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Corvallis Farmer’s Market launches for the year Samantha Lopez and Riley Youngman The Daily Barometer
The Corvallis Farmers’ Market returned this past Saturday, April 16. The market, founded in 1991, brings in an average of 6,000 people every week. According to market officials, the vendor lineup is always changing, but usually there are 50 or so local vendors that participate in the market. Each vendor provides an assortments of different foods—meats, greens, vegetables, preserved foods, honey, eggs, cheese—as well plants, flower arrangements and other unique trinkets. According to Rebecca Landis, the market director, the market features products grown in Benton County and the five neighboring counties. “Our farmers’ market stands out for a number of reasons. We have a strong focus on locally grown, farm direct agricultural products,” Landis said. “Pretty much everything you see was grown in six local counties, and it has not been resold on its way to you.” With its ever changing lineup, this season the market welcomes several new vendors including Totum Bonum Family Farm, which joins 10 other local farmers raising poultry, beef, pork, lamb, rabbit and goat meat. Green Fields Bison Ranch of Dallas, and Hazelton Farms, which raises yak in Kings Valley, have also been added to the list. New restaurant vendors include Burnheimer Meat Co., which offers pulled pork
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This year’s market welcomes back returning vendors as well as adding new vendors to the lineup for the Corvallis Farmer’s Market. with seasonal vegetables, and the Gathering Together Farm, which sales buns. There are several new produce vendors as well such as Tie Dye Farm, Small Axe Nursery, Rainshine Family Farm and the Silvernail Farm and Orchard. Lara Von Linsowe-Wilson, a manager at Runway Fashion Exchange, said that this was
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the first year her business had set up at the market. “This is our first time having a table set-up here at the market. We’re a relatively new business in town so it’s a great opportunity to get our name out there,” Linsowe-Wilson said. “Everyone who’s walked by has been very supportive and willing to hear what we’re all about. Everyone just wants
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to support each other.” According to Landis, another new market feature this year is that single shoppers and families using food stamps with their Oregon Trail Cards are now able to use their funds on farm-fresh produce and food. This is thanks to regional funding and help from Samaritan Health Services, Landis said.
Ian Butcher, a Corvallis community member, said he looks forward to the market every year. A lifelong resident, Butcher said that the market has a real community feeling and that the market embodies the feeling of Corvallis. “I’ve been going to the Farmers’ Market for years, I grew up in Corvallis and it’s really one of my favorite
events. There’s something about it that feels like home,” Butcher said. According to Landis, this is the market’s 26th year of existence. The Corvallis Farmer’s Market will be open every Wednesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. until November. baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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Event 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. “Mug Shots” Coffee Giveaway Location: MU Quad Join the Sustainability Office at our Mug Shot photo booth in the MU Quad and get your picture taken with your reusable mug. Meeting 12 p.m. - 12 p.m. Death Cafe Corvallis Location: 26th St. Beanery, 2541 NW Monroe St., Corvallis OR Got thoughts about mortality? Death Café Corvallis is simply in order to listen and talk about death.
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Today’s Birthday (04/28/16). Play together this year. Deepen bonds with loved ones after 5/9. Plan for financial moves after 8/13. New love sparkles after 9/1. Begin a two-year phase of increased energy, work and vitality after 9/9. Shift directions in a group endeavor after 9/16. Raise your game. 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 6 — Double-check financial data over the next few weeks, with Mercury retrograde. Review statements and account activity for errors. Pay off bills. Secure what you’ve gained. Re-affirm important commitments.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Practice makes perfect over the next three weeks, with Mercury retrograde, especially with group activities. Nurture old connections. Keep or change your promises. Keep your team in the loop. Have backup plans. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Be cautious with tools and time for the next several weeks, with Mercury retrograde, and make repairs immediately. Avoid misunderstandings at work. Revise and refine the message. Rethink your professional core values. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Make plans and itineraries over the next three weeks, with Mercury retrograde, for travel after direct. Disagreements come easily. Communicate carefully. Keep confidences and secrets. Organize, sort and file papers, especially regarding academics.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 5 — Go through data to find the truth over the next three weeks with Mercury’s retrograde.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Get into a three-week revision phase with Mercury retrograde in your sign. For the next three weeks, grant extra patience around communications. Organize your many ideas. Backup computers and files.
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Take extra care reviewing and editing communications. Clean up messes and misunderstandings as soon as possible. Wait to launch new creative projects with Mercury retrograde for the next three weeks. Plan and prepare.
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The “Energy Worker” palace of culture was once where Alexandra Sirota’s mother worked in Ukraine. Deemed as a shining example of the future of the Soviet Union, the town was abandoned after the Chernobyl accident at the nuclear power plant it was built to serve.
