The Daily Barometer, Thursday, December 3, 2015

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Dead zones threaten oceans

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Low oxygen zones linked to ocean warming, stunt organism growth

By Lauren Sluss News Contributor

Low oxygen dead zones are threatening ocean life off coasts in the Pacific Northwest according to researchers at OSU. Dead zones are areas of hypoxic, or non-oxygenated, areas of water within the ocean, that stunt the growth of organism. These dead zones have been speculated to be caused by ocean warming, however evidence backing that claim has proved to be limited.

“We started seeing ‘dead zones’ of hypoxic water offshore Oregon in the summer starting in 2002,” said research assistant in the College of Earth, Ocean

and Atmospheric Sciences Maureen Walczak. “They kill almost all marine life that can’t get out of the way fast enough, and as time goes on they’re getting bigger and worse.”

According to principle investigator of the study Alan Mix, a few dead zones have appeared off the coast of Oregon, which prompted the research team to investigate their causes.

“There has been some speculation that these dead zones have been related to climate change, but it’s really hard to prove what are random events and what has direct cause,” Mix said.

However, this study established a clear connection between two prehis-

toric instances of sudden ocean warming and an increase of marine plankton sinking to the ocean floor, ultimately leading to dead zones, according to associate professor of integrative biology Francis Chan.

“In this case, the researchers found that once oxygen starts to decline in the layer of the ocean that is poorest in oxygen, it appears to have triggered the release of nutrients that further amplified the decline in oxygen,” Chan said.

According to Mix, the first step in this research was determining the extent of previous ocean warming through the use of paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, both of which use past occur-

rences to explain present issues, using sediments in the ocean floor.

“You can think of the sediments as tree rings—each layer accumulates over time and marks what was happening at that time period. It tells time, just like reading a book,” Mix said.

Mix and his research team developed chemical tracers to determine the temperature, oxygen levels and organism life during these prehistoric instances of sudden ocean warming.

“What we came up with is a record of how temperature has changed through time, which is done through some fairly exotic chemistry using chemical trac-

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Getting to know your student leaders ISOSU co-directors Tina Kieu, Sakura Hamada serve OSU

By Chloe Stewart News Contributor

This year, the International Students of Oregon State University is led by co-directors Tina Kieu and Sakura Hamada. Both took on their positions as co-directors of ISOSU this year. Kieu is a fifth-year senior majoring in biology and Hamada is a senior studying human development and family science.

According to the duo, their responsibilities as co-directors are broken down into two jurisdictions: Kieu works with domestic students working in ISOSU affiliate | Brian nguyen THE DAILY BAROMETER programs. Hamada works to highCo-directors of ISOSU, Sakura Hamada, senior in human development and family sciences and Tina light and connect international Kieu, senior in Biology pre-medicine, in the ISOSU office located in the Student Experience center. students.

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This year, with new spaces at their disposal and new goals in mind, Kieu and Hamada said that they are working to rebuild and update the ISOSU programs. This rebuilding, according to Kieu and Hamada, involves building more intent behind their work and respecting the student fees that fund their work. They hope that ISOSU can help students make connections and learn more about the communities around them.

“We are trying to accommodate the changing and transforming international community,” Kieu said. “The students are starting to change, people are starting to become more globally minded, international students are trying to reach out to maybe more traditional and domestic students, and as we’re transforming, we need to

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Obama administration pleads to revive its family detention program

By Franco Ordonez McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Responding to a new surge of unaccompanied children and migrant families from Central America, the Obama administration has stepped up its efforts to save its federal family detention program.

Justice Department lawyers filed a motion with the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Tuesday to expedite its appeal of a district judge’s decision this summer that found the Obama administration had violated an 18-year-old court settlement regarding the detention of migrant children.

If the expedited motion is granted, the family detention cases could be back in front of a three-judge panel by next month, with oral arguments beginning in March or April. Under the current schedule, oral arguments may not begin until 2017.

Lawyers for detained mothers, who filed the original case, are expected to oppose the request for a speedier schedule.

In its request, the government said it needs every tool at its disposal, including family detention, to address the surge. But advocates say the motion’s assertion that migration numbers rose following the court’s original decision suggests

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Continued from page 1 ers that are left in the sediments which accumulate on the seafloor,” Mix said.

Through the use of these chemical tracers, the research team we able to discover an increase in water temperature, but not enough to create a dead zone on its own. However, they used this record of temperature change to determine the amount of oxygen in the water. This is another factor contributing to dead zones.

“It is just the same idea as if you open a pop bottle—it has a lot of gas in it. As the pop gets warmer, the bubbles of gas comes out,” Mix said. “The same is true for ocean water, it holds more oxygen when it’s cold and less when it’s warm. We could figure out the oxygen change just based on the temperatures.”

This change in temperature was warmer, but it was not a sufficient increase to create a dead zone on its own. This

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that family detention was needed to discourage future migration. That deterrence argument was behind the federal lawsuit filed last year that resulted in a temporary court injunction that limited the administration’s detention policy.

“Those arguments sound a lot like the deterrence arguments that have already been rejected by a district court as illegal,” said Judy Rabinovitz, the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

In her ruling last summer, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee didn’t force the government to close the three family detention facilities it operates,

led the researchers to analyze other factors that could have caused the dead zones, including plankton and single-celled organism activity.

In 2006, Walczak and other researchers developed the stable isotopic records, which allowed them to mark organism life and salinity. These records were housed in the bodies of foraminifera—single-celled organisms that make a tiny calcium-carbonate shell.

“The oxygen isotopes in the foraminifera are sensitive to both temperature and seawater salinity, which force the record in the same direction—increasing temperatures and decreasing salinity,” Walczak said.

