Lunacy R.I.P

[Helios]

Loved Norms uncomfortable style of comedy. once u understood what he was trying to do, always had the last laugh.
RIP

 

[mudshark]

George Frayne, a.k.a. Commander Cody, Alt-Country Pioneer, Dies at 77

George Frayne, the leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, on the NBC show “Midnight Special” in 1973. The band lasted only a decade and had just one Top 10 hit, but it had a lasting impact. Credit...Paul W. Bailey/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

With his band the Lost Planet Airmen, he infused older genres like Western swing and boogie-woogie with a freewheeling 1960s spirit and attracted a devoted following.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/music/george-frayne-dead.html?smid=em-share

 

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Rip Halyna Hutchins

Sheriff's office: Alec Baldwin discharged prop gun that killed crew member, wounded director

Baldwin is one of the film's star actors and producers. He went to the sheriff's office willingly and provided a statement to investigators, sheriff's office spokesman Juan Ríos said.

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Father of tiramisu' Ado Campeol dies aged 93​

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Image caption,Tiramisu has become a staple of Italian cuisine since it was developed in Ado Campeol's restaurant
Restaurateur Ado Campeol, dubbed "the father of Tiramisu" by Italian media, has died aged 93.
Campeol was the owner of Le Beccherie, a restaurant in Treviso in northern Italy where the famous dessert was invented by his wife and a chef.
The dish, featuring coffee-soaked biscuits and mascarpone, was added to their menu in 1972 but never patented by the family.
It has since become a staple of Italian cuisine, adapted by chefs worldwide.
There have been long-running disputes about the origin of tiramisu, including claims that it was served as an aphrodisiac at a brothel in the north Italian city of Trevisio.
However it is widely accepted the recipe was developed in Campeol's restaurant in the city.

Luca Zaia, governor of the Veneto region, was among those who paid respects, tweeting that the city had "[lost] another star in its food and wine history".
Le Beccherie was opened by Campeol's family in 1939, and Campeol took over the business at the end of World War Two.
According to the dessert's co-inventor, Chef Roberto Linguanotto, the dish was the result of an accident while making vanilla ice cream.
Mr Linguanotto dropped some mascarpone cheese into a bowl of eggs and sugar, and after he noticed the mixture's pleasant taste, he told Campeol's wife Alba.
The pair then perfected the dessert by adding ladyfinger sponges soaked in coffee, and sprinkling it with cocoa - calling it "Tiramisù", which translates into English as "pick me up".
The dish appeared in print in a 1981 issue of Veneto, a local publication dedicated to food and wine, and it is now one of Italy's best known desserts.

Variants of tiramisu feature alcohol like rum or marsala, but the original recipe - certified by the Italian Academy of Cuisine in 2010 - was alcohol-free because it was intended to be child-friendly.

 

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Father of tiramisu' Ado Campeol dies aged 93​

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Restaurateur Ado Campeol, dubbed "the father of Tiramisu" by Italian media, has died aged 93.
Campeol was the owner of Le Beccherie, a restaurant in Treviso in northern Italy where the famous dessert was invented by his wife and a chef.
The dish, featuring coffee-soaked biscuits and mascarpone, was added to their menu in 1972 but never patented by the family.
It has since become a staple of Italian cuisine, adapted by chefs worldwide.
There have been long-running disputes about the origin of tiramisu, including claims that it was served as an aphrodisiac at a brothel in the north Italian city of Trevisio.
However it is widely accepted the recipe was developed in Campeol's restaurant in the city.

Luca Zaia, governor of the Veneto region, was among those who paid respects, tweeting that the city had "[lost] another star in its food and wine history".
Le Beccherie was opened by Campeol's family in 1939, and Campeol took over the business at the end of World War Two.
According to the dessert's co-inventor, Chef Roberto Linguanotto, the dish was the result of an accident while making vanilla ice cream.
Mr Linguanotto dropped some mascarpone cheese into a bowl of eggs and sugar, and after he noticed the mixture's pleasant taste, he told Campeol's wife Alba.
The pair then perfected the dessert by adding ladyfinger sponges soaked in coffee, and sprinkling it with cocoa - calling it "Tiramisù", which translates into English as "pick me up".
The dish appeared in print in a 1981 issue of Veneto, a local publication dedicated to food and wine, and it is now one of Italy's best known desserts.

