The Seattle Seahawks are getting some rest after playing three games in 11 days. (Coincidentally, DK Metcalf caught three of his 11 targets in a loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 6.) That could mean Seattle is feeling a little healthier in Week 7 and possibly rookie defensive tackle Byron Murphy II back from injury gets back.

The issue with the initial injury report for Week 7 doesn’t tell us much other than we now know that Rayshawn Jenkins will miss at least four games. He was placed on injured reserve on Wednesday. He has a hand injury.

As was often the case with former head coach Pete Carroll, the team chose to rest players even with minor injuries, and these were listed on the injury report. The difference between Carroll and new head coach Mike Macdonald is that Macdonald doesn’t like to tell the media anything about how badly players are injured.

So, looking at Wednesday’s initial injury report against the Atlanta Falcons, the truth is that while the Seahawks aren’t intentionally talking about who’s injured, there could also simply be players who are rested rather than in real danger. to miss the next game.

Of course, this is both good and bad news. Prior to Week 6, Seattle listed four players who did not participate in the team’s first practice. Of these, the 12s knew that Uchenna Nwosu would not play because he was placed on injured reserve. Derick Hall played against the 49ers. This actually means that only two of the players listed had concerns about missing the game.

Seattle has a few players listed ahead of the Falcons game who will have limited or no participation. Three games in 11 days is difficult, and even with the extra rest they played last time on Thursday Night Football, Seattle could still give a struggling player a day of rest. Here’s what happened on Wednesday.

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MANTUA, Utah – Mantua Police Chief Dakota Midkiff has been placed on leave after videos and photos showed his interaction with a 76-year-old man earlier this month.

Images from Oct. 5 show Midkiff arresting Rick Schulze, a retired state wildlife officer who was left bruised and bleeding after the incident.

“He’s one of the nicest guys in town,” resident Steve Lowder said of Schulze.

On Wednesday, Schulze, his eyes still black, declined to speak with FOX 13 News.

A City Council member confirmed that Midkiff is currently on paid administrative leave while the incident is investigated, but Mantua officials declined further comment.

According to a jail booking statement, the police chief responded to a family dispute and questioned the parents about whether they had hit a child. One of the parents was Schulze’s daughter.

When Schulze arrived at the scene, Midkiff told him to leave. Moments later, the chief wrote, he turned around and allegedly found Schulze in the driveway yelling at him.

In the report, Midkiff wrote that Schulze refused to comply with orders to put his hands behind his back and therefore “decentralized” the older man and took him to the ground.

Schulze was later booked into the Box Elder County Jail on suspicion of interfering with a peace officer, but has never been charged with a crime.

Midkiff previously worked for the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office for three and a half years and with the Wendover Police Department for one and a half years

However, the minutes of Midkiff’s hiring in 2022 indicate that a Mantua City Council member stated: “He will tell anyone who asks him not to ask Chief Midkiff for help… because he believes Dakota Midkiff will be hired because of his lack of service.” Experience would not handle it properly.” . He also said that citizens should be afraid…”

Midkiff is the city’s fourth police chief in five years.

In 2019, the then-chief was arrested for drunken driving in his patrol car, and two years later another chief was fired over a dispute over whether he had written enough tickets. It turned out that this boss’s successor had been fired by a previous employer and later resigned, leading to Midkiff’s hiring.

Some residents want to fix the small town’s entire law enforcement system and are expected to voice their opinions during a council meeting Thursday.

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service has launched a new Center for Biosecurity and Pandemic Policy.

The Center aims to provide security and help us be safe and resilient against biological threats such as major pandemics and biological weapons.

Gerald Parker, the director of the Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program, called this an opportunity to continue work that has been ongoing for years.

“As you know, COVID is still a part of us and we may all be tired of COVID, but COVID is not our last serious biological threat to face and unfortunately we will have to deal with future pandemics.” , he warned.

The goal of the program is to educate the next generation about biological defense.

