Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order

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Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order
By Amanda Jackson, CNN

(CNN) — A New York professor has Gen Xers reminiscing about their childhood after he posted images of his decades old Apple lle computer on Twitter Saturday night.

John Pfaff dusted off the old computer that has been sitting in his parent’s attic for decades, and to his surprise it still turned on.

“Put in an old game disk. Asks if I want to restore a saved game. And finds one!,” he tweeted. “It must be 30 years old. I’m 10 years old again.”

Apple IIe was the third model in the Apple II series and released in 1983. This version touted features such as the ability to use both upper and lower case letters and full functionality of the Shift and Caps Lock keys. All models of this computer were discontinued in 1993.

Pfaff restored the saved game of Adventureland, a text command game released for microcomputers by Scott Adams in 1978.

“What shall I do next,” reads the prompt on the screen.

“This is tricky, because three decades later I can’t quite remember where I left off this round of Adventureland.”

Pfaff found floppy disks with several different games of the time including; Millionware, Neuromancer and Olympic Decathlon.

Besides finding games on the floppy disks, Pfaff came across saved copies of his high school assignments and a note from his late father.

“Just found this letter my dad typed to me in 1986, when I was 11 and at summer camp,” he tweeted. “My dad passed away almost exactly a year ago. It’s amazing to come across something so ‘ordinary’ from him.”

Pfaff showed off the vintage system to his own children and their reaction is what you’d expect from a generation that has moved on to an iPhone X.

“My oldest, who is 9, exclaimed “that’s a computer?!” in genuine surprise, and then pointed at the floppy drives and asked “what are those?” My younger twins just kept laughing at how silly it seemed to them.”

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IN MEMORIAM: Don Newcombe was symbol of past baseball greatness

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IN MEMORIAM: Don Newcombe was symbol of past baseball greatness

By RON WYNN | Nashville Voice

There was a time when baseball, not football or basketball, dominated the nation’s sports pages and attention. Baseball players were celebrities, cultural heroes in the manner that a Lebron James or Michael Jordan is today.

When Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947 he made front page headlines, not just sports news.

It was exactly two years later, in 1949, that Don Newcombe became a Dodger. Robinson, Roy Campanella and Newcombe all signed with the Dodgers in 1946, but Branch Rickey wasn’t going to speed things up THAT quickly and bring up all three at the same time.

Newcombe came two years later and made an immediate impact. That first season he was an All-Star, the first Black pitcher to achieve that feat.

Over his 10-year career, he would have many other firsts. First black starting pitcher to win 20 games. First to win both Cy Young and Most Valuable Player Awards in the same season (1956). First black pitcher to start a World Series game.

Newcombe roomed with Robinson his first two seasons, and the trio of Robinson, Newcombe and Campanella were a major part of Brooklyn’s domination of the National League during the ’50s.

But Don Newcombe, who died last Tuesday at 92, accomplished so much more after his career ended. He might have pitched longer than a decade but encountered major alcohol problems that shortened his career.

For the remainder of his life, Don Newcombe had two careers. One was as an ambassador for MLB and the Dodgers. The other was as a counselor, mentor, advocate and friend to countless people inside and outside sports with drug addiction problems of any kind, especially alcoholics.

If asked, Newcombe would talk about his days in the Negro leagues, and also his time with the Dodgers, but he preferred working to help others avoid the career-ending mistakes he made. He was always ready to help anyone who needed it at any time.

Newcombe repeatedly urged MLB to do more outreach to the black community, and do more to keep the interest of young people and young African-American athletes in the sport.

Newcombe wanted to be a manager, but that was well before the folks at MLB began to realize they had a problem. He could have been a great one, because he knew what it took to succeed, and also knew what real hardships were about, and how to handle physical and mental adversity.

Today, 70 years after Newcombe broke into the majors, baseball has ONE (that’s one) Black manager, the Dodgers’ Dave Roberts.

There are no signs of any more being hired any time soon, especially with the sport now in the grip of analytics-driven GMs, most of them young white Ivy League grads who didn’t play ball and don’t value the importance of practical experience. They rely on charts, graphs, stats and breakdowns, often disregarding or downplaying the human element.

