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Now's the time to pay as much attention to the second screen as audiences doBroadcasters are grappling with a declining ad spend and downward ratings globally. Ross Howard argues TV networks should both play to their strengths and double-down on their initial second-screen efforts to generate more value from a shrinking and more distracted audience. There's a sad irony that in this golden age of TV content broadcasters are now struggling with declines in revenue. Grappling with an increasingly fragmented competitor set, and having to constantly reinvest to match global technology firms inventing new delivery mechanisms, sees established players having to wage battles on an intimidating range of fronts.
'The laziest eight year show ever': Wil Anderson talks about the return of GruenThe ABC's panel show Gruen returns next week after a two-year hiatus, to take another look under the bonnet of the ad industry. Host Wil Anderson spoke to Mumbrella's Alex Hayes about keeping the DNA, managing conflicts of interest, pet food and why the show should be about, and not for, the ad industry. The Gruen franchise has been loved and hated by the advertising industry almost in equal measures. But it's not something that fazes host and executive producer Wil Anderson, who has a message for them:
Are we at a tipping point for video streaming and what will it mean for the future of TV?
A crowded marketplace is quickly turning into a battle on one side global online giant Netflix on the other challenged local incumbents, as evidenced by the plight EzyFlix and Quickflix. Paul Whybrow explains why local TV Networks must adapt to the emerging viewer norm if they are to survive, let alone thrive.
The 'Tipping Point' is a fantastic book by Malcolm Gladwell, with examples of the magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold and tip into a new world, where they spread like wildfire and become the new norm.
I look at the recent events in the TV world here and overseas and wonder whether we are hitting that point with the future of television.
Did Alphabet give Google permission to change its identity?Alphabet has taken over Google - but does this new structure mean people will stop 'googling' and start 'alphabetting?' Paul Nelson argues that this change is more than skin deep. Despite the omnipresence of the Google brand we argue the recent logo change is at best peripheral compared to the changes made at a brand architecture level. The revised organisation of its brands and its creation of Alphabet means Google escapes the constant market and investor scrutiny and is freed up to focus on what it does best. This is the main game – the logo change is really summed up improving scalability and readability on digital devices – and after 16 years it was due for a refresh.
Australia's podcasting boom has finally arrivedWith print publishers racing to get on board, consumers back in love and brands recognising it as the next frontier of native advertising, podcasting is the medium of 2015, argues Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes. Back in 2012 I found myself at a gathering of a cult. I joined hundreds of disciples gathered at Sydney's Town Hall to worship at the feet of Ira Glass.
Real Living editor-in-chief Deborah Bibby on the 'grown up' magazine and how it's changedBauer Media has launched its digital hub Homes To Love which brings together brands such as Australian House and Garden, Belle, Real Living and Homes+. Mumbrella's Miranda Ward spoke to Real Living editor-in-chief Deborah Bibby on what Homes To Love means for the title, Real Living's 10th birthday last month and how homes titles audiences have changed. Deborah Bibby has been at the helm of homes and lifestyle magazine Real Living since it's launch ten years ago, and in that time has steered the title into a new direction in response to the magazine's changing consumer, whilst also extending the brand into events.
Culture matters: But do BRW and Best Places to Work understand the media industry?By naming one of Australia's biggest media agencies as Australia's Best Place to Work in the under 100 staff category the award organisers have shown they are not being rigorous enough in their processes, says Mumbrella's Nic Christensen. Let's be honest - how many people weren't surprised that Australia's fourth biggest media agency UM fell into the smallest category in the Best Places to Work awards? Given the agency reported to RECMA it has $1.05bn in billings and 200 hundred staff just a couple of months ago there are clearly some questions to ask of UM and the awards organisers - and from the answers we got it's clear the organisers have some soul searching to do.
Small can be beautiful: Five tips to make good mobile adsFollowing an article by Mumbrella's Alex Hayes on the state of mobile creative Google's Lisa Bora shares some tips and Australian examples for making good mobile ads. Alex, you're right. Small is not always beautiful. We've all experienced mobile ads that confuse, obstruct or annoy. And reading your article on Monday (If mobile is the most important screen, why are the ads still so shit?) brought it all back. It doesn't have to be this way. There is some great creative on mobile - and when agencies combine imagination and digital skills, some truly exceptional creative too.
Seven promises a Big Bang in the final quarter, but can they deliver the audiences?Seven's ratings dominance is under serious pressure from Nine. Nic Christensen talks to chief programmer Angus Ross and senior media buyers about whether the number one TV network can lift its game in the final quarter of 2015? Seven has had its toughest year for a long while with many of its key franchises haemorrhaging viewers. House Rules was down 33 per cent, Winners & Losers lost 29 per cent of its audience and My Kitchen Rules was down 12 per cent in consolidated viewing figures. Then there was the Restaurant Revolution debacle.
My phone wears the pants in our relationshipMobile addiction is making us sick but Ricky Chanana isn't planning to do anything about it any time soon. My beloved phone totally dominates our relationship. I'm at its mercy at all times. It's the last thing I say goodnight to, the first greeting in the morning. I'm insanely addicted to that bright, illuminating glow.
'Like a parent scolding a child': How has 7-Eleven handled a PR nightmare?Four Corners' investigation into 7-Eleven's employment practices has led to huge brand damage. Miranda Ward examines how the brand has handled the attention, and whether it can recover. Last night more than a million Australians tuned in to get the full picture on the 7-Eleven expose which has been teased in the media since the end of last week. The reputational damage to a brand which appears on most high streets has been immense, but its response so far has been at best - muted.
If mobile is the most important screen why are the ads so shit still?While a new mobile audience measurement system is just weeks away the state of the creative product is the real issue the industry needs to address, argues Mumbrella editor Alex Hayes. There are 56 websites and 38 apps in Australia with a unique monthly mobile audience of over 1m users per month. Yet given these numbers, and the increasing move to mobile by consumers, it still surprises me how staggeringly bad the standard of creative is.
Screens are just a device - it's time to view TV as a consumer experienceWhile media buyers struggle to redefine TV Mark Frain argues they need to start looking at it as being any screen, not just the one in a lounge room. A few years ago, some bright minds in our industry debated a new name for television. They recognised that we'd reached a point where it was no longer helpful to continue to refer to linear TV in isolation. Plus, premium video was clearly emerging as the unifying element in the new multi-screen entertainment landscape. Many new terms have been speculated since, including OTT, AV content and all video.
