A REMINDER THAT AMERICANS ARE DOING GOOD THINGS TOO: IN AN AMERICAN WAY:
Interplanetary Memorial to Victims of Sept. 11, 2001The piece of metal with the American flag on it in this image of a NASA rover on Mars is made of aluminum recovered from the site of the World Trade Center towers in the weeks after their destruction.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University
NOTABLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED THIS MONTH
October 20112120 Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, 59, former Libyan defence minister, [1] . Abdullah Senussi, 61-62, Sudanese-born Libyan Intelligence Chief, shot (death reported on this date). [2] Moatassem Gaddafi, 33-34, Libyan Army officer, son of Muammar Gaddafi, shot. [3] Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shot. [4] Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photo journalist. [5] Iztok Puc, 45, Slovenian handball player, lung cancer. [6] Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer. [7] (French)19 Earl Gilliam, 81, American blues pianist, lung disease. [8] Bohdan Osadchuk, 91, Ukrainian historian and journalist. [9] (Polish) Keith Williams, 82, Australian property developer (Hamilton Island, Sea World), stroke. [10]18 Bob Brunning, 68, British blues musician (Fleetwood Mac), heart attack. [11] George Chaloupka, 79, Czech-born Australian indigenous art historian. [12] Mofya Chisgena, 28, Zambian pageant winner, complications from childbirth. [13] Ramaz Chkhikvadze, 83, Georgian actor, People’s Artist of the USSR, long illness. [14] Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer. [15] Paul Everac, 87, Romanian writer, cancer. [16] (Romanian) Tommy Grant, 76, Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [17] Kent Hull, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), liver disease. [18] Friedrich Kittler, 68, German literary scholar and media theorist. [19] (German) Lee Soo-Chul, 45, South Korean football manager, suicide. [20] Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Austria (since 1991). [21] (German) Andrea Zanzotto, 90, Italian poet. [22] (Italian)17 Barney Danson, 90, Canadian politician, MP for York North (1968–1979), Minister of National Defence (1976–1979). [23] Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician, last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany (1989–1990). [24] Poul Glargaard, 69, Danish actor. [25] (Danish) Osvaldo Guidi, 47, Argentine actor, suicide by hanging. [26] (Spanish) Carl Lindner, Jr., 92, American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), cardiac arrest. [27] Elaine Nile, 75, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–2002), cancer. [28]16 Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, 84, British aristocrat and politician. [29] Elouise Cobell, 65, American Native American rights activist. [30] Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, 70, Mexican journalist. [31] Rick Huseman, 38, American off-road racer, plane crash. [32] Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer (Kiss Me Kate, The Fugitive). [33] Henning Sjöström, 89, Swedish defense attorney, long illness. [34] Elisabeth Tankeu, 67, Cameroonian politician. [35] Dan Wheldon, 33, British IndyCar driver, racing accident. [36] Don Williams, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics). [37]15 Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress (Coronation Street), pneumonia. [38] Sir Donald Dunstan, 88, Australian military officer, Governor of South Australia (1982–1991). [39] Pierre Mamboundou, 65, Gabonese politician, president of the UPG party, heart attack. [40] Matthew G. Martínez, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1982–2001). [41] Earl McRae, 69, Canadian journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack. [42] Sue Mengers, 79, American talent agent, pneumonia. [43] Franko Strmotić, 67, Croatian actor. [44] (Croatian)14 Reg Alcock, 63, Canadian politician, MP for Winnipeg South (1993–2006); President of the Treasury Board (2003–2006), heart attack. [45] Theron Brison, 48, American bassist, murdered. [46] Leon Cakoff, 63, Brazilian film critic, melanoma. [47] (Portuguese) Margaret Draper, 94, American radio actress and disc jockey, natural causes. [48] Michael Fitzpatrick, 69, Irish politician, TD for Kildare North (2007–2011), motor neurone disease. [49] Adam Hunter, 48, Scottish golfer, leukemia. [50] Laura Pollán, 63, Cuban opposition leader, founder of the Ladies in White, cardiorespiratory arrest. [51] Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer (Edgar Winter, Sammy Hagar), after long illness. [52]13 Sheila Allen,78, English actress. [53] Chris Doig, 63, New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator, bowel cancer. [54] Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress. [55] Pavlina Nikaj, 80, Albanian singer. [56] (Albanian) Abdoulaye Seye, 77, Senegalese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete. [57] (French)12 Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor. [58] (German) Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People’s Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis. [59] Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), car crash. [60] Lambert Giebels, 76, Dutch writer, historian and politician. [61] (Dutch) Peter Hammond, 87, British actor and television director. [62] Lowell H. Harrison, 88, American historian. [63] János Herskó, 85, Hungarian film director and actor. [64] (Hungarian) Dieudonné Kabongo, 61, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, actor and musician. [65] Paul Leka, 70, American songwriter, pianist and arranger. [66] Vic Miles, 79, American reporter and news anchor. [67] Lewis Mills, 74, American college basketball coach (University of Richmond) and athletic director. [68] Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of