I won a silent auction. Check out who signed this guitar below or on Lovelineshow.com
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Jam on your very own Squier electric guitar signed by bands that have recently appeared on Loveline!
This is a one of a kind electric guitar signed by many of the great bands and artists that have stopped by the Loveline studios! It would be a great addition to anyone's collection. Don't miss your chance to own a piece of Loveline history while supporting a great cause!
This guitar has been signed by... System of a Down/Achosen - Shavo Odadjian Atreyu - Dan Jacobs & Alex Vakatzas The Used - Quinn Allman, Dan Whitesides, Bert McCracken, Jeph Howard. 311 - Nick Hexum & P-Nut Louis XIV - Jason Hill Bad Religion - Greg Graffin, Greg Hetson, Brett Gurewitz The Bravery - Sam Endicott, John Conway, Anthony Burulcich Pennywise - Fletcher Dragge & Randy Bradbury Linkin Park - Chester Bennington & Mike Shinoda Adam Carolla Stryker & Dr. Drew The guitar comes with the display stand
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Jennifer Lopez is known to the world as many things a singer, actress, designer and entrepreneur but six months after adding "mother" to that list, the 39-year-old is taking on yet another daunting challenge.
Months after giving birth to twins Max and Emme with husband Marc Anthony, Lopez plans to run, swim and bike her way around Malibu at the 22nd Annual Malibu Triathlon next month.
MALIBU TRIATHLON ON SEPTEMBER 14th BABY!!!!
Putting such passion and drive into every aspect of her life, from her family to her career and now athletics, is one reason Self magazine recently named Lopez its most inspiring woman of the year.
"It came up when I was eight months pregnant, when I was beached like a whale," Lopez told "Good Morning America." "I was watching TV, and I saw a triathlon and I said, 'I think I could do that.' ... Maybe we could raise some money and do something really great."
According to Self, Lopez gained 50 pounds when carrying around her now 6-month-old twins, Max and Emme. Now she says she's still a few pounds over her pre-pregnancy weight, but the pop superstar has been working hard to get back into shape.
And all the work is not just for her.
"I thought, 'What can I do to make my babies proud?' I think about what they'll think about the year they were born who I was and what I did," she told Self. "It's important to me to set examples for them. I want to lead with my life."
And though the race will be difficult, Lopez is determined to finish any way she can.
"If I have to crawl across that finish line, then I will crawl across that finish line," she joked. "It's for the kids."
On "Good Morning America," Lopez joined Lucy Danzinger, Self's editor in chief and a longtime triathlete, to offer some tips, whether you're training for a triathlon or just trying to stay in shape.
Tips on Getting Started:
"You got to start slow, give yourself time," said Lopez, who admitted the swimming portion of the triathlon is the most difficult for her. "This is not something natural to me. You have to start little by little and work up."
Tips on Running:
"More traction on the road means more forward momentum," Danziger said about running. "And use your arms to pump back and forth so you keep your [foot] turnover quick. Light feet. No heel pounding. Strike midfoot and roll forward and you'll not only go faster, but you'll save your knees and joints from injury over time."
Tips on Biking:
According to Danziger, before even beginning bike training, getting outfitted with the right size bike is very important.
"Let the bike store person fit you personally to avoid aches and pains in shoulders and back, and also to get the most out of your pedal stroke," she said. "Also, use your gears to make it easier to spin at a high cadence and save your leg muscles from fatigue."
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Danziger said on her blog that when she does not want to train, she concentrates on the goal rather than the actual exercising.
"My favorite self-motivator is telling myself, 'Give it five more minutes,'" she told "Good Morning America." "Relax into it, breathe and you'll likely want to continue. This works in anything ... running too!"
