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By Nick GrubeThe Bulletin

Part of the ambiance of buy-ing a Christmas tree in Bend includes fire pits burning in the vendor lots. Drive past one on a cold day, and its hard not to notice the pall of smoke lin-gering fog-like in the air.

But even though the city outlawed many types of open burning in 2009 to reduce pol-lution, these fires are allowed under current codes if used for warmth, recreation or cooking.

If a vendor places Noble Fir branch trimmings in a pit, how-ever, things become more hazy. Thats because the citys code doesnt allow the burning of yard debris, including branch-

es, leaves and pine needles.Bend Fire Marshal Gary

Marshall said the only thing residents or businesses should be burning in their outdoor fireplaces is dry, seasoned wood.

Usually when you just stick with dry wood, it burns clean and doesnt impact the neigh-bors as much, Marshall said. Thats the type of fire that was intended to be allowed within the city of Bend.

Someone caught burning trash or other debris in city limits can receive a fine for a Class B civil infraction , though Marshall said the fire depart-ment will typically warn an offender first.

Bends burning question Noticing fire pits around town? Thats OK, because the city didnt ban all open burning

Outdoor fires should burn dry, seasoned wood and should be used to keep people warm, accord-ing to Bends fire mar-shal. Still, pollution control can be difficult .

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WOOD-BURNING STOVESThese must have state or federal emission certifications . Uncertified stoves dont have to be replaced, but state law requires they be removed when a home is sold.

INDOOR FIREPLACESRules are identical to wood stoves .

OUTDOOR FIREPLACESThese cannot be more than 3 feet in diameter and must be 25 feet away from a structure. Garbage, yard debris and other refuse cannot be burned in these devices.

WARMING FIRES Rules are the same as outdoor fireplaces .

DEBRIS BURNINGNot allowed within city limits.

Regulations for burning wood in Bend

MORE INFORMATION Details about the Oregon Department of Environmental Qualitys Woodstove Program can be found online at www.deq.state.or.us/aq/burning/woodstoves/index.htm. For information about the citys burning regulations, visit www.ci.bend.or.us/index.aspx?page=341.

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Nativity foe has a history of suing By Duffie TaylorThe Bulletin

The Freedom From Religion Foundation that is fighting Prine-villes Nativity display is no strang-er to controversy.

The Madison, Wis.-based non-profit claims a membership of more than 17,000, operates with a staff of four attorneys and says it has filed 50 lawsuits since it was established in 1978.

This year, the group has sent 500 letters of complaint to public agen-cies about alleged constitutional violations, co-president Annie Lau-rie Gaylor said. Forty of those com-plaints involved Nativity scenes on public property.

We are not searching the coun-try for cases because we are over-whelmed, she said. The load has been just too heavy. More and more people find out about us and ask us for help.

Gaylor said the group had stopped at least 90 of those alleged violations without having to go to court.

Its our goal to end violations through education and persuasion. We dont want to waste taxpayers money. We are trying to defend the Constitution.

Prinevilles Nativity display had sat on city property during the holi-day season for more than 20 years. Last year, the American Civil Lib-erties Union objected, saying it violated the separation between church and state.

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Euro crisis pits U.S., Germany in tactical disputeBy Nicholas KulishNew York Times News Service

BERLIN Even as European leaders put together their latest response to the euro crisis , a German-American clash over how best to manage the broader financial crisis and put the world econ-omy back on a sound footing has been set in stark relief.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany de-fied skeptics and laid the groundwork for a deeper union that she said rights the mistakes of the euros birth and puts integration on a stable path for the long term. In the process, she forced German fiscal discipline on Europe as the prescription for com-bating the ills that afflict the region.

Yet even as the cogs of the European agree-ment were being fitted into place, President Barack Obama issued a warning.

As more dads lose their jobs, quality time with kids risesBy Joel StoningtonBloomberg News

Jeff VanderHeijden didnt expect to be a stay-at-home father for his 3-year-old daughter, especially after getting a raise and promotion as a counselor last year at a residential program for troubled teenagers. Two weeks later, he was fired.

Thats when Vander-Heijden, 35, of Carlisle, Pa., joined the growing ranks of American men spending more time car-ing for a child. One-third of fathers with working wives are now a regular source of care for their children, the result of the depressed economy and large numbers of out-of-work men, according to the Census Bureau.

Certain projects like refinishing the basement kind of had to go on hold, but it really pays off in the long run, said Van-derHeijden, whose wife is a teacher. You cant put a price on a father-daughter relationship.

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By Liz SlyThe Washington Post

BAGHDAD At the very mo-ment U.S. troops are pulling out of Iraq, the revolt in neighboring Syria is threatening to disrupt the fragile political consensus that U.S. forces spent so long striving to uphold.

As the Syrian conflict takes on increasingly sectarian dimensions, the crisscrossing rivalries that had been held somewhat in check among Iraqs Shiite majority and its Kurdish and Sunni minorities risk being inflamed. Syrias sectarian makeup is almost a reverse image of Iraqs, with a minority, Shiite-af-filiated Alawite regime confronting a protest movement drawn largely from the countrys Sunni majority.

Iraqs Sunnis have accused Shi-ites of helping Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Shiites here al-lege that Sunnis are fighting with the fledgling rebel Free Syrian Army. Both sides fear the conse-quences for Iraq of the regions rap-idly shifting balance of power.

Syria plays into a lot of the un-resolved issues in Iraq, said Toby Dodge, an international relations analyst at the London School of Economics. Its a destabilizing fac-tor, and especially as we go into the post-withdrawal dynamic.

Syrian conflict threatens Iraqs fragile balance

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The Washington Post The history of the universe

thus far: Theres a big bang. Matter inflates into nothing-ness, billowing clouds of gas. A dollop of it coalesces; a star is born. Then another and an-other and another, becoming uncountable billions. Stars fall into galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Soon enough, though, the process reverses. A star dies, explod-ing. Stardust known less colloquially as the elements spews deep into space. Dust collapses, victim to gravity. A star is born, again and often, planets, too.

Weve got the pictures to prove it.

More precisely, the Smith-sonians National Museum of Natural History has them in a new exhibit called The Evolving Universe, a collec-tion of dozens of shots from telescopes. Its enough to ig-

nite feverish cosmic dreams in even the casual stargazer.

Take the photograph of the giant galaxy Centaurus A. In its heart lurks a messy eater of a supermassive black hole, said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who helped curate the exhibit.

As the black hole sucks up stars, it tries to swallow too much, and it cant, McDow-ell said. Instead of disap-pearing down the hole, some star stuff escapes and shoots out in dual luminescent jets plowing deep into interga-lactic space. The bright spec-tacle of cosmic violence just about jumps off the wall.

In the images, X-ray ener-gy is painted as a hot blue, so we can see it; infrared light is colored orange; visible light, the stuff we can see, is white and brown.

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Highlights: In 1936, Britains King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, became King George VI. In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind. In 1946, the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established. In 1972, Apollo 17s lunar module landed on the moon. (Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt are, to date, the last men to walk on the lunar surface.) Ten years ago: In the first criminal indictment stemming from 9/11, federal prosecutors charged Zacarias Moussaoui , a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with conspiring to murder thousands . Five years ago: After a two-day journey, space shuttle Discovery reached the international space station for a weeklong stay.One year ago: The eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, 46-year-old Mark Madoff, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on the second anniversary of his fathers arrest. Auburn quarterback Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy .

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Its Sunday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2011. There are 20 days left in the year.

In an interview airing on CBS 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama says the U.S. unemployment rate could fall to 8 percent before the presidential election in November .

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is 68. Rock musician David Schools (Govt Mule, Widespread Panic) is 47. Rapper-actor Mos Def is 38. Actor Rider Strong is 32. Actress Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) is 15.

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By Angela HillThe Oakland (Calif.) Tribune

On one side of the gold-wrapped chocolate coin in your Christmas stocking, theres Kathleen Snider, of Alameda, Calif., who was stunned to get a holiday letter in the mail from a friend last year. She figured everyone is on Facebook now and no one sends holiday cards or letters anymore.

I have to say, I thought it was archaic. I mean, Im 53, and I thought it was something re-ally old people did, said Snid-er , who added that she plans to send hard-copy Christmas cards only to a few relatives who still like to get mail.

On the flip side, theres Jan-ice Hitchcock, of Albany, Calif., who uses Facebook but still snail-mails 90-plus cards every holiday season . I think people realize a status update on Face-book is not a greeting, Hitch-cock, 63, said. An e-card might be a greeting, but its so easy to just delete it. It feels so cold.

To be sure, the ever-increas-ing use of social media might someday freeze out the holiday card and letter. E-cards, apps and online photo sharing offer efficiency and the possibility of incorporating your own smil-ing face on a little animated reindeer doing the cancan, all while saving forests of trees.

Yet while such methods may exclusively herald the holidays in the future, it hasnt hap-pened yet.

Lots of folks see the Christ-mas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Years card as a small gift, bringing joy to each friend . And with everyone spending so much time online these days, some say theyve been invigorated to mail real cards and letters , often hand-crafted with individual de-signs and family photos.

A recent study by online marketing firm Vistaprint and Zoomerang Online Surveys and Polls showed that, despite the growth of social media, holiday cards are still popular, with 63 percent of 1,000 men and women surveyed nation-wide saying they would mail tangible greetings in 2011.

Facebook hasnt killed the holiday card yet

Tips for good holiday letters Keep it brief (never more than one page). Dont brag. Share good news, but avoid gloating. Dont embarrass your family members. Let them read it first. Add a personal note so it doesnt feel like a form letter. Proofread for grammar. Read it aloud before sending.

Send only to people you feel will really care about your familys news, not to mere acquaintances. Above all, enjoy yourself. If its a chore, dont do it. That will come through in print. P.S.: Dec. 20 is the last day to mail holiday cards in time for Christmas.

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MOSCOW Tens of thousands of Russians gathered peacefully in cen-tral Moscow on Saturday to shout Putin is a thief and Russia without Pu-tin, forcing the Kremlin to confront a level of pub-lic discontent that has not been seen here since Vladi-mir Putin first became president 12 years ago.

The power of the crowd was marked by its diversity, liberals, nationalists and communists, a collection of constituencies best de-scribed as the urban middle class, a group so digitally connected that some were broadcasting the rally live using iPads held over their heads. Police estimated the crowd at 25,000, though organizers said there were more than twice that many.

There was a massive po-lice presence around the site, including rows of troop carriers, dump trucks and bulldozers, but when the crowd dispersed four hours later, no detentions had been reported. Equally remark-able was the fact that the

Tens of thousands rally against Putin

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Russian protesters demand a new election during Saturdays rally in Moscow. Angered by al-leged fraud in last Sundays parliamentary elections, Russians gathered across the country, challenging Prime Minister Vladimir Putins hold on power.

Riot police detain a pro-tester in St. Petersburg on Saturday. Dmitry LovetskyThe Associated Press

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demonstration was covered on government-controlled televi-sion news, which has not aired criticism of Putin for years.

Many in the crowd said the event marked a watershed mo-ment perhaps not seen since the early 1990s, heady days when street politics brought down communism.

People are just tired; they have already crossed all the boundaries, said Yana Lari-onova, 26, a real estate agent.

Calls for protest have been mounting since parliamentary elections last Sunday, which domestic and international observers said were tainted by ballot-stuffing and fraud on behalf of Putins party, United Russia. But an equally key event, many said, was Putins

announcement in September that he would run for the pres-idency in March. He is almost certain to win a six-year term, meaning he will have been Russias paramount leader for 18 years.

Demonstration organizers have put forward several main demands: the immediate release of prisoners arrested last week in connection with the protests; the scheduling of new parlia-mentary elections; the ouster of Vladimir Churov, who heads the Central Election Commis-sion; the investigation of elec-tion violations; and the registra-tion of so-called nonsystem opposition parties, ones that have been unable to win seats in Parliament or put forward presidential candidates.

By Nicholas WadeNew York Times News Service

Medical researchers in Brit-ain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting them with the correct form of a defective gene, a landmark achievement in gene therapy. Hemophilia B is the first well-known disease to appear treat-able by gene therapy, a tech-nique with a 20-year record of almost unbroken failure.

The general concept of gene therapy replacing the defective gene in any genetic disease with the intact ver-sion has long been alluring. But carrying it out in practice, usually by loading the replace-ment gene onto a virus that introduces it into human cells, has been a struggle.

The immune system is all too effective at killing the vi-ruses before the genes can take effect.

The success with hemophil-ia B, reported online Saturday in The New England Journal of Medicine, embodies several minor improvements devel-oped over many years by dif-ferent groups of researchers.

The delivery virus, car-rying a good version of the human gene for the clotting agent known as Factor IX, was prepared by researchers at St. Jude Childrens Research Hos-pital in Memphis. The patients had been recruited and treated with the virus in England by a team led by Dr. Amit Nathwani of University College London; researchers at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia moni-tored their immune reactions.

Hemophilia B is caused by a defect in the gene for Factor IX. Fatal if untreated, the disease occurs almost only in men be-cause the Factor IX gene lies on the X chromosome, of which men have only a single copy. About one in 30,000 of new-born boys have the disease.

Nathwani and his team re-ported that they treated the patients by infusing the deliv-ery virus into their veins.

Now, 20 more patients will be treated to assess the best dose of the virus.

Hemophilia B treatment is a gene-therapy breakthrough

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6.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Mexicos western Guerrero state Saturday night, shaking buildings and causing panic in the nations capital and the Pacific resort of Acapulco. Officials said at least three people died, but there were no reports of widespread damage.

The U.S. Geological Sur-vey initially estimated the quake at magnitude 6.8 but downgraded it to 6.7 and then 6.5. A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing severe damage, although the depth of this temblor lessened its impact.

The USGS said the quake occurred at a depth of 40.3 miles . It was centered about 103 miles southwest of Mexico City.

Mexicos Interior Depart-ment said the quake was felt in parts of nine states.

Humberto Calvo, under-secretary of Guerreros Civil Protection agency, said three deaths had been reported in the state. He said one man was killed when a houses roof collapsed in Iguala, a second died in the small town of Ixcateopan and the driver of a cargo truck was killed by rocks that fell on the vehicle driving on the toll highway linking Acapulco with Mexico City.

