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Voices/Letters Responses to a hunter’s take on the NRA..................................................4 The Week in Review Daines, Tester are sworn in.............................................................6 Briefs Pond hockey, “fiscal cliff ” and Idle No More ..........................................................6 Etc. Intelligent Design is back, this time with lipstick .......................................................7 News Retired Justice Nelson holds court...........................................................................8 Opinion How the GOP can go green by following Reagan .............................................10 Feature Behind Blue Marble’s mad science.....................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Napkin artist Bill Hegg abandons the usual canvas..................................................18 Music The Kraken, The Runs, Ben Bullington and Yo La Tengo .....................................19 Books Transatlantic Lives pays tribute to love in wartime.............................................20 Film The Unraveling snags a grand prize ........................................................................21 Film Zero Dark Thirty goes beyond finding bin Laden...................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................23 Flash in the Pan Weird science........................................................................................24 Happiest Hour The Rocky Mountain Flip .......................................................................26 8 Days a Week Vomit and ethanol makes tutti frutti? .....................................................27 Mountain High Kevin Colburn at The Trail Head...........................................................33 Agenda Give us your drugs..............................................................................................34

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Exclusives Street Talk..........................................................................................................................4 In Other News .................................................................................................................12 Classifieds ......................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess......................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y .......................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle..........................................................................................................C-5 This Modern World .....................................................................................................C-12

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Not for sale

STREET TALK Asked on Monday, Jan. 7, in front of the University Center.

by Eric Oravsky

This week’s feature profiles a local company that enhances products with common waste materials, like coffee grounds and spent grain.

What’s the most innovative product you use in your daily life?

Follow-up: What fills the majority of your garbage can?

Erik Elison: My bicycle. Actually I have two: a cheap one from Wal-Mart and one I made at FreeCycles. Bikes are pretty amazing because they run off of your own power and they are efficient, simple and can go anywhere. Finish yer plate! Food waste is a big one. I would compost, but I live in a small apartment and there is no place to put it.

Montana state legislators may accept gifts from outside interest and take trips paid for by outside interests. No disclosure is required?

First order of business is to change the ethics and financial disclosure requirement. I don’t think it’s ethical for Montana legislators to accept trips, and gifts, to pass laws to benefit corporations. The American Legislative Exchange Council has gotten so much control over our representatives and senators. ALEC is a corporate bill mill, it’s not just a lobby or a front group, and it’s more powerful than that. ALEC corporations hand legislators their wish list to benefit their bottom line.

Corporations fund almost all of ALEC’s operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC

task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected of-

“If it sounds like lobbying, looks like lobbying and smells like lobbying, it’s lobbying!” ficials to approve “model bills.” If it sounds like lobbying, looks like lobbying

and smells like lobbying, it’s lobbying!

Montana legislators have voted on ALEC bills, like “stand your ground,” with the National Rifle Association co-chair on ALEC’s board. They wrote that bill, and other gun bills. With oil, gas, coal and mining companies funding ALEC, they want no environmental laws or work safety laws.

There are about 27 members of ALEC in our Montana Legislature. They are working not for the people of Montana, but for corporations.

No gifts, trips from any lobbyist, and full disclosure. After all, if we the people want big money out of elections, we would want big money out of our legislature.

Judith M Wiancko Ennis

Kelley Willett: My fly-fishing waders. I go fishing about two times per week. I end up scrambling down hills, through brambles and they still keep water out. Plus, they were made in Bozeman. Pack dat: Packaging. There is packaging for everything these days. Boxes in boxes in wrapping. Everything is wrapped in something.

James Dyke Jr.: Probably recycled paper that I use everyday. The textbook I used was recycled paper, too. It is really twofold because it cuts down on waste and generates a product that we are dependent on. I am a logger, and I see that it helps maintain a balance between waste and need. Progress? Not too long ago, milk came in glass bottles that got reused, as did pop bottles. Now a lot of those containers end up in my trash.

Len Broberg: The solar panels I have on my house. Since I put them up in 1996 they have taken the energy from the sun that would otherwise just be hitting my house and turned it into electricity. Bigger not better: Food waste is a big part of it, and especially the packaging on food. I don’t know when this marketing idea started that making things look bigger justified selling them for more, but I would prefer to buy something smaller with less packaging, regardless of price.

Iris Olson: I’m really into DIY stuff, and have this really cool bag from Upcycled that is made of bike tire tubes. I think it’s really cool when people take things that others throw away and make them useful again. Closed loop: I don’t know if there is any one thing that takes a lot of space. I recycle most things and I compost everything, even the waste from my rabbit.

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[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Missed target,” Jan. 3

Or a cook “If I had to guess, I'd say this was written not by a hunter but by a gun banner pretending to be a hunter in order to attack semi-auto rifles.”

Posted on 1/3/2013 at 8:28 a.m.

A bad shot “Anyone can point a gun and pull the trigger. ANYONE. As for the hunters, from what I have seen in the field and on the range, there is a serious LACK of training for both shooting and the actual hunt. If you cannot do one shot one kill, than you

need more training...Train the teachers and or staff and require they meet the same standards as law enforcement, or better yet hire a combat Vet that is already trained. A lone determined well trained operator is almost impossible to stop.”

Posted on 1/3/2013 at 11:50 a.m.

Good ol’ days “You gun banners used to actually pretend you had a shred of honor and intellectual sincerity. I miss those days.”

Posted on 1/3/2013 at 12:44 p.m.

Who you callin’ chump?

I’m appalled by [Ari] LeVaux’s senseless attack on the NRA and its members.

Does LeVaux really believe that if so-called assault weapons are banned, the antigunners will be satisfied? No, as soon as they succeed in getting an antigun bill passed, they immediately begin demanding even more onerous antigun legislation. For example, hunting rifles commonly used for big game will be called ‘sniper rifles.’ What a chump.”

Posted on 1/7/2013 at 8:47 p.m.

Backtalk from “Crippling blow,” Jan. 3

More than money “It amazes me that no matter what the program, some keep advocating spending money we don’t have. And to a great extent we have squandered our quality of life by always spending money to enable the problem. While some need protection from domestic problems, money doesn’t stop the perpetrator. To quote one who had total control of a woman and a bunch of children, his mantra was ‘breed ’em till they die.’ Why do we keep raising women to

think they are helpless? Why do we keep raising men to be brutal, stupid thugs?

Posted on 1/3/2013 at 8:31 a.m.

The key “Having advocated in the genre of domestic violence since the ’70s (wow) I have to say in these times of budget cutting and reorganization monies directed to mental health programs is key. Folks core beliefs must change. A process of unlearning the irrational beliefs and resulting

behaviors is what it takes.”

Posted on 1/3/2013 at 11:13 a.m.

Forced reorganization “I agree with both commenters, have worked with Caitlin Copple on advertising messages for the YWCA, and believe in helping women. This SAFE organization did do its own politicking in the Bitterroot: adhesing themselves to the county’s hand …

Maybe its time for a forced reorganization.”

Posted on 1/3/2013 at 8:17 p.m.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Eric Oravsky

Wednesday, January 1 Gov. Steve Bullock announces Jason Smith as his administration’s director of Indian Affairs. Smith has worked in state and tribal positions and led voter mobilization efforts in Indian Country.

Thursday, January 2 U.S. Rep Steve Daines is sworn in as a member of the 113th Congress. The Republican later joins Democratic Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus in an awkward “all for one, one for all”-type photo op.

Friday, January 3 District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock rules that American Tradition Partnership acted as a political committee in the 2008 election. The day before, ATP Executive Director Donny Ferguson resigned to take a congressional job in Washington, D.C.

Saturday, January 4 Jonathan Wade Stump, 27, allegedly steals money from a Missoula motorist who agreed to give Stump a ride to Stump’s mother’s house. Police say Stump took the money after the driver refused to give it to him to buy beer.

Sunday, January 5 Missoula emergency personnel respond to an early morning blaze at 1407 Stoddard St. Once there, they find an apartment filled with smoke and the living room on fire. Building occupants are evacuated and no one is injured.

Monday, January 6 Montana’s 63rd legislative session officially kicks off in Helena. Representatives and senators are scheduled to review 1,790 proposed bills over the next three months.

Tuesday, January 7 Missoula police apprehend Dawnette Eaton, 47, in the South Hills after she allegedly used a vehicle to run over Missoula Police Officer Deni Poling in the East Broadway McDonald’s parking lot. Poling is seriously injured with a broken hip and leg.

Owen Fylling, foreground, and Bodie Besich enjoy some time on the ice between games at the third annual Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament Saturday, Jan. 5. The two-day competition featured 30 teams and more than 150 players.

Hockey

Southern grit It’s a sun-kissed Saturday afternoon on the banks of Seeley Lake behind Lindey’s Steakhouse, and there are more than 150 hockey bags strewn about the snow. Nancy-Clair Laird’s is the only one with a baggage claim ticket from Georgia.

Laird considers it a long-standing personal fantasy to play in a pond hockey tournament. She grew up figure skating down south, but discovered hockey during college in New York. Last August, she moved back to Georgia after eight years of bruises and bulky skates in Bozeman. Now she’s on the sidelines of the Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament swigging beer with old friends and trying to forget this morning’s defeat.

This is the third consecutive year Mike Lindemer and Tom Monaghan have organized a pond hockey competition for the first weekend of the new year— normally a tourism slump for Seeley. What started with 11 teams in 2011 is now a three-rink, 30-team affair complete with upper and lower divisions. The event proved so popular this year that Lindemer had to turn away 20 additional teams. Players have come

from across Montana, eastern Oregon, Canada and, in Laird’s case, Georgia. This year, proceeds from the event go to Seeley Lake Elementary and the Missoula Area Youth Hockey league.

“The only feedback we’ve received this year is to try and have another rink for kids to play on, which we were able to do last year,” Monaghan says. “But where we’re standing now was mush a week ago, so it wasn’t an option.”

Laird’s teammates rib her between games, and one wisecrack hits a soft spot: Laird was a debutante, meaning when she was eligible for marriage, she wasdebuted at an old-fashioned, high-society ball.

“It’s true,” Laird says, blushing. “I was a debutante. You get a dress on, there’s music, your dad walks you down the aisle...I’m not afraid to admit it now. I’m not ashamed anymore.”

Any thoughts of Laird in white gloves immediately vanish when she hits the ice. She’s the first on the Bozeman Pond Scum team to score. She’s also the first to send an opponent sprawling across the rink. If there was a penalty box in pond hockey, odds are she’d be in it.

The Pond Scum eventually stumble away from

the rink victorious. They’re battered, fatigued, onefor-one on the day. But Laird’s grinning. “It’s a dream come true,” she says, and she doesn’t even remember the score.

Alex Sakariassen

Megaloads

Quiet rides through Montana A host of activist groups may have won the battle against Imperial Oil last year, but companies looking to ship oversized loads through Montana to the Alberta Tar Sands are far from done with the war. Megaloads are still rolling across Montana’s highways, with the latest traveling as recently as last week.

Missoula used to be the leader of boisterous opposition to what many dubbed the “heavy haul.” Not quite two years ago, more than 100 protesters lined Reserve Street as two massive ConocoPhillips loads passed through.

The activists won a resounding victory last year when a federal judge in Montana ruled against Imperial Oil’s 207-load Kearl Module Transportation Project. The company chopped its loads in half and

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According to one-time spokesman Zach Porter, Missoula-based All Against the Haul has since gone dormant—though he adds it could easily be revived if need be. Northern Rockies Rising Tide continues to offer updates on megaload news via Facebook, but has increasingly broadened its focus to include other climate change issues such as the Keystone XL pipeline. NRRT’s last post to its own website was January of last year.

The vocalization against tar sands-bound loads has migrated across state lines to Idaho, where a mix of climate change activists and rural residents have repeatedly challenged the heavy haul in court and on the street. Fighting Goliath, the original opposition group along Highway 12, isn’t nearly as active as it was two years ago, but a smattering of Wild Idaho Rising Tide protesters are still rallying whenever a megaload hits pavement.

WIRT gathered last month to monitor the shipment of oversized water purification equipment up Highway 12 by Oregon-based Omega Morgan. And activists put the call out again last week after the Idaho Transportation Department announced that a massive generator skid would hit the road Jan. 3. While the agency didn’t cite that load’s final destination, the company shipping the skid—Mullen Trucking—is headquartered near Calgary. The flagging team Mullen employed has escorted numerous megaloads destined for the tar sands.

Alex Sakariassen

Fiscal cliff

Coal credits for Crow The so-called “fiscal cliff � ordeal officially ended Jan. 3 when President Barack Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act into law. The new measure raises taxes for households earning more than $450,000 while maintaining Bush-era tax rates for everyone else.

Yet not every provision of the bill has an obvious freefall-averting sheen. Section 312, or the “NASCAR loophole,� extends a $43 million annual tax break to people who build or maintain racetracks. Section 403 extends a credit for “2- or 3-wheeled plug-in electric vehicle[s].�

And section 406, which is buried in a group of provisions extending credits on wind and solar energy, extends a tax credit for coal produced on American Indian land. Today, only three mines in the country benefit from the credit. One of them is a 10,427-acre, single-pit surface mine on the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana.

The Absaloka mine has been leased and operated by the Westmoreland Coal Company since the 1970s.

It employs about 100 tribal members, paying an average salary of $75,000. The tribe also receives royalties from the mine. “We believe coal is on our reservation for a purpose,� says tribal attorney Bill Watt, “and that is to help support the tribe.�

The section 406 tax credit pays Westmoreland an estimated $2.26 per ton of coal extracted at Absaloka.

In 2007, the mine produced 7,704,556 tons of coal.

In 2010, it produced 5,467,670 tons. Last year marked the company’s best year in at least the last decade with revenues exceeding $569 million.

The section 406 credit will expire in eight years, and it is unclear whether or not Westmoreland will close up shop at that time. The Crow leaders aren’t worried. Recently elected tribal leaders are currently looking over a deal proposed by Cloud Peak Energy, a Wyoming-based mining operation, to extract up to 1.4 billion tons of coal—or more than the United States uses annually—from beneath tribal lands.

Jamie Rogers

Indigenous rights

Idle No More makes its mark Two days before Christmas, Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal member Louie Paul ran through Southgate Mall carrying a hand drum. “Everybody was looking at me like, ‘What’s he carrying?’� Paul recalls.

When Paul arrived at his destination under the clock tower, wide-eyed shoppers flocked around him and his friends. The shoppers found a large crowd of

BY THE NUMBERS estimated wolverine pop300 Maximum ulation in the lower 48 states. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cut Montana’s 2013 wolverine trapping season short Monday, announcing that the species could soon be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

American Indians who beat hand drums, sang traditional songs and waved signs. “It was probably one of the most fun things I ever did,� says Paul, who organized the event, billed as a “round dance flash mob.�

Paul estimates the Missoula flash mob drew 300 American Indians from across the state. It mirrored other such gatherings held recently in Canada, Alaska, Colorado, California, New York and Helena during the first day of Montana’s legislative session.

The events are being held in solidarity with a new indigenous rights movement called Idle No More.

The grassroots movement started after the Canadian government’s efforts late last year to, as First Nations people say, undermine treaty obligations and remove environmental protections from native lands.

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, the face of Idle No More, went on a hunger strike Dec. 11, vowing not to eat until Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with her to discuss indigenous concerns. On Jan. 4, Harper agreed to Spence’s demands.

It remains to be seen if the meeting will defuse First Nations grievances.

Back in Montana, Paul points out that indigenous Canadians aren’t the only ones with modern treaty disputes. The CSKT, for instance, are still working to quantify how much water is owed to them based on promises made by the United States government 157 years ago. “This shouldn’t be where we have to quantify our water rights, and the non-natives get to keep existing uses,� Paul says.

Idle No More’s rapid growth would seem to indicate that it has tapped into widespread sentiments.

Sonny Doney, a 25-year-old Flathead Reservation resident who participated in the Southgate Mall flash mob, says that ever since he learned about his parents’ involvement in the activist American Indian Movement decades ago, he’s wanted to help protect indigenous rights. Idle No More gives him a vehicle to do that. “I’ve always wanted to be part of a movement,� he says.

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. Last month, Montana once again tickled the nation’s funny bone with the kind of antics that dominated our 2011 legislature. Rep. Clayton Fiscus, a Republican from Billings, requested a draft bill in advance of the 2013 legislative session to require schools to teach intelligent design alongside evolution. The proposal was unconstitutional on its face; the last time such an attempt was made, back in 2001, the bill died in committee.

But crazy is getting cagey now, too. Fiscus responded to the widespread criticism by tweaking the language of his bill, removing any reference to “intelligent design.� Instead, he’s now appealing to educators to “encourage critical thinking� when it comes to the origins of life. Fiscus’ new proposal claims that it “only protects the teaching of scientific information and may not be construed to promote any religious or nonreligious doctrine.�

Problem is, Fiscus already let God out of the bag. He may have removed any direct reference to intelligent design, but his push to emphasize discussion of controversial theories appears to leave the door open for others to argue that religious teachings should be included in that discussion. Whether that’s Fiscus’ end goal, we’re left to wonder where the line will be drawn.

Should lessons built around the fossil record be countered with the creationist notion that dinosaurs and man once co-existed?

Should students be motivated to challenge Darwin’s theory of natural selection with the concept that woman was created from man’s rib, or that humans as they are today were brought to this planet millions of years ago by a galactic overlord in a fleet of Douglas DC-8s?

Forget that Fiscus already made his intentions clear. Our biggest concern with his revised language is the seeming insult it throws in the faces of Montana teachers. Encouraging critical thinking is already a foundational practice in primary education. If Fiscus’ renewed intention is truly to emphasize as much in the state’s code of law, he may as well introduce a bill requiring Jiffy Lube employees to be familiar with the concept of an oil change.

Maybe we just aren’t critical enough thinkers for Fiscus. Perhaps our rebukes of intelligent design make us merely the equivalent of our ancient Cro-Magnon ancestors. Somehow, though, we doubt Fiscus would agree we have any.

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Holding court Justice Nelson talks radical decisions, disappointments and “the last big civil rights hurdle”

by Jessica Mayrer

Dim rays of sunlight fall on boxes inside the Capitol Complex office of outgoing Supreme Court Justice James C. Nelson, each labeled with the name of a high-profile lawsuit. “Citizens United” and “Donaldson” rest among many others.

A trace of sadness enters Nelson’s voice when he talks about his Dec. 31 retirement, when he’ll be replaced by Choteau District Judge Laurie McKinnon. “It’s bittersweet,” he says.

He already looks and sounds different. Justice Nelson wore a black robe and developed a reputation for grilling attorneys from the bench.

But on a mid-December day the 68 year old wears a pink striped shirt and khakis and speaks softly, making him seem anything but intimidating.