Not that any of that’s necessarily bad, but it works against career baseball players, many of them black, who could be great field managers but depend more on what they see and what they feel than on computer charts. More importantly, anything that keeps a Don Newcombe and people like him out of a sport are, at best, problematic.

The greatness of Don Newcombe as a player and person is unquestioned. What remains to be answered is what will MLB do to really honor him besides acknowledge his accomplishments and perhaps have a day in his honor?

A much better tribute would be to improve and increase opportunities for blacks in positions outside of playing and to have far more interaction in black sporting communities than at present.

Nashville Zoo announces new members to board of directors

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Nashville Zoo announces new members to board of directors

Nashville Zoo and Zoo Board Chairwoman Julie W. Walker have announced the addition of six new members to the Board of Directors. The Zoo’s new additions to the board of directors include: 

Clara L. Belden serves as the co-founder of The Happy Hour, a service that makes it approachable and convenient for people to seek mental wellness services, including talk-therapy and holistic coaching. She has held leadership roles in Marketing and PR for companies ranging from Equestrian Sport Productions, a mid-size sporting event production company, to multi-billion-dollar corporation Mars Inc. Belden represents Tennessee on the National Committee for Performing Arts for The Kennedy Center, is the volunteer chair of the Associate Board for Gilda’s Club of Middle Tennessee (an affiliate of the Cancer Support Community), and is a member of the Top Tails Society at the Nashville Humane Association.

Mike Bracken practices law in Nashville. He received a BA in Economics & Philosophy from Vanderbilt University and obtained a JD at Tulane University Law School. Bracken worked as an analyst at Merrill Lynch for two years and then moved on to work as an attorney with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, one of the oldest law firms in Tennessee.

Beth Courtney serves as the managing partner for DVL Seigenthaler, Finn Partners Nashville, TN. Her career began at Hill, Holliday, Connors and Cosmopulos Advertising and Public Relations (Boston), followed by a stint at Projection Public Relations in London. She joined Seigenthaler Public Relations, Inc. in 1987, which is today DVL Seigenthaler. Courtney holds membership with the Academy of Women of Achievement by the Nashville YWCA; she was also awarded the Hercules Award by the Nashville Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and has been named Most Admired CEO and Woman of Influence by the Nashville Business Journal.

Jimmy Granbery is a fourth-generation family member of the 123-year-old H.G. Hill Company and serves as the company’s fourth chief executive officer. He was named CEO in 2002 following nine years as vice president of development for H.G. Hill Realty, taking the helm three years after the company exited the grocery business in 1999. He oversees the company’s privately held real estate portfolio that includes more than two million square feet. Granbery’s community involvement includes serving on the board of the YMCA of Middle Tennessee (chair, 2015-2017) and serving on the Martin Methodist College Board as vice chair. He is also the founding director of the ACE mentoring program.

Allie Hall serves as the leasing associate at Hall Emery in Nashville and is responsible for leasing and marketing of Hall Emery’s Nashville office, which includes properties in Cool Springs and Midtown Nashville. Formerly, she was the associate director of investor relations at Hall Capital in Oklahoma City, OK, where she assisted in marketing and fundraising efforts for the firm’s private equity and real estate funds. She is a developing leader of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association and a director at Fred Jones Family Foundation.

Karen Moore serves as the president of Project Redesign, a Nashville-based nonprofit that furnishes low-income housing. She founded this company in 2008. Formerly, Moore was the marketing assistant at Martha White Division of Beatrice Food Company and a sales representative for the Robert J. Young Company. After graduating from the University of Mississippi with her Bachelor’s degree, Moore has founded the Global Leadership Circle, which funds study abroad stipends for Ole Miss students and assisted with many fundraisers through the Ole Miss Alumni Group of Middle Tennessee.

Sandra Morgan serves as the senior vice president of Provider Relations at HCA. Her responsibilities include providing leadership and oversight for HCA’s national Physician & Provider Relations and Transfer Centers programs. Morgan has 19 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She began her career as a sales specialist with Bayer Corporation. In addition to her professional accomplishments, Morgan has served as chair of the St. Louis Diabetes Coalition Consumer Group and has been a member of the American Heart Association Heart Walk Executive Committee. Morgan has also served on the boards of The Hope Fund and You Have The Power organizations.

