Obituaries

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(09-06-2016, 03:47 PM)Odin Wrote:

(09-05-2016, 08:38 PM)Dan Wrote:

Quote:Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies At 92

Hell just got a new resident.

I leave my claim that someone went to Hell to murderers, rapists (including child molesters), human traffickers, war criminals, large-scale thieves, and large-scale drug traffickers. You may hate her political values, as I do -- but she didn't hold some children as prisoners, mow down helpless prisoners, torture false confessions out of political prisoners, bankrupt a large company through embezzlement, or serve as a "smakehead". She didn't lose control of her trigger finger while robbing a liquor store.

Sure, her politics were nasty. But someone on the other side could call you (or me) a "baby-killer" for failing to support a harshly-enforced ban on abortions.

[Eric the Green]

(09-06-2016, 03:47 PM)Odin Wrote:

(09-05-2016, 08:38 PM)Dan Wrote:

Quote:Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies At 92

Hell just got a new resident.

Shooo-fly, shooo-fly

[Dan '82]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a9a611d2d...ph-dies-92

Quote:The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92.
Greta Zimmer Friedman's son says his mother died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. She died from complications of old age, he said.
Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse's uniform on Aug. 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day the Japanese surrendered. People spilled out into the streets from restaurants, bars and movie theaters in New York City when they heard the news. That's when George Mendonsa spotted Friedman, spun her around and planted a kiss on her. The two had never met.

In fact, Mendonsa was on a date with an actual nurse, Rita Petry, who would later become his wife.

The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called "V-J Day in Times Square" but is known to most the world over as simply, "The Kiss." Mendonsa says that in some photos of the scene, Petry could be seen smiling in the background.
The photo was first published in Life, buried deep within the magazine's pages. Over the years, the photo gained recognition, and several people claimed to be the kissing couple. In an August 1980 issue of Life, 11 men and three women said they were the subjects. It was years until Mendonsa and Friedman were confirmed to be the couple.
Joshua Friedman says his mother recalled it all happening in an instant.
"It wasn't that much of a kiss," Friedman said in an interview with the Veterans History Project in 2005. "It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn't a romantic event."
The photograph has become one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century.
Both of Friedman's parents died in the Holocaust, according to Lawrence Verria, co-author of "The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II." Friedman, who had escaped Austria, got to the U.S. when she was 15.
Friedman will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, next to her late husband, Dr. Misha Friedman.

[Eric the Green]

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Donald Trump made a laudatory speech at the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly, reminding us of how the two have always been on the same side -- for America.

...and Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

[Dan '82]

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Edd...43691.html

Quote:The man who turned the "Crazy Eddie" electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges has died. Eddie Antar was 68.

The Bloomfield-Cooper funeral home in Ocean Township confirmed Sunday that Antar died on Saturday. But a cause of death wasn't disclosed.

The "Crazy Eddie" chain was known for its ads featuring a maniacal pitchman who touted that "Our prices are insane!"

Antar started with a store in Brooklyn, and the chain eventually grew into 43 stores in four states. But he fled to Israel after being indicted on securities fraud and insider trading charges.

Antar was extradited back to the United States in 1993 and was convicted on racketeering and stock fraud charges. But that was overturned on appeal in 1995.

Antar eventually pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and served a prison term.

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September 8, 2016

Stanford Professor Emeritus Joseph Keller, an applied mathematician whose work investigated atomic explosions and oscillating ponytails, dies at 93

Keller’s foundational theories were deeply creative and playful, providing both greater understanding to the natural world – such as how worms wriggle and joggers’ ponytails bounce – and also pivotal applications to radar, stealth technology and antenna design.

Joseph Bishop Keller, an applied mathematician who developed methods for understanding varied aspects of the physical world, from the waves set off by underwater explosions to the motion of a jogger’s ponytail, died Sept. 7 at his home in Palo Alto, California. He was 93. The cause of death was a recurrence of kidney cancer first diagnosed in 2003.

Awarded some of the math world’s highest honors, Keller was a professor emeritus of mathematics and of mechanical engineering at Stanford and a longtime member of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics summer program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.


