Alton Ellis, the smooth Jamaican singer and songwriter known as the Godfather of Rock Steady, died early Saturday morning (local time) in London.
Charlie Rose, a former United States representative from rural North Carolina who fought to protect the tobacco industry and its farmers when political and regulatory pressure on the industry were on the rise and smoking in steady decline, died on Monday in Albertville, Ala.
We swapped the healthy forests and chilly summer air in Glacier Bay National Park for the steady rain and dying yellow cedars farther south in the Tongass National Forest.
"Auf die Gurke, fertig, los" (gherkin, steady, go!) – not something you're likely to hear at the 2012 Olympics.
A man dressed as the grim reaper held a sign that read: "the only steady job on a dying planet will be mine".
It is stable for weeks and has the advantage that measurements can be done at near-physiological conditions: 37 °C, steady state beating (not dying preparations such as isolated myocytes, papillary muscles, Purkinje fibers, and Langendorff hearts), auxotonically work-performing heart muscle constructs, and absence of invasive experimental interventions (e.g., patch clamp or microelectrodes).
The Steady State idea died in the 1960s and the Big Bang won.
Ross Burden, the celebrity chef famous for his appearances on BBC shows including MasterChef and Ready Steady Cook, has died aged 45 after losing a year-long battle against cancer.
All kinds of drinkers are dying out: the steady drinkers, the binge drinkers, the drinkers-in-training, the social drinkers the bus stop drinkers – the lot.
It is not a fatuous happiness, or a happiness unaware of death (a preoccupation with death and dying was a steady feature of his work), but neither does it cede too much to mere mortality.