The combination of temperature, oxygen levels and organism life all conspire to trigger the system. Once the ecosystem is triggered to moving toward a zero oxygen state, it continues to cycle until it reaches that point, according to Mix. “You can think of it as riding a rollercoaster. Every rollercoaster has a tipping point, a point where it stops climbing upward, finally tips over and runs away,” Mix said. “This is a series of mechanisms that keeps going once triggered. In this case, once the system was set up to move into this oxygen deprived environment, it kept going until it got there.”

This tipping point will have a big impact on the Pacific Northwest, according to Walczak.

“This research is of particular importance in the Pacific Northwest and (off the coast of ) Alaska because of the recreationally and commercially significant fisheries in those regions,” Walczak said. “The link between rapidly increasing water temperatures and hypoxia is of particular concern, as very few aquatic species can survive in water in which the oxygen concentrations have become very low.”

According to Chan, although this work is discovering links between past and present conditions, it will also be used to help predict future conditions.

“This is about understanding if there might be surprises ahead,” Chan said. “For Oregonians, we live on an exceptionally productive coast, but one that is also vulnerable to low oxygen zones. This work reinforces the key point that we have a lot at stake in how we address climate change.”

Prompting the discussion and action toward climate change is another potential consequence of this discovery, according to Walczak.

“As we improve our understanding of the ecological and economic consequences of changing the temperature and chemistry of our oceans, it is increasingly clear that as a society we need to take mitigating action.

This study of dead zones increases researchers under-

as many advocates had hoped. But she did limit the amount of time families can be held to about 20 days under certain circumstances, such as last year’s surge.

The administration currently holds 1,538 parents and children in three family detention centers in Karnes City and Dilley, Texas, and in Berks County, Pa. In its request for expedited consideration, the government said it needs greater flexibility to respond to unpredictable waves of migrants.

Woody Lee, chief of the U.S. Border

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Split sediment cores from offshore Alaska, showing green laminated diatom­rich layers.

standing of the consequences of changing temperature and chemistry of the oceans and can lead to further action, according to Walczak.

“It is very frustrating as a scientist to see the very serious issue of climate change being deliberately confused and politicized,” Walczak said. “What remains to be seen is what this generation will do about it.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu

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Insta-gas for the ultimate couch potato

By Jennifer Van Grove The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — Even in an era where no errand is too small to outsource to a smartphone application, startup Purple, which dispatches a stranger to fill up customers’ gas tanks, might smack as on-demand capitalism gone too far.

That’s right. It’s now possible to push a button and get gas — no trip to the station required.

With Los Angeles-based Purple, which expanded into San Diego in October, folks in both cities can use the company’s iPhone or Android app when they’re short on fuel. A Purple “courier,” clad in a purple T-shirt, will come to the customer’s location in one to three hours, depending on preference, locate the car, and either add 10 or 15 gallons of gas (using portable gas cans) to its tank.

The customer’s credit card is billed the going rate for gas, as advertised in the application, with rates comparable to what might be found at neighborhood stations. A service charge is being waived for the time being. The customer’s only task is to make sure his gas tank is accessible to Purple’s people.

“It’s so convenient. I’m always waiting to the last minute to fill the gas tank,” said Stephanie Aviv, 41, a Los Angeles resident and Purple customer who has abandoned the gas station altogether. “In my head, it’s such a waste of time to go to the gas station.”

She is the type of repeat customer Purple had in mind when the company launched its on-demand gas app in Los Angeles in May. Backed by an undisclosed millions of dollars in seed financing (with some coming from Uber co-founder Oscar Salazar), Purple has the lofty ambition of upending the oldfashioned fuel business the same way Uber disrupted the taxi market,

Whereas mobile apps can really make our lives easier, I question how lazy we’re getting when we need to call someone to fill up our gas tank.

Steven Osinski Professor of Marketing using smartphone technology to save consumers time and effort.

With Americans filling up on more than 9 million barrels of gasoline per day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, perhaps there’s a real market for a new kind of full-service fill-up.

Purple isn’t the only startup to think so. At least two other apps, Filld and FuelMe, are delivering fuel ondemand in different markets.

Purple says it has signed up “thousands” of users in its first two markets, Los Angeles and San Diego, with a bulk of its audience in the larger metro where it has been operating the longest.

Though the number may sound humble, Purple sees 50 percent of daily orders come from recurring clients, said co-founder Bruno Uzzan. A sign, he said, that the service is proving useful to its earliest adopters.

“Most of us don’t like to go to the gas station,” Uzzan said. “Our customers are saying they are losing time. It takes 10 to 15 minutes to fuel a car, and they wish they could spend the time on something else.”

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Randy Harvey delivers 10 gallons of gasoline via the Purple app on Nov. 16, in San Diego.

But gas is sticky subject for many consumers, some of whom have no qualms rerouting their commutes to stop at the most affordable stations in town. Plus, while Purple may not be an upscale-only offering, the first-world problem the app solves certainly invites at least a modicum of ridicule.

“Whereas mobile apps can really make our lives our easier, I question how lazy we’re getting when we need to call someone to fill up our gas tank,” said Steven Osinski, a professor of marketing and the chairman of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center at San Diego State University.

There is a niche market for

Purple, Osinski admitted, but the app’s long-term potential seems questionable. So, too, is the fate of many highly specialized ondemand apps. While Uber flourishes, and Google and Amazon battle to speed up shipping to nearinstantaneous speeds, push-button consumerism hasn’t always worked for every whim.

