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hank you, engineer Willis Haviland Carrier (1876 – 1950), the “Father of Cool,” for inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902, and thus making Florida inhabitable year-round. Today, we enjoy climate-controlled comfort with the touch of a button—that is until a hurricane downs our trees and power lines. Should one come along, we could be off the grid for days or weeks. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are prime threats this time of year, and the elderly are especially vulnerable. In 2017, Hurricane Irma left 6.1 million folks without electricity, which led to the tragic deaths of eight nursing home residents. Preparing for such a situation now could save trouble— and lives. Consider these tips to guide you through such an event: Before the storm: Stock up on batteries; consider battery-operated room and personal fans too. Some of the handhelds come with misters, which are nice to have around on hot summer
days anyway. You can find them at Amazon.com. Freeze some water bottles and store ice in coolers, freezer, and yes, even your washing machine. Stock up on fruits and veggies, as well as non-refrigerated snacks and canned goods. Plan to have a week or two supply of bottled water on hand: one gallon per person, per day. Staying hydrated is key. Make sure you have plenty of medicine and other supplies for pets, children and the elderly. Store valuables in a safe, dry place. Do laundry, wash your dishes, bathe and shampoo. Remember it could be a while before you have these luxuries back. In the case of power loss: Wear cotton clothing or moisture-wicking apparel. Make sure the elderly, especially those with cognitive problems, choose appropriate dress as well. Wet or dampened T-shirts or cooling vests will help. Periodically, apply a wet or damp towel on the back of the neck, wrists, elbows, behind the knees, the groin area,
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Sarasota Edition Published monthly by Lifestyles After 50 Volume 30, Issue 9 Publisher Ed Graves Ed.Graves@lifestylesafter50.com Editor Terri Bryce Reeves Terri.Reeves@lifestylesafter50.com Website Coordinator Allie Shaw Allie. Shaw@lifestylesafter50.com Distribution Nancy Spencer Nancy.Spencer@lifestylesafter50.com Questions/Customer Service 813-336-8247 Press Releases Editor@lifestylesafter50.com Advertising Sales Joe Gess: 813-817-9855 Joe.Gess@lifestylesafter50.com Event Coordinator Kate Heddings: 941-447-2078 Kate.Heddings@lifestylesafter50.com
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hirty days has September and one of these days is very special: Grandparents Day, held on the first Sunday after Labor Day. This year it’s on September 8th. The purpose of this observance is best expressed in the proclamation made in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter: “The elders of each family have the responsibility for setting the moral tone for the family and for passing on the traditional values of our nation to their children and grandchildren.” The message seems more pertinent these days than ever as our youth are faced with problems and pressures like never before. Social media, the internet, and TV and film bombard young, impressionable minds with messages of violence, promiscuous sex, drug and
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alcohol use. Today’s young people worry about body image, bullying, athletic performance, college admissions, and, sadly, whether they will get shot at school that day. With so many dually-employed parents, grandparents often play a critical role by providing childcare, help with homework, and rides to and from school and after-school programs. Some are tasked with the full responsibility of bringing up grandchildren because the parents are unable or unwilling to do so, often because of substance abuse issues. Other grandparents may not have close contact with grandchildren because of divorce, difficult relationships with their own children, or physical distance, but many manage to stay in touch and show their love with cards, phone calls, gifts
and video chats. The Grandparents Day flower is, fittingly, the forget-me-not, so be sure to remember and honor those family members who share not only their love but their wisdom and values. If possible, spend the day with them. Explore a park. Paint a picture together. Go out to dinner. Mow their yard. Even something as simple as a homemade card or phone call can go a long way towards making Grandma and Grandpa happy. As they always taught you: It’s the thought that counts. See you in October!
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Get Your ‘Phil’ of ‘80s Hits The winner of nine Grammys, two Golden Globes and an Oscar is coming to Tampa’s Amelie Arena.
