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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Deadly airstrikes hit hospitals,
school in northern Syria
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$irstrikes blaPed on 5ussia
hit at least two hosSitals and
a school in northern Syria
on 0onday, killing and
wounding do]ens of civilians
and further diPPing hoSes
for a tePSorary truce, as
governPent trooSs backed by
5ussian warSlanes Sressed
a PaMor offensive north of
$leSSo
The raids caPe days
after 5ussia and other world
Sowers agreed to bring
about a Sause in ¿ghting that
would allow for the delivery
of huPanitarian aid and the
revival of Seace talks
The SroMected truce agreed
on Friday in 0unich was to
begin in a week, but there was
no sign that would haSSen
On 0onday, Syrian state
T9 reSorted that Sro-govern-
Pent forces have entered the
northern town of Tel 5ifaat,
where they were ¿ghting
“¿erce
battles´
against
insurgents Tel 5ifaat is a
PaMor stronghold of Pilitants
¿ghting to overthrow Presi-
dent Bashar $ssad
CaSturing Tel 5ifaat
would bring governPent
forces closer to their target
of $]a], near the Turkish
border
In Idlib Srovince, an
airstrike destroyed a Pake-
shift clinic suSSorted by
'octors Without Borders
The international charity, also
known by its French acronyP
0SF, said the hosSital in the
town of 0aaret al-1uPan
AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File
U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia looks into
the balcony before addressing the Chicago-Kent Col-
lege Law justice in Chicago.
Maara Media Center,via AP Video
This image taken from video provided by the Syrian activist-based media group
Maara Media Center, which has-been verified and is consistent with other AP re-
porting, shows Syrian Civil Defense rescuers running from the site of a second ex-
plosion near a hospital run by an international medical charity, also known by its
French acronym MSF in Maaret al-Numan, Idlib, Syria, Monday. Doctors Without
Borders says an attack on a clinic in northern Syria supported by the group has
killed several people and that more are presumed dead.
was hit four tiPes in attacks
that were Pinutes aSart
It said seven SeoSle were
killed and eight others were
“Pissing, SresuPed dead´
“The destruction of the
hosSital leaves the local
SoSulation of around 40,000
SeoSle without access to
Pedical services in an active
]one of conÀict,´ said 0SF
Pission chief 0assiPiliano
5ebaudengo
The
Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for
+uPan 5ights said 5ussian
warSlanes
targeted
the
hosSital, destroying it and
killing nine SeoSle The
oSSosition grouS, which
tracks both sides of the
conÀict through sources on
the ground, said do]ens were
wounded in the attack
“The entire building has
collaSsed on the ground,´
said oSSosition activist <ahya
al-Sobeih, sSeaking by Shone
froP 0aaret al-1uPan +e
said ¿ve SeoSle were killed
near the 0SF clinic and “all
PePbers of the Pedical teaP
inside are believed to be
dead´
The Observatory and
other oSSosition activists
said another hosSital in
0aaret al-1uPan was also
hit 0onday, Post likely by a
Syrian governPent airstrike
In the neighboring $leSSo
Srovince, a Pissile struck
a children’s hosSital in the
town of $]a], killing ¿ve
SeoSle, including three chil-
dren and a Sregnant woPan,
according to the Observatory
$ third air raid hit a school in
a nearby village, killing seven
and wounding others
81 Secretary-*eneral
Ban .i-Poon said close
to 0 civilians were killed
and Pany Pore wounded in
Pissile attacks on at least ¿ve
Pedical facilities and two
schools in northern Syria
ENERGY: +alf Pust coPe froP renewable Sower by 2040
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Oregon ePits in one year,
according to data froP the
state 'eSartPent of Environ-
Pental 4uality
*ov .ate Brown, whose
adPinistration
instructed
utility of¿cials not to go
Sublic with concerns about
the bill last Ponth, said last
week the bill would have to
Peet several criteria in order
for her to suSSort it
“What’s iPSortant is
that we continue to Pove
Oregon forward towards
Peeting our greenhouse gas
ePission reduction goals,
that the bill does not styPie
