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CONTENTS JANUARY 2013 • VOL. 14 ISSUE 01

ON THE COVER – Ocala resident Howard L. Burke is the executive vice president and membership chairman for the Ocala Air Force Association chapter, No. 136. For his efforts with the organization, Burke was awarded the AFA’s Medal of Merit in November 2012.

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departments 8 12 38

Tapas Senior Center Calendar of Events

columns & opinion 44 49 50

Theatre Listings Crossword Puzzle Reading Corner

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Enjoying Act Three

by Ellis Amburn

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Embracing Life

by Donna Bonnell

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Winter’s Rose

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Checking off the Bucket List

by Richard Dennison

Camellias Bloom During the Cold Months

BY DANA EDWARDS

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The Air Force Association Keeping America No.1 in Air Power

BY ELLIS AMBURN

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Paint it Blue Australian Artist Hopes to Educate People about Deforestation

BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON

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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC

Happy New Year!

So it’s 2013. How amazing it is to be living in the 21st Century. And how amazing it is to witness all of our technological advances. During the course of my grandmother’s life, humankind leaped from the horse-andbuggy into the space age.

When I was a child we had one black and white television with three channels. We had one rotary phone tethered to the wall, one transistor radio, and one old record player, which gave us an electrical shock on a regular basis.

Now I carry a device in my pocket the size of a wallet that plays music and videos, takes pictures and makes movies, and can locate the whereabouts of my family. It is a compass and a flashlight and a level. You can play games on it.

And you can video chat with people on the other side of the globe. And it doesn’t shock me.

Eat your heart out Dick Tracy.

The rate of our technological advances is increasing exponentially.

I only wish our intelligence and compassion could follow suit. Imagine what we could accomplish, with all of

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our resources and smarts, if we weren’t so busy waging war and pillaging the planet for material wealth.

But, it’s 2013 and we’re still here. The world did not come to an end (as some would have us believe) as predicted by the Mayan calendar.

I wasn’t worried. For one thing, it was simply the end of the Mayan calendar — just as our calendar ends on December 31 — not the end of the world. Plus, the popular psychic John Edward said, “Don’t spend all your money.” The world is not coming to an end. He sees good things coming. He sees 2013 as a great time to plan to reinvent yourself, your thought patterns, to restructure your beliefs, and become more spiritually aware.

I’m ready for good things, especially in light of the horrific events that fill the headlines. I’m hopeful that the New Year will bring good tidings. And despite the horrific news, I do believe most of us are good. It only takes one lunatic to ruin the lives of innumerable innocent people.

I’m ready for a fundamental shift in awareness, and I pray that it comes sooner than later. I have no idea how to help make such a thing occur, but I suspect it should start with me.

So for the New Year, I should strive to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, and work harder at my job and on my personal relationships. I should be more forgiving and more grateful. And I should let the shortcomings of others inspire me to work on my own.

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TAPAS œ JANUARY

World’s First Canned Beer

FIFTY DAYS OF FRISBEE The Frisbee was first released by toy company Wham-O in 1957 after Frederick Morrison sold the company his plastic flying disc called “Pluto Platter.”

More than 25 years later, Prince George’s Community College Club in Largo, Md. created the world group marathon record for Frisbee play after playing for 1,198 hours, which is nearly 50 days.

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BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Three physicists at MIT created a new optical imaging system that records images so quickly that it can track the movement of light. This streak camera shoots light particles through a horizontal, narrow slit (unlike typical cameras) to create a slow motion video of light moving across the object in the field of view, resembling a spotlight.

The camera can only produce videos of traditional, two-dimensional images for events repeated millions of times, moving the streak camera slightly each time, making this camera “the world’s slowest, fastest camera.” With a price tag of $250,000 and its inability to capture movement of light in everyday life, don’t count on adding this camera to your collection any time soon.

ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE Second-place winner of the 2010 Greener Gadgets Competition, the Empower chair offers a comfortable seat and soothing rocking motion that creates kinetic energy to power your electronic devices. The chair, created by Ryan Klinger and made from recycled materials, is a portable sling seat that folds out to a glider-style rocking chair. Designed for public areas such as airports, cafes and waiting rooms, the chair’s hinges are connected to a kinetic energy generator and a lithium ion battery that stores energy every time you swing.

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It was 78 years ago this month that the first canned beer, produced by partnering companies Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company and the American Can Company, made its debut in America.

According to History. com, American Can first attempted to can beer in 1909 but was unsuccessful.

The company then had to wait for the end of Prohibition before they could continue perfecting canned beer.

After two years of research, American Can developed a pressurized can that had a coating to prevent beer from reacting with the tin.

In 1935, the companies delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to “faithful Krueger drinkers” in Richmond, Va., where 91 percent of drinkers approved the canned beer. This approval helped Krueger further their production of canned beers, leading companies like Anheuser-Busch, Pabst and Schlitz to follow in their footsteps. By the end of 1935, over 200 million cans of beer had been sold.

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72 Years Old

Faye Dunaway BORN JANUARY 14, 1941

Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in Bascom, Fla. to an Army officer D father fathe and a homemaker mother, according to biography.com. After graduating high school in 1958, Dunaway enrolled at the University of Florida to pursue a degree in education, but later transferred to Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts. Since graduating in 1962, Dunaway has taken on theater roles, television roles and several movie roles that launched her into Hollywood stardom.

Dunaway got her first big break into the Hollywood scene in 1967 when she landed the lead role of bank robber Bonnie Parker in “Bonnie and Clyde.” A year later she starred in “The Thomas Crown Affair” alongside Steve McQueen.

As her career progressed, Dunaway began taking on more complex roles including the troubled wife Evelyn Mulwray in “Chinatown” (1974) and Joan Crawford in “Mommie Dearest” (1981). She continued movie roles throughout the ‘90s and since then made several television appearances including “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” in 2006 and “Grey’s Anatomy” in 2009.

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Birthdays this Month

Neil Diamond January 24, 1941 (72)

“Being a star is an agent’s dream, not an actor’s.”

Luise Rainer

Rip Taylor

January 12, 1910 (103)

January 13, 1934 (79)

David Bowie

Kenny Loggins

January 8, 1947 (66)

January 7, 1948 (65)

82 Years Old

— ROBERT DUVALL Actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California. During the late 1950, Duvall began appearing in theater, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) (as Boo Radley) and “Captain Newman, M.D.” (1963). He landed many of his most famous roles during the early 1970s.

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A Historical Survey of American Music The Foundation for the Promotion of Music in partnership with the Senior Recreation Center is offering a free 10week musical journey that will explore a wide range of genres from psalmody in New England to Broadway Musicals.

Cheryl Poe, president of the Foundation for the Promotion of Music for the past three years, said the Foundation has been around since 1974. The Foundation’s four goals for Gainesville and the surrounding area are honoring outstanding musicians, recognizing superior student musicians, encouraging the study of music and presenting programs of interest to the community.

Poe said that the State of Florida Federation of Music Clubs offered a $1,000 grant to any of the smaller clubs in the State that would be willing to start a new program in the community that

would reach additional populations.

“We thought this was a great idea,” Poe said. “And since the Senior Center is relatively new, this would be a good opportunity to find another population to outreach.”

Recently retired UF Professor David Kushner helped develop the curriculum, featuring local live musicians demonstrating the various genres.

“I think it’s going to be great!” Poe said.

Sessions will be held every Tuesday afternoon from 1:00-3:00pm beginning January 22, 2013. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome! (Your “ID” will not be checked at the door.)

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CAMELLIA CHRISTMAS

Winter’s Rose Camellias Bloom During the Cold Months

by Dana Edwards

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hile other flowers and trees lose their leaves and petals during the colder months, fragrant camellias burst through the dull brown colors adding pinks, whites and reds to the winter lull.

The local Gainesville Camellia Society hosts its annual camellia show in January to celebrate the blooms of the winter flower. This year, the society will host its show January 5-6 at the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.

