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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Oregon State University
Rising above the Ducks Nicki Silva | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Senior guard Gary Payton II soars for a layup in the second half of the Beavers 70-57 route against Oregon on Sunday. Payton II had 12 points, all in second half.
Beavers start the new year with a Civil War victory in front of a sell out crowd By Michael Kiever Sports Reporter
The Oregon State men’s basketball team secured its first Civil War victory of the Wayne Tinkle era Sunday evening, defeating Oregon in a 70-57 rout to begin Pac12 play. OSU was boosted by a tremendous team effort on both sides of the ball, taking an early lead in the first half and never looking back. “We put together our best 40 minute effort to this point,” Tinkle said. “Oregon’s really tough, they’ve got a lot of weapons and Dana [Altman’s] one of the top coaches around, and I’m just proud of our guys for finding a way.” With a minute left, the Beavers held a 15 point lead and Gill Coliseum was on their feet in pure ecstasy. The crowd showered senior guard Gary Payton II with praise for his big game, chanting “GPII” with a minute left as he hit the bench. Payton II, who shot zero for five in the first half, bounced back in the second half with 4-6 shooting to keep the Beavers afloat. He finished with 12 points, six rebounds, six assists, two steals and a handful of high-
light plays. Freshman forward Tres Tinkle, who paced the Beavers with a team-high 19 points and six rebounds, thought the atmosphere created by the sellout crowd of 9,604 fans helped elevate his game. “It was a lot of fun, we have the best student section and fan base in the entire Pac-12,” Tres Tinkle said. “They kind of helped as a sixth man, helped us get that extra boost.” The Beavers (10-2) were able to take a 34-19 first half lead despite shooting 35 percent from the field. While they were cold on offense, they found success by limiting Oregon to 35 percent shooting for the entire game, and also by out-rebounding them on the offensive end 10 to one in the first half. “[Rebounding] was a focus, [Schaftenaar] set the tone and [Eubanks] climbed all over the glass,” Wayne Tinkle said. The dominance on the boards was partially attributable to OSU’s visible size advantage in the front court. Oregon was unable to size up with the Beavers, as their
best counter to the duo of Drew Eubanks and Olaf Schaftenaar was senior forward Chris Boucher, who at 6’10 and 190 pounds was unable to size up. Boucher finished with a team-high 14 points and seven rebounds on five of nine shooting. Oregon was also bogged down by uncharacteristic sloppiness, committing 12 turnovers and only 11 assists. UO entered the game with the lowest turnover margin in the Pac-12. Junior forward Langston Morris-Walker was a key contributor in getting the Beavers into their offensive groove. Early in the first half he nailed an open three-pointer, and moments later, he stole a pass in the post and took it cross-court for a contested lay-up, exhilarating the crowd. Morris-Walker would finish the game with 12 points and two three-pointers on 4-7 shooting. Olaf Schaftenaar also had a nice showing for the Beavers, matching his career-high of seven rebounds in the first half and breaking it in the second half, finishing
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OSU researchers increase shelf life of human organs Advancement in procedures freezing organs, cells, tissue may save lives By Alexandra LaCesa News Contributor
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Professor Adam Higgins stands next to the bio safety cabinet used to create sterile environments for experiments in the bioengineering lab.
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Recent findings from OSU’s Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering have opened the door to a new approach, lengthening the shelf life of preserving organs and tissues in their entirety. This can be done through cryopreservation, a process of preserving cells, tissues and organs at sub-zero temperatures. This allows for longer lasting and ultimately a more efficent transfer when used later. Associate Professor Adam Higgins partnered with student researcher Allyson Fry, and has been conducting research since 2008. According to Fry, in the first few years of their developing research they focused mostly on vitrification is a process of preserving cells in a glassy state completely absent
of ice crystals which are damaging to tissue. Experiments could last as long as 10 to 12 hour days. Most experiments were performed in the biosafety cabinet or in our dark microscopy room. “We developed methods to monitor how the cells were being loaded and unloaded with CPA, as well as models to describe the process that could be mathematically optimized,” Fry said. Before returning back to his alma mater for teaching and research, Higgins studied Cryopreservation at Georgia Tech. “I hadn’t even really heard of cryopreservation before graduate school,” Higgins said. “But I was interested in doing research that involved cells and tissues, also something that involved mathematical modeling.” “It’s essentially not that different from frozen food,” Higgins said. He is now generating final proposals to seek funding for the next step of this project. Higgins said he
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Student resolutions, NEWS, PAGE 2 Seumalo to enter NFL Draft, SPORTS, PAGE 5 Examining “Y’all Qadea”, FORUM, PAGE 7
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‘What is your New Year’s Resolution?’ By: Alli Tompkins, Brian Nguyen
I don’t have a specific resolution but I think I’m going to enjoy the world more.
