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Vice President Joe Biden left Wash-ington on Friday to spend the weekend skiing at Beaver Creek. The VP, joined by wife Jill, kids and grandkids, are stay-ing at a suite in Beaver Creek Village.

Traffic was disturbed Friday as Vice President Biden’s motorcade made its way up I-70 and accessed Beaver Creek via Village Road. Specially armored vehicles were flown in to Eagle airport

Wednesday morning on a C-130 military transport aircraft.

The Entourage of security, staff, fam-ily and friends was said to be massive as they entered the Gerald Ford Hall park-ing structure yesterday.

Parking in Ford Hall remains open to the public. However, vehicles were directed towards the south lane, where drivers were told there was a “special

event” taking place. They are asked to turn their engines off and pop the hood, as non-uniformed “law enforcement of-ficers” and German shepherds inspected the vehicles inside and out.

At least one guest was harassed by the officers – assumed to be U.S. Secret Ser-vice – after taking a picture of one of the dogs. The guest was told that he would be arrested if he refused to delete the

photo. The guest obliged, although the First Amendment protects that right.

An unconfirmed report said there are 62 members of the U.S. Secret Service in Beaver Creek, some of whom arrived as long as one month ago to begin se-curing Beaver Creek Village for the Vice Presidential vacation.

‘Not exactly roughing it’ On the slopes, Biden will be “not ex-

actly roughing it” as an entourage of ski

Vice President in townBiden family visits Vail Valley

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Chris Del Bosco training with SSCV

John “JC” Cole, director of strength and conditioning for Ski and Snow-board Club Vail and Chris Del Bosco, Olympic Ski Cross athlete and Eagle-Vail resident, at the SSCV training facility yesterday. Del Bosco, a member of the Canadian Olympic Team, is still in town following his win at the X Games last weekend in Aspen. Before winning that race, he won the last World Cup Ski Cross race of the season before the Olympics, making him a favorite to win it all heading into Vancouver. Jon Feldman photo.

Vilar gets 9 years in jail

The dramatic rise and fall of opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar culmi-

nated yesterday in a nine-year prison sentence from a judge who credited his giving spirit but said mon-ey managers must learn fraud leads to prison and damages confidence in the economy.

U.S. District Judge Rich-ard J. Sullivan also fined Vilar $25,000 and ordered

him to pay $21.9 million in restitution and to forfeit more than $22 million.

The 69-year-old Vilar is best known here in the Vail Valley for giving away millions

Former Valley resident, 69, convicted of fraud

VILAR

[See VILAR, page 23]

Vail skier wins Telluride Big Mountain comp

By Geoff MintzMountaineer Staff Writer

[See BIDEN, page 22]

All those self-proclaimed breeders of big mountain skiers from places like Crested Butte, Jackson Hole and Tellu-ride might want to take notice of where the top guy at the Subaru Freeskiing

World Tour qualifier hails from. Whit Boucher, who lists his home

mountain as Vail, had the best run in yesterday’s preliminary round of com-petition at Telluride, followed by Travis Wolfe of Telluride and Connery Lundin of Squaw Valley. Boucher was among 14 athletes from Vail who competed.

Vail skiers Tony Seibert, Oliver Hol-mes, Josh Mattson and Charlie Holmes along with lady rippers Molly Etters and Claudia Bouvier advanced to today’s Fi-nals.

Skiing fluid, fast runs and stomping landings today was key for the up-and-

+10.05A battered stock market recovered

from a sharp drop in late trading Friday but still posted its fourth straight weekly drop. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 170 points in afternoon trading, clawed their way back to finish with a gain of 10. But more stocks fell than rose on the New York Stock Exchange as investors contended with another se-ries of troubling signals about the global economy. Investors are concerned that European governments will have trouble getting their massive deficits under con-trol. The Labor Department, meanwhile, offered only modest hope of improve-ment in the jobs market in its closely watched monthly report. The Dow rose 10.05, or 0.1 percent, to 10,012.23 after being down as much as 167 points.

Health care bill may die in Congress

President Barack Obama now con-cedes the effort to bring health care re-form may die in Congress.

The president’s newly conflicting sig-nals could frustrate Democratic lawmak-ers who are hungry for guidance from the White House as they try to salvage the effort to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and hold down spiraling medical costs.

Hours after Republican Scott Brown was sworn in to replace the late Edward

By Geoff MintzMountaineer Staff Writer

[See FREESKIING, page 21][See THE UPDATE, pages 14-15]

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2 Vail Mountaineer Saturday, February 6, 2010

The American pika isn’t heading for the endangered species list, but federal scientists said there’s no ques-tion it bears watching as the West warms in the coming decades.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally an-nounced its decision yesterday that Endangered Spe-cies Act protections aren’t warranted for the climate-sensitive pika, a mountain-dwelling relative of the rabbit that lives in the Vail Valley and nine other West-ern states.

Agency officials acknowledge, though, that there’s still plenty that’s not known about the pika, a species that can be difficult to study because of its remote mountain habitat.

Environmentalists — disappointed by the decision made public a day earlier — had sought federal protec-tions for the pika because of threats from global warm-ing. Pikas are sensitive to temperatures and, as condi-tions warm, they have moved up-slope and, in some cases, run out of cool refuges.

John Isanhart, a biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service, said yesterday that while lower-elevation pi-kas might disappear as the West warms, enough pikas at higher elevations across the West should survive to keep the species from going extinct.