“Today we are seeing more and more frequent outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. Now many of them have no potential, but most have the ability to potentially trigger a regional epidemic and cause global uncertainty. I’m very concerned about biological weapons,” Parker said.

Parker emphasized the need for global and national policies to strengthen research.

“My vision is a world that is safe and secure from biological threats, whether intentional, accidental or natural. The way to do that is research,” Parker added. “To develop some good, solid policies that can be implemented at a national or international level.”

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – From commercials to text messages to letters sent to your home, politicians are always looking for more money for their campaigns.

But this year is expected to be the most expensive political season in American history. However, much has changed over time, and practices that were once considered inferior to a candidate are now socially expected.

News 40 spoke with a WKU professor who attributed the candidates’ technology and campaign methods to why election season dollars have increased over the years.

“Campaigns have changed in many ways over time. First, campaigns have become much more national than before, and that is more expensive. “Back then, you know, in the early stages of American history, presidents didn’t campaign at all, or it was considered impolite to campaign,” said political science professor Dr. Jeff Budziak.

Budziak says inventions like radio and television play an important role in why operations have become so expensive. He also says we may continue to see a surge in campaign spending because of America’s relaxed rules on political donations.

I’ve been told I’m exotic more times than I’ve been told I have toes.

“You look so exotic,” an older woman once told me at Publix in Florida. “Where do you come from?”

“I’m originally from New York,” I said, deflecting the question. New Yorkers in Florida are a dime a dozen, so I doubted that alone made me exotic.

“They look exotic,” said a gentleman at Costco a few years ago. “One day you’ll be famous.”

This time I shrugged and walked away, confused by the exchange. I am a stocky, middle-aged woman. What would make me famous? (Well, hopefully my writing.)

The first time this happened was in 1998 when I was a freshman at Duke University. Google had just been invented, and I remember sneaking into the search engine, confused by the comment, and asking, “What does it mean to be called exotic?” Is it a compliment or a criticism? I really didn’t know.

What did they want to say about me? More importantly, what were they trying to say about the millions of Latino and Hispanic Americans who look like me?

Hispanics like me belong in America. So what do people mean when they call me exotic?

With age and wisdom, I finally have the answer. Even if it’s not intentional, when someone calls me exotic, they’re implying that I don’t belong.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines exotic as:

1. Imported from another country: not native to the site

2. Strikingly, excitingly or mysteriously different or unusual

3. Of or relating to striptease: include or highlight exotic dancers

I was born in the United States. I speak perfect English. I have dark hair and dark facial features; Does this make me “non-native” or “unusual”? Or maybe my strong stomach makes me the ideal striptease candidate? What exactly is “exotic” about me?

My mother comes from a long line of northern European immigrants, including Irish and Swiss. My grandmother can trace our family history back to the Sons of Liberty. Like her mother, she was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

However, my father was born in El Salvador. He emigrated to the USA in the 1970s. I was born on Long Island – about as far from exotic as you can imagine. As a baby, I had jet black hair and pale white skin. My mother said I looked like Snow White.

As I got older, my skin turned brown when I walked through sprinklers in the summer. Because of our different skin colors, people asked my mother to be my nanny. As an adult living in Florida, I’m generally tan year-round. My hair and eyes are also dark brown.

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Does that make me exotic – because my skin and complexion are not beautiful? If that’s the case, then why do we think that being brown isn’t American?

A microaggression is a “comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (e.g., a racial minority).” These statements reinforce stereotypes, such as that brown people are not included USA are based

I am very proud to be part Hispanic. Drawing boundaries between two identities gives me insights into two different cultural worlds. But when I’m told I’m exotic, it means I don’t belong in the country where I was born. I’m trying not to be offended, but deep down it’s bothering me. I wonder how I will be seen and valued.

