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Typhoon Haiyan: Survivors In Philippines Face Grim Struggle As Death Toll Rises
Breaking Down Baton Rouge’s Budget: No Extra Employee Raises, $2Million for Business Incentives
Mayor Kip Holden
People in Tacloban pass debris on November 11. TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES -- 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 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history, scythed across the central Philippines, 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 devastation on a monumental scale in its wake. Thousands of houses have been obliterated. Many areas are still cut off from transport, communications 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, chairman of the Philippine Red Cross. “We have bodies in the water, bodies 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 workers 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 catastrophic 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 underground 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 See TYPHOON on page 2
Group fighting to Save Louisiana’s Youth from Human Trafficking
Obama to Announce fix for Canceled Health plans WA S H INGTON — President Barack Obama is expected to announce a fix Thursday for people losing their health insurance under President his signature Barack Obama law. The White House says Obama will make a late-morning statement from the briefing room. The president has come under
B ATO N R O U G E , L A -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 commission 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 tightened its reigns on predators, but they say the Johns have gotten smart; disguising phone numbers to make them harder to trace and
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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 proposes 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 members to boost workers’ pay more significantly. The raises employees are already receiving will amount to $3.6 million in the 2014 budget. But the Service Employees International Union, which represents 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-
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• 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 funding 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 ConSee BUDGET, on page 7
Grambling faces financial punishment for forfeit
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southwestern Athletic Conference 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. Grambling must also play road games
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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 recession)… 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:
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at Jackson State the next three seasons. G r a m b l i n g ’s players staged a boycott of the Jackson State game because of issues with Grambling’s leaders, including the school’s rundown facilities, long bus trips to road games and personnel decisions. The SWAC also said Grambling will pay Jackson State an undisclosed amount from its “future distribution amounts” to help Jackson State recoup lost money from the Oct. 19 cancellation.
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In light of the ongoing bullying 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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2013 PERSIMMON WOMEN EVENT 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
The 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 PLANS
The U.S. government said on Wednesday that 106,185 people signed up for health coverage nationally under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law during October, the first month of its troubled roll-out....See Page 5
NEW KNEE LIGAMENT Last 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 untold numbers.See Page 7
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YWCA 2013 Persimmon Women Event Garners Support for YWCA Greater Baton Rouge 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 Committee member and recently-elected YWCA Board member provided moving testimony regarding how YWCA staff and community supports “were there” for her as she pursued her education, assured her son received high quality early care and education, and maintained employment 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
hosted tables for their guests that included representatives from AllStar Automotive and from Baton Rouge Business Report’s 2013 Women of Influence. Six Table Captains and fourteen Co-Captains made a significant See YWCA, on page 3
The First Alliance Schools Campaign Begins The TBR Education Strategy 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 community 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. At the meeting, twenty-three
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branding victims with coded tattoos. 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 Edmonson with Louisiana State Police. But lawmakers are concerned 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 excellent job but more needs to be done to make sure they are treated as victims and not criminals,” said Abramson. “Sometimes you’ll see children recruiting other children and the problem is where are
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you going to put these children after they recover? And that’s a detention center,” said FBI Special Agent Jennifer Perry. Beth Salcedo, the Director of “Free Indeed” Home is opening a new door to victims once they’re rescued from the streets. “Education, massive rehabilitation, vocation skills, and independent social skills to help them into independence,” said Salcedo. Salcedo is working with the State Department of Family 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 1-800434-8007.
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her anger at Philippine President 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 entire 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 narrowly escaped death during the storm’s fury. But Tacloban is far from the only devastated area. Authorities are trying to establish the level of destruction elsewhere 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 during 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 Philippines on Friday. Government and aid officials say they are still trying to reach many affected communities on that island.
