Lovin' Life After 50: Tucson - July 2016

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opinion Sound Off In fashion right now are really short shorts, but some of these girls really look ridiculous.

Look in the mirror before you leave the house.

Amazing. Just who are these ignorant, thoughtless people who think they can hike in the heat and endanger the lives of the rescuers? Nothing like greedy, stupid people. God help everybody now.

Diamondbacks pitcher Zack Greinke is “earning” $34,400,000 in 2016.

Assuming he will be making 30 starts this season, averaging about 100 pitches per game, each pitch he makes to home plate is worth about $11,300.

This puts into perspective the outrageous sums of money professional sports owners pay to star athletes compared to the salaries of other citizens whose contributions to society are far more significant and worthy.

How could anyone in their right mind even consider voting for Hillary Clinton for president of the United States? Don’t they remember just some of her scandals, including Benghazi?

Innocent lives were lost in Orlando and memorials and vigils against hatred are ongoing. Where is the outrage against child abuse? Young lives are lost every day to abuse.

People question why Obama has fast-tracked bringing Syrian refugees into our country, even though there is no way able to properly vet them. Obama’s goal is to flood America with Muslims.

There will not be a good end to this action. I’m afraid.

Drew, you’ve lived here as long as I have (54 years), so will you recall Republicans of distinction like Jack Williams, John Rhodes, Paul Fannin and Bob Usdane, good leaders just like the Democrats you recalled from another era. You ended your article by skewering today’s Democrats like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, our duly elected twice President

The Curmudgeon

The fallacy of equality

By Drew Alexander

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he worst form of inequality it to try and make unequal things equal.— Aristotle

Despite eons of accumulated knowledge bestowed on the human race by Mother Nature as to the basic composition and ingrained variances of mankind, we continue to pursue attempts to make unequal things equal.

Among the most preposterous of these efforts is to meld the male and female genders into a homogeneous entity in which anatomically sexual and other distinctively different characteristics are marginalized in the name of equality or some nonexistent human right.

When we have reached the point where it is no longer self-evident who

can use what public bathroom, Ma Nature has to laugh herself silly.

She also has to be amused by a segment of our citizenry claiming to be professional educators who infuse some perverted notion of equality into their innocent pupils by eliminating number or letter grades. The reason— or excuse—is that students tend to strive for a grade instead of learning and that traditional grading and testing cause stress and a loss of self-esteem.

Carrying the education establishment’s muddled thinking to further absurdity, a growing number of schools are eliminating from graduation ceremonies the valedictorian and salutatorian titles—the honors earned by the two senior students with the highest grade-point average.

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Obama and Hillary. In the interest of fairness, let’s now look at the Republican side. Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert was two heartbeats away from the presidency and is now going to prison convicted as a sexual predator of high school boys. Is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell one you can be proud of for his willingness to compromise? Does Donald Trump truly represent the Party of Family Values in your mind? How about our own Gov. Ducey who answers not to we Arizonans but rather to his dark

money pals who got him elected? Can you be proud of today’s GOP? The Islamic terrorist who murdered 49 people in Orlando was born in the United States, but his father was an Afghan refugee who was brought to the United States. Bringing in thousands upon thousands of Syrian refugees is putting America in grave danger. This is absolutely insane. The Islamic ideology just does not correspond with our Constitution. ...continues on page 10

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But daft equalizing endeavors don’t end in the classroom or the bathroom.

At some of the nation’s playgrounds where youngsters first learn about competition, discipline and teamwork playing baseball, basketball, football or some other sport, the fundamental principle of winners and losers is being obliterated. Literally leveling the playing field, some schools and sports organizations no longer recognize a winning side with an award, giving instead every player a meaningless “participation” trophy.

Do I really have to remind you politically correct social engineering equalizers that homo sapiens are born as male or female? That each of the billions of us has varying degrees of intelligence and talent?

That such attributes as personality, competiveness and the will to survive are built into every individual? That some of us will achieve great deeds or accumulate earthly riches, while others will not?

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Mother Nature’s laws, the far-left equalizers sell their lopsided ideas by fallaciously associating their cause to Thomas Jefferson’s revered phrase “all men are created equal,” which appears in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution as often believed.

The closest the Constitution comes to mentioning and ensuring anything “equal” is in the 14th Amendment, declaring that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

The genius of the founders when referring to equality was not in the context of social status, monetary wealth or some authoritarian enforcement of it, but an equality of opportunity and equal standing in the eyes of the law.

In other words, and contrary to the politically correct level playing field fanatics, in America the opportunity to legally achieve anything is out there for everyone.

But it’s up to you to pursue it and find it yourself.

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The Up Side

Abandoning conventional wisdom in Cleveland

By Michael Grady

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y first convention was in 1968.

The Democratic Convention, in Chicago, was a tough act to follow. I remember Dan Rather getting roughed up by goons on the convention floor. My dad thought it was an egregious example of suppression. My mother thought it was high time someone roughed up Dan Rather. I remember thinking, “This is actually better than ‘The Lucy Show!’”

Of course, I was 6, then. I also enjoyed sock puppets and watching people fall down stairs.

Forty-eight years later, the Republicans are preparing to convene in Cleveland on July 18, and I’m hoping for none of the rough stuff. I have a brother who lives in Cleveland.

I don’t want him beaten by Trump supporters who’ve discovered the Irish were immigrants, too; or beaten by anti-Trump supporters anxious to make a point about tolerance.

And I don’t want him to use a public restroom, because that seems to freak everyone out these days. I’d like this convention to go the way my Cub Scout meetings used to. “Everyone meant well,” our Pack leader used to say, “and nobody lost an eye.”

Two months ago, I felt differently.

I wanted a floor fight. Not a public fracas between delegates, mind you. I wanted a real physical fight between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. It was the only thing they hadn’t tried in the first 400 televised debates, and I have a theory that Ted Cruz is actually made of doll hair and shortening.

But the Republicans have unified behind their nominee, so the only real drama will come from watching the facial tics on the mainstream Republicans as they endorse him.

And you need hi-def for that.

For those of you still fearing violence at the convention, take comfort in the fact that enough news coverage will make anything boring. Conventions used to be contentious by definition. They were the ideological rehab center, where a political party went to exorcise its

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demons and get its head together. In the 19th century, the platform was the star of the convention, and all the shouting was over “planks” in that platform—“Regulation of Industry,” “Votes for Women,” “Mutton Chops: Yes or No?” Once the party agreed on what it stood for, they then selected a candidate who fit the platform, and went to his house (he didn’t even go!) to ask him to run for president of the United States.

I wonder how that would play out, now.

Republican Delegates: Mr. Trump, thank you for buzzing us in. The party elders have convened in Cleveland, and decided we want to make America great again, but without knowing any details. We’d also like a wall that Mexicans pay for, a quarantine on Muslims, and a candidate who claims to have enormous hands. Will you be that candidate?

Trump: I accept your nomination with great humility. The greatest humility ever. [Pause] Is there a trophy or something?

Even the last century offered its share of barn-burner conventions: in 1912, incumbent William Howard Taft called former president and former friend Theodore Roosevelt, “the greatest menace to our institutions that we have had in a long time.” In 1924, it took 16 days and 103 contentious ballots before Democrats selected Al Smith, a Catholic (gasp!) as their nominee. In 1948, the unpopular Harry Truman waited until 2 a.m. to speak to an audience of democratic delegates who’d already written him off. Wearing a white linen suit, he squared up in an overheated Philadelphia convention hall and, as the linguists say, “tore them a new one.” He coined the term, “donothing Congress,” demonstrated the concept of “give ‘em hell,” and set the stage for the most dramatic political comeback in history.

So, how did we get from all that to “the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom?” No, it wasn’t lipstick.

It was television. As the TV camera evolved from freakish curiosity to primary news source, conventions devolved, from public policy forum to air-brushed infomercial. If the 2012 Republican Convention was broadcast in heaven, I imagine Ronald Reagan, Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan and all the great political orators were watching and thinking the same thing we were: Why is Clint Eastwood talking to a chair?

