Category: Longevity

While other groups have come and gone, alternative metal/rock band Slapshock is still making music for 15 years since its formation in 1997.

In fact, the band—composed of Jamir Garcia (vocals), Lee Nadela (bass), Lean Ansing (guitars), and Chi Evora (drums) — is proud that they still have the “same people around us, the same crew, the same sponsors, and the same label” ever since. So what’s the secret of its longevity?

“We just respect each other. Wala kayong mababalitaan na kahit isa sa amin nag-side band. Lahat kami solid Slapshock. We truly care about the effort that each member gave,” Garcia told members of the press during the launch of their latest album “Kinse Kalibre” recently.

The band, Garcia added, also respects its audience—which is why they have turned down requests to do television performances so as not to compromise its music.

While TV exposure may help the band widen its reach, Garcia said the the group is happy where it is now.

Middle of the radar

“Isa kami sa mga banda na we can proudly say na we’re very happy in what we have achieved. We don’t want naman na lahat ng tao would know us. They would know us, but I want people to like us. Yung talagang gusto sa amin, gusto sa amin. Kasi yung music namin is for those people who will like us because of our music,” Garcia said.
 
He further explained, “So you’d see bands na they’d go really, really high tapos yung down moments nila, talagang (mababa). So, kami, we’re proud in what we have done. We’re in the middle of the radar. Hindi kami umangat ng todong-todo, hindi rin kami bumaba.”

A testament to this is “Cariño Brutal,” the band’s sixth album released in 2009. According to Garcia, the band was surprised that the album became successful despite it being “sobrang metal, puro sigaw.” The band thinks that it only proved how much the fans support its music.

“Talagang mas ine-embrace namin ngayon what we have. Because ten years is good. But 15 years is magical,” Garcia said.

Not slowing down

How is the band’s latest album “Kinse Kalibre” different from its earlier CDs?

“If you compare talaga the first album to the seventh album, sobrang layo. Kasi, nung ginawa namin yun, 17 years old lang kami nun. Ngayon, around nasa 30, 32 kami. So, ibang story talaga,” Garcia said. “Yung maturity, skills-wise, siyempre, for the past 15 years ito lang ang ginagawa namin.”

They also said the success of “Cariño Brutal” has liberated the band to do the kind of music it wants.

“Driven kami siguro to actually write. And feeling namin, after “Cariño Brutal which was a very successful album, yung follow-up kailangan… right and left job sya,” Garcia explained. “We really made a conscious effort to make a new album.”

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POSTED: 10:27 am CST February 3, 2012
UPDATED: 1:53 pm CST February 3, 2012

AMES, Iowa — What things can help you life a longer life? Iowa State University Professor Peter Martin and his research team have some answers. Read More: Best/Worst Cities For Staying Young Martin and his research team have determined behavioral factors that may increase longevity. Their latest findings were published last week in the Journal of Aging Research.”Long before we did this (Journal article) our team came up with a model of longevity and it's still one of the only models out there that says, 'These are the factors that contribute to longevity and well-being in late life,'” said Martin in an ISU news release about the article.His research the past 20 years has focused on centenarians, people who live to be at least 100.Martin said the research identifies six behavioral factors that can help you live longer:1. Environmental support: “In other words, social supports,” Martin said. “You cannot get there [long life] by yourself. You've got to have family, or community, or care facilities. And you also need economic support — the financial resources to last into very late life.”2. Individual characteristics: “This has to do with such obvious things as gender, where women are more likely to make it to a very old age than men,” Martin said. “Certainly there are also ethnic group differences or disadvantages. We know that life expectancy is higher for whites and lower for African-Americans. And we also consider personality, so a certain configuration of personality characteristics gives you a much better opportunity for long life.” 3. Behavioral skills: “These are things that you do every day. And that has to do with good coping, being an active person, good cognitive functioning, etc. All of these are very important to promoting long life,” he said.4. Good nutrition and health behaviors: “There are articles in this special issue that indicate what we eat and how we stay fit are all important,” Martin said.5. Staying healthy: “These are the things that you can do to stay in good physical health,” Martin said. “Of course some of it is biological, but much of it is our responsibility to stay healthy.”6. Good mental health: “Depressed people are not real likely to make it to very old age,” he said. “We see that [very old age] in optimistic people.”"As I've often said, longevity is much less of a secret than we think it is,” Martin said. “It's often the things that research has talked about. It's just that people would like to have the one thing that explains longevity. And with these various clusters of variables, we've found that it's not one thing — and what works for you may not work for me.”

