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Key points:
Glenn Wheatley was in the music industry for more than 50 years
He is known for his creative partnership with John Farnham, and for discovering Delta Goodrem
Wheatley's son remembered him as a family man, and said he "had time for everyone"

Wheatley had been in the music industry for more than 50 years.

He started out as a musician playing bass in 1960s rock band The Masters Apprentices, with hits such as Because I Love You and Turn Up Your Radio, and was responsible for reinvigorating Farnham's career as well as discovering Delta Goodrem.

It was under Wheatley's guidance that Farnham released the hugely successful 1986 album Whispering Jack.

It was the singer's most popular LP and remains the highest-selling album in Australia by an Australian artist.

Yale Kamisar, a legal scholar whose work on civil liberties and criminal procedure had a profound influence on landmark Supreme Court decisions like Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona, died on Sunday at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 92.

Professor Kamisar began to wrestle with the issues of criminal procedure — the rules under which the legal system adjudicates crimes — in the late 1950s, as a newly hired faculty member at the University of Minnesota.

At the time, the subject was considered largely a sideshow to the big questions in constitutional law. What few courses existed were sloughed off on new hires, and everyone expected Professor Kamisar to move quickly into teaching antitrust, an area he knew from his time working for a Washington law firm.

Instead, within a decade he established himself as the leading figure in an area of the law that, thanks in large part to his work, suddenly seemed not just important but intellectually vibrant. He continued that work at the University of Michigan, where he moved in 1965.

chancery wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:30 pm Thanks filly, that's a moving obituary. How wonderful to have had Professor Kamisar as a teacher.

neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 7:27 am

Janet Hock is a former dentistry professor who lives in Indianapolis. She is also an avid scuba diver, with a long love of the ocean. “We plod around on Earth, but there’s this whole other world that teems with life – or used to,” she says.

So when Hock, 77, updated her will in 2020, she added that she wanted to become part of a coral reef when she died. The unusual request means her cremated remains will be mixed into a perforated concrete dome, known as a reef ball. She will then become part of an artificial reef, having a second life on the seabed.

“You’re providing structure for fish to swim through and a place for plants to grow,” says Hock. “My first impression was that they’re really ugly. Then I thought: ‘Oh, it would be so nice to be down there, with little orange fish darting through the holes in my ball.’”

The service is provided by Eternal Reefs, a Florida-based charity that says it offers a “way to give back after life by replenishing the dwindling natural reef systems”. It places reef balls made of pH-neutral concrete, along with human ashes, in regulated areas of the seabed around the US. Family and friends are given the GPS coordinates of where their loved one’s “grave” is located.

jez wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:41 pm There is something in a similar vein with trees. You can either have a biodegradable urn with a seedling in which your ashes are interred, or you can be shoved into a pod in the fetal position and the whole thing buried in the ground, not embalmed, of course.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 6:45 pm

Her voice sounds very weak. I wonder when this was recorded.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 6:45 pm

Her voice sounds very weak. I wonder when this was recorded.

poplove wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:19 pm

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 6:45 pm

Her voice sounds very weak. I wonder when this was recorded.

I follow her on FB and I believe it was 2-3 weeks before she passed. Her assistant, Kirsten (sp?) is running the account and posted the video in January.

Gregg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:10 am I loved Spin and Marty, didn't know he was on it.