Known for his remarkable breadth in the physical sciences, the life sciences and engineering, “Joe” Keller demonstrated the significant impact of mathematics in understanding scientific phenomena and creating solutions for engineering problems. Considered by many as the “Dean of Applied Mathematics,” he was best known for his Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, a method for describing the propagation, scattering and diffraction of waves, especially as they bend around the edges and corners of an obstacle.

The theory, developed while he was on the faculty at New York University, built on work he had done during and after World War II using sonar to determine the presence and location of submarines and underwater land mines. This required transmitting sound waves through water and measuring and analyzing them as they weakened, bounced off objects and returned in altered form to be detected by a receiver. The theory can be applied whether the waves are acoustic, electromagnetic, elastic or fluid, and has become an indispensable tool for engineers and scientists working on applications such as radar, stealth technology and antenna design.

Keller studied many other issues related to national security, including the possibility that underwater explosions of atomic bombs might cause a tsunami – a question that concerned the U.S. government as it prepared to test nuclear devices at Bikini Atoll more than half a century ago.
The math of the natural world

Keller’s wide-ranging interests and gift for finding the mathematical essence of problems allowed him to contribute to many fields. He developed and used a mathematical method of approximation known as “asymptotic analysis” to tackle problems that cannot be solved exactly, and applied it to predict behavior throughout the domains of science. For example, he used the method to describe eigenvalue spectra in quantum mechanics, to develop optimal strategies for runners in a race, to study the propagation of nerve pulses, to model the development of the visual system in mammals such as kittens, and to understand the locomotion of worms and how it differs from that of snakes.

His lectures were paragons of clarity that elucidated mathematical ideas for everyone. For example, in one of his annual Christmas Lectures at NYU, he outlined a method for ranking the strengths of basketball teams that was later reinvented and used to rank webpages by the founders of Google. He drew inspiration from everything and inspired many. At a party, he might explain to a child how tiny soda bubbles assemble and form patterns in a glass, and later discuss the nuances of fluid dynamics or wave propagation with a colleague.

His intellectual curiosity and humor were recognized in two Ig Nobel Prizes for “research that makes you laugh and then makes you think.” The first of these, in 1999, honored his work explaining why teapots dribble and how to avoid it. The second, in 2012, recognized his discussion of the physical forces that make a jogger’s ponytail swing horizontally even though the jogger is oscillating vertically.

“Keller has been an inspiration to generations of mathematicians, and fundamental and applied scientists,” Professor Michael I. Weinstein of the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University said in 2014 when Columbia granted Keller an honorary doctorate. “His work is characterized by deep creativity and startlingly elegant formulations with profound impact. This is combined with a sense of playfulness and joy in thinking mathematically about the world.”
Math runs in the family

Joseph Bishop Keller was born July 31, 1923, in Paterson, New Jersey. His father, Isaac Keiles, was a native of Bialystok who fled Russian pogroms and whose name was changed to Keller at Ellis Island. His mother, Sarah Bishop, emigrated to Paterson as a baby from Hull, England, where her family had landed after similarly leaving Russia. Isaac Keller sold wholesale liquor in Paterson during Prohibition and later owned Keller’s Bar and Grill there, while Sarah did the business’s bookkeeping and later worked in a dress shop.

A knack for mathematics ran in the family. His younger brother, Herbert B. Keller, was also a noted applied mathematician and a professor at California Institute of Technology. The two worked together early in their careers and remained close throughout their lives. Their father often challenged his sons with mathematical puzzles to solve at the dinner table, they recalled.

Keller graduated from Paterson’s East Side High School, where he ran track and competed on the math team. He received his secondary schooling at New York University, earning a BA in 1943, an MS in 1946 and a PhD in 1948. He remained there as a professor of mathematics until 1979, when he joined the Stanford faculty as a professor of mathematics and of mechanical engineering until 1993, when he earned emeritus status.

In 1963, Keller married Evelyn Fox Keller, the scientist and scholar of gender and science. They had two children, Sarah Keller and Jeffrey Keller, and divorced in 1976. He later met Alice Segers Whittemore, a professor of mathematics at Hunter College who was visiting NYU on a fellowship aimed at shifting her focus from pure mathematics to mathematical problems with practical applications in statistics and epidemiology. Keller was the mathematician assigned to oversee her transition into cancer research. The two became life partners, intensely devoted to each other, and moved together to Stanford, where she is currently a professor of epidemiology and biomedical data science at the Stanford School of Medicine.

