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Play Susan Jacks on Amazon Music Unlimited (ad) She died in a hospital in British Columbia while awaiting a kidney transplant. She had been suffering from kidney disease. "I am saddened by the passing of Susan Jacks," Jacks' bandmate and former husband, Terry Jacks, wrote on Facebook. "She had a kind heart and sang my songs beautifully. I know she will live on beyond the clouds." Jacks had previously received a kidney transplant in 2010 from her older brother, Rick Pesklevits, but complications from infections led to her death on April 25. "She was overwhelmed by infection, and her heart...

The whole Arab world needs to see this! How bad has the situation gotten? Hamas-supporting Palestinians enter a *Muslim* cemetery desecrate and break the graves so that they will have more stones thrown at Israeli security forces!They have no respect for the dead or the living! pic.twitter.com/mg41bZRzzr— יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) April 22, 2022

Protestors pelted French President Emmanuel Macron with tomatoes during his visit to a market in a Paris suburb only one day after his re-election. Marcon, making an appearance in Cergy in his first trip since he was re-elected on Sunday, was shielded with an umbrella by his security detail. They gathered around him, attempting to deflect the barrage of tomatoes with their bodies and limbs. When the tomatoes began to fly in his direction, Macron’s detail sprang into action, putting up the umbrella and shielding him with their hands and arms, wading into the crowd looking for the source of...

Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer and member of landmark Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers, died on Tuesday at the age of 74. The news was made public today with a statement on Schulze's social media channels. "In deepest sorrow, we have to inform you that Klaus has passed away yesterday on April 26, 2022, at the age of 74 after a long disease but all of a sudden," the statement reads in part. "He leaves behind a huge musical legacy and is survived by his wife, two sons and four grandchildren. In his...

Are you a merciful person? Most of us would answer, “I think I am merciful. I feel the pain of my hurting brothers and sisters in Christ, and I try to help them. I do my best to assist my neighbors in need. When people hurt me, I forgive them and don’t hold a grudge.” I believe all true Christians have a good measure of mercy for the lost and hurting. I thank God for that. The sad truth, though, is that God’s Word exposes in many of us deep roots of bias. There are many people to whom large...

Frederick Law Olmsted would have been 200 years old today — his legacy endures.

Andrew Woolfolk, longtime Earth, Wind & Fire saxophonist and prolific session musician, died on April 24 at the age of 71 following an illness that persisted for "over six years," according to EWF singer Philip Bailey. "I met him in high school, and we quickly became friends and bandmates," Bailey wrote in an Instagram post commemorating his late bandmate. "Andrew Paul Woolfolk was his name. We lost him today, after being ill [for] over six years. He has transitioned on to the forever, from this land of the dying to the land of the living. "Great memories. Great Talent. Funny....

“‘If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also’” (Matthew 5:40). Most people in New Testament times owned just one coat and likely just one or two shirts. Shirts were undergarments, and coats were outer garments that also served as blankets overnight. This kind of coat was important, what the Mosaic law required be returned to its owner “before the sun sets, for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body” (Ex. 22:26–27). Jesus’ reference here is not to a theft, when someone wants to steal another’s garment, but...

.....Everything we see in China, we’re starting to see here in the West. Australia, Austria, and even the US have imposed or attempted to impose mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations. Government officials openly pressure banks not to give loans to disfavored businesses, like oil companies. Parents who protest what their kids are learning in government schools are labeled domestic terrorists. Lacie’s experience is already becoming a reality for almost a fifth of the world’s population. It didn’t end well for her. If we’re not vigilant, it won’t end well for us.

There is nothing stranger in American history than the up-and-down reputation of Ulysses S. Grant. Grant, who was born April 27, 1822, was the commanding general who ended the Civil War. He managed the great campaigns that captured Vicksburg and Richmond, saved Chattanooga, and compelled the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the main Confederate field army, and did it so well that President Abraham Lincoln apologized for not showing him enough confidence. Grant’s “Personal Memoirs,” published after he died in 1885, are a landmark of 19th-century American prose. Grant may be a greater example even than Lincoln of the...