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East Baton Rouge Council On Aging To Host Annual Thanksgiving Dinner And Dance BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – 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 November 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 addition, the agency welcomes The Belle of Baton Rouge Casino & Hotel and Amerigroup of Louisiana as new sponsors of the event this year. Seniors aged 60+ that are also residents of East Baton Rouge Parish are invited to attend. 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
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personal contribution in addition to filling their tables with individuals who also agreed to make a suggested minimum personal contribution to support YWCA services. Over one hundred seventy-five had made reservations. 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 advocating within systems to remove barriers. In addition to the contributions from individuals and sponsors, 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 Package, 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 included Co-Chairs Tisha McKinney 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@ywcabr.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, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Key programs include YWCA ENCOREplus (breast cancer outreach and education), Early Head Start (high quality child care and education for families with lowincomes 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 Justice. The YWCA Greater Baton Rouge’s service area includes the parishes of East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Ascension, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, Tangipahoa, and Livingston.
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Local agencies partner with industry to teach kids how to Shelter-in-Place 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 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. The campaign is aimed at increasing awareness and preparedness 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 Preparedness 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 Department wants to encourage everyone to be prepared for emergencies and know what to do in any situation.” The steps involved in sheltering-in-place are: 1. Go inside. 2. Close all doors and windows. 3. Turn off air conditioners 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 community events. “During a chemical release,” Combs continues, “emergency management officials or other authorities may recommend 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-
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Fowler Achieves Coveted Production Award Baton Rouge agent is honored by EXIT Realty Corp. International 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 transaction sides from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. EXIT Realty has very high standards for award recipients,” said Tami Bonnell, CEO of EXIT Realty Corp. International. “Regardless of the economy, we are increasing the number of our award winners and moving up to the next level every year. We are truly proud of our EXIT associates.” “EXIT Realty is experiencing phenomenal momentum across the continent and we’re proud that Blake is a part of it. In fact, this year we presented over 30% more production awards in the U.S. than last year,” said Steve Morris, Founder & Chairman of EXIT Realty Corp. International. “Everything we do
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is an especially difficult time of year for Seniors in our Parish. As an agency we believe that no senior in East Baton Rouge Parish should go hungry or forgotten during the holiday season,” stated Tasha Clark-Amar EBRCOA Executive Director. East Baton Rouge Council On Aging: Supporting Independence ~ Serving Seniors The East Baton Rouge Council on Aging (EBRCOA) is a non-profit organization serv-
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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.
Apple wants $380M in patent trial with Samsung 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
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RELIGION
THE CHURCH LADY REPORT Former NFL Players Weigh In On Bullying Issue 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 Hallelujahs 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
even go to sleep that night. All I could do was just praise him all night and into the next day. Ouuuuweee you talk about good! I encourage you all to make your way on over to word of His power on the first Thursday in December because if it is anything like it was this past Thursday it’s going to make you long for glory. Babies I’m so full I just got to go and collect myself. So glad to know that Bishop is back in the mix. That’s another fiery preacher and we know that God has a whole lot more work for him to do. So stay encouraged Bishop and start getting them sermons ready for your return. Lord that Rev. Jenkins is Holy Ghost filled ill man too. Chile if you get him to going he is like a wind-up toy. Full of the anointing ouuuuuwe. Sunday I stopped the Hardy’s over there on Choctaw; Faith, Hope & Love Church and it was such a blessing. The pastor had a powerful word on “What do you have faith for?” It was timely and accurate. Some of you need it. You need a now Faith word. Now he can heal your issue, now he cause you to rise up and walk, now he can make your blind eyes see…but the only question is precious hearts what will you believe God for? What do you have faith for? You’ve See CHURCH LADY, on page 7
Earl Dotson Packers
Mickey Washington
By Donald Lee In light of the ongoing bullying 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 second year player with the Dolphins.
Curtis Ceaser, right with friend.
