Telescope today announced the appointment of John Lyman as a Managing Partner A seasoned investor and board member with a track record of championing innovation Lyman was most recently a partner at Google Ventures (now GV) the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc Telescope’s venture investing will back early-stage emerging technology companies to make people visibly more secure and prosperous Telescope’s early investment portfolio which leverage AI and other emerging technologies to improve drug discovery and use robotics and AI to modernize supply chains “I’m thrilled to join Telescope and to support founders who are taking advantage of significant platform shifts to build new companies,” said John Lyman they will scale profitably while also making the world more prosperous and secure – and we can help.” Lyman brings sixteen years of experience at Google where he helped launch early-stage products and supported high-growth startups he led investments in companies including StockX he led Google’s global partnerships with leading startup accelerators such as Y Combinator and Techstars managed business development and marketing teams and played a key role in launching Google.org the company’s philanthropic initiative working at the Clinton Global Initiative and the Center for American Progress He holds degrees from Georgetown University and UC Berkeley and currently serves on the board of the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation “As technological innovation accelerates it’s more important than ever to ensure that startups increasing security and prosperity have the support they need to grow and scale,” said Eric Braverman “John’s combination of investing experience and commitment to meaningful innovation makes him the ideal leader for this initiative We’re excited to back founders who are putting powerful tools like AI to work in ways that align with our mission.” For more information about Telescope and its venture investing, visit https://www.telescopegp.com/programs About TelescopeTelescope builds and backs products to ensure that emerging technology makes us all more secure and prosperous. We connect and develop extraordinary people, create solutions, and invest flexible capital to ensure that technology serves everyone. https://www.telescopegp.com © Copyright 2012 - 2023 | citybiz | All Rights Reserved There’s an old cemetery a few miles from my home flags with three bars and seven stars have sprouted over some of the graves It’s my annual reminder that we still have Confederate Memorial Day one of three state holidays honoring men who killed American soldiers in defense of white supremacy That’s what the Confederacy was about, and it’s never been a secret. Ulysses S. Grant wrote in his memoirs that the Southern cause was “one of the worst for which a people ever fought and one for which there was the least excuse.” He added that he did not question “the sincerity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us.” These men were honest in their racism like a vulture is straightforward about its plans for a dying animal More: A giveaway to the rich, disguised as school choice | BRIAN LYMAN Some may consider that impolite. Many believe that the South’s profound inhumanity was a kind of trick pulled off by elites the people at the top invented or extended racism to keep poor whites whose griefs came from the enslavers and not the enslaved distracted and unable to form potentially powerful class-based alliances lower-class whites became the unthinking tools of the aristocrat pulling strings from a secure perch Reconstruction would have been as challenging as a home remodeling project Alabama’s myriad issues with education and public health — all of which have roots in slavery — would be far less dire The problem is that it treats racism as little more than a tool for rich whites and a fog around poor ones the mists of hatred would evaporate and people would see the world clearly chose to drink from the same polluted well The poison seeped into their blood and penetrated their bones It left many white men convinced that their own roles leading their households depended on keeping Black Americans in bondage “The hidden assumptions and values that underlay their political choices were forged in the relationships that engaged them most directly,” the historian Stephanie McCurry wrote in “Masters of Small Worlds.” “With the few slaves they may have owned with the women and other family dependents they presumed it their natural right to rule Maybe the ordinary farmer didn’t like the slaveholder’s house or his allies shifting taxes to him But when the rich man spoke of domination and order And when those elites declared war on the federal government grabbed starvation-level rations and killed American soldiers The brackish water of racism freed him from any concern about his position or any desire for something better liberty grew from the chain on a Black American That was worth a bullet or a fatal illness in a filthy tent God knows how much undiagnosed trauma went home to their families I would fire every single Confederate holiday into the sun we may look at those men decaying beneath the Stars and Bars and reflect on where embracing authoritarianism leads Decades of family and children and love cleaved by hate and ended by a firearm Lives reduced to a flag without a country and a cause no decent person honors A pointless sacrifice to the fickle god of malice Today we see many people surrounding the poisoned well that fed that destruction Nothing matters except their rapturous vision of a person with brown skin suffering In that hateful daze, they nod as the administration locks people up without trial. While scholars are hounded And as the bright future down a more difficult path fades away acidic from the hatred leaching out of the buried bones Brian Lyman is the editor of Alabama Reflector He has covered Alabama politics since 2006 His work has won awards from the Associated Press Managing Editors the Alabama Press Association and Robert F Alabama Reflector is part of States Newsroom an independent nonprofit website covering politics and policy in state capitals around the nation Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Lyman was a member of the Lower Merion Police Department and retired after over 30 years of service to the community.  He was lovingly known as “Boo” to Doug Relatives and friends are invited to his Mass of Christian Burial 2024 at 11:00 AM at Saints Simon and Jude Church the family requests that donations be made to Meals on Wheels of Chester County in Lyman’s memory Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Land & Environment By Marcus Jensen | April 24 director of the Bingham Research Center at Utah State University has been named as the newest member of the Utah Air Quality Board a research professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at USU Uintah Basin The appointment was made official on April 15 by members of the Utah Legislature “I’m honored to have been selected to serve on the Utah Air Quality Board,” Lyman said and I’m grateful to be able to give back to the state by serving in this way.” The Utah Air Quality Board enacts rules pertaining to Air Quality activities and develops State Implementation Plans to attain and maintain National Ambient Air Quality Standards the Board is the primary air quality policymaker for the State of Utah Lyman has a doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Health from the University of Nevada and his expertise is in atmospheric measurements Lyman has worked tirelessly with community and state leaders to understand and mitigate air pollution and improve air quality His many accolades include being named the 2020 Clean Air Person of the Year by the Utah Clean Air Partnership Lyman’s research focuses on the environmental outcomes of energy production He and his colleagues at the center have carried out projects to quantify emissions of organic compounds from various oil and gas sources understand the conditions that lead to wintertime ozone production in the Rocky Mountain region and develop computer models of atmospheric emissions and air quality Lyman is also an expert in atmospheric mercury He has invented several novel methods to measure elemental and oxidized mercury in the atmosphere and calibration systems for those measurements Comments and questions regarding this article may be directed to the contact person listed on this page Wildfire patterns in the West are changing the trend in the Great Basin hasn't necessarily been a simple increase Extension is sponsoring Earth Day Birthday a family-friendly celebration of planet Earth at the USU Ogden Botanical Center UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH & WELLNESS passed away peacefully with a sweet smile on April 21 due to the effects of Alzheimer’s disease to loving parents Boyden Ostler and Katherine Heiner LouAnn’s strong bond with her sisters remained constant throughout her life with many happy moments and memories together LouAnn attended Davis High School where she met Stanley Lyman These high school sweethearts were engaged on graduation night in 1953 and were married in the Salt Lake Temple on May 21 Early in their marriage Stan was stationed in Anchorage It was there they welcomed their first child Cindy was born with Spina Bifida and LouAnn was her main caregiver for all of Cindy’s life LouAnn’s loving example of a devoted mother will be remembered by all who knew her After finishing the assignment in Alaska they moved back to Utah and eventually settled in Kaysville They welcomed three more children—Suzanne often helping others without seeking recognition She was a talented pianist who served many years as a ward pianist and organist She accompanied many musicals at Davis High School and was honored for her years of volunteer service to the Musical Production department She enjoyed helping others share their talents Many quilts and cross stitch creations filled her home each stitch a reflection of her meticulous care and creativity LouAnn made the world a more beautiful place through her gentle spirit and unwavering love LouAnn and Stan enjoyed spending time in the Uinta Mountains with their family She loved to care for the property and be outdoors Many fond memories were made together as a family LouAnn loved the Utah Jazz and truthfully any good “ball game” on TV She was an avid supporter of her grandchildren and loved hearing about all they were doing LouAnn was