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Two things gets Dr. Montgomery-Rice’s adrenaline surg-ing, along with that extraordinary inner drive which operates like a heat-seeking missile that won’t stop until it successfully reaches its target:

(1) New beginnings, because to her they represent ex-citement born from new and unknown possibilities and, (2) crashing through barriers to do things that very few others, if any, have done before.

Those rare qualities, coupled with her obvious high intellect and enviable educational and professional portfolio and her penchant for firsts, makes it apropos for Montgom-ery-Rice to become the first ever black female to lead one of the nation’s most prestigious free-standing medical schools when, on Sept. 11 she officially became the sixth president in the storied history of the Morehouse School of Medicine.

Multiple dignitaries, educators and legislators were on hand to help christen Montgomery-Rice as the new president of MSM, including: Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal; Atlanta’s for-mer mayor, Ambassador Andrew Young; Georgia Tech Pres-ident George P. “Bud” Petersen; Dr. Vivian Pinn of Women’s Health Advocates & Voices; Association of American Med-ical Colleges President Dr. Darrell Kirch, and CaroMonth Health’s Dr. Ramada Smith, brought greetings to a packed audience of more than 1,500 in the famed Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on the campus of Morehouse College. MSM past presidents Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, Dr. Da-vid Satcher, and Dr. John E. Maupin Jr., also participated in

the historic event to welcome the eminent academician into the Morehouse fold of leaders.

“I am excited about this new chapter not only for me, but for this great institution of Morehouse School of Medicine,” said Dr. Montgomery-Rice. “The community has joined me in support of our students with investments to the Presiden-tial Scholarship Fund. Our talented students are working to become the next generation of health care leaders and these scholarships help them reach those goals.”

Actually, Montgomery-Rice was born for this moment as she grew up in Middle Georgia, the third of four chil-dren of a single mother (due to divorce) and matriculated through the elite American institutions of higher learning. She was one of few African Americans attending the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta before eventually moving onto Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Mass. outside of Boston.

Now that Rice has been inaugurated as the sixth president of MSM on Sept. 11, she announced the goal of raising $1.5 million in scholarships to aid in the upward trajectory of medical school education in America.

“I have been extremely vocal about this inauguration focusing on raising money for scholarships to support our students thereby decreasing the debt they incur to attend Morehouse School of Medicine.” She continued, “On average, our students come from families with household incomes of $45,000 when the average medical student in this country comes from a family whose household income is $175,000.”

Montgomery-Rice is spearheading Morehouse School of

Medicine’s Presidential Scholarship drive that is projected to provide $1.5 million to support the next generation of health care professionals. The Presidential Scholarship Fund was established to aid MSM students deal with the rising cost of education. The Presidential Scholarship Fund received a ma-jor boost on Aug. 16 during a pre-inaugural gala luncheon attended by more than 850 notable women in metro Atlanta, which was spearheaded by the notable Billye Aaron, wife of the venerated baseball legend Henry “Hank” Aaron. The Phenomenal Women luncheon raised $500,000 in scholar-ships for MSM students.

Montgomery-Rice, who was also a dean at Meharry Col-lege before taking on as dean and vice present at MSM, has garnered the admiration of colleagues and contemporaries in academic and political circles alike.

“A presidential inauguration is a major occasion in the life of an institution of higher learning,” said Anthony Welters, J.D., Chair of the MSM Board of Trustees. “It is an especially significant time for us as we proudly recognize Dr. Mont-gomery Rice for her past contributions to MSM and confirm our confidence in her vision to continue to position the school as a national leader in medical education.

The former president of the esteemed school cannot wait for the new era of the presidency at MSM to truly unfold.

“Its sort of celebrating the beginning of a new era. There are new challenges and new opportunities facing us in this country and in the world,” said Dr. David Satcher. “So we are celebrating a new president who so reflects the mission of this institution.”

Dr. Valerie Montgomery-Rice Begins Era as 1st Woman President of Morehouse

School of Medicine

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Atlanta City Councilmember Cleta Winslow will host a commu-nity meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 6 p.m. for residents and business owners in Oakland City to kick off a planning process for transit-oriented development in Oakland City near the MARTA station. The meeting will be held at the recreation center in Rev. James Orange Park in Oakland City, 1305 Oakland Drive, S.W.

“We look at this as an opportunity to promote critical development in an area that was hit hard by the recent recession and the closing of Fort McPherson” said Winslow. “We will be reviewing previous plans for the area plus transit-oriented development of

MARTA’s parking lot as well as in the triangle just north of the MARTA station and alongside the southwest border of Fort McPherson.”

The Atlanta Regional Commission, MARTA, the TOD Collabora-tive and the City’s Department of Planning have worked with Coun-cilmember Winslow to plan the kick-off meeting as well as a planning and implementation workshop that will be held Nov. 13 and 15. Details regarding the November meetings will be forthcoming.

The kick off meeting will provide the community with an overview of the planning process, which will focus on spurring new development around the MARTA site in Oakland City. This planning meeting will provide an opportunity for the community to have input in its vision for the development plan, which will result in an implementation plan.

“This is a golden opportunity for Oakland City to experience revi-talization through a planning process driven by the community’s vision facilitated by the City, the Atlanta Regional Commission and MARTA,” Winslow said.

For further information, please call (404) 330-6047.

City Councilmember Cleta Winslow, ARC and MARTA Kick Off Oakland City PlanTheir names are Angela Bryant,

Sandra Cody, Debra Denard, Dr. Nancy Dennard, Robert Denard, Kechia Harri-son, Latashia Head, Brenda Monds, April Proctor, Lula Smart, Elizabeth Thomas and Linda Troutman. They’re called The Quitman 10+2 and they have been cleared of any wrong-doing in a month-long trial in Brooks County Superior Court in South Georgia. The defendants had been prosecuted since 2010 after a local election created an African Amer-ican majority on the Brooks County Board of Education. All of the incum-bents on the Board of Education who were defeated in the 2010 election were white. All the defendants in the voter fraud case were African-American.

