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BY JONATHAN J. COOPER
The Associated Press
By Lou Sennick, The World
At a pro-gun rally Saturday afternoon, Don Chance talks to the group of more than 100 people on the Coos Bay
Boardwalk about the proposed Bandon Marsh expansion. He joined gun enthusiasts and others over what they feel are
the federal government’s efforts to curb their rights.
Obama to campaign for
gun proposals in Minnesota
WASHINGTON — The fate
of his gun proposals on Capitol
Hill uncertain, President Barack
Obama is seeking to rally support from the public and law
enforcement community for his
calls to ban assault weapons and
install universal background
checks for gun buyers.
Obama will pitch his proposals to stem gun violence today
in Minnesota, a Democraticleaning state where officials
have been studying ways to
reduce gun-related attacks and
accidents for several years. His
visit to the Minneapolis Police
Department’s Special Operations Center will mark the first
time Obama has campaigned on
his controversial proposals outside of Washington.
Ahead of the trip, the White
House released a photo of the
president skeet shooting at
Camp David, the presidential
retreat. Obama cited skeet
shooting when asked in a recent
interview whether he had ever
shot a gun.
Reinstating the
assault weapon
ban is a longshot,
but universal
background
checks has a
chance of passing
The president unveiled his
sweeping package of proposals
for curbing gun violence last
month in response to the horrific mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary
school. He vowed to use the full
weight of his office to fight for
the proposals, many of which
face tough opposition from
congressional lawmakers and
the powerful National Rifle
Association.
The reinstatement of the
assault weapons ban, which
expired in 2004, is expected to
be the steepest climb for
Obama. Universal background
checks for gun purchasers may
have an easier time passing
Congress, though the NRA also
opposes that measure.
Senate Judiciary Chairman
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has said
he hopes his panel can write gun
legislation this month, though
it’s unclear what it will contain.
The White House picked
Minneapolis as the backdrop for
Obama’s remarks in part
because of recent steps the city
has taken to tackle gun violence, including a push for
stricter background checks.
After a spike in violent
crimes, the city launched a program in 2008 aimed at providing more resources for at-risk
youth and helping rehabilitate
young people who already have
perpetrated crimes. In January,
Minneapolis also hosted a
regional summit on gun violence for elected officials from
around the Midwest.
Minneapolis Police Chief
Janee Harteau and Hennepin
County Sheriff Richard Stanek
are also among the officials
Obama has consulted as he purSEE OBAMA | A8
SALEM — The Oregon Legislature gets down to business today,
opening a five-month session that
will include a flurry of discussion
on schools, prisons, pensions, guns
and plenty more.
Lawmakers took the oath of
office three weeks ago but delayed
their official start until this week.
After the 2012 election, Democrats retained control of the Senate
and picked up seats in the House,
ending a tie with Republicans.
They’ll now have an opportunity to
push their own priorities without
first securing the sign-off of GOP
leaders, and they’ll be eager to
push for ideas that the GOP successfully blocked over the last two
years.
A look at a few of the issues that
will dominate the Legislature’s
time:
Education
One of the most contentious
debates of any legislative session is
over the amount of money that will
go to K-12 schools, and this year
will be no exception. Democratic
Gov. John Kitzhaber has proposed
$6.15 billion, a slight increase over
current funding, but legislative
Democrats will be looking to boost
that amount.
Aside from funding, expect lawmakers to look at reworking the
bureaucratic structure for higher
education. Kitzhaber has proposed
combining budgeting authority for
community colleges and universities into a new Department of
Post-Secondary Education. University of Oregon and Portland
State University also have asked for
independent governing boards to
get more freedom from the rest of
the statewide university system.
Budget
Lawmakers don’t face the same
deep budget deficits that have
defined the past two legislative
sessions, but costs are still growing
faster than revenue. That means
more tough decisions are in store
as legislators dole out limited dollars.
The fight isn’t limited to
schools.
Kitzhaber’s budget proposal
scaled back the time limit for people enrolled in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a welfare
program that provides cash assisSEE AGENDA | A8
Scientists find remains of
England’s King Richard III
BY JILL LAWLESS
The Associated Press
LEICESTER, England — He
wore the English crown, but he
ended up defeated, humiliated and
reviled.
Now things are looking up for
K ing Richard III. Scientists
announced today that they had
found the monarch’s 500-year-old
remains under a parking lot in the
city of Leicester — a discovery
Richard’s fans say will inspire new
research into his maligned history.
University of Leicester
researchers say tests on a battlescarred skeleton unearthed last
year prove “beyond reasonable
doubt” that it is the king, who died
at the Battle of Bosworth Field in
1485, and whose remains have been
missing for centuries.
“Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, has been
found,” said the university’s
deputy registrar, Richard Taylor.
Bone specialist Jo Appleby said
study of the bones provided “a
highly convincing case for identification of Richard III.”
The Plantagenets were a royal
dynasty whose strong-tempered
rulers conquered Wales, battled
France, and helped transform England into a thriving medieval kingdom. The last of the dynasty,
Richard III was also the last English
monarch to die in battle, immortalized by William Shakespeare as a
A night of poetry, pipes and pride
As big as a basketball
Mary Traylor, North Bend
Huntley Alvey, Coos Bay
Obituaries | A5
Pendleton man will need
two surgeries to remove a
50- to 70-pound tumor.
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The World
SEE PLAID | A8
STATE
INSIDE
NORTH BEND — There was no shortage of
Scottish pride on display Saturday night at The
Mill Casino-Hotel.
More than 150 people gathered to celebrate the
Coastal Celtic Society’s 11th annual Scottish Burns
Night. Scottish poet Robert Burns died in 1796,
but his work is still celebrated across the world.
The event, which included pipe bands and an
auction, helped the Celtic Society raise money to
award a scholarship to further the recipient’s
interest in Scottish culture.
“This is the chance to celebrate one of the persons who is most recognized worldwide,” comaster of ceremonies Sand MacKenzie said. “His
work and his humanity is what makes him so
endearing to us. It’s an amazing night.”
Burns Night came to the Bay Area several years
ago from Florence. Bob More, president of the
local Celtic Society, said the event helped form
the society. The group has between 75 and 100
members, and it’s their biggest night of the year.
Money raised from previous Burns nights has
been given away in grants or scholarships that
have helped young people master fiddle skills and
attend bagpipe camp.
“It’s a real opportunity for youth or adults,”
More said. “This is a learning opportunity they
cannot get locally.”
Burns’ poetry was read throughout the night,
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SEE KING | A8
Bob More, left, leads
the Oregon Coast
Pipe and Drums band
during the opening of
the 2013 Burns Night
Celebration on
Saturday at The Mill
Casino-Hotel.
Feel so plaid
BY TYLER RICHARDSON
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The Associated Press
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Eyeing the
future
Paul Merz, left, high-fives Gary Vonderohe, center,
and Brian Craig after injecting Coho salmon eggs
into gravel beds in Panther Creek above Sumner.
About 30,000 eggs will be planted in gravel creek
beds around Wilson Creek over the next week or so.
Top left: The eye-spot of a Coho salmon peers out,
seemingly watching the action Thursday morning
before it, along with about 9,000 other eggs are
planted in Panther Creek and other tributaries of
Wilson Creek above Sumner. Top right: The six-year
project to develop a Coho salmon population in the
wild took another step. After the eggs from Coho
harvested in December, the growing eggs have
been planted in gravel beds in local streams. On
Thursday morning, Merz, left, Gary Vonderohe, center, and Craig inject eggs into Panther Creek above
Sumner.
Photos by
Lou Sennick,
The World
Meetings
Local man to lead Oregon’s loggers
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St., Suite 10A; regular meeting.
Bandon City Council — 7 p.m., city
hall, 555 U.S. Highway 101; regular meeting.
Coquille City Council — 7 p.m.,
council chambers, city hall, 851
N. Central Blvd.; regular meeting
followed by an Urban Renewal
Agency meeting.
Myrtle Point City Council — 7:30
p.m., Flora M. Laird Memorial
Library meeting room, 435 Fifth
St.; regular meeting.
TODAY
Douglas County Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee — 2 p.m., community room,
Douglas County Library, 1409
N.E. Diamond Lake Blvd., Roseburg; regular meeting.
Reedsport City Council — 6 and 7
p.m., city hall, 451 Winchester
Ave.; work session followed by
regular meeting.
Siuslaw Soil and Water Conservation District — 6:30 p.m., Flo-
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Brad Haga has recently been
appointed president of the
Associated Oregon Loggers.
Haga runs D&H Logging
and Young’s trucking with
his brother and sister, which
they took over from their
parents and have been in
business for 53 years.
Haga has been an active
board member of the Associated Oregon Loggers for
eight years and a member for
42 years. He will be president
for the next two years. His
duties will be to supervise
and provide insight to all of
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The association helps
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decided to upgrade their
equipment to use a much
more environmentally sensitive dry cleaning solvent.
This equipment cost twice
that of the traditional PERC
dry cleaning machines, but
they felt strongly that they
didn’t want to use PERC. Not
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Coos Bay Public Library
This month’s award, the has received a $1,681 grant to
second to be awarded, was improve library services to
presented to Wardrobe children. The Ready-to-Read
Cleaners, located in down- grant funds will be used to
town Coos Bay. When Jerry provide transportation to the
and Laura Wharton took over library’s monthly bi-lingual
the business in 2005, they story time and to purchase free
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books for distribution during
various events throughout the
year. Funds also will be used to
provide incentive prizes during the library’s summer reading program.
The Ready-to-Read
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assist local libraries in helping to achieve the Oregon
Benchmarks for childhood
learning and development.
“Reading is such an
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grant funds enable us to put
books into the hands and
homes of many Bay Area
families and so encourages
the development of those
vital early literacy skills,”
said Children’s Librarian Pat
Flitcroft.
Thefts & Mischief
COOS BAY
Feb. 1, 6:26 a.m., unlawful entry
into a vehicle, 800 block of Sixth
Avenue.
Feb. 1, 9:13 a.m., theft, 1500 block
of Spruce Avenue.
Feb. 1, 12:06 p.m., criminal trespass, 1200 block of Newmark
Avenue.
Feb. 1, 2:05 p.m., disorderly conduct, South First Street.
Feb. 1, 3:14 p.m., criminal trespass, 1900 block of Woodland
Drive.
Feb. 1, 5:10 p.m., dispute, 300
block of North Adams Street.
Feb. 1, 9:05 p.m., assault, 400
block of Hall Avenue.
Feb. 2, 1:13 a.m., man arrested on
multiple charges, 1000 block of
South Eighth Street.
Feb. 2, 2:42 a.m., armed subject,
3000 block of Ocean Boulevard.
Feb. 2, 9:19 a.m., burglary, 1800
block of Thomas Avenue.
Feb. 2, 10:29 a.m., dispute, 400
block of North Wasson Street.
Feb. 2, 10:59 a.m., domestic
assault, man arrested, 200 block
of South Marple Street.
Feb. 2, 11:31 a.m., criminal mischief,
100 block of West First Street.
Feb. 2, 3:20 p.m., burglary, 300
block of South Fifth Street.
Feb. 2, 4:10 p.m., robbery, theft of
purse, 500 block of Anderson
Avenue.
Feb. 2, 7:04 p.m., woman arrested
on warrants, state Highway 42.
Feb. 2, 9:55 p.m., man arrested on
parole violation charge, Cape
Arago Highway.
Feb. 2, 9:59 p.m., harassment,
100 block of North Dean Street.
NORTH BEND
Feb. 1, 12:02 a.m., criminal trespass, 1600 block of Virginia
Avenue.
Feb. 1, 12:55 a.m., criminal trespass, 800 block of California
Avenue.
Feb. 1, 1:33 p.m. woman arrested
on burglary charges, 700 block
of Virginia Avenue.
Feb. 1, 1:56 p.m., man arrested on
warrants, 1800 block of Virginia
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Feb. 1, 4:07 p.m., theft, 1700
block of Hamilton Street.
Feb. 1, 4:24 p.m., man arrested on
criminal trespass charges, 1900
block of Monroe Street.
Feb. 1, 4:52 p.m., burglary, 1200
block of Bayview Street.
Feb. 1, 9:22 p.m., disorderly conduct, Sherman Avenue.
Feb. 2, 2:13 a.m., disorderly conduct, 1900 block of Sherman
Avenue.
Feb. 2, 3:59 a.m., unlawful entry
into a vehicle, man arrested,
2700 block of Sherman Avenue.
Feb. 2, 9:16 a.m., unlawful entry
into a vehicle, 2800 block of
Sherman Avenue.
Feb. 2, 1:11 p.m., theft, 2600 block
of Pacific Street.
Feb. 2, 2:16 p.m., disorderly conduct, man arrested, Broadway
Avenue.
Feb. 2, 3:09 p.m., criminal trespass, 2100 block of Stanton
Avenue.
Feb. 2, 3:18 p.m., criminal mischief, 1600 block of Hamilton
Avenue.
Feb. 2, 3:36 p.m., man arrested on
warrant, 3100 block of Broadway Avenue.
Feb. 2, 5:51 p.m., interfering with
police, man arrested, 1900 block
of Virginia Avenue.
Feb. 2, 7:48 p.m., theft, 1700
block of Virginia Avenue.
Feb. 2, 8:47 p.m., man arrested
on warrant, 16th Street.
Feb. 2, 9:58 p.m., burglary, theft,
1800 block of McPherson
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Consider local climate zones
TUESDAY
AARP Tax Preparation Program noon-3 p.m., Holy
Name Catholic Church basement, 12 N. Dean, Coquille.
Those seeking assistance
should bring: last year’s
return, social security card,
photo ID, earnings statements and all other required
forms and statements.
Please have totals ready.
Completed forms will be
filed electronically for state
and federal returns. For
information, call 541-8887332.
Kitchen Chemistry Family Science Night 6-7:30 p.m.,
Marshfield High School
Pirate Hall room 504, 10th
and Ingersoll, Coos Bay.
Refreshments and limited
child care for preschoolers.
541-267-1318
WEDNESDAY
Bingo 6:30 p.m., Bay Area
Senior Activity Center, 886 S.
Fourth St., Coos Bay. Cost:
Early bird, 25 cents; regular,
$5 pack and $1 specials. 541269-2626
THURSDAY
“The Spitfire Grill” 7 p.m.,
Little Theater on the Bay,
2100 Sherman Ave., North
Bend. Tickets: Adult, $11;
seniors and students, $9.25
and ages 12 and under,
$7.50. www.ltob.net. Special
benefit for the Women’s
Safety & Resource Center.
FRIDAY
Friends of the Carousel Committee Meeting 4 p.m.,
Coquille City Hall council
chamber, 851 N. Central,
Coquille. Anyone wishing to
join the Carousel Steering
Committee is invited to
attend. 541-396-2115
Jerry Baron art opening 5-7
p.m., Coos Art Museum, 235
Anderson Ave.
Langlois Lions Benefit Bingo
6:30-9:30 p.m., Langlois
Lions Club, 48136 Floras
Lake Loop Road, Langlois.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Snacks
and beverages available.
541-348-2507
Foreign Film Friday “Illegal”
7 p.m., Coos Bay Public
Library, 525 Anderson Ave.,
Coos Bay. Belgium film on
immigrant rights. Parental
discretion advised. 541-2691101
“The Spitfire Grill” 7 p.m.,
Little Theater on the Bay,
2100 Sherman Ave., North
Bend. Tickets: Adult, $11;
seniors and students, $9.25
and ages 12 and under,
$7.50. www.ltob.net
“A Splash of Red” Valentines
Ball 7-11 p.m., Coquille Community Building, 115 N.
Birch, Coquille. Black tie
optional, cost is $15 or two
for $25. Finger food, no host
bar, photographs, DJ. Tickets
available at Coquille Police
Department, 541-396-2114 or
chamber, 541-396-3414.
SATURDAY
10th Annual Women’s Health
Day 9 a.m.-3 p.m., The Barn,
1200 11th St. SW, Bandon.
Sponsored by Southern Coos
Health Foundation. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Keynote: Dr. Sarah S. Kehl;
speakers: Dr. Nicole Ruch
Erenfeld; Stephani Polizzi;
Lindi Quinn: Marlene’s silent
auction and refreshments.
Registration is $10. 541-3291040
Headles & Treadles Fiber
Guild Meeting 10 a.m., Headles & Treadles, Pony Village
Mall suite 20 on the mezzanine, 1611 Virginia Ave.,
North Bend.
AARP Tax Preparation Program 10 a.m.-noon, Holy
Name Catholic Church basement, 12 N. Dean, Coquille.
Those seeking assistance
should bring: last year’s
return, social security card,
photo ID, earnings statements and all other required
forms and statements.
Please have totals ready.
Completed forms will be
filed electronically for state
and federal returns. For
information, call 541-8887332.
Bay Area Artists Association
11 a.m., Pony Village Mall
across from Sears, 1611 Virginia Ave., North Bend. Featured: Herb Yussim, Oregon
Bay Properties discussing
community art gallery.
Patrick Camozzi Valentine’s
Show 11 a.m., Coos Bay Public Library, 525 Anderson
Ave., Coos Bay. Music, stories and family fun. 541-2691101
‘Crack Up’ Charleston Crab
Feed 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Old
Charleston Elementary
School, 64065 Seven Devils
Road, Charleston. Proceeds
benefit Charleston Visitors
Center and provides assistance to Charleston Food
Bank, Shore Acres Holiday
Lights. Whole crab dinner,
$17 or half, $13. Includes side
dish, garlic bread, beverage
and dessert. Prize drawings.
