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2013 PERSIMMON WOMEN EVENTThe YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge held its 3rd Annual Persimmon Women fundraiser over breakfast at the City Club of Baton Rouge recently..See Page 2

OVER 106,000 FOR OBAMACARE PLANSThe U.S. government said on Wednesday that 106,185 people signed up for health coverage na-tionally under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law during October, the first month of its troubled roll-out....See Page 5

NEW KNEE LIGAMENTLast month, knee surgeons from the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium announced that they had found a new knee ligament, one that had not previously been specifically identified despite un-told numbers.See Page 7

This fall, as part of National Preparedness Month, the North Baton Rouge Chemical Industry Task Force (NBRCITF), whose members include the East Baton Rouge Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Baton Rouge Fire Department and area industrial companies, sponsored its annual shelter-in-place public awareness campaign to answer that question...See Page 3

SHELTER-IN-PLACE RELIGION In light of the ongoing bully-ing controversy in the National Football League surrounding two Miami Dolphins players, it is fitting to write an awareness piece that gives young football players with dreams of one day playing in the NFL..See Page 6

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TACLOBAN, PHILIP-PINES -- Survivors root through the splintered wreckage of their homes searching for loved ones who may be buried beneath. Others are scrambling to find food and water in areas littered with corpses.

Three days after Super Ty-phoon Haiyan, one of the stron-gest storms in recorded history, scythed across the central Philip-pines, people here are struggling to grasp the enormity of what they have lost and the challenges they face.

The storm, known as Yolanda

in the Philippines, has left devas-tation on a monumental scale in its wake.

Thousands of houses have been obliterated. Many areas are still cut off from transport, commu-nications and power. Some officials say that as many as 10,000 people may have been killed.

“There are too many people dead,” said Richard Gordon, chair-man of the Philippine Red Cross. “We have bodies in the water, bod-ies on the bridges, bodies on the side of the road.”

Amid the carnage, hundreds of

thousands of survivors are trying to cope with a lack of water, food, shelter and medicine. Aid work-ers and government officials are battling to get emergency supplies to hard-hit areas cut off by fallen trees and power lines.

In Tacloban, a city of more than 200,000 that suffered a cata-strophic blow from the typhoon, dead bodies still lay by the side of the road Monday.

Some had been covered by sheets or tarpaulins. But others remain where they had fallen, a look of horror frozen on their faces.

Aid workers are worried the grim abundance of corpses will create health risks for survivors, who are drinking water from un-derground wells without knowing if it’s been contaminated.

Magina Fernandez, who was trying to get out of Tacloban at the city’s crippled airport, described the situation there as “worse than hell.”

“Get international help to come here now -- not tomorrow, now,” she said, directing some of

Typhoon Haiyan: Survivors In Philippines Face Grim Struggle As Death Toll Rises

People in Tacloban pass debris on November 11.

See TYPHOON on page 2

BATON ROUGE, LA — Baton Rouge’s 2014 proposed budget, presented by Mayor Kip Holden on Tuesday, contains a variety of new expenses and shifts in revenue. But the most notable element of the budget might be what hasn’t changed: The pay scale for city-parish employees.

The 2014 budget only pro-poses keeping the 3 percent merit raises and longevity pay that are already being given to employees, despite requests from the local union and some council mem-bers to boost workers’ pay more significantly.

The raises employees are already receiving will amount to $3.6 million in the 2014 bud-get. But the Service Employees International Union, which repre-sents Department of Public Works employees and others, has been calling on Holden to do more, especially for the lowest paid. Nearly half of the city-parish’s employees make less than $15 per hour.

A recently released employee compensation study agreed that many city-parish employees are being paid significantly less than market rate. It would cost the city-parish $9.2 million to raise all salaries up to market rates, according to the report.

Holden said after Tuesday’s presentation that the funds aren’t available in 2014 to give employ-

ees the more significant raises the union is asking for. He said this is the fourth year in a row employees have received 3 percent raises, which are given until they reach the top of their pay scale. That amounts to a 12 percent raise over the last four years, which Holden said is impressive compared to other cities where there have been furloughs and layoffs.