Since he was appointed by Gov. Marc Racicot in 1993, Nelson has helped decide some of Montana’s thorniest legal debates. He penned the majority opinion defining a woman’s right to have an abortion and he’s decried law enforcement oversteps. The justice has also persistently pushed to advance gay rights.

Nelson’s progressive interpretation of the Montana Constitution has made him a target of the right and earned him something of a cult following from the left. Last spring, for example, after a hearing on same-sex partnership benefits during which Nelson grilled a state attorney on his legal rationale for denying such unions, one Missoula legislator elevated Nelson to rock star status. “Justice Nelson is the new Mick Jagger,” tweeted Rep. Ellie Hill.

Social conservatives, in contrast, have accused Nelson of venturing too far into lawmaking. Nelson doesn’t see it that way.

“In terms of implementing the provisions of the constitution, making sure the law is followed, those sorts of things,” Nelson says, “there’s no more powerful office in the state than being a Supreme Court justice.”

In 1989, Linda Gryczan returned to her mother’s home state of Montana.

She had lived here as a child and young woman and was ready to leave urban life in Seattle for a quieter one in Helena.

At the time, gay sex was a felony in Montana, punishable by 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. As a lesbian, Gryczan found it incomprehensible that she could be prosecuted for being in an intimate relationship with a woman.

sought a mechanism to secure partnership benefits for gay couples statewide.

In a 4-3 decision, the court refused to declare that denial of such benefits is unconstitutional, as the plaintiffs had requested.

Instead, it sent a portion of the case back to district court for further debate.

“That was a big disappointment for me, personally,” Nelson says.

In a scathing 109-page dissent, Nelson railed against his colleagues, accusing them of perpetuating discrimination to avoid a politically unpalatable decision.

“I have never disagreed more strongly with the Court as I do in this case,” Nelson wrote.

Nelson says part of his frustration stems from feeling that the debate over gay rights has already been shaped for far too long by a small, yet vocal, minority.

“The majority of people, at least from statistics I’ve seen, the majority of people don’t have a problem with gay rights—or even gay marriage, Justice James C. Nelson you know? But it’s the few squeaky that is being called ‘slime’ at a public wheels that get all of the press and all of meeting by an elected official,” she said. the grease, unfortunately, that cause the After attempting during two subse- problem,” he says. “It’s asinine.” quent legislative sessions to persuade the legislature to change the law, Gryczan reIn 1993, James Jeremiah McIntyre alized that they weren’t getting anywhere. purchased a 10-acre parcel of property She and five other plaintiffs took their with a ranch house and outbuildings near fight to court.

Waterloo, southeast of Butte. The heavily When Gryczan v. State of Montana fi- wooded property was fenced and cornally made its way to the Montana doned off with locked gates. “No trespassSupreme Court in 1997, the plaintiffs ing” signs were prominently posted. found Nelson sympathetic. In the majority In the summer of 1994, a member of opinion, he wrote at length about the the Southwest Montana Drug Task Force right of all people to be free of unneces- positioned himself on a neighboring sary government intrusion. property and used a heat-sensing device Six years before the U.S. Supreme to measure building temperature on the Court found sodomy laws unconstitu- McIntyre property. tional, the Montana court used the Law enforcement found an outbuildGryczan case to unanimously strike down ing emitting considerable heat, leading such prohibitions. them to believe it was a marijuana grow Nelson remains a steadfast supporter operation. Using the heat readings as of gay equality. “I think that the gay rights probable cause, police obtained a search issue is probably the last big civil rights warrant. Once inside the property, they hurdle that we need to at least begin to discovered 23 pounds of drying cannabis overcome in this society,” he says. and 239 marijuana plants.

Despite post-Gryczan gains toward Police arrested McIntyre and his two equality, including a 2004 Supreme Court partners, James Robert Siegal and Doyle mandate that now requires the Montana Wayne Jones, and charged them with University System to provide domestic felony criminal possession with intent to partnership benefits to same-sex couples, sell and criminal production or manufacNelson was frustrated by the court’s deci- ture of dangerous drugs. sion last month on a historic lawsuit, DonThe men moved to toss the search aldson, et al v. State. The case was filed findings. Their attorneys argued that law on behalf of six same-sex couples who enforcement’s use of the heat readings viGryzcan and a handful of other gay rights advocates first asked lawmakers in 1989 to remove the “deviate sexual conduct” law. It didn’t work, Gryczan recalled in an interview last summer with the Independent. “What I remember about

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olated their constitutional right to privacy.

The court agreed. Nelson authored the unanimous majority opinion. He didn’t mince words.

“We believe that Montanans would be shocked and consider it a gross invasion of their privacy,” he wrote, “to learn that the government could, without their consent and in the absence of a search warrant…surreptitiously monitor the heat signatures generated by activities conducted within the confines of their private homes and enclosed structures for the purpose of drawing inferences about the legality of such activities.”

The Siegal decision came four years before the U.S. Supreme Court found using such technology as grounds to initiate a search unconstitutional.

On the night of April 3, 2005, Leah Gonzales was working at Town Pump on East Main Street in Bozeman.

Just before 10, a man entered the store wearing a ski cap. He held a knife to Gonzales’ throat and demanded money.

Gonzales was able to dial 911 without her attacker realizing. Law enforcement responded to find the Town Pump dark. According to court documents, minutes after officers arrived, the assailant forced Gonzales, who was six months pregnant at the time, into a restroom. He then raped her. Police didn’t realize the assault was happening.

The assailant was later identified as Jose Mario Gonzalez-Menjivar. He was immediately arrested when he left the store just before 10:30 that night.

When Gonzales came out of the Town Pump barefoot and wearing an apron, officers told her to show her hands and to lie on the ground. Gonzales complied.

She was handcuffed as police detained her for roughly 30 seconds.

Menjivar pleaded guilty to rape, robbery and aggravated kidnapping. He was sentenced to 180 years in the Montana State Prison.

Gonzales sued Bozeman and Gallatin County law enforcement agencies and several individual officers and deputies.

She claimed they were negligent and allowed Menjivar to rape her. She also alleged that police improperly arrested her when she left the store.

The Montana Supreme Court dismissed Gonzales’ claims, citing what’s known as the “public duty doctrine.”

“Basically the public duty doctrine says that—and this is a logical absurdity— if the government or a police officer, or someone owes a duty to everybody, they don’t owe a duty to anybody,” Nelson explains.

He believes the court’s standing interpretation of the public duty doctrine makes it difficult to hold government employees responsible for wrongdoing. Despite Nelson’s arguments, a majority of Montana justices agreed to dismiss the case. He says the court’s decision on the case marks one of the biggest disappointments of his time on the bench.

"I think that the gay rights issue is probably the last big civil rights hurdle that we need to at least begin to overcome in this society."

- Recently retired Montana Supreme Court Justice James C. Nelson

In the final days of 2011, The New York Times, Huffington Post and other national publications ran stories detailing how the Montana Supreme Court thumbed its nose at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The headlines—and the legal debate—stemmed from a 2010 split decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission.

The U.S. Supreme Court then overturned a federal law that had prohibited corporations and unions from using their funds to directly influence federal elections.

To some legal experts, it seemed clear that the federal court’s decision on Citizens United cued the demise of Montana’s 100-year-old campaign finance law, called the Corrupt Practices Act. Passed by voters in 1912, the law constituted an effort to reel in the power of the Copper Kings,

who used their deep pockets to exert influence over electoral politics. The 1912 law banned direct corporate spending on political races.

In a 2011 lawsuit, Western Tradition Partnership, now called American Tradition Partnership, argued that the state’s campaign spending limitations violated free speech protections.

Despite the federal court’s decision in Citizens United, the Montana court tried to hang onto the Corrupt Practices Act. In a 5-2 decision, Montana justices cited the state’s unique history of fending off Copper King influence when they said that Montana had a compelling reason to continue enforcing campaign finance restrictions.

Nelson smiles when he talks about the case. He didn’t agree with his colleagues. Nor did he agree with the U.S. Supreme Court. “Not often you get to raise hell with your own court and the United States Supreme Court,” he says.

In his dissent, Nelson decried the precedents that shaped the federal court’s decision. “It is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction— human beings—to share fundamental natural rights with soulless creatures of government.”

He used even more colorful language when telling his colleagues in Montana that the state’s unique history does not make it immune to federal supremacy.

“The notion argued by the Attorney General and adopted by the Court—that these characteristics entitle Montana to a special ‘no peeing’ zone in the First Amendment swimming pool—is simply untenable,” Nelson wrote.

Last June, the federal court reversed the Montana court decision, effectively burying the Corrupt Practices Act. The suit opened the door to a flood of campaign spending and, because of its breadth, marks one of the most significant cases of Nelson’s career.

Now, looking back at his court tenure, Nelson makes a point to say that, for all of his fiery criticism of the status quo, he can’t imagine a better job.

“I think I come off sometimes as being overly critical of the court,” he says.

“I’m not. I think this is probably the best job in the world.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Right turn Reagan showed how the GOP can go green

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[10] Missoula Independent • January 10 – January 17, 2013

Imagine a Republican leader who racked up the following achievements: He fought smog by regulating vehicle emissions, kept dams from choking free-flowing rivers, set aside big chunks of wild backcountry for permanent protection and supported a strong treaty to prevent harmful gases from mucking up the atmosphere.

Democratic operatives might just invite this candidate to switch parties, though GOP partisans might brand him a RINO, short for “Republican In Name Only.”

Such a leader existed, and his name was Ronald Reagan. The Gipper knew better than to pigeonhole the environment as a partisan issue. He may have said some dumb things about trees, but he also said, “If we’ve learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it’s common sense.”

Conservation issues historically have been bipartisan. There is no reason to accept nonsensical assertions from elected officials that environmental stewardship is for liberals but not for conservatives. Is this a naïve wish?

Despite what you might hear from talk radio hucksters or politicians trafficking in divisive rhetoric, there is broader agreement on the importance of conservation than seems apparent on the surface.

Last year, Colorado College’s bipartisan State of the Rockies poll found broad evidence in six Western states that voters, by large majorities, value public lands for their contribution to quality of life, support clean air regulations and believe renewable energy development should have high priority.

Western voters by and large believe a strong economy and strong environmental protections can co-exist, rendering conservation neither red nor blue. That is precisely the basis for the partnership struck up between the National Audubon Society and the Republican organization, ConservAmerica.

It’s called the American Eagle Compact, and it sends political leaders a simple message: All of us have a stake in good stewardship of the air, water, land, wildlife and climate; con-

servation ought to be a national priority that transcends partisan boundary lines.

So far, more than 64,000 people have signed the compact, which tells our political leaders that America is best served when governance is driven by shared values and common purposes, rather than extremism and polarization.

To be sure, many “yes, but” questions are bound to arise, given the state of politics that persists as we enter 2013. Perhaps most questions—and the fiercest arguments—are

“The Gipper knew better than to pigeonhole the environment as a partisan issue.” likely to touch on climate change. Can Republicans and Democrats even begin to find common ground on this complicated issue?

I think the answer is yes, because the problem will not go away, and fixing it will require a solutions that have buy-in from both Republicans and Democrats. Climate change will not be solved by jamming through unbalanced legislation along strict party-line votes.

Don’t buy the stereotype that all Republican elected officials dismiss climate change.

More than a few Republicans in Congress understand now that climate change presents serious risks to the economy, national security and the environment.

To step up to the challenge, however, they need political cover, which the compact helps to provide by showing broad support exists for dealing seriously with climate change and other environmental matters.

Bipartisan support was indispensable for our greatest past conservation achievements. The Wilderness Act, the Clean Air Act and other important environmental statutes have all stood the test of time in part because they were enacted with broad support from both sides of the aisle.

As California’s governor and as our 40th president, Ronald Reagan did not need reminders about that lesson. He had a canny ability to blend his conservative principles with the pragmatism that is essential to effectively govern a large and diverse nation.

Reagan also didn’t need reminders that sobering facts about environmental risks cannot be wished away; he knew that responsible leaders, conservatives and liberals alike, must face up to them. During his presidency, the politics of stratospheric ozone depletion were strikingly similar to the politics of climate change today.

Scientists issued warnings; industries dismissed them. Politicians evaded and temporized; Reagan’s administration itself was divided.

Reagan considered the facts, weighed the consequences of inaction and ordered his State Department diplomats to negotiate a strong treaty to phase out chemicals linked to ozone depletion. Upon securing Senate ratification of the resulting Montreal Protocol, he called the treaty a “monumental achievement.” It was not hyperbole. The Montreal Protocol headed off a serious threat to public health and the environment. The treaty is regarded as the most successful international environmental pact ever negotiated.

President Reagan showed what’s possible when leaders put the common good of conservation above narrower considerations. That’s the message carried forward by the American Eagle Compact.

Jim DiPeso is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He has been the policy and communications lead for ConservAmerica in Seattle since 2001.

missoulanews.com • January 10 – January 17, 2013 [11]

[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Brazilian fire officials had to rescue a prisoner who tried to crawl through a hole in the wall of a prison in Ceres but became trapped because he was too fat to fit through the opening. “The other prisoners tried to push him, but he stayed stuck in the wall,” fire department Lt. Tiago Costa said. “He started screaming in pain, and that was when the prison guards were alerted.”

(London’s UKMetro) Police quickly identified Michael David Stoltenberg, 27, as the hit-and-run driver who fled on foot after rear-ending another vehicle in Salt Lake City because he left behind not only his wrecked car, registered in his name, but also his two children, ages 9 and 2. (The Salt Lake Tribune)

MAYTAG REPAIRMAN’S NIGHTMARE – Authorities accused Jason DeJesus, 36, and Chanelle Troedson, 33, of luring a handyman to their northern California home, where they beat him and held him against his will for seven hours. They forced him to repair their dishwasher and other appliances, fix a broken door and perform other maintenance tasks at the couple’s five-bedroom home, which includes a beach volleyball court, a pool and tennis courts.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Jose Cardoza said next the couple forced the fix-it man to accompany them to another home to make more repairs. When they stopped for gas and snacks, leaving him alone in the vehicle, he ran to a neighboring home and called 911. (Associated Press) SECOND AMENDMENT FOLLIES – A police officer serving a warrant in Shoreline, Wash., accidentally shot himself in the buttocks. Mercer Island Police Commander Leslie Burns said the officer’s firearm discharged after taking a man into custody. (Seattle’s KOMO-TV) A 45-year-old man who was bow hunting alone in a Maryland wildlife management area shot himself in the calf with an unregistered .22-caliber pistol. He called 911, summoning police and a Maryland State Police helicopter to the heavily forested area. The hunter fired a couple of rounds to help rescuers locate him, barely missing the chopper. “The dispatcher told him, ‘Please stop,’” Montgomery County Police Officer Rebecca Innocenti said, noting the hunter was airlifted to the hospital. (The Washington Times)

LEAST BELIEVABLE EXCUSE OF THE WEEK – When police found a 2-year-old child and 5-monthold infant locked inside a running vehicle outside a restaurant in Broken Arrow, Okla., they went inside to question their father, Jason Daniel Murray, 31, and located him in the bar. The arrest report said Murray denied leaving his children in the car and insisted “someone else must have put the kids in the car while he was inside.” (Tulsa’s KOTV-TV)

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Police accused Keith Paro, 34, of battering his girlfriend with a 4foot python during a domestic altercation in West Springfield, Mass. (Springfield’s The Republican) When the clerk at a Seattle gas station tried to stop a man and a woman stealing a six-pack of beer, the man hit the clerk in the head with a ukulele. Detective Renee Witt said the couple fled. (Seattle’s KIRO-TV)

HAIL MARY AND MOHAMMAD – Muslim enrollment is increasing at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities, according to both students and administrators, who indicate the Muslim population has doubled over the past decade, while the number of Muslim women has tripled. One reason given is that Muslims prefer a place where talk of religious beliefs and adherence to a religious code is accepted and even encouraged. “I like the fact that there’s faith, even if it’s not my faith, and I feel my faith is respected,” Maha Haroon, a pre-med undergraduate at Creighton University, said. (The New York Times) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – Thomas Mathew Hahn, 55, shot and killed roommate Robert Gray, 38, according to police in Holly Hill, Fla., after the two men argued about pork chops and how they should be cooked. (The Daytona Beach News-Journal) Authorities investigating a shooting outside Lacey, Wash., said it resulted from an argument between roommates over a clogged toilet. Thurston County sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said the victim’s injuries weren’t life threatening. (Tacoma’s The News Tribune) A sheriff’s deputy who arrested David A. Kappheim, 60, in Lake Park, Fla., after his girlfriend reported he threatened to kill her, said Kappheim admitted trying to kill his girlfriend three other times because “he was very conservative and she was a liberal.” While inside the apartment they shared, the deputy found documents suggesting that Kappheim is obsessed with Fox News and the Republican Party, and may be a danger to others. (Palm Beach Post)

NO FUN BEING GOD – The Dutch parliament voted to revoke a long-standing but rarely enforced law making it a crime to insult God. The movement to decriminalize blasphemy intensified in the past decade during a national debate about the limits of freedom of speech. Dutch law still bans insulting police officers or the country’s monarch, Queen Beatrix. (Associated Press)

FIRST AMENDMENT FOLLIES – A federal appeals court overturned the conviction of a former drug sales representative who suggested a doctor use a prescription drug for a purpose other than it was intended. In the case against Alfred Caronia, the drug was Xyrem, which is approved to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy. Investigators recorded Caronia telling a doctor the drug could also treat insomnia, fibromyalgia and other conditions the Food and Drug Administration hadn’t approved them for. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled Caronia’s sales pitch was free speech protected by the First Amendment. (Los Angeles Times)

DIAMOND IN THE SKY – Scientists announced the discovery of a planet twice the size of Earth that’s made of at least one-third diamond. The U.S.-French research team said 55 Cancri e is about 230 trillion miles from Earth and orbits a star in the constellation Cancer. It moves so fast that a year there lasts only 18 hours, and surface temperatures reach 3,900 degrees. “This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth,” said Yale University’s Nikku Madhusudhan, adding that the carbon-rich planet means scientists could no longer assume distant rocky planets have similar chemical constituents, interiors, atmospheres or biologies to Earth’s. (Reuters)

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lue Marble Biomaterials sits in the flat industrial area near the Missoula International Airport. The front room accommodates a staff of 15—up from just four employees two years ago—in an open layout furnished with modern-looking black desks and office chairs. It has the vibe of a hip, bustling startup on the rise and seems ordinary enough—if, that is, you hold your breath.

Breathing in, visitors are hit with a cluster of sweet and savory smells. It’s hard to pinpoint each and every fragrance: one day it could be fermented fruit mixed with pine needles and wet coffee grounds. The next, the aromatic puzzle seems to shift to something closer to boiled cabbage and the smell of cotton candy, but even sweeter.

