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Aaron Temkin Beck (July 18, 1921 – November 1, 2021) was an American psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. [1][2] He is regarded as the father of cognitive therapy[1][2][3] and cognitive behavioral therapy. [4] His pioneering methods are widely used in the treatment of clinical depression and various anxiety disorders. Beck also developed self-report measures for depression and anxiety, notably the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), which became one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression. [5] In 1994, he and his daughter, the psychologist Judith S. Beck, founded the nonprofit Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, which provides CBT treatment and training and conducts CBT research. [6] Beck served as President Emeritus of the organization up until his death.
Beck was noted for his writings on psychotherapy, psychopathology, suicide, and psychometrics. He published more than 600 professional journal articles, and authored or co-authored 25 books. [7] He was named one of the "Americans in history who shaped the face of American psychiatry", and one of the "five most influential psychotherapists of all time" [8] by The American Psychologist in July 1989. His work at the University of Pennsylvania inspired Martin Seligman to refine his own cognitive techniques and later work on learned helplessness. [9]
Beck was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the youngest of four children born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Elizabeth Temkin and Harry Beck. [10][11] He attended Brown University, graduating magna cum laude in 1942. [12] At Brown he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, was an associate editor of The Brown Daily Herald, and received the Francis Wayland Scholarship, William Gaston Prize for Excellence in Oratory, and Philo Sherman Bennett Essay Award. [13] Beck attended Yale Medical School, graduating with a Doctor of Medicine in 1946. [14]
He began to specialize in neurology, reportedly liking the precision of its procedures. [14] However, due to a shortage of psychiatry residents he was instructed to do a six-month rotation in that field, and became absorbed in psychoanalysis, despite initial wariness. [14]
Beck then joined the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. [18] The department chair was Kenneth Ellmaker Appel, a psychoanalyst who was president of the American Psychiatric Association, whose efforts to expand the presence and relatedness of psychiatry had a big influence on Beck's career. [19] At the same time, Beck began formal training in psychoanalysis at the Philadelphia Institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association. [19]
Beck's closest colleague was Marvin Stein, a friend since their army hospital days to whom Beck looked up for his scientific rigor in psychoneuroimmunology. [20] Beck's first research was with Leon J. Saul, a psychoanalyst known for unusual methods such as therapy by telephone or setting homework, who had developed inventory questionnaires to quantify ego processes in the manifest content of dreams (that which can be directly reported by the dreamer). Beck and a graduate student developed a new inventory they used to assess "masochistic" hostility in manifest dreams, published in 1959. [21] This study found themes of loss and rejection related to depression, rather than inverted hostility as predicted by psychoanalysis. [20] Developing the work with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, Beck came up with what he would call the Beck Depression Inventory, which he published in 1961 and soon started to market, unsupported by Appel. [20] In another experiment, he found that depressed patients sought encouragement or improvement following disapproval, rather than seeking out suffering and failure as predicted by the Freudian anger-turned-inwards theory. [14]
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Through the 1950s, Beck adhered to the department's psychoanalytic theories while pursuing experimentation and harboring private doubts.[20] In 1961, however, controversy over whom to appoint as the new chair of psychiatry—specifically, fierce psychoanalytic opposition to the favored choice of biomedical researcher Eli Robins—brought matters to a head, an early skirmish in a power shift away from psychoanalysis nationally. [20] Beck tried to remain neutral and, with Albert J. Stunkard, opposed a petition to block Robins. [20] Stunkard, a behaviorist who specialized in obesity and who had dropped out of psychoanalytic training, was eventually appointed department head in the face of sustained opposition which again Beck would not engage in, putting him at bitter odds with his friend Stein. [20]
On top of this, despite having graduated from his Philadelphia training, the American Psychoanalytic Institute rejected (deferred) Beck's membership application in 1960, skeptical of his claims of success from relatively brief therapy and advising he conduct further supervised therapy on the more advanced or termination phases of a case, and again in 1961 when he had not done so but outlined his clinical and research work. [14] Such deferments were a tactic used by the Institute to maintain the orthodoxy in teaching, but Beck did not know this at the time and has described the decision as stupid and dumb. [14][20]
Beck usually explains his increasing belief in his cognitive model by reference to a patient he had been listening to for a year at the Penn clinic.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_T._Beck#cite_note-doctor-14][14] When he suggested she was anxious due to her ego being confronted by her sexual impulses, and asked her whether she believed this when she did not seem convinced, she said she was actually worried that she was being boring, and that she thought this often and with everyone. [14][22]
Working with depressed patients, Beck found that they experienced streams of negative thoughts that seemed to arise spontaneously. [30] He termed these cognitions "automatic thoughts", and discovered that their content fell into three categories: negative ideas about oneself, the world, and the future. He stated that such cognitions were interrelated as the cognitive triad. [30] Limited time spent reflecting on automatic thoughts would lead patients to treat them as valid. [31]
Beck began helping patients identify and evaluate these thoughts and found that by doing so, patients were able to think more realistically, which led them to feel better emotionally and behave more functionally. [31] He developed key ideas in CBT, explaining that different disorders were associated with different types of distorted thinking. [31] Distorted thinking has a negative effect on a person's behaviour no matter what type of disorder they had, he found. [31] Beck explained that successful interventions will educate a person to understand and become aware of their distorted thinking, and how to challenge its effects. [31] He discovered that frequent negative automatic thoughts reveal a person's core beliefs. He explained that core beliefs are formed over lifelong experiences; we "feel" these beliefs to be true. [31]
Since that time, Beck and his colleagues worldwide have researched the efficacy of this form of psychotherapy in treating a wide variety of disorders including depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, drug abuse, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and many other medical conditions with psychological components. [31] Cognitive therapy has also been applied with success to individuals with anxiety disorders and schizophrenia. [32] He also focused on cognitive therapy for schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and for patients who have had recurrent suicide attempts. [33]
Beck’s recent research on the treatment of schizophrenia has suggested that patients once believed to be non-responsive to treatment are amenable to positive change. [34] Even the most severe presentations of the illness, such as those involving long periods of hospitalization, bizarre behavior, poor personal hygiene, self-injury, and aggressiveness, can respond positively to a modified version of cognitive behavioural treatment. [35][36]
However, some mental health professionals have opposed Beck's cognitive models and resulting therapies as very mechanistic or too limited in which parts of mental activity they will consider. [37] Beck's work was presented as a far more scientific and experimentally-based development than psychoanalysis (while being less reductive than behaviourism), Beck's key principles were not necessarily based on the general findings and models of cognitive psychology or neuroscience developing at that time but were derived from personal clinical observations and interpretations in his therapy office. [23] And although there have been many cognitive models developed for different mental disorders and hundreds of outcome studies on the effectiveness of CBT—relatively easy because of the narrow, time-limited and manual-based nature of the treatment—there has been much less focus on experimentally proving the supposedly active mechanisms; in some cases the predicted causal relationships have not been found, such as between dysfunctional attitudes and outcomes. [38]
Beck was involved in research studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and conducted biweekly Case Conferences at Beck Institute for area psychiatric residents, graduate students, and mental health professionals. [39] He met every two weeks with conference participants and generally did two to three role plays. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. [40]
Beck was the founder and President Emeritus of the non-profit Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy, and the director of the Psychopathology Research Center (PRC), which is the parent organization of the Center for the Treatment and Prevention of Suicide. [7] In 1986, he was a visiting scientist at Oxford University. [1]
He was professor emeritus at Penn since 1992, [7] and an adjunct professor at both Temple University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. [1]
Beck was married in 1950 to Phyllis W. Beck, who was the first woman judge on the appellate court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, [41] and whose youngest daughter, Alice Beck Dubow, is a judge on the same court. [42] Together they had four children: Roy, Judy, Dan, and Alice. [13] Beck's daughter Judith is a prominent cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) educator and clinician, who wrote the basic text in the field. [43] She is a co-founder of the non-profit Beck Institute. [43] He turned 100 on July 18, 2021, and died later in the year on November 1 at his home in Philadelphia. [44][45][46][47]
Along with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck developed the Beck Hopelessness Scale, [48] Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Youth Inventories, [49] Clark-Beck Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (CBOCI), [50] and BDI–Fast Screen for Medical Patients. [51]
Beck collaborated with psychologist Maria Kovacs in the development of the Children's Depression Inventory, which used the BDI as a template. [52][53]
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Antonia Terzi (29 April 1971 – 31 October 2021) [1] was an Italian aerodynamicist who worked for the Ferrari and Williams Formula One teams.
