COLUMBIA, Mo.—University of Southern Indiana Men’s Cross Country raced to a 21st-place finish out of 37 teams at the University of Missouri’s Gans Creek Classic Friday morning.
Senior Brady Terry finished 58th out of 320 competitors to lead the Screaming Eagles, who finished with 618 points to put them ahead of the three other Ohio Valley Conference teams that competed in the event. Terry finished the eight-kilometer race in 24 minutes, 13.6 seconds.
The Eagles sophomore class aided USI in the even with Alex Nolan, Jackson Collman, Isaac Stanford and Cole Hess rounded out its top-five finishers. Nolan and Collman were 112th and 128th, respectively, while Stanford and Hess posted respective finishes of 178th and 195th.
Freshman Layden Wagoner (201st) and sophomore Landen Swiney (239th) rounded out USI’s top-seven.
USI’s men also carded a 17th-place finish out of 26 teams in the open race. Freshman Griffen Wheeler was 126th out of nearly 400 runners as he crossed the finish line in 26:02.6 to lead USI.
The Eagles return to action October 5 when they send a small squad to compete at the “Live in Lou” Classic at Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Kentucky. USI co-hosts the Angel Mounds Invitational October 18 in Evansville, Indiana, before wrapping up its third year of Division I with the OVC Championships November 1 in Union City, Tennessee.
USI Men’s Runners finish 21st at Mizzou
Restriction on Drones Issued by The Federal Aviation Administration for the Fall Festival
Restriction on Drones Issued by The Federal Aviation Administration for the Fall Festival
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) maintains the safety and efficiency of our airspace. As with cars on the road, some rules cover aircraft in the sky to ensure safety.
In special circumstances, the FAA may temporarily restrict access to certain designated areas of our airspace, much like a city or state may block off access to a street when necessary.
These airspace restrictions are called Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) and prohibit off or landing of remote-controlled or unmanned aircraft or drones for a limited time.
TFRs are issued for safety or security purposes, including during natural disasters or large crowds.
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a Temporary Flight Restriction for the Fall Festival. Drones are not to be flown by the general public over any area of the Fall Festival from from October 6th through the 12th daily from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 pm.
If you would like more information about drones or Temporary Flight Restrictions, please go to https://www.faa.gov/uas.
The following information was provided by the Federal Aviation Administration to be dispersed to the public.
TFR Details:
• Dates: 6-12 October 2024
• Start time: 0900 CDT (daily)
• End time: 2200 CDT (daily)
• Radius: 1-mile radius from the midpoint of the event at 37° 58’ 49.85 N, 87° 35’50.14” Evansville Police Department 15 NW Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Evansville, Indiana 47708 TX: 812-436-7896 – TDD: 812-436-7975 – FAX: 812-435-6175 – EMAIL: info@evansvillepolice.com
Waivers will need to be submitted through the SGI process you must be an existing Part 107
Remote Pilot with a current certificate OR you must have an existing Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA). To submit a waiver through this process, fill out the emergency operation Request Form
https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/uas/getting_started/temporary_flight_restrictions/UAS-
SGI_waiver_approval_request_form.docx (MS Word) and send to the FAA’s System Operations Support Center (SOSC) at 9-ator-hq-sosc@faa.gov. If approved, the FAA will add an amendment to your existing COA or Remote Pilot Certificate that authorizes you to fly under certain conditions for the specified operation.
If denied, operators should NOT fly outside the provisions of their existing COA or part 107. Operators have the option to amend their requests.
Fines:
Drone operators who conduct unsafe or unauthorized operations face fines up to $75,000 per violation, an increase included in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024. The FAA also cansuspend or revoke drone operators’ pilot certificates.
IS IT TRUE WORKING DRAFT For SEPTEMBER 24 2024
IS IT TRUE that recent FBI data puts Evansville, Indiana at the 22nd most violent crime ridden city in the United States of America, a violent crime rate of 8.15 per thousand residents?…that means that there are 21 more violent cities in the nation, and the list was headed by Memphis, Tennessee but included the legacy pain pits of Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Kansas City, and other large places that typically have terrible neighborhoods?…there were even 5 medium-sized cities that are more violent than Evansville is and our midwestern neighbors like Peoria, Dayton, and Flint all are more violent?…this is not good company to keep if efforts to grow the population with higher earning people is the goal
IS IT TRUE that the current population of the City of Evansville is down to 114,651 from the 117,373 in the 2020 Census?… Evansville’s population peaked in 1960 at 141,500 and has declined ever since?…the current projection for 2028 is to lose additional people to a level of 111,300 souls?…these souls deserve more than gimmicks and parties if the population can stop the bleeding?…a comprehensive analysis of what has happened over the last 64 years to drive away nearly 20% of the population?… we hint that a declining base of jobs that pay a living wage, a rise in violent crime and leaders absorbed with trivial pursuits are the principle driving factors?…we hope that our Mayor Stephanie Terry will learn how to address these issues at her upcoming training sessions at Harvard University and paid for by Michael Bloomberg?