Variants of tiramisu feature alcohol like rum or marsala, but the original recipe - certified by the Italian Academy of Cuisine in 2010 - was alcohol-free because it was intended to be child-friendly.

Toss up between Tiramisu and Creme Brulee as a #1 dessert for me
Tiramisu has coffee so it gets the nod

 

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Graeme Edge dead aged 80: Moody Blues drummer dies after legendary rock career including Nights in White Satin hit

 

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Peter Aykroyd, ‘SNL’ Cast Member and Dan Aykroyd’s Brother, Dies at 66​

The passing of Dan Aykroyd’s younger brother was announced during Saturday’s episode of ‘SNL’

Adam Chitwood | November 20, 2021 @ 10:28 PM

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Peter Aykroyd, a comedian, writer and actor best known for his time on “Saturday Night Live,” has passed away at the age of 66.
Aykroyd was the younger brother of Dan Aykroyd and was a member of the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto before joining “SNL” in 1979, during the show’s fifth season. Aykroyd served as a writer and cast member for that one season of the NBC sketch series, and also appeared in the films “Coneheads” and “Spies Like Us,” among others. He co-wrote the 1991 film “Nothing but Trouble” with his brother Dan, who directed the comedy that became a deep-cut cult favorite.
Aykroyd also had a voice role in “The Blues Brothers” animated series alongside Jim Belushi, as the duo voiced the characters played by their brothers Dan and John in the live-action feature film and, of course, on “SNL.”
Most recently, Peter Aykroyd co-created the Canadian sci-fi drama series “PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal” with Christopher Chacon.
Peter Aykroyd’s passing was announced on Saturday’s episode of “SNL.”

 

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Keith Allison of Paul Revere & the Raiders Dead at 79​

Allison died Wednesday of natural causes at his home.

By Mike Barnes

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11/19/2021

Keith Allison at Jungleland in February, 1966 in Thousand Oaks, California.Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images
Keith Allison, the singer, songwriter and musician who was a member of Paul Revere & the Raiders and performed on songs recorded by Sonny & Cher, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson and The Monkees, has died. He was 79.
Allison died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Sherman Oaks, a family spokesperson announced.

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The Texas native also recorded and performed with the likes of Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers, Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Rick Nelson, The Crickets and Johnny Rivers.

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Allison was a member of Paul Revere & the Raiders from 1968-75, singing and playing bass, guitar and organ. In 1967, he co-wrote with bandmate Mark Lindsay the bluegrass song “Freeborn Man,” recorded by him, Glen Campbell, Jerry Reed and scores of others over the years.


He contributed to albums by The Monkees, including their self-titled 1966 debut, 1967’s Headquarters and 1968 Head, and he co-wrote “Auntie’s Municipal Court” with fellow Texan Michael Nesmith for another 1968 album, The Birds, the Bees & The Monkees.
Allison played guitar and harmonica on Sonny & Cher’s mega-hit “The Beat Goes On,” recorded in 1966. A year later, Columbia Records signed him and released the album Keith Allison in Action.
In 1976, he recorded “Sail Away” with Nilsson and performed on the singer-songwriter’s albums produced by Steve Cropper. He then played guitar on Starr’s 1978 Bad Boy album and was the drummer’s musical director for his NBC special that year.
Sydney Keith Allison was born on Aug. 26, 1942, in Coleman, Texas, and raised in San Antonio. He teamed with the likes of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers, then served as the musical director and guitarist for pop singer Ray Peterson (“Tell Laura I Love Her”) from 1962-65. He and his cousin, drummer Jerry Allison, then joined The Crickets.
In Los Angeles for a taping of Dick Clark’s ABC afternoon variety show Where the Action Is, Allison was hanging out with the crew and caught on camera, and viewers mistook him for Paul McCartney. He then became a permanent Action castmember.
Allison scored the Peter Sellers film Where Does It Hurt? (1972) and wrote and sang the title song. He also wrote and recorded four tunes for Dennis Quaid’s The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981).