Marshfield Safe & Sober Graduation Bottle Drive 11 a.m.-3
p.m. McKay’s Market, 149 S.
Seventh St., Coos Bay. Dropsite. 541-297-2498
South Coast Senior Singles
Club Lunch Meeting noon,
Ciccarelli’s, 2076 Sherman
Ave., North Bend. No host
lunch. 541-751-9059
Purely Voice 12:30 p.m. Curry
Public Library, 94241 Third
St., Gold Beach. A cappella
group celebrates Broadway
Musicals.
Cupcakes & Couture 2 p.m.,
Sixes Grange, 44556 U.S.
Highway 101, Port Orford.
Jazzy antics by Theatre 101,
fashion show by Second Act
Clothing, treats and sale.
Cost is $10. wendee6@frontier.com
Star of Hope Valentine’s with
the Stars: Celebrity and
Bachelor Auction 5-11 p.m.,
The Mill Casino-Hotel, 3201
Tremont, North Bend. Social
hour, 5 p.m.; auction, 6 p.m.;
dinner, 7 p.m. and live
music, 8 p.m. Proceeds benefit Star of Hope. www.starof-hope.com/valentine
“The Spitfire Grill” 7 p.m.,
Little Theater on the Bay,
2100 Sherman Ave., North
Bend. Tickets: Adult, $11;
seniors and students, $9.25
and ages 12 and under,
$7.50. www.ltob.net
SUNDAY
“The Spitfire Grill” 2 p.m.,
Little Theater on the Bay,
2100 Sherman Ave., North
Bend. Tickets: Adult, $11;
seniors and students, $9.25
and ages 12 and under,
$7.50. www.ltob.net
MONDAY, FEB. 11
Transcendental Meditation
Practitioners Meeting 7 p.m.,
North Bend Public Library
conference room, 1800 Sherman Ave., North Bend. Discussion on creating a group for
future meetings. 541-297-5597
TUESDAY, FEB. 12
AARP Tax Preparation Program noon-3 p.m., Holy
Name Catholic Church basement, 12 N. Dean, Coquille.
Those seeking assistance
should bring: last year’s
return, social security card,
photo ID, earnings statements and all other required
forms and statements.
Please have totals ready.
Completed forms will be
filed electronically for state
and federal returns. For
information, call 541-8887332.
What’s Up features one-time events and limited engagements in The World’s
coverage area. To submit an event, email events@theworldlink.com.
BY SANDRA STAFFORD
Master Gardener of the Year
MYRTLE POINT — There are many
ways to determine your climate zone
and identify which plants will be happy
growing in your garden and which will
not.
The most popular, the U.S. Department of Agriculture climate zone map,
is based on minimum winter temperatures. Coos County is in zone 9A. The
Sunset Western Garden Book bases its
climate zones using many factors like
cold, heat, humidity, wind, the proximity to the Pacific Ocean, snow cover and
growing season length. Coos County is
in zone 5 according to the guide. The
reason Sunset’s zones are so comprehensive is because the Sunset book only
concerns itself with the West.
The Maritime Northwest Garden
Guide from Seattle Tilth dissects the
maritime climate even further for
northwest coastal and mountain zones.
According to the Northwest Garden
Guide, we are Zone A1 — the coastal
range. Most books, seed catalogs and
seed packets use the USDA zone information, but rechecking what you want
to plant with a more local zone map will
help you become a more successful gardener.
All of these climate maps can assist
the gardener but even within the most
narrow, the Maritime Northwest Guide,
we live and grow in many micro-climates. How many times have I driven
from my house with clear skies and
driven into driving rain just down the
road? The same is true when cold
weather arrives if you live in a more open
area or if your home is surrounded by
trees that help block the wind.
If you are adventurous, you can fudge
a bit on recommended zone plantings
and see how the plants perform, but no
one wants to spend money on an expensive plant just to have it die after one
severe winter or really hot summer.
Others just don’t have the patience to
take bed sheets outside to protect a
plant from a freezing night or build a
slip-shod, rickety structure to try and
get a particular plant in the landscape
through the winter. If you want to introduce a more sensitive plant for a particular look, try to give it some natural protection by planting it with a southern
exposure in front of a wall (stucco or
brick is best) under an eave so there will
be more solar and reflected warmth.
MASTER GARDENER
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This information was provided by the Coos County Master Gardener Program. If you would like to become a
Master Gardener, call or write the Coos County Extension Office, at 541-572-5263 or 631 Alder Street,
Myrtle Point, OR 97458.
February gardening tips
■ Sow seeds like cole crops in indoor containers for transplanting later in the season.
■ Make a cold frame or hotbed to start early
vegetables or flowers.
■ Prune and train grapes.
■ Prune fruit trees, blueberries, and fall-bearing raspberries (late February or early March.)
■ Prune deciduous summer-blooming shrubs
and trees.
■ Plant fruit trees, new roses and deciduous
shrubs.
■ When soil is dry enough and workable, plant
garden peas and sweet peas.
Care must be taken if the wall is white,
however, because even roses that like
lots of sun can get burned from the
reflection of sun on a white wall.
Conversely, if you want tulips to
bloom or apples and cherries to flower
and set fruit, plant them in a less wooded area with exposure to the open sky.
Planting a variety that needs the cold
won’t be as successful if planted under a
tree canopy. Planting a shrub that loves
full sun should be located in an area that
gets the most sun and not on the east or
north side of your yard. If you choose a
plant that needs some shade, a protected wall on the shady side of the house
can work well.
Obviously, knowing your property
and landscape is integral in choosing
and placing plants. But even if you make
some mistakes in planting your perennials, their dormant period in the winter
will give you the chance to cut them
back, dig them out and replant them in
another area
If you want to try some marginal
varieties, you always can plant in containers and move sensitive plants into
the house, garage or greenhouse during
the winter. However, I have discovered
Rain didn’t Cuisine
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light display
CHARLESTON — An
estimated 47,336 visitors
attended the 26th annual
Holiday Lights at Shore
Acres State Park, undeterred
by the 7.49 inches of rain
that fell during the 40-night
season.
Visitors signed in from 28
countries, Washington,
D.C., and 45 states, including 405 cities and towns in
California, Oregon and
Washington and 201 cities
and towns in other states.
The new underwater
sculptures drew enthusiastic comments from visitors.
Beside the 300,000 LED
lights, visitors also commented on the landscape
lighting on the huge evergreens around the gardens
and the pond.
The welcoming host
teams and refreshments in
the decorated garden house
and the entertainers in the
pavilion rounded out the
successful community tradition on the Southern Oregon
Coast.
Shore Acres thanks its
many volunteers. The lights,
sculptures, trees and garden
house decorations have been
taken down and put away.
Preparations are already
underway for the 27th annual Holiday Lights at Shore
Acres State Park. Mark your
calendar to help set up next
year’s lights Oct. 19.
that a lovely little citrus plant I have
been dragging into the house for several
winters, needing a larger and larger container, is just not a happy plant, barely
blooms and isn’t worth the back pain to
move it in and out.
Unlike landscape plants, vegetables
are fairly easy to site because, first, you
know they need as much sun as you can
provide and, second, you can use many
gardening tricks to extend the growing
season. In our climate, we have a cooler
winter environment that makes it ideal
for berries and apples but doesn’t allow
us to successfully produce peppers,
eggplant and melons during our milder
summer months. That’s where the
tricks come in. Starting heat-loving
tomatoes, eggplant and peppers inside,
on a heat mat, under lights or in a greenhouse can give you a head start with
those plants. Putting overhead protection like a cloche on a raised bed (raised
beds warm up faster than ground-level
planting beds) and starting seeds like
lettuce and other cool-season vegetables early in the spring gives you a much
longer growing season.
So have your climate zone numbers
handy when you start to plan your vegetable garden or prepare to add new
plants to your landscape. If they have a
USDA zone designation, double check
those varieties with a more local climate
zone map to insure their happiness and
your success.
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on July 12, 2007. The Downtown Coos Bay Wine Walk, sponsored by The World, has attracted a crowd
the first Friday of each month for the past 5 1/2 years. Proceeds from the monthly events have totaled
nearly $100,000 in contributions for local non-profit organizations.
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Jeff Precourt, Publisher
Clark Walworth, Editor
Ryan Haas, City Editor
Ron Jackimowicz, News Editor
Opinion
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It’s everybody’s business
Our view
Coos Bay port officials
should give up their fight
over supplying public
records to an environmental group.
What do you think?
The World welcomes
letters. Email us at
letters@theworldlink.com.
Suppose your city council was doing something
you didn’t like. Suppose
you wanted to see the relevant public records. Under
Oregon law, that’s your
right.
But suppose the city said,
“Sure, you can see the
records — right after you
pay a five-figure legal bill
for our lawyer to review
everything.”
That would be a deal
breaker for most people. If
exercising your rights costs
thousands of dollars, you
have no rights.
Twice now, legal author-
ities have said the Oregon
International Port of Coos
Bay can’t charge the Sierra
Club $16,000-plus for
public records. Coos
County District Attorney
Paul Frasier said it last
spring. Now Circuit Court
Judge Paula Bechtold has
agreed.
The port should stop
fighting.
Bechtold’s decision was
painful to those of us who
support local economic
development. The port has
been negotiating a coalexport deal that could create lots of local jobs.
Predictably, the Sierra Club
opposes it. The group obviously wants to mine the
records for information to
help it fight the project.
The port admits the
Sierra Club has a right to
the records. But some of
the information is legally
confidential. Before handing over the documents,
the port needs a lawyer to
review them and black out
the confidential parts — at
an estimated cost of
$16,666.
The port contends taxpayers shouldn’t have to
pay for a fishing expedition
by what it calls a “special
interest group.” The port’s
viewpoint is understandable, but it’s wrong.
Nearly anyone who asks
for public records can be
described as a “special
interest.” Everyone has an
agenda. But all of those
special interests add up to a
general public interest in
transparent government.
Spending tax money to
help the Sierra Club
obstruct economic development may be distasteful.
But it’s part of the cost of
freedom.
Marriage
without
pregnancy
The briefs opposing gay marriage in the
two cases currently under consideration in
the Supreme Court are strange to say the
least. Unlike past battles, the briefs do not
argue that homosexuality is immoral.
Major step forward. Sex is fine. Marriage is
the problem.
Why? In short, because gay partnerships
do not produce unwanted pregnancies.
Limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples is justified because it “reflect(s) a
unique social difficulty with opposite-sex
couples that is not present with same-sex
couples — namely, the
undeniable and distinct
tendency of opposite-sex
relationships to produce
unplanned and unintended pregnancies. ...
Unintended children
produced by oppositesex relationships and
raised out of wedlock
SUSAN
would pose a burden on
ESTRICH
society.”
You read that right.
Columnist
Limiting marriage to
opposite-sex couples prevents out-ofwedlock births. “It is plainly reasonable for
California to maintain a unique institution
(marriage) to address the unique challenges
posed by the unique procreative potential
of sexual relationships between men and
women.” Since same-sex couples “don’t
present a threat of irresponsible procreation,” they don’t need to get married.
Respectfully, this makes absolutely no
sense. For one thing, heterosexual marriage
does not prevent children from being raised
by unwed mothers. If only. For another, the
fact that gay couples do not have unintended pregnancies is hardly a reason they
should not be allowed to marry. If only
those who could have children were
allowed to marry, there would be no reason
to allow any woman over a certain age to
marry.
And yet we do. Of course we do. My two
favorite stories in last Sunday’s New York
Times Style Section report on late-life
marriages. In one, there is a beautiful picture above the wedding announcement of a
97-year-old bride (she is keeping her
name) and her 86-year-old groom, a
widow and a widower who met five years
ago.
The other is a first-person account by
Eve Pell, who married when she was 71 and
her husband-to-be was 81, titled “The
Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap.”
They met when he was 77, because they
belonged to the same running club, and she
devised a plan with a mutual friend to
invite him to a screening at the friend’s
home. Very “seventh grade,” she wrote.
“We had nothing to do but love each other
and be happy. ... We followed our hearts
and gambled, and for a few years, we had a
bit of heaven on earth.”
Neither of these marriages, like so many
others, was necessary to serve the state’s
interest in promoting two-parent families.
They were based, pure and simple, on what
Pell calls “one of the most precious blessings available to human beings — real love.”
Nearly half a century ago, the Supreme
Court held that this blessing should not be
limited to couples of the same race, as it
had been in Virginia. In 2013, it is time for
the Supreme Court to hold that it should
not be limited to opposite-sex couples, any
more than real love is.
This court does not want to be remembered as the court that decided the Dred
Scott decision of its time: a case that held
that a slave could not sue in federal court
for his freedom, a case that is regarded in
retrospect as one of the lowest moments in
the history of the Supreme Court. I think
the Chief Justice John Roberts knows that.
I think Justice Anthony Kennedy, who
wrote the landmark opinion in Lawrence v.
Texas striking down Texas’ sodomy laws,
knows that.
I think the opponents of gay marriage
are fighting a battle they will not win, and
the weaknesses in the briefs filed by these
distinguished lawyers reflect that.
Public Forum
Winter Lake plan
defies law, reason
Dec. 6 in Portland, far away
from Coos and Douglas counties, Bandon Biota (connected
with Bandon Dunes), Oregon
Dept. of Fish and Wildlife,
Nature Conservancy and others
including Fred Messerle, formerly appointed, recently
defeated county commissioner,
pushed through the Oregon Fish
and Wildlife Commission a land
trade clearly not in the public
interest.
In the Eel Lake-Tugman State
Park-Lakeside water supply
area, the public is to be left, outside of 200 feet, an easterly view
of stumps on private land where
a public area of pristine 80year-old forest has existed.
Coquille Valley residents will
receive a marshland/lake with
West Nile Virus potential and
the certainty of flooding
landowners in a drainage district
where flooding is illegal (ORS
547).
The trade was approved after
70 percent of Coos County citizens voting on a Nov. 6 ballot
measure voted “no” to more
marshland. Who is profiting?
Clearly not the public.Perhaps the
few working together to limit
public opposition, obscure facts,
and push the decision through in
absence of the chairman will benefit economically. All others will
not benefit, not even economically, and will actually be harmed.
Despite being illegal, the
Winter Lake proposal has not
been researched, as needed
before land is traded, to determine if the project is even viable.
Landowners need all data and
studies to make informed decisions. The landowners petitioned that before the land trade,
agreements should be in place to
ensure that:
■ All tide gates should resist
river/ocean surges and should be
highly regulated to drain for
agriculture.
■ No additional land should
be under tidal influence.
■ There should be no intentional back-flooding and no
rerouting or flooding of China
Camp Creek.
■ Existing drainage plans
should not be changed by any
restoration plan designed and
completed by ODFW or partners
either now or in perpetuity.
■ And Garden Valley/Water-
man’s/other drainage district
channels should remain the
same, continuing with the existing drainage and groundwater
considerations.
Landowners petitioned Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission to put the premature land
trade on hold. A 60-day period
for reconsideration will be over in
a week. This project appears to be
moving forward. Must this reach
the point of lawsuits from flooded farmers? ODFW commissioners and other parties must
understand that they will be held
accountable for their decisions.
Arlys Fones
Portland
Executive orders
violate civil rights
In response to Sharon
Ramirez’s Jan. 14 letter to the
editor:
So you believe that only gun
and ammo dealers are there to
make money? So you also believe
that any retail store is only there
to serve you and not realize a
profit?
More people are killed in auto
accidents than those shot with
guns. Why don’t you start a
campaign to stop vehicle sales,
or are you in favor of suing and
prosecuting dealers for drivers’
actions? Why not have a criminal check before anyone can
purchase a four-wheel killing
machine of any kind? And the
beat goes on and on for any retail
store working for monetary gain.
Chicago has very stringent
gun laws. Despite this, gun
crimes are soaring out of sight.
I was told that Switzerland
issues every man of military age a
gun or weapon. I can assure you
that criminals would think twice
before entering a home for robbery or ill will. I believe it is our
right to protect our home and
family by any means necessary.
Our laws and penal system
bend toward the offenders. The
“three strikes you’re out” is
unacceptable to me. Do you really believe that loons are going to
register to purchase a gun? If
they do and pass requirements
legally, would you still want to
hold the gun dealers responsible?
Look up the word “assault.”
It’s a violent act, either physical
or verbal. Nowhere do I find
mention of “assault rifle.” Is that
phrase coined by media to drive a
point? Any weapon could fall
into that category, even a knife or
a badminton racket.
To disarm citizens by bypassing Congress with an executive
order is treasonous and violates
our Second Amendment.
Glenda Hawkins
Port Orford
Obama in stone?
It sounds great
I believe President Obama
should have his monument
sculpted next to Chief Crazy
Horse in South Dakota.
I believe the founding fathers
would be proud to know real
Americans have overcome so
much hate and racism, except for
a few on the right and the far
right.
Obama would look great
carved in stone, next to another
great American. Great Americans are not all white men with
slave owner ancestry. What a
great monument it would be
with a woman, a black man and
Spanish, which would speak volumes about American diversity
and leadership.
I don’t believe Lincoln would
consider Obama an enemy of our
country.