Referring to the president of the local SEIU chapter, Helene O’Brien, Holden said: “All she needs to do is take a look at what is happening across the country (as cities recover from the reces-sion)… She’ll understand that we’re not the piggybank.”

Overall, the budget totals $804.8 million, an increase of 3.03 percent from last year’s budget of $780.48 million.

Other notable elements from the new proposed budget include:

• The city-parish is expecting 1.5 percent growth in sales and use tax revenues, for an additional $4.8 million. Sales and use taxes make up 57 percent of the fund-ing that goes into the city-parish’s general fund.

• The budget includes $2.17 million that the city is putting toward economic development initiatives next year, including the 2017 U.S. Bowling Con-

Breaking Down Baton Rouge’s Budget: No Extra Employee Raises, $2Million for Business Incentives

Mayor Kip Holden

See BUDGET, on page 7

WA S H -I N G T O N — President Barack Obama is expected to announce a fix Thursday for people losing their health in-surance under his signature law.

The White House says Obama will make a late-morning statement from the briefing room.

The president has come under

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The South-western Athletic Con-ference announced on Wednesday that Grambling will face financial penalties after forfeiting its road game against Jackson State on Oct. 19.

The SWAC did not announce exact figures in its release, but said the fine would be issued in accordance to the league’s bylaws. Grambling spokesman Will Sutton has said previously that amount is $20,000. Gram-bling must also play road games

at Jackson State the next three seasons.

Grambl ing ’s players staged a boycott of the Jack-

son State game because of issues with Grambling’s

leaders, including the school’s rundown facilities, long bus trips to road games and personnel de-cisions.

The SWAC also said Gram-bling will pay Jackson State an undisclosed amount from its “fu-ture distribution amounts” to help Jackson State recoup lost money from the Oct. 19 cancellation.

Grambling faces financial punishment for forfeit

See OBAMA, on page 2

PresidentBarack Obama

BATON ROUGE, LA -Baton Rouge ranks in the top 10 cities in the nation for human trafficking. Investigators say the youngest confirmed victim was just six years old. A new commis-sion has been formed to tackle pimps and help victims.

Members of the newly formed Human Traffic Study Commission are in a fight to save Louisiana’s youth from a crime that has been running rampant. Pimps display women and men for sale on websites like Backpage.

Law enforcement has tight-ened its reigns on predators, but they say the Johns have gotten smart; disguising phone numbers to make them harder to trace and

Group fighting to Save Louisiana’s Youth from Human Trafficking

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BATON ROUGE, LA — The YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge held its 3rd Annual Persimmon Women fundraiser over breakfast at the City Club of Baton Rouge recently. The event was close to capacity, and was reported to be the largest breakfast event ever held at the City Club, which provided a festive and elegant backdrop to the event. Attendees were among the first to view and experience the City Club’s newly renovated areas. Many of those who attended wore “YWCA persimmon” and some featured Halloween themes.

Keyon Shaffers, YWCA past service recipient, YWCA Early Head Start Health Services Com-mittee member and recently-elected YWCA Board member provided moving testimony regarding how YWCA staff and community sup-ports “were there” for her as she pursued her education, assured her son received high quality early care and education, and maintained em-ployment that moved her family into financial stability.

Senator Sharon Weston Broome, President Pro Tempore of the Louisiana State Senate, graciously served as emcee for the event, and Sylvia Melancon, YWCA Board President welcomed everyone to the event and assisted

throughout with the program. The event had Silver Sponsorship from Campus Federal Credit Union, J-Cal Incorporated and Latuso & Johnson, CPA’s. Louisiana Healthcare Con-nections served as a Corporate Table Sponsor, while YWCA Persimmon Women Power Circle Members John Noland and Jennifer Shoub

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her anger at Philippine Presi-dent Benigno Aquino III, who toured some of the hardest-hit areas Sunday.

