Emma Anderson’s life changing moment

Emma Anderson, Morningside University student, has encountered a major life changing moment. At the age of 5 she discovered an injury that has caused her to have surgery almost every year, multiple hereditary exostoses. Multiple hereditary exostoses a rare genetic disorder characterized by multiple osteochondromas that grow near the growth plates of bones such as the ribs, pelvis, vertebrae and especially long bones.

Emma described it as “I have bones where bones shouldn’t be”, she explained how it hurts and how their is not a ton of research on it.

Last night there was an armed robbery at 450 Stanley Street.

Barney Joseph Jr., 43,1625 11th Ave, the owner of BJ’s Drug, was robbed by gun point last night.  He said that there were two men wearing ski masks, one pointed the gun at him and the other grabbing the cash.

The men left the drug store with $382.65 from the cash register around 8:30 pm.  The robbers had a car parked at the curb just waiting for them to hop in.

The desk sergeant said that Joseph keeps a pistol under the counter, but decided not to thinking that it would be unwise to pull out the gun.  Joseph told the police that the robbery was over in less than a minute. 

Joseph is not new the robbery scene, his dad was killed during a robbery 25 years ago.  His dad was found dead with a gun in his hand.  Joseph said “Yes, Dad resisted, I guess. Anyway, they found him shot to death, his own gun in his hand, and a bullet in the store’s ceiling. I’d rather part with my money than my life,”.

I was sent on a scavenger hunt across campus to get a student’s autograph and to talk about current news events with another.

Professor Fuglsang sent us all out on a scavenger hunt at the beginning of class. Every student got a sheet of paper asking them to get two things from people outside the library.

My sheet told me to get a student’s autograph and to talk about current news events with another student. My first thought was to drive over to the dorms and just run into people, and it worked.

I first saw someone studying in the informal room in Dimmit. I just walked up to them and asked if i can asked them some questions for my journalism class and he, Micah, said sure. I asked him to tell me about anything he has seen in the news lately, so naturally we started talking about how aliens and how ” Aliens are coming for us”.

The last person I ran into was Jarrod Nafzinger, I ran into him on my way out of the Dimmit. I asked him for his autograph and he looked surprised and asked why. I told him it was for class and he scribbled his name on it.

The last part of this assignment was to right about my experience, and it was interesting. I thought the autograph one was easy, but I felt like the news one could get me into trouble. I have opinions that I don’t like to keep to myself, so I was happy when Micah wanted to talk about aliens.

This experience has taught me that sometimes asking people questions can be awkward, but I have a feeling just was just a warmup to future interviews in this class.

Team USA’s basketball team has been on top since they finished in bronze in 2004, but team USA’s isn’t being considered the top dog it once was. Team USA entered the World Cup this year and finished with a record of 5-3, they got fourth place. The 2019 team did even worse and finished seventh.

The World Cup has generally gotten the “B-team” from the U.S. mostly filling their rosters with young stars, but looking at the talent they had on their roster they still should have gotten a medal.

Following this recent disappointment many NBA All-Stars have decided to join the 2024 Paris Olympic team. Players like: LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis.

The goal by these NBA All-Stars is to bring back the supremacy the United States has on basketball. It’s time to let the world know what it is like to actually have the best players in the NBA at the Olympics.

This article was written well the lead was Creating Team USA’s perfect men’s basketball roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics and they did give a perfect men’s basketball roster at the end with players, positions, and an explanation of why them. I don’t know how news worthy this is to the average individual but for a basketball fan like me this is major news. Team USA hasn’t truly brought an A team since the 2008 Redeem Team. One thing that I didn’t like about this article is the fact they didn’t bring up the other reasons that these NBA players are joining the Olympic team. Another main reason these players are joining is because of the remarks made by Noah Lyles. Noah Lyles doesn’t believe that the NBA Champs should not be calling themselves World Champs, and these NBA players want to prove him wrong.

Source:

https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2023/9/14/23871921/usa-basketball-roster-olympics-2024-paris-lebron-james-steph-curry

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was asked by rapper Eminem to stop rapping his music.

“Vivek just got on the stage and cut loose.” Tricia McLaughlin, Ramaswamy’s campaign spokeswoman, said referring to the Iowa State Fair where Vivek Ramaswamy was rapping Loose yourself by Eminem.

Not long after the video of Ramaswamy rapping his song, Eminem made the request to the BMI, a performing rights organization, to not let Ramaswamy’s campaign to use any of Eminems music.

Ramaswamy’s campaign got a letter from the BMI saying “BMI will consider any performance of the Eminem Works by the Vivek 2024 campaign from this date forward to be a material breach of the Agreement for which BMI reserves all rights and remedies with respect thereto,”.

