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January 20, 2010

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A Colorado Ski Museum archive photo of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division gathering in West Vail before there was a freeway or town there. 10th Mountain Division WWII veterans Dick Over and Earl Clark are set to speak to-night at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Mu-seum in Vail. Over and Clark will give a brief history of the division, along with a photo slide show taken by Over during the war.

As part of their Wednesday Speaker Series at 5:30 p.m. tonight., The Vail Ski and Snowboard Museum will host special guests Dick Over and Earl Clark, both World War II veterans of

the 10th Mountain Division. Over, a museum board member

since 1983, was just 17-years-old when he enlisted in the division.

During a work study program in college, Over worked under Dr. Trygvie Yensen, a national ski patrol member and recruiter for the 10th

Mountain Division.One morning, Over told Dr. Yensen

that he had been drafted, and planned on enlisting in the Navy.

“(Yensen) said ‘No, no, no, you’re going into the Navy, you’re going to join the mountain troops!’ ” said Over.

By Dawn WitlinSpecial to the Mountaineer

MediaNews Group, the owner of the Denver Post and the Boulder Daily Cam-era, is downplaying its planned Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, telling its employees in an internal memorandum that it’s a “non event for readers and advertisers.”

As a result, MediaNews announced the bankruptcy on Friday night, just before a three-day holiday weekend. In Saturday morning’s Denver Post, the story was

buried on the bottom right of the business page (5B). The headline didn’t use the word bankruptcy and neither did the first two paragraphs of the story.

An e-mail to employees told sales repre-sentatives for the newspaper company to play up the positive aspects of the Chap-ter 11 filing. “Let them know that this is a positive development that will make us financially stronger,” chief executive Dean

Singleton wrote in the e-mail.Newspapers rely on interviews, but

reporters attempting to interview Medi-aNews employees Monday were out of luck. Singleton said in his e-mail that em-ployees who were contacted by the me-dia should refer calls to a public relations firm hired to handle the bankruptcy.

The Chapter 11 announcement comes

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[See WWII VETS, page 15]

Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz gave a presentation to the Vail Town Coun-cil last night on the EverVail portal and ski village the resort has pro-posed for an area between Lionshead and Cascade in Vail. See story inside. Avery Cunliffe photo.

Katz thinking big picture . . . Moreau prelim gets green light

Rossi Moreau was five minutes early for yes-terday’s brief status conference.

“Has anything of significance changed?” Judge Katharine Sullivan asked District Attorney Mark Hurlbert and Moreau’s public defender, Reed Owens.

Nothing had changed, the attorneys said.With that, Sullivan gave the green light for next

week’s preliminary hearing, 9:30 a.m., Wednes-day. Jan. 27.

Both sides will present their case. When they’re done, Sullivan will decide whether the prosecu-tion’s case is strong enough to send to trial in District Court.

Hurlbert said there will be no plea bargain. First

By Randy WyrickMountaineer Staff Writer

+115.78The stock market rebounded as

traders placed bets that the outcome of an election in Massachusetts would make it harder for President Barack Obama to make changes to health care. The vote Tuesday to fill the seat of late Sen. Edward M. Ken-nedy could shift power in the Senate if Republican Scott Brown wins. That would give Republicans the 41 votes necessary to block Democratic pro-posals, including the health care bill. Polls were set to close four hours af-ter the closing bell on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 115.78, or 1.1 percent, to 10,725.43. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 14.20, or 1.3 percent, to 1,150.23. The Nasdaq composite index rose 32.41, or 1.4 percent, to 2,320.40.

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a new frontman to “fill in” for Steven Tyler until the rocker is ready to re-turn to the band, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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[See THE UPDATE, pages 10-11]

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2 Vail Mountaineer Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Last night Vail’s town council prepared a perfect pothead plan for proposed plant purveyors — procrastination.

The town said they want to mellow for at least 180 days be-fore doing anything about letting medical marijuana dispensaries into town.

They heard an ordinance that would keep ganjapreneurs out of town for the next six months, while they wait for the state leg-islature to do whatever it decides to do about reefer retailers. And maybe by then the ganjapreneurs will forget what they were after.

For those of you still slaving for Da Man, ganja-preneurs are those altruists who start medical mari-juana stores, so they can assist their fellow mellow humans overcome chronic medical conditions – and let’s all sing it together – such as a chronic lack of really good dope.

They’re helping their clients overcome those chronic medical conditions by selling pot for $450 an ounce.

Vail, though, says there’s no need rush into rolling out the green carpet for reefer retailers. If Vail does, ganjapreneurs will have to buy business licenses, just like everyone else.