Officials said they expect most pikas in the Rocky Mountains and along the West Coast will survive in warmer conditions, while in the Great Basin around Ne-vada, which has already seen some the disappearance of some local populations, pikas face a tougher struggle.

Harder still is predicting how climate change will af-fect total population figures.

“It’s pretty difficult to look into a crystal ball to look where a species is going to be in the next 40 years,” said Isanhart, who helped review the pikas’ status across the West over the last year.

What is known is that temperatures will almost cer-tainly continue to rise across nearly all pika habitat in the coming years, scientists predict.

Of 22 pika sites analyzed across the West, federal officials expect that about half will see high enough summer temperatures that put local pikas at risk. But, Isanhart said, each site includes pikas that live at high and low elevations and that, in most cases, it’ll just be the low-elevation pikas that are endangered.

A better gauge of pika survival is likely the tempera-ture in the below-surface rocks and crevices where pi-kas seek refuge. Some work has been done to analyze

temperature trends in those areas but more research is needed, agency officials said.

Part of the complexity with predicting the fate of the pika is that they appear across such a vast area.

Pikas are found at progressively higher locations — where temperatures are cooler — as you move south. In Canada, for instance, they can exist from sea level up to 9,800 feet. Farther south, they’re rarely seen be-low 8,000 feet, federal officials said.

In the coming years, officials expect to see intensi-fied interest in how local pika populations respond to warming temperatures. The science to this point is far from robust, federal officials said.

Still, “the law says you make the decision based on the best available information,” said Michael Thabault, an assistant regional director for the agency.

If new research indicates pikas are losing the struggle against climate change, agency officials said yesterday they’ll re-examine whether they need federal protec-tions.

Pikas live in the Vail Valley and don’t like heat. If new research indicates pikas are losing the strug-gle against climate change, agency officials said yesterday they’ll re-examine whether they need fed-eral protections. If the protections are granted, the pika would be among the first animals in the conti-nental United States to get federal protections pri-marily because of climate change. AP photo.

Vail’s pika doesn’t like heatValley rodent could be first animal in continental US to receive protections from climate change

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Vail Police Chief Dwight Henninger will head to the Winter Olympics in Whistler beginning Feb. 10, where he’ll join hundreds of other volunteers who’ll be assisting with the Winter Games. Henninger will be working with the Resort Municipality of Whistler in the Bylaws Services Department, which is similar to Vail’s Code Enforcement Officers (CEOs).

The Vail Police Department con-ducted an exchange of officers and CEOs in 2005 with Whistler and the two departments have been sharing ideas for solutions to similar problems both communities have, such as bears and residential units over entertainment establishments.

Henninger volunteered to help Whistler after their Bylaws Services supervisor visited Vail this past sum-mer to observe the operations of the town’s parking structures. Henninger will be assisting primarily with

transportation issues in Whistler. He says, “I’m look-ing forward to a line level role at the Olympics to help remind myself of what it’s like to be on the front lines. I also know it’s great to have a few extra folks during large events.”

The chief says his experience will be useful in help-ing to coordinate future events in Vail and to learn more about the public safety expectations of international visitors. He also hopes to learn new techniques to deal with other important issues for providing law enforce-ment and quality of life services to the Vail commu-nity.

Henninger credits family vacations to Whistler as one of the reasons he chose to come to Vail as the police chief. He’ll use vacation time earned with the town while he’s away and will be responsible for all expenses.

Cmdr. Steve Wright will serve as acting police chief during Henninger’s absence.

The Eagle County Public Safety Council an-nounced yesterday that 14 members of the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) Special Operations Unit (SOU) will be honored with a Distinguished Service Medal.

The medals are being awarded for the way the SOU responded to a recent incident in West Vail, in which Rossi Moreau was caught on tape shooting up a bar, killing one person and wounding several others.

Despite knowing the shooter was still inside the bar on Nov. 7, 2010, members of the ECSO SOU entered the bar, with others, to save individuals hid-ing inside and to rescue a downed citizen.

“Members of the ECSO SOU clearly faced an im-minent threat to their safety when they entered the bar,” according to the Sheriff’s Department. “For these brave actions, those members of the ECSO SOU will be awarded the Eagle County Public Safe-ty Council’s Distinguished Service Medal.”

14 Sheriff Special Ops members to get Distinguished Service MedalsOfficers honored for response to Moreau shooting

Vail Police Chief to volunteer at Olympics

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The honorees are:Alex Iacovetto, Eagle County Sheriff’s OfficeBarry Hammaker, Vail Valley Medical CenterBill Clausen, Vail Police DepartmentBob Silva, Eagle County Sheriff’s OfficeBrent Kohls, Eagle County Sheriff’s OfficeChris Botkins, Vail Police DepartmentDonyelle Dewey, Eagle County Sheriff’s OfficeGreg Daly, Avon Police DepartmentJon Lovins, Avon Police DepartmentLuke Causey, Vail Police DepartmentMatt Westenfelder, Avon Police DepartmentReg Francoise, Vail Valley Medical CenterSteve Vardaman, Eagle County Ambulance DistrictTad Degen, Eagle County Sheriff’s Office

These awards will be presented at the Eagle County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) meeting on February 9th, at 9:00 a.m. at the Eagle County Building, located at 500 Broadway, in Eagle.

