Spokesman.com Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/98024/ 691c5e3f442efd0abcba56b5de0f04e8 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/98017/ 490e71d407bbc32aa3d43f33fb9b5c4d 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/98015/ 34c51d44e9db1b13cd591c2abb82cdde 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/98011/ 87c3ea9f7ad87bad7e10aba8912caa92 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/98007/ ec42e68bf850c21ac6811130f30b9528 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97993/ 3783144d9dc0f06ccc1e1cb44d755dca 2010 Fr47625 Ap FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 14, 2009, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin greets her husband Todd at the finish line of the 2009 Tesoro Iron Dog on the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska. E-mails obtained by The Associated Press suggest Todd Palin was intimately involved in decisions related to state government when his wife was governor of Alaska. The e-mails show Todd Palin was included in messages on a wide range of government and political issues. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97989/ 9bbc23c3c5feeb43db6c7cc30f553f33 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97975/ 3dfb5c8ae805b07ac6e9fe4366e019a4 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97974/ 0c6ffa6ffb5f09f0ee48b1638e46b411 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97968/ 649a58ff640ceb3100c6d6dfe042cf42 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97963/ 3f4a19ab9af019cfab651c90a38932af 2010 Pakistan Department Of Health In this image taken from CCTV released by the Pakistan Department of Health, showing the scene as a bomb detonates outside the emergency department of the Jinnah hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday Feb. 5, 2010, killing 25 and wounding 100 in the blast. This bomb exploded outside the hospital treating victims from an earlier bomb attack on Shiite Muslim worshippers. Police appealed for calm Friday following the strikes. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97962/ 7193a1bb0f12f197fd5ac108e4eabe9d 2010 Jim Nantz, Jason Pollock, Magner Sanborn, Dennis Magner, Jeff Sanborn, Super Bowl advertising Sportscaster Jim Nantz, left, speaks with Jason Pollock, center, and Dennis Magner of the Magner Sanborn Agency on the set of a commercial being filmed for the upcoming Superbowl telecast. Magner Sanborn Agency is based in Spokane. Handout from Magner Sanborn Agency. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97961/ 466b9c935916b957ddcd5b1188a3b698 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97954/ 42a66bd80403c7c64fa30ddde463e919 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97953/ 5e88ad55ebf5c4254f434699d024a589 2010 2010 Idaho Legislature This photo shows the Idaho Maximum Security Institution south of Boise. Idaho's corrections chief told lawmakers Friday that budget cuts are hitting prisons hard enough that even prison guards are now taking unpaid furloughs, and further cuts beyond those already recommended by the governor for next year will mean releasing prisoners. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97946/ ee0bc2dada7a15dd691d0119abc4fcd9 2010 Associated Press Retired U.S. Air Force Col. O. P. Ditch wears a shirt supporting former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin as he waits in a hallway outside the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97945/ b607756925b2f1340239478ed5c36849 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97942/ 19ed2026fedaad493df3c082abe00448 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97941/ 9f948d2c4ebf73f7c4953415bd9a1f93 2010 The Idaho Statesman The Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho is seen Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Missionaries from the church were charged with kidnapping Thursday for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to a hastily arranged refuge just as officials were trying to protect children from predators in the chaos of a great earthquake. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97943/ e9e07c5893c013a46bc48dbd8e24f677 2010 Spokane Police Department Members of Spokane Police Department and Spokane County Sheriff's Office will play a hockey game at 5 p.m. Feb. 13. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97938/ dd58f2bcbfe64a1464beca9cd8c28257 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97940/ 2d8be03b9e94424766a50236b3517bf6 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97937/ 1879e2e9c332ed84caf5338cf681d581 2010 2010 Idaho Legislature Idaho state parks Director Nancy Merrill tells the House Resources Committee on Friday that the department is looking forward to reopening Dworshak State Park and having 30 state parks again. The state Parks Board decided in September to close the park and turn it over to non-state management; this week the board reversed that decision. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97944/ f5febd8f6568a11c32d91e5aefdfbc99 2010 Spokane County Sheriff's Office Members of Spokane Police Department and Spokane County Sheriff's Office will play a hockey game at 5 p.m. Feb. 13. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97936/ 184184d4b0a46d559173671d5d45cd6f 2010 Associated Press Miguelina Zorrilla, center, of Manhattan, gets a hug from her sister Diana after selecting her wedding dress during the "Running of the Brides" at Filene's Basement, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 in New York. The Boston-based clothing store has an annual sale of discounted wedding gowns. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97935/ c932eade94119556a49b633500f7d969 2010 AP Photo ap wire Dustin Johnson hits from the rough on the second fairway durin the first round of the Northern Trust Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97939/ e3b2f289316ca9e0874d841541cd3a3b 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97914/ 89b2bb6663edc853d3f0b243c8c869c7 2010 Step 5. Make “feather sticks.” Weber demonstrates the Survival School’s tried and true technique. Choose a stick about 2-feet long with a sharp edge. Brace it against a log or rock. Keeping your arm and wrist stiff, use your shoulder to force the knife down to shave a 6-inch “feather” of wood from the sharp edge of the stick. Leave it attached and repeat five times. On the sixth stroke, shave the cluster of feathers off the stick. Repeat until you have about five feather sticks to use as the second stage in fire building to catch and build the flame from your tinder. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97934/ 1a5e56dc44d27e207c656fbb5508429d 2010 Carl Edwards drives the Aflac Ford Fusion on the NASCAR Sprint Car. (Photo courtesy of NASCAR) Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97933/ b45ab7b1064059125c5355d86496db2b 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97932/ ffdb795fbd4dac1eabaceaf250695bc9 2010 Associated Press outdoors, wolves, gray wolves, Gray wolves killed 50 percent more domestic animals in Montana last year than they did in 2008. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97931/ 046c0ba1b2e2c8dc0814545d2ce83d22 2010 The Spokesman Review Heather and Nate Thompson, along with their children Ethan and Evan take a hike around McEuen Field and Tubbs Hill, February 2, 2010 in Coeur d'Alene, Id. The city wants to gather opinions from the general public as to how the field should look in the future. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97930/ 25af4081d818365cdb742f4f05566544 2010 The Spokesman Review Heather and Nate Thompson, along with their children Ethan and Evan take a hike around McEuen Field and Tubbs Hill, February 2, 2010 in Coeur d'Alene, Id. The city wants to gather opinions from the general public as to how the field should look in the future. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97929/ 3b1f434d4c63f3583c1c4f43b5222419 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97928/ 7dc093592f2364751df095df8ac0492d 2010 Lewiston Tribune outdoors, fishing, steelhead, Grand Ronde River Steelhead are showing a little more color as more of the sea-run rainbows were moving into the Grand Ronde River during the first week of February, 2010. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97927/ bd90bff0053de7df1fc974d27f8552e2 2010 Lewiston Tribune outdoors, fishing, steelhead, Grand Ronde River Steelhead fishermen drift down the Grand Ronde River upstream from Highway 129 on Feb. 2, 2010. Even though ice still lines the banks in some areas along the river, steelhead have been making a spring-like surge and fishing has been good, anglers say. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97926/ 5f6fe0062f27d131abd48dcabc4eb8a0 2010 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97925/ 3cd85995ca1f23f66609ba8bc1544c7f 2010 outdoors, survival Step 10. Add fuels gradually…. This photo is a good summary of the fire-building steps Nick Weber demonstrated to a group of search and rescue volunteers. He began by setting up a tarp to keep his fire site and firewood dry. Then he made a platform of logs to keep his fire off the wet ground and snow. Next he gathered several large piles of wood and cut some of it into small dimensions, including a pile of sticks the diameter of pencils and another pile the diameter of a thumb. He used a fluffed out a cotton ball coated in petroleum jelly as tinder and ignited it with a stroke of his knife on a magnesium sparking stick. This photo shows how he gradually adds larger sizes of wood to build the fire. Note the large gray stick he placed across the platform. This acted as a wind break for the tinder and creates flame-feeding air flow under the sticks as they are added to the fire. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97922/ b038dff141b8d6cad01e6121bb0615c2 2010 outdoors, survival Step 9. Ignite the tinder…. In this photo, Weber demonstrates how to scrape a magnesium stick with the back side of his knife to flash hot sparks onto cattail “down,” which can be used as tinder to start a fire. Cattail "down" and goats beard lichen can be used as tinder, but they must be dry. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97921/ cb4c84e4d39658942a6210abdeef7be7 2010 outdoors, survival Step 9. Ignite the tinder…. In this photo Weber demonstrates how a 9-volt battery pressed into fluffed steel wool will ignite the tinder. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97923/ ae748a37b02cddaf727a9a4d13028270 2010 outdoors, survival Step 9. Ignite the tinder and quickly hold a feather stick over the flame, blowing gently with your mouth as necessary until it’s burning, as Weber demonstrates in this photo with the steel wool tinder. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97920/ 5e5e2470327c4e4f752927d65d629c8e 2010 outdoors, survival Step 9. Ignite the tinder and quickly hold a feather stick over the flame. In this photo, Adam Dewey of Sandpoint uses a lighter to ignite the tinder he made by using his knife to scrape a pile of shavings from the dry inside of a stick he had split open. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97924/ 96fd9eb2784d721e450b099325affc71 2010 outdoors, survival Step10. Add fuels gradually, starting with more feather sticks, then pencil-size kindling and then thumb-size kindling in a cross-hatch pattern to allow good air flow. Build a good base of burning wood before adding larger fuels. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97919/ c08450c1abf3113ca232627d280b47d1 2010 outdoors, survival Step 8. Pile the tinder on the platform…. In this photo, Weber demonstrates how to prepare a simple, cheap and effective home-made fire starter – a cotton ball coated with petroleum jelly. Remove the pre-coated cotton ball from a zipper-type plastic bag in the field, then pull the inside out and into numerous tufts, spreading the jelly lightly onto each one. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97916/ c0c3ba4b653f77a502aa14683d46eb7b 2010 outdoors, survival Step 7. A cross-piece of wood about 3 inches in diameter should be set across the platform to provide a wind break for the tinder as well as a lift that allows air flow under the kindling when it is stacked over the tinder flames. Step 8. Pile the tinder on the platform against the cross piece; have the feather sticks next to the tinder and all the other sizes of kindling and fuel within easy reach. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97917/ 3601ede61980c26dec47750c78a5c8d7 2010 Fr120940 Ap Gonzaga's Matt Bouldin shoots for three against Portland in first half of their NCAA college basketball game at the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Gonzaga won 76-49. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97918/ 7f70f3d6872af6a6d28a1d29b5cdd2cc 2010 2010 Idaho Legislature Rep. Shirley Ringo, D-Moscow, question state prisons chief Brent Reinke in the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Friday morning, after returning from two days off for surgery. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97915/ ac6f6b8a57612759352f2af31b568b92 2010 outdoors, survival Step 6. A stable platform should be laid to keep the fire off wet ground or from sinking into snow. This photo shows Adam Dewey of Sandpoint following Weber’s instructions by piling different sizes of kindling on the platform he’s made from five small logs. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97913/ 2a51bda2ca39e9b1623f51dc6f50844b 2010 outdoors, survival Step 4. Prepare the fuel using a knife or hatchet to split and expose dry wood. In this photo, Weber stabs a stick and pushes it against the back side of his knife blade to split it lengthwise. Make large piles of pencil-size kindling and sticks the size of a thumb, plus piles of larger fuels. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/feb/05/97912/ 20fc5b6ceb6c74ce727e76789e4d3b4f 2010 outdoors, survival Step 1. Select a site out of the wind, away from snow-loaded tree limbs, that suits your purpose. Step 2. Create a dry environment. In this case Weber tied up a small tarp. Step 3. Gather fuel of different sizes. Standing dead limbs and timber will be drier than wood off the ground.