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Monday, November 28, 2011

Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives (1967–1996) died she was , 79.

 Tini "Whetu" Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan, ONZ was a New Zealand politician died she was , 79.. She was an MP from 1967 to 1996, representing the Labour Party. At the time of her retirement, she was the second longest-serving MP in Parliament, being in her tenth term of office. She was one of twenty holders of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour of the country.

(9 January 1932 – 20 July 2011)

Early life

Whetu Marama Tirikatene excelled in dancing, winning the New Zealand Ballroom and Latin American Dancing Champion with her Australian partner Mr K. Mansfield, and was also accomplished in fencing, becoming one of the top four female fencers in the country. She studied for a Ph.D. in Political Science at the Australian National University, with a thesis ‘Contemporary Maori Political Involvement’. While there, she met and married Denis Sullivan, a Ph.D. physics student who later became an associate professor in physics and atrophysics at Victoria University of Wellington.[1]

Member of Parliament

Years
Term
Electorate
Party
1967–1969
1969–1972
Southern Maori
1972–1975
Southern Maori
1975–1978
Southern Maori
1978–1981
Southern Maori
1981–1984
Southern Maori
1984–1987
Southern Maori
1987–1990
Southern Maori
1990–1993
Southern Maori
1993–1996
Southern Maori
Tirikatene-Sullivan was first elected to Parliament in the Southern Maori by-election of 1967, which was prompted by the death of the long-serving incumbent—her father Sir Eruera Tirikatene. [2] Between 1972–1975 she was the Minister of Tourism. She was re-elected by substantial majorities until the 1996 elections, when the Southern Maori electorate was abolished in the transition to MMP. Tirikatene-Sullivan then contested the new Te Tai Tonga electorate, which covered much of the same territory as the old Southern Maori electorate, but she was narrowly defeated by Tu Wyllie of New Zealand First. She subsequently retired from politics.
In 1993, Tirikatene-Sullivan was made a member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest award given by the New Zealand government. She died in Wellington on 20 July 2011.[3]

Mary Michael Simpson was an American minister. In 1977, she became one of the first women to be ordained a priest by the American Episcopal Church and was the first woman to hold the office of canon.[1]
(December 1, 1925 - July 20, 2011)

Life and career

Born in Evansville, Indiana, Simpson grew up in Texas City, Texas. She was raised a Methodist but in her senior year of college she converted to the Episcopal faith. She subsequently entered the New York School for Deaconesses and Other Church Workers in New York City from which she graduated in 1949. After graduation she spent six years as a missionary to Liberia. Upon her return to the United States, she became a religious sister and took her life vows with the Order of Saint Helena in Vails Gate, New York in 1956. She was soon after appointed the Head of a girls' school operated by the order, Margaret Hall in Versailles, Kentucky, where she remained for about a decade. She then returned to the convent in Vails Gate to become director of novices.[2]
In 1973 Simpson became actively involved in the women's movement in the Episcopal Church for the first time after a proposal to allow women priests in the American Episcopal Church had been defeated. She had previously not been a vocal advocate for the role of women in the Church, although she had privately supported the ordination of women. In 1974 she was appointed a Deacon at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City and spent the next three years on the staff of that church working as a pastoral counselor.[2]
In 1977, Simpson became one of the first women to be ordained a priest in the American Episcopal Church, the first religious sister to be ordained,[1] and the first female canon.[3] She was the first ordained woman to preach at Westminster Abbey when she visited London in April 1978.[4][5] At that time, the Church of England Synod still refused to ordain women. Simpson's visit brought together Anglican groups in favor of women's ordination and led to the founding of the Movement for the Ordination of Women.[6]
Simpson died in Augusta, GA in 2011 at the age of 85.[1]

 

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Yoshio Harada, Japanese actor, died from pneumonia. he was , 71


Yoshio Harada was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades died from pneumonia. he was , 71.

