Alf Fields, English footballer (Arsenal F.C.), died he was 92.

Alf Fields BEM was an English professional footballer who played as a centre half died he was 92.

 (15 November 1918 – 14 November 2011)

Career

Fields signed with Arsenal in 1936, turned professional in 1937, and made his debut in 1939.^[1] Between then and 1952, Fields made a total of 19 appearances in the Football League.^[2] After retiring as a player, Fields spent time as a coach at Arsenal, before eventually retiring in November 1983.^[1]
Fields played himself in the 1939 film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.^[3]
During World War II, Fields served in North Africa and Italy, earning the British Empire Medal.^[4]
As the time of his death, Fields was Arsenal's oldest surviving player.^[5] He died on 14 November 2011, one day before his 93rd birthday.^[6]


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Richard Douthwaite, British economist and ecologist, died he was 69.

Richard Douthwaite was a British economist, ecologist, campaigner and writer living in Ireland. He died of cancer at his home near Westport, Co. Mayo  died he was 69..

(6 August 1942 – 14 November 2011) 

Douthwaite studied engineering at Leeds and later economics at Essex universities. He built concrete boats at a cooperative in Port Antonio, Jamaica in the early 1970s and was then government statistician in the British Caribbean colony of Montserrat for two years before moving to Ireland (near Westport) to write and campaign about climate and energy issues and local economic development. He also set up and ran a leather crafts factory.
He was co-founder of Feasta (the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) an Irish based economic, social and environmental think tank. He had also been a council member of Comhar, the Irish government's national sustainability council and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.
In the 1994 European Parliament election he stood unsuccessfully as the Green Party candidate for the Connacht–Ulster constituency.
He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Plymouth and contributed the economic content of the Master’s course in Theology and the Environment at Dalgan Park, Navan. He contributed lectures to courses at four parts of the National University of Ireland (Dublin, Maynooth, Cork and Galway) and at the universities of London (Goldsmiths and LSE), University of Edinburgh, University of Strathclyde, University of Leicester, University of Newcastle, University of Manchester, University of Uppsala, Malardalen, Stockholm (KTH) and University of Budapest.
Douthwaite's first book, The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet was published in 1992 and was re-issued in an extended and up-dated second edition in 1999. It explores why the present economic system is dependent on economic growth and the effects that the resulting pursuit of growth has had on the environment and society. His other major book, Short Circuit (1996) gives dozens of examples of currency, banking, energy and food production systems which communities can use to make themselves less dependent on an increasingly unstable world economy.
In The Ecology of Money, published in 1999, he calls for different currencies for different purposes and for changes in the way money is put into circulation so that a stable, sustainable economy can be achieved. In 2003 he edited Before the Wells Run Dry, a study of the transition to renewable energy in the light of climate change and oil and gas depletion and in 2004 To Catch the Wind, a report on how communities can invest in wind energy.
He acted as economic adviser to the Global Commons Institute (London) from 1993 to 2005 during which time GCI developed the "contraction and convergence" approach to dealing with greenhouse gas emissions which has now been backed by many countries. He then helped Feasta devise the "cap and share" framework for emissions reduction which may be adopted by the Irish government.


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Guy Dejouany, French businessman, died he was 90.

Guy Dejouany was the CEO of Compagnie Générale des Eaux, (currently known as Vivendi, a French company part of the CAC 40) from 1976 to 1995  died he was 90..^[1]
Guy Dejouany worked as Chief Executive Officer of Vinci PLC from 1990 to 1996. He was Honorary Chairman of Vivendi Universal. He played an important role in Vinci PLC's Supervisory Board as Chairman from 1988 to 1990. He is the Director of Vivendi Universal Publishing. He serves as member of the Supervisory Boards of Dalkia and Compagnie des Eaux et de l'Ozone. He is a permanent representative of Vivendi Universal on the Board of Directors of UGC. He is part-owner and the Director of Alcatel-Lucent. He is also member of the councils D E monitoring of Dalkia and of the Ozone and Water-company. He is a graduate of École Polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.^[2]
Guy Dejouany was a French businessman, former President of the French group Générale des Eaux from 1976 to 1996 and one of the most emblematic leaders in the period 1970-2000 France.

(1920 – 14 November 2011)

Biography

Dejouany was born in Paris on 15 December 1920. Only child of André and Jean (née Imbart) Dejouany. His father was a French civil servant, working for the French Administration including the French colonial administration, his mother was a homemaker. Algeria, Madagascar, Senegal were major career assignments of his father.
He followed his schooling in Paris at Fénelon and Condorcet. A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
After having been the Chief Executive Officer during the previous twenty years, he took George Huvelin succession at the head of the Compagnie Générale des Eaux in 1976 there will be the Managing Director until 1996.

