a time of skyrocketing food prices, more than a quarter-million acres of some of the wealthiest agricultural land in California’s Central Valley lie idle due to courtdriven irrigation cutoffs — costing thou-

sands of jobs and robbing the state of millions of dollars in revenue.

Home prices stay prohibitive along the upscale coastal corridor from San Francisco to San Diego, even as millions of acres of open spaces there remain off-limits for new housing construction.

Most refined Californians who regulate how the state’s natural resources are used live on the coast far away from — and do not always understand — those earthier people who struggle to develop them.

California does not ask its millions of foreign immigrants to come with legal status, speak English or arrive with high school diplomas, but then is confused when its entitlement and legal costs skyrocket. Billions of dollars in remittances are sent from California to Mexico — but without the state being curious whether some of the remitters are on some sort of state-funded public assistance.

Somehow, Jerry Brown must not only change the way Californians act, but also the strange way they now seem to think — convincing the present generation to produce far more private wealth while consuming far fewer public funds.

Otherwise, the revenue-strapped and reform-minded governor is little more than a modern Sisyphus — endlessly pushing his enormous rock uphill, never quite reaching the top.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Forgive me, Father, for I have linked Our Father, who art in pixels, linked be Thy name, Thy website come, Thy net be done, on Explorer as it is on Firefox.

Give us this day our daily app, and forgive us our spam, as we forgive those who spam against us, and lead us not into aggregation, but deliver us from e-vil. Amen.

WASHINGTON — othing is sacred anymore, even the sacred. And even that most secret ritual of the Roman Catholic faith, the veiled black confessional box.

Once funeral homes began livestreaming funerals, it was probably inevitable. But now confessions are not only about touching the soul, but touching the screen.

With the help of two priests, three young Catholic men from South Bend, Ind., have developed an iPhone app to guide Catholics through — and if they are lapsed, back to — confession.

It shot to global success, ranking No. 42 on the best-selling app list, according to iTunes.

The trio got the idea, surprisingly, from the pope.

When I was little, the nuns urged us to find the face of Christ in pictures of landscapes — snowfalls and mountains.

In a letter last May, Pope Benedict XVI urged priests to help people see the face of Christ on the Web, through blogs, websites and videos; priests could give the Web a “soul,” he said,

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MAUREEN DOWD by preaching theology through new technology.

Confession: A Roman Catholic App is not a session with a virtual priest who restores your virtue with a penance of three Hail Mary’s and 3 extra gigabytes of memory.

Rather, its developers say, it’s a “baby steps” program that walks you through the Ten Commandments, your examination of conscience and any “custom sins” you might have, then after confession (purportedly) wipes the slate clean so no one sees your transgressions.

“We tried to make it as secure as possible,” said Patrick Leinen, a 31-year-old Internet programmer who built the app with his brother, Chip, a hospital network administrator, and Ryan Kreager, a Notre Dame doctoral candidate.

You still have to go into the real confessional at church to get absolution, and, hopefully, your priest won’t be annoyed that you’re reading your sins off

of a little screen and, maybe, peeking at a football game or shopping site once in awhile.

“The whole point is to get you to go to church,” said Leinen. He and his fellow programmers got help from two priests, the Rev. Dan Scheidt, pastor of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Mishawaka, Ind., and the Rev. Thomas Weinandy of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

They also got an imprimatur — billed as the first for an iPhone and iPad app — from Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne in Indiana.

The app offers different questions depending on your age and gender.

For instance, if you sign in as a 15-year-old girl and look under the Sixth Commandment, one of the questions is: “Do I not treat my body or other people’s bodies with purity and respect?” If you sign in as a 33-year-old married man, that commandment offers this query: “Have I been guilty of masturbation?”

Children are asked if they pout or use bad language. Teenagers are asked if they are a tattletale or bully. Women are asked if they’ve had an abortion or encouraged anyone to have an abortion and if they’re chaste. Men are asked about the latter two, as well.

The app also tailors the questions if

you sign in as a priest or a “religious.”

For instance, if you say you’re a female and try to select “priest” as your vocation, a dialogue box appears that says “sex and vocation are incompatible.” So much for modernity.

Under the Sixth Commandment, men and women are asked: “Have I been guilty of any homosexual activity?”

Priests, however, are not. They are asked if they flirt.

Scheidt assured me that the app “isn’t a morality textbook. It’s just meant to prompt discussion.”

“I have always allowed cheat sheets in the confessional for people who want to be sure they get all of their sins,” he said. “Essentially, this provides an electronic list. Human relations are shifting more and more to being mediated by some of these gadgets. If this is the bridge for people to have a more meaningful encounter about what’s deepest in their heart, I think it’s going to serve the good.”

He said that when he was hearing confessions Tuesday evening, he was surprised when a parishioner came in with phone glowing with the Confession app.

“Seeing somebody looking back and forth is initially a little strange,” he said. “But I found that it really caused the person to focus and recollect more.”

At least we know now that Nietzsche was wrong. God isn’t dead. His server may be down, though.

Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times.

The real ‘realism’ on Israel can be distracting

By Jonah Goldberg Tribune Media Services

HERZLIYA, Israel — inally, I can put the rumors to rest: The land of Zion isn’t merely an abstraction, it’s an actual country.

I am in Israel — my first time — to cover the Herzliya Conference, the country’s premier national security forum.

(Full disclosure: My trip, as well as that of several other journalists, was underwritten by the Emergency Committee for Israel, which seeks “to educate the public about the serious challenges to Israel’s security.” The views here are my own.)

One of the few things that critics and friends of Israel can agree on is that Israel is different, a special sort of nation representing a special idea. That’s true whether you subscribe to the heroic narrative, popularized by Leon Uris, of Israel’s birth or the sadly more familiar anticolonialist fable so popular among the campus left and the anti-Israel industry.

This is especially so for America’s socalled realists. Whether they are sympathetic to Israel or scornful, they are convinced U.S. support for Israel fuels hatred and instability. Hence their obsession with the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

For instance, last night here in Herzliya, former Obama National Security Advisor James Jones said that if God were to have visited Barack Obama

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One of the few things that critics and friends of Israel can agree on is that Israel is different, a special sort of nation representing a special idea. in 2009 with instructions on how to “make the world a better place and give more people hope and opportunity for the future,” it would involve finding a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian issue. In 2009, when Jones was still Obama’s NSA advisor, he told “J Street” — the “pro-Israel” lobby that isn’t very pro-Israel — that if he could just solve one problem in the world, it would be the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the “epicenter” of U.S. foreign policy.

Such thinking falls somewhere between wild exaggeration and dangerous nonsense. Iran’s pursuing nuclear weapons. Al-Qaida remains dedicated to our destruction. Turkey, a once-staunch ally, is Islamifying. Russia is careening toward autocracy and China is on the march. Oh, and the United States is fighting two land wars. But the national security advisor’s No. 1 priority was keeping Israelis from building houses in East Jerusalem? Really?

Also, how would a two-state solu-

tion bring more hope and opportunity to the world’s poor? Or to those dying from AIDS or living under the yoke of dictatorship?

This, too, is the product of treating Israel like an abstraction. Obviously, the Palestinians’ plight (real and imagined) contributes to the Middle East’s problems. But it’s not the source of those problems, and it is not the key to solving them either.

In Egypt, the popular uprising unfolding is not about Israel, but about autocratic brutality, economic stagnation and skyrocketing prices. The same goes for Tunisia as well as the popular protests brutally crushed by Iran’s mullahs in 2009. Turkey isn’t Islamifying because of the Palestinians. Al-Qaida surely hates Israel, but its roots lay in hatred of the Saudi royal family and the Islamist ambitions of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

And yet the “realist” fantasy that an Arabs-first (or Muslims-first) foreign policy will yield rich rewards endures.

The French went that route. They nurtured the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in exile. They pander to Arab sensibilities. And what has it gotten them? A lot of burning cars but few lucrative oil deals.

As we’ve recently been reminded, Israel is the only truly democratic regime in the region, and therefore the most stable. But, somehow, if we were more conciliatory to dictators and more sym-

pathetic to the “Arab street,” the region would be more stable? Please.

No doubt this is what the solons of American foreign policy hear from their Arab and Muslim interlocutors. Because that’s what the autocrats want everyone to believe, starting with their own subjects. Tyrants always want to focus on scapegoats, insults to national honor and shadowy enemies. Why apologize for skyrocketing bread prices when you can demonize the “Zionist entity”?

As one very prominent Israeli here explains, the international community is like the man who only wants to look for his wallet where the light is good. The real problems in the region are just too hard, particularly when any effort to take attention off the Palestinians is greeted with outrage from an anti-Israel industry that singles out Israel as the worst human-rights abuser in the neighborhood.

Israel puts Arab critics in the Knesset.

Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia put them in jail — or in an unmarked grave.

All of this would be just as true if Israel retreated to the 1949 armistice lines tomorrow. Israel’s realists know this because they can’t afford the self-indulgent abstractions and the cynical lies that pass for “realism” outside its borders.

Jonah Goldberg is an editor-at-large of National Review Online and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

DAVID BROOKS

Cities have only become more crucial CHICAGO — he people who run the federal government spend almost no time outdoors. They get driven from home to work and move through corridors from meeting to meeting. So it was a little odd after all those times interviewing Rahm Emanuel when he was White House chief of staff to be chasing him, outside, down an icy Chicago street.

He was underdressed for the weather, as all politicians feel compelled to be, in a leather jacket and jeans, and he was knocking on doors as part of a campaign for mayor. Emanuel was a colorful figure in Washington, but back home he’s off the leash.

He’s clearly a much happier person — glowing, bouncing, reminiscing and hugging. Gone are all the death-grip battles with Republicans and the Washington interest groups. Now startled people in sweatpants greet him when he shows up at their doorway, sometimes wrapping him in an embrace and sometimes bringing their kids out to pose for pictures.

I was struck by how many voters wanted to talk to him about education. Chicagoans have clearly internalized the fact that their city can’t prosper so long as so many public school students are dropping out. So Emanuel rips through his school reform agenda, which is like Obama’s national agenda, except on steroids.

He’s got a Chicago version of the Race to the Top, in which schools that reform the fastest get a pot of money. He’s for school performance contracts, in which school leaders vow to meet certain goals or risk losing control of their schools.

He’s for sending school report cards out to parents so they can measure how well their own schools are performing.

As people come and talk to him, everything has a marvelous concreteness.

In Washington, it’s sometimes hard to connect the abstract laws that are being passed to the actual effects on neighborhoods or families. But in a mayoral race, people talk about this specific playground or that recycling center or the police precinct over there. Many of us are drawn to the big power politics of Washington, but city politics is better than national politics because the problems are more tangible and the communication is more face to face.

This is a point Edward Glaeser fleshes out in his terrific new book, “Triumph of the City.” Glaeser points out that far from withering in the age of instant global information flows, cities have only become more important.

That’s because humans communicate best when they are physically brought together. Two University of Michigan researchers brought groups of people together face to face and asked them to play a difficult cooperation game. Then they organized other groups and had them communicate electronically. The faceto-face groups thrived. The electronic groups fractured and struggled.

Cities magnify people’s strengths, Glaeser argues, because ideas spread more easily in dense environments. If you want to compete in a global marketplace it really helps to be near a downtown. Companies that are near the geographic center of their industry are more productive.

The cities that have thrived over the past few decades tend to have high median temperatures in January (people like warm winters and other amenities). But even cold cities like Chicago can thrive if they attract college grads. As the number of college graduates in a metropolitan area increases by 10 percent, individuals’ earnings increase by 7.7. This applies even to the high school grads in the city because their productivity rises, too.

When you clump together different sorts of skilled people and force them to rub against one another, they create friction and instability, which leads to tension and creativity, which leads to small business growth. As Glaeser notes, cities that rely on big businesses wither. Those that incubate small ones grow.

Recently, Emanuel visited Valois: See Your Food, a South Side institution that gives new meaning to the phrase “greasy spoon.” As he made his way from table to table — from cops to middle-class families, graduate students, the unemployed and single moms — he fell into a dozen intense and divergent conversations.

Chicago has its problems: It suffers under one of the biggest debt loads in the country. But it has thrived because it has had good leadership, a constantly updated housing stock, a good business environment and an ethos that attracts talent and celebrates blunt conversation.

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David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times.

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B E S T- S E L L E R S Publishers Weekly ranks the bestsellers for the week ending Feb. 5.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Tick Tock” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf) 3. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/AmyEinhorn) 4. “The Inner Circle” by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central)

Rumsfeld tells his side of the story Former secretary of defense points fingers, finds scapegoats in memoir “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”

by Donald Rumsfeld (Sentinel, 815 pgs., $36)

5. “Dead or Alive” by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood (Putnam)

By Tim Rutten

6. “Strategic Moves” by Stuart Woods (Putnam)

Donald Rumsfeld has served as White House chief of staff and twice as secretary of defense, the youngest and the oldest man ever to hold the post. He has been a trusted diplomatic envoy and successful private sector executive. Throughout it all — indeed, for most of his 78 years — he has borne with courage and almost preternatural fortitude the burden of always being the smartest guy in the room.

It’s wearisome always being right, particularly when so many others are so wrong, so often — at least that’s the impression a reader is most likely to draw from Rumsfeld’s exhaustive, exasperating but vigorously written memoir, “Known and Unknown.”

The title derives from a frequently parodied Rumsfeld response to a reporter’s question about whether there actually was evidence of any link between Saddam Hussein and terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction.

The defense secretary responded: “Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me because, as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

It is, of course, a logical fallacy to multiply categories beyond necessity, but it’s one Rumsfeld has rhetorically mastered to create a self-conscious reputation as a fearless questioner of received truths, one he’s amplified with a flair for impenetrably gnomic aphorisms. That, plus a cloying — but purely verbal — deference to questions of institutional loyalty are calculated to conceal as knife-sharp a set of elbows as any accomplished bureaucrat ever swung.

One might suppose, for example, that the “unknown” Rumsfeld intended to explore in these memoirs would be unrevealed facts about the six years during which he ran the Defense Department for President George W. Bush — particularly since nearly two-thirds of the book deal with that relatively brief period in the author’s life. But, as Rumsfeld writes, he’s “never much of a handwringer, I don’t spend a lot of time in recriminations, looking back or secondguessing decisions made in real time with imperfect information by myself or others.”

As seems typical of so much here, that’s partially true; the author has no taste for self-criticism or second-guessing himself.

Masterful bureaucratic survivor that he was until he ran out of room to maneuver, Rumsfeld delivers a memoir that is all

7. “Fatal Error” by J.A. Jance (Touchstone) 8. “Shadowfever” by Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte) 9. “The Confession” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 10. “The Sentry” by Robert Crais (Putnam) 11. “Room” by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown) 12. “Blackveil” by Kristen Britain (DAW) 13. “What the Night Knows” by Dean Koontz (Bantam) 14. “The Red Garden” by Alice Hoffman (Crown)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) 2. “The Pioneer Woman” by Ree Drummond (Morrow) 3. “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”

by Amy Chua (Penguin Press) 4. “The 4-Hour Body” by Timothy Ferriss (Crown) 5. “Decision Points” by George W. Bush (Crown) 6. “Cleopatra” by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown) 7. “The Investment Answer” by Daniel C. Goldie & Gordon S. Murray (Business Plus) 8. “Veganist” by Kathy Freston (Weinstein Books) 9. “Sexy Forever” by Suzanne Somers (Crown) 10. “The Hidden Reality” by Brian Greene (Knopf) 11. “As One” by Mehrdad Baghai & James Quigley (Portfolio) 12. “Autobiography of Mark Twain” edited by Harriet Elinor Smith (University of California Press) 13. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot (Crown) 14. “The Lean Belly Prescription”

by Travis Stork, M.D., with Peter Moore (Rodale)

MASS MARKET 1. “Swimsuit” by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Grand Central) 2. “Marrying Daisy Bellamy” by Susan Wiggs (Mira) 3. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 4. “Wild Man Creek” by Robyn Carr (Mira) 5. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 6. “Here to Stay” by Catherine Anderson (Signet) 7. “Deliver Us from Evil” by David Baldacci (Vision) 8. “Sizzle” by Julie Garwood (Ballantine) 9. “Frankenstein: Lost Souls” by Dean Koontz (Bantam) 10. “Broken” by Karin Slaughter (Dell) 11. “The Lincoln Lawyer” by Michael Connelly (Grand Central) 12. “This Body of Death” by Elizabeth George (Harper) 13. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown (Anchor) 14. “Tom Clancy’s Endwar” by David Michaels (Berkley)

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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a team of six aides worked four years on his memoirs — a 700-page narrative, with an additional 100-plus pages of end notes.

about shifting blame and settling scores.

Criticism of colleagues Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, later secretary of state, are two colleagues who come in for a particular bashing — the former chairman of the joint chiefs as a self-interested operator, Rice as ineffectual and inexperienced.

Rumsfeld’s contempt for her ability to function effectively as National Security Council chief is thoroughgoing, and he implicitly attributes some of Bush’s poor decisions to the fact that Rice was usually the last person to whom the president spoke. Powell’s closest deputy, Richard Armitage, also comes in for his share of knocks.

In fact, according to Rumsfeld, at one point Bush had to intervene when Powell and the defense secretary got into a spitting match about which of their deputies — Armitage or Paul Wolfowitz at Defense — was leaking the most damaging stories about the other’s boss.

The president, we’re assured by Rumsfeld, took his side.

Rumsfeld takes particular offense at Powell’s contention that he was misled by faulty intelligence into making the public case for the invasion of Iraq.

“Powell was not duped or misled by anybody,” Rumsfeld writes.

“Nor did he lie about Saddam’s suspected WMD stockpiles. The president did not lie. The vice president did not lie. (CIA Director George) Tenet did not lie. Rice did not lie. I did not lie. … The far less dramatic truth is that we were wrong.”