We have no one but ourselves to bless, or blame, for stoner stores and reefer retailers.

In the November 2000 general election, Colo-rado voters added Amendment 20 to the Colorado Constitution. It basically says that if you have some sort of debilitating medical condition, you should be able to visit your local stoner store and reefer retailer to get a little something to make you stop suffering from — or caring about — your debilitating medical condition.

Vail gets calls constantly from ganjapreneurs who want to become local reefer retailers. For now, Vail has officially gone buzzkill on all ganjapreneurs, banning all stoner stores.

Maybe that will change in 180 days. Maybe not. We’ll get back to you. Maybe.

Vail procrastinates action on ganjapreneur licences

Town’s ‘When in Rome’ solution seems appropriate here

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In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Re-publican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter an-ger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.

The loss by the once-favored Democrat Mar-tha Coakley in the Democratic stronghold was a stunning embarrassment for the White House after Obama rushed to Boston on Sunday to try to save the foundering candidate. Her defeat on Tuesday signaled big political problems for the president’s party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

“I have no interest in sugarcoating what hap-pened in Massachusetts,” said Sen. Robert Me-nendez, the head of the Senate Democrats’ cam-paign committee. “There is a lot of anxiety in the country right now. Americans are understandably impatient.”

Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president’s health care legislation. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters. The trouble may go deeper: Democratic lawmakers could read the results as a vote against Obama’s broader agenda, weakening their support for the president. And the results could scare some Democrats from seeking office this fall.

The Republican will finish Kennedy’s unex-pired term, facing re-election in 2012.

Brown led by 52 per cent to 47 percent with all but 3 percent of precincts counted. Turnout was exceptional for a special election in Janu-ary, with light snow reported in parts of the state. More voters showed up at the polls Tuesday than in any non-presidential general election in Mas-sachusetts since 1990.

One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama’s swearing-in, the election played out amid a back-drop of animosity and resentment from vot-ers over persistently high unemployment, Wall Street bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care.

“I voted for Obama because I wanted change. ... I thought he’d bring it to us, but I just don’t like the direction that he’s heading,” said John Triolo, 38, a registered independent who voted in Fitchburg.

He said his frustrations, including what he con-sidered the too-quick pace of health care legisla-tion, led him to vote for Brown.

For weeks considered a long shot, Brown seized on voter discontent to overtake Coakley in the campaign’s final stretch. His candidacy ener-gized Republicans, including backers of the “tea party” protest movement, while attracting dis-appointed Democrats and independents uneasy with where they felt the nation was heading.

A cornerstone of Brown’s campaign was his promise to vote against the health care plan.

Though the president wasn’t on the ballot, he was on many voters’ minds.

Coakley called Brown conceding the race, and Obama talked to both Brown and Coakley, con-gratulating them on the race.

The Democrat said the president told her: “We can’t win them all.”

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin said he would notify the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Brown had been elected. Origi-nally, he had said he might take over two weeks to certify the results of the special election, giv-ing Democrats a window in which to try to rush through final passage of Obama’s health care plan.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., promised to seat Brown “as soon as the proper paperwork has been received.”

Brown will be the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in 30 years.

GOP’s Brown wins Mass. Senate race in epic upset

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The buck stops ... Well, it was hard to tell just where the buck stopped Tuesday when it came to the Democratic party’s loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat that had been held by Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century.

Days before Republican state Sen. Scott Brown officially captured the seat over Democrat Martha Coakley, Wash-ington to Boston began dodging blame and pointing fingers at each other.

Cool-headed analysis of what was driving independents from Coakley to Brown? No. The issue was who botched Democrat Martha Coakley’s Senate campaign more: her state people or national Democrats.

Most spoke the classic Washington way, under the cloak of anonymity. But President Barack Obama’s senior advis-er took precise, public aim at Coakley’s camp as Brown closed in on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat.

“I think the White House did everything we were asked to do,” David Axelrod told reporters. “Had we been asked earlier, we would have responded earlier.”

But the signs had been there. In the bluest of blue states, the election was seen, at least in part, as a referendum on Obama, on health care reform, on the Democratic majority that had controlled two of three branches of government for a year.

And the Republican candidate was surging.What of Obama himself?“Surprised and frustrated,” reported White House

spokesman Robert Gibbs, promising more presidential re-action Wednesday. “Not pleased.”

Democrats could agree on the obvious: Somebody had taken the seat for granted, had underestimated the pub-lic’s anger over the economy, over the Democrats’ health care overhaul, over plain old arrogance in Washington.

