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Male rhythmic gymnastics...to be or not to be?
«At rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming competitions not only women but men as well should take part», – the president of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, Irina Viner-Usmanova, claimed.
Irina Viner-Usmanova emphasized that many kinds of sport that were for men only have become available to all. She has an opinion that rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming should undergo the same changes.
«If women go in for box, football and weightlifting, why can't men start doing rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming? I'm all for these innovations!» - the famous coach said.
«However, this initiative has got several obstacles at international level», - she stated. «We all really want to have male rhythmic gymnastics but the present leadership of the International Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation refuse to accept it even as a non - Olympic kind of sport», - the president of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation lamented.
Irina Viner-Usmanova added that mixed couples should perform at rhythmic gymnastics. «The men should be helped», - she claimed – «Ask the girls. They are tired of gymnastics without men».
In July the competitions of water kinds of sport took place in Kazan this year. The mixed synchronized swimming couples were first introduced at such competitions.
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Recipe by Joyce Goldstein from Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly
1 pound green beans, trimmed and cut into 2-inch lengths
1/2 cup vegetable stock or water
1 onion, chopped or thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, finely minced
1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
3/4 cup peeled, seeded and diced tomato
1 tablespoon tomato puree (optional)
salt and pepper to taste
lemon wedges for garnish
Drop green beans into a large pot of salted water and cook until firm-tender or al dente. Drain and refresh in ice water. Drain again and set aside.
Bring the vegetable stock to a boil in a large sauté pan. Add the onion and simmer, covered, until tender and translucent, about 10 minutes. Add the garlic, oregano, tomato, and optional tomato puree. Simmer about 5 minutes. Add the green beans and simmer until tender and some of the sauce is absorbed, 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with lemon wedges.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
If it's good enough for the Costanzas, it's good enough for Webmaster Central: it's time for a Festivus for the rest of us (webmasterus)!
Our special celebration begins not with carols and eggnog, but by remembering some of the popular Webmaster Tools features—make that Feats of Strength —for 2007. This year, you gained the ability to chickity-check out your backlinks (<-- that's Festivus-inspired anchor text) and tell Google you want out with URL Removal. And let's not forget Message Center and IDNA support, perfect for those times when [a-zA-Z0-9\-] just doesn't cut it.
Feel the power! Festivus Feats of Strength!
Now comes our webmaster family's traditional Airing of Grievances. You can air your woes and "awww man!"s in the comments below. Just remember that bots may crawl this blog, but we humans review the comments, so please keep your grievances constructive. :) Let us know about features you'd like implemented in Webmaster Tools, articles you'd like written in our blog or Help Center, and stuff you'd like to see in the discussion group. Bonus points if you also explain how your suggestion helps the whole Internet, not just your site's individual rankings. (But of course, we understand that your site ranking number one for all queries in all regions is truly, objectively good for everyone.)
Last, there are so many Festivus Miracles to share! Such as the many helpful members of the discussion group from all around the world, the new friendships formed between Susan Moskwa, JohnMu, Wysz, Matt D, Bergy, Patrick, Nathanj and so many webmasters, and the fun of chatting with our video watchers, fellow conference attendees, and those in the blogosphere keepin' it real.
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Sound can reach the inner ear by way of two separate paths, and those paths in turn affect what we perceive. Air-conducted sound is transmitted from the surrounding environment through the external auditory canal, eardrum and middle ear to the cochlea, the fluid-filled spiral in the inner ear. Bone-conducted sound reaches the cochlea directly through the tissues of the head.
When you speak, sound energy spreads in the air around you and reaches your cochlea through your external ear by air conduction. Sound also travels from your vocal cords and other structures directly to the cochlea, but the mechanical properties of your head enhance its deeper, lower-frequency vibrations. The voice you hear when you speak is the combination of sound carried along both paths. When you listen to a recording of yourself speaking, the bone-conducted pathway that you consider part of your "normal" voice is eliminated, and you hear only the air-conducted component in unfamiliar isolation. You can experience the reverse effect by putting in earplugs so you hear only bone-conducted vibrations.
Some people have abnormalities of the inner ear that enhance their sensitivity to this component so much that the sound of their own breathing becomes overwhelming, and they may even hear their eyeballs moving in their sockets.


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02 Jan Temporary Tax Provisions Set to Expire in 2014
Some may be renewed, others may not be.
At the end of every year, certain federal tax breaks face a sunset. Some are renewed, some expire. As 2014 will soon start, here is a list of some of notable tax provisions that may go away next year – offering some opportunities that you may want to take advantage of this year.
Qualified tuition deduction. For 2013, an individual taxpayer has the chance to claim an above-the-line deduction for tuition and fees. This applies only to qualified higher education expenses. This deduction is set to expire at the end of this year; it may or may not be extended.1,2
Mortgage insurance premiums deductions. Are you paying for private mortgage insurance (PMI)? This year, you can treat qualified PMI premiums as home mortgage interest, but the deduction only applies if your adjusted gross income is no greater than $109,000. This tax break could go away in 2014; it is available only for mortgages entered into during 2007-13.1,3,4
Mortgage debt relief. In 2013, canceled mortgage debt of up to $2 million (or $1 million, in the case of married taxpayers filing separately) can be excluded from taxable income. The debt must be forgiven on a qualified principal residence (i.e., a taxpayer's primary home) due to the borrowers' financial condition or a decline in value of the residence. You can thank the Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 for this. The tax break is set to sunset at the end of 2013, though – and if it does, then any such debt forgiven next year will be taxable income.2,5
State & local general sales tax deduction. 2013 might be the last year individual taxpayers can choose to deduct state and local general sales taxes as opposed to state and local income taxes. This option is set to expire at the end of the year.1
Educator out-of-pocket expenses deduction. Classroom teachers/instructors, counselors, principals and aides who work in grades K-12 have enjoyed a special deduction of up to $250 in out-of-pocket costs above the line in 2013. As for 2014, this deduction is still a question mark.1
Qualified charitable distributions from an IRA. If you are over 70½, you have through December 31 to make a tax-free transfer of assets from an IRA directly to a qualified charity. While you can't deduct the amount as a charitable contribution, it does count toward your annual required minimum distribution (RMD). Will this option be extended into 2014, or be made permanent? No one knows just yet.1
Increased expensing & bonus depreciation allowances. This year, the Section 179 deduction is set at $500,000 while the qualifying property limit is $2 million. In 2014, these limits are slated to drop dramatically: a Section 179 deduction of $25,000, a qualifying property limit of $200,000. In 2013 you can expense off-the-shelf software under Section 179; not so in 2014. This year, you can amend or irrevocably revoke a Section 179 election; next year, a Section 179 election will generally be irrevocable with IRS consent. While you can claim the Section 179 deduction on up to $250,000 of qualified real property this year, 2014 may offer you no such chance. For 2013, qualified leasehold and retail improvements and qualified restaurant property were given a 15-year straight-line recovery period; in 2014 the straight-line recovery period becomes 39 years. Congress may act to preserve all these current allowances.1,2
Currently, 50% special depreciation is permitted for qualified property additions placed into service in 2013, only long production-period property and certain kinds of aircraft will are slated to qualify to special depreciation in 2014. Again, Congress may preserve the current allowance.2
Electric vehicle credit. If you bought (or even leased) an electric car this year, you may be eligible for a tax credit of up to $7,500 (variable based on the size of the battery pack used by the vehicle). This tax perk is set to sunset in 2014. If you bought a qualifying 2-wheel or 3-wheel plug-in electric vehicle this year, you are eligible for a federal tax credit of up to $2,500.2,3
Personal energy property credit. Since 2006, there has been a $500 lifetime tax credit available to taxpayers who remodel their homes for energy efficiency. If you haven't remodeled enough to claim the full $500 credit yet, a heads-up: it is set to expire at year's end.1,3
R&D tax credit. This credit is admittedly hard to figure, but it can bring about major savings and can be carried forward or back. Up to 20% of R&D expenses (above a base) may generally be used as a credit against tax owed. Who knows, it may not be around for 2014.6
Transit benefits. In 2013, the exclusion for transit passes and/or vanpooling, provided by an employer, is $245 monthly; this is the same as the exclusion for employer-provided parking. Next year, the benefit for public transportation falls to $100 per month (with adjustment for inflation) while the exclusion for employer-provided parking stays at $245 per month.2,3
One more thing to keep in mind. The IRS will delay the start of the tax-filing season by at least a week, a consequence of October's federal government shutdown. It had planned to accept tax returns on January 21; that date will now be January 28 or later, with the final determination coming in December. The April 15 deadline for filing returns or requesting extensions still applies.7
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Little kids are amenable to learning new habits - generally much more so than those of us who are set in our ways because this isn't our first rodeo. That's why it's sometimes more effective to teach children health science information rather than to do outreach aimed directly at their parents.
That's part of the background to the Global Soap Project. It's a project that rests on some simple science long ago worked out by biologists and medical researchers. The basic fact is that many types of infections are spread through contaminated water and dirty hands. Microbes can flourish in such spots, particularly sometimes in places like crowded refugee camps or in poor nations.