Chernobyl remains a hazard for next 3,000 years By Matthew Schofield
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PRIPYAT, Ukraine—Before the fire, the vomiting, the deaths and the vanishing home, it was the promise of bumper cars that captured the imagination of the boys. It will be 30 years ago Tuesday that Pripyat and the nearby Chernobyl power plant became synonymous with nuclear disaster, that the word Chernobyl came to mean more than just a little village in rural Ukraine and that this place became more than just another spot in the shadowy Soviet Union. Even 30 years later—25 years after the country that built it ceased to exist—the full damage of that day is still argued. Death toll estimates run from hundreds to millions. The area near the reactor is both a teeming wildlife refuge, and an irradiated ghost-scape. Much of eastern and central Europe continues to deal with fallout aftermath. The infamous Reactor Number 4 remains a problem that is neither solved nor solvable. But to the boys on the night before their world changed, nothing seemed more important than shiny blue and yellow cars, with actual steering wheels, almost ready for a 10-year-old to drive. The bumper cars were to be turned on May 1, 1986, a seemingly impossible-to-livethrough week away. So as May Day slowly neared, Alexandr Sirota and his friends couldn’t resist sneaking down into the new park after dark, beneath the deep shadows of the yet
unblinking new Ferris wheel, and under the inky dark of what would soon be the electrified roof over the bumper cars. “We’d sit in the cars and make car noises,” recalls Sirota, who’s now 40. “It was everything we could imagine wanting in life at that time. As young boys, our lives seemed perfect.” These were the thoughts that consumed Sirota as he went to bed on April 25, 1986, and after he woke on April 26 and rushed off to School No. 1. But as he slept, sometime after 1 a.m., the engineers who’d spent the previous 24 hours putting Reactor Number 4 through a stress test were getting nervous. They had begun the tests full of confidence. “We knew, with certainty, with arrogant certainty, that we were in control of the power we were playing with,” recalls Sergiy Parashyn, who had been an engineer at the plant since 1977 and was summoned to the plant within an hour of the beginning of the disaster. “We could make the forces of nature bend to our will. There was nothing we could not do.” He pauses. “This was the day, of course, when we learned we were wrong.” Parashyn, who later would become the director of the complex and today remains one of Ukraine’s foremost experts on nuclear energy, says that as the dials indicated problems, the safe approach would have been to shut down the test. “If we had, all would have been well,” he says. “That was not the course chosen.” Even 30 years later, nucle-
ar physicists familiar with the disaster disagree on what went wrong. The only area of agreement appears to be that somehow when the engineers attempted to slow the nuclear reaction by inserting control rods into the reactor core, the process actually sped up. In a matter of seconds, the temperature inside the reactor increased by 3,000 degrees. The water used to cool the uranium suddenly evaporated, and in the sealed environment of the reactor the steam had no place to expand. That’s when the roof blew, and an estimated 10 tons of the reactor’s 200 tons of enriched uranium blasted into the sky. Georgi Kopchinsky, who on April 26, 1986, was a director of the Soviet central committee on nuclear energy, still wrings his hands and smokes nervously as he talks about Chernobyl. He admits it’s a very tough topic for him, in part because, he says, scientists should have known it could happen. Three years before Chernobyl, he says, Soviet authorities had warned that a similar problem had been detected at other plants with the same kind of controlling devices. But no modifications were made. “This was our arrogance at the time,” Kopchinsky says. “We believed we were the masters of the atomic reactions. It was a horrible mistake.” After the roof blew, the walls collapsed and the superheated uranium melted and consumed all that fell into it. All that remained to protect the world from a 2,000-ton radioactive
mass that was forming was the reinforced concrete foundation and four relatively thin walls. Above was only the open sky. The 10 tons of radioactive debris streaming into the air spread out in all directions over northern, eastern and central Europe. Eventually, a scientific report commissioned by the European Parliament would estimate that, to some extent, Chernobyl radiation contaminated 40 percent of Europe. Officials at the Vienna headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Administration talk about Chernobyl as the moment nuclear officials around the world began to take safety seriously. Other accidents had not had the same effect. Not the explosion at Kyshtym nuclear complex in 1957 in what was then the Soviet Union, which released 70 tons of radioactive material into the air. Not the 1957 fire at the Windscale Nuclear Reactor in northwestern England, which forced a ban on milk sales for a month. Not the Three Mile Island disaster in Pennsylvania on March 29, 1979, where a cooling malfunction led to a partial meltdown. Chernobyl, says Helen Rycraft, a senior nuclear safety officer at the IAEA and an expert in nuclear safety culture, was “a complete watershed. The entire industry changed.” But not the problem at Chernobyl. There the ruins of the reactor building—concrete, steel, even office chairs—collapsed into the 200-ton superheated uranium core, creating a radioactive blob weighing 2,000 tons that remains beneath the
