NOT GETTING OLDER, GETTING BETTER?

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HelpAge is launching the Global AgeWatch Index on 1 October, International Day of Older People.

The people on this planet are aging so quickly that most countries do not appear to be prepared to support their staggering numbers of old folks, according to a global study about to be released by the United Nations and an elder rights group.

The report ranks the social and economic well-being of old people in 91 countries, with Sweden coming out on top and Afghanistan at the bottom.

The report reflects what advocates for the old have been warning, with increasing urgency, for years: Nations are simply not working quickly enough to cope with a population greying faster than ever before. By the year 2050, for the first time in history, seniors over the age of 60 will outnumber children under the age of 15.

As the number and proportion of older people increases at an unprecedented rate, the Global AgeWatch Index will illustrate how the world is adapting to this new reality by ranking more than 90 countries in terms of how their older populations are faring.

CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION

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Broadway: Spotlight on Careers
WHEN: Tuesday, October 1, 6:30 to 8:00 pm

WHERE: NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, 1871 Broadway (between 61st and 62nd Streets)
REGISTER: www.cencom.org or info@cencom.org

Broadway (and Off-Broadway) requires a wide variety of skills and talents, provided by many different people to create a show. With so many eligible candidates flocking to New York looking for that big break, you need to stand out from the pack.

DOWN AND DIRTY

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CITY ISLAND IMAGES wishes to congratulate all those who participated at Orchard Beach's Down & Dirty.

The Merrell Down & Dirty presented by Subaru returned to New York City yesterday. This benefit race raises funds for operation gratitude to our men and women serving in the military.

Art Exhibition at Focal Point Gallery

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Focal Point Gallery
321 City Island Ave.
Bronx NY 10464
(718) 885-1403

CALLING ALL ARTIST'S. LOOKING FOR ARTIST'S INTERESTED IN EXHIBITING THEIR WORK. NEXT OPENING WILL TAKE PLACE ON OCTOBER 4TH. AT FOCAL POINT GALLERY. DROP OFF YOUR WORK NO LATER THEN, OCTOBER 2ND. OPENING RECEPTION OCTOBER 4TH 7PM-10PM (718) 885-1403
321 CITY ISLAND AVE. BX NY10464

Focal Point Gallery was founded in 1974 by photographer Ron Terner. He offers as an alternative exhibition space for exceptional but little-known artists unable to gain recognition elsewhere.

US GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN?

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The last time the government was forced to shut down was during the Clinton administration. This is the way politicians use average citizens as political pawns.

The following is a small reflection of some of what may occur this time around.

New patients will no longer accepted into clinical research at the National Institutes of Health. In addition, NIH disease hotlines and CDC disease surveillance are stopped.

Work on bankruptcy cases in the federal court system are suspended.

Hundreds of thousands of "non-essential" federal workers are furloughed.

This Week in Her and History

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This Week in History, Sep 29 - Oct 5

Sep 29, 2005
Reporter Judith Miller released from prison. On this day in 2005, New York Times reporter Judith Miller is released from a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia, after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the leaking of the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame. Miller had been behind bars since July 6, 2005, for refusing to reveal a confidential source and testify before a grand jury that was looking into the so-called Plame Affair. She decided to testify after the source she had been protecting, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, signed a waiver giving her permission to speak.

Sep 30, 1954
USS Nautilus commissioned. he USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy. The Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a brilliant Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946. In 1947, he was put in charge of the navy's nuclear-propulsion program and began work on an atomic submarine. Regarded as a fanatic by his detractors, Rickover succeeded in developing and delivering the world's first nuclear submarine years ahead of schedule. In 1952, the Nautilus' keel was laid by President Harry S. Truman, and on January 21, 1954, first lady Mamie Eisenhower broke a bottle of champagne across its bow as it was launched into the Thames River at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955.

