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By TERRY WILLISGuest contributor
I had to write this today before I forget to. I have been doing that a lot lately.
Forgetting things, that is.
I don't know if it is because I am more distracted with the grandkids here, a bit of old age starting to show or what.
The other day I put the youngest into the car and drove off and left my groceries in the cart in the parking lot.
A few weeks ago, on a very windy day, I drove off with all my sports stories and photos on top of the car. I was lucky my neighbor was watching and chased them around the block until he rescued everything for me.
I am the lady walking around the grocery store mumbling to myself because I can't remember what I came to the store to buy. Yeah I could make a list, but I usually forget at least one thing on the list anyway, so what is the point.
I went to a store I don't frequent very often the other day because there was something I needed that only they carry. I hate to shop in that store because they only open one of two check-out lanes no matter how busy it is.
Anyway, I wandered around getting what I needed, but I kept thinking "Why did I come here? I could get all this anywhere in town." Of course it was two days later before I remembered it was a certain floor cleaner I was after. I had to go back and get it on another day.
Today I forgot to get gas while we were out. With the cars needle riding below the E, it is probably not a good thing to forget to do.
I did in fact remember to buy a Sponge Bob table and chairs and stuff for dinner tonight.
So where am I going with this column?
I forget.
I actually had something in mind to write about this week, but I can't remember what it was. I thought if I messed around enough telling stories, the idea would come back. It has not. It is probably hanging up in the air on Wood Hill where I was thinking about it this morning.
So I hope by next week divine inspiration occurs so I can get back on track. Until then I need to get busy doing something.
Oh yeah I started a load of laundry about four hours ago.
I think the load is finished.


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So the Rangers participating are Richards, Eminger, Halpern and Boyle.
8:10AM: According to Tim Panaccio, Scott Hartnell is putting together a game next week in Atlantic City to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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In his right hand, he grasps a 2½-foot stick with a curved metal gaffe on the end. He swings it twice from the elbow. The hook cuts like a scythe into the fish's brain.
Ihander lets the dying salmon fall to the deck, two thin strands of mesh still snagged around its gills, a dime-sized dab of blood below its eye.
"Nice fish there," Ihander says. "Six dollars a pound, 17 pounds, $100 bill."
The salmon's tail slaps the deck one last time before it turns into money.
Ihander has been doing this work since he was 12. He's one of the last of his kind, an Oregon gillnetter. For generations, gillnetters have been working in the same way: small boats laying thousands of feet of net in Northwest rivers, then plucking out their harvest, one fish at a time.
Only about 200 gillnetters still work in Oregon, sending fish to local canneries and the white china of Portland's best restaurants. Their take represents a tiny slice of the fish killed every year by sport fishermen, sea lions and the Columbia River dams.
But this livelihood is being targeted for extinction by an unusual coalition of conservation groups, wealthy sport fishermen and businesses that cater to them. They call gillnetting an antiquated and inhumane practice that kills indiscriminately and causes gruesome deaths for aquatic birds and marine mammals.
"Anything and everything that swims into them are ensnarled," says David Schamp, director of the 10,000-member Coastal Conservation Association of Oregon, one of the groups supporting the ban. "We believe a high percentage of whatever is captured perishes—and we don't believe that's a good thing."
Proponents have so far offered little in the way of quantifiable evidence to make their case, and they've been unable for years to persuade lawmakers to ban gillnetting.
So they are pushing for a ballot measure this fall. Bankrolled by a political committee called Stop Gillnetting Now, backers have collected more than 92,000 signatures. They need 87,000 valid ones by July 6 to qualify for the November ballot.
The campaign has made for some odd alliances: Environmentalists are holding hands with one wealthy backer, Loren Parks, the conservative millionaire who financed many anti-tax campaigns and for years paid the bills for initiative activist Bill Sizemore. Parks put $20,000 of seed money into the initiative petition. Another wealthy sport fisherman, Norman L. Brenden of Olympia, Wash., has become Oregon's biggest political donor, pouring $505,000 into the campaign war chest.
Gillnetters fear they will be unable to afford a campaign to fight back, and that voters will be swayed by misinformation and hyperbole.
"It ain't saving one fish," says Jim Wells, a commercial fisherman and president of Salmon for All, which represents the gillnetters. "This is not about conservation, it's about allocation. It's a sham."
The measure is the latest round in an old battle of who gets to catch the fish, and who gets the money for them.
Sportfishing in Oregon is a $30 million-a-year industry, according to a 2009 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife study. Its rival industry, commercial fishing, produced $284 million in income in the state last year, an ODFW study shows. Of that, commercial ocean and river salmon accounted for $6.7 million, and gillnetting specifically for about $5 million.
"I've always looked at it as two kids playing on the railroad track, with the locomotive bearing down on them," says John North, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife's Columbia River fisheries manager, of both sides in the fight. "They're too busy throwing rocks at each other to notice the bigger problem."
That is, too few fish for too many people.
If the measure makes the ballot, the fight will force voters to endure grisly photos of marine life injured by nets—a PR barrage the fishermen hint they might counter with cameos from their grizzled friends on the Discovery Channel's hit show Deadliest Catch.
The fight is about more than a struggle for the millions of dollars these salmon represent to the sportfishing industry and some tough-talking fourth-generation fishermen.
Instead, the fight is over what kind of place Oregon is, and how its people will make a living. It's about the state's shift away from the historical resource-extraction economy and toward the service sector, and the steady disappearance of an endangered species: Oregon's blue-collar middle class, a people who could live comfortably from the land without necessarily going into debt for a college degree.
The salmon on your plate might have come from the ocean, scooped up by a trawler with tens of thousands of other sea creatures. It might have been a wild fish caught on a hook in Canada. It might have come from a "farm"—a cramped underwater cage where fish feed on pellets and swim in circles until fat enough for market.
Or it might have been caught by a gillnetter like Mark Ihander.
