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WALTER SCOTT ASKS...
MICHAELWEATHERLY
Email your questions for Walter
Scott to [email protected].
Not many actors have the kind of job security that Weatherly, 46, has found as Special
Agent Anthony DiNozzo on the long-running CBS hit drama NCIS.
You’re in your 12th year as Tony.
What do you still like about your
character? “He feels more fully
realized and I understand him
more, but the bad part is, what’s
next for a guy like that?”
to the show, I’ve learned so much about
not just television and the professional
side, but also how to be a better man.”
Who inspires you? “Recently, I have just
been absolutely absorbed in Sting. I’ve seen
him in concert a few times recently, and the
With NCIS the No. 1 drama in
energy and the happiness he brings into
the world, can you lead a normal the world is an extraordinary thing.”
life? “Sometimes getting through
You have a 19-year-old and also two
an airport takes a couple of minutes little ones. Is fatherhood easier the
longer, but that’s a wonderful thing.
second time around? “It’s a lot easier
It’s just a great afﬁrmation of all the
the second time around for a multitude
hard work that we do.”
of reasons. I have some wisdom, some
You played Robert Wagner in The
Mystery of Natalie Wood TV movie in
2004, and now he plays your dad on
NCIS. What’s that like? “Since his coming
Weatherly with NCIS co-star Emily Wickersham
age on me. I have a steady gig, so that
ﬁnancial security makes a big difference
and maybe, most importantly, having a
partner, because I was separated and
divorced very early in my ﬁrst child’s life.”
5 Fun Facts About the Golden Globes
Here are some fun facts
about the Hollywood
Foreign Press
Association event that
honors the year’s top
achievements in
movies and TV.
Last year’s Golden Globe
Awards was a rating’s
bonanza, with the highest
viewership in 10 years.
Tonight’s telecast on
NBC hopes to
recapture that
lightning in a bottle—
and why not?!—with
returning hosts Amy
Poehler and Tina Fey.
1. The youngest
Golden Globe winner
ever is Ricky Schroder,
who was 9 when he won
Best New Star for
The Champ (1980);
the oldest is
Jessica Tandy, at
80, for Best
Actress in Driving
Miss Daisy (1990).
2. Two former Miss
Golden Globes
(traditionally celebrities’
daughters, who
bring out trophies
during the show),
Linda Evans and
Melanie Grifﬁth,
later went on to
take home awards
themselves: Evans
in 1982 for
Dynasty, and
Grifﬁth in 1989
for Working
Girl.
3. Meryl
Streep holds
the record for
the most
individual
GG acting
wins, with a
total of eight.
4. When Jack Nicholson
was honored with the Cecil
B. DeMille Lifetime
Achievement Award in
1999, he mooned
the audience.
5. The only cast
members of TV’s
Friends to win
Golden Globes:
Jennifer Aniston
and Matt LeBlanc.
Actress Lorraine
Toussaint is a
favorite of mine.
I was wondering
if the woman she
plays in the movie
Selma is still alive,
and if she had a
chance to meet her.
—Mekeesha M., Raleigh, N.C.
A: Amelia Boynton
Robinson is alive and
well at 103 years old, and
Toussaint did indeed meet
her, as well as several
other real-life civil rights
leaders portrayed in
the ﬁlm. The star of the
ABC series Forever is
joined in the new movie,
about Martin Luther
King’s historic Alabama
marches of the 1960s,
by David Oyelowo, Oprah
Winfrey, Martin Sheen
and Cuba Gooding Jr.
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in Oscar nominations this
week. Did you know its
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Houston, who died in 2012, and
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forget complicated new year’s resolutions (you
proBaBly already have). simply taking the time to
meditate can make all the difference in your
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everyBody’s doing it
he hottest well-being trend right
now isn’t a hardcore workout or a
fad diet. It’s a gentle, ancient
practice that millions say is the
antidote to the 21st-century
stress that affects everything from job performance and sleep to your weight.
We’re talking about meditation, and it has
cheerleaders from all walks of life—entertainers, businesspeople, athletes, even government
legislators. Oprah Winfrey, a longtime meditator, has teamed up with Deepak Chopra to
offer a series of 21-day online meditation
“challenges” that have drawn more than 3 million participants so far. Hip-hop tycoon
Russell Simmons’ new book, Success Through
Stillness: Meditation Made Simple (Gotham),
aims to demystify meditation for the masses.
He even inspired comedian/talk show host
Ellen DeGeneres to take it up.