Not surprisingly, I was first told I was “exotic” while attending Duke University. Even though I graduated from high school at the top of my class, I still felt like I had to justify going to an elite college. They didn’t think I fit in. (While I was in the computer lab, another student whispered that I had the “most beautiful hair” she had ever seen, so not all of my experiences were bad.)

Somehow my brown hair and tanned skin seem strange in a country made up of immigrants from different backgrounds. Many people who immigrated to the United States came from places much further afield than El Salvador.

I have seen Far and far a hundred times. We all know about Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. Between 1820 and 1930 alone, up to 4.5 million Irish came to America.

This makes my Irish roots as foreign as my Salvadoran ones. Irish immigrants also experienced discrimination and exploitation upon their arrival, although the extent of this is still controversial.

But once they lost their accent, it was easier to integrate into society because they were white and spoke English. This was true for many white immigrants from northern Europe. Non-white and Hispanic immigrants were not so lucky.

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I am exotic not because my father was an immigrant, but because my father was an immigrant Brown Immigrant.

During my childhood and adolescence, I repeatedly experienced how my father was confronted with stereotypes. My father became a U.S. citizen in the 1980s. After years of working as a chef in restaurants, he and my mother opened a pizzeria. He was fluent in English, Spanish and Greek.

To improve his language skills, he read the newspaper every day. He voted in every election and took great pride in being part of the political process. (Even though he voted for candidates I disagreed with, I admired his sense of social responsibility.)

Still, customers came to his pizzeria and talked to him in broken English. Because of his skin color, black hair, and dark eyes, they assumed he was uneducated. He always answered them the same. I would listen in shock.

One day I said to my father, “Why don’t you tell them you speak English?” Why are you humiliating yourself?”

I wanted him to stand up for himself. He worked so hard to assimilate and be an American.

He shrugged. “They see what they want to see,” he said. And all they saw was that he was of Spanish descent, so he was illiterate and uneducated.

In the summer of 1998 we traveled to El Salvador to celebrate my high school graduation. After returning to the United States, my father was asked by immigration officials to write down his Social Security number and other information. They questioned him vigorously about the brooms he brought with him to the United States to clean the pizzeria.

Again I was defensive. He had a US passport and brought no prohibited items with him. Why did they still single him out in front of his family? I later learned that they do this because when someone uses a stolen passport, they get confused when asked for certain details.

That horrified me even more. I had just graduated at the top of my class and they treated my dad like he was last in his class. But my father did as he was told. He didn’t question her at all.

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My father did not question his place as an immigrant. He accepted that he was a foreigner. What he didn’t expect was that his children, who were U.S. citizens, would still be questioned.

A study published in 2021 by the American Psychological Association examined whether people’s skin tone influences the way perceivers categorize their immigration and legal status, and the possible relationship between perceivers’ support of strict immigration policies and certain categorization patterns.

The results suggest that people with brown (compared to white or black) skin are more likely to be perceived as undocumented immigrants and that there is a higher level of respondents’ perception that a person with brown skin is more likely to be an undocumented immigrant Support for Hard Immigration Predicts Policies.

Pew Research reported that in 2021, only one-third of all U.S. Hispanics were immigrants, meaning two-thirds of U.S. Hispanics were born in the United States. From 2020 to 2021, U.S.-born Hispanics outpaced new immigrants. The same report found that “immigrants make up a declining share of the U.S. Hispanic population.” Additionally, as of 2021, 81% of Hispanics in the country were U.S. citizens.

Despite these numbers, it is still assumed that Hispanics are immigrants or foreigners. With European immigrant groups, generations assimilate and over time their status as Americans is not questioned. But non-white immigrants, some of whom have been here for generations, still have to prove themselves.

I used to have these stereotypes too. Before I went to Duke, I thought that all the men who looked like my father shared his story. But I’ve learned that’s not the case. Whether it was the Mexican Americans who lived here before and after the Mexican-American War, the Chinese immigrants who laid half of the railroads and helped Manifest Destiny prosper, or the blacks whose forced labor laid the foundation for American prosperity put – there are diverse citizens have always played an essential role in the history of our country.

