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Actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba passed away at a hospital in Kimitsu City in Chiba prefecture on Thursday at 5:26 p.m. due to pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). He was 82.

Chiba's agency reported on Thursday that he had gone to the hospital on August 8 because his pneumonia from COVID-19 had worsened. He was on supplemental oxygen, but he was unable to recover before his death.

Chiba is survived by his children: actress Juri Manase, actor Mackenyu, and actor Gordon Maeda.

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^Oh man, I love Chiba. Sorry to hear it, but 82 is not too bad and he had an extensive career.

I'll have to fit some Street Fighter in tonight.

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8YO Mississippi girl dies of COVID-19 as Governor Tate Reeves downplays child cases


Yet another Republican talking point implodes, this time with the death of a child.

And the thing is, he ISN'T WRONG about the danger level for young kids. All the science points to it being extremely rare for COVID to be serious in a child that young, and the statistics back it up. The death of this child is very sad, and MAY have been avoidable with greater precautions (we still don't know if she caught it at school, or if she had other health issues that contributed), but you cannot take the death of a single child and try to portray that as proof that all the little kids are at deadly risk.

The problem is that, even if that's so, that doesn't mean it is wrong to take simple precautions, especially since young children aren't the only ones in the buildings.

I do believe that in person schooling is important, and not unreasonable given the risk levels and the use of precautions (certainly all the adults in the building SHOULD be vaccinated barring a medical reason not to be), but to treat it, as he has, as if sensible precautions are some kind of unreasonable imposition? That's the real problem, and one can only hope that somehow that course can be changed.

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A plague is spreading, and they talk as if the plague is not the problem but the vaccines and the masks are.

To treat that garbage with any respect is almost as bad as to spew it.

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Actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba passed away at a hospital in Kimitsu City in Chiba prefecture on Thursday at 5:26 p.m. due to pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). He was 82.

I learn he was recently alive only when I also learn he has died. Big loss for cinema as a whole.

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I just passed by there this morning. I was planning to go back and talk to the clerks at that store and at another 7-Eleven farther north about whether they knew of any homeless people around there. I had a hand in getting several tents cleared off a bank on the other side of Van Nuys Blvd from that store.

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Maybe I should have talked to the clerks a few weeks ago.

https://newsnationusa.com/news/usane...panorama-city/

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https://fox8.com/news/country-singer...ll-dies-at-85/

Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard, has died. He was 85.

His son, Dean Hall, confirmed the musician’s death on Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. Hall, known as “The Storyteller” for his unadorned yet incisive lyrics, composed hundreds of songs.

Along with such contemporaries as Kris Kristofferson, John Hartford and Mickey Newbury, Hall helped usher in a literary era of country music in the early ’70s, with songs that were political, like “Watergate Blues” and “The Monkey That Became President,” deeply personal like “The Year Clayton Delaney Died,” and philosophical like “(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine.”

“In all my writing, I’ve never made judgments,” he said in 1986. “I think that’s my secret. I’m a witness. I just watch everything and don’t decide if it’s good or bad.”

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A real dummy in a lot of ways.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...tuary-1206303/

A few days after Phil Valentine announced he had tested positive for Covid-19 on July 11th, the conservative talk-radio host wrote on Facebook that he was “doing my patriotic duty for natural herd immunity.” Valentine, whose nationally syndicated Phil Valentine Show aired on 100 stations from 2007 to 2019, had questioned the vaccines on his current show on Nashville’s SuperTalk 99.7 WTN and online, mocking the U.S.’s inoculation campaign in the song “Vaxman,” a parody of the Beatles’ “Taxman.” “I certainly am not getting the vax now,” he replied to a commenter on Facebook on July 14th. “I have full immunity.”

Valentine died Saturday from complications related to Covid-19, according to a tweet from his station. He was 61.

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https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/nic...ks-1235046271/

Nickolas Davatzes, longtime CEO of A+E Networks who steered the launch of A&E Network and History Channel, died Saturday at his home in Wilton, Conn. He was 79.

Davatzes joined the company as CEO in 1983 just as A&E Networks was formed through the merger of fledgling cable channels Entertainment Network, owned by RCA and the Rockefeller family, and ARTS Network, owned by Hearst and ABC. A+E Networks today is a 50-50 joint venture of the Walt Disney Co. and Hearst Corp. Davatzes served as CEO emeritus.

Davatzes led the company’s launch of the signature A&E Network (an amalgam of Arts and Entertainment) in 1984 and History Channel in 1995 (History formally dropped “Channel” from its moniker in 2008). He served as CEO of the parent company through 2005, when he was succeeded by protege Abbe Raven, who started at the company as a secretary.

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Don Everly of The Everly Brothers has passed away at age 83.

Don’s death was announced by the Musicians Hall of Fame.

It’s with great sadness that we announce that we lost an American music Icon today. Don Everly, and brother Phil changed the face of modern music with their angelic harmonies and songwriting. They influenced everyone from The Beach Boys to The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. We here at the Musicians Hall Of Fame were honored to induct Don Everly in 2019 for our Iconic Riff Award for his innovative guitar intro to the hit song “Wake Up Little Susie.”

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Connie Hamzy, immortalized in a No. 1 rock ‘n’ roll hit by Grand Funk Railroad in 1973, died after a brief illness, KARK-TV reported. She was 66.

Hamzy was the subject in the opening verses of Grand Funk Railroad’s hit, “We’re An American Band,” which spent 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 1 on Sept. 29, 1973.

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Drummer Charlie Watts, whose adept, powerful skin work propelled the Rolling Stones for more than half a century, died in London on Tuesday morning, according to his spokesperson. No cause of death was cited; was 80.

A statement from the band and Watts’ spokesperson reads: “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts. He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family.

“Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also a member of the Rolling Stones one of the greatest drummers of his generation.

“We kindly request that the privacy of his family, band members and close friends is respected at this difficult time.”

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^I saw he was seriously ill a few days ago. Sorry to hear. He outlived a lot of rockers, though, and left behind an amazing body of work.