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By Juliet EilperinThe Washington Post

Delegates to the U.N. cli-mate talks adopted a signifi-cant agreement this morning, setting nations on a new path toward an international ac-cord by 2015 to limit green-house gas emissions.

The outcome of contentious negotiations taking place in Durban, punctuated by finger-pointing among the worlds biggest greenhouse gas emit-ters and heckling by activists, reflected a fundamental shift in the geopolitics behind glob-al environmental disputes.

Developing countries have long been a unified bloc, de-manding that industrialized nations take most of the re-sponsibility for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions. But faced with the fact that a hand-ful of emerging economies, led by China and India, are help-ing drive carbon emissions to new heights, the worlds smallest nations joined forces with the European Union to demand decisive action from their former allies as well as the United States.

The Durban agreement provides countries with the latitude to forge something that would apply to all nations, called an agreed outcome with legal force, a last-minute compromise that creates an al-ternative to a traditional treaty.

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At the heart of the debate is the question of how far gov-ernments must bend or even bow to the power of markets. Obama sees retaining the sta-bility of markets and the confi-dence of investors as a prima-ry goal of government and a prerequisite for achieving any major changes in public poli-cy. Merkel views the financial industry with profound skep-ticism and argues, in almost moralistic fashion, that real change is impossible unless lenders and borrowers pay a high price for their mistakes.

Its a battle of ideas, said Almut Moeller, a European Union expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations. There is a different under-standing of how to set up a sustainable economy in a glo-balizing world. Here there is a major rift.

It will be difficult to know for weeks, or maybe even months, which approach is right. But it is clear the stakes are high, with the health of the world economy, the EU and perhaps Obamas presidential hopes hanging in the balance. Econ-omists have fretted for months that forcing austerity plans on Europes troubled economies while a good long-term so-lution could lead to deep recessions in the short term, compromising any chance for effective change. On a political level, Merkel could look back on last weeks meeting of lead-ers in Brussels and declare, We have succeeded. Where her mentor, former Chancel-lor Helmut Kohl, failed, Merkel managed to push through enforceable oversight of gov-ernment spending that would allow the European Court of Justice to strike down na-tional laws that violate fiscal discipline.

Obama is fiercely proud of the record he achieved in

keeping not just the U.S. but the entire world out of an acute financial meltdown after 2008, presiding over enormous stim-ulus spending in tandem with unrestrained support from the Federal Reserve. Now, the president and his allies say that in doing so, they may well have prevented the world from falling into another Great Depression.

By ignoring the short-term threat, American officials say, Merkel is unwittingly court-ing the very threat they so narrowly managed to keep at bay. Strong governments can borrow cheaply, mainstream economists on both sides of the Atlantic argue, and have an obligation to intervene more aggressively than they would in normal times to make up for the slump of private demand.

Germans are staunchly op-posed to any solution that in-volves greater debt, but even more so to policies that might court inflation, their historic obsession. Policymakers in Berlin and at the Bundesbank headquarters in Frankfurt have urged restraint on the part the European Central Bank, insisting it should not buy up too many bonds from heavily indebted eurozone countries.

We will save the euro. We have to save the euro. We

have the biggest resources and the biggest interest. But we will harken fiscal probity, said Josef Joffe, publisher of the German weekly Die Zeit, describing the German posi-tion. We will not sacrifice our memories.

The Obama team argues that with recession on the ho-rizon for Europe, the threat of inflation is low, and the real threat is a great depression. Administration officials, and many economists, argue that Germany is remembering the wrong crisis it should be focused on a repeat of the de-flation and contraction of the 1930s, not a repeat of the hy-perinflation of the 20s.

Americans take a far more accommodating approach to the problem of moral hazard than Germans. The time for a reckoning is after financial stability has been restored, Americans say, otherwise it is ordinary people, not the rich, who suffer most in a downturn.Obama, of course, faces re-elec-tion and sees Europe as one of the biggest threats to his chanc-es, as it could tip the American economy back into recession if austerity worsens the slump there. German officials are well aware of that and complain pri-vately that electoral results are Obamas chief concern.

The Germans, for their part, seem almost to welcome the collapse of market confidence: Without the rising pressure from markets, Silvio Berlus-coni would not have resigned as prime minister of Italy. And most European partners would not have given the Eu-ropean Court of Justice the power to overturn laws incon-sistent with fiscal discipline without the incentive of fear.

The Germans had a strate-gic insight or advantage to let the crisis get to the threshold within the European Union necessary for France to be will-ing to hand over the kind of sovereignty the country has al-ways resisted, said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of the Peterson Institute for International Eco-nomics in Washington. You could say that the crisis has either been the wake-up call or the tool that Germany has used to beat them into submission.

But Merkels strategy re-mains highly risky. She her-self miscalculated when she insisted a year ago that any bailout had to include the pri-vate sector chipping in with the public sector, a require-ment included in the Greek rescue. The markets punished Italy and Spain for that stance, and it was dropped last week at the Brussels gathering.

Obama was worried enough to send his treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, to ring the alarm bells all over the conti-nent ahead of the summit. But the other members of the euro-zone swallowed their reserva-tions and moved ahead with Fridays agreement because their rising financing costs left them little choice but to follow Germanys lead.

The countries that had re-sisted these kinds of moves in the past are under so much pressure currently that they see its necessary to regain credibility, said Juergen Mat-thes, senior economist at the Cologne Institute for Econom-ic Research.

In the end, Merkels view clearly won out over Obamas.

Merkel is calling the tune and writing the notes, Joffe, the newspaper publisher, said.

Whether Merkels defiant strategy works is a question markets will begin to ask on Monday, whether she likes it or not.

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Yves Logghe / The Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel managed to push through enforceable oversight of government spending, but President Barack Obama warns the deal risks coming undone.

By Rod NordlandNew York Times News Service

KABUL, Afghanistan The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan on Saturday raised the possibility that U.S. combat troops could stay in the country beyond the 2014 deadline that the White House had set for their withdrawal.

The ambassador, Ryan Crocker, speaking at a roundtable event with a small group of journalists, said that if the Afghan gov-ernment wanted U.S. troops to stay longer, the with-drawal could be slowed. They would have to ask for it, he said. I could cer-tainly see us saying, Yeah, makes sense.

He emphasized, how-ever, that no such decision had been made.

White House officials said Crockers comments were consistent with its

U.S. envoy: Troops may stay past 2014 deadline

previously stated position.The president never ex-

cluded the possibility that there would be some U.S. forces here, but he stressed that security would be under Afghan lead by 2014, said the embassy spokeswoman, Eileen OConnor. The presi-dent has always spoken of a responsible winding down of the efforts here, so talk of the possibility of some troops still being here post-2014 is not a change in policy.

But Crockers comments were a strong articulation of that possibility and came as the administration is engaged in discussions with the Afghan government on what arrange-ments should be after 2014.

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Argentinas President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner waves to supporters after her swearing-in ceremony at the government house in Buenos Aires on Saturday. Fernandez took the oath of office for the second time, the only female leader in Latin America to ever be re-elected .

