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Beloved comic actor Fred Willard has died at age 86 of natural causes. The comedian was best known for roles in films “Best in Show” and “This is a Spinal Tap,” and TV’s “Modern Family. “My father passed away very peacefully last night at the fantastic age of 86 years old. He kept moving, working and making us happy until the very end. We loved him so very much!” his daughter Hope toldPeople. Earlier this year, Willard’s “Modern Family” character Frank Dunphy died on the show, of old age. Willard portrayed the character Fred Naird in the upcoming Netflix comedy “Space Force,” starring Steve Carell, which premieres on May 29th. Willard’s wife, Mary, died in 2018. Getting wedding gifts on ROSEANNE

Any time a person uses 'passes' or 'passed' referring to death, I'm reminded of this classic Golden Girls exchange: Truby Steele : Oh, my husband passed. Rose Nylund : Passed what? Dorothy Zbornak : A slow-moving Winnebago, Rose! And these exchanges also come to mind for this thread: Blanche: But he wants me. I can feel it. Dorothy: Let someone else feel it. Blanche: But we were meant for each other. I'm a woman, he's a man... Dorothy: And what am I, Little Richard? [blanche is talking about her beau Richard's son Little Richard during an outing to Bermuda] Rose: Little Richard was in Bermuda?! Dorothy: Yes, Rose. He was burying Fats Domino in the sand.

Worldwide bee population buzzing back thanks to lockdown Dwindling bee populations have threatened global food security and nutrition, but now they’re buzzing back thanks to the cleaner air caused by humans going into confinement. Wild bees have benefited from the planetary lockdown after years of sharply declining around the world. Conservationists say a world without bees would be a nightmare and efforts should be made to preserve them after the pandemic is over. “These creatures are vital to what we eat and what our countryside looks like,” Gill Perkins, chief executive of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, told the BBC. “They provide a whole ecosystem service.” In the UK, bee specialists point to how officials have stopped maintaining highway shoulders, allowing bees to flourish in what are rapidly becoming lush habitats. Fewer cars on the road during the lockdown has meant less air pollution which makes it easier for bees to forage. Emptier highways have also spared many of the estimated 24 billion bees and wasps killed on North American roads every year. Bees are the world’s chief pollinators. They fertilize a third of the food we eat and 80% of flowering plants. Bees and other pollinating insects are worth about $150 billion to the world economy. To bee or not to bee, that is the question...

Store owner in California who banned masks says he’s being harassed over his views A Southern California flooring store owner who banned masks in his shop said this week he’s being threatened and harassed over his coronavirus views. “The government should not be doing what it’s doing,” Ramsay Devereux, who owns Ramsay One Construction in Ventura County, told the Los Angeles Times. “It’s absurd what’s going on,” he added. “No one has isolated a virus. No one has proved it. You can’t catch a virus. It’s not even possible. It’s the pharmaceutical industry trying to make a lot of money and make vaccines that are poisonous.” Four signs outside of his store read: “We’re OPEN – to the truth,” “No masks allowed,” “handshakes OK,” “Hugs very OK.” COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease that mainly spreads through respiratory droplets in the air. Wearing masks can help slow the spread of the virus to others, experts say, because it keeps droplets sent into the air through breathing, sneezing or coughing inside the mask. Devereaux is seemingly in violation of Ventura County’s current social distancing order for businesses, requiring establishments to “enforce COVID-19 prevention plans” and give written notice for how it will comply with social distancing requirements. He told The Times, “there was not one bit of criticism,” when he first put up the signs. People even came into the store for hugs, he said. “And then everything broke loose,” he added. Last weekend, TMZ posted a story on Devereaux’s signs and a separate tweet of a Facebook picture of Devereaux’s signs with the comment “Actual store in my town,” went viral. David Parsons, an American history professor who posted the tweet, told The Times, “Reading the thread of all these reactions, it’s clear that Americans are all living in their own media-saturated reality.” “All these rabbit hole investigations people have done. It’s scary to me because managing democracy is always messy, but it’s harder when you have a population that does not even accept the premise of what’s going on,” he added. Devereaux said he’s gotten angry emails and phone calls and Yelp even had to shut down reviews on his business’s page because of angry criticisms unrelated to flooring. One person called him a “COVID-19 denier!” according to The Times. Devereaux said one person threatened to burn down his store. “It’s shaken me up,” he admitted.