At mid-afternoon on a recent Wednesday, Ihander, 60, launches his nameless 22-foot boat from a private wooden pier at Astoria's Tide Point Restaurant on the Nehalem Highway. The boat putters loudly away on the power of its 350-horsepower outboard into the bay, fed by the Youngs River. He's just upstream from the tall, narrow old Warrenton-Astoria Highway bridge; the Astor Column looms to the north. Two bald eagles glide low overhead.
The baywaters are shallow and muddy, a so-called "select area" set aside for fishermen by the state and stocked each year with tens of thousands of hatchery salmon subsidized by hydroelectric ratepayers.
Ihander started work at 5 am, making four drifts across the bay. He caught one fish all morning.
The afternoon looks to be better.
Critics are correct that gillnetting is antiquated. Its practitioners prefer to call it traditional.
If the gillnetters seem preoccupied with heritage—who is of Norwegian stock, who is Finnish or Italian or Irish, and who is fresh off the boat—that's because they have spent years dragging the same kind of nets around the same waters as their ancestors.
Ihander may have been born in Astoria, but he is Finnish first.
"My grandfather," he says, "went 55 years without power, on the sea."
Today, gill nets are more or less the only permitted commercial fishing apparatus on the Columbia River. Many other types of gear were eventually outlawed: fish traps, fish wheels and seine nets, which work like a funnel.
Gill nets are so called because they're designed to snag fish by the gills. Most other states ban gill nets. Oregon strictly regulates their design and deployment.
The boats themselves can be spotted by the large spools, called drums, on their decks. Wound tight and thick around the center of the spool is a pale bluish-white wad of net.
The weave of the mesh, hypnotically complex, stretches between a dark, heavy lead line, which sinks to the bottom, and a bright blue cork line, which with the help of those small white floats the shape of a Nerf football, stays near the water's surface. The gauge of this mesh is 7 inches, sized for spring chinook.
Ihander's boat has one steering wheel inside the cabin and another full of controls outside the cabin, on the starboard side near the spool. This allows Ihander to work the net and pilot the boat at the same time, without help from a crew.
Wedged between the net and the bulwark, he sets the boat into reverse, and the spool begins to unwind.
With his left hand on the wheel, he guides the boat backward across the bay. With his right, he tugs now and again at the cork line to keep it on track and to straighten any tangles in the mesh before it vanishes under the water. He will lay 750 feet of net into Youngs Bay—less than half of the legal length.
The spool turns quickly, and every second, another white float slides onto the water.
"The thing about being in such a small, tight boat like this," he shouts over the noise of the motor, "you've got to be careful when you're laying the net out. More than once a guy has gotten his feet jerked out from under him."
Ihander doesn't wear a life jacket, at least not here in Youngs Bay.
And he usually works alone, even in Alaska. Surprisingly agile, he moves carefully but confidently around the net drum.
Caution is warranted. This work can kill. Many years ago, five of Ihander's good friends—then young men seeking their fortune in the Alaska waters—drowned, their bodies never recovered, on a fishing expedition he was invited on. Last year, his father slipped and hit his head while fishing; he died before Ihander's brother could get him to the hospital.
Ihander holds up his left hand and clenches it. The ring finger doesn't bend like the others. An accident on the bulwark once severed the finger. His crewmates put it on ice like a caught fish, and the finger was later reattached.
He's been through worse on land.
Eight years ago, Ihander was diagnosed with lung cancer. He credits his recovery to many gallons of green tea and two rounds of chemotherapy at OHSU arranged by his wife. While most chemo patients lose a lot of weight, Ihlander says he gained 40 pounds during treatment, improving his odds of survival. He says whenever he began to vomit, he just swallowed it. And so fishing—all the decades spent around fish guts and grievous wounds—helped save his life, by making him less squeamish. "I mean, we've had to stitch ourselves up, for chrissakes," he says. "There's nobody to help you."
Ihander stops. "There's a fish!" he says. "I heard a snap. That meant he broke a mesh."
He sounds as excited as if he'd never seen one before.
That's a fairly small share of the overall salmon catch. Tribes are entitled to half of the overall allowable harvest. Sport fisherman take most of the rest. According to ODFW figures, since 2000 in the Columbia River and its tributaries, sport fishermen took 82 percent of the reported salmon, not counting the tribal share.
Gillnetters take a share of what's left, but the proposed ballot measure would make the practice illegal, and outlaw the sale of fish caught by gill net in Oregon. (Tribal fisherman could still use them and sell the fish, though most of their catch is consumed ceremonially.)
Supporters of the ballot measure say there are several reasons to outlaw gill nets—including the fact many states have already done so. (Gill nets are legal across the Columbia in Washington but were banned in California coastal waters by a 1990 proposition that provided compensation to displaced fishermen.)
Advocates say gill nets cause a high mortality rate for fish that manage to escape from the mesh, and produce a high amount of "bycatch"—nontargeted species—compared to other, more selective forms of fishing.
"It's about moving the industry forward, not eliminating it," says Jeremy Wright of Wright Communications and Public Affairs, which has advised the anti-gillnetting campaign.
They also say the nets cause the salmon to suffer. They produce pictures of fish with the scales and skin around their heads peeled off, raw and pink flesh showing through their heads. Other photos show salmon with torn gills, and seals with deep, bleeding wounds around their necks from the nets.
And they say other sea life—birds and seals, for example, get caught in the nets.
Anti-gillnetting campaigners say the proof for all this is in the photos—which is problematic. The campaign shared several images with WW that show abandoned nets, injured salmon and seals, and it claimed all were taken within the past couple of years on the Columbia River. But when pressed for details, the campaign changed that story—a third of the photos are years old, and one was outside Oregon. And the campaign hasn't been able to say when and where the photos of seals were taken.
However, studies specifically comparing gill nets and seine nets on Columbia River salmon are limited and incomplete. The distinction is important, because the results can be dramatically affected by mesh-net size and type, water temperature, depth and speed, other unique geographic factors and the species involved.
The measure would allow fishermen to use a different kind of net, called a purse seine that hangs like a basket underwater, then tightens around the fish before hauling them by crane into a boat. Ironically, Oregon voters approved a ban on purse seine nets in 1948, a measure supported by gillnetters.
