#South Pittsburg High School

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Local Educator Honored on Monday

Each year, the Tennessee School Boards Association recognizes school district volunteers from across the state who have distinguished themselves by demonstrating exceptional commitment to volunteerism in a local school district. On Monday night, Mary Katherine Dawkins, an educator at South Pittsburg High School, received this award for the Marion County school district. Not only is Mrs. Dawkins…

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Bay Space Excessive Faculty Soccer: Friday outcomes Saturday schedule

Editor’s word: Should you see your outcome lacking, incomplete or incorrect on this record, please e-mail your remaining outcome and keylogger performs (and a few stats, if in case you have them) to highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com. Embrace the names of the faculties within the topic line. It was one of many first autumn Friday nights of the soccer season, however even when it is chilly, the motion on the sphere is getting hotter. Friday’s matches have been filled with potential drama with main groups out, similar to San Ramon Valley-Clayton Valley, Acalanes-Campolindo and Mitty-Bellarmine. Different high faculties, similar to De La Salle, Sacred Coronary heart Prep, Pittsburg, St. Francis, difficult street matches inside the division. If you have not already, please enroll right here for full digital entry all season lengthy. Friday 14 October East Bay Gulf Valley Antioch 23, Heritage 14 Freedom 50, Freedom 18 Pittsburgh in Deer Valley, 7 p.m. foot of dal Campolindo 27, Acalanes 24 Las Lomas 34, Northgate 7 Miramonte 56, Benicia 28 dal valley The Alhambra on Mount Diablo, 7 p.m. Harmony 54, Ignacio Valley 8 Mount Ebal Clayton Valley 42, San Ramon Valley 28 De La Salle 41, California 7 Monte Vista 21, Amador Valley 0 EBAL . Valley Foothill 38, Livermore 30 24 Granada, Dougherte Valley 22 The foot of Mt. MVAL / WACC Bishop O’Dowd 30, Ensenal 0 Logan 31, Castro Valley 7 San Leandro in Tennyson, 7 p.m. Mission MVAL / WACC Morrow Catholic 29, Hayward 14 Mount Eden 41, Irvington 3 Shoreline MVAL / WACC Arroyo 35, Alameda 14 American at Newark Memorial, 7 p.m. Auckland Sports activities League Castlemont in Auckland, 7 p.m. McLemonds 52, Skyline 0 Oakland Tech at Fremont-Oakland, 7 p.m. TCAL . rock Bethel 2, Hercules 0 (Task) El Cerrito 29, Pinol Valley 6 South Bay / Peninsula / SF BVAL Mt. Hamilton Christopher 30, Leland 6 Lincoln-San Jose in Oak Grove, 7 p.m. Reside Oak 14, Santa Teresa 7 (OT) BVAL Santa Teresa foothills Pioneer 21, Piedmont Hills 14 Pal / Cranium de Goat Los Gatos 55, Homestead 0 Mountain View in Milpitas, 7 pm Wilcox 38, Palo Alto 13 PAL / SCVAL El Camino King’s Academy 41, Cupertino 7 Santa Clara in Los Altos, 7 p.m. Sequoia 2, Gun 0 (confiscated) Bay of PAL / SCVAL Menlo-Atherton 27, Aragon 0 Half Moon Bay 53, Menlo Faculty 42 Sacred Coronary heart Preparation 24, Burlingame 0 PAL / SCVAL Ambient Jefferson in Hillsdale, 7 p.m. San Mateo 44, Carmont 19 Lake PAL / SCVAL El Camino 2, Saratoga 0 (loss) Monta Vista 42, Lynbrook 0 South San Francisco 31, Mills 17 Woodside at Fremont-Sunnyvale, 7 p.m. Catholic West METI 31, Bellarmine 17 Sacred Coronary heart Cathedral 10 St. Ignatius 0 St. Francis 21, Christian Valley 14 Saturday 15 October East Bay dal valley School Park in Perrian Christian, 12:30 p.m. Mission MVAL / WACC Washington – Fremont at Berkeley, 2:30 p.m. TCAL . rock De Anza in Salesian, 1 p.m. TCAL . stone Vallejo at St. Mary-Berkeley, 1:30 p.m. St. Patrick’s St. Vincent at Kennedy Richmond, 2 p.m. South Bay / Peninsula / SF BVAL Santa Teresa Valley Gunderson in Sobrato, 2:30 p.m. Catholic West Stroll in Riordan, 2 p.m. Thursday October 13 East Bay Shoreline MVAL / WACC Kennedy Fremont 50, San Lorenzo 6 South Bay / Peninsula / SF BVAL Santa Teresa foothills Gilroy 14, Independence 8 BVAL Santa Teresa Valley Overfelt 63, predict 0 Westmont 42, Lee 17 BVAL West Valley Del Mar 50, Yerba Buena 0 Evergreen Valley 45, Hill 12 Mount Nice 38, San Jose 36 Willow Glen 43, licking 0 PAL / SCVAL Ambient Terra Nova 14, Cappuccino 6 Originally published at San Jose News HQ

[gonemuse-blog]

Bay

Let me tell you about a place

that lies at the heart of this golden state

it’s called none other than the bay

sometimes referred to as the yay

area, that is

That reaches from Vallejo

Pittsburg concord

to San Jose

if you know this place

and you remember Mac Dre

then dip to the ground as you catch the bass

Would you look at this place

Bumper to bumper

that goes on for days

though you won’t catch me complaining

about that minimum wage (JK)

and the warm rainy days

that show up for a sec

then sashays away as always

bitches here are so quick

to come at you sideways

so be careful what you say

hold your tongue

and patiently wait for pay day

just pray pray pray

you can afford the rent

when it needs to be paid

but hey

here in the bay it’s okay to be gay

you can be he she or they it’s okay

we’re just a bunch of animals

looking for someone to play

better take Bart

cuz paid parkings just as much as valet

sometimes I want to move away

and get some space

but then I’d miss this place

even after all the heart break

bad decisions and mistakes

I may not be forgiving

since this place is full of snakes

but iv’e been shown mercy

when I wasn’t worthy

sometimes that’s all it takes

to make a bitch stay

“I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Watchin' the tide, roll away

