Stevo Poulin, a third-grade wrestler that has suddenly gone viral on YouTube (see video below) has his sights set on going to Cornell University to wrestle under Coach Rob Koll. Evidently MMA is going to have to wait a bit for Stevo, as he’s a self-proclaimed “great” student with a 96% average. He looks up “a lot” to Kyle Dake on the Cornell Wrestling Team (which is having a great year this year, by the way).
Stevo lives in Schuylerville, N.Y., and in a radio interview with Scott Casber of Takedown Radio, Stevo dished on his impressive record (256-26), his plans for the future (college) and whether he’s more efficient in folkstyle or beach wrestling. Stevo says one thing he’s learned from wrestling is to never quit. He also sees himself as a winner, and seemed a little amused at how the people at school think he’s just a local kid (he’s really an All-Star Wrestling Champion). Stevo won the 2010 Brute National Championship, and looks to be heading that direction for 2011 as well.
I’m happy that Stevo has his sights set on college, but it would be so fun to see him in theoctagon. He’s got the right attitude and raw talent, and that leg cradle at 1:51 in the video is SWEET.
Originally hailing from Dundee, Scotland, Wood-Allen initially took up sport in 1983 as a “one-off”.[3] Wood-Allen made national headlines across the UK when she was 87 years old after completing the 1999 London Marathon. Her time of 7hours 14mins 46secs, earned her the current Guinness World Record for Oldest Female Marathon Finisher.
In 2001, Wood-Allen ran for the last time in the London Marathon before walking it once more in 2002 at the age of 90.
She received an MBE in the 2006 New Year Honours List, and took part in the 2006 Great Scottish Walk.
In December 2006, she made the headlines when £700 worth of jewellery was stolen from her home.[4]
From 2007, she was still very active in sport, running up to 50 miles a week,[5] and regularly appearing at meetings of the Dundee City Sports Council.[6]
Wood-Allen died on December 30, 2010 at the age of 99.
Barry Zorthian was an American diplomat, most notably press officer for 4 1⁄2 years during the Vietnam war, media executive and lobbyist died he was , 90.
(October 8, 1920 – December 30, 2010)
Early life and education
Baryoor Zorthian was born on October 8, 1920, in Katahya[1]Turkey, the child of Armenian parents. “His father, a writer, was imprisoned in Turkey but escaped. His mother, refusing to divulge her husband’s whereabouts, was herself sent to jail, along with their son. [The family] eventually migrated to New Haven, Connecticut, the father working in a dry cleaners. Barry went to Yale, where he edited the student newspaper and joined the secretive Skull and Bones society.”[2]
Career
Military service and early career
Zorthian “was a Marine in the Pacific during World War II. After working for a Vermont newspaper [the Caledonian Record[1]], he joined CBS Radio and then the Voice of America. He earned a law degree by attending New York University at night. After 13 years at the Voice of America, he became a diplomat in India.”[3]
Service in Vietnam
He was best known for his four years as chief spokesperson for the U. S. government in Saigon, Vietnam 1964-1968. “His daily afternoon briefings for press correspondents … were dubbed “Five O’Clock Follies” by reporters frustrated by the lack of complete transparency. … New York Times Correspondent, Gloria Emerson, declared him ‘a determined and brilliant liar’ at a 1981 conference on the Vietnam War. Despite the criticism, many still trusted him as an honest public official. ‘He had a conscience. He believed in informing the American public,’ Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and a former New York Times reporter in Saigon, told the Washington Post. ‘His problem was that he was trying to sell a bad war.’”[4] He was “Murrow’s last recommendation before retiring from USIA, [an appointment] so sensitive that it required President Lyndon Johnson and the secretaries of state and defence, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, to sign off on it.”[2] He oversaw the 500-person Joint United States Public Affairs Office under Carl T. Rowan after Murrow retired.[3] Other journalists he faced were members “of a tough school in American journalism covering the war [including] Richard Pyle, … Halberstam, Apple, Arnett, Kalb, Karnow – several of whom made their reputations in Vietnam.”[2]