"They were probably pitching the same arguments back then, that the seine was too effective," says North, the ODFW Columbia River fisheries manager. "It probably came down to money like everything else…. It's not that different from what's going on now."
Backers say gill nets end up injuring—and killing—too many fish that escape. They say studies show gill nets have a mortality rate of 80 percent or higher, up to 100 percent. "The science is clear," says Eric Stachon, spokesman for Stop Gillnetting Now.
"By my experience, if you're handling 10 sockeye in a gill net, you might kill five," North says. "But if you lay out a seine and you catch 100, and the mortality rate is 5 percent, you still kill the same number of fish."
The measure is potentially a local boon to the national $45 billion sportfishing industry, which includes guides, charters and, most of all, companies that make and sell gear. An influential voice among the backers is former ODFW fisheries chief Jim Martin, who now works for Pure Fishing, a major sport-tackle manufacturer owned by Jarden Corp.
Another ban booster, the founding chairman of the Coastal Conservation Association's Pacific Northwest affiliates, Gary Loomis, was a pioneer in the development of graphite fishing rods.
The gillnetters feel the focus on their methods at the exclusion of others is unfair.
For instance, federal figures show that anglers' discarded hooks kill dozens of sea lions each year in Oregon, California and Washington. Hydroelectric dams kill many more.
The gillnetters treat their role as villains with bitter irony and dark humor.
"I always say, 'A sport fisherman kills a fish, it goes to heaven," says Mike Wullger, aka "Big Mike," a 35-year commercial fisherman and board member of Salmon for All, the gillnetters' group. "A gillnetter kills a fish, it goes to hell."
Ihander hefts it over the bow and, for a moment, the great prehistoric fish seems to stand upright—and either man or fish might go overboard.
He brings it down to the deck on its side, revealing its pale pink belly and strange cauliflower mouth.
From snout to tail, the sturgeon is wrapped in the net. Ihander grabs a long, thin blade like a steak knife, moves toward the still-struggling sturgeon and cuts away the mesh near the fish's eyes. Ihander bends, encircles the fish in his arms, and heaves it over the port side.
"Too big. Oversize," Ihander says, explaining why he didn't keep the sturgeon. "Those are our spawners. We don't want to touch them."
Ihander notes how little injury the fish faced. Only the fish knows for sure.
"That's not like you've played him out in the fishing line for an hour," he says. "That one, he'd probably been in a net before, so he said, 'I'll just wait here till he lets me out.'"
The lack of economic escape for the gillnetters themselves has them most worried. For younger fishermen—and there are, the state estimates, about two dozen gillnetters in their 20s and 30s in Oregon, out of perhaps 200 active permits—and future generations, the alternatives may be dire.
What they fear most is that their kids will spend their lives working as Wal-Mart associates, or serving coffee to sport fishermen with shiny new boats.
Steve Fick, owner of Fishhawk Fisheries in Astoria, employs up to 25 seasonal workers, many of them young people.
"They make enough money to go to school," he says. "In turn, by going to college, they get some options in their life. You're not going to do that if you take [gillnetting] away from us and you give another day or two a year to the recreational fishery. You're not going to pour enough coffees for those people."
It's not really about the fish, as the gillnetters see it. It's about Old Oregon vs. New Oregon.
Old Oregon is logging, fishing and hard living, every day.
New Oregon is craft brewing, JavaScript coding and occasional nature walks—or, at least, selling bait and tackle once a year to tourists who can afford such things.
"All of Oregon was created by commercial fishers. Not sport fishers," Ihander says, turning grave. "When we're gone, you're gone."
Campaigners favoring an end to gillnetting show little sympathy for the fishermen.
Read deeply enough into the sport fishermen's online forums, and the studies the industry has commissioned, and one finds the blunt argument that the future has no room for old methods.
One essay on the Oregon Anglers' website says the government should "help train the commercial fishermen for a new occupation."
"Before you get all weepy-eyed for the poor commercial fishermen," the essay says, "know that their industry will not collapse if they cannot kill salmon."
While the fishermen depend on one another, a regional economy depends on all of them.
"If they're gone, we're done. It puts us and two employees out of work," says Bob Zakrzewski, co-owner of Columbia Pacific Marine Works at the Port of Astoria, which repairs boat engines, among other things, for sport and commercial fishermen alike.
Englund Marine and Industrial, a nearby retailer, also caters to sport and commercial fishermen from its headquarters shop at the port. The cavernous warehouse in the back of the shop has a full wall of gillnet gear, specially designed for the Columbia River and imported from Japan,
"Taking a handful of jobs out of rural area, it has a bigger impact than in the metro area," says Kurt Englund, whose family has run the company for seven decades. "In a small town like this, we can't survive on tackle alone."
At the muddy southern bank of the bay, Ihander draws the last of the gill net inside the boat.
His boat reaches the shore as two fish buyers are walking along the pier.
"Perfect timing, guys," Ihander says as he pilots his boat in. He raises the plank that covers his catch, and the men on the pier lean over the boat to inspect the afternoon take.
"Beautiful fish," says one of the men.
They work quickly to unload, grabbing salmon two at a time by the mouth. One of the buyers lashes Ihander's fish with a rope running through their mouths and gills. The fish will go off to a processing plant. Ihander in return gets a fish ticket, which he can redeem later for a check from the processor. Duplicates of each receipt must be repeated to ODFW within 24 hours.
"The whole Northwest eats our food," says John Coetzee, co-owner of St. Pauls, a fish processor in Hammond, Ore., after packing Ihander's fish in ice. "We're supplying A-grade food to the restaurants right here."
Ihander says he has never eaten a farmed fish. Like any discerning Portland foodie, he prefers to know where his meat comes from—and who made the kill.
"To this day," he says, "I like seeing the fish hit the net."


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Republic on the Isthmus of Panama, which connects Central America and South America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, and Colombia to the east. Its capital and largest city is Panama City.
Note: Backed by the United States, which wanted to negotiate a treaty to build a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, Panama revolted against Colombia, of which it was a part, and declared itself independent in 1903.