Born in Mirandola, Terzi worked in the design department at Ferrari under Rory Byrne until 2001 when she was recruited by Williams to become the team's chief aerodynamicist. [2] Terzi left Williams in November 2004. [3]
Terzi held a Master's degree in Materials Engineering from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy and a PhD in engineering, focused on aerodynamics, from Exeter University in the United Kingdom.
She was employed as assistant professor by The Delft University of Technology, working together with Professor Ockels at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. She was the chief vehicle designer of the TU Delft Superbus. [4]
From 2014 until 2019, she was the head of the aerodynamics team at Bentley Motors Ltd.
In 2020, she was appointed Full Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
Terzi died in a car accident on 31 October 2021. [5]
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Finale and San Felice, dies in an accident in England, goodbye to F1 engineer, Antonia Terzi
SAN FELICE. It was one of the first world examples of a woman who played a leading role in an all-male world such as Formula One at the beginning of the 2000s. Her exciting career had made her a symbol of how competence and passion could surpass certain canons. And in the engineer Antonia Terzi there was the pride of a land, the Bassa, which was thrilled to be able to say that yes, she came from there.
A car accident, however, took her away at the age of 50. A crash on an English motorway which has been investigated by the UK police has wiped out one of the most innovative minds in world engineering. Now all the paperwork to bring her back to Italy has started: her sister Federica, who lives in Brussels and works in the European Parliament, has reached England for the recognition of the body. Only at the end of the whole process will it be possible to carry out the funeral services in Italy, in his San Felice where his father Mario lives, from whom Antonia had inherited the passion for engineering and his mother Giusy. Instead, he had taken from her that sweet look and the ability to find immediate empathy: Giusy was in fact for some time vice-principal of the “Morandi” high school in Finale where she taught mathematics and where she welcomed hundreds of students with her always doing a lot of ” mom”.
They were proud of Antonia, her parents. At the time of their debut in Formula One they also had to contain the enthusiasm of so many people who, through them, wanted to congratulate them for such an anomalous and innovative result.
Antonia has always been a free soul, she had chosen to put all her work in front of it and reach the goal. She graduated in Engineering from the University of Modena and then joined Ferrari. In those years the Cavallino dominated with Jean Todt in command and Michael Schumacher at the wheel. Already being part of the racing department (in the aerodynamics sector) could and seemed to be a huge achievement, but not for engineer Terzi. In her there was something new, innovative, attractive: and in fact Williams woos her and manages to engage her. The team based in Grove, England, comes to appoint her head of aerodynamics, in close contact with director Patrick Head and chief designer Gavin Fisher. It is his sensational project that led Williams to debut the walrus nose in 2004: the whole world of aerodynamic engineering observes it with curiosity, it could be an epochal revolution but on the track the car does not get the hoped-for success.
And here comes a new life for Antonia, who chooses to abandon Formula One to devote herself to research. After a brief collaboration with Dallara, he arrives to teach at the University of Delft, in the Netherlands. Matter: Aerospace Engineering. It is no coincidence that he signs, together with a colleague and an astronaut, the “Superbus”, a carbon fiber vehicle with 23 seats and a “seagull wing” opening of the doors. But the engineer Terzi is always looking for new experiences and returns to live in England, in Ipswich, until he receives the assignment to become a university professor in Canberra, Australia, at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science. She should have moved but Covid limitations denied her that last challenge in the presence, forcing her to distance lessons from England, the country that had adopted her and made her a world champion.
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Tom Matte, NFL star
Thomas Roland Matte (June 14, 1939 – November 2, 2021) was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) in the 1960s and 1970s and earned a Super Bowl ring. [1] He attended Shaw High School in East Cleveland and was an Eagle Scout. [2] Matte was an All-American quarterback playing college football at Ohio State University.
Matte played quarterback but was more known for his rushing skills than passing prowess. For his senior year, he finished 7th in voting for the Heisman Trophy (awarded to halfback Joe Bellino of Navy), finishing under future stars such as Billy Kilmer and Mike Ditka. [3]
Matte, nicknamed "Garbage Can", spent his 12-year pro career with the Baltimore Colts where he posted career stats of 4,646 rushing yards, 249 receptions for 2,869 yards, 1,367 yards returning kickoffs, and 57 touchdowns (45 rushing, 12 receiving). Late in the 1965 season, Matte also memorably filled in as an emergency quarterback when Colts QBs Johnny Unitas and Gary Cuozzo went down with season-ending injuries in consecutive home losses to the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, respectively. [4] For the Colts' regular-season finale (a 20-17 win) against the Los Angeles Rams and the following weekend's one-game playoff at Green Bay (a 13-10 overtime loss), Colts head coach Don Shula put a list of plays on a wristband that Matte wore. [4] The wristband is now on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Matte would bloom late in his career. In 1968, he earned his first Pro Bowl honor after rushing for 662 yards on 183 carries for nine touchdowns. He also caught 25 passes for 275 yards and a touchdown. That season, the Colts advanced all the way to the NFL Championship Game. While he did have a quiet game against the Minnesota Vikings in the first playoff game (a 24-14 win where he ran for 31 yards), he came alive in the 1968 NFL Championship Game. Avenging his prior quiet games, he rushed for 88 yards on 17 carries for three touchdowns to galvanize the Colts to a 34-0 victory over the Cleveland Browns, avenging their loss in the title game four years prior. It won Matte a cover on the January 6, 1969 cover of Sports Illustrated, taken after he had scored his third touchdown of the afternoon in the NFL Championship Game against the Cleveland Browns. [5][6] The Colts were the winners of the penultimate NFL title game and advanced to Super Bowl III. Matte would rush for 116 yards on 11 carries while catching two passes for thirty yards; he set the record for highest per-carry rushing average in a Super Bowl game with 10.5, with his biggest run being a run of 58 yards that was stopped by his former teammate Johnny Sample. However, Matte would fail to reach the end zone and a fumble to start the second half only made the Colts more frustrated on their way to a 16-7 loss. The following year was even better, as he rushed for a career high 909 yards on 235 carries with a league-high 11 touchdowns while adding 43 catches for 513 yards for two touchdowns. His total touches, yards from scrimmage (1,422) and touchdowns were all league highs.