Tacloban was shattered by Haiyan, whose tremendous force brought a wall of water roaring off the Gulf of Leyte. The storm surge leveled en-tire neighborhoods of wooden houses and flung large ships ashore like toys.

“I have not spoken to anyone who has not lost someone, a relative close to them,” said Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez, who nar-rowly escaped death during the storm’s fury.

But Tacloban is far from the only devastated area. Au-thorities are trying to establish the level of destruction else-where along Haiyan’s path.

“It’s not just Tacloban; it’s all the coastal areas” in that region, said Gordon of the Red Cross.

Fishing communities stretch for miles down the eastern coast of Leyte, the island where Gen. Douglas Macarthur led U.S. troops ashore in 1944 at the start of the long, bloody fight to retake the Philippines from the Japanese dur-ing World War II.

The other settlements along the coast are likely to have suffered a similar fate to Tacloban’s.

Across the Gulf of Leyte lies Samar, where Haiyan made its first of six deadly landfalls in the Philip-pines on Friday. Government and aid officials say they are still trying to reach many affected communi-ties on that island.

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branding victims with coded tat-toos.

State Police Major Paul Edmonson says communicating with victims is critical.

“Who dropped her off? Who paid for the hotel? That info helps us tie together organizations involved in the coordination of human trafficking around the state,” said Major Paul Edmon-son with Louisiana State Police.

But lawmakers are con-cerned with those victim’s rights. Representative Neil Abramson is hoping to create legislation that protects young victims who help the law.

“I think we’ve done an ex-cellent job but more needs to be done to make sure they are treated as victims and not criminals,” said Abramson.

“Sometimes you’ll see chil-dren recruiting other children and the problem is where are

you going to put these children after they recover? And that’s a detention center,” said FBI Spe-cial Agent Jennifer Perry.

Beth Salcedo, the Director of “Free Indeed” Home is open-ing a new door to victims once they’re rescued from the streets.

“Education, massive reha-bilitation, vocation skills, and independent social skills to help them into independence,” said Salcedo.

Salcedo is working with the State Department of Fam-ily and Child Services to later put the victims in foster care. But that’s just part of the solution. This commission must first create new avenues to find children who are living the nightmare.

If you think you might know of a human trafficking situation, you can report it to the State Police Fusion Center at 1-800-434-8007.

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The TBR Education Strat-egy Kickoff event was a pretty extraordinary experience. Nearly 200 faith and community leaders came together under a premise -- that “public schools cannot be successful unless the public is invested in their success.”

Ms. LaShawn Stewart, the

principal of Progress Elementary, remarked that never in all her years as a school leader and an educator has she seen this level of commu-nity support for public education.

But here’s the thing. This was not a meeting to talk. This was a meeting to begin to take action.

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All of it will lead to an ex-traordinary investment of our community in children and the success of public education.

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personal contribution in addition to filling their tables with indi-viduals who also agreed to make a suggested minimum personal contribution to support YWCA services. Over one hundred seventy-five had made reserva-tions. The event should net over $25,000 for the YWCA, which provides services to some of the most vulnerable populations in our community: children 0 – 3 and their families living in poverty; those facing breast cancer, HIV/AIDS or teen pregnancy; and all who are impacted by disparities based on race and gender.

Last year, the event served as the debut for then-new CEO Jennifer A. Shoub, who hailed from Michigan. This year, Shoub noted that she has been warmly welcomed into the Baton Rouge community, and has made a home here. She provided an overview of how Ms. Shaffer’s story is one of generational success – a theme common in the YWCA - and how the YWCA works to assist those it serves by focusing on clients’ strengths, partnering with them in achieving their goals and advo-cating within systems to remove barriers.

In addition to the contribu-tions from individuals and spon-sors, a raffle was held featuring six raffle packages ranging in value from $280 to $460 and included a Bicycle Package, LSU Package, Specialty Package, Theatre Pack-age, Ballet Package and a First Ladies Package, which featured items from or about First Ladies

Michelle Obama, Supriya Jindal and Lois Holden, as well as former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

Committee members in-cluded Co-Chairs Tisha McK-inney and Ashley Junek, Meisie Beauvais, Barbara Anne Eaton, Jennifer Jenkins, Sylvia Melancon and Trudy Smith. YWCA staff provided essential support.