The GOP far right tea party
individuals — minority — are
Obama’s only enemy and some
who express “Fox” opinions still
remain in the “Old England Dark
Ages of Racism and Ignorance.”
Ron Gallagher
Reedsport
System benefits
the lucky minority
Pat Buchanan’s latest column
proves again that it is past time
for him to retire. He describes
the idea that the United States
was founded on the principle of
equality as “Orwellian.”
Interesting, since he is apparently not too senile to remember
that principle is embodied in the
phrase from the Declaration of
Independence, “all men are created equal.”
He mocks the founders’
intent by stating that since some
of the authors of the
Constitution were slaveholders,
the ideal of equality is “patent
nonsense.” Democracy is by definition the rule of the people.
Not some people. Not just those
born talented or lucky enough to
have access to decent nutrition,
a roof over their heads, good
education and perhaps a few
million dollars in a trust fund.
All people. Just because we are
not there yet doesn’t mean that
we shouldn’t strive for equality.
Buchanan assumes equality
means redistribution of wealth.
In reality, wealth produced by
working Americans has been
systematically funneled to those
who need it least by politicians
beholden to the same wealthy
individuals for campaign funds.
There is a more logically
defensible definition of equality.
When every American has the
same opportunity to succeed in a
competitive society whose
“freedom ... inevitably results in
an inequality of incomes, wealth
and rewards,” true equality of
opportunity will exist.
The problem is not that
inequality of wealth exists. The
problem is that the system as it
exists operates to benefit the
lucky few at the expense of the
rest of us.
Rick Staggenborg
Coos Bay
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Military mom
must rally all
of her family
to move
DEAR ABBY: We’re a military family and have moved
often since my husband and I
married. In the past, relocating was always easy because
our two sons were younger,
but we have lived in the same
community for more than
five years now. Our older son
is 14 and a freshman in high
school.
My husDEAR
band has
reached a
point in his
c a r e e r
where he
can either
retire from
the military
or re-enlist
to finish out
his
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PHILLIPS Either way,.
it will probably require another move.
Our 11-year-old son is a free
spirit who seems to adjust
wherever we are. The problem is, our teenager is begging us not to move because
of the friends he has in
school.
I’m torn. I understand my
son’s reasons, and people
who had to move as teens
agree it’s difficult when
they’re in high school. We
live in a very small town, and
I’m sure the move will take
us to a larger area. I know my
son will see he’ll have more
to do and will make a lot
more friends. But he doesn’t
want to leave and is becoming very emotional about it.
My husband is willing to
leave without us, get settled
and let our son finish high
school here. I don’t want to
separate the family. Can you
help us? — NOT “AT EASE”
IN GEORGIA
DEAR NOT AT EASE: Do
not separate your family. If
this were your son’s last year
of high school, I might feel
differently. However, there is
still plenty of time for him to
make new friends at a new
high school. Because he
doesn’t want to lose his old
ones, he can stay in touch
with them electronically.
What your son is experiencing is one of the realities
of military life, and it may
teach him to become more
adept at social relationships.
So think positive and do not
let his fear of change hold
you back.
DEAR ABBY: I have a pet
peeve and it’s an aggravation
I encounter frequently. For
some reason, people do not
understand hours of business. Our hours are always
clearly posted, so PLEASE
don’t knock on the door
before the business is open.
My personal irritant has to
do with closing time. When
the sign says we close at 9
p.m., it means the doors lock
at that time. It does NOT
mean that if you can slide in
the door 30 seconds before
closing that we must stay
and serve your needs for
however long you are present.
If you can’t complete your
business at or before closing
time, then come back
tomorrow or find a business
that stays open later. There
are still a lot of duties to be
finished after the last customer leaves and before we
can go home. — HAD A
LONG DAY, RICHLAND,
WASH.
DEAR HAD A LONG DAY:
Not only was it a long day, it
appears to have been a bad
one. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t have forgotten that the
most important thing in
running a business is customer service. This sometimes can mean bending the
rules.
If you find this too difficult, you can always refuse to
open your door early and
“remind” anyone who enters
just before closing that you
lock your door promptly at
the posted hour for the reason
you stated. Individuals who
want more personalized service are, indeed, free to shop at
stores with more flexible
hours. (And they will.)
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.
ABBY
Insurance hinders
removal of man’s
giant tumor
The Associated Press
Authorities continue their investigation at the scene where at least eight people were killed and 38
people were injured after a tour bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other
vehicles just north of Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday.
At least 8 people killed
in Calif. tour bus crash
BY TAMI ABDOLLAH
The Associated Press
YUCAIPA, Calif. — At least eight and as
many as 10 people were killed and more than
three dozen injured when a bus careened out
of control while traveling down a Southern
California mountain road, struck a car,
flipped and plowed into a pickup, authorities said.
California Highway Patrol spokesman
Mario Lopez said the number of eight confirmed deaths was expected to rise because
the coroner was just starting to remove bodies from the mangled vehicle and also
remove the bodies of those who were ejected, which were covered by yellow blankets.
“It appears speed was a factor in this collision,” Lopez said. Investigators will determine if mechanical failure or driver error
was to blame, he said. The driver survived.
The accident occurred around 6:30 p.m.
about 80 miles east of Los Angeles and left
State Route 38 littered with debris, the bus
sideways across the two lanes and its front
end crushed.
The bus was returning to Tijuana,
Mexico, Lopez said. It rear-ended a Saturn
sedan and hit a Ford pickup, he said. One
person in the pickup was injured. The fate
of the passengers in the car was not clear,
but at least two people were in it, Lopez
said.
California
Department
of
Transportation spokeswoman Michelle
Profant said the scene was shocking.
The bus driver told investigators the bus
suffered brake problems as it headed down
the mountain, Lopez said.
Lettering on the bus indicated that it
was operated by Scapadas Magicas LLC, a
company based in National City, Calif.
Federal transportation records show that
the company is licensed to carry passengers
for interstate travel and that it had no
crashes in the past two years.
Jordi Garcia, a manager for InterBus
Tours, said his company ran Sunday’s trip.
He told U-T San Diego that 38 people
departed Tijuana at 5 a.m. for a day of skiing at Big Bear.
“The information that we have is that
the bus’ brakes failed and the accident
occurred,” he said.
Gallagher defeats Lee
to win state GOP chair
PORTLAND (AP) — It is
Suzanne Gallagher’s turn to
help the Oregon Republican
Party snap its losing streak.
The party’s state central
committee Saturday picked
the Republican activist to be
its chairwoman. She defeated John Lee Jr., the chairman
of the Clackamas County
GOP, 66-52 on the second
round of balloting that took
place in Salem.
Former congressional
candidate Art Robinson fell
from the race earlier in the
day after he finished third —
six votes behind Lee — in the
initial round of balloting.
Gallagher replaces Allen
Alley, who did not run, and
will serve a two-year term
through the 2014 election,
which will be headlined by
races for governor and U.S.
Senate.
T h e
party has
not won a
s ta tew i d e
race in a
decade,
controls just
one of five
congressional seats
Suzanne
and is the
Gallagher
minority
GOP chairwoman
party in the
state House
and Senate.
To break the losing streak
in statewide elections, the
party must overcome a significant registration disadvantage. Just under a third of
Oregon’s 2.2 million registered voters are Republicans,
and Democrats outnumber
them by 190,000.
Gallagher did not immediately return a phone call
seeking comment. She previously told The Associated
Press that it will take an army
of volunteers to overcome
the registration disparity,
and the party must rally
around an economic question: “Whose money is it?”
Gallagher unsuccessfully
ran for the state House in
2004 and Senate in 2012
from districts that heavily
favored Democrats.
Lee and Robinson also did
not immediately return
phone calls seeking comment.
New TriMet rule aims to
reduce sleepy bus drivers
PORTLAND (AP) —
TriMet bus drivers will soon
be required to take at least 10
hours off between shifts.
The plan tentatively
agreed to Friday is in
response to an investigation
by The Oregonian. The
newspaper found that some
bus drivers, eager to work
overtime, had been working
up to 22 hours in a 24-hour
period, and were having
trouble staying awake while
transporting passengers.
The new agreement
between the transit agency’s
management
and
Amalgamated Transit Union
757 calls for drivers to be limited to 14 hours each service
day.
Union president Bruce
Hansen says the new rules
are passenger and public
safety as well as bus operator
health.
State and federal limits on
hours worked by transportation employees such as longhaul truck drivers and pilots
don’t apply to TriMet bus
drivers.
PENDLETON (AP) — Scot
Jacobson has his own personal
Mount Everest to climb — and
he must make the trek carrying more than 500 pounds of
body weight and a basketballsized tumor named Wilson.
The Pendleton man faces
two separate surgeries that
may or may not save his life.
First, his surgeon must
perform a gastric bypass,
shrinking Jacobson’s milk jugsized stomach to a narrow
sleeve. Then, after Jacobson
loses some weight, the 50-to70-pound tumor can be
removed in a separate surgery.
It is risky business,
Jacobson knows. He and his
wife, Clare, clearly see the
steep path ahead.
The first hurdle is simply
paying the cost of the $18,000
gastric bypass, not covered by
his insurance policy. They
have to find about $6,000
before Feb. 22.
Earlier this week, the
social worker and father of
eight sat in a recliner in his
living room explaining how he
ended up in such a mess.
Clare sat nearby, casting loving and worried looks at her
50-year-old husband. Their
three adopted boys, brothers
of 12, 13 and 14, sat on the
periphery, playing with a trio
of family dogs.
Scot is naturally upbeat,
almost Pollyannish given his
circumstances, but admits
staying positive sometimes
takes an iron will. He sat folded into a recliner, his sweatpants stretching to cover his
bulk. “Wilson,” the melonsized tumor named after a
volleyball toted around by
Tom Hanks in the movie
“Cast Away,” hung down
from Scot’s abdomen.
“I’ve always been heavy,”
Jacobson said. “There isn’t a
diet I haven’t tried.”
His appetite doesn’t
explain his bulk, Clare said.
When the couple diets
together, she loses weight
while he gains, even at 1,200
calories a day.
“People don’t know how
maddening it is to hardly eat
and still gain weight,” Scot said.
He doesn’t go out much
these days except for his job at
the Community Action
Program of East Central
Oregon, where he manages
the volunteer services program. Going out in public is
painful.
“People stare and make
comments,” he said.
He sees what they see in
his own mirror, but said “it
hurts” when he sees the judgment in their eyes. Scot said
doctors nagged him about
getting more exercise and
reducing calories. Finally, last
year, his new endocrinologist
suspected something more.
“She did tests and explorations and found thyroid
cancer,” he said.
The thyroid was removed,
but then Wilson appeared in
early September. Scot’s situation grew dire.
An Oregon Health &
Science University surgeon
pondered Scot’s predicament
and decided operating was
just too risky. After the hospital’s high-risk surgery committee reviewed the case,
Clare said, the surgeon
changed his mind. The gastric
bypass and the removal of
Wilson would have to happen
in two separate surgeries, several months apart.
Clare said the surgeon’s
initial hesitation might have
been partially fueled by a
previous failed gastric bypass
surgery in 2007 in Tri-Cities.
The immediate problem is
scraping together the funds.
Scot emptied savings and
retirement accounts and sold
vehicles to afford the failed
bypass. They have only
$8,000, despite his salary and
Clare’s job as customer service supervisor at Banner
Bank. Friends convinced Scot
to let them organize
fundraisers and start a bank
account.
Organizer and friend
Peggy Ruiz said their reason
for helping Scot is simple: the
Jacobsons’ three adopted
sons.
“God didn’t give those
boys a new dad just so they
could lose him,” Ruiz said.
More quick-charge
stations installed
SALEM (AP) — With
more quick-charge stations
installed for electric vehicles, Oregon has completed
its portion of the West
Coast Electric Highway.
When completed, the
electric highway will be
equipped with quickcharge stations every 25 to
60 miles, according to The
Salem Statesman Journal.
The highway is a tri-state
effort of Washington,
Oregon and California, and
extends from British
Columbia
to
Baja
California.
The quick-charge stations can typically charge a
car battery in 20 to 30 minutes. Depending on battery-charge levels, it can
take between four to eight
hours at a non-quick charge
station.
Portland
General
Electric joined with
ECOtality, the company
that manufactures the stations, through the Electric
Vehicle Project to install the
stations that completed the
northern portion of the
state’s corridor.
Oregon’s recently added
stations to complete its
portion, including a quickcharge one at the Shari’s
Cafe and Pie restaurant in
Keizer. The other locations
for PGE’s part of the project
include a southeast
Portland
Burgerville,
Woodburn’s
Elmer’s
restaurant, the Clackamas
Center
and
Town
Wilsonville Town Center.
The Oregon Department
of Transportation completed the southern stretch of
the state freeway with 10
quick-charge stations along
I-5 last March.
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Mary Traylor
Mary L. Traylor
April 12, 1931 – Jan. 24, 2013
A private family service
will be held for Mary L.
Traylor, 81, of North Bend.
Private cremation rites were
held at Ocean View Memory
Gardens in Coos Bay.
Mary was born April 12,
1931, in Los Angeles, Calif.,
to Franklin D. Evans and
Virginia (Marsden) Evans.
She passed away peacefully
Jan. 24, 2013, in Coos Bay.
Mary worked at Standard
Oil in Los Angeles, where she
met her future husband, Don
Q. Traylor. Mary and Don
married in 1952, and they
shared 60 years of marriage.
Don and Mary moved in 1973
to Langlois, where they
owned and operated the
Village Antiques store. Mary
retired in 1991.
Mary is survived by her
oldest daughter, Sandi
Ecklund; second daughter,
Gail Close; son, Scott
Traylor; youngest daughter,
Lisa Mayer; and her cat,
Hanky.
Mary was preceded in
death by her parents; and her
husband, Don, who passed
away in October 2012.
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behind
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better, faster”
I didn’t actually set out
to become a tip aficionado.
But that is exactly what’s
happened since the day I
began publishing “DebtProof Living” newsletter
and invited readers to share
with me their best moneyand time-saving tips.
Three or four fascinating
tips came pouring in those
first few
months,
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better tips.
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of my way looking for tips
and was amazed at how
many turned up. I’m not
sure if I was more attracted
to the tips or the tips to me
(sometimes I feel like a tip
magnet), but the result was
clear: I loved tips. I can
read a tip, digest it quickly,
mentally file it for future
use, move on to the next
one and never get bored.
Before long, tips began
arriving at my office faster
than I could figure out what
to do with them. I couldn’t
throw them away. And
because of the way they
arrived — printed on napkins; buried in the recesses
of long, detailed letters;
salvaged on snippets torn
from newspapers; phone,
fax and email messages — I
had a logistical challenge
from the very start.
First published in 1997
title
the
under
“Tiptionary,” this book was
a big hit. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who loved
handy tips! Readers told me
that reading the book was a
lot like being faced with a
bag of potato chips: It was
almost impossible to stop
with just one tip.
I n t h e yea rs s i n ce
“Tiptionary” was released,
the world has changed a
lot. And that meant this
b o o k n e e d e d a ra d i ca l
update to make it current.
Sections on banking, comp u te rs a n d t rave l , fo r
example, needed overhauls.
Enter Revell Books. All I
had to do was mention the
availability of a really awesome collection of handy
tips to my editor, Vicki
Crumpton, and the best
publishing team in the world
was mobilized into action.
“Cheaper, Better, Faster:
Over 2,000 Tips and Tricks
to Save Yo u T i m e a n d
Money Every Day” is a
revised and updated, fabulously fun collection of tips
— short, to-the-point suggestions for ways to do
things cheaper, better and
faster. Just released in
January, it’s available in
bookstores everywhere,
including the online store
at DebtProofLiving.com.
The criteria for whether
a tip made it into this collection were fairly simple:
If it didn’t insult my intelligence, included a reasonable expectation that it
saved time or money and
prompted a response anything close to “Wow! What
a great idea!” — it was in.
There are many different
ways to accomplish tasks.
And that’s good, because if
you need to polish the copper in your kitchen and you
don’t have lemons but you
do have a jug of vinegar,
you’ll be able to get the job
done without running to the
store to spend money. That’s
what “Cheaper, Better,
Faster” is all about — saving
time and money every day.
Mary Hunt is the founder of
www.DebtProofLiving.com
and author of 23 books,
including her newest release,
“Cheaper, Better, Faster.”
You can email her at
mary@everydaycheapskate.c
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Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099,
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Boehner reframes
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WORLD
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Details emerge about
Alabama hostage taker
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama says
the U.S. can reduce its budget deficit by closing tax loopholes and making “smart”
reductions in spending.
Obama says closing tax
loopholes should enable the
U.S. to “continue to fund
things that can help us grow”
without raising tax rates again.
In an interview on CBS a
few hours before the Super
Bowl, the president said he
wants the tax system to be
“fair and transparent,” noting
that the average taxpayer
can’t take advantage of things
like offshore tax havens.
Obama also called for further health care reforms,
noting the U.S. spends “more
than every other country
does.” He says there’s “no
doubt we need additional
revenue coupled with smart
spending reductions.”
Two more bodies found
in Mexico oil co. blast
MEXICO CITY (AP) —
Mexico’s state-owned oil
company says it has found
two more bodies amid the
rubble of a headquarters
building damaged by a stillunexplained blast. The find
raises the death toll of Thursday’s explosion to 35 people.
Petroleos Mexicanos operations director Carlos Murrieta had said that rescue crews
were looking in the rubble for
several more people reported
missing, and believed their
bodies were in the building’s
most damaged part.