In the ’70s, he toured with Rivers and the group headlined by Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
At the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Allison played guitar and sang with The Crickets on their final performance in 2016. He also was a permanent guest member of the Waddy Wachtel Band since 2000.
As an actor, Allison played Captain James J. White in Gods and Generals (2003) and showed up on episodes of Blossom, 7th Heaven and The Love Boat.
Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Tina Stern; children Ryeland, Allison and Brenda; sisters Cherri and Allison; grandchildren Zephyr, Skyler, Gavin, Adrian, Madeline, Isabella, Makyla and Mercedes; and six great-grandchildren.
A celebration of his life is being planned.
This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.

 

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Bob Dole celebrated by Biden and national leaders at Washington funeral | CNN Politics

A funeral service and tribute ceremony for the late Kansas Republican Sen. Bob Dole took place in Washington, DC, on Friday, with current and former lawmakers, as well as friends and family, remembering his legacy of public service.

www.cnn.com

 

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Monkees singer Michael Nesmith dead at 78: 'I've lost a dear friend and partner'

The Texas native wrote many of the popular songs for the TV boy band, such as “Mary, Mary," "Circle Sky," "Listen to the Band" and "The Girl I Knew Somewhere."

www.foxnews.com

 

[ataxian]

Monkees singer Michael Nesmith dead at 78: 'I've lost a dear friend and partner'

The Texas native wrote many of the popular songs for the TV boy band, such as “Mary, Mary," "Circle Sky," "Listen to the Band" and "The Girl I Knew Somewhere."

www.foxnews.com

70 year’s on the pale blue dot is duration of time my uncle died?
He played surf guitar and country stuff.
The Beach Boys play & practiced the next street over?
Hollywood was the spot for fame back in the daze?

 

[ataxian]

Father of tiramisu' Ado Campeol dies aged 93​

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Restaurateur Ado Campeol, dubbed "the father of Tiramisu" by Italian media, has died aged 93.
Campeol was the owner of Le Beccherie, a restaurant in Treviso in northern Italy where the famous dessert was invented by his wife and a chef.
The dish, featuring coffee-soaked biscuits and mascarpone, was added to their menu in 1972 but never patented by the family.
It has since become a staple of Italian cuisine, adapted by chefs worldwide.
There have been long-running disputes about the origin of tiramisu, including claims that it was served as an aphrodisiac at a brothel in the north Italian city of Trevisio.
However it is widely accepted the recipe was developed in Campeol's restaurant in the city.

Luca Zaia, governor of the Veneto region, was among those who paid respects, tweeting that the city had "[lost] another star in its food and wine history".
Le Beccherie was opened by Campeol's family in 1939, and Campeol took over the business at the end of World War Two.
According to the dessert's co-inventor, Chef Roberto Linguanotto, the dish was the result of an accident while making vanilla ice cream.
Mr Linguanotto dropped some mascarpone cheese into a bowl of eggs and sugar, and after he noticed the mixture's pleasant taste, he told Campeol's wife Alba.
The pair then perfected the dessert by adding ladyfinger sponges soaked in coffee, and sprinkling it with cocoa - calling it "Tiramisù", which translates into English as "pick me up".
The dish appeared in print in a 1981 issue of Veneto, a local publication dedicated to food and wine, and it is now one of Italy's best known desserts.

Variants of tiramisu feature alcohol like rum or marsala, but the original recipe - certified by the Italian Academy of Cuisine in 2010 - was alcohol-free because it was intended to be child-friendly.in

Tonight TIRAMISU after a meal covered in CREAMY sauce prepared by a chef who learned about cooking ITALY style cuisine!
Not far from the beach I surfed as a young kid.
Than you 4 your photo’s of a great dessert!

