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By Preston Sparks | For Living 50 Plus If not for a course offered 80 years ago by Auburn University — then Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) — the fate of Rock ‘n’ Roll might have forever changed. An aged and yellowed API document framed and displayed proudly on a wall inside the Sun Studio control room in Memphis, Tennessee, represents
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Steve Price turned 70 years old in November, but he said he’s no closer to retirement than the day he turned 60. As manager of the Shoals Community Theatre, he said he’s content with his not-so-routine line of work, which ranges from meetings with local and national celebrities to sweeping floors in the
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By Metrocreative The sentiment that there aren’t enough hours in the day may be true for busy families and individuals. However, once every four years, everyone is given an extra day on their calendars in February. Although Leap Day is designed to move the clock and calendar more in line with the Earth’s rotation around the sun, which takes slightly
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Metrocreative The idea of losing all personal data on a computer, phone or tablet may send a person into a panic. How many times has a drive failed or a computer crashed and a person has worried that all of their essential files were lost forever? But there are times when it could be essential to clear data from a
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Working professionals know that few things can be as frustrating as a malfunctioning computer. A computer that’s not working properly can interrupt work flow, lead to lost man hours and make it hard to get much done.Whether it’s a spinning color wheel or some other familiar indicator that a computer is not working at peak capacity, there are some telltale
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By Steve Lopez | Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — For some people, retirement is a long-awaited chance to sleep late, relax and celebrate the joys of life without pressure or deadlines. For others, it’s an opportunity to finally get to work. Within a span of a few days, I heard about two retirees who had long dreamed of
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By Judith Graham | KFF Health News (TNS) How many of us have wanted a reliable, evidence-based guide to aging that explains how our bodies and minds change as we grow older and how to adapt to those differences? Creating a work of this kind is challenging. For one thing, aging gradually alters people over decades, a long period shaped
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