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Wastin' time”

the bays a place

Where instead of second chances

You get played

while you’re just trying to get paid

that’s how I realized everyone’s fake

sometimes you need to break

before you can see straight

then you can see your fate

you’re either gonna go down in flames

or be great

like the gods

I swear the bay area is full of dogs

so hide your purse secure your locks

better hope in high school you’re one of the jocks

unless you wanna end up on the couch

in your socks

waiting around till you figure things out

or you could go south

if all you’re after is clout

but mark my words

hear me out

always have your own back

if you don’t wanna end up

with a pistol in your mouth

“I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Watchin' the tide, roll away

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Wastin' time”

if you are what you say you are

a superstar

then live in fear

cuz although I hate to say

the famous life

aint always like what you hear

and see on tv

these days everyone’s trying to be

something

even through all the self bruising

the cutting

All the loving the lusting

that leads to nothing

then you find yourself jumping

up up and away

right off the ledge

is this all a dream

or eventually will I be pushed to the edge

there’s faces everywhere

with too much to say

just watch your mouth

when you’re talking to me

if you wanna see another day

I’ve got a lot on my plate

it’d be best if you’d just stay out of my way

I’ve got a body to change

and money to make

so I’m not embarrassed like you

when I go to the bank

moneys a bitch that likes to be spanked

but you’ll get bit in the ass

if you lose your rank

well, in a nutshell that’s the bay

all we do is slay

till our hair turns gray

come together

right now

Let’s rule the day

“I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Watchin' the tide, roll away

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Wastin' time”

-EG, August 27, 2019

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JACOBIN MAGAZINE

A new report from the Urban Displacement Project confirms what anyone who’s lived here already knows: rising housing costs are resegregating the Bay Area.

Researchers found that between 2000 and 2015, soaring rents pushed thousands of low-income black households out of what were once racially and economically diverse neighborhoods in Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Richmond. Nearly half of those who relocated left the Bay Area altogether, and many of the rest have moved to more racially segregated and economically homogeneous — that is, poorer — suburbs like Antioch and Pittsburg to the east, and the Eden area to the south.

Like every American metropolitan area, the Bay Area boasted a great deal of racial and social inequality before 2000. But by some measures it had come a long way from the mid-twentieth century, when many of the region’s subdivisions were redlined and legally segregated. By the 1990s, for instance, Oakland was the most ethnically diverse city in the country and was helmed by black political and corporate leadership.

The problem was that even as explicitly racist ideology gave way to a new official multiculturalism, the economic power of the region’s business elite was never sufficiently challenged. On the contrary, it was catered to in the early aughts by corporate-friendly city administrations eager to take advantage of new revenue streams promised by the booming tech and real-estate industries. They justified permissive policy and tax incentives to these industries by selling it as a win-win for the capitalist and working classes. The deluge of private investment, the thinking went, would eventually lift all boats.

Today those industries continue to run the show. Despite lip service to racial equality, they are focused on one objective: maximizing profit. And in their pursuit of profit, they’ve driven housing prices up so dramatically that whatever gains in integration that were won in the late twentieth century have begun to erode. The Bay Area is now on track to achieve redlining-era segregation levels, only this time de facto instead of de jure.

Segregation presents a fundamental obstacle to racial equality. As Martin Luther King Jr put it in 1956:

There was a time that we attempted to live with segregation. There were those who felt that we could live by a doctrine of separate but equal, and so back in 1896 the Supreme Court of this nation, through the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, established the doctrine of separate but equal as the law of the land. But we all know what happened as a result of that doctrine: there was always a strict enforcement of the separate without the slightest intention to abide by the equal. And so as a result of the old Plessy doctrine, we ended up being plunged across the abyss of exploitation, where we experienced the bleakness of nagging injustice.

King was speaking after the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ruled school segregation unconstitutional. But as he explained, “Segregation is already legally dead, but it is still factually alive.” And he went on to explain how the fundamental problems with segregation are no less pronounced when it’s simply a matter of fact rather than of law:

[Segregation] ends up depersonalizing the segregated. That’s the end results of segregation. The segregated becomes merely a thing to be used, not a person to be respected. He is merely a depersonalized cog in a vast economic machine.

This phenomenon is familiar to poor workers in the Bay Area — black workers especially, but also Latino, Asian, and displaced white workers. While rising rents have forced low-wage workers to move further afield into new suburban ghettos south of San Leandro or east of Concord, the jobs are mostly still in the economic centers from which they came: driving Uber in Oakland, cleaning tech offices in San Francisco, serving food in the cafeterias at UC Berkeley.

As King observed, segregation encourages depersonalization, which provides cover for exploitation. The residents of the Bay Area’s wealthier waterfront cities are increasingly high-wage earners and mostly white. Their lack of contact with, or even awareness of, commuting workers of color establishes conditions for cultural rationalizations of economic exploitation, racist and otherwise, to flourish.

That makes it easier for Uber to suppress drivers’ pay, or for the University of California to try to break custodians’ unions, with the tacit approval and sometimes explicit support of municipal officials who need not fear public pushback. Political leaders regularly court, incentivize, and reward corporations that abuse low-wage workers, and their constituents hardly bat an eyelash. Segregation makes it all seem so abstract.

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Friday's @wdefnews12 @WestShoreHome #WeatherWindow picture of the day: "Blue for Blansett" day Thursday for Marion Co. detective Matt Blansett at South Pittsburg HS. (at South Pittsburg High School) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChvwJqnAwQ9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Logistics week for prospective FAME folks

I'm going to take this week to talk a little about how ENSEA sets up its classes and structures their international program. This is for people looking to study abroad themselves at any institution but specifically for those interested in ENSEA or France, as that's what I know the most about.

So, ENSEA has an allotment for international students from America which is designated a special name and space within the graduate college. It's called the FAME program (French American exchange program) and it's unique to ENSEA. It typically has gotten upwards of 15 students each year from universities all over the USA. From Pittsburg to Mississippi to Michigan to Hawaii, you're bound to meet folks from all parts of the USA if you join the program.

In my case, it's been a little different than that. Because of the omicron variant, fewer universities were able to send their students. Many universities pulled out of the program altogether and as a result, the US representation only came out to 7 students. I take all my classes with 1 or 2 other students in the class and the teacher.