Joe and Alice balanced their full lives as academics with simple routines and daily pleasures of jogging and cycling, good food, gathering with friends and reading – the New York Times and the short stories of Somerset Maugham were among Keller’s favorites. Both frugal and systematic, they asked a relative who worked in film to compile a list of recommended movies, and they worked their way through that list, checking the movies out from the Stanford library.

They shared the household duties, including meal preparation and post-dinner cleanup, but he was the one to assign seats to guests at the dinner table. He was very generous and always insisted on paying the tab when going out to dinner. He always closely checked the math on the restaurant bill and had concluded over time that most errors on the bill were in favor of the house.

Keller was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London and Honorary Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He received some of the world’s highest scientific honors, including the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1997), the Frederick E. Nemmers Prize (1996), the National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis (1995), the National Medal of Science (1988), the Timoshenko Medal (1984), the Eringen Medal (1981) and the von Karman Prize (1979). He was the Gibbs Lecturer of the American Mathematical Society (1977) and the von Neumann Lecturer of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1983). His work earned him honorary doctorates from eight universities in the United States and Europe.

In awarding him the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Wolf Foundation noted that Keller “brought a deep understanding of physics and a superb skill at asymptotics to an astonishing range of problems,” adding, “He is really the model of what a mathematician interested in a wide variety of physical phenomena can and should be.”

Keller is survived by his wife, Alice S. Whittemore; his children, Sarah N. Keller of Bozeman, Montana, and Jeffrey M. Keller of Somerville, Massachusetts; stepdaughters Gayle Whittemore of Los Angeles and Margot Palermo of Brook Haven, New York; as well as 10 grandchildren and step-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

There will be a memorial from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Stanford Faculty Club, and another next summer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

http://news.stanford.edu/2016/09/08/jose...n-dies-93/

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NEW YORK - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, whose provocative and often brutal look at American life in works such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” earned him a reputation as one of the greatest American dramatists, died on Friday at his home in Montauk, New York, according to media reports. He was 88.

Albee once told the Paris Review that he decided at age 6 that he was a writer but chose to write plays after concluding he was not a very good poet or novelist. His works would eventually rank him alongside Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill in American drama.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/edwa...ction=&

[Dan '82]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio.../90544604/

Quote:W.P. (Bill) Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe, which was adapted for the movie Field of Dreams, died Friday at age 81, according to a press release from his literary agency.

Kinsella was a Canadian-born author who started writing Shoeless Joe while enrolled at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in Iowa City, which would become the setting for the 1982 novel.

It was Kinsella’s passion for baseball that influenced the plot of the beloved tale, in which the ghost of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, the Chicago White Sox outfielder who was banned from baseball for his part in the 1919 World Series betting scandal, tells a farmer to build a baseball field.

Field of Dreams filmmaker Phil Alden Robinson was fascinated by Kinsella’s rural ballfield fantasy and brought the work to life with a ball diamond built into a corn field and boisterous characters, shooting much of the movie in Dyersville.

The movie, which was released in 1989, starred Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones.

Kinsella praised the film in an interview with The Register in 2014, though he summed up the summer of 1988 in northeast Iowa with two words: "colossal boredom."

One for bluntness, he added that he spent “two horrible days in the gym” near Farley to participate as an extra in the scene that shows Ray and Annie Kinsella, the main characters, in a PTA meeting.

Kinsella published nearly 30 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

It was the last two lines of his 1974 poem "The Bugs of Johnson County" — "Is this Heaven? No, just count the bugs. It's Iowa!" —  that were reportedly adapted for Shoeless Joe, before becoming one of the movie's greatest exchanges. Ray Liotta, playing Jackson, asked Costner's character (Ray Kinsella), "Hey, is this heaven?" Costner's reply: "No, it's Iowa."

Another line from the movie — "If you build it, he will come." — was ranked 39th on The American Film Institute's list of 100 memorable movie quotes.

The writer had a doctor-assisted death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia, according to CBS Canada.





http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio.../90544604/

[Bad Dog]

Phyllis Schlafly lived in Alton IL. That's pretty close to perdition.