One obituary described his job in Saigon as trying to “defuse an increasingly acrimonious relationship between American officials and news correspondents covering the war[. He] used a mixture of charm, sly wit and uncommonly straight talk in trying to establish credibility for the U.S. effort…. [H]e refused to be intimidated by either officials or the news media. ‘He talked back,’ said George McArthur, who covered the Vietnam war for The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times [and later was AP Cairo bureau chief[5]]…. ‘Barry’s door was always open and although he never shared a classified thought, he left you feeling that he had,’ said former New York Times and CBS reporter Bernard Kalb. ‘Even when he told you nothing, he was always persuasive.’ ‘In postwar years, Barry Zorthian remained steadfast to his conviction about the significant role the media must play in a democratic society,’ said Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter for the AP in Vietnam and later a CNN foreign correspondent. … Arnett recalled that when he [Arnett] complained about an American military policeman threatening to shoot him during a 1965 Buddhist street demonstration in Saigon, `Zorthian shook his head in mock concern, and said `D— it, Peter, you threatened him and he was just responding.’ ‘What?’ I replied. ‘Yes,’ Barry said, `you were aiming your pencil at him and that’s more dangerous around here than a .45.’”[6]
“Zorthian remained proud of his most controversial achievement … [the] Follies…. [T]he briefings lasted a decade, the only regular forum in which U.S. and South Vietnamese officials spoke entirely on the record and were often challenged or contradicted by reporters, sometimes to their embarrassment.”[6]
Career after Vietnam
“After leaving Saigon in 1968, Mr. Zorthian was an executive at Time Inc. and a lobbyist on communications issues.”[3]
“After The New York Times and other newspapers in 1971 published a history of the Vietnam War that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, Mr. Zorthian wrote an Op-Ed column in The Times asserting that the Vietnam war had been ‘the most open war in history.’[7] He said that almost all the important disclosures in the documents had already been known to journalists. In a letter to the editor in response, Elliot Bernstein, the ABC News Saigon bureau chief in the mid-1960s, countered that the press had been kept in the dark about the extent of American bombing of Laos beginning in 1964, as well as the fact that bases in Thailand were being used to conduct air raids on North Vietnam .”
Personal
Zorthian was feted at a “90th birthday ‘roast and toast’ [which included] Richard Holbrooke, who was himself to die a few weeks later and who earned his diplomatic spurs in Vietnam.”[2]
“Zorthian’s wife of 62 years, Margaret Aylaian Zorthian, died in July. He is survived by two sons, Greg and Steve, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.”[6]
A graduate of the University of Michigan,[1] where he received a bachelor of arts degree in literature,[2] Boros managed the Oakland Athletics (1983–84) and the San Diego Padres (1986).
A native of Flint, Michigan, Boros signed a bonus contract with the Detroit Tigers in 1957. He was named the most valuable player of the Class AAA American Association in 1960 after he tied for the lead in runs batted in with 119. In his first full major league season, 1961, Boros appeared in 116 games for the Tigers as a third baseman and hit .270 with 62 runs batted in. It was his finest season. In 1962, he slugged three home runs in one game on August 6. No other Tigers player accomplished the feat until Bill Freehan did it in 1971.
Boros was then shipped to the Chicago Cubs in an offseason trade. After one season in Chicago, he finished his major league playing career with the 1964-65 Cincinnati Reds. In all or parts of seven seasons, he batted .245 with 26 home runs. He batted and threw right-handed.
Boros continued to play at the AAA level through 1969. His managing career began in the Kansas City Royals farm system in 1970. He coached on the staff of Whitey Herzog in Kansas City (1975–79). He also served as a coach with the Montreal Expos (1981–82), before taking over the Athletics, replacing Billy Martin.[3] After his managerial career, Boros returned to the coaching ranks with the Royals (1993–94) and Baltimore Orioles (1995), and was a coordinator of instruction and farm director for several MLB teams, including the Tigers.