One thing that I've been frustrated with is how separated the FAME program is with the rest of the university. I understand that because I can't speak French fluently, it doesn't make sense for me to be in French engineering classes. However, it's the fact that there's another international class in the school taught in English which we can't join the classes of that frustrates me. The other international program is made up of students from all around the world. Our year, the bulk was made up of South American students but, many come from China, North Africa, and Scandinavian countries as well. This year their classes were a lot more "normal" than ours. They had classes with French students, they had 12-20 students in a class at one time, and they had a set curriculum which was in line with what the French students at ENSEA are learning. This in contrast to the FAME students' 1-3 people per class and more private tutor like instruction.

There are two reasons that I can think of why we're separated from the other international students. One is that the FAME students are 1st years. To understand what that means I'll have to give a little background on the French education structure.

OK, what's weird is that they call "college" middle school. That's pretty crazy. Then they go through high school which they call lycée and then take the BAC. Which I was told by some French students is very easy. I'm not sure if they're saying that from a kind of warped engineering contextualized hindsight, but I'll take their word for it. I think the SAT would be easy for me now too, so ehh it's a tough one. Anyways, if they do well enough on the bac, they go to a prepa. The prepa is only for engineering students. It's a two year highly rigorous physics and math coursework driven curriculum. Students who emerge from prepa are very strong in the basics, but not all students do so. Many drop out because of the difficulty. After prepa, we get to where the FAME program is dropped in, the 1st year of a three-year graduate program.

So, we're first years, what's the big deal? Well, the thing is, we're not second years like the other international students so we can't join their classes.

And because it's a first year, we're taking generally core classes. Those familiar with UMICH courses for EE students know the core courses quite well. EECS 216, EECS 301, EECS 215, etc. Classes we want to get done in our sophomore year. So, my advice to prospective FAME students is to study abroad earlier so that those classes make sense for you.

Back to the second reason we're separated. This reason is more like "hmm, maybe that's a reason we're separated I don't really know though for sure", and it has to do with the tuition costs for the program. From what I've heard, the money that's involved in bringing the other international students from their countries to study at ENSEA comes from the French government. Their flights are paid for, and they're given a monthly salary to continue living there. In our case, the Americans pay for everything themselves; the flights and they even pay tuition around 4 times higher than the French students do. I found this interesting, and it certainly explains the special treatment we get at the school.

Designing a transistor circuit for optimal amplification

Because of the small class size, you can kind of choose how you want to spend your time in class, and you get a kind of tutoring experience. I've been able to ask some helpful clarifying questions. My circuits teacher has pointed me in the direction that I want to continue my studies in. And it's been really helpful to slow down and review the stuff I've learned in my previous years at Umich. I realized that there were some gaps where I didn't know things fully. Also, you get to be in France and there are plenty of other opportunities to meet French students at school organized events or otherwise. I eat lunch with the other international students a lot too, so I wouldn't say I'm missing much by not being in class with them.

My class schedule for May (not updated we actually finish May 25th)

There are many other benefits to having smaller class sizes which I think I'll just list here.

-easier student to management communication

-flexibility with class time and date (we were supposed to end classes June 3rd)

-more individualized instruction

and downsides as well. It all comes down to preference. I just thought it'd be good to inform any prospective students about it. If you're a student who's interested in studying abroad at ENSEA feel free to reach out to me by email at npeabody@umich.edu.

Nick Peabody

Electrical engineering

IPE FAME 2022

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Graduation Dates in Marion County

Marion County Schools have announced the dates for the 2025 High School Graduation. Tuesday, May 13, 2025, Marion County Virtual High School 4:30 p.m. and Marion County High School 7:00 p.m. Thursday, May 15, 2025, South Pittsburg High School, 7:00 p.m. Friday, May 16, 2025, Whitwell High School, 7:00 p.m.

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All About Can Play All Game Camps At The Entrance Of Superslots

Can play all game camps at the entrance of Superslot. This camp is very popular for its basketball training and instruction. The school is located in South Pittsburg, Ohio. It is one of the accredited schools that can be found in the United States. The school is also certified by the Ohio Department of Education.

The school has many camps that it offers. There are all kinds of sports camps that can be attended by the kids. You can choose the ones that you think the kids will find interesting. Some of them are volleyball camps, track and field camps and other types of camps.

One of the most famous and popular player that can play all game camps at the entrance of Superslot is Scott Hamilton. He is a Kentucky native who is currently training at the University of Nevada. He played for the University of California as a freshman. After graduation he went to play for the Portsmouth squad that became part of the NBA in the '06. He joined the Sacramento Kings and spent two seasons there before joining the New Jersey Nets the following year. He is now an assistant coach with the Nets.

He started his career as a college student when he was a sophomore playing for the University of Alabama. During his two years at Tuscaloosa he was one of the best athletes on the team. He earned first-team All-SEC selection. He joined the NBA after college and played for the Detroit Pistons for one season.

Now all kids can learn how to be great basketball players. The best thing about it is that you do not have to be in high school to do it. You can start today by signing up for a camp that is designed just for kids. There are numerous sports camps that are open to kids of all ages. superslot

The reason why these camps are especially designed for kids is because they understand the sport much better than adults. This allows them to learn the basics much quicker. They also see where the weaknesses in a player's game lie so that they can take steps to improve on them. There are certain weaknesses in almost every player. It is only necessary for you to know them so that you can work on them and help your kid get over them.

When you take your kid to a sports camp it helps him or her develop a lot of confidence in him or her. This is very important especially when your kid is still a youngster because children tend to think they are inferior to adults. By having your kid to improve on his or her basketball skills it will only boost his or her self-confidence and self-esteem. Kids learn through testing and this is what parents should do for their kids. You can have your kid come with you to a camp so that he or she can play alongside other kids.

Your kid will know that he or she is not the only kid who is training to become a professional basketball player. Kids will learn how to have the attitude of a winner as well as work hard so that they can become the best in the world. All of this can be achieved at camp so you can now have peace of mind that your kid can play at the entrance of Superslots.

Kids will also learn about the sport they wish to pursue. If your kid is passionate about basketball then he or she will surely enjoy the course he or she will be taking. Parents should not only focus on the sport that their kids are taking part in. It should be fun and helpful as well as the basics being taught.

Parents must also know that it is OK to let their kids train in basketball. As long as the kid is not competing with someone and is instead enjoying the sport, then it is OK. Your kid does not need to be on his or her best game every time they play. Kids will love to learn basketball just like any other sport. They need to be challenged somehow so that they can rise to the top. That is what camp offers.