Coakley pollster Celinda Lake acknowledged some mis-steps on the part of the campaign, such as failing to have enough money to go on the air early on to more sharply de-fine Brown. But she said the problem was Washington and the Democratic Party. And she said the president’s effort to overhaul health care was not defined enough to earn the support of some voters.

Disgust with Democrats runs so deep, Lake said, that the Coakley campaign was unable to persuade voters that the candidate had spent her career as a prosecutor going after Wall Street.

“People didn’t believe it, and they didn’t vote for her because they think the Democrats in Washington are not putting up economic policies that serve Main Street and working families,” she said.

Retorted a White House ally:“If they thought there was a problem with health care

or the nationalization of the race, why did they ask the president to come campaign for her?” asked the operative, who demanded anonymity to speak about internal party sniping.

Martha Coakley concedes after losing a special elec-tion in Boston last night, held to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown, R- Wrentham, was elected, defeating Coakley and Joseph L. Kennedy, a Libertarian running as an independent. AP Photo.

Dems cast blame at one another


Facing a courtroom of passionate parents, Judge Katharine Sullivan said she was reluctant to accept a guilty plea from Rosy Gonzales, the teacher in St. Clare’s tale of the tape.

In the end, Sullivan had no choice.Gonzales said she didn’t want her former students

to be forced to testify in a trial, so she took the deal – no contest to a misdemeanor child abuse and ne-glect charge. Judge Sullivan attached one condition: If Gonzales stays out of trouble for a year, the case will be dismissed.

Duct tape ended up across the mouths of unruly, misbehaving kids in Gonzales’ sixth grade Spanish class at St. Clare of Assisi. Gonzales’ role in it re-mains unclear.

In statements from the students in that classroom, one kid said she did it, some kids said she didn’t. Some said she told them to do it, others say she told them to stop.

Gonzales told the court the kids were badly be-haved, unruly and unresponsive to directions to settle down on that Thursday last September. She said she turned toward the chalkboard and when she turned back, some of the kids were taping other kids’ mouths.

Two things are clear: She lost her job over this. Be-cause of that her visa will soon expire and she’ll have to return to Mexico. She does not have the money to go to trial.

“I am reluctant to take Ms. Gonzales plea of guilt,” Judge Sullivan said, as applause scattered through the room packed with St. Clare parents there to offer their support.

“Ms. Gonzales has suffered immeasurably and knows that to have a trial, all your children would be

called to testify,” Sullivan told the parents. “I think she would rather give her right arm than to put them through that.”

Parent after parent stood to express support for Gonzales. St. Clare parents poured letters of support into Sullivan’s office.

“What happened was not good, but it was not crim-inal,” said Kathy Spangler, who had one of her chil-dren in that class.

When Sullivan asked if anyone wanted to speak against Gonzales, no one stirred. When Sullivan asked how many parents were in her courtroom to support Gonzales, almost every adult’s hand shot up.

“While everyone was extremely supportive, the bottom line is that I have a criminal case,” Sullivan said. “The letters were helpful, but what I need are facts. I know there was duct tape, children and one upset parent. That’s what I know. What we need to here is the truth.”

Judge Sullivan finally took a recess so Gonzales’ attorney, Taggart Howard, and prosecutor Ryan Ka-lamaya could talk things over, again.

During that break, Kalamaya told the parents in the courtroom while he might not have felt good about getting a conviction, he was confident that he could.

“If I present the evidence in front of a jury, I think I win,” Kalamaya said. “I think she told the children to put tape on one another’s mouths. That’s against the law.”

Yesterday, Gonzales had the last word, and said it was time for the entire thing to stop.

“It is clear to me that from the letters I received that you are beloved,” Sullivan told Gonzales. “You left a big hole at St. Clare when you were suspended. You’re not the only person who has lost here. This institution has lost as well.”

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Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz and a slew of other presenters addressed the proposed Ever Vail project at the town council meeting last night.

“Why now? Why are we spend-ing any time on this at all?” said Katz. “The real estate market is ter-rible, we have three to four projects in Vail that are incomplete and have tons of surplus, is this the time to be talking about a new project?”

Katz said the economic slump has an equal chance of becoming an economic boom in coming years, so timing is everything.

“There is no question that in this market you would not want to launch a project like this,” he said. “I can’t stress enough that a project like this needs to be a project that gets going right when the recovery starts.”

The purpose of the council up-date last night however, is to invite public and council input so that the

project is not rushed, Katz said“This is a project we want to

make money on, but I also think the community and council wants this project to be a viable one for ev-erybody,” Katz said. “A lot of this becomes our choices - what is the most important thing to the com-munity - because there are so many trade offs of what could happen, es-pecially with a project as complex as this.

