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Sailing club endures rough waters

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ABOVE: Paul Hinsey, 62, of Carbondale, sails his boat Sunday during a biweekly race. Bob Winston, commodore of the Crab Orchard Lake Sailing Association, said Hinsey frequently wins the races. RIGHT: Mike Hottinger, 43, of Carbondale, sails his boat during the race.

LUKE NOZICKA Daily Egyptian A handful of longtime sailors are trying to keep the tradition of sailing alive and well as economic strains have taken a toll on the southern Illinois sailing community in recent years.

“This is kind of what we do to keep it from dying,” said Bob Winston, commodore of the Crab Orchard Lake Sailing Association, during a biweekly Sunday race of four boats on Crab Orchard Lake.

He said he can remember when the lake was full of boats and the university had a thriving collegiate sailing club.

Winston, 45, of Carbondale, who learned to sail through the Southern Illinois Collegiate Sailing Club in 2005, said the then club had a “hoard of boats.”

“We had a whole bunch of boat stored and the university basically cleaned it up,” Winston said. “There was no response from folks involved in the club. … I was always picking through the bone yard there looking for parts and what boats are in there to resurrect or whatever and saw it going on – it’s too bad. They trashed a lot of boats and got rid of a lot of stuff.”

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New building paves over local businesses BRANDA MITCHELL Daily Egyptian Local business owners are concerned about the lack of parking options where construction has begun at the space 710 Bookstore previously occupied.

“Parking over there isn’t that great to begin with,” William Lo, manager of his family-owned Chinese restaurant, New Kahala, said. “We

knew that once that new apartment building would open up, parking would be an issue. A lot of our customers parked in the 710 lot.”

New Kahala, which was located on the strip for 21 years, is now moving to the 600 block of East Grand Avenue near Don Taco partly because of the parking issue. Don Taco’s location on the strip also recently closed.

All businesses and residences

must meet a requirement for provided parking spaces based on square footage of the property or the people capacity of the building under city municipalities.

The Primary Business District [PBD], where businesses like Quatro’s and Shawnee Trails Wilderness Outfitters are located, are exempt from the parking space requirement.

City Manager Kevin Baity said the

PBD is exempt from this requirement because the city has provided street parking and lots.

Baity said Tartan Realty Group, the new developer, constructing the building within the PBD, has not requested to change the city code that already exists. He said efforts are being made to increase the amount of parking in the area.

“We are developing plans to build a parking lot [adjacent to the

railroad tracks behind Fat Patties] and it will have about 50 parking spaces,” Baity said. “We have it in the current years fiscal budget.

We should hopefully have this completed by May 1, 2015.”

The property will house more than 350 residents, several retailers and will include between 50 - 60 parking spaces.

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“Oklahoma!” takes the stage MARISSA NOVEL Daily Egyptian A young, hopeful cowboy wanders into Aunt Eller’s yard singing, “Oh, what a beautiful morning. Oh, what a beautiful day.

I’ve got a beautiful feeling that everything’s going my way!” It’s the night of the box social, and he’s got Laurey on his mind.

The McLeod Summer Playhouse opened its first of four musicals, “Oklahoma!”, on Friday.

Set in early 20th century prairie territory, the musical follows Curly, a cowboy, Laurey, a farm girl, and their budding romance as the two dance around their emotions only for an unexpected third party, a brutish farmhand, to step in.

Wes Drummond, associate artistic director and choreographer for the show, said singing and dancing often comes before acting in musicals. He said this is not the case in “Oklahoma!”

“I could not ask for a better cast,” he said. “I tell them every day that they’re my ‘Oklahoma!’ dream cast because there’s not one of them that I would trade because they’re all so perfect for the roles that they play and they bring such a realness to each character. It’s really nice to watch what feels

like real people living their lives.”

Drummond said this production has been his favorite of the four he has been involved in.

“I think it’s an ‘Oklahoma!’ that people can relate to, an ‘Oklahoma!’ that if you don’t like ‘Oklahoma!’, it’ll change your mind,” he said.

Drummond has directed and assisted in other shows where he lives in New York City such as “Oliver!”, “Les Miserables” and “Ca$h, Comfort, Sex”.

Adler Roberts, who plays the role of Curly, said he enjoys the collaborative process the playhouse offers.

