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JULY: WET & WILD

Lake Edition Published monthly by Lifestyles After 50 Volume 30, Issue 7

Publisher Ed Graves Ed.Graves@lifestylesafter50.com Editor Terri Bryce Reeves Terri.Reeves@lifestylesafter50.com

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f you are among those who spend their summers in our Florida melting pot, you know you are in for a daily dose of heat, humidity, thunderstorms, frizzy hair and endless attacks by those little suckers that can bite faster than you can swat.

You tread carefully so as not to slip on the bright green algae that grows on sidewalks, patios and pool decks–and to avoid those fire ants from hell.

And you are well aware that our summers like to hang around for a long, long time. At least until October. Sometimes through December.

But perhaps our biggest summer and fall challenges are the hurricanes that may come knocking at our door anytime between now and November. Are you prepared?

In the past couple of years, Florida has experienced two devastating hurricanes: last year’s Cat 5 hurricane, Michael, and Irma, which covered the whole state in 2017.

Threats include not only high winds but also storm surges that can result in catastrophic damage. After the storm, power may not be restored for days or weeks.

If you elect to stay during a hurricane, make sure you have a three- to five-day supply of water for everyone in the household along with non-perishable snacks and food items (don’t forget the can opener). Fill your car tank with gas and your wallet with cash. Have at least one month’s supply of medicine and plenty of batteries for flashlights, hand-held fans and cell phone chargers.

Other things that will no doubt come in handy include rubber boots, baby wipes (for personal hygiene), antibacterial wipes (for cleaning surfaces), a first-aid kit, pillows and sleeping bags. Don’t forget to provide for the needs of pets, elders and babies too.

Try to eat up your perishables at the first sign of a hurricane and freeze water bottles to help keep the refrigerator cool in case of a power outage. Pick up any items in your yard that

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We wish you a tranquil hurricane season, but if that’s not the case, we wish you success in your preparations and safety should the storm arrive.

In the meantime, enjoy our July issue as we take a nostalgic 50-year-look-back at the first moon landing and other happenings in the summer of 1969. Columnist Michael Wright lends his offbeat humor to the subject and film critic Randal Hill previews the new flick, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in which Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a story set in 1969 Los Angeles.

Susan Goldfein puts AOL shaming to rest and David Novak pens about potential legislative changes to 401(k)s. Then Kathy Megyeri rounds it all out with an overview of the new Statue of Liberty Museum.

Trip to New York City anyone?

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Rocketmen

Fifty years ago, these astronauts took a historic moonwalk on a dusty orb

By RANDAL C. HILL

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y the early 1960s, America was trailing the Soviet Union in space development. This undoubtedly played a part in President John F. Kennedy’s appeal on May 25, 1961, to a special joint session of Congress when he pronounced, “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.”

Eight years later, at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on the morning of July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 thundered off the launch pad in a billowy cloud of smoke, destined for immortality. Neil Armstrong, a 38-year-old civilian research pilot, led the three-man crew, which also consisted of Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, 39, and MiNASA chael Collins, 38.

Media coverage naturally focused on the astronauts, move burned fuel, already running but the total numdangerously low. ber of scientists, The Eagle finally settled onto the engineers, service moon’s Sea of Tranquility with only and construction 25 seconds of fuel left. Had it run workers involved out, the operation would have been in the mission had automatically aborted in order to s u rg e d t o m o r e guarantee an adequate supply for the than 400,000. return flight home.

In the next Armstrong immediately radioed 76 hours, the asMission Control in Houston with his tronauts soared now-iconic announcement “The Eagle 240,000 miles, avhas landed.” eraging over 3,100 That evening, Armstrong descended m i l e s p e r h o u r. from the ship as a television camera They entered a luattached to the Eagle beamed the nar orbit on July astronauts’ progress back to Earth.

19, and the next day When he opened the hatch and their lunar module, stepped onto the moon’s surface, Eagle, separated he maintained that he had intended from the command to say, “That’s one small step for a module, Columbia, Left to right: Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, man, one giant leap for mankind,” but where Michael ColCommander Neil Armstrong and Command a possible momentary microphone lins remained on Module Pilot Michael Colling relax during training glitch had him announcing to the board to monitor the for the Apollo 11 mission. world, “That’s one small step for man, situation.

The Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface two one giant leap for mankind.”

Aldrin followed Armstrong 19 minutes later, being hours later. However, when Armstrong prepared to set the craft down, he realized that boulders and craters careful not to lock the Eagle’s hatch, as there was no were posing a potential hazard, so he maneuvered outer handle—and no roadside assistance number to it to a flatter, safer place nearby. Unfortunately, that call 240,000 miles away.

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The pair spent 21 hours and 36 minutes—almost a f u l l day—on the moon. They stayed in the Eagle for over six hours after they landed and took frequent breaks when they walked on the surface. The thermally cooled underwear they wore inside their spacesuits helped them fend off the potentially lethal 200-degree Fahrenheit lunar surface temperatures.

