Obituaries

[Hintergrund]

(05-17-2019, 08:24 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

(05-03-2019, 02:45 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Peter Mayhew, 74.  The actor who played Chewbacca in Star Wars.

-- 1st they killed off Harrison Ford. Then Carrie Fisher died 4 real. Now Chewie's gone. Yep Star Wars has jumped the shark

Yeah, hard to fix it after that.

[pbrower2a]

A survivor of the Columbine High School shooting who later became a prominent advocate for fighting addiction has been found dead at his Colorado home.

Austin Eubanks, 37, was shot in the hand and knee in the 1999 Columbine attack, in which 12 of his classmates and a teacher were killed.

He became addicted to drugs after taking pain medication while recovering from his injuries.

Officials say there were no signs of foul play in his death.

Eubanks's body was discovered on Saturday at his home in Steamboats Springs, Colorado, Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48330318

Gun violence killed someone twenty years after the shooting.

[David Horn]

(05-18-2019, 07:40 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:

(05-17-2019, 08:24 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

(05-03-2019, 02:45 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Peter Mayhew, 74.  The actor who played Chewbacca in Star Wars.

-- 1st they killed off Harrison Ford. Then Carrie Fisher died 4 real. Now Chewie's gone. Yep Star Wars has jumped the shark

Yeah, hard to fix it after that.

Not with CGI.  The creative force always lies off-screen anyway, so the director can just add-in characters nominally played by dead actors.  Han Solo, on the other hand, will have to remain dead.

[pbrower2a]

(05-20-2019, 12:47 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-18-2019, 07:40 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:

(05-17-2019, 08:24 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

(05-03-2019, 02:45 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Peter Mayhew, 74.  The actor who played Chewbacca in Star Wars.

-- 1st they killed off Harrison Ford. Then Carrie Fisher died 4 real. Now Chewie's gone. Yep Star Wars has jumped the shark

Yeah, hard to fix it after that.

Not with CGI.  The creative force always lies off-screen anyway, so the director can just add-in characters nominally played by dead actors.  Han Solo, on the other hand, will have to remain dead.

Or different actors. Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, and Peter Mayhew are dead.  But think of Star Trek: Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and James Doohan are deceased. It's hard to believe that William Shatner is approaching 90 -- but it is true.

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The former Formula One driver and three-time world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70, his family has said. The Austrian died overnight on Monday, eight months after receiving a lung transplant.

“With deep sadness, we announce that our beloved Niki has peacefully passed away with his family on Monday,” the family said in a statement, according to the Austrian press agency. The statement paid tribute to “his unique achievements as an athlete and entrepreneur” and said “his tireless zest for action, his straightforwardness and his courage remain. A role model and a benchmark for all of us, he was a loving and caring husband, father and grandfather away from the public, and he will be missed.”
Niki Lauda: the three-time Formula One world champion's life – in pictures

Lauda, who won titles in 1975, 1977 and 1984, was hugely admired, respected and liked within F1 after a remarkable career during which he won two titles for Ferrari and one for McLaren and came back from an horrific accident that left him severely burned and injured in 1976. He competed in 171 races and won 25. He also actively pursued business interests including his own airline and went on to have senior roles in F1 management, most recently as non-executive chairman at the hugely successful Mercedes since 2012, where he helped bring Lewis Hamilton to the team.

As tributes began to flow, his former team McLaren said: “Niki will forever be in our hearts and enshrined in our history.” Jenson Button, the former world champion, said “a legend has left us” while prominent motorsports journalist Nick De Groot said Lauda’s status within the sport was “not just for what he achieved on the race track, but for what he overcame to get there”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/m...es-aged-70

[Eric the Green]

Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929 – April 10, 2019) was a futurist, author and public speaker. She is credited with the concepts of "The Synergy Engine" and the "birthing" of humanity.



As an author, speaker, and co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Hubbard posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.

She was the author of seven books on social and planetary evolution. In conjunction with the Shift Network, Barbara co-produced the worldwide “Birth 2012” multimedia event.

She was the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of "YOU". Deepak Chopra called her, "the voice for conscious evolution."