“Sometimes, in other places that I’ve worked, an artistic director will have a very set idea of what they want and won’t be open to artists bringing their ideas to the table as much,” Roberts said. “But at McLeod it’s been very constructive with everyone working together.”

Roberts, of Overland Park, Kan. said this is his first summer working for the playhouse.

He will also be performing in the musical “Monty Python’s Spamalot” in July.

Associate Professor Thomas Kidd, who serves as the managing artistic director for the playhouse, said the rehearsals and set

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Baity said 710, who privately owned the parking lot outside its building, had a lease agreement with the City of Carbondale that installed meters and shared revenue.

“The city only owned seven parking spaces, three of which were being utilized by a dumpster,” Baity said.

Business owners in the area think the city’s plans for parking is not sufficient. Rick Reeves, owner of Shawnee Trails Wilderness Outfitters, said the new development, which began June 18, is already causing issues.

“Quatro’s uses 40 plus [parking] spaces for their average crowd and we don’t have much more than that anymore,” he said. “I’ve already had a customer upset because the closest place he could

production for the show took about three weeks after casting began in early March.

Deirdre Rose, 56, who plays Aunt Eller, said Kidd personally asked her to audition because he wanted an age appropriate performer for the role.

“There’s something an older actress can bring to a part where she’s had some life under her belt,” said Rose, who is originally from New York City and trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

The show will continue through the weekend at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday with a 2p.m. show on Sunday at the McLeod Theater. The playhouse will feature three more productions this summer; “Monty Python’s Spamalot”, “Charlotte’s Web”, and “Anything Goes”.

Tickets cost $25 for adults and $10 for students, which can be purchased from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the McLeod Theater or SIU Arena box offices, online at playhouse.siu.edu or by phone at 618-452-6000.

Marissa Novel can be reached at mnovel@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @marissanovelDE or at 536-3311 ext. 268.

find to park was over by Pagliai’s.”

Reeves is also concerned about how this will affect students in the fall.

“Come fall and spring semesters, we will really see the pinch because students utilize that lot during the day,” he said. “Students feed the meter, then head to campus for the day.”

Reeves said it is unnecessary to build new apartments because enrollment and city population are continually dropping.

“There is already a ton of rentals available and here we are approving 300 plus beds,” he said. “All that’s going to do is draw people from other apartments that will make it hard for those owners. … Building new apartments isn’t going to bring new students.”

Branda Mitchell can be reached at bmitchell@dailyegyptian.com.

Study: BP oil spill threatens fish JENNY STALETOVICH The Miami Herald MIAMI — In a lab on Virginia Key, a group of baby fish are being put through their paces on a tiny fish treadmill.

The inch-long mahi-mahi, being used as part of a study to assess damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that spread crude across the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days in 2010, were exposed when they were embryos to oil collected during the cleanup. Now, at 25 days old, the oil is doing exactly what scientists suspected it would do: hamper the swimming of one of the ocean’s fastest fish.

And significantly so. Young mahi usually swim at a rate of five body lengths per second.

For perspective, imagine a 6-foot man swimming 30 feet in a second. The fish, struggling against a current in a little tube attached to a propeller called a swim tunnel, can only muster three body lengths.

For a fish that needs speed to survive, this could mean bad news. Mahi, one of the most popular fish on menus, are already heavily fished. So losing a generation to an oil spill could take a toll. It also suggests that other fish suffered from the spill.

“Any life form is optimized compromise,” Martin Grosell, one of the study’s authors, said as a way of explaining physiology perfectly evolved to maximize speed. And if you mess with that treaty of parts, he said, “you’re going to increase its vulnerability.”

The treadmill study marks the second in recent months by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science that has found that oil from the largest spill in U.S. history damages young pelagic fish, the large predators found in the open ocean. In March, UM researchers working with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists determined that the BP oil also damaged the hearts of tuna embryos, a condition that likely killed them in the wild.

Both studies — disputed by BP — are worrisome because tuna, whose numbers have dropped by as much as 75 percent in the last 40 years, and mahi began their spring spawning just as the spill occurred, sending fragile embryos across warm surface waters and into a patchwork of oil slicks that covered more than six square miles.

These newest findings, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, build on that earlier report by looking at fish as they age.

BP says the study is invalid because, according to the company, the tests used concentrations of oil not found in the Gulf during or after the spill. Researchers also failed to look at adult fish, spokesman Jason Ryan said in a statement.