I don’t really have any. I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions.
I didn’t really make any but if I had to it’d probably be to exercise more because I don’t at all.
Ivan Zair Sophomore in Civil Engineering
Anish Asrani Freshman in Computer Science
Hannah Jarden Freshman Undeclared
One is to read and understand people better since I struggle with this. Two, to be more on time for classes since I’m late often.
I don’t know if it is a resolution but I want to try to work out a little more, just to feel better, not to try to lose weight.
Just to be happy, I guess. Will Mayfield Graduate Student in Math
Jill Schrlau Graduate Student in Environmental Engineering
Kenny Warren Senior in Bioresource Research
I want to do the 100 happy day challenge. Everyday I’ll take a photo of something that made me happy that day and I’ll caption it and post it. Caitlin Pellerin Sophomore in Ecological Engineering
I want to quit drinking soda, for one, because I do that a lot, and maybe cut down on fast food, and maybe run a little more. Rich Wallace Senior in Physics
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Venezuela’s government threatens Chavez’s legacy By Sven Berg The Idaho Statesman
Hugo Chavez is everywhere, even though he’s been dead almost three years. Murals and stencils of the former president’s face decorate walls and buildings throughout the country, sometimes next to the faces of Latin American heroes such as Simon Bolivar or communist icons such as Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. The image of his eyes _ a ubiquitous symbol in Venezuela _ is painted on top of the administrative building for the National Assembly, the country’s legislature. Chavistas sometimes talk as if they believe Chavez is still alive. That may have something to do with the countless message boards and murals across the country reading “Chavez vive” or “Chavez lives.” Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if people believe that figuratively or literally. “We still have that attraction, that belief in him,” said Diocelis Mujica, who lives at the end of a small residential street in Sabaneta, the small agricultural town where Chavez lived as a boy. There’s no telling how much of Chavez’s cult will survive now that his political offspring, the socialists, no longer control the country’s government. In December, voters, blaming Chavez’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela for the country’s economic crisis and soaring crime rate, gave the opposition 112 of 167 seats in the National Assembly, Venezuela’s legislative branch. The new lawmakers are scheduled to take power Tuesday. Many say an oppositioncontrolled legislature will try
to remove Chavez’s successor, Nicolas Maduro, through a recall and unwind Chavez’s socialist policies by repealing laws that regulate prices and authorize the government to seize private property in almost any circumstance. Such moves are likely to encounter opposition not just among socialist politicians but also among a sizable number of Venezuelans who still refer to Chavez as “el comandante.” “For us, he’s alive,” said Edgar Perez, 54, who said he knew Chavez as a boy. “It’s something strange.” Just after midnight on Feb. 4, 1992, Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez entered Venezuela’s Military History Museum and became a traitor. His operation that night had been 15 years in the making. Dissatisfied with the rule of Venezuela’s elite, Chavez had plotted to overthrow it since the late 1970s, growing bolder and gaining collaborators as time passed. If Sabaneta, where public buses sometimes carry the slogan “Chavez vive. La patria sigue” _ “Chavez lives, the homeland lives on” _ is the center of chavistas’ bond with their hero, the museum is the center of chavismo as a political movement. The museum, in the 23 de Enero neighborhood in southwest Caracas, became a nerve center for Venezuela’s military leadership, barricaded behind high walls. On the night of the coup, Chavez stormed the site with more than 2,000 troops. At the same time, his fellow officers seized key military and economic facilities around Venezuela. But the rebels could not achieve one key objective: capturing Carlos Andres Perez,
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Murals in Venezuela depict former President Hugo Chavez in a variety of military and cultural settings. the president, who had come to represent the corruption and disregard of the poor that Chavez and his cohorts loathed. Moments after learning of the coup, Perez escaped the presidential residence in east Caracas and arrived at the presidential palace in the center of the city, according to some reports by driving his own car. Perez’s forces repulsed Chavez’s collaborators there. The coup failed. But Chavez, in one of his
most brilliant strokes, turned disaster into the moment that launched his rise to Venezuela’s presidency. To this day, people in Venezuela talk about the two words. Those words, “por ahora,” meaning “for now,” changed the tone of the brief speech Chavez gave moments after his 1992 coup collapsed. Chavez surrendered to Perez’s forces seven hours after he arrived at the Military History Museum to lauch his coup. Some of his co-conspirators,
Organs
In order for OSU to move forward with funding these next few months, a model must be constructed to demonstrate the process of cryopreservation, Higgins said. Continued from page 1 Earning grants from Government funding such as National would like to be working on 3-D models of sample tissue from tumor biopsies that are preserved and used for personalized Science Foundation, will allow Higgins and students to start utilizing the laboratory more frequently. medicine. According to Higgins, the demand for longer preservation of According to Higgins, once this research is funded and has organs and tissues is apparent and a breakthrough that could begun, students at OSU will have the opportunity to work side potentially save many lives is just around the corner. by side with Higgins. When an organ is being transplanted, it has only a few hours to live, with this breakthrough it could be possible to store organs weeks to months. Higgins is aware of the long and difficult process of trial and error ahead of him. His goal is to pay extremely close attention to the organs that are in highest demand with the smallest survival rate. This is going to take time, according to Higgins.
