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Brave
the cold
Peak performance
Craig Thompson is both a glacier researcher and the 2015 Wyoming Professor of the Year for his work at Western
Wyoming Community College in Rock
Springs. Casper&Wyoming, A4
Lawmakers
still skeptical
on Medicaid
expansion
A decade after questions arose over Pavillion groundwater, no one is sure whether fracking is to blame
Governors support
wont change their
minds, some say
Laura Hancock
307-266-0581, Laura.Hancock@trib.com
Rhonda Locker hugs her daughter, Candis, goodbye beside her husband, Jeff, following a family lunch Friday outside the familys former home in Pavillion where they
had lived since 1984. Jeff and Rhonda Locker are suing Encana Corp., alleging the company withheld information about the quality of their water which ultimately led to
a deterioration of Rhondas health. I wondered every day if I was killing her by keeping her there, Jeff said. Its been a struggle for her. Its definitely changed our way
of life.
Benjamin Storrow
307-335-5344, Benjamin.Storrow@trib.com
PAVILLION In 2012, as a
national debate raged over a
possible link between fracked
natural gas wells and contaminated drinking water east of Pavillion, Gov. Matt Mead issued
repeated calls for more scientific
study.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency had released
a draft report the year prior
tentatively tying the bad water
in some wells to nearby natural gas operations. The governor called the agencys findings
premature and said more work
was needed before such a con-
Saratoga cartoonist
with 2M readers
calls it a career
Brendan Meyer
307-266-0544, brendan.meyer@trib.com
Je r r y P a l e n wa s o n c e a
30-year-old bank examiner who
hated his job.
His passion was art. When he
was 9, he stood under an apple
tree and told the neighborhood
kids that when he grew up, hed
be an artist.
In 1973, after another long
day doing something he wasnt
passionate about, Palen returned
home to his wife and two sons
and told them he didnt want to
be a bank examiner for the rest
of his life.
I want to be an artist, he
said.
His wife, Ann, asked what he
had to offer, so Palen revealed
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GRAIG MARRS
Jerry Palens Stampede became the largest weekly syndicated cartoon feature
in the agriculture sector of both the United States and Canada.
some cartoons hed drawn. She
was impressed. Ann told her
husband to call in sick the following day. The next morning,
they drove from their home in
Cheyenne to Colorado Springs to
pitch the cartoons to the editor
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FROM WIRE REPORTS
The rules should be allowed to take effect to protect land, water and wildlife
from practices including
hydraulic fracturing, the
Sierra Club and others argue in court documents.
On Sept. 30, U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl
in Wyoming disagreed and
blocked the rules from taking effect while the lawsuit
contesting them moves
ahead.
T h e e n v i ro n m e n ta l
groups, which have sided
with the federal govern-
the states.
The rules initially were
set to take effect June 24 but
Skavdahl suspended them
the day before, telling federal officials to submit more
information about how
they developed their regulations.
The rules would require
petroleum developers to
disclose to regulators the
ingredients in the chemical products they use to improve the results of fracking. Developers also would
have to pressure-test well
Former police
officer awaits
fate in excessive
force trial
RAPID CITY, S.D. A
former Oglala Sioux Tribe
police officer accused of improperly using a stun gun on
an intoxicated tribal member
is awaiting her fate by a federal jury.
A jury failed to reach a
verdict Friday following the
three-day trial of 33-yearold Rebecca Sotherland. The
jury is slated to resume deliberations on Monday.
Authorities say Sotherland last year used a Taser
several times on a man lying
on the ground. A passer-by
shot video and posted it online, drawing attention to the
incident that happened in
Manderson.
Sotherland was fired
shortly after the incident.
She is charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon
and excessive force by a police officer.
She faces up to 10 years in
prison and a $250,000 fine.
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plan to reduce
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DENVER Denver
Mayor Michael Hancock has
revealed a new plan aimed at
cutting carbon pollution by
80 percent to address climate
change.
Parts of the plan announced Thursday at the
University of Denver include
increasing the number of
bike lanes, light rail investment, and ride-sharing
programs.
The climate action plan,
which replaces a 2007 plan,
comes in response to recent
data projecting Denver will
face temperature increases of
up to 6.5 degrees by 2050.
The mayor and other
Denver officials say the goal
to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent will be
achieved by 2050.
City staffers have been
charged with establishing
new projects and ways to
achieve the goals over the
next few decades.
A place at
the table
them simply, Thompson said, paraphrasing Albert Einstein. By teaching, I was able to crystallize how
things work by trying to explain
things in the simplest possible terms.
One of the first things that
Thompson did with his novice engineering students was take them
out to meet engineers. The students
werent there to learn math and science. They were there for life lessons,
Thompson said.
Mostly, Thompson wanted his
students to find joy in their work,
whether in engineering, earth science
or a totally different career, he said.
CONTRIBUTED
Professor Craig Thompson won the 2015 Wyoming Professor of the Year award for his work at Western Wyoming Community College in
Rock Springs.
CONTRIBUTED
Professor Craig Thompson was recently honored for his work at Western Wyoming
Community College. He has studied the Wind River glaciers for decades and has guided
many students toward careers in engineering.
after all the years hes taught, hes
just excited about the unknown.
Thompson describes his teaching
strategy, like his philosophy on life
and research, as big-picture thinking.
So many people in sciences love
to concentrate on all those little details, and that is so difficult for a student to grasp if they dont get the
big picture, Thompson said. You
just end up recognizing that the details, however important they are,
are much less important than the big
concepts.
Thompson would begin at the end
and work backward, Walbridge said.
You really dont understand
things well unless you can explain
CHEYENNE Who
says working in animal control isnt pretty? It is when a
beauty queen is wearing the
badge.
Haylee Sauerwine splits
her time between her duties as an animal control officer and 2015 Miss Wyoming
United States.
She was crowned this past
April in Casper and competed for the Miss United States
title in July in Washington,
D.C., though that went to
Miss South Carolina United
States Summer Priester.
Sauerwine became an
animal control officer in December 2014 and made animal cruelty prevention and
awareness her pageant platform neatly tying in both
sides of her life. Sauerwines
mother, Cecilia, said Haylee loved animals from a very
young age and even doctored
her own as a child.
Her little kitten the
garage door got closed on it.
She had to put IVs in it herself and give it shots. She was
probably 11 or 12, maybe 10.
She wouldnt let us do it. She
had to do it. They showed her
how to do it at the vet, Cecilia Sauerwine said. She added, Then her dog got diabetes, so she had to give it shots
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TALKIN
rich, Switzerland.
What were trying to
do is get a handle on what is
eventually going to happen
when the glaciers disappear. One of the things that
we see is wider temperature
swings. Because the big ice
cube in there that gives off
heat and takes in heat is no
longer there.
The glaciers are disappearing, but Thompson
isnt losing hope. He loves
his work, he says, and believes in his students.
much as possible.
I honestly believe that
someone like her could
help change the world,
which is something that
Im trying to do myself,
she said.
Haylee said she began her career in pageants
when she was 15. Cecilia Sauerwine was not on
board with the idea in the
beginning. She said she
thought it might be bad for
self-esteem.
B u t w i t h t h e M i ss
United States pageant that
she has been in, there is a
lot that people dont see
and a lot of caring that
goes into these pageants.
It opened my eyes, Cecilia
Sauerwine said.
And Haylee said, Its
a really big self-esteem
builder, just to push you
to be the best person, put
your best self forward. It
actually has pushed me to
do that on and off stage.
And it certainly seems
to be working. Shawna
Braley, mother of Junior
Teen Miss Wyoming Ash-
TEACHER
Continued from page A4
Often in conversation
with Thompson, his comments on science and education correlate to wider
impressions about his life.
Its easy to conjure a classroom scene where young,
bewildered college students
are struck by Thompsons
certainty and joy.
When a former student
ANIMALS
Continued from page A4
She added, The animals were not in good condition. Some of them had
cancerous tumors. You
could just tell it was a long
process to get them into
the horrible shape they
were in.
Those situations are
more difficult than people
might think, Haylee said.
Its one thing for people to see the ASPCA commercials and say, Man,
those dogs are in terrible
situations, but its another to be able to give them
vivid detail the smell or
the look in their eyes when
theyre right in front of
you, Haylee said.
And animal cruelty
isnt her only focus as Miss
Wyoming United States.
She also is visiting children
who have cancer or other
terminal illnesses in childrens hospitals.
Haylee said that began
when a young girl named
Haley asked her to visit at
the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. She said
Haley was excited that a
beauty queen shared her
name. And Haylee said she
couldnt have enjoyed the
day more.
It was kind of one of
those things where you
meet the celebrity that
you want to meet, and the
celebrity is a fan of you. I
adored her even from the
time she sent me the invitation, she said.
Haylee said she keeps in
touch with young Haley as
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Fun stuff to do today.
Sunday support
group meetings
Alcoholics Anonymous:
8:30 a.m., 500 S. Wolcott,
Ste. 200; 10 a.m., 500 S.
Wolcott, Ste. 200; 10:15 a.m.,
917 N. Beech; Noon, 500 S.
Wolcott, Ste. 200; 1 p.m.,
Douglas, the Koop, North
Third St.; 2-3:30 p.m.,
Douglas: the Koop, North
Third St.; 6:30 p.m., 500 S.
Wolcott, Ste. 200; 6:30 p.m.,
328 E. A St.; 7 p.m., 1514 12th
St., Building K; 8 p.m., 917
N. Beech; 8 p.m., 3281/2 E.
A (upstairs). Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are
open. Casper info: 266-9578;
Douglas info: 307-351-1576.
Narcotics Anonymous:
Noon, 500 S. Wolcott, 1224 Club; 6:30 p.m., 500 S.
Wolcott, 12-24 Club; 8 p.m.,
15th & Melrose at the church.
Website: http://www.urmrna.org.
Nicotine Anonymous:
5 p.m., 500 S. Wolcott, 12-24
Club. Info: Pam M., 577-0518;
Troy Y., 267-6326.
Holiday cards
workshop
A holiday cards workshop will be held at 1 p.m. at
the Natrona County Public
Library. Learn holiday card
design ideas and stamping
techniques from Kay Capps.
Attendance is limited, so
please sign up in advance for
this free workshop at 577READ, ext. 2. All supplies
provided.
Casper Pottery
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and 1980s.
Exxon chose to protect
its profits over protecting
the planet: The company
covered up its findings for
nearly 40 years, continues the petition. They
hid the work of their own
scientists, while financing an elaborate network of
climate-denial think tanks,
organizations, and politicians.
Perspective
Another recent development: On Nov. 23, a
covering that we have been study in the highly authoritative Proceedings of
systematically and cynically deceived by industry- the National Academies of
funded dissimulations. The Science caught the eye of
the public. Its an analysis
deception orchestrated
of 20 years of data by Yale
by the fossil-fuel indusUniversity researcher Dr.
try produced decades
Justin Farrell. The study
of false climate-science
evidence. Lately however, shows beyond a doubt:
ExxonMobil and the Kochs
corporate bullies acting
are the key funders of think
for the sake of continued
tanks that concoct climate
profit have been exposed.
disinformation. The fundNot individual preference
but access to pertinent in- ing ensures the spread of
formation is at the heart of misinformation throughout
our mainstream media.
todays changes.
