Semester 2 registration is open at Saskatchewan’s Distance Learning Centre. Sask DLC is a fully accredited online school that offers Kindergarten to Grade 12 education to Saskatchewan students of all ages and backgrounds. The straightforward school supply list includes a computer with internet access and, as part of the computer or as an add-on, a mouse, microphone, and webcam. Students also need headphones/earbuds, a scanner/cell phone camera for submitting work, a printer and paper, along with standard supplies such as pens/pencils, an eraser, ruler, scissors, markers, geometry set, binders, and paper or notebooks. New courses in practical and applied arts and elective courses will give students greater opportunities to explore their interests or try something new and see if it sparks their curiosity. Tourism 10 and 20 courses will introduce students to food and beverage, accommodation, recreation and entertainment, transportation and travel services. Tourism 10 provides the theoretical component necessary for Tourism 20. Tourism 20, newly available in Semester 2, provides more theory and is coupled with a work placement. Other new courses available in Semester 2 include Energy and Mines – Oil & Gas 20 and Football Skills 10. Students enrolling in Energy and Mines 20 will learn about energy exploration, production and environmental stewardship practices, as well as industry trends, safety, economic impacts and technological advancements. This course, available in Semester 2 only, provides 50 hours of online theory and a 50-hour work placement. Football Skills 10, one of the courses offered as part of a grouping of unique electives, will introduce students to the basic concepts of football. They will explore the elements and rules of tackle, touch and flag football while developing fitness levels, mental training and leadership skills. Students will examine the importance of basic training, conditioning, nutrition and mental wellness in developing an athlete. They will learn about game strategy and tactics, individual and team goal setting, leadership, communication and team building, sportsmanship and fair play and have the opportunity to explore pathways in football beyond high school. Football 20 and 30 are expected to be available in the 2025-26 school year. Also, Baseball 10, 20, and 30 are part of the unique electives grouping. Whether new to baseball or having some experience, students will find that these courses cater to all skill levels. Starting with the basics and rules, students progress to intermediate topics like statistics and metrics for athlete development and can explore non-playing careers such as coaching, umpiring, recruiting, and broadcasting. Baseball 30 will be available in Semester 2. Sask Polytech provided high school students taking online automotive courses, with the opportunity to get practical, hands-on learning in the automotive mechanical field, through a one-day learning camp at the Sask Polytech Saskatoon Campus. Sask DLC and Sask Polytech learning camps provide students from across the province with opportunities to learn about potential career paths and make informed choices for their future beyond high school. The camps allow students to either confirm their current career aspirations or discover new ones. Students got a preview of the Automotive Service Technician certificate program and apprenticeship training options available at Sask Polytech. “Sask Polytech is excited to support students interested in pursuing a career in the automotive industry,” Sask Polytech President and CEO Dr. Larry Rosia said in a News Release. “High school students can gain numerous benefits from exploring the trades and participating in the camp. It is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the automotive industry and to learn about the Automotive Service Technician program.” Interest among students in Sask DLC’s Mechanical and Automotive courses continues to increase. More than 300 students registered for Mechanical and Automotive courses, including 168 with work placements so far this school year. Last year, 124 students registered in Mechanical and Automotive 10, 20 or 30-level courses, completing more than 4,500 work placement hours. An additional 98 students took the introductory theory-only course. Sask DLC offers five Mechanical and Automotive courses for students across the province, including a 10-level introductory course where students can choose to do full-online theory or participate in 75 hours of online theory with a 25-hour work placement. At the 20-and-30- level each course is a combination of 50 hours of online theory and 50 hours of an in-person work placement at a local business. Students participating in the optional learning camp at Sask Polytech will earn six credit hours toward their work placement requirement. Student work placements are possible due to a partnership between Sask DLC and the Saskatchewan Automobile Dealers Association (SADA). Through this partnership, students are provided with opportunities to complete their work placement at a SADA member dealership. This partnership provides students with work placement opportunities near their home community and supports the automotive sector’s recruitment of future qualified employees to serve the industry. These courses complement several other 35 Sask DLC trades courses with work placements or hands-on learning opportunities available to students including Agriculture Equipment Technician, Autobody, Construction and Carpentry, Electrical, Energy and Mines - Oil and Gas, Parts Technician, Power Engineering, Precision Agriculture, Tourism, and Welding. Sask DLC’s Mechanical and Automotive, and other courses are open for semester 2 registration. Courses are available to full-time Sask DLC students and high school students attending local schools throughout the province to supplement their in-person learning. High school students can contact their local school administrator or guidance counsellor for help registering. Learn more about all online courses with work placements available through Sask DLC at .