Please contact Jennifer A. Shoub, CEO at shoubj@ywca-br.org or by calling her at

225-383-0681 ext. 201 for additional information.

The YWCA Greater Baton Rouge is a non-profit organization affiliated with the YWCA USA, which has a rich 150+year legacy of social justice. The YWCA’s Mission: The YWCA Greater Baton Rouge is dedicated to eliminating racism, empower-ing women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Key programs include YWCA ENCOREplus (breast cancer out-reach and education), Early Head Start (high quality child care and education for families with low-incomes and children 0 – 3, and Youth and Teen Services (teen pregnancy and STD prevention programming and HIV/AIDS education and testing services), along with Racial and Social Jus-tice. The YWCA Greater Baton Rouge’s service area includes the parishes of East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, East Felici-ana, West Feliciana, Ascension, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. Hel-ena, St. James, Tangipahoa, and Livingston.

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If you were suddenly told to shelter-in-place, would you know what to do? This fall, as part of National Preparedness Month, the North Baton Rouge Chemical In-dustry Task Force (NBRCITF), whose members include the East Baton Rouge Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Pre-paredness, the Baton Rouge Fire Department and area industrial companies, sponsored its annual shelter-in-place public awareness campaign to answer that question.

The campaign is aimed at increasing awareness and pre-paredness of local residents in the event of a chemical emergency, specifically along the industrial corridor in North Baton Rouge and parts of West Baton Rouge Parish. Activities focus primarily on area school children and local neighborhood outreach.

The Wally Wise Guy Safety Tour, performed by Playmakers of Baton Rouge and sponsored by NBRCITF, visited more than 30 local schools to educate Pre-K – second grade students on what to do in a chemical emergency. “With National Emergency Pre-paredness Month in September, the fall is a perfect time to make the community aware of what to do,” explains Robert Combs, BRFD Public Information Officer. “The Baton Rouge Fire Depart-ment wants to encourage everyone to be prepared for emergencies and know what to do in any situation.”

The steps involved in shel-

tering-in-place are:1. Go inside.2. Close all doors and win-

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or haters.4. Turn on local TV news

and radio.5. Stay inside until the “All

Clear” is given. In an ongoing effort to

address this issue, flyers and magnets featuring these five shelter-in-place steps have been distributed at various commu-nity events. “During a chemi-cal release,” Combs continues, “emergency management officials or other authorities may recom-mend a ‘shelter-in-place,’ meaning residents should stay inside their homes or other secure structures until notified that the situation is safe.”

The North Baton Rouge Chemical Industry Task Force formed in 1985, consistent with the Chemical Manufacturers As-

sociation, Community Aware-ness and Emergency Response (CAER) initiative, with member-ship from more than a dozen local petrochemical plants and public safety agencies. The purpose of NBRCITF is to develop and ongoing open dialogue between industry and public safety agen-

cies, provide active participa-tion in and support of the Local Emergency Planning Commit-tee (LEPC), Baton Rouge Area Mutual Aid System (BRAMAS) and other emergency preparedness activities and enhance the Baton Rouge area emergency response plan for HAZMAT incidents. This

is the task force’s seventh year of sponsorship of Playmakers’ Wally Wise Guy Safety Tour in these area schools.

Please contact Lana Sonnier Venable with ExxonMobil Baton Rouge’s Public & Government Affairs personnel at 225.977.7031 for additional information.

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Wally Wise Guy is pictured with North Baton Rouge Chemical Industry Task Force Members Robert Combs (Baton Rouge Fire Department), Tuesday Mills (Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness), Obie Cambre (ExxonMobil), and Curt Monte (Baton Rouge Fire Department).

