1. City's Park and Recreation Board gets two free VIP passes and a free parking pass for Austin's popular musical fest ACL. Director Colin Wallis the tickets are for work purposes only, he explains how it's an opportunity to understand the biggest event in the city so afterward they can have a talk about it. Rick Cofer, a board member declines the tickets saying he felt uncomfortable taking the tickets and that it doesn't seem necessary, saying he's presence isn't worth  $800 expense. Don Zimmerman also forgoing the ACL passes saying he thought there was a policy preventing him from accepting the tickets, board members and city officials aren't allowed to accept "any gifts or favor that might reasonably tend to influence that individual in the discharge of official duties." Sabine Romero expressing in an email that it's OK for mayor and council members to accept the passes because they're in the the ethics and compliance division of the city's law department. Council member Ann Kitchen said that the tickets are appropriate but she anticipates using them. Ora Houston gave her passes to to 311 operators who are filling in at her office as a "thank you." I think it's a nice perk maybe the VIP passes are a little over welming, but other wise I think it's appropriate.

2. The state of Oklahoma has implemented a stay on all death-penalty executions because they're finding it harder to go through with the executions as they struggle to obtain use limited supplies of suitable drugs. Prisons In Texas and Virgina improvise by trading drugs used in lethal injections. Ohio is buying a drug no longer avaliable in the United States from overseas. Tennessee Prison officials are authorized to use the electric chair if lethal drug is unavaliable.

Research Scenario Part 2

For research, since the teacher claims they got it from the district website of approved lessons, I would look on that website for the powerpoint. I would then contact the district and ask and search for other related topics. I would search to see if it's against school reculations for a teacher to teach that. I'd research other districts and rules the school districts has maybe even the state has against teaching the subject. I'd research peoples opinions, arguments towards the subject to get their reason for the discussion. I'd research any events that relate to this one that has happened in the past.

Observation Practice: Journalism 6th period, Mr.Winter

I observed my own class because they're always seems to be a lot of discussion and opinions about a subject we talk about. They always bring up a topic about the news, something that's currently happening and they have a discussion on that topic, mostly Jack and Fran expressing their opinions throughout the talk of the subject. The class is very calm about the discussions, there is never an argument that breaks out. Not everyone will discuss about the topic some will keep quite and listen to other peoples opinions. The class overall has plenty to talk about and observe. 

1.  Mike Perrin was asked to be interim athletic director of the UT football team, he was asked to make this decision on Labor Day. This decision was made after UT suffered a 35-point loss at their opening game to Notre dame. UT folks were unhappy to know that they lost a 35-point loss on opening game, but are glad to know that Patterson was placed with Perrin, one of their own.

2.  CIA director John Bernnan was at the University of Texas for the release of some of the sought-after documents in Washington: daily briefs given to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960's. The drive to unveil the documents stemmed from the White house to make a shift of openness in the governments. The CIA made the documents public on their website. The PDB is the Presidents Daily Briefs, deatils the most crucial security concerns.

3.  Hungarian security left human rights group angry after unleaching water canons and tear gas after asylum seekers tried to break through the wire fence preventing them from crossing. Migrants are forced to take and alternative route to their destination, they began crossing Serbia into Croatia. The routes aren't a good option because secruity is forced to check all borders.

4.  A 14-year-old McCarthur High School muslim student was handcuffed and questioned after bringing a home made clock who teachers thought was a bomb. The school officials tried defend their actions by saying "we live in the age where you can't take thngs like that to school." The responce of social media was #IstandwithAhmed and the response of President Obama was "cool" and "It's what makes americans great." Irvings fear that this action is connected to the new law that forbids judges from rulings based of "foreign laws".

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  I first learned about this story through social media of the repeated #IstandwithAhmed on Twitter, Facebook and even Instagram. I think the social media coverage of the story explains it just as fair as the newspaper did, by stating an act of wrong naming just based on the race and religion of the school officials and town officials. Based on the value of this story I do agree with the placement of it being a wrong act by the officials, I think they judged him because of his race and religion. If I was editor of this story I would of placed it on page A1 replacing the news of the new UT athletic director, because this story is way more important and informing to us.

1.  The University of Texas is under fire for hiring two graduate assistants who had a criminal back ground of violently assaulting a gay man in Austin. UT officials can't explain hiring them publicly due to federal laws protecting confidential student information. I think UT officials did know about the hate crime the two graduates pulled because that big of a crime would of showed up on their record and most hiring jobs do a background check and I would suspect if your hiring to work at a public school you would willing know to do a background check. I think UT officials ignored the fact that Darren Gay and Glen Gay both had criminal background for assaulting a man.

2.  Baltimore city made the deal to change the venue for the trials of the six officers charged with Gray's death. The mayor had supported the deal and said that the board should not be interpreted of the judgment on the guilt or innocence of the officers. A case similar to Gray's happened in New York City in July for an unarmed man who died after being put in a choke hold by a white officer.

3.  Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel announced yesterday that Germany will except half a million refugees a year for several years. Some observers criticized the announcing of a reduction in cash handouts for asylum seekers. The large crisis that lead to Germany actions was desperate Syrians and Iraqis searching for sanctuary in wealthy countries. Germany responded to it by letting half a million migrants into Germany.

4.  Ted Cruz invited Donald Trump to his anti-Iran nuclear deal rally. Cruz has a different view on the immigration referring to the idea of Trumps a "shining a light" on an immigration crisis unlike like other republican presidential who call the idea "ugly and "divisive".

5.  Hillary Clinton apologized on Tuesday for her using her private email account as secretary of state after declining to express remorse. The two Republicans in congress are seeking legal protection for him in an effort to compel him to testify. Commingling mean to mix and blend. The two commingling things in this story are the issues of her email and the shaken of her presidential campaign. The other mistake she made was voting to support the invasion of Iraq in 2002.