Farrell analyzed more
With 2015 wrapping
than 39 million words of
up as hottest year in world
text, produced between
history, advocacy groups
recently delivered 360,000 1993 and 2013 by no less
than 164 organizations
petition signatures to the
U.S. Department of Justice, involved in the climatechange counter-movecalling for a probe into
ment. In interviews Farrell
petro giant ExxonMobils
history of funding climate- spoke of these groups as
creating ideological polarchange denial. In spite of
ization through politicized
what the company knew
tactics.
about climate science, it
The contrarian efforts
orchestrated a massive assault on accurate informa- have been so effective . . .
they have made it difficult
tion.
for ordinary Americans to
Decades before clieven know who to trust,
mate change became a . . .
Farrell told the Washington
political issue, the biggest
Post, which first covered
oil company in the world
the studys release. The
was doing cutting-edge
research into just what was counter-movement . . .
causing it and how danger- messages (are) aimed at
refuting current scientific
ous it might be, reads the
consensus with scientific
petition regarding the research the company did on findings of their own.
It is to be hoped that the
climate change in the 1970s
Edith Cook
he Declaration of
Independence states
that every person in
the United States of
America has the unalienable right to life, which
means your right to live
may not be taken away. Far
too many American children have been denied the
right to live, due to acts of
gun violence. It is time we
take action to ensure that
more Americans maintain
the right to live. We are long
overdue in protecting our
youth from gun violence.
According to the Brady
Campaign, over 32,000
people die each year in this
country from gun violence.
Eighty-nine people die
by gunshot every day. 574
women are murdered by an
intimate partner each year.
In 2015, weve experienced
47 school shootings. With
a population over 322 million, it is estimated there
are currently 300 million
guns circulating in the
United States.
Our nation has an excellent record of addressing
public health and safety
issues. When too many
children died from disease,
we implemented immunization programs for infants
and school age children.
When automobile deaths
mounted, we established
speed limits, seat belt
laws and car seat regulations. Drunk driving is now
regulated with legal limits
and penalties for exceeding them. When smoking
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THIS WEEKS QUESTION
How should the state
prioritize spending?
What is this?
Each Sunday we ask you a question about an issue important to Wyoming, then print what you think the following Sunday. We call it Open Air
because its a chance to examine a topic from all sides wide open like
Wyomings sky.
Gov. Matt Mead speaks to an overflowing crowd during a pro-coal rally on Aug. 13 at the Campbell County Public Library in Gillette. Mead
on Tuesday announced a budget plan that calls for about $160 million in cuts for the current fiscal year and tapping into the states rainy
day fund next year.
Daisy Woods-Joynt
Doyle Evins
Seeing the snow come down and walkWe get some nice days along with the
Not gonna lie, Christmas. :)
ing in the snow when all others are inside.
Rachel Hubele bad ones.
Its beautiful to see all of nature covered
Dale Leischner
Enjoying the Christmas decorations.
in snow.
My electric blanket.
Sandy McConnell
Diana Carlisle
Susannah Thompson
Being in AZ. Love summer in Casper
The wind. Oh wait ... thats my favorite
Staying indoors where its warm.
though if I can!
part of every season.
Sharon Stuck
Dora Warren
Kristi Miller
Snow, lots of it.
The cleansing, then spring bringing
Enjoying it from afar in Southern Cali Gayle Riley Little
new life.
fornia!
Disappointed that
Barrasso voted with
Democrats
the deficit!
In case others dont know,
Cynthia Lummis and Mike Enzi
both voted against this. I think
that speaks loud and clear whom
Barrasso sides with. He clearly
values his establishment republican friends such as Mitch McConnell, John McCain. Barasso
complains about something to
sound good, yet when he has the
opportunity to take a real stand he
withers. I hoped you would stand
for something besides talk. Talk
is cheap. Wyoming folks stand for
principles and you did not.
Remember Fred
Eiserman, an
advocate for birds
COMMENTARY
or a time, nearly 20
years ago, I was very
interested in spelunking. I will pause for a
moment to explain that
spelunking is the technical
term for cave exploration,
an activity in which people,
after signing several release
forms, strap on helmets
rigged with headlamps and
battery packs and spend
the next four to six hours
climbing, squeezing, wiggling, and sliding through
dark passageways several
hundred feet underground.
I will now pause for
several more minutes
while you imagine someone of my age, volume,
and anxiety levels actually
paying money to do this,
before reporting that I have
indeed been spelunking
several times four times
at Jewel Cave and once at
Wind Cave, both in South
Dakota, and one time in the
hallway of my house when
I became trapped in a pair
of snowpants that had a
faulty zipper.
Mary Kettl
Spelunking is hard, and
not just because you cant
go to the bathroom for an
entire afternoon. Caves
are damp, muddy, badly
lit, have almost no useful
signage, and are located
entirely underground.
Yes, I was on a guided tour
lest you assume it was
just me and Tom Sawyer
hopping into various holes
in the ground and hooting
around for Becky Thatcher
and the tour was only
two-thirds of a mile long,
but two-thirds of a mile
is a long way when youre
spending most of it under-
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PAVILLION
Continued from page A1
State officials say Wyoming ultimately chose a
more systematic approach.
Monitoring wells are expensive to install, and there
is no guarantee they would
produce an answer. Better,
they figured, to conduct a
study of other factors that
would help focus the states
inquiry.
When the state took
over the study, little work
had been done to understand the integrity of Pavillions gas wells and the
disposal pits where drilling
waste had been stored over
decades of operations, said
Kevin Frederick, the head
of the departments water
quality division.
I think that was a critical step that needed to be
completed to help really
guide any further work we
would be suggesting, he
said.
Yet some experts take a
different point of view. The
data from water samples
lacks context without monitoring wells, said Robert
Jackson, a professor of environmental earth science at
Stanford University.
If someone told me they
wanted to be systematic
about this study, Id want
them to use the monitoring
wells to provide information
on the chemistry and flow
of the groundwater around
the houses, Jackson said.
Without monitoring wells,
theyre unlikely to ever get
to the bottom of this.
As the years tick by, and
conditions on the ground
change, regulators are less
likely to determine the
source of contamination, he
added.
Sue Spencer, a professional geologist at Weston
Groundwater Engineering in Laramie, noted controversy had long lingered
around the monitoring
wells EPA had used to reach
its initial conclusions. An
industry-backed study released five days after EPA
relinquished its investigation found the agency could
have introduced the contaminants during the construction of its monitoring
wells.
S p e n c e r fe e l s t h o se
concerns are overblown
but said if people are worried about the construction
of EPAs monitoring wells,
then more should be drilled.
Normally, if you find
this kind of contamination,
you dont ignore the well
and not go back and sample
it, said Spencer, who has
reviewed many of the scientific analyses into Pavillions
groundwater on behalf of a
couple suing the natural gas
operator, Encana Corp. No
one has talked about putting in more deeper monitoring wells, which is weird
because for most investigations Ive worked on thats
the starting point.
Some landowners arent
waiting for the state to find
answers. The couple suing
Encana, Jeff and Rhonda
Locker, allege the company
withheld information about
the quality of their water
and argue it ultimately led to
a decline in Rhonda Lockers
health. Her doctor reported
a deterioration in her cognitive abilities in 2014, noting
her symptoms did not seem
consistent with her medical history. Encana rejects
any suggestion of wrongdoing and says it is committed to finding the source of
contamination. The Cal-
Rhonda Locker walks into her familys former home, where her son now lives, Friday in Pavillion. The Lockers were forced to install a fullhouse reverse osmosis water filtration system in their home and begin trucking in water from town as their waters quality and Rhondas
health deteriorated. Their son now uses filtered water that is hauled from town and stored in a 4,000-gallon cistern system installed on
the property.
Jeff Locker stands inside an outbuilding built to house the familys reverse osmosis water filtration system
Friday at the familys former home in Pavillion. The Lockers negotiated with Encana Corp. to install the
system as Rhonda Lockers health began to decline, and eventually began hauling water in from town to fill a
4,000-gallon cistern system on their property, completely abandoning the former dairy farms well that Jeff
says had excellent water when they bought and refinanced the home in the 1980s.
gary-based company notes
it contributed $1.5 million to
help pay for the cost of the
states study.
The suit underlines the
lingering truth about Pavillion. More than a decade
since concerns about the
areas groundwater were
raised and four years after
EPAs findings briefly thrust
this community of roughly
230 people in the national
spotlight, much remains
unresolved.
nnn
A collection of residents east of Pavillion had
for years been complaining
about the quality of their
water when the EPA opened
its investigation in 2008.
The Lockers, for instance, noticed a nearly tenfold increase of total dissolved solids in their water
between 1988 and 1992, water tests conducted by the
couple show. In the ensuing years the couples water would often turn black
when operations picked
up at one of the gas wells
near their home. Though
their suspicions had been
aroused, the Lockers say
they still did not believe oil
and gas was responsible.
I n 2 0 03, t h e co u p l e
signed a $21,500 settlement
agreement with the owner
of the wells at the time, Tom
Brown Inc., court filings
show. The Lockers agreed
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PAVILLION
Continued from page A9
Jerimiah Rieman, Meads
natural resource policy advisor, wrote two high-ranking EPA officials on March
1 that year outlining what
would become the guiding
agreement for the states
takeover of the Pavillion
study.
The plan called for an investigation of the integrity
of the Pavillion gas wells
and an additional round of
water sampling.
On May 9, Lem Smith,
Encanas governmental affairs director, wrote an
email to Sussman about an
upcoming meeting between
the parties in Denver.
I feel very positive
about where we are and
what we might accomplish,
Smith said.
Likewise feeling positive, Sussman replied in an
email dated 12:30 a.m. the
next day.
Almost one month later,
the key parts of the outline proposed by Rieman in
March were formally adopted. Wyoming would lead
the study, Encana would
contribute $1.5 million to
help cover the costs and
EPA would assume an advisory role.
The final agreement
added a review of the gas
fields disposal pits to the
original outline.
But it notably placed little emphasis on field work.
It did call for additional water sampling. However, the
pit and well integrity studies largely entailed a review
of existing records. Those
analyses would determine
whether more field work
was needed.
And when drafts of the
two reports appeared last
year, that is exactly what
they entailed.
A draft of the states well
integrity study released
in August of 2014 noted
five of the 50 wells examined underwent mechanical integrity tests, which are
used to determine if wells
were properly constructed
and maintained. It recommended all 50 wells should
be tested and suggested the
state should install groundwater monitoring wells.
The pit study entailed a
review of state, federal and
company records to determine where more study was
needed. It recommended
taking soil and groundwater
samples at 20 pits.
A year later neither report has been finalized.
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Rieman called suggestions that the state had narrowed its focus premature. DEQ is set to release
a comprehensive analysis
of water sampling at 13 domestic water wells in the
coming weeks, he noted.
The report will incorporate those findings with an
examination of the earlier
studies on well integrity and
pits.
