Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Remember a Visionary- The Tweeted Version

With the passing of Apple visionary and fmr CEO Steve Jobs I thought it only fitting to post tweets about him, his death, and the impact he left on this world. If you have any words to describe what Jobs meant to you or if you think everything he did has no impact and this is just overrated please comment on this post!

*These tweets come from only verified accounts and the occasional few from fans.
All tweets are from the same acct unless otherwise noted before the tweet.*


: Statement from Jobs' family: "Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family" | (via )
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Steve Jobs' "spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple" | (via )
WATCH: Steve Jobs' career in two minutes |
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: "Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend" | (via )
Google's Sergey Brin: "Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product" |
A sign outside of a Manhattan Apple store.
President Obama: "Steve was among the greatest of American innovators" | (via )
Google's Larry Page: "He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance" | (via )
The world-changer: Steve Jobs knew what we wanted | (via )
Disney CEO Robert Iger: "Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started" | (via )
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang: "Steve was my hero growing up" |
Steve Jobs at Apple: Master inventor, master marketer | (via )
Top 10 Apple moments |
Steve Jobs, the TIME interviews | (via )
Our official obit: "Technology's Great Reinventor: Steve Jobs (1955–2011)" |
The 10 products that defined Steve Jobs' career at Apple | (via )
: The world is a less smart, elegant and insanely creative place tonight. Farewell, Steve Jobs.
"The world is immeasurably better because of Steve." Read more of Apple's statement on |
: PHOTOS: The long, extraordinary career of Steve Jobs |
Steve Jobs' TIME covers |
Twitter's Dick Costolo: Jobs didn't "just raise the bar," he created "an entirely new standard of measurement" |
: challenged 's rivals to build better products. It's thanks to him we're where we are today.
: Key dates from the life and work of Apple visionary Steve Jobs:
: Steve Jobs: From dropout to Apple visionary
: Steve Jobs gave us Apple. Now you go plant your seeds and grow our own Fruit!
@SFGate: Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address captured spirit of a legend. Watch it here:
@GOOD: What Apple needs to do to survive without Steve Jobs' vision.
: Steve jobs..the genius maestro of our times; the man who made one thing crystal clear that truly an apple a day helps keep d madness away★
: I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs ---> And he did ... RIP 1955- 2011 bit.ly/ovaQWo
: Tim Cook's email to Apple employees
: AppleInsider | Microsoft's Gates, Disney's Iger & more comment on passing of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs: “Death Is The Destination We All Share” tcrn.ch/nt6mXp 
RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56
: New York Mayor Bloomberg: "America lost a genius who will be remembered with Edison and Einstein" |

Friday, March 25, 2011

In Remembrance of a Legend

The world has once again lost a true Hollywood legend. Actress, Elizabeth Taylor, died early Wednesday morning of Congestive Heart Failure.


Beginning as a child star then throughout her adulthood, she was known for her acting talent, glamour, beauty, love of jewelery, and striking violet eyes; as well as a much publicized private life that included eight marriages, several life-threatening illnesses, and decades spent as a social activist, championing the cause of AIDS awareness, research and cure. Taylor, a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, is considered one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list. 


Taylor struggled with health problems much of her life,and many times newspaper headlines announced that she was close to death. She is known to have smoked cigarettes into her mid-fifties and feared she had lung cancer in October 1975 after an X-ray showed spots on her lungs; she was later found not to have the disease. She broke her back five times, had both her hips replaced, survived a benign brain tumor operation and skin cancer, and faced life-threatening bouts with pneumonia twice, one of which (1961), resulted in an emergency tracheotomy. In the 1980s, she received treatment for alcoholism. She was treated for drug addiction at the now infamous Betty Ford Clinic in 1983, and again from the autumn of 1988 until early 1989. In November 2004, she announced that she had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart is too weak to pump sufficient blood throughout the body, particularly to the lower extremities, the ankles, and feet. She used a wheelchair and when asked about it stated that she had osteoporosis and was born with scoliosis. In 2009 she underwent cardiac surgery to replace a leaky valve. In February 2011, new symptoms related to congestive heart failure caused her to be admitted into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for treatment, where she remained until her death at age 79 on March 23, 2011, surrounded by her four children. -Wikipedia


Liz was a leading child star by the age of 12 after her performance in MGM's National Velvet. It wasn't long before she was knocking critics dead as a serious adult actress with films like Giant, Raintree County and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She reigned the box office as the quintessential movie star taking the breath away from viewers with her glamorous looks and those velvet eyes... See full bio on IMDb »