29 February 1940 – 19 July 2011)

Career

Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in 1967 with "Tenka no seinen"[2] and his film debut in 1968 with Fukushū no uta ga kikoeru.[3] He came to fame appearing in New Action films at Nikkatsu playing youthful rebels.[4] Leaving the Haiyūza in 1971,[2] he appeared in films made by many directors, including Seijun Suzuki, Shūji Terayama, Azuma Morisaki, Kihachi Okamoto, Rokurō Mochizuki, Jun Ichikawa, Hirokazu Koreeda and Koji Wakamatsu, but he was particularly favored by Kazuo Kuroki and Junji Sakamoto. He starred in many independent films, including those of the Art Theatre Guild.[4] According to the critic Mark Schilling, Harada was "a favorite of generations of Japanese helmers for his rugged features, low, rumbling voice and distinctive presence, with shades of darkness and wildness that made him a natural for antihero roles in his youth."[4] Harada also appeared in many television dramas.[2]
He died of pneumonia on 19 July 2011 while battling cancer. His last starring film was Ōshika-mura sōdōki, and it was at a press conference for that film on July 11 that he made his last public appearance.[2]

Awards

A veteran of over 80 films, Harada won the best actor award at the 1990 Blue Ribbon Awards for Ronin-gai and Ware ni utsu yōi ari.[5] He had earlier won the Blue Ribbon best supporting actor prize in 1975 for Matsuri no junbi.[6] He also won the best actor prize at the Mainichi Film Awards in 1997 for Onibi,[7] and the Hochi Film Award for best supporting actor in 1989 for Dotsuitarunen.[8] He was twice nominated for the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award and won the award for best supporting actor at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for Dotsuitarunen and Kiss yori kantan.[9]
He received a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government in 2003.[10]

Partial filmography

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Brendan Kehoe, Irish software developer and author, died from acute myeloid leukemia he was, 40.

Brendan Patrick Kehoe was an Irish-born software developer and author died from acute myeloid leukemia he was, 40.. Born in Dublin, he was raised in China, Maine in the United States. In his early teens, he was first exposed to computing when he was given a Commodore 64 computer and he used this machine to teach himself about computing and computer networks. On leaving high-school, he moved to Widener University where he continued his computer studies.

(December 3, 1970– July 19, 2011)

Career

He wrote two books and a number of technology articles in the specialist press (e.g., Boardwatch Magazine) on the topic of the Internet. His first book, Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide, first published by Prentice Hall in July 1992[1] was the first mass-published user's guide to the Internet. Written while still at Widener, he struck a bargain with the publishers to ensure that the original edition of the book would remain free-of-charge in the internet for everyone to access.[1] In a survey[2] taken by PC Magazine for the twentieth anniversary of the PC, Zen and the Art of the Internet was listed as one of the "top sci-fi/tech non-fiction book of the past twenty years" (1981–2001). It also appeared on Sergey Brin's "Favorite Booklist".[3] As one of the first substantial books freely available for reuse on the Internet, Zen predated and helped to inspire the free culture movement. Parts of it were reworked into other works including the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Guide to the Internet.
Kehoe was a dedicated and detailed programmer, who, as a student, volunteered changes to one of the most complex pieces of free software in the world at the time, the GNU C++ Compiler and Library. His unusual skill at wrangling this code led to a fulltime job as a key employee of Cygnus Support in Silicon Valley in 1992, improving, supporting and documenting this code base. By 1995 he was managing the entire GNU C++ group at Cygnus.
Later in life he volunteered doing IT support for his local school, the Dalkey School Project. This led to positions as a member of its Board of Management, and from there to being Chairperson of the school.[4] In 2010 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Educate Together.[5]
He was described by Eric S. Raymond after his death as, "a true hacker and a gentleman".[6]

Personal life

On December 31, 1993, Kehoe and a friend, Sven Heinicke, were involved in a serious car accident that left Kehoe with brain injuries including aphasia. He subsequently made a full recovery. He was married on October 5, 1996. He lived in Dublin, Ireland with his wife and two children.
At the beginning of March 2011, Kehoe was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.[7] He underwent chemotherapy to fight the disease but succumbed to it on July 19, 2011.[8][9]

 

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James T. Molloy, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives (1974–1993), died from complications of diabetes he was , 75

James Thomas Molloy was elected Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives during the 94th Congress in 1974 and served through the 103rd Congress died from complications of diabetes he was , 75. As Doorkeeper, he introduced six Presidents, several heads of state and other dignitaries in joint sessions and other congressional events. Mr. Molloy was the last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.