And he strongly refuted
the notion Wyoming officials had not acted with urgency to address the situation. Earlier on, the state
recognized Pavillion presented a potential public
health risk, Rieman said.
The state ultimately secured
an agreement for Encana
to provide bottled water to
residents and later appropriated $750,000 for cisterns to be installed at residences where homeowners
were worried about water
quality.
T h ose m ove s m ea n t
pe o pl e we re n o lo n ger
drinking or showering in
potentially tainted water
and bought Wyoming time
to conduct a comprehensive
study, Rieman said.
DEQs investigation has
taken two years to release,
in part because all parties
agreed to an independent,
third-party review of the
reports draft findings, he
said.
My answer would be
yes, Rieman said when
asked if Wyoming has done
all it could to date. We have
an agreement between the
EPA and the state of Wyoming on an appropriate investigation.
The DEQ proposal to
drill monitoring wells was
made at a time when debate
over Pavillion was raging,
Rieman said. State officials
felt like EPA had abandoned
what had been a collaborative investigation with the
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COMIC
Continued from page A1
Being a cartoonist is a
wonderful job, the 73-yearold said with a laugh. You
go to work in your pajamas
and you quit in your pajamas.
Palen now lives in Saratoga. For years, he started
his workdays around 9 a.m.
Hed sit at his desk and draw
cartoons, some days completing one or two from beginning to end. The rheumatoid arthritis makes that
difficult now. His hands
swell. The medicine he takes
makes it hard to concentrate
and stay awake.
S ta m p e d e s F l o a n d
Elmo were your average lovable agricultural couple.
The series was so popular that, according to Palen,
the character Flo was more
recognizable in rural America than Charles Schulzs
Snoopy from Peanuts.
I think anybody who
enjoyed Flo and Elmo could
see themselves in those two
characters, Sue Castaneda
said.
Castaneda met Palen 27
years ago while working for
an ad agency. At the time,
she wasnt an avid reader
of Stampede because she
wasnt involved in the agriculture industry. But her
family members were.
I think that in a lot of
ways (retiring Stampede)
breaks (Palens) heart. I
think that he knows this
cartoon has been in so many
MEDICAID
Continued from page A1
If lawmakers expanded
Medicaid, the federal dollars would cover all the departments exception requests, plus nearly $10
million of the departments
standard budget, Mead
said.
If we do not expand
Medicaid, we would have
to spend from the General
Fund, he said.
Opposition persists
Lawmakers convene in
February to adopt a budget
that will fund state government operations. Many
remain opposed to expansion, despite the governors
recommendation.
Rep. David Northrup,
R-Powell, has opposed expansion in the past. He said
Obamacare could change
with a n ew pre s i de nt,
and that could affect the
amount of money the federal government is willing
to pay states for expansion.
The Legislature will
adjourn months before
the November presidential election, which means
Northrop will vote no on
expansion.
Im a no vote until we
find out that its going to
be funded, that the feds are
going to do their part, he
said.
Caspers Sen. Jim Anderson, a Republican, also
opposed expansion in the
past. He will continue to
oppose it, he said.
In states that have expanded Medicaid, more
people qualified for Medicaid than previous estimates
anticipated. As a result,
health care is costing those
states more money, even
with the feds picking up a
large chunk of the costs, he
said.
I see what the governors doing with budget on
that, but I still am opposed
to Medicaid expansion, he
said.
Rep. Kendell Kroeker,
R-Evansville, also remains
in opposition for the same
reason.
The more I see other
states do it, the more Im
glad Wyoming didnt do
it, he said. And the more I
think it would be a mistake
to expand Medicaid.
Saving money
Casper Star-Tribune
ways a gift that he gives to
other people, Castaneda
said. As Baxter Black (a famous cowboy poet) says,
They dont have the Charlie Russell painting on their
refrigerator, its Jerry Palen
they have. Because they get
it. The farmers and ranchers
get it.
Jerry gave them a gift to
help them laugh at themselves, Castaneda continued, and I think hes going
to be sad that the time has
come to an end.
Palens characters were
relatable. He received inspiration for his cartoon series from the people he met.
Whether at a party or on the
street, hed listen.
My wife did this today, or my husband did this
today, and I would write it
down real fast and go home
and draw a cartoon about it,
Palen said. Thats the secret. Just listening to what
people have to say, and listening to their stories.
You can learn a lot just
listening.
Stampede isnt the only
thing Palen is known for. His
side projects such as bronze
sculptures and oil paintings
are hot commodities, even
attracting the attention of
the White House.
Back when Jimmy Carter
was president, Carters agriculture director was a big fan
of Stampede. They reached
out to Palen, who made a
bronze steer sculpture for
Carter.
It was funny, Palen
said. Youd get a call, This
is the White House.
pected to exceed $1.8 billion total in eight states
that have expanded Medicaid: Arkansas, Colorado,
Kentucky, Michigan, New
Mexico, Oregon, Washington and West Virginia.
Researchers concluded every expansion state
should see financial benefits when more people have
health coverage.
We know that states
that expand Medicaid realize significant budgetary
benefits. Their experience
reduced spending on the
uninsured and programs for
high-cost patients will
also be realized in Wyoming, Jones said.
Sen. Chris Rothfuss, the
Democratic leader in the
Senate, appreciates how
Mead demonstrated the
savings to the states budget
if Wyoming opted for expansion.
The Legislature is going to have to opt to spend
$33 million additional dollars to not expand Medicaid, he said.
Mead estimated that if
the state expanded Medicaid, hospitals, clinics, doctors and nursing homes
would be treating patients
who now lack coverage.
Hospitals also write off
millions in uncompensated
care each year. With expansion, the providers will
receive an estimated $268
million in additional federal money.
This is a tremendous
amount of money in terms
of economic development
for the state, Rothfuss
said. This is a quarter of a
billion dollars for the state.
Rep. Eric Barlow, RGillette, has voted for and
against expansion in past
sessions, depending on
the proposals. He says hes
open to listening to Meads
Medicaid pitch in detail.
Barlow noted that some
Health Department programs that help low-income people would have
to continue and be paid
for while the state waits
for Medicaid expansion to
kick in.
We cant leave a gap
between shutting those
down and Medicaid expansion, he said.
S e n . C a l e C a s e , RLander, voted for expansion last year. He doesnt
think anyone should be
billed $10,000 for treatment because they lack
coverage.
That happens to people all the time, he said.
Still, Case is doubtful
that Meads arguments will
win over the majority of
lawmakers.
I dont think thatll be
a successful effort, he said.
I dont think the states
fiscal problems increase
the likelihood of Medicaid
expansion.
But Brianna Jones, executive director of the watchdog group, Equality State
Policy Center, pointed to
April research by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
that found states are saving
money through expansion.
The Equality State Policy
Center supports expansion.
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A hunter walks through snow-covered fields of cattails recently at Sand Mesa Wildlife Habitat Management area near Shoshoni. Some say December, while cooler and
snowier than November, is an underrated month for upland game bird hunting.
Their squat little bodies scurry up rocky hillsides and outcrops like bighorn sheep. The
chukars climb not fly all
the way to the top as you chase
them with your dog and shotgun,
panting, sweating and swearing.
And then at the ridgeline, just
before youre ready to shoot, they
glide back down like a dozen tiny
cliff jumpers in wing suits.
As you stumble after them,
you wonder if its worth it.
Absolutely, said Blake Jackson, co-owner of Crazy Rainbow
Fly Fishing and Wing Shooting in
Casper.
Ive chased some over by
Worland where you spend all day
up and down and see them jump
from one ridgetop to the next.
Youre covering vast amounts
of ground, he said. Its fun and
WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT
frustrating at the same time.
A
chukar
stands
in
the
snow
recently
near
Lander.
The
species
of
partridge
was
introduced
to
North
America for hunting.
Many hunters think of November as the best time to chase
ulation and thinking about, lets
upland game birds like chukars,
just kill one or two and save them
Hungarian partridges, sharpfor next year, that doesnt work
tail grouse and pheasants. The
with these birds. They are comseason opens in most places in
pletely dependent on the weathOctober or November, but Deer.
cember, even with its cooler
temperatures and skiffs of snow,
offers prime upland game bird
Pheasants
hunting.
There can be fantastic years
The ring-necked pheasant,
for game bird hunting and bad
with its iridescent blues, greens,
years, said Greg Anderson,
whites and mottled brown, is one
Game and Fishs north Lander
of Wyomings showiest upland
wildlife biologist. We are lookgame birds.
ing at a stellar year this year.
L i ke c h u ka rs a n d h u n s,
There are a lot of chukars and
pheasants arent native to the
huns, and pheasant production
state. Their natural reproducCONTRIBUTED tion is also pretty poor, which
was fantastic.
means Game and Fish raises tens
A Hungarian partridge, also known as a grey partridge.
of thousands of them each year
Chukars and
seek cover in big, open country fore you pull the trigger.
for release into Wildlife Habitat
Hungarian partridges
Chukars will, at times, break Management Areas around the
on rocky slopes. Zornes calls it
bighorn sheep hunting with a apart and fly solo, landing in state.
singles, he said. Then you can
Look for pheasants in river
Ask most chukar or hun hunt- bird dog.
Hungarian partridges, also hunt the individuals. They also bottoms, around trees, in corn
ers in Wyoming where to find the
birds, and theyll tell you to head called huns or grey partridges, tend to be a little better to eat; fields and in cattails, said Jacklive in shrubby areas associated the breasts are whiter and bigger. son, the Crazy Rainbow co-ownto the Big Horn Basin.
Huns are smaller, and the meat is er.
You can get them both in one with agriculture such as crops.
They seem to occupy a lit- darker red.
Pheasant is most popular.
hunt, said Mark Zornes, Game
For anyone interested in They are still a challenge, but
and Fishs Green River region tle bit nicer country to hunt in,
wildlife coordinator. You can but they dont behave very well, hunting them, this is the year to theyre a little easier to harvest
start, said Anderson, the Lander and not as hard to hit as chukars
hunt from south of Thermopolis Zornes said.
Huns tend to stay grouped to- biologist. Populations are high, and huns are, he said. There
all the way to the Montana borgether in tight bunches. Shoot at and overwinter survival is typi- is also more opportunity in this
der.
state between the hatchery proNeither bird is native to the the bunch, or covey, you wont cally low.
When you got them, you got gram and preserves like ours.
Cowboy State, but both repro- hit anything. Try and stay with
one, single bird, and the group them, and you may as well enjoy
duce here naturally.
Chukars, as a general rule, might be in the next county be- it, he said. Having a large popPlease see BIRDS, B2
CONTRIBUTED
Refreshed
Alan Rogers
307-266-0548, Alan.Rogers@trib.com
I photograph Casper
Mountain all the time.
This is completely unnecessary.
Ive already captured
satisfactory versions of
the same scene in all seasons, all times of day and
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We are saddened to announce the passing of
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Dick was born in Avoca, Iowa to Elmer and
Adelia Hansen. Dick lived in
Denver, CO, Casper WY and
Cheyenne, WY.
Dick served our country as a
Marine in Korea, and in 1955 he
married Alice Van Dyke. He was
a devoted husband to Alice for
60 years.
