Dave Niehaus American sportscaster (Seattle Mariners), 2008 Ford C. Frick Award recipient, died from a heart attack he was , 75,

 David Arnold Niehaus was an American sportscaster died from a heart attack he was , 75,. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in 1977 until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus with the Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters. Among fans nationwide and his peers, Niehaus was considered to be one of the finest sportscasters in history.

(February 19, 1935 – November 10, 2010)

Biography

Early life and career

Niehaus graduated from Indiana University in 1957, entered the military, and began his broadcasting career with Armed Forces Radio. He became a partner of Dick Enberg on the broadcast team of the California Angels in 1969. Niehaus also broadcast the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL and UCLA Bruins football and basketball during this period.

Seattle Mariners

In 1977, Danny Kaye, part-owner of the expansion Seattle Mariners, recruited Niehaus to become the franchise's radio voice. Despite working for a franchise who from its first year in 1977 until 1991 was without a winning season, his talent was recognizable, and Niehaus was considered one of the few attractions for Mariner fans.^{[citation needed]} Even in the period before the team's memorable 1995 season, the Mariners were regularly one of the leading major-league teams in terms of the percentage of radios in use.
Niehaus became immensely popular in Seattle, twice being named Washington Sportscaster of the Year. The team chose him to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the opening of its new ballpark, Safeco Field, on July 15, 1999.^[1] In 1999, for Nintendo 64, Niehaus was added to Ken Griffey, Jr.'s Slugfest as an announcer during gameplay. In 2000, he was the second figure to be inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame.^[1] In 2008, Niehaus was named the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, which recognizes career excellence in baseball broadcasting and is considered the highest baseball broadcasting honor.^[1]
As of the end of the 2007 season, Niehaus had called 4,817 of the 4,899 games the Mariners had played since their inception.^[1] May 7, 2009, was Niehaus' 5,000th game as a Mariner broadcaster. Niehaus broadcast 5,284 of the 5,385 Mariners games, and intended to broadcast the complete 2011 season.^[2]

Notable catchphrases

Niehaus is noted for using the following catchphrases on Mariner broadcasts:

• "My, oh my!" - a variant of former Angels partner Enberg's "Oh, my!", used for big, exciting plays.
• "Swung on and belted!" - used on long fly balls that may go over the wall for a home run.
• "It will fly away!"' (sometimes "Fly, fly away!") - used for home runs.
• "Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is grand salami time!" - used for a grand slam home run by a Mariners player.
• "The Mariners have erupted!" - used during scoring outbursts

Notable Nicknames

• "A-Rod" - first to call Alex Rodriguez "A-Rod"
• "Death to Flying Things" - first to call Franklin Gutiérrez by his current nickname
• "The Kid" - Niehaus's name for Ken Griffey, Jr.

Notable calls

Now the left hander ready, branding iron hot, the 1-2 pitch...."K" inserted! It's over! Right over the heart of the plate! Randy looks to the skies that is covered by the dome and bedlam! As the Mariners now erupt! 19 long years of frustration is over!

—Calling the final out against the California Angels in the one-game AL West playoff in 1995.

Right now, the Mariners looking for the tie. They would take a fly ball, they would love a base hit into the gap and they could win it with Junior's speed. The stretch... and the 0-1 pitch on the way to Edgar Martínez swung on and LINED DOWN THE LEFT FIELD LINE FOR A BASE HIT! HERE COMES JOEY, HERE IS JUNIOR TO THIRD BASE, THEY'RE GOING TO WAVE HIM IN! THE THROW TO THE PLATE WILL BE ... LATE! THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO PLAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP! I DON'T BELIEVE IT! IT JUST CONTINUES! MY, OH MY!

—Calling "The Double", hit by Edgar Martínez, which scored Joey Cora and Ken Griffey, Jr. to win the 1995 American League Division Series in the 5th and final game.

Death

Niehaus suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack) at his Bellevue, Washington, home on November 10, 2010, and died at age 75 while preparing to barbecue some ribs on his deck.^[3] Heart problems had forced Niehaus to undergo two angioplasties in 1996, causing him to give up smoking and change his diet.^{[citation needed]} He is survived by his wife, three children, and six grandchildren. In a formal statement, Mariners Chairman Howard Lincoln and President Chuck Armstrong said "Dave has truly been the heart and soul of this franchise since its inception in 1977... He truly was the fans connection to every game."^[4] Washington Governor Chris Gregoire said "Today the Pacific Northwest lost one of its sports icons...Dave was an institution here starting with the team's first pitch in 1977. With all due respect to the great Alvin Davis, Dave is 'Mr. Mariner.'" At news of Dave's death, tributes came from Jay Buhner, Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, other Mariners broadcasters, and fans.^[2]
As a tribute to the voice of the Seattle Mariners, Seattle MC, Macklemore, released a song called "My Oh My" on December 22nd, 2010. It describes Niehaus's influence on not only Macklemore's childhood, but also on any and all from Seattle. It also features an audio clip from the winning call of the 1995 American League Division Series.