BREAKING NEWS: Braun to Novo Nordisk CEO: “Why are Americans paying more for the same drug?”
Braun to Novo Nordisk CEO: “Why are Americans paying more for the same drug?”
SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Mike Braun questioned Novo Nordisk CEO, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Tuesday about the high prices of the company’s weight loss drug, Ozempic, in the United States.
“This has everything to do with a system that’s broken with no transparency, no competition, barriers to entry, and by the way a consumer who doesn’t have the tools to really measure what the best value is.”—Sen. Mike Braun
Partial Transcript of Senator Braun’s questions:
Braun: “Are you making a profit on your Ozempic product when you’re selling it to Australia for $87 and you’re selling to the U.S. for $936? Are you making a profit at $87?
Jørgensen: “Yes, we are and the price you mentioned in the U.S. is not what we get. That’s the list price.
Braun: “So what are you getting in the U.S.? What price?”
Jørgensen: “So I mentioned that on average for our products we give 74% in rebates to PBMs.”
Braun: “And that was the chart that Senator Marshall held up that PBMs are making 74% and you’re getting 26%. So, you’ve got a screwed-up industry. Number one, when I’ve talked to other pharma folks, they regret that PBMs ever came into it. It would seem like since you make the product, that you could disassemble them or do something to go around it, if in fact this place won’t do something about it. Have you ever thought of that?”
Jørgensen: “It’s very difficult Senator because they control what insurance is put in front of patients so they have integrated themselves with insurance companies and we negotiate against the PBMs, but they’re owned by the insurance companies so no matter what we do, they decide what products—”
Braun: “Okay- and that’s kind of the conundrum, but you’re making a profit at $87 and of the $936, it would be the list price? Is that total being split between you and the PBM? I know you give big discounts to the PBM. Why do give them such large discounts for them to make that much money?”
Jørgensen: “On this we have a high list price and give them rebates, we are not making it onto the insurance formulary. So, they make a fee based on the list price, you mentioned distribution, they don’t get a flat fee for the distribution.”
Braun: “So, after you give the discounts, and you do everything, what is your revenue on Ozempic, roughly?”
Jørgensen: “I don’t have that number from the top of my head.”
Braun: “That is something that ought to be on the top of your head because most of us would want to see that so you could make the case against PBMs. That basic lack of transparency, that to me comes from the top, that cloaks the system, in general, is what is impacting the future of why in our own country it is 18% of our GDP and from Canada and Europe it is 12% of their GDP, Eastern Europe it is 6 to 7 %. And yes, rationing is maybe going to be one of the results, but it should never be to where something is going to cost that much more here versus there when you’re making a profit on it. Until you figure that out, everyone is going to think your industry is screwed up.”
Senator Braun is the leader in the Senate on reforming PBMs and lowering drug prices through transparency:
- Senator Braun’s landmark transparency legislation – the Health Care PRICE Transparency Act – would reveal all negotiated rates and cash prices between plans and providers so Americans can know the true cost of health care services before they pan, bringing down prices.
- Senator Braun’s Drug Price Transparency Act would end the broken PBM system by requiring insurers and PBMs to pass rebates directly to consumers enrolled in commercial health plans and Medicare Part D.
WSNC Updates Iconic Munchie Map
Evansville, Ind. The West Side Nut Club (WSNC) has just unveiled an updated revision of its iconic Munchie Map. While ongoing changes and corrections mean the map may not be entirely accurate, the dedicated volunteers of the WSNC Streets Committee are tirelessly working to ensure it remains as reliable as possible, striving to “keep it 100.” Their commitment to the community helps locals and visitors alike discover the best the 103rd Fall Festival has to offer. We believe the best way to express our apologies for the mistakes is by (kinda) quoting André 3000 and Big Boi from Outkast—because, really, why not?!
We’re sorry Patrons (oh), we are for real
Never meant to make your family cry
We apologize a trillion times
You and yo’ family has that special thing going on
Some might say it’s puppy chow love
We say the munchie map is on your smartphone
Hope fixing these mistake, fix them forever
You can now plan a pretty Festival picnic
But you can’t predict the weather,
We’re sorry Patrons (oh), we are for real
Never meant to make your family cry
We apologize a trillion times
THUNDERBOLTS SIGN GOALTENDER JONAH CAPRIOTTI
Radicalizing the world against Israel?
Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024. He will be speaking at the Fort Wayne Farmer’s Market, Saturday, September 28 after 12:30pm, and will be available to discuss this press release at 1pm.
First, the disclaimers:
I’ve a smidge of Jewish DNA, but that’s not why I believe Israel is a wonderful country in spite of institutionalized racism. Many of my close family members, including my daughter, have made trips to the Holy Land. I personally enjoyed working with two Israel-based medical software companies. I want Israel to succeed as a nation in health, peace, prosperity and freedom such as we’re supposed to have here. Furthermore, whether Netanyahu is a hero, or a corrupt monster, or both, is not my concern.