EverVail is a sustainable mixed-used resort at the base of Vail Moun-tain, which would link Lionshead with Cascade, while adding a new portal for skiers. VR bills EverVail as one of the largest “green” resort projects in the country.

Tom Miller of Vail Resorts Devel-opment Company discussed what the project would look like.

“Redevelopment of this site is a key to our long term business, and should be a key to the Town of Vail’s as well,” said Miller.

Miller said Ever Vail will be di-vided into four sections. The Mar-ket District, will be the “commer-

cial core,” with a transit center, office space and markets

The Central Plaza, will focus on skiers, with a gondola skier servic-es, and equipment rentals.

Creekside is the area of the de-velopment where Red Sandstone Creek’s current conduit will serve as an “naturally animated,” part of Ever Vail, Miller said.

The area known as Westside Res-idential will be a mix of employee housing, and residents.

The transit center is planned to have four bus bays, with 15 skier drop-off locations and an in-town bus route stop.

The parking structure will pro-vide a total of 1,550 spaces, divided among employees, residents and commercial.

The town was not required to vote on the proposal made by Ever Vail last night, so no action or vot-ing took place.

A start date for the project’s first phase has not yet been determined, said Katz.

An updated rendering of EverVail that was shown at last night’s presentation. Illustration courtesy VR.

EverVail presented to council

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Tonight’s local music sceneENTERTAINMENT

Stereo Assassins and Nev Eluna at

Samana, Vail VillageWhen they first played together in mid-October, they

were Hustle’s Ben Koelker and Pete Haugh with Frogs Gone Fishin’s Andrew Portwood and Dave Donahue of Laughing Bones.

Now with the addition of Frogs’ Trevor Jones on keyboard, they go by the name Stereo Assassins, and they’re making their Vail Village debut tonight at Sa-mana.

Andrew Portwood of Frogs Gone Fishin’ said Stereo Assassins play aerobic funk, covering James Brown, The Meters and funky takes on Phish and the Dead. “We blend rhythm and soul with jam and groove and

keep you moving until you’re in a full body freak out. This is a great group of funky musicians, and we bring the party,” he said.

Local Latin-jazz group Neveluna opens the show. Tickets are $5. Show starts at 9 p.m.

Steve Meyer followed by Matt and Ted at The Club,

Vail VillageIf you’re looking for an après ski show that is not

suited for the entire family, rather for people who like to party – a show that encourages a healthy amount of drinking, raunchy jokes and good times – Steve Meyer, at The Club in Vail Village, offers that alternative. Mu-sic kicks off at 5 p.m.

Then, at 10 p.m., the acoustic rock/pop duo of Ted Hammock and Matt Fisher is influenced by G. Love, Dispatch, Sublime and Jack Johnson. “I love more chill stripped down acoustic music,” says Hammock. “I love the gauntlet of human emotion and the feelings that people experience.”

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The Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign will present “For-ever Wild” and “Generations” tonight at E-town, with open dining at 7 p.m. and the films beginning at 8:30 p.m. The screening is sponsored by E-town and the SOS Outreach pro-gram. Hosted by Robert Redford, “Forever Wild” captures the “glory of undeveloped, wild places through stunning im-ages and the passionate tales of America’s modern wilderness heroes who work to preserve a legacy of wilderness for all of us to enjoy, forever,” while “Generations” showcases the “im-pact of climate change on people such as California farmers, professional riders and skiers, mountain guides, resort own-ers and children,” according to Eagle Valley Alliance. For more information, contact Hannah Irwin of the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign at (734) 657-5020 or [email protected].

The Eagle Valley Alliance for Sustainability will pres-ent “A Sense of Wonder” tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. in the Gore Range Hall at the Park Hyatt-Beaver Creek. There will be a “meet and greet” session prior to the film’s 6 p.m. screening. “A Sense of Wonder” is a documentary-style film about leg-endary scientist, writer and environmentalist Rachel Carson. RSVP to this event by calling 827-9999.

Hosted by Robert Redford, “Forever Wild” cap-tures the “glory of undeveloped, wild places through stunning images and the passionate tales of America’s modern wilderness heroes who work to preserve a legacy of wilderness for all of us to enjoy, forever,” according to the Eagle Valley Alliance for Sustainability. The film will be shown at Etown tonight.

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The American cross country team is focusing on the few athletes who are going to the Vancouver Games while imploring the also-rans to keep their heads up — along with their training — in case they’re added to the Olympic roster next week.

Kikkan Randall, Andy Newell and Kris Freeman headline the 2010 U.S. cross country ski team that will compete at Whistler Olympic Park. The eight-member team is smaller than in the past, the result of a new Olympic quota system.

