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Investor is suing Pronghorn over golf privileges
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Salmon explore Bend their new digs man shot intruder in home
• And 20 others want to join the suit Elon Glucklich The Bulletin
More than 20 original investors in Pronghorn destination resort, including former University of Oregon head football coach Mike Bellotti, want to join a lawsuit filed by former Bend City Councilor Benjamin Gilchrist against the resort’s new owner, seeking the free golf privileges they say are owed to them. But the owner, Honolulubased The Resort Group, said those agreements, signed in 2002, no longer apply. Ownership at the resort changed hands to avoid foreclosure earlier this year, and the agreements were made by previous Pronghorn owners, Robert Simon, attorney for The Resort Group, argued in Deschutes County Circuit Court documents. At the center of the lawsuit filed May 17 are exclusive “member packages” promised to buyers of Pronghorn property who invested $350,000 or more in the resort during its earliest phases of development. The package included 20 years of free golfing rights at the resort, starting in 2004, when the resort’s Jack Nicklaus golf course opened. Other benefits included free use of golf carts and lockers at the resort clubhouse for 20 years. When the agreements were signed in 2002, Pronghorn Club and Resort was owned by a California development company, High Desert Development Partners LLC. Slow property development at the resort, coupled with several million dollars in delinquent loans, put the developer in financial hot water. See Pronghorn / A5
By Ben Botkin The Bulletin
A Bend man shot an intruder after finding him in his living room early Sunday, police said Monday. The intruder didn’t leave the house alive. The homeowner, Kevin Perry, arrived at his home, 2461 N.W. Awbrey Road, accompanied by Amanda Weinman of Eugene. They found the door had been forced in, according to the Bend Police Department. The two entered the house and saw Shane M. Munoz, 33, of Bend, in the living room. A physical altercation involving all three followed the discovery, and Perry, 35, shot Munoz with a firearm sometime during the struggle, police said. Police responded to a reported burglary in progress at the northwest Bend home at 12:39 a.m. Sunday. Munoz was pronounced dead at the scene. Perry and Weinman, 33, suffered minor injuries, which police believe occurred during the altercation. Police have not made any arrests stemming from the case, which remains under investigation. Authorities declined to provide any information about the type of firearm used or the number of shots fired. It was also unclear if Munoz and Perry knew each other prior to the incident. Police Lt. Paul Kansky declined to comment on whether the intruder was armed, saying the investigation is still pending. See Death / A5
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Jim Bartlett, fish passage biologist with Portland General Electric, releases an adult chinook salmon Monday into Lake Billy Chinook. Released just upstream of Round Butte Dam, adult chinook salmon have been tracked into all three arms of the lake. By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
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In search of spawning beds, adult chinook salmon now in Lake Billy Chinook are checking out their options. The fish have been tracked into all three arms of the lake, possibly headed to spawn upstream in the Metolius, Deschutes and Crooked rivers. Portland General Electric biologists have put radio transmitters into 13 of the 22 springrun chinook salmon released upstream of
the Pelton Round Butte dam complex over the last 3½ weeks, said Megan Hill, PGE’s native fish studies team leader. Of the 13, biologists have tracked eight since their release; two were released Monday near Round Butte Dam and will be tracked later. So far, data show most of the fish heading toward the Metolius River, but that trend could change as more are tracked. “With just a few fish it’s hard to know what it means,” Hill said. See Fish / A5
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About half of the adult chinook salmon released into Lake Billy Chinook so far carry radio tags. Of those, eight have been tracked, with fish found swimming in all three arms of the lake.
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When her children were ready to have laptops of their own, Jill Ross bought software that would keep an eye on where they went online. One day it offered her a real surprise. She discovered that her 16-yearold daughter had set up her own video channel. Using the camera on her laptop, sometimes in her bedroom, she and a friend were recording mundane teenage banter and broadcasting it on YouTube for the whole world to see. For Ross, who lives outside Denver, it was a window into her daughter’s mind and an emblem of the strange new hurdles of modern-day parenting. She did not mention it to her daughter; she just subscribed to the channel’s updates. The daughter said nothing either; she just let Mom keep watching. “It’s a matter of knowing your kids,” Ross said of her discovery. Parents can now use an array of tools to keep up with the digital lives of their children, raising new quandaries. See Children / A5
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How many computers to identify a cat? 16,000 By John Markoff New York Times News Service
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain. There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own. Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: look for cats. The neural network taught itself to recognize cats, which is actually no frivolous activity. See Google / A4