Camellia enthusiasts can enter their blooms at 7:30 a.m. for the contest, with prompt judging at 10 a.m. The general public can view the prize-winning camellias from 1-5 p.m. on January 5 and from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. on January 6. Plants will be sold and all proceeds go to the Gainesville Camellia Society. The show aims to educate locals about the care, culture and appreciation of camellias.

“It’s a big deal for us,” said Nancy Collins, treasurer for the Gainesville Camellia Society. “We have more than 1,000 blooms and people from all over attend.”

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few come from different cities in Florida as well as from other states such as Georgia and Alabama. She said some of the attendees go to shows from different states throughout the year.

Camellias are an easy-to-grow winter plant with minimal care. With an affinity

With more than 400 named species, the camellias that grow best in Florida are the Camellia japonica, Camellia sasanqua and hybrids of these two. Japonica camellias grow larger and more robust than the sasanqua camellias. Both are used as landscape shrubs. Some species

“Camellias are often underutilized. They grow so well when most plants don’t and they are such carefree, easy-to-grow plants.” for the colder climates, camellias grow well in central and northern Florida away from the sandy beaches. The plant was introduced to other parts of the world by the Asian countries. More than 30 varieties of the flower were exported to Europe in the 18th century, and the flower was brought to New England America in 1797. The oldest camellia japonica plants can be found in cities in Portugal, Germany and Italy. Though perfect for America’s southern winters, camellia varieties have been cultivated for New England, the Pacific Northwestern and even Canadian winters.

of camellias can grow to the size of a tree if left to grow without much pruning.

These easy-to-grow flowers require well-drained soil with an acidic pH. If these ideal conditions do not exist, it is best to grow camellias in large containers. However, camellias do well in most inland areas of North and Central Florida. The flowers bloom generally in October through December, though depending on the species the blooms can last for a short or long period of time going into the January through March timeframe. Species that bloom from November through January are best in seniortimesmagazine.com

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PHOTO COURTESY OF COLEEN DEGROFF Each year, the Gainesville Camellia Society hosts its annual camellia show to celebrate the blooms of the winter flower. After judging, the best blooms are moved to a convention table, but all of the camellias are left for public viewing.

Florida’s temperamental winters.

“Camellias are often underutilized,” said Sydney Park Brown, an associate

tion and should be planted at least five feet apart. To start growing camellias, Brown suggests starting the growth in

With an immense camellia heritage rooted in the legacy of Wilmot, Gainesville holds an historic and geographic appeal for camellia enthusiasts. professor and extension specialist of consumer horticultural sciences at the University of Florida. “They grow so well when most plants don’t and they are such carefree, easy- to-grow plants. I find them very rewarding.”

Brown said all she does when planting camellias is fertilize a new plant one to two times a year with light watering and pruning. Sandy soil is not ideal. Camellias prefer shady areas with air circula-

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the fall so the roots can develop during the winter. It can take about half a year for the plants to become established.

Few pests affect camellias, but the most common bugs include tea scale, aphids and spider mites. Scales eat the underside of camellia leaves. It is possible they might not be noticed until a large amount has developed. Aphids suck juices from young camellia leaves, leaving them distorted. The insect also

produces a sticky solution that mold enjoys, leaving an unpleasant sight to the leaves. Spider mites are also found on the underside of the camellia leaves during hot, dry environments with poor air circulation and little rainfall.

Diseases that can affect camellias include leaf spot, dieback, leaf and bud gall, and root rot. Leaf spots are as large or small as the fungi causing the issue.

Little damage is left behind on leaves.

Dieback occurs during the spring when new shoots wilt and die. Leaf and bud gall appear as thick, enlarged leaves or buds during cooler springs.

Young leaves of other camellia species are also processed for tea. The edible oil from camellia seeds has been used in the Chinese culture for cooking. The beverage can be consumed hot or cold and seniortimesmagazine.com

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PHOTOS BY DANA EDWARDS Wilmot Gardens represents one of the University of Florida’s earliest horticultural efforts, originally developed to honor Royal J. “Roy” Wilmot. Today, Wilmot Gardens is being restored to become a healing and meditation garden for patients, students, faculty and staff and the greater Gainesville community.

has been known to possess properties that can help vascular function, immune system strength and inhibit tumor-formation among other benefits, according to livestrong.com.

Camellias can grow in six recognized ways: single form, semi-double form, anemone form, peony form, formal double form and rose form double, according to Brown’s article “Camellias at a Glance.” Displays of camellia collections in Florida are located at Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales and Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park in Tallahassee.

UF’s roughly four-acre Wilmot Gardens hosts camellias, the favorite plant of the horticulturalist for which the gardens are named: Royal J. “Roy” Wilmot. Wilmot classified many of the 3,000 known

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camellia varieties in the 1940s and was an authority on the flower. He founded the American Camellia Society in 1946.

The gardens were once the largest publicly owned collection of camellias in the country, according to the Wilmot Gardens website. The so-called UF “secret garden” by Mowry Road and Gale Lemerand Drive has been a hidden treasure overgrown with vines and weeds over the years. Due to an infestation of southern pine beetles in 2006, 80 percent of the Wilmot Gardens pine trees died. This prevented much-needed shade for the camellias.

Additionally, hurricane winds brought down the dead trees, and kudzu and air potato vines harmed the camellias growing in the gardens. From the nearly 500 species of camellias and

azaleas growing in the gardens in 1940s, about 70 specimens remain -– some still labeled with their metal tags from nearly 60 years earlier.

Currently, the gardens are undergoing a $40,000 restoration project for a healing and meditation garden for Gainesville locals and Shands patients to enjoy.

UF is currently not conducting research on camellias, Brown said.

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COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN

Enjoying Act Three Lillian Gish

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illian Gish starred in three of my favorite movies: “Miss Susie Slagle’s,” “Duel in the Sun,” and “Night of the Hunter.”

I saw them all when I was quite young, decades before Miss Gish and I met.

On that occasion I told her how much I admired her, after introducing myself at a cocktail party in the late 1970s in the East Side Manhattan condo shared by theatrical lawyer L. Arnold Weissberger and ICM agent Milton Goldman, two of my closest friends.

Lillian Gish was as gracious in person as she was on screen, serenely personifying what Walt Whitman would call “the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age.”

Her reserved, rather enigmatic air I found altogether appealing, though I was disappointed she didn’t pick up on my cues to talk about working with Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter,” or with Jennifer Jones, Lionel Barrymore, Gregory Peck, and Butterfly McQueen in “Duel in the Sun.” Perhaps understandably, she was more interested in discussing the memoir she’d published in 1969 about film director D.W. Griffith and herself.

Together they’d established the “the grammar of movies,” as she called it.

She met Griffith around 1912 when she and her teenage sister Dorothy visited their friend Mary Pickford at Biograph studios in New York. D.W. Griffith chased the sisters “all over,” she said. “We were terrified until we found out he was D.W. and that was his way of giving us a screen test.”

Griffith put both Gish sisters under contract, and soon realized that in Lillian he had found the muse who would inspire his masterpieces. In 1915 he made her “the queen of the silents” by starring her in the first feature-length movie — and first blockbuster — “The Birth of a Nation.”

Rumor had it they were lovers, but she said, “I don’t fall in love. Always been too busy working. To me, marriage is a business. I don’t see how any woman could combine career and marriage. I’m so glad I didn’t try it — I would have destroyed some poor man.”

The main loves of her life were her mother and sister. When the girls were young, their father James Gish abandoned the family. Afterward, neither Lillian nor her mother trusted men, but Dorothy, who went to work at the age of four, would marry an actor name James Rennie.

Lillian had her share of suitors, and the-

ater critic George Jean Nathan said, “She was desired by more discriminating men than any other woman who ever lived.”

She once made the mistake of getting involved with a man who tried to take over her business affairs, and had to go to court to get rid of him. She never married.