Blue Marble is a relatively new company that manufactures renewable specialty chemicals for the food, cosmetics and personal care industries. Some of its partners are local—Innovate Montana and Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, to name two—but others are universally known, such as beer giant Anheuser-Busch. Each of these partners plays a specific role in Blue Marble’s proprietary “closed loop” process of using completely natural materials to enhance everyday products, from the flavor of your candy bar to the color of your makeup.

The secret to how they do it lies in part in the smells that permeate the office. Just past the sleekly decorated front room is a lab where scientists pour a rainbow of compounds into canning jars set up across a stainless steel countertop. There’s a jar full of a cloudy peach-colored substance, still unmarked, and another full of deepbrown coffee resin. In one jar is a fluorescent green extract labeled “Doug Fir.” There’s a buzz in the lab and an air of experimentation not unlike that in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.

In fact, Blue Marble’s modest facility unfolds like that fictitious factory, with more creative concoctions beyond each door. Past the lab, there’s the biorefinery, a high-ceilinged warehouse with metal vats connected by a series of tubes, jars and multicolored wires. Generators click loudly on and then off again. The vats hold coffee grounds, pine needles or fruit—biological materials known as “feedstock”— all being fermented by a natural process done with microorganisms that Blue Marble founder James Stephens has collected from all over the world, from lake beds in Africa to swamps in South America.

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The refinery works like a giant ecosystem or a body, the way it breaks down materials and turns them into gases and liquids. “We joke around here that this room is like a giant metal cow that ate a swamp,” says Blue Marble co-founder James Stephens.

The result of all of this exotic mixing and matching is relatively simple: It helps with the flavoring, fragrance or color to your candy, soap or vitamins. But how they do it— and how the process could be applied around the world—has positioned Blue Marble on the cusp of a breakthrough.

Traditional manufacturing plants that produce these kinds of products tend to focus on chemical reactions and genetically modified organisms to get what they need. Blue Marble’s refinery works more like an experimental ecological system where disparate microorganisms are thrown together to create a wild soup. That soup, it seems, can produce an endless realm of natural chemicals. “ We aren’t thinking one process, one product,” Stephens says. “We’re thinking one process, 50,000 different products. We have microorganisms from Israel to the bottoms of the ocean, and we’ve mixed all these organisms together. Engineers hate it—there are too many variables, they can’t sort them out. But it works really well for nature, so why can’t it work for manufacturing?”

••• If Blue Marble is the Willy Wonka factory of fragrance and cosmetics, Blue Marble founder James Stephens fits the profile for a Wonka-type character set in Montana. Dressed in loose khakis, a striped polo and hiking boots, he doesn’t have the same eccentric fashion flair as Gene Wilder’s onscreen portrayal, nor the crazed and sinister demeanor. But he does talk fast with exuberant gestures and a big smile, drinks coffee by the pot and sleeps only three or four hours a night. Watching his face you can almost see the synapses firing, the wheels turning in his brain.

Stephens, 32, graduated from the Univer-

sity of Montana in 2002 with degrees in microbiolog y and medical technolog y. Like so many science students interested in biotech, he looked around Missoula and saw no future for himself. He moved to Seattle and worked for biotech and pharmaceutical companies by day, but at night he stayed awake pondering his own projects. He wanted to develop a way that expensive remediation projects, such as cleaning up mines and spoiled rivers, could not only help the environment but also be profitable. If he could use algae to clean up metals from a mine and then turn that algae into biodiesel, the incentive for cleanup projects could only increase.

In 2005, Stephens partnered with entrepreneur Kelly Ogilvie to study the possibilities of using algae for energ y. They harvested algae from the ocean to turn it into biodiesel.

They designed and built a fancy photobioreactor that extracted methanol. They named their business Blue Marble after the famous 1972 photograph from Apollo 17, the first image of Earth from space. “It’s a reminder that our natural resources are finite,” Stephens says.

As it turned out, biodiesel from algae isn’t economical. “There’s no way you’d ever make money with it unless oil hit $1,000 a barrel,” Stephens says. Regulations for harvesting wild algae also made the project prohibitive.

By the time the renewable methane market crashed in 2008, the Blue Marble co-founders admitted they’d hit a dead end.

Like a true inventor, however, Stephens wasn’t one to surrender. He ruminated on the matter and came up with a new idea. The process for making biodiesel includes discarding a plethora of chemicals from the biomass. What if it was those very chemicals that were the real key to success? “We were pulling

out hydrogen sulfite—all these organic acids and alcohols,” Stephens says. “ We thought, ‘That’s worth way more than the methane!’”

Blue Marble decided to head in an entirely different direction.

Bio-based fuels are nothing new; Henry Ford ran his first Model Ts on corn-based ethanol before cheap and abundant petroleum overtook it. But the airline industry has always been petroleum-based, making it dependent on—and vulnerable to—imported oil.

Stephens and Ogilvie began exploring the alternative jet fuel market. Competing with fuel prices of about $3.19 a barrel didn’t promise a lot of money, but being on the cutting edge of the jet industry’s turn toward renewables appealed to the company. Stephens and Ogilvie took various feedstocks like wood and brewery grains and began producing organic compounds that could be used in jet biofuel.

The main compound they produced was butyl butyrate, an organic fruity-smelling ingredient that’s used in candy.

In late 2008, the duo excitedly presented their new biofuel at a conference. After their presentation, Frank Mars III, of the famous candy bar family and a real-life Willy Wonka of sorts, approached Stephens and Ogilvie.

Stephens recalls the moment as the pivotal point for Blue Marble. “[Mars] came up to us and said, ‘You know that compound butyl butyrate that you’re using?’ And we’re like, ‘Oh yeah. It makes a great jet fuel.’ He said, ‘Yeah, well it’s [also] the smell of blueberries.” Mars asked them if they realized that in the flavor industry that same compound, butyl butrate, can be sold to flavor candy and other foods for $800 a gallon.

“We do now,” Stephens replied excitedly to Mars.

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James Stephens, founder of Blue Marble Biomaterials, established his Missoula biorefinery in 2011.

Just like that, Blue Marble discarded the jet fuel idea and began its journey into the specialty chemical niche for fragrance, coloring and high-end oils. In 2011, Blue Marble opened its biorefinery in Missoula and began its first major experimentations.

“The stroke of genius is recognizing the discovery,” Stephens says. “I always joke that I’d rather be lucky than smart any day.”

• • • It was only 10 years ago that scientists figured out how complex the chemical process for Egyptian mummification really was. Though Egyptians didn’t necessarily understand how chemistry worked on a formulaic level, they’d already been playing with fermentation, like for beer, and extraction. Conifer resin, which slows microbial degradation, was one substance used on mummies, while beeswax, naturally antibacterial, served as a sealant. Ancient Assyrians weren’t ignorant to chemistry either. They used natural microorganisms to heat bathwater.

“What we’re doing isn’t new,” says Stephens about Blue Marble’s process. “This is 5,000-year-old technology. The Egyptians used to do anaerobic digestion. They would put salt in an anaerobic digester to get the acetic acid salt, the proprionic acid salt and use that as preservatives for mummification. We have some novel spins on the technology, but in reality it’s been there all along.”

The technology may be ancient, but it’s a process that has been abandoned for more toxic alternatives.

In a modern industrial chemical manufacturing plant, petroleum and high heat often work together with genetically modified organisms to create synthetic products. The layout of the plant is designed by an engineer and the mixtures are precise to create one product. At Blue Marble, however, all the equipment is custom built, because even the equipment is experimental. Instead of following a step-by-step process, Stephens throws in biomass and natural organisms to see what they’ll do together and he adjusts the combination of organisms as he sees fit.

“It’s a complex process to get the microorganism right and that’s one of the things we do differently than everybody else,” he says. “Most industrial microbiology companies use one microorganism, usually genetically modified, to make one product. We use about 60,000 different organisms and we can probably produce about 54,000 different compounds. Right now, we’re focusing on 32.”

Still, they’re always trying to find new compounds; they add about 80 new experimental feedstocks each month.

The company’s patented conversion system is called AGATE and stands for acid, gas, ammonia targeted extraction. Each fermentation uses several strains of bacteria that break down the feedstocks.

The combination of organisms makes it easy for the company to process just about anything. If one product no longer seems economically efficient, the refinery can convert other feedstocks for something else, without any hardship.

The refinery works like a giant ecosystem or a body the way it breaks down materials and turns them into gases and liquids. “We joke around here that this room is like a giant metal cow that ate a swamp,” Stephens says.

In the first stage of the process, feedstocks— clove, coffee, algae, yarrow, coriander, spinach, black pepper, Ponderosa pine, etc.—can go through one or both extraction processes. Spent coffee grounds, some of which are collected from cafes and restaurants around Missoula, are one of the most relevant of the feedstocks. The grounds are picked through so no unwanted items—a carrot peeling, for instance— will taint the flavor. Then the grounds go through an alcohol extraction done with butanol, which produces a sweet smelling coffee flavoring, even though the coffee grounds are on their second life.

“So it’s an oil but it has all those coffee characteristics—sweet notes,” Stephens says. “It smells like strong, sweet coffee and yet this is from spent grounds so it’s already made your coffee.”

Supercritical fluid extraction is another process that can be used on coffee grounds and other feedstocks. Stephens takes gases and liquifies them to extract out very specific compounds. One of those coffee compounds is patented by several cosmetics companies that use it to interfere with fat metabolism.

“As long as you’re using the compound, cellulite goes away—all from these coffee grounds,” Stephens says.

“And it’s much higher value than fuel.”

Another product that Blue Marble can make is food coloring and flavor. Rotten tomatoes, for instance, that would normally go to the landfill or compost, can be put through the system to create a bright red pigment, or “carotenoid.” That same extraction process can be used on red bell peppers, carrots, watermelons or papayas to provide coloring for foods and pharmaceuticals.

After the carotenoids are taken, the rest of the fruit or vegetable can be thrown into a vat and fermented to pull out acids and natural chemicals for flavor. Flavors you might encounter from the alcohol and ester extraction include raspberry, pineapple and pear.

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One thing Blue Marble has worked on recently is taking the sulphur stream that comes off the biomass as it’s being fermented and turning it into flavor or fragrance compounds.

“It converts it into a wide variety of organic acids,” Stephens says. “So there’s acetic acid, which is vinegar. There’s proprionic acid, which is the lovely smell of goats.” He laughs. “There’s butyric acid, which is the lovely smell of vomit. And it also produces natural alcohol: ethanol, methanol, propanol, butanol—all these valuable alcohols that are normally produced with petroleum as well.”

Why would anyone want the smell of vomit or goats?

“If we take ethanol,” Stephens explains, “which is just normal alcohol, and we take ester, which is the smell of vomit, and combine it back together, it’s the smell of tutti frutti.” Tutti frutti is, of course, the specific flavor that’s used in Juicy Fruit gum. It’s worth 50 times more than a gallon of biodiesel.

Some of the stenches from working with sulphur compounds include the smell of skunk and the smell of natural gas lines. But mixed with certain acids, those smells turn to savory notes like leek, garlic and cabbage—flavors that are used in the food industry for bullion cubes, au jus dipping sauce and commercial kombucha. Stephens smiles, acknowledging the creepiness of what he’s saying.

“Once you delve into what actually goes into your food you get kind of horrified,” he admits. “Anything that says ‘natural and artificial flavors’ on it probably has some of these compounds in it. But most of these compounds are coming from chemical manufacturers using petroleum. So being able to do this from a natural source is important.”

The natural process for making these compounds allows Blue Marble to label itself “EU natural” (it’s also U.S. natural, though Stephens notes that standards for “natural” in the United States are lower than in Europe.) The biorefinery also just recently got its kosher status. “We have our own rabbi and everything,” Stephens says.

At the end of the line, after all the colors and fragrances, alcohols and acids have been taken out, there’s not much left. Water from the fermenters is recycled with reverse osmosis and gases are scrubbed.

The only things that remains is clean water, scrubbed air—oxygen and a little bit of CO2—and products. The closed-loop system means that nothing is wasted from beginning to end.

“We kind of take the perspective that we take from native and indigenous cultures, though it has become a cliché, which is ‘use the whole animal,’”

Stephens says. “When you bring something in, let’s be sure to use all of it.”

• • • The beer industry uses 400 million tons of grain annually. Of that grain, 92 percent is wasted, according to the Property and Environmental Research Center. Blue Marble’s partnership with Anheuser-Busch allows the biotech company to buy the beer giant’s spent grain—a lot of which comes from Montana farmers—and turn it into alcohols and esters that could go into everything from soaps to biogas, an alternative energy source. Anheuser-Busch gets paid for its waste product and Blue Marble gets a feedstock that can be turned into a product.

But Stephens is looking beyond the current setup. He’d like to one day provide companies like Anheuser-Busch with their own metal cow system, so to speak, which could help the brewery become a producer of valuable products, too, including alternative energy. “We’re working on a variety of custom applications of our technology to help convert [other companies’] waste centers,” he says.

The fermenting process at Blue Marble is distinct in another way. The complex polyculture of microorganisms break down cellulose, which is true of any ethanol process. But Blue Marble’s organisms don’t turn cellulose to glucose. They excrete enzymes that break cellulose into cellulose sub-units, which they then re-absorb.

“What that does is that allows them to out-compete normal organisms that would eat the sugar,” Stephens says. “Normally, if you’re doing a fermentation process, you have to sterilize your feedstock, otherwise natural organisms on the feedstock will compete. Our organisms out-compete other competing organisms, which means we don’t have to sterilize our feedstocks. That’s a huge technical advantage. That means we can leave containers open, we can be much more rough. We can treat this like making sourdough bread than treating it like a high-tech biotech process.”

It’s a proprietary recipe that Stephens has cultivated over the last four years. He says that using this natural sterilization process has a broader potential.

If the same refinery were replicated elsewhere, the self-sterilizing process would make it simple enough that it wouldn’t require a highly educated labor force.

A facility like this, says Stephens, could be installed anywhere in Montana and beyond, such as developing countries. “That’s how it’s going to benefit all communities,” he says.

As it is, Blue Marble is a zero-waste, 100,000-liter per month biorefinery—small by manufacturing stan-

Using feedstocks such as used coffee grounds and spent brewery grains, Stephens can make natural flavors that can go into chocolate bars and boullion cubes.

dards but able to make products that deliver a good profit margin. If things go according to plan, Stephens sees bigger things in the company’s future. He’s currently working to raise $15 million to build a facility 15 times larger just across the street from the existing building. With the hope of soliciting feedstocks from additional sources, including local ones like waste from Bitterroot orchards and woody biomass from fire mitigation projects, he’s looking to add 100 scientists and “green-collar” jobs over the next year.

While Blue Marble’s focus will continue in the cosmetics and fragrances vein, Stephens also sees potential for other companies and organizations to benefit from the technology. Working with the DNRC and forestry groups such as Swan Valley Innovations, the

company uses waste wood in his fermenters that would otherwise be burned. “Normally when you think about hog fuel it’s really inexpensive,” Stephens says. “But since we’re trying to get into high-value compounds we pay quite a bit more for it, which provides more value to the industry.”

There are pitfalls to this niche green industry, though. Stephens says there’s only so much pine oil for flavor and fragrance that the world’s cosmetics companies need. But Stephens, who thinks big and with the idea of ecosystems in mind, sees his company as one link in a chain of connected businesses.

In recent years, several green biotech companies have popped up in Montana, including Rivertop Renewables, another partner of Blue Marble’s, which uses

renewable plant sugars to create things like road deicers and health supplements. Another one, Algevolve, uses algae for advanced water treatment and carbon capture—a system that Blue Marble employs to clean its water and gases.

“All of these companies are looking at their own solutions, but they come together,” Stephens says. “So if someone’s making sugar for jet fuel, maybe Blue Marble can take some of the waste product first and ferment it. Then the sugar can be sold to Rivertop for their process and then it can be sold to the jet fuel guys.”

As Blue Marble looks to branch out, the scientists there continue to experiment with organisms from every corner of the earth and all the feedstock they can think of. For four years their current or-

ganisms have evolved together in the Blue Marble vats in ways that they never would have in the natural world. Those bold combinations hint at endless possibilities.

“We got made fun of at conferences for years,” Stephens says. “We always said we were the black sheep of the industry, but now people are paying attention. We have stuff that’s from 1,000 feet of mud in the Pacific Ocean and we’re mixing it all together with cow bacteria to create complementary biological pathways. When did that stuff ever meet a cow bacteria? Never in history.”

Until now. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Stronger than dirt Napkin artist Bill Hegg soaks up the past

by Erika Fredrickson

Photo by Chad Harder

B

ill Hegg is a bearish 77-year-old man with calloused hands who grew up on a Kalispell ranch and worked as an auto mechanic and blacksmith. He’s also an artist who sketches on a dainty surface. At Southgate Mall in Missoula, you can find him sitting at a table penciling landscapes of cowboys, cabins and horses on gauzy paper napkins.

“Everyone knows me at the mall,” he says. “I go down there at the clock or out in front of the Gyro place. I go down there and sketch. There’s a couple there, I saw them just yesterday. They came up and said, ‘What are you working on today, Bill?’” He laughs heartily.

At Ruby’s Cafe, McDonald’s, Grizzly Grocery and other joints around town, people call Hegg the “Napkin Artist,” and waitresses and restaurant managers have been known to collect his drawings to hang on their walls. Mountain West Bank displays one of his colored-pencil pieces—blown up from a napkin sketch— on the wall of its lobby. His drawings have been turned into greeting cards, which are sold in area stores including Rockin Rudy’s and Good Food Store.

Even when he’s on the road, Hegg is compelled to sketch on napkins. In 2010, his wife Angie suffered a stroke and heart attack. He traveled with his daughter, Gina, to visit Angie in a Seattle hospital. On their way he stopped at several coffee shops to draw on napkins. “He’ll stop at every coffee shop on the way to his destination, if he can,” says Gina. In Mills Creek, Wash., they dropped in at The Spotted Cow, where Hegg sat down and immediately started to draw and tell the owner stories. “If you engage him directly, you will find a man who comes across, at first, a bit gruff, but warms quickly,” Gina says. The owner got a kick out of him, Gina recalls. Weeks later the cafe made a specialty brew called Dirt Coffee and dedicated it to Hegg in fondness of his tough demeanor.

Hegg’s art studio is at the back of Gina’s home in Missoula’s University neighborhood. Inside is a revolving rack of his cards and a table stacked with folders holding napkins covered in art as well as sketches on paper. For the most part, Hegg’s work carries a Western theme: He loves drawing solitary cabins covered in snow, churches nestled in rural towns, bears and ranchers, ghost towns and logging trucks flanked by

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pines. Most of the images are from what he remembers of his childhood, or they’re just pulled from his head; he never draws from photos.

One napkin drawing shows his old horse, Nugget, standing with all four legs on a tree stump.

“He’s 14 hands,” Hegg says. “I used to dance with him. I used to climb under his legs and all around him.

