Announcements
Qi-Gong: Qi-Gong will be in recess from October 20-November 3. It will resume its regular schedule November 10.
Voter Registration: Note: the deadline for voter registration was Monday.
St. Joseph County residents can vote early at the first floor of the County-City Building and avoid standing in line at the polls on election day.
Meditation: Wednesdays, 7:45 a.m., in the STAR classroom. Open to staff and guests.
Beat Your Own Drum: If anyone is interested in forming a drum corps please see Juanetta.
ABE
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▪Positive Life Skills Class: Wednesdays, 9-11:30 a.m. PLS is a walk-in self-empowerment program for Starting Over graduates and new guests. It is open to anyone (even staff). Receive a new key chain when you have attended all eight sessions.
▪ABE Incentives: Students will be given a card to be initialed during each walk-in class attended. Once a student has attended 10 walk-in programs, cards can be redeemed for prizes.
▪Math Study Sessions: Mondays, 3-4 p.m., and Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., SOSH room.
▪Submit Your Poem: If you like to write poetry in your free time, this is your chance to be a published author! Submit a poem to any staff member in the ABE room and it may be published in the next ABE Newsletter. Also, we will hopefully start another Poetry Jam in the Fall; let us know if you are interested
▪GED: A new GED class will be starting up this October 10th in ABE. All GED bound students are welcome to attend. The class meets from 1-3 on Fridays and will include group discussions and time to work on testing, individual assignments and the computer. Please see ABE for details.
▪Writing: Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m., ABE. Improve your basic writing skills under the guidance of a trained instructor.
▪Creative Writing: Starting up again September 11, Thursdays, 6-7 p.m., in the Community Room.
▪Book Club: Inspirational Reading Squad—Monday, 7-8 p.m.; Regular (CFH Book Club)--will be meeting Monday, 8-8:30 p.m. Read books of choosing (approved by ABE staff). Sign up in ABE or on the ABE bulletin board by the men's lounge.
Herald Sports
ND Notes: Soccer, Men—(14) ND 3, Michigan St. 0 (at ND); Tennis, Men—ND's Brett Helgeson to compete at ITA All-American Championships; Basketball—former Irish and Piston star Bill Laimbeer wins third WNBA championship as head coach of Detroit Shock.
MLB NLCS: Dodgers at Phillies, tonight, 8 p.m. (Fox 28).
MLB ALCS: Red Sox at Rays; Friday, 8:37 p.m. (TBS).
NHL Scores: No games scheduled.
MLS Scores: Real Salt Lake opens new Rio Tinto Stadium tonight vs. N.Y. Red Bulls.
NBA Preseason Scores: Tuesday—Raptors 104, Cavaliers 84; Rockets 96, Grizzlies 93; Mavericks 108, Wizards 82; Jazz 99, Lakers 90; Trailblazers 110, Kings 81; Wednesday—Hornets 105, Pacers 71; 76ers 98, Celtics 92; Raptors 113, Knicks 111; Magic 118, Bobcats 80; Pistons 85, Bucks 71; Wizards 89, Grizzlies 80; Timberwolves 88, Thunder 82; Warriors 110 Trailblazers 95; Hawks 100, Suns 96.
NBA Notes: Thunder—ex-Sonics fail to roll during first game at new Oklahoma City home.
MLB Notes: Cubs—team exercises $7-million option on RHP Rich Harden; Red Sox—Dice-K to start in ALCS game 1; Japan—Japanese try to curb talent drain with ban on players who return to Japan after opting out of the amateur draft to play for overseas pro teams.
NHL Notes: Blackhawks—LW Ben Eager suspended three games without pay for swinging stick at Stars' LW Sean Avery during game last week; Flyers—Sarah Palin to drop puck at Flyers' regular season opener.
NFL Notes: Commissioner—Goodell says NFL faces economic challenges; Broncos—suspect arrested in murder of Broncos' CB Darrent Williams; Cowboys—Pacman reportedly involved in hotel fight; Patriots—Tom Brady had surgery on left knee this week, a month after injuring it; Seahawks—Holmgren rips into sagging Seahawks; Rams—scan shows spot on brain of Rams' WR Dane Looker; Eagles—Donovan McNabb calls team meeting to stop slide; Jaguars—WR Matt Jones ordered to drug court.
Local
Local Headlines: Lugar Visits ND—Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar visited the ND Energy Center yesterday; he also talked to students about energy and foreign policy..
Nation/World
Nation/World Headlines:. Wall St.—U.S. may take ownership stake in banks; Campaign—Michelle Obama dismisses criticisms of husband; Guantanamo/China—China demands repatriation of detainees held at Guantanamo; Entertainment—Jamie Lynn Spears, 17, may be pregnant with second child.
Uncle Ron's Ramblings
Tips For National Fire Prevention Week: I don't know if we can classify this as a sermon or a lecture. If it was a sermon, we would need to have a closing hymn.
Actually there were two hot topics this week: National Fire Prevention Week and the selection of new mother Halle Berry as Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire magazine. I thought some fire prevention tips would be a little more useful or appropriate.
Of course the Halle Berry story brings up another question: does it create a combustible situation if you allow more than one hunka hunka burnin' love into a dormitory. We can probably cover that question during Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love Week (I'm not sure when that is but then I didn't find out it was National Fire Prevention Week until yesterday when the week was half over).
The first thing to remember about fires is that they spread quickly. Those who were here last year for Fire Prevention Week saw a video of a burning soccer stadium. An entire section of the stadium was engulfed in less than a minute causing numerous fatalities.
According to "Fire Safety: A Practical Approach (Google Books), fire tends to double its size at regular intervals—sometimes as quickly as within minutes. It is said that the average domestic sitting room will be totally alight in about four minutes.
Know where fire exits are and use them. Don't think you have time to go back to your bunk and retrieve whatever it is you forgot. It's not worth your life.
Another thing to remember about fires is that more people are killed by smoke than burned to death.
"FS: APA" lists six main reasons for fires: 1) Faulty electrical equipment; 2) Smoking and smoking materials; 3) Fat fryers and chip pans; 4) Portable heaters; 5) Refuse and rubbish accumulations; 6) Flammable materials.
Not only is smoking not allowed inside at CFH, lighters are not to be used in CFH to see by; lighters are not supposed to be ignited inside CFH buildings at all. The last serious fire at CFH was caused by someone using a lighter as a source of light.
Flashlights are available to borrow and they can be bought for $1. Sav-a-Lot and the dollar stores sell a handy little combination penlight/FM radio for $1.
Just to be on the safe side our closing hymn will be number 40.
Weather
Today High 70 Low 40 Clear
Fri High 72 Low 49 Partly Cloudy
Sat High 79 Low 56 Partly Cloudy
Sun High 77 Low 58 Partly Cloudy
Thu High 74 Low 52 Partly Cloudy
TV Schedule: 16—8 p.m., My Name is Earl; 8:30 p.m., Kath and Kim (pilot); 9 p.m., The Office; 9:30 p.m., Saturday Night Live Primetime Election 2008 Special #1; 22—8 p.m., Survivor; 9 p.m., CSI; 25—8 pm., Smallville; 9 p.m., Supernatural; 28—8 p.m., MLB NLCS, Dodgers at Phillies; 46—8 p.m., Lester Sumrall Teaching; 8:30 p.m., Live From Studio B; 9 p.m., Harvest; 57—8 p.m., Ugly Betty; 9 p.m., Grey's Anatomy; 69—8-10 p.m., Dracula 2000.
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