Matte was injured in the first game of the 1970 season against the San Diego Chargers and therefore did not play when the Colts returned to Super Bowl V at the end of that season and beat the Dallas Cowboys. However, he was awarded a Super Bowl ring.[ citation needed] Matte returned for one last fresh run with the 1971 season, playing in all 14 games and rushing for 607 yards on 173 carries for eight touchdowns while catching 29 passes for 239 yards. The Colts made a run to the AFC title game once again. Matte would have his last significant playtime with the game against Cleveland, rushing 16 times for 26 yards while catching three passes for 22 yards as the Colts won 20-3. In the AFC Championship versus the Miami Dolphins, he made just one catch for six yards as the Colts lost 21-0. [7]
After spending most of the 1972 season on the practice squad, he was traded from the Colts to the Chargers for a 1973 eighth-round selection (189th overall– Ray Oldham) on January 24, 1973. [8][9]
Following Unitas' lead, Matte and many of his Baltimore Colt teammates disowned the franchise after their move to Indianapolis in 1984.
Matte was a color analyst on CBS coverage of NFL games from 1976 to 1978. From 1996 to 2005, Matte teamed with Baltimore sportscaster Scott Garceau in broadcasting Baltimore Ravens games on local radio.
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Alvin "Seeco" Patterson (born Francisco Willie, 30 December 1930 – 1 November 2021) was a Cuban-born Jamaican percussionist. He was a member of The Wailers Band. [1]
Patterson was born as Francisco Willie in Havana, Cuba in December 1930, to a Jamaican father whom he seldom saw, and a Panamanian mother named Celestina Hardin. He took Alvin Patterson as a stage name, and acquired the nickname "Seeco" as a bastardisation of his birth name Francisco. He was also referred to at times as "Pep", a nickname he had earned at school. [2] As a child, Patterson emigrated to Jamaica with his parents, and lived first in Westmorland, where his father farmed, but then moved on to Kingston with his mother, after his parents' marriage dissolved. As a young man, Patterson found work as a bauxite miner. In 1957, Patterson attempted to emigrate to the United States in search of better work. In the midst of his move, however, the Kendal train crash occurred in Jamaica on 1 September, prompting Patterson to return to the island to seek out relatives he feared might have been among the nearly 200 dead and 700 injured. [3]
Patterson encouraged Marley as he began to experiment with singing, as Patterson himself had gained experience in the musical realm playing percussion with famed calypso artist Lord Flea, and with other mento-calypso combos. [4] And it was Patterson who would first take the newly formed Wailers group, consisting of Marley, along with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston, at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One for their first audition, in July 1964. The resulting recording session, which took place only after Coxsone's initial rejection of the Wailers, produced the hit single " Simmer Down", the record which launched Marley's career. [5]
As the Wailers rose in prominence on the Jamaican scene, Patterson worked in the Bauxite mines. In 1966, however, while Marley was working in the United States, Patterson was injured in a mine accident, when the gas line running under the canteen floor ruptured, causing an explosion that left a number of miners seriously injured. He was thrown from the room and lost his shoes in the process. When Marley returned to the island some weeks later, he convinced Patterson to give up mining, and to begin working in music more regularly. As a result, Patterson began to contribute percussion tracks to a number of Wailers cuts. His first known contribution was on the June 1967 session which produced "Lyrical Satyrical I" and "This Train", and was released on the Wailers' own Wail N Soul M label. [6]
While Patterson's role in the original Wailers (that featured Tosh and Livingston) was small, his contributions gradually increased. When the original Wailers went on their first and only tour of the U.K. in 1973, Patterson acted as roadie. [7] When Marley’s association with Tosh and Livingston ended that year, however, Patterson became a core member of the newly formed Wailers band under Marley’s direction, and contributed to every recording and live performance that Marley wound make for the rest of his career. [8] In December 1976, Patterson was rehearsing with Marley at 56 Hope Road when gunmen opened fire on the group, injuring Marley, wife Rita, and manager Don Taylor. [9] In September 1980, Patterson was with Marley when he collapsed jogging in Central Park, and remained with Marley through his cancer treatment both in New York and then at the clinic of Dr. Josef Issels in Rottach-Egern, Germany. [10] Following Marley's death, Patterson continued to play with the Wailers band.
In 1990, Patterson suffered a near-fatal brain haemorrhage, leading to his partial retirement from the music scene. [11] Patterson died on 1 November 2021 at the age of 90, at University Hospital in Kingston. It was stated that Patterson died in his sleep, after developing bleeding on the brain. [12]
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the first agriculture minister in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Agriculture obviously must be the first priority in a country ravaged by a genocidal regime that utterly ravaged a country. No judgment on how well he did.
Nguon Nhel ( Khmer: ងួន ញ៉ិល; 22 December 1942 – 5 November 2021) was a Cambodian politician. He belonged to the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kampong Thom from 1993 until his death. He was the Second Vice President of the National Assembly since 2014; he previously held that post from 1997 to 2006, and he was First Vice President of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2014. From 1989 to 1993, he was Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
On 5 November 2021, Nhel died at the age of 78 due to illness. [1][2]
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Who says that all business owners are exploiters?
Aaron Feuerstein (December 11, 1925 – November 4, 2021) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and the third-generation owner [7] and CEO of Malden Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1925, attended the Boston Latin School and graduated from Yeshiva University, majoring in English and philosophy, in 1947. [8][9] Feuerstein was Jewish.
When the Malden Mills factory burnt down on December 11, 1995, Feuerstein used his insurance money to rebuild it, and to pay the salaries of all the now-unemployed workers while it was being rebuilt. Feuerstein spent millions keeping all 3,000 employees on the payroll with full benefits for six months. By going against common CEO business practices, especially at a time when most companies were downsizing and moving overseas, he achieved global fame.[ citation needed]
Feuerstein said that he could not have taken another course of action due to his study of the Talmud and the lessons he learned there:
Quote:I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more.
— Parade Magazine, 1996
This cost Feuerstein $25,000,000, his CEO position, and a November 2001 filing of chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company achieved solvency again with the help of creditor generosity and government subsidies. Malden Mills later garnered some lucrative Department of Defense (DOD) contracts for "smart" products that interweave fiber optic cabling, electronic biosensors, and USB ports into polar fleece fabric. Malden Mills was awarded a $16 million DOD contract in 2006. [10] In January 2007, however, Malden Mills filed for bankruptcy again and ended production in July. [11] The company's underfunded (by 49%) pension was abandoned due to sale of corporate assets. [12]
Feuerstein was an alumnus of Camp Modin in Belgrade, Maine, and the keynote speaker at the 75th annual reunion in 1997.[ citation needed] Feuerstein was also a member of Young Israel of Brookline. [13]
On October 27, 2021, Feuerstein fell and was taken to hospital the next day. He died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts on November 4, at the age of 95. [14][15][16]
An industrialist and philanthropist, for setting the standard for commitment to employees following a devastating fire at his Malden Mills manufacturing plant, he was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award on March 13, 1998. [17]
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Jean Pierson (17 November 1940 – 3 November 2021) was a French aerospace engineer who served as the managing director and CEO of Airbus Industrie between 1985 and 1998. During his time as the leader of the company, the company emerged as a global competitor to the then leader Boeing. In addition to advancing the Airbus A320 program he also set up the wide bodied double decker Airbus A380 program.