Requiem for a pit bull. Judge Cristina beats Judge Judy for Emmy
Category: Pets and Animals
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Cristina's Court, the syndicated daytime courtroom series starring blonde Telemundo crossover Cristina Perez, beat Judge Judy, Judge Hatchett, the People's Court and gay judge David Young tonight for the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences' first legal/courtroom Daytime Emmy…
The episode that was judged and which won was Requiem for A Pit Bull, the story of the life and death of the two-year-old family dog that demonstrated Brennan's unique gifts for finding and telling stories that strike a personal and universal nerve. The power of the story ws such that influential animal rights groups like PETA and Last Chance for Animals joined the Hollywood crusade to see the segment, the producers behind it, the courtroom TV star who fronted it and the show that featured it, get the award they deserved.
It was "a hair-trigger episode that divided much the nation and pitted two of the country's most intense lobby groups head to head on the case –the gun lobby versus animal rights.
"It stemmed from an incident that took place on an average street in Austin, Texas one day last summer….and a dog named Capone…
"The 911 call told a story":
911: "What's your emergency?" Caller: "A pit bull for about the fifth time just chased me and my dog inside my house…he's very vicious. He growls his teeth and he charges you."
911: "Is anybody hurt?"
Caller: "No but I just killed the dog."
He was a young pit bull named Capone. Was he a playful, friendly pup, motherless and hand fed from the day he was born, as his owner described? Or a vicious, aggressive potential killer on the loose, as described by the man who shot him.
The decision was up to Judge Cristina Perez in TV's Cristina's Court.
Allen Saadeh, 20, and his mother were suing neighbor Louis Cross for killing their family pet with a .22 rifle. Cross, 40, who told Judge Cristina one of his hobbies was hunting, admitted he pumped five .22 caliber bullets into Capone the day he caught him in the yard of his Austin, TX. home.
"It was aggressive, showing it's teeth." Cross said.
"Are you scared," asked the judge.
"I am scared."
Cross said he had previously warned Saadeh about the dog being loose. "I said listen, this is the last time I am coming to you about your pit bull in my yard. I am going to shoot it."
Saadeh said he never took the threats seriously. "He was a very good dog. He was like a little boy to me."
The judge asked Cross to describe the shooting.
Cross said he found Capone in his side yard and the dog growled at him and his weiner dog. He then went back inside the house and took a .22 rifle from his gun cabinet.
"I shot him twice in the head and he stood there and looked at me," said Cross.
"What did you do next?"
"I shot him three times right there (pointing to his ribcage), and he died."
"You shot him five times?"
Saadeh said he searched for his dog for three days before Cross admitted to him that he had shot Capone and thrown the body in a dumpster.
My mum was born and raised in (West) Germany. This Summer she visited her hometown and surprised herself by making the cover of a local newspaper. You go girl!!! Go Marianne go!!!!
Here is the article, albeit in German.
R i e t b e r g (pkb). „Weißt du noch, der Fips? Wenn dem was nicht passte, hat er mit dem Geigenstock zugeschlagen." Präsent, ganz präsent sind sie, die Erinnerungen an eine Schulzeit in den Kriegsjahren, an Schläge der Lehrer, schwierige Bedingungen, aber auch an jene schönen Momente, wie sie Kindern heute nicht mehr vergönnt sind. Es ist eine muntere Truppe, die sich da zum Treffen zusammengefunden hat. 20 Senioren unterhalten sich angeregt, lachen, schwelgen in Erinnerungen. 20 Frauen und Männer, die eines eint: Sie wurden vor 69 Jahren eingeschult und vor 61 Jahren aus der Volksschule ins Leben entlassen. 