The bodies of two of the
four more people reported
missing by their relatives
were recovered Sunday.
Officials still have not given
any cause for the explosion,
though they have said they
suspect it was an accident. The
blast also injured 121 people.
Egypt activists: police
tortured man to death
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian opposition party today
claimed police tortured one of
its members to death, electrocuting him and beating
him repeatedly on the head —
the latest case alleging police
brutality in a crackdown on
anti-government protesters.
Mohammed el-Gindy, a
28-year-old activist, died of
his wounds early today at a
Cairo hospital after he was
“tortured to death,” the
Egyptian Popular Current
party said in a statement.
The Interior Ministry had
no immediate comment.
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Damaged photos belonging to Florence Catania, of Deer Park, N.Y., are evaluated during restoration by
Operation Photo Rescue-Hurricane Sandy, at New York’s School of Visual Arts on Saturday.
Group restores photos
damaged by superstorm
NEW YORK (AP) — Of all
the images of Superstorm
Sandy’s destruction, the ones
that linger for Florence Catania are the torn, stained pictures that hung on her walls.
Her mother’s decades-old
wedding portrait, her own
eighth-grade graduation
photo, a snapshot that captured her mom on a carefree
teenage day, all damaged in a
Sandy-sparked fire at Catania’s home in suburban Deer
Park, N.Y.
But volunteers scattered
around the world are about to
start digitally mending Catania’s personal photos and others battered by Sandy, banding together online to restore
items that can’t be rebought.
Founded after Hurricane
Katrina, a nonprofit network
of photographers, graphic
artists and hobbyists has
repaired more than 9,000
pictures discolored by
floods, pockmarked by
Civil rights
lawyers:
NYPD spying
violates rules
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The New York Police Department’s focus on Muslims has
renewed the political surveillance of the 1960s and
’70s that was banned under a
landmark legal ruling,
according to a new court filing by civil rights lawyers.
They are seeking an injunction against further surveillance of Muslims without
evidence of crimes and a new
court-appointed auditor to
oversee police activities.
Describing continuing
surveillance of Muslims as
“widespread and intense,” the
civil rights lawyers complained that the NYPD has
monitored public places
where Muslims eat, shop and
worship and has kept records
and notes about police observations despite any evidence
of unlawful or terror-related
activities. The lawyers said
the NYPD’s actions violate
rules, known as the Handschu
guidelines, that a court had
imposed as part of a 1985
landmark settlement with the
NYPD to a lawsuit they filed.
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In this 2011 photo, people walk
below a New York Police
Department security camera,
upper left, which was placed next
to a mosque in Brooklyn, New
York.
“There is substantial persuasive evidence that the
defendants are conducting
investigations into organizations and individuals associated with the Muslim faith
and the Muslim community
in New York, and have been
doing so for years, using
intrusive methods, without a
reasonable indication of
unlawful activity, or a criminal predicate of any sort,” the
lawyers wrote in a motion to
be filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York.
A spokesman for the
NYPD did not respond to a
phone message and email
request for comment from
The Associated Press.
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After Catania left with her
original prints, Operation
Photo Rescue veteran Dennis
McKeever glued himself to a
computer screen, delicately
copying snippets of forehead,
sections of background, and
overlaying them on similar,
damaged areas of the wedding
photo. Within about a halfhour, the retired computer
network engineer had sewn up
a sizeable gash in the portrait
and was testing settings that
might provide more visual
data to help clean the apparently sepia-toned image.
“It’s a matter of feeling
your way through things,”
said McKeever.
Other digital files would be
uploaded to a password-protected website, where Operation Photo Rescue’s roughly
3,000 volunteers can choose
images they’d like to work on.
WASHINGTON — House
Speaker John Boehner has
shored up his political clout
after a shaky month, persuading his Republican caucus to pick its fights with
Democrats more strategically.
His impressive rebound,
aided by face-the-facts confrontations with colleagues,
helped the government avoid
a potential default on its
financial obligations — for
three months, at least.
It also reassured establishment Republicans who feared
the House majority was
becoming so unpredictable
that it endangered the party.
But the patched-up GOP
solidarity and Boehner’s
ability to pass bills without
Democrats’ help are certain
to be tested again.
Surprising news this past
week about a late-2012 economic slump might re-energize arguments over tax
increases and impending
spending cuts. An even bigger
challenge will be the immigration overhaul proposals
headed toward Congress.
The nation’s highestranking Republican, who
recently confronted open
talk of a possible overthrow,
has calmed the waters
remarkably, for now.
December was a grim time
for Boehner. Rank-and-file
Republicans forced him to
withdraw in embarrassment
from White House negotiations over the much-feared
“fiscal cliff,” the combination
of deep spending cuts and
end-of-the year tax increases.
January was worse.
Boehner, R-Ohio, twice had
to rely on Democrats to pass
major bills, and he watched a
dozen fellow Republicans
refuse to back his re-election
as speaker.
Within days, however, he
steadied his ship and persuaded his colleagues to go
along with his plans to be
more strategic and patient.
The implications went
beyond one politician’s fate.
Financial markets and corporate planners were reassured when House Republicans agreed to postpone a
showdown over the government’s borrowing capacity.
It marked a significant
cooling off by GOP conservatives, many of whom had
been saying President Barack
Obama’s re-election meant
little. Now they publicly
were starting to accept the
limits of minority party status in Washington.
“We’re too outnumbered
to govern, to make policy,”
said Rep. John Fleming, RLa., who had defied Boehner
on votes earlier in January on
the fiscal cliff and hurricane
aid. “But we can make a serious impact on spending” by
picking when and where to
fight, Fleming said.
Republicans say Boehner’s
biggest breakthrough came
at a two-day House GOP
retreat in Virginia. With his
restless caucus shut away
from distractions, he lined
up speakers from inside and
outside Congress to help
explain what he saw as fiscal
and political realities.
In a speech a few days later,
Boehner summarized the case
he made to his colleagues. In
the upcoming debates over
taxes and deficit spending, he
said, Republicans must
decide “where’s the ground
that we fight on? Where’s the
ground that we retreat on?
Where are the smart fights?”
The decisions will come
soon.
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French troops to quit
Timbuktu this week
TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) —
French airstrikes targeted the
fuel depots and desert hideouts of Islamic extremists in
northern Mali overnight, as a
military spokeswoman said
that French forces plan to
hand control of Timbuktu to
the Malian army this week.
After taking control of the
key cities of northern Mali,
forcing the Islamic rebels to
retreat into the desert, the
French military intervention
is turning away from the
cities and targeting the fighters’ remote outposts to prevent them bases from being
used as Saharan launch pads
for international terrorism.
The French plan to leave the
city of Timbuktu on Thursday
a spokeswoman for the armed
forces in the city said today.
debris, speckled by mold and
otherwise damaged by disasters in recent years. The
Sandy project, which started
this weekend, promises to be
one of Operation Photo Rescue’s most expert efforts yet.
“It means a lot to me,”
Catania said after bringing her
photos to the restorers Saturday. “These are irreplaceable.”
The restorers began shooting digital copies of the damaged prints with high-resolution professional cameras and
specialized no-glare lighting
Saturday at the School of
Visual Arts in Manhattan,
wearing white gloves to handle the images as though they
were museum pieces.
Indeed, a Metropolitan
Museum of Art imaging
expert and two of the museum’s photo conservators were
on hand to provide advice,and
two of the camera setups had
been used to help the Atlantabased King Center digitize
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BY CHARLES BABINGTON
MICHAEL,
I love you madly! Thank
you for being my forever
Valentine. With love from
your adoring wife,
Teresa
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MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP)
— As an Alabama standoff and
hostage drama marked a sixth
day Sunday, more details
emerged about the suspect at
the center, with neighbors and
officials painting a picture of
an isolated man estranged
from his family.
Authorities say Jim Lee
Dykes,65 — a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War known
as Jimmy to neighbors —
gunned down a school bus
driver and abducted a 5-yearold boy from the bus, taking
him to an underground bunker
on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert
Poland Jr., was buried Sunday.
Dykes, described as a loner
who railed against the government, lives up a dirt road
outside this tiny hamlet north
of Dothan in the southeastern
corner of the state.
The FBI said in a statement
Sunday that authorities continue to have an open line of
communication with Dykes.
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Sunny
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Seattle
43° | 48°
Billings
25° | 46°
Minneapolis
12° | 36°
San Francisco
46° | 61°
Denver
28° | 59°
Curry County Coast
Chicago
3° | 28°
New York
23° | 34°
Detroit
16° | 28°
Washington D.C.
28° | 39°
Los Angeles
50° | 64°
Atlanta
37° | 59°
El Paso
37° | 70°
Houston
59° | 73°
Fronts
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50s 60s
Warm Stationary
70s
Tonight: Rain. Low around 36. South southeast wind
around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Tuesday: Showers. High near 52. South wind 7 to 10
mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Tuesday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly
cloudy, with a low around 38. South wind 6 to 8 mph.
Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly
cloudy, with a high near 55. Wind around 6 mph.
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More Snow For Upper Midwest, Rain In South
Pendleton
34° | 54°
Bend
30° | 48°
Salem
37° | 46°
IDAHO
Ontario
27° | 37°
Eugene
37° | 46°
North Bend
Coos Bay
42° | 51°
Medford
34° | 52°
Tonight: A 10 percent chance of rain. Patchy fog.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. Calm wind.
Tuesday: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly
cloudy, with a high near 48. Light and variable wind.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33.
West wind around 5 mph.
Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Light
and variable wind.
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Miami
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Tonight: Rain. Low around 41. South wind 13 to 15
mph, with gusts to 23 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.
Tuesday: Showers. High near 51. Southwest wind 13 to
16 mph, with gusts to 24 mph. Chance of rain is 100%.
Tuesday Night: Showers. Low around 41. Southwest
wind 13 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Wednesday: A 60 percent chance of rain. Cloudy, with
a high near 50. South southwest wind 11 to 16 mph.
Klamath Falls
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Willamette Valley
Tonight: Rain. Low around 40. South wind around 8
mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Tuesday: Showers. High near 50. South southwest
wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tuesday Night: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low
around 38. South wind around 6 mph.
Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly
cloudy, with a high near 48. Light wind.
Portland area
Tonight: A 30 percent chance for rain. Mostly cloudy,
with a low around 41. South wind 6 to 8 mph.
Tuesday: Showers. High near 49. South wind 9 to 11
mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tuesday Night: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low
around 41. South southwest wind around 9 mph.
Wednesday: A 40 percent chance of rain. Cloudy, with
a high near 49. South wind around 7 mph.
North Coast
Oregon Temps
Local high, low, rainfall
Temperature extremes and precipitation
for the 24 hours ending at 5 a.m. today.
Hi
Lo Prec.
Astoria
48 43
0
Brookings
51
39
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Corvallis
48 40
0
Eugene
49 40
0
Klamath Falls
49 27
0
La Grande
45 30
0
Medford
40 34
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Newport
46 43
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Pendleton
50 36
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Portland
47 42
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Redmond
57
31
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Roseburg
47 45
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Salem
49 36
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Friday: High 63, low 34, 0.00 inches
Saturday: High 55, low 41, 0.00 inches
Sunday: High 54, low 45, 0.00 inches
Total rainfall to date: 3.95 inches
Rainfall to date last year: 4.76 inches
Average rainfall to date: 11.02 inches
Extended outlook
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Rain
51/41
Rain likely
50/42
Central Oregon
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31.
Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of rain showers. Mostly
cloudy, with a high near 46. West wind 10 to 13 mph.
Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow showers.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29.
Wednesday: A 10 percent chance of snow. Partly
sunny, with a high near 45.
Rain
47/40
Chance of rain
49/36
Tonight: A 90 percent chance rain. Low around 43.
Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 23 mph.
Tuesday: Showers. High near 49. South southwest
wind 18 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Tuesday Night: Showers. Low around 43. Breezy, with
a southwest wind 17 to 22 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Wednesday: Rain. High near 48. South wind 13 to 15
mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
The Tide Tables
To find the tide prediction for your area, add or
subtract minutes as indicated. To find your estimated tidal height, multiply the listed height by
the high or low ratio for your area.
Location High time
-0:18
Bandon
-0:40
Brookings
Charleston
-0:11
Coos Bay
+1:20
Florence
+0:38
-0:28
Port Orford
+1:05
Reedsport
Umpqua River -0:01
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11:07 7.28
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12:45 3.45
02:39
02:04 3.53
03:38
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Immigration
Construction
Two years ago, Republicans
in the state House blocked an
effort by Democrats to reduce
college tuition rates for immigrants brought illegally to
Oregon as minors. Now that
Democrats have widened
their margins in the state
House, they’re likely to make
another try. The proposal
would allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition
at Oregon colleges and universities if they graduated
from an Oregon high school
and met other requirements.
Immigrant rights groups
also are hoping to allow illegal
immigrants to drive legally in
Oregon. The state began
requiring proof of legal presence in the country to get a
driver’s license in 1998.
Facing a gaping budget hole
in 2003, the Legislature borrowed millions to balance the
budget. Those 10-year loans
will be paid off this year,
clearing up capacity for new
bonds to pay for priorities. A
varied array of interest groups
will be vying for a piece of that
pie, including highway projects and new buildings at
community colleges and universities.
Lawmakers also will debate
a funding mechanism to pay
Oregon’s $450 million share
of plan to replace the bridge
carrying Interstate 5 over the
Columbia River and build new
interchanges on both sides of
the bridge. The money could
come from a hike in fees for
vehicle registration, gas taxes
or another source.
KING
PLAID
Remains missing
for 500 years
Celtic revival
around the U.S.
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hunchbacked usurper who
left a trail of bodies —
including those of his two
princely nephews, murdered
in the Tower of London — on
his way to the throne.
DNA from the skeleton
matched a sample taken from
a distant living relative of
Richard’s sister. Geneticist
Turi King said Michael Ibsen,
a Canadian carpenter living in
London, shares with the
skeleton a rare strain of mitochondrial DNA. She said
The Associated Press
combined with the archaeo- Undated photo made available by the University of Leicester, England, today of the remains found underlogical evidence, that left lit- neath a car park last September at the Grey Friars excavation in Leicester, which have been declared today
tle doubt the skeleton “beyond reasonable doubt” to be the long lost remains of England’s King Richard III, missing for 500 years.
belonged to Richard.
Ibsen said he was the way we view this period of argument taken up by the mantled after King Henry
“stunned” to discover he was history,” he said.
Richard III Society, set up to VIII dissolved the monasterrelated to the king — he is a
Richard III ruled England re-evaluate the reputation of ies in 1538, and its location
17th great-grand-nephew of between 1483 and 1485, dur- a reviled monarch.
eventually was forgotten.
Richard’s older sister.
ing the decades-long tussle
The society’s Philippa
Then, last September,
“It’s difficult to digest” he over the throne known as the Langley, who helped launch archaeologists searching for
said.
Wars of the Roses. His brief the search for the king, said Richard dug up the skeleton of
Mike Pitts, editor of British reign saw liberal reforms, she could scarcely believe an adult male who appeared to
Archaeology magazine, said including introduction of the her quest had paid off.
have died in battle.
he found the evidence per- right to bail and the lifting of
“Everyone thought that I
Appleby said the 10
suasive.
restrictions on books and was mad,” she said. “It’s not injuries to the body were
“I don’t think there is any printing presses.
the easiest pitch in the inflicted by weapons like
question — it is Richard III,”
His rule was challenged, world, to look for a king swords, daggers and halsaid Pitts, who was not affili- and he was defeated and under a council car park.”
berds and were consistent
ated with the research team.
killed by the army of Henry
For centuries, the location with accounts of Richard
He said it was one of the Tudor, who took the throne as of Richard’s body has been being struck down in battle .
unknown. Records say he
The remains also dismost exciting archaeological King Henry VII.
Many historians say his was buried by the Franciscan played signs of scoliosis,
discoveries in ages.
“The identification of the bloodthirsty image is unfair, monks of Grey Friars at their which is a form of spinal curking is just the very beginning and argue Richard’s reputa- church in Leicester, 100 vature, consistent with conof a whole range of new ideas tion was smeared by his miles north of London. The temporary accounts of
and research that will change Tudor successors. That’s an church was closed and dis- Richard’s appearance.
along with a speech about
the poet. The Oregon Coast
Pipe and Drums band heralded a chef who presented
the haggis, a sausage-like
pudding of sheep organs and
oatmeal.
MacKenzie, who grew up
in Scotland, said he has seen
a recent revival in Celtic culture not only on the South
Coast, but across the nation.
Saturday was a chance to
share his national pride with
others and continue to help
educate others about Scotland.
“We are proud of who we
are and what we have done,”
he said. “We have done so
much for the world. The culture really lives on.”
More said celebrating
Burns and the influence he
has had on the world is
important to keeping his
memory alive for a younger
generation that can learn
from his ideals.
“He was a great man,” he
said. “These celebrations
continue to happen all over
the world. It’s the highlight
of the year in terms of having
a rich mix of food, music and
Celtic things in origin.”
Reporter Tyler Richardson
can be reached at 541-2691222,
ext.
236,
at
t y l e r. r i c h a rd s o n @ t h e worldlink.com, or on Twitter
at @COPSTheWorld.
AGENDA
Pensions are
another hot topic
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tance for low-income families. Some legislators will
want to keep the program
intact.
