Fred Speck, Canadian ice hockey player died he was , 63

Frederick Edmondstone Speck  was a Canadian professional ice hockey player died he was , 63. A centre, Speck had a brief major league career, playing in only 28 NHL and 111 WHA games. Speck enjoyed a successful minor league hockey career and won several awards in the 1970–71 season.


(July 22, 1947 – February 10, 2011)

 Professional career

Minor league hockey

Speck was signed by the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL after a scout noticed his skills while playing junior hockey in Ontario. He was signed quickly and began play with the Hamilton Red Wings of the Ontario Hockey Association for a single game in 1963. He received more ice time the following season and began to produce offensively, scoring eight points in his first 17 games. His coaches saw promise and his ice time was again increased for the 1964–65 season. He took advantage and earned a permanent spot on the team by scoring 34 points in 41 games. Speck took on a larger role with Hamilton for three more seasons, each time increasing his point totals. He scored 197 points between 1965–66 and 1967–68, including 85 points in his final season. He formed a great counter-point to Danny Lawson and the pair finished with a combined 175 points in the 1967–68 season. He even helped fill a hole for the Fort Worth Wings of the Central Hockey League that season, and scored a goal and an assist in his first game. He even helped out Fort Worth's short playoff run scoring four points. He impressed the Fort Worth coaches enough that it was decided he was ready for the next level. Speck joined Fort Worth full-time for the 1968–69 season, putting up 45 points.

Playing in the NHL

When the Detroit Red Wings needed to increase scoring and fill a roster spot midway through the 1968–69 NHL season, they turned to their farm system and the coaches responded by sending Speck. He did not deliver in his first five NHL games, but played his position smartly and was not afraid to shoot the puck. He received another chance to play for Detroit the following season, but again failed to impress in his short five game appearance.
He continued his scoring way with Fort Worth and scored 76 points in the 1969–70 season. In the last game of the season, the Wings were playing the Iowa Stars, who were a point behind in the standings, and Speck single handedly prevented the Stars from finishing first. The Stars were ahead the entire game until Speck scored twice, both goals tying the game, in the final 3 minutes of the game. With 17:09 gone in the final period, Speck scored, tying the game 2-2. The Stars responded by scoring 61 seconds later. However, as the Wings pressed, Speck shot the puck and scored with 22 seconds left to again tie the game 3-3. The Wings hung on to end the game in a tie, preventing the Stars from leapfrogging the Omaha Knights into first place.^[1] After a disappointing post-season he joined the San Diego Gulls of the Western Hockey League for a couple of post-season games before finally joining up with the Baltimore Clippers of the American Hockey League. They were a perfect fit. Playing for the Clippers in 1970–71, Speck scored 92 points and led the team to a first place AHL finish. Speck was named to the AHL first All-star team, and won three league awards; the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award, the John B. Sollenberger Trophy, and the Les Cunningham Award.
He had impressed the hockey world again and on June 8, 1971, the Vancouver Canucks claimed Speck in the Intra-League Draft. Speck joined the new NHL club for their first 18 games scoring one goal and two assists.

Finishing in the minors

After his NHL tour, Speck spent most of the 1971–72 season in the minors, splitting time between the Cleveland Barons of the AHL and the Seattle Totems of the WHL. The following season saw Speck sign with the Minnesota Fighting Saints of the World Hockey Association where he put up impressive numbers before he was traded for Bill Young in February to the Los Angeles Sharks. He remained with the Sharks until 18 games into the 1973–74 season when Speck requested a transfer to the Michigan Stags. Speck finished that season with the Greensboro Generals of the Southern Hockey League and began play in 1974–75 with the Syracuse Blazers of the North American Hockey League. Speck impressed once again, scoring 34 points in 17 games and leading the Blazers to a first place finish during the season, but a final round exit from the post season. After Syracuse, Speck again found himself playing for the Baltimore Clippers and picked up right where he left off, leading the Clippers in scoring with 75 points in 76 games for the 1975–76 season. However the Clippers finished in last place and Speck felt it was time to move on yet again. He joined the Brantford Alexanders of the upstart OHA Senior A Hockey League and played two solid seasons before retiring in 1977.