Pierson was born on 17 November 1940 in Bizerte in the French protectorate of Tunisia. He studied at the Prytanée national militaire, the military academy of La Flèche in France and graduated from the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in 1963. His started his career in 1963 at Sud Aviation, the predecessor of Airbus Industrie, where he worked as a production engineer. [1][2] He joined the French aerospace manufacturer Aérospatiale in 1972, going on to head their commercial aircraft business. [2] Between 1972 to 1976, Pierson served as the director of SOCATA, the light aircraft division of Aérospatiale, and served as the director of the Toulouse office of Aérospatiale between 1976 and 1983. [1]
Pierson succeeded Bernard Lathière [fr] as the managing director of Airbus in March 1985. Lathiere had lost his job due to a conflict between the German and French shareholders of the company. [2] At the time, Airbus was not a significant competitor to the then market leader, Boeing, who held more than a seventy percent market share in the commercial jetliner space. Airbus was often dismissed by the market leader Boeing as a "minor nuisance" whose primary charter was to drive European jobs. Pierson's actions as a leader included broadening the company's range of commercial jets and establishing a brand that could compete on quality. [2] In a move to break into the US commercial aviation market, Pierson recruited native-English talent and had a former US Transportation Secretary, Alan S. Boyd, take position as the North American leader. He also set up a pilot training center in Florida as a finishing school for pilots of Airbus jets. [2] In one of the first big wins, Northwest Airlines, which would later merge with Delta Air Lines, ordered 100 Airbus A320 jets. [2] In another of the big wins, US Airways, which later merged with American Airlines, placed an order for 400 jets in 1997. He is famously known to have unbuckled his belts and dropped his trousers at a last minute discount demanded by the airline's CEO Stephen Wolf. Wolf is said to have ended the negotiation at that act, and signed the contract for 400 jets. [2][3]
Pierson defended Airbus against Boeing and American allegations that the gains made by the corporation were primarily due to government subsidies by countering that Boeing benefited from military orders from the United States. [2] In an interview to The New York Times in 1991, he said, "The Americans take the position that the Europeans are the black sheep and the Americans the white sheep, when the truth is that all the sheep are gray." [4]
In addition to advancing the Airbus A320 program, he also set up the wide-bodied double-decker A3xx program which would later become the Airbus A380 program. He played a large role in the commercial development of Airbus Industries. [5][6] While the Airbus A380 would prove to be a commercial failure many years later, with its last manufactured flight in 2021, 14 years after the first flight, Pierson was known to have been right in calling the failure of the A400. He led investments to the Airbus A320 program and led the one-cockpit strategy while developing the Airbus A321, further cementing the A320 family of aircraft as the cash cow for the company. [3] He also participated in the Concorde program and led investments into growth of the wide-bodied Airbus A330 and Airbus A340 programs. [7]
Pierson retired from Airbus in 1998, after serving as the managing director since 1985. During his time as the leader, the company's global market share increased from 17% to 40%. [8][9] In addition to breaking the North American market, he is also credited with transforming Airbus from a loose consortium to a global competitor in the aviation industry. [3] At the time that he took over as the leader, Airbus was a consortium that brought together French Aérospatiale, West German Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, Britain's British Aerospace, and Spain's Construtores Aeronauticas, a combination of multiple state-owned firms relying on loans and credits from the host countries. He had to face regulatory threats and threats of retaliation from the then Reagan administration which deemed the state support enjoyed by Airbus as anti-competitive. [10] He began the process of integration and creation of a unified corporation, calling the old model of the consortium outdated. [3]
Pierson was known in the French media as "the Bear of the Pyrénées" in reference to his imposing personality and also to the Pyrenees mountains not too far from Airbus' headquarters at Toulouse. [2]
Jean Pierson died on 3 November 2021 two weeks before his 81st birthday. [11]
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Neal Smith, Iowa’s longest-serving US House member, dies
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Neal Smith, who grew up in a tiny southeast Iowa town and served as a World War II bomber pilot before becoming a successful lawyer and then the state’s longest-serving U.S. House member, has died. He was 101.
Smith died Tuesday, according to Jerry Anderson, dean of the Drake University Law School, who was notified by the Smith family.
During his 36 years in Congress, Smith, a Democrat, was known as a quiet but effective leader whose greatest accomplishments revolved around the approval of federal funding for dams and reservoirs that safeguarded cities from flooding and created lakes for recreation. Smith said the creation of Lake Red Rock, Saylorville Lake and Rathbun Lake changed the way people viewed the Des Moines River Valley, transforming it into a “big asset instead of a liability” and promoting development in places like downtown Des Moines.
“It used to be on weekends you didn’t have a place to go unless you were wealthy enough have a place up in the northern Great Lakes,” Smith said in a May 2015 interview on Iowa Public Radio. “Most people didn’t have place to go to especially to be in nature.”
Neal Edward Smith was born March 23, 1920, in the southeast Iowa town of Hedrick in a home owned by his grandparents on land settled by his great-grandfather in 1850. In the public radio interview, Smith recalled his family was poor during the Great Depression but that they always had food from their farm. He also recalled the joy of spending time outdoors, watching wildlife and riding a pony with children who lived nearby.
As a bomber with the Army Air Forces during World War II, he was shot down. He received a Purple Heart and other medals but felt uncomfortable discussing his wartime experience.
“Well, I tell you, I don’t ever talk about it. I was in the Pacific. I came back and many of my friends did not come back and they’re just forgotten about,” he said.
After the war, he attended the University of Missouri and Syracuse University before getting his law degree from Drake University in Des Moines in 1950. He farmed, worked as a lawyer, and served as an assistant county attorney in Polk County before he was elected to Congress.
Smith said he was inspired to enter politics during President Harry Truman’s campaign in 1948. With Truman expected to lose, Smith went to the state Democratic headquarters and asked how he could help. He was told to start a young Democrats club at Drake, which he did.
He also recalled that during the Great Depression, politicians managed to give people hope.
“It just seemed like people who were there working in the government were trying to help improve the situation, and it made one think that government service was a good thing to do,” Smith said in the Iowa Public Radio interview
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Joseph Maxwell Cleland (August 24, 1942 – November 9, 2021) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a disabled U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous actions in combat, as well as a United States Senator (1997–2003).
After returning from the Vietnam War having lost three limbs, he entered politics soon upon recovering from his injuries. From 1971 to 1975, he served as a Georgia State Senator. He also served as Administrator of Veterans Affairs under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 and as Georgia Secretary of State from 1982 to 1996 before being elected to a single term in the United States Senate. After leaving the Senate in 2003, he served on the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 2003 to 2007, a presidentially-appointed position.[1][2] From 2009 to 2017, he served as Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission.