Even so, Rumsfeld — who does reveal that Bush asked for Iraq invasion plans within days of 9/11 — argues that removing Hussein was the right thing to do. He denies, however, that putting more troops on the ground there would have prevented the murderous chaos that engulfed Iraq, and he blames civilian administrator Paul Bremer’s decision not to quickly turn control over to Iraqi civilians as well as the abrupt dissolution of Hussein’s army for that. (In one of his rare forays into critical retrospection, Rumsfeld remarks in passing that he might have been able to stop that.)

Rumsfeld flatly denies that any of his military commanders ever asked for more forces and categorically rejects the stories that Gen. Eric Shinseki was forced to retire for testifying to Congress before the invasion began that hundreds of thousands of troops would be required.

Tenet and Gen. Tommy Franks also come in for criticism over their handling of the Afghan fiasco at Tora Bora, where the United States botched its last known opportunity to apprehend or kill Osama bin Laden.

Both the CIA director and the commander have said they were denied additional U.S. forces to seal off the area and prevent bin

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ing it if I had. If someone thought bin Laden was cornered, as later claimed, I found it surprising that Tenet had never called me to urge Franks to support their operation.”

Rumsfeld’s explanation?

“Their recollections may be imperfect.”

Loyalty to Bush

Laden’s escape.

Rumsfeld has a different memory. He writes that he sent Tenet a memo saying that “we might be missing an opportunity” and wondering if more troops were needed. Rumsfeld alleges that he later learned a CIA agent on the ground had requested just that, but adds: “I never received such a request from either Franks or Tenet. And cannot imagine deny-

While the author goes out of the way to stress his loyalty to Bush and to express admiration for his personal qualities, he employs his best more-in-sorrowthan-in-anger tone to describe a president who too often failed to demand the best information, made decisions precipitously and then failed to see that they were wholly carried out.

The one colleague who is spared Rumsfeld’s disapproval is Vice President Dick Cheney, with whom he served in Gerald Ford’s White House. Apart from the observation that Cheney almost surely was the most influential vice president in recent history, he hardly appears in these pages. It’s an odd omission.

Ultimately, Rumsfeld casts

his net over a herd of scapegoats large enough to include his own family. He attributes his preoccupation in the days preceding 9/11, for example, to worry over his son Nic’s relapse into drug addiction. His flippant, controversial dismissal of concerns over the looting of Baghdad’s antiquities museum was, similarly, the consequence of distraction over his wife’s ruptured appendix.

There is one unintentionally revealing anecdote from the tragic hours of 9/11 that actually serves as a kind of coda to these recollections. The Pentagon, of course, had been attacked. Late that night, the dead still were uncounted and fires still burned.

About 11 p.m. — 12 hours after the plane had slammed into the Pentagon — Torie Clarke, the veteran assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, asked Rumsfeld whether he’d called his wife of 47 years. He admitted that he hadn’t.

“Clarke looked at me with the stare of a woman who was also a wife. ‘You son of a bitch,’ she blurted out.

“She had a point.”

She did, indeed.

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Heist novel finds traction in ‘Cold Shot to the Heart’ “Cold Shot to the Heart”

by Wallace Stroby (Minotaur, 304 pgs., $24.99)

7. “Inside of a Dog” by Alexandra Horowitz (Scribner)

By Oline H. Cogdill

8. “The Postmistress” by Sarah Blake (Berkley)

In his fourth stand-alone book, Wallace Stroby shows why the heist novel — a noirish thriller in which a theft is at the plot’s center — is gaining a resurgence.

Like the best heist novels, “Cold Shot to the Heart” moves at a breakneck speed as clever crooks sidle through a maze of legalities, double-crossing business associates and vengeful criminals.

Like a true heist, “Cold Shot to the Heart” is heavy on plot but revolves around characters who, despite their crooked tendencies, evoke empathy. In this heist, a vast difference exists between a

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crook and a criminal.

The crook with the heart of gold is Crissa Stone, a savvy thief who carefully plans her jobs and is even more cautious about the people with whom she works. A network of contacts lines up the meticulous robberies in which violence is avoided. But the best-laid plans go awry. Crissa and her associates travel to Fort Lauderdale to rob a high-stakes poker game.

The holdup is going fine until one of Crissa’s accomplices shoots the son-in-law of a New Jersey mobster. Now Crissa and each of the people who works for her are the target of hit man Eddie Santiago. Stroby’s sturdy plot is augmented by the author’s intriguing look at how money corrupts and how even a crook can have a moral compass.

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Well, OK, there’s Stories illustrate everyday life a lot of meaning in two little letters “Gryphon: New and Selected Stories”

by Charles Baxter (Pantheon, 416 pgs., $27.95)

By Joseph Peschel

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Maybe best known for his novel “The Feast of Love,” Charles Baxter is not only a brilliant novelist — you must read his beautiful and eerie “Saul and Patsy” and the psychological gem “The Soul Thief” — but also an accomplished critic, teacher and essayist. As a short story writer, he’s as precise and insightful as anyone working in the form today.

A Baxter story always surprises with its metaphysics. Typically Midwestern, Baxter’s characters appear to be living ordinary, even mundane lives when suddenly the supernatural or near-super-

“OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word”

by Allan Metcalf (Oxford University Press, 211 pgs., $18.95)

By Nick Owchar Los Angeles Times

Is there another word as supple as “OK”?

Those two letters, side by side, separated (or not) by periods — they answer so many questions and describe countless situations.

When your day is uneventful, “OK” is all you need to say about it. On the other hand, the word conveys a sharp criticism when it’s all you can muster to tell your sister what you think of her new boyfriend. No invention — except maybe the elastic waistband — has the stretching power of “OK.” But is it really “America’s greatest word”? That’s what Allan Metcalf declares in the subtitle of his new book, “OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word.” He goes even further, saying the word is our answer to Shakespeare (uh, I’m not OK with that).

“It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, bigger even than an infant’s first word ’ma,’ ” writes Metcalf, an English professor and executive secretary of the American Dialect Society. “Just two simple letters … of humble origin … born as a lame joke.”

Getting to that humble origin is tricky since there are so many rumors surrounding it. In the process of reviewing contending legends, Metcalf’s book is a reminder of the crazy-quilt nature of English, a big, messy stew of collisions among languages and slang expressions. See if you can pick the real origin of “OK” (according to Metcalf) from the spurious ones: • A Chicago bakery named O. Kendall and Sons stamped Army biscuits with the initials of the firm.

• A Boston baker named Otto Kimmel did the same thing with his vanilla cookies.

• The word originates in the Choctaw word “okeh,” a verb meaning “it is true.”

• The initials were used in an 1839 newspaper article.

As intriguing as the others are, “OK” first appeared in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839.

It was an editor’s joke, an abbreviation for a misspelled version of the phrase “all correct.” It’s a bit of a letdown, but Metcalf per-

suasively goes on to show how the word thrived thanks to a fad in abbreviations sweeping parts of the nation and, later, because of its effectiveness in telegraph messages.

It was also bandied about and celebrated by social groups and political parties (for instance, it became a rallying cry for supporters of President Martin Van Buren, known as “Old Kinderhook”). Its humble origin also was challenged by a grander story that it was created at the inkwell of another American leader, Andrew Jackson, a notoriously poor speller (he “had more spirit than spelling,” Metcalf says). Old Hickory, the story goes, would show his approval of any document by initialing it with the letters “OK,” which he thought stood for “Oll Korrect.”

Metcalf traces “OK” in popular culture, business and literature and shows us how it evolved, behaving like a microscopic organism that splits itself into strange new shapes. Along with the working-class “OK,” there is the genteel-looking “okay,” the athletic “A-OK,” the goofy-sounding “okie-dokie” and, of course, an even slimmer version used in text messaging: “K.” “OK” is ingrained in the American character, Metcalf says, a word that should inspire us to beat the odds since it “exemplifies imperfection successfully overcome, blatant misspelling not holding it back from becoming America’s most successful invention.”

Metcalf’s book is a brief, thoughtful and enjoyable addition to the growing shelfload of books inviting readers to reconsider everyday things — from appliances to the moon overhead to the air we breathe. His book, in fact, isn’t just good — that’s right, it’s better than OK.

Author scores again with enthralling tale “The Cypress House”

by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown, 432 pgs., $24.99)

By Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel (Florida)

Battle-weary soldiers trying to adjust to civilian life have been cropping up more frequently in mystery fiction. It doesn’t matter when the war took place because the experiences are universal.

Award-winning author Michael Koryta spins that theme into an enthralling novel that easily melds mystery fiction, the supernatural and just a touch of the old-fashioned Western and historical novels without losing the conventions of each genre.

Yet “The Cypress House” is so grounded in reality that no plot turn or character rings false.

“The Cypress House” works as a novel about postwar stress, small-town corruption and the dusty Great Depression. Koryta dredges up the dread that festers below the surface of the characters who reside at “The Cypress House.”

When he was a Marine during World War I, Arlen Wagner discovered he knew which of his fellow soldiers would soon die because he could see smoke swirling in their eyes, visions of their bodies turning into skeletons. He was never wrong, but avoiding a situation could save a life. This ability — which seemed to come overnight — has been a curse and a blessing, and isn’t one he can discuss. “On the last day of August 1935,” Arlen joins

33 other men, most of them veterans like him, who are part of the Civilian Conservation Corps bound for Key West to build a bridge. When he starts to see smoke in the men’s eyes, he knows that disaster awaits the crew. But he can only convince Paul Brickhill, a 19-year-old mechanical genius, to get off the train with him. They end up in a backwater Florida town and at the Cypress House, an isolated, down-at-its-heels boarding house run by Rebecca Cady. The town — and Rebecca — are ruled by a corrupt judge and sheriff who use the waterways for a variety of crimes.

Arlen is no hero — he has been a drifter since the war — and Paul is a naive young man, but, like the best Western tales, it is up to them to clean up the town.

As he did in last year’s supernatural-tinged “So Cold the River,” Koryta again shows his affinity for incorporating varied genres into a cohesive story and, along the way, stretching the boundaries of each.

Koryta, who won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2009 for “Envy the Night” and has been nominated for myriad awards, continues to display masterful storytelling in each novel. Because of his talent and the accolades he has earned, Koryta’s age crops up in every story and review. He is 28; he published his first novel at age 21, “Tonight I Said Goodbye,” which won the St. Martin’s Press/PWA Best First Novel prize.

natural, sometimes the beautifully strange, rears its magical head. Not really magical realism, it’s more like correlative subtext that has replaced T.S. Eliot’s objectivity with a metaphysical phenomenon — the magical correlative.

The 23 stories in “Gryphon: New and Selected Stories” include seven previously uncollected pieces and a sampling of Baxter’s best from four earlier collections: “Harmony of the World” (1984), “Through the Safety Net” (1985), “A Relative Stranger” (1990) and “Believers” (1997).

Baxter tells stories of the passions, loves and lives of his characters. They often venture off to a mild sort of madness, like

the substitute teacher, neurotic Miss Ferenczi, of the title story.

She introduces her grade school students to mythological monsters and tarot cards as she tries to feed the children’s imaginations, excepting one student, with hope for the future.

In “Kiss Away” (an O. Henry Award winner), two unemployed young people try to find jobs and love.

Her tarot cards and a bizarre homeless man — he claims he’s a genie — drive this mystery of love and danger, possibility and fate.

“Harmony of the World” follows two failed musicians — he’s a failure as a pianist, she as a singer. They begin a doomed ro-

mance. He knows his limitations: He’s technically perfect but lacks passion. She has plenty of passion but lacks skill.

Many of those older stories are well-known from award anthologies. Some of the new stories, such as “The Cousins,” “Poor Devil “ and “Ghosts,” have appeared or are noted as “Distinguished Stories” in recent “Best American” collections.

Baxter’s stories summon up a haunting beauty; his is a way of illustrating the mystical connections in life. I wish Baxter had written a foreword that explained the genesis of these stories and his reasons for choosing them for this collection. But this is a marvelous book. It brings a certain unexplained splendor, as the narrator in “The Cousins” says, to “the rewards of plain everyday life.”

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Decoding an ongoing conflict For former teenage Two books examine bin Laden, HEARTTHROBS AND GIRLDOM

girls, a book to love

explore violent Islamic extremism bia, whose ruling family owes its pre-eminence to an ancesAs Americans watch the stun- tor’s unshakable alliance with ning and, potentially, ominous the Muslim scholar who founded transformation under way in that branch in the 18th century.

Egypt, they’re going to hear a Bin Laden, according to Scheuer, great deal about that country’s is the furthest thing from irratioMuslim Brotherhood and what nal, acting in close accord with its participation in a post-Hosni the precepts of Wahhabi Salafism, which mandates a defensive Mubarak regime may portend.

It’s a crucial question and re- jihad — or armed struggle — to minds us, once again, how im- drive all unbelievers from Musportant it has become to gain an lim territory and recover those understanding of the fundamen- regions formerly under Islamic talist Muslim theological current law, including Spain and southcalled Salafism and of its con- ern Thailand.

Scheuer’s bin Laden is a genertemporary expression through political Islam, since the Broth- ous giver of charity, a gentle naerhood grows out of the former ture lover revered by his family and is the modern godfather of and a formidable Islamic theothe latter. Such an understand- logian and scholar who coming can help explain — in part municates with followers and — one of the central paradoxes prospective recruits in erudite, in the West’s ongoing conflict historically evocative poetry. He with political Islam’s martial is a master tactician who — in manifestation, jihadism: the fact Scheuer’s view — “lured” the that al-Qaida’s founding leaders, United States into an Afghan Osama bin Laden and Ayman quagmire.

All well and good, although, Zawahiri, come not from some hostile quarter of the Arab street, as our common sense tells us: Single-mindedness is but from the privileged the common currency classes of two American of fanatics, devoted serallies, Saudi Arabia and vants of what Kenneth Egypt.

Rexroth aptly called Peter Bergen is “the blood-stained abCNN’s national security straction.” When one analyst, and Michael of them is trying to Scheuer spent three kill you, fine theologiyears in the late 1990s cal distinctions aren’t heading the CIA unit Former CIA assigned to track bin senior analyst simply without a difference, but beside the Laden. Their new books Michael point.

— “The Longest War: Scheuer That latter reality The Enduring Conflict spent three renders rather tedious Between America and years in the the part of Scheuer’s Al Qaeda” and “Osama 1990s headbook in which he quarBin Laden,” respectively ing the unit rels with other special— make useful contri- assigned to ists in Salafism over butions to our growing track Osama whether, and to what understanding of these bin Laden. extent, bin Laden was issues, even though neiinfluenced by Zawather matches the foundational importance of Law- hiri or whether he is or isn’t a rence Wright’s definitive “The takfiri — a kind of Salafist who Looming Tower,” Steve Coll’s believes that non-Salafi Muslims indispensable “The Bin Ladens” can be killed as apostates. Techor Mary Habeck’s lucid, learned nically that may be so, but since Wahhabism’s founder believed “Knowing the Enemy.” they were heretics, it’s another useless distinction. Moreover, ‘Osama Bin Laden’ al-Qaida in Mesopotamia and in Scheuer’s thesis, couched here the Maghreb has, by now, killed as a concise analytic biography, thousands of fellow Muslims, is that American policymakers and Bergen correctly makes a have criminally miscalculated point of noting it as something by assuming that bin Laden is that has diminished the organia deranged fanatic acting out of zation on the Muslim street.

Finally, this book — like blind hatred for the West. Bin Laden, as Scheuer convincingly Scheuer’s early works — is dissituates him, is very much the figured by an antipathy to Israel product of the puritanical Wah- and to America’s alliance with habi branch of Islam, which is of- that country that is so thoroughficially promoted by Saudi Ara- going and vulgar as to amount to

By Tim Rutten

“I Think I Love You”

by Allison Pearson (Alfred A. Knopf, 336 pgs., $24.95)

Los Angeles Times

By Catherine Mallette McClatchy-Tribune News Service

barely genteel Jew-baiting. (Else- tral Asia and a grand recruiting where, the author has referred to opportunity for al-Qaida, which U.S. foreign policy and both po- gained a massive propaganda litical parties as “wholly-owned victory. The author makes an subsidiaries” of the American interesting case that parallels Israel Public Affairs Committee between the U.S. invasion of and the state of Israel.)

Afghanistan and the Soviet ocThe fact is that bin Laden’s — cupation are imprecise and overand Saudi Arabian — anti-Semi- drawn, and that the Obama adtism, which Scheuer ministration’s strategic acknowledges, is so policy there is far closdeeply ingrained that er to the mark than its it would exist even if critics imagine. Unlike Israel didn’t. America’s Scheuer, Bergen thinks ties with Israel, morebin Laden overreached over, are not based on and badly miscalcumalevolent manipulalated with the 9/11 attion but on the fact that tacks and that al-Qaida the Jewish state is ev- Peter Bergen, has been significantly erything that a country a national weakened and disloenvisioned by Salafists security anacated ever since by the never can be: Western, lyst on CNN, U.S. response. modern, democratic and discusses Looking to the transpluralist. the war on formations now under terror in his way in Tunisia, Egypt latest book, and — potentially — ‘The Longest “The Longest other Arab despotisms War’ War,” providin which inequality fesBergen’s “The Lon- ing detail ters, Bergen sounds a gest War” is a useful and historical chilling warning when synopsis of the strug- perspective. he notes that many gle we’ve come to call thousands of underemthe war on terror, and ployed, disaffected men he chronicles it with the keen in the Muslim world will continue eye of an experienced journal- to embrace bin Laden’s doctrine ist and on-the-ground observer. of violent anti-Westernism.

While much of the material here It’s a prediction that takes will be familiar to those who’ve on chilling resonance when closely followed the news since you consider that 40 percent of 9/11, there’s much valuable add- Egypt’s 80 million people live on ed detail, as well as historical $2 a day or less and that its popuperspective. lation includes the largest numBergen, who actually has in- ber of unemployed university terviewed bin Laden and is the graduates in the world. author of two books on him, gives a particularly good view of al-Qaida’s operative behavior — it’s much more bureaucratic than you might imagine — as well as a gripping re-creation of what went wrong at Tora Bora, the last opportunity the U.S. had to apprehend or kill bin Laden.