He is survived by his wife,
Alice Hansen (Van Dyke)
formerly of Rock Valley, Iowa
; his three children, Richard
Rick Hansen and his wife,
Charlotte, David Hansen
and his wife, Sally, and Tammie Michael and
her husband, Don Michael; his sisters, Norma
Glissman and Donna Dargin, both of Avoca, Iowa;
and his grandson, Colter Hansen of Thermopolis,
Wyoming.
Dick always brought smiles to family and
friends. We always said that he could talk to
anyone, and typically he would. An avid hunter
and outdoorsman he enjoyed reminiscing about
his adventures around the campfire. Dick
worked in the trucking industry for Salt Creek
Freightways for many years, was a salesman for
Maxs Honda in Casper, Wyoming. Dick also ran
Wilderness Outfitters with his sons, David and
Rick in Dubois, Wyoming.
Military Services for Dick will be held in
Casper, Wyoming in the Spring, 2016.
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Tom Arnold is pictured on Nov. 3, 2015, at his home in Casper with cast iron pliers like his colleague Tahn Trin Bach, at left in framed photo, used to cut trip wires over
an unnamed canal in Vietnam.
By Gayle M. Irwin
Courtesy photo
While serving in Vietnam, Tom Arnold primarily worked with South Vietnamese sailors and
officers, part of the Brown Water Navy. They used Junk boats wooden vessels with diesel engines
and guns on the front and back.
Cong set up booby traps along the
waterways. Arnolds Vietnamese
counterpart, Lt. Tahn Trin Bach,
impressed Arnold with his bravery and skill on more than one
occasion, but particularly when it
came to handling such incidents.
We were going up a canal.
Bach was one of the bravest men
Ive ever known.(but) he was as
jumpy as a cat, Arnold recalled.
I took my cue from him. Some
army helicopters came along with
us (Cobra Gunship teams) they
would come swooping along the
sides of the canal, suck anybody
intofiringatthem...orifanybody
fired at us I could call the helicopters and theyd come down.
Across the canal were wires, attached to gill nets and booby
traps. Bach was on the front of
the boat with a pair of crappy old
pliers. As the boat would come
up to these wires, hed take this
old thing and squeeze it like mad
and bust the wire and wed go on.
We knew that about 25 percent
of those wires were booby traps.
Finally, the pliers broke because
they were old and rusty.
Their boat turned around
and began to drift in a circle in
the canal, causing the helicopter pilots to radio Arnold to see
what was going on. When he
told one of the pilots that Bachs
pliers had broken, the helicopter
swooped down to the boat.
The guy hands Bach some
pliers, the most beautiful pliers
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Mississippi Power spokesman Lee Youngblood talks about the carbon capture power
plant in DeKalb, Mississippi, while standing on the top floor of the gasifier unit.
Interior official
addresses mining
industry
Janice Schneider, assistant secretary for land and minerals management of the Department of the
Interior addressed an industry outlook luncheon last week at American
Exploration & Mining Associations
121st Annual Meeting, Exposition &
Short Courses in Spokane, Washington. The gathering is the secondlargest annual mining convention in
the nation.
Schneider spoke about the recent
not-warranted decision on sage
grouse, opportunities for partnerships to address abandoned mine
lands, Interiors withdrawal up to 10
million acres of public lands from
economic mineral activity and domestic production of critical and
strategic minerals.
Bringing federal agency leaders
like Assistant Secretary Schneider to
the AEMA membership demonstrates
the critical relationship mining must
maintain with the regulators, said
Laura Skaer, AEMA executive director. We are grateful to Assistant Secretary Schneider for her open door
policy with AEMA and our members.
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Citizen Shave co-owner Dan Ridinger poses with a wet shave razor, brush and fresh lather in downtown Casper.
Ridinger opened the store with his wife, Jennifer, to serve a growing market of people interested in grooming with
more traditional materials.
Dan Ridinger sat in a burgundy leather armchair in the back of his downtown Casper shop.
A Christmas Story played on the TV set beside him.
He held a badger hair shaving brush and a
green pottery shaving scuttle in his hands.
Were trying to make retro the future,
Ridinger said.
He and his wife, Jenny, opened their store,
Citizen Shave, in May in the Wyoming National
apartments. The shop sells everything a man
needs for his wet shaving routine, from razors
and soaps to shaving creams and aftershaves.
Ridinger, who sports a black and grayspeckled goatee, works full-time as the chief
engineer at Best Western Ramkota Hotel in
Casper. Jenny, a former oil field worker, manages the store during the week.
Many men use electric shavers or buy cartridge razors to clean their faces and trim their
beards. Wet shaving, considered the traditional
way men groomed their faces, is a routine that
involves heated towels, lathered cream, a razor
and aftershave.
Ridinger said the practice of wet shaving
never really went away but was revived by the
hipster movement.
These guys were looking for a better way to
he Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries held its
semi-annual meeting on
Friday in Vienna and shocked
the oil market by announcing
that it was going to increase oil
production, despite the current
global supply glut. The cartel,
which is responsible for about a
third of global oil output, raised
its production ceiling from 30
million barrels per day to 31.5, a 5
percent increase.
This decision caused oil
prices to drop Friday to a threemonth low, with prices falling as
low as $39.60 per barrel.
Typically, when prices are
low, OPEC reduces its output to
limit supply and raise prices, but
Fridays move in the opposite
direction signals a new tactic.
It appears that OPEC is hoping
that it can outlast other major
producers like Russia and the
United States, forcing them to
cut output instead while OPEC
produces more oil and hopes for
a higher price.
Until there is a significant
reduction in production or increase in demand, many analysts
expect prices to languish near
$40 per barrel or lower.
Online
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ries from 15 countries who have
pledged to give away more than
half of their wealth. Many, including Zuckerberg, want to be
personally engaged in the oversight and management of their
pledged funds, and are finding
nontraditional ways of leveraging them.
Amir Pasic, dean of Indiana
Universitys Lilly Family School
of Philanthropy, drew parallels between these modern-day
philanthropists and those from
the earlier Gilded Age, roughly a
century ago, when the Carnegie,
Ford and Rockefeller families pioneered a new type of charitable
foundation.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg hold their daughter, Max. The
Facebook CEO and his wife announced that they plan to donate most of their
wealth to a new organization that will tackle a broad range of the worlds ills.
This new generation also before may not succeed, Pasic
is innovating they have good said. Theyve been disrupters
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other strong US jobs report,
showing a net increase of
almost 240,000 jobs in the
US and unemployment at 5
percent, the lowest level in
12
Days of
almost eight years. The stronger U.S. economy is emboldening the U.S. Federal Reserve
to begin raising interest rates,
with most analysts expecting a rate hike at the next Fed
meeting in two weeks.
Meanwhile, unemployment in the European Union
is nearly double the US
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Each day stores donate
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In 2014, enough food was
contributed to create 8,000
more meals for individuals
rate, with Europes rate at
9.6 percent. As a result, the
European Central Bank is
still increasing its stimulus measures by extending
bond-buying programs
and lowering interest rates.
Europes overnight deposit
rate is now at -0.3 percent,
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for Thompson
Divide finalized
GRAND JUNCTION,
Colo. The White River
National Forest has finalized an oil and gas
leasing plan that closes
part of the Thompson
Divide area to future
leasing.
The Grand Junction Daily
NEW YORK SubSentinel reported that the
way hopes to revamp its
Forest Service on Thursday
tarnished image by hiring
former Coca-Cola executive said that 194,100 acres of
the 2.2-million-acre forest
Joseph Tripodi as its new
will be available for leaschief marketing officer.
ing, including more than
Tripodi is joining the
sandwich chain at a tough 118,000 acres not already
leased.
time for the brand. Last
Environmentalists have
month, Subways longbeen arguing against leastime spokesman Jared
Fogle was sentenced to 15 ing the Thompson Divide,
which covers about 220,000
years in prison for trading child pornography and acres southwest of Glenpaying for sex with under- wood springs, but much of
age girls. Fogle began ap- it is already leased.
White River Supervipearing in Subway comCHEYENNE APG
mercials in 2000, touting sor Scott Fitzwilliams said
Media of the Rockies has
the new leasing plan does
purchased Wyoming Busi- his dramatic weight loss
not affect the status of the
by eating the chains
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114,520 acres of existing
APG also owns the Wyo- sandwiches.
Subways previous chief leases inside the forest, but
ming Tribune Eagle, Larawill apply if those leases
marketing officer, Tony
mie Boomerang, Rawlins
Pace, left in July nearly two expire, are terminated or
Daily Times and the Rock
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Springs Rocket-Miner.
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I cant imagine that a
regulator would approve
this. I cant imagine that
a company would approve
this, said Cecil Brown, a
Democrat recently elected
to the Mississippi Public
Service Commission. As a
state legislator, he voted in
ways that aided construction of the Kemper plant.
Carbon capture entails
catching the carbon emissions from a power plant
or cement or steel factory
and injecting them underground for permanent storage. Its a proven technology
that would allow the world
to keep burning coal, oil and
gas for energy while releasing little of the heat-trapping gas that scientists say
is the main cause of global
warming.
In Wyoming, Gov. Matt
Mead and others have supported research in the field.
In the last eight years, the
University of Wyoming has
spent some $84 million on
carbon capture and sequestration research. The Integrated Test Center at the
Dry Fork Station outside
Gillette is accepting applications from teams of scientists who will try to come
up with ways to transform
the plants emissions into
industrial products that can
be sold. The ultimate goal
is to open new markets for
carbon products. Thats
different than the Kemper
County plants goal, which
is to pump emissions into oil
fields.
Despite decades of research and pilot projects,
however, carbon capture is
still waiting for its breakthrough, illustrating how
hard it is for the world to
do something about global warming even when the
tools are there.
In 2013, Norway pulled
the plug on a major carbon capture project it had
likened to the moon landing, citing spiraling costs.
Another big setback came
on Nov. 25, just days ahead
of the U.N. climate talks in
struction spending by 3
percent. And federal government building soared
19.2 percent, the biggest increase since October 2006.
Americans are staying in
rental apartments for longer, rather than buying a
home. That spurred a nearly
28 percent jump in apartment and condo construction in October from a year
earlier. Nearly a third of
Basin Electric Power Cooperatives Dry Fork Station north of Gillette was chosen to host a new carboncapture laboratory where researchers will study ways to harness carbon dioxide emissions and use them as
a product instead of releasing them into the atmosphere.
Its probably harder to
get this moving now than 10
years ago, Hare said.
There are 13 large-scale
carbon capture projects in
the world, collecting 26
million tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to
the International Energy
Agency. But thats less than
one one-thousandth of
the worlds carbon dioxide
emissions.
Theres activity out
there, but its not what various organizations would
have hoped for, said Juho
Lipponen, who heads the
IEAs carbon capture unit.
Like most carbon capture advocates, he called
for stronger incentives, including a carbon price that
makes it more expensive to
release the pollutant into
the atmosphere than to put
it back in the ground.
