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LOS ANGELES -- Screen leg- end Elizabeth Taylor, the violet- eyed film goddess whose sultry screen life was often upstaged by her stormy personal life, died Wednesday at age 79. She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hos- pitalized for about six weeks, pub- licist Sally Morrison said. “All her children were with her,” Morrison said. Taylor had extraordinary grace, fame and wealth, and won three Oscars, including a special one for her humanitarian work. But she was tortured by ill health, failed romances and personal trag- edy. “I think I’m becoming fatalis- tic,” she said in 1989. “Too much has happened in my life for me not to be fatalistic.” Her eight marriages - includ- ing two to actor Richard Burton - and a lifelong battle with sub- stance abuse, physical ailments and overeating made Taylor as popular in supermarket tabloids as in classic film festivals. Taylor disclosed in November 2004 that she had congestive heart failure. But she still periodically dismissed reports that she was at death’s door, saying she used a wheelchair only because of chronic back problems that began at age 12 when she fell from a horse. “Oh, come on, do I look like I’m dying?” she said in May 2006 in a rare television interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” “Do I look like or sound like I have Al- zheimer’s?” Tabloids report such things “because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else,” she said. When she turned 75 the fol- lowing year, she was asked about the secret to her longevity and quipped: “Hangin’ in.” The London-born actress was a star at age 12, a bride and a di- vorcee at 18, a screen goddess at 19 and a widow at 26. She appeared in more than 50 films, and won Oscars for her per- formances in “Butterfield 8” (1960) THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011 A PEOPLE’S PUBLICATION Vol. 35 • No. 47 BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA INDEX Local & State ...........................2 Commentary............................4 Business...................................5 Classified .................................5 Religion ...................................6 Health ......................................7 STATE & LOCAL NEWS BUSINESS NEWS HEALTH NEWS CLASSIFIED Buying or selling a service, looking for a good job or a good used car? Check out the classifeds . DRUG TARGET FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES Researchers at the Pennington Bio- medical Research Center, in results published in Nature Medicine, have discovered the mechanism that leads to an inflammatory response in obe- sity ....See Page 7 HARRIS SUMMER SCIENCE CAMP The highly sought after 2011 Exx- onMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp is set this sum- mer at Southern University and applications are being accepted now for the nationally recognized program.... See Page 3 BLUE CROSS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Loui- siana has named Dr. Ken Phenow, MD, MPH as its chief medical officer and senior vice president of clinical affairs. In this role, Phenow will pro- vide clinical leadership and oversee the company...See Page 5 Gamma Eta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. has launched its new signature program, Emerging Young Leaders Academy. The kick-off event was held at the Gamma Eta Omega Sorority House on January 29, 2011. This program is geared toward providing middle school girls an opportunity to expand their leadership, educational, and social skills through a series of activities..See Page 2 EMERGING YOUNG LEADERS ACADEMY RELIGION NEWS The World Link of Churches & Ministries presents The Holy Ghost Merger Conference to be held be- tween April 4th-8th at 7:00 p.m. and noon services begin on April 5th....See Page 6 THE WEEKLY PRESS .COM Celebrating 35 Years Of Service To The Baton Rouge Community 225.775.2002 Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Age 79 BATON ROUGE, — Louisiana legislators joined with Junior Achievement and AT&T this week to help high school students make the connection between suc- cess in the classroom and in the workplace. More than 30 students from Scotlandville and Cen- tral High Schools spent part of the day shadowing the leg- islators, touring the House and Senate chambers, and learning about the legislative process. Legislators leading the job shadow programs were State Senators Dale Erdey and Danny Martiny and State Representatives Dalton Honoré, Erich Ponti, and Clif Richardson. The event was part of a multimillion dollar, multiyear job shadow program funded by AT&T in conjunction with Junior Achievement to help combat the nation’s alarming dropout rate. More than 1.2 million American students drop out of high school every year, with many saying they simply don’t see the relevance between school work and life success. Legislators Help High School Students Experience the Benefits of Staying in School Job Shadow Event Part of $100 Million Effort by AT&T and Junior Achievement to Help Reduce High School Drop Out Rate Students from the Junior Achievement with Rick Demint – AT&T Regional Director were shadowing the Louisiana legislators during the Special Session. Photo by James Terry III, photojournalist See SCHOOL, on page 2 OSAKA (AFP) – Japan on Wednesday said the cost of rebuilding the country after its biggest recorded earth- quake could be as much as 25 trillion yen ($309 billion) as a deepening radiation scare hit shares. In the biggest estimate so far, Japan put the cost of the earthquake-tsunami di- saster at more than twice that inflicted by the 1995 Kobe quake. The World Bank has said Japan needs up to five years to rebuild. Analysts warn however that the figure may rise the longer an atomic crisis at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant remains unresolved, with an ongoing radiation scare threatening the capital Tokyo, 250 kilometres (155 miles) away. “The damage is far bigger than the Kobe quake,” Japan’s economy minister Kaoru Yo- sano told a press conference, adding “it will take a long time to complete reconstruction.” Japanese shares, which had been slightly lower on profit-taking after two days of strong gains, fell sharply in late trade after the Tokyo Metropolitan government said levels of radioactive iodine ex- ceeded safe limits for infants for two consecutive days. “This is a huge setback, as we expected the impact from the nuclear radiation to be limited up to this point,” said Yumi Nishimura, deputy general manager at Daiwa Se- curities. The Nikkei 225 index ended down 1.65 percent, or 158.85 points to 9,449.47. The Topix index slipped 7.03 points, or 0.81 percent, to 861.10. Markets are vulnerable to signs of setback in delicate operations to restore power to overheating reactors at the leaking Fukushima atomic plant crippled by the March 11 disaster. Japan’s food contamina- tion scare has rippled across the world. The United States blocked imports of dairy and other produce from regions around the disaster-struck power plant. Japan ordered the halt of Japan Rebuild May Hit $309 Billion, Radiation Fears Grow WORLD NEWS Families offer flowers and food to their dead relatives as they hold a funeral at a temporary cemetary in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture on March 23. Japan has said the cost of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami could hit 25 trillion yen ($309 billion), with the destruction pushing down growth in the next fiscal year.… Read more » BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Legislature is in full action as the Louisiana House and Senate restruc- ture seats for the Louisiana House and Senate, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the U.S. House and the Public Service Com- mission. Due to Hurricane Katrina and other popula- tion shifts, Louisiana lost a Congressional seat and the legislature session must re- organize the Congressional maps. The session started at 5:00 p.m. with Governor Bobby Jindal addressing the House and the Senate. Legislators Start Redistricting Special Session Sunday Governor Bobby Jindal greeting legislators of House and Senate during the opening of the Special Session. Photo by James Terry III, photojournalist See JAPAN, on page 2 Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor See TAYLOR, on page 2 Legislators discussing the upcoming Special Session, mainly talking about the redistricting of both House and Senate. Photo by James Terry III, photojouralist
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LOS ANGELES -- Screen leg-end Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen life was often upstaged by her stormy personal life, died Wednesday at age 79.
She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hos-pitalized for about six weeks, pub-licist Sally Morrison said.
“All her children were with her,” Morrison said.
Taylor had extraordinary grace, fame and wealth, and won three Oscars, including a special one for her humanitarian work. But she was tortured by ill health, failed romances and personal trag-edy.
“I think I’m becoming fatalis-tic,” she said in 1989. “Too much has happened in my life for me not to be fatalistic.”
Her eight marriages - includ-ing two to actor Richard Burton - and a lifelong battle with sub-stance abuse, physical ailments and overeating made Taylor as popular in supermarket tabloids as in classic film festivals.
Taylor disclosed in November 2004 that she had congestive heart failure. But she still periodically dismissed reports that she was at death’s door, saying she used a wheelchair only because of chronic back problems that began at age 12 when she fell from a horse.
“Oh, come on, do I look like I’m dying?” she said in May 2006 in a rare television interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” “Do I look like or sound like I have Al-zheimer’s?” Tabloids report such things “because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else,” she said.
When she turned 75 the fol-lowing year, she was asked about the secret to her longevity and quipped: “Hangin’ in.”
The London-born actress was a star at age 12, a bride and a di-vorcee at 18, a screen goddess at 19 and a widow at 26.
She appeared in more than 50 films, and won Oscars for her per-formances in “Butterfield 8” (1960)
THURSDAY, MARcH 24, 2011 A people’S pUblicATion Vol. 35 • No. 47
b a t o n r o u g e , l o u i s i a n a
INDEXLocal & State ...........................2Commentary ............................4 Business ...................................5Classified .................................5Religion ...................................6Health ......................................7
State & local NewS BuSiNeSS NewS HealtH NewS
claSSified Buying or selling a service, looking for a good job or a good used car? Check out the classifeds .
drug target for type 2 diaBeteSResearchers at the Pennington Bio-medical Research Center, in results published in Nature Medicine, have discovered the mechanism that leads to an inflammatory response in obe-sity....See Page 7
HarriS Summer ScieNce campThe highly sought after 2011 Exx-onMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp is set this sum-mer at Southern University and applications are being accepted now for the nationally recognized program.... See Page 3
Blue croSS cHief medical officerBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Loui-siana has named Dr. Ken Phenow, MD, MPH as its chief medical officer and senior vice president of clinical affairs. In this role, Phenow will pro-vide clinical leadership and oversee the company...See Page 5
Gamma Eta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. has launched its new signature program, Emerging Young Leaders Academy. The kick-off event was held at the Gamma Eta Omega Sorority House on January 29, 2011. This program is geared toward providing middle school girls an opportunity to expand their leadership, educational, and social skills through a series of activities..See Page 2
emergiNg youNg leaderS academy religioN NewS The World Link of Churches & Ministries presents The Holy Ghost Merger Conference to be held be-tween April 4th-8th at 7:00 p.m. and noon services begin on April 5th....See Page 6
THEWEEKLYPRESS.COM Celebrating 35 Years Of Service To The Baton Rouge Community 225.775.2002
elizabeth taylor dies at age 79 BATON ROUGE, —
Louisiana legislators joined with Junior Achievement and AT&T this week to help high school students make the connection between suc-cess in the classroom and in the workplace.
More than 30 students from Scotlandville and Cen-tral High Schools spent part of the day shadowing the leg-islators, touring the House and Senate chambers, and learning about the legislative process. Legislators leading
the job shadow programs were State Senators Dale Erdey and Danny Martiny and State Representatives Dalton Honoré, Erich Ponti, and Clif Richardson.