Note: The United States built the Panama Canal from 1904 to 1914, and American relations with Panama long were shaped by the U.S. presence in the Canal Zone, which divides the country.
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OMAHA, Neb. -
The Creighton women's basketball team hits the road for the final time during the regular season as the Jays face Northern Iowa (Feb. 21) and Bradley (Feb. 23) this week.
2/21 @ 7:00 p.m.: Creighton (18-6, 10-3) at Northern Iowa (12-12, 7-5)
Radio: KOZN AM 1620 (www.1620thezone.com)
@ 2:00 p.m.
: Creighton (18-6, 10-3) at Bradley (10-13, 4-8)
Radio: KZOT AM 1180 (www.1620thezone.com)
Brad Burwell (Play-by-Play) &
Glen Sisk
(Color Analyst)
Live Stats: www.gocreighton.com
Twitter: @GoCreighton, @CreightonWBB
Video Stream Information
The Bluejays contest at Northern Iowa (Feb. 21) and at Bradley (Feb. 23) are available on the web via live video streaming at www.gocreighton.com. The video stream is provided as part of a paid subscription to Neulion programming.
Live Stats Information:
All of Creighton's games this season will have free live stats. Visit www.gocreighton.com and click on the Live Stats tab near the top of the page on the left for the link to the exact URL.
Creighton vs. Northern Iowa:
The Bluejays lead the all-time series with the Panthers, 34-16. Creighton has won the last four meetings and hold a slim 12-11 edge in Cedar Falls.
Last Time vs. Northern Iowa:
W, 54-40 @ Creighton (1-25-13)
Both teams struggled through a defensive battle in the opening period with the Jays taking a 24-21 lead into halftime. The second half was all Creighton. The Jays opened the half on an 11-4 run, pushing their lead to double digits for the first time at 35-25 with 16:17 on the clock. Four Bluejays scored during the run, led by four points from junior
McKenzie Fujan
. Moments later a trey from junior
Sarah Nelson
pushed Creighton's lead to its largest level of 12 points (43-31) with 11:31 left.
The difference proved to be Creighton's swarming defense in the final period as the Jays held Northern Iowa to just 5-of-27 (18.5%) in the final 20 minutes.
About Northern Iowa
• Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Northern Iowa has an enrollment of 13,168.
• The Panthers finished 2011-12 with a 19-15 record and a 9-9 mark in the Valley. UNI returned six letterwinners from last season and welcomed back the 2010-11 MVC Player of the Year, Jacqui Kalin.
• Northern Iowa was picked to finish fourth in the MVC preseason poll.
Last 10 Meetings with Northern Iowa:
1/23/09 W 62-44 in Omaha
2/21/09 W 67-59 (ot) in Cedar Falls
1/24/10 W 62-58 in Omaha
2/21/10 L 57-73 in Cedar Falls
3/14/10 L 53-54 in St. Charles $
1/13/11 L 57-58 in Omaha
2/10/11 L 52-60 in Cedar Falls
1/27/12 W 65-50 in Omaha
2/24/12 W 74-48 in Cedar Falls
3/9/12 W 53-46 in St. Charles $
1/25/13 W 54-40 in Omaha
$ - MVC Tournament game
Keys to the Game w/Northern Iowa:
Executing Offensively: The Jays 54-40 win over the Panthers in Omaha was lowest point total Creighton allowed this season. It was also the second lowest total Creighton delivered in a win.
Containing Kalin: Northern Iowa's Jacqui Kalin leads the MVC with 19.5 points per game. In the first meeting, the Jays limited her to nine points on 2-of-14 from the field.
Battle inside: In the Jays last two contests the post play of
Alyssa Kamphaus
Alexis Akin-Otiko
has been impressive. Kamphaus had a double-double against Missouri State, while Akin-Otiko led the Jays in every category versus Wichita State The Jays had just 12 points in the paint against UNI in the first meeting.
Scouting the Panthers (12-12, 7-5 MVC)
Northern Iowa has won four of its last five, dropping only a 57-47 game at Wichita State (Feb. 8). The Panthers have averaged over 75 points in those four victories.
Jacqui Kalin is the driving force for UNI, in addition to scoring (19.5 ppg) she leads the Panthers in assists (84) and has a knack for getting to the free throw line (115-for-122) where she rarely misses (94.3%).
Hannah Schonhardt and Jen Keitel have emerged as a secondary threats for UNI as the season has moved along. Schonhardt had 23 points in a win over Evansville (Feb. 2), while controlled the board (10 rebounds) in a win over Bradley (Feb. 16).
Creighton vs. Bradley:
The Bluejays lead the all-time series with the Braves, 37-8, including the last five meetings. Creighton holds a 19-4 edge in Peoria.
Last Time vs. Bradley:
W, 79-67 @ Creighton (1-27-13)
Down 32-25 moments late in the first half, Creighton responded with an 18-1 run including four trifectas to take a 43-33 lead. with under a minute remaining in the first half.
Bradley scored the final four points of the period to send the game to halftime with Creighton holding a 43-37 edge. Creighton finished the first half 8-of-15 from beyond the arc (.533), while Bradley was 4-of-8 (.500) themselves.
Bradley would close to within five (58-53) with just under 10 minutes remaining, but the Bluejay trio of Tritz, Janning and junior
Sarah Nelson
held the Bradley at bay. Nelson scored five of her seven points in the final ten minutes, while Tritz had six of her nine down the stretch.
The Jays finished the game, 14-of-28 (.500) from beyond the arc.
About Bradley
• Located in Peoria, Ill., Bradley has an enrollment of 6,000.
• The Braves finished 2011-12 with a 18-16 record and a 7-11 mark in the Valley. Bradley returned eight letterwinners from last season, including 2011-12 All-MVC Freshman Team member Shondra Butts.
• Bradley was picked to finish sixth in the MVC preseason poll.