Her name was placed in nomination for the vice-presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 1984, and at which convention she gave a speech upon being nominated. She was the first woman to be nominated for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called “SYNCON” to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition, she co-founded the World Future Society, and the Association for Global New Thought.

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

[pbrower2a]

Serial murderer and rapist Bobbie Joe Long, a/k/a the "Classified-Ads killer" of the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Execution by lethal execution.

Before anyone cheers, this fellow had a messed-up life beginning with a double-X chromosome and lots of injuries,including head injuries.

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The man who postulated the quark, even naming it (citing "two quarks for Muster mark") by James Joyce:


Murray Gell-Mann (/ˈmʌri ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019)[5] was an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Until his death, he was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, a distinguished fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, a professor of physics at the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.[6]

Gell-Mann spent several periods at CERN, among others as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow in 1972.[7][8]

 
In 1958, Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, in parallel with the independent team of George Sudarshan and Robert Marshak, discovered the chiral structures of the weak interaction in physics. This work followed the experimental discovery of the violation of parity by Chien-Shiung Wu, as suggested by Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, theoretically.

Gell-Mann's work in the 1950s involved recently discovered cosmic ray particles that came to be called kaons and hyperons. Classifying these particles led him to propose that a quantum number called strangeness would be conserved by the strong and the electromagnetic interactions, but not by the weak interactions. Another of Gell-Mann's ideas is the Gell-Mann–Okubo formula, which was, initially, a formula based on empirical results, but was later explained by his quark model. Gell-Mann and Abraham Pais were involved in explaining several puzzling aspects of the physics of these particles.

In 1961, this led him (and Kazuhiko Nishijima) to introduce a classification scheme for hadrons, elementary particles that participate in the strong interaction. (This scheme had been independently proposed by Yuval Ne'eman.) This scheme is now explained by the quark model. Gell-Mann referred to the scheme as the Eightfold Way, because of the octets of particles in the classification. (The term is a reference to the eightfold way of Buddhism.)

In 1964, Gell-Mann and, independently, George Zweig went on to postulate the existence of quarks, particles of which the hadrons of this scheme are composed. The name was coined by Gell-Mann and is a reference to the novel Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce ("Three quarks for Muster Mark!" book 2, episode 4). Zweig had referred to the particles as "aces",[13] but Gell-Mann's name caught on. Quarks, antiquarks, and gluons were soon established as the underlying elementary objects in the study of the structure of hadrons. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.[14]

In 1972 he and Harald Fritzsch introduced the conserved quantum number "color charge", and later, together with Heinrich Leutwyler, they coined the term quantum chromodynamics (QCD) as the gauge theory of the strong interaction. The quark model is a part of QCD, and it has been robust enough to accommodate in a natural fashion the discovery of new "flavors" of quarks, which superseded the eightfold way scheme.

At the time of his death, he was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at California Institute of Technology as well as a University Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California. He was a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 1984 Gell-Mann co-founded the Santa Fe Institute—a non-profit theoretical research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico—to study complex systems and disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary study of complexity theory.
He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1951, and a visiting research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1952 to 1953.[15] He was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University and an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1954–55 before moving to the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1955 until he retired in 1993.

Murray Gell-Mann in Nice, 2012

During the 1990s, Gell-Mann's interest turned to the emerging study of complexity. He played a central role in the founding of the Santa Fe Institute, where he continued to work as a distinguished professor.

He wrote a popular science book about these matters, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (1994). The title of the book is taken from a line of a poem by Arthur Sze: "The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night".[16]

The author George Johnson has written a biography of Gell-Mann, Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann, and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Book Prize.[17] Gell-Mann criticized it as inaccurate. The Nobel Prize–winning physicist Philip Anderson, in his chapter on Gell-Mann from a 2011 book,[18] says that Johnson's biography is excellent. Both Anderson and Johnson say that Gell-Mann was a perfectionist and that his semibiography, The Quark and the Jaguar (1994) is consequently incomplete.