The event was part of a
multimillion dollar, multiyear job shadow program funded by AT&T in conjunction with Junior Achievement to help combat the nation’s alarming dropout rate. More than 1.2 million American students
drop out of high school every year, with many saying they simply don’t see the relevance between school work and life success.
legislators Help High School Students experience the Benefits of Staying in School
Job Shadow Event Part of $100 Million Effort by AT&T and
Junior Achievement to Help Reduce
High School Drop Out Rate
Students from the Junior Achievement with Rick Demint – AT&T Regional Director were shadowing the Louisiana legislators during the Special Session. Photo by James Terry III, photojournalist
See school, on page 2
OSAKA (AFP) – Japan on Wednesday said the cost of rebuilding the country after its biggest recorded earth-quake could be as much as 25 trillion yen ($309 billion) as a deepening radiation scare hit shares.
In the biggest estimate so far, Japan put the cost of the earthquake-tsunami di-saster at more than twice that inflicted by the 1995 Kobe quake. The World Bank has said Japan needs up to five years to rebuild.
Analysts warn however that the figure may rise the longer an atomic crisis at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant remains unresolved, with an ongoing radiation scare threatening the capital Tokyo, 250 kilometres (155 miles) away.
“The damage is far bigger than the Kobe quake,” Japan’s economy minister Kaoru Yo-sano told a press conference, adding “it will take a long time to complete reconstruction.”
Japanese shares, which had been slightly lower on profit-taking after two days of strong gains, fell sharply
in late trade after the Tokyo Metropolitan government said levels of radioactive iodine ex-ceeded safe limits for infants for two consecutive days.
“This is a huge setback, as we expected the impact from the nuclear radiation to be limited up to this point,” said Yumi Nishimura, deputy general manager at Daiwa Se-curities.
The Nikkei 225 index ended down 1.65 percent, or 158.85 points to 9,449.47. The Topix index slipped 7.03 points, or 0.81 percent, to 861.10.
Markets are vulnerable to signs of setback in delicate operations to restore power to overheating reactors at the leaking Fukushima atomic plant crippled by the March 11 disaster.
Japan’s food contamina-tion scare has rippled across the world. The United States blocked imports of dairy and other produce from regions around the disaster-struck power plant.
Japan ordered the halt of
Japan rebuild may Hit $309 Billion, radiation fears grow
World NeWs
Families offer flowers and food to their dead relatives as they hold a funeral at a temporary cemetary in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture on March 23. Japan has said the cost of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami could hit 25 trillion yen ($309 billion), with the destruction pushing down growth in the next fiscal year.… Read more »
BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Legislature is in full action as the Louisiana House and Senate restruc-ture seats for the Louisiana House and Senate, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the U.S. House and the Public Service Com-mission.
Due to Hurricane Katrina and other popula-tion shifts, Louisiana lost a Congressional seat and the legislature session must re-organize the Congressional maps.
The session started at 5:00 p.m. with Governor Bobby Jindal addressing the House and the Senate.
legislators Start redistricting Special Session Sunday
Governor Bobby Jindal greeting legislators of House and Senate during the opening of the Special Session. Photo by James Terry III, photojournalist
See japan, on page 2
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor
See taylor, on page 2
Legislators discussing the upcoming Special Session,
mainly talking about the redistricting of both House
and Senate. Photo by James Terry III, photojouralist
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MARGE CHIT CHAT
What have we to fear of the future, unless we forget our past history.
Awake and Alert? Well, are you? There is a rumbling of trouble everywhere and I am sure it is worth noting by you as by me. There is the tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan with food and water supplies that may be contaminated. Then there is the Libyan crisis with our President Obama saying that we cannot stand idly by and do nothing. More-over, there is Head Start cuts on the horizon,
Reduction in Force (RIF) in the EBR Schools, contention to keep our waterways secure, etc. What’s next?
Census Shows Mixed-Race Population is growing. Yes, years ago mixed marriages in our state was illegal but now it is as common today as with any state. Now, the multiracial population is up (would you believe?) 70%!
GOOD NEWS concerning the Katrina victims who want to repay in kind the victims of the recent tsunami in Japan. Many fundraisers are being held around the state to help these victims. There is an outpouring of support especially generated by children (and this brings joy to our hearts). Schools are getting involved everywhere and contributions are going to the Red Cross.
HONOR AN ANGEL by nominating someone in our state for the 2011 Angel Award. Interested? Go to www.bobsia.com and click on About Blue, then company, and then Angel Award. You can also call 1-888-219-2583 to have a nomination packet mailed. The deadline for nominations is May 13.
“Zulu Celebrating Hollywood Movies” was the theme for the Zulu and Pleasure Club earlier this month. This annual coronation had at its king and queen Anthony Barker and Chanel Howard Barker. Congratulations to all participants.
DID YOU KNOW? Even children pay taxes on investments? Yes, children who earn investment income, including interest, dividends and capital gains, will be taxed on that income, pos-sibly at their parents’ tax rate.
Baton Rouge Sigma Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. wants you to mark your calendar for April 17, 2011 @ 6:00 p.m. at the LSU Student Union Theater for their biennial production Jabberwock. See any delta member for tickets or call 778-0720.
Keep May 6&7 open for the production at the Upstage The-atre. Call their office for more info.
Did You Celebrate National Mentoring Month? It is not too late to mentor someone for some good reason, whether at school or in the community. Take someone to work or at play, but it is worthwhile to mentor.
Are You into March Madness? Now that the Jaguars and Tigers are out of the NCAA bid, many have not much interest in the Madness. However, we can celebrate with Alabama State that put up a good fight on last week.
It’s That Time of Year for high school seniors to apply for various scholarships if they qualify academically. With a college degree costing now, it is high time that young scholars get the millions that are available to them. Go for it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Bruce Lemothe, Sr and Marilyn G. Hamilton.
Get Well Wishes are extended to Mrs. Muriel Haysbert, and Carolyn Davis.
Have a great weekend and do enjoy the beautiful weather.
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Emerging Young Leaders Academy
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L-R: Sheila Harrell, Deborah Paul, Kristi Duhe’, President Desiree’ Honore’-Thomas
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“When students are able to participate in job shadow-ing programs, they are exposed to role models and invaluable workplace experience,” said Paula C. Bradley, Sr. Education Manager, Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge “We’re so thankful to these legislators for contributing their time to ensure these students are able to see the many possibilities and options for their futures.”
“I’m pleased to have had the opportunity to join these students from Scotlandville and Central High Schools today as they think about their futures,” said State Senator Dale Erdey. “For some, it might be a new determination to graduate rather than dropping out. For others, it might be a potential new career.”
“These students and their classmates around the state are our state’s future,” said State Senator Danny Martiny. “Each of them has dreams, hopes and skills which are vital to Louisi-ana and which we must encour-age and nurture. Job Shadow-ing helps students to see new possibilities and to challenge themselves to achieve their full potential.”
“These young people rep-resent the future,” said State Representative Dalton Hon-oré. “Their dreams, hopes and minds are among Louisiana’s most precious resources. That is why it is so important that all young people complete their education and reach their fullest potential.”
“Education is the founda-tion upon which our future is built,” said State Representative Erich Ponti. “Job Shadowing helps expand students’ hori-zons for potential career paths, while also reminding them that each of those paths includes educational milestones, begin-ning with high school gradu-ation.”
“Fulfilling a dream begins with education and preparation for the future,” said State Repre-sentative Clif Richardson. “I am pleased the Legislature could reaffirm that in a very personal way today and encourage these students as they pursue their education and plan for their futures.”
AT&T’s job shadow cam-paign is part of AT&T Aspire, a $100 million initiative to ad-dress high school success and workforce readiness. Aspire is AT&T’s most significant educa-tion initiative to date, and one of the largest ever corporate com-mitments to address the specific issues of high school success and workforce readiness.
For more information about the AT&T/JA World-wide Job Shadow Initiative, please visit www.att.com/jobshadow.
SCHOOL from page 1shipments of a range of farm products grown near the Fu-kushima facility after health ministry tests found vastly elevated levels of iodine and caesium.
The twin disasters have plunged Japan into what Prime Minister Naoto Kan has called its worst crisis since World War II.
The top end of the gov-ernment’s estimate puts its cost at more than double that of the 9.6 trillion yen impact of the Kobe earthquake, and four times that of Hurricane Katrina’s $81 billion cost in the United States.
The total cost from col-lapse or damage to houses, factories and infrastructure such as roads and bridges was estimated at 16 trillion-25 tril-lion yen over the next three fiscal years, the Cabinet Of-fice said.
“The scale of the loss due to the earthquake and tsunami will be unprecedented,” noted Susumu Kato of Credit Ag-ricole.
Hundreds of thousands have been made homeless by the 9.0-magnitude quake and the devastating tsunami it unleashed, which erased entire towns.
The confirmed death toll from the disaster rose Wednes-day to 9,408, and Japan holds little hope for 14,716 officially listed as missing.
A mammoth rebuilding task will be required in its af-
termath but Japan faces a huge challenge in financing it without expanding a public debt that is already the industrialised world’s biggest at around 200 percent of GDP.
The nation’s credit rating was recently downgraded on concerns that not enough is being done to address it.
Production halts at some of Japan’s top companies due to damaged facilities, rolling power outages and broken sup-ply chains crucial to making cars, electronic gadgets and machinery have hammered output.
Transport networks along the northeast have been shat-tered.
In a bid to soothe financial markets and ensure institutions have enough funds in the face of spiking demand, the Bank of Japan has pumped a record 40 trillion yen into the financial system to boost confidence since the disaster. It did not inject funds Wednesday.
Dealers said the BoJ was also playing its part to increase the effectiveness of a concerted intervention by Japan and its Group of Seven partners aimed at weakening the yen by leaving the money in the system, boost-ing supply.
The Japanese unit was flat against the dollar from 80.92 late Tuesday in New York after surging to a post World War II high last week under 77 yen to the dollar.
The yen was also up at 114.49 to the euro from 115.11.
JAPAN from page 1
and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), in which she starred opposite Burton.
In later years, she was a spokeswoman for several causes, most notably AIDS re-search. Her work gained her a special Oscar, the Jean Her-sholt Humanitarian Award, in 1993.
As she accepted it, she told a worldwide television audience: “I call upon you to draw from the depths of your
being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.”
She accepted her many health problems with a stoic attitude.
“My body’s a real mess,” Taylor told W magazine in 2004. “If you look at it in the mirror, it’s just completely convex and concave.”
TAYLOR from page 2
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BaTOn rOUGe - Moti-vating excellence Mentoring & learning academy is kick-ing off its three day celebration surrounding the investiture cer-emony of its General President M.J. McCaleb and Vice-President ashley Marie sherman. The three day event will began on Thursday april 1, 2011 with the General President’s Dinner and end on that sunday april 3, 2011
with the investiture of both of-ficers and a youth recognition banquet honoring the students who have participated in the academy this year.
sigma Gamma rho soror-ity Inc. International President Joann loveless will serve as the Keynote speaker for this occa-sion and she will be joined by Dr. andrew a. ray, national President of Omega Psi Phi
Investiture Ceremony & Youth Recognition Banquet CelebrationNational President(s) and Vice-President to be speakers at Celebration
Dr. Paulette C. Walker Dr. Andrew A. Ray Joann Loveless
POrT allen – This ex-hibit presented by the southern Museum of Civil War and lo-comotive History, Kennesaw, Georgia, features photographs of Civil War soldiers from a rare collection amassed by David Wynn Vaughan of at-lanta, Georgia. The exhibit gives visitors insight into the human toll of war. stories of local louisiana militia groups and soldiers are featured, as well as battlefield artifacts and weaponry from the West Baton rouge Museum’s collection and other local louisiana private collections.
