John McAleese, British SAS soldier involved in the Iranian Embassy Siege, died he was 61.

John Thomas McAleese,  was a British Army soldier who led an SAS team which assaulted the Iranian embassy in London in May 1980 to end the Iranian Embassy siege died he was 61. With a distinctive horseshoe moustache, he became known for retelling his story on TV and for taking part in the reality show, SAS: Are You Tough Enough?


(25 April 1949 – 26 August 2011)


McAleese was born in Stirling and grew up in Laurieston, Stirlingshire.^[3] He joined 59 Independent Commando, Royal Engineers, in 1969, aged 20. He moved to Hereford in 1975 after being accepted by the SAS. He was a lance corporal in 1980, serving in Pagoda Troop, B Squadron, 22 SAS Regiment, when he was famously seen with members of his team - Blue Team - on live television placing an explosive frame-charge on the front first floor balcony of the Iranian Embassy prior to the assault on 5 May 1980.
He also served in the Falkland Islands in 1982, and was awarded the Military Medal in 1988 for service in Northern Ireland. He also served as a bodyguard for three British prime ministers.^[4] He was honourably discharged from the British Army on 8 February 1992 in the rank of sergeant.^[1][3] Later he worked as a security consultant in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was an Airsoft instructor.
He is thought to have suffered a heart attack, and died in Thessaloniki, Greece. His funeral was held at Hereford Cathedral.^[5]
He married twice. In 2009, his elder son, 29-year-old Sergeant Paul McAleese of 2 Battalion The Rifles was killed on active duty in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb in Helmand Province.^[3] He was survived by his second wife, a daughter by his first marriage, and two children by his second marriage.
In 2003 he gives the concept to the famous videogame Call of Duty character Cpt. Price which appears in many of the sagas until now

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Elvis Reifer, Barbadian cricketer, died he was 50.

Elvis Leroy Reifer was a West Indian cricketer died he was 50.. He was a left-handed batsman and bowled left-arm fast-medium.

(21 March 1961 – 26 August 2011) 

Reifer made his List A debut for Barbados in 1984. The same season he was signed by Hampshire County Cricket Club, despite having no first-class experience. In his first match for Hampshire he took eight wickets against Cambridge University. Despite this promising start his bowling average started to rise. After just one season with Hampshire he was released and went on to play only one more first-class game for Barbados, before being released at the end of the 1986 West Indian cricket season.
Reifer was the nephew of former West Indies captain Floyd Reifer and the father of Raymon Reifer. He died in his sleep in Bridgetown, Barbados on 26 August 2011.^[1][2]

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Donn A. Starry, American army officer, Commanding General, TRADOC (1977–1981), died from cancer he was 86.

General Donn Albert Starry was a United States Army four star general who served as Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (CG TRADOC) from 1977 to 1981; and as Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command (USCINCRED) from 1981 to 1983 died from cancer he was 86.

  (May 31, 1925 – August 26, 2011)