(June 3, 1936 – July 19, 2011)

Biography

Early life

James T. Molloy was born in South Buffalo, Buffalo, New York on June 3, 1936 to Matthew Molloy and Catherine Hayden Molloy. Educated in Buffalo's Catholic Schools, he worked in the grain elevators of Buffalo's waterfront and fought fires as a member of the city fire department. Through his labor, Molloy paid his own way through school at Canisius College, becoming a member of the AFL-CIO, the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, and the International Association of Fire Fighters.

Career

Molloy worked as a schoolteacher in the New York cities of Buffalo and Lackawanna, and at the age of 27, became the youngest Democrat to serve as Party Zone Chairman in the State of New York.
Molloy went to Washington, D.C. in 1968 at the invitation of New York Congressman John Rooney to work in the House Finance Office. During his years of work in that office, he oversaw the growth of legislative appropriations for the House from $75 million to $126 million.
Molloy was elected Doorkeeper of the House in 1974, and remained at that post through the 103rd Congress, serving as a primary aide to Speakers Carl Albert, Tip O'Neill, James Wright, and Tom Foley. He was the last of 30 people to hold the position of Doorkeeper from its establishment in 1789 to its elimination in 1994. Within this capacity, he introduced Presidents and heads of state to Congress, and coordinated 71 joint sessions and many other events within the House chamber.
Terms served as the Doorkeeper of the House[1]
Term
Years
Start date
93rd
(1973–1975)
January 3, 1973
94th
(1975–1977)
January 14, 1975
95th
(1977–1979)
January 4, 1977
96th
(1979–1981)
January 15, 1979
97th
(1981–1983)
January 5, 1981
98th
(1983–1985)
January 3, 1983
99th
(1985–1987)
January 3, 1985
100th
(1987–1989)
January 6, 1987
101st
(1989–1991)
January 3, 1989
102nd
(1991–1993)
January 3, 1991
103rd
(1993–1995)
January 5, 1993

Legacy

Mr. Molloy continued to serve as Chairman of the Board of the Wright Patman Congressional Credit Union, a position he held for 30 years. Molloy is the recipient of numerous honors for his life's work in public service. He has received the Outstanding Citizen Award from the New York State AFL-CIO, the President's Award from the New York State Federation of Police, and the United States Senate Youth Alumni Association Outstanding Service Award. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from his alma mater, Canisius College, as well as the Sid Yudain Congressional Staffer of the Year Award from Roll Call. Molloy died of complications of diabetes on July 19, 2011.[2][3]

 

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Sir Julian Oswald, British admiral died he was , 77.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Julian Robertson Oswald GCB was a British naval officer who served as Chief of the Naval Staff and First Sea Lord died he was , 77..

(11 August 1933 – 19 July 2011)

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Naval career

Educated at Beaudesert Park School and Britannia Royal Naval College, Oswald joined the Royal Navy in 1947. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1960 and then Lieutenant Commander in 1964. Next followed a number of staff and sea tours when he was promoted to Commander and then Captain. He commanded HMS Bacchante from 1971 to 1972.[1]
Following his tours as Commanding Officer of HMS Newcastle, between 1977 and 1979 and Britannia Royal Naval College from 1980 to 1982, he was promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed an Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in 1982.[2]
He went on to become Flag Officer, Third Flotilla in 1985 and Commander-in-Chief Fleet from 1987 to 1989.[2]
He was First Sea Lord from 1989 to 1993 when he left the Royal Navy.[2]

Later career

In retirement he became Chairman of Sema Group plc[3] and was also the president of T.S. Newfoundland (Wolverhampton Unit) Sea Cadet Corps. He was also an Honorary Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute.

