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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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OSU Library Research Data Specialist, handles OSU Carpentries, creating and leading workshops every semester.

Once again, OSU Libraries is leading in data literacy.

The Carpentries workshop series, which is free, teaches participants data and coding skills. Over 400 participants have been educated through OSU Libraries since 2015.

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“Everyone who volunteers with this group is so fantastic,” Kirsch said. “The Carpentries is exactly what I value. It’s the same sort of grassroots teaching that got me started and has made me as successful as I am with my own work in R.”

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Gundy breaks down Week 1 matchup, new defense

them will play a pretty good… a significant amount in the game (Saturday).

are looking for playing time for whatever reason, when they come in, that’s where if they take care of business.

On Monday, Cowboy football coach Mike Gundy held his weekly radio show at Rib Crib. There, he discussed OSU’s quarterback battle, what to expect from first-year defensive coordinator Bryan Nardo and his outlook on the team ahead of its Week 1 contest against Central Arkansas on Saturday.

On the outlook of the team ahead of the Game 1

“It’s kind of funny, because my oldest son texted me this morning and he asked me, ‘Are you guys ready?’ And I just sent back the emoji with the (shoulders shrugged) with the hands up in the air. I mean, I’m not sure. I don’t know. And he said back, ‘Well that’s not very convincing.’ Well, we have 38 new players and right now it looks like 11 or 12 of

“You really play with about 40 players and you’re talking about 25% of your team that’s going to be out there. We don’t know… I mean, they haven’t really played with our team, so we don’t know them as well as the past (players). But they practice good. Their overall attitude is good and I like where they’re at.”

On the transfer portal

“Most players that are in the transfer portal – whether they’re coming in here or they’re going out – there’s a reason for it all. So, for example: I’m gonna say probably 90% of them have changed schools because they want more playing time. If they were getting a certain amount of playing time, I would think they wouldn’t change scores. Now that’s not 100%. But we do know that there is a percentage of that. But the ones that

“And it doesn’t mean that Elijah (Collins), for example, has to be the best running back. But if he’s practiced well enough to get a chance to play, then he deserves to play. What if Jalen Warren was still here? Well, if Jalen Warren was still here, then none of these running backs are gonna be in front of him. But that doesn’t mean that if Ollie Gordon or Elijah, or Jaden Nixon hasn’t practiced well enough to see what they can do.

“Because we all know this. We’re not gonna make it through the year with all the backs we started with without someone getting a bum shoulder or whatever. So, we have to keep them in a good frame of mind mentally, and we have to give them a chance.”

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Senate prepping for Texas Attorney General Paxton’s impeachment trial

trial is scheduled to start.

Paxton wants them to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him, but it appears unlikely the lawmakers made a final decision on that motion Tuesday. Two senators told The Dallas Morning News that they only reviewed rules for the trial that begins Sept. 5.

“We just discussed the rules and regulations for next week,” state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said as he exited

the Capitol. He said they were “done for the week” and did not take any votes.

State Sen. John Whitmire, DHouston, also said they did not vote on anything during their Tuesday meeting: “Nothing to decide today.”

Several other senators spotted in the Capitol or contacted via phone declined to comment. A gag order is in place on the parties related to the impeachment.

Also Tuesday, senators were scheduled to receive a special committee’s report laying out its recommendations for how the trial should proceed, including whether the attorney general can be forced to take the witness stand, what evidence can be presented and whether three Democratic senators should be removed from the jury at Paxton’s request.

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Cowgirls beginning to build identity, ‘click more’

Parker Gerl Staff Reporter

Colin Carmichael wants the Cowgirl to earn the right to play.

After reflecting on the team’s young season, coach Carmichael said his team needs to continue doing the little things moving forward. In other words, earning the right to play and win.

“Everybody remembers the goals, and everybody remembers the pretty soccer,” Carmichael said. “But if you don’t do the dirty work, you don’t get to (score eight goals, like OSU did against Central Arkansas). You have to earn the right to play good soccer, and we talked about that after (losing to) Missouri State. We did not earn the right to go play. They beat us up.”

Since, OSU has scored 11 goals in its previous two wins against Little Rock and Florida Atlantic, and it did all the things it didn’t in the loss to MSU before. Finishing plays, movement, better chemistry.