The Global Soap Project is a program with two basic components. The first is to collect "gently used" bars of soap from hotels - soap that otherwise would be discarded. The pieces of soap are reprocessed in Georgia and shipped to nations like Haiti and Uganda where poverty is rife and health and sanitation facilities are few.
The second prong of the program is to teach children in developing nations to use the soap to wash their hands before eating and after using the toilet. Children accept the lessons - as trusting little kids the world around do - and if they establish hand-washing as a personal habit it likely influences others in their households at home.
Hand-washing is a simple yet key approach to combating a lot of water-borne illness - like cholera. For a variety of different reasons, in some places around the world hand washing is just not a pattern of conduct for many people. In many places it's a difficult habit to establish in part because a bar of soap can cost a day's wages.
Simple but basic hand washing habits are one of the best ways to combat diseases that flourish where sanitation is poor - conditions that affect a staggering 2.4 billion people according to the World Health Organization.
As I read about the Global Soap Project the other day, I thought about how much I take for granted in my life. A bar of soap beside the bathroom sink, warm water to wash with, anti-bacterial soap in the shower, and so on. When I travel, I also take for granted the little bars of soap the hotel provides me.
According to a news report from CNN, a hotel maid named Fatoma Dia is one person involved collecting scrap soap. She works at a Hilton hotel where she simply tosses little-used bars of soap into a collection bucket as she cleans rooms. Her hotel in total accounts for several hundred pounds of soap collected each month.
The soap redistribution project has included work in Haiti. Especially after the earthquake of January 2010, many Haitians have been living without what we'd recognize as adequate sanitation facilities, both at home and in refugee camps. Cholera has often dogged the people of Haiti. A total of more than 400,000 cases have been reported since the disease reared its head in October 2010. Basic hygiene - like washing hands with soap and water - can make all the difference in terms of limiting transmission of disease in crowded places.
CNN reports one project in Haiti that's been aimed at changing kids' habits. A Port-au-Prince school teaches its children to wash their hands with soap and water using a jingle with these words: "Good morning, water! Good morning soap! Goodbye microbes!" Obviously some punchiness has been lost in translation, but the simple yet useful idea gets through to me as I sit here in a nation that takes pure water and soap for granted.
I wish Dia and her co-workers the best in collecting soap that would otherwise be thrown out. Sometimes simple things matter the most of all - like giving little kids (and their parents) in the developing world a chance to avoid water-borne diseases.
- Dr. E. Kirsten Peters, a native of the rural Northwest, was trained as a geologist at Princeton and Harvard. Follow her on the web at rockdoc.wsu.edu and on Twitter @RockDocWSU. This column is a service of the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University.


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Friday, April 27, 2012
"I am saddened to report that Paula Kelly Cole (Paula Kelly Jr.) passed away peacefully at 8:25pm (PST), according to her sister, Julie Dickinson Lancaster."
For those of you who did not know Paula, she was the daughter of two of the greatest vocal group singers of all time, Paula Kelly Sr. and Hal Dickinson, founders of The Modernaires. The Modernaires were long associated with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, racking up dozens of hit recordings before embarking on a solo career which took them into radio, television and motion pictures.
Paula Jr. took over her mother's place as lead singer in The Modernaires in the late-'70s, a position she held until just a few months ago when she was sidelined due to surgery on her vocal cords. Sister Julie stepped in to sing lead, and Ginger Berglund was brought on board to fill out the quartet. Paula Jr. became ill about a week ago with a brain aneurysm, followed by other complications, and was removed from life support earlier this afternoon, with family at her bedside...
"I can say will all certainty that Paula was one of the most gracious, cheerful and funny people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. She was full of enthusiasm for big band music (my kind o' people!), and I enjoyed many conversations with her over the past few months. Her only concern she expressed to me as of late was worrying about not being able to sing again after her surgery. That is no longer a concern of hers, as she is surely singing in an all-star vocal group above!" George Spink
More about Paula;
PAULA KELLY Jr was born in Grove City, PA, the middle daughter of Hal Dickinson and Paula Kelly. Early on she sang in church choirs. Educated in San Fernando Valley, CA schools, she majored in music. Singing with "The Modernaires" from 1966 through 1971 she traveled most of the world learning the lead part from her Mother. Hal, her father passed in 1970 and in 1971 she retired to marry. 1972 brought her a beautiful red haired daughter, Jennifer Holly Cole.
Previously Paula had performed with her two sisters, Julie and Martha in a trio called "The Kelly Sisters". They made several appearances on the Bob Crosby and Dean Martin television shows. When her Mom, Paula Kelly retired in 1978, the natural replacement was her daughter, Paula Kelly Jr. She was so privileged to have worked with most of the great acts of the 40's and 50's. These were her parent's friends and colleagues.
They were great Entertainers such as, Helen Forrest, Tex Beneke, Helen O'connell, Bob & Ray Eberle, Peter Marshall, Tony Martin, Count Basie, Les Brown, The Mills Brothers, Rosemary Clooney and yes, even Louie Armstrong. "The Modernaires" toured six times in Australia. Three of the tours were with surviving members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Billy May, an original, actually took trumpet lessons to do the tour. Among others on the tour were Paul Tanner, Wilbur Schwartz, John Best, Jimmy Priddy, Al Klink and Zeke Zarchy...
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Labels: deaths, Glenn Miller, news, Paula Kelly Jr., singers
By Gene Sloan, USA TODAY
Film and TV legend Ernest Borgnine is heading back to sea in December, this time on a cruise ship.
Theme cruise organizer Sixthman says the star of the 1960s television show McHale's Navy will be among the headliners on the first TCM Classic Cruise, scheduled to kick off on Dec. 8.
The four-night sailing on Celebrity Cruises' 1,950-passenger Celebrity Millennium is aimed at classic movie fans and also will include appearances by Tippi Hedren, Norman Jewison and Eva Marie Saint.
The Academy Award-winning Borgnine is no stranger to the high seas, having served for 10 years in the U.S. Navy before moving on to acting. In addition to McHale's Navy (1962-1966), Borgnine appeared in dozens of other TV shows and movies including From Here to Eternity (1953), Marty (1955), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and The Wild Bunch (1969).
Also onboard the sailing will be Turner Classic Movies primetime host Robert Osborne and weekend-daytime host Ben Mankiewicz. The voyage will include performances by the Alloy Orchestra, a three-man musical ensemble that has written and performed live accompaniment to classic silent films for more than two decades.
The Celebrity Millennium will be sailing from Miami to Key West, Fla. and Cozumel, Mexico, and the trip will include movie-themed events such as screenings, panel discussions and trivia contests...
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Labels: Ernest Borgnine, news, TCM
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. This time, the Kettles win a letter-writing contest, which offers as first prize an all-expense-paid trip to New York City. Once in Manhattan, the huge Kettle brood raises all sorts of Holy Ned, culminating in an episode involving stolen bank money. Somehow this all ends with a riotous, slapstick-laden square dance. The film's romantic subplot is handled by Richard Long as oldest son Tom Kettle and Meg Randall as his high-society wife Kim. Also carried over from the first Kettle entry are Ray Collins and Barbara Brown as the Kettle's wealthy in-laws. A winner at the box-office, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town helped pay for many of Universal's "prestige" releases of 1950.
Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride are the only actors I could ever picture in the Ma and Pa Kettle roles, and they make the film. If the movies were just them two talking back and forth, I would watch it. However, in this film there were some good character roles. I liked Charles McGraw (1914-1980) as the gangster that Pa has "good feelings" about so he watches their children. McGraw was a very dependable character actor, who sadly died relatively young when he fell in shower. The plot line of a stranger watching someone's children is kind of far feteched, but the story does take place in a backwards town in 1950. Times were different then. Also in a surprisingly straight role, Jim Backus (1913-1989) played one of the other gangsters.
Ma And Pa Kettle Go To Town is no great cinema masterpiece, but it made a lot of money for Universal in 1950. It is also a movie you can just sit back and relax. The movie is simpler so it helps you to hark back to maybe a simpler time in your life. I know whenever I watch a Ma and Pa Kettle movie my mind is not only watching the movie, but I see myself as a young boy laying on the floor and enjoying an uneventful Sunday morning. Those were the days...
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Labels: comedy, Ma And Pa Kettle Go To Town, Marjorie Main, movie review, Percy Kilbride, recently viewed
Monday, April 23, 2012
One day at the zenith of her career she turned her back on Hollywood and left show business. Now former actress and movie star Kim Novak reveals she was mentally ill at that time.
Novak told an audience at the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) Classic Film Festival Friday that during those days she was suffering from a bipolar disorder and sometimes now regrets her decision to leave Hollywood in the late 1960s at the height of her fame, according to a new report in the Los Angeles Times.
The report says Novak was teary-eyed at times and emotional when she told Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne before an audience of about 300 people at the Avalon in Hollywood that she was actually suffering from mental illness when she made those movies saying, "I'm bipolar ... but there's medicine you can take for this now," Novak said. "I was not diagnosed until much later. I go through more of the depression than the mania part."
Novak is now 79 years old. She was in Los Angeles to have her handprints and footprints enshrined in the forecourt at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Saturday.
