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Housing prices in the Bend area increased in all four quarters of 2012, the first full ear ofhome-price appreciation since 2006, according to federaldata released Tuesday. Single-family home prices in

the Bend Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers all of Deschutes County, rose about 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter over the fourth quarter 2011, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's all-transactions housing price index. It marked the fourth

straight quarter of price appreciation in the index, which showed home prices depreciating in the Bend MSA for the 17 previous quarters. And, over five years, the index still shows home prices down 39 percent. See Housing /A4

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across the state, so planning for them has been difficult. Each year, COCOA serves about 160,000 meals through its Meals on Wheels program, which delivers frozenprepared meals to homebound seniors, and its senior meal sites in Bend, Crooked River Ranch, La Pine, Madras, Prineville, Redmond, Sisters and Warm

Federal immigration officials have released hundreds of detainees from immigration detention centers around the country in recent days in a highly unusual effort to save money as automatic budget cuts loom in Washington, officials said Tuesday. The government has not dropped the deportation cases against the immigrants, however. The detainees have been freed on supervised release while their cases continue in court, officials said. But the move angered some Republicans, including Rep. Robert Goodlatte of Virginia, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who said the releases were a political gambit by President Barack Obama's administration and that they undermined the continuing negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform and jeopardized public safety. "It's abhorrent that PresidentObama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration," said Goodlatte, who is running the House hearings on immigration reform. "By releasing criminal immigrants onto the streets, the administration is need-

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The Israeli tourists on Arkia Airlines Flight 161 from Tel Aviv could not have known it, but their arrival in Cyprus last July 6 was watched closely. A pair of trained eyes counted each passenger as the group exited the plane and boarded a shuttle, headed for resorts that had also been carefully studied and

mapped. The bearded foreigner who silently tracked the Israelis had done his work well. He knew where the visitors would sleep, shop and eat. He knew how many security guards patrolled their hotel parking lots, and how long it would take police to arrive from the station down the street. But the watcher was being watched. When Cypriot police picked him up, the Hezbollah operative quickly acknowledged what he was doing, although he claimed not to know why. See Spying /A4

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Meals on Wheels volunteer Dave Perin delivers lunch to Ginny Brown Tuesday at her home in Bend. Spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday could reduce the amount of federal money Oregon receives for this and other senior nutrition programs by more than 7 percent.

By Mac McLean The Bulletin

Local senior advocates say their ability to feed and monitor some of the region's most vulnerable older adults will be severely hampered ifa series of automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, goes into effect Friday. According to a statement the White House issued Sunday, the cuts would cost Oregon's senior nutrition

In a story headlined "Snowmobilers kept calm while stranded," which appeared Tuesday, Feb. 26, on Page Al, Eric Abney's age was incorrect due to inaccurate information provided The Bulletin. Abney is 41. The Bulletin regrets the error.

gregate — or group — dining programs each year. Many senior advocates claim these proposed cuts would hurt an already underfunded

program.

"Any cuts (to senior nutrition programs) at this time would put vulnerable seniors at a great risk," said Pamela Norr, director of the Central Oregon Council on Aging, which serves Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties. Norr said she was unsure how the proposed cuts would impact the local program. She said she doesn't know how those cuts will be spread

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program about $690,000 in federal funds. That's a little more than 7 percent of the money the state's 17 Area Agencies on Aging received from the federal government to operate their various Meals on Wheels and con-

Ugh, those cups. Several months ago, Diedre Neal, the sixth-grade assistant principal at Alice Deal Middle School in Washington, started noticing them all over the cafeteria. During lunch, the childrennotably the girls — were clap-

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ping their hands, beating out a rhythm on upturned plastic cups, then flipping them over and slamming them onto the table. Over and over again.

Clap, clap, ba-da-boom, boom, boom, slam. Boom slam. Boom slam. "Put them away," Neal would say, annoyed by the

racket. It didn't help. If they didn't have cups, the girls hammered out the rhythm with their fists. Or on empty yogurt containers. Neal soon realized the girls weren't just being rambunctious — they were all banging out the same pattern, singing the same

song.

"When I'm gone, when I'm when I'm gone ..." A new hand-clapping game — similar to schoolyard classics such as "Miss Mary Mack" and "Slide" and "Down by the Banks" — was spreading through the school. It was being transmitted from stu-

dent to student, face-to-face, like in the old days. Inside of a week,the rhythm became ubiquitous. The flulike spread of "Cups" allowed Neal to experience something that social scientists are just beginning to understand. See Game/A4

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