"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.
The Walk to Defeat ALS™ was launched in 1999, and is The ALS Association’s largest nationwide fundraising event. It is designed to raise money to find a cure for ALS and to increase awareness of the disease. The Walk to Defeat ALS™ has grown, with 150,000 participants nationwide raising more than $18.7 million each year to support the year-round work of The ALS Association.In Florida, the event continues to be a milestone in our community‘s effort to combat this devastating disease. Since its inception, Walk to Defeat ALS™ participants and sponsors have made this event Florida’s most powerful and effective response to ALS. Held in five locations throughout Florida, the Walk to Defeat ALS™ empowers patients, friends, families, and the business community to do something about a disease that leaves many feeling powerless.
The Walk to Defeat ALS™ is on target to raise a projected $1-million throughout Florida in 2009. The Walk is recognized as one of the most cost-efficient fundraising events in the United States: $0.91 of every $1 raised goes to support global research and patient service programs."
"..people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments."Uh.May.Zing.
A very cold air mass will continue to spread down the Florida Peninsula and into south Florida today and tonight.Clear skies and light winds tonight and early Thursday could result in temperatures dropping to below freezing across the western suburbs of metro Palm Beach, metro Broward, and metro Miami-Dade on Thursday morning.
Low temperatures as cold as 30 degrees are possible.
Last night at the Concert of the Eve of Change JayZ had this to say...
My President is Black in fact he’s half white
So even in a racist mind he’s half right
If you got a racist mind it's alright
My President is Black but his house is all white
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther can walk
Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama can run
Barack Obama ran so all the children can fly
So I’m a spread my wings you can meet me in the sky
so. yea.
a positive change for this country..
and i have faith in President Obama's dream for the future of this country.