Seven Black jurors and five white jurors deliberated for eight hours. The not guilty verdict has been a long time coming for those who were intimidated and ha-rassed for their involvement in voter orga-nization/registration projects in Quitman, GA/Brooks County, but their innocence prevailed. The massive investigation ini-tiated by the local district attorney failed to produce significant evidence that these individuals had defrauded any voters, but the State prosecution proceeded.

Many community activists from around the state stood strong with the “Quitman 10+2 since the arrests were made in 2010. This grass-roots effort to called attention to the attacks made by certain Georgia officials to persecute and terrorize African American elected officials. In 2012, Tyrone Brooks and

the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials led a march of 1000 people in Quitman at which Reverend Joe Lowery spoke. “From these efforts, many African Americans have been elected to office in Brooks County, included a Black mayor in Quitman. But the legal persecution of the Quitman 10+2 continued,” said Brooks.

For five weeks, a motorcade has departed from the back parking lot of the SCLC building every Tuesday morning to make the three-hour drive to the Brooks County Courthouse. The civil rights activists making this weekly sojourn in-clude Tyrone Brooks, president of Geor-gia Association of Black Elected Officials (GABEO); Charles Steele, president of the SCLC; representatives from the Geor-gia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), local officials from SCLC and the NAACP, ladies from Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta Sororities, and others. “The battle may be over, but the war for civil rights and justice continues,” said Brooks. “This is why we, those of us who have been on the streets in Quitman for the last four years, will be coming back to Quitman on Saturday, October 4, to execute the last round of voter education and registration and to walk the streets and speak to Quitman citizens to let them know that harassment and intimidation will not be tolerated,” Brooks added.

For more information contact the office of Representative Brooks at 404-656-6372 or 404-372-1894 cell.

Quitman 10+2 Acquitted of Felony Charges in Voter Fraud Case

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A team of four students in the Flexible and Professional MBA programs at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business won the National Black MBA Association Case Competition sponsored by Chrysler Group LLC at the group’s annual meeting, held this year in Atlanta.

The Robinson team, composed of Uchen-na Agharanya, Stephen H. Jones, Osereme Osara, and Brandon J. Smith, bested 28 other teams who had traveled from throughout the U.S. to participate in the competition. Brett Matherne of the Department of Managerial Sciences was their faculty advisor.

Agharanya, Jones, Osara, and Smith brought home more than bragging rights.

Their hard work paid off with a $25,000 scholarship awarded to the first-prize team.

Teams were assigned to analyze and rec-ommend marketing positioning for Chrys-ler’s new crossover Jeep Renegade.

Established in 1970, the National Black MBA Association is dedicated to develop-ing partnerships that result in the creation of intellectual and economic wealth in the black community through its five channels of engagement; education, career, leadership, entrepreneurship, and lifestyle. It has 46 chapters, 28 collegiate chapters, a member-ship base of more than 9,500 and more than 450 corporate partners.

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Uchenna Agharanya, Brandon J. Smith, Osereme Osara, and Stephen H. Jones; Brett Math-erne (faculty advisor)

The soon-to-be-launched commercial drones industry will create more than 2,000 jobs in Georgia during its first three years while generating an economic impact of $379 million, an aerospace leader predicted on Tuesday, Sept.23.

The Georgia Center for Innovation for Aerospace, an arm of the state Department of Economic Development, has been working since 2009 to lay the groundwork for com-mercializing unmanned aerial vehicles, Steve Justice, the center’s director, told attendees at a briefing on drones held at the Atlanta office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.

For example, the center has been involved

with The University of Georgia and Middle Georgia State College on a project testing camera-mounted UAVs to monitor the health of crops in farm fields.

That work has reached the “tipping point” between research and commercialization now that the Federal Aviation Administra-tion is taking the first steps toward legalizing the commercial use of drones in the U.S., Justice said.

With formal rules governing the indus-try still a couple of years away, the FAA is expected to begin approving applications for exemptions from the federal ban on com-mercial drones on a case-by-case basis by the end of the year.

“With the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta and both the film and agricultural industries clamoring for the go-ahead to use UAVs, Georgia has a chance to capitalize on the emerging UAV industry,” said Mark Dombroff, a McKenna Long partner and head of the firm’s Unmanned Aerial Services practice.

“I think Georgia has the opportunity to step forward and become the premier UAS environment in the nation,” Dombroff said.

Drones Industry to Create Thousands of Georgia Jobs

Buckhead Atlanta, the city’s newest mixed-use development, is now open.

The grand opening was held Thursday, September 18.

Buckhead Atlanta is a $1 billion luxury dining, entertainment, shopping, offi ce and residential district that spans six city blocks at the intersection of Peachtree and East Paces Ferry roads. Designed to fi t seamlessly into the existing Buckhead Village, the desti-nation will have pedestrian-friendly streets, lush landscaping, upscale residences, great food and luxury retail shops that are new to Atlanta.

Visitors from near and far will be attract-ed to Buckhead Atlanta’s roster of luxury and best-in-class retail. Shoppers will be able to stroll along impeccably landscaped, pedestrian-friendly streets while shopping at international retailers like Hérmes, Brunel-lo Cucinelli, Canali and Etro – making the development a premiere designation point.

“After several years of hard work we finally get to return these streets back to the residents of Buckhead and Atlanta - greatly improved from when they were first given to us,” said Hunter Richardson, managing director of development for Oliver-McMil-lan. “It is our hope that Buckhead Atlanta will create an energy in the Buckhead Village area that extends far beyond Atlanta and even far beyond the southeast. We want it to become a destination not only for locals but for national and international visitors.”

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The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Cit-izenship Education Fund will host their 15th Annual Creating Opportunity Conference in Atlanta, Oct. 2-4 2014, at Morehouse College International Chapel; Salem Bible Church, 2283 Baker Rd, NW; and the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 265 Peachtree Street.

The purpose of this annual conference is to promote job creation, business growth, civic engagement and youth development. The 2014 conference will shine a light on fairness in transportation contracting, hiring, retention and promotion; as well as fair terms and con-ditions in purchasing, lending and investment. The conference will also inspire youth and their parents to take advantage of every oppor-tunity to achieve their highest potential.