Born in 1925,^[1] Starry graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1948 as a second lieutenant of Armor, after having enlisted as a private in 1943. His early career included staff and command positions in the United States, Europe, and Korea. During this same period, he attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army War College. In 1969, he commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in the Vietnam War and led its attack into Cambodia in May 1970. On May 5, 1970, Starry was wounded by a North Vietnamese grenade that also wounded future Army General Frederick Franks, Jr.^[2]
In 1973, he became commanding general, U.S. Army Armor Center and School, and then commander, V Corps (1976–1977), in the Federal Republic of Germany. Later, as commander of TRADOC, Starry formulated AirLand Battle doctrine, which prepared the Army for warfighting into the twenty-first century. Starry concluded his career as Commander, U.S. Readiness Command (1981–1983), retiring from the Army in 1983.
His awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with "V" device, the Soldier's Medal, the Purple Heart, the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf Clusters. He is also the Honorary Colonel of the Regiment for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.^[3]
Starry earned a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and several honorary doctoral degrees. He was also a member of the Defense Science Board for two terms.^[3]
He was married to the former Leatrice (Letty) Gibbs of Kansas City, Kansas. They have four children and seven grandchildren. On April 10, 2010, he celebrated his new marriage to a long time friend, Karen (Cookie) Deitrick.^[3]
Upon retirement from the Army, Starry joined Ford Aerospace, serving first as Vice President and General Manager of Ford’s Space Missions Group, and later as Executive Vice President of Ford Aerospace and Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of BDM International. He served as a member of the Board of Maxwell Laboratories from 1988 to 1993, and from 1996 to 1998 was Chairman of the Board as the company became Maxwell Technologies, switching their focus from government to commercial markets. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Universal Voltronics in Brookfield, Connecticut.^[3] In 1991 he became a Senior Fellow on the faculty of the Joint and Combined Warfighting School at the Joint Forces Staff College.^[3]
In retirement, Starry, with George F. Hofmann, edited an anthology of U.S. armor warfare history and doctrine titled Camp Colt to Desert Storm: The History of U.S. Armored Forces. Later his two-volume of select stories, papers, articles, and book excerpts were edited by Lewis Sorley called Press On! Starry was also one of twenty-one signers, all retired flag officers, of a letter to John McCain supporting the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005.^[4] His civic projects have included membership on the board of the Eisenhower Foundation in Abilene, Kansas, Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Cavalry Memorial Foundation, and a member of the Board of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs.^[3]
He died in 2011 after suffering from a rare form of cancer.^[2] He was survived by his second wife, Karen.^[5][6]
He was buried January 11, 2012.

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Donna Christanello, American professional wrestler, died from a heart attack she was 69.

Mary Alfonsi better known by her ring name Donna Christanello (also billed as Donna Christianello, Donna Christenello, Donna Christiantello, and Donna Christantello, the name which she went by on her official website), was a professional wrestler trained by The Fabulous Moolah. She was active from the late 1960s through the 1980s. She frequently wrestled women such as Ann Casey, Vicki Williams, Evelyn Stevens and Leilani Kai throughout the 1970s.

(May 23, 1942 – August 25, 2011)

National Wrestling Alliance

Christanello was employed at a restaurant in Pittsburgh when she decided to contact a wrestling promoter to become a professional wrestler.^[1] Male wrestlers Waldo Von Erich and Klondike Bill helped set her up with women's wrestling trainer The Fabulous Moolah.^[3] She moved to South Carolina in 1963 to train with Moolah.^[3] In 1969, Christanello competed during an Australian tour with Toni Rose, Jessica Rodgers, Betty and Rita Boucher, Ramona Isbell, Marva Scott and Evelyn Stevens.
She was the frequent tag team partner of Toni Rose. She and Rose won the National Wrestling Alliance's NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship in 1970.^[3] In 1972, she competed at the Superbowl of Wrestling, where she and Rose defended the time World Women's Tag Team Championship against Sandy Parker and Debbie Johnson. They eventually lost the title in October 1973 to Joyce Grable and Vicki Williams at Madison Square Garden in New York. There is also an unrecorded title change. Susan Green and Sandy Parker won the World Tag Team title from Christanello and Rose in November 1971 in Hawaii and lost them in February 1972 to Christanello and Rose in Hong Kong. They also defended the title in the NWA and American Wrestling Association, and the title was eventually integrated into the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).^[3] As a result, they were recognized as the first WWF Women's Tag Team Champions.^[3]

World Wrestling Federation

During the mid-1980s she competed in the WWF's women's division. Christianello continued to wrestle in tag team matches. On May 5, 1984, Susan Starr and Christianello defeated Wendi Richter and Peggy Lee. On June 5, 1984, Peggy Lee and Christianello defeated The Fabulous Moolah and Desiree Petersen. The next day Moolah and Petersen defeated the team of Christianello and Judy Martin. On June 9, Moolah and Petersen defeated Martin and Christianello. The following day, Moolah and Petersen once again defeated Christianello and Judy Martin.
In August 1984, Christianello wrestled primarily singles matches. On August 19, Susan Green defeated Christianello. In matches on both August 20 and 21, Susan Starr defeated Christianello. In 1987, she wrestled as part of Sensational Sherri's team at the Survivor Series pay-per-view.^[3]