In the business world, Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington meditates
daily, calling it the “third metric” in success,
after money and power. And meditation programs are used to help at-risk schoolchildren
thrive in the classroom, and prison inmates
cope with the stress of incarceration.
Clearly, meditation is having a moment.
And if you’re distracted while reading this —
texting, checking email, thinking about what
to have for dinner—it could help you, too.
“The goal of mindfulness is to make you
more focused and aware, so your mind and
body can be in the same place at the same
time,” says U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio),
Who can forget The Beatles, resplendent in hippie garb, meditating with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi? Today, meditation is more mainstream, as calm-seekers from the boardroom to the playing field
and the red carpet look for a way to relax, focus and be present.
By virginia sole-smith
who credits mindfulness for helping him prevent burnout. “I compare it to what athletes
experience when they’re totally in the zone.”
Ryan believes in mindfulness so strongly
that he holds weekly meditation sessions on
Capitol Hill. “Stress is bipartisan,” he says.
“Mindfulness cuts through current political
divides—it’s based on self-care, and preventing illness, and increasing overall well-being
and can save healthcare dollars and promote
individual responsibility.” Ryan’s goal is “infusing mindfulness into the different institutions in our country.”
While meditation has roots in Buddhism,
many people today practice a non-religious
form of mindfulness that requires nothing
more than sitting quietly and focusing on
your breath. When your mind wanders—
and it will—just refocus on your breathing.
“It really is that simple,” says Ryan, who
has written A Mindful Nation: How a Simple
Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve
Performance and Recapture the American
Spirit (Hay House). “Thanks to mindfulness,
I’m calmer, more focused, and nicer to people
around me. I believe this is something that
can help many Americans who are struggling right now.”
Body-Building for your Brain
It’s hard to believe something so easy can
be so powerful. “Mindfulness looks like you
aren’t doing anything, but when we watch
the brain in these studies, we see different
parts lighting up and activating,” says
LENA DUNHAM The creator and star of the HBO series Girls has
been meditating since age 9 to help her cope with obsessivecompulsive disorder. “It has made it possible for me to weather
certain challenges and storms and public moments that I didn’t
ever imagine would be in my life,” says Dunham, now 28.
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—Psychologist Elisha goldstein
psychologist Elisha Goldstein, author of Uncovering
Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and SelfCompassion (Atria Books). “You
can literally change your brain
through this practice.”
In the 1970s, molecular biologist Jon
Kabat-Zinn decided to study “Buddhist
meditation without the Buddhism.” KabatZinn, now a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School,
had discovered meditation through a friend,
and began to suspect it could improve both
mental and physical health.
He developed a program called “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” (MBSR)
and documented how it worked to ease
pain, suffering and stress in cancer patients,
bone marrow transplant patients and even
prison inmates. His findings were so compelling that over 250 hospitals around the
world now use MBSR to promote patient
well-being.
And the evidence keeps growing. In a new
Harvard study, brain scans showed that mindfulness meditation increased gray matter in
brain areas associated with learning, memory
and compassion, and a decrease in the part of
the brain linked to anxiety and stress.
Attention-Boosting for All of us
Mindfulness is especially handy this time
of year, when New Year’s resolutions typically
include pledges to lose weight. “Food is one of
the most popular applications for mindfulness
because we all have to eat, every day,” says
Goldstein. “But for most of us, eating has become this mindless activity that we do while
we’re working, driving, watching television or
looking at our phones. We barely even taste
what’s on our plates.”
And that piles on calories. Study participants who ate their lunch in front of a computer screen gobbled twice as many cookies
an hour later as subjects who ate without
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Mindfulness helped the
Seahawks win the Super Bowl last year. Coach Pete
Carroll initiated the practice in 2011 to help fight
stress and improve performance. “Meditation is as
important as lifting weights and being out here on the
field to practice,” says offensive tackle Russell Okung.
distractions, according to recent research
published in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition.
But mindfulness can help you reconnect
with your body’s cues for hunger and satisfaction. A study published in the Journal of
Nutrition Education & Behavior found that
learning mindfulness strategies helped participants eat more slowly—and eat up to
300 fewer calories a day.
That’s pretty powerful stuff. Still, some critics of mindfulness are quick to dismiss it as
another New Age fad like hot yoga or juice
cleanses. But the proponents of mindfulness
say that’s OK. “The beauty of mindfulness is
that you can stop doing it, notice you’ve
stopped, and then re-engage at any time,” says
Goldstein. “We are continually learning from
what did or didn’t work and beginning anew.