Last 10 Meetings with Bradley:
1/26/08 W 72-69 in Omaha
2/23/08 L 51-52 in Peoria
1/25/09 W 61-46 in Omaha
2/19/09 L 67-75 in Peoria
1/22/10 L 57-63 in Omaha
2/19/10 L 62-72 in Peoria
1/15/11 W 73-58 in Omaha
2/12/11 W 72-50 in Peoria
1/29/12 W 72-68 in Omaha
2/26/12 W 68-59 in Peoria
1/27/13 W 79-67 in Omaha
Keys to the Game w/Bradley:
Controlling the Pace: Over the past six games the Braves have gone to a five guard lineup that likes to run. Creighton, meanwhile, is placing more emphasis on post play.
Three-pointers: The Jays were 14-of-28 from beyond the arc in the first meeting, keying an 18-1 run in the first half that changed the game. Bradley was just 5-of-12.
Bisping vs. Nelson: Bradley's Brooke Bisping drew the bulk of the defensive responsibility for
Sarah Nelson
in the first meeting. Bisping stands just 5-7.
Scouting the Braves (10-13, 4-8 MVC)
Bradley has won three of five since the last matchup with the Jays, including a 75-55 win at Wichita State on Feb. 10. The loss of post presence Kelly Frings has forced the Braves to use a five guard lineup and to push the pace.
First year head coach Mike Brooks continues to search for the right mix as the Braves have used several starting lineups, only Kelsy Budd has started all 23 contests this season and all but Taylor Shull and Fantasia Vine (nine players) have started at least one contest.
Three players to watch for the Braves are sophomore Shronda Butts (team-high 12.7 ppg), junior Catie O'Leary (11.2 ppg and 7.0 rpg) and senior Brook Bisping (4.4 ppg and 3.1 rpg). This trio scored 37 of the Braves 67 points in the first meeting. Bisping proved the most difficult with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Flanery against the Panthers
Coach Flanery has faced Northern Iowa 24 times as a head coach, holding an 15-9 mark against the Panthers. Flanery is 5-5 in 10 trips to Cedar Falls.
Flanery against the Braves
Coach Flanery has faced Bradley 20 times as a head coach, holding an 15-5 mark against the Braves. Flanery is 7-3 in 10 trips to Peoria.
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provided a dominant performance in Creighton's 56-46 win over Wichita State on Feb. 16. The Bellevue, Neb. native led Creighton in points (13), rebounds (8), assists (3), steals (2) and blocks (2). Nine of Akin-Otiko's 13 points came in the final nine minutes to secure the win. Akin-Otiko tied career-highs in assists, steals and blocks, while setting a new career-best in rebounds.
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ALFRED, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - Jurors in the Mark Strong prostitution trial heard their first testimony from prosecution Today.
Strong is one of the two main defendants in the Kennebunk Zumba prostitution case. He is charged with 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and 1 count of conspiracy.
The prosecution claims Mark Strong managed or controlled the Kennebunk prostitution business run by Alexis Wright. Today we heard very little evidence linking Strong to that operation. Instead the prosecutor spent the day trying to establish that there was prostitution going on at buildings Alexis Wright leased in Kennebunk.
The prosecution claims mark Strong was in constant contact with wright through e-mails, phone calls and video chats discussing the prostitution business and the clients.
On the stand this morning Christopher West the owner of the space Wright leased across from the Zumba studio testified he observed men showing up at the location from early in the morning until 2 or 3 in the afternoon in half hour to hour increments. He also testified he heard moaning and groaning and other noises coming from the space. He did not link Mark Strong to the location.
Then the Kennebunk Code enforcement officer took the stand. He testified strong showed up with Alexis wright when she applied for a building permit. He also testified Strong and Wrights names were on the lease for the Zumba Studio.
Strong's lawyer pointed out that Strong was listed on the lease as the guarantor, someone who guarantees that the lease payments will be made. Attorney Dan Lilley's contention has been that Strong loaned money to Alexis Wright for her business but was not involved in a prostitution business.
Testimony on Friday will start later that usual tomorrow. Jurors were told to come back at 10:30. They are expected hear from police officers involved in a search of Mark Strong's insurance business in Thomaston. They are also expected to hear from experts from the Computer Crimes Taskforce about possible evidence found on computers seized in that search.
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Still don't have it.
Shops don't have it and the ftp sites are too busy at the moment. I'm really gonna have to get myself DSL.
Looking forward to it and will let you know once i have it installed.
OK guys new thread to post your thoughts on 8.0. ;D
Jim H
Still don't have it.
Shops don't have it and the ftp sites are too busy at the moment. I'm really gonna have to get myself DSL.
Looking forward to it and will let you know once i have it installed.
i am finishing up the CDs now. i can either go two ways from here. 1. modify partitions to make space, or just use an old 3.5 GB hd for it. i think i will go with option 1. but like anything, it takes a bit of time, and i have none. i will have some thoughts up soon though :P
well, they didnt use kernel 2.4.19, that i did NOT like
I take it CDs 4 & 5 are source disks, like in 7.3. If so I'm planning to install it when I have a free hour or so tommorrow.
I haven't installed it and I think that I'll wait. I only use one machine. But... I don't like the idea of Bluecurve. It might turn out to be a great window manager, but I don't like it being proprietary. That was one of the great things about Linux. No matter which distribution you had, we pretty much all got the same thing. I'd like to see if applications run differently under RH as opposed to another distribution. Is Bluecurve open source???? I haven't found any info. on it.
Bluecurve is just the name of Red Hat's "new look".
IT IS NOT PROPRIETARY. Red Hat is a staunch defender of the GPL. You will not find anything other then GPL software in Red Hat Linux.
I will see if I can't put of a few screenshots.
Yes, disks 4 & 5 are source rpms. Disks 1,2 & 3 and the only one required to install.
Jim H
JimH - You are correct! I found a good article that goes into reason for creating Bluecurve. Hopefully, they will accomplish what they set out to do. If so, it should only attract more newbies. I was afraid that RH was coming out with a new rabbit with antlers. I'll have to give it a whirl in a month or so.....
Alright guys for those who don't have 8.0 installed here are a bunch of screens.