Awards and achievements

• Named to AHL First All-Star Team: 1970–71
• Won Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award, (AHL Rookie of the Year): 1970–71
• Won John B. Sollenberger Trophy, (AHL Leading Scorer): 1970–71
• Won Les Cunningham Award, (AHL MVP): 1970–71

Personal

Speck met his wife while playing junior hockey with the Hamilton Red Wings. Fred and Linda are the parents of two children, son Wade and daughter Paige. After retiring from hockey in 1978, Speck became a sales manager, a career he continued until he became ill in November 2010. He started to lose weight and died of an unknown illness on February 10, 2011.^[2]

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Roza Baglanova, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR died he was , 89.

Baglanova, Roza Tazhibaevna  was a Soviet and Kazakh soprano opera and pop music singer, who was honored with many awards throughout her career, including the People’s Artist of the USSR (1967) and the Order of Lenin died he was , 89.. She was also deemed a National Hero of Kazakhstan.^[1]

(January 1, 1922 - February 8, 2011)

Early life

Baglanova was born in Kazalinsk, in Kzyl-Orda, Oblast, and studied at the Kzyl-Orda Pedagogical Institute from 1939 to 1941. From 1941 to 1947 she was a soloist with the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Uzbek Philharmonic. Beginning in1949, she became a singer with the Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet,^[2] then the Kazakh State Philharmonic Society (1960) and was a leading master of the Kazakh state concert association "Kazakhconcert".^[3]

During her career, she performed in Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Belgium, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, India, Burma, Canada, and other countries. One of her passions was singing in the language of the country she was performing in, and so performed traditional folk songs in Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Mongolian, Korean, and others.
Baglanova was also included in the first edition of "Women of the World" in the Anglo-American encyclopedia. "Who's Who".

Death

Baglanova died of a heart attack at the age of 89 in Alma-Ata.

Awards

• People's Artist of Kazakh SSR
• Medal "For Military Merit" (1945)
• People's Artist of U.S.S.R. (1967)^[4]
• Shapagat Medal (1995)
• People's Artist of Kyrgyzstan (1996)
• "Daneker" International Prize (2000)
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• The Order of Friendship of Peoples
• The Order of Honour
• Highest rank of the Republic of Kazakhstan "People's Hero"
• Public Prize "Tarlan" - "Contribution"

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Cliff Dapper American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) died he was , 91,.

Clifford Roland Dapper was a Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1942 season. Listed at 6'2", 190 lbs., he batted and threw right handed.

(January 2, 1920 – February 8, 2011)



Born in Los Angeles, California, Dapper began his baseball career began at age 18 for Class-B Bellingham Chinooks in the Western International League. With many players unavailable due to World War II, Dapper got his shot at the majors in April 1942, appearing in eight games for Brooklyn. He connected eight hits in 17 at-bats for a .471 batting average, including a home run, one double, two runs and nine RBI. Despite his hot hitting, Dapper was unable to dislodge all-star Mickey Owen from the catcher's position for the Dodgers, and he was returned to the minors. Later that season he was drafted, and missed the 1943-45 seasons while serving in the South Pacific during World War II.^[2][3]
Following his military discharge, Dapper returned to baseball as a player and then manager, helming Pittsburgh Pirates farm clubs in Eugene, Oregon, and Billings, Montana, all while still an active player. He eventually played 1,623 minor-league games over a twenty-year span, hitting .274 and 102 homers before retiring in 1957, the same year that his former team, the Dodgers, would move to his home town of Los Angeles.^[2]
Following his baseball career, Dapper settled in Fallbrook, California, where he bought a ranch along former Dodgers teammate Duke Snider where they made a substantial living farming avocados and lemons on 60 acres.^[4]
Dapper died at his home of Fallbrook, California, at the age of 91.^[4]