a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints LouAnn was a thoughtful minister and visiting teacher Some of her most treasured years were during the time she and Stan served together as temple workers in the Bountiful Temple for nearly a decade LouAnn is preceded in death by her parents LouAnn is survived by her children: Suzanne (Dan Murray); Kathy (Kyle Sprague); and Kent (Chantell) Lyman; as well as nine beloved grandchildren: Staci (Bill) Barlow; Michael (Erika) Kennard; Katelyn (Joe) Fitzgerald; Kourtney (Mike) Adams; Kyler (Ellery) Sprague; Karly (Ryan) Tanner; Brittni (Carson) Vance; Jessika Lyman; Madie Lyman and 23 great grandchildren She is also survived by her two sisters: Kay Bowles; and Jo (Eric) Winston LouAnn is lovingly remembered by her in-laws: Norma Lyman Ellis; Vicki Lyman (Perry Bolyard); Richard Lyman (Coleen); Craig Lyman (Noreen); JoAnn Groves Lyman; and Cheryl Dee Lyman we look forward to being in her presence after this short separation The family would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff of the Fairfield Village and all those that helped care for both LouAnn and Stan They enjoyed their time there and made many new friends A private family service will be held to honor LouAnn’s memory Services will be streamed live on the Russon Mortuary Live Facebook page and on this obituary page on Friday The live stream will begin 10-15 minutes prior to services and will be posted below We recently switched our login system from requiring display names to email addresses in order to log in You must use your email address instead of your display name in order to log in You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Sign up for a new account in our community The city of Newberry promoted Deputy Fire Chief Jason Lyman to fire chief on Monday Kevin Farr was also promoted to the role of deputy chief where he will assist Lyman in his duties when absent The announcement comes two months after former Newberry Fire Chief Mike Vogel was arrested for driving under the influence and later resigned from his position Lyman was elevated to interim fire chief after Vogel’s February resignation but pavement-pounding journalism is not free Join your neighbors who make this vital work possible  Vogel, 59, was sentenced to one year of probation and 40 hours of community service by a Marion County judge on April 20 “Chief Lyman and Deputy Chief Farr embody the values experience and community spirit that are the foundation of Newberry’s Fire Department,” said Interim City Manager Dallas Lee in the press release “Their commitment to excellent service and vision for the future will ensure the safety and well-being of our residents for years to come.” Lyman’s career in public service includes serving in the U.S Coast Guard out of high school before transitioning into fire service in 1992 where he volunteered with Islamorada Fire Rescue prior to Hurricane Andrew Lyman has worked his way up the ranks from lieutenant He has also been involved with the Florida Fire Marshals and Inspectors Association and the Florida Fire Chiefs Association Lyman lives in the Newberry area with his wife of 23 years Farr started his career as a part-time firefighter for the Newberry Fire Department in October 1997 and has risen through the ranks to senior lieutenant and now deputy chief His fire service career started with the city of Archer’s volunteer fire department during his senior year of high school Farr is actively involved with youth agriculture programs and operates a family farm with his wife Join your neighbors who make this work possible 2024) — Eighty University of Kentucky graduate students were honored during the inaugural Graduate School Certificate Ceremony for Lyman T The Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship is one of the UK’s most prestigious regularly awarded fellowships for graduate students the fellowship has been given to more than 800 incoming and continuing graduate students in just about every graduate program The Graduate School hosted its inaugural ceremony specifically for graduate students celebrating those that have been awarded the Lyman T The event marked the 75th anniversary of Lyman T resulting in him becoming the first African American student at the university Johnson’s legacy is woven into the fabric of UK in very many ways: the UK Alumni Association Lyman T Johnson African American Alumni Constituency Group;  the Lyman T Johnson Torch of Excellence Awards Luncheon; the Lyman T Johnson Torch of Excellence Awards; the Lyman T Johnson Endowed Scholarship Fund; a historical marker; and a named residence hall awardees reflected on the significance of the 75th anniversary and Johnson’s legacy The Graduate School expects this to be an annual event that will build this special community to include fellowship alumni as well The fellows were filled with excitement and pride that was nearly palpable throughout the Martin Luther King Center Dean Padraic Kenney of the Graduate School gave remarks reflecting on the importance of this ceremony for graduate students “It is thus fitting that we honor his legacy by awarding fellowships to our best graduate students You are here today as part of a community of scholars You have been distinguished by your high academic achievement and by your record of advocating for and working to achieve the values espoused by Lyman T My sincere congratulations on your achievements I look forward to hearing about your continued success — and I pledge that the Graduate School will support you as you pursue your goals.” The full list of 2024-25 fellowship award recipients is here the Graduate School at UK has administered and awarded the prestigious Lyman T which provide financial assistance to graduate and doctoral students pursuing higher education Highly competitive fellowships such as the Lyman T Johnson Fellowship offer awardees funding and a stipend for students entering one of the many graduate programs at UK how their pursuit of graduate education reflects the values of the fellowship’s namesake Applicants are also evaluated based on an individualized assessment which includes leadership experience A fellowship is a short term paid opportunity that provides financial support for students to use for a variety of activities Fellowships are typically merit-based and competitive and may include working responsibilities the academic fellowships supported by the Graduate School are considered “nonservice” meaning there is no additional work involved and students are expected to use the fellowship to focus on their academic studies while relieving some of the financial burden associated with their degree program Seniors and incoming first-year graduate students are eligible to apply for the Graduate School’s Lyman T A complete list of Graduate School fellowship opportunities is also posted the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing It's all made possible by our people — visionaries disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center and great grandmother passed away peacefully on February 3 Pennsylvania to Louis and Martha Benedict on January 5 She was the third in a family of nine children She grew up on the farm in Quincy and attended the Pigeon Hill School in the days when there were still one room schoolhouses After a couple of years of High School she started working and eventually went West She lived with relatives and friends and worked her way to Modesto In Modesto she met and married Kenneth Woods in 1951 After Kenneth was discharged from the military they lived for a short time in Pennsylvania but then decided to settle in Utah Florence and Ken had four children together Florence and Kenneth were divorced and in 1976 she married John Robinson Lyman She and John both enjoyed travelling and would settle someplace for a few years and then move on to a new interesting place Florence always loved being outdoors and gardening She passed on stories of her childhood and growing up on the farm She also enjoyed music and singing and taught her children songs from her own childhood Florence has twelve grandchildren and twenty-one great grandchildren Frank (Doreen) Benedict and Dan (Martha) Benedict.  Mom we love you and miss your special Easter Egg hunts and that lime jello salad.  Our family would like to thank the Valencia at Willow Creek Memory Care center and Ashley with Sequoia Hospice for taking such good care of Mom in the last few years We're standing up for science. You can help Climate change is one of the most devastating problems humanity has ever faced—and the clock is running out The energy choices we make today could make or break our ability to fight climate change Our transportation system is outdated and broken—and it needs to change The US food system should be providing healthy They’re the most dangerous invention the world has ever seen Democracy and science can be powerful partners for the public good—and both are under attack Lyman was awarded the 2018 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society Lyman was president of the Nuclear Control Institute D.C.-based organization focused on nuclear proliferation he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (now the Science and Global Security Program) He earned a doctorate degree in physics from Cornell University in 1992 "Nuclear safety regulation in the post-Fukushima era," Science 356 (6340) “Nuclear Waste: Weapons Plutonium Riskier Above Ground” (letter) "Direct disposal is better solution for South Carolina's plutonium problem 2015.