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Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-born Canadian mafia leader (Rizzuto crime family), has died from a gun shot. wound he was , 86

Nicolo Rizzuto, also known as Nick Rizzuto, was the crime boss of the Sicilian faction of the Italian Mafia in Montreal who later pushed out the Calabrian Cotroni family has died from a gun shot. wound he was , 86. Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, in 1924, and immigrated to Canada in 1954 when the family settled in Montreal.^[1] Nick's son Vito Rizzuto was allegedly the godfather of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada and is currently serving a federal sentence for homicide in the United States.


(February 18, 1924 – November 10, 2010)

Early life

Rizzuto was born in Sicily in the town of Cattolica Eraclea. In 1925, his father Vito left for the United States of America with his brother-in-law Calogero Renda and 4 others. Vito's wife stayed with Nicolo in Sicily. In 1933, Vito was murdered in New York by rival gangsters forcing Nicolo to grow up with a stepfather. Nicolo married a girl named Labertina Manno, during the early 1940's, the daughter of a local Mafia leader. In 1954, Nicolo took his new family and settled in Montreal, Canada. He was able to form his own crew with help from several other Sicilian relatives and associates living there.^[1]
Rizzuto had ties to organized crime in Canada, the United States, Venezuela and Italy. He began his Mafia career in Canada as an associate of the Cotroni crime family that controlled much of Montreal's drug trade in the 1970s while answering to the Bonanno crime family of New York. He was, however, more closely linked to the Sicilian Mafia, in particular the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan, who came from the same region in the province of Agrigento.^[2]

Mob war

Rizzuto did not care much about the formal and ceremonial command lines in the Cotroni family, who were of Calabrian origin. Violi complained about the independent modus operandi of his Sicilian 'underlings', Nick Rizzuto in particular. "He is going from one side to the other, here and there, and he says nothing to nobody, he is doing business and nobody knows anything," Violi said about Rizzuto. Violi asked for more 'soldiers' from his Bonanno bosses, clearly preparing for war, and Violi's boss at the time, Vincent Cotroni remarked: "After all, I am 'capo decina', I have the right to expel him."^[2]
By the 1980s, the Rizzutos emerged as the city's pre-eminent Mafia crew after a turf war between the Montreal family's Sicilian and Calabrian factions. Rizzuto allegedly participated in the murder in 1978 of Paolo Violi, a Bonanno underboss who had been named boss of Montreal's family. He allegedly replaced the late Vic Cotroni as the clearinghouse for Corsican heroin entering Canada and the United States.

Legal problems

Rizzuto was arrested on November 23, 2006.^[3] Before the arrest, Rizzuto appeared to be immune to police investigations in Canada. But he did serve five years in prison in Venezuela between 1988 and 1993 after being convicted of cocaine possession. An undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer was later informed that Rizzuto was paroled early after an associate of the family delivered an CND$800,000 bribe to Venezuelan officials. October 16, 2008 Rizzuto was released from prison.
On February 11, 2010, Nicolo Rizzuto entered a guilty plea to tax evasion charges. The charges stem from a Canada Revenue Agency investigation for the tax years 1994 and 1995. Nicolo Rizzuto was accused of failing to declare the interest earned on more than 5 million dollars deposited in three Swiss bank accounts. The Court ordered Rizzuto that in addition to almost $628,000 in taxes owed, Rizzuto pay a $209,000 fine plus and administrative penalties.^[4]

Assassination

On November 10, 2010, Rizzuto was killed at his residence in the Cartierville borough of Montreal when a single bullet from a sniper's rifle punched through two layers of glass in the rear patio doors of his Montreal mansion.^[5][6][1]