There are many sports camps that are open for kids. One can choose from different levels of exposure in basketball. For a beginner, they can play at the very basic level. As they advance they can move to the intermediate or advanced levels depending on their performance. If you want to find out more about can play all game camps at the entrance of Superslots then you can contact the management team. They will be happy to answer all your queries about this sport.

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College Football 2020 Season Week 10 TV Watch Em Ups: Some of these games will even be played

These are bad times for living but there is a slight shadow of hope. Hope doesn’t normally cast a shadow but, you know, bad times. Dark around the sun. Clouds for months. We live in a bog. Follow me on twitter for more mirth!

This is the way the games are listed right now at about midnight Eastern but the dominos they are a-fallin’. We might see some more cancellations / postponements but you know the rules by now. Shit’s not getting updated on this site unless there is something really crazy going on. Like one of the proprietors of the site actually looking at it during the day. Highly improbable, as you well know. Bad info (incorrect kickoff times, wrong channel listed, flip-flopped lines) is not my fault. Bad takes are all me. Just keep the good ones in mind when you are painting my portrait.

Saturday, November 14

Matchup                                                     Time (ET)                   TV/Mobile

9 Miami (FL) at Virginia Tech                     12:00pm                       ESPN

Virginia Tech is favored by 2.5 and I am legitimately puzzled. What is Vegas expecting here? Miami has been underwhelming at times but the Hokies have actually been bad for the most part.

10 Indiana at Michigan State                     12:00pm                        ABC

Sure, Indiana is undefeated and ranked #10 but this season shouldn’t count and they’re still Indiana. I laughed when Michigan State beat Michigan two weeks ago and I’ll do it again if they knock Indiana off their pedestal. To be fair, Sparty getting run the fuck over would also be funny. B1G 2020 - it’s even worse than it looks!

Vanderbilt at Kentucky                               12:00pm                        SECN

These two long-time SEC rivals should have more cancellations in their series history.

TCU at West Virginia                                   12:00pm                         FOX

Go WFV. I feel that in my heart but there’s no magic here.

Wake Forest at North Carolina                   12:00pm                       ACCN

I was happy for UNC when they were #5 but I also want to see them buried under the graveyard. The duality of man.

Western Carolina at 22 Liberty                    12:00pm                       ESPNU

Vegas Insider doesn’t have a line listed for this game so I guess Western Carolina is FCS but I really don’t ever know anymore. Especially in the mid-Adlantic region. Liberty had an all-time great stupid game ending last week so it would be perfect if they lose the rest of their games and we can forget all about this tragedy of a season that has Liberty ranked every week.

Middle Tennessee at 16 Marshall                12:00pm                      CBSSN

This is probably my backup for the Canes game but I can’t tell you anything about either team as of now.

Army at Tulane                                               12:00pm             ESPN2/ESPN+

On paper this isn’t even the worst game with a noon kickoff this week and let me tell you why that has my heart just glowing.

Penn State at Nebraska                                12:00pm                        FS1

Teenage me would have been overjoyed at the prospect of 1994′s co-National Champions playing in a nationally televised showdown of winless teams in November 2020. Is that weird? Sure, but I still hate both of these programs and love to see them struggle. Penn State has to win this one, I reckon, but there is still an outside chance at a cancellation. If we can end this season with zero wins for Penn State then all the risks were worth it.

Illinois at Rutgers                                           1:00pm                          BTN

Here is yet another example of a game that should have been cancelled in a non-pandemic year.

South Alabama at 25 Louisiana                     2:00pm                        ESPN+

A 6-1 Sun Belt team with a top 25 ranking is a clear indication that this season needed to be over before it started. This is madness.

Fresno State at Utah State                             2:30pm                           FS2

This is not a midday kind of game and, as such, should also be cancelled. Or at least pushed back 8 hours for the sake of aesthetics.

Georgia State at Appalachian State              2:30pm                       ESPN+

I have the song “Kill Em All” stuck in my head but the word kill is replaced with cancel. The meter does not work at all but it’s close enough for me and it’s my only comment on this game.

UTEP at UTSA                                                  3:00pm                       ESPN+

If you want to see the nation’s second leading rusher, his name is Sincere McCormick and he plays for UTSA. Yes, he is now second.

Louisville at Virginia                                         3:30pm                       ACCN

Great matchup of horrible teams that don’t always seem horrible.

Southern Miss at WKU                                    3:30pm                      CBSSN

There is no way to carry any self respect watching this shitty game, imagine writing about it? Imagine reading my writing about it? Goddammit, man, it might be time to give up on football altogether.

Texas State at Georgia Southern                    3:30pm                     ESPN3

Pure unadulterated misery.

USF at Houston                                                 3:30pm           ESPN2/ESPN+

I love it when these two programs thrive but this is not one of those years and the idea of actually watching this game this year is wholly unappealing.

2 Notre Dame at Boston College                            3:30pm                 ABC

Until beating Clemson last week the last time Notre Dame had beaten a #1 team was 1993 when they outlasted Florida State in one of the most mercilessly hyped games in college football history. Florida State dropped all the way to #2 in the polls and Notre Dame followed up that high with a loss to an unranked Boston College team. You know what they say about history - those who don’t remember how funny it is for Notre Dame to lose to Boston College are in for a real treat if it happens again.

Colorado at Stanford                                                3:30pm                ESPN

Great uniform matchup. Still rooting for the cancellation.

20 USC at Arizona                                                     3:30pm                FOX

UPDATE!: I still hate USC.

Hawaii at San Diego State                                       4:00pm      Spectrum PPV

I saw last week that you can download an app that lets you watch Hawaii games for free but I think you have to cast it from your phone to the TV for some reason. Also, I forget what the app is called.

Eastern Kentucky at Central Arkansas                   4:00pm               ESPN3

Is there a trophy for this game? Is it a rivalry? If it’s a rivalry and they don’t have a trophy already then I’d like to suggest awarding a barrel of moonshine to the winning team.

Baylor at Texas Tech                                                 4:00pm                  FS1

Look at this beautiful SWC shit being ruined by existing in 2020. Related: how did Baylor manage to do so much embarrassing shit as a school after the SWC collapsed?

23 Northwestern at Purdue                                       5:00pm                 BTN

I’ve mentioned it in these posts plenty of times but I have a truly inexplicable hatred for Northwestern.

Pittsburg State at Stephen F. Austin                         5:00pm              ESPN3

Without doing a modicum of research I’ve concluded that Stephen F. Austin transitioned to FBS this year but their schedule is still set to NAIA.