And that’s mindfulness.”
GooGLE The company’s “Search Inside Yourself”
program was launched by engineer Chade-Meng
Tan using science-based mindfulness practices
to foster emotional intelligence, self-awareness
and attention—all useful traits for those working
in a fast-paced, competitive industry.
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“Mindfulness looks like
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you can literally
chAngE your brAIn
through this practice.”
Anxiety-Busting for Kids &teAchers
Meditation can have huge benefits for
children, too. “We’re always yelling at our
kids to pay attention,” says Ryan. “But we
never teach them how to pay attention.
That’s where mindfulness comes in.”
The Holistic Life Foundation, a Baltimore-based nonprofit, aims to change
that with mindfulness programs for atrisk kids in the city’s poorest elementary
schools. A pilot study of their program by
researchers at Johns Hopkins and Pennsylvania State University found that fourthand fifth-graders who participated in the
12-week program were better able to handle
chronic stress, experienced fewer emotional
outbursts, and had less ongoing anxiety.
Mindfulness can be a tool for educators, too. The U.S. Department of Education is now funding a major study on how
mindfulness can help teachers cope with the
pressures of overburdened classrooms.
“When we’ve piloted these programs in
schools, the teachers come back begging us
to do more,” says Ryan. “They know it works
and that they need this so they can be their
best selves with our kids.”
Mindfulness
101
It’s As EAsy As thIs
Mindfulness is free, it’s portable, and you don’t have to be
sitting on a pillow somewhere
for an hour with your eyes shut
to achieve it, says psychologist
Susan Albers, author of Eating
Mindfully. “You can do it at the
dinner table, you can do it during a meeting at work, you can
do it while driving your car.”
Here are four simple ways to
get started.
Breathe Mindfully
Sit in silence, breathing deeply.
When your mind wanders,
bring your attention back to
your breath.
hug Mindfully
When you hug someone, take
a few moments to focus on the
sensation of the hug. “Don’t let
go until you feel both bodies
start to relax,” says psychologist Elisha Goldstein, who prescribes this meditation for
couples he counsels, and does
it himself every night with his
spouse. “That act of touching
will actually align your nervous
systems so you feel more connected.”
eat Mindfully
This classic mindfulness exercise helps you pay more attention to your food so you enjoy
it more while you eat less. It’s
typically taught with a raisin
but can be applied to whatever you’re eating. Here goes:
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Rediscovering life and love on the open road.
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n the midst of his grief after my mother died, my 72-year-old father began to ride a motorcycle again. He hadn’t been on a bike in over 40 years, since his first son—my brother, Chris—
was born. But as he traveled rural Carolina roads on two wheels, whisking along at great
speeds, carving turns into the asphalt, my father’s veil of sadness began to lift.
ous topography to a place to share a meal and
enjoy each other’s company before returning
home.
A hodgepodge of seniors from different
backgrounds and different parts of the
country make up this audacious gang,
all who have become friends in a fashion
fueled by a specific passion, one that brings
exhilaration and meaning to a time of life
often complicated by uncertainty. These are
men and women who will certainly not go
gentle into that good night.
My father’s friendship with one gang
member, a Tennessee gentleman named
Gary Crabtree, offered him something
particularly valuable. Both men had lost their
wives to cancer and they often shared long
conversations about the experience. But it
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journey back
That’s when he joined the motorcycle club in his
retirement community, Sun City Carolina Lakes, a
“gang” of roughly 70 men and women who, like
my father, love to ride. They also, like my father,
love to eat, hence their motto: “Live to Ride, Ride
to Eat.” And so they do. Every Wednesday and
Sunday, weather permitting, the posse takes off
en masse for a food destination—usually a barbeque joint or famous diner within a few hours of
Indian Land, S.C. They take the most adventurous and scenic route, twisting through mountain-
was Gary who first attempted
an intimate relationship as
a widower, falling for and
eventually marrying a woman
he had known for many years.
Gary’s example inspired my
father to be open to new
love, and soon he met Arlene
McCarthy, a successful,
charming and independent
Sun City resident.
On one of their first dates,
Arlene, who had never been
anywhere near a motorcycle,
bravely climbed on board my
father’s Kawasaki 750, wrapped
her arms around his waist and
held on for dear life, screaming
“Yahoo!” as they rocketed into
the distance.