Private collector David Wynn Vaughan of atlanta, Ga., has arguably the largest collec-tion of Civil War Confederate images in the nation. The exhi-bition features images in nine thematic sections. One section highlights his rare collection of cadets at the Georgia Military Institute. Other sections include Citizen solider, snapshots in Time, Civil War Photography, Dressed for the Photographer, Brothers in arms, Youth at War, and Bowie Knives and Mus-kets.
“The entire collection is ex-ceptionally rare and gives us insight into the human face of the american Civil War, as well as the importance of the photog-raphers and photography of the period, and the valuable visual record they left behind,” said Mike Bearrow, curator from the southern Museum of Civil War & locomotive History.
The exhibit will run from april 2 through July 2 at the West Baton rouge Museum. The museum is located at 845 n. Jefferson, Port allen, la. 70767. Hours Tuesday through satur-day 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and sunday, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibit Featuring the Collection of David Wynn Vaughn
BaTOn rOUGe - The arc Baton rouge joins a network of 700 plus chapter of The arc, in-cluding self-advocates, families and volunteers across the nation to acknowledge March as De-VelOPMenTal DIsaBIlITY aWareness MOnTH. The month will commemorate the progress toward improving the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabili-ties (I/DD) and also highlight the challenges that remain in achieving full inclusion for people with I/DD.
This dynamic new logo is also the new face of The arc Baton rouge and it will be on our publications, Web site, signs, community events and more. The logo will unite our affili-ated chapters across the country under the banner “achieve With Us,” a call to move forward and take the road leading to prog-ress, inclusion and respect.
The arc is the nation’s larg-est and leading organization for people with I/DD and their families with a 60 year history of promoting and protecting the rights of people with I/DD and providing them the opportunity to live full, satisfying and self-
determined lives as valued and contributing members of their communities.
several events will take place in March that will high-light Developmental Disabili-ties Month and foster aware-ness, understanding and ac-ceptance.
March 26th = Camp arc sponsored by The Junior league of Baton rouge and hosted by The Dunham school
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Day noted that many of her friends had asked her why she wanted to get involved in politics. “I’m not getting into politics; I’m continuing to help children and assist families,” Day stated.
Before entering the prac-tice of law, Charlene Charlet Day received her Bachelor of science and her Master of education from lsU and taught school for 16 years. In 1988, she was named Teacher of the Year at northwestern Middle school, Zachary, and was a finalist for Teacher of the Year in east Baton rouge Parish.
In 1994, Day earned her law degree from lsU, and after a one-year judicial clerkship, she began her career as a Family law practitioner with the firm of Myles, Cook & Day in Zach-ary. During her legal career she has served well over 700 clients in Family law matters, far more than her opponent.
Charlene Charlet Day has been married for 29 years to archie T. “scooter” Day, Jr. and they have lived in Central their entire married life. she has two daughters, Michele Mad-die and Brooke Felps, both of whom are schoolteachers at northwestern Middle school in Zachary. she also has one granddaughter, Kristian.
Day is a member of Our lady of the assumption Cath-olic Church and st. John the Baptist Catholic Church. she has served as a CCD teacher at
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she is a member of the louisiana Bar association, Baton rouge Bar association, and Feliciana Bar associations, association of Family and Con-ciliation Courts, Baton rouge association of Women attor-neys, and Professional Women of Zachary.
“I have dedicated my legal career to handling the dif-ficult and emotional situations involved in Family Court.” Day commented, “By virtue of my religious beliefs and my family values, I believe in the sanctity of marriage but the reality of our society today is that families are many times blended, split or broken.
“as a teacher…a mother…a grandmother…and an experi-enced Family law practitioner, I am ready to undertake this extraordinary responsibility. I humbly ask for your vote and support,” Day concluded.
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Members of the Congres-sional Black Caucus this past Tuesday accused Republican lawmakers of trying to “manu-facture tension” between African Americans and Hispanics. The charges grew out of a House Judiciary Committee hearing in which GOP conservatives at-tempted to argue that illegal im-migrants were taking jobs from Blacks and other minorities.
The Republicans appeared to be trying to reshape the im-migration debate and gain Black support for their efforts to re-duce Hispanic immigration into America. However, veteran Con-gressman John Conyers of De-
troit charged that the attempt to pit Blacks against Hispanics was “abhorrent and repulsive.”
Conyers was joined by Mis-souri’s Emanuel Cleaver who accused Republicans of ignoring policy issues such as job training, affirmative action and college financial aid while trying to cre-ate “us versus them” tension be-tween Blacks and Hispanics.
The GOP has been trying to show that its opposition to illegal immigration has support among some Blacks and His-panics. Generally, the issue has been largely viewed as one of white fear of growing minority populations.
CommentaryThursday, March 24, 2011 • The Weekly Press • Page 4
By Dr. Benjamin Chavis, jr.NNPA Columnist
One of the most important keys to the advancement of the Black American community is the empowerment of Black American families. There are numerous research studies that continue to dwell solely on the deficit social progress statistics or on the pathology of African Americans in 2011. For sure there are many persistent social and racial inequities that be-sieged African Americans. But, it is also persistently unhealthy to only focus on the negative without ever offering participa-tory solutions to these problems and inequities. I believe that it is vital to promote the economic, cultural, political, and social de-velopment of our families and communities.
Empowerment is the pro-cess of establishing and maxi-mizing ones true potential to attain and sustain power and control over one’s personal de-velopment, education, wealth, health and shared-contributions to the advancement of human-ity and the world. Of course, the best form of empowerment
is self-empowerment. You can’t give someone empowerment. It has to be earned. People have to be directly involved and they have to participate in helping to shape and nurture their own self-empowerment.
African Americans cannot and should not wait for someone else to liberate us or to empower us. Yes, the government and the state do have social responsibili-ties for the overall social con-ditions of society, but to make people solely dependent on a “welfare state of mind” is itself ultimately self-destructive and counterproductive. We have had a long history of overcom-ing the odds and by the grace of God and hard work and struggle we have as a people collectively achieved great strides forward. The challenge today is to un-derstand both the problems and the solutions concerning our families, and then to actively participate in achieving and fulfilling those solutions.
While it is true that cur-rently in the United States mar-
ried couples make up almost 75% of all families, among Af-rican Americans only 44% are married-couple families. But that statistic does not tell the whole story. The multiple fam-ily structures in the African American community are dif-ferent from White
Americans because of history, culture, poverty, and dispropor-tionate incarceration of African American males. Yet the “ex-tended family” ties, bonds and relationships among African Americans remain strong de-spite the tremendous stress and social pressures on the African American community.
Sixteen years ago when I worked to help organize and coordinate the Million Man March, it was done expressly to raise the level of consciousness and responsibility of African American men in particular to take a greater responsibility and atonement for the strengthening of our families and communi-ties. It was the largest public demonstration and mobilization
ever in Washington, D.C. in the history of Black Americans. The truth is immediately after the Million Man March, not only did Black on Black crime and murders dramatically decrease across America, there was also an increase in Black marriages, Black adoption of black chil-dren, Black-owned business development and a significant surge in Black youth cultural leadership and economic ad-vancement through hip-hop and other creative genius.
Then five years later in 2000 at the Million Family March, a national effort was successfully launched to raise the conscious-ness level and community in-volvement in the building and sustaining black family life. After the Million Family March, marriage bureaus throughout the United States reported a statistical increase in Black marriages. Reflecting back, the importance of those two mas-sive gatherings in Washington, D.C. only serves to remind us that we do have the capacity to speak out, stand up, and take our responsibilities seriously for
By GeorGe e. CurryNNPA Columnist
Forty-five years ago, Texas Western University’s all-Black starting lineup defeated No. 1-ranked University of Ken-tucky all-White basketball team for the 1966 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. The game, played at the University of Maryland’s Cole Field House on March 19, 1966, sent major White universities scouring the country for African-American players, literally changing the face of college basketball.
Pat Riley, a member of Adolph Rupp’s losing team and former coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, was a member of the Kentucky team that lost 72-65. Jerry Bruckheimer, who made “Glory Road,” a movie about the game, told the El Paso Times: “Pat Riley told me this great story that Magic Johnson came into his office when he was coach of the Lakers and said, ‘Had not David Lattin dunked that ball over you, I wouldn’t be in here [the NBA].’”
Judging from the contro-versy created by former Univer-sity of Michigan and Chicago Bulls basketball star Jalen Rose, one would be forgiven if he or she thought that Michigan’s all-freshmen and all-Black “Fab Five” played in the most historic college games. They didn’t. The team made it to the NCAA finals twice, losing each time.
The 1991 University of Michigan freshmen basket-ball players were considered the greatest class ever recruited.
They included Jalen Rose and Chris Web-ber, of Detroit, Juwan Howard, of Chicago, and, Texas standouts, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson.
In addition to being talented, they were brash, talked trash, and popu-larized baggy gym shorts and shaved heads.
But, it was Rose’s com-ments in a documentary that he produced about the Fab Five that created a controversy that has gone into overtime.
In the documentary, Rose said, “For me, Duke was a person. I hated Duke, and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke don’t recruit players like me. I felt that they only recruited players that were Uncle Toms.”
First, Rose’s statement isn’t true. Second, even if it were, they were exceptionally talented Uncle Toms, defeating Michigan all four times the Fab Five faced Duke, including one national championship game.
To his credit, Rose later said that was the view he held of Duke at the time, not today.
Former Duke star Grant Hill answered Rose in a New York Times op-ed.
“It was a sad and somewhat pathetic turn of events, there-fore, to see friends narrating this interesting documentary about their moment in time and calling me a bitch and worse, calling all black players at Duke ‘Uncle
Toms’ and, to some de-gree, disparaging my parents for their edu-cation, work ethic and commitment to each other and to me,” said Hill, who now plays for the Phoenix Suns.
Calvin Hill, a Yale graduate, had a suc-cessful NFL career as a running back for the Dallas Cowboys. His
wife is an attorney.Rose said his father was an
NBA player who had no role in his life. Largely left out of the public controversy was the clear impression that Rose hungered for a family unit that included his father. Without that, how-ever, he played on his image of a kid who grew up on the rough streets of Chicago.
Michael Wilbon, who cov-ered both Hill and Rose as a columnist for the Washington Post and now share duties with Rose as ESPN commentators, knows both men well.