C programming language. [69] (body discovered on this date) Dick Thornett, 71, Australian triple international sportsman (water polo, rugby union and rugby league), heart disease. [70] Martin White, 102, Irish hurler. [71] Winstone Zulu, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist. [72]11 Amin al-Shami, Yemeni air force colonel, car bomb. [73] Kim Brown, 66, British-born Finnish musician, cancer. [74] (Finnish) George “Mojo” Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player. [75] Cy Buker, 92, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [76] Ion Diaconescu, 94, Romanian politician, former PNŢCD leader, President of Chamber of Deputies (1996–2000), heart failure. [77] (Romanian) Doctor X, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, shot. [78] (Spanish) Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola (1959–1986). [79] Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer. [80] Nauman Habib, 32, Pakistani cricketer, murdered. [81] Henk Hofs, 60, Dutch footballer (Vitesse). [82] (Dutch) Keith Holman, 84, Australian rugby league player and referee. [83] Frank Kameny, 86, American gay rights activist, natural causes. [84] Jose Vasconcelos, 85, Brazilian actor and comedian, respiratory failure. [85] (Portuguese)10 Ray Aghayan, 83, Iranian-born American costume designer (Funny Lady, Doctor Dolittle). [86] Milton Castellanos Everardo, 91, Mexican politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1951), Governor of Baja California (1971–1977). [87] (Spanish) Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician, Governor of Washington (1957–1965), natural causes. [88] Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage. [89] Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor. [90] (German) Jyohji Yanagi, 63, Japanese blues singer. [91] (Japanese)9 Kei Aoyama, 32, Japanese mangaka, suicide. [92] (Japanese) Ray Aranha, 72, American actor (Dead Man Walking, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Married People). [93] Antonis Christeas, 74, Greek basketball player (AEK Athens) and coach. [94] (Greek) Robert Boochever, 94, American federal judge. [95] Bill Brown, 69, American disc jockey (WCBS-FM). [96] Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian. [97] Vibeke Mowinckel Falk, 93, Norwegian actress. [98] (Norwegian) Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating. [99] Pavel Karelin, 21, Russian ski jumper, traffic accident. [100] (Russian) Edward Loper, Sr., 95, American artist, Alzheimer’s disease. [101] Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, 88, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trujillo (1976–1999). [102] Ljubo Stipišić, 73, Croatian composer. [103] (Croatian) James Worrall, 97, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936) and administrator. [104]8 Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner (Oakland Raiders). [105] David Hess, 75, American actor (The Last House on the Left), singer and songwriter, heart attack. [106] Ovidio de Jesús, 78, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960). [107] (Spanish) (death announced on this date) Piet Noordijk, 79, Dutch saxophone player. [108] Nina Sorokina, 69, Russian ballerina, People’s Artist of the USSR. [109] (Russian) Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician (Weezer). [110] Roger Williams, 87, American pianist, pancreatic cancer. [111] Ingvar Wixell, 80, Swedish opera singer. [112] (Swedish)7 Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage. [113] John Alderson, 89, British police officer and media commentator, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (1973–1982). [114] Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour (1985–1991), President (1991–1992), lung disease. [115] Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer. [116] George Baker, 80, English actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke. [117] Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007). [118] Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican general. [119] (Spanish) Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), multiple myeloma. [120] Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies). [121] Neoklis Lechoudis, 55, Greek basketball player and coach, traffic collision. [122] (Greek) Gianni Musy, 80, Italian movie dubber. [123] (Italian) Michel Peissel, 74, French explorer and author, heart attack. [124] Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer. [125] Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 88, Colombian businessman (SABMiller). [126] (Spanish) Mildred Savage, 92, American author (Parrish). [127] Mishaal al-Tammo, 53, Syrian politician, shot. [128] Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist. [129]6 Bess Bonnier, 83, American jazz pianist. [130] Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress (Tom Jones, The Wicker Man), cancer. [131] William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist. [132] Marilyn Nash, 84, American actress (Monsieur Verdoux, Unknown World). [133] Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress. [134] (Swedish) Igor Shmakov, 26, Russian actor, leukemia. [135] Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider. [136] Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor. [137]5 Edward Acquah, 76, Ghanaian Olympic footballer (1964). [138] Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack. [139] (Spanish) Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor (Harvard University), originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer. [140] Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community. [141] Graham Dilley, 52, English cricketer, cancer. [142] Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, after long illness. [143] Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1998, 1992), suicide by standing in front of a train. [144] Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer. [145] Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer. [146] Achilleas Karagiozopoulos, 56, Greek politician, cancer. [147] (Greek) Charles Napier, 75, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, The Blues Brothers). [148] Billy Naylor, 95, American child actor (Our Gang). [149] Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader. [150] Gökşin Sipahioğlu, 84, Turkish photographer. [151] (French). Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer. [152]4 Joe Aceti, 76, American televison sports director, stroke. [153] Doris Belack, 85, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), natural causes. [154] Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian actress, traffic collision. [155] (Russian) Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes. [156] Diana Gribble, 69, Australian publisher (McPhee Gribble), cancer. [157] Ralph Hodgin, 96, American baseball player (Boston Bees, Chicago White Sox). [158] Dustin Kellogg, 18, American baseball player, traffic collision. [159] Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer. [160] Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director, cancer. [161] Géza Tóth, 79, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) weightlifter. [162] Aleksandr Yegorov, 59, Russian actor, traffic collision. [163] (Russian) Valentina Yudina, 52, Russian actress, traffic collision. [164] (Russian)3 Kay Armen, 95, American singer, actress and composer. [165] Argyris Fatouros, 79, Greek law professor. [166] (Greek) Mikko Laine, 30, Finnish rock musician, truck accident. [167] Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist. [168] David I. Mitchell, 79, American set designer (Annie), cancer. [169] Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets). [170] Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., 92, American businessman (ACNielsen), Parkinson’s disease. [171] Rollin Post, 81, American television reporter. [172]2 Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS. [173] Don Lapre, 47, American television pitchman, suicide by cutting throat. [174] Mark Mendel, 64, Romanian born Israeli-Jamaican football coach. [175] Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet. [176] Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer. [177] (German) John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators). [178] François Abu Salem, 60, French-born Palestinian actor and director. [179] Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver (1976), lung cancer. [180] Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director. [181] (Greek) Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia. [182] Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician. [183]1 Hans Christian Alsvik, 75, Norwegian television presenter. [184] (Norwegian) David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician. [185] Len Castle, 86, New Zealand potter. [186] Philo Dibble, 60, Egyptian-born American diplmat. [187] Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic. [188] Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian. [189] Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyrenia (since 1994). [190] (Greek) Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis and the United States. [191] Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators). [192] Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957, 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer. [193]September 2011
JOHNNIES REFUSE TO WORK: TOO DARN HARD THEY SAY:
ONEONTA, Ala. – Alabama’s tough immigration law was supposed to create farm jobs for unemployed Americans, but few of them have shown any interest since the measure went into effect.Many of the Americans who have ventured out into the fields to pick crops have quit after a single day, telling farmers the work is too hard and not worth the pay. GLORY BE: I SAY TO ALL THAT: GLORY BE AND PRAISE THE LORD: MAYBE THE MEXICANS WONT COME BACK EH: AND THEN WHAT: WHOSE CHEAP LABOUR ARE WE AGONA EXPLOIT NOW EH LAWDY LAWDY: AND GOD BLESS ALABAMA:
GADDAFI DIES IN A DRAIN PIPE: FITTING?
any man’s death diminishes me,because I am involved in mankind. thank you john donne.All deaths should hurt and even for this man, i feel the pain of his passing. i will not feel glee but simply sadness at the follies of some of us. This is the end of something. certainly further discussion of this on this blog.
DID NATO KILL GADDAFI
REUTERS TELLS ME PERSONALLY THAT BRITISH TORNADO BOMBERS—ONE PICTURED HERE— ATTACKED A COLUMN WHEREIN AN INJURED GADDAFI ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE SIRTE; HIS HOMETOWN: THE FRENCH OF COURSE; MAIS VOILA; SAY THAT FRENCH AND AMERICAN PLANES ACTUALLY ATTACKED AND STOPPED THE CONVOY: GADDAFI WAS NOT IN THE CONVOY APPARENTLY; BEING FATALLY WOUNDED DYING IN AN AMBULANCE ON THE WAY TO WHO KNOWS WHERE: HE HAD APPARENTLY BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD AND SOMEWHERE ELSE ON HIS BODY:I PERSONALLY AS WELL THINK THAT THIS WILD MAN IS DEAD: AL JAZEERA HAS POSTED A PHOTO OF A DEAD MAN WHO LOOKS REMARKABLY LIKE GADDAFI: I WOULD HAVE POSTED SAID PHOTO BUT MY DAUGHTER READS THIS AND I LIKE TO KEEP MY CONTENT UNGORY:ok. I think i got it. french planes fired at a convoy with gaddafi. gaddafi and his entourage jumped and hid in the ditch in some tunnels. the rebels or whatever they are called now dragged them out killing a few and capturing a wounded gaddafi. he was taken to a hospital but on the way he died. shot while escaping some of the folks said. the official line out of tripoli was that he was killed by his own side in a firefight. gaddafis two sons were also there. one was killed the other one, the mouthy guy, was shot in the leg and will later be killed either while escaping or getting caught in the cross fire.