Personal life and death

Christanello was born and raised in Pittsburgh and was of Italian descent.^[1] She lived with The Fabulous Moolah on-and-off for forty years, ending in May 1999 when she moved back to Pittsburgh.^[4] While living with Moolah, she helped train women's wrestlers Sherri Martel and Brittany Brown.^[3] After retiring from the ring, she was employed by Wal-Mart in the accounting department.^[3]
Her niece, Marie Minor, was trained by Christianello and worked as a wrestler under the ring name Angie Minelli for several years in the 1980s.
On August 25, 2011, Christanello died from a heart attack. She was 69 years old.

In wrestling

• Signature moves
  • Armlock
  • Body scissors
  • Leglock

Championships and accomplishments

• Cauliflower Alley Club
  • Other honoree (1992)

• National Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Toni Rose^[4]

• Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Lady Wrestler (2009)^[3]

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Jyles Coggins, American politician, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina (1975–1977), died he was 90.

Jyles Jackson Coggins was an American politician who served in the North Carolina General Assembly as a state representative and senator died he was 90.. He was elected as the 31st Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina in 1975, serving one, two-year term. The total population of Raleigh expanded by more than three times during his career in elected office.

(January 10, 1921 – August 25, 2011)

Coggins was born on January 10, 1921, in Iredell County, North Carolina, where he was raised on a farm.^[1] He attended college at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and Duke University.^[1] However, Coggins never earned a bachelor's degree, which was something he regretted, according to his family.^[1] Coggins enlisted in the United States Marines during World War II, serving as a bomber pilot, which earned him ten military awards including two Distinguished Flying Crosses.^[1] He became known as "Bomber Jack" Coggins to his fellow Marines during the war.^[1]
Coggins returned to his native North Carolina in 1946 following the end of World War II. He soon established a small construction company, which grew into a larger business by the early 1960s.^[1] Coggins remained in the construction industry for more than sixty years.^[1] By his own account, Coggins held a number of former jobs before becoming successful in construction, including sales, janitor, airplace factory inspector, and railroad brakeman.^[1] He was responsible for the construction of several landmark buildings in the Raleigh region, including Raleigh Memorial Park's mausoleum, which stands seven stories tall, and both the Beckanna Apartments and several commercial developments along the city's Glenwood Avenue.^[1]
Coggins simultaneously launched his political career in the early 1960s as well. Coggins affiliated himself as a political conservative within the Democratic Party, often voting against the party line while in the state legislature.^[1] He was first elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1963, serving one term in office.^[1] Coggins was then elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1965. He won re-election to the Senate in 1967.^[1]
In 1975, Jyles Coggins was elected the Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. Coggins was popular while as Mayor, though his sometimes strained relationship with the city council led to a challenge during his 1977 re-election campaign by a grassroots candidate, Isabella Cannon.^[1] Cannon, who was 73 years old at the time, was nicknamed the "little old lady in tennis shoes."^[1] In an upset, Cannon defeated Coggins in the 1977 mayoral election.^[1]
Jyles Coggins died at his home in the West Raleigh neighborhood of the city on August 25, 2011, at the age of 90. He was survived by five daughters - Rebecca Coggins-Gibson, Anna Sherman, Debby Schmidt, Jaci Gholizadeh and Judy Coggins - 15 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandson. His wife, Frances Katherine Lyon Coggins, died on February 1, 1995.^[1]

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Eugene Nida, American linguist and bible translator, died he was 96.

Eugene A. Nida was the developer of the dynamic-equivalence Bible-translation theory died he was 96..