“The tests only looked at impacts to fish under one year of age,” he said. “Even if there had been an effect on a single-year class of such fish, the study does not provide any evidence to show that an effect on that group of fish would have had a population-level impact.”

After the spill, NOAA began enlisting scientists to investigate the damage it caused _ so far, the studies range from the acoustic damage done to endangered sperm whales to oil in fiddler crabs. For pelagic fish, which are particularly sensitive to changes in their nearconstant deep-water environment, scientists want to know how much oil it takes to affect the fish and what those effects are.

To test the mahi, researcher Ed Mager first mixed oil from the spill and seawater in a Waring blender at concentrations replicating the spill. He exposed one group of embryos to the mix for two days and then raised them in clean seawater.

Another group was raised in clean water and exposed to oil when they reached about 25 days.

Mager also wanted to ensure that no other factors stressed their performance. Like all babies, the mahi startle easily. So he wrapped the treadmill _ a clear, four-inch swim tunnel outfitted with a propeller and immersed in a two-foot tank _ in black plastic. Mager, who studied deadly respiratory viruses in premature human babies before he switched to fish, then curtained off the area and monitored his little subjects with a video camera.

Mahi are carnivores and foragers, so they swim fast. But when he turned on the treadmill, Mager was surprised to see that the outwardly healthy fish swam much slower. The ones exposed as embryos swam 37 percent slower. Those exposed as juveniles dropped 22 percent.

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Keep those pot plants potted: No more ripping weed SADIE GURMAN Associated Press

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Mike Bigler, left, and Ken and Debbie Robinson, right, all of Carbondale, talk and enjoy music by bluegrass group Tomcat Hill Social Club on Wednesday at the Carbondale Pavilion. The Carbondale Main Street Program hosts Brown Bag Concert and Lunch Specials from noon to 1 p.m. every Wednesday in May, June and September. Each lunch session features local musicians for a free concert in the Town Square Pavilion, which are “bring your own lunch and lawn chair” events. Bigler and the Robinsons, who have all worked at the university, have been attending the Brown Bag events for “as long as (they) can remember.”

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D E N V E R ( A P ) — Police in some medical marijuana states who once routinely seized illegal pot plants by ripping them out by their roots and stashing them away in musty evidence rooms to die are now thinking twice about the practice.

From Colorado and Washington state to California and Hawaii, police are being sued by people who want their marijuana back after prosecutors chose not to charge them or they were acquitted.

In some cases, the one-time suspects are asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace dead plants.

Concerns over liability have prompted some agencies to either forgo rounding-up the plants altogether or to improvise by collecting a few samples and photographing the rest to use as evidence for criminal charges.

“None of us really are sure what we’re supposed to do, and so you are on the side of caution,” said Mitch Barker, executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs.

The change comes as the notion of marijuana as medicine clashes with police seizure procedure that was developed in an era when pot was a scourge that needed to be wiped out.

“Law enforcement is going to have to think more carefully about what their procedures are and how those procedures might need to change in light of changes in the law,” said Sam Kamin, a University of Denver law professor.

Just as the smell of pot smoke may no longer be grounds to search a home or make an arrest, Kamin, who helped craft the state’s pot regulations, said, “the same evidence that two or three years ago would have given police probable cause today doesn’t.”

Most local police say they are seizing less weed postlegalization, but they still investigate if they suspect patients are growing more than they should. Federal agents face no such quandary since pot remains illegal under federal law.

Whether or not state laws require, as they do in Colorado, police to return medical marijuana intact if a suspect isn’t charged or is acquitted, departments have been sued over pot that has wilted in their evidence lockers.

In Colorado Springs, a cancer patient who had faced drug charges is suing police after 55 dead plants were returned to him. The state appeals court had to order the police to return them.

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Winston said sailors involved in the collegiate club separated from the university in roughly 2011 and renamed the club the Southern Illinois Community Sailing Group in 2013.

“The sailing times have changed a lot even since then,” he said. “[The club] was a great resource to get to come out and sail for almost free and be around other sailors.

That’s how that club worked, sailors taught other sailors.”

Amanda Chahalis, a graduate student studying social work who recently joined the sailing club, said she is surprised more students are not involved in the sailing community.

“I guess overtime the club has been losing members, not being able to collect members and it kind of just fell apart,” she said. “It would be nice to see [the club] come back together again.”