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be released into the atmosphere. Or it could get into the Pripyat River, which flows into the Dnieper River, the primary water source for much of Ukraine, including the capital, Kiev. It is difficult to imagine how long Ukrainian authorities must remain on guard. Estimates suggest the Chernobyl area won’t be safe again until the year 4986. To put that in perspective, that’s a span of time that if placed against modern human history would stretch from when King David ruled Israel and before the founding of Rome to now. Tetiana Verbytska, an energy policy expert at the National Ecological Center of Ukraine, thinks few people really understand how challenging the legacy of Chernobyl is. There’s a movement, she notes, aghast, even to shrink the radius of the no man’s land that surrounds the plant from 18 miles to six. She warns there’s no solution. “We don’t have the technology to fix the problem,” she said. “We don’t have the process to develop the technology to fix the problem, and we don’t have the money to support the process to develop the technology to fix the problem. The solutions for our Chernobyl problems are very much ‘seal it for now.’ We will have smart children and smart grandchildren who in 100 years or so will figure out what to do.” McClatchy Washington Bureau
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site today. Ideally, Ukraine would remove the material. Sergiy Parashyn grabs a pen and paper as he talks about the problems with that. “We do not know how to do this,” he explains. “We do not have the technology to do this. It must be something new.” He sketches the blob, then makes a quick drawing of a tractor with a scoop on one side and a large rotating blade on the other. He smiles at the crude drawing, then shrugs. “One problem is that the material is decaying and is brittle, and when we cut it up to transport it to disposal bins, it will very likely fill the air with radioactive dust,” he explains. So the tractor has to be able to operate in a radioactive environment, it has to be able to control and eliminate any dust, and it has to operate in an area that won’t be at all safe for human beings. “Maybe something like this would work, maybe it wouldn’t. We don’t know. That’s a problem.” It’s a problem because while the 5 percent of the radioactive material blown into the air caused problems that continue 30 years later, the other 95 percent of the material represents a whole different set of potential disasters, any one of which could unfold at any time. The brittle material could
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PIKE fraternity officially colonized at OSU By Hana Kimmelman and Riley Youngman The Daily Barometer
The newest Interfraternity Council recognized fraternity at Oregon State, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, has officially colonized. Having been active for four months already, the fraternity is on a path that could lead them to become an official chapter within the next year, according to PIKE members. PIKE has had presence in the OSU community since the 1920s, but has come and gone numerous times, most recently dissolving a few years back. The fraternity came back to the university this year winter term, and has now colonized. So far 55 men have joined the fraternity, according to PIKE.. For PIKE to become an official chapter their goal is to have 125 people join within the next year. This is accompanied with other requirements that are set out by the international fraternity that will eventually lead to their chartering. Right now all executive positions have been assigned. Eric Webber, a senior who recently transferred to OSU from Cal Poly and originally hails from Beaverton, has been appointed president. Robert Fruin, a freshman originally from the San Francisco area was appointed head of recruitment. Fruin commended the work that PIKE has already accomplished and said they are looking to continue the momentum going forward. “So far PIKE is doing really well, everyone is really committed to making the fraternity the best it can be and I’m personally excited to see what is in store for the future,” Fruin said. PIKE finished last term with the third-highest GPA out of all of OSU’s