“Security and Nonproliferation Assessment of Breed-and-Burn Systems,” GLOBAL 2015 Conference Proceedings of the International Atomic Energy Agency Symposium on International Safeguards Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster Accounting for long-term doses in "Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.” Energy and Environmental Science (forthcoming) For text alerts, text "SCIENCE" to 67369 or sign up online Receive urgent alerts about opportunities to defend science. Recurring messages. Reply STOP to cancel. Msg & data rates may apply. Terms, Conditions, and Privacy Policy Write today and tell Citi leaders to stop enabling the harms of the fossil fuel industry Trump’s presidency is a grave threat to science-based decisionmaking and the safety of our planet and communities Help UCS mobilize to protect science and scientists Make a gift to the Science Emergency Fund today a lifelong UCS member stepped up to give $100 for every new monthly gift Will you help us defend science against Trump’s attacks MAKE A NEW MONTHLY GIFTt Make an annual gift instead We use cookies to improve your experience. By continuing, you accept our use of cookies. Learn more. To receive future episodes as soon as they’re live please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription You can also subscribe to the free tier below: Share Dustin Lyman, President and General Manager of Copper Mountain, Colorado Lyman stops to help a skier find their way in January 2024. Photo by Stuart Winchester.Recorded onOctober 21, 2024 Pass affiliations: Ikon Pass and Ikon Base Pass: unlimited access Closest neighboring ski areas: Frisco Adventure Park (:15) Ski Cooper (:34) – travel times vary considerably depending upon time of day Lift count: 25 (1 6/8-passenger chondola, 3 high-speed six-packs, 3 high-speed quads, 5 triples, 4 doubles, 2 platters, 1 T-bar, 6 carpets – view Lift Blog’s inventory of Copper Mountain’s lift fleet) Photo courtesy of Copper Mountain.What I got wrongI said that certain old chairlifts had not yet been retrofit with safety bars; Lyman clarified that Copper had in fact updated the carriers on all of those lifts Here are some things I remember about skiing Copper Mountain in 1995: Riding a high-speed quad. Probably American Flyer but I can’t say for sure. Four of us on the lift. My buddy Andy and two middle-aged fellows of indeterminant provenance. “My cat sleeps 22 hours a day and can catch a bird out of the air,” one says to the other. And I’ve never been able to stop thinking about the truth of that and how it’s possible. My room at the Foxpine Inn came with an underground parking space, which I declined to use until a New Year’s snowstorm buried my poor little four-cylinder Ford Probe beneath an igloo. Rather than clean the car off, I leaned my head out the window and drove down the ramp to my parking spot below. Then all the snow melted. Easiest snow removal job ever. Near the terminus of the long-gone B lift, a double chair displaced by Super Bee, a lightly treed knoll stood above the trails. I watched, awestruck, as a skier materialized from the forest depths above and trenched the newfallen snow and blasted down the fall-line with superhero poise and ease. My first attempted powder turn, three minutes later, ended in a yardsale. This was in the flat just off of the lift unload. That ended up being a very long run. Some of this humility, I suppose, is anchored in the mountain’s profile. Copper doesn’t have Breck’s big exposed peaks or Vail’s endless bowls or Beaver Creek’s Grey Poupon trim. Copper doesn’t give you cookies or promise you The Experience of a Lifetime. The mountain’s core lifts are fast and modern, but Copper runs nearly as many fixed-grip chairs (9) as Vail (3), Beaver Creek (3), and Keystone (4), combined (10).   But it works. Rather wonderfully, really. Go see for yourself. Photo courtesy of Copper Mountain.Podcast NotesOn Copper’s masterplanCopper’s most recent comprehensive Forest Service masterplan dates to 2011. A 2015 addendum focused mostly on summer activities. Here’s an overview of what the 2011 plan imagined: A 2021 addendum added a new trail, which we discuss on the pod: On Copper Mountain’s halfpipeI mean this thing is just so damn extra: Photo courtesy of Copper Mountain.On Summit County ski areas by sizeThe four Summit County ski areas compare favorably to one another, stats-wise. I’m going to go ahead and throw Loveland in there as an honorary member, since it’s like two feet from Summit County: On the Slopes AppBeing Stats Tracker Bro, I am a loyalist to the Slopes app, which recently updated their static map with a zoomable version: Slopes new interface allows users to zoom in on all the ski areas they’ve visited while using the app.Slopes is also handy in real-time, when I want to ensure that I’ve hit every trail on a mountain. Here’s my map from Giants Ridge, Minnesota last winter (the big unskied trails in the middle were closed for racing): On expansions Colorado ski areas have had great success expanding existing operations in recent years. Since 2012, nine large expansions have added more than 3,000 acres of high-quality terrain to the state’s ski resorts. That’s the equivalent of opening another Breckenridge, without all the outrage. The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round This podcast hit paid subscribers\u2019 inboxes on Nov To receive future episodes as soon as they\u2019re live Share Dustin Lyman, President and General Manager of Copper Mountain, Colorado Ski Cooper (:34) \u2013 travel times vary considerably depending upon time of day Lift count: 25 (1 6/8-passenger chondola, 3 high-speed six-packs, 3 high-speed quads, 5 triples, 4 doubles, 2 platters, 1 T-bar, 6 carpets \u2013 view Lift Blog\u2019s inventory of Copper Mountain\u2019s lift fleet) Riding a high-speed quad. Probably American Flyer but I can\u2019t say for sure. Four of us on the lift. My buddy Andy and two middle-aged fellows of indeterminant provenance. \u201CMy cat sleeps 22 hours a day and can catch a bird out of the air,\u201D one says to the other. And I\u2019ve never been able to stop thinking about the truth of that and how it\u2019s possible. My room at the Foxpine Inn came with an underground parking space, which I declined to use until a New Year\u2019s snowstorm buried my poor little four-cylinder Ford Probe beneath an igloo. Rather than clean the car off, I leaned my head out the window and drove down the ramp to my parking spot below. Then all the snow melted. Easiest snow removal job ever. Some of this humility, I suppose, is anchored in the mountain\u2019s profile. Copper doesn\u2019t have Breck\u2019s big exposed peaks or Vail\u2019s endless bowls or Beaver Creek\u2019s Grey Poupon trim. Copper doesn\u2019t give you cookies or promise you The Experience of a Lifetime. The mountain\u2019s core lifts are fast and modern, but Copper runs nearly as many fixed-grip chairs (9) as Vail (3), Beaver Creek (3), and Keystone (4), combined (10).   Photo courtesy of Copper Mountain.Podcast NotesOn Copper\u2019s masterplanCopper\u2019s most recent comprehensive Forest Service masterplan dates to 2011. A 2015 addendum focused mostly on summer activities. Here\u2019s an overview of what the 2011 plan imagined: On Copper Mountain\u2019s halfpipeI mean this thing is just so damn extra: Photo courtesy of Copper Mountain.On Summit County ski areas by sizeThe four Summit County ski areas compare favorably to one another, stats-wise. I\u2019m going to go ahead and throw Loveland in there as an honorary member, since it\u2019s like two feet from Summit County: Slopes new interface allows users to zoom in on all the ski areas they\u2019ve visited while using the app.Slopes is also handy in real-time, when I want to ensure that I\u2019ve hit every trail on a mountain. Here\u2019s my map from Giants Ridge, Minnesota last winter (the big unskied trails in the middle were closed for racing): On expansions Colorado ski areas have had great success expanding existing operations in recent years. Since 2012, nine large expansions have added more than 3,000 acres of high-quality terrain to the state\u2019s ski resorts. That\u2019s the equivalent of opening another Breckenridge, without all the outrage. his signature smile shining as he looked heavenward to Harry Benson Lyman and Dorothy Dee Newcomb where he graduated from Davis High School as a proud athlete He remained a fiercely loyal Davis Dart throughout his life Stan honorably served in the United States Air Force dedicating himself to the service of his country His career led him to a long and fulfilling tenure at Hill Air Force Base where he worked in missile technology management until his retirement in the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where Stan worked at Elmendorf Air Force Base It was there that they welcomed their first child where they were blessed with three more children—Suzanne Stan was a devoted and faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints He served in the Bishoprics of the Kaysville 7th and 16th Wards he served as the building coordinator for the chapel on 50 West in Kaysville—a building he and his family helped construct He took great pride in ensuring that everything was in proper order for the many meetings and gatherings held there were among the first ordinance workers when the Bountiful Utah Temple opened in 1994 serving there faithfully for almost a decade Stan found immense joy in the great outdoors He cherished time spent at his family’s property in the Uinta Mountains Bear Lake was another favorite destination filled with fond memories of family visits Stan is survived by his devoted and loving wife and their children: Suzanne (Dan Murray) of Farmington Utah; and Kent (Chantell) Lyman of Riverdale Utah; as well as nine beloved grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren He is also survived by his siblings: Norma Dee Lyman Ellis of Layton Utah; Vicki Lynne Lyman (Perry Allen Bolyard) of Salem Utah; Richard Benson Lyman (Coleen Andrew) of Clinton Utah; and Craig Scott Lyman (Noreen Grace Flynn) of Edmond He is lovingly remembered by his in-laws: JoAnn Groves Lyman of Washington He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings: Camille Lyman (David Michael Callahan) Elizabeth Dean Lyman (James Rea Maxwell III) A viewing will be held at Russon Brothers Mortuary in Farmington on Thursday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints A viewing will also take place prior to the funeral from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m The funeral service will be streamed live on the Russon Mortuary Live Facebook page and on this obituary page where it will appear 10-15 minutes prior to the funeral service at 11:00 a.m The family would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff of the Fairfield Village and everyone else that helped care for Stan the last couple of years and friends will be deeply missed but forever remembered The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Click to watch Metrics details Synthetic photometry is obtained by convolving the spectrum with the filter transmission curves shown at the bottom Shading and error bars represent 1σ uncertainty which falls precisely between the F162M and F182M medium-band filters False-colour image of JADES-GS-z13-1-LA constructed by stacking NIRCam filters for each colour channel as annotated The placement of the NIRSpec microshutters as is the circular 0.3″-diameter extraction aperture for the CIRC2 photometry A