Dr. Tim Schoettle is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He has continuously practiced neurosurgery with the Howell Allen Clinic since 1985. Over that time, he has been recognized with many awards from his peers and from his patients. Schoettle has been listed as one of Nashville’s Top 100 Doctors in Nashville Magazine, every year since 2006. Since 2004, he has been selected as one of America’s Top Surgeons by Consumer’s Research Council of America every year. He has also earned the peer-selected recognition of America’s Top Surgeons through Castle Connolly, every year since 2006. Schoettle received the Vitals’ Patient’s Choice Doctor Award, as well as the Most Compassionate Doctor Award, from 2012 to 2018. He has also served as a past president of the Tennessee Neurosurgical Society and a past president of the Vanderbilt Meacham NIS Society.

Alexandra Sollberger serves as principal at Stones River Group where she specializes in media training and engagement, crisis communications, message and content development as well as grassroots coalition building. Most recently, Sollberger was a vice president at a top-ranked, bipartisan public relations and lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., where she provided strategic counsel to a variety of clients. Previously, Sollberger served as a communications director for the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where she worked as the senior adviser to Chairman John Kline. She also worked closely with Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, helping to revitalize digital media efforts, design award-winning congressional websites and direct the creative use of social media and infographics.

Monique Odom, director of Metro Parks and Recreation, and Alex Sadler, Roar Corps young professionals group representative, both serve on the Board as ex-officio members.  Young Leaders Council interns for 2019 are David Banks and Jane Cousins.

The new officers of the board include Jimmy Webb, Vice-Chairman; David Manning, Secretary; Ed Goodrich, Treasurer; Julie W. Walker, remains as Chairman.

In addition to newly appointed members, Nashville Zoo’s Board of Directors includes Cynthia Arnholt, Samantha Boyd, Drew Crawford, Lauren Curry, Anne Davis, Laurie Eskind, Will Fitzgibbon, Lily Followill, Ed Goodrich, J.R. Greene, Barbara Hagood, Carl Haley, Jr., Chris Holmes, John Howard, Kent Kirby, John Lueken, David Manning, Alex Marks, Tara Scarlett, Brian Smallwood, Butch Spyridon, Barbara Turner, McArthur VanOsdale, Julie W. Walker, Jimmy Webb and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.

The Zoo has also comprised a group of Advisory Directors that includes former board members and longtime supporters that will serve as advisors to the Board Chairman and Zoo President and CEO, Rick Schwartz.

The Advisory Directors are George Armistead III, Kelley Beaman, Lee Beaman, Kathryn Carell Brown, Renee Chevalier, Neely Coble III, Kelly Crockett Crook, Missy Eason, Jennifer Frist, Rodes Hart, Jim Hunt, Sarah Ingram, Jeff Jacobs, Tom Loventhal, Ellen Martin, Frank McGrew, Richard McRae, Larry Papel, Anne Parsons, Robin Patton, Sheryl Rogers, Charles Sonnenberg, Renata Soto, Richard Speer and Abby Trotter.

Two high school underclassmen to watch in 2019 basketball tournaments

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Two high school underclassmen to watch in 2019 basketball tournaments

The end of basketball season is rolling around and that means one thing in the state of Tennessee: tournament time.

Some teams have had the season they wanted and others will be using the tournament as a time to start anew. While there will be some teams trying to find themselves, there will be some starting players in the Midstate area trying to make a bigger name for themselves.

One of the stand out players on that short list is Brentwood Academy’s, Randy Brady. Brady is new to the Nashville area, as he was playing for The Baylor School before his family moved to the Nashville area.

The sophomore guard currently plays for the Brentwood Academy Eagles and following in the steps of players like Brandon Wright and Darius Garland, he is becoming the main attraction for the team.

Standing at 6’4”, Brady can shoot the basketball as well as take it to the basket and finish over shorter defenders. He still has some work to do on his three-point and midrange game, but as it stands right now, he will be the next in a long line of stars that laced up their basketball sneakers for the Brentwood Academy Eagles.

And although he is the focal point of the team, Eagles coach Hubie Smith loves how he has fit in.

“He’s one of the best teammates I’ve ever been around. He works hard every day,” Smith said.