Kicking off the conference at Morehouse International Chapel on Thursday, Oct. from 4 p.m. to 7p.m. is the Hip Hop Generation — The New Paradigm for a Digital Age. Present-ers on this panel are Google and Microsoft representatives; and community and corporate leaders that include Greg Street with WVEE Radio, Munson Steed with Rolling Out, Na-thaniel Smith, Attorney Daryl Parks, Rever-end Will Hall, Khay Barnes, Robert Patillo, Mary-Pat Hector, Nicholas Clements and Jewel Burks.

Restore Our Church and Community (ROCCS) Seminar and Worship Service will be held 7p.m. at the Salem Bible Church. Dr. Joseph Williams will lead the worship service while Wells Fargo and Nicholas Clements from Magnify Money will provide financial literacy information.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling is the topic that opens the conference on Friday, Oct. 3. Senior Vice President G.G. Dixon of Wells Fargo, will speak at the Business Networking Breakfast and Vice President of Community Relations Lori Billingsley will highlight efforts by the Coca-Cola Company to empower 5,000,000 women entrepreneurs by 2020. A discussion on Education is Power will be addressed by DeKalb County School Superintendent Mi-chael Thurmond.

Black Enterprise 100 firms Calhoun Enter-prises and Baranco Automotive will describe how they built sound multi-generational firms. Wells Fargo’s Community Development & Urban Stabilization Program will explore how community-based non-profit (501c3) orga-nizations may qualify to purchase or receive

donations of Real Estate Owned property from the bank.

Rev. Jackson will keynote the Faith & Mar-ketplace Minister’s Luncheon at noon. Award recipients include Axel Adams, Rev. Isaiah J. Waddy, Rt. Reverend Teresa Snorton, and Bishop Finace Bush. Senior Pastor Rev. Jasper Williams of Salem Baptist Church will give clergy and lay leaders a charge to keep.

Closing out the Friday activities, The Ward-law Brothers and a youth jazz ensemble will perform at the 7 p.m. Keep Hope Alive Gala which celebrates Rev. Jackson’s birthday and benefits the work of the RPC, CEF, and fami-lies facing economic insecurity. Other special guests include U.S. Congressman Hank John-son, who will receive the Torch Bearer Award. Other award recipients are Donna Bowman (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated) and Nancy Flake Johnson (National Urban League of Greater Atlanta). Reverend Jasper Williams and Reverend Joseph Williams will conduct a midnight prayer service following the Gala.

On Saturday, Oct. 4 at 10 a.m. youth and adults seeking career guidance, jobs, appren-ticeships and internships should attend the Ca-reer Planning and Placement session, featuring representatives from The Coca-Cola Company, Georgia Power and Black Silicon Valley. Also on Saturday is the Youth Talk Back Summit with more than 300 young people. At 10 a.m. MSNBC Commentator Goldie Taylor, Reverend Jackson and Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia, S.C. will lead a public a policy discussion with legislators, voters, advocates and thought leaders.

According to RPC vice president Janice Mathis, “We are working on three fronts: improve public policy at the state and federal levels; promote urban and rural economic development and job creation to help families and congregations escape or avoid poverty by making sure they are well informed. Federal investment is designed to spur economic re-covery, but without participation by unem-ployed persons and underutilized firms, the stimulus cannot achieve its purpose”

For more information, visit Creating Oppor-tunity Conference on Facebook. Follow us @rainbowpushcoal on Twitter, #createopportunity or call 404 874-1280.

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Now that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has jumped over-seas, The World Health Organization has declared the epidemic an international health emergency.

The virus has already spread throughout Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and more than 900 people have died. WHO insists that support from other countries is needed to stop the virus. There have also been confirmed cases in Saudi Arabia, Asia, and even here in Atlanta and New York.

“The possible consequences of further international spread are particularly serious in view of the virulence of the virus, the intensive community and health facility transmission patterns, and the weak health systems in the currently affected and most at-risk countries,” a WHO representative said. “A coordinated international response is deemed essential to stop and reverse the international spread of Ebola.”

Even though the confirmed cases resulting in death have all been overseas, diagnosed instances and alleged cases in the past week have raised concern. There were American patients with confirmed Ebola diagnoses at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospi-tal who were monitored for signs of progression. In New York, an American man was put in isolation at Mount Sinai Hospital and tested for the virus after returning to the States with possible Ebola symptoms from a trip to West Africa. The New York pa-tient’s test results for the virus were found negative.

While reports about U.S. cases are all over the news, WHO says that misinformation about the virus and its affects is causing more harm than good. WHO Assistant Director for health se-curity Dr. Keiji Fukuda says that while Ebola is infectious, it can also be contained.

“What (misinformation) is doing is that it helps foster suspicion and anxiety in communities,” he said. “and when that happens we see a situation where people are reluctant to go to health facilities or maybe reluctant to bring their family mem-

bers there. And it underscores the importance of communities being aware and understanding, but we also see that fear impacts other countries.”

Here are key facts about the virus, and how it’s spread, from the World Health Organization’s website:

• Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haem-orrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.

• EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%.• Ebola is introduced into the human population through

close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals.

• Ebola then spreads in the community through hu-man-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids.

• Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.

• Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed.

• It is not always possible to identify patients with EBV early because initial symptoms may be non-specific.

• Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.

• Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. No li-censed specific treatment or vaccine is available for use in people or animals.

Despite those facts, it’s time to clear up a few possible myths about Ebola, especially now that official statements on the crisis have been released:

1. “Oh my God! We’re all going to die from the people walk-ing around with Ebola.”

Well, unless you’re in close contact with an infected person’s blood or secretions, you won’t be infected. Since the two cases in Atlanta are being closely monitored, it is possible that the virus can remain quarantined. Dr. JayVarkay, a doctor at Emory Hospital, where the patients are in care, says: “The whole idea is frequent monitoring, excellent nursing, frequent vital signs, and then treating problems as they arise.”