econoPic develoSPent in
our coPPunities throughout
the state, and that it does not
cost taxSayers, rateSayers
substantially,´ Brown said
late last week
+ouse Bill 406,w which
was written by Paci¿CorS
and Portland *eneral Electric
and environPental grouSs,
would require those utilities
to use renewable Sower
sources such as wind and
solar to serve at least 0
Sercent of their custoPers’
energy dePand in Oregon
by 2040 The current state
Pandate is for 2 Sercent
renewable energy by 202
The bill would also require
the investor-owned utilities
to stoS using coal to serve
Oregon custoPers, but there
are questions about whether
the bill would actually do
Puch to iPSact the Shase-out
of coal Sower in Oregon
Earlier this Ponth, a Port-
land *eneral Electric reSre-
sentative said the coPSany
already has Slans to Shase out
coal and the bill would actu-
ally have a greater iPSact on
the degree to which utilities
reSlace coal with natural gas
The utilities negotiated the
legislation in an attePSt to
avoid ballot Peasures Slanned
by the Solitically active
nonSro¿t 5enew Oregon,
which reSresents a coalition
of environPental grouSs,
renewable energy coPSanies
and other businesses The
environPental grouSs agreed
to droS their efforts to get
voters to Sass several new
renewable energy Pandates
in 1ovePber, including an
initiative that would eliPinate
coal Sower, if lawPakers and
the governor aSSrove +ouse
Bill 406
Brown described those
negotiations last week as
“a good thing´ and said
“that’s how we like to solve
SroblePs in Oregon´ Critics
of the deal have said the
rateSayers who will Say for
the new renewable energy
SroMects were not at the table
during negotiations
But 5eS -essica 9ega
Pederson, D-Portland, who
carried the bill, Sointed out
the grouS Citi]ens’ 8tility
Board of Oregon did reSre-
sent residential rateSayers
during the negotiations
“They were there reSre-
senting rateSayer interests,´
Vega Pederson said ahead of
the vote on 0onday
$n ePSloyee of the
Citi]ens 8tility Board who
helSed to negotiate the deal
has been lobbying lawPakers
to Sass the bill, albeit in a new
caSacity -eff Bissonnette,
who was the utility board’s
Solicy director during the
negotiations, took a new
Mob as executive director
and a registered lobbyist for
the Oregon Solar Energy
Industries $ssociation in late
-anuary, according to the
state lobbying database
Bob -enks, executive
director of the Citi]ens 8tility
Board, said he and Bisson-
nette were both involved
in the negotiations “I was
sort of the lead for Citi]ens
8tility Board,´ -enks said in
an interview last week -enks
said the grouSs had Postly
¿nished negotiating the legis-
lation by early DecePber,
and “it was later in DecePber
and -anuary where the offer
froP the solar industries
haSSened´
ROBOTS: Science club started about a year and a half ago
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4uaOi¿ers in +iOOsboro tKis
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KigK sFKooOers Sassed tKat
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“We’re here to show kids
that robotiFs is awesoPe,
but aOso to get SeoSOe into
it ² esSeFiaOOy girOs,´ soSh-
oPore 0aken]ie 1oggOe
said “Engineering is a
PaOe-doPinated ¿eOd, and
we want to Fhange that´
Science Club offered an
oSSortunity to do Must that
In addition to the seven high
schoolers on TeaP 0$/E,
half of the science club
SarticiSants were girls, who
built side-by-side with boys
“/ittle kids this young
can absorb a lot of inforPa-
tion, so we could be teaching
the next great engineering
exSerts,´ senior EsPerelda
0orelos said “We want to
show theP anything can
haSSen with hard work
and teaPwork´
0atthew
CaPSbell,
STE0 teacher and robotics
coordinator for 3+S, said
the school now has four
FTC teaPs and is looking
at oSSortunities to bring
robotics and other STE0-fo-
cused activities to younger
children
CaPSbell is working
with
/i]
Woodiwiss,
SrograPPing coordinator
for C0EO, on future
oSSortunities for STE0
education Science Club,
and other STE0 SrograP-
Ping at C0EO, is funded
through a grant froP the
Oregon CoPPunity Foun-
dation aiPed at increasing
extracurricular activities in
Eastern Oregon
The science club started
about a year and a half ago
