Bulletin Daily Paper 11-04-15

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WEDNESDAY November 4,2015

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people were arrested after allegedly nabbing asolar-powered car worth $30,000 from a Bend school.B1

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By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

The Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council is

China's coal problem

launching a wide-ranging study into how debris generated from forest-thinning projects might be put to

— China hasbeenburning 17 percent more coal eachyear than it previously said.A2

better use.

Forest managers cut thousands of tons of brush,

State elections — Kentucky elects its secondGOP governor in four decades, while Ohio shoots down an initiative to legalize pot.A4

tree limbs and small trees

Counting calories — How

several industries, but much

each year in Central Oregon, primarily to reduce the risk of wildfire. Collectively known as woody biomass, the material can be useful to

effective are calorie counts on restaurant menus?A3

of it is burned in slash piles during the wetter, cooler months of the year.

Scott Aycock, community andeconomic develop-

And a Webexclusive

— Brutal details of NewYork mafia life are brought to light during the trial of manwho helped plan the heist featured in the 1990 film "Goodfellas." bendbuiietin.cern/extrns

EDITOR'5CHOICE

Campaigns

ment manager for the coun-

cil, said the organization recently received a $121,000 grant from the U.S. Forest

Service and the Statewide Wood Energy Team. SeeBiomass/A4

The Big Summit wild horse herd management areacovers more than 27,000 acres in the OchocoNational Forest. The national forest plans to revise the management plan for the herd. Thecurrent plan is from 1975.

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New Yorh Times News Service

In the lobby of a Mexico City office building, people scurrying to and fro gazed briefly at the digital billboard backing a candidate for Congress in June. They probably did not know the sign was reading them, too.

• Ochoco National Forest officials are revamping amanagement planfor a herd of wild horsesnear Prineville

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Insidethe ad,a camera

captured their facial expressions and fed them through an algorithm, reading emotional reactions like happiness, surprise, anger,disgust,fear and sadness. could then tweak the mes-

sage — the images, sounds

also known as the Ochoco Mustangs, has not been updated since 1975.

40-year-old manRevising the plan is a gement p l a n not related to the planned for a wild horse herd near roundup of wild horses east Prineville and is looking for of Lakeview in south-cenhelp from the public in the tral Oregon. The U.S. Burevision. reauofLand Management "We are basically began preparations +BP going to redo the Monday for the roundplan," Tory Kurtz, O l A5 up of more than 1,000 rangeland managewild horses in the ment specialist for the naBeatys Butte herd, drawing tional forest, said 'Ittesday. criticism from wild horse Congress enacted the advocacy groups. Wild Free-Roaming Horses The Big Summit herd is and Burros Act in 1971, and the only wild horse herd in four years later, in 1975, the Oregonand Washington Ochoco National Forest solely managed by the U.S.

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ABOVE: A foal from the Big Summit herd of wild horses lifts its head while resting in the sun in 2014. TOP OF PAGE: Members of the Big Summit herd walk through Ochoco National Forest.

By Princess Ojiaku Special to The Washington Post

We use coffee to stay

awake, good food and nutrition to stay healthy and alert. But if there was a drug that made you smarter,

helped you learn and made you more focused, would you take it?

That's a question Nicole

Vincent, associateprofessor

of philosophy, law and neuroscience at Georgia State

established a 27,300-acre

Forest Service. The BLM

University, asked to open her TED talk last year.

management areaforthe Big Summit herd of wild

manages most herds in Oregon. In the middle of the

That question also opened a Monday night debate at George Washington

wild horses in designated

Ochoco National Forest,

University in which two

areas, which include the more than42-square-mile

just west of Big Summit Prairie, the Big Summit

sides argued both for and against whether college students should be allowed to

horses. The act protects J!

With all the unwitting

feedback, thecampaign

he Ochoco Nat ional Forest i s set to r evise a

Should students use 'smart drugs?

Big Summit management herd managementarea is area. The management plan predominantly wooded. for the Big Summit herd, SeeHorses/A5

take "smart drugs."

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or words — to come up with a version that voters

might like better. All over the world, politi-

To combat sexual assault,

cal campaigns are seeking voter data and insights that will propel them to victo-

ry. Now, in an increasing number of places, that

collegessay'yes meansyes'

includes the contentious

field known as neuromarketing — or in this case, neuropolitics.

By Bonnie MinerRubin

Technologies like facial coding, biofeedback and brain imaging have long been used by companies in the hope of pushing the boundaries of marketing and product development.

Chicago Tribune

But their use by political

parties andgovernments is a growing phenomenon, evoking futuristic scenes from the movie "Minority

Report," in which eerily well-informed billboards scan commuters' eyes and call out to them by name. SeeAdvertising /A5

CHICAGO — For Blake Bullock, talking about sex

Erin Hooley i Chicago Tribune via Tribune News Service

Graduate student Blake Bullock speaks to a First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education class in Illinois last month.

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different turn.

is nothing new. As a peer

"We' re spending a lot of time on the nuances of con-

educator at the University of

sent because that's where

Illinois, he leads discussions on everything from birth

many students get tripped up," said Bullock, a graduate

control to sexually transmit-

student in social work in

ted diseases.

Champaign, Illinois. "They

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But recently, the conversations have taken a decidedly

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do worry that it's going to ruin the mood." As sexual assault cases on

campuseshave moved from private matter to public spotlight, college officials around the country are revamping their sexual misconduct

policies. SeeAssault/A5

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