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oung Phil Collins was always a bit precocious. He once entered a talent contest, belting out The Ballad of Davy Crockett. Halfway through his performance, he abruptly stopped the orchestra to tell them they were in the wrong key. Collins was five years old at the time. Philip David Charles Collins was born on Jan. 30, 1951, in London, one of two sons born to an insurance agent father and a theatrical agent mother. When he was 5, Collins’ parents gave him a toy drum kit as a Christmas gift. As Collins grew older, the left-hander graduated to more complex sets. He never learned to read or write conventional musical notation, instead using a system he designed himself. He later expressed regrets: “I never really came to grips with the music. I should have stuck with it. I’ve always felt that if I could hum it, I could play it. For me, that was good enough, but that attitude is bad.” While a student at the Barbara Speake Stage School, one of the longest-running stage schools in the world, Collins earned a blink-and-you’ll-miss role in the Beatles’ 1964 film, A Hard Day’s Night, in which he played a schoolboy in a mob of shrieking adolescents. This was followed by a meatier role as the Artful Dodger in the London stage production of Oliver! Collins enjoyed acting but found it hard to resist the siren call of musical stardom. At age 18, he joined Flaming Youth, a band who recorded an album called Ark 2. Despite earning favorable reviews, the 1969 work died a quiet death in the British music store record racks. In mid-1970, the hitmaking, soft-rock band Genesis advertised for “a drummer sensitive to acoustic music.” Not only did Collins land the role of drummer, but he was soon the band’s primary vocalist. He went solo in 1980 and released In the Air Tonight as the first single from his debut album Face Value. After that, there was no holding him back. He became the hitmaker of the era, selling 100 million records, including an armload of multi-platinum albums and more Top 40 singles than any other singer from that decade. In 1985, the bi-continental Live Aid charity show, dubbed the “global jutebox,” was established for Ethiopian famine relief. That weekend, Collins became the concert’s MVP, performing at London’s Wembley Stadium, then jetting to Philadelphia aboard a Concorde SST to drum for George Harrison and a reunited Led Zeppelin at the John F. Kennedy Stadium. *** Collins has been through quite a bit during his 68 years on the planet. He has been married and divorced three times and has sired five children. Along the way, he has endured some troubling physical issues, including hearing loss in his left ear and a dislocated neck vertebra. Problems with his hands ended his drum-playing abilities; a 2015 back operation left him with drop foot. Then there has been the alcohol issue. “I almost drank myself to death,” Collins has said in past interviews. “I was getting up in the morning and having a couple of drinks.” (He often swigged vodka straight from the bottle.) After years of battling booze, he became a teetotaler in 2105. More recently, though, he claims he is not alcoholic and can enjoy “a couple of glasses of wine” without going overboard. --Eight of Collins’ songs hit the peak of the Billboard singles chart during his golden decade. At the Amelie, you can count on hearing most (if not all) of his timeless million-sellers such as Against All Odds (Take A Look at Me Now), One More Night, Sussudio, Separate Lives, Two Hearts and Groovy Kind of Love. On the night of his concert, some audience members will undoubtedly be “air drumming,” dancing in their seats, and otherwise enjoying another day in paradise.
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Phil Collins is on a limited swing through the States—he’s stopping in only 15 cities—and he will be at Tampa’s Amelie Arena for a concert loaded with singalong hits from his four-decade career. Phil Collins: Still Not Dead Yet, Live! is the sequel to his sold-out 2018 tour Phil Collins: Not Dead Yet. The Tampa show will feature an eight-member outfit, stellar backup vocalists, and Phil’s son Nicolas on drums. Memory Lane may become a bit of a crowded path that night as concertgoers relive Collins’ golden decade of the 1980s. IF YOU GO: Phil Collins: Still Not Dead Yet, Live! WHEN: Sept. 26, 8 p.m. WHERE: Tampa’s Amelie Arena, 401 Channelside Dr. PHONE: (813) 301-2500 TICKETS: Amelie Arena Ticket Office, amaliearena.com, Ticketmaster.com
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hese spectacular but dangerous weather phenomena actually play a vital role in regulating temperatures and moisture around the globe. They are Mother Nature’s air conditioning system, moving hot tropical air toward the poles. Without them, some areas of the planet would be too hot for life to exist. Here are some other interesting facts about these one-eyed monsters: 1. The word “hurricane” originated from the Mayan God “Huracan,” a devilish creature with one leg and a serpent for the other. Huracan is said to be in charge of storms, lightning, and evil in general. 2. Near the end of the 19th century, Clement Huracan Wragge, a colorful Australian forecaster, began pioneering ways to name storms including politicians he didn’t like, calling them “bags of air” or saying they “wandered aimlessly.” 3. Today, the World Meteorological Organization is responsible for naming tropical cyclones; they try to be a bit more diplomatic. They also don’t take requests because wanting to be named for something that kills people just isn’t cool. 4. For hurricanes to form, water must be at least 200-feet-deep and 80 degrees or more to a depth of 150-feet. 5. Since oceans are typically warmest in September, we have more hurricanes this month than others. With its extensive coastline, Florida, unfortunately, leads the nation in hurricane landfalls. 6. The eye of the storm can be the most dangerous part for those caught out in the ocean. Waves inside the eye converge from all directions and can form erratic rogue waves with huge crests. 7. The deadliest natural disaster in the U.S. was the Great Galveston hurricane Library of Congress; Currier and Ives lithograph in 1900—approximately 8,000 were killed. Among them were 90 orphans tied with a rope to 10 nuns, who were attempting to save them from the rapidly rising floodwaters. 8. Most often, people die from storm surges, which can be over 20-feet-high and can extend for many miles. 9. Hurricanes can be deadly for coral and sea creatures that can’t swim quickly to deeper waters such as the seahorse, sea turtles, crabs and oysters. 10. Hurricanes are a terrific source of natural energy. They can create up to 600 trillion watts of electricity – enough to power the U.S. for three years.