physical scale of 1 kpc (0.28″ at z = 13.05) is indicated as the scale bar is to identify the line as Ly-α at a redshift of zLy-α = 13.05 ± 0.01 we note that the systemic redshift is probably slightly lower Shading represents 1σ uncertainty on all lines which we therefore infer to be \({z}_{{\rm{sys}}}=13.0{1}_{-0.01}^{+0.02}\) a,b, Ly-α emission is indicated in pink We identify two potential explanations each for the source of emission ((i) and (ii)) and modes of Ly-α modulation An extended disk of neutral gas seen in edge-on orientation may cause DLA absorption of the continuum source whereas an ionization cone perpendicular to the disk plane allows Ly-α photons to escape the source of the Ly-α emission may be interchanged from an AGN (i) to a nuclear starburst (ii) if neutral gas in the ISM is inhomogeneously distributed resonant scattering could allow Ly-α to diffuse outwards while the central source remains obscured by H i gas star-forming galaxies (see text for details) altogether making JADES-GS-z13-1-LA a viable candidate emission-line wavelengths in vacuum and EWs in the rest frame unless explicitly mentioned otherwise JADES-GS-z13-1-LA was observed for 67,225.6 s by the NIRSpec/PRISM and 16,806.4 s in each of the R1000 gratings We include CIRC2 photometry in the available HST bands together with NIRCam filters up to and including F150W are statistically fully consistent with non-detections (χ2 = 11.6 over ten filters This size approaches half the pixel size (that is 15 mas) and should hence be treated as an upper limit given that the mosaicing procedure probably introduces artificial smoothing that the spectral resolution is enhanced by a factor of approximately 1.5× compared with the resolution curve predicted for a uniformly illuminated microshutter the two visits independently confirm the line detection with measured fluxes of 5.77 ± 1.36 × 10−19 erg s−1 cm−2 and 9.07 ± 1.80 × 10−19 erg s−1 cm−2 To gain insight into the Ly-α emission and absorption properties of JADES-GS-z13-1-LA we model the observed spectrum with a simple framework in which Ly-α and continuum emission produced inside the central galaxy are subject to (damping-wing) absorption arising in intervening neutral hydrogen in dense absorbing systems and/or the IGM We emphasize that the aim of this model is not to be as physically detailed as possible which would involve performing simulations including three-dimensional radiative transfer coupled to the hydrodynamics of the gas (requiring the relevant feedback processes to be accurately modelled) but rather to constrain the basic physical properties that JADES-GS-z13-1-LA must have to explain the observations the continuum emission is modelled as a power law \({F}_{\lambda }\propto {\lambda }^{{\beta }_{{\rm{UV}}}}\) This introduces two more free parameters in the model the UV slope βUV and a normalization (at a rest-frame wavelength of λemit = 1,500 Å) The choice for this relatively low density is motivated by the fact that the free-bound (and free-free) components mainly contribute at longer wavelengths and would have to be subdominant to reproduce the very steep UV slope In this multicomponent (‘self-consistent’) model we tied the continuum normalization to the strength of the Ly-α line thereby self-consistently scaling the continuum according to the production rate and escape fraction of LyC photons discussed below To calculate the bubble radius Rion, we then numerically integrate equation (3) in ref. 80 describing the time evolution of Rion(t) to obey Here we integrate until we reach a fiducial age of t = 10 Myr having verified that changing this assumption has little impact on our findings as a result of the sublinear scaling Rion ∝ t1/3 (in the absence of recombinations and the Hubble flow) We also considered an alternative model identical to the default power-law model but for which we fix Rion = 0 (that is to arrive at the emission rate of Ly-α photons and hence the Ly-α luminosity (that is the emission rate multiplied by the energy of a Ly-α photon) yielding ξion ≳ 1025.1 Hz erg−1 (1025.4 Hz erg−1 under case A) is modelled as a Gaussian profile with a given velocity dispersion σLy-α which is shifted in velocity space at a given offset from the systemic redshift and normalized to the Ly-α luminosity derived as described above the peak of the intrinsic line profile at velocity offset ΔvLy-α,int with respect to systemic redshift effectively gets further redshifted to a velocity offset of ΔvLy-α,obs as in the section ‘Emission-line properties’ we corrected the NIRSpec measurements for further path losses the model spectrum is convolved with the PRISM resolution curve predicted for a uniformly illuminated microshutter enhanced by a factor of 1.5 based on the measured width of the Ly-α line in the PRISM spectrum (see ‘Emission-line properties’) the goodness-of-fit statistic χ2 is calculated as the matrix product in which Σ−1 is the inverted covariance matrix and the ith element of the vector R is given as the difference between observed flux density in the ith wavelength bin (\({F}_{\lambda ,i}^{\text{obs}}\)) and the modelled one (\({F}_{\lambda ,i}^{\text{model}}\)) Although the multicomponent self-consistent model has a slightly higher χ2 (171.4) than the default power-law model (χ2 = 168.1), notably, it favours a high LyC escape fraction (\({f}_{{\rm{esc,}}{\rm{LyC}}}=0.7{3}_{-0.26}^{+0.14}\)) to suppress the nebular continuum, much like the SPS model fits (Supplementary information) fixing Rion = 0 in the self-consistent model (results not included here) yields a much poorer fit (χ2 = 183.1) as this 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Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05165 (2017) Download references This work is based on observations made with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/European Space Agency (ESA)/Canadian Space Agency (CSA) JWST The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at the STScI which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for the JWST These observations are associated with programmes 1180 acknowledge support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) by the European Research Council (ERC) through Advanced Grant 695671 ‘QUENCH’ and by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Frontier Research grant RISEandFALL also gratefully acknowledges support from the Cosmic Dawn Center through the DAWN Fellowship The Cosmic Dawn Center is financed by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant no acknowledge support from the JWST/NIRCam contract to the University of Arizona also acknowledges support from JWST Program 3215 acknowledges support from Royal Society Research Grant G125142 acknowledge support from the ‘FirstGalaxies’ Advanced Grant from the ERC under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no acknowledges support from a STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (ST/S004831/1) S. Alberts acknowledges support from the JWST MIRI Science Team Lead grant 80NSSC18K0555 and from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to the University of Arizona S. Arribas acknowledges grant PID2021-127718NB-I00 financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation/State Agency of Research (MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) This research is supported in part by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) S. Carniani acknowledges support by the European Union’s HE ERC Starting Grant No acknowledges the support of an STFC Webb Fellowship (ST/W001438/1) acknowledges support from grant PID2022-139567NB-I00 financed by Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 gratefully acknowledges support by the Isaac Newton Trust and by the Kavli Foundation through a Newton-Kavli Junior Fellowship also acknowledges funding by the European Union (ERC APEX Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. The research of C.C.W which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation This study made use of the Prospero high-performance computing facility at Liverpool John Moores University Joris Witstok, Roberto Maiolino, Sandro Tacchella, William M Baker, Francesco D’Eugenio, Gareth C Jones, Jan Scholtz & Hannah Übler Joris Witstok & Peter Jakobsen Roberto Maiolino & Aayush Saxena Helton, Fengwu Sun, Stacey Alberts, Kevin N Hainline, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Christopher N Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Bunker, Aayush Saxena, Kristan Boyett, Jacopo Chevallard & Gareth C Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) led the analysis and the writing of the paper S. Carniani and S. Charlot contributed to the development and commissioning of the NIRSpec instrument and the reduction and analysis of the NIRSpec data presented contributed to the development and commissioning of the NIRCam instrument and the reduction and analysis of the NIRCam data presented and S. Alberts contributed to the reduction and analysis of the MIRI data presented contributed to the design and execution of the JADES programme The authors declare no competing interests Nature thanks Michele Trenti and the other, anonymous, reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work. Peer reviewer reports are available Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations The top row shows roughly 1″ × 1″ cutouts of the observed data (scaled according to the colour bar shown on the right) around JADES-GS-z13-1-LA in each of the 14 available NIRCam filters The PSF-convolved ForcePho model (see ‘Photometric measurements’) is shown in the middle row The bottom row shows that residuals between data and model are consistent with pure noise indicating that the model provides a good fit to the data although the ForcePho fits are performed on more than 400 separate exposures they are mosaiced together here to visualize the data and residuals a, Coloured lines represent observed spectra in different grating-filter modes, as obtained from the sigma-clipping procedure (Supplementary information) we show the G140M/F070LP (dotted turquoise line) and G235M/F170LP (dashed range line) spectra compared with the low-resolution PRISM spectrum (dark blue line) Shading represents a 1σ uncertainty on all components of the figure Solid curves represent emission-line profiles at increasing widths (according to the colour bar in panel b) starting from the R = 1,000 resolution limit and having matched the flux and central wavelength (1.708 μm; indicated by a vertical black line) to the