Storynomics: How corporate communication can benefit from the lessons of a film masterIn this opinion piece Julian Smith explores how the theories of one of the world's foremost story experts Robert McKee can contribute to corporate storytelling. For almost two decades Robert McKee, an imposing leonine sage, has presented his acclaimed Story and Genre seminars all around the world. His alumni numbers over 40,000 and hundreds have nominations for Oscar or Emmy awards, scores of them winners.
Naked Communications faces the sad fact that being clever doesn't make money any moreNaked - the agency that once terrified the global media agency networks by out-thinking them - is dropping its last unique piece of DNA, argues Tim Burrowes. The most depressing thing I've read today came in the latest annual report from industry holding group Enero.
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Numerous very small holes are drilled at lengths through the top of the tube and propane or a similar gas is fed through it. By forcing sound waves into the tube through a speaker at one end, varying areas of pressure are created. The higher flames occur at points of higher pressure (nodes) and smaller flames at lower pressure (antinodes).
I'll even show you how to control the sound with a Nintendo Wiimote so you can play god and control fire with gestures.
This is an easy physics experiment that might take a little time to assemble the parts, but the construction of which is straightforward with a fantastic reward!
REMEMBER!! Anytime you are dealing with fire, take the necessary safety precautions such as :
--Clearing the area of all flammable substances
--Using care when adjusting the propane valve
--Use ONLY in a well ventilated area
--If underage, operate ONLY under the supervision of a responsible adult
To help you remember, here's a safety haiku:
Danger! Hot Fire!
Keep Space Clear of Kids and Pets
Poor Burning Puppies
Step 1: What the heck is this?
"August Kundt, in 1866, demonstrated an acoustical standing wave by placing seeds of lycopodium or cork dust in a tube. When a sound was made in the tube, the material inside lined up in nodes and antinodes in line with the oscillation of the wave, creating a standing wave. Later that century, Behn showed that small flames could be used as sensitive indicators of pressure. Finally, in 1905, using these two important discoveries, Heinrich Rubens, whom this experiment is named after, took a 4-metre-long tube and drilled 200 small holes into it at 2 centimeter intervals, and filled it with a flammable gas. After lighting the gas (whose flames all rose to near-equal heights), he noted that a sound produced at one end of the tube would create a standing wave, equivalent to the wavelength of the sound being made."
In many basic physics classes the Ruben's tube is used as a demonstration of the relationship between frequency and wavelength. Students visually measure standing wave. Then, because the speed of sound in propane is 235 m/s, the students can calculate the frequency being played into the Ruben's tube.
As the sine waves are played through the propane, they compress the propane in certain sections thereby increasing its density. This in turn increases the pressure, and because the area is at a high pressure (and air likes to flow from high to low pressure... thank you Le Chatelier) more air molecules are forced out these holes in an effort to reach equilibrium causing the flames rise higher. In areas where the propane is not as compressed, the area specific pressure is lower resulting in lower flame heights. Essentially when you are visualizing the wave with fire you are seeing a standing wave.
Since we know that frequency (f) equals speed (v) divided by wavelength (lamba) we are able to quantitatively determine the frequencies running through the Rubens tube. (f=v/lambda) Now, when doing this, remember that "v" is not the velocity of sound in air, (roughly 344 m/s) but rather the velocity of sound in your gas ( in this case propane, so 235 m/s). Also keep in mind that elevation and temperature affect this, but 235 is a good estimate. So, measure your wavelength from peak to peak (flame maxima) or trough to trough (flame minima), plug into the equation, and you get your frequency.
After some digging at the college library, I was able to unearth the original journal publication by von Heinrich Rubens:
It was published on December, 8th 1904 in the Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft- a German physics journal. The original tube used was brass. It was four meters long, 8 centimeters wide, and had about 100 holes which were each about 2 mm wide. He used Coal Gas which was inserted on one end through a brass cap, and then covered the other end with a rubber diaphragm. Interestingly his sources of sound were bells, an organ pipe, or tuning forks.
Its 9 feet hight with 150 hold 2mm wide drilled ever 1.5mm in staleness steel.
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the chart above from another instructable that was posted shows length versus frequency.... sorry just off from 10hr work day an not thinking right mind, but yeah what you said was what i was asking.
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Change is hard. Most of us struggle with it at times — some more than others. And then there are the lucky few who seemingly thrive on change, charging into the unknown full steam ahead.
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Hudson preteen to begin controversial cancer treatment
HUDSON — McKenzie Lowe, a Hudson 12-year-old battling a rare brain tumor, will soon undergo a new treatment with a little help from her friends.
When Rochester physician Terry Bennett heard Lowe's story, he knew firsthand what the preteen and her family were going through.
Bennett, in his late 70s, was also given a devastating diagnosis several years ago. Much like Lowe, he's managed so far to beat the odds through unconventional means. That's one of the reasons he stepped forward to oversee Lowe's care.
"She's only 12 — how could you not reach out," Bennett said on Tuesday. "And right now, the clock is ticking for both of us."
In late March, the Food and Drug Administration granted Lowe a compassion exemption, which will allow her to begin antineoplaston (ANP) treatment, an alternative medicine that controversial Texas doctor Stanislaw Burzynski has been using to treat certain brain tumors for nearly four decades.
Conventional treatments have failed Lowe, who was diagnosed with DIPG, a rare and inoperable brain tumor in November 2012. Over the past several months, her parents, Ron and Dianne Lowe, her grandfather, Frank LaFountain, and family friend Kim Frenette have been pleading with the FDA to grant a compassion exemption. The agency honored the family's request on the condition that a local physician oversee McKenzie's treatment.
Bennett said after he was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer known as biliary adenocarcinoma, he battled the FDA to allow him to be treated with a breast cancer drug that wasn't approved for off-label use.
"I am alive today because I am stubborn and left no stones unturned in my own case," he said.
Still, he warned that the odds aren't in Lowe's favor. "Don't expect a miracle," Bennett said. "When you discard the chaff, Burzynski only saves about five percent of patients like McKenzie."
Last week Lowe underwent an MRI that revealed the tumor is slowly growing.
"It's looking slightly bigger than it was before," Frenette said. "But she's still feeling pretty good, all the more reason why it's so important for her to begin treatment soon."
With Bennett overseeing Lowe's treatment in New Hampshire, the family has found a registered nurse who has volunteered to travel to the Burzynski Clinic in Texas to learn how to administer the infusions intravenously.
LaFountain said Burzynski has agreed to provide the infusions at no charge, though other expenses are expected to be considerable. Lowe's family and friends are raising funds to assist with upcoming travel and other expenses, which Frenette said the family would be expected to pay out-of-pocket.
