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Strokes Can Kill

Roger Caldwell — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:37:17 +0000

As we come to the end of stroke awareness month, there is still a crisis with Brown and Black people around the world with hypertension and high blood pressure. There is limited research, educational studies, medical conferences, and funding directed to ascertain the fundamental core reasons why these two cultures have this problem. Many experts believe our lifestyles, our diet, and our economic status in the world contribute to our lack of healthy choices.
In the African American community, 1 out of 2 or 50% of the people in our culture have hypertension. There are other chronic diseases in our community such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and a myriad of other complications that make our culture the sickest in America.
Every 45 second in America someone has a stroke. Every 3 minutes someone dies of a stroke. Strokes are the second leading cause of death in America, and the number one cause of long term disability. The reason that I have studied and read up on strokes is because I am a stroke survivor who was devastated and debilitated by a stroke eight years ago.
I spent three days in ICU and when I became conscious, I realized I was paralyzed, I could barely talk, and I could not walk. I spent 7 weeks in the hospital, and when I left, I was in a wheelchair, and my left side was paralyzed. My story is in my book entitled, “The Inspiring Journey of a Stroke Survivor.”
There is nothing magical or mythical about strokes. When you don’t take your blood pressure on a monthly basis, you put yourself at risk as you get older. I believe the key to improving health disparities in the African American community starts with proper food, diet, and exercise. To move our community forward, we must began to improve our lifestyle by going to the doctor, stop drinking alcohol, stop smoking, stop using illegal drugs, and lower obesity.
Everyone is at risk for a stroke. It does not matter your ethnicity, or how much money you have in the bank. At anytime or age, you can be devastated by a stroke, which would dramatically alter your family and your life. Know your numbers for lowering your blood pressure. Each time you look in the mirror, stroke and blood pressure awareness starts with you.

Strokes Can Kill

Roger Caldwell — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:35:16 +0000

Graffiti artist supports Azalea Park Little Leagues

rpalacio — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:25:50 +0000

Even the weather helped out: last Saturday New York artist Héctor “Nicer” Nazario came to Central Florida to paint a large-scale mural of baseball hero Roberto Clemente at the Azalea Park baseball field.

This is part of a on-going campaign to clean up the field, which has fallen in disrepair. Last year “El Sentinel” wrote a series of stories on what the community is doing to help out the Azalea Park Little Leagues, a 50-year-old organization. Since then, several community leaders and elected officials have been trying to support these efforts.

Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz stopped by to meet Nazario. Our freelance photographer Geisha Barazarte took pictures of the mural, you can check them out @ El Sentinel facebook page.

Can NBA reclaim lost momentum of lengthy lockout?

brian schmitz — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:36:39 +0000

Can Heat, LeBron help reclaim lost momentum?

Unless the feuding parties suddenly make progress, the NBA will lose games, if not the season — and the whirlwind momentum it gained last season.

The league is coming off one of its more fan-friendly campaigns, riding the wave of excitement created by the Miami Heat’s traveling all-star team of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

The 2010-11 season began with the Heatles stealing all the headlines and ended with them losing in the Finals to the Dallas Mavericks, a feel-good story starring Dirk Nowitzki.

And in between, we were treated to a basketball revival in New York with Carmelo Anthony joining Amare Stoudemire and the wonders of MVP Derrick Rose in Chicago and Dwight Howard in Orlando.

David Stern couldn’t have scripted a better season.

But this mother of all NBA lockouts might create more damage than even the Heat, The Sequel, can overcome, especially if the year is lost.

The league risks losing fans after a slight attendance increase and swollen TV ratings, including those for a compelling Finals.

“The popularity is at the top,” said the Los Angeles forward Luke Walton. “It’s high, and the ratings were record-breaking the last few years, and from the fans’ perspective, the owners make a ton of money and are very wealthy, and the players make a ton of money and are very wealthy, so its kind of hard for them to sympathize with either side.

“The idea of the lockout and losing fans is probably the scariest thing of all,” Walton said. “Even moreso than missing games or losing out on your salary for however long you lose those games, it’s losing the fan support because it’s at an all-time high right now.”

The league can rebound, but the lockout with test the healing powers of LeBron and Co.

Hyundai funds cancer research at Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital

mjameson — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:22:45 +0000

As part of a $10 million donation that Hyundai is handing out to pediatric cancer centers across America, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children of Orlando received a $50,000 grant for research this morning during a ceremony at the hospital.

Arnold Palmer Hospital is one of 50 hospitals that will receive research grants through the 2011 Hope on Wheels program. Orlando-area Hyundai dealers joined with Hyundai Motor America to make this possible.
Don Eslin, M.D., vice-chair of pediatric oncology for the hospital, accepted the award.

More information and the complete list of 2011 Hyundai Hope on Wheels tour stops go to www.HyundaiHopeOnWheels.org.

Political rhetoric: the Left’s campaign against passion and free speech

ucfcollegerepublicans — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:49:20 +0000

Colorful rhetoric has been part of politics since the dawn of civilization. The term “campaign” itself is of military origin. Military metaphors are common not only in politics, but in business, sports, medicine, science, and every-day life. In 2009, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee published on their website a map of the country with bulls-eyes over the districts of “targeted Republicans”. Nobody complained, because the word “target” and associated symbolism have long been accepted in the non-violent American lexicon. We do not presume advertisers intend to actually kill their “target audience”. We all know that Target superstores do not sell guns and ammo. On October 23, 2010, Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski said of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, “they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him.” Inappropriate? Yes. An actual call to violence? Of course not. Yet when Sarah Palin published her own now-famous “target map”, Democrats accused her of inciting violence. At the time, conservatives laughed off these accusations as being childish, disingenuous, and hypocritical. With the eruption of new accusations against conservatives after the tragedy in Tuscon, we must address this issue head-on.

Political rhetoric becomes heated because people are passionate about politics – and rightly so. When our government is squandering our national wealth, committing generational theft, and destroying an opportunity for prosperity built by generations of Americans, anger is an appropriate response. For Liberals, anger was an appropriate response to “war for oil”, at least while a Republican was President. What we have in American politics is not a climate of hate; it is a climate of passion. We cannot not allow the tragic violence of a lone madman to quell our passions, or use it to lay false accusations of hatred on our fellow Americans.

But that’s exactly what Democrats did after the Tuscon massacre. Within literally minutes of the shooting, the leftist blogosphere and media organizations were saturated with articles and commentary accusing Republicans and the Tea Party of inciting the shooter to violence. In an epiphany, the Left came to believe that, despite non-stop exposure to guns and violence in movies, TV, and video games, it is non-violent military metaphors on conservative websites and radio talk shows that incite lunatics to kill and turn ordinary men into murderers. When the Tuscon shooter turned out to be an anti-Christian, anti-Semetic, God-hating, anti-Constitution, Flag-burning, Marxist, George W. Bush hating, pothead 9-11 Truther, intellectually honest Democrats should have then argued he was incited by their own “violent rhetoric”. Instead, the charlatans on the Left continued to promote the idea of a conservative “climate of hate”, and are using the Tuscon tragedy to push for new restrictions on free speech, including a modern-day Sedition Act. The truth is Jared Loughner never listened to talk radio. He was not motivated by any political ideology or rhetoric, and the only real climate of hate was the one in Loughner’s own deranged mind.

- David Reid

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