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perhaps not knowing their leader had given up, held their positions. Eager to subdue the holdouts as soon as possible and discourage further uprisings, Perez allowed Chavez to announce his surrender on national television. Still in his military uniform, Chavez took responsibility for the coup, which he called “this Bolivarian military movement,” evoking Simon Bolivar, Venezuela’s liberator and chief founding father.
“Unfortunately, for now, the objectives we established in the capital were not achieved,” he said. In the weeks that followed, with Chavez in prison as Venezuelans processed what this mostly unknown military officer had plotted and attempted, the phrase “for now” became a topic of countless fascinated discussions, buoyed by the mystery of what he’d meant. Chavez would later say
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Civil War victory
Top Performers Points: 13 Rebounds: 8 Assists: 2 Set a new career high with eight rebounds to go with two offensive rebounds.
Olaf Schaftenaar Senior forward
Points: 19 Rebounds: 6 Blocks: 2 Set a career high with 19 points. Scoring 10 in
Tres Tinkle
second half.
Freshman forward
Points: 12 Rebounds: 6 Assists: 6 Steals: 2 Payton scored all 12 of his points in the final 16 minutes.
jeremy melamed | THE DAILY BAROMETER
The Oregon State bench celebrates a big play in the second half of Sunday’s 70-57 victory in the Civil War against Oregon. The Beavers now hold a 186-159 series lead over the Ducks.
Gary Payton II Senior guard
Civil War
Continued from page 1 with 13 points and eight rebounds. The Beavers came out sleepy in the second half. UO took advantage and slowly crept back into the game, cutting the lead to seven with 13:11 remaining. Gary Payton II promptly woke the Beavers up in electrifying fashion, soaring over Boucher for a gravity-defying poster slam-dunk. Eubanks joined in on the fun next possession, nabbing a Tres Tinkle pass for a thundering alley-oop, forcing Oregon head coach Dana Altman to call timeout. “In the second half when they took it to us, and we didn’t fold,” Wayne Tinkle said. “We counter punched them and then hung in there and were able to put it away.” The Beavers were able to hold on from there out with lights out 60 percent second half shooting and by playing within their own boundaries. “Guys stayed in their roles, we did what was working, and everybody contributed,” Morris-Walker said. “[Payton II] was slow in the beginning, but he was just trying to give it to people who were hitting.” OSU improved its all-time in the Civil War to 185-160, and will continue Pac-12 play this week in as they take on Stanford in Palo Alto on Wednesday, Jan. 6. On Twitter @MichaelKievaaa
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Jeremy melamed | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Freshman forward Tres Tinkle shoots a free throws against Oregon on Sunday. Tinkle scored nine of his team-high 19 points from the charity stripe.
Beavers go for fifth straight victory against Cardinal OSU will try and start conference play with two straight wins against Stanford at home
Freshman guard Stephen Thompson, Jr, who grew up a Stanford fan and was recruited by the Cardinal, agreed with Tinkle about the importance of fast breaks against Oregon and in games to come. “We’re at our best when we get out in transition,” he said. Defensively, OSU allowed just a 35.8 percent shooting rate By Josh Worden and the Ducks made 7-of-25 from behind the arc. Senior Beat Reporter “It was the best we’ve played that zone all year long,” Tinkle After a 70-57 win to open Pac-12 play in the Civil War on said. “It reminded us of how we played it a year ago. Guys were Sunday, Oregon State has a chance to start 2016 on a hot streak focused to the plan, responsible as far as being in their spots. with two more home games this week. It was great to see and now we’ve got to challenge the guys to First up is Stanford (8-5, 1-1 Pac-12), which started confer- do that every single time out.” ence play with a two-point overtime victory over then-No. Stanford’s Strengths and Weaknesses 21 Utah and then a one-point home loss to Colorado. After Stanford is third in the Pac-12 in scoring defense but ninth Wednesday’s 8 p.m. matchup in Gill Coliseum with the Cardiin defensive field goal percentage. How does this happen? nal, OSU plays California on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Mainly by having more possessions to work with than oppo“We played Sunday night and here we are tipping it up again nents; in two Pac-12 games, Stanford has forced 37 turnovers Wednesday,” said head coach Wayne Tinkle. “It’s a challenge and committed 14. for our guys.” On