The former actress, who lives in Oregon with her husband, an equine veterinarian, and their five horses said her father suffered from depression and she had a difficult childhood in Chicago which oddly prepared her, in a way, for Hollywood.
"I was used to having conflict in the home, so having conflict on a set ... felt normal," she said.
Perhaps due to her illness Novak was branded as "difficult" by studio executives who tried to micro manage her image up to and including stopping a friendship with a major black star at the time, Sammy Davis Junior.
Finding the emotional pressures of Hollywood too much to handle she moved to Big Sur to paint, according to the report.
She has acted a bit since then but her career never regained its early success...
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Without question Spencer Tracy is considered one of the greatest actors of all time. This past month was his birthday. He would have been 112 years young. Tracy has left behind some great cinema magic with some of the most beautiful co-stars of all time...
with BETTE DAVIS (1908-1989)
with JEANETTE MACDONALD (1903-1965)
with JEAN HARLOW (1911-1937)
with MYRNA LOY (1905-1993)
with KATHERINE HEPBURN (1907-2003)
with ELIZABETH TAYLOR (1932-2011)
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Labels: Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Harlow, Jeanette MacDonald, Katharine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, photo, Spencer Tracy
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
He's been called America's Oldest Living Teenager, but behind his famously boyish demeanor, Clark was a razor-sharp businessman—sharp enough to be accused of questionable practices during the early years of rock and roll, yet smart enough to set those practices aside when public scrutiny demanded it. On April 2, 1960, Dick Clark concluded his second day of testimony in the so-called Payola hearings—testimony that both saved and altered the course of his career. If Alan Freed, the disk jockey who gave rock and roll its name, was Payola's biggest casualty, then Dick Clark was its most famous survivor.
It may be difficult for those who first encountered Dick Clark in his TV Bloops and Blunders days to understand the power he once wielded from his platform on American Bandstand, but it was great enough in the late 1950s to make a star out of nearly anyone he chose, from Connie Francis to Fabian. It was also great enough to attract the attention of the House Committee on Legislative Oversight—the congressional subcommittee investigating the Payola scandal. At the Payola hearings, Clark would testify to holding an ownership stake in a total of 33 different record labels, distributors and manufacturers that all profited handsomely from the rise of Clark-anointed stars like Danny and the Juniors and Frankie Avalon. One of the companies in which Clark had a financial interest was Jamie Records, the label that made Duane Eddy famous and returned a tidy profit of $31,700 to Clark on an initial $125 investment. "Believe me this is not as unusual as it may seem," Clark told the Payola committee. "I think the crime I have committed, if any, is that I made a great deal of money in a short time on little investment. But that is the record business."
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Labels: deaths, Dick Clark, payola
However, a child star in the cast nearly stole the movie away from those titans of music. Lydia Reed played Grace Kelly's younger sister in the movie who had a devoted crush on Der Bingle. Mutual Bing collector and friend David Shelton gave me the idea for this article and made me wonder what happened to Lydia Reed? No much is known about Reed after the 1960s, and I searched for a couple months to find some more about Reed, but very little is available.
Reed was born on August 23, 1944, at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York. She was best known for her role as Tallahassee "Hassie" McCoy from 1957 to 1963 in 145 episodes of the ABC situation comedy The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan in the title role of Grandpa Amos McCoy. Irving Pincus was the creator, and Hy Averback the first principal director.
The pilot episode of the series "Sweet Fifteen," which aired on April 9, 1957, centers on Grandpa's determination to keep Hassie's looming fifteenth birthday party a secret. After its five-year run on ABC, The Real McCoys switched to CBS for its final season in 1962-1963 without the services of Kathleen Nolan as Kate McCoy. Reed appeared less frequently in the final year, as did Michael Winkelman (1946–1999) as Little Luke McCoy, who played Reed's younger brother on the series.
Reed's first performances were in 1952 episodes of two NBC anthology series, Hallmark Hall of Fame (the second episode of the series entitled "Dr. Serocold") and Robert Montgomery Presents. In 1955, she played Mary Foy in the Bob Hope film, The Seven Little Foys. That same year, she played another "Mary" in the episode "Ride with the Executioner" of the anthology Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre. In 1956, she appeared in the role of Caroline Lord in High Society, with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Grace Kelly, and in the episode "Hit and Run" of the NBC series Big Town. Her last role other than that of Hassie McCoy was as Betsy Beecher in a horror film The Vampire.
Reed left acting after her role on The Real McCoys ended and did not appear in a 2000 cable television reunion special (The Nashville Network) with Nolan, Tony Martinez, who portrayed farmhand Pepino Garcia, and Richard Crenna, who played the role of Luke McCoy, Hassie's older brother, for the entire duration of the series. Reed has left entertainment completely to raise a family in the San Fernando Valley area of California...
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Labels: Bing Crosby, child stars, Grace Kelly, High Society, Lydia Reed
Sunday, April 15, 2012
The stars keep coming for the TCM festival. As a little side note, TCM has turned 18 years old. I don't know what we did before the channel started...
PEGGY MONTGOMERY with LEONARD MALTIN
MARGE CHAMPION with LEONARD MALTIN
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Labels: Debbie Reynolds, Kim Novak, Leonard Maltin, Marge Champion, Mel Brooks, Peggy Montgomery, photo, Rhonda Fleming, TCM
The movie is not even 90 minutes long, but this little movie has been one of my favorite movies all these years. The Face Behind the Mask is a minor B-movie crime-drama released by Columbia Pictures in 1941. It starred Peter Lorre and Evelyn Keyes and was directed by Robert Florey and Wallace MacDonald. To date, it has never been released on DVD or video.
Based on the radio play by Thomas Edward O'Connell, The Face Behind the Mask was not a film that Lorre held in high esteem. His co-star Don Beddoe, who plays the police officer who befriends Janos in the film, once said, "I don't think Peter was very much impressed with The Face Behind the Mask. His other successes, such as M, made him pretty blasé about this particular venture."
The film is the story of a hopeful new immigrant, Janos Szaby (Peter Lorre), who, on his first day in New York City, is trapped in a hotel fire that leaves his face hideously scarred. Refused employment due to his appearance although he possesses tremendous skill as a watchmaker, the only way he can survive is by turning to theft, using his skilled hands to disable alarms. Eventually he becomes the leader of a gang of thieves, and raises enough money to commission and wear a realistic latex mask of his own face.
Janos then falls in love with Helen (Evelyn Keyes) a blind woman who sees only the good in him, and attempts to leave his life of crime behind him. Unfortunately, his gang come to believe that he has betrayed them to the police, and attempt to kill him by car bomb, an attempt on his life that he survives but that Helen does not. In retaliation, Janos disguises himself as the pilot of the private plane the gang is flying out of the city with, which he lands in the Arizona Desert and lets out the fuel, suicidally stranding both the gang and himself without food or water, dooming them all to a slow death. At the film's end, Janos's body and that of his enemies are discovered by the police. The climax, set in a desolate stretch of desert with Janos tied to an abandoned plane, is a bleak counterpoint to the immigrant's hopeful beginnings. More than anything, The Face Behind the Mask is a vision of the American dream gone horribly wrong but under the artful direction of Robert Florey along with Franz F. Planer's atmospheric cinematography and Lorre's sensitive performance, it becomes a rich, multi-layered character study, a gem among the Columbia Pictures programmers of the forties.
If you are a fan of Peter Lorre or the understated performances of Evelyn Keyes, then I recommend The Face Behind The Mask. This movie deserves to be remembered and preserved on DVD. I was lucky to catch an airing of the forgotten film on TCM, and my copy is one of my prized possessions in my movie collection. This fine character study is not one that should be missed...
MY RATING: 10 out of 10
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Labels: drama, movie review, Peter Lorre, The Face Behind The Mask
Friday, April 13, 2012
It looks like another amazing turnout for the TCM Movie Festival. One day I'll get to make the pilgrimage to this wonderful festival...
PATRICIA WARD KELLY (widow of Gene Kelly)
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Labels: Joel Gray, Kirk Douglas, Liza Minnelli, Marsha Hunt, Mickey Rooney, photo, Robert Osborne, TCM
Clark Gable has been dead over fifty years, but news and scandal still are centering around this legend.
ABC is reporting that Clark Gable's son's girlfriend was found dead in the couple's Malibu home Wednesday morning. The cause of death is unknown, and the LA County Coroner's Office says there is no reason to suspect foul play.
John Clark Gable, 51, is the only son of the Hollywood legend, known for such roles as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" ("Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.") The younger Gable's partner, 41-year-old Christiane Candice Lange, was a make-up artist and hairdresser who specialized in professional makeovers, according to ABC. The cause of death has not been released, but authorities think that prescription drugs might have played a part in the young death.
Authorities told KABC "that Lange told Gable she wasn't feeling well before going to bed Tuesday night. When Gable checked on her about 10 a.m. the next day, he was unable to rouse her."
In January, Clark Gable's grandson, Clark Gable III, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for pointing a laser at a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter...
UPDATE APRIL 2013 - Clark Gable's son was just arrested for DUI, and hit and run. He was driving under the influence and hit six parked cars. You can read more about the continuing sad events of his life here.