The greatest part of our country is our diverse roots. The US is a melting pot – yet for some it is still highlighted.

I am writing this article to normalize the idea that Hispanic and Latino people, as well as other non-white immigrants, belong. A darker or different complexion does not mean someone is exotic or foreign. It’s a form of microaggression that many may not be aware of.

Unless I’m wrong and they call me “exotic” because they think I have the build and arm strength to be an exotic dancer. After all, you never know.

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Julie Calidonio is a writer, lawyer and mother. Her essays published in Scary Mommy, Motherly, and Medium highlight her comedic yet poignant writing style.

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, Brookshire Grocery Company is taking a group of veterans on the trip of a lifetime to Washington DC

The flight will depart from Tyler Pounds Regional Airport following a farewell ceremony scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 21.

In addition to World War II and Korean War veterans, this flight will also include veterans who served during the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War. BGC is providing the all-expenses paid trip to honor our veterans for their service and sacrifice.

“There’s one thing veterans don’t pay for,” Ann Brookshire said. “Not a piece of chewing gum, not a bottle of water. We cover everything.”

In addition to visiting the WWII Memorial, the group will tour the U.S. Capitol with Congressman Nathaniel Moran. Other points of interest include Arlington National Cemetery, the Air and Space Museum, and memorials honoring U.S. Marines, Navy, Air Force, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., and Vietnam and Korean War veterans.

“We are deeply honored as a company to bring our military veterans to Washington, DC to view the memorials erected in their honor,” said Brad Brookshire, chairman and CEO of Brookshire Grocery Co. “This trip is our way of expressing deep gratitude “to express” and respect for their victims. One of our community pillars is giving back to the brave men and women who have given so much to our country, and this opportunity gives us a chance to express our appreciation in a meaningful way. We are particularly pleased that veterans representing multiple conflicts will share this experience together.”

With this trip, BGC will have brought more than 500 veterans from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas to Washington, DC since the inception of the Heroes Flight program.

KLTV 7 anchor Blake Holland will join the veterans on the upcoming Heroes Flight, reporting exclusively from Washington DC

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AHRMA Two Stroke Racers win cash prizes at Barber Vintage Festival

(October 16, 2024 Knoxville, TN) The sight and sound of two-stroke racing bikes returned in the 19th century^Th Barber Vintage Festival. And Kenny Roberts was there to cheer them on!

More than 20 two-stroke machines ranging from 125 to 500 cc competed in the Open Two Stroke class during the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association race event at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday, October 12th. The event was part of the Bridgestone Tires AHRMA National Roadracing Series

The majority of participants were on 250cc engines, followed by 125cc engines and only one 500cc machine. The 250s dominated the field and took the first podium places. Ralph Staropoli took the overall win on his 2002 Honda RS250, followed by Oliver Hutchison on his 2007 Yamaha TZ250 and Sven Bley on his 1997 Honda RS250 NX5.

Ralph Staropoli organized and collected sponsorship funds from a group of individual AHRMA racers as well as Iconic Motorcycles, Comstock Energy, Rising Sun Cycles and MojoYamaha for a total of $6,000, which was paid out for Saturday’s races.

Purse distribution for each level ($1,000 for 1st^st$750 for 2^nd$500 for 3^approx and $250 for 4^Th):

125cc	Level	Location	Bicycle
Jacob Trosper	125	1	1998 Honda RS125
Matthew Crabtree	125	2	1995 Honda RS125
Eric Lukehart	125	3	1995 Honda RS125
Steven Belknap	125	4	2004 Honda RS125
250cc
Ralph Staropoli	250	1	2002 Honda RS250
Oliver Hutchison	250	2	2007 Yamaha TZ250
Sven Bley	250	3	1997 Honda RS250 NX5
Paul Stamper	250	4	1992 Yamaha TZ250
500cc+
Adrian Jasso	500+	1	2017 Suter 500

About iconic motorcycles

Based in Santa Monica, California, Iconic Motorcycles are enthusiasts, collectors and “living” motorcycles every day! When it comes to buying, selling or acquiring a motorcycle, Iconic Motorcycles is truly your best choice. Services include buying and selling advice, VIN checking and motorcycle maintenance.