And I taught him how to get up on a stump...He’d get right up and he’d stay there until I told him to get down. People say, ‘How do you get him to do that?’ I tell them, ‘That horse is as human as you are.’”

Part of Hegg’s charm is the way he shows off a sketch and then provides it’s back story. He goes off on a tangent about Nugget before moving on to the next piece of art.

“If I had a hat on, Nugget would come up behind me and take off running with it out in the field, flip it up and drop it, look at me, see if I was going to come get it,” he says. “So I never wore a hat. I was always loose haired.”

On his shelves he displays his woodcarvings of old cars and trucks—original Ford and Dodge models, for example. Some are tiny and nested in boxes, other

pieces loom more prominently, like the one of a mountain man in a tree whose beard is being eaten by a bear. “I call that one ‘A Close Shave,’” says Hegg, grinning.

Most of his titles are straightforward, but some are humorous like the bear carving. A drawing of a lone horse in a ghost town is titled “Home Alone.” A large drawing of two elk in a forest rests on a futon. One elk is weathered, the other a young one bugling into the trees. He calls that one “The Old and the Bold.”

Hegg grew up with little, but it’s been the last couple of years that have taken a heavy toll. His wife’s health issues and his own debilitation from a car accident have made it harder, he says, to be the independent Montana cowboy he’s always seen himself as. He’s fierce about keeping up with his art. In fact, he almost boils with annoyance when he thinks of people who pity themselves for being too old to do anything with their lives. “Even if you think you can’t draw, you should try,” he says. “I love to draw. You could tie both hands behind me, I wouldn’t stop.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Lost and found The Kraken heralds Seattle punk mainstays I don’t know who I would be today were it not for cheap punk compilation CDs. In my formative teen years, I could stretch my paycheck to hear dozens of bands. Rock Against Bush, $6 in the Borders clearance bin, introduced me to bands like Dillinger Four and Jawbreaker. Punk comps can be terrible, though, and outdated now that it’s super easy to stream a YouTube video to check out a band.

Yet I am delighted with The Kraken: All Hands Lost, a digital Bandcamp comp benefiting the Kraken bar, a mainstay of the Seattle music scene. Northwest punks will recognize several names on All Hands Lost, including bands that have partied in Montana, like The Anchor, Damage Done and Ol’ Doris.

It also has a track from Missoula’s own Bird’s Mile Home. If you are ever so lucky to party in the Kraken and use the ladies’ room, you’ll sit down and see a Bird’s Mile show poster on the wall.

Like the very best samplers, All Hands Lost intro-

1891 E. Broadway $234,000 duces you to some great bands you might never hear otherwise. The $5 to download the comp gets you 30 great tracks and supports a venue that’s welcoming and fun to all kinds of wayward folks. (Kate Whittle)

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The Runs My first impression of British Columbia punk band The Runs wasn’t good. The first Google result for it is Myspace. How retro! On the Myspace page in question, the band describes itself as “working class guys who love their backcountry, playing down-home punk rock.” The lead singer “continues to shape the local folklore with his ballads of big hucks and knee deep powder.” The first song is called “Curling,” and it is about curling.

The Runs hails from Fernie, a ski town of about 4,800, and the members appear to be ski enthusiasts.

Because if there’s anything that’s punk rock, it’s getting up early, spending a lot of money on fancy gear

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(I maybe have a grudge against skiing, since the only time I tried it was disastrous. My family watched the video of me falling down and laughed and laughed.)

The Runs’ music, judging by the low-quality songs streaming on Myspace, is fairly derivative rock that a stage presence can make or break. A less cranky reviewer might say this band sounds like some lovable goofs. But you can’t convince me skiing has any place in punk rock. (Kate Whittle) The Runs play the Badlander, along with Them Teasters, Fri., Jan. 11, at 9 PM. $5.

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Ben Bullington: Lazy Moon John Mayer moved to the Paradise Valley thinking he could get some Montana dirt on his hands and sell records for it. What he provides is a forged signature when you compare it to the homegrown likes of Ben Bullington. On his newest album Bullington sings it loud and clear: “We live here to live here, here in Livingston.”

The former doctor from Big Timber doesn’t fix what isn’t broken on his fourth album, Lazy Moon.

Simple guitar work and song structures carry his easygoing voice—even on the upbeat “Cup of Strong Black Coffee,” Bullington maintains that casual,

we’ve-got-all-day tone. Nearly a dozen collaborators on bass, mandolin and banjo breathe life into the poetry but never overpower. Then there’s the reference to actual poetry: “W.H. Auden is lying open face down, a Miles Davis solo is floatin’ around,” Bullington sings on “Lone Pine.”

It might be the lack of percussion that makes a lot of these songs blur together like so many fields stretching across the Hi-Line. They all become variations on the same theme, which, if you’ve lived here long enough, you know is the truth about Montana anyway. (Brooks Johnson)

Yo La Tengo: Fade Remember when Yo La Tengo played the Wilma, providing the live soundtrack to Jean Painlevé’s underwater science films? That rocked. But forget about it, because that’s not what you’ll get on the group’s newest album. It’s quiet time, and you’re going to want to hear this.

Fade is a washed-out update to the band’s best album, I Can Hear The Hearts Beating as One, already 15 years old. Here’s the same shoegazing trio putting out indie rock like it never happened, but with maturity in the lyrics and nuance in the structures. That means fewer noisy and percussive experiments, and,

sorry, no epic solos at the end. Ira Kaplan and wife Georgia Hubley still sing like they’re daydreaming, but in this case they use their voices like instruments rather than try to lead what has essentially become a chamber pop band.

Some surprises emerge. “Stupid Things” takes a hint from Bon Iver and re-reintroduces cheesy ’80s pop guitars with class, while the acoustic “I’ll Be Around” is a nice break from the electrics. Fade finishes on “Before We Run,” a satisfying last song that feels like the soundtrack to flying over all your favorite places, real and imagined. (Brooks Johnson)

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To fully understand and appreciate Jesse Bier’s latest book, Transatlantic Lives, I recommend you start reading on the very last page, with the author’s bio: “Jesse Bier was born and bred in Hoboken, N.J., where he entered the army in WWII, eventually serving as combat infantry squad leader in Germany. After being wounded in 1945 he met his future wife, the Sephardic French heroine of Transatlantic Lives, while on recuperative leave in Biarritz.” And there you have it.

Transatlantic Lives describes itself as a love ode to Bier’s wife. (She is given the fictionalized name Pépée.)

The story is told through a series of vignettes, beginning with Pépée’s Jewish grandmother in Turkey in 1902 during the Armenian genocide, and the family’s eventual migration to France.

From there, the narrative travels back and forth between continents, following a multitude of characters, hence the title. Each mini chapter is a universe in itself, and also a puzzle piece to a larger narrative, mostly about people in love, their differences and the qualities that ultimately unite them.

It can be hard to follow at times, especially if you come to the work expecting a straight, chronological story, so don’t do that. There are a lot of characters to juggle, and it’s not always clear how or why they connect.

The author is at least a little to blame for this, but as the lovers inch closer to the war that will ultimately unite them, it becomes such an intriguing, tangled mess that it’s easy to forgive. There’s a calm before the storm, where Americans marvel in the beautiful simplicity of baseball statistics and pick-up football, and the Europeans are off gallivanting with Picasso, so what could go wrong? Oh right. Another World War. One passage begins: “There were days when you might never know a war was on.” This sentence contains a crucial revelation for me. My grandmother was born in 1918, and like most everyone of that generation, she experienced real sacrifice. My grandfather went overseas and came home. “We didn’t call it World War II, back then,” she told me. “We just called it the war.” Of course. Because it was all around you, and that’s just in America. For Pépée and her family hiding from Jewish persecution in France, the war was right on top of them. There would have been no day when you didn’t know the war was on.

The world isn’t like that anymore. There’s that fiscal cliff we were supposedly all hurdling toward, but could you see it when you looked out the window? If you didn’t have the internet or a television, you’d have no idea there was even a problem. I can see why people get nostalgic for a concrete world,

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when at least the enemy was a thing you could hold in your hands.

But I don’t mean to be so dark, because remember, this is, at its heart, a touching, real-life love story, told with a lot of wit and vibrant dialogue. I was struck in particular by passages that illustrated Bier’s adoration for his wife. “Even Pépée Doriac, generally the soul of veracity, could tell a big lie if her life depended on it, as when she lied to authorities (who had no authority) about her name for four years, the world rife with general hazard and holocaust threat, or when she told the particular German checkpoint officer she was not afraid of him—still, a lie all the same.” And then later: “But she never told a lie, of any degree or kind, on any other occasion. She never fibbed, never lied purely for someone else’s feelings, never lied merely or not-really. Mainly, she never lied—even whitely—to herself.”

If the point of the story is for us to fall in love with Pépée (and maybe her chivalrous husband, if we have room in our hearts) then Transatlantic Lives succeeds.

Bier is a true romantic. Comparatively, he makes the men of my generation look like slouches. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Come together Addington’s The Unraveling snags a grand prize

by Nicholas McCarvel

On a fall afternoon two months ago, Tobin Addington sat down at his computer in his Brooklyn apartment to watch the ceremony for the Page International Screenwriting Awards. The Bonner native and Hellgate High School grad had submitted an original script to the contest, which honors outstanding screenwriting from around the world and is judged by a long list of Hollywood professionals, including writers from films like Monsters, Inc. and television shows like “Pretty Little Liars.”

Finding out how his script fared required Addington to click “play” and watch a video on the website where the awards for each category were revealed one at a time.

for one thing. So, I wrote this script as a bit of this-iswho-I-am exercise.”

But the 18 months leading up to Addington’s wins were perhaps the darkest of his life. Addington had suffered a cerebral aneurism. He had been treated successfully, but as he and Libby waited for their first child to arrive, Addington’s vision doubled and migraine headaches became a regular occurrence.

“I feel like I could have stepped back from the creative work and given up that stress in my life,” Addington says. “But for me, I think that it’s not that I want to write, it’s that I need to write.”

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His script’s Horror/Thriller category came and went with no mention of him. But, like a film connoisseur who needs to know how it all ends, Addington stayed glued to the computer screen. As a final envelope appeared and the Grand Prize winner was unveiled, he found himself staring at his own name: Tobin Addington, The Unraveling.

“I just sat there and stared at it,” Addington says. “I don’t think I realized it was my name.”

It was his wife, Libby, also a Hellgate High School grad, whom the 34-year-old called first. At work in her Manhattan office, Libby asked, “What’d you win?”

What Addington had won was a $25,000 first prize for his script, which was selected among 5,100 entered from 69 different countries. The award was the exclamation point on what had turned out to be a thriller year for the Columbia screenwriting grad, who works as a professor of film studies at Ramapo College in suburban New Jersey.

Weeks earlier he had garnered the Horror/Thriller nod from the Slamdance Film Festival Screenplay Competition, a little brother of sorts to Sundance. The Unraveling seems to have spun a new path for him.

It’s a psychological thriller that Addington describes as the horror movie that comes after today’s horror movie. Romy, the main character, deals with the emotional terror of having survived a home invasion that kills her parents. It’s a movie that grasps the power of fear, but, Addington says, its aim is cerebral, not physical.

“In the past five or six years I had been writing a variety of things and not very successfully,” Addington says.

“From political satire to indie dramas to screwball comedies, I started to realize that no one could remember me

Writing and watching. It’s something Libby says Addington did even when he had one good eye after his treatment for the aneurism.

“I remember him sitting on the couch watching films—studying them with as much keen observation as ever—with one hand covering his bad eye,” Libby recalls.

“Nothing was going to stop him.”

Following his awards in the fall, he signed with managers Marti Blumenthal and Joan Scott, who are working to get The Unraveling in front of producers.

A house in the Hollywood Hills isn’t necessarily on the mind of the boy who grew up at the confluence of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers—nor is a penthouse on the Upper West Side.

“The more I have written the more I’ve found myself writing about Montana and the West and about the people and the places that I grew up with,” he says.

Addington remembers fondly of growing up in Bonner, in a family that championed creativity. He went to his first play at the Bigfork Summer Playhouse at 3 months old. By the time he could walk and talk he was involved in Missoula Children’s Theatre. There was no second guessing what was to come, he says.

“The afternoon I picked up our family’s camcorder when I was 12, I knew what I wanted to do,” he says. “I made a claymation short. I did a stop motion of my GI Joes taking over my sister’s doll house. Something in me clicked. Something about that… I just honestly have never turned back.”

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Fog of war Zero Dark Thirty goes beyond finding bin Laden

by Scott Renshaw

A lot of generally intelligent people have said a lot of stupid things about Zero Dark Thirty, all likely with the best of intentions. Some have argued that it glorifies torture by showing that “enhanced interrogation methods” did in fact lead to key intelligence in the mission to find and kill Osama bin Laden. Others have argued the exact opposite: that it clearly indicates torture failed as an intelligence-gathering technique.

Both sides are wrong. And also missing the point.

Zero Dark Thirty, as you’ve almost certainly heard,

descension from her colleagues: Dan pointing her out to another male colleague with, “Was I lying, or what?”; the CIA director responding to an assessment of Maya as smart with the retort, “We’re all smart.” Maya’s own line about discovering bin Laden’s hideout—“I’m the motherfucker who found this place”—has already become something of a badass catchphrase, yet it’s also a kind of assertiveness she seems compelled to show as a result of gender-based presumptions. The women in Zero Dark Thirty—including Jennifer Ehle, also fan-

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is about the work it took to track down bin Laden, up to and including the military operation that resulted in his death. That’s also wrong, or at the very least profoundly insufficient as a description. Because what director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have accomplished, while a significant act of cinematic storytelling, isn’t merely procedural. It’s about confronting the human side of something that seems so massive and convoluted as to be beyond humanity— whether it’s for those most intimately involved, or those of us who only knew what was happening after it was all over.

The central character is CIA analyst Maya (Jessica Chastain), a fictionalized sort-of-amalgam of various real-life figures. We first meet her in 2003, visiting a “black site” where a colleague, Dan (Jason Clarke), is heading up the interrogation of an al Qaeda operative.

“If you lie to me, I hurt you,” Dan repeatedly and calmly tells the chained man—and we see plenty of graphic evidence that he’s dead serious.

When Maya is left alone in the room with the prisoner—her face still betraying shock at the details of what’s going on—it feels like the set-up for a “good cop” moment, the nurturing woman offering comfort and hope. But Maya seems to read it as a challenge, a test of whether she’s got what it takes to play with the big boys—and she quickly shows the prisoner she, too, is all business.

It is no coincidence that Bigelow and Boal make their protagonist a woman; that fact, and Chastain’s brilliant performance, are absolutely central to Zero Dark Thirty’s moral center. The film is full of instances where we see Maya facing subtle and not-so-subtle con-

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tastic as one of Maya’s colleagues—aren’t just required to have balls; those balls need to be bigger than those of any other swinging dick in the room in order to be taken seriously, even if it means taking bigger risks.

That’s where the film becomes more than a timeline of decisions. It’s about the psychology and rationalizations behind decisions: the way people convince themselves that what they’re doing is necessary, or the reasons they convince themselves (and others) they’re certain even when they’re not. It’s a “fog of war” tale that also catches Maya at the end, when she has the luxury of reflecting and wondering if the decisions she made have changed things only for the better.

Zero Dark Thirty is far from perfect, structurally.

At times it struggles to connect its three fairly distinct sections—intel-gathering in the Middle East, political wrangling in Washington and the eventual raid on bin Laden’s compound itself. And the revolving door of supporting characters does occasionally make it hard to follow a basic narrative line. Yet it’s consistently gripping, not just as espionage or military thriller but as exercise in viewer identification. As we’ve already seen from the outraged editorials, you get to look at every data point, every casualty, every violation of human dignity, every course of action, and play history’s armchair quarterback. It asks in blunt terms, “If it were you, and you knew this was what it took to achieve this goal, would you have done the same things? And was it worth it?”

Zero Dark Thirty opens at the Carmike 12 Fri., Jan. 11. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] RISE OF THE GUARDIANS After the evil little twit Pitch tries to destroy the hopes and dreams of the world’s children, the Immortal Guardians get in cahoots to take him on. Nobody messes with the Easter Bunny, not now, not ever. Starring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher. Rated PG. Village 6.

OPENING THIS WEEK ANNA KARENINA Does the world’s finest literary labor measure up in movie form? Will Anna leave her husband for Count Vronsky? Will you love Keira Knightley’s outfits? Jude Law’s “acting?” Also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Rated R. Wilma.

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN In this documentary, a couple of South Africans seek out the “Latin Bob Dylan,” Sixto Rodriguez, a ‘70s rocker who blew up in the African nation after a bootleg recording found its way there 20 years after its recording. Starring Rodriguez, Steve Segerman and Dennis Coffey. Rated PG13. Wilma.

GANGSTER SQUAD With no love for East Coast mafiosos, a group of LAPD detectives decide that they are going to go to all lengths to keep them out LA. Starring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Entertainer.

A HAUNTED HOUSE A man’s wife is possessed by a demon so the man can’t have relations with her until he casts out that demon. Oh lordy, somebody call the Ghostbusters. Starring Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins and Marlene Forte. Rated R. Village 6.

ZERO DARK THIRTY The story of the military operation that resulted in Osama bin Laden’s death. If this were a Jerry Bruckheimer film, Navy recruiters would be creaming their jeans, but this one, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), confronts issues of morality in wartime and the demons wrought by interrogation. Rated R. Carmike 12.

NOW PLAYING ARGO Based on a true story, crafty CIA dudes try to bust some Americans out of the not-so-hospitable country of Iran circa 1979. Ayatollah rock and roll-a! Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Rated R. Village 6.

DJANGO UNCHAINED Django, a slave-turned-bounty hunter, seeks out his wife in the antebellum south. It’s about to get real violent up in here. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Rated R. Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

THE GUILT TRIP Unlikely road trippers Andy Brewster (Seth Rogen) and his mom (Barbra Streisand) head across country to sell Brewster’s latest invention.

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HITCHCOCK Alfred Hitchcock and his wife fall in love during the filming of Pyscho, ‘nuff said. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson. Rated PG-13. Pharaohplex and Wilma.

dent as he struggles with the war, emancipation of the slaves, his cabinet and his family. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and David Strathairn. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Reclaim the treasure stolen by that old dragon Smaug, Bilbo Baggins, and you and your elven friends will be heroes for a millennia! Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

MONSTERS INC. 3D In this 3D “update,” the monsters who power the city with fear are invaded by the one thing they fear the most: a child! Oh, the irony. Starring the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal and Jennifer Tilly. Rated G. Carmike 12.

JACK REACHER Jack Reacher knows you best be as ruthless and cunning as your opponent. And he is. This dude is the kind of crime investigator that makes the bad guys’ sheets sweaty. Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike and Richard Jenkins. Rated PG13. Carmike 12 and Pharohplex.