Bergen and Scheuer agree that the American invasion of Iraq was a disaster, a distraction from the crucial battleground in Cen-

Last year, I was in the lobby of a Dallas theater when a friend said, “Oh, there’s David Cassidy.” It was probably a good thing that my husband was standing next to me, so my response fell within the bounds of human dignity.

Of course, what I wanted to do was run up to Cassidy and make some sort of clever allusion to one of his hits from the ’70s to prove what a loyal fan I had been. I knew all the lyrics, having sung them a bajillion times in a mock Partridge Family band with my best girlfriend and the boy next door. Who says there are no time machines?

Suddenly I was also in a living room in Massachusetts asking someone to please point me in the direction of Albuquerque.

David freakin’ Cassidy. David freakin’ Cassidy! My middleaged heart was pounding.

Apparently, Allison Pearson, growing up in South Wales, had a similar Cassidy crush.

Pearson, author of 2002’s fabulous “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” is back with her second book, a novel that takes the Cassidy crush as its central theme and turns it into an exploration of teen heartthrobs, celebrity, and the agony and the ecstasy of teenage girldom.

Pearson’s protagonist is Petra, who in 1974, when the story opens, is 13 years old and is obsessed with Cassidy. She and her girlfriend Sharon hungrily consume every word of The Essential David Cassidy Magazine. They kiss his image on the shrine of posters on Sharon’s bedroom door. They are in love.

The girls and their entourage, led by mean girl Gillian, make plans to travel from Wales to London to attend Cassidy’s farewell concert. What will they wear? How will Petra keep this

from her mother, who disapproves of pop music? What will it feel like to see David?

Part I of this book rings so true with young teen angst that I almost wondered if my face might break out reading it. There I was in that time machine again. I was Petra. We were all Petra.

Pearson introduces another point of view in Part I, that of a guy named Bill, who is starting his career as a music journalist and has, quite luckily and unfortunately, landed the job as the voice of Cassidy for The Essential David Cassidy Magazine. It’s a humiliating job, and yet it pays the bills and, he’s good at it.

He writes, and Petra and her gang believe.

And just when the reader is getting quite comfortable in 1974, Pearson takes us to Part II, 1998. A grown-up Petra is at her mother’s funeral with her husband, whom she is divorcing because he’s shacked up with a younger woman. Petra’s got a daughter, a 13-year-old who is madly in love with Leonardo DiCaprio. Same song, new verse, but then something happens and Petra — having lived her entire adult life in London as a cellist and music therapist — is suddenly confronted with a surprising situation that compels her to travel back down the Cassidy roads of her past.

Pearson’s Petra is so real that I almost felt like I should call her up and tell her how much I related to her story. This is a well-told tale with equal parts of teenage and grown-up drama, all of it almost too real, too. As the years fly by, the pages fly by.

If you’ve ever been a teenage girl, you know exactly how the desperation feels and maybe understand why it was so hard for me at the age of 48 to restrain myself when Cassidy walked by.

If you don’t understand the phenomenon, read Pearson’s book for some entertaining insight.

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Fraud Continued from F1 Even though motorized wheelchairs can cost up to $7,000 apiece, Nwafor’s scam was on the low end when compared with others who made the most-wanted list.

Sisters Clara and Caridad Guilarte allegedly submitted $9 million to Medicare in false and fraudulent claims for pricey infusion drugs that were never provided to patients. They are accused of offering cash and other rewards for beneficiaries to visit their clinic in Dearborn, Mich., and sign forms that said they received services that they never got.

An alleged accomplice was arrested in the Dominican Republic recently, but the sisters remain at large.

Scammers “often utilize their ties to a particular community,” said Roy. “They take advantage of ethnic communities based on language barriers or lack of knowledge about how the Medicare system works. These folks are exploiting low-income communities.”

Fugitive Susan Bendigo is accused of billing California’s Medicaid program for $17 million in nursing care, much of which was performed by staffers who weren’t licensed. A registered nurse, Bendigo was the nursing director for a company that provided personnel for home health agencies. Allegedly, she was fully aware that she was required to send licensed nurses to care for patients.

Topping the list are Miami brothers Carlos, Luis and Jose Benitez. Owners of a string of medical clinics, they allegedly scammed Medicare out of $119 million by billing for costly HIV drugs that patients never received or did not need. Authorities say they bought hotels, helicopters

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In July 2010, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, with Attorney General Eric Holder looking on, talked to reporters during a news conference in Miami, where federal authorities said they were conducting another large Medicare fraud bust in five states, and arresting dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million. and boats before fleeing to Cuba.

The FBI has the marquee mostwanted list, but the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies also maintain their own.

Roy said he hopes this newest list will raise awareness of the importance of combatting health care fraud. Medicare and Medicaid, which provide care for about 100 million people in the U.S., are in serious financial trouble and can’t afford to be hemorrhaging tens of billions a year because of fraud.

Most people go to elaborate lengths to avoid having their

scams detected. But there often is a telltale sign.

To document his transactions, wheelchair purveyor Nwafor assembled elaborate paper files, complete with bogus prescriptions and photos of beneficiaries in their wheelchairs. But investigators had a hunch they were on to something when they discovered that most of his customers lived nearly 200 miles away from his Los Angeles-area store.

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BEND HELICOPTER SCHOOL IS SOARING

JOHN STEARNS

Bank back to playing offense B

ank of the Cascades is back in the game.

Or, as Cascade Bancorp President and CEO Patricia Moss said last week, “It just feels good to be back on offense.”

That came with the receipt Jan. 28 of about $150 million from private investors.

That culminated a deal first announced in November to provide a much-needed injection of capital to the Bend-based bank battered by losses from the real estate collapse.

As Moss said, the bank had to play defense for the past 18 months, after receiving a regulatory order in August 2009 to raise its capital ratios. During that time, it had to preserve capital, which made it difficult to do much more than service existing bank customers, which included renewing their loans if their credit quality was good.

The bank didn’t originate any big stuff, though, so multimillion-dollar loans for new customers were off the table.

“Now we’re actively calling on businesses and saying, ‘If you have a need for the dollars and ability to repay, we’re here to do small-business lending,’” Moss said.

“We were not out actively looking for credit during the last 18 months.”

The bank will make loans up to about $10 million, in general, with rates and terms contingent on the type of loan.

Getting the bank back in the credit game is welcome news for this region.

The capital allows the bank to return to growth mode in making loans “and we are assertively in the position of being in the position to make loans” to qualified borrowers, Moss said.

That means loans for small businesses, homes, cars, commercial real estate and operating lines of credit. But don’t look for the bank to make loans for raw land development, Moss said. That’s where the bank got clobbered in the crash. The bank will still make construction loans as long as repayment isn’t based on the sale of the asset, unless the borrower can demonstrate he could carry the loan without the asset’s sale.

Small-business lending is the bank’s lifeblood, along with real estate lending for businesses and consumers. But many small businesses are struggling with the economy and won’t qualify, Moss said.

Nevertheless, the bank ought to be able to tell businesses what they can do to make the improvements necessary to qualify later, she said.

While Cascade Bancorp got three new board members representing the investors, increasing the board to 10 directors, the bank’s operating philosophy won’t change, Moss said.

“That’s why (the investors) bought the shares in the company, because they believed in the business strategy.”

As for the bank’s condition, “we’re very strong fundamentally, from a capital position, (and) obviously there’s no question about depositors and the safety and soundness” of their money, she said.

“We’re still in a bad economic time, so we still have a lot of work to do to help our customers make it through this period of time.”

••• As Moss noted, times remain tough here. That was proven again last week in the latest Associated Press Economic Stress Index, which measures counties’ economic stress based on their levels of unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies. It shows Central Oregon’s three counties continuing to suffer.

All posted stress scores higher than the 10.4 national average for counties. Higher scores mean higher stress. A county is generally considered stressed if its score exceeds 11, according to an AP story on the December index.

Local county scores were: Crook, 22.53; Deschutes, 20.64; Jefferson, 18.37.

The five most stressed counties, with populations of at least 25,000, were: Imperial, Calif.; Lyon, Nev.; Nye, Nev.; Merced, Calif.; and Yuma, Ariz. The five healthiest counties, according to AP: Ellis, Kan.; Buffalo, Neb.; Ford, Kan.; Ward, N.D.; and Sioux, Iowa.

The story also noted that “the sharpest increases in economic stress (in 2010) occurred in counties with heavy concentrations of real estate workers.”

Instead of location, location, location, we need diversification, diversification, diversification.

John Stearns business editor, can be reached at 541-617-7822 or at jstearns@bendbulletin.com.

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Tawna Fenske, 36, reads a romance novel at her Bend home Wednesday. Fenske recently landed a contract to write three comedic romance novels.

Photos by Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

Leading Edge Aviation helicopter flight instructor Adam Stockland, left, waits Thursday morning for his student, while another student, Joe Mayberry, 28 and of Bend, performs a preflight check on the helicopter he planned to use for his instrument-rating flight. Nearly 100 students spend part of their time away from COCC to train at Bend Municipal Airport.

Learning to fly Leading Edge Aviation is ‘bursting at the seams’ with business, with assistance from a flight training program run jointly with COCC

By Tim Doran The Bulletin

our helicopters sat in a row Thursday morning on the ramp at Bend Municipal Airport as future helicopter pilots began their flight training at Leading Edge Aviation.

Enrollment in the company’s helicopter flight training program, coordinated through the aviation program at Central Oregon Community College, has soared, growing 67 percent in the last year, said Brad Fraley, Leading Edge CEO. Nearly 100 students, many financed by the Post-9/11 GI Bill, spend part of their week in flight training at Leading Edge and attend classes on the COCC campus. But it’s not just the joint Leading Edge-COCC program prompting the flight school to grow and adding business at the Bend airport.

The first Federal Aviation Administration inspector pilots to get advanced helicopter training at Leading Edge have arrived, Fraley said. The federal agency that oversees flight picked Leading Edge to provide the training for its own inspector pilots.

“They are wonderful,” said Airport Manager Gary Judd, referring to Leading Edge. “It’s kind of like the really, really bright spot.”

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Flight school employees wheel a helicopter out of the hangar Thursday morning at the Bend airport. Rows of airplanes sit parked between Leading Edge’s hangars and the ramp where its pilots land helicopters, and since helicopters don’t have wheels, students must attach them to roll them out to the flight line. “We could probably double our flight school in the next couple years if we had the space,” CEO Brad Fraley said.

Turbulence in airfare shopping

By Jad Mouawad And Claire Cain Miller New York Times News Service

With airlines imposing fees for checked bags, priority seating and access to airport lounges, finding a good fare is just the starting point. Ticket buyers then need to check multiple websites to figure out the best deal.

Now, even that process is on the verge of change, and the impetus is coming from various directions. The airlines are looking for a bigger role in how their

products are sold. Google is seeking to establish a foothold in air-travel search.

And new technology companies, like Hipmunk and Vayant, want to offer yet more search options.

The biggest push to change online ticket buying is coming from American Airlines, which recently announced that it wanted to bypass the central reservation systems that now deliver fare information to online travel agents like Expedia and Orbitz, and instead

deliver that information directly. Such a move would reduce the fees that American pays to list its fares on travel agents’ sites and would give a boost to its bottom line, battered by years of falling fares.

If American wins — and for the moment, that is not certain as both Expedia and Orbitz have pulled American’s listings from their sites — airlines would gain the upper hand in ticket searches.

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Pendency problems at Patent Office Despite efforts to improve, approvals move more slowly

Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

George Davida, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, specializing in cryptography, computer and network security, Davida missed the window on his patent on securely storing biometric information on a smart card because his file got lost in the shuffle.

By John Schmid Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

MILWAUKEE — A year and a half after President Barack Obama appointed an IBM Corp. executive to fix the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, its problems by several key measures have only worsened, as damage inflicted by years of congressional raids on its funding continues to make it all but impossible for the agency to keep up with its workload.

The result: More than 1.2 million patent applications, filed by inventors and entrepreneurs ranging from major corporations to garage tinkerers, are still awaiting final decisions, a number nearly unchanged from the levels of the past three years.

Also unchanged is a bureaucracy that publishes entire patent applications online 18 months after they are filed, whether or not they have been acted upon — and most often not, because the agency is so far behind.

That puts American ingenuity up for grabs, free to anyone with an Internet connection.

“American economic security is threatened in a way Congress has failed to recognize,” said Paul Michel, recently retired chief justice of the federal court in Washington, D.C., that handles patent cases.

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Tourism promoter, romance novelist This Bend woman is both; first book’s due out in August

By Ed Merriman The Bulletin

By day, Tawna Fenske promotes tourism as director of communications for Visit Bend, but at night and on her days off, she writes steamy romance novels.

Her first book, “Making Waves,” is what Fenske calls a quirky romantic comedy. In it, fate lands the main character, Juli, as a stowaway on a boat captained by Alex — a man whose unscrupulous boss kicked him to the curb after 20 faithful years — and “she finds herself in a revenge-fueled Caribbean diamond heist with a crew more suited to the boardroom than the poop deck.”

“Alex didn’t plan to be a pirate, either. He just wants to recover his dignity, pension and something resembling a normal life.

But normal flies out the window when Juli enters the picture — a twist Alex wishes he didn’t find so exhilarating,” according the book’s opening paragraph.

“The two soon discover that while normal is nice, weird can be wonderful,” according to the book’s introduction that appears on Fenske’s website, on her Twitter site and on The Debutante Ball website. All provide links where the novel can be preordered online through Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Borders, Powell’s Books and IndieBound.

“Making Waves,” due to be published Aug. 11, is the first of three romantic comedy novels that Sourcebooks Inc., based in Naperville, Ill., has contracted with Fenske to write. All three have ties to Oregon.

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First Quality Music is a family-owned supplier of stringed musical instruments, including guitars and mandolins, and parts and accessories.

Founded in Louisville, Ky., in 1970, the company also makes banjos and game calls for hunters. The nine-employee operation includes a retail showroom, a small banjo factory and a warehouse with inventory for online and mail-order purchases.

The challenge Get back in the black. Between 2007-10, First Quality Music posted an operating loss of $460,000 despite $20 million in total sales. As of last spring, the co-owners, Jeff and Eric Sullivan, knew they were hurtling toward bankruptcy but lacked a plan to save the company their father started four decades ago in their basement.

The background

A Bardstown model Sullivan 5string banjo, constructed of mahogany, at First Quality Music.

Founder Bill Sullivan was inspired to build banjos thanks to a book by banjo legend Earl Scruggs.

Eric Sullivan, 39.

In 2007, the picture darkened.

Bill Sullivan died unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm at 67. And then the recession began.

The bank froze First Quality’s credit line in 2008. To stay afloat, Jeff and Eric took out loans and amassed more than $500,000 in capital by cashing out their 401(k)s and refinancing their homes. But things were not getting better.

In 2009, sales flatlined at $3.5 million, and a painful truth started to emerge: In effect, the brothers were paying to go to work each day.

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Like the draft horse in “Animal Farm” by George Orwell — who responds to all troubles with, “I will work harder!” — the Sullivans are tireless. They keep long hours and, after the recession hit, their wives began

working at First Quality without pay. So the first option was to redouble those efforts. The other choice? Get some tough love from outside the family.

Listening to the radio, Eric heard about a book called “Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing” by George Cloutier, founder and chief executive of American Management Services, a consulting firm based in Orlando, Fla., which specializes in turning around terminally ill companies. He bought the book and devoured it in an evening. Along with case studies, the book offers such maxims as “Love your business more than your family” and “The best family business has one member.”

“I was not going to fire my fam-

ily,” Jeff Sullivan, 45, recalled.

Still, in early 2010, First Quality’s sales were down almost 40 percent from three years earlier.

Something had to give.

Last March, First Quality paid $500 to have an analyst from Cloutier’s firm visit and produce a business survey by combing through company financials, touring the premises and soliciting employee answers to a confidential questionnaire.

The results said plainly what no one had wanted to admit: The company was “functionally bankrupt.” Sources of outside capital were exhausted, and First Quality would wrap up 2010, at best, with an $80,000 loss on $3.5 million in sales.

The survey also noted that internal financial and operational reports were few and far between, which left them “flying blind.” Employee responsibilities were poorly defined and uncoordinated, creating inefficiency, “frustration,” a “fiefdom mentality” and “problem swarming,” the tendency for many workers to cluster around a single task.

Pulling First Quality out of its tailspin would require “immediate, sweeping changes.” The owners, the survey suggested, needed to make “a business plan for predetermined profit” rather

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During the late 1960s, Bill Sullivan, the patriarch and founder of First Quality Music, was working in a tool-and-die shop at General Electric when he discovered his calling: banjos. He had no talent for playing them, but after reading a book by Earl Scruggs, the banjo legend, he thought he might be able to build one. Before long, Sullivan was selling banjo parts — pre-slotted fingerboards and necks — as fast as he could make them. His timing was pitch-perfect. “Deliverance” hit theaters in 1972, and “Dueling Banjos,” the rollicking duet that was the film’s signature song, shot to No. 2 on Billboard’s pop singles chart.

In 1982, Sullivan quit his day job to focus on his fledgling company, then called First Quality Banjo. Over the next decade, the business grew, and his sons branched out with two sister companies, First Quality Strings and First Quality Neckworks. He also won a large new client for banjo parts: Gibson, the musical instrument manufacturer best known for its electric guitars.

The family’s three businesses joined together as First Quality Music Supplies in 1999. That year, sales passed $1 million, the company was profitable, and the Sullivans reached another milestone: They packed up their paperwork and inventory, still piled high in family basements and garages, and moved into an industrial park.

Sales kept climbing and, in 2000, the family decided to build and sell a line of banjos under the Sullivan name. But overhead was growing, too, and it started to swallow the profits. By 2006, First Quality had 28 employees and $5.5 million in revenue and was barely breaking even.