According to Fox News former UFC/MMA fighter and commentator Jake Shields posted a screenshot of this story on X, formally known as twitter, saying “Eminem has turned into such a dork that he makes Vivek look cool.”

Tricia McLaughlin also said “To the American people’s chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real slim shady.” Ramaswamy has come out saying he is a huge Eminem fan, but the presidential candidate and this drama between Eminem and Ramaswamy might not be over.

Ramaswamy joked about the letter he got from the BMI saying “Will The REAL Slim Shady Please Stand Up? He didn’t just say what I think he did, did he? @Eminem,” on X.

This is not the first time a politician has gotten into trouble with preforming or using artists music. Former President Donald Trump has gotten many orders from popular artist like: the Rolling Stones, Queen, Adele, and Pharrell Williams.

Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-eminem/index.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/29/eminem-demands-vivek-ramaswamy-stop-rapping-lose-yourself.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66643306

https://www.foxnews.com/media/eminem-sends-vivek-ramaswamy-campaign-cease-desist-letter-demanding-stop-rapping-songs

Yesterday East Dakota Highway patrol ordered a ban for hand held radar guns.

The State of East Dakota has put a ban order on all radar guns ,70, from service. The state is banning radar guns because of concerns their troops could develop cancer. The radar guns produce radiation that can turn into cancer. Right now the state has troopers using radar unites with transmitters mounted outside of their cruisers.

Adam Smith, the spokesman for the East Dakota Highway patrol, said “the feeling here is to err on the side of caution until more is known about the Issue”. Smith has the whole situation under review and is making sure that his troopers are safe.

This move by East Dakota is considered to be the first of its kind by any state police agency. This ban comes two months after three officers in central city filed workman’s compensation claims. These workers said they developed cancer from using the hand held ray guns.

Convicted murderer escaped from prison! On Thursday, August 31, Danelo Cavalcante, 34, escaped from Chester County Prison on in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It have been nearly a week since the murderer got away and the people in the area, a quiet farm community, are living with unease. The police team in charge of the search have been doing jogs through back yards, flying drones in the sky, and helicopters.

Danelo was in prison for stabbing his former girlfriend, Deborah Brandao, close to 40 times in front of her children. Danelo was sentenced to life in prision and escaped a little over a week into serving it.

Howard Hollan, the prison warden, described how Danelo escaped. He started off by crab walking up 2 parallel walls up to the roof. He then pushed through two installations of razor wire and scaled the fences. An interesting fact, a inmate has escaped the same way before.

The police believe he is still in the area, which is causing fear and panic in the surrounding communities.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/philadelphia-fugitive-manhunt-danelo-cavalcante.html

After a breakout performance in the last Republican debate Vivek Ramaswamy has been accused of falsehoods and scrutiny by many news outlets. The article says “He has spread lies and exaggerations on subjects including the 2020 election results, the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol and climate change.” Ramaswamy has said that these interviews and excerpts from his book are taken out of context. Ramaswamy has been found lying about talking about his immigration proposal to a group of mostly Democrats on the South Side of Chicago. A New York Times reporter said that he never brought up his immigration plan. Ramaswamy also was found to lie about his opinion on former president Trump. Ramaswamy said he supported Trump when he was president and will pardon him if he were to win the election. The problem with that is that Ramaswamy wrote a book in 2022 called Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, where Ramaswamy had harsh words about Trump. With Ramaswamy becoming more popular in his race for the Republican Nominee it will be interesting to the skeletons in the closet for this new comer to the game of politics.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/ramaswamy-2024-lies.html

Hello everyone, My name is Jay Jurgens and this is my first blog on WordPress. I am currently working towards my Marketing Degree at Morningside University and this is my first of many blogs on WordPress. This blog is about one of my class mates Chloe Barcus. Chloe is a Junior at Morningside University and is a Marketing Major. She is a member of the Morningside Dance team and also coaches the sport. Chloe has a larger than life personality, an example of this is when she asked me to say she drives a BAMF “Bad Ass Mother Fucking” truck. Chloe is from the Sioux City area and has a younger sister who is a perfectionist, unlike Chloe. Currently she is living off Campus with 2 other dancers where they enjoy trips to Target.

Food

Chloe and I talked a lot about food because both of us are picky eaters. In fact Chloe told me she stopped eating bread from the ages 7-10 because she didn’t like the texture of it. Chloe also likes to cook as well, she told me about how she likes to cook Italian foods like pastas.

Fun Fact: Chloe does not like croutons.