Fernandez extolled the countrys remarkable economic turnaround and promised to continue extensive social programs and subsidies that critics say are increasingly too costly. Before a full complement of Latin American leaders and legislators gathered in the National Congress build-ing, she referred several times to her predecessor and late husband, Nestor Kirchner, who died of a heart attack in October 2010.

Argentina has made an incredible leap, she said, referring to sharp reduction in poverty and joblessness since her husband took power in 2003. She succeeded him in 2007. We have added 5 million jobs, and 96 percent of our retirees are covered by government pensions, she said.

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ARGENTINE PRESIDENT SWORN IN TO HER 2ND TERM

The number of dads reg-ularly caring for children younger than 15 increased to 32 percent in 2010 from 26 percent in 2002. Among those fathers with pre-school-age children, one in five served as the primary caregiver, meaning adults such as VanderHeijden spend the most time with their children, the Census found.

A growing trendThe recession has in-

creased the number of fa-thers with an active role in child care, a trend that has been growing since at least 1988, said Lynda Laughlin, a family demographer at the Census Bureau.

The economy hasnt completely rebounded, par-ticularly for men, she said. What did they label it, a mancession?

The economic downturn initially had a greater effect on men than women, with males losing more net jobs between December 2007 and May 2011, according to a July report from the Pew Research Center. Men have regained jobs more quickly in the recovery, the Pew study found.

During recessions, fa-thers spend more time as partial and primary care-givers of children, Laugh-lin said, partly because unemployment or changes in work hours increase their availability to do so. It also can reduce avail-able income to pay for child care outside of the home, she said.

Good news, bad newsThe recession isnt the

only reason. Women are increasingly contributing more to family income than men, and there is a grow-ing desire among men to take part in the lives of their children, according to Ellen Galinsky, president and co-founder of the New York-based Families and Work Institute.

The good news is that kids are with their fathers more, Galinsky said. The bad news is that families are so squeezed economically.

The new statistics, from the Census Survey of In-come and Program Partici-pation, showed that 54 per-cent of unemployed fathers with a working wife and preschool-age children are primary caregivers, while 17 percent of employed fa-thers in the same situation fill that role.

Some couples decide that the cost of child care can-cels out the income from a lower-wage job, regardless of the recession.

If Im making X and my wife is making X plus 10, who do you want making the money? said Patrick Spillman, 42, of New York, whos the primary caregiv-er for his 3-year-old daugh-ter. Its a matter of dollars and cents.

Of the 100 to 150 warnings the department issues annual-ly, Marshall said, about 1 per-cent become repeat offenders and are subject to fines.

Wed much rather be the person to educate, rather than bring down what some people call a heavy hammer and give out a fine, Marshall said. We never write a citation on the first time that Im aware of. Its always been an educa-tional program.

Debris burning banned in 2009

City residents were able to burn yard debris, such as leaves and pine cones, for two days in November, until that practice was banned in 2009. A year before that, residents were allowed to burn yard de-bris for 20 days in the spring and fall.

Bend city councilors pro-hibited open burning of yard debris as a way to reduce the health risks associated with having more smoke and par-ticulate matter in the air.

Local, state and federal rules for wood-burning stoves and indoor fireplaces aim to do the same, though Marshall said its nearly impossible to stop people from illegally burning garbage. State law requires emission certification for these devices from either the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality or the U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency.

The state cant force someone to buy a new stove or fireplace to replace one that doesnt have this certification. But should that individual sell his or her

home, the states Heat Smart law passed in 2009 requires the person to remove and dispose of the stove or fireplace.

Bend has had a similar or-dinance on its books since the 1990s. According to DEQ Air Quality Specialist Larry Calkins, it was the first city in the state to adopt such a law.

While he said the rules gov-erning wood stoves and fire-places are straightforward, he admits that outdoor emission control can be difficult because of perceived loopholes, such as those associated with camp-fires and outdoor fireplaces.

For instance, with Christ-mas tree vendors and their wood burning, warming fires, its kind of hard to regulate that when theyre out there try-ing to keep warm while selling Christmas trees, Calkins said. What were more concerned about is waste debris burning, like big piles of leaves and big piles of pine needles, because its not keeping people warm.

Calkins said the DEQ doesnt like to regulate open burning in residential neigh-borhoods, although hes ex-pecting new EPA rules in Feb-ruary that will take a broader look at certain devices, such as outdoor boilers that dont emit clean smoke.

He also said he doesnt know what the future might hold for the various outdoor fireplaces and kilns people put in their backyards or on their porches.

Its something that were aware of, Calkins said, but we havent gotten to the level of where we feel its important to clamp down on those.

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By Robert PearNew York Times News Service

WASHINGTON The costs of last-minute items pending before Congress are formida-ble, and lawmakers say that is a major reason they have had so much difficulty reaching a year-end agreement on payroll taxes and other issues.

Politics and ideology play a big role in the debate, but the sheer cost of the items which could easily top $350 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office is also a factor.

No agreement between the House and the Senate is in sight.

President Barack Obama and Senate Democratic leaders say Congress must not leave town for the holidays unless it extends unemployment bene-fits and prevents a tax increase for the middle class by extend-ing a payroll tax break that is scheduled to expire Dec. 31.

An employees share of the payroll tax, now 4.2 percent of wages, is scheduled to rise

to 6.2 percent in January, add-ing $1,000 to the taxes paid by a typical working family with income of $50,000.

Keeping the tax rate at its current level for another year would cost the government $120 billion, the budget office says.

Obama and congressional Democrats want to lower the payroll tax rate to 3.1 percent through 2012. Setting the rate at that level would cost at least $180 billion, the budget office says.

Many lawmakers also want to extend jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, who will begin to lose assis-tance early next year unless Congress acts. The cost would range from $34 billion to $55 billion or more, depending on specifics of the legislation.

In addition, Congress is fac-ing a deadline for action on Medicare. Unless lawmakers step in, doctors treating Medi-care patients will see a 27 per-cent reduction in reimburse-ments in January.

Hefty price tags hinder Congress on year-end deals


City officials developed a plan that would allow displays representing any belief or reli-gion on public property known as a holiday plaza west of City Hall. One condition was that the property must be rented by a private citizen or group, much as a farmers market rents the property. The city rented the site to a private citizen, Bob Or-lando, who is also the planning commissioner. He erected a new manger scene there at the beginning of the month.

But this didnt wash with Freedom From Religion mem-bers, who issued a complaint last week to city officials.

Gaylor called the citys at-tempt at a compromise a new strategy to get around the law.

Another dispute in TexasPrinevilles holiday plaza

isnt the only display the group is questioning.

Henderson County in north-east Texas also received a complaint from the foundation last week about the Nativity scene displayed on its court-house lawn.

The county believes it has a right to display the manger scene that accompanies a va-riety of other secular displays on the lawn, including Smurfs, Santa Claus and white-tailed reindeer, County Commis-

sioner Wade McKinney said.McKinney said the county

wrote a response to the Free-dom From Religion Founda-tion, asserting the display is constitutional in the company of other displays and is willing to litigate the issue.

Theres plenty of case law as late as 2010 that says the Nativ-ity cannot be the focal point, he said. But ours is not. Its part of the display. We believe we are within our legal rights. They have to prove us wrong.