Her career faltered in the sound era, her wistful, virginal appeal at odds with the hard-edged, peroxided glamour of the talkies. When she slipped back into films in her forties, she invariably played characters twice her age.

She was in her mid-eighties when I met her at Arnold and Milton’s.

Wearing a neatly tailored navy-blue suit, she was still blessed with a smooth, unlined face, and she looked no more than a well-preserved 60.

One of the performances she was proudest of was the starring role in Horton Foote’s original TV play “The Trip to Bountiful.” When it proved a hit, she asked the playwright to promise he’d never let any other actress play the part.

He broke his promise when he got a chance to film “Bountiful” with Geraldine Page, the first lady of the American theatre. Ms. Page won the best-actress Academy Award for “Bountiful,” a prize denied Miss Gish, though she did receive an honorary Oscar in 1971.

In the late 1990s, I met Horton when I was in Hollywood to write Elizabeth Taylor’s biography. At dinner one night Horton said, “Lillian and I remained friends.”

Miss Gish was that kind of lady.

Born in 1893, she died in 1993, the last surviving member of the small group of pioneers who established movies as an art form. To date, she remains the only movie star whose selling point was purity. s Involved daily in volunteer community service, Ellis Amburn, a High Springs resident, is the author of biographies of Roy Orbison, Elizabeth Taylor, and others. He can be reached at ellis.amburn@gmail.com.

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AIM HIGH

The Air Force Association Keeping America No.1 in Air Power

by Ellis Amburn

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he Air Force Association, which has a chapter in Ocala, is proud that it is older than the U.S. Air Force itself.

Founded in 1946, the AFA was to promote the cause of a separate Air Force, which had always been part of the U.S. Army. On September 18, 1947, the Air Force at last achieved its independence and officially became an autonomous branch of the United States Armed Forces.

The Ocala AFA chapter, No. 136, has Howard L. Burke as its executive vice president and membership chairman, and he is the 2012 winner of the AFA’s Medal of Merit.

“It’s for my service to the organization over the past seven or eight years,” he said in a telephone interview.

Mike Emig, AFA’s Florida president, presented the medal at Ocala International Airport’s administration building on November 15. “Only five were presented in our state,” he wrote in a press release. In addition, Florida was named the outstanding state in the AFA at the national convention in Washington, D.C.

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“All active members of the AFA are to be congratulated for an outstanding job,” Emig said. “Members make our organization work. If you care about air defense you too can join the AFA.” “The Ocala chapter is named after the Tuskegee Airmen, the African-American fighter pilots of World War II,” Burke explained. “They painted the tails of their P-58 Mustangs red so American bomber pilots would know they were ours. We had four Tuskegee Airmen.

Force, and I’m a retired Vietnam vet.”

Burke entered the service in 1959 at Dyess AFB, Texas. During the Vietnam War he was a jet-engine mechanic, servicing such large planes as the B-47, KC 135, and B-52.

According to The Red Tail Report, Burke “kept B-52s flying from Guam when the first bombing missions were launched there in 1965. In Guam he met Brig. Gen. Jimmy Stewart, who flew a mission over Vietnam.”

“Fighting men were not ‘in for the duration’ of the war as they had been in World War I and World War II but served for fixed tours of duty.”

Now we’re down to one — Steve Lawrence, who lives in Gainesville.”

In the September 2012 Red Tail Report, Emig praised Burke for helping him keep membership at 538, recruiting new prospects, and creating and staffing informational displays at veterans’ and civic events.

“I was born in Baltimore, Maryland,” Burke said. “I had 20 years in the Air

Marc Eliot’s biography “Jimmy Stewart” related, “Stewart volunteered to lead a B-52 bombing raid out of Guam… after which he visited every American air base in South Vietnam and Thailand.”

In 1966, Burke pulled TDY in Thailand as part of Operation Rolling Thunder, destroying North Vietnamese roads and fuel supplies, according to This Day in History website. President Lyndon B. seniortimesmagazine.com

PHOTO COURTESY THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Fighter ace Francis Gabby Gabreski. In March of 1943, Gabreski became part of the legendary 56th Fighter Group, which flew an airplane that, in later versions, became one of the most feared fighters by the enemy — the P-47 Thunderbolt.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION Clarence M. “Bob” Logsdon (shorter man in foreground) and Allen Q. Nations (directly behind Logsdon) watch as a B-25 leaves the deck of Hornet on 18 April, 1942. Nations perished at the battle of Santa Cruz Islands when a Japanese “Val” dive bomber crashed into the Hornet’s signal bridge. Logsdon survived and in 2001 related “the death of the Hornet” in Robert Ballard’s (who found the Titanic) book, “Graveyards of the Pacific.”

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PHOTO BY LUCY BURKE RIGHT: Ocala’s Red Tail Memorial Chapter of the Air Force Association celebrated one of its own when Howard Burke, left, received AFA’s National Medal of Merit, which was announced in Washington, D.C. Florida AFA president Mike Emig, right, made the presentation at the Ocala International Airport in November, praising Burke for his recruiting efforts and other services benefitting Red Tail Memorial chapter 136, which exists to keep America the strongest air power in the world.

Johnson personally chose targets for the 643,000 tons of bombs that devastated North Vietnam between 1965-1968.

“I was a jet-engine supervisor for KC-135 operations stationed at Takhli RTAFB in Thailand,” Burke said. Lighter moments included meeting troop entertainers Arthur Godfrey and Gene Autry.

Returning to the States in 1967, Burke was soon ordered back to the front. As Philip Caputo explained in “10,000 Days of Thunder,” “Fighting men were not ‘in for the duration’ of the war as they had been in World War I and World War II but served for fixed tours of duty of one year.”

In 1968, Burke supported Operation Arc Light’s B-52 bombardments over Vietnam, returning in 1969, 1970 and 1972. He was in Guam for Operation Linebacker, one purpose of which was to decimate enemy railroad bridges from Hanoi to the Chinese border.

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Eleven North Vietnamese MIGs and two U.S. F-4s were downed in air-to-air combat on Operation Linebacker’s first day, which included 120 sorties. The No. 1 ace of the war was Capt. Charles B. DeBellevue, who shot down six MIGs,

Air Force History On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright pioneered aviation at Kitty Hawk, N.C. On August 2, 1909, the Wright brothers delivered their first airplane, the Wright Model A Military

“On Dec. 20, 1943, Jimmy led the 445th on a blistering all-out attack on the German port cities of Bremen and Kiel. They were met with strong aerial resistance from the German Luftwaffe.” according to the Air Force website.

Returning to civilian life, Burke moved to Florida in 1980 and settled in Ocala to work for Lockheed Martin. He and his wife Lucy have seven children and 13 grandchildren. Burke soon joined the AFA to maintain his closeness to the Air Force.

Flyer, to the U.S. War Department. It cost $30,000, cruised at 42 mph, and could remain aloft an hour.

Christened Signal Corps No. 1, the plane was assigned to 1st Lt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois. Born in 1897, Foulois fought in Army campaigns in the Philippines and operated the U.S.’s first seniortimesmagazine.com

PHOTO COURTESY OF UNITED STATES AIR CORPS According to Air Force Historical Studies Office, in December 1909, Brig. Gen. James Allen summoned 1st Lt. Foulois to his office and informed him that he was to become the sole flyer of the newly acquired Wright military airplane, designated Signal Corps No. 1. “Take plenty of spare parts,” he told the young officer, “and teach yourself to fly.”

dirigible balloon. Orville took “Foo-loy” on his first flight July 30, 1909, covering 10 miles from Fort Myer, Virginia to Alexandria, Virginia.

In World War I Foulois was named Chief of Air Services, American Expeditionary Forces, and ultimately Chief of the Air Corps. Edward V. “Eddie” Rickenbacker. Rickenbacker shot down 26 German aircraft to become the war’s No. 1 ace.