(snip)And it’s easy to slip into the mindset that since Twitter is obviously such an important utility for public discourse, Musk owes us all something. And while we’re all grateful for and hopeful about his recent moves, it’d be foolhardy to relinquish the ground we’ve made on other platforms.As a result of long-standing censorship, conservatives have built a number of companies – some with more efficacy than others – which deserve our support despite Twitter’s potential turn towards freedom.(snip)

An EgyptAir flight that crashed en route to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board, was brought down by a pilot who had a cigarette in the cockpit and started a fire, a new report found. EgyptAir flight MS804 was traveling on May 19, 2016, from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport when it fell out of the sky between the Greek island of Crete and northern Egypt. France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) has since concluded that pilot Mohamed Said Shoukair’s mid-air smoke break led to a fire onboard the Airbus...

New research suggests that disease-causing amoebas that live on organic leafy vegetables can shelter human pathogens like Pseudomonas, Salmonella, and Helicobacter and are a potential risk to public health. Foodborne illness from consuming contaminated fresh produce is common and can have serious effects on human health, especially when eaten raw. During growth, harvest, transportation and further processing and handling, fresh produce can be contaminated with pathogens from human or animal sources, through contact with soil, irrigation water, air, rain, insects, and during industrial produce-washing. Vegetables can become contaminated with certain protozoa (single-celled organisms) such as free-living amoebae (FLA), that feed...

An outrageous video of a man in a Costco has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. In an Instagram video shared by @millennial_republicans, a masked man in a Costco was holding up pepper spray towards unmasked employees demanding they stay away from him. During a verbal exchange with an employee, who was handling himself with a stunning amount of grace and class for the situation, the masked man shoved him! Yes, the masked man was so scared of maskless people getting close that he decided to make physical contact! (video at link). That maskless dude is a complete...

Illustration of an asteroid. (NASA/JPL/Caltech) A gigantic "potentially hazardous" asteroid that may be twice the size of the Empire State Building is set to zoom past Earth Thursday (April 28), according to NASA. The asteroid, named 418135 (2008 AG33), has an estimated diameter between 1,150 and 2,560 feet (350 to 780 meters) and will break into Earth's orbit at a blistering 23,300 mph (37,400 km/h). Thankfully, the asteroid is expected to skim past our planet without any risk of impact. At its closest point, the asteroid – traveling at more than 30 times the speed of sound – will come...

Associate professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at TU Delft have discovered one-way superconductivity without magnetic fields, something that was thought to be impossible ever since its discovery in 1911 – up till now. The discovery, published in Nature, makes use of 2D quantum materials and paves the way towards superconducting computing. Superconductors can make electronics hundreds of times faster, all with zero energy loss. Ali: “If the 20th century was the century of semi-conductors, the 21st can become the century of the superconductor.” During the 20th century many scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, have puzzled over the nature...

New research has identified the third day of hospitalization as a tipping point in the progression of disease among symptomatic patients admitted for COVID-19 pneumonia. An overactive immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus can cause COVID-19 pneumonia with severe complications. …Blood samples were taken at days 1, 3, 5, and 7 of hospitalization and levels of three host proteins that play vital roles in the COVID-19 immune response were measured: interferon-γ induced protein 10(IP-10), C-reactive protein (CRP) and tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). In general, TRAIL levels increased over time, while CRP and IP-10 fell in all patients. On...

The United Nations secretary-general travelled to Moscow on Tuesday to meet with Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Ukraine crisis was the central focus of discussions. Russia has not turned away from negotiations with Ukraine and continues to hope that a lasting peace agreement can be reached, President Vladimir Putin has said. "Notwithstanding the fact that the military operation is underway, we still hope that we will be able to reach agreements on the diplomatic track as well. We are holding talks, we are not giving up on them", Putin said, speaking to UN...

House Democrats intend to move in the coming weeks to pass legislation designed to rein in skyrocketing gas prices, the head of the House Democratic Caucus said Wednesday. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) did not commit his support for a federal gas tax holiday, which has divided Democrats on and off of Capitol Hill.

The Trump-obsessed comedian Jimmy Kimmel thought he caught the former president in a “got heem” moment last night when trying to make fun of the former president’s Truth Social app. It aged horribly. A review of the Apple App Store found that Truth Social has taken the No. 1 “Free App” spot, with Twitter down to No. 2. The China-controlled TikTok, another competitor, sits at No. 5. The development comes just hours before Kimmel claimed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s landmark purchase of Twitter put Trump in a very tough spot as a competitor in the social media market on the...