BATON ROUGE, Loui-siana – The East Baton Rouge Council on Aging (EBRCOA) announced today that it would be hosting its annual Thanksgiving Dinner and Dance at the Belle of Baton Rouge Casino & Hotel. The event will be held Novem-ber 26, 2013 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. The agency is proud to continue its partnership with Peoples Health as the premiere sponsor of this event. In addi-tion, the agency welcomes The Belle of Baton Rouge Casino & Hotel and Amerigroup of Louisi-ana as new sponsors of the event this year. Seniors aged 60+ that are also residents of East Baton Rouge Parish are invited to at-tend. There will be great food and entertainment and a chance to win door prizes. If you would like to attend please RSVP no later than November 18, 2013 at

4:00 p.m. The number to RSVP is (225) 923-8000. Last year the agency provided Thanksgiving Meals to 715 Senior Citizens. By all estimates the agency expects to exceed that number this year. For more information on this event and how you can participate; check out the website at www.ebrcoa.org or call (225) 923-8000.

The EBRCOA also wishes to encourage the local commu-nity that as the Holiday season approaches, we remember our seniors that not only face chal-lenges to meet basic needs but also are alone this season.

“The Council on Aging is thankful for the support we re-ceived from our corporate part-ners, and the East Baton Rouge community. The Holiday season

East Baton Rouge Council On Aging To Host Annual Thanksgiving Dinner And Dance

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BATON ROUGE, LA (Grassroots Newswire) -- Blake Fowler, an agent with EXIT Realty Group in Baton Rouge was recently honored with the coveted Bronze Award by EXIT Realty Corp. International. The award was given in recognition of achieving 25+ closed transac-tion sides from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

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The U.S. government said on Wednesday that 106,185 people signed up for health coverage na-tionally under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law during October, the first month of its troubled roll-out.

The figure include 26,794 people who signed up for private health insurance plans through the technologically-challenged federal marketplace serving 36 states. An additional 396,261 people were deemed eligible for the government’s Medicaid program or the Children’s Health

Insurance Program for the poor, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.

The Obama administration had signaled enrollment would be very low in October because of technical failures that have hobbled the HealthCare.gov website used for signing people up in 36 states. But the reported figures show how far the White House has to go to build a new individual market of millions of consumers in 2014 to keep the healthcare program financially viable.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Apple demanded Wednesday that Samsung Electronics pay it $380 million for copying vital iPhone and iPad features, as a billion-dollar patent fight between the world’s two biggest smartphone makers resumed in a Silicon Valley courtroom.

An Apple attorney made the demand during opening statements in a trial to determine damages. The statements included a video of Apple founder Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone at the now-famous Jan. 9, 2007, Macworld conference in San Francisco. Since then, Apple alleges, Samsung has embarked on a copying campaign to keep pace in the exploding smartphone market.

“Apple lost sales because Samsung was selling infringing products,” Apple attorney Harold McIhenny told the jury.

Attorneys for Samsung are

expected to make their opening remarks later in the day.

A previous jury awarded Apple $1.05 billion after determining 26 Samsung products had infringed six Apple patents. But a judge found the jury miscalculated $400 mil-lion in damages for 13 products and ordered a new trial to determine the proper amount. The new jury is free to order new damages ranging from nothing to more than the original $400 million.

“Most cases with these enor-mous stakes would have settled by now — particularly once the court ordered a new trial on damages, which could substantially increase or decrease the damage award,” said Notre Dame law school profes-sor Mark McKenna, who special-izes in technology.

But McKenna said a key in-centive for both companies to reach

a settlement was removed by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh when she refused to ban U.S. sales of the Samsung products the first jury found infringed Apple’s patents.

No matter the outcome, McK-enna and other experts expect the loser to appeal.

Samsung and Apple have been locked in bitter legal struggles around the world as they fight for supremacy of the more than $300 billion smartphone market.

Apple has argued in courts, government tribunals and regula-tory agencies around the world that Samsung’s Android-based phones copy vital iPhone features. Sam-sung is fighting back with its own complaints that some key Apple patents are invalid and Apple has copied Samsung’s technology.