“Trust me, Grant Hill and Jalen Rose ain’t all that differ-ent,” Wilbon wrote. “They’re a lot more alike than they are dissimilar, even if they did come from different sides of the tracks. And, right now, way too much is being made of the fact that they did. Calvin Hill, Grant’s father, was no more an ‘Uncle Tom’ for providing every opportunity and advantage for his kids than Rose would be now for provid-ing every opportunity and ad-vantage for his. It’s called the American Dream, and the only real difference here is the Hills
grabbed hold of it a generation before the Roses.”
New York Times colum-nist Bill Rhoden, a graduate of Morgan State University, in Baltimore, had an interesting take on the war of words.
“My view about the Fab Five, then and now, was that these young men had chosen the right pew but had gone to the wrong church. Seen through the prism of black power and empowerment, and also from the point of view of one who attended a black college, the Fab Five had simply made a wealthy white institution wealthier and had missed a grand opportu-nity to catapult a historically black college or university to the mountaintop of March Mad-ness.”
He continued, “Did Rose have any idea of the impact they would have had on history had they elected to attend a histori-cally black college or university? Yes, the stage would have been smaller, television nonexistent, at first. But the novelty of their act and then the courage of what they represented would have attracted attention. The Fab Five would have been the story of March Madness, not simply a spectacle.”
George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge maga-zine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. He can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.
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By William jones
Yes, the Consti-tutional amendment guarantees us the right to bear arms as citizens of the United States.
I saw where the Texas lawmakers are nearing the passing of a stature that would allow its’ college students to have a weapon(s) in their dorm rooms. This scares me.
First, the amendment does not cover temporary homing or is this a temporary place of abode. For the sake of life I cannot see this happening in the country.
Where are we headed with this “Right to snitch? We are headed to out right lawlessness. Here we go back to the “shoot, don’t shoot” days.
For thirty-five years I packed
a weapon in the United States Army for the pro-tection of our country, for its principles and moral values.
The problem that we have today is that we have too many un-authorized weapons in the hands of misfits.
The colleges and universi t ies have enough on their hands
in preparing students to go out into the world and make positive con-tributions to society. Who would be responsible for the training of college students to have and how to use firearms?
They will have ample time in the future to have the opportunity the training on how to handling firearms.
That the way I see it.
The Way I See IT
NO NO to Guns in College Dormitories
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By julianne malveauxNNPA Columnist
I am among the many who are stilled, freighted, and chal-lenged by the tsunami and nuclear power breakdown in Japan. The tragedy raises all kinds of questions including a very selfish one – what would we do if a tsunami hit the United States? As we see people miss-ing, and watch the tragedy, I wonder how we would cope if anything like that happened here. What would happen if New Orleans happened in Washington, New York, or San Francisco? How prepared are we for tragedy?
President Barack Obama has talked about infrastructure development and the many ways that we might improve our highways, byways, and roads. This is a first step. It seems to me that 2001, 2005, and Japan are reminders that all of us need to be concerned about the quality of our infrastructure and our emergency responses to unexpected acts of nature. What might we do if 10-foot gales of water hit one of our major cities? Is this something that we have even thought about?
At a time when we must be prepared to do much more, it appears that we are prepared to do much less. In other words, we are in the middle of an eco-nomic meltdown, and people are talking about spending less money. Doesn’t Japan suggest we should spend more to shore up our infrastructure?
The fact is that we in the United States have chosen not to invest in infrastructure for more than a generation. We drive over potholes, look at detours in roads, and send children to school in dilapidated buildings, and we think it’s okay. We know that we could invest more, and we could achieve more, but we have decided that we don’t want, to quite move in that direction.
We have to, we say, pay attention to money. But, we also have to pay attention to our future and to outcomes.
Among the outcomes we must be careful of are outcomes in education. It is challenging to find that so very many people think we should cut educational spending because we are in a budget crunch. Cutting educa-tion is like a farmer eating her seed corn, deciding to sacrifice consumption today for invest-ment tomorrow. If we are to excel as a nation, we need to invest fully in education. We’ve not done so. Why do we have crumbling schools and state of the art prisons?
The United States leads the world in having educated people who are 55-64. Nearly 40 percent of us have AA or BA degrees. We have not improved our ability to deliver educa-tional services in 30 years, so that nearly 40 percent of those 25 to 34 have AA and BA de-grees. We lead in the educa-tion of seasoned people, but we rank 10th in the education of younger people. That speaks poorly to our possibilities for the future.
What must we do? We must spend the dollars that we need to strengthen our infrastructure. We must put dollars into educa-tion. This is hardly the time to cut back on an investment on the future. Instead of holding back, we must move forward, boldly, with our investment.
Japan should be a wake-up call for all of us. A coun-try that was seen as stable has been destabilized by a natural disaster. Could that happen here? Further, what else could happen here to hurt us? We are so complacent about education that we run the risk of being run over by dozens of other world powers. Yes, there are dozens of others now, and even
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Ngoc Loan Le and Vincent Chan, of Baton Rouge, La., have signed a development agreement to open one location in Baton Rouge.
“We are very excited to in-troduce Red Mango to the Baton Rouge area,” says Vincent Chan. “Red Mango is an experience and so much more than frozen yogurt. It’s the perfect nutritious treat for our health conscious community.”
Red Mango offers 30 fla-vors of all-natural, nonfat frozen yogurt, including the company’s core flavors – Original, Pome-granate by POM Wonderful®, Madagascar Vanilla and the seasonal flavor Pumpkin Spice – all at around 100 calories per serving, as well as 20 varieties of fresh fruit smoothies, made-to-order fruit parfaits and all-natural probiotic iced teas.
Since opening its first store in 2007, the company has reached more than 80 stores in 25 states. Red Mango credits the achieve-ment to consumers who want healthier food options as well as business owners who want suc-cessful investment opportunities, coupled with the popularity of the brand’s signature tart frozen yogurt and the innovations and support of a seasoned manage-ment team.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Federation of In-dependent Business, America’s leading small business associa-tion, has named Pat Felder of Baton Rouge as one of the or-ganization’s four regional win-ners of the Solveras Payment Solutions/NFIB Small Business Champion Award. Felder is the South Region winner.
“The only reason we’re successful in Washington and all 50 state capitals is because of the support of our member activ-ists,” said Dan Danner, NFIB’s president and CEO. “We’re indebted to them for their ef-forts to help protect and promote
our free-enterprise system. This award honors those members who are truly the ‘best of the best’ advocates for NFIB and our members.”
“The regional Small Busi-ness Champions have committed their time and energy to make our country a better place to do business,” said Brian Bates, chief executive officer of Solveras Pay-ment Solutions. “We’re proud to do our part to recognize and honor their contributions.”
Pat Felder, an NFIB mem-ber since 2007, co-owns Felder’s Collision Parts in Baton Rouge with her husband, Wayne. The company was founded in 1987
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“Pat is a dream activist that any state director would like to have,” said Renee Baker, state director of NFIB/Louisiana, the state’s leading small business association. “She’ll do anything she can to make it easier for small businesses in Louisiana to grow and create jobs.
Felder chairs the NFIB/Louisiana Leadership Council, which advises the association on issues affecting small busi-nesses throughout the state. This spring, Felder was selected by Louisiana Department of Eco-
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The food collected will be given to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank.
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BATON ROUGE—Baton Rouge ranks as one of the best and worst places to live in Loui-siana, according to a recent study by the American Human Development Project.
The study ranked areas of southern East Baton Rouge parish and West Baton Rouge parish as the best area and north Baton Rouge and parts of the downtown area as the worst.
The study was based the findings on the American Human Development Index, which studies the “health, knowledge and standard of liv-ing,” according to the American Human Development Project website.
The index rates areas using a scale from one to 10 based on these factors. The southern area of East Baton Rouge and
West Baton Rouge ranked 5.73 on the scale.
The results are somewhat unsurprising, according to Jor-dan Johnson, broker at local real estate agency Beau Box Inc.
“Driving down the street, you can tell where the good places to live are,” Johnson said.
But while there are many developing areas in West Baton Rouge parish, the required commute could be a deterrent to living in the area, Johnson said.
North Baton Rouge and the downtown area ranked 2.51 on the index.
The downtown area could rank low because there are still few places to live, Johnson said, though they are increasing.
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highest-ranking areas “can expect to live, on average, nearly half a decade longer” and earn twice as much, ac-cording to the study.
Louisiana’s total score was 4.07. Only West Virginia, Arkansas and Mississippi ranked below Louisiana.
Connecticut earned the highest state ranking on the index at 6.30.
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DALLAS – Red Mang , the fastest-growing retailer of all-natural, nonfat frozen yogurt and fresh fruit smoothies, is expanding throughout Baton Rouge. The company recently signed a franchise agreement for one new location in the area.
Ngoc Loan Le and Vincent Chan, of Baton Rouge, La., have signed a development agreement to open one location in Baton Rouge.
“We are very excited to in-troduce Red Mango to the Baton Rouge area,” says Vincent Chan. “Red Mango is an experience and so much more than frozen yogurt. It’s the perfect nutritious treat for our health conscious community.”
Red Mango offers 30 fla-vors of all-natural, nonfat frozen yogurt, including the company’s core flavors – Original, Pome-granate by POM Wonderful®, Madagascar Vanilla and the seasonal flavor Pumpkin Spice – all at around 100 calories per serving, as well as 20 varieties of fresh fruit smoothies, made-to-order fruit parfaits and all-natural probiotic iced teas.
Since opening its first store in 2007, the company has reached more than 80 stores in 25 states. Red Mango credits the achieve-ment to consumers who want healthier food options as well as business owners who want suc-cessful investment opportunities, coupled with the popularity of the brand’s signature tart frozen yogurt and the innovations and support of a seasoned manage-ment team.
Red Mango is currently awarding franchise opportuni-ties in select markets across the country, and the company is on track to reach as many as 550 locations across the country in five years.
More information is avail-able at redmangofranchising.com <http://www.redmang-ofranchising.com/> . For more on Red Mango’s all-natural fro-zen yogurt treats and meal op-tions, please visit the company’s website at redmangousa.com <http://www.redmangousa.com/> and Facebook fan page at facebook.com/redmango <http://www.facebook.com/redmango> .
Red Mango to expand in Baton RougeFast-growing frozen yogurt retailer to open new location thanks to franchise agreement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Federation of In-dependent Business, America’s leading small business associa-tion, has named Pat Felder of Baton Rouge as one of the or-ganization’s four regional win-ners of the Solveras Payment Solutions/NFIB Small Business Champion Award. Felder is the South Region winner.
“The only reason we’re successful in Washington and all 50 state capitals is because of the support of our member activ-ists,” said Dan Danner, NFIB’s president and CEO. “We’re indebted to them for their ef-forts to help protect and promote
our free-enterprise system. This award honors those members who are truly the ‘best of the best’ advocates for NFIB and our members.”
“The regional Small Busi-ness Champions have committed their time and energy to make our country a better place to do business,” said Brian Bates, chief executive officer of Solveras Pay-ment Solutions. “We’re proud to do our part to recognize and honor their contributions.”