But it was his work as an advance scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988 that really showed off his baseball smarts. Boros was part of a scout team that filled out reports that fall on the Athletics, the Dodgers’ opponent in the 1988 World Series. Among the traits that Boros and his co-workers noticed, where that Oakland relief ace Dennis Eckersley tended to throw a backdoor slider on 3-2 counts to left-handed hitters. That was exactly the pitch that pinch-hitterKirk Gibson launched off Eckersley for a memorable two-out, bottom-of-the-ninth homer to win Game One of the Series. The Dodgers went on to upset the mighty Athletics in five games.[4]
He retired from baseball in 2004 after serving as a special assistant to Tigers’ general managerDavid Dombrowski.
Boros died in Deland, Florida, at the age of 74. He had been ill with multiple myeloma since 2007.[5]
Avraham “Avi” Cohen was an Israelifootballer who played as a defender. He was best known for his spell playing for Liverpool in England.[1] After retirement from active football and management, he was the chairman of the Israel Professional Footballers Association for over five years until he was killed in a motorcycle crash.[4][5]
(Hebrew: אבי כהן; 14 November 1956 – 29 December 2010[2])
Career
Cohen began his playing career with Maccabi Tel Aviv, before joining Liverpool for a fee of £200,000 ($450,000) in July 1979, and became the first Israeli to play in England.[1][4] He struggled to establish himself as a regular at Anfield and was released in November 1981, rejoining Maccabi.[1] On 20 September 1980, Cohen stirred up controversy when he decided to play in Liverpool’s away fixture versus Southampton, which fell on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Liverpool drew with Southampton 2–2 in front of 24,085 spectators and Cohen was lambasted by the Israeli media for playing.[6] He returned to the United Kingdom in 1987, when he had a brief spell under former Liverpool teammate Graeme Souness at Rangers,[1] before ending his career with Maccabi Netanya.
He also played for the Israeli national team, making his debut on 19 July 1976 during the 1976 Summer Olympics in a 0–0 draw against Guatemala.[7][8] On 9 October 1984, Cohen scored his first goal against Greece in a 2–2 friendly draw.[9] He was capped 51 times, scoring 3 goals.[3][10] His son, Tamir, is currently an international professional footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League and the Israeli national team.[11]
On 20 December 2010, Cohen was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash. He was taken to Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, where he was immediately taken into surgery and was reported to be in a critical condition.[14]Johan Elmander paid tribute to Avi Cohen through a goal celebration on 26 December 2010 when he scored against West Bromwich Albion. Elmander held up a Bolton Wanderers shirt that read on the back – Get Well Soon Avi Cohen. This was due to Cohen’s son Tamir currently playing for Bolton.[15]
On 28 December 2010, Ichilov Hospital declared that Cohen was brain dead.[16] His brain death was confirmed by his son Tamir later the same day.[5] Paying tribute to Cohen, Kenny Dalglish said “Avi was a lovely man who will be remembered fondly by everyone at Liverpool who knew him. He quickly integrated himself into the football club when he joined us and spent a lot of time learning English which really made him popular. He was well liked by all the lads and although he didn’t spend a long time at the club, he certainly left his mark and no-one will forget how he helped us win the league against Aston Villa. My thoughts and those of everyone connected to the club are with Avi’s family.” Ally McCoist said “we knew his situation was bad but never for a second did we think it would come to this” before going on to say it was “so sad to hear that he has passed away.”[17]
On 29 December 2010, eight hours after the confirmation of suffering brain death, Cohen’s heart stopped and he was declared legally dead at 06:00 am IST.[18][2] Liverpool marked the death of Cohen with a period of applause before their Premier League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 29 December 2010.[19]
FENNVILLE, Mich. — One moment: a perfect shot to end a perfect season. The star player, 16, lifted off the floor in celebration.
The next: Wes Leonard on the gym floor, his enlarged heart failing, his life fading just a few moments after his victory layup. Packed bleachers suddenly stunned by a turn that made basketball seem a distant, unimportant memory.
A day after Leonard died from an enlarged heart, this small town near Lake Michigan remembered an “all-American kid” whose athletic heroics had been local legend since middle school.