The two have each won and lost legal skirmishes over the

Apple wants $380M in patent trial with Samsung

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Hello honey’s how ya’ll doing? Mother’s doing pretty well this week. I was about to say it’s all good, but then because I know better it’s all God! God has done some wonderful things for me babies. I can’t even tell it all. Chile I just have to open my mouth and give him some Hal-lelujahs because he is good like that. Babies I was out to Word of his Power Ministries on Thursday night and it was awesome! Those folk up in there praised awhile; that lil minister of music started it of by dancing and prancing all over the church and Chile the music was phenomenal. They had horns, and drums and a lil bass guitar player up in there that thought he was Chuck Berry. They even had the EBR Police praising. Babies them folk were ready for war. They served the devil notice that they were going to tear his kingdom down, and they broke every chain in sight! They surrendered and withheld nothing; put it under the blood and took it to the King. Now you might not understand what I am trying to tell you, but all of the people up in there knew exactly what was going on. Babies there was a lil preacher up in there and I thought that he was going to pull heaven down singing that Jesus will. God a mighty that boy shouted and danced all over the pulpit. I betcha that Pastor Deggs didn’t have to usher the spirit up in there on Sunday. All that had to do was shout off of the residue! Those people up in that lil church started a Holy Ghost revolution. I tell you when I left I couldn’t

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In light of the ongoing bul-lying controversy in the National Football League surrounding two Miami Dolphins players, it is fitting to write an awareness piece that gives young football players with dreams of one day playing in the NFL information that they’ll need in order to know how to discern (know) what may be seen as a fine line between “rites of passage,” or the initiation practices targeting rookie players, and bullying.

I’ve turned to three former (Beaumont) West Brook High School standouts who went on to play in the NFL — Mickey Washington, Earl Dotson and Curtis Ceaser Jr. — to talk about the recent situation in which Miami Dolphins player Richie Incognito was suspended indefinitely from the team for “detrimental conduct” relating to the alleged bullying of teammate Jonathan Martin, a sec-ond year player with the Dolphins.

Washington, whose eight-year career as a defensive back included playing with the New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills, also sits on the board of directors for the NFL Players Association,

which has insisted “on a fair inves-tigation” for all involved.

“At some point, people have to stop blaming the players, and they have to look at organiza-tions,” says Washington, a 1990

draft pick of the Phoenix Cardinals. “If you take a fool and sign a fool to a multimillion-dollar contract, don’t expect him to (behave) any different.”

Washington’s point is that the front offices of football teams must make the workplace safe for their players.

But while bullying should never be excused, initiations of rookies into the National Football League have always existed.

“The bottom line is you’re going to do something, and it’s all in good fun,” says Ceaser, who was drafted by the New York Jets in 1995 and remained with the team through 1996.

“That case there was a bullying situation — for that to happen to a second-year player,” Ceaser says, noting that initiations are generally aimed at first-year players. “It’s no way in hell that a second-year player deals with that.”

Dotson, who made a living blocking for Brett Favre with the Green Bay Packers from 1993 to 2003, says he played for an orga-nization that placed a premium on

Former NFL Players Weigh In On Bullying Issue

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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.”

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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

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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.

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The current proceedings are somewhat of a warm-up for a much larger trial scheduled for March. That case will focus on newer products still on the mar-ket, while the current trial is a battle over products that are sev-eral years old and no longer sold in the U.S. Apple is asking that Samsung be barred from selling some of its current devices in the U.S., and more money will be at stake as well.

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Last month, knee surgeons from the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium announced that they had found a new knee ligament, one that had not previ-ously been specifically identified despite untold numbers of past knee dissections and scans. This surpris-ing announcement, in The Journal of Anatomy, should improve our understanding of how the knee works and why some knee surgeries disappoint and also underscores the continually astonishing complexity of human anatomy.

To find and characterize this new knee part, the orthopedic surgeons Dr. Steven Claes and Dr. Johann Bellemans and their colleagues gathered 41 knee joints from human cadavers and began minutely dissecting them.

