Etta James Dead with Leukaemia

Soul icon Etta James has passed away at the age of 73 following a length battle with leukaemia.

ETTA JAMES DEAD

Etta James did things her own way. In an era when female talent was often shunted to one side, the singer maintained her independence and carved out an identity which remains seductive to this day.

Born Jamesetta Hawkins in 1938, Etta James found her voice - just like countless soul and blues singers - within the confines of the Baptist Church. Rooted in gospel, her strong yet subtle phrasing took her to Chess Records who signed her as a solo artist in 1960.

ETTA JAMES DEAD

It would be pointless to list each of the high points of Etta James' career, such is the impact she had on blues, soul and - by extension - rock music. Later succumbing to heroin addiction, James kicked the drug in the mid 70s and enjoyed a revival in her career.

ETTA JAMES DEAD

ETTA JAMES DEAD

ETTA JAMES DEAD

ETTA JAMES DEAD

ETTA JAMES DEAD

ETTA JAMES DEAD

ETTA JAMES DEAD

ETTA JAMES DEADEtta James' latter years were marked by ill health, with the singer bravely struggling against leukaemia for some time. Manager Lupe De Leon confirmed that James died this afternoon (January 20th) at Riverside Community Hospital in California - her husband and sons were at her side. (via BBC)

ETTA JAMES DEAD

Continuing to perform and release new material, Etta James won her first Grammy award in 1994. Perhaps under-represented by the ceremony, the soul icon was later given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003

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Hypothetical scenario:
You are a parent of a beautiful and healthy one-year-old boy named Charles. Baby Chuck is due for several vaccinations, included his MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella). The problem is, you read in your beloved US Weekly that Jenny McCarthy's son got autism from the MMR vaccine. Your California raw vegan yoga-doing detox and Botoxing mom friend (Barbi) has read Jenny McCarthy's book, and says it's really true...that the shot caused her son to develop autism, and that no children with behavior problems should eat wheat or eggs or consume dairy because Ms. McCarthy states that a special diet cured her son from autism.



Barbi swears that once her short two year old stopped consuming dairy, she grew taller.

Because you are a smart parent, you decide to investigate this further. You search reliable medical sources, and learn that virtually every large, randomized controlled clinical trial has shown absolutely no link between vaccinations and autism. You also learn that the doctor who published the first study linking vaccinations with autism not only had just a few autistic children in his study, but that his study was funded by the the lawyer who was supporting the children who developed autism in court. You think this may count as a conflict of interest. In fact, virtually all reputable scientists or organizations (i.e. the CDC) believe that there is no evidence that vaccinations cause autism, and just a few days ago a consensus statement was released. Click here to read about it. You also discover that since Ms. McCarthy's rampage on vaccines, enough parents have chosen not to vaccinate their kids so that diseases that essentially were eradicated are now coming back (measles, whooping cough...)

So given this information, what do you decide to do with little Chuckie?

A. Since US Weekly is your Bible and you know they would never publish anything false (that's for OK! and the National Enquirer), you refuse the MMR vaccine for Chuckie despite his pediatrician's strongest warning. After all, the medical profession is filled with assholes who just want to make everybody sick so they can make more money. And you want to be more like Barbi. She's soooo pretty.

B. You refuse the shot AND you put Chuckie on a wheat-free, dairy-free diet. Jenny McCarthy says that he will grow taller and be smarter if you do that. That Jenny McCarthy is so smart. And she was a Playboy bunny, which is secretely your dream job. Oh Heff...

C. You reluctantly get the shot for Chuck, but you tell Barbi you didn't. You REALLY want to be her friend. She's so pretty.