Pat Felder, an NFIB mem-ber since 2007, co-owns Felder’s Collision Parts in Baton Rouge with her husband, Wayne. The company was founded in 1987
and provides after-market col-lision parts, as well as remanu-factured bumpers.
“Pat is a dream activist that any state director would like to have,” said Renee Baker, state director of NFIB/Louisiana, the state’s leading small business association. “She’ll do anything she can to make it easier for small businesses in Louisiana to grow and create jobs.
Felder chairs the NFIB/Louisiana Leadership Council, which advises the association on issues affecting small busi-nesses throughout the state. This spring, Felder was selected by Louisiana Department of Eco-
nomic Development to chair its newly-created Small Business Advisory Council.
“She’s always willing to reach out to lawmakers about the bills that affect small busi-ness, even if they don’t want to hear it. She doesn’t give up,” Baker said.
“Pat is the kind of mem-ber we know we can depend on,” Baker said. “NFIB is the voice of small business in Baton Rouge , but its members like Pat who make sure our voice is heard.”
Every year, NFIB singles out a small business owner in all 50 states for special recogni-
tion and honors him or her with this prestigious award. This is the seventh year that the group has recognized small business owners who go the extra mile for America ’s entrepreneurs.
Since 2001, Solveras Pay-ment Solutions (www.solveras.com) has been NFIB’s approved payment processor Member Services program providing complete electronic payment services to businesses nation-wide. Products and services include software and process-ing support for MasterCard®, VISA®, American Express®, and Discover® credit card transac-tions, debit card proces.
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BATON ROUGE – Reming-ton College-Baton Rouge Campus is offering complimentary salon services – either a hair cut, mani-cure or pedicure - to people who bring in a can of food during the month of November.
The food collected will be given to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank.
“There are so many families struggling to make ends meet in our community,” said Mike Smith, Remington College-Baton Rouge Campus President. “We want to help as many families as we can during the holidays and are of-fering some of our salon services in return for any canned food do-nation.”
Students in the Remington College-Baton Rouge Campus cosmetology school will provide
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Appointments can be made by calling the Remington College School of Cosmetology at 225-291-4660. Walk-ins are also welcome. The hours of operation are Mon-day through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The Remington College Cos-metology Program teaches stu-dents the art of hair, skin and nail care through traditional classroom instruction and hands-on training. Students have the opportunity to work with real clients in a salon-like setting.
Remington College School of Cosmetology is located at 4520 Sherwood Forest Blvd., Unit 001 in Baton Rouge.
For more information, call 225-291-4660.
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BATON ROUGE—Baton Rouge ranks as one of the best and worst places to live in Loui-siana, according to a recent study by the American Human Development Project.
The study ranked areas of southern East Baton Rouge parish and West Baton Rouge parish as the best area and north Baton Rouge and parts of the downtown area as the worst.
The study was based the findings on the American Human Development Index, which studies the “health, knowledge and standard of liv-ing,” according to the American Human Development Project website.
The index rates areas using a scale from one to 10 based on these factors. The southern area of East Baton Rouge and
West Baton Rouge ranked 5.73 on the scale.
The results are somewhat unsurprising, according to Jor-dan Johnson, broker at local real estate agency Beau Box Inc.
“Driving down the street, you can tell where the good places to live are,” Johnson said.
But while there are many developing areas in West Baton Rouge parish, the required commute could be a deterrent to living in the area, Johnson said.
North Baton Rouge and the downtown area ranked 2.51 on the index.
The downtown area could rank low because there are still few places to live, Johnson said, though they are increasing.
A person living in the
highest-ranking areas “can expect to live, on average, nearly half a decade longer” and earn twice as much, ac-cording to the study.
Louisiana’s total score was 4.07. Only West Virginia, Arkansas and Mississippi ranked below Louisiana.
Connecticut earned the highest state ranking on the index at 6.30.
The American Human Development Index is de-scribed as a “composite measure of well being and opportunity,” according to the AHDP website.
Developers studied life expectancy at birth, educa-tional degree attainment, school enrollment and me-dian earnings of all areas surveyed.
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BEnTonvILLE, Ark.– Walmart reported that it has eliminated more than 80 per-cent of the waste that would go to landfills from its operations in California. The company’s comprehensive waste reduction program that produced these re-sults is now being implemented across Walmart’s 4,400 stores, Sam’s Club locations and distri-bution centers in the u.S., mov-ing it closer to its global goal of creating zero waste.
Achieving a similar 80 percent reduction in its land-fill waste across the country would help Walmart prevent more than 11.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. This is equal to taking more than 2 million cars off the road for a year #.
“We are proud of the prog-ress we are making toward our zero waste goal, but realize we still have more work to do,” said
Bill Simon, president and CEo of Walmart u.S. “We are com-mitted to actively finding and developing solutions that are both good for the environment and good for business.”
“We do everything with the customer in mind. We are committed to buying, operat-ing and selling for less, and our waste program is a great example of developing new ideas that help us save our customers money,” continued Simon. “Through this program we are able to provide the raw materials needed to make new products, recycle millions of pounds of commodities and reduce the environmental im-pact of landfills.”
Beginning in 2009, Wal-mart created a nationwide infrastructure of landfill alter-natives that could open new opportunities for municipalities and other businesses to reduce
the amount of solid waste they send to landfills. The Walmart zero waste program has three main components:
* Recycling cardboard, paper, aluminum, plastic bags and roughly 30 other items through the super sandwich bale (SSB) program. Items not eligible for the SSB, including wood pallets, polystyrene plas-tic and apparel, are sent to Wal-mart’s return centers for reuse or recycling.
*Donating healthy, nutri-tious food to food banks around the country. In 2010, Walmart donated 256 million pounds of food to hunger relief organiza-tions – the equivalent of 197 million meals.
* Creating animal feed, en-ergy or compost from expired food and other organic products following the EPA’s food waste hierarchy.
“Walmart is to be com-
mended for making real progress in minimizing the environmental impact of waste from its stores,” said Karen Luken, director of the Clinton Climate Initiative’s (CCI) Waste Program. “one of the key aims for CCI’s Waste Program is to reduce methane emissions from landfills, and Walmart’s initiative sends a clear message to other businesses that this is one source of emissions that can and should be addressed now.”
Walmart began implement-ing and consistently tracking its new and existing waste reduc-tion efforts in California in 2009. A third-party review has shown Walmart uses an appropriate process to establish its waste reduction data. The nationwide program, based on the California model, will include an ongoing review to monitor the program’s success.
Walmart Eliminates More than 80 Percent of Its Waste in California That Would Otherwise Go to Landfills
Company results far exceed national average where EPA estimates only 45 percent of waste is diverted from landfills
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BEAuMonT, Texas -- Ever since the age of 13, Tremeker Artmore of Beaumont has had a passion for fashion.
“I was in theater arts, and I used to try to make clothes when I was in high school,” the West Brook High alumnus says. “I would just do it for fun. But as I got older, I really wanted to do it.”
now, at age 32, Artmore is getting just as much fulfill-ment in putting her name on a magazine about fashion as she would have if her name were stitched on a pair of jeans or written on a bottle of high-priced perfume.
She no longer sees herself as the next vera Wang or Eliza-beth Taylor of the fashion world,
but is more than happy being the publisher and chief executive officer of a local, up-and-coming magazine that centers on fash-ion, and spotlights another love
of hers --- hip hop music. on May 13, 2011, the first
issue of Intense Heat Magazine will be distributed for public consumption. Intense Heat Magazine, an urban fashion, hip-hop publication, will fea-ture articles on hip-hop artists, the latest in fashion and design, and will highlight a plethora of stories such as bullying, budget-ing and the economy.
“I’m extremely happy with what she’s trying to accom-plish with the magazine,” says Janet Diaz, a one-time assistant of Artmore’s. “Everybody needs inspiration in life and everybody needs motivation. So what better way to put your vision out there than through a magazine?”
Diaz, who loves sport-ing the latest fashions, is just as excited about the magazine’s
launching as Artmore is. “I love fashion and I love
hip hop! Those two go hand in hand,” Diaz, 35, says. “I love the beat of hip hop, I love the way it makes you feel. I grew up in the hip hop environment. And for her to have an urban fashion, hip-hop magazine, it coincides, it all falls in together.”
Intense Heat Magazine’s demographics include persons of any age. The magazine is geared toward both males and females and will be distributed throughout the Golden Triangle, which comprises Beaumont; Port Arthur, Texas; and orange, Texas. It also will be distributed in Houston. The publication, which will cost $10, ultimately will branch out to other parts
New Publisher to Produce Fashion, Hip-hop Magazine in Beaumont, Texas
Tremeker Artmore
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BATon RouGE - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisi-ana has named Dr. Ken Phenow, MD, MPH as its chief medical officer and senior vice president of clinical affairs. In this role, Phenow will provide clinical leadership and oversee the com-pany’s medical staff. He will also lead quality-based clinical improvement and wellness pro-grams and administer medical policy development.
Phenow joins Blue Cross after serving as the senior market medical executive for CIGnA Healthcare in north Texas and oklahoma. Before he joined CIGnA, he worked with unitedHealthcare in vari-ous medical leadership roles, including serving as market medical executive for Southwest ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. He began his managed care career with Scott & White Clinic as an associate medical director in the College Station, Texas market.
Phenow is board certified in family medicine. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin through the. navy Health Pro-fessions Scholarship Program. He completed residency train-ing at naval Medical Center, San Diego and naval Hospi-tal Camp Pendleton. Phenow also served tours of duty as a navy physician in San Diego and Japan.
Phenow earned a master’s degree in health services ad-ministration and policy analysis from the university at California at Los Angeles School of Public Health. He also attended the university of California at San Diego, where he achieved bach-elor’s degrees in biochemistry and political science.
Blue Cross President and CEo Mike Reitz said that Phenow was chosen specifically for his experience and knowl-edge in improving healthcare
quality and affordability. “Dr. Phenow’s appointment signifies Blue Cross’ continuing commit-ment to cutting-edge quality improvement programs,” Reitz said.
Phenow is already at work on several key initiatives. “We have two immediate priori-ties,” he said. “First, we need to empower Louisianians to be more accountable by partici-pating fully in their healthcare and thereby improving their health status. Second, we need to change the pay model for healthcare to one where phy-sicians are reimbursed for the quality of care and outcomes they achieve, rather than how many services they provide.”
Phenow also said he be-lieves it’s time to spread the word about wellness. “It’s true that about 70 percent of chronic disease can be prevented by life-style changes. our challenge is to speak to the hearts of 100 percent of people and get them involved in the easy process of healthy living.”
For more information please contact, John Magin-nis, 225.295.2405 or Robin Mayhall, 225.298.1992 for any additional information about this matter.