Born:Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor  February 27, 1932 in Hampstead, London, England, UK
Died:March 23, 2011 (age 79) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Elizabeth Taylor is considered one of the last, if not the last major star, to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. And not just any studio, the top of the heap: MGM. Her early movies, as a child in the early 1940s, starred such Hollywood luminaries as Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy. She quickly grew up, however, and by 1950 was, if not starring in, assuming major responsibilities for the success of motion pictures she appeared in. Then with major roles onscreen, came worldwide attention off-screen, most notably due to a succession of famous and/or rich husbands and a series of health crises throughout her life. To put it simply, Elizabeth Taylor has lived a life far more exciting and dramatic than any movie she's ever appeared in and probably most any other movie you could name. She's known internationally for her beauty, especially for those violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early on in her youth and has kept the world hooked on ever since. She's won the Oscar twice and she's earned her place in and out of the sun.- IMDb 

Wednesday on "The View", Barbara Walters opened the show with a few clips from their conversations to honor her friend, the Oscar winner and social activist. One clip, from 1999, showcased Taylor's trademark humor. Walters inquired what the actress wanted on her tombstone, to which she responded, "Here lies Liz. She lived. Wait, no...Here lies Elizabeth. She hated being called Liz. But she lived," she said with a laugh.

"She had a sense of humor so bawdy that I’d say 'really, did that just come out of your mouth?'" "The View's" Whoopi Goldberg recalled. "She was a great broad and a great friend."

Walters agreed that in addition to being a great actress, Taylor could be "very salty," but that's also what everyone loved about her.

A special edition of "Nightline" featuring Barbara Walters: "Remembering Elizabeth Taylor" aired on Wednesday night, March 23 on ABC at 11:35pm.


Saturday, October 02, 2010

BONUS POST: Plan ahead

Hi everyone--I have a new post up!  It is about how everyone should plan for the future.  Here's a taste:

Today's advice: plan ahead--specifically, plan far ahead.  By this I mean, write a will now before it's too late.  Now I know what you're thinking--another (baby*) lawyer telling me to get a lawyer, it's just a big scheme to get me to spend money, professional courtesy among sharks and all that--but this is really, sincerely good advice.  In my blog I explain why. 


For more, go to  pro bono legal advice!
Thanks! 
-JustMe 

*JustMe is a new contributor to Randomness Rocks! She is the author of Pro Bono Legal Advice*

Friday, August 13, 2010

Outrage -- A nurse just arrested after cops say she poisoned her husband with Oreo pudding...

What are your thoughts on this tragedy? I cant believe this! it's sad and insane! it's so ridiculous its funny.

Nancy Grace: Outrage -- A nurse just arrested after cops say she poisoned her husband with Oreo pudding laced with 80 times the recommended dosage of morphine & muscle relaxants! She claimed he drank himself to death!

 