I’m personally excited to see what is in store for the future. Robert Fruin PIKE Head of Recruitment IFC recognized fraternities. The PIKE members have become more involved in the Greek community as their numbers continue to grow. They have held numerous functions with other sororities, but have yet to find a sorority sister. Recently they were voted most spirited in Kappa Delta’s Mock Rock, one of the largest philanthropy events on campus. One thing the PIKE members are all looking forward to is being able to move into their fraternity house that is owned by the national fraternity, but is currently being leased by Antioch, a men’s Christian group. Antioch’s’ lease is up in the summer 2017. PIKE plans to be moved into the house by the fall of 2017. Jarrett Way and Travis Anderson, who work colonizing PIKE fraternities around the country, appointed Danny Takahashi as New Member Educator. Takahashi is enthusiastic about his position and is looking forward to the future. “Right now we don’t have a class of new members since we’re all new, so I’m excited for fall rush when we will get our new members,” Takahashi said. “We want to create a strong brotherhood, we have a genuinely good group of guys and I’m eager to see it grow” baro.news@oregonstate.edu
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Why the Blazers will Why the Blazers won’t make the west finals make the west finals
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hree injuries opened the door for the Portland Trail Blazers to get to the Western Conference Finals on April 25: First when reigning MVP Stephen Curry was told that he wouldn’t be able to play for the better part of two weeks due to a sprained MCL. It was at that moment, when both the Blazers, and the L.A. Clippers saw an opportunity. The winner of their series would most likely be playing the Warriors in the second round of the playoffs. Let’s be clear though, at full strength the Warriors are the best team in the NBA, and it isn’t even close. They won an NBA record 73 games this season, and have the best starting lineup in the NBA that consists of Curry, Klay Thompson, Harrison Barnes, Draymond Green and Andrew Bogut. Not to mention, they have the reigning Finals MVP Andre Iguodala coming off the bench. Pretty scary right? But, when you remove Curry from the Warriors equation. They suddenly look extremely vulnerable. The Dubs are suddenly in need of 30 points, five rebounds, and two steals per game. When 30 points are just suddenly gone from the stat sheet, it is going to cause a problem for the defending champs in the second round. A problem that the Clippers had aspirations of exploiting. Well until the third quarter of last night’s matchup between the Clippers and Blazers, the Clips still looked like they had the advantage in the series. They still controlled homecourt advantage, and looked primed to finish the series off in L.A. One crack changed the Clippers season ten fold. That crack was the sound of Chris Paul’s third metacarpal bone breaking as he went for a steal. In one fail swoop, Paul was done, and if that wasn’t bad enough for the Clippers, just
moments later, All-Star Blake Griffin was hobbling to the locker room as well. Just like that, the Clippers lost the two All-Stars that make the Clippers. Both players are out for the rest of the playoffs, leaving Portland as the sudden favorite in the series. That’s quite a far cry from the preseason prediction that had the Blazers winning 26 games. Sure, Portland would have probably not won this series if Paul and Griffin were healthy, but injuries happen, and for the Blazers the injury bug is finally in their favor. I wish I could sympathise with the Clippers, but after Portland has had the careers of Bill Walton, Greg Oden, and Brandon Roy end by way of injury you learn to realize it’s just part of the game. So what do all these injuries mean for the Blazers? Simply put, the Blazers have to take care of business against the Clippers. They are tied up 2-2 in the series, with only one more game left in Portland, but essentially they are playing a rudderless ship. Without Paul and Griffin, the Clippers aren’t even a playoff team, so the Blazers should be able to advance to the second round, where another injury gives the Blazers a fighting chance. If they advance to the next round, and matchup against the reigning champs, the Blazers will have two huge advantages. Firstly being that Curry will not be 100 percent healthy in the series, and finally the Blazers matchup very favorably with the Dubs. I’m not saying that Portland has enough in the tank to upset the favorite to win the NBA Championship, but based on the Curry injury, the Blazers have a chance at making history and going to their first Western Conference Finals since the 1999-2000 season. Sure, I may be reaching but injuries have a way of drastically changing a team’s chemistry and aura. I don’t think the Warriors are even close to the same team without Curry, and I think Terry Stotts and the Blazers have a very good chance of exploiting that. And who knows, maybe the Blazers pull off the upset of the century and head to the Western Conference Finals vs the Spurs/Thunder. If it’s the latter, the Blazers will be getting a chance to take on an old friend in Lamarcus Aldridge. If that is the case, Blazers fans will get the opportunity to chant “BEAT LA” again. On Twitter: @b_slaught
he has contributed much more on the defensive end than the offensive but defense is what the Clippers are known for. Jordan plays a big part in the double teaming of both of portland’s guards CJ McCollum and Damian Lilliard. His defense has severely cut the offensive performance of both of them, and has forced others to step up in their place. The bottom line is that the Blazers are going to have their hands full with the rest of this series, let alone what is waiting for them in the second round.