GADDAFI DEAD? NOT SURE: WAIT AND SEE:
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said.His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen.”He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. “There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.”I AM SURPRISED THAT IT TOOK 42 YEARS; LOCKERBIE; COUNTLESS LIBYAN DEATHS; TERRORISM AND ALL OF THAT TO END THIS THING: SIGH: AND ON THE DAY I FINALLY LEARNED HOW TO SPELL GADDAFHIGADDAFI:
SOME GOOD NEWS::: MAYBE
EATTLE/LONDON (Reuters) -An experimental vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline halved the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial, making it likely to become the world’s first shot against the deadly disease.
THIS JUST IN::: THE SARKOZYS HAVE JUST HAD A DAUGHTER:
VIVE LA FRANCE: I CAN HEAR IT ALREADY IN PARIS: AH: HOW VERY SWEET ZIS IS: ANOTHER ROYAL MOUTH TO FEED: HERE IS THE NEWS::: La Première dame de France a accouché. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a donné naissance mercredi soir à une fille, à la clinique de la Muette, dans le XVIe arrondissement parisien. On ignore encore le prénom du bébé. La naissance a eu lieu «vers 19h-19h30, tout s’est bien passé»,
FOOD IN MEXICO: SERVICE
MEXICANS ARE WARM AND WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE: REMEMBER HOWEVER THAT MANY MEXICANS HAVE SPENT TIME WORKING IN THE USA: BUT PERHAPS NOT IN THE COMFORTABLE MIDDLE CLASS PLACES THAT MANY OF US ARE USED
TO: SO IF A SERVER TELLS YOU ” HOW THE FRIG ARE YOU DOIN SENOR OR SENORA“, HE IS JUST TRYING TO MAKE YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE BY SPEAKING TO YOU IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE:
HOW TO ORDER COFFEE IN MEXICO:
DO NOT ORDER A CAFE AMERICANO: USUALLY; YOU WILL GET A CUP OF HOT WATER AND A PACKAGE OF INSTANT COFFEE: WITH SUGAR ON THE SIDE: NO CREAM: YOU HAVE TO ORDER THAT SEPARATE: I STICK TO CAPPUCINO: MEXICANS MAKE MARVELOUS CAPPUCINO: COMPLETE WITH HEARTS AND FLOWERS IN THE HOT FOAM: JUST LOVE IT: MAKE SURE YOU SAY SIN CANELLA: UNLESS OF COURSE YOU LIKE YOUR COFFEE TO TASTE LIKE A COOKIE:
MACDONALDS IN MEXICO:
DO NOT FORGET EVER THAT YOU ARE IN MEXICO: EVEN AT MACDONALDS: DO NOT COMPLAIN: MEXICANS ARE NOT USE TO COMPLAINTS: JUST NOT DONE: A MATTER OF FACE: I HAVE A STORY ABOUT THIS:I ORDERED A MILKSHAKE AT MACDONALDS: IT WAS SOLID ICECREAM: I COULD NOT PIERCE THE DRINK WITH MY STRAW SO I WENT AND COMPLAINED: THE KID HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO: THE MANAGER SHOWED UP: HE TOLD ME AHH: SI: AND GAVE ME A SPOON:
MORE ADVICE ON MEXICAN FOOD:
SUSHI IS REALLY GOOD STUFF: YOU CAN ORDER IT ANYWHERE IN MEXICO: BUT BEWARE: BESIDES CHILI (ubiquitous) THE ROLLS WILL LIKELY HAVE CHEESE IN THEM: IF YOU LIKE CHEESE WITH YOUR CHILI SUSHI; THEN GOOD FOR YOU: I PERSONALLY DONT AND MAKE MY OWN:
MEXICAN FOOD:
TAKE NOTE.. MEXICAN FOOD IN MEXICO CAN AND WILL BE DIFFERENT: NOTHING LIKE TACO BELL I CAN ASSURE YOU: AGAIN; MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ORDERING: THIS SOUP FOR EXAMPLE: IT IS DELICIOUS; BUT MAY NOT SUIT YOUR PALATE: IT IS COOKED IN MOLE AND IN MICHOACAN; IT IS HOT—: STICK TO PAZOLE SOUP: HOT TOO; BUT NOT SO BAD: IT IS EVERYWHERE AND ALMOST A NATIONAL DISH: READ EL MONSTRUO BY JOHN ROSS: HE TALKS ABOUT PAZOLE THEREIN:
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