 

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Father of tiramisu' Ado Campeol dies aged 93​

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Restaurateur Ado Campeol, dubbed "the father of Tiramisu" by Italian media, has died aged 93.
Campeol was the owner of Le Beccherie, a restaurant in Treviso in northern Italy where the famous dessert was invented by his wife and a chef.
The dish, featuring coffee-soaked biscuits and mascarpone, was added to their menu in 1972 but never patented by the family.
It has since become a staple of Italian cuisine, adapted by chefs worldwide.
There have been long-running disputes about the origin of tiramisu, including claims that it was served as an aphrodisiac at a brothel in the north Italian city of Trevisio.
However it is widely accepted the recipe was developed in Campeol's restaurant in the city.

Luca Zaia, governor of the Veneto region, was among those who paid respects, tweeting that the city had "[lost] another star in its food and wine history".
Le Beccherie was opened by Campeol's family in 1939, and Campeol took over the business at the end of World War Two.
According to the dessert's co-inventor, Chef Roberto Linguanotto, the dish was the result of an accident while making vanilla ice cream.
Mr Linguanotto dropped some mascarpone cheese into a bowl of eggs and sugar, and after he noticed the mixture's pleasant taste, he told Campeol's wife Alba.
The pair then perfected the dessert by adding ladyfinger sponges soaked in coffee, and sprinkling it with cocoa - calling it "Tiramisù", which translates into English as "pick me up".
The dish appeared in print in a 1981 issue of Veneto, a local publication dedicated to food and wine, and it is now one of Italy's best known desserts.

Variants of tiramisu feature alcohol like rum or marsala, but the original recipe - certified by the Italian Academy of Cuisine in 2010 - was alcohol-free because it was intended to be child-friendly.

While I'm sorry that this gentleman lost his life, I have to say that Tiramisu is one of my least fav deserts....but, still a notch above Christmas Claxton Fruit Cakes which I'm not at all sure is really a food product and not a colorful brick building material haha

 

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Les Emmerson, Songwriter of Five Man Electrical Band’s Hippie-Era Anthem ‘Signs,’ Dead at 77​

The Canadian musician was suffering from underlying medical conditions that made him more vulnerable to Covid-19​

By
JON BLISTEIN

Les Emmerson (front) with Five Man Electrical Band in 1970.
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Les Emmerson, frontman of the Canadian rock group Five Man Electrical Band and writer of the hippie-era anthem “Signs,” died last Friday, Dec. 10, CTV News reports. He was 77.
Emmerson’s wife, Monik Emmerson, confirmed his death, saying, “He had underlying health conditions that made him additionally vulnerable to Covid.” She added that Emmerson had been in-and-out of the hospital for other reasons over the past year. While he was vaccinated against Covid, Emmerson contracted the virus in November and died in the ICU at an Ottawa hospital.
“I want people to know that he meant something different to everybody,” said Emmerson’s daughter, Kristina Emmerson-Barrett. “He was a musician first and he loved his music, he loved his craft. He was an artist at heart, but he was so much more than that.”

Formed in the Sixties, Five Man Electrical Band were first known as the Staccatos, and between 1965 and 1967, they scored a string Top 40 hits in Canada. At the end of the decade, the group rechristened themselves and, in 1971, Five Man Electrical Band released their signature song “Signs,” which opens with the memorable lyric, “And the sign said/‘Long-haired freaky people need not apply’/So I tucked my hair up under my hat/And I went in to ask him why.”