And as our Grand Old Party friends reassemble this month in the shadow of the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, we will again find ourselves looking between the prefabricated media bits—the soundbite one-liners, the inevitable Hillary put-downs and the reverent video bio that will precede Donald Trump’s speech—for moments of humanity that will show us thinking people are actually behind this crusade.

It’s too much to hope for a platform discussion, like “Here’s our plan to replace Obamacare and why it will be better,” or “Here’s our position on whether global warming is manmade, and what we should do about it.” But a little honesty on their thinking would serve the Republican Party well. This party has taken us on a long, strange journey since the Iowa caucuses, when Jeb Bush was the heir apparent, Marco Rubio was the party’s future and Donald Trump

was the novelty candidate. We have all invested too much time listening to GOP elders tell us “Donald Trump is not what we stand for,” and then, “hang on a second,” and then, “Wait, no, Donald Trump is exactly what we stand for,” without hearing the thinking behind it.

If “President Trump” actually is their mission statement, and not just a cynical scoreboard calculation, the Republican Party would be wise to break from the usual convention shtick and convince us why. They aren’t going to get there reading Obama jokes off the teleprompter and saying “Benghazi” like it’s a magic word.

The exciting, and sometimes frightening, aspect of the primary season was the astonishing amount of people, Left and Right, who still feel angry about where the country is headed. The party conventions are where that grass roots sentiment meets political machinery, and the results are seldom pretty. In 1968, the Democratic Party listened to its youngest supporters condemn the Vietnam War, then said, “Know what you kids need? A heapin’ helpin’ of Hubert Humphrey!”

Their response shredded Michigan Avenue and gave us six years of Richard Nixon.

But hey, the convention was interesting.

Michael Grady is a local playwright, reporter and the author of “Death Calls a Meeting.”

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Aging Today

Longest day of the year— and caregiving

By Bob Roth, Managing Partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions

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he extra daylight of the summer solstice usually feels like an annual bonus. We all know intellectually, it’s the same 24-hour day, yet it’s hard to deny that with extra sunlight comes renewed energy and optimism.

Unfortunately, for the family caregivers of Alzheimer patients, the longer days are more challenging and may feel in many respects like, “This was the longest day of my life.”

On June 20, the Alzheimer’s Association held its Longest Day of the Year event in an attempt to raise funds and awareness for those families that are afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.

This annual event coincidentally coincides with the annual summer solstice.

The word solstice is derived from sol for sun and sistere, which is to come to a stop or make stand still. The irony is that for those caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s, there is no time to stand idle or still. The work is continuous and exhausting. So let’s take a moment to stand still in tribute to the labor of love that goes on each and every day without recognition.

So while sun-downing is normally associated with more negative effects of less sunlight due to the winter solstice, most caregivers would agree the long summer days take their toll.

The family caregivers are already dealing with a substantial amount of stress both physically and emotionally,

the added stress of heat and humidity only make longer days that much more challenging. In general, people tend to feel tired and overwhelmed as the day progresses due to exhaustion.

When someone has a cognitive disorder, it only makes sense that darkness in tandem with exhaustion and overstimulation exacerbates behavioral issues. For family caregivers it is painful and exhausting to witness their loved ones’ frightening symptoms of disorientation as the sun sets. The duration of this sunrise-to-sunset event symbolizes the challenging journey of those living with the disease and their caregivers.

So where does one go for help?

Seek out elderly care support in your community from your church or temple, a therapist or counselor, and of course, family members. These resources can help you work through your emotional and physical stress. It’s easy for me to say, but really do not try to do all of the work yourself. It’s not easy to ask for help, but friends and family members may be happier than you think to pitch in. I believe you should always look first to family and or friends before you look for someone else to care for your loved one. Know that there are other resources here in our community. We have a number of resources such as Area Agency on Aging, Duet, Foothills Caring Corps,

Jewish Family & Children’s Services to name a few. And certainly look to professional in-home care agencies like Cypress HomeCare Solutions.

Family caregiving comes with a host of responsibilities and a large learning curve.

Caregiving is challenging, and comes with its own rewards, of course, but ultimately will be more sustainable if you can find ways to build a community of support. It is normal for caregivers to experience a wide range of emotions like anger or resentment, anxiety, guilt, grief and even depression.

Accepting your emotions is a good step. Seek support and help and realize that elderly care for your loved one is not something that you have to do alone.

Overall, family caregivers are the unsung heroes of our country. In our

in-home care agency, we try to find resources and solutions to help these individuals and their family members, and we see the summer solstice and this day as the perfect time to raise this awareness. We all know someone who is caring for a loved one—whether in the same town or across the country. Reach out to these people, offer to assist in some way and show your appreciation for their hard work.

Bob Roth is the managing partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions. He and his family have been providing caregiving and caregiving resources to the Maricopa County region since 1994. Roth also hosts a radio show, “Health Futures—Taking Stock in You,” found on KFNN Money Radio 1510 AM and 99.3 FM on Fridays at noon. He can be reached at bobroth@cypresshomecare.com or call him at (602) 2648009.

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Ask Gabby Gayle Advice for the over-50 crowd

By Gayle M. Lagman-Creswick Note to Readers: I am repeating one letter and my answer from last month because it is necessary to understand a letter I received this month. Here’s the earlier one:

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ear Gabby Gayle: I am having trouble coping with the fact that my granddaughter and her female partner are getting married. I finally accepted the fact that she was gay, and that took me awhile. The good advice from you helped!

Now this. She plans to have a regular wedding and reception. I don’t want to go, but I don’t want to tell her mother (my daughter.) Am I a coward or just oldfashioned? Do I have to go? Maybe I have lived too long! Signed, Coward

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ear Coward: I understand how difficult it is to accept some of the new behaviors. Look at your options.

Do you want to risk losing the love of your daughter, granddaughter? Or their respect? How badly do you want to hang on to your cowardice? My readers may be tired of this, but again: Accept the things you cannot change. Change the things you can. Have the wisdom to know the difference between the two. Thanks for writing. GG This month’s letter ear Gabby Gayle: To the lady whose lesbian granddaughter was being “married:” The letter contained the most egregious misuse of Dr. Niebuhr’s prayer that I have yet to read.

It is known as “The Serenity Prayer” and does not ask for accepting change— rather for the serenity (emphasis mine) to accept things which cannot be changed.

There’s a world of difference! The lady asking advice obviously believed that her attendance at this so-called wedding would have indicated her acceptance of a lifestyle which was morally repugnant to her—and you called her a coward! She needed understanding and she received criticism. It would have been far more beneficial to her had she been advised to sincerely determine whether she wanted to risk being scorned by her daughter and granddaughter after she had told them she loved them dearly, but that she could not conscientiously attend. If the scorn was to

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be, then the daughter and granddaughter are the ones with the problem. Signed, GBK

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ear GBK: I do not believe it was a misuse of “The Serenity Prayer.”

The woman who wrote in was in a quandary, facing what many grandparents are facing today. Do I lose the love of my children/grandchildren, or cause a major family upheaval, or do I accept that this is the way it is going to be, and go along? It does not mean you have to agree with what they are doing. I believe that acceptance is the greater part of loving. We try to teach our children unconditional love. Perhaps you and I have a different concept of unconditional love? By the way, I did not call her a coward, I was using her word for herself. Thank you for writing. GG

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ear Gabby Gayle: My problem is a small one, but it perplexes me. I am 80 years old. I am in good health, exercise daily and take very few medications.

However, I am slower and tire more easily, and I am more cautious to avoid falling.