  (November 11, 1914 – August 25, 2011)

Life

Nida was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on November 11, 1914. He became a Christian at a young age, when he responded to the altar call at his church “to accept Christ as my Saviour.”^[2]
He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California in 1936. After graduating he attended Camp Wycliffe, where Bible translation theory was taught. He ministered for a short time among the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua, Mexico, until health problems due to an inadequate diet and the high altitude forced him to leave. Sometime in this period, Nida became a founding charter member of Wycliffe Bible Translators, a sister organization of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
In 1937, Nida undertook studies at the University of Southern California, where he obtained a Master’s Degree in New Testament Greek in 1939. In that same year, Eugene Nida became interim pastor of Calvary Church of Santa Ana, California, after the founding pastor resigned in 1939.^[3] In spite of his conservative background, in later years Nida became increasingly ecumenical and New Evangelical in his approach.^[4]
In 1943, Nida received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, he was ordained as a Baptist minister, and he married Althea Lucille Sprague. The couple remained married until Althea Sprague Nida's death in 1993. In 1997, Nida married Dr. María Elena Fernandez-Miranda, a lawyer and diplomatic attache.
Nida retired in the early 1980s, although he kept on giving lectures in universities all around the world, and lived in Madrid, Spain and Brussels, Belgium. He died in Madrid on August 25, 2011 aged 96.^[5]

Career

In 1943, Nida began his career as a linguist with the American Bible Society (ABS). He was quickly promoted to Associate Secretary for Versions, then worked as Executive Secretary for Translations until his retirement.
Nida was instrumental in engineering the joint effort between the Vatican and the United Bible Societies (UBS) to produce cross-denominational Bibles in translations across the globe. This work began in 1968 and was carried on in accordance with Nida's translation principle of Functional Equivalence.

Theories

Nida has been a pioneer in the fields of translation theory and linguistics.
His Ph.D. dissertation, A Synopsis of English Syntax, was the first full-scale analysis of a major language according to the "immediate-constituent" theory. His most notable contribution to translation theory is Dynamic Equivalence, also known as Functional Equivalence. For more information, see "Dynamic and formal equivalence." Nida also developed the "componential-analysis" technique, which split words into their components to help determine equivalence in translation (e.g. "bachelor" = male + unmarried). This is, perhaps, not the best example of the technique, though it is the most well-known.
Nida's dynamic-equivalence theory is often held in opposition to the views of philologists who maintain that an understanding of the source text (ST) can be achieved by assessing the inter-animation of words on the page, and that meaning is self-contained within the text (i.e. much more focused on achieving semantic equivalence).
This theory, along with other theories of correspondence in translating, are elaborated in his essay Principles of Correspondence,^[6] where Nida begins by asserting that given that “no two languages are identical, either in the meanings given to corresponding symbols or in the ways in which symbols are arranged in phrases and sentences, it stands to reason that there can be no absolute correspondence between languages. Hence, there can be no fully exact translations.” ^[7] While the impact of a translation may be close to the original, there can be no identity in detail.
Nida then sets forth the differences in translation, as he would account for it, within three basic factors: (1) The nature of the message: in some messages the content is of primary consideration, and in others the form must be given a higher priority. (2) The purpose of the author and of the translator: to give information on both form and content; to aim at full intelligibility of the reader so he/she may understand the full implications of the message; for imperative purposes that aim at not just understanding the translation but also at ensuring no misunderstanding of the translation. (3) The type of audience: prospective audiences differ both in decoding ability and in potential interest.
Nida brings in the reminder that while there are no such things as “identical equivalents” in translating, what one must in translating seek to do is find the “closest natural equivalent”. Here he identifies two basic orientations in translating based on two different types of equivalence: Formal Equivalence (F-E) and Dynamic Equivalence (D-E).
F-E focuses attention on the message itself, in both form and content. Such translations then would be concerned with such correspondences as poetry to poetry, sentence to sentence, and concept to concept. Such a formal orientation that typifies this type of structural equivalence is called a “gloss translation” in which the translator aims at reproducing as literally and meaningfully as possible the form and content of the original.
The principles governing an F-E translation would then be: reproduction of grammatical units; consistency in word usage; and meanings in terms of the source context.
D-E on the other hand aims at complete “naturalness” of expression. A D-E translation is directed primarily towards equivalence of response rather than equivalence of form. The relationship between the target language receptor and message should be substantially the same as that which existed between the original (source language) receptors and the message.
The principles governing a D-E translation then would be: conformance of a translation to the receptor language and culture as a whole; and the translation must be in accordance with the context of the message which involves the stylistic selection and arrangement of message constituents.
Nida and Venuti have proved that translation studies is a much more complex discipline than may first appear, with the translator having to look beyond the text itself to deconstruct on an intra-textual level and decode on a referential level—assessing culture-specific items, idiom and figurative language to achieve an understanding of the source text and embark upon creating a translation which not only transfers what words mean in a given context, but also recreates the impact of the original text within the limits of the translator's own language system (linked to this topic: George Steiner, the Hermeneutic Motion, pragmatics, field, tenor, mode and the locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary). For example, a statement that Jesus "met" someone must be carefully translated into a language which distinguishes between "met for the first time", "met habitually" and simple "met".
Nida was once criticised for a controversial change in the Revised Standard Version Bible translation regarding the removal of the word "virgin" from Isaiah 7:14.^[8] However, as Peter Thuesen's book In Discordance with the Scriptures points out, Nida was not actually a committee member for that project.^[9]