Marvin Hughes

Another player to keep your eyes on is McGavock’s, Marvin Hughes. The junior guard is fielding offers from a few teams as he continues his scoring rampage in the city of Nashville.

In McGavock’s up-tempo style, Hughes gets plenty of chances to put the ball in the basket. He can take the ball off the rim and go coast-to-coast, bullying his way through the defense and finishing with finesse around the rim.

While he does need some work on his jump shot, he can get streaky and shoot the lights out as well. With McGavock getting that brand-new start to the season, Hughes will be pivotal for their success.

The better he is and the more efficient and successful he is, the more his team will be able to fill in around him as they make a push to the postseason.

Both Brady and Hughes may be underclassmen, but they are both critical to the success of their teams. While they play alongside other talented teammates, these two have the potential to be their respective team’s focal points.

For both Brady and Hughes, this is a chance to show what they are made of and it also is their chance to introduce those that are not aware of their talents to their world of basketball.

The legacy of a legend, David Williams

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The legacy of a legend, David Williams

Nashville and Vanderbilt University lost far more than an athletic director, vice chancellor and law professor Feb. 8 when David Williams died at 71.

The world lost someone who bridged the gap between academics and athletics, sports fans and professors, Nashville’s black community and a university with a less than exemplary track record in terms of historical treatment of and attitude towards African Americans.

Williams reached many people who otherwise could care less about Vanderbilt sports or the institution.

A funny thing though: Because the outpouring of grief was so widespread and immediate, it’s easy to overlook the fact that when he was tabbed to be athletic director in addition to Vice Chancellor of University Affairs (the first black to hold either position by the way and the SEC’s first black athletic director) there were hosts of people in the sports world who thought Vanderbilt had lost its collective mind.

There were even columnists suggesting this was a sign Vanderbilt was de-emphasizing athletics.

Williams disdained separate dorms for athletes, and put equal amounts of attention on education, insisting it was important even for the select handful of Vandy football and basketball players who had a chance to earn big dollars in the NFL or NBA.

Yet, rather than Vanderbilt athletics fading under Williams’ leadership it soared. He hired the most successful football coach in recent Vanderbilt history in James Franklin, also its first black head football coach.

Franklin didn’t stay very long, but he was there long enough to get the Commodores into bowl games, and for a brief moment even into the Top 25.

His successor Derek Mason hasn’t duplicated Franklin’s lofty achievements, but has gotten them to multiple bowl games and garnered multiple wins over hated in-state rival Tennessee.

That Williams hired TWO black head coaches when a lot of SEC schools have yet to hire their first also says a lot about his devotion and dedication to equal opportunity.

What many detractors either didn’t know or realized about David Williams was his whole life personified the notion one could love sports, arts, politics, and academics with equal vigor.

He’d been a track athlete and student activist at Northern Michigan during the ’60s, a peak time for activism among students and athletes.

Williams loved music (especially soul and Motown) and had been teaching in the law school since 2000 despite the many demands placed on an athletic director.

He found time to be involved with numerous other non-athletic things, including maintaining ties with Vanderbilt’s Black Cultural Center, Nashville’s Equal Justice Initiative, and various other social and political groups.

Williams always made sure the local Black press got the same treatment at press conferences and sports events that mainstream publications and broadcast outlets received. He did not let anyone feel neglected or ignored.

The Williams era at Vanderbilt will no doubt be regarded as one of the most, if not THE most, productive.

The school won four national championships over his 16 years, the first Vanderbilt ever earned in any sport. He was as proud of the women’s two bowling and one tennis title as he was of Tim Corbin’s 2014 baseball squad finally capturing the College World Series crown.

Although football, the only sport that matters in much of SEC country, never threatened for a conference or national title, even it flourished under Williams.

Before 2007, Vanderbilt had appeared in a grand total of three bowl games since they began football in 1890. Over the next 11 years, they appeared in six.

Still, if you ever talked to Williams about his time at Vanderbilt, he would inevitably return to what he considered his greatest personal achievement. He brought back into the Vanderbilt sphere pioneering basketball player Perry Wallace, who’d been the SEC’s first full-time Black player.

Vanderbilt ostracized Wallace for decades because on his way out the door in 1970 he had the temerity to let everyone know just how bad things had been for him, both at the school and in the SEC.