Washington, whose eightyear 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 investigation” for all involved. “At some point, people have to stop blaming the players, and they have to look at organizations,” 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 organization that placed a premium on See NFL PLAYERS, on page 7
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Americans that by managing their • having high cholesterol increases cardiovascular risk, they may also the risk for stroke and may increase strengthen their cognitive health. the risk for Alzheimer’s. “What’s good for your heart is good for your brain,” says Jennifer Thursday, Manage Your Risks November 14, 2013 • The Weekly Press • Page 7 Manly, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Associa• Watch the numbers. remember tion spokesperson. “every healthy that desirable blood pressure is less heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of than 120/80 mmhg. Keep your body page 4 blood to your brain to carry on weight in the recommended range chools from page 2 your the daily processes of thinking, proband make sure that the total cholesthe citizens of the nation must lem solving and remembering.” terol is less than 200mg/dL. ncil, build- demand thatyou ourbeleaders the year 2030, the downnumber of Will part offree it? our up to“By participate. 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Church, 9700 Scenic Highway. ilies up to Whether Members of Congress despite untold numbers of past knee We’ve got a sign-up card, So mark your calendar for al poverty are liberal, conservative or moddissections and scans. This surpriswhich can be used to sign people that. house co- erate; Democrat, republican or ing announcement, in The Journal ort. how- independent, children need all of of Anatomy, should improve our er a single them to vote, lobby, speak for and understanding of how the knee any other protect them. 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(ADA), learning your risk for type 2 of every Among the primary risk factors diabetes.org/alert. and the Ardendale Developwill train 25 new officers, and a ealth cov- we need to hold them accountable. find andpeople characterize this for type 2 diabetes are being overdiabetes couldFire saveDepartment your life. onTothat day, are encourthough the Alert is a one-day ment,thank formerly known asofSmiley Baton Rouge merica as Please your Members Connew knee part, the orthopedic Diabetes is a serious disease that aged to take the Diabetes risk test, weight, sedentary, over the age of call to action, awareness about type Heights. biggest economic academy that will train 30 new se children gress with The scores of 80 percent or surgeons Dr. Steven Claes and strikes nearly 21 million children either with paper and pencil or online. 45 and having a family history of 2 diabetes is important anytime of the comes up above and let those withisscores of development project the new firefighters. 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African Americans, Latinos, year, so free Diabetes risk tests are and• The adults in the U.S. it$1 ismilnamed Dr. the Johann risk test requires usersand to answer n in early 60 percent or below know you are IBM building downtown, which budget includes thefor “silent killer” because one-third seven simple questions aboutjoints age, Native Americans, Asians and Pacific available online and by calling ADA colleagues gathered 41 knee Member of dissatisfied their performance. the city iswith putting $1.5 million lion replacement vehicles for of those with the disease--more than 6 weight, lifestyle and family history-islanders are at an increased risk, as all year long. from human cadavers and began covering And please convey that same mestoward next year. the Baton Rouge Police Departmillion--do not know they have it. all potential risk factors for diabetes. are women who have babies weighing A free Diabetes risk test is availminutely dissecting them. nt mother sage to• Health each presidential insurancecandidate. premiums ment. The department will replace For many, diagnosis may come People scoring 10 points or more are more than 9 pounds at birth. able all year long to determine the risk The knee, as those of us who dequately We demandemployees that our leaders formust city-parish aren’t 2005 and 2006 models with more seven to 10 years after the onset of own at a high risk for type 2 diabetes and the Diabetes risk test is avail- for developing type 2 diabetes. and operate a pair know, is of the All commit to children as a condition changing, but the city-parish had than miles. type100,000 2 diabetes. early diagnosis is complicated are encouraged talk with afragile, health andtosomewhat oftoour vote. an extra $733,000 to budget The Metro Counciltreatment is sched-and care professional. critical for successful an intricate construction of bones, we could cover additional expenses asso- uled hold or a public hearing on the cantodelay prevent some of An estimated million Americartilage, fluids,54 ligaments (which 70 billion