2. “I’m never getting on a plane again. Ebola may be in the plane!”

While the cases concerning Ebola-infected Americans return-ing to the states are plausible, it’s unlikely that plane passengers can contract the disease. “This is not an airborne transmission,” said Dr. Marty Cetron, director of CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. “There needs to be direct contact frequently with body fluids or blood.”

3. “There will never be any drugs to treat Ebola and we’re all going to die!”

Experimental drugs are being made and one drug, called ZMapp, was even used to treat the two patients at Emory. ZMapp was reportedly never tested on humans before it was given to the patients, but the drug yielded positive results when it was tested on monkeys. In addition, the U.S. National Institute of Health reportedly awarded a $28 million grant to researchers who are working on antibodies that will possibly treat Ebola cases. “Re-searchers are eager to figure out which combinations are most effective and why,” a news release about the grant said.

It is worth noting that this isn’t the first time there has been an Ebola outbreak in the world. The virus first appeared as an outbreak in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976. WHO has also declared similar international emergencies for the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and for polio in May. For the most part, the United States lived through the scares and were just fine.

Ebola is Now an International Health Emergency, Here’s What You Should Know About the Virus

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(StatePoint) If you’re 65 or older, you probably know that the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period runs Oct.15 through Dec.7. Generally, this is the only time you can make changes to your coverage.

According to Herb Fritch, president of Cigna-HealthSpring, a leading health service company and Medicare insurance pro-vider, here are some things to consider:

• Determine priorities. Make a list of priorities -- such as lowering out-of-pocket costs -- and use it to compare plans.

• Understand the different parts. Part A refers to hospital in-surance. The amount of the deductible depends on the length of the hospital stay.

Part B refers to basic medical insurance for doctor visits and other health care services. Medicare pays 80 percent of approved charges while you pay 20 percent in addition to a monthly Part B premium and annual deductible which will vary based on your income. Supplemental plans like Medigap and Medicare Advantage can help cover the 20 percent gap and most offer extra benefits.

Part C refers to plans operated by private companies that combine Part A and B benefits. Most include Part D prescrip-tion drug coverage, offer no or low monthly premiums, and extras like vision, dental and gym membership benefits.

Part D refers to Prescription Drug Plans offering at least a standard level of coverage set by Medicare; some are available as stand-alone plans.

• Do your research. Benefits differ from company-to-compa-ny and even state-to-state, so do your research. Look beyond premium cost to ensure there aren’t hidden copays or fees that will end up costing you more. Pay close attention to medication quantity limits and make sure your plan offers adequate drug coverage.

• Pay your Medicare Part B premium. Even if you’re enrolled in a private Medicare plan, you must continue paying your Part B premium. If you’re having trouble, contact your local Medicaid office to see if you qualify for a Medicare Savings Program.

• Don’t settle. Priorities change, so the plan that worked when you were 65 may not be best when you’re 75. Plans also change year-to-year so review before renewing.

• Know your network. Many plans offer choices with a network of doctors. If you visit a doctor out of network, you could be responsible for out-of-pocket costs. However, networks offered by Medicare Advantage choices, such as Cigna-HealthSpring, can foster better coordination among doctors, leading to better care. Ask your doctors what plans they accept or check your network directory.

• Don’t worry about the Exchanges. With a few exceptions, Medicare will be a better option than the Exchanges (also called “Marketplaces”). In fact, it’s illegal for someone to sell you an Exchange plan if they know you have Medicare.

• Use free resources. The Centers for Medicare & Medic-aid Services’ Plan Finder helps you compare costs, covered medications and other items. Many insurance plans offer free seminars with no obligation to sign up. You can also check companies’ websites or call their Customer Service number for more information. Local agencies on aging can also be helpful.

This open enrollment period, make sure your health plan works for you.

Tips for the 2015 Medicare Annual Enrollment PeriodIn an effort to further promote cycling as a fun and

sustainable transportation alternative, Georgia Commute Options and the Atlanta Regional Commission are partner-ing with international firm, Love to Ride, with support from People for Bikes, to present the Atlanta Bike Challenge from September 28 to October 19.

Designed to appeal to beginner and veteran cyclists alike, the Atlanta Bike Challenge is a free competition designed to encourage Metro Atlantans to try cycling for ten minutes or more. Atlanta businesses and organizations will compete against each other to see who can get the most staff to ride a bike during the Challenge period. Rather than scoring based on who can cycle the most miles, this Challenge focuses on which businesses can encourage the most people to give bicycling a try.

By registering at www.ATLBikeChallenge.com, partici-pants will be able to log their bicycle commute trips, track their individual and team progress, find classes/events, and compete for prizes through the website or by downloading the “Love to Ride” mobile app.

Cycling — lauded for its positive effects on health, well-ness, and air quality — is growing in popularity in Metro Atlanta. Between 2000 and 2012, bike commute trips in the region saw a 166 percent increase.

Throughout the Atlanta Bike Challenge, prizes will be awarded including a $500 credit toward a new bike, passes to local restaurants, movie ticket vouchers, bike swag and more. Participants are also encouraged to post photos using #ATLBikeSelfie to social media accounts and can follow the Challenge online via Georgia Commute Options’ social media pages:

Atlanta Bike Challenge Seeks to Get More Metro Atlanta Commuters Cycling

3 Toxins Your Mind and Body Face Every Day

By Gerald PayneHow can you be as positive as possible in everyday life?

When we think of toxins, one of the first things that comes to mind is something we may accidentally digest or inhale something that isn’t fit for our bodies, such as cleaning products or dangerous gases. While many of us try to stay away from those hazardous materials on a daily basis, there are three deadly toxins we come in contact with everyday that we don’t do enough to avoid – or at least try harder to keep under control.Toxin 1: Gossip

An old saying goes, “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it’s pants on.” In today’s society, it’s very easy to buy into the “he said/she said” type of discussions without first figuring out if the issue even warrants your opinion. Gossip is a toxin that poisons relationships and a successful life. Stop spreading this toxin by going to the source.Toxin 2: Negativity

Negativity is dangerous. Why? Because when negativity takes hold, it doesn’t want to let go. Fight this deadly toxin by doing two things:

• Think before you speak. If it’s not a positive comment or constructive criticism, then figure out if you even need to say it.• Be thankful for all that you have. Simply being more grateful puts you in a perspective to be more positive.