“He was a good kid, a good friend to have and a good person to hang around with,” DeMarcus McGee, who played football and basketball with Leonard, said between sobs. “You never thought it could be him. He was so healthy. It shouldn’t happen.”
On Thursday evening, Leonard sank a layup with less than 30 seconds left in the game. The basket gave Fennville High a 57-55 victory over Bridgman High and a 20-0 regular season.
After the teams exchanged handshakes, Fennville players celebrated. Some began scrambling to organize a team photo that would commemorate their undefeated record. That’s when the 6-foot-2, 215-pound Leonard collapsed, with an estimated 1,400 fans watching.
Leonard was rushed to nearby Holland Hospital, where paramedics performed CPR before he was pronounced dead. An autopsy conducted Friday by the Ottawa County medical examiner showed Leonard died of cardiac arrest due to an enlarged heart.
“It shouldn’t have been like this,” teammate Adam Siegel said. “Too young.”
Medical examiner David Start said the stress Leonard placed on his heart through athletics could have played a role, but his death could not be easily explained.
“Why at this event as opposed to another basketball or football game, I don’t know,” Start told the Grand Rapids Press.
Many who knew Leonard said he was destined for athletic greatness from a young age. At Fennville High, Leonard was a starter for three years on the football team, first as a receiver, then as a quarterback and defensive end.
“He had a personality that, when people were around him, they played better,” said Tim Schipper, Leonard’s football coach. “Everybody around him played better, because he was a leader and the best athlete.”
Schipper had expected Leonard to take his talents into college athletics at some level.
The Fennville team was scheduled to compete in the district playoffs Monday, but school officials had not decided Friday whether to play the game.
“That’s way, way down the road,” coach Ryan Klingler said. “We’re going to make sure we’re all in a good, healthy place before we decide on anything.”
Did you know that this is informative information on fruit
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Sophomore Brandon Davies was suspended from BYU’s basketball team for violating school’s Honor Code
(Credit: BYU)
BYU’s star basketball forward Brandon Davies got dismissed from team, because he violated the university’s honor code for premarital sex with his girlfriend..
Brigham Young University operates under a strict honor code that prohibits, among other things, alcohol use, premarital sex and beards. The clean-shaven 19-year-old acknowledged to school officials on Monday that he broke the section of the code that calls for students to “live a chaste and virtuous life,” according to the Star .
Maybe if more schools had rules and regulations that were strict and had serious implication, it would reduce
the amount of violence that happens every day..
Although with out a mistake many of us would not know how to live right, so every thing happens for a reason! The suspension won’t kill him, but you can believe that it will make him and her stronger!
Heard was born April 22, 1986 and raised in Austin, Texas. Her father, David, is a contractor, and her mother, Paige, is an internet researcher for the state. She attended St. Michael’s Catholic Academy in Austin until her junior year, when she left to pursue a career in Hollywood. As a teenager, Heard was active in her school’s drama department and appeared in local commercials and campaigns. At the age of 16, her best friend died in a car crash and Heard, who was raised Catholic, then subsequently declared herself an atheist, due to the influence of the works of Ayn Rand.[1] Dropping out of school at the age of 17, to go to New York to start a career in modeling, she then relocated to Los Angeles to get into acting.
Heard came out as a lesbian(or bisexual) in 2010, at GLAAD‘s 25th anniversary event. She is dating artist Tasya van Ree.[2][3][4][5]
Heard grew up around guns, and owns a .357 Magnum. A fan of muscle cars, Heard drives a 1968 Ford Mustang.
Career
Once in Los Angeles, Heard made appearances in various TV shows and a music video, Kenny Chesney’s “There Goes My Life”. She was cast as Liz in the pilot episode of The WB‘s Jack & Bobby (2004), as Riley in an episode of The Mountain (2004) and she had a brief cameo as a salesgirl in The O.C. (2005). Her first movie role was Maria in Friday Night Lights (2004). She next starred as Shay in Side FX (2005), an independent horror film, and had supporting roles in Drop Dead Sexy (2005), Price to Pay (2006) and You Are Here (2006). Heard had more prominent parts in Niki Caro‘s North Country (2005) as young Josey and as Alma in Nick Cassavetes‘ Alpha Dog (2006). In 2006 she starred in an episode of Criminal Minds as Lila Archer, a young Hollywood actress who has a crush on Spencer Reid.