About Comstock Energy

Comstock Energy, LLC is a Texas-based oil and gas development company focused on exploiting proven and underdeveloped near-surface production horizons in the Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin area of ​​north central Texas. Comstock currently manages the operations and redevelopment of twenty producing and/or proven properties with reserves in excess of 1 million barrels.

About the cycles of the rising sun

Rising Sun Cycles has been an importer of new and used Yamaha and Honda Grand Prix road racing motorcycles, parts and accessories since 1997. They have an excellent reputation for fast shipping, support and satisfaction and pride themselves on providing their customers with the best service available, the best parts and accessories, and a staff that understands all aspects of our business.

ABOUT AHRMA

The American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, restoration and participation of historic motorcycles. With more than 3,000 members, AHRMA is the premier historic motorcycle racing group in North America and one of the largest in the world. The association’s enthusiastic membership reflects this country’s strong interest in classic bicycles.

It was a busy night for Oklahoma City firefighters as crews battled three house fires in the metro overnight.

Luckily no one was injured, but firefighters are issuing warnings after discovering that at least two of these fires were caused by improper home heating.

“This is kind of the first cool night of the season, and it was a very busy night for the fire department,” a firefighter on scene said Wednesday morning.

It’s a trend firefighters see every year: temperatures drop, people turn on the stove or space heater, and firefighters see an increase in house fires.

“It’s that time of year,” said Scott Douglas of the OKC Fire Department.

On Wednesday morning, an improperly ventilated chimney started a fire and another was caused by an extension cord hanging from a stove.

“Before you fire up your chimney, be sure to have it swept by a certified chimney professional. Make sure there is a good screen, a mesh screen, in front of it to prevent sparks or embers from entering your home,” Douglas said.

Space heaters are also used in the colder months and can be another catalyst if left unattended.

A simple rule of thumb: space heaters take up space.

“You need to be six feet away from anything that can catch fire,” Douglas explained.

Douglas said he encourages residents to take these precautions but assures firefighters are always ready to intervene.

“We’re here seven days a week, 365 days a year,” he said.

The three fires overnight make a total of six house fires as temperatures dropped early Tuesday.

According to the Oklahoma City Fire Department, the cause of the other fire remains under investigation.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – SENT Topeka founder Jonathan Sublet knows a thing or two about nutrition and how to get there.

“In 2002, I weighed 616 pounds and one of the things that really helped me on my journey was going to a nutritionist and learning about healthy food preparation and portion control,” Sublet said.

Starting Thursday, October 17th at 6:00 p.m., SENT Topeka is launching a free 6-week healthy eating cooking class.

“Shawnee County K-State Extension will be kicking off their SNAP-Ed program and hosting a healthy meal prep here in our community party room,” Sublet said.

The food used in the classes can be found in the nonprofit organization’s pantry.

“Part of our mission with the Southside Fueling Station is not only to close the food insecurity gap, but also to close the food insecurity gap,” Sublet said. “Through this course, they will gain the skills to make the most of these healthy, nutrient-dense foods.”

K-State Research Extension has been offering healthy eating courses in Shawnee County for years.

Each course is designed to help you feel more confident in the kitchen.

“People who actually prepare food at home can make their food healthier by limiting sugar, salt and fats and actually save money,” said Brenda Jarboe, nutrition educator for K-State Research & Extension. “It’s much cheaper to prepare your food at home.”

Jarboe says the look on students’ faces as they leave these classes is priceless.

“It’s so fulfilling when you teach someone something that will change their life and when they can get better,” Jarboe said.

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