I enjoy staying in at night, except for an occasional dinner out. I attend all family functions, although I am finding that they sometimes wear me out, I long to go home! The problem is that I don’t believe my four children and my grandchildren have any idea that I have aged. They want me to go everywhere and do everything with them. If I say I am too tired, they say, “Oh, Mom you know you love doing these things.” Help me, Gabby. Signed, Tired

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ear Tired: You must be a great gal if your kids and grandkids always want you with them. My letters are usually the other way around, and grandmothers write that they feel left out and abandoned! My advice: Tell them with love that you are ready to cut back on your activities, and you hope they will understand...and then do not be afraid to refuse a few invitations, or cut short a visit—with great love! Good luck. GG If you have a question for Gabby Gayle, please send it to: “Ask Gabby Gayle” in care of Lovin’ Life After 50, or email it to lagmancreswick@ cox.net

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Celebrating Tucson Sound Off One person, six questions

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By Barbara Russek

ne person, six questions” is a continuing series of columns about Tucsonarea residents who have made an impact on the community. This month, Lovin’ Life After 50 focuses on 54-year-old Carol Shaughnessy, president of the Southern Arizona Chapter of SCORE, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs start or grow a business.

Originally from Boston, Shaughnessy has worked in the pharmaceutical Carol Shaughnessy and high-tech industries, but she said she believes her SCORE What categories of business role is her most rewarding experience. owners seek your help?

“It’s a good feeling to help people We see all types of business owners. help themselves,” Shaughnessy said.

We focus on adding or saving jobs in The mother of a grown daughter, our local communities. Each year Shaughnessy also finds time to in Tucson, with SCORE’s help, volunteer at a local meditation center, approximately 420 jobs are created Desert Ashram. Her other interests or saved. include body building, nutrition and travel.

What types of services do “I met people from all over the you offer? world with very different cultural We offer one-on-one confidential backgrounds, values and economic counseling, workshops, business means,” she said about her travel plan reviews, CEO roundtables and experiences. “It was a real education educational breakfasts. Counseling for me.” services are free, as are some of our workshops. Other workshops are Can you tell readers a little very low cost. about SCORE? SCORE was founded in 1954 as How many volunteers a resource partner with the Small and clients are involved in Business Administration.

Today, SCORE’s Tucson chapter? we are a national team of over 300 There are 40 members in the chapters and more than 11,000 Southern Arizona chapter and volunteers. Volunteers include working between 2,000 and 2,500 active and retired business owners, executives clients. Clients usually can be seen and managers who understand the within a week of request and can stay challenges facing entrepreneurs. as long as they wish. Anyone who wants to volunteer can visit www.

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After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the American Red Cross raised nearly $500 million. It has been revealed that almost $125 million of that was spent on the Red Cross’ internal expenses. They built only six permanent homes. Think about this the next time the American Red Cross asks for donations.

Hillary Clinton said if you were under investigation by the FBI you should not be able to buy a gun. I’d say if you’re under investigation by the FBI, you should not be able to run for president.

Obama could have stopped ISIS when they started. Instead, he chose to call them the JV team and he did nothing. Now the situation is completely out of control.

They’re more powerful and have more territory and are a danger to the rest of the world, too. Thank you, Obama.

Those greedy, stupid credit card people are still annoying people—waking babies and sleeping grandparents. Just because my phone number is in the phonebook, it doesn’t mean you’re free to bother us.

Good lord, I can’t talk to anyone.

So again President Obama is blaming guns and pushing for gun control after this mass shooting in Florida by a radical Muslim.

In France, two policemen were brutally knifed to death in front of their 3-yearold child by a radical Muslim terrorist.

Perhaps all knives in the world should be banned.

TV is reporting that the Orlando shooter was an American. He was accidentally born here because his parents fled here rather than stay home and work and fight for their own country. Don’t say he’s an American. He’s not.

The Fort Hood terrorist. The San Bernardino terrorists.

Brussels and now Orlando. All of these places underwent very deadly attacks. They will continue as long as our terrorist-sympathizing president will remain in office.

Forty-nine murdered Orlando. being treated for wounds.

people have been in a nightclub in Dozens more are very serious bullet

Will Obama finally tell the American people the truth and call this murder an Islamic terrorist attack? Don’t hold your breath.

He will not. He’ll call it workplace violence, like he did with the Fort Hood shooting. America, we are in danger. We have a president who will not tell the truth.

Hillary Clinton told Donald Trump that he should delete his Twitter account. I had to laugh.

Isn’t she an expert in deleting things?

Wonderful. TV’s latest news is that it’s kitten season. Amazing.

They will all turn into cats— invaders, nasty breeders of disease, etc., etc. How crazy can people be? It’s kitten season? Yuck.

Fry’s has partnered with one community foundation for “pride” promotion in all of their stores. Why don’t these companies just sell their products and stay out of social issues? I am sick and tired of being told I have to accept their alternative lifestyle. What they do behind closed doors is none of my business. Stop telling me I have to accept it because I never will.

Hey, New York-style Trump with your paranoid ideas: Stay out of Arizona. We have enough with Sen. John McCain, who does his best to become another Sen. Hayden. Keep Trump at home. We’re happy without him.

Today’s Democrats are not at all like the old Democrats. President Harry Truman once said, “You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.” Then the average net worth of a senator increases $1.6 million annually.

My comment is for the dog owners out there. If you’re not responsible enough to pick up after your dog, maybe you’re not responsible enough to have a dog in the first place.

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Ask the Expert

Why patients need to embrace shared decision making Dr. Jeffrey I. Selwyn

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here are times when the “right” health decision isn’t immediately evident.

Should a patient have surgery, for example, to try to address back pain or limited function? It’s an answer with layers of complexities and variables.

Reasonable people can weigh the pros and cons and determine there is more than one reasonable answer.

Research has shown that when there isn’t a clear clinical answer, physicians are more likely to have some degree of ambivalence about the path forward and leave the choice up to their patients exclusively.

I don’t think that’s the right answer.

Those complex choices are the ones in which patients most need guidance and a balanced opinion from those with clinical knowledge.

We also know, however, that the old

model of “doctor says, patient does” doesn’t work.

It is increasingly clear that to get the best outcome for a patient, three components must be present: • Clinical knowledge of evidencebased medicine.

• Open communication.

• Shared decision making.

That first point is the responsibility of the physician; the second point is critical for patients.

As a patient, it’s important that you be honest with your physician and ask as many clarifying questions as you need to ask to make sure you understand your diagnosis and the options for treatments, as well as the risks and benefits of each approach. Don’t be afraid that your questions will make you appear uneducated about a disease process or a procedure. It’s your health

and you have the right to have the information you need to come to an educated decision.

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One of a Kind

By Bill Straus

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h, was he loud? Bombastic, irrepressible and authentic. And I loved him!

I can’t help myself. I have to add my 2 cents on the passing of Muhammad Ali. I’m sure it won’t be the last you see or hear. And I’d like to divide this tribute into two parts: his boxing and everything else.

First, his boxing.

He was the greatest fighter of all time.

Now for the rest of his life.

Ali’s greatness was the result of what he “brought to the table,” and when he did it. Cassius Marcellus Clay burst on the scene just as America was confronting its history of discrimination, bigotry and civil rights inequalities. And at the peak of his career in the ring, Ali jumped into that struggle unabashedly. Immediately after winning the heavyweight title, he joined the Black Muslims and changed

his name to Muhammad Ali. He spoke overtly of the prejudice he observed and became one of the first AfricanAmerican celebrities to proclaim that “black is beautiful.”

When drafted, he refused induction on religious grounds. Convicted of draft evasion, Ali was stripped of his title and faced a possible five-year sentence in prison. He was willing to sacrifice it all— his career, the wealth that accompanied that field, his acceptance by most of America and most significantly, his freedom—out of principle.

And he was all too well aware that prison was the most likely outcome to his decision. While appealing his case, he couldn’t box, so he hit the college circuit as a speaker. I heard him speak in Iowa City during that period and remember never having been so moved by anyone as I was by him that day. But something

amazing happened; the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down his conviction, and despite losing three and a half years in the prime of his career, he resumed boxing for another twelve years.

That wasn’t all he did.

After retiring from boxing, Ali became the “face” of Parkinson’s disease, with which he was diagnosed in 1984. I didn’t know much Boxing light-heavyweight podium 1960 Olympic about Parkinson’s before that. games in Rome.