to helS Peet that need The
Ponthly SrograP brings
local scientists and teachers
into the children’s PuseuP
to teach the different asSects
of science through fun and
hands-on learning activities
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“We started Science Club
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iwiss said “We get together
once a Ponth, and I usually
try to get a teacher froP
around the coPPunity who
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ObaPa’s Solitical
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— For Post Sresidents,
choosing a SuSrePe Court
noPinee is a Su]]le
For President Barack
ObaPa, the chance to
Sick a successor to -ustice
$ntonin Scalia is Pore like
a *ordian .not
$s the White +ouse
carries out a rare elec-
tion-year search for a
noPinee, the Sresident’s
lawyers and toS advisers are
sorting through a tangled
web of Solitical, legal and
Sersonal factors
$ sPart Sick and
noPination strategy could
deterPine whether ObaPa
gets to reshaSe the highest
court for the next genera-
tion The wrong Sick could
cede that oSSortunity to his
successor
'ePocrats view this as
a PoPent decades in the
Paking 5ecent 5eSublican
Sresidents have gotten Pore
chances to ¿ll seats, tilting
the court in to the right
“The SuSrePe Court
has not reÀected where the
$Perican SeoSle have been
on issues,´ said *regory
Craig, who served as White
+ouse counsel early in
ObaPa’s ¿rst terP “This
is the ¿rst oSSortunity in
Pany, Pany years to bring
the court Pore in line with
the $Perican SeoSle´
For ObaPa, the clock
is ticking The sooner he
Sicks a naPe, the longer
he has to try to force the
5eSublican-led Senate to
hold a vote
$t the heart of ObaPa’s
dilePPa is how to Panage
the ¿erce 5eSublican
oSSosition to his decision
to naPe a noPinee Within
hours of Scalia’s death
on Saturday, 5eSublicans
began arguing ObaPa
should let his successor ¿ll
the oSen seat
ObaPa brushed that
arguPent aside, but it is
undoubtedly
weighing
on his decision *iven
the election-year tiPing,
ObaPa would likely have
been inclined to naPe
the noPinee Post likely
to aSSeal to 5eSublican
senators
But if 5eSublicans obMect
to ObaPa even trying to
¿ll the Sost — and rePain
united in that Sosition —the
Sresident Pay see little
Soint in bending too far to
aSSease the other Sarty +e
Pay feel the Sull to focus
Pore on ginning uS his
own Sarty’s base Then key
question becoPes What
are the chances of getting a
vote?
This wouldn’t be “the
¿rst tiPe 5eSublicans
have coPe out with a lot of
bluster only to have reality
sink in,´ White +ouse
sSokesPan Eric Schult]
said 0onday
5efusing to allow a vote
has consequences for the
court, Shult] said, Sointing
to the SrosSects for tie votes
that would allow lower
court decisions to stand
Schult] said the Sresident
will use the saPe criteria he
used when he noPinated
Sonia SotoPayor, who
becaPe the ¿rst +isSanic on
the court, and Elena .agan,
then-solicitor general
In those instances, and in
his aSSointPents to lower
courts, ObaPa has shown
a desire to exSand ethnic
and racial diversity and to
elevate Pore woPen
+is noPinee would
alPost certainly suSSort
abortion rights, consid-
eration of race in college
adPissions and other areas
of Sublic life, liPits on
caPSaign
contributions
and stronger rights of labor
unions — all issues that
have divided the court’s
liberal and conservative
Mustices on a -4 Pargin
In all likelihood, those
cases where the conserva-
tives Srevailed, with Scalia
in the PaMority, would
coPe out the other way if
ObaPa gets to Sick Scalia’s
successor
ObaPa also has Sriori-
ti]ed young candidates —
SeoSle likely to hold the seat
for decades +e’s aiPed for
relatively uncontroversial
Sersonalities, SeoSle with
views that fall into the cate-
gory of PainstreaP liberal
MurisSrudence
ObaPa will also be
Pindful of the clock +e
has said there is “Slenty of
tiPe´ for 5eSublicans to
consider his choice The
Pore tiPe he gives theP
before theP — Sarticu-
larly before the height of
caPSaign season — the
stronger his arguPent The
tiPe crunch Pay lean in
favor of candidates who’ve
already been vetted for
adPinistration Mobs or
recent court aSSointPents
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