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Labels: Clark Gable, deaths, news
Young Harold spent his childhood in poverty. One of his teachers, Miss Rosa Burke, noticed one day that he was not eating his lunch. From that day forward, Miss Burke would pack two lunches - one for herself and one for Harold. When he became famous and would perform near Gillespie, Burke always received tickets to attend his performances.After his father's death in 1930, Keel and his mother moved to California, where he graduated from Fallbrook High School at the age of 17. He worked various odd jobs until finally settling at Douglas Aircraft Company as a traveling representative.
At the age of 20, Keel was overheard singing by his landlady, Mom Rider, and was encouraged to take vocal lessons. One of Keel's musical heroes was the great baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Howard would later remark that learning that his own voice was a basso cantante was one of the greatest disappointments of his life. Nevertheless, his first public performance occurred in the summer of 1941, when he played the role of Samuel the Prophet in Handel's oratorio Saul (singing a duet with bass-baritone George London).
In 1943, Keel met and married his first wife, actress Rosemary Cooper. In 1945, Keel briefly understudied for John Raitt in the Broadway hit Carousel before being assigned to Oklahoma!, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. When performing this play during this period, Keel accomplished a feat that has never been duplicated; he performed the leads in both shows on the same day.
In 1947, Oklahoma! became the first American postwar musical to travel to London, England, and Harold joined the production. On the opening night, April 30, at the Drury Lane Theatre, the capacity audience (which included the future Queen Elizabeth II) demanded fourteen encores. Keel was hailed as the next great star, becoming the toast of London's West End. During the London run, his marriage to Rosemary ended in divorce and Keel fell in love with a young member of the show's chorus, dancer Helen Anderson. They married in January 1949 and, a year later, Harold - now called Howard - celebrated the birth of his daughter, Kaija.
In 1950, Keel made his MGM movie debut in "Annie Get Your Gun" (1950). More classics followed like "Kiss Me Kate" (1953), and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" (1954), and the rest as they say is history...
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Labels: actors, birthdays, Howard Keel, singers
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Born Madonna Josephine Davis in St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 29, 1907, zany comedienne Joan Davis began her show business career in vaudeville as a child. In the summer of 1931, Davis married vaudeville veteran straight man Si Wills, with whom she had become a comedy act; two years later their daughter Beverly was born. By the mid 1930s, Davis made her way to California in an attempt to break into films. She was almost immediately successful, securing a role in the Mack Sennett short Way Up Thar in 1935. Upon the release of the short in 1935, RKO signed Davis to a contract, but Davis and RKO parted ways soon after. In 1937, 20th Century-Fox put her under contract with much greater success.
As Davis' success grew, her marriage faltered. The couple parted ways in 1947. There were also reports that Davis was having an affair with vaudville comedian and singer Eddie Cantor. Cantor and Davis made two movies together - "Show Business" (1944) and "If You Knew Susie" (1948). Davis continued making movies through 1952, when her final film Harem Girl was released.
Leaving movies for television, Davis started her own production company, which produced Davis's NBC comedy I Married Joan from 1952 through 1955. Somewhat surprising is that she hired ex-husband Si Wills to write for the series. Davis also cast her daughter Beverly Wills in the role of Joan's younger sister. After I Married Joan left the air in 1955, Davis more or less retired.
Unknown to audiences the retirement was brought on by a growing heart problem. On May 22, 1961, Davis suffered a heart attack and died in Palm Springs at the age of 53. Her daughter and ex-husband made headlines after her death, wrangling over the million-dollar estate of Joan Davis, which was eventually settled in favor of her daughter. Tragically, on October 24, 1963, Davis's daughter Beverly Wills fell asleep smoking a cigarette; her Palm Springs home caught fire, killing her, her two sons, and Davis's mother. It was a tragic post script to an entertainer that delighted audiences in nearly every medium of entertainment...
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Monday, April 9, 2012
But who could blame her? As a contract player at Universal six decades ago, she had played opposite Arthur Kennedy in 1951's "Bright Victory," Jimmy Stewart in the 1952 western "Bend of the River" and heartthrob Tyrone Power in 1953's "Mississippi Gambler." And now the studio wanted her for a black-and-white 3-D horror film that was sort of a fishy version of "Beauty and the Beast."
"I thought 'Creature From the Black Lagoon'! What?"' recalled the 85-year-old actress during a recent interview at her comfortable Los Feliz home. "I thought about turning it down and then I thought if I do that I'll go on suspension and I won't get paid. Then I thought it might be fun, and of course it was."
It was more than just fun. Adams is much in demand at conventions and autograph shows because of her iconic role as the girlfriend of ichthyologist Dr. David Reed (Richard Carlson) who, while on a scientific expedition down the Amazon, becomes the object of affection of a tall, amphibious creature called the Gill-Man. Adams recalled that her form-fitting one-piece white bathing suit caused quite a stir because it "pulled up a little bit on the upper leg," she said laughing. "We were quite risqué."
The actress recently released her autobiography, "The Lucky Southern Star: Reflections From the Black Lagoon," which she wrote with Mitchell Danton, her youngest of two sons with her late former husband, actor-director Ray Danton.
This Friday through Sunday, she'll be appearing at the "Monsterpalooza" convention at the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel and Convention Center and the following weekend she'll be back at the same location for the "Hollywood Show." In May, Adams is heading to Louisville, Ky., for "WonderFest" and in June it's off to "Monster Bash" in Butler, Pa.
In attending these conventions, she's realized that the film appeals to all age groups. "One man came up one day with his little girl. He said, 'She wants a picture of the creature. She loves the creature.' I said 'Wasn't she scared? And he said, 'Oh, no. She plays creature in the bathtub!'"
Born Betty May Adams in Waterloo, Iowa, she grew up in Arkansas. An only child, she and her alcoholic parents moved from small town to small town until she finally had some stability in her life when she went to live with her aunt and uncle in Little Rock, Ark.
The movies were an escape for her, but that wasn't the reason she caught the acting bug. When she was in the third grade production of "Hansel and Gretel," someone forgot their lines. "I ad-libbed and saved the day," she said. "I felt this flush of power. I had this wonderful feeling and I thought I wanted to have more of that feeling."
It wasn't long after she moved from Little Rock to Long Beach to live with an aunt following high school that she got her chance. She was working as a secretary when her aunt, who had bathing suit stores in Long Beach and knew some talent scouts, arranged an interview with one atWarner Bros.She didn't get a job, but was given some sage advice: Lose the Southern twang.
She landed a tiny, uncredited role in the 1949 Betty Hutton musical, "Red, Hot and Blue." Adams segued to doing seven quickie westerns starring James Ellison and Russell Hayden before getting signed to Universal, where she joined such young contract players as Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis.
"Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men," she said of her career.
"It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart," said Adams, who nearly 20 years after "Bend of the River" played his wife on the actor's short-lived NBC sitcom, "The Jimmy Stewart Show."
"I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything and yet everything is there."
After leaving Universal, she continued acting in films including, Dennis Hopper's controversial 1971 "The Last Movie," and guest-starred in such popular TV shows as "Bonanza" and "Murder, She Wrote" (she played the role of Angela Lansbury's friend, real estate agent Eve Simpson).
She also does theater across the country, including Eugene O'Neill's masterwork, "Long Day's Journey Into Night," in which she played the morphine-addicted wife of an actor. "I really thought with that character I kind of said to my mother, 'Come on out and have your say.' She did. It was kind of cathartic in a way."
UPDATE: Julie Adams sadly died on Feburary 3, 2019 at the age of 92.
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Labels: actress, Julie Adams
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Berlin originally wrote the melody in 1917, under the title "Smile and Show Your Dimple." The song flopped but the composer filed away the melody for later use. The song was introduced by Marilyn Miller and Clifton Webb in the Broadway musical revue As Thousands Cheer (1933), in which musical numbers were strung together on the thematic thread of newspaper headlines.
The song was first sung in the movies in Bing Crosby's "Holiday Inn" (1942). Bing sings the song riding a carriage in the easter parade with co-star Marjorie Reynolds. Bing also recorded the song commericially in 1942, but unfortunately Bing had a cold when the song was recorded. Sadly, the take they used was the one where Bing sounded quite nasally. He sang the song on his radio show as well but never made another record of the song.
The next time the song appeared in a film was the movie musical "Easter Parade" (1948). "Easter Parade" was an MGM musical starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire and featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "We're a Couple of Swells." It was the most financially successful picture for both Garland and Astaire as well as the highest-grossing musical of the year.
The song "Easter Parade" was also featured in the Rankin/Bass special The First Easter Rabbit in 1976 and has since become a standard. Unfortunately, almost hundred years after the song was first written it is fading into tin pan alley obscurity. (Are there even still actual Easter Parades?) However, with the great recordings by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, and others - songs like "Easter Parade" are never truly forgotten...
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Labels: Bing Crosby, Easter Parade, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, song history
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The president will make his comments for USA Network's broadcast of the iconic film about racial tolerance on April 7. It's the first time Mockingbird will be nationally shown after being digitally remastered and restored, and marks the film's 50th aniversary. USA's corporate cousin, Universal Pictures, recently released the restored version of Mockingbird — as well as three hours of bonus materials including two full-length documentaries — on Blu-ray as part of a series that includes 12 other classic films. "I'm deeply honored that President Obama will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird by introducing it to a national audience," the book's author Harper Lee says. "I believe it remains the best translation of a book to film ever made, and I'm proud to know that Gregory Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch lives on – in a world that needs him now more than ever."