A "Friends of McKenzie Lowe" page has been set up on the Go Fund Me website to help the family. Hudson resident Casey Meehan, a friend of the family, said the goal is to raise $20,000. As of Tuesday afternoon, $1,270 had been raised.
"She's full of an amazing passion to live life to the fullest, despite her ongoing battle with this horrible disease," Meehan said of Lowe. "We are running out of time, but not hope."
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Fair BoardMarion County Commissioners appoint seven members to the Fair Board pursuant to ORS 565.210-330 and 565.610-650. Fair Board members serve for three-year terms. The Fair Board is an agency of the County and is subject to most laws applicable to public bodies.Fair Management AgreementIn 2001, Marion County executed an agreement with the Fair Board to "define the management of the Marion County Fair and facilities by the Marion County Fair Board, and establish a method of determining compensation for County services provided." The agreement requires that the board submit a three-year business plan to the Board of Commissioners by December 31st of each year.Marion County Fair Board's Three-Year Goals
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3. Increase fair revenues and stabilize fair expenditures We are currently evaluating our options for locations of future fairs. We've contracted with a professional agency to coordinate sponsorships.4. Streamline Marion County administrative processes for the fairWe have been working hard to clarify expectations so that administrative functions, including fiscal, information technology, contracts, and deposits run smoothly.OtherCompliance with Laws and Regulations (Including Animal Welfare)Since Marion County hosts the fair on the Oregon State Fairgrounds, we comply with the State Fair's policies on animal welfare. All animals are treated in a humane manner. Animals are provided with clean bedding, adequate food and clean water. Fair exhibitors must keep their animals from harm. The Marion County Fair also complies with federal, state and county policies with regard to environmental issues and the Americans with Disabilities Act.Professional DevelopmentAll Fair Board members are encouraged to visit other county fairs to observe how they operate. The fair sponsors all members in attending the Oregon Fairs Association annual convention, spring conference, and area meetings.Updated: 9/2009


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The dramatic centerpiece of NatureWorks is Florida's Habitats, a glimpse into the natural world of Central Florida. In this realistic exhibit area, visitors explore the distinctive environments of Sand Pine Scrub, Cypress Swamp, Pine Flatwoods and Sinkhole Lake. There are also ample opportunities for guests to encounter live animals during regularly scheduled presentations.
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Former California Lieutenant Governor and first Black to serve in this position, Mervyn M. Dymally affectionately referred to as the "Godfather of African-American politics", passed away Sunday in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 86.
Dymally's wife, Alice Gueno Dymally who recently lost her mother Alice Walker Gueno said in a statement, "My beloved husband of 44-years Mervyn Dymally passed away very peacefully this morning at 6:30 a.m. He lived a very extraordinary life and had no regrets." Dymally in his career accomplished many firsts. He was the nation's first Black Lieutenant Governor, first Black California State Senator and was a pioneer member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Upon hearing of the passing of Dymally, his former colleagues, government officials, and contemporaries paid tribute to Dymally in issued statements. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. stated: "Mervyn Dymally was an extraordinary man who spent his life breaking new ground and advancing the cause of civil rights and equality. He was both a thinker and a doer, bearing deep knowledge but never hesitating to take action where action was warranted. California has lost an important leader."
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris issued the following statement on the passing of Mervyn Dymally: "I am tremendously saddened to hear of the passing of my friend, former Congressman and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally. Representative Dymally was a true role model for generations of Californians, not least because of his barrier-breaking legacy as one of the first persons of color to serve at the state and federal levels of our great nation. His lifelong commitment to justice during his time in Congress, the state legislature and the Lieutenant Governorship of California will continue to inspire us as we work to further the vision of equality that he championed for more than five decades. My prayers are with his wife, Alice, daughter Lynn and son Mark during this difficult time."
Assembly Member Wilmer Amina Carter stated, "How can you comment on someone who is bigger than life? I was introduced to him during our long relationship with the late Congressman George Brown and continued my relationship through my tenure in the Assembly. He was an amazing man. You know a person by the way he treats his wife and he treated his wife with love, respect and honor. We will truly miss his leadership in our state."
Candidate for the 47th Assembly District, Cheryl Brown stated: "He is the consummate statesman, always the political teacher who never stopped giving back to the state and the country. My family has been supporters of Mr. Dymally his entire political career. My mother knew him well and when I announced my candidacy for the Assembly, Mr. Dymally gave me council and sent more than one contribution. I will miss him as the campaign moves forward. He was always there to give advice." Congresswoman Janice Hahn released the following statement: "Mervyn Dymally was an icon, a legend, and one of the most loved and revered leaders in all of California. He was a fierce advocate for his constituents as a State Legislator, member of Congress, and as California's 41st Lieutenant Governor. He was a man of strong principles and values. We will always be grateful for his leadership in the building of MLK Hospital in Watts. He's always been a mentor and a friend. Mervyn will surely be missed."
Assemblymember Isadore Hall in a statement said, "For decades, Mervyn Dymally served California with an unwavering passion and commitment. Merv's legacy helped open the doors of opportunity for his and future generations and hisspirit will live on in the lives of the many leaders he inspired. Our state and country are a better place because of his lifetime of work. I am honored to have called him my friend and mentor. My thoughts and prayers are with his family." In honoring the memory of former Lieutenant Dymally, Speaker John A. Pérez stated, "I was deeply saddened to learn former Lieutenant Governor Merv Dymally passed away. He was an iconic figure in California politics, whose public service spanned nearly six decades in the Legislature, House of Representatives and as Lieutenant Governor of California. Throughout his time in office, he commanded respect on both sides of the aisle, and was a thoughtful and passionate advocate for the men and women he represented and for the poorest and most vulnerable Californians. He will be greatly missed by all those who had the pleasure of knowing him."
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally was born May 12, 1926 in Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago and served in the California State Assembly from 1963 to 1966, California State Senate from 1967 to 1975, and as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California from 1975 to 1979.
Along with George L. Brown of Colorado, who was also elected a lieutenant governor in 1974, Dymally was one of the two first Blacks elected to any statewide office in any state since Reconstruction.
Mr. Dymally then successfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1981 to 1993. As a member of the House of Representatives, he was one of the first persons of African and Indian origin to serve in the U.S. Congress. After a 10-year retirement, he returned to politics to serve in the California State Assembly from 2002 to 2008. He is considered the Godfather of African-American politicians in the state of California.