“We were on a path to grow ourselves out of business,” said

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Jeff Sullivan, left, and Eric Sullivan, are owners of First Quality Music, a family-owned supplier of stringed musical instruments, in Louisville, Ky. Not wanting to accept the truth of imminent bankruptcy, the Sullivan brothers solicited outside help from a consulting firm to find a way to save the company their father started in 1970.

than just reacting to day-to-day challenges. They would have to generate more detailed financial data, including job-costing analyses, flash reports and forecasts.

They would also have to set benchmarks, define roles more clearly and review employee performance.

The survey assigned dollar values to potential improvements. Better labor management, for example, could increase First Quality’s profits by $67,000 annually; stronger billing and collections systems and faster inventory turns would add another $30,000. The survey estimated that, in total, First Quality had the potential to reap more than $1 million in cost savings in the following three years.

This information left the Sullivans at a critical juncture. They could hire American Management Services to institute a full turnaround plan, but there was no guarantee the plan would work and it would cost $170,000 — money they did not have.

“They are by no means cheap,” Jeff said.

Or the brothers could go it alone, using the survey’s insights as a starting point to devise their own plan.

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Beyond tasting good and freshening breath, chewing gum today increasingly promises dental benefits, like reducing cavities, whitening and even strengthening teeth. Now two brands, Stride and Trident, are putting their money into varieties fortified with ingredients like vitamin C and ginseng to bolster alertness or wellness.

Each piece of Stride Spark, which began appearing in stores in January, provides 25 percent of the recommended daily allowance of the vitamins B-6 and B12, which are common in energy drinks like Red Bull. The gum, available in Kinetic Mint and Kinetic Fruit flavors, also creates a tingling in the mouth.

“This is the first-ever flavor profile with an oomph you can feel and an oomph you can taste,” said Gary Osifchin, marketing director for both the Stride and Dentyne brands.

Some beverages, like Rockstar and Jolt, make on-the-go gum versions, often containing eyeopening doses of caffeine.

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“I find that if I leave the gum in one place for too long, I start to feel a weird tingling sensation that quickly turns to burning,” Spare wrote.

A Trident sub-brand called Vitality, which also went on the market in January, is including unlikely ingredients as well, in this case a flavor called Vigorate with vitamin C, Awaken with ginseng and Rejuve with mint and white tea. Marketing for the product is aimed at consumers older than Stride chewers, from 24 to 34.

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Helicopter Continued from G1 Leading Edge Aviation also offers more than the helicopter flight school, which started in fall 2006.

The company serves as an authorized sales, service and overhaul facility for Robinson Helicopter Co., of Torrance, Calif., and it still provides the service it has been offering for two decades, installing avionics systems in helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. “We’re actually bursting at the seams,� said Fraley, who bought the business in 2005.

He would like to continue expanding Leading Edge, but the Bend airport has limited space, although Judd has some ideas for opening up more.

Much of the company’s growth has been fueled by the COCCLeading Edge program, which has 99 students enrolled.

Those attending with assistance of the GI Bill make up about 60 percent of the enrollment.

The GI Bill pays for all tuition, normal student fees, flight training and a housing allowance — about $105,000 per student over the two-year program, which adds up to more than $10.3 million pumped into the Central Oregon economy. “Right now, it’s one of the most (productive) economic stimulus programs in Central Oregon,� said John Miller, COCC Aviation Program director.

Helicopter training has attracted students from across the nation, Fraley said, and the first international student, from Colombia, arrived last week.

Proof is in the parking area in front of Leading Edge’s main building. The vehicles sport license plates from Alaska, California, Idaho and Utah. “You name it,� Fraley said. “I think we’re pretty close to every state.�

No easy task Fraley has heard flying a helicopter (which can be maneuvered forward, backward and sideways) described as “standing on a basketball juggling razor blades.�

Travis Warthen, Leading Edge vice president, said he always heard it was like “riding a unicycle on top of a basketball.�

To learn those skills, students in the aviation program spend about 15 hours a week in the classroom at COCC. They study aerodynamics, meteorology, aviation law, airport management and other topics, Miller said.

The rest of the time they train in a simulator or one of the Robinson R22 or R44 training helicopters at Leading Edge. And with the mountains, high desert and fast-changing weather conditions, Central Oregon provides students with a broad training environment, Miller and Fraley said.

The COCC-Leading Edge program also gives pilots experience flying turbine helicopters, handling external loads, such as those that hang below the aircraft, mountain flying and night-vision goggle training. “We’re the only school in the U.S. that has an advanced helicopter operations course,� Miller said.

COCC’s aviation program also serves fixed-wing pilots, who receive their flight training from Professional Air in Bend or Butler Aircraft Services in Redmond.

Currently, however, the helicopter program has about double the enrollment, Miller said. “Before the recession hit, we had about 120 airplane students,� he said. “Then it dropped off dramatically, and the helicopter side picked up.�

The decline, Miller suggests,

may stem from the more widespread publicity generated when airlines lay off pilots. It discourages potential students.

Helicopter pilots were not affected as much. “I don’t know any helicopter pilots that got furloughed,� Miller said.

When finished, the students will have earned an associate degree in applied science and a certified flight instructor rating.

Who’s hiring?

Job forecasts for helicopter pilots vary.

The state Employment Department and an agency affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor suggest an average employment outlook, about the same as most careers.

But the Helicopter Foundation International, an industry organization, sees a shortage of qualified commercial helicopter pilots and maintenance technicians.

Leading Edge has done its share of hiring.

It has brought on about 15 flight instructors — the best of the best, Fraley said — from its own program. Working for Leading Edge allows them to gain flight hours, building up to the 1,500- to 2,000hour level when they become marketable as pilots for emergency medical services, tour and utility companies, and firefighting services.

One Leading Edge instructor was expected to leave Friday for Louisiana, where he will fly for an oil company in the Gulf of Mexico. “Our instructors are getting jobs,� Fraley said.

Leading Edge has 10 to 12 helicopters of varying sizes, but they’re not often buzzing the skies over Bend.

The school generally has three practice areas east, south and west of the city, Fraley said. They are outlined on wall-sized maps in the main building, where available computers allow students to schedule flight training and the dispatch board, a large white board with sections taped off, shows upcoming flights. “We’re very fly-friendly,� said Fraley. “The last thing we want is people mad at us.�

Leading Edge — once located in two hangars, one a Quonset-hut type — now fills three and has 30 employees, and it’s likely to grow — if it can.

Miller anticipates the aviation program growing in the spring. “We need a couple more helicopters on the ramp,� he said.

But Leading Edge uses all the space it leases now.

Rows of airplanes sit parked between Leading Edge’s hangars and the ramp where its pilots land helicopters. As Fraley points out, helicopters do not have wheels, so students must attach them to the aircraft to roll them out to the flight line. “We could probably double our flight school in the next couple years if we had the space,� he said.

Leading Edge and the Bend airport applied last year for state funding to build a heliport that would move helicopter activity to one end of the airport, away from the airplanes. But state transportation officials did not select it for funding.

Judd, the airport manager, said additional space might become available if the FAA gives final approval to build a parking ramp on the east side of the airport. “We’re desperately trying to figure out something,� he said.

Considering the overall economy recently, he added, “It’s a good problem.�

Tim Doran can be reached at 541-383-0360 or at tdoran@bendbulletin.com.

Groupon pulling spoof ads that some found offensive B y Nathan O livarez-Giles Los Angeles Times

Groupon’s Super Bowl ads have been seen by many as a fumble on the part of the increasingly influential tech firm.

So, on Friday, Groupon Chief Executive Andrew Mason ditched the controversial advertising campaign. “One thing is clear — our ads offended a lot of people,� Mason wrote in a company blog post. “Tuesday I posted an explanation, but as many of you have pointed out, if an ad requires an explanation, that means it didn’t work.�

The campaign of three ads, which first aired during the NFL championship game last Sunday, featured actors speaking about current political, environmental and social issues before shifting their remarks to discounts on related products bought via Groupon.

The ads, which spoofed public service announcements, were meant to mock the Chicago-based company’s roots as a company that raised funds for different social causes.

One of the most disliked ads of the campaign was a spot in which Timothy Hutton says, “The people of Tibet are in trouble, their very culture is in jeopardy. But they still whip up an amazing fish curry, and since 200 of us bought at Groupon.com, we’re each getting $30 worth of Tibetan food for just $15 at Himalayan Restaurant in Chicago.�

Despite the negative reaction, Groupon said it expected to have raised about $500,000 for charity causes: the Tibet Fund, Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network. Groupon has promised it will run less polarizing ads going forward.

Patents Continued from G1 “In China, there are thousands of engineers who don’t work in laboratories inventing new technologies,� Michel said. They sit in computer rooms reading U.S. patent applications on the Internet. And they can use the technology anywhere in the world, including in America, for free.

The Patent Office is meant to act as steward of the nation’s newest and most competitive technologies, granting protection to innovative new products so their developers can commercialize them.

But beginning in the 1990s, Congress got into a nearly two-decade habit of draining funds from the agency, which is structured to be self-supporting by charging fees. So just as patent applications have become more and more complex because of the advance of technology, and as global competition exploded, the Patent Office found itself underfunded and understaffed.

Applications now languish so long that technologies can become obsolete before a patent is ruled upon. And the absence of patent protection in some cases allows infringers to steal new technologies, while legitimate inventions are unable to get licensed and startups are unable to get funding.

Still pending A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation in 2009 illustrated how the agency’s dysfunction impedes U.S. competitiveness and stifles innovation. A study released last year

by Britain’s patent authorities found that the U.S. wastes at least $6.4 billion each year in “forgone innovation� — legitimate technologies that cannot get licensed and startups that cannot get funding because of U.S. Patent Office problems.

Delays by the Patent Office often inflict the deepest damage on garage inventors and startup companies that may have no other assets than their unprotected ideas. “We’re talking about America, right? We’re the innovators.

This is our future,� said John Abendroth, an architect and inventor in Mequon, Wis., who waited more than nine years for his patent on a logistics network for routing trucks and cargo. “It’s almost a paradox.

It’s counterproductive in every way.�

Abendroth’s patent (No. 7,698,204) was issued in April. “Just before it issued, they said I was lucky that I was finally coming to that point and that others would take longer,�

Abendroth said. “In the past, you’d go through the process in a year. Now we’re up to 9½ years.â€?

He and his son continue to wait on a related patent application, filed separately in 2003 and still pending.

It took longer than 11 years for a patent to be issued to George Davida, an expert in computer security and encryption from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Davida’s application, for secure ways to store personal biometric information on a smart card, was ahead of his time, said his patent attorney, Stephen Lesavich. He filed his patent application in 1999.

But Davida may have missed his best opportunities. Sometime after 2003, while the application was still pending, the Patent Office lost his application file, Lesavich said, citing his 4-inch-thick records. “In 2008, I finally found a sympathetic clerk, who on her own went and found the file, which was lying on the floor of someone’s office,�

Lesavich said. Dragging out the examination even longer, the application was sent to at different examiner, who effectively needed to start over, but instead handed it off to yet another examiner.

Davida’s patent (No. 7,711,152) finally was issued in May — in the midst of a slow economy, and long after the 2001 terrorist attacks had made biometric data storage a hot technology. “What he did miss, flat out, was that after 9/11, Homeland Security spent a lot of money on encryption security identification technologies,� Lesavich said. “He missed that whole opportunity because it was sitting on the floor of the Patent Office.� “The U.S. loses,� said Davida, since retired. “It’s not exactly protecting its R&D.�

The Patent Office’s $2 billion budget makes it one of

The pileup at the Patent Office • The Patent Office took 3 .8 2 years on average for each patent it issued last year, up from 3.66 years in 2009 and 3.47 in 2008, according to an analysis of Patent Office data. That’s well over twice the agency’s traditional benchmark of 18 months to deal with a patent request. And many took years longer. • The total number of applications awaiting a final decision, representing new technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals to engine designs, remains stuck at 1.22 million, nearly unchanged over the past three years. • The chronically understaffed agency imposed a hiring freeze in 2009 and lost examiners into most of last year, unable to replace them because of budget constraints. Since 2005, it has aimed to hire 1,000 to 1,300 new examiners each year just to chip away at the backlog, but only began to hire again starting in August. • In 2010, the first full year under a new reform-minded administration, the Patent Office collected $53 million in fees that it was not allowed to keep, according to limits imposed by Congress. Neither has Congress approved the agency’s 2011 budget, nor has it approved an agency fee increase, meaning it continues to operate at 2010 budget levels with a deficit of more than $1 million on each business day, agency officials said.

the federal government’s smaller agencies. And it’s structured so it doesn’t cost taxpayers a penny.

All of its funding comes from fees charged for applications, issuances and maintenance of patents.

Budget issues Congress has the ability to determine whether the agency keeps all of that revenue, and since the 1990s it has often diverted a portion of the funds to other unrelated government uses — stunting the agency as its workload grew bigger and more complex.

In 2009, the year former IBM executive David Kappos was named to head the Patent Office, Congress cut the agency’s budget

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even as Kappos inherited a $200 million deficit and a hiring freeze.

Kappos nonetheless argues that some progress is being made, although he declined to comment on the Journal Sentinel’s calculations of how long it still takes for a patent to be issued.

Instead, he points to the Patent Office’s tally of applications awaiting an initial review by an examiner, which fell to 708,000 at the end of the 2010 fiscal year, down from 718,835 a year earlier and down from a peak in January 2009 of 764,000.

The Patent Office regards the decrease as significant given the reduced number of examiners and that nearly a half-million new applications flowed into the office last year. “Even with fewer people and an increased filing rate, I’m actually happy that we were able to bring the backlog down a little bit,� Kappos said. “We’ve got a long way to go, but we were able to make a little bit of progress last year.�

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Intellectual property groups give Kappos high marks for launching a raft of initiatives meant to turn around the agency.

Under Kappos, the agency has begun to improve productivity and transparency. Green energy technologies can qualify for accelerated examination. To handle the overflow from the cramped office campus in Alexandria, Va., Kappos announced plans to open the first satellite office for examiners in Detroit, taking advantage of unemployed engineers there. Attrition, which dogged the agency for years as overworked examiners quit, is down to 1 percent.

And the agency is developing prototypes to upgrade its antiquated computer network that routinely idles thousands of examiners at a time.

Yet the backlog of applications in limbo remains above 1.2 million. Some are for fishing lures and mousetraps and others could be the next Google — if they ever trickle out.

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EmgMkts 11.29 -.39 IntlFund 11.35 -.01 IntmBdFd 12.83 ...

LrgCapStk 9.22 +.16 MidCapStk 13.16 +.43 NatlIntMuni 12.83 ...

NtlShTrmMu 12.85 ...

Baird Funds: AggBdInst 10.46 +.02 ShtTBdInst 9.66 -.01 Baron Fds Instl: Growth 54.09 +1.18 Baron Funds: Asset n 58.80 +1.66 Growth 53.86 +1.17 Partners p 21.86 +.51 SmallCap 25.47 +.67 Bernstein Fds: IntDur 13.62 ...

Ca Mu 14.10 ...

DivMun 14.15 -.01 NYMun 13.95 ...

TxMgdIntl 16.18 -.12 IntlPort 16.07 -.12 EmgMkts 31.96 -1.10 Berwyn Funds: Income 13.39 +.06 BlackRock A: BasValA p 27.37 +.34 CapAppr p 24.28 +.58 Eng&ResA 41.50 -.17 EqtyDivid 18.38 +.26 GlbAlA r 19.79 -.01 HiYdInvA 7.86 +.03 InflProBdA 10.57 -.06 LgCapCrA p 11.68 +.19 TotRetA 11.03 +.01 USOppA 41.64 +.95 BlackRock B&C: EquityDivC 18.01 +.26 GlAlB t 19.32 ...

GlobAlC t 18.47 -.01 BlackRock Fds Blrk: HiYldBlk 7.87 +.04 TotRetII 9.23 ...

BlackRock Instl: InflProtBd 10.67 -.05 US Opps 43.82 +1.01 BasValI 27.54 +.35 EquityDiv 18.42 +.27 GlbAlloc r 19.88 ...

HiYldBond 7.86 +.03 TotRet 11.02 ...