The IEA says about $12
billion has been invested
in large-scale carbon capture projects in the past 10
years. About 80 percent of it
came from the private sector, mostly oil and gas companies. The coal industry,
however, is still not going
beyond the nice words, despite years of praising carbon capture as a promising
clean coal technology, Lipponen said.
Benjamin Sporton, CEO
year.
That boosted construction spending on singlefamily homes 1.6 percent in
October and 11.4 percent in
the past year.
Public construction of
schools, highways and other
infrastructure rose 1.4 percent in October to its highest level in five years. It has
risen 6.6 percent in the last
12 months.
coal mine.
In a sprint to grab federal tax credits, Mississippi
Power started construction with only 10 percent of
the design completed. The
company underestimated
how much concrete, steel,
pipe and cable and how
many workers it would need
to build the plant. Some
parts had to be torn out and
rebuilt because of design
changes associated with
constructing a first-of-itskind plant.
Mississippi Power officials say they are wrapping
up work now. But an engineer hired by state regulators testified in October
that it is highly unlikely the
utility will meet its June
30 deadline. The project is
likely to forfeit $372 million in tax credits because
of delays, and shareholders of Southern Co., owner
of Mississippi Power, have
absorbed $2.3 billion in
losses.
Southern, the thirdlargest private electric utility in the U.S., stands by the
project. It co-owns its key
technology and would like
to sell it to others.
I know were taking a
long time, and I know were
taking some pain for taking
the right amount of time,
Southern Co. CEO Tom
Fanning told investors on a
Nov. 6 conference call. But
what youre getting out of
Kemper, and youve seen it
already, is that what we have
built and tested is working
beautifully.
R i g h t n ow, t h o u g h ,
Southern isnt planning
any more such projects.
Bruce Harrington, plant
manager at Kemper County, said the price will come
down as more are built. But
he understands the concern.
I think any thoughtful
person would say you really
have to look at the cost, he
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SEATTLE A technology
company that tracks online giving
says donations on Giving Tuesday
exceeded last years day of generosity by more than $10 million.
Blackbaud, Inc. recorded $39.6
million in online donations Tuesday and gave only a bit of the
credit to Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerbergs big philanthropic
announcement on Tuesday that
he and his wife would be donating 99 percent of their Facebook
shares to charity.
Steve MacLaughlin, director of analytics for the Charleston, South Carolina, company
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in their industries, and
theyre looking to be disrupters in some of their
philanthropic work.
Pasic drew another parallel between the two Gilded Ages in both eras, he
said, income inequality
was a glaring reality that
seemed to accentuate the
power and responsibilities
of the super-rich.
Theres a recognition
that they should work to
fix some of those problems, Pasic said.
Zuckerberg and his wife,
Priscilla Chan, detailed
their pledge on Tuesday,
promising to commit 99
percent of their Facebook
stockholdings to fighting
disease, improving education and other causes.
Their new organization will
pursue its goals through a
mix of charitable donations, private investment
and promotion of government-policy reform.
According to Facebook,
the new initiative will be
organized as a limited liability company, rather
than as a nonprofit foundation potentially giving it leeway to do political
lobbying. To some experts
on philanthropy, thats
an area of concern as the
new generation of megadonors seeks to maximize
their influence.
- Amir Pasic
Payment processor PayPal reports it recorded donations totaling $45.8 million globally. Some
of this money may have also been
recorded by a donation processor like Blackbaud or Network for
Good as some use PayPal like a
bank.
Individual gifts also increased
in value on Giving Tuesday from
2014 to 2015, with the average online gift amounting to $137 this
year. A few $50,000 gifts were recorded online Tuesday, according
to MacLaughlin, but most were
below $1,000.
Blackbaud reports online giving is up 9 percent year-over-year
in 2015. With the increase in Giving Tuesday dollars, MacLaugh-
US factory activity
drops in November
Josh Boak
Associated Press
WASHINGTON U.S.
factory activity plummeted last month to the lowest level in more than six
years, with a stronger dollar and low oil prices cutting new orders and hurting production.
The Institute for Supply
Management said Tuesday that its index of factory activity in November dropped to 48.6 from
50.1 in October. Any reading below 50 signals contraction and the index has
tumbled below that critical
level for the first time since
November 2012.
It now rests at its lowest level since June 2009, a
worrisome sign as Federal
Reserve officials will consider raising short-term
interest rates this month
on the understanding that
the economy has sufficiently healed from the
Great Recession.
The U.S. manufacturing sector continues to
suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, with fortune being
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thing about it is, youre not
throwing away a bunch of
stuff all the time.
And, many of the tubs
and bottles the products
come in are recyclable, he
said.
Ridinger said wet shaving
encourages men to revisit a
traditional routine that allows them to take pride in
how they look and feel.
I see guys who are tired
of having bad shaves, he
said. Thats the biggest
complaint I hear when guys
walk in the door.
While some of Ridingers customers want to start
wet shaving, others have
been doing so for years. He
said he has customers who
are still using their dads
dads razor.
There is quite a traditional culture here in town
of guys who use nothing but
traditional gear, he said.
Ridinger said hes been
wet shaving for many years,
but before opening his own
shop, he had to buy his
products online. Citizen
Shave is the first wet shaving supply store in Wyoming, he said.
Monsanto
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carbon-neutral
by 2021
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Associated Press
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Once you shave with
one of these, youll never
want to go back to a cartridge razor, Ridinger said.
You just get a cleaner cut, a
closer shave, less irritation,
less razor burn. So you just
get that old-school barbershop clean face feel.
The small shops products and decor are reminiscent of an older time.
The Ridingers receive
their products from companies all over the world,
including suppliers such
as Londons Taylor of Old
Bond Street, which dates
back to the 1850s.
Dispersed among the
soaps and creams are trinkets
from Ridingers life. A small
silver tractor and an old cap
gun were gifts to Ridinger
from his parents in the 1970s.
When we decorated,
we wanted it to feel retro
and nostalgic, but not old
and moldy, Jenny said. We
wanted it to be personal,
so customers felt like they
could relax and maybe have
a cup of coffee.
A black-and-white photograph of Ridingers grandfather hangs on the wall next
to a self-shave station for
customers to try out products. The photo depicts
a small boy sitting on the
ledge of a bathroom sink, his
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An assortment of high-quality lather brushes are on display at Citizen Shave. Some brushes are made of synthetic materials, while more
luxurious brushes can be made with badger or horse hair.
fathers razor in his hand.
The store sells other male
grooming items, such as
shampoo, deodorant and hair
pomades. Perhaps its most
distinctive products are the
2nd Amendment Six Shooter
Shaving brushes, handle bar
for women.
The couple hopes to
open a second shop, possibly in Sheridan or in Fort
Collins, Colorado, in the future. Judging by some customers comments, the demand is there.
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Frontier Middle
School
CY Middle School
Principals Honor Roll
3.80 4.00
Eighth grade:
Jazm i n e Am es, Lauren
Blackwelder, Edward Bratvold, Jaden Brutsman, May
Chase, Sheridan Cox, Maya
Eathorne, Zoee Ferguson,
Emily Fossberg, Nikita Gallegos, Tristen Gifford, Elizabeth Hansen, Bo James,
Ryan Loghry, Timothy Pike,
Ryli Ramberg, Felicity Reyes,
Chloe Riley, Tierney Robinson, Abigail Rogers, Brian
Rohde, Torin Rueter, Sierra Ryan, Sara Sleep, Alyssa
Trujillo, Brandon White, Sophia Wille, Madyson Willis,
Rebekah Wise.
Seventh grade: Miah
Adamson, Sydney Amend,
Ryl a n B a l d e ra s, B re n dan Becker, Elaine Berdahl, Aliesia Berryman,
Caden Bertagnole, Carissa
Bjorklund, Carver Bray, Jayce
Brown, Ellyce Brownell,
Taylor Chola, Colton Cloninger, Bowen Conderlario,
Taylor Coomes, Jopurney
Corra, Eric Crouse, Devon
Centennial
Principals Honor Roll,
3.8-4.0
Eighth grade: Kannen Glanz, Paige Brush, Peyton Brush, Julia Burrows,
Corin Carruth, Nicholas
Day, Lainey Deacon, Caleb
Eastlund, Kayla Fazio, Antonia Garner, Connor Hauk,
Cassie Haupt, Kaitlan Hinton, Kelsey Hlavka, Bethani
Holdren, Jayla Johnson, Rachel Katzmann, Megan Kay,
Denise Christine Mercado,
Ragin Mosteller, Samuel
Norcross, Derek Notestine,
Samuel OHearn, Carter Peverley, Jordyn Reed,
Reno Rich, Isabel Rieker,
Taylor Rowe, Taylor Saunders, Randy Sletten, Desirae
Smith, Travis Smith, Faith
Steinberg, Sarah Street,
Gavin Thomas, Emily Underwood, Emily Voss, Abigail Weekes, Autumn Whipple.
Seventh grade: Sarah
Denton, Colten Atkinson,
Religion
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Faith in brief
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Menorah
lighting
in Cheyenne
Monday
CHEYENNE Chabad
Jewish Center of Wyoming will ignite a 10-foot
Menorah erected at the
Governors Residence,
followed by a communitywide celebration from
noon to 1 p.m. on the first
day of Chanukah, Monday.
The ceremony will feature greetings from Gov.
Matt Mead, Rabbi Zalman
Mendelsohn, community
leaders and elected officials. This year the entertainment will include
music from the Cheyenne
Youth Symphony. The
Menorah kindling will
honor beloved Holocaust survivor siblings
Zolly Gancz and Helen
Zigmond. The gathering
is RSVP/entrance ticket
required, open to the public and is a great learning
experience for the diverse
crowd who participate.
RSVP to info@JewishWyoming.com.
Following the Menorah
lighting ceremony, many
will dance, sing and eat
delicious Chanukah treats
such as potato latkes and
jelly doughnuts.
To find a local event in
Wyoming or practically
anywhere throughout the
world, visit www.JewishWyoming/Chanukah. For
more information about
Chanukah and a local
schedule of events, visit
JewishWyoming.com.
Lutheran
midweek Advent
services set
Trinity Lutheran
Church will join Mt. Hope
Lutheran Church for midweek Advent services at
7 p.m. Wednesdays: this
week, at Mt. Hope Lutheran, 2300 Hickory St.; Dec.
16, at Trinity Lutheran,
1240 S. Missouri Ave. Call
234-0568 or 234-8428 for
more information.
Open house at
St. Anthony
Interested in a quality
learning experience for
your children, grounded in
faith, service and academics? Come to St. Anthony
Schools open house for
prospective families from
1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. We
are at 1145 W. 20th St. For
more information, call
234-2873. We look forward to seeing you!
UU discusses
alternatives
to fear
St. Marks
welcomes
interim rector
St. Anthony
School sets
craft fair
Rock of Ages
sets revival
Christ Episcopal
plans Advent,
Christmas
Advent events
at Holy Family
TOWN CRIER
Schools
City seeks
boomer input
www.surveymonkey.
com/r/CprSrSurvey.