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The pictures of the graffiti, at right, were released yesterday.

The extensive damage, consisting mainly of graffiti, began at Golden Peak and contin-ued along the Gore Valley Trail and ended in the Vail Mountain Plaza parking garage. Pre-liminary property damage estimates exceed $10,000.

The three suspects, all from Vail, were taken into custody over the past 24 hours as the investigation proceeded. Officers and Vail Resorts security assigned to the case used surveillance footage to identify the parties in-volved. Confessions were obtained from all three suspects when interviewed by police.

Margret Prowell, 20, Robert Cooper, 20, and Jay Osborne, 19, were booked into the Vail Police holding facility on a $7,500 bond.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Every day or two we take a cruise through some local police reports so we can bring you our favorites. The general theme is two-fold: (1) Some-times we’re all this silly, and (2) this stuff is funny be-cause it’s not happening to you … this time.

LUST IS A MANy SPLINTERED THING: They don’t love each other, or even like each other very much, but they cannot seem to stay away from each other. The judge, who’s seen more of this than a judge should, advised that what was afire between them was not their hearts. Handing down a brief geography lesson along with a ruling, the judge pointed out that the source of their mutual attraction probably originated somewhere well south of their hearts – if you know what we mean and we think you do. The judge, cutting like a laser straight to the heart of the issue, used the term “booty call” to describe their latest less-than-romantic interlude, in what might be the most accurate description in the history of jurist prudence, and added that there was very little prudence involved in any of this. In the end, they took the deal – a 60 day restraining order that ensures that, whatever else might happen, it will not be happening between them because they won’t be anywhere near each other. And with that, they

went their separate ways, promising to live happily and separately every after.

GRANOLA AND GLORy: It’s a modern phenomenon that hikers will try to light their way with cell phones as they hike down an avalanche chute. It’s not the latest thing for hikers to fall - in this case about 20 feet - drop their flashlights, burn out their glow sticks, eat their granola bars and drink their water. After all that, and wandering around lost, they decided to sit down in the snow and wait for the cavalry to ride in and save them. The cavalry did, in the persons of Vail Mountain Rescue. About an hour after Rescuers showed up, the Two Trekkers were off the mountain, cold and hungry and thirsty, but safe.

GIVE THAT MAN A STANDING OVATION: Here’s one for the good guys. He’s a recovering alcoholic, stepping gingerly through the 12 step program, and good for him. But his chosen occupation in the food service industry plunked him down in the middle of a massive wine tasting. As the evening’s festivities and wine tasting rolled on, pretty women consistently offered him drinks, and other possible charms. He’s a good looking guy, but politely declined both the drinks and the pretty women. He’s not in jail, he’s not drinking and he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that if he wants to achieve his dream of becoming an executive chef, he’s on the right track.

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Home prices fall in 2009Total sales fall below $1 billion for first time since 1996

Price conscious buyers waiting for real estate bar-gains started finding some in 2009.

Of the 938 sales across Eagle County in 2009, almost half were for homes priced at $500,000 or less, and 70 percent sold for less than $1 million, according to sta-tistics compiled by Trevor Theelke of Land Title.

Market values of both single family and multifamily homes fell 15 percent 2009, compared to 2008, when calculated per square foot.

It’s still pricey to buy here. The average price of a single family home is $1.1 million, but that includes high end homes in places like Bachelor Gulch and Bea-ver Creek.

Multifamily units sold for an average of $831,688, but again that includes all properties sold, including high end homes.

The year-end totals tell a more complete story. The year-end total for 2009 was 938 transactions and $898,444,183 in dollar volume.

“It was the first year since 1996 that we did not sur-

pass $1 billion in sales,” Theelke said in his report.In 2008, Eagle County saw $2.2 billion in real estate

sales, which was down from the record year of $2.9 billion in 2007.

High end homes, selling for more than $4 million, were down significantly. In 2009, there were 23 such transactions; 2008 had 102.

The resort rule still applies in the valley – the closer to the mountain the more expensive the real estate.

The most expensive residential property in 2009 was in Vail Village with a selling price of $15.95 million.

Vail Village single-family homes had the highest price-per-square-foot average at $2,088, a 31 percent increase over 2008. The average price Vail Village home sold for $7,600,000, and the village also had the highest averages for multifamily homes.

Year end highlights: • Beaver Creek ended the year with the area’s highest

dollar volume, $106,585,900 • Eagle had the most transactions with 135 • Eagle County ranked second in dollar volume for

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REAL ESTATE

Stacy Gunderson Thibedeau has joined RE/MAX Vail Valley as the newest member of this dynamic sales team. Stacy has previously worked at Claggett/Rey Gallery, The Vail Valley Foundation and the Vilar Performing Arts Center.

“I am proud to be a part of the RE/MAX Vail Valley team and af-filiated with the RE/MAX organiza-tion,” said Stacy. “Connecting with RE/MAX will be a significant ben-efit to my clients, because it has the most powerful and efficient referral system in the business. There are nearly 100,000 RE/MAX Affiliates in more than 70 countries, mean-ing that when I list a property here in the Vail Valley it is exposed to a huge audience. And the technology tools that RE/MAX has to offer can help my clients get the best possi-ble price for their home in the least amount of time.”