Family

Rizzuto had two grandsons by his son Vito and his wife Giovanna Cammalleri, Leonardo Rizzuto and Nicolo "Nick" Rizzuto Jr.. On December 28, 2009, Nick Rizzuto Jr. was shot and killed near his car in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a borough in Montreal.^[7][8][9] Paolo Renda, Nicolo's son in law, disappeared on May 20, 2010, and is presumed to have been kidnapped.^[10] A month later Agostino Cuntrera, who is believed to have taken control of the family, was killed together with his bodyguard on June 30, 2010.^[11][12]

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Albert Wesley Johnson, Canadian civil servant, President of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1975–1982), died after a long illness.he was , 87

 Albert Wesley ("Al") Johnson, CC was a Canadian civil servant, former president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, professor in the department of political science at the University of Toronto, and author  died after a long illness.he was , 87.^[1]

(October 18, 1923 – November 9, 2010)


Born in Insinger, Saskatchewan, he received a Master's in public administration (MPA) from the University of Toronto and an MPA and a PhD from Harvard University. He was deputy treasurer of Saskatchewan from 1952 until 1964. In 1964 he became assistant deputy minister of finance for the federal government. From 1975 until 1982 he was president of the CBC. He subsequently taught at Queen's University and the University of Toronto.^[1]
In 1980 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1996 in recognition of his "outstanding career as a public servant, university professor and consultant on post-secondary education, social policy and public management both nationally and internationally".^[2]
He wrote the 2004 book Dream No Little Dreams, A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944–1961 (ISBN 0-8020-8633-0).^[1]
After leaving the federal civil service he embarked on an international career:^[3]

• Special Advisor on National Provincial Fiscal Arrangements for the International Monetary Fund 1988
• Head of Mission on Administrative Modernization for the Canadian International Development Agency 1991
• Senior advisor to South Africa/Canada Program on Governance 1992
• Commissioner of South Africa’s Presidential Review Commission on the Public Service 1996

Returning to Canada in 1999, Johnson became special chair in public policy to the Government of Saskatchewan.^[3]
Johnson died in Ottawa at age 87. He was survived by his wife, Ruth (née Hardy), whom he married in 1946, four children and one granddaughter.^[4]

[edit] Awards and honours

• Vanier Medal 1976
• Companion of the Order of Canada 1997
• Arthur Kroeger College Award for Ethics in Public Affairs 2010

[edit] See also

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Amos Lavi , Israeli actor died of lung cancer he was 57

Amos Lavi  was an Israeli stage and film actor died of lung cancer he was 57. Through his career Lavi played in dozens of films, theater and TV series. He won three Ophir Awards for the roles he played in the films Sh'Chur, Nashim and Zirkus Palestina.

(1953 – 9 November 2010)

 Career

Lavi was born in Libya in 1953. Lavi immigrated later on to Israel with his family which moved to Kiryat Gat.
In 1973 , during the Yom Kippur War Lavi participated in the war in the reserve forces of the IDF, and suffered from a posttraumatic stress disorder after the war. During his rehabilitation he was offered to study acting. In the early 1980s Lavi graduated from acting school at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts.
His first film was the drama Ma'agalim (1980). Two years later Lavi played in the film Ot Kain (1982) by Eran Preis which was directed by Uri Barbash. In 1983 he played a central role in the prestigious TV series Michel Ezra Safra and Sons by Amnon Shamosh and the film Green. In 1984 he played in the film Ani Vehami'ahav Shel Isht.
In 1985 Lavi played in the film Banot (written by Assi Dayan) alongside Hana Azoulay Hasfari and in the film Ad Sof Halaylah. That same year he participated in the production of the Israeli-American film Goodbye, New York by Amos Kollek. In 1986 he participated in the film Flash alongside Nitza Shaul, in Ha-Holmim by Eran Preis and which was directed by Uri Barbash, and in Himmo Melech Yerushalaim.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Lavi played in several Israeli-American films. In addition he also participated in the film Zarim Balayla alongside Yael Abecassis.
In 1993 he played alongside Ronit Elkabetz and Gila Almagor in the film Sh'Chur, for which he was awarded an Ophir Award. In 1994 he participated in the TV film Driks' Brother which was directed by Doron Sabri. In 1995 he starred in the Israeli television series Ha-Mone Dofek In 1996 he starred in Yaky Yosha's film Kesher Dam and Moshe Mizrahi's film Nashim, for which he was awarded an Ophir Award.
In 1997 he played alongside Nathan Zahavi in the film Shabazi and in the TV mini series Line 300. In 1998 he played in Shemi Zarhin's film Dangerous Acts alongside Moshe Ivgy and Gila Almagor. That same year he played in another film called Aviv and in the film Zirkus Palestina alongside Yoram Hatab and Evgenia Dodina, for which he was awarded an Ophir Award.
In 1999 he starred in the TV mini series Isha Beafor and in the film Frank Sinatra Is Dead. During that period he also played in several TV series and in the TV films Life's game (which was based on the life story of Lavi himself).
In 2002 Lavi played in the drama TV series Tik Sagur and the TV series Tipul Nimratz.
In 2003 Lavi played in the first ever Hardi telenovela called Ha-Chatzer, as the Rebbe, and in Amos Gitai's film Alila. During that year Lavi also began playing in the Israeli Telenovela Ahava Me'ever Lapina. In 2004 Lavi played in another Amos Gitai film called Promised Land. In 2005 he participated in the TV series Katav Plili and played in the Haim Buzaglo film Distortion. That same year he played in the film Schwartz Dynasty, Steven Spielberg's film Munich and Menachem Golan's film Days of Love. In 2006 he participated in the third season of the Israeli musical daily drama Our Song as Aryeh Weiss. In 2008 he participated in the second season of the Israeli children's TV series The Island. In 2009 he played as a guest in the series The Friends of Naor in the role of the mobster Rico Calderon. In 2010 he participated in Haim Buzaglo's film Kavod and the TV series Meorav Yerushalmi.
Lavi died of lung cancer at age 57. He was buried at the Yarkon cemetery.