In 2012 he and his companion Mary McFadden published the book Mary McFadden: A Lifetime of Design, Collecting, and Adventure.[19]

 Gell-Mann introduced, independently of George Zweig, the quark—constituents of all hadrons—having first identified the SU(3) flavor symmetry of hadrons. This symmetry is now understood to underlie the light quarks, extending isospin to include strangeness, a quantum number which he also discovered.

He developed the V−A theory of the weak interaction in collaboration with Richard Feynman. In the 1960s, he introduced current algebra as a method of systematically exploiting symmetries to extract predictions from quark models, in the absence of reliable dynamical theory. This method led to model-independent sum rules confirmed by experiment and provided starting points underpinning the development of the Standard Model (SM), the widely accepted theory of elementary particles.

Gell-Mann, along with Maurice Lévy, developed the sigma model of pions, which describes low-energy pion interactions. Modifying the integer-charged quark model of Moo-Young Han and Yoichiro Nambu, Harald Fritzsch and Gell-Mann were the first to write down the modern accepted theory of quantum chromodynamics, although they did not anticipate asymptotic freedom. In 1969 he received the Nobel Prize in physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.[20]
Gell-Mann was responsible, together with Pierre Ramond and Richard Slansky, and independently of Peter Minkowski, Rabindra Mohapatra, Goran Senjanovic, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and Tsutomu Yanagida, for the seesaw theory of neutrino masses, that produces masses at the large scale in any theory with a right-handed neutrino. He is also known to have played a large role in keeping string theory alive through the 1970s and early 1980s, supporting that line of research at a time when it was unpopular.

Gell-Mann was a proponent of the consistent histories approach to understanding quantum mechanics.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann

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Gell-Mann established theoretically that protons and neutrons are not fundamental particles.

The proton:



Two ups and one down

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


The neutron:


Two downs and an up.

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

Mnemonic for memorization of the distinction:

A professional must double up with the learning in his field, lest he go doubly down and neuter his chance for success.

The 'up' quark has a charge is +2/3, and the 'down' quark has a charge of -1/3.

Unless someone else came up with a better mnemonic, please give me the credit.

[pbrower2a]

One of the last Navajo code talkers of WWII -- and at the time of his death, almost certainly one of the last active GI politicians at any level of government. The Navajo language was in practice one of the hardest military codes to crack...



 John Pinto (December 15, 1924 – May 24, 2019)[1][2] was an American politician.[3][4] He served as a Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate from 1977 to his death in 2019, making him the longest-serving member in the Senate. Pinto represented the 3rd District, which includes the Four Corners area and spans much of western San Juan County, as well as a portion of western McKinley County. Much of the district is made up of the Navajo Nation; it includes the towns of Shiprock, Sheep Springs, and most if not all of Gallup.

Pinto was born in Lupton, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation.[4] Pinto served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and was a Navajo code talker. He was a teacher and organizer for the National Educational Association.[4] He died in Gallup, New Mexico, on May 24, 2019.[5][6]

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



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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ✔ @GovMLG
 
Through relationships he built & respect he earned, he was able to secure innumerable crucial investments for New Mexicans, in particular Native communities. His record of service is unblemished, & his unwavering commitment to his people will forever serve as a shining example.


Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ✔ @GovMLG
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Senator John Pinto was a New Mexico icon and an American hero. I will miss his good humor, as will everyone at the Capitol, and I offer my deepest condolences to his loved ones, his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/oAectRmWQi






Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has ordered all state flags to fly at half-staff.

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/sen...2024944522

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(05-25-2019, 04:07 AM)taramarie Wrote:

(05-24-2019, 04:10 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Serial murderer and rapist Bobbie Joe Long, a/k/a the "Classified-Ads killer" of the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Execution by lethal execution.

Before anyone cheers, this fellow had a messed-up life beginning with a double-X chromosome and lots of injuries,including head injuries.

Good riddance. Btw I have been sexually violated as a child and raped repetitively. I also have had lots of injuries including head injuries and I suffer cptsd because of trash like that, yet I don't go round raping and killing people. No excuse. Glad he is dead. People like that deserve that.