Stacy said another advantage of-fered by the company is RE/MAX Mainstreet, an extranet that allows its agents to share referrals, market-ing techniques and the latest infor-

mation about technology, advertis-ing and similar topics. “Ongoing education is a strong priority at RE/MAX,” said Stacy. “No other real estate organization has a higher per-centage of Affiliates with advanced, professional designations.”

“We are very pleased to have Stacy on our team” said Cynthia Kruse, Broker/Owner of RE/MAX Vail Valley. “Her enthusiasm and knowledge of the Vail Valley will be a tremendous asset to both RE/MAX and her clients.”

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Yesterday Doris Kirchner, VVMC’s new president and CEO, said that the new facility, located in the Tower Building near Eagle

Airport, is still projected for Spring 2010, but missed the January target.

“We still anticipate a Spring 2010 opening, just not as early as we had hoped,” says Kirchner. “Though we have been training at the facility, we are being delayed by a construc-tion item and we are not able to see patients yet. We will make the an-nouncement to the community as

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If Facebook, Google and Car-Fax got together and had a brain child, the result would be Edwards resident Matt Harmon’s Hometrax.com, a real estate and community Web site.

“[Hometrax] is a network com-prised of a home profile relative to homeowners and a great way to manage a home, as well as to sell a home,” Harmon.

Hometrax was launched in the Vail valley in December and already has an overwhelming following.

The multi-faceted site begins with a member’s Home Profile, which allows the user to describe and re-cord work done to each room of their home, for insurance purposes or increased sale value.

Your Home Profile allows you to personalize each room and attach service providers who have com-pleted worked on your home.

“There’s a great property manage-ment implication here because if you have 10 homes you manage, you give access to your owner, your owner can see everyone that has worked on the house, they can click on the pro-file it takes you to their profile within the site,” Harmon said.

Let’s say you want to add tile to your home, paint to a room, or a new roof. Hometrax allows you to generate a list of each room’s im-provements right down to what col-or scheme was used.

“If your house burned down, this is the same kind of list you’d be us-ing and the same kind of questions you’d be asked by an insurance pro-vider,” said Harmon. “When did you purchase it, did it get depreci-ated and what was the cost? Thus, you can download it and send it off to your insurance provider.”

Your home becomes much like a car listed with CarFax, where po-tential buyers can see everything that was done to make the property more valuable.

Another nifty feature of Hometrax is the visibility it provides local ser-

vice providers. Independent contractors, small

businesses and artisans alike can create a searchable profile detail-ing their area of expertise, complete with a personalized banner from the user’s own design.

“If you create a service provider profile in our system then you crate a banner and invite your contacts, your banner is present on their pages, and when those people cre-ate their own banner and invite their clients, you become suggested to people kind of like Facebook,” Harmon added.

Service providers can also be re-viewed and ranked by their custom-ers, which creates a unique honor system amongst Hometrax users.

Another feature of the site is their searchable Groups feature, which acts as a virtual Google for locals.

“We started thinking about who’s in our neighborhood, how that’s relative to homes and how its use-ful to have all those pieces working together,” Harmon said. “There’s even groups like you and I go ski-ing, or we want more people to

meet us up at Bell’s Camp for a bar-beque, so it could be any of those kinds of groups as well.“

Groups range from golf clubs, to HOA’s, to wine tasting enthusiasts - the list is endless.

Similar to service providers who create a profile on Hometrax, when a group forms and sends out invi-tations, those who join form a con-nection and their message spreads further.

Hometrax was created by Har-mon, who owns Portfolio Mortgage in Edwards, along with his Seattle business partner Rick Belisle. The pair envisioned the site years ago after meeting on vacation in Ha-waii.

“Thanks to the Vail market were able to do a lot of testing and work-ing out the kinks, people here have been very helpful in providing feed-back,” said Harmon. “The more people that get involved in the site the better it works for all of us.”

The best part about Hometrax is it’s a free service - it’s concept for it’s survival is “the more the mer-rier,” said Harmon.

The virtual Vail ValleyLocally owned Hometrax.com connects small businesses, homeowners to their community

Matt Harmon is the co-creator of Hometrax.com, a community based, home centric Web site with endless possibilities. Dawn Witlin photo.

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Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s Christoph Neder-hauser and Cannon O’Brien placed 2nd and 3rd on Beaver Creek’s Bear Trap run at Saturday’s Millen-nium Bank slalom.

Nederhauser finished with a 1:22.85 taking second place behind Team Summit’s Connor McDonald while Cannon O’Brien, Nederhauser’s teammate, rounded out the podium with his third place finish time of 1:22.97. Also cracking into the top 15 for SSCV were Andreas Calabrese in 6th and Nick Braun in 12th.

SSCV’s women racing in Friday’s slalom saw Celine Guilmineau place 4th and Katharine Irwin finish 6th.

“Christoph Nederhauser had two solid runs,” said coach Mike Womack.

Nederhauser took 3rd in the first run for the men in today’s race while Cannon O’Brien clocked in with the fastest second run.

“There was good upward movement through the field for the SSCV group,” said Womack, referring to a rac-er’s finish relative to where they started.

Examples of moving up through the field are SSCV’s Nick Braun starting 21st and finishing 12th, Grecody Johns starting 33rd and placing 16th, and Anthony Romano leaving the start with number 29 and placing 17th.

The Millennium Bank Colorado Junior Ski Cup con-tinues Saturday with another slalom race for the men and women at Beaver Creek.