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Allowing two kickoff return touchdowns and missing an extra point all in the final few minutes added up to the Washington Commanders losing a third consecutive game in excruciating fashion. The underlying reason for this slide continuing was a problem long before that. An offense led by dynamic rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels that was among the NFL's best for a long stretch of the season put up just nine points and 169 yards for the first three-plus quarters against Dallas before falling behind 20-9 and teeing off on the Cowboys' conservative defense. “We just couldn’t really get it going,” said receiver Terry McLaurin , whose lengthy touchdown with 21 seconds left masked that he had just three catches for 16 yards through three quarters. “We’ve got to find a way to start faster and sustain drives, and that’s everybody: the whole coaching staff and the offensive players just going out there and figuring out ways that we can stay on the field.” This is not a new problem for Washington, which had a season-low 242 yards in a Nov. 10 home loss to Pittsburgh and 264 yards four days later in a defeat at Philadelphia. Since returning from a rib injury that knocked him out of a game last month, Daniels has completed just under 61% of his passes, after 75.6% over his first seven professional starts. Daniels and coach Dan Quinn have insisted this isn't about injury. The coaching staff blamed a lack of adequate practice time, but a full week of it before facing the Cowboys did not solve the problem. It is now fair to wonder if opponents have seen enough film of offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury's system to figure it out. “I think teams and coordinators are going to see what other teams have success against us and try to figure out how they could incorporate that into their scheme," Daniels said after going 12 of 22 for 80 yards passing through three quarters in the Dallas game. "We’ve been in third and longer a lot these past couple games, so that’s kind of where you get into the exotic pressures and stuff like that. We’ve just got to be better on first and second downs and stay ahead of the chains.” Daniels has a point there, and it predates this losing streak. The Commanders have converted just 36% of third-down opportunities (27 for 75) over their past seven games after 52% (31 for 60) in their first five. That challenge doesn't get any easier with Tennessee coming to town Sunday. The Titans, despite being 3-8, have the second-best third-down defense in the league at 31.6%. The defense kept the Commanders in the game against Dallas, allowing just 10 points until the fourth quarter and 20 total before kickoff return touchdowns piled on to the other side of the scoreboard. Even Cooper Rush's 22-yard touchdown pass to Luke Schoonmaker with five minutes left came after a turnover that gave the Cowboys the ball at the Washington 44. The defense spending more than 35 minutes on the field certainly contributed to fatigue as play wore on. The running game that contributed to a 7-2 start has taken a hit, in part because of injuries to top back Brian Robinson Jr. The Commanders got 145 yards on the ground because Daniels had 74 on seven carries, but running backs combined for just 57. Daniels could not say how much the rushing attack stalling has contributed to the offense going stagnant. “You’ve got to be able to run the ball, keep the defense honest,” he said. "We got to execute the plays that are called in, and we didn’t do a good job of doing that.” Linebacker Frankie Luvu keeps making the case to be first-year general manager Adam Peters' best free agent signing. He and fellow offseason addition Bobby Wagner tied for a team-high eight tackles, and Luvu also knocked down three passes against Dallas. Kicker Austin Seibert going wide left on the point-after attempt that would have tied the score with 21 seconds left was his third miss of the game. He also was short on a 51-yard field goal attempt and wide left on an earlier extra point. Seibert, signed a week into the season after Cade York struggled in the opener, made 25 of 27 field goal tries and was 22 of 22 on extra points before injuring his right hip and missing the previous two games. He brushed off his health and the low snap from Tyler Ott while taking responsibility for not connecting. “I made the decision to play, and here we are,” Seibert said. “I just wasn’t striking it well. But it means a lot to me to be here with these guys, so I just want to put my best foot moving forward.” Robinson's sprained ankle and fellow running back Austin Ekeler's concussion from a late kickoff return that led to him being hospitalized for further evaluation are two major immediate concerns. Quinn said Monday that Ekeler and starting right tackle Andrew Wylie are in concussion protocol. It's unclear if Robinson will be available against Tennessee, which could mean Chris Rodriguez Jr. getting elevated from the practice squad to split carries with Jeremy McNichols. The Commanders still have not gotten cornerback Marshon Lattimore into a game since acquiring him at the trade deadline from New Orleans. Lattimore is trying to return from a hamstring injury, and the secondary could use him against Calvin Ridley, who's coming off a 93-yard performance at Houston. 17 — Handoffs to a running back against Dallas, a significant decrease from much of the season before this losing streak. Don't overlook the Titans with the late bye week coming immediately afterward. The Commanders opened as more than a touchdown favorite, but after the results over the weekend, BetMGM Sportsbook had it as 5 1/2 points Monday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflHow to watch Penn State vs. SMU: CFP first round TV channel, streaming info