Cherry, for instance, which brought the car wash to customers’ car, had a moment in the sun in San Diego but shut down in December 2012. And Homejoy, an app for ordering house-cleaning services, closed its doors in July.

With the proliferation of smartphones, the on-demand boom isn’t

anticipated to bust, but some of the companies certainly will. As Osinski put it, some specializations are so niche they can’t be sustained.

Maybe Purple can hang in for the long haul. Drivers can live without a car wash or a housecleaning, but their cars will always need gas. And it’s never pleasant to take a gas station detour when already behind schedule.

“I’m probably going to (use Purple) again because I was on E when I got to work,” said Lania Bettin, a 40-something senior companion who lives in Los Angeles.

“I live across the street from a gas station, but I don’t always have time to make the stop.”

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Microsoft shareholders OK two new women board members

By Matt Day

Padmasree Warrior join the company’s governing council, replacing Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe, who stepped BELLEVUE, Wash. — Microsoft’s share- down after six years. holders voted Wednesday to elect the comWith the addition of the two new directors pany’s 11 nominated board members and and the re-election of Dick’s Sporting Goods said “yes” on an advisory vote on the com- executive Terri List-Stoll, Microsoft’s board pany’s executive pay packages. now has three women, Johnson & Johnson executive Sandra The shifts are the latest in a major revamp Peterson and former Cisco executive of the Seattle-area company’s board. Only The Seattle Times

three board members — including cofounder Bill Gates — started serving before 2012. The other two long-serving board members are former Bank of America exec Charles Noski and former BMW exec Helmut Panke.

Gates and the rest of the board were in attendance at the meeting, held in the Seattle-area city of Bellevue.

So was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who planned to speak at the meeting for a second consecutive year, this time to ask the company to commit to targets for adding more diversity to the company’s workforce, among other initiatives.

Shareholders also ratified the company’s executive pay packages, but the company

hasn’t announced the official margin.

At last year’s meeting, 72 percent of shareholders voted yes in the symbolic vote, a portion well below the industry average.

That’s in part because of concerns over a massive long-term stock grant awarded to Chief Executive Satya Nadella, based in part on the company’s stock performance. His pay package that year was valued at $84.3 million.

This year, Nadella’s compensation was valued at $18.2 million. And in a nod to shareholder concerns, the board emphasized a shift in its pay practices to award executives based on their own and the company’s performance.

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Beavers face tough test in Las Vegas OSU faces 13 Top-25 teams in Tournament

OSU Lineup

By Danny Rice

125-pound So. Ronnie Bresser 133-pound Joey Palmer 141-pound RSo. Jack Hathaway 149-pound RJr. Joey Delgado 157-pound RSo. Abraham Rodriguez 165-pound Sr. Seth Thomas 174-pound RJr. Ali Alshujery 184-pound RFr. Corey Griego 197-pound RSo. Cody Crawford

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The Oregon State wrestling team heads to Las Vegas this weekend where they will be competing in the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.

This is will be another big test for the No. 23 Beavers (2-3) as 13 teams from the Top 25 tournament team rankings will be in attendance. The big name teams include the likes of Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Michigan and Cornell—just to name a few. There will also be returning NCAA champions competing as well as numerous returning All-Americans.

After two disappointing dual meet losses to Rutgers and Utah Valley, head coach Jim Zalesky is confident his team made the right adjustments over the break and are ready for the challenge.

“We made more mental preparation improvements, “ Zalesky said. “We are looking for guys to up their individual performances. We are not necessarily looking team wise, rather I’m looking for individual performances over team. If you perform well individually, then your team does well. If you don’t then it doesn’t matter.”

No. 9 sophomore 125-pounder Ronnie Bresser (6-3) and No. 20 redshirt junior 133-pounder Joey Palmer (7-3) will look to have the toughest test as there will be 13 ranked wrestlers in the 125-pound bracket and 12 in the 133-pound bracket— more than any other weight class.

Both weight classes will also feature returning NCAA champions from a year ago in redshirt sophomore

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Sophomore 125-pounder Ronnie Bresser works against Utah Valley’s Chasen Tolbert on Nov. 21.

125-pounder Nathan Tomasello of Ohio State and redshirt senior 133-pounder Cody Brewer of Oklahoma.

Bresser and redshirt sophomore 157-pounder Abraham Rodriguez (6-4) are the only returning placers from this tournament last year.

They both placed seventh in their respective weight classes.

There are only two changes in the Beaver lineup this weekend as No. 5 redshirt sophomore heavyweight Amarveer Dhesi (10-0) will be in Canada competing in the Canadian Olympic Trials.

He is trying to vie for a spot on the 2016 Olympic team that will compete in Rio de Janeiro.

The Beavers will not fill

Dhesi’s spot—meaning they will not have a heavyweight representative. The other change comes at 174-pound where redshirt junior Ali Alshujery (3-2) will take over for the incumbent redshirt sophomore Tyler Chay (5-4), who Zalesky said is “banged up.”

“It’s my first time starting and it’s really exciting,” Alshujery said. “It’s a big opportunity, big tournament and I hope to do big things.”

For Alshujery, this moment is also about overcoming adversity and demonstrating perseverance.

“I’ve been dealing with a lot of injuries lately, so I’ve been doing my rehab and doing the things I can do, “ Alshujery said. “I talked to

coach Jim (Zalesky) about it and he told me to focus on the things I can control. I just need to focus on that and hope for good outcomes.”

Zalesky is excited for his guys to compete against some of the best wrestlers in the nation—which could have some big implications for seeding in the NCAA tournament.

