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State designates 3 local bike routes as scenic Fourth path ends in area
Three proposed bike routes chosen
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A 44-mile one-way route between Sisters and Smith Rock State Park.
A network of three loops, totaling 43 miles.
A 32-mile loop on back roads between Bend and Tumalo.
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Tourism officials say the creation of three scenic bike routes in Central Oregon could be a big boost to future tourism promotion efforts, both for the region and the state. The Oregon State Parks Department announced Thursday that three Central Oregon bike routes are among eight routes around the state to have been selected by the Oregon Scenic Bikeway Committee to be designated as state scenic bikeways. Selected local routes include a network of five- to 21-mile routes in the Camp Sherman area, a 44-mile ride between Sisters and Smith Rock State Park, and the Twin Bridges Loop, a 32-mile loop from Bend through Tumalo. See Routes / A4
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“I suppose I was at least in part to blame for the people that were after me and for the pinch I had backed myself into. Whatever the case, I had, ultimately, no choice but to do what I did.”
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‘Evers’ faced ‘life or death situation,’ letter claims By Nick Budnick The Bulletin
PORTLAND — The former state liquor control manager who went by the name Jason Evers says in the mid-1990s, “I was faced with a life or death situation and I made a choice which has obviously stayed with me all these years and which I had to guard with secrecy at all costs.” Those tantalizing words were contained in an Aug. 23 letter from the Portland-area jail in which he awaits trial. They shed light, if only a little, Doitchin on what allegedly drove him to Krasev assume the identity of a murdered child more than a decade ago. “I suppose I was at least in part to blame for the people that were after me and for the pinch I had backed myself into,” he continued, in the letter to the family of his former fiancé. “Whatever the case, I had, ultimately no choice but to do what I did.”
Bulgarian national In April, federal agents arrested the eight-year Oregon Liquor Control Commission employee, accusing him of having lied about his identity on a passport application in 2002. After months of investigation, they concluded he really is Bulgarian national Doitchin Krasev, who came to the country as a teenager only to drop out of college and disappear. See ‘Evers’ / A4
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Employees with Rosendin Electric work on installing an electrical substation Wednesday afternoon for the Facebook data center (in background) located in Prineville. An effort is under way to stop Facebook from using coal-powered energy.
Data center under fire Company expects building to earn LEED Platinum rating, despite use of Pacific Power’s ‘dirty’ energy By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
An effort to keep Prineville’s Facebook data center from using coal-powered energy has caught the attention of hundreds of thousands of people and the national media. But for local officials, the focus remains on what a positive addition to the community Facebook has been. “They are participating in the community,” said Prineville City Manager Steve Forrester, talking about the social networking website. “They are
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Scientists have developed a scan that can measure the maturity of the brain, an advance that some day might be useful for testing whether children are maturing normally and gauging whether teenagers are grown up enough to be treated as adults. A federally funded study that involved scanning more than 12,000 connections in the brains of 238 volunteers ages 7 to 30 found that the technique appeared to accurately differentiate between the brains of adults and children, and determine roughly where individuals scored in the normal trajectory of brain development. While much more work is needed to validate and refine the test, the technique could have a host of uses, including providing another way to track children to make sure their brains are developing properly in the same way doctors routinely measure other developmental milestones. See Maturity / A5
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providing much-needed jobs to the county with the highest unemployment rate in the state. So, right now in Prineville and Crook County, the good far outweighs the fact that some of the electricity will be produced in coal plants.” In February, Greenpeace publicly called on Facebook to stop using Pacific Power for energy, since it uses coal-powered energy in its mix. The environmental advocacy group started its own Facebook page to help gather support. When the number of people who joined the
page reached 500,000, Greenpeace wrote a letter to the social networking site again urging the company to use only renewable energy. “Facebook appears to be on a path that will make breaking our addiction to dirty coal-fired electricity even more difficult,” Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo wrote. “As you are aware, following Facebook’s announcement to build a new data center in Prineville, OR, Greenpeace and over a half a million Facebook users have expressed significant concerns with your decision to power this data center with dirty coal-fired electricity from PacificCorp, which runs an electricity mix that is disproportionately powered by coal, the largest source of global warming pollution.” See Facebook / A4
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military almost launched fighter jets and discussed a possible shootdown when an errant Navy drone briefly veered into restricted airspace near the nation’s capital last month, a senior military official
said Thursday. The incident underscores safety concerns with unmanned aircraft as defense officials campaign to use them more often during natural disasters and for homeland security. Navy Adm. James Winnefeld Jr., head of Northern Command, said Thursday that the August mishap
could hamper the Pentagon’s push to have the Federal Aviation Administration ease procedures for drone use by the military in domestic skies. “It certainly doesn’t help our case any time there’s a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that wanders around a little bit outside of its controlled
airspace,” said Winnefeld, who also is commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. “We realize the responsibility on our part to include the technical capability and proper procedures. We’d just like to be able to get at it quicker.” See Drones / A5