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Labels: news, To Kill A Mockingbird
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Any fan of singer Bing Crosby or even anyone acquainted with his work or life know that the sons from his first marriage had a hard time in adulthood. Being the son of Bing Crosby, especially during the height of his fame in the 1940s and 1950s, was very hard. The four boys that Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee had all had tough lives. They had their personal demons that they dealt with - and unfortunately only one of the sons seemingly overcame the demons. Sadly, even though Phil Crosby overcame the turmoil of being the child of a superstar, he died in 2004 at the relatively young age of 69.
Born on July 13, 1934 - Phillip Crosby and his twin brother Dennis Crosby were born in Los Angeles, California. After attending a strict, Jesuit-run boarding school south of San Francisco, Phil served a stint in the Army in the mid-1950s and attended what is now Washington State University in Pullman, where he was a guard on the football team.
Chuck Morrell, the team's star fullback who shared a house with Crosby at the time, recalled that when Philip needed a car in college, his father had a driver deliver him a brand-new Chevrolet.
"He wasn't snooty or anything," Morrell, who remained lifelong friends with Crosby, told The Times on Friday. "He was a good, friendly guy and everybody liked him. You wouldn't know he was Bing Crosby's son."
Like his other brothers, Phil never succeeded in entertainment like his father did. Phil sang with his brothers in an act for awhile, but the group broke up as rock 'n' roll took its hold on audiences. Phil appeared with his father in a couple of movies like "Duffy's Tavern" (1945) and "Robin And The Seven Hoods"(1964), and he had more substantial roles in dramas like "Sergeants 3" (1962) and "None But The Brave"(1965). Phil appeared as a solo singer on The Ed Sullivan show in the late 1960s where he sang a great version of "Let There Be Love". He also appeared with papa Bing on a Hollywood Palace show on April 5, 1969 where he sang with Bing and recreated the songs that Bing and brother Gary had recorded 15 years earlier. Phil also later started a country music label named after his mother Dixie Lee, and recorded some great country western songs.
Like his brothers, Phil Crosby was also married numerous times. He was married four times and had five children - his youngest son, Phil Crosby Jr, is an accomplished musician and singer - who is quite talented in his own right. I recently talked to Phil Jr. and he said that his father should be remembered as "a loyal son, who loved and admired his parents very much. He had a great voice that was unique amongst the Crosbys. He had many friends that appreciated even his late night calls and would receive them and talk for hours and considered him a good conversationalist."
On October 14, 1977 Bing Crosby died. Tragedy struck Phil again a year later when his oldest son Brian Patrick Crosby was killed in a motorcycle crash at the age of 18. Phil remained on good terms with his brothers after Bing died with the exception of Gary. Phil has been quoted as saying that "My dad was not the monster my lying brother said he was, he was strict, but my father never beat us black and blue and my brother Gary was a vicious, no-good liar for saying so. I have nothing but fond memories of dad, going to studios with him, family vacations at our cabin in Idaho, boating and fishing with him. To my dying day, I'll hate Gary for dragging dad's name through the mud."
Phillip gave his final performance at an Elk's Club party in Burbank in 1983. Phil's youngest brother Lindsay died in 1989, and his twin brother Dennis followed in 1991. (Gary later died in 1995). Despited outliving his brothers, son Phil Jr said his father's health was not good: "His last years were not good. His death could have been avoided if anyone had looked in on him and saw to it that he was taking his prescribed heart medication. But he had pretty much insulated himself and become a shut-in."
There has been rumors through the years that the Crosby boys from Bing's first marriage did not get along with Kathryn Crosby and Bing's second family. Phil Jr wanted to settle the record on that: "My father never spoke ill about Kathryn, that I know of. I don't believe he blamed her for not being in his Fathers will. She was very congenial to me when I met her, introducing me from the stage at Bing's Academy Centennial and standing by my side holding my hand at my fathers funeral. I thought that was very good of her. She also told the audience in Beverly Hills that she thought Phil had the best voice of the boys."
Even though Phil Crosby did not get the fame that I think he deserved, he passed down a lot of talent to his youngest son Phil Jr, who is carrying on the Crosby legacy in music. Phil Jr says that "growing up Crosby was a unique experience. I enjoyed watching the road pictures and every Christmas was a little more special for me. Sometimes it could be strange when I was little and didnt understand peoples reaction to my last name, though."
Phil Crosby Jr is currently working on some new exciting projects: "I'm producing my show 'Finding My Way' a jazz swing, cabaret, song and story, dance and musical history journey and personl reflection on my grandfather and his family and famous friends and the music of the twentieth century. Should be good." It is definitely something that would make his grandfather and his father proud...
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Labels: Bing Crosby, forgotten, Phil Crosby, singers
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text: ARPING(8) System Manager's Manual: iputils ARPING(8) NAME arping - send ARP REQUEST to a neighbour host SYNOPSIS arping [-AbDfhqUV] [-c count] [-w deadline] [-s source] -I interface destination DESCRIPTION Ping destination on device interface by ARP packets, using source address source. OPTIONS -A The same as -U, but ARP REPLY packets used instead of ARP REQUEST. -b Send only MAC level broadcasts. Normally arping starts from sending broadcast, and switch to unicast after reply received. -c count Stop after sending count ARP REQUEST packets. With deadline option, arping waits for count ARP REPLY packets, until the timeout expires. -D Duplicate address detection mode (DAD). See RFC2131, 4.4.1. Returns 0, if DAD succeeded i.e. no replies are received -f Finish after the first reply confirming that target is alive. -I interface Name of network device where to send ARP REQUEST packets. -h Print help page and exit. -q Quiet output. Nothing is displayed. -s source IP source address to use in ARP packets. If this option is absent, source address is: o In DAD mode (with option -D) set to 0.0.0.0. o In Unsolicited ARP mode (with options -U or -A) set to desti- nation. o Otherwise, it is calculated from routing tables. -U Unsolicited ARP mode to update neighbours' ARP caches. No replies are expected. -V Print version of the program and exit. -w deadline Specify a timeout, in seconds, before arping exits regardless of how many packets have been sent or received. In this case arping does not stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for deadline expire or until count probes are answered. SEE ALSO ping(8), clockdiff(8), tracepath(8). AUTHOR arping was written by Alexey Kuznetsov <firstname.lastname@example.com>. It is now maintained by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <email@example.com>. SECURITY arping requires CAP_NET_RAW capability to be executed. It is not recom- mended to be used as set-uid root, because it allows user to modify ARP caches of neighbour hosts. AVAILABILITY arping is part of iputils package and the latest versions are avail- able in source form at http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-cur- rent.tar.bz2. iputils-121221 17 May 2016 ARPING(8)


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This icon is from the city of Ochrid in Macedonia, where Saints Cyril and Methodius' disciples settled to complete (into the newly-created Cyrillic alphabet) the translations of the Scriptures, services, and prayers of the Church into Slavonic, so as to reach out with the Christian Faith to all of the Slavic peoples. Beautifully crafted in overall soft gold tones with red, green, and brown fine detail, the Virgin Theotokos and the Beloved Disciple St. John the Evangelist stand beneath the Cross sorrowing, yet calm and dignified, as in their grief they are still respectfully aware that this Man dying before them is the Lord of Life, and Saviour of the world.
This Lord of Life is voluntarily dying a painful and humiliating death to bring us eternal life, as the Cross and the Resurrection are actually one continuous action of love for our sake. This cannot be understood, however, from just reason or observation, but only with participation in our own cross in our life. May we also look on His Crucifixion with sorrow and hope, and cry like His Holy Mother, "Thou hast endured the Cross, yet Thou art…my God." Save us, O Lord, as we sorrow, yet hope in Thee!


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My mother-in-laws health is not very good right now and my husband thought we should take the time to visit his parents since they are both getting older.
We are going to have some fun too. On Wednesday we're going to visit some of our friends in Brentwood and Fremont. Then on Thursday we'll take BART into SFO for shopping and sight seeing and then later that night we're going to see WICKED which is the first time for all but one of us. Then on Friday we'll head down to Monterrey and Carmel to do the Aquarium and the 17 Mile drive and probably a little more shopping (looking) in Carmel. We'll head back up to Sacramento on Saturday and drive home the next day. It's a lot to cram in but we can do it! I'll make sure to take lots of pictures, too!
So, that means I'm going to delay the ending of the giveaway until the middle of next week sometime because I'll need to get through my email and tally the remaining entries that come in while I'm gone. Then I'll announce the winners. I hope you all have a wonderful Independence Day with your families.
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Hugh Hewitt eats Gloria Allred's lunch; Meg Whitman Found Out Her Maid Was Illegal And Very Properly Fired Her, So It's Like A Big Scandal We Should All Be Upset About Or Something
Roger Kimball and four women (?) wearing full burkas step into an airport security line. Guess who gets pulled. Roger links to Islamist Terrorism: The British Connections.