Heard was next cast in the CW Network‘s Hidden Palms. On the show she portrayed Greta Matthews, who suffered the losses of both her mother and boyfriend, Eddie, and befriends Johnny, the anti-hero of the show. In order to get the part, Heard was asked to lose weight. It took her four months, daily workouts and a ban on carbohydrates to lose 25 pounds. Hidden Palms premiered in the US on May 30, 2007. Ultimately, The CW wrapped the summer series early; instead of the initial 12 episode arc, only eight were aired. The show ended on July 4, two weeks prior than originally planned.
She was next cast in the title role in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. The horror film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2006, immediately generating buzz and landing a deal with Harvey Weinstein. However, nearly a year after its Toronto debut, the movie had not reached theaters. In July 2007, Mandy Lane found a new distribution home and the film finally was released in 2008 with a February UK release and DVD release in June.
In 2007, Heard also appeared in the short movie Day 73 with Sarah and Jess Manafort‘s indie drama Remember the Daze (aka The Beautiful Ordinary), which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June and opened in limited release in April 2008. She then appeared in the Judd Apatow-produced, Rogen and Goldberg-written comedy Pineapple Express and the martial arts drama Never Back Down, released in 2008, back-to-back. The latter opened in March and Heard played the role of the free-spirited Baja Miller who falls for Sean Faris‘ Jake Tyler.
Heard also made a brief appearance in Showtime‘s Californication and joined the ensemble cast of The Informers, based on Bret Easton Ellis‘ novel of the same title, set to be released in 2009. She also filmed the horror film The Stepfather and the comedy film Ex-Terminators back-to-back in 2008 while promoting Never Back Down, Mandy Lane and Remember the Daze.[6] In late 2008 she filmed The River Why and The Joneses; two independent features. At the beginning of 2009 The Informers made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The reviews were mostly negative. Heard next appeared in Zombieland, playing a small role as the object of Jesse Eisenberg’s affection who turns into a zombie. She will subsequently appear in John Carpenter‘s The Ward. In March Heard begins filming The Rum Diary, opposite Johnny Depp, in Puerto Rico. Heard is reported to have won the role out over Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley. In 2010, she starred in and produced And Soon the Darkness, co-starring Odette Yustman and Karl Urban.[7]
In the October 2009 issue of Teen Vogue, Amber describes her role as Johnny Depp’s love interest in the film, The Rum Diary, as “the best experience of my life.”[8]
In February 2010, Heard was cast in Drive Angry, a 3-D psychological thriller directed by Patrick Lussier.[9]
Additionally, in February 2011 she appeared on Top Gear in the UK where she was 5,8 seconds slower than Cameron Diaz, was introduced as a bisexual by Jeremy Clarkson, talked about her love of guns and musclecars, and revealed that she used to linedance in bars.
A teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of poisoning her teachers by lacing the staff room kettle.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named, was quizzed by detectives after two teachers complained of stomach cramps at the school in Torquay, Devon.
Officers, who had been called to the school for a separate matter, found a ‘noxious substance’ in the staff room kettle and launched an investigation.
The girl was arrested the following day at home in Cullompton, Devon and released on bail pending further enquiries.
Detective Constable Steve Fleetwood, of Devon and Cornwall police, said: ‘The inquiry centres on claims that an allegedly noxious substance may have been put in a kettle which caused two members of staff to fall ill with stomach problems.
‘We later arrested a 17-year-old girl on suspicion of poisoning.
‘She was questioned in Torquay on Thursday and then released on bail pending further enquiries.’
A spokesman for the school, which has not been identified, said: ‘Police were called to one of our services on an unrelated issue and a claim was made by one of our service users.
