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By RICHARD ROSIER The Daily Journal S aturday afternoon at the Ukiah High School Cafetorium, close to 200 friends, family and for- mer students came together to remember the life a woman who helped shape the community of Ukiah -- Ardis Campbell. Ardis -- Ardie to her friends -- was a phenomenon. Throughout her life she was a loving daughter, loyal sister, dedicated wife, amazing mother, and an inspiration to hun- dreds, perhaps thousands, of people whose lives she touched. Ardis’ younger brother, Gilbert Jones, told poignant and humorous tales of their younger years, of Ardis’ birth in Oregon, the move to Ohio, eventually ending up in Chico. He painted a picture of a loyal and caring sister, whose love of learning knew no bounds. “Ardie was into everything, and everything she did, she did well,” Jones said. “She was a student from the very beginning. Perfection sounds like you’re reaching, but not for her. To lose her was particularly sad, but her memory lives on in all of you, the students she had. No one could ask for more.” During a musical interlude a slide show of her early life showed a young woman who was always smil- ing, a young woman whose love for her family was deep and abiding. These impressions were made real when her youngest child, Colton Campbell, spoke of his life with his mother. “She always said her greatest accomplishment in life was her fam- ily,” Colton said. Her three children are a testament to her success; a lawyer, a nurse, and a college pro- fessor, each a living legacy of their parents’ love. Colton shared with those gathered the three most important lessons his mother taught her children. The first lesson was to value education and hard work. She supported her chil- dren in every endeavor they pursued, stressing the importance of persever- ance and dedication. The second was the importance of planning and organization, of putting your best foot forward, and the third, to appreciate the little things in life, to appreciate modesty. Ninety per- cent of life is boring, she would say, but that’s OK. You have to appreci- ate what you have. Friends and coworkers were next to speak, including UHS counselors Antonio Lopez and Darwin Richardson. They told stories of Ardis’ humor, of her infectious laugh and her deep joy for living. The stories brought to mind a teacher who used humor and wit to engage “her kids,” to drive them on to reach whatever goals they set for themselves. Dwight Cawthon, a history teacher at Ukiah High, spoke of his experiences with Ardis as his teacher for freshman English. She was more than a teacher, he said, she was a family member, a guiding force. She knew how to push the envelope, she didn’t accept excuses and her love of seeing people succeed was conta- gious. Richardson probably put it best The Ukiah DAILY JOURNAL DAILY JOURNAL INSIDE 52 pages, Volume 148 Number 217 $1 tax included email: [email protected] ukiahdailyjournal.com Eagles learn from mistakes ..........Page A-8 Monday: Periods of rain Tuesday: Partly cloudy FORUM Go back to public voting Mendocino County’s local newspaper ................................Page A-4 SUNDAY Nov. 12, 2006 World briefly .......Page A-2 North Coast HYDRO GARDENS 3450 N. STATE STREET, UKIAH (NEXT TO WEEKS DRILLING) • PHONE 707-462-7214 • FAX 707-462-7213 • HOURS: MONDAY - FRIDAY 9 - 6 • SATURDAY - SUNDAY 11 - 3 10,000 Square Feet of Merchandise Now Carrying “Cutting Edge Solutions” Products! The Daily Journal A logging truck and a Volvo both went off the road Friday in an accident on Highway 1, north of Main Street in Mendocino at 11:20 a.m. Faye Whatley, 17, of Mendocino, was northbound on Highway 1 just north of the Little River Bridge in a 1998 Volvo Sedan. She pulled into the left turn lane and proceed- ed to make the turn onto Main Street. According to reports from the California Highway Patrol, Whatley did not see William Gibney, 58, of Fort Bragg, heading southbound on Highway 1 in a 1999 Peterbuilt logging truck that was carrying a full load of redwood logs. Whatley made a left turn in front of Gibney, saw the log- ging truck, and attempted to accelerate out of the truck’s path. The logging truck collided with the right side of Whatley’s Volvo which spun towards Main Street and then rolled backwards over the south embankment. Gibney veered right to avoid hitting Denise O’Reilly, 57, of Mendocino, who was sitting on the west-side guard rail, south of Main Street, and drove the logging truck off the west embankment where it came to rest partially blocking Highway 1. Nobody was injured in this accident, although Whatley was taken to Mendocino Coast District Hospital for observation. By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Another aftershock from Thursday’s earthquakes , this one measuring 2.8 magnitude, struck the same area south of Willits, bringing the 48-hour total for seismic events to 13. The quakes and all of their aftershocks have had the same epicenter, five-miles southeast of Willits on the Maacama fault zone. The Maacama is the northern exten- sion of the Hayward fault that runs from a point north of Willits to south through Ukiah, Cloverdale and Santa Rosa. The first, and largest quake, was a 4.0 magnitude event that occurred at 12:38 a.m. Thursday. It was followed an hour later by a 2.6 magnitude aftershock at 1:44 a.m. and a two hours after than by a 2.5 magnitude aftershock at 3:46 a.m. Five more aftershocks occurred on that spot throughout Thursday, ranging from 2.8 magnitude to a 1.4 magnitude. A second sizable quake struck at 9:05 p.m. Thursday night with four more after- shocks, measuring between 2.8 magni- tude and 1.8 magnitude, that continued through Friday and into Saturday. According to United States Geological Survey Spokesperson Bill Lukas, this sort of activity is not uncommon along the Maacama fault. For more information about earth- quakes visit the USGS website at www.usgs.gov/. By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal On Wednesday, the Ukiah City Council will consider a sales tax revenue sharing agreement with the County of Mendocino that if approved by both entities could allow for future annexation by the city. The proposed agreement was devel- oped and approved by a subcommittee of Mayor Mark Ashiku, Councilman John McCowen and County Supervisors Jim Wattenburger and Michael Delbar. According to the tentative proposal, in the first five years of the poten- tial 20- year agree- ment, new sales tax revenue and increases to current revenue in the city limits and its sphere of influence (county land that is likely to be incorporated in the city in the next 20 years) would be divided with 65 percent going to the city and 35 percent to the county. “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause,” directed by Michael Lembeck and star- ring Tim Allen (“The Shaggy Dog”), Elizabeth Mitchell (“Running Scared”), Spencer Breslin (“The Shaggy Dog”), Aisha Tyler (“Ghost Whispererî”TV series) and many others in this quaint Christmas adventure sequel. Santa and his wife Mrs. Claus are awaiting the arrival of their first born while in the ‘Santa Clause 3’ City, county tax sharing pact a step closer Logging truck mishap blocks Highway 1 Mini-quakes continue in area focus on film By Shelby White COMMUNITY GATHERS AT UKIAH HIGH A beloved teacher All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. -- William Shakespeare (Among the quotes Ardis Campbell saved for sharing with her family) Sphere of influence also up for discussion The Daily Journal On Wednesday , the Ukiah City Council will also discuss expanding its sphere of influence. A city’s sphere of influ- ence, as set forth by law, should represent the ulti- mate limits to which the city will extend its services, embrace new territory and anticipate its growth over the next 20 years, accord- ing to the staff report. A draft of proposed lim- its, as developed by a com- mittee comprised of Mayor Mark Ashiku, Councilman John McCowen and Supervisors Jim Wattenburger and Michael McCowen Wattenburger See MOVIE, Page A-13 See TEACHER, Page A-14 See TAX, Page A-13 See SPHERE, Page A-13 Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Gilbert Jones, Ardis Campbell’s brother, speaks of her during a memorial service held for her at Ukiah High School on Saturday.
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By RICHARD ROSIERThe Daily Journal
Saturday afternoon at the UkiahHigh School Cafetorium, closeto 200 friends, family and for-
mer students came together toremember the life a woman whohelped shape the community ofUkiah -- Ardis Campbell.
Ardis -- Ardie to her friends --was a phenomenon. Throughout herlife she was a loving daughter, loyalsister, dedicated wife, amazingmother, and an inspiration to hun-dreds, perhaps thousands, of peoplewhose lives she touched.
Ardis’ younger brother, GilbertJones, told poignant and humoroustales of their younger years, ofArdis’ birth in Oregon, the move toOhio, eventually ending up in Chico.He painted a picture of a loyal andcaring sister, whose love of learningknew no bounds.
“Ardie was into everything, andeverything she did, she did well,”Jones said. “She was a student fromthe very beginning. Perfectionsounds like you’re reaching, but notfor her. To lose her was particularlysad, but her memory lives on in allof you, the students she had. No onecould ask for more.”
During a musical interlude a slideshow of her early life showed ayoung woman who was always smil-ing, a young woman whose love forher family was deep and abiding.These impressions were made realwhen her youngest child, ColtonCampbell, spoke of his life with hismother.
“She always said her greatestaccomplishment in life was her fam-ily,” Colton said. Her three childrenare a testament to her success; alawyer, a nurse, and a college pro-fessor, each a living legacy of theirparents’ love.
Colton shared with those gatheredthe three most important lessons hismother taught her children. The firstlesson was to value education andhard work. She supported her chil-dren in every endeavor they pursued,stressing the importance of persever-ance and dedication.
The second was the importance ofplanning and organization, of puttingyour best foot forward, and the third,to appreciate the little things in life,to appreciate modesty. Ninety per-cent of life is boring, she would say,but that’s OK. You have to appreci-ate what you have.
Friends and coworkers were nextto speak, including UHS counselorsAntonio Lopez and DarwinRichardson. They told stories of
Ardis’ humor, of her infectious laughand her deep joy for living.
The stories brought to mind ateacher who used humor and wit toengage “her kids,” to drive them onto reach whatever goals they set forthemselves.
Dwight Cawthon, a historyteacher at Ukiah High, spoke of hisexperiences with Ardis as his teacherfor freshman English. She was morethan a teacher, he said, she was afamily member, a guiding force. Sheknew how to push the envelope, shedidn’t accept excuses and her love ofseeing people succeed was conta-gious.
Richardson probably put it best
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The Daily JournalA logging truck and a
Volvo both went off the roadFriday in an accident onHighway 1, north of MainStreet in Mendocino at 11:20a.m.
Faye Whatley, 17, ofMendocino, was northboundon Highway 1 just north of theLittle River Bridge in a 1998Volvo Sedan. She pulled intothe left turn lane and proceed-ed to make the turn onto MainStreet.
According to reports fromthe California HighwayPatrol, Whatley did not seeWilliam Gibney, 58, of FortBragg, heading southboundon Highway 1 in a 1999Peterbuilt logging truck thatwas carrying a full load ofredwood logs.
Whatley made a left turn in
front of Gibney, saw the log-ging truck, and attempted toaccelerate out of the truck’spath.
The logging truck collidedwith the right side ofWhatley’s Volvo which spuntowards Main Street and thenrolled backwards over thesouth embankment.
Gibney veered right toavoid hitting Denise O’Reilly,57, of Mendocino, who wassitting on the west-side guardrail, south of Main Street, anddrove the logging truck off thewest embankment where itcame to rest partially blockingHighway 1.
Nobody was injured in thisaccident, although Whatleywas taken to MendocinoCoast District Hospital forobservation.
By BEN BROWNThe Daily Journal
Another aftershock from Thursday’searthquakes , this one measuring 2.8magnitude, struck the same area south ofWillits, bringing the 48-hour total forseismic events to 13.
The quakes and all of their aftershockshave had the same epicenter, five-milessoutheast of Willits on the Maacama faultzone.
The Maacama is the northern exten-
sion of the Hayward fault that runs froma point north of Willits to south throughUkiah, Cloverdale and Santa Rosa.
The first, and largest quake, was a 4.0magnitude event that occurred at 12:38a.m. Thursday. It was followed an hourlater by a 2.6 magnitude aftershock at1:44 a.m. and a two hours after than by a2.5 magnitude aftershock at 3:46 a.m.
Five more aftershocks occurred on thatspot throughout Thursday, ranging from2.8 magnitude to a 1.4 magnitude.
A second sizable quake struck at 9:05p.m. Thursday night with four more after-shocks, measuring between 2.8 magni-tude and 1.8 magnitude, that continuedthrough Friday and into Saturday.
According to United States GeologicalSurvey Spokesperson Bill Lukas, thissort of activity is not uncommon alongthe Maacama fault.
For more information about earth-quakes visit the USGS website atwww.usgs.gov/.
By KATIE MINTZThe Daily Journal
On Wednesday, the UkiahCity Council will consider asales tax revenue sharingagreement with the County ofMendocino that if approved
by bothentitiescouldallow forfutureannexationby thecity.
Theproposedagreementwas devel-oped and
approved by a subcommitteeof Mayor Mark Ashiku,Councilman John McCowenand County Supervisors JimWattenburger and MichaelDelbar.
According to the tentativeproposal, in the first five
years ofthe poten-tial 20-yearagree-ment, newsales taxrevenueandincreasesto currentrevenue in
the city limits and its sphereof influence (county land thatis likely to be incorporated inthe city in the next 20 years)would be divided with 65percent going to the city and35 percent to the county.
“The Santa Clause 3: TheEscape Clause,” directed byMichael Lembeck and star-ring Tim Allen (“The ShaggyDog”), Elizabeth Mitchell(“Running Scared”), SpencerBreslin (“The Shaggy Dog”),Aisha Tyler (“GhostWhispererî”TV series) andmany others in this quaintChristmas adventure sequel.
Santa and his wife Mrs.Claus are awaiting the arrivalof their first born while in the
‘Santa Clause 3’
City, county tax sharing pact a step closer
Logging truck mishapblocks Highway 1
Mini-quakes continue in area
focus on filmBy Shelby White
COMMUNITY GATHERS AT UKIAH HIGH
A beloved teacherAll the world’s a stage,And all the menand women merely players;They have theirexits and their entrances,And one man in histime plays manyparts.
-- WilliamShakespeare
(Among thequotes ArdisCampbell savedfor sharing withher family)
Sphere of influence also up for discussionThe Daily Journal
On Wednesday , theUkiah City Council willalso discuss expanding itssphere of influence.
A city’s sphere of influ-ence, as set forth by law,should represent the ulti-mate limits to which thecity will extend its services,embrace new territory andanticipate its growth overthe next 20 years, accord-ing to the staff report.
A draft of proposed lim-its, as developed by a com-mittee comprised of MayorMark Ashiku, CouncilmanJohn McCowen andSupervisors JimWattenburger and Michael
McCowen
Wattenburger
See MOVIE, Page A-13
See TEACHER, Page A-14
See TAX, Page A-13
See SPHERE, Page A-13
Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal
Gilbert Jones, Ardis Campbell’s brother, speaks of her during amemorial service held for her at Ukiah High School on Saturday.
Gunmen ambush minibuses south ofBaghdad; 10 Shiite passengers killed
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Sunni gunmen ambushed a con-voy of minibuses Saturday night at a fake checkpoint on thedangerous highway south of Baghdad, killing 10 Shiite passen-gers and kidnapping about 50. Across the country at least 52other people were killed in violence or were found dead, five ofthem decapitated Iraqi soldiers.
Police said the mass kidnapping and killing was near thevolatile town of Latifiyah, about 20 miles south of Baghdad inthe so-called Triangle of Death.
Shiite Muslims, a minority in that district, have routinelycome under attack from Sunni insurgents who control the terri-tory. The highway passing through the region from Baghdadleads to Najaf, the holiest Shiite city in Iraq. Shiite pilgrimshave become a favorite target of Sunni gunmen, although it wasnot immediately known where the victims of Saturday night’sassault were headed.
Sectarian revenge killings in Baghdad and the mixed Sunni-Shiite regions surrounding the capital have reached civil warproportions. Morgues across a wide sweep of the center of thecountry are full as Shiite militiamen and death squads rangethrough the region killing Sunnis.
Democrats now look to sustain theirmajority after riding anti-GOP wave
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the question Democrats wouldrather not ask in their moment of revelry: Are their new majori-ties in the House and Senate sustainable?
What if the war in Iraq is over by 2008? Or what if it is stillbeing waged despite Democratic pledges to change the course?What if voter antipathy toward President Bush is irrelevant intwo years? After all, he will be on his way out.
“Who knows whether these things are long-term trends ornot,” Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said last week.
Voters gave Democrats control of Congress but did notundergo an ideological conversion. The Democrats’ success hadmore to do with anger toward President Bush, weariness overthe war and contempt for the corruption and scandal inCongress — a confluence of negatives that became a politicalforce.
As some Democrats begin looking to 2008 and beyond, thechallenge is how to turn antipathy toward Republicans intoaffection for Democrats.
On Veterans Day, Bush hails membersof armed services for their dedication
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Bush marked VeteransDay by praising U.S. troops who have fought oppressionaround the world, yet spoke only briefly about Iraq, where U.S.commanders are re-evaluating strategy.
Speaking three days after announcing the ouster of DefenseSecretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bush hailed members of thearmed services — past, present and future — for their dedica-tion and bravery.
“They confront grave danger to defend the safety of theAmerican people. They brought down tyrants. They’ve liberat-ed two nations. They have helped bring freedom to more than50 million people. Through their sacrifice, they’re making thisnation safer and more secure, and they are earning the proudtitle of veteran,” Bush said in a speech Saturday at ArlingtonNational Cemetery.
Bush did not reference Iraq and Afghanistan by name,though he did say, “From Valley Forge to Vietnam, fromKuwait to Kandahar, from Berlin to Baghdad, our veterans haveborne the costs of America’s wars, and they have stood watchover America’s peace.”
Discovery of more 9/11 remains atGround Zero proves tough for families
NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Jane Waring has waited fiveyears for someone to find her brother so she can bury a small
part of what she lost on Sept. 11, 2001.But since the recent discovery of hundreds more bones in
long-buried places at ground zero, she has become afraid of theemotions that could be stirred up.
“If they do find something, it would be very upsetting foreverybody,” said Waring, whose brother, James Waring, died inthe top floors of the World Trade Center’s north tower.
Some people who never received any remains of their fami-ly members are uncertain about what they want to find. Others,who have already buried some remains, face the possibility ofanother funeral or burial.