20 von 42, weitere 20 sind bereits verstorben. Auch ihnen gelten natürlich die Erinnerungen bei diesem Treffen. „Wir haben zwar erst nächstes Jahr unser 70-jähriges Jubiläum", erzählt Mitorganisator Kurt Münster im Gespräch mit dem RSA, „voriges Jahr haben wir mit der Entlassfeier gerundet. Aber wir haben bewusst jetzt unser Klassentreffen anberaumt, weil die Landesgartenschau läuft." Und genau die wird auch mit der Gruppe besichtigt. Denn nicht alle Ehemaligen der Innenstadt-Volksschule wohnen noch immer an der Ems. Viele sind ins Ruhrgebiet gegangen, eine hat gar eine ganz weite Entfernung zurückzulegen, will sie die alten Freunde wieder sehen. Marianne Ichinumiya trifft erst morgens um 7 Uhr in Rietberg ein, nach langen Autofahrten und noch längerem Flug aus den Vereinigten Staaten. „Geschlafen habe ich keine Minute," erzählt die quirlige Seniorin. Müdigkeit aber merkt keiner der Marianne an, die alle noch unter dem Mädchennamen Tigges kennen: „Wir wohnten damals am Wasserwerk zwischen Rietberg und Neuenkirchen". Chicago ist inzwischen ihre Wahlheimat, doch jetzt weilt sie für vier Wochen zu Besuch in Rietberg, bei ihrer Schwester Hedwig Lippert. Seit 44 Jahren lebt sie in den USA, im weiten Land. Damals ist sie einfach von zu Hause fort, „die pure Abenteuerlust hat mich gepackt". Bereut hat sie es nie. Sie lernte einen Japaner kennen und heiratete ihn. „Der ist aber zu Hause geblieben, weil er nicht auf das Golfspielen verzichten möchte." Doch Rietberg im Zeichen der Landesgartenschau wiederzusehen, das wollte sie sich nicht entgehen lassen: „Die Stadt ist so schön geworden, wirklich schön." Richtig nah sind sie jetzt wieder, die intensiven Erinnerungen an die Schulzeit damals – als die Kinder in der Zeit der Besatzung durch amerikanische Truppen „mit den Soldaten auf Tenges Teichen Schlittschuh laufen" konnten. An die Zeit, als Winter noch Winter waren. „Nach der Schule sind wir zu Göllners Wiese gelaufen, haben die Tornister abgeschnallt, uns draufgesetzt und sind bis zum Mühlenkolk runter gerutscht", weiß die Weitgereiste lebhaft zu erzählen. Ihre Schulzeit wie die der Mitschüler sah so aus: keine Busse, keine Fahrräder, per pedes kilometerweit bis zum Gebäude des heutigen Familienzentrums Alte Südtorschule. Aufstehen spätestens um 6 Uhr morgens, „um 7 Uhr war Kirche, ständig war Kirche, auch sonntags und nachmittags", erzählt rückblickend Marianne Ichinumiya. „Schule war bis 13 Uhr, dann nach Hause, essen, und um 14 Uhr war Religion. Wir sind immer in Holsken gegangen, wir hatten ja nichts anderes, im Winter war das besonders schlimm, dann pappte der Schnee unter dem Holz." Gerne, richtig gerne erinnern sich die 20 an einen Klassenausflug irgendwann in jener Zeit. „Wir sind nach Bokel gewandert und dachten, das sei richtig weit", schmunzelt Kurt Münster. „Da gab es Limonade aus der Kanne für alle, und die Klassenlehrerin, „Fräulein" Anna Fehring, spendierte für alle bei Strake ein Eis. Zurück gings dann mit dem Pferdewagen." Und der Gast aus den USA weiß noch: „Ich habe damals von meiner Mutter 50 Pfennig bekommen, das war richtig viel Geld." Doch ausgegeben hat sie ihre Verpflegungsmünzen nicht in Bokel. „Auf dem Nachhauseweg hab ich mir bei Schniggendiller dafür Nappo gekauft."
Are you always looking around for something better: a better job, a better apartment... a better relationship?
For example, let's say you've finally found a pretty great love catch. Do you still find yourself tempted to keep going back to that large online dating ocean, in hopes of finding an even bigger, better, more 100% perfect catch?
If so, your search for the better might be making your life worse.
And that's not just my opinion--that's the opinion of Barry Schwartz, Ph.D., psychology professor at Swarthmore College, and author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. After extensive research, Schwartz has concluded that excess proliferation of choice makes people more anxious and less happy--even clinically depressed at times. Schwartz defines people who tend to check out all the options as "maximizers" and believes they tend to question whether they've made the right choice, then later regret their choices.