Dymally is survived by his daughter Lynn and son Mark, as well as his wife Alice Gueno Dymally and three sisters.
Funeral services and viewing will be held Wednesday, October 17, 2012 with the viewing between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon followed by services at 12:30 at the Holy Cross Mortuary, 5835 West Slauson Avenue, Culver City, CA.
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Works of art
The theft of cultural objects affects developed and developing countries alike. The illicit traffic in cultural heritage is a transnational crime that affects the countries of origin, transit and final destination.
The illicit trade in works of art is sustained by the demand from the arts market, the opening of borders, the improvement in transport systems and the political instability of certain countries.
At INTERPOL, we are working to raise awareness of the problem among the relevant organizations and the general public. We encourage not only police, but also art and antiques dealers and owners of works of art to play an active role in the exchange of information. This combined action will strengthen our efforts to curb the erosion of our cultural heritage.
International data
We published the first INTERPOL Notice on stolen works of art in 1947. Since then, we have developed a highly efficient system for circulating information in the form of a database accessible not only to law enforcement agencies but also to members of the public who have been provided with specific access rights.
In addition, certain types of data can be accessed openly by the general public:
- The most recent stolen works of art reported to INTERPOL;
- Recovered works of art;
- Works of art that have been recovered but remain unclaimed by their owners;
- Stolen Afghan items;
- Stolen Iraqi items;
- Stolen Syrian items.
Further resources are also available on this website:
- The latest INTERPOL posters showing the most wanted works of art.
- Object ID: the international standard for describing cultural objects, in order to facilitate their identification;
- Frequently asked questions.
We work in partnership with other international organizations, such as:
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);
- International Council of Museums (ICOM);
- United Nations Organization for Drugs and Crime (UNODC);
- World Customs Organization (WCO).
Romanian Police: database of stolen works of art (in Romanian only)
Latvian e-service: for owners and holders of cultural objects to record details of their objects, to be provided to police in case of theft.
Latvia : how to determine the status of a cultural object
Art stolen in Republic of Korea
Stop heritage crime - Joint Polish-Norwegian project on legal and illicit trade with cultural heritage
Egyptian authorities seize guns, drugs and stolen art in operation targeting illicit goods
Bhutan hosts international conference on protection of cultural property in Asia co-organized with INTERPOL
INTERPOL calls on international support for the preservation of cultural heritage in Mali
Appeal following aggravated theft of art from house in Belgium
INTERPOL issues alert following theft of paintings from Kunsthal Museum in The Netherlands
Philippines hosts INTERPOL workshop on the prevention of illicit trafficking in cultural property
Armed robbery at Ancient Olympia Museum in Greece
Theft of three paintings by Brueghel from private home in Belgium
Appeal following theft of artwork by Magritte in Belgium
INTERPOL issues alert following disappearance of cultural goods in Libya
Meeting of INTERPOL's Experts Group on Stolen Cultural Property focuses on information sharing
INTERPOL underlines role of concerted action at UNESCO forum on cultural heritage trafficking
9th International Symposium on the Theft of and Illicit Traffic in Works of Art, Cultural Property and Antiques
11-13 March 2015, Lyon, France
Fact sheet
- Access to the stolen works of art database (for authorized users only: once you have logged in, go to the 'My Profile' link at the top of the page and select the database from the list of options)
- Application form
- User guide (PDF) / User guide (PowerPoint)
WARNING! Deletion of inactive user accounts
Accounts that have not been used for a period of one year will be deleted. We advise you to log in on a regular basis in order to keep your account active.
Fighting illicit traffic of cultural property in Southeast Europe
Video provided by the Culture Unit of the UNESCO Venice Office on the illicit traffic of cultural property in the specific region of Southeast Europe.


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Malaga has soul – a Spanish soul, that is. On a coast where most towns have traded in virulent Spanish culture for bread-and-jam resorts, Malaga has managed to find a comfortable and highly appealing balance. Here, generic tourism walks side by side with ancient Moorish castles, Renaissance art galleries, traditional tapas menus, and plenty of capairinhas.
Hotels in Malaga
Malaga sure knows how to treat it guests, offering top-notch accommodations at every budget level. The city is large, with many different areas, and caters to as many needs as it can. Budget hotels are as prolific as sprawling resorts.
Resorts in Malaga are a big deal, particularly when they're close to the sea. The Costa del Sol is known for providing some of the best luxury accommodations in the country, and Malaga certainly doesn't disappoint. Hotels like Room Mate Lola offer a full range of amenities.
Where to stay in Malaga
Pole position, unsurprisingly, goes to the beachfront. Many of the city's largest and fanciest resorts, like the Hotel Puente Romano, are here, filling up chunks of the beach with their trademarked beach chairs and umbrellas.
For more affordable options, seek out the city center's pedestrian zone. There's a bit more variety in the way of accommodations here, with place like Hotel Sure, and visitors can enjoy the great food and atmosphere.


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Wasting a roster spot on a guy who can do only one thing right (punt protection) is not a recipe for success. If you want to put people in the seats, dig up and sign Eddie Gaedel.
And how much do you think the Dolphins would end up paying-- or better yet, how much do you think Tebow is going to want to be paid-- for this latest exercise in trying to find Tebow a job in the NFL? Because he's not going to come cheap.
Please don't EVER bring Tebow anywhere near to the Miami Dolphins!!!! PLEASE NO!!!
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News from the Heights If you need more information, call Le Moyne's Office of Communications at 315-445-4555 or contact via email Joe Della Posta or Molly McCarthy. Read past issues of the magazine Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer to Speak at Le Moyne College
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (For Immediate Release) … The Syracuse Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and Le Moyne College will host two talks by anthropologist Diane Gifford-Gonzalez on Friday, February 16, at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Both lectures will be held in Grewen Auditorium on the Le Moyne campus.

 At 3:30 p.m., Gifford-Gonzalez will speak on "The Case of the Disappearing Fur Seals: How Bones, Isotopes, and Ancient DNA Are Helping Solve a Prehistoric Mystery." Archaeological sites along the southern Californian to Alaskan coasts testify to a different distribution of eared seals than is historically documented. This is especially true of the northern fur seal which was among the most common pinnipeds in many archaeological sites up to about 1000 AD. Her research team has applied new age determination methods, bone isotope analysis, and ancient DNA to reconstruct prehistoric fur seals' foraging and reproductive habits. They have strong evidence for a substantial resident fur seal population along the coast of "Lower 48," with multiple rookeries on the Oregon and California coasts, and for substantial differences in the species' weaning behavior. The relevance of their work to ongoing debates about fur seal conservation and over aboriginal peoples' role in their disappearance well before European contact will be discussed.