A rally has been scheduled near the courthouse this Sat-urday to protest the complaint , McKinney said.

Aiming for clear policyAs in Prinevilles case, Gay-

lor said the county must have a clear public forum policy that allows everyone to assemble displays.

Gaylor said her battle for the separation of church and state began in 1976 when anti-abor-tion activists were attempting to keep Wisconsin from le-galizing birth control. At that time, she and her mother also worked to end prayer in local government meetings in the state.

It became very clear (at that time) that there was a growing lack of respect for the separa-tion of church and state, Gay-lor said. We never imagined we would still be here.

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By Dan Balz and Philip RuckerThe Washington Post

DES MOINES, Iowa Re-publican presidential front-run-ner Newt Gingrich came under sharp and repeated attack here Saturday night, accused by his rivals of being a Washing-ton insider, a career politician and a serial hypocrite who has changed his views to suit the times and his political needs.

The debate came at a crucial time in the Republican race, with little more than three weeks before the Iowa caucus-es, and as Gingrich has been surging in the polls.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney led the attacks, ticking off a series of issues on which he disagreed with the former House speaker. But he said the biggest differ-ence in their qualifications to be president was in the way theyve led their lives the past quarter-century.

The real difference, I believe, is our backgrounds, Romney said. Ive spent my life in the private sector. I understand how the economy works. We need people from outside Washing-ton, outside K Street.

Gingrich parried with a

counterattack on Romney. Lets be candid. The only rea-son you didnt become a ca-reer politician is because you lost to Teddy Kennedy in 1994. Youd have been a 17-year career politician if youd won.

But Romney represented only the leading edge of the criticism aimed at Gingrich in the first candidate debate since Gingrich rose to the top of the polls. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas accused him of taking money from Freddie Mac at a time when Paul said he was trying to expose the housing bubble and of being inconsis-tent in his conservatism.

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former Penn-sylvania Sen. Rick Santorum joined in the fray, firing at Gin-grich over his House record and for supporting an individ-ual mandate in health care.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, try-ing to resuscitate his campaign, in turn attacked both Romney and Gingrich over the indi-vidual mandate. Romney said he favored the mandate only for Massachusetts, while Gin-grich favored it for the nation. Gingrich said he supported the mandate as an alternative

to the health care plan being advanced by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hill-ary Clinton, in 1993 and 1994.

On another issue, the candi-dates disagreed sharply over whether Congress should ex-tend the payroll tax cut , which expires at the end of the year. President Barack Obama has been pushing Republicans in Congress to approve the ex-tension to prevent middle-class

Americans from seeing their taxes increase.

Romney, Gingrich and Paul said they supported it, but man-aged to take swipes at Obamas stewardship of the economy in their answers. Bachmann, Perry and Santorum said they opposed the extension.

Im completely different from Barack Obama on this issue, Bachmann said. We have candidates on this stage

who are standing with Barack Obama on this issue.

The debate, the 12th this year among the Republican candidates and the first since businessman Herman Cain suspended his campaign, came at a time of dramatic change in the race. ABCs George Steph-anopoulos and Diane Sawyer served as moderators.

Gingrich was on the spot heading into the debate, hav-ing zoomed into the lead in the polls. A recent round of polls, including one by The Washington Post and ABC News, showed Gingrich with a double-digit lead over Rom-ney and Paul, who were tied for second. But he is behind Romney and Paul in building an organization to turn out his supporters on caucus night.

As he prepared for the de-bate, Gingrich was trying to clean up a controversial state-ment he made in an interview with the Jewish Channel, call-ing Palestinians an invented people.

You have to understand decades of complex history, which is exactly what Gingrich was referencing, a Gingrich spokesman said Saturday.

GOP rivals gang up on Gingrich at debate

Charlie Neibergall / The Associated Press

Mitt Romney, left, led the charge against the newly anointed Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich, right, at Saturdays debate in Des Moines, Iowa.

By Andrew MartinNew York Times News Service

In an opinion that harshly criticizes the tactics of the police and prosecutors, an Il-linois appellate court on Fri-day night reversed the con-viction of Juan Rivera, who has spent 19 years in jail for the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old baby sitter in a suburb of Chicago.

Rivera, 39 and serving a life sentence, has been con-victed three times for killing the sitter, Holly Staker, based on the strength of a confes-sion that was obtained after four days of questioning. There were no witnesses or physical evidence link-ing him to the crime, which occurred in Waukegan, Ill. DNA testing in 2005 exclud-ed him as the source of se-men found in Hollys body.

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It is in the context of this complexity that Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari pleads for understanding of Iraqs much-criticized stance toward Syria. Iraqs absten-tion from an Arab League resolution suspending Syrias membership and imposing sanctions should not be inter-preted as implicit support for Assads regime but rather as a necessity born of Iraqs own political fragility, he said.

My job is to find the main-stream view of all, in order not to allow the political situation to flare, he said. The conflict one way or another in Syria is taking on a sectarian dimen-sion. (Iraqs) Shiites would re-act one way, the Sunni would react another way, and the Kurds would react in another way.

Aggravating tensionThat Syria would erupt in

revolt on the eve of the Ameri-can departure could not have been anticipated in 2008 when President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed the security agreement spelling out that U.S. troops must leave by the end of December 2011.

And Syria is not the only potential source of friction that risks unsettling Iraq once the Americans have gone. Though sectarian violence has abated and Iraq has a coalition government in which the main Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish fac-tions share power, many is-sues that the United States had assumed would be resolved remain unaddressed. They, too, are resurfacing as the last few thousand U.S. troops pre-pare to leave.

A bold, and some would say reckless, deal signed by the oil giant Exxon with the regional government in northern Kurd-istan has aggravated tensions between the semiautonomous region and the central govern-ment over control of the coun-trys oil wealth.

The recent detentions of hundreds of suspected sym-pathizers of the outlawed Baath Party, many of them Sunnis, have fueled a push by three mostly Sunni provinces bordering Syria to form their own autonomous regions. It is, they say, a way to counter the growing influence of the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.

Difficult challengesThese centrifugal forces are

exacerbating long-standing Iraqi fears that neighboring countries will exploit the de-parture of the Americans to advance their own interests. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran all are vying for influence in Iraq, as well as in Syria, and they have lined up behind the competing factions in both countries.

That is our main challenge beyond 2011, to keep the politi-cal consensus here in Iraq and not to allow any other power to fill the vacuum left by the Americans, Zebari said.

But the threat to Syrias 48-year-old Baathist regime only raises the stakes for regional powers in Iraq and especially

for Iran, which already exerts considerable influence in Bagh-dad but is even more closely al-lied to Assads regime.

That Irans chief Arab ally is under threat increases the like-lihood that Tehran will further seek to expand its influence in Iraq once the Americans have gone, said Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish legislator. That will put it in confrontation with the expanding influence of Tur-key, which has thrown its sup-port behind the Syrian protest movement and also has close ties with several leading Iraqi Sunni politicians.

A big part of that conflict will be on Iraqi soil, and we will suffer, he said.