In a 2014 interview with The Music Express, Emmerson said “Signs” was inspired by the billboards he kept seeing during a trip down Route 66. “The whole song was right in front of me,” he said, “I just had to stop and write the song down.”
He added of the track, “That song broke every radio rule going. The record label said that the song was too long and it took too long to get to the chorus. Yet record producer Dallas Smith believed in the song and fought for it. That was the only reason it got released.”
“Signs” went to Number Two in Canada and Number Three on the Hot 100 in the United States. While Five Man Electrical Band wouldn’t score another major chart-topper in the U.S., they had continued success in Canada over the next few years with tracks like “I’m a Stranger Here,” “Money Back Guarantee,” and “Absolutely Right.”
In 1990, “Signs” reentered the pop consciousness after the rock outfit Tesla covered it on their cheekily named acoustic live album, Five Man Acoustical Jam. The song once again flew up the charts, peaking at Number Eight on the Hot 100 and Number Two on the Mainstream Rock charts.

 

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Wanda Young of the Marvelettes Dead at 78​

Bethy Squires - Yesterday 6:16 PM


Wanda Young, one the founding members of Motown’s Marvelettes, has died. She was 78. Young died December 15, Deadline is reporting, from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Young was one of the original members of the Marvelettes, which recorded on Motown’s Tamla imprint. She later became their main singer. The Marvelettes are best known today for “Please Mr. Postman,” on which Young sings. The song was Motown’s first Billboard Hot 100 Number 1, and was covered by the Beatles and the Carpenters. As the first crossover megahit for Motown, “Please Mr. Postman” laid the foundation for singers like Diana Ross and the soundtrack to every 90’s romcom ever. The song was interpolated by Portugal. The Man on “Feel It Still” in 2017. Young did not take lead on “Postman,” but did on the single’s B-side, “So Long, Baby.” She also provided lead vocals on the band’s other big hit, “Don’t Mess with Bill.” Young sang with the Marvelettes until 1968, going on to steady solo success in the 70’s, eventually retiring from the biz. Chuck D eulogized Young on Twitter, posting a deeper Marvelettes cut, “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game.”


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Legendary bluegrass banjo player, Lexington native J.D. Crowe has died​

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By WKYT News Staff
Published: Dec. 24, 2021 at 8:39 AM MST


LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Legendary bluegrass banjo player J.D. Crowe has died, reports say.
A Lexington native, Crowe began his bluegrass career in the 1950s with the Sunny Mountain Boys. He later formed the Kentucky Mountain Boys. In 1971, he changed the name of the group to The New South, which many consider one of the most influential bluegrass groups ever.
According to a report from Bluegrass Today, Crowe was briefly hospitalized in November and had been in a rehab facility.
He was 84.

 

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E.O. Wilson, Heir To Darwin’s Legacy And King Of The Ants, Dies At 92​

He put nature conservation on a scientific footing, battled colleagues who were enraged by his biological explanations of human behavior, and won two Pulitzer prizes — all inspired by ants.

Posted on December 27, 2021, at 9:25 a.m. ET

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E.O. Wilson in 2007.

If any modern scientist can claim to have carried the torch lit by Charles Darwin, it was Edward Osborne Wilson — usually known as "E.O."
Wilson pioneered the study of biological diversity, adding a theoretical dimension to nature conservation — which had previously seemed more like a moral crusade than a scientific endeavor.
He popularized the term "sociobiology," exploring evolutionary explanations of social behavior. And he turned it all into lucid prose, becoming one of the most effective science communicators of his time.
Wilson died on Sunday in Burlington, Massachusetts, according to a statement from the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
Like Darwin, Wilson stirred up a hornet's nest with his evolutionary theories. But in Wilson's case, the most violent attacks against him came not from religious opponents, but from fellow scientists.
After the publication of his 1975 book Sociobiology, Wilson was pilloried by the biologists Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, who accused him of justifying eugenics, sexism, and rampant capitalism. But Wilson gave as good as he got, and emerged from the battle with his reputation intact.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929, Wilson might have studied birds or mammals if not for an accident at the age of 7.
After piercing his right eye with a fishing hook, he didn't seek treatment, and later had to have the lens removed. The accident left Wilson with poor distance vision, as he recounts in his 1994 autobiography, Naturalist. But his left eye remained sharp, leading him focus to on what he called "the little things."
Ants became his life's work — and led to his interest in biodiversity and the evolution of social behavior. As a Harvard fellow in the early 1950s, he traveled to Cuba, Mexico, and the South Pacific, marvelling at the diversity of the ants he observed, and speculating on how they could have evolved.
Back at Harvard, where he spent his entire career, these thoughts eventually coalesced into The Theory of Island Biogeography, a 1967 book written with the mathematical ecologist Robert MacArthur. Wilson and MacArthur explored how species diverge into new forms on islands, and showed how their risk of extinction is highest if those islands — which can be patches natural habitat in a human-altered landscape — are small.
This idea still dominates the thinking of conservationists, as they strive to expand and connect fragments of remaining habitat to give wildlife a fighting chance of survival.
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Ants are not only incredibly diverse, but they also boast some of the most complex societies in the animal kingdom.​