Hope for the return of remains to families of the 2,749 peo-ple who died at the trade center — more than 40 percent ofwhom have never been identified — has grown with the recentdiscoveries, and forensic experts say advances in DNA technol-ogy could lead to new identifications for many victims.
Cold War icon Daniel Ortega trades inMarx for God, promises ties with U.S.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Daniel Ortega returns toNicaragua’s presidency a shadow of the fiery revolutionary whoin Cold War times vowed an endless fight against a U.S. gov-ernment determined to overthrow him.
Balding, weakened by heart trouble and often appearingalmost docile, he now preaches reconciliation and stability, andpromises to maintain close ties with the U.S. and the veteransof the Contra army it trained and armed against him.
He has traded his wartime military fatigues for a white shirtand jeans. His guide, he says, is God, not Karl Marx.
The United States and his rivals worry the Sandinista revo-lutionary in him will resurface, as Venezuelan President HugoChavez and Cuban leader Fidel Castro welcome him into a clubof leftist leaders fighting American dominance in the region.
But Ortega, who was president in 1985-90, the height of theContra insurgency, says he has traded war for peace, love andconsensus.
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LARRY LYON KINNEY, D.C. Larry was born in
Hardin County, Iowa, July 8, 1934. He passed awayfrom natural causes on Sunday, November 5,2006, while deer hunting in Colorado. Hewas 72. Larry mar-ried Valda (Val) Kolling inHardin County, Io-wa in 1955. The marriagewas blessed with a family of three sons.
Larry graduated fromParker Chiropractic Col-lege, Davenport, Iowa, in1956. Larry and Val moved their practice toUkiah in 1968 from Hayward, CA. He was achiropractor for 42 years before retiring in1996. He was very ac-tive with Faith LutheranChurch, a member of
the Ukiah Elks Club, andthe Ukiah Men’s Golf Club. He was a pastpresident of the Lake Mendocino LionsClub and hosted two Japanese exchange stu-dents. As a member of the Lake MendocinoLions Club, he was af-filiated with both the MissMendocino Pag-eant, and the MissCalifornia Pageant.
Larry enjoyed life. Hewas a wonderful, caring husband and father. Larryhad a very giving spirit and was willing tohelp anyone. He thor-oughly enjoyed his familyand friends. He had a passion for hunting, fish-ing, playing golf, woodworking and travelingthe world.
Larry is survived by hisloving wife of 51 years Val of Ukiah; son SteveKinney and wife Julie of Philipsburg, Montana,son Mike Kinney and wife Shelly of Windsor,son Scott Kinney DC and wife Kathy ofUkiah, sister Mary Lou Higley of Tehachapi, CA;grandchildren Mor-iah Kinney of Westwood,CA, Josh Kinney of Hawaii, Jeramie Nowlin,Tyler Kinney and
Haylee Kinney of Windsor,Brandon Kinney of Ukiah; and great-grand-child Logan Kinney of Westwood, CA. He waspreceded in death by his parents Louis andMartha Kinney, broth-ers Marlyn Kinney andPatric Kinney DC.
Services will be held atEversole Mortuary on Monday, November 13th at1 pm with a re-ception to follow at FaithLutheran Church, 560 Park Blvd, Ukiah.Viewing will be from 9 am until 1 pm on Monday.
The family has requestedin lieu of flowers that donations may bemade to Faith Luther-an Church, 560 Park Blvd.Ukiah, CA 95482, or to the charity of yourchoice.
Arrangements are underthe direction of the Eversole Mortuary.
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A celebration of life willbe held at a later date for Virginia Hammond ofUkiah who passed away on Saturday,November 4, 2006 at her home with her family.
Born July 17, 1932 inSacramento, California,
she has resided in Ukiahfor the past 50 years. Virginia worked forPacific Telephone for 30 years. She was amember of Tele-phone Pioneers and NativeDaughters.
Virginia is survived byher husband of 56 years, Donald Hammond ofUkiah, daughters Donna and Don Bone ofPotter Valley, Denise and Bob Logan of Oregon,sons Dwain Ham-mond and Daryl andShaloma Hammond of Ukiah, brother BillVanTassel and family of Linden, California, grand-children Sherry An-drews, Todd Huey,Daphine Harris, Lindsey Marshall, Jason, Chris,Hank, Tennessee and Don Logan, Devin, Cody,Kyle, Kyla, Dustin and Dylan Hammond. Ninegreat-grandchil-dren also survive. She waspreceded in death by her parents Atha andEarl VanTassel and son Donald Hammond, Jr.
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Board ofSupervisors Nov.13, 2006 workshop
The Board of Supervisorswill hold a workshop aboutfire and emergency servicesin Conference Room C at theCounty AdministrationCenter, 501 Low Gap Rd.,Ukiah, beginning at 1:30 p.m.Monday. The workshop willalso be televised on Channel3 beginning at approximately1:30 p.m. All agenda itemsare presented for discussionand possible action.
1.Welcome/Introduction/Review of Workshop Agenda
2. Report from Board AdHoc Committee onFire/EMS/EmergencyServices
• Supervisors Wattenburgerand Wagenet
3. Reports from FireDistricts
• Representatives from theCounty’s Fire Districts willProvide Brief Presentations
4. Background DateProvided by Staff
5. Describe Challenges
6. Discussion and PossibleAction Regarding PotentialSolutions and Funding ofEmergency ServicesPrograms
7. Provide Direction toStaff for Follow-through
8. Summation• ublic
Expression/Comment• Adjournment
County Board of Supervisors Nov. 14, 2006 regular meeting
The Board of Supervisorswill meet in the BoardChambers at the CountyAdministration Center, 501Low Gap Road, Ukiah. TheBoard meeting will also betelevised on Channel 3 begin-ning at approximately 11:15a.m.
Among agenda items:Closed Session (9:05 a.m.) • Conference with Labor
Negotiator --County employ-ees
• Conference with LaborNegotiator - IHSS employees
• Litigation: Linda Pitman
v. Erika DeMille; BruceLoberg, County ofMendocino
• Conference with LegalCounsel -- ExistingLitigation: Keith A. Faulder,Petitioner vs. MendocinoCounty Board of Supervisorsand Marsha Wharff,Assessor/County Clerk-Recorder, Respondents
•Conference with RealProperty Negotiator --Property: Point Arena AirForce Base
Open session:• Discussion and Possible
Direction RegardingRevisions to the ChiefExecutive Officer Ordinance
• Timed Item -- 11:15 a.m.:Discussion and PossibleAction Including Adoption ofa Resolution ApprovingDepartment of TransportationAgreement No. 060157Cooperative AgreementBetween Caltrans and Countyfor Roundabout at theIntersection of SR-175 andOld River Road, CR 201, atM.P. 1.48 (Hopland Area) --Sponsoring Department:Transportation
• Timed Item -- 2 p.m.:Presentation, Discussion, andPossible Action Regardingthe Health and HumanServices Agency (HHSA)
Strategic Plan -- SponsoringDepartment: HHSA
• Timed Item -- 2:30 p.m.:Discussion and PossibleAction Including Adoption ofResolution OutliningProcedures for Compliancewith the State Density BonusLaw in Association withSubdivision No. S 3-2005(Garden’s Gate) --Sponsoring Department:Planning and BuildingServices
• CommitteeReports/Supervisors Reports
(a) Supervisors Reports (b) Discussion and
Possible Appointment ofBoard MemberRepresentative and AlternateRepresentative to theCalifornia State Associationof Counties (CSAC) Board ofDirectors for 2007
• Timed Item -- 1:30p.m.: Discussion and PossibleAction RegardingPresentation by SenatorWesley Chesbro, “Year EndReport” Pertaining to thisYear’s Legislative Session,State Financial Condition,and Associated Items ofInterest or Significance toMendocino County
To view the complete agen-da, including consent calen-dar items, visit www.co.men-docino.ca.us/bos/.
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By SCOTT LINDLAWAssociated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —House Speaker Tip O’Neillsecured down payments forBoston’s Big Dig. SamRayburn sent gushers of cashback to Texas, along with taxbreaks that helped its oilindustry. Hospitals, schoolsand non-profits in DennisHastert’s home town ofAurora, Ill. have seen millionsroll in during his reign asspeaker.
Now Rep. Nancy Pelosi ofSan Francisco is poised to fol-low them as House speaker —a perch predecessors used tochannel big cash to pet pro-jects back home.
“There’s a long traditionwhere not only can you bringback your average pork as amember of Congress, butspeaker pork gives you a lot ofmoney, a lot of influence overthe purse,” said Julian E.Zelizer, a congressional histo-rian at Boston University.
Democrat Pelosi will be thefirst Californian to hold thepost, and congressionalwatchdogs say they’ll beobserving her new spendingclout with great interest.
There are “a lot of peepingchicks everywhere,” said TimRansdell, executive directorof the California Institute forFederal Policy Research in
Washington, D.C. “Andimplicitly the House speakerhas a nice war chest to startwith.”
Aides to Pelosi don’t dis-pute that the state will benefitfrom a changing of the guardat the Capitol. “From thespeaker’s chair to committeechairs, Californians inCongress will have additionalclout to help the home state,”said Pelosi spokeswomanJennifer Crider.
But less than a week afterthe election, Pelosi has no spe-cific wish list for her homedistrict, Crider said.
As she has moved upthrough the ranks of spendingcommittees and theDemocratic leadership, Pelosihas already helped send mil-lions of dollars back home.
According to CitizensAgainst Government Waste, a
federal spending watchdog, inthe last two fiscal years Pelosihas helped obtain:
—$6.7 million for thePresidio Dental Clinic.
—$2.1 million for the SanFrancisco Maritime NationalHistoric Park.
—$388,000 to the FilipinoCultural Center in SanFrancisco for “rehabilitation.”
Now, as she prepares toassume one of the most pow-erful posts in Congress, sec-ond in the line of successionto the presidency, the pressureto funnel money to the SanFrancisco Bay Area is boundto increase, Ransdell said.
“The transportation crowdwill want rebuilding of free-ways or the Bay Bridgeaccess, or else more moneyfor a transit project here orthere,” he said. “The social-services community will want
additional funding perhaps fora welfare program, or elsemaybe construction of addi-tional low-income housing orhomeless housing.”
As she considers thoserequests for hometown pro-jects, Pelosi has powerfulpartners: Sen. DianneFeinstein, whose home base isalso San Francisco. WithDemocrats taking over theSenate, Feinstein will likelyassume leadership of an influ-ential spending subcommittee.
California’s junior senator,Democrat Barbara Boxer, hasroots just outside SanFrancisco in Marin Countyand will assume the chair ofthe Environment and PublicWorks Committee, key intransportation projects and cli-mate-change research.
Pelosi is set to ascend tospeaker in January, and Houseand Senate members typicallymake their spending requeststo key committee members byFebruary. But interest groupsare already lining up.
Pelosi identified stem cellresearch as one theDemocrats’ top six prioritiesduring this year’s campaign.That has raised hopes at theSan Francisco-basedCalifornia Institute forRegenerative Medicine, thestate’s stem cell agency.
Robert Klein, who chairs
the committee that overseesthe agency, said he chattedwith Pelosi three days beforethe election about her commit-ment to stem cell research.
During their brief conver-sation, Pelosi made no federalfunding pledge to the stemcell agency, which is autho-rized to dole out about $3 bil-lion in state bond money forstem cell research.
Still, Klein said the agencywill benefit from Pelosi’s newinfluence in passing favorablelegislation expanding researchfunding elsewhere in thecountry while squelchingunfavorable bills such as onethat would have criminalizedhuman embryonic stem cellresearch.
“Expectations are going tobe, ’Oh gosh, the floodgatesare going to open inCalifornia,”’ said ScottSudduth, the University ofCalifornia’s liaison to the fed-eral government.
While Sudduth said that isprobably unrealistic, he saidhe was hopeful that broadpolitical changes will benefitUC. “It’s not for a specificproject per se, but it will be(helpful) for more investmentin federal research and devel-opment,” he said.
With Congress certain tointensify its interest in alterna-tive energy and biotechnolo-
gy, Sudduth said UC officialsmet with Pelosi several weeksago to make sure she knew theuniversity system’s resourcesare available, Sudduth said.
And having a Californiaspeaker can help the federalagencies that finance thatresearch maintain their fund-ing — money that tricklesdown to UC’s research institu-tions, he said.
In September, the Housechanged its rules to end secretpork projects. The resolutionbanned a practice in whichlawmakers anonymouslyinsert “earmarks” — narrowlytailored spending that oftenhelps a specific company orproject in their district — intobills.
The measure required law-makers to identify the specialprojects they slip into legisla-tion. Pelosi voted against it.Crider said Pelosi wanted amore stringent package ofrules, but that measure ulti-mately failed.
One of Pelosi’s first actionsin January will be to try againto pass “a strong rules pack-age” that would among otherthing renew and strengthenthe ban on secret earmarks,Crider said.
Associated Press WriterPaul Elias contributed to thisstory.
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A-4 – SUNDAY, NOV. 12, 2006
The Ukiah Daily Journal
November 7th I worked at the polls as I have donesince 1998, when Mendocino County voted by punch-ing cards. At that time, some of the smaller precinctshad become absentee precincts, but not so many as toslow down the counting of the votes. We had faith inour old-fashioned ballots. And we got results quickly.
But, after the 2000 election in Florida, Congressdecided that the old ways were not trustworthy. We hadto modernize. And modernize we did. We got votingmachines. We also had to assure handicap access topolling places.
After the 2004 elections we learned about problemswith those machines. Ah ha, we in Mendocino Countythought, we were safe because we voted with paperballots. We had a paper trail and machines - the best ofboth worlds. But paying for all those machines wasvery expensive. Elections were getting expensive.
How to save money? Did we really need to have all those polling places?
For sure, we needed polling places where there couldbe handicap access. Our elections supervisor, MarshaWharff, thought she could solve the financial burdencreated by the federal requirements. She closed 70 per-cent of the precincts before this year’s June Primary tosave money and to guarantee handicap access at theremaining precincts. Closing all those precincts how-ever has its own costs, not so much in terms of money,but now we don’t know outcome of elections for sev-eral days, if not weeks. How did it come to this?
Why are results delayed? Here is what I have learned. Step One was to figure
out how to eliminate the numerous walk-in precincts.Section 3005 of the State Elections Code allows theclosing of precincts having fewer than 250 registeredvoters. Under the Elections Code, precincts can’t bedivided just to close the smaller precincts, but they canbe divided for other reasons.
Step Two: Devise a legally acceptable rationale fordividing the precincts. In Mendocino County theprecincts were first divided to conform to the variousdistricts such as the water and fire districts. In explain-ing the rationale for doing this, Marsha Wharff saidhaving different ballot types within a single precinctwas confusing and that making the precincts conformto the water or fire districts would reduce that confu-sion. Whether there was such confusion is debatable.In any case, Marsha Wharff divided the precincts,resulting in many precincts having fewer than 250 reg-istered voters. She then closed the smaller precincts.
Savings?Did dividing precincts and closing so many save
money? We should ask the County to compare thecosts of elections before dividing and closing manyprecincts and the costs now. In any case, closing theprecincts has had some unintended consequences.
How do we vote now? In the Brutocao School House Plaza (old Hopland
High School) precinct where I worked on November7th, there are about 260 registered voters. Many ofthem chose to vote absentee. Take note: Every ballotthat isn’t counted at a polling place requires extra workat the county offices. The Nov. 10 Santa Rosa PressDemocrat reports that approximately 12 steps must betaken before absentee ballots can be counted. One ofthose steps is checking signatures. Where a signaturedoesn’t match the signature cards on file, the ballotisn’t counted. Only if there is time the voter is notifiedto fill out a new card.
Approximately 85 voters in the Brutocao precinctchose to vote at the polling place. Before getting a bal-lot, those voters must identify themselves by statingtheir names and signing the roster. They can thenchoose to vote by filling out a ballot that is scannedand tallied as it is dropped into the ballot box, or voteon the touchscreen voting machine. Those votes aswell are tallied by the machine.
Approximately 70 voters chose to drop off theirabsentee ballots at Brutocao. Those voters includedsome from the Brutocao precinct and some from otherprecincts. Many of the voters said they were doing thisbecause they wanted to vote in person - that it madethem feel like they were doing their civic duty. Theyalso wanted to see their neighbors doing the same - tobe part of the tradition of voting in person. And, theywanted to get an “I voted” sticker that said to the world“I voted.” Absentee voters don’t get to perform theircivic duty in public, don’t get to visit with their neigh-bors, and don’t get “I voted” stickers. Several votersexpressed great sadness that their polling place hadclosed. The “drop-off” ballots, however, must bechecked in the County office before they can be count-ed.
At Brutocao, approximately 40 or so voters had losttheir ballots or had not realized they no longer had apolling place. Those voters had to vote provisionally.Voting provisionally requires filling out a form on apink envelope, having a poll worker review it, thenvoting on a regular ballot, but instead of placing thatballot in the scanner, the ballot goes into the pink enve-lope. In the County office it is checked to determinewhether the voter is indeed eligible to vote. Only aftera review and determination of validity, is a provision-al ballot counted. Again, several extra steps arerequired before a provisional ballot actually getscounted.
Where’s our sacrifice? Our values?
To the Editor:Is Osama Bin Laden right? Bin Laden and radical Muslims maybe
very much disliked in the United States,however, I will have to agree with them ona couple of points. America has becomematerialistic and greedy. If we think aboutall the money that goes on behind thescenes for lobbyists, congress, sports, bro-kers, and the mass marketing that is dis-played in big box stores, one must wonderwhat the noble word “freedom” and thatoften coined “economy” really means any-more.
A prime example of this is Thanksgivingsales. Parents who have to give their kidseverything will dole out $699 to buy theXBOX 360 or roughly that for the newPlaystation 3. Each year the “new” toy hitsthe shelf and the retailers open at 4 a.m.,then 3 a.m., then 2 a.m. Parents then standin the cold for these things. Patriotism andsacrifice has nothing to do with material-ism. It has everything to do with the moralsand values we need to teach our children.