Toxin 3: Complaining/CriticismStop this far too familiar toxin by thinking about why you’re complaining

in the first place, and then objectively deciding if complaining or criticizing will really help resolve a problem in an optimal way. Instead of complaining or criticizing, which can often lead to hurt feelings, a failure to succeed in goals, and increased negativity, try to figure out a more constructive way to solve whatever issue or problem you’re facing.

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(SPM Wire) With breast cancer currently the second most common cancer in women, according to government health statistics, awareness and early detection are crucial for treatment outcomes. With this in mind, every October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- a time to raise aware-ness of the disease and funds for research and treatment.

While most women are aware of the dis-ease, many fail to take steps to detect breast cancer in its early stages, say the experts at the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

As such, each year in October, women are encouraged to create an “Early Detection Plan.” The benefits are proven; when breast

cancer is detected early in what is known as a “localized stage,” the five year survival rate is 98 percent, according to the National Cancer Institute. Having a plan is all about creating reminders to conduct breast self-exams, and to schedule clinical breast exams and mammograms based on your age and health history.

This October, make sure the women in your family are active in helping to safeguard their own health and that of their loved ones.

More free information about creating an Early Detection Plan is available at www.ear-lydetectionplan.org and by consulting your personal health care provider.

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Identifying the reasons for racial health disparities and ways to address them is a significant, complex challenge in health care. A new study in the journal Health Services Research provides insight into the issue of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, who are disproportionately black, and finds that it’s not just their race that’s a factor in their health outcomes, it’s the quality of care at the hospitals where they’re born.

The study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative and the National Institute of Nursing Research, incorporated data on 8,252 VLBW infants in 98 Vermont Oxford Network member neonatal intensive care units throughout the country and the results of a survey of 5,773 NICU nurses. Researchers found that nurse understaffing and practice environments were worse at hospitals with higher concen-trations of black patients, contributing to adverse outcomes for VLBW infants born in those facilities.

Since 7 out of 10 black VLBW infants are born in hospitals with a high concentration of black patients, researchers concluded that improvements in nursing at such hospitals have the potential to boost the quality of care for many black VLBW infants. The study looked at two nurse-sensitive perinatal qual-ity standards hospital-acquired infection and discharge without having started breast milk, which have long-term health implications for VLBW infants¬ and found higher rates of both in high-black-concentration hospitals. NICU nursing features ultimately accounted for one-third to one-half of hospital-level

health disparities. The interdisciplinary research team was

led by Eileen T. Lake, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor of nursing and health policy, and associate director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Jeannette A. Rogowski , PhD, Univer-sity Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Policy in the School of Public Health at Rutgers University.

“Very low birth weight infants are at a high risk for a lifetime of health challeng-es,” said Lake. “The birth hospitalization is the starting point. With a high number of black infants born in relatively few hospitals, tackling a previously unaddressed question¬, “Do infants cared for in hospitals with a high concentration of black infants have poorer perinatal quality outcomes?”

¬gives us an opportunity to make a positive impact on population-level health disparities.”

The study highlights dramatic differences in the distribution of care for black infants, with nearly three-fourths of black VLBW infants born in a third of hospitals that care for critically ill newborns. Only 1 in 20 black infants are born in hospitals with better nursing characteristics, and odds of adverse outcomes related to nurse-sensitive perina-tal quality standards are at least 60 percent higher for infants born in disproportionately black hospitals.

To learn more, visit www.inqri.org or follow @INQRIProgram on Twitter.

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Atlanta’s legendary Fox Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 23, announced a year-long celebration to thank its hometown in honor of the 40th anniversary of the “Save the Fox” campaign, a city-wide effort rescuing the landmark from demolition.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed joined Allan C. Vella, Fox Theatre’s president and chief executive officer; entertainer Jeff Foxworthy; Valerie Jackson, philanthropist and widow of the late Mayor Maynard Jackson; Woody White, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Fox Theatre, Inc., and Jay Myers, Board of Trust-ees, Fox Theatre, Inc. for the announcement in the Egyptian Ballroom at the Fox Theatre.

The campaign, called “The Legend Lives On,” includes: a block party; a gala event;“-Fox in the Box” educational partnership with the Savannah College of Art and Design; a national contest to find the theatre’s biggest fan, and a lineup of remarkable and memo-rable performances.

The Fox Theatre’s Vella said, “First and foremost, the Fox wants to thank Atlanta for their efforts in saving this landmark. With-out your efforts in our rebirth 40 years ago, we wouldn’t be where we are today. In fact, we wouldn’t be here period.” The landmark faced demolition after falling into sever dis-repair in 1974, but thanks to the Save the Fox campaign the elegant theater transformed into one of the nation’s premier live perfor-mance venues, hosting more than 300 events and welcoming upwards of 600,000 fans

through its doors each yearMayor Reed touched on the city’s support

for the Fox, saying, “The City of Atlanta con-tinues to be a strong supporter of the arts, and the Fox Theatre is central to our city’s arts community. There’s something truly special about a show at the Fox. We are so thankful that 40 years ago, Mayor Maynard Jackson and Save the Fox fought to preserve this magnificent landmark for future gener-ations.”

As a non-profit, the Fox Theatre’s mis-sion is to achieve long-term sustainability so that it can be shared with generations to come. Financial contributions from current sponsors like Coca-Cola, Lexus, Delta, The Georgian Terrance, and Livingston as well as individual donations support maintenance of the theatre, which averages approximately $1 million annually.

In 2008, the Fox launched the Fox Theatre Institute a non-profit providing essential technical, historical and organizational support and education to theatres across the country. The broader goal is to inspire leaders, encourage involvement in the arts, and positively impact the cultural landscape of Georgia. Recently, the FTI launched a new Facebook page at fb.com/foxtheatreinstitute.