If there had been a nuclear war (she co-authored a book called "Strike From Space", a missile gap hysteria piece), she lived just north of a huge primary target: The Wood River Oil Refineries. Chances of survival: less than 5%. Additionally, she would have caught a thousand rads from strikes on Lambert Field and Downtown. Southerly winds would have brought her the radiation from Scott AFB, a MAJCOM HQ. Ground burst, big warhead. All due to be hit by both the Russians and the Chinese.

Her time is over. But we have more nutters because of her.

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(09-20-2016, 06:49 PM)Bad Dog Wrote: Phyllis Schlafly lived in Alton IL. That's pretty close to perdition.

If there had been a nuclear war (she co-authored a book called "Strike From Space", a missile gap hysteria piece), she lived just north of a huge primary target: The Wood River Oil Refineries. Chances of survival: less than 5%. Additionally, she would have caught a thousand rads from strikes on Lambert Field and Downtown. Southerly winds would have brought her the radiation from Scott AFB, a MAJCOM HQ. Ground burst, big warhead. All due to be hit by both the Russians and the Chinese.

Her time is over. But we have more nutters because of her.

Ironic, huh? Had there been a nuclear war, then she would have experienced a literal Hell in one of the most obvious urban targets. Military base, transportation hub, oil refineries, chemical industry...

I'd say that she had her priorities all wrong about dangers to America.

Oh, well. She did live to 92, and she got to see much of what she dreaded come to pass. Maybe David Duke might live long enough to greet...the half-black child of one of his granddaughters? I have no idea whether whether she was simply a shill and a useful idiot or a mastermind of political reaction. If the former she is simply pitiable. If the latter, evil.

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Charmian Carr (born Charmian Anne Farnon; December 27, 1942 – September 17, 2016) was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in the 1965 film version of The Sound of Music.

Carr was attending San Fernando Valley State College, studying speech therapy and philosophy,[4] and working for a doctor,[2] when her mother arranged for her to audition for a role in The Sound of Music. Rita Farnon hadn't asked Charmian if she wanted to audition for the part, but Charmian was sure her mother would consider getting a part in a film more important than earning a college diploma. In a newspaper article published November 9, 1964, Carr related the story behind the tryout as follows:

Quote:I was going to college and getting extra spending money by modeling in fashion shows in one of the stores. One of the girls who modeled with me knew that Robert Wise, producer-director of The Sound of Music had been conducting a four-month search for someone to play the part of 16-year-old Liesl. My friend, without my knowing it, sent in my picture and explained in a note that I sang and danced. I received a call from Mr. Wise to come for a tryout. It took me completely by surprise.[3]

Director Robert Wise thought Farnon was too long a surname paired with Charmian. After he had given her a list of single syllable surnames, she chose Carr.[5] She won the role of Liesl over Geraldine Chaplin, Kim Darby, Patty Duke, Shelley Fabares, Teri Garr, Mia Farrow and Lesley Ann Warren.[6] The film was on the whole a very happy experience for her. However, during the filming of her dance scene with Rolf in the gazebo, the costumers had forgotten to put no-slip pads on her shoes, she slid through a window of the gazebo, and she "had to complete the scene in agony".[7]

Carr was attending San Fernando Valley State College, studying speech therapy and philosophy,[4] and working for a doctor,[2] when her mother arranged for her to audition for a role in The Sound of Music. Rita Farnon hadn't asked Charmian if she wanted to audition for the part, but Charmian was sure her mother would consider getting a part in a film more important than earning a college diploma. In a newspaper article published November 9, 1964, Carr related the story behind the tryout as follows:

Quote:I was going to college and getting extra spending money by modeling in fashion shows in one of the stores. One of the girls who modeled with me knew that Robert Wise, producer-director of The Sound of Music had been conducting a four-month search for someone to play the part of 16-year-old Liesl. My friend, without my knowing it, sent in my picture and explained in a note that I sang and danced. I received a call from Mr. Wise to come for a tryout. It took me completely by surprise.[3]

Director Robert Wise thought Farnon was too long a surname paired with Charmian. After he had given her a list of single syllable surnames, she chose Carr.[5] She won the role of Liesl over Geraldine Chaplin, Kim Darby, Patty Duke, Shelley Fabares, Teri Garr, Mia Farrow and Lesley Ann Warren.[6] The film was on the whole a very happy experience for her. However, during the filming of her dance scene with Rolf in the gazebo, the costumers had forgotten to put no-slip pads on her shoes, she slid through a window of the gazebo, and she "had to complete the scene in agony".[7]

..........