Public safety budgets have
been a persistent challenge.
Republicans want money for
water projects in Eastern Oregon.
Prisons
With the inmate population growing steadily and the
need for new prisons projected in the future, Kitzhaber is
pushing lawmakers to change
sentencing laws and hold the
prison population steady.
A panel he convened proposed eliminating mandatory
minimum sentences for certain offenses and increasing
the amount of “earned time”
that inmates can drop from
their sentences for good
behavior or participating in
prison rehabilitation programs. The governor says the
savings could be reinvested in
local parole and probation
services to monitor convicts,
along with police and counseling programs to prevent
crime.
Proponents say the move
would save money for higher
priorities — like schools and
safety-net programs — without compromising public
safety. But it’ll be an uphill
climb to convince lawmakers
who risk being labeled “soft
on crime” in the next election.
Pensions
As he’s done with prisons,
Kitzhaber has asked legislators to cut down on the longterm costs of pensions for
government employees. Pension contributions from taxpayers have risen substantially to make up for devastating
investment losses from the
Great Recession.
Republicans support pension cuts but want to cut even
deeper than the governor has
proposed. Democrats, who
have substantial backing from
public employee unions, have
taken a cautious approach.
Guns
Expect a vigorous discussion, but not much action, on
gun control. Even after the
shooting at a school in Connecticut and President Barack
Obama’s push for new federal
gun restrictions, the Legislature doesn’t have much of an
appetite for new regulations
in Oregon.
Legislative leaders have
said gun control is not a top
priority and probably wouldn’t have enough support to
pass the Legislature.
Still, Democratic Sen.
Ginny Burdick of Portland, a
longtime proponent of
tougher gun laws, has said
she’ll push for universal background checks on gun purchasers along with a ban on
high-capacity ammunition
magazines. She’s also pushed
to prohibit concealed handgun license-holders from carrying weapons in schools.
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President hopes
for fast passage
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sues his anti-gun violence
measures.
Stanek also has been leading a group of Minnesota
sheriffs pushing for stronger
background checks for people trying to buy guns.
Obama is expected to
make more trips around the
country to build support for
his anti-gun violence measures. The outside group
Organizing For Action, an
offshoot of Obama’s presi-
dential campaign, also is
promoting the proposals.
White House officials say
quick action on the president’s gun measures gives
them the best prospects for
passing legislation in
Congress. They fear that as
time passes lawmakers will
have less incentive to back the
measures as the shock of the
Newtown massacre fades.
In addition to the gun
control measures, Obama’s
anti-violence proposals also
included increasing mental
health resources, boosting
funding for school security,
and lifting restrictions that
prevent the government
from studying the causes of
gun violence.
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Super Bowl XLVII Baltimore 34, San Francisco 31
Nelson
takes title
at tourney
THE WORLD
Marshfield’s Thaddeus Nelson
was the lone South Coast champion in the 36-school Cottage Grove
Invitational wrestling tournament
Saturday.
Nelson won the 126-pound
weight class, beating Illinois
Valley’s Brandon Parker 4-0 in the
championship bout.
Nelson pinned his
first two foes
before winning
by default in his
semifinal bout.
M a rs h f i e l d ’s
Skyler Harvey was
one of three South Coast wrestlers
to place second in their divisions.
Harvey placed second at 132
pounds, where he lost 12-0 to
Gabe Miller of Illinois Valley in the
championship match.
Coquille’s Michael Romine was
runner-up at 182 pounds, losing a
7-6 bout to North Medford’s Trent
Wilson. Siuslaw’s Ryan Connor
dropped a 1-0 decision to Caylan
Stark of Cascade in the heavyweight final.
Gold Beach’s Derek Carl placed
third at 152 pounds. Two other
South Coast wrestlers — Myrtle
Point’s Jarod Chamley (195
pounds) and Gold Beach’s Brandon
Adams (285) tied for third because
either they or their opponents had
reached the five-match limit for
the day.
Coquille’s Tristan Dixon was
fourth at 138 pounds, while Myrtle
Point’s Riley Train (138) and
Siuslaw’s Luke Carroll (145) each
tied for fifth.
The tournament was the last
tuneup for Marshfield before its
Class 5A District 4 competition
this weekend in Eugene.
North Bend hosts the Far West
League district tournament
Saturday, which will serve as a
qualifier for the Class 4A District
3 tournament a week later.
The smaller schools have their
district tournaments Feb. 15 and 16,
with Coquille hosting the Class 3A
District 3 tournament and Myrtle
Point, Gold Beach and Reedsport
traveling to Oakridge for the Class
2A-1A District 2 tournament.
Local
Recap
The Associated Press
Baltimore running back Bernard Pierce celebrates after the Ravens’ 34-31 win against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday.
Ravens hold on for win
BY BARRY WILNER
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — For a Super
Bowl with so many story lines, this
game came up with quite a twist.
Try a blackout that turned a
blowout into a shootout — capped
by a brilliant defensive stand.
The Baltimore Ravens survived
a frenzied comeback by the San
Francisco 49ers following a 34minute delay in the third quarter
for a power outage Sunday night,
winning their second championship 34-31. Super Bowl MVP Joe
Flacco threw three first-half
touchdown passes, Jacoby Jones
ran back the second-half kickoff a
record 108 yards for a score, and
star linebacker Ray Lewis’ last
play fittingly was part of a defen-
sive effort that saved the victory.
“To me, that was one of the
most amazing goal-line stands
I’ve ever been a part of in my
career,” said Lewis, who
announced a month ago he would
retire when the Ravens were done
playing.
They are done now, with
another Vince Lombardi Trophy
headed for the display case.
“What better way to do it,”
Lewis said, “than on the Super
Bowl stage?”
That stage already was loaded
with plots:
■ The coaching Harbaughs sibling rivalry, won by older brother
John, who said the postgame
greeting with Jim was “painful.”
■ Flacco’s emergence as a toplevel quarterback, and his
impending free agency.
■ Colin Kaepernick’s rapid rise
in the last two months as 49ers
QB.
■ The big game’s return to the
Big Easy for the first time in 11
years, and the first time since
Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city
in 2005.
■ Lewis’ self-proclaimed “last
ride.”
But when the Superdome lost
power, well, that wasn’t in anyone’s scenario.
Flacco and the Ravens (14-6)
were turning the game into a rout,
leading 28-6 when, without even a
flicker of warning, several banks of
lights and the scoreboards went
dark. Players from both sides
stretched and chatted with each
other in as bizarre a scene as any
Super Bowl has witnessed.
“The bad part was we started
talking about it,” said safety Ed
Reed, who had the game’s only
interception. “That was mentioned. It was like they were trying
to kill our momentum.”
After power was restored, the
49ers began playing lights out.
San Francisco (13-5-1), in
search of its sixth Lombardi
Trophy in as many tries, got back
in the game almost immediately.
Michael Crabtree’s 31-yard
touchdown reception, on which
he broke two tackles, made it 2813. A few minutes later, Frank
Gore’s 6-yard run followed a 32yard punt return by Ted Ginn Jr.,
and the 49ers were within eight.
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GIRLS BASKETBALL
Miscues deny Lakers shot at upsetting Cougars
BY JOHN GUNTHER
pointer that started a string of nine straight
points by Southwestern.
Then the Cougars responded with a
20-6 run that included 3-pointers by
COOS BAY — So close.
The Southwestern Oregon Community Ashleigh Anderson, Laci Effenberger, Tori
College women’s basketball team was on Wilkinson and Sade Elliott to take their
the cusp of handing Clackamas its first biggest lead at 35-22.
SWOCC finished the first half strong,
loss in NWAACC South Region play
Saturday. But then a late dry spell, filled with Hailey Laird and Mari Aguilera hitwith turnovers and missed shots, let the ting 3-pointers. When Bembry found
Cougars slip out of town with a 71-61 vic- Quynne Eharis for a basket right before
the buzzer, the Lakers had pulled
tory.
to 37-33 at halftime.
“We beat ourselves,” said
The momentum continued
SWOCC freshman point guard
into the second half. Siri gave the
Jazmin Bembry. “We let that one
See related photos at
Lakers a 48-45 lead with a conslip away.
ventional three-point play with
“We need to be able to take www.theworldlink.com.
11:05 to go in the game.
care of the ball in those crucial
But that’s when the struggles started.
late moments.”
The Lakers turned over the ball on four
The Lakers had 21 turnovers, more than
half in the final 11 minutes. They also shot consecutive possessions. Clackamas didjust 7-for-16 from the foul line in the sec- n’t score on the first three, and the lead
held. But then the Cougars went in front
ond half.
“If we could have made our free on consecutive hoops by Elliott, Anderson
throws, it would have been a close game,” and Effenberger. They never trailed again.
SWOCC kept it close, trailing 60-56
Bembry said.
The first half was marked by a few dra- after a basket by Bembry with 2:38 to go.
Ultimately, missed shots and turnovers
matic runs.
SWOCC had an early 7-4 lead before killed the Lakers’ hopes.
Clackamas scored 11 straight points.Kyla Siri
stopped that run for the Lakers with a 3SEE WOMEN | B2
The World
By Lou Sennick, The World
Southwestern’s Quynne Eharis passes the ball to Jazmin Bembry
after a rebound Saturday afternoon during their home game
against Clackamas on Speasl Court.
Rebounding woes plague SWOCC men in loss
BY JOHN GUNTHER
The World
COOS BAY — In the first half of
the NWAACC South Region season, the Southwestern Oregon
Community College men’s basketball team always seemed to
come up with big plays. The
Lakers finished 5-2 and tied with
two other teams for first place.
Then came Saturday, when the
Lakers were flat all day and
Clackamas took advantage, going
home with an 83-68 victory.
“It was just one of those
nights,” SWOCC coach Trevor
Hoppe said. “We just never got
going.”
Clackamas scored the last six
points of the first half to take a 3733 lead and never let the Lakers get
momentum after halftime.
Though the Cougars were at
the opposite end of the standings
from the Lakers in the first half of
the season, Hoppe suspects big
things are ahead for Clackamas.
“They’re going to make a run in
the second half,” he said.
Saturday, the Cougars did
everything better than the Lakers,
especially rebounding.
The Lakers were missing two
big men, and Clackamas has three
players who stand 6-foot-9.
The big thorn in the side of the
Lakers on Saturday, though, was
6-5 Clackamas forward Brock
Lutes, who had 21 points, 18
rebounds and four assists.
As a team, the Cougars had a
51-27 rebounding edge.
“I thought at times our defense
was good, and we would give up
that rebound,” Hoppe said.
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Powers 37, Umpqua Valley
Christian 23: The Cruisers beat
the Monarchs for their second win
of the Skyline League season.
“We jumped out early,” said
Powers coach Ben Baldwin. “We
shot well. We took it to them early
and got the job done.
“The girls felt good to get a
win.”
Kendall Stallard had 19 points
for the Cruisers, while sisters
Elizabeth and Rebecca Standley
combined for 14 more. Lily BerryCabiao led UVC with 12.
The Cruisers host Pacific on
Tuesday before finishing the season Friday at New Hope.
Pacific 47, New Hope 41: The
Pirates got the road win as Riley
Engdahl scored 26 points and
Hannah Fortune added 12, while
Marina Byrne produced her typical
tight defense. They had to overcome an early 9-0 deficit in the
game at Grants Pass.
“We relaxed and ran our stuff,”
Pacific coach Ben Stallard said.
“Marina’s defense is big for us,
and Riley does everything for us
and Hannah’s pretty quality,”
Stallard said.
Pacific improved to 5-4 in
league play, which puts the Pirates
in third place, a game in front of
Camas Valley and New Hope with
three to play this week.
After visiting Powers on
Tuesday, Pacific hosts Camas
Valley on Friday and Elkton on
Saturday. Then the Pirates will
compete in the district playoffs,
hoping to grab one of the league’s
three Class 1A playoff spots.
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New Hope 63, Pacific 49:
The host Warriors pulled away in
the final minutes for the Skyline
League victory Saturday.
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Reserves
star for
Portland
Peterson wins
MVP honors
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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PORTLAND — Portland’s maligned
group of reserves stepped up Saturday
night, leading to one unusual scene in
the Trail Blazers’ locker room.
Little-used guard Nolan Smith had a
season-high 13 points as the backups
scored 28 points in all for their best total
in more than a month, helping Portland
to a 105-99 victory over the Utah Jazz.
Afterward, when a crowd of TV
cameras and reporters circled Smith’s
locker, teammate Wesley Matthews
chided the second-year guard, who has
played for only 169 minutes in 23
appearances this season.
“Did L. A. switch
lockers?” Matthews
loudly asked, referring
to the crowd that usually gathers for All-Star
LaMarcus Aldridge.
Smith got his share of playing time
against the Jazz in part because
Matthews sat out with a sore right
ankle.
“Wes is my big brother and he’s the
happiest guy in the locker room right
now. He told me just to be myself and
play basketball,” Smith said.
Damian Lillard led the way with 23
points as the Trail Blazers salvaged the
second half of back-to-back games
between the division rivals. Utah beat
Portland 86-77 on Friday night in Salt
Lake City.
J.J. Hickson added 21 points and 11
rebounds, and Nicolas Batum fell just
shy of this third triple-double of the
season with 12 points, 10 rebounds and
nine assists.
But it was Smith, as well as bench
players Luke Babbitt and Will Barton,
who received all the accolades afterward.
The Blazers led 88-83 on Smith’s reverse
layup with 4:59 to go. He added a 3pointer that made it 93-87, and Portland
held off the Jazz the rest of the way.
“We knew that with Wes out of the
game tonight we were gonna need people to come in and step up,” Lillard said.
“I thought Luke did a good job of coming in and making shots and I though
Nolan and Will were the keys to winning
tonight.”
Randy Foye had 23 points for the
Jazz, who led by as many as 10 points in
the third quarter.
“It was tough but I don’t feel bad
about it because I think we played well
Sports
Shorts
NBA
Recap
The Associated Press
Utah forward Paul Milsap, middle, is double-teamed by Portland’s Luke Babbitt, left, and Nolan
Smith during the second half Saturday.
enough to win the game. It just didn’t
work out for us,” said Al Jefferson, who
finished with 12 points. “They had that
home energy like home teams do.”
Lillard, who has won NBA Rookie of
the Month honors for the past three
months, added eight assists in his 23rd
game of the season with at least 20
points. Aldridge finished with 18 points
and 11 rebounds.
“Back-to-back nights playing the
same team — it was important for us to
protect home court,” Lillard said.
SUNDAY
Heat 100, Raptors 85: LeBron
James scored 30 points, Chris Bosh had
28 against his former team and the
Miami Heat got their 10th straight victory over Toronto.
Dwyane Wade added 23 points as the
Heat bounced back after Friday’s 10289 loss at Indiana, ensuring that coach
Erik Spolestra will coach the Eastern
Conference All-Stars. The Heat
clinched the best record in the East
through Feb. 3 with the win. Had Miami
lost, New York Knicks coach Mike
Woodson would have been in charge of
the East’s bench.
Rudy Gay led the Raptors with 29
points and DeMar DeRozan had 27.
Celtics 106, Clippers 104: Paul
Pierce scored 22 points and Boston held
off a late comeback to beat Los Angeles
and improve to 4-0 since losing Rajon
Rondo for the season to a torn knee ligament.
Eric Bledsoe and Jamal Crawford
scored 23 points each to lead the
Clippers.
Lakers 98, Pistons 97: Pau Gasol
had 23 points and 10 rebounds, and he
contested Detroit’s last-second alleyoop attempt to help Los Angeles hold on
for the win.
The Lakers blew an 18-point thirdquarter lead but went back ahead for
good on Kobe Bryant’s driving threepoint play with 1:09 remaining. That
gave the Lakers a 98-95 lead, and they
held on despite missing four free throws
in the final 16.8 seconds.
Greg Monroe had 20 points for
Detroit and Will Bynum had 18 points
and 10 assists.
Stanford makes plays to beat Beavers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STANFORD, Calif. — Josh
Huestis has been Stanford’s
most dependable player all
year and that doesn’t take
into account his offensive
production. He’s such a presence on defense that any
scoring is a bonus.
Huestis hit a key basket
among his 16 points and then
made a key block in the final
minute as Stanford held off
Oregon State 81-73 Sunday.
“I’ll take the blocked shot
over scoring because it does
so much for the team,”
Huestis said. “It helps us
defensively by stopping them
from scoring and gives us
another opportunity to go on
offense. Defense is a huge
part of our game.”
Chasson Randle scored 20
points for the Cardinal (14-8,
5-4 Pac-12). Dwight Powell
added 14 points and John
Gage scored 12.
Huestis, who also had 13
rebounds, blocked a shot by
Devon Collier in the final
minute that helped Stanford
stop the Beavers, who were
within two points at the
time. Powell was fouled on
the rebound and sank both
free throws as the Cardinal
made all eight of their foul
shots down the stretch.
“Josh is like an eraser,”
Randle said. “Anything to the
basket I count on him taking
it out. He’s been a key for us.”
Joe Burton had 17 points
and 10 rebounds for the
Beavers (12-10, 1-8). Roberto
Nelson scored 20 points and
Ahmad Starks scored 15.
Starks hit a jumper to even
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Allowing second chances
for the Cougars hurt as well.
“We didn’t rebound those
last five minutes,” said
SWOCC coach Mike Herbert.