Following NASA’s directive, Armstrong and Aldrin loaded nearly 50 pounds of moon rocks and soil into the Eagle, took photographs and conducted tests. The hardest task then facing the two was the planting of the American flag. The moon’s surface was rockhard, and the astronauts only managed to hammer Old Glory a few inches into the surface, where it subsequently fell over from the Eagle’s takeoff blast.

Besides the American flag, the NASA astronauts left behind several other items, including a plaque that read: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon – July 1969 A.D. – We came in peace for all mankind.”

When returning to the lunar module, Aldrin accidentally tripped the circuit breaker used to activate the main engine; after a moment of panic, though, he was able to push the switch back into the correct position with a felt-tip pen.

Armstrong and Aldrin reconnected successfully with Collins and Columbia, and on July 22, Apollo 11 began its journey home, safely splashing into the Pacific Ocean two days later. It’s estimated that over 550 million people worldwide followed the historymaking event on television.

To date, the U.S. is the only country that has had successful crewed missions (six of them) to the moon. The last one was in 1972. Other countries have placed unmanned spacecraft on the lunar surface.

NASA plans to put the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024. The mission is named Artemis, after the Greek goddess of the moon and twin sister of the god Apollo.

“I think it is very beautiful that 50 years after Apollo, the Artemis program will carry the next man and the first woman to the moon,” announced NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. “I have a daughter who is 11 years old, and I want her to be able to see herself in the same role as the next women that go to the moon.”

Happy Birthday to those born in July!

Helen Mirren 74 on July 26

Alex Trebek 79 on July 22

Changes in RMDs May Be Coming Soon

Tom Hanks 63 on July 9

by DaviD Novak

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lmost a year ago in this column we mentioned the potential for changes in retirement distribution rules that would affect most seniors. While not fully implemented, these changes are now one large step closer to fruition.

Last month the House of Representatives passed sweeping new legislation that addressed several different topics affecting retirement investment accounts. I’m not sure what was more surprising between these changes actually being to the benefit of individuals, or that the vote in favor of passage was 417-3.

Probably most notable for most seniors is the potential change in rules regarding Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs). As a refresher, under current tax law, anyone with a balance in an account that was funded with pretax dollars—most commonly a Traditional IRA or 401(k), but also SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, 403(b)s, and other similar accounts—is required to take a minimum amount of the account starting at age 70 ½. (Technically, one can delay the initial RMD until the year following 70 ½, but then would be required to take two RMDs in that year.)

The total gross amount of the distribution, which can be taken in the form of cash and/or securities, is taxable income in the year in which it is taken out, and you can withhold some of this amount for taxes. Basically, the government doesn’t care how you take the distribution, just that you do and it can therefore be taxed.

One of the provisions in the legislation is to increase the age when RMDs must begin from age 70½ to age 72. The change is meant to recognize increases in life expectancy since 1986, when RMDs were first enacted. Obviously, the longer distributions are delayed, the more time for compounding to do its work.

There is also another potential change in the RMD rules, which will have less effect on retirees but would impact their heirs who stand to inherit the assets.

Another part of the proposed legislation is a “10-year rule,” which will require virtually all non-spouse beneficiaries to fully distribute any IRA account they inherit within 10 years of the owner’s date of death, rather than the current rules of being able to take a minimum amount based on their own life expectancy.

While the Senate still needs to produce its version of the legislation, it appears that the first meaningful changes for RMDs in decades are on the horizon.

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Oh, and when you held my hand I knew that it was now or never Those were the best days of my life The song was readily embraced by baby boomers who looked at it as a nostalgic, coming-of-age tribute. But Adams was only nine years old in 1969 and I wonder if he was really aware of the world around him.

That summer brought us the first widely-released X-rated movie, Midnight Cowboy, which I personally thought was a downer, especially when Jon Voight had to sit next to Dustin Hoffman’s dead body on a bus ride to Florida. And I didn’t appreciate when one of Captain Kirk’s former lovers stole his body on the last episode of Star Trek. That was just weird.

We were over the moon when the Apollo 11 crew won the space war with the first lunar landing. But the Charles Manson murders and Sen. Ted Kennedy’s drunken drive into the Chappaquiddick River with Mary Jo Kopechne shook us to our core.

And things couldn’t get any more bizarre than Woodstock in August.

True love eluded me that summer when I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life: my first wife. But I surely dig Adams’ tribute to his first six-string guitar, which he bought at the five-and-dime.

My grandma gave me my first guitar when I was 13 because I wanted to be Elvis when I grew up. I went on to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston but ended up going into electronics profession after my Navy days.

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So far, I’ve got Mel Anoma on skins, but keyboard and bass are open. And there’s always room for more cowbell. If you play, drop me a line.

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Oh Say You Can See the New Liberty Museum

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The building’s materials link past and future, using the same granite, bronze and copper employed by Richard Morris Hunt for the Statue’s pedestal over 130 years ago.

Photo: David Sundberg Lazarus that contains the words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” wasn’t added until 1903.