the other hand, the Cardinal are last in the conference in OSU took Monday off of practice before returning to Gill assists and in the bottom half in rebounding margin, 3-point on Tuesday. The two-day break between Oregon and Stanford shooting and free throw shooting. After matching Utah in marks the first of eight times this year that OSU will play a pair rebounds, Stanford allowed Colorado a 43-29 advantage on of Pac-12 teams with two or fewer days of rest in between. the boards in their loss Sunday. Senior forward Jarmal Reid is “doubtful” to play Wednesday Stanford has also been cold from long range: after shooting with a sprained ankle, Tinkle said. 36 percent from 3-point range in the nonconference season, the Cardinal are at 22 percent so far in Pac-12 contests. They’ve Beaver Keys to Success Against Oregon, the Beavers helped build a double digit lead gotten lucky when opponents are at the free throw line with with a 7-0 advantage in fast break points and a 16-9 margin in just a 51.4 percent shooting rate between Utah and Colorado. second chance points. Thompson’s Threes Thompson, a 6-foot-4 freshman, leads the Beavers with “That was one of the more impressive things from the other night,” Tinkle said of his team’s fast break defense. “We thought 19 made 3-pointers. The OSU record for 3-pointers by a true that was a real strength of Oregon that we had to take away freshman is 44, set by Angelo Tsagarakis in 2004. Thompson is on pace to make 46 shots from deep before the Pac-12 Tournawas their transition.”
ment and postseason. “It’s a good accomplishment to have if it happens,” Thompson said. “I’ve just been trying to shoot with confidence, shoot when I’m open and take advantage of every shot.”
Payton II’s Twitter A twitter account recently made in Payton II’s name, the senior guard says, is not actually his. “There have been a couple fake ones,” Payton II said, who remains without social media accounts. “But none that everybody thought was me.” On Twitter @BrightTies
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Senior guard Gary Payton II sets up his defender in Sunday’s Civil War victory against Oregon. Payton leads the team in points, rebounds and assists.
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Seumalo to forgoe senior season at OSU Junior offensive linemen to enter 2016 NFL Draft By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter
Starting offensive lineman Isaac Seumalo, one month removed from his Honorable Mention AllPac-12 year as a junior, will declare for the 2016 NFL draft and forego his senior year in Corvallis. Seumalo has not made any official announcent yet according to a team spokesperson, though he is expected todo so before the deadline to declare for the draft is Jan. 18. Seumalo’s sister Jessi tweeted on Sunday that her brother was leaving for the NFL and fellow OSU football player Noah Togiai confirmed Seumalo’s decision on Tuesday. Togiai said he was the first football player Seumalo told about his choice. Seumalo told Togiai about his decision a few days after Christmas and the two spent time together during winter break almost every day, Togiai said. “I kind’ve had an idea the way he would always talk about it throughout the whole season that he was going to leave,” Togiai said of Seumalo, who could not be reached for comment. “It just wasn’t for sure (until now). It wasn’t a surprise for me.” Seumalo, the 6-foot-5, 298pound graduate of Corvallis High School and former No. 1 overall prospect from Oregon, was named to multiple Freshman All-American teams in 2012 and earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors in
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Redshirt junior offensive linemen Isaac Seumalo will enter the 2016 NFL Draft, forgoeing his final year of eligibility at Oregon State. 2013. After a foot injury in the 2013 Hawaii Bowl, Seumalo redshirted the 2014 season. His father, Joe Seumalo, was the OSU defensive line coach during his first three years on the team but went to UNLV before Seumalo’s junior season. According to profootballfocus. com, Seumalo graded out as the
second-best guard in the Pac-12 this year while allowing just four quarterback pressures all season. Josh Mitchell, who is also leaving OSU due to graduation, was named the conference’s best center. There will also be plenty of players returning on the offensive line for OSU. Junior Sean Harlow,
sophomore Fred Lauina, freshman Drew Clarkson, junior Dustin Stanton and sophomore Will Hopkins all garnered significant playing time in 2015. Senior Gavin Andrews will be back from injury and junior Brayden Kearsley will be eligible to play after transferring from BYU, where he started three games in 2014.