IntlOppI 35.91 -.14 NatlMuni 9.62 +.03 S&P500 16.28 +.23 SCapGrI 25.37 +.68 BlackRock R: GlblAlloc r 19.16 -.01 Brandywine Fds: BlueFd 27.17 +.53 Brandywine 28.62 +.81 BrownSmCoIns45.15 +.91 Buffalo Funds: SmlCap 27.74 +.64 CGM Funds: FocusFd n 35.18 +.78 Realty n 28.24 +.49 CRM Funds: MidCapValI 30.66 +.66 Calamos Funds: ConvA p 20.55 +.24 ConvI 19.30 +.23 GlbGr&IncI 11.35 +.09 Gr&IncC t 33.41 +.51 Grth&IncA p 33.26 +.52 GrowthA p 56.94 +1.25 GrowthC t 51.76 +1.13 Growth I 62.04 +1.37 MktNeutA p 12.20 +.06 Calvert Group:

3 yr %rt

+24.8

-0.4

+26.4 +14.5 +37.8 +18.5 +7.3 +21.6 +19.0 +7.3 +28.1 +22.1 +19.5 +20.0 +17.1 +27.7

+9.5 +19.9 +24.1 -5.4 +44.0 -9.4 -20.7 +34.4

+29.1

-0.2

+33.4 +24.6 +22.8 -7.3 +33.8 +25.5 +22.4 -8.3 +33.2 +24.0 +1.4 +7.8 +23.8 +20.4 +19.3 +15.5 +24.2 +1.5 +35.9 +30.1 +23.8 +0.5 +35.3 +28.8 +29.7 +17.9 +19.7 +10.5 +44.3 +17.3 +4.7 +4.6 +24.5 +20.2 +4.2 +36.3 +37.9 +3.1 +29.5 +44.7 +23.6 +3.6 +0.4 +1.8 +30.8 +24.4 +27.0 +26.4 +30.3 +28.3 +21.4 +37.8

+17.7 +17.1 +4.5 +11.5 +17.0 +8.1 +29.4 +14.1 +17.2 +18.2 -0.3 +8.8 +9.0 +6.0 -8.6 -0.6 +29.3 +13.1 +37.4 +12.2 +10.2 -4.2

+23.7 +20.5 +18.6 +5.2 +13.3 +17.6 +5.4 +18.5 +24.5 +3.0 +21.9 +19.0 +1.0 +18.6 +3.0 +17.6 +20.1 +1.4 +24.6 +22.2 +18.7 +1.0 +28.8 -0.3 0.0 +22.0

+12.6 +9.5 +10.6 +6.8 -0.5 -0.3 +14.4 +3.1 +4.3 +12.6 +3.5 +31.9 +1.6 +8.7 +7.9 NS +3.7 +8.9 +12.1 +8.5 +2.0 +5.2 +9.5 +6.3 +5.9 +1.9

+17.8 +12.4 +16.7 +20.9 +17.8 +19.2 +21.0

+8.2 -2.8 -2.6 +1.2 +6.3 +1.4 -0.4

+2.2 +12.2 +33.9 +32.7 +40.3 +25.5 +15.9 +16.2 +16.9 +16.5 +15.9 +16.1 +6.5

+40.1 +41.3 -14.5 -15.1 -10.0 -9.2 +18.7

+18.9 +25.6 +45.7 +26.7 +28.3

-6.4 +24.7 +30.9 +25.7 +37.0

+16.9 +12.0 +31.3 +32.7 +3.4 +13.2 +4.2 +17.8 +17.6 +3.3 +28.5 +40.9 +0.1 +0.8

+16.6 +13.6 -1.4 +13.9 +6.2 +18.9 +10.7 +7.2

+6.6 +15.3 +3.4 +9.1 +35.1

NS

+33.4 +34.8 +45.6 +38.1

+11.0 +14.8 +4.3 +19.5

+7.0 +1.3 +1.1 +1.1 +15.6 +15.9 +19.1

+21.0 +8.9 +9.5 +9.3 -19.3 -19.5 +1.4

+11.5 +32.3 +24.7 +31.7 +32.5 +22.9 +14.9 +20.8 +3.5 +21.9 +7.5 +36.2

+8.9 +19.3 +7.7 +4.6 +12.0 +38.7 +10.1 +0.2 +10.5 +25.7

+22.0 +2.3 +14.0 +9.3 +14.0 +9.5 +21.3 +40.7 +5.8 +12.2 +3.8 +36.9 +25.0 +23.2 +15.2 +21.2 +7.7 +21.4 +0.1 +25.3 +33.0

+11.1 +27.6 +10.0 +5.6 +12.9 +40.2 +11.5 -1.3 +7.8 +5.4 +16.4

+14.5 +10.8 +29.6 -13.4 +36.4 -10.3 +35.4 +42.8 +25.4 +31.6 +27.7 -26.0 +43.3 +4.7 +30.9 +13.3 +19.4 +19.7 +22.2 +22.1 +23.0 +35.1 +34.1 +35.5 +8.1

+21.0 +22.0 +13.2 +18.7 +21.5 +11.3 +8.9 +12.2 +8.4

Footnotes Table includes 1,940 largest Mutual Funds

e - Ex capital gains distribution. s - Stock dividend or split. f - Previous day’s quote n or nl - No up-front sales charge. p - Fund assets are used to pay for distribution costs. r - Redemption fee for contingent deferred sales load may apply. t - Both p and r. y - Fund not in existence for one year.

NE - Data in question.

NN - Fund does not wish to be tracked.

NS - Fund did not exist at the start date.

NA m

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Inco p 15.88 +.09 ShDurIncA t 16.45 +.07 SocEqA p 38.31 +.89 Cambiar Funds: OpportInv 19.70 +.13 Causeway Intl: Institutnl nr 13.37 +.07 Clipper 65.59 +1.17 Cohen & Steers: InsltRlty n 40.35 +1.13 RltyShrs n 62.04 +1.72 Columbia Class A: Acorn t 30.48 +.65 BldModAgg p 10.70 +.08 DivEqInc 10.61 +.15 DivrBd 4.98 ...

DiviIncoA 13.59 +.13 DivOppA 8.09 +.09 FocusEqA t 24.13 +.62 LgCorQA p 5.72 +.08 21CentryA t 14.59 +.42 MarsGroA t 21.64 +.55 MidCpGrOpp 12.06 +.32 MidCpValA 14.30 +.29 MidCVlOp p 8.29 +.15 PBModA p 10.86 +.07 SelLgCpGr t 13.51 +.43 StratAlloA 9.70 +.06 StrtIncA 6.03 ...

TxExA p 12.49 +.01 SelComm A 48.10 +.57 Columbia Cl I,T&G: DiverBdI 4.98 ...

Columbia Class Z: Acorn Z 31.49 +.68 AcornIntl Z 40.77 -.22 AcornSel Z 29.76 +.51 AcornUSA 30.44 +.94 CoreBondZ 10.86 +.01 DiviIncomeZ 13.60 +.14 FocusEqZ t 24.66 +.63 IntmBdZ n 9.04 +.02 IntmTEBd n 10.07 +.01 IntEqZ 12.45 -.02 IntlValZ 14.97 +.04 LgCapCoreZ 13.76 +.23 LgCapGr 13.61 +.44 LgCapIdxZ 25.73 +.37 LgCapValZ 12.13 +.20 21CntryZ n 14.91 +.42 MarsGrPrZ 22.03 +.57 MarInOppZ r 11.99 +.03 MidCapGr Z 28.77 +.92 MidCpIdxZ 12.32 +.32 MdCpVal p 14.32 +.29 STIncoZ 9.90 -.01 STMunZ 10.46 ...

SmlCapGrZ n 33.71 +1.02 SmlCapIdxZ n18.10 +.46 SmCapVal 48.59 +.97 SCValuIIZ 14.76 +.39 TotRetBd Cl Z 9.95 +.02 ValRestr n 51.84 +.32 CRAQlInv np 10.61 -.01 CG Cap Mkt Fds: CoreFxInco 8.32 +.01 EmgMkt n 16.42 -.43 LgGrw 15.80 +.36 LgVal n 9.24 +.08 Credit Suisse ABCD: ComdyRetA t 9.37 -.08 Credit Suisse Comm: CommRet t 9.43 -.07 DFA Funds: Glb6040Ins 13.17 +.06 IntlCoreEq n 11.79 ...

USCoreEq1 n 11.69 +.23 USCoreEq2 n 11.68 +.24 DWS Invest A: DrmHiRA 34.44 +.14 DSmCaVal 38.36 +.68 HiIncA 4.91 +.01 MgdMuni p 8.51 +.02 StrGovSecA 8.71 +.02 DWS Invest Instl: Eqty500IL 150.96 +2.18 DWS Invest Inv: ShtDurPlusS r 9.55 ...

DWS Invest S: GNMA S 15.13 ...

GroIncS 17.34 +.19 LgCapValS r 18.15 +.10 MgdMuni S 8.52 +.02 Davis Funds A: NYVen A 35.61 +.33 Davis Funds C & Y: NYVenY 35.98 +.33 NYVen C 34.41 +.31 Delaware Invest A: Diver Inc p 9.16 ...

LtdTrmDvrA 8.84 -.02 Diamond Hill Fds: LongShortI 16.86 -.01 Dimensional Fds: EmMkCrEq n 21.00 -.70 EmgMktVal 34.42 -1.18 IntSmVa n 17.94 +.02 LargeCo 10.49 +.15 STExtQual nx 10.66 -.02 STMuniBd nx 10.22 -.01 TAWexUSCr n 9.89 -.09 TAUSCorEq2 9.51 +.20 TM USSm 24.20 +.68 USVectrEq n 11.56 +.28 USLgVa n 21.69 +.41 USLgVa3 n 16.61 +.31 US Micro n 14.37 +.40 US TgdVal 17.61 +.46 US Small n 22.58 +.65 US SmVal 27.09 +.83 IntlSmCo n 17.74 -.05 GlbEqInst 14.14 +.13 EmgMktSCp n22.59 -.61 EmgMkt n 29.22 -1.06 Fixd nx 10.32 ...

Govt n 10.70 -.03 IntGvFxIn n 12.13 ...

IntlREst 5.09 -.03 IntVa n 19.52 -.02 IntVa3 n 18.27 -.01 InflProSecs 11.11 -.08 Glb5FxInc 10.79 -.01 LrgCapInt n 20.79 -.01 TM USTgtV 22.66 +.59 TM IntlValue 15.96 ...

TMMktwdeV 16.12 +.32 TMUSEq 14.37 +.24 2YGlFxd n 10.14 ...

DFARlEst n 22.84 +.62 Dodge&Cox: Balanced n 74.24 +.91 GblStock 9.36 +.04 IncomeFd 13.25 +.02 Intl Stk 36.61 -.10 Stock 115.72 +1.73 DoubleLine Funds: TRBd I 10.93 +.01 TRBd N p 10.92 ...

Dreyfus: Aprec 39.52 +.35 BasicS&P 27.18 +.39 BondMktInv p10.41 -.01 CalAMTMuZ 13.49 +.02 Dreyfus 9.57 +.20 DreyMid r 29.82 +.76 Drey500In t 36.60 +.52 IntmTIncA 13.05 +.01 MunBd r 10.63 +.01 NY Tax nr 14.05 +.02 OppMCVal A 37.34 +1.16 SmlCpStk r 21.39 +.54 DreihsAcInc 11.33 +.03 EVPTxMEmI 49.45 -1.10 Eaton Vance A: GblMacAbR p 10.26 -.01 FloatRate 9.41 +.02 IncBosA 5.95 +.01 LgCpVal 18.93 +.21 NatlMunInc 8.59 +.02 Strat Income Cl A 8.22 +25.4 TMG1.1 25.05 +.26 DivBldrA x 10.32 +.05 Eaton Vance C: NatlMunInc 8.59 +.02 Eaton Vance I: FltgRt 9.10 +.01 GblMacAbR 10.25 -.01 LgCapVal 18.99 +.22 ParStEmMkt 15.34 -.35 TaxMgdVal 17.54 +.19 EdgwdGInst n 12.14 +.35 FMI Funds: CommonStk 26.28 +.39 LargeCap p 16.38 +.11 FPA Funds: Capit 43.83 +.36 NewInc 10.88 -.01 FPACres n 27.51 +.09 Fairholme 36.45 +.63 Federated A: KaufmSCA p 27.15 +.54 CapAppA 19.80 +.31 KaufmA p 5.55 +.08 MuniUltshA 10.01 ...

TtlRtBd p 11.05 ...

Federated Instl: AdjRtSecIS 9.79 -.01 KaufmanR 5.55 +.07 MdCpI InSvc 23.11 +.59 MunULA p 10.01 ...

TotRetBond 11.05 ...

TtlRtnBdS 11.05 ...

StaValDivIS 4.46 +.02 Fidelity Advisor A: DivrIntlA r 16.49 +.02 FltRateA r 9.92 +.01 FF2030A p 12.61 +.07 LevCoStA p 37.09 +1.04 MidCapA p 20.65 +.22 MidCpIIA p 18.69 +.16 NwInsghts pe 20.92 +.36 SmallCapA p 25.78 +.48 StrInA e 12.42 -.07 TotalBdA r 10.67 ...

Fidelity Advisor C: NwInsghts tn 19.97 +.38 StratIncC nte 12.39 -.07 Fidelity Advisor I: DivIntl n 16.75 +.03 FltRateI n 9.90 +.01 GroIncI 18.14 +.14 HiIncAdvI 9.83 +.07 LgCapI n 20.03 +.24 MidCpII I n 18.92 +.17 NewInsightI e 21.13 +.37 SmallCapI 26.99 +.50 StrInI e 12.55 -.07 Fidelity Advisor T: EqGrT p 58.08 +1.34 EqInT 24.72 +.44 GrOppT 36.93 +.84

3 yr %rt

+5.6 +9.2 +3.8 +14.5 +28.8 +17.5 +33.3 +16.1 +24.7 +4.5 +22.0 -5.5 +44.8 +24.5 +44.4 +24.3 +35.6 +20.8 +25.8 +6.5 +21.2 +26.3 +29.5 +26.0 +28.9 +31.7 +35.8 +33.7 +32.3 +17.9 +38.4 +17.2 +11.0 -0.9 +29.0

+22.0 +12.0 +2.3 +15.5 +8.8 +8.6 +10.5 +0.4 -2.7 +5.5 +34.8 +10.9 +8.8 +14.9 +18.2 +3.2 +23.4 +5.3 +42.3

+6.7 +16.5 +36.1 +26.6 +31.1 +37.4 +4.8 +21.5 +29.9 +7.0 +0.6 +18.9 +14.1 +24.1 +38.7 +25.5 +24.7 +29.2 +32.1 +21.7 +44.7 +38.1 +34.1 +2.6 +0.6 +44.1 +36.6 +34.1 +39.5 +6.5 +28.3 +2.1

+23.1 +14.0 +17.6 +23.1 +15.5 +9.7 +11.3 +20.3 +8.3 -11.1 -4.0 +5.8 +19.0 +5.9 +2.6 -2.0 +6.4 -9.9 +25.3 +27.0 +11.8 +11.4 +7.7 +25.8 +22.3 +23.9 +21.7 +19.8 +1.1 +11.3

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

MidCapT p 20.84 +.22 NwInsghts pe 20.69 +.36 SmlCapT p 24.89 +.45 StrInT e 12.41 -.07 Fidelity Freedom: FF2000 n 12.07 +.02 FF2005 n 11.02 +.04 FF2010 n 13.89 +.05 FF2010K 12.97 +.05 FF2015 n 11.61 +.05 FF2015A 11.75 +.04 FF2015K 13.02 +.06 FF2020 n 14.17 +.07 FF2020A 12.33 +.05 FF2020K 13.56 +.07 FF2025 n 11.89 +.07 FF2025A 11.98 +.07 FF2025K 13.84 +.09 FF2030 n 14.25 +.09 FF2030K 14.08 +.10 FF2035 n 11.92 +.09 FF2035K 14.31 +.10 FF2040 n 8.33 +.06 FF2040K 14.41 +.11 FF2045 n 9.88 +.07 FF2050 n 9.78 +.07 IncomeFd n 11.38 +.02 Fidelity Invest: AllSectEq 13.41 +.20 AMgr50 n 15.81 +.09 AMgr70 nr 16.91 +.13 AMgr20 nr 12.90 +.03 Balanc 18.88 +.19 BalancedK 18.88 +.19 BlueChipGr 48.27 +.90 BluChpGrK 48.27 +.90 CA Mun n 11.42 +.02 Canada n 60.39 +.12 CapIncF r 9.82 +.08 CapApp n 27.03 +.83 CapDevelO 11.41 +.22 CapInco nr 9.82 +.07 ChinaReg r 31.49 -1.96 Contra n 71.10 +1.34 ContraK 71.08 +1.34 CnvSec 27.31 +.40 DisEq n 23.90 +.29 DiscEqF 23.88 +.29 DiverIntl n 30.94 +.02 DiversIntK r 30.92 +.02 DivStkO n 15.94 +.17 DivGth n 30.11 +.43 Emerg Asia r 29.20 -1.74 EmrgMkt n 24.99 -.95 EmgMktsK 24.96 -.94 EqutInc n 47.09 +.82 EQII n 19.43 +.35

3 yr %rt

+30.8 +26.3 +27.7 +11.1

+2.2 +8.5 +23.1 +30.3

+9.4 +14.5 +16.3 +16.4 +16.8 +17.1 +16.9 +19.1 +19.7 +19.2 +21.0 +21.7 +21.1 +22.0 +22.2 +23.3 +23.4 +23.5 +23.8 +24.0 +24.6 +9.0

+11.1 +10.1 +11.5 NS +10.7 +10.0 NS +8.9 +7.8 NS +9.3 +8.2 NS +6.2 NS +6.4 NS +5.6 NS +5.6 +4.3 +12.2

+28.4 +18.3 +23.0 +10.1 +19.9 +20.1 +32.0 +32.3 +0.6 +30.2 +24.8 +29.1 +32.8 +24.6 +23.1 +27.6 +27.8 +31.1 +20.5 +20.7 +20.3 +20.6 +30.9 +32.0 +23.9 +19.5 +19.7 +26.2 +24.7

NS +16.1 +14.5 +14.7 +9.9 NS +27.3 NS +5.9 +8.9 NS +10.2 +4.1 +49.7 +23.9 +12.0 NS +16.6 -6.3 NS -6.8 NS +13.1 +20.6 -5.8 -11.1 NS +1.1 -1.2

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

CoreBond 11.32 +.02 RealEst np 19.23 +.51 First Eagle: GlobalA 47.21 +.09 OverseasA 22.71 -.07 SoGenGold p 31.79 -.28 Forum Funds: AbsolStratI r 10.88 -.02 Frank/Temp Frnk A: AdjUS p 8.86 -.02 BalInv p 49.18 +.85 CAHYBd p 8.74 +.02 CalInsA p 11.22 +.02 CalTFrA p 6.52 +.02 EqIncA p 17.47 +.15 FedInterm p 11.23 +.01 FedTxFrA p 11.13 +.03 FlexCapGrA 51.10 +1.15 FlRtDA p 9.25 +.01 FL TFA p 10.89 +.02 FoundFAl p 10.95 +.05 GoldPrM A 46.58 -.59 GrowthA p 47.02 +.60 HY TFA p 9.43 +.01 HiIncoA 2.04 ...

IncoSerA p 2.25 +.01 InsTFA p 11.14 +.03 MichTFA p 11.30 +.02 NatResA p 41.74 +.01 NJTFA p 11.27 +.01 NY TFA p 10.93 +.03 NC TFA p 11.50 +.03 OhioITFA p 11.73 +.03 ORTFA p 11.28 +.02 PA TFA p 9.63 +.01 RisDivA p 33.71 +.39 SmCpVal p 46.32 +1.09 SMCpGrA 39.88 +.94 StratInc p 10.49 +.02 TotlRtnA p 10.02 ...