In 1968, Captain Cleland was the Battalion Signal Officer for the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during the Battle of Khe Sanh.[6] On April 8, with a month left in his tour, Cleland was ordered to set up a radio relay station on a nearby hill. A helicopter flew him and two soldiers to the treeless top of Hill 471, east of Khe Sanh. When the helicopter landed, Cleland jumped out, followed by the two soldiers. They ducked because of the rotor wash and turned to watch the liftoff. Cleland reached down to pick up a grenade that he believed had fallen off of his flak jacket. It exploded and the blast slammed him backward, shredding both his legs and one arm.[5]
David Lloyd, a U.S. Marine in a nearby mortar bunker, rushed to the scene, took off his web belt and tied it around one of Cleland's legs to control bleeding.[7]
Lloyd says that the unnamed soldier was crying. "It was mine," he said, "it was my grenade." According to Lloyd, the private had failed to take the extra precaution that experienced soldiers did when they grabbed M26 grenades from the ammo box: bend the pins, or tape them in place, so they couldn't accidentally dislodge. This soldier had a flak jacket full of grenades with treacherously straight pins, Lloyd says. "He was a walking death trap."[8]
Due to the severity of his wounds, doctors amputated both of Cleland's legs above the knee, and his right forearm. He was 25 years old.[9
Cleland served from 1971 to 1975 in the Georgia Senate, and became an advocate for affairs relating to veterans. He was the administrator of the United States Veterans Administration under President Jimmy Carter, a fellow Georgian, from 1977 to 1981. He then served 14 years as Secretary of State of Georgia from 1982 to 1996, working closely with his future Senate colleague, Zell Miller. During this period, Cleland promoted a penny stock law in Georgia which would become the template for national regulations to curb stock manipulation abuses.[10] In the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries, Cleland supported fellow Vietnam veteran Bob Kerrey.[11]
According to an interview featurette with Jon Voight on the DVD of Coming Home (1978), Cleland also served during this time as a consultant on the Academy Award-winning drama set in a VA hospital in 1968.[12]
In 1977, Cleland received the Samuel S. Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.[13]
Following the retirement of Sam Nunn, Cleland ran in the 1996 United States Senate election in Georgia and won by just 30,000 votes over Republican Guy Millner. A third-party candidate, Libertarian John Cashin, garnered over 80,000 votes.[14]
Cleland was viewed as a moderate in the Senate. Though he supported some Republican budgetary measures, and voted in favor of George W. Bush's 2001 tax-cut package, he was staunchly pro-choice and pro-environment. He voted against drilling in ANWR, and opposed Gale Norton's nomination as Secretary of the Interior in 2001. His record on national defense and homeland security was more centrist. He voted to federalize airport security after 9/11, and supported the war on terror. Cleland was strongly pro-free trade, voting to normalize trade relations with Vietnam, to make China's NTR status permanent, and to extend free trade to Andean nations.[15]
Cleland was one of the 29 Senate Democrats who backed the authorization to go to war in Iraq. He later stated he had misgivings about the Bush administration's stance, but said he felt pressure in his tight Senate race to go along with it. In 2005, he said "it was obvious that if I voted against the resolution that I would be dead meat in the race, just handing them in a victory." He characterized his vote for war as "the worst vote I cast."[16]
In 2002 Cleland faced Saxby Chambliss for the Georgia Senate seat. Cleland enjoyed a comfortable lead in the polls early in the race but lost much ground in the weeks running up to the election. In May 2002 Chambliss was trailing Cleland by 22 percentage points. Chambliss issued a press release decrying Senator Cleland for "breaking his oath to protect and defend the Constitution," because Cleland had voted for an amendment to the Chemical Weapons Treaty that would allow individuals from "terrorist nations" to be on United Nations weapons inspection teams in Iraq. The vote passed by a majority, 56-44. Fifty-five other senators also voted for the amendment, including Bill Frist, the head of the Republican Senate committee, who picked Chambliss to run against Cleland.[17]
A week before the voting, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll showed Cleland ahead by five points, 49-44. By Saturday before the race, a poll by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the lead had shrunk to 48–45 which was within the poll's margin of error.[18] On election day, Cleland lost to Chambliss 53-46. Some supporters blamed a Chambliss television ad featuring the likenesses of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein while criticizing Cleland's votes against homeland security measures.[19] Cleland supporters claimed the ad questioned the senator's patriotism,[20] while Chambliss supporters claimed it simply questioned his judgment.[20][21] The ad was removed after protests from prominent politicians, including Republicans such as John McCain and Chuck Hagel, both of whom were also veterans of the war in Vietnam.[22][23]
Cleland was originally appointed to serve on the 9/11 Commission but resigned shortly after, having been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Before his resignation, he said that the Bush administration was "stonewalling" and blocking the committee's access to key documents and witnesses.[24] A key figure in the widespread criticism of governmental opacity regarding 9/11, he was quoted as saying in November 2003: "I... cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised."[25]
In 2003, Cleland began working for the 2004 presidential campaign of Massachusetts senator John Kerry, also a Vietnam veteran; Kerry went on to win the Democratic nomination. Cleland often appeared at campaign events with Kerry and was considered by many to be one of his most important surrogates, partly as a symbol of the sacrifices made by soldiers for wars.[26] On July 29, 2004, Cleland introduced Kerry with a speech at the Democratic National Convention.[27]
Cleland's official Senatorial papers are held by the University of Georgia's Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. His Veterans Administration papers are held in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. In 2007, Max Cleland donated a large collection of Vietnam and personal political memorabilia to the library of his alma mater, Stetson University. The Cleland Collection includes more than 800 memorabilia items, more than 5,000 photos, and hundreds of CDs, DVDs, videos, and films.[28]
On May 21, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Cleland to serve as the next Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission.[29] He was appointed Secretary on June 3,[30] and served in the position until the end of Obama's second term as president. Cleland's successor, William M. Matz Jr., was appointed almost a year after he left the ABMC.[31]
Cleland died from heart failure at his home in Atlanta on November 9, 2021, at age 79.[32]
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Frederik Willem de Klerk[a] OMG DMS (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as state president from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997.
Born in Johannesburg to an influential Afrikaner family, de Klerk studied at Potchefstroom University before pursuing a career in law. Joining the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged white South Africans. After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defence of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war. Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between the Xhosa and Zulu people, although de Klerk later denied sanctioning such actions. He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalised a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons programme.
De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologised for apartheid's harmful effects, but not for apartheid itself. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place. De Klerk then became Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. In this position, he supported the government's liberal economic policies but opposed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to investigate past human rights abuses because he wanted total amnesty for political crimes. His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he later spoke fondly of him. In May 1996, after the National Party objected to the new constitution, de Klerk withdrew it from the coalition government; the party disbanded the following year and reformed as the New National Party. In 1997, he retired from active politics and thereafter lectured internationally.
De Klerk was a controversial figure. He received many awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, earning wide praise for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa. Conversely, anti-apartheid activists criticised him for offering only a qualified apology for apartheid and for ignoring the human rights abuses by state security forces.
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Robert Lee "Sam" Huff Sr. (October 4, 1934 – November 13, 2021) was a professional American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers football team. He is a member of both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the latter of which he became a member of in 1982.
Huff was born and grew up in the No. 9 coal mining camp[1] in Edna, West Virginia,[2]The fourth of six children of Oral and Catherine Huff, he lived with his family in a small rowhouse with no running water.[3] Huff grew up during the Great Depression while his father and two of his brothers worked in the coal mines loading buggies for Consolidated Mining.[4]
Huff attended and played high school football at the now-closed Farmington High School, where he was both an offensive and defensive lineman.[5] While he was there, Huff helped lead the team to an undefeated season in 1951.[6] He earned All-State honors in 1952 and was named to the first-team All-Mason Dixon Conference.[6]
Huff attended and played college football for West Virginia University, where he majored in physical education.[7] He started at guard as a sophomore, then as a tackle his next two years, after winning a letter as a backup guard during his freshman season.[8] He was a four-year letterman and helped lead West Virginia to a combined four-year mark of 31-7 and a berth in the Sugar Bowl.[8]
In 1955, Huff was voted an All-American[8] and served as co-captain in both the East–West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl.[9] Huff was also named first team Academic All-American for his outstanding efforts in the classroom.