Between the two world wars, the Air Corps’ peacetime hero was senior officer Billy Mitchell, who denounced the Army’s reluctance to embrace new aerial technology and was court-martialed in 1925. His courage and persistence, however, paved the way for the Air Force’s coming of age during World War II. At the outbreak of hostilities in 1941 the Air Force had only a few hundred planes; by the end of the war it boasted 80,000.

The flying ace of WWII was Pennsylvania’s Lt. Col. Francis S. “Gabby” Gabreski, who described his 28 kills, many of them in Spitfire dogfights with Nazi Luftwaffe, in “Gabby.” After scoring several double- and triple victories, he was captured by Germans. Rescued by U.S. planes, he fought again in Korea, attacking MIGs in his F-86 Sabre jet and adding 6.5 victories to his record.

One of the key turning points of WWII, “Doolittle’s Raid,” was unleashed in early 1942 by Lt. Col. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, a daredevil racer and test pilot, who executed the U.S. Navy’s gutsy plan to bomb Tokyo just months after Pearl Harbor. His autobiography “I Could Never Be So Lucky Again” described how 85 volunteer airmen trained at Florida’s Eglin AFB to launch 16 fully loaded B-25 Mitchell twin-engine medium bombers from the cramped deck of

the aircraft carrier USS Hornet.

Jimmy Stewart led many WWII bombing missions, according to Marc Eliot’s biography, which recounts the Oscar-winning star’s exploits as commander of a B-24 Liberator stationed in England.

“On December 20, 1943, Jimmy led the 445th on a blistering all-out attack on the German port cities of Bremen and Kiel,” Eliot wrote. “They were met with strong aerial resistance from the German Luftwaffe.”

Later, Stewart participated in a midnight raid that trashed 50 Nazi aircraft.

On a mission near Paris, his squadron was attacked by 60 Messerschmitt and Focke-Wulfs, but he succeeded in getting his crews back to Britain.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Major General James H. Doolittle, a pioneer in American airpower, whose influences in aviation spanned six decades.

sions, including the bombing of Berlin, until grounded by a nervous breakdown, known in battle as shellshock. General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, then chief of staff of the Second Air Division, promoted Stewart to lieutenant colonel, and later Stewart would become a brigadier general in the Reserve.

A visionary U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, hastened the end of the war in Europe by approving the Air Force’s strategic bombing raid in February 1945.

Dresden was leveled and 25,000 killed, thanks to B-17s equipped with new technology including radar-guided bombing and the Norden bomb sight, according to the Air Force website.

In the Pacific, low-flying B-29 napalm bombing raids devised by Gen. Curtis LeMay wiped out the Japanese economy, not to mention 84,000 civilians and 250,000 buildings in the 1944 test raid

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alone, as stated in the website The Firebombing of Japan.

The final blow came not from Air Force brass but from the White House.

Both Generals Carl Spaatz and Hap Arnold were against using the atomic bomb. The orders to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki were issued by President Harry S. Truman and his Secretary of War Henry Stimson in 1945, with the result that 140,000 died in Hiroshima, 74,000 in Nagasaki. The Air Force had changed human history forever.

General Arnold oversaw the aerial wars on both fronts. Born in 1886, Arnold was trained by the Wright Brothers in a biplane. At the end of WWII, pushing for Air Force independence from the Army, he shrewdly enlisted the help of such popular heroes as Stewart and Doolittle to get the Air Force Association off the ground.

Stewart and Doolittle flew to New York for the AFA conference in January 1946, at which Doolittle announced the new organization would have nationwide chapters, publish a magazine, and organize educational programs. In March, charter members Stewart, Ronald Reagan and Jack L. Warner put together a coastto-coast radio broadcast to draw public attention to the upcoming Air Force Day scheduled for August 1, 1947.

Eventually the AFA would accumulate 200 chapters in 49 states, as well as England and foreign countries, with 117,000 members, 15 percent still on active duty.

Present-day AFA Ocala membership ranges in age from Seniors to college students, including ROTC cadets from the Arnold Air Society at the University of Florida. seniortimesmagazine.com

Air Force Evolution 1907: Originally part of the Armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps.

1914: Became the Aviation Section, Signal Corps 1918: Renamed the Division of Military Aeronautics.

1918 to 1926: Became the U.S. Army Air Service.

1926 to 1941: The U.S. Army Air Corps 1941 to 1947: The U.S. Army Air Forces

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have two famous U.S. Congressmen, Cliff Stearns and Rich Nugent,â&#x20AC;? Burke noted.

According to its website, the AFAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose is to make the Air Force the dominant arm of the U.S. military, and to â&#x20AC;&#x153;honor airmen and our Air Force heritage.â&#x20AC;? This message it spreads through Air Force Magazine; the General Billy Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies; and such national conventions as the Annual Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition.

Top issues for 2013, the AFA stated on its website, are preparing airmen

and taking care of veterans; revitalizing the aging AF ďŹ&#x201A;eet; securing space and cyberspace; strengthening both nuclear power and deterrence; and promoting education, especially science and math.

Above all, the AFA wants to keep the U.S. Air Force the strongest airpower in the world, which it has been since World War II. Its current strength, including Guard and Reserve, is 680,000, the Air Force website estimated. Wikipedia stated that 329,000 of those were on active duty, a ďŹ gure that Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz soon hopes to grow to 350,000, according to Air Force Times.

Hurricane Sandy demonstrated the need for a cutting-edge Air Force in both war and peace. The Air Force website reported that three C-17s and dozens of aircrews ďŹ&#x201A;ew around the clock to deliver 630 tons of relief supplies and 69 vehicles to stricken areas in New York and New Jersey.

On a smaller scale, Howard Burke recently undertook a project that involved constructing Vietnam-era aircraft models to recruit new members and to educate the public about aerospace power. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to keep in touch with every member in our chapter and remind them when their membership is due,â&#x20AC;?

Burke said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need more members to get involved in our activities.â&#x20AC;?

Every bit helps when you want to be the strongest air force on the planet. s For more information on the Air Force Association, contact Mike Emig at 352-854-8326 or MHEmig46@aol.com.

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Embracing Life The Significance of Symbols - Happy New Year!

If you are reading this column, we are celebrating the New Year — 2013.

There were many hypotheses projecting the demise of the world on 12-12-12 or 12-21-12. Fortunately, those theories were incorrect and the numbers were simply symbols standing for a date in history.

Properly composed text has played a significant role in my life. Until recently, I never gave much thought to symbols that communicate information uninhibited by language barriers. Languages contain characters that can be drastically different in the written form. Above are Chinese logograms, which are visual symbols representing words. According to goodcharacters.com, they mean “Happy New Year.” Chinese logograms are not common knowledge in the United States or other parts of the world.

Universal symbols, however, leave little room for misinterpretation. Do you recognize any of the following?

(Clockwise from Top Left: Toilets, First Aid, Air Transportation, Taxi, Customs and Restaurants.) Any traveler knows the global importance of their simplicity.

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A symbol is something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity. We use symbols every day, especially when driving. The shape of a road sign in the distance sends us an alert. Most all seniors memorized these common shapes years ago for the dreaded safe driver’s exam: Octagon: Stop Triangle: Yield Pennant: No Passing Zone Diamond: Hazard Vertical Rectangle: Regulatory Pentagon: School and School Crossing Round: Railroad Advance Warning Crossbuck: Railroad crossing.

The objective for the creator of a symbol is quick communication of a specific message. British designer, Gerald Holtom, achieved that goal when he created what is probably the single most represented image in the world — The Peace Sign. It was conceived as a visual plea to end the atomic arms race that started with the devastating attack on Hiroshima during World War II. Since it first appeared in the 1950s, the peace symbol has taken on a multitude of new meanings. Although all of us baby boomers grew up with the famous protest symbol, its message in cross-generational. Our children and grandchildren may not know its original meaning, but they know it stands for good things. Which brings us to the question: When should we consider a new symbol, representing a new era?