“We are going to be wrestling some of the better and ranked guys, “ Zalesky said. “You get a chance at getting yourself ranked so you can get a good spot at the Pac-12 jeremy melamed | THE DAILY BAROMETER tournament and hopefully at the NCAA tournament.” Senior 165-pounder Seth Thomas gets tied up with On Twitter @DRice1730

Utah Valley’s Kieffer Taylor on Nov. 21.

OSU swimmers train for US Winter Nationals Harrison, Isleta try to qulify for Olympic Trials in a three-day meet

By Michael Kiever Sports Reporter

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Senior Sammy Harrison, the OSU record holder in the 1650-yard freestyle, will attempt to qualify for the Olympic Trials this weekend at the US Winter Nationals.

Coming off of a strong performance at the Phill Hansill invitation on Nov. 21, the Oregon State swimming team now has its sights set for the US Winter Nationals.

Junior Czsarina Isleta and senior Sammy Harrison will be the OSU representatives for the event.

The three-day meet will be held in Federal Way, Wash. from today to Saturday and will provide an opportunity for both Isleta and Harrison to qualify for the Olympic Trials in June.

“Sammy and Cszarina are both going there to try to qualify for the US Olympic Trials, the expectation is to try to get faster and then do a great race at that meet.” said head coach Larry Liebowitz Harrison was an All-American last year and currently holds the school record in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 15:56:01.

With only 12 days of layover since the last meet, Harrison has been working overtime in an effort to break her own record again.

“We’re coming off of our big fall meet as a team that we all travel to,” Harrison said.

“It’s been intense training for the last week and a half. Now we’re bringing it back down a little bit, so hopefully we can go fast again

like we did in Texas.”

Isleta, who recently placed herself at No. 6 on the OSU all-time list in both the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke, has attributed her recent success to getting a good night sleep in addition to the extra training.

“I’ve been training really hard and I’ve been dieting. I’ve also been pushing it at weights and I’ve been sleeping more,” Isleta said.

The competition will be held in a 50-yard long course pool at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, but the OSU swimming team only has access to 25-yard pools.

According to Liebowitz, the difference should not make for an issue.

“They have to get timed in a long course pool, which isn’t the usual way for college purposes,” Liebowitz said. “They both have swam the long course before, so they know what it’s all about.”

After the US Winter Nationals, OSU swimming will be off until Jan. 6 when they host Utah for a dual meet. In the mean time, Liebowitz expects the team to stay active.

“We have finals next week, so that’s kind of a week where they will work as much as they need to,” Liebowitz said. “After that, we have training camp here for about nine days before they go home for break. We will work as hard as we’ve worked this entire year during those nine days.”

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Beavers get bounce back win against Lions PLAYERS MIN FG 3FG REB AST STL TO PF PTS Payton II 36 3-8 0-2 9 9 3 3 0 6 Duvivier 17 0-2 0-2 3 1 0 4 4 0 Morris-Walker 18 3-8 2-4 3 0 1 2 0 11 Schaftenaar 30 6-8 3-5 4 1 1 1 0 19 Eubanks 26 6-7 0-0 9 1 0 1 2 17 Tinkle 23 2-6 1-3 3 1 1 2 3 6 Thompson Jr. 20 4-10 2-7 0 1 1 2 2 10 Bruce 18 2-7 2-3 1 2 0 0 0 6 Rakocevic 12 1-1 0-0 1 2 0 1 2 2 Totals 27-57 10-26 40 16 8 16 13 79 PLAYERS MIN FG 3FG REB AST STL TO PF PTS Brown 37 6-17 0-5 2 9 3 1 0 12 Haney 30 6-12 4-10 4 0 0 0 1 16 Tuach 13 1-3 1-2 1 3 0 1 2 3 Johnson 28 2-6 0-0 6 1 3 1 3 4 Spiers 23 2-8 2-8 5 3 2 1 3 6 Jacko 33 11-17 0-0 2 0 0 2 3 22 Herman 4 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 1 1 0 McClendon 9 1-1 0-0 2 2 1 1 1 2 Tutu 10 1-1 0-0 3 1 1 1 1 2 Humphries 13 1-3 1-1 3 0 0 2 2 3 Totals 31-69 8-26 32 20 10 11 17 70

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Freshman forward Drew Eubanks dunks against Loyola Marymount on Dec. 2. Eubanks finished the game with 17 points in the Beavers 79-70 win over Lions on Dec. 2.

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With speedy genes, Stanford’s McCaffrey runs with a purpose

By Chris Dufresne Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Christian McCaffrey took to social media Saturday in the euphoric aftermath of Stanford’s last-second win over Notre Dame.

“What a time to be alive,” he posted on Twitter after Conrad Ukropina’s 45-yard field capped one of the season’s most thrilling games.

Stanford has gotten off the deck after losing its opener at Northwestern and will play USC in the Pac-12 Conference championship game Saturday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. McCaffrey probably will soon be heading east for Heisman Trophy ceremonies as a finalist for college football’s top individual award.

“Football is happening so fast,” McCaffrey said during a phone interview Tuesday as he walked briskly to his next destination on the Stanford campus. “There’s really no time.”

Things have changed dramatically since Stanford faced USC the first time, in the middle of September.

The Cardinal was an ordinary 1-1 after losing at Northwestern and then struggling early against a Central Florida team that would finish 0-12.

Stanford was unranked and McCaffrey, a sophomore, was largely unknown after rushing for 66 and 58 yards.

He then ripped off 115 rushing yards in a 10-point win over sixth-ranked USC and Stanford was off on what became a national playoff chase.

“I remember how back-and-forth it was,” McCaffrey recalled of first USC game, at the Coliseum.

He expects more of the same Saturday. “They are a fast, athletic, physical team,” he said, “and so are we.”