The Presidency of C.G.E.

During his presidency of C.G.E, Dejouany transformed of the company from a national company focused in the water business, into an international conglomerate.
Guy Dejouany prevented the nationalization of the Générale des Eaux in 1983. At that time, Jacques Delors was Minister of industry, and decided to buy back in hand and via Saint-Gobain - company actions to achieve the blocking minority and thus influence the future of the group. François Mitterrand, President of the Republic in exercise, intervened in favour of the C.G.E.. To follow two groups cross-participation thus participating in the creation of the famous hard cores in French Defence organised to withstand hostile Takeovers abroad.
The end of this episode marks the beginning of a phase of expansion and creation of new trades. Successively, the company puts one foot in the audio-visual sector with Havas creating chain television Canal + in 1984, and then creates SFR, first French private telephony operator. Civil engineering and construction industry develops through particular companies Campenon Bernard SGE (Société Générale d'Entreprises).
At the same time, new trades are explored and conquered: collection and treatment of waste, passenger transport. Complementary trades are reinforced: heating, electricity and heat production. New develop related services (babysitting, green spaces, disinfection, parking lots). Other trades are born as the company General health, has become quickly first l France private hospital. In the middle of the 1990s, the company is one of the largest companies in the world with over 2300 integrated companies consolidations. Expansion in volume and ambition is then equivalent to the United States, with General Electric. Restructuring American less.
Guy Dejouany strongly marked its footprint the history of this group and its business, based on discretion, work culture and spirit of conquest.
Era Dejouany and through modernization by his successor, Jean Marie Messier, there are now several world leaders in their respective fields: VINCI, Veolia Environnement, Vivendi.

Family

Guy Dejouany has three children, Capucine, Melchior, and Gonzague, born of his union with Véronique Honoré, who died in 1985.

Decorations

• Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur "' nicknames"' the Sphinx. The Duke of Anjou. The little man.

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Franz Josef Degenhardt, German poet, satirist, novelist and folk singer, died he was 79.

Franz Josef Degenhardt  was a German poet, satirist, novelist, and – first and foremost – a folksinger/songwriter (Liedermacher) with decidedly left-wing politics died he was 79.. He was also a lawyer, bearing the academic degree of Doctor of Law.^[1]

^{(3 December 1931 – 14 November 2011)}

Degenhardt was born in Schwelm, Westphalia. After studying law from 1952 to 1956 in Cologne and Freiburg, he passed the first German state bar examination in 1956 and the second in 1960. From 1961 he worked for the Europa-Institut of the University at Saarbrücken, where he obtained his doctorate in 1966. Degenhardt joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1961, but was forced out in 1971 because of his support for the German Communist Party (DKP), which he joined in 1978.
From the early 1960s onward, in addition to practicing law, Degenhardt was also performing and releasing recordings. He is perhaps most famous for his song (and the album of the same name) Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern (de) ("Don't Play With the Grubby Children," 1965), but has released close to 50 albums, starting with Zwischen Null Uhr Null und Mitternacht ("Between 00:00 and Midnight," 1963), renamed Rumpelstilzchen (original title: Zwischen Null Uhr Null und Mitternacht)); his most recent albums Krieg gegen den Krieg ("War against the War") and Dämmerung ("twilight") came out in 2003 and 2006. In 1968 Degenhardt was involved in trials of members of the German student movement, principally defending social democrats and communists. At the same time, he was – in his capacity as a singer-songwriter – one of the major voices of the 1968 student movement. On his 1977 album Wildledermantelmann (de) he criticized many of his former comrades from that era for what he saw as their betrayal of socialist ideals and shift towards a social-liberal orientation. The album's title (roughly, "man with velour coat") mocks the style of clothing they had supposedly adopted.
Notably, the songs on Degenhardt's 1986 album Junge Paare Auf Den Bänken ("Young Couples on the Benches"), along with the song Vorsicht Gorilla! ("Beware of Gorilla") on the 1985 album of the same name, are his translations into German of chansons by the French singer-songwriter Georges Brassens, spiritually perhaps one of his closest musical allies.
Degenhardt has also written several novels, most in a rather autobiographical vein, among others: Zündschnüre (de) ("Slow Matches", 1972), Brandstellen ("Scenes of Fires", 1974), Der Liedermacher (1982) and Für ewig und drei Tage ("For Ever and Three Days", 1999).
He was a cousin of the Catholic Archbishop of Paderborn, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, who died in 2002. He is also the brother-in-law of the American-born illustrator Gertrude Degenhardt, who has designed many of his album covers for him. Degenhardt lived, till his death in 2011, in Quickborn, Kreis Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein.