 Transcript

00:01:47>> Good evening.
00:01:47I'm nancy grace.
00:01:48I want to thank you for being with us.
00:01:50Bombshell tonight, an indiana nurse and mother makes chicken, fresh veggies, fruit salad and dessert for the husband.
00:01:57A few hours later, he's dead, found dead in the backyard lawn chair.
00:02:04Her husband, avall murdered by oreo pudding.
00:02:08>> Tammy duvall called 911 to report that on this small, concrete slab in the backyard she found her estranged husband allen duvall dead from what she explained as alcohol poisoning.
00:02:21>> Toxicology reports allen duvall had 80 times the therapeutic levels of morphine and muscle relaxant.
00:02:28>> Allen duval's cowsin and even her own daughter contacted investigators expressing concerns that tami duvall may have murdered alan duvall.
00:02:39>> She took out a life insurance policy worth $100,000 just a month before he was found dead on the backyard of their home.
00:02:46>> They pointed to a $100,000 life insurance policy she took out with the help of an insurance agent with whom investigators say she'd had an affair.
00:02:56Tami duvall faces six counts of insurance fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice.
00:03:01>> Right out to the news director of wbiw 1340 am death by oreo pudding.
00:03:09I've never heard anything like it.
00:03:11Wait a minute, I did hear death by jello, lime jello.
00:03:16What happened?
00:03:16>> Well, basically they're estranged.
00:03:20They're married, but they're separated and she entered a plea agreement on tuesday and she's facing charges of murder, six count of insurance fraud and three counts of obstruction of justice and, yeah, they say she put in over 80 times the maximum level of morphine and muscle relaxers into his pudding to claim the insurance money.
00:03:39>> Out to jean casares, legal " how did this allegedly go down?
00:03:47>> Poison cases have such similar patterns and in this duvall was dead and they thought it was alcohol poisoning that killed him.
00:03:554, so the death was ruled accidental, but then the toxicology report came back and that's when it all changed.
00:04:04Morphine and muscle relax ants, 80 times the normal amount and the defendant in this case, she's a certified nursing assistant.
00:04:13>> But wouldn't he have tasted something?
00:04:15 gwen o'keefe, founder com joining us out of boston.
00:04:22 o'keefe, thank you for being with us.
00:04:25He couldn't test anything with the morphine and muscle relaxant?
00:04:30>> Not necessarily, nancy.
00:04:31If she was careful in how the medicine was snuck into the oreo.
00:04:36Oreo is a good hider of things and we use it for kids all of the time for getting medicine into them and he wouldn't have known especially if he was intoxicated.
00:04:45>> Take a look at some of the so-called black widows that have become infamous for killing their husbands.
00:04:53There's ann jet wild, one of the first that poisoned her 9-year-old daughter, two husbands and mother-in-law with arsenic.
00:05:00Attempted to kill the second child.
00:05:02Collected insurance money and bought a luxury car and anjette looils had long run the grill across the street from the courthouse where the judges, and the cops and prosecutors ate and to top it all off, she ran the kitchen at the women's diagnostic prison.
00:05:24Who could forget this black widow, murdering her ex-husband and she stayed on the lam for months and months before she was caught, actually for years.
00:05:38She wanted his $11 million fortune.
00:05:41And another black widow, lynn turner and she's the one infamous for putting arsenic in the lemon lime gatorade jello and chicken soup, excuse me, antifreeze.
00:05:59She collected $153,000 for husband's death and $36,000 for boyfriend's death.
00:06:05Sandy murphy, accused of overdosing boyfriend ted binion, remember the heir to the casino fortune out in hass vegas?
00:06:15We can't even count all of the black widows, of course, who can forget dalia dippolito, poisoned her husband with antifreeze.
00:06:28I can go on and on.
00:06:30 bethany marshall, what's the thinking?
00:06:35>> Tend to think of these women as being profoundly perverse.
00:06:38When they meet the man he's simply someone they'll get money off of and there's a perverse, almost like a sexualized excitement and gratification in having power over the man and the idea of poisoning is rendering him completely helpless and then having no fault and not being brought to criminal justice, but it's not like a normal domestic homicide where they a huge rift in the marriage and they don't have problem solvingable sxits they get angry and lash out and kill him.
00:07:09They meet these men with the intent to kill from the very beginning.
00:07:13>> Jean casares, I know it is not a cruel joke.
00:07:16Why is it dirt pudding?
00:07:19Why is the death dish called dirt pudding.
00:07:22>> It is a butteding that has oreos mixed in and it is a butteding and also the oreo, and the probable cause affidavit said are says way back in 2004 a man alleged to prosecutors that he was a friend also of the defendant in this case and on thanksgiving he was giving her pudding and he took two bites of it and he felt he was going to pass out and was weak for hours after that.
00:07:45He said I think she tried to poison me.
00:07:48>> Why would she have tried to poison just a friend.
00:07:52>> Well, the motivation here, prosecutors say is money because an insurance policy was taken out one month before this all happened for $100,000, and she'd had problems with money for years and that was a motivating factor.
00:08:06By the way, prosecutors say she was having an affair with the insurance salesman.
00:08:13>> You slipped that in at the end, didn't you, jean?
00:08:16>> Yeah.
00:08:16>> There was a $100,000 insurance policy.
00:08:20What would the man alan duvall would have suffered?
00:08:23Would he have gone to sleep?
00:08:24And how long it will have taken for him to die in the lawn chair in the backyard after he consumed oreo pudding?
00:08:31>> Well, nancy, if we assume that he was drunk with alcohol and close to alcohol poisoning at that level it wouldn't have taken long with all that morphine and muscle relaxants.
00:08:43They add up together and you intensify the alcohol poisoning and he probably passed out very quickly and with 80 times the level in him of morphine and muscle relaxant, I think it would have happened pretty quickly.
00:08:58So she really was meaning business here.
00:09:01Things would have happened fast.
00:09:04It would have been an immense alcohol poisoning very quickly.
00:09:07In fact, those three additives together would actually create alcohol poisoning at a much lower alcohol level.
