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ROSEDALE, Md. — Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the past two years pursuing their dream of doing researchand development for Apple, the world's most successfulcorporation. But they did not actually have jobs at Apple. It was freelance work that came with nothing in the way of a regular income, health insurance or retirement plan. Instead, the Grimeses tried to prepare
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smoothie in Cascade Youth 8 Family Center's kitchen on Tuesday. LOFT (Living Options for Teens), which is part of the center, is the only shelter for teens east of the Cascades.
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SALEM — The idea was simple enough: Put a homeowner and lender in the same room and discuss possible ways to avoid foreclosure. l More than 1,000 people a month were expected to qualify for the newly created state mediation program. To prepare, mediatorswere trained and housing counselors hired. "We all scrambled," said Keith DubanIN evich, who at the time was the chief of SALFM staff at the Oregon Department of Justice and spearheading the effort. The program went into effect four months ago. Thousands were eligible. But how many have had their cases mediated'? One. This upcoming legislative session, lawmakers said they will take another whack at Senate Bill 1552, which passed on the last day of this year's abbreviated February session. The bill created the mediation program and made it illegal for lenders to simultaneously foreclose on those who are in the midst of loanmodification negotiations. How big a battle is waged in the upcoming session likely depends on whether the two sides — bankers and homeowner advocates — can nail down the problem. SeeMediation/A5 •
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"We didn't lose any sleep over it," said Shawn Grimes, 32. "I'll retire when I die.n The couple's chosen field is so new it did not even exist a few years ago: writing software applications for mobile devices like the iPhone or iPad. Even as unemployment remained stubbornly high and the economy struggled to emerge from the recession's shadow, the ranks of computersoftware engineers, including app writers, increased nearly 8 percent in 2010 to more than I million, according to the latest available government data for that category. These software engineers now outnumber farmers and have almost caught up with lawyers. Much as the Web set off the dot-com boom 15 years ago, apps have inspired a new class of entrepreneurs. SeeApps/A7
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Bulletin staffreport A problem somewhere in a grant application means a shelter for homeless teens in Bend has only months left unless it finds a financial bridge to 2014, according to the shelter manager. Pat Gundy of LOFT, Living Options for Teens,said funding forthe $200,000-a-year transitional living program will run out in February or March 20D unlessthe community steps up or foundation grants can be secured. Even if a replacement grant is found, times at the shelter on Century Drive will be tight while the application makes its way through the system. "This money's running out sooner or later,"Gundy said recently. He enlisted help from U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, Oregon Democrats, and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, to find out where an application to a runaway and homeless youth grant program at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services went awry. All three endorsed the program when Gundy submitted the application to the Grants.gov website in
July. Merkley spokeswoman Courtney Warner Crowell said his office inquired about the LOFT application. "We're in the process
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of still finding out. We've heard one side and we're checking with the other side." Walden spokesman Andrew Malcolm said the congressman'soffice "contacted Health and Human Services right away" after learning of the problem with the LOFT application. "We've not gotten a satisfactory response yet," he said. "We will continue to work with the senators to get to the bottom of the situation." Unlike previous applications on behalf of LOFT, this year Gundy and his associate Deidre Kasberger filed the application online, he said. Seventy percent of LOFT funding comes from the Health and Human Services grant, a million dollars applied for every five years, Gundy said. LOFT is affiliated with J Bar J Youth Services Administration of Bend. Payroll accounts for most program costs; LOFT employs 12 people to staff the facility round the clock, Gundy said. SeeShelter/A8
The eruptions in the Middle East have posed perhaps the severest, most direct test yet of the limits of President Barack Obama's signature foreign policy innovation during his first term, what the White House hails as the "light footprint" strategy. Sensitive to public sentiment that a decade of war had debilitated America, and eager to focus on economic problems athome, Obama quickly embraced a mix of remote-control technology and ata-distance diplomacy to contain the most explosive problems in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Strikesby unmanned drone aircraft increased sixfold, secret cyberweapons were aimed at Iran, and special forces killed the world's most-wanted terrorist and made night raids the currency of U.S. force. For a while it worked. As Obama's newly fallen director of central intelligence, David Petraeus, asked so succinctly a year ago, nWho wouldn't want a light-footprint strategy?" See Mideast/A4
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hot commodityonline By Michael Liedtke The Assoctated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Twinkies are being sold on the Internet like exquisite delicacies. Hours after Twinkie maker Hostess announced its plans to close its doors forever, people flocked to stores to fill their shopping baskets with boxes of the cream-filled sponge cakes and their sibling snacks — Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and Zingers. Late Friday and Saturday, the opportunists took to eBay and Craigslist. They began marketing their hoard to whimsical collectors and junk-food lovers for hundreds — and in some cases thousands — of dollars. That's a fat profit margin, when you consider the retail price for a box of 10 Twinkies is roughly
$5. SeeTwinkies/A6