Vail Summit OrthoSchuetze, Jed 28.96 2.08 P 30.35 5.57 P 59.31 9.78 37.66 1Shields, Derek 30.93 9.02 G 30.45 5.91 P 01:01.4 9.35 Johnson, Ted 30.45 7.33 P 31.94 11.1 G 01:02.4 9.28 Cartmill, La La 32.54 14.7 P 32.04 11.44 P 01:04.6 9.25 Dorf, Erik 32.43 14.31 G 33.16 15.34 G 01:05.6 8.41 Jensen Farms Lochhead, Ian 29.01 2.26 P 29.4 2.26 P 58.41 9.76 36.9 2Steiert, Dak 32.69 15.23 G 30.79 7.1 P 01:03.5 9.22 Gooch, Bill 32.82 15.69 P 34.42 19.72 G 01:07.2 9.09 Kleeman, Perry 32.87 15.86 G 33.45 16.35 G 01:06.3 8.83

Snowell/Fuxi Leisure Thompson, Broc 29.53 4.09 P 30.27 5.29 P 59.8 9.64 27.32 3Brooker, Zoe 31.98 12.72 P 32.26 12.21 P 01:04.2 9.2 Galehr, Markus 33.67 18.68 G 33.83 17.67 G 01:07.5 7.48 Zehner, Rob 28.91 1.9 P DNF 1 Caruso, Chris 31.32 10.4 G DNF 1

The George Viele, David 29.89 5.36 P 30.19 5.01 P 01:00.1 9.45 23.81 4Lee, Eric The George 33.39 17.69 G 33.98 18.19 G 01:07.4 7.47 Rasmussen, Michael 36.12 27.32 S 36.58 27.23 S 01:12.7 5.89 Pennock, Andy 30.7 8.21 P DSQ 1 Glendining, Jim DNF 35.05 21.91 G 1 SSCV Masters Grant, Kenneth 36.19 27.56 G 34.98 21.67 G 01:11.2 8.34 19.83 5Whiteford, Mitch 34.42 21.33 G 34.49 19.97 G 01:08.9 7.74 Sanders, Chris 38.78 36.69 B 38.06 32.38 B 01:16.8 3.75 Team Independent Levine, Carol 35.33 24.53 P 35.31 22.82 P 01:10.6 9.25 28.77 naReatti, Simone 34.47 21.5 S 34.35 19.48 G 01:08.8 7.12 Armstrong, Phil 34.18 20.48 S 34.7 20.7 S 01:08.9 6.26 Patten, Terry 37.68 32.82 S 37.85 31.65 S 01:15.5 6.14 Heminger, Josh 45.42 60.1 B 1 Puryear, Mark DNF 46.35 61.22 B 1

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Snowell/Fuxi Leisure Thompson, Broc 29.53 4.09 P 30.27 5.29 P 59.8 9.64 27.32 3Brooker, Zoe 31.98 12.72 P 32.26 12.21 P 01:04.2 9.2 Galehr, Markus 33.67 18.68 G 33.83 17.67 G 01:07.5 7.48 Zehner, Rob 28.91 1.9 P DNF 1 Caruso, Chris 31.32 10.4 G DNF 1

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Do as I say and not as I do ... Is that the motto Tom Watson lives by?

The eight-time major champion, who shocked the world with his near British Open win in 2009, recently urged Tiger Woods to be more pub-lic about his marital indiscretions. Watson said most recently:

“I’ll let the cat out of the bag. Ti-ger has to take ownership of what he has done. He must get his personal life in order. I think that’s what he’s trying to do. And when he comes back he has to show some humility to the public.

“I would come out and I would do an interview with somebody and say, ‘You know what? I screwed up. And I admit it. I am going to try to change. I am trying to change. I want my wife and family back.’”

But, while Watson sits back and wags a finger at Tiger, he forgot about his no comment stance on his own personal life.

In December, 1997, Linda Watson, Tom’s high school sweetheart and wife of 25 years, left him. Just 20 months after Tom’s divorce, he remarried a wom-an by the name Hilary Watson. Hilary, conveniently, could keep her last name, as she herself had just left noted PGA Tour professional Denis Watson.

In the aftermath, Golf Digest reported that his teen-age children had all but cut Tom off completely.



The events surrounding Tom’s ol’ switcharoo were shrouded in secrecy and the public had questions, so Tom naturally held a press conference and opened up to fans and media ... Not.

In a 1998 article about Tom Watson’s life, SI’s Michael Bamberger noted that Tom refused to talk about his first wife and the events leading up to the divorce.

Even today, there’s never been one word printed about why Linda Watson left her husband, but his marriage to a fellow tour player’s wife less than two years after his divorce begs many questions.

Watson’s situation is a far cry from Tiger’s, but the way he handled the media scrutiny -- by not handling it at all -- is almost identical.

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LOOK OUT BUBBA ... SHE’S GOT A THING FOR GOLFERS NAMED WATSON: Tom Watson is pic-tured here with his second wife (and fellow tour player Denis Watson’s first wife,) Hilary Watson. Tom recently urged Tiger to take ownership of what he’s done, while Tom has remained silent about his own suspicious past.

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Johnson is the new name behind the pill that’s suppose to give men a “boost.”

“Most men want to perform the best they can in just about everything,” Johnson says in one ad spot. “Isn’t that why we buy the biggest and best of everything?” He signs off with the tagline: “Go long with Exten-Ze. I do.”