values measured from the PRISM spectrum (see ‘Emission-line properties’) Measured Ly-α flux in an increasingly wide spectral aperture centred on 1.708 μm in G235M/F170LP are shown by circles with 1σ error bars none of which show a significant detection This is consistent with the less sensitive G140M/F070LP measurements (not shown here for clarity) A horizontal dashed line shows the measured PRISM line flux contained within the FWHM of a Gaussian profile (76%) whereas a vertical dotted line indicates the limiting R = 1,000 resolution if the emission line is well resolved (FWHM ≳ 600 km s−1) it would fall below the nominal noise level of the R1000 gratings (see annotated 2σ and 4σ levels) The small panels show inter-dependencies between all eight parameters freely varied in the model (Extended Data Table 3) we include the physical radius of the ionized bubble (Rion) and Ly-α luminosity (LLy-α) which are not independently varied but are instead determined by the other parameters (see ‘Spectral modelling’) The right axis shows the physical radius of the ionized bubble Rion, whose evolution as a function of lookback time t is governed by equation (2) The solid line shows the median among the posterior distribution of the default model and the shading represents 1σ uncertainty (16th to 84th percentile) The dashed line illustrates the Hubble expansion rate if the bubble remains unchanged from t = 0 onwards showing that this effect has little impact over the timescale relevant to our analysis The dotted line shows how the neutral hydrogen fraction within the bubble (left axis) would evolve without further ionizing photons Supplementary Table 1 and further references Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08779-5 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. 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Sharon Lyman PittmanBirth date: Aug 14 Visitation & Funeral Information","description":"Honoring the memory of Sharon Lyman Pittman with their obituary visitation and funeral information.","articleSection":"Obituaries","articleBody":"Sharon Lyman Pittman lovingly known as “Nana,” passed away peacefully on January 11 Louisiana.\n\nHer devoted husband of 42 years Theodore Lyman and Betty Jean Cameron Lyman preceded her in death.\n\nShe is survived by her children John Scott Pittman and wife Melissa Pittman of Frisco Texas.\n\nSharon spent her early years in El Paso Fl where she graduated from Miami Carol City High School in 1967 and then off to Texas where she would attend East Texas State University She studied education and wanted to be an art teacher but as fate would have it Sharon would be introduced to the love of her life John C Pittman and they quickly married.\n\nSharon and John married in 1969 and moved to the Lakewood community of Dallas where they would start their family.\n\nScott and Amanda were her pride and joy and they kept her busy; from Scott's baseball games to Amanda's cheerleading and dance recitals Sharon spent a lot of time on the sidelines cheering them on Her home was always full of lots of kiddos Sharon also had many fond memories of hosting John's slow pitch softball team that she kept the books for over 20 years.\n\nSharon loved people and many would say; she never met a stranger Sharon managed to hold the title of PTA President as every school her children attended She also worked at several of the schools in Mesquite ISD where she was a constant source of encouragement and love with whom all that she came in contact She always saw the good in people and always wanted to encourage children to do their best.\n\nA true sports family at their core with a love for the Dallas Cowboys and season ticket holders to this day Sharon and John shared in so much adventure together; from country and western dancing playing cards and never missing a chance to get away to the mountains to ski Sharon loved adventure and documenting every moment of it John's long for race horses quickly became Sharon's passion as well Texas where they raised and bred thoroughbred race horse for the track those were some of the best years of her life.\n\nSharon's parents lived right down the street from her and John She adored her mom and dad and so did Scott and Amanda The life lessons learned from Gram and Daddy Ted were invaluable They instilled the value that you always have more to give and that's where the saying just when you thought there was no more to give you could always get a little more and Sharon always did She was a collector of things and it's evident by her collection of sentimental pieces in her home She always had a story that went along with each piece and loved sharing Sharon was able to fulfill her dream of being an art teacher by volunteering at University Park Elementary School for over four years where her youngest grandson Sharon was so appreciated for all her hard work that she was awarded the Highland Park Art Advocate of the Year She was so honored.\n\nSharon loved genealogy and spent countless hours researching her ancestors She always had a beautiful arrangement in her home She loved bluebonnets and when she would visit family and friends she enjoyed sharing a stem from her little flower garden She always saw beauty; even in the smallest things and loved having a collection of treasures all around her home.\n\nSharon was blessed with 5 wonderful grandchildren whom she adored and they adored her Family vacations with her grandchildren and their friends were a highlight for her Fl was one of her favorite vacation spots and she was so proud of the family pictures they would get on the white sand with the ocean in the background.\n\nEight years ago Sharon joined Amanda and her family back in Lakewood where they were able to live together under one roof and she loved that so much was like coming home to a place that she had deep roots Sharon loved visiting the Dallas Arboretum and especially the seasonal concerts; volunteering and nurturing her bluebonnets.\n\nSharon loved a vanilla latte and you could set your watch by it \"Fergie\" would be at the Starbucks drive through for a latte and a \"pup-cup\" for Ferg She and Fergie were best buds and he was by her side every step of the way.\n\nAbove all else Her legacy of love and kindness will continue to live on in their hearts and in the countless lives she touched.\n\nSharon was diagnosed with a progressive form of dementia four years ago and the last six months have been extremely difficult for her and her family and friends.\n\nSharon’s memory will forever be a blessing to her family and friends She will be remembered for her ability to light up a room and her unwavering dedication to those she loved.\n\nA visitation for Mrs Funeral services will take place immediately following the visitation at 2pm located at the Restland Memorial Chapel.","keywords":"Sharon Lyman Pittman Biography","dateCreated":"2025-01-15T21:13:33.083Z","datePublished":"2025-01-15T21:13:33.083Z","dateModified":"2025-01-16T21:54:50.383Z","genre":"Obituary Biography","author":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Restland Funeral Home Cemetery and Crematory","url":"https://www.restlandfuneralhome.com/"}],"mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.restlandfuneralhome.com/obituaries/sharon-pittman-3/obituary","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Restland Funeral Home Cemetery and Crematory","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://cdn.f1connect.net/cdn/14362D-Zjk/layout/images/logo.63873319164.png"}},"creator":"Restland Funeral Home Theodore Lyman and Betty Jean Cameron Lyman preceded her in death Sharon and John married in 1969 and moved to the Lakewood community of Dallas Scott and Amanda were her pride and joy and they kept her busy; from Scott's baseball games to Amanda's cheerleading and dance recitals Sharon also had many fond memories of hosting John's slow pitch softball team that she kept the books for over 20 years Sharon loved people and many would say; she never met a stranger She also worked at several of the schools in Mesquite ISD She always saw the good in people and always wanted to encourage children to do their best John's long for race horses quickly became Sharon's passion as well those were some of the best years of her life Sharon's parents lived right down the street from her and John They instilled the value that you always have more to give and that's where the saying She was a collector of things and it's evident by her collection of sentimental pieces in her home Sharon loved genealogy and spent countless hours researching her ancestors She always saw beauty; even in the smallest things and loved having a collection of treasures all around her home Sharon was blessed with 5 wonderful grandchildren whom she adored and they adored her Fl was one of her favorite vacation spots and she was so proud of the family pictures they would get on the white sand with the ocean in the background Sharon loved a vanilla latte and you could set your watch by it "Fergie" would be at the Starbucks drive through for a latte and a "pup-cup" for Ferg She and Fergie were best buds and he was by her side every step of the way Her legacy of love and kindness will continue to live on in their hearts and in the countless lives she touched Sharon was diagnosed with a progressive form of dementia four years ago and the last six months have been extremely difficult for her and her family and friends Sharon’s memory will forever be a blessing to her family and friends and her unwavering dedication to those she loved Share a story where Sharon's kindness touched your heart Describe a day with Sharon you’ll never forget This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here • Utah State has faced Weber State 59 times in program history • USU and San Diego will meet for the third time this season and the 14th time in series history the Torreros holding a narrow 7-6 edge in the series USU won both meetings last week at the Cal Baptist Classic • Saturday's game will be the 11th all-time between Utah State and Utah Tech the Trailblazers holding a 6-4 series lead • Utah State and Idaho State have faced off 50 times the Aggies holding a 30-20 advantage in the series and is 6-5 versus the Bengals in neutral site matchups Junior pitcher Carly Limosnero spent all seven innings in the circle for USU, allowing just two extra base hits in the game. Junior catcher Grace Matej was responsible for half of the team's runs but an eight-run sixth from Texas A&M held off the upset In the eighth inning, after