00:09:14>> To pat brown, criminal profiler, author of "the profiler.
00:09:20I had life hunting serial " a carefully prepared dinner and watching him through the window sitting in a lawn chair waiting for him to die.
00:09:34>> Absolutely.
00:09:35He's almost gone now.
00:09:36A way to a man's heart is through food, you get him and you kill him with it.
00:09:44Works out well, don't you think?
00:09:45>> Indiana police arrested a woman for allegedly killing her husband with morphine and muscle relaxants mixing them in a dirt pudding she fed to him.
00:09:58>> He told them specifically if I die make sure it's investigated.
00:13:09>>>, Cording to court papers, alan dufr all's cousin and her own daughter contacted investigators expressing concerns that tami duvall may have murdered alan do you have duvall.
00:13:28When investigators took a closer look at the autopsy they discovered the presence of morphine and a muscle relaxer in his body, each exceeding 80 times the maximum dose.
00:13:37Some of those same drug his gone missing from a nursing home where tami worked.
00:13:41Investigators believed she slipped them into a homemade dirt pudding which she served alan during what would become his last meal.
00:13:48>> There's a lot packed into this 59-page probable cause including more charges.
00:13:54In addition to murder, tami duvall faces six counts of insurance fraud and two counts of be on strucked of justice.
00:14:00>> For those of you just joining us, an indiana mom, a mother, a wife, a registered nurse is now given the eyeball from local police after her husband dies in the backyard sitting upright in a lawn chair after eating her famous homemade oreo pudding, why?
00:14:20Because it was laced with about 80 times the amount of the maximum dose of morphine and muscle relax ants, say the police.
00:14:31No, that is impossible.
00:14:33What is her defense, jean qaisares?
00:14:35>> Her defense would be that it was suicide.
00:14:38He did it himself.
00:14:39The marriage warrant working out.
00:14:41He couldn't take it anymore so he took his own life and she told that to investigators and after the toxicology report came back because he said that he'd peased out with the alcohol, when that came back and that was confronted to her from investigators, she admitted that he had morphine and he had the flexor ol muscle relaxants and the empty bottles were found next to his body and she cleaned up the scene after all to tidy up.
00:15:08>> Flexorol.
00:15:10>> What is flexorol?
00:15:13>> That's not morphine, is if?
00:15:15>> No, that's the other drug.
00:15:16>> The muscle relaxant.
00:15:20He took it back there in the lawn chair and dropped the bottles beside him and nobody knew -- >> okay.
00:15:26Here's my next question.
00:15:27Out to you, news director wviw 1340 am.
00:15:32Did he actually say if I die make sure it's investigated?
00:15:36>> Well, at least that's what his neighbors are saying.
00:15:38One of his neighbors brandon wright stated that and then, of course, you have his cousins and tami's ex-husband and their own daughter expressing their interest in the possible murder.
00:15:49>> Here's my question to you, bethany marshall ", pshoanalyst and author of " hey if I die, she'd murder me.
00:16:01Why would you stay in the home.
00:16:03If you really think someone's capable of killing you?
00:16:06>> Because your masochistic, because you're in denial and you do not want to believe it's true and the fact that she's bragging about this to everybody in her life, that's why I think that they knew he was at risk.
00:16:18Remember I said there was a perverse --?
00:16:21Explain the bragging.
00:16:22>> Okay, what I'm thinking happened is that the reason her daughter and her ex-husband went to the police is that she was talking to people about this.
00:16:31She was perhaps obsessed by it, thinking about it, titillated by the idea that she could poison her husband, so it was no secret.
00:16:38It was out there and he stayed because on some level he knew it, on the other level, he did not want to believe.
00:16:45>> He didn't want to know it.
00:16:47>> We're taking your calls live.
00:16:49Quickly, jean casares, do we know of any bragging she did, any comments she made?
00:16:55>> You know, I think the comments were made to the police after the murder happened.
00:16:59She talked and spoke a lot with them, but before hand, well, she had that boyfriend that was the insurance salesman who sold them the $100,000 life insurance policy, who was present when alan duvall actually signed it and whether she spoke to him or not?
00:17:14Question.
00:17:15>> Out to the lines, nicole, oklahoma.
00:17:18Hi, nicole.
00:17:19>> Caller: Hi, nancy.
00:17:20Thanks for taking my call and thank you so much for sharing those beautiful twins you have with us.
00:17:26>> Thank you.
00:17:27Thank you.
00:17:27>> Caller: I was kind of wanting to know a little bit of information on a possible -- what are the side effects of an overdose of morphine?
00:17:38>> Good question.
00:17:39To dr. gwen o'keefe.
00:17:41What would he have gone through?
00:17:43>> Well, with just morphi alone, you get very tired, confused and slip into a coma and you can sometimes get seizures and you can get similar side effects with flexorol and possible we alcohol poisoning and you add the three together and you get a perfect storm of the same symptoms.
00:18:04>> Unleash the lawyers, eleanor odom, felony proks cure the, peter odom, defense attorney, weigh in, eleanor.
00:18:13>> It looks like a perfect murder so she thought because she planned it, she had a motive and the money, but what I'm looking at now is a case because of this planning and because of these large life insurance policies.
00:18:26>> Now you're talk, eleanor.
00:18:27Give me your defense, renee?
00:18:29>> Absolutely no death penalty here because I don't think unless they get the pudding with the drugs in it, a suicide defense could work.
00:18:39>> Peter?
00:18:41>> And she would have bought the $100,000 life insurance policy thinking he might commit suicide in the future.
00:18:48The suicide defense might well work.
00:18:50>> I guarantee you there's a suicide exception.
00:18:54>> Both these drugs are commonly used for suicide.
00:22:21August 2007 that tami duvall called 911 to report that on this small concrete slab in the backyard she found her estranged husband alan duvall dead from what she explained as alcohol poisoning.
00:22:34Though that's how investigators originally viewed the case that's not what neighbor asks relatives believed.
00:22:40>> He told them individually if I die make sure it's investigated.
00:22:46>> She's really friendly to my kids and really friendly to us.
00:22:48>> It doesn't look good.
00:22:49>> We're taking your calls.
 