Ant colonies with thousands of individuals work together to raise the young of a single queen. This had long posed a problem for Darwinian theory: In a natural world dominated by the struggle to survive and reproduce, why would female workers in social insect species have evolved to be sterile?
In 1964, the British biologist Bill Hamilton came up with an answer. He argued that evolution is really about the reproduction and survival of genes, rather than individuals. So a gene can spread if it causes behavior that favors copies of itself in an animal's relatives. This "kin selection" theory made sense as an explanation for insect societies, because sister ants and bees — thanks to a quirk of their genetics — share 75% of their genes by descent, rather than the usual 50%.
Hamilton was a great theorist, but a poor communicator. Wilson packaged the idea for wider consumption and united it with other work explaining the evolution of behavior. The final chapter of Sociobiology briefly discussed these ideas in the context of human society — too briefly, Wilson later admitted.
"I should have been more politically careful, by saying this does not imply racism, it does not imply sexism," Wilson told the Harvard Gazette in 2011.
The chapter enraged left-leaning academics led by his Harvard colleagues Gould and Lewontin, who published a blistering assault in the New York Review of Books invoking the horrors of Nazi Germany. Wilson was aghast, but fought back hard, accusing his critics of misrepresenting his positions.
Wilson followed up in 1979 with On Human Nature, which dealt with the evolution of human behavior in more depth, and won the first of his Pulitzer prizes. (The second was for The Ants, published in 1991 with fellow ant guru Bert Hölldobler.)

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E.O. Wilson with Bob Durant, Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs, in 2002.

Wilson's interest in human nature also led him to ponder the centrality of religious belief in human societies.​

He lost his Baptist faith in his teens, but in his later years tried to find common ground with evangelical Christians in preserving what they view as divine creation, and he called the "evolutionary epic."
Wilson didn't shy away from conflict. He spent the last few years of his life at odds with many evolutionary biologists after he rejected Hamilton's kin selection theory in a controversial 2010 paper published in Nature. The paper argued that kin selection had little value as a general explanation of sociality, and described insect colonies as "superorganisms."
This echoed an old idea called "group selection," which argued that social behavior can evolve because it benefits a group of animals, improving their survival over rival groups. In the gene-centric era, this had become a discredited theory. For the author of Sociobiology to embrace it, while rejecting kin selection, was like finding a raised toilet seat in a convent.
In a subsequent issue of Nature, 137 leading evolutionary biologists signed a letter denouncing Wilson's about turn. And in a later article in Prospect magazine, Richard Dawkins of Oxford University added: "For Wilson not to acknowledge that he speaks for himself against the great majority of his professional colleagues is — it pains me to say this of a lifelong hero — an act of wanton arrogance."
Arrogance, or supreme intellectual confidence? History, and the relentless struggle between competing scientific ideas, will be the judge.

 

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John Madden, football legend, dies at 85​

Posted by Michael David Smith on December 28, 2021, 7:16 PM EST

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John Madden, a legendary figure known to one generation as a Hall of Fame coach, another generation as the sport’s greatest announcer, and yet another generation for the video game that bears his name, has died at the age of 85.
The NFL announced Madden’s passing today.
Madden’s influence on the sport of football is impossible to overstate. He was the youngest head coach in pro football when Al Davis hired him to coach the Oakland Raiders, and he led them to a Super Bowl title while having so much success that he still has the all-time highest winning percentage among all coaches who won at least 100 games.