LES MISERABLES After a lifetime on the run in 19th century France, Jean Valjean agrees to care for a young girl and lives are forever changed. Plus, you know, singing. Starring the enchanting Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway. Rated PG13. Carmike 12.

LINCOLN Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in this biopic about the United States’ greatest presi-

PARENTAL GUIDANCE Guess what? Billy Crystal is back! He plays an old-school grandpa taking care of his grandkids (along with Bette Middler) who are so 21st century with the technologies and the Innertubes and the Facebooks, oy vey! Also starring the forever beautiful Marisa Tomei. Rated PG. Opens Christmas Day. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D In the spirit of regurgitating old themes, Texas Chainsaw—a sequel to the 1974 film and not the 2003 Michael Bay movie—tells the story of a young woman traveling to Texas to cash in on her inheritance. Little does she know that the prize includes a maniac with a chainsaw. Rated R. 3D and 2D. Carmike 12.

THIS IS 40 Men are from Mars and women are into toilet humor in this follow-up to Judd Apatow’s film Knocked Up, which follows the continuing lives (and lack of sex and sexy, sexiness!) of characters Pete and Debbie. Starring Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann and Jason Segel. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned! For show times please visit missoulanews.com or contact the theaters in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 5417469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

PROMISED LAND Matt Damon plays a salesman for a natural gas company who learns something or two about real people’s feelings when he arrives in a small town where his corporation is tapping into the natural resources. Written by a trifecta made up of Dave Eggers, Matt Damon and John Krasinski. Directed by Gus Van Sant. Rated R. Carmike 12.

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If you want to bury an unsavory news story, the afternoon before Christmas vacation is a good time to break it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration chose Dec. 21 to release its long-awaited environmental assessment of the genetically modified “AquAdvantage” salmon. This move quietly slid the fish closer to making history as the first GM animal approved for human consumption. The public was given 60 days to comment, beginning winter solstice 2012, on a farmed salmon that salmon farmers won’t be allowed to raise in the United States, but Americans would nonetheless be allowed to eat.

If the announcement’s timing suggests the FDA wants the application to flow smoothly, also consider that it has been 17 years since AquaBounty first applied for permission to sell its recombinant Atlantic salmon in the states. The company has paid a heavy regulatory price for trying to be first.

The slow and meandering path of the fish’s approval process owes more to agency machinations than any prevailing ideology. Four years is just enough time to settle into a new course before a new administration takes over and replaces your boss and, possibly, your agenda.

During the Bush II era, the FDA announced it would regulate AquAdvantage salmon as an animal drug rather than food, perhaps in hopes of expediting the process. More recently, according to a hypothesis espoused by Jon Entine in Slate, officials in President Barack Obama’s inner circle conspired to delay the salmon’s approval for political gain.

With the application in bureaucratic purgatory for decades, AquaBounty leaked money, sold assets, was often without a clear idea of where the process was going and flirted with bankruptcy. The tide began turning in November 2012, when biotech giant Intrexon began acquiring AquaBounty shares (ABTX), triggering what has become a 400 percent run-up of the stock— most of the gain since the FDA’s solstice announcement.

Meanwhile, many are still wondering how a salmon steak could be considered a drug. According to FDA logic, the drug per se is AquaBounty’s patented genetic construct, made of genes from two other fish inserted into Atlantic salmon DNA. Inserted at the animal’s one-cell stage, the gene sequence exists in every cell of the adult fish’s body.

The company claims this cluster of genes, aka the drug, makes AquAdvantage salmon grow faster than its non-GM, farm-raised counterparts, and it hopes to sell that claim, and lots of AquAdvantage salmon eggs, to fish farmers around the world.

But unlike most other so-called animal drugs, this one inhabits an animal that can do very well for itself in the wild. It can swim across oceans, up rivers, mate with wild fish and pass along its drugs to the next generation.

Given precedent that will be set in approving the first GM animal for human consumption, it’s understandable that the review process might take some time. Unfortunately, the FDA has spent most of its

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time figuring out how to avoid asking some tough but very important questions.

The Christmas EA predicts “an extremely low likelihood” that AquAdvantage salmon will affect “the environment of the United States.” This conclusion spares the FDA and AquaBounty the significantly more-rigorous, expensive and time-consuming process of conducting a full environmental impact statement, which would include a comprehensive failure analysis investigating the possible outcomes of worst-case scenarios at every link in the process. Such hassle was largely avoided by simply stipulating that no AquAdvantage salmon shall be raised in the United States, and no live AquAdvantage fish will even enter U.S. territory.

AquAdvantage eggs are to be produced in a facility on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and shipped to a facility in Panama to be raised in tanks to marketable size. In the future, AquaBounty hopes to ship eggs worldwide from Prince Edward Island—but not to the U.S., or any other country, apparently, with sturdy environmental laws.

A key step in the AquAdvantage approval process came in September 2010, when the FDA held a public meeting of its Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee to review what was then the draft EA. Jon Entine, of the Team Obama interference hypothesis, assumes the VMAC committee “unanimously endorsed the FDA’s findings that the salmon was safe.” But the meeting transcript paints a more nuanced picture.

VMAC member Dr. James McKean noted, in his final remarks, of AquAdvantage salmon, “It appears to be safe, but that loop has not, in my mind, been closed.” Purdue biologist Bill Muir commented at the VMAC, has looked extensively at risk associated with GM fish, and believes AquAdvantage salmon don’t pose much of an ecological threat. Nonetheless, as he explained to the New York Times, “Shit always happens. If shit happens and they end up somehow in the ocean ... maybe it’s hypothetical to the FDA, but people would like to know what happens.”

In fact, shit did happen at AquaBounty’s Panama location in 2008, when a storm swamped the facility.

As AquaBounty reported to investors, the largest batch of salmon in company history was lost. According to the Christmas EA, meanwhile, “no serious damage was incurred by this event, and no problems of significance to aquaculture operations occurred.”

An environmental impact statement would be a sensible if less convenient alternative to approving an EA that depends on exporting fish farming to other people’s backyards, and sending U.S. agents to the ends of the earth to inspect the facilities of fish farms that want to raise AquAdvantage salmon and sell it to us.

To claim that AquAdvantage salmon is safe to produce, while at the same time circumventing the process of regulating its production at home, sends a mixed message to consumers, environmentalists and industry. It also reeks of colonialism, and serves as a reminder of why “animal drug” might not be the most productive way to describe this fish.

[dish] Alcan Bar and Grill 16780 Beckwith St. Frenchtown • 626-9930 Tantalize your taste buds with Angus beef burgers, chicken strips, shrimp, and biscuits and gravy from Alcan Bar & Grill. With more than 20 years of experience and 10 years in the business, we have been offering fresh meals and beverages at the area's most competitive prices. Our friendly professionals offer personalized service and make sure you leave our restaurant as one of our friends. We offer have a variety of specials for ladies night and sports events featuring drink specials and free food.

Contact us today and enjoy our incredible menu selection.

9 am – 2 am Mon-Sun. Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you!

Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Nothing says Bernice’s like the cold, grey months of January. Come in, sit quietly, or share a table with friends in our warm and cozy dining room. Enjoy a cup of joe, a slice of cake, or a breakfast pastry as the sun beams in through our large glass windows. Want a healthy lunch? Come by in the afternoon and try a salad sampler or Bernice’s own Garlic Hummus Sandwich on our Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Bless you all in 2013, Bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts.

All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty.

The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas.

Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Accomodates indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day.

Featuring Crawfish omlettes, beignets, and cafe au lait. Open Monday-Wednesday 11am-3pm, Thursday-Saturday 11am8pm, and Sunday 9am-3pm (Beignets available Saturday 11am-2pm, and All Day Sunday) Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 • ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$

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Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends.

Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items.

Educate your taste buds! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 *When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! (Happy Hour 36 PM Mon-Sat. 2 Empanadas for $7) Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-8pm Monday-Saturday.

Downtown Missoula. $ $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Missoula's Tailgate Headquarters! We carry all of the spirits & accessories to make your tailgate party a success! Largest selection of spirits in Montana, including locally made whiskey, vodka, gin, rum and wine.

We're located downtown with free customer parking. Grizzly Liquor was voted Missoula's #1 Liquor Store! Open M-F 96:30, Sat 9-6. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts.

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2101 Brooks • 926-2578 • cafezydeco.com Mon-Wed 11am-3pm, Thur-Sat 11am-8pm & Sun 9am-3pm (Beignets available Sat 11am-2pm & all day Sun)

Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Thursday is Trivia Night! Prizes, food and drink specials! Starting at 7 pm. Also,check our brand new wine menu! Considering a staycation? Check out our packages. Call for more details! Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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The Rocky Mountain Flip HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: The Rocky Mountain Flip is a cocktail featuring syrup created with Douglas fir and Rocky Mountain juniper. It’s mixed with cardamom bitters, Montgomery Distillery’s signature Whyte Laydie Gin and pasteurized egg whites. The combo is shaken dry to release the egg proteins and then shaken again with ice to make it cold. $6.

drinks, “the essential in flips of all sorts is to produce the smoothness by repeated pouring back and forward between two vessels and beating up the eggs well...”

The history of the Rocky Mountain Flip: Bartender Tad Hilton created this version, but he’s modest about taking credit. It takes distillery co-owner Jennifer Montgomery to out Hilton as What it tastes like: If the inventor. “He has an you could put the refreshing Photo by Alex Sakariassen amazing palate,” she says. taste of walking through a winThe fir and juniper embellish ter Montana forest into a cocktail glass, this is definitely what you’d get. The fir the sugars, and the velvety egg whites create a and juniper flavors are pungent and delicious— smooth layer on top that looks like snow. “It’s and for good reason. The distillery collects the good to get a little protein with your drinking,” greenery in the spring and vacuum packs it to says Montgomery, smiling. keep its flavor. Even though it’s served cold, it Where you can find it: Montgomery Distastes like a winter drink. tillery, 129 W. Front St. in Missoula. Hours are The history of the flip: The term was first Monday through Saturday, from noon to 8 PM. —Erika Fredrickson used in 1695 to describe a mixture of beer, rum and sugar that was heated with a red-hot iron, Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana which made the drink froth or “flip.” Since then, a flip has been often served cold. According to watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender the Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide, an 1887 or beverage for Happiest Hour, email reprint that the distillery sells and uses for its editor@missoulanews.com.

Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner.

Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink.

Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm Happy Hour 3-6pm Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our nonsmoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, micro brews, fine wines & signature drinks.

Gluten free menu, also. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$

FREE LECTURES Vibrant Life - Restoring the Roots of Health ANTI-AGING MEDICINE Dr. Shanhong Lu, MD, PhD • Mt. Shasta Integrative Medicine Internationally known Integrative MD, Educator, and Research Scientist MISSOULA • Open to the public: Thurs. Jan 17 • 6-7pm • Crystal Theater 515 S. Higgins • No Host Bar Health Care Professionals Only: Friday, Jan 18 • 8-9pm • Crystal Theater For free breakfast, RSVP 360-4455 ARLEE • Friday, Jan 18 • 6-7pm • "Hangin' Art" gallery

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Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Serving country French specialties, Montana elk, Berkshire Pork, and delicious seafood dishes. Delectable salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house.

Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver!

Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday &

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Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis's Kitchen 531-5034 sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods.

Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis's Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula "Best Pizza" Winner's for 2008-2012.

Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12"crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $$-$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right!

Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9.

Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 406-830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery.

Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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THURSDAYJAN.10 Check out the new sound system and dance ‘til ya blast at Archaic Revival, a night of electro-tronic partying hosted by MC Lil Sassy, plus tunes by DJs Tygerlily and Hauli, as well as the Milkcrate Mechanic. Palace. 9 PM. No cover, 2-for-1 well drink special, plus free pool.

January 10 – January 17, 2013

People who have Parkinson’s disease, as well as caregivers and professionals who work with the disease, can meet for the Missoula Parkinson’s Disease Support Group the second Thursday of each month at the Montana First Credit Union, 3708 N. Reserve St. Call Cindy Cone at 728-8283 or Ann Houston at 543-8939 for more info. Free.

nightlife John Floridis plays music at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

For the two of you who’ve never watched the films or read the books (me included) head to the Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St., for a free screening of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. 6 PM. Tom Catmull and John Sporman are always delightful and never spiteful (unless you cross them or steal their cats) and they are performing tunes for you and yours at the Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery from 6– 8:30 PM. Free.

Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Confront and solve your problems with the help of the Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club which discusses The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck, M.D. 6–7:30 PM. Free.

A bird in the hat. A Midwinter’s Night’s Dream: An Evening of Drag Cabaret emceed by Miss Bouviér, the cherished Grand High Holy Matron of the Bouviér Family Dynasty, takes place at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., on Sat., Jan 12, from 7 to 11 PM. The cabaret benefits the Sandy Hook School Support Fund. $5.

Puff-puff give when the American Lung Association presents, Breathing in the Big Sky: Missoula Forum on Air Quality Issues at the Missoula City Council Chambers.

Moderated by Mayor John Engen, panelists include Tony Ward and Steve Running, from the University of Montana, Missoula physicians Georgia Milan and Paul Smith,

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AUDITIONS ACTRESSES NEEDED FOR

STEEL MAGNOLIAS Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Directed by TJ Charlson

Sunday, January 13, 2013 1:00–6:00 p.m.

NEEDED: Female performers, ages 18 to 65.

PERFORMANCES: March 14-17, 20-24, 2013 Missoula Community Theatre 200 North Adams Street (Main Street entrance) Ĺ” XXX NDUJOD PSH

[calendar] Missoula air quality specialist Sarah Coefield. For more info, contact Kim at kdavitt@lungmtpacific.org or 728-0368.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 8–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams. Just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it. That guy’s version of “Santeria� is terrible. 8:30 PM.

Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people.

Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Show up the rest of the room with your version of “Ninja Survive� when you hit the Dark Horse for Combat Karaoke hosted

by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free.

Go out and holler with dance music makers Blue Collar at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free.

More events online: missoulanews.com Big time folksters The Hasslers bring their special brand of “hard-hitting folk� to the VFW, 245 W. Main St., each Thursday during the month January, with special guests and a collection of bizarre dolls (untrue). 10 PM. $2.

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Nikki Rossignol has kept journals since childhood and she uses her dream journals, in particular, to create stories that inspire her artwork. She writes down her dreams and then keeps writing, using them as a seed for more elaborate tales. “My journal is a book of lies,� she says. These narratives allow her to create new works without doing preliminary sketches because she knows the story within the painting.

In her exhibition, Dual Nature, she seeks to “find acceptance of nature’s life and death cycle.� It’s no surprise that the series features the comingling of nature and a lithe blonde woman since Rossignol is lithe and blonde and lives on her family’s 800-acre tract of timbered land near Missoula. She spends much of her time in those woods experiencing the sights, smells and sounds of the natural world.

Many of the series’ paint“Dormant Decay� by Nikki Rossignol ings show nature taking over.

Tree roots wrap around a female body, shocks of wheat spring forth from her light, making the paintings less menacing and more chest and legs, a fox pelt covers her, replacing her peaceful. skin. It all seems kind of macabre, except that her Living where she does—away from people and color palettes are often imbued with sun and moon- cars, and working from home (doing freelance artwork for films and sewing fluffy, slightly disconcerting stuffed creatures), listening to WHO: Nikki Rossignol Judas Priest or The Darkness as she vacuWHAT: Second Friday opening exhibition of Dual Nature ums—allows Rossignol to live the artist’s life.

She sometimes paints for 10 hours per day.

WHEN: Fri., Jan. 11, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM In living and working this way, she’s managed to nearly become one of her works.

WHERE: ZACC, 235 N. First St. She says, “I get so close to nature that I get HOW MUCH: Free stuck in it.�

MORE INFO: nikkirossignol.com

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—Jason McMackin

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FRIDAYJAN.11 In Soviet Russia car drives you and Jesus Jones is bigger than Elvis. If this sounds appealing, check out Dead Hipster I Love the ’90s Dance Party, where the greatest decade of all time is on display and Bobby Brown gets the respect he deserves. Dress like Steve from “90210” playing volleyball. Palace. 9 PM. $3, with $1 well drinks on tap from 9 PM to midnight.

Jack Wiegman addresses the Five Valleys Pachyderm Club to discuss Defending Against Illusion. Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. Noon. $11 for lunch. Visit missoulapachyderm.org.

nightlife Join the Missoula Community Foundation staff and board and celebrate 2012’s accomplishments and look ahead to a fruitful 2013. Tunes by Leif & Willard, snacks sponsored by the Good Food Store, complimentary wine, beer and soft drinks and a free raffle. Well, yeah. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. 5 PM. The ZACC presents Nikki Rossignol’s exhibit Dual Worlds this Second Friday. 235 N. First St. 5–8 PM. Free. (See Spotlight.)

Hey bub, get a load of some great gams and follow the adventures of some big-time gumshoes at the North Valley Public Library in Stevi, which screens classic film noir every Friday evening with an informal discussion to follow. 6 PM. Free.

Contact the library for title information at 777-5061.

Hold hands under the table with Ginger from Accounts Receivable while Zeppo MT performs soul classics and the like at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. I won’t tell your wife. 8 PM. Free.

Asheville, North Cackalacky’s Them Teasters brings some old time rock and roll, like way old time, like 1950s and early ’60s stylie. The group is joined by gnar-shredders The Runs out of Fernie, B.C. Badlander. 9 PM. $5. (See Noise.)

Mudslide Charlie is going to slang some blues for you and yours at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Cover yo’self in dipping sauce and dance to the slamming grass of The Lil’ Smokies at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9 PM. Free.

John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to

Photo courtesy of Erin Agner

Louder than The Pesterers. The Hasslers get their folking ways on this month during their month-long VFW residency, 245 W. Main St., on Thu., Jan. 10 and Thu., Jan. 17 , at 10 PM, with TBA guests. $2.

mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406721-2416 or just show up.

Go out and holler with dance music makers Blue Collar at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free.

SATURDAYJAN.12 While away your evening at the Union Club where Tom Catmull and The Clerics play a kind of country music for you to dance about to; plus I hear the drummer is going to have a kissing booth. One of those things is true. 9 PM. Free.

The Living Art Studio presents Bonnie Tarses’ Creativity for Life workshop for those facing illness or loss. Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St., #17. 10:30–12:30 PM. Free. Visit livingartofmontana.org.

Never fear, lovers of fresh, local vittles, the Heirloom Winter Market at the Missoula County Fairgrounds is rolling with music, kids’ activities, local produce, meat, baked goods, jam, honey and so much more. 11 AM–2 PM.

Kids who write are smarter than those who don’t. The Missoula Writing Collaborative knows this and that’s why they are hosting Saturdays in January Writing Workshops—A Winter Wonderland for Young Writers. Dress the chilluns for the weather and drop them by the Payne Family Native American Center on the UM campus for an afternoon of discovery and wordsmithery. 1:30–3:30 PM. Free.