While Wallace, a true student-athlete, would go on to become prominent as a law professor at American University after working for the Justice Department as an attorney, his alma mater acted as though he were invisible.

Williams ended that nonsense. He had Wallace’s number retired, got him inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame, and personally endowed a scholarship in his name.

Nashville author Andrew Maraniss, a longtime friend of Williams, wrote the definitive biography of Perry Wallace “Strong Inside,” and teamed with him to launch a Sports and Society Initiative beginning this year. Sadly, Williams didn’t live to see that come to fruition.

It’s a testimony to David Williams’ stature, impact and contributions to society that the list of those paying tribute after news of his death hit the airwaves and websites included journalists, athletic officials, politicians, fellow professors, and former and current Vanderbilt athletes.

Everyone was in total shock because he had a retirement party scheduled that evening, with friends and family from around the nation gathered in Nashville for the event.

While many remain in mourning, the greatest lesson that can be taken from David Williams is never to accept conventional notions about anything. He didn’t make bogus assumptions that athletes can’t be scholars, or academicians can’t have fun and love music. He was a phenomenal individual, irreplaceable, and will never be forgotten.

Savage: ‘Don’t be fooled by the propaganda, the FOP is desperately trying to protect officer Andrew Delke’

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Savage: ‘Don’t be fooled by the propaganda, the FOP is desperately trying to protect officer Andrew Delke’

By NIARA SAVAGE | Nashville Voice

The further the Hambrick case advances towards a conviction for Andrew Delke, the more desperate the Nashville Fraternal Order of Police becomes in its attempt to rescue Delke from the justice he deserves.

Over the past several months, officer Andrew Delke has gone from being the first-ever Metro Nashville Police Officer charged with criminal homicide to the first officer indicted on such charges.

Last Wednesday, Feb. 13, Delke entered a “not guilty” plea during a hearing. The case, involving the shooting death of a 25-year old fleeing Black man Daniel Hambrick by Delke, has reignited tensions regarding police brutality in Nashville and in similar incidents across the nation.

In its latest attempt at making Delke—a murderer—look like an angel, the FOP has launched a digital ad campaign defending Delke, and, once again, positing that Hambrick pointed a loaded gun at the officer.

The Nashville Voice and several other media outlets have repeatedly pointed out the fact that there is no video evidence suggesting that Hambrick ever pointed a weapon at Delke. The defense coincidentally claims that this portion of the video footage was lost.

According to David Harris of the University of Pittsburgh, fraternal organizations sometimes take advantage of the ultra-shareable technology of the recent digital age to influence the outcomes of criminal cases.

“They’re trying to influence public opinion about the case in advance of the trial with the idea of influencing a jury,” Harris said.

Interestingly, David Raybin, the FOP’s apparent and unofficial ally filed a motion earlier this month requesting for murder evidence to be blocked from the case. According to Raybin, sharing evidence from the public could have many “unintended consequences.”

However, the FOP’s ad is more reminiscent of biased political propaganda than the actions of an institution interested in maintaining the integrity of an ongoing case.

It’s obvious that Delke’s defense and the FOP are meticulously filtering what the public does and does not see in regards to the Hambrick case as they hide potentially critical details of the investigation.

In the face of this blatant attempt to manipulate the public, it’s hard not to ask: if Andrew Delke is so innocent, then what does Raybin have to hide?

Amazon invests money in electric pickups

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Amazon invests money in electric pickups

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business

(CNN) — Amazon is putting money into electric trucks.

The online retailer led a $700 million investment in Michigan-based electric pickup maker Rivian, the companies said Friday.

Rivian unveiled an all-electric pickup and an SUV at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show in November and plans to begin production of the vehicles in a factory in Normal, Illionois, next year. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan, not far from Detroit.

The total investment was split with Abdul Lateef Jameel Company, a Saudi Arabia-based importer and exporter that is already a major stakeholder in Rivian. Amazon invested a “significant majority” of the money, though, a Rivian spokesman said. Amazon declined to provide any details about the investment.

Rivian’s pickup and SUV are both based on a large battery-based engineering platform Rivian calls a “skateboard.” Both vehicles are designed to excel off-road with the help of four separate electric motors, one driving each wheel independently.