“I have confidence in all the people coming up right now, but of course (Seumalo) leaving is a huge blow to our offensive line,” Togiai said. “Everyone was expecting him to be back. It’s a hard place to fill for whoever has to step up and take his place.” Seumalo will be missed as an anchor on OSU’s offensive line, especially with his versatility. He played mainly at right guard in 2015 while filling in at left tackle after Harlow was injured. In his first two years, Seumalo made 23 starts at center and two at right tackle. He was also named a team captain in 2014 following the footsteps brother Andrew, who was a team captain as a senior defensive lineman in 2012. “(He’s) everything you want in a leader, besides the vocal part,” Togiai said. “He doesn’t talk much, but other than that, he’s somebody everybody looked up to,” Togiai said. “I still look up to (him). Hard worker, I’ve never seen somebody in the weight room more than him.” The 2016 NFL draft will take place April 28-30 in Chicago and OSU’s Pro Day will likely be held in March. “I’m absolutely thrilled for him,” Jessi said, who joined her brother at OSU this year by joining the volleyball team. “He deserves this so much and his journey has been so inspiring to watch. I’ll miss being Beaver athletes together, but I know this is what he’s got to do in order to reach his dream.” On Twitter @BrightTies
Women’s hoops mauled by Bruins Big fourth quarter for UCLA give OSU largest defeat of the season, split Los Angeles road trip
season against USC. The Beavers however, didn’t look like their usual selves, committing 26 turnovers — well above their season average of 16 per game. The turnovers proved too costly for the Beavers as UCLA Following a contest that saw senior center Ruth Hamblin converted OSU’s turnovers into 23 points. boast her personal bests of the season, she followed it up with Sophomore guard Jordin Canada could do no wrong for one of her worst performances of the season as the 10th ranked the Bruins, scoring 24 points including knocking down 4-of-4 UCLA Bruins dismantled the No.11 Beavers 71-51 on Monday shots from behind the three point line. Canada also served as night at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. the distributor, dishing out 5 assists. Hamblin never found her groove, as she only recorded seven The Bruins led 35-27 at halftime before taking control of points and five rebounds. It was a far cry from her 16 point, the game in the third quarter when they outscored the Bea14 rebound performance she had on Saturday against USC. vers 24-16. Hamblin’s inability to score was contagious for the Beavers The game was all but over when the Bruins started the 4th (10-3, 1-1 Pac-12),only senior guard Jamie Weisner reached quarter on an 8-0 run to extend their lead to 22 points. double figures, finishing with 19 points on 7-14 shooting. No The Beavers will have a few days off before taking on the other OSU player scored more than eight points. UCLA (11-2, 3-0) was fantastic from start to finish, shooting Oregon Ducks in Gill Coliseum on Friday night for the Civil War. The Daily Barometer 45 percent from the floor, while also shooting 40 percent from behind the three point line. It was the Bruins first victory against a ranked opponent in @BAROSPORTS over two years. And the Beavers worst defeat since the 2013
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Chavez
Continued from page 3 it wasn’t something he’d planned, that it just came out. Chavistas say that was the moment the Bolivarian revolution was born. Chavez died March 5, 2013, and was buried inside the museum, which is known as the “Cuartel de la Montana” –– Barracks on the Mountain. Four armed guards stand watch over his tomb, silent. Two large photographs of Chavez flank a portrait of Simon Bolivar on the wall behind the tomb. His death saddened his supporters, but it may have preserved his legacy. Maduro has mostly followed the socialist policies Chavez set in motion during more than 14 years in office. But Maduro has had to cope with plunging oil prices, which have worsened
the country’s already troubled economy, and he has never formed the personal connection with Venezuela’s poor that Chavez so effortlessly enjoyed. As Venezuela sinks deeper into crisis, many chavistas blame Maduro for failing to carry on his predecessor’s legacy. Santiago Guaramato, a doctor in Puerto Ordaz, a large and relatively wealthy city in eastern Venezuela, said Chavez, who “was considered a tremendous strategist,” would have outfoxed his political opposition, the capitalists, and avoided the worst of the pain Venezuela is feeling now. He gave Chavez credit for reducing illiteracy in Venezuela, improving the education system, reducing the worst effects of poverty and building tens of thousands of homes for people who didn’t have any. Were Chavez alive, “at least things wouldn’t have wors-
ened to the point of what we’re living right now,” Guaramato said. “I’m not going to tell you that he would have solved the situation completely, because the opposition isn’t national. The opposition is international.” Mujica, who said she met Chavez once or twice, had a similar take. But where Guaramato thinks Maduro has tried to stay faithful to Chavez’s path but lacks his predecessor’s skills, Mujica said Maduro has abandoned it. Jose Castillo, who lives in the state of Apure, was less charitable. He blamed Maduro for allowing crime to run almost unchecked across the country and for the shortages of things such as tires and food. “Where will it end?” he said. “A war.”