I do now, thanks in large part to Ali. He lost that inimitable gift of gab think of this exchange the late, great to the disease, but never slipped into football coach “Bum” Phillips once had silence. He was an ambassador. In 1990, with a reporter. “Bum” was asked if he negotiated with Saddam Hussein for he thought his star running back, Earl the release of 15 hostages. He raised Campbell, was in a class by himself. money—lots of it, particularly here Without hesitating, “Bum” responded, in Arizona, home of the Muhammad “I don’t know ‘bout that, but it don’t Ali Parkinson’s Clinic at Barrow. How take too long to call roll.” ironic that in those years of silence, Ali Bill Straus is a retired native Phoenician. He was perhaps heard at his loudest.

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Entertainment A Lesson Learned

Chris Isaak rolls everyday experiences into engaging live show

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hether it’s on the phone with a journalist or on stage in front of thousands of fans, Chris Isaak lives to entertain. He finds the humor in almost every situation—like the time he created four tickets to see The Tubes.

“I borrowed one of my friend’s tickets and copied it by hand,” Isaak said with a laugh. “I just made it up. I made four tickets for myself and my friends.

“Twenty years later, I’m playing with Prairie Prince, the drummer from The Tubes. I told him I owed him 12 because I snuck into his show. I showed him the ticket and he said, ou drew it?’ That taught me never to forget what it’s like to not have money.”

Isaak said he is by no means encouraging fans to make counterfeit concert tickets. Fans will have to buy tickets to his shows on Tuesday, July 26, at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix and Wednesday, July 2 , at the Fox Tucson Theatre in Tucson.

The consummate showman, the 9-year-old Isaak engages his fans by inviting them on stage or slipping into the seats with them. It’s important to him to bring it every night.

“My No. 1 goal is to make the audience have fun,” he said. “I play what they want to hear. I wrote the songs. It’s always stuff I like.”

Isaak attributes his onstage persona to his band, with whom he has played for three decades.

“We still love touring together,” he said. “When you drive 00 miles a night, you find out who they are after 30 years. ou’re either going to hate them or love them and I love them. I don’t think there’s a night that goes by when we don’t try to bring it.

“I saw an act that I love remember thinking—I’m not going to name names—they’re just phoning it in.

They’re just looking down at their

shoes. They’re shoegazers. They look at their shoes. They’re not dealing with the audience.”

He even learns something from shows like that.

“I learned early on to never do that,” he said. “We always make it a point to mix it up with the audience—get the audience on stage, get into the audience, talk to the audience. It makes it a lot more fun for everyone.”

Isaak is touring to promote his recent album, 201 ’s “First Comes the Night,” which was produced by Isaak, Dave Cobb, Chris Isaak plays Fox Tucson Theatre on Wednesday, Mark Needham and Paul July 27.

Worley. Worley showed him the there was panic among the crew and importance of work-life balance.

“I was singing really well,” Isaak the people who were running the show. said about one studio session. “Paul Suddenly, there are eight guys from said to me that we should wrap it up in the crew out there physically pushing another hour or two. I said that I could the stage around. It was something to keep singing, but Paul said he had to go watch. They would push it a quarter of the way around and then stop for to a baseball game.”

It turned out that it was Worley’s a minute, and do it again. But they couldn’t keep it steady. Finally, he got child’s baseball game.

“He asked me if I wanted to go, so to the middle of the song, the crew is I did,” he said. “It was very fun. That resting and he stops the song and said, was a lesson, too—in perspective. es, Push.’ I just died.” it’s important to sing your record, but He also performs at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July it’s also important to be friends and 26, at the Celebrity Theatre, 440 N. 32nd fathers.”

He hopes that his shows will bring St., Phoenix. Tickets are $55 to $85. For people together as well—just as it did more information, call (602) 267-1600 or for Roy Orbison and his crew at a show visit www.celebritytheatre.com.

Isaak saw in California.

“Like the Celebrity IF YOU GO Theatre, the stage was turning and it broke,” What: Chris Isaak Isaak said. “Can you imagine? Here you are When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 27 on stage, you’re playing, Where: Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. but half of the audience only has a view of the Cost: $34 to $97 drummer’s back.

Information: www.foxtucson.com “Roy was singing but

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Calendar of events July 2016 July 1 Friday Friday Night Live! Main Gate Square Jazz Concert Series with Haboob, 7 p.m., Geronimo Plaza Courtyard, 814 E. University Blvd., free, www. maingatesquare.com/jazz-concert-schedule/. Formerly Jazz Telephone, Haboob plays original music with a saxophonist, organist, bassist and drummer.

July 2 Saturday Tucson Clay Co-op Open House, noon to 4 p.m., Tucson Clay Co-Op, 3326 N. Dodge Blvd., free, 7926263, www.tucsonclayco-op.com, tucsonclaycoop@ yahoo.com. Register for summer day camps for kids and adults. Refreshments will be served and kids can play with clay for free from noon to 1 p.m.

Birding at Sweetwater Wetlands, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Sweetwater Wetlands, 2667 W. Sweetwater Dr., free, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Explore this urban birding hotspot with a naturalist to look for wetland and desert birds as well as other wildlife.

July 3 Sunday Fireworks Extravaganza, 8 p.m., AVA Amphitheater, Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Rd., free, 838-6400, www.casinodelsol.com. The all-ages show also features food specials and music.

July 4 Monday Stars and Stripes Extravaganza, 5:30 p.m., Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, 10000 N. Oracle Rd., $55 adults, $25 children age 5 to 12 (registered guests), 544-5000, http:// hiltonelconquistador.com/holidays. Hosted at the hotel’s Western-themed venue, the event features a classic barbecue buffet, live entertainment and a fireworks display.

Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration, 10 a.m. to noon, Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, free, 398-2252, www.tubacpresidio.org. Enjoy an assortment of free games for kids including hula hoops, water balloon and bean bag toss, coin guess and others.

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July 7 Thursday Monsoon Mysteries, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., Ellie Towne Community Center, 1660 W. Ruthrauff Rd., free, 6157855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. Explore the interesting events that occur during the monsoon, including weather and how plants and animals respond to the monsoon. Learn about the origin of the term “monsoon” and discuss the outlook for this year’s monsoon.

Birding in Agua Caliente Park, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Thursdays, Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free with membership, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855.

July 8 Friday Movies in the Park: “Kung Fu Panda,” Reid Park’s DeMeester Performing Arts Pavilion, 900 S. Randolph Way, free, www.saaca.org. Bring your own chairs and blankets.

July 9 Saturday Lizards of Agua Caliente Park, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. Join the group as they search for whiptail, spiny, ornate tree and other lizards.

Nature Night: Bats in Flight, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Pima County Rillito River Park, 4200 N. Campbell Ave., free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nnrpr. Discover the fascinating lives of Mexican free-tailed bats and watch as hundreds of bats emerge from their daytime roosts under the Campbell Avenue Bridge over the Rillito River.

Sweet Corn Festival, time TBA, repeats July 10, July 16 and July 17, Apple Annie’s, 2081 W. Hardy Rd. Willcox, free admission, www.appleannies.com. Enjoy hot roasted sweet corn, corn recipe demos and corn gadgets.

July 10 Sunday Sweet Corn Festival, time TBA, repeats July 16 and July 17, Apple Annie’s, 2081 W. Hardy Rd. Willcox, free admission, www.appleannies.com. Enjoy hot roasted sweet corn, corn recipe demos and corn gadgets.

July 11 Monday Open Rehearsal for Tucson Repertory Orchestra, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Grace St. Paul Church, 2331 E. Adams, free, http://tucsonrepertoryorchestra.org. Hear the orchestra play Dvorak Symphony No. 9, Rossini, La Scala de Seta, Dvorak, Serenade for Strings.

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Birding at Cienega Creek, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Gabe Zimmerman Davidson Canyon Trailhead at Cienega Creek Natural Preserve, 16000 E. Marsh Station Rd., free with membership, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Observe the rich bird life in the diverse habitats of Cienega Creek Natural Preserve on a guided walk with naturalist Jeff Babson.

Tour of Hacienda de la Canoa, 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 724-5520. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insight into the fascinating stories of the people who worked and lived on the ranch.