What she is best known for, a duet in The Sound of Music





A comment: in view of whom she won the role over, she must have disliked Hollywood.

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Quite possibly a legend in the making:

José Fernández

José D. Fernández (July 31, 1992 – September 25, 2016) was a Cuban American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins from 2013 through 2016.

Fernández was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. He made three unsuccessful attempts at defecting before he was successful in 2008. He enrolled at Braulio Alonso High School in Tampa, Florida, and was selected by the Marlins in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft. Fernández made his MLB debut with the Marlins on April 7, 2013. He was named to the 2013 MLB All-Star Game and won the National League (NL) Rookie of the Month Award in July and August. After the season, he won the NL Rookie of the Year Award and finished third in Cy Young Award balloting. He underwent Tommy John surgery during the 2014 season, and made the MLB All-Star Game again in 2016.

Fernández died in a boating accident in Miami Beach on September 25, 2016.

And a legend beyond any qualification:

Arnold Palmer

Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in professional golf history. He won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955. Nicknamed "The King", he was one of golf's most popular stars and its most important trailblazer, because he was the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.

Palmer's social impact on behalf of golf was perhaps unrivaled among fellow professionals; his humble background and plain-spoken popularity helped change the perception of golf as an elite, upper-class pastime to a more democratic sport accessible to middle and working classes.[1] Palmer is part of "The Big Three" in golf during the 1960s, along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are widely credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world.

Palmer won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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Shimon Peres ( listen (help·info); Hebrew: שמעון פרס‎‎; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years.[3] Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President.

He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel's War of Independence. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959.[4] During his career, he represented five political parties in the Knesset: Mapai, Rafi, the Alignment, Labor and Kadima, and led Alignment and Labor. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords.[4]
Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year's presidential election, and was elected by the Knesset to the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term.[5][6] He was the first former Prime Minister to be elected President of Israel. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state.

After a massive stroke, Peres suffered irreversible brain damage and organ failure, and later died on 28 September 2016.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres

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Sir Neville Marriner, CH, CBE (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English conductor and violinist.



Marriner was born in Lincoln, England, and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra,[1] playing with the last two for 13 years.[2] He later formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine, in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1958, he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra and recorded copiously with them.

Marriner was the first music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, from 1969 to 1978. From 1979 to 1986, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. He was principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989.[3]
Marriner recorded for various labels, including Argo, L'Oiseau Lyre, Philips and EMI Classics. His recorded repertoire ranges from the baroque era[4] to 20th century British music, as well as opera. Among his recordings are two CDs of British music for Philips Classics with Julian Lloyd Webber, including acclaimed performances of Benjamin Britten's Cello Symphony and Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto. Marriner also supervised the Mozart selections for the soundtrack of the 1984 film Amadeus.[5]

He was chairman of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra until 1992, when he was succeeded by Malcolm Latchem. Marriner held the title of Life President. He was the father of the clarinettist Andrew Marriner, principal clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Marriner was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1985.[6] In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH).[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Marriner

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Wow! I didn't realize that he was that old.

[Marypoza]

(09-06-2016, 03:47 PM)Odin Wrote:

(09-05-2016, 08:38 PM)Dan Wrote:

Quote:Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Dies At 92

Hell just got a new resident.

-- nope not even Satan wants that bitch

[Marypoza]

(09-25-2016, 10:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Quite possibly a legend in the making:

José Fernández

José D. Fernández (July 31, 1992 – September 25, 2016) was a Cuban American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins from 2013 through 2016.

Fernández was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. He made three unsuccessful attempts at defecting before he was successful in 2008. He enrolled at Braulio Alonso High School in Tampa, Florida, and was selected by the Marlins in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft. Fernández made his MLB debut with the Marlins on April 7, 2013. He was named to the 2013 MLB All-Star Game and won the National League (NL) Rookie of the Month Award in July and August. After the season, he won the NL Rookie of the Year Award and finished third in Cy Young Award balloting. He underwent Tommy John surgery during the 2014 season, and made the MLB All-Star Game again in 2016.

