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Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:46 pm John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell

Sirico, a Brooklyn native, began his acting career in the mid 1970s and has portrayed gangsters in numerous roles over the years, including “Goodfellas,” “Mob Queen” and “Mighty Aphrodite.”

He originally auditioned for “The Sopranos” for the role of Uncle Junior, which was ultimately given to Dominic Chianese. Creator David Chase later offered him the role of Paulie Walnuts, one of Tony Soprano’s right-hand men. He appeared in 74 episodes of the Emmy-winning HBO show.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:04 pm And Larry Storch dies at 99.

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:38 pm Larry Storch of F Troop and numerous oldies dead at 99. 99! Good on you, Larry. RIP.

Hyena wrote:I know not everyone will care about this as it's the Dallas Cowboys, but Marion "The Barbarian" Barber died yesterday. Wellness check on his apartment because someone complained about a water leak. He was only 38. Friggin' tragic. Would not surprise me to be CTE-related, as that dude ran with reckless abandon. I've never seen anyone SEEK OUT punishment like he did. He initiated contact like the opponent stole their girlfriend.

Former Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears running back Marion Barber III died of heat stroke, police said Monday.

In a statement, police in the Dallas suburb of Frisco said the Collin County medical examiner had ruled Barber's death an accident.

Barber, 38, was found dead in a Dallas apartment on June 1 with a bathtub faucet running, the unit's thermostat set to 91 degrees and the heat turned on. Officials also found exercise equipment in the apartment. According to a coroner's report, Barber "was known to exercise in sauna-like conditions."

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:46 pm A trophy wife that managed to stick it to the man.

Pat John, best known for playing the quiet, dependable Jesse Jim on long-running CBC drama The Beachcombers, has died at age 69.

John's friend and former co-star, Jackson Davies, confirmed his death to CBC News on Thursday.

The actor died at noon on Wednesday "looking more peaceful than he has in a long time," Davies wrote in a Facebook post announcing John's death. There was no immediate word on the cause of his death.

"He was funny, kind, and although he didn't get the credit he should have, he was also a very good actor. He had the greatest laugh ever, and it was my goal in life to get him to laugh, just to hear it."]Pat John, actor who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, is dead at 69

Alongside the manga (which has now sold tens of millions of copies) and card game (which has sold tens of billions of cards), Yu-Gi-Oh has also inspired a range of other media appearances, like several long-running anime series, a number of motion pictures, book releases and, of course, video game adaptations.

Takahashi had still been active in the comics scene; he was still involved in broader creative decisions on Yu-Gi-Oh, and it was only two weeks ago that a Marvel collaboration he had worked on, involving Iron Man and Spider-Man, was published.

“Keep in mind that it is hubris to think that we know how to save the Earth: our planet looks after itself. All we can do is try to save ourselves.”

SimEarth is a life simulation video game, the second designed by Will Wright, in which the player controls the development of a planet. English scientist James Lovelock served as an advisor and his Gaia hypothesis of planet evolution was incorporated into the game...

The game models the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock (who assisted with the design and wrote an introduction to the manual), and one of the options available to the player is the simplified "Daisyworld" model.

Lovelock stated in regards to the Gaia model that "Attempts to model the Earth through simple sciences such as biology or biochemistry fail because the models are oversensitive to initial conditions and prone to chaotic disturbance." Gaia models link biology and geology however, which Lovelock claimed are "for some reason stable and able to resist perturbations."[6] Lovelock expressed that SimEarth's simulation has 'a degree of realism' despite it being "little more than a game", and he expressed that he hadn't seen or been involved in any computer simulations of nature on the scale of SimEarth at the time, noting that many professional climate models at the time didn't take clouds, the ocean, or biology into account.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:31 pm RIP Bill Russell, truly one of the greats to have ever played the game. Passes at 88.

WYBaugh wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:16 pm Nichelle Nichols is being reported today

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