Maybe it’s high time we start volunteer-ing more to read a book, turn off the televi-sion, shut down the cell phone use, and getback to morality. Creating new laws doesnot provide the security for our nation, Ordo you think that because murder is out-lawed people stop killing? More laws willnot stop the moral decline of America.Families praying together will.
So next time you think Bin Laden is theenemy, or that our current administration orfuture administration can and will bringsecurity and safety for your family, I hopeyou consider that the biggest downfall thatis happening in America comes from “sell-ing out” to the belief that more toys andgizmos will keep you happy. Become dedi-cated to the values of the family andAmerica ... and not being dedicated tostanding in the cold lines of corporate con-quest. Most of all, pray for America.
P.S. I am not a supporter of Bin Ladenor his tactics. However, his dedication toprinciples by which he stands is severelylacking in the heart of America.
Brian WellsRedwood Valley
Why put this on the Web?To the Editor:I am angry with the Bush administra-
tion’s public posting of nuclear bomb mak-ing material. According to The New YorkTimes (... Nuclear Primer, Nov. 3, 2006), adetailed account of Iraq’s secret nuclearresearch was posted on the Web underpressure from congressional Republicans.They were hoping to find new evidence ofprewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.The material was recently taken off theWeb after a number of weapons expertssaid the information constituted a basicguide to building an atom bomb. Sensitivechemical-weapons documents had alsobeen posted.
This story marks a new height of incom-petence for President Bush who approvedthe web site’s creation after CongressionalRepublicans proposed legislation to forcethe documents’ release.
William A. SelfRedwood Valley
Expose gang members at any age
To the Editor:I have become increasingly concerned
about the escalation of gang activity in ourcommunity. Almost every week there issomething in your police report or otherarticles stating that an incident was “gangrelated.”
Such incidents have occurred in our
schools and college campuses and on ourstreets. This past Halloween night therewas a very serious “chain and iron” gangfight on Waugh Lane just a few hundredfeet from a senior residence complex andnear children.
This community, county and state can nolonger ignore this threat to the peace of ourcities and must take drastic measures toresolve the problem. Just this letter won’tdo it. Talking about the problem at lunch orin small groups won’t curtail or stop it.What will put a stop to it is to change thelaw.
I propose that if a crime is labeled as“gang related” that the minor’s name bereleased to the public. This would solvemany problems. First the neighbors and cit-izens will know the person and recognizethat they are law breakers and will be moreprepared and wary of these individuals.
Secondly “shame” is a good deterrent toyoung people and their parents. If their 11-year-old is involved in a gang related inci-dent and his/her name is mentioned andpublicized they might have more incentiveto control their child and be embarrassedenough to take action.
Thirdly with the names being released,the parents will be liable for damages. Thiswould also force parents to reign in theirchildren and enforce curfews or put themin group homes if they are uncontrollable.
The very young are the most vulnerableto join a gang. Many do so to pressure. If
the parent and the public apply equal pres-sure to stay away from gangs and the gangmembers become more exposed, this couldslow down the steady increase in gangs andsubsequently reduce incidents of crime.
Our legislators originally put in the lawabout not disclosing minor’s names to pro-tect the minor. Just their association withprofessional criminals (which gang mem-bers are) strips them of this protection. Istrongly feel that gangs are clearly groupsup to no good and who, by their structure,create career criminals. Therefore, partici-pants in their activities have not earned anyprotection from the law. An addendum or anew law could be created to publish thenames of minors involved in gang activity.Is there a legislator out there willing totackle such a change?
Chuck ReedUkiah
Stay the courseTo the Editor:As I sat here reviewing the election
results and came upon Measure Y, I foundthat it had a 64 percent approval rating. Iam a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedomand Operation Enduring Freedom and haveseen first hand the death and destructionthat these terrorists leave in their wake, andlet me tell you it’s not cool.
If we left that country before the missionis completed then we will all see first hand
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In our opinion
The week’s continuing drama over elec-tion results has shown us that Election Dayis largely a thing of the past. No longer arewe all voting on one day and getting thosevotes counted quickly and efficiently overthe course of a dramatic night and seeingresults the next morning. Now elections aredrawn out exercises in frustration.
Because of the determined belief by manyelections officials - including our ownCounty Clerk Marsha Wharff - that some-how mail voting is better, we have citizensvoting long before all the information aboutcandidates is out there, and we have daysand sometimes weeks of the counting andrecounting of ballots afterwards.
Marsha Wharff is a by-the-book personand we have lauded her in the past for herstance requiring paper trails behind any vot-ing machine used in this county. But webelieve that forcing people to vote by mail
when they want to have polls to go to shouldbe stopped. Plus, the process of electionswhen people go to the polls appears to be amuch smoother one.
Beyond that, Tuesday’s election was anexercise in confusion and lack of communi-cation and we do not have a lot of faith rightnow in Wharff’s ability to give us accurateresults without a full hand count of all bal-lots.
The usual recount of 1 percent of ballotsin each precinct doesn’t explain how a mem-ory card got corrupted, why no one seemedto know how many uncounted ballots exist-ed until Thursday and why on Thursdayevening some 12,000 ballots were stillunrecorded.
This is not the efficient and reliable elec-tion process we’ve come to count on fromWharff’s office. And there are a lot of citi-zens out there wondering what happened.
Election questions worrying
O N E D I T O R I A L SDaily Journal editorials are written byEditor K.C. Meadows with the concurrenceof Publisher Kevin McConnell.
President George Bush: The WhiteHouse, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washing-ton, D.C. 20500; (202) 456-1111, FAX(202)456-2461.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:State Capitol, Sacramento, 95814. (916)445-2841; FAX (916)445-4633
Sen. Barbara Boxer: 112 Hart SenateOffice Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20510;(202)224-3553; San Francisco, (415) 403-0100 FAX (415) 956-6701
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: 331 Hart Sen-ate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20510.(202)224-3841 FAX (202) 228-3954; SanFrancisco (415) 393-0707; [email protected]
Congressman Mike Thompson: 1stDistrict, 231 Cannon Office Bldg, Washing-ton, D.C. 20515. (202) 225-3311; FAX(202)225-4335. Fort Bragg district office,430 N. Franklin St., PO Box 2208, FortBragg 95437; 962-0933,FAX 962-0934;www.house.gov/write rep
Assemblywoman Patty Berg: StateAssembly District 1, Capitol, Rm. 2137,
Sacramento, 95814. (916) 319-2001; SantaRosa, 576-2526; FAX, Santa Rosa, 576-2297. Berg's field representative in Ukiahoffice located at 104 W. Church St, Ukiah,95482, 463-5770. The office’s fax number is463-5773. E-mail to:[email protected]
Senator Wes Chesbro: State SenateDistrict 2, Capitol Building, Room 5100,Sacramento, 95814. (916) 445-3375; FAX(916) 323-6958. Ukiah office is P.O. Box785, Ukiah, 95482, 468-8914, FAX 468-8931. District offices at 1040 Main St., Suite205, Napa, 94559, 224-1990, 50 D St., Suite120A, Santa Rosa, 95404, 576-2771, and317 3rd St., Suite 6, Eureka, 95501, 445-6508. Email: [email protected].
Mendocino County Supervisors:Michael Delbar, 1st District; Jim Watten-burger, 2nd District; Hal Wagenet, 3rd Dis-trict; Kendall Smith, 4th District; David Col-fax, 5th District. All can be reached by writ-ing to 501 Low Gap Road, Room 1090,Ukiah, 95482, 463-4221, FAX [email protected]
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Restore public voting
Another voice BY JANIE SHEPARD
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SUNDAY, NOV. 12, 2006 – A-5
The Ukiah Daily Journal
SUNDAY VOICES ON THE STREETS
Amanda Vigil College Student
Ukiah
“Yes, I’m concerned. It’sridiculous. I have a 4-year-old and I don’t want him tobe around that stuff.”
Kathryn Redwood Psychotherapist
Brooktrails
“Yes. I thought this areawould be a safe place tolive after moving from LosAngeles.”
Al Redwood Retired
Brooktrails
“I haven’t been too con-cerned.”
Evita GonzalezShelter worker
Ukiah
“Most definitely.Because there’s a lot ofkids around here. It’s horri-ble.”
Emma Vasquez Health club worker
Ukiah
“Yeah. There’s a lot ofpeople trying to kill people.”
Clarissa Barajas 5th-Grader
Ukiah
“I’m worried most aboutpeople getting shot. It’sdangerous.”
Are you concerned about the level of crime inMendocino County?
Photos and interviews by Zack Sampsel.
In 1973, the appeal of a Robert Marshall andtwo co-defendants came before the federalappeals court in California. The three men hadbeen convicted of transporting amphetaminesfrom Illinois to California (the old-fashionedpill-form that was known in those days as"speed," not the kind of slick, exotic "homebrew" stuff that folks make in their bathtubstoday). In their appeal, the three men arguedamong other things that the FBI agents whoarrested them had obtained the evidenceagainst them in violation of their rights againstunreasonable searches and seizures when theagents searched the house where the evidencewas found.
The court of appeal was appalled at what iteventually concluded was the illegal search theF.B.I. agents admitted, during their testimony,to having conducted. But before it got that far,the court started out by complaining about theway that those agents testified. The courtlaunched into this part of its opinion by saying,"We hope that the agents who testified in thiscase are not typical agents of the Bureau. Ifthey are, we wonder what sort of training theBureau gives its agents."
Then, in a lengthy footnote, the court sum-marized the way F.B.I. agents talk: "Theagents involved speak an almost impenetrable
jargon. They do not get into their cars; theyenter official government vehicles. They donot get out of or leave their cars; they exitthem. They do not go somewhere; they pro-ceed. They do not go to a particular place; theyproceed to its vicinity. They do not watch orlook; they surveille. They never see anything;they observe it. No one tells them anything;they are advised. A person does not tell themhis name; he identifies himself. A person doesnot say something; he indicates. They do notlisten to a telephone conversation; they moni-tor it. People telephoning one another do notsay 'hello'; they exchange greetings. An agentdoes not hand money to an informer to make abuy; he advances previously recorded officialgovernment funds. To an agent, a list of serialnumbers does not list serial numbers; it depictsFederal Reserve Notes. An agent does not saywhat an exhibit is; he says what it purports to
be. The agents preface answers to simple anddirect questions with 'to my knowledge.' Theycannot describe a conversation by saying 'hesaid' and 'I said'; they speak in conclusions.Sometimes it takes the combined efforts ofcounsel and the judge to get them to state whosaid what."
And it got worse. The court concluded thatthe agents were quite willing to make falsestatements in sworn declarations, such asclaiming to have found evidence in "plainview" when other evidence established that itwas not. When these contradictions wereraised to show an agent that his statement wasfalse, he merely said that the affidavit was"inconsistent" with the evidence.
What most bothered the court, however, andwhat ultimately decided the appeal, was theagents' practice of breaking into houses with-out a search warrant - or, as the agents put it,"securing" a house. The court described it a lit-tle more directly: "this means rushing in withdrawn guns, rounding up everyone in the placeand searching them all."
When the agents were asked to describe thedifference between "searching" a house and"securing" it, they ran into a little trouble. To"search" a house was easy to describe: tophysically go through the house, looking in
each of the closets and cupboards and so forth.But when the defense attorneys asked theagents to explain "secure," about the best theagents could do was say that it was "different"and involved "taking control" of the place.Beyond that, however, the agents were just at aloss for words.
Of course, to "take control" meant to gothrough the house room by room and closet bycloset just to make sure that no one was hiding.And anyone who was found was searched. So,really, there wasn't all that much differencebetween the two terms, even though the agentssaid that there was.
The court decided that the evidence againstMarshall and his co-defendants had beenobtained illegally, and reversed their convic-tions. But it's probably a safe bet that cops,whether F.B.I. agents or not, still talk prettymuch the same way. It would take more thanone contrary court decision to change thehabits of a lifetime - whether for a defendant ora police officer.
United States v. Marshall, 488 F.2d 1170(9th Cir.1973)
Not many people noticed that outgoingMexican President Vicente Fox's two-hour "Informe" (a sort of Mexican stateof the Union speech) couldn't be deliv-ered in the Mexican congress lastSeptember because leftist members of thePRD (Mexico's most liberal mainstreamparty) disrupted the speech by holding upsigns that read "fraude" and shouteddenunciations of Fox and his hand-picked right-wing successor FelipeCalderon. As a result, Fox's two-hourlong speech had to be delivered at LosPinos, the Mexican White House, and notmany people paid attention to its content.
Decent translations of the speech arehard to come by in the U.S. so I asked alocal high school student who's justlearning Spanish to give it a try.According to this admittedly suspicioustranslation, Fox's Informe contained a lit-tle noticed segment about something Foxcalled "immigration backlash."
Apparently a group of Mexican bordervigilantes loyal to Fox have noticed thatmore and more white American 20-some-things are illegally crossing the borderinto Mexico and ending up at Mexicanvacation resort destinations on short-termtourist visas typically wearing baggypants and backward baseball caps, speak-ing very little Spanish. Then, after theirvisas run out, these young Americansdon't come back to the US. Instead, theyinvite their friends and siblings to theexpanding party.
After the fun of bumming aroundMexican beaches wears off, these youngformer tourists realize they might get introuble upon their return after havingoverstayed their visas. Having no meansof support, they take advantage offamous Mexican hospitality by befriend-ing young Mexican women whoseboyfriends or husbands are in the U.S.and end up being taken in by Mexicanhouseholds.
But as their numbers have increased,more and more Mexicans are starting toresent their presence there.
"Hey, dude. Chill. We're only herebecause this is one of the few countries inthe world where there are no jobs. It'sgreat!" one was quoted as having said.
Many of these expatriate Americanslackers apply for meager Mexican wel-fare but are unable to qualify because oftheir refusal to learn to speak Spanish.
Left to their own devices, they congre-gate at Mexican city squares and beg forfood from Mexican street vendors.
A group of Mexican patriots callingthemselves the "MinutoHombres" haveorganized to do something about theproblem by stationing themselves at bor-der crossings and airports watching forwhite, 20-something hitchhikers andstoned tourists in the signature baggypants and backward hats. Armed with jobapplications and carpentry tools leftbehind by Mexican men who previouslyquit their jobs to come to the UnitedStates for employment, theMinutoHombres try to convince theAmerican slackers to take low-payingjobs in Mexico -- but, again, with littlesuccess.
Over time these American slackershave started marrying Mexican womenwhose husbands are no longer around.But they make bad stepfathers, as theyrefuse to work and seem to spend most oftheir time skateboarding, listening to hip-hop music on iPods, smoking marijuanaand spare-changing Mexican shoppers.
The American slackers also tend to fillup Mexican gymnasiums and soccerfields which are abandoned by Mexicanmen who have come to the United States.
As the number of slackers enteringMexico has increased, a new breed ofunderground American immigrationassistants known as "zorros" (foxes) havesprung up. These zorros are made upmostly of the first wave of slackers whoarrived back in the 90s and have survivedin Mexico for a number of years.
They wear capes and classic old-styleZorro masks and charge up to $200 tohelp other American slackers get acrossthe border into Mexico and blend intotourists areas like Acapulco, Taxco, theYucatan, Cancun, Cabo San Lucas, etc.
However the zorros haven't been verysuccessful either because 1. The slackersthey are trying to help across don't havemuch money to begin with (although
sometimes they will offer marijuanainstead of money). 2. The zorros don'tknow the way to Mexico and don't speakSpanish and seem stoned all the time.And 3. Their costumes make it difficultfor them to avoid detection.
A rift has developed in Mexican poli-tics because many young Mexicanwomen seem strangely attracted to theslackers, saying they are "muy frio."Once a Mexican woman has becomeattracted to an American slacker they loserespect for their families and are increas-ingly reluctant to take housekeeping jobsfor rich Mexican housewives.
At first Mexican law enforcementauthorities thought they could handle theproblem by arresting the slackers anddeporting them. But when Mexicanauthorities tried to turn the slackers overto American law enforcement, the U.S.refused to take them back, saying theywere unproductive citizens the U.S. did-n't want back. A tense diplomatic situa-tion has developed with no solution insight.
Lately, the American slackers havebegun to congregate at Mexican Day-Slacker Centers carrying signs that read,"Won't Work For Food," and "Siestas,Not War."
Some liberal Mexican lawmakers haveintroduced guest slacker legislation buthave run up against hardliners in theMexican Congress who want themdeported to Guatemala, further south. Apilot amnesty program which would havegranted the American slackers Mexicancitizenship was unsuccessful becausevery few of the young slackers could readand write Spanish and flunked Mexico'sbasic citizenship test.
"America should assume its responsi-bility and take concrete steps to develop aseries of programs in health, employmentand housing in the United States in orderto guarantee that American slackersreturn to their own country," demandeddeputy Mexican Foreign Minister LuisErnesto Ortega Garcia Vega GonzalezDiego Obregon de Madrigal y Pollo."And if America doesn't want them, theycan send them to Canada."
But I'm still not sure about that kid'stranslation.
Mark Scaramella is a Philo resident.
Immigration backlash
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Judicial folliesBY FRANK ZOTTER
Frank Zotter is a Ukiah attorney.
Voters who save their receipts for provisional bal-lots can call Marsha Wharff’s office to see if, in fact,their ballot was counted and, if not, the reason for itsrejection. That’s not what people want. People want toknow for sure that when they cast their ballot it will becounted.
When the polls close, the poll workers run a tapefrom the scanner, which tallies all the votes scannedby the optical scanner. The scanned ballots and thetouchscreen votes are the only ballots automaticallytallied at the polls. Tapes from those tallies are tapedto the door of the polling place for anyone to see. Theabsentee and provisional ballots, however, must bechecked at the county offices before they can becounted.
Should we restore public voting? All the checking takes time. We need to ask
whether closing those precincts was worth it. Now wewait days or weeks for election results and we havelost that sense of civic pride that comes from voting atthe polls.