three-straight outs for the Boilermakers, junior catcher Grace Matej hit a walk-off bases-loaded single to bring home junior infielder Kenzee Hale for the win Matej recorded at least one hit in all five games going 9-for-18 (.500) at the plate with two doubles She had three RBIs in the team's win over No and hit the walk-off run in the bottom of the eighth inning against Purdue Additionally, USU added two new assistant coaches to the dugout. Marissa Schuld joins the Aggies as the team's assistant coach/pitching coach after an outstanding pitching career at Arizona State, while Shelby Thompson joins as an assistant coach after playing four years at UC San Diego Fifita enters her senior campaign with 123 career appearances and 116 starts under her belt through three years in Logan scoring 70 runs with 57 RBIs and totaling 11 doubles and 13 home runs She has also recorded 177 career putouts with 213 assists Matej is coming off a sophomore campaign which saw her earn NFCA Pacific Region and all-Mountain West second team honors in 2024 she has totaled 84 hits and 40 RBIs in 75 games while making 66 starts She has a career batting average of .370 (84-for-227) she has also tallied 161 putouts and 23 assists with just two errors in her career for a .989 fielding percentage USU does return its top pitcher from last season in junior Denay Smith It also returns junior Sydney Saldaña Thanks for visiting Professor of Music Kent Lyman will deliver Meredith College’s Faculty Distinguished Lecture on Thursday The presentation will be an exploration of music’s ability to connect people in powerful ways And there may be a surprising twist along the way the audience will get a glimpse of the passion and creative energy of Beethoven the meticulous attention to detail in the piano teaching of Chopin who was destined to become one of the great composers of the 20th century before her untimely death at age 24 The lecture counts as an Academic/Cultural Event for General Education for Meredith students A reception will follow in Johnson Hall Rotunda Lyman is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music from the Music Teachers National Association and has been inducted into the Steinway International Artists Roster and into the Steinway Music Teacher Hall of Fame He also received Meredith’s Pauline Davis Perry Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement He holds a Doctor of Music and Master of Music from Indiana University-Bloomington and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Utah The Faculty Distinguished Lecture is presented by the Convocation Committee and co-sponsored by the Meredith College Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi A chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society was established at Meredith College in 2023 Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gubernatorial hopeful Phil Lyman at the Utah Republican Nominating Convention in Salt Lake City on Saturday the failed Republican write-in candidate in last year’s gubernatorial election Spencer Cox in the Utah Capitol anytime soon The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear Lyman’s long-shot appeal to disqualify Cox from the 2024 election the nation’s high court announced Monday morning Lyman’s lawsuit was on a list of “certiorari denied” cases the court released Monday, meaning the justices refused to accept the case and the Utah Supreme Court’s decision not to remove Cox from the 2024 primary ballot will remain “We are moving to the next step,” Lyman told The Salt Lake Tribune in a text message later Monday morning A spokesperson for Cox’s campaign declined to comment on the court’s decision to reject the lawsuit “His request is based on a view that the Republican Party’s internal rules trump Utah’s election laws a claim we rejected [previously],” Chief Justice Matthew Durrant wrote in the court’s August decision (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov Spencer Cox speaks to the media on election night at the governorÕs mansion in Salt Lake City on Tuesday In his suit, Lyman — who received 67.5% of GOP delegates’ support in last year’s party convention but lost to Cox 54.4% to 45.6% in the Republican primary — alleged Cox did not collect the signatures needed to be included on the primary ballot A review of signatures Cox collected by the state auditor’s office found it was “statistically likely” that he’d reached the minimal threshold to qualify for the 2024 elections. For e-edition questions or comments, contact customer support 801-237-2900 or email subscribe@sltrib.com sltrib.com © 1996-2025 The Salt Lake Tribune A few weeks ago I started learning Irish via an app The lessons progress like any foreign language course Start with food and water and how to get them My mother grew up in County Mayo in western Ireland but outside of math she never spoke Irish around me I doubt I’ll use Irish conversationally around the Alabama Statehouse unless my cousins in Éire get commanded to do some kind of penance on Goat Hill But maybe it’s a feeling that the people in charge speak a patois the rest of us don’t More: In Alabama abortion fight, it’s conservatives against conservatism | BRIAN LYMAN Those are the fruits of poverty and systemic racism. Our ability to cope with all this, never great to begin with, is shrinking. Hospitals are closing. OB-GYNs don’t want to come here the Legislature seems determined to maintain it Now our elected officials want our kids exposed to preventable diseases, in the name of unverifiable “religious belief.” And they’ve been rather meek about a looming assault on Alabama health care Congress is considering massive cuts to Medicaid — up to $880 billion — to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans. If they go through with it, Alabama could lose $824 million in funding for the program Medicaid covers over 1 million people in Alabama. It pays for about half the births in the state It’s critical to the functioning of Alabama’s hospitals and nursing homes in Alabama which pay special taxes to the state to keep Medicaid going The program should get over $1 billion in state money next year but that doesn’t come close to covering the costs The federal government pays for about 73% of Medicaid in Alabama And if that funding gets cut? On paper, the state could raise taxes to replace what’s lost. But come on. This Legislature will not do that That leaves one option: cutting Medicaid services More: The age of deilocracy | BRIAN LYMAN That will hurt everyone because everyone’s health care in Alabama depends in some part on Medicaid Pediatricians will scale back or end services The least bad outcome would be longer wait times for basic care More illness; more avoidable death; more misery This ought to enrage our leaders, who lose their minds when a teacher acknowledges the existence of gay people But many of them got into government by claiming to hate government So their vocabulary is an argot with many words for “cuts” and “bureaucracy” and none for “vital program” or “public servant.” They want a government so small that it can’t prevent powerful men from drowning Alabama in a bathtub You may remember President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017 The bill he backed included an attempt to turn Medicaid into a block grant program Enacting that would have slashed Alabama Medicaid to ribbons Hospitals and health care providers in the state all but screamed about the grave harm that would do to Alabama The people who could stop the damage couldn’t understand Every single Alabama Republican in Congress — eight of our nine representatives and senators — voted to kill state health care People who understand the importance of these and other public systems — whether trade or education — know that a conservative number-go-down approach to governance is poison to both the economy and the well-being of the governed They’re shoving hard-won expertise aside and tearing through fragile systems of public health care Programs critical to our safety and well-being are under attack from people who feel zero duty to those who elected them Rebuilding these services could take decades Those who work to keep us healthy understand this They have explained the dangers of what our decision-makers are doing in plain English But all our leaders hear is Tá sé dorcha agus scamallach he was truly a gifted man of exceptional talents and varied interests His passion for technology and innovation was evident in his later years as a 3-D printing enthusiast where he meticulously designed digital models of over 190 LDS temples Hugh's educational journey included attending various primary schools graduating from Great Neck High School in Long Island New York and studying for three years at the University of Utah His commitment to service was demonstrated through his time as an LDS missionary in California and his temple service in his later years Hugh is survived by his children: Leon (Teresa) Lyman and Jane Lyman; stepchildren: Greg Beall and Fletcher Beall; six grandchildren; four step grandchildren; and twelve great-grandchildren He also leaves behind his sisters: Bonnie Edwards and Barbara Rowley Hugh was preceded in death by his wife: Jeanne E A graveside service will be held in the spring of 2025 at Tooele Utah Cemetery (date to be later announced) please consider a contribution to be made to the LDS Church Missionary Fund at: donate.churchofjesuschrist.org Hugh will be missed and remembered for his stories of adventures in the wild All will live on through his family and friends Friends and family held a funeral for the eight-year-old boy and his mother Utah (KUTV) — Friends and family held a funeral for the boy and his mother was found critically injured but later died from her injuries Nearly a week and a half after the shooting police have not publicly identified a suspect They have not said exactly how the boy died or how Lyman was injured KUTV 2News reached out to the Saratoga Springs Police Department and asked the following questions: A spokesperson said officers are still conducting interviews and subpoenas right now « Back Thanks for visiting Doing the Time Warp: An Exploration of the Power of Music to Connect Us Across Time Kent Lyman for an exploration of the power of music to connect people in powerful ways we will get a glimpse of the passion and creative energy of Beethoven destined to become one of the great composers of the 20th century before her untimely death at age 24 And there might be a surprising twist