Winston said the sailing association still has roughly 30 members although the numbers have decreased over the years.

Ian Thompson, a graduate student studying curriculum and instruction secondary education who recently joined the club as well, said it is common for registered student organizations to lose members over time “RSO clubs fall up and then out all the time,” he said. “If you can’t pass a club on to somebody it dies out immediately.”

Chahalis said the sailors consistently teach people who want to learn to sail for a $30 club membership for the season, which is from April to October.

Winston said the club holds four individual races every other Sunday, which last between 20 minutes to an hour. He said sailors use a system that compares boats raced to the individual’s finish time to depict who won, so the first finisher of a race doesn’t necessarily win.

Winston also said he remembers how he originally became interested in sailing and hopes more people become interested in the sport.

“How I kind of started was I took two canoes and stuck them together to make a big platform, just a swimming platform, and I had a tent on it,” he said. “I caught wind one day and I took off down the lake. …

It was great.”

Bill Fix, 58, of Herrin, looks off into the distance as he awa Orchard Lake Sailing Association, said races usually last b

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aits the next race during a Sunday biweekly race on Crab Orchard Lake. Bob Winston, commodore of the Crab between 20 minutes to an hour.

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The NBA draft is finally upon us TYLER DIXON Daily Egyptian Up until a few days ago, the number one pick in tonight’s NBA Draft was locked in, but now it’s a two-man race.

The University of Kansas’s Joel Embiid was set to be the top pick and head to the Cleveland Cavaliers, but a foot injury has hurt Embiid’s draft stock and it’s now down to Duke University’s Jabari Parker and Embiid’s teammate at KU Andrew Wiggins.

The Cavs are split on its decision and it is a tough one. Each player brings a completely different dynamic to a team. One is explosive and one is a workhorse. One of them can dunk from the free-throw line and the other can hit a step-back fade away.

Wiggins is one of the best players in this draft, but is he the best fit for the Cavs?

Cleveland already has plenty of athletes on its roster. Kyrie Irving is getting better every season and Dion Waiters is underrated, but they dropped an egg last year in drafting Anthony Bennett with the number one pick. It’s no surprise the Cavs want LeBron James back in Cleveland. Well, maybe not the Cavs, but I think the fans have forgiven him by now.

If James were to go back to Cleveland (which I don’t think he will), then there wouldn’t be a need for Wiggins. They would already have two playmakers on the roster. But, James isn’t going back so this conversation is mute.

The best pick for the Cavs would be Parker.

Parker is comparable to free agent Carmelo Anthony, they are both bigger bodied players who can make shots. Parker would be a great addition and could help them immediately.

ESPN draft insider Chad Ford has Parker heading to Cleveland in his latest mock draft and has Embiid dropping to the sixth pick.

There are several other teams that could improve in the draft. The Philadelphia 76ers have two picks in the top 10 and have discussed a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers, which would send Philly guard Michael Carter-Williams to the Lakers in exchange for their seventh pick. If these moves were done, it would give the 76ers three top 10 picks and a huge opportunity to quickly get better.

Former Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year Doug McDermott is slotted to go ninth to the Charlotte Hornets.

It felt really good to type Hornets and not Pelicans. McDermott can do it all, but he’s not flashy. He was the Big East Player of the Year, this season, which gives him three players of the year awards during his college career. He was also the consensus National Player of the Year. McDermott will go down as one of the best college players in the last decade and he will be a prize for any team that drafts him.

Cleanthony Early was possibly the best player on the Wichita State Shockers this season, but his teammate was the MVC Player of the Year. Ford has Early going in the second round to the Cavs. Early put on a show at the MVC Tournament. He averaged 16.4 points per game and has the length needed to space the floor.

The NBA Draft is truly a spectacle. Unlike the NFL Draft, it is only two rounds and all happens in one night. Some names called in the draft have never been heard of because they play internationally, but it doesn’t matter. Every player taken in the draft could be a star for their team or could sit at the end of bench and hand water to the starters.

Tyler Dixon can be reached at tdixon@dailyegyptian.com, @tdixon _DE on Twitter or at 536-3311 ext. 252

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Amazon agony for US as lead vanishes in final seconds MICHELLE KAUFMAN The Miami Herald M A N AU S , Br a z i l — The referee’s stopwatch was 39 seconds from expiring.