There is no law preventing the reopening of pollingplaces - so long as there is handicap access. Let’s askthat Marsha Wharff reopen the polling places. If ittakes some money to do so, let’s ask that the budgetaccommodate it. Let’s restore public voting and getelection results timely.
Janie Shepard is a Ukiah resident.
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what terrorism looks like and notjust what our opinion is of it assomeone else’s problem. That iswhat we as Marines, Army, Navy,Air Force and Coast Guard pro-tect. Our military has some of thebest retention numbers everbecause the men and womenserving this great country of oursbelieve we are doing the rightthing!
If you believe terrorists aregoing to go away on their own orthat we will all just get alongthen you must be in a pipe dreambecause history shows that unlessyou fight for your freedom andway of life someone more viciousand meaner is going to comealong and take it from you. Nowthe last thing I ever want to see isanother 9/11 but if we don’t staythe course and finish this likeAmericans then I can’t see theterrorists staying home causewe’re nice to them.
Joe GoekenRedwood Valley
Hoyle just doing his job
To the Editor:In response to Jeff Fowler,
Sunday, Nov. 5: Sounds like a“poor me” story. Officer Hoylehas every right to stop a person ifhe suspects a law is being bro-ken. Maybe your paranoid behav-ior caused him to stop you. Youmust not be a law abiding personif you have to fear being pulledover. Imagine how many livesand animals he has saved bypulling drunk drivers over.Maybe this is a gateway to recov-ery for these D.U.I. drivers.Officer Hoyle has to be on guard,he never knows who he is pullingover. And, by the way, Mr.Fowler’s Web site on OfficerHoyle is not funny. Officer Hoyleis not there to make friends withpeople he has to arrest. I wishJeff Fowler would grow-up andtake it like a man. The only peo-ple who fear authority, are thosewho are not living by the rules.
Linda AlmondUkiah
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The Associated PressHELENA, Mont. -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service is designating 1,841 square miles in three statesas critical habitat for the threatened Canada lynx.
The territory is far less than the service proposed orig-inally.
A federal rule announced by the agency Wednesdayapplies to lynx habitat in 1,389 square miles inMontana’s Glacier National Park; 317 square miles inMinnesota’s Voyageurs National Park; and 135 squaremiles in Washington’s North Cascades National Park.
The Endangered Species Act defines critical habitat asplaces with features essential for the conservation of aspecies threatened or endangered. A designation maybring special management of habitat.
The rule is to be published Thursday in the FederalRegister.
Lynx, typically weighing 18 to 23 pounds, are on thefederal list of threatened species. They prey on the snow-shoe hare and occupy forested areas in the Northeast, theGreat Lakes region, the Rocky Mountains and theCascade Mountains.
Originally, the Fish and Wildlife Service wanted toplace a critical-habitat designation on about 18,000square miles in Maine, Minnesota, the northern RockyMountains and north-central Washington. The proposalwas reduced after consideration of studies and publiccomment, the agency said.
Lands removed include those covered by plans forlynx management, property owned by American Indiantribes and lands not managed for commercial forestry.
The critical-habitat rule for lynx is in response to acourt order stemming from a lawsuit by Defenders ofWildlife and others.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Saying the fed-eral government pays no more than lipservice to respecting the religious beliefsof American Indians, a federal judge inWyoming has dismissed criminal chargesagainst a Northern Arapaho man whoshot a bald eagle last year for use in histribe’s Sun Dance.
Lawyers for Indian groups say theorder by U.S. District Judge William F.Downes should prompt the federal gov-ernment to streamline its program ofparceling out dead eagles and eagle feath-ers to Indians.
They say it also should prompt federalofficials to begin a serious dialogue withtribes about allowing tribal members tokill some eagles for religious purposes.
Federal officials, however, filed noticethis week that they intend to appeal thejudge’s order.
Downes on Oct. 13 dismissed thecharge against Winslow Friday, 22, ofEthete, Wyo., on the Wind River IndianReservation. The reservation is home toboth the Northern Arapaho and EasternShoshone tribes. He had been chargedwith killing a bald eagle with a rifle inMarch 2005.
Downes dismissed the charge afterlawyers for Friday and his tribe arguedthat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicegenerally refuses to grant permits allow-ing tribal members to kill eagles, eventhough federal regulations say such per-mits should be available.
Chris Schneider, the tribe’s attorney,also said more than 5,000 Indians are ona waiting list to get an eagle from a fed-eral repository of eagle carcasses, andthat the waiting period is about 3 1/2years.
“Although the government professesrespect and accommodation of the reli-gious practices of Native Americans, itsactions show callous indifference to suchpractices,” Downes wrote. “It is clear tothis court that the government has no
intention of accommodating the religiousbeliefs of Native Americans except on itsown terms and in its own good time.”
Friday, who could have been sen-tenced to up to a year in jail and a$100,000 fine if convicted, said in a tele-phone interview with The AssociatedPress that he had no regrets about killingthe bird.
“I’m going to say no, because of whatI did with the bird,” he said. “I participat-ed in our Sun Dance. No, because thatmade me feel good in my heart.”
Friday said he considered accepting aplea bargain for a $5,000 fine and twoyears probation, but rejected the offer onthe advice of his tribe’s spiritual leaders.
He said he’s heard complaints fromother Indians about the slow process oflegally obtaining dead eagles from thefederal repository in Colorado, whichholds the remains of eagles often killedby cars or power lines. He said a friendreceived a bird from the repository thatwas in such poor condition it couldn’t beused in ceremonies.
“The way it was told to me, the eagletakes the prayers that we have here, takesthem up to the creator,” Friday said.“That’s one main reason that we believein it so much, it does that. It’s an offering-- you want it to be nice.”
Schneider said that while charges werepending against Friday, he called the fed-eral agency’s offices in Wyoming andColorado to ask how Indians could getpermits to kill eagles, but was told thatsuch permits didn’t exist.
Dominic Domenici, Fish and WildlifeService resident agent in charge forWyoming and Montana, said in a tele-phone interview last month that he knowsfew eagle kill permits have been issued inthe Southwest, and he knows of none inWyoming -- but he also said he doesn’tknow of any Wyoming Indians applying.
U.S. Attorney Matt Mead filed noticeWednesday that he will ask a federalappeals court in Denver to reviewDownes’ ruling. Attempts to reach Meadon Thursday and Friday were unsuccess-ful.
Judge says feds showindifference to AmericanIndian native religion The Associated Press
NEEDLES, Calif. --Pacific Gas & Electric apolo-gized for desecrating thesacred site of an AmericanIndian tribe when it built a$15 million water treatmentplant, and it pledged toremove it as soon as anothercan be built.
California’s biggest utility“regrets the spiritual conse-quences to the tribe” of build-ing the plant at Topock Mazein the Mojave Desert west ofthe Arizona border, PG&EChief Executive Thomas Kingsaid during a ceremonyThursday.
The apology was requiredunder an agreement with the1,100-member Fort Mojavetribe, which dropped a lawsuitagainst the utility and theCalifornia Department ofToxic Substances Control.
Topock Maze near Needlesis claimed by the tribe as partof its heritage. The pattern ofpebble berms and furrowsforms a series of lines thattribal ancients are believed to
have used either as a place ofpurification or as a pathwayfor spirits to the afterlife.
Much of the maze wasdestroyed by a railroad and afreeway, but about a thirdremains.
“We have a responsibilitynot only to the past and pre-sent but to the future,” tribalChairwoman Nora McDowellsaid. “It wasn’t easy getting acorporation to understand, torecognize and to accept this.”
The water treatment plantbegan operations in July2005. It was built to deal withpolluted groundwater under anatural gas compressor sta-tion. The utility dumped atleast 198 million gallons ofcontaminated water into theground from 1951 to 1969.
Authorities worried that thegroundwater, which containedcancer-causing hexavalentchromium, could contaminatethe Colorado River and thedrinking water supply for 22million people in SouthernCalifornia and Arizona.
PG&E apologizesfor desecratingtribe’s MojaveDesert sacred site
The Daily JournalDENVER -- For the second
time in less than a week, afederally protected Canadalynx has been found shot andkilled in southwesternColorado.
An examination Tuesdayrevealed that the male cat,found just north of SilvertonNov. 1, was killed by a shot-gun blast.
Earlier, the state announcedthat a male lynx was founddead Nov. 2 near the DurangoMountain ski area. It had beenshot in the hip and head by arifle.
In both cases, state wildlifeofficers looked for the catswhen the signal from the ani-mals’ radio collars changed. Aspecial signal is transmittedwhen the animals stop mov-ing, indicating they’re likelydead.
Lynx are a threatened andfederally protected species theColorado Division of Wildlifehas been trying to restore tothe state since 1999.Biologists have released near-ly 220 lynx from Canada andAlaska into the wilds ofsouthwestern Colorado.
The Division of Wildlife isinvestigating both shootings.The penalties for killing athreatened species include afine of $10,000 or more andjail time.
Lynx were wiped out inColorado by 1973, victims oftrapping, poisoning anddevelopment. After a reintro-duction program, about 200lynx now are believed to roamColorado’s southern and cen-tral mountains.
The state and privategroups are offering a $5,000reward in each case.
Wildlife officers investigate second lynxshooting in Colorado
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. --Sen. Barbara Boxer onThursday promised major pol-icy shifts on global warming,air quality and toxic-wastecleanup as she prepares tohead the U.S. Senate’s envi-ronmental committee.
“Time is running out, andwe need to move forward onthis,” Boxer said of globalwarming during a conferencecall with reporters. “Thestates are beginning to takesteps, and we need to takesteps as well.”
Boxer’s elevation to chair-woman of the SenateEnvironmental Public WorksCommittee comes as theDemocrats return to power inthe Senate. It also marks adramatic shift in ideology forthe panel.
The California Democrat isone of the Senate’s most liber-al members and replaces oneof the most conservative sena-tors, Republican James Inhofeof Oklahoma. Inhofe hadblocked bills seeking to cutthe greenhouse gases con-tributing to global warming,calling the issue “the greatesthoax perpetrated on theAmerican people.”
Environmentalists wereoverjoyed at the change.
“That’s like a tsunami hitthe committee,” said KarenSteuer, who heads govern-ment affairs at the NationalEnvironmental Trust, a non-profit based in Washington,D.C. “You can’t find twomembers or people more ide-ologically different.”
Boxer said she intends tointroduce legislation to curbgreenhouse gases, strengthenenvironmental laws regardingpublic health and hold over-sight hearings on federal plansto clean up Superfund sites
across the country.On global warming, Boxer
said she would model federallegislation after a Californialaw signed this summer byGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.That law imposes the firststatewide cap on greenhousegases and seeks to cutCalifornia’s emissions by 25percent, dropping them to1990 levels by 2020.
A top environmental aide atthe White House signaledThursday that the administra-tion would work with Boxer.
In an e-mail to the senator’schief counsel, George Banks,the associate director forinternational affairs at theCouncil for EnvironmentalQuality requested a meetingto discuss global warming,Boxer said.
President Bush hasopposed a federal mandate tolimit greenhouse gas emis-sions from industry and auto-mobiles, saying such stepsshould be voluntary. Hisadministration also has ruledthat greenhouse emissions arenot a pollutant.
“We look forward to work-ing with Congress in biparti-sanship on all issues,” saidKristen Hellmer, a spokes-woman for the Council onEnvironmental Quality.
She declined to discussspecifics related to theupcoming global warmingdiscussion.
Democrats and environ-mentalists have criticizedBush for refusing to send theSenate the 1997 Kyoto accordfor ratification. It requires 35industrialized countries toreduce greenhouse gas emis-sions by 5 percent below 1990levels by 2012.
California’s law and vari-ous bills in Congress set moreaggressive targets.
Boxer pledges shift onglobal warming policywith new Senate role
By JEFF BARNARDAP Environmental Writer
EUGENE, Ore. -- Fiveyears ago a special ecoterror-ism task force was stymied bya string of firebombings thatcaused some $30 million indamage to western ranger sta-tions, genetic engineeringfacilities, a truck dealership, aski resort, wild horse corralsand lumber mills.
On Thursday, federalauthorities declared they haddestroyed the shadowy EarthLiberation Front and AnimalLiberation Front, whichclaimed responsibility for thelargest case of ecoterrorism inU.S. history.
Four more people pleadedguilty in U.S. District Court toconspiracy and arson chargesstemming from firebombingsin Oregon.
That brought to 12 -- 10 inOregon and two inWashington -- the number ofpeople headed for prison aspart of the local, state and fed-eral investigation known asOperation Backfire that wasaided by an informant with awire.
Three suspects remain fugi-tives. Prescott, Ariz., book-store owner William C.Rodgers, described as theleader of the Eugene-basedcell known as The Family,committed suicide in jail.
“The pleas of these individ-uals today together with (ear-lier guilty pleas) have effec-tively dismantled theNorthwest cells of the organi-zations operating loosely
under the mantles of ALF andELF,” U.S. Attorney KarinImmergut said in Portland.
“Today we can declare vic-tory in that fight,” addedRobert Jordan, FBI specialagent in charge for Oregon.
The firebombings attrib-uted to The Family stoppedafter the terrorist attacks ofSept. 11, 2001, and two of thefour pleading guilty Thursdaysaid they quit the attacksbecause they realized that wasthe wrong way to protect ani-mals and the environment.
“I hope you will see thatmy actions were not those of aterrorist, but of a concernedyoung person who was deeplytroubled by the destruction ofOregon’s beautiful old-growthforests and the dangers ofgenetically modified trees,”Daniel G. McGowan, 32, ofNew York City said in a tear-ful statement read in court.“After taking part in these twoactions, I realized that burningthings down did not fit withmy visions or belief abouthow to create a better world.So I stopped committing thesecrimes.”
After years of finding littlemore than melted five-gallonbuckets and the residue ofdiesel fuel, investigators got abreak in 2002 when one of thepeople involved in firebomb-ing a logging company and agravel pit in 2001 told his girl-friend, and she told her father,a state fire marshal.
Three people were convict-ed, and the alleged leader of
that group, Michael “TreArrow” Scarpitti, is beingheld in Victoria, BritishColumbia, on a shopliftingcharge, fighting extradition.
In 2005, the task forceknown as Operation Backfireadopted a cold case approachand landed an informant,unindicted co-conspiratorJacob Fergusen of Eugene,who wore a hidden recordingdevice as he traveled thecountry talking with his oldfriends, who had disbanded.
Assistant U.S. AttorneySteven Peifer said in Portlandthat the cell was tough tocrack, because the membersassembled their bombs inclean rooms, leaving behindno fingerprints or even DNAevidence, seldom talked toeach other, and used codewords and even hand signals.
The four in court Thursdaywere Joyanna L. Zarcher, 28,and Nathan F. Block, 25, bothof Olympia, Wash.; JonathanChristopher Mark Paul, 40, ofAshland, and McGowan.
They were headed for trialon charges carrying life sen-tences when the plea agree-ment was announced, twomonths after they demandedto know whether warrantlesswiretaps by the NationalSecurity Agency were usedagainst them. Their guiltypleas came with recommend-ed sentences of five to eightyears in prison.
Assistant U.S. AttorneyKirk Engdall denied NSA sur-veillance was a factor in the
investigation or the pleaagreement, but defense attor-ney Amanda Lee of Seattlesaid the timing of the pleaagreement led her to believe itwas.
She said the defendantswere happy they would nothave to testify against others.
Sentencing is not expecteduntil spring, but prosecutorsrecommended eight years inprison for Block, Zacher andMcGowan, the son of a NewYork transit policeman whowas working for a nonprofitlaw firm helping abusedwomen when he was arrestedin New York.
Because he had taken partin only one firebombing,Paul’s recommended sentencewas five years.
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SARASOTA, Fla. — Back in 1902, ascientist examining the smooth, grape-fruit-size brain of a manatee remarkedthat the organ’s unwrinkled surfaceresembled that of the brain of an idiot.
Ever since then, manatees have gener-ally been considered incapable of doinganything more complicated than chewingsea grass.
But Hugh, a manatee in a tank at aFlorida marine laboratory, doesn’t seemlike a dimwit. When a buzzer sounds, thespeed bump-shaped mammal slowly flipshis 1,300 pounds and aims a whiskeredsnout toward one of eight loudspeakerslowered into the water. Nosing the cor-rect speaker earns him treats.
Hugh is no manatee prodigy. Suchsensory experiments, along with otherrecent studies, are revealing that sea cowsaren’t so stupid after all.
Researchers contend that if the plant-eating beasts seem slow-witted, it isbecause they faced no threats to their sur-vival before the advent of boat propellers.
“They’re not under any selection pres-sure to evolve the rapid-type behaviorwe’ve associated with hawks, a predator,or antelopes, a prey. They look like verycontented animals that don’t have verymuch to do all day,” said Roger Reep, aneuroscientist at the University ofFlorida’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
The experiments under way at theindependent Mote Marine Laboratory,could help scientists protect Florida’smanatees, an endangered species, frompropellers and other dangers.
At least 75 manatees have been killedthis year in collisions with watercraft,according to the Florida Fish andWildlife Conservation Commission.
Despite recent findings that suggestthe animals hear well enough to avoidboats, researchers are not sure why man-atees keep getting hit. They could be sur-facing to breathe while sleeping, or theymay have grown too accustomed to thesound of boats. At the Mote laboratory,the buzzer experiments are hearing testsin which the tones gradually grow short-er and softer. The researchers want toknow: At what distance could Hugh heara boat’s propeller churning in the water?Could Hugh determine where the soundis coming from?
Scientists have long assumed brainswith many folds — such as those belong-ing to dolphins and humans — are a signof intelligence. But Reep argues thecause behind those brain folds isunknown, and smooth-brained manateesdon’t seem to be missing anything impor-tant.
“The brain looks just as complex inter-nally as any other mammalian brain,”
said Reep, co-author with Bob Bonde, aFlorida biologist with the U.S.Geological Survey, of a book on manateephysiology.
Hugh and his half-brother Buffett,both born in captivity, have spent manydays since 1998 showing researcherswhat they can learn. The manatees havebeen trained to respond to whistles andstop at underwater targets.
