Bulletin Daily Paper 08/08/11

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Deschutes poised to tap energy potential of landfill

Bend South Little League All-Stars

Everybody’s pitching in

By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

For years, Deschutes County officials have discussed how best to tap into the revenue and energy-producing potential of methane and other gases at Knott Landfill. Now, county commissioners are closer than ever to starting a landfill gas-to-energy project and could vote on a contract to do so in the next month. The technology they are considering is so new that most of the halfdozen landfills trying it out across the western United Inside States are still install• A loook at ing it. the gasThe counto-energy ty is workconversion ing with system, the Irvine, Page A4 Calif.-based company Waste to Energy Group LLC. If the county signs a contract with Waste to Energy Group, the company would cover all the costs associated with the project, and the county would receive a portion of the profits. Waste to Energy Group proposes to do two things at Knott Landfill on Bend’s east side: inject steam to speed up decomposition and the creation of gas, and convert the gas into methanol, hydrogen or another liquid, such as synthetic crude oil. “This is definitely out of the box,â€? said Timm Schimke, director of Deschutes County’s Department of Solid Waste. “We’re kind of going to be leading the pack here.â€? See Energy / A4

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Schools and AYP: It’s all or nothing

Photos by Rachel Luna / For The Bulletin

Ian Harding, 10, left, and Gianna Viola, 10, bottom left, react to Bend South player Cam Baker’s three-run homerun Saturday during the team’s second game in the Northwest Regional Tournament in San Bernardino, Calif. The 12-player team raised more than $12,000 in just three days last week before heading to the tourna-

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entral Oregon’s support for the Bend South Little League All-Stars has gone above and beyond a “Go get ’em!� and a token donation at a benefit carwash. The 12-player baseball team raised more than $12,000 in just three days last week before heading south to the Little League Northwest Regional Tournament (11-12 age division) in San Bernardino. Winning the eight-day, six-state regional tournament would put Bend South in the 2011 Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa. While Little League Baseball paid for Bend South’s travel costs — lodging is free for the team at the Little League West Headquarters barracks near Al Houghton Stadium in San Bernardino — parents were faced

with the difficult choice between last-minute airfare and steep gas prices. With the fast and furious fundraising efforts of the team, though, each player’s immediately family received a check for $1,011 last week before the start of the tournament. And for each Bend South player, at least one parent has been able to make it to the tournament. “It’s just been an amazing show of support,� Bend South coach Brad Waterman says about the outpouring of assistance provided by fans and merchants in Bend and around Central Oregon. See Baseball / A4

Bend South parents react to the team’s fifth-inning comeback in their first game at the regionals. Thanks to the players’ fundraising efforts and an outpouring of support from Central Oregonians, each player has at least one parent who was able to make it to the tournament.

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More inside • Little League play is bound by a different set of rules, Page D1

U.S. drama fuels eurozone panic New York Times News Service

PARIS — European political leaders have garnered much of the blame for the continuing crisis of the euro, consistently failing to act with enough speed or severity to calm the markets. But the current panic has been partly produced by U.S. politicians, whose noisy squabbling over the debt ceiling has combined with the prospect of another U.S. recession to undermine the potential for global growth. It is that prospect — that Americans will again retrench and stop

buying goods from China and Europe and everywhere else — that is putting new pressure on debtridden eurozone economies, most recently Italy and Spain. Telephone lines were buzzing Sunday, with heads of government, economic ministers and central bankers from Asia to Europe to the U.S. discussing what might be usefully said before the markets’ opening today. They all seem to agree about one thing, however: the need to defend the idea that the U.S. remains a reliable credit risk. See Eurozone / A4

Hackers take $1B a year, and banks blame their clients By Greg Farrell and Michael A. Riley

CREDIT CRISIS

By Steven Erlanger

The way federally mandated academic progress standards are presented — as met or not met — can cloak successful schools as failures. Though there are a handful of basic categories in the adequate yearly progress (AYP) standards, schools may have to meet more than 80 measurements to succeed in AYP. Under math AYP, for instance, a school must meet standards for “economically disadvantaged� students, special education students, English language learners and on and on. “We’re Failure in just one category pretty much means an entire school does convinced not meet AYP. there isn’t AYP was designed to show a way to how schools were progress- make (AYP) ing, but the system has not understandmet that goal, according to able to the Bend-La Pine Superintendent general public.� Ron Wilkinson. — Ron “We’re pretty much con- Wilkinson, vinced there isn’t a way to Bend-La Pine make (AYP) understandable Schools to the general public,� Wilkin- superintendent son said of the data that was released Tuesday. Ten schools in Bend-La Pine Schools did not meet AYP, for the most part because one or two groups barely fell short. Ponderosa Elementary did not meet math AYP for “limited English proficient� students, and so did not meet overall AYP. At Summit High School, special education students missed meeting math AYP by 3 percent. Other schools in Bend-La Pine appear to have deeper problems, according to the data. See Schools / A4

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A Greek Stock Exchange employee passes stock charts in Athens on Friday, a day that saw the eurozone’s debt crisis batter markets.

NEW YORK — Valiena Allison got a call from her bank on a busy morning two years ago about a wire transfer from her company’s account. She told the manager she hadn’t approved the transfer. The problem was, her computer had. As Allison, chief executive officer of Sterling Heights, Mich.-based Experi-Metal Inc., was to learn, her company computer was approving other transfers as she spoke. During hours of frantic phone calls with her bank, Allison, 45, was Related unable to stop this cybercrime • Smartphones in progress as transfer followed becoming transfer. By day’s end, $5.2 mila popular lion was gone. target for She turned to her bank, a hackers, branch of Comerica Inc., to help Page A2 recover the money. It got all but $561,000 of the funds. Then came the surprise: The bank said the loss was Experi-Metal’s problem because it had allowed Allison’s computer to be infected by the hackers. “At the end of the day, the fraud department at Comerica said: ‘What’s wrong with you? How could you let this happen?’â€? Allison said. In increments of a few thousand dollars to a few million per theft, cyber-crooks are stealing as much as $1 billion a year from small and midsized bank accounts in the U.S. and Europe like Experi-Metal, according to Don Jackson, a security expert at Dell SecureWorks. See Hackers / A2


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