Nevada at New Mexico                                              6:30pm                FS2

How are there still so many games that haven’t been cancelled yet?

19 SMU at Tulsa                                                           7:00pm             ESPN2

SMU is #19 and I know there are no good teams this year but I feel it in my heart that this is too high for SMU to be ranked.

Arkansas at 6 Florida                                                  7:00pm              ESPN

I’m too busy being baffled by the amount of football being played to dispense with too much half-assed gambling advice this week but Arkansas +17 seems like the easiest play of any line I’ve looked at.

11 Oregon at Washington State                                  7:00pm               FOX

The only reason to play this game would be to try to give Mike Leach COVID but he isn’t even coaching Washington State anymore.

South Carolina at Mississippi                                      7:30pm             SECN

In a world full of COVID this game is an STD. The racist south is going to be wearing some stars & stripes themed uniforms, I think, which isn’t really markedly different than their Confederacy-themed normal look.

Florida State at NC State                                              7:30pm            ACCN

FSU is currently at the lowest point that any of the big three Florida programs has been at in my entire life. NC State is favored by 10.5 and that seems too low by half. NC State being unranked is very fair and they are still, from what I’ve seen, easily good for beating Florida State by 21. What a fucking world.

13 Wisconsin at Michigan                                             7:30pm          ABC

Michigan is totally going to win this game. It is written in the stars.

Temple at UCF                                                               7:30pm        ESPNU

Just realized it’s Tulane that’s playing Army. When I wrote the capsule I was thinking of Temple. Oh, well, nothing we can do about that now.

UNLV at San Jose State                                                10:30pm         FS2

There is no reason for this game to be played.

Oregon State at Washington                                         11:00pm        FS1

Has UDub really fallen this far this fast (again) or are they just forgotten? Let’s all agree to not find out.

GAMES OF THE WEEK

Memphis at Navy                                             Postponed

3 Ohio State at Maryland                                Canceled

Gardner-Webb at Charlotte                            Canceled

Air Force at Wyoming                                     Canceled

North Texas at UAB                                         Postponed

Arizona Christian at Abilene Christian          Canceled

1 Alabama at LSU                                            Postponed

Rice at Louisiana Tech                                    Postponed

12 Georgia at Missouri                                    Postponed

15 Coastal Carolina at Troy                            Postponed

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18-year-old woman arrested after she bought an AK-47 and threatened to shoot 400 people 'for fun' at her former high school

An 18-year-old Oklahoma woman has been arrested for making terroristic threats against her former high school. According to a Pittsburg County Sheriff's Office arrest report, Alexis Wilson purchased a new AK-47 and took photos and videos of herself with the weapon. She then allegedly showed a co-worker the videos and told her "that she was going to shoot 400 people for fun and that there were so many people at her old school that she would like to do it to". After receiving reports of the threats, police went to Wilson's home and recovered the AK-47, rounds of ammunition and a 12-gauge shotgun from her bedroom. When interviewed, Wilson told investigating officers that "she didn't mean the statement to sound the way it did and that she was just trying to teach her coworker to not be afraid of firearms". Police said Wilson was making threats against McAlester High School in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, about 90 miles south of Tulsa. Wilson's release bond was set at $250,000, and she's due in court on September 27. Read the full article

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The Locksmith And Their Specialization

When it comes to a locksmith, most people have the notion of a person who is responsible for making and repairing locks. This type of wrong belief arises as no formal education is required to become a locksmith. But with rapid development in technology and gadgets, the market is filled with a wide selection of locks, which has resulted in widening the scope of work for the professional. This article informs about the different kinds of Locksmith services available.

Residential Locksmith

A residential locksmith is the commonest form of the service provider to be found in the neighborhood. The services that these professionals are required to provide include loss of keys at home or somewhere else by the homeowner. In most of the cases, residents living in apartments, condos, or private homes look for residential locksmiths. The usual task they do include adapting the locksmith system of the main door and providing a new set of keys for working with it. These professionals are knowledgeable enough to recommend the right security setup to customers.

However, for businesses, schools, or offices, the commercial locksmiths are called to offer their services. This type of professional is skilled in establishing the security of the premises and also installing authorized access to employees. Bio-metrics is one good example of authorized access found in most offices.

Institutional Locksmith

Although institutional locksmith seems similar to that of a commercial locksmith, their working is not the same. The services of commercial locksmiths are considered on a contractual basis or it could be on an hourly rate. The institutional locksmiths, on the other hand, are hired to work as part of the employee network. The institutions that require these professionals' services are universities, colleges, government facilities, and hospitals. In addition to performing the typical job of a locksmith, these professionals are also required to perform other tasks and responsibilities that a regular employee does.

Forensic Locksmith

The job of a forensic locksmith is the most challenging and exciting among the different fields of the industry. The job requires the skill of a professional and the persona of an investigator. In any criminal investigation, forensic locksmiths work by making use of a special set of tools that help them in finding out how the hacking of a security system, a lock, or a key system took place. They are required to provide necessary evidence about the crime scene, and also provide facts that they have collected and which would help them in identifying suspects.

Auto Locksmith

The auto locksmith is required for any kind of lock and key problems related to cars and other vehicles. They are the lifesaver of those who meet have lost their car keys or find their door not working properly. It is in these emergencies that the auto locksmiths are called to provide their valuable services in opening the vehicle efficiently without doing any kind of compromise to the lock of the car's door or windows. To provide their services, auto locksmith makes use of specialized tools.

Emergency Locksmith

The role of an emergency locksmith is to offer their services 24/7, whatever time of the day or night it might be. It could be an intruder breaking into the house or some property, auto keys not working properly in the middle of the night at a highway roadside, and similar other emergencies. Irrespective of the time and place they are called, an emergency locksmith is always ready to provide their services. These locksmiths are also known as mobile locksmiths.

Qualities of a Good Locksmith

It goes without saying that the job of a locksmith is an important part of everyday life and should not be taken as something not worthy of consideration. It should be noted that special roles are played by locksmiths to fulfill the different needs related to locks, and accordingly, their specialization also varies.

Irrespective of the service required, it is important to be careful when hiring the services of a locksmith, and that means setting standards when selecting a locksmith; after all, you don't want that a professional does the unprofessional task and waste your valuable time.