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“I want what everybody wants. I just seem to have a harder time getting it.” ~Judy Garland
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he was born Frances Ethel Gumm in 1922, the youngest of three girls who performed in vaudeville acts as one of the Gumm Sisters. A zealous actress and singer as a young teenager, Garland signed with MGM and appeared in over two dozen films. Most notable was the 1939 The Wizard of Oz, which featured the 17-year-old premiering the song Over the Rainbow while strolling through a barnyard. Following years of Garland’s struggles against the soul-crushing pressures of the entertainment world, MGM released her in 1950. She soldiered on, making more movies, recording eight studio
albums and performing. At age 39, she became the youngest (and first female) recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the movie industry. Judy focuses on the calamitous end of the superstar’s life, which finds Garland unable to get work in her home country, and struggling to pay her bills and care for her children. Throughout her life, Garland was plagued by battles with alcohol and drugs, which ultimately led to her accidental death at age 47 in London in 1969. Oscar-winner Renee Zellweger adroitly captures the tumultuous peak of Garland’s hardscrabble life. The film portrays her tumultuous relationships with musicians, fans, family and management. Much of it takes place at London’s prestigious Talk of the Town club, where she performed for five weeks to sold-out crowds shortly before she died. One of Judy’s most poignant moments comes when Garland, in the midst of a
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Susan video gamin’ with the grands parts, I believed my thumbs to be in good working order. So, late one afternoon, I found myself on the sofa in the family playroom, surrounded by three tutors who at least appeared excited to be teaching Grandma how to play Fortnite. The session began with me asking dumb questions, which they patiently answered. For example, why was the game called Fortnite? And why was it incorrectly spelled? They responded to part 1, stating that the original objective was to remain alive for two weeks. However, in this version, the goal was to be the last man standing. Either way, I got the message that the theme wasn’t about brotherly love. My youngest tutor grabbed the controls and powered up. I was treated to an intricate graphic display, as the wall-sized TV screen lit up to reveal a dystopian setting, which shall we say, was not exactly Disneyland.
Danger was looming everywhere. The first thing I was required to do was choose a character, or a “skin” to be my avatar. Sweet, I thought, I could find some sexy representation of my real self, one maybe ten pounds thinner. But since I wasn’t an official card-carrying V-buck-wealthy member of the Fortnite community, I couldn’t purchase my own skin. So my grandson graciously let me borrow his. My skin therefore was male, or at least I believe he was. I think he’s best described as the result of a oneoff between the Incredible Hulk and an armadillo. Not what I had in mind. I was handed the game controller and shown the functions of the buttons that would allow me to navigate the violence and determine my survival as I proceeded to kill zombies. My skin was dropped from the sky, not with a parachute, but holding an umbrella decorated with menacing spider webs. Imagine Mary Poppins on testosterone and
you’ll get the picture. As I landed atop a structure reminiscent of gallows, my Mary Poppins accessory morphed into a pickaxe and I was ready to attack. My capable thumbs flew into action as I moved my character forward, backward and sideways to escape the threatening hoards of the undead. Peril was everywhere and tension mounting. At various times my pickaxe turned into a sword, then a machine gun, or whatever else was necessary for my defense. And all of this action was occurring as storms were brewing, which also threatened my online existence. It was all quite anxiety-producing; I pondered taking another blood pressure pill. There were many more variables in this highly nuanced game of survival, but hey, this was my first lesson. I’m proud to say I did manage to destroy my share of zombies. But alas, no doubt due to my underdeveloped visual-motor skills, I was finally taken down. I came away from my tutorial wondering about the violence, albeit pretend, in which I had just participated. I asked my grandkids how they thought this impacted them and was assured they accepted it as pure fantasy. And I was reminded that the cartoons I used to watch (where characters routinely got their heads bashed in or flattened by steam rollers), didn’t turn me into a serial killer. So how did I score on my first attempt at gaming? I placed 46th out of 100 players. The kids thought this was pretty good. And so I left the playroom, relieved that my Cool Grandma status was not in jeopardy. Perhaps they’ll grant me an appointment for a second lesson in the not too distant future.