The knee, as those of us who own and operate a pair know, is complicated and somewhat fragile, an intricate construction of bones, cartilage, fluids, ligaments (which attach bones to bones) and tendons (which attach muscles to bones). Ideally, the various parts move together smoothly, but they can tear, rupture or fracture if the knee abruptly twists or overpivots. Knee injuries and pain drive millions of people to doctors every year and result in millions of knee exams, scans and surgeries.

The newly identified antero-lateral ligament (A.L.L.) stabilizes the knee, researchers say, but can be easily injured, contributing to knee problems.The Journal of Anatomy The newly identified anterolateral ligament (A.L.L.) stabilizes the knee, researchers say, but can be easily injured, contributing to knee problems.

So most of us probably have assumed that the entire internal structure of the knee has been fully mapped and delineated.

But knee specialists them-selves have long been less san-guine. As far back as 1879, a French surgeon named Paul Segond first

speculated that, in addition to the four obvious structural knee liga-ments known then — the anterior cruciate, medial collateral, poste-rior cruciate and lateral collateral, which loop around and through the joint — other ligaments must exist in the knee or it would not be stable. He wrote that during dis-sections he had noticed a “pearly, resistant fibrous band” originating at the outside, front portion of the thighbone and continuing to the shinbone, which, in his estimation, must stabilize the outer part of the knee, preventing it from collaps-ing inward.

He did not, however, give this pearly band a name and somehow, in the decades that followed, its existence was forgotten or ignored. While some surgeons noted that a ligament seemed to exist there, none named and systematically studied it, and many came to con-sider it a continuation of other tis-

sues, such as the nearby iliotibial band.

But a few years ago, Dr. Claes and his colleagues began to suspect otherwise. Their interest had been piqued by a problem that occurred in some patients who had under-gone reconstructive surgery for an injured anterior cruciate ligament, or A.C.L. Despite the repaired knees’ appearing afterward to be healthy, the joint would sometimes give way as people moved.

“We thought, something is still not right” in that knee, said Dr. Claes, who wondered whether additional, untended knee inju-ries might be to blame, and if so, whether they were occurring in uncharted knee parts. “I know it probably sounds crazy to say that we thought there might be this new ligament,” he said.

But, like Dr. Segond so long before him, Dr. Claes became con-vinced that such a tissue must exist.

Positioned at the front of the knee, it would be vulnerable to tearing when an A.C.L. was injured; the same forces would move through both ligaments. But, unlike torn A.C.L’s, this new tissue’s injuries would remain untreated, potentially leading, Dr. Claes considered, to knee instability and buckling.

So, knowing it should be there, he and his colleagues began to search for this chimerical ligament in the 41 donated knees. And there it was, a narrow band of tissue, clearly separate from the illiotibial band and neatly linking the femur and the tibia. Because it was located on the outside, front portion of the knee, they named it the anterolat-eral ligament, or A.L.L.

They subsequently identified, measured and scanned the A.L.L. in all but one of the donated knees, and even in that final knee, Dr.

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Dotson says when he was in Green Bay rookie players would have to pay for “2 grand” worth of dinner, but nothing remotely close to the $54,896 bill Dallas Cowboys rookie receiver Dez Bryant was pressured into paying in 2010.

Asked how a rookie should respond to anything that resembles hazing, Dotson says: “Judge what would be asked of him, when it comes to the hazing. First and

foremost, he’s his own man. The last decision is always up to him.”

Donald Lee, a Beaumont, Texas, native living in Dallas, is a free-lance journalist. Contact him at (225) 773-2248. Follow him on Twitter at @donaldj_lee.

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• Health insurance premiums for city-parish employees aren’t changing, but the city-parish had to budget an extra $733,000 to cover additional expenses asso-ciated with the Affordable Care Act.

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funding for a police academy that will train 25 new officers, and a Baton Rouge Fire Department academy that will train 30 new firefighters.

• The budget includes $1 mil-lion for replacement vehicles for the Baton Rouge Police Depart-ment. The department will replace 2005 and 2006 models with more than 100,000 miles.

The Metro Council is sched-uled to hold a public hearing on the budget on Nov. 13, and is expected to vote on the budget on Dec. 10.