For continued up-to-date information on the campaign (including press releases, history, event timeline, images, and more), please visit www.foxtheatre.org/thelegend

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Jeff Foxworthy, Mayor Kasim Reed, Valerie Jackson, Jay Myers and Allan Vella Photo by Robin L Marshall

The Park Tavern on the edge of Piedmont Park resembled a formal Hall of Fame induc-tion with the many lyrical luminaries and lionized living legends lining the stage during the raucous “ATL Live on the Park” party at Piedmont Park in Atlanta on Tuesday, Sept. 23

Led by music impresario Shanti “Shoe-strings” Das and Marlon Nichols, the Sep-tember edition of “ATL Live on the Park” paid homage to the pioneers and pillars of Atlanta hip-hop. The line-up was a virtual Who’s Who of Trailblazers and turntable titans whose intoxicating beats and unforgettable club anthems ignited the explosion of Southern rap on the international musical landscape, as well as those who also helped write the soundtrack to many of our childhoods.

Most appropriately, the headlining perfor-mance was Big Gipp from multiplatinum rap group Goodie Mobb, who nearly turned the spot into a grunge party with renditions of those sweet 90’s hits. The surprise appearance of the eve was by Gipp’s musical relative, Big Boi, one-half of the intergalactic, genre-defint-ing group Outkast. The man born Antwan Patton was bestowed an award for his place in history and for helping to turn the ATL into the undeniable epicenter of American music. And, of course, the fabric that wove those two art

The party-like atmosphere and the energy that was shooting back at the performers on-stage was the attendees’ way of saying “thank you” for making all of our lives just a little bit brighter.

ATL Live on the Park Honors Hip-Hop Heroes and Heavyweights

By Terry Shropshire

The BET Hip Hop Awards were recorded in Atlanta on Saturday, Sept. 19 and stories are swirling around that the self-proclaimed “Puerto Rican Princess,” Joseline Hernandez exited the proceedings in a torrent of tears after being jeered for her outrageous behavior and very public exploits on the hit real-ity show, “Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta.”

According to industry insiders, the show had many jokes at Joseline Hernandez‘s expense. Even Snoop Dogg is said to have gotten in on the fun.

Actually it’s been reported that most of the jokes were aimed directly at the “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” star and it appears that everyone thought it was funny … except for Joseline herself, that is.

After her bad behavior on the “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” reunion show, we guess everyone thought she was strong enough to handle the slams. But apparently they guessed wrong.

Tweets began to come across Twitter time-lines everywhere stating that Joseline was not taking the comedy well at all.

Inquiring minds will just have to wait until the BET awards air to see for themselves how bad the jeering actually was.The show airs on BET Oct. 14.

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The 100 Black Men of Atlanta announced on Wednesday, Sept. 24 that the organization will honor Hank Aaron for his commitment and dedication to the city of At-lanta. Aaron will provide support and leadership to the 2014 Atlanta Football Classic. Aaron, a Baseball Hall of Famer and Braves great, is also a member of the 100 Black Men of Atlanta.

Aaron and his wife Billye will lend their support to the community based activities taking place during the week-long festivities. Activities include a youth and collegiate symposium, robotics competition and a college and health fair. The Aarons’ will also serve as Grand Marshal of the Parade of Excellence, presented by Kia, on Saturday, October 4 at 10 a.m.

“Hank Aaron is an Atlanta icon whose achievements on and off the field are woven into our city’s history,” said William Pate, CEO of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau. “His life reflects the ideals of the 100

Black Men of Atlanta.” “We are thrilled that Mr. and

Mrs. Aaron have agreed to devote their time and participate in this year’s Atlanta Football Classic,” said John Grant, CEO of the 100 Black Men of Atlanta. “Their loyalty to Atlanta is just one bright spot in the rich history of the city, and we

are proud that the Atlanta Football Classic is a part of that history.”The 2014 Atlanta Football Classic

will take place on Saturday, October 4 at the Georgia Dome, as South Carolina State Uni-versity takes on North Carolina A&T State University. Festivities include a pre-game fan fest featuring a concert by 2Chainz, alumni and VIP parties and Battle of the Bands halftime show, to name a few.

Tickets are on sale now at the Georgia Dome ticket office, www.ticketmaster.com and participating schools’ ticket offices. Additional details are available at www.atlantafootballclassic.com.

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Last week, Earvin “Magic” Johnson want-ed Hawks General Manager Danny Ferry’s head to roll down the corridors of Phillips Arena like a bowling ball for using inflam-matory racial stereotypes to describe NBA All-Star Loul Deng.

This week, the basketball revolutionary and multifaceted business impresario has amended his rigid stance towards the embat-tled Ferry.

Magic Johnson said that Hawks general manager Danny Ferry deserves a second chance after the two held a lengthy meeting Tuesday. The Hall of Famer poured his senti-ments onto social media.

Johnson was just the first in a long pro-cession of prominent athletes who wanted Ferry’s head. Ferry has insisted all along that he was reading from a scouting report on Deng during a conference call with the part-owners. The owner of the team is now being forced to sell the team in the aftermath of the Ferry debacle — after it was deter-mined that Bruce Levenson uttered even more egregious racial statements — and Fer-ry was disciplined by the organization taking an indefinite leave of absence.

Johnson sent out a series of posts on Twit-ter following the meeting. They read:

“Just had a heart to heart meeting w/ Hawks GM Danny Ferry! He apologized for his comments about Luol Deng and the African American community.”

“In our meeting Danny Ferry’s apology was very sincere.”

“I have a lot of respect for Danny because he called and wanted to talk about how his comments offended so many people.

“After our long meeting, I think he de-serves a second chance whether it is with the Hawks or another team.”

Ferry took the leave from the team, some say for good, beginning on Sept. 12.

In related news, Johnson also tweeted that he believes Hawks CEO Steve Koonin should finally hire Dominique Wilkins as a high-level executive with the team. Wilkins currently serves as Vice President of Bas-ketball and as the team’s broadcast analyst, although no one knows what his VP position entails or how much real power Wilkins has within the organization.