The survey link can also
be found on the City of
The City of Casper is
updating a 2008 study that Casper and Casper Senior
Services websites. Public
evaluated how boomer
forums and focus groups
friendly the Casper community is and what services will follow the survey process. The study commitor programs are needed to
tee is scheduled to meet
support that population.
on the fourth Wednesday
Casper area residents aged
of every month from 3 to
50 and older are asked to
5 p.m. at the Casper Senior
complete a survey to help
Center. The meetings are
identify what has changed
open to the public. Recfrom 2008 and how the
ommendations from the
city can best help to meet
study will be presented
the needs of this growing
at public meetings for
population segment. The
additional input prior to
survey can be picked up at
submission to the City
the Casper Senior Center, Casper City Hall or the Council.
The plan is slated for
Casper Recreation Center
or can be accessed online at completion in late spring of
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By Holiday Mathis
Sept. 22).You might want
to get prepared to run
into exactly the person,
problem or entity you want
nothing to do with. This
isnt a curse; its a blessing.
Youll be better for having
undergone these preparations.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23). Dont doubt the power of small things. One
small instance of compassion, kindness, creative
problem solving, bright
thinking or good manners
will start a ripple that will
touch lives in ways youll
never know.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 21). Relationships
hit natural highs, lows,
hellos and goodbyes. It
takes maturity to get comfortable with the cycle
of things. You love more
freely when youre not
afraid of closing statements.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
22-Dec. 21). Defining
your experience will be
tricky. Ultimately your
happiness depends on the
way you frame the picture.
Make it easy on yourself.
Find a positive way to spin
your story.
CAPRICORN (Dec.
22-Jan. 19). You dont
get a lot of free time these
days, and you have many
choices about where to
invest it. Therefore, the
people you pay attention
to are very lucky indeed.
Do they know that?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Your best opportunities spring from a
chilled-out mood. So close
your eyes and conjure up
a lazy scene. Your powers
of imagination are all you
need to relax and enjoy
life.
PISCES (Feb.
19-March 20). When
you ask for and receive
help, what does the other
person want in return? If
you dont know, find out.
Everything has a cost.
Today, the currency is not
money.
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and Marcy Sugar
Today in history
Virginia.
business in 1981, Amtrak revived
to death at the University of Mon In 1917, some 2,000 people died the service in 1983.)
treals school of engineering by a
Today is Sunday, Dec. 6, when an explosives-laden French In 1989, 14 women were shot
man who then took his own life.
cargo ship collided with a Norwethe 340th day of 2015.
vessel at the harbor in Halifax,
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Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that
the year. Hanukkah, the devastated the city.
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which established the Irish Free
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MOVIES today!
On this date:
The Natrona County Sheriffs Office and the Casper Police Department, advises
residents that state law requires notification if a registered sex offender is living
within a minimum of 750 feet of certain areas. Those areas include residences
and organizations within the community such as schools, churches and religious
and/or youth organizations.
This is not a complete listing of all sex offenders but reflects the most current
updated address information. The below referenced Web site can be accessed
for more complete prior postings. If you have any additional questions, you also
can contact the Natrona County Sheriffs Office at 307.235.9282.
Additionally, any person who uses this information accessed through the Wyoming
Sex Offender Registry site to harass any individual - including the registrants or
their family members - or who other wise misuse this information may be subject
to criminal prosecution or civil liability under federal and/or state law.
No determination has been made that any individual included in the registry is
currently dangerous; individuals included in the registry are included solely by
virtue of their conviction record and state law. The main purpose of providing
information on the internet and through the newspaper is to ensure information
is publicly available and accessible, not to warn about any specific individual.
Go to http://wysors.dci.wyo.gov for specific information on the listed offenders
below (Note: All are from Natrona County, unless otherwise noted):
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David R. Decator
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Barton K. Mayle
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An unspoken option
if climate talks fail:
Geoengineering
Associated Press
LE BOURGET, France
Negotiators adopted a draft
climate agreement Saturday that was cluttered with
brackets and competing options, leaving ministers with
the job of untangling key
sticking points in what is envisioned to become a lasting,
universal pact to fight global
warming.
As the U.N. talks outside
Paris reached their midway
point, the 48-page draft
agreement was sent along
to environment and foreign
ministers who will work on it
next week.
So lets work, French
President Francois Hollande
said in a speech Saturday.
Its up to the ministers and
officials of every government
to remove options, find compromises and make decisions
on the difficult issues without undermining the ambition of the climate pact.
Many disagreements remain, almost all related to
defining the obligations
and expectations of rich
and poor countries, as well
as those who dont fit neatly into either category. The
draft had multiple options
on that issue everything
from who should pay for a
global transition to clean
energy to what happens to
countries that miss their targets to fight climate change.
Radical proposals
One of the most radical
proposals called for an international tribunal of climate justice to deal with
wealthy countries that dont
fulfill their commitments.
Rich nations are certain to
reject that idea.
We would have wished
to be further along than we
are at this point, but the text
being forwarded so far reflects our key priorities, said
Maldives delegate Thoriq
Ibrahim, who chairs an alliance of small island nations
on the front lines of climate
change.
Although 184 countries
have already submitted na-
Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
AP
Former US Vice President Al Gore poses for a photo with delegates Saturday during theAction Dayat
the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget north of Paris. President Francois
Hollande is encouraging mayors of the world to get involved in fighting climate change and praising those
that are already setting an example with low-emission buildings and public transport policies.
Legally binding
Chief Chinese negotiator Su Wei said Saturday that
all the provisions, starting
from the preamble to the final clauses, would be legally
binding.
That contrasts with the
U.S. position, which is for
some parts to be legally
binding, but not countries
pledges to limit the greenhouse gas emissions. Binding emissions cuts would
likely require the Obama
administration to send the
deal to the Republican-controlled Congress, where it
would likely be struck down.
After the news conference, Su indicated the issue
was still up for negotiation.
We have to further discuss ... try to find some
proper solution, he said.
Ja ke Sc h m i d t o f t h e
Natural Resource Defense
Council, a New York-based
environmental group, said
the issue could be resolved
by avoiding words like
shall in key paragraphs
about emissions targets.
Turning point
The Paris accord is meant
to be a turning point in the
worlds efforts to fight climate change. Since they
started in 1992, the U.N.
talks have not been able to
stop the rise in emissions,
mostly from the burning
of fossil fuels, blamed for
warming the planet.
Previous agreements only
required rich countries to
reduce their emissions. The
new agreement would apply to all countries, but many
developing nations are resisting language that would
indicate a shift in responsibilities.
The U.S. and other developed countries have traditionally been the only ones
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Mexican archaeologist said
his team has found a tunnel-like passageway that
apparently leads to two
sealed chambers, the latest
chapter in the search for the
as-yet undiscovered tomb
of an Aztec ruler.
The Aztecs are believed
to have cremated the remains of their leaders during their 1325-1521 rule, but
the final resting place of the
cremains has never been
found. Outside experts said
Tuesday the find at Mexico
Citys Templo Mayor ruin
complex would be significant.
The National Institute of
Anthropology and History
said Monday that a team led
by archaeologist Leonardo
Lopez Lujan had discovered
a 27-foot-long tunnel leading into the center of a circular platform where dead
rulers were believed to have
been cremated.
The mouth of the tunnel
was sealed by a 3-ton slab of
rock. When experts lifted it
in 2013, they found a hollow
space marked by offerings
both rich and grisly.
Gold ornaments and the
bones of eagles and infants
were found in an offering
box. Two skulls of children
between 5 and 7 years old
were found with the first
three vertebrae, suggesting they might have been
decapitated. The kind of
stone knives used in human
sacrifices were also found,
as well as a hand and bones
from two feet.
But one researcher detected signs that a passageway appeared to lead
deeper into the ceremonial
platform, known as the Cuauhxicalco, where written
accounts from after the 1521
Spanish conquest indicated that rulers remains were
burned.
The passageway proved
to be about 18 inches wide
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Sports
Sunday, December 6, 2015
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NFL
NAM Y. HUH
In this Nov. 22 file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler (17) throws
during the first half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears in Chicago.
The Broncos (9-2) are cruising toward their fifth straight AFC West title. The
Chargers (3-8) are floundering in the division basement, overjoyed they were able to
hold off four-win Jacksonville to snap a six-game losing streak.
the SI jinx.
I think the biggest thing just
to remind myself is there is no
way Im getting on that cover if
its not for all those other guys
that are out there fighting on
Sunday, as well. To me, thats a
team-earned cover, and I wish all
of us could be on there, he said.
Here are some things to look
for when Osweiler and the Broncos visit Philip Rivers and the
Chargers on Sunday:
BOLTING BOLTS?
This could be the penultimate
Chargers game at aging Qualcomm Stadium. Spooked by St.
Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenkes plans for a stadium in Inglewood, Spanos has been leading the charge to get his fellow
UW MENS BASKETBALL
Edged in overtime
Cal ends Wyomings 16-game nonconference home win streak
Ryan Holmgren
Adams stands
out vs. Cals
heralded roster
Scored game-high 32
points with 4 assists
Ryan Holmgren
Ryan.Holmgren@trib.com
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Cowboys guard Trey Washington III (55) attempts a shot against the California Golden Bears on
Saturday at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie. Wyoming lost 78-72 in overtime.
(that UW got back into the game),
McManamen said. We got stops
and rebounds when we needed to get
stops. We attacked the basket on offense and got to the foul line. That
kind of got us back in the game.
With a chance to tie or take the
lead, Adams drove to the right block
and scored on a layup while drawing a
foul. With 24.4 seconds left, his freethrow attempt fell off the mark, and
T-BIRDS TRACKER
FRIDAY: Casper College 96, Northeastern Junior College 86.
RECORDS: Thunderbirds (9-3); Plainsmen (5-6).
BALANCED ATTACK: Sophomore Warren Dix scored a game-high 20 points,
with four other T-Birds also finishing in double figures.
HE SAID IT: We got a lot of production out of everybody, which is something
that we have to utilize moving forward. Casper College head coach Dan Russell.
NEXT: Wyoming All-Stars at Casper College, 7 p.m., Dec. 11.
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ADAMS
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I wouldnt make a trade,
I can tell you that, Shyatt
said.
Adams scored or assisted
on four of Wyomings final
five field goals during regulation as it finished on a 17-5
run to force overtime.
In the final two minutes
of the second half, Adams
went down with an ankle
injury. He hobbled back in
shortly after and scored the
tying bucket with 24.4 seconds left.
In the extra session, Adams accounted for Wyomings first seven points as
it grabbed a 69-67 lead.
What I saw from Josh
when the game was on the
line, he took it to the rim,
Wyomings Jonathan Barnes comes down from a dunk as Wyoming faced Bristol University on Nov. 13 at
Arena-Auditorium in Laramie. Barnes scored 10 points against California on Saturday.
to get him more time moving forward.
What Im most impressed with is his willingness and will to learn. Hes
never been different from
day one, Shyatt said. You
talk about a guy that has
INJURY REPORT
Adams said his left ankle will be fine as Wyoming turns to its next game,
Thursday against Southern.
Freshman guard Justin
James suffered an injury to
his right knee. He said it was
simply knee-on-knee contact and doesnt expect it to
be a serious issue.