The Americans took 17 cross country skiers to To-rino and 16 of them competed.

The new quota system allows nations that are domi-nant in the sport like Norway and Germany to still take large contingents to the Winter Games. The Americans, while vastly improved to the point they expect medals next month, are not among the heavyweights, so their team is much smaller.

Still, the U.S. team believes that the stronger nations won’t use all of their quota spots, resulting in a reallo-cation that would add some U.S. athletes to the Olym-pic roster.

“The team size has been a big issue among many,” U.S. head coach Pete Vordenberg said. “For us, we’re really focused on the team that we did name and I’ve actually just spoken with the athletes who were just be-low the team that was named today and emphasized with them that they need to prepare themselves for the Olympic Games and leave it open in their minds that they could be going.

“So, they’re focused on preparation and they’re not just sitting around stewing about this.”

Vordenberg said the smaller team won’t prevent the Americans from competing in the team sprint relays but on the distance relays, “it’s a question of where we’re going to put our priorities.”

Either way, the Americans are prepared to compete in Vancouver with just the eight who are for sure going.

“I would say that we’ve really tried to avoid looking into a crystal ball and wondering what all they’re going to do in terms of this reallocation,” U.S. Nordic direc-tor John Farra said. “Really, our focus, as Pete said, is just on the team today and if reallocation becomes a possibility for us, then we’ll deal with it at that point.”

The top Americans don’t mind heading to Vancouver with fewer team members.

“I think the new system that was put in place is a good thing,” said Randall, America’s best cross country skier. “It’s going to make the Olympics very competi-tive and as a nation we’ve been getting steadily more competitive over the last three years. So, I think the people that have been named so far have shown that they’re ready to compete at the Olympic level.”

So does Kris Freeman, of Andover, N.H., who, like Randall, is a third-time Olympian.

“I think it will be good in some ways, bad in others,” he said. “It stinks when you’re denied a chance to go to the Olympic Games, but at the same time it gives our limited coaching staff more of an ability to focus on the top athletes, on the few athletes that are there

and figure our skis out that much better, just less chaos. We’re ready to do a great job and I think we have a re-ally good team going.”

The quota system, however, will be a topic of con-versation with the International Ski Federation (FIS) after the Winter Games.

“When it’s all done and said and this Olympics is over, then countries like us need to look at that sys-tem and advise FIS what our feeling is on how that’s done,” Farra said. “But right now it is what we have and I think they were trying to make an effort to have a fair way to express the balance or the strength of each country. In our case it dropped us quite a bit. In other countries’ cases, it didn’t.”

The Americans may be taking fewer athletes to Van-couver but they boast their best team in decades.

Randall, of Anchorage, Alaska, is America’s best hope for a medal. Her silver medal at the world cham-pionships last year made her the first American woman to reach the podium at the world championships or Olympics.

Newell, of Shaftsbury, Vt., is making his second trip to the Olympics. Other past Olympians on the team are Torin Koos, of Leavenworth, Wash., who has a World Cup podium finish and is competing in his third Games, and James Southam, of Anchorage, who was on the 2006 team in Torino.

First-time Olympians are Morgan Arritola (Ketchum, Idaho), Caitlin Compton (Minneapolis) and Liz Ste-phen (Montpelier, Vt.).

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Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Ser-vices in Hattiesburg, Mississippi — one of the best ad-diction treatment centers in America — is conveniently nestled between a windshield repair business and a rental car company in an aging part of town -- an ideal spot in the middle of nowhere for celebrities to have the best chance of retaining privacy. If there is any truth to the rumors, this is where billionaire golfer Tiger Woods has been hiding out.

Employees of Pine Grove are bound by confidentiali-ty agreements, but blogger Jay Busbee of Yahoo Sports says that a person with connections inside the walls of the treatment center has confirmed that Tiger is indeed there and receiving treatment with his wife. Busbee’s blog post is a sort of follow-up to Associated Press writer Chris Talbott’s piece entitled, “Rumor and fact: Chasing a Tiger’s tale in Miss.” In Talbott’s eloquently written piece he states,

“I’ve been chasing a Tiger’s tale across the rolling piney woods of south-central Mississippi with nothing to show for it but a notebook full of rumors. It seems that everyone has seen Tiger Woods in this town of 45,000.”

Of course, none of the sitings have been confirmed. Like the savvy journalist he is, Talbott runs down all the possible angles: checking the airport for a private plane, consulting with the local golf clubs, and inter-viewing locals that say they spotted him.

