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Show 2 Tuesday, March 9, 2010 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com All stories and photos from The Associated Press Survivors regroup after Turkey quake Turkey— Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong ternblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51. The damage appeared worst in the Kurdish village of Okcular, which was almost razed. At least 15 of the village's 900 residents were killed, the Elazig governor's office said, and the air was thick with dust from crumpled homes and barns. The pre-dawn earthquake caught many residents as they slept, shaking the area's poorly made buildings into piles of rubble. Panicked survivors fled into the narrow streets of this village perched on a hill in front of snowcovered mountains, with some people climbing out of windows to escape. "I tried to get out of the door but it wouldn't open," Ali Riza Ferhat of Okcular told NTV television. "I came out of the window and started helping my neighbors. We removed six OKCULAR, bodies." The Kandilli seismology center said the 6.o-magnitude quake hit at 4:32 a.m. (9 p.m. EST Sunday) near the village of Basyurt in a remote, sparsely populated area of Elazig province. The region is 34o miles east of Ankara, the capital. The U.S. Geological Survey listed the quake at 5.9 magnitude. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kandilli Observatory's director, Mustafa Erdik, urged residents not to enter any damaged homes, warning they could topple from aftershocks that Erdik said could last for days. More than ioo aftershocks measuring up to 5.5 magnitude shook the region Monday alone. In addition to the deaths, 34 people were being treated for injuries, Turkey's crisis center said. Abdulkerim Sekerdag, 72, said he had just risen for early morning prayers when the quake hit. "The jolt threw me onto the ground," he told The Associated Press. "When I got up I checked my ani- PARALYMPICS continued from Page 1 having one pole was not a hindrance, and she was never taught to think any less of herself because of that, she said. "I think overall the success and the fact how I loved the sport was the leading thought (in my mind)," Kari said. Kari competed at the Paralympic level for io years, from the 1992 Albertville Games to the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, after which she retired from competition. Kari has won 12 medals during her Paralympic career: io gold, one silver and one bronze, she said. Now she will be one of three athletes to be inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame on Sunday for her athletic success and work contributing to the Paralympic Movement. "Obviously, it is a great honor, and I am truly humbled by this award," Kari said. "There are a lot of great athletes in the world that deserve this award. For me to be the one to get it is a great honor." Cross-country skiing was a perfect match for Kari as a native of Finland, she said, comparing the popularity of skiing in Finland to football in the United States. She be- LECTURE continued from Page 1 dedicated his life to finding ways of doing business that are not only environmentally friendly, but also deliver a big bottom line. In the lecture, he will discuss what other companies and farmers could do to combat climate change while still making a profit. If they were to take a page from his own company's history, it might mean to be patient—it took nine years for Hirshberg to make his first profit. "My wife was wondering when we were ever N • PORTLAND, Ore.—Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, such as dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now they are resorting to issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders. A California sea lion last week became the first salmon predator to be euthanized this year, which is administered by wildlife officials in Oregon and Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This is the second year of the program. Last year, II sea lions were euthanized. Another four were transferred to zoos or aquariums. The sea lions are massive headache each year as chinook salmon begin arriving at the Bonneville •Consumer Information Contest: 6 a.m. to 11:55 p.m. @ www.fcs.utah.edu •Wind Ensemble: 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall • David P. Gardner Lecture: Gulliver's Troubles: Obama and America in the Middle East: 7 p.m. @ Jewish Community Center • Outdoor Recreation Guest Speaker: 6:30 p.m. @ Tanner Humanities Building Snow 38°/28° • Frontiers of Science Lecture: Cloaking: Where Science Meets Science Fiction: 7:30 p.m. @ Skaggs Biology Building •Consumer Information Contest: 6 a.m. to 11:55 p.m. @ www.fcs.utah.edu • 2010 Middle East Conference Panels: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. @Tanner Humanities Center Weather from the department of atmospheric sciences: http://forecastutah.edu Rescue workers and people search for possible survivors in the debris of a destroyed house in Okcular village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, on Monday. mals and then I checked on my neighbors." "Two of them were buried. We pulled them out," he said, adding that they were alive but injured. Men used shovels and bare hands to dig two bodies out from under piles of dirt, rubble and concrete blocks, video footage showed. Both bodies were covered in blankets and carried away. One appeared to be a baby or young child. Women in veils gathered near the rescue scenes, some crying. "Everything has been knocked down, there is not a stone in place," said Yadin Apaydin, administrator for the village of Yukari Kanatli, where three died. Fifteen