Fernández died in a boating accident in Miami Beach on September 25, 2016.

And a legend beyond any qualification:

Arnold Palmer

Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in professional golf history. He won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955. Nicknamed "The King", he was one of golf's most popular stars and its most important trailblazer, because he was the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.

Palmer's social impact on behalf of golf was perhaps unrivaled among fellow professionals; his humble background and plain-spoken popularity helped change the perception of golf as an elite, upper-class pastime to a more democratic sport accessible to middle and working classes.[1] Palmer is part of "The Big Three" in golf during the 1960s, along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are widely credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world.

Palmer won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

-- could it have been the Xaralto?

Seriously-- my cousin's mother-in-law passed bcuz of complications involving Xaralto & the family's involved in a class action suit

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Michal Kováč (5 August 1930 – 5 October 2016) was the first President of Slovakia, having served from 1993 through 1998.[1]

Kováč was born in the village of Ľubiša in then Czechoslovakia in 1930.[2] He graduated from the present-day University of Economics in Bratislava and was a bank employee of the Státní banka československá and of other banks. As such, he spent some years in London and in Cuba in the 1960s. During the Normalization he was subject to some persecution.




Kováč was elected president by the National Council of Slovakia in February 1993 (because he was a candidate of the biggest parliamentary party—the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) and inaugurated on 2 March 1993. He soon became a strong opponent of Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar and by giving a critical presidential address to parliament in March 1994, Kováč significantly contributed to the deposition of the then Mečiar government and the creation of the Moravčík government (which only lasted until the next parliamentary election in the autumn of 1994).

In 1995 the Mečiar-Kováč conflict intensified and the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia cancelled Kováč's (formal) membership in the party. In August 1995 Kováč's son, who had been accused of financial crimes by German authorities (the accusation was later canceled), was apparently kidnapped and taken to Austria. The president, opposition parties and Austrian court accused the Slovak intelligence service (SIS) and the government of having organized this kidnapping. The investigation of new secret intelligence service director Mitro and Slovak police after collapse of Meciar's regime in the end of 1999 confirmed the participation of SIS on this kidnap but the Slovak justice rejected the trial with its suspected actors because of amnesty (also called self-amnesty) issued by Vladimir Meciar on 3 March 1998.

Kováč's term ended on 2 March 1998. His candidature in the first direct Slovak presidential election, 1999 was unsuccessful. He has not been very visible in Slovak politics since this time and has appeared only at a few symbolic events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Kov%C3%A1%C4%8D

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Leo Leroy Beranek (September 15, 1914 – October 10, 2016) was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies). He authored Acoustics, considered a classic textbook in this field, and its updated and extended version published in 2012 under the title Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers. He is also an expert in the design and evaluation of concert halls and opera houses, and authored the classic textbook Music, Acoustics, and Architecture, revised and extended in 2004 under the title Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture.

In 1924 Beranek's father brought home a battery-powered radio containing a single vacuum tube. His eldest son became fascinated with both the technology and the musical aspects of radio. In the harsh winter of January 1926, Beranek's mother died suddenly, leaving his father with huge debts and forcing his father to sell the farm within two months. In junior high school Beranek earned his first independent money by selling silk stockings and fabric. Beranek's father remarried and moved the family to the nearby town of Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he became co-owner of a hardware store. At his father's suggestion, Beranek learned radio repair via a correspondence course, and apprenticed to an older repairman. The younger Beranek quickly learned the trade, and was soon able to buy a Model T automobile. He also earned some spare cash by playing trap drums in a 6-person dance band. He continued to excel in his studies, including a typing class (rarely studied by boys) where he was the top performer.[1]:11

Beranek applied for and was accepted at nearby Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. In the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, money was tight, but he had managed to save $500. Worried about the shaky financial situation, he went to his bank and managed to withdraw $400 to pay his college tuition in advance. The bank failed the next day, and Beranek lost the remaining $100.[1]:12 During freshman year at college, Beranek was told by his father that he could not expect any family money and that he was on his own. In the summers of 1932 and 1933 Beranek worked as a field hand on local farms, to earn tuition money and to improve his physical condition. Beranek moved into two rooms above a bakery, shared with three other students to save money. He also continued to repair radios and played in a dance band, but falling income forced him to consider dropping down to a single class (in mathematics) during the next academic year.