Some folks believe the time to move forward is now.

Carl Le Blond, a current creator of powerful visual content on issues from HIV/AIDS to climate change, introduced a new symbol to the world — The People’s Cube.

The circle is the most common sign, found in all cultures. Circles represent unity, wholeness, infinity and the number one. It has no beginning or end; no sides or corners.

I cannot think of a better universal symbol than The Olympic Rings!

According to the International Olympic Committee, “The five rings represent the five continents. They are interlaced to show the universality of Olympism and the meeting of the athletes of the whole world during the Olympic Games.”

His goal was to emphasize people coming together in an organized way to build strong global harmony. Le Blond said, “The people’s cube is on first sight solid, and immovable from every way that you look at it. It has the simplicity and latent strength of a perfect molecular structure. Though in this case, the molecules bonding together are symbolic of people standing together with their arms locked to form a symbol of strength and unity.” seniortimesmagazine.com

The new symbol looks good. Its meaning is less obvious than the peace symbol, which remains a vivid example of what a symbol should do. I do think there is a room for something that symbolizes strength in unity. The more positive messages we send the better off Mother Earth and her inhabitants will be.

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THE BLUES

Paint it Blue Australian Artist Hopes to Educate People about Deforestation

by Amanda Williamson

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trange blue trees appeared recently on the University of Florida campus.

People pause their daily commute to class, admire the trees and wonder why they have suddenly donned the blue coat: a tribute to the football season, homage to the coming winter months?

It is in these moments of reflection that Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos knows he has accomplished what he set out to do.

His project, “Blue Trees,” attempts to draw attention to the issue of deforestation. Blue Trees started in Melbourne in 2005, and then included Vancouver, Sacramento and Seattle. In total, Dimopoulos has transformed trees in nine cities, and plans to continue on to New York, Houston and Boston.

“Though we are passionate about our trees, though we care about our trees, that passion does not get translated,” Dimopoulos said. “In order for people to

see the forests, I had to get people to see the trees.”

Claiming not be an environmentalist, but an artist, he paints the trees a startling sapphire blue. The coloring naturally washes away after a period of time and does not harm the trees in the process.

“The reality is that there are no blue trees. Blue trees don’t exist. They are a part of my imagination,” Dimopoulos said, using the color to draw attention to the trees.

He remembers watching a mother and daughter walk past a newly colored tree, and the daughter ran from her mother to hug the tree, shouting, “Mom, a blue tree!” Dimopoulos said he believes that was the first time the child truly saw the tree.

“Art is everything,” Dimopoulos said.

“We can sell the idea of getting people to smoke, and that will kill them. You can use art to do the opposite — to do things that are good for you.”

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, deforestation shows signs of decreasing in some countries, but continues at a high rate in others. Between 2000 and 2010, approximately 35 million acres of forests was converted to other uses. The world currently contains 9.98 billion acres of forested lands.

When people think of deforestation, they are usually thinking of the far-off trees of the Amazon or other old growth forests, said Dr. Michael Andreu, an associate professor of Forest Systems at the University of Florida’s College of Forest Resources and Conservation.

These untrammeled places tend to be exploited for their timber by local farmers, instead of large corporations.

The farmers harvest the timber and usually use the recently exposed soil to plant crops or raise cattle to support their families. With lush rainforests

PHOTO BY ALEX WHITESIDE For the next several months, students, teachers and visitors will see trees painted blue on the UF campus. Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos painted the trees in October to bring attention to the plight of deforestation.

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PHOTOS BY ALEX WHITESIDE AND AMANDA WILLIAMSON “It’s striking,” said Chelsea Moehlenbrock, an exercise physiology major at the University of Florida. She was admiring the trees with Inna Dagman. The two noticed the blue branches sticking up from the opposite side of the Reitz Union as they approached the building.

blossoming over the land, people tend to think the soil underneath is fertile, but Andreu said the dirt is usually very poor.

Because of the poor conditions, families are forced to move, starting the process over again.

“This is one giant ecosystem that we live in,” Andreu said. Because of that, remote deforestation affects everyone on the planet, even those within the United States, through reduced air quality and biodiversity. As trees are harvested and the pulp burned, the process releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The increased levels of carbon dioxide speed the process of climate change, which cause sea levels to rise and weather pattern changes.

As forests are destroyed, the animals that call those habitats home become displaced and can eventually become extinct. However, these ecosystems are still being explored, and new species are discovered.

“We don’t know what we are losing,” Andreu said. “There are a whole lot of genetic resources that we may not have access to because of deforestation.”

But what about closer to home?

America actually went through a period of deforestation until about the 1930s.

“As we moved into the 1950s and beyond, we started to recognize here in Florida that we couldn’t continue down that path,” he said. “We knew we had to manage our forests, and we started to replant.”

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“I’m a scientist. We don’t always tell stories well.

We’re good at gathering information. Most of the people in the world are not scientists, and they can relate to ideas through art.” tion process America did centuries ago.

Andreu considers how to manage forests in a rapidly urbanizing environment. In recent years, city planners have been trying to include trees and vegetation into the development of a city, a

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trend that has become known as “green infrastructure.”

It is a big concern, he said, because of the services forests provide, such as permeable surfaces that allow rainwater to percolate through the soil and

replenish the aquifer. In areas with large amounts of homes and concrete, most of the ground becomes impermeable.

To teach people how forests matter, Andreu asks his students to create a diary in which they record everything they do during a 24-hour period and how it relates to the forest.

If a student reads a newspaper in a chair by a fire while carving an apple, he has read a paper made from wood, sat in a chair that most likely had wooden parts, burned wood to create a fire, seniortimesmagazine.com

PHOTOS BY AMANDA WILLIAMSON Australian Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos (right) holds a brush coated in blue paint. Dimopoulos used the bright blue to bring attention to the trees and deforestation. In order for people to see the forests, he said, he had to make them focus on the trees first.

“I know a lot of people who don’t think plants are important,” said Jade Hilliard, a senior at UF. “This is showing that these plants are important.” Hilliard, in the green pants, gathered with other volunteers to help Konstantin Dimopoulos paint trees in Turlington Plaza blue.

carved his fruit with a knife that most likely had a wooden handle and ate food plucked from a tree.

“I’m constantly touching stuff made out of wood,” Andreu said. “We all use wood, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Wood is a renewable resource. In Florida, the average pine tree takes about 30 to 40 years to reach a prime harvesting age. However, if people are not using wood, then they are most likely using plastics, which are developed from oil.

People must recognize that they use wood, and that they cannot stop the forests from being harvested. However, governments can choose to use sustainable practices, such as replanting trees that have been removed.

“If we don’t do it here, they are going to do it elsewhere. Those other places are not regulated. They are not replanting,” he said. “ We ought to advocate for local production of our wood resources.”

Andreu believes Dimopoulos’ Blue Tree exhibit has started a conversation about deforestation, which is an incredible contribution.

“I’m a scientist. We don’t always tell stories well. We’re good at gathering information,” he said. “Most of the people in the world are not scientists, and they can relate to ideas through art.”

The Blue Tree exhibit comes to UF as a way to use art to celebrate the Morrill Act or the Land Grant Act, which provided 30,000 acres of federal land to each state to create an institution to

teach military tactics, engineering and agriculture. UF is Florida’s land-grant institution.

Two years ago, the University of Florida College of Fine Arts organized an exhibit that stretched out into the city comprised of the realistic bronze statues of Seward Johnson. However,

with this year commemorating the Morrill Act, the Dean of the College of Fine Arts Lucinda Lavelli said the college hoped to bring people onto campus to experience the artwork.

“I don’t expect everyone to like it,” she said. “But I do think whether you like it or not, it will make you pause and look.” s January 2013

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READER SUBMITTED œ Richard Dennison

Checking off the Bucket List Mario Andretti Racing Experience

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e Seniors enjoy most sports but for me motor racing has always rated only slightly above Cricket and Dodgeball.