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Lingerie designer and heiress to KFC launches $1 million plan to employ LGBT+ people affected by coronavirus Kaila Methven, heiress to a fried chicken fortune and a lingerie designer to the stars, has reportedly pledged to help employ LGBT+ people and raise $1 million during the coronavirus pandemic. Methven’s company, PLUR, will hire LGBT+ people, as well as people in alcohol recovery and survivors of domestic abuse, to work as independent contractors. PLUR – Peace Love Unity Respect, a slogan that comes from the rave community – creates Methven’s “Madame Maven” lingerie, as well as the slyly named festival-clothing line ‘Special K’. “The Independent Contractor Program primarily assists the unemployed and disenfranchised members of the LGBTIQ+ community, the domestic violence survivor community of both men and women, and the sober living community community,” said Methven. The newly conceived programme for independent contractors will also seek to raise $1 million in emergency coronavirus funds for LGBT+ charities associated with the electronic dance community, Methven has pledged. Kaila Methven’s grandfather founded Rainbow Chicken Unlimited, the company that acquired KFC in the 1980s. The fund and programme were first reported in music-industry media in February. “Giving people opportunities to work for themselves in the fashion industry and learning the ‘ins and outs’ while they learn about clothing, lingerie, and art has developed and really improved every aspect of the PLUR Association,”Methven told the Star Observer yesterday. Asked about what inspired her to help the LGBT+ community during the pandemic, she said: “Art inspires me… love inspires me… so does sensuality and passion.” “I want my contribution to the world to be the soldier spreading the message and true meaning of PLUR,” Methven added. “I aim to use my voice as a philanthropist, it’s my dream to make a difference in the world. This is the beginning of days, we all unite globally as human beings.” She added that the PLUR Association seeks to foster recognition of the need for respect, diversity, inclusion, and equality for people of all gender identities and sexualities in the workplace. Now can she just do something about all those annoying commercials?

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Anything Madonna from her first two albums (couldn't stand her before the TRUE BLUE album) Anything Prince sang (especially This is what it smells like When Doves Fry) Almost any show tune the 1-877-kars4kids jingle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ironically I don't turn that off because I love singing along and making fun of his pronunciation. I always imagine he recorded it on the toilet whilst dealing with severe constipation.

Restaurant slammed for ‘COVID-19 surcharge’ on meal The owners of a Missouri restaurant are pleading with people online to stop harassing their employees after a customer posted a photo of their receipt that showed she was charged a “Covid 19 surcharge” for a meal. The customer posted the photo of the receipt from Kiko Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Lounge in West Plains on May 11, writing: “Scuse me … what? A covid surcharge…?” The tweet went viral, and Twitter users began hurling insults at the staff of the restaurant for the surcharge, the steakhouse wrote in a Facebook post. They wrote that the surcharge was applied because of an increase in the price of meat and poultry because of the coronavirus outbreak. “Please understand we are not doing this to take advantage of you guys!” the restaurant wrote in the Facebook post. “We are doing this hoping we can adjust the surcharge weekly rather than just raise all of our prices on our menu due to increase prices from our supplier on meat, poultry, seafood & produce,” they added. That actually seems sensible and sensitive to me. I get that it seems exploitative, but I don't think that was the intent. Meat prices in the US have shot up in recent weeks, increasing more than 8 percent in April. In response to the backlash, the restaurant said it would take the surcharge off and instead raise their prices across the board. However, it added that it would be offering a “good promo deal” so customers can “enjoy our meal with a low cost.” :confused:

Adele’s former trainer leapt to her defense after she came under fire for betraying her plus-size fan base.

How one Brooklyn grocery store manager has survived the coronavirus crisis When Lucy Fortune gets home from working at the Met Fresh supermarket in Brooklyn each day, she hides so that her 1-year-old son can’t see her coming in. “I get rid of all my dirty clothes, strip down, and shower. About 30 minutes later, I go give him a hug,” Fortune, a 26-year-old assistant manager at the Bushwick grocery store, told The Post. “I am concerned about infecting my family. It is a big concern,” she added. “When I took this job… I didn’t think [a global pandemic] would happen.” But Fortune, who’s getting ready to graduate from nursing school, knows she plays an important role as an essential worker and has to be there not just for hungry New Yorkers, but also the staff she manages. “You never know what you’re walking into it. But as the assistant manager you show up to work in order to show some form of encouragement, especially for my fellow employees,” said Fortune who lives in Canarsie with her husband and son. “I am more than grateful, not only for the continued paycheck, but also for the acknowledgement from the society for taking a risk everyday to help and serve those most in need during this pandemic.” When the pandemic first struck, “Everyone was scared,” Fortune recalled. “We were just not sure if it was safe to come to work or if we were allowed to come to work. [but] we saw how much the community needed us to serve them and made us feel ok,” she said. Even though Fortune and her team were grateful to serve others, dealing with the initial crowds of panicked shoppers was difficult, she said. “People were hoarding stuff, customers were aggressive — they didn’t understand why they were limited to certain stuff at the time — like toilet paper and water,” Fortune recounted. “Everyone is scared, we wanted everyone to have a fair chance to have items.” After a few weeks, the store caught up to the crisis and finally, masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers arrived while plexiglass shields were installed at cash registers. The store added marks on the floor to remind customers to stand 6 feet apart and limited the number of shoppers allowed in the store at any time to 10. The chain has small stores. “We do try our best to be careful and cautious, try to change our gloves and masks as much as possible, wash our hand,” Fortune said. “We are working hard enough to keep it going smoothly.” Fortune, who makes minimum wage plus overtime, was working close to 50 hours a week at the height of the virus crisis, but luckily things have “simmered down,” allowing her to focus on her family and her schoolwork at Mildred Elley. She’s still scared about having to commute from Canarsie to Bushwick each day on the train, terrified she’ll bring the virus home to her son and husband, but she knows she can’t stop now. “As an essential worker, I need to show support and encouragement for everyone else,” Fortune said. “You need to put your fear behind you and walk with faith.”