Unfortunately, in today's online world, it's very easy to become a "love maximizer" with the tempting smorgasbord of dating choices constantly available. With so much choice, it's so easy to fall into the temptation of seeking an "upgrade"--even when your sweetie is total sweetie! Or you can wind up with "choice paralysis" and not be able to get into a relationship at all.
How does this happen? Schwartz cites a study with shoppers. Group 1 was offered free samples of six different jams. Group 2 was offered free samples of 24 jams. Afterwards, Group 1 was more likely to buy a jam than Group 2. This result doesn't seem logical. You'd guess that people would be more likely to find a jam when given a range four times as large. But the overabundance of choice seemed to freeze shoppers' decision-making skills.
Unfortunately, this same "brain freeze" affect can happen to daters when shopping for partners in that endless online parade of possibilities. "It's a satisfaction treadmill," says Schwartz. "The more options we have available, the more we think that another option out there is perfect."
The truth according to me? Rarely is anyone or anything perfect. And so the 1 biggest problem with choice is... well, it's really an illusion. Up-close and personal, all of that choice is not always grade-A material.
Here's another study I came across during the past few months and found intriguing. The research found that people exposed to a few minutes' worth of advertising, with its endless parade of nubile women and improbably handsome men, were likely to experience far greater discontent with their partner after viewing. Translation: Love is blindsided by too much choice. A good relationship can be totally destroyed by the blazing promise of better options... that don't really exist in the first place!
So what's the cure for this situation that makes us throw over budding relationships because we believe the grass is always greener?
1. Recognize that being a "love maximizer" actually minimizes your chances of finding a healthy, happy relationship.
2. Realize that you luckily have a choice in how you view choice! Next time you're tempted to two-time, think twice! Remind yourself that those many, many people who look so good from faraway look very different when viewed close up--when you can more clearly see their many, many flaws.
3. Accept that no one person is ever going to have every single thing you need. The goal is to find the person who has the most important things you need. Make a list of your top 3 dating deal-breakers and your top 3 partner must-have's. If your current special someone passes this 6-pack test, as I call it, you've got the basis of a very happy relationship--one not worth messing up with "maximizing" ways.
4. Once a week, spend a night luxuriating in your partner's 3 fantastic must-have's--and let it be known how much you appreciate him or her. Soon you'll turn yourself into a love energizer, instead of a love maximizer! And that's a terrific place to be.
For more advice on how to boost your happiness, check out HOW TO BE HAPPY DAMMIT or sign up for Karen's free Be Happy Dammit newsletter at notsalmon.com.
Hi y'all. I found this little clip on youtube. It's all about Venice. Check out Amir. He was in the movie "The Secret." Say "hi" to him if you are ever down in Dog Town Venice Beach.
One of my new heroes..oldest US swimmer, 41, to earn Olympic berth. WOW! Age is all in the mind
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Torres, 41, still making big splash
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Dara Torres won the 100-meter freestyle to make her fifth Olympic team
At 41, Torres becomes the oldest U.S. swimmer to earn an Olympic berth
Torres' time was .06 seconds faster than her gold-medal effort in Sydney
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Dara Torres, 41, became the oldest American swimmer to earn an Olympic berth by winning the women's 100-meter freestyle in 53.78.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Dara Torres' eyes were watery and not from just having climbed out of the pool. She was crying at the cheers from 13,247 fans who saw the 41-year-old mother complete her improbable Olympic comeback.
Torres made the U.S. Olympic swimming team for a record fifth time Friday night, winning the 100-meter freestyle over Natalie Coughlin at the trials.
A thrilling performance that prompted the crowd to applaud Torres as the new face of middle-aged, weekend warriors everywhere. Toned and tanned, with a flat stomach, she hardly looks like she's been away since the 2000 Sydney Games, her last Olympic appearance.
"That really, really, really hurt," she said. "I kept saying, 'Where is the wall?'"
She got off to a blazing start and kept her lead on the furious return lap to win in 53.78 seconds, defeating 25-year-old Natalie Coughlin.