Is car racing even a sport? There’s no car racing in the Olympics. I mean, c’mon man … pedal to the metal and turn left. How hard can it be?

Boy, was I wrong! An estimate of sport popularity by ESPN ranked NASCAR number 6 and the IRL (Indy Racing League) number 12 with NASCAR ranking first in spectator attendance. The largest venue in America for spectators happens to be the Indianapolis 500 Speedway, which seats over 257,000 people. Wow! Talk about a colossal traffic jam at the end of the race.

A friend turned me on to what is called the “Mario Andretti Racing Experience.” It’s a pay-per-ride event for civilians whereby we can actually drive or ride along in an Indy racing car. Even the casual sports fan has likely heard of Mario Andretti. The 72-year-old racing legend is the only driver ever to win the racing trifecta of the Indianapolis 500,

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the Daytona 500 and the Formula One World Championship. His organization has put together a team that travels to speedways all over America from Florida to California where any wannabe Marios can experience the thrill of doing laps on the track.

I realized I must have been missing something all these years, so I ventured out to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Sin City to see what the fuss is all about.

When I told Kim, my Vietnamese wife, of my plans she began shaking her head from side to side, constantly muttering the phrase I’ve heard her say to me so often in the 46 years we’ve been married: “Dinky Dow,” which loosely translates to batty, whacko, crazy person.

The way the experience works is you make your reservation by phone or online and for $129 you get three laps as a ride along in an Indy racecar. You can

also do the driving totally by yourself, but this costs significantly more than the ride along and also understandably entails a bit more risk.

So, wishing to check another item off my bucket list, I arrived as scheduled.

You begin by signing in at the concession stand where you can purchase an array of souvenirs and get your picture taken.

You also sign a waiver that gives them the right to take your firstborn if you damage their beautiful car.

Then it’s off to the pit area to be fitted for a helmet while waiting your turn. As I approached my magnificent seniortimesmagazine.com

PHOTOS COURTESY OF RICHARD DENNISON Last October, Richard Dennison had the opportunity to strap into the backseat of a racecar at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Participants of the Mario Andretti Racing Experience are given the option of driving a full-size Indy racecar or – like Dennison – enjoy a ride along in a two-seat Indy Car with top speeds reaching up to 180 mph. Once suited up he was fitted for his helmet and, with a thumbs up, Dennison was off to the races.

mechanical beast (notice how I’ve suddenly changed my attitude about car racing) I sucked in my gut, threw back my shoulders and walked with a distinct swagger past two female concession workers, hoping that their adoring gaze would follow me all the way to the car and I could allow them to revel in my glory. Unfortunately, neither one paid the slightest attention to me.

Was I ready for this? You bet. After all, I’d seen the really good car-racing movies: “Le Mans” with Steve McQueen, “Grand Prix” with James Garner, “Winning” with Paul Newman. What did they have that I didn’t (excluding fame, fortune and, in Paul’s case, a great salad dressing)?

As I climbed into the specially fitted

two-seater Indy car, three attendants assisted in buckling my oversize rear end to the seat. In my case this was like giving a cat dressed like Hannibal Lecter a bath. Then they snapped in a faux steering wheel that is intended to give you the sense you are driving the car yourself but also served as a placeholder for my death-grip hands.

Finally we were off. The mixture of burning rubber, howling wind and a screaming engine in an open cockpit a few inches off the ground while going as fast as 180 mph was absolutely exhilarating.

Would I recommend the experience to my friends? For sure! There was just one problem. On the way out of town I got a speeding ticket. s January 2013

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CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION THE CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS Times Vary GAINESVILLE - The Thomas Center, 302 NE Sixth Ave. Featuring more than 50 of the paper’s finest photographs documenting the University of Florida’s three National Championship football seasons. Taken by the Gainesville Sun’s team of photojournalists, the work on display will convey the vast range of human emotion from the 1996, 2006 and 2008 football seasons.

352-393-8532. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.

CELEBRATE DESIGN Through January 5 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Thomas Center, 302 NE Sixth Ave. A selection of projects from the local AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter and the national AIA organization. AIA is professional association seeking to further the profession and public awareness. 352393-8532. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.

THE MODERN IMPULSE Through January 6 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Harn Museum, Southwest 34th Street and Hull Road. More than 135 photographs, books, illustrated magazines and films drawn from four regions that were among the era’s most prominent centers of photographic innovation — France and the Czech Republic in Europe, and New York and California in the U.S. 352-392-9826. www.harn.ufl.edu.

NEW YEAR’S KICKOFF EXPO AND FASHION SHOW Saturday, January 5 1:30pm - 10:00pm OCALA - Citizen’s Circle. Features 40-foot runway setup to accommodate six categories of fashion. Food and beverages provided during the fashion show for VIP sponsors, catered from Mojo’s Grill. VIP tickets are available.

For vendor booth, call 352-732-4442.

BACKPACK WITH A RANGER Saturday, January 5 10:00am MICANOPY - Paynes Prairie State Park. Join a Ranger on a group overnight hike for a total of 6.5 miles. Journey along biologically and historically unique areas and learn about

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the Prairie’s relationship to people of the past and future. Walk begins and ends at La Chua trailhead. Not recommended for children under 10. No pets. $10 per person.

Make a reservation: 352-466-4100. www. floridastateparks.org/paynesprairie.

ART CLASSES WITH PATRICIA WOLFE Saturday, January 5 10:00am GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Ave. Learn basics of 2-D art techniques with local artist and teacher Patricia Wolfe. 352-334-3939. www.aclib.us.

GAINESVILLE CAMELLIA SHOW Jan. 5 - Jan. 6 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Drive. The 37th annual show features blooms from southeastern growers.

Camellia plants available for purchase. Show entries from 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 5.

Judging at 11 a.m. Open to the public on Jan. 5, from 1 - 5 p.m., and Jan. 6, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

352-595-3365. www.americancamellias.org.

REV. MARITA GRAVES Sunday, January 6 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39th Ave. Rev. Marita Graves, New Thought minister and teacher, will be a guest speaker.

Potluck lunch is served after the service. 352373-1030. www.unityofgainesvillefla.org.

BASICS OF ALZHEIMER’S Wednesday, January 9 11:00am - Noon OCALA - Marion Woods, 1661 SE St. An Alzheimer’s Association free educational workshop discussing dementia versus normal aging, risk factors, warning signs, community resources, and much more. Call 800-2723900 to reserve a seat. www.alz.org/cnfl.

HOME BUYERS COURSE Wednesday, January 9 5:30pm - 8:00pm OCALA - Marion County Extension Service, 2232 NE Jacksonville Road. Four-class course

pertaining to particular topics in the home buying process. Certificate of completion will be awarded upon attendance of all four classes. Satisfies requirements set forth by HUD, S.H.I.P., Habitat for Humanity and other funders.

Deadline for registration is Jan. 2. Classes: Jan. 9, 16, 23 and 30. $15. 352-671-8400.

SENIOR CARE OPTIONS Thursday, January 10 2:30pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. Home health, assisted living, long-term care and hospice care will be discussed with a panel of expert caregivers who work together to help clients maintain the desired and appropriate level of care.

352-265-9040. eldercare.ufandshands.org.

ICONS, MYTH AND LEGENDS EXHIBIT RECEPTION Thursday, January 10 5:00pm - 7:30pm OCALA - Freedom Public Library, 5870 SW 95th St. Meet artist John Massey and enjoy the exhibit of his paintings. Light refreshments served.

352-438-2580. www.marioncountyfl.org.

GAINESVILLE’S HISTORIC EVERGREEN CEMETERY: THIS WONDROUS PLACE Jan. 11 - March 23 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - The Thomas Center, 302 NE Sixth Ave. Rare photographs, documents, multimedia exhibits and the work of Gainesville’s leading artists will tell the story of the 156-yearold, 53-acre Evergreen Cemetery, one of Gainesville’s most historic and beautiful sites.