The suits in marketing are saying he’s just the man for the job, and not simply because his name is Johnson.

Robert Yallen, CEO of Inter/Media, the Encino, Calif., direct-marketing agency that is overseeing the ad campaign on Johnson, said he’s “probably one of the few people who can pull this off.”

Johnson will be featured in 15, 30, and 60-second ads that will start running next Monday.

Former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson says he’s “going long with ExtenZe.” Johnson will be the newest name behind the male enhancement product.

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Dexter Manley has something to celebrate about. Good but troubled is how The Houston Chronicle de-

scribed Dexter Manley in a recent piece entitled, “Man-ley’s Super Bowl ring now symbol of two victories.”

Dexter won the ring in 1983 when his Washington Red-skins’ defeated of the Miami Dolphins, but later pawned the ring to feed a cocaine addiction. This week, Dexter’s wife Lydia retrieved the ring from the estate of the late lawyer John O’Quinn.

Manley was known as the “Secretary of Defense” had turbulent career. He played defensive end for Oklahoma State University before spending 11 years in the NFL, most with the Redskins. In 1991 he was banned from the league after failing drug tests. He was repeatedly ar-rested for crack cocaine possession and was imprisoned more than once.

O’Quinn was a friend of Manley’s and in 1999 O’Quinn and the Manleys flew to see Manley’s cousin Eric Dick-erson inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. While on the plane O’Quinn gave Manley with the ring the ballplayer had hocked and that O’Quinn found.

Manley, unsure of his sobriety, gave the ring back to O’Quinn to safe keep until the he felt worthy of it. Man-ley did wind up back in jail on a cocaine charge a few years after he told O’Quinn to keep the ring.

Sometime in the last decade, Manley asked for the ring back, O’Quinn pretended he didn’t have it.

“He thought Dexter was still in his addiction,” Lydia Manley said.

Dexter has been sober since 2006 and Lydia says she is happy her husband is now deserving of the ring, but feels bad O’Quinn isn’t around to give it to him.

John O’Quinn died last October in a car crash.

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M. Kennedy, leaving Democrats without their filibus-ter-proof majority in the Senate, and Obama left his signature health legislation with no clear path forward.

“I think it’s very important for us to have a methodi-cal, open process over the next several weeks, and then let’s go ahead and make a decision,” Obama said at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser.

“And it may be that ... if Congress decides we’re not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not.”

Charlie’s car tumbles 300 feet off cliff

A Mercedes that Charlie Sheen reported stolen from his Sherman Oaks home was found overturned hundreds of feet down a nearby cliff early Friday, but there’s no evidence anyone was in the car when it went into the ravine, police said.

Police got an emergency call around 4 a.m. from an OnStar-style alert system that calls emergency officials when there is a problem with the vehicle that may re-quire assistance, Officer Wendy Reyes said. At about the same time, Sheen called police to say his four-door Mercedes-Benz had been stolen, Officer Bruce Bori-hanh said.

Police and firefighters found the car 300 to 400 feet down a cliff, upside-down in the brushy ravine. They searched the area on foot and with an infrared-equipped helicopter but found nobody in or around the car, Bori-hanh said.

India forms new climate change body

India’s government will form its own panel to watch global warming, in the wake of unreliable evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which surfaced last month, the UK Telegraph reports.

The group will be headed by India’s top scientist Dr. R.K. Pachauri.

“I respect the IPCC but India is a very large country and cannot depend only on [the] IPCC and so we have launched the Indian Network on Comprehensive Cli-mate Change Assessment (INCCA),” Dr. Pachauri told the Telegraph.

Pachauri also announced the Indian government will establish the National Institute of Himalayan Glaciol-ogy to monitor the effects of climate change on the world’s ‘third ice cap.’

“There is a fine line between climate science and cli-mate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think peo-ple misused [the] IPCC report, [the] IPCC doesn’t do the original research which is one of the weaknesses… they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks,” Pachauri told the Telegraph.

Dutch ministry say they’re not as underwater

as UN claimedThe Netherlands is prompting a UN climate change

panel to recant inaccurate claims in 2007 that more than half the country was below sea level, Breitbart reports.

Dutch authorities claim only 26 percent of the coun-try is actually below sea level, saying they will also ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be asked to account for its figures,

Environment ministry spokesman Trimo Vallaart told Breitbart that IPCC experts calculated that 55 percent of the Netherlands was below sea level by adding areas below sea level to areas threatened by river flooding, saying: “They should have been clearer,”

Don’t doodle in QueensA junior high school student was arrested for drawing

her name on her desk with erasable marker, the Daily News reports.

Alexa Gonzalez wrote “I love my friends Abby and Faith,” adding: “Lex was here. 2/1/10” and a smiley face on her desk at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she told the Daily News.

She and her mother told the paper the 12-year-old was cuffed and taken to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours,

“I started crying, like, a lot,” said Alexa. “I made two little doodles. ... It could be easily erased. To put hand-cuffs on me is unnecessary.” Alexa, who had a stellar attendance record, hasn’t been back to school since, adding, “I just thought I’d get a detention. I thought maybe I would have to clean [the desk].”

King of All Media may switch media

Howard Stern may replace Simon Cowell on Ameri-can Idol if producers get their way, reports The New York Post.