somewhere along the way Lecture attendance counts as an Academic/Cultural Event for General Education for Meredith students Reception to follow in Johnson Hall Rotunda Utah Republican Party Chair Rob Axson confirmed on Wednesday that he will seek reelection as the leader of the state GOP after former gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman announced his intention to run last month Axson’s supporters say he has done his best to bridge Republican divides which may have reached their deepest point during the 2024 election cycle when Lyman launched a write-in campaign for governor instead of supporting Republican primary victor Utah Gov Ahead of the state GOP’s organizing convention on May 17 Lyman has laid out his vision to use the chairmanship to fight against Utah’s political establishment on elections transparency and unfounded allegations of corruption while Axson has staked out a plan for growing a principled “I look at political parties as being vehicles that can be force multipliers for good and also can be distractions,” Axson told the Deseret News “And I believe that what we’ve done so far over the last two years is meaningfully move the party in a positive direction where it can continue to be a force multiplier for good.” The battle for control of the Utah Republican Party comes down to which candidate is most capable of navigating intraparty rifts and raising money for Republican nominees But the outcome of the race will decide much more than donor dollars as an influential organization in the state As one of the party’s top donors and one of its two national committee members Brad Bonham said he understands why fellow party members might be split on Utah’s GOP succession Lyman is a strong candidate, Bonham said — having received more than 200,500 write-in votes in the general election and having “exposed some things that need fixing” with the signature-gathering process But it is equally hard to ignore Axson’s stellar track record “We’ve never had more success than the last 18 months,” Bonham said The 2024 election cycle saw the Utah Republican Party nearly triple its fundraising receipts compared to the previous two presidential election years, with a total of nearly $3 million — surpassing fundraising hauls from at least the past two decades Some of the donations drawn to the party over the last year-and-a-half included nearly $1.7 million from President Donald Trump’s election PAC and tens of thousands of dollars from former Trump advisers The most important part of having full coffers was being able to cut “six figures worth of checks to the party’s nominees last year,” Bonham said pointing to his historic fundraising and unprecedented efforts to help GOP candidates in Arizona and Nevada Having worked with Axson and Lyman for many years Coleman said she can attest to both candidates' love for the state and commitment to the party platform “The main differences are style and tone and ability to motivate people to action whether that is showing up or writing checks,” Coleman said “And even the best vision and message requires effective fundraising to spread that message and make things happen.” But fundraising is only one piece of the GOP chair’s job description a chair must also serve as the spokesperson for three very different groups: the roughly 200 State Central Committee members the over 4,000 state delegates and the nearly 950,000 registered Republicans “Rob has done as well or better job than anybody else could do it in the state,” Lockhart said That doesn’t mean Axson’s first term went without a hitch praised the party’s balance sheet under Axson but pointed to last year’s caucus night which was plagued by a logistical meltdown which broke into booing of incumbents multiple times during the 12-hour marathon as areas for improvement during a second term Axson said he will prioritize learning from these experiences and expanding the party’s influence with better data collection broader outreach to diverse demographics and more persuasive messaging for Salt Lake County voters to put the party “on a path of continued relevance.” This path might look very different under a Lyman chairmanship In his announcement Lyman said the imperative during his tenure would be to reclaim “the high ground that has been ceded to imposters in our own party.” Lyman later outlined his “top four priorities,” with No 1 being to eliminate the signature-gathering route to the primary ballot and to refuse party “backing endorsement or funding” to any candidate that gathers signatures His other top issues would be to disrupt the establishment and to “grow the Republican voter base” by reengaging “disenfranchised” conservatives and to advocate for local government control I will bring the message of honestly (sic) and light to all those who believe in conservative politics and Republican principles,” Lyman said one of the 14 State Central Committee members from Davis County said Lyman has shown he is “ahead of the curve” on issues “doesn’t give up” and is “dedicated to transparency.” trust and hope for Utah’s future,” Garner said But for one elected official — who voted for Lyman in the governor’s race — the level of division Lyman may continue to cause overshadows other considerations backed Lyman’s efforts to challenge current election practices the official said that a Lyman chairmanship would cause donors to flee and could wipe out the party’s influence in campaigns and on Capitol Hill Phil has burned all of his bridges,” the official said Washington County GOP chair Lesa Sandberg also worries that Lyman’s style could impact the “ability to fundraise” and “establish good relations” with elected officials making it difficult for him to accomplish his goals — many of which are shared by Axson “It’s their approach that is different,” Sandberg said “Rob wants to bring everybody to the table Like Sandberg, former Salt Lake County GOP chair Chris Null — who finished his second term on Saturday — is no fan of the current signature-workaround to the caucus-convention system And as someone who dug into the data on signature gathering Null said he is glad that Lyman has put the spotlight on signature verification and transparency But he feels that Lyman’s scorched earth ethos has “ostracized” too many stakeholders from the bottom up “It’s going to be hard for somebody like Phil to run the party because a lot of people don’t want to work with them anymore,” Null said “I think we all agree on the issues and that we want to solve them The problem is that some of us want to work together and some of us want to work against each other and that’s the frustrating part that we’re seeing right now.” There is a fair chance that Lyman will win again among the state delegates that nominated him in the gubernatorial race with 68% of the vote last April But if he takes the GOP chair’s seat, Lyman would be expected to do the one thing he has not done, Lockhart said: support winning Republicans he disagrees with, instead of filming advertisements with their Democratic opponents a Republican write-in candidate for governor has sued two other write-in candidates with his same last name alleging that they were offered payment by Spencer Cox's campaign to run for office and the damages from their campaign cost him up to $1.7 million Phil Lyman filed a lawsuit against Richard and Carol Lyman on Oct. 16 with the allegations. However, on Thursday, the two parties agreed to a stipulation that Richard and Carol Lyman would drop out of the race by 5 p.m. and that "any vote for Lyman in the general election will be construed as a vote for Phil Lyman," the proposed stipulation says Governor's Office confirmed the withdrawal and clarified it is directing county clerks to treat the election like Richard and Carol Lyman never entered the race The office said it is reasonable to assume that any write-in votes for "Lyman" will be counted as votes for Phil Lyman filed the suit in Utah's 3rd District Court Richard Lyman reported the Cox campaign offered him $1,000 and a steak dinner in exchange for declaring his candidacy." Richard and Carol Lyman have denied the allegations The Cox campaign has previously called the allegations "blatantly false." The suit includes a declaration from James Newson who alleges he's a co-worker of Richard Lyman Richard Lyman took a personal phone call at work and told Newson the Cox campaign had just offered him the money and dinner to "mess with Lyman's campaign." "He seemed genuinely excited about it," Newson wrote in his declaration Newson alleges Richard Lyman left work early to go file to run Newson then alleges in his filing that after he talked to Phil Lyman and to the media about his claims Richard Lyman denounced that Cox had anything to do with the alleged offer and wasn't threatening him The court documents show those text messages from Sept but they cut off after Richard Lyman wrote I've never spoken of or had any form of ..." That's the end of the text thread Court documents show that the lawsuit is still open Richard and Carol Lyman released a statement about withdrawing from the governor and lieutenant governor's race Richard and Carol Lyman said the claims in the lawsuit against them are false and they were "forced out" of the race "Before we even submitted our candidacy a plan was already in motion to push us out of the race," Richard and Carol Lyman said "The plan culminated in a frivolous lawsuit that we simply cannot afford to fight … We have every right to run for governor and lieutenant governor and should not have been forced out by those with deeper pockets." Carol Lyman had broken her femur "days after knee surgery on the same leg," claiming it made it "harder to get their campaign off the ground." The statement said Richard Lyman had "political aspirations since childhood (and) wanted to bring attention to issues like homelessness Richard and Carol Lyman said they are grateful for the support they received during the campaign and wish "all candidates running for elected office the best of luck in the coming weeks as Utahns cast their ballots for the next governor and lieutenant governor." Utah County clerk backs Phil Lyman's claims Utah County Clerk Aaron Davidson also filed a brief on behalf of Phil Lyman pledging support for another of Phil Lyman's claims that Richard and Carol Lyman have not campaigned since they filed "I have not seen nor heard any campaigning from Lyman/Lyman," Davidson wrote his declaration "Every attempt that I have seen of someone to reach out to them has