Personal life

Lavi used to be married to the Israel actress Evelin Hagoel. He was also the father of four children from four different women.

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Quintin Dailey American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics), died from cardiovascular disease he was , 49,

Quintin "Q" Dailey was an American professional basketball player  . A 6'3" guard who played collegiately at the University of San Francisco, he later went on to a career in the NBA, playing for the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, and Seattle SuperSonics over the course of his 10-year tenure in the league  died from cardiovascular disease he was , 49,.^[1]

(January 22, 1961 – November 8, 2010)

Dailey was born on January 22, 1961, in Baltimore and was a schoolboy star at Cardinal Gibbons School. Heavily recruited out of high school, Dailey chose to attend the University of San Francisco from among the 200 schools that pursued him and play for the school's basketball team.^[2] Dailey scored 1,841 points during his collegiate career, averaging 20.5 points per game.^[1] The 755 points he scored during his third and final year at USF, averaging 25.2 points per game, broke the school record that had been held by Bill Cartwright.^[2]

The University of San Francisco had been on NCAA probation in previous seasons and in July 1982 school president Rev. John Lo Schiavo canceled the basketball program for what turned out to be three seasons after disclosures that Dailey had improperly accepted $1,000 per month for a no-show job from a team booster, calling the disclosure "the last straw". That same year, Dailey was sentenced to serve three years of probation after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a USF student and later settled a suit with the victim in which he paid $100,000 and issued a statement of apology. Days after pleading guilty in the case, the Chicago Bulls selected Dailey as the seventh pick overall in the 1982 NBA Draft.^[2]
The controversy followed him to Chicago, where women's groups protested against his presence on the team and building owners refused to have him as a tenant. John Schulian of the Chicago Sun-Times criticized the preferential treatment he had received as a star basketball player, saying that "if he were just another creep off the street, he would still be learning what a chamber of horrors the halls of justice can be".^[2] Despite the off-court distractions, Dailey averaged 15.1 points per game in his first season with the Bulls and was chosen for that year's NBA All-Rookie Team.^[1] With the Bulls in 1985, Dailey carped that Michael Jordan received more attention from the team, arguing that he was "a player who likes to shine a little bit myself".^[2]
Over his ten years in the NBA he averaged 14.1 points per game but continued to be a distraction off the court, missing games and violating the NBA drug policy on two occasions.^[2]

Dailey died in his sleep in Las Vegas at the age of 49 on November 8, 2010, due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease.^[3] He was survived by a daughter and a son.
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Jack Levine American artist died he was , 95,

 Jack Levine was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.