On a Sunday ride last
year, as the crew of riders
collectively cruised along,
my father’s dear friend Gary
quietly veered off course and
crashed on his side. Doctors
and witnesses suspect that
Gary had passed before
hitting the ground. The gang
agreed that leaving this life on
your motorcycle, surrounded
by friends, as Gary did, was a
good way to go.
I don’t know when or how
my father will go, but I know,
for now, he is happy and vital.
He has friends and family and
a passion that carried him out
of shadows of grieving into
the light of life. And in this,
his 75th year, my father will
keep riding on roads where
the sun will shine on his
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Itchy Senior Skin and
What You Can Do About It
It’s a fact of life: as we age, our bodies
experience a number of changes. Some of these
are obvious and expected, but others come
as a surprise to many reaching their golden
years. This includes uncomfortable – and often
debilitating – itchy skin experienced by a large
percentage of the senior citizen population.
For people who have not experienced
persistent itchy skin, this description can seem
unbelievable, but for countless American
seniors the problem is a daily fact of life.
“Itching is a common problem as we age. The
skin changes, often becoming thinner, drier and
more susceptible to irritants,” says Vishakha
Gigler, M.D., a dermatologist from Encinitas,
California. “I often see seniors in my practice
who are suffering from itchy skin. Medical conditions and certain medications can also be an
underlying cause.”
Whatever their reason for itchy skin, many
seniors seek relief with over-the-counter
treatments. The most common are topical
creams and ointments that have been available
for decades. Hydrocortisone-based steroidal
products are the most widely known and used,
but many people ﬁnd they do not provide
adequate or long-lasting relief.
According to medical professionals, steroidal
creams can be counterproductive for seniors
suffering from itchy skin. Side effects can be
severe and may include adverse reactions like
thinned skin, allergic reactions and more itching. Oddly enough, even some topical allergy
medications can result in allergic reactions.
Fortunately, newer products have been
introduced over the last few years that are
proving to be highly effective at relieving itchy
senior skin with few, if any, side effects. One
such product is a soothing non-prescription gel
known as TriCalm®. In a recent survey 97%
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of dermatologists were likely to recommend
TriCalm to their patients suffering from itch.*
TriCalm is steroid free, which puts many
seniors with aging skin at ease. Most users ﬁnd
it works better to relieve itchy skin, since other
products may take up to 24 hours and require
repeated applications to get the full beneﬁt.
A clinical study supports this view: TriCalm
was 5x more effective than hydrocortisone
1% at reducing itch.** TriCalm works
almost immediately, providing rapid relief
from itch, whether due to “senior skin” or
other itch-inducing nuisances like bug bites
and poison ivy.
Since the brand was introduced it has received wide recognition, including attention
from several prominent national radio and entertainment personalities. This is due in part to
TriCalm’s effectiveness as an itch reliever and
because of the company’s money back guarantee. TriCalm’s “Itch Free Guarantee” promises
that the product will relieve your itch, or you
can return the empty tube for a full refund.
TriCalm is available for purchase at several
major retailers nationwide, including CVS,
Walgreens and Walmart. For more information
about TriCalm, including the Itch Free Guarantee, user reviews and where to buy the product,
visit the company website: www.tricalm.com.
*2014 survey by Cosmederm Bioscience, Inc. **Data on ﬁle.
does a filled freezer use
more energy, or less?
—G.L., Lindenhurst, N.Y.
Say a freezer is filled (but not
so full that air can’t circulate,
interfering with its normal
operation) with alreadyfrozen food and never opened.
Also say an identical unit is
empty and never opened.
Their energy consumption
should be about the same.
But in real life, the filled
freezer will be opened
routinely to remove food
(which, by the way, will not
always happen to be the
easiest and quickest to reach)
and replace it with more food
to freeze, necessary to keep
the unit full. Because opening
the door and freezing food is
what causes energy
consumption to rise, a full
freezer should use more
energy than one with less
food. (Yes, opening the door
of a full unit will allow less
cold air to escape than
opening the door of a lightly
loaded one, because less air
is present around the greater
bulk of frozen food. But this
fact would be overshadowed
by additional openings and
freezing larger amounts of
food. Plus, the filled freezer
had to work to freeze that
large load in the first place.)
Regardless, I think any
difference would be minor.
More important for savings
is the purchase price of the
freezer, its efficiency rating
and features, the location in
which the unit operates,
setting its temperature no
lower than safety requires,
keeping compartments free
of ice, and whether the door
seals tightly.
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