For Iraqs Shiites, the bigger fear is that an Islamist Sunni government will seize power in Damascus and strike alli-ances with Iraqs disgruntled Sunnis, who are still smarting from their loss of power after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Suspicions that Syrias long-banned Muslim Brotherhood is emerging at the forefront of the protest movement have tempered sympathies for Syr-ians seeking to overthrow their government, said Neama Al-Ebadi, director of the Iraq Center for Research and Stud-ies in the Shiite city of Najaf.

If Syria becomes a demo-cratic, liberal country, it will be fine, he said. But if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power, this whole Sunni-Shiite story will start again in Iraq.

IraqContinued from A1

If Syria becomes a democratic, liberal country, it will be fine. But if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power, this whole Sunni-Shiite story will start again in Iraq.

Neama Al-Ebadi, director of the Iraq Center for Research and Studies

The Associated PressOSLO, Norway

Three women who fought injustice, dicta-torship and sexual vio-lence in Liberia and Ye-men accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling on re-pressed women world-wide to rise up against male supremacy.

My sisters, my daughters, my friends find your voice, Li-berian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said af-ter collecting her Nobel diploma and medal at a ceremony in Oslo.

Sirleaf, Africas first democratically elected female president, shared the award with womens rights campaigner Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawak-kul Karman, a female icon of the protest movement in Yemen.

The peace prize was an-nounced in October, along with the Nobel awards for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics. Worth $1.5 million each, the Nobel prizes are always handed out on the anniversary of award founder

Alfred Nobels death on Dec. 10, 1896.

By selecting Karman, the prize committee recognized the Arab Spring movement that has toppled autocratic leaders in North Africa and the Middle East.

Karman is the first Arab woman to win the prize and at 32 the youngest peace laureate ever. A journalist and founder of the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains, she also is a member of the Islamic party Islah.

Sirleaf, 73, was elect-ed president of Liberia

in 2005 and won re-election in October. She is widely cred-ited with helping her country emerge from an especially brutal civil war.

Gbowee, 39, challenged Liberias warlords as she cam-paigned for womens rights and against rape. In 2003, she led hundreds of female pro-testers through Monrovia to demand swift disarmament of fighters, who continued to prey on women, despite a peace deal.

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By Adam NossiterNew York Times News Service

KINSHASA, Congo Police were going door to door Saturday, taking youths out of houses in an opposition neighborhood and pushing them into un-marked vehicles, a day after the incumbent was declared the winner in a disputed presidential election here.

Police officers, with au-tomatic weapons drawn, were also seen beating one of the young men dur-ing the roundup that took place in the impoverished 20-Mai neighborhood here. The police officers, some in uniform and some in ci-vilian clothes, ran through the neighborhoods alley-ways chasing down youths; the back of their vehicle appeared crowded with young men afterward.

The purpose of the roundup was not immedi-ately clear. But it was tes-timony to the tension that persists here after the offi-cial announcement Friday that the president, Joseph Kabila, had won re-election in this mineral-rich nation.

After disputed election, police abduct youths in opposition

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100 YEARS AGOFor the week ending

Dec. 10, 1911

Election result is in doubt

On the grounds that there were irregularities in voting at the city election held on the 5th, the city council has refused to ratify the elec-tion and is now conducting investigations. Three meet-ings have been held during the past week and last night a special committee of the

council consisting of Kelley, Aune and Allen was appoint-ed to continue the inquiry and report at an adjourned ses-sion next Tuesday evening.

The chief allegation is that many of the transient labor-ers belonging to the railroad construction gang here, as well as a number from Des-chutes, some of them foreign-ers, voted illegally.

City Attorney Forbes contends that the council has failed to do its duty, in that it has not yet canvassed and officially announced the result of the election, and has intimated that he will bring mandamus proceedings to compel the council to canvas the vote.

Great interest is being tak-

en in the matter and at each meeting there have been many men in attendance.

The meeting Thursday night was attended by a crowd that packed the room. The election committee opened the ballot box and proceeded to examine the returns. They had at hand a list of members of the railroad construction gang working here and found on comparing it with the vot-ers list that there were a num-ber of these railroad transients who had voted. It was also stated that men had come up from Deschutes and voted. Le-gal advice as to what the coun-cil might do was asked, and Attorneys Forbes and Benson addressed the council.

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By Leon PantenburgFor The Bulletin

Like many charitable organizations around the holidays, the South Central Oregon Outreach Toy Run, or SCOOTR, is stretched thin this year.

While the all-volunteer group hopes to provide needy children with toys, coats, snow boots and other neces-sities, it will be hard-pressed to provide needs beyond the holidays.

We need to be pretty fru-gal, says SCOOTR secretary Ann Gawith. We have about $25,000, which should be enough to buy the toys and ne-cessities, but that will wipe us out as far as the other youth programs SCOOTR provides.

Every year, SCOOTR raises about $25,000 to pro-vide more than 650 needy children with Christmas presents and clothing essen-tials. SCOOTRs turf starts at Sunriver and goes south to Chemult and west to Christ-mas Valley.

But in 2010, Gawith said, a record 720 children, includ-ing walk-ins, received help. Another 75 children received toys from SCOOTR at the La Pine Community Kitchen Christmas dinner. Gawith estimates that number again this year.

Additional money is raised to promote other SCOOTR youth-related programs throughout the year.

Area charity cutting it close this holiday

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By Scott HammersThe Bulletin

A longtime Jefferson County sheriff and rancher Hamlin Preston Perkins died Saturday. He was 88.

Former Jef-ferson County commissioner and Madras mayor Rick Al-len recalled the man best known as Ham as a throwback to an earlier time.

Ham was sort of that old-school sheriff that people see on TV and movies he rode a horse and was in the pa-rades, and the six shooter on the side type of sheriff, Allen said. His handshake about broke your hand.

Born in Portland, Perkins served in the Marine Corps during World War II. At the end of the war, he made his way to California to attend San Jose State College, then took his first job in law en-forcement for the Laguna Beach Police Department.

Perkins came back to Or-egon to run a dairy farm near Tumalo in 1953 and with his wife, Bernadine, settled into a life of farming and ranching.

In an interview with Per-kins printed in the 2011 Jef-ferson County Fair guide, he recalled getting a haircut in Madras in early 1968 when his past police work came up in conversation with the bar-ber. The barber recommended him to recently appointed Sheriff Ron Toms, and a short time later, he was hired on as a deputy. Controversy soon erupted in the Sheriffs Office, and Toms decided not to run for re-election, clearing the way for Perkins to be elected sheriff that fall.

Perkins won re-election four times, serving until he stepped down at the end of 1986 to attend to family obligations.

Current Sheriff Jim Adkins was hired by Perkins near the end of his tenure, start-ing as a marine patrolman and moving to the jail a few months later. Adkins said he was never close with Perkins but remembered him as well-loved in the community.

Longtime Jefferson County lawman dies at 88

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WASHINGTON Senate Republicans successfully filibustered Richard Cordray, Presi-dent Barack Obamas nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, on Thursday.

The agency has gone without a director since it was created when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was en-acted in July 2010.

Harvard Univer-sity professor Elizabeth Warren oversaw the initial organization of the bureau and was seen as an obvious choice for the position, but Republicans made it clear they would not allow her confirmation. Republicans indicated they were not objecting specifically to Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, but favored having a board of direc-tors run the agency, not a single person.

