\u3cem\u3eLaunching through the Surf\u3c/em\u3e Traveling Exhibit Panel 02: Historical Highlights

The first of three panels in the exhibit that provide general historical highlights about the Dory Fleet, panel two features a timeline of events from 1855 to 1935. It incorporates a section from the Oregon House Calendar of 1927, chronicling the introduction and passage of House Bill 282. This legislation closed the Nestucca River to commercial fishing. The panel also includes an excerpt from the 1927 version of the Oregon Voters’ Pamphlet that describes an initiative to overturn the legislative action.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory_exhibit/1001/thumbnail.jp

\u3cem\u3eLaunching through the Surf\u3c/em\u3e Traveling Exhibit Panel 14: The Memorial Wall

Incorporating drawings and photographs from the Tom Donohue Collection, panel 14 documents the process of building the Memorial Wall at Cape Kiwanda, as well as its dedication in 2009.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory_exhibit/1013/thumbnail.jp

\u3cem\u3eLaunching through the Surf\u3c/em\u3e Traveling Exhibit Panel 13: Blessing of the Fleet

Like many fishing communities, the Pacific City dory community honors its fleet, asks for bountiful and safe fishing for the coming season, and remembers those who have died during the year at the annual Blessing of the Fleet. The ceremony is held on the beach the first Saturday in June. In a similar vein, the community celebrates the dories and honors those who made significant contributions to the fleet and the community during the Memorial Wall Ceremony. This observance normally takes place during Dory Days. Panel 13 describes both of these events.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory_exhibit/1012/thumbnail.jp

\u3cem\u3eLaunching through the Surf\u3c/em\u3e Traveling Exhibit Panel 02: Historical Highlights

The first of three panels in the exhibit that provide general historical highlights about the Dory Fleet, panel two features a timeline of events from 1855 to 1935. It incorporates a section from the Oregon House Calendar of 1927, chronicling the introduction and passage of House Bill 282. This legislation closed the Nestucca River to commercial fishing. The panel also includes an excerpt from the 1927 version of the Oregon Voters’ Pamphlet that describes an initiative to overturn the legislative action.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory_exhibit/1001/thumbnail.jp

\u3cem\u3eLaunching through the Surf\u3c/em\u3e Traveling Exhibit Panel 19: The Project - Archives & More

Panel 19 features information about the digital archives created to preserve the history of the Pacific City Dory Fleet. It also documents some of the creative and scholarly work associated with the project done by Linfield students and faculty. It is the third of three exhibit panels that chronicle the Launching through the Surf project.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory_exhibit/1018/thumbnail.jp

\u3cem\u3eLaunching through the Surf\u3c/em\u3e Traveling Exhibit Panel 06: Dory Days

Dory Days, the successor to the Dory Derby, provides the focus for panel 6. Through historical and contemporary images obtained from the interviewees and created as part of the project, the panel highlights the uniqueness of this annual and much-loved celebration of the village of Pacific City and its dories.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory_exhibit/1005/thumbnail.jp

\u3cem\u3eLaunching through the Surf\u3c/em\u3e Traveling Exhibit Panel 11: Turning Oars for a Dory

Exhibit panel 11 describes the procedure for turning oars for a dory. Partners Paul Hanneman and Terry Learned have crafted the Cape Kiwanda Wood Products dory oars since the early 1960s. During the spring of 2012, project collaborator Tyrone Marshall photographed the process.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory_exhibit/1010/thumbnail.jp

Optimum non linear binary image restoration through linear grey-scale operations

Non-linear image processing operators give excellent results in a number of image processing tasks such as restoration and object recognition. However they are frequently excluded from use in solutions because the system designer does not wish to introduce additional hardware or algorithms and because their design can appear to be ad hoc. In practice the median filter is often used though it is rarely optimal. This paper explains how various non-linear image processing operators may be implemented on a basic linear image processing system using only convolution and thresholding operations. The paper is aimed at image processing system developers wishing to include some non-linear processing operators without introducing additional system capabilities such as extra hardware components or software toolboxes. It may also be of benefit to the interested reader wishing to learn more about non-linear operators and alternative methods of design and implementation. The non-linear tools include various components of mathematical morphology, median and weighted median operators and various order statistic filters. As well as describing novel algorithms for implementation within a linear system the paper also explains how the optimum filter parameters may be estimated for a given image processing task. This novel approach is based on the weight monotonic property and is a direct rather than iterated method

Al-Qaeda in Gaza: isolating “the base”

In 1996, Osama bin Laden declared jihad against the American forces occupying Saudi Arabia, calling for Muslims to expel the infidels from the “land of the two holy places.” The first sacred ground mentioned in this statement, however, was not Saudi Arabia but Palestine. His words seething with hatred, bin Laden scorned the Arab regimes for failing to recapture Jerusalem and described the situation as a festering wound upon the Islamic umma.[1] Fourteen years later, even after orchestrating devastating attacks in three Western capitals, Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda is still unable to do much against Israel besides issuing scathing diatribes. Its most vigorous efforts to establish itself in the Palestinian arena have been in the Gaza Strip. Here, however, al-Qaeda-linked groups are stymied by a perhaps surprising adversary: Hamas. But despite Hamas’s efforts to suppress them, Salafi-jihadi groups maintain an underground presence. Even if al-Qaeda affiliates remain weak operationally in comparison to Hamas, al-Qaeda’s ideology of global jihad seems to be on the rise in Gaza. Meanwhile, the al-Qaeda leadership is relentless in pursuing new and ingenious ways for its agents to penetrate the Strip. A Hamas weakened by a tightened blockade or another war with Israel would leave an opening for Salafi-jihadi militants. The prospect of these al-Qaeda-linked factions upsetting a fragile peace needs to be considered among the many other factors relevant to engagement with Hamas.Publisher PD