Traded for Ernie Harwell

Dapper held the unique distinction of being traded for an announcer. In 1948, Dapper, then with the Dodgers' top farm club in Montreal, was sent to the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association in exchange for Ernie Harwell, so that Harwell could substitute for ailing Dodger broadcaster Red Barber. Dapper batted .280 for the Crackers and took over as the club's manager. Harwell left the Dodgers after the 1949 season and was replaced by Vin Scully, and went on to a Hall of Fame career as a broadcaster, mostly for the Detroit Tigers. Harwell and Dapper would not meet for over half a century, when Dapper came to Comerica Park on September 15, 2002, when Harwell's statue was unveiled.^[4][5]

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Bradley C. Livezey, American ornithologist, died from a car accident he was , 56

 Bradley C. Livezey was an American ornithologist died from a car accident he was , 56. His main research included the evolution of flightless birds, the ecology and the behaviour of steamer ducks, genetic analysis of birds, and avian diseases.

(15 June 1954 – 8 February 2011) 

Livezey was born in Massachusetts but grew up mostly in Chicago. He often moved during his childhood. His interest in birds was developed early. Livezey graduated to Bachelor of Science at the Oregon State University in 1976. In 1979 he earned his first Master of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in wildlife ecology and in 1984 his second in mathematics at the University of Kansas. In 1985 he promoted to Ph.D. with his thesis Systematics and flightlessness of steamer-ducks (Anatidae: Tachyeres) at the University of Kansas.
A large part of Livezey's research work dealt with controversial areas of the phylogenetics and taxonomy of birds. While Livezey's colleagues often used DNA analysis to support their research work Livezey demonstrated a more traditional approach based on exhaustive studies of the shape and the characteristics of bones. General interests included phylogenetic relationships of avian families, phylogenetic relationships of waterfowl, evolution of avian flightlessness, comparative osteology of birds, multivariate morphometrics, and avian paleontology
In 1993 Dr. Livezey was employed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. As curator of the birds department he oversaw around 195,000 bird specimens, the ninth largest bird collection in the United States.
On 8 February 2011 Livezey died in a two-car collision caused by icy road conditions on the Pennsylvania Route 910 near his home in Wexford, Pennsylvania.
Brad Livezeys sister Alyson Hartmann lives in Flossmoor, Illinois and his brother Kent Livezey in Puyallup, Washington.

Works (selected)

• 1992: Taxonomy and identification of steamer-ducks (Anatidae : Tachyeres). Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas
• 2003: Evolution of Flightlessness in Rails (Gruiformes: Rallidae): Phylogenetic, Ecomorphological, and Ontogenetic Perspectives. Ornithological Monographs No. 53
• 2007: Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative anatomy. II. Analysis and discussion (with Richard Laurence Zusi). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 149: 1–95.

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Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) died he was , 101.

Anthony Francis Malinosky  was a third baseman and shortstop in Major League baseball who played 35 games for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1937 season  died he was , 101. Listed at 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb., he batted and threw right-handed.^[1]

(October 7, 1909 – February 8, 2011)

Born in Collinsville, Illinois, Tony Malinosky attended Whittier College, where he played baseball and was a classmate of future US President Richard Nixon.^[2]
The Pittsburgh Pirates signed Malinosky to his first professional contract, and then sold his rights to the Dodgers in 1936.^[1][3]
During World War II, Malinosky was drafted by the United States Army, with which he saw combat in the Battle of the Bulge.^[2][4]
The Los Angeles Dodgers honored Malinosky at Dodger Stadium in 2009, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. In a statement released after his death, the Dodgers said "Tony lived an incredibly full life, both on and off the field, He remained a Dodger fan his whole life and his visit to Dodger Stadium in 2009 gave the organization a great opportunity to celebrate not only his 100th birthday, but the Dodger chapter of his life that meant so much to him. He will be most certainly missed by all who knew him."
Malinosky was a long time resident of Oxnard, California since moving to the area in 1976. At 101 years, 124 days, he was the oldest living Major League Baseball player at the time of his death on February 8, 2011.^[5]

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Charles O. Perry, American sculptor, died from stomach cancer he was , 81

Charles O. Perry was an American sculptor particularly known for his large-scale public sculptures  died from stomach cancer he was , 81.