Works

Published Works include the following:

• Linguistic Interludes - (Glendale, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1944 (Revised 1947))
• The Bible Translator - (Journal founded and edited by Dr. Nida (retired), 1949- )
• Morphology: The Descriptive Analysis of Words - (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1949)
• Message and Mission - (Harper, 1960)
• Customs, Culture and Christianity - (Tyndale Press, 1963)
• Toward a Science of Translating - (Brill, 1964)
• Religion Across Cultures - (Harper, 1968)
• The Theory and Practice of Translation - (Brill, 1969, with C.R. Taber)
• Language Structure and Translation: Essays - (Stanford University Press, 1975)
• From One Language to Another - (Nelson, 1986, with Jan de Waard)
• The Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains - (UBS, 1988, with Louw)
• Contexts in Translating - (John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amterdam, 2002)
• Fascinated by Languages - (John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 2003)

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Lazar Mojsov, Macedonian politician, President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1987–1988), died he was 90.

Dr. Lazar Mojsov  was a Macedonian journalist, politician and diplomat from SFR Yugoslavia  died he was 90..

(19 December 1920 – 25 August 2011) 

Mojsov received his doctoral degree from the University of Belgrade's Law School. He fought for the anti-fascist partisans in World War II and continued to rise through the ranks of the Communist Party after 1945. He was attorney general of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia from 1948 to 1951. During the next two decades, he served as a member of the parliaments of SFR Yugoslavia and SR Macedonia and as a newspaper editor.
Meanwhile, he began a diplomatic career, serving as Yugoslav ambassador to the Soviet Union and Mongolia from 1958 to 1961 and as ambassador to Austria from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1974, he served as Yugoslav ambassador to the United Nations, Guyana and Jamaica.
From 1974 to 1982, Mojsov was deputy foreign minister of Yugoslavia, and, from 1977 to 1978, he was the president of the United Nations General Assembly. From 1980 to 1981, he served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and from May 1982 to May 1984, he was the foreign minister. From 1984 to 1989, he was a member of the collective presidency of Yugoslavia and was its chairman from 1987 to 1988.
Mojsov was also a lectured and wrote on the subject of international relations.
On August 25, 2011, Mojsov died in Belgrade. He was laid to rest in Belgrade's Novo groblje cemetery's Alley of Distinguished Citizens.



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