Serving Central Oregon since 1903 75g
THURSDAY September 6,2012
Steelheadtime
a n
BUSINESS • E1
SPORTS• D1
bendbulletin.corn
mi ion
LH h ATTHE ~
CONV ENTION
~<kg
talks hoops
es ima e or ai
and politics
a
First lady's brother
}
By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
• Deschut esCommissionerBaney wants to considerother ideasfirst
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Fresh off the speech of his sister, first lady Michelle Obama, at the Democratic National Convention, Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson dropped in on the Oregon delegation's breakfast Wednesday to talk a little bas ketball — and a little politics. Naturally, Robinson thought his sister's perfor mance was "amazing."
By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
"You guys
know this, because you know me and
Inside • Praise for
Obama on y o u' ve got
ten to know my am I think the reason why it resonated was because it was genu ine. She was telling stories, just like a typical Robinson," he said. "That's what people see when they look at the first family. They see people who look like them, who've had struggles like them, who've been through the tough times and have worked their way out." Robinson said he gets rec ognized more often in public thanks to the strong family resemblance to his sister, but insisted that four years in the White House had not changed their relationship. In fact, when the first lady came to Corvallis in June to deliver Oregon State's com mencement address, she stayed on his couch, which he said is very comfortable. "She talked about how when we' re together, it's like old times. It's not first lady and headbasketballcoach at Oregon State. It's older broth er, little sister and a bunch of kids," he said. See Robinson /A4
gay rights, A4 • Bill Ciinton cielivers spiriteci ciefense, A4
TOP NEWS AFGHANISTAN: U.s. to retain role in jails, A3 TODAY'S WEATHER Sunny High 83, Low 50
Page C6
INDEX Business E1-4 Horoscope B3 Calendar B 3 L o cal News C1-6 Classified G1-4 Obituaries C5 Comics B 4-5 Oregon News C3 C rosswords B5,G2 Outing B 1-6 D ear Abby B3 Sports D1 - 6 E ditorials C 4 S t ocks E2- 3 Health F1 - 6 T V8 Movies B2 The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper Vol. 109, No. 250, 38 pages, 7sections
1 We userecycled newsprint
' IIIIIIIIIIIIII 0
88 267 02329
i ion
El ECTR IFlE
,L+» CRQ $SING I t/ I :: Ktijl TRAVES lplCAD
Deschutes County Commissioner Tammy Baney wants her cohorts to consider other options for hous ing inmates before issuing $10 million in bonds to pay for a proposed 144-bed addition to the county jail. And that has Deschutes County Sheriff Larry Blan ton frustrated. Blanton made the $10 million price tag public knowledge at a county workshop meeting Wednes day afternoon. The sheriff had kept the estimate con fidential for weeks in an effort to make sure project bid proposals remained competitive. But after receiv ing two separate estimates on construction of the pro posed addition, he released the number. The $10 million would pay for a 144-bed addition to the south end of the jail located off Jamison Road on the north end of Bend. Blanton said the 228-bed jail is running at "110 percent capacity," and the county has resorted to renting jail beds from Jefferson County. The addition would also allow for renovations to the jail medical facilities. But Baney said that before signing off on the ex pense,she wants to discuss other locations for hous ing adult inmates, including an underutilized juvenile detention facility on Britta Road. The county esti mates the building could house up to 88 adult inmates. Currently, the facility averages a juvenile population of less than 15 throughout the year. See Jail /A5
ys
Ryan Brenneckei The Bulletin
TOP:From left, a coyote and two deer are captured by motion-triggered cameras traveling through a wildlife underpass under U.S. Highway 97.ABOVE: Jay Davenport, assistant project manager for the Oregon Department of Transportation, looks over an electrified pad near Sunriver. There are six of the electrically charged mats, which aim to keep deer from crossing Highway 97 at points other than the underpasses.
• No deer have beenreported killed since July onthe stretch of U.S. Highway 97served bythe wildlife crossings By Dylan j. Darling
Wildlife undercrossing
The Bulletin
Deer and other wildlife are finding the new way to cross under Highway 97 south of Bend. Over the past month, motion-triggered cameras have captured images of chipmunks, squirrels, coyotes and deer wandering through an underpass near the Cottonwood Road exit, said Jay Davenport, assistant project manager for the Oregon Depart ment of Transportation. An image of an elk showed the animal at least considering passing under the
The first wildlife undercrossings in the state large enough for deer are now channeling animals under Highway 97 south of Bend. Four miles of fence on either side of the highway direct animals to the two undercrossings near Sunriver. Mule deer $pririg migration • Fall patterns
highway. The state designed t he u n derpass t o keep wildlife, par ticularly deer, out of the way o f t r a ffic. It and a similar underpass — which also allows cars and trucks to pass under the highway — by the Lava Lands Visitor Center are the first of their kind in the state. "The primary driver (for the project) was safety through that corridor," Davenport said. The $1.5 million underpasses were part of the $16 million project to make Highway 97 a divided, four-lane road around the visitors center and other attractions in the Newberry Volcanic National Monument.
Lava Lands Visitor Center ggig Lava River Cave
The Washington Post
Most of a person's genetic risk for common diseases such asdiabetes,asthma and hardening ofthe arter ies appears to lie in the shadowy part of the human genome once disparaged as "junk DNA." Indeed, the vast majority of human DNA seems to be involved in maintaining individuals' well-being — a view radically at odds with what biologists have thought for the last three decades. Those are among the key insights of a nine-year project to study the 97 percent of the human genome that's not, strictly speaking, made up of genes. The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, nick named Encode, is the most comprehensive effort to make sense of the totality of the 3 billion nucleotides that are packed into our cells. See DNA/A5
Wildlife
shared With CarS
C) C)
o
FenCing to guide deer to crossings
Wildlife CI'OSSlllg
under Hwy. 97 South Century Drive (to Stat river)
By David Brown
CI'Osslllg
Deadly crossing The 100 miles of Highway 97 between Bend and Spring Hill, north of Chiloquin in Klamath County, is notorious for collisions with deer. The four-mile portion of highway that is now home to the underpasses was a particularly deadly crossing, with state scientists esti mating 95 deer per year were killed in collisions with cars andtrucks from 2005 to2010. The key to motivating deer to pass under the high way are 8-foot-tall metal fences along the four miles. See Crossings/A5
Genomeanalysis gives newrespect to so-called'junk DNA'
tRR ~qo<e
I source: ODOT Andy Zetgert I rhe Bulletin
Clothes shopping leans more to men By Eric Wilson New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — The conventional wisdom about guys and shopping has always been that they go to gether like paisley and plaid, which is to say not very well. There is a reason menswear in most stores is relegated to the back walls and the basements, while womenswear is front and center. But at the beginning of New York Fashion Week, an event long dominated by the top designers of wom enswear, it would seem that the fight for gender equal ity has finally come to the place where one might least expect it. When shopping, men are demanding better service, and retailers are providing it. "Fortoo long, male shoppers were considered to be the stepchildren," said Jim Moore, the creative direc tor of GQ. "There were a lot of assumptions on the retail level that men weren't interested in fashion and that they just went to department stores to buy socks and underwear." See Clothes/A4