The U.S. World Cup team was about to eliminate Portugal to clinch a spot in the Round of 16.

But then, Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who had been frustrated for 94 minutes and held scoreless for two games, got his $80 million feet on the ball and broke America’s hearts.

He calmly gathered a ball U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley lost in a scrum, and sent a textbook cross to Varela, who headed in the equalizing goal just before the final whistle.

The scoreboard read: USA 2, Portugal 2.

But it felt like a loss for an American team that had scrapped so hard and rallied from an early one-goal deficit on a hot, steamy night. Just 15 minutes earlier, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann jumped so high in jubilation after Clint Dempsey’s apparent game-winning goal that his belly showed.

“Football’s cruel sometimes,” said U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard, who had a spectacular save earlier to keep the Americans’ hopes alive. “We had one foot in the door.”

Said U.S. defender Matt Besler: “We like to do this the hard way. It’s the American way.”

Klinsmann, the eternal optimist, saw it this way: “It was a thriller, real exciting match. Everyone who had [the] chance to be in Manaus will talk about this for a long time. Before all this started, if you had said four points [in the] first two games, we would have been very happy. But that goal last second, when it could have been six points, it’s a bummer you have to swallow.”

A victory would have meant six points and a guaranteed

berth in the next round. Now, the Americans are tied with Germany atop Group G with four points apiece heading into their final group match Thursday in Recife.

The United States can still advance with a win over Germany, a tie with Germany, a Ghana-Portugal tie, or even with a loss to Germany depending on goal differential against Ghana and Portugal.

Klinsmann, a former star and coach for the German team, was asked three times whether there was any chance he and German coach Joachim Loew would collude to tie Thursday’s match and ensure both teams advance. Absolutely not, he said.

“You’re talking about a game that is decades away,” he said, referring to a 1982 World Cup match in which West Germany and Austria agreed to stop playing hard after Germany went up 1-0 because that score ensured both teams would advance. “The U.S. is known to give everything they have until the end of the game. We have that fighting spirit, that energy, determination to do well every game. We are very ambitious to beat Germany, get seven points and be in the driver’s seat.”

What if Loew called and asked him to tie, he was asked.

“There is no such call,” he said. “Jogi’s doing his job, I’m doing mine.

No time for friendship calls. It’s all business.”

Klinsmann said he was proud of his team’s valiant effort Sunday.

Dempsey, looking like a prize fighter with a black eye and broken nose, was a hero for the second game in a row with what appeared to be the game-winning goal in the 80th minute. He trapped a Graham Zusi ball with his stomach and knocked it in.

The U.S. team had fallen behind early after a defensive blunder by defender Geoff Cameron on a routine clearance that led to a goal for Portugal’s Nani in the fifth minute.

Under pressure to get on the scoreboard, the United States got aggressive, maintained possession of the ball for much of the first half,

had several scoring chances, but was unable to capitalize.

Bradley had a close-range shot in the 55th minute, but Portugal defender Ricardo Costa made a spectacular goal-line play.

The equalizing goal finally came in the 64th minute from midfielder Jermaine Jones, the gritty German-American who cranked in a shot from about 25 yards.

Even before the national anthems, about 10,000 U.S. fans chanted: “I Believe That We Will Win!” But the louder cheers and chants were for Portugal. The Portuguese fans were joined by Brazilians, who sided with the team that shares their language and history.

The town was in a festive mood all weekend. Main roads and narrow alleyways were decorated with yellow and green streamers, and the historic downtown and port district were hopping.

After the endless talk about the weather, the conditions in this Amazonian rain forest town were no more oppressive than a typical Miami summer day: 88 degrees (felt like 95) with 62 percent humidity.

It was uncomfortable enough, though, that Argentine referee Nestor Pitana called a water break in the 38th minute.

The U.S. team was without starting forward Jozy Altidore, who strained a left hamstring and watched from a stadium suite. Rather than replace Altidore with one of the other forwards, Klinsmann opted to go with five midfielders and employ Dempsey as the lone forward.

The extra midfielders did a good job keeping it away from Ronaldo, ganging up on him and getting in his way.

But they let him loose when it mattered most and paid the price.

“Well that hurt! Really hurt!” tweeted U.S. midfielder Alejandro Bedoya. “But we keep our heads up and move onto the next game!

It’s in our hands! We stand united!”