A f te r s c o r i n g a c a -
COWBOYS
Continued from page D1
Out of the timeout,
Cal senior guard Tyrone Wallace, who had
team highs of 23 points,
six rebounds, six assists
and three steals, missed
a jumper with the shot
clock winding down. UW
sophomore guard Trey
Washington IIIs heave
from halfcourt missed
the rim, giving the 6,568
fans in attendance five
minutes of free basketball.
I learned a lot about
the team because we
were down by 12 with
a couple minutes left,
said James, who played
a career-high 28 minutes. We cut it down.
We just kept cutting it
down, cutting it down;
we kept fighting. Whenever they got a lead we
just kept fighting. ... It
was a learning experience
for me.
UW matched Cal blow
for blow through the
opening 2:30 of overtime,
holding a 69-67 edge at
that point its first lead
since 29-26 in the first
half before the Golden Bears tore off eight
straight points to essentially put the game away.
James drilled a 3 with 14
seconds left to cut the
deficit to 75-72, though
Mathews made three free
throws down the stretch.
I was proud of these
guys tonight, McManamen said. There was
never give-up. We felt
like we could come back
at every point in that
game. Every guy gave it
everything he had and
left it out there. I was
just proud of this team
tonight that we battled
back. Came up a little
short, but I guess that
happens.
Follow Wyoming athletics
beat writer Ryan Holmgren
on Twitter @ryanholmgren.
Thank goodness it only
cost us one, but maybe wed
have won by one.
TIP-INS
Wyoming is 2-5 all-time
against California. ... The
loss ended a 16-game nonconference home winning
streak, which tied for the
fifth-longest in program
history. ... Wyomings 55
field-goal attempts were the
teams second-most this
season, while its seven made
3s tied a season low. ... McManamen tallied a careerhigh 43 minutes. ... Sophomore forward Alan Herndon
and James also had career
highs in minutes played
with 36 and 28, respectively.
Follow Wyoming athletics
beat writer Ryan Holmgren
on Twitter @ryanholmgren.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
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JOHN BAZEMORE, AP
MLB
In this Aug. 29 file photo, Chicago White Sox starter Jeff Samardzija throws against the Seattle Mariners during the first inning of a baseball game,
in Chicago. Samardzija agreed to a $90 million, five-year contract with the San Francisco Giants, who lost out on Zack Greinke a day earlier.
Follows mega
deals of Price
and Greinke
Janie Mccauley
AP Baseball Writer
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Continued from page D1
Colleges run with a midrange jumper and the Thunderbirds put the game away
at the charity stripe for a 9686 victory at Swede Erickson
T-Bird Gym.
Dix, who finished with
a game-high 20 points, had
earlier missed an off-balance
3-pointer that helped fuel
the Plainsmens rally.
Coach kept telling me
to go to the rim and not to
settle, Dix said. He wants
me to shoot the ball, but he
wants me to go to the rim.
And its working. Everything
he says is right.
Dix was one of five TBirds to finish in double
figures. Gerad Davis (14),
LJ Westbrook (13), Benson
Osayande (12) and Deante
Strickland (11) also contributed to the balanced attack as
Casper College (9-3) won its
sixth consecutive game.
We got a lot of production out of everybody, which
is something that we have
to utilize moving forward,
Russell said. The rotation is
starting to define itself and
guys are getting comfortable
with their roles.
Reserves Westbrook and
6-foot-10 sophomore Chris
Snyder hit back-to-back
3-pointers to give the TBirds the lead for good at 1412 midway through the first
half. Later, two free throws
from Vincent Franklin extended the margin to 39-26.
Those three, along with Isaiah Lewis, combined to give
Casper College 30 points and
20 rebounds off the bench.
Were a work in progress,
but I really like our bench
production, Russell said.
Chris Snyder was huge for
us in limited minutes and I
was really pleased with LJs
play off the bench.
The Plainsmen (5-6) used
a 10-3 run at the end of the
half to cut the lead to 42-36
at the break, which gave Russell plenty of talking points in
the halftime locker room.
Weve got to take care
of some mental errors at
the end of halves, he said.
When we take bad shots
theyre equivalent to turnovers. Weve got to keep
preaching to them about getting to the rim and being aggressive.
All in all I was pretty
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BRONCOS
RIVERS REMEMBERS
Rivers said he worked out
with Osweiler after he came
out of Arizona State. The
link was Noel Mazzone, Rivers offensive coordinator his
senior year at North Carolina State and Osweilers Ocoordinator at Arizona State.
Mazzones now at UCLA.
Rivers said he was impressed with Osweilers passion and eagerness to learn.
He wasnt a young guy that
thought he had all the answers. He was real recep-
(5-6)
Cincinnati (9-2) at
Cleveland (2-9)
Like the Colts, AFC South coleader Houston has a difficult road
assignment. And like the Colts,
the Texans have been playing
some solid football, led by a defense that is peaking behind star
end J.J. Watt. He leads the league
with 13 1-2 sacks and seems to be
everywhere on the field.
The Bills, on the other hand,
have not made the big statements
expected of a Rex Ryan defense.
Worth watching will be the production of two former Clemson wideouts who have become
their teams top receiving options:
Houstons DeAndre Hopkins and
Buffalos Sammy Watkins.
Indianapolis (6-5) at
Pittsburgh (6-5)
Matt Hasselbeck is making quite a statement for the fortysomethings. He is 4-0 filling in
for the injured Andrew Luck. No
quarterback in league history has
won five straight starts at age 40 or
older. He is as responsible as anyone for Indys turnaround to a tie
for the top spot in the AFC South.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger removed himself late
from the loss to Seattle last Sunday,
and he either was concussed (as
coach Mike Tomlin has said) or has
had migraines (as Big Ben has said).
FILE, AP
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper (89) runs during the second half of an NFL
football game against the Detroit Lions, on Nov. 22 in Detroit.
quarterback as well, with Alex Smith
posting the second-highest passer
rating of his career at 94.6 and going
283 straight passes without an interception. That has helped key a fivegame winning streak that has put
Kansas City in playoff position.
Youre touching the football every
play as a quarterback and that comes
with a lot of responsibility in executing the offense, Smith said. You focus on what it is youre trying to do.
You try to make good decisions, play
fast, throw the ball accurately and
get it to your playmakers, thats what
youre thinking about really.
Here are some other things to
watch when the Chiefs visit the Raiders:
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SHORTS
NBA
PHILADELPHIA A
halftime tongue-lashing from their head coach
turned the Denver Nuggets
around on both ends of the
floor.
Danilo Gallinari scored
24 points, including the goahead slam dunk with under
a minute remaining, to lead
Denver to a 108-105 victory
over the Philadelphia 76ers
on Saturday.
Robert Covington scored
18 points and Isaiah Canaan
had 15 for Philadelphia,
MATT SLOCUM, AP
Gillettes Kruse
leads barrel
racing average
Nov. 25.
Will Barton had 16 points
for Denver, and the Nuggets ended a five-game trip
by winning their second
straight after snapping an
eight-game skid on Thursday night.
I cant imagine flying
back tonight with a loss,
Gallinari said.
It looked like the Nuggets were headed that way
when they let Philadelphia
shoot 60 percent from the
field and 64.3 percent from
3-point range on the way to
a 59-52 halftime lead.
I ripped our guys at
halftime, Nuggets coach
Mike Malone said. Hated
our effort, hated our defense. Just not ready to play,
for whatever reason. To our
credit, in the fourth quarter
we finally got our defense in
the game.
SCOREBOARD
All times MT
ON THE AIR
Sunday, Dec. 7
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
9 a.m.
FS1 St. Francis Brooklyn at St. Johns
Noon
ESPNU VCU vs. Florida St., at Atlanta
3 p.m.
FSN San Diego vs. San Diego St., at Petco Park
4 p.m.
ESPNU Davidson at North Carolina
6 p.m.
ESPNU Vanderbilt at Baylor
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
10 a.m.
ESPN College Football Playoff, Selection Day special
2 p.m.
ESPNU Bowl Selection Show
GOLF
2 a.m.
GOLF European PGA Tour, Nedbank Golf Challenge,
final round, at Sun City, South Africa
10 a.m.
GOLF PGA Tour, Hero World Challenge,
final round, at Albany, The Bahamas
Noon
GOLF Ladies European Tour, Kowa Queens
Cup, final day of match play (singles),
at Aichi, Japan (same-day taped)
Noon
NBC PGA Tour, Hero World Challenge, final
round, at Albany, The Bahamas
NFL FOOTBALL
11 a.m.
CBS Regional coverage
FOX Regional coverage
2:25 p.m.
FOX Regional coverage
6:20 p.m.
NBC Indianapolis at Pittsburgh
SOCCER
7:20 a.m.
FS2 Bundesliga, SV Werder Bremen at VfB Stuttgart
8:53 a.m.
NBCSN Premier League, Liverpool at Newcastle United
9:30 a.m.
FS2 Bundesliga, SV Darmstadt 98 at Eintracht Frankfurt
4 p.m.
ESPN 2015 MLS Cup, Portland at Columbus
8 p.m.
FS1 Women, International friendly, United
States vs. Trinidad and Tobago, at Honolulu
SKIING
5 p.m.
NBC Audi Birds of Prey: Mens Giant
Slalom, at Beaver Creek, Colo.
WOMENS COLLEGE BASKETBALL
11 a.m.
CBSSN Ohio St. at Cincinnati
Noon
ESPN2 Duke at South Carolina
SEC Virginia Tech at Tennessee
1 p.m.
CBSSN Penn St. at South Florida
2 p.m.
ESPN2 Michigan at Princeton
FOOTBALL
NCAA
NFL
AFC
East
W
L
T
Pct
New England 10
1 0 .909
N.Y. Jets
6
5 0
.545
Buffalo
5 6 0
.455
Miami
4
7 0 .364
South
W
L
T
Pct
Indianapolis
6
5
0
.545
Houston
6
5
0
.545
Jacksonville
4
7
0
.364
Tennessee
2
9
0
.182
North
W
L
T
Pct
Cincinnati
9
2
0
.818
Pittsburgh
6
5
0
.545
Baltimore
4
7
0
.364
Cleveland
2
9
0
.182
West
W
L
T
Pct
DENVER
9
2
0
.818
Kansas City
6
5
0
.545
Oakland
5
6
0
.455
San Diego
3
8
0
.273
NFC
East
W
L
T
Pct
Washington
5
6
0
.455
N.Y. Giants
5
6
0
.455
Philadelphia
4
7
0
.364
Dallas
3
8
0
.273
South
W L T
Pct
Carolina
11 0 0 1.000
Atlanta
6
5 0
.545
Tampa Bay
5 6 0
.455
New Orleans
4
7 0
.364
North
W
L
T
Pct
Minnesota
8
3
0
.727
Green Bay
8
4
0
.667
Chicago
5
6
0
.455
Detroit
4
8
0
.333
West
W L T
Pct
Arizona
9
2 0
.818
Seattle
6
5 0
.545
St. Louis
4
7 0 .364
San Francisco
3 8 0
.273
Thursday, Dec. 3
Green Bay 27, Detroit 23
Sunday, Dec. 6
Arizona at St. Louis, 11 a.m.
