Richie Furay was the real leader and founder of Poco, and their primary song writer/lead singer during their most influential period. And it was Furay who recruited Young to play steel guitar on his Kind Woman single on the final Buffalo Springfield album. Young took over the mantle of Poco when Furay left in the mid-1970s, frustrated at the lack of commercial success (despite critical acclaim).

Jack Minker, Founding Chair of Computer Science, Human Rights Activist, Dies

Quote:Jack Minker (July 4, 1927 – April 9, 2021) was a leading authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. He was also an internationally recognized leader in the field of human rights of computer scientists. He was an Emeritus Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.

Minker was born on the fourth of July, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College in 1949, Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1950, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.

Minker started his career in industry in 1951, working at the Bell Aircraft Corporation, RCA, and the Auerbach Corporation. He joined the University of Maryland in 1967, becoming Professor of Computer Science in 1971 and the first chair of the department in 1974. He became Professor Emeritus in 1998.

Minker was one of the founders of the area of deductive databases and disjunctive logic programming. He has made important contributions to semantic query optimization and to cooperative and informative answers for deductive databases. He has also developed a theoretical basis for disjunctive databases and disjunctive logic programs, developing the Generalized Closed World Assumption (GCWA).

Minker has over 150 refereed publications and has edited or co-edited five books on deductive databases, logic programming, and the use of logic in artificial intelligence. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming.

Minker has been Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Scientists since 1973, and Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights (CSFHR) of the Association for Computing Machinery from 1980 to 1989. He led the struggle for the release of Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Lerner from the Communists of the Soviet Union. He also campaigned on behalf of Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner. His memoir, Scientific Freedom & Human Rights: Scientists of Conscience During the Cold War, was published in 2012 by IEEE Computer Society Press. His former doctoral students include Terry Gaasterland.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale, 93.

Until his death, there were a record-tying 6 living former Vice Presidents (Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden, Pence).

You know him...maybe not by his name, but yes, you surely do:

Jim Steinman (November 1, 1947 – April 19, 2021) was an American composer, lyricist, record producer.
He helped write and produce:
Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell (which is one of the best selling albums of all time)
and Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell,
and produced albums for Bonnie Tyler. His most successful chart singles include Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart",
Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing at All",
Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)",
The Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion" and "More", Barry Manilow's "Read 'Em and Weep",
Celine Dion's cover of "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (originally released by Steinman's project Pandora's Box)
and Boyzone's "No Matter What" (the group's first and only single to be popular and chart in the US, and for which Steinman only wrote the lyrics).
Steinman's only solo album Bad for Good was released in 1981.

Jim Steinman's work also extended to musical theater, where he began his career. Steinman was credited with the book, music, and lyrics for Bat Out of Hell: The Musical, as well as lyrics for Whistle Down the Wind, and music for Tanz der Vampire.

Jim Steinman, best known for writing hit songs for Meat Loaf, Celine Dion and more, dead at 73

This is what a Real Hero looks like:



Hubert Faure (28 May 1914 – 17 April 2021) 106, French soldier and World War II hero (Operation Overlord which was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II), Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour recipient (the medal is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil). He was a member of the Kieffer commandos.

link: Hubert Faure, French WWII commando who took part in Normandy landings, dies at 106

Hester Ford (nee McCardell; born August 15, 1905 — April 17, 2021) was the oldest verified living American and fourth oldest verified living person in the world. She was born on August 15, 1905 (though sources also indicate the year prior) in Lancaster, South Carolina. She grew up on a farm in Lancaster County, South Carolina. On March 12, 1921, she married steel worker John Ford and gave birth to their first child in the next year. They went on to have 12 children and sold their farm in 1953, moving to Charlotte, North Carolina. In Myers Park, Ford worked as a nanny for several families. Her husband passed away in 1963, at age 57. She continues to live in their house and has remained in the Macedonia Baptist Church for more than 70 years. According to reports, Ford had 68 grandchildren, 120 great-grandchildren, and more than 120 great-great-grandchildren.

Ford was never hospitalized before 2013 (aged 108), when she took a fall, after which numerous of her descendants joined her in her home. She was still able to walk, talk and feed herself but had suffered from hearing problems and dementia. In 2017, WBTV posted a video of Ford reciting the bible verse Psalm 23 from memory. The post gained more than 6 million views.




Following the death of supercentenarian Alelia Murphy on November 23, 2019, Ford became the oldest living American. In July 2020, she also joined the list of the twenty oldest-living Americans ever and at her death was the fourth oldest verified living people in the world. Her birthday annually gained a lot of news coverage, with the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners officially declaring September 1 as Hester Ford day in 2020.




...and that's the way you do it. Good job, Hester, R.I.P....you've earned it.

Hard to believe nobody posted this one here...

Mike Mitchell, Guitarist on Kingsmen’s ‘Louie Louie,’ Dies at 77

Quote:Mike Mitchell, co-founding guitarist of "Louie, Louie" rockers the Kingsmen, died Friday at age 77.

The Oregon Music Hall of Fame saluted the guitarist, noting, "He never let his chops fall behind. His playing just got better as he aged."

Mitchell helped form the Kingsmen in Portland, Ore in 1959. Four years later, the garage rock group released their debut single, a raucous cover of Richard Berry's "Louie, Louie," which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

As the song's popularity soared, so did the legend surrounding its supposedly controversial lyrics — extending from the somewhat slurred delivery of singer Jack Ely. (The frontman recorded his vocal into a microphone suspended from the ceiling, forcing him to shout in order to project over the instruments.)

The FBI even launched an investigation to determine whether or not "Louie, Louie," a song about a sailor's missing his love interest, was in any way pornographic. While they reportedly concluded the tune was "unintelligible at any speed," there were other consequences.