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Horoscope Today’s Birthday (01/06/16). Launch this year with community and group participation. Old wounds heal with introspection. Plot your moves in advance for April action. Vernal eclipses provide creative breakthroughs leading to career changes. Autumnal eclipses inspire travels, education and new directions in your research. Deepen friendships and relationships with love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Get out today, but check traffic and call ahead to avoid running all over town. Avoid risk and expense. Keep written records, as communication glitches may arise. New income is possible, or a delightful discovery. Count your blessings. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Manage numbers and figure out the money in peace and quiet. Make marketing plans. Hold your temper, and collaborate more effectively. Put away provisions for the future. Don’t get sidetracked. Finish a tricky job and celebrate afterwards.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Negotiations require a delicate touch to close a deal or sign papers. Listen more than you speak. Make sure the numbers balance. Don’t take anything for granted. Your partner surprises you. Luxuriate in private together. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is an 8 — The work’s intricate, but rewarding. Practice techniques. Learn new ways to conserve your resources. Small change can reap big rewards. Self-discipline serves you well. Choose love over money. Take actions you can live with. Feed your heart. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — Take more time for play. Consider all possibilities. Get creative. Share your talents. Practice mental and physical discipline. Wait to see what develops. Things may not go down as planned. Love is the priority. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Fix something before it breaks. Domestic projects satisfy a creative urge. Use color, line and texture. Make your space more beautiful and functional. Improve your infrastructure for support. Experience is the best teacher. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today
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Tech of the future starts today Dr. Jon Dorbolo Jondorbolo.com
Heraclitus (Fourth Century BCE) wrote that time is like a river and no one can step into the same river twice. So it is with the flow of development in technology. Yet, all change has a history and thoughtful people may discern ebbs and surges within the turbulence. In this spirit of fluidic forecasting I offer my intuitions regarding potential trends to watch for in the coming year.
Reality
Changes may occur in our assumptions about reality itself as science and technology produce new ways to interpret what there is. In 2016 four new elements were added to the Periodic Table. Physics has a new model to explain some of the puzzles of reality in the “many interacting worlds” hypothesis (MIW), which posits that parallel exist and interact with our own and that we may be able to detect them. Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper in 2003 in which he gave compelling arguments that the reality that we experience is actually a simulation constructed of artificial information, much like The Matrix. Now physicists at the University of Washington have constructed a test for that hypothesis by measuring high-energy cosmic rays. However, these empirical efforts turn out the fact that these ideas have a place in science leads us to think about our existence in new ways.
Space
The human urge to explore will expand as the European Union announces plans to establish a Moon colony by 2030 and Elon Musk’s SpaceX tests advanced rockets to put people on Mars.
Environment
Down to Earth we have some hard problems to face. Our planetary support system is shifting rapidly and our species must decisively adapt to the change and transform ourselves. Environmentally friendly energy sources are critical to a stable future and an international consortium—ITER—is exploring practical large-scale uses of fusion reactors, especially a major project in France. 3D printing—also known as additive manufacturing—helps
expectation that hardware and software are quickly outdated and must be replaced by new purchases. Cordell Hobbes, Senior in Accounting, asked me what to expect in new smartphones in the coming year. One answer is shown Presidential candidates are sales in surveys which indicate that consumers are tired of the representatives for interest groups purchase cycle. When asked about smartphones, laptops, televisions, tablets, smartwatches, drones and other devices vying for power. The more consumers indicate significant reductions in their intenwe are encouraged to focus tions to buy new devices. If this trend holds the producers on the personalities of will need to compensate by expanding features, lowering prices or both. It may be a good time to wait a while before candidates the less we attend to buying something new. All of our devices will begin incortheir agendas for our future. porating voice command interfaces. Siri, Apple TV, Amazon Echo, and OK Google are primary instances of voice interfaces which will soon pervade our personal and work environments. Professor Bill Loges of New Media Communication is eager to see what consumer-level virtual reality our environment by creating much less waste than other will bring us. It seems that Oculus Rift will introduce a new methods. The Glowforge 3D laser printer is a great way to model VR headset but without the afore-promised hand learn about this process, as are the 3D printing resources manipulation controls. Microsoft HoloLens may breathe in Valley Library. What the Internet did for information, 3D new life into Augmented Reality development, as may the printing is doing for matter. Every future career will involve next generation Google Glass. Wearable and body implanted 3D printing at some level, so this is a critical technology for technologies are sure to be steadily in the news this comyou to learn about now. ing year. For instance, University of Washington studies are Politics advancing well-funded research to develop neural fiber nets Presidential candidates are sales representatives for inter- to be implanted into the brain in order to restore the abilest groups vying for power. The more we are encouraged to ity of paralyzed people to move their own arms and legs. focus on the personalities of candidates the less we attend Education to their agendas for our future. Pay attention the issues that Educational technologies are always progressing and you they concentrate on and more importantly the issues that they ignore or avoid; particularly issues that do not even may know that OSU’s Information Services (IS) is a leader come up in campaign speeches and debates including in educational uses of virtual worlds, interactive games, 3D mass surveillance by the government, corporate control of anatomical models and learning space design. Consider the Internet, deployment of “usable” nuclear weapons such too the University of Iowa “Creepy Study” in which cameras as the B61, fracking, antibiotic resistant microbes, and the deployed in classrooms monitor and analyze the emotional effects of drones on civilians. We cannot expect to learn states of students. There are so many fascinating books to about such potent issues from the people who command learn from in 2016. Consider checking out “The Industries them, so please take responsibility for educating yourself of the Future” by Alec Ross, “Inventology: How we Dream Up Things That Change the World” by Pagan Kennedy, “Originals: about them.