Rebellion is always risky, but there is always one thing against which one must rebel: evil, including any evil that was done to oneself. One aspect of such a rebellion is that one insist that the victimization stop with oneself.

I'm not an advocate of suicide, but if one has a great desire to do a horrific crime, then suicide is a cure. (Others that I would excuse are killing oneself to avoid being tortured into betraying others who would themselves be killed, or protecting state secrets that might be used against one's country especially in wartime).

It took 35 years to get him from Death Row to death... one of the problems with the American death penalty is that one could be on Death Row so long that one becomes a very different person. That was unlikely with that creep; see another monster that he surely met, the infamous Ted Bundy.

[Marypoza]

(05-20-2019, 12:47 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-18-2019, 07:40 PM)Hintergrund Wrote:

(05-17-2019, 08:24 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

(05-03-2019, 02:45 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Peter Mayhew, 74.  The actor who played Chewbacca in Star Wars.

-- 1st they killed off Harrison Ford. Then Carrie Fisher died 4 real. Now Chewie's gone. Yep Star Wars has jumped the shark

Yeah, hard to fix it after that.

Not with CGI.  The creative force always lies off-screen anyway, so the director can just add-in characters nominally played by dead actors.  Han Solo, on the other hand, will have to remain dead.

-- that's when Star Wars jumped the shark

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Green Bay Packers dynasty in the 1960s. "15".

Bryan Bartlett (Bart) Starr (January 9, 1934 – May 26, 2019) was a professional American football player and coach. He played quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1956 through 1971. Starr was the only quarterback in NFL history to lead a team to three consecutive league championships (1965–1967). Starr led his team to victories in the first two Super Bowls: I and II. As the Packers' head coach, he was less successful, compiling a 52–76–3 (.408) record from 1975 through 1983.
Starr was named the Most Valuable Player of the first two Super Bowls and during his career earned four Pro Bowl selections. He won the league MVP award in 1966.[1] He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Packers Hall of Fame in 1977.

Starr has the highest postseason passer rating (104.8)[2] of any quarterback in NFL history and a postseason record of 9–1. His career completion percentage of 57.4 was an NFL best when he retired in 1972.[3] Starr also held the Packers' franchise record for games played (196) for 32 years, through the 2003 season.[3]

Starr played college football at the University of Alabama and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the 17th round of the 1956 NFL draft (200th overall).

Much more at Wikipedia. 

NFL Hall of Fame

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"goat" of the 1986 World Series -- Bill Buckner


William Joseph Buckner (December 14, 1949 – May 27, 2019) was an American professional baseball first baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 22 seasons, from 1969 through 1990. During his career, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, California Angels, and Kansas City Royals.
Buckner accumulated over 2,700 hits in his career, won a batting title in 1980, and represented the Cubs at the All-Star Game the following season.

Buckner made a game ending error on a slow roller off the bat of Mookie Wilson in the tenth inning when playing for the Boston Red Sox in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets. The play aroused the anger of Red Sox fans and has since become prominently entrenched in American baseball lore.[1]

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

Really, he was a good player. The  Red Sox had a defensive sub available at first base, and the manager did not use him.

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Thad Cochran, former US Senator from Mississippi:



William Thad Cochran (/ˈkɒkrən/; December 7, 1937 – May 30, 2019) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1978 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1978.

Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Cochran graduated from the University of Mississippi. He served in the United States Navy as an ensign (1959–1961) before graduating from the University of Mississippi School of Law. After practicing law for several years in Jackson, Mississippi, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972. He served three terms in the House representing Jackson and portions of southwest Mississippi.

Cochran won a three-way race for U.S. Senate in 1978, becoming the first Republican to represent Mississippi in the Senate since Reconstruction.[1] He was subsequently reelected to six additional terms by wide margins. He was Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2018. He also chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2003 to 2005. With over 45 years of combined House and Senate service, Cochran was the second longest-served member of Congress ever from Mississippi, only after former Democratic Congressman Jamie L. Whitten.

