Mississippi
Mississippi State holds camp teaching children and adults with special needs how to ride a bike
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Monday was the primary day of Mississippi State’s annual iCanBike Camp, which teaches kids and adults with particular wants how one can experience a bicycle on their very own.
The camp returns for its third 12 months on the Sanderson Recreation Middle after a break attributable to COVID-19.
“Whenever you study to experience while you’re 5 – 6, it’s so enormous,” says Dr. Gregg Twietmeyer of Mississippi State’s Division of Kinesiology. “It’s the primary actual step of independence out on this planet. We predict we are able to experience to the 7-Eleven and get a Slurpee.”
But it surely’s a privilege not everybody has, particularly for these rising up with particular wants.
“Stats from the College of Michigan present 80% of (the particular wants) inhabitants won’t ever learn to experience with out this sort of intervention,” he says.
That’s why Dr. Twietmeyer partnered with the nonprofit charity I Can Shine to carry the iCanBike Camp. Led by MSU grad college students and that includes about 20 MSU undergrad volunteers, the 2022 camp has 10 riders attending.
“The concept was to show the youngsters that while you train someone to experience, or someone to play, or throw or soar or kick or swim, you’re affecting the entire individual,” he says. “It’s not nearly their physique. It’s about their complete selves.”
As an alternative of a rear wheel, the coaching bikes have tapered rollers within the again with a stability level. The higher the riders can stability, the smaller the ends of the curler they use.
“Everybody is aware of that driving a bicycle is enjoyable,” says Linda Breazeale, whose daughter is likely one of the riders. “You possibly can inform Debra Ann and the opposite college students driving the bicycles are having enjoyable.”
The training course of provides campers self-confidence and a way of independence. Particularly for grownup riders like Debra Ann Breazeale.
“I like that she’s keen to strive new issues,” Linda says. “This isn’t all the time straightforward for anyone however particularly for among the particular wants people. So I’m actual happy with her that she’s keen to strive one thing totally different.”
Mississippi State kinesiology pupil Sydni Carter labored with Debra Ann’s pal Nancy.
“It’s encouraging them, letting them know that you simply’re there, that nothing’s going to occur,” Carter says. “That they acquired it and so they can simply belief you.”
Linda hopes that after Debra Ann and Nancy end the camp, they’ll experience their bikes collectively on among the native trails.
“It’s like something in life,” Dr. Twietmeyer says. “Generally you assume, ‘That’s simply not going to be me.’ After which you might have an intervention like this and also you understand, ‘Yeah, I can do that. I simply wanted just a little assist.’”
After a rider has mastered a curler bike, they transfer to a two-person tandem bike and at last to a typical bike. By the top of the camp, Dr. Twietmeyer says near 80 p.c of their campers can experience a motorcycle on their very own.
Mississippi
Officer stabbed in ‘unprovoked’ knife attack outside police station
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) – A California officer fatally shot a man who wounded him with a knife outside a city police headquarters in what authorities called “an unprovoked attack.”
A man in his 30s approached the male officer outside the front doors of the Santa Monica Police Department around 5:20 p.m. Saturday. The man was told he would need to wait while the officer finished speaking to a resident, the department said.
“Without warning, the individual attacked the officer while pulling a knife from his clothing. The suspect slashed and stabbed the officer,” the department said in a statement posted on social media.
The officer armed himself and retreated around the corner of the building as the man continued the attack. The officer then shot the man, the department said.
Police and the Santa Monica Fire Department provided emergency medical aid but the man was pronounced dead at the scene, the department said.
The identity and medical condition of the police officer was not immediately available. KNBC-TV reported the officer was transported to a hospital with serious wounds but police said he was expected to survive.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office was called to the scene. The Santa Monica Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office will investigate, the department said.
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Mississippi football roundup: JSU hangs on; Delta State rolls – The Vicksburg Post
Mississippi football roundup: JSU hangs on; Delta State rolls
Published 10:35 pm Saturday, October 5, 2024
MOBILE, Ala. — Jackson State dominated for 2 1/2 quarters Saturday — which was good, because Alabama A&M owned the last 1 1/2.
Jacobian Morgan threw for 226 yards and three touchdowns, and Jackson State built a 28-point lead before hanging on to beat Alabama A&M 45-38 in the Gulf Coast Challenge in Mobile.
Alabama A&M (2-3, 0-1 Southwestern Athletic Conference) scored 21 unanswered points in the last 16:14 of the game. DJ Moffett’s 4-yard touchdown run with 2:46 left got the Bulldogs to within 45-38.
Jackson State then picked up two first downs on its final drive to seal it.
