SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015
Cheer
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“You get one shot to be at
your best. No do-overs. It’s
both exciting and nerve-wrack-
ing.”
Performances are scored on
jumps, standing, tumbling,
building technique for things
such a pyramids, as well as the
execution for those stunts —
which includes form as well as
safety.
Glider
from 1B
animals using their unique
acoustical signatures.
Diving seabirds, for exam-
ple, leave a trail of bubbles
through the water like the con-
trail left by a jet. Zooplankton
show up as a diffuse cloud.
Schooling fish create a glow-
ing, amoeba-shaped image.
“We’ve done this kind of
work from ships, but you’re
more or less anchored in one
spot, which is limiting,”
Benoit-Bird said. “By putting
sensors on gliders, we hope to
follow fish, or circle around a
plankton bloom, or see how
seabirds dive. We want to learn
more about what is going on
out there.”
View
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go for around $25,000, and the
cheapest seat in the house may
go for $5,000 (but probably a
lot higher).
In that regard, this fight will
be the highest grossing fight of
all-time, and Mayweather will
set the record for being the
highest-paid athlete who ever
lived. But both records will
Fishing
from 1B
for the various warm water
“There’s a lot more going on
than most people realize,”
Conlee says. “It’s similar to
gymnastic scoring in that
everything counts for some-
thing from the moment you
step onto the floor until the
final formation.”
Because seven out of nine
members of this year’s team
were freshman, Conlee choreo-
graphed the routine herself so
that the team could focus all its
attention on perfecting it.
“It’s the largest group of
freshman I’ve ever had on one
team,” says Conlee. “So
instead of adding the pressure
of coming up with a routine on
their own, it seemed better to
take that pressure off of them.
“You perfect one stunt and
there’s always another one to
learn. I spent hours coming up
with the routine and the girls
worked extremely hard to per-
fect it.”
That hard worked paid off,
with Siuslaw being named the
eighth best team in a division
that has more than 40 schools
with cheerleading teams —
only 13 of which reached state
this year.
Leading Siuslaw this season
was lone senior and two-year
veteran Kennedy Roylance,
along with junior Amilia Perez.
Freshman included Tallyn
Bello, Emilee Christiansen,
Emma Collins, Siarrah Rain,
Victoria
Rojas,
Ariel
Rosinbaum
and
Andrea
Sanchez.
What was the key to such a
young group achieving a state
placement in its first year?
“They are a dedicated group
that formed a special bond,
especially on the bus during
road trips,” says Conlee, who
then added with a laugh.
“They’re also all morning peo-
ple, which definitely helped.”
Programming a glider to
spend weeks out in the ocean
and then “think” when it
encounters certain cues, is a
challenge that falls upon the
third member of the research
team, Geoff Hollinger, from
OSU’s robotics program in the
College of Engineering.
Undersea gliders operated
by Oregon State already can be
programmed to patrol offshore
for weeks at a time, following a
transect, moving up and down
in the water column, and even
rising to the surface to beam
data back to onshore labs via
satellite.
But the instruments aboard
the gliders that measure tem-
perature, salinity and dissolved
oxygen are comparatively sim-
ple and require limited power.
Using sophisticated bioa-
coustics sensors that record
huge amounts of data, and then
programming the gliders to
respond to environmental cues,
is a significant technological
advance.
“All of the technology is
there,” Hollinger said, “but
combining it into a package to
perform on a glider is a huge
robotics and systems engineer-
ing challenge. You need lots of
computing power, longer bat-
tery life, and advanced control
algorithms.”
Making a glider “think,” or
respond to environmental cues,
is all about predictive algo-
rithms, he said.
“It is a little like looking at
economic indicators in the
stock market,” Hollinger point-
ed out. “Just one indicator is
unlikely to tell you how a stock
will perform. We need to devel-
op an algorithm that essentially
turns the glider into an
autonomous vehicle that can
run on autopilot.”
The three-year research proj-
ect should benefit fisheries
management, protection of
endangered species, analyzing
the impacts of new ocean uses
such as wave energy, and docu-
menting impacts of climate
change, the researchers say.
