Here is a non-comprehensive list of other volunteer opportunities for engineers. 1  Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (www.aidg.org) 2  Architecture for Humanity (www.architectureforhumanity.org) 3  Bridges to Prosperity (www.bridgestoprosperity.org) 4  Bridging the Gap Africa (www.bridgingthegapafrica.org) 5  El Porvenir (www.elporvenir.org)
Two months later, Rick James died of heart failure. There were reports that he had nine drugs in his systemâone of them, ironically enough, cocaine. However, Jamesâ death was still a shocking blow. Most fans viewed him through the same indestructible lens as the Rolling Stonesâ Keith Richards.
Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose. In the summer of 1966, Janis Joplin was a drifter; four years later, she was a rock-and-roll legend. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943, Janis Joplin made her way to San Francisco in 1966, where she fell in with a local group called Big Brother and the Holding Company.