My concern is that almost all of our elected politicians do whatever AIPAC, over a dozen other pro-Israel groups and Netanyahu want, at a very high cost to both of our nations, and more importantly, to the people therein. Our money and combined actions have trained and armed a growing global body of anger toward Israel that will not end well. Not for Israel, and not for the nation we should be concerned about…our own.
At least Trump openly admitted he works for Israel, in the form of his major donors, Miriam and Sheldon Edelson. “I’d always give them something for Israel,” he said; and “I gave them the Golan Heights, and they never even asked for it.” That was after he asked of David Friedman, “Give me a quick lesson on the Golan Heights; like five minutes or less.”
Indiana’s federal politicians are as at least as overt in their devotion to the other nation, but less candid about the process and people involved.
I don’t believe that the close to 90% of AIPAC donations that go to Democrats means that Republicans are cheap to buy. I think Republicans tend to be religious, and their Whack-a-Mole response to every group that seems to threaten Israel is buoyed by good intentions.
But you know which road is paved in good intentions. Western nations’ Middle East interventions have been self-destructive and catastrophic through the past 111 years. I suggest we dust off and apply a principle best articulated 223 years ago: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.”
That may just forestall WWIII, save two great nations, and offer World Peace as a nice side benefit.
Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
MUTUAL MAYHEM
GAVEL GAMUT
By Jim Redwine
www.jamesmredwine.com
(Week of 30 September 2024)
MUTUAL MAYHEM
The BBC reports Russia has threatened to respond with nuclear weapons against any country that attacks Russia with conventional weapons if that country is supported by a country with nuclear weapon capacity. In other words, if Ukraine sends missiles supplied by America, Great Britain or France into the heart of Russia, Russia may counter-attack with nuclear arms. This would be a change from the “no first nuclear strike” policy as adhered to by most nuclear-powered countries.
Russia is warning Ukraine and its main sponsor, the United States, that the nearly three-year long war between Ukraine and Russia is nearing a critical mass. Russia is not amused by what it expected to be a cakewalk turning into a catastrophe thanks to our massive military and diplomatic support. Russia’s message is clear; however, its threat may be more of the clanging brass variety since “mutually assured destruction” is not just a talking point. The devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost eighty years ago by atomic bombs still brings pause to most rational people. Especially since nuclear weapons can produce far greater destruction and result in much greater radioactive fallout that might last for many years over a wider area than atomic bombs.
Of course, if a country believed its best hope to survive an attack was nuclear retaliation, even if it meant its own possible extinction, nuclear war might be its Faustian Choice. History is replete with irrational decisions made by people who have chanced almost certain self-destruction if they can wreak “revenge” on those who would destroy them. The United States should acknowledge the possibility that Russia, or other countries such as Israel or Iran or North Korea, might see mutual, or even the whole earth, destruction preferable to just its own if it feels such a threat.
Our world appears to be on the cusp of expanded wars in several regions and America is deeply involved in at least two, Ukraine versus Russia and Israel versus Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank and Iran. Russia says the nuclear option is a possibility and Israel appears ready to take that same path. The United States is not immune from collateral belligerent fallout if nuclear war is stumbled into by other countries.
World War I began with one assassination and World War II began gradually over several years of small incursions by one country, Hitler’s Germany. World War III is not an impossibility for America no matter how strong and virtuous we see ourselves. We think our international entanglements are well-founded and in the world’s best interests. Of course, Russia, Iran, China, Taiwan, Israel and several other contestants think the same thing. Countries are made up of people and people usually see themselves as more sinned against than sinning. It may be past time for us to look inward before our outward actions bring the opposite from what we have convinced ourselves we are championing.
For more Gavel Gamut articles go to www.jamesmredwine.com
Attorney General Todd Rokita seeks execution date for convicted killer of Beech Grove cop
Attorney General Todd Rokita seeks execution date for convicted killer of Beech Grove cop
Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the convicted murderer who fatally shot Beech Grove Police Officer William Toney on Sept. 29, 2000.
“Most Hoosiers and I expect justice without delay, especially when someone murders a police officer, one of the many, many brave men and women we thank and respect daily,” Attorney General Rokita said. “This convicted cop killer has been on death row far too long — 22 years — and it’s past time for him to pay his debt to society.”
Attorney General Rokita filed a formal motion today asking the Supreme Court to set a date for the execution of Benjamin Ritchie.
For several years, the State of Indiana paused executions due to the Indiana Department of Correction’s difficulty obtaining the drug pentobarbital, which is used to carry out executions. That issue has been resolved.
On Sept. 11, the Indiana Supreme Court set an execution date of Dec. 18 for another convicted murderer, Joseph Corcoran, after Attorney General Rokita filed a motion asking the court to set a date. Corcoran killed four people.
Attached is Attorney General Rokita’s latest motion to the Supreme Court.