The job of a residential locksmith is to open locked doors and duplicate keys in residential properties. And a commercial locksmith is skilled in offering high-end sophisticated lock facilities and equipment to government and corporate clients. Their requirements are mostly to beef the security of the commercial facilities to ensure that the right security exist.

Nowadays, most of the locksmiths are skilled enough to offer services related to locks and make sure to provide added security using technologically advanced locksmith equipment that is available nowadays. Nowadays, the rapid technological advances have made it possible to design and manage key control system for homes and establishments for installing high-end security systems.

It is important that the locksmith hired is licensed. This makes sure that the professional coming to provide services is well-trained and is capable of providing quality services to your expectation. It needs mentioning here that many locksmiths are out there who claim themselves to be professionals, though they do not have the necessary skills and knowledge. If an individual locksmith is being hired, ensure that the necessary documents are verified to find if he is a licensed locksmith. There are many people who prefer to hire the services from reputed locksmith companies, provided the cost of services is within budget. But for those who are on a tight budget would still find someone who is skilled enough to offer the level of services required and are within budget.

In addition to having the license to offer their services, a professional locksmith should have good knowledge of what they are doing. The benchmark to go for here is the number of professional services the locksmith is in the business. You could ask the professional on the different types of locksmith services he is capable of offering to clients. This would come as a great way to assess the abilities of a locksmith. You could also find out the feedback from the past clients of a locksmith company as a great way to know the service provider better.

It is important that the Locksmith hired is a reliable one, which requires the professional to be there at home or at the office whenever their services are required. A good professional makes sure to provide the time and attention that are required by the clients, even if that means the problem is a simple one.

For those who are hiring a locksmith for the first time, the searching and hiring process could turn out to be hard at the beginning. However, if you know what qualities a professional locksmith should have, the hiring process becomes much easier.

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Ex-South Shore Guard Femi Odukale Commits to University of Pittsburg

Femi Odukale commits to Pitt.

Three-star guard and former South Shore Viking basketball player Femi Odukale announced on his Instagram account Tuesday that he plans to attend the University of Pittsburg in the fall. 

The six-foot-five, 180-pound Odukale played hoops this season at Springfield (Mass.) Commonwealth Academy after attending the Flatlands Avenue High School in Brooklyn, N.Y, where he…

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South Pittsburg's' Julien Bynum Wins 2025 Tennessee Distinguished Young Woman of the Year

Distinguished Young Women, formerly America’s Junior Miss, was founded in 1958 as a way to reward the accomplishments of high school senior girls seeking to pursue higher education. While modest in its beginnings, Distinguished Young Women grew and remains today the largest and oldest scholarship program for high school girls. With scholarship, leadership, and talent as its overarching theme,…

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Standing on my own and mastering myself

It’s been about 7 years now since I’ve been living in LA. 4 years with my sister in our apartment in LA and almost 3 years in Torrance with housemates. The previous 4 years living with my sister, we addressed so many issues with each other about our upbringing, personal relationships, bad habits/behaviors, and family/friends. That was the first step in coming to terms with who I am as a person and preparing me for what it’s like to be independent but also co-dependent with another person living with you. It finally came to a point where I had to leave and move out because of too many conflicts living with her but if it wasn’t for those conflicts and disagreements, I wouldn’t be where I am now. Where I am now is a much better place for me than where I was in the past when I was still living at home in the comfort of my family (which was down to just my dad and brother). As the youngest one out of my two siblings, you may think I had it easy. For the most part, yes, I did have it easy because the youngest one gets all the attention and is the most spoiled. Even though I thought I had everything growing up, I lacked the drive and motivation to follow my goals to truly strive into my full potential. I’ve become a firm believer that everything eventually works out for you. 

Despite growing up in a very old-school/traditional Filipino household (going to church every Sunday altar serving) following the rules, and looking like a good and obedient son on the external, my internal was suffering. I had no self-esteem and I had so much resentment towards my parents. Eventually, they divorced shortly after I graduated High School. They had their fallout during the year 2012, I remember it being a pretty rough year for me — Still having low self-esteem, and not knowing what to do with my life now that my family was falling apart. The life that was built for me was slowly going into shambles.

The following year, I had to make one of the biggest decisions of my life: Move to LA and become independent. It was the perfect time to do this since nothing was holding me back anymore. I didn’t have anymore “rules” to follow and I was already 21 years old (legal age to purchase alcohol). The adult life was screaming at me YES GO. I literally had nothing to lose and my hometown Pittsburg was no longer serving my best interest.

Moving to LA was the wisest decision to make for my future self and I got to spend my 20′s doing whatever I want. It was all fun for a few years until I started my mid-twenties, that’s when I went through my quarter life crisis. That was another rough few years and I feel like everyone kinda goes through that phase. Part of that phase aka the quarter life crisis, was when I moved out from living in my sister and I’s apartment in downtown LA and found a new home in Torrance (south LA) while she moved back to Pittsburg with my dad and brother. All of our conflicts and disagreements prepared me for what to expect with my jobs, relationships, and finances. What happened next, I don’t really want to disclose here on tumblr but just know that I dodged many bullets and I had enough connections to help support me. 

I am now 28, I have 2 more years till I’m 30 and here I am writing a post on tumblr reflecting on the last decade trying to plan for the next 5 years for myself. I don’t know what’s in store for me in this new year 2020, but I know that one small decision can shift your whole reality. Living in Torrance has been good to me so far but I know I’m capable of so much more than just becoming a hairdresser or working a dead-end job at UCLA. I haven’t really mastered myself completely but I know my next step would be to get therapy and I’m trying to utilize my health insurance through my UCLA job to do that. 

After that, I know I’ll be ready to continue taking on life’s many challenges and obstacles. 

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Life Update:

Since my absence from Tumblr began 1 1/2 to 2 years ago, I graduated from high school (met my dream boy and officially began dating him long-distance 3 days before my last day of high school; our anniversary is May 4th).

The next consequential thing to happen after graduating high school and meeting Shawn was driving across the country from South Dakota to Pennsylvania to go to college. That went very well, especially the first semester. I did well academically in Pennsylvania. Getting out of my shell and making friends, however, was hard. (1) It's hard to relate to Pennsylvania people with all their local jokes when I spent my whole life in South Dakota listening to SD local jokes. (2) The college I attended was small and cliquey.