"I'm ecstatic. I can't believe it," Torres said, explaining she had anticipated finishing anywhere from third through sixth.
"I could not see the scoreboard. I didn't know that I had won it at first. They need to make those numbers a little bigger for people my age."
Torres became the oldest American swimmer ever on an Olympic team. She'll be the oldest female swimmer at the Games since 44-year-old Brenda Holmes of Canada in 1972.
Michael Phelps was suitably impressed with his teammate from the 2000 squad.
"As I call her, my mom," he said. "She's 41 with a kid. It's extremely impressive."
"Don't make it sound that old," chided Bob Bowman, Phelps' 43-year-old coach.
Torres shied away from Phelps calling her Mom.
"I like to refer to it as a big sister," she said.
After the race, Torres' cell phone was clogged with 115 messages, texts and calls.
Before leaving the pool deck, she sat down to reflect and thought immediately of her father Edward, who died 1 1/2 years ago.
"I hadn't told him I was making a comeback after I had already started, and I was feeling like he was with me on that race and kind of helped me at the end of it," she said.
"I was also thinking about my daughter and my family that was in the stands. I was trying to hold a brave face while I was out there because I didn't want anyone to see my crying."
At the awards ceremony, Torres held her 2-year-old daughter, Tessa, in her arms. The blonde girl clutched the teddy bear given to team members in one hand and waved a bouquet of flowers in the other.
Torres put her victory medal around Tessa's neck, but the girl promptly took it off and gave it back.
"It's sort of bittersweet for me because I've made my fifth Olympic team, but I'm going to be away from my daughter for a month and that's really hard emotionally," Torres said.
Tessa might not have understood what all the fuss was about, but the crowd sure did.
"It was an unbelievable crowd," Torres said. "It was just so much fun to go out there and race."
Torres, who made her Olympic debut at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, has twice retired from competitive swimming. She owns nine medals, including five from Sydney, where she was the most decorated female athlete.
Torres arrived at these trials knowing people would wonder how someone her age could possibly make it to the Olympics without some sort of illicit help.
She endured those whispers in Sydney, where she won two gold medals and three bronzes at age 33, and it ticked her off.
That's why she volunteered for extra drug testing this time around. She was accepted into a new program that focuses on a dozen athletes in different sports, subjecting them to additional testing and the latest technology.
Since March, she's been tested at least a dozen times, with testers drawing five vials of blood from her body each time to look for the telltale signs of illegal drugs.
"Anyone who makes any accusations, I take it as a compliment," she said.
Torres might appear ageless, but she's endured her share of physical problems.
A nagging shoulder injury required surgery last November to fix a bone spur that was digging into her rotator cuff. Still recovering from that operation, she had knee surgery in mid-January to remove another persistent ache.
Unlike her younger teammates, Torres needs a long time after her races to recover. She employs a team of stretchers and coaches and nutritionists who cost her tens of thousands of dollars but have played pivotal roles in getting her back to the Olympics.
"Her stroke is better now than in 2000," Bowman said. "Now, she's more finesse-like. She's using her technique more than her strength."
Torres still has the 50 free -- her main event -- remaining Sunday. Depending on how she fares, she might give up her spot in the 100 in Beijing to third-place finisher Lacey Nymeyer. That would leave Torres with one individual event and the 400 free relay.
"I'm not going to make any decisions yet," she said. "My body's a little bit beat up right now."
Wow, you go girl. What, an absolute inspiration. Age is all in the mind. A frickin' 41 year old beating a 25 year old, after having surgery to boot. I'm amazed and inspired and in utter awe. She is 41 years young. Young at heart. She paid the price and went for her dream. What stopped her?Absolutely nothing. Nothing is stopping her from getting all. It's all AND nothing. Well done. Bravo. Goshiggy says GO DARA GO!!(wow!!)
When I was a boy (7-12), growing up in England, I had to take violin, piano, theory and elocution lessons. My dad would take my sister Nadya and I to violin lessons. The drive took over a half an hour and there was always music in the car. My dad would like to listen to Andy Williams and Julio Iglesias. To this day, I often listen to Julio Iglesias. I have no idea where my Metallica influences came from.