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July 21 Thursday

Sweet Corn Festival, time TBA, Apple Annie’s, 2081 W. Hardy Rd. Willcox, free admission, www.appleannies. com. Enjoy hot roasted sweet corn, corn recipe demos and corn gadgets.

Birding in Agua Caliente Park, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Thursdays, Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free with membership, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855.

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Mahjong Monday, noon to 3 p.m., Himmel Park Library, 1035 N. Treat Ave., free, 594-5305.

Movies in the Park: “Inside Out,” Reid Park’s DeMeester Performing Arts Pavilion, 900 S. Randolph Way, free, www.saaca.org. Bring your own chairs and blankets.

July 19 Tuesday Birding Along the Santa Cruz River, 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Wheeler Taft Abbett Senior Branch Library, 7800 N. Schisler Dr., free with membership, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima. gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Join birding expert Jeff Babson to see the riparian birds that are attracted to the mature willows and continuous river flow along the Santa Cruz River in Marana.

July 23 Saturday Nature Night Desert Night Shift, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. While most people are tucked in bed, the desert comes alive. Join Pima County naturalists on an easy hike to discover “who” is out and about in the desert at night.

July 24 Sunday

July 20 Wednesday Nuts about Nature Preschool Hour, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. Bring the grandkids for child-friendly fun that includes stories, crafts and games.

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July 25 Monday Mahjong Monday, noon to 3 p.m., Himmel Park Library, 1035 N. Treat Ave., free, 594-5305.

Lizards of Agua Caliente Park, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. Search for whiptail, spiny, ornate tree and other lizards that roam the park.

Frontier Printing Press Demonstration, 9 a.m. to noon, Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, $2 to $5, 398-2252, www.tubacpresidio.org.

Guests will have the opportunity to set type and print small samples to take home.

Living History: Spinning, 9 a.m. to noon, Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, $2 to $5, 398-2252, www.tubacpresidio.org. Watch and learn how fiber and spinning impacted human activity from ancient to modern times.

July 27 Wednesday Sonoran Desert Weedwackers, 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Pima County Tucson Mountain Park, email eeducation@pima.gov for exact meeting location, free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. Join the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers to eradicate buffelgrass and fountain grass in Tucson Mountain Park.

July 28 Thursday Birding in Agua Caliente Park, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Thursdays, Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325

E. Roger Rd., free with membership, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 6157855.

July 29 Friday Monsoon Mysteries, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Woods Memorial Library, 3455 N. First Ave. free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. Explore the interesting events that occur during the monsoon, including weather and how plants and animals respond to the monsoon. Learn about the origin of the term monsoon and discuss the outlook for this year’s monsoon.

July 30 Saturday Harvestfest at Sonoita Vineyards, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sonoita Vineyards, 290 Elgin-Canelo Rd., Elgin, $20 to $75, 455-5893. Harvestfest guests can taste wine and take part in winery and vineyard tours throughout the day. Festival patrons can enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, purchase lunch from Arizona restaurant and caterers the Steak-Out and Daily Bread Bistro, or participate in a grape-stomping competition.

July 31 Sunday Peach Mania Festival, repeats July 31, Apple Annie’s, 2081 W. Hardy Rd. Willcox, free admission, www.appleannies.com. Enjoy a free wagon ride, peach ice cream, peach pie and a craft fair.

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hey’re one of the best cookies ever to come from a bag of potato chips and they’re absolutely the perfect treat to pack for a summer picnic.

Just don’t blame me if you can’t stop eating them. I’m having a hard enough time keeping away from them myself.

If you like pecan sandies, or any cookie that sort of melts in your mouth, these delicate yet hearty-flavored potato chip picnic cookies are going to win you over.

This heritage recipe comes from ammy Orner of Phoenix. It’s a cookie that brings back the most loving memories of her Grandma stelle and the cookie tin that was waiting for ammy whenever she would visit.

“I would go see Grandma stelle and she had this special cookie tin that came out of the cabinet and, oh boy, was I in for a treat,” ammy said.

“All of her cookies were good, but once she found out how much I loved

the potato chip cookies, she would make them whenever she knew I was coming over. We used to sit and talk about her work. Grandma stelle was a nurse at AS and a diehard Sun Devils fan. She was from Wisconsin and passed away in 2003. I had asked her for years for the recipe for the cookies and one day on a visit after my grandfather had passed away, we were sitting at the kitchen table having tea and cookies she gave me the hand-written recipe. It’s a very special treasure.” ammy heard me talking on the radio about how much I love family recipes and stories. She said it brought a smile to her face and she decided that the greatest honor she could give her Grandma stelle is to pass along her delicious potato chip cookie recipe for all of us to enjoy. I’m so glad you did, ammy. Will we love Grandma stelle’s potato chip cookies? I’d say it’s in the bag!

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Though formally adopted July 4 as the Declaration of Independence, the resolution to dissolve the colonies’ ties to England was put forth as the Lee Resolution on what date?

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Carleton Carpenter: Actor, author and lion tamer

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hat were the chances that a 6-foot 3-inch, spaghetti-thin, 18-yearold blonde actor from Bennington, Vermont, could break into Broadway on his first job interview in the 1940s?

For Carleton Carpenter, after arriving in New ork City in the winter of 1944, they were clearly quite good.

“Within 24 hours I had my first Broadway role in a play called Bright Boy,’” said Carpenter, who turns 90 in July, from his home in Warwick, New ork. “The character was written as a tall, lanky blonde who wanted to be an actor. Talk about perfect casting!”

Although towering over most other actors, Carpenter’s fresh, youthful appearance appealed to casting directors. And while theater was always his great love—he appeared in 10 Broadway productions—he also had roles in 0 television and film productions.

Largely a supporting actor in movies, Carpenter left his mark on two musicals released in 19 0.

In “Three Little Words,” he appears in a memorable musical number with Debbie Reynolds—“I Wanna Be Loved by ou”—never peaking or singing a word. It was an odd coupling, with Reynolds over a foot shorter than Carpenter.

“I guess they just liked the look of the two of us together,” he said.

The same year, Reynolds and Carpenter appeared in “Two Weeks with Love,” although Jane Powell and Ricardo Montalban were the leads. Nevertheless, the vertically mismatched couple again stole the show with their musical highlight “Aba Daba Honeymoon,” a catchy novelty song.

“We were rehearsing and I spotted the song in a pile of old sheet music on the piano,” recalled Carpenter.

“I played it for Debbie and we liked it. When I saw Jack Cummings, the producer, walking toward the rehearsal hall, I told Debbie to sing the lyrics very fast. He agreed it would be a good number for the two of us.”

Carpenter’s first leading role was in

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Janet Leigh and Carleton Carpenter in ‘Fearless Fagan.’

MGM publicity photo of Carpenter with young lion.

MGM’s “Fearless Fagan” in 19 2.

“It was loosely based on a true story about a guy who was drafted into the army and tried to take his pet lion named Fagan with him,” explained Carpenter. “I had a lion for a co-star, but it was my first star billing—you just go with it!”

While publicity posters promoted the film with headlines such as “Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, eenan Wynn and introducing Fearless Fagan (himself),” Carpenter says the real Fagan made only one brief appearance at the beginning of the film.

“He had a double!” laughed Carpenter. “Fagan and I worked on the MGM lot for a month getting used to each other, but he was old. By the time we started filming, his trainer was worried he might hurt someone. The studio brought in a young lion and he was like a pussy cat. I crawled into bed with him, we wrestled, and I did every scene with him. I had padding under my uniform and around my arms, but occasionally he would nip my rump.”

Janet Leigh, however, wasn’t impressed with her four-legged co-star.

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Carpenter. “But she was well protected.

Off camera, the crew were watching with loaded guns just in case!”

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Brain Fitness

Putting off retirement to stay sharp? Your gray matter might just age better with a little aerobics, some daily brain games and an occasional brisk walk in the park

By Jimmy Magahern

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oes working past the typical retirement age keep us mentally sharp? Or might our brains actually be better off if we stopped to smell the roses—while maybe taking a jog around the block?