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A commonplace of contemporary technology is our
Oregon ‘militia’ should reconsider means
By Sean Bassinger Forum Editor
There’s so much wrong with this whole “Y’all-Qaeda” problem in Eastern Oregon right now. Naturally we can start with the fact that we have a bunch of over-entitled, angry white men irresponsibly taking over government property. Oh, and the amount of weaponry they have seems ridiculous. Can you believe these people and their outrageous reactions? Well, OK. People who are fans of what these folks are doing might not like such a statement no more than some liked hearing the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters of yesteryear as “lazy millennial hippy trash,” or something to that extent. So, for the sake of this column, let’s refer to the situation as “Occupy Burns with implications of violence.” I think that’s fair.
On Jan. 2, just after New Years Day came to an end and we entered the weekend, an estimated 150 “militia men” took over an unoccupied U.S. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife building outside of Burns, Oregon. Some have gone so far as to label them as “domestic terrorists,” which I agree with, but they really haven’t done anything to incite terror. Not yet, anyhow —and I hope they don’t. The group’s goal was to spread awareness about two recently convicted Oregon ranchers who merely wanted to exercise their own freedom on their property. In more basic terms, a handful of primarily angry white men—arguably domestic terrorists at large—decided to take over a completely empty building because they’re upset about the fate of two individuals they just happen to care about. Is it hypocritical what many of them are doing? Sure is, but this doesn’t mean we need to return the favor. Instead, it’s more important to realize why they’re doing all of this in the first place and see if it could help us better understand other situations of concerns aside from the fact that these people are idiots. Issues of racial entitlement and pitfalls in our criminal justice system, for instance. I personally hope they calm down, drop their weapons and return to where they came from so we can come up with a more idealistic solution for everyone who continues to be affected by a clearly messed up U.S. justice system. Until then, they’ll continue to be “#VanillaISIS” to the Internet. So here are the charges that the two Oregon ranchers in question, Dwight and Steven Hammond, face: They damaged a small chunk of federal property in an alleged attempt to cover up illegal hunting activities, according
to reports from the U.S. Department of Justice. One witness in the report claims that he “barely escaped” flames that were up to 10 feet high. Ammon Bundy, son of a Nevada rancher who was at the heart of a similar so-called “protest” turned slightly armed conflict around 2013, stands among others supporting the “Y’all Qaeda.” So here’s what’s interesting: The mandatory minimum sentence, according to a Jan. 4 column from German Lopez on Vox, is five years for the Hammonds, regardless of previous judges and courts that felt the sentences were actually too harsh. The author himself argues how it seems a bit extreme, considering how the Hammonds claim they attempted to protect lightning strikes in the area from making the flames grow. Also, nobody was officially killed or injured. Unfortunately, the law is the law in this case, so their sentences, like similar references brought up in the column (one individual received a sentence for 55 years involving marijuana), until the law changes. So to recap: Angry white men with guns in Eastern Oregon, mandatory minimum sentences that seem unfair on the surface and a
general overreach of government. Sound familiar? This is basically how the “Occupy” protests started; only, the campers in those protests didn’t imply violence. This entire situation remains unsettling for a variety of reasons. First, the race and class arguments we’ve seen come up in all this. Protestors who argued against the mistreatment of blacks during the Ferguson events outside of St. Louis and Occupy Wall Street participants of 2011 were met with more action than these folks. That speaks volumes. Second, the argument of a for-profit incarceration system we seem to perpetuate now seems more than clear on both sides. To the folks currently throwing gun-wielding adult tantrums near Burns, this is a serious issue now that some of their own kin are partially involved. Figures. Then again, we could consider why they’re now upset and how it affects each of us in terms of what we also seek. baro.forum@oregonstate.edu
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The long awaited adventure game, “No Man’s Sky,” is slated for release on PlayStation and PC in June. One of the great high-concept Sci-Fi stories, “Story of Your Life” by Ted ChiContinued from page 7 ang will be released as a movie directed by French-Canadian How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam Grant, director Denis Villeneuve. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a powerful writ“Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War” by Fred er for The Atlantic magazine and is developing a comic book Kaplan and “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” series for Marvel based on his character Black Panther, who by Nick Bostrom. In Fall 2016 Turning Technologies will will also have roles in the upcoming movies “Captain America: introduce a new QT clicker model which will be sleeker Civil War” and “Dr. Strange.” “Cryptocracy” is a graphic novel and more ergonomic but will not increase in cost for OSU by Van Jensen and Pete Woods that exposes an ultra-secret students. TAC continues to hold the line in keeping costs to society that is pivotal in every major historical conspiracy. In students down as far as possible. less happy circumstances, Paramount Pictures has sued to Entertainment block a fan-funded and made film “Star Trek: Axanar” which