McCaffrey has fast become known as college football’s most dangerous all-purpose player. He was the joystick during Stanford’s seven-game winning streak. He has run for touchdowns, caught touchdown passes, and even thrown a scoring pass _ while also wheeling and dealing on punt and kickoff returns.

McCaffrey established a Stanford single-game record for allpurpose yards with 389 against California, and a single-game rushing record with 243 yards against UCLA. He enters the Saturday’s game on a different astral plane.

McCaffrey has 3,035 all-purpose yards, a Pac-12 season record.

The names he passed on that list include Marcus Allen, Glyn Milburn and Reggie Bush.

McCaffrey is so feared that opponents have devised game plans just to stop him. Last week, Notre Dame used starting defensive players on special teams units hoping to contain McCaffrey.

He gained 228 all-purpose yards and the Irish considered it a good night. McCaffrey’s per-game average of 252.9 leads the nation by more than 50 yards a game.

“He’s the No.1 game wrecker,” Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith said. “Best player on the team. And the idea was to contain him. Based on the numbers, we did that, but one player doesn’t define a victory or a loss.”

Smith’s point: Holding McCaffrey to 94 rushing yards and 3.5 yards a carry created openings for quarterback Kevin Hogan to have a big game.

McCaffrey’s rise comes with a back story filled with twists, interesting tidbits, turns and nuances.

His favorite player growing up was Bush, a player banished from USC’s history books and databases for his role in getting his school penalized by the NCAA. “I really loved how versatile a guy he was,” McCaffrey said.

“How explosive he was. You never knew what he was going to do next. He caught the ball, he ran the ball ... he did everything.”

McCaffrey has worn Bush’s No. 5 since high school but said he was never recruited by USC _ quite possibly a moot point because both of McCaffrey’s parents attended Stanford.

McCaffrey made clear his infatuation was with Bush, not USC. “I didn’t really have a favorite team,” he said. “It was more about him being fun to watch.”

McCaffrey broke the Stanford record for all-purpose yards set by Milburn in 1990, the same season Christian’s father, Ed, had 61 catches for the Cardinal.

But if you think Christian’s sprinter’s speed came from his dad, who went on to become an accomplished NFL receiver, you’d be wrong. It emanates from the maternal side of his Stanford tree. Christian’s mother, Lisa, who played soccer at Stanford, is the daughter of Dave Sime, a former world-class sprinter from Duke who was dubbed “Superman in Spikes.”

Sime might have been as famous as Carl Lewis had he not injured his groin after falling off a horse before the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The accident might have cost Sime at least two gold medals.

He returned to the 1960 Rome Olympics as a second-year medical student and finished second in a photo finish to Germany’s Armin Hary in the 100 meters.

McCaffrey said his grandfather has been a mentor and huge influence.

“He’s only a phone call away,” McCaffrey said. “I definitely take advantage of that knowledge. Hearing what he has to say.

Little details.”

You can see the sprinter in McCaffrey when he shoots through a hole in the line. “There are some similarities to coming out of the blocks,” he said, “the sudden, quick-twitch switches when you see a hole.”

McCaffrey needs 216 all-purpose yards Saturday to break the NCAA record of 3,250, set in 1988 by Oklahoma State star Barry Sanders.

Sanders did it in 11 games, and the vast majority of his total came from 2,628 rushing yards. McCaffrey has rushed for 1,640 yards.

Closely following McCaffrey’s record chase is a teammate, Barry Sanders Jr., a senior who has contributed 312 yards rushing this season.

“We have not really talked about it,” McCaffrey said of record.

The question now is whether Stanford and McCaffrey got in their races too late.

The Cardinal overcame that early loss to get back in the national playoff chase, only to suffer another setback to Oregon.

However, Stanford enters Saturday a puncher’s chance of making the four-team field.

It might be this simple: Stanford defeats USC for the Pac-12 title and either Clemson or Alabama lose in their respective

title games.

“Nothing matters unless we win,” McCaffrey said.

As for national accolades as an individual, whereas Sanders was a clear-cut Heisman winner in 1988 after setting the all-purpose record, McCaffrey is third in most polls behind Alabama tailback Derrick Henry and Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson.

“Whatever those awards, they’re all great,” Stanford Coach David Shaw said after the Notre Dame game. “No one can tell me there’s a more dynamic player in college football.”

McCaffrey is reluctant to make this season about him but said he was honored when the school recently launched a Heisman campaign on his behalf.

“Winning is the most important thing,” he said. “You want to focus on the game and the team.”

McCaffrey might not win the Heisman this year but could be the front-runner in 2016.

Because as anyone who has tried to tackle him knows, he’s tough to catch from behind.

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Deputy Assistant Attorney General Leon Fresco wrote in the government’s motion that Gee’s ruling severely constrains fed-

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Before getting involved with ISOSU, both Kieu and Hamada had had formative cultural experiences and were involved with ISOSU affiliates.

According to Louis Nguyen, International Resource Center Coordinator and a frequent collaborator with Kieu and Hamada, the two make an effective team. Nguyen described Kieu as organized and focused and Hamada as energetic and optimistic.

“The two combined together mesh really well to make a well-oiled machine,” Nguyen said. “It’s been really good and I’m really excited to work with them in the future.”

Kieu was born in the US and taught to speak Vietnamese before attending an English as a second language program

eral officials’ ability to respond to the new surge.

“If historical patterns continue, these numbers will only increase in the spring,” Fresco wrote.

A three-judge panel will consider the government’s motion for an expedited hearing. The San Francisco-headquartered court is considered one of the country’s most liberal appeals courts. All three judges hearing the motion were appointed

by Republican presidents, either Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush.