“An insider said that producers of the hit Fox show say Stern, America’s highest-paid radio personality, is their top choice to take over from Cowell, who leaves at the end of this season,” reports the Post. “They ap-proached the King of All Media after he repeatedly mentioned on-air that his exclusive Sirius XM Radio deal expires next January and he was open to other of-fers. Cowell was paid $50 million a year.”

An unnamed source quoted by the Post said: “It’s one of the few shows that could compete with Stern’s $100 million-a-year Sirius contract, and ‘Idol’ bosses think he’d be even nastier than Simon.”

Franken frank with Axelrod

Sen. Al Franken called out White House senior ad-viser David Axelrod this week in a closed door session, Politico reports.

“Five sources who were in the room tell POLITICO that Franken criticized Axelrod for the administration’s failure to provide clarity or direction on health care and the other big bills it wants Congress to enact,” writes Politico.

The meeting followed President Barack Obama’s question-and-answer session with Senate Democrats at the Newseum on Wednesday.

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Obama’s Bush momentThe usually well spoken President Obama committed

a lingual snafu at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this week.

Real Clear Politics posted a video Thursday of Obama, who mispronounced the word “Corpsman” as “corpse-man” twice in the same speech.

Obama was reportedly praising American military personnel in the speech.

A corpsman is defined as an enlisted person in the U.S. Navy, serving either with the Navy or the Ma-rines.

Don’t forget to watch the ad you helped

pay for Sunday Faced with record levels of red ink into the foresee-

able future, Washington is spending $2.5 million to cre-ate buzz for the census — by advertising during the Super Bowl.

The Census Bureau is hoping to exploit the strong ratings from this annual attraction, aiming to get more participation from people who now seem disinclined to mail back a government questionnaire or even answer the door.

Census officials call it a good investment, saying the front-end costs of purchasing the ads can be quickly recouped if they succeed in encouraging people to mail back their census forms. A recent poll found nearly 1 in 5 residents said they may not fill them out, mostly be-cause they were unfamiliar with the census or weren’t interested.

The Census Bureau says few events can match the Super Bowl’s reach of 100 million TV viewers. That’s because for every percentage point increase in the mail response rate, it saves an additional $85 million to find and count those people.

2090 was very good for Emma

Harry Potter star Emma Watson was named as one of Hollywood’s top earning actresses by Vanity Fair. The

magazine reports Watson made a whopping $30 mil-lion last year from acting and modeling gigs.

Her Potter co-stars fared considerably better notes Vanity Fair.

Watson ranked 14th on the list, while Daniel Rad-cliffe, who made $41 million last year and ranked at No. 6.

Chinese chicken salad prices may be going up

Reuters reports China will levy heavy anti-dumping duties on U.S. chicken products, quoting its Commerce Ministry.

“The preliminary tariffs were announced a day after China requested a World Trade Organisation ruling on European Union duties on shoes made in China,” re-ports Reuters. “That was the most recent of many cases demonstrating China’s embrace of the WTO to keep markets open to the exports on which it depends.”

Michael Barbalas, president of the American Cham-ber of Commerce in China, told Reuters:

“The world needs strong U.S.-China economic en-gagement now, not a ratcheting up of trade tensions.”

U.S. poultry producers depend on China for profits because chicken wings and feet are a delicacy in the country.

Big dig results from IraqSoldiers discovered a seven meter rocket buried in

the dirt during an operation in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib suburb, The Daily Mail reports.

The bomb may have been buried by Saddam Hus-sein’s regime before the UK and U.S. occupation of Iraq.

It remains unclear whether the missile was armed with a warhead.

Hitler, bull semen and EvaDer Speigel online reports Hitler may have ingested

testosterone as part of his daily regimen.A new book entitled “War Hitler Krank?’ (Was Hit-

ler Sick?) claims that the Fuhrer had regular injections of dextrose and vitamins, testosterone and a flatulence preventative that included minute doses of the nerve

agent strychnine. The book also deduces he and with Eva Braun in-

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Lohan and Ronson in L.A. smackdown

Lindsay Lohan and ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson were witnessed having a tumultuous argument at a bar in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, reports the San Francisco Chronicle

While Ronson was DJing at the Crown Bar in West Hollywood., witnesses said Lohan initiated an argu-ment after failing to get enough attention.

“Sam was working her usual weekly gig DJing at Crown bar. Lindsay turned up around 11 p.m. and she was in the mood for trouble! Lindsay was trying to get Sam’s attention, but she was working and studiously ignored Lindsay. You could see Lindsay getting more and more worked up the more Sam didn’t pay her any attention,” a source told The Chronicle.

Lohan reportedly threw a drink at Ronson, who re-sponded by throwing some DJ equipment back.

Couric and Sawyer in broadcast smack down

Diane Sawyer may be able to succeed where Katie Couric hasn’t in taking over for Charles Gibson on “ABC World News Tonight,” reports the Los Angeles Times.

“If nothing else, Sawyer’s early success proves that Americans are not as disgusted with the media, or cul-tural, elite as they seem -- from the moment she left her memoir-writing job with former President Nixon to become the first female host of “ 60 Minutes,” reports the Times. “Sawyer, with her patrician good looks, has been groomed to be a star.”

Further comparing Sawyer to Couric at CBS, The Times notes: “While the two share a gender and some job history similarities -- Couric still contributes pieces as a correspondent on “60 Minutes” and both came off successful morning show runs -- they are in tone and mien as different as night and day, or Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer.”