Do the double-header and check out some Griz basketball at the Dahlberg Arena when the teams take on the hated Northern Colorado Bears. Lady Griz at 2 PM and the men play at 4:30 PM. Visit gogriz.com for ticket info.

nightlife Nibble on some vittles and sip on suds while Three-Eared Dog performs some new-timey blues music at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Ballyhoo and ballyha at the Hamilton Good Time Jamboree, where Jay Calkins plays his banjo and Diane Olheoft and Jerry Downey do a musical duet in first part of the evening, while Clem Small, Gary Bladen Band and Warren Worth fill out the second half. Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St., south of Hamilton. 7–9 PM. Free, but a $3 donation won’t hurt none.

It’s back y’all, so get to steppin’ at the Bitterroot Contra Dance which takes place at the Church of the Nazarene gym, 150 A St. South in Victor. Vicki Watson has the call and the Celtic Knots play the tunes. Leave the cologne and hairspray at home, hombres. Lessons at 6:30 PM, dance 7–9:30 PM. $5/$10 per family.

able while Zeppo MT performs soul classics and the like at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. I won’t tell your wife. 8 PM. Free.

The Heart to Heart Duo plays the Missoula Senior Center’s Saturday Night Dance, so slide into those glad rags and show the youngsters how it’s done. 705 S. Higgins. 7–10 PM. $5.

Get spun while the DJs spin at ARCHAiC REViVAL, a night of electronical tunesmithery with DJs Web, Kount Dubyula, Keen and Ayjay. Palace. 9 PM. Free. Includes $5 PBR pitchers all night and free pool.

Miss Bouviér, the cherished Grand High Holy Matron of the Bouviér Family Dynasty, emcees a fantastic evening of drag cabaret benefiting the Sandy Hook School Support Fund. Many of Missoula’s finest drag queens, kings and friends are on hand to rawk that body. Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7–11 PM. $5.

Slip into them heels, Brenda, and strap on the sass, it’s time for another installment of Argentinean Tango Night at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. 8 PM lesson, 9–midnight melonga. $10/$16 per couple.

The evening benefits Hospice of Missoula. Visit ddcmontana.com.

Hold hands under the table with Ginger from Accounts Receiv-

Are you ready to laugh?! If so, Lukas Seely presents comedian Grant Cotter, along with four other up-and-coming comedians Hamilton’s Roxy Club Theater. 8 PM. $25.

Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo is the de facto dopest DJ duo in town.

Get hip to their jamz, hippies.

Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. $2.

The Soul City Cowboys make Swannie’s up Polson way the most danceable beer join town.

820 Shoreline Dr. 9 PM. Free.

John Floridis plays music at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9 PM. Free.

It’s a hoedown with country music makers Sho Down at the Lumberjack Saloon, up Graves Creek Road out Lolo way. 9 PM. Free.

Get your country music fix and maybe meet a fella with all the right moves when the Montana

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[calendar] Dark Horse Band performs at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free.

SUNDAYJAN.13 Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

Dance your way to a free mind and an open body at Turning the Wheel Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance. Headwaters Dance Studio, 1042 Monroe St. 11-12:30 PM. $10/$75 for eight classes. Visit turningthewheel.org.

Thespians of the female variety are invited to the Missoula Community Theatre’s auditions for Steel Magnolias. Ladies 18– 65 are invited to try out regardless of experience. Performances take place March 14-17 and 2024. Missoula Community Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. 1–6 PM. Call 728-1911.

nightlife The Ed Norton Big Band put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, from 6– 8 PM. $5. Visit missoulawinery.com.

MONDAYJAN.14 Be reckless and bugaloo on down to the Badlander when Milkcrate Monday’s presents Breaks Quarterly, a night of break beats, so bring your cardboard, with tunes by DJs Chachie, Keen, the Milkcrate Mechanic and Beatloaf. 9 PM. Free, with $5 pitchers of PBR on tap.

Doctors from both St. Pat’s and Community hospitals are on hand at the City Club Missoula Forum: Health Care Reform, the Triple Aim, and What it Means to You. The forum takes place at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St.$16/$11 members/$5 without lunch. RSVP at cityclubmissoula.org.

The Rough Cut Science Seminar Series shows off the brainiacs of Montana’s scientific community, with presentations on current research each week at 4

PM in the University Center Theater. Visit montanaioe.org/roughcut-series for the schedule.

nightlife Ask about the people movers we were promised at the Long Range Transportation Plan Open House, which discusses new sidewalks, roads and other transportial deals at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St. 5:30–7 PM. Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat, 633 Fifth St. E. 6:30 PM. Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.

The Bonner Milltown Community Council talks air quality, burning permits, Blackfoot River debris and confluence access.

Plus the upcoming deadline for council positions. Bonner School Library. 7 PM. The Tom Catmull pleasures your ears with pleasing tones and self-assured singing at the Red

Bird Wine Bar, 11 N. Higgins Ave. 7–10 PM. Free.

and odors. Deadline is 5 PM today. Call Sarah at 258-3642.

Open Mic with Joey Running Crane at the VFW, 245 W. Main, seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call him up and get yourself a slot at 229-0488.

Fun with Yoga at the Families First Children’s Museum might work for you and the kids. It might make you cry, too. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

You know it’s gotta be a real party when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse. Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.

TUESDAYJAN.15 The Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition hosts the Musician Showcase at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., an evening of tuneful live tuneage made by locals for locals. 8–11 PM. Free.

18 plus.

Put a stop to the inversions, or at least keep tabs on them, and volunteer for the Missoula CityCounty Air Quality Advisory Council, which tracks all things air-related including smoke levels

Diaper Service averages 18 cents per change, so why are you throwing your money away?

Local cloth diaper sales & service.

Missoula peeps order online and get your goods delivered during diaper route Wednesdays.

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Nosh on knowledge and fill up your noodle at the Fact & Fiction Book Club Luncheon featuring UM social work Professor Janet Finn discussing her new book, Mining Childhood: Growing up in Butte, 1900-1960. Holiday Inn Downtown, 200 S. Pattee St. 11:45 AM–1 PM. $20. Call Barbara by Sat., Jan. 12 for reservations at 721-2881.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elkcamp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.

519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

nightlife It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

It’s a new year, time for a new you, and a new you starts with talking right. The Compassionate Communication Class develops the tools for making effective conversation.

725 W. Alder St. #17. 725. 6–7:30 PM. $65 per single class or $120 for two. Contact Patrick Marsolek for info. or to register call 443-3439 or info@PatrickMarsolek.com The Missoula Patriots meeting features Lloyd Phillips of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, who talks upcoming state legislative issues, guns and of course the Second Amendment. Valley Christian School, 2526 Sunset Ln. 7 PM. Find your dance and yourself at Turning the Wheel’s Tapestry class, which is a self-expression-filled improvisational dance bonanza.

Headwaters Dance Company studio, 1042 Monroe St. 7:30-9 PM. $10. Proceeds benefit Turning the Wheel’s school programs.

[calendar] Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: January 12 is Rob Zombie’s 48th birthday, what is the name of the first theatrically released film he directed? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Take a reading on your wrist, and if you’re alive motor over to the Badlander’s Live and Local Night with prog stoner-metaleers Darshan Pulse. 9 PM. Free.

Irie eyes be smiling at Royal Reggae, a weekly night of dance hall tuneage by local DJs Supa J, Smiley Banton and Oneness.

Palace. 9 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAYJAN.16 Grandma’s Little Darlings provide an evening of boot stomping mountain and junk band tunes at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. 5 PM. Free.

Don’t ask Julie Galloway about the clay shaping scene in Ghost,

but do learn art stuff from the professor of ceramics and Director of UM’s School of Art during the 3rd Wednesday Artist Program. MAM, 335 N. Pattee St. 10 AM. Free.

nightlife Find out how we can quit throwing so many tongue depressors in the trash at the Sustainable Business Council’s talk, Reaching Toward Environmentally Sustainable Health Care, with Beth Schenk of St. Patrick’s Hospital. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 5:30 PM. Hey, winter is here and TV ain’t exactly pumping out the good stuff these days, so get off your bum for a few and take Cathy Clark’s West Coast Swing Class at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave. 7 PM. $5.

Kraptastic Karaoke welcomes Black Eyed Peas fanatics to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Electroswing is a thing so be a cherry poppin’ daddy and check out the music tunes at The Shadow Speakeasy 2: A Night of Electroswing featuring tunes

Photo courtesy of Ben Wesemann

Bricks in the wall. Them Teasters bring some old time rock and roll to the Badlander, 208 Ryman St., on Fri., Jan 11, at 9 PM, with The Runs. $5.

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pleasure king

THURSDAYJAN.17

Those of you dear readers who regularly scan the “8 Days a Week” calendar section of this paper have undoubtedly come across Richie Reinholdt’s name more than once, and often three or more times in a week. Reinholdt is one of the most recognizable performers in the area, playing solo or in Britchy with Britt Arnesen, as well as performing with the Country Kings. Having seen Reinholdt perform on many occasions I can say that he is one of the most laidback and competent players around these parts. If he made a mistake we wouldn’t know it unless he owned up to it.

And he most likely won’t be smashing any guitars or doing his best Pete Townsend windmill impression either. He simply respects the songs he plays and performs them graciously and with alacrity.

Take a ride, captain, on the Crystal Country Music, and some ship that is, with the Best Westerns at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. Free.

nightlife Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. December’s guest, Mary Place Allyn, MSW, offers ideas about celebrating the holidays after experiencing loss. Dr. Alison Forney Gorman will facilitate this conversation. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

His new album, Pleasure Madness, is a quiet affair lacking bluster. No bluster is a good thing. This is the kind of album you might put on in your living room while cooking dinner. The kind that quietly catches your hips and has your feet shuffling as you dice tomatoes or shred cheese. The topics are your basic country music tropes: love, lost love and trains. In “Breaking My Heart,” Reinholdt sings

Hear the acoustical tuneage of ol’ John Schiever when plays at Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery from 6–8:30 PM. Free.

in his Tom Petty-esque voice, along with musical accomplice Britt Arnesen, “You’re out every night and I’m walking the floor/Waiting for you to stumble through the door/Whiskey on your breath when you finally come home/Your lipstick is smeared, dress is tattered and torn.” As Dr. Phil would say, WHO: Richie Reinholdt you treat people how to treat you, and the narWHAT: Pleasure Madness CD release party rator of this piece gets what he deserves in my book (Just leave her already!). However, if what WHERE: Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Dr. Phil says is a truism, then Reinholdt’s latest release teaches us that we should check out an WHEN: Sat., Jan. 12, at 6 PM artist with a lifetime of sustained superior perHOW MUCH: Free formances and that we’ll be rewarded with earfuls of tasty licks and timeless tunes.

MORE INFO: richiereinholdt.bandcamp.com

played by DJs Logisticalone, Anivox, HauLi, and Geeter. Palace.

9 PM. Free. Zoot suit not required but encouraged. Pub trivia answer: House of 1000 Corpses.

—Jason McMackin

Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.).

7:30 PM. Free will offering.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 8–10 PM.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams. Just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it. That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people.

Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Show up the rest of the room with your version of “Ninja Survive” when you hit the Dark Horse for Combat Karaoke hosted

by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free.

Bow down to musical royalty when country soundgineers the Country Kings play for you all at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9 PM. Free.

Big time folksters The Hasslers bring their special brand of “hard-hitting folk” to the VFW, 245 W. Main St., each Thursday during the month January, with special guests and a collection of bizarre dolls (untrue). 10 PM. $2.

Get stretched out for winter fun, folks. There is a whole mess of good time winter shenanigans afoot. I plan to make 1,000 snow angels before winter’s end, won’t you join me? Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Jan. 11 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH Although bergs of ice are currently bobbing down the Clark Fork River and powder-filled mountains beckon riders to shred the gnar, there is a subset of river rats jonesing to get back out on the water. Kevin Colburn, national stewardship director of American Whitewater, a river advocacy group, shares his thoughts and stories about exploring some of the least-visited rivers in the country, many of which happen to be right here in the Treasure State.

Although Colburn tells tales of big-time trips on primordial front range rivers—one in particular where he packed a lightweight raft and walked 7.5 miles, then floated and packed some more before finishing the trip on the water. He also plans to talk about threats to the state’s rivers.

Some of the threats include possible oil and gas development on the Rocky Mountain Front and

plans to build new dams here and in Idaho.

American Whitewater would like to see more nearby rivers designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers so that they can receive federal protection. Montana hasn’t had a stream designated as such since 1976, and only 1⁄4 of 1 percent of all rivers in the United States have received the designation. Colburn aims to make his backcountry documentation of these oft-unvisited streams an impetus to protect these quiet, pristine waterscapes.

—Jason McMackin Kevin Colburn speaks at The Trail Head, 221 E. Front St., Tue., Jan. 15, at 7 PM during the meeting of the Shining Mountains Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Society. Visit americanwhitewater.org.

Photo by Chad Harder

FRIDAY JANUARY 11 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Let the kids climb the walls while you have a snort next door at Draught Works at the Freestone Climbing Center’s Kids Climbing Club. Kids get instruction and encouragement; you get to chill ‘til the next episode. 935 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. $25 per month.

Make sure your first time is safe and that the person you’re doing it with knows what they’re doing. So moto on over to First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY JANUARY 12 If you need an excuse to get all heady and leave town, the Big Sky Resort SnoBall and SnowBar pop off today, with outdoor partying, electronical tunes and undoubtedly a farmer’s grip of glow sticks. Visit bigskyresort.com.

Just don’t run on a full stomach during Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which occurs every Sat. at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. After the run/walk, you’ll grab breakfast with other participants. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Learn if frogs really do freeze solid each winter at the Montana Natural History Center’s Saturday Kid’s Activity: Hibernation Celebration. Btdubs, I like frogs. 120 Hickory St. 2–3 PM. $3/$1 members/adults free.

MONDAY JANUARY 14 Get the scoop on the Rocky Mountain Front when Dave Hannah of the Nature Conservancy gives a spiel about its prairie fens, limber pine savanna, grizzly bears and grassland birds during the Native Plant Society and Five Valleys Audubon joint meeting. Gallagher Business Bldg., Rm. 123. 7:30 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16 Hit the K-12 and do it for your brother who died trying to break that record back in ‘78 at Whitefish Mountain Resort’s Wednesday Night Race League.

Alpine racing y’all at 6:30 PM, partying afterward.

Visit skiwhitefish.com.

THURSDAY JANUARY 17 The FWP hosts a Trapping Short Course and Trap Release Clinic for those who want to learn more about furbearer management. This class is geared toward those who do not trap but are curious about trapping. FWP regional office, 3201 Spurgin Rd. 6:30–9 PM. Visit fwp.mt.gov.

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I have smoked oregano. I am not proud of that. I was 11, so what? More interesting is the why. It was just something we did because kids are stupid. We goofy kids probably saw an ABC afterschool special about smoking banana peels or some such nonsense and decided to try out getting highed up, not knowing what that meant. By the way, oregano does not get you high, but the significant amount of coughing it induces can make you light-headed.

While making light of my personal stupidity is always a good time, it’s important to remember that more people than ever have a lot of powerfully addictive drugs in their medicine chests. It’s also important to remember that, as a whole, we’ve become pretty flippant about their use and their storage. The Missoula Forum for Children and Youth hopes to share the dangers of keeping those

leftover pain pills around “just in case” at the group’s Prescription Drug Awareness talk.

As we learned earlier, kids are morons/curious and will find them and will do something with them, even if it is only to bring them to school to show off. At the event, Dr. Greg Kazemi of the St. Patrick Hospital Emergency Department will be on hand to talk about prescription drug awareness, along with Kenzie Clark, a student in UM’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy. Also, the Missoula Police Department will be available to collect unused prescription pills in the bottle, no questions asked.

—Jason McMackin Community Conservation: Prescription Drug Awareness and Drug Take Back is on Tue., Jan. 15, at 7 PM, on the third floor of the University Center.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY JANUARY 11 Jack Wiegman addresses the Five Valleys Pachyderm Club to discuss Defending Against Illusion.

Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. Noon. $11 for lunch. Visit missoulapachyderm.org.

Join the Missoula Community Foundation staff and board and celebrate 2012’s accomplishments and look ahead to a fruitful 2013. Tunes by Leif & Willard, snacks sponsored by the Good Food Store, complimentary wine, beer and soft drinks and a free raffle. Well, yeah. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. 5 PM.

MONDAY JANUARY 14 Doctors from both St. Pat’s and Community hospitals are on hand at the City Club Missoula Forum: Health Care Reform, the Triple Aim, and What it Means to You. The forum takes place at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St. $16/$11 members/$5 without lunch. RSVP at cityclubmissoula.org.

Ask about the people movers we were promised at the Long Range Transportation Plan Open House, which discusses new sidewalks, roads and other transportial deals at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St. 5:30–7 PM. Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat, 633 Fifth St. E. 6:30 PM.

The Bonner Milltown Community Council talks air quality, burning permits, Blackfoot River debris and confluence access. Plus the upcoming deadline for council positions. Bonner School Library. 7 PM.

TUESDAY JANUARY 15 Put a stop to the inversions, or at least keep tabs on them, and volunteer for the Missoula CityCounty Air Quality Advisory Council, which tracks all things air-related including smoke levels and odors.

Deadline is 5 PM today. Call Sarah at 258-3642.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

The Missoula Patriots meeting features Lloyd Phillips of the Montana Shooting Sports Association who talks upcoming state legislative issues, guns and of course the Second Amendment. Valley Christian School, 2526 Sunset Ln. 7 PM.

THURSDAY JANUARY 17 Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.). 7:30 PM. Free will offering.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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LOO-CO•This good-looking Rottweiler X is full of energy and definitely has a mischievous nature. He'd do best in a home without livestock, and he's so smart that he definitely needs secure confinement. He's full of affection, however, and would love to share it with a family.

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HIS BACK TO THE WALLET My girlfriend of a year is enormously wealthy and very generous. Despite my protestations, she loves buying me nice clothes and other gifts, and appears to expect little or nothing in return except my love. I have a professional job but much more modest means. There's no way I can return her generosity in any material sense. How might I be able to give a visible and meaningful sign of my commitment to her? She wears rings on both hands with huge diamonds, and anything I might be able to afford would seem trivial by comparison.

—Underfunded It’s a losing battle, giving jewelry to a woman who prompts thoughts like "Is that a diamond on your finger or have they discovered a new planet and given it to you to wear?"

You're actually lucky you can't take the spendy way out. It makes it too easy to drag a duffel bag of cash to the obvious places: the jewelry store, the cashmere store, the handbags that cost more than some compact cars store. These items aren't exactly horrible gifts, but a better choice is "the gift that keeps on giving," which, I know, sounds like something you get from drinking the water in Mexico. It actually describes a feeling you give another person—the feeling that she's loved— through showing her that it means a lot to you to make her happy, and not just on Christmas, Valentine's Day, and days you're trying to say you're sorry for doing something you shouldn't have.