With more people delaying retirement (more than onethird of men and one-quarter of the women older than 60 are remaining in the labor force well past retirement age, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics), there’s been a surge of support for the old “use it or lose it” theory: the idea that cognitive skills remain higher when older adults remain on the job, exercising their brains by staying in a mentally challenging environment.

A 2014 study in France, widely reported by U.S. news sources, found that the longer people in the sample delayed retirement, the smaller the group that would show signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s.

But John DenBoer, a clinical neuropsychologist in Phoenix, who specializes in early-stage dementia detection, believes that for many of us staying at work may actually be the least mentally stimulating thing we can do as we age.

“Usually people can still do their job even while they’re developing dementia, because it’s old learning to them,” he explains.

“That’s the thing that mystifies people: that they can continue to do things at their job that are very complex,

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then when they retire they notice they’re forgetting things and they think, ‘Oh my God, I’m having some problems here.’ Really what’s happening is that they were developing dementia on their jobs but they weren’t noticing it, because they weren’t having to learn new things. And it’s the new and novel learning that actually releases glutamate, which is an excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, and ultimately leads to preventing the atrophy of the brain, or accelerated brain shrinkage.”

In short, if you’re the one getting the gold watch at work and still punching the clock, your job may be inducing a literal brain drain that you won’t even realize you’ve been experiencing until you finally retire.

The fact is, there are healthier—and more effective—ways to exercise the brain than by continuing to perform the same work tasks year after year. AARP’s “Staying Sharp” section on its website lists taking up adult coloring books (for strengthening focus), taking brisk walks through a park (increases the hippocampus) and even doing 30 minutes of daily gardening (“the bacteria found in soil may have a positive impact on mood and learning”) as better ways to ward off cognitive decline.

So what’s a good fitness plan for the brain?

Arizona aging experts have a number of thoughtprovoking suggestions on how to get, and stay, smart.

Get with the Millennials In the late ’90s, recently retired University of Arizona president Henry offler created what he called “a retirement community for people who aren’t ready to retire” at the foot of the Rincon Mountains on the eastern edge of Tucson. He called it Academy Village, and included in the plans a mini-university, Arizona Senior Academy, which continues to host stimulating weekly concerts and twice-weekly lectures from a wide variety of artists and thought leaders.

“It was designed as a haven for retired academics,” says Mike Maharry, ASA’s executive vice president. “There was an article in the Boston Globe that called it ‘Einstein Village,’ and the name sort of stuck.” ...continues on page 24

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TRILOGY BY SHEA HOMES

It could soon be called the not,” he adds. “What we provide here they may be encountering dementia, Senior Silicon Valley. As part of its is the social and intellectual stimulation also ascribes to the healthy body/ community outreach efforts, ASA to get out, pay attention, contribute, healthy mind axiom.

“The most succinct way to put it is: members often meet with high school participate. All those things that keep Anything that is good for your heart and junior high students you active.” is good for your brain,” says Finley, in the area to share their who before to coming to Sun Health experience with the kids Get physical and, in turn, learn new The Healthways worked at a memory-care facility technology and ideas SilverSneakers Fitness and as family- care consultant for the from them. Recently a program calls it BOOM Alzheimer’s Association.

“So all of those things that we already collaboration between Mind, part of a threethe generations resulted part approach (along know we’re supposed to be doing in an invention that with BOOM Move It for our heart health—eating right, stands to become a highand Muscle) that uses a exercising regularly—are also good valuation startup for blend of yoga, Pilates for our brain health. And probably the venture capitalists. and flexibility training single most important thing is exercise,” “One of our members to promote good brain she emphasizes. “We know that 20 to mentors graduating health. Offered, along 30 minutes daily exercise reduces your seniors in the University with all SilverSneakers risk of developing dementia. There’s no of Arizona’s engineering Marty Finley, Sun health’s adult wellness programs, guarantee—certainly I’ve known people department,” Maharry memory care navigator. as a Medicare benefit who always ate right and exercised and says. “And he helped at more than 13,000 they got Alzheimer’s anyway. But those them with what they call their participating gyms, wellness centers are things that reduce our risk.”

Finley says overall well-being is ‘capstone project,’ where they work and YMCAs nationwide, BOOM on developing a new product for an Mind is but one program for older essential to maintaining a healthy outside source.” adults that purports to link physical brain.

“Many of the symptoms of early In this case, a Tucson medical supply exercise with maintaining a healthy dementia mimic the symptoms company was looking to develop a brain. new form of feeding tube, one that The Trilogy communities in Arizona of depression,” she says. “So the could prevent the sometimes fatal (which include Encanterra in San symptoms can include a loss of interest accidents that can occur when a tube Tan Valley and other properties in in normal activities, withdrawal from is inserted into the lungs rather than Verde River, Peoria the esophagus. and Wickenburg) also “They found a way to test the acidity offer stress-reducing, of the end of the tube, which tells slow-movement exercise whether the tube is in the stomach,” programs, like tai chi says Maharry. and yoga, along with Turns out it helped to have an older a variety of game and member on the team who had actually activity clubs aimed at seen (and perhaps smelled) a feeding keeping 55-plus minds tube in use. active—everything from “The company thought so much of bocce ball and pingthis that they’re going to patent it and pong to community herb name the students and mentor as the gardening, mahjongg inventing team.” and Mexican train.

That kind of engagement between “We have all kinds innovative young thinkers and of programs that are seasoned, experienced retired adults health-related as well La Cocina Culinary Studio has a commercial-grade kitchen is what the Arizona Senior Academy as mind-stimulating, designed for cooking classes and small gatherings. considers one key to maintaining which for us also mental sharpness. includes a lot of healthy food and social contacts, maybe the inability to “We’re basically dedicated to beverage options,” says Heimo initiate activities, sleep disruptions, a making sure that when professional Brandstatter, general manager at change in personality. All those things people retire, they don’t have to stop Encanterra. “A healthy body leads to a are warning signs.”

Beyond exercise, Finley’s prescription using their skills,” Maharry says. healthy mind.” for maintaining good mental health “They don’t have to stop learning Marty Finley, Sun Health’s memory about their skills, they don’t have to care navigator, who provides donation- includes an active social calendar.

“It’s important to remain socially stop giving back to society. supported personal and professional “Some of the characteristics that guidance to older adults in the engaged in life,” she says. “If someone lead to good mental health into your northwest section of metro Phoenix has been active in a tennis group or older life are genetic, but some are who are diagnosed with or concerned a bridge group or in going to religious

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services, they should maintain those social connections. We also want to actively participate in mentally stimulating, novel activities. It could be to take a class on something that you know nothing about, or learn a new language, or a new skill. Because we know that when people learn new things, it forms new connections in the brain.

“It’s a multi-pronged approach,” Finley summarizes. “You’ve got to maintain your mental activities, your social engagement and your physical health. But that’s what we would consider successful aging anyway, right?”

Get a new game plan New learning is at the heart of DenBoer’s “cognitive intervention” program, SMART Brain Aging, which is designed to reduce cognitive decline in aging brains. Offered as a Medicarereimbursable program at many retirement communities (including the three Sun Health Senior Living communities) and six clinics around the Valley, DenBoer’s SMART Memory Program places participants in a circle with a “smart coach” leading them through problem-solving exercises and games designed to stimulate new learning.

“They’re puzzles and brain games— not revolutionary by any means—but what they can do is they significantly help the brain release that glutamate organically,” he says. “Drugs like Aricept and Namenda attempt to do that synthetically, but the problem is the brain tolerates those medications and prevents them from working significantly.”