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First Exchange Bank focused on heritage and longevity during this year’s Groundhog Day Breakfast. Nearly 250 people attended the financial institution’s 17th annual breakfast at Westchester Village in Fairmont Thursday morning.

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PASADENA, Calif. — CBS's “NCIS” remains the No. 1 scripted drama this season and next week it hits the 200-episode mark, quite an achievement for a series that didn't become an indisputable hit until about five years into its current nine-season run. Generally, TV shows are either successful out of the gate or grow into hits over the course of a season or two. Five years to become a hit?

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Researchers from the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center have completed a large-scale neuroimaging study of healthy adults from age 30 to 90 that measured beta-amyloid protein—a substance whose toxic buildup in the brain is a diagnostic marker for Alzheimer's disease.

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Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz will become the longest serving sheriff in Tulsa County history Wednesday.

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Iowa City board approves assessor's budget, eliminates longevity funds

BY DI STAFF | FEBRUARY 01, 2012 7:20 AM

The Iowa City Conference Board passed the City Assessor's fiscal-year 2013 budget proposal during one of its two yearly meetings Tuesday night.

The conference board — consisting of Iowa City city councilors, Johnson County supervisors, and Iowa City School Board members — voted to eliminate a proposed $3,525 longevity expenditure before passing the budget. Longevity pay was previously allotted $3,350 for fiscal-year 2012.

City Assessor Dennis Baldridge said the conference board eliminated step/merit pay for fiscal 2012 because they want to spend more time evaluating how the pay options would effect citizens. The proposed step/merit expenditures for fiscal 2013 is $6,000.

Baldridge suggested the conference board leave both longevity and merit/salary pay in the budget for this meeting and vote at the next meeting.

But conference board members insisted on proceeding with only step/merit pay.

“We're either doing longevity or merit,” Supervisor Janelle Rettig said. “I think [Baldridge] wanted to move to merit last year, but we didn't have a clear direction from the conference board to do that.”

All conference members approved the budget proposal with the elimination of the longevity pay.

The assessor's budget will be effective July 1.

A public hearing for the assessor's budget will be held March 6 at 3 p.m.

—by Kristen East

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Can alcohol increase your lifespan? If you're a worm, the answer appears to be “yes,” according to a new study conducted by chemists at UCLA . While the worms — known as Caenorhabditis elegans — typically live for 15 days, their life spans increased to 20 to 40 days when they ingested very small amounts of ethanol — the same type of alcohol found in your favorite wine, beer or cocktail .

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More than a few members of the union representing county
service workers are unhappy with terms of a proposed two-year
contract that
eliminates pay raises over the next two years but preserves
longevity pay for new hires.

To them, the contract pits older, dues-paying members against
workers who have yet to get the job.

Leaders of the Service
Employees Union Local 1107 are sending out emails and
holding about 18 meetings, like one Friday afternoon, to give
more information about the deal to its 5,000 members.

Some members, though, think it’s propaganda.

Q: Like who?

A: Like Clara Thomas, a District Court clerk who has worked for
Clark County 12 years. She was a member of the union’s Contract
Action Team, which meant she attended county/union contract
talks last fall and relayed information to other union members.
At a downtown coffee shop last week, Thomas said many more
members are angry, thinking the union should have taken

the deal the county offered in October.

That offer eliminated longevity for future hires but offered
merit raises of 1 percent in the first year and 3 percent in
the second year. The union wanted to keep longevity for future
hires and came back with the deal now under consideration:
eliminating merit raises in the first two years but preserving
longevity for new hires. Longevity pay for current employees
will be frozen for one year, meaning workers will still receive
longevity pay, but the rate won’t increase for two years.

The deal will save the county about $20.4 million and,
officials say, reduce the odds of more layoffs.

Making $42,000 a year, Thomas thought the merit raises looked
good. Bills are going up, after all — the
Southern Nevada Water Authority promises to add new fees,

NV Energy just won rate increases through the Public Utilities
Commission and the
price of gasoline seems to rise each spring.

On top of that, $23 of Thomas’ paycheck — about $600 per year —
goes to the union.

Q: Isn’t she angry at the county? After all, they’re
the ones looking for concessions.

A: “I don’t blame the county, they’re just doing their job,”
she said. “But why didn’t our negotiators see it? Saving
longevity for new hires? They need to be worrying about
dues-paying employees.”

Another court clerk, Jackie McGowan, said she quit the union
but her pay and benefits are still determined by the union
contract. She can’t vote on the proposal but said she sees
nothing in this deal that makes her want to join the union
again so she would have that right.