D. You can't believe Americans can be so naive. Of course you're going to vaccinate your kid. You remember from your basic science course in high school that correlation (i.e. an increase in vaccination correlates with an increase in autism) does not equal causation (i.e. an increase in vaccination CAUSES the increase in autism). After all, you know from your research that kids tend to start showing the signs of autism around the time that kids get vaccinated. You believe that the foremost autism experts in the US are really not out to make kids get autism by not promoting the special diet. And you weigh the benefits vs. costs...and somehow, having Chuckie be completely unprotected from measles, mumps, and rubella is worse to you that the risk of the vaccine (which study after study has shown to be essentially none). And Jenny McCarthy? I mean, of all people to listen to medical advice from. You'd even take advice from Paris Hilton over Jenny McCarthy. At least she didn't MEAN to have her sex tape released, which Jenny McCarthy posed naked willingly for moolah (not that you judge). Sure, Barbi appears to be the perfect mother and all, but she's actually bulimic and smokes a pack a day and used to be fat until she had $47,000 worth of plastic surgery. As for her kid on the special diet, yes she's grown in the past year. But what two year old without a serious medical condition DOESN'T grow in a year? And how could stopping your child from eating dairy HELP her grow? Sure, everybody knows removing Vitamin D and Calcium from a kid's diet is the way to a career in the NBA or WNBA. And you've learned never to follow medical advice in US Weekly. Some of the bad advice they gave you...don't drink water because it dilutes stomach acid so it stops you from digesting food, you should eat 1,300 calories a day like Alicia Keys, you should take a walk before you eat because it oxygenates your body...and thus you passed out on the side of the road, dehydrated and starving, on one of those oxygenation walks. You can't believe you feel so passionately about this topic, and write in your blog that parents should not listen to former Playboy Bunnies and fricking vaccinate their kids!

And now I will leave you with some intelligent and insightful comments from Miss Jenny McCarthy:

"My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away"
"I was a puke brunette"
"I think the whole computer geek thing is totally attractive...I mean, like all I`d get is total obedience."
"I don`t sleep in anything. I have to be nude, and if I`m not, I end up ripping my clothes off in the middle of the night."
"I’m a businesswoman in public and a total slut in the bedroom."
"I love Botox. I absolutely love it. I only get it minimally, so I can still move my face. But I seriously think that it's a savior."
"So, basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do."

Kasey Kahne Has Second Surgery On Knee

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Kasey Kahne

After having surgery for his plica syndrome (a condition that can cause pain within the knee joint) on both knees in November, Kasey Kahne was back in the hospital Monday for surgery on his re-torn meniscus. It is unknown how or when it was torn.

Kahne tweeted on Friday: “I’m just taking it easy this weekend. I had knee surgery again Monday. Re tore my meniscus. Wish I was racing sprint cars this weekend. It actually just about feels better now then it has the last month so yeah I will def be driving Richmond.”

Jokingly, he also said, “Hey @KyleBusch why don’t you be a nice husband and take @Samantha_Busch to dinner in Nashville tonight? I will come drive your truck!”

Looks like Kahne will be just fine! We all look forward to seeing him back in the Red Bull No. 4 car next weekend at Richmond.

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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)

Tracking Santa Claus is one of the most fun activities to do with the kids

TRACKING SANTA CLAUS

That's right, Santa Claus is already busy straddling the international date

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright

There is a big chance to track him live as the NORAD radar will closely

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NORAD is tracking Santa again this year with the help of Google Maps and

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni

Somebody needs to keep track of Santa Claus as he makes his way around the

And she's great at tracking Santa Claus. She can even sniff out real Santa

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Defense Command (NORAD) is ready to track Santa Claus again this year.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller

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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland

Let is Snow Barrel Rol

Let is Snow


Weather seems to be part of Christmas. Well, truthfully, weather is part of all of life. In the south here, the word 'weather' is used to mean WEATHER. A tornado is weather. A sunny day is not. So, I wonder if we are going to have 'weather' this Christmas.

I am well known as a snow hater. I routinely tell my husband that all the snow I need I can get on a calendar. But there is still something about snow at Christmas. I would actually, secretly, selfishly love a heavy snowfall on Christmas eve and Christmas day ... and then have it melt on the 2nd of January. Weather to order, at my whim.

Snow was part of my Christmas experience as a kid. One particular Christmas memory is going out to help my brother and sister deliver the newspapers before we could open gifts. I remember the scrunch scrunch of walking through fresh snow in my boots, my nose cold and my heart excited.

Recently I have learned that Christmas can happen in the rain, in the sunshine, in the warmth, and even in heat. But for me it is not quite the same. Not quite festive.

This confirms what I know about life - that it is the repeated small things that make us feel secure, warm our hearts and help us belong to our own life. I remember a lot about weather. Gifts? I hardly remember a one... except for a round cardboard Barbie doll case with a silver clasp and a plastic handle. That was something.




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