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coming, semi-pro athletes, as the top four women and top six men in today’s Finals will be pre-qualified for the rest of the 2010 Tour.

Running second for the men, Boucher earned a score of 40.57, raising the bar for the other riders. Boucher skied a fast, fluid line on the top of the venue and fol-lowed by a 30-plus-foot stomp.

Following Boucher in second was Tra-vis Wolfe with a 39.33, who skied a stra-tegic rocky cliff line that included a lot of technical hop-turns and billy-goating.

Connery Lundin, a former racer who skied the venue like he was ripping gates, took third. His turns were fluid, controlled, fast, and led to several cliff hits smoothly.

For the women, Sasha Dingle of Bridg-er Bowl skied the best women’s line of the day with a top score of 32.53, fol-lowed by Alexis DuPont of Sun Valley in second, who launched off a cliff early in her run, nabbing her a score of 32.17.

Friday’s competition marked not only an important qualifying day of the tour, but also an historical day for the FWT with record amounts of big mountain bombers from all corners of the U.S. and around the globe.

Despite a larger than usual roster, the 600-vertical feet venue known as Review

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Listing Vail as his home mountain, ski-er Whit Boucher had the best run in Friday’s preliminary round of compe-tition at the Subaru Freeskiing World Tour qualifier in Telluride.

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Beaver Creek has played host several other current and retired statesmen including Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Al Gore and Dan Quayle.

The trip was well timed, as Washington prepares for what meteorologists are billing as a snowstorm of historic proportions. It’s a shame there aren’t any ski mountains in DC — Biden could have made a much smaller carbon footprint.

Vice President Biden will fly back to Washington on Sunday most likely aboard the large blue and white aircraft at the Eagle Airport with the words “United States of America” written on the side, assumed to be Air Force Two.

A message to the White House to verify the story was not immediately returned.

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TOP: Vice President Joe Biden and his family are rumored to be staying in a suite in The One Beaver Creek building, just above Surefoot in Beaver Creek Village. The VP arrived on Friday, along with a mas-sive entourage of security, staff, family and friends. BOTTOM: An unnamed security spook makes sure the area is safe yesterday at Beaver Creek.

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of dollars to cultural institutions and opera houses be-fore he was arrested in May 2005 on fraud charges. Vail and Beaver Creek, where Vilar had a home high on Borders Road, were among his beneficiaries. He donated $7 million to rebuild a Beaver Creek theater, which was later named the Vilar Center for the Arts at Beaver Creek. He also contributed $2 million toward revamping the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail.

Vilar has been imprisoned since soon after a jury convicted him in November 2008 of conspiracy fraud for cheating investors of $40 million through his San Francisco-based company, Amerindo Investment Ad-visors Inc. He now walks with a cane.

Sullivan called Vilar a complicated man of “tremen-dous generosity” who had donated millions of dollars to charities, the arts and individuals. He said Vilar needed to be punished to send a stern message to money man-agers that they must act honestly to protect customers’ assets.

“If they don’t believe that, the entire economy can suffer,” Sullivan said.

“Most people want security — to know their life won’t be abruptly turned upside down,” Sullivan said. With Vilar, “that trust was abused,” he said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Litt said Vilar some-times operated his business like a Ponzi scheme by pay-ing early investors with money later invested by others, especially after Vilar’s two-decade run of financial suc-cess hit a wall when his beloved technology stocks fell suddenly in value in 2000.

“In essence, he rolled sevens for years,” the judge said. “But the sevens turned to snake eyes in 2000, 2001.”

Vilar earned hundreds of millions of dollars on in-vestments in the 1990s as the stock market rose in dou-ble digits almost annually. He spent some of the money making donations of as much as $225 million to op-era houses. After his arrest, he found himself largely abandoned by the affluent and powerful, confined to his apartment under house arrest for more than three years before trial.

Vilar — said by Forbes magazine to be worth $950 million during good times — abandoned some pledges when the markets plunged, charities said. The Met-ropolitan Opera took his name off its grand tier, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden in London removed his surname from its Floral Hall and the Salzburg Festival

in Austria stripped his picture from its programs. The Vilar Center for the Performing Arts in Beaver Creek seems to be using the acronym “VPAC” more and more as of late.

Witnesses against him at trial included Lily Cates, the mother of actress Phoebe Cates, who said Vilar im-properly spent $5 million of her money.

Vilar’s attorney, Jonathan Marks, said his client had suffered “a huge fall from a very high position.”

Sullivan announced his sentence soon after an 89-year-old doctor who uses a wheelchair and the man’s two daughters described how their family had been overwhelmed by debt for much of the past decade because Vilar would not return the money they had in-vested with him.

“We have suffered terribly,” said one of the daugh-ters, Lisa Mayer.

Vilar, in a rambling statement, said he objected to the prosecutor’s claim that he was not sorry for his crimes.

“I don’t know where the government gets the idea I am not responsible or remorseful,” he said. “I deeply regret any inconvenience that our 14,000 clients might have suffered.”

He said he believed there were only five victims in the fraud and that there was a 95 percent likelihood that all would recover their losses.

Former Vail Valley resident Alberto Vilar was sen-tenced to nine years in prison yesterday for bilking investors out of approximately $40 million.

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