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Hawks GM Danny Ferry, left, and Loul Deng

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It is the great irony of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark desegregation case that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, that segregation in our schools has gotten even worse, not better. Back in 1954, 17 states still had segregated schools and with court order from the highest court in the land, they were forced to desegregate. How successful were they? Not very. Take Missouri, one of those 17 states. Its most populous city, St. Louis, is still is one of the most segregated cities in the country and its schools are just as segregated as the urban area. But St. Louis is not alone, or even an outlier. New York City, home of the nation’s largest school district, is the most segregated in the country.

In the past few weeks, in a host of opinion articles and media interviews, status quo defenders of America’s public school system sought to explain this troubling situation by focusing on their usual villains – those urging comprehensive education reform. They suggested that enduring racial divides in our schools were to be blamed on charter schools and newly emerging educational options, such as vouchers. Donna Brazile, for example, cited charter schools as part of the segregation problem in American education. As much affection as I have for Donna, it’s not a serious argument when the fact is that charter schools make up only 6 percent of the nation’s public schools.

Worse still, top officials in the Justice Department seem to believe in this mytho-logical link between education reforms and segregation. Last year, the Department filed for an injunction to block the Louisiana school voucher program that was designed for low-income, and predominantly minori-ty kids who were and remained trapped in failing schools. Using the spurious argument that the program exacerbated segregation, the Justice Department asked the Court to “permanently enjoin the State of Louisiana from awarding any school vouchers.”

Here are the facts. In Louisiana, 93 percent of the children benefiting from the Louisiana Scholarship Program are minori-ties, all of whom attend underperforming schools and are from low-income families. An independent analysis of the Louisiana

voucher program concluded it has “no neg-ative effect on school desegregation.” Those who take part in the program overwhelm-ingly are moving from one segregated school to another. The new school just happens to be a better school for them academically.

The bitter truth is that America’s schools have been segregated long before the advent of education reform, charter schools, op-portunity scholarships and virtual learning. How did they become that way? America is a segregated country, both racially and socio-economically. White and middle class, Black and brown suburban flight left our city schools with primarily low income kids of color. Segregation is a fact of life in school systems in urban cities across the country.

If our Justice Department is serious about attacking segregation in K-12 education, wouldn’t it make more sense to sue New York than Louisiana? Or Missouri, especially since it was one of the 17 states ordered to desegregate?

So how do we end segregation? If you ask me, it all starts with education. And school choice isn’t its cause but its antidote.

The education reform and educational choice movements grew out of a desire to address our collective failure to give our least privileged citizens the education they deserve – not the education to which they’ve been condemned. Blaming those of us who believe in reform and choice doesn’t do any-thing to help those kids. It’s just a distraction. Getting our kids in good schools is part of the solution, not the problem. Let’s celebrate those outlying – but growing – educational choice programs that are educating kids that otherwise wouldn’t be educated.

Every student who receives a worthwhile education becomes one more child who can thrive in an integrated world. And for good-ness sake, let’s stop finding reasons to fight against the innovation, creativity and success we are seeing in education that our citizens want and need.

Kevin Chavous is senior advisor and execu-tive counsel for the American Federation for Children and co-founder of Democrats for Education Reform.

Roger Goodell, commissioner of the Na-tional Football League, by his own analysis has received justifiable criticism for the NFL’s incoherent policies on domestic violence, and for his own errors in the case of Ray Rice, the Baltimore Ravens running back caught on vid-eo knocking out his wife.

In addition to Rice, Jonathan Dwyer, the Ari-zona Cardinals running back, was arrested over allegations that he head-butted his 27-year-old wife; Greg Hardy and Ray McDonald have also recently faced charges, sparking a media frenzy.

Goodell has scrambled like a quarterback desperately trying to avoid a sack. He’s apol-ogized, created a VP for Social Responsibility position, named three women to be outside consultants, and promised a new conduct pol-icy for the League. He’s set up the former FBI director Robert Mueller, now an attorney close to the NFL, to run an allegedly independent re-view on how the Ray Rice matter was handled, agreeing that no one “should take my word.” When asked whether he should resign or be sacked, Goodell responded no, “because I have acknowledged my mistake.”

But the mistakes keep coming. It is bizarre, for example, that Goodell’s “consultants” are all white, and exclude experts who are also former players or wives of players who may offer great insight into what needs to be done.

Why is the NFL sticking with Goodell? He is a good man caught in a storm of change and transformation. It is not his fault, but it is his re-sponsibility to negotiate these winds of change. There are those who worry that the recent furor about domestic violence cases will get linked to the shocking reports that NFL players have a 30 percent chance of Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Do repeated concussions — trauma of the brain — contribute to the outbursts of domestic violence? The NFL has just initialed an agree-ment to settle a class-action concussion case with NFL players for $765 million. This, as Dan Diamond of Forbes magazine points out, is less than 0.5 percent of the annual revenue of the league. Players who can prove their injury can receive a maximum payout of about $20,000 a year for 30 years, while the league gets to bury news about concussions and brain damage to players.

Now the domestic violence scandals threat-en to expose a settlement that was a steal for the NFL.

The reality, despite all the publicity, is that arrest rates for NFL players are far below those for men of their age. But domestic violence ar-rests for NFL players are high for men of their age and affluence.

Do repeated traumas to the brain weaken self-control and trigger irrational rage? Dia-mond has investigated this and discovered that many experts warily acknowledge a possible link.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy — CTE — results from damage to the brain’s frontal lobe. Diamond cites examples of players who ended up with CTE getting arrested for domes-tic violence. Junior Seau, diagnosed with CTE, was arrested for domestic violence after he re-tired, and he later committed suicide at 43. All-Pro safety Dave Duerson suffered from CTE and was arrested for domestic violence. Before he, too, committed suicide, he was self-aware enough to write an analysis of his aberrant be-havior and leave his brain to science to study the impact of his football experience.