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Sometimes, it takes a village to put out a newspaper. Kent Brooks, owner of the 137-year-old Plainsman Herald down in the southeast corner of Colorado, was ready to call it quits a few months ago, given the tough economics of publishing a rural paper these days. But at the last minute Brooks decided to survey his readers before ceasing publication to see if they would pay more to keep the Plainsman in business. Ninety-five percent of them said yes, with many willing to pay double. Readers began calling, sending emails and mailing handwritten letters and notes begging him to keep on keeping on. “Heck, they wanted to do bake sales,” he told my former colleague Kevin Simpson, who first wrote about the effort to save the paper for The Colorado Sun. The Washington Post has also picked up on the story now. "I guess when over 2,000 print newspapers have gone away in the past few years, it is a feel good story when one decides to keep on rolling," Brooks told me. Residents of Springfield also told him they’d be willing to sponsor various features in the paper. Brooks said he’s in the process now of nailing down sponsors for Kerry Sherman’s sports page, the popular Hooves ‘n Horns section and Dawni O’Bryan’s Happy Trails articles. He’s also sent out notices doubling the annual subscription from $50 to $100. Brooks also has been seeking contractors and volunteers to step in now that his daughter, Lexi, who has been helping for four years, is headed back to college, and his son, Colin, who did technical work for the Plainsman, has started working full-time as an apprentice electrician. “We have a lady who does a garden blog for us, who taught at Springfield High School,” Brooks noted. “I’ve got a lady who lives on a ranch near the border of Western Baca County. She’s our Western bureau.” Brooks has two cowboy poets who contribute to the paper, including Bill Bunting, whose family still runs a ranch on the high plains of southeastern Colorado that his granddaddy homesteaded. Brooks also runs some history pieces from books he’s penned on the Dust Bowl and from “Letters from Colorado,” a collection of missives written by Colorado pioneers to the folks they left behind, back where they came from. A friend’s grandson is on the high school wrestling team and has agreed to write stories and take pictures of the team’s exploits this winter. Brooks also has a community feed on his website for locals to submit photos, articles, coverage of events, obits, etc. ... “And ask your friends and neighbors to do the same,” Brooks suggests on his site. Additional duties will also fall now to longtime employee Hunter Babbitt, who also oversees the flower shop that doubles as the Plainsman's Main Street office. The Knight Foundation also helped out with a grant a while back to enable Brooks to launch a website. “We’ve gotten good response from the community. It’s clear there is a strong willingness to support the Plainsman Herald,” Brooks told me. “So we’re going to give it a whirl. Now it’s either, ‘Man, this is kind of cool,’ or 'I’m an idiot.'” Brooks isn’t the only one making a last stand these days: • Tom Bredehoft, a 62-year-old businessman, came to the rescue of the Burlington Record a few months ago after Prairie Mountain Media announced it was shutting it down. Bredehoft, who lives 45 miles down Interstate 70 in Flagler, saw the paper as a good business opportunity but also thought it was something that just needed to be done. “I still believe in community newspapers,” Bredehoft told Simpson, “and I think there will always be people who want to be able to cut the clippings out of the paper. People want to read the sports scores. People want to clip their kids’ pictures. I just believe there’s always going to be a need and a want, and I think there’s people that will support it.” • The National Trust for Local News has stepped in to help 65 publications around the country, including 23 in Colorado. The nonprofit Trust now has 500 employees, 100,000 paying subscribers, 300,000 print copies distributed per month, $50 million in earned revenue and 2.5 million unique monthly visitors. In other words, they've proven that local news can succeed if its truly local, mission-driven and dedicated to community. The chains like Alden Global Capital, owners of Prairie Mountain, and Gannett are the ones who were screwing up local news, not the locals. The Trust went even further recently and purchased a community press in Colorado to help community newspapers after Prairie Mountain shut down their press in Berthoud and Gannett Newspapers shut down theirs in Pueblo. The Trust has raised $38 million in philanthropic support, Poynter reported in July. But the goal of the National Trust is to bootstrap community news organizations so they can eventually stand on their on and not rely on institutional philanthropy. Board member Marcus Brauchli told me the Trust “has been raising funds to operate small-town papers whose owners want to move on, on the theory that well-operated local news can survive if it doesn't have to return capital to its owners or pay down debt. So it basically takes the cost of capital out of the equation by taking ownership and then offering help in the form of technology and other services that allow the local news company to operate more efficiently and serve its community more effectively.” There are other heroic efforts afoot out there to save local news: • The American Journalism Project recently committed $3.6 million to nonprofit newsrooms like Outlier Media and The Nevada Independent, supporting investigative reporting and operational sustainability. • The Press Forward Initiative distributed $20 million across 205 local outlets, funding initiatives to deepen local coverage and enhance newsroom operations. • Midwestern News Nonprofit Support provided funding for print-focused initiatives, such as the launch of The Midcoast Villager, which addresses gaps in local reporting for communities in Maine. • The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa’s independent student newspaper, just purchased two weekly local newspapers in the state to give their students a place to hone their craft. What all these efforts have in common is the mission of putting community back in community journalism. “Small-j journalism, which we just call community journalism, may not be at the top of the Pulitzer list every year, but it sure does build a lot of trust,” Ross McDuffie, the first-ever chief portfolio officer for the National Trust for Local News, told the Nieman Lab recently. “I think that if you want your audience to pay attention when you’re holding the powerful accountable, or you’re giving a voice to the voiceless, or you’re shining a light in dark corners, then you sure as hell better show up when they’re celebrating things that are going well in their community, or, God forbid, they’re mourning a shared tragedy.” Brooks said something similar to his readers when he was contemplating closing down. “This newspaper has been a cornerstone of local life for generations, providing news and a sense of connection," he wrote. "However, the realities of modern publishing demand innovation and collaboration to sustain this vital resource for the future. A great deal of community support is needed to carry on.” It takes a village to put out a newspaper now, in other words. And more and more often lately, the village has agreed.
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