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NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH5856 Greenwell Springs Road • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806
Telephone: (225) 926-0246 • Facsimile: (225) 927-8500 • Toll Free # 1-888-700-6174
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Pastor Leo D. Cyrus Sr., Pastor
Sunday Morning Worship ................................................................10:45 AMLord’s Supper ...............................................................................3rd SundaysSunday School .................................................................................. 9:30 AMPrayer Service ...................................................................... Wed. @ 6:00 PMBible Study ...........................................................................Wed- @ 7:00 PM
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Mission Statement: New Hope Baptist Church is a family of baptized believers who worship the Lord our God in spirit and in truth, teach the saved to reach the lost and minister to the needs of others, while encouraging one another through acts of love and living in obedience to Gods Word
Good Shepherd Full Gospel B.C.The People’s Church
2865 Mission Drive • Baton Rouge, 70805 • Telephone (225)356-5873Bishop H. Hayes, Pastor
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sunday school ..........................................................................9:30 a.m.Worship service......................................................................10:55 a.m.Bible study.............................................................Wednesday 5:00 p.m.Prayer Meeting ......................................................... Tuesday 6:00 p.m.
St. Mary Baptist Church“The Church that Love Built”
1252 N. Acadian Thruway East • Baton Rouge, LA. 70802Telephone (225) 387-2926
Rev. Conway L Knighton, Pastor
Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.Lord’s Supper - 1st Sunday 11:00 a.m.Prayer Meeting - Wednesday 6:00 p.m.
Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.Thursday 10:00 a.m.
New Birth Full Gospel MiNistries
1283 Rosenwald Road • Baton Rouge, La. 70807Phone: (225) 775-6713 •
Fax: (225) 775-4216ivory J. payNe, pastor
order oF serviceSunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 A.M.Holy Communion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3rd Sunday1:00 P.M.Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 A.M.Bible Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 7:00 P.M.
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all thing are become new. —I Corinthians 5:17
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eveRy oTHeR Week seRviCeMondays & Fridays ...................................................................7:30 p.m.saturdays .........................................................10.00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
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sUndaY WorshiP ..........................................................9:00 A.M.BIBLE STUDY ..................................................Thursday 7:00 P.M.COUNSELING BY APPOINTMENT
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NASHVILLE, TN – One million children each year will experience divorce. Many of these will not receiving the spiritual guidance necessary to help overcome the related familial challenges reports the current issue of Recon-sider, a LifeWay publication for the leaders of today’s Black Churches.
This issue, Ministering to Children of Divorce, reveals the importance that children’s ministries play in providing comfort, consistency and spiri-tual development for children going through a difficult time at home. Thirty percent of par-ents indicate that their family’s spiritual life is either fair or poor. Additionally, 83 percent of individuals believe parents should be most responsible for a child’s spiritual development, yet only 35 percent say their religious faith is one of the most important influences on their parenting.
LifeWay’s study also
found that children can and will learn about prayer and how to pray if they have significant adults in their lives who are willing to teach them. Children who have consistency, support and spiritual guidance in their lives will be more likely to over-come the challenges related to divorce.
“We at LifeWay believe Church ministries can improve their efforts to reach children struggling with family issues and support them through these difficult circumstances,” said Elgia “Jay” Wells, LifeWay’s director of Black Church Out-reach, who also serves as pas-tor at a Nashville, Tenn.-area church. “Our hope is that every child will be given the oppor-tunity to experience the power of spiritual development and prayer through their church ministries.”
For a copy of Reconsider, or to learn more about the find-ings, visit http://www.lifeway.com/blackchurchlife.
Children of Divorce Require the Support of the Church BATON ROUGE - Southern
University’s Interdenominational Gospel Choir will celebrate its ‘Finale,’ in appreciation of the choirs’ founder and director, Reginald Collins, Nov. 19 - 21 with a host of events including a musical featuring Baton Rouge area choirs and music workshops leading up to a Finale Concert.
Festivities kick-off with a “Local Choir Night” at 7 p.m., Nov. 19, at Living Faith Chris-tian Center, 6375 Winbourne Ave. Gospel recording artist Wess Morgan will be the spe-cial guest. Morgan is the writer of the song, “I Choose to Wor-ship.” Other guests will include the Showers Family from Ham-mond, the Gospel Soul Children of New Orleans and the Jackson
State University Interfaith Gos-pel Choir.
Local choirs will include the Living Faith Mass Choir, Greater King David Mass Choir, Elm Grove Baptist Church, Bea-con Light of Baton Rouge, New Gideon Baptist Church, Rose Hill Baptist Church, Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church and Glo-ryland Baptist Church.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. A “College Day Finale and
Workshop” will be held from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., on Nov. 20, in the auditorium of W.W. Stewart Hall on the SU campus. The event will feature an array of music seminars and choir rehearsals in preparation for the “College Day Finale Concert,” at 7 p.m., at New Light Baptist Church,
650 Blount Road. Workshop par-ticipates will sing in the choir during the concert.
The concert will also fea-ture performances by the Voices of Joy from Bogalusa; Psalm 150 Gospel Choir from Beaumont, Texas; Living Testimony Gospel Choir from Texas Southern Uni-versity; UnMeasurable Praise from the University of New Or-leans; Higher Level Gospel Choir from McNeese State University; the University of Louisiana at Monroe Interdenominational Ensemble; New Beginnings Multicultural Gospel Choir from Texas A&M University; Strong Tower Gospel Chorale from Grambling State Univer-sity and Southeastern Louisiana University’s Gospel Choir.
The workshop is free and open to all college students and the public.
The “Finale Concert” will be held at 4 p.m., Nov. 21, at New Gideon Baptist Church, 2542 Balis Drive. The concert will feature the melodious voices of former SU Interdenominational Gospel Choir members from 1987-2010 and musicians Greg Jones, Cecil Houston, Michael Temple, Alfonso Waters, George Chesterfield, Willie Richard, Reu-ben Griffin, Shantran Hawkins and Ricky Draper.
Lawrence Jackson, SU Di-rector of Bands, will also make a special musical tribute during the concert.
All events are free and open to the public.
SU Interdenominational Gospel Choir set for “Finale” Concert
CHADDS FORD PA: Ed-mondson Communications, a full-service entertainment pro-motions company, will launch a new division, Adonai Video Ministries, a global pay-per-view video-on-demand service, November 15, 2010.
The new firm will offer Top Christian and gospel con-certs, sermons/church services by dynamic preachers, and a wide-ranging variety of Chris-tian-oriented programming. “The economic downturn has made it taxing for people to afford to treat their families to a night out on the town,” says founder Al Edmonson, who has 27 gold and
platinum records to his credit as a music executive working with artists such as Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, and Gladys Knight. “We offer them the opportunity to watch a concert or a special feature on their PC or TV at their own leisure for only $9.99. On the other hand, many music ex-ecutives have been looking for ways to increase their revenue as a result of dwindling record sales. A label can now increase its sales by offering videos and other visual entertainment through this service.”
Some of the initial titles that viewers can watch include Grammy-winner Smokie Norful’s
live concerts, Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers’ “Finale” concert, the gold-selling Shekinah Glory Ministry’s majestic concerts, and even the legendary Mighty Clouds of Joy in concert. There are also dynamic sermons such as “Money Is My Friend” and “I Love You But I Don’t Understand You” by Bishop David G. Evans, who pastors a 27,000-member church outside of the Philadel-phia area. The atalog will expand monthly as more companies make their products available.
Today’s top Christian en-tertainment companies such as Abundant Harvest Entertain-ment, Rosyl Productions, Emtro
Gospel, David G. Evans Minis-tries, EMI Gospel and Kingdom Records have all signed on with more to follow. Finding a video to view is easy. Customers will browse through the catalog to find a selection. A 30 second preview is available to help them choose. The cost for any single video pre-sentation is $9.99. Once they’ve made their selection, they have up to 48 hours to view the video as many times as they like. Visit www.AdonaiVideoMinistries.com for more information.
Please contact Bill Carpen-ter at (202) 506-5051 or [email protected] for additional information.
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“Married to Commit-ment” is a collaborative effort by Donald Lee, whose ministry is in Dallas, and Brigitte “Bre” Eaton, whose ministry is rooted in Houston. A little more than a year ago, Lee, a free-lance journalist, was inspired by God to write a lengthy series of columns that centered on marriage and other kinds of relationships.
At the time the Lord gave Lee the idea to write inspira-tional columns on relationships (which also brought healing to many in broken relationships) Lee and his high school class-mate, Eaton, were leading an
intercessory prayer (teleconfer-ence) line that — to this day — consists of scores of intercessors from around the country.
Lee began writing the columns, using extensive quotes from Eaton. As the col-umns went on, Lee shared with Eaton his idea to turn the col-umn series into a book. The two teamed up to author “Married to Commitment”. They raised money to pay for the cost of self-publishing through
Xulon Press, a Christian publishing company. And in mid-March 2011, what started out as a thought became a mani-fested reality.
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Have you ever wonder while doing something (driving to work, or at home listening to the radio, or just waiting) and just out of the blue a question? Who am I? At that moment you do some quick self examing to evaluate and calculate on the answer that suites you, but is that you? Have you done your-self justice or fell short and beat yourself up. This is a question of a quest we may journey through a few times as a brand new con-vert seeking answers to their awareness to their molding of a new foundation. However, the believer, that falls short it is your question of determination to continue to realize something about yourself, who am I?
When we were slaves to sin and not concerned with doing what was the right thing what was the result, things that lead to eternal doom. Is this who we
are or who we were deceived into being? Living our lives con-trol by wickedness being used as a tool for sinning. Living as the Old Testament prophets would claim, “The ungodly”, because our minds are shut and hearts is harden for we don’t care anymore of right or wrong only control by all kinds of im-purity and greed. Always boast-ing about the lustful desires of earthly things (how much we smoke, how phatt the woman, the gambling spree, how we did everything ourselves with no help). Boasting of earthly things that fooled us into believing I am someone (cause I covet my neighbors wife, I stole this or that so many things, we dranked till we pass out to let me hit next begging). Control by our sinful nature the flesh doing things that end in eternal doom. (Rebellion, broken fellowship, disregard for God’s commandments)Is this the picture you or others see? Do
I want to be known as always hostile never pleasing to anyone especially God? Self check the examination process, who am I? Is this question motivating something inside you?
For the new convert and the believer who fell short of God’s glory it has began and always will be an on going ques-tion to ask each day with differ-ent results each time. Who Am I? I am weak but yet strong enough to seek a blind faith that assured me help each time I call upon it. Let me confess my sins Lord Jesus for you are faithful and just to forgive, cleanse me from all wrong. It is by this blind faith a change of person stares back at me in the mirrow. I am the one who believes in Jesus and accepted him, the one he gave rights too, to become a child of God’s. I am the child of God who showed the world by water baptism and receiving the Holly Ghost that I have decided to fol-
low Jesus. I am the child who through baptism has realized or remembered the word that brought me courage and pur-pose of life when he speaks to me “My Son”! I am the son of God who trust in his big brother and heavenly father where there is no judgment awaiting any who trust in them. I am the son of the creator who praises God and Jesus my Lord and Savior for blessing me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm because I have been adopted into the family of believers. I am the mature spiritual man that now, “thanks God”; I am free from the power of sin and do those things that lead to ho-liness and result in eternal life through Christ Jesus.
