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[RTH10260]

World’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, dies in Japan aged 116
Itooka, who died at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and had a reputation for a ‘sprightly spirit’

Associated Press in Tokyo
Sat 4 Jan 2025 13.08 CET

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 116.

Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on 29 December at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, in central Japan.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... n-aged-116

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]

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God Speed President Carter!

[Dr. Ken]

[RTH10260]

moved as suggested below ;)

(with H/T for telling me the folder name)

[Estiveo]

M. Le Pen's obit probably belongs over in the Burn in Hell thread. The world is better place without him in it.
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[Flatpoint High]

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[Estiveo]

Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul, & Mary, 86.

https://apnews.com/article/peter-yarrow ... 75e29a5efc

[Foggy]

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[Flatpoint High]

[neonzx]

She was dumped in the burn in hell thread

[Flatpoint High]

She was dumped in the burn in hell thread

not even Hell wants her. Hell has some Standards

[MN-Skeptic]

She was dumped in the burn in hell thread

not even Hell wants her. Hell has some Standards

There are probably sub-basements there.

[Kendra]

https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/les ... rcna187368

Leslie Charleson, who played Dr. Monica Quartermaine on “General Hospital” for nearly half a century, has died, according to the show’s executive producer, Frank Valentini. She was 79.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my dear friend and colleague, @lesliecharleson,” he wrote in a thread on X on Jan. 12.

“Her enduring legacy has spanned nearly 50 years on @GeneralHospital alone and, just as Monica was the heart of the Quartermaine family, Leslie was a beloved matriarch of the entire cast and crew,” he continued. “I will miss our daily chats, her quick wit and incredible presence on set.

“On behalf of everyone at #GeneralHospital, my heartfelt sympathy goes out to her loved ones during this difficult time,” he concluded.

Next time any of you is binging on Adam 12, and I forget which season, keep an eye out for her on an episode with her and Office Reed and busting the bad drug guys.

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I was coming to post about Ms. Q.

She was a doctor on General Hospital. Years ago she had a huge impact on women getting mammograms as she had a very large story on her breast cancer.

[poplove]

I remember first seeing Leslie on TV when she played Iris Donnelly on the soap opera Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, which my mom watched.

[Kendra]

And lest we forget, her onscreen husband on GH, Stuart Damon, played Prince Charming on Cinderella with Leslie a new Warren.

[neonzx]

Bob Uecker, beloved baseball announcer and 'Major League' actor, dies at 90
The Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster enjoyed mocking his unremarkable playing career that preceded a legendary life behind the mic.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bo ... rcna187969

[Dr. Ken]

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Bob Uecker, beloved baseball announcer and 'Major League' actor, dies at 90
The Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster enjoyed mocking his unremarkable playing career that preceded a legendary life behind the mic.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bo ... rcna187969

Whenever I get a prime parking space, I say to my wife "Must be in the front row!"

[Dr. Ken]

aww man

[johnpcapitalist]

aww man

I enjoyed a few of his works.

There's a lesser-known dark side to David Lynch: he's big into Transcendental Meditation and spent an immense amount of money trying to get TM classes into public schools. In 2022, he announced an initiative to try and raise $500 million to pay for TM courses (money that would go to the organization instead of merely making TM classes free).

Being "into" TM doesn't sound like much of a problem until you realize that TM is a cult at the high levels. Something like 98% of the people who take one or two basic TM classes walk away and have nothing to do with the organization after that. That amounts to several million people over the last 50 years. That's not the cult.

The cultic part is the several tens of thousands of people who devote countless hours over decades on trying to achieve "yogic flying," the purported ability to levitate... Unfortunately, all the photos of people "flying" are merely from learing to "hop" by flopping your legs while in Lotus position. An unachievable quest is typically a hallmark of a cult because it sucks up all your attention and makes you feel bad about yourself when you fail, and then turn to more of the cult's "secret sauce" to try and succeed next time.

I've only given one example of cult-like aspects of TM practices. There are many behaviors that it takes to make an organization into a cult. Widely used inventories to score how cult-like an organization may be include Jay Lifton's 12 criteria or Steve Hassan's BITE model (Behavior, Information, Thought and Emotion). According to experts in the cultic studies field, when scored against a broad inventory, the inner circles of TM definitely qualify as a cult.

TM is much quieter than combative, pugnacious organizations like Scientology, and its "product" is simpler and more directly practical than Scientology's baroque "technology" and the underlying paranoid flying saucer cult beliefs (Xenu, etc.). Thus, it doesn't get the attention from late night comics for ridicule or from human rights activists like Scientology does.

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[AndyinPA]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyppre55gyo

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.

Her career spanned 60 years and included an Oscar nomination for the 1991 film Enchanted April.

RIP