Oct 01, 1890
Yosemite National Park established. On this day in 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as Half Dome and the giant sequoia trees. Environmental trailblazer John Muir (1838-1914) and his colleagues campaigned for the congressional action, which was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison and paved the way for generations of hikers, campers and nature lovers, along with countless "Don't Feed the Bears" signs. Native Americans were the main residents of the Yosemite Valley, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, until the 1849 gold rush brought thousands of non-Indian miners and settlers to the region. Tourists and damage to Yosemite Valley's ecosystem followed. In 1864, to ward off further commercial exploitation, conservationists convinced President Abraham Lincoln to declare Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias a public trust of California. This marked the first time the U.S. government protected land for public enjoyment and it laid the foundation for the establishment of the national and state park systems. Yellowstone became America's first national park in 1872.

Oct 02, 1985
Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS. On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. Hudson's death raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored by many in the mainstream as a "gay plague." Hudson, born Leroy Harold Scherer Jr., on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois, was a Hollywood heartthrob whose career in movies and TV spanned nearly three decades. With leading-man good looks, Hudson starred in numerous dramas and romantic comedies in the 1950s and 60s, including Magnificent Obsession, Giant and Pillow Talk. In the 1970s, he found success on the small screen with such series as McMillan and Wife. To protect his macho image, Hudson's off-screen life as a gay man was kept secret from the public.

Oct 03, 1995
O.J. Simpson acquitted. At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson's "dream team" of lawyers employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson's guilt had not been proved "beyond a reasonable doubt," thus surmounting what the prosecution called a "mountain of evidence" implicating him as the murderer. Orenthal James Simpson--a Heisman Trophy winner, star running back with the Buffalo Bills, and popular television personality--married Nicole Brown in 1985. He reportedly regularly abused his wife and in 1989 pleaded no contest to a charge of spousal battery. In 1992, she left him and filed for divorce. On the night of June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed and slashed to death in the front yard of Mrs. Simpson's condominium in Brentwood, Los Angeles. By June 17, police had gathered enough evidence to charge O.J. Simpson with the murders.

Oct 04, 1957
Sputnik launched. The Soviet Union inaugurates the "Space Age" with its launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for "satellite," was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic. Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Traveling at 18,000 miles an hour, its elliptical orbit had an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 584 miles and a perigee (nearest point) of 143 miles. Visible with binoculars before sunrise or after sunset, Sputnik transmitted radio signals back to Earth strong enough to be picked up by amateur radio operators. Those in the United States with access to such equipment tuned in and listened in awe as the beeping Soviet spacecraft passed over America several times a day. In January 1958, Sputnik's orbit deteriorated, as expected, and the spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere.

US GOVERNMENT INACTION

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The political game of ping pong continues to play out in Washington, DC as Republican House Speaker John Boehner and other party leaders have now placed responsibility for averting a government shutdown back in the Democrat run US Senate’s court on Saturday.

The Republican-run House voted to avoid a partial government shutdown next week but also to further delay President Barack Obamacare.

Meanwhile, the White House promises the overall legislation will be vetoed. That means the two sides are edging closer to a shutdown of many federal services on Tuesday, without a solution in sight.

Buddha’s Qoutes and Sayings

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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

You only lose what you cling to.

Fill your mind with compassion.

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality.

When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

The Four Reliance's
First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;
Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;
Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;

ORCHARD BEACH LIGHTS

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The New York State Department of Transportation is turning the Orchard Beach parking lot into a temporary staging area for park and ride commuters who are headed into work starting next week.

Construction crews are busy installing 30 - 3K watt light posts, which will be scattered throughout the entire parking lot in an effort to provide emergency illumination for NYC commuters, who will park their vehicles there staring with Monday's morning rush.

OBAMA CARES?

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Washington politicians are playing a dangerous game of political chicken. The GOP's plan to eliminate funding for ObamaCare plan is going nowhere so far.

Obama does not seem to care to negotiate with Republicans and Democrats are not going to throw away their healthcare achievement.

Republicans have been threatening to shut down the government or default on the national debt, but the president does not seem to care, politically speaking.