The combination of miscues was too great against a
fundamental team like the
Cougars, he said.
“They miss shots, but
office and agreed with the
fine. He said the comments
NEW ORLEANS — Adrian were “not appropriate.”
Peterson called it a blessing
BASEBALL
in disguise.
Strange way to describe 1971 Rookie of the Year
career-threatening major
Earl Williams dies
knee surgery.
SOMERSET, N.J. — Earl
The Minnesota Vikings’
star came back better than Williams, the 1971 National
ever, just missing Eric League Rookie of the Year,
died at home last week of
D i c ke rso n ’s
acute myeloid leukemia. He
longstandwas 64.
ing rushWilliams earned the 1971
ing record
rookie award after hitting 33
and closhome runs with Atlanta. He
ing out the
hit 28 homers the next year,
season with
two of the top NFL awards then was traded to Baltimore
from The Associated Press: after the 1972 season in a
Most Valuable Player and multiplayer deal that sent
Offensive Player of the Year. Davey Johnson to the Braves.
Williams hit 138 career
As sort of an added bonus,
he beat Peyton Manning for homers with 457 RBIs and
both of them Saturday night. batted .247.
Manning’s own sensational recovery, from four ‘A League of Their Own’
neck surgeries, earned him inspiration dies
Comeback Player honors.
LOS
ANGELES
—
Washington’s Robert Lavonne “Pepper” PaireGriffin III beat out a strong Davis, a star of the All
crop of quarterbacks for the American Girls Professional
top offensive rookie award.
Baseball League in the 1940s
Houston end J.J. Watt and an inspiration for the
took Defensive Player of the central character in the
Year, getting 49 of 50 votes. movie “A League of Their
Bruce Arians became the Own,” died, her son said
first interim coach to win Sunday.
Coach of the Year after leadPaire-Davis died of natuing Indianapolis to a 9-3 ral causes in the Van Nuys
record while head man section of Los Angeles on
Chuck Pagano was being Saturday, her son, William
treated for leukemia. Arians Davis, told The Associated
became Arizona’s head coach Press. She was 88.
last month.
Paire-Davis was a model
Carolina linebacker Luke for the character played by
Kuechly, the league’s leader Geena Davis in the 1992 hit
in tackles with 164, won the “A League of Their Own,”
top defensive rookie award.
which also starred Rosie
O’Donnell, Madonna and
Parcells is elected to Pro Tom Hanks as the crusty
Football Hall of Fame
manager who shouted the
NEW ORLEANS — Bill famous line, “there’s no cryParcells was a winner every- ing in baseball!”
where he coached. Time and
time again, he took over HOCKEY
struggling franchises and NHL suspends Erskine
showed them what it takes to for elbowing Simmonds
be a success, including a pair
NEW YORK — The NHL
of Super Bowl titles with the
suspended Washington
New York Giants.
Parcells pulled off another Capitals defenseman John
victory Saturday — election Erskine for three games for
to the Pro Football Hall of elbowing Philadelphia Flyers
forward Wayne Simmonds.
Fame.
Erskine was punished
Getting in on his fourth
for a hit he delivSaturday
try, Parcells led an induction
class that also included ered to Simmonds’ face that
mouthy defensive lineman sent him to the ice with a
Warren Sapp, prolific receiv- bloody nose late in the first
er Cris Carter and a pair of period of Washington’s 3-2
stalwarts from the trenches, victory on Friday night.
offensive linemen Jonathan Erskine wasn’t penalized for
the shot that knocked
Ogden and Larry Allen.
The class of 2013 also Simmonds out of the game.
included a pair of senior
TENNIS
selections, Curley Culp and
Americans advance to
Dave Robinson.
Five players were elimi- Davis Cup quarterfinals
nated in the final vote:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
Jerome Bettis, Charles Haley, Sam Querrey beat Thiago
Andre Reed, Michael Strahan Alves 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3)
and Aeneas Williams.
on Sunday to give the United
Earlier Saturday, the States a dramatic 3-2 victory
selection committee elimi- over Brazil and a spot in the
nated Tim Brown, Kevin Davis Cup quarterfinals.
Greene, Will Shields and forThe U.S. will host Serbia
Edward in the next round in Boise,
mer
owners
DeBartolo Jr. and Art Modell. Idaho, from April 5-7.
Parcells reversed the forQuerrey stepped up after
tunes of four teams — New teammate John Isner lost 2York Giants, New England 6, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-3 to
Patriots, New York Jets and Thomaz Bellucci earlier
Dallas Cowboys — during 19 Sunday, forcing a deciding
years as a head coach.
fifth match. It was the first
Sapp got in on his first time since 2000 that a U.S.
year of eligibility after play- team needed to win the fifth
ing 13 seasons with the match to advance.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers and
Oakland Raiders.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Carter played 16 seasons,
Cal Tech ends losing
becoming only the second
player in NFL history to reach streak at 228 games
PASADENA, Calif. —
1,000 receptions in a career.
Allen played 203 games California Institute of
over 14 seasons, spending the Technology’s baseball team
bulk of his career with the ended a 228-game losing
Cowboys. Ogden spent a streak Saturday with a 9-7
dozen seasons with the victory over Pacifica — the
Beavers’ first win in nearly 10
Baltimore Ravens.
years.
PRO BASKETBALL
After dropping the first
game
of its season-opening
NBA fines Carlisle for
doubleheader 5-0, Caltech
criticizing officials
won the second behind a
DALLAS — Mavericks complete-game sevencoach Rick Carlisle was fined inning effort by freshman
$25,000 by the NBA on Daniel Chou. Caltech hadn’t
Saturday for criticizing the won since Feb. 15, 2003.
officiating after Dallas’ loss
“It was almost as if they
to Golden State.
had been there before,” firstWith the Mavs trailing year coach Matthew Mark
98-97 on Thursday, Brandan said.
Wright had the ball knocked
It was a non-conference
away while going up for a game, though, and Caltech,
shot, and no foul was called. mainly a Division III particiThe Warriors went on to win pant, has not won a Southern
100-97 at home. Carlisle was California Intercollegiate
particularly frustrated Athletic Conference contest
because the NBA had since 1988 — a span of 463
acknowledged the referees games.
made a mistake in the final
Caltech’s men’s basketseconds of a loss at Portland ball team ended a 310-game
conference losing streak in
two days earlier.
On Saturday, Carlisle sent 2011, while the women’s vola text message to reporters leyball team ended a 56saying he spoke to the league match losing streak last year.
The Golden Bears (13-8,
5-4 Pac-12) won back-toback games for the first time
since December.
Fans stormed center court
at Haas Pavilion in a raucous
celebration after Oregon’s
Johnathan Loyd’s missed
jumper as the buzzer sounded. It’s the Bears’ first win
over a top 10 team in more
than five years.
Tony Woods had 14 points
and eight rebounds for
Oregon.
WOMEN
the score at 51 with just under
13 minutes to play. The lead
changed hands 10 times the
rest of the way.
Powell hit consecutive 3pointers to give Stanford a
71-66 edge with 3:21 left. The
Cardinal recorded a seasonhigh 14 3-pointers.
“We had to make shots,”
Stanford coach Johnny
Dawkins said. “Throw
records out the window,
that’s a good team. It shows
you where our conference is
with so much parity.”
There are seven teams,
Stanford included, within
two games of first place as
the Pac-12 reached its
halfway point.
The Beavers have only lost
one game by more than 10
points all season, and have
lost their previous four by a
combined 15 points.
California 58, No. 10
Oregon 54: Justin Cobbs
made an 18-foot jumper with
1:35 remaining then added a
pair of free throws and
California hung on to beat
No. 10 Oregon on Saturday,
handing the Ducks their second straight loss to an
unranked team this week.
No. 4 Stanford 65,
Oregon State 45: Chiney
Ogwumike posted her sixth
straight double-double with
a career-high 32 points and
18 rebounds to lead No. 4
Stanford (20-2, 9-1) to a win
over Oregon State on Sunday.
Jamie Weisner had 13
points and Ali Gibson added
12 for the Beavers (9-13, 3-7).
No. 6 California 72,
Oregon 45: Layshia
Clarendon scored 15 points
and Gennifer Brandon and
Talia Caldwell each had double-doubles as No. 6
California (19-2, 9-1) cruised
against Oregon on Sunday.
Devyn Galland scored 11
to lead the Ducks (3-19, 1-9),
who were dominated inside,
giving up 44 points in the
paint. They were also outrebounded 51-40.
Two days after Stanford
coach Tara Vanderveer
recorded her 400th career
Pac-12 victory with an 86-62
win against Oregon, Cal
coach Lindsay Gottlieb
earned her 100th career win
against the Ducks.
they’re not going to make
mistakes,” Herbert said.
Wilkinson led the
Cougars with 25 points and
10 rebounds, and five of her
teammates scored at least
eight points.
Eharis led the Lakers with
another huge game inside,
finishing with 21 points and
19 rebounds. But she was an
uncharacteristic 5-for-13
from the foul line.
Bembry had 11 points and
eight assists, and Siri scored
10 points for the Lakers.
SWOCC, which remained
in fifth place in the South
Region, missed a chance for a
big home win. The Lakers
trail Umpqua by one game in
the race for fourth place —
the final spot in the
NWAACC tournament —
heading into Wednesday’s
game against the Riverhawks
in Roseburg. The Lakers also
host second-place Lane and
third-place Chemeketa in
the second half of the season.
“We’ve got six games
left,” Herbert said. “We’ve
got a long way to go.”
The Lakers will need to
finish strong in games,
though, after faltering late in
losses to Umpqua, Chemeketa
and, now, Clackamas.
“It basically comes down
to our last six minutes,”
Bembry said. “We need to
execute.”
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Stanford’s Josh Huestis blocks a shot by Oregon State’s Devon Collier in
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SWOCC led by six points
twice in the first half, but the
Cougars went in front for
good on a hoop by Lutes in
the final minute of the first
half. They never let the
Lakers gain any momentum
the final 20 minutes.
Six different players made
3-pointers for the Cougars,
and four finished in double
figures. Jordan Barber had 14
points and 12 rebounds,
Michone Hopkins had three
3-pointers and 13 points, and
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Pacific had cut a doubledigit deficit to four points
midway through the fourth
quarter and had a fast break,
but got a tough no-call on a
contested shot, coach Ben
Stallard said. In the battle for
the loose ball, Pacific point
guard Ethan Cline was called
for his fifth foul. The Pirates
Kirby Hawkins scored 12
points. Clackamas shot better than 50 percent from the
floor as a team.
Riley Grandinetti had 18
points and Dakota Allen
added 14 for the Lakers, who
shot just 42 percent overall.
Dereck Miller had a teambest six rebounds.
The Lakers still are in good
position in the South Region,
since they had a two-game
edge on the teams tied for
fourth place at the midway
point of the league season.
After Saturday’s games,
Chemeketa is in first place at
6-2, followed by the Lakers
and Lane at 5-3 and Mount
Hood and Portland at 4-4.
The top four teams advance to
the NWAACC Tournament.
SWOCC needs to bounce
back quickly, though. The
Lakers visit Umpqua on
Wednesday.
“I think we have a lot of
resilience in us,” Hoppe said.
“It’s a long go. We’ve just got
to keep it going.”
The next home game for
the Lakers is Saturday, when
they host Portland. They are
home for Lane the following
Wednesday. Those two teams
handed the Lakers their losses the first half of the season.
never recovered.
“The effort was great,”
Stallard said. “I felt like we
didn’t lose, we just ran out of
time.”
Only four Pacific players
scored, and they all finished
in double figures. Mike
Wagner had 16 points, Tyler
Cline 12, Ethan Cline 11 and
Cole Kreutzer 10.
Austin Abbott had 22
points to lead the Warriors.
At 4-5, Pacific is in fifth
place and in good shape to
grab the final spot in the
league playoffs. Second-place
New Hope improved to 7-2.
Umpqua
Valley
Christian 45, Powers 31:
The visiting Monarchs built a
30-16 halftime lead and
cruised to the win in Powers as
Ian Graham scored 19 points
and Danny Medak added 12.
Devin MacKensen had
three 3-pointers and a teambest 13 points for Powers.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)
— Phil Mickelson had a putt
for 59 in the first round of the
Phoenix Open that caught the
right edge of the cup, curled
180 degrees and stayed out.
Three days later, he flirted
with the PGA Tour’s 72-hole
scoring record.
History aside, Lefty left
the desert with the big trophy
Sunday and a huge confidence boost after a season
that got off to a shaky start on
and off the course with middle-of-the-pack finishes at
La Quinta and Torrey Pines
and headline-making talk
about tax increases.
“It’s an important one for
me, because it’s been a while
since I won, been a while
since I’ve been in contention,” Mickelson said. “I
was certainly nervous heading into today. I think the
thing I’m most excited about
was the way I was able to
regain control of my
thoughts after a few shots
early on that I didn’t care for.”
He thrived when the pressure was the greatest Sunday.
The biggest test came on
the par-3 seventh when his 5iron shot sailed long and
right, stopping an inch from
the fringe and leaving him in
danger of losing at least a
stroke to playing partner
Brandt Snedeker. Instead, he
ended up leaving Snedeker
shaking his head and went on
to complete a wire-to-wire
victory.
Fifty-five feet away, with
a mound and a 20-foot swath
of fringe between his ball and
the hole, Mickelson decided
to putt through the taller
grass rather than chip over it.
He had caddie Jim Mackay
remove the flagstick so that it
wouldn’t deflect the ball if it
had too much speed, a move
that proved wise when the
ball raced into the cup.
“The challenge of that
was to judge the speed where
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Phil Mickelson tips his visor to the crowd on the 18th green after winning the Waste Management Phoenix Open on Sunday.
half the putt is through fringe
and half is on the green,”
Mickelson said. “I got lucky
to have made it, obviously. I
was just trying to two-putt
it. It was going fairly quickly
when it got to the hole, probably would have been 6, 8 feet
by. With Brandt in there
close, that was a big momentum change.”
Snedeker joked with
Mickelson for a moment before
holing his own birdie putt.
“Are you kidding me?”
Snedeker said about his reaction to the putt. “I fully
expected Phil to hit a flop
shot from there. He didn’t
have much of a putt, and he
putted through it.
“I hit a great shot in there
close and I thought, ‘Hey, I
can get one on him here and
put some pressure on him.’
He makes that, and he let me
hear about it before I putt,
and he let me know that I
needed to make that to tie.
We had fun with it. That’s
Phil being Phil.”
Mickelson shot a 4-under
67 to finish at 28-under 256,
two strokes off the PGA Tour
record set by Tommy Armour
III in the 2003 Texas Open.
The 42-year-old former
Arizona State star settled for
a 60 on Thursday and followed with rounds of 65 and
64 to take a six-stroke lead
into the final round.
Wednesday’s Games
SWOCC at Umpqua
Mount Hood at Portland
Chemeketa at Clackamas
Lane at Linn-Benton
Sunday’s Games
Pittsburgh 6, Washington 3
Montreal 2, Ottawa 1
Florida 4, Buffalo 3
New Jersey 3, N.Y. Islanders 0
Today’s Games
Carolina at Toronto, 4 p.m.
Dallas at Colorado, 6 p.m.
Minnesota at Phoenix, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m.
San Jose at Anaheim, 7 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 4 p.m.
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.
Toronto at Washington, 4 p.m.
Los Angeles at Columbus, 4 p.m.
Buffalo at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m.
Calgary at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.
Florida at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.
Nashville at St. Louis, 5 p.m.
Chicago at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
Scoreboard
On The Air
Today
Men’s College Basketball — Notre Dame at
Syracuse, 4 p.m., ESPN; George Mason at Old
Dominion, 4 p.m., NBC Sports Network; Texas at
West Virginia, 6 p.m., ESPN; San Diego at Loyola
Marymount, 7 p.m., Root Sports.
Women’s College Basketball — Purdue at Penn
State, 4 p.m., ESPN2; Texas A&M at LSU, 6 p.m.,
ESPN2.
Hockey — Dallas at Colorado, 6 p.m., NBC Sports
Network.
Tuesday, Feb. 5
High School Boys Basketball — North Bend at
Marshfield, 7 p.m., KMHS (91.3 FM) and K-Light
(98.7 FM).
High School Girls Basketball — North Bend at
Marshfield, 5:30 p.m., KMHS (1420 AM) and K-Light
(98.7 FM).
M e n ’ s C o l l e g e B a s k e t b a l l — Florida at
Arkansas, 4 p.m. ESPN; Villanova at DePaul, 4
p.m., ESPN2; Ohio State at Michigan, 6 p.m.,
ESPN.
Hockey — Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m.,
NBC Sports Network.
Wednesday, Feb. 6
M e n ’ s C o l l e g e B a s k e t b a l l — Baylor at
Oklahoma State, 4 p.m., ESPN; Marquette at
South Florida, 4 p.m., ESPN2; Air Force at New
Mexico, 6 p.m., Root Sports.
NBA Basketball — San Antonio at Minnesota, 6
p.m., ESPN.
Hockey — Boston at Montreal, 4:30 p.m., NBC
Sports Network.
Local Schedule
Today
No local events scheduled.
Tuesday, Feb. 5
High School Boys Basketball — Nonleague:
North Bend at Marshfield, 7 p.m. Sunset
Conference: Coquille at Myrtle Point, 7:30 p.m.;
Bandon at Reedsport, 7:30 p.m.; Gold Beach at
Glide, 7:30 p.m.; Skyline League: Pacific at
Powers, 7:30 p.m.