 The 7:30 p.m. talk is titled "Before Farming and Villages: Early Pastoralists of the Sahara." Emerging evidence from the Sahara and from cattle DNA suggests that ancient Africans followed a very different path toward food production than taken by ancient Near Eastern peoples. Sedentary life around Saharan lakes and rivers during the moist phase immediately after the Ice Age is richly evidenced, as is 9800-year-old pottery. Domestic cattle are found in northern Africa at least 8000 years ago, and DNA studies suggest they may have been independently domesticated in the region. In any case, pastoralists thrived there for nearly 5000 years, without any trace of domestic plants. How did this divergent path emerge? What finally led to domestication of sorghum, millet, yams, and other crops? Why does this seem puzzling?
 Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, a 2007 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in zooarchaeology, having done fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, Netherlands, and the western U.S. Current research includes NSF-funded work on animal and human paleoecology around Monterey Bay, ethnicity and animal use at a colonial New Mexican Pueblo, and early pastoralism in Niger and Kenya. She has taught graduate seminars at the Universities of Nairobi and Tromsø, and the Chinese Academy of Science, authored over 50 academic articles and book chapters and received two distinguished teaching awards. She has served on editorial boards of major Africanist journals and governing boards of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, the International Conference of Archaeozoology, Society for American Archaeology, and the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association, and on the Academic Advisory Council of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She is curator of the Monterey Bay Archaeology Archives and serves on the board of the Cabrillo College Archaeological Technology Certificate Program.
 Both lectures are free and open to the public. There will be a reception following the 7:30 p.m. lecture. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Syracuse chapter of Sigma Xi.
 The lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Urban and Regional Applied Research, the Center for Peace and Global Studies, the developing Center for the Study of Environmental Change at Le Moyne and the lecture committee.
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Variant spelling of Geoffrey, common in the Middle Ages (as reflected in surnames such as Jefferson). This is now the usual spelling of the name both in North America and Britain. Well-known bearers include the novelist and former British politician Jeffrey Archer (b. 1940), the British conductor Jeffrey Tate (b. 1943), and the American soul singer Jeffrey Osborne (b. 1951).
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Jose Conde - (R)evolucion - CD
Singer and songwriter Jose Conde harnesses the old school, authentic Cuban spirit on Revolucion and delivers it with a beautiful, unique voice and contemporary eclectic flavour. Jose was born in the US and raised by his parents, who were Cuban immigrants.
Featured on the album is the band Ola Fresca (or 'Fresh Wave'), an international cast of some of the best musicians from New York City. Together they play all original rootsy, funky, jazzy, 21st century Latin dance music. Revolucion was co-produced by the Grammy Award-winning Aaron Levinson of Spanish Harlem Orchestra fame.
Recorded at the all-analogue Brooklyn Recording Studio, this album has already been called a masterpiece by some music industry heavyweights however the band, and its music, is even better witnessed live. As producer Aaron Levinson explains "although Jose can do a very typical Latin show, he can also play a show with groups like Ozomatli or Ojos de Brujo." Revolucion includes a powerhouse crew of special guests including funk legend and original Meters drummer Joseph 'Zigaboo' Modelisteand Latin All Stars Jimmy Bosch on trombone. The banda's line-up also includes guitarist Juancho Herrera (Nestor Torres), bassist Jorge Bringas (Omara Portuondo, Albita) and multi-percussionist Carlos 'GoGo' Gomez (Arturo Sandoval).
Cubans have a kind of stew called 'ajiaco' into which all kinds of meats and vegetables can be incorporated. Revolucion is a musical ajiaco.
1. Llego La Ola / 2.Ritmo Y Sabor / 3. Cafe Con Sangre / 4. Oshiri Pan Pan / 5. Descarga Inez / 6. Pititi Y Titi (French) / 7. Ride La Ola / 8. El Titere / 9. Probando Nuevos Sabores / 10. Despelote / 11. El Chacal / 12. Mi Musica / 13. Summertime / 14. Pititi Y Titi (Spanish)


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Ashton Breaks Second Record as ETSU Drops The Citadel, 7-1
Sunday, October 13, 2002Johnson City, Tenn. (October 13, 2002) - Freshman Erin Ashton (New Bern, N.C.) broke the school record for points in a season as ETSU rolled to a 7-1 Southern Conference victory over The Citadel Sunday afternoon. Ashton, who previously broke the school record for goals in a season, had one goal and three assists to extend her point total to 25, breaking Kristin Redfern's record of 20 in 2001. The Buccaneer's scored their first goal of the day at the 12:29 mark as a cross from Ashton was deflected by Andrea Brown (High Point, N.C.) and knocked in by freshman Lauren Kulish (Bowie, Md.) to give ETSU the 1-0 lead. Brown later scored her first of two goals for the day at the 16:31 mark when she received a cross from Ashton that found the back of the net. The Bulldogs only goal of the day came in the 20th minute of play as Lauren Merchant fired a shot into the top left corner of the net. Brown would close out the period scoring her second goal of the day off of an Elizabeth Smith (Arden, N.C.) cross to push the Buccaneer lead to 3-1. In the second period the Buccaneers capitalized off of a shot by Smith that hit the top post and was knocked in by Ashton at the 61:35 mark. Senior Lena Summers (Johnson City, Tenn.) later received a gift as a long cross found the back corner of the net in the 65th minute to put the Buccaneers up 5-1. Freshman Catherine Olsen (Thurmont, Md.) scored the first goal of her career as a Brown shot hit the top post and Olsen knocked it in. The final Buccaneer goal came in the 84th minute as a cross from Ashton was headed in by Smith to finalize the score at 7-1. "This weekend has given us confidence that we can score in the attacking third," said Buccaneer head coach Heather Henson. "This sets us in the right direction for our final four conference games." Brown ended the day with two goals and two assists; keeper Heather Sanden (Manassas, Va.) had four saves as ETSU out-shot the Bulldogs 25-8. With the win ETSU moves to 4-6-1, 2-3-1 in Southern Conference play. The Citadel falls to 4-8-1, 0-7 in conference play. The Buccaneers will return to action Friday October 18, against conference foe Western Carolina.


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Team HEAD is a global sponsorship program aimed at promoting young, talented tennis players in more than 40 countries around the world.
Team HEAD players benefit from partnerships with well-known coaches like Bob Brett and Emilio Sanchez. They are between the ages 11 and 21 and encouraged by HEAD to play their best in a competitive atmosphere.