The 53-45 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to override the Republican filibuster, with Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., voting with the Democrats and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, voting present.

U.S. SENATE VOTE Confirmation of Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Merkley, D .....................Y Wyden, D ......................Y

On Wednesday, the House of Representa-tives passed the Regula-tions from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, or REINS Act, by a vote of 241-184.

The bill requires con-gressional approval of major rules put in place by the president . Cur-rently, such a rule goes into effect automatically unless Congress passes and the president signs a joint resolu-tion opposing it. Under the REINS Act, major means either having an annual effect on the economy of $100 mil-lion or more, causing a major increase in costs or prices, or harming competition, employ-ment, investment, pro-ductivity, innovation or U.S. competitiveness.

Four Democrats joined the Republican majority in voting for the measure.

U.S. HOUSE VOTE Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny ActWalden, R .....................YBlumenauer, D ............. NDeFazio, D .................... NSchrader, D .................. N

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STATE NEWS

Corvallis: Shop aims to fill the gap in mens fashion.

Pendleton: Area police agencies say upkeep for new cameras is getting expensive.

Salem: Boards pick for state librarian rejects the job.

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By Scott HammersThe Bulletin

The tattoo on Kathy Hans right an-kle commemorates one of the more miserable days in the life of the Or-egon State University research assistant.

In July, Han and other members of the OSU Solar Vehicle Team were in a parade in Corvallis, showing off their hand-built solar-powered car when it caught fire. Though the driver escaped with relatively minor burns, the space-ship-like craft was reduced nearly to ash, taking with it three years of work for the team and nearly $100,000.

The silhouette of the car Han had etched on her ankle the next day looked as though it would be the last trace of their work. Then, it was discovered the original forms for the cars carbon fiber shell were still around, stashed in Cen-tral Oregon with the Trinity Lutheran School solar car team.

Saturday, Han and the rest of the OSU team were at the Lancair factory near the Redmond Airport, joining forces with the Trinity Lutheran team to start building a new vehicle.

Alex Steidel, a member of the Trinity Lutheran team, said returning the favor was the right thing to do.

Since they let us borrow their forms, it seemed like we ought to help them, he said.

Tom Stueve, Trinity Lutherans sci-ence teacher and leader of the schools solar car team, said the borrowed forms

have been a great help. The 12-member team has already used them to fashion a carbon fiber body of their own and is on track to have a finished car ready to go in time for the Solar Car Challenge in Texas in July.

The Solar Car Challenge is a four-day affair, with the cars driving eight hours a day around the Texas Motor Speedway on the outskirts of Fort Worth.

Solar car Photos by Scott Hammers / The Bulletin

Tom Stueve, science teacher at Trinity Lutheran School and head of the schools Solar Car Team, shows where the wind-shield will be chopped into the carbon fiber exterior. With him are, from left, Alex Steidel, Anthony Keba and Chad Carlson.

Oregon State University students Chad McDowell, left, and John Williamson use a heat gun to secure the carbon fiber shell of their solar-powered car. The shell is baked in an oven at 250 degrees for eight hours, becoming a single, solid piece.

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Perkins

Trinity Lutheran and OSU students join forces to build sun-charged racersThis is my last year; weve got to get this done so I can race. Erienne McCray, senior at Trinity Lutheran School

team power

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RAINBOW ROCKSLisa Williams snapped this photo of a rainbow in Poulsbo, Wash., in February 2010. Williams said she was under a pier that had plexiglass between wooden slats, and light shining through the glass illuminated the rocks below. Williams used a Sony Cybershot on automatic settings.

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The question of the amount of time the council had for canvassing the vote came up and it was decided that it was not necessary that the canvass be completed within forty-eight hours after the returns were made but that it must be started within that period. Chairman May of the election board made a state-ment and Mayor Coe said he favored taking all the time necessary for a complete in-vestigation, as he did not want to be mayor for another term if the correctness of the elec-tion was questioned.

Saturday evening there was another big crowd present and the committee on elec-tions reported that it had had a canvass of the town made and had found only about 212 voters, and some of them had not voted on the 5th. Mayor Coe raised the point the coun-cil had not yet canvassed the election returns and that the result was therefore not of-ficially known. City Attorney Forbes said it must do this be-fore anything could be done in regard to the question of illegal voting. Council Kelley called on J.H. Stewart for an opinion and he stated that the council did not have to place on the record returns which it has reason to believe showed fraud. Mr. Forbes replied to Mr. Stewart, and before they had concluded, both indulged in a few peppery personalities.


Dec. 10, 1936

King reported ready to abdicate

The fate of the British mon-archy was threshed out to-night at an emergency meet-ing of the cabinet in the small, oak-paneled office of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in the house of commons.

The world should know to-morrow whether King Edward VIII has decided to abdicate for love of Mrs. Wallis Simp-son, twice-divorced Ameri-can, or intends to announce his intention of marrying her and retain the throne.

The government has in-formed the king decisively that it will countenance no law permitting a morganatic marriage, so that he has no choice but to renounce her, ab-dicate or fight his government a fight no English king has ever won.

The king is understood to have made his decision already and authoritative sources said it is for abdica-tion. Baldwin was expected to make the announcement in commons today but deferred it.

He said he hoped to make an announcement tomorrow meaning that he certainly intends to do so unless there is a last minute change.

Although anything might

happen in this historic situ-ation, unprecedented in the annals of England, the best in-dications were that the king is on the brink of abdication.

One explanation for Bald-wins delay is that the details are taking longer to arrange than had been expected. The kings personal finances must be taken care of if he abdi-cates, arrangements made for proclaiming the duke of York king or establishing a regency for his young daughter prin-cess Elizabeth if he refuses the crown, and details of the process of abdication worked out.

There is no precedent for the abdication of an English monarch.

The king was at Fort Belve-dere where he conferred with the duke of York and close advisors of the duchy of Corn-wall, whose revenues would support him if he is permit-ted to retain the title after abdication.

Mrs. Simpson was in seclu-sion at Cannes, on the French riviera. She conferred with her lawyer about her provi-sional decree of divorce, in-dicating that an effort may be under way to speed up making it final, or that she is considering dropping the suit, making it impossible for the king to marry her and permit-ting him to retain his throne unhampered.

Former king bids farewell to his empire

To his former subjects wherever the British flag flies on land and sea and to mil-lions of others, wherever radio reaches, former King Edward spoke a last farewell tonight.


Dec. 10. 1961

It was quite a day just 20 years agoBy Phil. F. Brogan

It was not quite such a day as this in Bend 20 years ago.

The day was December 7, 1941. It was a balmy Sunday, with a high of 52 degrees re-corded. It was a quiet morning in Bend up until the time news was received around town that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.

Within minutes, the switch-boards in the local telephone office were ablaze with lights. Friends were calling others, in an attempt to confirm the grim news. There were long distance calls to relatives, and to Bend boys in camp.

The news was soon con-firmed. It was grim, especially for Central Oregon families with sons at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines.

Yet, few local residents real-ized the terrible significance of the news: Americas Pa-cific Fleet had been destroyed. The West Coast was open to attack.