been met with the door being closed on them." Davidson noted that Richard and Carol Lyman's campaign website only has five photos which has nothing "to do with their campaign," and the links do not work "It can be rightfully assumed that their entire campaign is to create voter confusion." (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gubernatorial candidate Rep Failed gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman suffered another setback in court Thursday as a judge dismissed his lawsuit against write-in candidate Richard Lyman which claimed that Richard Lyman was paid by Gov Spencer Cox’s supporters to get in the race to confuse voters and sap votes from Phil Lyman’s own write-in bid Phil Lyman was seeking $1.7 million in damages from Richard Lyman and his mother and lieutenant governor candidate Carol Lyman But Utah 3rd District Judge Amber Mettler said Thursday that Phil Lyman and his candidate for lieutenant governor Natalie Clawson had failed to provide evidence to support any of their claims dismissing the lawsuit and ordering Phil Lyman and Clawson to pay attorneys fees court costs and expenses incurred in the litigation “I’m disappointed but not surprised,” Phil Lyman said after the decision that the media has been unwilling to look into the inducement of Richard Lyman and his mother to run as write-in candidates.” Richard and Carol Lyman dropped out of the gubernatorial race after Phil Lyman sued them saying they could not afford the fight to continue their candidacy “The claims in the lawsuit were categorically false,” Richard Lyman said in a statement Thursday “We had every right to run for governor and lieutenant governor and should not have been forced out by those with deeper pockets Hopefully this is a lesson for anyone who would intimidate political candidates trying to make their communities better by pursuing a life of public service.” Phil Lyman’s lawsuit alleged that Richard Lyman had told a work colleague that he had been called by a supporter of Cox and offered $1,000 and a steak dinner to file as a write-in candidate for governor voters would have had to write the candidate’s full name in order for their votes to count which presumably would have diluted some of Phil Lyman’s support Phil Lyman received 200,551 votes in the November election, about 581,000 fewer than Cox, but is believed to be the most by any write-in candidate in U.S. elections. The defeat has not deterred Phil Lyman, who continues to claim on social media that Cox’s election is illegitimate and alleges the governor did not collect enough valid signatures to qualify for the primary ballot. Phil Lyman also claims there should not have been a Republican primary because he won about two-thirds of the vote from the delegates at the Republican nominating convention. Both claims have been rejected by the courts. Most recently, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Phil Lyman’s lawsuit challenging the nominating process. Note to readers • This story has been updated to include a statement from Phil Lyman. Weeks after his write-in campaign for governor fell short state representative Phil Lyman made it clear he won’t be going anywhere Lyman told his supporters in a forum at a crowded Chubby’s Cafe in Orem on Friday night that he intends on running for governor again in 2028 I don’t know why I have to file as a write-in candidate because I do plan on running in four years I plan on fighting this fight on whatever front.” dubbed “The Truth About Utah Elections,” acted as a recap of Lyman’s campaign which saw him garner 13.57% of the vote as a write-in candidate to finish in third place behind Republican incumbent Spencer Cox and Democrat challenger Brian King Also speaking throughout the two-hour meeting was Lyman’s running mate who oversaw election results in Utah County Lyman won the state Republican convention in April but lost the GOP primary by a sizable margin to Cox after Cox made the ballot by garnering the necessary signatures continues to doubt whether Cox actually got enough signatures and questions the validity of Cox’s primary victory He petitioned the Utah Supreme Court to toss out the election results and remove Cox from office “We’ve got a little bit of an ax to grind on this whole thing,” Lyman admitted Friday “When we asked to see the nominating petitions for Spencer Cox and we got such a nasty response ‘I believe that he does not have his signatures.’ Then I just started saying there were over 40,000 illegitimate primary votes for Cox “It’s based on some of the statistical things that we had seen and my own gut reaction of seeing the huge lead that he had starting that primary election on the initial dump and then that lead slowly diminished over time You would expect if someone’s going to get 60% of the vote and they get more and more of a vote-count lead Lyman also noted that his 200,551 write-in votes were a United States all-time record then took a jab KSL and Deseret News by saying neither of them wrote about the achievement “We didn’t run for governor because we wanted to hold the office,” he said “We ran for governor because we wanted to expose the corruption that was taking place in Utah And I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished.” who had an eventful election cycle himself ended up being the one who dominated most of the two-hour conversation answering questions from Lyman and airing his grievances on a number of items He claimed that mail-in ballots are not “safe and secure” and lamented the signature verification process “They say voting by mail is secure because there’s signature verification,” Davidson said “But that signature verification is very subjective.” He also addressed the audit the lieutenant governor’s office conducted in Utah County after the primaries regarding signature verification saying the state accused him of being “too strict,” in determining which signatures to approve even though he felt “we were not as strict as Davis County in the Democratic primary.” When Lyman him asked why he was getting audited and was being treated “unfairly,” Davidson said the state does not trust him because he’s questioned the validity of the election process “They keep saying that if you return your ballot through the U.S you can choose whatever way you want.’ But that is not true … If you return your ballot through the U.S Davidson also called Utah County Commissioner Amelia Powers Gardner his “nemesis” and addressed why he’s been so outspoken throughout the whole process despite his position saying he has nothing to lose because he has no desire for a political career and is looking forward to retirement “If I don’t get reelected or if I get kicked out “If I was wanting to make a career out of this I would be less vocal because it is damaging my reputation a little bit personally LLC | www.heraldextra.com | 1200 Towne Centre Blvd The reported attack comes just days before Russia's Victory Day parade and three-day "truce." MPs will be able to ask questions and learn more about the details of the agreement in meetings with Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko May 6-7 MP Serhii Sobolev told the news outlet Suspilne The ratification vote is scheduled for May 8 Attacks against the border villages of Bilopillia and Vorozhba damaged civilian infrastructure and triggered emergency evacuations the regional military administration reported "I look forward to working with President Erdogan on getting the ridiculous war between Russia and Ukraine ended — now!" U.S Putin's Victory Day truce "doesn't sound like much if you know where we started from," Trump told reporters at the White House on May 5 Far-right Euroskeptic candidate George Simion head of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan placed second with 20.99% of the vote and the candidate from the ruling coalition "It requires the continuation of contacts between Moscow and Washington which have been launched and are now ongoing," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said set to operate within the Council of Europe will focus on Russia's political and military leaders up to 20 Russian soldiers were killed and their equipment destroyed The move represents an apparent violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions passed in the wake of North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests "We are ready to deepen our contribution to the training of the Ukrainian military," Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on May 5 by Tim ZadorozhnyyTank battalion of 59th Motorized Brigade fires artillery towards the Russian positions in Donetsk 2023 (Ozge Elif Kizil / Anadolu via Getty Images)Russian forces in the Lyman sector of Donetsk Oblast violated the one-day Easter ceasefire and launched a large-scale infantry assault shortly after its end spokesperson for Ukraine's 66th Separate Mechanized Brigade Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a symbolic one-day ceasefire on April 19, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said was violated around 3,000 times "This so-called truce did more damage to us," Blyshchyk said "A few hours after Putin announced the ceasefire our positions came under massive artillery fire." According to the spokesperson, Russian forces exploited the lull to reposition units and prepare for renewed assaults "We saw them pulling up their infantry to the front line along with weapons including rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machine guns," she said "Our aerial reconnaissance recorded more than 120 Russian occupiers dispersing in plantations and dugouts during the so-called Easter truce." Russian forces launched a large-scale infantry offensive The Lyman sector in northern Donetsk Oblast remains one of the most fiercely contested areas along the front line Its strategic importance lies in its proximity to key transport routes and logistics corridors The assault follows statements from Ukrainian military leadership that Russia's anticipated spring offensive is already underway On April 9, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi confirmed that Moscow had begun its spring campaign, with intensified attacks across multiple sectors of the front line Tim Zadorozhnyy is a news editor at The Kyiv Independent he is pursuing studies in International Relations Tim began his career at a local television channel in Odesa he joined the Belarusian opposition media outlet NEXTA starting as a news anchor and later advancing to the position of managing editor