The are all of Gnome. Everything in the screens comes with 8.0 except the last three screenshots. They are of Eclipse. It does not ship with 8.0. They just make nice screens. ;D
I don't have KDE installed so no KDE shots, I will see if I can do something about getting some up. I'm just not a KDE user.
Enjoy. These are full screen shots. If you have a modem it might be a little slow.
Jim H


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CAIRO – Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians rallied on Saturday, December 1, in support for Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, as constitutional assembly planned to hand out the county's newly drafted constitutional charter within hours.
"We are here to support the decisions of Dr Mohamed Morsi," Hend Abdellateef, an Egyptian who joined Saturday's march told Agence France Presse (AFP).
"We support him because those decisions were a part of the revolutionary demands."
Assembly Approves Egypt Constitution Draft
Thousands of Egyptians converged on Cairo Saturday in a show of support for Morsi, his controversial decrees and the recently passed draft constitution.
The rally, centered outside Cairo University, was called by the Muslim Brotherhood, which backed Morsi, and its allies in the Salafi El-Nour party.
Veiled women ululated among the protesters who carried Egyptian flags and posters of Morsi.
Banners were also hanged reading: "Together (with Morsi) to save the revolution".
"There are people who want instability," said Khaled, one of the demonstrators, referring to anti-Morsi protesters.
"There needs to be a constitution for there to be stability."
Hundreds of thousands of pro-Morsi protests were also staged in huge rallies in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the central Egyptian province of Assiut.
Supporters' rallies followed protests planned by opponents of President Morsi in a show of force last Tuesday and Friday.
New Era
Demonstrators, estimated by the CNN at 2 million, supported the newly drafted constitution.
"We want this phase to end, we want a constitution," one protester said, as others chanted: "The people want the implementation of God's law."
"If people don't like the constitution, let them say so through the ballot boxes," he added.
The demonstration in the heart of Cairo comes a day after crowds thronged to Tahrir Square to protest against the president's decree and the speedy adoption of the draft constitution.
The assembly concluded the vote early on Friday after a marathon session that lasted 19 hours, approving all articles including less presidential powers, the status of Islam and the military's role.
President Morsi is expected to ratify the document by Saturday, allowing a referendum to be held as soon as mid-December on a text the Islamists say reflects Egypt's new freedoms.
It is expected to go to a popular referendum within two weeks.
If Egyptians approve the constitution, legislative powers will pass straight from Morsi to the upper house of parliament, in line with an article in the new constitution, assembly members said.


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None of the approximately 9,400 apartments in the city of Watertown will get an inspection by the code enforcement office unless a tenant or someone else calls the city to complain about a possible violation.
Thats because the city does not have a rental inspection program, though many other municipalities in the state annually inspect rental units.
A dozen years ago, the city nearly implemented such a program, but it fell one vote shy of passage by the City Council.
This year, the issue popped up again during the recent primary for the Watertown City Council, when failed candidate Rodney J. LaFave proposed an inspection program. Mr. LaFave maintained that a self-funded rental inspection program would address the condition of rental properties and ensure that properties are safe, clean and in compliance with state building codes.
Deteriorating rental property has remained a campaign issue among the four candidates vying for two council seats in the Nov. 10 general election.
In the rental property business since 1968, landlord Perry D. McIntosh, 75, who owns 50 units in nine buildings in Watertown, likes the idea of a rental inspection program. He acknowledged that he has had his share of problems with tenants trashing apartments and with trying to keep his apartments presentable. A program with code enforcement officials entering apartments might be beneficial, Mr. McIntosh said.
They could come into my place anytime, he said. Id welcome them.
That comment may surprise other landlords, who generally oppose inspections of their property.
Mr. McIntosh is currently renovating four units, two of which need the work because tenants left damage, and the others because he thought it was time to update them.
As for landlords who would oppose such a program, Mr. McIntosh said, sometimes they get ridiculous.
Law works elsewhere
Communities across the state have had rental inspection programs in place for years; Geneva, Auburn, Ogdensburg, Cortland and Ithaca are some of the municipalities with their own variations.
Under such programs, code enforcement officers or fire department personnel are required to check rental units for code violations to make sure tenants are living in safe and healthy environments. Inspections can be completed on a yearly basis or every two or three years, depending on the terms of the law. Every apartment is inspected for a laundry list of items, including broken windows and doors, pest infestations, safe egress from the building and working plumbing, electrical and heating systems.
Depending on the municipality, landlords may be charged fees for initial inspections or for subsequent inspections when they fail to correct the violations. Many municipalities use the inspection fees to pay for the program.
In Geneva, the citys Fire Department has handled rental inspections since 1995. Landlords must obtain an operating permit before they start renting property. Apartments are subjected to inspections every two years, and landlords have 30 days to correct violations. After that, they can be fined, said Fire Chief Michael A. Combs.
It works out well, he said.
In the city of Auburn, the code enforcement office is in charge of the inspections. Landlords are charged a $50 registration fee per unit and must pay another $50 if they fail to correct a violation. Also, a second inspection must be conducted, said Brian L. Hicks, senior code enforcement officer.
With 58 percent of the residential property in Auburn devoted to rental units, the two officers in his department have a big job, Mr. Hicks said. His office gets its share of landlords who dont like the program, he said. It doesnt make me lose sleep at night, Mr. Hicks said.
For the past four years, the city of Cortland has tried to implement a rental-permit program, but a dozen landlords have fought it in court, saying the program violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution by allowing code officers to access buildings without a warrant.
The city of Watertowns code enforcement supervisor, Shawn R. McWayne, said it would be a significant undertaking if the city enacted a rental-inspection program.
Im not sure how we would do it, Mr. McWayne said.
The citys code enforcement office checks on rental property only when a complaint is received. The calls primarily involve trash in yards, uncut lawns or tenant complaints about specific code problems in their apartments.
Under the inspection program proposed in 2001, landlords would have been required to register their buildings before renting out spaces, which then would have been subjected to annual inspections. Landlords would have been charged a one-time building registration fee before they could rent out their property.