Prior to those contests, Carmichael referred to his Cowgirls as a ‘work in progress.’ He still believes that, but he’s seeing the on-field product slowly coming together.

“This weekend, (the team) definitely clicked,” Carmichael said. “Obviously we scored eight goals, but even beyond that. Some of our movement, and you saw some plays that just didn’t quite work against Florida Atlantic, you saw the kids recognizing, ‘Oh, I saw you, I was Just five yards off my pass.’ So, it definitely clicked more.”

Amongst the Cowgirls roster, Adelhia Ghonda has put new skillsets and styles of play together. The freshman forward said the last two games, where she scored a goal and recorded an assist, were measures of what the team could become.

She knows forming an identity takes more than four games, but she wants blowout wins to be a normal thing. “I feel like we will get to the point where we’re just killing teams and being relentless,” Ghonda said. “Just like day in and day out, we’re playing hard. And I think that will take some time, but I think we’re getting there.”

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Freshman forward Adelhia Ghonda (6) said the Cowgirls are starting to build an identity after outscoring opponents 11-0 in the previous two games.

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On the benefits of playing prospects

“We learned so much going all the way back to COVID-19, about practicing more players. We’ve continued to do it. But now we’re practicing more players with more groups. So, like it’s only been a couple of days where we said, ‘OK, you’re with the ones here with the twos, the threes.’ And we used to mix them around all the way until a week ago, and I feel like that the players all of them legitimately think they’ve had a chance to show what they can do.

“So, I think that’s going to that’s going to create a really good attitude amongst our team. I honestly do. And then the depth, as we continue to do this, hopefully a number of these guys

will play good and it’ll build up our depth up because we know we’re going to need it and we know in the middle of season where we will run out of special teams guys because guys will be tired or beat up or what not.”

On his impression of defensive coordinator Bryan Nardo

“I’m impressed with his maturity.

I’m (impressed with) how he’s handled himself and how he’s handled our defensive staff, and how they’ve handled him. I think he’s got a magnetic personality where the players want to be around him. They like him. He’s young and youthful, and he has a lot of energy. He spends a lot of energy and time building relationships with the players all the time, offensively and defensively. I know that he’s ready to play a game.

“I asked him today, I said, ‘Do you have everything you need, you know you’re ready to go?’ He goes, ‘Coach, I’m just ready to play a game.’ Because you know this is, if you put yourself in his shoes, you know, kind

of like we said a while ago, if you were a parent of a son, how would you feel well put yourself in his shoes. And you know, he’s been pulled up from rookie leagues, and now he’s getting to play in Yankee Stadium and he’s all this has been going on since January. And he’s ready to play a game. And he said, ‘Coach, I just want to play a game.’”

On what to expect from Nardo’s defense

“I think we’re farther along with a new concept than when I first brought Jim (Knowles) in. Because I learned the mistakes I made when I brought him in, and we didn’t get things accomplished quicker. We should have been better a year earlier with Jim, and I just didn’t do a good job. Now, I’ve tried to eliminate some of those mistakes with Brian (Nardo) to expedite this installation in our system so we can play better than we did when we brought Jim in and we made that adjustment, and that’s why I think we’re further ahead.

“So, I like where it’s at. I think

he’s comfortable. I think he’ll be fine. I have to be patient with him in the system and the defense and so does everybody else. And it’s going to be fine. I really think it’s going to be something that really benefits our football team considerably in the future.”

On the remodeling of Boone Pickens Stadium

“The north side of the stadium is remodeled, and it looks beautiful. I’m really excited for Oklahoma State and the fans and the people that, around this time next year the south side (of the stadium) will be done.

“The stadium will be beautiful for first time ever since I was coming up here in the mid 1980’s in high school, watching games, that it wasn’t rusted. That has never been repaired. And it will be in that you know they use that gray paint and then the new black seats are beautiful. It’s going to be a really, really aesthetic stadium.”

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Defensive coordinator Bryan Nardo is a players’ coach through and through, and he has committed to building relationships and trust with his players both on and off the field.

Chacarra wins record-breaking 10-hole playoff at St Andrews Bay Championship

Braden Bush Sports Editor

It took a record-breaking playoff, but Eugenio Chacarra won his first non-LIV tournament.