By truly listening when a woman talks and then using the intel you get to make her life happier, easier, and more fun, you tell her a very loving thing: "I'm paying attention to who you are." You can say this by going out of your way to pick her up a latte or her favorite snack; by making a $50 book with your photos and captions about all the things you love about her (Shutterfly.com, Apple.com); by sending sweet, funny, 30-second videos you shoot of yourself on your phone; and by fixing things she didn't realize were unwieldy, uncomfortable, or broken until you made them better. In other words, any guy with a spare $100,000 lying around can buy a woman a ginormous diamond. It takes a really special guy to give her a bag of pinecones (assuming he's trying to remind her of happy times she spent at her family's cabin as a kid, and not just getting rid

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FIFTY SHADES OF GAY My girlfriend and I are lesbians in our mid 30s and totally committed. She's pretty and more feminine than I am and likes getting male attention, and she gets it—in restaurants, bars, pretty much anyplace public. Last night at dinner, some cute waiter dude was flirting with her, and she flirted back (nothing crazy, just teasing him, etc.). I got really upset. She apologized and reassured me that she's just playing, and that it was harmless because she wasn't flirting with a cute girl. Besides not getting why she's into this, I find myself resenting guys for not respecting our relationship, or worse, not even noticing it.

—The Girlfriend The next time a guy comes up and says, "Hi, I'm Jeremy. I'm your waiter," you could just grab your girlfriend's boob and say, "Hi, we're Samantha and Karen, and we're life partners." Otherwise, it's mostly a big straight world out there, so people won't always get that you're together—assuming you aren't dating Rachel Maddow or sporting matching crew cuts, grandpa cardigans, and combat boots.

As for why your girlfriend flirts, flirting is a form of play—and a ploy. People, gay and straight, flirt their way to free drinks or a better deal at the tire shop, to get confirmation that they've still "got it," or to flex their charm to make themselves and other people feel good. (No, when the supermarket cashier teasingly cards the 9,000-year-old lady, it isn't because he's looking to get busy with her in the back seat of his car.)

If there's no reason to suspect your girlfriend is cheating on you, or would, and if she's only bantering briefly, not making you feel ignored, consider whether it's really her flirting you're upset about. (Maybe there are underlying insecurities or problems that need addressing?) It's generally a bad idea to cramp your partner's style, and especially when you know that her "relationship" with the waiter will end with her leaving him a tip—the monetary kind, not an idea of what it might take for him to slide her around on the Kinsey Scale.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Dear Rob the Astrologer: I have a big question for you. If I could get access to a time machine, where would you suggest I should go? Is there a way to calculate the time and place where I could enjoy favorable astrological connections that would bring out the best in me?

-Curious Taurus." Dear Curious: Here are some locations that might be a good fit for you Tauruses right now: Athens, Greece in 459 B.C.; Constantinople in 1179; Florence, Italy in 1489; New York in 2037. In general, you would thrive wherever there are lots of bright people co-creating a lively culture that offers maximum stimulation. You need to have your certainties challenged and your mind expanded and your sense of wonder piqued.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Will archaeologists find definitive evidence of the magical lost continent of Atlantis in 2013? Probably not. How about Shambhala, the mythical kingdom in Central Asia where the planet's greatest spiritual masters are said to live? Any chance it will be discovered by Indiana Jones-style fortune hunters? Again, not likely. But I do think there's a decent chance that sometime in the next seven months, many of you Geminis will discover places, situations, and circumstances that will be, for all intents and purposes, magical and mythical.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): There's a spot in the country of Panama where you can watch the sun rise in the east over the Pacific Ocean. In another Panamanian location, you can see the sun set in the west over the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing weird is involved. Nothing twisted or unearthly.

It's simply a quirk of geography. I suspect that a similar situation will be at work in your life sometime soon.

Things may seem out of place. Your sense of direction might be off-kilter, and even your intuition could seem to be playing tricks on you. But don't worry. Have no fear. Life is simply asking you to expand your understanding of what "natural" and "normal" are.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Metaphorically speaking, a pebble was in your shoe the whole past week. You kept thinking, "Pretty soon I've got to take a minute to get rid of that thing," and yet you never did. Why is that? While it wasn't enormously painful, it distracted you just enough to keep you from giving your undivided attention to the important tasks at hand. Now here's a news flash: The damn pebble is still in your shoe. Can I persuade you to remove it? Please?

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Even when you know exactly what you want, it's sometimes crucial for you not to accomplish it too fast. It may be that you need to mature more before you're ready to handle your success. It could be that if you got all of your heart's desire too quickly and easily, you wouldn't develop the vigorous willpower that the quest was meant to help you forge. The importance of good timing can't be underestimated, either: In order for you to take full advantage of your dreamcome-true, many other factors in your life have to be in place and arranged just so. With those thoughts in mind, Virgo, I offer you this prediction for 2013: A benevolent version of a perfect storm is headed your way.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Artists who painted images in caves 30,000 years ago did a pretty good job of depicting the movements of four-legged animals like horses. In fact, they were more skilled than today's artists. Even the modern experts who illustrate animal anatomy textbooks don't match the accuracy of the people who decorated cave walls millennia ago. So says a study reported in Livescience.com (http://tinyurl.com/CaveArtMagic). I'd like to suggest this is a useful metaphor for you to consider, Libra. There's some important task that the old you did better than the new you does. Now would be an excellent time to recapture the lost magic.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): After evaluating your astrological omens for the coming months, I've decided to name you Scorpios the "Top Sinners of the Year" for 2013. What that means is that I suspect your vices will be more inventive and more charming than those of all the other signs. Your so-called violations may have the effect of healing some debilitating habit. In fact, your "sins" may not be immoral or wicked at all. They might actually be beautiful transgressions that creatively transcend the status quo; they might be imaginative improvements on the half-assed way that things have always been done. To ensure you're always being ethical in your outlaw behavior, be committed to serving the greater good at least as much as your own selfish interests.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here's the horoscope I hope to be able to write for you a year from now: "Your mind just kept opening further and further during these past 12 months, Sagittarius -- way beyond what I ever imagined possible. Congrats! Even as you made yourself more innocent and receptive than you've been in a long time, you were constantly getting smarter and sharpening your ability to see the raw truth of what was unfolding. Illusions and misleading fantasies did not appeal to you. Again, kudos!"

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What does it mean when the dwarf planet Pluto impacts a key point in your horoscope? For Capricorn gymnast Gabby Douglas, it seemed to be profoundly empowering. During the time Pluto was close to her natal sun during last year's Summer Olympics, she won two gold medals, one with her team and one by herself. Luck had very little to do with her triumph. Hard work, self-discipline, and persistence were key factors. I'm predicting that Pluto's long cruise through the sign of Capricorn will give you an opportunity to earn a Gabby Douglas-like achievement in your own sphere -- if, that is, you can summon the same level of willpower and determination that she did. Now would be an excellent time to formally commit yourself to the glorious cause that excites you the most.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock," said humorist Will Rogers. I hope you've been taking care of the "nice doggie" part, Aquarius -holding the adversarial forces and questionable influences at bay. As for the rock: I predict you will find it any minute now, perhaps even within an hour of reading this horoscope. Please keep in mind that you won't necessarily have to throw the rock for it to serve its purpose. Merely brandishing it should be enough.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you know the word "cahoots"? Strictly speaking, it means to be in league with allies who have the same intentions as you do; to scheme and dream with confederates whose interests overlap with yours. Let's expand that definition a little further and make it one of your central themes in the coming week. For your purposes, "cahoots" will signify the following: to conspire with like-minded companions as you cook up some healthy mischief or whip up an interesting commotion or instigate a benevolent ruckus.

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[C4] Missoula Independent • January 10 – January 17, 2013

Voting closes February 10

PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of one Traffic Services Paint Striping Machine – Asphalt Marking Machine. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Traffic Services Paint Striping Machine, Closing, 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 29th, 2013”. Pursuant to Section 18-1102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and/or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 29th, 2013. Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at HYPERLINK “http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids ” www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids.

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CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of one Parks Department stump grinder machine.

Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Parks Department stump grinder machine, Closing, 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 29th, 2013”. Pursuant to Section 18-1102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and/or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 29th, 2013.

Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that separate sealed BIDS for the construction of City Development Services, Missoula City Hall will be received by the City of Missoula, office of the City Clerk, located at 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 2:00 PM on January 22, 2013, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud in the Mayor’s Conference Room. All work is to be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by MMW Architects. Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of MMW Architects, located at 125 West Alder

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s Street, Missoula, MT 59802 upon payment of $100.00 for each set and a shipping and handling fee of $35. The documents will be available @ MMW on Thursday, December 20, 2012 after 1:00 PM. Any BIDDER, upon returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS promptly and in good condition, will be refunded their payment, and any NON-BIDDER upon so returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS will be refunded $100.00. Any shipping and handling fee will not be refunded.

Each Bid or Proposal must be accompanied by a cashiers check, certified check, or Bid Bond payable to The City of Missoula in the amount of not less than ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid and must be in the form specified in MCA 18-1-201 through 206. The bid bond or other security shall protect and indemnify City of Missoula against the failure or refusal of the bidder to enter into the contract within 30 days of bid acceptance. Bid security will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Late bids will not be accepted and will automatically be disqualified from further consideration.

Bid must be signed by an authorized representative of the bidder.

Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 399-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law.

The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula Business Licensing requirements. The Montana Prevailing Wage Rates for Building Construction 2012 apply to this project. The City of Missoula reserves the right to waive informalities, to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid, which is in the best interest of the owner, to reject any and all proposals received, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award, as in the judgment of its officials, best meets the owner’s requirements. The contractor is required to be an equal opportunity employer. Successful bidders shall furnish an approved performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount. Insurance as required shall be provided by the successful bidder(s) and a certificate(s) of that insurance shall be provided. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is 2:00 PM, local time, January 22, 2013. There will be a prebid conference at MMW Architects, 125 West Alder Street on January 10, 2012 at 10:00 AM, and existing facility walk-through is scheduled immediately following the pre-bid conference at the site, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula MT 59802. Please meet at MMW Architects. Each BIDDER will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor.

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BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for City Development Services, Missoula City Hall, c/o Office of the City Clerk” and addressed to: Office of the City Clerk 435 Ryman Street Missoula, MT 59802 The envelopes shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name, Address and Montana Contractor’s Registration Number. Interested contractors are encouraged to sign up for automatic notifications and updates on this and other City projects by visiting www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. Click on the “Bid Notification” button in the upper right hand corner of the page to sign up.

CITY OF MISSOULA An audit of the affairs of the Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA), Missoula, Montana, has been conducted by Anderson Zurmuehlen & Co. P.C. of Missoula, MT. The audit covered the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012. The audit report is on file in its entirety and is open to public inspection at the City of Missoula Clerk’s Office, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802. The audit report is also available at the MRA website: www.ci.missoula.mt.us/mra MRA will send a copy of the audit report to any interested person upon request. Write to MRA, 140 West Pine Street, Missoula MT 59802, call (406) 552-6160 or email mra@ci.missoula.mt.us CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF JOINT CITY/COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council and the Missoula County Commissioners will hold a joint public hearing on Monday, January 14, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine,

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 36, 201, and 228. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 1/21/2013 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 1/24/2013 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

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Missoula, Montana, on a resolution to expend up to $54,000 of the 2006 Open Space Bond funds to purchase a 27 acre parcel and grant a conservation easement on the property to the Five Valleys Land Trust in order to extend the Grant Creek Bicycle/Pedestrian Trail parallel to Grant Creek Road. A copy of the resolution is available in the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact Jackie Corday, Parks & Recreation at 5526267. Citizens are encouraged to attend the meeting and comment on the proposal. If you cannot attend, you may e-mail your comments to the City Council at council@ci.missoula.mt.us and the Board of County Commissioners at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. You can also mail them to the City Clerk at the address listed above. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION for the issuance of a MISSOULA AIR QUALITY PERMIT Source: Gravel Crushing Plant Applicant: Interstate Con-

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Monday, January 28, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana: 602 Myrtle St – Tavern/Nightclub Conditional Use Request from Tim O’Leary, representing Helen S. O’Leary, for a Conditional Use approval at 602 Myrtle St (see Map C), zoned C1-4 (Neighborhood Commercial). The applicant requests the Conditional Use in order to utilize a beer and wine license at the site. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and case file are available for public inspection at the Development Services office, 435 Ryman Street. Call 552-6630 for further assistance. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 552-6630. The Development Services office will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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1 Chill, as with your homies 5 Perro's housemate 9 Champion skier Phil 14 Epps of "House" 15 Tortilla's cousin 16 How storybooks are read 17 Long-running PBS show 18 Stud stakes 19 Describes in words 20 Chess computer + thick directory?

23 More up to it 24 Like some January forecasts 25 Obedience school command 27 Carrier based in Sigtuna, Sweden 28 News notices 32 Bop on the head 33 Hit, in olden times 34 Samuel on the Supreme Court 35 Source of wealth + source of mozzarella?

39 Ready to rest 40 Seize 41 Award given by a cable station 42 Aziz of "Parks and Recreation" 44 They house engines, for short 47 Biblical verb ending 48 ___ standstill 49 Toto's type of terrier 51 Colorful bubbly + Dallas Mavericks shooting guard?

56 Home of Jumeirah Beach 57 Hot rock 58 Figure on a car sticker 59 Insts. of higher learning 60 Corporate honcho 61 Take ___ from 62 Gives the thumbs-up to 63 Benedict of "The A-Team" 64 His ___ (cribbage term; anagram of SNOB)

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1 Fit and Civic 2 "The Far Side" organism 3 Subjects of gazing 4 Trix flavor 5 Metal band known for its foam costumes 6 Duncan appointed to the Obama cabinet 7 "Damages" actor Donovan 8 Gift giver's command 9 Peninsula in SE Asia 10 Sacha Baron Cohen character 11 It's reached after returning from a long journey 12 Meets by chance 13 Mag workers 21 One of 26 for Stevie Wonder 22 They can crash 26 Ring decision 29 Lucy of "Elementary" 30 Airport abbr.

31 Picture puzzle 32 Put your hands together 33 "Ghost Hunters" network 34 Continent home to the world's newest nation 35 Genre for Talking Heads and Killing Joke 36 Class including salamanders and toads 37 Olympics chant 38 Teddy bear exterior 39 Average grade 42 Place where you need a PIN 43 Completely got 44 Total disaster 45 Marinade alternative 46 Website to see if your favorite urban legend is really true 48 "Prelude to ___" 50 Jordan's capital 52 Army's football rival 53 Skirt length 54 Done with 55 Fire 56 The Swell Season, e.g.

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PUBLIC NOTICES crete & Asphalt The Missoula City-County Health Department has received a complete application for an Air Quality Permit for a gravel crushing plant to be operated at the following location: Section 18, Township 13 North, Range 19 West at 4685 Mullan Road, Missoula County. Upon review of the permit application and other information, the Department finds that Interstate Concrete & Asphalt has filed a complete application indicating the proposed facility is capable of meeting applicable requirements of the Air Pollution Control Program. Therefore, the Department hereby gives notice of the preliminary determination to issue an Air Quality Permit to Interstate Concrete & Asphalt to operate the gravel crushing plant.

The permit will be issued with several conditions attached. The Department will make a final determination concerning the application on January 28, 2013. Any interested person may review a copy of the application and proposed permit at the Environmental Health Division, 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802. Written comments on the preliminary determination will be accepted until January 25th, 2008. Comments should be sent to the attention of Benjamin Schmidt, Air Quality Specialist (email: bschmidt@co.missoula.mt.us).

MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) FOR ARCHITECTURE SERVICES Missoula County is requesting Letters of Interest and Statements of Qualifications for architectural/engineering services to assist with a space needs analysis, site review of four buildings for possible renovations and preliminary building design with construction cost estimates.

Additionally, work may include designing and supervising the construction of a project or projects.

Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected respondent. A copy of the detailed request for qualifications (RFQ), including a description of the services to be provided by the respondents, the minimum content of responses and the factors to be used to evaluate responses, may be obtained on Missoula County’s website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting Barbara Berens, County Auditor, 199 West Pine, Missoula, MT 59802, bberens@co.missoula.mt.us or 406-258-3227. All responses to the detailed RFQ must be received no later than 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, January 23, 2013.

MISSOULA COUNTY COMMENTS ON CITY’S ANNUAL ACTION PLAN REQUESTED The City of Missoula has developed an Annual Action

Plan describing activities that it will undertake as a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement City and as a Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) Participating Jurisdiction for the program year beginning April 1, 2013. The City’s Program Year 2013 Annual Action Plan will be available for public review and comment starting January 17. A public hearing on the Plan is scheduled before City Council at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, January 28, 2013, in the City Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula. Public comments on the City’s proposed activities submitted by February 14 will be included in the final version of the Annual Action Plan submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Comments may be made in writing or in person at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT, 59802; by phone at 258-4934, or via email to nharte@co.missoula.mt.us. The City of Missoula and OPG welcome comments on its HOME and CDBG activities, Consolidated Plan and annual Action Plans on a year-round basis. Copies of the Action Plan will be available for review at OPG starting Jan. 17 in Missoula City Hall, 435 Ryman; at the Missoula City-County Library, 301 East Main; or on OPG’s web-

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site at www.co.missoula.mt.us\ opgweb. Persons wishing to receive a copy of the Action Plan or to review it in an alternative format should contact Nancy Harte at OPG, 258-4934.

Jason J. Henderson, Esq. Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm 38 Second Ave E Dickinson, ND 58601 Phone: 701-227-1841 Fax: 701-225-6878 cdellwo@mackoff.com MT Bar #11414 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-165 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS INC. ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-12 Plaintiff, v.

GERALD WHITEHEAD; TERRI WHITEHEAD; PATRICIA B. MARTINEZ; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S WHOLESALE LENDER; MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; STATE OF MONTANA, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DIVISION; ALSIDE SUPPLY CENTER; and NORTHWEST COLLECTORS, INC., Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, GREETINGS: GERALD WHITEHEAD: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the

service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

This action is brought for the purpose of rescinding a Trustee’s Sale and Trustee’s Deed, and to reinstate a Note and Deed of Trust covering property situated in Gallatin County, Montana, and described as follows: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 2 OF LINDA VISTA TENTH SUPPLEMENT PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 11th day of December, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust Clerk of District Court BY: Andy Brunkhardt (SEAL) Deputy Clerk DATED: October 3, 2012. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for the Plaintiff 38 Second Avenue East Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 By: /s/ Jason J. Henderson, Attorney #11414 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. NOTICE. Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you dispute the validity of the foregoing debt or any portion thereof within thirty days after receipt of this letter, we will assume the debt to be valid.