352-334-ARTS. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.

BAMBOO WORKSHOP Saturday, January 12 1:30pm - 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Drive. This workshop includes an introduction to Kanapaha’s bamboo collection and information on the cultivation, propagation and landscape utilization of bamboo species in North Florida. $10 for individuals, $7 for members. 352-372-4981. www.kanapaha.org.

ELVIS LIVES Saturday, January 12 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. Multimedia and live musical journey across Elvis’ life. Featuring finalists from Elvis Presley Enterprises’ worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, as well as a tribute to AnnMargret. 352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.

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LIONS CLUB PROM & WEDDING EXPO Saturday, January 12 1:00pm - 4:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - Fellowship Church, 16916 NW US Highway 441. Help make every girls prom dream come true. Raffling two new wedding dresses and veils, bridal party hair service, gift baskets and more. Must be present to win prizes. Drawings every 30 min. Featuring Cinderella’s Corner: previously worn prom and wedding dresses, shoes and other items for special occasions. Donate a dress at All Creations Salon. 386-454-4521.

DUDLEY FARM HISTORIC PARK TOUR Saturday, January 12 10:00am - 11:00am NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm, 18730 W. Newberry Road. Discover an authentic working farm owned by the Dudleys from post Civil War to mid-1940s. Follow a park staff or docent in period clothing as they talk about the homestead consisting of 18 restored buildings, farm animals, gardens and local history. $5 per vehicle.

352-472-1142. www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org.

START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Saturday, January 12 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Library, 3145 NW 43rd St. Let Santiago Villamil, MPT, CSCS and the Alachua County Library District help provide simple guidelines and resources that can help you reach health-related goals for the New Year. 352-334-1272. www.aclib.us.

PHOTOGRAPHING FLORIDA BIRDS Saturday, January 12 3:00pm DUNNELLON - Dunnellon Library, 20351 Robinson Road. Want to improve photography skills? Nature photographer Pete Gumaskas shares his tips for photographing birds and other wildlife found in the local area. 352438-2520. www.marioncountyfl.org.

GAINESVILLE STREET RODS CAR SHOW Saturday, January 12 6:00pm - 9:00pm GAINESVILLE - Springhill Commons, 9200 NW 39th Ave. Founded more than 20 years ago by a group of automobile lovers who meet to show and tell “all that will listen” about their street rods and/or classic cars. 352658-1477. www.gainesvillestreetrods.com.

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire Jan. 26 - Jan. 27, Feb. 1 - Feb. 3 10:00am - 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Fairgrounds, 3100 NE 39th Ave. Cheer for jousting knights as they battle for their ladies’ honor, and enjoy eight stages of entertainment, including gypsy dancing, human chess games and magic acts. Wander the streets of Hoggetowne where a medieval marketplace awaits with hundreds of talented artisans selling medieval wares. 352-334-ARTS. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.

Museum Nights: Crouching Gator, Hidden Dragon Thursday, January 10 6:00pm - 9:00pm GAINESVILLE - Harn Museum, Hull Road and d Southwest 34th Street. A night of Chinese art rt and culture (and maybe a little Kung Fu!). An engaging gaging evening of art, music, performance, calligraphy, phy, activities and free food. 352-392-9826, ext. 2116. www.harn.ufl.edu.

OSO SOUNDART: TUBA! Sunday, January 13 3:00pm OCALA - Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Ever wondered about the refined art of the tuba? Come hear OSO principal tubist, Hugh Rankin, in an afternoon of solo tuba. $15.

352-351-1606. www.appletonmuseum.org.

YAPPIE HOUR Sunday, January 13 2:00pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Gator Tales Sports Bar, 5112 NW 34th St. Bring your dog on a leash and come enjoy wings with a veterinarian from Newberry

Animal Hospital. Enjoy chicken wings while they discuss the pet topic of the month. 352-2220965. www.newberryanimalhospital.com.

DR. PAULA KOGER Sunday, January 13 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39th Ave. Guest speaker Paula Koger, BSN, MA, DOM, presents “The Shift into Light Medicine,” and offer information about the use of energy and light that will optimize the consciousness and awareness of people as “The Light of the World.” Love offering accepted. www.wealthofhealthcenter.com.

352-373-1030. www.unityofgainesvillefla.org.

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SERVICES FOR SENIORS SERIES: YOUR MONEY Sunday, January 13 2:00pm GAINESVILLE - Tower Road Library, 3020 SW 75th St. The Gainesville Alliance of Professionals Helping Seniors will offer monthly informational sessions for Seniors, addressing issues that affect them. 352-333-3840. www.aclib.us.

JUST THE FACTS, NO POLITICS Monday, January 14

Back to the Future Gala

6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Library Headquarters, 401 E. University Ave. Patricia Dilley, Esq., will discuss The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act: Just the Facts, No Politics. This presentation will provide free legal information and suggestions for additional resources.

Free. 352-334-3909. www.aclib.us.

Tuesday, January 22

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

7:00pm - 11:00pm

2:30pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. Barbara Oberlander, Ph.D., SFC professor and historical expert will describe the life and times of Eleanor Roosevelt as wife, First Lady and delegate to the United Nations.

352-265-9040. eldercare.ufandshands.org.

GAINESVILLE - Museum of Natural History, Hull Road and SW 34th Street. Turn time circuits on and travel “Back to the Future” with the Florida Museum. You won’t need 1.21 gigawatts to enjoy the evening; just show up in your best 1950s or 1980s threads and have a blast. 352-846-2000. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/passport.

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COMPUTERS FOR BEGINNERS

MEDICARE AND ALMOST ALL INSURANCE PLANS ACCEPTED

Wednesday, January 16 10:30am OCALA - Headquarters Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Finding It!, an introduction to the Internet. Learn about computers and databases in these classes for adults.

Space is limited. 352-671-8551.

WHAT CAN RATS TELL US ABOUT HEALTHY LIVING? Thursday, January 17 2:30pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. UF’s Institute on Aging, brings programs to PrimeTime Institute about local research of interest to Seniors. 352265-9040. eldercare.ufandshands.org.

MLK WREATH CEREMONY Saturday, January 19 Noon - 1:00pm OCALA - MLK Park, 500 SW 16th Ave. A wreath ceremony honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Free. 352-209-2973.

MLK PRAYER BREAKFAST Saturday, January 19 9:00am OCALA - Ed Croskey Recreation Center, 1510 NW Fourth St. A prayer breakfast honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. $10 per person. 352-207-6036 or 352-351-0824.

MOTIONHOUSE - SCATTERED Saturday, January 19 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. Founded in 1988, Motionhouse is one of the leading dance theatre companies in the United Kingdom.

Scattered combines the company’s trademark, highly physical routines and mesmerizing imagery in a unique interaction between film and live performance. The production delves into the majesty and savagery of water as seven dancers plunge into an ocean, wrestle a raging tide and slide on an avalanche to a frozen landscape of arctic beauty. 352392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.

LIVE WORLD MUSIC Sunday, January 20 3:00pm ARCHER - Archer Road Library, 13266 State Route 45. Four Shillings Short perform original and traditional music with a repertoire ranging from the Celtic lands to the Americas, and from Medieval and Renaissance Europe to India, performing on an array of more than 30 instruments. 352-495-3367. www.aclib.us.

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Applicants must meet eligibility screening criteria (income and security background check). Rents are subsidized and are based on family income. The 400 Building for Senior and Disabled Adults is convenient to shopping, downtown, and transportation.

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MLK ECUMENICAL SERVICES Sunday, January 20 7:00pm OCALA - Shores Baptist Worship Center, 414 Silver Road. A worship service honoring the life and legacy of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Free. 352-732-0097.

performed by Jeannette Rizzi, directed by Rod Menzies. Blindsided is a personal journey through Jeannette’s early life in Alachua, Florida, where she struggles to overcome the shocking suicide of her beloved friend, Katie. 352-375-4477. www.thehipp.org.