Answer the question? Who Am I?
The son or daughter of the living God Almighty!
Who Am I?
Who will hear the blood of our chil-dren in the streets crying out for justice? How long will it be? Our cities are being built with brick and mortar; One project and then another.
Who will build the homes (heal the hearts, ease the pains) of our sons and daughters whom we have lost to murder and manslaughter?
Who cares and who have shed a tear? I’ve seen more moisture from the grief over an animal that was slaughtered or the des-ecration of a sacred tree. Who is grieving? Are You? An innocent child taken before
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to fine the Guilty in the slaying of an almost man; A child cut down in the prime of his youth LAWMAKER WHO???? Where is the passion and the zeal to right the wrong: The kind that brought community and law together to rid the streets of the murderer of a slain mother?
There’s no time to rest. we have Failed the test and the grade is “F”.
But there is time for a make up. People lets wake up! No one is safe if we don’t stop the waste of innocent life. We must
pray today for no more child sacrifice. Who will not sleep
Who will not rest?Who will not give up until our city is
called Blessed? There is One that Bears our Burden and Carries our Sorrows. We must look up for His redemption power draweth nigh. He is Hope of tomorrow, He is undying Love,
Jesus is His Name. He will heal the wounded souls,
While we wait patiently for change.
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cally pointed out that changes which occur in a human being is redirected to pull from the core of his own humanity to reaffirm self worth and purpose. he will then by nature acquire the will to do for himself and others.
Space is not available to cover concerns of so many people
concerned with the conditions at Jetson. it is happening there. What i do know is that most of these youth can be changed, from contrition in a prepatory school for Angola to rehabilitation for a positive life that may lead to a life of meritorious glory. That is the Way I See It!
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all funny or remotely appropri-ate about the use of a lynching reference about Michelle obama,’’ he said. ‘’it’s - i’m speechless.’’
As President Bush pointed out so eloquently during the Black history Month event, the noose represents ‘’more than a tool of murder but a tool of intimidation’’ to generations of African-Ameri-cans. Nooses not only robbed some of their lives but many of their peace of mind.
‘’As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive. they are wrong. And they have no place in America today,’’ he said.
Neither o’reilly nor ingraham has been reprimanded by their re-spective employers even though the Fox News personality did offer a half-hearted apology.
At least ingraham didn’t drop the l-word but her suggestion that Sharpton, a former presidential candidate and respected member of the African-American community and beyond, is a petty thief reeks of race-baiting and negative ste-reotyping of African-Americans and black men in particular.
But it’s hardly the first time ei-ther has ventured into questionable and offensive territory. how can
we forget o’reilly’s less-than-informed comments regarding a dinner he shared last year with Sharpton at Sylvia’s in harlem? o’reilly expressed surprise over how similarSylvia’s was to other restaurants in New York restau-rants.
‘’there wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, i want more iced tea,’’’ he said.
As the Washington Post’s rob-inson sadly observed on MSNBC in February, ‘’All you can go by is his words and his actions. And he keeps saying these things that sound pretty darn racist to me.’’
has talk radio learned anything from imus’ decline and fall? of course not, because it didn’t take imus too terribly long to get a new gig.
our nation’s media outlets should not provide a platform for racialhostility and hateful speech now or in the future. What kind of messageare we sending to our chil-dren, our nation and our world?
in such an historic election year, we cannot stand aside and allow individuals to use the airwaves as an outlet for insensitive and misguidedcommentary. if you hear something that offends you, speak up.
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ering all children.the CDF Action Council, build-
ing on the best practices in states and lessons learned about children falling through the bureaucratic cracks of Medicaid and SChiP, strongly urged Congress to enact the All healthy Children Act, S. 1564/h.r. 1688, introduced by representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) in the house and Senator Bernie Sanders (i-Vt) in the Sen-ate. the measure would provide comprehensive benefits including dental and mental health, simpli-fied bureaucracy, and a national eligibility plan for families up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. We thank the 62 house co-sponsors for their support. how-ever, we regret that neither a single house republican nor any other Senator joined them to push for coverage for all children.
the CDF Action Council strongly supports long overdue health cov-erage for everyone in America as soon as possible—because children cannot wait. As SChiP comes up again for reauthorization in early 2009, we hope every Member of Congress will insist on covering every child and pregnant mother now by enacting and adequately funding the provisions of the All healthy Children Act.
Specious claims that we could not find the money—$70 billion over five years—to cover all children is belied by that amount spent in eleven months for tax cuts for the top one percent of richest Americans and in seven months for the iraq War. We do not have a money problem in America: We have a priorities and political will deficit. it is time for all adults to protect the health of our children.
the citizens of the nation must demand that our leaders free our children from the false ideological and political tugs of war among those who put excess profits ahead of children’s lives.
how well did Congress protect children in 2007? Not well enough: 276 Members of Congress had good CDF Action Council Con-gressional Scorecard scores of 80 percent or higher, and 198 of those had stellar scores of 100 percent. But 231 members scored 60 percent or lower—a failing grade from our school days.
Whether Members of Congress are liberal, conservative or mod-erate; Democrat, republican or independent, children need all of them to vote, lobby, speak for and protect them. Adults need to listen carefully to what candidates say they will do for children and fami-lies and, once they are in office, we need to hold them accountable. Please thank your Members of Con-gress with scores of 80 percent or above and let those with scores of 60 percent or below know you are dissatisfied with their performance. And please convey that same mes-sage to each presidential candidate. We must demand that our leaders commit to children as a condition of our vote.
Marian Wright Edelman is Presi-dent of the Children’s Defense Fund and its Action Council whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
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(NAPSM)-A survey commissioned by two leading health organizations found that although two out of three African Americans (61 percent) ex-pressed concern about developing heart disease and two out of five (40 percent) expressed concern about developing Alzheimer’s, only about one in 20 are aware that heart health is linked to brain health.
the Alzheimer’s Association is joining forces with the American heart Association to educate African Americans that by managing their cardiovascular risk, they may also strengthen their cognitive health.
“What’s good for your heart is good for your brain,” says Jennifer Manly, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Associa-tion spokesperson. “every healthy heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of your blood to your brain to carry on the daily processes of thinking, prob-lem solving and remembering.”
“By the year 2030, the number of African Americans age 65 or older is expected to more than double to 6.9 million,” said emil Matarese, M.D., American heart Association spokes-person. “Although Alzheimer’s is not part of normal aging, age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. So it is important that Af-rican Americans take steps now to decrease their risk of heart disease, which research has shown could also decrease the risk of cognitive decline.”
Did You Know?• Compared to the general public,
African Americans have a higher risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and vascular dementia.
• More than 40 percent of African Americans have high blood pres-sure (hBP) and are at risk for stroke, which can lead to greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s or other vascular cognitive dementias.
• every year, more than 100,000 African Americans have a stroke.
• having high cholesterol increases the risk for stroke and may increase the risk for Alzheimer’s.
Manage Your Risks• Watch the numbers. remember
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• healthy lifestyle choices include staying mentally and physically ac-tive, staying socially involved, reduc-ing your intake of fat and cholesterol and not smoking.
Visit www.alz.org/heartbrain or call the American Stroke Associa-tion, a division of the American heart Association, at (888) 478-7653 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 272-3900 and you’ll receive a bro-chure with heart and brain health information and a free pedometer, while supplies last.
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apart. You must continue to hold on to your faith and stay before the Lord. But, it may be that the time has come when you may need to take some quality time for yourself and spend some of that time with God.
Get on your knees before God and tell him of how you are feel-ing inside. And maybe the words wont come out exactly as you wish but you can have a good weeping, wailing crying falling, out tantrum and give all those problems to him.
While you are praying, you might forget some of the things that vexed you but God knows what you are going through. he can read the pain, which flows through your tears. even though he knows what’s troubling you, he still wants to tell him about it and bring your problems and burdens to him.
therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hands of God, that he may exalt you in due time, “casting all your cares upon him, for he cares for you,”(1st Peter 5:6-7).
After you finished having your tantrum. You may have a stopped up nose and swollen eyes and mucus running down your lip and dried tears on your face, but you’ll feel better after emptying yourself of those things which had been heavy on your heart.
Sometimes we go for weeks or months trying to take matters into our hands and try to solve our own problems. We are not super humans; we can’t handle every-thing alone. We need God’s help. We have to let go of those situ-ations and let God handle them. there are some things we can’t humanly do anything about.
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(NAPSi)-here’s an alert worth paying attention to: According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), learning your risk for type 2 diabetes could save your life.
Diabetes is a serious disease that strikes nearly 21 million children and adults in the U.S. it is named the “silent killer” because one-third of those with the disease--more than 6 million--do not know they have it.
For many, diagnosis may come seven to 10 years after the onset of type 2 diabetes. early diagnosis is critical for successful treatment and can delay or prevent some of the complications such as heart diseases, blindness, kidney disease, stroke and amputation.
that’s one reason the ADA holds the American Diabetes Alert® Day, a one-day wake-up call to inform the American public about the serious-
ness of diabetes, particularly when it is left undiagnosed and untreated. the day is held on the fourth tuesday of every March.
on that day, people are encour-aged to take the Diabetes risk test, either with paper and pencil or online. the risk test requires users to answer seven simple questions about age, weight, lifestyle and family history--all potential risk factors for diabetes. People scoring 10 points or more are at a high risk for type 2 diabetes and are encouraged to talk with a health care professional.
An estimated 54 million Ameri-cans have pre-diabetes. those with pre-diabetes have blood glucose lev-els higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
early intervention via lifestyle changes such as weight loss and
increased physical activity can help delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Among the primary risk factors for type 2 diabetes are being over-weight, sedentary, over the age of 45 and having a family history of diabetes. African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians and Pacific islanders are at an increased risk, as are women who have babies weighing more than 9 pounds at birth.
the Diabetes risk test is avail-
able in english and Spanish by call-ing the ADA at 1-800-DiABeteS (1-800-342-2383) or online at www.diabetes.org/alert.
though the Alert is a one-day call to action, awareness about type 2 diabetes is important anytime of the year, so free Diabetes risk tests are available online and by calling ADA all year long.
A free Diabetes risk test is avail-able all year long to determine the risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
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“We’ll start out with a thousand copies (of the maga-zine), but we’re hoping to hit a million,” Diaz says. “That’s the goal.”
Explaining how the pub-lication got its name, Artmore says, “Everything that I have in the magazine is intensifying. I was writing a bunch of words down that came to me, and ‘in-tense’ came to me. And that’s the word that caught my eye.”
