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Quiet Star —Russell Wilson of the Seahawks emerges from the shadows to make a casefor MVP.C1
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Plus: In CorvallisVictor Bolden's bold steps forward.C1
Manners onthe trailTips on sharing popular winter routes east of Bendand near Redmond.D1
• The ski areaneeds30 inches, the managersays, but haslessthan a third of that By Scott Hammers
Outing revisited —The
The Bulletin
Ciine Buttes Recreation Area, this time with a guide.D1
The Bend Park & Recreation District board of directors got
alook atpreliminary drawings of anopen-airrecreation center 'Ittesday, a building that if built
would, according to its designer, be the first of its kind in the United States.
Proposed as part of the $29 million park districtbond approved by voters in 2012, the facility would provide an outdoor — yet still coveredspace that could be configured for tennis, basketball, pickleball and ice skating, as well as
Science underpressure
— What happens if you crush an organic substance between diamond anvils? Researchers are finding out.A3
other activities.
If the project remains on schedule, the district will break
ground on the estimated $7.8 million facility at the corner of Colorado and Simpson ave-
The price of corn — why a decline is starting to cause worries.C6
nues next summer.
James Meyer of Opsis a
In national news — sen-
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Architecture spent much of his 90-minute presentation
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ators ask to see aninternal report of the CIA's detention program.A2
describingthe facility's roof, a wooden structure with a slop-
ing, saddlelike shape. The roof designedbyMeyer would cover 30,000square feet
And a Wed exclusiveArizona border residents join together to tackle migrant aid. bendbnlletin.com/extrns
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The Big Green Machine chairlift sits immobile above a minimally covered Powder Valley 2 run Tuesday afternoon at Hoodoo Ski Area.
The Bulletin
HOODOO — It was a
bluebird day at Hoodoo
Long-lost Nazi diary given to museum
tecting skiers and snow-
See video coverage on The Bulletin's website: bendbnlletin.com/hoodoo
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boarders, as well as snowcat grooming machines. More than two weeks
Ski Area Tuesday, with
clear skies and plenty of sunshine. and silent as the ski area west of Sisters has yet to
at Hoodoo. "Either snow comes or not." As of Tuesday, Hoodoo had 8 inches of snow on the ground near midmountain.
open for the season. There
McFarland said he wants
But the ski lifts were still
intoDecember and only two days so far this month brought snow to Hoodoo8 inches fell on Dec. 1 and
3 inches dropped on Dec.
simply hasn't been enough snow.
to have around 30 inches on the ground before Hoo"This is a nature-based doo opens. The 30-inch business, and that's it," said base of snow would be
Hopeful there might be a turn from sunshine to
after Christmas, McFarland said. The ski area
also still plans to hold its annual New Year's Eve Party on Dec. 31. Last
largest amount of snow this yearcame back in October.
year Hoodoo opened on Dec. 7. The three years
"Usually this time of
Matthew McFarland, the
enough to cover dirt and
and 100 inches of snow,"
ski area general manager
rocks on the slopes, pro-
McFarland said.
SeeCenter/A4
to open Dec. 26, the day
6, for 11 total inches. The
before, 2009 to 2011, it
year we are operating on somewhere between 60
WASHINGTON — Al-
opened in late November, and in 2008 it didn't open until Dec. 20.
SeeHoodoo/A5
treasures by the train load. And in July 1941, Hitler put him in charge of territories falling to the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
2008
Dec. 20 Opening day Snow depths Source:Hoodoo
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2011 Nov. 25
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of the nation's biggest technology firms warned PresidentBarack Obama during a lengthy meeting at the White House on Tuesday that National Security Agency spying programs are damaging their reputations and could harm the broader economy. Cisco Systems has said it is
Got a light?Olympictorchrelayseemscursed New York Times News Service
hour has come." On Tuesday the Nazi
It was bad enough when the Olympic flame went out
theorist's 425-page, hand-
and had to be relit with a
written diary, which van-
disposable lighter rather than the official backup flame, and even worse when a torch-
thorities to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
WASHINGTON — Leaders
2010
Nov. 26
Nov. 27
"Rosenberg," Hitler told him, according to Rosenberg's diary, "your great
ished after the war, was transferredby federalau-
The Washington Post
Low snowkeepsHoodooclosed
did. He later served as the
He formed a Nazi task force, named for himself, that looted European art
Tech CEOs raise issues to Obama By Cecilia Knng and Ellen Naknshima
fred Rosenberg joined the Nazis before Adolph Hitler party's interim leader. He wrote a virulent, best-selling book about the "Aryan" struggle against Jews.
masts and sit 26to 45 feet above the floor at different points.
snow in the next week, Hoodoo tentatively plans
By Michael E. Ruane The Washington Post
and 3 inches thick The roof
wouldbe suspendedbycables securedto aseries of 14steel By Dylan J. Darling
EDITOR'5CHOICE
andbemadeoflaminatedwood modules 60feetlong,8feetwide,
BySarah Lynll
bearer managed somehow to
set himself on fire in the Sibe-
Inside • Gay athletes namedto U.S. delegation; Obamaand Biden won't attend,AS rian city of Abakan. But perhaps the low point in what has seemed less like an Olympic torch relay than an exercise in ineptitude
and misfortune came earlier this week when one of the
not feeling well and was
runners carrying the torch to
taken to the hospital, but the doctors were unable to save
the Sochi Games had a fatal heart attack while attempting
him," Roman Osin, a Sochi
2014 torch relay spokesman,
to walk his allotted distance,
told reporters of the man, a 73-year-old school sports
about 218 yards. "He returned to the gath-
ering place and was photographed, then said he was
director and Greco-Roman
wrestling coach. SeeTorch/A5
seeing customers, especially overseas, back away from American-branded technology after documents revealed that the NSA enlisted tech firms and secretly tapped into their
data hubs around the world as the agency pursued terrorism suspects. Companies such as IBM, AT&T and Verizon Com-
munications are facing angry shareholders, some of whom have filed lawsuits demanding that the companies disclose their participation in NSA in-
telligence programs. See Tech /A4
which had been searching for it for years.
The diary was seized in the spring by U. S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement from a scholar near Buffalo. See Nazi /A4
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