A variation of the program is also offered online, as SMART Brain U, which offers brain training games a la Lumosity (but without the unsubstantiated advertising claims that got that company in trouble with the FTC). Sidnee Peck, the thirtysomething CEO of SMART Brain Aging, acknowledges that many people already play a variety of so-called brain games on their smartphones and even traditional board games purported to boost brain activity. The problem is they often get stuck in the rut of playing the same games. ...continues on page 26

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“People just need to go John DenBoer of Phoenix. people are taking a more to the ‘memory gym,’” active role in preserving he says. “They can do it online, do it their physical health, taking measures twice a week. And it helps mitigate to ensure proper mental health is dementia.” becoming just another part of a good daily routine. Younger people, too, are Get over it taking an active role in encouraging their One of the obstacles to getting older elders to practice preventive healthcare adults into healthy brain fitness habits for their brains. Young celebrities like is getting them past the stigma that still Janel Parrish, Joey McIntyre and the exists around mental health issues. cast of “The Big Bang Theory” recently “My grandmother, Jean Seeling, was joined the Alzheimer’s Association in a huge figure in my life. She helped a social media awareness campaign, raise me,” says DenBoer. “And she #ENDALZ, encouraging fans to wear began developing dementia late in purple to support the cause. life. And while I was studying this, I “Dementia is not a normal part of was encouraging her to do these brain aging,” says Peck. “We can actually exercises. But she always said, ‘I’m not do things in the early stages to keep really like those people.’ Then over the our brains healthy. And I think it will years her dementia progressed more certainly become a huge topic of and more until it got to a point where conversation as the baby boomers she really wasn’t able to remember age.” me.”

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Bergen, which has evolved from the medieval town of Bryggen, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Three hours later the clouds can’t say we weren’t warned. When we told our Norwegian friends we obscured the sun. Four hours later, were going to Bergen, they looked at we’re drenched. That’s when I each other and smiled as if wondering remember that my friend told us a proverb she learned from whether they should let us her grandmother: There’s in on Bergen’s secret. “A no such thing as bad beautiful place,” he said weather in Bergen, just finally. “A city of culture.” inappropriate clothes.

“A city of rain,” she My husband and I raced interrupted. “Rainiest spot back to the hotel, grabbed on the continent. Rains 250 parkas for our bodies, days a year—summer, fall, dry shoes for our feet and winter and spring.” myriad plastic bags for his In other words, it always camera. Then, outfitted rains. Is this a place my appropriately, we set out to husband and I really want imbibe some culture. to visit?

We begin in the center Well, yes. For beauty and of town, which 1,000 culture we can endure a few years ago was home to the drops of rain. medieval town of Bryggen.

On the first morning, we Many of the original looked out our hotel room buildings were destroyed window and saw sun, bright happy sun shining down Norwegian souvenir shops by fire during the 1 00s on buildings that shimmer are filled with trolls and and subsequently rebuilt on the old foundations, with color. We’ve won the reindeer. meaning that the footprints weather lottery.

Peaked roofs covered with orange, and often the function remained the gold, black and sometimes red tiles sit same. Because the area was so well atop walls that may be light gray or preserved, modern-day Bergen has ivory, but are more often vibrant gold or been designated a UNESCO World soft blue. Off in the distance a church Heritage City, one that must be topped with delicate pinnacles and protected due to its enduring cultural spires stands guard over the haphazard significance.

The reconstructed buildings are streets. I later learn that this church— Johanneskirken in Norwegian, St. lined along the wharf, facing the water John’s in English—is the largest in that made Bryggen an economic powerhouse—in medieval terms of Bergen and dates to 1894.

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Violin virtuoso Ole Bull is among many renowned artists who was Bergen born and bred. course. Today the terms have changed. Bergen is still an economic powerhouse, but it deals in tourists instead of fish.

We spent the better part of a day strolling along the cobblestone streets and planked walkways of old Bryggen and exploring repurposed buildings, now crooked with age.

We saw trolls in every size and shape in the souvenir shops, Bergen is home to fishing boats, sightseeing boats and admired handmade knits with cruise ships of all sizes.

Nordic designs in the galleries, and ate. Oh my, we ate. First we who want a more unusual voyage.

We opt for a half-day fjord trip, downed a sandwich laden with shrimp, crab and salmon. Then we warmed up which is so delightful that immediately with a sjokoladerdrikker (hot chocolate) upon disembarking we rearrange our from a Starbucks that’s housed in a bucket list. Now a longer voyage up the building that looks like a giant wedding Norwegian coast is No. 1.

The next day passes too quickly as cake, complete with a frosting of white.

Two hundred years ago this building we try to absorb the city’s art and music was the town’s meat market. A few scene. It’s a large scene—one that blocks away an old bakery has been encompasses both past and present— and in 2000 resulted in Bergen being turned into a new McDonald’s.

Thoroughly sated, we visited the named a European City of Culture.

Hanseatic Museum, where we take Music aficionados can visit the home a guided tour that helps us better of Norway’s most famous composer understand Bergen’s history. Then Edvard Grieg as well as the villa of we wander over to the wharf to see violin virtuoso Ole Bull, while art some of the ships that take nearly half- enthusiasts can explore Bergen’s Art million passengers a year on trips to Street, an impressive row of galleries and museums that borders Lake the spectacular Norwegian fjords.

Some of these ships, which number Lungegårdsvann.

As we walk back to our hotel, we feel more than 300 a year, are megaships, each carrying thousands of the soft drops of an evening rain, but passengers to the larger ports along this time we hardly notice. We’ve fallen the coast. Others, like those operated in love with Bergen.

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The Cherokee National Supreme Court Museum is the oldest government building in Oklahoma.

Guides demonstrate traditional Cherokee homes and crafts at the ancient village.

A trip to the Cherokee Nation Studying their way of life—past and present Story and Photos by Ed Boitano

“M

arshall has made his decision now let him enforce it”—President Andrew Jackson referring to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall’s decision that the Indian relocation program was unconstitutional.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson pushed a new piece of legislation through Congress called the Indian Removal Act. American Indian tribes were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands to the west. Jackson said that this was for the various tribes’ protection, but there was an ulterior motive—Euro-American settlers were eager to take over their land, particularly in Northern Georgia, where gold had been discovered.

A number of Indian nations made attempts at nonviolent resistance, but eventually felt that this was an inevitable removal and that there was no way to stop the U.S. government.

The Cherokee Nation of 22,000, based in Georgia, the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee, took their protest to the Supreme Court.

Considered one of the “civilized” tribes of the Southeast, they had adopted Euro-American practices of large-scale farming, Western education, slave-holding and even had an English language newspaper. The Supreme Court sided with the Cherokee, saying that they had a constitutional right to stay in their ancestral land. Jackson refused to enforce the law.

In 1838, the U.S. government sent in ,000 troops, who forced the Cherokees into stockades at bayonet point. They were not allowed to gather their belongings and, as they departed, their homes were looted. They began a thousand-mile march to an area in present-day Oklahoma. A quarter of the 16,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, exhaustion and disease.

The Cherokee people call this journey “The Trail Where They Cried” (Anglicized “The Trail of Tears”)—a journey that saw more people perish than the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

On my visit, I was not sure what to expect when I arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I took a 45-minute shuttle to Tahlequah—home to the Cherokee Nation—in northeast Oklahoma. I had the Arizona stereotype that all of Oklahoma was a dry and barren land of dustbowls and tornados. The second I stepped off the bus, that stereotype ended.

The Cherokee Nation is in the heart of Oklahoma’s Green Country. An area of rolling pastoral hills, this is an outdoor lover’s paradise, home to more than half of the state’s parks and lakes.

The area’s attractions give guests an inside look at the Cherokee way of life, both past and present.

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was informed that tribes prefer to be referred to by their tribal name, but collectively as American Indian, not Native American). There are more than 31 ,000 citizens 0,000 of them reside in the ,000 square miles of the Cherokee Nation.

Soon after the Cherokee arrival, they transformed the area, creating a progressive court and education system with a literacy rate higher than the rest of the United States. Many white settlements took advantage of their superior schools, and paid tuition to have their children attend the Cherokee schools. Oklahoma grew up around the nations of the American Indian Territory, and that influence can be seen today. It is an all-inclusive tribe, with anyone having a drop of Cherokee blood qualifying them as Cherokee.

Ancient Village: The village features replicas of traditional homes from the time of intense cultural transformation.