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Famous July 4th births and deaths

BIRTHS
(for more click here)
  • 1998 Malia Obama (daughter of Barack Obama current US President)
  • 1955 John Waite (singer)
  • 1943 Geraldo Rivera (investigative reporter, talk show host)
  • 1938 Bill Withers (singer, songwriter "Lean On Me")
  • 1937 Thomas Nagel (American philosopher)
  • 1930 George Steinbrenner (owner of NY Yankees, ship builder, horse owner, shipping magnate)
  • 1927 Neil (Marvin) Simon (playwright "Biloxi Blues")
  • 1924 Eva Marie Saint (actress "On the Waterfront")
  • 1918 Abigail Van Buren [Mrs Morton Phillips] (columnist "Dear Abby")
  • 1918 Ann Landers ("Dear Abby's " twin sister, advice columnist, author)
  • 1911 Mitch Miller (record company executive, producer, arranger, musician & instrumentalist) 
  • 1910 Gloria Stuart (actress, Rose "Titanic", founder of Screen Actors Guild)
  • 1883 Rube Goldberg (inventor "The Rube Goldberg Machine" [made the easy outrageously difficult], cartoonist)
  • 1881 Ulysses S. Grant III (American soldier), died in 1968
  • 1872 Calvin Coolidge [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (30th U.S. President 1923-29)
  • 1828 James Johnston Pettigrew (Brig General of the Confederate Army)
  • 1826 Green Clay Smith (Bvt Major General of the Union volunteers), died in 1895
  • 1826 Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa (composer of "Oh! Susanna", and "Swanee River")
  • 1819 Reuben Eaton Fenton (Governor of the Union), died in 1885
  • 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne (author)
 DEATHS
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  • 2009 Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
  • 2009 Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
  • 2009 Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
  • 2009 Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
  • 2009 Jim Chapin, American drummer (b.1919)
  • 2008 Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921) 
  • 2008 Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980) 
  • 2008 Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
  • 2008 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
  • 2007 Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
  • 2003 Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
  • 2002 Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
  • 1999 Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
  • 1997 Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62
  • 1995 Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
  • 1994 Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
  • 1993 Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
  • 1993 Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
  • 1957 Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
  • 1934 Marie Curie, Polish physicist and chemist and two Nobel Prizes winner (in physics and chemistry).
  • 1910 Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
  • 1901 John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
  • 1891 Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
  • 1831 James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
  • 1826 John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
  • 1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83