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• Jefferson commissioner saystheir planwouldn't solve the problem TODAY'S READERBOARD Blackout —Marsrovers get special orders in preparation for a period during which
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By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
Private landowners involved with a possible land swap with the federal government say they have a solution to a problem of road access to a proposed Cathedral Rock Wilderness. But a Jefferson County commissioner says he has seen the plan before and it wouldn't solve the problem. Young Life and the Cherry
Creek Ranch are proposing a
trailheadforoverland access to the wilderness off Muddy Creek Road northeast of Madras nearthe JeffersonWasco county line. They also callfor a series offourgates to closesections ofthe roads seasonally to visitors while locals, as well as state and federal agencies, would have keys allowing them to drive the road except when closed by wintry weather. "Anyone who has a reason
or a need to get through there is going to be able to access it," said Matt Smith, vice president of the Cherry Creek Ranch. Young Life, which operates a Christian youth summer camp at Washington Family Ranch, and Cherry Creek Ranch detailed their proposal in a letter to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden in late March. Wyden's office released the plan and letter late Thursday.
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Craig Kilpatrick, land use consultant for Washington Family Ranch, said in an email that he was too busy for an interview Friday with The Bulletin. He did send a map detailing the proposal. While the design has been updated, the location of the four gates and trailhead on the new map are the same as proposed in August 2011 by Young Life and Cherry Creek, according to Jefferson County records. SeeCathedral Rock/A5
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WASHINGTON — Last
year, when Congress instructed the Federal Aviation Administration to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles into American airspace by the end of 2015, it initiated an intense competition to be selected as one of six test sites. After the FAA published its requirements earlier thisyear, 50 groups from 37 statesquickly expressed interest. Oregon has teamed with Alaska and Hawaii to form the Pan-Pacific Unmanned Aerial System Test Range Complex, with Alaska serving asteam leader. "Alaska has over a decade of unmanned aerial vehicle experience, both in termsof research and operational applications," said Eric Simpkins, the chief operating officer of the Pan-Pacific team and Oregon'steam leader. Although remotely piloted aircraft are often called "drones," thanks in large part to the media's use of the term to describe military-style predators, the properterm forthem is unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, Simpkins explained. SeeUAVs/A4
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In the cutthroat world of college chess, the University of Maryland Baltimore County was once as dominant as Duke in basketball or Alabama in football. UMBC was the first school to institutionalize scholarships for top players, recruiting grandmasters from Russia, Germany, Israel and beyond. The playbook worked, enabling a school few had heard of outside of Maryland to rack up six Final Four championships and build a reputation as an intellectual powerhouse on the cheap. Now other schools are
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Drew Hill, 20, of Bend, lays back on a turn while riding an artificial wave at Mavericks at Sunriver Friday afternOOn. In additiOn tO the F1OWrider, MaVerickS featureS a number Of aCtiVitieS inCluding
a climbing wall, a lap pool, massage rooms and even a game arcade. For more information, visit WWW.SunriVerVaCatianS.COm.
Fears of bubble asdigital currency surges By Anthony Faiola and T.W. Farnam The Washington Post
one-upping the king of college chess, raising the specterofthe arms race that plagues other college sports. Just last year, Webster University in St. Louis recruited Texas Tech's diva coach, whose team of Grandmasters followed along. This weekend in Rockville, Md., at the Final Four of college chess, UMBC will be competing, but its longtime chess director suspects his team will lose — dominant no more in a world it created.
"Anything can happen
because it's a competition," said Alan Sherman, UMBC's chess director. "But I'm predicting Webster will be the clear winner." See Chess/A5
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Jonathan Harrison, left, and Amir Taaki hold a copy of Bitcoin magazine outside a dilapidated commune in London where those working with Bitcoin operate and live. Harrison is a former gold trader who left his job to join the group of bitcoin obsessives.
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LONDON — A currency surging in value at a breathtaking rate this week belongs to no nation and is issued by no central bank. It can be used to buy gold in California, a hamburger in Berlin or a house in Alberta. When desired, it can offer largely untraceable transactions. The coin in question now has a global circulation worth more than $1.4 billion on paper. Yet almost no one, it seems, knows the true identity of its creator. In the United States, this mysterious money
has become the darling of antigovernment libertarians and computer wizards prospecting in the virtual mines of cyber space. In Europe, meanwhile, it has found its niche as the coinage of anarchic youth. The currency is bitcoin, a kind of cyber-money initially traded among hackers and cryptologists, and increasingly traded on websites and exchanged for goods and services. Two years ago, one bitcoin was worth less than $1. Two months ago, the price for one unit surged above $20 on a proliferation of cyber-exchanges from Tokyo to Moscow. SeeBitcoin /A4
LINCOLN, Del. — A steel-haired woman, 89 years old and an inch short of 5 feet, sat on a pillow in the driver's seat of herBuick LeSabre,just thinking. Parked outside a convenience store on one of the last days of winter, she was considering a preEastertreat for herself: an icecream cone. Butter pecan. Two girls, 15 and 14, appeared at the window, calling her "Miss" and offering to pay for a ride to the other side of town. Her inclination was to say no, but her strong belief in offering kindness to strangers won out. She said yes, of course, and no need to
pay her. Uncertainty soon joined the ride, as her passengers directed her to one house, then to another, and another. Then, according to the police, they snatched her keys, causing a tussle between two girls and a small woman three times their combined ages. Youth won out. They locked her in the trunk. SeeKidnapped/A4
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