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Labor Day
The U.S. Department of Labor: “Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.” Read more here.
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Drummer Tootie Heath at The Village Vanguard
Jazz drummer Tootie Heath, now 77, just played The Village Vanguard with Ethan Iverson and Ben Street. Heath made his recording debut on John Coltrane’s first album in 1957. Read more Worth Repeating: Music May Help Ward Off Hearing Loss
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 9/7/11:
News from NPR’s Health Blog: “If you spend a lot of your life interacting with sound in an active manner, then your nervous system has made lots of sound-to-meaning connections that can strengthen your auditory system,” says Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratoryat Northwestern University. Research by Kraus demonstrates that musicians were 40 percent better than non-musicians at tuning out background noise and hearing.
“The take-home message: If you’re an older musician, don’t stop playing. And if you gave it up, it may be time to dust off the old violin.”
Housing Options: Upscale Senior Housing in Boston
“Where there were once mountains of Jell-O and endless rows of rockers on porches, there are now wine tastings and day spas. Choice is the buzzword for a wave of high-end senior communities opening or expanding in area communities…The Boston metropolitan area ranked sixth among the 100 largest markets in the country, in terms of the number of [senior housing] properties under construction, in a report last year by the American Seniors Housing Association and the National Investment Center. The 15 projects being built ranged from 55-plus housing developments to nursing homes.” Read more here.
“The number of people in their 90s will quadruple over the next 25 years — and this generation not only will demand choice, they will overwhelmingly outlive their resources to afford most of today’s senior living communities. As the article illustrated, most options are very pricey. Only the nonprofit example shown was within the range for middle-class seniors.” Read more here of this thoughtful Letter to the Editor from Amy Schectman, President and CEO of Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly, in response to the article above.
Experience Talks 9/1: Victoria GeVoian and Paul Heussenstamm
Tune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Saturdays 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations! You can also enjoy hearing all of our previous shows on the Listen Page of our Experience Talks website.
This week: Host Dr. Connie Corley talks with Victoria GeVoian and Paul Heussenstamm
Victoria GeVoian is the Executive Director of the Joshua Tree International Retreat Center and the Ding Le Mei Institute of Mentalphysics. Founder of the Alexandria Bookstores of Southern California, Victoria is also an artist and graphic designer, with an early career in the movie industry. She has been a lecturer, visionary, student and teacher of mysticism for over 25 years. She is also the author of God As Mother, and the soon to be released New Dimensional Thinking. Learn more at www.jtrcc.org and www.mentalphysics.net.
Artist, teacher and visionary Paul Heussenstamm is known worldwide for his mandalas which grace many homes and spiritual centers such as the Chopra Center in Carlsbad and the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City. His first painting of a mandala was commissioned by Barbara Streisand when he was in his 40s; ultimately Paul left a successful career in the surfing business for the path of artist and teacher — and spells artist as OURtist. Paul has painted thousands of mandalas and taught hundreds in his workshops called “ART AS A SPIRITUAL PATH.” He has written three books and produced six films, documentaries and instructional videos. On Saturday’s show, he’ll be talking about his work and the power of mandalas. Learn more at www.mandalas.com.
Fighting Scams
From Petaluma360.c0m:
“Have you ever answered the phone and heard your grandson on the line, saying that he desperately needs you to wire him money – only to find out the caller wasn’t really your grandson? That’s exactly what happened to Art Cader last week and this wasn’t the first time. The 90-year-old World War II veteran and his wife have experienced three attempts of elder fraud in the last two months alone. Fortunately for the Caders, they outsmarted the schemers by doing a little research.”
Read more here. And read more here about how ethnic elders are more vulnerable to fraud:
“A 2011 report by the California Elder Justice Coalition (CEJC) found that African American seniors ‘may be up to five times more susceptible to being cheated financially’ than non-blacks. The same study found, ‘Black and Latino seniors were more than 70 percent more likely to lose their homes to foreclosure between 2007 and 2009.'”