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he Blazers managed to tie up the playoff series two nights ago at home in the Moda Center, in that game the L.A. Clippers all-star guard Chris Paul fractured his right third metacarpal. Blake Griffin, the Clippers all-star power forward also reaggravated a lingering quad injury. With the Clippers losing two of their biggest contributors, on both sides of the court, Blazer fans have been overcome with confidence and a false sense of accomplishment. The Clippers are still a legitimate threat to the Blazers. Not only do the Clippers still have home court advantage but the Blazers have yet to prove that they can win on the road against this team. It’s easy to get excited over back to back Blazer wins, but let’s be realistic the wins were at home, in front of a crowd in which the Blazers thrive, besides the final quarter without Paul in game four the Clippers have been in every single game. Based on the series so far the Blazers definitely have a chance to win this series but the Clippers won’t simply hand the Blazers a spot in the second round. Remember the Clippers won both, games one and two at home by double digits. Granted this will be a very different Clippers team than they faced in those games but they still have real threats on offense and of course on defense. Jamal Crawford, maybe the greatest sixth man of all time is a born scorer. I would say he is a better true scorer than Chris Paul. Although he does not facilitate as well as Paul does, Crawford has the ability to put a team on his back, especially in front of a home crowd. DeAndre Jordan, the Clippers monster center, is still a crucial threat to the Blazers,
Again another injury that has overshadowed the entire NBA playoffs is the ankle and now knee injury to, last year’s MVP, Steph Curry. The Warriors are likely to win their series against houston which would put them right in Portland’s path, but like the Blazers series, a substantial injury has reignited a feeling of hope among Houston fans. Curry will probably be gone until the Western Conference Finals, which only piles on the sense of hope for Blazer fans everywhere, because when it comes to die hard fans the little things can snowball into an irrational idea of what could happen. The Warriors still are the most dangerous team in the NBA even without Steph Curry. You don’t win the most games of all time during the regular season because of one guy. Their team has more weapons than most divisions as a whole have. Klay Thompson, for example, the other “splash bro” is a phenomenal scorer and draymond green is a force on both ends of the court. In game four of the Warriors and rockets series, Golden State won by 27 in Houston and they were almost completely Curry-less. He played 18 minutes and scored six points. 121 points on the road is enough to beat just about anyone, and it’s simply another ode to how good this team truly is. As the Blazers themselves will be doing, Fans of RipCity must take these playoff games one at a time. Getting ahead of yourself can make the crash and burn that much worse. For me the postseason alone was more than I expected so i’m going to continue to ride this wave as long as it lasts. On Twitter @Cooperpawson
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UPCOMING EVENTS Baseball
4/27 @ Oregon
W. Track
4/29 @ OSU High Preformance
W. Golf
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Baseball
4/29-4/31 vs. Stanford
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2016’s top-10 most difficult college schedules Wisconsin Badgers:
By Matt Murschel Orlando Sentinel
When talking about tough schedules in college football, it’s almost impossible not to include a few teams from the Southeastern Conference. Here is a look at 10 teams that will play the most challenging schedules in 2016.
USC Trojans:
Buzz: New USC coach Clay Helton has a daunting task getting his Trojans prepared for one of the toughest opening months faced by any team in 2016. USC kicks off at AT&T Stadium in Dallas against defending national champs Alabama, followed by two early Pac-12 road contests against Stanford and Utah. These early tests could help this team prepare for a final month that features home contests against Oregon and Notre Dame and a road showdown with rival UCLA. Toughest games: vs. Alabama (S3), at Stanford (S10), at Utah (S23), Oregon (N5), at UCLA (N19), Notre Dame (N26).
LSU Tigers:
Buzz: LSU kicks off this season in earnest by traveling to the not-so-frozen tundra of Lambeau Field to take on Wisconsin. The Tigers are 13-5 in neutral-site games under Les Miles, but more important the program is an impressive 19-3 against Power 5 foes. Two of the team’s toughest games are at Tiger Stadium (Ole Miss and Alabama), where LSU is 67-10 under Miles, while road contests versus Auburn, Florida and Arkansas could leave impact this team’s chances in the SEC West. Toughest games: vs. Wisconsin (S3), Mississippi State (S17), at Auburn (S24), at Florida (O8), Ole Miss (O22), Alabama (N5), at Arkansas (N12).
Arkansas Razorbacks:
Buzz : Give credit to Arkansas for not shying away from tough competition as the Razorbacks have featured one of the toughest schedules in college football over the past four seasons. This one is no different with several key road contests in the opening month against TCU and Texas A&M. Arkansas is 4-9 under Bret Bielema on the road and 12-8 at home which is good news for a squad that plays Alabama, Ole Miss, Florida and LSU in Fayetteville. Toughest games: at TCU (S10), at Texas A&M (S24), Alabama (O8), Ole Miss (O15), at Auburn (O22), Florida (N5), LSU (N12).
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Buzz: Wisconsin won at least a piece of three consecutive Big Ten championship from 2010-12 and hopes of winning another title will rely on how well the Badgers can traverse a schedule that features four straight weeks against teams that finished 2015 ranked starting off with Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State and Iowa. It all starts with the season-opener against LSU at Lambeau Field. Wisconsin is 3-9 all-time against SEC opponents at neutralsite games. Toughest games: vs. LSU (S3), at Michigan State (S24), at Michigan (O1), Ohio State (O15), at Iowa (O22), Nebraska (O29).
Florida State Seminoles:
Ohio State Buckeyes:
Buzz: Ohio State is 50-4 under Urban Meyer during the past four seasons but the Buckeyes face perhaps their biggest challenge with just six returning starters back from 2015. What Meyer’s team lacks in experience they make up in with talent _ something the group will lean on early on with tough games in September including a road showdown with Oklahoma. The good news is Ohio State is 18-0 on the road under Meyer and 11-0 against teams from the Group of 5 conferences. Toughest games: Bowling Green (S3), Tulsa (S10), at Oklahoma (S17), at Wisconsin (O15), at Penn State (O22), at Michigan State (N19), Michigan (N26).