Huff was drafted in the third round of the 1956 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. In training camp, head coach Jim Lee Howell was having a hard time coming up with a position for Huff.[10] Discouraged, Huff left camp, but was stopped at the airport by assistant (offensive) coach Vince Lombardi, who coaxed him back to camp.[10]
Then, defensive coordinator Tom Landry came up with the new 4–3 defensive scheme that he thought would fit Huff perfectly.[4][11] The Giants switched him from the line to middle linebacker behind Ray Beck. Huff liked the position because he could keep his head up and use his superb peripheral vision to see the whole field.[3] On October 7, 1956, in a game against the Chicago Cardinals, Beck was injured and Huff was put into his first professional game. He then helped the Giants win five consecutive games[4] and they finished with an 8–3–1 record, which gave them the Eastern Conference title.[3] New York went on to win the 1956 NFL Championship Game[4] and Huff became the first rookie middle linebacker to start an NFL championship game.[3]
Quote:"Landry built the 4-3 defense around me.
It revolutionized defense and opened the
door for all the variations of zones and
man-to-man coverage, which are used
in conjunction with it today."
Sam Huff, on Tom Landry's 4-3 defense.[12]
In 1958, the Giants again won the East and Huff played in the 1958 NFL Championship Game.[3] The championship, which became widely known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played", was the first National Football League (NFL) game to go into sudden death overtime.[13] The final score was Baltimore Colts 23, New York Giants 17.[3]
In 1959, Huff and the Giants again went to the NFL Championship Game, which ended in a 31–16 loss to the Colts. Also that year, Huff became the first NFL player to be featured on the cover of Time magazine[8][10] on November 30, 1959. He almost passed up the magazine appearance, demanding money to be interviewed, but relented when Time agreed to give him the cover portrait.[3] Huff was also the subject of an October 31, 1960 CBS television special, "The Violent World of Sam Huff",[8][10] broadcast as an episode of the Walter Cronkite-hosted anthology series The Twentieth Century. The network wired Huff for sound in practice and in an exhibition game.[3]
Quote:"As long as I live, I will never
forgive Allie Sherman for trading me."
Sam Huff, on Allie Sherman's decision
to trade him to the Washington Redskins.[3]
The Giants then visited the championship under new coach Allie Sherman in 1961, 1962, and 1963, but lost every one of them.[3] To improve what he thought was a defensive problem, Sherman then traded many defensive players, including Cliff Livingston, Rosey Grier, and Dick Modzelewski. After these trades, Huff went to owner Wellington Mara and was assured he would not be traded.[3] But in 1964, Giants head coach Allie Sherman traded Huff to the Washington Redskins for defensive tackle Andy Stynchula and running back Dick James.[3][4] The trade made front-page news in New York City and was greeted with jeers from Giants fans, who crowded Yankee Stadium yelling "Huff-Huff-Huff-Huff."[4]
Huff played in four consecutive Pro Bowls with the Giants from 1959 through 1963. He was named most valuable player of the 1961 Pro Bowl.[4]
Huff joined the Redskins in 1964 and they agreed to pay him $30,000 in salary and $5,000 for scouting, compared to the $19,000 he would have made another year with New York.[3] The impact Huff had was almost immediate and the Redskins' defense was ranked second in the NFL in 1965.[14]
On November 27, 1966, Huff and the Redskins beat his former Giant teammates 72–41, in the highest-scoring game in league history.[14] After an ankle injury in 1967 ended his streak of 150 straight games played[14] Huff retired in 1968.[4]
Vince Lombardi talked Huff out of retirement in 1969 when he was named Washington's head coach.[4] The Redskins went 7-5-2 and had their best season since 1955 (which kept Lombardi's record of never having coached a losing NFL team intact).[15] Huff then retired for good after 14 seasons and 30 career interceptions.[3] He spent one season coaching the Redskins' linebackers in 1970 following Lombardi's death from colon cancer.[14]
NFL Hall of Fame star Sam Huff
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David L. Frishberg (born March 23, 1933)[1] is an American jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and lyricist born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His songs have been performed by Blossom Dearie, Rosemary Clooney, Shirley Horn,[2] Anita O'Day, Michael Feinstein, Irene Kral, Diana Krall, Stacey Kent, John Pizzarelli and Mel Tormé.
Frishberg wrote the music and lyrics for "I'm Just a Bill", the song about the forlorn legislative writ in the ABC Schoolhouse Rock! series, which was later transformed into the popular revue Schoolhouse Rock Live. For Schoolhouse Rock! he also wrote and performed "Walkin' on Wall Street", a song that describes how the stock market works, and "$7.50 Once a Week", a song about saving money and balancing a budget.
Frishberg resisted learning classical piano as a boy, developing an interest in blues and boogie-woogie by listening to recordings by Pete Johnson and Jay McShann. As a teenager he played in the house band at the Flame in St. Paul where Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, and Johnny Hodges appeared. After graduating from the University of Minnesota as a journalism major in 1955, Frishberg spent two years in the Air Force.[3]
In 1957, Frishberg moved to New York City,[4] where he played solo piano at the Duplex in Greenwich Village. He first became known for his work with Carmen McRae, Ben Webster, Gene Krupa, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Al Cohn, and Zoot Sims. Later he was celebrated for writing and performing his own, frequently humorous, songs, including favorites "I'm Hip" (lyrics only, in collaboration with Bob Dorough),[5] "Blizzard of Lies",[6] "My Attorney Bernie" (his most famous),[7] "Do You Miss New York", "Peel Me a Grape", "Quality Time", "Slappin' the Cakes on Me", "I Want To Be A Sideman", and "Van Lingle Mungo", whose lyrics consist entirely of the names of old-time baseball players.[8]
In 1971, Frishberg moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a studio musician, and where he also recorded his first albums. In 1986, he moved to Portland, Oregon.[9]
Frishberg cites songwriter Frank Loesser as an influence,[10] and has said that Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside", along with Willie Nelson's "Crazy", are songs he wished he had written. Like Loesser before him, Frishberg has also worked strictly as a lyricist, collaborating with composers Johnny Mandel, Alan Broadbent, Al Cohn, Blossom Dearie, David Shire, Julius Wechter, Dan Barrett, Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Dorough, Gerry Mulligan, and Johnny Hodges.[5]
He was the co-recipient of the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song in 1981, having written the lyric to "Baby Talk" from the Burt Reynolds comedy film Paternity.
Frishberg is a longtime baseball fan, and has been a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) since 1984.[11] In addition to "Van Lingle Mungo", he also wrote "Matty", a tribute to an early 20th century pitching great, which was included along with "Play Ball" and several other songs with baseball references, on the 1994 CD Quality Time.[12]
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Former Indians All-Star reliever Doug Jones dead at 64
By TOM WITHERS
yesterday
(Not to be confused with the former US Senator from Alabama! This is Douglas Reid Jones, according to Wikipedia... addendum).
CLEVELAND (AP) — Doug Jones, a five-time All-Star reliever who had his best success closing for the Cleveland Indians, has died. He was 64.
Jones spent seven seasons with the Indians and ranks third on the club’s career saves list with 129. The club, which officially transitioned to Cleveland Guardians last week, said Monday it was “saddened by the loss of one of our organization’s all-time greats.”
The team said Jones died in Arizona. A cause was not immediately known.
One of Jones’ former Indians teammates, pitcher Greg Swindell, posted on Twitter that his friend had died. Swindell called Jones “one hell of a pitcher.”
Known as “Jonesy,” Jones pitched in the majors for 16 seasons with Cleveland, Houston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee and Oakland. He had two stints with the Indians, first from 1986-91 and again in 1998.
The right-hander had a career-high 43 saves in 1990 for Cleveland, where he made the All-Star team three times. In 2001, he was selected as one of the team’s top 100 players.
