Isaiah Ikey Owens, keyboardist for Mars Volta and Jack White, dead at 38
(CNN) -- Isaiah Ikey Owens, the keyboardist in Jack Whites backing band, has died. The musician also played with bands such as Mars Volta and Free Moral Agents. With Owens passing, the remaining shows in Whites Mexican tour have been canceled.
H1N1 Update �� Science-Based Medicine
Statistics from August 30 to October 3 in the US indicate: Influenza and Pneumonia Syndrome ��� 12,384 hospitalizations and 1,544 deaths, of those influenza was confirmed in laboratory tests in 3,874 and 240 respectively. Compared to.. http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2009/10/october_12th_show.html. This rapid decline, which commenced around the end of World War II, points to the possibility that social changes led to a change in the ecology of influenza viruses.
Mark Bell, LFO founder and Bjork producer, dies
(CNN) -- Mark Bell, who founded the highly influential techno music duo LFO and later collaborated with Bjork on several iconic albums, has died. Bell died of complications after a surgery earlier this month, but the announcement of his death only came .
Worlds Oldest Person Dies At Age 117
She was born in 1898. And now comes word that Japans Misao Okawa has died at age 117. She had been the worlds oldest person since 2013, according to Guinness World Records. We reported on Okawa last month, when she celebrated her birthday .
Union Paradise : South African minister: The Palestinian.
Worlds oldest person dies at 117 - Misao Okawa, the worlds oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 117. Latest US news... NPR: 7AM ET News Summary Podcast.. The struggle of the people of Palestine is our struggle and South Africa has decided to slow down and curtail senior leadership contact with the Israeli regime, South Africas International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Friday. Already, she��.
Guess Who? : Famous Birthdays : Happy 117th Birthday.
Japan is home to more than 58,000 people aged 100 or over, according to government figures, 87% of whom are women. Its estimated that Japan has around 58,000 centenarians -- the. In 1898: Worlds Oldest Living Person Celebrates Birthday. NPR. NPR, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2015. <http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/04/390687977/born-in-1898-world-s-oldest-living-person-celebrates-birthday>. Life Seems Short, Says Worlds Oldest Person at 117.
CULTURE OF IGNORANCE ��� PART ONE �� The Burning.
The kabuki theater that passes for governance in Washington D.C. reveals the profound level of ignorance shrouding this Empire of Debt in its prolonged death throes... Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog, [���]. apparently on grotesque display at NPR), multiculturalism (a self-evident sham if there ever was one), and nihilism at the center of what is corroding anything we might have considered ���normal��� throughout human history, and what would��.
Born in 1898: Worlds oldest living person celebrates birthday
Born in 1898: Worlds oldest living person celebrates birthday. People and Places Bill Chappell �� NPR �� Mar 4, 2015. Misao Okawa, the worlds oldest living person, poses for a photo with her son Hiroshi Okawa, 92, (left) and other family members and friends on her 117th birthday celebration at Kurenai Nursing Home in Osaka, Japan. Getty Images. Its now past midnight in Japan, meaning that Misao Okawa, the worlds oldest human being, has officially turned 117. She was born on��.
100 of the Oldest Living Screen Stars of Note - Blog - The.
One morning in my movie grief I inadvertently killed dozens of people off on twitter by claiming there were only six stars of the Golden Age still living. So consider this list my penance. In the past Ive published a semi-annual��.
Bowdoin Colleges Wil Smith, an inspiration for many, dies at 46
Wil Smith, a man who took an unlikely road to graduate law school and became an associate dean, died Sunday at 46, The Bangor Daily News reported.. His mother died when he was 15. He joined the Navy and later, at the ripe college age of 27, started.
Don Pardo, voice of Saturday Night Live, dead at 96
(CNN) -- Don Pardo, the announcer whose velvety baritone voice introduced Saturday Night Live hosts on NBC for decades, has died at age 96, the network announced. Pardo was the announcer for SNL for all but one season over the programs 39-year .
Reports: Dark days are ahead for chocolate lovers
China has developed a taste for chocolate, according to CNBC, dipping into the dwindling world supply. To make matters worse,. Nestle today promised to eliminate artificial ingredients from its chocolate bars by the end of 2015, according to NPR.
From Doctor to Patient to Assisted-Suicide Advocate
The star that he and his team investigated is called Kepler-444 and it is some 117 light-years away from Earth. The star is only three-fourths the size of our sun, but it has the potential to burn for 30 billion years, longevity that makes it a better.
Family of Austin Tice, last known US hostage in Syria, fights to keep hope alive
Tice enrolled at the University of Houston at age 15 before transferring to Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service, where he graduated from in 2002 with an international politics degree. Tice enrolled at Georgetowns law school before taking.
Global Paradigm Shift - Fedge
She had been the worlds oldest person since 2013, according to Guinness World Records. Report http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/01/396770154/world-s-oldest-person-dies-at-age-117. Facebook Twitter Pinterest��.