How does this work? By making sure Team HEAD players have the best equipment to enhance their game. But it's more than just equipment. HEAD cares about each Team HEAD member's development and local representatives support each HEAD player, creating a world-wide team spirit.
HEAD is also keen to create an online community of Team HEAD members which also includes winning tickets and Wild Cards, getting tips, tricks and gear that nobody else even comes close to. But most of all it's about being part of a global group of over-achievers.
Many top stars playing on the Pro Tour today have gone through the program. Players like Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray or Richard Gasquet are former members of Team HEAD.
But also current members of Team HEAD celebrated great achievements in 2011: Ashleigh Barty and Luke Saville from Australia won the Wimbledon junior singles titles, Grace Min (USA) won the girls' title at the US Open. Dominic Thiem (Austria) was in the French Open Junior Final and won the Orange Bowl against Team HEAD fellow Patrick Ofner.
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HEAD racquet rebel Gilles Simon celebrated his first ATP title of the year when he defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the Moselle Open in Metz, France. Simon, who endorses the HEAD YouTek™ IG Prestige, lifted his 11th career trophy and already his second in Metz after first winning in 2010. The ATP No. 16, who just celebrated the birth of his second son, claimed victory without the loss of a set during the week at the Moselle Open. The Frenchman also captured his first indoor title in three years and improved to 32-10 this season. The 28-year-old is only one win away from the 300th victory of his career.
"I was fighting a lot today. I saw that I had a chance and I managed to win. I'm very happy about that", said the HEAD winner. "I cannot become a father every week. It's a beautiful story for sure. Unfortunately my wife and children couldn't be here today. It was a great moment for me because I missed the birth of our first child and this time I was able to be there. I was very happy about that."
Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, ambassador of the HEAD YouTek™ IG Prestige, reached the final of the St. Petersburg Open before falling to Ernests Gulbis 3-6, 6-4, 6-0.
Novak Djokovic celebrates his 100th week at No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. He is only the ninth player in ATP World Tour history to reach the milestone.


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It was the signature stage of the 2003 Tour de France, full of incredible racing, dramatic moments, and, ultimately, a Lance Armstrong victory. Iban Mayo charged ahead; only Lance and Jan Ullrich could respond to the challenge. Lance was clipped by a spectator and fell; Ullrich obeyed the unwritten rule and paused for Lance to recover. Lance let his feet slip; he recovered again and used his frustration as motivation to surge far ahead of Ullrich. In the end, the 52-second victory at Luz-Ardiden provided the cushion he needed to cruise on to his fifth straight Tour victory!
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They were in classrooms and airports, at work and out on the street all across the country Nov. 22, 1963, when the news of what had happened in Dallas first began to trickle out.
Stunned silence stopped a nation dead in its tracks. For Southern Marylanders old enough to remember, the memories of that day still are just as clear as they were on the day that President John F. Kennedy was shot dead.
'Details of the event are still fresh'
Joe Chappell might have had one of the most direct glimpses into history in the making. A retired chief master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, Chappell served as a flight engineer aboard Air Force One for five presidents, beginning with Kennedy. Chappell, who lives in Clinton, was 35 years old and a part of the crew in Dallas that day.
"It was a beautiful November day, leaving Washington the day before, and everything was going fine," he said. "Our first arrival in Texas was in San Antonio, with bands playing and a very warm reception. It was a short flight the next day to [Dallas'] Love Field, where the president was met by a huge crowd with the bands playing and the majorettes dancing. Everyone was having fun. We were in the cockpit watching the reception the president received … and we went down to see the send-off. The president and first lady departed Love Field, and we began making preparations for our next departure."
Then, all routine ended completely.
Pilot Doug Moody "and I were having a conversation, and a couple minutes after that, Col. [James B.] Swindal, who was President Kennedy's pilot, came up to Moody as we were standing at the top of the No. 2 engine and said, 'Joe, let's get ready to go,' so I assumed we were going back to Washington because there was a rumor something had happened, potentially with Vietnam," Chappell said. "I went for a fuel truck … and I went over to the Pan-Am press charter. About that time, Swindal ran back down the steps and said, 'Did I tell you the president has been shot?'
"That was our first knowledge of anything," Chappell said. "I was assuming it was nothing more than a flesh wound, and that the motorcade had turned around and was coming back to the terminal. We didn't treat it as anything really serious at the moment. We got started with the refueling process, and I went into the airplane, and then I found it was really serious. Shortly after that, it was announced the president was killed."
Chappell and the other crew members began making the preparations to fly back to Washington. This would mark the first time the body of an assassinated president would be flown on Air Force One.
"We were notified that they would be bringing Kennedy's body back to Washington," Chappell said. "It occurred to me that we had flown a number of government officials whose bodies had lain in state at the Capitol … that their bodies had been placed in the cargo hold. I said to Swindal, 'He needs to be in the passenger cabin.' He agreed but said there was no space. So we removed two rows of passenger seats. I talked with the Secret Service agents carrying the casket and told them the plan, so we brought it aboard and began our departure process. One of Kennedy's aides told us we needed to wait. … We shut the engines down. [Vice President Lyndon B.] Johnson told us we weren't leaving until Judge Hughes arrived, so … I ran back over and told the police lieutenant we were waiting on Judge Hughes. He pointed me over to the judge's car, and I went over there and knocked on the door. There was a man in a big Texas hat wearing a suit, and I asked him to come with me. 'I'm not the judge,' he said. 'I'm the chauffeur.' Judge Sarah Hughes was this little 5-foot-tall, tiny lady … and I took her aboard the airplane for the swearing-in [of Johnson as president to succeed Kennedy]. We then departed and started the flight back to Washington."
Once back in Washington with Kennedy's body, his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, arrived at Andrews Air Force Base and met with Jacqueline Kennedy and others as the military honor guard came for the body. Chappell and other flight crew members went back to the office to discuss the events of the day.
"I was driving home, and I noticed normally air traffic is very busy, especially around dinner time. On our arrival back in the area, I saw it was a very clear night, and you could see rotating beacons for planes in holding patterns," Chappell said. Out of respect, "the pilots of commercial air carriers had elected to stay airborne until we landed at Andrews with the president. That's why there were no transmissions."
What sticks out to Chappell is how ordinary everything seemed until the bullets began to fly. "Everything had gone so well until the moment I was notified the president had been shot. That was unbelievable. Every place we'd gone, the president was always well received."