Buzz: Florida State is wellequipped to make another run at the College Football Buzz: Oklahoma bounced Playoff with 17 returning back from a disappointing starters back in 2016. Good eight-win season in 2014 to thing because the Seminoles win 11-games in 2015 while face the toughest schedules capturing the Big 12 title in the ACC with things kickand a spot in the College ing off against Ole Miss at the Football Playoff. The last time Citrus Bowl in Orlando. The Oklahoma opened the season ‘Noles are 11-4 against Power at a neutral-site was in 2009 5 opponents under Jimbo Fisher. The month of October will against BYU _ a game the be crucial for FSU with crucial conference showdowns against Sooners lost. The showdown North Carolina, Miami and Clemson. with Ohio State is just the Toughest games: vs. Ole Miss (S5), at Louisville (S17), at USF (S24), North Carolina (O1), at Miami (O8), Clemson second game against a Big Ten opponent in the 19 seasons under Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops. (O29), Florida (N26). Toughest games: vs. Houston (S3), Ohio State (S17), at TCU (O1), vs. Texas (O8), Baylor (N12), at West Virginia (N19), Oklahoma State (D3). Buzz: Ten of Mississippi’s 12 regular-season games are against teams that were bowleligible last season with three of those teams ranked in the top 25 at the end of 2015. Buzz: Notre Dame’s best The Rebels have won their chance of earning a spot into season-opener the past four the College Football Playoff seasons and are 12-3 in the requires the Irish to play one month of September under of the tougher schedules in Hugh Freeze since 2012. That college football. This seacould be a daunting task this son won’t disappoint with a time around with showdowns with FSU, Alabama and Georgia season-opener against Texas in the first month of the season. on Sunday night. The home Toughest games: vs. FSU (S5), Alabama (S17), Georgia (S24), schedule features tough Memphis (O1), at Arkansas (O15), at LSU (O22), Auburn (O29), showdowns with Michigan Mississippi State (N26). State, Stanford, Miami and
Oklahoma Sooners:
Ole Miss Rebels:
Notre Dame Irish:
Alabama Crimson Tide:
Virginia Tech as Notre Dame is 30-8 at Notre Dame Stadium under Brian Kelly. Toughest games: at Texas (S4), Michigan State (S17), Buzz : If USC features one of the toughest open- Stanford (O15), Miami (O29), vs. Navy (N5), Virginia Tech ing months of the season, (N19), at USC (N26). The Orlando Sentinel Alabama shouldn’t be that far behind the Trojans. Three of the Crimson Tide’s four opponents in September qualified for postseason bowls with two of those teams finishing 2015 ranked (WKU, Ole Miss). If Alabama is going to win its third consecutive SEC title, it will need to do it on the road with showdowns with Ole Miss, Arkansas, Tennessee and LSU. Toughest games: vs. USC (S3), Western Kentucky (S10), at Ole Miss (S17), at Arkansas (O8), at Tennessee (O15), at LSU (N5), Auburn (N26).
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Seek out Northwest tanning alternatives By Mahalee Evans
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regonians can all agree that tanning is one of the major perks to the summer months. Many of us spend quality time either indoors or out trying to achieve the perfect golden glow.Getting to that perfect shade is so desired that people turn out their pockets to tanning salons to see results faster because we all know you can’t depend on Oregon’s mercurial weather for consistent sun. Is the cost of fake tanning really worth the orange glow that’ll only last as long as that last piece of cake on your kitchen counter? Probably not. This is a common argument as long
as tanning beds have been around. Tanning salons all try to tell you that Vitamin D is necessary for your body, and that you’ll get it the best from their beds. Turns out that’s just not true. Weird—somebody giving you misleading information to get you to purchase their product is unheard of right? Turns out, your body needs ultraviolet burning rays to produce Vitamin D, and tanning bed bulbs actually emit ultraviolet aging rays. This is what we call carcinogenic, “the same category as other hazardous substances such as plutonium and certain types of radium,” according to the Melanoma Research Foundation.
So go out and get your tan on—just be safe about it.