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Jamie Pierre, American professional skier, died from a avalanche at 38.

Matthew Jamison "Jamie" Pierre was a professional free skier died from a avalanche at 38.. Pierre set a world-record cliff jump of 255 feet (78 m) at the Grand Targhee Resort in Wyoming.^[1] He skied away with a bleeding cut lip from being hit by a shovel when his partners dug him out of his 12 foot bomb hole. Google's Sergey Brin had estimated that Pierre was almost at terminal velocity when he hit the ground. Pierre died in November 2011 in an avalanche.^[2]

^{(February 22, 1973 – November 13, 2011)}

Life

Matthew Jamison Pierre was born February 22, 1973. According to the London Daily Telegraph, out of eight children, Jamie was third; he was born a son of Pam and Gerard Pierre.^[3] Jamie started skiing at age ten at Buck Hill, Minnesota, and quickly picked up the craving for more.^[4] He graduated high school and decided to live life as a “skibum”.^[3] Jamie worked menial jobs to pay for his expensive passion at various resorts with his brother, Chris Pierre.^[4] In 1995, he was able to enter an extreme skiing competition, the beginning to many adventures.^[3] Jamie Pierre spent the next ten years progressing his skiing and the size of cliffs he jumped.^[2] However, at age 32 in 2005 he got married and had a daughter. Pierre decided, ”The plan is to ski more, fall out of the sky less”.^[3]

Film career

By being one of the few skiers known for going the biggest, Pierre played a key role in some of the major ski films of his time. This work included parts for four different film companies, Warren Miller,^[2] Teton Gravity Research, Matchstick Productions^[4] and Rage Films.^[5] While working for Warren Miller, Pierre took parts in five movies: Cold Fusion in 2001, Journey in 2003, Off the Grid in 2006, Playground in 2007 and Children of Winter in 2008.^[6][7]

World Record Huck

Jamie Pierre was known for pushing the limits of skiing off cliffs. He began to be followed by the media in 1999 when a black and white photo appeared in Powder Magazine of Pierre leaping off a forty foot cliff.^[2] The size of the cliffs he was jumping were increasing quickly, starting at 50 feet,^[3] and soon were up to 90 feet.^[2] His first 100 footers were off of crags in Utah.^[2] “Pierre began to question how high he could go. What were the limits?” Soon Jamie Pierre was jumping a cliff 165 feet in Wolverine Cirque Utah; he cleared this monster cliff in 2003. In Engelberg, Switzerland he cleared a 185 foot cliff around March 2004.^[2] Before settling down, Pierre wanted to go big, bigger than anyone else had before. The record at the time was jumped at 225 feet and Jamie Pierre wanted to beat it.^[8] After scoping out many cliffs, he finally decided on one, a 255 footer in the backcountry of Grand Targhee resort.^[8] “Hail Mary” are the words Jamie yelled before hucking his body off this world record cliff.^[8] Around a dozen people were watching, including photographers, family, friends, and spectators. Plunging headfirst into the snow, Jamie Pierre got that three seconds of the feeling he had always craved. Finally, he held the world record for landing the tallest cliff on skis on Jan 25, 2006.^[2] In 2008 Fred Syversen beat his record by jumping a 351 feet cliff, it was unintentional of Syversen but still counts.

Problems with Drugs and Religion

Born into a Lutheran family, Jamie Pierre went to church with his family every Sunday as a kid. As he grew up, however, he fell out of religion; he still believed in God, but he did not follow his religion devoutly.^[4] At age fourteen, he began to do drugs, a habit that followed him for the next fifteen years. He also drank excessive amounts, to the point he would just blackout and not wake up until the next morning. This continued for many years as he lived his life as a skier and through his pro career. After repeated concussions, he fell back into religion, and remained indoctrinated for the rest of his life.

Death

On November 13, 2011 ^[3] Jamie Pierre hiked up Snowbird Resort in Utah, unaware it would be his last steps, to ski some early season snow. The area was closed as the resort was not open and no avalanche control had been done. Pierre and his friend, Jack Pilot, were planning to ski the area the South Chute. The avalanche triggered and rolled him over rocks for 800 feet. According to The New York Times, “He came to a stop partly buried and died of trauma”.^[7] He is survived by his wife, and two daughters.^[3]

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Solly Tyibilika, South African rugby player, died from a gunshot he was 32.