‘Officers are currently making enquiries to establish whether there is any foundation to what they said.
‘While investigations are ongoing, there is a limit to what we can say or do, but as soon as that investigation is completed, we will conduct our own enquiries to see whether we need to take any further action ourselves.’
The incident happened on February 17, the spokesman added.
He lived in North Hollywood with his wife, actress and journalist Fran MacLachlan Erwin (who predeceased her husband). The couple had two daughters and two sons.
Death
Bill Irwin died on December 29, 2010 in Studio City, Los Angeles, near the production lot where Seinfeld was filmed.[2]
Career
Film
In the late 1950s, Erwin was in such pictures as “A Streetcar Named Desire”, Man From Del Rio, The Night Runner, and The Cry Baby Killer. He played Jack Nicholson‘s father in “Cry Baby Killer”, Nicholson’s first starring role in 1958. The long out-of-print film was released on DVD on November 22, 2006. He would later co-star alongside Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in the 1980 romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time – as Arthur Biehl, the Grand Hotel’s venerable bellman – and attend annual reunions of cast, crew, and fans of the movie Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Erwin has appeared in a number of films directed by John Hughes, with cameos in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She’s Having a Baby, Home Alone, and Dennis the Menace. Hughes often paired him with Billie Bird as his wife.
Erwin began his theatrical career as ventriloquist Edgar Bergen‘s stage manager for Bergen’s 1941 tour of the country. Erwin dryly recalled, “I was in charge of the dummies.”
The father of guitarists Ninine and Rocky Garcia, Mondine Garcia had a long, highly respected career in France as a notable part of the second generation of gypsy guitarists after Django Reinhardt. He often performed at the same venues and festivals alongside such contemporaries as Moreno Winterstein, Dorado Schmitt and Marcel Campion, and is succeeded by such “third generation” players as Angelo Debarre. His regular venue was La Chope Des Puces at Porte De Clignancourt in Rue Des Rosiers, Saint-Ouen.[2] One of his last festival appearances was at the Festival Jazz Muzette.[3]
Guitar
Garcia played for decades on a guitare Favino, fitted with a Stimer S.51 held on by packing tape, the string action “adjusted” by a folded wad of paper beneath the bridge.[4]
”Bad” Bennie Briscoe was the quintessential Philadelphia boxer died he was , 67. “Bad” Bennie fought from 1962 to 1982, and retired with a career record of 66 wins (53 by KO) 24 losses and 5 draws. Briscoe was a top-rated Middleweight contender during the 1970s, unsuccessfully challenging for the World Title on three different occasions. His record reads like a “who’s who” list of prominent fighters from his era.
(August 2, 1943 – December 28, 2010)
Amateur career
Briscoe had a standout career as an amateur, compiling a record of 70–3 (Source: The Ring, Sept 1963). He won the Middle Atlantic AAU title three times, the last in 1962 at Convention Hall in Philadelphia.
Professional career
Bennie fought Middleweight champions Marvin Hagler, Vito Antuofermo, Rodrigo Valdez, Emile Griffith and Carlos Monzón. He also fought and defeated future light-heavyweight champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Tom Bethea, Carlos Marks, Rafael Gutierrez, Charley Scott, Billy “Dynamite” Douglas, George Benton, Vicente Rondon, Jose Gonzales (twice), Art Hernandez, Tony Mundine, Stanley “Kitten” Hayward, Juarez DeLima, Eugene “Cyclone” Hart and Tony Chiaverini. Briscoe also dropped two decisions to former welterweight champion Luis Rodriguez.
Bennie was known for his toughness, strong punch and body punching. He fought future middleweight champion Monzon to a draw in Buenos Aires on May 6, 1967, but dropped a 15 round decision to the champion in a 1972 title match. Briscoe was outpointed by former welterweight and middleweight king Emile Griffith in their first match, but fought Griffith to a draw in a rematch. He was outpointed by future middleweight champions Marvin Hagler and Vito Antuofermo.