Guides and villagers demonstrate traditional Cherokee crafts as basketry, pottery, field games, flint knapping and blow guns. Rather than face duals to death, disputes were handled by playing field games, with the loser accepting the results.

Points of interest Cherokee National Museum: Committed to telling the story of the Cherokee, the center was built on the original site of the Cherokee National Female Seminary. Offering exhibits, cultural workshops and events, the center includes the Adams Corner Rural Village, Cherokee Family Research Center and Cherokee National Archives.

The museum houses the award-winning Trail of Tears interpretive exhibition— an experience that will stir you to the depths of your soul.

Also in the area Will Rogers Museum: No stranger to Hollywood, Will Rogers was the son of a Cherokee senator and became world-famous as a rope-twirling cowboy on vaudeville and in Hollywood. He is buried outside of the museum in Claremont. At the museum, you will learn what he meant with his most famous quotation: “I never met a man I didn’t like.”

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Cherokee National Supreme Court Museum: The oldest government building in Oklahoma, the supreme and district courts both hold sessions here. Historical items include photos, stories, objects and furniture. The building also houses the printing press of the bilingual Cherokee Phoenix—the first bilingual newspaper in the United States—and the Cherokee Advocate.

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JOURNEY PACIFIC - Planning a trip to the South Pacific is great fun but we also know it can be challenging. Our aim is simple: to help you create the perfect vacation including resorts, tours and transportation, all at the right budget for YOU. What is important to you is important to us. Whether your priorities are centered around the best beaches, gourmet food, professional surf waves, world class SCUBA diving, amazing value or all of these, we can point you in the right direction. We strive to have the best knowledge, the best rates and the best customer service. At Journey Pacific, we are here to make your travel experience simple, stress free and fun! Call (800) 704 7094 or e-mail sales@journeypacific.com

HERZERL TOURS - Have you ever thought how great it would be to take your grandkids on a cooking tour of Vienna? Herzerl Tours now offers cooking classes working with a group of wonderful Viennese private chefs. Spend a full week watching famous Viennese chefs at work, and then trying your hand at it; and indulging in Viennese food and Viennese wines. For nearly 20 years, Susanne Servin has combined the spontaneity of independent travel with the efficiency of touring. Visit our website for additional tours. Contact Susanne at (800) 684-8488 for details; sms@herzerltours.com orwww.herzerltours.com

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TUNDRA TOURS – TOP OF THE WORLD HOTEL - Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States! Packed with excitement and exhilarating adventures, tourists come from around the world to experience this unique Arctic region. When you stay at the Top of the World Hotel, you can maximize your trip by enjoying easy access to some of the top things to do in Barrow, Alaska. Head out for an impressive visual experience and gaze at the winter’s Aurora, or take in some history at the Iñupiat Heritage Center. Most importantly, be sure to experience the Summer Day Tour departing from the hotel, including the Whale Bone Arch and Arctic Ocean visits. Put us on your Bucket List today. (800) 478-8520 or www.tundratoursinc.com

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You can be a strong senior Bess Dawson-Hughes is a professor of medicine at Tufts niversity School of Medicine and past president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

In a recent Nutrition Action article, Dawson-Hughes introduced a concept not well known to those who haven’t studied nutrition and its effect on aging bones and muscles: One in two women and one in four men will break bones due to osteoporosis. The risk continues to increase with age.

In fact, by age 40, the body starts to lose more bone than it makes. ou may not know that an acidic diet can cause muscle loss. In fact, muscle and bone loss is the body’s way of handling excess acid.

So what causes excess acid in the bloodstream? An acidic diet. Those acidic foods include bread, cereal,

rice, pasta, crackers, tortillas, cookies, doughnuts, cupcakes and similar foods.

To protect bones and muscles, a wise senior will limit these foods. On the other hand, fruits and vegetables add alkali to the body, helping to balance out acid.

Vitamin D is yet another factor in maintaining strong bones and muscles.

About 60% of Americans do not get enough vitamin D, as seniors need 800 to 1000 milligrams. Vitamin D deficiency can cause a deficit of type 2 fibers in our muscles. These are the “fast twitch” fibers that are the “first responders” when you lose your balance.

Do you want to be a strong senior? at a diet that is balanced in favor of fruits and vegetables and do your very best to get 30 minutes of weight-bearing exercise every day.

Volunteers sought for 2017 ASO games Planning has begun for the 201 Arizona Senior Olympic Games and you can be a part of the excitement!

The games are scheduled for Feb. 18 to March 12 and help is needed on the games management team.

We are looking for volunteers who can serve as liaisons between the sports planners and the sports commissioners. GMT members are responsible for helping with all aspects of planning the event and assisting with their implementation.

Anyone who’s interested in volunteering for this position can call (602) 2 4- 42.

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Visitors to the 2017 National Senior Games in Birmingham, Ala., will have plenty to see.

What to see in beautiful Birmingham The 201 National Senior Games nearby, boasting a collection of blackwill be June 2 -1 in Birmingham, owned businesses that served customers Alabama, leaving ample time for that the white-owned businesses the athletes to explore this amazing refused. Today, many of the businesses city. Once the center of industry and are still minority owned and the area serves as a center for manufacturing, it now culture and industry. focuses on medical There is even more research, banking and to see and do in many service industries Birmingham. There is and boasts of having the Barber Museum, the greenest space per the largest motorcycle capita in the country. museum in the world The town has a with 1,400 vehicles strong history and is and the Southern considered the “cradle Museum of Flight, of the American Civil The Carver Theatre for the Performwhich includes exhibits Rights Movement.” On ing Arts was built in 1935 and is of orean War and the a September Sunday famous within the Jazz community.

Tuskegee Airmen. Not morning in 1963, four schoolgirls were killed at the 16th to neglect the arts, the Birmingham Street Baptist Church at the hands of Museum of Art houses more than the u lux lan. The church and 24,000 objects.

Museums not your thing? How the surrounding area now comprise the Birmingham Civil Rights District. This about touring a potato-chip factory? is one of those places many tourists The Golden Flake potato-chip folks will show you how the “crispiest chips consider a must.

The Birmingham Civil Rights in the South” are made—and provide Institute tells the story of black and samples.

Shopping is always high on the list of white life since the 1800s and explains how the events helped shape the things to do in new cities. Birmingham nationwide civil rights movement. has the usual department stores, but Across from the institute is the beautiful it also houses vintage areas, antique elly Ingram Park, where many of the stores, artists’ crafts, specialty outlet early civil rights demonstrations took stores and farmers’ markets.

Walking tours are popular in place. Sculptures and cellphone tours Birmingham, too. Simply download tell the history.

Down the street is the Alabama Jazz the tour from www.birmingham.travel.

Hall of Fame, the Carver Theater for Get to know the city at your own the Performing Arts and the ddie pace. Whether you are going to the endrick Memorial Park, the latter of National Senior Games as an athlete which honors the Temptations singer. or a spectator, there’s lots to see in The Fourth Avenue Business District is Birmingham.

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Fall pickleball tournament set for mid-October The Arizona Senior Olympics (ASO) 2016 Fall Pickleball Tournament will be at the beautiful Pueblo l Mirage Golf RV Resort Oct. 19-22, and Oct. 23, if needed.

ASO planners are excited and looking forward to record numbers of participants. The Resort Management Team and the Pueblo l Mirage Pickleball Club (www.pempickleball. com) have very generously agreed to host the tournament and will provide the support services to help make the event a success.

The beautiful new courts at the resort will support the growth that the tournament has experienced.

Pickleball players will enjoy the food services and the ample parking, as well as the beautiful surroundings.

This year, the tournament will be a qualifier for the 201 National Senior Games in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Players in the ASO Fall Tournament may choose “age group play,” “skill play” or both. There will be competition in singles, doubles and mixed-doubles.

Arizona Senior Olympics is a program of the Arizona Lifelong Fitness Foundation whose mission it is to promote good health among people older than 0 by providing activities that encourage a healthy, active lifestyle.

To learn more about pickleball, visit the .S. Pickleball Association website at www.usapa.org or call the ASO office at (602) 2 4- 42.

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