MOTUS looks at the Obamacare Progressive Unification Church (OPUC), which would make McDonald's mini-med plan unaffordable.
What could go wrong? Obama to Fix America's Overstaffed, Underachieving Schools by Hiring 10,000 More Teachers. On Facebook!
Over in Ecuador, Rafael Correa Claims Ecuador Coup Attempt After Scuffling With Police, who are upset about his cutting their salaries
Ecuador President Rafael Correa said he is the target of a coup attempt after police and soldiers protesting wage cuts assaulted him during a demonstration in Quito.
"We're faced with a permanent conspiracy," Correa, holed up in a hospital surrounded by demonstrators, said in a telephone interview with Radio Publica after protesters hurled water at him and burnt tires outside the presidential palace.
A conspiracy in his own folly. (h/t Vlad)
Spain is broke. So they go on strike.
Cutting Back: Spain Hits Hard Times
An inflexible job market and a popped property bubble have left Spain with little choice but to make painful cutbacks. As part of an ongoing in-depth series on the European financial crisis, WSJ's Andy Jordan and Joe Parkinson report from the Iberian peninsula.


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The federal government's anti-drug efforts are inefficient and ineffective, according to a just released report issued by the Congressional watchdog agency, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).
As if we didn't know.
The GAO report assessed whether the Obama administration's anti-drug strategies, as articulated by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (the ONDCP aka the Drug Czar's office) in its 2010 National Drug Control Strategy report, have yet to achieve its stated goals.
The answer? They haven't.
States the GAO:
"The public health, social, and economic consequences of illicit drug use, coupled with the constrained fiscal environment of recent years, highlight the need to ensure that federal programs efficiently and effectively use their resources to address this problem. ONDCP has developed a 5-year Strategy to reduce illicit drug use and its consequences, but our analysis shows lack of progress toward achieving four of the Strategy's five goals for which primary data are available."
In particular, the GAO criticized the administration for failing to adequately address rising levels of youth marijuana consumption. The GAO also rebuffed the ONDCP's allegation that increased rates adolescent marijuana use are a result of the passage of statewide laws decriminalizing the plant or allowing for its therapeutic use.
"Other factors, including state laws and changing attitudes and social norms regarding drugs, may also affect drug use. We examined studies on three of these other factors, which we refer to as societal factors, which may affect youth marijuana use. … The studies that assessed the effect of medical marijuana laws that met our review criteria found mixed results on effects of the laws on youth marijuana use. … [S]tudies that assessed the effect of marijuana decriminalization that met our review criteria found little to no effect of the laws on youth marijuana use."
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Ma'arava - The Western Land
The Talmudic Sages were divided between those living in Eretz Yisrael and those in Babylon. When the latter referred to their colleagues in the Holy Land they sometimes used the term sham (there) or maarava. The latter term means "west" and was a geographical description of Eretz Yisrael being located to the west of Babylon, the Iraq of today.


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Oracle at last released the long-awaited next version of Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 (11gR2) in September 2009. This article – the first in this series –
summarizes some of oracle 11gR2's more intriguing new features and discusses how those
features might help enterprises to decide to upgrade their Oracle 9i, 10g, and
11gR1 database to Oracle 11g Release 2 in the immediate
what seemed an excruciatingly long time, Oracle suddenly announced the public
release of Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 on September 1, 2009. I've got to admit that I was surprised
Oracle was able to keep the new features of this release under wraps for such a
long time, and I'm sure that the release was timed to build excitement and
anticipation for the attendees of Oracle OpenWorld 2009.
scouring the Oracle Database 11gR2
New Features documentation for several hours, experimenting with the new Oracle
Universal Installer (impressive!), and creating my first single instance RAC
database (yes, you read that correctly), I've summarized my first five personal
favorites from the voluminous list of new features in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. I'll provide capsules of my
final five favorite new features in an upcoming article, and please be sure to
visit Database Journal periodically over the next several months to join me as
I explore the depths of this new release in the coming months.
#1: Everywhere
You Look, Clustering Is There
prior releases, Oracle Clusterware had to be installed separately into its own Oracle
Home only when constructing a Real Application Clusters database environment. That
all changes in Oracle Database 11gR2
because this release supports the installation of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure, a separate
Oracle home that incorporates the binaries for both Oracle Clusterware as well
as Oracle Automatic Storage Management
(ASM). Once the Grid Infrastructure home is installed via the upgraded Oracle Database
11gR2 Oracle Universal Installer (OUI), a whole new array of
features and services are available. I've listed some of the more interesting
ones here:
Single-Instance RAC (Oracle Restart).
I know, it sounds like a contradiction in terms, but Oracle 11gR2 extends the capabilities of Oracle
Clusterware to provide high availability features for any single-instance
database, essentially turning that database into a single-instance RAC
database. Oracle 11gR2's new Oracle Restart features leverage the
features of Oracle Grid Infrastructure's High
Availability Services (HAS) to control which Listeners, ASM
instances, and Oracle databases should be started whenever the server is
rebooted. This replaces the old DBSTART scripting DBAs have used
in past releases to make sure that the server starts the appropriate database
instances upon server startup based on the configuration retained in /etc/oratab.
Also, should a single-instance database crash or otherwise terminate unexpectedly,
Oracle Restart automatically detects the failure and will restart it just as if
it were a database instance in a Real Applications Cluster environment.
SRVCTL Upgrades. You're
already familiar with the simplicity and power of the SRVCTL
utility to control any aspect of a Real Applications Cluster environment if you
have managed a RAC database in earlier Oracle releases. Oracle 11gR2 now expands this utility's scope so
that it can also manage any single-instance RAC database as well as that
database environment's listeners and ASM instances.
Cluster Time Synchronization Service.
Oracle 11gR2 now requires
time synchronization to be configured for all nodes in a RAC clustered database
environment … and for good reason. If you've ever experienced a node eviction
within a Real Application Cluster database's cluster configuration, you know how
difficult it can be to tie together the train of events that caused the
eviction – especially when two servers have diverging time settings and the log
file entries' timestamps aren't synchronized. Prior Oracle releases have
offered the ability to synchronize all nodes to the same time using Network Time Protocol (NTP), but this is
not always an option because it requires communication outside the firewall to
a network time service like the US Naval Observatory (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil). As an
alternative to NTP, Oracle 11gR2 now
offers a new Cluster Time Synchronization Service
to insure that all nodes in a cluster maintain time synchronization.
Grid "Plug+Play." In
prior database releases, one of the most complex parts of setting up a RAC
environment is the determination and setup of all the required IP addresses for
the public, private, and Virtual IP (VIP) node applications. To simplify RAC
installations, Oracle 11gR2 now offers
the Grid Naming Service (GNS)
that cooperates with the environment's domain name server to handle the
assignment of IP addresses for each Grid component – an obvious advantage when
a clustered database environment spans several nodes.
Clean Deinstallation of RAC Components.
This feature is an obvious boon, especially if you've ever tried to remove all
traces of Real Application Clusters from multiple nodes. In Oracle 11gR2 all of the installation and
configuration assistants – especially Oracle
Universal Installer (OUI), Database
Configuration Assistant (DBCA), and Network
Configuration Assistant (NETCA) – have been augmented so that RAC
components are completely removed when complete deinstallation is requested.
#2: ASM Joins
Forces With Clusterware
Database 11gR2 imbues Automatic Storage Management (ASM) with
some intriguing new features. For starters, the ASM binaries reside within the
same Oracle home as Oracle 11gR2
Clusterware, so the recommended best practice in prior releases – installing a
redundant Oracle home to support separate patching of the ASM binaries redundant
Oracle database home – is eliminated. Also, the installation of ASM is now
managed from the new Automatic Storage
Management Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) instead of DBCA. Here's
my take on some of the most intriguing new ASM features:
Intelligent Data Placement.
Where ASM places data on an ASM disk determines how quickly it can be accessed,
retrieved, and updated. In earlier releases, this meant I needed to get my
storage administrator directly involved in the appropriate disk configuration
of the disk I/O subsystem. However, Oracle 11gR2
can now place ASM allocation units so that they can benefit directly from the
faster cylinders toward the outer edge of the disk platters for the files that
can most benefit from that disk architecture (i.e. data files, online redo
logs, and control files).
EM Support Workbench Extensions.
The Automatic Diagnostic Repository
(ADR) features that Oracle 11gR1 introduced
in Enterprise Manager Database Control are extended in this release to include
support for ASM diagnostics, including the ability to bundle up any diagnostic
information into incident packages for direct shipment to Oracle Technical
Support for faster resolution of ASM performance issues.
ASMCMD Enhancements.
The Automatic Storage Management
Command-Line utility (ASMCMD) gains some significant features,
including the capability to:
start and stop
an ASM instance;
- backup, restore, and maintain the ASM instance's server parameter file (SPFILE);
monitor ASM disk groups' performance with the iostat
directive; and
maintain the disk volumes, directories, and files
store within the new ASM Clustered File
System (ACFS), my next topic.