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in kindergarten. Since then, she has used English as her primary language.

Kieu credits her choice to come to OSU and her involvement in the OSU international community to her older sister, who attended OSU before her and encouraged her to get involved with the ISOSU affiliate Vietnamese Students Association. Kieu got increasingly more involved and served as president before applying for the position of ISOSU co-director.

Hamada was once an international student herself. Born in Japan, her family moved to the US when she was nine years old. At first, Hamada experienced difficulty feeling a part of her new community.

Over time, she was able to learn English and she now no longer identifies as an international student.

However, through high school, she still often had to

criticized the decision to appeal.

Rabinovitz said the government’s problem is one of its own making. She said the number of border crossers is still low historically.

“Rather than locking up Central American families and putting them through a credible-fear screening process,” she said, “the government should simply return to its prior practice of placing families in regular removal proceedings and releasing them under conditions of supervision.”

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take ESL exams while she was taking Advanced Placement classes at the same time.

According to Hamada, it was frustrating and even felt discriminatory at times.

After arriving at OSU, Hamada found the Japanese Students Association, where she immediately felt a sense of community. She was eventually selected to serve as the co-president of the JSA and then decided to apply for the position of ISOSU co-director.

The two first heard about each other two years ago after an event hosted by the Vietnamese Student Association.

At the time, Kieu was the president of the VSA and, as part of the event, gave an emotional and tearful speech. According to Hamada, she remembered that this caused her to have an emotional response as well. From that moment, the two remembered each other as “the girl who cried

with me.” Two years later, they were selected to serve as codirectors of ISOSU together.

Since taking on their positions, the two have made great efforts to embrace a collaborative spirit and work together.

“In my culture, it is custom to respect an elder, like anyone who’s older than you, so I respect her in that term, but also I respect her as a person, as a co-director,” Hamada said.

Both Kieu and Hamada plan to pursue careers in the medical field after college. They both also hope to carry their experiences and knowledge from their involvement with ISOSU into their careers. Kieu aspires to become a primary care physician and provide care to marginalized communities. Hamada has chosen to study HDFS so that she can take a different approach to medicine that incorporates social elements of health care into her work as well.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Remain forgiving with miscommunications, especially at work. Roll around obstacles.

Ignore false rumors and gossip.

Avoid spontaneous reactions. Keep your goal in focus. If you can keep your temper, delightful results are possible. It could get romantic.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — A creative problem requires imagination. Consider consequences before getting yourself into a sticky situation.

Age differences interfere with clarity. Listen, learn, and stick up for your point of view, respectfully.

Sometimes the best move is none.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 5 — No need to rush into

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Don’t splurge on stuff you don’t need. Take a family poll to assess shared priorities. Share ideas and solutions. Get the whole gang to help. You’re surrounded by love.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Rely on experience. Ask questions and listen for solutions.

Don’t worry if, at first, you don’t succeed. Open up the subject for further discussion. Help others see the big picture, to strategize rather than impulsively reacting.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Postpone financial discussion.

Misunderstandings crop up easily now, especially around money.

Double-check statements and invoices. Make payments on time.

Don’t believe everything you hear.

New developments change the assignment. Don’t touch savings.

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Nurture health and well-being. Slow down and recharge.

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Differentiate what’s predictable from a fantasy outcome. Strengthen infrastructure and support. Bide your time, and consider.

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Grace with matters of the heart serves you well. Listen generously to a loved one’s concerns, even if they’re unfounded. Discover something you didn’t know. Settle somewhere peaceful. Relax and recharge.

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Coldplay’s Chris Martin finds renewal in Los Angeles

By Mikael Wood Los Angeles Times

Chris Martin has lived in Los Angeles long enough to speak enthusiastically about his spiritual teachers and about the benefits of cutting sugar and dairy from his diet. But the Coldplay frontman hasn’t been here long enough to know that the guys handing out DVDs on the Venice boardwalk want you to pay for them.

“Thanks, brother,” Martin said as just such a man pressed a compilation of basketball clips into his hands on a recent morning.

Dressed in a bright-blue hoodie and matching baseball cap, the British singer kept moving but came to a sudden halt when the guy touched Martin’s arm and explained that he wasn’t giving away his product for free.

“Oh, you want a donation,” Martin said, quickly grasping the situation. “All right, man!” And with that he cheerfully forked over 20 bucks and asked for two.

A simple case of a rock star using money to smooth his path through life? Well, sure. Yet the gesture – one of several donations over the course of a lengthy stroll that eventually required a visit to a beachside ATM – also seemed in keeping with the proudly magnanimous vibe of Coldplay’s new album, “A Head Full of Dreams.” Due Dec. 4, it marks a return to the kind of earnest emotional uplift that made Coldplay famous but that the band largely abandoned for its last studio album, “Ghost Stories.”

That record, full of hushed, small-scale tunes, documented what the 38-year-old Martin described as the “traumatic” breakup of his marriage to actress Gwyneth Paltrow, with whom he has two children. Coldplay didn’t do much to promote the album, avoiding interviews and playing only a handful of concerts (including one at UCLA’s relatively intimate Royce Hall). “A bit of a retreat into the turtle shell,” the singer called it.

Eighteen months later, though, Martin and his bandmates – guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion – have emerged to talk up an imaginative disc that reflects the frontman’s renewed optimism as well as Coldplay’s determination to stay musically relevant at a moment when traditional guitar bands are more or less out of style.

“Isn’t it amazing, the color and craziness down here?” Martin said with a grin as he dropped a few bills into a bucket atop a street performer’s grand piano. “You’ve always got to reward a busker. I’m a busker too, and people reward me.”