Cochran resigned from the Senate on April 1, 2018, due to health concerns.[2] He died on May 30, 2019, almost 14 months after his resignation.[3]

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

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Celebrity chef who had a connection to the Civil Rights struggle:

Leah Chase (January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana. An author and television personality, she was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocating both African-American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was known as a gathering place during the 1960s among many who participated in the Civil Rights Movement,[1] and was known as a gallery due to its extensive African-American art collection. In 2018 it was named one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years by Food & Wine.

Chase was the recipient of a multitude of awards and honors. In her 2002 biography, Chase's awards and honors occupy over two pages.[2] Chase was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America in 2010.[3] She was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Foodways Alliance in 2000.[4] Chase received honorary degrees from Tulane University, Dillard University,[5][6] Our Lady of Holy Cross College, Madonna College,[7] Loyola University New Orleans,[8] and Johnson & Wales University. She was awarded Times-Picayune Loving Cup Award in 1997.[9][10] The Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana named a permanent gallery in Chase's honor in 2009.[2]

Much more at Wikipedia.

[beechnut79]

Leon Redbone, idiosyncratic throwback singer, dead at 69.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/obitu...-dead.html

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South African anti-Apartheid journalist:


Raymond Louw (13 October 1926[1] – 5 June 2019) was a South African journalist, editor, and media commentator in South Africa. In 2011, he was named a World Press Freedom Hero by the Vienna-based International Press Institute. The award cited his "commitment to press freedom and his outspoken defence of journalists’ rights".[2]
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 13 October 1926, Louw attended Parktown Boys' High School in Johannesburg. He was the second editor of the influential Rand Daily Mail and has received numerous awards and accolades for his services to journalism and media freedom in South Africa.[3][4]

He died on 5 June 2019 at the age of 92.[5]

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

JOHANNESBURG - Veteran journalist Raymond Louw passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 93.
The multi-award winning journalist kicked off his career in 1946 when he joined the Rand Daily Mail.
He served as the general manager of the South Africa Associated Newspapers in 1977 and was also a founding member of the South African National Editors’ Forum.

Louw's cause of death is not yet known, but one of his close friends said he was recovering from a recent operation.
His friend and colleague Amina Frensee described him as an advocate for freedom of expression.
“He was very involved, despite his advanced age. He was absolutely exemplary in defending freedom of expression. He was an advocate in getting rid of all apartheid laws still in our statute books.”


https://ewn.co.za/2019/06/05/sa-veteran-...after-wife

[Eric the Green]

Dr. John is now trippin off into the nite. Sorry to see you go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John

Malcolm John Rebennack (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music combined blues, pop, jazz, boogie-woogie and rock and roll.[1]

Active as a session musician from the late 1950s until his death, he gained a following in the late 1960s after the release of his album Gris-Gris and his appearance at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. He performed a lively, theatrical stage show inspired by medicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes and voodoo ceremonies. Rebennack recorded more than 20 albums and in 1973 produced a top-10 hit, "Right Place, Wrong Time".

The winner of six Grammy Awards, Rebennack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by singer John Legend in March 2011. In May 2013, Rebennack received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Tulane University.

Born November 20, 1941
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died June 6, 2019 (aged 77)
Genres
R&B rock blues funk boogie-woogie

http://www.nitetripper.com/





I call it psychedelic bewitched blues.
http://philosopherswheel.com/bewitched.html

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BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian soccer goalkeeper who became an icon of the rebellion against President Bashar Assad has died of wounds suffered in a battle with government forces, the rebels said Saturday.

Abdelbaset Sarout, 27, rose to fame as a player for his home city of Homs and won international titles representing his country. When peaceful protests broke out against Assad in 2011, Sarout led rallies and became known as the “singer of the revolution” for his songs and ballads.

Following the arc of the Syrian uprising, Sarout later took up arms as the country slid into civil war. He led a unit of fighters against government forces and survived the government siege of Homs. The government declared Sarout a traitor, banning him from soccer and offering a reward for information leading to his arrest.

https://apnews.com/2332a3ead62d4d659018ba508db1a8d2