Solomzi "Solly" Tyibilika ^[1] was a South African rugby union footballer, who played as a flanker for the Lions in the international Super 14 competition in his last years died from a gunshot he was 32.. He was the first black person (not white or mixed race^[2]) to score a test try for the South Africa national rugby union team.

(23 June 1979 – 13 November 2011)

Career

Tyibilika was born in Port Elizabeth^[6] and educated at the Loyiso High School.^{[citation needed]} While at high school he started playing rugby union, making his professional debut in 2001 with Griquas.^[5]
Tyibilika played for Springbok 'A' in 2004. In November of that year he made his debut for the Springboks in a match against Scotland at Murrayfield playing at flank. South Africa won the match 45–10. He scored on his debut.^[5] He played in a subsequent test against Argentina in Buenos Aires, which the Springboks won 39–7.
Tyibilika next played for the Springboks the following season in June, where he played against Uruguay, which the Springboks won 134–3. He then played a subsequent test against the Wallabies in the 2005 Tri Nations Series, which the Springboks won 33–20 at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. He earned one other cap that year against Argentina in Buenos Aires in November. He was named in the Springboks' 2006 Tri Nations Series squad.
Tyibilika was part of the Southern Kings squad that played against the British and Irish Lions, in the Lions tour of South Africa in 2009.^{[citation needed]}
In the 2011 season, which would turn out to be his last, he played for Hamiltons in Cape Town.^[5]
Tyibilika scored 24 tries for Griquas, Sharks, Lions and Border, appearing 158 times.^[5]

Personal life

Tyibilika was not married and had four children.^[5]

Death

Tyibilika was shot dead in a tavern in the township of Gugulethu, near Cape Town, shortly after 2pm on 13 November 2011.^[1][7] Witnesses reported Tyibilika had his back turned to the entrance and was on his telephone when two gunmen fired ten rounds in the door. Tyibilika was found to be lying lifeless in his own blood on the floor after the incident.^[8]
Mr Oregan Hoskins, president of SARU, said, "Solly was a trailblazer among black African Springboks. To lose him so suddenly and in this brutal manner is very distressing. The casual disregard for life in our society is shocking."^[9] Hoskins also said, "His emergence was a demonstration of what can be achieved when talent is combined with opportunity in what is always a very competitive position in Springbok rugby".^[5] There were pleas for donations for a burial, with his last club Hamiltons offering to help his family.^[10][11] Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula told Parliament two days after the murder that Tyibilika had done his country proud.^[12]

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Esperanza Pérez Labrador, Cuban-born Argentine human rights activist (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo), died she was 89.

Esperanza Catalina Pérez de Labrador was a Cuban-born Argentine human rights activist and leading member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Labrador jbegan her advocacy on behalf of victims of the Dirty War after her husband, Victor Labrador, and her son, 28-year old Palmiro, were killed in the Dirty War during the 1970s.^[1] Another son, Miguel, disappeared and was never seen again  died she was 89..^[1]

(1922 – November 13, 2011)

Esperanza Pérez Labrador was born in Camagüey, Cuba, to Spanish parents.^[1] her mother died during while giving birth and her father, unable to take care of her, gave her up to a Cuban family, the Mestrils.^[1] Despite objections from the Mestrils and Esperanza Pérez, her father regained custody of her seven years later.^[1] She moved with her father to Spain and then immigrated to Argentina in 1950.^[1] She married a Spanish husband, Víctor Labrador.
Miguel Ángel Labrador, her 25-year old youngest son, left home on September 13, 1976, towards the beginning of the Dirty War, and was never seen again.^[1] Just two months later, Labrador's husband, Víctor, their 28-year old son, Palmiro Labrador, and his friend, Edith Graciela Koatz, were killed on November 10, 1976.^[1]
Devastated, but determined to find out what happened to her family, Esperanza Perez Labrador held a vigil outside the headquarters of General Leopoldo Galtieri, who commanded government sponsored death squads.^[1] At one point, Labrador grabbed Galtieri's uniform and publicly shouted "¡Asesino, criminal!" to him.^[1] The actions of Labrador reportedly prompted Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón to open a criminal case against perpetrated of the Dirty War and the Argentinian dictatorship in 1996.^[1]
Esperanza Pérez Labrador moved to Madrid, Spain, where she lived with her daughter, Manoli. She died in Madrid on November 13, 2011, at the age 89.^[1]


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