Wesley Warren Jr., Man With 132-lb. Scrotum, Dead At 49
Wesley Warren Jr., who received worldwide notoriety because of his problems with a scrotum that grew to 132 pounds, died Friday at a Las Vegas hospital. He was 49. No cause of death was officially announced, but Warrens��.
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It goes on for pages and pages, and the only thing that really happens is that they move a rug from one guys house to another guys house. The guys are all at loose.. 2010 at 11:36 am. as you might imagine, Cleveland is also remembering and missing Harvey Pekar. here is a piece from WCPN, their NPR station.. Over in the music world, another giant died yesterday: Sir Charles Mackeras, a very important conductor... Am I the oldest person on this blog ?
Who kidnapped American Austin Tice? Two years later, still no answers
Weve had a lot of people look at it and no one has been able to say definitively who the people are and where theyre from. Tice, who left. be holding him. The abduction predates ISIS, which has beheaded three Americans -- journalists James Foley.
The Incarceration of Black Men in America - Jonathan Turley
Submitted by: Mike Spindell, guest blogger America has the worlds highest rate of incarceration, currently 738 per 100000. Our nearest competitor for this. The message was we must somehow stop this cycle, but the solution to stopping the cycle is not clear macro-cosmically and too slow if change is measured person by person. As much as Im prone to.. Would the death penalty for street-level drug dealing deter more than years of prison time? Im sure it would.
Whipping Boy bully shamed by author after 40 years
Ever since his stint behind bars he appears to have spent most of his life convincing people of his abilities as a world-class salesman. On his resume, uncovered by DailyMail.com, he boasts about his dealings with Fortune 500 and 1000 firms but.
Morning Laugh | Notes from the West
(BTW ��� Misao Okawa, the worlds oldest human being, has officially turned 117. She lives in a retirement home in Osaka. Would you want to live that long?) This segues into a poem about Death of a Tulip by my friend, Krista:.
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But a comprehensive analysis of health and death records in the United States found that people who quit smoking before they turn 40 regain almost all of those lost years. Quitting smoking before age 40, and preferably well��.
The Merger of Business and Philanthropy
I want the man with unmatched achievement and leadership in technology, business and philanthropy (thats you, Bill) to appear in a campaign devised by the clever minds and hearts of one of the worlds most creative ad agencies (those are your mates.
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A story from ���All Things Considered��� on National Public Radio addressed Indonesian cave paintings of human hands that date from the age of the earliest cave art in Europe. The story was written by Nell Greenfieldboyce on��.
Cream bassist Jack Bruce dies
(CNN) -- Jack Bruce, singer, songwriter and bassist for legendary 1960s rock band Cream, died Saturday at 71. Bruces family confirmed the death of the Scottish musician on his official website and Facebook page. The world of music will be a poorer.
Jay Nixon: More Than 2200 National Guardsmen Available In Ferguson
he white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, this summer, resigned from the force without any severance deal, the mayor of the St. Louis suburb said on Sunday... About 200 or 300 largely peaceful.
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In Britain, thousands of people ��� many of them in their 60s and 70s ��� undergo heart surgery each year. Heart valves tend to calcify (harden) with age, making it difficult for them to open. If that happens, there is an inadequate��.
Chapel Hill Shooting: Muslim Leaders Criticize Media Coverage
As they continue to mourn the loss of the three Chapel Hill shooting victims, leaders of the Arab and Muslim communities are also part of a growing chorus criticizing national media organizations for failing to initially recognize the severity of the.
Radical New Quantum Theory Says Other Universes Affect Our Own
And a popular Czech Republic physicist wrote on his blog that while Wiseman and his collaborators had managed to present some ideas that are at least slightly original, their paper was another example of the fact that such efforts are a hopeless.
Unfinished Business
Sure, bands reforming for a lucrative tour and/or album after years of public denials is the oldest story in the book ��� everyone from The Eagles to The Police to Van Halen to Pink Floyd fit that description.. 5 on the Modern Rock chart) and Here.
A CUP OF JO: 14 Surprising Things about Parenting in.
For our eleventh Motherhood Around the World interview, we talked to Gaby Fearn, who lives in Sydney with her husband and one-year-old daughter, Clementine. Here are 14.. My two oldest children were born in Australia (we moved when they were 5 and 1) and my youngest was born here in the US 3 months ago so Im getting to experience motherhood in two different countries. For the most part its.. I guess someone at NPR reads your blog! Heres a recent��.
Japan Today- Wolrds Oldest Person Has Plenty of Company
The mandatory retirement age has been pushed back to 65 and the Abe administration is looking to add tens of thousands of day-care centers to encourage women to have more children and remain in the workforce longer. In Tokyo. Worlds oldest person has lots of company in Japan Kirk Spitzer, Special for USA TODAY 1:12 p.m. EST March 5, 2015 Misao Okawa of Japan, the worlds oldest living person, is turning 117 years old.. midtownblogger.blogspot.com.