On Sunday, Chacarra, a former OSU golfer, beat Australian LIV golfer Matt Jones in a 10-hole playoff at the Asian Tour’s inaugural St Andrews Bay Championship for his first Asian Tour win. The playoff was the longest in the Tour’s history, breaking the seven-hole playoff record of the 2001 SK Telecom Open in Korea.

The only playoff longer took place at the 1949 Motor City Open on the PGA Tour.

“It was a long day,” Chacarra said.

Jones began Sunday two strokes ahead of Chacarra, but a 69 from Jones and 67 from Chacarra put both at 19-under par for the weekend. On the 18th hole, Chacarra shot par on a par five, while Jones missed a fivefoot par shot on the same hole, earning Chacarra the win.

Chacarra was ranked No, 1,952 in the Official World Golf Rankings entering the tournament and had earned world rankings points at only one event in two years. His win landed him 11.3 OWGR points, jumping him all the way to 487th in the world standings.

Chacarra left OSU as the No. 2-ranked amateur golfer in the world in 2022 but had only won one professional event since, at LIV Tour’s Bangkok event in 2022, where he beat Patrick Reed by three strokes. This was his first 72-hole victory (84 holes after the playoff), as LIV events are 54 holes.

“Happy it came out my way,” Chacarra said, “but I mean, Matt had a tremendous day as well. Tremendous 10 holes.

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Former OSU golfer Eugenio Chacarra won the Asian Tour’s St Andrews Bay Championship in a record-breaking 10-hole playoff.

Could Hurricane Idalia swing back toward Florida’s east coast?

Hurricane Idalia is forecast to strike Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 major hurricane on Wednesday and then move across the state and southeast U.S. out into the Atlantic. There is at least one model that suggests the storm could loop back toward Florida’s east coast. The Global Forecast System, or

GFS, model, is run by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It’s one of several the National Hurricane Center uses to predict the three- and five-day storm paths for tropical systems.

According to its models from Tuesday, the GFS predicts Hurricane Idalia could make its way off the coast of the Carolinas and then be dragged back south and then southwest toward

Florida’s coast.

Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari with The Weather Channel said it was the lone model among the sundry paths they look at that suggest it would follow that path, and that it would not be a storm of any magnitude at that point.

“It wouldn’t be that big of a deal. I just found it interesting,” he said.

Other models do show it returning for another landfall on the U.S. including the European model that suggests it could come back toward the Carolina.

The reason for the potential return trip west is the steering patterns currently over the U.S. involve a trough that is pulling Idalia now toward Florida’s coast and will shove it out over the Atlantic. But then there will be a large ridge of high pressure over the U.S. that could suck it back in, Sarsalari said. But again, if it does return, it would do so “not as a strong storm,” he said.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press briefing at Pinellas County Emergency Management, in preparation for Tropical Storm Idalia, soon expected to become a major hurricane to make landfall along the Florida Gulf Coast.

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has implemented hybrid workshops to continue to reach a wide audience.

Kevin Dyke, an OSU Libraries maps and spatial data curator, is one of the 23 certified instructors. Dyke works with graduate students to hone their domain-specific knowledge.

campus. There are participants coming from all over the place.”

The Carpentries is a nonprofit company based in California that works with organizations to deliver content about programming and coding. OSU

Sheila Johnson, the dean of libraries, helped OSU become a Member Organization of The Carpentries in 2017. Since then, 23 instructors in five OSU colleges and other universities in Oklahoma have been certified. In turn, they are now able to lead workshops and educate more participants.

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“It’s always fascinating to hear from a wide variety of students,” Dyke said. “Between the workshops I’ve taught on my own and the Carpentries workshops, we cover every unit across

The knowledge students gain can be helpful when conducting research or working on thesis projects. Workshops are held each semester, both in-person and online. For more information, visit https:// info.library.okstate.edu/carpentry.

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The committee report has not yet been publicly released. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who will preside over the trial as the Senate’s president, did not comment on its contents or senators’ remarks that no votes were taken.

The Texas House voted overwhelmingly to impeach

Paxton in May. He is accused of abusing his office to help Nate Paul, a real estate developer and campaign donor who was indicted for federal financial crimes in June, as well as conspiracy, bribery and unfitness for office.

There are 20 articles of impeachment.

Paxton, a Republican reelected to a third term in November, has denied all wrongdoing. His lawyers argued the alleged acts either were within Paxton’s authority as attorney general or are not serious enough to warrant impeachment.