(January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010) 

Biography

Born of Lithuanian Jewish parents, Levine grew up in the South End of Boston, where he observed a street life composed of European immigrants and a prevalence of poverty and societal ills, subjects which would inform his work.^[1] He first studied drawing with Harold K. Zimmerman from 1924-1931. At Harvard University from 1929 to 1933, Levine and classmate Hyman Bloom studied with Denman Ross. As an adolescent, Levine was already, by his own account, "a formidable draftsman".^[2]

In 1932 Ross included Levine's drawings in an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and three years later bequeathed twenty drawings by Levine to the museum's collection.^[3] Levine's early work was most influenced by Bloom, Chaim Soutine, Georges Rouault, and Oskar Kokoschka.^[4] Along with Bloom and Karl Zerbe, he became associated with the style known as Boston Expressionism.^[5]
From 1935 to 1940 he was employed by the Works Progress Administration. His first exhibition of paintings in New York City was at the Museum of Modern Art, with the display of Card Game and Brain Trust, the latter drawn from his observation of life in the Boston Common.^[4] In 1937 his The Feast of Pure Reason, a satire of Boston political power, was placed on loan to the Museum of Modern Art. In the same year String Quartet was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and purchased in 1942 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[3] The death of his father in 1939 prompted a series of paintings of Jewish sages.^[6]

From 1942 to 1945 Levine served in the Army. Upon his discharge from service he painted Welcome Home, a lampoon of the arrogance of military power; years later the painting would engender political controversy when it was included in a show of art in Moscow, and along with works by other American artists, raised suspicions in the House Un-American Activities Committee of pro-Communist sympathies.^[7] In 1946 he married the painter Ruth Gikow and moved to New York City.
With a Fulbright grant he traveled to Europe in 1951, and was affected by the work of the Old masters, particularly the Mannerism of El Greco, which inspired him to distort and exaggerate the forms of his figures for expressive purposes.^[8] After returning he continued to paint biblical subjects, and also produced Gangster Funeral, a narrative which Levine referred to as a "comedy".^[9] Further commentary on American life was furnished by Election Night (1954), Inauguration (1958), and Thirty- Five Minutes from Times Square (1956). Also in the late 1950s, Levine painted a series of sensitive portraits of his wife and daughter. In the 1960s Levine responded not only to political unrest in the United States with works such as Birmingham '63, but to international subjects as well, as in The Spanish Prison (1959–62), and later still, Panethnikon (1978), and The Arms Brokers, 1982-83. Following the death of his wife in the 1980s came an increased interest in Hebraism, and with it a proliferation of paintings with themes from the Old Testament.^[10]

Levine's work is featured in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. In 1973 the Vatican purchased Cain and Abel (1961), to the satisfaction of Pope Paul VI.^[11] In 1978 a retrospective of Levine's work was held at the Jewish Museum in New York.
Levine was the subject of a 1989 film documentary entitled Feast of Pure Reason.^[12]
Levine died at his home in Manhattan on November 8, 2010 at the age of 95.^[13]

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Addison Powell, American actor (Dark Shadows, The Thomas Crown Affair, Three Days of the Condor) died he was , 89

Addison Powell  was an American actor whose numerous television, stage and film credits included Dark Shadows, The Thomas Crown Affair and Three Days of the Condor. He was best known for playing Dr. Eric Lang, a mad scientist who created Adam, on Dark Shadows.^[1][2]

(February 23, 1921 - November 8, 2010)




Powell was born in 1921 in Belmont, Massachusetts.^[1][2] His parents, Edward Henry and Kathrene (née Barnum) Powell, were school teachers.^[2] Powell received a bachelor's degree from Boston University.^[1] He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force as a navigator during World War II.^[1] Powell ultimately flew more than thirty flights as a navigator on board B-17 bombers from their base in East Anglia, the United Kingdom.^[1][2] He earned a second degree from the Yale School of Drama following the end of the war.^[1] Powell married his wife, Bunnie (née Rowley) in 1950.^[1] The couple had three children during their marriage and resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.^[1]

Powell's film credits included In the French Style in 1962 and 1968's The Thomas Crown Affair, in which he played Abe, a bank robber, opposite Steve McQueen.^[1] In 1975, Powell appeared in Three Days of the Condor, which starred Robert Redford.^[2] He also portrayed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in the 1977 biopic, MacArthur, which starred Gregory Peck.^[1]

His television credits included roles in the first seasons of both Law & Order and The Mod Squad. Powell also had a recurring role as Dr. Eric Lang in the television series, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC from 1966 until 1971.^[1] He co-starred as a detective in the 1977 television film, Contract on Cherry Street, with Frank Sinatra and Martin Balsam.^[1]


Addison Powell died on November 8, 2010, at 89 years old. He is survived by his three children, Mary, Julie and Michael; eight grandchildren; and a younger brother, Edward Powell. His wife, Bunny, died in 1995.^[1] Powell had resided in Vermont for twenty-two years, most recently at the Shelburne Bay Senior Living community in Shelburne.^[1]

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