If you still insist on tanning, there are many skin products out there that you can spray, lather, and smooth on your skin to get your prized hyperpigmented look. A few good alternatives to tanning beds include sunless tanning lotions,
airbrushing, towelettes, cosmetics and even natural sunlight. Even though natural sunlight might be better for you, remember to always use sunscreen when exposed to UVB or UVA rays. Another reason why natural sunlight can be better than tanning beds is because the Sun Protection Factor, or SPF, doesn’t measure how much a sunscreen can protect you from harmful UVA rays, which is how tanning beds get you tan. Sunscreen doesn’t have to be that nasty smelling white stuff that you can never seem to fully rub in—it comes in all sorts of beauty products such as makeup, lotion and lip balm. It also
doesn’t have to be SPF 60 or anything crazy like that. Dermatologists usually recommend between SPF 15 and 30. So go and get your tan on—just be safe about it. If you enjoy the outdoors in the summer, chances are you will get a nice tan the natural way. A lot of times your natural tan is way better looking than the tan achieved from a bed anyhow. The sunburns, age spots, premature wrinkles and risk of developing skin cancer can’t be worth the annual three months of golden skin. The opinions expressed in Evans’s column do not necessarily reflect those of The Daily Barometer staff. baro.forum@oregonstate.edu
Protect your computer passwords (part 2) By Dr. Jon Dorbolo
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our personal identity is expressed in many forms, but a common thread that holds your identity expression together is your choice of passwords. Choose strong passwords that resist hacking and your identity spreads outward with confidence. Choose weak passwords that are vulnerable to identity theft and your identity can lose freedom and power instantly. In last week’s column I shared my system for creating super-strong passwords that you can remember, which you may access at my blog jondorbolo.com. In addition to designing strong passwords it is important to keep track of them for future reference because websites change, you acquire new devices and some day it may be important for someone acting on your behalf to access your accounts. The solution to these needs is to log your usernames and passwords for all accounts. There are easy and free but less secure ways to log passwords. There are also really easy, very secure, convenient and inexpensive options which I will save for last. First let’s recall the three qualities of superstrong passwords. 1. Make your passwords 10 characters or more. 2. Use a diversity of character types in making your passwords; a mixture of lower-case, uppercase, numbers, letters and symbols. 3. Make a unique password for every account. It is not hard to employ a system of passwords with these qualities using the mental algorithm that I described in my earlier article. In addition to my system of personal cryptography, I log each new password as a private record, mainly to bail me out of occasional “senior moments” - don’t laugh; I am aware that some of you have senior, junior, sophomore, or freshman moments as well. For decades I have maintained an email account for with the only purpose is to log my account information. The email account is under a secret name that no one would associate with me; I used to read a lot of spy novels.
Every time I create a new account I send an email to that inbox with the web address or device name, username and password. Looking at it now I see that I have more than 400 accounts and can search for any one of them to check my login info. The cool thing is that I can add to and access my inbox password log from anywhere in the world, except for Waldo Hall on a bad wifi day. The inbox method has weaknesses and I describe it here merely to illustrate the principles of password logging. Hardware password safes are small devices with a keyboard with which you enter and store account information. These devices are excellent as backup when a computer or network crashes. A flaw of both the inbox and hardware safe methods is that they only work if you add new accounts and update changed information to them reliably. If you get lazy with updating, the value of these methods declines. The contemporary and most powerful approach to password security is password management applications. These are software or cloud-based applications that give you a suite of tools for managing your digital identity. There are many password manager products of which I will review three and outline functionality found in most. Password managers recognized when you cre-
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ate or change an account and automatically logs the information. The next time you login to that account the manager offers to fill in the password for you and can choose to automatically login to specific accounts whenever you browse to or open them. With these options in mind the most powerful security aspect of password managers come into play; they can change your password with randomized strings every time you log in, making your accounts virtually uncrackable. Manager apps provide inventory views of your account information affording you full control of account information and even a means to rediscover accounts that you forgot that you had. Some password managers act as digital safe deposit boxes allowing storage of personal information such as bank account numbers, images of passports and ID cards, credit card numbers, critical documents and the key to that tax shelter you keep in Cayman Islands (more spy novel stuff). The bottom line is that you should have more than one method of securing account information and a password manager should be among them. LastPass is a powerful cloud-based password management tool-set with both free and pay-forpremium versions. The premium version ($12/yr) lets you synch passwords among your computer, phone and other devices. I like LastPass because as a cloud-based app I can access it from anywhere on any computer. If I am using a library computer, I can login to LastPass, select the site I want to access and I am in. This is a very secure and usable option for managing your account logins and other critical data. Dashlane is a well-designed program that you install on your computer and devices. It runs in your web browsers and apps to manage anything that you can login to. The premium version ($30/ yr) synchs all of your computers and devices. One clever feature of Dashlane is the ability to set up trusted people to share information with. I know that I have emphasized not sharing account information, but there are exceptions to that rule such as if you are out of town and may need a coworker to access your work station or if you are ill