They certainly have. After forming at college in London and scoring a global smash with “Yellow,” the strummy power ballad from its 2000 debut, Coldplay spent the next decade racking up hits (including the Grammy-winning “Clocks” and “Viva la Vida,” which topped Billboard’s Hot 100) and becoming one of the world’s biggest touring acts. In between, there were Martin’s profileraising collaborations with Jay Z and Kanye West, along with a duet with Rihanna on Coldplay’s 2011 album, “Mylo Xyloto.”

Yet by 2013, the singer found himself looking for “a soft place to land” as his relationship with Paltrow came undone, he said. L.A.

was the obvious choice, because his son and daughter were here, and “wherever they live is my home.” What began as a practical arrangement, though, soon turned into a creative boon, with Martin feeling reinvigorated by Southern California’s climate and landscape.

“If you go back to a Jane Austen novel, they’re always sending people to get sea air when they’re going through something,” he said with a laugh. “It’s restorative.”

Moving to L.A. also put Martin closer to the busy pop-music industry, with its songwriters and producers responsible for creating the hits that rule Top 40 radio. That world has long fascinated him, he said, so last year, he tried writing a few tracks for Rihanna, whose manager connected Martin with Stargate, one of the singer’s go-to production teams.

They got on well enough that Martin asked the rest of Coldplay to work with Stargate for “Miracles,” the band’s song from Angelina Jolie’s 2014 movie “Unbroken.” And that in turn led to Stargate’s co-producing “A Head Full of Dreams,” which Martin said he knew from the beginning would represent a dramatic shift from “Ghost Stories.” The goal, he added, was “something big and colorful and fun,” an album that’s “not rock and not pop. It’s just whatever we dream it up to be.”

That dreamed-up sound has Stargate’s fingerprints all over it, from the layered keyboards in the title track to the pulsing disco groove that drives “Adventure of a Lifetime,” which Coldplay debuted on the recent American Music Awards. The plaintive “Army of One” even sports a sleek R&B coda that could pass for a Chris Brown demo.

But if the band resisted that kind of outside influence in its early days, as Champion has admitted, it has now happily opened itself to collaborators.

“When you’ve been a band for nearly 20 years, finding fresh inspiration isn’t always that easy,” Coldplay’s drummer said as he sat in a dressing room with Buckland and Berryman after taping a performance on James Corden’s late-night show. “So when someone new comes in, you grab the chance.”

Indeed, beyond Stargate, “A Head Full of Dreams” features appearances by an expansive cast of guests, including Beyonce and Swedish pop singer Tove Lo, who duets with Martin on “Fun.” Lisa Worden, music director at L.A.’s influential radio station KROQ-FM (106.7), said cameos like those – as well as the decision to release “Adventure of a Lifetime” as the album’s lead single – were smart moves after the more cerebral “Ghost Stories.”

“It keeps them in touch with a younger audience, which hears ‘Adventure of a Lifetime’ and says, ‘Coldplay is still speaking to us,’” Worden said.

Yet “A Head Full of Dreams” also reflects more idiosyncratic choices. Merry Clayton, the veteran backup singer known for her apocalyptic wail in the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” is in the mix, as is poet Coleman Barks, who reads a translation of “The Guest House” by Rumi, which Martin said “completely changed my life.” Paltrow appears too, in “Everglow,” a delicate ballad about “the light that you left me.”

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The cover art for Coldplay’s new album, “A Head Full of Dreams.”

That track isn’t the only one that invites speculation as to whom these songs are about. An upbeat ode to someone who’s made Martin “feel like I’m alive again,” “Adventure of a Lifetime,” for instance, is widely thought to describe the singer’s onagain/off-again relationship with actress Jennifer Lawrence.

Asked if the theorizing bothered him, Martin replied, “I don’t mind, because I’ll never say.” Then he went further, insisting that songs didn’t come from him so much as they came through him.

“I never sit down and say, ‘I’m gonna write a song about this person and this event,’” he said as we passed the Venice skate park. “If I did do that, it would never make it, because that would be a song that you crafted rather than received.”

I told him that I found it hard to believe that specific names and faces didn’t attach themselves to his songs, especially once they’ve become part of Coldplay’s concerts and he’s singing them every night. Martin, the very picture of cordiality until then, bristled a bit.

“I don’t expect people to understand where songs come from, because I don’t understand either,” he said. As an example, he mentioned “A Sky Full of Stars” from “Ghost Stories.”

“Someone might say, ‘Oh, it’s about Gwyneth,’” he said. “’It’s about this person,’ ‘It’s about your kids,’ ‘It’s about everyone in the world.’” He had the title for a long time, he said; there were “seven other songs called ‘A Sky Full of Stars,’ and none of them were

right.” Then one day, he went on, “this song just came through in one go.” So he doesn’t know which person inspired the song. “And I don’t want to really question it.”

That isn’t to say that becoming a tabloid target has been easy. “I’m aware that every so often a gentleman with a camera will be hidden somewhere and turn whatever normal thing that I might be doing into a news story,” he said. At first, he added, that made him angry, depressed and unsure of what to do with his feelings.

“That’s why I had to go and find some teachers” – including a favorite Sufi scholar – “and say, ‘Hey, how do you navigate this kind of thing?’” He found solace in Rumi’s words about accepting everything as a blessing. Music helped too, of course, just as it’s improved the mood of Coldplay fans craving the surge of serotonin the band’s songs can deliver.

After mostly staying off the road behind “Ghost Stories,” Coldplay will tour arenas and stadiums next year, and Martin is already looking forward to witnessing that emotional boost. But these days he seems equally attuned to smaller wonders, which may be the real key to happiness.