Scientists want to determine how wellmanatees distinguish colors and objects,and how sensitive their hearing and senseof touch are.
Hugh and Buffett are rewarded withhandfuls of sliced apples, carrots andbeets for correct test responses. The man-atees pull the food into their mouths withlips dexterous enough to untie knots.
In the vision tests, Buffett and Hughdo not see particularly well out of theirtiny eyes, though it appears they do seecolor, an unusual trait for marine mam-mals. But even by manatee standards,Hugh seems to be visually impaired.
In manatee brains, the regions thatprocess sight are quite small compared toauditory and tactile regions, according toReep and Bonde.
Researchers have discovered that man-atee muzzles and bodies are covered withsensitive hairs that may help them detectunderwater objects and current changes.
On the Net: Mote Marine Laboratory’smanatee research program: http://isu-r u s . m o t e . o r g /7/8hughbuffett/Welcome.phtml
Contented sea cows: Scientistsin Florida say manatees maybe smarter than we think
By ROBERT JABLONThe Associated Press
LOS ANGELES --NASA’s Mars GlobalSurveyor has been out ofcontact with Earth for nearlya week and engineers Fridaywere trying to re-establishcommunication with thecraft, which may be showingits age after 10 years inspace.
The space agency’s JetPropulsion Laboratory inPasadena lost contact with itfor two days last week, thenreceived a weak carrier sig-nal with no data on Sunday.Since then, Surveyor hasn’tconfirmed receiving a com-mand to point one of itstransmitters to Earth, projectmanager Tom Thorpe said.
Surveyor, launched onNov. 7, 1996, has operatedlonger than the otherMartian exploration craft.Carrying a powerful camerathat has returned thousandsof images, it has discoveredfeatures suggesting wateronce flowed on the desertworld, and it has looked atpotential landing sites forfuture exploration.
Surveyor, designed tosystematically map Mars, isone of four spacecraft orbit-ing the Red Planet. Its com-panions include NASA’sMars ReconnaissanceOrbiter and Mars Odysseyand the European SpaceAgency’s Mars Express. Onthe surface, the NASArovers Spirit andOpportunity, continue oper-ating.
A motor gimbal control-ling one of Surveyor’s twosolar arrays apparently mal-functioned last week and thespacecraft may have goneinto a power-saving “safemode” by turning so that thearray faced the sun. Thatmay have brought the craft’santennae and transmittersout of alignment with Earth,
Thorpe said.Without telemetry, con-
trollers don’t know at whatangle the panel failed andthe orientation of the mainbody of the spacecraft.
Another difficulty is thatthe spacecraft changes posi-tion quickly, zoomingaround Mars twice everytwo hours. Signals cannotreach it when it is eclipse for40 minutes of that orbittime.
“You have to know whichreceiver to command to, youhave to address (precisely)where the commands aregoing,” Thorpe said.
If it hasn’t been receivingcommands, the spacecraft isprogrammed to eventuallyautomatically change itsposition so that one of itslow-gain antennas is point-ing at Earth. However, thatmay mean putting one solarpanel in the dark, leavingjust one to power things.
“One panel is not suffi-cient to keep the spacecraftalive for very long,” he said.
In order to get a betteridea of Surveyor’s position,controllers have asked tohave it photographed by theMars ReconnaissanceOrbiter, which began cir-cling Mars on March 10,Thorpe said.
Meantime, nobody is giv-ing up hope.
“It’s not clear how long itwill take us to exhaust pos-sibilities or come to a con-clusion that we’re not goingto hear from it,” Thorpesaid. “If it’s getting suffi-cient power, the spacecraftcould stay healthy foryears.”
Surveyor was originallylaunched as a $247 millionmission to study the planet’ssurface for one Martianyear, or nearly two Earthyears. The mission hasreceived extensions sincethen.
NASA trying to regaincontact with MarsSurveyor spacecraft
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S P O R T SEditor: James Arens, 468-3518 [email protected]
– SUNDAY, NOV. 12, 2006A-8
The Ukiah Daily Journal
Fall sports awardsMonday, Nov. 13th is the
Ukiah High School Fall SportsAwards Night. All sports meetat 7:00 pm in the cafetorium forthe presentation of the teamawards. Individual teams willmeet prior to this for presenta-tion of certificates, contact yourcoach or Mrs. Melvin (463-5253X1050) for details.
Turkey Trot Trail RunThe North Coast Striders will
host the 18th annual Turkey TrotPRediction Trail Run on Nov. 19at 9 a.m. at Lake Mendocino’sJoe Riley Picnic Area. Runnerswill attempt to predict the time itwill take them to run a hilly 6-mile course along the ever pop-ular Shakota Trail, without thebenefit of a wristwatch. Fastesttimes will be noted but the run-ner with the most accuarateprediction wins. a three-milerun/walk course will also beavailable. For more informationcall 272-4187 of visit www.strid-ers.org orwww.mendotrails.org.
Want to play rugby?Mendocino Steam Donkeys
are looking for players to jointheir team. Practice is heldevery Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.at the softball complex justnorth of Ukiah off of Highway101. All ages welcome and formore information contact Liamat 743-9986 or visit www.men-dorugby.com.
Times changed forSAL Boxing classes
Effective immediately the newhours will be Tuesday at 5:30p.m. The cost is still only $5 forthe whole year and classes areongoing at the Redwood HealthClub.
To join SAL Boxing you mustfill out SAL paperwork andhave a parental signature if youare under 18.
The class is a mix of all levelsand ages and you are encour-aged to join boxing if you wantto seriously study boxing or justwant a good workout.
High school basketballofficials needed
Basketball Officials Neededfor High School and Junior HighSchool. Interested? Contact462-8450.
Ukiah Lacrosse Clubpractice starts
The Ukiah Crushers Lacrosseteam will begin practice at theUkiah High School practicefields (north of the footballfield). Practice will beginDecember 2nd at 10:00.Players who have not regis-tered should come to practicewith insurance information,$175 club fee (checks made toUkiah Crushers), and requiredgear. If you have questions,please contact Ian Pratt at 843-9038.
Thanksgiving Breakbasketball clinicNov. 20 – Nov. 22
Open to boys and girls ages 7–17. This three day long fallbasketball camp offers playersan opportunity to build a solidsports foundation. Each day isfilled with fundamental skills,progression drills, easy tounderstand instruction, as wellas games and fun competi-tions. From beginners toadvanced players this camp willbe a great experience.This clin-ic is tailor made for youth bas-ketball players looking to get ahead start on team and leagueplay.
Camp is held at the PomolitaMiddle School Gym. Camp isfrom 8:00am – 12:00pm. Lunchis not provided.
Tuition for camp is $100.00.For more information, pleasecall 463-6714.
Hoop shoot contestOn Saturday, Nov. 18 there
will be a Hoop Shoot Contestfor kids between the ages of 8and 9, 10 and 11 and 12 and 13at the Coyote ValleyGymnasium across from theShodakai Casino just six milesnorth of Ukiah. This event issponsored by the Ukiah ElksLodge #1728 and there will beawards to the winners. Formore information, contact theUkiah Elks Lodge at 462-1728or Robert Cannon at 462-7897.
HEY LOCALCOACHES!
Please report your gameresults! Phone (707) 468-3518or make submissions to: TheUkiah Daily Journal SportsDepartment, 590 S. SchoolStreet, Ukiah, CA 95482. Fax(707) 468-3544 or visitwww.ukiahdailyjournal.com-click on “Sports”, then click onthe “Report Game Scores”banner.
Editor’s note: The Ukiah DailyJournal welcomes submissionsfrom local youth sports teams.You can e-mail results to [email protected] or visit TheDaily Journal Web site(www.ukiahdailyjournal.com),and click on “Sports.”
COMMUNITYDIGEST
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15JC Volleyball vs. College of
Alameda 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, NOV. 16UHS girls basketball scrim-
mage against El Molino
LOCALCALENDAR
By JAMES ARENSThe Daily Journal
Well the Mendocino College women’sbasketball team tipped off on Friday dayagainst the Shasta College Knights andlost in a turnover filled game, 72-42.
Both teams started off very nervousand tentative turning the ball over manytimes before either of them scored abucket. It took over two minutes for theEagles to score their first basket byAshley Shepherd, who finished the gamewith 12 points, going up 2-0 but theKnights would answer back with a quick4-0 run to go up by two.
It would take over eight minutes forthe Eagles to score five points in thegame.
“We haven’t had the opportunity topractice together like the other teamshave,” said Mendocino head coach StanWeiper. “And it was kind of a shock forour team to play against all this pressurethis soon.”
And at that point, the Knights wouldgo up by five with a basket by SondraStilwell, who ended the game with 10points and numerous assists, 10-5.
But right off an inbounds play, AmberShepherd made a basket and was fouledeventually scoring a three point playclosing the gap to 14-8 and then Amberonce again scored a basket at the 9:36mark to spur a small 5-0 run for theEagles 14-10.
At the 8:20 mark in the first half,
Kristin Andre, who had eight points inthe game, was fouled and sank both freethrows to close the Shasta lead to two16-14.
The Knights would then go up 21-14on a quick 5-0 run at the 7:50 mark on abucket by Cara Hall and a three-pointerby Ashley Rinne.
The Eagles and Knights would tradebuckets for about five minutes with thescore 18-30 and then the Knights wouldend the half with an 11-1 run to go up 38-19 with one half left to play.
“This was a tough and talented teamwe played tonight,” Weiper said.
Mendocino had trouble handling the
JC AND PREP SPORTS
Local sports roundupThe Daily Journal
JC FOOTBALLThe Mendocino College football
team finished its season with a 35-28win over Solano College on Saturdayafternoon. With the win, the Eaglesfinished second in the Bay ValleyConference at 3-2 and had a 5-5 over-all record.
Community golfOn Oct. 27, the Deep Valley
Christian School held its 5th annual100-hole Golf Marathon.
32 golfers took the challenge at theUkiah Golf Course and there were 22returning golfers and 10 first timecompetitors.
Numerous local businesses under-wrote the marathon and the partner-ship has been the backbone to the suc-cess of the event. The golfers wereable to raise over $27,000 for theschool.
Factory Pipe, Whiteman Sales,Cabinets Unlimited, FieldstoneCabinetry, Dunn-Right Painting Inc.,The Merrill Brown Group and Nor-CalREcycled Rock and Aggregates Inchelp greatly in this event.
“It was a great time for a greatcause,” said Randy Dorn. “DVCS is alocal mission and I’m excited to be apart of a small part to help. I want topersonally thank each person and busi-ness that helps me to support theschool.”
At the conclusion of the marathon,
each golfer and his/her family wastreated to a tri-tip barbecue. Many ofthe teachers also came to the dinner tosupport and say thank you to thegolfers.
“The celebration dinner is great, wehave families spending time togetheran ever on is excited about doingsomething that helps the school insuch a big way,” said John Whiteman.
“It’s the most fun I have had play-ing golf in and of the marathons,” saidRalph Mann.
Greg Kelsay played the most num-ber of holes at 160. Brett Walker andBob Blum Jr. won the longest drivecontest and Ralph Huddleston andMark Koch won the closest to the holecontest. The Weather was a perfect fallday and the golf course was in great
condition. The golf course staff hasbeen consistently helpful for thisevent.Prep football
The Potter Valley football team wonits last game on Friday against RoundValley 27-6.
Some of the exceptional playerswere Dalton Olsen with two touch-downs, and 14 carries for 106 yards,Jody McCoy with a 9-yard rushingtouchdown, Cody Cramford with a 48-yard reception from Jesse Williams,He ended the game with 78 yards pass-ing and three carries for 37 yards.
Defensive standouts were ChrisBorg and Olsen with an interception apiece. And Will Mangino had a fumblerecovery and a blocked punt.
MLB NEWS
New A’s ballpark would boast heavy Cisco techBy JORDAN ROBERTSONThe Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — If CiscoSystems Inc. has its way, the OaklandAthletics’ new ballpark in Fremontwill be the stadium of the future.
Fans will swipe electronic ticketsstored on cell phones. Bleacher bumswill view instant replays at their seatswith laptop computers. And digitaladvertising displays will be able toswitch images based on the buyinghabits of the people walking bythrough data embedded in their cellphones.
That was the vision that A’s ownerLew Wolff laid out to Fremont CityCouncil members this week in a pitchfor Cisco Field, a planned ballparkfeaturing the company’s technology,Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman saidThursday.
“It’s fabulous — the technology issomething else,” Wasserman said. “Itwent over my head. It only takes about10 seconds to go beyond me when
you’re talking about technology. Ican’t say I understand it all, but it’sgoing to be quite a ballpark.”
Wolff’s pitch came just weeks afterCisco CEO John Chambers delivered aless-than-subtle presentation at OracleOpenWorld about the advances thatcould be possible at a new ballpark inthe San Francisco Bay area.
Chambers led a lively presentationlast month demonstrating how Ciscotechnology and intelligent networkswould enable fans at the hypotheticalstadium to buy and upgrade ticketsthrough smart cell phones, access real-time scorecards at their seats and buypictures of themselves from crowdcameras and pay to show them on theJumbotron.
The A’s were the hypothetical teamfeatured in all of the video and imagesin the demonstration.
Cisco and the A’s both havedeclined to comment about the report-ed agreement, which would create a32,000- to 35,000-seat ballpark sur-
rounded by homes and shops on a 143-acre parcel currently held by Cisco.
Wasserman said a news conferenceis scheduled for Tuesday at the SanJose headquarters of Cisco, theworld’s largest networking equipmentmaker, to announce the partnership.
Wireless access is becoming anincreasingly common feature at ball-parks, but analysts said a park builtwith the reported features would be abig step forward.
However, while the ballpark couldbe the ultimate consumer showcase fora company that derives most of itssales from corporate customers, thestrategy also could backfire if theentire system doesn’t work properly orfans don’t warm to the idea, said SamWilson, a communications equipmentanalyst with JMP Securities.
“These things work both ways,” hesaid. “If everything works flawlessly,it’s a great showcase. But if everythingdoesn’t work flawlessly, it’s the exactopposite. It’s a laughingstock.”
Cisco, which makes the routers,switches and other devices used to linknetworks and direct traffic on theInternet, is trying to shed its image assolely a maker of networking infra-structure gear.
The company also hopes to capital-ize on products and services that uti-lize the network. One example isTelePresence, a technology similar tovideo conferencing that Cisco intro-duced last month that aims to deliver athree-dimensional feeling that the par-ticipants are all in the same room.
Earlier this year, Wolff confirmedthat the A’s, who share the OaklandColiseum with the NFL’s OaklandRaiders, were exploring a move toFremont, about 25 miles south ofOakland on the east side of SanFrancisco Bay.
Wasserman said talks between thecity and the A’s are still at an earlystage, and that the earliest the A’scould begin playing there is 2011.
JC BASKETBALL
James Arens/The Daily Journal
Eagle Kristin Andre gets ready to jumpball in Mendocino’s game Saturday afternoon. Andre finished thegame with 14 points and left the game late in the second half with a bruised elbow.
NCAABASKETBALL
StanforddrillsSienaBy JANIE McCAULEYThe Associated Press
STANFORD — The men-acing inside presence ofRobin Lopez gave AnthonyGoods his share of openlooks from the perimeter asStanford’s talented youngtandem had quite a day in theteam’s season-opener.
Goods scored a career-high 30 points and the 7-footLopez made an impressivecollege debut with 14 pointsand 15 rebounds and tied aschool record with six blocksto lead the Cardinal pastSiena 92-72 Saturday in thefirst game for both schools.
Goods, a sophomore whostarted one game last seasonand had 12 points in his topperformance, shot 11-for-16and also had five reboundsand four assists.
“After I hit the first cou-ple, I really didn’t know (itwould go),” Goods said. “Ijust kept shooting it. I tried toget it up when I was openand they started falling.”
Lopez, whose twin broth-er and teammate Brook issidelined recovering fromSeptember back surgery,looked nothing like a fresh-man adjusting to the nextlevel — and the Cardinalfans were quick to give him awarm ovation.
He had two blocks in thefirst 3 1/2 minutes and wasaggressive under the basketfighting for rebounds. Theheralded twins from Fresnohave big shoes to follow:Stanford’s last set of twins,Jarron and Jason Collins, areplaying in the NBA.
Lopez was determined toplay a smart game afterstruggling with foul troublein Stanford’s exhibition winagainst British Columbia onTuesday.
“I kind of came into thegame with a different men-tality,” Lopez said. “I was
Eagles lose but learn
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By GREG BEACHAMThe Associated Press
SAN JOSE — Boise Statebarely had enough time andpoise to keep its unbeatenseason and BowlChampionship Series hopesalive.
Jared Zabransky shook offthree frustrating quarters tolead two scoring drives in thefinal minutes, and AnthonyMontgomery kicked his thirdfield goal — from 37 yards— as time expired in No. 14Boise State’s 23-20 victoryover San Jose State onSaturday night.
Ian Johnson ran for 149yards and a touchdown forthe Broncos (10-0, 6-0WAC), who got their stiffesttest of the season in a stadiumwhere they’ve had plenty oftrouble in recent years. Twoyears ago, they had to block afield goal as regulation endedin a double-overtime 56-49victory.
In this trip, Boise Statefaced its first halftime deficitof the season before fallingbehind 20-12 early in thefourth quarter on consecutiveTD passes by Adam Tafralis,who passed for 173 yards andthree scores.
But Zabransky, who was14-of-20 for 181 yards in his30th victory as a starter,calmly led the Broncos on a63-yard drive capped by his1-yard TD sneak and a 2-point conversion pass toJerard Rabb with 5:22 to play.
San Jose State then stalled,and Marty Tadman’s gutsy44-yard punt return put BoiseState at the Spartans 37 with2 minutes left.
Zabransky and Johnsonpatiently moved the Broncos
to the 20, and Montgomery’skick split the uprights to sendBoise State’s players andcoaches spilling onto the fieldto celebrate the Broncos’ 37thvictory in 38 WAC games.