GARDENING THE EASY WAY SPECTICAST: FRANZ LEHAR’S DIE LUSTIGE WITWE Sunday, January 20 3:00pm GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. Commonly referred to as the “The Queen of Operettas,” Die Lustige Witwe centers on a wealthy widow and her countrymen’s efforts to match her with the right husband to keep her riches in the principality. With familiar music, including “You’ll Find Me at Maxim’s” and “The Merry Widow Waltz,” this energetic, humorous staging bursts with color and sensuality. English subtitles.

352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.

NONPROFIT EXPO 2013 Sunday, January 20 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Hilton UF, 1714 SW 34th St. Take this opportunity to generate awareness in the community for nonprofit organizations: Educate the community about the mission, services and events. info@ncncf. 352-381-7067.

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT HEALTH Sunday, January 20 2:00pm GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library, 3145 NW 43rd St. Join Community Empowerment Health Coach Marlon Miller in an interactive discussion about eating for energy. Take this opportunity to care for the temple that is one’s body. 352-334-1272. www.aclib.us.

MOMIX Botanica Thursday, January 24 7:30pm PHILLIPS CENTER - UF. MOMIX returns to the Phillips Center to present Botanica, displaying dance at its most organic and inventive. With costumes, projections, custom-made props, puppetry and a score ranging from birdsong to Vivaldi. 352-392ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.

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MLK MARCH & DAY IN THE PARK

Tuesday, January 22 2:30pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. Learn to successfully garden in small spaces and containers with less bending. Grow veggies, herbs and flowers the new “rack” easy way. 352-265-9040. eldercare.ufandshands.org.

LIVING WITH HEARING LOSS Wednesday, January 23 1:00pm - 2:30pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. A series of four free classes for people with hearing loss, and their family and friends, held on Jan. 23, Jan. 30, Feb. 6 and Feb. 13. Register at 352-294-5151 or mmccaghren@phhp.ufl.edu. eldercare. ufandshands.org/senior-recreation-center.

APPLETON FIELD TRIP Thursday, January 24 2:30pm - 4:00pm OCALA - Appleton Art Museum, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd. See the museum’s collection of European, Asian, African, Contemporary and pre-Columbian art and artifacts. Sponsored by the Gainesville Senior Recreation Center. $3.

Must provide own transportation or arrange carpool. Sign up by Jan. 15. Lunch menu at www.horseandhoundrestaurant.com/our-menu.

352-332-6917. eldercare.ufandshands.org.

STEVE WILSON & WILSONIAN’S GRAIN Friday, January 25

7:00am - 2:00pm OCALA - MLK Park, 500 SW 16th Ave. Music, dance, speeches and vendors, honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rides will be provided free to downtown Ocala starting at 7 a.m. Line up begins at 8 a.m., and the march begins at 9 a.m. The day in the park begins at 10 a.m. Free. 352-208-0819 or 352-875-4118

7:30pm GAINESVILLE - University Auditorium, UF. The quartet has been featured on NPR Live from the Kennedy Center and headlined at the 2011 Detroit Jazz Festival. Wilson’s multifaceted artistry is frequently recognized — he was nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association as best alto sax player in 2008, and for best soprano sax player in 2010. 352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.

BLINDSIDED

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7:00pm GAINESVILLE - Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE Second Place. Ask Flash Productions announces a special preview presentation of Blindsided, an inspiring new solo show, written and

6:00pm - 11:00pm GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, UF. The annual event is UFPA’s largest fundraiser and helps fund all of its programs, including outreach.

Signature cocktails and a gourmet dinner

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provided by Blue Water Bay, and decorations supplied by Keith Watson Productions. Music, dancing and a silent auction will make for a memorable evening with a Bayou theme. Tickets: $200 each. 352-273-2480. bit.ly/PXapel.

OCALA CAMELLIA SHOW Saturday, January 26 2:00pm - 5:00pm OCALA - The Pioneer Garden Club of Ocala, 4331 E. Silver Springs Blvd. This two-day event features camellias of all sizes, shapes and colors. Judged exhibits of japonicas, reticulatas, hybrids and species. This show is geared toward educating the public about the care, culture and appreciation of camellias, both in the greenhouse and in the landscape. Free. 352-595-3365.

SOUPER FUN SUNDAY Sunday, January 27 1:00pm - 3:30pm GAINESVILLE - St. Francis Catholic High School, 4100 NW 115th Terrace. Souper Fun Sunday is Gainesvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier soup tasting competition featuring soups from more than 30 local restaurants and caterers, local celebrity judges, and an awards ceremony for Best Soups, Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice and Best Decorated Table. www. souperfunsunday.com. becca.neville@gmail.com.

VILDE FRANG, VIOLIN Monday, January 28 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Squitieri Studio Theatre, UF. Recognized for her outstanding musical expression and virtuosity, Vilde Frang is steadily climbing the ranks as one of the leading violinists of her generation. Her concerto debut as EMI Classicsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Young Artist of the Year 2010 garnered critical acclaim, and she received the Edison Klassiek Award, a Classic BRIT Award for best newcomer and was named 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newcomer of the year at the 2011 ECHO Klassik Awards.

352-392-ARTS. performingarts.ufl.edu.

E-BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY Tuesday, January 29 5:30pm HAWTHORNE - Hawthorne Library, 6640 SE 221st St. Have a new Kindle, Nook or other e-Reader, and want to check out library e-Books for free?

Come learn how: bring a laptop AND the device to get set up. 352-481-2920. www.aclib.us.

WHO GETS GRANDMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S YELLOW PIE PLATE? Wednesday, January 30 10:30am - Noon BELLEVIEW - Belleview Public Library, 13145 County Highway 484. A class to help

ease the emotional process of passing on cherished family possessions. Sometimes the passing on of these items is as emotional as transferring titled properties. Free.

Register by Jan. 23. 352-438-2500.

TAKE CHARGE OF DIABETES Thursday, January 31 9:00am - 11:00am OCALA - Marion County Growth Management Training Room, 2710 E. Silver SPrings Blvd.

This series of classes is a program focuses on self-management education, which is a key step in improving quality of life for adults with Type 2 diabetes. Class dates are Jan. 31 - March 21; May 2 and June 6. $45 per person. 21 and up. 352-671-8400.

If you would like us to publicize an event in Alachua or Marion counties, send information by the 13th day of the month prior.

All submissions will be reviewed and every effort will be made to run qualified submissions if page space is available.

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the people they had somehow, meaningfully, been tied to in life, which allowed a horrifying lack of unbiased representation. Justice for the dead was swift and absolute, and it often came before the trial was completed.

Grappling with these inconsistencies and unfair rules, Brek received her first client. She didn’t seem to know him and, as she understood procedure, that was odd.

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There’s a lot to like about “The Trial of Fallen Angels,” and it starts with the beauty of James Kimmel, Jr.’s writing.

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Fallen Angels” by James Kimmel, Jr., the jury’s still out on that.

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That took a long time to grasp and even longer time to accept. Even after the old man named Luas took Brek to her great-grandmother’s home, Brek refused to believe what they said had happened. Still, Nana had been dead a long time; long before Brek finished law school, got married, became “What I loved about this book most, a mother. though, was its complexity: Shemaya But reminiscis a place for learning, understanding, ing on Nana’s front porch wasn’t why condemning, and forgiveness. What Brek had come to you see is what you want to see... which Shemaya Station. is both horrifying and comforting” No, there was another reason: in life, she was a lawyer. demning, and forgiveness. What you see is In death, she’d be a lawyer, too. what you want to see, consciously or not, Luas explained to her that, when they which is both horrifying and comforting died, everyone came through Shemaya in Kimmel’s wondrous, dreadful world.

Station and was given representation.

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