Tiger usually makes his PGA Tour debut at Torrey Pines, which is scheduled for Jan. 28-31. Don’t ex-pect to see him there, but with the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and the British Open at St. Andrews, it is un-likely the man just four majors shy of tying Jack Nick-laus’ career major championship record will be gone for much longer.

In this image released by Vanity Fair, Tiger Woods is shown on the cover of the February 2010 issue of the magazine. The world’s best golfer is causing a stir in rural Mississippi even though his presence is not confirmed. AP Photo.

James Huebner of Gypsum was ab-solutely perfect last Wednesday night while out with his friends for an eve-ning of league bowling at the Back Bowl in Eagle. That was the night that Huebner, a regular in The Back Bowl’s Men’s League, rolled 300 for a perfect game, only the third since the Back Bowl opened over five years ago and the first ever in league play.

For achieving this rare athletic feat, he walked away with the standing prize of $1,000 on the spot and, since the leagues are sanctioned, he will get an award and 300 ring from the United States Bowling Congress.

Upon his final strike, the Back Bowl erupted into celebration, bring-ing all bowling activity to a stand-still while official accolades, prize

money and a few celebratory toasts were made. According to Back Bowl general manager Doug Cahill, this is only the third time this difficult feat has occurred. “It’s testimony to just how difficult the perfect 300 is,” said Cahill. “We’ve had a number of close calls, but to have only three in over five years, out of literally tens of thousands of games…it’s pretty im-pressive!”

Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Huebner, 22, played for four years on his high school bowling team. He says that now his teammates better step up, since he doesn’t know when ... or if ... perfection will ever strike again. Even with this feat his team, the ‘Get Along Gang,’ is only in sec-ond place.

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Back Bowl representative Kel-li Platt presents a check for $1,000 to James Huebner of Gypsum for rolling a perfect 300 last Wednesday.

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Guitarist Joe Perry reveals Tyler, who was recently admitted to rehab to fight an addiction to painkillers, wants to return to his role in the band, but is about to undergo a series of operations which will leave him un-able to perform for at least a year.

So the musicians have decided to search for a new singer who can front the group until Tyler is fit again, with auditions set to kick off in February, according to the Chronicle.

“We’re already getting the word out there. The word’s been out there for a while. We’ll start having some audi-tions, making some phone calls. Hopefully, we’ll have found a new singer by the summer, and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road,” Perry was quoted saying.

Maybe Clooney will make a good philanderer?

George Clooney is urging fans to stop speculating about a possible engagement to girlfriend Elisabetta

Canalis - the actor is adamant he will never marry his long term lover because he would be a “lousy husban,” according to the San Fran-cisco Chronicle.

The Hollywood heartthrob was recently rumored to have proposed to the Italian beauty, but a repre-sentative for the star reportedly dismissed the reports, insisting the couple, who have been dating since last summer, have no plans to ex-change vows.

And Clooney has confirmed there won’t be a wedding any time soon, reports the Chron-icle.

“I tried marriage and it didn’t work. I have had long relationships with women and they get bored with me working all the time,” he was quoted saying. “My fear is that I would make a lousy husband and I don’t want to put myself, or anyone else, through the pain of find-ing out. If I was my girlfriend, I wouldn’t put up with me for very long!”

Supremes dismiss lower court Blank Panther ruling

The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a ruling that had set aside the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in a racially tinged case that has made the former Black Panther an international cause célèbre.

The justices ordered the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to revisit its 2008 ruling that Abu-Jamal deserved a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions at his 1982 trial. The Su-preme Court pointed to its ruling in an Ohio case last week, when it said a neo-Nazi killer did not deserve a new sentencing hearing on those grounds.

A mostly white Philadelphia jury convicted Abu-Ja-mal of killing white Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981 af-ter the patrolman pulled over Abu-Jamal’s brother in an

overnight traffic stop. Prosecutors believe the 25-year-old Faulkner managed to shoot Abu-Jamal during the confrontation. A wounded Abu-Jamal, his own gun ly-ing nearby, was still at the scene when police arrived, and authorities consider the evidence against him over-whelming.

One man’s carp is another man’s “silverfin”

If the idea of biting into Asian carp, the invasive spe-cies wreaking havoc from the Great Lakes to the Mis-sissippi Delta, sounds unappetizing, one Louisiana chef would like to sell you on delicious “silverfin,” accord-ing to Newser. For those not in the know, that’s Asian carp. The rebranding is part of a concerted marketing effort to solve the rampaging carp problem by making them into tasty meals. They could be on retail shelves in weeks, writes Newser’s Harry Kimball.