Next came Christmas break. Over Christmas break, I visited Shawn for the first time in-person. This was one of the most wonderful experiences I'd had in my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but unfortunately it made going back to Pennsylvania by myself for the remainder of the school year a lonely nightmare. After a month of intense brooding, I decided to transfer to the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and drive across the country again to move in with my boyfriend. 3 months after making the decision, once my second semester ended, I packed my car and drove to Oklahoma.

During the drive there, I crashed my first (beloved) car (named Rosalita). My grandfather, who met up with me in Pittsburg to drive with me, helped zip-tie the car together for the remaining 3-hour drive. Several nerve-wracking hours later, we arriver at my boyfriend's house in Oklahoma.

18 days after my arrival, my boyfriend left 2 weeks, came back for a week, and left for another 2 weeks for trips and plane tickets that were bought before we knew I'd be moving in. During these times, I experienced intense loneliness and drowned my sorrows in the immersive video game The Witcher 3 (forever shipping Geralt and Yennefer).

Shawn returned from his trips. We had some trials and adjustments -- a few hiccups and bumps in the road -- however, we successfully came through it together.

Most recently, we visited my family in South Dakota over Christmas, which was a wonderful blessing for both of us.

In gist, it's been a busy year that's required a lot of attention and personal development. My life demanded participation and time away from social media and technology (except for the month of drowning my sorrows in The Witcher 3).

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Coping With Loss Of Hospital, Rural Town Realizes: We Don’t Need A Hospital

Eliza Oliver helps her daughter, Taelyn, step down from the exam table after her wellness check at Community Health Center. The child’s doctor, who worked at the now-closed hospital, has been given a medical scribe who takes notes. The visit this time seemed more “personal,” Oliver says.(Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details).

FORT SCOTT, Kan. ― Dr. Max Self grabbed a sanitary wipe and cleaned off the small flashlight in his hands. More than 20 years as a family doctor in rural Fort Scott, Kan., has taught him a few tricks: “I’ve got my flashlight. See? Look, you want to hold it?”

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Two-year-old Taelyn’s brown eyes grow round and her tiny hand reaches out. But, first, Self makes sure she opens her mouth wide and he peers down. Behind him sits another staff member ― a medical scribe. Self’s scribe gives him the ability to “focus on people,” rather than toggling between a computer screen and the patient. It’s a new perk he didn’t have when he worked at Mercy Hospital.

That beloved hospital closed one year ago and, in the passing months, the small town’s anger and fear evolved into grief, nervousness and ― lately ― pragmatic hope. Most of the handful of physicians in town stayed, taking jobs at a regional federally qualified health care center that took over much of the clinic work from Mercy. The emergency department, after closing for 18 days, was reopened temporarily ― run by a hospital 30 miles south.

It’s not “all gloom and doom, although we all wish we had a hospital ― no doubt about it,” insurance agent Don Doherty said during the town’s weekly Chamber of Commerce coffee on Dec. 12.

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Nationwide, death rates have been higher in rural America compared with urban areas since the 1980s, and the gap continues to widen. More rural residents live with chronic conditions, like diabetes, that affect their daily lives, and there is a higher percentage of older residents. Rates of smoking and premature births are relatively high, and people often die younger here than the national average.

Since 2010, 120 rural hospitals have closed across the country ― 19 in this year alone, according to data from the University of North Carolina’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. A national analysis of Medicare cost reports found that 21% of the nation’s remaining rural hospitals are at high risk of closing.

“Frankly, it’s not getting better,” said Dr. Daniel DeBehnke, study co-author and a managing director with Navigant’s health care practice.

A year ago, after Mercy gave a 90-day notice that it would close, City Manager Dave Martin said the betrayal felt by city leaders led to lawyers and calls with other health care systems about taking over the facility. Now, Martin has realized “we will not have ― or do we need ― a hospital.”

But, if not a hospital to care for rural communities like Fort Scott with its 7,800 residents, what is needed? The answers to that question play out every day here and could hold lessons for the rest of the country.

For months after Mercy Fort Scott Hospital closed, patients couldn’t get appointments with Dr. Max Self quickly. “I don’t like to hear that,” Self says. His new employer, Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, assigned him a medical scribe, who does his computer work. Now, Self says, he can see more patients.(Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

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Self has cared for his share of struggling patients in this town, where 1 in 4 children live in poverty, and its main corridor ― U.S. 69 ― is lined with fast-food restaurants. But Fort Scott is “not far off” from what it needs to be healthy. Sure, residents have to travel south 30 miles to Pittsburg, Kan., or north 90 miles to the Kansas City, Kan., area to be hospitalized, but “you will be taken care of,” he said.

Self’s new employer is Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, which as a federally qualified health center gets a higher level of government reimbursement for Medicare and Medicaid patients than Mercy did, said Jason Wesco, executive vice president at CHC.

The center can also gain grants to take care of the uninsured, which is important in states like Kansas that did not expand Medicaid, though Wesco said it has not received any for Fort Scott.

Wesco estimates 90-95% of the health care offered before the hospital closed is still available locally. And services have been added, including a much-needed therapist on-site for behavioral health and telehealth access to a psychiatrist and substance abuse services.

“Drive up there, go into the parking lot, you’re like ‘There’s a lot of people here,’” Wesco said. CHC’s Fort Scott facilities have filled more prescriptions and done more mammograms in a month than the hospital “ever did,” he said.

Jason Wesco, executive vice president of Community Health Center, says he believes “the best people in the world” are from southeastern Kansas, where the federally qualified health center he helps run is based. Since the center took over clinics in Fort Scott, Wesco says, the primary care services they provide can “lift up this place. … We can fix it, we just need time.” (Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

Community Health Center’s Fort Scott facilities have filled more prescriptions and done more mammograms in a month than the hospital “ever did,” Wesco says.(Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

Local residents like 28-year-old Eliza Oliver, whose daughter, Taelyn, easily passed her annual wellness check with Dr. Self, said it’s much less expensive to get care and prescriptions at the new health center. That part is great, Oliver said, but she still worries about the future of emergency care in town and where people can deliver babies.

Another Catholic hospital chain, Ascension Via Christi, which has a facility 30 miles away in Pittsburg, Kan., stepped in at the last minute to operate Mercy’s old emergency room, signing a two-year agreement. This was vital: While much of the rest of Mercy Hospital Fort Scott had been underused and patient rooms sat empty, the ER handled nearly 9,000 people the year before it closed.