“The investment is a drop in the bucket for Amazon,” said Michelle Krebs executive analyst at Autotrader. “But it is huge for Rivian in terms of the amount of money and in terms of raising the profile of Rivian. Amazon is exploring ways to reinvent its delivery fleet, and Rivian’s electric-powered skateboard concept, which could carry a variety of body styles, offers an interesting possibility.”

Rivian’s pickup, called the R1T, will have a starting price of about $69,000 while the SUV, which can seat up to seven, will start at $72,000. Both vehicles should be eligible for the $7,500 federal tax credit, for electric vehicles. Both vehicles are expected to have a driving range of over 400 miles.

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‘Carlton Dance’ refused copyright registration

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(CNN) — It’s not unusual for the “Carlton Dance” to be loved by anyone, but the US Copyright Office apparently doesn’t think it’s all that special.

Former “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star Alfonso Ribeiro has been involved in a lawsuit with Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the video game “NBA 2K,” and the publisher of “Fortnite” over avatars in the games being able to do the dance that his character popularized on the hit ’90s sitcom.

A letter from Saskia Florence, a supervisory registration specialist with the US Copyright Office, to Ribeiro’s attorney, David Hecht, surfaced this week as part of federal court documents in California.

In the correspondence, Florence wrote that the moves are “a simple dance routine.”

“As such, it is not registrable as a choreographic work,” the letter stated.

She also wrote an explanation of the choreography in which “the dancer sways their hips as they step from side to side, while swinging their arms in an exaggerated manner.”

Florence wrote, “This single dance step is not registrable as a choreographic work. Accordingly, your application for registration is refused.”

Ribeiro debuted the moves during a scene on the popular show that starred Will Smith.

In one episode, Ribeiro’s character, Carlton Banks, performs the dance to the Tom Jones classic “It’s Not Unusual.”

The choreography also helped the actor and TV host win “Dancing With the Stars.”

Ribeiro and his pro dance partner, Witney Carson, were crowned champions of that competition dance show in 2014, with one of their highlights being a performance featuring the “Carlton Dance.”

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Trump declares border national emergency to bipartisan skepticism

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Trump declares border national emergency to bipartisan skepticism

By Jeremy Diamond, Priscilla Alvarez and Kevin Liptak, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to unlock billions of dollars in federal funds to build a wall on the southern border, bypassing Congress after lawmakers refused to meet his multi-billion dollar request for border wall funds.

For weeks, the President and his top officials had argued that there is a “crisis” on the southern border. Democrats pushed against that argument, saying there’s no security crisis but rather a humanitarian one.

According to federal data, Customs and Border Protection apprehended nearly 400,000 people along the Southwest border in fiscal year 2018, an increase from 2017 but a decrease from 2016. Many of those apprehended were claiming asylum.

Trump on Friday reiterated his claims of an “invasion” of drugs and undocumented immigrants at the southern border, but offered little factual or statistical evidence to back up his claim that a national emergency exists.

Instead, he refuted statistics — many from his own administration — that show that border crossings are at record lows, that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans and that most drugs coming across the southern border flow through legal ports of entry.

The President announced his national emergency declaration during a rambling performance in the Rose Garden where he bragged about the economy, touted progress in his talks with China, vented about media coverage of his presidency and insisted his negotiations with North Korea are bearing fruit.

“It’s been signed many times before. It’s been signed by other presidents from 1977 or so. It gave the presidents the power,” Trump said. “There’s rarely been a problem. They sign it, nobody cares. I guess they weren’t very exciting.”

But at the same time, the President undercut his case about the existence of a national emergency and the urgency of building new barriers on the US-Mexico border.

“I didn’t need to do this,” Trump said. “But I’d rather do it much faster.”

Democrats and activist groups will almost certainly challenge the declaration in court, as critics pre-emptively argued that Trump cannot use the national emergency to free up taxpayer funds and build the border wall he has long promised his political supporters.

The President declared the national emergency even as he agreed to sign a spending bill from Congress that allocated $1.375 billion for the President to build 55 miles of new fencing. The additional executive actions he is undertaking aim to redirect more than $6 billion in federal funds toward the construction of hundreds more miles of border barriers — bringing total funding for the wall to nearly $8 billion.

“We don’t control our own border,” Trump claimed. “We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border and we’re going to do it — one way or the other we have to do it.”

