Ohio teenager Jeff Wall Jr. started learning karate and Tang Soo Do at age 6, and was inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame four years later. These days he’s teaching martial arts to students a few years older. A Zendesk video directed by Sindha Agha.
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“As NPR came of age in the 1980s, its audience matured with it. Three decades later, that is starting to look like a problem.
Many of the listeners who grew up with NPR are now reaching retirement age, leaving NPR with a challenge: How can it attract younger and middle-aged audiences — whose numbers are shrinking — to replace them?”
— “NPR is graying, and public radio is worried about it,” Paul Farhi, Washington Post
“Though NPR is seeing some listening gains on digital platforms, particularly with podcasts, its broadcast audience has dropped. Average–quarter-hour (AQH) listening during morning drive time has dropped 11 percent in the past five years, and afternoon drive audience has declined 6 percent. The only age bracket that has increased listening to NPR stations is the 65-plus audience.”
— “Drop in younger listeners makes dent in NPR news audience,” Tyler Falk, Current
More:
“Who Isn’t Listening to Public Radio,” Justin Fox, Bloomberg View
“WNYC is leading public radio’s transition to public podcasting,” Jack Murtha, Columbia Journalism Review
“Why I Left NPR,” Stephen Henn, Medium
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The British pensioners known as the Rolling Stones will visit sports arenas in the United States and Canada this summer. The elderly musicians are reissuing their classic 20th century gramophone recording, Arthritic Sticky Fingers. It’s the one with the cover by Andy Warhol (see the model here).
Hey oldsters! You voted GOP? Congratulations, seniors, here’s what you get:
“. . . GOP congressional leaders are promising to act immediately on their budget-slashing ideas when 2015 begins. High on their list, according to the New York Times, is implementing Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to ‘overhaul’ Medicare by replacing it with ‘premium support’ vouchers designed to privatize the system over the coming decades. They will also form a commission to examine ‘options’ for Social Security, which Ryan has also long favored privatizing.”
— “Get ready for Ryancare, America! Why GOP’s all set to end Medicare as we know it,” Joan Walsh, Salon
Related:
“Yes, the Republican Obamacare Strategy Will Kill People,” Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
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“The average age for the four living members of The Rolling Stones is about two years older than the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have an average age of 68 years and 297 days, while the Supreme Court justices’ average is 66 years and 364 days. That makes the rock band one year and 10 months older than the members of the highest court of the United States.”
— “On Average the Stones Older Than US Supreme Court,” Associated Press
The Supremes’ lineup includes rookies Roberts (57), Alito (62), Sotomayor (58) and Kagan (52). Whippersnappers.
“The Rolling Stones began their 50th anniversary tour with the biggest possible bang on Sunday night, as a host of special guests joined them for a hit-packed show in London’s O2 Arena. Former Stones comrades Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor returned to the ranks, while Mary J. Blige and Jeff Beck were also on hand to help with the celebrations.
Residents of Springfield, Virginia’s Greenspring Retirement Community celebrate Halloween in song lip-sync.
NotionsCapital wishes a safe and sane All Hallow’s Eve to you and yours.
Related:
“The origin of that terrible Monster Mash song,” Tracey Samuelson, Christian Science Monitor
“A Worldwide Celebration Of Halloween,” Zeon Santos, Neatorama
“Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!” Peter Montgomery, Religion Dispatches
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Southern California has a new senior citizen employment program. The Beach Boys will embark on a 50-date 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour starting in February in support of “Celebration,” their new album. Group frontman Brian Wilson will turn 70 during the tour.
“Daddy, who are the ‘Beach Boys,’ and what’s an ‘album’?”
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