The news of war in the Pa-cific came 20 years ago when many in Bend were rejoicing:

on Saturday, December 6, it had been announced that the Brooks-Scanlon strike had been settled. It appeared that a joyous Christmas was ahead.

Many Central Oregon resi-dents well recall the grim day. Some were in the war theater. One was Tony Alvey, now night custodian at the Bend Post Office. Alvey, a Navy veteran, was chief radio man at Walilupi radio station when the Japanese struck the Ha-waiian Islands. A bomb ex-ploded across the street from his home, where his wife, Scotty, and their son Frank were living in Honolulu.

Flags, waving in a stiff, chilly December breeze on Bend streets today, served as a reminder for many of Pearl Harbor Day 20 years ago.

It is a sad day for some. They are the relatives of young men in graves on Pacific Islands.

Youngsters warned to stay off ice

Parents were cautioned to warn youngsters of the dan-gers of testing the ice in the Deschutes River in Bend today by Chief of Police Emil Moen.

Every year that even the smallest bit of ice forms on the river, the youngsters had to test it, mostly on route to and from school, Moen said.


Dec. 10, 1986

Skiers mob Bachelor for free skiing, new chairlift

Skiers used to shelling out big bucks for lift tickets came in droves to Mount Bach-elor Friday for an almost un-heard-of event a free day of skiing.

Eager schussers began ar-riving at Mount Bachelors parking lots at 4:30 a.m. And they began lining up at the chairlifts about 30 minutes before they opened, said Jeff Lokting, marketing and sales manager for Mount Bachelor Inc.

This is exactly the kind of day that we wanted to have, a smiling Lokting said, adding that crowds were well-man-nered and everyone seemed to be having a good time.

Lokting said resort officials put on the first ever ski-for-free day to say thank you to the community. The day also served as an initiation for some first-time skiers, who packed the lifts to the easier runs.

By noon, Lokting estimated about 3,000 of the ski areas 3,400 parking spaces were full. Lokting didnt have figures on the number of skiers sliding down the slopes, but he esti-mated that the crowds were not as heavy as on Nov. 29, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when a turnout of 11,621 ski-ers broke attendance records.

Lokting said about 20 per-cent of the skiers were from a still snowless California an observation Bud and Mary Cook of Klamath Falls

tended to confirm.The Cooks said they fol-

lowed a steady stream of out-of-state cars up U.S. Highway 97 Friday morning.

Skiing as a family for the first time the couple brought their daughters, Sarah, 6, and Amanda, 2 was what was hard to coordinate, Bud Cook said.

The free-ski day coincided with the opening of the four-person Pine Marten Express lift, which was dedicated Saturday.

The Pine Marten Lift which will replace the Black Lift joins the resorts Summit Lift as the only express lifts installed at a West Coast ski area.

The lift, which takes less than half the time of a con-ventional lift to reach its mid-mountain end, has no problem gobbling up oversize crowds.

Whoops and shouts could be heard as skiers boarded the special lift for the first time.

The lift holds a heck of a lot of people, said 23-year-old John Conklin of Corvallis. It goes about a hundred miles an hour.

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The nonprofit spends about 95 percent of all funds raised on youth programs, said SCOOTR co-founder Denise Hatch, and administrative and fundraising costs are minimal.

SCOOTRs other contribu-tions have included working with the La Pine Lions Club to provide eye exams and correc-tive lenses to needy children, scholarships to disadvantaged youths attending a music con-ference, donations to the La Pine School Sports Program, a teen girls Resolve Conference and the Special Olympics. For many years, SCOOTR has helped send a child to the Mus-cular Dystrophy Association Summer Camp.

Started in 1998The nonprofit was started

in 1998 as a motorcycle-ori-ented organization. SCOOTR founders Lynn and Denise Hatch, of La Pine, were origi-nally part of the Bend-area Toy Run and decided to focus their fundraising efforts on their own community.

SCOOTR finds out about needy children when families apply for a La Pine Christ-mas Basket Association food basket through St. Vincent de Paul or the Deschutes County Sheriffs Office. The food bas-ket application includes a sec-tion to name the kids in the family, along with their needs, what toys they want and their

clothing sizes.But 2011 has been a bad year

for fundraising, Gawith said. SCOOTR fundraising efforts are focused around three ma-jor events each year : the Ca-sino Night Carnival, the May Icebreaker and July Summer Eruption motorcycle rallies, Gawith said, which generally bring in about $36,000.

The Summer Eruption, which usually raises between $17,000 and $18,000, brought in just over $12,000 this year.

Another major fundraiser had to be reconfigured. For the past four years, the Ca-sino Night fundraiser had been held in the La Pine Com-munity Center. The event typically raised about $10,000. This year, the community center was being renovated and was not available before December.

That was too late for Ca-sino Night, which is tradition-ally held the weekend before Thanksgiving, Denise Hatch said. There was no other suit-

able building in La Pine large enough to host the event, she added, so a toy run and dance was held at the American Legion Hall on Nov. 18. That event brought in about $5,000.

The Sunriver Rotary Club donated $1,000, Gawith said, and the Deschutes County Sheriffs Office donated an-other $2,000.

By shopping carefully, Gawith said, there should be enough money to cover Christ-mas. After that, SCOOTR may be out of funds and will have to rely on individual and cor-porate donations to tide the or-ganization over until the May Icebreaker.

SCOOTR continually gets requests throughout the year for grants and funding of wor-thy youth programs, Gawith said. If a request meets our criteria, well probably fund it. Well spend the money if we have it.

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SALEM A candidates unexpected rejection of the position of state librar-ian has the Oregon State Library Board of Trustees scrambling to find a leader.

Robert Hulshof-Schmidt was selected unanimously to by the board to the posi-tion in October after long-time state librarian Jim Scheppke announced his re-tirement. Hulshof-Schmidts resignation Friday from his current position came after staffers hadnt seen him at work for several weeks, the Salem Statesman Journal reported.

Officials have refused to specify why Hulshof-Schmidt resigned his cur-rent position and rejected the state librarian position.

A program manager for the state library will take over as interim state librar-ian on Jan. 1.

By Candice RuudCorvallis Gazette-Times

CORVALLIS On a soggy Wednesday afternoon, curi-ous onlookers ducked into a new mens consignment shop on Jefferson Avenue the first one like it in Corvallis.

The Alley, Nancy Kneisels latest store in her Second Glance resale chain, marked its official opening Nov. 23.

The store is just around the corner from her main store, Second Glance, and across the intersection from the Annex, a trendy consign-ment store.

In just a few days, The Alleys space, formerly occupied by law offices and a beau-ty salon, quickly was transformed into a cozy, vin-tage mens store. It features crown molding, Venetian plaster, a fireplace, an antler chande-lier, a flat-screen TV tuned to ESPN and a mounted bi-son head. Kneisel hovered around, tending to details, with a glass of Champagne. With a smile, she ushered in timid-looking men carry-ing armfuls of clothing for consignment.

We needed this, said Richard Arterbury, one of the first men to wander in on a Wednesday morning. If you want to shop local as a man, you dont have many choices. Sometimes you just want to

change your shirt from what you wear every day but dont want to pay $80 to do it.

Shortly after Arterbury got a tour of the store from a bub-bly Kneisel, The Alley got its first real customer a man who bro

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