people were killed in the nearby village of Yukari Demirci, Gov. Muammer Erol said, and four each were killed in the villages of Kayalik and Gocmezler and io others died after being taken to a hospital in the town of Kovancilar. bining what she has learned as an athlete and in her academics studies, Jensen said. She has her master's degree in sports science and management. "(Kari) is the glue that has solidified the TRAILS program," Jensen said. "I can't think of a more deserving person than Tanja." Because of her disability and her training as an athlete, Kari said she believes that she is able to connect with her patients at TRAILS and help them come back to living life as they did before their spinal cord injuries, she said. Those who have disabilities speak a similar language and are able to speak about sports on a different level, she said. Through her experience with the Paralympics, she can tell her patients firsthand what it's like to be disabled and participate in sports. For Kari, sports are about more than just athletic ability—it's seeing how it can bring people back to life and help them survive through whatever has happened, she said. Sports help her patients create goals and strive to achieve something, she said. Although it might be difficult to get her patients interested in sports and recreation, seeing someone's eyes sparkle with excitement is the best part of her job, she said. the Rural Education Center, needed a way to stay afloat. "We were sitting at trustee meeting eating a delicious yogurt my partner had made," Hirshberg said. "One day we thought, `Gee, this stuff is good. We should sell it to fund the school.' We had no intention to become a big company." And, in 1983, Stonyfield Farms was born. The company is now at a 7 percent market share and is the third-largest seller of yogurt in the United States, he said. "But we are just warming up," Hirshberg said. The company's goal is to become the number two DAILY UTAH Iraqi parties both claim to be ahead in election BAGHDAD—The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 5o,000 American troops come home by the end of summer. Initial results for some provinces, as well as for Baghdad—an area essential to determining any winner— were to be announced Tuesday. 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Corrections and Clarifications The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 801-581-8317. d.rafferty@chronicle.utah.edu yogurt seller and a billiondollar company. They also buy organic milk from 1,65o farmers to keep the agriculture industry strong at a time when jobs are at a loss, he said. "Multiplying the growth of the company multiplies the growth of the farmers we buy from and the amount of farmers that we can buy from," he said. When Hirshberg pitches his ideas about farming with a smaller carbon footprint to them, they tell him it's "farming the way my daddy used to do it, but with better technology," he said. r.isbell@ chronicle.utah.edu EWS ODDITIES THIS TIME, IT'S WAR: WILDLIFE OFFICIALS TAKE ON INSUBORDINATE SEA LIONS Rain and snow 40°/38° 10 Wednesday gan skiing when she was three years old and started competing when she was 5. From there, she progressed to different levels of completion. Cross-country skiing is a difficult and challenging sport both mentally and physically, Kari said. There are different techniques to skiing, which change throughout the race depending on weather, quality of snow and other variations to the track. But it is these challenges Kari loves and what causes her face to light up as she talks about the sport. "I think that challenge is what makes the sport so beautiful," Kari said. "I think it is one of the most beautiful sports in the world." In addition to being an elite athlete, Kari served on three committees for the International Paralympic Committee, said Trish Jensen, development director in the U Hospital Foundation Office. She was a representative for the IPC Athletes Committee and an ambassador for the World Anti-Doping Agency, which targets doping control, Jensen said. Jensen met Kari at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games. After meeting her, Jensen knew that she wanted to bring Kari back to the U to work at the rehabilitation center, Jensen said. Kari has the unique ability to connect with her patients by com- going to make money," he said, laughing. Hirshberg started running environmental nonprofits in the early 197os to the late 19805. He said he knew back then that the United States was going the wrong way in its food production. He threw himself into the science of environmental protection and different ways to grow food with a lower carbon footprint. However, he couldn't convince anyone that it was the right way to do things. When the Reagan administration made cuts to the conservation budget, Hirshberg's nonprofit school for agriculture, 9 Tuesday Dam east of Portland, congregating in large numbers as they return from the ocean. Sea lions have become aware that the dam is a great spot to feast on salmon, easy pickings as they wait to go up the dam's fish ladders. "They learn," said Robert Stansell, a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "They come up here and know it's a good place to eat, and sooner or later the salmon are going to arrive." Officials are tracking 63 additional sea lions listed as repeat offenders. They are identified by scars or by numbers that were branded on them by researchers. "To get on that list, we have to have observed them as distinct individuals," said Jessica Sall, spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. "They are not responding to hazing." 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