High School Girls Basketball — Nonleague:
North Bend at Marshfield, 5:30 p.m. Sunset
Conference: Coquille at Myrtle Point, 6 p.m.;
Bandon at Reedsport, 6 p.m.; Gold Beach at
Glide, 6 p.m.; Skyline League: Pacific at Powers,
6 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 6
Men’s College Basketball — SWOCC at Umpqua,
7:30 p.m.
Wome n’s C ol lege Basketb al l — SWOCC at
Umpqua, 5:30 p.m.
High School Results
BASKETBALL
Skyline League Boys
League
W L
8 1
7 2
6 3
6 3
4 5
2 8
0 10
Elkton
New Hope
UVC
Camas Valley
Pacific
Yoncalla
Powers
Saturday’s Scores
New Hope 63, Pacific 49
UVC 45, Powers 31
Camas Valley 63, Yoncalla 46
Overall
W L
14 5
13 5
11 7
14 6
6 13
5 17
4 15
UVC 45, Powers 31
UVC
14 16 2 13 — 45
Powers
8 8 7 8 — 31
UVC (45): Ian Graham 19, Danny Medak 12,
Bayley Adams 6, Jordan Mesa 4, Josh Howell 2,
Cooper Tharp 2, David Hand, Bennett Gurney,
Bryant Perez.
POWERS (31): Devin MacKensen 13, Clayton
Stallard 8, Tye Jackson 7, Jaron MacDonald 3,
James Clauson, Willian Holman, Aaron Pedrick,
Ronnie Zemke.
Skyline League Girls
Overall
W L
19 3
9 10
11
12
12
10
19
Pacific 47, New Hope 41
Pacific
12 13 9 13 — 47
14 5 9 13 — 41
New Hope
PACI FIC (47): Riley Engdahl 26, Hannah
Fortune 12, Andee Keeler 5, Hailey Bowman 4,
Marina Byrne, Brittany Figuero, Hannah Miller.
NEW HOPE (41): Briana Chavez 9, Ariana Lee 9,
Alondra Chavez 7, Lydia Cunningham 5, Alyssa
Goddard 5, Sarah Kostma 4, Josie Joling 2.
Powers 37, UVC 23
UVC
4 2 10 7 — 23
14 13 8 2 — 37
Powers
UVC (23): Lily Berry-Cabiao 12, Rheo Rocco 5,
Sami Skelly 4, Marissa Perez 2, Katie Brint, Kaley
Dahl, Maggie Lefler, Katie Milholland.
POWERS (37): Kendall Stallard 19, Elizabeth
Standley 8, Rebecca Standley 6, Riley
Middlebrook 4, Sadie Blanton, Jessie Martinez.
WRESTLING
Cottage Grove Invitational
Team Scores: Cascade 154.5, Illinois Valley
147.5, Lowell 143, Glide 127.5, North Medford
115.5, Klamath Union 98.5, McKay 84, Madras
75, Oakland 71.5, Phoenix 70, Marshfield 59.5,
Coquille 58.5, Springfield 56, Gold Beach 47,
Central 43, Willamette 40, Myrtle Point 38,
Oakridge 33, Siuslaw 32, Cottage Grove 30,
Central Linn 28, South Eugene 26.5, Philomath
25, Douglas 24, Molalla 18, North Valley 17, North
Valley 17, North Eugene 17, Hidden Valley 17,
Sheridan 16, Junction City 14, Pleasant Hill 11,
Triangle Lake 7, Gilchrist 4, Creswell 3, Riddle,
Mazama.
Championship Matches
106 — Austin Mitchell, NM, d. Joe Fine, Oakr,
10-4. 113 — Logan Humphrey, Cas, p. Humberto
Santana, McK, 4:47. 120 — JR Pasqual, Wil, p.
Eric Miller, IV, :56. 126 — Thaddeus Nelson, Mar,
d. Brandon Parker, IV, 4-0. 132 — Gabe Miller, IV,
d. Skyler Harvey, Mar, 12-0. 138 — Walker
Damewood, Gli, d. Marcus Andrews, Cas, 4-0.
145 — Logan Miller, IV, d. Alex Holland, Gli, 12-3.
152 — Austin McNichols, Cas, won by default
over Jake Forrester, Gli. 160 — Lincoln Cesarez,
Low, d. Luke O’Connor, Gli, 6-3. 170 — Tyler
Howe, Cas, d. Chase Anderson, KU, 8-3. 182 —
Trent Wilson, NM, d. Michael Romine, Coq, 7-6.
195 — Mitch Mirande, KU, d. Angus Swan, Oakl,
7-0. 220 — David Henry, Oakl, p. Tyler Lehman,
CG, 1:11. 285 — Caylan Stark, Cas, d. Ryan
Connor, Siu, 1-0.
Third Place Matches (South Coast only)
138 — Tee Nguyne, Cas, d. Tristan Dixon, Coq,
4-2. 152 — Derek Carl, GB, p. Colton Kohlmeyer,
Cas, 1:59. 195 — Tie-Jarod Chamley, MP, and
Jeremy Husted, Cas. 285 — Tie-Brandon Adams,
GB, and Thomas Delgado, Spr.
Fifth Place Matches (South Coast only)
138 — Tie-Riley Train, MP, and Eli Garrard,
Dou. 145 — Tie-Luke Carroll, Siu, and Jacob
Dalke, Cas.
Pro Football
NFL Playoffs
Pacific
14 10 13 12 — 49
New Hope
15 16 14 18 — 63
PACIFIC (49): Mike Wagner 16, Tyler Cline 12,
Ethan Cline 11, Cole Kreutzer 10, Nick Scaffo, Tim
Hunter.
NEW HOPE (63): Austin Abbott 22, Dereak
Albright 15, Dan Rossiter 11, Christian Huttema
8, Ben Shields 7, Chris Merlos.
Yoncalla
Elkton
8
8
6
8
0
Wild-card Playoffs
New Hope 63, Pacific 49
League
W L
10 0
8 1
Pacific
5 4
Camas Valley
4 5
4 5
New Hope
2 8
Powers
0 9
UVC
Saturday’s Scores
Powers 37, UVC 23
Pacific 47, New Hope 41
Yoncalla 61, Camas Valley 23
Saturday, Jan. 5
Houston 19, Cincinnati 13
Green Bay 24, Minnesota 10
Sunday, Jan. 6
Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 9
Seattle 24, Washington 14
Divisional Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 12
Baltimore 38, Denver 35, 2OT
San Francisco 45, Green Bay 31
Sunday, Jan. 13
Atlanta 30, Seattle 28
New England 41, Houston 38
Conference Championships
Sunday, Jan. 20
San Francisco 28, Atlanta 24
Baltimore 28, New England 13
Pro Bowl
Sunday, Jan. 27
At Honolulu
NFC 62, AFC 35
Super Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 3
At New Orleans
Baltimore 34, San Francisco 31
Ravens 34, 49ers 31
Baltimore
7 14 7 6 — 34
San Francisco
3 3 17 8 — 31
First Quarter
Bal—Boldin 13 pass from Flacco (Tucker kick),
10:36.
SF—FG Akers 36, 3:58.
Second Quarter
Bal—Pitta 1 pass from Flacco (Tucker kick),
7:10.
Bal—J.Jones 56 pass from Flacco (Tucker kick),
1:45.
SF—FG Akers 27, :00.
Third Quarter
Bal—J.Jones 108 kickoff return (Tucker kick),
14:49.
SF—Crabtree 31 pass from Kaepernick (Akers
kick), 7:20.
SF—Gore 6 run (Akers kick), 4:59.
SF—FG Akers 34, 3:10.
Fourth Quarter
Bal—FG Tucker 19, 12:54.
SF—Kaepernick 15 run (pass failed), 9:57.
Bal—FG Tucker 38, 4:19.
SF—Safety, Koch runs out of end zone
(Culliver), :04.
A—71,024.
Bal
SF
First downs
21
23
367
468
Total Net Yards
Rushes-yards
35-93
29-182
Passing
274
286
Punt Returns
2-28
1-32
Kickoff Returns
5-206
4-106
1-6
0-0
Interceptions Ret.
Comp-Att-Int
22-33-0 16-28-1
Sacked-Yards Lost
2-13
3-16
Punts
3-47.0
3-53.0
2-1
1-1
Fumbles-Lost
2-20
5-33
Penalties-Yards
Time of Possession
32:23
27:37
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—Baltimore, Rice 20-59, Pierce 12-33,
Tucker 1-8, Leach 1-1, Koch 1-(minus 8). San
Francisco, Gore 19-110, Kaepernick 7-62, James
3-10.
PASSING—Baltimore, Flacco 22-33-0-287. San
Francisco, Kaepernick 16-28-1-302.
RECEIVING—Baltimore, Boldin 6-104, Pitta 426, Rice 4-19, Leach 3-10, Dickson 2-37, T.Smith 235, J.Jones 1-56. San Francisco, V.Davis 6-104,
Crabtree 5-109, Walker 3-48, Moss 2-41.
MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.
Pro Basketball
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
New York
30 15 .667
28 19 .596
Brooklyn
.511
24 23
Boston
Philadelphia
20 26 .435
17 31 .354
Toronto
Southeast Division W
L
Pct
Miami
30 14 .682
Atlanta
26 20 .565
Orlando
14 33 .298
Charlotte
11 35 .239
Washington
11 35 .239
Central Division
W
L
Pct
.617
29 18
Chicago
Indiana
28 19 .596
Milwaukee
25 21 .543
18 30 .375
Detroit
Cleveland
14 34 .292
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division W
L
Pct
San Antonio
38 11
.776
Memphis
30 16 .652
.531
26 23
Houston
20 27 .426
Dallas
New Orleans
15 33 .313
Northwest Division W
L
Pct
35 12
.745
Oklahoma City
Denver
30 18 .625
Utah
26 22 .542
Portland
24 23
.511
Minnesota
18 26 .409
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
L.A. Clippers
34 15 .694
30 17 .638
Golden State
22 26 .458
L.A. Lakers
Sacramento
17 32 .347
16 32 .333
Phoenix
Saturday’s Games
Chicago 93, Atlanta 76
New York 120, Sacramento 81
Cleveland 115, Oklahoma City 110
Houston 109, Charlotte 95
Minnesota 115, New Orleans 86
San Antonio 96, Washington 86
Milwaukee 107, Orlando 98
Portland 105, Utah 99
Golden State 113, Phoenix 93
Sunday’s Games
Boston 106, L.A. Clippers 104
L.A. Lakers 98, Detroit 97
Miami 100, Toronto 85
Today’s Games
Orlando at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Washington, 4 p.m.
Chicago at Indiana, 4 p.m.
Detroit at New York, 4:30 p.m.
Charlotte at Miami, 4:30 p.m.
Portland at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
Dallas at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.
Sacramento at Utah, 6 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Atlanta at Indiana, 4 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.
Golden State at Houston, 5 p.m.
Phoenix at Memphis, 5 p.m.
Milwaukee at Denver, 6 p.m.
Clackamas 83, SWOCC 68
CLACKAMAS (3-5): Brock Lutes 21, Jordan
Barber 14, Michone Hopkins 13, Kirby Hawkins
12, Grant Sitton 7, Jake Dewitt 6, Nate Keiholtz 5,
Chris Lambert 5, Matt Bryant, Anthony Lianzo.
SWOCC (5-3): Riley Grandinetti 18, Dakota
Allen 14, LaDarrell Mongkholtham 9, Da’Lorian
Sampson 9, Anthony Heintzman 8, Cody Cozad
4, Dereck Miller 4, Bryan Boswell 2.
Halftime: Clackamas 37, SWOCC 33.
South Region Women
College Basketball
Pac-12 Standings
Pac-12 Men
League
W L
7 2
7 2
6 3
6 3
5 4
5 4
5 4
4 5
3 6
2 7
2 7
1 8
Overall
W L
18 4
18 2
17 5
16 6
14 8
13 9
13 9
9 13
13 8
11 11
10 11
11 11
Oregon
Arizona
Arizona State
UCLA
Stanford
California
Washington
USC
Colorado
Washington State
Utah
Oregon State
Saturday’s Scores
California 58, Oregon 54
Arizona 79, Washington State 65
Utah 58, Colorado 55
Washington 96, Arizona State 92
Sunday’s Score
Stanford 81, Oregon State 73
Wednesday’s Games
Utah at Oregon State, 7 p.m.
Stanford at Arizona, 6 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Colorado at Oregon, 7 pm.
Washington at UCLA, 6 p.m.
California at Arizona State, 6:30 p.m.
Washington State at USC, 8:30 p.m.
Pac-12 Women
GB
—
3
7
101⁄2
141⁄2
GB
—
5
1
17 ⁄2
20
20
GB
—
1
1
3 ⁄2
1
11 ⁄2
151⁄2
GB
—
1
6 ⁄2
12
17
221⁄2
GB
—
51⁄2
1
9 ⁄2
11
1
15 ⁄2
GB
—
3
1
11 ⁄2
17
171⁄2
League
W L
9 1
9 1
8 2
8 2
5 5
5 5
4 6
3 7
3 7
3 7
2 8
1 9
Stanford
California
UCLA
Washington
Colorado
USC
Washington State
Arizona
Arizona State
Oregon State
Utah
Oregon
Sunday’s Scores
California 72, Oregon 45
Stanford 65, Oregon State 45
Colorado 65, Southern Cal 49
UCLA 70, Utah 42
Washington 74, Arizona State 61
Washington State 60, Arizona 50
Friday’s Games
Oregon State at Colorado, 6 p.m.
Oregon at Utah, 6 p.m.
USC at Washington State, 6 p.m.
Arizona at Stanford, 7 p.m.
UCLA at Washington, 7 p.m.
Arizona State at California, 8 p.m.
Overall
W L
20 2
19 2
17 4
16 5
16 5
8 13
8 13
11 10
11 11
9 13
11 10
3 19
NWAACC
South Region Men
League
W L
6 2
5 3
5 3
4 4
4 4
3 5
3 5
2 6
Chemeketa
Lane
SWOCC
Mount Hood
Portland
Clackamas
Umpqua
Linn-Benton
Saturday’s Scores
Clackamas 83, SWOCC 68
Mount Hood 84, Lane 72
Portland 72, Linn-Benton 55
Chemeketa 100, Umpqua 89
Overall
W L
13 6
17 5
10 10
8 12
8 12
11 11
6 13
6 12
League
W L
8 0
7 1
6 2
4 4
3 5
3 5
1 7
0 8
Clackamas
Lane
Chemeketa
Umpqua
SWOCC
Linn-Benton
Portland
Mount Hood
Saturday’s Scores
Clackamas 71, SWOCC 61
Chemeketa 99, Umpqua 75
Linn-Benton 63, Portland 43
Lane 83, Mount Hood 39
Wednesday’s Games
SWOCC at Umpqua
Mount Hood at Portland
Chemeketa at Clackamas
Lane at Linn-Benton
Overall
W L
18 3
21 1
13 8
14 7
10 10
6 14
2 16
2 17
Clackamas 71, SWOCC 61
CLACKAMAS (8-0): Tori Wilkinson 25, Megan
Feldman 11, Ashleigh Anderson 9, Laci
Effenberger 9, Jenny Johnson 9, Sade Elliott 8,
Selin Belin, Alex Howe, Rebekah Jamerson.
SW OC C (3 -5): Quynne Eharis 21, Jazmin
Bembry 11, Kyla Siri 10, Mari Aguilera 8, Hailey
Laird 5, Sarah Dexter 4, Meg Berry 2, Ashlee
Desantos.
Halftime: Clackamas 37, SWOCC 33.