The museum rises from the pedestrian mall on Liberty Island and offers sweeping panoramic views of Lady Liberty, lower Manhattan and New York Harbor. The building’s materials— granite, bronze and copper—are the same materials used on the Statue’s pedestal 130 years ago.

The building was created with sustainability and LEED Gold certification in mind. The 14,000 squarefoot roofscape is seeded with native meadow grasses to attract native birds; soaring glass windows are etched with patterns to avoid bird strikes. The

museum is constructed to withstand hurricane-force winds and erected above the 500-year floodplain to accommodate climate change.

The Statue’s Public Affairs Officer, Jerry Willis, said, “The museum was designed to blend into the historic landscape of the island so it looks like it’s emerging. It is intended as a place of inspiration for those who visit the Statue as it tells the stories of being a gift from France, of it embodying our sacred values, and of it continuing its original legacy.”

About 4 million visit the Statue annually and the new structure is built to accommodate them all. In the past, visitors would often have to stand in long lines to enter the small museum The Statue’s original torch is showcased behind 22-foot-high glass walls. Photo: David Sundberg i n s i d e t h e S t a t u e ’s pedestal, which could hose looking for a memorable One of the most suronly accommodate about summer getaway should consider prising revelations?

4,000 people a day. a trip to New York City, where the new Lady Liberty was origThis fall, an HBO doc26,000 square-foot Statue of Liberty inally conceived (and umentary, Liberty, MothMuseum opened May 16. It’s the most funded) to celebrate the er of Exiles, will detail extensive and impressive upgrade since end of slavery – not to how sculptor Auguste our Lady first raised her six-foot-tall welcome immigrants Bartholdi’s dream betorch in 1886. as popular wisdom has came a reality and what Funded by a $100 million public it. The Statue was the the Statue means to peocampaign, the free museum provides brainchild of Edouard de ple who came here for a visitors the opportunity to learn about Laboulaye, a French pobetter life.

Lady Liberty’s history, influence and litical thinker, U.S. ConMy husband Les, a legacy through interactive displays stitution expert and aboHungarian refugee, reand artifacts, including the replication litionist, who imagined members seeing the Statof Paris sculptor Auguste Bartholdi’s it as a commemorative ue rise from the sea as he workshop. Visitors can also gaze upon gift from France to celeentered the harbor onthe original 3,600 lb. torch (replaced brate the freeing of U.S. board a ship in February during the restoration in the 1980s), a slaves. Indeed, broken 1959. full-scale copper replica of the Statue’s chains lie at Lady Lib“It felt like I was truly One of the museum’s highlights is a full-scale replica of the foot face and foot, and listen to recordings of erty’s feet. The famous coming home,” he said. from that visitors are encouraged to touch. Photo: Keena Photo immigrants. inscription by Emma

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n his ninth movie offering, Quentin Tarantino takes us back to August 1969 with this nostalgic, if somewhat silly, buddy comedy successfully folded into a twisted take on the Charles Manson murders. Tarantino proudly describes his stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as, “the most exciting star dynamic duo since Robert Redford and Paul Newman.”

DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, a washedup, alcoholic, TV cowboy and action star whose smug confidence covers up a world of self-doubts. Dalton is marooned in the City of Angels with his only friend, stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), an easygoing and simple soul who hides a

terrible secret of which he may or may not be guilty. A series of DUIs has cost Dalton his driver’s license, so he is dependent upon Booth to chauffeur him around. Along the way, Booth delivers pep talks as the fading star sheds boozy tears of self-pity.

Tarantino’s script, which he worked on for five years, has Dalton renting a Beverly Hills-area mansion on upscale Cielo Drive and living next door to a golden show-biz couple, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) and Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha). Tate, a little-known actress of ethereal beauty, becomes a fleeting but well-developed character in Tarantino’s hands.

In the meantime, charismatic wacko Charles Manson (Damon Herriman) has trained his collection of luscious acolytes to spend their days on Sunset Boulevard amassing money, food and attention.

Dalton dismisses the provocatively dressed teens as hippie trash, but Booth becomes intrigued enough to offer a ride home to Pussycat (Margaret Qualley), a

flirty, zonked-out nymphet who lives on Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern and, in his final the Spahn Movie Ranch, now squatted on film role, Luke Perry.

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The film is a requiem for a past age, Weaving the Manson tragedy into a wistful Tinseltown homage presented his fictional story, Tarantino applies his as a dark romp filled with teeth-grinding own spin to the infamous murder scene pathos. It’s Tarantino’s love letter to a involving Tate as it unfolds next to twisted world that has mesmerized him Dalton’s home. since his childhood.

The filmmaker known for his ensemble The movie opens on July 26th. casts, extreme onscreen violence and fondness of pop culture perfectly captures the zeitgeist of 1969 Hollywood with radiant shots of billboards and movietheater marquees, as well as hit 45s of the day that throb nonstop from car radios always Sony tuned to KHJ, the chief Los Angeles Top 40 powerhouse at the time.

Along the way, we are Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Pacino in treated to cameos from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the likes of Al Pacino,

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