He has asked the GOP-led Senate to toss his impeachment, which would take a simple majority vote.

The Senate chamber has been transformed into a courtroom, with podiums for witnesses and lawyers set up at the head of the chamber. In a further sign of careful preparations, on Tuesday, outside the Capitol’s east end, which the Senate occupies, an arbor service cut dead branches from several live oaks.

Members of the public will be allowed to watch from the gallery above the chamber if they secure a free ticket.

If two-third of senators vote to convict Paxton on any article of impeachment, he will be removed from office. They could then choose to bar him from ever holding elected office in Texas again.

Paxton’s wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, will not be allowed to vote on his removal.

He has been suspended from his duties without pay since the House impeached him in the spring.

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Cats flown from Maui quickly adopted in Seattle area

SEATTLE — Malie the kitten was living in a foster home on Maui when the deadly fires forced her foster mom to evacuate, leaving her unable to care for the 10-month-old cat.

The brown-haired, hazel-eyed kitty was flown with dozens of other felines from Hawaii to the Seattle area, to be taken in by multiple organizations.

Just days after her trip, Malie is now in her new home, as are most of the Maui cats who arrived at Seattle Humane last week. All 17 were adopted over the weekend or are pending

adoption, the animal organization said Tuesday. As Maui residents fled wildfires this month that killed at least 114 people, thousands of pets went missing amid the chaos of evacuations and a fast-moving blaze. The Maui Humane Society estimates 3,000 pets are missing in the Lahaina area.

A Facebook page for lost and found Maui animals features posts with similar stories: dogs whose owners couldn’t get home before their house burned down, cats that scurried off before their owners had no choice but to escape without them.

Good Cat Network, a Hawaii nonprofit, has sent 41 cats to the Seattle

area since the wildfires began. The Maui cats were already available for adoption before the wildfires, so their transfers were to make room for the displaced animals on the island who could be reunited with their owners.

Since Good Cat Network’s inception, volunteers have flown more than 550 cats off the island, and in the past 12 days have ramped up efforts, transferring 70 cats to other cities, co-founder Darlene Rayhill said.

Last week, 17 cats went to the NOAH Center in Stanwood and 17 went to Seattle Humane. Seven arrived at PAWS, Progressive Animal Welfare Society, on Monday. At PAWS, six of the seven young, healthy cats are ready

for adoption.

Malie was adopted from Seattle Humane by a family with Hawaii ties, according to Good Cat Network. Over the weekend, 71 pets in total were adopted, with many potential owners initially coming in specifically for the Maui cats.

As of Tuesday morning, four cats had been adopted at the NOAH Center, according to spokesperson Sarah Caldwell. The orange 3-month-old Chucky, brown 3-year-old Senator Jasper and black 3-month-old James Bond were still available.

“We expect the rest will go quickly,” Caldwell said.

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Today 8/30/2023

Iron Monk Brewing Company @ 7 - 9 p.m.

Bingo Night

Louie’s Grill & Bar @ 8 p.m.

Small Batch Trivia From Geeks Who Drink

Iron Monk Brewing Company @ 7 - 9 p.m.

Thursday 8/31/2023

2023 Payne County Fair Draft Horse Pulling Competition

Payne County Expo Center @ 8 p.m.

Let’s Talk About Oklahoma

Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar Aug. 17thSept. 14th @ 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Kid’s Night

Eskimoe Joe’s @ 5 - 9 p.m. w/ $1 Buffy meal

Line Dancing

Outlaws @ 7 - 8 p.m. $10

Payne County Fair Represents Power of the Past Tractor

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Payne County Expo Center @ 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Veterans History Project Webinar

Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar @ 2 - 3 p.m.

Friday 9/01/2023

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Payne County Expo Center @ 7 p.m. https://pcexpocenter.com/free-fair/

Annual Customer Appreciation Evening

Lake Carl Blackwell @ 6:30 - 9: 30 p.m. https://lake.okstate.edu/

OSU Cross Country Meet at Cowboy Preview @ 8 a.m.

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Saturday 9/02/2023

OSU vs. Central Arkansas

Boone Pickens Stadium @ 6 p.m.

2023 Payne County Fair Cattle Dog Event

Payne County Expo Center @ 7 p.m.

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Sunday 9/03/2023

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