#3: ACFS: A Robust
Clustered File System
Oracle releases offered the Oracle Cluster
File System (OCFS) when I needed to store Oracle database files – or
indeed, any file! – as part of a
clustered file system. OCFS (and its later improved counterpart, OCFS2) was
initially offered for the Linux and Windows operating systems when a
proprietary cluster file system wasn't available or desirable. This enabled any
Oracle RAC database's instance to read from or write to the database's control
files, datafiles, and online redo logs on shared storage.
also allowed the RAC database's Oracle
Cluster Registry (OCR) files and its Voting Disks to be stored and maintained within a clustered
file system. In Oracle 10gR2, this
requirement was lifted and it was possible to store the OCR files and the
Voting Disks on either raw devices or raw block devices. If you've ever lost
all copies of these files when they've been stored on raw devices, you know
what a chore it is to recover from their loss. Therefore, Oracle 11gR2 no longer supports storing these files
on raw devices.
increase the viability of these mission-critical files, Oracle 11gR2 formally introduces a new clustered
file system, the ASM Clustered File System
(ACFS). ACFS is obviously intended for better protection of OCR files and Voting
Disks in a RAC environment. For example, ACFS now allows the creation of up to
five (5) copies of the OCR file for safe retention of the crucial information
stored within them. (Prior releases only permitted two copies, a primary OCR
and a mirror OCR.) But ACFS isn't intended for RAC environments alone; there
are plenty of files that we've normally thought of as under the purview of the
host server's operating system – for example, external
LOBs that are referenced by the BFILE datatype, the source files for
Oracle external tables, or even an
Oracle home's binary executable files – that can benefit
from ACFS's security and file sharing features:
Dynamic Volume Manager.
Oracle 11gR2 provides the new ASM
Dynamic Volume Manager (ADVM) to
configure, control and maintain files stored within an ACFS file system. With ADVM
I can construct ADVM volume devices
within an ASM disk group, manage
the files stored within ADVM volume devices, and even resize an ADVM volume device as the need
for additional space arises. Best of all, since ADVM volumes are built on top
of the ASM file system architecture, I can ensure that any files stored within
those volumes are protected from unexpected data loss because of ASM's RAID
File Access Control. An
ACFS directory or file can be granted read,
write, or execute privileges at the appropriate level using either
traditional Microsoft Windows-style access
control lists (ACLs) or the UNIX / Linux user/group/other access permissions. ACFS file and directory
security can be administered either graphically through Oracle 11gR2 Enterprise Manager or via the ASMCMD
command-line utility.
File System Snapshot (FSS).
Oracle 11gR2 now offers the
ability to take snapshots of ACFS file systems through its new File System Snapshot (FSS) capabilities. A
snapshot is a read-only version of the selected ACFS file system, and ACFS
automatically retains up to 63 separate snapshots within the same ACFS. This
feature is particularly useful when an ACFS file has been inadvertently updated,
deleted or otherwise damaged. Either Oracle 11gR2
Enterprise Manager or the ACFS acfsutil command line interface
can be used to locate the appropriate version of the file and restore it.
#4: Improvements
to Software Installation and Patching
found that patching an Oracle database environment is just about the most
stressful activity I've encountered as a DBA, and for an excellent reason: If
the patching should introduce deleterious behavior into my databases, I've got
a tremendous amount of work to do to ascertain if the issues I'm seeing are
really the result of applying the patch. So I'm glad to see that Oracle 11gR2 continues to contribute to lowering my
stress level with these new features.
Cluster Verification Utility Integration.
The Cluster Verification Utility (CVU)
that was introduced in Oracle 10g
is now completely integrated into the Oracle Universal Installer and all other
configuration assistants (e.g. DBCA and DBUA). Another nice feature is the
implementation of "fix-it" scripts that can adjust many of the minor but
crucial OS environment settings during creation and installation of a new
Oracle 11gR2 Clusterware or
database home.
Zero-Downtime Patching for Clusterware.
When it's time to patch an Oracle Clusterware home, Oracle 11gR2 applies the patches as an "out-of-place"
upgrade. This means that the original version of the Oracle Clusterware home co-exists
on the same server with the home that's just been patched, but only one version of the Clusterware home
is active at one time. In Oracle
11gR2, it's therefore no longer
necessary to shut down the entire Oracle cluster to complete the patching
operation, which results in zero downtime
when applying patches to clustered databases.
Say Goodbye to DST Patching Migraines.
In the past few years, we've all had the joyful experience of having to patch
our Oracle databases to ensure they handled the scheduled changes to Daylight
Savings Time (DST). The good news here is that Oracle 11gR2 can now apply DST patches without requiring
the "bounce" of even a single database instance.
venerable DBMS_SCHEDULER package that revolutionized how
DBAs schedule jobs and tasks in Oracle Database 10g gets some neat new and welcome features in Oracle Database
File Watcher. The
ability to fire off a DBMS_SCHEDULER scheduled task in response to an
event or raised condition was added in Oracle Release 10.2.0.1, as I
illustrated in an earlier article on how to create Job
Chains. However, there was no direct way to detect one of the most typical
triggering events in batch processing: the arrival of an operating system file
in a directory. Oracle Database 11gR2
alleviates this with the new File Watcher
feature. Once the desired file has arrived within a specified directory, DBMS_SCHEDULER
can now detect and register its arrival in new object type, SCHEDULER_FILEWATCHER_RESULT,
that's used to signal a DBMS_SCHEDULER job to start via the new CREATE_FILE_WATCHER
Built-In E-mail Notification.
Whenever a DBMS_SCHEDULER
scheduled task starts, fails, or completes, the task's status can be signaled
immediately by sending an e-mail to an appropriate destination address. Though
I could implement this feature in earlier releases with a call to the
appropriate procedure of either DBMS_MAIL or DBMS_SMTP,
this functionality is now incorporated into every DBMS_SCHEDULER job and can be
implemented with a few keystrokes.
Remote Jobs. DBMS_SCHEDULER
now permits the DBA to create and schedule jobs on a remote database other than the current database. For
example, I can now run either a PL/SQL anonymous block or invoke a stored
procedure on production database PROD07 via a call from a
scheduled job that I built via DBMS_SCHEDULER on production
database PROD03
without having to create the scheduled task on database PROD07.
This means I can now centralize scheduled task creation and maintenance on only
one database.
Multiple Job Destinations.
Finally, it's now possible to schedule DBMS_SCHEDULER tasks that can be
executed on one or more databases instances simultaneously.
This is extremely useful in a RAC environment because I can take advantage of
the power of multiple database instances to break down a long-running task into
smaller tasks that can run in parallel across multiple nodes.
Next Steps
the final article in this series, I'll take a look at five more new features in
Oracle Database 11gR2. Here's a
brief sample of the most intriguing new capabilities:
Significant database performance improvements,
especially for parallelized operations
- Upgrades to Recovery Manager, including automatic repair of corrupted blocks
- Improvements to Data Guard features like Real Time Query
- Large Object improvements, e.g., the ability to "watermark" LOBs
- Database object sizing enhancements, including on-demand segment creation
References and
Additional Reading
you proceed to experiment with any of these new features, I strongly suggest
that you first look over the corresponding detailed Oracle documentation before
trying them out for the first time. I've drawn upon the following Oracle
Database 11g Release 2 documents
for this article's technical details:
E10881-02 Oracle Database 11gR2 New Features
E10592-03 Oracle Database 11gR2 SQL Language Reference
E10700-01 Oracle Database 11gR2 DataGuard Concepts and
E10595-05 Oracle Database 11gR2 Administrator's Guide
E10713-03 Oracle Database 11gR2 Concepts
E10820-02 Oracle Database 11gR2 Reference
E10500-02 Oracle Database 11gR2 Storage Administrator's Guide
E10837-02 Oracle Database 11gR2 VLDB and Partitioning Guide


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What to Expect in Your 60s
The good, the bad and the ugly. Plus advice on feeling happy, sexy and pain-free
So what can you expect this decade? Everyone ages differently, and lifestyle plays a major role, but you'll experience both hard-to-notice and impossible-to-miss changes in your physical and mental health.
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Read on for the good, the bad and the what's-up-with-that? transformations you'll soon encounter — plus the latest advice on feeling happy, sexy and pain-free.
Save Your Skin
The Good News: Your skin is drier, so you're less likely to suffer from unsightly breakouts. While some women do experience menopause-related skin issues, they're usually treatable with hormone-replacement therapy.
The Not-So-Good News: You may notice your skin is more fragile, and you may have an increasing number of age spots. Consider using a prescription hydroquinone product — "the gold standard for reducing age spots," says Helen M. Torok, M.D., medical director for the Dermatology & Surgery Center at Trillium Creek in Medina, Ohio. Also, the fine lines and wrinkles that started appearing in your 50s are becoming more dramatic, especially if you smoked or sunned significantly in your younger years. One remedy: prescription retinol products like Retin-A or Renova, Torok says. These creams repair damaged skin by speeding skin cell turnover.
What's Up With That? In your 60s you may develop dilated superficial blood vessels (called telangiectasias) on the cheeks, nose, chin and legs, but don't worry: Doctors can zap them with a laser that destroys the blood vessels underneath the skin — with no scarring. Another option to help make skin look younger: a radio-frequency-emitting device, which uses heat to contract collagen and tighten the skin, without injuring the outer epidermis.