While Watertowns proposal was modeled after a similar program in the village of Potsdam, Mr. McWayne said city officials never put together any details of what the program would entail. It died before that could happen, he said.
In the end, landlords overwhelmingly opposed the inspections, contending that the proposed law did not include any language about tenants being responsible for damage. After three public hearings, it looked like the program would pass by a 3-2 vote, but Councilman Jeffrey M. Smith and former Mayor Joseph M. Butler pulled their support. The proposal was defeated, and that was the last anyone in the city heard of it, Mr. McWayne said.
Since the proposal never got very far, Mr. McWayne said, he doesnt know how much such a program would cost, how it would be paid for or how much more staff it would take to implement it. It would be up to the City Council to decide whether to explore the issue, he said.
The candidates speak
In the council race, only incumbent Jeffrey M. Smith said he does not think a rental inspection program would be a good idea.
Mr. Smith now takes a been there, done that attitude.
We looked at it, he said. Weve discussed it. There was no public support. I havent heard anything on it 10 years.
Complaints about the inspections and questions about a laws constitutionality give Mr. Smith reservations about starting a program, he said, adding that landlords and tenants dont want one.
People dont want the government intruding on their lives, he said.
The other three council candidates incumbent Teresa R. Macaluso and challengers Cody J. Horbacz and Stephen A. Jennings are keeping an open mind about a rental-inspection program. They said something needs to be done to make sure rental property is kept up to code.
I think it might be a good idea, Ms. Macaluso said, adding that she worries more about rental property owned by absentee landlords than units owned by people who live in the area.
While she echoes some of Mr. Smiths concerns, Ms. Macaluso said Watertown should at least look at how a program could help solve getting apartments up to code.
Mr. Horbacz agreed, but said the devil would be in the details.
Mr. Jennings said such a program could easily tie into what he has discussed in his campaign about addressing blight in neighborhoods. He has proposed getting city, school and law enforcement officials and local organizations together to find ways to reduce blight, poverty, crime and low education achievement.
I think it could mitigate some of the problems were having, Mr. Jennings said, adding that fees could make it a self-sustaining program. I think it could help our community.
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POTSDAM Clarkson University is waiting to see if it will be named an Innovation Hot Spot, a state-appointed title that comes with $250,000 to spread the reach of the colleges startup support services and kick-start small businesses across the region.
The colleges Shipley Center for Innovation and Reh Center for Entrepreneurship applied for the grant this week as part of the North Country Regional Economic Development Councils pitch for competitive state funding.
Both centers operate out of the college to provide advice, training and resources to help students and community members start their own businesses.
The college would use the hot spot funding to look all across the region for potential business startups, rather than waiting for the ideas to come to Potsdam.
It would allow us to expand our model across the north country, said Matthew E. Draper, deputy director of the Shipley Center.
A portion of the funds would be used to create a new full-time position at the center. This person would spend one day a week in five communities Plattsburgh, Watertown, Massena, Ogdensburg and Saranac Lake to solicit ideas from prospective entrepreneurs and provide advice.
They would capture the ideas there and bring them back here, and we would do the vetting, Mr. Draper said.
Ideas deemed worthwhile would be eligible for funds and other assistance from the center.
Although Clarkson would spearhead the effort, the application is a collaboration among 10 partners, including area colleges and nonprofits.
Most of the grant would be used to provide small amounts of startup money, from $1,500 to $2,000, for regional businesses looking for the cash they need to get off the ground.
We want them to spend it in their hometowns, Mr. Draper said.
The Innovation Hot Spot grant was announced by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo earlier this year. Up to five business incubators in New York state will be chosen for the award.
The initiative is designed to encourage more private research and venture capital spending in New York, which lags far behind states such as California and North Carolina.
According to Mr. Draper, Clarksons focus on reaching out into the region, rather than pouring its resources into one central location, will set it apart from all the other incubators hoping to be named a hot spot by the state.
Traditionally, a lot of people have followed the if you build it they will come approach and build a lot of shiny new incubators, he said.
The state is expected to make its decision in December.
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Postal Regulations and the Press in Franklin's Day and Ours
I read this morning at Jim Romenesko's blog about the travails of the New Hampshire Gazette, which styles itself The Nation's Oldest Newspaper, after a change last month in postal regulations. The descendant of the newspaper of that name founded by Daniel Fowle in 1756 (and now run by a distant cousin), the Gazette is a free bi-weekly newspaper based in Portsmouth, and has long relied on the U.S. Postal Service to circulate copies to subscribers—I'll let you click over to Romenesko to read the details.
In announcing its troubles, the New Hampshire Gazette wrote that its staff "can only imagine what Benjamin Franklin, the newspaperman who founded the Post Office, would think of this." Fortunately, I can answer that question: their trouble is pretty much the same reason that Franklin ended up involved with the post office in the first place.
As a young newspaper printer trying to break into the Philadelphia market with his Pennsylvania Gazette, Franklin posed a challenge to the leading printer in town, Andrew Bradford, who published the American Weekly Mercury. Bradford, who was also the Philadelphia postmaster, found a way to thwart Franklin's ambitions by forbidding him from mailing newspapers to subscribers via the post. The ambitious Franklin seized the advantage as soon as it offered itself, as he related later in his Autobiography:
In 1737, Col. Spotswood, late Governor of Virginia, and then Post-master, General, being dissatisfied with the Conduct of his Deputy at Philadelphia, respecting some Negligence in rendering, and Inexactitude of his Accounts, took from him the Commision and offered it to me. I accepted it readily, and found it of great Advantage; for tho' the Salary was small, it facilitated the Corespondence that improv'd my Newspaper, encreas'd the Number demanded, as well as the Advertisements to be inserted, so that it came to afford me a very considerable Income. My old Competitor's Newspaper declin'd proportionably, and I was satisfy'd without retaliating his Refusal, while Postmaster, to permit my Papers being carried by the Riders.
The postmaster position helped make Franklin's career by giving him access to news circulating the colonies and providing him with the ability to add patronage appointments for his growing network of printing associates. A decade and a half later, Franklin angled himself into position to become Deputy Postmaster General for North America, a position he held from 1753 to 1774, and then of course served briefly as the first Continental Postmaster General (he didn't actually "found" the Post Office, but that's not important).