Chef Philippe Parola has developed several recipes for the preparation of “silverfin,” and he’s heading to Las Vegas to pitch the fish to the National Grocers As-sociation, reports the AP. He was quoted saying the fish tastes like a scallop/crab mix, and “consumers will love it.” Louisiana has already secured a processor, a dis-tributor, and a grocery chain to sell the product, writes Kimball.

Supremes free “silverfin”The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to or-

der the immediate closure of shipping structures near Chicago to contain the ravenous Asian carp, before au-thorities said DNA from the invaders had been found in Lake Michigan for the first time.

The court rejected Michigan’s request for a prelimi-nary injunction to shut the locks and gates temporarily while officials and interest groups debate a long-term strategy. The one-sentence decision included no expla-nation and didn’t say whether the justices would con-sider the case on its merits.

Hours later, federal officials said two DNA samples taken beyond the final barriers between Chicago-area waterways and the lake had tested positive for Asian carp — including one in the lake’s Calumet Harbor. They insisted it was far from certain that carp have ac-tually reached the lake, however, saying no live or dead specimens had been spotted there.

Asian carp have been migrating up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers toward the Great Lakes for decades. Scientists fear that if they reach the lakes, they could disrupt the food chain and endanger the $7 billion fishery. Asian carp can weigh up to 100 pounds and consume up to 40 percent of their body weight daily in plankton — the foundation of the Great Lakes food web. Many scientists say they could starve out other species.

Michigan, joined by Minnesota, New York, Pennsyl-vania, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario, asked the Supreme Court to order the locks closed as a stopgap measure while considering a per-manent separation between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi basin.

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cat goddess, Bastet. The team unearthed a large collec-tion of statues depicting Bastet, suggesting that worship of the feline goddess continued longer than previously thought. The temple belonged to Queen Berenike, the wife of Ptoltemy III, who ruled in the 3rd century BC.

The ruins, discovered in the heart of the Mediterra-nean port city of Alexandria, also may be the first trace of the long-sought location of the ancient city’s royal quarters. The large number of Bastet statues suggests that worship of the goddess continued after the decline of the pharaohs and into the later Greek-influenced Ptolemaic period.

Brits may be movingto Ireland

Bar-going Britons may soon be bidding goodbye to their country’s all-you-can-drink deals — as well as some of their more outlandish drinking games.

The government said Tuesday it was banning irre-sponsible promotions and boozy contests such as the “dentist’s chair” — where alcohol is poured directly into customers’ mouths — in an effort to tackle Brit-ain’s binge-drinking problem.

The government says the ban will limit binge-drink-ing, but health experts say the nation’s deepening alco-hol problem would best be tackled by imposing higher minimum prices on Britain’s cheap booze.

The raft of new measures is “better than nothing,” according to Carys Davis, spokeswoman for Britain’s Alcohol Concern charity. But she said the restrictions “seem tame” compared to what the government could do by ending pricing practices that result in alcohol selling for less than water.

“You’d be hard-pushed to find a health organization that doesn’t support minimum pricing,” she said.

Britain’s alcohol consumption has risen by 40 percent over the past four decades, although per-capita drinking is still lower than in many other European countries — including Russia, Spain, Germany and France. Experts say that Britons’ binge-drinking ways are increasingly putting their health at risk.

A parliamentary report published in December warned that 3 million Britons were addicted to alcohol. Government statistics suggest the country’s alcohol-related death rate has doubled since 1991.

Brits may not be moving to Huntington Beach

Hot nightspots in the city of Huntington Beach may have to fold up their tennis tables, throw away the red cups, and stash the pingpong balls, according to the Or-ange County Register.

Huntington’s City Council members on Tuesday are scheduled to consider a ban on alcohol games and con-tests for new restaurants coming to downtown, writes the Register’s Annie Burris. The rule would be added to regulations imposed by the police chief in Septem-ber that banned drinking games at the city’s existing restaurants that serve alcohol. That means, in short: No more beer pong in Surf City, home of a 2008 satellite tournament for the beer pong world championships in Las Vegas.

“We are trying to put things in place that encourage better citizenship,” Stanley Smalewitz, the city’s eco-nomic development director, was quoted saying. “If you are getting together for social drinking, terrific. If you are coming there to play [drinking] games, that is not the type of environment we want to encourage.”

Huntington Beach is the latest city in the country to consider a beer pong ban.

A city council in Belmar, N.J. outlawed outdoor beer pong in 2005 by passing an ordinance saying the al-coholic game exposed neighbors to “foul language, rowdy and disorderly behavior and to examples of the consumption of alcohol under circumstances that are detrimental,” according to a 2008 Time magazine ar-ticle about banning beer pong. State officials in Penn-sylvania and Virginia have also made bars put away their pong tables, Time reported.