and a loved one needs to manage your accounts. With Dashlane you can set trusted agents and select the information they may gain access to. They get one-half of a binary key that they can use to open the information only after a wait period that you set in advance. When they use the key, you get a notification which you may use to cancel the request. If the wait period passes and you do not cancel, they get access. This feature is a good idea and is one of several strong design aspects of this application. 1Password is a program that you install on a computer and can synch with your devices. It does not offer a free version, but has a plan that you can share with up to 5 others for $5/mo and has most of the functionality I have been describing. The aspect of 1Password that I really like is a lifetime license for a one-time cost of $64.99. This appeals to me because I use these tools to store my most important personal information. The last thing I want is for it to vanish because I missed a monthly or annual payment. I have loved ones to care for and find solace in knowing that the information they need in an emergency is there for them independent of payments. There are many other password managers and password safes that work as device apps and downloads. I recommend that you start by checking out LastPass, Dashlane, and 1Password, then choosing based on features that you will use. Most important is to recognize that to use a password manager you must have a Key password that logs you in. That Key password must necessarily be secure and memorable. That brings us back to the need for a solid password strategy and to my system for designing super-strong passwords, which only requires your intelligence and attention. Your intelligence in combination with welldesigned applications will put you at the top 10 percent of all computer users in terms of intentional password and identity security. The opinions expressed in Dorbolo’s column do not necessarily reflect those of The Daily Barometer staff. Dr. Tech’s blog: Jondorbolo.com
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The Lonely Island will attempt to out-weird Kanye By Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES—Writing their movie, “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,” the members of the Lonely Island comedy trio—Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone—aimed to create a celebrity musician who’d embody the current over-sharing, entourage-loving, humble-bragging state of pop culture. Problem was, no matter how weird they made their hero, singer-rapper Conner4Real (played by Samberg), they couldn’t keep pace with the real-life antics of the likes of Kanye West and Justin Bieber. Case in point: The movie once sported a song, now cut, called “King Zuck,” performed by Conner at Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday party. Conner’s performance began as a tribute and ended with him begging the Facebook co-founder for money, a scenario mirrored in real life two months ago when West took to Twitter, asking Zuckerberg (on his birthday, no less) to “invest 1 billion dollars
into Kanye West ideas.” “I’d say, ‘You couldn’t make this ... up,’ but we literally did, last year,” Schaffer says. “No matter how much we raised the stakes, we found the world gets weird really quickly. You wake up and Justin Bieber’s mooning a Mayan ruin. That’s setting the bar high for misbehavior.” But the Loney Island guys—best known for their stellar run creating musical videos on “Saturday Night Live” celebrating, with the likes of Justin Timberlake and T-Pain, the art of romantic gift-giving (“ …. in a Box”) and the pleasures found on the high seas (“I’m on a Boat”)—have always enjoyed a challenge. With “Popstar,” they’ve fashioned a funny, knowing, behind-the-scenes look at celebrity in an age where fans are quick to move on to the next thing, ratcheting up the pressure on artists to do something big to remain relevant. Talking about the movie on a lazy Sunday at the House of Pies in Los Feliz, the trio remembered the last time they’d visited the restaurant. They were sharing an apartment in Los Angeles,
working temp jobs, making their own videos and trying to catch a break. “Basically, just hoping to get asked to do any one of the things we’re doing now,” Samberg says. “And if we were eating pie, it was one slice, dry, no whipped cream.” Today, in addition to “Popstar,” the Lonely Island group produces Fox’s late-night sketch series “Party Over Here” and has a comedy starring Elizabeth Banks in development at Freeform (formerly ABC Family). And they’re ordering fancy pie for the whole table. (For the record: fresh strawberry, raspberry marble, coconut cream and apple pie a la mode. The strawberry was the consensus favorite.) “Popstar,” which opens June 3, has consumed their lives for the last year as they wrote and produced it, with Schaffer and Taccone directing and taking supporting roles, playing members of Conner’s original band. They’re mixing the soundtrack, which will be released alongside the film.
The film’s songs parody both prevailing hubris (“I’m so humble/ I say that with no ego”) and wobbly celebrity politics (a pro-gay marriage song, “Equal Rights,” has Conner declaring he’s not gay in about every other line) and feature numerous celebrity cameos, best left as surprises. At least a couple of the numbers figure to cross over into the culture in ways unforeseen, as has been the case with other Lonely Island songs. “’I’m on a Boat’ is played a lot at Lake Havasu, which was definitely not our intention,” Taccone says. “And there are videos of people in the Navy singing that song on aircraft carriers, which is something we could have never predicted. But it’s really beautiful.” “Basically, we want people to listen to anything we make as much as possible, whatever the context,” Samberg adds, polishing off the whipped cream and strawberries. “We can’t go back to dry pie.” Los Angeles Times
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