Oregon State has become a
national leader in the use of
undersea gliders in research to
study the coastal ocean and
now owns and operates more
than 20 of the instruments
through three separate research
initiatives.
Barth said the vision is to
establish a center for underwa-
ter vehicles and acoustics
research — which would be a
key component of its recently
announced Marine Studies
Initiative.
The university also has a
growing program in robotics,
of which Hollinger is a key fac-
ulty member. This collabora-
tive project funded by Keck
exemplifies the collaborative
nature of research at Oregon
State, the researchers say,
where ecologists, oceanogra-
phers and roboticists work
together.
“This project and the inno-
vative technology could revo-
lutionize how marine scientists
study the world’s oceans,”
Barth said.
most assuredly be broken in
this century, and nobody will
be surprised to learn one day
that Mayweather lost it all.
Greatest fighter of all-time
pound-for-pound?
Mayweather?
Sugar Ray Robinson is
laughing somewhere.
What Mayweather is, is a
supremely gifted defensive
boxer. I attribute that to his
excessive vanity. That’s not to
say he’s not a hitter, however.
He’ll hit anyone ... you, me, the
women he had children with.
It doesn’t make him great.
Not by a long shot.
In fact, Pacquiao’s incredible
humility and Mayweather’s
lack of it make this one of the
easiest “good guy versus bad
guy” fights since Popeye
squared off against Bluto.
“Fight of the Century?”
Fine, we can say that it is the
fight of this century up to now,
but it is nowhere even close to
being one of the best fights of
the modern era, at least in terms
of pre-fight gravitas.
Ali-Foreman’s “Rumble in
the Jungle,” Joe Louis-Max
Schmelling, Leonard-Hearns,
Hagler-Hearns,
Leonard-
Duran, Holyfield-Tyson ... and
the greatest series of all, Ali-
Frazier, trip willingly off the
tongue whenever the matter is
discussed.
The greatest fight of all-
time? Don’t be such a sucker.
With the exception of those two
minutes in Kentucky earlier in
the day, the Mayweather-
Pacquiao fight simply will be
the best show on Earth on May
2, 2015,
And that will have to do.
fish species can still be pro-
ductive during the winter
months but anglers may need
to target different areas of a
lake (typically deeper) versus
when fishing in the spring or
summer.
ALSEA RIVER: Steelhead
The winter steelhead fishery
has produced fair to good
results recently.
This week should be pro-
ductive in the mid to lower
reaches of the river while
flows are low and river tem-
peratures are warming.
SALMON RIVER: Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing is
starting to pick up in many
coastal basins. The Salmon
River is now open to harvest
of wild winter steelhead
through March 31. Anglers are
advised to read the new regu-
lations as there are harvest
restrictions and new deadlines
in effect.
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead
Steelhead fishing is slow to
fair but should start to pick up
in the coming weeks. Fish can
be found throughout the river
for both bank and boat anglers.
River conditions should be
good through the weekend.
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SIUSLAW RIVER:
Steelhead
The winter steelhead fishery
is producing fish in both the
Siuslaw and Lake Creek.
The next few weeks should
see a good push of fish. River
conditions should remain good
through the weekend. Typical
steelhead angling tactics apply.
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YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The winter steelhead fishery
is fair to good in the Big Elk.
River conditions should
remain in good condition
through the week. Anglers are
advised to watch for private
property.
Typical steelhead angling
tactics apply but the Big Elk is
bed rock dominated and does
have a lot of snags.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
steelhead
Steelhead fishing is good.
There is bank access on the
West Fork Millicoma at the
Millicoma Interpretive Center
and on the East Fork
Millicoma at Nesika Park.
Access to the South Fork Coos
River is through Weyerhaeuser
property and anglers must
have the appropriate permit
from Weyerhaeuser.
In the Coos Basin one addi-
tional fin clipped steelhead
may be retained per day for a
total aggregate of three adult
fish harvested daily.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
The South Umpqua is open
for steelhead fishing.
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