They won’t like Sunset Beach either

A powerful storm that hit the Southern California coast yesterday afternoon caused at least one tornado, four waterspouts and winds of up to 80 mph, accord-ing to the National Weather Service, reports the LA Times.

“We have everything going today,” the Weather Ser-vice spokesman Bill Hoffer was quoted saying.

Long Beach, Seal Beach, San Pedro and Huntington Beach were reportedly hit hardest by the fast-moving storm, which flooded streets, damaged homes, pro-duced hail and ice and stranded cars on the 710 Free-way.

Sheriff’s deputies were responding to reports that a tornado or waterspout had touched down near Ander-son Street and Pacific Coast Highway, lifting several catamarans 30 feet to 50 feet in the air, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino.

At one point, witness Scott Seaton reportedly said, it picked up a 40-foot sailing catamaran and twirled it several feet in the air. The catamaran then dropped back into the water on top of another boat.

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At a time most Americans were oblivious to skiing, the 10th Mountain Division of WWII was a winter warfare brigade made up of skiers, mountain climbers, alpine guides, and forest rangers. Post war, almost ev-ery one of the nation’s 64 major ski areas were either constructed, founded, managed, or instructed by the 10th Mountain Division veterans, said Over.

During the special presentation at the museum, Over will share a 35 mm photo slideshow of pictures he took throughout the war.

“(The photographs) cover a lot of things that people may or may not have heard about, such as the amount of equipment we were supplied, all 122 pounds of it, that we had to carry with us everywhere,” said Over. “Our skis for instance were solid hickory and only came in two sizes, 7 foot and 7 foot 6. The average skis now are 170 mm, but that’s what they evolved from to be honest - all that came back from the 10th Mountain Division.”

Clark, a founding member of the museum, has been on the 10th Mountain lecture circuit with Over for roughly 20 years.

“(Clark) spent three summers in the Grand Tetons as

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degree charges top the list of eight felony charges Moreau faces.

If convicted Moreau, 63, faces ei-ther life in prison or the death penalty.

The prosecution’s centerpiece is a video of Moreau’s Nov. 7, 2009 shooting spree through the Sand-bar in West Vail. The video, pieced together from the Sandbar security cameras, shows Moreau making his way through the bar and shooting three of his victims, Hurlbert said

The shooting spree allegedly

resulted in the death of Dr. Gary Kitching. Kitching, who lived in Carbondale, had stopped with his wife to watch the USC-Oregon State football game on the bar’s big screen television.

Moreau emptied the clip in a 1911 .45 caliber pistol during the shoot-ing spree. Vail police investigators indicate he fired between 10 and 13 shots. Three of those reportedly went into Kitching.

So far, prosecutors and Vail Po-

lice investigators have collected 1,216 pages of documents and 24 CDs, containing segments ranging from a three hour interview to a 50 second telephone message.

At yesterday’s hearing, Moreau sat quietly at the defendant’s table to Owens’ left, leaning forward to-ward Judge Sullivan. He occasion-ally looked over at Owens, and a few times Hurlbert and Mallory, and at Sullivan, but most of the time trained his gaze straight ahead.

as a surprise since a month ago, Singleton wasn’t using the word “bankruptcy” to describe the financial restruc-turing of the company in a lengthy e-mail to employ-ees.

“We are near agreement on the terms of a restructur-ing plan which we expect will be completed toward the end of the first quarter of 2010,” Singleton wrote to em-ployees in December. “Upon completion, MediaNews expects to have a manageable level of debt.”

The Wall Street Journal reported that MediaNews had been teetering for months and, according to Singleton, had been trying to rework its debt load instead of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

“It was personally difficult for me,” Singleton told the Journal. “I’m a ranch kid from West Texas, and we don’t like the ‘B word.’”

The Journal said that Singleton’s ability to retain con-trol over MediaNews “represents a face-saving victory in the company’s restructuring.”

While MediaNews hasn’t filed its bankruptcy peti-tion, the company’s press release indicated its debt would fall from $930 million to $165 million, meaning creditors would have to accept 17 cents on the dollar.

Seth Faison, the PR man hired by MediaNews, said 91 percent of the company’s creditors accepted the pro-posed bankruptcy.

Under the “prepackaged bankruptcy,” the percentage of the company controlled by Singleton will double from 10 percent to 20 percent. Senior lenders would swap debt for stock, the company said. The group of 116 lenders led by Bank of America would hold a ma-jority of stock but not voting control.

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