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There are two things we’d like to have you consider doing.

First, please consider sign-ing up to become a VIPS Read-ing or Math Friend. The sign-up form is online, and it will take you about 3 minutes.

Second, consider helping recruit other people to participate as VIPS volunteers.

We’ve got a sign-up card, which can be used to sign people

up to participate. You can down-load that sign-up card here.

One church is going to print 750 copies and distribute these cards to every single member of the church at a service in November, with the invitation to sign up!

We’ll be celebrating the culmination of this recruitment campaign, along with much else, at TBR’s End of Year Celebration on Tuesday, December 10th, at 12pm, at Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church, 9700 Scenic Highway.

So mark your calendar for that.

SChOOlS from page 2

been saying, “But I’m waiting on God” and God is saying, “Child I’m waiting on you”.

Babies I’ve got to let ya’ll go and marinate that a bit. You better believe what the Lord says. Where is your faith? Don’t you

know that the thing that breaks the father’s heart the most is our doubt and unbelief?

Well sugars I’ve got to go, but ya’ll be good now you hear. Have a blessed week and I’ll see you in church.

ChurCh laDy from page 6

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Claes said, he suspects there may once have been an A.L.L, but it possibly ruptured and withered at some point.

Whether a similar process oc-curs in living people who injure and don’t treat an A.L.L. — because they don’t know they have one — is unknown, Dr. Claes said, but is potentially the weightiest question raised by this new research. “We think that it’s quite likely many people who tear an A.C.L. also tear an A.L.L,” he said, and that lingering injury or weakness in this

overlooked ligament could leave joints unstable.

But at the moment, that pos-sibility is speculative, although Dr. Claes said that he and his col-leagues had re-examined scans of some of the knees that they had

operated on to repair A.C.L. injuries and identified concomitant A.L.L. tears in many of them.

He and his colleagues have begun planning and practicing surgical procedures for treating A.L.L. tears, but at the moment, so much remains unknown about the ligament, including whether it can heal without surgery.

“We still have a lot of work

to do,” said Dr. Claes, who, with his colleagues, will be presenting continuing results at orthopedic surgery conventions in the coming months. But the fact that the A.L.L is now recognized is already “an important step forward,” he said, in understanding and potentially treating injured knees, at least in those parts of which, to date, we are aware.

Knee from page 7

Maybe the New Orleans Saints started feeling the resur-gent Carolina Panthers breathing down their necks in the tightened NFC South race.

Whatever it was, New Or-leans looked more like a dominant team than maybe it has all season with a 49-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Saints maintain a one-game lead in the NFC South over Carolina, which beat San Francisco earlier Sunday.

The sequence near the end of the first half served as the mi-crocosm of the Saints’ overall dominance against the Cowboys.

The Saints quickly marched down the field late in the second quarter as Darren Sproles capped the drive with a 3-yard touchdown scamper. The defense suffocated the Cowboys on the following drive, forcing a three-and-out and giving Drew Brees and his gang of weapons the football back with 53 seconds remaining.

So in vintage Saints (7-2) fashion, Brees hit four receivers on the drive and Sproles dazzled the sold-out crowd and national TV audience. Sproles took a screen pass and burst through defenders for a 28-yard scoring play to push

the Saints ahead 28-10 with five seconds left.

New Orleans broke a single-game NFL record with 40 first downs. The Cowboys only col-lected nine first downs.

The Saints piled up 625 yards of total offense against Dallas. It’s the most yards by a Saints

offense in a single game in fran-chise history. It’s also the most yards the Cowboys defense has ever surrendered in a single game in franchise history. It’s also the most yards an NFL team has piled up in one game since 1982.

The running game came in full force as Mark Ingram and

Pierre Thomas gained the bulk of the team’s 242 total rushing yards. It’s the most rushing yards in a single game during the Pay-ton era and the Saints’ most since 1990 when they rushed for 249 vs. the Bengals. Meanwhile, Ingram chalked up a career-high 145 yards on only 14 carries.

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