Susan Goldfein’s newest book, How to Complain When There’s Nothing to Complain About, is available at Amazon.com. Read her blog at: www.SusansUnfilteredWit.com. Email Susan at SusanGoldfein@aol.com
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4956 - LivE LiFE. Life is short. ISO WC widower. SOH, NS, LT, SD, age 80-84. I am WC widow, 5’5”, attractive, HWP. Reply honestly please with phone or email. Estero area. 4957 - FRiEnDSHiP nEEDED. For a man or a woman, 75 or over for once a week dinner, coffee, drinks or just chatting. I am a 80 year old woman, very active. Prefer Ellenton/Parrish area. You will pay your own and I will pay mine. 4958 - WiDoWED EURoPEAn LADy. 79, 5’8”, W, NS. Caring, great cook. Love reading, romance, dogs. Seeking M, W, SOH, TLC. Speaking Czech, Slovak or Polish. Sarasota and Venice areas. 4951 - SWF i’m A CLASSy LADy. Looking for a gentleman for one last chapter of fun & adventure. I am wanting to travel or RV around the states. Movies, boating, theater. I have an abundance of love to give to the right gentleman. Bradenton 4946 - i Am LooKinG FoR A GEnTLEmAn THAT WiLL TREAT mE LiKE A WomAn! Love dancing, traveling. Good sense of humor, outgoing, fun. Write. Send picture. Lonely. 4928 - bE A FRiEnD. Ellenton Florida. Just turned 80. 130 lbs, fun, outgoing, love to dance. Romantic, sweet, kind, great sense of humor. Love to travel. I’m lonely. Love men friends. 4933 - FUn LovinG ADvEnTURoUS SWF. 67 yy, NS, ND, NDrg. Seeking honest, happy gentleman. Let’s enjoy life together, talk, laugh and become friends first. Cape Coral area.
4119 SEEKinG HonEST GEnTLEmAn. Former airline stewardess and model, 5’4”, 104 lbs., slender, white with Ph.D. in healthcare. Fulbright scholar, eats healthy and exercises. Likes sports and animals. WW. Loves the Lord. Florida.
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4959 - LooKinG FoR FRiEnDSHiP. WM, 80, NS, ND, honest, sincere, spiritual. Likes cards, bowling, dancing. Looking for lady to share some time with. North Port area. 4950 - Hi! SWm looking for female who needs a home. Must be somewhat slim, fun, loving, easy going. ND, NS, affectionate. I’m same. Want to share my life. I’m 5’7”, 150. Send photo & phone please. Thanx. 4945 - Hi, i KnoW yoU’RE oUT THERE. I am looking for you too. My life partner. DWM, 76, fit, NS, ND. Likes adventure, travel, U.S. National Parks, sharing expenses. Let’s enjoy what life offers. Ft. Myers.
and average weight. Looking for a similar type lady wishing to enjoy the golden years. 4903 - iT’S nEvER To LATE for dreams to come true. Single white male, 75, no children. Our passions: running, long walks and talks, sharing life. Sarasota. Let’s meet. 4906 - iSo LTR. 75 yr old SWm. I am looking for someone who is sincere and honest like myself. Looks no barrier. To enjoy life with. Let’s be happy together. Photo, phone please. Thank you. 4849 - RETiRED ARmy CoL. needs wife. Dance, travel, NY, NJ & other states. Likes to dance. Member of Bonita Springs Golf & Country Club. Let’s talk. I love to dance.
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