Family

In 1958 he married Veronica ('Roni') Thompson; they had two sons and three daughters.[4]

 

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Nat Allbright, American radio broadcaster, died from pneumonia he was , 87


Nathan Matthew "Nat" Allbright was an American sports announcer who specialized in doing play-by-play radio broadcasts of games that he had never seen, using information sent using Morse code from the stadiums where the games were played to provide listeners with vivid recreations of the actual games, in which Allbright would describe each pitch and play, combined with sound effects to make the depiction more vivid to listeners died from pneumonia he was , 87. Allbright was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers to announce recreated games played away from Ebbets Field to a network of radio stations on the East Coast that included more than 100 stations, providing facsimile coverage of 1,500 Dodgers games, despite never having seen one.
(November 26, 1923 – July 18, 2011)

Early life

Allbright was born in Dallas, Texas on November 26, 1923.[1] As a child, he moved with his family to Ridgeway, Virginia, and would recreate games in his imagination using lineups that he had taken from the local paper.[2] He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.[2] After receiving training in radio broadcasting, Allbright hosted musical and dance programs on the air, and covered baseball and other sporting events for stations in the Washington area, producing both live and recreated accounts.[2]

Dodgers game recreation

Walter O'Malley, owner of the Dodgers, wanted to create a radio network to reach fans of the Dodgers located on the East Coast of the United States.[1] Someone who had previous experience simulating games was desired, as such broadcasts were far less expensive than sending announcers and the required support staff to various stadiums.[2] Assigned to find the right candidate, Dodgers president Buzzie Bavasi hired Allbright, who was working at the time for radio station WEAM in Virginia. Invited to spend time with the Dodgers at spring training, he observed the players in action, with an eye for details of each player's mannerisms that he could use in his recreations. Allbright began his broadcasting career with the Dodgers in 1949, and his recreations were presented on more than 100 radio stations by the following season. During his time with the Dodgers, he broadcast 1,500 games from a studio in Washington, D.C., beginning each one with a statement required by the Federal Communications Commission that the contents of the radio program were a recreation of an actual game and then starting each game by stating "This is Nat Allbright, from Ebbets Field!"[1][3]
Allbright maintained notes and pictures in his studio of each National League ballpark to help make his descriptions as vivid as possible.[3] An assistant sitting outside his recording booth would take details from the play by play feed and prepare a script lisiting the details of each half inning. Allbright would be notified of any gap in game play so that he would be able to stretch out the material with added commentary until the typed sheets needed for the next half inning were completed.[4] Using the information transmitted about each pitch from the ballpark, Allbright would provide a running account of the game, using his knowledge of the players and their individual characteristics and quirks to provide a running color commentary for a game he could not see.[1] Most of the sound effects he used were from recordings, though he had a knack for using dental clicks to simulate the sound of a ball being struck by the bat.[3] He used records and tape recordings of the National Anthem, crowd murmurs, roars and jeers to help maintain the verisimilitude of the broadcasts, though sportswriter Leslie Timms of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal would reminisce that he could never figure out why the same vendor was shouting "Cold Beer, Here" regardless of which stadium the Dodgers were playing in.[1][5] Allbright himself supplied the voice of the beer vendor, leaning away from the microphone to simulate the voice coming from the stands.[2] If transmissions were not received from the live game, he might add in improvised foul balls; extensive lags could be turned into an imaginary rain delay to buy additional time, with thunder simulated by crinkling a piece of cellophane.[1][6] In a 1955 article, sportswriter Red Smith described how Allbright never claimed to be broadcasting from Ebbets Field, but didn't make it clear that he wasn't, "kind of leaving it up to the listeners to decide for themselves."[4]
After Fred Saigh, then owner of 90% of the St. Louis Cardinals, was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 15 months in federal prison in January 1953, Allbright was part of a group of prospective buyers that sought to buy the team from Saigh.[7] A month later, Saigh sold the team to a group led by the owners of Anheuser-Busch, accepting a lower offer of $3.75 million to keep the team in St. Louis.[8]
From 1950 until 1961, Allbright did 1,500 broadcasts of games played by the Dodgers, though he never saw the team play in person.[3] Washington Post sportswriter Bob Addie called Allbright the "king of the baseball re-creators", an art whose practitioners included Ronald Reagan.[2] He was awarded a ring when the Dodgers won the 1955 World Series, their only championship in Brooklyn.[1] Improving technology and the move of the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1958 cost Allbright many of his fans, with the team's evening home games starting at 11:00 PM in the Eastern Time Zone where his radio stations were located.[2]