Since the crew was small — only 12 men — its members and their families frequently were included in White House parties and other social gatherings. Kennedy was the first president with whom Chappell had flown. Chappell recalled "seeing Mrs. Kennedy wearing the clothes I'd seen her in last when they departed from the airport with the motorcade. She was still in that pink suit standing with Johnson. This all happened in a very short period of time."
As with many others, the event has stayed with Chappell throughout the years.
"It's fresh, but I was 35 then and 85 now. Fifty years is a long time, and I'm beginning to feel it," Chappell said. "The details of the event are still fresh. It was just that no one could believe the president had been killed. It was really a sad time in Washington. I arrived home, and there were neighbors of mine at my house who knew I was with the president and … everyone was watching TV, staying with the story. That Saturday, when his body was lying in state, we got a call that Mrs. Kennedy had invited the crew to see the body at the White House before it went over to the Capitol with the heads of state."
'I just couldn't believe it'
Tim Willis joined the D.C. Metropolitan Police in 1960 and helped work the crowd during Kennedy's inauguration in January 1961. Originally from the District, Willis now lives in Swan Point. He recalls Kennedy's assassination as the catalyst for a new America he said hardly compares with how the country used to be.
"The 1950s were fun. I was born in Southeast, and when I was coming up everyone knew each other," Willis said. "I remember when Kennedy was inaugurated. I was right there. I really liked him. It was like a fairy tale. … Everybody sort of got along. There was low crime. It was just a different place to live in. I can remember Frank Sinatra and all them movie stars being there. It was snowing and everything."
Willis recalled that he was getting ready to go to work Nov. 22, 1963, when the news broke.
"My wife came in, and she said, 'Oh, my God! 'Oh, my God! 'Oh, my God!' And I said, 'What?' She said, 'The president has been shot!' I said, 'What? You've got to be kidding.' I didn't even wait for them to call me. I just took off. It was such a mess back then. We didn't have any riot gear or helmets, just our uniforms. People on the street were just walking around like zombies, crying. I saw grown men cry. People just loved Kennedy. He was a popular president. It was like being in a dream world. I can remember standing at 15th and Pennsylvania Avenue, and they came out with his body, and I just couldn't believe it. It's just something that doesn't happen in this country."
Although he had never met Kennedy personally, Willis said he had been given the chance.
"I wish I'd carried around a camera with me back then because I saw history," Willis said. "I was at every demonstration, every parade, every protest … everything on the front lines. I was there for everything that went on."
'He was an inspiration'
Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton (D-Charles) was a senior in high school the day of the assassination. Middleton grew up on a farm and had just built a brand new stripping shed, where cured tobacco leaves were pulled from their stalks and prepared for market. For some reason, Middleton said, he didn't have school that day and was in the shed with his dad and his brother.
"We had electricity in the new shed, so the radio was on, and the news came over where Kennedy had been shot and we were just shocked," Middleton said. "I grew up in a Democratic household in a Kennedy family, and we were big Kennedy supporters. My dad just loved him. He was an inspiration to a whole nation. I remember it was like he had lost his own child. We watched the unfolding of events in Dallas … and after that watching the funeral. It was a solemn time."
Although Middleton credits his upbringing with his future political career, he said that being an adolescent in such a turbulent time in history certainly bore some effect, as well.
"JFK was an inspiration to my whole generation. He was a world leader that young people like myself admired and wanted to imitate," Middleton said. "I grew up on a rather steady diet of politics so I guess that was somewhat natural, but I always looked up to role models like JFK and my dad to follow in my political life. To this day, every time the anniversary of the assassination comes back around, all those memories come back in. In my lifetime, that was probably the most memorable event, even with the moon landing. I remember when it was, but not where I was."
'He put me on the road to service'
Del. Peter F. Murphy (D-Charles) was a freshman in high school at the time of the assassination and recalled hearing the news announced over the loudspeakers in his school. Although he was old enough to realize the significance of what had occurred, he said the real effects did not set in until years later.
"The impact on me probably didn't really occur much until I was in college three years later … and had more to do with the Peace Corps," he said. "I remember wanting to join at the time, but I didn't want to stop and interrupt [my schooling]. I joined VISTA, which was kind of a domestic version. I was in school at American University, and I would go into the inner city in D.C. at nights and work with the children, so that's how it affected me. He put me on the road to service, and I think that was his legacy for my generation of young people who really took that challenge and put it into action."
'History just kept happening'
Charles County Commissioner Ken Robinson (D) was nearly 8 and recalled being in his second-grade classroom in Brooklyn, N.Y., when the news came through.
"Almost instantly, teachers broke down crying, which was really disconcerting to a second-grader," Robinson said. "It got even more disconcerting when my mother came to pick me up, and there were people crying in the streets of Brooklyn. It's as vivid to me today as it was when it happened because the iconic images we're familiar with today played for four straight days across the three channels. It was probably as somber a period as I can ever recall in my life. History just kept happening. I remember being in front of the TV when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald and … my older sister started screaming. It was a very scary time for a kid. I think it made me politically aware and interested in government and history. ... I'm 57 years old, and it's hard for me because he was 11 years younger than I am today, and that's just bizarre to me."
'It was doubly bad'
For Lorraine Wallace of Leonardtown, the news of Kennedy's death came at an already somber time. Nine days prior to the assassination, her own father had died in her home state of Ohio. She flew there from New Mexico for his funeral and returned back west that day.
"I was on my way home to New Mexico, and my plane was delayed in Chicago, so I was going to be real tight or delayed … out of Love Field in Dallas," Wallace recounted during a phone interview. She "scrambled to make arrangements to get home" but found that it was impossible to do so for the next nine hours.
While laid over at the airport, Wallace said, she began to notice something odd. "I kept seeing these papers saying 'Kennedy Killed,' and I knew he wasn't very popular in Texas, so I thought it was a joke, and I thought that wasn't a funny joke," Wallace said. "But then I saw nuns crying in the airport, and everyone was very sober. There were a lot of Texas Rangers around … and then it dawned on me. The first president I'd ever voted for had been killed. For me it was kind of doubly bad because I'd lost my father and first president I'd voted for who I thought was pretty good."
During her layover, Wallace bought first edition copies of the newspapers from Dallas and Fort Worth that day. On the 25th anniversary of his death, she donated the papers to St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Strangely enough, the day was not entirely without benefit for Wallace, who recently had quit smoking cigarettes. "I thought to myself if I can get through this without having a cigarette then I never need to have one again, and lo and behold, it's been 50 years," Wallace said.