But as great a coach as he was, he did more for the sport after he retired from coaching. In the broadcasting booth, Madden became a sensation, not just the best broadcaster in football but one of the most popular figures in America, as famous as any movie star but as down-to-earth as any guy you’d talk about sports with at the barbershop. Everyone loved him.
And then Madden had his video game, which he didn’t just lend his name to but took an active role in developing, always insisting that it needed to be as realistic as possible. The youngest generation of football fans that can’t even remember him as a broadcaster, let alone as a coach, is still influenced by Madden’s giant presence in the sport.
Even in the final years of his life, Madden had an important role in the NFL, advising the league and advocating for rule changes that would protect players from brain injuries.
John Madden may have been the single most influential person in the history of the sport of football.

 

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who remembers MAD TV?

 

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Betty White dies at 99, weeks before 100th birthday, according to reports​

The beloved actress was set to celebrate her centennial birthday on January 17
Posted: 12:09 PM, Dec 31, 2021

Updated: 1:05 PM, Dec 31, 2021
By: abc15.com staff , Associated Press




Betty White has died at age 99, according to reports. Here's 5 things you didn't know about the star.

Betty White has died at age 99, according to reports from TMZ and People.
White, who was born in 1922, would have turned 100 on January 17.
Law enforcement told TMZ White died at her home Friday morning.

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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2015 file photo, Betty White attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special in New York. White, a passionate animal activist, has harsh words for the Minnesota dentist that killed a protected lion known as Cecil while on a hunting trip in Zimbabwe this month. You dont want to hear some of the things I want to do to that man, said the 93-year-old actress in an interview Thursday, July 30. White was promoting a new block of programming on Discovery Family Channel called Pawgust, throughout the month of August, with shows, specials and movies about animals. She will serve as the host of Pawgust, and be featured in promos. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
A new coffee table book celebrating White's life and career was recently published as she neared the century milestone.
The book by a veteran entertainment journalist details White's journey in Hollywood, including hosting an early variety-talk show. Carol Burnett and Candice Bergen are among those interviewed for the book, written by Ray Richmond and titled “Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life."
PHOTOS: A look back at the storied life of the beloved actress, comedienne
Her witty style gave life to a roster of quirky characters over more than a half-century.
They included the oddball Rose Nylund in “The Golden Girls” and the outspoken caretaker on “Hot In Cleveland.” She also drew laughs in the 2009 comedy “The Proposal” and the horror spoof “Lake Placid.”

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FILE - This Dec. 25, 1985 file photo shows the stars of the television series "The Golden Girls" , from left, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Betty White during a break in taping in Hollywood, Calif. The sitcom, which followed four women of a certain age living together in Miami, aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992. Nearly 35 years later, it continues to gain new fans and has inspired a wave of merchandising. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
By popular demand, she hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2011.

White once said her character Sue Ann Nivens in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” could be “icky-sweet” but was “really a piranha type.” That role brought her two Emmys.

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FILE - Former cast members of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, sans Mary Tyler Moore, are reunited for the Museum of Television and Radio's 9th annual Television Festival in Los Angeles on March 21, 1992. From left are Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Betty White and Ed Asner. Leachman, a character actor whose depth of talent brought her an Oscar for the "The Last Picture Show" and Emmys for her comedic work in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and other TV series, has died. She was 94. (AP Photo/Craig Fujii, File)
A nationwide theatrical event of "Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration,” was scheduled for Jan. 17, which would have been her 100th birthday.
The one-day-only movie event is set to highlight moments the actress had during her career with appearances by Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Robert Redford, and Morgan Freeman.
RELATED: Five things you may not know about Betty White
It's not clear whether those event plans have changed following White's death.

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Betty White and Ed Asner hold Emmys they won in Los Angeles in May 1975. (AP Photo)

 

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Bob Saget, beloved comedian and ‘Full House’ star, dies at 65​