Irv Mulligan finished with 86 rushing yards and two touchdowns for Jackson State (4-2, 2-0). Joanes Fortilien caught six passes for 83 yards and two TDs, and Travis Terrell Jr. had a 96-yard kickoff return touchdown.
Alabama A&M quarterback Xavier Lankford was 21-of-42 for 245 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran for a touchdown.
In other SWAC games on Saturday, Alcorn State beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 38-28 on homecoming; Florida A&M beat Alabama State 28-13; Texas Southern topped Virginia Lynchburg 28-10; Nicholls State knocked off Southern University 51-7; and Incarnate Word beat Prairie View A&M 56-28.
Huntingdon 45, Belhaven 31
Dorian Smith threw three touchdown passes during a 35-point second quarter that propelled Huntingdon (2-2, 2-0 USA South) past Belhaven (1-3, 1-1).
Smith finished 13-of-19 passing for 226 yards. He started the big second quarter with a 55-yard TD pass to RJ White on the first play, then added a 23-yard TD to Brody Covington and an 8-yarder to White with seven seconds left for a 35-17 halftime lead.
Belhaven never got closer than 11 points in the second half.
Blake Kirby was 15-of-31 passing for 257 yards and one touchdown for Belhaven. He threw two interceptions and was sacked three times.
West Florida 31, Mississippi College 0
Kyriee Lewis scored on a 52-yard interception return, Virgil Lemons on a 58-yard punt return, and West Florida (2-2, 1-1 Gulf South Conference) shut out Mississippi College (0-5, 0-3).
Jay Sharp rushed for 133 yards and a touchdown for West Florida, which totaled 266 yards as a team on the ground.
Mississippi College had minus-27 rushing yards, seven total yards, and two first downs as its offensive woes continued. The Choctaws have scored a total of 44 points this season and been held to seven or less in four of their five games.
Delta State 54, Chowan 9
Cole Kirk threw three touchdown passes, and Delta State (4-1, 1-0 Gulf South Conference) ran for 248 yards as a team as it rolled over Chowan (1-3, 1-1).
Kelvin Smith led the Statesmen’s rushing attack with 80 yards and two touchdowns on only 10 carries. He got the rout started with scoring runs of 18 and 7 yards in the first quarter.
Kirk added 42 yards and one TD rushing to go with his 163 passing yards. Two of his passing touchdowns went to Jaylen Green for 48 and 2 yards.
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Lost history of the Mississippi State Fair
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The 165th Mississippi State Fair will likely excite many across the state, but two major parts of its history are largely unknown or forgotten.
Much of the cultural identity of Jackson and Mississippi is tied to the fair. The Mississippi Agricultural Bureau and the Mississippi Agricultural Society sponsored the first state fair back in 1858. The fair on the 105-acre Mississippi State Fairgrounds now brings in over 500,000 people and $50 million of economic impact annually. Simply put, it offers many things to many people every October.
However, two things related to the fair’s past and present are largely unknown. Below is the overview.
Like many aspects of Mississippi life, officials segregated the state fair. By the 1960s, the fair had days where only white or Black residents attended. Residents, community and civil rights groups led a boycott of the fair in 1962. Only 3% of Black residents went to it that year.
In the summer of 1965, state legislators were in a special session to repeal Mississippi’s discriminatory voting laws. About 500 people came to the capital to protest their legitimacy as representatives of all Mississippians. About half of the protestors were teenagers.
Many were still arrested by Jackson police and transported to the state fairgrounds in paddy wagons and garbage trucks. Police housed protestors in facilities meant for livestock.
165th Mississippi State Fair opens to the public
Each year, Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) employees make about 100,000 biscuits for the public during the Mississippi State Fair. However, the culinary tradition now synonymous with the fairgrounds is a relatively new development.
Longtime Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Jim Buck Ross’s visit to the Missouri State Fair inspired the start of the Mississippi phenomenon. Since the early 1970s, MDAC employees have made buttermilk biscuits from scratch and served them with Blackburn Made Syrup to fairgoers.
For those who cannot wait until October 3 to have those biscuits, below is the recipe.
The Legendary Mississippi State Fair Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients
Directions
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees
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Lightly coat a large baking dish or cookie sheet with shortening or cooking spray
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In a large bowl, add flour
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Dig a well in the middle and add the shortening
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Cut the shortening into flour until crumbly by using a hand, fork or pastry cutter
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Dig a well, add buttermilk and stir until a soft ball of dough forms
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Lightly flour a flat surface and put the soft ball of dough on it
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Using your hands, flatten to 1/2 inch thickness
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Use a 2-inch tin can or biscuit cutter, flour can or cutter before each cut. Do not twist when cutting
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Cut out round biscuits and place them on a baking sheet
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Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown
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