James Jones caught twoTD passes for the Spartans(6-3, 3-2), who came agoniz-ingly close to their first winover a ranked team sincebeating ninth-ranked TCU in2000.
Still, San Jose State’srebuilding program undersecond-year coach DickTomey gained plenty of legit-imacy.
Led by linebacker MattCastelo’s 20 tackles, theSpartans’ defense held theBroncos’ high-poweredoffense to fewer than 36points for just the secondtime all season.
Boise State has two gamesleft against Utah State andNevada. The Broncos need towin out to have a shot at get-ting to one of the five BCSbowl games.
Ohio State, Michigan andRutgers are the only otherunbeaten teams left inDivision I-A — and for threequarters, Boise State seemedunlikely to stick with them.
After the Broncos wereshut out in the first quarter forfirst time this season, Jonescaught a 10-yard TD pass ona fade to the corner on thefirst play of the second quar-ter.
The Spartans also got theirshare of bad breaks: YonusDavis made a 72-yard TD runearly in the third quarter, butit was called back on an obvi-ous holding penalty againstJones.
By TIM BOOTHThe Associated Press
SEATTLE — Stanford won’t be thefirst 0-12 team in Pac-10 Conference his-tory.
Richard Sherman took a screen pass74 yards early in the fourth quarter forStanford’s first offensive touchdown inmore than a month and the Cardinalshocked Washington 20-3 on Saturday.
Bo McNally returned an interception49 yards for a TD in the third quarter asthe Cardinal (1-9, 1-6 Pac-10) snappedthe nation’s second-longest losing streakat 11 games.
The losing streak matched the longestin school history. The Cardinal lost theirfinal game in 1959 and all 10 the follow-ing season — the school’s last winlesscampaign.
There won’t be a winless tag associat-ed with the 2006 Cardinal after dominat-ing Washington (4-7, 2-6), a team thatcould have become bowl eligible withwins over Stanford and Washington Statein next week’s season finale.
Stanford’s defense — ranked 113th inthe country — limited Washington to 161total yards and just 97 after the first quar-
ter. The Huskies were besieged bydropped passes, poor pass protection andan inability to run the ball against aCardinal unit giving up nearly 240 yardsper game.
But the defense kept Stanford closelong enough for quarterback T.C.Ostrander to find a rhythm, despite anoffense that managed just seven firstdowns and 20 yards rushing.
Ostrander finished 11-of-20 for 206yards. Sherman was his favorite targetwith six catches for a career-high 177yards.
Meanwhile both Washington quarter-backs struggled and were banged up. CarlBonnell left late in the first quarter with aright thigh bruise, but was forced toreturn in the third quarter after backupJohnny DuRocher was knocked out witha concussion.
Neither was effective — DuRocherwas 1-for-9 with two interceptions andBonnell was 10-of-25 for 118 yards andan interception.
On DuRocher’s final play, he over-threw tight end Robert Lewis and under-threw receiver Sonny Shackelford, hit-ting McNally in his chest.
The safety then sprinted in front of theWashington sideline and dived the finalfew yards into the end zone for a 10-3Cardinal lead — their first lead sinceblowing a 20-point advantage to San JoseState on Sept. 9.
Stanford sealed the victory on the firstpossession of the fourth quarter, whenOstrander threw a wide receiver screen toSherman, who sprinted untouched infront of the Huskies’ bench for Stanford’sfirst offensive score since the fourth quar-ter of its 31-10 loss to Notre Dame onOct. 7.
Many of the purple-clad Washingtonfans started filing out knowing that coachTyrone Willingham’s stated preseasongoal of reaching a bowl game was nowunobtainable.
Washington lost its sixth straight andlooked nothing like the resilient squadthat nearly upset USC, and took bothCalifornia and Arizona State to overtimebefore losing.
Michael Braunstein kicked a 28-yardfield goal for Washington’s only points.Aaron Zagory kicked field goals of 29and 37 yards for the Cardinal.
By ANDREW BAGNATOThe Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. — California centerAlex Mack was philosophical about theeighth-ranked Golden Bears’ 24-20 lossto Arizona Saturday afternoon.
“It’s not over,” he said. “It just hurts.”The loss knocked the Golden Bears (8-
2, 6-1 Pac-10) out of the national titlehunt. But Cal can still clinch its first RoseBowl berth since the 1958 season with avictory at No. 7 Southern California nextweek.
For Arizona, the victory was anothermilestone on the road to respectability.The Wildcats, who won three games eachof the last two years, have knocked off aTop 25 team on consecutive Saturdays.Last week it was then-No 25 WashingtonState.
“It has been a long day, but it endedgreat,” said Arizona coach Mike Stoops,who has beaten four ranked opponents inthree seasons. “People rushing the field atthe end, that’s always a good sign.”
While delirious Arizona students triedto tug down the north goalpost at duskSaturday, the Bears looked back on aseries of plays that cost them the victory.
“There were a lot of things today — alot of things,” California coach JeffTedford said.
The strange plays are perhaps the bestway to explain how the Bears blew a 17-3 third-quarter lead against a team thathad averaged 13.8 points in the first ninegames — and how they lost despite out-gaining Arizona 356 yards to 262.
“The whole game was like plays goingtheir way,” cornerback DaymeionHughes said. “I was like, ’Man, this can’t
be real.’ “The first one came midway through
the first quarter, when a block-in-the-back penalty on receiver LavelleHawkins nullified tailback MarshawnLynch’s 79-yard touchdown run. The ballwas brought back to Arizona’s 33-yardline and the Bears had to settle for a fieldgoal and a 10-3 lead.
With Cal clinging to a 17-10 lead latein the third quarter, a defensive holdingcall erased an interception by the Bears’Bernard Hicks. Two plays later, Hughesappeared to pick off a Willie Tuitamapass at goal line, only to have an officialflag him for interference.
“That play right there was crucial,”Hughes said. “That’s usually a no-call. Itwasn’t blatant. I was just going for thefootball.”
Two plays later, Arizona tailback ChrisHenry scored on a 4-yard run to tie thegame at 17-17.
Arizona went ahead 24-17 early in thefourth quarter when cornerback AntoineCason returned an interception 39 yardsfor a touchdown.
“They’ve got good defensive backsand they jumped me,” said quarterbackNate Longshore, who threw three inter-ceptions.
On the next series, Longshore hitHawkins behind the Arizona secondary.But with no one between him and the endzone, Hawkins stumbled at about the 10and landed at the Wildcats’ 1.
Cal failed to score on two MarshawnLynch runs and an incomplete pass andsettled for a 20-yard field goal by TomSchneider.
The most painful play came on Cal’s
final thrust. Longshore hit Jackson for anapparent 63-yard touchdown pass with2:18 to play.
But the score was nullified by a videoreview, which showed that Jacksonstepped out at Arizona’s 41.
“I wasn’t paying attention to the side-line,” Jackson said. “I just made thecatch.”
It was about the only time Arizonamanaged to stop the speedy Jackson, whoreturned a punt 95 yards for a touchdownand caught a 62-yard touchdown pass.The punt return was his fourth for atouchdown this season and the fifth of hiscareer, both Pac-10 records.
Jackson finished with six receptionsfor 131 yards despite battling the flu.
Stoops’ reaction when Jackson wasruled out of bounds? “The football godsare smiling on us,” he said.
Cal reached the Arizona 27 beforeArizona linebacker Ronnie Palmer inter-cepted a pass with 1:32 to play.
“We made just enough plays to win,”Stoops said.
Or perhaps Cal didn’t make enoughplays. The Golden Bears came into thisgame averaging 36.3 points per game,tied with Oregon for most in the Pac-10.
The Bears had the league’s leadingrusher, Lynch, and its most efficient pass-er, Longshore. But while Lynch rushedfor 102 yards, the Bears never found anoffensive rhythm.
“You just have these games some-times, and it was one of those games forus,” Longshore said. “It’s really nobody’sfault. We just couldn’t get anythinggoing.”
By BETH HARRISThe Associated Press
PASADENA — MarcusEverett caught a 45-yard passfrom Patrick Cowan for thego-ahead touchdown in thethird quarter, helping UCLAdefeat Oregon State 25-7Saturday night and keep itsbowl hopes alive.
The Bruins (5-5, 3-4 Pac-10), who snapped a four-gamelosing streak despite rackingup 13 penalties for 155 yards,could salvage a bowl bid witha victory at Arizona State nextweek. They end the regularseason at home against No. 7Southern California.
The Beavers (6-4, 4-3),who play a 13-game schedule,would have become bowl eli-gible with their fifth consecu-tive victory.
Their winning streakincluded a 33-31 upset ofUSC on Oct. 28.
Oregon State’s MattMoore, who transferred fromUCLA after losing the startingjob in 2003, was sacked fivetimes.
Including twice in thefourth quarter. He was 16-of-28 for 159 yards and notouchdowns.
The defensive duo of JustinHickman and Bruce Davisteamed up against Moore,with Hickman getting a sackand Davis recovering a fum-ble with 5 1/2 minutes left inthe game.
Justin Medlock, who cameinto the game tied for theNCAA lead with 19 fieldgoals, made kicks of 40 and42 yards in the second quarter,when UCLA trailed 7-6.
He added two more in thefourth — from 25 and 24yards — that extended theBruins’ lead to 25-7.
UCLA stopped OregonState’s first drive of the thirdquarter when YvensonBernard was tackled for a 3-yard loss on fourth down.
The Bruins had barelyregained the ball when Cowanfound Everett, who ran intothe end zone ahead of OregonState defender Al Afalava on aone-play possession that last-ed 15 seconds and put theBruins ahead 13-7.
Oregon State’s AlexisSerna, the fourth-best kickerin the nation, missed a 30-yard field goal wide left. Ontheir next possession, theBeavers fumbled for the thirdtime.
The Bruins maintainedtheir momentum into thefourth quarter, with Everettcatching an 11-yard TD passfrom Cowan for a 19-7 lead.The 2-point conversion failedwhen Cowan’s pass wasincomplete to Logan Paulsen.
Bernard scored up the mid-dle for the Beavers’ lonetouchdown in the secondquarter.
He was their leading rusherwith 16 carries for 54 yardsand leading receiver with fivecatches for 41 yards.
Cowan was 12-of-23 for126 yards and two touch-downs.
Chris Markey led UCLAwith 23 carries for 84 yards.Everett caught three passesfor 64 yards and both touch-downs.
NCAA FOOTBALL
Stanford doesn’t go into the history books
Arizona upsets No. 8 California 24-20
Bruins beat up Beavers
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By TIM DAHLBERGThe Associated Press
The president of the NCAAwent on the offensive theother day, taking on a coupleof easy targets to make hiscase that most jocks aren’tnearly as dumb as you mightthink.
Actually, Myles Brandsays, they might be smarterthan the average college stu-dent, no matter what theapparently not-so-brightmedia and an equally ignorantcongressman try to lead you tobelieve.
“There really is no excusefor getting this informationwrong,” Brand said.
Brand used the federal gov-ernment’s own statistics tomake his case that student-athletes fare better in collegethan those who don’t playintercollegiate sports. And thebest statistic was one thatshowed 63 percent of athleteswho entered college in 1999graduated within six years,compared with 61 percent ofregular students.
Pretty impressive stuff, andyou can’t go wrong goingafter two professions peoplelove to hate. If only Brand hadthrown lawyers in there, too,he could have scored a raretrifecta of easily bashed tar-gets.
Pretty timely too, consider-ing the NCAA has just a fewmore days to answer a bunchof questions from the chair-man of the House Ways andMeans Committee about grad-uation rates and the fate of$545 million in tax-freemoney the NCAA gets everyyear from CBS to broadcastthe men’s basketball tourna-ment.
Brand will surely trumpetthe figures in his report to
Congress as proof that theNCAA’s efforts to get somesort of control over the acade-mic side of college athleticsare working.
And, to be sure, he’s gotsome reason to brag.
Under his watch, theNCAA has for the first timeinstituted penalties on schoolswho don’t graduate a decentportion of their athletes.Ninety-nine teams at 65 col-leges and universities lostscholarships this year becausethey weren’t graduatingenough players.
For the first time, coachesare being forced to give morethought to academics than justknowing the name of theteam’s tutors. It’s causingthem to think twice about thekind of player they mightrecruit, and what they need todo for players once they’reenrolled at school.
So give Brand a pat on theback for forcing the issue. It’slong overdue from an organi-zation whose only priority foryears seemed to be finding outwhether Jerry Tarkanian gavea kid lunch money or offeredhim a ride in his car.
But numbers aren’t alwayswhat they seem. And thesenumbers are no exception.
Yes, more athletes are grad-uating. They should, becausepart of the deal at most col-leges and universities is thatathletes get tutors, structuredstudy times and, in general, alot more academic help thanthe average student who hastrouble even finding an advis-er to help him fill out a classschedule.
Some even get specialclasses to take to help themalong. Who can forget thefinal exam for the Universityof Georgia’s Coaching
Principles and Strategies ofBasketball class, where play-ers had to answer such ques-tions as how many halves arein a game and how manypoints you get for a 3-pointshot.
But the troubling thing isnot how many are graduating,but who is doing the graduat-ing.
If you’re a female rower onscholarship, odds are verygood you’ll get a diploma.That’s not surprising becausea lot of college rowing teamswere formed simply to meetTitle IX requirements andthose who get scholarships arehighly motivated to attendcollege.
The same holds true forother minor sports. Accordingto the statistics, 94 percent ofmale fencers graduate, andnearly the same percentage offemale field hockey playersget diplomas within six years.
Those kind of numbers —and the fact that female ath-letes graduate much more thantheir male counterparts —prop up the overall rates to thepoint where they look a lotmore respectable.
The NCAA even has itsown higher rates that it saysmore accurately reflect whogets diplomas.
The numbers, though, arestill dismal for the athletesyou see on television, those inthe sports that produce the bigbucks for schools. They’reparticularly bad for the play-ers who earn the NCAA all ofits tax-exempt riches fromCBS.
Less than half of Division Imen’s basketball players grad-uate, the lowest rate of anysport. Black players fare theworst, with just 42 percentgraduating.
Things aren’t much betterin football where 64 percentof whites graduate, but only49 percent of blacks.
Those rates are better thanlast year’s, and the good newsis that for the first time thetrend is going up. Who knows,some of those degrees mighteven be in something moreuseful than the general studiesdiploma so popular amongsome athletes.
looking to be physical but stillplay smart, which I don’tthink I did in the first game. ...I came into the game knowingI had to change that.”
Fred Washington added 14points and seven assists andLawrence Hill 14 points forStanford, picked to finish sev-enth in the Pac-10. TheCardinal missed an NCAAberth last season to end aschool-record stretch of 11consecutive trips, and insteadsettled for an NIT bid in coachTrent Johnson’s second sea-son.
Alex Franklin scored 18points for Siena, playing forthe first time in raucousMaples Pavilion. The Saintsstill consider their upset winover Stanford in the 1989NCAA tournament theirbiggest sports moment inschool history.
Goods scored sevenstraight points — hitting con-
secutive 3-pointers — andWashington and Lopez eachscored six during a 21-4 spurtby Stanford early in the sec-ond half that broke open thegame and gave the Cardinal a63-41 lead.
“It’s amazing what youlook like when the ball’sgoing down,” Johnson said.“The guys did a good jobkeeping their composure. Wemade some adjustments at thestart of the second half.”
In only 11 minutes ofaction in the first half, Lopezhad eight points, ninerebounds and four blocks tohelp Stanford shoot 52.9 per-cent on the way to a 42-35lead at the break.
Lopez scored four points asStanford jumped to a 15-4lead and had another nicemove for a basket that didn’tcount because he traveled onthe play. Stanford missed hisbig body late in the first halfwhen he went to the benchwith two fouls.
“Obviously, the guy’s a lot-tery pick,” Siena coach FranMcCaffery said. “We knew
he’d be good. He runs thefloor, has a nice touch,rebounds, knows how toblock.”
Michael Haddix and KennyHasbrouck added 12 pointsapiece for the Saints, who arefrom Loudonville, N.Y., andplay in the Metro AtlanticAthletic Conference.
The Cardinal, who are 9-2in their last 11 opening gamesat home, are short-handed inthe post with center PeterProwitt out with a brokenbone in his right leg. Stanfordlost key players ChrisHernandez, Matt Haryasz andDan Grunfeld to graduation.
“It’s not like we’re bringingin bums,” Washington said.“We’ve got good players.”
Former Stanford coachMike Montgomery, fired bythe Golden State Warriors inAugust, made an appearanceat the game.
The schools played twotimes previously, withStanford winning the lastmatchup during the 1991-92season. Siena has played fivetimes against the Pac-10.