I went to an online ticket broker and found........PIT, yes, pit tickets..third row. Nobody wants to go, so I'll go by myself. It's all good. I got my credit card out and voila, next Wednesday I'll be seeing the MAN himself. What should I wear? I'm sure the girls will be all dolled up and the guys will be all decked out for the girls who are dolled up for Julio. (Funny how that works.)
I whole heartedly believe that music is a gift and like my sister's husband says music "will save you." Very profound. His son was having a difficult time practising his instrumenet and wanted to quit. (You know how kids would rather play than practise their scales.) David told Coby that "one day, music will save you." I really had to think about that, and totally agree with him.
Anyhow, almost 28 years after hearing Julio Iglesias on a cassette tape while driving in the car, I will get to see him, up close and in person......PIT ROW CCC is THIRD ROW BABY DOLL.........
....................................... The Julio Iglesias concert originally scheduled for Wednesday, November 7th at Gibson Amphitheatre has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts resulting from the effects of the area wildfires. The new date is April 8, 2008.
?On January 1st, 2007, I decided to join the LATRI CLUB. (a myspace friend) That's the Los Angeles Triathalon Club.Well, every now and then, they have events that you can attend to learn about health, diet, working out, running, swimming, bicycling etc.
I attended such an event with about 20 other people in Santa Monica . We got into small groups and I got to talking about what I did that day. I told my group that I volunteer once a week with my animal assisted therapy dog. One girl asked what kind of dog I had. I answered "a pit." As the meeting was adjourned, this man, Mr. Braverman, handed me his business card and asked me if I would be interested in being filmed for a documentary that his wife was making."Why not" I replied.
Marilyn Braverman contacted me and told me that her documentaries have been on Animal Planet, Discovery and National Geographic. With the help of Debbie Jury from Children's HosPITAL, working in Pain Management and my wonderful coach Suni Cookson we got the go ahead to film for exactly one hour. That was in March. A lot of tremendous hard work on the Bravermans and voila... the DVD has been released. I just, literally , just got a copy of it and there is ..........Indy and some crazy owner, that would be me, in the middle of the movie. Wow. I hope it gets sold to Animal Planet. Wouldn't that be so entierly cool on a hot day. And hot on a cool day.
Check out www.bravermanproductions.com or www.pitdvd.com for more info.
Love on 4 Paws in LA TIMES online July 8th, 2007
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Category: Pets and Animals
The value of a visit by an animal
By Mary Engel, Times Staff Writer 9:00 PM PDT, July 8, 2007
"A small pet animal is often an excellent companion for the sick," wrote Florence Nightingale in 1859, but it was not until a century later that scientists began documenting that claim.
Clinical psychologist Boris Levinson of New York's Yeshiva University wrote about pet-oriented child psychotherapy in the 1950s after finding that disturbed and withdrawn children opened up to him when his dog, Jingles, was in the room. Since the 1980s, researchers have documented the benefits that canine visitors bring to children and adults with depression, autism, hyperactivity disorders, heart failure and Alzheimer's disease.
In what experts in the field call "animal-assisted therapy," a pet owner works with a professional therapist to help a patient meet specific goals such as stretching, walking and so on. "Animal-assisted activities" are more casual visits to nursing homes or hospitals, where patients pet or hug the animals or watch them perform tricks.
Dogs, including mixed breeds and rescues, are the most commonly used pets. They must be well-behaved, know basic commands, really like people and have a gentle temperament.
Several nonprofit groups train dogs and organize visits. One of the oldest is the Seattle-based Delta Society (www.deltasociety.org). Delta-licensed instructors train and register pet-partner teams throughout the country; the website lists contacts for each state.
A Los Angeles-based group, Love on 4 Paws (www.loveon4paws.org), has about 80 volunteer-pet teams who visit special education classrooms, nursing homes, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Shriners Hospitals for Children, Los Angeles
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