In other words, New Hampshire Gazette, Franklin (and many other eighteenth-century printers) knew your pain.


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"HOME ON THE RANGE" for the Preservation of the Tule Elk — and the Wonder of the Living Land By Beula Edmiston "Home on the Range" seems to echo the harmony of nature and reach deep into the roots of our being, but "Home on the Range" can mean much more than a nostalgic song of the open spaces. It might well be the rallying cry for inviolate refuges to save our rare and endangered wildlife—and our equally rare and endangered unspoiled spots of wonderment and natural beauty. Hard won refuges saved and restored the buffalo, the antelope, and the Rocky Mountain Elk, to name a few, and set the standard for wildlife preservation throughout the world. But in the words of Wallace Stegner, this is no time to "rust on our laurels". The bulldozer, cement mixer, poison, and gun crowd entire species to the brink of oblivion. It is imperative to act at once to strengthen and enlarge our refuge system. There are a few men still among us who led in the Bison Society crusade. They rallied to William T. Hornaday's cry, "We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness, and cruelty of 'civilized' men toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of carnage. It is time for a sweeping reformation, and that is precisely what we now demand." Guy Atherton, St. Paul, Minnesota is among them. He speaks from long experience, "Organize, educate, fight, and win." C. M. Goethe, Sacramento, California girds for the battle to save the Tule Elk remembering, "We organized and saved the buffalo. Ditto the antelope. We almost saved the Carolina Paroquet. We must not wait again until it is too late. Thanks for the call to help save the Tule Elk." The Tule Elk heads the Department of Interior's list of rare and endangered mammals. Some ask if it won't, therefore, be "automatically" protected. In a recent communication from the Secretary of Interior to the Committee for the Preservation of the Tule Elk, Mr. Udall states, "If the Tule Elk, and other endangered species are to be saved, it will come about largely through citizen action groups such as your own." When a young man recently asked Justice William O. Douglas what he could do to help save his dwindling heritage of nature, the illustrious exponent of conservation answered, "Holler, and keep on hollering!" Only when enough people care to join forces and "holler and keep on hollering" will wildlife get its due consideration. A "home on the range" has beautifully proved effective to save and restore wildlife and to meet the need of those who love the living land. Let's take a quick look at the Tule Elk, its struggle for survival, and the proposed "home on the range" in its beautiful Owens Valley habitat. Cervus nannodes, California Dwarf or Valley Elk, is the smallest and rarest of all elk. It is a magnificent creature, lighter in color and scaled smaller than the Roosevelt or Rocky Mountain Elk, but possessed of the dignity, stateliness, and majesty of its kind—the monarch of the wild. Elk, like the wilderness threshold which is its home, cannot be reduced to samples for appreciation or assured survival. It is a sobering thought that at least four species of American elk are now extinct. It should silence those who would "save the Tule Elk" in a fenced enclosure like feedlot cattle. It would be a sorry blow to the chance of survival of the Tule Elk and the quality of the American dream if that should ever come to pass. Nearly a century ago, California's Dwarf, Valley Elk was driven almost to extinction. A few (legend says only two) hid in the bulrushes or tules on the great Miller and Lux Ranch, and through the aggressive protection of rancher Henry Miller, made a miracle comeback, and from its flight to the tules came its common name, Tule Elk. After its close brush with annihilation, many serious attempts were made to re-establish the species in favorable locations throughout California. It is of historic significance that the Owens Valley herd, fore-runner of the present, wild, free herd, is the only successful transfer of the Tule Elk ever accomplished. It was made in two steps; first to Yosemite Valley, then, under the direction of Horace M. Albright, Director of the National Park Service, upon the advice and consent of the Academy of Sciences, Department of Fish and Game, City of Los Angeles, and the Inyo County Board of Supervisors (where the Owens Valley is located), and all appropriate agencies, to Los Angeles City owned land in the Owens Valley by Walter Dow, Owens Valley businessman and rancher. It is of historic importance, too, that Walter Dow heads the Committee for the Preservation of the Tule Elk and that Horace M. Albright heads its Advisory Board. Walter Dow states the problem and the solution this way: "Extinction is imminent for a wildlife species native only to California, the Tule Elk, also known as Valley Elk, California Wapiti, and Dwarf Elk. It is self-evident that Owens Valley, owned almost entirely by the City of Los Angeles, has proved an ideal locality Continued on page two...
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The wide range of Rowan's research centers and institutes reflect both our commitment to scientific study in an array of professional fields, as well as our commitment to improving the quality of life of those around us. Faculty and students work side by side, entering into regional, national, and international collaborations, to conduct research. These side by side partnerships emphasize teaching, scientific study, scholarship, creative activity and community service.
Geospatial Research Lab
The GeoLab conducts research on a myriad of geospatial topics, primarily land use development patterns, impervious surface trading, watershed quality analysis, and interactive web-based mapping.
Rowan Astronomical Observatory
The Rowan Astronomical Observatory (RAO) is dedicated to the exploration of our universe by faculty, students, and the neighboring community.
CARES Institute
For nearly two decades, the CARES Institute has provided help and compassion – and ultimately, hope – for children who have experienced abuse. The CARES Institute is acknowledged as a model of excellence in healing children and families who have experienced abuse, neglect and violence.
Center for Behavior Analysis
The Center for Behavior Analysis, Research & Services at Rowan University promotes the science of applied behavior analysis through education, research, and service to individuals, families, and organizations at a local, regional, and national level.
New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging
Since 1989, the NJISA, a nationally recognized "Center of Excellence" based at the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (RowanSOM), has served older individuals and their families, providing medical care in varied settings and offering training for health professionals of multiple disciplines.
The NeuroMusculoskeletal Institute (NMI)
The NeuroMusculoskeletal Institute offers a variety of services that target diseases affecting the neuromuscular system. At our comprehensive pain center, we evaluate and treat both acute and chronic pain.