Pam Webster, wife of Pittsburgh Steeler Hall of Famer Mike Webster, who suffered from CTE, reported that it was as if “the governor on his anger was gone.” Describing how Webster destroyed his football pictures in a rage, she said, “It wasn’t Mike. Mike would never have done this.”

The NFL is — bizarrely — a tax-exempt or-ganization, granted a monopoly over TV reve-nues, with its billionaire owners lavishly subsi-dized by cities to help build their stadiums.

This public trust should require the NFL to ensure that its players are treated fairly, that their mental health is not simply a cost of doing business. Protecting the concussion settlement should not get in the way of an in-depth inves-tigation about the connection between brain trauma, rage and domestic violence.

Goodell says he doesn’t expect anyone to take his “word” on these matters. His integrity and transparency really matter. It is time for the NFL to open its records and to finance a serious independent study on the possible connection between concussions, rage and domestic vio-lence.

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Stepping inside of the College Football Hall of Fame down-

town is exciting enough to cause circuit overload even in the

most restrained observer It’s like stepping onto the set of

Michael J. Fox’s blockbuster comedy Back to the Future, where

you are whisked back to the leather helmet and black-and-white

days of yore, and abruptly yanked forward with a dizzying array

of mind-blowing, state-of-the-art, interactive exhibits that enable

viewers to get immerse themselves in the college football experi-

ence like never before.

The Hall’s current 1,139 inductees, houses more than 520

artifacts, helmets and sports paraphernalia from all 768 current

college football programs throughout the nation, more than

10,000 video clips and numerous other exhibits and interactive

displays that cover the building’s three floors.

The anticipation for the Hall’s opening in the city casually

known as ‘HBCU Headquarters’ has created a crescendo of

excitement that coincides with the commencement of the 2015

NCAA football season.

“For 30 years, I’ve lived and worked in the city of Atlanta,

Georgia, to cover college football,” said famed college football

journalist Tony Barnhart, who served as master of ceremonies

for the Wednesday’s opening announcement. “So, trust me when

I tell you this is a very special day for college football and a very

special day for Atlanta.”

Special because of the infusion of football fever into a major

metropolis that’s already at the epicenter of the sport and gorges

with a vengeance on anything connected to college football.

The $68 million, 94,000-square-foot monument to intercolle-

giate gridiron greatness is located adjacent to the Georgia World

Congress Center on Marietta Street, next to Centennial Olympic

Park and near the Georgia Dome, Phillips Arena and the Muse-

um of Civil and Human Rights.

The proximity to major downtown attractions is ideal strate-

gically, as the Hall is expected to attract a half-million visitors to

the area, and generate tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Ex-

perts agree the ‘Captitol of the South’ site is much more attractive

and will be of much greater benefit than its longtime home in

South Bend, Ind. and the University of Notre Dame.

“Now, those of us who have spent our careers in the media,

we know that one of the fun things that we still get to do is tell

a good story. And folks, trust me, this is a great, great story.

When the College Football Hall of Fame began looking for a new

home several years ago, the people from Atlanta, from the state

of Georgia did what they always do. They stepped up. They said,

‘We can do this. We believe the College Football Hall of Fame be-

longs in Atlanta, Georgia. There were times when we wondered if

this day would get here, but here we are.”

John Stephenson Jr., president and CEO of Atlanta Hall Man-

agement, is brimming with excitement that the Hall can serve

as the appropriate kickoff to the upcoming week of activities

leading up to opening day.

“We circled this coming weekend as the weekend we had

to be open because it’s the weekend before the college football

season starts,” Stephenson said. “We have two great Chick-Fil-A

Kickoff games here in Atlanta [at the Georgia Dome] Thursday

and Saturday, as everyone knows. Georgia State plays [Abilene

Christian] on Wednesday also. And Georgia Tech’s in town

against Wofford on August 30. And the Atlanta Falcons are play-

ing a preseason game. So, this weekend, we certainly have to be

open, no question about it. And here we are opening on August

23.”A Hall of Fame cannot appropriately be christened without

the presence of the pillars of the sport who tower over the Col-

lege Football Hall of Fame and bestow their blessings.

The greats of the game ceremoniously nodded their approval

of the spectacular designs, the high-tech exhibits and how the

history of the game is captured in a comprehensive environment.

“This is wonderful,” said College Hall of Famer Art Shell

and the first African American coach in the NFL when he took

over the Oakland Raiders in the 1980s. “When people come and

look, they will be able to see the history of football. There are so

many names from the past that bring back memories. And I get

a chance to see myself through these interactive [posts].” This

history making coach who exudes class and a quiet, dignified

power, admits memories rushed back at him like the tide crash-

ing on the beach. “I remember being on campus and getting

ready for the games, the practice, and all of those memories lead

up to today. It’s been a great experience.”

More than just great, the Hall’s exhibits and interactive games

nearly boggled the minds of the distinguished inductees. Danny

Wuerffel, who won a championship at the University of Florida

in the legendary 1996 game against rival Florida State, said the

Hall will delight, engross and spellbind all demographics who

experience it — including himself and his children.

“The technology dazzles me. It’s a weird combination, ya

know? The great grandparents can come through here and see

the people they remember and see the depth and authenticity

of that,” said the former Heisman Trophy winning quarterback

for the Gators. “And then my 5-year-old can come and play on

the video screens. And then my 10-year-old can play catch and

throw the football. I think people from every age are going to

love this.”The enthusiasm Wuerffel was speaking of will come charging

through the front doors, like a hungry linebacker looking to get a

piece of a quarterback, during Saturday’s opening.

The College Hall of Fame opening day has been dubbed

the “Ultimate Tailgate.” It will include such activities as a kids’

football clinic, a live broadcast from 680 The Fan, music from a

DJ and the Clark Atlanta drum line will perform. Kids and adults

can try their football skills on an indoor, 45-yard field and get

their visitor badges coded to prompt exhibits to display informa-

tion about their favorite teams.

Community leaders, including Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed,

College Football Hall of Famers, cheerleaders and favorite college

mascots will also be on-hand for the opening-day celebration.

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Sept. 25 - Oct. 1, 2014

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