(October 18, 1929^[1] – February 8, 2011) 


Perry initially studied architecture at Yale University, graduating in 1958. He then joined the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in San Francisco, where he continued to work as an architect until 1963. At the same time, Perry started developing some of his own ideas in sculpture and in 1964 staged his first one-man show of sculptural models in San Francisco, which lead to some early commissions for his sculptures.
In the same year Perry won the Rome Prize (for architecture) from the American Academy in Rome and left for two years of study in Rome, Italy — an experience that confirmed his switch to sculpture. On returning to the United States, Perry began to concentrate on designing public sculptures, with Continuum outside the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., being his most prominent work.
In recent years, Perry has also diversified into developing chair designs, jewelry, and a number of sculptural puzzles for the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution.

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Angelo Reyes, Filipino general and politician, committed suicide he was , 65

Angelo Tomas Reyes  was the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff from 2000 to 2001 under President Joseph Estrada committed suicide he was , 65. At the height of the 2001 EDSA Revolution, Reyes withdrew his support for Estrada which led to the installation of Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as president, under whom he then served as cabinet secretary until to 2010, including with the portfolios of National Defense and Energy.
Reyes ran for Congress under the United Transport Coalition (1-UTAK), a party representing workers in the public transportation sector, on the 2010 party-list election but was dropped by his party without his consent that led to litigation which was still ongoing at the time of his death. A week after being accused of corruption while being AFP chief of staff, Reyes died due to a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide.^[2]
Reyes was married to Teresita P. Reyes with whom he has five sons, Pablo, Angelito, Marc, Carlo and Judd.


(March 17, 1945 – February 8, 2011)

Education

Reyes spent most of his childhood in San Miguel, Manila. He completed his secondary education at the Cubao High School (now Ramon Magsaysay (Cubao) High School) in 1960 where he graduated as the class valedictorian. In 1966, he was among the top ten graduates of the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio City. He then proceeded to acquire two masters degrees, namely: Masters in Business Administration from the Asian Institute of Management in 1973 and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1994. He also took up International Defense Management Course in Monterey, California in 1983. In 1987, he graduated No. 1 in Trust Operations Management Course conducted by the Trust Institutes Foundation of the Philippines at the Ateneo Business School which eventually earned him a scholarship to the Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.

Background

Military career

Angelo Reyes began his military career as a team leader in the Philippine Army's 1st Special Forces Airborne Regiment. He spent his field command duties as battalion commander, brigade commander, and area commander in Mindanao where he gained experience in addressing the threats from the communist insurgency and Muslim secessionism in the Philippines. He became the Commanding General of the Philippine Army which then propelled him to the top post of the Philippine military as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
As AFP Chief of Staff, he worked towards the vision of a modern Armed Forces of the Philippines. On January 19, 2001, the then-General Reyes withdrew support from President Joseph Estrada, leading to his ouster. Reyes held the following positions in the Philippine Army and in the top brass of Armed Forces of the Philippines, garnering various military medals and citations throughout his 39-year military career until he retired in 2001:

• Team leader, Special Forces Group PA (Airborne);
• Commanding officer (CO), 4th Infantry Battalion PA, Zamboanga;
• CO, 602nd Infantry Brigade PA, Davao provinces;
• Commanding General (CG), Civil Relations Service AFP;
• Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, J2 AFP;
• CG, 5th Infantry Division PA, covering Northeastern Luzon;
• CG, Southern Command AFP, covering the whole of Mindanao;
• CG, PA; and
• Chief of Staff, AFP