Repeating claims
Trump repeated claims about “tremendous amounts of drugs” crossing into the US from the southern border — even though the majority of those drugs come through ports of entry — and addressed the issue of human trafficking.

He once again reiterated his claim that El Paso, Texas, is safer because of border fencing built there in 2008, despite statistics showing the city had already become safer a decade prior and violent crime rates did not drop as a result of the new barrier.

Trump conceded that he expects his national emergency declaration will be challenged in the courts, but rejected criticism from those who argued he is setting a bad precedent and insisted he is on firm legal ground.

Trump griped about the legal battles to come in a sing-song tone, predicting the matter will eventually come before the Supreme Court.

“We will have a national emergency, and we will then be sued, and they will sue us in the 9th Circuit, even though it shouldn’t be there, and we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we’ll get another bad ruling, and then we’ll end up in the Supreme Court, and hopefully we’ll get a fair shake and we’ll win in the Supreme Court,” Trump said.

Bipartisan opposition
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have criticized or expressed concern about Trump’s plans to move forward with a national emergency.

“Declaring a national emergency would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that President Trump broke his core promise to have Mexico pay for his wall,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said in a statement Thursday. “It is yet another demonstration of President Trump’s naked contempt for the rule of law. This is not an emergency, and the President’s fearmongering doesn’t make it one.”

Several Republican lawmakers also expressed serious concerns about Trump’s move to declare a national emergency, concerned about the precedent Trump’s move to bypass Congress might set. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had previously opposed an emergency declaration, said Thursday he would support the move after Trump agreed to sign the compromise legislation to avert another government shutdown.

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky called it a “bad idea.”

“I generally don’t think it’s a good idea,” added Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

The national emergency declaration still doesn’t guarantee Trump’s wall. The administration is expected to face a slew of legal challenges, including from House Democrats and landowners whose property will likely have to be seized to mount barriers.

House Democrats could introduce a resolution to rescind the national emergency and eventually vote on it on the House floor. It would then go to the Senate, where they’d have to vote on it within a certain time frame. Even if it were to pass the Republican-controlled Senate, Trump could veto it.

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The Food Pharmacy at Nashville General Hospital

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The Food Pharmacy at Nashville General Hospital

The Food Pharmacy at Nashville General Hospital (NGH) is a program that provides nutritional food totes to patients enrolled in the care management classes held at NGH for chronically-ill patients.

“Food is medicine and we treat our patients with different types of foods based upon their disease state needs such as diabetes, hypertension, morbid obesity, heart disease, and cancer patients,” says Mike Venters, Director of Nutrition Services at NGH.

The food totes reinforce healthy food habits to help patients achieve success in the lifetime commitment of disease self-management. The totes include shelf stable and fresh produce on a weekly basis. Support for the program is provided by the Margaret & Cal Turner Foundation, the Memorial Foundation, the Second Harvest Food Bank and NGH staff.

“Our food pharmacy is prescribed based on there specific diagnosis,” said Vernon Rose, Executive Director for Nashville General Hospital Foundation (NGHF).

Education is also an important aspect of the Food Pharmacy at Nashville General Hospital. The foundation teaches patients how to properly read food labels. “We have an eight week class for diabetic patients where they learn about nutrition, the disease, and self-management,” said Rose. ”We also talk about the challenges of taking care of their bodies.”

“45%-50% of our patients arrive with little to no ability to pay for their healthcare,” said Rose. “That gives some indication that they may also be faced with food deficiency.” The program also is supplemental. The Food Pharmacy at Nashville General Hospital does not replace regular grocery store visits. Depending on the circumstances of the patients household, the patient can be connected with a case manager, a nurse, or a dietitian.

“We know what we are doing is working we just need to do more of it!” Rose added.

The Foundation is always accepting new volunteers; no one will be turned away. There are opportunities to volunteer at the food pharmacy, make a monetary donation, or assist with the other program initiatives of the NGHF. “If it is in their heart for what they are wanting to do when they want to support someone in the community people can visit the website,” said Rose. “If it touches your heart, get involved.”

To find out more information about the Nashville General Hospital Foundation and to contact Vernon Rose for volunteer work, visit www.nashgenfoundation.org.

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