“Look at that!” he said, pointing with clear excitement at another sight on the boardwalk. “A dog skiing!”

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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ named best picture of 2015

By Susan King The Los Angeles Times

“Max Mad: Fury Road,” George Miller’s pulsating reboot of his post-apocalyptic action-thriller franchise, was named best picture of 2015 Tuesday by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

The sci-fi blockbuster “The Martian” won three awards – director for Ridley Scott, lead actor for Matt Damon and adapted screenplay for Drew Goddard – from the group, an eclectic assortment of academics, film professionals, students and film enthusiasts.

“We are thrilled to be awarding George Miller and Ridley Scott, two iconic filmmakers at the top of their game, while also celebrating the next generation of talent,” NBR President Annie Schulhof said in a statement Tuesday after the group’s awards were announced.

NBR’s lead actress honors went to Brie Larson for “Room” for her portrayal of a woman held captive in a small space with her young son. Sylvester Stallone won supporting actor for reprising his iconic role as Rocky Balboa in “Creed.” Jennifer Jason Leigh earned supporting actress honors as a fugitive wanted dead or alive in Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,” which won’t be released until Christmas.

Tarantino also received the NBR award for original screenplay for his Western.

Notably missing from the list of winners was Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight,” which was the big winner Monday night at the

The NBR awards will be handed out Jan. 5, 2016, at Cipriani Gotham Independent Film Awards and is considered a likely contender for this year’s top film award – the drama only made 42nd Street in New York City. the list of NBR’s top films of the year. Other films not on the NBR Here are the NBR’s top films and top independent films of list were “Revenant,” the Leo DiCaprio-starring frontier epic, the year. and “Joy,” David O. Russell’s comedy-drama starring Jennifer TOP FILMS Lawrence; neither film has opened yet.

“Bridge of Spies” The NBR choices haven’t reflected the Academy of Motion “Creed” Picture Arts & Sciences picks in recent years. Last year, the “The Hateful Eight” NBR picked “A Most Violent Year” as the best film of 2014 – the “Inside Out” crime thriller that failed to earn any Oscar nominations – while “The Martian” the Oscar went to “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of “Room” Ignorance).”

“Sicario” The last time the two groups matched up was with Danny “Spotlight” Boyle’s 2008 drama “Slumdog Millionaire.”

“Straight Outta Compton” In other awards handed out Tuesday: Animated feature: “Inside Out” TOP INDEPENDENT FILMS Breakthrough performance: Abraham Attah for “Beasts of No “ ‘71” Nation” and Jacob Tremblay for “Room” “45 Years” Directorial debut: Jonas Carpignano for “Mediterranea” “Cop Car” Foreign language film: “Son of Saul” “Ex Machina” Documentary: “Amy” “Grandma” William K. Everson Film History Award: Cecilia DeMille “It Follows” Presley “James White” Spotlight Award: “Sicario” for outstanding collaborative vision “Mississippi Grind” NBR Freedom of Expression Award: “Beasts of No Nation” “Welcome to Me” and “Mustang” “While We’re Young” Ensemble: “The Big Short” Los Angeles Times

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Movie review: ‘MI-5’ is a tense, tight spy thriller

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“You can do good or you can do well, but sooner or later they make you choose.” This is the choice given to young Will Holloway (Kit Harington) from his former mentor and current antagonist Harry Pearce (Peter Firth). Both men are rogue MI-5 (think British CIA) agents, working both together and against each other. This contention between doing “well” and “good” is at the heart of the matter in “MI-5” a tight British spy thriller based on the BBC series “Spooks.”

It’s a question about what a government agency and those who work there can and should do, and the choice is a stark one.

“MI-5” is a film where

corruption and paranoia run all the way up the chain of command, and the twisty, turny plot doesn’t allow for any trustworthy characters.

For all the wild stunts and action sequences, thematically, it’s one of the most accurate reflections of the current socio-political climate, where government agencies are trying to stay one step ahead of terrorist attacks.

The plot is almost too much to recount in detail, but things kick into gear with an American terrorist, Adem Qasim (Elyes Gabel), broken out of MI-5 custody during a transport. Harry, suspecting that someone on the inside of the agency helped break out Qasim, goes on the run, treasonously connecting and collaborating with Qasim to find the mole. Simultaneously, decommissioned agent Will Holloway is brought in to play both the Harry and MI-5 sides of the fence. He’s got a lot of personal history with Harry, and it only gets more complicated from there.

However, despite the convoluted plot twists, the themes of terror, government wrongdoing, breaches of trust and insidious corruption ring almost painfully, presciently true. It’s almost a bit too timely to see a film about European terror attacks in the wake of the recent events in Paris, but “MI-5” is representing an undeniable reality, even if it is packaged in a slightly overwrought actionspy thriller.

Kit Harington truly makes a case for himself as a millennial James Bond type a secret agent in a hoodie instead of a suit. As nimble, youthful foes on the come up, he and Qasim seem to have more in common with each other, rather than with the stodgy old guard. They’re the new generation, equally as passionate and determined but on different sides of the fence. Harington broods just as well as he does at Castle Black in “Game of Thrones” but aside from updating his wardrobe, he doesn’t demonstrate much range beyond that in this role.

Original “Spooks” TV director Bharat Nalluri takes the helming duties on the filmed version, and his style is crisp, clean and slick. Several sequences, including an airport scavenger hunt are clever and suspenseful. Tonally, the film is a bit too over-serious and pompous, without a drop of humor to be found.

But, it’s a well-crafted slice of political action-thriller genre fare filled to the brim with topical social commentary.

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