Custom recreations

In the years after he retired from broadcasting for the Dodgers, Allbright began a company producing simulated recreations of sporting events, in which he would insert names supplied by customers as part of the recording. One client wanted to have himself inserted as a catcher for Dizzy Dean, pitching for the Cardinals in the 1934 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, while another customer had his father's name inserted into a game in which he supposedly played alongside Babe Ruth for the New York Yankees. Other recordings had couch potatoes playing for the Boston Celtics, boxing at Madison Square Garden and playing golf at the U.S. Open.[3]
During the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, Allbright produced a manufactured account of the All-Star Game that was scheduled to have been played that year at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, but had been cancelled due to the work stoppage. The Washington Post lauded "the fantasy created by Mr. Allbright" that evening, noting that he "had listeners sensing a breezy, summer Ohio night perfect for baseball". Before the strike was settled after half of the 1982 NFL season had been lost, Allbright broadcast eight simulated games featuring the Washington Redskins facing their scheduled opponents, setting the imaginary pace for a season in which the Redskins would in reality go on to win Super Bowl XVII.[2]

Death

Allbright died of pneumonia on July 18, 2011, in Arlington, Virginia at the Virginia Hospital Center.[2] He was survived by his wife, as well as by a daughter and a son.[1]

 

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Sean Hoare, British journalist (News of the World), whistleblower of the 2011 phone hacking scandal died he was , 47

Sean Hoare was a British entertainment journalist. He contributed to articles on show business, from actors to reality television stars. He contributed to exposing the News International phone hacking scandal.

(1963 – c. 17 July 2011)

Career

Hoare was described as by The Guardian's Nick Davies as "coming from a working-class background of solid Arsenal supporters, always voted Labour, defined himself specifically as a 'clause IV' socialist who still believed in public ownership of the means of production."[3] Hoare was a trainee reporter in the 1980s for the Watford Observer.[4]
He was a reporter for The Sun before joining the The Sunday People, under editor Neil Wallis.[3] He moved to the News of the World in June 2001,[5] under editor Rebekah Brooks (then Rebekah Wade) but was sacked in 2005 by then editor Andy Coulson for drink and drug problems.[6][7] He said in regards to his drug taking while employed by the News of the World, "I was paid to go out and take drugs with rock stars – get drunk with them, take pills with them, take cocaine with them. It was so competitive. You are going to go beyond the call of duty. You are going to do things that no sane man would do. You're in a machine."[3] He claims to have often taken "three grammes of cocaine a day, spending about £1,000 a week" and would drink Jack Daniel's, and then would snort a line of cocaine as part of a "rock star's breakfast".[3] His health deteriorated to the point that the doctor examining his liver remarked that he "must be dead".[3] A former colleague said, "if you could imagine the stereotypical image of News of the World hack, it would be he."[7]
In 2001, Hoare was awarded a Shafta Award (celebrating "the very worst in tabloid journalism")[8] for his scoop on David and Victoria Beckham's purchase of an island off the Essex coast;[9][10] the story, which turned out to be fiction,[10] also won him the 20th anniversary "Shafta of Shaftas" in 2006.[8] He won another Shafta in 2002[11] two in 2003[12] and a lifetime achievement Shafta in 2004.[13]

Phone hacking

He was involved in and exposed the News International phone hacking scandal in which he claimed in a New York Times article that Andy Coulson "encouraged" him to hack phones. He was once a close friend of Coulson.[6] Hoare had said of the phone hacking at the News of the World; "It was always done in the language of, 'Why don't you practise some of your dark arts on this', which was a metaphor for saying, 'Go and hack into a phone'. Such was the culture of intimidation and bullying that you would do it because you had to produce results. And, you know, to stand up in front of a Commons committee and say, 'I was unaware of this under my watch' was wrong."[7]

Death

He was found dead at his home in Langley Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, at around 11 am on 18 July 2011.[6] On the same day and within hours of his body being found, Hertfordshire Police stated that his death was "unexplained" but not suspicious,[14][15] and it could take weeks to establish a cause of death.[16] On 21 July, Hoare's widow issued a statement in which she said that his death had come as a "tremendous shock".[17]

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James Perry McCaffrey, a versatile and talented actor known for his iconic voice role as Max Payne in the Max Payne video game series, passed away on December 17, 2023, at the age of 65.

James McCaffrey.   GARY GERSHOFF/WIREIMAGE James Perry McCaffrey, a versatile and talented actor known for his iconic voice role as Max Payn...