Bennie also fought Rodrigo Valdez three times. He was outpointed twice, but Valdez scored a rare KO over Briscoe in an elimination match to determine the WBC middleweight champion on May 25, 1974 – it was the only time in 96 fights that Briscoe was ever stopped. The WBC had decided to “strip” Monzon of its version of the middleweight crown, although the rest of the world continued to recognize Monzon as champion.
Briscoe was one of the most feared middleweights of his era. In 2003, he was named to the The Ring‘s list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.[2] His final record was 66-24-5 with 53 knockouts and one No Contest.
Briscoe fought with the Star of David on his boxing trunks in tribute to his managers, first Jimmy Iselin, whose father Phil owned the New York Jets, and Arnold Weiss.[1]
Denis Dutton was an academic, web entrepreneur and libertarian media commentator/activist. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand died from prostate cancer he was , 66. He was also a co-founder and co-editor of the websites Arts & Letters Daily, ClimateDebateDaily.com and cybereditions.com.[1]
Dutton’s 2009 book The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution[4] opposes the commonly held modernist view that art appreciation is culturally learned, claiming instead that art appreciation stems from evolutionary adaptions made during the Pleistocene.[5] He set out an abbreviated version of his theory in a 2009 Google Talk lecture.[6]
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Dutton said, “To ask what this means is to miss the point. This sentence beats readers into submission and instructs them that they are in the presence of a great and deep mind. Actual communication has nothing to do with it.”[7] Butler challenged the charges of academic pedantry and obscurantism in the pages of the New York Times[9] and the affair briefly became a cause célèbre in the world of academic theorists. Dutton then ended the contest.
Public radio advocacy
Dutton was a passionate supporter of public radio. In the early 1990s he founded the lobby group The New Zealand Friends of Public Broadcasting in response to proposals to devolve New Zealand’s two non-commercial public radio stations.[10]
In 1995 he was appointed to the board of directors of Radio New Zealand, where he served for seven years.[11] After concluding his term as a director, Dr Dutton and Dr John Isles issued a report criticising Radio New Zealand for loss of neutrality in news and current affairs, failure to adhere to charter and opposed to contestable funding of broadcasting.[12]
Recent academic contributions
In 2010, Dutton introduced a course entitled “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea” [13](Phil220) The title was borrowed, with permission, from the title of a book by philosopher Daniel Dennett, the man who famously called Darwin’s formulation of evolution “The single best idea anyone has ever had.” One of the purposes of the course was to demonstrate why Dennett’s claim is defensible.
The required anchor text for the course was The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary theorist. Writings by Charles Darwin were sourced from another recommended text, Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, edited by Joseph Carroll. Carroll’s collection included important excerpts from The Voyage of the Beagle and The Descent of Man, as well as historical background (including Darwin’s own short autobiography) and source material on other evolutionary thinkers.
Dutton intended this course to be a thought-provoking journey through the making of The Origin of Species, highlighting not only his personal journey but also the obstacles that thwarted early understanding of evolutionary theory.
Because of Dutton’s death, this course will not be offered again. Douglas Campbell will staff one of Dutton’s entry level courses, Philosophy 110″Science Good, Bad and Bogus,” as mentioned above. Campbell founded with Dutton, and at present edits, Climate Debate Daily; However, the remainder of Dutton’s Courses are likely to be cancelled indefinitely [14]
Death
In his final Email to his students in Philosophy 110, he wrote that the shoulder pain he had been suffering from was in fact cancer, and that he had recently begun a non-alternative treatment which left him feeling much better. He continued to decline, however, so that in his last lecture of 2010 he announced to his Philosophy 220 students his reluctant retirement from university teaching. Without ceremony, he thus slipped out the door of the university where he had lectured since 1984. Other students did not know of his retirement until they received a memo acknowledging the cancellation or restructuring of the courses he had been teaching. At its December 2010 graduation ceremony, the University of Canterbury awarded him a Research Medal for his work,[15] barely a fortnight before his death from cancer on 28 December 2010.[16][17]