Jones went 69-79 with a 3.30 ERA in 846 big league games. He retired following the 2000 season with the Athletics.
Born in Covina, California, Jones was drafted by the Brewers in 1978.
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Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; Hanja: 全斗煥; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌnduɦwɐn] or [tɕʌn] [tuɦwɐn]; 6 March 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.
From December 1979 to September 1980, he was the country's de facto leader, ruling as an unelected military strongman with civilian president Choi Kyu-hah largely as a figurehead. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for his role in the Gwangju Massacre but was later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam, with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, whom Chun's administration had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier. Chun Doo-hwan died on 23 November 2021 at age 90 due to a relapse of myeloma.
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Not a nice guy, but at least he knew which way the wind was blowing.
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Peter Jonathan Aykroyd[1] (November 19, 1955 – c. November 20, 2021) was a Canadian actor, comedian, former Saturday Night Live cast member and writer.
Born to Lorraine and (Samuel Cuthbert) Peter Hugh Aykroyd[2] in Ottawa, he was the younger brother of comedian Dan Aykroyd.[3] Along with his older brother he was in the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto. The two were also on Saturday Night Live. He was a cast member and writer in the fifth season, 1979–80.[4]
He and Dan Aykroyd wrote the movie Nothing but Trouble in the early 1990s; Peter wrote the story[5] and Dan wrote the screenplay. In 1996, Peter Aykroyd co-created the Canadian sci-fi show Psi Factor[5] with Christopher Chacon and Peter Ventrella; the show was hosted by his brother Dan and produced 88 episodes.[6]
In 1997, Peter Aykroyd and Jim Belushi provided the voices of Elwood Blues and Jake Blues for the cartoon The Blues Brothers: Animated Series, playing the roles made famous by their respective brothers Dan and John. Peter Aykroyd appeared in such films as Spies Like Us, Dragnet, Nothing but Trouble and Coneheads.[3]
On November 20, 2021, one day after his 66th birthday, it was announced at the end of Saturday Night Live that Aykroyd had died.[7] His death was from septicemia due to an untreated abdominal hernia, according to his brother Dan.[8]
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founder of the Subway chain of sandwich restaurants:
Peter Buck (December 19, 1930 – November 18, 2021) was an American physicist, restaurateur, and philanthropist. He co-founded the Subway fast-food restaurant chain.
See also: Subway (restaurant)
In 1957 Buck went to work for General Electric at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. There, he performed tests and calculations on atomic power plants being developed for U.S. Navy submarines and surface ships. In 1965 he joined United Nuclear, in White Plains, New York, calculating the power distribution and refueling requirements of nuclear power plants. He finished his engineering career at Nuclear Energy Services in Danbury, Connecticut.[8]
Buck loaned partner and family friend Fred DeLuca $1,000 in 1965 and advised him to open a sandwich shop to help him pay for college at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They named the restaurant after Buck, calling it "Pete's Super Submarines".[9] Together Buck and De Luca formed "Doctor's Associates" to oversee operations as the restaurant business expanded. Though neither the first nor the second restaurants were financial successes, they continued to expand their operations.[9] By 1973, they had 16 locations throughout Connecticut and, in 1974, they began franchising out the restaurants.[10] They also introduced a new Subway logo and changed the name of their operation from what was then "Pete's Subway" to "Subway Sandwiches".[11]
Subway continued to grow over the ensuing years and by 2010 became the largest fast food chain worldwide, with 33,749 restaurants.[12] In 2015, Buck was ranked No. 261 on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest people, with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion.[13]
The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation (PCLB) was formed in 1999 as a private family foundation to manage their family's philanthropy.[14] The Internet Archive received support from PCLB.[15]
Buck personally made major donations to the Smithsonian Institution, where he served as a trustee of the National Museum of Natural History, including the 23.10 carat Carmen Lúcia Ruby, given to the museum's gem collection.[16][17][18] It is thought to be one of the finest Burmese rubies known.[19] Curator Jeffrey Post called the gem “the most important addition to the collection in the 20 years that I’ve been here.”[20]
In 2008, Bowdoin College awarded Buck an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.[2] He gave a grant to Bowdoin College in 2009 that completed its capital campaign.[21] Consequently, the college's new fitness center bears his name.[7][22]
In 2014 Buck gave $30 million to Danbury Hospital towards a new addition.[23]
As of 2020, Buck was the seventh-largest landowner in the United States by acreage, according to landreport.com,[24] acquiring land for the purpose of open space conservation.[25]
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Another COVID-denying anti-vaxxer dies of... you guessed it!
Marcus Lamb (October 7, 1957 – November 30, 2021) was an American televangelist, prosperity theologian, minister, and Christian broadcaster. He was the co-founder, president, and CEO of the Daystar Television Network, the second-largest Christian television network in the world. The estimated value of the network is $230 million.[1]
Marcus was born October 7, 1957, in Cordele, Georgia, and raised in Macon, Georgia. He grew up attending the East Macon Church of God.[citation needed] He became a Christian at the age of five and continued in church attendance and work as he grew older. He began to preach as an evangelist at age fifteen. He graduated from high school and enrolled at age sixteen in Lee University (then known as Lee College), Cleveland, Tennessee-based Christian university. He graduated three years later.[2] In 1982, four years after graduation, he married Joni Trammell of Greenville, South Carolina. The couple spent their early years of marriage as traveling evangelists, visiting churches in the Southeast to teach the gospel.[3] Marcus was ordained as a bishop with the Church of God of Cleveland, Tennessee.[citation needed]
In 1980, the same year that Marcus met his wife Joni, he founded The Word of God Fellowship, the company that would eventually start the Daystar Television Network. In 1984 Lamb moved to Montgomery, Alabama to begin WMCF-TV. This was the first full-power Christian station in the state. The Lambs sold the station to Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1990 and moved to Dallas, Texas. Lamb launched the Daystar network at the end of 1997.[3]
In November 2010, Lamb admitted on the Daystar Network that he had an extramarital affair that had ended several years before.[4][5] In his admission, Lamb took "100 percent responsibility" for his actions. He and his wife were able to fully reconcile with the help of marriage counselors. Due to the advice of their marriage counselors, the decision was made to keep this matter private as long as they could, in order to heal adequately.[1] The Lambs decided to publicly disclose the infidelity shortly after they claimed that three women asked for US $7.5 million in exchange for silence on the matter. The Lambs shared their story publicly on television and refused to pay anything. No criminal charges were filed,[6] although civil suits and counter-suits between Daystar and the three former employees were filed over the matter.[7][8] By December 2011, all three employee claims had either been dropped or dismissed. Daystar subsequently dismissed its countersuits against each of the women.[9]
Lamb and his wife lived in Dallas. They have three children.[10] Marcus Lamb died from COVID-19 complications on November 30, 2021, at the age of 64 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas.[11][12]
In 2020, Lamb's Daystar TV paid back a United States government PPP Loan after the television show Inside Edition investigated the church’s private jet purchase.[13] Lamb’s Daystar TV applied for the government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help pay employees’ salaries.[14] They received $3.9 million. Soon after receiving the funds, the church purchased a 1997 Gulfstream aircraft.[15][16]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lamb and Daystar preached an anti-vaccine message, hosting many anti-vaccine notables such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and posting on the Daystar website that vaccines are the "most dangerous thing" for children. Before Lamb died of COVID-19, his son called his father's coronavirus infection "a spiritual attack from the enemy."[17][18]
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ˈsɒndhaɪm/ SOND-hyme; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Among the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, Sondheim was praised for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that tackled "unexpected themes that range far beyond the [genre's] traditional subjects" with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication". His shows addressed "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience" with songs often tinged with "ambivalence" about various aspects of life.
Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).
Sondheim's accolades include eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008),[1] an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has a theater named for him both on Broadway and in the West End of London. Sondheim wrote film music, contributing "Goodbye for Now" for Warren Beatty's Reds (1981). He wrote five songs for 1990's Dick Tracy, including "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", sung in the film by Madonna, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Film adaptations of Sondheim's work include West Side Story (1961), Gypsy (1962), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), A Little Night Music (1977), Gypsy (1993), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Into the Woods (2014), West Side Story (2021), and Merrily We Roll Along (TBD).
Much, much more at Wikipedia.
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Mark Roth (April 10, 1951 – November 26, 2021) was an American professional bowler. He won 34 PBA Tour titles in his career (sixth most all-time), and is a member of the PBA and USBC Halls of Fame.[1] Roth was most dominant from 1975 through 1987, a stretch in which he made 107 televised finals appearances, captured 33 titles, and won four PBA Player of the Year awards.[2] He is also known for having been the first professional bowler to convert a 7-10 split on national television.[3]
Roth made a splash on the PBA Tour with a cranking, hard-throwing style that spawned a generation of imitators for years to come.[4] Often referred to as "The Original Cranker," he won 34 PBA titles, including two major championships which both came in 1984 (the U.S. Open and the Touring Players Championship). His first title came in 1975, winning the PBA King Louie Open in Overland Park, Kansas, and did so with a 299 game against Steve Jones. He also holds, to this day, the PBA record for most single season victories, with eight titles in 1978.[1] He won the PBA Player of the Year award in three consecutive seasons (1977 through 1979), and won the honor again in 1984.[4]
Roth is notable for having been the first bowler to pick up the 7-10 split on television, which he accomplished on January 5, 1980 in the ARC Alameda Open at Mel's Southshore Bowl in Alameda, California.[5] Through 2021, he is still the only right-handed bowler to have converted the 7-10 on a PBA telecast. The feat has been accomplished three times since, all three times by left-handers.[6]
Roth captured his 33rd PBA Tour title in 1987, then went through the longest title drought in his career before winning his 34th and final title at the 1995 IOF Foresters Open.[7] Roth made his final television appearance in a PBA Tour event at the 1998 PBA Peoria Open, losing the opening match to Tom Baker, 265–190, to finish in fifth place. After reaching age 50, Roth captured two titles on the PBA Senior Tour (now the PBA50 Tour).[8]
Awards and recognition[edit]
- Inducted into PBA Hall of Fame, 1987.[4]
- Inducted into USBC Hall of Fame, 2009.[1]
- Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 2014.[9][10]
- Four-time winner of the Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year award.
- Holds the PBA record with eight titles in a single season (1978).
- Ranked #5 on the PBA's 2008 list of "50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years".[11]
- Single-season titles record; 8 titles in 1978
Around 2002, Mark ran a bowling center in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania named "Mark Roth's Hall of Fame Lanes." This lasted about 6 months, and the partnership dissolved.[12]
On June 4, 2009, Roth suffered a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed on his left side.[13] Following rehabilitation, he was seen in late March 2010 on his feet and moving around at the GEICO Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship, a PBA Tournament named in his honor.[14]
He spent a week in intensive care after a heart attack in April 2019.[15]
Roth died on November 26, 2021, at the age of 70 in a hospital in Fulton, New York, due to congestive heart failure and complications following a diagnosis of pneumonia.[16] Roth is survived by his wife Denise,[17] who resides in Fulton, New York.[13] He was Jewish.[9][10]
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Adolfo Faustino Sardiña (February 15, 1923 – November 27, 2021), professionally known as Adolfo, was a Cuban-born American fashion designer who started out as a milliner in the 1950s. While chief designer for the wholesale milliners Emme, he won the Coty Award and the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award. In 1963 he set up his own salon in New York, firstly as a milliner, and then focusing on clothing. He retired from fashion design in 1993.
Adolfo Sardiña was born in Cárdenas, Cuba[1][2] on February 15, 1923. His mother was Irish; his father Spanish.[3] He attended the St Ignacio de Loyola Jesuit School in Havana and served in the Cuban Army.[1] In 1948 Adolfo immigrated to New York.[2]
As his mother had died in childbirth, Adolfo was brought up by an aunt who enjoyed wearing French haute couture, and encouraged her nephew to pursue fashion design.[2] With his aunt's help, Adolfo joined Cristóbal Balenciaga as an apprentice milliner.[2] He worked at Balenciaga from 1950–52.[1]
In 1953 Adolfo joined the New York-based wholesale millinery company Emme as their chief designer.[2] In the summer of 1957, to further his skills, he served an unpaid apprenticeship with Coco Chanel's New York hat salon.[1][2] Adolfo would later admit that he "never enjoyed making hats."[4]
Adolfo won a Coty Award in 1955 for millinery.[5] In 1959, Emme were awarded the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award.[6]
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With financial help from Bill Blass,[8] Adolfo opened his first salon in New York in 1963, where he met many of the customers who would become his patrons when he gave up millinery to focus on clothing. He had met the Duchess of Windsor by 1965, through whom he met regular customers Betsy Bloomingdale, Babe Paley and Nancy Reagan.[4] After Mainbocher retired, one of his highest-profile clients, C. Z. Guest, came to Adolfo to make her clothes instead.[4] Adolfo's clothes were designed to complement his hats, which the designer saw as an optional accessory rather than a wardrobe essential.[9]
At first Adolfo's extravagant, elaborately ornamental clothing seemed at odds with the relaxed principles behind American sportswear.[9] He created individually beautiful garments designed to be worn together or separately, commenting in 1968 that "one has to dress in bits and pieces — the more the merrier."[9] His 1960s "fun and fantasy" looks included richly embellished bolero jackets, organdy blouses, and evening ensembles made from antique patchwork quilts which were worn by the likes of Gloria Vanderbilt.[9] In 1969 Adolfo won another Coty Award.[5] That year, he claimed that classic clothing no longer appealed to the consumer, but soon afterwards, drastically changed his design approach to offer quietly understated clothing such as fur-trimmed knitwear, pyjama suits and ballgown skirts paired with sweaters.[9] He started selling knitted dresses to the department stores Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.[4]
In the summer of 1966 Adolfo had returned to Chanel to serve another unpaid apprenticeship,[1] and would openly acknowledge her influence on his work.[4] Adolfo's "Chanel jackets" and knit daywear became best-selling designs from the early 1970s onwards, and a design signature throughout his career.[4][10] In 1978 he launched Adolfo Menswear Inc. and Adolfo Scarves Inc, and in 1979, a perfume line.[1]
Adolfo became a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1982.[1]
In 1993, at the age of 60, (based on a disputed birth year of 1933) Adolfo decided to retire from fashion design and rely on the income from his licensing agreements with various manufacturers.[4] Licensed Adolfo merchandise, including menswear, hats and accessories, luggage, sportswear, furs and perfume, was retailed widely at all consumer levels from Bloomingdale's through to J. C. Penney and the television shopping network QVC.[4] In 1993, Adolfo's licensing agreements for perfume sales alone had a wholesale return of over 5 million dollars.[4] By 2014, Adolfo was once again designing for his ready-to-wear clothing lines.[11]
Adolfo died on November 27, 2021, at the age of 98.[13]
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