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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUEBy The Associated Press
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
EastW L T Pct PF PA
New England 6 2 0 .750 187 114N.Y. Jets 4 4 0 .500 160 193Buffalo 3 5 0 .375 124 163Miami 2 6 0 .250 133 158
SouthW L T Pct PF PA
Indianapolis 8 0 01.000 232 173Jacksonville 5 3 0 .625 175 114Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 120 216Houston 2 6 0 .250 131 196
NorthW L T Pct PF PA
Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 171 111Cincinnati 4 4 0 .500 175 168Cleveland 2 6 0 .250 133 171Pittsburgh 2 6 0 .250 177 176
WestW L T Pct PF PA
Denver 6 2 0 .750 141 98San Diego 6 2 0 .750 248 134Kansas City 5 3 0 .625 183 169Oakland 2 6 0 .250 92 164
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
EastW L T Pct PF PA
N.Y. Giants 6 2 0 .750 194 144Philadelphia 4 4 0 .500 206 160Dallas 4 4 0 .500 223 164Washington 3 5 0 .375 162 190
SouthW L T Pct PF PA
New Orleans 6 2 0 .750 198 159Atlanta 5 3 0 .625 167 164Carolina 4 4 0 .500 137 163Tampa Bay 2 6 0 .250 102 173
NorthW L T Pct PF PA
Chicago 7 1 0 .875 234 100Minnesota 4 4 0 .500 130 135Green Bay 3 5 0 .375 162 200Detroit 2 6 0 .250 162 203
WestW L T Pct PF PA
Seattle 5 3 0 .625 165 177St. Louis 4 4 0 .500 180 197San Francisco 3 5 0 .375 143 238Arizona 1 7 0 .125 134 196
Sunday’s GamesMiami 31, Chicago 13Detroit 30, Atlanta 14Washington 22, Dallas 19N.Y. Giants 14, Houston 10Buffalo 24, Green Bay 10Kansas City 31, St. Louis 17Baltimore 26, Cincinnati 20Jacksonville 37, Tennessee 7New Orleans 31, Tampa Bay 14San Francisco 9, Minnesota 3Denver 31, Pittsburgh 20San Diego 32, Cleveland 25Indianapolis 27, New England 20Open: N.Y. Jets, Arizona, Philadelphia, Carolina
Monday’s GameSeattle 16, Oakland 0
Sunday, Nov. 12Buffalo at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.Baltimore at Tennessee, 10 a.m.Cleveland at Atlanta, 10 a.m.Green Bay at Minnesota, 10 a.m.Kansas City at Miami, 10 a.m.San Francisco at Detroit, 10 a.m.Houston at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.N.Y. Jets at New England, 10 a.m.San Diego at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.Washington at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.Denver at Oakland, 1:05 p.m.St. Louis at Seattle, 1:15 p.m.New Orleans at Pittsburgh, 1:15 p.m.Dallas at Arizona, 1:15 p.m.Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 5:15 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 13Tampa Bay at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER PLAYOFF By The Associated Press
Conference Semifinals
(Two-leg Aggregate Score Series)
Eastern Conference
D.C. United 2, New York 1
Saturday, Oct. 21: D.C. United 1, New York 0
Sunday, Oct. 29: New York 1, D.C. United 1, tie
Chicago 2, New England 2
New England advances on penalty kicks 4-2
Sunday, Oct. 22: Chicago 1, New England 0
Saturday, Oct. 28: New England 2, Chicago 1
Western Conference
Colorado 4, FC Dallas 4Colorado advances on penalty kicks 5-4Saturday, Oct. 21: FC Dallas 2, Colorado 1Saturday, Oct. 28: Colorado 3, FC Dallas 2
Houston 3, CD Chivas USA 2Sunday, Oct. 22: CD Chivas USA 2, Houston 1Sunday, Oct. 29: Houston 2, CD Chivas USA 0
Conference Championship
Eastern ConferenceSunday, Nov. 5: New England 1, D.C. United 0
Western ConferenceSunday, Nov. 5: Houston 3, Colorado 1
MLS Cup
At Frisco, TexasSunday, Nov. 12: New England vs. Houston,12:30 p.m.
TRANSACTIONSBy The Associated Press
FOOTBALL
National Football LeagueDALLAS COWBOYS—Released S MarcusColeman.JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Waived FB RichAlexis. Signed OT Wayne Hunter from the prac-tice squad.
NEW YORK GIANTS—Placed WR Amani Toomeron the injured reserve list. Signed LB Tyson Smithfrom the practice squad.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Placed DT MarcusTubbs on the injured reserve list. Signed LBLance Laury from the practice squad.HOCKEY
National Hockey LeagueLOS ANGELES KINGS—Claimed C MartyMurray off waivers from Philadelphia. Placed DBrent Sopel on injured reserve.PHILADELPHIA FLYERS—Named interim gener-al manager Paul Holmgren, general manager.Recalled C Ryan Potulny from Philadelphia of theAHL.ST. LOUIS BLUES—Assigned F Mike Glumac toPeoria of the AHL.VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Assigned D NathanMcIver to Manitoba of the AHL.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUEBy The Associated Press
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic DivisionW L OT Pts GF GA
New Jersey 10 5 1 21 41 43N.Y. Rangers 9 7 1 19 60 59N.Y. Islanders 7 6 2 16 41 46Pittsburgh 7 6 2 16 49 49Philadelphia 3 11 2 8 34 65
Northeast DivisionW L OT Pts GF GA
Buffalo 14 1 1 29 73 47Toronto 11 5 3 25 69 62Montreal 8 4 3 19 47 44Ottawa 6 9 1 13 53 46Boston 5 7 2 12 40 57
Southeast DivisionW L OT Pts GF GA
Atlanta 12 5 3 27 72 61Carolina 9 6 3 21 61 58Tampa Bay 9 7 1 19 59 50Washington 7 5 4 18 50 54Florida 6 8 4 16 50 62
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central DivisionW L OT Pts GF GA
Detroit 11 4 1 23 44 31Nashville 10 4 1 21 48 42Columbus 5 8 1 11 33 45Chicago 5 9 1 11 39 50St. Louis 4 8 3 11 37 51
Northwest DivisionW L OT Pts GF GA
Minnesota 10 4 0 20 42 30Edmonton 8 7 1 17 44 43Vancouver 8 8 1 17 40 44Colorado 7 7 2 16 51 50Calgary 6 7 2 14 40 40
Pacific DivisionW L OT Pts GF GA
Anaheim 12 1 4 28 59 38Dallas 12 4 0 24 45 29San Jose 12 5 0 24 56 38Los Angeles 5 10 3 13 45 60Phoenix 4 11 0 8 36 64
Two points for a win, one point for overtime lossor shootout loss.
Friday’s GamesEdmonton 4, Columbus 1
Ottawa 6, Pittsburgh 3Detroit 3, Nashville 0N.Y. Rangers 5, Atlanta 2Buffalo 5, Florida 4, OTChicago 3, St. Louis 1Calgary 3, Anaheim 0
Saturday’s GamesBoston 4, Ottawa 3Carolina 6, Pittsburgh 2Buffalo 5, Philadelphia 4, OTToronto 5, Montreal 1Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 1Tampa Bay 5, Atlanta 3New Jersey 4, Florida 2Nashville 1, Colorado 0San Jose at Phoenix, inc.Calgary at Vancouver, inc.Minnesota at Los Angeles, inc.
Sunday’s GamesEdmonton at St. Louis, 11 a.m.Columbus at Chicago, 4 p.m.Minnesota at Anaheim, 5 p.m.
Monday’s GamesBuffalo at Carolina, 4 p.m.Montreal at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m.Washington at Florida, 4:30 p.m.Edmonton at Colorado, 6 p.m.San Jose at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONBy The Associated Press
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic DivisionW L Pct GB
Philadelphia 3 3.500 —New Jersey 2 2.500 —Toronto 2 3.400 1/2New York 2 5.2861 1/2Boston 1 5.167 2
Southeast DivisionW L Pct GB
Atlanta 4 2.667 —Miami 3 2.600 1/2Washington 3 2.600 1/2Orlando 4 3.571 1/2Charlotte 1 4.2002 1/2
Central DivisionW L Pct GB
Cleveland 4 2.667 —Indiana 4 3.571 1/2Chicago 3 3.500 1Detroit 3 3.500 1Milwaukee 2 5.2862 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest DivisionW L Pct GB
San Antonio 5 1.833 —Houston 4 2.667 1New Orleans 4 2.667 1Memphis 1 3.250 3Dallas 1 4.2003 1/2
Northwest DivisionW L Pct GB
Utah 6 1.857 —Portland 4 2.6671 1/2Seattle 3 4.429 3Minnesota 2 4.3333 1/2Denver 1 3.2503 1/2
Pacific DivisionW L Pct GB
L.A. Clippers 4 1.800 —Sacramento 3 2.600 1L.A. Lakers 4 3.571 1Golden State 3 3.5001 1/2Phoenix 1 5.1673 1/2
Friday’s GamesIndiana 93, Orlando 83Atlanta 111, Toronto 102Washington 116, Milwaukee 111Denver 108, Philadelphia 101Seattle 99, Charlotte 85Utah 107, Boston 100Miami 113, New Jersey 106Houston 103, New York 94Portland 92, New Orleans 91Detroit 97, L.A. Lakers 83
Saturday’s GamesSeattle 113, Atlanta 112, OTCleveland 94, Boston 93San Antonio 100, New York 92Orlando 109, Minnesota 98Utah 113, Milwaukee 111Chicago 89, Indiana 80Memphis at Phoenix, inc.Detroit at Golden State, inc.
Sunday’s GamesNew Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 12:30 p.m.New Jersey at Washington, 3 p.m.Denver at Charlotte, 3 p.m.Houston at Miami, 5 p.m.Toronto at Sacramento, 6 p.m.Dallas at Portland, 6 p.m.Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m.
Monday’s GamesOrlando at Boston, 4:30 p.m.Cleveland at New York, 4:30 p.m.Seattle at New Jersey, 4:30 p.m.
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Athletes aren’t graduating like usual
pressure but when they brokethe full-court press, they madethe Knights pay with easylayups and when they got intotheir offense and moved theball they shot well and goteasy baskets.
In the second half, Shastastarted where it left off byscoring a three-pointer byAshley Crinch. But gooddefense by Ashley Quiroga,who ended the night with fivepoints and a perfect block ofone of the Knights players,would lead to a bucket byAshley Shepherd to give theEagles a little momentum atthe 16:00 mark.
The Eagle defense wouldencourage Shasta to turn theball over just 30 seconds laterand lead to a basket byJeannine Betts. On the nextpossession the Eagles’ Andrewould block a Knight shot andthat would lead to nice fastbreak basket from Betts toAshley to chip away that thelarge Shasta lead, 57-25.
The Eagles would thenmount a 12-5 run to pull thescore to 62-37 with 3:31 leftin the game but the Eagles dugthemselves into too large of ahole to come out of and lostthe game 72-42.
“We will learn from it andgo at it again in our nextgame.
In Saturday’s game, it wasalmost like night and day forMendocino. While the Eagleslost to the College of theSickiyous 81-69 they wereable to shed off the rust andjitters they had the nightbefore and came out scoring10 points in the first two min-utes of the game.
“I am happy with our per-formance tonight,” saidMendocino head coach StanWeiper. “We shot the ball welland led most of the first half.”
Eagle Ashley Quirogacame out stroking the threesall night and finished with 13points and 3-5 in threes.
Siskiyous would not let theEagles get comfortable with alead and would slowly chipaway at the lead. They wouldeventually take the lead in latein the first half on a steal andlayup by Natasha Robinson atthe 5:00 mark and would notlook back.
“We learned a lot from lastgame and we showed signs ofhow well we can play whenwe are all on the same page,”Weiper said.
The Eagles would go intohalftime down 47-34 after theCollege of the Siskiyous wenton an 11-2 run to end the half.
The Eagles would start the
second half hot again with abeautiful spin move by AmberShepherd at the 19:00 mark toclose the Siskiyou lead to 14.
But just as soon as the leadwas 14, Siskiyous would goon a quick 5-0 run to expandthe lead to 56-36 on a three byKatie Pollak, who ended thenight with 17 points, five ofthem threes, and a layup byKarlee Myers, who finishedwith 18 points.
But the Eagles weren’tgoing to hold their headsdown and came back with a12-4 run of their own on bas-kets by Katie Dodds, who had10 points, Ashley Shepherd,Ashley Ceci and JeannineBetts to close the score to 60-46 at the 11:40 mark in thesecond half.
The Eagles would comeback from over 20 pointsdown in the second to closethe gap to within 10 pointswith five minutes to go butcould not overcome theSiskiyou lead and would losethe game by a final score of81-69.
“This was a good team andwe will only get better withmore practice and when ourother players get back,”Weiper said.
Every player that suited upfor the Eagles scored at leastone basket in Saturday’sgame.
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By BETH HARRISAP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES — For thefirst time in years, there’soptimism about SouthernCalifornia’s basketball pro-gram at a school best knownfor its two-time nationalchampion football team.
The Trojans have asparkling new arena. CoachTim Floyd has depth, size andexperience at every positionbut point guard. And leadingscorer and rebounder NickYoung promises to be evenbetter.
But sadness pervades theTrojans.
The offseason shootingdeath of Ryan Francis in hishome state of Louisiana dealtan emotional blow to the teamand left the Trojans withoutone of the best young pointguards in the Pac-10.
“It’s difficult for me,because I loved the kid,” saidFloyd, whose first signingwas Francis. “He never leavesmy mind.”
USC’s season opener nextThursday against SouthCarolina in the new GalenCenter will feature a tribute toFrancis, with his mother,Paulette Francis, travelingfrom Baton Rouge, La., toattend.
The 19-year-old Franciswas killed in a drive-by shoot-ing on Mother’s Day week-end. The man accused of theshooting, D’Anthony Ford, isbeing held without bond at theEast Baton Rouge ParishPrison.
“When I learned that hepassed, I couldn’t believe it,”said freshman Daniel Hackett,who is expected to start atpoint guard. “It was such acrazy thing to hear.”
The stunned Trojans trav-eled to Baton Rouge as a teamto attend Francis’ funeral, andthey still keep in touch withhis mother.
“He was a wonderful, won-derful kid who was the heartand soul of our team,” Floydsaid. “He just played his tailoff every single day and rep-resented himself like I thinkUSC wants their athletes torepresent.”
The players will wear apatch with Francis’ name andnumber on their jerseys thisseason. Fundraisers have beenheld to endow a scholarship inhis name, and a bench in frontof Galen Center will bear hisname.
Francis’ presence also willbe strongly felt in USC’s lock-er room, where a vacant lock-er with his jersey hanging in ithas been set aside.
“Just now in the lockerroom we were talking abouthim, how he played hard, how
we loved playing with him,”senior center AbdoulayeN’diaye said Thursday afterpractice. “We miss him a lotand we wish he was here rightnow.”
As a freshman, Francisaveraged 7.1 points per game.He ranked seventh in the Pac-10 in assists and fifth in steals,and USC went 17-13 inFloyd’s first year. Francis’presence made the Trojans’backcourt their greateststrength.
“At times, we looked like ateam that could guard peopleand it was all the result of hiseffort and his ability to initiatedefense and have the othersfollow him,” Floyd said.
Now, Francis is gone andso is the backcourt. The pointguard position wasn’t a prior-ity for Floyd in recruitingbecause he thought Franciswould play 32 minutes agame. Several players are inthe running for starting min-utes.
Hackett and fellow fresh-man Kevin Galloway will getfirst crack at proving they canbe capable ball-handlers,although neither was recruitedto play point guard. SeniorLodrick Stewart could start atthe two-guard spot. He aver-aged 12.3 points and 3.6rebounds last season.
The 18-year-old Hackettwas recruited for next season,but he finished high school inthe summer and was clearedby the NCAA to enroll atUSC.
“I used to come up here andRyan used to talk to me abouthow it is to be a starting fresh-man point guard on a collegeteam,” Hackett said. “I alwaysrespected that guy for howhard he played.”
After Francis’ death, theTrojans got more bad news.
Junior guard Nick Pruitt,who averaged 16.9 points lastseason, is academically ineli-gible and will miss the first 10games. His absence increasesthe load on Young, a 6-foot-6,195-pounder who was an All-Pac 10 selection last season.He averaged 17.3 points and6.6 rebounds.
“I’ve been trying to relax alittle bit,” said Young, whoadded 10 pounds over thesummer. “Coach has told medon’t put so much pressure onmyself, don’t get caught up inthe hype.”
The Trojans are big inside,with the 6-11 N’Diaye provid-ing an aggressive presenceand shotblocking ability.
Last season, USC finishedsixth in the Pac-10 and had anine-game winning streak,including victories overArizona, North Carolina andcrosstown rival UCLA.
Woman burned whenYankees pitcher’splane crashed intoNYC apartmentreleased from hospitalBy VERENA DOBNIKThe Associated Press
NEW YORK — IlanaBenhuri was baking an applepie for her 12-year-old son’sschool and doing paperworkin her apartment when herhousekeeper noticed thesmall plane outside the win-dow.
Benhuri did not see theplane attempt to turn abovethe East River and skew clos-er to her home, but herhousekeeper rushed into theroom with a warning.Seconds later, the plane car-rying New York Yankeespitcher Cory Lidle crashedthrough the apartment wall,setting off a fireball.
“At first, I thought I wasdead,” Benhuri, 50, saidFriday as she left New YorkPresbyterian-Weill CornellMedical Center a month afterarriving with severe burns. “Iwas screaming. I could notstop screaming. I did notknow what it was.”
Lidle and flight instructorTyler Stanger were killedwhen the plane slammed
nose-first into Benhuri’s 30thfloor apartment onManhattan’s Upper East Sideon Oct. 11.
Benhuri was the only oneof 23 people injured in thecrash to be hospitalized. Theothers, including 14 fire-fighters, were treated andreleased.
Benhuri suffered burnsbelow her waist, but she andhousekeeper EvelineReategue made it down thebuilding’s stairs to safety.Reategue was uninjured.During her month in the hos-pital, Benhuri underwentsurgery and multiple skingrafts.
“She’s still in pain,” saidher attorney, Bob Sullivan,adding that a lawsuit waslikely against Lidle’s estate.
Benhuri’s family is livingelsewhere in Manhattanwhile their apartment isbeing restored, but she saidshe wasn’t sure if she everwanted to move back.
Authorities have not saidwhich man was at the con-trols of the Cirrus SR20.Federal investigators withthe National TransportationSafety Board have said theinability of the plane’s pilotto turn sharply in a light windwas responsible for thecrash.
The Assocaited PressMOBILE, Ala. — Lorena
Ochoa moved into position towrap up the LPGA Tour play-er of the year race and win hersixth title of the year, shoot-ing a 9-under 63 on Saturdayto take a five-stroke lead inthe LPGA Tournament ofChampions.
The 24-year-old Mexicanstar, seeking her third straightvictory, needs a victorySunday to win the player ofthe year points race andbecome the first player otherthan Annika Sorenstam orKarrie Webb to secure thehonor since 1996.