"When ‘Louie, Louie’ was banned in Indiana back in 1964 by then-Governor Walsh, every kid had to have a copy, and the record took off like wildfire across the country!" Peterson added to Rolling Stone in his statement.

"Louie, Louie" appeared on the Kingsmen's debut LP, 1963's The Kingsmen in Person. The band released five more studio albums in various formations, and they earned several other hits during the decade, including renditions of "The Jolly Green Giant" (which hit No. 4) and "Money" (No. 16).

Reflecting on his career in a 1999 radio interview, Mitchell said he isn't bothered by "Louie, Louie" being the focus of his band's legacy. "We're just happy to have any success, that we can still do this," he said. "It's actually a wonderful career that we've had."

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dead at 90.

Statement from the family:

https://t.co/6OAw7CzFaz?ftag=YHF4eb9d17

Olympia Dukakis, 89.

And, from "The Rifleman", Johnny Crawford, 75, from Alzheimer's and COVID. Like many kids of my generation, I loved that show.

(05-02-2021 12:01 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  Olympia Dukakis, 89.

And, from "The Rifleman", Johnny Crawford, 75, from Alzheimer's and COVID. Like many kids of my generation, I loved that show.

And a singer, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhkK_gAuDlM

(05-02-2021 02:15 PM)Ranger Wrote:  

(05-02-2021 12:01 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  Olympia Dukakis, 89.

And, from "The Rifleman", Johnny Crawford, 75, from Alzheimer's and COVID. Like many kids of my generation, I loved that show.

And a singer, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhkK_gAuDlM

I heard a radio host say that as an adult, Crawford had a '30's style band, in which he was the main male vocalist.

Renowned architect Helmut Jahn killed in bike crash near St. Charles home

Jahn, who designed the Thompson Center and other iconic buildings, was struck by two vehicles and killed Saturday while riding his bicycle in Campton Hills.

Architect Helmut Jahn in the State of Illinois Center in 1989. The building was later renamed the Thompson Center.


Architect Helmut Jahn at his Chicago offices on May 9, 2000.

Quote:Helmut Jahn, the famed German architect who designed the James R. Thompson Center and other iconic buildings, died Saturday afternoon when he was struck by two vehicles while riding his bicycle in suburban Campton Hills.

Jahn, who lived in nearby St. Charles, was riding his bike north on Old Lafox Road near Burlington Road about 3:30 p.m. when he failed to brake at a stop sign, according to a news release from Campton Hills police. Two vehicles traveling in opposite directions on Burlington then struck the 81-year-old.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The driver of one of the vehicles was taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva with injuries that weren’t thought to be life-threatening, police said. The other driver and his passenger weren’t injured.

Jahn was born near Nuremberg, Germany, and moved to Chicago in 1966 as a graduate student. He enrolled at the Illinois Institute of Technology and studied under the modernist pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another German architect who designed Chicago’s Federal Plaza and the Seagram Building, among other notable projects.

Jahn’s impact can be seen across the world in designs ranging from the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany, to the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. His projects in Illinois include the Chicago Police Department’s Area 2 Headquarters in Pullman and the sleek, modern United Airlines Terminal at O’Hare International Airport, which includes a moving walkway famous for its colorful lighting.

Former Texas Longhorns RB Jim Bertelsen Dead at 71

Quote:Former Texas Longhorns running back Jim Bertelsen has died at the age of 71. Bertelsen played for Longhorns from 1969-1971 before he was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the second round of the 1972 NFL Draft.

Bertelsen helped Texas win three Southwest Conference titles and rack up a 30-game winning streak for Texas, one that lasted from the 1968 season through 1970, until they lost the Cotton Bowl to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Bertelsen played a critical role for the 1969 Texas team that won the national championship under head coach Darrell Royal, rushing for 740 yards. He then rushed for more than 800 yards the following two seasons, including 1970, when Texas would go on to split a national championship.

For his career, Bertelsen rushed for 2,510 yards, which ranks 14th in program history all-time rushing yards. He also piled up 33 touchdowns over his career. Bertelsen was inducted into the Texas Hall of Honor in 1996.

Actor Norman Lloyd dies overnight in his sleep (at age 106!). His acting career dated back to the 1930's (he was part of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater group). He was also in a number of early Alfred Hitchcock films in the 1940s, but later had a number of big roles in his 60's and 70's - including in the TV show St. Elsewhere and the movie Dead Poets Society.

Colt Brennan died yesterday at the age of 37 due to an overdose..sad

(05-12-2021 08:38 AM)Houston Owl 2 Wrote:  Colt Brennan died yesterday at the age of 37 due to an overdose..sad

Wow, that is sad.

(05-12-2021 09:27 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-12-2021 08:38 AM)Houston Owl 2 Wrote:  Colt Brennan died yesterday at the age of 37 due to an overdose..sad

Wow, that is sad.

Drugs laced with Fentanyl...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-says.html

the Houston Ballet Center for Dance

Millard Arthur Gensler Jr. (July 12, 1935 – May 10, 2021) was an American architect and entrepreneur. He was best known for founding Gensler, the world's largest architecture firm, M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc., started as a small firm with an initial focus on space planning and interiors that would eventually blossom to the 6,000-plus-strong worldwide company it is today.

Quote:Although he expected professionalism, he didn’t ask for martyrdom. One of his maxims (included in his 2015 book “Art’s Principles”) was, “It’s 6:00 p.m. Go home! Get a life!”

Former Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator and head coach Jerry Burns, 94.

He came up with what Bill Walsh later renamed the "West Coast Offense". The Vikings were running that offensive scheme a decade before Walsh "invented" it.

Actor, comedian and author Charles Grodin, 86. He was one of my favorite guests on David Letterman's original NBC Late Night show.