Hockey
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
9 6 3 0 12 30 22
Pittsburgh
New Jersey 8 4 1 3 11 20 19
N.Y. Islanders 8 4 3 1 9 27 26
N.Y. Rangers 8 4 4 0 8 19 22
Philadelphia 9 3 6 0 6 21 26
Northeast GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Boston
8 6 1 1 13 24 19
Montreal
8 6 2 0 12 26 17
Ottawa
9 5 3 1 11 25 16
Toronto
8 4 4 0 8 21 23
Buffalo
9 3 5 1 7 27 33
Southeast GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Tampa Bay 8 6 2 0 12 39 21
8 3 4 1 7 24 32
Winnipeg
Carolina
7 3 4 0 6 18 23
8 3 5 0 6 20 30
Florida
Washington 9 2 6 1 5 21 33
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago
9 7 0 2 16 28 20
St. Louis
8 6 2 0 12 31 19
8 4 3 1 9 22 24
Detroit
Nashville
8 3 2 3 9 14 20
Columbus
9 3 5 1 7 18 28
Northwest GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Vancouver 8 4 2 2 10 21 20
Edmonton
8 4 3 1 9 20 21
Minnesota
8 4 3 1 9 20 22
Colorado
8 4 4 0 8 19 20
Calgary
6 1 3 2 4 16 24
Pacific
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
8 7 0 1 15 30 14
San Jose
Anaheim
7 5 1 1 11 27 22
9 3 4 2 8 27 26
Phoenix
Dallas
9 3 5 1 7 17 23
Los Angeles 7 2 3 2 6 16 23
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Saturday’s Games
Chicago 3, Calgary 2, SO
Nashville 2, San Jose 1, SO
Pittsburgh 5, New Jersey 1
Montreal 6, Buffalo 1
Colorado 3, Edmonton 1
Boston 1, Toronto 0
Philadelphia 5, Carolina 3
N.Y. Rangers 3, Tampa Bay 2
Columbus 4, Detroit 2
Phoenix 2, Dallas 0
Anaheim 7, Los Angeles 4
Golf
PGA Tour
Waste Management Phoenix Open
Sunday
At TPC Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Purse: $6.2 million
Yardage: 7,216; Par: 71
Final Round
Phil Mickelson, $1,116,000 60-65-64-67—256
Brandt Snedeker, $669,600 64-66-65-65—260
70-66-64-61— 261
Scott Piercy, $421,600
66-66-65-65—262
Ryan Moore, $297,600
Ryan Palmer, $248,000
64-73-66-62 —265
Bill Haas, $207,700
65-64-70-67 —266
Brendon de Jonge, $207,700 66-67-67-66—266
Brendan Steele, $207,700 69-65-65-67 —266
Matt Every, $173,600
65-67-69-66— 267
Padraig Harrington, $173,600 64-70-63-70 — 267
68-68-69-63—268
Kevin Stadler, $136,400
Ben Crane, $136,400
67-71-64-66 —268
Robert Garrigus, $136,400 66-66-69-67—268
Billy Horschel, $136,400
69-68-64-67—268
Bubba Watson, $111,600
67-67-71-64 —269
David Hearn, $84,165
67-65-73-65 —270
Bo Van Pelt, $84,165
68-67-71-64 —270
Jeff Klauk, $84,165
67-68-67-68—270
71-67-70-62 —270
James Hahn, $84,165
Gary Woodland, $84,165
67-66-67-70 —270
Roberto Castro, $84,165
65-68-67-70 —270
67-67-67-69 —270
Hunter Mahan, $84,165
Troy Matteson, $84,165
67-65-66-72 —270
Chris Kirk, $47,973
67-69-69-66— 271
66-68-71-66 — 271
Kevin Chappell, $47,973
Brian Gay, $47,973
65-66-72-68 — 271
Keegan Bradley, $47,973
67-63-73-68 — 271
71-67-68-65 — 271
Bud Cauley, $47,973
66-66-69-70— 271
John Rollins, $47,973
Bryce Molder, $47,973
67-67-67-70 — 271
Ted Potter, Jr., $47,973
64-69-68-70— 271
70-65-68-69— 272
Brian Harman, $35,883
John Mallinger, $35,883
65-69-69-69— 272
Justin Leonard, $35,883
65-71-66-70 — 272
67-66-69-70 — 272
William McGirt, $35,883
Kevin Na, $27,944
69-64-72-68— 273
K.J. Choi, $27,944
71-67-67-68 — 273
Charles Howell III, $27,944 67-68-69-69— 273
Casey Wittenberg, $27,944 67-67-70-69 — 273
George McNeill, $27,944
70-68-68-67— 273
Angel Cabrera), $27,944
66-65-70-72 — 273
68-68-66-71 — 273
Greg Chalmers, $27,944
Transactions
BASEBALL
American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Assigned RHP Chris
Carpenter outright to Pawtucket (IL).
National League
MIAMI MARLINS — Assigned OF Kevin
Mattison outright to New Orleans (PCL).
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned RHP J.C.
Ramirez outright to Lehigh Valley (IL).
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
NBA — Fined Dallas coach Rick Carlisle
$25,000 for public criticism of officiating.
ATLANTA HAWKS — Signed G Jannero Pargo to
a second 10-day contract.
MIAMI HEAT—Reassigned C Dexter Pittman to
Sioux Falls (NBADL).
GOLF
USGA—Announced Glen D. Nager president
has been re-elected to serve a one-year term.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
NHL—Suspended Washington Capitals D John
Erskine for three games for elbowing
Philadelphia Flyers Wayne Simmonds.
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Flacco shines
on biggest stage
The Associated Press
San Francisco head coach Jim Harbaugh, left, greets Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh after the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Older brother wins coaching battle
BY BRETT MARTEL
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — It
sounded as if John Harbaugh
was happy his Ravens nearly
blew a three-touchdown lead
in the Super Bowl.
The fact that Baltimore
had to hold on the stressful
way, with a defensive stand
near its own goal line inside
the final two minutes of a 3431 victory, meant that the triumphant coach’s younger
brother had done pretty well,
too, in the biggest game of
either of their lives.
“I just knew with Jim
Harbaugh being on the other
sideline and all of those years
we have been together that
game was going to be a dog
fight right to the end,” John
Harbaugh said. “Those guys
were coming back. There’s no
greater competitor and no
greater coach in the National
Football League or in the
world, as far as I’m concerned, than Jim Harbaugh.
The way that team played
proves it. ... That is who he is
and that is who they are.
“I could not be more
proud of him.”
With their parents watching from a private suite in the
Superdome, the Harbaugh
brothers put on a championship game to remember.
First, it was the Ravens
who raced to a 28-6 lead after
Jacoby Jones returned the
second-half kickoff a Super
Bowl-record 108 yards for a
score.
Then, came a power outage, which delayed the game
for 34 minutes. With the
players sitting on their
benches or stretching near
the sideline as they waited for
play to resume, Jim
Harbaugh went to work.
His 49ers went on a surge
of their own, and younger
brother Jim had John on the
ropes. The 49ers closed to
31-29 in the fourth quarter
missing a 2-point conversion
that would have tied it. The
Niners were down only 3429 when they had a firstand-goal on the 7 in the final
minutes, but couldn’t quite
pull off what would have
been the greatest comeback
in Super Bowl history, and
the Ravens took a late safety
in their effort to wind down
the final seconds.
The short postgame
embrace between the
Harbaugh brothers, in which
Jim briefly touched John’s
face, “was probably the most
difficult thing I’ve ever done,
ever been associated with in
my life,” John said.
“Jim is a great competitor,” John Harbaugh added. “I
just love him, obviously. I
think anybody out there who
has a brother can understand. I just believe in him
and I have so much respect
for him. I admire him. I look
up to him in so many ways
and I am hurting for him in
that sense.”
John Harbaugh said he
simply told Jim, younger by
15 months, that he loved him,
and that Jim congratulated
him.
One thing was clear: The
Harbaugh family threw a
Super party. Their parents,
Jack and Jackie, had delighted the media with their gracious, outgoing manner leading up to a game that had
more than its share of excitement.
“It was a heck of a football
game,” Jim Harbaugh said,
adding that he told his brother he was proud of him.
Jim Harbaugh indicated
he was still upset about a
couple of decisions by officials — particularly the
Niners’ last offensive play, a
fourth-down incompletion
intended for Michael
Crabtree — but asserted, “We
want to handle this thing
with class and grace.”
After the game, Jack and
Jackie stood nearby as John
took the interview podium as
the winning coach. Neither
parent smiled much, clearly
dealing with mixed feelings,
although they looked proud.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) —
Until this Super Bowl, Joe
Flacco always believed in
himself more than many
other folks did.
Maybe that’s because the
Baltimore Ravens quarterback never put up the most
scintillating statistics. Or
because he kept falling short
of a championship.
This much was clear:
Flacco didn’t get the top-ofthe-line contract he wanted
last offseason, so he put off
negotiations until this season
was done, confident he
would prove himself.
That decision worked out
rather well.
Capping a perfect postseason, the unassuming and
unheralded Flacco completed
22 of 33 passes for 287 yards
and three first-half touchdowns Sunday, earning Super
Bowl MVP honors for leading
the Ravens to a 34-31 victory
over the San Francisco 49ers.
Hey, Ravens owner Steve
Bisciotti, get your checkbook
ready.
Flacco set aside any questions about just how good he
is and whether he belongs in
the conversation about the
league’s best quarterbacks,
becoming only the sixth in 47
Super Bowls to throw for three
scores in a first half. He connected with Anquan Boldin
for 13 yards, Dennis Pitta for 1,
and Jacoby Jones for 56.
Then, on the drive that
ended with Baltimore’s final
points, a field goal with under
1
4 ⁄2 minutes left, Flacco faced
a third-and-1 at his team’s
45-yard line. Given three play
calls to choose from, Flacco
banged his wrists across each
other, signaling for a fade to
Boldin. The outcome? A 15yard gain for a first down.
“It shows you he has got
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Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco
holds up the Vince Lombardi
Trophy after the Ravens’ win.
guts,” Baltimore coach John
Harbaugh said. “He has got
the guts of a burglar.”
Earlier, Flacco showed
more athleticism than he gets
credit for, running to his right
under pressure from two
linebackers before lofting a
30-yard pass to Boldin.
“Now they’re gonna have
to talk about Joe Flacco,”
center Matt Birk said. “Joe’s a
stud. He showed it tonight.”
Not just Sunday, actually.
The admittedly mildmannered guy, who played
his college football far from
the spotlight at Delaware,
wrapped up Baltimore’s fourgame run to the title with a
record-equaling 11 TD passes
and zero interceptions, going
73 of 126 for 1,140 yards. It
was an impressive streak that
included road win against two
of the game’s most respected
QBs, Peyton Manning and
Tom Brady, and a first-round
home win against No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew Luck.
“I wouldn’t take any other
quarterback over Joe,” offensive lineman Michael Oher
said. “People give him slack,
and I don’t know why.”
“I knew it was going to be a
hard-fought game and very,
very competitive,” Jack
Harbaugh said. “I’m so proud
of John. We talked about
where he started at Western
Michigan University as a
graduate assistant, and then
to stand on this stage with the
ultimate prize, I’m just so
proud of him — and so proud
of Jim. ... I knew he was coming back. He was going to fight
back and he did and made it a
great football game, maybe
one of the great games in
Super Bowl history.”
After watching John
Harbaugh address the media,
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh
made their way across the
ground level of the
Superdome to the 49ers locker room, where Jack spoke
with Jim behind closed doors.
The Harbaugh parents had
predicted that their thoughts
would likely be more with
whoever lost the game,
because they figured that son
would need them most.
“I’m just happy it was
such a great game,” Jackie
Harbaugh said. “I’m happy
for John. I know how much
Jim wanted this game, too.
That’s the way they are. It
was right down to the bitter
end, really. It’s all in the family, so that’s nice, and after
this day’s over, they’ll go back
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to work.”
Fans and the teams wait for power to return in the Superdome during
the third quarter Sunday.
Superdome officials
apologize for outage
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Ray Rice’s fumble at his 24 led to
David Akers’ 34-yard field goal, but
Baltimore woke up for a long drive leading to rookie Justin Tucker’s 19-yard
field goal.
San Francisco wasn’t done challenging, though, and Kaepernick’s 15-yard
TD run, the longest for a quarterback in
a Super Bowl, made it 31-29. A 2-point
conversion pass failed when the Ravens
blitzed.
Tucker added a 38-yarder with 4:19
remaining, setting up the frantic finish.
Kaepernick couldn’t get the 49ers
into the end zone on the final three
plays. The last was a pass into the right
corner of the end zone to Crabtree that
involved some incidental bumping. Jim
Harbaugh insisted a flag should have
been thrown.
“There’s no question in my mind
that there was a pass interference and
then a hold,” Jim Harbaugh said.
Ravens punter Sam Koch took a safety for the final score with 4 seconds left.
Koch’s free kick was returned by Ginn to
midfield as time ran out.
“How could it be any other way? It’s
never pretty. It’s never perfect. But it’s
us,” John Harbaugh said of his Ravens.
“It was us today.”
Barely.
“Yeah, I think that last drive when
we got the ball and had time to go down
and score a touchdown,” Kaepernick
said, “we thought it was our game.”
But the championship is Baltimore’s.
As for the foul-up at America’s
biggest sporting event, officials
revealed that an “abnormality” in the
power system triggered an automatic
shutdown, forcing backup systems to
kick in. But no one was sure what
caused the initial problem.
Everything changed after that until
Lewis and Co. shut it down. But there
were plenty of white-knuckle moments
and the Ravens had to make four stops
inside their 7 at the end.
“I think it speaks to our resolve,speaks
to our determination, speaks to our mental toughness,” John Harbaugh said.
“That is what wins and loses games.”
At 4 hours, 14 minutes, it was the
longest Super Bowl ever.
Flacco’s arrival as a championship
quarterback — he had 11 postseason TD
passes, tying a league mark, and no
interceptions — coincides with Lewis’
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San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick throws a pass as Baltimore Ravens linebacker
Dannell Ellerbe (59) rushes in during the final minutes Sunday. The pass fell incomplete.
retirement. The win capped a sensational four games since Lewis
announced he was leaving the game
after 17 Hall of Fame-caliber years.
The Ravens will become Flacco’s
team now, provided he reaches agreement on a new contract.
Flacco’s three TD passes in the
opening half tied a Super Bowl record.
They covered 13 yards to Anquan
Boldin, 1 to Dennis Pitta and 56 to Jones.
That start boosted him to the MVP
award.
The wild scoring made this the second championship in the NFL’s 80-year
title game history in which both teams
scored at least 30 points. Pittsburgh’s
35-31 win over Dallas in 1979 was the
other.
New Orleans native Jones, one of the
stars in a double-overtime playoff win
at Denver, seemed to put the game away
with his record 108-yard sprint with the
second-half kickoff.
Soon after, the lights went out — and
when they came back on, the Ravens
were almost powerless to slow the
49ers.
Until the final moments.
Jim Harbaugh, the coach who turned
around the Niners in the last two years
and brought them to their first Super
Bowl in 18 years, had seen his team make
a similarly stunning comeback in the
NFC championship at Atlanta, but
couldn’t finish it off against Baltimore.
“Our guys battled back to get back
in,” the 49ers coach said. “I thought we
battled right to the brink of winning.”
The 49ers couldn’t have been sloppier in the first half, damaging their
chances with penalties — including one
on their first play that negated a 20yard gain — poor tackling and
turnovers. Rookie LaMichael James
fumbled at the Baltimore 25 to ruin an
impressive drive, and the Ravens converted that with Flacco’s 1-yard pass to
Pitta for a 14-3 lead.
On San Francisco’s next offensive
play, Kaepernick threw behind Randy
Moss and always dependable Reed
picked it off. A huge scuffle followed
that brought both Harbaughs onto the
field and saw both sides penalized 15
yards for unnecessary roughness.
Reed, also a New Orleans native, tied
the NFL record for postseason picks
with his ninth.
Baltimore didn’t pounce on that
mistake for points. Instead, Tucker’s
fake field goal run on fourth-and-9
came up a yard short when Chris
Culliver slammed him out of bounds.
The Ravens simply shrugged, forced
a three-and-out, and then unleashed
Jones deep. Just as he did to Denver, he
flashed past the secondary and caught
Flacco’s fling. He had to wait for the
ball, fell to the ground to grab it, but
was untouched by a Niner. Up he
sprang, cutting left and using his speed
to outrun two defenders to the end
zone.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A
Super Bowl week that had
gone so smoothly for the Big
Easy suddenly turned bizarre
when everyone was watching.
The lights went out on the
biggest game of the year.
Just imagine the uproar if
Baltimore had lost.
The Ravens were cruising
along with a 28-6 lead
Sunday night when, without
warning, the power to the
Superdome suddenly shut
down early in the third quarter, plunging parts of the 38year-old stadium into darkness and leaving TV viewers
with no football and no
explanation why.
For 34 minutes, the players tried to stay loose, the
fans milled about in darkened
corridors, and stadium officials scrambled to figure out
what went wrong. The
Ravens barely hung on for a
34-31 victory over the San
Francisco 49ers, needing a
goal-line stand in the closing
minutes to preserve the
championship.
“It really hurt us,”
Baltimore fullback Vonta
Leach said. “We had a lot of
momentum.”
About two hours after the
game, officials revealed that
an “abnormality” in the
power system triggered an
automatic shutdown, forcing
backup systems to kick in.
But they weren’t sure about
the source of the problem.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu
called the outage “an unfortunate moment in what has
been an otherwise shining
Super Bowl week for the city
of New Orleans.”
The outage provided a
major glitch to what has
largely been viewed as a
smooth week for the city,
which was hosting its first
Super Bowl since 2002 and
was eager to show off how it
has been rebuilt since
Hurricane Katrina.
But there is sure to be
some fallout for the city and
the Superdome — especially
since New Orleans plans to
bid for the title game in 2018,
in conjunction with the
300th anniversary of its
founding.
Escalators stopped working and credit-card machines
shut down, though auxiliary
power kept the playing field
and concourses from going
totally dark.
“We sincerely apologize
for the incident,” Superdome
spokesman Eric Eagan said.
Most fans seemed to take
the outage in stride, even
starting up the wave to pass
the time.
“So we had to spend 30
minutes in the dark? That was
just more time for fans to refill
their drinks,” said Amanda
Black of Columbus, Miss.
A joint statement from
Entergy New Orleans, which
provides power to the stadium, and Superdome operator
SMG shed some light on the
chain of events, which
apparently started at the spot
where Entergy feeds power
into the stadium’s lines. The
problem occurred shortly
after Beyonce put on a halftime show that featured
extravagant lighting and
video effects.
“A piece of equipment
that is designed to monitor
electrical load sensed an
abnormality in the system,”
the statement said. “Once the
issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as
designed and opened a breaker, causing power to be partially cut to the Superdome in
order to isolate the issue. ...
Entergy and SMG will continue to investigate the root
cause of the abnormality.”
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