Mercy Hospital delivered more than 230 babies between July 2017 and June 2018. A few months ago ― after the hospital closed ― Oliver drove a friend who was in labor across the Missouri border more than 20 miles to deliver. “We had to jet over there and even though we made it in time, it’s nerve-wracking,” Oliver said.

Another Catholic hospital chain, Ascension Via Christi, stepped in at the last minute to operate Mercy’s old emergency room, signing a two-year agreement.(Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

Not having a community hospital does require a new mindset. The community still has an obstetrician, but doctors send patients out of town to have their babies. By June this year, Ascension’s Fort Scott ER staff had delivered three babies for expectant mothers who didn’t leave enough time.

Randy Cason, president at Ascension’s Pittsburg hospital, drove to Fort Scott to tell the weekly chamber coffee that doctors needed to “counsel and educate” mothers that it’s no longer a 10-minute drive to the hospital.

Sherise Beckham, a former Mercy dietitian, was anxious on bed rest this spring while awaiting a baby. “You’re on a two-lane highway; a lot of times you get behind a semi, behind a tractor,” Beckham laughed. “Sometimes, you are lucky if you have cell service.”

Beckham’s delivery did not go as planned. After driving to Ascension’s Pittsburg hospital to meet her family doctor, she had an unexpected cesarean section, and the baby, whose heart rate dropped dramatically, was transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit an hour away from home in Joplin, Mo. Now, eight months later, the baby is healthy though he continues to see a physical therapist who monitors his developmental progress.

Dietitian Sherise Beckham cooks dinner with her family — husband Tanner, 8-month-old Barrett and 2-year-old Warren.(Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

Recent research by Katy Backes Kozhimannil, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health found that rural residents have a 9% greater chance of dying or suffering complications such as heart failure, stroke and the need for blood transfusions during childbirth compared with non-rural residents.

Federal policymakers have said they want to do better. President Donald Trump’s administration this year set new Medicare payment policies that included more telehealth services and changed some payments for rural hospitals. Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, also promised a new rural health payment model and “a lot of people are waiting with bated breath,” said George Pink, a senior research fellow at UNC’s Sheps Center.

CMS declined to comment on the timing of the proposal.

Congress, too, has made overtures to passing legislation. Maggie Elehwany, lead federal lobbyist for the National Rural Health Association, said the Affordable Care Act’s promise that hospitals would have more insured patients and less bad debt “never really unfolded in rural America.” The 14 states that have not adopted Medicaid expansion are largely rural and many are in the South, where the greatest number of hospitals have closed.

Sisters of Mercy nuns founded the Fort Scott hospital in 1886. A mantra etched in stone over the entrance of one old Mercy hospital building read: “Dedicated to suffering humanity.”(Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

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Catholic nuns founded the Fort Scott hospital more than a century ago and 89-year-old Fred Campbell still recalls a mantra etched in stone over the entrance of one old Mercy hospital building: “Dedicated to suffering humanity.”

“We always felt that, man, come hell or high water, you’re gonna be with us and you’re not going to abandon us,” Campbell said.

But exactly a year ago, its then-owner, St. Louis-based Mercy, a major health care conglomerate with more than 40 hospitals, declared it no longer financially viable.

Within weeks of Mercy closing, a newly built $9 million grocery store closed. A few weeks later, the cancer center closed and, by October, the town’s dialysis center had closed, too. John Leatherman, professor for the department of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, said there’s no doubt Bourbon County took “a big hit” when the hospital was shuttered.

Roxine Poznich lost her income when her job at Mercy ended. After more than 20 years at the hospital, the 73-year-old said she now finds herself paying for groceries with her credit card ― even though she is unsure whether she can pay the bill at the end of the month. “I’m scared,” Poznich said.

Roxine Poznich, owner of Books & Grannies in Fort Scott, Kan., was a 27-year employee of Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. She lost her job when the hospital closed and now manages her bookstore full time.(Christopher Smith for KHN)

But Fort Scott economic development director Rachel Pruitt said the loss of the hospital has not affected the city’s sales tax revenue. Manufacturers like the community’s largest employer, Peerless Architectural Windows and Doors, with its 400 jobs, continue to expand ― just down the road from where Mercy’s 177,000-square-foot hospital building still stands.

City leaders say ideally the community would “right-size” its health care. That would include keeping the current outpatient clinics that provide primary care and an emergency department but also adding some inpatient beds, allowing residents with short-term hospitalization to stay local. Pruitt said there has even been talk of adding a wound center that could treat injuries among the town’s industrial workers.

And, though the mostly empty Mercy Hospital building feels like a white elephant, that too may soon change: Mercy recently announced it would donate land in a repurposed corner of its property to Community Health Center. Health center leaders have hired an architect for a new building that will probably be about 30,000 square feet. Wellness, imaging, walk-in care, a women’s health center, dental care and expanded primary and specialty care would be available.

Fort Scott City Manager Dave Martin says he knows the town will never have another full-service hospital, and it doesn’t need one. Instead, Martin and his staff believe they need “right-sized” health care. (Christopher Smith for KHN)

Reta Baker was the president of Mercy Hospital Fort Scott when it closed. She has since sold her house and moved closer to her new job at CHC headquarters in Pittsburg, Kan.(Sarah Jane Tribble/KHN)

ER operator Ascension declined requests for interviews, but spokeswoman Michelle Kennedy said the Pittsburg leadership team is “working on plans related to our presence in Fort Scott in the near future” but could not release details. City leaders say they are confident an ER will remain.

In the background, there is Reta Baker. Residents here denounced the former president of Mercy Hospital Fort Scott at the time of the closure. She sold her house and moved closer to her new job with CHC, at its headquarters in Pittsburg, Kan.

Baker, who started her career as a nurse at Fort Scott’s hospital in 1981 and grew up nearby, said she continues to “be engaged in a lot of conversations” about the community’s future. The next year will have growing pains, she said, but she believes the health care needed for residents is there.

“Now, we need to cement it,” she said.

This is the fifth installment in KHN’s year-long series, No Mercy, which follows how the closure of one beloved rural hospital disrupts a community’s health care, economy and equilibrium. Coming in 2020, a podcast from KHN with more voices and stories from Fort Scott, Kansas.

from Updates By Dina https://khn.org/news/coping-with-loss-of-hospital-rural-town-realizes-we-dont-need-a-hospital/