is unfortunate because—you may confirm by watching the online prequel of “Axanar”—it is already a better Star Trek than anything Paramount has produced. George R.R. Martin will not make his 2016 deadline for his sixth A Song of Fire and Ice book, “The Winds of Winter.” I offer a resolution for all of us in the new year: learn well the knowledge and skills that equip you to make positive change in our world and study the enduring ideas that brought us to our present and illuminate our paths to future excellence. Dr. Jon Dorbolo is the associate director of Technologies Across the Curriculum (TAC) and a philosophy professor at OSU. baro.forum@oregonstate.edu
Obama expresses sorrow over guns applaud, and after he listed the names of cities that had endured mass shootings, some in the audience uttered: “Too many, too many.” “Can you imagine what this must be like for him?” said Jo Comerford, campaign director for MoveOn, a liberal group that has advocated for background checks for years. “He feels these gun deaths personally as a father, as a husband, as a man, as a president. He was coming home to a promise he made himself—and the nation—that he wanted to get this done.” But while advocates for gun restrictions praised Obama, some privately wondered why he’d waited until his final year to act. They have been asking him to impose similar executive actions for years, most forcefully after the Newtown shooting. “A lot of these ideas existed for several years,” acknowledged Tim Daly, director for campaigns, guns and crime at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning research center that made similar recommendations in 2013 and has worked closely with the administration. White House officials repeatedly declined to say this week why Obama didn’t act earlier. But a senior administration official who’s knowledgeable about the process but isn’t authorized to speak publicly said in December that some of the ideas under consideration now had been discussed in 2013 but “didn’t get to closure” for a number of reasons. “That was a sprint,” a second official said.
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In October, after a shooting at an Oregon college left 10 dead, Obama told his aides to “scrub” the law to see whether more could be done. Democratic political consultant Drew Lieberman said acting was a “no-lose” situation for Obama at this point in his presidency, when he has an eye on his legacy. “Even if he doesn’t get it done, he can be viewed as the guy who took a stand,” he said.
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But after the Newtown shooting—which he describes as the worst day of his presidency— Obama implored Congress to act and signed two dozen mostly modest executive actions. After Congress failed to expand background checks, an angry Obama blasted lawmakers, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” Since then, the president has continued to visit with grieving families and has counseled communities torn apart by mass shootings.
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WASHINGTON—His proposals would not have stopped the sale of guns used in recent high-profile mass shootings. They may hurt fellow Democrats at the polls next fall. And they will immediately be challenged in court. So why did President Barack Obama implement a series of executive actions on guns Tuesday with the very real chance that a Republican successor would repeal them next year? Embarking on his final year in the White House, Obama is looking to solidify his legacy. He wants to claim credit for doing something, anything, to help solve one of America’s most vexing issues, even if it’s just symbolic. Besides, many Democrats are no longer shying away from the contentious issue now that public opinion polls show that Americans support gun restrictions by wide margins. But it’s more than that: Mass shooting after mass shooting has left Obama fuming. “Look at it from his perspective; this has got to be frustrating. There’s little he can do,” said George Edwards, a presidential scholar at Texas A&M University. “But when you’re frustrated and you can’t do anything else, you use the tools you have.” Obama’s actions are much more modest than the ones he has urged Congress to pass with no success. He will expand the number
of background checks on gun purchases by requiring more sellers—including those at stores, gun shows and on the Internet—to get licenses. He will direct officials to conduct more gun research, urge more domestic violence prosecutions, keep better track of lost guns and make it easier for states to share mental health information. Aides and activists also say that Obama, once reluctant to speak about the issue, will use his last year in office to launch a yearlong campaign urging states and localities to do what they can to curb gun violence, which leads to 30,000 deaths in the United States each year. “Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,” said Obama, who openly wiped away tears Tuesday when speaking about the 20 first-graders killed in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. Gun violence is one of the only issues that have led the usually unflappable president to show his emotions in public, from crying and cracking his voice to chastising lawmakers and leading a congregation in singing “Amazing Grace.” At the White House on Tuesday, Obama surrounded himself with victims of gun violence, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in Arizona in 2011, and Jennifer Pinckney, whose husband, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, was killed in Charleston last year. They interrupted his speech several times to
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