“I don’t see the incentive to join,” she said.

Q: What is the union’s argument for taking this
deal?

A: Its website gives the answer. Voting “no,” it says, will
send negotiations to an arbitrator.

“Unions in Nevada have done poorly” when contracts get to that
step, it says. “The risk is too great to take.”

It adds that a fact-finder “will have the option of taking
Clark County’s initial proposal of a 1.5 percent
across-the-board wage cut.

Voting “yes,” the union says, means the SEIU will be one of the
few unions to save longevity for future hires. No pay cuts
would ensue. Longevity is preserved, though it would be frozen
for current employees who would get the same amount for two
years.

Q: What else does Thomas say about longevity
pay?

A: She’d be willing to give it up for new hires because as the
economy gets better Clark County will obviously be fighting,
once again, to find good employees. When that happens, the
union can negotiate to get longevity back.

Q: Does she really think members might vote no? And if
they do, what happens?

A: “I know it doesn’t happen often,” she said. “But it might.”

If that happens, negotiators go to arbitration, which has been
set for the end of February.

Q: When do union members vote?

A: Thursday and Friday.

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The nation’s oldest Medal of Honor recipient, a World War II
Army veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, will
celebrate his 95th birthday at a party today at a Clifton VFW Post.

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Army veteran Nicholas Oresko, 95, received the Medal of
Honor for his bravery during the Battle of the Bulge in
World War II in 1945. His birthday, and his
accomplishments, will be honored today in Clifton.

Nicholas Oresko of Cresskill, a U.S.
Army master sergeant and Purple Heart recipient who
single-handedly wiped out two enemy bunkers near Tettington,
Germany, on Jan. 23, 1945, will also commemorate the 67th
anniversary of his heroism at today’s party at VFW Post 7165 on
Valley Road.

Oresko’s birthday was Jan. 18, and each invitee has been asked
to bring a younger person to hear the story of the hero platoon
leader with Company C, 302nd Infantry, 94th Infantry Division.

Back in January 1945, when the 28-year-old Oresko and his unit
were taking on heavy fire from the Germans, the situation
looked grim.

“We attacked their positions several times, and we got beaten
back,” he said. “It’s terrible. It scares the hell out of you.

“So we figured this time, let’s sneak up on them,” Oresko said.
“Instead of getting prepared with artillery fire, let’s just go
as it gets dark and sneak up on them and then attack ’em.”

Oresko started out solo — at 4:30 a.m. that cold winter
morning. He assessed his chances.

“I looked up to heaven and said, ‘Lord, I know I’m going to
die, please make it fast,’ ” he said.

Oresko realized that a machine gun in a nearby bunker must be
eliminated, and he did so alone, according to the 1945 citation
honoring his brave actions. Facing heavy gunfire, he tossed a
grenade into the bunker, then rushed it with his M-1 rifle and
killed any hostile forces who survived the explosion.

Another machine gun opened fire and knocked him down, seriously
wounding Oresko in the hip, the citation says.

Oresko said he managed a slow crawl to another bunker.

“The machine gunner who shot me thought I was dead,” Oresko
said. “I was able to move around, sneak around, so they didn’t
see me. They saw me go down. They thought they’d killed me, but
they didn’t. I slipped around and somehow got around, and they
were in a bunch.”

Oresko crawled back for grenades he’d dropped from inside his
jacket and advanced to an enemy dug-in machine gun. He crippled
the gun with a grenade blast and wiped out the troops manning
it with his rifle, the citation says.

“I got to the position to do what I was supposed to do, and I
couldn’t because I had no grenades,” Oresko said. “I had to
crawl back a couple of feet and pick up the grenades. I was
almost afraid to do that, but I figured, what the hell?”

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Doctors, lawyers, family all working on plan for what to do when she dies The longevity of 85-year-old Jo Ann Hinckley is a key issue during a hearing to determine whether her son, John Hinckley Jr., will receive extended releases — and eventually a convalescence leave — from St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington.

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For much of the past decade, many Swampscott teachers were paid an incorrect amount, because a clause in their contract concerning longevity was misunderstood.

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For much of the past decade, many Swampscott teachers were paid an incorrect amount, because a clause in their contract concerning longevity was misunderstood.

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As induction looms, she reflects on life in skating and beyond: Part I of II SAN JOSE, Calif. – It is my good fortune that my three decades of covering figure skating include the 10-year period when Michelle Kwan was the sport.

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Selectiveness in choosing projects is the key to Dawn Zulueta’s longevity in the business. “I'm very careful with the project I choose.

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