Artmore has planned a release party for the magazine, which will be from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on May 13 (a Friday) at The Ticket, which is a lounge at 3684 College St., in Beaumont. The release party and the mag-azine’s debut are on the same day.
Hip-hop artists will per-form at the show. In addition, one of the hairstylists from Beau-mont will walk three of her girls across the stage. A makeup artist also will put on a show at the event.
“And, of course, my models are in it,” Artmore says proudly. “I’m going to call them one by one and give them their appre-ciation, thank-you cards.”
Asked to describe the feel-ing that comes with producing such an event, Artmore could not contain her modesty.
“I can’t really tell you how I feel until after the fact, when I do it,” she says guardedly. “I have faith, but I still don’t know what the outcome is going to be for May 13. But as far as me going out after what I really wanted, I feel really great, because I won’t have any regrets in life.”
Artmore says she has not yet determined whether the magazine will be monthly or quarterly.
Around the second week-end in March, a billboard (with her picture on it) advertising the release party will be posted at Interstate 10 and Walden Road in Beaumont, facing I-10’s west-bound traffic, Artmore says. And in mid-April, her billboard will be posted on College Street, near Sutherland’s lumber and home improvement store, which is on the 4500 block of College.
“At first, I wasn’t going to do a billboard, but then I thought to myself, ‘This is a one-time (opportunity). I’m going for it. I don’t care how expensive it is; I’m going for it.’ ”
Intense Heat’s debut edi-tion will have ads in it, but no paid ads. Artmore is completely funding the issue out of her own pocket.
Thirty-one-year-old Sa-mantha Prude, another dear friend of Artmore’s, is so proud of her.
“Ever since I’ve known her, she’s always been into fashion,” Prude says. “She used to always talk about putting her name on something.”
Prude says she’s looking forward to reading positive
articles that young African Americans can relate to.
Prude also would like to see articles in the maga-zine about such stars as rap-pers Lil Wayne and Drake, and R&B artist Keri Hilson, she says.
Diaz lauds Artmore for a very special quality she possesses.
“Tremeker is a very spiritual person. She’s always putting God first in her life. She doesn’t worry because she prays,” Diaz says. “She’s always had a passion to help others and motivate others through her advice.
“Her magazine is her voice,” Diaz says. Artmore, who attended Lamar State College, also wants every-one to know the importance of putting God first in their lives, Diaz says.
The magazine aims to educate readers about life and its obstacles. It also will be published to promote change in counter-productive mindsets.
Artmore says she’s already being bombarded with phone calls about when copies of Intense Heat will hit the streets.
“My phone is blowin’ up,” she says. “They’re want-ing a magazine but they (the copies) are not out yet. It feels good that they are calling about the magazines.”
For more information about Intense Heat Maga-zine, please call Tremeker Artmore at (409) 951-0436. You can also visit HYPER-LINK “http://www.in-tenseheatmagazine.com” http://www.intenseheat-magazine.com.
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the ongoing redemption and empowerment of our families and communities.
We have more opportu-nities today than ever before to make more of a difference to improve the quality of life in our communities. Self-im-provement is a key to com-munity development. I want to especially encourage our young brothers and sisters to seriously consider the benefits of building strong, loving, and successful families. The eco-nomic recovery of the African American community will be dependent both on building
strong businesses and families. Don’t let the negative self-de-structive forces of hopelessness and cynicism take hold on your consciousness. Whatever the problems we face today, we can make tomorrow a bet-ter day, if we work together, build together, share together and fight for freedom, justice, equality, and empowerment together.
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is Senior Advisor to the Black Alli-ance for Educational Options and President of Education Online Services Corporation.
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that might be disconcerting for those of us who are wedded to a paradigm that places the United States first.
If we take the call to wake up then we will look at infra-structure and opportunity. Can we learn from Japan, or will we simply offer the compassion that we offer to so many others?
Learning means doing some-thing different. Is that within the realm of our possibility?
Jul ianne Malveaux is president of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro North Carolina and author of Surviv-ing and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History,
JAPAN from page 4
African Americans may seri-ously want to consider adding more bananas and other potas-sium-rich foods to their diets. That is the suggestion of a just-released study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of medicine. According to the study, lower potassium levels in the blood may help explain why Blacks are twice as likely as whites to develop type-2 diabetes.
Study author Dr. Hsin-Chieh “Jessica” Yeh issued a statement saying, in part, “We now know lower serum potassium is an in-dependent risk factor for diabetes and that African-Americans have, on average, lower potassium lev-els than whites. What remains to be seen is if increasing potassium levels through diet or supplemen-tation can prevent the most com-mon form of diabetes.”
Details of the study appear in the current issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Meanwhile, other studies have shown that African-Amer-icans get less potassium in their diets than white Americans aver-aging just half of the government recommended 4,700 milligrams per day. Potassium comes from many sources such as bananas, melons, lentils and yogurt.
BATON ROUGE - On Saturday, March 26, the Be-rean Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Healthcare and Health and Temperance Min-istries will host its 4th annual Community Health Fair from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Berean Adventist Christian Academy at 5100 Osborne Avenue.
The focus will be “Health and Wellness.” This event will expose our city’s under-served population to a wide array of health professionals and organizations from the surrounding area. Education, medical updates, insurance information, weight manage-ment, health screenings and healthy eating are only a por-
tion of the scheduled activities. Children will receive finger printing with picture identi-fication cards. The goal is to continue to create, strengthen and support connections be-tween healthcare and the community.
For information, con-nect Trudy Williams McClain at 324-2979.
BATON ROUGE - March is nutrition month and the American Heart Association is urging Louisiana residents to make lifestyle changes that could save their lives. Healthy eating, exercise, sleep and stress management are key factors in living a heart healthy life. It’s as simple as eating right, taking time to go for a walk or hit the gym. Make sure you’re sleeping seven hours a night and take time to relax for at least 15 minutes a day.
The American Heart As-sociation’s My Life Check as-
sessment tool is the ideal guide to heart health. It takes just a few minutes to complete online. You just enter your informa-tion and it tells you how heart healthy you are and what you need to do to get in ideal heart health.
You can take the My Life Check at HYPERLINK “http://mylifecheck.heart.org” http://mylifecheck.heart.org.
The American Heart Association offers numerous resources online at HYPER-LINK “http://www.heart.org/nutrition” http://www.
heart.org/nutrition as well. There you can purchase our heart healthy cookbook, learn ways to shop healthier and set goals for a healthy diet.
The American Heart Association always has physi-cians, dieticians and real people stories of heart health we are ready to share.
Please contact Matt Johnson the Communications Director for the American Heart Association at 601-321-1204 or by cellphone at 601-327-1085, and at this e-mail address [email protected].
Obesity often saddles teenag-ers with a wide variety of condi-tions that boost the risk of heart disease, such as inflammation, insulin resistance and signs of trouble in the metabolic system, a small new study suggests.
“The metabolic abnormalities suggest that the process of devel-oping heart disease has already started in these children, making it critical for them to make definitive lifestyle and diet changes,” said study senior author Dr. Ashutosh Lal, a pediatric hematologist at the Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland in California, in a news release provided by the
American Heart Association.The findings were sched-
uled to be released Tuesday at the American Heart Associa-tion scientific sessions, held in Atlanta.
The researchers compared the diets of 33 young obese people (aged 11 to 19 years) to 19 people in the same age group who were of normal weight. The participants’ weight category was determined using the body mass index score, which takes into account a per-son’s height and weight.
The researchers also exam-ined blood test results for each of the participants, all of whom re-
ceived health care at an inner-city clinic in Oakland. Two-thirds the participants in each group were female, and both groups were racially diverse.
The obese teens showed signs of inflammation, insulin resistance (a precursor to diabe-tes) and oxidative stress (which can lead to blood vessel damage), the investigators found.
“Looking at the numbers you would think these children might feel sick, but they did not,” Lal said. “They are apparently feeling well, but there is a lot going on beneath the surface.”
The problems could be re-
lated to poor diets that are low in fruit and vegetables, fiber and dairy products. The researchers found that teens in both groups weren’t getting proper nutrition because they didn’t eat enough of these types of foods, but the obese teens in particular consumed less dairy and fewer servings of fruit.
Potassium and vitamins A, C and D -- which are found in forti-fied dairy products and deeply colored fruits and vegetables -- were all found to be lacking in the diets of the obese children, the study authors indicated.
Poor Diet Linked to Early Signs of Heart Risks in Obese Kids
Potassium Deficiency May Help Explain Why Blacks are More Diabetic than Whites
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BATON ROUGE - Research-ers at the Pennington Biomedi-cal Research Center, in results published in Nature Medicine, have discovered the mechanism that leads to an inflammatory response in obesity. This is an important finding because in-flammation compromises insulin sensitivity, a key trigger leading to type 2 diabetes. Inflamma-tion can also increase the risk of cancers, heart disease and de-mentia in obese individual Lead investigator Vishwa Deep Dixit, D.V.M., Ph.D. and his colleagues at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center identified that “NLRP3 inflammasome com-plex”-- a “molecular machine” within specialized immune cells senses the obesity-related dan-ger signals such as toxic lipids-
-triggers chronic inflammation. The new findings show that by blocking the activity of this “NLRP3 inflammasome-com-plex” in obesity, the run-away inflammation and abnormal immune cell activation can be reduced, leading to improved insulin action in obese individu-als. “Based on these findings, it is possible that future drugs could be developed to block the activation of the ‘inflammasome complex’, improving the current treatment strategies for type 2 diabetic patients,” said Dr. Dixit. However, he cautions further re-search is needed before these new findings can be translated to safe medications.
Obesity-Related Inflam-mation
For many years scientists
have known that the human immune system is activated by external, foreign pathogens. This immune response, including in-flammation, is a helpful mecha-nism which allows humans to respond to infections and heal wounds. Once the infection or in-jury is healed, the immune system is deactivated and inflammation subsides. In obesity, there is no overt infection, however immune cells are activated. What causes the immune system to be acti-vated and why does that increase the risk of type-2 diabetes? What fuels inflammation in obesity? Answers to these puzzling ques-tions have thus far been elusive to scientists.
This study shows that the ‘inflammasome complex’ is like molecular ‘glue’ which is assem-
bled when immune cells come across specific danger signals like toxic lipids that are overproduced during obesity. “Once this ‘in-flammasome complex’, which contains three unique proteins, combines in tissues during obe-sity, it causes the cytokines like Interleukin-1B and Interleukin-18 to be activated and cause inflam-mation,” said Dr. Dixit.
Pennington Executive Di-rector Steven Heymsfield, M.D. recognized the significant work and said, “This is another step for the Pennington Center as we work to improve the understand-ing of the basis for obesity-associ-ated inflammation. Our goal is to enhance the knowledge base for development of new diagnostic, preventive, and treatment ap-proaches.”
Findings Point to Novel Therapeutic Drug Target for Type 2 Diabetes
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