USGovA p 6.65 -.01 UtilitiesA p 11.87 +.07 Frank/Tmp Frnk Adv: FdTF Adv 11.14 +.04 GlbBdAdv p ...

IncomeAdv 2.24 +.02 SmMCpAd p 41.07 +.97 TGlbTRAdv 13.21 -.02 TtlRtAdv 10.04 ...

USGovAdv p 6.67 -.01 Frank/Temp Frnk B: IncomeB t 2.24 +.01 Frank/Temp Frnk C: AdjUS C t 8.86 -.01 CalTFC t 6.51 +.02 FdTxFC t 11.13 +.04

3 yr %rt

+7.3 +18.7 +47.0 +25.7 +22.4 +22.7 +21.9 +21.6 +31.4 +40.7 +4.0

+9.1

+1.3 +29.7 +0.3 -1.6 -1.9 +24.2 +0.6 -1.3 +28.9 +8.1 -0.4 +19.7 +42.1 +24.5 -0.4 +17.9 +20.5 -1.9 -1.1 +40.0 -1.8 -1.8 -1.3 -2.2 -0.7 -1.9 +23.8 +34.6 +42.0 +11.5 +8.1 +3.7 +16.5

+8.7 +6.0 +3.5 +2.2 +4.0 +3.6 +8.7 +6.4 +19.2 +15.4 +6.7 +2.8 +48.1 +16.5 +5.7 +34.2 +15.2 +4.6 +5.4 +15.4 +6.1 +7.0 +7.4 +5.5 +8.1 +5.8 +9.6 +22.4 +26.9 +26.2 +19.7 +15.6 +0.6

-1.2 +11.6 +20.8 +42.4 +15.2 +8.4 +3.9

+6.7 +39.5 +15.8 +27.9 NS +20.5 +16.0

+19.6 +12.4 +0.9 -2.4 -1.8

+7.4 +2.3 +4.7

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Harding Loevner: EmgMkts r 48.56 -1.41 Hartford Fds A: CapAppA p 36.14 +.17 Chks&Bal p 9.85 +.04 DivGthA p 20.06 +.16 FltRateA px 9.00 ...

MidCapA p 23.50 +.59 Hartford Fds C: CapAppC t 32.04 +.14 FltRateC tx 8.99 ...

Hartford Fds I: DivGthI n 20.00 +.16 Hartford Fds Y: CapAppY n 39.23 +.18 CapAppI n 36.16 +.17 DivGrowthY n 20.35 +.16 FltRateI x 9.01 ...

TotRetBdY nx 10.56 +.01 Hartford HLS IA : CapApp 44.72 +.43 DiscplEqty 12.54 +.24 Div&Grwth 20.62 +.17 GrwthOpp 27.98 +.67 Advisers 20.10 +.15 Stock 43.60 +.49 IntlOpp 12.69 -.01 MidCap 27.81 +.72 TotalRetBd 10.88 +.01 USGovSecs 10.37 -.03 Hartford HLS IB: CapApprec p 44.33 +.42 Heartland Fds: ValueInv 46.08 +1.10 ValPlusInv p 30.97 +.78 Henderson Glbl Fds: IntlOppA p 21.94 +.22 Hotchkis & Wiley: MidCpVal 25.16 +.63 Hussman Funds: StrTotRet r 12.04 -.02 StrGrowth 11.92 -.02 ICM SmlCo 31.48 +.56 ING Funds Cl A: GlbR E p 16.60 -.07 IVA Funds: Intl I r 16.30 -.10 WorldwideA t 17.10 ...

WorldwideC t 17.00 ...

Worldwide I r 17.10 ...

Invesco Fds Instl: IntlGrow 28.30 -.11 Invesco Fds Invest: DivrsDiv p 12.95 +.18 Invesco Funds A: CapGro 14.52 +.32

+19.6 +21.8 +16.7 +22.8 +11.0 +33.4

3 yr %rt -1.1 +0.6 +9.2 +8.4 +20.0 +19.8

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-0.3

+19.0 +20.9 +20.0 +21.1

NS NS NS NS

+19.8 +6.1 +23.3 +16.4 +34.8 +21.4

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

LS Moder 12.90 +.07 Keeley Funds: SmCpValA p 26.27 +.65 LSV ValEq n 14.46 +.18 Laudus Funds: IntlMsterS r 19.58 -.06 Lazard Instl: EmgMktI 20.33 -.49 Lazard Open: EmgMktOp p 20.70 -.50 Legg Mason A: CBEqBldrA 13.34 +.12 CBAggGr p 117.68 +1.19 CBAppr p 14.39 +.17 CBFdAllCV A 14.60 +.11 WAIntTmMu 6.07 +.01 WAMgMuA p 14.70 +.03 Legg Mason C: WAMgMuC 14.71 +.03 CMOppor t 11.32 +.39 CMSpecInv p 33.78 +.52 CMValTr p 41.90 +.75 Legg Mason Instl: CMValTr I 49.16 +.89 Legg Mason 1: CBDivStr1 17.31 +.18 Longleaf Partners: Partners 30.22 +.73 Intl n 15.72 -.08 SmCap 28.27 +.81 Loomis Sayles: GlbBdR t 16.36 -.06 LSBondI 14.45 +.05 LSGlblBdI 16.51 -.06 StrInc C 15.08 +.04 LSBondR 14.40 +.05 StrIncA 15.01 +.05 ValueY n 19.82 +.29 Loomis Sayles Inv: InvGrBdA p 12.11 +.03 InvGrBdC p 12.02 +.03 InvGrBdY 12.12 +.03 Lord Abbett A: FloatRt p 9.44 ...

IntrTaxFr 9.93 ...

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3 yr %rt

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-3.6 +19.0 +28.7 +19.1

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Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Guardn n 15.79 +.34 Partner n 29.30 +.38 Neuberger&Berm Tr: Genesis n 49.78 +.93 Nicholas Group: Nichol n 47.48 +1.04 Northern Funds: BondIdx 10.38 ...

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3 yr %rt

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-20.0 -2.2 -3.5 -11.6 -0.5 -11.0 +26.0 +26.2 +2.3 +25.8 +14.0 +9.0

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

RealRtnP 11.17 -.06 TotRtnP 10.77 -.01 Parnassus Funds: EqtyInco n 27.89 +.13 Pax World: Balanced 23.22 +.20 Paydenfunds: HiInc 7.38 +.02 Perm Port Funds: Permanent 46.02 +.36 Pioneer Funds A: CullenVal 18.83 +.06 GlbHiYld p 10.79 +.02 HighYldA p 10.55 +.09 MdCpVaA p 22.32 +.27 PionFdA p 42.74 +.66 StratIncA p 11.05 +.03 ValueA p 12.01 +.18 Pioneer Funds C: PioneerFdY 42.90 +.66 StratIncC t 10.81 +.03 Pioneer Fds Y: CullenVal Y 18.89 +.06 GlbHiYld 10.61 +.03 StratIncY p 11.05 +.03 Price Funds Adv: EqtyInc n 25.06 +.37 Growth pn 34.13 +.92 HiYld n 6.93 +.02 MidCapGro n 61.98 +1.32 R2020A p 16.97 +.16 R2030Adv np 17.97 +.21 R2040A pn 18.17 +.23 SmCpValA n 37.27 +.84 TF Income pn 9.37 +.01 Price Funds R Cl: Ret2020R p 16.86 +.16 Ret2030R n 17.89 +.22 Price Funds: Balance n 20.07 +.22 BlueChipG n 41.06 +1.27 CapApr n 21.15 +.20 DivGro n 24.22 +.38 EmMktB n 13.09 -.08 EmMktS n 33.53 -.84 EqInc n 25.12 +.37 EqIdx n 35.85 +.51 GNM n 9.80 -.01 Growth n 34.41 +.93 GwthIn n 21.30 +.38 HlthSci n 31.91 +.31 HiYld n 6.94 +.01 InstlCpGr n 17.63 +.47 InstHiYld n 10.04 +.02 InstlFltRt n 10.46 +.01 MCEqGr n 30.07 +.65

+5.3 +6.9

3 yr %rt NS NS

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-5.3

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NS NS

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-9.5

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IntGov 10.60 -.02 IntmMuni n 9.92 ...

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ShtIntMu n 10.55 ...

STBF n 8.44 ...

SmCapDisc n 21.78 +.72 SmCpGrth r 16.53 +.41 SmCapOpp 11.57 +.35 SmallCapS nr 21.28 +.49 SmCapValu r 16.38 +.38 SpSTTBInv nr 10.46 -.02 StkSelSmCap 19.75 +.60 StratInc ne 11.11 -.07 StratReRtn r 9.69 +.01 TaxFreeB r 10.38 +.02 TotalBond n 10.67 ...

Trend n 72.22 +1.55 USBI n 11.21 ...

ValueK 73.06 +1.05 Value n 73.00 +1.06 Wrldwde n 19.62 +.28 Fidelity Selects: Biotech n 73.57 -.36 Electr n 53.72 -.22 Energy n 57.66 +.44 EngSvc n 81.47 +.44 Gold rn 48.69 -.41 Health n 133.67 +2.68 Materials 70.72 +.74 MedEqSys n 29.39 +.94 NatGas n 34.70 -.17 NatRes rn 37.41 +.16 Softwr n 93.57 +1.52 Tech n 104.11 +.91 Fidelity Spartan: ExtMktIndInv 40.44 +.98 500IdxInv n 47.11 +.68 IntlIndxInv 36.72 -.02 TotMktIndInv 38.59 +.63 Fidelity Spart Adv: ExtMktAdv r 40.44 +.98 500IdxAdv 47.11 +.68 IntlAdv r 36.72 -.02 TotlMktAdv r 38.59 +.63 First Amer Fds Y:

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FoundFAl p 10.80 +.06 +18.8 HY TFC t 9.56 +.01 -0.9 IncomeC t 2.27 +.01 +20.3 StratIncC p 10.49 +.02 +11.0 USGovC t 6.61 -.01 +3.2 Frank/Temp Mtl A&B: BeaconA 12.82 +.10 +18.5 SharesA 21.60 +.18 +19.0 Frank/Temp Mtl C: SharesC t 21.40 +.18 +18.1 Frank/Temp Temp A: DevMktA p 24.23 -.65 +19.9 ForeignA p 7.37 -.09 +22.6 GlBondA p 13.55 -.01 +11.3 GlSmCoA p 7.57 +.04 +31.6 GrowthA p 18.68 -.05 +19.8 WorldA p 15.52 -.12 +19.5 Frank/Temp Tmp Adv: FlexCpGr 51.90 +1.17 +29.2 FrgnAv 7.29 -.09 +22.8 GrthAv 18.68 -.04 +20.2 Frank/Temp Tmp B&C: GlBdC p 13.58 ... +10.9 GrwthC p 18.24 -.05 +18.9 Franklin Mutual Ser: QuestA 18.23 +.17 +16.0 Franklin Templ: TgtModA p 14.50 +.06 +16.3 GE Elfun S&S: S&S Income n11.20 ... +6.7 S&S PM n 42.69 +.49 +21.5 TaxEx 11.13 +.01 -0.4 Trusts n 44.41 +.76 +24.6 GE Instl Funds: IntlEq n 11.95 +.04 +18.4 SmCpEqI 15.53 +.36 NA GE Investments: TRFd1 16.87 +.09 +16.6 TRFd3 p 16.83 +.10 +16.3 GMOEmMkV r 14.23 -.56 +24.6 GMO Trust: ShtDurColl r 10.57 ... NE USTreas x 25.00 ... +0.1 GMO Trust II: EmergMkt r 14.30 -.57 +24.4 GMO Trust III: EmgMk r 14.33 -.57 +24.4 Foreign 12.81 -.04 +18.2 IntlCoreEqty 30.48 +.05 +22.5 IntlIntrVal 23.02 +.02 +20.3 Quality 20.69 +.04 +12.4 GMO Trust IV: EmgCnDt 9.03 -.05 +22.5 EmerMkt 14.24 -.56 +24.5 Foreign 13.11 -.05 +18.3 IntlCoreEq 30.46 +.05 +22.6 IntlGrEq 23.62 +.05 +22.3 IntlIntrVal 23.01 +.03 +20.4 Quality 20.71 +.04 +12.5 GMO Trust VI: EmgMkts r 14.25 -.56 +24.6 IntlCoreEq 30.43 +.05 +22.6 Quality 20.69 +.03 +12.5 StrFixInco 15.16 +.08 +3.9 USCoreEq 11.99 +.10 +17.7 Gabelli Funds: Asset 51.49 +.88 +33.3 EqInc p 21.34 +.23 +25.3 SmCapG n 35.29 +.77 +35.2 Gateway Funds: GatewayA 26.50 +.07 +8.1 Goldman Sachs A: GrIStrA 10.86 +.03 +16.6 GrthOppsA 24.21 +.45 +30.8 MidCapVA p 37.96 +.53 +35.8 ShtDuGvA 10.22 -.01 +0.9 Goldman Sachs Inst: CoreFxc 9.75 ... +5.4 GrthOppt 25.69 +.48 +31.3 HiYield 7.45 +.02 +17.8 HYMuni n 7.91 -.02 +0.1 MidCapVal 38.25 +.54 +36.4 SD Gov 10.19 -.01 +1.4 ShrtDurTF n 10.40 -.01 +1.1 SmCapVal 43.46 +1.05 +35.5 StructIntl n 11.01 -.02 +20.3 GuideStone Funds: BalAllo GS4 12.44 +.09 +16.7 GrEqGS4 20.12 +.52 +31.9 IntlEqGS4 13.77 -.05 +20.7 ValuEqGS4 15.09 +.24 +25.2 Harbor Funds: Bond 12.05 -.01 +6.3 CapAppInst n 39.26 +1.17 +25.8 HiYBdInst r 11.17 +.04 +16.3 IntlInv t 61.47 -.11 +22.8 IntlAdmin p 61.65 -.10 +23.0 IntlGr nr 12.39 +.03 +21.7 Intl nr 62.06 -.11 +23.3

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Chart p 16.95 +.10 CmstkA 16.68 +.16 Constl p 24.51 +.49 DevMkt p 31.37 -.60 EqtyIncA 9.01 +.09 GlbFranch p 21.81 ...

GrIncA p 20.43 +.21 HYMuA 8.73 +.02 IntlGrow 27.93 -.11 MidCpCEq p 24.11 +.18 MidCGth p 31.83 +.80 RealEst p 22.55 +.59 SmCpGr p 30.84 +.88 SmCapGr p 12.01 +.35 SmCpValA t 19.03 +.43 TF IntA p 10.96 +.01 Invesco Funds B: DivGtSecB 13.67 +.19 EqIncB 8.84 +.09 Invesco Funds C: EqIncC 8.87 +.08 Invesco Funds P: SummitP p 12.45 +.24 Ivy Funds: AssetSC t 24.38 +.37 AssetStrA p 25.11 +.39 AssetStrY p 25.16 +.39 AssetStrI r 25.33 +.40 GlNatRsA p 22.36 -.26 GlNatResI t 22.81 -.26 GlbNatResC p 19.42 -.23 HighIncoA p 8.47 +.01 JPMorgan A Class: Core Bond A 11.38 ...

Inv Bal p 12.52 +.09 InvCon p 11.30 +.05 InvGr&InA p 13.22 +.13 InvGrwth p 14.07 +.19 MdCpVal p 24.10 +.34 JPMorgan C Class: CoreBond pn 11.43 ...

JP Morgan Instl: IntTxFrIn n 10.68 +.01 MidCapVal n 24.47 +.35 JPMorgan R Cl: CoreBond n 11.38 ...

HighYld r 8.38 +.03 MtgBacked 11.24 ...

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LtdNYC t 3.15 ...

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Value n 24.89 +.31 Primecap Odyssey : AggGrwth r 17.36 +.38 Growth r 16.25 +.23 Principal Inv: BdMtgInstl 10.36 +.01 DivIntlInst 10.37 ...

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Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Putnam Funds C: DivInc t 8.10 +.06 RS Funds: CoreEqVIP 39.31 +.41 EmgMktA 25.39 -.90 RSNatRes np 38.52 +.05 RSPartners 34.16 +.74 Value Fd 27.00 +.49 Rainier Inv Mgt: LgCapEqI 26.68 +.57 SmMCap 34.96 +.96 SmMCpInst 35.82 +.98 RidgeWorth Funds: GScUltShBdI 10.06 -.01 HighYldI 10.06 +.01 IntmBondI 10.29 ...

InvGrTEBI n 11.56 ...

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StratBd 10.63 +.01 USCoreEq 29.60 +.52 Russell LfePts A: BalStrat p 10.64 +.03 Russell LfePts C: BalStrat 10.57 +.03 Rydex Investor: MgdFutStr n 25.84 -.07 SEI Portfolios: CoreFxInA n 10.74 +.01 EmgMkt np 11.56 -.38 HiYld n 7.55 +.02 IntlEqA n 9.08 +.04 LgCGroA n 23.16 +.41 LgCValA n 17.17 +.25 S&P500A n 36.37 +.53 S&P500E n 36.51 +.52 TaxMgdLC 12.89 +.22 SSgA Funds: EmgMkt 21.39 -.86 IntlStock 10.70 +.07 SP500 n 21.89 +.32 Schwab Funds: CoreEqty 17.92 +.31 DivEqtySel 13.50 +.18 FunUSLInst r 10.22 +.16 IntlSS r 18.05 ...

1000Inv r 39.40 +.61 S&P Sel n 20.72 +.30 SmCapSel 22.21 +.56 TotBond 9.07 -.01 TSM Sel r 24.10 +.40 Scout Funds: Intl 33.22 -.14 Security Funds: MidCapValA 34.14 +.54 Selected Funds: AmerShsD 42.87 +.32 AmShsS p 42.88 +.32 Seligman Group: GrowthA 5.08 +.11 Sentinel Group: ComStk A p 33.13 +.33 SMGvA p 9.18 -.01 SmCoA p 8.26 +.20 Sequoia n 139.50 +2.22 Sit Funds: US Gov n 11.23 -.02 Sound Shore: SoundShore 33.74 +.30 St FarmAssoc: Balan n 55.70 +.23 Gwth n 55.62 +.38 Sun Capital Adv: GSShDurItl 10.30 ...