What's Ahead: In your 70s you're likely to notice a big spike in skin tags, as well as excess skin around the neck and jowl lines. Skin tags are usually benign and can be removed through freezing or cauterizing. If you are bothered by sagging skin under the jaw, consider a skin-tightening radio-frequency treatment.
Bone Up for Good Health
The Good News: If you've been active all your life, your bones, joints and muscles can stay in pretty good shape during your 60s.
The Not-So-Good News: Aging and inactivity can lead to achy joints because of the wearing down of cartilage, loss of lubricating joint fluid and weaker muscles. Some remedies: maintaining a normal weight and strength training. Weight-bearing activities stimulate the bones to grow stronger and denser, which can protect against bone fractures and osteoporosis. Also, talk to your doctor about vitamin D and calcium supplements. The recommended dose of vitamin D for people in their 60s is 600 IU a day; for people in their 70s it's 800 IU a day. And women in their 60s need about 1,200 mg of calcium a day.
What's Up With That? Your joints may sound like snapping twigs, but those creaking and popping noises are usually not serious, unless accompanied by pain and swelling.
What's Ahead: Most knee replacements are done after age 65.
Motivate Your Metabolism
The Good News: While metabolism typically slows up to 5 percent per decade, that doesn't mean you have to gain weight in your 60s. Just stay active and cut calories if needed, says Alice Lichtenstein, D.Sc., director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.
The Not-So-Good News: In your 60s you may secrete less hydrochloric acid, which decreases the availability of vitamin B12, says Lichtenstein. Ask your doctor whether you need a B12 supplement (optimal dose: 2.4 mcg daily).
What's Up With That? Your stomach empties more slowly, which can increase the risk of reflux. And the slowing of digested material through the large intestine can trigger constipation. The easy fix? Fiber and water. Adding fiber to your diet may also help protect against colon polyps. Almost half of those over 60 have colon polyps that may develop into cancer.
What's Ahead: Older adults get dehydrated easily. So it's important to drink even when you're not thirsty.
Keep Your Heart Strong
The Good News: An older heart can pump about the same volume of blood with each beat as a younger one can.
The Not-So-Good News: Heart disease accounts for more than 20 percent of all deaths among men and women ages 65 to 74. But thanks to advances in the treatment of this disease, the death rate from heart disease declined 27.8 percent from 1997 to 2007, according to the American Heart Association. One way to improve your odds? Keep moving. Just 150 minutes of moderately intense activity a week lowers your chance of developing coronary artery disease by 14 percent, compared with people who are not physically active.
What's Up With That? A skipped beat or a racing heart could be atrial fibrillation, a type of heart arrhythmia that becomes more common with age. Since it can increase the risk of stroke, mention it to your doctor.
What's Ahead: The incidence of heart disease rises with age: It's the leading cause of death for people 75 to 84.
Preserve Your Senses
The Good News: Lifestyle plays a major role in helping to maintain your senses as you age. So stay away from loud noises, eat a well-balanced diet (which can help ward off some age-related eye disorders) and see a doctor immediately if you notice that your senses of smell or taste diminish significantly. (This may indicate a sinus infection or be a reaction to medication.)
The Not-So-Good News: Age-related hearing loss becomes more common, primarily as a result of degenerative changes in the ear canal, eardrum and other structures of the ear. About 45 percent of 60-somethings experience some degree of hearing loss, rising to 68 percent among 70-somethings. After age 60, the ability to hear high-frequency tones also diminishes. What to do? Swallow your pride and get tested for hearing aids. Plagued by dry eye? The medication Restasis can help create more tears, while omega-3 fatty acids — found in fish such as tuna and salmon as well as fish oil supplements — may help tear quality.
What's Up With That? You might find it harder to see well in dim light; in general, 60-year-olds need three times as much light to read as 20-year-olds. And after age 60, the risk of macular degeneration increases. Fish oil and a diet rich in antioxidants can help prevent this condition.
What's Ahead: By age 70, smell and taste have likely declined, reducing the ability to enjoy subtle flavors. Taste buds decrease in number and sensitivity, and nerve endings in the nose may not work as well. The fix? Turn up the dial on seasonings. Ethnic cuisines like Indian and Thai contain spices and herbs that amplify the aromas and tastes of foods.
Improve Your Sex Life
The Good News: Sex in your 60s can be better than ever: You've got more time and fewer distractions. And getting older often means becoming more comfortable in your own skin. In fact, sexual satisfaction among women rises with age, a recent University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine study found. In that study, two-thirds of sexually active women (with a median age of 67) were moderately or very satisfied with their sex lives.
The Not-So-Good News: Sex-related hormones — estrogen and progesterone in women, testosterone in men — decline, and vaginal dryness may become more noticeable, but over-the-counter lubricants are effective, as are prescription creams and tablets.
What's Up With That? Rates of erectile dysfunction (ED) increase with age; in one study of men with ED, 40 percent first experienced symptoms in their 60s. Research shows that not smoking and eating a diet rich in antioxidants can help.
What's Ahead: Sexual satisfaction only gets better with age.
Ramp Up Your Immunity
The Good News: Allergies, which result from an overreactive immune system, are probably a thing of the past, because your immune system isn't as sensitive.
The Not-So-Good News: That less-aggressive immune response means you're more susceptible to getting sick. Chronic inflammation, which is linked to heart disease, diabetes and arthritis, makes it even harder for the body to mount an effective immune response. So it's important to shed excess pounds, eat a good diet and exercise.
What's Up With That? Your response to vaccines decreases with age, leaving you even more vulnerable to illnesses like flu and pneumonia. After 65 you're eligible to get a higher-dose flu vaccine. In your 60s you'll also need vaccines against shingles and pneumococcal disease, as these conditions mostly strike after age 60.
What's Ahead: Rates of cancer rise with age, with the majority of cancer cases occurring in patients older than 65, so get recommended screenings.
Take Fewer "Nighttime Trips"
The Good News: If you're generally healthy, your urological system likely works about as well as when you were younger. And an array of therapies can help when problems crop up.
The Not-So-Good News: Gotta go during the night? Not to worry; that's normal during this decade. "In their 60s, 80 percent of people need to get up at least once a night," says Ryan P. Terlecki, M.D., assistant professor of urology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. Try decreasing fluids after 6 p.m. and avoiding caffeine in the afternoon. And if you're on diuretics for high blood pressure, speak to your doctor about taking your pill in the morning. Stress incontinence — urine loss when coughing or sneezing — affects one in three women in their 60s. And women in their 60s also are more prone to experience urge incontinence (an uncontrollable urge to "go"). You can reduce symptoms through bladder training, medications and pelvic floor exercises ("Kegels"), which strengthen the muscles around the bladder.
What's Up With That? Find yourself running to the bathroom all the time? You may have overactive bladder, a condition caused by bladder muscles that contract sporadically. Many people write it off as just another symptom of aging, but Kegels, meds and bladder training can help.
What's Ahead: More than half of men in their 70s will have prostate issues. See a urologist if you suspect you might have a problem.
Be Happy
The Good News: We get happier. A recent AARP survey showed that from your early 50s on, happiness increases over time. One explanation for the trend: years of experience. "As you get older, you know that bad times are going to pass," says Laura Carstensen, Ph.D., director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. "You also know that good times will pass, which makes those good times even more precious."
The Not-So-Good News: You might stay away from stressful situations, thereby missing out on new opportunities. Just make sure all your social interactions stay strong. They may be key to facing future challenges with resilience.
What's Up With That? Are you worried that you're not as worried these days? "The ability to regulate one's emotions improves as you get older," says Bob Knight, Ph.D., professor of gerontology and psychology at the USC Davis School of Gerontology in Los Angeles.
What's Ahead: People in their 70s are consistently happy and satisfied with their lives, studies show.
Stay Sharp
The Good News: The growth of new brain cells, called neurogenesis, continues well into your 60s. And the capacity to learn new things stays strong, says Gary J. Kennedy, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral science in the division of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
The Not-So-Good News: Part of your brain circuitry starts to burn out with age, but most of us compensate by relying on other parts of our brain, and our past experiences, to make decisions. "That's the 'wisdom' that accrues with older age," says Kennedy. In your 60s you may also find yourself slow to access memories. But the loss of memory — once thought intrinsic to aging — is often avoidable, new research shows. "You can improve your brain health by getting regular mental stimulation, social interaction and physical activity," Kennedy says. Case in point: MRIs show that adults who exercise regularly have a bigger hippocampus (the brain region responsible for memory and learning), which helps keep the mind sharp.
What's Up With That? So you find yourself looking into a cabinet with no idea why you opened it. Relax. In your 60s mild forgetfulness happens because the transmission of nerve impulses between cells slows down. It's rarely a sign of something serious. While many folks in their 60s start to worry about Alzheimer's, the risk of developing this devastating disease is fairly low in this decade: Less than 5 percent of Alzheimer's patients are under 65.
What's Ahead: Real cognitive decline becomes especially prevalent in your 70s and 80s; nearly half of Americans 85 or older have Alzheimer's. Your best prevention plan: regular exercise, intellectual stimulation and plenty of social interaction with family and friends.
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