'We watched them take his body'
Charlotte Wilkening of Dunkirk was having lunch downtown in the District at the Hamilton Hotel, as was her daily custom in those days, when she heard about it. Wilkening, in shock, went back to her office and told her colleagues, but no one believed her until the reports started developing further. They were dismissed for the day, and Wilkening went with her husband to her mother's Virginia home before returning to Calvert County that night.
"We came home that evening … and we were pulled over by the Census Bureau as the hearse was passing by. You could see light around the edges even with the curtains drawn, and I understand Mrs. Kennedy was in there. [My doctor] was on the hearse with her, so I got a firsthand account at my next visit," Wilkening said in a phone interview. "The thing about it was there was hardly any traffic at that time of night. It must have been around 11 p.m. Another odd thing was there was not much security with the hearse, no more than one police car."
As it turned out, the couple would have front-row seats to the unfolding drama during the next few days.
"My husband's office was across from the Treasury Department, and so he and I decided we'd go down to his office and watch the proceedings the next day at the White House. There was no security. We just walked right into the building," Wilkening said. "We had a front row seat to the White House, and we could see all the comings and goings, and we watched them take his body to the Capitol."
Despite not having been a Kennedy supporter, Wilkening said she was nonetheless deeply affected by his death.
"Usually I'm not terribly emotional, but I felt animated inside," she said. "I realized I was seeing a tremendous piece of history. I had a certain amount of anger. I felt that, very upset that anyone would dare kill the president of the U.S.. I think it was that fact, and then the whole thing was really like watching a movie that was pure history. To see all the dignitaries, [French President Charles] DeGaulle and them, was fantastic. I've never probably been impressed with anything so much as how … so many people from around the world were drawn in so rapidly. It was a culmination of emotion and realizations of history … it was like a whole huge bunch of things rolled into a Tootsie Roll, and they couldn't get out. It was a sad exhilaration, realizing you'd witnessed something not many people would ever see. I don't recall my husband ever telling me why none of his colleagues were there, but I thought they missed something. On Suitland Parkway, it was the most surreal feeling when we were pulled over when the hearse was coming."
'He came across as idealistic'
Joan Armistead of Hollywood has a small collection of Kennedy memorabilia, spawned from having campaigned for the president while living in California. Armistead was 23 at the time and a math teacher.
"My roommate, who worked with me, called me on the intercom in my classroom ... because she knew I had been really involved, so for me it was kind of personal," Armistead said. "I announced it to the class, and there was one student in the class who yelled out, 'Oh good! That means Nixon is president!' And I just looked at him and said 'No, I'm sorry. That's not how the government works.'"
From there, Armistead said, the school principal sent a series of mimeographs out informing the teachers of what was going on, which she keeps in a box of Kennedy memorabilia along with articles and publications from that day, as well as items from the campaign trail.
"From there, we went home, and it was just all over the television," Armistead said. "You watch these things on TV ... but for us on the West Coast, we were far away from everything. It was really ... fresh for everyone. It was this person who had some deranged ideas, rather than like with 9/11 where it was an attack from the outside. It was for me at that point in time the first election I ever got involved in. Obviously he did something to make us all feel like things were going to be good. He struck me as young, and ... it was just that appeal. He came across as idealistic, not just a politician."


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There are lots of choices for grownup moviegoers this season in both the blockbuster "tentpoles" like June's Man of Steel, designed to appeal to a mass market and make lots of money, and in the smaller "tadpoles," like Woody Allen's latest, Blue Jasmine, focused on a more targeted movie fan.
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So don't surrender the theater to youngsters for the next three months. If you're selective about which blockbusters you choose and discerning about the small films, you may just have a lot of fun. Here, by release date, a look at those in both categories we think have special appeal to the 50-plus audience.
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The 'Tentpoles' (aka: The Big Flicks and Blockbusters)
Now You See Me
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, Jesse Eisenberg
Opened: May 31 Read the review
Do you feel bad when you root for the "crooks" in caper movies? In this one Harrelson and a young crew play Vegas magicians who steal from big, bad banks and shower the proceeds on their audiences. In other words, this time it's hard to tell who the real crooks are. We also get incomparable actors Freeman and Caine in this how-did-they-do-it?
The Internship
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, John Goodman
Opened: June 7 Read the review
Downsized by the economy, Vaughn and Wilson are two middle-age guys who have to reimagine themselves. It's an unfortunately resonant theme. But when these two turn up as interns at Google, and with the whole Wedding Crashers team back, the result should be both hilarious and poignant.
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Stars: Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne
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Those of us who remember 1950s Superman George Reeves in tights basically own this franchise. It's up to us to judge whether the next generation is doing Superman justice with this remake. It's a different telling of Clark Kent's story, that's for sure, but from what we've seen, we can say at least they've got the flying stuff right.
Monsters University
Starring: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Bonnie Hunt
Opened: June 21 Read the review
The smartest 'toons come from Disney/Pixar and with a great returning veteran voice cast this third film in the Monsters franchise is a slam-dunk favorite flick to catch with the kids in your life.
The Heat
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy
Opened: June 28
Nothing makes us feel better about being in our 50s than knowing that, come next year, Sandra Bullock will be, too. She's paired in this buddy cop movie with the funniest woman on screen today. (If you don't believe us, check out McCarthy's improvised riff during the closing credits of This is 40.)
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Stars: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer
Opened: July 3 Read the review
Like Superman, boomers own The Lone Ranger, and no one messes with him without our tacit approval. Frankly, the idea of freshly minted 50-year-old Johnny Depp playing Tonto is pretty irresistible, with apologies to Jay Silverheels, who played him in the long-running TV series.
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker
Opened: July 19
Here's a case of blind trust in a grownup star's choices: The concept of dead cops who staff a police force from the Hereafter (the Rest In Peace Department) sounds infinitely skippable, but the presence of Jeff Bridges has us giving this movie the benefit of the doubt. Don't let us down, dude.
Red 2
Stars: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren
Opened: July 19 Read the review
The original Red two years ago sparked a Hollywood revolution: Studios discovered that an action flick featuring older stars could kick butt at the box office with both kids and grownups. Willis and his friends are back for another pull of the trigger. Go get 'em, guys.
Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman
Opens: August 16
Ford and Oldman last tangled onscreen in 1997 in Air Force One ("Get off of my plane!!!"). Now they play rivals in a tale of corporate corruption. It's directed by Robert Luketic, who made two of our favorite films you've never seen, 21 (with Kevin Spacey) and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
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