IbbotsBalSv p 12.67 +.07 TCW Funds: EmMktInc 8.62 ...

TotlRetBdI 9.90 +.01 TCW Funds N: TotRtBdN p 10.24 +.01 TFS Funds: MktNeutral r 15.24 +.11 TIAA-CREF Funds: BdIdxInst 10.16 ...

BondInst 10.26 -.01 EqIdxInst 10.10 +.16 IntlEqIInst 17.26 ...

IntlEqInst 10.06 -.07 IntlEqRet 10.36 -.08 LC2040Ret 11.46 +.13 MdCVlRet 17.98 +.34 Templeton Instit: EmMS p 15.74 -.42 ForEqS 20.83 -.18 Third Avenue Fds: IntlValInst r 17.91 -.13 REValInst r 23.62 -.26 SmCapInst 21.84 +.23 ValueInst 51.65 -1.73 Thornburg Fds C: IntValuC t 26.96 +.03 Thornburg Fds: IntlValA p 28.64 +.02 IncBuildA t 19.49 -.04 IncBuildC p 19.49 -.04 IntlValue I 29.28 +.03 LtdMunA p 13.84 ...

LtTMuniI 13.84 ...

ValueA t 36.67 +.39 ValueI 37.34 +.41 Thrivent Fds A: LgCapStock 23.38 +.39 MuniBd 10.68 +.01 Tocqueville Fds: Delafield 31.08 +.55 Gold t 83.38 -.57 Touchstone Family: SandsCapGrI 15.08 +.41 Transamerica A: AsAlMod p 11.95 +.08 AsAlModGr p 12.25 +.08 Transamerica C: AsAlModGr t 12.21 +.08 TA IDEX C: AsAlMod t 11.91 +.07 Transamerica Ptrs: InstStkIdx p 8.90 +.13 Tweedy Browne: GblValue 24.34 +.10 US Global Investors: GlbRsc n 12.34 -.03 USAA Group: AgsvGth n 35.21 +.65 CornstStr n 23.09 +.10 Gr&Inc n 15.85 +.21 HYldOpp n 8.62 +.05 IncStk n 12.77 +.20 Income n 12.67 +.01 IntTerBd n 10.33 +.01 Intl n 24.86 -.02 PrecMM 38.88 -.33 S&P Idx n 19.96 +.28 S&P Rewrd 19.97 +.29 ShtTBnd n 9.16 -.01 TxEIT n 12.44 +.02 TxELT n 12.04 +.03 TxESh n 10.57 ...

VALIC : ForgnValu 9.75 -.08 IntlEqty 6.68 -.01 MidCapIdx 21.95 +.56 SmCapIdx 15.07 +.40 StockIndex 26.26 +.38 Van Eck Funds: GlHardA 53.89 -.12 InInvGldA 22.90 -.20 Vanguard Admiral: AssetAdml n 57.15 +.75 BalAdml n 22.07 +.22 CAITAdm n 10.58 +.02 CALTAdm 10.50 +.02 CpOpAdl n 81.47 +.89 EM Adm nr 37.96 -1.40 Energy n 130.46 -.86 EqIncAdml 44.69 +.47 EuropAdml 64.43 +.22 ExplAdml 72.74 +1.96 ExntdAdm n 43.88 +1.10 500Adml n 122.66 +1.77 GNMA Adm n 10.60 -.03 GroIncAdm 45.24 +.41 GrwthAdml n 33.33 +.50 HlthCare n 53.51 ...

HiYldCp n 5.81 +.01 InflProAd n 25.11 -.12 ITBondAdml 11.04 ...

ITsryAdml n 11.14 -.03 IntlGrAdml 62.56 -.07 ITAdml n 13.12 +.01 ITCoAdmrl 9.84 +.01 LtdTrmAdm 10.96 ...

LTGrAdml 9.10 +.08 LTsryAdml 10.58 +.05 LT Adml n 10.50 +.03 MCpAdml n 98.26 +1.76 MorgAdm 59.66 +1.11 MuHYAdml n 9.91 +.02 NJLTAd n 11.13 +.01 NYLTAd m 10.63 +.01 PrmCap r 71.95 +.73 PacifAdml 72.10 -.54 PALTAdm n 10.57 +.02 REITAdml r 82.95 +2.21 STsryAdml 10.63 -.01 STBdAdml n 10.48 -.02 ShtTrmAdm 15.85 ...

STFedAdm 10.70 -.01 STIGrAdm 10.74 -.01 SmlCapAdml n36.96 +1.02 TxMCap r 66.37 +1.00 TxMGrInc r 59.63 +.86 TtlBdAdml n 10.46 -.01 TotStkAdm n 33.46 +.55 ValueAdml n 22.12 +.32 WellslAdm n 53.17 +.23 WelltnAdm n 55.68 +.38 WindsorAdm n48.40 +.44

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C OV ER S T OR I ES

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 13, 2011 G5

“I’ll proudly tell anyone from my grandma to the paperboy that I write romance. Though most are supportive, I’d be delusional if I said I didn’t see the occasional sneer.”

Fenske Continued from G1 In “Making Waves,” Fenske said the heroine is from Portland, which also is the setting for Fenske’s second book, “Believe It Or Not,” due to be published in January 2012. The third book in the series, “Let It Breathe,” set to be published in August 2012, is set in the Dundee Hills wine country in Western Oregon.

Fenske, 36, traveled a winding path from her childhood in Salem to where she is today. She earned a degree in English literature at the University of Montana before coming back to Oregon, where she worked as a reporter for the Redmond Spokesman. She followed that with a job teaching English in Venezuela, then took a marketing job in Portland before coming back to Central Oregon.

Here, she worked in marketing for St. Charles Bend for eight years before taking the communications manager position in October at Visit Bend, the city’s tourism-promotion agency.

“I’ve kind of always been writing for my supper, but not always making it up and adding smut to it,” she said.

All together, Fenske has lived 14 years in Central Oregon.

“The job at Visit Bend is ideal,” Fenske said. “I’ve worked in marketing and public relations for 10 years. In marketing, you are like a cheerleader. Now I get to be a cheerleader for Bend. How cool is that?”

Lynnette Braillard, marketing director at Visit Bend, said Fenske’s writing style engages, entertains and informs people who connect with Visit Bend through social media and blogs like Facebook and Twitter.

“We wanted somebody with that fun and witty writing ability.

That really solidifies Visit Bend as a brand and with the visitors we are reaching,” Braillard said.

Airfare Continued from G1 The airlines, analysts said, would be able to try to lure customers with special offers or discounts, or make sure their cheapest fares show up only on certain websites.

“The endgame is that American Airlines and other airlines want to have more control over their retail relationship with their consumers,” said Douglas Quinby, a senior director for research with PhoCusWright, a travel industry research firm. “The industry is in a fundamental shift to really rethink their customer experience.”

But some analysts said they feared that the move might restrict travelers’ ability to compare fares and allow airlines to increase prices more easily.

“We are already in a world of incredible complexity in terms of airfare purchases,” said Charlie Leocha, a consumer advocate who runs the Consumer Travel Alliance. “Consumers could have an even harder time navigating through airfares.”

The new world of online travel search is, in part, the result of the increasing complexity of the airline ticket. When the purchase was all-inclusive, it mattered less that airlines’ offerings were lined up against one another on an online travel agency’s site. But now, the airlines see the side-by-side comparisons as a race to the lowest common denominator.

— Tawna Fenske, on her blog

Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

Tawna Fenske, a Bend author whose first published book is due out in August, works on one of her comedic romance novels Wednesday at her home studio, while her cat, Matt, sleeps nearby. All three books in the series the longtime Central Oregonian is writing have connections to this state.

At Visit Bend, Fenske works three days a week, which leaves her free most evenings and four days a week to write and promote her romance novels.

It was during high school that Fenske developed a passion for reading romance novels.

“I’d hang around yard sales and pick up romance novels.

It was a running joke with my friends in high school that I could find the sex scenes in a minute or less,” but in those days she said writing romance novels “was never a career ambition.”

She had always planned on being a journalist.

One day about eight years ago, Fenske picked up a romance novel and, while reading it, thought, “I could do this.”

Once she sat down at her com-

puter to write a romance novel, she discovered it’s harder than it looks. But, she said, “Now that I’ve landed here, it definitely feels like romance is what I should be writing.”

Since announcing her threebook deal with Sourcebooks last spring, Fenske said she’s been bombarded with questions from aspiring authors wanting to know where she learned to write, when she first started writing fiction and how long it took her to get published.

What they really wanted to know, Fenske said, was, “‘How long do I have to throw myself at this … wall writing manuscripts and queries until I’m ready to poke myself in the eye with a fork?’”

Her advice to people: Remem-

ber that the road to writing a novel and getting published is different for everyone.

“Some writers sell their first book, and some try … for 20 years. Honestly, if I’d known at the start how bumpy my road to publication would be, I’m not sure I would have kept going,” she said.

Fenske said the first romance novel, which she described as a “bombshell action romance,” didn’t even garner a response from publishers. Instead of hanging her head, she dove into writing a second novel, which caught the attention of an editor who recommended revisions. That feedback encouraged her to continue writing even though the second book wasn’t published.

Her third attempt at romance

“The airlines say, ‘I don’t want to be shopped just that provide the data to the online travel agencies. based on price; I want to be shopped based on value.’ But the customer is saying, ‘The planes ‘Too many doubts’ are the same, the seats are the same, I just want American’s bid comes at a time of wider questioning in the world the best fare.’

— Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst at Forrester Research “The airlines say, ‘I don’t want to be shopped just based on price; I want to be shopped based on value,’ ” said Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst at Forrester Research. “But the customer is saying, ‘The planes are the same, the seats are the same, I just want the best fare.’”

How airlines see it Or as Cory Garner, the American Airlines director of distribution strategy, explained: “We are moving out of a world where airline products are viewed as a commodity. We can compete on our fares and schedules, but also on our services.”

Airline executives say they believe they can set themselves apart from their competitors by introducing a variety of new paying services. And they argue that they can better tailor their offerings if they have more control over the ticket search. A family of four might be offered a free bag allowance, for instance; a businesswoman on a short layover in Chicago, on the other hand, might be sold a ticket that includes prior-

ity seating.

In a sense, the airlines are just catching up to what other industries, including retailers, have been doing for years. Amazon offers buyers recommendations based on what other people buy in a bid to spur more sales. Netflix does the same with movie recommendations.

“Airlines don’t want people to comparison-shop,” said George Hobica, a travel industry expert and the founder of Airfarewatch dog.com. “They want to build loyalty with the brand.”

Travel agents are balking at the cost of changing their technology systems and argue that the changes that American proposes could end up reducing choices for customers. Orbitz and Expedia have resisted American’s bid for the moment, as have the global distribution systems, the industry’s name for the companies

of online search.

“Too many doubts, too many suspicions, have surfaced about the impartiality and comprehensiveness of the current search engines,” Arthur Frommer, founder of the Frommer’s travel guide series, wrote on his blog.

Google’s planned purchase of ITA Software, a company in Cambridge, Mass., that makes the software used by many airlines and online travel agencies to compare fares and flight schedules, also has the potential to shake up online search.

Google has said that it wants to develop a more advanced kind of flight search than those currently in use. The way it explained the new search, travelers could type in that they want to go to a warm, child-friendly destination in March for less than $300 — and Google would present the options.

Google says it does not plan to sell airline tickets itself but plans only to develop a flight search engine similar to Microsoft’s Bing

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first reading of Fenske’s new book. “That, in combination with an adorable heroine, a hunky hero and a sexy love story is irresistible. Everybody wants a sexy love story,” Werksman said.

“Tawna impressed me with her perseverance, her willingness to be coachable and her professionalism at all times. Her commitment shines through,” Werksman said. “Those are the qualities of a highly desirable author. That is the kind of author you really want on your team.

“Those are all the elements that can make a success in a marketplace that is really tough right now,” Werksman said.

To promote her novels, Fenske started writing a blog column last year called “Don’t Pet Me, I’m Writing,” which offers a hint of her comedic romance style.

“I’ll proudly tell anyone from my grandma to the paperboy that I write romance. Though most are supportive, I’d be delusional if I said I didn’t see the occasional sneer,” Fenske wrote in one of her blogs. “It’s a look that suggests I’m either a sexual deviant, an inferior writer, or some combination of the two.

“My instinct is to stammer something about how I write quirky romantic comedies that are way different from the stereotypical bodice-rippers with Fabio on the cover. And then I get mad at myself, because so … what if I wrote bodice-rippers.

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Once again, she resisted the temptation to give up and wrote a fourth romance novel, but instead of writing another women’s action romance, she shifted styles and wrote a romantic comedy. That felt like a more natural style for her — and it was good enough to land a contract with Sourcebooks to write a series of three romantic comedies.

She credits her agent, Michelle Wolfson of Wolfson Literary Agency in New York, for helping her make the leap from aspiring author to soon-to-be published author.

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Wolfson said Sourcebooks is known for taking new authors and building careers.

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Deb Werksman, a longtime editor at Sourcebooks, said Tawna’s ability to combine comedy with great characters and a passionate love story caught her eye.

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Touareg Hybrid is mighty nice Overheating on hills is not as common in and even more powerful ...

modern automobiles

But cheaper and more efficient than its kin? That it isn’t

By Brad Bergholdt McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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By David Undercoffler Los Angeles Times

Volkswagen recently put on sale the second generation of its midsize sport utility vehicle, the 2011 Touareg. Sitting at the top of the Touareg line is the $61,385 Hybrid, a vehicle that is eminently capable and well-executed.

Yet, with a single exception, almost every R E V I E W argument you can make for buying the Hybrid may be called into question by Volkswagen’s other two Touaregs, the base V-6 and the V-6 turbo diesel (TDI).

Like your appendix (or even your wisdom teeth), the existence of the Touareg Hybrid is largely superfluous.

Its only advantage? Raw power.

The goal of the Touareg Hybrid is to give buyers V-8 power with V-6 fuel economy. It does this in spades. (Good thing, since a V-8 isn’t available on this generation Touareg.)

To move this hybrid, VW rummaged around the corporate parts bin and found a 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 used in various Audis. The automaker paired it with an electric motor and got a total output of 380 horsepower and a whopping 428 pound-feet of torque.

With a 0-60 acceleration time of 6.2 seconds, this is not so much a “save the whales” hybrid as it is a “you’re crowding my on-ramp” hybrid.

On all 2011 Touaregs (named after a nomadic tribe in Northern Africa), an eight-speed automatic transmission routes power to all four wheels. (In VW parlance, the all-wheel-drive system is known

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Volkswagen’s Touareg Hybrid is not the most efficient Touareg. Nor is it the lightest or cheapest.

However, if you’re comfortable spending $61,000 on an SUV that says VW on the outside but implies Audi on the inside, the Touareg Hybrid might be for you.

2011 Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid Ba se price: $61,385 As tested: $61,385 Type: Midsize sport utility vehicle.

Engine: 3.0-liter DOHC 24-valve V-6 supercharged, with AC synchronous electric motor assist; eight-speed automatic transmission with Sport mode.

Mileage: 20 mpg city, 24 mpg highway. as 4Motion; Audi calls it quattro.)

The handling is taut, with average steering feedback, though at 5,135 pounds, a sports car this is not.

The transmission features a Sport mode, and it can be shifted manually. VW says the final two gears are essentially overdrive gears for increased fuel economy.

Also boosting the Touareg Hybrid’s efficiency is its unique ability to shut off the engine completely any time you take your foot off the accelerator, at speeds of up to 99 mph. VW calls this “coasting,” and it happens by way of a clutch that decouples the engine from the transmission.

It’s quite a thrill to watch the tach drop to 0 rpm the moment you take your foot off the gas, be

it on the freeway or coming up to a stop sign. The instant you tap the accelerator again, the engine kicks back to life without any discernible hesitation. It also makes for a very quiet and smooth ride.

But this feature is not enough to make the Hybrid the most efficient Touareg in the lineup, and power remains its only advantage.

The Hybrid is rated at 20 miles per gallon in the city and 24 mpg on the highway. During my week with the vehicle, I averaged 19 mpg. This shows the Hybrid’s advantage over a V-8; last year I tested the Touareg’s close cousin, the Porsche Cayenne S, and averaged 17 mpg.

But the efficiency badge goes to the $48,770 Touareg TDI. Its 3.0-

liter, 225-horsepower, 406-poundfeet, oil-burning motor is rated at 19 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway. I averaged 23.8 mpg over four days.

Finally, the Hybrid isn’t lighter or cheaper. Nor are there any distinguishing exterior features, save for small Hybrid badges, to denote that your $61,385 Touareg Hybrid is not the $45,270 base Touareg V6 (which comes with a 3.6-liter engine good for 280 horsepower and 265 pound-feet of torque).

In fact, all new Touaregs look the same regardless of the trim line. This is a good thing, as visually this Volkswagen is betterlooking than the first generation.

Volkswagen firmed up the lines and hardened the Touareg’s edges.

This contemporary, refined look is enhanced by chrome roof rails and trim around the windows and standard LED daytime running lights and alloy wheels.

Inside, the refinement continues. This Volkswagen is basically an Audi hiding behind a VW logo.

My wife commutes on California’s Highway 17 several times a week, from Aptos to Palo Alto and back.

When we were driving that route together on Saturday, she noted a big yellow sign in Los Gatos: “Prevent overheating — turn off air conditioning.” She asked, “Is that still a problem with cars these days? I know we had to worry about it when we were kids, but now?” Note: We were in a Prius at the time.

So, is she right? Should the state move into the 2010s and take down or modify the sign?

For those unfamiliar with this route, it’s a narrow and winding four-lane highway that involves approximately an 1,800-foot grade change with a few moderately steep sections.

Additionally, during the summer months, the temperature can reach 90-100 degrees.