On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt and will mail you a copy of such verification. You are also advised that upon your request within the thirty day period, we will provide you with the name and address of your original creditor, if different from the creditor referred to in this Notice. We are attempt-

ing to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Missoula County Airport Authority Missoula International Airport Request for Qualifications and Proposals For General Contractor/Construction Manager Services The Missoula County Airport Authority is formally requesting a statement of interest and qualifications for General Contractor/Construction Manager (GC/CM) services for the expansion and remodel of the Airport’s existing Operations & Maintenance Building. Parties interested in an RFQ/RFP packet should contact Cathy Tortorelli or Nancy Van Zant at the Missoula County Airport Authority Administration Office, 5225 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 728-4381. Submissions to this RFQ/RFP request will be accepted no later than 1:00 pm, local time on February 1, 2013.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-1471 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Clifford A. Sipp-Angst, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Clifford Anthony Sipp-Angst to Clifford Anthony Steele. The hearing will be on 01/22/2013 at 2:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 12/13/12. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Andrew Jenks, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DA-12-46 NOTICE OF HEARING TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS AND

ADOPTION In re the Adoption of B.D.M. n/k/a B.D.L. a Minor Child. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Petitioner, Scott Patrick Lenz (“Lenz”), has filed a petition with this Court requesting to terminate the parental rights of Jacob Salvador Montano with respect to the minor child B.D.M. n/k/a B.D.L. (“minor child”), and has filed a Petition to adopt the minor child, born on July 31, 2006, in Banner Desert Medical Center, in Mesa, Arizona. NOW, therefore, notice is given to Jacob Salvador Montano (“Montano”) and all persons interested in the matter that a hearing on the petitions will be held at the Courthouse in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, on February 12, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., in the above-named Court, whose telephone number is (406) 258-4780, at which time objections to said Petitions will be heard.

Montano must mail his objections, if any, to Lenz at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, Montana, 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. Montano’s failure to appear at the hearing constitutes his waiver of interest in custody of the minor child and will result in the court’s termination of his rights to the minor child, and enter a decree establishing a relationship between the Petitioner and the minor child. DATED this 28th day of December, 2012. /s/ Linda Osorio St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO 1 ED MCLEAN CAUSE NO. DV-12-1377 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. EDWIN BRESTER Plaintiff, v. HENRY GLANTZ, MOLLIE GLANTZ, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL

PUBLIC NOTICES OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of Quieting Title to the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 19, 20 and 21 in Block 81 of Daly Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Dated this 18th day of December, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Andrew Jenks, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-12-215 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUE ANN SHAFFER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James A. Shaffer and Gale M. Shaffer, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 9th day of December, 2012. /s/ James A. Shaffer, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Gale M. Shaffer, Co-Personal Representative WORDEN THANE, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-12-219 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the BETTY JUNE DAHLSTROM, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MICHAEL RAY DAHLSTROM has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-entitled estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to MICHAEL RAY DAHLSTROM, the personal representative, return receipt requested at c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of January, 2013. /s/ Victor F. Valgenti, attorney for Michael Ray Dahlstrom, Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-12-222 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET M. BRABECK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jeanne M Brabeck, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 20th day of December, 2012. /s/ Jeanne M. Brabeck, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-224 Dept. 2 Judge Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO

CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of MARGERY JEAN FOOT, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jamie Lee Foot, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of her attorney, Kristine L. Foot, Foot Law Offices, P.C., 701 W. Central Ave., Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the Court. Dated this 13th day of December, 2012 /s/ Jamie Lee Foot, Personal Representative Dated this 24th day of December, 2012. FOOT LAW OFFICES, P.C. Attorney for the Personal Representative /s/ Kristine L. Foot NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/18/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200611976, Bk. 774, Pg. 1330, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Peggy S. Goodsell and Lewis A. Goodsell, as Joint Tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mortgageit, Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 3748, located in the Northwest onequarter of the Northwest one-quarter of the Southeast one-quarter of Section 29, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201202577, Bk. 889, Pg. 654, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 13, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $146,184.76.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $141,442.46, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.103366) 1002.234782-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200733266 Bk 811 Pg 138, mortgage records of Missoula County, Mon-

tana in which Marvin J. Garding and Kim M. Garding, as Joint Tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Stewart Title Company of Missoula, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title Company of Missoula, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 16 and 17 in Block 7 of Hillview Heights #6 in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201210438 Bk 895 Pg 115, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 14, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $133,029.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $116,304.55, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any).

Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.92807) 1002.234826-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097, Bk. 788, Pg. 366, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew M. Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Kalberg Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201200002, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Loan Trust 2007WF1. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced

by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 20, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $559,739.97. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $365,584.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any).

Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.17612) 1002.99556-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 6 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5796, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH EASEMENTS ACROSS TRACT 4 AND TRACT 8 FOR ACCESS AND SEPTIC DRAINFIELD AND UTILITY SITE AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5796 William J. Cleek and Michelle L. Cleek, as Grantors), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 17, 2007 and recorded on December 27, 2007 on Book 810 and Page 1440 as Document No. 200733112. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,398.64, beginning March 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 31, 2012 is $214,887.36 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $23,973.39, late charges in the amount of $762.89, escrow advances of $6,298.49, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,122.97, plus accruing interest at the rate of $37.53 per diem, late charges, and other costs and tees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by

the Deed of Trust Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or. any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee sale may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 15, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, Lisa J Tornabene First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 15th day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase Vs. Cleek 41954.955 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 19, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND BEING LOCATED IN THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 9A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1725. #005821635 Craig Puccinelli and Jolanda Puccinelli, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Fremont Investment & Loan, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 25, 2001 and Recorded on April 30, 2001 in Bk-650, Pg-43, under Document No. 200108926. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC f/k/a WM Specialty Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $881.96, beginning December 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 29, 2012 is $96,469.08 principal, interest at the rate of 9.250% now totaling $16,325.00, late charges in the amount of $54.95, escrow advances of $4,710.08, suspense balance of $-498.20 and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,922.66, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.45 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may

become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 10, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 10th day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase vs. Puccinelli 41916.429 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 01, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 6 AND 7 IN BLOCK 47 OF SUNRISE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF DANA R NICHOLS AND TABITHA NICHOLS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 22, 2006 and recorded on June 28, 2006 at 4:27 o’clock P.M., in Book 777, Page 1193, under Document No. 200615820. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 20067 by Washington Mutual Bank as successor in interest to Long Beach Mortgage Company. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust, by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,444.59, beginning January 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 26, 2012 is $171,198.03 principal, interest at the rate of 9.350% now totaling $62,500.54, late charges in the amount of $86.68, escrow advances of $8,203.66, suspense balance

of $-397.61 and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,588.32, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.85 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 23, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 23rd day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase Vs Nichols 41816.853 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 4, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The following described premises, in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: Lot 19 in Block 4 of EO Mar Estates Phase 1, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Being the same fee simple property conveyed by deed from Larry Zagelow by Deanna Zagelow as Attorney in Fact and Deanna Zagelow as Attorney in Fact and Deanna Zagelow Joint Tenants to David Dixon and Kristin Berry Joint Tenants, dated 3/1/2005 recorded on 3/4/2005 in Book 748 Page 1366 in Missoula County Records, State of MT. Properly described as: Lot 19 in Block 4 of El Mar Estates Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Kristin Berry and David Dixon, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Finiti Title, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CitiFinancial, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 31, 2007 and recorded on August 3, 2007 in Book 802, Page 1357 under Document No. 200719955. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiFinancial, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust

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PUBLIC NOTICES by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,881.63, beginning September 15, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 22, 2012 is $187,215.79 principal, interest at the rate of 11.6088% now totaling $43,849.74, and other fees and expenses advanced of $50.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $59.54 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to

the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 30, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Citifinancial V Dixon 41499.967 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 4, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 3A OF

DAWN ACRES NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Dawn E. Lorash and Stephen W. Lorash, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank- Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 4, 2004 and recorded on May 10, 2004 in Book 731, Page 1396 as Document No. 200412535. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger to Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,176.01, beginning June 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 9, 2012 is $141,427.41 principal, interest at the rate of 5.8750% now totaling $12,645.49, late charges in the amount of $804.44, escrow advances of $3,916.77, suspense balance of $-281.21 and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,934.01, plus accruing interest at the rate of $22.76 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be

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charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 24, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services

P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 24th day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage Vs. Lorash 41926.901 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on February 19, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in and being a portion of the SW 1/4 of Section 12, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, and being more particularly described as tract 2C of certificate of survey No. 5209 P. Michael Croker, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 27, 2005 and recorded on June 29, 2005 in Book 755, Page 162, under Document No. 200516114. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Trust 2005-WL3. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said

Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,125.91, beginning November 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 2, 2012 is $276,444.44 principal, interest at the rate of 7.900% now totaling $45,617.92, late charges in the amount of $3,200.37, escrow advances of $9,338.22, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,359.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $59.83 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real properly taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the

property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for, any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 12, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 12th day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Chase V. Croker 41916.665 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/16/2013 at the

PUBLIC NOTICES hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RUSSELL C SMITH, AND TRACI SMITH, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/05/2009 and recorded 06/15/2009, in document No. 200914280 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 841 at Page Number 720 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TOWIT: LOT 52 OF SOUTHPOINTE-PHASE III, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO: 3471301 MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: LOT 52 OF SOUTHPOINTE-PHASE III, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3615 BRANDON WAY, MISSOULA, MT 59803-2965. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $236,299.95 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 04/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0057405 FEI NO. 1006.162753 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/16/2013, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed,

together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DONALD R. FOREMAN AND MARKAY FOREMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to WESTERN TITLE & ESCROW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/27/2007 and recorded 07/03/2007, in document No. 200717008 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 800 at Page Number 1213 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 31 OF STILLWATER ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. SEE TITLE A.P.N.: 209224-1-02-31-0000 MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: LOT 31 OF STILLWATER ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3687 RODEO ROAD, MISSOULA, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $206,036.93 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 05/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 11/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0068610 FEI NO. 1006.164734 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 04/26/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the

SUSTAINAFIEDS trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SANDRA G ROSTAD, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/18/2003 and recorded 08/26/2003, in document No. 200331595 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 715 at Page Number 1344 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE WEST 15 FEET OF LOT 8 AND ALL OF LOTS 9 AND 10 IN BLOCK 20 OF CAR LINE ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL NO. 0037158. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: THE WEST 15 FEET OF LOT 8 AND ALL OF LOTS 9 AND 10 IN BLOCK 20 OF CAR LINE ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 618 MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 2081. Property Address: 2401 WEST KENT AVENUE, MISSOULA, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by HSBC BANK USA, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES INC. MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 20041, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-1.

There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $109,715.66 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.75% per annum from 03/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 12/13/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0057023 FEI NO. 1006.162339

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1826 S. 4TH ST. W.: 2 BEDROOM, 2ND FLOOR, CARPORT & STORAGE, ON-SITE LAUNDRY FACILITIES, BIG CLOSETS, BY GOOD FOOD STORE, PRIVATE DECK, NO SMOKING OR DOGS, CAT AL-

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528 Daly: 1 bed, 1/2 block to U, wood floors, deck, cat welcome, $625. 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP. Garden City Property Management 549-6106 731 W. Sussex #4. 2bed/1bath HEAT PAID, carport, coin-ops. $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1502 Ernest #5 1bd/1ba, w/d hookups, central location … $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 825 SW Higgins Ave. B3. 2 bed/1 bath HEAT PAID, patio, single garage, gas fireplace. $800. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 New Complex, 1 & 2 bedroom units, $625-$795 DW, A/C, deck, storage, coin-op laundry, limited off-street parking, W/S/G paid, 2 bedroom units have W/D hookups or 2nd bath. No pets. No smoking.

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 108 North Davis. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage near Milwaukee Bike Path. Lots of upgrades and a great front porch. $180,000.

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1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $380,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 11689 Stolen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $319,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

1480 Cresthaven. 3 bed, 2.5 bath on over one private acre. Open floor plan, dream master bathroom and double garage. $350,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 1623 Wild Turkey Lane, Stevensville. Over 200 acre private ranch with creek surrounded by conservation easement land. $949,000. Shannon Hilliard, Pru-

dential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath single-level Windsor Park home. $170,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $205,900. Prudential Montana.

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239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $239,900. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 322 David Court. 3 bed, 1 bath on 1/4 fenced acre near river trail. 3 car garage & many great upgrades. $200,000. Shannon

REAL ESTATE Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 4 Bdr, 1 Bath South Hills home. $179,900. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4227 South 7th West. Beautiful sample home to be built. 4 bed, 2.5 bath with covered porch and 2 car garage. Lot available separately for $125,000. MLS #20121798, $325,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com 5209 Dutton Court. 5 bed, 3 bath with fantastic kitchen, laundry room and 3 car garage. Near city park. $339,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 5501 Prospect. 4 bed, 4 bath adjacent to common area in Grant Creek. Sun room, hot tub and many upgrades. $385,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net 955 Clements. 3 bed, 2.5 bath in Target Range with gas fireplace, wood floors, deck and large heated shop. $463,500. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 3608234

Fantastic Home With View 6305 St. Thomas. 4 bed, 3 bath, updated and gorgeous setting with large private lot, double garage, landscaped and ready to move into! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Open Floor Plan 1520 South 6th West. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with wood floors, fenced yard & basement. $185,000. KD Dickinson, Portico Real Estate 327-8787. kdrae52@msn.com Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Remarkably Cute 2039 South 10th West. 2 bedroom home on large lot centrally located near Good Food Store, bike trails and schools. Full basement and single garage. KD, Portico Real Estate, 240-5227 www.porticorealestate.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1641 Stoddard To-be-built 6-plex on Northside. $650,500 Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties 1847 West Central. 3 bed, 1.5 bath townhome with 2 car garage.

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8693 Snapdragon $204,900 • Newly built 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage on 1/4 acre • 10 year building warranty

Original Mex-Federal architecture in sweet, clean village 400 miles south of Tucson. 3.1 acres with building sites, accessible roads & incredible views.

7,000 sq.ft. living area and 10,000 sq.ft. all under roof and portals. Kitchen and baths totally remodeled and modern.

Plus 2 bed guest casita near private 15X10 sparkling pool. Separate condo built in 1999 used as artist's studio.

8' brick walled grounds., elec. gates, parking for 12+ autos.

See albertdaleart.wordpress and albertdaleproperty.com $1.2 million Clear title immediately. 918-513-2129

Mullan Heights Riverside Condos Starting at $144,900 • Large secure units with affordable HOA dues

No HOA fees. MLS #20121385. $158,500. Jake Booher, Prudential Missoula 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com 2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues.

Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 3100 Washburn #31. 2 bed, 1 bath fully remodeled with all appliances & gas fireplace. $100 HOA dues. $117,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com 723 North 5th West. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with maple floors, open kitchen, fenced backyard & lots of light. $179,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 8 Catrina Lane. 2 bed, 1 bath single level townhome with large fenced yard, patio & garage. $132,000. Shannon Hilliard, Pru-

dential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000.

1400 Burns. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Beautiful Downtown Triplex Two 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom; great rental history; great building on Historic Register with tons of character and in great shape! $359,500. 518 Alder porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone superinsulated condo with heated floors and so much more. $250,000.

1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats. From $149,900.

Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, car

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port, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

5980 Greg’s Way. Commercial building lot in Missoula development park allows for 12,000 sq.ft. building. $212,500. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES

Bear Gulch, Garnet Ghost Town. 40 acres bordering BLM land. Great recreational property. $55,000.

Jake Booher, Prudential Montana, 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com

1825 Burlington. Two central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile. Great investment or first time buy. $89,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

Bruin Lane Lots. Near Council Groves & The Ranch Golf Course.

From $85,000. Jake Booher, Pru-

dential Montana. 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com East Missoula Building Lot With great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $55,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Georgetown Lake Lot Bargain price of $44,000 for a 2.87 acre parcel only 6 miles to Discovery and half a mile to the lake, ready to build site, nice open meadow, year round access, 546-4797 www.postlets.com/ repb/4881548

LAND FOR SALE 225 Cumberland, Lolo. 4 bed, 2 bath on cul-de-sac with mountain views. $200,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com 3.2 Acres in the Wye area. Gorgeous mountain and valley views. $65,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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OPEN HOUSE Sunday, Jan. 13 • 1-3pm Lot 1 Riverstone Dr. $214,000 3 bed, 2 bath, 1358 sqft Edgell built efficient craftsman style home. Other lots/plans available.

• Reserve St, east on River Rd. Left on River Place

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Missoula Properties 728-8270

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12791 Junegrass $224,900 • Newly built 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage on 1 acre • 10 year building warranty!

11689 Stolen Rock Court, Frenchtown $319,900 • 5 bed, 3 bath on over 3 acres • Great valley & mountain views

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REAL ESTATE NHN Twin Creek Road/Bonner.

3.69 acres with creek. Mobiles on permanent foundations allowed. $165,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

word Organization! New, LEED registered, high quality, sustainablybuilt office space close to river and downtown. $11-$15 per sq.ft. 2405227 porticorealestate.com

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN

Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on. $160,000. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville.

Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 4 Klakken, Noxon. Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. $259,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

Commercial Lease Space Fantastic opportunity to be a neighbor to the award-winning Home-

15305 Spring Hill Road, Frenchtown. Beautiful cedar 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 3 car garage & deck on acreage bordering Forest Service. $595,000. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

19488 Highway 200 East/ Bonner.

5 bed, 3 bath, basement & 3 car garage on 3 mountain view acres. $399,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 2110 Petty Creek, Alberton. Gorgeous 3 bed, 2.5 with 2 car garage on over 10 acres. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 2351 Highway 83 West, Seeley Lake. 2 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 2.4 lakefront acres. $583,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $240,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

45822 Meadowlark, Polson. 5 bed, 3 bath Lindal Cedar home on over 3 acres on 250 feet of Flathead Lake frontage. $1,600,000.

Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.com Big Arm On Flathead Lake. 45765 Meadow Lake Lane. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on lakefront

acreage. Two additional homes included.

MLS #20120312. $1,200,000. Jake Booher, Prudential Montana 544-6114. jbooher@montana.co PRICE REDUCED! 101 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with separate office. $310,000. Robin

426 East Central $475,000

THE UPTOWN FLATS 5 bed, 3 bath on 3 large lots.

Mother-in-law apartment. Large fenced yard with garden & fruit trees

1 and 2 bedroom condos available Units starting at

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546-5816 Anne Jablonski annierealtor@gmail.com movemontana.com

PORTICO REAL ESTATE theuptownflatsmissoula.com

1825 Burlington $89,900 MLS #20120388 • Two Central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile.

Pat McCormick •N ew windows, Real Estate Broker updated bathrooms, carport & storage shed. Real Estate With Real Experience • Great income potential or pat@properties2000.com first-time buyer opportunity.

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Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net PRICE REDUCED! 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with 48’x30’ shop. $293,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

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