In August 1933 Beranek was invited to accompany the family of a local dentist to the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago. This was his first trip to a big city and it was a revelation. He attended concert performances by the Chicago Symphony and Detroit Symphony daily, was dazzled by the displays of industrial products and technology, and fascinated by the international pavilions. He lived on a shoestring, spending a total of $12 for four days, and felt compelled to make a return trip the following summer.[1]:14–15
In college Beranek became friends with a fellow student who had an amateur radio setup, inspiring him to study Morse Code and to earn his own amateur radio license. In fall of 1933, he bought an early disc sound recorder to earn a modest fee by recording students before and after taking a speech training class. This was his first hands-on experience with the developing science of acoustics. By early 1934 he was forced to stop out from college and work full-time to earn more tuition money. He found a position at the fledgling Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he studied German in his spare time. While there, he also met and dated Florence "Floss" Martin, a business school student. He was able to save enough money to attend the Spring 1935 semester at Cornell College, then returned to Collins Radio for the summer.

In August 1935 Beranek had a chance encounter with a stranger whose car had developed a flat tire while passing through Mount Vernon. While helping the stranger (who turned out to be Glenn Browning), he learned that the passing motorist had written a technical paper on radio technology. When Beranek mentioned plans for graduate school, Browning encouraged him to apply to Harvard University, a possibility he had regarded as financially out of reach.[1]:20

Beranek was very busy in his final year at Cornell, running a radio repair and sales business and then transitioning to house wiring for electricity, while carrying a full course load. He managed three major wiring jobs for Cornell, including designing and installing a master antenna system in a new men's dormitory then under construction.[1]:23 He also continued to date his girlfriend Floss. Beranek graduated from Cornell College in summer 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts. He continued studies at Harvard University, where he received a doctorate in 1940.

During World War II Beranek managed Harvard's electro-acoustics laboratory, which designed communications and noise reduction systems for World War II aircraft, while at the same time developing other military technologies. During this time he built the first anechoic chamber, an extremely quiet room for studying noise effects which later would inspire John Cage's philosophy of silence.
In 1945 Beranek became involved with a small company called Hush-A-Phone, which marketed a cup that fit over the mouthpiece of a telephone receiver in order to prevent the person speaking from being overheard. Although Hush-A-Phone had been around since the 1920s, Beranek used his acoustical expertise to develop an improved version of the device. AT&T threatened Hush-A-Phone users with termination of their telephone service. At the time, AT&T maintained a monopoly on American telephone service and telephones were leased from AT&T, rather than owned by customers. The resulting legal case, Hush-A-Phone v. United States, resulted in a victory for Hush-A-Phone. In finding that AT&T did not have the right to restrict use of the Hush-A-Phone, the courts established a precedent that would eventually lead to the breakup of AT&T's monopoly.[2]

Beranek joined the staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as professor of communications engineering from 1947 to 1958. In 1948, he helped found Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), serving as the company's president from 1952 to 1969. He continued to serve as chief scientist of BBN through 1971, as he led Boston Broadcasters, Inc. which (after a court battle) took control of television station WCVB-TV.[3]

Beranek's 1954 book, Acoustics, is considered the classic textbook in this field; it was revised in 1986. In 2012, at the age of 98, he collaborated with Tim Mellow to produce an updated and extended revision, published under the new title Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers.[4]

Beranek's 1962 book, Music, Acoustics, and Architecture, developed from his analysis of 55 concert halls throughout the world, also became a classic; the 2004 edition of the text expanded the study to 100 halls. Beranek has participated in the design of numerous concert halls and opera houses, and has traveled worldwide to conduct his research and to enjoy musical performances.
From 1983 to 1986, Beranek was chairman of the board of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he remained a Life Trustee. He also served on the MIT Council for the Arts, "an international volunteer group of alumni and friends established to support the arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology".[5] In 2008 he published Riding the Waves : A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry, an autobiography about his lengthy career and research in sound and music. He turned 100 in September 2014, an occasion marked by a special celebration at Boston Symphony Hall.[6] Beranek died on October 10, 2016 at the age of 102.[3][7] His last paper, "Concert hall acoustics: Recent findings", had been published earlier that year.[8]

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