Using the air conditioning when climbing a significant grade requires consideration but it isn’t necessarily going to result in a problem. As in the past, using the air conditioning places an additional mechanical load on the engine to operate the compressor, heated air is typically discharged in front of the radiator, and a somewhat greater quantity of electricity is used to engage the compressor and run the blower fan (making electricity also loads the engine to a small degree). If it’s a hot day, the hill is steep and long, and the vehicle’s cooling system isn’t performing at a B or better grade, this is a recipe for trouble.

If you’re wondering about that heated air and the radiator, an air conditioning system transfers heat from within the vehicle to outside via a condenser (among other parts), a radia-

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tor-like device that’s mounted directly in front of, or next to the radiator. Four-cylinder vehicles typically employ a narrow radiator, leaving room for the condenser to be mounted to one side, while larger V-6 and V8 engine uses a full width radiator, and the condenser must live in front of it. To achieve best air conditioning performance, the condenser needs first crack at the incoming air, clean fins and proper fan operation. Radiator performance suffers when its air supply has been previously heated.

Newer air conditioning compressors are smaller and more efficient than in the past, and the electric radiator/condenser fans commonly used can be more proactive in moving air than the mechanical fan found on Dad’s Buick. On the other hand, I’ve found modern aluminum or plastic radiators to be a bit anemic, compared to the heavy copper or brass radiators we used to run.

Your wife is on the right track. A modern vehicle, if properly maintained, should have less trouble with overheating concerns when climbing a hill with the air conditioning in use.

If tempted to ignore the sign’s suggestion, I’d certainly recommend being familiar with the normal temperature operating range of your engine, monitor the gauge frequently — perhaps once each minute — and play it safe by switching off the air conditioning if the outside temperature rises above 90 degrees or if the gauge reading rises excessively.

Brad Bergholdt is an automotive technology instructor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. E-mail questions to under-the-hood@ earthlink.net.

Professional needed to check fuse for steering wheel lighting in LeSabre

By Paul Brand Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Q:

I have a 2005 Buick LeSabre. The lights on the steering wheel controls for the cruise control and stereo do not work. Is this an easy fix?

If the switches are still fully functional, just not illuminated, confirm that the other interior

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backlighting for the cigar lighter, DIC (driver information center), HVAC (heating and air conditioning) and radio are working. If only the steering wheel lighting is not working, check the harness connectors for the DIM (dash integration module) and the steering wheel controls. If none of the lighting illuminates, check the dimmer con-

trol and make sure the DIM light sensor isn’t covered. My Alldata automotive database also shows a 2-amp switch fuse in the steering column fuse holder, which may be worth checking. Since checking this fuse and any further testing of the steering wheel switches will involve disabling the air bag, leave this to a professional.

Q:

My 1989 Nissan Maxima loses power regardless of speed or whether I am accelerating or holding the gas pedal steady. The car doesn’t do it constantly, just at least once a day.

The throttle position sensor and the air flow sensor were changed out, but four mechanics haven’t found the problem.

A:

The most likely cause for the sag in power is a drop in fuel pressure. When was the last time the fuel filter was replaced? The engine needs approximately 43 psi fuel pressure. If the pressure is fluctuating, you’ll notice a significant loss of performance. A properly installed fuel pressure gauge monitored during a test drive

might confirm this.

Paul Brand, author of “How to Repair Your Car,” is an automotive troubleshooter, driving instructor and former race car driver. Email questions to paulbrand@ startribune.com. Please explain the problem in detail and include a daytime phone number.

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You’ve won six Grammys. Any favorite memories of the show?

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Tennessee farm, and Wynonna Judd is in her J.Crew pajamas under blue flannel sheets, surrounded by three of her pooches. The 46-year-old multi-platinum singer has just finished the 2010 dates on her Last Encore tour, during which she and her mother, Naomi, were filmed for a reality show to air in March on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. And in January, Judd published her first novel, Restless Heart. It’s about a rising countrymusic star who has “fire and moxie,” she tells Kate Meyers— just like its author.

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I borderline worshipped her on every stage during our recent tour.

The country-music superstar (and now novelist) on lounging in bed, working on her brain, and being blissfully in love again

What made you want to write Restless Heart?

We are so convinced we can go on television and have overnight success, instead of the real story of how a career is born and made. When Mom and I started in 1983, we rode around in a car for a year, visiting three to five radio stations a day. We called it “the shake and howdy.” My own story is woven into this love story about Destiny, a young woman from a small town who’s got a gift and wants to make it. She has that “roll up your sleeves and march through the storm” quality.

While you’re still in bed, let’s talk about how you spend your Sundays.

It’s my sacred day. I’ll sleep until I wake up, which is just divine. I stay in my pj’s. I think it’s important to bask in the glory of nothingness. I’ll pile my favorite things around me: Scientific American, a bunch of self-help books. I’ll indulge myself with decaf and creamer in the mug I took—I asked first!—from Oprah’s dressing room. And it makes me just as happy as I can be. I don’t even brush my hair unless I absolutely have to.

it. My brain is now pretty fabulous.

I’m always trying to come up with the next healing process.

watching. As long as I don’t read People and watch certain shows, I feel really good about myself.

I’m curious: Why Scientific American?

I study the brain; Mom’s the same way. And I’ve been doing a thing called brainstate conditioning training. I’m off four major medications for depression and ADD because of

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After A losing 50 pounds, I feel healthier and sassier, and I’ve started getting some looks! I keep doing it because of my health. My rule is that if I want to watch something on TV, I walk on the treadmill while I’m

Now that you have two teenagers, 16-year-old Elijah and 14-yearold Grace, do you appreciate your mom more?

Heck yeah, because paybacks are hell. And the older I get, the smarter my mother is—it’s amazing.

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A slimmed-down Judd at her home in Franklin, Tenn., in October

What does your hair color say about you?

That I am very, very unsatisfied with just one color.

I have five—a base red, a crazy red, a pomegranate, a tangerine, and a color close to Rihanna’s bright cherry red. I call my hair the burning bush. It’s just my way of expressing myself.

You’ve been through two divorces, but your book is very hopeful about love. Are you?

Oh, yeah—for 17 months I’ve been seeing Cactus Moser, who I’m absolutely madly in love with. He used to open for Mom and me back in the ’80s, and I had a crush on him then. I’m so grateful, I almost feel like I’m getting away with something. But I’m hesitant to talk about it, ’cause there’s nothing more irritating than a woman who’s getting her groove back.

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Ask Marilyn If many stars are so far from Earth that their light takes millions of years to reach us, how do we know they still exist?

—Sue Charles, Marshfield, Mass.

We don’t. When we look at the stars, we are viewing the past. If a star is a million light years away (our Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years wide), we are observing the way it looked a million years ago, not the way it looks today. And that’s a relatively close star!

Yet we can make educated guesses about the life spans of various stars, depending on their characteristics. In the case of many massive stars—

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which are among the most luminous and short-lived—we can be confident that they’re not there when we see them.

Even more mind-boggling: Say that a certain star will live for 5 million years, but it’s so far away that its light takes 10 million years to reach us. By the time we can see it for the first time, it has already been gone for 5 million years.

Why is a cash drawer called a “till”? —Cheryl M., Bellingham, Wash.

The word goes back more than 500 years. Till (til, tille, tyll, or tylle) had long been the term for a small tray, drawer, or compartment used for holding

valuables—such as jewels, money, or documents—inside a larger chest or cabinet, etc.

Most of those usages are now obsolete. Today, the term refers only to a cash drawer or

similar receptacle in which the money for routine transactions is temporarily stored.

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a funny idea: Get the puma! A call goes out, and soon a six-foot furry mascot walks in to mug side-by-side with the star for PARADE’s photo shoot. Few people could summon a puma just like that, but fame of the type Perry wields has its privileges.

He earned that fame—plus a substantial fortune—playing Chandler Bing on the 10-year juggernaut Friends, one of the most successful comedy series ever.

But after more than 52 million Americans tuned in to watch Friends’ finale in 2004, Perry did what he calls “the stereotypical thingg in the Actors Handbook, where you say, ‘Okay, now I’m just going to do dramatic things.’” Most notably, he co-starred in Aaron Sorkin’s short-lived West Wing follow-up, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and scored an Emmy nomination for his role as an inner-city schoolteacher in the TV movie The Ron Clark Story. Then, he says, “I remembered it was kind of fun to be funny.”

Now the legions of fans who’ve missed Perry’s supremely entertaining blend of frazzled bemusement and wry, sardonic humor can rejoice: He’s back in prime time, on ABC’s Wednesdaynight sitcom Mr. Sunshine. It’s his first series in more than three years and his first comedy since Friends.

It’s also a labor of love for the 41-year-old star, who in addition to headlining is taking a huge creative leap as one of the show’s writers and executive producers. “Mr. Sunshine was generated out of an idea of his that he was very passionate about,” says Jamie Tarses, an old pal of Perry’s who developed Friends when she was at NBC. “It turned into a true collaboration, and he’s involved in all of it.” Perry, who had co-written a pilot before and was

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eager for more behind-the-scenes responsibility, says he didn’t think “that just being an actor on another comedy would be the right move, because I was already lucky enough to have been on one of the best.

This show really is a dream come true. I just hope that people will like it—that it’s not just funny to me.”

He plays Ben Donovan, the 40-year-old general manager of a fictional San Diego arena called the Sunshine Center, and the personification of a mid-life crisis.

Asked whether Ben and Chandler

share traits, Perry—who wholeheartedly subscribes to the school of “write what you know”— says the likenesses are more between Ben and himself five years ago. “I’ve certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered,” he notes. “I’d rather be me now than me at 20. This show is going to be about the 9,000 mistakes Ben makes on the journey to becoming a real person who cares about other people.”

Perry has had some highly publicized battles with addiction, going to rehab in 1997 and 2001 for alcohol- and drug-abuse treatment.

Recalling that period, and the subsequent years that inspired Mr. Sunshine, he feels the key to emerging whole was facing his fears.

“I suppose that’s what life is really about, and what I was ultimately brave enough to do,” he says. “That and the knowledge that it’s an ongoing process. If something scares you, face it. For example, what do you do when Friends is over and you’re not sure what’s next? I decided to be creative, and it scared me. I didn’t know whether I could do it. The first draft of the first script I ever wrote, I started every single scene with somebody coming in saying, ‘Can I talk to you for a second?’ ” He laughs and shakes his head. “That’s just bad writing. If you hear somebody on Mr. Sunshine say that, you’ll know I’ve screwed up.”

Allison Janney, who plays Ben’s loopy, politically incorrect boss, says that back when she and Perry were working on The West Wing in 2003, “I thought he was hysterically funny and very smart. You couldn’t believe the things that were coming out of his mouth, he was so quick-witted.”

Though Perry does recall “thinking of funny lines” on sets over the years—“sometimes I’d get them in and sometimes I wouldn’t”— F February 13, 2011 • 9

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he describes a writing process on Mr. Sunshine that’s a good deal more laborious, involving pacing around the house and mumbling to himself in corners at parties.

“To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago,” he says. His habit of mining memories for humorous bits has his friends teasing him that he’ll be out of material before too long, “because I put all of my jokes into this thing.”

Perry has brought some of those real-life pals into his fictional life at the Sunshine Center. Inside that puma costume, for example, is actor David Pressman, a friend since their days doing improv in the late ’80s. Pressman plays the arena’s embittered mascot. “It’s an opportunity to put some of your buddies into a show,” Perry says.

The star admits that it hasn’t all been hard work and creativity since we last saw him onscreen; he’s been through some fallow periods as well. “There was a time when I wasn’t working a lot,” he says. “It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing Fallout 3, a very fun game.” In fact, Perry spent so much time on the post-apocalyptic video game

that he developed a hand injury requiring a cortisone injection.

“I told that story on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the gamemakers offered me a part in the fourth Fallout. I voice one of the characters, and I had to kill myself when I played it,” he says, clearly relishing the memory.

One thing he has yet to make time for is marriage and a family. Though he’s been linked over the years with more than a few famous women—including Julia Roberts, Heather Graham, Meg Ryan, and Mandy Moore— and he’s talked of wanting to settle down, Perry is reticent about his current romantic life beyond saying, “I’ve always thought that kids are in my future.” (For her part, Tarses says “he’s ready for the next phase” in a relationship. “I’m a huge fan of his girlfriend [whom Perry didn’t name], and every day I tell him he should marry her.”)

“I certainly think there’s room for it all,” Perry allows. Then he adds with a grin, “I just might have to give up a little bit of Fallout.”

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Making the Skies a Bit Friendlier No rowdy kids, no bare feet, no smelly food. That’s all I ask.

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ello, this is your

captain speaking.

Okay, I lied. I don’t sit in the cockpit. I sit where you sit. And I fly a lot (over 100,000 miles a year). So I would like to suggest ways the airlines could treat us better this year.

But why bother?

Any business that will soon be charging you and me to open the bathroom door isn’t keen on hearing from either of us. The airlines stopped listening about the time they began selling pillows.

So perhaps we could speak to one another as fellow travelers.

Because even if the airlines torture us until we’d rather ride on the back of a filthy hay wagon, we don’t have to follow suit, do we?

We can all be flying buddies!

Here are a few gentle suggestions: First, when you get on the plane, walk down the aisle with your carry-on luggage in front of you, not behind you. Behind you, you knock over drinks, bags, and small elderly people.

And when you finally sit down, think before you slam your seat back into the person behind you.

Breaking kneecaps is for gangster movies.

Feet. As in bare feet. Don’t do it. Maybe at home you like to rip off your socks and plant your naked toes wherever you like, but not on a plane, okay? This isn’t a nail salon. I recently sat next to a wom-

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before you slam your seat all the way back.

‘ThinkBreaking kneecaps is for gangsters only. ’ an who stuck her bare, sweaty feet on the cabin wall! Please. Unless you’re Spider-Man and about to walk upside down, keep the shoes on, all right? It’s smelly enough in the cabin.

Which brings us to food. Yes, I know you’re lucky to get a cornflake on an airplane today, but if

you must bring food on board, consider the odor. Fried onions will not stop smelling at 23D. Kids. Let’s talk about kids. Kids love airplanes. Many can’t believe they have a seat in front of them they can kick all flight long, while Mom and Dad watch the movie.

Please. Tell them to stop.

And if you’ve got a crying baby—and we all love babies— at least pretend you’re trying to keep him quiet. Don’t hide behind an US Weekly.

Also, once your kids stop crying, the plane should not hear from them again until they are old enough to be—and actually are—the pilots. I recently had a little boy behind me who all flight long kept singing, at the top of his lungs, “Go-Go-Go…the cat in the hat!” I don’t know this song, or if it even is a song, but I do know his mom did nothing except occasionally whisper, “Jacob, keep it down,” which had the same effect as pressing the Volume-Up button.

Speaking of volume, if you need to use your cellphone on the tarmac, please remember there are people inches away from you. They really don’t want to hear about Uncle Seymour’s kidney problem.

And if you fall asleep, try not to do so on the person next to you.

So there you go. With a little cooperation, we can all have a better year as passengers, even if the airlines think we’re cattle. Thank you for your attention. And now, as the captain says, sit back, relax, and strip to your underwear.

Security check.

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My Big Fat Greek Date For Molly Ringwald, this dish came with lots of garlic (and lots of love)

We cut the session short and ran out into the crisp, blue-skied February day. It was just shy of Valentine’s Day, an ideal time for lollygagging outside with a new crush, but I had a script to read, and our apartments were on opposite sides of town. So why not read at his place? he suggested.

As twilight descended, I detected noises in the kitchen. And then the unmistakable smell of garlic wafted in. Who prepares garlic on a first date? Had I misread everything? I shuffled to the table, where a delicious homecooked Greek meal awaited: oregano- seasoned pan-seared

pork chops and cubed tomatoes wrapped in a fresh pita slathered with garlic-infused tzatziki.

After the first bite, my true love affair began. With tzatziki. I ate another “Greek taco,” and another, and then Panio just scooted the tzatziki in front of me and I began to eat directly F

Tzatziki Serve this Greek condiment with grilled pita, sliced tomatoes, red onion, cucumbers, peppers, and pork chops.

cle

“This is not a date,” I told myself.

I had recently separated from my husband and, living alone in New York City, was in no hurry to date. I thought it best to disengage, have fun, wear heels often, and flirt. Then I met a wholly inappropriate man seven years my junior.

Panio Gianopoulos was 25, with big shoulders and long dimples, and was far too good-looking to be taken seriously. Never mind that he wrote and edited books and was a second-degree black-belt in karate.

After a lengthy e-mail flirtation, we timidly set about figuring out ways to meet in person. A plan was hatched to teach me some self-defense basics. I put together the minxy-est workout outfit I could, then nervously giggled my way through the bout. When we got to the “bear hug,” I froze. Not because I was scared, but because I didn’t want to get out of it.

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Sunday Dinner (continued) from the bowl with a spoon.

We chatted and laughed and flirted, and when it was time to go home, it was decided that it was much too cold, and wouldn’t I be better off spending the night? He chivalrously offered to sleep on the couch, but since this wasn’t a date, I reasoned, what did it hurt to snuggle a little on the bed?

“Speak to me in Greek,” I suggested, since I was too nervous to speak myself, let alone breathe, having polished off the entire bowl of tzatziki.

“Little gold piece,” he said in Greek. Then he began listing all of the islands that, as I would later learn, he hoped we would one day visit. At the time I had no clue what he was saying. I was simply luxuriating in the sound of the foreign tongue.

“Santorini. Mykonos. Skiathos…,” he murmured in between kisses.

I whispered back one of the few Greek words he’d taught me: the one that means “more.”

He said other words I didn’t know, but then I heard one I did.

I shot up. “Tzatziki! Are you naming food products?”

He nodded sheepishly. “I ran out of islands.” Turned out he was also naming appliances, political parties, and cartoon characters. And it didn’t matter!

He could have read me the entire Athenian phone book while we both munched on cloves of garlic as if they were chewing gum. It was definitely a date.

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