“Voices That Care” is a 1991 song written by David Foster, Linda Thompson and Peter Cetera and recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians, entertainers and athletes. The single and supporting documentary music video was intended to help boost the morale of U.S. troops involved in Operation Desert Storm, as well as supporting the International Red Cross organization.
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian woman described as the world’s oldest Internet blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about singing “a happy song” in her nursing home.
Olive Riley “passed away peacefully on July 12 and will be mourned by thousands of Internet friends and hundreds of descendants and other relatives,” a note on her website said.
Riley had posted more than 70 entries on her blog since February last year, sharing her thoughts on modern life and her experiences living through the entire 20th century.
Born on October 20 1899, she lived through two world wars and raised three children while doing various jobs, including ranch cook and barmaid.
In her final post on June 26, she wrote: “I can’t believe I’ve been here in this nursing home for more than a week.
“How the days have flown, even though I’ve been in bed most of the time. I still feel weak, and can’t shake off that bad cough.
“Penny, who’s in the next bed to mine, had a visit one day this week from her daughter, who’s a professional singer. Guess what happened! She and I sang a happy song, as I do every day, and before long we were joined by several nurses, who sang along too. It was quite a concert!”
Riley’s blog, initially on www.allaboutolive.com.au and more recently at http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com, was “mind-blowing to her,” her great grandson Darren Stone said.
“She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while,” he told the national AAP news agency.
“She enjoyed the notoriety — it kept her mind fresh.”
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China aftershock death toll rises to six
BEIJING: The death toll from a strong aftershock in southwestern China rose to six on Monday, with four more deaths reported, state-run media said.
The four newly reported deaths from Sunday’s aftershock came in the city of Hanzhong in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency said.
Another 20 people were injured there, Hanzhong major Hu Runze said, adding to hundreds of injured already reported elsewhere.
The aftershock was centred in quake-ravaged Sichuan province and had a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale, an official with the Sichuan Earthquake Bureau told AFP.
It was the strongest of thousands of aftershocks in the region since an 8.0-magnitude quake on May 12 left about 86,000 people dead or missing, the official said.
The US Geological Survey, however, put the quake magnitude at 5.8.
The four deaths add to two reported previously, including one death in Sichuan’s Guangyuan city, Xinhua reported a local official as saying.
The official had also said 262 were injured in Guangyuan.
Longnan city in northwest China’s Gansu Province also reported one person killed by stones falling from a mountain, and 109 injuries, 15 of them serious.
In Qingchuan County, the epicentre of the aftershock, about 359 people were reported injured, Xinhua said.
The quake sent people fleeing from buildings across southwestern China and was felt as far away as the capital Beijing. - AFP/ac