Seattle at Minnesota, 11 a.m.
Jacksonville at Tennessee, 11 a.m.
San Francisco at Chicago, 11 a.m.
N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.
Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.
Houston at Buffalo, 11 a.m.
Baltimore at Miami, 11 a.m.
Cincinnati at Cleveland, 11 a.m.
DENVER at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.
Kansas City at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.
Carolina at New Orleans, 2:25 p.m.
Philadelphia at New England, 2:25 p.m.
Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 7
Dallas at Washington, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 10
Minnesota at Arizona, 6:25 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 13
Detroit at St. Louis, 11 a.m.
San Diego at Kansas City, 11 a.m.
Washington at Chicago, 11 a.m.
Buffalo at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.
San Francisco at Cleveland, 11 a.m.
New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.
Tennessee at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.
Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.
Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.
Seattle at Baltimore, 11 a.m.
Oakland at DENVER, 2:05 p.m.
Dallas at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.
New England at Houston, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 14
N.Y. Giants at Miami, 6:30 p.m.
PF
347
272
266
225
PA
212
228
257
287
PF
249
232
236
203
PA
260
234
299
257
PF
297
266
259
213
PA
193
230
276
310
PF
252
287
264
244
PA
207
220
280
307
PF
241
287
243
204
PA
267
273
274
261
PF
332
260
248
261
PA
205
234
279
339
PF
231
289
231
253
PA
194
238
264
315
PF
355
267
186
152
PA
229
222
230
271
NBA
BASKETBALL
NCAA
Mens Basketball
Mountain West Standings
CONF
UNLV
0-0
Fresno State
0-0
Utah State
0-0
Air Force
0-0
New Mexico
0-0
Colorado State
0-0
Nevada
0-0
WYOMING
0-0
San Diego State
0-0
San Jose State
0-0
Boise State
0-0
Fridays Games
UNLV 80, Oregon 69
PRO SCENE
DENVER BRONCOS
NEXT GAME: at San Diego
2:05 p.m. today
Saturdays Games
California 78, Wyoming 72 (OT)
Oregon State 66, Nevada 62
Air Force 61, Denver 59
Purdue 70, New Mexico 58
Boise State at Portland (n)
Fresno State at Cal Poly (n)
San Jose State at Santa Clara (n)
Top 25 Fared
Saturday
1. Kentucky (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Eastern Kentucky, Wednesday.
2. Maryland (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. UConn, Tuesday.
3. Michigan State (9-0) beat Binghamton 76-33.
Next: vs. Maryland-Eastern Shore, Wednesday.
4. Kansas (6-1) beat Harvard 75-69. Next:
vs. Holy Cross, Wednesday.
5. Iowa State (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. Buffalo, Monday.
6. Oklahoma (5-0) did not play. Next:
vs. No. 8 Villanova, Monday.
7. Duke (8-1) beat Buffalo 82-59. Next: vs.
Georgia Southern, Tuesday, Dec. 15.
8. Villanova (7-0) did not play. Next: vs.
No. 6 Oklahoma, Monday.
9. North Carolina (6-1) did not play.
Next: vs. Davidson, Sunday.
10. Virginia (7-1) beat William & Mary 67-52.
Next: vs. No. 20 West Virginia, Tuesday.
11. Purdue (8-0) beat New Mexico 70-58.
Next: vs. IUPUI, Monday.
12. Xavier (7-0) vs. Western Kentucky.
Next: vs. Wright State, Tuesday.
13. Gonzaga (5-2) lost to No. 19 Arizona
68-63. Next: vs. Montana, Tuesday.
14. Syracuse (6-2) lost to Georgetown
79-72. Next: vs. Colgate, Tuesday.
15. Oregon (6-1) did not play. Next: vs. Navy, Monday.
16. Vanderbilt (6-1) did not play. Next:
at No. 25 Baylor, Sunday.
17. Cincinnati (7-1) did not play. Next:
vs. Morgan State, Sunday.
18. Texas A&M (7-1) at Arizona State. Next:
vs. Kansas State, Saturday.
19. Arizona (7-1) beat No. 13 Gonzaga 68-63.
Next: vs. Fresno State, Wednesday.
20. West Virginia (7-0) beat Kennesaw State
87-54. Next: vs. No. 10 Virginia, Tuesday.
21. Miami (7-1) beat Charlotte 88-60.
Next: vs. Florida, Tuesday.
22. SMU (6-0) beat New Hampshire 98-44.
Next: vs. Michigan, Tuesday.
23. Providence (8-1) beat Rhode Island 74-72.
Next: vs. Boston College, Wednesday.
24. Louisville (6-1) beat Grand Canyon 111-63.
Next: vs. Eastern Michigan, Saturday.
25. Baylor (5-1) did not play. Next: vs.
No. 16 Vanderbilt, Sunday.
Womens Basketball
Mountain West Standings
CONF
ALL
Colorado State
0-0
6-0
UNLV
0-0
5-1
New Mexico
0-0
5-2
WYOMING
0-0
3-3
Boise State
0-0
3-3
Utah State
0-0
3-3
Fresno State
0-0
3-5
San Diego State
0-0
2-5
San Jose State
0-0
1-4
Nevada
0-0
0-7
Air Force
0-0
0-8
Fridays Games
Eastern Michigan 72, Air Force 59
Utah State 90, Haskell 63
Saturdays Games
Idaho 61, Wyoming 57
New Mexico 63, SMU 58
Grand Canyon 73, Air Force 39
Cal Poly 64, Fresno State 60
ALL
7-1
6-1
5-1
6-2
5-2
5-2
5-3
5-3
5-3
4-3
4-4
Regular season
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
Boston
11
8
.579
Toronto
12
9
.571
New York
10
10
.500
Brooklyn
5
14
.263
Philadelphia
1
20
.048
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
Miami
11
6
.647
Atlanta
13
9
.591
Orlando
11
8
.579
Charlotte
10
8
.556
Washington
8
9
.471
Central Division
W
L
Pct
Chicago
11
5
.688
Cleveland
13
6
.684
Indiana
12
6
.667
Detroit
11
9
.550
Milwaukee
7
13
.350
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
San Antonio
16
4
.800
Memphis
11
9
.550
Dallas
11
9
.550
Houston
9
11
.450
New Orleans
5
15
.250
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
Oklahoma City
11
8
.579
UTAH
8
9
.471
Minnesota
8
10
.444
Portland
8
12
.400
DENVER
8
13
.381
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
Golden State
21
0
1.000
L.A. Clippers
10
9
.526
Phoenix
8
12
.400
Sacramento
7
13
.350
L.A. Lakers
3
16
.158
Fridays Games
Washington 109, Phoenix 106
GB
1
6
11
GB
1
1
3
GB
2
6
GB
5
5
7
11
GB
2
2
3
4
GB
10
12
13
17
HOCKEY
NHL
DENVER NUGGETS
NEXT GAME: Orlando, 7 p.m. Tuesday
Billings Central
Dec. 18
7:30 p.m.
Wyoming All-Stars
Friday
7 p.m.
Powell Invite
Friday-Saturday
TBD
Riverton
Dec. 15
6p.m.
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Montana
Saturday
2 p.m.
Denver
Wednesday
Noon
Montana State
Dec. 19
5 p.m.
Billings Senior
Dec. 19
Noon
East/West Tourney
Thursday-Saturday
TBD
Billings Senior
Dec. 18
7:30 p.m.
Billings Skyview
Dec. 19
2:30 p.m.
Billings Senior
Dec. 19
1:30 p.m.
Billings Senior
Dec. 18
7:30 p.m.
Billings Skyview
Dec. 19
2:30 p.m.
Northwest College
Jan. 6
7:30 p.m.
Williston State
Friday
6 p.m.
Northwest College
Jan. 6
5:30 p.m.
CASPER COYOTES
Missoula
Today
1 p.m.
Omaha
Dec. 19
Noon
COLORADO AVALANCHE
Soccer
MLS
UTAH JAZZ
Billings Central
Dec. 18
6 p.m.
Playoff Glance
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP
Eastern Conference
New York vs. Columbus
Sunday, Nov. 22: Columbus 2, New York 0
Sunday, Nov. 29: New York 1, Columbus 0,
Columbus advances on 2-1 aggregate
Western Conference
FC Dallas vs. Portland
Sunday, Nov. 22: Portland 3, FC Dallas 1
Sunday, Nov. 29: Portland 2, FC Dallas 2,
Portland advances on 5-3 aggregate
MLS CUP
Sunday, Dec. 6: Portland at Columbus, 2 p.m.
SOCCER
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
Montreal
28 19 6
3
41 94 63
Detroit
27 15 8
4
34 71 69
Ottawa
26 14
7
5
33 85 77
Florida
26 13 9
4
30 67 62
Boston
24 13 8
3
29 79 72
Tampa Bay 26 12 11
3
27 61 59
Buffalo
26 11 12
3
25 63 69
Toronto
27
9 13
5
23 61 74
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Washington
25 18
5
2 38 79 55
N.Y. Rangers
27 17 7
3
37 76 57
N.Y. Islanders 28 15 8
5
35 78 67
Pittsburgh
25 14 9
2 30 60 60
New Jersey
26 13 10
3
29 65 64
Philadelphia
26 11 10
5
27 53 70
Carolina
26 9 13
4
22 54 77
Columbus
27 10 16
1
21 62 80
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Dallas
27 20
5
2
42 93 70
St. Louis
27 15 8
4
34 68 67
Nashville
26 13 8
5
31 69 69
Minnesota
24 13
7
4
30 66 62
Chicago
26 13 9
4
30 71 68
Winnipeg
27 13 12
2
28 75 82
COLORADO 26 11 14
1
23 75 77
Pacific Division
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
Los Angeles 25 16
8
1
33 65 54
San Jose
25 14 11
0
28 67 64
Arizona
26 13 12
1
27 70 80
Vancouver
27
9 10
8
26 72 75
Anaheim
27 10 12
5
25 53 67
Calgary
26 10 14
2
22 65 94
Edmonton
27 10 15
2
22 67 80
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Fridays Games
Florida 2, Columbus 1, SO
N.Y. Islanders 2, St. Louis 1, SO
Buffalo 5, Arizona 2
Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 3, OT
Calgary 5, Boston 4, OT
Edmonton 2, Dallas 1, OT
Anaheim 1, San Jose 0
Saturdays Games
Winnipeg 2, Washington 1, OT
Los Angeles 5, Pittsburgh 3
Ottawa 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT
Detroit 5, Nashville 4, OT
Carolina 3, Montreal 2
Toronto 4, St. Louis 1
Columbus at Philadelphia, (n)
COLORADO at Minnesota, (n)
Boston at Vancouver, (n)
Tampa Bay at San Jose, (n)
Todays Games
Arizona at Carolina, 3 p.m.
Winnipeg at Chicago, 3 p.m.
Florida at New Jersey, 5 p.m.
Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.
Buffalo at Edmonton, 6 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Anaheim, 6 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
Mondays Games
Nashville at Boston, 5 p.m.
Minnesota at COLORADO, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Vancouver, 8 p.m.
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