Marian Wright is Presiciated with the Edelman Affordable Care thecomplications budget on such Nov.as13, and is heart diseases, cans have pre-diabetes. those with speculated that, in addition to the sues, such as the nearby iliotibial Positioned at the front of the knee, attach bones to bones) and tendons cover all dent of the Children’s Defense Fund Act. expected tokidney vote on the budget blindness, disease, stroke and pre-diabetes have blood glucose lev- four obvious structural knee liga- band. (which attach muscles to bones). at amount and its• The Action2014 Council whose Leave it would be vulnerable to tearing budget includes onamputation. Dec. 10. els higherthe thanvarious normal parts but notmove high ments known then — the anterior or tax cuts No Child Behind® mission is to Ideally, But a few years ago, Dr. Claes when an A.C.L. was injured; the that’s one reason the ADA holds together enough tosmoothly, be diagnosed of richest ensure every child a Healthy Start, but with they type can cruciate, medial collateral, poste- and his colleagues began to suspect same forces would move through the American Diabetes Alert® Day, tear, 2 diabetes. n months a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe rupture or fracture if the knee rior cruciate and lateral collateral, otherwise. Their interest had been both ligaments. But, unlike torn a one-day wake-up call to inform the early intervention via lifestyle o not have Start hurch and a Moral Start in life and from twists or overpivots. Knee which loop around and through piqued by a problem that occurred A.C.L’s, this new tissue’s injuries ady page 6 public about the serious- abruptly American changes such as weight loss and merica: We successful passage to adulthood injuries and pain drive millions of the joint — other ligaments must in some patients who had under- would remain untreated, potentially litical will with the help of caring families people to doctors every year and exist in the knee or it would not be gone reconstructive surgery for an leading, Dr. Claes considered, to been saying, “But I’m waiting on know that the thing that breaks l adults to and communities. required for most screenings. result in millions of knee exams, stable.No He appointment wrote that during dis- injured anterior cruciate ligament, knee instability and buckling. God” and God is saying, “Child the father’s heart the most is our r children. scans and surgeries. sections he had noticed a “pearly, or A.C.L. Despite the repaired So, knowing it should be there, If you do not have a doctorknees’ and have not afterward been to be he and his colleagues began to I’m waiting on you”. doubt and unbelief? The newly identified antero- resistant fibrous band” originating appearing Babies I’ve got to let ya’ll Well sugars I’ve got to go, screened in the lastof12 lateral ligament (A.L.L.) stabilizes at the outside, front portion themonths, healthy,these the jointcancer would sometimes search for this chimerical ligament rom page 4 go and marinate that a bit. You but ya’ll be good now you hear. the knee, researchers say, but can be thighbone and continuing to the togive people moved. in the 41 donated knees. And there screenings are available youway for as free. better believe what the Lord says. Have a blessed week and I’ll see easily injured, contributing to knee shinbone, which, in his estimation, “We thought, something is it was, a narrow band of tissue, Where is o’reilly’s your faith?less-thanDon’t you you in church. appropri- we forget as part the of comprehensive problems.The Journal of Anatomy mustPresented stabilize the outerofpart the still notCancer right” Program in that knee, said clearly separate from the illiotibial lynching informed comments regarding a The newly identified anterolateral knee, preventing it from collapsDr. Claes, who wondered whether band and neatly linking the femur of Our Lady of the Lake and Mary Bird Perkins. Screenings Land Line (225) 356-0703 e obama,’’ dinner he shared last year with ligament (A.L.L.) stabilizes the ing inward. additional, untended knee inju- and the tibia. Because it was located made possible by donor gifts. 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Maybe the New Orleans Saints started feeling the resurgent Carolina Panthers breathing down their necks in the tightened NFC South race. Whatever it was, New Orleans 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 microcosm 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
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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 Payton 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.
overlooked ligament could leave joints unstable. But at the moment, that possibility is speculative, although Dr. Claes said that he and his colleagues 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.
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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 occurs 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
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