From The Desk Ofactivities you enjoy and smallescapes like movies and TY.Mrs. Beatrice Maye.*Practice slow, deep breaths. _shallow, fearful breathingseems to Send stress signals to:| the brain.Violent ChildrenViolent kids are often victimsof proverty. In addtion. to the_ violence children have seen ontelevision and in the movies,and apart from the drug warsthey have witnessed, the ten-dency toward violence is afunction of neglect and abuse so many have experinced. -Many of them are born to Tdrug and alcohol-dependantparents, They were left in cribsfor days with dirty diapers.They were also scolded orstarved, Other kids simply hadno one love them or hold them |when they were frightened.Many were:sexually exploitedfrom their early days-someeven in infancy. If they survied,they grew up on the streetsWith no adult. guidance andcare.The bottom line is this. We arepaying a terrible price for thedisintergration of the familyand for the victimization ofchildren. Taken from jamesProven StrategiesFor Beating Stress* Socialize, See Friends, .relatives, go to club:meet-ings, stay connected: This| paramount.* Talk, laugh, cry, get angry,Let it out.* Excercise regularly, Stud-ies show excerise educesanxiety, releases tension andspurs the brain to pump out -endorphins, chemicals thatcreate a sense of well-being.Try for 30 to 60 "minutes thre times a week .* Eat a healthy, balanceddiet,* Block stress by losingyourself in activities to yourdaily or weekly schedule. Bedispline about this,: Get perspective. Remem-ber past hardship and prob-lems de ve Overcome.* Live in moment throughStudents of CommunityChristian Academy~ cance if you push the bondaries oTry yoga or meditation, Ifyou dont enjoy them, dontforce yourself-try another- activity.Taken from AARP Bullentin,May 2009Mentors AndRole ModelsRole models are people one re-spects and seeks to emulate. Amentor ig a super duper rolemodel who probaly works inyour field and whose work ethicothers admire. futhermore, amentor gives advice whenyou're in a sticky situation andhelps you navigate thewindystraits of your career. Why? Be-cause the mentor Khas been thereor r someplace very similar.The best mentor that I.ve everhad was so confident in her ownsuccess that she never feltthreatened by anyone else. Shealso went out of her way to lo-cate others T strengths and togive credit whever it was due.There's a difference betweensomeone in a senior role whogives advice and a mentor whodemonstrates qualities thatyou'd ;like to emulate. lastly, amentor takes a persona; inter-est in your career,9 esSo where can you pick yourself "up a one of these mentor folk?It Ts not the sort of situation- Where you send out invitations aand see who RSVP Ts. You mustneed to be open and watch it.The Smithsonian Institution i inWashington and members of Till Tsfamily announced the casket Tsdonation to the museum Ts plannedNational Museum of AfricanAmerican History and Culture inWashington when it opens in 2015.CHICAGO (AP) " The glass-topped casket that displayedlynching victim Emmett Till TsGrane oCar Service � The Six Podeneer Cadillac DTVip dares Style oOur Chrysier 300�,� Sedan � oYou should 206 the Barf 18 - 25, 2009 page 7Emmit Till Ts Casket To Go To The Smithsoniandisfigured body. to. the-world andbecame a rallying point for the civilrights movement is headed to theSmithsonian Institution, Till Tsfamily announced Friday. oHopefully, when this casket, when _it Ts.on display at the Smithsonian,young boys and young girls fromall over the world are going to seeit and it Ts going to inspire them tofight for those who are too weak tofight for themselves, � said SimeonWright, Till Ts cousin. At the SouthSide church where Mamie Till-Mobley insisted in 1955 on openingthe casket that held the remains ofher 14-year-old son - and allowedphotographs to be taken andpublished - Wright. said hermessage of what racism looks likestill needs to be told. oFiftyfrom now someone will tell theStory ... that they murdered him,threw him in the TallahatchieRiver, would they believe itwithout the casket? � askedWright. Hé was 12 and was withTill the night the black teenagerwas pulled from his bed inMississippi and murdered forwhistling at a white woman.Lonnie Bunch, the director of theSmithsonian Ts planned NationalMuseum of African AmericanHistory and Culture, where thecasket will be displayed, said heknows of no other casket of aspecific American put on displaythis way at the Smithsonian. Hee's Limousine Service called it a key artifact from thecivil rights movement that helpstell the story of what is both oneof the darkest chapters in U.S.history and a moment that helpedchange it. oPart of theTesponsibility of a nationalmuseum is to help people to oremember, and through thisdonation we will ensure that "future generations will rememberhow the death of a child, amother Ts courage, helped totransform America, � Bunch said.Friday Ts announcement at theRoberts Temple Church of Godin Christ came on the 54th anniversary of the day Till waskilled. It follows last montli Tsdiscovery of Till Ts original caskettattered, dented and rusty.- inaparbage-strewn storage shed atsuburban cemetery whereormer workers are charged withligging up corpses and resellingare not accused of disturbingTill Ts grave. But while detectivesrere investigating thelesecration of the historic blackPemetery in Alsip, they found theasket that had been pulled from} Phe ground when Till Ts body was-pxhumed in 2005. Till Ts bodywas later reburied in anothercasket, and the family was told- fhe original one would be kept. fora memorial. Till Ts mutilatedclosely. See who impresses you.Keep aneye out for people inyour field that have the kind ofexperiences you wish to haveand who strike you as wise.Join a proffessional women Tsgroup. there iare scads of themout there for nearly every pro-fession. Volunteer to do somework for them. You'll get toknow tons of people that way.Acaveat: mentors are peoplewith lives, with jobs, with men-tors of their own, While T theyare involved in helping you, Youshould remember that no onelikes a time-seeker, and you risklosing your mentor Ts. signifi-energy s soh utions we can afford.Congress is getting feady to vole on energy legislationthat will increase energy costs for fomilies and businesses.Many Americans will be unable to afford their electric bills,Pleasé tell Congreis to vote for solutions thot balance theneeds of the oneene wit the financial concems nd themunenioon peoplesTELL CONGRESS Seiail story.Let them know that we need energy legislationbod had been found three daysafter he was snatched him fromis bed. Two men were acquittedthe crime, but the next yearok magazine article. Wright,ho stayed in Mississippi for theial _ did not attend his0 funeral, said heelt beipiea when he walked outpf court the day his colusin Tskillers got away with murder.But when he saw the casket lastmonth at Burr Oak for the firstime, he said he saw at once noty the ohatred of racism, � butould see a mother Ts love. � Itro 5h sin Ta ks titheodi whereas ahe: the casket was discovered. Herealized that. it needed to bepreserved: oThe casket itself waspart of the story, � he said. Thebest place for it, he thought, wasat the Smithsonian museumscheduled to open in 2015.Experts told him the casket couldbe salvaged, but it would takemonths of work. The casket willbe moved to Washington, D.C.,within the next couple of months.How the casket will look whenit is ultimately put on display -more like it is today or how it| was in 1955 when thousands ofmourners filed past it at RobertsTemple Church of God in Christ is yetto be decided. Bunch alsosaid he doesn Tt know when it willbe displayed, what the exhibitwill look like or what otherattifacts and photographs will beincluded - only that it must not .be done in a way that turns thecasket into a mere curiosity. oThis should be an object that -challenges us, it should be anobject that makes us think (and)not i" seen as a spectacle, �burial plots. The former workers °hey confessed to the killing in a4a!