“This is a really big tourna-ment for me because of that,”Ochoa said about clinchingthe award before facingSorenstam and Webb nextweek in the season-endingADT Championship. “I thinkit will be a lot easier to getthat done, player of the year.This is a tough tournament,tough competition and thegolf course is playing tough.
Ochoa, coming off a three-week break, had a 14-under202 total on MagnoliaGrove’s Crossings Course. Inher last two starts, she wonthe Corona MoreliaChampionship in Mexico andrallied to beat Sorenstam inthe Samsung WorldChampionship.
“I’m just glad that I’m in agood position,” Ochoa said.“I’m glad that I’m in the finalgroup. That was my goal, justto have a chance to win thetournament. I don’t want tothink all of that. I want to gethere tomorrow, not thinkabout it, have fun, have agood round. I’m not going tothink all of the things outside,just play my own gametomorrow and enjoy.”
Creamer shot a 69.“She played well today,”
Creamer said about Ochoa. “Ican go out and play well likeshe did today, tomorrow. Iwill be playing with her. I’mstill in the last group, which isnice. She has been playingreally well, so that will helpmotivate myself.”
Hall of Famer Juli Inkster,who started the day tied forthe lead with Moira Dunn,was third at 7 under after a 73.Stacy Prammanasudh (71)was 6 under, while Dunn (78)was 2 under.
Ochoa has played the last33 holes in 13 under, anamazing recovery from aquadruple bogey-8 on thefirst hole of the second round.She also bogeyed the thirdhole Friday and at that pointwas 1 under for the tourna-ment.
“I think after yesterday, theway I started the round andhow mental it was for me, justto try to make birdies andcatch up and get myself in agood position,” Ochoa said.“I was just tired, mentallytired. Today was the opposite.Everything was just so easy,just one of those days.”
Starting the day threestrokes behind the leaders,Ochoa made up groundquickly with a birdie-eagle-birdie streak on Nos. 3-5 thatput here in the lead.
A bogey from the bunkeron the par-3 eighth momen-tarily broke her momentumand dropped her into a tiewith Cristie Kerr and Inksterfor the lead.
With the north wind pick-ing up and temperature drop-ping, Ochoa seized controlwith five birdies in the nextsix holes, including four in arow.
USC still recovering Ochoa shoots a 63 Lidle survivor released
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By ERICA WERNERAssociated Press
LOS ANGELES — TheDemocratic congressman whowill investigate the Bushadministration’s running ofthe government says there areso many areas of possiblewrongdoing, his biggest prob-lem will be deciding whichones to pursue.
There’s the response toHurricane Katrina, govern-ment contracting in Iraq andon homeland security, deci-sion-making at theEnvironmental ProtectionAgency and the Food andDrug Administration, andallegations of corporate profi-teering, Rep. Henry Waxman,D-Calif., told the Los AngelesChamber of Commerce.
“I’m going to have an inter-esting time because theGovernment ReformCommittee has jurisdictionover everything,” Waxmansaid Friday, three days afterhis party’s capture ofCongress put him in line tochair the panel. “The most dif-ficult thing will be to pick andchoose.”
Waxman, who’s in his 16thterm representing West LosAngeles, had plenty of experi-ence leading congressionalinvestigations before theDemocrats lost control of theHouse to Republicans in1994.
That was the year when, aschairman of an Energy andCommerce subcommittee, hepresided over dramatic hear-ings he convened where theheads of leading tobacco com-panies testified that they did-n’t believe nicotine was addic-tive.
The scene made it into the
movie “The Insider,” butWaxman noted Friday that nosubpoenas were issued to pro-duce that testimony.
Republicans have speculat-ed that a Democratic congres-sional majority will mean aflurry of subpoenas and inves-tigations into everythingunder the sun as retaliationagainst the GOP and PresidentBush.
Not so, Waxman said.“A lot of people have said
to me, ‘Are you going to nowgo out and issue a lot of sub-poenas and go on a wild pay-back time?’ Well, payback isunworthy,” he said. “Doingoversight doesn’t mean issu-ing subpoenas. It means tryingto get information.”
Subpoenas would be usedonly as a last result, Waxmansaid, taking a jab at a previouscommittee chairman, GOPRep. Dan Burton of Indiana,who led the committee duringpart of the Clinton administra-tion.
“He issued a subpoena likemost people write a letter,”Waxman said.
Waxman complained thatRepublicans, while in power,shut Democrats out of deci-sion-making and abdicatedoversight responsibilities,focusing only on maintainingtheir own power.
In contrast to the manyinvestigations the GOPlaunched of the Clintonadministration, “when Bushcame into power there wasn’ta scandal too big for them to
ignore,” Waxman said.Among the issues that
should have been investigatedbut weren’t, Waxman con-tended, were the Abu Ghraibprisoner abuse scandal, thecontroversy over the leak ofCIA operative Valerie Plame’sname, and the pre-Iraq waruse of intelligence.
But Waxman said in aninterview that investigatingthose issues now might notserve any purpose. “It’s obvi-ous the intelligence waswrong and the administrationcherry-picked intelligence. ...Those failures are obvious. Idon’t know what would begained by going over some ofthose areas,” he said.
He told the Chamber ofCommerce that Congressmust restore accountabilityand function as an indepen-dent branch of government.“It’s our obligation not to berepeating with theRepublicans have done,”Waxman said.
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SACRAMENTO — Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger is signaling that hewill push strongly for redistrictingreform next year to changeCalifornia’s gerrymandered electionprocess, relying on the same biparti-san course he steered successfullythis year.
Voters rejected the governor’sredistricting ballot initiative in lastyear’s special election. Legislativeleaders were unable to work out adeal in time for this November’svote, but there appears to be renewedinterest from both parties to fix aflawed system.
On a trade mission in Mexico thisweek, Schwarzenegger said hewould like to put a redistricting ini-tiative before voters in 2008.
“Every one of the (legislative)leaders said to me that we’ve got to
continue working on that. Every oneof them mentioned to me, let’s getgoing again in January about redis-tricting,” Schwarzenegger toldreporters Thursday in Mexico City.
“We will start now from scratchagain, I’m sure, because what we hadthe last time didn’t pass.”
Most of the state’s legislative andcongressional seats stayed comfort-ably in the same party’s hands duringTuesday’s midterm election. That isjust as they were intended to under a2001 plan drawn up in the CaliforniaLegislature, which secured 33 Houseseats that are typically safe forDemocrats and 20 that are consid-ered safe Republican.
One notable exception this yearwas in the 11th CongressionalDistrict, where political newcomerJerry McNerney, a Democrat,unseated incumbent RepublicanRichard Pombo. In a neighboring
district, an 18-point Republican reg-istration advantage helpedRepublican Rep. John Doolittle ofRocklin ward off an unexpectedlyclose Democratic challenge.
But in an interview with TheAssociated Press on Friday, Doolittledisagreed that his district is amongthe gerrymandered areas in need ofreform. He said it would be nearlyimpossible to achieve a truly nonpar-tisan plan for California.
“There’s no nobility when itcomes to redistricting. Either theDemocrats are trying to do it forDemocrats or Republicans are tryingto do it for Republicans,” he said.
Doolittle rejected any approachthat would involve retired judges,such as Schwarzenegger’s failed ini-tiative from a year ago, Proposition77. Under that plan, a panel of threeretired judges would draw new dis-
tricts.Other proposed schemes involve
commissions of voters chosen at ran-dom by the secretary of state’s officeor panels comprised of partisans andindependents.
All those ideas are up for discus-sion in the next legislative session,said David Lesher, head of the NewAmerica Foundation’s Californiaprogram, which has lobbied forreforms. But he said even with themost nonpartisan deal, it’s likely thatonly 10 to 15 percent of California’slegislative and congressional seatswould be competitive.
“California’s so balkanized, withconcentrations of Democrats inurban areas and concentrations ofRepublicans in rural areas, there willalways be seats like Doolittle’s inCalifornia,” he said.
Still, he added, “I think here are
still far too many seats that should bemore competitive than they are.”
Assemblyman Mike Villines, R-Clovis, who was chosen as Assemblyminority leader on Thursday, said achange in the makeup of electoraldistricts would be one of the mostfundamental steps politicians couldtake to give voters a greater stake inthe political process.
He said a successful bill wouldneed to include participation fromlegislators as well as independents.The appetite for it is there, Villinessaid.
“Redistricting reform would beone of the most positive things thatwe could put out of the Legislaturethis year,” he said.
Associated Press Writers LauraKurtzman in Mexico City and RobinHindery in Sacramento contributedto this report.
Leaders show renewed interest in redistricting
Investigation list is toolong, Waxman says
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — A top energyadviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hasresigned in what could be the first of severaladministration departures as the governorenters his second term.
Joe Desmond, undersecretary for EnergyAffairs, told The Associated Press that thetime was right for him to return to the privatesector and spend more time with his family.
“I firmly believe California has the ener-gy policies needed in place, and the focusnow needs to turn to implementation,”Desmond said Friday.
Desmond sent a resignation letterThursday to his colleagues in the energydepartment.
He had been an architect ofSchwarzenegger’s failed 2005 attempt toreorganize the state’s energy agencies.Under that plan, Desmond had stood to
become the state’s first cabinet-level energysecretary.
Legislative Democrats opposed the reor-ganization and in May forced him to stepdown as head of the powerful CaliforniaEnergy Commission by refusing to hold hisconfirmation hearing.
Desmond also had drawn fire fromDemocrats and environmentalists for sup-porting a multibillion-dollar transmissionline connecting California to Wyoming,potentially allowing the state to buy moreenergy from coal-fired power plants.
He also had advocated for providing bigenergy users the option to buy electricitydirectly from wholesalers. Lawmakers frozethe practice, known as “direct access,” dur-ing the state’s energy crisis in 2001.
Schwarzenegger spokeswoman MargitaThompson, in an e-mail from Mexico whereshe was traveling with the governor,declined to comment on Desmond’s depar-ture because an official announcement hadnot yet been made.
Desmond reports to the secretary of theCalifornia Resources Agency.
Governor’s top energy adviser resigns
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As if life isn’t busy enoughat The North Pole with thebaby and toy production, avisitor by the name of JackFrost has gotten some of hisown ideas forChristmas. Frost intendssome bad boy activity tomanipulate against the Clausfamily and create his ownversion of Chirstmas.
A merry Christmas nowtruly rests on the shoulders ofthe very busy Santa Claus.
“The Santa Claus 3: TheEscape Claus” was a perfectsequel, picking up fromwhere both the first and sec-ond Clause movies leftoff. The story is retold abouthow Scott (Santa) becameSanta and has taken over theresponsibilities of bringingjoy to the children around theworld on Christmas.
Now the sequel continuesthe story of the Clause thefamily and what has hap-pened over the last 12 years.
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This is definitely a funmovie for the right time ofyear.
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After the fifth year, theshares could change to 60percent for the city and 40percent for the countydepending on the result of anaudit that takes into accountwhether the city was actuallyable to annex land.
“If the city and county areable to reach an agreement ontax sharing, then that opensthe door to be able to plan
cooperatively for futuregrowth and development,”McCowen said of its impor-tance.
The hope, both McCowenand Wattenburger said, is toeliminate competitionbetween the city and thecounty to locate the next bigretail development in theirown jurisdiction withoutregard to actual compatibility.
“We are very excited thatwe’ve come to this agree-ment. It’s been a long-comingproduct,” Wattenburger said.
According to the staff
report, the city and countyhave discussed the concept ofa tax revenue sharing agree-ment for purposes of annexa-tion over the last 25 years.
The Local AgencyFormation Commission, orLAFCO, which reviewsapplications for annexation,requires such an agreement,among other things, to be inplace before annexation isapproved.
“Due to the current poten-tial for large housing andretail developments in theunincorporated area, discus-
sions on tax revenue sharingand the need to reach anagreement have become nec-essary and critical,” the agen-da summary report reads.
Because the city has littledevelopable land left in itsboundaries, the agreementprovides the county withslightly more sales tax rev-enue than it currently receivesin areas that would potential-ly be annexed by the city.
The proposal also includesa 5-year review period.
“One complication is thatwe can’t know the future, so
its impossible to know inevery instance exactly whatthe impact will be, financial-ly, to both jurisdictions,”McCowen said, emphasizingthe importance of the safe-gaurd.
If it is approved by thecity, it will likely go beforethe Mendocino County Boardof Supervisors in earlyDecember, Wattenburger said,noting that he would recom-mend its approval to theBoard.
McCowen said that theagreement, along with anoth-
er agenda item that proposesan expansion in the city’ssphere of influence, are stillopen for dicussion.
“None of this is totallycarved in stone,” he said.
The City Council meetingbegins at 6 p.m. in the CivicCenter Council Chambers,300 Seminary Ave. The agen-da and agenda reports can beveiwed prior to the meetingonline atwww.cityofukiah.com or atthe Civic Center.
Katie Mintz can be reachedat [email protected].
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Delbar, enlarges the city’scurrent sphere, which wasadopted in 1995, to includemore hillside land to the west,lands developed or plannedfor urban development in thesouth and lands within theUkiah Valley SanitationDistrict in the north.
Before the expandedsphere of influence can beapproved by the LocalAgency FormationCommission, the city mustconduct an environmentalreview of the proposal andcomplete its MunicipalService Review.
A map of the proposed lim-its can be viewd online atwww.cityofukiah.com/city_hall/item9a2_111506.pdf or atthe Civic Center.
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when he said, “ArdisCampbell is an inspiration toall who would make animpact on this world.”
Kay Hill was the first of aline of good friends who tookthe audience on a journey ofArdis’ civic dedication andservice to her community.Coordinating events for 4-H,the Dolphin swim team, andeven Brownies, Ardis’ lifewas a flurry of activity. All ofthe stories had one thing incommon: Ardis was alwaysgoing somewhere, alwaysdoing something, and thosearound her were swept up inher enthusiasm.
Ardis, along with six otherdedicated women, formed theUHS Landscape Committee.This group was responsiblefor the grant writing andlandscape design that madeUkiah High School the greenand beautiful campus it istoday. The campus itself is astanding memorial to the loveand respect that Ardis had forthis community.
As Dorris Pennington, along-time friend put it, “Ihave never met a nicer per-son. She was so interesting,and interested.”
Kerri (Butcher) Daniels,another graduate of the Classof ‘82, spoke of her life withArdis. Her first memories ofArdis were when she wasfive years old, in the sameballet class with Ardis’daughter Kenzie. In highschool, Daniels had Ardis as
her teacher for student lead-ership, and later in life, shewas there to help Ardis dur-ing her battle with ovariancancer.
After a touching live musi-cal performance by familyfriend Tony Arostegui and along moment of silence --during which slides of Ardis’life played across the screen -- Ardis’ daughter Kenzieshared the lessons that Ardislearned from her mother andpassed on to her children.
The first lesson was opti-mism, to always look to thebright horizon. The secondwas laughter, to find humorin even the darkest moments.The third was the value oflearning, which Ardis sharedwith countless students andfriends. The last was love,love for family, community,and especially love for your-self.
She finished it all withslides commemorating the 51years of love and laughtershared by Ardis and her hus-band, Budge Campbell.
After Ardis passed away,her family discovered in hergame closet several pieces ofpaper with her handwriting,filled with quotes to inspireand uplift those who readthem. In a life dedicated toteaching others, these wereher final lessons, tuckedaway to be discovered astreasures by those who lovedher. The quotes were includ-ed in the memorial program,so that all those who knewher could share her partingmessage.
Richard Rosier can bereached [email protected]
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LUCERNE -- An as-yetunidentified Marysville manfound inside his partially sub-merged van Friday morning inLucerne apparently committedsuicide, according to the LakeCounty Sheriff's Office.
Sgt. Mike Morshed ofLCSO said the man apparentlyaccelerated with one end of arope tied around his neck andthe other end tied around acement picnic table at LucerneHarbor Park, decapitating himand sending the van into thelake.
“The subject appeared to
know exactly what he wasintending to do, and there wasno evidence to prove other-wise,” said Morshed while atthe scene Friday.
Four LCSO units respondedto an 8:30 a.m. call from one oftwo men who had apparentlybeen at the park collectingcans.
The caller reported that hesaw the vehicle parked withthe rope trailing out a brokenback window and tied to thenearby cement picnic table.When the van began to pullslowly forward, the man saidhe tried to warn the driver, whoapparently then accelerated
quickly.According to Morshed, one
of the men who had been at thepark collecting cans went intothe water to find out what hadhappened. Simultaneously,said Morshed, concernedpassersby headed downHighway 20 to report the inci-dent to the Northshore FireDepartment, which respondedwith two units.
Morshed said the forcecompletely decapitated the dri-ver and snapped the rope. Painttransfer found on the rope indi-cated that the rope had beenstrung through the van's backleft window, noted Morshed.
The Ford Windstar contin-ued across the parking lot, overan embankment full of boul-ders and into the lake.
A 15-year LCSO veteran,Morshed added, “I’ve neverseen anything like this.”
The driver’s name is beingwithheld pending notificationof the next of kin. Morshedsaid personal identificationindicates the driver was aMarysville resident. As sher-iff’s deputies looked on, firepersonnel with the help ofLucerne Dive Rescue used awinch to pull the vehicle out ofthe water.
Man commits suicide by driving car into lake Remember Christmas pastThe Daily Journal would like our readers’ stories about
their most memorable Christmases.Was it the one when you got your first bicycle? Perhaps
the one when Aunt Mabel fell asleep in her mashed potatoes?Or was it the year your engagement ring was under the
tree?You don’t have to be a pro at writing. And it doesn’t have
to be long. Just put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, andwrite what you remember - tell it as you would tell a friendover coffee. If you have a photo of yourself on the day you’rerecalling, please include it. We will return it if you give us aself-addressed envelope - we’ll pay the postage.
Be sure to include your name and phone number and thensend it to us in any form that’s easiest for you:
Mail it to UDJ/Christmas story, P.O. Box 749, Ukiah95482.; email to [email protected] and put “Christmasstory” in the subject line; or bring it to our offices at 590 S.School St. in Ukiah at the corner of Mill and School streets.
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