Secretary of Defense

Reyes was sworn as national defense secretary two days after retiring as the AFP's 27th chief of staff. In concurrent capacity, he also chaired the National Disaster Coordinating Council. Under his leadership, he was able to imbibe a culture of excellence at the department of national defense and transformed it into a technology-driven defense establishment making it more responsive to the challenges o rapidly changing security establishment amidst the rising trend in global terrorism, He was instrumental in crafting the National Internal Security Plan which is now being implemented by the government in addressing the root causes of insurgency through poverty alleviation, delivery of basic services and empowerment of the local government.
As chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, he campaigned for preservation of lives and property through individual preparedness and responsiveness. He ventured on a tri-media information campaign program dubbed “FIRST DEFENSE” which was proven effective in educating individuals and families on how to be self-reliant in times of disasters and calamities.
Reyes stepped down as defense secretary on August 29, 2003, but was later named Anti-Kidnapping Presidential Adviser on October 26, 2003, after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Executive Order Number 248 creating the Office of the Anti-Kidnapping Presidential Adviser, and subsequently, the National Anti-Kidnapping Task Force (NAKTF) to address the problem of kidnapping in the country. His installation as anti-kidnapping czar resulted in the neutralization of certain kidnap-for-ransom gangs.
Reyes was later appointed as the Presidential Adviser on Anti-Smuggling on March 10, 2004 by virtue of Executive Order Number 297 to orchestrate and oversee a consolidated national anti-smuggling campaign.
Throughout his career, Secretary Reyes received various awards and decorations from both the military and civilian institutions. He was a recipient of the Philippine Legion of Honor, AFP Distinguished Service Star, Military Merit Medals, Anti-Dissidence Campaign Ribbons and other Philippine military decorations. He was awarded the Order of the White Elephant by King Bhumidol of Thailand and the Order of Valor by the King of Malaysia.
As a civic leader, he was chosen as the Most Outstanding Project Chairman by the Philippine Jaycees for Project “The Youth Speaks” in 1981. That same project was later adjudged as the Most Outstanding External Affairs Project in the World during the Jaycees World Convention in Germany in 1991. In 1991, he was given the honor of being a Kabisig Awardee for his Project: Common Cause, Uncommon Zeal”. (KABISIG is a nationwide government socio-economic project in rural areas). With all these accomplishments, he was named the Most Outstanding Alumnus of the Asian Institute of Management in 1982 and Most Outstanding PMA Alumnus (Cavalier Award for Public Administration) in 2001.

Secretary of Interior and Local Government

Reyes was Philippine Secretary of Interior and Local Government in the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2004 to 2006.

Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources

Reyes was Philippine Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources in the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2006 to 2007.

Secretary of Energy

Reyes was Philippine Secretary of Energy in the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2007 to 2010.
On January 29, 2008, Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes announced that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 8-man team led by Akira Omoto inspected the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant on rehabilitation prospects. The team members were Zhang Jing, IAEA section head for Asia and the Pacific; Ki Sig Tang, technical officer at the nuclear division; David Greaves and Eric Weinstein; 3 independent experts: John Rames, an expert on legal infrastructure from Australia; Jose E. Brayner, Costa Mattos, a nuclear power expert from Brazil; and Ioan Rotaru, a nuclear power expert from Romania." ^[3]

Corruption allegations and death

On January 27, 2011, former Lt. Col. George Rabusa, who was budget officer when Reyes was Armed Forces chief, testified before a Senate panel and accused Reyes of receiving P50 million in "send-off" money when he retired from the Armed Forces, as part of a decades-old military tradition. Reyes denied receiving such funds for his own use and sought to cross-examine Rabusa, but was refused the opportunity.^[4] Reyes then did not attend subsequent hearings in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
On the morning of February 8, 2011, Reyes, together with two of his sons and a bodyguard, visited his mother's grave at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City. He asked his children and bodyguard to go ahead and wait for him in the car, then shot himself in the left side of the chest near the heart. He was rushed to the Quirino Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City, but was dead on arrival and attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.^[2]
Reyes was buried on February 13, 2011 with full military honors at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery) in Taguig City.^{[5] [6]}

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